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Ir. Konstantinos Akritidis  (Doctoral Researcher)

This person is working in this group since 2022.
Affiliation: Ghent University - IMEC
Department of Information Technology
Address: Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 126
9052  Ghent
Belgium
Office: iGent, Office 130.034
E-mail: konstantinos.akritidis@ugent.be
LinkedIn: konstantinos-akritidis
Research Area: Integrated photonics
Promotors: Bart Kuyken and Pol Van Dorpe
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Konstantinos Akritidis received his M.Eng. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Democritus University of Thrace, Greece in 2019. His thesis involved the fabrication and characterization of graphene-based microsensors for hydrogen monitoring. Afterwards, he obtained a M.Sc. in Micro- and Nanotechnologies for Integrated Systems. It was a joint degree between Politecnico di Torino (Italy), Grenoble-INP - Phelma (France) and EPFL (Switzerland). During his masters he had a summer internship in STMicroelectronics where he was investigating AI techniques for Silicon Reliability. His thesis was carried out in IMEP-LaHC where he fabricated an optical biosensor on glass for the detection of polystyrene latex beads by utilizing dielectrophoresis. After finishing with his masters he completed his military obligations serving in the Research and Informatics Corps in IV Support Bridgate Battalion and in the 424 Military Hospital.

In September 2022, he joined the Photonics Research Group, where he is currently pursuing his PhD working on the VISSION project. His research work mainly focuses on developing lasers emitting in the blue and NIR on a silicon nitride platform.

Specific Research Topics

Publications (10)

    International Journals

  1. Mikołaj Chlipała, K. Akritidis, Iryna Levchenko, Krzysztof Gibasiewicz, Tara Brstilo, M. Billet, Pol Van Dorpe, Natalia Fiuczek, Marta Sawicka, B. Kuyken, Henryk Turski, Electrochemical Etching for Seamless Micro-Transfer Printing of InGaN LEDs, ACS Applied Electronic Materials, 7(11), p.4814–4821 doi:10.1021/acsaelm.5c00259 (2025)  Download this Publication (9.5MB).
  2. M. Kiewiet, S. Cuyvers, M. Billet, K. Akritidis, V. Bonito-Oliva, G. Jeevanandam, S. Saseendran, M. Reza, P. Van Dorpe, T. Reep, J. Brouckaert, G. Roelkens, K. Van Gasse, B. Kuyken, Micro-Transfer Printed Continuous-Wave and Mode-Locked Laser Integration at 800 nm on a Silicon Nitride Platform, Lasers & Photonics Reviews, (2025)  Download this Publication (3.9MB).
  3. G. Roelkens, J. Zhang, L. Bogaert, E. Soltanian, M. Billet, A. Uzun, B. Pan, Y. Liu, E. Delli, D. Wang, V. Bonito Oliva, L.Thi Ngoc Tran, X. Guo, H. Li, S. Qin, K. Akritidis, Y. Chen, Y. Xue, M. Niels, D. Maes, M. Kiewiet, T. Reep, T. Vanackere, T. Vandekerckhove, I. Luntadila Lufungula, J. De Witte, L. Reis, S. Poelman, Y. Tan, H. Deng, W. Bogaerts, G. Morthier, D. Van Thourhout, B. Kuyken, Present and future of micro-transfer printing for heterogeneous photonic integrated circuits, Applied Physics Letters - Photonics (invited), doi:10.1063/5.0181099 (2024)  Download this Publication (1.4MB).
      International Conferences

    1. M. Kiewiet, S. Cuyvers, M. Billet, K. Akritidis, V. Bonito-Oliva, G. Jeevanandam, S. Saseendran, M. Reza, P. Van Dorpe, R. Jansen, J. Brouckaert, G. Roelkens, K. Van Gasse, B. Kuyken, Scalable Butt-Coupled Integration of 800 nm Lasers on Silicon Nitride using Micro-Transfer Printing, accepted for publication in Frontiers in Optics + Laser Science, United States,  (to be published)  Download this Publication (4.1MB).
    2. K. Akritidis, M. Billet, M. Kiewiet, J. Fricke, H. Wenzel, J-P. Koester, A. Knigge, P. Neutens, R. Jansen, J. Brouckaert, P. Van Dorpe, M. Weyers, B. Kuyken, Transfer Printing of GaAs-based Amplifiers on a-Si:H Waveguides for Evanescently-Coupled Light Amplification in the Near-Infrared Band, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, United States, (2024)  Download this Publication (1.7MB).
    3. M. Billet, T. Vanackere, T. Vandekerckhove, M. Niels, L.N Reis, D. Maes, M. Kiewiet, K. Akritidis, S. Cuyvers, S. Poelman, T. Reep, V. Bonito Oliva, F. Leo, G. Roelkens, B. Kuyken, Recent progress in heterogeneous integration on the silicon nitride platform using micro-transfer printing, SPIE Photonics West 2024 (invited), United States, (2024)  Download this Publication (458KB).
    4. N. Fiuczek, K. Akritidis, V. Bonito Oliva, S. Poelman, M. Billet, A. Hermans, I. Levchenko, B. Kuyken, H. Turski, Electrochemical etching - a way to enable transfer-printing of III-nitride devices, accepted for publication in Annual Symposium of the IEEE Photonics Society Benelux Chapter, Belgium,  (to be published).
    5. K. Akritidis, M. Billet, M. Kiewiet, J. Fricke, H. Wenzel, J-P. Koester, A. Knigge, P. Neutens, R. Jansen, J. Brouckaert, P. Van Dorpe, M. Weyers, B. Kuyken, Heterogeneous integration of evanescently-coupled GaAs-based amplifiers for laser systems emitting in the near-infrared, accepted for publication in Annual Symposium of the IEEE Photonics Society Benelux Chapter, Belgium,  (to be published)  Download this Publication (636KB).
    6. K. Akritidis, M. Billet, S.S. Saseendran, S. Poelman, G. Roelkens, P. Neutens, J. Brouckaert, P. Van Dorpe, B. Kuyken, a-Si:H Layer Enabling a sub-1.2 dB Loss SiN-III/V-SiN Transition for Evanescently Coupled Lasers at 920 nm, IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC), United States, p.paper MH3.3 (2 pages) doi:10.1109/IPC57732.2023.10360576 (2023).
    7. M. Billet, T. Vanackere, T. Vandekerckhove, M. Niels, L.N Reis, D. Maes, M. Kiewiet, K. Akritidis, S. Cuyvers, S. Poelman, T. Reep, V. Bonito Oliva, F. Leo, G. Roelkens, B. Kuyken, Filling the gap of silicon nitride photonic platform functionalities using micro-transfer printing, (invited) publication in Advanced Photonics Congress, South Korea,  (to be published)  Download this Publication (154KB).
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