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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 researchers

Professor Graham Reed FREng, FIET, FOSA, FSPIE, FEOS

Head of School
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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

Backside emitting silicon photonic beam steering module for LIDAR application
Xia Chen, F. Meng, S. A. Fortune, A. J. Compston, M. Ebert, Xingzhao Yan, H. Du, M. Banakar, D. T. Tran, C. G. Littlejohns, D. J. Thomson, R. Nicolaescu & G. T. Reed, 2021
DOI: 10.1109/GFP51802.2021.9673851
Type: conference
Buried 3D silicon photonics spot-size convertors
W. Zhang, M. Ebert, J. D. Reynolds, B. Chen, X. Yan, H. Du, M. Banakar, D. T. Tran, C. G. Littlejohns, G. T. Reed & D. J. Thomson, 2021
DOI: 10.1109/GFP51802.2021.9673849
Type: conference
Compact, hybrid III-V/silicon vernier laser diode operating from 1955-1992 nm
Jia Xu Brian Sia, Xiang Li, Wanjun Wang, Zhongliang Qiao, X. Guo, Jiawei Wang, Callum G. Littlejohns, Chongyang Liu, Graham T. Reed, Kian Siong Ang & Hong Wang, 2021, IEEE Photonics Journal, 13(6)
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2021.3119760
Type: article
Integrated switching circuit for low-noise self-referenced mid-infrared absorption sensing using silicon waveguides
Yanli Qi, Zhexuan Zheng, Mehdi Banakar, Yangbo Wu, Anushka Gangnaik, David Rowe, Vinita Mittal, Jonathan Butement, James S Wilkinson, Goran Mashanovich & Miloš Nedeljković, 2021, IEEE Photonics Journal, 13(6)
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2021.3121331
Type: article
Silicon photonic beam steering module with backside coupling elements toward dense heterogeneous integration with drive electronics
Xia Chen, Fanfan Meng, Steven Fortune, Andrew Compston, Martin Ebert, Xingzhao Yan, Han Du, Mehdi Banakar, Denh Tran, Callum Littlejohns, David Thomson, Remus Nicolaescu & Graham Reed, 2021, APL Photonics, 6
DOI: 10.1063/5.0065210
Type: article