VLC Photonics Secures $6.1M for PICs Design and Testing
VLC Photonics, a Hitachi High-Tech group company and a provider of engineering services for photonic integrated circuits (PICs), has secured funding to advance PIC design and testing, focusing on research, upgraded infrastructure, and industry collaborations to accelerate commercialization and innovation in optical communications, signal processing, and sensing. The company was selected to receive a €5.38 million ($6.1 million) grant as an associate partner under the Important Project of Common European Interest on Microelectronics and Communication Technologies.
The funding was awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Industry and Tourism under the second call of the Strategic Project for Economic Recovery and Transformation in Microelectronics and Semiconductors. VLC has secured additional funding from the Hitachi High-Tech Group to complement the grant.
The company said it will reinforce its capabilities for modelling, simulation, and design of III-V epitaxies, fab processes, and advanced photonic components, including lasers, modulators, and filters, for process design kits in silicon, silicon nitride, indium phosphide, and other emerging materials. Simultaneously, VLC Photonics will scale up its back-end capabilities for chip and wafer level testing at multiple wavelengths and very high speeds, while expanding towards thermal reliability testing.
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