WBG Pilot Line

The goal of the WBG Pilot Line is to significantly expand the competitiveness of the European semiconductors industry by strengthening the entire value chain and enabling a fast adoption of advanced WBG technologies to high value applications. It focuses on Wide Bandgap semiconductors, particularly SiC and GaN, which are used in high-power and high-frequency applications.

The project aims to realise an integrated pilot line focused on the developments of the wide–bandgap (WBG) semiconductors technologies for power and radio frequency (RF) electronics. 

Project Consortium: 

The consortium is coordinated by CNR and includes 15 Research and Technology Organizations (RTOs) from 7 European Countries, with internationally recognized expertise in different fields of WBG and Ultra-WBG (UWBG) semiconductors technology, ranging from materials growth, devices processing, advanced characterizations and simulations, PDKs and packaging:

  • Italy: National Research Council of Italy (CNR)
  • Italy: Chip4Power
  • Italy: Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK)
  • Italy: National Interuniversity Consortium for Nanoelectronics (IU.NET)
  • Italy: CHIPS-IT Foundation
  • Sweden: Lund University
  • Sweden: Linköping University
  • Sweden: Chalmers University of Technology
  • Sweden: KTH Royal Institute of Technology
  • Finland: SIPFAB (Wide-Bandgap Pilot Line at Tampere)
  • Poland: IHPP PAS
  • Poland: Łukasiewicz-IMiF
  • Austria: Silicon Austria Labs (SAL)
  • Germany: Fraunhofer IISB (Institute for Integrated Systems and Device Technology)
  • France: CEA-Leti

Project facts

  • Project website: Homepage WBG - WBG PILOT LINE
  • Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the Chips JU. Neither the European Union nor the Chips JU can be held responsible for them.

Your contact person

Priv.-Doz. Dr. Marco Deluca

Head of Research Unit Thin Film Technologies

e-mail: contact@silicon-austria.com

Research program

The Wide Band Gap (WBG) Pilot Line is one of the five pilot lines launched under the Chips for Europe Initiative, a key pillar of the European Chips Act.

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