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The first year review meeting of SURFBOND was held at SAL Villach.

Group picture of the SURFBOND project team with 9 people on the stairs of the SAL building in Villach

For twenty years, researchers from Silicon Austria Labs (SAL) have been working on the development of a laser-based ignition system.

Gerhard Kroupa with the ignition laser in the lab

Silicon Austria Labs (SAL) has appointed Aya Cohen as new leader for its SAL MicroFab in Villach. Aya brings international engineering and management…

Women with dark hair is leaning against a banister, a forest can be seen in the background

SAL-DC will be welcoming 18 new PhD students under the umbrella of the MSCA-Cofund program CRYSTALLINE in 2024.

Group picture of students and professors in front of a yellow building

Jasmin Spettel is currently doing her PhD in a joint collaboration between SAL, EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland) and the University of Sydney (Australia).…

The first edition of the SAL Symposium on 6G brought together internationally renowned speakers and participants, who discussed insights into the…

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Matteo Montagnese is a solid-state physicist with a spectroscopy and laser background. He joined SAL as a Senior Scientist in 2021 after more…

Matteo in the office in front of a test set-up with a colleague

Expanded collaboration includes installation of EVG’s LITHOSCALE® maskless exposure system, EVG®7300 UV-NIL system and complementary resist processing…

Learn more about Raheeb in his Career Blog.

Raheeb at a table with two colleagues. All three are laughing.

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First year review meeting of the SURFBOND project

Shooting for the stars: 20 years of research on laser ignition for aerospace applications

New leadership sparks advancement at Austria’s largest research cleanroom

CRYSTALLINE: Training the next generation in ESBS research

From Switzerland over Australia to Austria

SAL symposium on 6G: Unveiling the future of wireless communications in Linz

"You can have the best minds and equipment, but a collaborative work environment makes all the difference."

SAL and EV Group strengthen collaboration in optical technology research

"As you keep on learning, your role models change with you"