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.
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Wei Cao, M. Nedeljković, Shenghao Liu, C.G. Littlejohns, D.J. Thomson, F. Gardes, Zhengqi Ren, Ke Li, G.T. Reed & G.Z. Mashanovich,
2020
Type: conference
H. Du, X. Zhang, C.G. Littlejohns, D.T. Tran, X. Yan, M. Banakar, C. Wei, D. J. Thomson & G.T. Reed,
2020, Physical Review Letters, 124(1)
Type: article