Personal perspective – Page 3

New developments in area selective deposition
– Take-home messages from the 2nd Area Selective Deposition workshop (ASD2017)

July 14, 2017July 14, 2017 Adrie Mackus

As announced in our previous blog post on the 2nd area selective deposition (ASD2017) workshop, this post will highlight the new developments in the field of ASD. I will summarize my take-home messages from the workshop by discussing three topics that were addressed in several presentations: New categories of area selective deposition (ASD) The improvement … Read more

The solar-powered family car Stella Vie
– a closer look at the solar cells

July 4, 2017July 3, 2017 Bas van de Loo

On June 21, the Solar Team Eindhoven launched its 5-person, solar-powered family car “Stella Vie”. The car, which has been developed by students at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), will take part in the cruiser class event of the World Solar Challenge in October this year. During this challenge, the Stella Vie will compete … Read more

2nd Area-selective deposition workshop (ASD 2017)
– Flashback

July 27, 2026May 6, 2017 Adrie Mackus, Erwin Kessels, Bart Macco

On April 20-21, the 2nd Area Selective Deposition workshop (ASD 2017) took place in Eindhoven. Here we give a brief flashback of the workshop and include several photographs of the meeting, including a group photo of the participants. The workshop started on Thursday evening with a welcome reception. This reception took place on the campus … Read more

ALD-enabled nanopatterning: area-selective ALD by area-activation
– Reflecting on ASD 2016 with the ASD 2017 workshop approaching

July 27, 2026April 10, 2017 Erwin Kessels

The 2nd Area Selective Deposition workshop (ASD 2017, link) is approaching quickly now. The workshop will take place in Eindhoven on April 21 and my colleague Adrie Mackus is the main organizer. With the upcoming workshop in mind, I thought it would also be good to briefly reflect on the 1st ASD workshop at imec, … Read more

ALD for Self-Aligned Multiple Patterning (SAxP)
– How litho has become patterning and requires ALD

March 14, 2017March 13, 2017 Erwin Kessels

Two weeks ago I attended the SPIE Advanced Lithography conference in San Jose (February 26 – March 2) and I got so much inspired that I wanted to write a blog about it. It was my second time at this conference as I decided to come back after attending last year when I was asked … Read more

PECVD of amorphous silicon for lithium ion batteries
– How my PhD might be applied in industry

March 13, 2017January 1, 2017 Erwin Kessels

Recently I did an interesting discovery: the work that I did during my PhD (1996 – 2000) might be at the basis of a radical new technology to produce anodes of Li-ion batteries, anodes based on silicon nanowires instead of graphite. The Dutch branch of the company Meyer-Burger (Eindhoven) has sold a large tool to … Read more