POLYmer based electro-optic PCB motherboard integration with Si3N4 Chiplets, InP Components and Electronic ICs enabling affordable photonic modules for THz Sensing and quantum computing applications

Project Information

POLYNICES

Grant agreement ID: 101070549

DOI

10.3030/101070549

EC signature date 7 December 2022

Start date 1 January 2023

End date 31 March 2027

Funded under

• Digital, Industry and Space

Total cost

€ 4 963 702,00

EU contribution

€ 4 963 701,75

Coordinated by

EREVNITIKO PANEPISTIMIAKO INSTITOUTO SYSTIMATON EPIKOINONION KAI YPOLOGISTON
Greece

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Deliverables

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (2)

POLYNICES announcement (factsheet, short presentation, press release), Website and social accounts

The deliverable will report on setting up of the website and social media accounts for the announcement of POLYNICES

POLYNICES Promotion video presentation

The deliverable will report on the POLYNICES promotion video

Documents, reports (4)

Definition of testing methodologies and system testbeds

The deliverable will report on the testing methodologies that will be followed and the system testbeds that will be developed for the testing of the POLYNICES demonstrators

Data Management Plan

The deliverable will report on the master Data Management Plan

Use cases, system requirements and KPIs of POLYNICES demonstrators

The report will focus on the use cases that will serve as guide for the design and development of POLYNICES technology demonstrators, and will identify the corresponding sets of system requirements and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Final report on system and components specifications and system simulations

This public deliverable will report on the finalized system and component specifications and the updated system simulations

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (6)

Microstructured Water-Based Broadband Terahertz Pyramidal Absorber

Author(s): Kalliopi Spanidou, Daniel Headland, Sharath Sriram, Itziar Maestrojuán Biurrun, Guillermo Carpintero
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, Issue 73, 2026, ISSN 0018-9480
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2025.3580219

Low-index and thin-film material characterization in the terahertz range via dielectric waveguide evanescent-field interaction

Author(s): Ashish Kumar, Hossein Rasekhmanesh, Asrin Piroutiniya, Daniel C. Gallego, Daniel Headland, Muhsin Ali, Guillermo Carpintero
Published in: Journal of Applied Physics, Issue 140, 2026, ISSN 1089-7550
Publisher: AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/5.0333751

3D-Printed Multimode-Interference-Based Bessel Beamformer for Terahertz Dielectric Waveguides

Author(s): Ashish Kumar, Surya Revanth Ayyagari, Muhsin Ali, Irmantas Kašalynas, Daniel Headland, Guillermo Carpintero
Published in: IEEE Microwave and Wireless Technology Letters, Issue 36, 2026, ISSN 2771-9588
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/LMWT.2025.3647140

InP/Si3N4 Hybrid Integrated Lasers for RF Local Oscillator Signal Generation in Satellite Payloads

Author(s): Cesar, Jessica; ZARZUELO GARCIA, Alberto; GUZMAN MARTINEZ, ROBINSON CRUZOE; Mitsolidou, Charoula; Visscher, Ilka; Timens, Roelof Bernardus; van Dijk, Paul; Roeloffzen, Chris; Gonzalez Guerrero, Luis; Delgado Mendinueta, Jose Manuel; CARPINTERO DEL BARRIO, GUILLERMO
Published in: Photonics, 2025, ISSN 2304-6732
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/PHOTONICS12010077

Dielectric waveguide interconnects for hybrid mm-Waves and terahertz system integration

Author(s): Ashish Kumar, Muhsin Ali, Daniel Cabo Gallego, Alejandro Lavado Rivera, Guillermo Carpintero
Published in: International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies, 2026, ISSN 1759-0787
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
DOI: 10.1017/S1759078726103626

Near-Field Semiconductor Imaging and Classification Enabled by Signal Cancellation Using Truncated mm-Wave Silicon Waveguide

Author(s): Yuma Kawamoto, Daniel C. Gallego, Alejandro Rivera-Lavado, Tadao Nagatsuma, Michael Nagel, Daniel Headland, Guillermo Carpintero
Published in: IEEE Sensors Journal, Issue 25, 2025, ISSN 1530-437X
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2025.3562280

Conference proceedings (8)

Experimental Characterization of Monolithic Integrated Interleavers

Author(s): Jessica César-Cuello, Alberto Zarzuelo, Robinson C. Guzmán, and Guillermo Carpintero
Published in: European Conference on Integrated Optics
Publisher: ECIO 2025

A compact 100-GHz omnidirectional monopole probe dielectric resonator antenna enabled by micromachined silicon coaxial cavity

Author(s): Kalliopi Spanidou, Daniel Headland, Guillermo Carpintero
Published in: Terahertz, RF, Millimeter, and Submillimeter-Wave Technology and Applications XVIII, 2025
Publisher: SPIE
DOI: 10.1117/12.3041244

RF Phase Arrays for the Millimeter/Terahertz Range Enabled by Photonics

Author(s): G. Carpintero, D. Headland, A. Piroutiniya, K. Spanidou, L. González-Guerrero, M. Ali, C. Tsokos, H. Avramopoulos, Z. Tegegne, G. Schwanke, M. Deumer, S. Nellen, S. Lauck, L. Liebermeister, R. Kohlhaas
Published in: 2025 International Conference on Mobile and Miniaturized Terahertz Systems (ICMMTS), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICMMTS62835.2025.10926032

Demonstration of a silicon nitride optical beamforming network based on Blass-matrix architecture

Author(s): E. Loukisa, E. Andrianopoulos, A. Raptakis, G. Megas, D. Gounaridis, A. Grammatikaki, R.B. Timens, P. van Dijk, L. Gounaridis, P. Groumas, C. Tsokos, Ch. Kouloumentas, H. Avramopoulos, C.G.H. Roeloffz
Published in: Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2025, 2025
Publisher: Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/OFC.2025.M4D.7

Photonic-based integrated millimeter-wave/terahertz sources and receivers

Author(s): Guillermo Carpintero, Kalliopi Spanidou, Alberto Zarzuelo, Jessica Cesar Cuello, Miguel Sanchez Rodas, Luis González Guerrero, Daniel Jonathan Headland
Published in: Integrated Optics: Design, Devices, Systems, and Applications VIII, 2025
Publisher: SPIE
DOI: 10.1117/12.3057441

Photonics-enabled millimeter-wave phase arrays based on dielectric rod antennas

Author(s): G. Carpintero, D. Headland, A. Piroutiniya, M. Ali, L. González-Guerrero, C. Tsokos, H. Avramopoulos, Z. Tegegne, G. Schwanke, M. Deumer, S. Nellen, S. Lauck, L. Liebermeister, R. Kohlhaas
Published in: 2024 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/IPC60965.2024.10799706

Experimental Characterization of Monolithic Integrated Interleavers

Author(s): J. César-Cuello, A. Zarzuelo, R. C. Guzmán, G. Carpintero
Published in: European Conference on Integrated Optics (ECIO), 2025
Publisher: unknown

RF Phase Arrays for the Millimeter/Terahertz Range Enabled by Photonics

Author(s): G. Carpintero, D. Headland, A. Piroutiniya, K. Spanidou, L. González-Guerrero, M. Ali, C. Tsokos, H. Avramopoulos, Z. Tegegne, G. Schwanke, M. Deumer, S. Nellen, S. Lauck, L. Liebermeister, R. Kohlhaas
Published in: 2025 International Conference on Mobile and Miniaturized Terahertz Systems (ICMMTS), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICMMTS62835.2025.10926032