ASML and TUE establish joint research program and facility

ASML and Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE) have extended their long-standing partnership with a joint research program and the construction of a partially shared research facility on the TUE campus. The program will create up to 40 PhD positions yearly in AI, mechatronics, plasma physics and semiconductor lithography research. ASML’s engineers will be involved as hybrid teachers.

The new facility features workspaces, meeting rooms, research labs and a well-equipped state-of-the-art cleanroom for the benefit of over five hundred researchers, including several hundred ASML employees. TUE, other research centers and industry partners will have access as well. “This collaborative space will enable growth and synergy across academic research fields of mutual interest such as photonics, quantum computing, nanomaterials and chip manufacturing,” a press release reads.

In addition, the facility requiring an estimated investment of several hundred million euros will include cleanroom space dedicated to TUE exclusively. This space will be rented long-term to the university, for fundamental research in the same and related areas.