The META Center is a $850 million new R&D institute at NY CREATES in Albany. New York State will invest $250 million to leverage a $600 million, seven-year commitment from Applied Materials to fund materials engineering R&D, prototyping and pilot projects in fields like virtual intelligence, augmented and virtual reality, semiconductors and advanced optics. (Image courtesy Applied Materials)
The $1.7 million U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) project will support a consortium of AIM Photonics members led by University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) and includes Northrop Grumman, the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and SUNY Polytechnic Institute. The majority of development to date has focused on a relatively narrow wavelength range —around 1550nm. The goal of this government-directed project is to address the opportunities at longer wavelengths.
A new sensor for deadly sarin gas has been developed as a chemical warfare tool by an AIM Photonics team, with a goal of extending the technology to broader market applications. The team consisted of academic, industry, and government organizations.
In this release, Analog Photonics (AP) expanded the comprehensive set of Silicon Photonics Integrated Circuit (PIC) component libraries within SUNY Poly’s process to address the high-speed optical communication needs. Combined with Multi-Project Wafer (MPW) runs, this PDK will give AIM Photonics members access to world-class silicon photonics components.
January 11th, 2018 Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Quinsigamond Community College announced they would receive $4 million for a second LEAP facility on WPI’s campus. The LEAPS are funded by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Manufacturing Innovation Initiative (M2I2) program to support AIM Photonics.
Albany site begins first 300mm silicon photonic technology transfer to GlobalFoundries.
The $1.2 million U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) project, along with an additional $400 thousand in matching funds from a team led by the University of Arizona (UA), will support a consortium that includes Sandia National Labs, Raytheon (RTN) and other aerospace firms engaged in FPA technology.
AIM Photonics announces workforce development programs at AIM Photonics Academy in Cambridge, MA at MIT. First weeklong summer training programs announced.
AIM Photonics begins contruction of first ever open-access 300mm enabled Test, Assembly and Packaging (TAP) Facility for inegrated photonics. Facility will house state-of-the-art equipment to develop advanced testing, packaging, and assembly processes for integrated photonics community.
AIM Academy launched its Lab for Education & Application Prototypes (LEAP) on MIT’s campus in the spring of 2017. The LEAPS are funded by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ M2I2 program to support AIM Photonics. They will enable (1) the fabrication of prototypes and initial proof of manufacturing and (2) the creation of new high-tech integrated photonics manufacturing jobs.
