MIT Scientists Collaborate with NY Creates and AIM Photonics for flexible, next-gen photonic chips  

 

“MIT researchers, in collaboration with AIM Photonics and NY Creates created a fabrication process at the Albany NanoTech Complex foundry that uses standard semiconductor manufacturing techniques to generate flexible and transparent silicon-photonics chips on large-scale wafers. To validate this platform, the researchers bent a single chip thousands of times around cylinders with various diameters — down to the width of a small screw — with no drop in performance. They also determined that looking through the chips would not cause much haze or distortion.”