CORNERSTONE is an open access Silicon Photonics rapid prototyping foundry based in the UK. The prototyping platform utilises industrially-compatible deep-UV projection lithography to enable seamless scaling-up of production volumes, but also retains device level innovation capability using high-resolution e-beam lithography and flexibility in its process flows. This process flexibility and open access model is what differentiates CORNERSTONE from other foundries.

Currently CORNERSTONE offers 3 different silicon-on-insulator platforms via a multi-project-wafer service. However, in light of a market demand for platforms that support additional wavelengths beyond traditional telecoms, CORNERSTONE is delighted to announce 3 exciting new silicon based technology platforms (silicon nitride, Ge-on-Si, and suspended silicon) and 2 new integration platforms (flip-chip bonding of electronics and pick-and-place of light sources), all available in summer 2021.

Visit the CORNERSTONE website to find out more: www.cornerstone.sotonfab.co.uk

What we do and a brief company history

ficonTEC is an innovative high-tech company that has rapidly established itself in a highly-specialized market. With continued growth and innovative development since 2001, we are the recognized market leader when it comes to automated assembly and testing of opto-electronic components and (hybrid) photonic devices.

The core team at ficonTEC consists primarily of development engineers from the specialist fields of optics and photonics, from electrical, mechanical and mechatronic engineering, as well as from software development. These developers are supported by experienced technicians possessing a wide variety of skills.

Our technical competence, global customer base, and – importantly – the will to understand our customer’s needs and to find individual and optimum solutions, together make us a competent business and development partner.

LIGENTEC is a Swiss based manufacturing partner, offering low loss SiN Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) for industries such as Quantum technologies, LiDAR, Communications, Space and Sensors. Due to its high confinement, the thick nitride waveguides and resonators have low bending losses and excel even in high power applications from the visible to the mid-IR. The main application areas for this advanced silicon photonics low loss technology include coherent telecommunication, LiDAR, metrology, supercontinuum generation, spectroscopy, sensing and microwave photonics. LIGENTEC’s All Nitride Core Technology platform is fully CMOS compatible, thus allowing us to offer ramping up to high volumes benefiting from the scale of the semiconductor industry

Luceda Photonics wants photonic IC engineers to enjoy the same first-time-right design experience as electronic IC designers. Our tools and services are rooted in over 50 years of experience in photonic integrated circuit (PIC) and PDK (process design kit) design. The team’s expertise is used by several research institutes and industrial R&D teams worldwide.

Since its inception in 2003, Lumerical has pioneered breakthrough simulation technologies that help bring new product concepts to life. Lumerical’s software tools support a broad range of photonic and electromagnetic design and analysis applications. From component level analysis using optical and electrical solvers to photonic integrated circuit and system design and simulation, Lumerical’s products are capable of addressing the most challenging design problems. Lumerical’s photonic design tools are licensed in nearly 50 countries, by more than 800 of the world’s most innovative organizations including 7 of the top 10 companies in the S&P 1200 Global IT Index and 44 of the top 50 research universities according to the Times Higher Education rankings.

Multiphoton Optics offers a 3D Printing Platform (LithoProf3D) and Software (LithoSoft3D) for high-precision 3D printing of arbitrarily shaped structures of a large variety of materials. The equipment allows additive and subtractive processes. Our technology supports scalable processes for different applications and products. The high-precision fabrication of 3D optical interconnects to integrate optical links on-chip, on-board, or in photonic integrated circuits to create sophisticated optical packages is compatible to standard processes in electronic manufacturing and saves app. 80 % of process steps. This enables to significantly reduce energy consumption in production and to save other resources in production and in end-use, for example in high performance computers. We also provide Prototyping & Engineering Services for aspheric or free-form microoptics, and biomedical products, such as scaffolds for tissue engineering, microfluidic cells, or drug delivery structures.

Nanoscribe GmbH is a pioneer and market leader in high-precision additive manufacturing. We supply 3D printers and maskless lithography systems for advanced microfabrication including tailor-made resins and customized processes. The versatility of our underlying key enabling technology drives a wide range of applications in industrial research, prototyping and production. This especially addresses EPIC members’ needs in PIC, optical packaging, microoptics, diffractive optics as well as waver-level optics.

