02/09/12 IM3OLED project to develop multiscale OLED modeling tool
The EU-funded IM3OLED (Integrated Multidisciplinary & Multiscale Modeling for Organic Light-Emitting Diodes) project - coordinated by Holst Centre and the Russian National Research Nuclear University MEPhI - has officially been launched. An international collaboration with the Russian Federation, the project aims to develop a software tool for multiscale OLED modeling. Such a tool would help the OLED industry escape today’s “trial-and-error” development and accelerate towards the goal of 150 lumens per Watt devices.
01/30/12 Roll-to-roll laminator enables unrivalled alignment
Researchers at Holst Centre have used a unique laminator and a novel control strategy to achieve alignment of 70 microns between two foils in a roll-to-roll process. Through “sheet-by-sheet” adjustments, Holst Centre’s approach delivers faster, more accurate alignment, cutting waste and costs. The strategy promises further improvements, enabling roll-to-roll manufacturing of more advanced flexible electronics circuits. Flexible electronics devices are built up from multiple layers of design features. Layers may be produced on separate foils, which must then be laminated together to create the final device. During the lamination process, the foils must be accurately aligned to ensure a good connection between layers so that the end device works properly.
01/17/12 Holst Centre and imec launch research program on flexible OLED displays
Holst Centre and imec today announced launch a new research program on next-generation flexible OLED (organic light emitting diode) displays. It builds on their technology track record and solid base of existing research partners in related fields such as Organic and Oxide Transistors and Flexible OLED Lighting. The primary objective of the new program is to develop an economically scalable route to high-volume manufacturing of flexible active-matrix OLED displays. The shared program will bring together partners from across the value chain to tackle challenges such as high resolution, low power consumption, large area, outdoor readability, flexibility and light weight.
12/16/11 MEMS energy harvester suitable for shock-induced energy harvesting in car tires
Holst Centre and imec announce that they have made a micromachined harvester for vibration energy with a record output power of 489µW. Measurements and simulation show that the harvester is also suited for shock-induced energy harvesting in car tires, where it could power built-in sensors. In a tire, at 70km/h, the new device can deliver a constant 42µW, which is enough to power a simple wireless sensor node.
12/01/11 Holst Centre hosts first PhD Day
On November 9th 2011, doctoral students from many universities came together at Holst Centre’s first PhD Day. The aim of the day was to give students from the various universities a better understanding of the Holst Centre research community of which they are a key part. The Day began with an overview of the Holst Centre’s research by Holst Centre staff Ruud Vullers, Paul Blom and Sywert Brongersma. Students were also taken on a tour of Holst Centre’s facilities on the High Tech Campus Eindhoven, including a chance to see demos of some of the breakthroughs Holst Centre has made in its six year history.
11/09/11 Holst Centre extends wireless research capabilities
As research is its purpose, Holst Centre continues to invest in new tools to increase analysis capabilities and accelerate development of new technologies. Two of its most significant acquisitions for the research on wireless sensor technologies in 2011 have been an advanced, highly flexible network analyzer and a very powerful serial data analyzer. The Agilent N5242A PNA-X Microwave Network Analyzer is used to measure differentials. With four ports and a maximum frequency of 26GHz, represents a major investment for Holst Centre and is a tool not normally found in non-corporate organizations. The analyzer plays an important role in the field of antenna / circuit design, helping researchers examine ultra wideband signals up to 10GHz together with their harmonics.
10/28/11 Wireless vibration monitoring enables predictive maintenance of machinery
Holst Centre, imec and Flanders Mechatronics Technology Centre (FMTC) have reported the development of an energy-autonomous, wireless vibration sensor node for industrial machinery. The install-and-forget node could enable manufacturing companies to schedule condition-based maintenance for their equipment, saving time and money. Condition-based maintenance allows machine owners to minimize spare parts costs, system downtime and service man-hours by only performing maintenance when it is needed. A common way to determine when maintenance is needed is by monitoring the vibration on the machine. However, today’s wired vibration sensors can only be attached to the static parts of a machine, while it is the moving parts that typically suffer the most wear.
10/27/11 Office-style shirt with hidden thermoelectric generator to power low-energy wearable electronics
Holst Centre and imec present a new shirt with completely hidden integrated thermoelectric generator (TEG). The TEG produces an average power of 1mW when sitting in the office at 22°C, and 2mW when walking around. These values double at 17°C. As such, the device is an ideal power supply for low-power wearable electronics such as health-monitoring devices. Because the TEG is now completely hidden in textile, the shirt has greatly improved on a previous model in terms of comfort and potential market acceptance.
10/20/11 Holst Centre and Philips Research prolong collaboration agreement
Philips Research and a growing amount (35) of other industrial partners combine their innovation power at Holst Centre to take technology in the areas of wireless sensors and flexible electronics to the next level. Recent successes like the first large-area (30x30cm2) flexible OLED lighting device (developed in the EU project Fast2light), the novel wireless EEG sensing technology and a power conditioning circuit for miniaturized sensors encouraged Holst Centre and Philips Research to prolong their existing collaboration agreement until the end of 2015.
10/07/11 Record-breaking energy efficiency for SRAM
Researchers from Holst Centre, imec and and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (K.U. Leuven) have demonstrated the world’s most energy efficient 64kbit SRAM operating at 90MHz. At just 2.65pJ per access, the new SRAM consumes 5-20 times less energy than the previous state of the art. It opens the door to a range of new energy-harvesting applications in body-area networks (BANs) for healthcare and sensor networks for smart buildings...
09/21/11 nTact joins Holst Centre partner network for innovations in roll-to-roll coating
nTact, the dba for FAS Holdings Group LLC, a US manufacturer of high-precision, fully integrated deposition systems for the microelectronics and energy industries, and Holst Centre today announce their partnership in the field of flexible electronics. In a joint research effort with the existing partners at Holst Centre, technologies will be developed to enable patterned deposition of homogeneous film layers on flexible foils. These layers are needed for large-scale manufacturing of applications such as flexible OLED lighting and Organic Photovoltaics (OPV)...
08/24/11 Ultralow-power readout architecture for MEMS/NEMS sensors
Holst Centre and imec report an ultralow-power readout ASIC for capacitive MEMS/NEMS-based sensors. The readout architecture has the lowest reported equivalent acceleration noise level and the highest bandwidth. It offers a unique tradeoff between signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), bandwidth, and power. The readout chip can be interfaced with a variety of sensors while maintaining its ultra-low-power capabilities. With the growing number of MEMS sensors for all types of applications, there is a need for innovative, flexible and power-efficient readout architectures...
07/22/11 Reliability testing opens door to secure wireless nodes
Holst Centre and Intrinsic ID have demonstrated the reliability of Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) technology based on 6T-SRAM start-up states for secure key generation. In the most extensive investigation of its type to date, researchers showed that unique and consistent keys could be generated over wide variations in environmental variables such as temperature, supply voltage and device age. Developed by Intrinsic ID, 6T-SRAM-based PUF technology offers a way to define a unique and unpredictable identifier for a given IC based on its intrinsic physical characteristics. Read more
06/29/11 Integrated inkjet engine puts roll-to-roll electronics production in reach
Holst Centre, Philips and OTB Solar have brought roll-to-roll manufacturing of electronic circuits a step closer with the creation a 6-inch inkjet engine with integrated thermal stages. The engine represents the final step before full-scale roll-to-roll processes for manufacturing printed electronics, and could be industrialized for sheet-to-sheet production. Roll-to-roll production and inkjet printing offer the potential to dramatically reduce costs for manufacturing organic electronic devices such as OLEDs and OPVs. However, to deploy these techniques industrially requires inkjet printing processes that can deposit highly homogenous polymer layers over wide areas...
