Research project

CORNERSTONE

Project overview

This proposal seeks funding to acquire a refurbished stepper and associated wafer coater, tools to enable photolithographic patterning of semiconductor wafers for device and circuit fabrication. The stepper will be located at Southampton University in the recently opened £120m cleanroom complex. It will effectively increase the capacity of the cleanroom complex, which will in turn facilitate and underpin a wealth of world class research.
Not only will research at Southampton be enhanced, but Southampton (SOU), Glasgow (GLA), and Surrey (SUR) universities will pool resources to establish a Silicon Photonics Fabrication Capability within the UK, to satisfy an increasing demand for the fabrication of Silicon Photonics devices from the UK’s premier researchers. This will encourage wider usage of world class equipment within the UK, in line with EPSRC policy.
We seek funding for both the equipment and 3.5 RAs across the 3 institutions, over a 4 year period, to establish the Capability. Access to a very significant inventory of additional equipment at these 3 universities will be facilitated.
The project is extremely timely, as silicon foundry services around the world are moving towards a model in which standard platforms and devices will be offered, making it almost impossible for researchers to carry out innovative work at the device level, or in non-standard platforms.

Staff

Lead researchers
Other researchers

Professor Frederic Gardes PhD

Professor
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Professor Goran Mashanovich

Personal Chair

Research interests

  • Silicon Photonics
  • Photonics Integrated Circuits
  • Sensors
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Professor Harold Chong

Professor of Electronic Engineering
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Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Yangbo Wu, Zhibo Qu, Ahmed Osman, Chen Wei, Wei Cao, Antulio Tarazona, Swe Zin Oo, Harold Chong, Otto Muskens, Goran Mashanovich & Miloš Nedeljković, 2021, Optics Letters, 46(3), 677-680
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
Callum Littlejohns, David Rowe, Han Du, Ke Li, Weiwei Zhang, Wei Cao, Thalia Domínguez Bucio, Xingzhao Yan, Mehdi Banakar, Denh Tran, Shenghao Liu, Fanfan Meng, Bigeng Chen, Yanli Qi, Xia Chen, Miloš Nedeljković, Lorenzo Mastronardi, Rijan Maharjan, Sanket Bohora, Ashim Dhakal, Iain Crowe, Ankur Khurana, Krishna Balram, Luca Zagaglia, Francesco Floris, Peter O'Brien, Eugenio Di Gaetano, Harold Chong, Frederic Gardes, David Thomson, Goran Mashanovich, Marc Sorel & Graham Reed, 2020, Applied Sciences, 10(22), 1-34
Type: review