Narrow Bandgap Materials (NBM), such as Silicon (Si), Gallium Arsenide (GaAs), Zinc Selenide (ZnSe), are widely used in micro-electronics and photonics industries that are important for the economy. The demand for higher integration and more functions in modern devices poses strong challenge to the fabrication technologies of NBMs. AdFUN aims at developing exciting new 3D fabrication capabilities to create precise structures with extra functionality embedded inside NBMs. The technology offers new possibilities of integrating electro-photonic systems in a 3D approach to solve the challenges of high integration and multiple functions.

This ambitious objective relies on the interdisciplinary knowledge fusion among the fellow (link), the supervisor (Prof. Martin Booth & Dr. Patrick Salter from Dynamics Optics Group, Oxford University, UK), the secondment host (Dr. David Grojo from LP3 Laboratory, French National Center for Scientific Research) and other collaborators.