COMPANY DIRECTORY

LTFN is a world-class excellence entity in various research fields, with a lab space area of 2000 m2, including clean room facilities of 600 m2 and state-of-the-art equipment and facilities, 10 Pilot Lines and several TestBed facilities, combined with strong activity in R&D Projects and dynamic collaborations with SMEs, industry and academia. LTFN is a Digital Innovation Hub, offering open access to interested entities (Academia, Research, SMEs, Industries), while serving as an One-Stop-Shop for SMEs for technology transfer, proof-of-concept and incubation. LTFN coordinates many EU/National R&D Projects, founded the Hellenic Organic & Printed Electronics Association HOPE-A (www.hope-a.com), the Research & Innovation Netwrok Nano|Net (www.nano-net.gr), Post Graduate Program on Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies - NN, and organizes annually the internationally established NANOTEXNOLOGY multi-event (www.nanotexnology.com) which combines International Conferences, Summer Schools and Exhibitions on Nanotechnology, Organic Electronics and Nanomedicine.

The Plasma and Energy Conversion Laboratory is a joint research unit shared by the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), the National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse (INPT) and the Paul Sabatier University (UPS) . LAPLACE's research themes are in the field of electrical energy and plasma and cover a continuum of activities that includes the production, transport, management, conversion and use of electricity. With more than 350 researchers, university professors, engineers, technicians, post-docs and doctoral students, LAPLACE is the leading research concentration in the field of Electrical Engineering and Plasma at the national level.

The Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) is a foundation established jointly by the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research and the Ministry of Economy and Finance to promote excellence in basic and applied research and to contribute to the economic development of Italy. The primary goals of the IIT are the creation and dissemination of scientific knowledge as well as the strengthening of Italy's technological competitiveness. To achieve these two goals, the IIT will cooperate with both academic institutions and private organizations, fostering through these partnerships scientific development, technological advances and training in high technology.

Intlvac Thin Film delivers value-added solutions that exceed the expectations of PVD (Physical Vapor Deposition) and IBE (Ion Beam Etch) machine manufacturing and installation. Research and development play a major role in our technology’s edge in the market. Our in-house development lab designs, engineers and manufactures machinery used for PVD using our Nanochrome thin film evaporator and plasma assisted reactive sputtering systems (PARMS). We specialize in engineering solutions for a variety of specific results and outcomes using this process. Intlvac Thin Film is a world leader in high vacuum system technology.

The Institute made its start from the departments of electromagnetic oscillations and radio wave propagation of the Ukrainian Institute of Physics and Technology of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR. The prime objective was the practical development of a broad region of electromagnetic spectrum of the millimeter and submillimeter waves. At that moment, the Institute had 125 employees of the state budget and 11 employees of economic contracts.

ITME is the leading Polish Institute working in the multidisciplinary area of research and development of materials and innovative devices and components based on this materials for use in electronics, micromechanics, etc. Elaborated advanced technologies enable scientific cooperation with many Universities and Research Institutes are offered for interested customers to realize their projects transferred to interested industry or utilized within the Institute for a small scale production of advanced materials, devices and components within the institute. ITME is growing single-crystals semiconductor (Si, III/V, SiC, others) and oxide (optical, piezoelectric) materials. Nanotechnologies enable to manufacture super-pure metals, active glasses and optical fibers, new (active and transparent) nanoceramics and composite materials, which have unique properties for a wide range of applications. The Institute develops epitaxial structures and innovative optoelectronic devices.

The core business of the NEEL Institute is fundamental research in condensed matter physics, which also makes it possible to forge interdisciplinary links with chemistry, engineering and life sciences. The research and technological support activity is organized at the NEEL Institute in seventeen research teams themselves attached to the three scientific departments , and eighteen technological poles attached to the departments or directly to the Institute.

IMS, Inc. specializes in the design and construction of rare-earth doped nanocrystals capable of converting energy up and down the spectrum from infra-red through X-ray; wavelengths are independent of particle size or shape. Extreme detection sensitivity is possible. The core IMS, Inc. technology uses stokes and anti-stokes nanocrystals of unparalleled brightness, with a variety of functional coatings to enable up to parts per billion sensitivity of detection. Due to a pure signal-to-background ratio (as nothing in nature upconverts) the nanocrystals have the ability to revolutionize fluorescence imaging in life sciences. Researchers worldwide are re-approaching, once thought impossible experiments in molecular biology research as this new class of compounds comes to market. Our rare earth based nanocrystals possess many desirable characteristics; they will not photo bleach or blink, and are non-toxic.

The Institute of Thin Films, Sensors and Imaging (ITFSI) is a research institute at the University of the West of Scotland (UWS), founded by Professor Des Gibson in September 2014. ITFSI specialises in thin films for various applications, including medical devices, sensors, engineering, optics, electronic devices, and photonics. A range of thin film technologies, leading to products including miniaturised spectrometers for gas sensing, ultrasonics, hyper-spectral imaging applications, durable infra-red optical coatings, and low thermal noise coatings for gravitational wave mirror coatings.

The European Membrane Institute (ENSCM, UM, CNRS UMR5635), founded in 1994, is an international reference laboratory in the field of membrane materials and processes. Its research objectives revolve around a multidisciplinary and multi-scale approach of: development and characterization of new membrane materials; their implementation in membrane processes whose particular application for the treatment of effluents, gas separation, biotechnology in connection with food science and health.