PHOTONICS

EMAT actively explores silicon-based microphotonics. Microphotonics is the control of light at the micron scale using integrated devices built in silicon or a variant of silicon such as silicon nitride, silicon carbide, or silicon dioxide. So why are we the electronic materials group if we work in photonics? Silicon-based microphotonics is a technology that promotes the convergence of electronic and optical devices to produce integrated solutions for application-specific problems, such as signal interconnection, signal sensing and image sensing. Therefore we're the electronic materials group but we work at the intersection of photonics and electronics.

Primary location: Cambridge United States