IPIC is one of Science Foundation Ireland’s twelve world-leading large scale research centres, established to provide major economic impact for Ireland. Our mission is to deliver excellence in photonics research and advance & miniaturise photonics integration science in order to develop leading edge technologies and products.
As a key enabling technology, we are surrounded by photonics in our daily lives ranging from communications & health, lighting & photovoltaics to everyday products like DVD players and mobile phones. With the integration of photonics technology into products from communications networks to medical devices, photonics has the potential to deliver huge economic and societal benefit.
Already, the global photonics market is worth over €350 billion and is projected to reach over €600 billion by 2020. Here at IPIC we are focusing on producing micro- and nanoscale optoelectronic systems tailored to the needs of our industry partners.
Our Centre brings together a full research value chain through our integrated research team who has expertise spanning semiconductor and biomaterials; integrated photonic and microelectronic circuits; and fully packaged photonic systems.
With researchers at the Tyndall National Institute, Cork Institute of Technology, Dublin City University, University College Cork and 20 industry partners we will continue to grow our research programme in order to develop the next generation of photonics devices which will benefit us all.