Research project

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
Other researchers

Professor David Thomson

Professorial Fellow-Research
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Professor Frederic Gardes PhD

Professor
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Professor Harold Chong

Professor of Electronic Engineering
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Professor Goran Mashanovich

Personal Chair

Research interests

  • Silicon Photonics
  • Photonics Integrated Circuits
  • Sensors
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Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Weiwei Zhang, Martin Ebert, Bigeng Chen, Jamie Dean Reynolds, Xingzhao Yan, Han Du, Mehdi Banakar, D.T. Tran, Kapil Debnath, Callum Littlejohns, Shinichi Saito & David Thomson, 2020, Optics Express, 28(16), 23143-23153
Type: article
Vinita Mittal, George Devitt, Miloš Nedeljković, Lewis Glynn Carpenter, Harold Chong, James S. Wilkinson, Sumeet Mahajan & Goran Mashanovich, 2020, Biomedical Optics Express, 11(8), 4714-4722
Type: article
Zanyun Zhang, Xia Chen, Qian Cheng, Ali Z Khokhar, Zan Zhang, Xingzhao Yan, Beiju Huang, Hongda Chen, Hongwei Liu, Hongqiang Li, David Thomson & Graham Reed, 2020, Journal of Lightwave Technology, 38(15), 4037-4044
Type: article
David J. Thomson, Weiwei Zhang, Kapil Debnath, Bigeng Chen, Ke Li, Shenghao Liu, Martin Ebert, Jamie D. Reynolds, Fanfan Meng, Ali Z. Khokhar, Callum G. Littlejohns, James Byers, Muhammad K. Husain, Frederic Y. Gardes, Shinichi Saito & Graham T. Reed, 2020
Type: conference