About the Principal Investigator

Dr. Wesley D. Sacher

Wesley Sacher leads the Nanophotonics, Integration, and Neural Technology (NINT) Department at the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics.

Dr. Sacher obtained the Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto in 2015, and from 2015 to 2018, he was a postdoctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology. For the past decade, Dr. Sacher’s research has focused on the development of silicon (Si) integrated photonics for submicrometer wavelengths (beginning with visible light and now extending into the near-infrared). He and his team are developing a fully-active, foundry-fabricated Si photonics platform for short wavelengths in addition to packaged microsystems leveraging these advances for neurotechnology, sensing, microdisplays, and data communication.

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