La Luce Cristallina. a manufacturer of Si-integrated high-performance materials for silicon photonics, has launched a new CMOS-compatible oxide pseudo-substrate for epitaxial strontium titanate (SrTiO₃) films to be grown directly on 200mm silicon and silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers.
The platform bridges the gap between academic oxide research and commercial manufacturing, facilitating the development of advanced oxide devices using standard semiconductor tools. The solution supports superconducting RF electronics, ultra-low-loss RF components, single-photon detectors, quantum sensing, advanced computing architectures and other emerging applications aligned with silicon photonics and heterogeneous integration.
Today’s researchers often rely on small, costly single-crystal SrTiO₃ substrates that are incompatible with standard fabrication facility workflows. La Luce Cristallina’s pseudo-substrate platform eliminates these bottlenecks by aligning with foundry-driven roadmaps for heterogeneous integration, co-packaged optics, wafer-level prototyping and next-generation photonics, enabling manufacturing scalability. The solution delivers large-area wafers, high-quality epitaxial films (with thicknesses ranging from 4 to 50 nanometers) and standard CMOS tool compatibility.
“By improving cost and scalability while eliminating CMOS tooling incompatibilities, we can help customers across the silicon photonics ecosystem accelerate innovation,” said Agham Posadas, CTO and Co-Founder, La Luce Cristallina.
La Luce Cristallina’s wafer-scale approach significantly expands usable area while maintaining film quality, supporting numerous applications across diverse, growing markets. Experts estimate that the RF components market will grow from $50 billion to $91.19 billion by 2030, bolstered by the defense and sensing sectors, 5G deployments and satellite communications. Amid strong government funding, the quantum technologies market (including sensing, detection and superconducting electronics) is projected to reach $20.20 billion by 2030, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 41.8 percent.
“La Luce Cristallina’s CMOS-compatible oxide pseudo-substrate removes one of the biggest barriers to scaling oxide electronics,” said Ron Kelly, CEO of Ambature, Inc. “By enabling high-quality strontium titanate films on 200-mm silicon wafers using standard semiconductor tools, La Luce Cristallina is helping companies like Ambature move advanced RF and quantum technologies from research environments toward real-world system
