From epitaxy to simulation and design to modules and demonstrators

We offer services along the entire III-V semiconductor value chain as well as in the area of quantum computing software and simulation and are available to advise you throughout the entire process. You can order epitaxy from us according to your specifications or book chip area on wafers. We are looking forward to supporting you in design, modeling and manufacturing of integrated circuits as well as modules and perform measurements for you.

Epitaxy of III-V compound semiconductors and diamond to customer specifications for:

• Power and high-frequency electronic components
• Semiconductor lasers and detectors
• Components for applications in quantum technologies

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With our 450 m² state-of-the-art MOCVD hall and our 1,000 m² clean room we offer:

• Processing of wafers into transistors, integrated circuits (ICs), optoelectronic as well as quantum devices
• Process development
• Small batch production

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Simulation-based design and realization of devices made of III-V compound semiconductors and synthetic diamond for:

• Electronic devices and integrated circuits (ICs)
• Optoelectronic devices and integrated circuits (ICs)
• Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)
• Optoelectronic devices for quantum sensing and quantum computing

Fraunhofer IAF has cutting-edge systems for highfrequency and optoelectronic measurements, for quantum sensing and for the analysis of semiconductors:

• Characterization of integrated circuits and highrequency modules according to your specifications
• Cryogenic measurement
• Robot measuring station for threedimensional measurements with millimeter waves
• Application Laboratory Quantum Sensing with several magnetometers
• Application Laboratory Quantum Computing
• Application Laboratory Infrared Laser Spectroscopy
• Material analysis for semiconductor layers and heterostructures

We develop modules and demonstrators according to your specifications:

• Integrated circuits and modules up to 850 GHz with worldwide top values in noise figure, gain and efficiency
• Customized laser modules including control electronics and software
• Infrared and UV detectors
• Broadly tunable quantum cascade laser modules
• Semiconductor disk laser modules
• Point-of-contact scanner for infrared spectroscopy

Demand-specific simulation of use cases and programming of quantum algorithms for:

• Combinatorial optimization problems (e.g., portfolio optimization)
• Increasing the resilience of computations on quantum gate/circuit level
• Error analysis

Find out more about Fraunhofer IAF's competences in quantum computing.