CORNERSTONE 2
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Southampton
Department Name: Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC)
Abstract
Southampton and Glasgow Universities currently contribute to a project entitled CORNERSTONE which has established a new Silicon Photonics fabrication capability, based on the Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) platform, for academic researchers in the UK. The project is due to end in December 2019, after which time the CORNERSTONE fabrication capability will be self-sustaining, with users paying for the service. 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 SOI platforms, to include emerging Silicon Photonics platforms, together with capabilities facilitating integration of photonic circuits with electronics, lasers and detectors. These emerging platforms enable a multitude of new applications that have emerged over the past several years, some of which are not suitable for the SOI platform, and some of which complement the SOI platform by serving applications at other wavelengths. Southampton, and Glasgow universities will work together 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 deliver them to UK academic users free of charge (to the user) for the final six months of the project, in order to establish credibility. This will encourage wider usage of world class equipment within the UK, in line with EPSRC policy. We seek funding for 3 PDRAs and 2 technicians across the 2 institutions, over a 2 year period, to facilitate access to a very significant inventory of equipment at these 2 universities, including access to UK's only deep-UV projection lithography capability. During this 2 year period, we will canvas UK demand for the capability to continue to operate as an EPSRC National Research Facility, and if so, to establish a statement of need. We currently have 50 partners/users providing in-kind support to a value of to £1,705,000 and cash to the value of £173,450.
Planned Impact
CORNERSTONE 2 will be the key enabler to enhance UK high impact research in Silicon Photonics using new materials platforms and fabrication process flexibility that is missing from current foundries. This grant will provide an effective fabrication capability via a multi-project-wafer service to increase productivity for users and partners alike to enable new research innovations via the new platforms made available in CORNERSTONE 2. Building on the success of the Silicon-on-Insulator platforms of CORNERSTONE, CORNERSTONE 2 will introduce new device and material platforms to address several of the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund challenges from Quantum technology to Healthcare, big data processing and autonomous vehicles. New silicon nitride, suspended structures, germanium-on-silicon, packaging and integration platforms provide more options for users and allow them to exploit new scientific opportunities, hence spreading a wider network of collaboration. The first to benefit from this project are the researchers who will be trained in the art of device design and knowledge in sophisticated fabrication techniques. We are building a skilled workforce to retain UK research infrastructure and remain competitive worldwide.
Therefore the primary beneficiaries of the project will be CORNERSTONE 2 users, i.e. UK researchers, who will have the opportunity to demonstrate their ideas in practical terms, fabricating proof of principle devices and circuits, via industry-like processes.
Because of its industry compatible processes, CORNERSTONE 2 is ideally placed to facilitate commercial exploitation by taking conceptual design to production with our partner foundry at CompoundTek, Singapore who will assist in technology transfer, and Luceda Photonics Ltd., a premier software company, to provide Process Design Kit access and training. This close proximity collaboration with industrial partners will benefit users by providing the chance to fabricate their devices at industrial standards and quality. In addition, new intellectual property ideas will be protected in collaborative manner, including licensing of fabrication methods or device designs for industrial uptake. The noteworthy academic and industry partnerships within CORNERSTONE 2 allow greater engagement with other trade groups, the Photonics Leadership Group and user networks such as SEPNET, a direct access route to high value equipment and processes offered in this project. The immense opportunities generated in this project will be measured by its annual output in term of number of users, devices fabricated and publications. The mechanisms for greater academic and industrial collaboration in this grant demonstrate its potential to sustain itself beyond the project life.
Working together with our academic and industrial users, we anticipate high quality outputs from journal publications, trade shows, road mapping exercise, press releases, keynote and invited talks, and conference presentations. To increase our worldwide presence, we will chair a dedicated CORNERSTONE 2 symposium at Photonex Europe 2020, coordinated by Xmark Media. Further promotion will be made via our website, MPW brokers Europractice and CUMEC, China, to strengthen our place as one of the world leaders for photonic device design and fabrication. These dissemination activities will accelerate research in photonics technology by supporting EPSRC's national priority areas as a Productive, Connected, Resilient and Healthy nation.
