Department of Electronics
Main research areas:
- System-solutions for biomedical electronics, including implantable devices for cardiac monitors and pacemakers, and the means for surveillance of transplanted organs and tissues; Lab-on chip solutions;
- Low power electronic systems, including design of application specific integrated circuits (ASIC) using CMOS and BiCMOC technologies for medical and energy harvesting solutions;
- Modelling, simulation, and design of structures and devices based on wide bandgap semiconductor materials (like SiC, GaAs), including developing of metallisation technologies and design of polytypic heterojunctions.
Keywords:
novel semiconductor materials (SiC, GaAs), their structures, technologies, devices; microcircuits, microsystems and nanoelectronics; polytypic heterojunctions, modelling and simulation; design, test and measurement; navigation systems, radar surveillance systems, data acquisition systems, measurement systems; automation of experiments; medical electronics, measuring and analysis of bioimpedance; implantable micro-monitors and pacemakers, lab-on-chip solutions.
Projects:
- Electronic components and subsystems for mission critical embedded systems, (Ministry of Education, 2006-2011)
- Embedded Systems and Components (Enterprise Estonia, 2005-2008)
- Competence Centre of Integrated Electronic Systems and Biomedical Engineering CEBE (EU Structural Funds, 2008-2015)
- Contacts in wide bandgap based semiconductor structures: composition, morphology, and modelling of intermediate layer (EstSF research grant)
- Cardiac volume related energy consumption (EstSF research grant)
- Synthesis and analysis of multi-component and multi-carrier measurement signals: development of methods and means for synchronous and adaptive signal processing (EstSF research grant)
- Development of impedance spectrometric measurement methods for monitoring of bodies and tissues (EstSF research grant)
- Schottky interfaces in wide band-gap semiconductors: the models and model parameters of charge carrier transport (EstSF research grant)
- Methods and tools of multi-component and multi-carrier measurement signals for design and test of synchronous and adaptive signals (EstSF research grant)
- Development of anisotropic electrical and thermal models and simulators for wide band-gap semiconductors like SiC and GaN (EstSF research grant)
- Heart volume calculations (GUIDANT, USA)
- Management of Smart Supply Sources (National Semiconductor, USA);
- Two-electrode bioimpedance analysator (St.-Jude Medical, USA);
- POOL - Online model for design organization training the students in international environment (Leonardo da Vinci, EU)
- Reorganisation of the Chair of Applied Electronics to the Chair of processing of sensor signals (EITSA)
- Test and diagnostics methods for Euro-coins (STREP, EU)
- Novel Software development for Tartu town in street lightning systems (Tartu town Government, Estonia)
- ASIC test (National Semiconductor, USA);
External relations
Elcoteq Network, Finland
IEEE SCAS Estonian Chapter,
Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
University of Saarland, Germany
IZM, Fraunhofer Institute Berlin, Germany
Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania
Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
St. Jude Medical Sweden, Sweden
Thessaloniki THE, Greece
University of Tartu, Estonia
ELIKO, Estonia
National Semiconductor Estonia
AS EMT, Estonia
AS Clifton, Estonia
Cybernetica AS, Estonia
ELA/EML, Estonia