The award-winning company is supported by ZEISS and headquartered in the brand-new ZEISS Innovation Hub @ KIT. Founded in 2007, Nanoscribe today is a medium-sized enterprise with over 70 employees in Karlsruhe, Shanghai and Boston. More than 25% of our 2-digit million annual revenues are invested in the future of microfabrication with an installation base of 200+ lithography systems in 30+ countries. We deliver smart solutions that enable our customers to materialize groundbreaking ideas. 

PI (Physik Instrumente), headquartered in Karlsruhe, is the market and technology leader for high-precision positioning technology and piezo applications in the semiconductor industry, life sciences, photonics, and in industrial automation. In close cooperation with customers from all over the world and for 50 years now, PI's specialists (approx. 1,300) have been pushing, again and again, the boundaries of what is technically possible and developing customized solutions from scratch. More than 350 granted and pending patents underline the company's claim to innovation. PI has nine production sites and 15 sales and service offices in Europe, North America, and Asia.

SMART Photonics is a pure play foundry offering production services for InP based photonic components. We use our extensive knowledge of both discrete as well as integrated photonics and our many years’ experience to produce, with our dedicated toolset, the photonic components designed by our customers. We offer the full production process from Epitaxial growth, re-growth and processing up to the thinning and dicing of the wafers. Contact: e-mail: info@smartphotonics.nl tel. +31(0)40 247 54 53

Synopsys is accelerating the adoption of photonic and PIC technologies with software to design energy efficient, high-performance photonic devices, systems, and integrated circuits. Our Photonic Solutions portfolio includes the RSoft™ Photonic Device Tools, the Photonic System Tools, and the PIC Design Suite. Offering the industry's only seamless design flow, the Synopsys Photonic Solutions portfolio enables innovations in consumer and industrial communication, sensing, and imaging applications – from concept to manufacturing.

VPIphotonics provides professional design software and services for integrated photonics, optoeletronics and fiber-based components, optical transmission systems and networks. VPIphotonics off-the-shelf and customized solutions are valued for their powerful and comprehensive simulation capabilities and high degree of flexibility. They are applied in research and development, product design and marketing by hundreds of companies, and for teaching and research at over 160 academic institutions worldwide.

EXFO develops smarter test, monitoring and analytics solutions for fixed and mobile network operators, webscale companies and equipment manufacturers in the global communications industry. EXFO has spent over 30 years earning the trust of its customers, and today 1,900 EXFO employees in over 25 countries work side by side with them in the lab, field, data center and beyond.

Part of its activities, EXFO is a manufacturer of laboratory-type fiber optic test instrumentation, not limited to, but primarily used in telecom type applications. Applications range from PIC design, research and development to manufacturing and production. EXFO’s product portfolio consists of high dynamic range tunable laser sources, automated wavelength dependent passive optical component testers, optical spectrum analyzers, tunable filters, and multipurpose modular test platform OSICS with modules ranging from tunable laser sources to switches, attenuators, DFB sources and more.

Founded in 1998, Yole Développement, the "More than Moore" market research & strategy consulting company has grown to become a group of companies providing marketing, technology and strategy consulting, media in addition to corporate finance services.

Yole Développement group provides market research, technology analysis, strategy consulting, targeted media, and financial advisory services. We have a global vision and customer base...

The “More than Moore” company Yole and its partners System Plus Consulting, Blumorpho, PISEO and KnowMade support industrial companies, investors and R&D organizations worldwide to help them understand markets and follow technology trends to develop their business...

LioniX International is a leading global provider of customized microsystem solutions in scalable production volumes.

We provide customized solutions for OEM’s and System Integrators, from design to fully assembled modules, by vertical integration and in scalable production volumes. We maintain our technology leadership secured by a strong IP position.

LioniX International core competences are in Photonic Integrated Circuits (PIC), customized MEMS, and opto-fluidics.