CORNERSTONE 2 will bring the societal impact of emerging Silicon Photonics technology more rapidly to fruition. Accelerated routes to market for UK products at the cutting edge of technology benefit society via earlier adoption, better exploitation and greater market share for UK companies. Similarly UK IP can be more rapidly exploited via UK or multinational companies, and CORNERSTONE 2 will enable such exploitation via proof of principle operational evidence.
Therefore the primary beneficiaries of the project will be CORNERSTONE 2 users, i.e. UK researchers, who will have the opportunity to demonstrate their ideas in practical terms, fabricating proof of principle devices and circuits, via industry-like processes.
Because of its industry compatible processes, CORNERSTONE 2 is ideally placed to facilitate commercial exploitation by taking conceptual design to production with our partner foundry at CompoundTek, Singapore who will assist in technology transfer, and Luceda Photonics Ltd., a premier software company, to provide Process Design Kit access and training. This close proximity collaboration with industrial partners will benefit users by providing the chance to fabricate their devices at industrial standards and quality. In addition, new intellectual property ideas will be protected in collaborative manner, including licensing of fabrication methods or device designs for industrial uptake. The noteworthy academic and industry partnerships within CORNERSTONE 2 allow greater engagement with other trade groups, the Photonics Leadership Group and user networks such as SEPNET, a direct access route to high value equipment and processes offered in this project. The immense opportunities generated in this project will be measured by its annual output in term of number of users, devices fabricated and publications. The mechanisms for greater academic and industrial collaboration in this grant demonstrate its potential to sustain itself beyond the project life.
Working together with our academic and industrial users, we anticipate high quality outputs from journal publications, trade shows, road mapping exercise, press releases, keynote and invited talks, and conference presentations. To increase our worldwide presence, we will chair a dedicated CORNERSTONE 2 symposium at Photonex Europe 2020, coordinated by Xmark Media. Further promotion will be made via our website, MPW brokers Europractice and CUMEC, China, to strengthen our place as one of the world leaders for photonic device design and fabrication. These dissemination activities will accelerate research in photonics technology by supporting EPSRC's national priority areas as a Productive, Connected, Resilient and Healthy nation.
CORNERSTONE 2 will bring the societal impact of emerging Silicon Photonics technology more rapidly to fruition. Accelerated routes to market for UK products at the cutting edge of technology benefit society via earlier adoption, better exploitation and greater market share for UK companies. Similarly UK IP can be more rapidly exploited via UK or multinational companies, and CORNERSTONE 2 will enable such exploitation via proof of principle operational evidence.
Organisations
- University of Southampton (Lead Research Organisation)
- Luceda Photonics (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Zhejiang University (Collaboration)
- University of Warwick (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE (Collaboration)
- Shenzhen University (Collaboration)
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Collaboration)
- QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST (Collaboration)
- University College Cork (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- University of Malaga (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU Munich) (Collaboration)
- National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (Collaboration)
- Cambridge Consultants (Collaboration)
- Fudan University (Collaboration)
- Chinese University of Hong Kong (Collaboration)
- Oxford Ionics (Collaboration)
- University of Bristol (Collaboration)
- Toshiba (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE (Collaboration)
