BRITE Fellow: Semiconductor Evolution via Manufacturing Innovation (SEMI)

BRITE 院士：通过制造创新实现半导体演进 (SEMI)

• 批准号: 2227551
• 负责人: Adrienne Stiff-Roberts
• 金额: $ 99.93万
• 依托单位: Duke University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-01-01 至 2027-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2227551&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: BRITE; Fellow; Semiconductor; Evolution; via

This Boosting Research Ideas for Transformative and Equitable Advances in Engineering (BRITE) Fellow grant supports research that contributes new knowledge related to a semiconductor manufacturing process, promoting both the progress of science and advancing national prosperity. While the total global semiconductor market is strong and semiconductors represent an important US export, the US share of global semiconductor manufacturing is predicted to continually decline. As an approach to rebuild domestic semiconductor manufacturing, the vision of this research work is to transcend the existing paradigm of manufactured electronic materials being either organic or inorganic and to embrace the versatility and functionality of hybrid semiconductors (comprising both inorganic and organic materials). The evolution to hybrid semiconductors could mitigate disadvantages that exist for any single material type by combining the disparate characteristics of both constituents, and in so doing, reinvent US semiconductor manufacturing. The potential for hybrid semiconductors to incorporate multi-functionality, flexibility, transparency, and sustainability in devices in new ways can enable next generation electronics. Anticipated rewards of the manufacturing innovation required for this endeavor align with national needs of enabling new domestic semiconductor capabilities and developing a highly skilled and educated workforce. Guiding principles to implement this vision include sustainability; diversity, equity, and inclusion; and support of K-12 education to develop the human resources needed in the future. Thin-film deposition of heterogeneous systems comprising two or more materials with fundamentally different properties is a critical challenge, yet this capability could enable new hybrid semiconductor technologies. Existing state-of-the-art approaches to film deposition of hybrid semiconductors primarily use solution-based processing, such as inkjet printing. These approaches are subject to challenges of composition control, achieving monolithic heterostructures, and compatibility with a wide range of materials and substrates. This research is to translate lab-based discoveries of a film deposition technique, resonant infrared matrix-assisted pulsed laser evaporation or RIR-MAPLE, into a scalable manufacturing technology. In the RIR-MAPLE process, target solutions or emulsions are frozen such that sublimation of a matrix solvent (involving vapor-phase) releases a plume of target droplets onto a substrate. To achieve an industrial-scale RIR-MAPLE process that is controllable, reproducible, and high-throughput, this work investigates the basic science necessary to transition RIR-MAPLE into a precise, scalable method. This work explores monitoring and feedback via spectroscopic ellipsometry; extends film thickness uniformity to larger area for higher throughput; and determines maximum background pressure for controlled film deposition. This research involves the study of complex materials, including hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites, hybrid organic nanocomposites, and metal-organic frameworks (MOFs).This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这个促进工程变革和公平进步的研究思路（BRITE）研究员资助支持研究，贡献与半导体制造过程相关的新知识，促进科学进步和促进国家繁荣。虽然全球半导体市场总体强劲，半导体是美国的重要出口产品，但预计美国在全球半导体制造业中的份额将继续下降。作为重建国内半导体制造业的方法，这项研究工作的愿景是超越现有的制造电子材料是有机或无机的范式，并拥抱混合半导体（包括无机和有机材料）的多功能性和功能性。混合半导体的发展可以通过结合两种成分的不同特性来减轻任何单一材料类型存在的缺点，并在此过程中重塑美国半导体制造业。混合半导体以新的方式将多功能性、灵活性、透明度和可持续性纳入设备的潜力可以实现下一代电子产品。这一奋进所需的制造业创新的预期回报与国家实现新的国内半导体能力和培养高技能和受过良好教育的劳动力的需求相一致。实现这一愿景的指导原则包括可持续性;多样性，公平和包容性;以及支持K-12教育，以开发未来所需的人力资源。包括两种或更多种具有根本不同性质的材料的异质系统的薄膜沉积是一个关键的挑战，但这种能力可以实现新的混合半导体技术。混合半导体的膜沉积的现有技术方法主要使用基于溶液的处理，例如喷墨印刷。这些方法受到组成控制、实现单片异质结构以及与各种材料和衬底的兼容性的挑战。这项研究是将基于实验室的薄膜沉积技术，共振红外矩阵辅助脉冲激光蒸发或RIR-MAPLE的发现转化为可扩展的制造技术。在RIR-MAPLE工艺中，目标溶液或乳液被冷冻，使得基质溶剂（涉及气相）的升华将目标液滴的羽流释放到基底上。为了实现工业规模的RIR-MAPLE过程是可控的，可重复的，高通量的，这项工作调查的基础科学必要的过渡RIR-MAPLE到一个精确的，可扩展的方法。这项工作探讨了监测和反馈，通过光谱椭偏仪，延长膜厚均匀性，以更大的面积更高的吞吐量，并确定最大的背景压力控制薄膜沉积。该研究涉及复杂材料的研究，包括混合有机-无机钙钛矿，混合有机纳米复合材料和金属-有机框架（MOFs）。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。