News tagged with imec
Imec achieves breakthrough in battery-less radios
At today's International Solid State Circuit Conference, Imec and Holst Centre report a 2.4GHz/915MHz wake-up receiver which consumes only 51µW power. This record low power achievement opens the door to battery-less ...
Feb 09, 2010 |
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3-D Chip Design Challenges
(PhysOrg.com) -- With the increase functionality of electronic gadgets, the need to pack more transistors into a single package is becoming a needed necessity. There’s a big demand, in the consumer market, ...
Feb 21, 2010 |
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Micromachined piezoelectric harvester drives fully autonomous wireless sensor
For the first time, a piezoelectric harvesting device fabricated by MEMS technology generates a record of 85μW electrical power from vibrations. A wafer level packaging method was developed for robustness. ...
Dec 15, 2009 |
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IMEC reports method to integrate plasmonic technology with state-of-the-art ICs
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 ...
Apr 30, 2009 |
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45-nanometer chips for ultra-fast WiFi
(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.
Jul 29, 2009 |
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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
Sep 06, 2010 |
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IMEC develops low-cost low-power 60GHz solutions in digital 45nm CMOS
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 ...
Feb 09, 2009 |
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Cooperative design shaves chip-making costs -- a boost for Europe's bottom line
(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 ...
Oct 06, 2009 |
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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 ...
Dec 02, 2011 |
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Record performance of dual-gate organic TFT-based RFID circuit
At today's International Solid State Circuit Conference (ISSCC), Holst Centre, Imec and TNO present a dual-gate-based organic RFID chip with record data rate and lowest reported operating voltage. For the ...
Feb 09, 2010 |
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IMEC Virtual Camera (iVC), the ultimate angle on reality
At the NAB Show in Las Vegas, the nanotechnology research center imec presents imec Virtual Camera (iVC), a revolutionary new video technology for dynamic viewing and advanced image manipulation.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Apr 13, 2010 |
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Imec, Renesas and M4S report a single-chip reconfigurable multi-standard wireless transceiver in 40nm CMOS
At today's International Solid State Circuit Conference, Imec and its research partners Renesas Technology Corp. and M4S present a complete transceiver with RF, baseband and data converter circuits in 40nm ...
Feb 12, 2010 |
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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 ...
Oct 11, 2011 |
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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 ...
May 02, 2012 |
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IMEC shows optimizations for next-generation transistors
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 ...
Jul 14, 2009 |
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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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