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Research at IPIC

Our core Platform Research Programme represents an investment of over €20M, and is focused on four inter-disciplinary Research Themes where we seek to be work leaders.

Here we combine the expertise and knowledge from our 17 research groups into 4 teams, with the scale and resources to deliver ground-breaking technology. This includes two technology platform focused Themes, Monolithic and Heterogeneous Integration, and Packaging and Hybrid Integration, that feed into two application focused Themes, Optical Communications and BioMedical.

These are underpin by 15 Research Areas that cover a wide range of applications, including AR/VR displays, data centres, environmental sensing, medical devices and portable diagnostic systems.

Our Research Themes

Biomedical

‘World’s smallest integrated imaging system for guided surgery’

Optical Communications

‘Coherent everywhere: migration of coherent communications to the network edge’

Monolithic & Heterogeneous Integrations

‘Printed photonics on anything’

Packaging & Hybrid Integrations

‘Breaking the packaging cost barrier’

Key Research Areas

Basic Phenomena
Photonics Theory
Eoin O’Reilly Stefan Schulz

Electronic structure & properties, III-V materials & devices

Biophotonics
Stefan Andersson Engels Dmitri Papkovsky Tia Keyes

Light tissue interactions, molecular spectroscopy

Quantum Information
Emanuele Pelucchi

Single & entnagled photon sources

Materials Epitaxy
III-V Materials
Emanuele Pelucchi

Optoelectronic device structures, quantum wells, wires, dots

III-Nitride
Peter Parbrook

Optoelectronic device structures, nanostructured epitaxy

Thermal Materials
Kafil M. Razeeb

Thermoelectric & thermal interface materials

Devices
Device Fab
Brian Corbett

Visible, near-IR &b UV lasers, (micro)LEDs, modulators, detectors

Silicon & Nano photonics
Liam O’Faolain Louise Bradley

Photonic crystals, hybrid lasers, coupling interfaces

Microelectronics
Paul Townsend

Driver and receiver integrated circuits

Integration
Photonic Integration
Frank Peters

High-speed integrated optoelectronic devices

Assembly & Packaging
Peter O’Brien

Packaging & hybrid integration

Transfer Printing
Brian Corbett

Micro-transfer printing of integrated electronic & photonic circuits

Systems
Communications
Paul Townsend Fatima Gunning Marco Ruffini Liam Barry

Optical fibre comms, digital signal processing, software defined network, quantum key distribution

Manufacturing

Laser based micro and nano-scale fabrication

Biomedical
Stefan Andersson Engels Louise Bradley Marco Ruffini Tia Keyes Dmitri Papkovsky

Smart surgical instruments & wearable devices

Publications

IPIC’s research covers the full spectrum from furthering the understanding of light emitting materials at the atomistic level to the development of advanced packaged prototypes and system demonstrators for a wide range of ICT and Medtech applications. Here we highlight five particularly important contributions.

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Seminar Series

We have active seminar programme of leading academic and industrial research leaders from across the global who present their latest research findings when they visit us.

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European Funding

The Horizon 2020 (H2020) programme is the biggest EU Research and Innovation investment yet, with almost €80 billion dedicated to fund scientific and technological breakthroughs.

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Key Projects

PIXAPP

PIXAPP is the world’s first open-access Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) Assembly and Packaging Pilot line, and helps users exploit the breakthrough advantages of PIC technologies.

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