Projects per year
Organisation profile
Introduction / mission
The mission of the research on emerging technologies and applications is to design circuits and systems that exploit novel device technologies, in order to expand the application domain of electronics beyond what is conventionally possible with silicon integrated circuits (ICs) alone.
Organisation profile
Recently, silicon electronics has been integrated with other technologies (e.g. power devices, images sensors, MEMs) to enable new applications in the domains of physical and chemical sensing, healthcare, automotive, lighting, etc. The name ‘More than Moore’ has been used for these developments. The most long-term research in More than Moore’s electronics strives to integrate silicon with emerging non-silicon technologies like large-area, flexible, conformable, printed and nano-material based electronics, as well as integrated photonics, to enable completely new applications.
The domain of emerging technologies is extremely broad, and research in the use of emerging technologies for electronic application needs focus. The IC group has decided to concentrate the research on circuit design for emerging technologies in two research programs:
- Flexible and printed electronics. Integrated silicon electronics consists of in tiny and rigid ‘chips’. For this reason it cannot serve all purposes. Large-area electronics has been invented for applications like flat-panel displays, where transistors must cover large surfaces. Interestingly, some technologies for large area electronics keep the processing temperature always below 200°C, enabling the use of cheap plastic films as substrates and making possible flexible and stretchable large-area circuits. Further research is focusing on the use of printing methods to fabricate this ‘flexible electronics’, achieving higher-speed production and even lower costs. Flexible and printed large-area electronics, for its characteristics vastly different from silicon ICs, is an ideal candidate for our work towards enabling new applications of electronics. The characteristics of large-area, flexibility and low cost can be conveniently combined for different purposes, e.g. large area sensing surfaces, biopotential sensors, and sensors integrated in packaging materials.
- Integration of electronics and photonics. Another set of emerging technologies which appears extremely promising from the circuit and system design perspective is the integration of photonic and electronic ICs. TU/e is a front runner in photonic integration, and our ambition is to create innovative systems based on photonic and silicon ICs for revolutionary applications in the domains of sensing (e.g. Lidar, metrology, fiber optic sensing) and ultra-fast communication (in cooperation with the PhI group and the RF lab of the IC group).
Fingerprint
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Profiles
-
Thomas Booij
- Electrical Engineering, Integrated Circuits - Doctoral Candidate-TA
- Electrical Engineering, Emerging Technologies Lab
Person: Prom. : doctoral candidate (PhD), OWP : University Teacher / Researcher
-
Eugenio Cantatore
- Electrical Engineering, Emerging Technologies Lab - Full Professor
- Electrical Engineering, Integrated Circuits - Full Professor
- Electrical Engineering, Center for Care & Cure Technology Eindhoven
- Applied Physics and Science Education, Center for Quantum Materials and Technology Eindhoven
- EAISI Health - Full Professor
Person: HGL : Professor, UHD : Associate Professor
-
Marco Fattori
- Electrical Engineering, Integrated Circuits - Assistant Professor
- EAISI Foundational - Assistant Professor
- Electrical Engineering, Emerging Technologies Lab
Person: Prom. : doctoral candidate (PhD), UD : Assistant Professor
Projects
- 3 Active
-
Calibration and control of Photonic Integrated Circuits and Systems Using Expert-Defined and Machine Learning Algorithms (COPIC)
Fattori, M. (Project Manager), Booij, T. (Project member) & Baltus, P. G. M. (Project member)
1/06/23 → 31/05/28
Project: First tier
-
TKI-HTSM/21.0218/TKI2112P10 RAISE IC: Robust AI for SafE (radar) signal processing [RAISE]
