Overview
- Aeluma said Monday it secured more than $4 million in U.S. government contracts to speed work on its platform that joins compound semiconductors with standard silicon manufacturing.
- The awards include wafer production with Tower Semiconductor and Sumitomo Chemical Advanced Technology to shift laser and detector fabrication onto 200mm and potentially 300mm silicon.
- The company plans to advance quantum dot lasers, which use nanoscale crystals to deliver low noise and high reliability, for AI data center links such as co‑packaged optics.
- Aeluma will also scale an aluminum gallium arsenide nonlinear materials platform that generates and controls single photons for quantum communication, computing, and sensing.
- Investors reacted quickly as shares rose about 34% in premarket trading after the announcement, with management calling the awards non‑dilutive support alongside prior NASA, DOE, and Navy programs.