REACTION will push through the first worldwide 200mm Silicon Carbide (SiC) Pilot Line Facility for Power technology. This will enable the European industry to set the world reference of innovative and competitive solutions for critical societal challenges, like Energy saving and CO2 Reduction as well as Sustainable Environment through electric mobility and industrial power efficiency.

Establishing the first 200mm SiC Pilot Line in the world and developing the most innovative and cost competitive technology, this project will address mass-market applications like smart energy and smart mobility, and industrial. It will allow to meet the more and more increasing demand of requirements in terms of quality and cost constraint for next decade generation’s power electronics.
The Project strength is the complete Pilot Line value chain implementation, integrating and optimizing partnership in the fields of SiC equipment developers, SiC process technologists, RTOs, and end users partners till the final applications context. This will allow to develop a full 8” SiC line ecosystem enhancing the competitiveness of EU- Industries down to the value chain in a market context where other countries today, such as the USA or Japan, are just starting to play on 6” SiC market.

Innovative SiC power device Performances improvements, together with cost and size reductions, are the most relevant challenges addressed in the project that are expected to lead to a new stronger European supply chain for very compact SiC converters, from 600V to 3.3kV range, ideal for the addressed applications; the ambition is therefore to play a primary role towards excellence in Europe by a first generations of 8” SiC profitable Smart Mobility and Smart Energy products and components, primary access to IPs for the relevant essential capabilities, competitiveness of manufacturing in Europe.

Coordinator

STMICROELECTRONICS SRL Italy

Participants

• CONSORZIO NAZIONALE INTERUNIVERSITARIO PER LA NANOELETTRONICA Italy
• L.P.E. SPA Italy
• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PALERMO Italy
• CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE Italy
• EVATEC AG Switzerland
• HQ-Dielectrics GmbH Germany
• JSR MICRO NV Belgium
• MITTUNIVERSITETET Sweden
• ELFOREST AB Sweden
• EV GROUP E. THALLNER GMBH Austria
• UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI Romania
• NANO DESIGN SRO Slovakia
• SLOVENSKA TECHNICKA UNIVERZITA V BRATISLAVE Slovakia
• LAM RESEARCH SAS France
• CENTROTHERM INTERNATIONAL AG Germany
• INSTYTUT TECHNOLOGII ELEKTRONOWEJ Poland
• DISCO HI-TEC EUROPE GMBH Germany
• II-VI GMBH Germany
• FOR OPTIMAL RENEWABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS SL Spain
• UNIVERSIDAD DE ZARAGOZA Spain
• APPLIED MATERIALS ISRAEL LTD Israel
• DACPOL SPOLKA Z OGRANICZONA ODPOWIEDZIALNOSCIA Poland
• IKERLAN S COOP Spain
• APPLIED MATERIALS IRELAND LIMITED Ireland
• APPLIED MATERIALS GMBH Germany
• TERNIENERGIA SPA Italy

Start date 01/11/2018

End date 30/04/2022

Duration 42 months

Project cost 46.454.156,25 €

Project funding 46.454.156,25 €

Call title H2020-ECSEL-2017-1-IA-two-stage

Unipi role Third party

Website: http://www.reaction-ecsel.eu/