Atomera Has Signed a Joint Development Agreement With IQE to Bring High-Performance, Cost-Effective RF GaN-on-Silicon to Volume Markets
Business Wire•22/10/2026•06:30 ET
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Key Highlights
- ➤Atomera and IQE signed a joint development agreement for RF GaN-on-silicon wafers
- ➤IQE will manufacture MST-enabled wafers for foundry and IDM customers
- ➤Collaboration targets best-in-class linearity and loss for high-volume RF markets
- ➤Development process will optimize multilayer structures and make wafers available to customers
- ➤Agreement leaves room to pursue additional GaN applications, including power electronics
Expert Statements
Rodney Pelzel, Chief Strategy and Technology Officer at IQE
“IQE has built its business on delivering compound semiconductor epitaxy that meets the industry’s highest performance bar, and this collaboration with Atomera is a natural extension of that work.”
Rodney Pelzel, Chief Strategy and Technology Officer at IQE
“We are pleased to partner with Atomera on MST for GaN-on-silicon. The technology has the potential to provide a cost-effective substrate that is able to achieve the performance required by the market.”
Scott Bibaud, President and CEO of Atomera
“GaN has become critical to RF and power applications, but bringing high-performance GaN to volume production at a cost that works for mainstream markets remains a real challenge.”
Scott Bibaud, President and CEO of Atomera
“This collaboration with IQE lets us apply MST’s performance advantages to that space with a partner who brings deep compound semiconductor expertise.”
Scott Bibaud, President and CEO of Atomera
“IQE is more than a development partner for MST. They are a catalyst to accelerate MST GaN-on-silicon time to market and could become an influential manufacturer of MST-enabled wafers.”
Atomera Has Signed a Joint Development Agreement With IQE to Bring High-Performance, Cost-Effective RF GaN-on-Silicon to Volume Markets
Atomera and IQE will co-optimize MST-enabled GaN-on-Silicon wafers, which IQE will manufacture for foundry and IDM customers
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