Breaking a decades-old trade-off
The modern world runs on semiconductor integrated circuits. Every second, more than 10,000 new chips are shipped, and the vast majority of them require clean, efficient DC power to function. That makes DC power management one of the critical, unsung foundations of all advanced electronics.
For decades, system designers have sought to optimize three key power-management attributes — small size, high efficiency, and minimal electrical noise. Achieving all three at once is extremely challenging, and designers are left facing fundamental trade-offs.
This is the challenge our founder, Dr. Matthew Lumb, tackled during his research into high-efficiency semiconductor optoelectronic devices. He developed a new approach that could break the long-standing trade-off, and his breakthrough earned first prize at the 2019 GWU Technology Commercialization Office Pitch Competition — validation that attracted backing from the National Science Foundation and multiple agencies within the U.S. Department of Defense, now totaling more than $3.9M in non-dilutive funding.
Today that award-winning research is Polaris Semiconductor's patented technology: unique optoelectronic chips integrated with state-of-the-art silicon voltage regulators, creating a new class of DC power management devices with unbeatable output noise, a small footprint, and high efficiency. Headquartered in Northern Virginia, we are bringing it to the world's most demanding applications — aerospace, defense, and precision instrumentation today, and, as power integrity becomes the limiting budget, high-speed data and high-performance computing tomorrow.
