Silicon Austria Labs (SAL)

Unfold the Future

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We develop technologies for a greener, smarter and more connected future of electronic based systems.

About SAL

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We offer industry-oriented research as well as services at the highest level, a well-equipped research infrastructure and customized opportunities for cooperation.

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If you want to actively shape the technologies of the future and enjoy working in an international team, then you've come to the right place.

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Mohammadsadegh Namnabat is currently doing his PhD in collaboration with EPFL University (Lausanne, Switzerland). He is working on improving the…

Herbert Hackl is one of the top five longest-serving researchers at the SAL site in Graz. Read his career blog here!

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SAL researcher Jürgen Kosel is co-author of the publication "Wearable sensors for monitoring marine environments and their inhabitants" in the journal…

Sea turtle with signal, which sends, for example, the animal’s condition or other information.

Jannick Fammels is part of the Thin Film Technologies group within the Microsystems Technologies Research Division at SAL Villach. He is doing his…

Jannick and Prof. Kummel in the UCSD Lab

We congratulate Junior Scientists Pooja Thakkar, Sara Guerreiro and Madeleine Petschnigg on winning the Early Career Call for their project proposal…

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This month in our Career Blog: Celebrate her one-year anniversary at SAL with Emily Bezerra!

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SAL recently acquired a 300 mm automated probe system with an autonomous silicon photonics measurement assistant, the CM300xi-SiPh, from FormFactor.…

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With an increasing number of installed solar systems, the question we must ask now is what happens when these systems have reached the end of their…

In the middle are slightly damaged PV systems. Surrounding the PV Systems there are yellow and green fields.

Ingo Pill, Staff Scientist for Trustworthy Adaptive Computing, has been part of the SAL family since 2020. Read more about his career here!

We are delighted to announce that with the help of a 2M€ national FFG infrastructure funding, Silicon Austria Labs will be able to complete a fan-out…

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From Vienna to South Africa, Saudi Arabia and back to Austria again: Jürgen Kosel has traveled quite a bit of the world in his scientific career. He…

Jürgen Kosel gets a certificate of membership

In June, the project GIRAFFE (Gyroskope für Autonome Flug- und Fahrzeuge) was kicked off. The project is financed within the framework of Quantum…

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More than Moore

More functionality and efficiency in smaller components

The research goals on More-than-Moore technologies at SAL are reduction of complexity, miniaturization and increase in efficiency of components.

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6G

Convergence of communications, radar, localization and sensing

Currently, the necessary fundamental research for a market launch of 6G starting in 2030 is beginning to form internationally. At Silicon Austria Labs in Linz, research is being conducted on essential "enabling technologies" for 6G.

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Dependable EBS

For a future where EBS technology fosters trust

SAL is researching various technologies that contribute to the dependability of EBS, from software development for the Internet of Things to the question of the explainability of artificial intelligence.

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