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Leuven.Inc Visionary seminar: ‘The power of converging technologies for tomorrow’s healthcare’
Organised by Leuven.Inc in cooperation with imec. Powered by VIB.
In the past, many innovations were in part driven by fast and in-depth evolutions of different technologies, each operating in their own space. Today and in the future, new fundamental insights as well as new major innovations are and will be the result of an intimate interaction amongst different technologies. Nanotech for Health is a nice example. Our future health care system will not be sustainable without combining three major innovation drivers simultaneously: urgent need in many fields to combine better performance, better efficiency and lower cost. This can only be done through extreme miniaturization and integration... and rooting into nano-electronic platforms.
Nanotechnology and within this area, nanoelectronics offer tremendous opportunities for new insights in biological processes, in interacting at single cell or sub-cell levels, in interacting at molecular levels,...This will require increasingly to create new eco-systems combining health, biomedical and nanoelectronics platforms: integrating nodes from the life science community with those from the nanoelectronics community, offering a broad range of new opportunities for innovation. The challenge is to connect those very different communities, speaking a different language, having a different culture and having other challenges such as FDA approvals, interactions with payers (health insurance companies), being paid by governments, all suffering from budgetary constraints in an ageing society, ...
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EDM event: E-Waste recycling optimization and Design-for-Recycling
High Tech Campus Eindhoven, The NetherlandsRecycling treats complex waste streams containing precious and other metals and materials. A smelter can recover some 20 precious and other non-ferrous metals from shredded end-of-life electronics. Electronic waste and especially electronic parts however have low recycling yields. Electronics pose a recycling challenge both from the point of purity (contaminants) as well as volume. The EU funded ENIAC project GreenElec aims at fundamentally improving the recycling situation by performing research into the basic aspects that determine recycling efficiency.
This workshop will introduce the GreenElec project and give a glimpse of the possibilities to identify and quantify material content and improve the recycling process of electronics by Design-for-Recycling and selective disassembly based on optical recognition or product data made available end-of-life. Read more
COHESI: From Electronic Building Blocks to Innovative Microsystems
imec, Kapeldreef 75, 3001 LeuvenSmart microsystems are highly miniaturized electronic devices that are able to sense and interact with their environment. They consist of sensors, processing units to interpret signals and take decisions, actuators, potentially a wireless transceiver, and a battery or energy harvester powering the device - all integrated in one tiny package. Examples are a cochlear implant, a lab-on-chip, a tire pressure monitoring system, an ECG patch ... In our Sensors of the Future Symposium (November 28, 2012) we offered an overview of sensors that are either in a very mature research phase or recently introduced in the market. Our aim was to show WHAT is possible with state-of-the-art technology. With this event we want to show you HOW electronic building blocks can be integrated to become innovative microsystems. We explain the different steps that are needed in the development process and elaborate on the challenges encountered with the design and manufacturing of a new chip, the integration of off-the-shelf components, packaging, simulations and testing. We also present you mature platforms that can be further customized for your application. Read more
Euronanoforum
Convention Centre DublinEuronanoforum is Europe's largest nanotechnology and materials conference and exhibition. Imec will be exhibiting at booth S54, showcasing it's new developments in CMOS materials, energy, healthcare and much more. Imec Fellow Marc Heyns will give a talk on 'Advances in nano-electronic devices' on Tuesday June 18th at 11.15 in the session 'Industrial applications and nano-engineering'.
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DSP-Valley Event: GENEESS
imec, Kapeldreef 75, 3001 HeverleeIn februari 2013 is DSP Valley (samen met partner imec) gestart met het project GEzonder door Nano-Elektronica En Slimme Specialisatie (GENEESS). Doel is om de inzet van nano-elektronica als sleuteltechnologie te stimuleren in Vlaanderen, specifiek op het veelbelovende domein van de medische technologie. GENEESS will partijen uit de hele waardeketen bij elkaar brengen (van componentenbouwers tot zorgverstrekkers) om samen te bouwen aan gepersonaliseerde oplossingen voor diagnose en therapie. Focus ligt op de toestellen "dicht bij de patiënt" (draadloze monitoring devices, slimme implantaten, enz.). Read more
Imec Technology Forum US 2013
San Francisco Marriott Marquis, San Francisco, USAJoin us at the 2013 IMEC TECHNOLOGY FORUM US. Learn from the top R& experts how to make the best choices in IC technology. The choices that will allow you to build successful systems and applications, on time and within budget. Read more
SEMICON West
MOSCONE CENTER, SAN FRANCISCO, USAIMEC BOOTH 1741, SOUTH HALL, MOSCONE CENTER, SAN FRANCISCO, USASEMICON West draws the world’s leading microelectronics technology companies - companies responsible for every major technology breakthrough since the birth of the integrated circuit. SEMICON West is more than semiconductors. With the explosive growth of emerging and growing high-technology markets – including photovoltaics, MEMS, fuel cells, flexible electronics and displays, and solid state lighting – SEMICON West is home to an ever growing array of new technologies and new opportunities. Read more
