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Applied Nanotools (ANT) Silicon Nitride (SiN) Fabrication Process

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Silicon nitride with device layer thickness 400 nm and buffer oxide Layer thickness 4.5 µm 100 keV electron-beam lithography system enabling features down to 120 nm Fully etched devices (etched down to the buffer oxide) are created using an e-beam mask material and anisotropic ICP-RIE etching process. Tri-layer TiW/Al metallization and TiW alloy heater are available […]

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Active Silicon Photonics Fabrication Course 2022

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In response to COVID-19 Pandemic, CMC, the SiEPIC Program, and our partner professors from UBC, Laval and Queen’s are offering this legendary Silicon photonics course online. This course trains students in the design, fabrication, and test of photonic integrated circuits (PICs) targeting the AMF Si Photonics technology, and the ANT NanoSOI Si Photonics technology available through CMC Microsystems. Siemens, Lumerical

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Applied Nanotools (ANT) NanoSOI Fabrication Process

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Silicon-on-insulator, 220-nm top Si film, 2000-nm buried oxide (BOX) 100 keV electron-beam lithography system enabling features down to 60 nm One full etch of the top silicon for standard MPW run, partial silicon etching will be available in near future Tri-layer TiW/Al metallization and TiW alloy heater are available Metal oxide window, deep trench for

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Optiwave and CMC Microsystems launch partnership to give entrepreneurs access to leading edge photonic design platform

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MONTREAL, QC and Ottawa, ON – March 9, 2021 – Optiwave Systems Inc.® (Optiwave), and CMC Microsystems, manager of Canada’s National Design Network® (CNDN), today announced an expanded technology sharing collaboration, bringing advanced photonics design platforms to Canadian entrepreneurs and start-ups. CMC Microsystems will now offer the entire suite of Optiwave’s photonics design tools to participants in CMC’s VIE Program – the Virtual Incubator Environment. This is in addition to Optiwave tools already being available to researchers and academics in CNDN.

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Synopsys Photonic System Tools

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Synopsys Photonic System Tools software includes the following tools: OptoCompiler with Custom Compiler: A unified electronic and photonics design platform for photonic IC design. OptSim: Provides comprehensive simulations of photonic ICs and optical communication systems. For more information, see the full list of Photonic Solutions Products. Licensing Requirements or Restrictions Technical Details What You Get

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GlobalFoundries® Silicon Photonics 9WG

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The GlobalFoundries® (GF) silicon photonics (SiPh) foundry portfolio is designed to help you deliver more data faster, farther and more efficiently than traditional CMOS technologies. 9WG is an industry-first SiPh foundry solution. Built on a 90 nm SOI platform, the offering enables you to leverage high-volume manufacturing along with advanced processing and controls that utilize

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CMC Offers Researchers Access to GlobalFoundries® Advanced Semiconductor Technologies

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January 21, 2020: CMC Microsystems has signed an agreement with GlobalFoundries® (GF®), the world’s leading specialty foundry, that will provide access to GF’s advanced and specialized FinFET, RF SOI, FDX, SiGe, and Silicon Photonics platforms for CMC researchers at more than 60 Canadian universities and colleges, in addition to academic and commercial users globally.

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CMC partners with Advanced Micro Foundry to accelerate photonics R&D

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June 5, 2018 CMC Microsystems and Advanced Micro Foundry (AMF), a Singapore-based manufacturer of silicon photonics integrated circuits, are partnering to develop a new design automation platform for silicon photonics that will let Canadian university researchers take the lead in developing innovations in light-based technologies. Photonics technology encodes data on light, rather than in electrical

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AMF Silicon Photonics General-Purpose Fabrication Process

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Silicon-on-insulator, 220-nm top Si film, 3000-nm buried oxide (BOX) High resistivity handle wafer (>750 ohm-cm) 193-nm deep UV lithography for waveguides, enabling features down to approximately 140 nm Two partial etches and one full etch of the top silicon PECVD Silicon Nitride waveguide integration 6 implants for optical modulators (P++, P+, P, N++, N+, N) Germanium

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Design Workshop dw-2000 Photonic Design Software

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The dw-2000™ Physical Layout and Verification Software, from Design Workshop Technologies Inc., enables the physical layout and verification of optical components built using planar waveguide technology and other semiconductor manufacturing techniques, such as microwave designs. dw-2000 has many benefits for photonic layout applications while avoiding the pitfalls associated with the use of a general-purpose drawing tool.

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COMSOL Multiphysics

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The COMSOL Multiphysics engineering simulation software environment facilitates all steps in the modelling process − defining your geometry, meshing, specifying your physics, solving, and then visualizing your results. COMSOL provides software solutions for multiphysics modelling. Through CMC, you can access the following: Finite element analysis (FEA) and simulation capabilities Modelling capabilities for defining geometry, meshing and physical

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Cadence University Software for Research and Teaching

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The Cadence University Software program includes: Custom Integrated Circuits/Analog/RF Design products Digital Design and Signoff products Verification platform PCB Design and Analysis products Applied Wave Research (AWR) for MMICs, RF ICs, antennae, radar systems designs and more Multiphysics System Analysis CAD tools for EMC/EMI and thermal integrity studies Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) meshing and solver

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CMC seeks input on technology roadmap at Photonics North

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June 4, 2018 CMC Microsystems is pleased to be a sponsor of Photonics North 2018. As manager of Canada’s National Design Network® (CNDN) we look forward to continuing to help researchers overcome barriers to technology development by providing the tools, manufacturing capabilities and expertise for photonics innovation. And we congratulate CNDN researchers who to date

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Global conference recognizes made-in-Canada photonics innovations

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Joyce Poon, Sorin Voinigescu and their teams solved a significant problem in short-distance optical communications with their development of a 3-D integrated transmitter using a CMOS driver. Their novel solution combines the advantages of high performance and low power consumption with low-cost, established manufacturing processes.

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