Sparc Foundry will build a new factory in the city of Vigo in Spain for III-V-Semiconductor based photonics * The factory will combine semiconductor production and an advanced photonics research center
The Sparc Foundry company will build a new plant in the city of Vigo in Spain for III-V-Semiconductor based photonics, called Sparc (III-V – a plant that combines semiconductor production and an advanced photonics research center).
This new factory will include a 1,600 square meter clean room for wafer production, and a research center that will help customers bring fully certified photonic products to market.
Sparc aims to exploit the potential of III-V semiconductors (GaAs, InP, GaN) to suit a growing number of markets and applications that rely heavily on light, photonics and high-speed electronics.
The company says it will have the ability to serve a large customer base in a wide variety of different markets, including optical communications, displays, lighting, aerospace, automotive, biomedical, sensing and quantum technologies, as well as high-speed and/or high-power electronic applications.
Jose Pozo, Chief Technology Officer at Optica, an optics and photonics organization, Sparc was officially incorporated last week, on September 26th. Pozo further states that the facilities will have a total capacity of 1,500 slices per year. Production will begin towards the end of 2023.