Sivers Photonics (a subsidiary of Sivers Semiconductors AB) is the world’s most advanced supplier of customised III-V compound semiconductor laser devices, which are critical to high growth optical communications, sensing and wireless markets.  Our photonic laser devices are enabling next generation applications including artificial intelligence, data-centres and quantum technology.

We are a key strategic supplier to many Fortune 100 and Silicon Valley customers and collaborate with leading academic institutions and industry research centres throughout the world.

Mentor, a Siemens Business (represented by EDA Solutions), is a world leader in electronic hardware and software design solutions for the world’s most successful electronic, semiconductor, and systems companies.

Mentor’s photonic design solutions include:

• LightSuite™ Photonic Compiler automates the layout of integrated photonics and produces a design that is correct-by-Calibre®. https://www.mentor.com/products/ic_nanometer_design/custom-ic-design/lightsuite-photonic-compiler

• Tanner L-Edit Photonics supports manual layout of integrated photonic designs containing waveguides and electrical components. https://www.mentor.com/tannereda/photonics

Both solutions operate using foundry PDKs and provide integrations with leading simulation partners.

Luna Innovations Incorporated (www.lunainc.com) is a leader in optical technology, providing unique capabilities in high-performance fiber optic test products for the telecommunications industry and distributed fiber optic sensing for the aerospace and automotive industries. Luna is organized into two business segments, which work closely together to turn ideas into products: a Technology Development segment and a Products and Licensing segment. Luna’s business model is designed to accelerate the process of bringing new and innovative technologies to market.

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MicroAlign was founded in 2021 in the Netherlands and is a spin-off of the Eindhoven

University of Technology. MicroAlign is developing a revolutionary alignment solution to

optimally connect multiple optical fibers and photonic integrated chips. MicroAlign technology

aims to optimize the quality of each optical fiber-to-chip connection, for tens of optical fibers

and with sub-micrometer accuracy, by means of a novel micro-electromechanical system.

The alignment method offered by MicroAlign has potential impact in the Photonic world for a

number of applications ranging from DATACOM, sensing, LIDAR, up to infra-red

communication. MicroAlign has been already awarded with national and regional grants:

CE3, MRE, Take-Off phase 1 and Take-Off phase 2.

IQE is the leading global supplier of advanced compound semiconductor wafers and materials solutions that enable a diverse range of applications across: handset devices, global telecoms infrastructure, connected devices and 3D Sensing.
As a scaled global epitaxy wafer manufacturer, IQE is uniquely positioned in this market which has high barriers to entry. IQE supplies the whole market and is agnostic to the winners and losers at chip and OEM level. By leveraging the Group’s intellectual property portfolio including know-how and patents, it produces epitaxy wafers of superior quality, yield and unit economics.

Bay Photonics are experts in Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) assembly and packaging for proof of concept, prototyping and production, using their extensive knowledge of semiconductor and laser/led assembly for design, development, design for manufacture (DFM), production method and test (DFT).   They offer Open Access to  both design consultancy and bespoke assembly/packaging services to achieve the customer’s goal. The Team can assist with New Product Introduction (NPI) engineering as product line volume grows and offer services to help transfer to manufacturing facilities within the UK, Europe or to offshore Contract Electronic Manufacturers and company subsidiaries. The founders and Senior Engineers all have in depth experience with fibre optic assembly and die assembly and packaging from their careers with Nortel, Bookham and G&H amongst others. The equipment list continues to expand to meet new and future customer demands and currently includes manual and auto die bonding, manual and auto gold and aluminium wire bonding , various optical alignment capabilities, custom package design and hermetic seam sealing.  Located in the South West of the UK, they have their main office at epic in Paignton, which also houses other members of the Torbay Photonics Cluster ecosystem.

