Infrastructure
Since its start, 27 years ago, imec has built a research campus that can stand the comparison with any, worldwide. Our researchers and partners have all the infrastructure and equipment they need to do advanced research in their domain. We now have 24,400m² of office space, laboratories, training facilities, and technical support rooms.
Our showpieces are the two cleanrooms that run a semi-industrial operation, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, all year round.
There is our 300mm cleanroom, in which we do research and development on (sub-)22nm process technology. In 2010 we extended our 300mm cleanroom, enlarging the available space with 50%. We are now ready to install more tools. Larger tools also, ready for the next-generation of 450mm wafers. We also opened a new biolab, new solar cell labs, and the Intel Exascience Lab.
Then there is the 200mm cleanroom, used for research and development on heterogeneous integration. It supports semiconductor manufacturing processes with added functionality, such as sensors, actuators, and MEMS and NEMS.
State-of-the-art laboratories
- Ultralarge-scale-integration design methodology lab
- Microsystems lab
- Ultra-clean processing lab
- Lab for material and device characterization
- Lab for physico-chemical-analysis
- Lab for automatic device and circuit measurement
- Organic electronics lab
- Packaging and testing-equipment lab
- Reliability lab
- RF lab
- Lab for the development of biosensors
- Lab for the development of neuro-electronic hybrid systems