Pioneering Europe's First LNOI Supply Chain and Foundry for Next-Generation Photonic Integrated Circuits
www.bisinfotech.com, Jun. 26, 2025 –
The recently completed 42-month project ELENA (‘European electro-optic and nonlinear PIC platform based on lithium niobate’), funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 program as a collaborative research and innovation initiative (grant agreement n°101016138), has created the first European-made lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI) substrates for photonic integrated circuits (PICs) and established a full European supply chain for thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) technology.