06/14/11 Holst Centre, imec and University of Ghent collaborate on flexible and stretchable electronics
Holst Centre and the Centre of MicroSystems Technology (CMST), imec’s associated laboratory at Ghent University, join forces on flexible and stretchable electronics. The collaboration is an almost natural consequence of the complementary topics at the two nearby-located research groups. Progress will be made in the integration of flexible and stretchable electronics, for example for applications in the fields of sensors, health, lighting and organic photovoltaics. Over the past years, CMST has built significant expertise in integration technologies for flexible and stretchable electronics with a focus on high density, high end PCB-type applications. Amongst the focus points of CMST are: silicon chip embedding in polyimide stretchable electronics and textile integration. Holst Centre on the other hand has built-up significant competences in the field of integration technologies for large area flexible electronics with an important focus on low cost PEN/PET substrates...
05/10/11 Novel gas sensor paves way to personal air quality monitors
Holst Centre and imec have demonstrated the word’s first small, low-power gas sensor capable of detecting nitrogen oxides (NOx) at the parts per billion (ppb) level. Fully scalable to industrial, high-volume production, the new sensor could lead to personal, wearable air quality monitoring applications. NOx gases such as nitrogen monoxide (NO) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) are common air pollutants and key precursors for a range of secondary pollutants. They are naturally present in air at the tens of ppb level, but can cause breathing and health problems at concentrations above 100 ppb. Previously, detecting NOx in this range was only possible with large, high-power devices – restricting air quality monitoring to tabletop, mains-powered applications...
04/14/11 Henkel joins Holst Centre research network on flexible Electronics
Henkel and Holst Centre announce their partnership in the field of flexible electronics. Henkel’s knowhow in adhesives brings a new field of expertise to the Holst Centre’s shared research programs. It aligns with a large number of Holst Centre activities, such as the research
towards large-area flexible OPV and OLED lighting and signage.
Adhesives with functional properties like electrical conductivity
or moisture barrier protection have great potential in future
electronics applications...
04/04/11 SME-cluster DevLab enters into open innovation partnership with Holst Centre
Within the scope of the Holst Centre OpenSME initiative, they signed a collaboration agreement with DevLab, a Dutch research platform for – and initiated by - SMEs. The partnership will investigate the potential of DevLab’s expertise on wireless network protocols and Holst Centre’s expertise on ultra-low-power electronics. DevLab was initiated in 2005 by 12 technological SMEs. Its objective is to stimulate the flow of knowledge between universities and the SME members in order to create mid and long term national and international business opportunities...
03/31/11 Ultra-low power 2.4GHz radio for healthcare applications
At the ISSCC 2011 conference, Holst Centre, imec and Panasonic presented their results on an ultra-low power radio chip for wireless body-area networks (WBAN). Such networks are used for communication among sensor nodes operating on, in or around the human body, e.g. for
healthcare purposes. In view of energy autonomy, the total
energy consumption of the sensor nodes should be minimized...
02/23/11 Versatile Ultra-low Power Biomedical Signal Processor
At today’s International Solid-State Circuit Conference (ISSCC2011), imec, NXP and Holst Centre present a versatile ultra-low power biomedical signal processor, CoolBioTM, meeting the requirements of future wearable biomedical sensor systems. The biomedical signal processor consumes only 13pJ/cycle when running a complex ECG (electrocardiogram) algorithm at 1MHz and 0.4V operating voltage. This C-programmable chip is voltage and performance scalable supporting a frequency range of 1MHz up to 100MHz with an operating voltage from 0.4 to 1.2V...
02/16/11 DuPont expands printed electronics research with Holst Centre
New focus on flexible substrates to benefit printed electronics and organic photovoltaics
DuPont Microcircuit Materials (MCM) has announced a key collaboration with Holst Centre. The collaboration is expected to advance technology specifically in the area of printed structures on flexible substrates, which has application in flexible display, RFID, lighting, biomedical and Organic Photovoltaic (OPV) markets. "As one of the leading material suppliers to the printed electronics industry, DuPont MCM is pleased to collaborate with Holst Centre to enhance the potential for significant new material developments and accelerate market growth in multiple printed electronics applications,” said Kerry Adams, European business development manager at DuPont Microcircuit Materials...
