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Improved Thermal Management by High Growth Rate Diamond Layers

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Missile Defense Agency
Contract: HQ00603C0128
Agency Tracking Number: 031-1971
Amount: $69,989.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: N/A
Solicitation Number: N/A
Timeline
Solicitation Year: N/A
Award Year: 2003
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): N/A
Award End Date (Contract End Date): N/A
Small Business Information
7620 Executive Drive
Eden Prairie, MN 55344
United States
DUNS: N/A
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Daming Li
 Senior Research Scientist
 (952) 934-2100
 li@svta.com
Business Contact
 Jane Marks
Title: Project Manager
Phone: (952) 934-2100
Email: marks@svta.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

This Phase I project addresses the development of a process for the thermal management of semiconductor devices with diamond films grown by hot filament chemical vapor deposition (HFCVD). Thermal management of electronic and optical devices is one of themost critical areas for high power applications. Due to its unmatched thermal conductivity diamond is the ideal candidate. Currently HFCVD diamond growth is <1 um/hour. To reach the full economic potential of CVD diamond this rate needs to be increasedsignificantly to realize large reduction of the cost. The goal is to develop a process suitable for manufacturing applications that significantly increases the HFCVD diamond deposition rate over large areas. In the follow-on program we will achieve evenfaster growth rates by further optimization. Since diamond is extremely hard, chemically and thermally stable, and optically transparent in a wide spectral range, it can also be used in many other critical applications such as windows and in orbitalspacecraft. This technology could lead to low cost manufacturing of these high performance products. CVD diamond can be used as a thermal spreader for high power and high temperature semiconductor devices. The development of a high growth rate CVD diamondprocess would greatly reduce cost and benefit users of high power devices. Applications of CVD diamond heat spreaders include submounts for laser diodes, microwave power devices and substrates for MCMs.

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