Lawrence Semiconductor Research Laboratory, Inc.

Lawrence Semiconductor Research Laboratory, Inc., a Tempe, Arizona-based for-profit Subchapter S corporation, manufactures custom silicon and silicon-germanium epitaxial wafers and emerging semiconductor materials for federal research and defense agencies as a prime contractor (80% of recent awards) and as a subcontractor on materials-research grants. The vendor competes under Total Small Business set-asides on procurement awards and holds no permanent IDVs; recent work includes firm fixed-price purchase orders and SBIR Phase I contracts for custom wafer services, quantum-grade heterostructures, and cryogenic optical modulation materials.

Lawrence Semiconductor's customer concentration spans civilian research and defense technical agencies with thin penetration across most. The top five funding entities account for 91% of combined potential value but represent only 47% of award count, indicating that a small number of high-value awards drive the bulk of pipeline. The Department of the Army leads by potential value ($249,877 for a Phase I SBIR on emerging materials for cryogenic optical modulation), followed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology ($232 thousand combined across two custom-wafer purchase orders), and scattered smaller awards from NASA Goddard Space Center, the Department of the Navy Information Warfare Systems Command, and the Navy. Recent prime awards include a $152,304 NIST purchase order for silicon and silicon-germanium epitaxial wafers with X-ray and ion-mass-spectrometry acceptance testing (completion February 2027), a $249,877 Army SBIR Phase I contract on emerging materials for cryogenic optical modulation (ultimate completion October 2026), and a $79,331 NIST purchase order for quantum-grade silicon heterostructures completed May 2025. Lawrence Semiconductor holds one seat on an indefinite delivery contract (SPE7MX24D0030) with one associated task order.

Award volume is sparse and episodic—three awards in 2024 and three in 2026 against a fifteen-award lifetime history spanning from 1997 to present—with only one award ($152,304) completing inside the next twenty-four months. On the subcontract side, Lawrence Semiconductor delivers AC epitaxy services to Sri International (award July 2026) and performs SiGeSn thin-film growth, doping development, and foundry planning under University of Arkansas's Office of Naval Research grant for room-temperature electro-optic infrared sensors (award October 2024), with a second sub-grant role under HRL Laboratories' growth-services award (July 2024). The vendor's capability portfolio centers on CVD and molecular-beam-epitaxy wafer manufacturing, heterostructure design, and thin-film materials characterization for quantum computing, infrared sensing, and advanced optoelectronics applications, grounded in NAICS codes for semiconductor manufacturing and physical-sciences R&D.