Technology Scotland – Brokerage Event
• Pitches – Round 1
1. Ian Macbeth – INEX Microtechnologies
2. Ann Hughes – Pegasus Chemicals
3. Prof. Iain Thayne – University of Glasgow
4. Grant Maclean – Raytheon UK
Ian Macbeth, INEX Microtechnology
INEX Microtechnology Ltd • A Newcastle-based SME offering leading-edge micro and
nano technology
• Over 12 years experience as MEMS and compound semiconductor microfabrication partner
• Extensive class 100 cleanroom facility
• High-value business model as commercial supply chain partner for bespoke technologies
Pure-play MEMS
1-100M units / year
(Dedicated lines)
Pure-play CMOS
M100’s / year (Mass-market)
Industry Innovations
Boutique/ Academic
Fabs
The Gap
Bridging the Gap
The Gap
Pure-play MEMS
1-100M units / year
(Dedicated lines)
Pure-play CMOS
M100’s / year (Mass-market)
Industry Innovations
Production Collaborative Development Boutique/
Academic Fabs
• Leading-edge production of micro and nano technology based systems
• Over 12 years experience as MEMS and compound semiconductor microfabrication partner
• Extensive class 100 cleanroom facility
• High-value business model as commercial supply chain partner for bespoke technologies
What We Offer: Concept to Production
• Research & Design – Tackling tough technical challenges – Wide variety of microsystem platforms
• Prototyping & Development – Concept to production – Technology transfer
• Industry standard processes – Industry standard equipment – Industry standard best practice
• Bespoke processes – Every customer can be different
• Production…
Sensors and Actuators
RF / Microwave and Power Devices
UK Sovereign GaN Device Manufacture
• Independently tested 24GHz FT GaN devices
• Partnering to accelerate GaN supply chain
• Fully featured fabrication facility
• Unique UK commercial source
• CS Catapult
Ann Hughes, Pegasus Chemicals
PEGASUS
Supporting
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Innovation with Chemistry Pegasus Chemicals Limited
Factory Road,
Flintshire CH5 2QJ www.pegasuschemicals.com
PEGASUS – supporting innovation with chemistry
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Pegasus is a UK based supplier of high purity, specialist packaged chemistry. Our key markets are material science and semiconductor to support specialist
MOCVD/ALD/CVD applicaDons. - Pegasus have the chemistry, technology and manufacturing experDse to develop a specifically tailored precursor to applicaDon requirements. We have primary research and development capabili4es to directly support the UK and EU key enabling and emerging technologies. Contact details: Ann Hughes Tel: 07787 557585 Email: [email protected] Web: www.pegasuschemicals.com Twi@er: @pegasuschemicals
PEGASUS – Business outline
Chemistry - - - -
research and development manufacturing, transfil and purificaDon all chemical handling scale up of processes
ApplicaCon knowledge - - -
chemical delivery for specific processes precursor design for specific applicaDons technical support for development of precursor delivery
Customer support - - -
bulk stock of standard supply materials container clean, preparaDon and refill transport of all precursors, globally
PEGASUS – precursor design for specific applications
NEXT GENERATION PERFORMANCE MATERIALS
INTEGRATED APPROACH
RESEARCH COLLABORATION
process
Development of
packaging
Molecular design to fit
applicaDon requirements
Small scale synthesis
Research deposiDon
Performance improvement
Scale up of material
PEGASUS CHEMICALS – SUPPORTING INNOVATION WITH CHEMISTRY 1. Your Project idea 2. What’s innovaCve about it?
- Tailored analyDcal methods to greater define consistency for high purity metal - The improvement in the consistency of
supply of metalorganic precursors by organic precursors, defined by applicaDon. enhancing specific analyDcal methods.
- Improvement of precursor delivery as a result of improved package design.
- Enhancement of delivery methods for precursors to improve uDlisaDon
and consistency.
4. The partners/services you seek?
3. The services you can offer? • Precursor design, manufacture, tesDng and global supply. • Precursor and package design for specific applicaDons.
• Epitaxial grower with requirements for high purity metalorganic precursors that need
enhancement for a specific applicaDon. • IniDal tesDng of precursors on R&D tool.
