Research Output per year
Organization profile
Introduction / mission
Our mission is to develop innovative technological concepts and fabrication methods for microsystems for a wide range of applications. Our concepts are often inspired by biology, and our microsystems are often applied to understand biological processes that are important for health and disease.
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Developing life-enhancing applications through research at the micro-scale
Organisational profile
We develop innovative technological concepts and fabrication methods by carrying out research in our Microfab/lab, often in collaboration with industrial, biomedical, or clinical partners. Practical applications of the group’s research range from organ-on-a-chip systems for cancer and brain research, point-of-care diagnostics, wearable health sensors, water and air quality monitoring and purification, lithography machines, displays, and brain-inspired computing, to soft microrobotics.
The section is structured around the senior scientists Jaap den Toonder (also head of the section), Regina Luttge, Hans Wyss, Yoeri van de Burgt and Erik Homburg, who collectively hold the expertise that defines the scientific identity of the section:
- Jaap den Toonder: microfluidics, micromechanics, organ-on-a-chip
- Regina Luttge: neuro-nanoscale engineering
- Hans Wyss: microfluidics, soft-matter
- Yoeri van de Burgt: organic devices for brain-inspired (neuromorphic) computing
- Erik Homburg: Engineering design
Together, the Microsystems scientists carry out research in four main research lines: Micro manufacturing technologies, Microfluidics, Biomedical microdevices, and Micro-electro-opto-mechanics.
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Profiles
Research Output 1989 2019
A stirring system using suspended magnetically-actuated pillars for controlled cell clustering
Saberi, A., Zhang, S., van den Bersselaar, C., Kandail, H., den Toonder, J. M. J. & Kurniawan, N. A., 1 Jan 2019, In : Soft Matter. 15, 6, p. 1435-1443 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
stirring
Magnetic scales
Colloids
Research laboratories
cells
CALIMA: the semi-automated open-source calcium imaging analyzer
Radstake, F. D. W., Raaijmakers, E. A. L., Luttge, R., Zinger, S. & Frimat, J-P., 1 Oct 2019, In : Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine. 179, 10 p., 104991Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Open Access
File
Calcium
Imaging techniques
Neurons
Cellular radio systems
Software
Climbing droplets driven by mechanowetting on transverse waves
De Jong, E., Wang, Y., den Toonder, J. & Onck, P. R., 14 Jun 2019, In : Science Advances. 5, 6, 8 p., eaaw0914Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Open Access
File
transverse waves
surface waves
dynamic control
fluids
cleaning
Equipment
Microfab/Lab
Sheen Sahebali (Manager) & W.B.M. ter Elst (Manager)
Department of Mechanical EngineeringFacility/equipment: Research lab
Cells
Lithography
Purification
3D printers
Biomedical engineering
Prizes
4TU Visiting Research Grant
Yoeri van de Burgt (Recipient), 10 Feb 2017
Recognition: Other › Scientific
Best Student Paper Award ICPM 2018
Eveline van Doremaele (Recipient), Jul 2018
Recognition: Other › Career, activity or publication related prizes (lifetime, best paper, poster etc.) › Scientific
Brain-Inspired lab-on-a-Chip
Yoeri van de Burgt (Recipient), 2018
Recognition: ERC › Starting › Scientific
Lab-on-a-chip
Brain
Tumors
Neural networks
Costs
Activities 2017 2017
Member Scientific Advisory Panel
Yoeri van de Burgt (Consultant)1 Oct 2017 → …
Activity: Consultancy types › Consultancy › Scientific
Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Electronic address: vsd@eng.cam.ac.uk.
Yoeri van de Burgt (Visiting researcher)26 Aug 2017 → 1 Dec 2017
Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Visiting an external academic institution › Scientific
Press / Media
-Eindhoven University of Technology: New technique measures near-perfect performance in low-cost semiconductors
20/03/19
1 item of media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
Stanford Researchers Measure Near-Perfect Performance In Low-Cost Semiconductors
18/03/19
1 item of media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
Stanford Researchers Redefine Quantum Dots to be Near-Perfect
18/03/19
1 item of media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
Research areas
Biomedical microdevices
Micro-electro-opto-mechanics
Microfluidics
Student theses
A brain chip to investigate neurite outgrowth by trapping cell-laden hydrogel beads in microsieves
Author: Labeur, T., 29 Aug 2019Supervisor: Bouten, C. (Supervisor 1), Luttge, R. (Supervisor 2), Kurniawan, N. (Supervisor 2) & Bastiaens, A. (Supervisor 2)
Student thesis: Master
Controlling the doping level in a conducting polymer for application in enhancement mode organic electrochemical transistors
Author: Pol, T., 13 Nov 2018Supervisor: Meskers, S. (Supervisor 1), van de Burgt, Y. (Supervisor 2), Janssen, R. (Supervisor 2) & Friedrich, H. (Supervisor 2)
Student thesis: Master
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Low temperature and rapid processing of mesoporous Titanium dioxide for highly-efficient flexible Perovskite solar cells
Author: Feleki, B., 23 Feb 2017Supervisor: den Toonder, J. (Supervisor 1) & Galagan, Y. (External person) (External coach)
Student thesis: Master