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A Single Cell AnaLysis and Sorting Platform based on Lensfree digital imaging techniques applied to Rapid Detection of Cancer (SCALPEL)

Start date: Nov 1, 2014, End date: Oct 31, 2019,

...r the CMOS imaging blocks. Lensfree cell sorters can be realized in a cheap and compact platform, as all optomechanical components (lenses, detectors, nozzles,...) are replaced by nanoelectronics, advanced imaging and signal processing technology.SCALPEL aims to perform a full feasibility study of this concept and will require to investigate the ultimate limits in: 1) maximizing image resolution ...
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Epitaxial thin-film organic semiconductor crystals and devices (EPOS CRYSTALLI)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

"Today, organic semiconductor devices are severely limited by the strong disorder in the amorphous or polycrystalline semiconductor films. This disorder is in fact due to the nature of the films, and is NOT an intrinsic molecular property. Indeed, single-crystal organic semiconductors are known, and display exciting characteristics and high performance. Unfortunately, they are today only grown as ...
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Cost-reduction through material optimisation and Higher EnErgy outpuT of solAr pHotovoltaic modules - joining Europe’s Research and Development efforts in support of its PV industry (CHEETAH)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

...on and performance enhancement.CHEETAH’s objectives are threefold:1) Developing new concepts and technologies for wafer-based crystalline silicon PV (modules with ultra-thin cells), thin-film PV (advanced light management) and organic PV (very low-cost barriers), resulting in (strongly) reduced cost of materials and increased module performance;2) Fostering long-term European cooperation in the PV ...
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Access CenTer for PHotonics innovAtion Solutions and Technology support (ACTPHAST)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

ACTPHAST is a unique "one-stop-shop" European access centre for photonics innovation solutions and technology support (Access CenTre for PHotonics innovAtion Solutions and Technology support). ACTPHAST will support and accelerate the innovation capacity of European SMEs by providing them with direct access to the expertise and state-of-the-art facilities of Europe's leading photonics research cent ...
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DIAmond Devices Enabled Metrology and Sensing (DIADEMS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

The DIADEMS project aims at exploiting the unique physical properties of NV color centres in ultrapure single-crystal CVD-grown diamond to develop innovative devices with unprecedented performances for ICT applications. By exploiting the atom-like structure of the NV that exhibits spin dependent optical transitions, DIADEMS will make optics-based magnetometry possible.The objectives of DIADEMS are ...
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Energy Efficient Tunnel FET Switches and Circuits (E2SWITCH)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

...State (DOS) switch exploiting the effect of dimensionality. The DOS switch will deliver deep subthermal switching (subthreshold swing less than 10mV/decade, for at least four decades of current).An advanced TCAD simulation platform is developed for the selected material systems, able to capture quantum effects and to accurately predict the influence of dimensionality. TCAD will also support the op ...
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Technology CAD for III-V Semiconductor-based MOSFETs (III-V-MOS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

According to ITRS, III-V compound semiconductor n-type MOSFETs will reach production in 2018 as part of a new scaling scenario for high performance at very low voltage. The present lack of dependable TCAD models for the early stages of industrial development is a hindrance to benefit from the cost saves and time to market reduction that TCAD is recognized to deliver. To bridge this gap, III-V-M ...
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Photonic Libraries And Technology for Manufacturing (PLAT4M)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

Description "PLAT4M will make silicon photonics ready for transition to industry"Silicon is now a mature integration platform that has brought CMOS microelectronics to mass-market application. The PLAT4M vision is that silicon photonics will lead to a similar revolution in the photonics sector.Over the past years silicon photonics has see ...
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Silicon-photonics-based laser spectroscopy platform: towards a paradigm shift in environmental monitoring and health care (InSpectra)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

...ntrast nanophotonics be combined with the extreme accuracy of silicon technology and with the performance of hybrid silicon/III-V integration in order to create system-on-chip functionalities for advanced (bio-)spectroscopy.We will first focus research on integrated lasers or Laser Systems-on-Chip (LaSOC’s) capable of providing very wide wavelength tuning in the infrared, mid-infrared or visible. ...
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A CANcer Development mOnitor (CanDo)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

