Outstanding quality Gallium Nitride (GaN) – enabler for new industries

Materials for the 2020 Challenges, Brussels, 10th July 2011

AMMONO Gallium Nitride – enabler for new industriesAMMONO Gallium Nitride – enabler for new industries

Outstanding quality Gallium Nitride

– enabler for new industries

Robert Dwilinski - President, CEO

AMMONO business field

Manufacturing of GaN (Gallium Nitride) semiconductor crystals and wafers

Based on own proprietary technology (unique in world’s scale)

Activity concerns three key enabling technologies; very closely interacting:

- Advanced materials

- Photonics

- High power electronics

Supplying already 24 customers – lasers, LEDs and electronics producers

AMMONO-GaN single-crystals

AMMONO-GaN wafers

Prof. Harri LipsanenProf. Markku SopanenDr. Sami SuihkonenM.Sc. Muhammad AliM.Sc. Olli SvenskM.Sc. Sakari Sintonen

Department of Micro and NanosciencesAalto University School of Science and Technology

Vertical LED structure on AMMONO-GaN

Lasing Lasing @@ 524 nm 524 nm (cw) (cw)

Green LD structure on AMMONO-GaN

GaN laser applications

Versatile laser projection

„…The new Samsung Galaxy Beam phone includes a projector that can show films and pictures at up to 50”…

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Gallium Nitride enables a new range of applications

Electronic applications

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Power Devices

• GaN substrates show higher resistance and higher break down voltage parameters over traditional Si and SiC materials• Better heat dissipation• GaN mostly targets MOSFET, IGBT

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GaN HEMTs market forecasts

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Market environment and competition

• Lack of GaN-on-GaN HEMTs on the market• Several companies produce HEMTs GaN-on-Si and GaN-on-SiC• No European producer of GaN HEMTs

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GaN HEMTs – price analysis

HEMTs GaN-on-SiC:

• 15-20 W/mm2

• EUR 50-60 /mm2

• thus EUR 5-6 k /cm2

• GaN 2” (= 20 cm2) results in transistors worth 125 k EUR

• GaN 4” (= 80 cm2) results in transistors worth 500 k EUR

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Devices based on

Ammono-GaN

Blue laser Green laser LED’s

Solar cells Transistors

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Total addressable market

The market for gallium nitride based semiconductor devices is projected to surpass $25B by 2015

Applications for Gallium Nitride:

• DVD information storage (Blue laser Diodes)

• Solid state lighting (White LEDs, UV LEDs)

• Displays (Laser TV, laser projection)

• Automotive electronics (MOSFET transistor, power switches)

• Power transmission lines (High Voltage electronics, HEMT transistors)

• Wireless communication (3G/WiMAXbase stations )

• Flame sensors (UV detectors)

• Wireless Broadband (High Frequecy transistors)

• Solar Cells (For satellites)

• Radiation detectors

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AMMONO as a company

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Autoclaves in the production hall

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2011 summary

ISO Certification

Increase in number of customers

Launch of a LED dedicated

high-transparency GaN material

Launch of the 2” product

Starting cooperation with distributors in Japan, US, Korea and Taiwan.

50% / 50% sales split between acedemia and industry

Launch of 2” mass production programme

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Customer profile – sales volumes

• Laser related R&D is the main driver for low dislocation gallium nitride wafers sales today

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2012 Ammono development goals

Scaling up the production capacity for 2” C-plane

Building new autoclaves

Preparing necessary seed base

Bringing solutions for the LED market

Increasing the material transparency

Introducing the high-transparency 2” C-plane n-type substrate

Providing a solution for the electronic applications

Introducing the semi insulating 2” C-plane substrate

Starting the development of the 4” substrate

Targeting first samples for 2014

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Traditional fund sources (VC, Stock Market, Strategic) are reluctant to invest in

long-term, risky projects on the area of high technology (and advanced materials in

particular). This phenomenon deepens within increasing technical complication of

projects (technologies became more and more complicated), because this elongate

project time frame and expose to unpredictable market risks

Let’s forget that market itself can develop such projects by organic growth

There is a need of efficient mechanism for growing such projects in EU

Difficulties

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SUMMARY

AMMONO products could revolutionize photonics and electronics industries

and give competitive advantage to producers of customer goods, as well as

advantage of defense systems

Organic growth of nowadays advanced technologies is not possible any more

– requires substantial investment, which is not achievable in today’s EU

Proposed solution enabling growth of KETs is creation of European project

of large credits or loan guaranties for carefully chosen companies

presenting extremely promising technologies

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Thank you

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People facing problems to rise financing are trying to collect several projects in the

following way:

• Creation of parent company employing M&A, PR… specialists

• Exchange of shares of parent company with several chosen hi-tech start-up

companies

• This would increase the value of the parent company because of larger scale of

activity, synergy of incorporating companies (if any), and risk mitigation (even if

some of them fail the others should keep value share on acceptable level)

• Listing (IPO) of parent company on chosen Stock Market

In fact this is very difficult to collect a number of projects of similar maturity and scale,

additionally offering significant synergies

Solutions – new mechanisms

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Additionally, listed company can get funds from equity line of credit:

A structured equity line is a commitment by the investor to purchase up to a predetermined

dollar amount of shares of the public company's common stock over a certain period. It is

very similar to a bank line of credit in that cash is available to the company on an "as

needed" basis. The difference is the company repays the investor in stock. The company

has the right but not an obligation to "draw down" on the equity line and sells shares to the

investor when it is most favorable for the company. When the company draws down the

line, the shares are sold to the investor at a discount.

Solutions – new mechanisms – Equity line of credit

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EU officials bear main responsibility for policy to efficiently grow KETs in EU

People engaged in KETs should propose solutions and demand decisions of EU officials

AMMONO proposal is that EU or EIB should offer long-term credits or guaranties for

carefully chosen companies presenting extremely promising technologies but not able to

get bank credits in required amount due to lack of sufficient collateral

Exercised mechanisms like the mentioned above should be analyzed and improved upon

long-term performance of supported projects (carried by the group of experts created to this

How to create efficient mechanism of growth of KETs in EU?

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