July 1st 2024 Sales Account Manager Roelof Brits explains how an ex-helicopter pilot fell in love with photonics and the Netherlands He used to be a helicopter pilot, flying in Afghanistan and Northern Africa. Now, his fascination with photonics brought him to the...
May 30th 2024 Production operator Keerthigan Shanmuganathan talks about big changes in his life and his Sri Lankan roots It has been a big year for Keerthigan Shanmuganathan. He began working at PHIX in October 2023 and, in a way, the new job also started a new...
May 14th 2024 From June 3rd 2024 PHIX will occupy a new building in Enschede, The Netherlands, which is fully tailored to our integrated photonics and MEMS packaging operations and a further scale-up to volume manufacturing. Our new home at Kennispark TwenteWith 1800...
April 11th 2024 Our customer Light Trace Photonics is using a PHIX package as part of a programmable system for educating the photonics engineers of the future. Plug-and-play exploration of photonic chip technologyLight Trace Photonics is a Bristol (UK) based company...
February 29th 2024 Navigating the complexity of photonic integrated circuit (PIC) packaging already starts at the chip design and layout phase. In this blog series PHIX helps PIC designers take a system-level approach that takes device manufacturability into early...
PHIX CEO Albert Hasper reflects on 2023 and looks ahead into 2024 2023 was a year in which our integrated photonics industry accelerated further. Many of our customers were scaling up their volumes from single digits towards prototype series ready to be scaled up. The...
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...
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 has...
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...