Cadence enables electronic systems and semiconductor companies to create the innovative end products that are transforming the way people live, work and play. Cadence® software, hardware and semiconductor IP are used by customers to deliver products to market faster. The company’s Intelligent System Design™ strategy helps customers develop differentiated products—from chips to boards to intelligent systems—in mobile, consumer, cloud data center, automotive, aerospace, IoT, industrial and other market segments. Cadence is listed as one of Fortune Magazine's 100 Best Companies to Work For. Learn more at www.cadence.com

JePPIX Pilot Line democratizes access to industrial prototyping and pre-production of high-performance InP photonic integrated circuits (PIC). JePPIX Pilot Line has the ambition to transform business practices from vertical integration – where design, fabrication and product development are all in-house and inaccessible to new entrants, to horizontal where fabless and lab less businesses share the same manufacturing infrastructure. JePPIX Pilot Line provides a low entry barrier access to low and medium production volumes of InP PICs.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 824980. www.photonics21.org

The Mid IR Alliance is an industrial group of companies active in mid-infrared technologies at all levels of the supply chain, that are dedicated to the continued success and advancement of Mid IR technologies.

The Mid IR Alliance includes laser and detector manufacturers, developers of Mid-IR cameras and sensors, companies manufacturing Photonic Integrated Circuits, software for modelling and packaging services.

The Mid IR Alliance is the voice of Mid IR technologies, the bridge between the end-users and the companies providing systems, components and services.

PIXAPP the world’s first open-access Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) Assembly and Packaging Pilot line provides companies with standardized packaging processes that allow to ramp up production and to reduce the cost of the photonic package. PIXAPP offers a comprehensible building block menu to its customers including optical coupling, thermal and mechanical stabilization, serving key industries such as medical, industrial, security and optical communications. PIXAPP aims to drive the future demand for PIC-based products by engaging and standardizing processes along all the supply chain, through stablished reference PICs adopted by the PIC foundries and design houses, and through its unique hands-on packaging training courses to prepare the future training force. www.pixapp.eu

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 731954. www.photonics21.org

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Teem Photonics offers innovative solutions for silicon-photonics chip-to-fibre optical interfacing based on its flexible, competitive, reliable, scalable and cost-effective ioNext platform. This ion-exchange technology has been developed for more than 20 years for the manufacturing of optical integrated circuits on glass wafers. We also propose standard and advanced PIC (splitters, couplers, Taps, duplexers, polarizers, interferometers) as well as skills in optical design, fibre-to-chip assembly and packaging.

Teem provides worldwide clients for many applications in Telecom, Bio-medical, Transport, Energy, Defence, Science…

Let us know your need and we will show how a little piece of glass can change everything.

A trading company with an emphasis on creativity and leading-edge technology, Hitachi High-Technologies Co., Ltd. Japan is a member of the Hitachi Group. Hitachi High-Technologies in Europe handles a wide variety of products - from computers and peripherals to scientific instruments and systems, electronic devices, and industrial machinery and materials.

PhotonDelta is a European network consisting of researchers, chip designers, foundries and software developers. Our goal is to develop a sustainable ecosystem that can have a significant impact on our customers, in future applications and in solving social and technological challenges. PhotonDelta provides the necessary access to a.o. networks, knowledge, business development and funding.

The Swiss company vario-optics is leading manufacturer of photonic boards with integrated planar polymer waveguides and embedded electrical circuits. They provide significantly higher bandwidth and higher energy efficiency compared to purely electrical high-speed PCBs.  The photolithographic manufacturing provides great advantage over similar fiber-based systems (reproducibility, high integration densities, lower costs). Therefore, EOCB's are used more and more also within sensors applications.

During the last years vario-optics ag extended its capabilities also towards singlemode waveguides. These can be used for example as electro-optical substrates for cost effective, highly integrated photonic packages, optical chip-chip communication as well as sensors with simplified assembly.

Fraunhofer HHI does research on communications since nearly 90 years. Nowadays, about every second bit transported in the internet touches HHI technology on its way to the receiver. With a strong focus on InP, we also develop polymer waveguide based hybrid integration and silicon photonics. We focus on Telecom and Datacom, with strongly increasing activities in sensor systems. HHI offers foundry services with or without design support in InP, and custom designed Polymer Hybrid PICs.

The Fraunhofer Insitute for Silicon Technology is one of Europe's most modern research facilities for microelectronics and microsystems technology. The Institute develops and produces microsystems and power electronics. Important areas of application include consumer goods industry, medical technology, communications technology, automation, automotive and energy technology. Ultra-modern technological equipment based on 200 mm silicon wafer technology and expertise built up over decades put Fraunhofer ISIT and its customers at the forefront of the field worldwide. Fraunhofer ISIT supports customers right the way from design and system simulation to the production of prototypes, samples, and preparation for series production. The institute currently employs a staff of 160 persons.

