13:35 – 13:55
Advancements in Silicon Photonics Through Heterogeneous Integration
Heterogeneous Integration (HI) is critical to silicon photonics as new materials improve specifications. HI supports advances in , telecom, quantum computing, AI, AR/VR and biomedical sensors. X-FAB will act as an open foundry offering a modular integration architecture for lasers, modulators and photodetectors using its 200mm MEMS toolset.
Stefan Ernst, Ph.D.
X-FAB
Stefan studied physics in Dresden, Germany, and Edinburgh, UK. He obtained his PhD in the field of low-temperature solid state physics. Since joining X-FAB in 2011, he worked in various positions in technology development, engineering and program management. In his current role as Marketing Director, Stefan overlooks the global Business Development for MEMS and Microsystems Technologies at the X-FAB Foundry Group.
X-FAB
Company Profile
X-FAB is one of the world’s leading specialty foundry groups for analog/mixed-signal semiconductor technologies with a clear focus on automotive, industrial, and medical applications. As a pure-play foundry, X-FAB provides manufacturing and design support services to customers that design analog/mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs) and other semiconductor devices for use in their own products or the products of their customers. Its customers worldwide benefit from the highest quality standards, manufacturing excellence and innovative solutions by using X-FAB’s modular CMOS and SOI processes in geometries ranging from 1.0 µm to 110 nm, and its special micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) processes. X-FAB is also the first pure-play foundry to provide comprehensive processing technologies for the wide-bandgap materials silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN). The GaN-on-Si wafers are manufactured in its modern 8” fab in Dresden, Germany, and SiC wafers in the 6” fab in Lubbock, Texas, USA. X-FAB runs six production facilities in Germany, France, Malaysia and the U.S. The company employs about 4,200 people worldwide.
