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Imec demonstrates a low-power 7Gbps 60GHz transceiver for the wireless consumer market

Imec, in collaboration with Panasonic, has developed a prototype of a 60GHz radio transceiver allowing to reach data rates of 7Gbps over short distances at very low power consumption. The chip achieves this ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created May 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Imec releases industry’s first 14nm process development kit

Imec today announces that it has released an early-version PDK (process development kit) for 14nm logic chips. This PDK is the industry’s first to address the 14nm technology node. It targets the introduction of a number ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (5) | comments 1

HELIOS makes silicon breakthrough

Researchers in Europe have succeeded in presenting an integrated tuneable transmitter on silicon - the first time this has ever happened. This results are an outcome of the HELIOS ('Photonics electronics functional ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Mar 30, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Imec, Polyera, Solvay set 8.3% efficiency record for organic solar cell with inverted device

Imec, Polyera and international chemical group Solvay have achieved a new world-record efficiency of 8.3% for polymer-based single junction organic solar cells in an inverted device stack. These excellent performance results ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Imec reports smallest fully-functional HfO2-based Resistive RAM cell

At today's 2011 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), imec presents the world’s smallest, fully-functional HfO2-based Resistive RAM (RRAM) cell, with an area of less than 10x10nm². The new cell shows ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Imec demonstrates CMOS integrated poly-SiGe piezoresistive pressure sensor

Imec realized an integrated poly-SiGe-based piezoresistive pressure sensor directly fabricated above 0.13 µm copper (Cu) -backend CMOS technology. This represents not only the first integrated poly-SiGe ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Imec unveils innovative technology for an ECG patch

Imec and Holst Centre announce an innovative body patch that integrates an ultra-low power electrocardiogram (ECG) chip and a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) radio. This unique combination fuses power-efficient ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Imec achieves breakthroughs in enabling future DRAM and RRAM

In the frame of its research on future memory architectures, imec has made breakthroughs for both DRAM and RRAM memories. For DRAM, MIMcap (metal-insulator-metal capacitor) was established as a clear candidate for 1X DRAM ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jul 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Imec processes first power devices on 200mm CMOS-compatible GaN-on-Si

(PhysOrg.com) -- Imec and its partners in the GaN industrial affiliation program (IIAP) have produced device-quality wafers with GaN/AlGaN layers on 200mm silicon wafers.

Technology / Semiconductors

created May 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Imec and Atrenta develop exploration flows for 3D ICs

Atrenta Inc., a leading provider of SoC Realization solutions for the semiconductor and electronic systems industries, in collaboration with imec’s 3D integration IIAP (industrial affiliation program), have jointly developed ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created May 24, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Ultra-thin solar blind EUV imager reported by Imec

Yesterday at the International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco imec presents an ultra-thin hybrid AlGaN-on-Si-based extreme ultraviolet (EUV) imager with only 10µm pixel-to-pixel pitch. The wide-bandgap material ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 08, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Panasonic, Imec present new thin film packaged MEMS resonator

Panasonic and imec present at the International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco an innovative SiGe (silicon germanium) thin film packaged SOI-based MEMS resonator featuring an industry-record Q factor ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 07, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Imec reports progress in deep sub-micron scaling for logic and memory

At the International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco Imec's advanced CMOS research program reports promising advances in scaling logic, DRAM and non-volatile memory.

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 06, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Platform for in-vitro study of brain tissue developed by Imec and PEIRA

The nanoelectronics research centre imec and Peira, a Belgium-based manufacturer of pharmaceutical and chemical research instruments, jointly developed an innovative slice-tilting instrument for in-vitro research ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 17, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Imec reports large-area silicon solar cells with high efficiency

At the 25th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference (Valencia, Spain), Imec presents several large-area silicon solar cells with a conversion efficiency above 19%.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Sep 06, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 4