Kuwait-imec Visionary SeminarExploring Technology for a Sustainable FutureWednesday, October 12th 2016, Sheraton Hotelfrom 9:00 to 14:00

www.kfas.org/imec2016

آفــاق . إمــكــانــات . تــقــدمPossibilities. Potential. Progress

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OverviewImec is a world leading nanoelectronics research center that has a strong KFAS funded collaboration with Kuwait University in the field of photovoltaics and renewable energy. Imec, headquartered in the city of Leuven, Belgium, and with a satellite of research centers in Europe, Asia and the United states, has established one of the largest research networks in the world. Imec pursues world-leading research in nanoelectronics, leveraging its scientific knowledge with the innovative power of its global partnerships in aiming to deliver industry-relevant sustainable technology solutions.

The Kuwait-Imec Visionary Seminar, held in the Kuwait Sheraton Hotel on October 12th 2016, is the first of its kind event which will allow scientists, businessmen, industrialists and everyone interested in the establishment and development of technology based industries in Kuwait the chance to be exposed to Research and Development activities that lead to futuristic technologies aiming towards sustainability. Furthermore, the seminar will act as a platform to exchange ideas leading towards opportunities for further research and investment partnerships.

Rudi CartuyvelsSenior Vice President Smart Systems & Energy Technologies, imec

Rudi Cartuyvels leads imec’s R&D on Smart Systems and Energy Technologies. he is passionate about delivering industry relevant innovations in micro and nano systems enabling novel applications in the field of ICT, Healthcare and Energy markets. His R&D scope spans MEMS, Si Photonics, Mixed Signal Si based technologies, GaN-on-Si technologies for power devices & LED, Organic Electronics for System-in-Foil, Photovoltaic Technologies, Ultra Low Power chip design for energy efficient sensors and wireless communication, Body-Area-Network devices and Life Science Technologies.

Rudi Cartuyvels graduated with a MS EE degree from the KU Leuven in 1990 and started his career at imec in the field of advanced CMOS technologies. He was appointed director of interconnect technologies in 2001. 3D Technologies were added to his responsibilities in 2007. In 2009, he was appointed vice president & general manager of imec’s semiconductor process technology unit. Since 2011, he is senior vice president of imec’s smart systems & energy technologies unit.

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Title Presentationimec & SSET Overview

Presentation SynopsisThis session introduces imec’s history, mission, and activities as a technology enabler in he digital economy. The focus will be on the R&D in the field of Smart Systems & Energy Technologies (SSET), where we develop smart applications for the intuitive Internet of Things, the internet of Health and the internet of Power.

Abstract PresentationThe session will cover a brief history of imec, imec’s mission, role and partnership models in the eco-system of the digital economy. A high level overview of imec’s research activities will be presented with a specific focus on imec’s research activities in the field of Smart Systems & Energy Technologies (SSET). In this area, imec aims to deliver smart electronics to enable applications for the Internet of Things, the internet of Health and the internet of Power. Specific examples of smart electronics will be presented for smart cities, vehicles, healthcare, power electronics, renewable energy and energy storage.

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Peter PeumansProgram Director Life Science Technologies, imec

Peter Peumans is the director of the bio- and nanoelectronics department where he leads imec’s life science activities. Prior to joining imec, Dr. Peumans was a professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University where his work focused on large area electronics, solar energy conversion and biomedical electronics.

Dr. Peumans holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Princeton University, and a bachelor’s and master’s degree from the Katolieke Universiteit Leuven. He is also the recipient of an NSF CAREER award and a Belgian-American Educational Foundation honorary fellowship.

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Title PresentationSemiconductor Technologies for Healthcare Applications

Presentation SynopsisToday, doctors have a plethora of instruments available to make a precise diagnosis and prescribe a correct treatment. But these instruments are complex and expensive to handle, and the data analysis is often too cumbersome. Chip technology offers a solution, as it excels at making extremely complex instrumentation and data analytics available at the lowest possible cost.

Abstract PresentationMeasurements of health status are essential in advising patients and healthcare professionals on the most appropriate preventive or curative measures. Our ability to measure our health status is however hampered by the burden of the complexity of the instrumentation required to acquire the data, and by the complexity of the data analysis that is required to turn that data into actionable information. Semiconductor technologies have excelled at making extremely complex instrumentation and data analytics available to the consumer at the lowest possible cost. In this talk we will discuss how we tune semiconductor technology such that we can benefit from its power in enabling health measurements anywhere, anytime, by anyone, and at very low cost.

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Chris Van HoofProgram Director Wearable Healthcare, Holst Centre/imec & Fellow

Chris Van Hoof received a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Leuven in collaboration with imec in 1992. At imec, he became successively head of the detector systems group (in 1998), director of the microsystems department (in 2002) and Integrated Systems Department (in 2004), and program director (in 2007). Since 2009 he is department director and program director of HUMAN++ in the smart systems unit at imec in Leuven and the HOLST Centre in Eindhoven. Integrated microsystems research focuses on the application of advanced technology for the creation of miniature components and subsystems, ultra-low power wearable wireless sensor systems, and smart implantable devices. Since 2000 Chris Van Hoof is also a guest professor at the University of Leuven.

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Title PresentationMy Doctor Prescribes Silicon Sensors The Dawn of a New Healthcare System

Presentation SynopsisWearable sensors have the potential to become a cornerstone technology in care, cure and true prevention. But to realize this, we need further innovations in technology and tools, using accurate medical data. The goal of imec’s R&D is developing a true, lifelong companion to a healthier life, with silicon sensors.

Abstract PresentationWe are all enjoying an ever-increasing life expectancy and as a result are more susceptible to chronic diseases. Today, this effectively implies that we will be sick during a larger and increasing part of our lives. At imec, we focus on creating building stones that will contribute to a longer and healthier life span through wearable sensor technology. Wearable sensors have the grand promise and the largely untapped potential to become a cornerstone technology in the care and cure cycle as well as to enable true prevention. Wearable sensor technologies will seamlessly fit in the different phases of someone’s life. For chronic patients, new wearable sensors are needed that improve the risk stratification, follow-up and management to monitor disease progression and prevent relapse, in cases like congestive heart failure, sleep apnea and hypertension. This will be complemented by tools and technologies that help us to adopt and maintain a healthy life style for weight management, stress management and behavior change such as smoking cessation. At imec we invest in such a lifelong healthy future by leveraging state-of-the-art sensor technologies that enable true primary prevention based on accurate medical data. Our virtual coach will be your lifelong companion to a healthier life, for your own generation as well as for the next! The doctor of the future will no longer prescribe medication, he will for sure prescribe silicon sensors for prevention, cure and care of his patients.

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Harmke de GrootSenior Director Perceptive Systems for the Intuitive Internet of Things, Holst Centre/imec

Harmke is Senior Director at imec and Holst Centre for Perceptive Systems for the Intuitive Internet of Things. These heterogeneous connected systems use their own sensors as well as information from the cloud to build a view of the world surrounding them and in such a way realize a natural and intuitive experience for the end-user. Her team is internationally recognized for their work in the field of large scale sensor networks for IoT, high speed 5G networks and low power, low cost sensors. Imec contributes to the ‘Internet of Things’ revolution by developing innovative algorithms, network, radio, dsp and sensor solutions for person-centric IoT, smart cities and buildings as well as automotive applications, realizing that the traditional borders between these applications domains are quickly fading. Together with a wide range of industrial and academic partners this R&D program addresses the challenges of limited autonomy, functionality, interoperability, ease of use, data fusion and security to enable a wide range of new applications and a truly intuitive user experience.

De Groot worked at NXP, Philips Research and Microsoft before joining imec and Holst Centre in 2008. De Groot is co-author of more than 80 publications including a book on embedded system design. Harmke De Groot received a Master of Science in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Technology Eindhoven in 1997 and an Master of Business Administration from TIAS Business school in 2013.

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Title PresentationAn Intuitive Internet of Things: From The Hype to The Realization of Smart Environments

Presentation SynopsisThe IoT is growing at breakneck speed, with boundaries disappearing between e.g. personal networks, smart homes, and mobility. But there remain many challenges, such as making networks interoperate, having the right data available, making the interfaces more intuitive, realizing new sensors, or mining big data effectively.

Abstract PresentationIt is hard not to notice the currently on-going trend to connect everything and everyone. Approximately 10 billion objects are connected to the internet today, exponentially growing from approximately 200 million devices in the year 2000. Some of data now being constantly generated, for example weather, air pollution, calendar, social interaction and even traffic information. These bits of data are very useful to create a more comfortable and safer home environment. For example drivers will, instead of focusing on the road, start to use the car as a new office or relaxing environment as autonomous driving becomes a reality. Sensing and combining the right bits of information in real time is hence becoming a huge challenge. Advances in wireless networking will support the disappearance of boundaries between smart building, personal and automotive networks. As heterogeneous networks evolve, they won’t only act on their own sensors but also on data from the cloud. These systems will lead to completely new experiences as we no longer have to do all kind of repetitive activities as driving, closing up the home before leaving, ventilating.

However, there are some big challenges to overcome: distributed heterogeneous networks need to work with each other in an interoperable manner. Data from the cloud needs to be available at the right moment in time and also exactly with the right bit of data from an enormous amount. Imec is working to realize an Intuitive Internet of Things, where together with partners we work on sensor systems, high-speed systems and sensors which overcome the challenges of always connected, new sensor functionality and big data use in smart vehicles, buildings and infrastructure. In this presentation we start with the challenges and then review on-going work in the field and end with a research roadmap to make it a reality.

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Paul HeremansTechnology Director, Holst Centre/imec & Fellow

Paul L. Heremans received the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Leuven, Belgium, in 1990. From 1984 to 1990, he was a research assistant and senior research assistant at the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research (NFWO) working on hot-carrier degradation mechanisms in CMOS.

In 1990, he joined the opto-electronics group of imec. He worked on optical interchip interconnects, and on high-efficiency III-V thin-film surface-textured light-emitting diodes. In 1998, he started the organic semiconductor activities at imec. The main focus today is oxide and organic electronics, including circuits, backplanes and memories, as well as organic photovoltaics. Paul Heremans is currently imec fellow and professor at the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Leuven. He is also director of the large area electronics department at imec, and manages the research program on “Organic and Oxide Transistors” of HOLST Centre, a collaborative research initiative by imec and TNO.

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Title PresentationTechnology Drivers for Thin-Film Flexible Electronics

Presentation SynopsisThin-film, flexible electronics can be fabricated on all types of substrates, e.g. glass, plastics, or chips. It will be a welcome additional technology for opto-electronics, healthcare and IoT applications. Here we discuss some promising technology drivers including active-matrix flat panel displays and thin-film photodetectors.

Abstract PresentationThin-film semiconductor devices can be processed on arbitrary substrates, such as glass, flexible plastic sheet, or on top of Silicon CMOS. We will discuss the use of this technology platform in opto-electronics, healthcare and IoT applications.

A large driver for thin-film semiconductors are active-matrix flat panel displays. Flexible displays are becoming a reality, and with them, the technologies to make high performance thin film transistors and OLEDs on large flexible plastic sheet. We will overview some key enabling technologies involving amorphous oxide semiconductors and flexible OLEDs.

Similar technologies are suitable to realize active-matrix photodetector arrays on glass or plastic substrates, amongst others for curved X-ray imagers. We use in that application organic photodetectors. The thin-film electronic platform also allows to integrate active devices in printed circuit boards, chip packages, and in the backend of CMOS. We are exploring thin-film photodetectors sensitive to near-infrared, integrate-able as thin-film devices on standard CMOS camera’s to expand the sensitivity of these camera’s beyond 1 micron wavelength. High-performance thin-film transistors on plastic substrates allow to design mechanically flexible electronic circuits. We explore the use of such circuits in applications such as NFC tags and skin patches.

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Jef PoortmansScientific Director Photovoltaics, imec & Fellow

Dr. Jozef Poortmans received his degree in electronic engineering from the Katholieke Universiteit of Leuven, Belgium, in 1985. He joined the newly build Interuniversitary Micro-electronic Centre (Imec) in Leuven where he worked on laser recrystallization of polysilicon and a-Si for SOI-applications and thin-film transistors. In 1988 he started his Ph. D study on strained SiGe-layers. Both the deposition and the use of these SiGe-alloys within the base of a heterojunction bipolar transistor were investigated in the frame of this study. He received his Ph. D. degree in June 1993. Afterwards he joined the photovoltaics group, where he became responsible for the group Advanced Solar Cells. He was involved in the start of imec-activities on thin-film crystalline Si solar cells, organic solar cells and III-V solar cells and became Department Director of the PV-department in 2003. In 2008 he started up the Si-PV Industrial Affiliation Program and collected the investment funds to build up the S-line environment of imec. As Program Director PV he built the industrial partnership active in the S-line. Presently, he is Scientific Director of the PV and Energy activities of imec since 2013. In the same year he was also appointed imec Fellow.

He has been a Board Member of Eurec Agency and is presently member of the Steering Committee of the EU PV Technology Platform. He also acted as General Chairman of the 21st European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference & Exhibition and of the SiliconPV 2012 Conference and has been active in the Scientific Committees of the leading PV-conferences.

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Prof. Poortmans has authored or co-authored more than 500 papers that have been published in conference proceedings and technical journals. Since 2008 he is part-time Professor at the K.U. Leuven, where he teaches courses on photovoltaics and materials in electrical engineering. In 2013 he became also part-time Professor at University Hasselt where he teaches a course on analog electronics.

Title PresentationEnabling the Internet of Power Energy Research at imec

Presentation SynopsisDistributed energy generation by renewables will be a cornerstone of a new industrial revolution. Imec is developing the enabling technology: high-performance photovoltaic generation, highly reliable cost-effective electrical storage and high-performance power devices.

Abstract PresentationDistributed Energy Generation by renewables is a cornerstone of the Third Industrial Revolution as predicated by Jeremy Rifkin. Imec develops the enabling devices to realize the vision of the Internet of Power. The presentation will focus on the different tracks of the imec Energy Research business line: high-performance photovoltaic generation, highly reliable cost-effective electrical storage and high-performance power devices. Imec is active in the development of high-performance, low-cost photovoltaic devices. Thanks to its state-of-the art cell technology platforms for Si-PV and thin-film PV imec has been presenting world-leading results for both cell technologies as well as their combination in stacked photovoltaic devices. The presentation will also outline the highlights of the collaboration between Kuwait University and imec in this domain. High-performance photovoltaic solutions have to go hand in hand with the development of low-cost electricity storage to cope with the intermittency of solar generation and high-efficiency convertors to inject this electrical power into a “Smart Grid”. Imec is addressing the storage issue by developing solid-state Li-ion batteries which will combine high energy density with increased reliability and safety. The crucial element in the development of new battery cell architectures is the use of solid-state electrolytes with improved ionic conductivity at room temperature. For the development of reliable, small-size, highly efficient power convertors, imec is developing a low-cost GaN platform, using Si substrates as the growth template. GaN is a wide-bandgap material with excellent carrier mobility making it an excellent candidate for high-power transistors. The GaN-on-Si platform@imec aims to exploit the processing expertise and reproducibility of 200 mm CMOS-lines for improved reproducibility of the GaN-devices and a substantial reduction of their costs.

