Associated laboratories at Flemish universities and at one higher polytechnic school fine-tune their long-term strategy with IMEC. Their results are described here. Collaborations with other university laboratories are not listed here, but mentioned throughout the texts.

Research at associated labs

• Ghent University (UGent/INTEC)
  • General introduction
  • INTEC design
    • Training hardware design engineers at INTEC-design
    • Ten-gigabit-per-second passive optical networks
    • Automotive optical transceivers
    • Ranging-enabled RF transceivers
    • Broadband over power line
  • Electromagnetics
    • Introduction on electromagnetics
    • Advanced simulation technologies for high-frequency communication systems
    • Antennas and propagation
    • Microwave and mm-wave imaging for biomedical, security and non-destructive evaluation applications
    • Fast multipole methods
  • Photonics
    • Introduction on photonics
    • Silicon photonics
    • Micro- and nanophotonic components for ICs
    • Photonic systems applications
    • Clean room facilities and technology development for photonics
    • Theory and numerical simulation for photonics
  • Formal methods in systems modeling
  • Microsystems integration
    • Introduction on micro-systems integration
    • High-density interconnection
    • Large-area electronics
    • Optical interconnects and sensors
    • Display systems
    • Smart-power ASIC design
  • System design activities
    • Introduction on system design activities
    • Optical interconnections in electronic circuits
    • Hardware accelerated embedded systems using FPGAs
    • CMOS reversible logic circuits
• Katholieke Hogeschool Brugge-Oostende (KHBO)
  • General introduction
  • Training and innovation projects
  • Hardware and software system integration
• UHasselt/IMO & IMOMEC
  • General introduction
  • Electrical characterization and reliability
    • AC electromigration testing
    • High sputter bias super secondary Cu grain growth initiation (in structures)
    • High-temperature reliability issues of gate oxides
    • Synthesis and characterization of submicron metal-oxide coatings
  • Plastic electronics
    • Introduction
    • Recent progress in the synthesis of low band gap/high mobility polymers
    • Synthesis of n-type conjugated polymers
    • Stability and degradation of organic based electronic devices
    • Organic & Nanostructured hybrid photovoltaic devices
    • High sensitive photophysical study of organic and metal oxide nanomaterial based thin films
  • Wide Band Gap Materials
    • Seeding issues and growth of nanocrystalline diamond
    • Doping of CVD diamond
    • Diamond thickness shear mode resonator
  • Biosensors
    • Biosensors
    • Diamond based biosensors
  • Metal-oxide nanomaterials
    • Introduction
    • High-throughput synthesis
    • Solution based synthesis
  • Physics of nanostructures
    • Size-dependent properties of nanostructures
    • Using nanostructures to functionalize surfaces
    • Molecular electronics - from extended metal/molecule/metal junctions to single-molecule based devices
• Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) ETRO/ELEC
  • General introduction
  • Laboratory for micro- and photonelectronics (LAMI)
    • Introduction
    • Optoelectronics
    • Milimeter-wave technology
    • Living systems
  • Laboratory for image processing and machine vision (IRIS)
    • Introduction
    • Ambient multimedia
    • Medical imaging
    • Computer vision and imaging
    • Mathematical problems in imaging
  • Laboratory for digital speech and audio processing (DSSP)
  • Laboratory for microwave microelectronic measurement and modeling (4M)
  • ETRO-TELE - laboratory for digital telecommunications and parallel & distributed processing

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