02/09/11 Progress in high-temperature resistant polymer film illustrates potential for flexible electronics
Holst Centre and Victrex present recent progress in the development and characterization of VICTREX APTIV PEEK polymer film for flexible electronics applications. Not only are the results promising from a technology perspective, they also were at the basis of Victrex’s decision to step
into a full partnership with Holst Centre....
02/02/11 Active components integrated into sensor foil
Holst Centre and plastic electronic have successfully integrated several active components, previously mounted on a separate PCB, directly into plastic electronic’s flexible, intelligent sensor foil surface for shelving. Offering practical proof of Holst Centre’s program Integration Technologies for Flexible Systems, this achievement brings
a number of benefits to plastic electronic’s touch sensitive
foil product...
01/27/11 Energy-autonomous RF-powered e-Skin panel
Philips Research, Holst Centre and imec illustrate feasibility of autonomous smart windows
At the 17th International Display Workshops (IDW ‘10) in Fukuoka, Japan in December 2010, a demonstration was presented that showed how an e-Skin panel, developed by
Philips Research, could be powered by energy harvested from
a mobile phone. Thanks to an RF energy harvester developed
by Holst Centre and imec, the e-Skin device could be switched
from black to transparent (and vice versa) without the need of
a battery...
12/08/10 Holst Centre wins ‘Best Cell of the Year’
At this year’s ISOS-3 conference on OPV stability, Holst Centre’s flexible organic solar cell won the annual ‘Device of the Year’ award. Their achievement echoes the general success of the entire conference, which helped pave the way in standardising OPV parameters. Held in Roskilde, Denmark from October 21 to 29, the third annual summit on OPV stability, ISOS-3, comprised two experimental roll-to-roll manufacturing OPV workshops, a scientific conference with poster session, and a summit with scientific talks on OPV stability...
11/25/10 Polymer Vision extends and expands research contract
Holst Centre welcomes back Polymer Vision to an extended and expanded research contract. Once part of Philips and now part of the Taiwanese ODM, Wistron, Polymer Vision is again contributing to research in several of Holst Centre’s programs. In the past, Polymer Vision was involved in Holst Centre’s programs on Organic and Oxide Transistors and on Lithography on Flexible Substrates...
11/22/10 BASF enters Holst Centre partner network on flexible Electronics
Today BASF, and Holst Centre and TNO, announce their partnership on research for flexible electronics. By entering the existing research network around shared roadmaps and challenges, BASF will contribute to and get insight in the progress on organic circuitry and thin-film
transistors on flexible substrates...
11/19/10 New shoe to help prevent falls among elderly
European researchers have developed a new shoe aimed at helping elderly people walk more safely, called smiling shoes. Holst Centre is involved in this European Program and cooperates with Smiling (Self Mobility Improvement in the eLderly by counteractING), a European Union research project. Holst Centre is responsible for the sensors that analyze the movements of the feet which are then wirelessly sent to a remote control or in the future to a smart phone...
11/11/10 Gas sensing device using as-grown vertical InAs nanowires
Holst Centre has developed a nanoscale gas sensing device as part of its ultra-low-power sensors program. Based on gold-free grown vertical InAs nanowire arrays, the system is sensitive to NO2 concentrations of fewer than 100ppb at room temperature. The semiconductor nanowires are
contacted ohmically using an air bridge construction,
leaving the nanowire surface free for gas adsorption...
10/25/10 Holst Centre partner Huntsman wins JEC Asia Innovation Award 2010
In coperation with Holst Centre and Oreca, Huntsman won the JEC Asia Innovation Award 2010 for Electrical and Electronics Engineering. The award was issued during the annual conference in Singapore. In june 2010 during the 24 hours Le Mans race, the ORECA 01 car from French racing
team Oreca used rear view mirrors with an integrated thin
film flexible OLED-lighting device on the back.
