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Imec has demo-ed a major advancement in silicon-based wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) – a compact 32-channel silicon-based wavelength filter with low loss and high tuning efficiency, enabling a 4x increase in the number of transmitted and received wavelength channels compared to today’s commercial transceivers. The demonstrated capability will enable continued scaling of the bandwidth density and power efficiency of next-generation silicon-photonics-based ...

Semiconductor devices fabricated in 2021 have a CO2 equivalent footprint of about 175 megatonnes, equivalent to the yearly emissions associated with about 30 million people. Using imec.netzero, a virtual fab model developed in the frame of imec’s Sustainable Semiconductor Technologies and Systems (SSTS) program, imec showed that together, lithography and etch contribute over 40% of advanced logic node Scope 1 ...

There's space laser communications, FD-SOI/ePCM 32bit MCUs from ST, an AI vision and real-time control MCU for industrial robots and machinery, and Imec's nanowell FET design...

Imec, the Spanish government and the regional government of Andalusia have signed an MoU outlining their intent to establish a specialised 300mm IC pilot line in Malaga, Andalusia. The facility intends to complement Imec’s existing 300mm advanced CMOS process line in Leuven, Belgium, with new 300mm processes developments and the introduction of new materials that are difficult to combine today ...

Imec has unveiled another pioneering design – the nanowell FET. Building upon traditional FinFET principles, this innovation introduces an additional well in the nanowire that further enhances the sensitivity of the device. The device features a 35-40nm wide silicon FinFET with a 25nm nanowell as the active sensing area. Within the well, binding of an estimated ten short single-stranded DNA ...

World-renowned semiconductor research lab Imec has named Lisa Su, chair and CEO of AMD, as the winner of the 2024 Imec Innovation Award. “Since taking the helm of AMD in 2014, Dr Su’s technological acumen and leadership have propelled the company to the forefront of semiconductor technology development,” said Imec CEO Luc Van den hove. “Under her leadership, AMD has ...

Implants that push into the surface of the brain to gain electrical access to neurons have to be connected to the outside world somehow. Thin umbilical cables to the scull tend to be the answer. These cables need to be very flexible as the brain is fixed within the skull, but rather ‘floats’ in liquid (cerebrospinal fluid – ‘CSF’) within ...

Imec has launched an early-access process design kit for the N2 (2nm ICs) node. “The PDK will enable virtual digital designs in imec’s N2 technology, including backside power delivery network,” according to the Belgion semiconductor research lab. “This will give academia and industry the tools to train the semiconductor experts of tomorrow and enable the industry to transition their products ...

Imec has come up with a perovskite LED stack emitting light a thousand times brighter than state-of-the-art OLEDs. This result is a pivotal milestone towards a perovskite injection laser, promising applications in image projection, environmental sensing, medical diagnostics, and beyond. The maximum brightness of OLEDs remains limited; just think of trying to read your smartphone screen on a very sunny ...

Belgian research lab Imec is claiming to have created a metal halide perovskite LED stack that emits 1,000x more light “than state-of-the-art OLEDs”, it said. With the assistance of an external laser, the same stack exhibited the electrically-pumped amplified spontaneous emission that would be necessary in a laser. The “result is a milestone towards a perovskite injection laser, promising applications ...