IPIC’s Prof Sanathana Konugolu Venkata Sekar has been named on the Photonics 100 2026 list by Electro Optics, recognising him as one of the industry’s most innovative people and a global leader shaping the future of photonics. The Photonics 100 is published annually by Electro Optics and highlights the top 100 individuals driving transformative change […]
It’s a wrap! Photonics Ireland 2025 took place in Cork from 3rd to 5th September 2025, bringing together 208 participants from academia and industry to share knowledge, exchange ideas, and build new connections. The program featured keynote talks, parallel sessions, a panel discussion, an industry session and poster presentations that sparked engaging discussions and showcased […]
Two of IPIC’s early-career researchers have been awarded funding under Research Ireland’s Pathway Programme. The €23 million investment was announced by James Lawless TD, Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, in support of emerging research across Ireland. Making the announcement, Minister Lawless said: This investment, through Research Ireland’s Pathway programme, will support emerging […]
We are very pleased to announce that a pan-European consortium, led by IPIC’s Dr Gediminas Juska, has been awarded a European Innovation Council (EIC) grant through its Pathfinder Open instrument. The grant, worth €3M, is titled QCEED “Quantum Dot Coupling Engineering (and dynamic spin decoupling/deep nuclei cooling); 2-Dimensional Cluster State Generation for Quantum Information Processing” […]
Co-packaging of photonic and electronic ICs on glass interposers – article by IPIC’s Peter O’Brien and Das Kumar. Flipchip packaging of photonic chip on multi-level glass electrical interposer and alignment of microlens array with integrated micro prisms for out-of-plane coupling. Read the full article here. Chip-Scale-Review_Mar-Apr_2025-digital
IPIC is delighted to announce our hosting of the Photonics Ireland conference 2025 in Cork from 3rd to 5th September 2025 at Radisson Blu Hotel, Cork/Ireland. We invite you to the 11th instalment of this biennial conference and welcome submissions for oral and poster presentations and especially encourage PhD students and early career researchers to […]
The workshop will take place in the auditorium “Bergès” at the GreEn-ER building, 21 Avenue des Martyrs, Grenoble on 12th-13th June 2025. This workshop will focus on epitaxy and related fundamental processes in MOVPE (and other closely related epitaxial techniques). The motivation is to stimulate exchanges in the European MOVPE community. In this sense, the workshop […]
In 2024, CDT Photonic Integration and Advanced Data Storage (PIADS) have once again been a hive of activity, and our PhD students have been involved in countless projects across the photonics and magnetic data storage landscape. Enjoy browsing through our report as our students share their research successes and collaborations with industry partners.
2024 marks the year in which an important milestone in the Centre for Doctoral Training PIADS was achieved by several of our students. PIADS, having started in 2019, saw it’s first PhD students successfully completing their viva. Huge congratulations to: Dr Ayse Ozcan Atar PhD project: Inverted laser structures for photonic integration: epitaxy, simulation and […]
Public engagement @IPIC, on Thursday 10th October, researchers from Dublin & Cork’s Optical Communication department visited Valentia Island in County Kerry as part of the Valentia Island Subsea Cable Symposium at the Valentia Island Transatlantic Cable Station. Researchers engaged in presentations on the history, security and geopolitics of subsea cables. Furthermore, they then met with […]
IPIC’s Dr Sanathana Konugolu has been awarded €1.58 million from renowned funding body, European Research Council (ERC), to support his groundbreaking research project NOBIAS: “Novel diffuse Optical method to combat skin colour bias in non-invasive optical biomarker sensing devices”. Skin colour bias in optical healthcare devices affects 2.2 billion people of colour worldwide. Dr. Konugolu’s project, […]
The UCC/Tyndall OPTICA Student Chapter are pleased to invite you on the 3-5 September 2024 to Tyndall National Institute, Cork, Ireland for a workshop on Optical Fibre Communications: from networking to infrastructure challenges. From submarine to terrestrial fibre communication networks and beyond, dive into the basics with us for an insightful 3-day workshop with industry […]
On May 2nd, Explorer 2024 concluded successfully with projects pitching their deep tech pre-commercialisation projects. Seven enthusiastic and hard working teams presented their outcomes. Congratulations to all involved, especially to the winning team “PIXSA” from the Centre for Advanced Photonics & Process Analysis (CAPPA), Munster Technological University: S. Hadi Badri and Samira Jastan presented their […]
IPIC’s Photonic Packaging Group let by Prof. Peter O’Brien have been awarded funding by the National Science Foundation in the US to diversify and strengthen the supply chain for manufacturing and packaging of semiconductor devices. This collaborative project, FUTUR-IC is a reference to the future of integrated circuits, or chips, through a global alliance for […]
After the success of the first edition, the second edition of FAME (2024) – Second International Workshop on Fundamentals and Advances of MOVPE processes will be held at Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands) on July 8-9th 2024. As before, this workshop will focus on epitaxy and related fundamental processes in MOVPE (and other close enough […]
