ALO was founded in 2026. We don’t have products yet — what we have is a habit of choosing problems where a result in the lab could one day become a technology, and of designing with silicon-foundry compatibility in mind from day one.
We are at the start. These are the principles that will guide how our results move toward real-world use.
We favour materials, dielectrics and transfer processes that are compatible with standard silicon fabrication, so that promising results are not stranded in the lab.
26 peer-reviewed journal papers since 2018, including work at A*STAR, Singapore, on CMOS-compatible dielectrics for 2D semiconductors and electrical control of valley excitons.
When results are ready, we intend to use the institute's established routes — including STEP-IIT Kharagpur and the institute's IP and technology-transfer support.
None of these are products yet. They are the application areas that guide which fundamental questions we pursue — each card shows where we are today and what comes next.
High-responsivity, broadband infrared sensing for optical interconnects and machine vision.
Where we are today: Monolithic integration of monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) directly onto silicon photonic waveguides, achieving sub-picosecond response times with zero dark-current leakage.
Context: Semiconductor Fab Foundry Partner & STEP-IIT KGP Incubation
