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Here's an interesting company out of Cambridge, UK....Organic Liquid Crystal Displays
FlexEnable’s award-winning flexible technology platform and unique FlexiOM™ materials bring the highest optical performance and lowest cost approach to flexible, ultra-thin and lightweight active optics and displays. We work with OEMs, Tier 1s and display manufacturers to bring these game-changing technologies to mass market applications.
This organic liquid crystal display can bend around almost anything pic.twitter.com/Asktidf2NE
— Insider Tech (@TechInsider) December 23, 2022
12/12/22.... https://www.lightwavelogic.com
Dr. Michael Lebby, Chief Executive Officer of Lightwave Logic, commented: "With the issuance of this exciting new patent and our recent acquisition of low temperature ALD processes, we continue to innovate our miniaturized packaging techniques using ALD to align with and surpass customer expectations.
Further, the potential future impact of this invention on our foundry partners and associated back-end process development kits (PDKs) has the potential to be a critical feature of our next-generation polymer platform. The timing of this invention coincides well with our work with silicon foundries."
📣 Lightwave Logic secures US patent on a new invention enabling simplified foundry-level packaging of polymer modulators using chip-scale techniques applicable at wafer level, critical for high-volume manufacturing applications. https://t.co/2rgdTOXCuR #EPICmembernews #photonics pic.twitter.com/xKeYJhashx
— EPIC Photonics (@EPIC_photonics) December 23, 2022
I did see that theroc66...Thx
Anthony Yu of (GFS) has been added to the roster of speakers along with ML for the...
Scaling PICs in volume using foundries session!
https://picinternational.net/speakers
At present, AWS customers can choose servers powered by a variety of chips made by the likes of Intel, AMD and Nvidia, all of which offer high-performance CPUs and GPUs designed for different cloud workloads. New instances powered by the latest generation of Intel’s server chips, Ice Lake, were also announced at re:Invent. AWS says will continue to support other chipmakers, with DeSantis describing the likes of AMD and Intel as “great partners” in an interview with Bloomberg, but it is clear that the hyperscaler is trying to push its own designs.
This is insanely cool...cartography will never be the same.
Augmented reality sandbox, the 3D interactive tool to decode mapping and topography
— Tech Burrito (@TechBurritoUno) December 20, 2022
pic.twitter.com/n5KtjjibTx
Peter Winzer
Founder & CTO
Previously, Peter led Bell Labs’ fiber-optic transmission research, setting multiple high-speed optical transmission records and contributing to optical communications product developments and live field trials. He has published over 500 scientific papers, holds over 80 granted patents and has been widely recognized with awards including Bell Labs Fellow, Fellow of the IEEE and Optica, Member of the US National Academy of Engineering, the John Tyndall Award and an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Eindhoven. He has served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Lightwave Technology, Program Chair of ECOC and Program/General Chair of OFC. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Vienna, Austria.
https://nubis-inc.com/about-us/
Made possible by LiDAR technology...
https://twitter.com/TechInsider/status/1604018695071727616
Ultrafast electro-optic light with subcycle control...?
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Hybrid Integrated Silicon Nitride–Polymer Optical Phased Array For Efficient Light Detection and Ranging...?
https://www.ligentec.com/technology/publications-using-our-technology/#1667818768242-4296ff54-11cd
Edit: "we (will) have"
Not sure Heylbroeck, I think we have clarity on that in the not too distant future.
See Heylbroeck's post # 126025
LIGENTEC has implemented its proprietary, patented, low-loss silicon nitride process technology within X-FAB’s existing high-throughput foundry workflow. It means that LIGENTEC PICs are now commercially available in high volumes out of Europe, a key requisite enabling the secure and independent supply of the quantities foreseen in relation to sensors for self-driving cars, environment monitoring, quantum computers and an array of other applications.
There's that name LIGENTEC again...?
