STTR Phase I: PIC: Electro-luminescence and doping of black phosphorus for printed lasers on silicon photonic chips

STTR 第一阶段：PIC：硅光子芯片上印刷激光器的电致发光和黑磷掺杂

• 批准号: 2136800
• 负责人: Chad Husko
• 金额: $ 25.6万
• 依托单位: IRIS LIGHT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-12-01 至 2023-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2136800&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: STTR; Phase; PIC; Electro; luminescence

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I project is to demonstrate the viability of a new manufacturing process for on-chip lasers for silicon photonics using printed nanomaterial inks. The difficulty of a scalable method for fabricating on-chip, multi-color lasers is a major challenge for the silicon photonics market. Specifically, today's standard manufacturing of photonic chips does not include on-chip lasers. Without integration of laser engines to drive the circuits, the market potential of light chips is constrained by design and price. The technology developed here can allow foundries to mass produce chips with lasers and open multiple new markets for silicon photonics including wearable photonic sensors, optical data transfer, autonomous vehicle light detection and ranging, quantum information, fiber-optic gyroscopes, and healthcare applications such as immunoassay tests and medical imaging.This Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I project develops on-chip embedded lasers to enable fully functional silicon photonic chip manufacturing. Currently, the laser solutions being employed in silicon photonics include bonded lasers and heterogeneous integration. The system integrators that assemble silicon photonics modules rely on often cumbersome methods of gluing individual lasers to silicon chips, keeping costs high and throughput well below desired levels. The photonic inks developed here will overcome this challenge by enabling an in-foundry laser solution via wafer-scale additive manufacturing. The photonic ink emits broad-spectrum light covering the visible to the near-infrared range and can be tailored to emit at specific wavelength bands relevant to different markets by altering the number of atomic layers. The goals of this Phase I project are to demonstrate electroluminescence from a p-n junction made from doped, few-layer nanomaterials.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这个小企业技术转让（STTR）第一阶段项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是证明使用印刷纳米材料油墨的硅光子学片上激光器的新制造工艺的可行性。制造片上多色激光器的可扩展方法的难度是硅光子市场的主要挑战。具体而言，当今光子芯片的标准制造不包括片上激光器。如果没有集成激光引擎来驱动电路，光芯片的市场潜力将受到设计和价格的限制。这里开发的技术可以让代工厂大规模生产带有激光的芯片，并为硅光子学打开多个新市场，包括可穿戴光子传感器、光学数据传输、自主车辆光检测和测距、量子信息、光纤陀螺仪、和医疗保健应用，如免疫检测和医学成像。这个小企业技术转让第一阶段项目的发展-芯片嵌入式激光器，使全功能的硅光子芯片制造。目前，在硅光子学中采用的激光器解决方案包括键合激光器和异质集成。组装硅光子模块的系统集成商通常依赖于将单个激光器粘合到硅芯片上的繁琐方法，从而使成本居高不下，产量远低于预期水平。这里开发的光子墨水将通过晶圆级增材制造实现铸造激光解决方案来克服这一挑战。光子墨水发射覆盖可见光到近红外范围的宽光谱光，并且可以通过改变原子层的数量来定制以在与不同市场相关的特定波长带发射。这个第一阶段项目的目标是展示由掺杂的少层纳米材料制成的p-n结的电致发光。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。