Membership

The Center for NanoScience (CeNS), established in 1998, aims to stimulate and support interdisciplinary research in all areas of nanoscience, combining physics, chemistry, biochemistry and life sciences. CeNS is a working group based at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich, Germany. CeNS members and affiliates research both at the LMU and at other scientific institutions as well as in industrial laboratories. They cooperate in a horizontal network that lives from their voluntary commitment, supported by a small coordinating team .

By 1970 the semiconductor industry had been building momentum for at least a decade. Yet the companies supplying the equipment and materials that made possible the miniature wonders known as "chips" were all but invisible. The newly emerging industry was tiny then - only a few million dollars in global revenues - but a handful of visionary leaders came together to create a forum to shine the spotlight on equipment and materials suppliers. The resulting organization was called Semiconductor Equipment and Materials Institute, but was best known as SEMI®.