IMEC, the Glossary
Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre (imec) is an international research & development organization, active in the fields of nanoelectronics and digital technologies with headquarters in Belgium.[1]
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39 relations: Andalusia Technology Park, Belgium, Breathalyzer, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Cleanroom, COVID-19, DARPA, Die shrink, Digital electronics, Everglades, Export control, Financial Times, Flanders, Flemish Government, Hasselt University, Huawei, IMinds, KU Leuven, Leuven, Luc Van den hove, Málaga, Microelectronics, Nanoelectronics, NASA, Neuropixels, Onsemi, Politico Europe, Rapidus, Research and development, Roger Van Overstraeten, Semiconductor, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation, Sieve, STMicroelectronics, The New York Times, UZ Leuven, Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie, VLSI Technology, 2 nm process.
- Companies based in Leuven
- Information technology organisations based in Belgium
- Research institutes in Belgium
Andalusia Technology Park
The Andalusia Technology Park (Parque Tecnológico de Andalucía, PTA) in Málaga is a small science park.
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Belgium
Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe.
See IMEC and Belgium
Breathalyzer
A breathalyzer or breathalyser (a portmanteau of breath and analyzer/analyser), also called an alcohol meter, is a device for measuring breath alcohol content (BrAC).
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) is an organization established and owned by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan with an investment of 99 percent of the couple's wealth from their Facebook shares over their lifetime.
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Cleanroom
A cleanroom or clean room is an engineered space that maintains a very low concentration of airborne particulates.
COVID-19
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.
DARPA
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is a research and development agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military.
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Die shrink
The term die shrink (sometimes optical shrink or process shrink) refers to the scaling of metal–oxide–semiconductor (MOS) devices.
Digital electronics
Digital electronics is a field of electronics involving the study of digital signals and the engineering of devices that use or produce them.
See IMEC and Digital electronics
Everglades
The Everglades is a natural region of flooded grasslands in the southern portion of the U.S. state of Florida, comprising the southern half of a large drainage basin within the Neotropical realm.
Export control
Export control is legislation that regulates the export of goods, software and technology.
Financial Times
The Financial Times (FT) is a British daily newspaper printed in broadsheet and also published digitally that focuses on business and economic current affairs.
Flanders
Flanders (Dutch: Vlaanderen) is the Dutch-speaking northern portion of Belgium and one of the communities, regions and language areas of Belgium.
Flemish Government
The Flemish Government (Vlaamse regering) is the executive branch of the Flemish Community and the Flemish Region of Belgium.
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Hasselt University
Hasselt University (Dutch: Universiteit Hasselt or UHasselt) is a public research university with campuses in Hasselt and Diepenbeek, Belgium.
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Huawei
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. is a Chinese multinational digital communications technology conglomerate corporation headquartered in Bantian, Longgang District, Shenzhen, Guangdong.
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IMinds
iMinds (formerly IBBT) was a Flemish non-profit organization, founded by the Flemish Government. IMEC and IMinds are research institutes in Belgium.
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KU Leuven
KU Leuven (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) is a Catholic research university in the city of Leuven, Belgium.
Leuven
Leuven, also called Louvain (Löwen), is the capital and largest city of the province of Flemish Brabant in the Flemish Region of Belgium.
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Luc Van den hove
Luc Van den hove (1 March 1960, Turnhout) is President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of IMEC, Europe's largest independent research center in the field of nanoelectronics and digital technologies.
Málaga
Málaga is a municipality of Spain, capital of the Province of Málaga, in the autonomous community of Andalusia.
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Microelectronics
Microelectronics is a subfield of electronics.
Nanoelectronics
Nanoelectronics refers to the use of nanotechnology in electronic components.
NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.
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Neuropixels
Neuropixels probes (or "Neuropixels") are electrodes developed in 2017 to record the activity of hundreds of neurons in the brain.
Onsemi
ON Semiconductor Corporation (stylized and doing business as onsemi) is an American semiconductor supplier company, based in Scottsdale, Arizona.
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Politico Europe
Politico Europe (stylized as POLITICO Europe) is the European edition of the American news organization Politico reporting on political affairs of the European Union.
Rapidus
is a semiconductor manufacturer headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan.
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Research and development
Research and development (R&D or R+D; also known in Europe as research and technological development or RTD) is the set of innovative activities undertaken by corporations or governments in developing new services or products and carrier science computer marketplace e-commerce, copy center and service maintenance troubleshooting software, hardware improving existing ones.
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Roger Van Overstraeten
Roger Joseph, Baron Van Overstraeten (7 December 1937, Vlezenbeek – 29 April 1999, Leuven) was a professor at the Catholic University of Leuven and later the Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven, an IEEE Fellow and the founder of the micro- and nanoelectronics research center IMEC.
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Semiconductor
A semiconductor is a material that has an electrical conductivity value falling between that of a conductor, such as copper, and an insulator, such as glass.
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) is a partially state-owned publicly listed Chinese pure-play semiconductor foundry company.
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Sieve
A sieve, fine mesh strainer, or sift, is a tool used for separating wanted elements from unwanted material or for controlling the particle size distribution of a sample, using a screen such as a woven mesh or net or perforated sheet material.
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STMicroelectronics
STMicroelectronics NV (commonly referred to as ST or STMicro) is a multinational corporation and technology company of French-Italian origin.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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UZ Leuven
Universitair Ziekenhuis Leuven or University Hospitals Leuven, often shortened to UZ Leuven, is an academic hospital in Leuven, Belgium, associated with the university KU Leuven.
Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie
VIB is a research institute located in Flanders, Belgium. IMEC and Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie are International research institutes and research institutes in Belgium.
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VLSI Technology
VLSI Technology, Inc., was an American company that designed and manufactured custom and semi-custom integrated circuits (ICs).
2 nm process
In semiconductor manufacturing, the "2 nm process" is the next MOSFET (metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor) die shrink after the "3 nm" process node.
See also
Companies based in Leuven
- AB InBev
- Belgian Beer Café
- Crescent (Belgian company)
- IMEC
- InBev
- Interbrew
- Intermodalics
- Luciad
- Materialise NV
- Septentrio
- TiGenix
Information technology organisations based in Belgium
- IMEC
Research institutes in Belgium
- Belgian Health Care Knowledge Centre
- Belgian Society for Operations Research
- CHU UCLouvain Namur
- CeReFiM
- Centre d'Etudes des Crises et Conflits Internationaux
- Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters
- European Trade Union Institute
- Flanders Marine Institute
- Flemish Institute for Technological Research
- Geological Survey of Belgium
- IERI
- IMEC
- IMinds
- Institut Jules Bordet
- Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements
- Institute for the Encouragement of Scientific Research and Innovation of Brussels
- International Gemological Institute
- Jesuit European Social Centre
- Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies
- Oystershell NV
- Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO)
- Royal Observatory of Belgium
- SCK CEN
- Sciensano
- Study and Documentation Centre for War and Contemporary Society
- Switch Laboratory
- Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie
- Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMEC
Also known as IMEC-NL, Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre.