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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

New record low-power multi-standard transceiver for sensor networks

Imec and Holst Centre announce a 2.3/2.4GHz transmitter for wireless sensor applications compliant with 4 wireless standards (IEEE802.15.6/4/4g and Bluetooth Low Energy). The transmitter has been fabricated ...

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created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Compact, low-cost and fast hyperspectral imaging solution

At SPIE Photonics West 2012, imec demonstrates a hyperspectral camera solution based on a system-on-chip image sensor with an integrated hyperspectral sensor. Imec’s solution is fast and enables small ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | 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 ...

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

Interdigitated back-contact silicon solar cells above 23% efficiency

Imec together with its silicon photovoltaic industrial affiliation program partners Schott Solar, Total, Photovoltech, GDF-SUEZ, Solland Solar, Kaneka and Dow Corning, have demonstrated an excellent conversion ...

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created Dec 02, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 1

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 ...

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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 ...

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

Implant-free quantum-well SiGe pFETs for future high-performance CMOS architectures

Imec announces that it has successfully fabricated implant-free quantum-well (IF-QW) pFETs with an embedded silicon-germanium (SiGe) source/drain. These devices show an excellent short channel control and a record logic performance. ...

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created Jul 12, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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 ...

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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.

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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.

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

IMEC

Coordinates: 50°51′55.5″N 4°40′46.5″E / 50.865417°N 4.679583°E / 50.865417; 4.679583

Imec (Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre) is a micro- and nanoelectronics research center headquartered in Leuven, Belgium, with offices in Belgium, the Netherlands, Taiwan, USA, China and Japan. Its staff of about 1,900 people includes more than 500 industrial residents and guest researchers. In 2010, imec's revenue (P&L) was 285 million euro.

Imec is a registered trademark for the activities of IMEC International (a legal entity set up under Belgian law as a "stichting van openbaar nut"), imec Belgium (IMEC vzw supported by the Flemish government), imec the Netherlands (Stichting IMEC Nederland, part of Holst Centre which is supported by the Dutch government), imec Taiwan (IMEC Taiwan Co.) and imec China (IMEC Microelectronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.).

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