Two representatives of the Science and Technology Division of the Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) visited the IMB-CNM facilities with the Direction team.
The Institute of Microelectronics of Barcelona signs a statement together with universities and other research centers to support the FabCat proposal, an initiative to install in Catalonia a headquarters for one of the semiconductor factories to be built in the European Union.
Following agreement at the Institute's Board meeting in November and a first team meeting in December, the Institute of Microelectronics of Barcelona's Equality Committee is now up and running. The priorities are to analyze the situation of the center, identify problems and improve training in equality for all staff.
The IMB-CNM is one of the most active CSIC centers in transference to the industry and 2021 has been a very successful year keeping up the good synergies of the previous periods.
The IMB-CNM Micro and Nanofabrication Clean Room opened in 1991 within the National Microelectronics Center, established in 1985. Francesc Serra i Mestres was its first director.
Milena Tomić is defending her thesis "Semiconducting metal oxide structures with surface nanoscale interfaces for gas sensing" and she answered some questions about her line of research, the applications of the sensors and the time she spent at IMB-CNM.
The "Mejor Contigo" program on Televisión Española (TVE) enters the Micro and Nanofabrication Clean Room to learn, from the inside, how a chip is manufactured.
Luis Fonseca is appointed new director of the Institute of Microelectronics of Barcelona, with Mar Álvarez and Xavier Jordà completing the team of deputy directors. They join the management bodies in place of former director Manuel Lozano and vice-directors Cecilia Jiménez and Francesc Pérez-Murano.
