Piet Bergveld (; born 26 January 1940) is a Dutch electrical engineer. He was professor of

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at the

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between 1983 and 2003. He is the inventor of the ion-sensitive field-effect transistor (ISFET)

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. Bergveld's work has focused on

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and biomedical technology.

Career

Bergveld was born in Oosterwolde, Friesland on 26 January 1940. In 1960 he started studying electrical engineering at the

Eindhoven University of Technology The Eindhoven University of Technology (), Abbreviation, abbr. TU/e, is a public university, public technical university in the Netherlands, situated in Eindhoven. In 2020–21, around 14,000 students were enrolled in its Bachelor of Science, BS ...

, he had preferred to study biomedical engineering but that was not available. Between 1964 and 1965 he did a master's degree at the Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium. In the latter half of the 1960s Bergveld started working as a scientific employee at the Technische Hogeschool Twente (which later became the University of Twente). Intrigued by discovering and measuring the origin of electronic activity in the human brain Bergveld started working on a new technique. In 1970, he completed the development of the ion-sensitive field-effect transistor (ISFET)

. It was based on his earlier research on the

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(metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor), which he realized could be adapted into a

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for

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and

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applications. In 1973, he earned his

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at Twente, with a dissertation which delved deeper into the possibilities of ISFET sensors. Bergveld worked at the University of Twente from 1965 until he took up emeritus status in February 2003. He had been a full professor since 1983. At the university he was one of the driving forces for increased biomedical technology research and one of the founding fathers of the MESA+ research institute. In 1995 Bergveld was awarded the prize by minister Hans Wijers. He was elected a member of the

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in 1997. In April 2003 Bergveld was made a Knight in the

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Selected publications

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External links

Profile on IEEE Xplore
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Career

Selected publications

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