Kris Myny
Kris Myny received his MSc in Electrical Engineering from the Katholieke Hogeschool Limburg in 2002. In 2004 he joined imec’s research team and started working on the development of robust plastic circuitry. In 2013 he obtained a PhD at KU Leuven. He is now a Principal Member of Technical Staff at imec and specializes in circuit design for flexible thin-film transistor circuits. His work has been published and presented in numerous international journals and conferences and has received considerable press attention. He was listed as one of Belgium’s top tech pioneers by the business newspaper De Tijd. Last year he also received a prestigious ERC Starting Grant from the European Commission to enable his breakthrough research in thin-film transistor circuits.
Authored articles
How to efficiently drive microLED displays
A novel, hybrid design approach for microLED thin-film transistor backplanes
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From displays to health patches: the broad capabilities of thin-film transistors
Thin-film transistors (TFTs) made of indium-gallium-zinc-oxide (IGZO) as the semiconducting material are typically used in backplane circuits for displays. TFTs offer many complementary features compared to Si-based transistors, such as processing on large area glass or flexible substrates, extremely low leakage current in standby mode, ability to drive mixed voltages, and the potential to achieve a lower cost per unit area. By using Si-like circuit design flows, IGZO-TFT-based circuits can be designed and integrated into applications beyond displays. These include large-area imagers for fingerprint sensing, printed sensors readout for wearable health patches, RFID tags for connecting physical objects to the Internet of Everything, and many more.
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Bright Future for Flexible Electronics Ahead!
What are the three main challenges in today's research on flexible electronics? And what will we use it for?
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