Projects
Functional materials based on Borophene. University of Antwerp
Realtime reconstruction, decision-making and control of MIS instruments KU Leuven
Catheter-based approaches to navigate in a minimally invasive fashion through the vasculature are on the rise. Compared to open or minimally invasive surgical approaches, the vascular interventional route is less demanding for the patient. Persons that are somewhat weaker and may be considered unfit for surgery due to too high peri-operative risks may now be considered for treatment. However, the benefits for patients are counterbalanced, as ...
Advanced power management ASIC for wirelessly powered and energy scavenging deep implants KU Leuven
The last decade has seen a tremendous revolution in all kinds of wearable health devices. Advances in ultra-low-power analog circuit design for various health sensing as well as advances in sensor technology for various biomarkers have been instrumental in this revolution. While wearables are becoming increasingly mainstream, the research field is seeing a shift toward minimally invasive implantable solutions. Miniature electronic implants ...
TOPTRANS: a sub-micron alignment accuracy large-area micro-transfer printing tool for the electronic-photonic micro-systems of the future Ghent University
Today, one cannot imagine a world without electronics or photonics. Electronic chips are everywhere: they are the heart of our laptops and smartphones and are largely based on monolithic silicon-based technologies. Photonics is the science and technology that uses light and offers solutions where today's conventional technologies are approaching their limits in terms of speed, capacity and accuracy. Enriching the digital electronics world ...
Analog Compute in Memory and Breaking Digital Number Representations KU Leuven
The acceleration of matrix-vector multiplications (MVMs) operation provided by graphical processing units (GPUs) has been instrumental to the success of deep neural networks (DNNs). By providing high parallelism and large memory buffers to store the weights and activations of DNNs, GPUs remain to this day the main platform to train and deploy DNNs. As most GPUs are designed for 32bit floating-point arithmetic, it is standard for modern DNNs ...
The artificial pancreas developed for children with Type 1 diabetes KU Leuven
D4Kids works to provide children with the benefits of the Diabeloop artificial pancreas. The Diabeloop system comprises three components operating in a closed feedback loop, with little human intervention. The Continuous Glucose Monitoring sensor follows the blood sugar levels. A sensor transmits the glucose data to a terminal. A software on the terminal runs algorithms simulating human physiology and calculates how much insulin is needed, ...
Microelectronics for Microbiology KU Leuven
Life is all about electricity. Certain species of living cells are capable of directly exchange electrons with the surrounding for their metabolism. This remarkable feature of nature has recently gained much attention as a key link for achieving a true circular economy. Indeed, these so‐called bioelectrochemical systems where electricity is supplied to the cells via solid state electrodes and circuitry result in many novel but more ...
Technology and Innovation for Development of Modular Equipment in Scalable Advanced Life Support Systems for Space Exploration Ghent University
The TIME SCALE project will bring closed regenerative life support system (CRLSS) to the next level by further development of the European Modular Cultivation System (EMCS). The EMCS has been successfully operated on the International Space Station (ISS) for 7 years with rotors allowing scientific research under Moon and Mars gravity exposures in addition to microgravity conditions. The EMCS modular design provides the possibility to replace ...