AIFIELD / Multiphysics design
A design and simulation environment rooted in photonics, expanding towards optical, electronic and mechanical systems — from millimetres through micrometres to nanometres.
Development & internal demonstrationsDesign across physics, rooted in photonics: the CAD, a receiver test chip and the research still ahead.
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Screenshots of AIFIELD as it runs today: the AI assistant proposing a change, a receiver test chip, and the chip on its readout board.
AIFIELD / ONE DESIGN, CONNECTED PHYSICS
Follow an electrical input through a moving microstructure, optical routing and electronic readout. Touch the driver to begin.
Explore the connections
Drag the driver left or right. The applied voltage moves the suspended guide, changes the optical split and updates both detector outputs.
Driver: voltage · source: wavelength and amplitude · empty space: rotate. Keyboard arrows work too.
Public conceptual layout, not the ArtiSense product. The drawing shows a subset of fingers and an insulated buried feed beneath the moving frame. An in-plane electrostatic comb drive is coupled to a linear spring and an ideal lossless directional coupler. F = Nε₀tV²/g; x = F/k, limited by a 450 nm mechanical stop. Assumed: 80 finger pairs, 220 nm thickness, 1.2 µm electrode gap, k = 0.012 N/m; optical gap 650 → 200 nm. Optical coupling uses an assumed exponential gap dependence and a 24 µm interaction length. Input power = field amplitude² × 1 mW. Detector responsivity 0.55 A/W and TIA gain 1 kΩ are constant assumptions; 5% of output B feeds the grating detail. No losses, noise, dynamic mechanical solve, stress field, temperature or fabrication qualification are claimed. This is an analytical compact model, not a FEM/FDTD result. NIR light uses false colour.
The project
Photonics is AIFIELD’s starting point. Our goal is one environment for micro-optics, photonic circuits, micro- and nanoelectronics, MEMS and mechanical design, across millimetre, micrometre and nanometre scales. Today the photonic workflow is the most mature: geometry, layers and processes, with optical, circuit and thermal modelling. The other domains are earlier.
For engineers and researchers connecting optics, electronics and mechanics. We start from the photonic workflows we can already show and agree the scope each design needs.
Where the work stands
Updated October 2026
We have built a photonic CAD with optical, circuit and thermal calculations, compared its engines against our own reference solver, designed a receiver test chip in it, and added an AI assistant whose proposals the designer reviews.
Our comparisons are internal: they are not measurements on fabricated chips. Neural field prediction is still research, and we state its boundary conditions with every result.
Next: a reproducible demonstration, a clear account of what each tool can and cannot do, and the comparison conditions published with every result. Demos are arranged on request.
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