Project title: Support for the European project "Heterogeneous material and technological platform for a new domain of power nanoelectronics"
Acronim: NANOMAT
Tip proeict: PNCDI IV - Program 5.8 - Cooperare Europeană și Internațională/Orizont Europe/Premiere institutii
Contract no. 14 PHE ⁄ 2023
Project Duration: 01/11/2023 - 30/11/2025
Project Budget: 124.998 lei
Contractor: National Institute of Research and Development in Microtechnologies – IMT Bucharest (www.imt.ro)
Contracting Authority: Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding – UEFISCDI (www.uefiscdi.gov.ro)

Project director: Dr. Alexandru MULLER ([email protected])

The NANOMAT project - "Heterogeneous materials and technological platform dedicated to the new field of power nanoelectronics" aims to contribute to the development of the field of microelectronics and flexible microwave nanoelectronics, through an innovative technological platform, based on heterogeneous materials and including monolithic integrated circuits with microwave (MMIC), based on type III-Nitride wide bandgap semiconductors (WBG), radio frequency micro-electromechanical actuator devices (RF MEMS) and acoustic sensors processed on GaN/Si.  IMT will develop, within the project, GaN /Si temperature and strain sensors, based on surface acoustic waves (SAW), with an operating frequency in the GHz range IMT will participate in the characterization of microwave transistors from power amplifiers (HPA) by developing a "load-pull" measurement method.
IMT is the leader of WP6: Dissemination & Communications. The support project will contribute to achieving these goals.

Key persons:
Alexandru Muller
Dan Vasilcahe
Claudia Nastase
George Boldeiu
Sergiu Iordanescu
Cristina Ciornei
Alexandra Nicoloiu
Ioana Zdru
Cristina Buiculescu
Mircea Pasteanu
Alina Cismaru

- Strengthening of the national research-development and innovation system;
- Increasing the visibility of Romania at the international level;
- Development of international partnerships for research - innovation
- Increasing the quality of project proposals with Romanian participants within the actions of the research and innovation framework program of the European Commission

Estimated Results

• temperature sensor characterization set-up
• strain sensor characterization set-up
• complex architecture for "load-pull" type measurements
• presentation of results at international conferences
• publication of an open access article
• course on the topic of the project for young researchers from IMT
• dissemination of results for the general public
• topics for doctoral theses