Kubos Semiconductors wins FEIP grant and first customer order

The grant funding is topic to finishing aligned funding led by the Growth Financial institution of Wales. The corporate has additionally been granted its first course of know-how patents and has acquired its first buyer order.

The grant is for a 24-month challenge to realize 5% effectivity for crimson microLEDs by deploying the corporate’s proprietary cubic Gallium Nitride (GaN) course of, referred to as KubosLED. Reaching the challenge’s purpose will make microLEDs viable in AR/VR purposes by roughly doubling the effectivity achieved with different course of applied sciences. Poor crimson microLED effectivity is at present one of many important elements constraining the AR/VR market.

“We see enormous demand for our know-how each time we interact with potential clients and are delighted to have received our first main buyer and secured additional funding to make sure we attain our know-how objectives,” says CEO Caroline O’Brien (pictured), “these achievements underline the truth that KubosLED materials know-how is the main contender to clear a serious bottleneck that’s been holding again AR/VR adoption.”

Following profitable completion of the funding spherical within the autumn, Kubos as a fabless semiconductor firm, will open a improvement workplace in Wales. This may allow it to proceed to learn from years of collaboration with the South Wales Compound Semiconductor cluster, particularly the Compound Semiconductor Centre (CSC, a partnership between Cardiff College and worldwide compound semiconductor fabrication firm, IQE Plc) and the Institute of Compound Semiconductors at Cardiff College, the place the Kubos LEDs are processed and examined.

Kubos’s core cubic GaN course of and product know-how patent has now been granted in China, Japan, Singapore, and the US. Its patent portfolio has additionally been prolonged to incorporate granted patents for silicon carbide epitaxy, which is utilized by Kubos as a development substrate.

The corporate has additionally received its first buyer for its KubosLED materials in crimson microLEDs.

For extra data: https://kubos-semi.com

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