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EU funding (€15M): GaN for Advanced Power Applications Hor21 May 2021 EU Research and Innovation programme "Horizon"

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GaN for Advanced Power Applications

GaN4AP project has the ambitious target of making the GaN-based electronics to become the main power active device present in all power converter systems, with the possibility of developing a close-to-zero energy loss power electronic systems. GaN4AP project will… 1. Develop innovative Power Electronic Systems for power conversion and management with advanced architecture and circuit topology based on state of the art GaN-based High Electron Mobility Transistors (HEMTs) available in a new concept high-frequency packages that can achieve the requested 99% power conversion efficiency. 2. Develop an innovative material (Aluminium Scandium Nitride, AlScN) that combined with advanced growth and process solutions can provide outstanding physical properties for highly efficient power transistors. Therefore, a new HEMT device architecture will be fabricated with much higher current (2x) and power density (2x) than existing transistors. 3. Develop a new generation of vertical power GaN-based devices on MOSFET architecture with vertical p-GaN inversion channel for safe power switching up to 1200 V. We will cover all the production chain from the device design, processing and characterization up to tests in low inductance half bridge power modules and their implementation in high speed power switching systems. 4. Develop a new intelligent and integrated GaN solutions (STi2GaN) both in System in Package (SiP) and Monolithic variances, that will allow the generation of E-Mobility power converters. The projects will focus on scalable concept for 48V-12V bidirectional Buck Boost converters for conventional and ADAS applications combining, in a novel wire-bond free package, a state of the art BCD driver & controller along with a common substrate Monolithic 100V e-GaN Half Bridge. The development of new device technologies and innovative power circuits, employing the GaN-based devices is a crucial factor for the world-wide competitiveness of EU industries.


Funded Companies:

Company name Funding amount
Advanced Techno Solutions Srl €640,525
Advantest Europe GmbH €272,500
Advantest Italia Srl €0.00
Agile Power Switch 3D - Integrationapsi3D €215,289
Aixtron SE €474,750
Alma Mater Studiorum - Universita Di Bologna €0.00
Automatisierungstechnik Voigt GmbH €143,125
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS €300,294
Ceske Vysoke Uceni Technicke V Praze €192,063
Commissariat a L Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives €850,800
Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche €0.00
Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario Per LA Nanoelettronica €805,000
Distretto Tecnologico Sicilia Micro E Nano Sistemi Scarl €1,522,500
Dockweiler Chemicals GmbH €148,926
Eda Industries S.p.A. €312,500
Eldor Corporation S.p.A. €9,474.71
Enel X Srl €32,775
Ferrari-S.p.A. Esercizio Fabbriche Automobili E Corse €37,500
Finepower GmbH €148,509
Freiberger Compound Materials GmbH €252,960
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universitaet Hannover €229,578
Institut Mikroelektronickych Aplikaci s.r.o. €72,500
Instytut Wysokich Cisnien Polskiej Akademii Nauk €584,675
NXP Semiconductors Netherlands B.V. €514,400
Schneider Electric Automation GmbH €69,000
Schneider Electric Industries SAS €65,044
Sempa Systems GmbH €221,719
Stmicroelectronics (Tours) SAS €759,008
Stmicroelectronics Design and Application s.r.o. €60,350
Stmicroelectronics Rousset SAS €488,440
Stmicroelectronics Srl €1,666,000
Synergie CAD Instruments Srl €306,500
Technische Hochschule Wuerzburg-Schweinfurt €160,858
Technische Universiteit Eindhoven €174,150
Universita Degli Studi Di Catania €0.00
Universita Degli Studi Di Messina €0.00
Universita Degli Studi Di Modena E Reggio Emilia €0.00
Universita Degli Studi Di Padova €0.00
Universita Degli Studi Di Palermo €0.00
Universita Della Calabria €0.00
Universite de Tours €205,319
Valeo Eautomotive Germany GmbH €554,070
Valeo Electrification SAS €2,392,744
Wurth Elektronik Eisos GmbH & Co. KG €146,775

Source: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101007310

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