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R&D Expenses
Quartz nanoimprint mold for
DTR media
R&D Activities
R&D Policy
Hoya is involved in a wide range of businesses. In each business
division, the Group promotes R&D based on the medium-term
plan, aiming to maintain and enhance its technological
competitiveness. The Corporate R&D Center at the global
headquarters provides development support for the technological
issues embraced by each division, as well as conducting basic
research that will supply the seeds for future growth and acquiring
and cultivating new businesses and technologies from a long-term
perspective. Hoya is currently shifting the core of R&D from the
Information Technology field to medical and healthcare, and
aggressively introducing development resources in order to
bolster the R&D system. In the medical and healthcare field, the
Company is focusing not only on areas where it already has technologies, but also on
regenerative medicine and diagnostic and treatment methods other than endoscopy, looking to
expand the range of future possibilities.
The Corporate R&D Center and the R&D function in each business division share information
as they work to maximize the results of each R&D project.
Major R&D themes
Nanoimprint Technology
Hoya is putting its years of expertise in lithographic technologies
to good use in the development of nanoimprint molds, which will
be used to create the discrete track recording (DTR) media and bit
pattern media (BPM) for next-generation hard disk drives (HDDs).
Various HDD manufacturers are pursuing R&D to commercialize
this technology as early as possible, and Hoya has launched
shipment of samples. In BPM, Hoya has succeeded in using its
microfabrication technologies to achieve a track pitch of 30
nanometers or less.1
1 Nanometer (nm): 1 nanometer = 1 billionth of a meter
3C-SiC
Hoya is promoting the development of 3C-SiC cubic monocrystal silicon carbide semiconductor
wafers and devices, which are expected to offer superior energy efficiency. 3C-SiC can be used
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