Nanusens joins the Spanish Semiconductor Industry Association (AESEMI), strengthening the national ecosystem with its disruptive technology in the field of nanoscale tunable sensors and capacitors.
Nanusens has developed a patented technology that allows MEMS nanostructures to be built using the metal layers of a standard CMOS chip. This innovation makes it possible to create single-chip solutions – both MEMS tunable RF sensors and devices – much smaller than their traditional counterparts, and manufacturable in virtually unlimited volumes in conventional CMOS fabs, significantly reducing the cost of production.
Founded in 2014 by Dr. Josep Montanyà and Dr. Marc Llamas, Nanusens is based in Edinburgh, Scotland, with R&D offices in Barcelona. Their expertise in miniaturisation has resulted in sensors so compact that they are classified as NEMS (Nano Electro Mechanical Systems), offering ideal solutions for space-constrained devices such as wearables, AIoT devices or smartphones.
In addition to its sensors, Nanusens has developed digitally tunable MEMS capacitors (DTCs) capable of being integrated directly into CMOS chips. This technology is key to meeting the challenges of the RF front-end in next-generation (6G) mobile phones, where much more precise and flexible management of the frequency spectrum is required.
AESEMI was founded in 2021 and represents the main Spanish companies dedicated to microelectronic design and semiconductor manufacturing. One of its objectives is to give visibility to all the entities that form part of the semiconductor technology ecosystem in Spain. Thanks to this platform, the growth of this industry and the option for large companies to have solutions to cover the commitments of decarbonisation and digitisation, which are a common factor for all industries, already at a global level, are boosted.
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