List of the 2024 Global Best Sensor Awards

Lam Research Corporation is an American supplier of wafer-fabrication equipment and related services to the semiconductor industry.[2] Its products are used primarily in front-end wafer processing, which involves the steps that create the active components of semiconductor devices (transistors, capacitors) and their wiring (interconnects). The company also builds equipment for back-end wafer-level packaging (WLP) and for related manufacturing markets such as for microelectromechanical systems (MEMS).

The winning product is Lam Research Equipment Intelligence® Solutions, which helps customers accelerate technology transformation at a lower cost, with less resource consumption, while reducing waste. To achieve this, in addition to accelerating R&D to improve device performance, it is also necessary to find ways to achieve high-volume manufacturing (HVM) at a lower cost. Equipment Intelligence® has four pillar modules - digital twin/digital thread, virtual process development, smart equipment and digital services - which can integrate data modeling, virtualization and artificial intelligence (AI) into every aspect of designing, developing, purchasing, building and supporting systems and processes, from concept to feasibility study to HVM.

Source:https://www.lamresearch.com/

Sonair

Automotive/Autonomous

Sonair - a Breakthrough 3D Ultrasonic Sensor for Autonomous Robotics by Sonair

Source：https://www.sonair.com/company

Dracula Technologies

Cleantech/Sustainability 

LAYER®Vault by Dracula Technologies

Dracula Technologies is a French startup founded in 2011 following a project with the public research organization CEA (Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives, or the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission). CEO Brice Cruchon saw the commercial potential of the technology, and after six years of research and development, LAYER launched the deep tech startup through the "Hello Tomorrow" program.

Award-winning product LAYER® Vault , Dracula uses organic photovoltaic (OPV, or organic solar cell) technology commonly found in inkjet printers to develop power supply technology. The OPV modules, called LAYER (or Light As Your Energetic Response), run indoors on natural or artificial ambient light and can be used to power low-consumption indoor devices. Because they are printed, rather than made of silicon, the shape of OPV modules is more easily customized, and unlike many batteries, it does not use rare earth or heavy metals. Instead, the modules are made of carbon-based materials.

Dracula Technologies has entered into a partnership with its investor SemTech, which provides semiconductors, IoT systems and cloud connectivity services. The LayerVault device is compatible with sensors based on the LoRa communication protocol developed and operated by SemTech. The new device can be integrated into the group's wireless connectivity chips and other products targeting low-power connectivity technologies.