MEMS Solutions For More Than Illumination

The development of solid state lighting (SSL) has been involving with improving the luminaire efficiency and integrating non-luminous functions, also known as More than Illumination. The objective of this thesis is to investigate different solutions for the concept of More than Illumination for SSL applications, to combine general lighting with...

Monolithic integration of silicon and polymer microstructures for Organ-on-Chip applications

Drug development is a complex, time-consuming (10 - 15 years) and expensive process. For a new medicine to reach the market, the net expenses covered by the pharmaceutical industry have been estimated to be around $2.6 billion. Nevertheless, the risk of finding adverse effects or toxicity cases once the drug is already on the market is still...

Free standing interconnects for stretchable electronics

Advancements in stretchable electronic systems have changed the way modern electronics interact with their target systems, by their conformability to more complex shapes as compared to conventional rigid or flexible electronics. By utilizing this, limitless applications in the field of healthcare can be realized, such as wearable and implantable...

Interconnect schemes for stretchable array-type microsystems

Flexible systems can be found in many fields such as automotive electronics, computers and peripherals (hard drives, image scanners, ink-jet print-head cables), aerospace, consumer electronics (mobile phones, cameras etc), medical (hearing aids, pacemakers) and many others. Further reduction in size and new properties such as reversible...