Nitride Solutions

“Enabling the Next Generation of Ultraviolet Applications.”

News

While most HB-LEDs are manufactured using sapphire or SiC substrates, emerging device types will require more advanced materials. The worldwide demand for GaN and AlN substrates is forecast to grow from $340 million in 2006 to $880 million in 2010...

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In this year's University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) Technology Management Program New Venture Competition at the end of May $25,000 was distributed between five winners in different categories. Winning $10,000 and $5,000 in the 'Most Fundable Idea' and 'Dow Materials Use' categories, respectively, was the startup Nitride Solutions of Santa Barbara, CA, USA...

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Welcome

      Using a breakthrough process developed in the engineering labs at the University of California Santa Barbara, Nitride Solutions will provide a superior substrate for use in the manufacturing of Ultraviolet Optoelectronic and Semiconductor Devices.

About Nitride Solutions

      Nitride Solutions is a clean technology company dedicated to commercializing a breakthrough semiconductor process for the production of high quality aluminum nitride (AlN) substrates, enabling for the first time the production of low cost, high efficiency, and long life ultraviolet (UV) light emitting diodes (LEDs) and other related electronic devices which are currently not commercially available.

About the Product

      Semiconductor devices, such as LEDs, lasers, and transistors, are thin layers that must be deposited on another material called a substrate. The physical properties and quality of the substrate determine the performance of the device. A typical 2 inch round substrate with a device layer is then diced into approximately 2,000 - 5,000 individual LEDs or other electronic devices.

      Presently, nitride-based LEDs are optimized for the blue spectrum and relatively high performance can also be obtained in the UV-A spectrum. However, the manufacturing the proper material for UV-B and UV-C LEDs has proven difficult to optimize resulting in low quality LEDs with efficiencies of 1% or less and lifetimes of 1,000 hours or less. These poor device characteristics have inhibited the expansion of LEDs into the short wavelength UV market, where many large scale market opportunities exist.

About the Industry

      The Nitride Semiconductor Industry includes optoelectronic and electronic devices made of the materials InN, GaN, AlN, and any composition of the InGaAlN alloy. This industry has matured since the first commercially available blue LEDs were offered in 1993, invented by Prof. Nakamura, while head of research at Nichia. It is now clear that nitrides have many important applications and benefits to society. Significant changes are occurring that will expand the value and role of nitride semiconductors.


About UCSB

      The Materials Engineering department at University of California Santa Barbara continually ranks amongst the top three graduate programs in its field. The nitride semiconductor research at UCSB is a world renowned program on the forefront of the technology. In the last two years, the nitride research program at UCSB has spun out several other start-ups.

How to Reach Us

Nitride Solutions
158 Walnut Ln
Santa Barbara, CA 93111


Please Contact:
  Troy Baker, CTO: (805) 680-6145