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• Youngcheol Chae has been awarded a VENI grant by NWO. The Veni grant is awarded to excellent post-doctoral researchers to allow them to develop their ideas for a further three years.

• Kofi Makinwa has become a fellow of the IEEE "for the development of precision analog circuits and integrated sensor systems. IEEE Fellow is one of the most prestigious honors of the IEEE, and is bestowed upon a very limited number of Senior Members who have made outstanding contributions to the electrical and information technologies and sciences"

• Michiel Pertijs has been appointed senior member of the IEEE. Senior membership is the second highest level of membership in the IEEE. Around 8% of its 388,000 members hold senior status. This level of membership is awarded based on 'professional maturity and significant professional achievements'.

• Mahdi Kashmiri and Kofi Makinwa have won the Young Scientist Award of the 35th European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC 2009) for their work on a digitally-assisted electrothermal frequency-locked loop. This is the first fully integrated implementation of such a loop, which locks the output frequency of an on-chip oscillator to the thermal diffusivity, i.e. the rate of heat diffusion, of bulk silicon. Since bulk silicon is very pure, the spread of the loop's output frequency is less than 1000ppm after a single room-temperature trim.

• Kofi Makinwa gave his inaugural lecture: Sensing the future. This lecture can be seen here.

• Seven for ISSCC! Research carried out under the supervision of prof. Kofi Makinwa and in collaboration with NXP and the University of Twente, has led to seven papers at the prestigious International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC). The papers describe advances in temperature sensors, frequency references, voltage references, precision amplifiers and ultra-low-power radios.

• Gayathri G. Nampoothiri won the best poster award at the 2009 International Image Sensor Workshop (IISW). The topic of her poster was "Investigating the Ageing Effects on Image Sensors  Due to Terrestrial Cosmic Radiation".

• TU Delft has appointed Dr. Kofi Makinwa to the post of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Professor. TU Delft's Antoni van Leeuwenhoek chairs are aimed at promoting young, excellent scientists to professorships at an early age so that they can develop their scientific careers to the full.
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• Caspar van Vroonhoven and Kofi Makinwa have won the ISSCC Jan van Vessem Award for Outstanding European Paper for their work on a new smart sensor which measures the temperature of microchips precisely on the basis of heat diffusion in silicon. The sensor provides a solution for heat management in microprocessors, a function which has become increasingly important thanks to the miniaturisation of the past few years. They previously won an IEEE Sensors 2008 Best Student Paper Award for a similar sensor. The ISSCC is the world's leading conference on the design of integrated circuits.

• Vijay Rajaraman won the best paper award at the 2009 International Conference on MEMS (ICMEMS 2009), organized by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Madras), India. His scientific talk was about "A Versatile CMOS-Compatible PECVD Silicon Carbide MEMS Technology". Lukasz Pakula is a co-recipient of this award.

Conference calendar
As one of the best ways of exchanging information, various conferences are held, at both national and international level. Relevant conferences can be found on the following websites:
http://www.nexus-emsto.com/events
http://www.memsnet.org/events
Or with a search on the IEEE conference search engine (suggested keyword: circuits) http://www.ieee.org/conferencesearch/

Workshops
• The advanced engineering course Operational Amplifiers, Theory and Design is scheduled for November 8 -11, 2010. More information can be found on the MEAD webpage.
Lectures are given by top experts from universities and industries. Course will be taught in English. Each attendee will receive a certificate of attendance at the course.
Here you can find the photos taken during the last course.

• The advanced engineering course Smart Sensor Systems 2010 (ET4233) is held April 19-21, 2010.
Lectures are given by top experts from universities and industries. The prerequisite for the course is a basic knowledge of electrical circuits and systems. Course will be taught in English. Each attendee will receive a certificate of attendance at the course.
Here you can find the photos, which Zu-yao Chang took during the last course.

Colloquia
These colloquia are intended to give other research laboratories a chance to present themselves and to present information about the project groups within the Lab:

Defence Ph.D. thesis
The defences will take place in the Aula (Senaatzaal) of the Delft University of Technology, Mekelweg 5 Delft. Half an hour before the defences there will be a short presentation of the thesis. It is a pleasure to invite you to attend our public defences of the following thesis: