Thesis Opportunities

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Holst Centre offers students opportunities for Master Thesis internships for 6 months. The topics for these internships are published as they become available.

• Exploration of advanced power gating techniques

  Ultra low power DSP (imec)

  For advanced process technology nodes leakage power increasingly contributes to integrated circuit (IC) total power consumption. By using power gating specific parts of an IC can be selectively cut-of... Full job description

• Sub-threshold Std. Cell characterization

  Ultra low power DSP (imec)

  Ultra-low power (ULP) for e.g. biomedical sensor applications is achieved by drastically reducing the supply voltage. In this sub-threshold regime statistical variation causes significant timing varia... Full job description

• Power Efficient Floating-point processors

  Ultra low power DSP (imec)

  While converting the high level applications written in e.g. Matlab to Embedded C, converting floating-point Matlab code to fixed-point C code is typically one of the most difficult tasks. This is an ... Full job description

• Development of a pattering process for flexible TFT Displays based on Inkjet and imprint technology

  Patterning for Flexible Systems (TNO)

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• Master Thesis: Electrode-skin boundary modeling for EEG measurements

  Body Area Networks (imec)

  The project will consist of measuring and modeling electrodes and the electrical interface with the skin, in order to understand the important factors that will enable successful application of dry el... Full job description

• Master Thesis: Electronic Nose for respiratory disease diagnosis and monitoring

  ULP Sensors (imec)

  Development and testing of a miniaturized detector for diagnosis and monitoring of respiratory diseases by breath analysis. Full job description

• Electronics on plastic using embossing technology

  Patterning for Flexible Systems (TNO)

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• Master Thesis: Emotional detection algorithm for wireless emotion monitoring in daily activities

  Body Area Networks (imec)

  The scope of the project is to design and develop a new online algorithm for emotion detection from physiological signals during daily activities. The project is realized at the Holst Centre researc... Full job description

• Experimental characterization of deformation on large area flexible substrates

  Patterning for Flexible Systems (TNO)

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• Experimental study of bio-inspired fuel cells

  Micropower systems (imec)

  The reaction mechanisms and (electro)chemical reactions kinetics inside bio-inspired fuel cells (BFC’s) will be systematically studied by various electrochemical methods and making use of rotating dis... Full job description

• Formulation and testing of conductive inks based on copper complexes

  Large area printing (TNO)

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• Functionalization of Micromechanical Electronic Nose

  ULP Sensors (imec)

  Development of a miniaturized gas sensor that is capable of selectively measuring specific volatile mixtures, using state-of-the-art integrated micromechanical sensing elements.Full job description

• Gas sensing with porphyrin monolayers

  ULP Sensors (imec)

  At Holst Centre, the gas binding properties of self-assembled monolayers of porphyrins are investigated. It has been shown that monolayers of porphyrins such as the one shown below can be assembled on... Full job description

• Self aligned transistor patterning by optical lithography

  Patterning for Flexible Systems (TNO)

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• Master project skin conductance sensor for emotion monitoring system

  Body Area Networks (imec)

  At Holst Centre in Eindhoven, a wireless emotion monitoring system is being developed. This system measures a number of physiological parameters in order to detect emotion, arousal or stress of a pers... Full job description

• Ultra Low Power and Lossless Transmission of Electroencephalography (EEG) Signals

  Ultra low power radio (imec)

  this project will focus on the exploitation of a-priori and/or redundant information embedded in the multi-channel EEG signals to improve reliability of the ultra-low power short-range radio IC custom... Full job description

• Traineeship harvesting energy from airflow

  Micropower systems (imec)

  During this assignment we would like the student to design (optionally with finite element models) a Helmholtz resonator.Full job description

• Sensors for Wireless Emotion Monitoring

  System Integration (imec)

  The scope of the project is to investigate and implement sensors for measuring skin temperature and respiration, in the context of wireless emotion monitoring. The project will be realized at the Hol... Full job description

• Matlab Interface to Wireless Sensor Networks

  System Integration (imec)

  The scope of the project is the development of a software interface to access wireless sensor nodes in the Matlab programming environment. The rapid development of these sensor nodes calls for module ... Full job description

• Traineeship Electrostatic Energy Harvester

  Micropower systems (imec)

  At Holst Centre research on autonomous wireless sensor nodes is performed. An important element to guarantee autonomy is the energy harvester.Full job description

• Traineeship Longer lifetime of a body area network

  System Integration (imec)

  The assignment is to create a Matlab simulator where the trade-off between local processing versus processing on the gateway can be investigated. The simulator should be component-based in such a way ... Full job description

• Traineeship Energy efficient wireless communication network

  System Integration (imec)

  The assignment is to create a Matlab simulator where different network topologies and energy-efficient network protocols can be investigated. The simulator should be component-based in such a way that... Full job description

• Student projects within Holst Program Lithography on flexible substrates

  Patterning for Flexible Systems (TNO)

  Holst Centre is a world-leading open-innovation R&D centre, creating generic technologies in the field of plastic electronics, with applications which span a wide range, from plastic displays and phot... Full job description