- PhotonIC Foundary Service: Photonic Corp’s foundry provides development, prototyping, and low volume production services, including: 1) Modeling and simulation services; 2) Device layout and photomask design; 3) Standard and custom photonic device library; 4) We provide single or batch processing of 6” and 8” wafers, including SOI, silicon, glass, or quartz. To find out more about Photonic Corp’s foundry capabilities and services, please email: [email protected]
- IME: Photonics Multiple Project Wafer (MPW) Prototyping, IME's Silicon Photonics MPW Prototyping offers high-end fabrication at a cost affordable to research groups and companies. This is done by combining designs of various users on one mask, and sharing a large fraction of the processing cost among the users.
- Through cost sharing, academic and industrial research groups can have silicon ICs prototyped in a CMOS fabrication environment. IME provides access to its advanced 8-inch silicon wafer processing facility as well as highly-qualified and experienced research scientists, engineers and technical support staff to enable the fabrication of photonic ICs by wafer-scale processes.
- Types of Service:
- Shared Prototyping Runs: Participants will share the cost of the prototyping efforts and have the option of using either IME's or their own design, on the proviso that it is within technical specifications. Shared prototyping runs are typically arranged for January, May and September each year. To participate in the next Shared Prototyping Run, please contact us for details.
- Customised Prototyping Runs: This service is intended for user whose requirements are beyond the timeline and technical specifications of the Shared Prototyping Runs. For Customised Prototyping, please contact us for more information and to arrange a discussion
- ePIXfab: ePIXfab is the Silicon Photonics Alliance of CEA-LETI, imec, VTT, IHP, Tyndall National Institute, TNO and CMC Microsystems. The mission of ePIXfab-Alliance is to support the emergence of a fabless silicon photonics ecosystem. To know more about ePIXfab's history and rationale- click here.If your company can benefit from a feasibility study in Silicon Photonics, send email to [email protected].
- OpSIS: Optoelectronic Systems Integration in Silicon , University of Delaware. "Our goal is to create an ecosystem for fabless silicon photonics to really take off, much like the fabless semiconductor industry did over the past 30 years," Hochberg says. Because a single circuit design might use only a few square millimeters of a wafer, shuttle runs at OpSIS can result in a 100-fold reduction in costs, says Hochberg, a founder of Luxtera, a fabless semiconductor company commercializing silicon CMOS photonics.
- Global Communication Semiconductors (GCS): GCS offer its own brand of high performance and high speed Known Good Die (KGD) PIN photodetectors and Photodetector Arrays, manufactured from both GaAs and InP. Both planar and mesa photodetectors are available for applications up to 25 Gb/s with low dark current, high responsivity, and high reliability. Applications include datacom, telecom, Lightpeak, Thunderbolt, Active Optical Cable (AOC) and Parallel Optical Interconnects (POI) applications.