Cantatore, E. (Project Manager), Ringeling, S. H. W. (Project member), Sanders, N. (Project member), Papale, L. (Project member), Fattori, M. (Project member) & de Mulder, W. (Project member)
1/06/21 → 31/05/28
Project: Third tier
-
NWO TTW 17608 - Smart Sensor Surfaces based on Hig Performance Metal-oxide Thin Film Transistors
van der Hagen, D. (Project communication officer), Cantatore, E. (Project Manager), Fattori, M. (Project member), van Oosterhout, K. (Project member), Timmermans, M. (Project member), Almeida, A. (Project member), van Dommele, A. R. (Project member) & Zaoutis, V. (Project member)
1/03/20 → 31/05/26
Project: Second tier
Research output
-
A 1.8-65 fJ/conv.-step 64 dB SNDR Continuous - Time Level Crossing ADC Exploiting Dynamic Self-Biasing Comparators
Timmermans, M. (Corresponding author), van Oosterhout, K., Fattori, M., Harpe, P. J. A., Liu, Y.-H. & Cantatore, E., Apr 2024, In: IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. 59, 4, p. 1194-1203 10 p., 10433522.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Open AccessFile3 Citations (Scopus)610 Downloads (Pure) -
A 250MΩ Input Impedance a-IGZO Front-End for Biosignal Acquisition from Non-Contact Electrodes
Van Oosterhout, K., Timmermans, M., Fattori, M. & Cantatore, E., 2 Jul 2024, 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2024. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 5 p. 10558081Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review
Open AccessFile4 Downloads (Pure) -
Advanced Sensing Systems Exploiting the Integration of Flexible and Large-Area TFTs with Si-CMOS Technology
Fattori, M., Genco, E., Garripoli, C., Zulqarnain, M., Myny, K. & Cantatore, E., 15 May 2024, 2024 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, CICC 2024. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 8 p. 10529016Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review
Open AccessFile12 Downloads (Pure)
-
IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (Journal)
Genco, E. (Editorial board member), Garripoli, C. (Editorial board member), van der Steen, J.-L. (Editorial board member), Gelinck, G. H. (Editorial board member), Abdinia, S. (Editorial board member) & Harpe, P. J. A. (Editorial board member)
Nov 2023Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Publication peer-review › Scientific
-
Noise-shaping SAR ADCs: from discrete time to continuous time
Li, H. (Speaker), Shen, Y. (Speaker), Cantatore, E. (Speaker) & Harpe, P. J. A. (Speaker)
Oct 2022Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk › Scientific
File -
A pico-Ampere resolution scalable frontend in 65nm CMOS for single molecule sensitive EGOFET biosensors
Cantatore, E. (Invited speaker), Genco, E. (Invited speaker) & Fattori, M. (Invited speaker)
23 Mar 2022Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk › Scientific
Press/Media
-
Study Data from National University of Cordoba Provide New Insights into Information Technology (Content-Focused Formative Feedback Combining Achievement, Qualitative and Learning Analytics Data)
Serra, R., Bentum, M. J., Vertegaal, N., Sundaramoorthy, P., Booij, T. & Bounik, Z.
25/10/23
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
-
New printing method for artificial ‘skin’ containing heat sensors
24/06/22
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
-
Researchers Develop Artificial “Skin” Containing Heat Sensors
1/06/22
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
Student theses
-
Controlling an elbow prosthesis based on sEMG signals collected with flexible electronics
van Diemen, S. W. (Author), Kappers, A. M. L. (Supervisor 1) & Cantatore, E. (Supervisor 2), 8 Jan 2025Student thesis: Master
File -
Force reconstruction driven by neural networks using piezoelectric PDVF-TrFE sensors
Zhu, M. (Author), Fattori, M. (Supervisor 1), Sept 2024Student thesis: Master
File -
Neuromorphic organic devices as inexpensive energy-efficient computational hardware for artificial networks
Hu, L. S. (Author), Cantatore, E. (Supervisor 1), Fattori, M. (Supervisor 2), Gelinck, G. H. (Supervisor 2) & Kronemeijer, A. J. (External coach), 9 Aug 2021Student thesis: Master
File