www.pegasuschemicals.com
Prof. Iain Thayne, University of Glasgow
James Watt Nanofab Centre @
• About The JWNC – “the best resourced CS academic cleanroom in the UK” 1500m2 cleanroom – “pseudo-industrial” operation £35M installed toolset - £8M Cap-Ex upgrade plan for coming 10 years Centre Director, Director of Operations, Chief Technologist, Executive Team 23 technical staff, 78 PhDs, 60 postdocs Currently working with 29 UK and 90 international academic institutions Via Kelvin Nanotechnology Ltd, have worked with nearly 300 companies globally in last decade
• Contact details Iain Thayne, JWNC Director [email protected] +44 (0) 141 330 3959 www.jwnc.gla.ac.uk
Creating and adding value to CS epi at the “foundry” level
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>600 V GaN power electronics; mm-wave GaN and InP; sub-0.5V InAs and GaSb
James Watt @ Nanofab Centre
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2. What’s innovative about it? 1. Your Project ideas • Processes for materials and techniques that enable a significant improvement in device performance. • approaches to combine multi-mode devices
•“Foundry” level processes and integration strategies • JWNC can provide solutions across the whole CS materials spectrum • Prototype solutions that can be quickly migrated to add value
4. The partners/services you seek? 3. The services you can offer? • Process development for materials from nitrides to antimonides •Prototype nitrides to antimonides devices
•Hetero- and multifunctional integration
•Tool manufacturers •Component and sub-systems suppliers •“Post-foundry” adopters of differentiating “foundry” technologies
Grant Maclean, Raytheon
• Contact details • Dr Grant MacLean • [email protected]
High Temp Integrated Circuits
SiC Foundry
SiC Power Modules
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Raytheon UK
UK-based subsidiary of Raytheon Company
Head Office: Harlow Locations: England, Scotland,
Wales
Employees: ~2,000
Glenrothes Wafer Fab / Design
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• Johnson Counter
•154 N-channel transistors
•154 P-channel transistors
•16 Protection diodes
• Logic Primitives designed;
•AND & NAND
•OR, NOR & XOR
•D-type Flip-Flop
400ºC
Temperature
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Static Current
µA
Current 1Mhz
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200 0.001 140
400 0.02 145
Operates beyond 400ºC. Lower current & faster than published competition (NMOS, JFET)
HiTSiC Technology in practice - High Temperature Digital Counter
8-Bit Johnson Counter Block Diagram
HiTSiC Technology in practice - High Temperature Analogue Multiplexer
• HiTSiC technology capable of reaching well in excess of 400C
• HiTSiC demo designed to show capability at 300C (limited by chosen package)
• Standard circuit blocks used to create thermocouple multiplexer
• Thermocouples used as they operate at very low sense voltages that would make SOI impractical at elevated temperature
• Capability of both analogue and digital CMOS demonstrated
• HiTSiC to enter full qualification process in late 2016
Custom 400ºC-
capable oven used
for reliability
evaluations and
ageing evaluations
Micro-oven
Block Diagram
Parts in oven
1. Our HiTSiC Capability
2. What is “Special”
3. The services you can offer?
4. The partners/services you seek?
Native primitives in HiTSiC to create PMOS,
NMOS, PNP and NPN devices on same
wafer
– Digital logic
– Precision Analogue
– Power device Gate drivers
Analogue and digital devices that operate at +400C
Applications for 400C electronics • Oil & Gas Downhole? • Renewables “on turbine”? • Others?
Unique SiC foundry processing
Demonstrated practical capability
Technology Scotland Brokerage Event
• Pitches – Round 2
1. Alastair Wilson – Compound Semiconductor Technologies
2. Luis Acevedo – BioTSptech, University of Ednburgh
3. Simon Nicholson – Lean IP
4. Allan Colquhoun - Leonardo
Alastair Wilson, Compound Semiconductor Technologies
(CST)
Alastair Wilson
September 2016
Compound Semiconductor Technologies
Global Ltd (CST)
Pitch for InnovateUK Compound Semiconductor call
Company History
‘Primary foundry service provider for III-V active optoelectronic devices’
Hamilton Technology Park
Round A
~£3M: Intel, EDP,
Global Edge
Round B
~£3M: SCF, EDP,
Global Edge
West of Scotland Science Park,
Glasgow
Example Device types
• Established manufacturing solution for III-V photonic devices
• ~ 50 staff involved in chip fab in Hamilton facility
• Wafer Volume around 1000 per year. Capacity significantly higher.
• Mix of InP (600), GaAs (350), plus GaN, GaSb, Ge, AlN, Si, Qz etc.
• Fab optimised for 3” wafer size but enabled for 4”.
• Diverse mix of wafer types in fab.
• Most complex around 15 litho stages.
• Established InP chip supplier in volume FTTX/PON markets – Shipping around 1M InP lasers per month to Asia
• Mixture of processed wafers, coated bars and die on tape.
• Ongoing active R+D programmes in various technology areas
Manufacturing Capability Summary
1. Your Project idea
Semiconductor failure analysis of III-V devices including simulation and modelling techniques.
2. What’s innovative about it?
• Not as well developed in compound semiconductors as in silicon.
• Not well considered at the design stage of devices.
3. The services you can offer?
Limited failure analysis including testing.
4. The partners/services you seek?
• Academic partners with access to TEMs, SEM equipment.
