17. April 2024
A sunny day in Dresden
On April 11th the GTS team visited Dresden for the first kick-off meeting of the European Union Horizon Project SENSOTERIC, smart SENSOR analog fronT-end powered by Emerging Reconfigurable deviCes. The different partners are located all across Europe, including universities from Austria, Germany, France, Netherlands and Switzerland, and two industrial partners, NaMLab and GTS.
Role of GTS in SENSOTERIC
GTS will collaborate in this project by providing insights on the working mechanisms of Reconfigurable Field Effect Transistors, RFETs. In addition, the company will study the Negative Differential Resistance, NDR, present in ultrathin transistors with Germanium-based channels. Using Design-Technology-Co-Optimization (DTCO), GTS will support the project partners in the design of small sensor circuits utilizing these innovative device options.
Aims of the project
The global objective of SENSOTERIC is the development of a reconfigurable platform to accommodate both a generic sensor interface as well as a dedicated sensor transducer element. The target is to develop runtime reconfigurable sensor interface technologies.
The interface is enabled at the fine-grain level by emerging RFET and NDR transistor technologies. Being doping-free, these two key-enabling technologies provide a high potential gain for a large variety of Machine-to-Machine sensor systems, ranging from solid-state sensors, to environmental monitoring for the automotive market, and physiological monitoring, such as detection of colorectal cancer (CRC).
The progress of the project and rest of partners can be found at the SENSOTERIC website.
