Photonic Integrated Circuit Packaging ACademy (PICPAC)

光子集成电路封装学院（PICPAC）项目将创建和提供必要的封装课程内容和材料，以实现半导体行业内快速增长的光子学领域。基于半导体的光子器件在实现电信、通信、成像和量子技术（例如，量子计算、量子密码学和量子感测）方面至关重要。然而，为了在真实的世界应用中操作，精细的半导体芯片必须被封装以与外部世界接口。光子封装必须考虑的方面是机械，电气，热和光子接口以及不同方面之间的相互作用。虽然最近对铸造活动的投资很多，（上游半导体活动）下游活动投资很少（组装，包装和测试（APT）PICPAC项目旨在创建一个位于国家认可的西南地区的国家半导体光子封装培训中心，半导体集群Bay Photonics（BP）和Davies & Bell（DB）将与South德文郡学院（SDC）一起捕捉工业培训需求并创建课程内容，后者将以各种形式提供课程。课程的形式将是灵活的，时间安排也将是灵活的（有效的，根据需求），以适应行业的需求。一旦创建，这将是该国唯一的此类方案。

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.