Microsys Laboratory inaugurates clean room for advanced microsystems research
The Microsys Laboratory inaugurates its brand-new cleanroom: an 80 m² space comprising two ISO 7 and ISO 8 certified rooms. This new facility reinforces Microsys' existing capabilities in the design of ultra-low-power, miniaturized electronic circuits. It also opens up new prospects for the development of microsystems and microassembled prototypes, suitable for a variety of applications, including biomedical devices and autonomous “wireless and battery-free” IoT sensor nodes. These prototypes integrate miniaturized electronic components and sensors, requiring customized precision packaging and advanced interconnections, which are carried out in the controlled environment of the cleanroom.
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reated in 2007 with the support of the Walloon Government and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), the Microsys Laboratory - a research lab of the Montefiore Institute at the University of Liège - is constantly pushing back the boundaries of interdisciplinary research in ultra-low-power microsystems and miniaturized electronic circuits. This cutting-edge laboratory has just acquired a new tool: an 80-square-meter clean room*, comprising two ISO 7 and ISO 8 certified areas, housing the equipment acquired by the laboratory over the course of its projects. This cleanroom ensures a controlled environment where the quantity of particles in the air is strictly limited to reduce contamination. “This level of cleanliness is essential in sensitive fields such as microelectronics, microfabrication and sensor encapsulation," explains Professor Jean-Michel Redouté, academic director of the Microsys Laboratory. “This cleanroom will reinforce our capabilities in microassembly, interconnection and advanced packaging for sensors and miniaturized electronic systems", adds François Dupont, laboratory manager and team leader.
The facility is divided into two rooms, ISO7 and ISO8, dedicated to microassembly and packaging. Room ISO7 also includes an area in which ultraviolet (UV) light is filtered, enabling photolithography to be carried out.
These new facilities are essential to Microsys' research, enabling the design, assembly, packaging and characterization of miniaturized microsystems and sensor prototypes. The new facility not only strengthens the laboratory's existing capabilities in the field of ultra-low-power and miniaturized electronic circuits, but also opens up new prospects for the development of prototypes that can be used in a variety of applications, including biomedical devices and energy-efficient systems.
*A cleanroom is a space specially designed to limit the presence of particles and control environmental parameters such as temperature, humidity and pressure. It is used in fields requiring absolute cleanliness to guarantee the quality of products or research, such as microelectronics, biotechnology, pharmacology and the aerospace industry.
