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...
