# Department of Microelectronics

**Source**: https://microelectronics.tudelft.nl/
**Parent**: https://radar.tudelft.nl/Facilities/radarlab.php

### [Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science](http://ewi.tudelft.nl)Department of Microelectronics

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# 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 Signals, Networking and Sensing](https://microelectronics.tudelft.nl/Education/track.php?ti=53), [MSc Wireless Communication and Sensing](https://microelectronics.tudelft.nl/Education/track.php?ti=11), [MSc Signals and Systems](https://microelectronics.tudelft.nl/Education/track.php?ti=12), [MSc Microelectronics](https://microelectronics.tudelft.nl/Education/track.php?ti=13).

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](http://microelectronics.tudelft.nl/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.

## Microelectronics at TU Delft on YouTube:

### Trailer

### Episode 1 Up Close and Personal

### Episode 2 New Frontiers

### Episode 3 Connected Worlds

### Episode 4 Sensing the Invisible

### News

[#### "Interferometry in space" project granted

NWO-PIPP grant for Raj Rajan

More ...](https://microelectronics.tudelft.nl/News/indexitem.php?mi=734)

[#### NWO Vici grant for Akira Endo

Time-traveling to galaxies of the past: creating a 3D map of the early Universe

More ...](https://microelectronics.tudelft.nl/News/indexitem.php?mi=732)

[#### Record presence for the department at ISSCC 2026

At this year’s International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) - the world’s leading conference on chip design (the Chip Olympics), TU Delft presented a record 14 papers and 1 forum talk, out of a total of 39 accepted EU papers.

More ...](https://microelectronics.tudelft.nl/News/indexitem.php?mi=733)

[#### Professor Kofi Makinwa appointed member of the KHMW

The Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW) has appointed Prof Kofi Makinwa, head of the Microelectronics department of TU Delft’s faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, as a Scientific member.

More ...](https://microelectronics.tudelft.nl/News/indexitem.php?mi=731)

### Agenda

[- Thu, 30 Apr 2026- 12:30- Aula Senaatszaal

### PhD Thesis Defence

#### Yanbin He

#### Kronecker Compressed Sensing With Structured Sparsity

Algorithms, guarantees, and applications

More ...](https://microelectronics.tudelft.nl/Agenda/indexitem.php?mi=1326 "Agenda Item")

[- Thu, 21 May 2026- 10:00- Aula Senaatszaal

### PhD Thesis Defence

#### Yanbo Wang

#### Compositional Generative Models: for Generalizable Scene Generation and Understanding

building intelligent agents with the flexible, systematic compositional imagination characteristic of human cognition

More ...](https://microelectronics.tudelft.nl/Agenda/indexitem.php?mi=1328 "Agenda Item")