Australian technology innovator BluGlass Limited has invested $600,00 in Griffith University to develop power electronics.
BluGlass will be leading the two-year cash investment – inclusive of a $300,000 grant from the Innovative Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre – to develop next-generation GaN transistors, called High Performance Normally OFF GaN High Electron Mobility Transistors (HEMT).
The technology promises a positive and stable threshold voltage, low on-resistance and high breakdown field.
With an increasingly connected world, demand for smarter, more powerful and efficient electronics is rising exponentially.
The project aims to deliver and drive adoption of this step-change electronics innovation, that combines two Australian enabling technologies – BluGlass’ deposition technology called Remote Plasma Chemical Vapour Deposition (RPCVD).
RPCVD is a revolutionary low temperature approach for the manufacture of semiconductor materials and will be combined with Griffith University’s Queensland Microtechnology Facility (QMF)’s Atomically Smooth SiC on large Si (SiC on Si) wafers.
“Today, electronics manufacturers face high cost barriers for higher performing materials,” said BluGlass