Projects
Continuous Operation of Meshed HVDC Grids During DC Faults: HVDC Circuit Breaker Integration & Design from a System Perspective KU Leuven
Developments in Voltage-Source Converter (VSC) technology has enabled the massive integration of renewable energy resources using High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) technology. Large-scale HVDC grids provide the required flexibility and reliability to future transmission systems with high penetration of intermittent renewable energy sources. However, in case of faults such as DC-side short-circuits, fast rising currents with high steady-state ...
Structured Circuit Design with Thin Film Transistors for Large Area Electronics KU Leuven
Research done on the physics of thin film semiconductor materials in the last few decades, has resulted into an assortment of technologies to make semiconductor devices. With the device research approaching maturity, there is a push to deploy devices and circuit elements made in thin film technology, for relevant circuit designs. Unlike CMOS technologies that currently constitute a bulk of the integrated circuit production, thin film circuit ...
Circuit design for smart and high-performance electronic systems (CH IPS) KU Leuven
Circuit Design for Ultrasonic Haptic Feedback in Large Area Electronics KU Leuven
Haptic feedback is a key technology to improve the user experience of touch screens, automotive and augmented reality applications. Rather than common techniques which incorporate sensors and actuators within keypad, touchscreen or gloves to generate haptic feeling, this research creates this feeling in mid-air without the need for physical contact with the haptic enabled product. the generation of this haptic feedback can be obtained with ...
Physical Modeling of transistor degradation effects for reliable circuit design beyond 7 nm node KU Leuven
In order to improve transistor performance from one generation to another, new materials and new device architectures are being continuously introduced (e.g., nano-sheet transistors). But with these innovations, new challenges appear for ensuring their reliability, i.e., limited degradation during operation. As transistors are downscaled toward atomic dimensions, each stochastically behaving defect has potentially a substantial impact on the ...
Time is money : integrated circuit and system design towards low latency for real-time applications KU Leuven
Circuit design for hybrid electronic-mechanical coupled resonators KU Leuven
This PhD project is under the name of 'HEMCORES PROJECT', aiming at exploring the properties of the hybrid electronic-mechanical weakly coupled resonator(WCR) such as high Q-factor, tunability, high sensitivity, common-mode resilience and full integration. The project will not only focus on theoretical and simulation analyses, but will also experimentally validate whether this hybrid WCR concept indeed delivers the promises in real practice. ...
Ultra low voltage variation resilient digital circuit design KU Leuven
In the proposed research we will further investigate ultra low power digital circuit techniques. The focus will be on in-situ timing detection with automatic error correction and/or prevention for further power reduction in digital circuits. It also entails the verification of the results with silicon prototypes in advanced CMOS technologies. The techniques that will be studied and further developed should be compatible with the standard ...
Advanced mixed mode circuit design in organic/oxide based technologies. KU Leuven
The purpose of this PhD is to explore the possibilities of organic/oxide transistors on foil in design. Experts in production technology have come to a point where these transistors can be produced with reasonable accuracy and predictability, but only the first small designs have been presented up to now, most of them coming from imec (the partner organization). The technology is extremely slow compared to standard CMOS. However for a lot of ...