• Software modelling of mechanical stresses and its impact on the semiconductor material e.g. dielectric films on III-V materials.
Company Confidential Compound Semiconductor Technologies
Global
If this is a project you would like to explore with CSTG - Please Email: [email protected] quoting reference InnovateUKCS-AW or speak to me at any of the networking sessions today.
Luis Acevedo, BioTSptech, University of Edinburgh
• About Company/Organisation • Small sized Limited Company, headquarters in Edinburgh, Scotland.
With potential premises in China and USA.
• We will develop and manufacture optoelectronics and MEMs for a micro and nano confocal microscopy sensor for STEM Cells manufacturing in real time.
• Number of products will vary from optoelectronic components including CMOs technology. MEMs manufacturing and packaging with electronics and software platforms to analyse data with rapidly cells manufacturing.
• Effective clinical trials to manipulate STEM Cells in demand. Example, NHS and Pharma companies such as GlaxoSmithKline’, Eli Lilly , etc.
• Contact details
• Luis Acevedo • [email protected] • [email protected] • Tel : 07478160110
BioTSptech
1. Your Project idea
• Novel Confocal Microscopy Sensor with new optical and optoelectronics features incorporated.
• Prototyping as 1st step. • Miniaturisation, manufacturing, packaging in an Optical MEM.
• Large data recording in real time. • Cells Culture diagnosis for manufacturing, therapeutic cells to be
used as treatments for Parkinson , Alzheimer, Epilepsy , etc.
• Test New drugs such as ACI-35 in subjects.
2. What’s innovative about it? • A novel sensor, using the latest optical and electrical
technologies, will be developed for monitoring tissue-cultured cells non-invasively, non-destructively, continuously and in real-time.
• These sensors will be used broadly to monitor the health and general characteristics of any cells grown ex vivo.
• Final packaging step, would provide researchers and clinicians a homogeneous, consistent and reliable supply of well-characterised cells suitable for medical use.
3. The services you can offer?
• IP will consist of “cell signatures” that will be protected by trade secret (if not able to patent) and patents on inventions arising from this project as well the foreground IP.
• Licensing sensors and optoelectronics set ups in biomedical labs.
• Data analysis and consultancy.
• Maintenance ,and training.
• Customised sensors and optoelectronics set up s.
4. The partners/services you seek? • Optical and optoelectronics components developments for MEMS
manufacturing . Materials for sensing from UV to near-infrared .
• Sensor, large scale manufacturing and testing.
• Cells monitoring and diagnosis f or clinical trials. Academia , Hospitals and Industry to meet the clinical needs in the UK and EU.
BioTSptech
Simon Nicholson, Lean IP
• About Lean IP
• Lean IP is a full-service patent attorney company located in Glasgow.
• We have extensive experience in the fields of software, electronics and high-value manufacturing, including business methods, III-V semiconductors and optics.
• Our proven lean methodology maximises the value of your patents.
• Our commercially targeted patents provide optimal deterrence whilst increasing patent valuation.
• Contact details
• Jim Adams
• 0141 255 2001
1. Your Project idea
• Lean and focused patent applications secure market share and protect sales revenues.
2. What’s innovative about it?
• Our innovative lean patent process saves our clients both time and money.
• Our proven lean methodology maximises the value of our clients’ patents.
3. The services you can offer?
• IP / Patent Attorney services. • Specialist expertise in compound semiconductors. • Facilitating collaboration agreements that work well for all parties.
4. The partners/services you seek?
• Companies with IP / Patent requirements.
• Companies who are looking for guidance and assistance in solving problems or potential problems, with collaboration agreements.
Allan Colquhoun, Leonardo
Technology Scotland CSA – Funding Call
15th September 2016
• Leonardo is a global company in the high technology sector previously known as Finmeccanica, Selex ES , …
• In Edinburgh we develop and manufacture Radars based on AESA (Active Electronically Scanned Array) technology
• We develop advanced radar components using III-V semiconductor technology
• We also develop and manufacture advanced optical systems such as lasers and infrared countermeasures which use CS diodes and detectors
1. Your Project idea
Develop a range of low cost microwave and optical components & modules for “next generation” high performance & ultra compact radar and communication products
2. What’s innovative about it? • Low C-SWaP microwave modules for
“sense to avoid” & other commercial radars.
• Highly innovative III-V “SoC” chip designs • Spin off into adjacent market segments
e.g. 5G infrastructure
3. The services you can offer?
•Microwave systems design and manufacture •Optical system design & manufacture •III-V chip design & test •Sales, marketing & product support infrastructure
4. The partners/services you seek? • High volume, low cost III-V Fab capability for
microwave & optical components • Advanced low cost SiP packaging • Low cost volume assembly facilities • Modelling capability for chip & package
reliability predictions