NIITM: Semiconductor Crystal Growing Plant

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2024: Product Announcement

Specialists of NIITM JSC, NTC Microelectronics RAS and Soft-Impact LLC developed and tested the first domestic industrial plant for growing gallium nitride crystals on silicon substrates in December 2024. Russia has become the fourth country in the world to master the production of equipment of this class.

According to Izvestia, the installation allows you to obtain structures on substrates with a diameter of up to 200 mm. Dmitry Pugachev, head of the laboratory for the development of epitaxial equipment at NIITM JSC, noted that with round-the-clock operation, the machine is capable of producing up to 2 thousand plates per year, each of which can accommodate several tens of thousands of transistors.

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Yulia Sukhoroslova, director of electronic engineering at Element Group of Companies, emphasized that nitride-gallium components are used in control microelectronics for fast charging stations, in household devices, industrial systems and drones.

The development exceeds foreign analogues in terms of a set of parameters, requires less consumption of expensive starting materials and provides a longer service life of the tooling. It took five years to create the installation. Serial production is scheduled to be launched in 2025.

Maxim Ganykin, Deputy General Director for Development and Scientific and Technical Support of NIIME JSC, noted the importance of development for telecommunications, transport, communications, power and space technology.

Yevgeny Alexandrov, head of the molecular modeling laboratory at the NTI Competence Center, pointed out the promise of technologies in 5G Internet networks due to the high frequency characteristics and the ability to transmit a signal over a greater distance.

According to the Association of Developers and Manufacturers of Electronics, the Russian wide-band semiconductor market is estimated at ₽1 billion in the cost of chips. To stimulate the industry, it is necessary to develop the production of electricity converters, microwave modules and LEDs.^[1]

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