The ADMONT project worked on extending CMOS process technologies with sensor components, among other things, to boost novel applications with innovative components and systems in the fields of mobility, energy, health and production. For this purpose, a distributed More-than-Moore (MtM) pilot line was set up by the consortium to prove that the new concepts can be produced with the various technologies. IMMS has used this framework to develop the following solutions, among others.

RFID chip supporting battery-free operation of off-the-shelf sensors for diagnostics and analytics.

The IMMS RFID chip supplies energy to individual commercial sensors with an I2C interface and transmits their measured data to an NFC-capable smartphone or other RFID readout device, contact-free. The integrated energy management system and I2C master enable energy-intensive measurements to be taken at low cost using NFC. The data is processed with an Android app.

Battery-less RFID sensor chip transmits measurement data from aqueous solutions.

The RFID sensor chip developed at IMMS allows NFC-enabled devices such as smartphones to retrieve temperature values, e.g. in cell culture monitoring applications. The challenge was to integrate RFID transponder and temperature sensor on a single chip and to achieve the working ranges and accuracies of commercially available stand-alone sensors. The chip is for use in extremely compact installation spaces.

Microelectronic contact imaging sensor for breast cancer in-vitro diagnostics.

To distinguish types and stages of breast cancer for targeted therapies, it has to date been necessary to initiate a slow, expensive further process of analysis in cases where the initial diagnosis is unclear. So that in future the exact disease classification will be completed in a single stage, IMMS‘ partners are currently investigating cell samples with an optoelectronic test system that IMMS has developed.