Masdar Institute - Institute Center for Microsystems (iMicro)

This Institute provide strategic and operational direction for microsystems research in order to achieve research excellence and to generate knowledge and technologies that conducte to the establishment of the UAE as a global leader in the semiconductor sector.

Their main areas of research are:

• Nano-scale device design and fabrication, including module process research & development and investigation of novel materials in support of performance requirements of future technologies
• Circuit and system design, including computer-aided design tools and methodologies for low-power, energy-deficient nano and micro  system design
• Photonics for low-power chip interconnects, sensors, and photovoltaic based solar energy conversion
• MEMS based devices, including transducers, resonators, energy harvesters, and accelerometers