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Integrated Production of Photovoltaic Modules Based on Ultra-Thin Crystalline Si

Imec has started work, together with its project partners, on SUGAR, a project under the EU’s 7th framework program for ICT. The project’s goal is to develop a process for the integrated production of photovoltaic modules based on ultra-thin crystalline Si.

From IMEC 21 Oct 2010

Smart Miniaturized System for Continuous Health Monitoring of Composites

European FP7 funded project SmartFiber, a consortium led by imec and including partners Ghent University, Airborne, FBGS Technologies, Xenics, Fraunhofer and Optocap, will develop a smart miniaturized system for continuous health monitoring of composites that integrates optical fiber sensor technology, nanophotonic chip technology and low-power wireless technology.

From IMEC 21 Oct 2010

Imec Successfully Develop Mixed-Signal ASIC for Space Applications

Imec has used its design against radiation effects DARE library for the commercial 0.18µm UMC CMOS process to design a mixed-signal application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) for Tesat-Spacecom.

From IMEC 21 Oct 2010

Innovative Flexible Shear Sensor for Medical Applications

Researchers from imec’s associated lab at Ghent University have invented an innovative way to fabricate shear sensors for use on flexible surfaces, such as human or robotic skin. The new sensors are based on optical technology embedded in thin flexible substrates.

From IMEC 21 Oct 2010

Milestone in imec's Program on GaN Power Devices

Imec and its partners have successfully fabricated Au-free, Si-processing compatible GaN power devices on a 6 inch Si wafer. This result is a milestone in imec’s industrial affiliation program (IIAP) on GaN power and light-emitting (LED) devices that targets cost reduction as one of the main objectives.

From IMEC 21 Oct 2010

Combined Technique to Measure Behavior of Electrical Materials at Nanoscale

The UK's National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is working to provide more reliable measurement of the electrical properties of materials used in nanotechnology – which could lead to much more accurate devices in t...

21 Oct 2010

New Breakthrough Paves Way for Novel Quantum Dot-Based Devices

Chinese researchers, reporting in the Journal of Applied Physics, published by the American Institute of Physics, have described a new breakthrough in understanding the way electrons travel around quantum dots. This m...

21 Oct 2010

U-M Researchers’ New Equation Can Enable Wider Adoption of Organic Semiconductors

A groundbreaking new equation developed in part by researchers at the University of Michigan could do for organic semiconductors what the Shockley ideal diode equation did for inorganic semiconductors: help to enable the...

21 Oct 2010

Advanced ID Announces Partnership for Developing New UHF RFID Tags

Advanced ID Corporation, a global provider of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags and readers, is pleased to announce a development partnership with Solrayo Inc. and Enable IPC Corp.

21 Oct 2010

AFS Nano Platform Chosen by Analog and Mixed-Signal IP Developer

Berkeley Design Automation Inc., provider of the Analog FastSPICE™ unified circuit verification platform today announced that Mohagi, a developer of energy-efficient analog and mixed-signal IP, has selected the company's Analog FastSPICE Nano SPICE simulator (AFS Nano) for analog and mixed-signal IP verification.

20 Oct 2010