The PIC International 2023 Conference 18TH – 19TH APRIL, 2023, BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
Conference Chairs
David Cheskis
Senior Product Director
TriEye
Michael Lebby
CEO
Lightwave Logic Inc
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Scaling PICs in volume using foundries
Speakers:
Jeroen Duis
Chief Commercial Officer
PHIX
Martin Fiers
Co-founder and product manager
Luceda Photonics
Michael Geiselmann
President & CCO
LIGENTEC
Michael Lebby
CEO
Lightwave Logic Inc
https://picinternational.net
Other panel members...we already know Polariton, here's a bit on the other two panelists.
Suzhou Dawning Semi Technology Co., Ltd. (DAWNSEMI) recently completed the acquisition of 100% stake in Sicoya GmbH (Sicoya). Despite uncertainties such as the new German foreign investment review regulations, the deal was approved by the German government and closed in October 2021 after 14 months from the signing of the SPA in August 2020.
Sicoya, founded in January 2015, is a Berlin-based silicon photonics technology company that develops, manufactures and sells silicon photonic chips, optoelectronic chips, optoelectronic devices and optical modules. DAWNSEMI is a next-generation global leader in the silicon photonics field established by a group of top semiconductor and optical communication technology specialists and operation managers at Zhangjiagang Shazhouhu Science Park, Suzhou in July 2020.
https://www.kwm.com/cn/en/about-us/media-center/kwm-advises-dawnsemi-on-acquisition-of-sicoya-gmbh.html
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LIGENTEC is your partner for low loss Photonic Integrated Circuits (PIC). Based on our all-nitride-core technology, we provide customer specific, integrated photonic circuits.
LIGENTEC is a spin-off from the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) and started based on the ground-taking work of the laboratory of Professor Kippenberg on low loss silicon nitride for non-linear applications.
Today, LIGENTEC offers a technology portfolio for silicon-nitride based Photonic Integrated Circuits from the visible to the infrared for linear and non-linear optical processing in applications such as communication, autonomous driving, quantum computing, metrology, biomedical and more.
LIGENTEC headquarters are located at Lausanne, Switzerland with a subsidiary in France close to Paris. Our international team of experts and state of the art infrastructure supports our customers with best in class solutions for low loss integrated photonics from prototyping to volume production.
https://www.ligentec.com/about-us/
Thanks PP, I didn't see that...!
next edition of the IPSR-I 2023 Spring Meeting, 2023 in Boston, MA....
Following the keynotes, a series of workshops will provide a platform for PIC technologists and application builders to interact and understand the challenges ahead. These findings will fuel the next edition of the IPSR-I 2023 Spring Meeting, 2023 in Boston, MA.
After November’s IPSR-I Roadmap Meeting, the technical work begins. During 2023, there’s a chance for partners in the integrated photonics supply chain to update and re-align their own roadmaps, so they can take a more market-driven approach.
This should be an interesting presentation as well, earlier on the same morning...
Presentation will begin: Thursday, January 12, 2023 - 8:05 AM EST
Presented by: Peter van Arkel, Berenschot / IPSR-I roadmap
The goal of the Integrated Photonic Systems Roadmap - International (IPSR-I) is to create a plan to accelerate the high-volume manufacturing of high-value integrated photonics. The document is supported by PhotonDelta and MIT’s Microphotonics Center and is based on the input and consensus of over 400 experts in the field.
The IPSR-I’s technology chapters encapsulate the perspective of experts in testing, assembly, packaging, electronic photonic design automation (EPDA), and front-end platforms to describe anticipated roadblocks and critical needs on the way to scaling the manufacturing of integrated photonics through 2040.
It further covers all PIC advancements that have the potential to create “killer applications” in the next 20 years, in end markets such as automotive, aerospace, biophotonics, datacom, and the Industrial Internet of Things. These applications will drive future investments in R&D and manufacturing capacity for 3D-imaging, RF photonic, photonic interconnect, and spectral and refractive index sensing modules, and they will yield significant benefits for society.
