NXP

NXP [1] is a top 10 semiconductor company and was created on 29 September 2006 from the Philips Semiconductors Product Division of the Royal Philips Group. Headquartered in Europe, the company has 37,000 employees working in more than 20 countries and posted sales of USD 6.3 billion in 2007. NXP creates semiconductors, system solutions and software that deliver better sensory experiences in mobile phones, personal media players, TVs, set-top boxes, identification applications, cars and a wide range of other electronic devices.

The research group “Microsytems Technology” as part of NXP Innovation and Technology is specialized in MEMS and wafer-level processing of special materials such as high-k dielectrics, ferroelectrics, piezoelectrics, solid electrolytes and phase change materials. Worldclass cleanroom facilities (2650 m², class 100–10000, multi-technology) and high-tech services are available by the Philips MiPlaza services. Close links and joint activities exist with the research group “System in Package Devices” of Philips Research [2].

Thin film ferroelectric capacitors have been integrated with resistors and active functions such as ESD protection into small miniaturized modules [3,4]. NXP joined the NANOSTAR consortium to explore options for tuneable ferroelectric materials at high frequencies.

[1] http://www.nxp.com
[2] http://www.research.philips.com
[3] M. Klee, W. Keur, R. Mauczok, A. Roest, K. Reimann, L. Peters, K. Neumann, R. Kiewitt, Ferroelectric thin film system in package devices with integrated capacitors of 100 nF/mm2 & breakdown voltages of 90 V, in Ferroelectrics, Multiferroics, and Magnetoelectrics, edited by J.F. Scott, V. Gopalan, M. Okuyama, and M. Bibes (Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. Volume 1034E, Warrendale, PA, 2008), 1034-K11-08
[4] Klee, IEEE Proceedings ICMTS 2008, to be published