...n in theranostics. In cancer patients however blood concentrations are very low (=1 CTC/1E9 cells) and current detection strategies are too insensitive, limiting use to prognosis of only those with advanced metastatic cancer. Similarly problems occur in therapeutics with anti-cancer drug development leading to lengthy and costly trials often preventing access to market. There is therefore a clear ...
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SwIFT - Non-volatile optical Switch combining Integrated Photonics and Fluidics Technologies (SwIFT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

Being constantly inquired by its customers, TE-BE decided to find a non-volatile and low-cost solution for automatic and remote fiber-management. TE-BE partners with European experts to investigate and develop for the very first time the concept of a non-volatile Optical Switch Fabric. With the integration of two innovative technologies - silicon photonics and electrowetting (EWOD) - the consortiu ...
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Investigation of local and global cortical circuits with advanced neural probes for high-resolution electrophysiological monitoring and optogenetic stimulation (NeuroSeeker)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

...e same fundamental computation scheme is carried out. Despite the large amount of available data, this processing capability of the cortical module is still poorly understood. Two key technological advances to explore cortical computation have been ensemble electrophysiology, the use of multiple electrodes to record groups of neurons, and optogenetics. However, the optogenetic tools are still crit ...
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Innovative Materials for Multiple Junction OPVs and for Improved Light Management (MUJULIMA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

Solar photovoltaic (PV) technology is one of the fastest growing sustainable, renewable energy conversion technologies that can help meet the increasing global energy demands. Organic photovoltaic (OPV) technologies are particularly attractive due to their compatibility with low-cost roll-to-roll and printing processing at low temperatures on a wide variety of substrate materials and the lack of s ...
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Modelling Reliability under Variability (MoRV)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

While feature sizes are continuously scaled towards atomic dimensions, industry is increasingly confronted with unexpected physical artefacts to be considered at each new technology node. Among these, process variation and parameter degradation lead to reliability concerns impacting integrated circuit design at all abstraction levels. As variation and degradation may become a limiting factor for f ...
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MAssive MiMO for Efficient Transmission (MAMMOET)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

... on mobile networks. Mobile data grew with 70% in 2012 and is predicted to grow 13-fold in the next 5 years. This puts very high demands on the development of mobile access technology. MAMMOET will advance the development of Massive MIMO (MaMi), a new and most promising direction in mobile access. MaMi makes a clean break with current technology by using several hundreds of base station antennas t ...
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Software-defined energy-efficient Photonic transceivers IntRoducing Inteligence and dynamicity in Terabit superchannels for flexible optical networks (SPIRIT)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

...sisDevelopment of fully-programmable, high-speed, low-power, integrated photonic and electronic flexible transceiversFixed-grid and gridless 400G, 1T and flexible (super)channel data transport with advanced DSP and monitoring built-in functions enabled by software control
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Harnessing Performance Variability (HARPA)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

Application requirements, power, and technological constraints are driving the architectural convergence of future processors towards heterogeneous many-cores. This development is confronted with variability challenges, mainly the susceptibility to time-dependent variations in silicon devices. Increasing guard-bands to battle variations is not scalable, due to the too large worst-case cost impact ...
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Support Action for 450mm topics establishing a Bridge between European EM entities and IDMs, Foundries and Entities Worldwide (Bridge450)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

...d objective of Bridge450 will be to establish the possibilities of 450mm semi-manufacturing in Europe and what would be needed to facilitate such an operation, which will be vital for the future of advanced nano-electronics in Europe.
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Development of a low-cost point-of-care test for Tuberculosis detection (Pocket)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

Pocket will develop a novel point-of-care (PoC) urine test for the detection of tuberculosis (TB), achieving at the same time a low cost (5 to 10 euro end-user cost per test, including depreciation cost of the instrument) and a high accuracy (>80% capture of TB-positive patients, which is much better than the present solutions which reach 60%). The test positions itself between current low-end imm ...
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Coordination Action to enable an effective European 450 mm Equipment & Materials Network (ENABLE450)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

5 major global semiconductor companies Intel, Samsung, TSMC, IBM and Global Foundries, have decided to work closely together to bring 450 mm semiconductor processing to a mature level, within a consortium called G450C. This operation, based in Albany N.Y., is currently ordering and installing the first wave of 450 mm systems. The major drivers of this effort are Intel and TSMC, which have provide ...
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Efficient, large-area arbitrary shape solar energy (ArtESun)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

