CMOS: advanced and beyond
Discover why imec is the premier R&D center for advanced logic & memory devices.
Integrated photonics
Take a look at technologies for optical transceivers, sensors and more.
Life sciences
See how imec brings the power of chip technology to the world of healthcare.
Sensing and actuation
Explore imec’s CMOS- and photonics-based sensing and actuation systems.
Connectivity technology
Look into our reliable, high-performance, low-power network technologies.
More expertises
Discover all our expertises.
Research
Be the first to reap the benefits of imec’s research by joining one of our programs or starting an exclusive bilateral collaboration.
Development
Build on our expertise for the design, prototyping and low-volume manufacturing of your innovative nanotech components and products.
Solutions
Use one of imec’s mature technologies for groundbreaking applications across a multitude of industries such as healthcare, agriculture and Industry 4.0.
Venturing and startups
Kick-start your business. Launch or expand your tech company by drawing on the funds and knowhow of imec’s ecosystem of tailored venturing support.
PCR on chip
Accelerated PCR-based tests on silicon in minutes
Our expertise
Imec develops integrated sample-to-result chips to perform PCR-based tests. With silicon-based microfluidics, these enable fast, simple and sensitive detection of genetic markers (e.g. in blood).
Key benefits
- Full PCR analysis from whole-blood in less than 10 minutes,
- Extreme miniaturization and parallelism,
- Full workflow via on-chip integration of filters, mixers, lysis, extraction, enrichment, droplet handling and
- Sample-to-result in one chip
Read this in-depth article on how microfluidics accelerates DNA-analysis.
Other technology platforms
Biosensors
Detecting more than 100,000 biomarkers in less than 5 minutes
High-throughput cytometry and cell sorting (FACS)
Sort up to 30 million cells per minute on one cm2
Microfluidics
A whole lab in one cm2
Micro-electrode arrays
For high throughput, multi-modal cell interfacing
Neural probes
The new golden standard in neuroscience
Lens-free imaging
Continuously monitoring of life processes without disturbing them
Nanopore technology
The driver behind sequencing 4.0
