Research-Industry Cooperation: Research Center Profiles

CSEM, the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology, Inc., is a privately held research and development company active in:

• Applied Research
• Product Development
• Prototype and Low-volume Production
• Technology Consulting

Its main fields of activity are micro- and nanotechnologies, microelectronics, systems engineering, microrobotics, photonics, information and communication technologies.

In September 2001 the Center was inaugurated as a joint venture between the Niels Bohr Institute and the Department of Chemistry at the University of Copenhagen.

The Center has continuously developed its area of research, and today we are working closely together with the Institute of Molecular Biology and the Department of Pharmacology at the Faculty of Health.

Research at the Nano-Science Center is organized in seven different research groups:

The interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO) was founded in January 2002 at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. The center was established through a collaboration of research groups at the Institute of Physics and Astronomy, Department of Chemistry, Department of Molecular Biology, and Institute for Biological Sciences. Already from the start there was established close links to several associated research groups at the Department of Health Sciences, Aarhus University, and from 2003 iNANO also includes a number of research groups at the Faculty of Science at Aalborg University.

UMK Center for New Materials at the Helsinki University of Technology, TKK, is the leading center of expertise in materials science and technology in Finland. UMK Center for New Materials covers eleven departments forming a cross-disciplinary network of 600 researchers from all four faculties of the University. The strong competence in natural science provides world class research in different areas of materials science, for example in nanotechnology. (http//www.umk.fi)

The Ioffe Institute is one of Russia’s largest institutions for research in physics and technology with a wide variety of operating projects. The Institute is affiliated with the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Structure:

• Centre of Nanoheterostructure Physics
• Division of Solid State Electronics
• Division of Solid State Physics
• Division of Plasma Physics, Atomic Physics and Astrophysics
• Division of Physics of Dielectric and Semiconductors

CAN GmbH offers companies and research institutions contract research and development services in the area of nanotechnology. The focus of our activities is the utilization of new findings in chemical nanotechnology and nanoanalysis especially in the areas of consumables, specialty polymers and health care. Our main areas of expertise are the production of many nanoparticulate and nanocomposite materials, encapsulation of active ingredients as well as development of nanoparticle-based markers.