ALL2GaN - Affordable smart GaN IC solutions for greener applications

“Every Watt counts...because they sum up to TeraW” – With this slogan, the project proposal “ALL2GaN” aims at drawing attention to an omnipresent energy crisis being accompanied by critical climate changes. Many small actions can make the difference and thus, every little bit of power that is preserved on its way from the source to the final energy consumer is worth to fight for. Gallium Nitride technologies have been exhaustively investigated in diverse research projects, among them the two ECSEL-projects PowerBase and UltimateGaN, for several years now. This semiconductor material paves the way to highly energy efficient applications, thus being directly linked to a severe reduction of CO² emissions, but still faces technical challenges to unleash its full potential. The project’s pathway to impact is based on two levels: (1) the technical results along the entire semiconductor and packaging value chain covering materials, components, integration and reliability, and (2) the direct transformation into systems and tangible applications that will finally make the difference for the target groups. In ALL2GaN, 46 project partners from 12 European countries will join forces to counteract the critical climate developments and overcome all technical bottlenecks with the vision to make GaN adoptable for any power- and RF electronic product to save every possible Watt. For this last step towards a full GaN industrial market adoption, breakthrough technology as well as simple and cost-effective design of integrated GaN ICs is needed. ALL2GaN will close this gap by addressing 8 highly ambitious project objectives in 6 technical work packages: 1. Explore the limits of industrial GaN devices and system-on-chip approaches for = 650V, 4. Affordable high-performance RF GaN on Si with novel integration, 5. Breaking the packaging limits of application driven integrated solutions for high performance GaN products, 6. Advance the methods to evaluate and optimize reliability and robustness of GaN components, modules, and systems for shortest time-to-market and maximum product availability at the end user, 7. Demonstrate highest affordable performance for greener power electronics and RF applications, 8. Road-mapping for the future GaN technology development and applications to support long-term exploitation/business cases and European leadership. The project supports the European Green Deal initiatives with envisioned climate neutrality by 2050 combining it with an enormous economic growth potential for energy-efficient technologies. Furthermore, with its world-class network based in Europe, the project is an important building stone towards European tech sovereignty as one of the pillars of the European Chips Act.