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What an incredible year 2020 was !\u00a0 Who could have forecasted this 12 months ago ?\u00a0 Normally I am on the road about 50 % of my working time.\u00a0 In 2020 I returned on March 12th<\/sup> from the Image Sensor conference in London and since then I have been at home, I could even sleep every night in my own bed.\u00a0 In the week after March 12th<\/sup> all activities, trainings, conferences and other face-to-face meetings were cancelled or postponed.\u00a0 It gave me the time to update my courses.\u00a0 As a nice present, the invitation came to give a plenary talk at the ISSCC2021.\u00a0 That is a great honour to present at the world\u2019s top conference in the field of solid-state circuits.\u00a0 The preparation of the paper and the talk took much more time than expected, but during the second quarter of the year, time was not really an issue.<\/p>\n But then after the Summer the opposite of the Spring happened.\u00a0 Many of the postponed trainings and courses were shifted to the Fall, of course everything on-line.\u00a0 In the beginning the on-line contacts felt very strange and weird, but one gets used to it.\u00a0 Although I do have admit that teaching on-line is completely different of in-class courses.\u00a0 You really miss the body language, the informal contacts, the joined lunches.\u00a0 The participants are also much more quite during on-line events.\u00a0 Much less questions, much less discussion, too bad.\u00a0 Most interesting classes are the ones with most discussions, not just for me but also for the participants.<\/p>\n In my \u201cGoodbye 2019\u201d blog I announced the possibility to start with a Summer School in 2020.\u00a0 Because of the well-known issues in the world, this idea was buried.\u00a0 Also the Harvest Imaging Forum 2020 had to be postponed.\u00a0 Too bad, but there was no other choice.\u00a0 For both events, the interaction between people is the most rewarding part of participation.\u00a0 And if that cannot be guaranteed, then it is better to cancel and\/or to postpone.<\/p>\n So now that 2020 is almost completed, the question is : \u201cWhat will 2021 bring ?\u201d.\u00a0 The technical courses and trainings of Harvest Imaging will continue, that is for sure.\u00a0 Several courses are already booked for the Spring 2021.\u00a0 Work is going on for the agenda of the second half of 2021.\u00a0 Also the work on the Reproducibility, Variability and Reliability of CIS will continue.\u00a0 The first part being the reproducibility and variability will come to an end after 5 years, but the experiments in the field of reliability will continue.\u00a0 New stressing experiments just have started on devices with removed coverglass and removed microlenses.\u00a0 Very interesting stuff to look forward to.\u00a0 Don\u2019t think that CIS devices are invulnerable !<\/p>\n Wishing all my readers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.\u00a0 Let\u2019s hope that the problems we all are facing these days will be over in 2021.\u00a0 \u201cSee\u201d you soon.<\/p>\n Albert, 22-12-2020.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What an incredible year 2020 was !\u00a0 Who could have forecasted this 12 months ago ?\u00a0 Normally I am on the road about 50 % of my working time.\u00a0 In 2020 I returned on March 12th from the Image Sensor conference in London and since then I have been at home, I could even 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