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22 - 06 - 2010
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Imec reports breakthrough for next-generation vertical Flash memories
Program/erase characteristics on a vertical charge trap Flash cell with poly-Si substrate and corresponding cross-section.
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Imec realized a vertical Flash transistor with Si plug diameters down to 20nm. The associated vertical Flash platform paves the way to scale Flash memory to the next nodes. The vertical device concept features enhanced performance at lower voltages as well as reduced cost.
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Imec’s CMORE offering extended with SiGe-MEMS foundry service and MPW service
Imec extends its CMORE service with a SiGe-MEMS foundry service and a multi-project wafer (MPW) service for universities and research centers via its EUROPRACTICE IC service. Both services are based on a monolithically integrated SiGe MEMS baseline process and come with an extended design kit.
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Micro-mirrors realized with imec’s SiGe-based MEMS platform.
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Making visible what the human eye can’t see – hyperspectral imaging
Future melanoma pen (artist impression).
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Imagine a pen-sized device to check your skin for melanoma. You skim the surface of your skin, and, if necessary, the pen advises you to see your physician to have a closer look at a certain spot. Such a pen would scan your skin, and detect if skin cancer is developing, even in an early stage. It would distinguish between healthy and suspicious spots, even if you can see no difference.
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Missed the future visions at the Imec Technology Forum 2010? Watch some HIGHLIGHTS here.
“Are we ready for what’s next?” With this quote, ITF2010 keynote speaker Phillip Vandervoort (Microsoft Belgium & Luxembourg) referred to the changing economic structure in which we operate. But it could as well be viewed the common thread throughout imec’s latest Technology Forum.
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Optical ethanol vapor sensor shows potential of SOI-based integrated gas sensors
An ethanol vapor sensor is fabricated using a ZnO nanoparticle film as a coating on a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) microring resonator of 5µm in radius. The sensor can detect ethanol vapor concentrations as low as 100ppm. This achievement successfully demonstrates the potential of SOI technology for the development of sensitive, compact, low-power and inexpensive optical gas sensing devices.
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Imec and partners study promising application of GeSn for future pMOS devices
GeSn materials show promise, for example as embedded source/drain stressors for Ge channels in future pMOS devices. Imec has started a collaboration to assess the possible applications of GeSn materials, and to see how these applications could be implemented. First results show, among others, that GeSn (with 2-8% Sn) materials are compatible with conventional source/drain engineering processes.
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Imec demonstrates integrated electrical sources of surface plasmons
Imec has fabricated electrical sources of surface plasmons, based on integrating light emitting diodes with metal-insulator-metal (MIM) waveguides. These sources, together with earlier work demonstrating plasmon detectors, are a prerequisite for making an interface between electronics and plasmonic circuits. This will lead the way to fully integrated plasmonic biosensing.
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Press releases
Recent imec press releases on the Internet.
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