Advances in the miniaturisation of optoelectronic components have been largely driven by the demand for cheap, efficient and accurate sensing and fast information processing, in a multiplicity of applications.

Ultra-fast and low-power nanoscale optoelectronic devices are aimed towards systems for use in chemical and biological sensing technologies, high-performance computing, energy-efficient lighting, integrated healthcare devices, environmental monitoring and more.

M3NIR makes use of such miniaturised optoelectronic building blocks, to create a modular, highly adaptable and efficient multi-sensing platform, which will be validated in the domains of healthcare and environmental monitoring. The project makes also use of novel schemes for component integration and packaging, while it revolves around the Ge-on-SOI platform developed by imec.