Luc Van den hove

IMEC named Luc Van den hove as its new resident and CEO. Former, CEO Gilbert Declerck is elected as member of the Board of IMEC International. In addition, he will continue to serve IMEC as executive officer, concentrating on key governmental and industrial relations and on strategic advice. Under Declerck's 10-year regime, IMEC has become a key research force in IC technology scaling and has extended successfully in areas like photovoltaics and biomedical electronics.

Luc Van den hove has spent his entire career at IMEC, where he started as a team leader in silicide and interconnect technologies research. In 1988, he became manager of IMEC's micro-patterning group (lithography, dry etching). As VP since 1988, he led the Division of Silicon Process and Device Technology. Since 2007, he served as executive VP and COO.

IMEC is a world-leading independent research center in nanoelectronics and nanotechnology. IMEC vzw is headquartered in Leuven, Belgium, has a sister company in the Netherlands, IMEC-NL, offices in the US, China and Taiwan, and representatives in Japan. Its staff of more than 1650 people includes about 550 industrial residents and guest researchers. In 2008, its revenue was $445 million.

IMEC's More Moore research aims at semiconductor scaling towards sub-32nm nodes. With its More than Moore research, IMEC looks into technologies for nomadic embedded systems, wireless autonomous transducer solutions, biomedical electronics, photovoltaics, organic electronics and GaN power electronics.

IMEC's research bridges the gap between fundamental research at universities and technology development in industry. Its unique balance of processing and system know-how, intellectual property portfolio, state-of-the-art infrastructure and its strong network worldwide position IMEC as a key partner for shaping technologies for future systems.