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.

人类的能源使用量达到惊人的 15,000,000,000,000 瓦，其中 80% 来自化石燃料，产生约 9,000,000,000 吨二氧化碳，据信这是造成全球气候问题的主要因素。 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、风能或水力发电的无碳发电厂。 客观来看，目前全球仅有 441 座核电站，可再生能源则少得多。 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“工程半导体构建模块”（工程基板）商业化，这将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，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使用最近获得专利的技术来展示工程基板，该技术可用于电力电子以及紫外线和绿光发射器（称为 LEDS）的新兴市场。这些工程基板将允许（a）为当前生产的设备制造具有更高质量/性能的各种半导体设备，以及（b）现有制造商扩展到具有更高性能且目前任何竞争方法都无法实现的新设备。 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、生产价值和交付时间。该团队将在氮化物社区中寻找具有使用传统非原生衬底（例如硅、SiC）和原生模板（AlN 和 GaN）进行器件设计和生长经验的客户。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而提供的见解对于将提议的技术成熟为可生产的产品非常宝贵。团队成员从客户的角度了解现有的设备性能指标至关重要，这样他们才能识别关键问题和挑战，团队可以针对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材支付多少钱。