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Eugenio Cantatore presents one of the speakers during the plenary
session of ISSCC 2019.

In this mock-up, some analog electronics
manufactured on foil with a-IGZO transistors are applied as a patch on the skin.
Using this approach, monitoring of EMG
signals has recently been demonstrated
(work submitted for publication).

Research Conference in 2012, and
the Distinguished Technical Paper
Award from the ISSCC in 2015.
Eugenio is interested in any work
wherein different technologies are
combined to create systems that can
provide innovative solutions to in--
dustry and societal demands. "I am
presently very interested in the inte-
gration between photonics and elec-
tronics, as well as in interfaces for
quantum computers," Eugenio said.
"The challenge of this work is to bring
together different disciplines, scien-
tific cultures, languages, and ways
of thinking. As scientists, we need to
be curious and break the boundaries
that often keep disciplines separate.
By working more together, I am con-
fident we will be able to find better
solutions for the grand challenges

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Sahel Abdinia holds a foil with the first printed ADC ever demonstrated. Cantatore and Daniele Raiteri, in the background, show
large organic digital circuits, proving that organic technology together with robust design can enable a high yield. (Source: Bart
van Overbeeke Fotografie, 2013; used with permission.)

Cantatore is making good use of his
stormproof ISSCC umbrella in Gros Morne
National Park, Newfoundland, California.

Aside from his
work in the
laboratory and
with the Society,
Eugenio enjoys
music, especially
opera.

of the future, including an environ-
mentally sustainable development
and an equitable distribution of the
planet resources."
Cantatore's biggest career accom-
plishment has been the design (us--
ing a thin-film transistor based on
organic semiconductors) of the first
passive radio-frequency identifica-
tion (RFID) that is capable of sending
a 64-b message and of the first RFID

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Cantatore's inaugural lecture as full professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology, 19 May 2017.

able to achieve a 13.56-MHz multibit
RF communication. The work was
performed at Phillips Research, Eind-
hoven, and presented at ISSCC 2006.
It was also published in JSSC and was
among the top-cited JSSC papers in
the 2005-2015 decade.
"I am extremely proud of all
accomplishments that my graduate
students and coworkers were able
to achieve with my help, including
the largest circuit ever built with
organic transistors in 2014, the first
printed analog-to-digital converter
(ADC), the first flexible EMG inter-
face, and the first high-resolution
RFID-based printed temperature sen-
sor," Eugenio said.
Aside from his impressive career,
Eugenio has been a member-atlarge of the SSCS Administrative

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