History

Fraunhofer IZM has enjoyed a very successful track record since its founding in 1993. Over 400 employees research and develop microsystem technology at the three Fraunhofer IZM branches, located in Berlin, Dresden and Cottbus.

• Together with 10 other Fraunhofer Institutes and two Leibniz Institutes, Fraunhofer IZM sets up the Research Fab Microelectronics Germany (https://www.forschungsfabrik-mikroelektronik.de/en)
  
• Fraunhofer IZM opens the new lab complex „Start-a-Factory“ for hardware startups (more info)
  
• Fraunhofer IZM’s Training and Analytics Center in Oberpfaffenhofen becomes part of Fraunhofer EMFT in Munich as of January 1, 2017 (https://www.emft.fraunhofer.de/en)
  

• Launch of the Panel Level Packaging Consortium (more info)
  

• Opening of the new research and development center "AdaptSys - Multifunctional Microelectronics for Innovative Micro- and Nano-Integration Technology in the Development of Application-Oriented Systems"

• IZM celebrates 20 years anniversary!

• Launch of the Berlin substrate line and molding laboratory.

• The center “All Silicon System Integration Dresden” (ASSID) opens.
  
• The Munich branch is named an independent institute: Fraunhofer EMFT
  

• The reliability laboratory “Electronics Condition Monitoring” (ECM) opens in Berlin

• The Chemnitz branch is established as the independent institute Fraunhofer ENAS

• SecurityLab Berlin opens in a joint initiative with the Bundesdruckerei GmbH for the development of intelligent security documents.
• The Teltow branch becomes the independent institute Fraunhofer PYCO.
  
• The research focus “Multi-Functional On-Top Technologies” is intensified in a cooperation with the Universität der Bundeswehr in Munich.
  

• The “Smart System Integration” Application Center is established in Berlin to help companies new to microsystem technology with product development and the integration of microelectronics.

• The Munich-based Fraunhofer Institute for Solid State Technology, with the departments Vertical System Integration, Polytronic Systems, Advanced Testing of Integrated Systems and Micro Actuators and Fluidics, is fully merged into Fraunhofer IZM.

• The Micro Mechatronic Center in Oberpfaffenhofen opens
  

• The Center for Microsystem Technology, a joint initiative by leading Berlin-based microsystem technology research institutes is established at the Berlin-Adlershof Science and Technology Park. Fraunhofer IZM contributes its expertise in system integration and reliability to the center.

• Part of the Munich-based Fraunhofer Institute for Solid State Technology is merged as department into Fraunhofer IZM with the research focus “Pervasive Computing System Technologies”.

• Polymer materials and composites is added to the institute’s research portfolio. The new department is located at a separate branch in Teltow (Brandenburg).
• In Paderborn, the project group Advanced System Engineering is established in cooperation with the local university.
  
• A department dedicated to the topic is established in Chemnitz.
  

• Due to its success in industry and science, Fraunhofer IZM is granted the status of institute and is thus wholly established within the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft.

• Merging of the Training Center for Interconnection Technologies (ZVE) with Fraunhofer IZM. ZVE augments Fraunhofer IZM’s training program and reinforces its expertise in SMT component qualification and analysis.

• Founding of the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration IZM with 21 employees from research groups at the TU Berlin, Humboldt-Universität and since closed Institute for Mechanics at Academy of the Sciences in Chemnitz.
• http://www.becap.tu-berlin.de, thereafter ongoing close collaboration between staff and on research foci.