Mixing materials for integrated photonic innovation

dc.contributor.authorMoynihan, Owen
dc.contributor.editorWilliams, Zoëen
dc.contributor.funderScience Foundation Irelanden
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-03T11:46:33Z
dc.date.available2024-04-03T11:46:33Z
dc.date.issued19/03/2024
dc.description.abstractPhotonics, an ever-growing field since the invention of lasers in the 1960s, has been applied in wide-ranging applications such as optical communications, sensing, imaging and more. Photonic integrated circuits (PIC) are the next step to take this technology and shrink it onto a semiconductor chip, leading to more compact, cheaper, and lower power consumption solutions. However, integrated photonics faces the challenge of lacking a single material platform that encompasses all the desired properties, unlike its more mature electronic integrated circuit counterpart which uses silicon with a standardised fabrication process known as complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS). To overcome this limitation, researchers are exploring hybrid and heterogeneous integration techniques. By combining the strengths of different photonic platforms, such as III-V materials for light emission, silicon for strong light guidance, silicon-nitride for visible light guiding, and lithium niobate for its modulating capabilities, integrated photonic technologies can harness the collective advantages and unlock new possibilities. “Light brings us the news from the universe.” - Sir William Bragg.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationMoynihan, O. (2024) 'Mixing materials for integrated photonic innovation', The Boolean: Snapshots of Doctoral Research at University College Cork, 7, pp. 19-25. https://doi.org/10.33178/boolean.2024.1.4en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.33178/boolean.2024.1.4
dc.identifier.endpage25
dc.identifier.issn2990-8396
dc.identifier.issued1
dc.identifier.journalabbrevThe Booleanen
dc.identifier.journaltitleThe Boolean: Snapshots of Doctoral Research at University College Corken
dc.identifier.startpage19
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/15762
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherThe Boolean, University College Corken
dc.relation.project12/RC/2276-P2en
dc.rights© 2024, the Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectIntegrated photonicsen
dc.subjectSemiconductor fabricationen
dc.subjectHeterogeneous integrationen
dc.titleMixing materials for integrated photonic innovationen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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