Feel the burn
Summary
In a corridor full of young people busy at their lockers as they changed shifts, DeVito retrieved a wireless keyboard from a cupboard and pulled up a video on one of the many monitors scattered around the building. They start with three-inch diameter "wafers" made of gallium arsenide or indium phosphide, put them in a machine full of gases which metalizes them, and then cut them into little squares with a diamond tool. Theyve supplied a navigation laser for the Mars rover that was recently decommissioned, and have another going up on a satellite to more accurately measure polar ice caps. In one room, with yellow lighting to keep extra ultraviolet exposure out of the development process, half a dozen people in bunny suits stand around. But if they were making trees in a factory..." nLIGHTs DeVito started at Varian Associates, one of the first high-tech companies in Silicon Valley, founded in 1948, then he worked at Spectra Diode Labs (SDL) which went public in 1995.