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18 September 2025
POEM Technology Center inaugurated at University of Copenhagen’s Niels Bohr Building
With the inauguration of the POEM Technology Center in the new Niels Bohr Building at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark now has its first facility capable of producing chips on 300mm wafers.
As a partnership between the Novo Nordisk Foundation Quantum Computing Programme (NQCP), the Niels Bohr Institute, and Riber S.A. of Bezons, France, the new center provides researchers and engineers with equipment to accelerate progress in semiconductors and quantum technologies.
Photo: POEM Technology Center’s official launch. From the left: NQCP’s CEO Peter Krogstrup, Riber’s CEO Annie Geoffroy, and Joachim Mathiesen, head of the Niels Bohr Institute.
“The new partnership can accelerate the development of tomorrow’s microchips in Denmark and Europe and thereby help address the geopolitical and technological challenges that define the global chip industry,” said NQCP’s CEO Peter Krogstrup, a professor at the Niels Bohr Institute.
At the heart of the new cleanroom is Riber’s molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) technology for developing advanced quantum and photonic chips that are key to future innovations in high-speed communications, optical data processing, and quantum circuits. By integrating wafer production on-site, researchers no longer have to rely on external suppliers, speeding up the transition from experiment to prototype.
The POEM facility is expected to be fully operational within a year. In addition to serving quantum research, it will also be open to industrial partners developing prototype chips for research and innovation purposes.
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