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Project

MINERVA: MIcro- and NanoElectronics Research VAlidation

Electronics has become an essential part of our society. This is mainly thanks to the continuous improvement of semiconductor technologies. Today, nanotechnologies allow designers and engineers to build and develop highly complex systems and chips for a plethora of applications. The research on such novel electronic circuits, integrated in a nanotechnology, requires validation by fabricating and testing the designed chips. This prototype validation is crucial in this research domain. It strengthens the valorization potential and increases the relevance of the research. This investment enables the research groups to design chips and have them fabricated in order to test them. This will enforce the position of KU Leuven and of Flanders in the micro-electronics research domain. The different applications, supported by this investment, are very diverse: it ranges from THz electronics to biomedical measurements, from optical communications to power management of complex chips.
This proposal uses a service model, in which we will make use of chip fabrication services offered by third parties. The proposed service infrastructure has a major advantage: it stays up-to-date during the entire duration of the project, always using the most advanced technologies. On the other hand, this is not a hardware investment abroad, since the real hardware (i.e. the chip) will be physically present in the lab of the research groups.
 

Date:1 May 2018 →  30 Apr 2022
Keywords:MINERVA, MIcro-and NanoElectronics Research VAlidation
Disciplines:Sensors, biosensors and smart sensors, Other electrical and electronic engineering, Electronics, Nanotechnology, Design theories and methods