Company · Livingston

Helia Photonics

Helia Photonics is a hardware company based in Livingston, incorporated in Scotland in 2002 (SC232228).

What they do

“Helia Photonics headquartered in Livingston, Scotland, is a company renowned for its expertise in III-V & Si photonics BEoL processes, thin film optical coating technologies and offers an array of advanced services catering to a wide range of optical and semiconductor applications.”

In its own words, on helia-photonics.com

In plain speak

They design and manufacture optical coatings and photonics components for semiconductor and optical applications.

In the news

ECOC partner Q&A with Helia Photonics

Technology Scotland · 6 Sep 2023

Grants

Awarded a £72.1k Innovate UK grant for "BriGaNd - Bridging the gap : Gallium Nitride on Diamond"

1 Oct 2025 · Innovate UK

Partner in an Innovate UK-funded project, "ORSAM – Optical Reference Systems via Additive Manufacturing"

1 Oct 2022 · UKRI Gateway to Research

Partner in an Iscf-funded project, "369GaN"

1 Jan 2021 · UKRI Gateway to Research

Awarded a £27k Scottish Enterprise grant from the Covid-19 resilience and hardship funds

26 Aug 2020 · Scottish Enterprise

Partner in an Innovate UK-funded project, "University of the West of Scotland and Helia Photonics Limited"

1 Aug 2019 · UKRI Gateway to Research

Awarded a £124k Eu grant for "BRICS"

1 Jul 2018 · UKRI Gateway to Research

Awarded a £178k Eu grant for "Chemical Sensor based on a Miniaturised Infrared Spectrophotometer"

1 May 2018 · UKRI Gateway to Research

Partner in an Innovate UK-funded project, "CoolBlue2"

1 Apr 2018 · UKRI Gateway to Research

Awarded a £154k Innovate UK grant for "Novel microwave plasma sputter deposition process providing enhanced optical coatings NMPLAS"

1 Mar 2018 · UKRI Gateway to Research

Partner in an Innovate UK-funded project, "GaNAmP"

1 Feb 2018 · UKRI Gateway to Research

Partner in an Innovate UK-funded project, "Novel microwave plasma sputter deposition process, enhanced durability coatings NMPLAS"

1 Oct 2017 · UKRI Gateway to Research

Awarded a £45k Innovate UK grant for "Development of a range of advanced thin film coatings for fibre-optic hydrophones."

1 Jul 2013 · Innovate UK

Timeline

6 Sep 2023newsECOC partner Q&A with Helia Photonics
13 Sep 2010directorCaspar Christopher Garnham Clark appointed Director
13 Aug 2002directorNicholas Somerville appointed Director
13 Aug 2002directorRobert Fraser Clyde appointed Director
13 Aug 2002directorRobert Samuel appointed Director
8 Jul 2002directorGerald Stuart, Dr Buller appointed Director
30 May 2002incorporatedHelia Photonics incorporated as SC232228

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