- University of Vigo (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (Collaboration)
- Renishaw Plc (Collaboration)
- University of Texas at Austin (Collaboration)
- Bar-Ilan University (Collaboration)
- National Sun Yat-sen University (Collaboration)
- SWANSEA UNIVERSITY (Collaboration)
- KING'S COLLEGE LONDON (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH WALES (Collaboration)
- Oxford Instruments (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER (Collaboration)
- QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON (Collaboration)
- Koc University (Collaboration)
- Huawei Technologies (Collaboration)
- University of Ghent (Collaboration)
- Rockley Photonics (Collaboration)
- University College London (Collaboration)
- Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult (Collaboration)
- Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) (Collaboration)
- Hokkaido University (Collaboration)
- ORCA Computing (Collaboration)
- IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON (Collaboration)
- Ericsson (Project Partner)
- Chongqing United MicroElectronics Centre (Project Partner)
- Polytechnic University of Bari (Project Partner)
- Photonics Leadership Group (Project Partner)
- University of Bath (Project Partner)
- The University of Hong Kong (Project Partner)
- Optic2Connect Pte Ltd (Project Partner)
- Tyndall National Institute (Project Partner)
- Bangor University (Project Partner)
- EPSRC NationalEpitaxyFacility (Project Partner)
- Optocap Ltd (Project Partner)
- Newcastle University (Project Partner)
- Compugraphics International Ltd (Project Partner)
- UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (Project Partner)
- University of Bristol (Project Partner)
- Rockley Photonics Limited (UK) (Project Partner)
- CNIT (Project Partner)
- Bright Photonics BV (Project Partner)
- UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON (Project Partner)
- McMaster University (Project Partner)
- Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology (Project Partner)
- Swansea University (Project Partner)
- CARDIFF UNIVERSITY (Project Partner)
- Xmark Media (Project Partner)
- Camgraphic Ltd (Project Partner)
- University of Sydney (Project Partner)
- Compound Semiconductor App. Catapult (Project Partner)
- University of Sussex (Project Partner)
- University of Nottingham (Project Partner)
- Imperial College London (Project Partner)
- Loughborough University (Project Partner)
- Photon Design Ltd (Project Partner)
- University of St Andrews (Project Partner)
- CompoundTek Pte Ltd (Project Partner)
- University of Strathclyde (Project Partner)
- Lancaster University (Project Partner)
- IQE PLC (Project Partner)
- University of Sheffield (Project Partner)
- Royal Holloway, Univ of London (Project Partner)
- Nanyang Technological University (Project Partner)
- The University of Manchester (Project Partner)
- UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE (Project Partner)
- UiT Arctic University of Norway (Tromso) (Project Partner)
- Resolute Photonics (UK) Ltd (Project Partner)
- UNIVERSITY OF EXETER (Project Partner)
- Bay Photonics Ltd (Project Partner)
Publications
Aktas O
(2020)
Nonlinear properties of laser-processed polycrystalline silicon waveguides for integrated photonics.
in Optics express
Brian Sia JX
(2020)
Sub-kHz linewidth, hybrid III-V/silicon wavelength-tunable laser diode operating at the application-rich 1647-1690 nm.
in Optics express
Burridge B
(2023)
Integrate and scale: A source of spectrally separable photon pairs
Burridge B
(2023)
Integrate and scale: a source of spectrally separable photon pairs
in Optica
Byers J
(2021)
10 nm SiO2 TM Slot Mode in Laterally Mismatched Asymmetric Fin-Waveguides
in Frontiers in Physics
Cao, Wei
(2020)
25 Gbit/s silicon based modulators for the 2 mu m wavelength band
in OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE AND EXPOSITION (OFC)
Chang T
(2024)
Advancing All Silicon MOSCAP Ring Modulators With Ultra-Thin Sub-5 nm Insulator
in Journal of Lightwave Technology
Chen M
(2024)
I/O-efficient iterative matrix inversion with photonic integrated circuits.
