Fraunhofer Group for Microelectronics

Since 1996, the Fraunhofer Group for Microelectronics has coordinated the research activities of those Fraunhofer Institutes active in microelectronics and microintegration. The Group for Microelectronics is one of the nine research groups of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft and consists of 11 members plus 5 guest institutes from other Fraunhofer Groups.

11 members and 2 guest institutes of the Fraunhofer Group for Microelectronics are working together with the Leibniz institutes FBH and IHP as the "Research Fab Microelectronics Germany" (FMD).

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Within FMD, 11 full member institutes and 2 guest institutes of the Fraunhofer Group for Microelectronics and the institutes FBH and IHP of the Leibniz Association pool their expertise under one virtual roof, thus bringing a new quality to the research and development of micro- and nanosystems.

As a one-stop-shop, FMD combines the cooperating institutes' scientifically excellent technologies, applications, and system solutions into a combined overall offering and provides customers with cross-technology total solutions up to a high level of technical maturity from a single source.