Friday, September 16th, 2011
[caption id="attachment_24752" align="alignleft" width="350" caption="Santé! Member of government Urs Wüthrich-Pelloli (left) and CSEM CEO Mario El-Khoury toast the opening of CSEM's polytronics development centre."][/caption]
Conductive and semiconductive plastics have been studied for decades and are currently at an early stage of industrialisation. CSEM, a Switzerland-based private research and development centre devoted ...
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Sunday, July 10th, 2011
[caption id="attachment_23744" align="alignleft" width="250" caption="Tomographic image of lungs taken with the EIT chest belt developed at CSEM. At the start of inhalation, the lungs are not visible (reference image). Following the inhalation cycle, the lungs filled with air appear in blue (indication of an air-filled, hence less conductive, material). Click ...
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Thursday, March 31st, 2011
A European Commission—funded project, WiserBAN, is focused on developing miniature RF microsystems for wireless Body Area Networks (BAN). The project concerns the extreme miniaturisation and the reduction of power consumption of wearable and implantable BAN devices.
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Friday, February 11th, 2011
Swiss research company CSEM has announced that its scientists and engineers are collaborating with Israeli company Nano-Retina to develop an implantable bionic chip, especially designed to return sight to those blinded by retinal degenerative diseases. The aim of this project is to develop a new generation of tiny retinal implants that compensate ...
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Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
The Centre Suisse d’Electronique et de Microtechnique (CSEM) is collaborating with a number of European partners in the development of ultra-low-power wireless body-area-network systems that will enhance human-machine interface (HMI) technology. Initial markets for the EC-funded Wear-a-BAN project include smart and interactive textiles and medical rehabilitation. Video gaming is also a target ...
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