Projects
SBO Project: Scalable Bulk Acoustic Wave Solutions to Separate Micro- and Nanoparticles in Flow (AWESOME) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
fast growing research field addressing challenges in different fields such
as biology, medicine, chemistry, engineering, and physics. In particular,
acoustofluidic separation of microparticles in fluids has proven to be a
powerful tool due to the label-free, biocompatible, and contact-free
nature of the technology. Although this ...
Scalable Bulk Acoustic Wave Solutions to Separate Micro- and Nanoparticles in Flow (AWESOME) KU Leuven
The field of acoustofluidics (integration of acoustics in microfluidics) is a fast growing research field addressing challenges in different fields such as biology, medicine, chemistry, engineering, and physics. In particular, acoustofluidic separation of microparticles in fluids has proven to be a powerful tool due to the label-free, biocompatible, and contact-free nature of the technology.
Although this technology is widely supported, ...
Weakly coupled bulk acoustic wave microresonators based on mode localization for mass change sensing applications KU Leuven
MEMS (Micro-electro-mechanical-system) resonators have attracted much attention over the past decades, and have been widely used to sense small changes in the characteristics of the resonator, such as the stiffness and effective mass. Microresonators for the stiffness change sensing applications have been employed for strain sensors, pressure sensors, accelerometers and atomic force microscopy. Sensing devices that can detect the mass change, ...
Nature friendly bank protection against ship waves on non-tidal navigable waterways Ghent University
Up to 20 years ago, water management and preventing bank erosion was based on engineering works using hard materials. Integrated water management is seeking to include ecological aspects in design and renewal of bank protection. A number of nature friendly bank protection types will be investigated in the field and in laboratory conditions, to study the reduction in ship wave loading resulting from vegetation.
Design rules for alternative technical-ecological bank protection on non-tidal navigabale waterways under ship wave loading. Ghent University
Navigating ships generate a specific pattern of bank-directed surface waves. Based on experimentally obtained measurement results the effect of this mechanical wave loading on a technical-ecological bank protection is quantified and extended and refined design rules for effective alternative bank protection on navigable non-tidal waterwats subject to heavy shipping traffic are put forward.
Legitimating and framing China-led international initiatives: The cases of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and the Belt and Road Initiative KU Leuven
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) are two notable examples of China’s efforts to raise its regional and global profile by building parallel institutional structures to the incumbent international economic system. To marshal external support for its diplomatic initiatives, China mobilized significant resources to promote and legitimate the AIIB and the BRI. At the same time, there were ...
Mitigation of Multipath Ghosts for Indoor MIMO Radars - Signal Modeling and Deep Learning KU Leuven
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 ...
Polymer Microwave Fiber Communication Links KU Leuven
Since the last decade, opportunities have been risen to integrate entire radio systems – operating at mm-Wave frequencies – in one single transceiver chip. This is merely made possible through the continuous scaling of nanometer CMOS technology. Indeed, as predicted by Moore’s Law, transistors became so small that they are able to operate at extremely high frequencies, even above 100 GHz. The high carrier frequency increases the absolute ...
CMOS Millimeter Wave Circuits for Dielectric Waveguide Communication KU Leuven
The capacity demand for data communication keeps on increasing for applications ranging from small hand-held electronic devices to enormous data centers. With 5G on the horizon, the common trend for high-speed wireless communication is to shift the operating frequency towards the mm-Wave spectrum (30-300 GHz) and exploit the highly available bandwidth. The continuous improvement of bulk CMOS and packaging techniques drives this shift in ...