LFE research themes are:

  • Flexible/bendable/stretchable electronics
  • Integration of printed and conventional electronics (hybrid systems)
  • Energy storage and harvesting
  • Printed thin-film circuits and systems

 

Projects

 

Research Council of Finland

  • SOIL  – Sustainable Organics and metal oxide ICT via biodegradable, high-performance flexible Low-voltage electronics, 2023 – 2025. SOIL project card
  • HI-PHOTO-SINTER –  HIgh-resolution, Printing-Based Patterning and PHOTOnic SINTERing for High-Speed, Low-Voltage Metal-Oxide Thin Film Transistors, 2022-2026. HI-PHOTO-SINTER project card
  • Intellisense – Funded jointly by Research Council of Finland (RCF) and National Science Foundation (NSF), USA. This project develops ferroelectric based near and in-sensor computing architectures. (Finnish PI: Sayani Majumdar, US PI: Qiangfei Xia)
  • AI4AI – AI4AI investigates Machine Learning based Optimization tools for Neuromorphic hardware development. PI: Sayani Majumdar (TAU) and Patrick Rinke (Aalto University)
  • FerraRI –  Ferroelectric-enhanced Analog accelerators for Robust, ultra-low power edge Intelligence (FeRRARI) aims to develop a library of ferroelectric components, to be fabricated, modelled, and integrated in computer-aided design (CAD) tools. PI: Sayani Majumdar (TAU), Hannu-Pekka Komsa (Oulu University) and Martin Andraud (Aalto University and UC Louvain)
  • PREIN – Photonics  Doctoral Education Pilot – This project  investigates Photonic Neuromorphic components and is a part of the doctoral education pilot.​
  • PII (FIRI), Printed Intelligence Infrastructure, 2019-2028.  PII’s webpage

EU

 

Recently completed projects

Academy of Finland

  • EpiPrint (Research fellow) – Development of epidermal electronics using nano-materials and advanced printing technologies, 2015-2020
  • VBA (project) – Vascular Biomechanics Assessment using printed soft electronics and advanced signal processing, 2017-2021
  • HiFlex (project) – High frequency printed circuitry for wireless communication, 2017 – 2021
  • LightningSense (project, IoT of future, with TAU Chemistry and Aalto Microelectronics) – Energy autonomous wireless sensor node with printed light harvesters (lead-free perovskites) and energy storage (supercapacitors), 2018 – 2021

EU

  • InComEss (EU H2020) – INnovative polymer-based COmposite systeMs for high-efficient Energy Scavenging and Storage, 2020-2024. InComEss project card. InComEss webpage.
  • UNOPIEZO (H2020, MSCA IF) – Unobtrusive printed piezoelectric sensors for non-invasive biosignal monitoring, 2021-2024. UNOPIEZO project card
  • Charisma (ITN) Energy autonomous smart sensor label with electrochromic readout, 2019 – 2023. Charisma webpage
  • Smart2Go (H2020) – Smart wearables for sports and safety, 2019- 2022. Smart2Go webpage
  • BioÄly (EAKR EUregional funding) – Sustainable biodegradable materials, 2018 – 2022. BioÄly webpage

Business Finland

  • Elastronics (co-innovation) – Stretchable hybrid electronics for wearables; characterization, modeling, fabrication, reliability, 2018-2020. Elastronics project card
  • ECOtronics (co-innovation) – Sustainable electronics and optics, 2019-2022. ECOtronics webpage
  • Naked Approach (Strategic opening) -Nordic perspective to gadget‐free hyperconnected environments, 2015-2018
  • Towards Digital Paradise applying Naked Approach developed technologies, 2017-2018
  • VitalSens – Platform Technology for Affordable, Continuous Health, 2014 – 2018. VitalSens webpage
  • PAUL (FidiPro) – Technology platform to enable a printable, sustainable Internet of Everything, 2014 – 2019

Austrian FFS

  • Self-PoSH – (Bridge funding, coordinator Joanneum Research) – laterally patterned piezoelectric sensors and their use for motion harvesting, 2017 – 2018