US Korean-American CDIVICE Wins Consecutive Innovation Awards for Quantum Sensor Technology

CDvice, a Korean-American company based in California, USA, announced on the 22nd that it has been consecutively selected as an innovative company by economic magazines such as Global Business Leader. CDvice is a fabless venture company developing quantum sensors, founded by Korean-American researcher Dr. Hoon Kim.

According to CDvice, the American economic magazine Global Business Leader selected CDvice as one of the "Top 20 Most Notable Innovative Business Leaders of 2023" and featured Dr. Hoon Kim, the founder and CEO of CDvice, as the cover model in its year-end latest issue. The magazine introduced CDvice on the cover as "a company that revolutionized imaging technology with quantum short-wave infrared (SWIR) sensors."

Global Business Leader stated, "CDvice’s technology was developed to expand the detection range of conventional silicon semiconductor (CMOS) sensors by utilizing quantum and plasmonic phenomena," adding, "This combination detects the short-wave infrared (SWIR) region beyond visible light while overcoming the high production costs of SWIR sensors that use special materials."

The global sensor industry is expanding the detection range of CMOS sensors to the SWIR range of 1000?2000 nm by processing special compounds such as indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) or using quantum dot semiconductor materials like InAs and PbS, known as high-efficiency fluorescent materials. However, the production cost of sensor chips using these special materials is quite expensive, around $1000.

In contrast, CDvice explained that it developed sensor chips capable of detecting the SWIR range by only applying a metal treatment process to the surface of conventional silicon semiconductors, significantly reducing production costs to around $10.

Meanwhile, CDvice stated that it is expanding its cooperation with global companies to extend the application of sensor chips beyond quantum sensor development to all industrial fields such as autonomous vehicles, agricultural machinery, the bioindustry, and machine vision in manufacturing. Following the establishment of a startup partnership with John Deere, the largest agricultural machinery manufacturer in the United States last year, CDvice is also conducting joint research with MegaChips, a listed semiconductor company in Japan, to improve the performance of quantum sensors.

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