Veeco, Imec Announce Collaboration

Nanoelectronics research centre imec of Belgium and Veeco Instruments Inc.

are collaborating on a project aimed at lowering the cost of producing gallium nitride on silicon (GaN-on-Si) -based power devices and LEDs. Barun Dutta, imec's Chief Scientist, commented, “The productivity, repeatability, uniformity and crystal quality of Veeco's metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) equipment has been instrumental in helping us meet our development milestones on GaN-on-Si for power and LED applications. The device performance enabled by the epi has helped us realize state-of-the-art D-mode (depletion mode) and E-mode (enhancement mode) power devices. Our goal is to establish an entire manufacturing infrastructure that allows GaN-on-Si to be a competitive