Van Arkel presents the future challenges and opportunities for the integrated photonics value chain, along with insights into the interdependencies between manufacturing technologies.
https://events.photonics.com/Presentation.aspx?EID=9&PID=378
Presentation will begin: Thursday, January 12, 2023 - 12:05 PM EST
Presented by: Michael Lebby, Lightwave Logic
Steadily growing demand for bandwidth continues to put pressure on data centers and optical networks to increase the speed of their optoelectronic components while decreasing overall power consumption. This pressure has fueled interest in electro-optic polymer materials, enabling a new generation of modulators demonstrating ultrahigh speed and ultralow power in transceivers, line cards, servers, and routers. Further, these electro-optic polymers offer expanded latitudes for hybrid integrated photonic chips by allowing integration with incumbent silicon or indium phosphide photonic chip platforms.
The current class of polymer modulators enabled by this technology can deliver 3-dB bandwidths over 100 GHz with sub-1-V voltages in devices with extremely small (<1-mm length) footprints. The modulators are highly suitable for powering optical engines designed for pluggable transceivers and/or co-packaged modules.
Lebby reviews the potential solutions that electro-optical polymer modulators offer to integrated and hybrid photonics integrated chips (PICs), and he discusses their relevance to PIC packaging operations.
https://events.photonics.com/Presentation.aspx?EID=9&PID=375
A few lines that jump out at me...
The advanced fabrication processes of ALD with temperatures below 100C [b[b]will solidify the company's market position with both the company's manufacturing foundry partners as well as end-users as it prepares to enter the 800Gbps integrated photonics marketplace.
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Having access to extremely low temperature ALD allows the company's polymer modulators to be protected from the environment without the need of expensive and large footprint gold box packaging, propelling the company forward with chip-scale packaging as required by major hyper-scaler end-users. The patent opens a new class of PICs which expands our variety of devices.
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This acquisition for low temperature ALD processes provides a key piece of the PDK that we need when working with foundries for our polymers, and allows us to achieve our goals more effectively," concluded Lebby.
Lightwave Logic Acquires Polymer Technology and Intellectual Property Assets of Chromosol Ltd (UK)
Assets Include a Critical Manufacturing Process for Foundry Process Development Kits (PDKs)
ENGLEWOOD, Colo., Nov. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lightwave Logic, Inc. (NASDAQ: LWLG), a technology platform company leveraging its proprietary electro-optic polymers to transmit data at higher speeds with less power, today announced that it has acquired the polymer technology and intellectual property assets of Chromosol Ltd (UK).
This acquisition significantly strengthens the company's design capabilities with foundry PDKs with extremely low temperature atomic layer deposition (ALD) processes that effectively hermetically seal polymer devices that have been prepared for high volume manufacturing. The advanced fabrication processes of ALD with temperatures below 100C will solidify the company's market position with both the company's manufacturing foundry partners as well as end-users as it prepares to enter the 800Gbps integrated photonics marketplace.
The acquisition also advances Lightwave Logic's patent portfolio of electro-optic polymer technology with an innovative polymer chemistry device patent1 that has potential to increase the performance of integrated modulators through optical amplification in a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) and enhance the functionality of the PIC by integrating laser light sources made using the polymer-based gain and a laser optical cavity defined on the Silicon photonic platform, with Lightwave Logic's high speed, high efficiency modulators.
Dr. Michael Lebby, Chief Executive Officer of Lightwave Logic, said: "Chromosol's' polymer technology and intellectual property patent dovetails well with Lightwave Logic's development of a polymer platform that not only enables 'green photonics' - but is foundry compatible with manufacturing PDKs. Having access to extremely low temperature ALD allows the company's polymer modulators to be protected from the environment without the need of expensive and large footprint gold box packaging, propelling the company forward with chip-scale packaging as required by major hyper-scaler end-users. The patent opens a new class of PICs which expands our variety of devices.
