From October 1st, the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science has a new dean: Boudewijn Haverkort. Although he has worked hard as a Dean at Tilburg University, Haverkort is not new to our faculty. He has been active at the Department of Computer Science for many years before leaving in 2018 for a position at Tilburg University. To introduce our new dean to the faculty, De Vonk has collaborated with Ideaal! ...

The courses applied physics and electrical engineering have always been closely linked. As some of you may know, the study association Arago started as a committee of your association, Scintilla. In this article, we will tell you about one of our courses, ‘Instrumentatie’. This course makes us feel most like electrical engineers, so you might also find it interesting. This course is split into four parts: basic concepts, transistor circuits, the operational amplifier and sampling of periodic signals: basic concepts. These four parts all build to a common goal: building a setup of a blinking LED and a photodiode. The goal is to place the LED and the photodiode as far apart as possible so that the photodiode still detects the LED.

While the efficiencies of solar cells rise closer and closer to the efficiency limits, the focus is on eliminating the small factors that cause power loss within the solar cell, by trying all kinds of different cell structures and materials. Such factors can be surface reflection, charge carrier separation and contact resistance. Contact resistance occurs at the interface of two material surfaces. The resistance occurs because of two main contributors. The first contributor is the difference in work function of the two materials. ...

Dear Reader, 2025 has started amazingly! I would like to wish every one of you the best for this coming year. I hope you got some well deserved rest in the holidays. Personally I spent the holidays relaxing at home and recharging, getting ready for the year to come.

It’s no secret that Scintilla’s radio committee, Scintilla FM, produces some of the most scintilla-ting radioshows. But how did the show came about? In this article I will take you with me for a look inside of the committee.

Hey there! I am Peter Kingma, also known as Jan Miepma within the Borrel committee, and I’m the chair of the Borrel committee. In this article I’d like to take the chance to show some of the inner workings of the Borrel committee, as well what is needed for a fun Thursday afternoon drink, using the example of the recent Boiler Bar Drink!