Next-2Digits

Start date
October 1, 2023
Duration
39 months
Overall budget
5.1M €
Number of partners
11
Contacts
Ioanna ZERGIOTI
Project Coordinator
NTUA
Marco MESSINA
Project manager
AMIRES, s.r.o.
PROJECT WEBSITE

The next generation of sensors and imagers enabled by 2D materials digital integration

 

Next-2Digits will tackle the challenges associated with Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs), Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits (OEICs) and 2D materials. It will introduce a direct wafer-scale integration of graphene in PICs using two additive technologies with significant advantaged in terms of cost, material and energy saving: semi dry transfer of Graphene layers, and Laser Digital Transfer (LDT) of intact 2DM pixels. With a consortium of 11 partners from 8 different countries, Next-2Digits benefits from the presence of well-reputed academic, research and industrial teams, whose areas of work span from graphene and 2D materials synthesis, characterization, manipulation, and integration, as well as in the fields of photonics, material science, application-based integration technologies and validation.

Next-2Digits envisions to develop the first hybrid Graphene-based photodetectors (PDs) and modulators (MDs) which will be integrated in three device demonstrators: 1) A miniaturized LiDAR; 2) PIC greenhouse gas sensor; 3) An on-chip polarization diversity receiver (PDR).
Next-2Digits is also collaborating with the GrapheneEU project, a Coordination and Support Action project, under the framework of the Graphene Flagship Initiative, to contribute to increase the expertise in the graphene field and to spread knowledge among various stakeholders.

 

AMIRES was involved in the project’s preparatory phase and in the negotiations. Within the project, AMIRES is responsible for the project management and leads the work package dedicated to dissemination, communication, and exploitation activities.

 

  • Partners:
    • NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS, Greece
    • GRAPHENEA SEMICONDUCTOR S.L., Spain
    • OMMATIDIA LIDAR S.L., Spain
    • SILEX MICROSYSTEMS AB, Sweden
    • SENSEAIR AB, Sweden
    • YELLOWSCAN, France
    • LINKOPINGS UNIVERSITET, Sweden
    • BERT ENERGY GMBH, Germany
    • TEKNOLOGIAN TUTKIMUSKESKUS VTT OY, Findland
    • GOOCH & HOUSEGO (TORQUAY) LIMITED, United Kingdom
    • AMIRES S.R.O., Czech Republic

 

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme under grant agreement No 101120651, project Next-2Digits.