What the Service is:

IME's Silicon Photonics MPW Prototyping offers high-end fabrication at a cost affordable to research groups and companies. This is done by combining designs of various users on one mask, and sharing a large fraction of the processing cost among the users.

Through cost sharing, academic and industrial research groups can have silicon ICs prototyped in a CMOS fabrication environment. IME provides access to its advanced 8-inch silicon wafer processing facility as well as highly-qualified and experienced research scientists, engineers and technical support staff to enable the fabrication of photonic ICs by wafer-scale processes.

Types of Service:

• Shared Prototyping: Participation in the Shared Prototyping will be announced typically three times per year. The users will share the cost of prototyping effort and have the option to use either IME's or their own design which is within the technical specifications for each of the announcements.
  
  
• Customised Prototyping: This service is intended for user whose requirements are beyond the timeline and technical specifications of a particular announcement. For Customised Prototyping, please contact us for more information and discussion.