Press releases KTH ICT
Nanonet-based sensors for medical applications
Grenoble/France, March 2016,
Developing a new technology for the fabrication of low-cost integrated biosensors and gas sensors for medical applications: this is the ambitious objective which will be pursued by a unique multidisciplinary team of scientists and engineers from four European countries and five Research institutions, Universities and industrial R&D labs. The project started on 1st February 2016 for three years under the leadership of the French lab consortium for nanoelectronics, FMNT, from Grenoble INP, in the framework of the EC funded project “Nanonets2Sense” (Project n°688329).
The field of pre-diagnostic and monitoring of diseases or metabolic disorders is evolving rapidly with the development of new decentralized, fast and easy-to-use tools for the detection of specific molecules in biological fluids such as blood or breath.
Ultimate goal: to get fast point-of-care analysis near the patient, in the hospital, in the ambulance, at home or even in wearable patches.
The core of this project is to propose a completely new technological approach, based on the use of nanonets, which consist of random networks of nanowires. Nanonets are providing the performance advantage of crystalline nanowires together with easy co-integration with read-out and conditioning electronics. They are fabricated using very low-cost methods and can be further processed using a 3D above-IC integration scheme suitable for high volume microelectronic applications.
The Nanonets2Sense project builds upon the strong expertise of the academic partners (FMNT-Grenoble INP, France and Kungliga Tekniska Hoegskolan, Sweden) in material chemistry, bio chemistry, and in the physics and technology of advanced devices and circuits. Grenoble INP patented the sintering technique, which brought the initial breakthrough by increasing nanonets adherence and electrical conductance (Patent n° FR 14 61326). Industrial relevance as well as future exploitation are guaranteed by the involvement of a large company (ams AG, Austria) offering leading CMOS foundry services for high volume sensors manufacturing and an SME specialized in breath analysis and gas sensing solutions (Cambridge CMOS Sensors – UK). The SINANO Institute will set up effective strategies for dissemination of project results and completes partners list.
The H2020 Programme
H2020 is the short name for the Horizon2020 Programme for Research and Technological Development. This is the EU's main instrument for funding research in Europe beginning in 2014. The Nanonets2Sense is a Research and Innovation Action Project.
The Nanonets2Sense consortium partners:
Academic institutions:
- FMNT- Grenoble INP (France – project coordinator)
- Kungliga Tekniska Hoegskolan (Sweden)
Research Institute
- SiNANO Institute (France)
Industrial Organization
- ams AG (Austria)
- Cambridge CMOS Sensors (UK)
Contact:
Project coordinator:
FMNT-Grenoble INP
Dr. Mireille Mouis, Scientific Coordinator
IMEP-LAHC, Grenoble-INP/Minatec,
3 parvis Louis Néel, CS50257
38016 Grenoble, France
Email: mouis@minatec.grenoble-inp.fr
Vinnova grants 3.9 MSEK for the development of next generation skin cancer detection
The Integrated Circuits and Systems (ICS) group, which is part of the Integrated Devices and Systems (IDC) department at ICT/KTH, has been granted 3.9 MSEK for the development of a miniaturized skin cancer diagnose device based on bio-impedance measurements. The industrial project's partner is Scibase AB (SCIB), a Medtec company based in Stockholm which specializes in the development of malignant melanoma diagnose instruments.
Melanoma is one of the fastest growing cancers around the world. In Sweden, it is the fastest growing form of cancer. In the US, there is one in 24 lifetime risk of contracting melanoma. Early diagnose is crucial since survival rates drops to below 50% if a melanoma is not detected and treated at an early stage.
The 2-year project is under the Strategic Innovation Program “Smarter Electronic Systems” (Strategiska innovationsprogrammet Smartare Elektroniksystem). This call received 44 project applications which together searched for 86.9 MSEK while the total available funding for the program was 24 MSEK. Vinnova's main reason for granting this project is:
“This project contributes greatly to strengthen both the competitiveness of Scibase and also the key field of medical embedded systems. The project obtained specially good marks for the main criteria Potential and Feasibility. ”
- This project offers the fantastic opportunity of merging a leading Swedish company with breakthrough medical instrumentation technology and a leading research group in Microelectronics. We strongly believe that the synergy between these actors has the potential to provide results that are clinically important for society by dramatically improving the way in which skin cancer detection is done, says Dr. Saul Rodriguez who is Principal Investigator (PI) in this project.
Old Press releases
Smart Spaces - Semantic Mobile Interaction for innovative m-marketing
Semantic Mobile Interaction – SMI (multiple patents awarded and pending) provides a revolutionary way to support simultaneous multi-user interaction with physical objects in the environment as well as 2D and 3D representations of objects that are displayed by flat panels, projectors, billboards and posters, using unmodified mobile devices.
Semantic Mobile Interaction (pdf 90 kB)
The EU initiative METIS paves the way for the mobile and wireless communications system for 2020 & beyond
METIS, Mobile and wireless communications Enablers for the Twenty-twenty (2020) Information Society, is a large EU co-funded research project starting in November 2012. The project objective is to respond to societal challenges for the year 2020 and beyond by laying the foundation for the next generation of the mobile and wireless communications system. METIS is a consortium of 29 partners spanning telecommunications manufacturers, network operators, the automotive industry and academia. KTH and School of ICT is one of the partners in METIS.
METIS Paves the way for 2020 information society (pdf 121 kB)