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Cooperative design shaves chip-making costs -- a boost for Europe's bottom line

Technology / Semiconductors

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A European-sponsored programme that gives universities inexpensive access to state-of-the-art microchip design tools and fabrication techniques, and helps even small businesses fabricate novel ...


IMEC's mechanically stacked GaAs/Ge cell

IMEC unveils promising mechanically-stacked GaAs/Ge multijunction solar cell

Technology / Semiconductors

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

At the European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference (Hamburg, Germany), IMEC presents a mechanically-stacked GaAs/Ge multijunction solar cell. This is the first promising demonstrator of IMEC’s novel technology ...


Wireless sensor systems enable a better sleep

Wireless sensor systems enable a better sleep

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Today, at IEEE EMB Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA), IMEC and its research affiliate Holst Centre present the clinical validation of a wireless sleep staging system.


45-nanometer chips for ultra-fast WiFi

45-nanometer chips for ultra-fast WiFi

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jul 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Powerful new radio technologies that promise blisteringly fast WiFi have been given a boost by a team of European researchers’ cutting-edge work on miniscule microchips.


IMEC shows optimizations for next-generation transistors

IMEC shows optimizations for next-generation transistors

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jul 14, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

IMEC has achieved promising results in the race to scale CMOS to 22nm and below. The breakthroughs from its transistor scaling programs include a successful integration of the laser-anneal technique in a high-K/metal-gate ...


IMEC reports method to integrate plasmonic technology with state-of-the-art ICs

IMEC reports method to integrate plasmonic technology with state-of-the-art ICs

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 1

IMEC reports a method to integrate high-speed CMOS electronics and nanophotonic circuitry based on plasmonic effects. Metal-based nanophotonics (plasmonics) can squeeze light into nanoscale structures that ...


Low-power 60GHz solution in digital 45nm CMOS

IMEC develops low-cost low-power 60GHz solutions in digital 45nm CMOS

Technology / Semiconductors

created Feb 09, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

At this week’s International Solid State Circuits Conference, IMEC presents a 60GHz front-end receive chain, phase-locked loop and power amplifier in 45nm digital CMOS technology. These building blocks pave ...