New Materials for Next-Generation Integrated Photonics

Background: I work at the interface of materials science, integrated photonics, and device engineering, with expertise in the design, fabrication, packaging, and testing of photonic and plasmonic integrated devices and systems. My work spans III–V semiconductors, silicon, and silicon nitride platforms for aerospace, heat-assisted magnetic recording, data/telecom, and emerging photonic applications.

Interest: A particular area of interest is the integration of new and functional materials into established photonic platforms to enable capabilities that are difficult to achieve using conventional semiconductor materials alone. I am interested in collaborations involving materials such as MXenes, graphene and other 2D materials, transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), phase-change materials, ferroelectrics, perovskites, transparent conducting oxides, and other emerging optical, electro-optical, plasmonic, and quantum materials.

What I can offer to a consortium: I can help translate promising materials into practical integrated-photonic devices and systems. This includes identifying suitable photonic architectures and integration strategies; designing waveguides, modulators, detectors, plasmonic structures, and other devices that exploit new material properties; modelling light–matter interaction; developing fabrication and packaging approaches; and evaluating performance, reliability, environmental resilience, and degradation. I can also contribute to technology roadmaps linking materials → devices → packaging → systems → applications and products.

What we are looking for? I am particularly interested in working with materials researchers who have developed materials with unusual or enhanced electrical, optical, electro-optical, nonlinear, thermal, magnetic, plasmonic, or quantum properties and would like to investigate how these materials could be incorporated into silicon, silicon-nitride, III–V, or hybrid integrated-photonic platforms.

What I would like to receive from other delegates:

1. New materials and material systems with potential photonic applications

2. Collaborative research and joint funding opportunities

3. Material growth, deposition, transfer, processing, and characterisation expertise

4. Access to specialist fabrication and testing facilities

5. Industry challenges that could benefit from novel material-enabled photonic devices

6. Market and application insights

7. Reliability, qualification, regulatory, and standards expertise

Abadia's Project Portfolio: EPSRC Photonic Integrated Modulators for Aerospace (EP/X011917/1) – https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FX011917%2F1 and EPSRC Integrated Photonic Phase Shifters for Aerospace (EP/Y00082X/1) – https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FY00082X%2F1

Project Partners: Airbus, ALTER Technology, Smiths Interconnect, STAR-Dundee, Tyndall National Institute, and VTT.

Email: abadian@cardiff.ac.uk

LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nicol%C3%A1s-abad%C3%ADa-9032a422a

WhatsApp Business: +442920875111

Keywords: Silicon Photonics, Light Modulators, Mach-Zehnder Interferometers, Electro-Absorption, Electro-Refraction, Optical Interconnects, Surface Plasmon Polariton, Plasmonics, Waveguides, Plasmons, Beam Splitters, Light Polarisation, CMOS Integrated Circuits, Optical Beam Splitters, Directional Couplers, Polarizers, Passive Devices, Polarization Beam Splitters, TE-Pass Polarizers, Bragg Gratings, Silicon-On-Insulator, Magnetic Recording, Micromagnetics, Curie Temperature, HAMR, Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording, NFT, Near Field Transducer, Integrated Optoelectronics, Integrated Optics, Light Matter Interactions, Pockels Effect, Franz-Keldysh Effect, Quantum-Confined Stark Effect, Plasma Dispersion Effect, Optical Communications, Elemental Semiconductors, Si, Silicon, Ge, Germanium, III-V Semiconductors, Indium Compounds, InAs, Indium Arsenide, InGaN, Indium Gallium Nitride, AlGaN, Aluminum Gallium Nitride, InP, Indium Phosphide, GaN, Gallium Nitride, InP Pulse Amplitude Modulation, Extinction Coefficients, Optical Filters, Optical Losses, Optical Waveguides, Optical Communication Equipment, Optical Design Techniques, Optical Fabrication, Photodetectors, Molecular Beam Epitaxy, Quantum Wells, Quantum Dots, Sige Bethe-Salpeter Equation, Quasiparticles, Hybrid Functionals, Quantum Dot Lasers, Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers, Passive Optical Networks, Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM), Multiplexing, Insertion Losses, Multimode Interference, Beam Propagation Method, Large Core, Microring Resonator, Evanescent Fields, Multiplexing Equipment, Fabry-Perot Resonators, Q-Factor, Amplitude Shift Keying, Equipment, Physical Optics, Optical Systems, Optical Computing