PDEng Programme in ATLASS project at Eindhoven University of Technology

The ATLASS project
Electronics made with organic thin-film transistors (TFTs) can be printed with high throughput at near-to-ambient temperature on inexpensive plastic films: it is thus emerging as a high-potential technology to make electronics at ultra-low cost per area.

ATLASS is an EU Horizon 2020 project on advanced printed electronics. It counts a large number of partners, including both leading institutes in the technology of printed electronics (e.g. Joanneum Research, Austria; CEA-Liten, France and VTT, Finland) and major commercial players in the field of printed/flexible electronics (e.g. Merck, Thin Film Electronics and Plastic Logic).

ATLASS will focus on systems built by hybrid integration of sensor/actuator foils and TFT circuits printed on foil, to enable early processing of the sensor data and communication to the outside world. Custom IC Silicon electronics will also be part of the complete systems. This approach ideally combines the strongest points of each technology and promises to enable inexpensive, large and high-performance applications like pressure sensing surfaces for shock analysis, flexible electronic labels integrating NFC capability with displays, and electronic labels with sensors.
The team at TU Eindhoven will take responsibility within ATLASS of most circuit and system design tasks.

The major challenges for the PDEng position are:

- System level design of the final ATLASS demonstrators together with the commercial partners;

- PCB design based on discrete components and design of some functions using printed TFTs to realize the proposed demonstrator systems.

The main results expected from the Smart-press research are:

- A printed pressure sensing surface for crash tests;

- A printed sensor label that can be interrogated via NFC;

- A label integrating a flexible display and RFID or NFC communication.

Deadline Application: 23-04-2017

Further details:
PDEng Programme in ATLASS project at Eindhoven University of Technology