Product category: Microprocessors, Microcontrollers and DSPs
News Release from: Innos
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 26 July 2006
Innos Wins Initiative of
the Year 2006 Award
Innos has announced that it has been awarded the prestigious R and D Initiative of the Year 2006 award
Innos, the UK's leading research and development company for innovations in nanoscale technology, has announced that it has been awarded the prestigious R and D Initiative of the Year 2006. Presented at the EuroAsia semiconductor industry Awards at Semicon West, San Francisco, the Southampton-based company achieved the recognition for a project completed in conjunction with the University of Southampton's School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) - the development of a silicon MEMS (Micro Electrical Mechanical Systems) Microgenerator for Perpetuum .
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Members of the electronics industry across Europe, Asia and USA cast more than 18,000 individual votes, with Innos beating off stiff competition from IMEC, Air Liquide and Universite catholique de Louain.
Innos worked closely with the Electronic Systems Design Group within ECS to fabricate the devices.
Their joint expertise enabled Perpetuum to cost-effectively produce these Micro-electrical generators in low volumes, demonstrating to investors that it could be reproduced with consistent high-quality.
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Perpetuum will be assessing the performance of the Microgenerator with a view to exploiting them to a global market.
Co-Founder of Perpetuum, Prof Neil White explains, 'Our principle of operation is based on Faraday's work but the key is this optimisation process and the ability to translate onto silicon'.
He adds, 'Our devices employ state-of-the-art micro engineered structures'.
'The facilities within Innos allow us to realise our goal of a high performance microgenerator'.
Innos is able to give organisations such as Perpetuum a vital kick-start to market, as Sales, Marketing and Technology Director at Innos, Dr Alec Reader explains, 'The Innos team is delighted to be recognised by the industry as a forward-thinking company'.
'We are able to provide technology innovators with a bridge to large-scale manufacture enabled by world-class processing capability and a select team of experienced engineers'.
The project's research was funded by the EU Strep project Vibration Energy Scavenging 'Vibes'.
The generators were developed as a result of work undertaken by researchers within ECS and the Vibes consortium, which was led by Project Co-ordinator Dr Steve Beeby.
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