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Closed-Loop, Real-Time, Growth-to-Device Semiconductor Modeling

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Air Force
Contract: FA9550-06-C-0044
Agency Tracking Number: F054-003-0039
Amount: $749,957.00
Phase: Phase II
Program: STTR
Solicitation Topic Code: AF05-T003
Solicitation Number: N/A
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2005
Award Year: 2006
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2006-07-31
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2008-07-31
Small Business Information
1001 East Rudasill Rd
Tucson, AZ 85718
United States
DUNS: 089635093
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Mahmoud Fallahi
 Associate Professor
 (520) 621-8260
 fallahi@optics.arizona.edu
Business Contact
 Jerome Moloney
Title: President
Phone: (520) 877-5024
Email: sfdicosola@comcast.net
Research Institution
 UNIV. OF ARIZONA
 
Room 510 888 N. Euclid Ave.
Tucson, AZ 85719
United States

 (520) 626-6000
 Nonprofit College or University
Abstract

Semiconductor amplifiers and lasers are pervasive as critical components in modern day military and commercial technologies. High quality semiconductor wafer growth can now produce heterostructures of very high quality with stoichiometrically correct growth of individual mono-layers. Despite these significant advances in MBE and MOCVD growth technologies, a critical void remains in predicting the performance of final packaged functional amplifier or laser devices. The lack of predictive semiconductor device design and growth monitoring capability can be traced to the extreme complexity of calculating the semiconductor optical response from first principles. Parallel progress in basic research over the past decade has led to the emergence of the first fully predictive theory of the optical properties of semiconductor heterostructures. A Nonlinear Control Strategies /University of Arizona collaborative project proposes to develop robust commercial PC-based software tools built on such microscopically computed optical gain databases. Individual modules will aid in semiconductor epi design, growth monitoring and overall functional device optimization. Such closed-loop software tools applicable to a broad class of material systems, will enable the laser designer and materials grower to fast track from device design concept through growth to the final packaged device, thereby avoiding costly and wasteful material re-growth and packaging cycles

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