Seasoned inventor, business manager and creator of opto-mechatronic solutions Erwin Vergeest has moved from Silicon Valley to The Netherlands to join PHIX as a business developer. He is excited to play a part in the volume scale-up of integrated photonics...
Bronkhorst and PHIX partner to enable volume manufacturing of sensors for mass flow controllers
June 30th 2021 PHIX has partnered with Dutch flow meter/controller manufacturer Bronkhorst High-Tech B.V. to enable volume manufacturing of thermal mass flow sensors using PHIX’s micro-assembly know-how and technology. While Bronkhorst’s expertise is to develop a...
Qmode project with QuiX
QuiX Quantum and PHIX started a collaboration in the project Qmode to overcome the packaging challenges of connecting large-scale quantum photonic processors to the outside world. Within the Qmode project, QuiX Quantum and PHIX work together to connect a large quantum...
New fully automatic hybrid assembly machine
PHIX just unwrapped a brand new Finetech Fineplacer Femto 2 machine, a flexible fully automatic flip chip assembly workhorse that will further increase our manufacturing throughput. Furthermore, we are the first commercial company to obtain a customization within the...
PHIX and partners launch PODIUM consortium
Chip Integration Technology Center (CITC), Tegema, PI (Physik Instrumente) and PHIX are launching a new Dutch Photonics Assembly Consortium called PODIUM. This unique regional ecosystem funded by PhotonDelta and CITC aims to accelerate and standardize the packaging of...
PHIX welcomes new investor PhotonDelta
With the addition of PhotonDelta as a shareholder, PHIX further secures its position as a leading packaging and assembly foundry within the European integrated photonics ecosystem. PhotonDelta also provides PHIX with long term financing for equipment purchases...
ficonTEC and PHIX partner to enable high-volume manufacturing of multi-chip photonic modules
Dutch photonics packaging foundry PHIX BV and German machine manufacturer ficonTEC Service GmbH have combined their expertise in a symbiotic partnership. While ficonTEC is supplying PHIX with automated machine tools for hybrid chip-to-chip (chiplet) assembly using...
PHIX builds series of PIXAPP designed PIC modules
This PIXAPP commercial prototype package involved the assembly of a silicon photonics integrated circuit (PIC) onto an electronic printed circuit board that has an integrated thermo-electric cooler (TEC) mounted below it. For ease of assembly, the optical fiber array...
PHIX Photonics Assembly secures funding from Innovation Industries and Oost NL
PHIX started its operations in July 2018 to serve the growing demand for photonic assembly activities. PHIX’s goal of becoming the world leader in this field has come one step closer with large new investments from Innovation Industries and existing investor Oost NL...