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CORNERSTONE 2

Project overview

The Universities of Southampton (SOU) and Glasgow (GLA) have established a new Silicon Photonics fabrication capability for the UK science base, through a project entitled CORNERSTONE. Following completion of the project, from December 2019 the CORNERSTONE fabrication capability will be self-sustaining. Based upon demand from the UK’s premier photonics researchers, this proposal seeks funding to extend the capability that is offered to UK researchers beyond the current Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) platforms, to include emerging Silicon Photonics platforms. These emerging platforms will enable a multitude of new applications either not suitable for the SOI platforms, or complementary to the SOI platforms. This proposal seeks support to bring the new platforms to a state of readiness to deliver the new functionality via a multi-project-wafer (MPW) mechanism to satisfy significantly increasing demand, and to encourage wider usage of world class equipment within the UK. This resource-only bid will facilitate access to a very significant inventory of equipment at the 2 host universities, including access to UK’s only deep-UV projection lithography capability.

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Graham Reed FREng, FIET, FOSA, FSPIE, FEOS

Head of School
Other researchers

Professor David Thomson

Professorial Fellow-Research

Professor Frederic Gardes PhD

Professor

Professor Harold Chong

Professor of Electronic Engineering

Professor Goran Mashanovich

Personal Chair

Research interests

  • Silicon Photonics
  • Photonics Integrated Circuits
  • Sensors

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Photonic Systems, Circuits and Sensors Group

Our group’s research in photonics is helping the development of critical global technologies.

Silicon Photonics

The group works at the forefront of all aspects of silicon photonics. Our work ranges from fundamental study of devices and circuits to close collaboration with industry.

Sustainable Electronic Technologies

We explore how to improve renewable energy sources and create more efficient electronic device technology to benefit the environment.

Research outputs

High bandwidth capacitance efficient Silicon MOS modulator
Weiwei Zhang,
Kapil Debnath,
Bigeng Chen,
Ke Li,
Shenghao Liu,
Martin Ebert,
Jamie Dean Reynolds,
Ali Z. Khokhar,
Callum Littlejohns,
James J Byers,
Muhammad K. Husain,
Frederic Gardes,
Shinichi Saito,
& David J. Thomson
, 2021 , IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology , 39 (1) , 201--207
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2020.3026945
Type: article
High performance silicon optical modulators
David J. Thomson,
Weiwei Zhang,
Kapil Debnath,
Bigeng Chen,
Ke Li,
Shenghao Liu,
Martin Ebert,
Jamie D. Reynolds,
Fanfan Meng,
Ali Z. Khokhar,
Callum G. Littlejohns,
James Byers,
Muhammad K. Husain,
Frederic Y. Gardes,
Shinichi Saito,
& Graham T. Reed
, 2020
DOI: 10.1109/ICTON51198.2020.9203230
Type: conference
1 × N (N = 2, 8) Silicon selector switch for prospective technologies at the 2 μm waveband
Jia Xu Brian Sia,
Xiang Li,
Zhongliang Qiao,
Xin Guo,
Jin Zhou,
Callum G. Littlejohns,
Chongyang Liu,
Graham T. Reed,
Wanjun Wang,
& Hong Wang
, 2020 , IEEE Photonics Technology Letters , 32 (18) , 1127--1130
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2020.3014204
Type: article
Silicon erasable waveguides and directional couplers by germanium ion implantation for configurable photonic circuits
Xia Chen,
Milan Milošević,
Antoine Runge,
Xingshi Yu,
Ali Z. Khokhar,
Sakellaris Mailis,
David Thomson,
Anna Peacock,
Shinichi Saito,
& Graham Reed
, 2020 , Optics Express , 28 (12) , 17630--17642
DOI: 10.1364/OE.394871
Type: article
Silicon photonics for high data rate applications -INVITED
David J. Thomson,
Weiwei Zhang,
Ke Li,
Kapil Debnath,
Shenghao Liu,
Bigeng Chen,
Muhammad K. Husain,
Fanfan Meng,
Ali Z. Khokhar,
James Byers,
Martin Ebert,
Jamie D. Reynolds,
Mehdi Banakar,
Lorenzo Mastronardi,
Callum G. Littlejohns,
Frederic Y. Gardes,
Goran Z. Mashanovich,
Shinichi Saito,
& Graham T. Reed
, 2020 , EPJ Web of Conferences , 238
DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/202023801005
Type: conference