The path towards the application of new microelectronic technologies in the AIDA community

The Workpackage 3 of the AIDA project has the goal of facilitating the access of the high energy physics community to the most advanced semiconductor technologies, from nanoscale CMOS to innovative interconnection processes. The AIDA network is studying 3D integration with the main goal of designing novel tracking and vertexing detector systems based on high-granularity pixel sensors, with aggressive and intelligent architectures for sensing, analogue and digital processing and storage, and data transmission. This talk reviews the ongoing efforts and discusses the challenges that are being tackled in this framework to qualify technologies and devices for actual applications.