Introduction
With a staff of about 30 fte faculty and over 180 fte scientific staff, the Department of Microelectronics combines the expertise of 7 research groups in Electrical Engineering. The complete field of electronics is covered, including signal processing, radar, and telecommunication.
Microelectronics is fundamentally a multi-disciplinary field of research, exploring the physics, materials and chemistry required to make devices work. It is also multidisciplinary with regard to its wide variety of applications, as it plays a crucial role in all fields of innovation, ranging from advanced health care to telecommunications and smart grids. The ever-increasing demand for processing power, sensing capabilities and miniaturisation makes microelectronics a highly innovative research field.
The Department is involved in several MSc tracks:
MSc Wireless Communication and Sensing, MSc Signals and Systems, MSc Microelectronics.
Research at the Department of Microelectronics
spans all major aspects of electronic
engineering including the design and development of
silicon-based devices, analogue and digital circuits for
smart sensors, biomedical implants and wireless
communication systems, signal-processing algorithms for
communication and biomedical signals, as well as microwave
and terahertz systems for remote sensing and radio
astronomy.
ME’s research
is a major contributor to a number of EEMCS themes:
The Department provides expertise for each of these
research areas, throughout the whole system chain, from the technology
layer to the sub -system and component layer and to the system layer,
with a direct link to the challenges facing today's society.
Episode 1 Up Close and Personal
Episode 2 New Frontiers
Episode 3 Connected Worlds

News

Dr. Seyedmahdi Izadkhast (EEE) receives NRO-Funding on Learning Analytics Project
Dr. Seyedmahdi Izadkhast (EEE) and his multi-university team receives NRO funding to develop a cutting-edge Learning Analytics Dashboard.

ICLR award for Cristian Meo (SPS)
Outstanding paper award for the paper "Masked Generative Priors Improve World Models Sequence Modelling Capabilities"

National Scalable Atomic Processing Line (SAP-NL) consortium project led by Sten Vollebregt gets funded
Dr. Vollebregt (ECTM) has received a substantial grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for his consortium project aiming to develop a national facility for large-scale atomic fabrication.
Agenda
- Fri, 6 Jun 2025
- 12:30
- Aula Senaatszaal
PhD Thesis Defence

Roberto Pezone
Towards wafer-scale multilayer graphene MEMS condenser microphones
- Fri, 6 Jun 2025
- 15:00
- Aula Senaatszaal
PhD Thesis Defence

Hao Hong
High-Precision Fabrication of Single-Crystal Silicon Nanopores with Extremely Small Feature Sizes
- Thu, 12 Jun 2025
- 16:00
- EEMCS, lecture hall Chip
Microelectronics colloquium

Sten Vollebregt
From Graphene towards Van der Waals Heterostructures: The National Scalable Atomic Processing Line (SAP-NL)
Material innovation has been pivotal for our economy and society and has enabled us to develop faster and more energy-efficient chips, better batteries, solar panels, and communication networks.
- Thu, 4 Sep 2025
- 10:00
- Aula Senaatszaal
PhD Thesis Defence

Leiming Du
Sintering Fundamentals of Nano-Metallic Particle Interconnects
- Thu, 4 Sep 2025
- 17:30
- Aula Senaatszaal
PhD Thesis Defence