...oups and industries in order to make significant steps towards high-efficiency >15%, stable and cost efficient OPV technology. For this purpose, the project objectives are set to make break-through advances in the state of the art in terms of (i) the development of innovative high efficient OPV materials which can be used to demonstrate the cost-effective non-vacuum production of large area arbitr ...
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SILICON FRIENDLY MATERIALS AND DEVICE SOLUTIONS FOR MICROENERGY APPLICATIONS (SINERGY)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

This proposal selects a series of relevant examples of power microgeneration and storage (thermoelectric generators, vibrational harvesters and microstructrured batteries) and pushes them further into their development and performance maturity. With that goal in mind the emphasis is put on the materials themselves and their integration route into a technology able to bring the eventual solutions c ...
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Semiconductor Equipment Assessment for Key Enabling Technologies (SEA4KET)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

...institutes are active in each assessment experiment to support individual final developments, several cross-cut R&D activities were identified (and combined in a dedicated sub-project) that are relevant to multiple assessments. Training material will be provided and workshops will be organized, to support and strengthen the individual dissemination activities.SEA4KET will significantly strengthen ...
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Thermoplastically deformable circuits for embedded randomly shaped electronics (TERASEL)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

The overall aim of the TERASEL project is the development, the industrial implementation and the application in a wide range of domains of large area, cost-effective, randomly shaped electronics and sensor circuit technologies. More specifically the TERASEL objectives are the following :• To develop a basic technology platform for rigid large-area randomly shaped electronic circuits. Key common fe ...
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Photonics for High-Performance, Low-Cost & Low-Energy Data Centers, High Performance Computing Systems:Terabit/s Optical Interconnect Technologies for On-Board, Board-to-Board, Rack-to-Rack data links (PhoxTroT)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

PhoxTrot is a large-scale research effort focusing on high-performance, low-energy and cost and small-size optical interconnects across the different hierarchy levels in Data Center and High-Performance Computing Systems: on-board, board-to-board and rack-to-rack. PhoxTrot will tackle optical interconnects in a holistic way, synergizing the different fabrication platforms (CMOS electronics, Si-pho ...
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Development of RApid Point-of-Care test Platforms for Infectious Diseases (RAPP-ID)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

RAPP-ID (“Development of RApid Point-of-Care test Platforms for Infectious Diseases”) will develop a Point-of-Care Test (POCT) for rapid (hospital
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EXascale Algorithms and Advanced Computational Techniques (EXA2CT)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

Numerical simulation is a crucial part of science and industry in Europe. The advancement of simulation as a discipline relies on increasingly compute intensive models that require more computational resources to run. This is the driver for the evolution to exascale. Due to limits in the increase in single processor performance, exascale machines will rely on massive parallelism on and off chip, w ...
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EUROPRACTICE Training, CAD and prototyping services for European universities and research institutes (EUROPRACTICE 2013)

Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

...-funded research projects. The proposal covers 3 years of full operation (1 July 2013 until 30 June 2016).\nThe objectives are offering access to CAD tools for training and research, and access to advanced IC and More-than-Moore technologies for prototyping.\nAs a broker, EUROPRACTICE negotiates low cost conditions with the most popular industry-standard CAD vendors for educational use and non-co ...
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Significance-Based Computing for Reliability and Power Optimization (SCoRPiO)

Start date: Jun 1, 2013, End date: May 31, 2016,

Manufacturing process variability at low geometries and power dissipation are the most challenging problems in the design of future computing systems. Currently manufacturers go to great lengths to guarantee fault-free operation of their products by introducing redundancy in voltage margins, conservative layout rules, and extra protection circuitry. However, such design redundancy may result into ...
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Graphene-Based Revolutions in ICT And Beyond (GRAPHENE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

This Flagship aims to take graphene and related layered materials from a state of raw potential to a point where they can revolutionize multiple industries – from flexible, wearable and transparent electronics, to new energy applications and novel functional composites.Our main scientific and technological objectives in the different tiers of the value chain are to develop material technologies fo ...
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HEPATIC MICROFLUIDIC BIOREACTOR (HEMIBIO)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