Founded in 2005, EazyWorks supplies a browser-based Manufacturing Execution System named EZ-MES. The focus of this system is to track production in all its aspects. The product is targeted to small to medium size high-tech companies, R&D environments and factories. It comes out of the box with simple ways to configure the environment, no programming skills are needed. It runs in the cloud as well as on premises. This makes it possible to get low cost, affordable system up and running within weeks, instead of months.

CMP enables prototypes fabrication on industrial processes and offers great technical expertise in providing MPW and related services for Universities, Research Laboratories and Industrial companies’ prototyping.

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Taipro engineering offers you: “TAilored microsystems improving your PROduct and PROcess”.

Thanks to our experienced team with complementary skills in electronics and our clean room with automatic machines for packaging, assembly and encapsulation, we can support you in all your electronics and microelectronics projects as:

Turnkey project:

-From your idea we take care of all the steps of your electronic project development for many applications: Lighting; Medical device; IoT; Instrumentation, Maintenance …)

-Feasibility study, support/consulting

-Analysis of your specifications

-Identification of the best suited technology (including SWOT analysis)

-Prototyping

-PCB Design & Layout: custom PCB design using SMD and/or bare die components

Packaging services:

-From prototype to production

-Support during your chip design to ensure an efficient and cost effective packaging

-Standard packaging and Chip-on-Board assembly

-Die bonding, Wire bonding, Flip-chip, Encapsulation

Feel free to visit our website : http://taipro.be/

For more information please contact us at sales@taipro.be

EPIC houses circa £2M worth of photonics and microelectronics prototyping equipment. This includes die and wire bonding solutions from Palomar, microscopy from Nikon, Jeol and Mitutoyo device packaging from Pyramid Engineering and test from XYZTEC. Businesses that join EPIC will immediately gain access to this and future technical capability, a classified cleanroom and the chance to collaborate with specialist companies like Bay Photonics, Davies & Bell, Prior Queensgate and EFFECT Photonics. Regional and local financial incentives are available to subject to eligibility.

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A global expert in electrical power and advanced materials, Mersen designs innovative solutions to address its clients’ specific needs and enable them to optimize their manufacturing performance.  Mersen’s 6,400 employees operating in 35 countries provide purpose-designed solutions bespoke to customer requirements anywhere on the planet. Our material expertise on graphite, carbon/carbon composite, carbon insulation, flexible graphite and silicon carbide (SiC) gives us the possibility to engineer enhanced solutions for demanding applications such as industrial processes, aerospace, solar PV, semicon, LEDs, as well as in energy storage.

Brolis Sensor Technology is part of Brolis Group, and focuses on development of next-generation sensor technology based on GaSb/Si for industrial, biomedical and consumer applications. Company is vertically integrated with in-house capability ranging from material synthesis by MBE, chip technology, PIC design and co-packaging to system design, application and final product development. Company operates in Lithuania and Belgium.

Solmates is an ambitious and fast-growing equipment supplier of thin film deposition tools based on Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD). The Solmates mission is to develop and mature PLD so it can be considered a mainstream high volume production deposition technology as currently employed in semiconductor and MEMS industry. The Solmates portfolio stretches from stand-alone equipment, to cluster compatible deposition tools that enable integration of PLD with any other vacuum technology.

New applications and markets are demanding continuous improvement of deposition technology to address the new challenges in thin film processing. The availability of high quality PLD processes on up to 300mm wafers allows our customers to extend their thin film deposition capabilities addressing new possibilities to solve these challenges. As a highly innovative company Solmates can combine IP-protected hardware with years of processing experience to support integration of our layers into your application.

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Applied Materials is a leading equipment supplier to the semiconductor, display and PV industries. Our innovations make possible the technology shaping the future by leveraging our core competencies in:

Materials Engineering

We work at the frontiers of physics and materials science, designing systems with exacting precision and unparalleled production volume capacity. We make constant performance improvements to current materials, while researching and developing the next radical materials advancement.

