ECSEL Pilot Lines Success Stories & Impact

Lambert Alff

Technische Universität Darmstadt

Panache & WAKeMeUP

Introduction

• Lambert AlffProfessor @ Institute of Materials Science

Advanced Thin Film Technology: Modern deposition techniques

• Technische Universität Darmstadt 25.000 students

Materials Science department (300 students)

My group: 25 Postdoc/PhD

• Thin film model devicesNon-volatile memory structures

Defect controlled growth by MBE

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Projects Background / Context

• TU Darmstadt has 6 Profile Areas, one of them is

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SCIENTIFIC PROJECTS

WAKeMeUPRRAM

RRAM, FeRAMOperando TEM

2014 - 2017

2017 - 2021PANACHE

FROM MATERIAL TOPRODUCT INNOVATION

since 2010

• Evolution and link to other pilot line and

European projects

Motivations

Early connection of research and application

Build up trust between research and industrial partners

Build a network between universities, institutes and industry

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Timely knowledge about challenges of technical innovations

Widen the horizon of application from materials to products

Being involved in the technical challenges required totransfrom a material into a product produced in a pilot line

ETA-FabrikTU Darmstadt

Project results

• Produce knowledge

• Educate people

• Research with partners

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> 10 publications (with projectpartners)

7 Master students (incl. Joint Grenoble/Darmstadt)

3 completed PhD, 1 ongoing Radiation tests on devices of

project partnersS. Petzold, E. Miranda et al.,

J. Appl. Phys. 125, 234503 (2019)

Impact & Conclusion

Be part of the future development of embedded

non-volatile memory in Europe

Strong network between partners:

Industry, research institutes, universities

New projects also in other funding schemes

Enhanced visibility

Next generation of materials scientists

with with the specific knowledge how materials

contribute to innovative products

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TU Darmstadt