Silicon Valley sensing technology for next-generation fabs
Zion Photonics is a Santa Clara company developing custom integrated optical sensing solutions for semiconductor equipment condition monitoring, with technology incubation through SBIR and STTR programs.
100-point fiber sensing + AI analytics
Improve yield, uptime, and time to market
Zion Photonics' mission is to deploy Fiber Bragg Grating sensing and AI analytics into semiconductor manufacturing environments where conventional sensors cannot provide enough in-situ, real-time data.
Semiconductor equipment condition monitoring.
FBG multipoint sensing for temperature, strain, vibration, and acoustic signatures.
Cloud-based analytics and machine learning for predictive equipment intelligence.
Leadership experience spanning semiconductor equipment, fiber optic sensing, enterprise software, and startup management.
Spectrum broadening: from raw signals to useful KPIs
Zion Photonics builds acoustic and thermal signature libraries from deployed systems. This supports fault detection, chamber matching, predictive maintenance, and equipment health KPIs that are difficult to obtain by manually tracking individual metrics.
In-situ visibility
Dense sensing inside or around process equipment enables real-time condition awareness.
Fab integration
Data can support tool control systems, fab control systems, and engineering dashboards.
Market expansion
Beyond semiconductors, the same optical sensing platform applies to structural health, pipelines, utilities, medical, and aerospace monitoring.