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CORNERSTONE 2

Project overview

The Universities of Southampton (SOU) and Glasgow (GLA) have established a new Silicon Photonics fabrication capability for the UK science base, through a project entitled CORNERSTONE. Following completion of the project, from December 2019 the CORNERSTONE fabrication capability will be self-sustaining. Based upon demand from the UK’s premier photonics researchers, this proposal seeks funding to extend the capability that is offered to UK researchers beyond the current Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) platforms, to include emerging Silicon Photonics platforms. These emerging platforms will enable a multitude of new applications either not suitable for the SOI platforms, or complementary to the SOI platforms. This proposal seeks support to bring the new platforms to a state of readiness to deliver the new functionality via a multi-project-wafer (MPW) mechanism to satisfy significantly increasing demand, and to encourage wider usage of world class equipment within the UK. This resource-only bid will facilitate access to a very significant inventory of equipment at the 2 host universities, including access to UK’s only deep-UV projection lithography capability.

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Graham Reed FREng, FIET, FOSA, FSPIE, FEOS

Head of School
Connect with Graham

Email: G.Reed@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor David Thomson

Professorial Fellow-Research
Connect with David

Email: D.Thomson@soton.ac.uk

Professor Frederic Gardes PhD

Professor
Connect with Frederic

Email: fg5v@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Professor Harold Chong

Professor of Electronic Engineering
Connect with Harold

Email: hmhc@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Professor Goran Mashanovich

Personal Chair

Research interests

  • Silicon Photonics
  • Photonics Integrated Circuits
  • Sensors
Connect with Goran

Email: G.Mashanovich@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Electrically erasable optical I/O for wafer scale testing of silicon photonic integrated circuits
Xingshi Yu, Xia Chen, Milan Milošević, Xingzhao Yan, Shinichi Saito & Graham Reed, 2020, IEEE Photonics Journal, 12(5)
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2020.3027799
Type: review
Nonlinear properties of laser-processed polycrystalline silicon waveguides for integrated photonics
Ozan Aktaş, Stuart James MacFarquhar, Swe Oo, Antulio Tarazona, Harold Chong & Anna Peacock, 2020, Optics Express, 28(20), 29192-29201
DOI: 10.1364/OE.400536
Type: article
1 × N (N = 2, 8) Silicon selector switch for prospective technologies at the 2 μm waveband
Jia Xu Brian Sia, Xiang Li, Zhongliang Qiao, Xin Guo, Jin Zhou, Callum G. Littlejohns, Chongyang Liu, Graham T. Reed, Wanjun Wang & Hong Wang, 2020, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 32(18), 1127-1130
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2020.3014204
Type: article
A new family of ultralow loss reversible phase‐change materials for photonic integrated circuits: Sb2S3 and Sb2Se3
Matthew Delaney, Ioannis Zeimpekis, Daniel Lawson, Daniel W. Hewak & Otto L. Muskens, 2020, Advanced Functional Materials, 30(36)
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202002447
Type: article
Silicon photonics for high data rate applications -INVITED
David J. Thomson, Weiwei Zhang, Ke Li, Kapil Debnath, Shenghao Liu, Bigeng Chen, Muhammad K. Husain, Fanfan Meng, Ali Z. Khokhar, James Byers, Martin Ebert, Jamie D. Reynolds, Mehdi Banakar, Lorenzo Mastronardi, Callum G. Littlejohns, Frederic Y. Gardes, Goran Z. Mashanovich, Shinichi Saito & Graham T. Reed, 2020, EPJ Web of Conferences, 238
DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/202023801005
Type: conference