Projects
Horizon 2020: Highly EFFICIENT and reliable electric drivetrains based on modular, intelligent and highly integrated wide band gap power electronics modules Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Within HiEFFICIENT the project partners will work towards these goals and will develop the next generation of wide bandgap
semiconductors (WBG) in the area of smart mobility. To boost this development and the market introduction in
automotive applications, HiEFFICIENT partners have set ambitious goals to ...
Structured Circuit Design with Thin Film Transistors for Large Area Electronics KU Leuven
Research done on the physics of thin film semiconductor materials in the last few decades, has resulted into an assortment of technologies to make semiconductor devices. With the device research approaching maturity, there is a push to deploy devices and circuit elements made in thin film technology, for relevant circuit designs. Unlike CMOS technologies that currently constitute a bulk of the integrated circuit production, thin film circuit ...
Miniaturization of wearable electronics in the context of wireless body area networks KU Leuven
The thesis topic consists in developing wearable wireless systems oriented toward biomedical signals acquisition via sensors applied on body surface.
Integrated Thin-film Electronics in PV Modules and batteries KU Leuven
Economical motivations and demand for environment-friendly buildings and sustainable industries, pushes businesses to invest in cost-efficient renewable power sources such as wind or solar photovoltaic (PV) technology. As a sustainable and highly appealing source of electricity, solar energy has the greatest potential to deliver long-term benefits for investors. Even though with the help of intensive research and development, solar cells have ...
System-level hardware-based design techniques for EM Resilience: a necessity for safe and reliable programmable electronics KU Leuven
With the advent of autonomous vehicles, Smart Cities, Industry 4.0 and many more Internet-of-Things related applications, our future society and lives become highly dependent on high-tech electronics. Unfortunately, all high-tech electronics are sensitive to ElectroMagnetic Interference (EMI), while the increasing electrification of, amongst others, vehicles and machines unavoidably means a much harsher electromagnetic environment. In ...
Digital and Mixed Signal Design for Flexible Electronics KU Leuven
The ambition of this Ph.D. topic is to design and realize several complex chips in the flexible electronics domain, focusing on digital or mixed-signal electronics. The main purpose of this project is to develop a dedicated microprocessor on flex and its accompanied memory block, such as SRAM. The key application is to design flexible chips for next-generation wearable healthcare applications.
Circuit Design for Ultrasonic Haptic Feedback in Large Area Electronics KU Leuven
Haptic feedback is a key technology to improve the user experience of touch screens, automotive and augmented reality applications. Rather than common techniques which incorporate sensors and actuators within keypad, touchscreen or gloves to generate haptic feeling, this research creates this feeling in mid-air without the need for physical contact with the haptic enabled product. the generation of this haptic feedback can be obtained with ...
Replacement and upgrade of electronics and gradients for preclinical magnetic resonance imaging KU Leuven
The current small animal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) infrastructure at the KU Leuven core facility ‘Molecular Small Animal Imaging Center (MoSAIC)’ is one of the most heavily used equipment for in vivo validation of experimental disease and therapy models, indicating its importance for biomedical research. MRI not only provides anatomical information with high resolution and high soft tissue contrast but also functional information such ...