Gerwin Gelinck
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Research area
Flexible and printed electronics are important for a broad range of applications – foldable and rollable displays come to mind, but also curved medical X-ray detectors and ultrasound imagers, electronic skin patches and, more recently, lab/organ-on-a-chip and (retinal) implants. My expertise in this field is the result of a career-long interest, from my PhD in electrical functional polymers through organic thin-film transistor research at Philips Research to several positions at the Holst Centre. My mandate as professor at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) is to explore future and emerging applications of these interesting electronics.
As CTO of Holst Centre/TNO, I focus not only on R&D innovation management but also on portfolio management and business, consortium and talent development. My research interests include novel solution-processed semiconductors, fundamental charge and energy transport in these disordered materials in thin-film transistors, photodiodes, actuators and sensors, and applications based on these materials/devices. In this context, my research contributes to the TNO roadmap “Flexible & Free-form Products”.
Recent results
A better understanding of flexible and printed electronics – their potential and limitations – is key to delivering next-generation mobile and wearable devices. Some highlights:
- Holst Centre shows next step towards cheaper flexible electronics (https://www.holstcentre.com/news---press/2019/holst-centre-shows-next-step-towards-cheaper-flexible-electronics/)
- PYCSEL, a new thermal fingerprint sensor (https://www.holstcentre.com/news---press/2019/pycsel/)
- First ever industry demonstration of capacitive communication (https://www.holstcentre.com/news---press/2018/capacitive-communication/)
- Flexible fingerprint sensors promise embedded secure access control (https://www.holstcentre.com/news---press/2018/flexible-finger-print-sensors/)
- (Not) breaking the barrier to foldable OLED displays (https://www.holstcentre.com/news---press/2017/foldable-oled-display/)
- CPT and imec / Holst Centre Demonstrate 1250 ppi, FMM-free Multicolor OLED Displays with Photolithography (https://www.holstcentre.com/news---press/2017/touchtaiwan/)
- Holst Centre, imec and Philips demo world's first curved, plastic photodetector (https://www.holstcentre.com/news---press/2017/curvedxray/)
- Holst Centre, imec and Cartamundi Introduce Plastic Near Field Communication Tag Communicating with Smartphones (https://www.holstcentre.com/news---press/2016/nfc/)
PhD supervision
- Simone (NWO Zwaartekracht)
- Ollearo (TNO VP)
- Xiao Ma (EU)
- Vittal Thanjavur Prakasam (EU)
Top publications
- Andersson, J. Maas, G. Gelinck, M. Kemerink, “Scalable electronic ratchet with over 10% rectification efficiency“, just accepted Advanced Science, DOI: 10.1002/advs.201902428, 2019
- Simone, M.J. Dyson, S.C.J. Meskers, R.A.J. Janssen, G.H. Gelinck, “Organic photodetectors and their application in large area and flexible image sensors: the role of dark current“, Adv. Functional Materials https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201904205, 2019
- Zhao, T. Lenz, G.H. Gelinck, P. Groen, D. Damjanovic, D.M. de Leeuw, I. Katsouras, “Depolarization of multidomain ferroelectric materials“, Nature Communications 10, Article number: 2547 doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10530-4 (2019)