We are delighted to congratulate our colleague Prof. Frank Peters on receipt of SFI Industry Partnership Award 2023. This is in recognition of his work with IPIC in partnership with Rockley Photonics, University College Cork & Tyndall National Institute. Frank has been working in photonic research for over 30 years, he has filed over 80 […]
Recently IPIC gathered members from across all institutions; Tyndall National Institute, Munster Technological University, Dublin City University, National University of Ireland Galway, Trinity College Dublin, University College Cork and University of Limerick. We workshopped the following topics: – Research Integrity Education and Public Engagement Entrepreneurship / critical thinking Career Development Teamwork – the power of […]
Paper III-V-on-Si DFB Laser With Co-Integrated Power Amplifier Realized Using Micro-Transfer Printing published by IEEE is currently in the top 3 downloaded in IEEE Photonics Technology letters this year. This work was supported in part by both the European Union and Science Foundation Ireland (SFI). Credit goes to a number of Researchers, including IPIC’s own Brian […]
The first edition of FAME (2023) – First International Workshop on Fundamentals and Advances of MOVPE processes will be held in Cork (Ireland) on July the 13-14th 2023. For the epitaxy community this workshop will focus on the fundamental processes in MOVPE (and other close enough epitaxial techniques). Motivation being to stimulate debate in the […]
IPIC host the Photonics Ireland Pavilion at the SPIE BiOS and Photonics West conference & exhibition 2023. This event is attracting thousands of attendees keen to engage with industry partners and technologists, with over 1100 exhibiting companies. You will find Photonics Ireland Pavillion at booth 4645. We have a strong representation from Ireland across Tyndall, […]
We are happy to announce that the Explorer Pre-Accelerator Programme is now accepting applications for 2023! Explorer 2023 has been launched as a collaboration between the Irish Photonic Integration Centre (IPIC) with Tyndall, international high-tech photonics ams OSRAM, Confirm SFI Research Centre for Smart Manufacturing, CONNECT Centre and with support from Atlantic Bridge, Intel Corporation, […]
Electro-Optics Magazine recently launched the inaugural Photonics100 list of the most innovative people in Photonics, we are delighted to see Prof. Liam Barry from IPIC@DCU and Dr. Frank Smyth from Pilot Photonics, an IPIC Industry Partner included in the list. This listing honours those that are the driving force behind the evolution of photonics technologies. […]
IPIC’s, David McGovern (SDG Champion) has been working with our Researchers to assist in mapping our research to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. The 17 goals are a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015. IPIC research […]
IPIC, is pleased to announce the participation of two of its early stage researchers in 2 newly started Horizon Europe projects. The Lolipop project with Tyndall lead Dr Padraic Morrissey from the Photonics Packaging group will deal with the integration of Lithium Niobate (LiNB) on Insulator (LNoI) and Silicon Nitride as a hybrid but disruptive […]
A warm congratulations to our esteemed colleague Prof Séamus Davis for his fantastic achievement of becoming the first Irish recipient of the prestigious Buckley Physics Prize for his work in the field of quantum physics, to read more follow this link to UCC article. You can listen to Prof Davis on our episode “Quantum Worlds” […]
IPIC Industry partner, Rockley Photonics, have gone live with the below Press Release sharing details of their development of what is believed to be the ‘world’s first micro-transfer-printed (mTP) silicon-photonics-based laser for commercial applications.’ Aaron Zilkie (CTO Rockley Photonics) commented on some particular fruits of engagement with IPIC referencing the ‘development of mTP lasers, work […]
IPIC’s Annual Industry Workshop 2022 was held at UCC’s, Devere Hall, on Thursday, 19th May 2022. Along with welcoming colleagues from academic centres across Ireland, we welcomed many of our industry collaborators to share details of our ongoing research projects, meet PhD and Postdoc poster presenters, and hear about our emerging start-up opportunities. During the […]
IPIC’s Paul Townsend is delighted to meet with young artistic minds in participating on a panel of judges (along with RTE’s Ryan Tubridy) in assessing primary school children’s creative responses to National Broadband Ireland’s (NBI) competition ‘Imagine the Future’. The students interpretation can be via a piece of sculpture, a photo, a painting, a song, […]
Today, we are delighted to join quantum scientists from all over the world, to celebrate World Quantum Day. Building on the success of last year’s event, this year we are delighted to share our podcast A Little Light Listening, hosted by Dr David McGovern, IPIC’s Senior Business Development Manager. This special episode dedicated to Quantum […]
On 3rd April, Anna-Marie Turley of Enterprise Ireland reported on independent.ie detailing how Ireland’s photonics industry is developing vital technology innovations, in areas of robotics, high speed broadband and technologies in the health-tech space, thus positioning photonics as a vital part of our lives now and into the future. She comments “Globally, photonics is a […]
