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 answer,...
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...
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...
In The Spotlight: Zerihun Tegegne
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...
In The Spotlight: Nienke Nijenhuis
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...
A 2022 New Year’s greeting from PHIX CEO Albert Hasper
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...
Drone-mounted photonics-enabled THz transceivers
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...
PHIX appoints Silicon Valley expert Erwin Vergeest as business developer
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...