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array alignments and fully integrating the resulting automated ﬂows into advanced test

cells will be essential to meet the escalating manufacturing demands of next-generation

silicon photonics.

Author Contributions: Conceptualization, R.V., M.M. and S.M.; methodology, M.B., A.G. and R.V.;

software (algorithm writing and simulation), M.B.; investigation (research and experiment data

recording), M.B. and A.G.; resources (hardware design and build), A.G. and R.V.; writing—original

draft preparation, M.B.; writing—review and editing, M.B., A.G., M.M. and S.M.; supervision, M.M.

and S.M.; project administration, A.G. and R.V. All authors have read and agreed to the published

version of the manuscript.

Funding: Funded by the European Union (Grant Agreement No. 101072491). Views and opinions

expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reﬂect those of the European

Union or the European Research Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting

authority can be held responsible for them.

Institutional Review Board Statement: Not applicable.

Informed Consent Statement: Not applicable.

Data Availability Statement: The data presented in this study are available on request from the

corresponding author.

Conﬂicts of Interest: Authors Mehdi Bejani, Alessia Galli, Riccardo Vettori, and Marco Mauri were

employed by the company Technoprobe S.p.A. The authors declare that this research was conducted

as part of a collaboration between Politecnico di Milano and Technoprobe S.p.A. within the EU-

funded project (Grant Agreement No. 101072491). The remaining authors declare that the research

was conducted in the absence of any commercial or ﬁnancial relationships that could be construed as

a potential conﬂict of interest.

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