Recent Trends in Thin Film Integrated Circuits

Pentacene integrated thin-film transistors and circuits

Thin film wavelength converters for photonic integrated circuits

Quasi-phase-matched (QPM) wavelength converters are highly desirable for emerging nonlinear optics applications in photonic integrated circuits, but available waveguide and quasi-phase-matching technologies have so far constrained their realization. In this work, we present a periodically poled lithium niobate (LN) waveguide on a silicon nitride– thin film LN platform. It contains a submicromet...

Thin-film passives in RF/microwave circuits

Until recently, most microwave capacitors were based on fired multilayer ceramic technology. In this process, layers of highly conductive electrode metal alloys are interleaved with low-loss ceramic dielectrics in a multilayer fashion until the target capacitance is obtained. The resulting stack is then sintered into a monolithic structure in a high-temperature firing process. This process cont...

Integrated circuits using embedded III-V-on-Ge MHEMTs in multi-layer thin-film technology

In this paper a demonstrator oscillator circuit integrated in a MCM-D on glass technology is presented. The active device of the oscillator is a thin-film Ge (germanium) -based MHEMT. The MHEMT is embedded in the bottom dielectric layer of the MCM-D. The combination of passive MCM-D technology and MHEMTs on Ge allows for efficient semi-monolithic integration of active devices and realisation of...

Recent Advances in Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits

We review recent breakthroughs in silicon photonics technology and components and describe progress in silicon photonic integrated circuits. Heterogeneous silicon photonics has recently demonstrated performance that significantly outperforms native III-V components. The impact active silicon photonic integrated circuits could have on interconnects, telecommunications, sensors and silicon electr...