Accelerating chip packaging processes for next generation optical motion sensors

零点运动制造了一种微型芯片，利用光学共振来检测运动和旋转。我们的目标是通过将空间和国防级传感器的性能带到工业和消费者应用中来改善定位，稳定和导航。我们将高容量兼容的机械芯片结构与硅光子集成电路相结合，创造了光机械器件。现有的传感器，比如你的智能手机和汽车里的传感器，使用的是嘈杂的电子读数，容易漂移，这意味着灵敏度很差，精度会随着时间的推移而下降。通过使用与机械运动耦合的光学共振，我们极大地改善了噪声底，与运动仅阻挡光路径的测量相比，这也极大地增强了我们的检测方案。激光干涉仪引力波天文台最好地证明了光力学的力量，它现在是宇宙中最灵敏的人造运动探测器。我是Lia，我是Zero Point Motion的创始人，也是我们技术的发明者。这家公司是我一生研究的顶峰，也是我作为有色人种女性有幸追求的机会；从在帝国理工学院制造激光器，到在BAE系统公司制造传感器芯片，再到在伦敦大学学院开发经典和量子光力学系统。我的创始团队由英国芯片企业家Gordon Aspin博士和Pascal Herczog博士组成，他们都是经验丰富的半导体专家，曾帮助初创企业退出和IPO。除了资助我们的传感器集成流程的开发，这将加快我们的上市时间，创新女性奖还提供指导和宣传。这一点很重要，因为对于芯片公司来说，上市时间很长，需要大量投资（2000万至5000万英镑），而且没有路线图可循，因为英国从来没有一家大批量（每年出货1亿部）的惯性传感器公司。然而，我们的愿景是将年产量扩大到1亿部以上，可能产生10亿美元的收入，并创造50多个就业机会，这使得我们的主张非常可取，值得为之奋斗。我很高兴能找到导师来管理从原型到生产的过渡，了解如何发展我们的IP组合，并提高客户粘性。

Zero Point Motion creates tiny chips that use optical resonances to detect motion and rotation. Our goal is to improve positioning, stabilisation and navigation by bringing the performance of space and defence grade sensors to industrial and consumer applications. We create our optomechanical devices by combining high volume compatible mechanical chip structures with silicon photonic integrated circuits. Existing sensors like the ones inside your smartphone and car, use a noisy electrical readout which is prone to drift, meaning the sensitivity is poor and the accuracy degrades over time. We improve the noise floor dramatically by using optical resonances that are coupled to mechanical motion, which also resonantly enhances our detection scheme compared to measurements where the motion is only blocking the path of light. The power of optomechanics is best demonstrated by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave observatory, which is now the most sensitive human-made motion detector in the universe.I'm Lia, I'm the Founder of Zero Point Motion and also the inventor of our technology. The company is the culmination of my entire life's research and the opportunities I have been lucky to pursue as a woman of colour; from building lasers at Imperial College, to fabricating sensor chips at BAE Systems, to developing classical and quantum optomechanical systems at University College London. My founding team comprises UK chip entrepreneurs Dr Gordon Aspin and Pascal Herczog, seasoned semiconductor experts who have scaled startups to exit and IPO.Alongside funding the development of an integration process for our sensors that will accelerate our time-to-market, the Women in Innovation award also provides mentorship and publicity. This is important because time-to-market is lengthy for chip companies, with large investment rounds required (£20-50M) and no roadmap to follow as there has never been a high volume (100's millions of units shipped per year) inertial sensor company in the UK. However, our vision is to scale to over 100M units year, potentially generating billion dollar revenues and creating 50+ jobs, which makes our proposition highly desirable and worth striving for. I'm excited to find mentorship to manage the transition from prototyping to production, to understand how to grow our IP portfolio, and to increase customer engagement.