Project Grant 1549353

This SBIR Phase I award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $305,000 to Turbo Power Semiconductor Inc. to develop a silicon conductivity-controlled power transistor, a semiconductor device designed to significantly reduce power losses in a wide range of power conversion systems compared to existing solutions. The technology has the potential to transform industries such as solar, battery storage, motor drives,...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I Project Grant award to La Luce Cristallina, Inc. provides $274,997 to address critical technical challenges in scaling up barium titanate on silicon technology for photonic integrated circuits. The key products and services to be delivered under this 1-year project include: Developing a process to mitigate the thermal stress that arises from integrating barium titanate, an optical material, with silicon...

This SBIR Phase I project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) aims to improve a critical semiconductor manufacturing method called nanoprobing. The $274,995 award to Tiptek, LLC, a for-profit limited liability company, will fund the development of advanced nanoprobes with controlled geometries and improved oxidation resistance. These enhanced nanoprobes will enable the diagnosis and analysis of...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant award of $305,000 to Julia Jean, LLC will support the development of a novel cold cathode electron beam technology to address bottlenecks in semiconductor manufacturing for advanced artificial intelligence (AI) applications. The project aims to create a wafer-scale process for controllable cold cathode electron sources that can improve the...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering (CFDA 47.041) project grant, awarded to Arizona State University (ASU), aims to design and fabricate high aspect ratio beta-gallium oxide (β-Ga2O3) fin field-effect transistors (FinFETs) for use in high-efficiency power converter applications. The key aspects of the proposed work include: Investigating an in-situ gallium etching technique within a metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) reactor to enable the fabrication of tall, high...

Soctera, Inc. received a $256,000 Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation to scale aluminum nitride/gallium nitride/aluminum nitride (AlN/GaN/AlN) high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) using molecular beam epitaxy. The award period was from August 1, 2021 to January 31, 2022. Under the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength through engineering research and...

This SBIR Phase I award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program, with a total funding amount of $274,985, is focused on developing an artificial intelligence (AI) system to accelerate semiconductor production using physics-embedded lithographic foundation models. The project aims to alleviate design and manufacturing complexities associated with the shift to extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography in semiconductor manufacturing, which has...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering awarded a two-year, $250,000 EAGER grant to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) to explore the development of gate-all-around (GAA) field-effect transistors (FETs) using two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide (2D-TMD) materials. The project aims to advance the scalability and performance of complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) transistors by leveraging the unique properties of 2D-TMDs compared...

Crystal Sonic Inc. received a $275,000 Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project grant from the National Science Foundation under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084). The grant supported the development of a new approach to lower the cost of advanced semiconductor manufacturing through the use of acoustic energy to precisely cut and lift off thin semiconductor devices from their host substrates without waste. By enabling substrate reuse, this "Sonic...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I Project Grant, under CFDA program 47.084 "NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships," provides $272,771 in funding to Thintronics Inc. for the development of novel synthetic polymer-based dielectric materials for printed circuit boards (PCBs). The key objectives of this project are to develop low dielectric constant (≤2.8) and low dissipation factor (≤0.0026) materials that are inherently...