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DIAmond Devices Enabled Metrology and Sensing (DIADEMS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

The DIADEMS project aims at exploiting the unique physical properties of NV color centres in ultrapure single-crystal CVD-grown diamond to develop innovative devices with unprecedented performances for ICT applications. By exploiting the atom-like structure of the NV that exhibits spin dependent optical transitions, DIADEMS will make optics-based magnetometry possible.The objectives of DIADEMS are ...
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Energy Efficient Tunnel FET Switches and Circuits (E2SWITCH)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

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. A full optimization and DC/AC benchmarking for complementary n- and p-type TFETs, integrated ...
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Modelling Reliability under Variability (MoRV)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

While feature sizes are continuously scaled towards atomic dimensions, industry is increasingly confronted with unexpected physical artefacts to be considered at each new technology node. Among these, process variation and parameter degradation lead to reliability concerns impacting integrated circuit design at all abstraction levels. As variation and degradation may become a limiting factor for f ...
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MAssive MiMO for Efficient Transmission (MAMMOET)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

The Internet of the future will to a large extent rely on mobile networks. Mobile data grew with 70% in 2012 and is predicted to grow 13-fold in the next 5 years. This puts very high demands on the development of mobile access technology. MAMMOET will advance the development of Massive MIMO (MaMi), a new and most promising direction in mobile access. MaMi makes a clean break with current technolog ...
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Investigation of local and global cortical circuits with advanced neural probes for high-resolution electrophysiological monitoring and optogenetic stimulation (NeuroSeeker)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

Most cognitive functions are based on computations that take place in the cerebral cortex, composed of a larger number of areas, each with a complex anatomical structure, with neurons of different types and in different layers interacting according to a precise scheme. The anatomical organization of cortical areas is similar, with some modulation according to its sensory, motor or associative func ...
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Software-defined energy-efficient Photonic transceivers IntRoducing Inteligence and dynamicity in Terabit superchannels for flexible optical networks (SPIRIT)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

Description The Challenge:The advent of cloud applications and the proliferation of mobile devices have imposed a dramatic increase of the IP traffic. The emerging ZetaByte Era forces operators to seek a cost-efficient way of upgrading their network in order to accommodate the vast amount of data without compromising QoS and wasting bandwidt ...
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Development of a low-cost point-of-care test for Tuberculosis detection (Pocket)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

Pocket will develop a novel point-of-care (PoC) urine test for the detection of tuberculosis (TB), achieving at the same time a low cost (5 to 10 euro end-user cost per test, including depreciation cost of the instrument) and a high accuracy (>80% capture of TB-positive patients, which is much better than the present solutions which reach 60%). The test positions itself between current low-end imm ...
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Semiconductor Equipment Assessment for Key Enabling Technologies (SEA4KET)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

SEA4KET (Semiconductor Equipment Assessment for Key Enabling Technologies) is an IP proposal taking the consequent step from equipment R&D to equipment assessment experiments. The strategic objective is to effectively combine resources and expertise in a joint assessment of novel equipment for key enabling technologies to foster and accelerate the successful transfer of novel European equipment in ...
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Thermoplastically deformable circuits for embedded randomly shaped electronics (TERASEL)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

The overall aim of the TERASEL project is the development, the industrial implementation and the application in a wide range of domains of large area, cost-effective, randomly shaped electronics and sensor circuit technologies. More specifically the TERASEL objectives are the following :• To develop a basic technology platform for rigid large-area randomly shaped electronic circuits. Key common fe ...
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EXascale Algorithms and Advanced Computational Techniques (EXA2CT)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

Numerical simulation is a crucial part of science and industry in Europe. The advancement of simulation as a discipline relies on increasingly compute intensive models that require more computational resources to run. This is the driver for the evolution to exascale. Due to limits in the increase in single processor performance, exascale machines will rely on massive parallelism on and off chip, w ...
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EUROPRACTICE Training, CAD and prototyping services for European universities and research institutes (EUROPRACTICE 2013)

Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

This project aims at continuation of the current EUROPRACTICE 2012 service.\nThe current EUROPRACTICE 2012 Service project, part of the 7th Framework and ending on 30 June 2013, is widely recognized as a world-leading service offering state-of-the-art CAD tools and microelectronics-based technologies to universities and industry. Today, through the EC funding of the EUROPRACTICE 2012 project, 650 ...
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Significance-Based Computing for Reliability and Power Optimization (SCoRPiO)

Start date: Jun 1, 2013, End date: May 31, 2016,

Manufacturing process variability at low geometries and power dissipation are the most challenging problems in the design of future computing systems. Currently manufacturers go to great lengths to guarantee fault-free operation of their products by introducing redundancy in voltage margins, conservative layout rules, and extra protection circuitry. However, such design redundancy may result into ...
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Next-generation integrated MNBS-platform for instant diagnostics with single-molecule resolution (NextDx)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

A spearhead function that lies within the promise of MNBS technologies is the rapid and sensitive detection of biomarker molecules in raw biological samples. However, it has been very difficult to realize the promise due to two key challenges:the signal-over-background challenge, i.e. many biomarkers have very low concentrations and real-life biological samples generate very high background signal ...
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Parallel Distributed Infrastructure for Minimization of Energy (ParaDIME)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

The increasing power and energy consumption of modern computing devices is perhaps the largest threat to technology minimization and associated gains in performance and productivity. On the one hand, we expect technology scaling to face the problem of "dark silicon" (only segments of a chip can function concurrently due to power restrictions) in the near future and lead us to use devices with comp ...
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Nano Scale Disruptive Silicon-Plasmonic Platform for Chip-to-Chip Interconnection (NAVOLCHI)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Jul 31, 2015,

The NAVOLCHI project explores, develops and demonstrates a novel nano-scale plasmonic chip-to-chip and system-in-package interconnection platform to overcome the bandwidth, foot-print and power consumption limitations of todays electrical and optical interconnect solutions. The technology exploits the ultra-compact dimensions and fast electronic interaction times offered by surface plasmon polarit ...
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Full-Duplex Radios for Local Access (DUPLO)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2015,

Future development of wireless communications networks will require radical improvements over the existing radio transmission and network solutions to support tremendous growth of data traffic in future networks in an energy-efficient manner.The project Full-Duplex Radios for Local Access (DUPLO) aims at developing new technology and system solutions for future generations of mobile data networks ...
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Seeing Better with Hybrid BSI Spatio-Temporal Silicon Retina (SeeBetter)

Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

Conventional image sensors are fundamentally limited by comparison with biological retinas, because they produce redundant sequences of images at a limited frame rate. By contrast neuromorphic 'silicon retina' vision sensors mimic the biological retina's information processing capability by computing the salient spatial and temporal aspects of the visual input, and encoding this information in a ...
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European Doctoral Training Support in Micro/Nano-electronics (EURO-DOTS-2)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

This proposal is submitted to support and ensure continuation of the EURO-DOTS initiative, that was launched as a Support Action in response to the FP7-Call 5 and that has successfully realized all the objectives resulting in the installation of a virtual platform to serve the Doctoral Schools in Europe in micro/nano-electronics. When the present 2-year EURO-DOTS project ends on 30 April 2012, it ...
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Epixfab services specifically targeting (SME) industrial take-up of advanced silicon photonics (ESSenTIAL)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

ESSenTIAL will bring silicon photonics within reach of European small and medium sized enterprises, thereby building on the track record of the Silicon Photonics Platform ePIXfab (www.epixfab.eu) and its integration into Europractice. To this end, ESSenTIAL offers affordable access to standardized active and passive silicon photonic IC and packaging technology, a path from design to manufacturing ...
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Multilayer Photonic Circuits made by Nano-Imprinting of Waveguides and Photonic Crystals (FIREFLY)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2014,

Description The objective of FIREFLY is the introduction of novel polymer waveguide and photonic crystal structures based on highly structured 3D nano-hybrids into industrial applications by using a new cost effective production process for larger scale manufacturing. The target applications are optical waveguides and photonic structures for ...
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Efficient, low-cost, stable tandem organic devices (X10D)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

