I-Corps: Novel Engineered Substrate Technology for Low-Defect, High-Yield Visible/UV LEDS and Power Electronics

I-Corps：用于低缺陷、高产量可见光/紫外 LED 和电力电子器件的新型工程基板技术

• 批准号: 1639823
• 负责人: William Doolittle
• 金额: $ 0.96万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-06-15 至 2016-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1639823&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Novel; Engineered; Substrate; Technology

Mankind's energy usage is a staggering 15,000,000,000,000 watts, 80% of which is from fossil fuels that produce about 9,000,000,000 tons of carbon dioxide believed to be a major contributor to global climate concerns. The goal of displacing this fossil fuel based energy production is a daunting problem requiring the equivalent of 10,000 nuclear, solar, wind or hydroelectric carbon-free power plants. To put this in perspective, currently worldwide, there are only 441 nuclear power plants and far fewer renewable energy sources. For this reason, most of the effort in stemming the growth of energy demand is focused not on production, but on efficient energy consumption. To that end, this team proposes to commercialize "engineered semiconductor building blocks" (engineered substrates) that will enable customers to create major advances in energy efficient electronic power and lighting devices enabling massive energy savings through improved power efficiency. The initial focus of the team's efforts will be to demonstrate engineered substrates using a recently patented technology useful for emerging markets in power electronics and UV and green light emitters (known as LEDS). These engineered substrates will allow (a) various semiconductor devices to be fabricated with higher quality/performance for devices currently being produced and (b) existing manufacturers to expand into new devices that have higher performance and are currently not achievable by any competing method.This I-Corps team will conduct a detailed market survey of existing nitride substrate template technologies, including their cost, material quality, production value, and time to delivery. The team will identify customers within the Nitride community with experience in device design and growth using traditional non-native substrates (e.g., Silicon, SiC) and native templates (AlN and GaN). This team will conduct detailed customer surveys to understand the desired material quality and doping levels. The insight provided by these customers through direct surveys of their experience will be invaluable to maturing the proposed technology into a production ready product offering. It is critical that the team members understand the existing device performance metrics from the perspective of the customer, so that they can identify the key issues and challenges for which the team can provide an immediate solution and generate direct marketable impact for the customer. This team will also survey customers on pricing structure, and identify what they would be willing to pay for engineered substrates customized to their specifications.

人类的能源使用量是惊人的150亿瓦，其中80%来自化石燃料，产生约90亿吨二氧化碳，被认为是全球气候问题的主要贡献者。 取代这种基于化石燃料的能源生产的目标是一个艰巨的问题，需要相当于10，000个核能，太阳能，风能或水电无碳发电厂。 从这个角度来看，目前全世界只有441座核电站，可再生能源更少。 因此，遏制能源需求增长的大部分努力不是集中在生产上，而是集中在有效的能源消费上。 为此，该团队建议将“工程半导体构建块”（工程衬底）商业化，使客户能够在节能电子电源和照明设备方面取得重大进展，从而通过提高电源效率实现大规模节能。 该团队最初的工作重点将是展示使用最近专利技术的工程基板，该技术适用于电力电子和紫外线和绿色光发射器（称为LED）的新兴市场。这些工程衬底将允许（a）制造具有更高质量/性能的各种半导体器件，用于当前生产的器件，以及（B）现有制造商扩展到具有更高性能且当前无法通过任何竞争方法实现的新器件。I-Corps团队将对现有氮化物衬底模板技术进行详细的市场调查，包括其成本，材料质量，生产价值和交货时间。该团队将在Nitride社区中识别具有使用传统非原生衬底（例如，硅、SiC）和原生模板（AlN和GaN）。该团队将进行详细的客户调查，以了解所需的材料质量和掺杂水平。这些客户通过直接调查他们的经验所提供的洞察力对于将拟议的技术成熟为生产就绪的产品提供是非常宝贵的。团队成员必须从客户的角度了解现有器械性能指标，以便他们能够识别关键问题和挑战，团队可以为这些问题和挑战提供即时解决方案，并为客户产生直接的市场影响。该团队还将调查客户的定价结构，并确定他们愿意为根据其规格定制的工程基板支付的价格。