Projects
A Workable Picture of Reality - Mentalization, Unreliability and Psychiatry in the Fiction of Patrick McGrath KU Leuven
Patrick McGrath (1950) was born and raised in England. As a child, he lived on the grounds of Broadmoor Hospital, an institution for the criminally insane, as the son of the residing Medical Superintendent. He now lives mainly in New York.
Most literary criticism hails McGrath as a Gothic – or even a New Gothic – writer and enumerates a whole list of intertextual links to Gothic texts. McGrath’s own attitude towards that stamp has ...
Nantenna and Schottky diode based monolithic optical receivers KU Leuven
Fibreoptic networks are the driving system behind increasing data-rates. Optical communication has promising prospects, is continuously evolving and is the choice for integration in future infrastructures. However, such networks are costly to implement due to the laser and photodetector components that are needed to convert the optical and electrical signals to each other. These external components are currently developed through less common ...