Paul Heremans

Corporate chief technology officer at imec and senior fellow
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Paul Heremans is an imec fellow and professor at the Electrical Engineering Department of the KU Leuven (Belgium). He is director of imec’s large area electronics department, a research activity that he started in 1998. Paul received his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the KU Leuven in 1990. His research interests span AMOLED displays, large-area and flexible imagers, thin-film circuits such as NFC tags, photodetectors, and polymer ultrasound transducers. 

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Authored articles

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Imec increases focus on industry-ready sensor and actuator developments

10/12/2020
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Sensing and actuation

Semiconductor manufacturing technologies are key enablers to realize cost-effective sensors and actuators and to enable new sensing modalities.

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Fundamental study unlocks potential of organic semiconductors

22/03/2018

Better understanding of crystallization in thin-films allows for better performing electronics

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Paul Heremans on thin-film technology

15/12/2017

“Our experts are working on what will be the next revolution in consumer electronics”

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