"What is more interesting is that every foundry we have visited has ALD systems and equipment in place for semiconductor processing. This acquisition for low temperature ALD processes provides a key piece of the PDK that we need when working with foundries for our polymers, and allows us to achieve our goals more effectively," concluded Lebby.
1 Patent entitled, "Optoelectronic devices, methods of fabrication thereof and materials therefor" with US patent number 9837794, EU patent number 3017489, China registration number 201480048236 & 201910230856
About Lightwave Logic, Inc.
Lightwave Logic, Inc. (NASDAQ: LWLG) is developing a platform leveraging its proprietary engineered electro-optic (EO) polymers to transmit data at higher speeds with less power. The company's high-activity and high-stability organic polymers allow Lightwave Logic to create next-generation photonic EO devices, which convert data from electrical signals into optical signals, for applications in data communications and telecommunications markets. For more information, please visit the company's website at lightwavelogic.com.
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Lightwave Logic Investor Relations Contact:
Lucas A. Zimmerman
MZ Group - MZ North America
949-259-4987
LWLG@mzgroup.us
www.mzgroup.us
SOURCE Lightwave Logic, Inc.
📣 Lightwave Logic acquires Chromosol's polymer technology and intellectual property assets, significantly strengthening their design capabilities. More @ https://t.co/H7pYVrQoYy #EPICmembernews #photonics pic.twitter.com/YH7yvoouz0
— EPIC Photonics (@EPIC_photonics) December 12, 2022
Interesting spartex, thanks for searching and posting!
Staggering numbers, one North American location...
Annual capacity of the manufacturing facilities managed by TSMC and its subsidiaries exceeded 13 million 12-inch equivalent wafers in 2021. These facilities include four 12-inch wafer GIGAFAB® fabs, four 8-inch wafer fabs, and one 6-inch wafer fab – all in Taiwan – as well as one 12-inch wafer fab at a wholly owned subsidiary, TSMC Nanjing Company Limited, and two 8-inch wafer fabs at wholly owned subsidiaries, WaferTech in the United States and TSMC China Company Limited. In 2016, TSMC Nanjing Company Limited was established, managing a 12-inch wafer fab and a design service center.
Some larger foundry players...Fabrinet (FN) & TSMC (TSM)
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211108005363/en/Aeva-Selects-Fabrinet-to-Manufacture-World’s-First-4D-LiDAR-Chip-Module
https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20220912PD213/nvidia-silicon-photonics-tsmc.html
This advancement, driven by the feedback the company received from potential customers to-date, has allowed the company's materials to be suitable for additive integration to integrated photonics platforms such as silicon photonics, as well as indium phosphide and other standard platforms - therefore enabling simpler integration by customers.
Strange, I was just re reading an article from Aug. 2020 regarding indium phosphide...
High-performance electro-optic (EO) materials have matured commercially1 and have the potential to offer solutions. These polymer-engineered materials are naturally fast, are highly responsive to electric fields, can be added to integration semiconductor platforms such as silicon photonics or indium phosphide (InP), or can be used on their own in a packaged polymer chip.
The modulator is a key component of a high-speed photonic integration platform, and the potential combination of high-performance polymer modulators with silicon photonics or InP has incredible potential in the marketplace.
Great find KCC, thank you!
Great! Furthermore...
Several other hedge funds have also bought and sold shares of LWLG. UBS Group AG raised its holdings in Lightwave Logic by 703.4% in the second quarter. UBS Group AG now owns 3,808 shares of the basic materials company’s stock worth $25,000 after buying an additional 3,334 shares during the last quarter. CTC Capital Management LLC purchased a new position in Lightwave Logic in the first quarter worth about $96,000. Johnson Investment Counsel Inc. purchased a new position in Lightwave Logic in the first quarter worth about $97,000. Cambridge Investment Research Advisors Inc. purchased a new position in Lightwave Logic in the first quarter worth about $99,000. Finally, Veery Capital LLC purchased a new position in Lightwave Logic in the second quarter worth about $69,000. Institutional investors own 22.34% of the company’s stock.
