Hudson, N.H.--Bandwidth Semiconductor recently completed a new, $5,000,000 cleanroom facility, along with office space in Hudson. Hodess Building Company provided the design/build construction services The space will help Bandwidth increase its market share of epitaxial wafers, foundry services, and advanced OEM devices for data and telecommunications applications.

?Many advancements in MOCVD and fab equipment in our new facility enhance our technical capability. We are already beginning to see more interest in our products since we?ve moved our business to this new state-of-the-art facility,? says Ed Gagnon, General Manager at Bandwidth.

The project was designed by The H.L. Turner Group (Arch/Eng), R.D. Kimball (Mech/Elec), and Amtech Engineers (Process). Work included creation of approximately 10,000 square feet of cleanroom space for Class 100 through Class 10,000. HBC provided process piping and systems, including clean dry air, process vacuum, deionized water, nitrogen, process cooling water, wastewater treatment, high purity gas distribution, waste piping, and scrubbed exhaust. A new central utilities area was created providing chilled water, steam, hot water and new primary power. The facility is backed up with an emergency generator and gets its uninterrupted power from a Caterpillar Flywheel system, one of the first of its type installed in the Northeast.

Bandwidth is known for its growth of GaAs and InP-based compounds. Their new multi-wafer MOCVD reactor provides outstanding wafer reproducibility and uniformity on up to 4? diameter wafers. Their custom processing services of GaAs and InP include on-wafer and device test, die separation and prototype packaging.