European projects

The ambitious KDT JU project aims to secure the health of mothers and their babies by developing novel holistic monitoring solutions. A consortium of 25 partners from 6 different European countries will demonstrate different technologies to enable early and non-invasive detection of risk factors in pregnancies and for newborn babies. 

EdgeAI is a key initiative gathering 49 European partners for the digital transition towards intelligent processing solutions at the edge. The project aims to develop essential electronic components and systems, as well as the necessary software and hardware framework, which will be demonstrated in strategic application areas such as Digital Industry, Energy, Agri-food and Beverage, Mobility, and Digital Society.

The MIRELAI project is an industrial doctorate programme to train engineers and scientists for the next generation of reliable and repairable electronic components and systems (ECS) developed within a trustworthy European value chain. MIRELAI features a unique industry-academia partnership of eight industries, four SMEs and nine research organisations and academic institutions.

The project will illuminate crucial digitalization aspects in underground mining operations to ensure proper safety, environment and economic performance. It will help develop a robust Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) platform; which includes cloud computing and distributed cloud management; that connects using wireless communication with the physical mining world.

This project brings together a consortium of 79 European partners from 14 different countries. ams will bring its expertise, knowledge on sensor system development and integration specifically for automotive application into this project. ams will target to develop enhanced reliability models and methods to ensure advanced VCSEL based solutions.

The aim of the project is to move towards smart and secure energy solutiosn for future mobility and green energy transition. It is build on six use cases representing various aspects of mobility and energy.

The project is focused on the development of novel, all-weather multi-sensor perception system supported by Artificial intelligence (AI) that enables automated travel in all visibility and weather conditions and takes the technology to SAE L4 – the first highly auto-mated driving level.

The core of MANTIS vision is the development of a multi-modal, multi µ-camera system connected to an artificial intelligence (AI) capable edge processing box.

This collaborative project brings together European electronics packaging industry leaders from different value chains. The objective of the project is to build capacity in advanced packaging and assembly to develop novel tools and processes for high volume mass manufacturing of electrical & optical components.  

This project will help train researchers to face the future design challenges and opportunities in modern optics technology. The gained knowledge from the project will be used in industry to expand their expertise and business. It aims to open new door for nano-photonics, micro-optics and system-engineering research. 

The project will develop a distributed platform for autonomous farming by allowing the integration of agriculture cyber physical systems. It will ensure improved efficiency of animal health, food quality as well as reduce the farm labor costs. It will enable evidence based decision-making solutions supported by big data & real time data mining techniques.

E2SWITCH focuses on Tunnel FET (TFETs) as most promising energy efficient device candidates able to reduce the voltage supply of integrated circuits (ICs) below 0.25V and make them significantly more energy efficient by exploiting strained SiGe/Ge and III-V platforms, with CMOS technological compatibility.

ESEE – Environment Sensors for Energy Efficiency targets the markets, where highly reliable information regarding environmental conditions measurements can be deducted, which safe the use of energy. The ENIAC JU project ESEE developed wireless sensor networks for smart management of the air conditioning systems in offices and other public buildings, in homes, and in specific closed environments such as an aircraft cabin, demonstrating significant energy savings and applicability to other systems in which the energy consumption depends upon human presence like heating or lighting. 

“Eyes of Things” is an international project focused on building an open embedded computer vision platform. EoT is an Innovation Action funded under the European Union’s H2020 Framework Programme. Our objective in this project is to build a power-size-cost-programmabilty optimized core vision platform that can work independently and also be embedded into all types of artefacts.

European research projects for energy efficiency, “eRamp” focused on the rapid introduction of new production technologies, such as packaging technologies for energy-saving chips. The eRamp project covered the entire power electronics value chain, from generation and transmission all the way to consumption.

The L3MATRIX project provides novel technological innovations in the fields of silicon photonics (SiP) and 3D device integration. The project will develop a novel SiP matrix with a scale larger than any similar device with more than 100 modulators on a single chip and will integrate embedded laser sources with a logic chip thus breaking the limitations on the bandwidth-distance product.

The ADMONT – “Advanced Distributed Pilot Line for More-than-Moore Technologies” project is focused on a powerful and versatile More-than-Moore (MtM) pilot line for Europe increasing the diversification of CMOS process technologies. The distributed pilot line utilizes various MtM platform technologies for sensor and OLED processing in combination with baseline CMOS processes in a unique way and incorporates 2.5D as well as 3D integration of silicon systems into one single production flow.

This project will research new technologies for CMOS image sensors that are needed in the next generation of several application domains. The image sensor research will focus on enhancing the capabilities of current imaging devices.

HIOS – “Highly Integrated Optoelectronic Sensor”  aims to develop and launch the world’s first light sensor with fully integrated optical stack, including multiple filters, lenses and an aperture replacing multiple discrete components. 

The CATRENE MASTER_3D project will contribute to the transformation of European Union leadership in the R&D of 3D integrated circuits (ICs) into 3D IC manufacturing leadership. Manufacturing methods to maximise process robustness and yield, minimise ramp-up time, support high volume production and reduce manufacturing cost will be developed and implemented in consortium members’ fabs. 

Aim of IoSense is to boost the European competitiveness of ECS industries by increasing the pilot production capacity and improving Time-to-Market for innovative microelectronics, accomplished by establishing three fully connected semiconductor pilot lines in Europe: two 200mm frontend (Dresden, Regensburg) and one backend (Regensburg) line networking with existing highly specialized manufacturing lines.

The MSP project - Multi Sensor Platform for Smart Building Management - is focused on the development of highly innovative components and sensors based on Key Enabling Technologies (KETs). The MSP-project employs Through-Silicon-Via (TSV) technology for 3D-integration of these devices on CMOS electronic platform chips to innovative smart systems capable for indoor and outdoor environmental monitoring.

The Nanonest2Sense project aims at developing a low cost technology that could provide affordable devices for point-of-care detection of molecules of interest for health monitoring or pre-diagnostics. The Project has the objective to develop a new technological approach for the 3D CMOS integration of label-free sensors for medical applications.

The research project PhoxTroT completed its activities successfully delivering revolutionary optical interconnect solutions towards High-Performance, Low-Cost & Low-Energy Data Centers, High Performance Computing Systems exploiting existing photonic technologies in a holistic way, synergizing the different fabrication platforms in order to deploy the optimal “mix&match” technology and tailoring this to each interconnect layer.

Circuit Stability Under Process Variability and Electro-Thermal-Mechanical Coupling. 
The SUPERTHEME project worked on overcoming the weaknesses currently limiting the use of TCAD to study process variability and its interaction with electro-thermal-mechanical effects.

The main objective of the SAFESENS project is to obtain earlier and more reliable fire detection in combination with accurate occupancy detection by co-integrating multiple gas sensor and presence detection technologies in both building safety systems and personal monitors.

The Innovation Action (IA) project “PowerBase” will follow a holistic vertical approach from material research across the entire value chain to advanced systems and aims to provide significant impact to essential technologies and key application.

STREAM, Smart Sensor Technologies and Training for Radiation Enhanced Applications and Measurements, is an Innovative Training Network 
(ITN).  STREAM is a career development network on scientific design, construction and manufacturing of advanced radiation instrumentation. It targets the development of innovative radiation-hard, smart CMOS sensor technologies for scientific and industrial applications.