10/13/10 DuPont Teijin Films extends partnership with Holst Centre
Dupont Teijin Films (DTF), the world’s leading supplier of PET and PEN polyester films, has agreed an extension to its partnership contract with Holst Centre. The new deal extends both the length of the cooperation and DTF’s areas of activity. DTF’s cooperation with Holst Centre began in 2008. Since then, DTF has been applying its industry-leading manufacturing experience within Holst Centre’s program on Printed Organic Lighting and Signage to optimize plastic foils for organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs).
10/05/10 Monitoring your health with your mobile phone
Imec and Holst Centre, together with TASS software professionals have developed a mobile heart monitoring system that allows to view your electrocardiogram on an Android mobile phone. The innovation is a low-power interface that transmits signals from a wireless ECG (electrocardiogram or heart monitoring)-sensor system to an android mobile phone. With this interface, imec, Holst Centre and TASS are the first to demonstrate a complete Body Area Network (BAN) connected to a mobile phone enabling reliable long-term ambulatory monitoring of various health parameters such as cardiac performance (ECG), brain activity (EEG), muscle activity (EMG), etc...
10/04/10 Roth & Rau MicroSystems joins Holst Centre research on barriers for flexible electronics
Roth & Rau MicroSystems and Holst Centre today announce their partnership on the development of barriers for flexible electronics such as OLED and OPV. In addition to the expertise of other Holst Centre partners, Roth & Rau MicroSystems will specifically look at Roll-to-Roll deposition tools for barrier layers. By strengthening the eco-system around its shared research roadmaps, Holst Centre aims to maintain a leading position in the R&D on a.o. flexible OLED lighting and signage...
09/29/10 Holst Centre is looking for a 10% growth in number of researchers
Holst Centre is looking for researchers. Thanks to the recent growth with around ten new partners, Holst Centre sees the opportunity to grow 10% in research staff. The combination of scientific knowledge and personal skills has proven hard to come by…
09/15/10 Coherent supports Holst Centre research on Smart-Foil integration
Coherent and Holst Centre today announce their cooperation in the field of flexible electronics. Coherent’s unique expertise in advanced laser equipment supports the strategy of Holst Centre to expand the current focus in its program on integration technologies for flexible systems…
07/13/10 Bayer MaterialScience joins Holst Centre flexible electronics research
Bayer MaterialScience AG, one of the world’s largest producers of polymers and high-performance plastics, and Holst Centre, an open innovation initiative by research organizations imec (Belgium) and TNO (The Netherlands), have now announced their partnership in the field of flexible electronics. By joining the Holst Centre eco-system, Bayer exchanges its own expertise with the existing network of academic and industrial partners...
06/09/10 World’s first application of flexible OLED lighting on foil
The ORECA01 car from French racing team Oreca will be using rear view mirrors with an integrated thin film encapsulated Flexible Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) on the back. Since flexible OLED lighting and signage devices will only be available on the market (and in our homes) within a few years, the initiators of the project - Huntsman Advanced Materials and Holst Centre - consider the integration in the composite material of the race car as a great success. The results of the project are valuable for the road to market of OLED lighting technology. OLEDs are ...
04/19/10 InnoPhysics plasma printing from open innovation to market
InnoPhysics plasma printing technology on its way to market after successful open innovation trajectory with Holst Centre...
04/14/10 NeoDec enters Holst Centre partner network for Roll-to-Roll flexible electronics
NeoDec, an Eindhoven-based spin-off company from the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), and Holst Centre, an open-innovation initiative by imec (B) and TNO (NL), today announce their partnership on metallic inks for flexible electronics applications. …
03/17/10 Holst Centre extends Roll-to-Roll line with new sintering tool
Holst Centre has released a new proprietary roll-to-roll (R2R) sintering platform for fast and low-temperature curing of printed conductive structures. ...
03/15/10 PLACE-it makes light flat and flexible
Leading companies and institutes in lighting and flexible electronics, including Philips, Holst Centre/TNO, imec, Freudenberg, TU Berlin and more have joined forces to co-develop the route to integrate light into people’s surroundings be it ceilings, walls, floors, furniture, soft furnishings, and even garments. …
03/01/10 Summer school on organic optoelectronics
Covering the theme ‘Organic optoelectronics on the move’, the VII International Krutyn Summer School is being organized as part of the FP7 Collaborative Projects: Fast2Light and OLED100.eu, in association with the Polish
Supramolecular Chemistry Network and the Institute of
Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences. ...
03/01/10 New book on Photochemistry and Photophysics of Polymeric Materials
Marius Ivan, Advanced Materials Project Leader at Holst Centre, has contributed to a new book about polymeric materials. Entitled ‘Photochemistry and Photophysics of Polymeric Materials’ the book is published by Wiley, one
of the leading publishers of scientific and technical
information...
02/10/10 ADC with record figure of merit suited for low energy radios (ISSCC2010)
Holst Centre report an ultra-low power 8 bit analog to digital convertor (ADC) consuming only 30fJ energy per conversion step. This world-class figure of merit ADC is especially suited for upcoming low energy radios in the ISM (industrial, scientific and medical) radio bands such as
low-energy Bluetooth or IEEE 802.15.6 for body-area networks...
02/09/10 Analog organic electronic ADC on flexible foil (ISSCC2010)
Holst Centre, imec, TNO and KU Leuven present an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) designed, fabricated and measured in an organic technology on plastic foil. The result is of great scientific value as it represents the first steps of creating analog organic electronics...
02/09/10 Breakthrough in battery-less radios (ISSCC2010)
Imec and Holst Centre report a 2.4GHz/915MHz wake-up receiver which consumes only 51µW power. This record low power achievement opens the door to battery-less or energy-harvesting based radios for a wide range of applications including long-range RFID and wireless sensor nodes for logistics, smart buildings, healthcare etc..
02/09/10 Record performance of dual-gate organic TFT-based RFID circuit (ISSCC2010)
Holst Centre, imec and TNO present a dual-gate-based organic RFID chip with record data rate and lowest reported operating voltage. For the first time, the advantages of dual gate transistors in circuit speed and robustness have thereby been exploited in a complex
organic-electronic circuit...
02/07/10 Ultra-low power heart activity signal processor (ISSCC2010)
Imec and Holst Centre report an analog-signal processor ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit) – in short ASP - that reduces the overall power consumption of an ambulatory heart activity signal monitoring systems by more than 5 times...
02/02/10 Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Holst Centre and imec for Its Path Breaking Wearable Energy Harvester Technology
Based on its recent research on the wearable energy harvesters market, Frost & Sullivan presents Holst Centre and imec with the 2009 European Frost & Sullivan Award for Technology Innovation for its wearable electrocardiograph
energy harvesting solution, which provides tens of microwatts
of energy per square centimetre for modules with 3x4 cm2
dimensions...
01/12/10 Launch of European research project "HIFLEX" for new low-cost scalable Organic Photovoltaics applications
On 1 January 2010 the European research project "HIFLEX" was launched. Over the next three years a European consortium comprising five research institutes and two industrial companies aims to jointly develop a technology for
highly flexible Organic Photovoltaics (OPV) modules, which
will allow the cost-effective production of large-area OPV
modules with commercially viable Roll-to-Roll compatible
printing and coating techniques...
12/09/09 Micromachined piezoelectric harvester with record power output drives fully autonomous wireless sensor
For the first time, a piezoelectric harvesting device fabricated by MEMS technology generates a record of 85μW electrical power from vibrations. A wafer level packaging method was developed for robustness. The packaged MEMS-based harvester is used to power a wireless sensor node...
12/09/09 Holst Centre, imec and TNO report a world-first plastic transponder circuit at 50 kb/s
Holst Centre, imec and TNO presented the world-first organic transponder circuit with a bit rate of 50kbits/s. This bit rate approaches the requirements for the Electronic Product Coding (EPC) standards...
10/20/09 Terepac partnership on low-cost flexible electronics packaging
Terepac Corporation, an emerging leader in electronics miniaturization, packaging and assembly, and IMEC, a leading European research center in nanotechnology, announce their collaboration on novel packaging technologies for flexible electronics...
