ForLab FAMOS
A project at the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg
Integrated light sources on silicon, novel optical sensors and electro-optical technologies for communication are to be developed in the Research Laboratory of Functional Materials for Optoelectronic More-than-Moore Devices on the silicon platform. The aim of the scientists led by Prof Dr Inga Anita Fischer at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg is to integrate new materials for optoelectronic components.
The research focus of Forlab FAMOS is to transfer new materials – the semiconductors germanium-tin GeSn and silicon-germanium-tin SiGeSn, oxides, two-dimensional materials and polymers – to a mature silicon platform. By integrating the new materials into silicon-based components, it should be possible to utilise the CMOS platform for cost-effective component manufacturing processes and to achieve functionality that cannot be achieved with silicon alone.
The FAMOS research laboratory is a close cooperation between the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg and the Leibniz Institute for Innovative Microelectronics (IHP) Frankfurt/Oder and the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems (IPMS) Dresden. Because new materials can cause contamination and are therefore only used to a limited extent in production-relevant clean rooms, FAMOS complements the capacities of these partners and enables research in the field of optoelectronic device development with high scientific and economic relevance.
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