PhD position: Micro/nano fabrication for hybrid integration

Active optical components in photonic circuits are weak or missing pieces of the current silicon photonic technology. Such pieces are needed for the generation, detection and manipulation of light on chips. InPAC have started addressing this roadblock by heterogeneously integrating functional optical materials, such as chalcogenide glass and emerging novel two-dimensional materials onto integrated silicon photonic platforms, providing an unprecedented electronic and photonic laboratory on a chip to study these materials and to utilize their unique properties, realizing integrated optical lasers, amplifiers, modulators and detectors for applications in defence, data communications and biotechnology. This project is to develop the novel hybrid integration platform in InPAC. The InPAC centre has a long success history on the integrated optics for different applications for more than three decades. Through this project, we will continue to elongate the legacy for other decades. Therefore, we need highly motivated students who have interest in micro-nano fabrication and using such optical platform to realise practical applications such as data communications, and biomedical sensing.

Please contact Dist. Prof. Arnan Mitchell or Dr. Guanghui Ren for more information.