SBIR/STTR Research Award
Low Cost Technologies for Manufacturing of Thin Film Lithium Niobate
Award amount
$200,000Program and phase
STTR · Phase IAward year
2025Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- SRICO INC
- Proposal award date
- 2025-07-11
- Contract end date
- 2026-05-04
- UEI
- HT4ERWMHJKR8
- Solicitation number
- 25.A
- Topic code
- AF25A-T001
Research abstract
This proposal develops a low-cost wafer scale process to manufacture thin film lithium niobate material in the range of 300 nanometer to 3 microns thickness on suitable substrates, such as silicon or quartz. The process shall be capable of producing films with thickness variation less than 3 percent and surface roughness less than 1 nm. The manufacturing cost savings shall be shown to be at least 25% relative to current production techniques based on ion implant processes or less than $2000 per wafer. In addition, the process is inherently scalable and versatile, being capable of wafer scale production of different material films of various crystal orientations on arbitrary substrates at low cost and with minimal non-recurring engineering effort.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
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Awards with the same topic code
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- Low Cost Technologies for Manufacturing of Thin Film Lithium Niobate
- Low-Cost Technologies for Manufacturing of Thin Film Lithium Niobate
- Wafer-Scale Thin Film Lithium Niobate (TFLN) Substrate Solution for Integrated Photonics and RF Acoustic Filters
Research funding history
80 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1993–2025). Reported award amounts total $31,067,514. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, Department of Commerce, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Energy