Holst Centre. Flexible wireless systems. Siebren Schaafsma. R&D Manager. Displays. ehealth. Packaging. OLED Smart tires. Wireless

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2 Holst Centre Flexible wireless systems Siebren Schaafsma R&D Manager Displays Packaging Sensors OPV OLED Smart tires ehealth Wireless

3 Holst Centre Two reputed parents Founded by imec & TNO Operational since 2006 Unite Critical mass to create impact Staff of >200 researchers; >28 nationalities Involving groups of mother organisations 70 industrial and academic residents Focus on relevant topics Ultra-low-power and flexible electronics Lighting, Solar, Displays, Healthcare Explore Create Believe Succeed

4 Located at an innovation hotspot Thin Film clean room OLED Device Processing Life Sciences Materials Analysis Photonics cleanroom Electronic measurement EMC lab Reliability lab Holst Centre Offices Holst Centre R2R lab Equipment Engineering Electronic Prototyping More than 140 companies, startups and institutes. Some 10,000 researchers, developers and entrepreneurs.

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6 Holst Center Focus QUALITY OF DATA DESIRABLE FORMFACTOR LOW COST LOW POWER

7 < 7 Parent: TNO The Netherlands Groningen Leiden Soesterberg Delft Zeist Utrecht Rijswijk The Hague Helmond Eindhoven

8 Algerian Argentinian Austrian Belgian British Cameroonian Chinese Costa Rican Czech Dominican Egyptian Finnish Georgian Greek Hungarian Indonesian Iraqi Israeli Ivoirian Korean Lithuanian Malaysian Moldovan Nepalese Nigerian Pakistani Polish Rumanian Senegalese Singaporean South African Swedish Taiwanese Turkish Ukrainian Vietnamese Holst Centre < 8 Parent: Imec Leuven 71 different nationalities 2015: ~ NON-PAYROL PAYROLL

9 IC Research, Development and Applications Low system level Sensors 2 mm Digital Signal Processing System integration Analog interfaces Application Demonstrators Energy harvesting & power management Wireless communications -

10 Flexible OLED 17 x 25 cm 2 R2R coated, thin film encapsulated OLED on metal foil R2R solution processed OLEDs on 35 µm Cu foil 12 x 10 cm 2 OLED on metal foil

11 Organic photovoltaics

12 Health and Lifestyle as Application Driver IMPROVE ILLNESS MANAGEMENT ENABLE HEALTH MANAGEMENT (

13 Medical applications tested with Clinical experts

14 75% of health cost is ultimately due to our own behavior yet only 3% of the health budget is spent on prevention but wearables and IoT are going to be key enablers

15 Medical quality data in everyone s reach Headset Wristband Patch Dry active electrodes Cardionet: Medical Grade Extracting relevant data: Cardio monitoring Physical Activity Energy Expenditure Emotion/stress monitoring Sleep staging... creating success stories together with our partners: customer-specific solutions building on generic technologies

16 16 Data analytics at IMEC wearable health IMEC Data science platform for Healthcare Massive parallelized data storage, analysis and management Monitoring vital health signs, such as heart-rate, activity, EEG, ECG,...

17 < 17 ULTRA LOW POWER wireless World s lowest power with state-of-the-art performance Body Area Network radio RF power transfer 900MHz rectifier &PMU 400 MHz medical Sub-GHz g multistandard for IoT 2.4 GHz proprietary 1mW@1Mbps & proprietary 2.2mW@2Mbps 9mW Rx 150dB link budget Dual mode digital Tx ULP WiFi for sensors IR UWB radio platform 6-9GHz, 6mW@1Mbps Indoor positioning & audio streaming Event Driven radio 900MHz / 2.4GHz RFID Personal Area Network 2.4GHz multi-standard 90nm BLE SoC ARM-Cortex 2.4GHz multi-standard 3.7mW Rx 5mW Rx 16QAM, OFDM 0.7V operation Digital transceiver 2.4GHz self-tuned direct phase demodulation 90nm CMOS 40nm CMOS 28nm CMOS

18 18 IoT Development platform Bare Metal Mapping Hypervisor Docker 3 active networks Memory (RRAM / MRAM) Interconnect (Silicon Photonics / Optical) 1 Holst Centre, Eindhoven Imec India, Bangalore CPU (Intel /ARM) Neuromorphic core GPU FPGA DSP Strip, Eindhoven open to integrate partner sensors, open to optimize in partner-specific application

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20 Implemented on flexible carrier

21 Make smart use of additive manufacturing technologies Screen printing: multilayer circuit patterns done by printing alternating layers of conductive and isolating inks printed PCF s with 4 circuit layers possible

22 Flexibel sensor sticker

23 Make smart use of additive manufacturing technologies key advantage of printing: enables R2R processes new: established a pilot line for R2R rotary screen and inkjet printing integrated photonic cure technology to enable efficient drying/curing

24 Flexible display with driver electronics Very flexible Very thin ~30μm

25 Ultra Low Power Flexible Wireless System Analog + DSP + Algorithms = 750 mw in total 30 days autonomy

26 But silicon is required for high performance combination with silicon for high performance functionality (e.g. microcontrollers, radio chips) integration of silicon should not compromise thinness and flexibility of device: integrate or embed as bare die thinned silicon

27 Holst I 2 Centre ot: Intuitive Internet of Things SENSOR NETWORKS WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SENSOR TECHNOLOGIES ULP Radios 60 GHz Backhaul HyperSpectral Sensing 1.2mm ULP DSP 1.1mm Car Radar Gas Sensing RF energy transfer nm Mobile SOC Liquid Sensing

28 Extending application domains Acting on data from sensors & the cloud Heterogeneous networking Data Analysis Cloud energy pollution entertainment light activity tracking surveillance traffic social infrastructure power data-rate latency person centric reliability processing infrastructure centric technology harvesters camera vehicle centric gas sensing optical RADAR Sensor node collision avoidance health parameters air quality humidity AVC HVAC light liquid sensing ultrasound

29 PH / ION SENSOR Fluids monitoring Solid-state ion selective electrodes ph, Cl -, Na +, K + Multiple electrodes Flexible, conformable

30 Hand held wireless ion sensor Sensitivity for ion > 50 mv/decade No cross sensitivity Work in progress: integrate all sensors on foil

31 Flexibel sensor labels Functionality general purpose multi-sensor platform (e.g. humidity, temperature, chemicals/gases) wireless NFC/RFID functionality Form factor built on polyester foil ultrathin (< 150 µm thickness) containing embedded thinned chips

32 System Integration NO 2 Sensor

33 IoT Wireless network needs ultra low power end nodes

34 34 Proof Of Concept: MUSE IC Collecting mhealth Subsystem Filtering (includes drivers) Synchronization Re-sampling Sensor data fusion and analysis

35 Biomedical IC design Leading in innovation 2014 Implantable ECG Acquisition IC with Analog Feature Extraction Digital Active Electrodes for Biopotential Monitoring 15+ Patents 20+ ISSCC & VLSI Publications 10+ Years of experience in IC design for Low- Power Electronics A Multi-Parameter Signal Acquisition SoC for Connected Personal Health Applications

36 Integration of imec sensing technology in Samsung simband Source: Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center

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