White paper on wafer level manufacturing of photonic biosensors

In collaboration with Surfix Diagnostics, PHIX is pleased to offer you a white paper about the wafer level manufacturing of photonic biosensors with integrated active components. As part of this work, PHIX demonstrates flip chip integration of III-V photonic...

PHIX CEO Albert Hasper meets King of The Netherlands

Eindhoven, The Netherlands, April 20th 2023  PHIX CEO Albert Hasper was honored to participate in a round table discussion with His Majesty King Willem-Alexander of The Netherlands at PhotonDelta in Eindhoven. The King learned about the strong integrated photonics...

PHIX prepares for in-house 3D printing of microlenses

February 16th 2023  Having already offered 3D printing of microlenses on fiber arrays and photonic integrated circuits (PICs) as part of a partnership with Nanoscribe, photonics packaging foundry PHIX is preparing to further industrialize this process by acquiring a...

In The Spotlight: Carl Whittaker

February 14th 2023  ‘Almost Dutch’ financial administrator Carl Whittaker talks about his work at PHIX and life in Enschede  Although Carl has moved halfway across the globe to end up in Enschede, The Netherlands, few people can match the level of stability that he...

Reflecting with gratitude on 2022

December 20th 2022  At the end of the year many of us enjoy some time off with loved ones and take a moment to reflect and express gratitude. At PHIX we look with fondness to all the connections we made and strengthened in 2022. In a literal sense, we connected...

Halloween competition: Bat Count

October 26th 2022 Count the bats hidden on the PHIX website and win a $50 gift card! Let’s have a little Halloween themed fun! We hid some little pictures of bats all over our website. Can you tell us how many there are? From the people submitting the correct...

PHIX provides guest lesson for Day of Photonics

October 21st 2022  To celebrate the Day of Photonics, PHIX provided a guest lesson about photonics at a high school in Hengelo  Building a fascination for photonics Although integrated photonics is taking big steps toward entering our households, it is still far from...

Read our white paper on spot size converters

PHIX is pleased to offer you a free white paper about spot size converters (SSCs). By improving the mode field matching, these optional extensions to our fiber arrays greatly reduce coupling losses between optical fibers and photonic integrated circuits.  Our free...

Pull testing for wire bonding process optimization

Wire bonding is a common, but very important, process for connecting photonic integrated circuits (PICs) with their surrounding electronics. The recently acquired Royce Instruments 620 pull-shear tester allows PHIX to pinpoint weaknesses in the process and materials...