Aeluma Wins $11.717 Million DARPA Contract for Nano-Scale Semiconductors

Award to Develop Heterogeneous Integration Technology Compatible with Leading Edge and Future Advanced-Node Semiconductors

Technology Applications Include AI, Mobile Devices and 5G/6G

Aeluma Partnering with Teledyne Scientific Company and University of California Santa Barbara

GOLETA, CA / ACCESSWIRE / September 18, 2024 / Aeluma, Inc. (OTCQB:ALMU), a semiconductor company specializing in high performance, scalable technologies for mobile, automotive, AI, defense & aerospace, communication and quantum computing, announced today that it has been awarded funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop heterogeneous integration technology compatible with leading edge and future advanced-node semiconductors with potential applications in AI, mobile devices and 5G/6G wireless communication.

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Aeluma Founder and CEO, Jonathan Klamkin, Ph.D. commented, "This award from DARPA provides significant, non-dilutive R&D funding and has ambitious goals relevant to our commercialization efforts." Dr. Klamkin continued, "The successful outcomes in heterogeneous integration would be transformational for the broad semiconductor microelectronics industry."

DARPA aims at high performance, nanometer-scale components that are compatible with leading edge and future advanced-node semiconductor manufacturing processes under this new program, Material Synthesis Technologies for Universal and Diverse Integration Opportunities (M-STUDIO). These themes are synergistic with Aeluma's mission to solve challenging problems by scaling high performance semiconductors with mass market microelectronics manufacturing.

"DARPA's decision to invest in Aeluma's scalable semiconductor platform demonstrates confidence in our technology and its potential to improve emerging end products," said Aeluma's Director of Technology, Matthew Dummer, Ph.D. "We believe this contract, along with the multiple other contract investments we have received, will accelerate Aeluma's business traction."

DARPA, as described on its website, explicitly reaches for transformational change instead of incremental advances. Notable examples include not only significant military capabilities such as precision weapons and stealth technology, but also icons of modern civilian society such as the Internet, automated voice recognition and language translation, and Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers small enough for consumer devices.