As part of its Clean Technology Innovation Program, the Australian Federal Government has awarded BluGlass Ltd of Silverwater, Australia $2,999,255 in funding for its project ‘Versatile prototype deposition machine for higher efficiency, energy saving, lower cost LEDs on various substrates including silicon’.
Spun off from the III-nitride department of Macquarie University of Sydney, Australia in 2005, BluGlass developed a low-temperature process using remote-plasma chemical vapor deposition (RPCVD) to grow materials including gallium nitride (GaN) and indium gallium nitride (InGaN) on glass substrates, potentially offering cost, throughput and efficiency advantages for the production of LEDs.
The support for the firm’s continued development of its RPCVD technology represents “an enormous commitment from the Commonwealth Government and demonstrates their continued belief in our ability to bring our breakthrough technology to market,” says CEO Giles Bourne. Read More