Erik Hosler

Erik Hosler has focused his career on light source development and innovation, striving to industrialize scientific light sources for commercial applications. From GLOBALFOUNDRIES to xLight and FylEx, high-harmonic sources to free-electron lasers, Erik has lead billion dollar programs and advocated for major scientific research centers around light source technology. Specifically, Erik drove the semiconductor industry toward FEL-based lithography sources since 2014, which has now reached a critical inflection point.

Erik Hosler has founded several companies, including FylEx and xLight, organizations focused on industrializing particle accelerator technology and the associated applications to deliver a paradigm shifting light source technology for semiconductor manufacturing and beyond. Erik received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in Physical Chemistry, and afterwards he went into lithography research and development at GlobalFoundries, eventually leading the industrialization program of EUV lithography. He has published a variety of technical papers on lithography and light source technology, including on industrialized free-electron lasers. Erik also worked at PsiQuantum as the lithography and patterning strategist for initial silicon photonic quantum computing test vehicles before starting xLight and FylEx to drive the industrialization of novel light source architectures.