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4.679583 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 . 2 research results are published every month in imec magazine . 3 contents 1 history 2 campus 3 research domains 4 references 5 external links history edit 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 edit the imec campus in leuven belgium includes 24 400m 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 edit imec has driven the semiconductor roadmap for more than 30 years . with its global nanoelectronics open innovation platform imer 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 . sub 10 nm cmos scaling advanced lithography logic devices memory devices interconnect scaling 3d system integration optical interconnect gan power electronics wearable health monitoring life sciences nerf neuroelectronics research flanders exascience life lab wireless communication 60 ghz wireless communication ultra low power wireless communication reconfigurable radio analog rf front end reconfigurable radio digital baseband 79 ghz radar adc analog to digital converters image sensors and vision systems hyperspectral imaging embedded ccd backside illumination ultrasound imaging lens free microscopy large area flexible electronics solar cells and batteries silicon solar cells thin film solar cells sensor systems for industrial applications ultra low power dsp ultra low power wireless communication micro power generation and storage sensors and actuators cmos heterogeneous integration human wearable medical devices life science technologies such as integrated micro pcr neuroprosthetics chips for in vitro diagnostics dna sequencing and hybridisation protein detection sensor technology and high performance computing for life sciences wireless communication nvision energy cmos based nanoelectronics nanotechnology and post cmos nanoelectronics characterisation reliability and modelling multi mode multimedia m4 technologies wireless autonomous transducer solutions solar cells large area cmos based image sensors back illuminated cis advanced packaging and interconnection technologies bumping wlp 3d chip stacking through silicon vias power efficient devices based on iii v materials gan gaas ... organic electronics rf devices and technology mems for rf and millimeterwave applications design methodologies and technology in the context of eda power mems euvl references edit about imec company profile . web site . retrieved 15 april 2015 . ideaxis . imec . http www.magazine.imec.be external links edit official website more info on the monthly imec magazine a movie on the imec campus a movie that gives an overview of imec expertise imec s movie channel on vimeo and youtube retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title imec & oldid 726615993 categories organizations established in 1984companies of belgiuminternational research institutesresearch institutes in belgiumscientific organisations based in belgiumelectronics companiesleuvenhidden categories articles with a promotional tone from april 2015all articles with a promotional tonearticles needing additional references from september 2014all articles needing additional referencesarticles lacking reliable references from september 2011all articles lacking reliable referencescoordinates not on wikidata navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutschfran aisnederlands suomi edit links this page was last modified on 23 june 2016 at 08 08 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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