Prof. Wolfgang Mehr

Welcome to IHP – Innovations for High Performance Microelectronics

We investigate and develop wireless communication technologies.

Our activities are geared towards strengthening the competitive position of the European and German industry and creating attractive local conditions for high technology. We see ourselves as a European research and innovation center, actively cooperating with industrial and academic partners to make prototypes relevant to industry out of basic ideas. As an institute of the Leibniz Association we pursue long-term goals and connect basic research with applied research.

In addition to our focus on the communication and microelectronics industry, we develop solutions for automotive and aerospace as well as for life sciences. We do this by combining our competencies with those of partners from these branches.

The IHP employs 220 members of staff who work with state-of-the-art equipment and infrastructure, including a pilot line processing 8” wafers in a 1,000 m² class-1 cleanroom.

Our core competencies include the design of systems for wireless communication, RF circuit design, the extension of CMOS technologies, the operation of a pilot line, and the integration of new materials into semiconductor technologies. We coordinate the employment of these competencies to achieve the best possible solutions for our partners and customers.

We adopt vertical approaches in our research, when deemed appropriate. They meet the requirements of our complex topics most effectively and enable innovative solutions such as systems with optimized interlayer interaction and a vertical migration of semantic elements.  

The essential objects of our research are the wireless internet (context-aware applications, high-performance wireless LANs, and ultra-low-power body area networks), radar, a 0.25 (0.13) µm BiCMOS technology platform for wireless and broadband (ultra-fast HBTs, cost-effective BiCMOS flows), running an MPW & Prototyping service, new materials for integration into semiconductor technology (e.g. high-K materials), and developing solutions for specific branches.

Prof. Wolfgang Mehr

Director

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