i3N is committed to the UN 2030 SDG, the EU Circular Economy Action Plan and the objectives of the European Chips Act, namely the emergent technologies. As such, research on sustainable micro and nanofabrication strategies is our core activity, seeking for design and process methodologies able to take an economically and environmentally responsible fabrication dimension to the other TLs, always having in mind upscaling capability.
Major fields of action are:
Integration Strategies
We follow design-for-manufacturability approaches, considering integration from the start. While hybrid integration is indissociable from the next wave of (opto)electronic systems, many of our developments can benefit from a simple and cost-effective monolithic integration, given the multifunctionality of our materials. An example is the use of oxide TFTs both as sensors (temperature, radiation) and control electronics, in flexible substrates.
