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AMO and Photonics Industry Leaders Partner to Advance PIC Technology with Plasmonics

9. May 2019 in /by

EU Project PLASMOfab Successfully Completed May 2019 – The research project PLASMOfab funded by the EU innovation program Horizon 2020 has been successfully completed to enable mass manufacturing of high-performance plasmo-photonic components. Launched in 2016, the project has brought together leading industrial partners and top-ranked academic and research institutes in the photonic integrated circuit (PIC) and […]

Graphene to enable SWIR imager market growth

22. January 2019 in /by

Three companies in the graphene business have been approved a European Innovation Council Fast Track to Innovation (FTI) project to help bring to the market the G-IMAGER, a graphene imager based on graphene-on-wafer technology. The G-Imager is a short-wave infrared (SWIR) detector for applications in semiconductor inspection, sorting systems, spectroscopy hyperspectral imaging and surveillance. The […]

Successful acquisition of DFG projects

6. December 2018 in /by

German Research Foundation (DFG) will support joint projects of RWTH University and AMO AMO GmbH and RWTH Aachen University will be funded in five sub-projects in the 2nd phase (2018-2021) of the Priority Programme “High Frequency Flexible Bendable Electronics for Wireless Communication Systems” (FFlexCom, SPP 1796) with about 1 million Euro. The joint activities will […]

AMO and RWTH Researchers demonstrate nearly 100 % quantum efficiency in Graphene/Silicon Photodiodes

23. November 2018 in /by

AMO GmbH and the Chair of Electronic Devices at RWTH Aachen University in collaboration with the University of Granada has experimentally demonstrated graphene/silicon (G/Si) photodiodes that reach nearly 100% quantum efficiency. The work was recently published in ACS Photonics (DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.8b00951) and has been selected as ACS Editor’s Choice article, highlighting the importance of the research […]

Researchers of AMO and RWTH Aachen report on the dielectric properties and ion transport in layered molybdenum sulphide (MOS2)

23. November 2018 in /by

Researchers of AMO GmbH and RWTH Aachen University in collaboration with the Research Centre Jülich and the University of Siegen have investigated metal/molybdenum sulphide/silicon structures in order to understand the charge transport in such structures and to explore the possible potential of molybdenum sulphide to use as a dielectric in vertical heterostructured devices. The work […]

Minister Pinkwart discusses digital hardware with AMO at NRW Nano Conference

23. November 2018 in /by

Prof. Andreas Pinkwart, NRW Minister of Economic Affairs, Innovation, Digitalization and Energy visited the AMO booth to discuss nanotechnology research with Professor Max Lemme.   During the 8th NRW Nano-Conference in Dortmund, Prof. Pinkwart spoke with RWTH Professor and AMO CEO Max Lemme about current research on new materials and nanoelectronics in Aachen, including the […]