in Nature communications
| Description | The new platforms have been developed and deployed as multi-project wafer (MPW) services for the UK community. We are seeing good traction with users, particularly for the SiN platform that has record numbers of users. |
| Exploitation Route | The platforms are being utilised by UK researchers to develop their own research. For the first time in the UK, these platforms will be available as part of a flexible provision for researchers. Some of the resultant publications are cited in this return. |
| Sectors | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) Electronics Energy Environment Healthcare |
| URL | https://www.cornerstone.sotonfab.co.uk/ |
| Description | CORNERSTONE's flexible, speedy photonics services helped Zero Point Motion Ltd scale up the development of their optical inertial sensors, enabling them to bid for further funding to take these products to market, with CORNERSTONE as a continuing project partner. They have now secured VC funding for further expansion. Other international users have also utilised the foundry services. There are now CORNERSTONE users in 21 countries. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2022 |
| Sector | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Electronics,Energy,Environment,Healthcare |
| Impact Types | Economic |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2 Enterprise Income - ASML |
| Amount | £23,550 (GBP) |
| Organisation | ASML |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United States |
| Start | 12/2020 |
| End | 04/2021 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2 Enterprise Income - Cardiff University |
| Amount | £13,500 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Cardiff University |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2021 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2 Enterprise Income - Fudan University |
| Amount | £12,350 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Fudan University |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | China |
| Start | 08/2021 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2 Enterprise Income - Kings College London |
| Amount | £4,930 (GBP) |
| Organisation | King's College London |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2022 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2 Enterprise Income - Koc University |
| Amount | £4,275 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Koc University |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | Turkey |
| Start | 04/2022 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2 Enterprise Income - LMU Munich |
| Amount | £6,575 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU Munich) |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | Germany |
| Start | 09/2022 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2 Enterprise Income - National Taiwan University of Science Technology |
| Amount | £10,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | National Taiwan University of Science and Technology |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | Taiwan, Province of China |
| Start | 03/2022 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2 Enterprise Income - Oxford Instruments |
| Amount | £2,650 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Oxford Instruments |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2021 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2 Enterprise Income - Queens University |
| Amount | £4,886 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Queens University |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | Bangladesh |
| Start | 06/2020 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2 Enterprise Income - Rockley Photonics |
| Amount | £23,690 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Rockley Photonics |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United States |
| Start | 02/2021 |
| End | 09/2021 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2 Enterprise Income - Shenzhen University |
| Amount | £5,250 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Shenzhen University |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | China |
| Start | 01/2023 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2 Enterprise Income - Swansea University |
| Amount | £700 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Swansea University |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2022 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2 Enterprise Income - Universidad de Málaga |
| Amount | £14,335 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Malaga |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | Spain |
| Start | 02/2022 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2 Enterprise Income - University South Wales |
| Amount | £25,380 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of South Wales |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2021 |
| End | 08/2022 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2 Enterprise Income - University of Bristol |
| Amount | £29,820 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Bristol |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2021 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2 Enterprise Income - University of Cambridge |
| Amount | £37,060 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Cambridge |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2023 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2 Enterprise Income - University of Manchester |
| Amount | £8,500 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Manchester |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2020 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2 Enterprise Income - University of Warwick |
| Amount | £6,750 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Warwick |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2021 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2 Enterprise Income - Vrije Universiteit Brussels |
| Amount | £12,896 (FJD) |
| Organisation | Vrije Universiteit Brussel |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | Belgium |
| Start | 01/2022 |
| End | 01/2024 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2 Enterprise Income - Zhejiang University |
