SUNDEW TECHNOLOGIES LLC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase II: N121-001

SUNDEW TECHNOLOGIES LLC — SBIR Phase II award from Department of Defense.

Amount
$741,415
Agency
Department of Defense · Navy
Program / Phase
SBIR · Phase II
Topic
N121-001
Solicitation
2012.1
NAICS
Place of performance
CO
Period
2017-08-31 → 2019-08-30

Description

This project targets the commercialization of Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) process for manufacturing of low-K dielectric layers for gallium nitride (GaN) Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits (MMICs) applications. In particular, the objective is to provide conformal and substantially lower dielectric constant substitution for currently used dielectric layers. The project aims for a dielectric constant in the range of 2.5-3.0, leakage current <100 nA/mm2 at 50V and >200 V operation voltage. These low-K dielectric films will support GaN MMICs manufacturing well into the 100 nm transistors-generation and beyond. Such advanced GaN MMICs generations will have ground-breaking impact on RF performance, reliability, power efficiency, size and cost of many military systems and commercial products.