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STRONA GŁÓWNA
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| Micro- and Nano-Technology Applied Research Centre | ||||||||||||||||
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Research focus of the Centre:
The activity of MANTARC centre focuses on applied research in the field of integrated microelectronic, micromechanical and optoelectronic systems and devices. The Centre aims at becoming a national resource for applications of MEMS/MOEMS microtechnologies in order to meet scientific and technical challenges of the industry. The centre focuses its efforts on improvement of links with universities and research centres in Poland, EU Member States and NAS towards further integration within European Research Area, support for leading edge multidisciplinary research focused on application of micro- and nanotechnology, as well as strong support for educational activities.
The most important topics of the research and development activities include:
Polish research projects currently run in the Centre:
The Centre is participating in realisation of two contracted research projects:
European research projects currently run in the Centre:
The Centre is participating in 6 projects under the 5-th Framework Programme of the European Union:
Quality:
Superior qualifications of scientific staff, motivation, international contacts, wide scope of basic and market oriented applied research together with unique facilities and equipment resulted with many prestigious achievements. The most important results within the last years are as follows:
The Centre is a member of EUROPRACTICE initiative as a partner of competence centre for microsystems fabrication offering access to advanced MOEMS technologies for industrial organisations.
Equipment:
The Centre is equipped with complete silicon processing facility (equipment, clean rooms, supply infrastructure) used for developing and manufacturing semiconductor structures for various research projects. It also has a potential of the small scale fabrication of optoelectronic, microelectronic and micromechanical devices with moderate lithography resolution. Assembly and packaging facilities allow to IC design potential include about dozen SUN workstations and several modern software tools like CADENCE, Mentor Graphics, Synopsys, Xilinx, HSPISE. Process and device simulation tools are: SAMCEF, CFDRC, TCAD, ATHENA and ATLAS. Most important unique characterisation tools are: IC's Digital Testers, Environmental Chambers, Multifunctional System for Photoelectric Measurements of Semiconductor Structures, Variable Angle Spectroscopic Ellipsometer, UV-Laser, Interferometer Fizeaux for Curvature Analysis, System for Probe Complex Characterisation of APD structures.
Human resources:
The permanent staff of the Centre consists of 53 scientists (2 full professors, 1 associate professor, 14 Ph.D.'s, 28 engineers and 8 assistants) and 26 technicians.
Training possibility:
MANTARC will facilitate access to semiconductor technology (including sensor, microsystem and IC technology) for university researchers and students. Such access means (but is not limited to) making prototypes of integrated circuits (MPW service) at affordable prices, accepting orders for processing of nonstandard semiconductor structures etc. This will help attracting more students to these fields of engineering, raise the education level and also open new possibilities for experimental research. The Centre will offer its services to every interested university in Central/Eastern Europe.
In the ITE, there exists an organisational basis for Ph.D. and D.Sc. oriented research and granting the scientific degrees. ALos, ITE is authorised to confer PhD and D.Sc. Degrees. With this opportunity and with the experienced scientific staff of the Institute, there is a possibility of attracting Ph.D. students wishing to work in the scientific direction of the semiconductor microelectronics.
Scientific co-operation:
Research teams working in the Centre, apart of 5FP activities, co-operate with many research and scientific institutions all over the world. The most important are:
Co-operation with industrial partners:
An applied research directed into new product development is of great importance among the Centre activities. Family of avalanche photodetectors (APD's) with active area diameter from 0,3 to 3mm are exported to USA. Specialized double Zener structures are exported to Germany. Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC's): DES cryptographic processor, fire guard system controller, time relays and entrance systems controllers are supplied to domestic customers. Silicon photocells, selective detectors of UV radiation, strip and pixel radiation detectors are produced for nuclear physic community including CERN researchers. Cryptographic processors cores: DES, 3DES, IDEA, RSA as well as sigma-delta converter and signal processor are submitted electronically as reusable Intellectual Property (IP) elements. Photovoltaic infrared detectors, pressure sensors and ISFET chemical sensors are also developed and produced. The most important industrial partners are: Advanced Photonics Inc. USA, GSF - Forschung.
Zentrum fur Umwelt und Gesundheit Gmbh Germany, WaveBand Corp. USA, SECOS Germany, ACCENTUS UK, Sagantec Israel, Semiconductor Complex Ltd India as well as domestic: ALSTOM T&D Świebodzice, POLON ALFA Bydgoszcz, PROEL Warszawa, COMP Warszawa, Techlab 2000 Warszawa, Simex Gdańsk, OPTIX Warszawa.
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