Mitsubishi Chemical: 4-inch GaN crystal manufacturing technology: “SCAAT-LP”

Mitsubishi Chemical: 4-inch GaN crystal manufacturing technology: “SCAAT-LP”

-The world’s largest GaN substrate manufacturing demonstration facility-

Japan Steel Works
Mitsubishi Chemical

For power electronics,

We are working on the demonstration development of a large-diameter bulk gallium nitride (GaN) substrate.

Manufacture of 4-inch GaN crystals:

Uses the world’s largest GaN substrate manufacturing demonstration facility completed in May 2021.

Developed “SCAAT-LP”:

We have developed “SCAAT-LP”, a low-cost manufacturing technology for high-quality GaN substrates.

4-inch GaN crystal test:

We are proceeding with crystal growth tests for mass production of 4-inch GaN substrates.

It was confirmed that the 4-inch GaN crystal was growing as planned.

Market supply in 2022:

In the future, Japan Steel Works and Mitsubishi Chemical will continue crystal growth tests at large-scale demonstration facilities.

It will enable higher productivity and will start to be supplied to the market from the beginning of 2022.

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NEDO: Manufactures the world’s largest GaN substrate

-Confirmed growth of 4-inch GaN crystal with demonstration equipment-

NEDO:

[1] Smooth operation of large-scale demonstration equipment

Japan Steel Works
Mitsubishi Chemical

The large-scale demonstration facility started operation in May 2021.

As a result of conducting multiple crystal growth tests,

We also confirmed in advance that there are no major problems with safety and productivity in each process.

[2] Confirmed crystal growth on a 4-inch GaN substrate

A crystal growth test is being conducted using a large-scale demonstration facility.

We have already confirmed that it is possible to grow 4-inch crystals.

The growth of the entire crystal growth region was confirmed during long-term autoclave operation.

“SCAATTTM-LP”:

The developed crystal growth technology “SCAATTTM-LP” can be reproduced even in a large-scale demonstration facility.
https://www.nedo.go.jp/news/press/AA5_101493.html