REACTION
REACTION: “first and euRopEAn siC eigTh Inches pilOt liNe – REACTION”
Funding agency: ECSEL JU H2020 program, Italian MISE, Regione Emilia Romagna.
Project members/Partners: STMicroelectronics, CONSORZIO NAZIONALE INTERUNIVERSITARIO PER LA NANOELETTRONICA IUNET (IUNET units: University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, University of Bologna, University of Pisa), L.P.E. SPA (LPE), Italy; UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PALERMO (UNIPA), CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE (CNR), EVATEC AG (EVATEC) Switzerland; HQ-Dielectrics GmbH, Germany; JSR MICRO NV Belgium; MITTUNIVERSITETET (MIUN) Sweden; ELFOREST AB Sweden; EV GROUP E. THALLNER GMBH, Austria; UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI (UPB), Romania; NANO DESIGN SRO (NANODESIGN); SLOVENSKA TECHNICKA UNIVERZITA V BRATISLAVE (STUBA), Slovakia; LAM RESEARCH SAS (LAM), France; CENTROTHERM INTERNATIONAL AG (CT), Germany; INSTYTUT TECHNOLOGII ELEKTRONOWEJ (ITE), Poland; DISCO HI-TEC EUROPE GMBH, Germany; II-VI GMBH (II-VI), Germany; FOR OPTIMAL RENEWABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS SL (FORES), Spain; UNIVERSIDAD DE ZARAGOZA (UNIZAR), Spain; APPLIED MATERIALS ISRAEL LTD (AMIL), Israel; DACPOL SPOLKA Z OGRANICZONA ODPOWIEDZIALNOSCIA (DAC), Poland; IKERLAN S COOP (IKERLAN-IK4), Spain
Researchers @ UniMORE: Alessandro Chini , Giovanni Verzellesi , Paolo Pavan , Francesco Puglisi , Alessandro Bertacchini , Luca Selmi
Start date: 01/11/2018
End date: 31/5/2022
REACTION will push through the first worldwide 200mm Silicon Carbide (SiC) Pilot Line Facility for Power technology. This will enable the European industry to set the world reference of innovative and competitive solutions for critical societal challenges, like Energy saving and CO2 Reduction as well as Sustainable Environment through electric mobility and industrial power efficiency. Establishing the first 200mm SiC Pilot Line in the world and developing the most innovative and cost competitive technology, this project will address mass-market applications like smart energy and smart mobility, and industrial. It will allow to meet the more and more increasing demand of requirements in terms of quality and cost constraint for next decade generation’s power electronics.
The Project strength is the complete Pilot Line value chain implementation, integrating and optimizing partnership in the fields of SiC equipment developers, SiC process technologists, RTOs, and end users partners till the final applications context. This will allow to develop a full 8” SiC line ecosystem enhancing the competitiveness of EU Industries down to the value chain in a market context where other countries today, such as the USA or Japan, are just starting to play on 6” SiC market.
Innovative SiC power device Performances improvements, together with cost and size reductions, are the most relevant challenges addressed in the project that are expected to lead to a new stronger European supply chain for very compact SiC converters, from 600V to 3.3kV range, ideal for the addressed applications; the ambition is therefore to play a primary role towards excellence in Europe by a first generations of 8” SiC profitable Smart Mobility and Smart Energy products and components, primary access to IPs for the relevant essential capabilities, competitiveness of manufacturing in Europe.
Project web site: under construction