About the project
The project promotes product development and ensures that a technological edge is maintained through the use of building blocks, processes and products for applications defined by end users. The project is organized around the following four work packages:
- Market Demands: Translating products which (will) make use of photonic ICs, into building blocks, processes and designs.
- Process characterisation: Obtaining data on the production process to improve the production of photonic ICs. So every year, reducing the cost per chip.
- Building Block Improvement: Improving the existing subcircuits (composite building blocks) with the use of models to predict how building blocks will function when they are produced, leading ultimately to “first-time right” design.
- Process improvement: The optimization and improvement of the production process to allow for more and better basic building blocks.
