Ghent University
Ghent University offers high-quality, research-based education in all academic disciplines. Today Ghent University attracts over 28,000 students, with a foreign student population of over 1,100 EU citizens and some 1000 students from non-EU countries.
The mission of open and democratic education is realized by the availability of social facilities and professional guidance concerning the study career.
With a view to cooperation in research and scientific service, numerous research groups, centres and institutes have been founded over the years. Several of them are renowned worldwide, in various scientific disciplines such as biotechnology, aquaculture, microelectronics, history, ... Ghent University invests an annual amount of more than 175 million euro in research projects on behalf of public and private partners.
At the Faculty of engineering 50 young researchers are working in the domain of Photonics, more specifically on photonic components and integration, liquid crystals and photovoltaic energy conversion.
The infrastructure includes clean room facilities for in-house fabrication of components as well as a variety of CAD-tools and measurement labs. The Photonics group is associated with the micro-electronics research center IMEC in Leuven and uses the CMOS-oriented research facilities of IMEC for research on Silicon photonics.
Liquid Crystals and Photonics Group
