Starting 2022 fully electric. Replenishing 20kWh in 35min over lunch ✅

#NSW, #QLD, #LordHoweIsland, #NorfolkIsland under #Tsunami Warning after volcanic eruption near TONGA ISLANDS. Latest info here: bom.gov.au/tsunami.

Onboarding University of Sydney: thank you for the warm welcome by my colleagues at the School of Aerospace, Mechanical & Mechatronic Engineering AMME, by Heads of School Prof. Tong & Prof. Williams, Dean Prof. Zwaenepoel, & VC Prof. Garton - great to be part of this inspiring community!

Wafer-level hermetic sealing of Silicon Photonic MEMS, an important milestone in technology maturing enabling high yield and long term stability, as required for large-scale reconfigurable photonic integrated circuits - congratulations Gaehun and team! doi.org/10.1364/PRJ.44…

H2020 MORPHIC is at SPIE Photonics West | #PhotonicsWest . On Thursday Wim Bogaerts presents our progress on photonic MEMS devices, packaging, electronics and software for programmable photonics. Niels Quack KTH Royal Institute of Technology Tyndall Institute CommScope VLC Photonics imec Photonics UGent

The deadline for the 2022 ECOC conference and the CLEO/Europe Focus Meeting is approachig fast. Don't miss the May 10 deadline! Check out ecoc.info #ECOC2022

I am excited to announce that I am delivering an invited talk on the recent progress from the H2020 MORPHIC project at CLEO Conference 𝒲𝒽ℯ𝓃: May 16 2022 at 9.30am Hope to see you there! imec Photonics UGent KTH Royal Institute of Technology Tyndall Institute Niels Quack VLC Photonics CommScope

I had a great first day at CLEO Conference, particularly during the special session on Micro-and Nanomechanical Photonic ICs ! #CLEO22 If you'd like to see more #photonic #MEMS, I'll be presenting a low-power MEMS add-drop ring resonator, a recent result from H2020 MORPHIC on Friday!

Presenting our first four Distinguished Invited Speakers for OMN 2022! Federico Capasso, Joyce Poon, Prof. Uriel Levy, and Mona Jarrahi. Join us for OMN 2022, September 12-15. Accepting contributed papers until July 12 deadline! omn2022.org

Nobelpreisträger Queloz wird am 18. 9. in Basel anlässlich der #ECOC_conference einen public Vortrag halten. ecoc.info/programme/plen… Dazu auch: INTERVIEW - «Wissenschaft ist cool. Und die Suche nach dem Ursprung des Lebens ist besonders cool» nzz.ch/wissenschaft/d… via NZZ

Today we have the final review meeting of the H2020 MORPHIC project. While an in-person meetign would be even better, we are still enthusiastic to discuss our exciting results, and looking forward to take these to the next level in the The PHORMIC Project project.

Wim Bogaerts of Photonics UGent shows the H2020 MORPHIC MEMS actuators as one of the possible phase shifter techniques at the ECOC_Conference workshop on linear optics. imec KTH Royal Institute of Technology Niels Quack

A nice H2020 MORPHIC demonstration for switching light on or off: Hamed Sattari just published his Silicon Photonic MEMS ring resonator add-drop filter in SPIE J. Opt. Microsyst. dx.doi.org/10.1117/1.JOM.… Niels Quack imec KTH Royal Institute of Technology Photonics UGent

Moving Light on Chip with Nanomechanics: rdcu.be/c7ZJH Thanks morphic team & all contributors for the collaboration! H2020 MORPHIC imec KTH Royal Institute of Technology Tyndall Institute Photonics UGent CommScope VLC Photonics University of Sydney Engineering Sydney Uni EPFL EPFL School of Engineering

Moving light on a chip with nanomechanics.

An active, tunable, metasurface that produces a truly visible effect! Just published in ACS Photonics pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… . Congrats Dorian et al. Niels Quack Niels Quack NEMS_EPFL , EPFL University of Sydney