DIAMFAB-Diodes manufactured on a diamond substratre
DIAMFAB prepared to strengthen and advance its place as a number one diamond semiconductor know-how supplier with a disruptive method and distinctive know-how.
— Gauthier Chicot
GRENOBLE, FRANCE, November 9, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — Innovative Provider of Diamond Semiconductor Wafers, DIAMFAB, Unveils New Strategy and Technology Vision
DIAMFAB, a start-up innovator of excessive value-added diamond semiconductor wafer know-how for next-generation electronics, at present introduced that the corporate will transfer to a brand new twin business mannequin technique. Under this new method, DIAMFAB will promote its know-how instantly and by way of application-oriented strategic partnerships and alliances. This new technique will allow DIAMFAB to strengthen and advance its place as a number one diamond semiconductor know-how supplier with a disruptive method and distinctive know-how, unlocking important new market alternatives and serving to to satisfy main environmental and financial challenges.
The technique is designed to attain a scalable go-to-market mannequin carried out by way of a combination of in-house capabilities and an prolonged companion ecosystem primarily based on co-development. “Over the past two years, we have made significant progress working with R&D teams to process high value-added diamond wafers. Our application-oriented approach based on a dual business model will now allow us to work with a broader set of industrial partners, to develop and sell high value-added diamond wafers and our patented diamond devices manufacturing processes, while also selling directly to end users with a fab-light model,” stated Gauthier Chicot, CEO of DIAMFAB.
DIAMFAB has already began to work with companions on the design and fabrication of high-performance units together with diodes, transistors, capacitors, quantum sensors, and high-energy detectors. The firm’s first market is capacitors for electrical automobiles, the place the benefits of diamond semiconductors over precise capacitor applied sciences present large potential for bettering compactness and efficiency over the lifetime of a car. “We have already filed a patent on an all-diamond capacitor and are collaborating with a leading player in this field,” continued Chicot. Among different parameters, we’ve achieved our targets: a excessive present density of over 1000A/cm2 and a breakdown electrical area bigger than 7.7MV/cm. These are key parameters for the performances of future units and are already superior to what present supplies like SiC can present for energy electronics. Moreover, we’ve a transparent roadmap to achieve 4-inch wafers by 2025 as a key enabler for mass manufacturing.”
Diamond as a Semiconductor
Diamond has the potential to be the last word semiconductor on account of its superlative electrical properties (5000 larger present density and 30 instances larger voltage in comparison with silicon) and its potential to function in harsh environments (excessive temperature and radiation). DIAMFAB’s patented method to rising artificial diamond materials starting from a couple of nanometers in thickness to tens of micrometers is exclusive within the business. DIAMFAB diamond wafers can be utilized for insulator, semiconductor, metallic, and superconductive conduction purposes. In automotive purposes, DIAMFAB wafers might permit the fabrication of 80% lighter and extra compact energy converters. In energy grid purposes, DIAMFAB wafers might additionally extra simply deal with larger voltage and scale back power losses by an element of 10 in comparison with silicon.
Applications vary from electrical automobiles with diamond energy electronics units to IoT with 20 years lengthy life battery, to nuclear and spatial purposes with hardened electronics elements or detectors in healthcare, and even ultraprecise quantum sensors for autonomous automobiles.
Additional Details
DIAMFAB gives a novel management know-how which consists of synthesizing and doping diamond epitaxial layers representing, the one one of its form on the earth. In microwave-generated plasma and underneath managed temperature and strain situations, the corporate cracks methane molecules into carbon that are then rearranged on the floor of a diamond seed. At the identical time, a exact and managed quantity of boron or nitrogen is added to develop diamond-doped layers and kind a excessive value-added wafer prepared for system fabrication.
About DIAMFAB: Founded in March 2019 and primarily based in Grenoble (France), DIAMFAB is a spin-off of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). The firm synthesizes and dopes diamonds for the semiconductor business. Thanks to its superior electrical efficiency, report effectivity, and excessive compactness, DIAMFAB excessive value-added diamond wafers are designed to play a serious function and be on the coronary heart of the power transition. From the electrical automotive to the longer term excessive voltage community, from hybrid plane to batteries for linked objects, diamond would be the key to the electrification of our society.
For extra data go to: www.diamfab.com
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