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Integration of Silicon PICs with 2D-materials

Research Area: Heterogeneous integration technology for silicon photonics

Main Researcher: Dries Van Thourhout

Other people involved:

Related Research Projects

FWO: Unipolar (Van der Waals unipolar barrier photodetectors for mid-infrared integrated photonics)
FWO: G066924N (Van der Waals unipolar barrier photodetectors for mid-infrared integrated photonics)

PhD thesises
Koen Alexander, Geintegreerde siliciumnitridefotonica met sterk niet-lineaire dunne films en 2D-materialen: eigenschappen en componenten, Integrated Silicon Nitride Photonics with Highly Nonlinear Thin Films and 2D Materials: Properties and Devices, (12/2018)
Leili Abdollahi Shiramin, Hybridisatie van geïntegreerde fotonische circuits op basis van silicium met grafeen:ontwerp, technologie en componentenLeili, Graphene-Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits: Design, Technology and Devices, (10/2017)
Chiara Alessandri, Fotonische geintegreerde componenten op basis van grafeen en silicium voor optische interconnecties, Graphene-Silicon Photonic Integrated Devices for Optical Interconnects, (9/2020)
Cheng-Han Wu, Integrated Photonic Modulators Based on Graphene and Other 2D Materials for Optical Interconnects, (3/2024)
Publications
International Journals