| Amount | £4,660 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Zhejiang University |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | China |
| Start | 11/2020 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2.5 |
| Amount | £1,538,492 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/W035995/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 12/2022 |
| End | 12/2024 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2.5 Enterprise Income - Bar Ilan University |
| Amount | £100 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Bar-Ilan University |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | Israel |
| Start | 02/2024 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2.5 Enterprise Income - CSA Catapult |
| Amount | £35,560 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2022 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2.5 Enterprise Income - Cambridge Consultants |
| Amount | £14,250 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Cambridge Consultants |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2024 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2.5 Enterprise Income - Hokkaido University |
| Amount | £38,100 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Hokkaido University |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | Japan |
| Start | 02/2021 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2.5 Enterprise Income - Huawei |
| Amount | £213,960 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Huawei Technologies |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | China |
| Start | 03/2024 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2.5 Enterprise Income - National Sun Yat-sen University |
| Amount | £23,800 (GBP) |
| Organisation | National Sun Yat-sen University |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | Taiwan, Province of China |
| Start | 01/2023 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2.5 Enterprise Income - ORCA Computing |
| Amount | £875 (GBP) |
| Organisation | ORCA Computing |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2023 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2.5 Enterprise Income - Oxford Ionics |
| Amount | £3,800 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Oxford Ionics |
| Sector | Private |
| Start | 01/2021 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2.5 Enterprise Income - University of Texas |
| Amount | £8,600 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Texas at Austin |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United States |
| Start | 07/2023 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE Enterprise Income - Bangor University |
| Amount | £6,750 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Bangor University |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2021 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE Enterprise Income - Thales |
| Amount | £18,460 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Thales Group |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | France |
| Start | 03/2021 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE Enterprise Income - University College London |
| Amount | £11,690 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2021 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE Enterprise Income - University of Newcastle |
| Amount | £1,630 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Newcastle University |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2022 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE Photonics Innovation Centre (C-PIC) |
| Amount | £10,998,902 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/Z531066/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2024 |
| End | 03/2029 |
| Description | EQUINOX |
| Amount | £2,239,643 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 10102939 |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2024 |
| End | 09/2025 |
| Description | Impact Acceleration Account - PIC Training Kits |
| Amount | £39,998 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2022 |
| End | 07/2022 |
| Description | Layered Materials Research Foundry |
| Amount | £1,871,125 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/X015742/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2023 |
| End | 12/2025 |
| Description | MISSION (Mid- Infrared Silicon Photonic Sensors for Healthcare and Environmental Monitoring) |
| Amount | £5,757,814 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/V047663/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2021 |
| End | 06/2026 |
| Description | Photonic Integrated Circuit Bootcamp |
| Amount | £334,888 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 10074923 |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2023 |
| End | 02/2025 |
| Description | QUantum Dot On Silicon systems for communications, information processing and sensing (QUDOS) |
| Amount | £6,123,268 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/T028475/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2020 |
| End | 10/2025 |
| Description | Quantum Photonic Integrated Circuit Packaging (QPICPAC) |
| Amount | £499,710 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 10032139 |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2022 |
| End | 11/2023 |
| Description | Silicon Nitride for Quantum Computing (SiNQ) |
| Amount | £422,419 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 10074567 |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2023 |
| End | 02/2025 |
| Description | Towards a revoltion in Optical Communications |
| Amount | £1,055,484 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/V012789/1 |
| Organisation | University of Southampton |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2021 |
| End | 01/2024 |
| Description | Towards a revolution in optical communications |
| Amount | £1,055,484 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/V012789/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2021 |
| End | 03/2025 |
| Title | An integrated CMOS-silicon-photonics transmitter with a 112 gigabaud transmission and picojoule per bit energy efficiency |