The goal of HeMiBio is to develop a hepatic microfluidic bioreactor from human iPSC-derived hepatocytes, hepatic sinusoidal endothelial cells (HSEC) and stellate cells (HSC), suitable for inclusion in a repeated dose toxicity testing strategy of pharmaceuticals/cosmetic ingredients. The successful creation of such a liver-device requires (a) homotypic and heterotypic interactions between the three ...
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Cradle to cradle sustainable pv modules (CU-PV)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

Even though solar power is pollution-free during use, production of solar (PV) modules consumes extensive energy and natural resources. Recycling is hardly considered during module production, and therefore cumbersome and inefficient. The fast growth of the PV-industry entails similarly fast growth in resource consumption with growing production capacity: currently modest amounts can become very h ...
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The DIStributed Core for unlimited bandwidth supply for all Users and Services (DISCUS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

...l design by universal application of optical technologies throughout the fixed network eliminating traditional demarcations of metro, regional, core and access. Thus our essential concept is to use advanced optical technologies throughout giving rise to economies of scale and allowing bandwidths and flexibility hitherto unimaginable.Specifically the DISCUS architecture will: scale gracefully and e ...
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PHOTOVOLTAIC Clusters Development and Implementation Measures of a Seven Region Strategic Joint Action Plan for Knowledge-based Regional Innovation (SOLARROK)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

The overall objective of SOLARROK is to deepen the transnational cooperation between leading European research-driven clusters in the Photovoltaic (PV) sector. To gain a competitive position and to foster industrial innovation, EU research infrastructures require more and more resources: multidisciplinary competencies, investments for technical equipments, skilled human resources, and strong links ...
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Next-generation integrated MNBS-platform for instant diagnostics with single-molecule resolution (NextDx)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

...atients.NextDx is a unique international consortium with best-in-class partners contributing complementary physical and biomolecular engineering expertise, supported by an advisory board with all relevant stakeholders (clinicians, patient organisation, insurance company, regulatory agency). Together, all are focused on generating new insights in MNBS integration and on effective industrial-academi ...
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Tools for Enhanced Photovoltaic System Performance (PERFORMANCE PLUS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

For a continued decrease of levelised costs of energy from photovoltaics (PV), the prices of PV system components have to be further decreased while performance, functionality, reliability and lifetime on the component and system level need to be increased. In an integrated view, PV system performance emerges from, but is not limited to the performance of the components. The Performance Plus proje ...
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Nanophotonics for ultra-thin crystalline silicon photovoltaics (PHOTONVOLTAICS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

The ambition of PhotoNvoltaics is to enable the development of a new and disruptive solar cell generation resulting from the marriage of crystalline-silicon photovoltaics (PV) with advanced light-trapping schemes from the field of nanophotonics. These two technologies will be allied through a third one, nanoimprint, an emerging lithography technique from the field of microelectronics. The outcome ...
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Cognitive Radio Experimentation World (CREW)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

The main target of CREW is to establish an open federated test platform, which facilitates experimentally-driven research on advanced spectrum sensing, cognitive radio and cognitive networking strategies in view of horizontal and vertical spectrum sharing in licensed and unlicensed bands.The CREW platform incorporates 5 individual wireless testbeds (heterogeneous ISM @ iMinds-Gent, heterogeneous l ...
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Parallel Distributed Infrastructure for Minimization of Energy (ParaDIME)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

The increasing power and energy consumption of modern computing devices is perhaps the largest threat to technology minimization and associated gains in performance and productivity. On the one hand, we expect technology scaling to face the problem of "dark silicon" (only segments of a chip can function concurrently due to power restrictions) in the near future and lead us to use devices with comp ...
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Towards a Sustainable and Affordable Healthcare (WE-CARE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

...a supplementary R&D – agenda to fill in the present R&D gaps and needs for a breakthrough in cost containment.This roadmap will contribute to keep the present and future EU HEALTH R&D program relevant to all EU-citizens.WE-CARE presents a multi-disciplinary approach since financial, technical, economic, cultural and ethical aspects are strongly intertwined. The consortium will seek cooperation wit ...
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