PHIX design engineer Nienke Nijenhuis is a self-proclaimed homebird within a very international team. In this column In The Spotlight we get to know her a bit better! Born and raised in the Twente region of The Netherlands, Nienke Nijenhuis never lived more than 6...
In a collaboration with Nanoscribe, PHIX introduces lensed fiber arrays manufactured by high precision 3D printing Our new lensed fiber arrays (LFAs) are v-groove optical fiber arrays with 3D printed lenses at the ends of the fibers. They are suitable for free space...
Our CEO Albert Hasper looks back on a very successful 2021 and states PHIX’s ambitions for 2022. For the second year in a row, people in The Netherlands had to celebrate Christmas and New Year’s Eve in the partial isolation of a lockdown. While I was missing...
The TERAWAY project develops a new generation of terahertz transceivers for 5G wireless networks. These modules can be deployed on aerial drones to provide communications coverage at large outdoor events. As the photonics packaging partner in this project, PHIX is...
Seasoned inventor, business manager and creator of opto-mechatronic solutions Erwin Vergeest has moved from Silicon Valley to The Netherlands to join PHIX as a business developer. He is excited to play a part in the volume scale-up of integrated photonics packaging....
Dr. Jana Schwarze of the International Microtechnology Business Network IVAM recently interviewed PHIX CEO Albert Hasper about the current challenges of the European photonics industry. The special occasion was the launch of the IVAM Focus Group Photonics, of which...
June 30th 2021 PHIX has partnered with Dutch flow meter/controller manufacturer Bronkhorst High-Tech B.V. to enable volume manufacturing of thermal mass flow sensors using PHIX’s micro-assembly know-how and technology. While Bronkhorst’s expertise is to develop a...
QuiX Quantum and PHIX started a collaboration in the project Qmode to overcome the packaging challenges of connecting large-scale quantum photonic processors to the outside world. Within the Qmode project, QuiX Quantum and PHIX work together to connect a large quantum...
PHIX just unwrapped a brand new Finetech Fineplacer Femto 2 machine, a flexible fully automatic flip chip assembly workhorse that will further increase our manufacturing throughput. Furthermore, we are the first commercial company to obtain a customization within the...
As part of the PHOTO-SENS consortium, PHIX is working on enabling the industrialization of a flexible and cost-saving photonic biosensing platform. This project involves hybrid integration of light sources, photodiodes, and microfluidics with chemically coated...
