Project description

RTN-NANOEL (Romanian Technological Network for integration in the European Platform for NANOELectronics, ENIAC) is a proposal devoted to a technological network with 10 partners (universities and research institutes - some of them being involved in PC6).

The network activities are: research, technological and scientific services, training, dissemination and technological transfer in the field of nanoelectronics. According to the Strategic Research Agenda of the European Technological Platform (ETP) of Nanoelectronics, ENIAC (November 2005), R&D activities of the Romanian network are focused on RF components (radio frequency) and micro-fluidics,  mentioned in the “ENIAC agenda”, domain where we already have experience in working with foreign  companies (through  European Projects) and we can also  take in consideration  technological transfer.

Research activities are panned in the following domains: new electronic nanodevices, new materials and technological processes, new architectures of the electronic systems. 

The network will also provide experimental technological services (nanostructuring and nanolithography) as well as computer-aided design and simulation. Most of these services will be provided by the coordinator (IMT), and its main partner (UPB): they have experience and facilities provided by the collaboration with the European services in microelectronics and microsystems.

The network partners will have access to a “clean room” with a number of new equipments (including nanolithography), and also to software packages for simulation and design, at the highest international level. The partners and other customers, as well, can access (with IMT assistance) the EUROPRACTICE services in micro-nanosystems and in microelectronics.

The new services will be offered by the consortium through the new infrastructures for innovation and technologic transfer in micro- and nanotechnologies, which are managed by the IMT and UPB, and, also, by the Romanian-German Centre for micro and nanotechnologies (IMT, GTZ), Finally the network will assure dissemination of information, training and partnership, especially for FP7 and ETP ENIAC.