Photonic Integrated Circuit Packaging ACademy (PICPAC)

光子集成电路封装学院（PICPAC）项目将创建并提供必要的封装课程内容和材料，以使半导体行业中快速增长的光子学领域成为可能。基于半导体的光子器件在实现电信、数据通信、成像和量子技术（例如量子计算、量子密码和量子传感）方面至关重要。然而，要在实际应用中运行，必须对精密的半导体芯片进行封装，以便与外部世界连接。光子封装必须考虑的方面是机械、电气、热和光子界面以及不同方面之间的相互作用。虽然最近在代工活动（上游半导体活动）上有很多投资，但在下游活动（组装，封装和测试- APT）上的投资很少，而且在英国半导体领域的APT领域的实践知识存在明显差距。PICPAC项目旨在建立一个国家半导体光子封装培训中心，该中心位于国家认可的西南半导体集群内。Bay Photonics （BP）和Davies & Bell （DB）将捕获工业培训需求，并与南德文郡学院（SDC）一起创建课程内容，后者将以各种形式提供课程。课程的形式将是灵活的，时间将是灵活的（有效地，按需），以配合行业的需求。一旦创建，这将是该国唯一的此类项目。

The Photonic Integrated Circuit Packaging ACademy (PICPAC) project shall create and deliver course content and materials on packaging necessary to enable the rapidly growing field of photonics within the semiconductor sector. Semiconductor based photonics devices are critical in enabling telecommunications, datacomms, imaging, and quantum technologies (e.g. quantum computing, quantum cryptography and quantum sensing). However, to operate in real world applications, delicate semiconductor chips must be packaged to interface with the outside world. Aspects of photonic packaging that must be considered are the mechanical, electrical, thermal and photonic interfaces as well as the interplay between the different aspects. While there has been much recent investment in foundry activities (upstream semiconductor activity) there has been little investment in downstream activities (assembly, packaging and testing - APT) and their is a clear gap in practical knowledge in the area of APT within the UK semiconductor landscape.The PICPAC project aims to create a national centre for semiconductor photonic packaging training located within the nationally recognized South West semiconductor cluster. Bay Photonics (BP) and Davies & Bell (DB) will capture industrial training requirements and create course content together with South Devon College (SDC) who will deliver the courses in a variety of formats. The format of the courses will be flexible and the timing will be flexible (effectively, on demand), to align with the needs of industry. Once created, this will be the only programme of its kind in the country.