| Description | Data source of the article "An integrated CMOS-silicon-photonics transmitter with a 112 gigabaud transmission and picojoule per bit energy efficiency " |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://springernature.figshare.com/articles/dataset/An_integrated_CMOS_silicon-photonics_transmitte... |
| Title | An integrated CMOS-silicon-photonics transmitter with a 112 gigabaud transmission and picojoule per bit energy efficiency |
| Description | Data source of the article "An integrated CMOS-silicon-photonics transmitter with a 112 gigabaud transmission and picojoule per bit energy efficiency " |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://springernature.figshare.com/articles/dataset/An_integrated_CMOS_silicon-photonics_transmitte... |
| Title | Dataset 1.xlsx |
| Description | (a) MZI normalised transmission against electrical drive power for the different heating element offset positions. (b) Electrical power required for switching (2p phase shift) with the heater off-set from the waveguide by different amounts. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://opticapublishing.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Dataset_1_xlsx/14529414/1 |
| Title | Dataset 1.xlsx |
| Description | (a) MZI normalised transmission against electrical drive power for the different heating element offset positions. (b) Electrical power required for switching (2p phase shift) with the heater off-set from the waveguide by different amounts. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://opticapublishing.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Dataset_1_xlsx/14529414 |
| Title | Dataset 2.xlsx |
| Description | Temperature change in the waveguide for different heater element position offsets with the electrical power required for switching in the zero offset case applied. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://opticapublishing.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Dataset_2_xlsx/14529405 |
| Title | Dataset 2.xlsx |
| Description | Temperature change in the waveguide for different heater element position offsets with the electrical power required for switching in the zero offset case applied. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://opticapublishing.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Dataset_2_xlsx/14529405/1 |
| Title | Dataset 3.xlsx |
| Description | (a) Normalised transmission against electrical drive power for the three MZI with waveguide arm separations of 2um, 4um and 6um. (b) Electrical power required for switching (2p phase shift) for the 3 different MZI with different arm separation. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://opticapublishing.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Dataset_3_xlsx/14529408/1 |
| Title | Dataset 3.xlsx |
| Description | (a) Normalised transmission against electrical drive power for the three MZI with waveguide arm separations of 2um, 4um and 6um. (b) Electrical power required for switching (2p phase shift) for the 3 different MZI with different arm separation. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://opticapublishing.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Dataset_3_xlsx/14529408 |
| Title | Dataset 4.xlsx |
| Description | (a) Temperature line profile across the centre of waveguide cross section (as shown in figure 7) for different separations. Red line (?S=0) represents the heated and reference waveguide without separation, and blue, orange, green line represents heated waveguides at position -3, -6, -9 um distance with reference waveguide placed at 0 um. (b) Percentage temperature change in the reference waveguide for different waveguide separations in various platforms. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://opticapublishing.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Dataset_4_xlsx/14529411/1 |
| Title | Dataset 4.xlsx |
| Description | (a) Temperature line profile across the centre of waveguide cross section (as shown in figure 7) for different separations. Red line (?S=0) represents the heated and reference waveguide without separation, and blue, orange, green line represents heated waveguides at position -3, -6, -9 um distance with reference waveguide placed at 0 um. (b) Percentage temperature change in the reference waveguide for different waveguide separations in various platforms. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://opticapublishing.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Dataset_4_xlsx/14529411 |
| Title | Integrate and scale: a source of spectrally separable photon pairs |
| Description | Dataset corresponding with modelling, simulation and measurement results regarding a new integrated photonic resonant cavity device used for the generation of ultra-pure and bright photon pairs. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://data.bris.ac.uk/data/dataset/250jeya5avudl2pdsgf6tmq7cj/ |
| Title | Open source Process Design Kit (PDK) of silicon photonics components |
| Description | The world's first open source database of silicon photonics components for a variety of silicon photonics platforms which enables other researchers to design circuits based on existing components with a known functionality and peformance. |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Economic impact from increased number of paying users to the CORNERSTONE fabrication service |
| URL | https://www.cornerstone.sotonfab.co.uk/design-rules/ |
| Title | Study into the spread of heat from thermo-optic silicon photonic elements |
| Description | Dataset to support article in Journal: Optics Express. Experimentally characterized and simulated data for heat spread from a heating element in Silicon photonics based Thermo-optics Phase shifter. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.426748 |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/450868/ |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2 User: Fudan University |
| Organisation | Fudan University |
| Country | China |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Fabrication of SiN photonic circuit |
| Collaborator Contribution | Design of SiN photonic circuit |
| Impact | / |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2 User: KAIST |
| Organisation | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) |
