New-Tech Europe | Q2 2020 | Digital Edition

focused ultrasound energy can be beamed (and distorted) to become audible to the listener’s ear only. Second, micromachined ultrasound transducers can be used as a sensing instrument, for imaging applications. Following a Yole Development 2018 report, cMUTs and pMUTs are opening new possibilities in existing markets such as medical ultrasound and fingerprinting, while also creating new markets such as gesture recognition – where ultrasound can provide an alternative to radar- or light-based gesture recognition solutions. Examples of medical ultrasound imaging are portable echography, cardio patches or structural brain imaging – allowing to image body structures with waves that are free of radiation. Movie: https://vimeo.com/252350041 Want to know more? - Imec can help you tap into the unexplored potential of ultrasound – for haptic feedback or beyond applications. We are interested in collaborating with partners and clients in the life sciences field, infotainment, or automotive industry and in other applications requiring industrials sensors and actuators that challenge our technologies. Our Si-based technologies are ready to be tailored to specific applications and with our extensive inhouse expertise and infrastructure, we can perform all development steps in-house. Small- and high-volume production is offered through collaboration with our foundry partner. Interested? Feel free to contact imec’s senior business develop manager Denis Marcon. - You can access the 2018 Yole Development analysis on ultrasound sensing technologies via this link.

Figure. 6: Schematic representation of some of the possible applications enabled by ultrasound.

About Denis Marcon Denis Marcon received a M.S. degree from the University of Padova in 2006. Subsequently, he received the PhD degree of doctor in Engineering from the KU Leuven and imec in 2011. He is leading author or co-author of more than 50 journal papers or conference contributions. Currently, he is a Sr. business development manager in imec, Belgium, and he is responsible for the partnerships with imec in the field of GaN power electronics and on dedicated development projects of Si-based device and sensors.

Figure 7: [caption movie:] Ultrasound is the sole technology to enable low power and non-contact gesture recognition and haptic feedback. supplementary degree in Theoretical Physics in 1998 and 1999 from "Université Libre de Bruxelles", Belgium. He received further his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering in 2008 from KU Leuven, Belgium. He worked one year at the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium in the field of remote sensing from space and joined imec in 2000.

About Xavier Rottenberg Xavier Rottenberg is scientific director and group leader wave- based sensors and actuators at imec. He received the MSc degree in Physics Engineering and a

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