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
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
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
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
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