Integrated Circuits
The research area of the group is advanced purely-analog and mixed-signal IC design (RF/IF/LF), applied to frontends, especially for wireless RF transceivers and sensors. In this context, frontends are defined as the functional blocks that process and translate analog signals (communication signals, sensor signals) to digital signals (bits), and vice versa, see the figure below. This includes on the one hand system, concept and algorithm level design, and on the other hand circuit block design (antenna-matched low-noise amplifiers, sensor amplifiers, power amplifiers; oscillators, mixers, modulators, detectors; data converters). At all these levels, we strive to implement smartness (autonomous calibration, adaptivity, error correction, reconfiguration, etc.).
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Research Profile
As regards performance, we focus on improvements in speed (up to THz), power-efficiency, and ultra-low-power. As regards the application domains, our current focus is on communication systems, sensor systems, and medical systems. As regards technology, we focus on advanced deep-submicron processing (CMOS, BICMOS), emerging technologies (organic electronics, metal oxides), and THz technology.
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Brainpower in comic book form
What's not to like, an inspiring lecture given by an enthusiastic professor. An upbeat message and decades of research distilled into a single slide. But PhD candidate Elles Raaijmakers is keen to show the other side of the story: failed experiments, countless setbacks and years of hard work. While working as a member of the Education Team, she carried out doctoral research on the influence of electrical fields on brain cells. Instead of handing out a hefty thesis – although she has written one – she drew an accessible guide to her research experiences in the form of a comic book. On Thursday, June 8, she defended her research at the Department of Electrical Engineering. Read more
NXP SCHOLARSHIP ON ‘MILLIMETER WAVE WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY’
It is with pleasure that we announce a fifth generation of NXP scholarships, with 5 available scholarships for first year master’s students available for 2024.
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CURRENT OPEN POSITIONS
All scientific as well as non-scientific vacancies are centrally cataloged by the Electrical Engineering department and can be found here.
Our Labs
Meet some of our researchers
Innovation
The IC group is cooperating with other groups at the university via our so-called Centers, especially in the Center for Wireless Technology Eindhoven (CWTe) and the Center for Care and Cure Technology Eindhoven (C3Te). This ensures a strong multidisciplinary link, which not only enhances our research, but also facilitates the innovation chain to industry and society.
IC cooperates with many industrial partners; key partners are NXP, Holst/IMEC, Philips, and Xilinx. The group strives for a close cooperation with industry through hosting guests, parttime positions for industrial specialists, consultancy to industry, and integration of MSc and PhD students during their project with industry. Our work is directed along roadmaps that are aligned with industry. In most of our projects for which we apply funding, industry is operating as a partner. Finally, we facilitate measurement facilities for our prime partners. In this way we integrate our work as much as possible, resulting in a smooth innovation chain, as stated in our mission.
Recent Publications
Our most recent peer reviewed publications
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Martijn Timmermans,Kyle van Oosterhout,Marco Fattori,Pieter J.A. Harpe,Eugenio Cantatore
A 1.8-65 fJ/conv.-step 64 dB SNDR Continuous - Time Level Crossing ADC Exploiting Dynamic Self-Biasing Comparators
IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (2024) -
Dawei Tang,Xiaoyue Xia,Zheng Yan,Peigen Zhou,Zekun Li,Chun Yang,Rui Zhang,Zhe Chen,Jixin Chen,Hao Gao
24.1 A 90-to-180GHz APD-Integrated Transmitter Achieving 18dBm Psat in 28nm CMOS
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Mark D. Thomson,Florian Ludwig,Jakob Holstein,Reiam Al-Mudhafar,Shihab Al-Daffaie,Hartmut G. Roskos
Coherent Terahertz Detection via Ultrafast Dynamics of Hot Dirac Fermions in Graphene
ACS Nano (2024) -
Chuanshi Yang,Zhengzhe Wei,Hao Gao,Chun Huat Heng,Yuanjin Zheng
Towards Ultra-Low Power Transceivers for Pico-IoT
IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine (2024) -
Lin He,Hengzhuang Shi,Junhui Zhang,Mingxiang Wei,Ping Wang,Shunming li,Hao Gao,Zhikuang Cai
A CMOS Current Sensing Interface with Sub-pA DC Uncertainty
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs (2024)
Education
Check out all our courses
An overview of all Master Courses from the IC group, with the specialization tracks Data Converters (IC-1) and RF (IC-2) can be seen below this block.
Contact
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Postal address
FluxGroene Loper 195612 AP EindhovenNetherlands -
Postal address
FluxGroene Loper 195612 AP EindhovenNetherlands -
Visiting address
P.O. Box 513Department of Electrical Engineering5600 MB EindhovenNetherlands -
Visiting address
P.O. Box 513Department of Electrical Engineering5600 MB EindhovenNetherlands -
Secretary
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Teamlead