Mission

AMO’s mission as a research oriented company is to efficiently close the gap between university research and industrial application. For this purpose AMO identifies those topics from basic research that seem particularly suitable for industrial implementation and demonstrates these in application-oriented technology. In joint projects and bilateral cooperation, research and development results

are transferred to industry for maintenance and creation of jobs. Thus nanotechnology is expected to provide considerable potential for application areas such as information technology, biotechnology and environmental technology. Headed by Prof. Max Lemme, AMO operates a state-of-the-art 400 m² cleanroom and offers a range of services from consulting to prototype development.

News

AMO’s vision of the Digital Hardware Hub Aachen passed the first crucial test

The Digital Hardware Hub Aachen is a project proposed by AMO GmbH as a measure to support the transition to a coal-free economy in the Rhine region. The goal is to establish an internationally competitive infrastructure for nanotechnology to support start-ups and SMEs in the high-tech sector.
How nanotechnology can help solving water shortage problems

Nanotechnology can reduce the energy costs of wastewater treatment processes and make direct water-reuse both technically and economically feasible – a goal targeted by AMO and partners in the BMBF-project PEPcat (“Energy-efficient advanced oxidation for removal of organic substances in wastewater through plasmonically enhanced photocatalysis”).
A scalable manufacturing-technology for highly sensitive photodetectors on flexible substrates

Researchers from AMO GmbH and RWTH Aachen University have successfully demonstrated highly-sensitive molybdenum disulfide (MoS₂) photodetectors on flexible substrates, realized with a scalable manufacturing-technology. The work has been recently published in the journal ACS Photonics, and it is the result of a cooperation with the University of Siegen, Raith B.V., AIXTRON SE and University of Wuppertal.
NeuroSys - shaping the landscape of future neuromorphic-hardware

Max Lemme is the coordinator of the project NeuroSys – one of the 16 projects that are now in the conception phase of the BMBF-funding initiative “Clusters4Future”. NeuroSys’s goal is to establish the wider Aachen-region as a world-leading location for research, development and exploitation of neuromorphic hardware in artificial intelligence (AI).

Graphene:

The key material for the
convergence of optics
and electronics

Nanolithography:

The key for
nanotechnology

Nanoelectronics:

The key enabling
technology for ICT

Mission