| Country | Korea, Republic of |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Fabrication of PICs |
| Collaborator Contribution | Design of PICs |
| Impact | New PIC devices |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2 User: Kings College London |
| Organisation | King's College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Fabrication of PICs |
| Collaborator Contribution | Design of PICs |
| Impact | / |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2 User: Koc University |
| Organisation | Koc University |
| Country | Turkey |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Fabrication of PICs |
| Collaborator Contribution | Design of PICs |
| Impact | / |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2 User: LMU Munich |
| Organisation | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU Munich) |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Fabrication of PICs |
| Collaborator Contribution | Design of PICs |
| Impact | / |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2 User: National Taiwan University of Science Technology |
| Organisation | National Taiwan University of Science and Technology |
| Country | Taiwan, Province of China |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Fabrication of SOI photonics chip |
| Collaborator Contribution | Design of SOI photonics chip |
| Impact | / |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2 User: Oxford Instruments |
| Organisation | Oxford Instruments |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Fabrication of PICs |
| Collaborator Contribution | Design of PICs |
| Impact | / |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2 User: Queen Mary |
| Organisation | Queen Mary University of London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Fabrication of SiN photonics chip |
| Collaborator Contribution | Design of SiN photonics chip |
| Impact | / |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2 User: Queens University |
| Organisation | Queen's University Belfast |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Fabrication of SiN photonics chips |
| Collaborator Contribution | Design of SiN photonics chip |
| Impact | / |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2 User: Renishaw |
| Organisation | Renishaw PLC |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Fabrication of PICs |
| Collaborator Contribution | Design of PICs |
| Impact | / |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2 User: Rockley Photonics |
| Organisation | Rockley Photonics |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Fabrication of PICs |
| Collaborator Contribution | Design of PICs |
| Impact | / |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2 User: Shenzhen University |
| Organisation | Shenzhen University |
| Country | China |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Fabrication of germanium photonics chip |
| Collaborator Contribution | Design of germanium photonics chip |
| Impact | / |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2 User: Swansea University |
| Organisation | Swansea University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Fabrication of suspended SiN chips |
| Collaborator Contribution | Design of suspended SiN chips |
| Impact | / |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2 User: UCL |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Fabrication of SiN photonics chip |
| Collaborator Contribution | Design of SiN photonics chip |
| Impact | / |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2 User: University South Wales |
| Organisation | University of South Wales |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Fabrication of PICs |
| Collaborator Contribution | Design of PICs |
| Impact | / |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2 User: University of Bristol |
| Organisation | University of Bristol |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Fabrication of SiN photonics chip |
| Collaborator Contribution | Design of SiN photonics chip |
| Impact | / |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2 User: University of Cambridge |
| Organisation | University of Cambridge |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Fabrication of SiN photonic circuit |
| Collaborator Contribution | Design of photonic circuit |
| Impact | / |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2 User: University of Malaga |
| Organisation | University of Malaga |
| Country | Spain |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Fabrication of suspended Si chips |
| Collaborator Contribution | Design of suspended Si chips |
| Impact | / |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2 User: University of Manchester |
| Organisation | University of Manchester |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Fabrication of SiN photonics chip |
| Collaborator Contribution | Design of SiN photonics chip |
| Impact | / |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2 User: University of Oxford |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Fabrication of SiN photonics chip |
| Collaborator Contribution | Design of SiN photonics chip |
| Impact | / |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2 User: University of Strathclyde |
| Organisation | University of Strathclyde |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Fabrication of SiN photonics chip |
| Collaborator Contribution | Design of SiN photonics chip |
| Impact | / |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2 User: University of Warwick |
| Organisation | University of Warwick |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Fabrication of SOI photonics chip |
| Collaborator Contribution | Design of SOI photonics chip |
| Impact | / |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2 User: Vrije Universiteit Brussels |
| Organisation | Vrije Universiteit Brussel |
| Country | Belgium |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Fabrication of SOI photonics chip |
| Collaborator Contribution | Design of SOI photonics chip |
| Impact | / |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2 User: Zhejiang University |
| Organisation | Zhejiang University |
