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Unleashing Innovation at the 2025 Manufacturing USA Network Meeting

Each year, the NIST Office of Advanced Manufacturing enjoys the unique privilege of convening the Manufacturing USA network for its annual meeting. The 2025 Manufacturing USA Network Meeting was an energizing gathering of over 80 representatives from the program’s 18 manufacturing innovation institutes and supporting federal agencies. Over a day...

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Facilities, Manufacturing, Photonics, Podcast
Photonics in Focus: Advanced Packaging Insights: Inside AIM Photonics’ TAP Facility

In this episode of Photonics in Focus , we delve into a critical aspect of integrated photonics manufacturing: Advanced Packaging Technology. Leah Scott, AIM Photonics ' Director of Communications and Information Management, leads a conversation with Chris Striemer, Director of Test, Assembly, and Packaging Operations, and Mark Wagner, Operations...

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Go to AIM Photonics Summer Academy 2025

AIM Photonics Summer Academy 2025

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
United States

Go to AIM Photonics 2025 Members Meeting

AIM Photonics 2025 Members Meeting

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257 Fuller Road
Albany, NY 12203
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External News

An opening accessible photonic integrated circuit (PIC) foundry process targeting quantum system requirements must enable qubits to be implemented across various frequencies, from the UV to the infared. This packaged quantum photonic system features low-loss visible optical and electrical input/output. Photo Credit: AIM Photonics.
Photonics Spectra Magazine
Manufacturing, Photonics
An Openly Accessible Foundry Process Aims to Accelerate Quantum Commercial Realities
The Quantum Flex Platform will become the first accessible 300-mm platform developed for quantum systems.

Considerable advancements during the last decade have begun to reveal the critical role of integrated photonics for the successful construction and scaling of quantum systems. Broadly, these industry- and R&D-led efforts are defining the...

Smart Industry
Biomanufacturing, Fabrics, Facilities, Manufacturing, Materials, Photonics, Workforce
How Collaborative Manufacturing Facilities are Impacting Industry’s Future

Manufacturing keeps evolving—and the facilities that house manufacturing in the U.S. are also changing and innovating. Given that 54% of domestic R&D occurred in manufacturing in 2021, according to the National Science Foundation, it makes sense for industrial facilities to be the places that enable experimentation and encourage product development...

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Building the Manufacturing Talent Pipeline

“Nose presses” is not an official metric of workforce recruiting success for the Penn State Digital Foundry on 5th Avenue in New Kensington, PA, but it is hugely symbolic in the quest to expand the manufacturing talent pipeline in communities, according to Sherri McCleary, the Executive Director of the foundry.

A nose presser is a passerby who...