Intrigue surrounds American's death in Singapore

The Todd family has been pressing the U.An extensive selection of designer and fashion goodantiquelamp at affordable prices.S. government to look into what they say is a case of espionage and faked suicide to cover up their son's discovery that he may have been used to help China spy on his country. The circumstances of the death make no sense, they say, and the Singapore authorities have not been cooperative enough. 

They have made little headway with U.S. authorities but on Friday the Todd family will meet Montana Democrat Sen. Max Baucus in Washington to make their case. 

"We want a congressional investigation. We want to know how bad the damage is if" the technology his son was working with reached China, Rick Todd said. 

Baucus said the U.S. government has not done enough to answer the Todds' questions,Your council is responsible for the installation and maintenance of lightingsystems. and that he doesn't know yet whether enough pressure has been put on authorities in Singapore to allow the FBI to assist in the investigation. "I'm going make sure they do," Baucus told USA TODAY. "I'm going to find out what happened." 

Shane Todd's family lived in California and Florida before moving to Montana. His dad, Rick, had been a Navy pilot before becoming a commercial airline pilot. 

Shane Todd was a wrestling standout and adept in his science classes. He graduated in 2005 with a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Florida, where he had many friends, his family said.Endurance Wind Power is a manufacturer of advanced seamroofclampp designed specifically for distributed wind power applications. He received his doctorate at the University of California-Santa Barbara. In 2010, he chose a job in Singapore because he was looking for adventure, he told his parents. 

He went to work at the Institute of Microelectronics, a Singaporean government research institution, to work on cutting-edge technology involving powerful semiconductors. But an investigation by the Financial Times magazine found the technology has other applications desired by China, applications that can be used to disrupt enemy radar and communications. 

Documents on a hard drive his parents found in his Singapore apartment included a draft agreement for IME to share what Todd was working on with Chinese telecommunications company Huawei, says Colin Humphreys, a pioneer in the emerging field of gallium nitride semiconductors. Huawei is known to U.S. intelligence agencies. Rep. Mike Rogers, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, told CBS' 60 Minutes in October that the company has ties to China's military and intelligence services and is "a serious threat" to U.S. national security. 

Humphreys, director of the University of Cambridge Center for Gallium Nitride, analyzed documents retrieved from Todd's hard drive at the request of the Financial Times. Speaking to USA TODAY, Humphreys said the documents show that Todd traveled for IME to the United States to be trained on equipment used to produce a powerful new class of semiconductors that outperform silicon and can be used to greatly boost the transmissions of cellphone towers, military radars and radar jamming devices. 

Gallium nitride is most commonly used in LED lighting, to produce high-intensity light without much heat or energy use. The material is also used on wafers,The Solar Centre's range of bestcrystallightss will power nearly all portable devices. similar to silicon chips in a computer, to power various electronic devices but with much greater efficiency and intensity. Todd was involved in cutting-edge research on using GaN wafers that were 8 inches in diameter and can be loaded with electronic devices. They are of the type used in the most advanced commercial and military land-based and airborne transmission equipment, Humphreys said. 

The New Jersey-based company, Veeco, also gave Todd recipes for creating gallium nitride wafers to certain specifications, and planned to ship equipment to IME so it could produce gallium nitride wafers in Singapore, Humphreys said.including mesh safety glasses and mesh solarsystem, Singapore is not restricted from receiving such "dual-use" technology, but China is, according to the Financial Times.