Japan, Belgium to cooperate in chip production, development
By Mari Yamaguchi?|?AP
December 6, 2022 at 9:59 a.m. EST
TOKYO — A newly founded Japanese semiconductor company aiming to revive Japan’s chip industry signed an agreement on Tuesday to collaborate with a Belgian research organization (imec) in developing next-generation chips for production in Japan.
ITF Photonics... powered by imec
LEAP INTO THE FUTURE OF PHOTONICS
Tech insights & industry networking on next-gen photonics
March 5, 2023San Diego, USA
Tech insights & industry networking on next-gen photonics.
Photonics is a key driver of next-gen sensing, metrology, communication, AR/VR... Its importance resounds in the most future-oriented industries such as automotive, healthcare, manufacturing, connectivity and security.
As a prime partner and expertise provider for global tech companies, imec will present a photonics technology update as well as research insights on diverse photonics-driven applications, while gathering global stakeholders for strategic networking.
Gotcha ya, who knows maybe he had a 5 am flight to Denver, still could have made it to the office before 8 am...;)
2h 35m
Nonstop flight
San Francisco, CA (SFO) to Denver, CO (DEN)
Presentation was "virtual"...maybe spending $500-$600 out of company coffers for a nice hotel room would have been better?? I don't see your point.
Thank you SS!
Thanks again to Steve S. for posting this...13:50 mark
we're sitting on a great technology that's gonna...I call it a sunrise technology, we really are...we don't have just the technology solution for the next generation, or the generation after that, we have the next technology solution for the next decade or even two decades. That's what's really exciting here, it's not just we have one solution for the next generation and then semiconductors are gonna come back, I just don't see that happening at all anymore...
Yes, a busy day and early morning for ML tomorrow..
The program
At Delta Dialogues our host Jorn Smeets, Chief Marketing Officer at PhotonDelta, will welcome several interesting speakers from the industry.
Interview with Ewit Roos for a general recap of PIC Summit Europe and the IPSR-I Autumn Meeting.
In an interview with Dr. Ivan Nikitski we’ll discover his lessons learned at PIC Summit Europe.
In ‘Who is who’ three partners offer short pitches:
Standardization: Sylwester Latkowski, Scientific Director at PITC.
Heterogeneous Integration: Michael Lebby, CEO at Lightwave Logic
Tech Transfer & Investments: John Bell, CEO at HighTechXL.
View previous episodes here: October and September.
When?
Delta Dialogues takes place every 1st Wednesday of the Month from 12 PM to 1 PM (CEST). This episode will take place on 7 December 2022.
Introduction
In a single Internet minute, we send over 20 million texts, 200 million emails, and watch 28,000 movies. And this enormous amount of activity looks set to grow exponentially, by about 23 percent year-on-year. This means that in 2024 we will add as much data as the whole world was using in 2018.
Alongside this growth in usage, the number of connections is also growing at a staggering rate. Not only are humans connecting with smartphones, but machines connecting to other machines. In fact, by 2023, there will be two machines connecting for every one human being on the planet.
The consequence, the energy consumption of data centres and communication will become a bottleneck if nothing is done.
So how can integrated photonics help to create a sustainable digital infrastructure?
57:20 mark...
the data center folks are really on the short end of that, because once they see a technology they just wanna go...
Given the natural advantages of electro-polymer material, the companies that source the organic polymer compositions for optical modulator device designs will have a big say in how this innovation of technology is integrated and implemented into market applications for at least the internet. Optical polymers are the sunrise technology for the internet, while semiconductor technologies for optical modulators are seeing the sun set on their usefulness.
What This All Means
Scaling the internet through drastic innovation really boils down to the design of optical polymer modulators that have inherently increased the speed of the optics, lowered power consumption, are tiny, and allow for creative integration onto hybrid PICs. This clearly is the radical innovative engine of change for the internet. The future for the internet never has been so exciting!