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Johan DriesenProfessor KU Leuven EnergyVille

Johan Driesen received the M.Sc. degree in 1996 as Electrotechnical Engineer from the K.U. Leuven, Belgium. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at K.U.Leuven. In 2000-2001 he was a visiting researcher in the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, UK. In 2002 he was working at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. Currently he is a full professor at the K.U.Leuven and teaches power electronics, renewables and drives. Currently he conducts research on distributed energy resources, including renewable energy conversion, power electronics and its applications, for instance in energy storage, renewable energy and electric vehicles. He is member of the EnergyVille research institute and active in the EIT-KIC InnoEnergy consortium.

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Title PresentationEnergy for Smart Cities

Presentation SynopsisSmart cities need an energy system that is sustainable, largely based on electricity. This will require intelligent power systems and a technology for the distributed storage of energy. This talk addresses the main trends in technology to arrive at such smart sustainable energy systems, including innovative power converters and smart grid implementations.

Abstract PresentationSources are often found within or around the city in the form of solar power. The main power consumers grow in number due to increased use of lighting, (smart) acclimatization and new loads such as electric vehicles. The introduction of distributed energy storage technologies, such as batteries, allows to handle the required flexibility and match the consumption with the sources. The power distribution system has been largely based upon century-old AC power principles, but this is rapidly evolving to alternatives based upon DC. Power electronics is the key technology allowing to implement the intelligent power architectures interlinking these systems. This talk will address the main technology trends supporting the transition to sustainable electricity systems for the built environment, including new power converter applications, smart grid implementations and the related operational principles.

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Organizing Committee

KFAS

Dr. Essam Assem Director Research Directorate

Dr. Mohmmad Salman Director Innovation & Enterprises Directorate

Dina AlNakib Program Manager / Water & Energy Program / Research Directorate

Anwar Omar Program Officer / Water & Energy Program / Research Directorate

Kuwait University

Dr. Yaser M. Abdulraheem Assistant Professor / Electrical Engineering Department / College of Engineering & Petroleum

Dr. Suzanne Al-Bustan Associate Professor of Human & Molecular Genetics /Department of Biological Science / College of Science

Kuwait Institute for Scientific Reseach

Dr. Narayana Bhat Senior Research Scientist / Environment & Life Sciences Center

Dr. Sameer Al-Zanki Science & Technology Director / Environment & Life Sciences Center

Dr. Fotouh Al-Ragom Program Manager / Energy Efficiency Technologies Program / Energy & Building Center

Dr. Mohmmad Sebzali Researcher / Energy Efficiency Technologies Program / Energy & Building

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Registration

Opening StatementDr. Adnan Shihab-EldinDirector General, KFAS

Imec & Smart Systems & Energy Technologies (SSET) OverviewRudi Cartuyvels Senior Vice President Smart Systems & Energy Technologies, imec

Semiconductor Technologies for Healthcare ApplicationsPeter Peumans Program Director Life Science Technologies, imec

My Doctor Prescribes Silicon Sensors – The Dawn of a New Healthcare SystemChris Van Hoof Program Director Wearable Healthcare, Holst Centre/imec & Fellow

An Intuitive Internet of Things:From the Hype to the Realization of Smart EnvironmentsHarmke de Groot Senior Director Perceptive Systems for the Intuitive Internet of Things,Holst Centre/imec

Co�ee Break

Technology Drivers for Thin-Film Flexible ElectronicsPaul Heremans Technology Director, Holst Centre/imec & Fellow

Enabling the Internet of Power – Energy Research at imecJef PoortmansScientific Director Photovoltaics, imec & Fellow

Energy for Smart CitiesJohan DriesenProfessor KU Leuven - EnergyVille

Closing RemarksProf. Taher Al-Sahaf Vice President for Research, Kuwait University

Discussion: Parallel Sessions

Discussion Group I:Life Science, Wearable Electronics and IoT

Discussion Group II:Thin Film Electronics, Energy, PV & Smart Cities

Lunch

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