Introduction

Welcome to the website of the Department of Microelectronics at TU Delft.

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:

  • Health and Wellbeing - from materials to systems, with specific expertise in:
    • diagnostic technology : visualization and tumor detection, high-Tesla MRI, ultrasound arrays and other sensors
    • monitoring with low power wireless technology and implantable stimulators, such as cochlear implants and neural stimulators for treatment of tinnitus;
  • XG - Next Generation Sensing and communication - from devices to systems:
    • energy-efficient electronics
    • scaling of frequencies from GHz to THz - with the promise of Gb/s wireless networks
    • advanced signal processing , such as 'cognitive radio ', use of large antenna arrays
    • communication for localization and control
    • underwater RF and acoustic communication
  • Safety and Security - from material to systems:
    • microwave vision
    • distributed sensor systems for environment monitoring
    • large sensor arrays and applications in security and radio astronomy
    • resource management in distributed sensing systems

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.

Agenda

Guest presentation Alejandro Linares Barranco

Alejandro Linares Barranco

Spike-based Signal Processing to Develop Neuromorphic Auditory Sensors and Robotic Motor Controllers

Bio-inspired systems try to understand real biological systems. Living beings' nervous systems in general and neurons in particular, represent the natural computing that is the inspiration of neuromorphic engineers

Opening Makersspace

Festive opening ceremony Johanna Manders Makersspace

On March 26th at 12:00 the Johanna Manders Makerspace will be officially opened. You can find further details regarding the naming of the makerspace in an article featured in TU Delta, commemorating the International Women’s Day.

Microelectronics colloquium

Willem van Driel

Running large EU projects: Intelligent Reliability (iREL40)

Intelligent Reliability 4.0 (iRel40) is a 102MEuro European funded project with the ultimate goal of improving reliability of electronic components and systems by reducing failure rates along the entire value chain.

32nd Workshop on Advances in Analog Circuit Design

32nd Workshop on Advances in Analog Circuit Design

The aim of the Workshop on Advances in Analog Circuit Design (AACD) is to bring together a large group of people working at the frontiers of analog circuit design, to study and discuss possibilities and future developments.

IEEE Sensor Interfaces Meeting 2024

IEEE Sensor Interfaces Meeting 2024

PhD Thesis Defence

Christoph Manss

Multi-agent exploration under sparsity constraints

Conferences

44th Benelux Symposium on Information Theory and Signal Processing (SITB'24, Delft)

PhD Thesis Defence

Hanie Moghaddasi

Model-based feature engineering of atrial fibrillation

Conferences

7th Graph Signal Processing Workshop (GSP 2024)