(Preliminary research focus) Applications of 5G communication in vertical industries will require Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communication (URLLC) that was unprecedented in the previous generation mobile systems. On the other hand, the overall security mechanisms in 5G system, such as confidentiality protection, integrity protection, replay protection, and privacy protection are largely unchanged from the previous generation systems. It is ...
Through Film History the essay film moves fluently across different genres. Throughout the history of the film essay genre we can find multiple interesting cross-pollinations between film noir, science fiction, western and documentary. In this doctoral research I will attempt to focus on the possible cohesion between the detective genre and the essay film.
This research follows from some pertinent ecological questions that are being ...
Since World War II, Radars have gone a long way from bulky and expensive military/space radars to miniaturized radars for various applications in the consumer, automotive and smart environments domains. The trend over the last decade has been to move to millimeter wave, supported by the constant improvement in semiconductor technology and supported by a strong demand in the automotive domain. IMEC started several years ago the development of ...
A magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) consists of the free layer (FL), pinned layer (PL), and the antiferromagnetic (AFM) layer. The AFM layer fixes the PL’s magnetization orientation via exchange coupling. The FL and PL are separated by a thin, crystalline MgO barrier. Electrons tunnel through the MgO insulating layer resulting in electrical conductivity, which depends on the relative orientation between the magnetizations of the FL and PL. The ...
Social interactions between family members are important aspects of wellbeing. However, due to dislocations family members are increasingly geographically separated and challenged in maintaining high-quality relationships. The current audio-video technologies fail to address physical interactions appropriately. Therefore, this project aims to research how to enable tangible remote social interactions, by systematically exploring physicality ...
For years, overweight and obesity have remained among the top worldwide public health concerns. One major determinant of excess weight is the obesogenic environment we live in, promoted for by the multibillion-dollar food industry giants. Food marketing impacts dietary choices and perceived norms especially among children and adolescents, building a lifetime of food preferences and brand loyalty. Marketing’s effect on nutrition behaviour is a ...
This project aims to investigate the dynamic interplay between media representations of current non-EU immigration of asylum seekers, migrants and refugees and governmental (i.e. State and EU) and societal (re)actions. This project combines four complementary multi-stakeholder group perspectives in a unique way: 1) analysis of news media content; 2) analysis of journalism cultures and practices across the countries under study; 3) study of ...
This research aims to provide insight in the way mental ‘frames’ on radicalization and multicultural society in the social debate impact urban youth in the low countries. Firstly, a frame analysis of the Belgian news media (2014 – 2018) will be applied to identify the dominating frames in the ongoing debate on radicalization. Secondly, a similar frame analysis of the Dutch news media (2015-2018) will be executed to distinguish the dominating ...
Composite right/left handed (CRLH) metamaterial inspired reconfigurable antennas show benefits in space diversity applications. The proposed antennas will have a dual band and both bands need to be reconfigurable in radiation pattern. A 2D beam-steering leaky wave antenna based on the 2D CRLH will also be designed with the capability of achieving backfire to endfire scanning continuously in two orthogonal planes.