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 Two decades of unwavering collaboration and a new milestone for the STMicroelectronics/IEMN LabCom
At the dawn of 2025, a new page in the history of the ST/IEMN joint laboratory (LabCom) was written with the signing of the renewal agreement. This event marks a significant turning point in a collaboration that for more than two decades has embodied a model of excellence and shared commitment to high-risk research and scientific and industrial innovation.
Since its creation in 2003, the ST/IEMN LabCom has successfully combined scientific ambition and industrial relevance, becoming the embodiment of a model of sustainable partnership between public research and industry. Its research program, renewed every five years, demonstrates a constant dynamic of evolution and adaptation to current technological challenges. The themes explored - ranging from microwave characterization and photonics to the design of integrated circuits for communications and embedded artificial intelligence, including acoustic metrology, high-frequency functional packaging and integrated micro-thermics - are at the heart of the strategic challenges for the semiconductor science and industry of tomorrow.
The figures for this collaboration are equally eloquent. With, over a period of twenty years from 2003 to 2023, more than 936 scientific contributions, including 155 articles in peer-reviewed journals, 445 papers at international conferences, 49 invited papers, as well as a significant production of patents and technological innovations, the ST/IEMN LabCom has established itself as a key player in joint academic/industrial research in microelectronics. This partnership has also trained a generation of researchers and engineers – 91 theses defended and 24 doctoral students currently involved, including 16 under the CIFRE scheme.
The LabCom's successes are also the result of a remarkable ability to mobilize resources through prestigious national and European programs. With funding from initiatives such as the NANO and IPCEI development programs, the EQUIPEX excellence initiatives and more than 30 projects under the ENIAC, ECSEL and HORIZON European research funding programmes, the ST/IEMN LabCom has been able to develop an ecosystem conducive to risk-taking and the emergence of breakthrough innovations.
The signing of this new agreement is much more than a simple administrative step: it gives concrete form to a shared vision for the years to come. Together, IEMN and STMicroelectronics intend to take up the technological challenges of tomorrow and contribute, through their advances, to shaping a sustainable and connected future. May this third decade be marked by ever-renewed creativity and ever-increasing excellence.
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