Objective
There is no doubt that ICT, supported by semiconductor technology, can play in using more efficiently energy resources and in allowing the adoption of renewable energy production, care must be taken that the complete life cycle of the envisaged technologies is considered, and that also the energy costs for the production of the critical semiconductor components are minimized. This concept applies also to all industrial sectors, like photovoltaics and solid-state lighting, that are largely based on the same technologies as semiconductor manufacturing. The envisaged “green society” can only be such if based on “green fabs” for the manufacturing of the critical components.
The SILVER project targets at the design, development and assessment of innovative and comprehensive approaches to reduce the environmental impact of existing semiconductor manufacturing. The project will focus on the development of innovative solutions for the reduction of water and energy consumption, which will result also in the mitigation of greenhouse effect.
The project aims to achieve the result through a sequence of coordinated R&D actions involving facility and equipment development.
The path to solution will be:
a) Reduction of direct energy consumption through:
• control of the idle mode of equipment
• equipment and process modelling
• optimization of process recipes on plasma equipment
b) Reduction of D.I. water consumption through:
• Introduction of new cleaning procedures;
• Optimization of water consumption in critical process steps;
• Water recycling and re-use.
The final objective is to demonstrate new technologies that will enable the participating companies to achieve reduction in water and energy consumption in line with the targets that international organizations are defining for the next period.
Fields of science
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwaste managementwaste treatment processesrecycling
- natural scienceschemical sciencesinorganic chemistrytransition metals
- natural sciencesphysical scienceselectromagnetism and electronicssemiconductivity
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energysolar energyphotovoltaic
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Call for proposal
ENIAC-2011-1
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Coordinator
20864 AGRATE BRIANZA
Italy
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Participants (13)
75007 Paris
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50006 ZARAGOZA
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1322 AP ALMERE
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28006 Madrid
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3001 Leuven
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67051 Avezzano Aq
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9700 Oudenaarde
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2595 DA Den Haag
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5651 GG Eindhoven
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20864 Agrate Brianza
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20041 agrate brianza
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38920 Crolles
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7521 PE Enschede
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