Research activities of IMEP-LAHC cover large areas (materials, technologies, components, circuits and systems) which allow carrying out multidisciplinary research in common with our partners in nanophysics, material chemistry, circuit designers or system manufacturers in electronics and optoelectronics. Situated at convergence of many sciences and technologies, IMEP-LAHC can play an important federating role to develop ambitious projects and to challenge the future of electronics. Such activities are regrouped in 3 research themes with potential applications (semiconductors, informatics, telecommunications,) representing important goals for economy of next decades.
IMEP, Institut de Microélectronique Electromagnétisme et Photonique, was a new « Unité de Recherche CNRS/INPG/UJF » created in January 2001 by merging 2 previous laboratories: the LEMO, Laboratoire d'Electromagnetisme Microondes et Optoélectronique, and the LPCS (Laboratoire de Physique des Composants à Semiconducteurs). In 2007 regrouping IMEP and LAHC, LAboratoire d'Hyperfrequences et de Caractérisation, gave birth to IMEP-LAHC, Unité Mixte de Recherche UMR5130 CNRS/Grenoble INP/Université de Savoie.