Dimes Technology Center - About 

History

Dimes evolved out of the IC-Atelier, a relatively simple laboratory for the fabrication of Integrated Circuits, set up in the late nineteen seventies and located on the fourth flour of the Electrical Engineering Faculty building. Since microelectronics is a very dynamic field, it soon became necessary to expand and upgrade the lab. Also the small Sub-Micron Cleanroom facility in the Physics Department needed expansion.
In 1987 Dimes was born: the Delft Institute for Micro-Electronics and Submicron technology (as it was called then). The laboratories were brought under the Dimes Technology Center.
When Dimes was officially opened about 25 people technical staff were employed at Dimes TC. The technical staff has not increased over the years. Throughout all the ups and downs in the semiconductor industry, Dimes has steadily grown. More and more students are now doing the research and processing themselves. About 50 students are now working in the labs on a daily basis.
In 2004 the MEMSlab was added to the Technology Center to be able to handle non standard materials and processes, and in 2008 the Large Signal and Sub-mm Wave lab was opened with on-wafer characterization up to 300 GHz.
In 2006 the Physics Department moved out to use part of the New Cleanroom Facilities of TNO: the Nanofacility.
The name of Dimes was changed in "Delft Institute of Microsystems and Nanoelectronics" to better reflect the the actual situation.

DimesTC Today

After a reorganisation in 2011 DimesTC will be an independent department within the faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS). Although still a research organisation we are more client oriented and better suited to serve a larger and broader clientele.