Research project

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 researchers
Other researchers

Professor David Thomson

Professorial Fellow-Research
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Professor Frederic Gardes PhD

Professor
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Professor Harold Chong

Professor of Electronic Engineering
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Professor Goran Mashanovich

Personal Chair

Research interests

  • Silicon Photonics
  • Photonics Integrated Circuits
  • Sensors
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Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Callum Stirling, Robert Halir, Alejandro Sánchez-Postigo, Zhibo Qu, Jamie Dean Reynolds, Jordi Soler-Penadés, Ganapathy Senthil Murugan, Alejandro Ortega-Moñux, Gonzalo Wangüemert-Pérez, Íñigo Molina-Fernández, Goran Mashanovich & Miloš Nedeljković, 2021, Optics Letters, 46(21), 5300-5303
Type: article
James J. Byers, Kapil Debnath, Hideo Arimoto, Muhammad K. Husain, Moise Sotto, Joseph, William Hillier, Kian Shen Kiang, David Thomson, Graham T. Reed, Martin Charlton & Shinichi Saito, 2021, Frontiers in Physics, 9, 237
Type: article
Nicholas J. Dinsdale, Peter R. Wiecha, Matthew Delaney, Jamie Reynolds, Martin Ebert, Ioannis Zeimpekis, David J. Thomson, Graham T. Reed, Philippe Lalanne, Kevin Vynck & Otto L. Muskens, 2021, ACS Photonics, 8(1), 283-295
Type: article
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, Journal of Lightwave Technology, 39(1), 201-207
Type: article