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Introdution
LGTF is a 100% subsidiary of LIGENTEC SA in Switzerland. LGTF is strategically placed at the X-FAB site in Corbeil Essonnes, France. LGTF has a team of designers, process engineers and test engineers to introduce new photonic processes to X-FAB and to provide quality control on fabricated wafers.
LGTF is an independent pure-play foundry in association with X-FAB for industrialization. The baseline of LGTF’s Si3N4 platform has been installed in X-FAB in 2020-22 and is serving customers in their development roadmap on emerging markets such as lidar, sensing and quantum technologies. In this way, LGTF has created the biggest European based PIC fabrication line with open access to other European SMEs, startups and large corporations.
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Role/Contribution
Dr. Michael Zervas has over 10 years of experience in nanofabrication including at IBM and Intel. His expertise in CMOS fabrication places him in an excellent position to lead WP4 and WP10 for low-loss PIC development in silicon nitride platform. He has led several international research projects and has a strong team both in process development as well as project management.
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Why is this project important?
LGTF will exploit QPIC1550 results related to silicon nitride platform development via commercial open access offering of newly developed modules in MPW, dedicated and/or engineering runs.
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People Involved
Dr. Michael Zervas