Micro-electronics

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Record year for Edinburgh

The University of Edinburgh has strengthened its position as Scotland's leading research institution by earning a record £210 million to fund its research in 2006/07 – an increase of 50 percent on last year.

This fast growing global market produces electronic systems using ‘chips’.

Edinburgh City Region lies at the heart of Silicon Glen in Scotland where Europe’s microelectronics industry flourishes. Renowned for excellence in this area, the city has attracted overseas firms and turned world-class research into globally competitive companies, including Wolfson Microelectronics. It also created the world’s first ‘camera on a chip’ and the world’s smallest television screen.

The Scottish Microelectronics Centre

A world class centre for the semiconductor sector. Its Microelectronics Imaging & Analysis Centre provides state of the art microscopy and micro analytical techniques for high tech products. Its research foundry provides services for the microfabrication and MEMS industry including post processing on commodity CMOS wafers.

University of Edinburgh School of Engineering and Electronics - rated 5*in the last Research Assessment Exercise, it houses the School’s; Institute for Integrated Micro and Nano Systems, Institute of Integrated Systems, and Institute for Digital Communications.

University of Edinburgh – Institute for Integrated Micro and Nano Systems

Research areas - IC Design/System-Level Integration, Neural & Neuromorphic Computation, VLSI and CMOS Image Sensing and Image Processing; and Micro and Nano Fabrication, including IC/Microelectronics Process Development , MEMS, Microelectronic Test Structures, Miniature Displays and Applied Optics and Technology Computer Aided Design (TCAD).

University of Edinburgh Institute of Integrated Systems

One of five joint research institutes in the Edinburgh Research Partnership in Engineering and Mathematics (ERPEM). Research areas - VLSI design, novel computational paradigms, advanced silicon device fabrication, optical science and technology, photonics devices and systems (including sensors, lasers and displays), micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), micro-machining, laser-based processing and ultrafast/ nano-optics.

University of Edinburgh – Institute for Digital Communications

Research areas - signal processing for communications, nonlinear non-Gaussian signal processing, usability engineering.

Heriot Watt University, Microsystems Engineering Centre

Research areas -  microwave electronics, microelectronics, optoelectronics and micromechanics.