“SOI has long been one of the key routes on IMEC’s roadmaps. In semiconductor technology, platform creation is of vital importance in making progress, creating critical mass, and identifying common interests between various players. That is what IMEC is doing, and that is what the SOI Industry Consortium is doing. We support the activities of the consortium and look forward to moving forward together,” says Luc Van den hove, chief operating officer and executive vice president of IMEC.

“We are extremely pleased to have IMEC as part of the SOI Consortium,” says Horacio Mendez, executive director of the SOI Industry Consortium. “IMEC is recognized as one of the world’s leading semiconductor R&D institutes. The expertise and knowledge they bring to this partnership will be exceptionally valuable in maximizing SOI’s capabilities.”

Beside fundamental studies related to device physics, IMEC is also processing partially depleted (PD) and fully depleted (FD) SOI devices.