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Contemporary Logic Synthesis: with an Application to AQFP Circuit Optimization

Siang-Yun Lee

Electronic devices play an irreplaceable role in our lives. With the tightening time to market, exploding demand for computing power, and continuous desire for smaller, faster, less energy-consuming, and lower-cost chips, computer-aided design for electron ...

EPFL2024

Enablers for Overcurrent Capability of Silicon-Carbide-Based Power Converters: An Overview

Elison de Nazareth Matioli

With the increase in penetration of power electronic converters in the power systems, a demand for overcurrent/ overloading capability has risen for the fault clearance duration. This article gives an overview of the limiting factors and the recent technol ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2023

Silicon spin qubits from laboratory to industry

Edoardo Charbon

Quantum computation (QC) is one of the most challenging quantum technologies that promise to revolutionize data computation in the long-term by outperforming the classical supercomputers in specific applications. Errors will hamper this quantum revolution ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

The nanoscale impact of individual nonradiative point defects on InGaN/GaN quantum wells

Thomas Fjord Kjaersgaard Weatherley

Today's world depends on optoelectronic devices: light-emitting diodes illuminate our houses and backlight the displays on our gadgets, while laser diodes underpin fibre-optic communication. Such optoelectronic devices rely on crystalline semiconductor het ...

EPFL2023

Selective area epitaxy of GaAs: the unintuitive role of feature size and pitch

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Martin George Friedl, Lucas Güniat, Didem Dede, Nicholas Paul Morgan, Valerio Piazza, Akshay Balgarkashi, Elif Nur Dayi

Selective area epitaxy (SAE) provides the path for scalable fabrication of semiconductor nanostructures in a device-compatible configuration. In the current paradigm, SAE is understood as localized epitaxy, and is modelled by combining planar and self-asse ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Piezoelectric suspended microchannel resonators

Damien Maillard

The objective of this PhD thesis is the development of a microfluidic platform for the real-time measurements of the mechanical properties of biological analytes at the single entity level. The systems developed for these purposes consist of piezoelectrica ...

EPFL2022

Nanopillars Enabling III-V Integration on Si (100) and (111)

Lucas Güniat

The majority of current semiconductor technologies are built on Si (100), such as the CMOS technology, or conventional solar cell devices. III-V semiconductors offer great perspectives given their high carrier mobility and direct band gap. However their in ...

EPFL2021

Advantages of patient-specific cutting guides with disposable instrumentation in total knee arthroplasty: a case control study

Brigitte Jolles-Haeberli

BackgroundTotal knee arthroplasty (TKA) is most frequently planned using conventional two-dimensional weight-bearing lower limb radiographs and is performed with conventional femoral and tibial cutting guides. Questions have been raised about the accuracy ...

BMC2021

Learning to Automate the Design Updates From Observed Engineering Changes in the Chip Development Cycle

Heinz Riener

The behavioral revisions to the design are frequent in the late stage of the semiconductor chip development. Quite often, their realization emphasizes incrementality that seeks minimum perturbation of the existing implementation. This tutorial paper poses ...

IEEE2020

Optoelectronic and magnetic properties induced by atomic defects in two-dimensional semiconductors

Alessio Scavuzzo

Two-dimensional (2D) materials have attracted increasing attention over the last decade owing to their remarkable mechanical, electrical and optical properties. Following the groundbreaking discovery of graphene, a plethora of other atomically-thin materia ...

EPFL2020

Toward a Full-Flexible and Fast-Prototyping TOF-PET Block Detector Based on TDC-on-FPGA

Edoardo Charbon, Esteban Venialgo Araujo

Typically, a time-of-flight (TOF) positron emission tomography (PET) block detector is built using application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), since they integrate a high number of channels at a reasonable power consumption and into a small area. How ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2019

Toward ultra-low power design methodology for frequency generation in the IoT design space

Mathieu Yves Hervé Coustans

Today, the semiconductor industry is feeding our digital world with more and more data coming from compact embedded electronics that are monitoring our environment and feeding analytics for action. Interaction with our digital world is mostly achieved thro ...

EPFL2019

A Review on Quantum Computing: From Qubits to Front-end Electronics and Cryogenic MOSFET Physics

Jean-Michel Sallese, Arnout Lodewijk M Beckers, Farzan Jazaeri, Seyed Armin Tajalli

Quantum computing (QC) has already entered the industrial landscape and several multinational corporations have initiated their own research efforts. So far, many of these efforts have been focusing on superconducting qubits, whose industrial progress is c ...

IEEE2019

Computing with Ferroelectric FETs: Devices, Models, Systems, and Applications

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Anisoara Ionescu, Virginie Anne Chenaux

In this paper, we consider devices, circuits, and systems comprised of transistors with integrated ferroelectrics. Said structures are actively being considered by various semiconductor manufacturers as they can address a large and unique design space. Tra ...

IEEE2018

Novel Digital and Radio Frequency Electronic Functions Enabled by Steep-Slope Phase-Change Devices

Emanuele Andrea Casu

In the past half-century, the semiconductor industry has relied on the scaling of complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) transistor dimensions and on material and geometrical innovations to increase the computational density. Approaching the end of ...

EPFL2018

Trading off Energy versus Accuracy in Modern Computing Systems : From Digital Circuit Design to Programming Techniques

Jérémy Lucien Maurice Schlachter

The slowdown of Moore's law, which has been the driving force of the electronics industry over the last 5 decades, is causing serious problem to Integrated Circuits (ICs) improvements. Technology scaling is becoming more and more complex and fabrication co ...

EPFL2018

Modeling and optimization of Tunnel-FET architectures exploiting carrier gas dimensionality

Cem Alper

The semiconductor industry, governed by the Moore's law, has achieved the almost unbelievable feat of exponentially increasing performance while lowering the costs for years. The main enabler for this achievement has been the scaling of the CMOS transistor ...

EPFL2017

Design Techniques for Ultra High Frequency Clock Generation in 28 nm FDSOI Technology

Hasene Gülperi Özsema

Twentieth century has been the golden age of semiconductor industry by achieving a high level of growth as a courtesy of developments in fabrication techniques and downscaling of the technology. Since the downscaling in current lithography technology is re ...

EPFL2017

Multiple Independent Gate FETs: How Many Gates Do We Need?

Giovanni De Micheli, Pierre-Emmanuel Julien Marc Gaillardon, Luca Gaetano Amarù, Subhasish Mitra

Multiple Independent Gate Field Effect Transistors (MIGFETs) are expected to push FET technology further into the semiconductor roadmap. In a MIGFET, supplementary gates either provide (i) enhanced conduction properties or (ii) more intelligent sw ...

IEEE2015

Exploiting the Expressive Power of Graphene Reconfigurable Gates via Post-Synthesis Optimization

Giovanni De Micheli, Pierre-Emmanuel Julien Marc Gaillardon, Luca Gaetano Amarù

As an answer to the new electronics market demands, semiconductor industry is looking for different materials, new process technologies and alternative design solutions that can support Silicon replacement in the VLSI domain. The recent introduction of gra ...

ACM2015