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The ELENA consortium comprises ten partners (from Research and Technology Development Centres to large industrials and SMEs) and has all the necessary competencies to reduce R&D costs of advanced PICs and implement the key aspects of a value chain for a sustainable LiNbO3-based PIC industry in Europe.

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Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM)

Research organisation
Switzerland

Role in ELENA: Project coordiation, processing and micro-fabrication, characterization and testing

Key expertise: Photonic building blocks (active and passive), photonics design/layout/GDS, fabrication process flow

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SOITEC SA

Large company & industrial lab
France

Role in ELENA: Susbtrate manufacuring process; roadmap for industrial manufacturing of LNOI wafers in volume

Key expertise: LNOI wafer manufacturing

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VPIphotonics GmbH

Company & industrial lab
Germany

Role in ELENA: Design and simulation

Key expertise: Photonic building blocks (active and passive)

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Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETHZ)

Research organisation
Switzerland

Key expertise: Design and simulation

Key expertise: Photonic building blocks (active and passive)

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Vanguard Automation GmbH

SME
Germany

Role in ELENA: Packaging and interfacing

Key expertise: Packaging and interfacing with other PIC platforms, fibres and electronic chips

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THALES

Company & industrial lab
France

Role in ELENA: Prototyping for end-user applications

Key expertise: Prototypes & testing in quantum sensors, RF telecom for space applications and optical gyroscope

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III-V LAB

Company & industrial lab
France

Role in ELENA: Prototyping for end-user applications

Key expertise: Prototypes & testing in telecom-datacom / high-speed optical transmission for construction of chip-scale tuneable lasers

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Rosenberger Hochfrequenztechnik GmbH & Co KG

Company & industrial lab
Germany

Role in ELENA: Prototyping for end-user applications

Key expertise: Prototypes & testing in telecom / RF analogue signal transmisssion over optical fibres

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L-up SAS

SME, France

Key expertise: Project management, communication/dissemination, clustering

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Commissariat à l'énergie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (CEA-LETI)

Company & industrial lab
France

Role in ELENA: LNOI wafer manufacturing and characterization

Key expertise: LNOI wafer manufacturing