Customer Engagement

We are 100% committed to working closely with our customers to identify and solve their high-value problems. We develop differentiated products that improve our customers’ device performance and yield.

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EPIC is the industry association that promotes the sustainable development of organisations working in the field of photonics in Europe. We foster a vibrant photonics ecosystem by maintaining a strong network and acting as a catalyst and facilitator for technological and commercial advancement. EPIC publishes market and technology reports, organizes technical workshops and B2B roundtables, coordinates EU funding proposals, advocacy and lobbying, education and training activities, standards and roadmaps and pavilions at exhibitions.

Imec is the world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics, energy, and digital technologies. The combination of our widely acclaimed leadership in microchip technology and profound software and ICT expertise is what makes us unique. By leveraging our world-class infrastructure and local and global ecosystem of partners across a multitude of industries, we create groundbreaking innovation in application domains such as healthcare, smart cities and mobility, logistics and manufacturing, energy and education. As a trusted partner for companies, start-ups and universities we bring together close to 3,500 brilliant minds from over 70 nationalities. Imec is headquartered in Leuven, Belgium and has distributed R&D groups in the Netherlands, Taiwan, USA, China, and offices in India and Japan. In 2016, imec's revenue (P&L) totaled 496 million euro.

GoPhotonics.com is a website for the Photonics Industry. It is the largest searchable database of Photonics products on the internet. GoPhotonics have developed a product search tool for the industry enabling engineers to find products from the leading manufacturers by specifications. In addition to this, it also keep users up to date with the latest Industry news, new product releases and upcoming events.

Fibre Systems has been a trusted source of information for the optical communications industry for 24 years.  Originally launched as Fibre Systems Europe in 1996, when it was published by the Institute of Physics Publishing, the title was acquired by Europa Science and re-launched as Fibre Systems in 2013. It covers the entire value chain from components, subsystems and network equipment manufacturers and distributors to network planners, systems integrators, operators and end users of fibre-optic networks worldwide. The most pressing issues that affect and shape the fibre-optic systems market are addressed, including technologies, applications, business and regulatory issues. Stay up-to-date with the latest news and features - published quarterly, Fibre Systems is available in print and digital formats, a monthly email newsletter, and video channel. Subscribe for free: https://www.fibre-systems.com/subscription

The Photonex exhibition brings together all aspects of light technologies and photonics for industry and research, helping visitors develop strong relationships, research solutions, examine applications in academia, research and technology for manufacturing. You can attend talks from a wide range of FREE presentations, FREE meetings, FREE conferences, training courses and "how-to-do-it" type tutorials to further your skills.

Optical Connections provides the fibre optic community with the latest industry news and developments via our monthly newsletter, magazine and recently redeveloped news website. We provide coverage of market influencing technology advancements, commercial prospects and product developments making Optical Connections an essential source of information for our readers from across the industry. The Optical Connections News website has recently undergone a major redesign which sees more breaking news, new features and unique insight from our editorial team, enhancer user functionality and the introduction of industry networking opportunities as well as increased commercial prospects. Read the latest news and subscribe to the monthly newsletter.

Electro Optics is Europe's original photonics title and multi-platform resource for anyone involved in the photonics industry. Readers have access to the latest technological developments, trends and opinions; independent, in-depth editorial content; and informed commentary and analysis. Electro Optics is published ten times a year in print and digital editions, and alongside two monthly newsletters, EO Newsline and EO Productline, is available at no cost to readers working or engaged in the photonics industry.

PIC International made its conference debut in March 2016, surpassing the high expectations of attendees and exhibitors. PIC International Conference promises even more opportunities to meet key players involved in the development and deployment of photonic integrated circuits, but 12 months is too long to wait for your next industry update.

In response, we launched the PIC International Magazine later that year - a quarterly publication tracking the whole value chain, including wafers/materials, devices, modules, systems and service providers. This digital title, available on phone, tablet and PC, delivers on its mission to inform readers on key progress being made worldwide in the production and application of photonic integrated circuits.