| Country | China |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Fabrication of PICs |
| Collaborator Contribution | Design of PICs |
| Impact | / |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2.5 User: Bar Ilan University |
| Organisation | Bar-Ilan University |
| Country | Israel |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Fabrication of PICs |
| Collaborator Contribution | Design of PICs |
| Impact | / |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2.5 User: Cambridge Consultants |
| Organisation | Cambridge Consultants |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Fabrication of PICs |
| Collaborator Contribution | Design of PICs |
| Impact | / |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2.5 User: Hokkaido University |
| Organisation | Hokkaido University |
| Country | Japan |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Fabrication of SOI chips |
| Collaborator Contribution | Design of SOI chips |
| Impact | / |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2.5 User: Imperial College London |
| Organisation | Imperial College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Design of PICs |
| Collaborator Contribution | Fabrication of PICs |
| Impact | / |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2.5 User: National Sun Yat-sen University |
| Organisation | National Sun Yat-sen University |
| Country | Taiwan, Province of China |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Fabrication of SiN photonics chip |
| Collaborator Contribution | Design of SiN photonics chip |
| Impact | / |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2.5 User: ORCA Computing |
| Organisation | ORCA Computing |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | PhotonHub Training course provided |
| Collaborator Contribution | PhotonHub Training course received |
| Impact | / |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2.5 User: Oxford Ionics |
| Organisation | Oxford Ionics |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Fabrication of PICs |
| Collaborator Contribution | Design of PICs |
| Impact | / |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2.5 User: Universidad de Vigo |
| Organisation | University of Vigo |
| Country | Spain |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | PhotonHub Training course provided |
| Collaborator Contribution | PhotonHub Training course received |
| Impact | / |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE 2.5 User: University of Texas |
| Organisation | University of Texas at Austin |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Fabrication of PICs |
| Collaborator Contribution | Design of PICs |
| Impact | / |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE PDK provider |
| Organisation | Luceda Photonics |
| Country | Belgium |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Generation of open source photonics components design |
| Collaborator Contribution | Creation of PDK for researchers |
| Impact | / |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE User: CSA Catapult |
| Organisation | Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Fabrication of PICs |
| Collaborator Contribution | Design of PICs |
| Impact | / |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE User: Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Organisation | Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Country | Hong Kong |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Fabrication of PICs |
| Collaborator Contribution | Design of PICs |
| Impact | / |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE User: Ghent University |
| Organisation | University of Ghent |
| Country | Belgium |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Fabrication of PICs |
| Collaborator Contribution | Design of PICs |
| Impact | / |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE User: Huawei |
| Organisation | Huawei Technologies |
| Country | China |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Fabrication of PICs |
| Collaborator Contribution | Design of PICs |
| Impact | / |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE User: Toshiba |
| Organisation | Toshiba |
| Country | Japan |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Fabrication of PICs |
| Collaborator Contribution | Design of PICs |
| Impact | / |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | CORNERSTONE User: Tyndall |
| Organisation | University College Cork |
| Department | Tyndall National Institute |
| Country | Ireland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Fabrication of PICs |
| Collaborator Contribution | Design of PICs |
| Impact | / |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Discussion Forum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | • February 2020: Reed contributed to a panel discussion, Photonics West, San Francisco 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Invited seminar at MIT |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | In this invited seminar, I highlighted opportunities for MIT researchers in terms of accessing various material platforms in CORENERSTONE. I also showed a number of examples of realisation of state of the art photonic devices and circuits through CORNERSTONE multi project wafer runs. Finally, I presented what we have been doing for UG teaching. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://mitnano.mit.edu/events/may-seminar-Mashanovich |
| Description | LGBT STEM day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | • July 2019: A talk from a scientist on "Diversity and Gender equality", and a discussion panel on Diversity issues, held in an LGBT friendly venue in Southampton City Centre. Funded by a grant from the OSA Foundation for Diversity and Inclusion as part of LGBT STEM day. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Women in Science |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | • February 2018: Soapbox: Women in Science at Bournemouth University |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Women into Technology |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | • March 2018: Women into Technology event for International Women's Day, Sparsholt College, Winchester |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |