22 Jan 2013

New research grants to enhance the use of wonder material
Research projects that will focus on how to enhance the 'manufacturability' of graphene, one of the thinnest, strongest and most conductive materials known to man, are to receive £21.5 million in funding.
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18 Jan 2013

PragmatIC's imprinted planar nano-devices in Holst Centre programme
PragmatIC Printing Ltd, the pioneer in imprinted logic circuits, and Holst Centre,an open-innovation initiative by imec and TNO, has announced an extension of their collaboration in the research, development and exploitation of flexible electronics.
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14 Jan 2013

Paul Heremans Technology Director Flexible Electronics at Holst Centre
As per January 7, imec-Fellow Paul Heremans has become Technology Director for the Flexible Electronics Research activities at Holst Centre.
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27 Nov 2012

Imec and Holst Centre present research breakthroughs
Highlighting breakthroughs in different areas of imec's comprehensive research portfolio, imec will discuss the latest developments achieved in collaboration with its industrial partners.
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8 Mar 2012

Flexible Organic lighting reaches high energy efficiency
Solvay, Holst Centre and several other partners demonstrate flexible 69cm2 Organic LED (OLED) lighting tiles with an efficiency of 30lm/Watt.
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9 Dec 2011

MEMS energy harvester for shock-induced energy harvesting in car tires
Imec and Holst Centre have announced that they have made a micromachined harvester for vibration energy with a record output power of 489µW.
28 Nov 2011

Successful advancement of OLED technology
The energy efficiency and lifetime of organic LEDs for large-area lighting
applications has been increased
22 Nov 2011

Energy Harvesting USA keynote presentations part one
This article, published in two parts, gives an overview of the Keynote presentations at Energy Harvesting USA 2011 conference held in Boston, MA last week. Leading innovators and adopters of energy harvesting and wireless sensor technologies discussed solutions, challenges and needs that will promote further adoption of energy harvesting in different verticals.
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12 Oct 2011

Imec unveils innovative technology for an ECG patch
Imec and Holst Centre announce an innovative body patch that integrates an ultra-low power electrocardiogram (ECG) chip and a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) radio.
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28 Jan 2011

Philips Research, Holst Centre, imec on 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.
13 Sep 2010

World's 1st mains-powered white-light OLED module
Scientists from Philips Research have developed the first-ever organic light emitting diode (OLED) module that can be powered directly from a mains electricity supply.
4 May 2010

PLACE-it makes lighting 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. The ultimate aim of this PLACE-it (Platform for Large Area Conformable Electronics by InTegration) initiative is to realize an industrial platform for thin, lightweight and flexible optoelectronics systems that will not only open new dimensions in product design, but will also create unique opportunities for on-body applications in healthcare and wellness.
17 Mar 2010

Novel method accelerates progress in OLED lighting efficiency
Scientists from Philips Research and the Eindhoven University of Technology (TUe) have developed a novel method for accurately measuring the active layer in organic light-emitting diode (OLED) lighting. This is an important step forward for OLED device optimization and efficiency that is determined by the position of the very narrow zone in which the light is generated.
3 Mar 2010

Oled100.eu wins - best ICT for energy efficiency project
The European Commission's ICT for Energy Efficiency (ICT4EE) has granted its Best ICT4EE Award to the OLED100.eu project. OLED100.eu has received the First Place Award for its ICT contribution by showing that adoption of OLED lighting can lead to substantial improvements in energy efficiency and for its efforts to educate the public and disseminate the OLED (organic LED) lighting vision.
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11 Feb 2010

Imec, Holst Centre present ADC suited for low energy radios
At yesterday's International Solid State Circuit Conference, Imec and Holst Centre reported an ultra-low power 8 bit analog to digital convertor (ADC) consuming only 30fJ energy per conversion step.
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10 Feb 2010

Imec and Holst Centre at International Solid State Circuit Conference
At this week's International Solid State Circuit Conference, Imec and Holst Centre present their newest breakthroughs in ultra-low power design for wireless communications and wireless sensor networks, 3D design and inorganic electronics with an impressive number of contributions including 10 reviewed publications and 6 contributions to tutorials and workshops.
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10 Feb 2010

Record performance of dual-gate organic TFT-based RFID circuit
At yesterday's International Solid State Circuit Conference (ISSCC), Holst Centre, Imec and TNO presented a dual-gate-based organic RFID chip with record data rate and lowest reported operating voltage.
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10 Feb 2010

Imec and Holst Centre achieve breakthrough in battery-less radios
At yesterday's International Solid State Circuit Conference, imec and Holst Centre reported a 2.4GHz/915MHz wake-up receiver which consumes only 51µW power.
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12 Dec 2009

Holst Centre, imec and TNO report a world-first plastic transponder
Today, at the International Electronics Devices Meeting, 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.