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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

O-band N-rich silicon nitride MZI based on GST
Joaquin Faneca Ruedas,
Thalia Domínguez Bucio,
Frederic Gardes,
& Anna Baldycheva
, 2020 , Applied Physics Letters , 116 (9) , 93502
DOI: 10.1063/1.5140350
Type: article
Co-design of a differential transimpedance amplifier and balanced photodetector for a sub-pJ/bit silicon photonics receiver
Ke Li,
Shenghao Liu,
Xiaoke Ruan,
David Thomson,
Yang Hong,
Fan Yang,
Lei Zhang,
Cosimo Lacava,
Fanfan Meng,
Weiwei Zhang,
Periklis Petropoulos,
Fan Zhang,
& Graham Reed
, 2020 , Optics Express , 28 (9) , 14038--14054
DOI: 10.1364/OE.389889
Type: article
Si photonic waveguides with broken symmetries: applications to modulators and quantum simulations
Shinichi Saito,
Isao Tomita,
Moise, Sala Henri Sotto,
Kapil Debnath,
James Byers,
Abdelrahman Al-Attili,
Daniel Burt,
Muhammad K Husain,
Hideo Arimoto,
Kouta Ibukuro,
Martin Charlton,
David Thomson,
Weiwei Zhang,
Bigeng Chen,
Frederic Gardes,
Graham Reed,
& Harvey Rutt
, 2020 , Japanese Journal of Applied Physics
DOI: 10.35848/1347-4065/ab85ad
Type: review
A new family of ultralow loss reversible phase‐change materials for photonic integrated circuits: Sb2S3 and Sb2Se3
Matthew Delaney,
Ioannis Zeimpekis,
Daniel Lawson,
Daniel W. Hewak,
& Otto L. Muskens
, 2020 , Advanced Functional Materials , 30 (36)
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202002447
Type: article
Ge on Si waveguide mid-infrared absorption spectroscopy of proteins and their aggregates
Vinita Mittal,
George Devitt,
Miloš Nedeljković,
Lewis Glynn Carpenter,
Harold Chong,
James S. Wilkinson,
Sumeet Mahajan,
& Goran Mashanovich
, 2020 , Biomedical Optics Express , 11 (8) , 4714--4722
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.398013
Type: article