X10D aims to enable organic photovoltaics (OPV) to enter the competitive thin-film PV market. It will achieve this by pooling the knowledge and expertise of the leading research institutes and start-up companies in Europe, and is the first project of its kind to leverage this knowledge irrespective of the processing technology. It will use the strengths available in device efficiency and architect ...
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Parallel & Heterogeneous Architecture for Real-time ApplicatiONs (PHARAON)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

Description New tools to reduce design cost of embedded systemsThe latest and greatest embedded systems integrate a wide range of very complex functionalities. A smart phone, for example, is capable to communicate through 3G and WIFI connections. It integrates phone services with high performance graphics and sophisticated software applic ...
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Strongly anisotropic Graphite-like semiconductor/dielectric 2D nanolattices (2D-NANOLATTICES)

Start date: Jun 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

Graphite-like 2D nanolattices of dielectrics and semiconductors with enhanced anisotropic electronic properties are good candidates to pave the way to the ultimate scaling and performances of future nanoelectronic devices. Graphene, the most studied representative of the 2D graphitic materials, has overshadowed research on other potential 2D nanolattices with totally unexplored physical properties ...
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DRIVE C2X\nDRIVing implementation and Evaluation of C2X communication technology in Europe (DRIVE C2X)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Jul 31, 2014,

The objective of the DRIVE C2X Integrated Project is to carry out comprehensive assessment of cooperative systems through Field Operational Tests in various places in Europe in order to verify their benefits and to pave the way for market implementation. This general objective is split into four major technical objectives:\n•Create a harmonised Europe-wide testing environment for cooperative syste ...
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Diamond based atomic nanotechnologies (DIAMANT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2014,

The ability to engineer materials at the level of single atoms is rapidly becoming an urgent practical requirement as new technologies demand ever smaller devices. However, such a capability also offers profoundly new functionality for molecular-scale devices. The DIAMANT team has pioneered the discovery and development of diamond as a uniquely promising material system for solid-state molecular t ...
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Network for EXchange and PRototype Evaluation of photonicS componentS and Optical systems (Nexpresso)

Start date: Jun 1, 2010, End date: Feb 28, 2014,

NEXPRESSO creates and implements a network for evaluation by researchers of prototype photonics components and systems manufactured by SMEs, at no net cost to either the university or the SME. As a result, students are trained on the next generation of emerging technologies and products as identified by European industries. This training orients students toward advanced technology jobs in Europe, ...
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Best-Reliable Ambient Intelligent Nano Sensor Systems (e-BRAINS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Feb 28, 2014,

Best-Reliable Ambient Intelligent Nanosensor Systems – e-BRAINS – represent a giant leap for outstanding future applications in the area of ambient living with the ultimate need for integration of heterogeneous technologies, high-performance nanosensor devices, miniaturization, smart wireless communication and best-reliability.e-BRAINS with minimum volume and weight as well as reduced power consum ...
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Innovative Mid-infrared high Power source for resonant ablation of Organic based photovoltaic devices (IMPROV)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Feb 28, 2014,

High power and in particular tunable mid-infrared short pulse laser systems operating in the wavelength range between 3 µm and 11 µm have a large potential in different applications, e.g. analytics, medicine and micromaching. Up to now, those systems are only be realised by multistage set-ups consisting of bulk four or five different units, a configuration which is of course very complex, expensiv ...
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Miniaturised Structural Monitoring System with Autonomous Readout Micro-Technology and Fiber sensor network (SmartFiber)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Feb 28, 2014,

In this project, we will develop a smart miniaturized system which integrates optical fiber sensor technology, nano-photonic chip technology and low power wireless technology. The smart system will enable for the first time fully embedded structural health monitoring of composites used as structural parts in e.g. wind turbine blades, satellites, airplanes, civil constructions, oil and gas wells, b ...
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Microsystem integration based on electroactive polymer gels for cardiovascular applications (Heart-e-Gel)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Feb 28, 2014,

Actuators based on electroactive polymer (EAP) hydrogels constitute a very attractive yet poorly explored technology. EAP hydrogels can expand and contract by several times their original volume by application of a small voltage. They can be engineered to be either porous or non-porous and the pore density and distribution can also be controlled. Their inherent limitations of very low actuation sp ...
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Microbiomed

