InnoLAE 2025 Short Courses

Short courses on LAE technologies leading up to innoLAE 2025 allow you to learn more about key technology areas from industry experts.

Monday 17 February 2025

Reliability of advanced bioelectronics: thin-film encapsulations and stability evaluation

13:30 - 17:00, 17 February 2025

This course, delivered by Dr Massimo Mariello of the University of Oxford, will discuss the reliability and stability of advanced bioelectronics, which represent a crucial need for any biomedical application and one of the most discussed hot topics in the scientific community.

Tuesday 18 February 2025

Organic Bioelectronics

09:00 - 12:30, 18 February 2025

Delivered by Dr Dimitrios A. Koutsouras of IMEC, this course will cover what bioelectronics is and why it holds so much promise for meeting today's unmet medical needs, with a focus on organics, a class of materials extremely suitable for the fabrication of state-of-the-art bioelectronic devices. In this context, we will discuss why conducting polymers’ unique set of features allowed them to enter the world of bioelectronics, giving rise to the era of Organic Bioelectronics.

Thin-Film Transistors for Emerging Applications Beyond Silicon

09:00 - 12:30, 18 February 2025

This course, delivered by Dr Chen Jiang of Tsinghua University, will discuss about the fundamentals of oxide and organic thin-film transistors and their operation in the subthreshold regime for low power applications. In addition, this course will introduce the novel application of high-channel-count active-matrix neurostimulation, showcasing the expanding role of thin-film transistors beyond traditional applications in display and biosensing.

Wet processing technologies for large-area electronics

13:30 - 17:00, 18 February 2025

Delivered by Printed Electronics Ltd (PEL), this course covers the inks and printer technology required for deposition techniques including screen, inkjet and flexo/gravure printing. The short course also covers coating techniques such as doctor blade and slot die, drawdown, spin and spray coating. In each case the advantages, disadvantages and technological challenges of each technique will be covered, along with issues arising in scale up for manufacture.

Bioelectronic Devices Based On Electrical-double-layers

13:30 - 17:00, 18 February 2025

This course, delivered by Prof Henrique Leonel Gomes of Coimbra University, focuses on electrical methods to characterise devices that use electrical double-layers for bioelectronic sensing. These devices encompass a wide array of applications, such, as skin-adherent devices for monitoring physiological changes on the skin's surface or electrophysiological signals. A critical aspect of developing these types of bioelectrical devices lies in understanding the design principles that yield optimal sensing performance. This involves careful consideration of device geometry and a judicious selection of materials used in their fabrication, which will be covered in this course.