Type Nonprofit company Revenue 363 million EUR (2014) Founded 1984, Leuven, Belgium Parent organization IMEC International | Services Research, education Founder Roger Van Overstraeten Headquarters Leuven, Belgium | |
Industry micro- and nano-electronics, solar cell Genre Independent research center Number of locations Taiwan, Japan, United States, China, Netherlands and India Key people Luc Van den Hove, President and CEO CEO Luc Van den hove (1 Jul 2009–) Similar SPIE, Institute of Electrical and Elect, The Electrochemical Society, Industrial Technology Research Profiles | ||
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IMEC is an international renowned research institute that performs research in different fields of nanoelectronics. Imec is headquartered in Leuven, Belgium, and has offices in the Netherlands, Taiwan, USA, China, India, Nepal and Japan. Its staff counts more than 2,200 people including industrial residents and guest researchers. Recent numbers on budget, staff, publications etc. are published every year in April in a press release. Research results are published every month in imec magazine.
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History
In 1982 the Flemish Government set up a program in the field of microelectronics with the goal to strengthen the microelectronics industry in Flanders. The decision was inspired by the strategic importance of microelectronics for the industry, and by the major investments required to keep up with developments in this field.
This program included setting up a laboratory for advanced research in microelectronics (IMEC), a semiconductor foundry (former Alcatel Microelectronics, now STMicroelectronics and AMI Semiconductor), and a training program for VLSI design engineers. The latter is now fully integrated in the IMEC activities.
IMEC was founded in 1984 as a non-profit organization led by Prof. Roger Baron Van Overstraeten. It is supervised by a Board of Directors, which includes delegates from industry, Flemish universities and the Flemish Government. Since 1984, IMEC has been led by Roger Van Overstraeten, Gilbert Declerck (as of June 1999), and Luc Van den hove (as of July 2009).
Campus
The IMEC campus in Leuven, Belgium includes 24,400m² of office space, laboratories, training facilities, and technical support rooms. At the heart of the campus are 2 state-of-the-art cleanrooms which run a semi-industrial operation (24/7). There is a 300mm cleanroom (450mm ready) that focuses on R&D towards (sub-)10 nm process technology and a 200mm cleanroom for R&D, development-on-demand, prototyping and low volume manufacturing on more-than-Moore technologies (sensors, actuators, and MEMS, NEMS etc.). IMEC has, among others, a pilot line for silicon and organic solar cells, unique laboratories for bioelectronics research, and equipment for materials characterization and reliability testing. For research on technologies for the intuitive internet of things, IMEC has dedicated labs for sensor and imaging technologies, wireless connectivity.
Research domains
IMEC has driven the semiconductor roadmap for more than 30 years. With its global nanoelectronics open innovation platform, IMEC brings together the entire semiconductor eco system including the leading foundries, IDMs, fabless and fablite companies, material and equipment suppliers. Together with its partners, IMEC develops new technologies and processes for sub-10 nm CMOS scaling, both for logic and memory technology. Looking even 10 years ahead, they explore options to create chips with transistor dimensions smaller than 5 nm. With their global leading semiconductor partners, they pioneer the use of new materials and transistor architectures, processing technologies, integration and design methods.
IMEC performs research on different application fields of nanoelectronics, applications related to the intuitive internet of things, healthcare and energy. More specifically this includes wearable health monitoring (EEG, ECG sensors, ...), life sciences (lab-on-chip, cells-on-chip, neuroprobes); wireless communication (reconfigurable radios, radar, ...); image sensors and vision systems (hyperspectral imaging, lens free microscopy, ...); large-area flexible electronics; solar cells and batteries; GaN power electronics, ….
Locations
Leuven, Belgium; Eindhoven, The Netherlands; Hsinchu, Taiwan; Shanghai, China; Bangalore, India; San Francisco, California, United States; Kissimmee, Florida, United States; Tokyo, Japan; Osaka, Japan.