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Micro- and Nano- Technologies

     

Micro- and Nano-Technologies (MNT) are key enabling technologies expected to impact significantly on future economic and social development. MNT will stimulate new products and services, create and secure employment in Europe and improve living conditions, including of people who presently lack autonomy as a result of age, illness or accidents. MNT will also contribute greatly to meeting ecological challenges and achieving sustainable development, innovatively and economically.


The thematic focus of MNT ERA-Net comprises:

- Actuators and sensors
- Energy (energy storage, photovoltaic, fuel cells, batteries)
- Instrumentation (AFM, holographic instruments, calibration)
- Manufacturing (machining, LIGA, lithography, structuring, tribology)
- Materials (e.g. functionalisation, surface structuring, replication, composite)
- Medical devices (e.g. stents)
- MEMS, MOEMS, NOEMS, NEMS
- Microsystems for integration of nanobiotechnology (e.g. delivery systems, sensors, Lab-on-a-chip       
- Nanoelectronics
- Optical devices
- Simulation modelling
- System integration