The Commercial Leap Ahead for Wide Bandgap Semiconductors (CLAWS) Hub brings together the leading regional experts in wide bandgap semiconductors to develop an increase in domestic production and employment. Wide bandgap semiconductors offer higher voltage and temperature capacity than traditional silicon chips. They are used in power electronics, but also in RF and wireless devices for communications and radars, as well as photonic devices for sensing, communications, artificial intelligence, and future quantum technology applications.

By implementing a Research Foundry (“fab-in-a-lab”), CLAWS is advancing and accelerating the manufacture and adoption of wide bandgap semiconductors for DoW and civilian applications in four principal areas:

1. High voltage, high power Silicon Carbide power electronics
2. III-Nitride RF and Power Electronics
3. III-Nitride Photonics
4. Ultra-Wide Bandgap devices