“glassPack” — photonic packaging using thin glass foils for electrical-optical circuit boards (EOCB) and sensor modules
The ldquoglassPackrdquo-concept will be introduced as a new packaging technologies platform for a wide area of opto-electronic applications like optical backplane, electrical-optical circuit boards (EOCB) and sensors. The usage of thin glass foils of some tens of microns thickness as substrate and interconnection material is the crucial point of the concept. First realizations will be presented.
Glass panel processing for electrical and optical packaging
Glass is a perfect substrate material for electrical and optical packaging. The integration concept to bridge board and chip level using thin glass substrates by lamination in between of PCB base material will be presented. Different thin glasses are commercial available and will be reviewed. Furthermore the paper reviews glass panel processing in the area of display and electro/optical packaging focusing on integration advantages for photonic packaging. Ion exchange technology for large panel processing to integrate high-performing optical waveguides will be demonstrated for multi-mode beam propagation. Based on glass based photonic system-in-package (SiP) which is done on wafer level the up scaling on panel size of those processes is discussed in detail and experimental results are presented.
Turkish Political Culture and Civil Society : an Unsettling Coupling?
This paper attempts to analyze Turkish politics in the post-1980 period with a special reference to the relationship among the state elites, political elites and societal actors and its impact on the constitution of civil society in Turkey. After the 1980 military intervention, the political and economic realms of Turkey witnessed a relative degree of liberalization through Uzal's neo-liberal policies. The January 24 economic decisions paved the way for economic liberalization as well as letting new economic and societal actors emerge. These new economic actors were different from the prevailing economic actors which used to enjoy having a considerable amount of opportunity spaces in the economic sphere. Together with the Uzal governments, Islamic segments started to become powerful in both political and economic realms. This paper analyses the chief traits of Turkish politics and economics and their impact upon civil society aftermath the 1980 coup in general, and the relationship and/or interaction among the state elites, political elites and societal actors in particular. The engagements of newly-emerging societal and economic actors into Turkish political scene and the challenge of these actors against the so-called 'Kemalist-Republican' elites are also illustrated in the paper. Moreover, state-Islam interaction, politics-Islam interaction as well as Kemalism-newly-emerging societal and economic actors interaction will be studied with a special emphasis to the post-1980 period. The major argument of the paper is that, in Turkey, both civil society issues and political issues reveal outcomes which are primarily shaped by the nature of the relationship between state elites and political elites in general and by Turkish political culture in particular.