A spin-off from North Carolina State's Department of Materials, Science and Engineering./ NVCA Kyma Technologies, Inc. (Kyma) is a materials science company manufacturing and supplying crystalline and polycrystalline nitride semiconductor materials. Principals of the firm has developed a powerful portfolio of aluminum nitride (AlN) and gallium nitride (GaN) substrate products in accordance with pressing near term and long term nitride semiconductor market needs: the firm's AlN templates are thin layers of AlN grown on sapphire, silicon, or silicon carbide, are transitioning from prototype to volume production and offer a low cost improved nucleation surface that reduces the cost and cycle time for epitaxial growth. Kymas GaN templates thin layers of GaN grown on AlN templates and are also transitioning from prototype to volume production and provide additional benefits, offering additional cycle time reduction plus 100x improvement in epitaxial layer quality. Kymas bulk GaN substrates are transitioning from development to prototype production and represent the ultimate solution for most nitride semiconductor device applications, offering a 10,000x improvement in epitaxial layer quality. Recently Kyma has added additional products and services to its product offering, including custom crystal fabrication, diamond wire fabrication, and custom deposition equipment design and manufacturing. Kymas products and processes are protected by a 1 held and 2 licensed patents, with 7 other patents pending. Additionally, Kyma is in the process of closing on the acquisition of crystal growth process IP (11 patents) and associated equipment for fabrication of advanced III-N heteroepitaxial wafers. Large companies can benefit from a partnership with Kyma in several different ways: access to the most innovative GaN and AlN templates and bulk GaN substrates in the market today, specialty materials processing, and advanced heteroepitaxial wafers. Also, since Kyma has great partnerships in place with about 2 dozen leading academic research groups and government laboratories, plus has great relationships with many other companies in the wide bandgap materials and device space, Kyma can serve as a one-stop partner who can reach out to other partners as needed to satisfy the needs of the large company. For example, we can get world-class epitaxial device layers grown on our world-class materials from an academic partner and then get the device fabricated by an outside merchant packaging firm. Kyma has, with help from its many collaboration partners, demonstrated the benefits of its products in a broad range of applications including light emitting diodes (LEDs), laser diodes, Schottky diodes, and high frequency field effect transistors (FETs). Additionally, there are many extensions of simple AlN and GaN materials we can deposit, including various dopant schemes, and we can apply some of our deposition technologies to new materials such as ZnBr2 an
