The Manufacturing USA Institute Network, including the AIM Photonics Manufacturing USA Institute, was featured in the “Trump Administration Science & Technology Highlights: Year One,” highlighting how AIM Photonics is helping to solve the nation’s manufacturing challenges through such R&D efforts as “demonstrating a manufacturable photonic memory device”.
“Advancing Manufacturing Innovation. The Manufacturing USA Institute Network creates collaborative manufacturing innovation spaces where members from industry, academia and government gain perspective from each other and solve America’s manufacturing challenges. They work jointly to advance technological innovations toward commercial viability through process transformations and overcoming technical challenges. These efforts will ensure American inventions are scaled-up and turned into American Made products. For example, the AIM Photonics Manufacturing USA Institute is working with industry to overcome technical and manufacturing obstacles to the widespread deployment of photonic computing, a potential option for improving energy efficiency of AI. Researchers supported through AIM Photonics have taken a pivotal step by demonstrating a manufacturable photonic memory device that functions as an optical counterpart to traditional static random access memory and addresses a long-standing gap in optical system design.”