Appropriations Request

Large Aluminum Nitride Crystals for Effective Deep Ultraviolet Sources

Amount Requested: $3,800,000

70 Cohoes Ave.
Green Island, NY 12183

Project Recipient: Crystal IS, Inc.

Funds will develop large single-crystal aluminum nitride (AlN) substrates into robust semiconductor sources of deep ultraviolet light for high power, high temperature military applications such as non-line of sight communications and explosives detection.

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