Start date: Jun 30, 2010, End date: Dec 30, 2013,

Le but visé par le projet est le développement dexpertises pour lutilisation des microtechnologies à de nouveaux produits pour la biomédecine dans lEuregio Meuse-Rhin (EMR).Les partenaires du projet MICROBIOMED développeront un module de démonstration (lab-on-a-chip) qui permettra létablissement de diagnostics médicaux pour les pathologies humaines in vitro à la fois plus rapides, plus sensibles e ...
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Platform for Large Area Conformable Electronics by InTegration (PLACE-it)

Start date: Feb 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

In the PLACE-it project flexible large area electronics technologies such as foil-based electronics and light sources, stretchable and fabric electronics are combined to generate conformable systems with unique properties and technical performance. This is done by analysing, developing and implementing technology for the proper combination of functionalities in foil, stretchable and fabric substr ...
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Colourless and Coolerless Components for low Power Optical Networks (C-3PO)

Start date: Jun 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

Description As the capacity demands for telecommunications continue to grow exponentially, the energy consumption of the network increases super-linearly with capacity. As a result, energy limits will constrain future growth, and this is predicted to be a significant brake on development of the global knowledge economy. The C-3PO project wil ...
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Semiconductor Equipment Assessment Leveraging Innovation (SEAL)

Start date: Jun 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

Description Seal is an EC-funded project covering semiconductor equipment assessment to strengthen the European semiconductor equipment industry. SEAL is an integrated project consisting of 17 equipment assessment sub-projects in the area of semiconductor manufacturing equipment. The assessment th ...
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ACcess To Micro-Optics Expertise, Services and Technologies (ACTMOST)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2013,

Micro-optics holds tremendous potential for SMEs and large companies to develop competitive products and to boost product innovation. Micro-optics however continuously requires advanced knowledge as well as a complex technology supply chain, which are very often not affordable. This project targets to pro-actively provide companies with timely, cost-effective, investment-free Access to a unique "o ...
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Silicon Quantum Wire Transistors (SQWIRE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2013,

Description SQWIRE develops industry compatible CMOS technology based on novel Si nanowire transistor structures.The aim of the SQWIRE project is to develop a disruptive, industry-compatible CMOS technology based on novel silicon nanowire transistor structures. As has been demonstrated both theoretically and experimentally, nanowire MOS t ...
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Beyond CMOS Nanodevices for Adding Functionalities\nto CMOS (NANOFUNCTION)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2013,

Description NANOFUNCTION addresses the merging of advanced More than Moore (MtM) devices with Beyond-CMOS. Topics: Si nanowires for sensing, on-chip energy harvesting, nano-cooling and porous Si for RF passives.The NANOFUNCTION project aims to integrate at the European level the excellent European research laboratories in order to strengt ...
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Bacterial Computing with Engineered Populations (BACTOCOM)

Start date: Feb 1, 2010, End date: Jul 31, 2013,

The main objective of BACTOCOM is to build a simple computer, using bacteria rather than silicon. Microbes may be thought of as biological "micro-machines" that process information about their own state and the world around them. By sensing their environment, certain bacteria are able to move in response to chemical signals, allowing them to seek out food, for example. They can also communicate wi ...
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Silicon-Organic hybrid Fabrication platform for Integrated circuits (SOFI)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

In the SOFI project, new active optical waveguides and integrated optoelectronic circuits based on a novel silicon-organic hybrid technology are introduced. The technology is based on the low-cost CMOS process technology for fabrication of the optical waveguides - allowing for the convergence of electronics with optics. It is complemented by an organic layer that brings in new functionalities so f ...
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Energy-conscious 3D Server-on-Chip for Green Cloud Services (EuroCloud)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

"Cloud Computing" refers to the emerging environment providing software and hardware services over the Internet or Cloud on demand. These services are provided to millions of Cloud users, in particular Mobile users, by thousands of servers in the data centres. Server power consumption and costs are becoming a great concern in the data centres in which the servers are built with high end, expensive ...
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