Cooperative Agreement DEAR0001451

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,000,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program to Soctera, Inc., a for-profit semiconductor technology company. The funding supports the scaling and commercialization of Soctera's innovative thermally-optimized power amplifier technology based on gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductors with aluminum nitride (AlN) layers. This technology is designed to address key challenges in 5G...

This $275,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant, awarded under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program, funds the development and validation of materials and processes for advanced semiconductor manufacturing at Geminatio, a for-profit organization. The goal is to enable the progression of Moore's Law and strengthen domestic semiconductor manufacturing capacity and capability, which has been impacted by recent supply chain issues. The project seeks to...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $249,969 to the University of Delaware to enhance the performance of gallium nitride (GaN)-on-silicon high electron mobility transistor technology for high frequency and high power electronics applications. The key research activities aim to develop a novel self-aligned T-shaped gate fabrication process to improve the radio frequency and power performance of GaN-on-silicon devices,...

The National Science Foundation Division of Industrial Innovation awarded $256,000 under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program to Future Semiconductor Business, Inc. from February 2022 to January 2023. The Project Grant funding will support the development of gallium nitride membranes for efficient thermal management in semiconductor manufacturing. Specifically, the awardee will utilize remote epitaxy and 2-dimensional layer transfer technologies to produce high-quality, freestanding...

This $1,103,042 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to address fundamental knowledge gaps for realizing efficient 48V vertical power delivery to AI processors in data centers. The project will heterogeneously integrate wide-bandgap microelectronics, including gallium nitride (GaN) power devices, CMOS, and sensors, with PCB-integrated magnetics, power electronics circuitry, and advanced packaging. Key focus areas include developing...

This $476,190 Project Grant awarded by the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) program (CFDA 81.135) to North Carolina State University (NC State) supports the development of electrically conductive thick gallium nitride (GaN) substrates. The goal is to enable the creation of vertical GaN power electronics and demonstrate the feasibility of lateral expansion in crystals grown using the proposed method to validate its use for larger diameter substrates. This...

Coolcad Electronics, LLC received a $200,000 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on June 27, 2022 to support development of low-cost hybrid SiC/GaN-based single-stage microinverters with integrated planar magnetics technology. The project aims to deliver this technology by March 26, 2023. The award is being made through the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA #81.049), which supports basic research to deliver scientific discoveries and tools...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) received a $4.973 million cooperative agreement award from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) to experimentally demonstrate vertical gallium nitride super junction (GaN SJ) devices for the first time under the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy program (CFDA 81.135). The project, running from July 2022 to July 2025, aims to simulate, design, grow epitaxial layers, fabricate, characterize and...

This $1,000,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program aims to develop a process that uses sound energy and material stress to precisely cut and lift thin layers of gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductor material from a wafer, enabling the wafer to be reused multiple times. The project, awarded to Crystal Sonic Inc., a for-profit company based in Phoenix, Arizona, seeks to significantly reduce...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) provides $276,000 to Astrabeam LLC and Penn State University to develop a D-band, silicon-based phased array radar front-end module for smart sensing applications. Specifically, the awardees will design, model, simulate, and demonstrate a prototype radar module operating beyond 100 GHz with wide bandwidth. The scalable, area-efficient front-end architecture and phased array...