A research team led by Arka Majumdar, NanoES faculty member and UW Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) and Physics professor, has engineered a new type of optical microchip. This programmable photonic integrated circuit was fabricated in the Washington Nanofabrication Facility (WNF) and is low power, electrically reconfigurable, and can be mass-produced. Read more about this chip that has the potential to be applied in a wide range of technologies, including information processing, sensing, imaging, machine learning and artificial intelligence here.
May 1, 2026