June 22nd 2022 Having recently arrived at PHIX from Turkey, sales manager Ebru Arslan has been settling in very well, both to the team and to life in The Netherlands. Why are some chemical reactions so violent? How exactly do electrons propagate in electrical wire?...
Project manager Zerihun Tegegne gathered his expertise in microwave photonics and optoelectronics in many places in the world. In this edition of In The Spotlight we discover why someone who has traveled so far can still feel right at home in Twente.It’s tempting to...
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...
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 having my...
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...
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...
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...
October 21st is the annual Day of Photonics. On this special day, companies and schools are encouraged to raise awareness and understanding of photonics with the general public. For the 2020 edition, PHIX took this opportunity to explain integrated photonics packaging...