Laser Diode Accelerated Lifetest

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01/ The notice

Key facts

Value: £350,000Estimated value stated in the notice
Deadline (UK time): Tue 18 Dec 2018A deadline does not apply to this historical notice. The source records Tue 18 Dec 2018, which is not an open deadline.
Published: 4 Dec 2018
Region: Any region

02/ The brief

What the notice says

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The Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult is looking to create a modular, flexible, accelerated

life test system for photonics components and devices to determine lifetime and reliability of prototypes. The service provided is intended to de-risk photonics products and identify potential failure modes. The system could potentially be used for low volume burn-in of pilot line products.The system shall be adaptable to test a variety of components from chip level through to COS (Chip on Submount) and custom optoelectronic packaged modules. The system will be located in the CSA Catapult's innovation centre, within the evaluation laboratory, which will be equipped with access to process cooled water and a number of 3 phase power supplies.

The system shall be able to accommodate a range of devices simultaneously whilst delivering different operating conditions with respect to drive current and heat sink temperature.

The Catapult may also purchase additional related services.

03/ Classification

CPV codes

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31710000 38000000
31000000 31700000 38000000

04/ History

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4 Dec 2018
Contract notice
Contract notice published 4 December 2018.
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05/ Limits

What the source does not tell us

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06/ Questions

About this notice

Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult published this notice.

Estimated value stated in the notice: £350,000.

08/ Related

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