Stock Photo - 03 March 2021, Brandenburg, Frankfurt (Oder): The building of IHP GmbH - Innovations for High Performance Microelectronics - Leibniz Institute for Innovative Microelectronics with the new clean room extension (front) (aerial view with a drone). The clean room - the technological heart of the IHP in Frankfurt (Oder) was expanded by half its size in a 2.5 year construction period. The expansion of the clean room to a size of 1,500 square meters enables the IHP on the one hand to provide partners from science and research with a stable BiCMOS technology platform and at the same time to explore the possibilities of new materials. The goal is to be able to maintain records such as the world's fastest silicon germanium transistor in the future. The IHP employs about 300 people. Photo: Patrick Pleul/dpa-Zentralbild/ZB. - Frankfurt (Oder)/Brandenburg/Germany