Like integrated electronics, integrated photonics such as Silicon Photonics benefit from increased device-density on a single chip. Silicon is an excellent material for integrated photonics because its high refractive index allows devices to be made small, ...
Using a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)-based Fab-on-a-Chip, we quench-condense lead thin-films. Suppressing the formation of lead islands makes it possible to grow a homogeneous and continuous film as thin as 2 nm, without the use of an adhesion lay ...
We design a resistive heater optimized for efficient and low-loss optical phase modulation in a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) waveguide and characterize the fabricated devices. Modulation is achieved by flowing current perpendicular to a new ridge waveguide g ...
With technology scaling reaching the fundamental limits of Si-CMOS in the near future, the semiconductor industry is in quest for innovation from various disciplines of integrated circuit (IC) design. At a fundamental level, technology forms the main drive ...
Iterative detection and decoding (IDD), combined with spatial-multiplexing multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmission, is a key technique to improve spectral efficiency in wireless communications. In this paper we present the—to the best of our know ...
Dynamic stencil lithography uses a moving shadow-mask to draw patterns by having directionally evaporated material deposited through the stencil apertures onto the substrate. Sub-micrometre, two- dimensional patterning is demonstrated at full 100 mm wafer ...
We report the first (to our knowledge) wafer-fused high-power passively mode-locked semiconductor disk laser operating at 1.57 mu m wavelength. An InP-based active medium was fused with GaAs/AlGaAs distributed Bragg reflector on a 2 inch wafer level, resul ...
This work was carried out in a collaborative framework between Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and an industrial partner ST Microelectronics. RF MEMS passives are key devices for the RF front-end in modern transceiver and receiver architectures, o ...
An epoxy-based negative-tone photoresist, which is known as a suitable material for high-aspect-ratio surface micromachining, is functionalized with red-light-emitting CdSe@ZnS nanocrystals (NCs). The proper selection of a common solvent for the NCs and th ...
Wafer scale nanostencil lithography is used to define 200 nm scale mechanically resonating silicon cantilevers monolithically integrated into CMOS circuits. We demonstrate the simultaneous patterning of ~2000 nanodevices by post-processing standard CMOS wa ...
The present thesis deals with Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) optical switches for telecommunication applications. The aim is to study new type of microsystems for guided-wave optical switching applications. Two projects have been investigated. The ...
