The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) has awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to The Washington University to conduct research on the "Photonic Van der Waals Integration of Functional Nanomembranes Towards Multifunctional Heterogeneous Photonic Integrated Circuits." The three-year project aims to develop a versatile platform for heterogeneous integration of various functional optical materials, including barium titanate, cobalt ferrite, and III-V thin films, onto silicon and silicon nitride photonic platforms. This integration is expected to enable novel high-performance integrated photonic applications for information technology, as well as investigations into diverse nanophotonic phenomena. The research activities will involve material growth, layer transfer techniques, and fabrication of photonic device structures such as Mach-Zehnder interferometers and ring resonators in a cleanroom environment. The project's goals include advancing semiconductor technologies, promoting academic research on photonics integration, and exploring nanoscale photonic coupling between light and other physical fields.
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