Senior High-Speed Photonics Device Technical Lead

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Senior High-Speed Photonics Device Technical Lead (Leuven, Belgium)

Imec is a global pioneer in developing integrated silicon photonics technology through its renowned iSiPP platform and PDK, and Optical I/O R&D program. This technology is successfully offered via wafer-level prototype fabrication services to customers in telecom, datacom, computing, bio-medical, and sensing applications. Among the major building blocks within a Photonics Integrated Circuit (PIC), the high-speed photonic devices such as modulator (EO conversion) and detector (OE conversion) devices are critical in defining the maximum data rate, footprint, and the overall link power budget.

Within the Connectivity Pathfinding (COP) department in imec, we are looking for a skilled and passionate senior photonic engineer to work on exploratory high-speed photonic devices and enhance their performance and maturity. You will collaboratively contribute to our COP device mission:

We drive photonics innovation through exploration of novel device build-up flows, new materials (such as Ge, GeSi, III-V, BTO, LNO, organic chromophores/ polymers), and wafer-level processes.
We deliver early-stage process specifications and device models. We validate device concepts towards novel library components that become part of imec’s PDK, available to internal and external partners.
We identify trade-offs in emerging integration flows and establish device-process correlations.

Your goal is to research manufacturable solutions for novel high-speed opto-electronic devices, either to achieve ultra-low power (70GHz) electro-optical devices. Simulation (e.g., Ansys, TCAD, HFSS, Agilent ADS) and characterization (S-parameters, TDR, eye diagram, BER measurements) are a plus.
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At imec, we shape the future by enabling nano- and digital technology innovation that enhances quality of life--together with partners from the industry, government, and academia. Our R&D is built on three core pillars: - a unique 2.5-billion-euro 300mm semiconductor pilot line - over 6,000 colleagues from around the world - an ecosystem of 600+ world-leading industry partners and a global academic network Since 1984, imec quickly made its name as the leading research hub for advanced CMOS scaling and continues to set the ... Know more

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