C. Wu, T. Reep, Y. Huang, S. Brems, C. Haffner, C. Huyghebaert, B. Kuyken, J. Van Campenhout, M. Pantouvaki, D. Van Thourhout, Y. Guo, Low-loss phase modulation using a MoS2 monolayer integrated on silicon waveguides, 2D Materials (invited), doi:10.1088/2053-1583/ade9d9 (2025).
Ali Azimi, Julien Barrier, Angela Barreda, Thomas Bauer, Farzaneh Bouzari, Abel Brokkelkamp, Francesco Buatier de Mongeot, Timothy Parsons, Peter Christianen, Sonia Conesa-Boj, A. Curto, Suprova Das, Bernardo Dias, Itai Epstein, Zlata Fedorova, F. Javier Garcia de Abajo, Ilya Goykhman, Lara Greten, Johanna Gronqvist, Ludovica Guarneri, Y. Guo, Tom Hoekstra, Xuerong Hu, Benjamin Laudert, Jason Lynch, Sabrina Meyer, Battulga Munkhbat, Dragomir Neshev, Masha Ogienko, Sotirios Papadopoulos, A. Parappurath, Jeroen Sangers, Pedro Soubelet, Chris Soukaras, Giancarlo Soavi, Isabelle Staude, Zhipei Sun, Klaas-Jan Tielrooij, MD Gius Uddin, Alexey Ustinov, Jorik van de Groep, Jasper van Wezel, Nathalie Vermeulen, Hai Wang, Yadong Wang, Sanshui Xiao, B.You, Xavier Zambrana-Puyalto, Photonics in Flatland: Challenges and Opportunities for Nanophotonics with 2D Semiconductors, Archived.(2025).
T. Reep, C. Wu, D. Yudistira, S. Brems, I. Asselberghs, M. Pantouvaki, J. Van Campenhout, D. Van Thourhout, B. Kuyken, Graphene absorber on an SOI chip for active and passive mode locking of lasers, Scientific Reports, 15(1), doi:10.1038/s41598-025-93051-z (2025)  .
S. Elrafey, T. Sistermans, A. Curto, Subnanometric control of coupling between WS2 monolayers with a molecular spacer, Archived.(2024)  .
S. Elrafey, L. M. Heijnen, R. H. Godiksen, A. Curto, Monolayer semiconductor superlattices with high optical absorption, ACS Photonics, doi:10.1021/acsphotonics.4c00277 (2024).
S. Elrafey, T. V. Raziman, S. de Vega, F. J. Garcia de Abajo, A. Curto, Guiding light with surface exciton-polaritons in atomically thin superlattices, Nanophotonics, doi:10.1515/nanoph-2024-0075 (2024)  .
C. Wu, T. Reep, S. Brems, J. Jussot, V. Mootheri, J. Van Campenhout, C. Huyghebaert, M. Pantouvaki, Z. Wang, D. Van Thourhout, High-efficiency dual single layer graphene modulator integrated on slot waveguides, Optics Express, 31(22), p.36872-36882 doi:10.1364/OE.503140 (2023)  .
Y. Guo, Z. Xu, A.G. Curto, Y.-J. Zeng, D. Van Thourhout, Plasmonic Semiconductors: Materials, Tunability and Applications, Progress in Materials Science, 138, p.101158 doi:10.1016/j.pmatsci.2023.101158 (2023).
C. Wu, S. Brems, D. Yudistira, D. Cott, A. Milenin, K. Vandersmissen, A. Maestre, A. Centeno, A. Zurutuza, J. Van Campenhout, C. Huyghebaert, D. Van Thourhout, M. Pantouvaki, Wafer-Scale Integration of Single Layer Graphene Electro-Absorption Modulators in a 300mm CMOS Pilot Line, Lasers & Photonics Reviews, doi:10.1002/lpor.202200789 (2023)  .
R. H. Godiksen, S. Wang, Raziman TV, J. Gomez Rivas, A.G. Curto, Impact of indirect transitions on valley polarization in WS2 and WSe2, Nanoscale, doi:10.1039/D2NR04800K (2022)  .
A. Rahim, A. Hermans, B. Wohlfeil, D. Petousi, B. Kuyken, D. Van Thourhout, R. Baets, Taking Silicon Photonics Modulators to a Higher Performance Level: State of the Art and A Review of New Technologies, Advanced Photonics (invited), 3(2), p. 024003-1 to 024003-23 doi:10.1117/1.AP.3.2.024003 (2021)  .
C. Alessandri, I. Asselberghs, S. Brems, C. Huyghebaert, J. Van Campenhout, D. Van Thourhout, M. Pantouvaki, High speed graphene-silicon electro-absorption modulators for the O-band and C-band, Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 59(5), p.052008 doi:10.35848/1347-4065/ab8920 (2020).
C. Alessandri, I. Asselberghs, S. Brems, C. Huyghebaert, J. Van Campenhout, D. Van Thourhout, M. Pantouvaki, 5 x 25 Gbit/s WDM Transmitters Based on Passivated Graphene-Silicon Electro-Absorption Modulators, Applied Optics, 59(4), p.1156-1162 doi:10.1364/AO.383462 (2020)  .
L. Abdollahi Shiramin, W. Xie, B. Snyder, P. De Heyn, P. Verheyen, G. Roelkens, D. Van Thourhout, High Extinction Ratio Hybrid Graphene-Silicon Photonic Crystal Switch, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 30(2), p.157-160 doi:10.1109/lpt.2017.2779178 (2018)  .

