Accelerating and scaling the promise of RPCVD

Interesting article posted today only on LinkedIn by GB, although not a whole lot of new info....

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/accelerating-scaling-promise-rpcvd-giles-bourne/

BluGlass recently commissioned an additional BLG-300II reactor at our R&D facility, and it will be one of the areas of focus when we formally open our new Paul Dunnigan Labs on 26th August in Sydney.
Both represent tangible progress on the commitment we made at our AGM in November 2018 to expand our capability in deploying our remote plasma chemical vapour deposition (#RPCVD) technology in the manufacture of group III nitride semiconductors for a range of high-performance #optoelectronic devices.
The BLG-300II reactor and the associated infrastructure represent an investment of AU$6 million. It’s an upgraded version of BluGlass’ RPCVD workhorse reactor, the BLG-300, and the new installation significantly increases our research, development and foundry capacity. We have already started growing semiconductor material on this newly-commissioned RPCVD platform have already started.
Our business objective remains to address a balanced portfolio of opportunities in the US$50 billion #LED market, in the burgeoning #microLED market, projected to be worth up to US$20 billion by 2025, and additional market segments that include laser diodes and power electronics. To achieve this objective, our strategy continues to be to gain industry acceptance of RPCVD as an adjunct and a replacement for the incumbent MOCVD technology that remains in use across much of the industry.
We continue to deliver technology breakthroughs in RPCVD, and the promise of RPCVD is well-established: to drive down the costs of manufacturing high-performance optoelectronic wafers, to lift the performance of the output of these wafers and, as a result, the devices that use them, and to overcome the industry-wide challenge of efficiency droop with a realisable solution - the deployment of RPCVD in the manufacture of tunnel junctions.
That RPCVD is inherently less-harmful to the environment, and less-risky as a process (it operates at cooler temperatures, and replaces ammonia with molecular nitrogen as the source for nitrides) is a bonus.
We continue to see increasing interest in RPCVD from the industry, and we have started discussions with a number of new partners during the first six months of this calendar year. These are in addition to the relationships we already have, which we continue to develop.
Our strategy also sees us continue to focus on opportunities that we believe represent the best-possible commercial returns: we will work with partners to provide solutions that improve the performance of their devices, capitalising on the low-temperature characteristics of RPCVD.This investment in new capacity will therefore allow us to meet the demands for some of these customers in the epitaxy foundry sector, and in broader strategic opportunities we have for RPCVD.
An example of the new industry interest we’ve received is X-Celeprint, one of a number of organisations in the epitaxy foundry industry we’re working with. They operate in the area of microLEDs, used in small displays in devices such as wearables, smartphones, AR and VR, and other portable devices, where resolution, form factor and performance are critical. X-Celeprint has recently spun out a division called X-Display, and the company is using our blue and green epitaxial wafers to produce a working display prototype, which is really exciting.
Finally, to tunnel junctions: tunnel junctions and cascade LEDs have been talked about widely by the LED industry as a way of lifting performance (light output) without adding any extra cost to the LED, something that's critical to the industry. We've been able to demonstrate that RPCVD can manufacture tunnel junctions in a unique way, something difficult to replicate using MOCVD. Our RPCVD tunnel junction product data have been good enough for the industry to start engaging with us. These results allowed us to talk to the major LED producers about how we could potentially use tunnel junctions and cascade LEDs to lift LED performance. Tunnel junctions remain one of our core areas of focus in our strategy to drive acceptance of RPCVD by the industry, and early industry reaction validates this.
With all the development that we're doing we’re generating more intellectual property. We've filed a number of new patents and expect these applications to go into fully granted patents during the course of the year.
As we plan to open our doors on 26th August, I’d like to end on a personal note, and pay tribute to Paul Dunnigan, after whom our new labs are to be named. Paul tragically passed away in 2017. He was a key part of the team that developed the RPCVD technology and our new labs are therefore a fitting recognition of his pioneering work.
Investors seeking to learn more about RPCVD and BluGlass are welcome on the 26th and should contact our Investor Relations Manager. Media are also welcome, and they should contact our media relations team.

GLTAH