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The second meeting of the SPFS Steering Committee took place on 6th October in Jury's Inn, Southampton. Each work package presented their progress to date and our Innovation Fund partners from the first call also attended to provide an overview of their funded projects.
The SPFS Programme Innovation Fund has awarded three research grants following the second call for proposals in July 2015.
- "Hybrid Organic-Silicon Lasers", submitted by Prof William Gillin from QMUL
- "Radio, Optical and Digital design for UHD transceivers", submitted by Prof Andrew Ellis from Aston University
- "High Capacity Real Time 4k Video Transmission using Silicon Photonics", submitted by Prof Peter Wilson from Bath University
Following the call in July 2014, the SPFS Programme Innovation Fund has awarded two research grants to the following proposals:
- "Mass Assembly of Microdisk Lasers on Silicon Photonics Devices", submitted by Dr Steven Neale from University of Glasgow
- "Scalable, Parallel Integration of III-Vs on SOI", submitted by Dr Marc Sorel from University of Glasgow and Dr Michael Strain from University of Strathclyde.
These grants became effective on 1st December 2014.
One postdoc RA position, mostly associated with modelling of photonic devices and circuits, is currently available within SPFS Programme. More details can be found at the University of Southampton website .
Potential candidates can get more information about the post from Professor Graham T. Reed (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and Dr. Goran Mashanovich (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).
Another postdoc RA position is currently available within EPSRC-funded CORNERSTONE (Capability for OptoelectRoNics, MEtamateRialS, NanoTechnOlogy aNd SEnsing) Programme. More details can be found at the University of Southampton website . Potential candidates can get more information about the post from Professor Graham T. Reed (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
The first Steering Committee meeting of SPFS programme was held on Wednesday, 9th July 2014 in Southampton.
The first call for research proposals that will be funded via the SPFS programme Innovation Fund was announced on 7th July. The deadline for the submission is 5th September 2014 (17:00 GMT). The full text of the call can be found here .
Taha Ben Masaud has been appointed as a research assistant working on a multilayer 3D photonic platform.
Rob Topley has been appointed as a senior research assistant working on erasable grating couplers for waferscale testing of photonic components.
Six new appointments within the project have been announced:
David Thomson, Youfang Hu, Li Ke, Antulio Tarazona, Ali Khokhar and Stevan Stanković, all from Southampton University.
William Whelan-Curtin of St Andrews University has joined the programme as an associate member and is to be involved in the work on the modulator development.
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Project "Silicon Photonics for Future Systems", funded by EPSRC programme grant, started on 12th December 2013.
