Piet Bergveld

Piet Bergveld
Born (1940-01-26) 26 January 1940 (age 84)
NationalityDutch
EducationUniversity of Twente (PhD), Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium (Master's), Eindhoven University of Technology (Electrical engineering)
Known forInventing the ISFET
Scientific career
FieldsElectrical engineering, Biotechnology
InstitutionsUniversity of Twente at MESA+ research institute
ThesisDe OSFET en de ISFET : veld-effekt transistor elektroden voor elektrofysiologische toepassingen (1973)

Piet Bergveld (Dutch pronunciation: [pid ˈbɛr(ə)xfɛlt]; born 26 January 1940) is a Dutch electrical engineer. He was professor of biosensors at the University of Twente between 1983 and 2003. He is the inventor of the ion-sensitive field-effect transistor (ISFET) sensor.[1] Bergveld's work has focused on electrical engineering and biomedical technology.

  1. ^ Toumazou, C.; Georgiou, P. (2011). "Piet Bergveld - 40 years of ISFET technology: From neuronal sensing to DNA sequencing". Electronics Letters. 47 (26): S7–S12. Bibcode:2011ElL....47S...7T. doi:10.1049/el.2011.3231. ISSN 0013-5194.