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Colpitts oscillator

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A Front-End CMOS Interface Circuit With High Voltage Charge Pump and Oscillator for Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers

Sandro Carrara, Gian Luca Barbruni, Yihe Zhao

Label-free biosensors, combined with miniaturized micro-electromechanical sensory platforms, offer an attractive solution for real-time and facile monitoring of biomolecules due to their high sensitivity and selectivity without the need for specifically la ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2023

A unified framework for Simplicial Kuramoto models

Alexis Arnaudon

Simplicial Kuramoto models have emerged as a diverse and intriguing class of models describing oscillators on simplices rather than nodes. In this paper, we present a unified framework to describe different variants of these models, categorized into three ...

2024

500 MHz high resolution proximity sensors with fully integrated digital counter

Giovanni Boero, Nergiz Sahin Solmaz, Reza Farsi

We report on the design and characterization of two inductive proximity sensors based on LC oscillators operating at 500 MHz. The distance from the target is obtained by measuring the oscillation frequency variation. Both sensors contain an off-chip LC res ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2023

CPG-RL: Learning Central Pattern Generators for Quadruped Locomotion

Auke Ijspeert, Guillaume Denis Antoine Bellegarda

In this letter, we present a method for integrating central pattern generators (CPGs), i.e. systems of coupled oscillators, into the deep reinforcement learning (DRL) framework to produce robust and omnidirectional quadruped locomotion. The agent learns to ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Networks of Coupled VO2 Oscillators for Neuromorphic Computing

Elisabetta Corti

Neuromorphic computing is a wide research field aimed to the realization of brain-inspired hardware, apt to tackle computation of unstructured data more efficiently than currently done with standard computational units. Oscillatory neural networks are know ...

EPFL2021

Low-Power and Wide-Tuning Range Frequency Generation for FMCW Radars in Advanced CMOS Technologies

Francesco Chicco

Nowadays, the internet of things (IoT) nodes have started to spread in various domains of our society, from the industrial to the domestic environment. The remote sensing is one among their fundamental functions. The implementation of a radio detection and ...

EPFL2021

Coupling-dependent convergence behavior of phase oscillators with tegotae-control

Auke Ijspeert, Simon Lukas Hauser, Jonathan Patrick Arreguit O'Neill

A bio-inspired way to model locomotion is using a network of coupled phase oscillators to create a Central Pattern Generator (CPG). The recently developed feedback control method tegotae includes exteroceptive force feedback into the governing phase update ...

IEEE2021

Coupled VO2 oscillators circuit as analog first layer filter in convolutional neural networks

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Kirsten Emilie Moselund, Elisabetta Corti

In this work we present an in-memory computing platform based on coupled VO2 oscillators fabricated in a crossbar configuration on silicon. Compared to existing platforms, the crossbar configuration promises significant improvements in terms of area densit ...

2021

Time-Delay Encoded Image Recognition in a Network of Resistively Coupled VO2 on Si Oscillators

Kirsten Emilie Moselund

Oscillatory neural networks based on insulator to metal transition of VO2 switches are implemented for image recognition. The VO2 oscillators are fabricated on silicon in a CMOS compatible process.A fullyconnected network of coupled oscillators is investig ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2020

Activity induced synchronization: Mutual flocking and chiral self-sorting

Ignacio Pagonabarraga Mora

Synchronization, the temporal coordination of coupled oscillators, allows fireflies to flash in unison, neurons to fire collectively, and human crowds to fall in step on the London millenium bridge. Here, we interpret active (or self-propelled) chiral micr ...

2019

Oscillator arrangement for time-to-digital converter for large array of time-of-flight image sensor devices

Edoardo Charbon, Preethi Padmanabhan, Augusto Ronchini Ximenes

An oscillator arrangement for time-to-digital converters for a 3D image sensor device includes a plurality of oscillators arranged as an array each oscillator being associated to one time-to-digital converter, and at least one coupling unit respectively ar ...

2019

VO2 oscillators coupling for Neuromorphic Computation

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Igor Stolichnov, Kirsten Emilie Moselund, Elisabetta Corti

New computation schemes inspired by biological processes can outperform standard von-Neumann architectures in dealing with complex and unstructured tasks. As a new approach, systems of frequency-locked, coupled oscillators are investigated using the phase ...

IEEE2019

Modeling of parasitic oscillations in smooth-wall circular symmetric dielectric-loaded gyrotron beam ducts

Stefano Alberti, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Jérémy Genoud

The self-consistent simulation of the electron beam interaction was performed in the presence of a lossy dielectric layer in the smooth-wall beam duct of a gyrotron oscillator. For this purpose, the linear and spectral code TWANGlinspec was extended. In th ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2019

Multimode microwave circuit optomechanics as a platform to study coupled quantum harmonic oscillators

Nathan Rafaël Bernier

Harmonic oscillators might be one of the most fundamental entities described by physics. Yet they stay relevant in recent research. The topological properties associated with exceptional points that can occur when two modes interact have generated much int ...

EPFL2019

Electron Spin Resonance detectors from 400 MHz to 360 GHz

Alessandro Valentino Matheoud

Methods based on the electron spin resonance (ESR) phenomenon are non-invasive tools adopted to investigate paramagnetic systems at temperatures ranging from above 1000 K to below 1 K. Since 2008, the group of Dr. Boero has been working on a detection tech ...

EPFL2019

The key player problem in complex oscillator networks and electric power grids: Resistance centralities identify local vulnerabilities

Philippe René Joseph Jacquod, Melvyn Sandy Tyloo

Identifying key players in coupled individual systems is a fundamental problem in network theory. We investigate synchronizable network-coupled dynamical systems such as high-voltage electric power grids and coupled oscillators on complex networks. We defi ...

2019

Entrainment of Voluntary Movement to Undetected Auditory Regularities

Olaf Blanke, Nathan Quentin Faivre, Leila Cammoun, Aaron Schurger

In physics “entrainment” refers to the synchronization of two coupled oscillators with similar fundamental frequencies. In behavioral science, entrainment refers to the tendency of humans to synchronize their movements with rhythmic stimuli. Here, we asked ...

Springer Nature2017

Phase Bifurcation and Zero Reflection in Planar Plasmonic Metasurfaces

Olivier Martin, Chen Yan

We introduce a general formalism combining the coupled oscillator model with the transfer matrix method to analyze and engineer the phase of the light reflected from a Fano-resonant metasurface. This method accounts for periodicity and the presence of subs ...

2017

Optimization of the Data Rate of an OOK CMOS Medical Transmitter Based on LC Oscillators

Catherine Dehollain, Franco Maloberti, Kerim Türe, Gürkan Yilmaz

This paper presents techniques for increasing communication data rates for OOK modulated signals in the case the carrier frequency is generated by a cross-coupled pair LC oscillator. The proposed circuitry completely turns off the transmitter during the tr ...

Ieee2016

Frequency jumps in single chip microwave LC oscillators

Giovanni Boero, Marco Grisi, Gabriele Gualco

We report on the experimental observation of oscillation frequency jumps in microwave LC oscillators fabricated using standard complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor technologies. The LC oscillators, operating at a frequency of about 20 GHz, consist of a ...

American Institute of Physics2014