Canadian Photonics Fabrication Centre

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Researcher inside one of the CPFC facilities

The Canadian Photonics Fabrication Centre (CPFC) provides a "one stop shop" for world-class engineering and manufacturing services, commercial grade prototyping and pilot-run production facilities. We can fabricate devices in a variety of materials including GaAs and InP, GaN, SOI, other substrates. We offer single-step foundry services or end-to-end fabrication of photonic devices, photonic integrated circuits and gallium nitride electronics. The CPFC can also develop new process technologies for customers’ devices.

What we offer

Starting with CPFC- or customer supplied wafers, our experienced design team examines the customer's requirements and advises on a suitable wafer structure and fabrication process to achieve the device performance necessary for your application. We can use either customer-supplied photomasks or develop a new set of masks for an entire process sequence. A custom designed manufacturing execution system is used for data collection and material tracking throughout the fabrication run. This helps ensure that all fabricated wafers are fully characterized and meet the required specifications. For gallium nitride electronics, CPFC offers the GaN500 Design Kit, which describes the fabrication service, and includes both a Design Manual and a Physical Design Kit, based on ADS software. Devices are fabricated with 0.5 micron gate length on SiC substrates.

We offer a fully equipped 40,000 square foot facility with 11,000 square feet of class 1000/100 clean room space that provides a comprehensive suite of key processes and supporting ancillary activities. This includes:

Why work with us

For companies that fabricate wafers in-house or that have them outsourced to an external foundry, we offer a consulting service for third party evaluation/analysis of the resulting wafers.

Our experts add value by helping customers diagnose materials/fabrication-related problems using an extensive suite of test and measurement capabilities. Once a fabrication-related problem has been identified, we work with our customers to suggest corrective measures to remedy the problem. We can also assist clients by reworking wafers within our facilities and/or by engaging them in additional process development at CPFC.