A*STAR and University of Washington joint optoelectronics project

At the University of Washington located in Seattle, a joint project with A*STAR, Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research is about to get underway. From the Sept. 16, 2011 news item on Nanowerk,

A*STAR Institute of Microelectronics (IME) and the University of Washington announce that they will join forces to provide shared Silicon Photonics processes as part of the Optoelectronics Systems Integration in Silicon programme (OpSIS). This will help the research and development (R&D) community significantly reduce the fabrication cost of silicon photonics integrated circuits.

The silicon photonics integrated circuits to be created under this programme will be immediately available to the photonic research community worldwide, and in the process, facilitate technological advancements and proliferate creative ideas for the development of the next generation devices. As the platform will be offered through multi-project wafer (MPW) runs, which allow users from multiple projects to share the costs of a single fabrication run, research costs are lowered significantly for individual projects.

More information at A*STAR’s Institute of Microeletronics (IME) can be found here and about the University of Washington’s OpSIS programme here.

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