IRIS LIGHT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Black phosphorus-based inks for on-chip embedded lasers integrated into silicon photonic chips
- Sector
- Semiconductors
- Total capital
- $3.4M
- Federal grants
- $3.4M
- 6 awards · 2019–2025
- Rank in peer group#11 of 17
- Private capital raised
- None on recordNo Form D filings on SEC EDGAR. Some raises are not filed.
- Federal contracts
- None on recordNo federal contract awards found.
- Granted patents
- None on recordNo USPTO grants. Applications publish after 18 months.
Capital timeline
Latest events
- Federal grantDefense · Phase II · Low Size Weight And Power Frequency Combs For RF Photonic Chips And Portable Atomic Clocks Enabled By Black Phosphorus Activities.$1.8M
- Federal grantDefense · Phase I · Low Swap Frequency Combs For Atomic Clocks Enabled By Black Phosphorus Absorbers$110K
- Federal grantNSF · Phase II · SBIR Phase II: Foundry-scale production of on-chip silicon photonic light emitters enabled by printed photonic ink$1M
- Federal grantEnergy · Phase I · Energy-efficient data centers and high-performance computing enabled by on-chip printed microelectronic optical component and circuit manufacturing$207K
- Federal grantNSF · Phase I · STTR Phase I:PIC: Electro-luminescence and doping of black phosphorus for printed lasers on silicon photonic chips$256K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase I · Silicon photonics lasers created from printed nanomaterial inks$25K
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Standing among 17 peers
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Founders and team
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Checked: USPTO inventors; federal award principal investigators; SEC Form D related persons · Oct 23, 2026
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Checked: USPTO granted patents and published applications · Oct 23, 2026
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Sources
Federal grants from SBIR/STTR, NIH, NSF and DoD records. Federal contracts from USAspending.gov. Private capital from SEC Form D. Patents from USPTO. Publications from OpenAlex. Regulatory activity from the Federal Register. Press matched on company name.
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