There are times when scientific progress comes in the form of discovering something completely new. Other times, progress boils down to doing something better, faster, or more easily.
Photoresist, a light-sensitive material, is essential in photolithography for transferring intricate circuit patterns onto semiconductor wafers. This article explores positive vs. negative photoresists, detailing their chemical mechanisms, processing parameters, and performance traits.
Aluminum oxide PICs are gaining attention for their broad wavelength coverage, low optical losses, and support for on-chip optical amplification. In this discussion, Steve Stoffels, the CEO of Aluvia Photonics, explains where the platform fits and how teams can design with it.
XIVER's Sreekanth Chirayath on why photonic innovations fail on the production line and how designing for manufacturing from the start changes the outcome.
A laboratory device reaches 13.6 dB of isolation at 1540 nm, with heat confined to a window 700 micrometres across instead of the whole wafer going through a furnace.
Aluminum oxide PICs are gaining attention for their broad wavelength coverage, low optical losses, and support for on-chip optical amplification. In this discussion, Steve Stoffels, the CEO of Aluvia Photonics, explains where the platform fits and how teams can design with it.
There are times when scientific progress comes in the form of discovering something completely new. Other times, progress boils down to doing something better, faster, or more easily.
Lasers have become relatively commonplace in everyday life, but they have many uses outside of providing light shows at raves and scanning barcodes on groceries. Lasers are also of great importance in telecommunications and computing as well as biology, chemistry, and physics research.
Integrated photonics, also known as planar lightwave circuits or integrated optical circuits, revolutionizes optical communication by leveraging the properties of light to process and transmit information. This cutting-edge technology offers superior efficiency and compactness compared to traditional electronic components, paving the way for faster and more energy-efficient communication systems. With its interdisciplinary nature encompassing materials science, quantum physics, and electrical engineering, integrated photonics presents an exciting and promising field of study and research in today's digital era.
Photonic time crystals, whose properties change periodically, promise significant advances in microwave technology, optics and photonics. Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), together with partners at Aalto University and Stanford University, have now produced a two-dimensional photonic time crystal for the first time and demonstrated important applications.
We proclaim 2022 The Year of Innovation. In this "End of the Year" list we highlight 25 Campus high-tech, innovative companies, including multi-nationals, startups, scale-ups and everything in-between. These are companies of the future, and they’re all here at HTCE.
Using green light and a double-layered cell, PhD researcher Riccardo Ollearo has come up with a photodiode that has sensitivity that many can only dream of.
In a significant advance for impactful technologies such as quantum optics and laser displays for AR/VR, Columbia Engineering’s Lipson Nanophotonics Group has invented the first tunable and narrow linewidth chip-scale lasers for visible wavelengths shorter than red.
Engineers at Caltech and the University of Southampton have collaboratively designed an electronics chip integrated with a photonics chip (which uses light to transfer data)—creating a cohesive final product capable of transmitting information at ultrahigh speed while generating minimal heat.
Researchers from the Cluster of Excellence "3D Matter Made to Order" Print Microstructures by Crossing Red and Blue Laser Beams - Publication in Nature Photonics