Microtechnologies – Small Yet Mighty!

Modern computer technology owes its performance to advances in microtechnology, particularly in microelectronics, microsystems technology, and microprocess engineering. These disciplines enable the production of microtechnical structures such as integrated circuits (ICs) based on silicon semiconductors and other microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). The structures are so small that they can no longer be seen with the naked eye: The structure size of a single elementary cell of an IC is 22 nanometers. The precise manufacturing processes take place in clean rooms. 

The InnoQuarter Itzehoe produces high-performance transistors that are used, for example, in automotive production, and many commercially available electrical appliances.