1. Neuro-Electronics Research
Flanders
Kris Verstreken
Program Director Biomedical Electronics
IMEC

2. IMEC 1984 - 2007
Budget: evolution
1984
300
IMEC Budget
Established by state government 225
of Flanders in Belgium
Non-profit organization
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Initial investment: 62M€
75
Initial staff: ~70
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Revenue (P&L)
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2000
IMEC Staff
1500 One of the largest independent R&D
organizations in this field, worldwide
1000 Annual budget: over 246M€ (> 400 M$ - 2008)
Staff (2008): > 1650  >55 nationalities
500
Collaboration with >600 partners worldwide
< 17% government/state funding
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3. IMECAMPUS
Clean Room 2
3200 m2 Clean Room
300 mm pilot line
Ball Room, Clean sub-FAB
FOUP wafer transport
Clean Room 1
4800 m2 Clean Room
1750 m2 Class 1
200 mm pilot line
Continuous operation:
24hrs / 7 days
Total: 8000 m2 Clean Room

4. Reasons for Succes?
• Focus:
Microelectronics research
• Investment:
Government Entrepreneurship
• Partnerships:
IMEC Entrepreneurship

5. STMicroelectronics
One of the World’s Largest Industrial Commitments
to Semiconductor Research in Partnership

6. New IC Technologies
10 2000 250K 4M 40M
transistors transistors transistors transistors transistors
per sq cm per sq cm per sq cm per sq cm per sq cm
1cm 1947
micro
M
oo
re’
s law
1 µm
nano
2017
1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020
100 nm

7. New Convergences
Microelectronics
1.000.000
nm
To
p -d
ow
n Molecular Electronics
Bioelectronics
NEMS & nanotechnology
Chemistry
Biology
1000 nm
Atomic Manipulation
- up
m
Botto
1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010
2020
1 nm

8. Partner interest in biomedical applications!
Na
noe
lec
tro
nic Magneto-electronics
s Polymer electronics
Bionano- Opto-electronics
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electronics Nano-electronics
Biosensors
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log
Molecular nano-
o
chn
technology
Micro (nano) electro-
te
Bio
Mechanical systems
1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 2030

9. Biology is Complex
• Multidisciplinarity
• Partnership
• Focus!

10. Focus most important
NASDAQ Biotech Index (NBI)

11. The Next Frontier: The Brain
• Function
• Pathology
• Therapy
Electronics
for
Neuroscience

12. Discriminators:
Centers of Excellence
• Electronics
• Biotechnology

13. Partnership: NERF
Center for
Neuro-Electronics Research
in Flanders
• Focus
• Multidisciplinarity
• Entrepreneurship