AIM Photonics celebrates its 5th anniversary

AIM Photonics enters fifth year with over 120 members, industry leading MPW program, PDK, and first ever world-class open-access 300mm wafer test, assembly and packaging facility online and accepting customers.  In celebration of AIM Photonics 5 year anniversary and the technical achievements, AIM Photonics and DoD partners present a look into the institute. The national broadcast on Information Matrix will be hosted by award-winning actor Laurence Fishburne on more than 200 public television stations beginning the week of May 25, 2020, and features some of the incredible innovations and applications of integrated photonics.

AIM Photonics announces latest version of PDK v3.5 addressing Design for Manufacturability

AIM Photonics PDK v3.0 announced. Industry leaders recognize AIM PDK as industry leading. The release of Process Design Kit (PDK) v3.5 Compact Model Library sponsored by AIM Photonics is the first to support statistical models in Lumerical’s INTERCONNECT, introducing a set of statistical models based on the measured wafer-scale data of photonic components.

AIM Photonics produces first fully integrated 300mm Quantum Photonic wafer

The quantum photonics wafer project is led by the Air Force Research Laboratory and RIT. The wafer includes chip designs from both RIT and Air Force Research Laboratory, along with designs by collaborators at MIT, Purdue University, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Army Research Laboratory, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The wafer was fabricated by AIM Photonics in NY CREATES’ advanced 300mm microelectronics facility in Albany, N.Y.

AIM Photonics Announces Best-in-Class 300mm Silicon Photonics Multi-Project Wafer (MPW) Performance

AIM Photonics superior MPW performance is the result of new, ultra low-loss waveguides, featuring attenuation that is less than .25 and .10dB/cm for 220nm silicon and 220nm silicon nitride (SiN), respectively, in addition to around 1dB/facet edge coupler for both transverse electric (TE) and transverse magnetic (TM) polarization. With only 90-day fabrication time for full actives to be processed on 300mm silicon on insulator (SOI) wafers, and using the same toolset that produces 14nm and smaller circuits, these capabilities also enable easy transfer to similar high-volume equipped foundries if needed.

NSF Awards $1.2M to AIM Photonics and academic partners to advance key technology programs

Academic institutions partner with AIM Photonics to realize advanced computing architecture using light; develop mobile probes for identifying specific materials; and enable improved manufacturing processes for photonic devices. Rochester Institute of Technology, University of California-San Diego, University of Delaware to Leverage AIM Photonics’ World-Class R&D and Foundry Capabilities.

AIM Photonics announces program to develop a CMOS-compatible waveguide platform for integrating MWIR and LWIR laser sources

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.

AIM Photonics Members develop Sarin Gas Sensor

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.