Description du projet
Nouvelle technologie pour les dispositifs photoniques de communication
Des domaines de l’optique à celui des soins de santé, le secteur de la photonique améliore notre quotidien. Dans ce contexte, le projet ULTRAPHO, financé par l’UE, vise à valider et à commercialiser un nouveau concept photonique qui hissera l’industrie des semi-conducteurs d’Europe au rang de leader mondial dans le domaine des technologies et des dispositifs photoniques qui utilisent le graphène afin d’accroître la capacité de transmission de données des fibres optiques. Plus particulièrement, grâce à la technologie de fabrication et aux outils innovants mis au point, le consortium commercialisera un photodétecteur au graphène à large bande ultrarapide, qui revêt une importance capitale pour les centres de données et les infrastructures 5G.
Objectif
Goal of the ULTRAPHO FTI project is to change the market for photonic communication devices by bringing a groundbreaking technology to the market. The final goal is to establish a novel world leading enterprise in the semiconductor industry in the EU. Supported by major players like Nokia, Sony, and GLOBALFOUNDRIES, the consortium members will become worldwide leaders in the emerging field of photonic technologies and devices.
The fundamentally new high-speed photonic devices use graphene to increase data transmission capacity of optical fibers. Together with novel fabrication and characterization tools and technology developed and marketed by the consortium the whole value chain from fabrication to the final product is covered. The consortium markets an ultrafast and broadband graphene photodetector which is of increasing importance for datacenters or 5G infrastructure. Moreover, the fabrication technology and tools for automated assembly and characterization will also be commercialized by the consortium.
The ULTRAPHO objectives are:
• To create a novel ultrafast photodetector that increases the data transmission capacity of optical fibers and validate it for industrial acceptance
• Market a mass production process for graphene-on-wafer fabrication
• Increase yield of the fabrication process and optimize quality control
• Market tools for automated assembly and characterization on wafer level of high-speed photonic devices
• Scale the production capacity to 10,000 wafers per year
Consortium members patented world-leading technology and with the help of the ULTRAPHO project get the final boost to bring the novel technology to a market worth 41 B€ in 2022 (CAGR 37%).
Champ scientifique
- engineering and technologymaterials engineeringfibers
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationstelecommunications networksmobile network5G
- engineering and technologynanotechnologynano-materialstwo-dimensional nanostructuresgraphene
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensorsoptical sensors
- natural sciencesphysical sciencesopticsfibre optics
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IA - Innovation actionCoordinateur
20009 Donostia
Espagne
L’entreprise s’est définie comme une PME (petite et moyenne entreprise) au moment de la signature de la convention de subvention.