10/05/09 8-channel wireless EEG system for ambulatory monitoring
Within the shared program on Body-Area Networks at Holst Centre a miniaturized and wireless 8-channel EEG system has been developed. The system is suited for remote monitoring of patients in their daily environment, resulting in more natural readings and greatly increasing
the patient’s comfort...
09/02/09 Necklace for long-term and robust cardiac monitoring in daily life
IMEC presents a prototype of an electrocardiogram or ECG necklace at the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Conference (EMBC) in Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA). The technology, developed within the Holst Centre Technology Integration Program on Baody Area Networks, enables
long-term monitoring of cardiac performance and allows
patients to remain ambulatory and continue their routine
daily activities while under observation...
09/02/09 Wireless sensor systems enable a better sleep
IMEC presents the clinical validation of a wireless sleep staging system developed within the Holst Centre Technology Integratino Program on Body Area Networks. The miniaturized wireless system allows patients to wear the device in the comfort of their home, thus enabling early screening of abnormal sleep profiles outside clinics...
08/21/09 Unique lamination unit added to roll-to-roll R&D line
The recent installation of a lamination tool brings Holst Centre one step closer to demonstrating a complete systems-in-foil manufacturing process on its roll-to-roll R&D line.This unique piece of equipment will allow Holst Centre to test and develop innovative methods for accurately
laminating multiple interconnected functional foils for large
area electronics...
06/18/09 ASM, MiPlaza and Holst Centre join forces on ALD for MEMS applications
ASM, Holst Centre and MiPlaza officially present a newly installed atomic-layer deposition (ALD) tool that will support the activities on ultra-low power sensors and other MEMS applications. It is the centerpiece of a joint development project that can open new application...
06/15/09 Body Area Networking standard attracts major industry attention
The recent IEEE 802.15.6 Working Group (WG) meeting in Montreal, Canada drew significant interest from major industry players including Philips, General Electric (GE), Texas Instruments, Toumaz and Samsung. Over five days (May 11-15th), more than 40 proposals were presented...
05/26/09 The future of lighting: flexible OLEDs in any shape and color
Once flexible OLED lighting can be produced on Roll-to-Roll, a load of new applications can be envisaged. Do it yourself lighting foil that you can cut in any shape you want. Or energy efficient camper lighting you can stick
to the ceiling or walls....
05/15/09 Solvay extends its Holst Centre collaboration on OLEDs
International chemical and pharmaceutical group Solvay has signed an agreement to join Holst Centre’s technology integration program on Printed Organic Lighting and Signage.Together, Solvay and Holst Centre will..
04/07/09 Low-cost, large-area production of flexible OLEDs a step closer
AGFA Materials and Holst Centre demonstrate world's first ITO*- and litho-free OLEDs on foil. Agfa Materials, part of the Belgian Agfa-Gevaert Group, Philips Research, and Holst Centre, an open-innovation initiative by...
03/24/09 Novaled and Holst Centre to cooperate on Organic Electronics
Novaled AG announces that it will work together with Holst Centre on Organic Thin Film Transistors (OTFT) using the Novaled PIN OLED® technology and materials. Novaled AG and Holst Centre have decided to collaborate under a joint development agreement...
03/17/09 Austrian SME plastic electronic joins Holst Centre research network
The systems-in-foil research program of Holst Centre welcomes plastic electronic, Austrian producer of plastic thin film hybrid electronics, in its network of industrial
and academic partners. Initial focus of the partnership...
02/09/09 Holst Centre reports major step towards organic RFID
Holst Centre presents world’s first 128 bit organic RFID transponder chip with Manchester encoding, anti-collision protocol and record high data rate. The reported RFID
transponder chip is a major step towards the application of organic RFID tags in electronic product coding (EPC)...
01/15/09 Novel gas sensor characterization facility supports sensor development
Holst Centre has installed an experimental set-up that provides a flexible platform for gas sensor testing.This gas sensor characterization facility will support the ongoing developments of (bio)chemical sensors...