International Conferences

F. Martin Romero, V. J. Gomez, A. Curto, Non-reciprocal effects in waveguides based on spin-momentum locking, European Conference on Integrated Optics, United Kingdom, (2025).
Y. Guo, T. Reep, J. Van Kerrebrouck, D. Schaubroeck, T. Sistermans, X. Guo, G. Roelkens, J. Van Campenhout, A. Curto, D. Van Thourhout, Waveguide-integrated, metasurface-enhanced Photodetectors: Graphene and beyond, Photonics in Flatland-Empowering Nanophotonics with 2D Semiconductors (invited), Netherlands, (2024)  .
Y. Huang, T. Reep, H. Tsai, J. De Coster, S. Brems, I. Asselberghs, K. Tielrooij, D. Van Thourhout, C. Haffner, Demonstration of Graphene Waveguide Photodetector Based on Photothermoelectric Effect, accepted for publication in Optica Advanced Photonics Congress, Canada, (to be published).
T. Reep, C. Wu, Y. Huang, Y. Guo, C. Haffner, B. Kuyken, D. Van Thourhout, Enhancing modulation efficiency and reducing transmission penalty in double-layer graphene modulators through waveguide mode shifting, accepted for publication in Annual Symposium of the IEEE Photonics Society Benelux Chapter, Belgium, (to be published).
T. Sistermans, R. H. Godiksen, S. A. Elrafey, A. Curto, Fluctuation imaging of nanoscale disorder in monolayer semiconductors, Annual Symposium of the IEEE Photonics Society Benelux Chapter, Belgium, (2023).
T. Reep, C. Wu, S. Brems, D. Yudistira, J. Van Campenhout, M. Pantouvaki, D. Van Thourhout, B. Kuyken, Active and passive mode-locking of a laser using a graphene modulator on an SOI chip, IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC), United States, p.paper ThB1.2 (2 pages) doi:10.1109/IPC57732.2023.10360780 (2023)  .
T. Reep, C. Wu, Y. Huang, Y. Guo, C. Haffner, B. Kuyken, D. Van Thourhout, Transmission penalty optimization in a double-layer graphene slot modulator through mode-shifting, Graphene week, Sweden, (2023).
C. Wu, Y. Huang, Z. Wang, S. Brems, J. Van Campenhout, M. Pantouvaki, D. Van Thourhout, Dual single layer graphene Mach-Zehnder modulator with high efficiency and gigahertz bandwidth., Graphene Week 2023, Sweden, (2023)  .
A.G. Curto, Excitons in nanophotonic landscapes: fluctuating, diffusing, annihilating, SPIE Photonics West OPTO (invited), United States, doi:10.1117/12.2653910 (2023).
T. Reep, C. Wu, E. Vissers, S. Brems, D. Yudistira, J. Van Campenhout, M. Pantouvaki, D. Van Thourhout, B. Kuyken, An experimental demonstration of a passively mode-locked laser using an integrated graphene saturable absorber, IEEE Benelux Photonics Chapter - Annual Symposium 2022, Netherlands, p.197-200 (2022)  .
T. Reep, C. Wu, Z. Wang, S. Brems, S. Clemmen, C. Huyghebaert, J. Van Campenhout, M. Pantouvaki, D. Van Thourhout, B. Kuyken, Saturable absorption of a double layer graphene modulator on a slot waveguide, IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC), doi:10.1109/IPC53466.2022.9975477 (2022)  .
C. Wu, Z. Wang, J. Jussot, S. Brems, V. Mootheri, C. Huyghebaert, J. Van Campenhout, M. Pantouvaki, D. Van Thourhout, Large >0.2dB/Ã‚Âµm Modulation Depth Double-Layer Graphene Electro-Absorption Modulator on Slot waveguide, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, doi:10.1364/CLEO_SI.2022.SF4K.4 (2022)  .
C. Wu, S. Brems, I. Asselberghs, C. Huyghebaert, V. Sorianello, M. Romagnoli, J. Van Campenhout, D. Van Thourhout, M. Pantouvaki, Hybrid Graphene-WS2 Mach-Zehnder modulator on passive silicon waveguide, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, (2021)  .
C. Alessandri, I. Asselberghs, Y. Ban, S. Brems, C. Huyghebaert, J. Van Campenhout, D. Van Thourhout, M. Pantouvaki, Broadband 20 Gbit/s Graphene-Si Electro-Absorption Modulator, European Conference on Optical Communication, paper We4C.2, Italy, doi:10.1109/ECOC.2018.8535513 (2018)  .
C. Alessandri, I. Asselberghs, S. Brems, C. Huyghebaert, J. Van Campenhout, D. Van Thourhout, M. Pantouvaki, High speed single-layer graphene-Si electro-absorption modulator, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim, paper Th4G.3, Hong Kong, p.paper Th64G.3 (2 pages) doi:10.1364/CLEOPR.2018.Th4G.3 (2018).
National Conferences

D. Van Thourhout, Novel materials and integration technologies for silicon photonics, Belgian Photonics Online Meetup (bePOM) (invited), Belgium, (2020).
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