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Aeluma Secures More Than $4 Million in Contracts for Quantum Materials and Lasers

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  • Aeluma, Inc. (NASDAQ: ALMU) secured over $4 million in U.S. Government contracts to scale its semiconductor heterogeneous integration platform for quantum & high-speed datacom applications.
  • The funding supports commercialization efforts & strengthens manufacturing partnerships with Tower Semiconductor & Sumitomo Chemical Advanced Technology.
  • CEO Jonathan Klamkin stated the non-dilutive contracts accelerate near-term strategy & long-term diversification while advancing next-generation photonic systems.
  • The awards target the development of quantum dot lasers & quantum nonlinear materials to meet requirements for high power, reliability, & low noise in AI data centers.
  • Aeluma utilizes high-throughput metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) to enable mass production of multi-channel photonic integrated circuits.
  • The company's scalable aluminum gallium arsenide (AlGaAs) nonlinear platform offers superior efficiency over lithium niobate, aluminum nitride, or barium titanate for quantum communication & computing.
  • Manufacturing capabilities include 200mm & 300mm silicon wafers, facilitating integration with low-loss silicon nitride waveguides for quantum photonic circuits.
  • Tower Semiconductor views the partnership as a path to laser manufacturing on larger silicon wafers, while Sumitomo Chemical sees the technology as a solution to supply chain constraints.
  • Development activities are conducted at Aeluma's Goleta, California facility in collaboration with supply chain partners for targeted demonstrations.