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Rapid, Sensitive and Selective Optical Glucose Sensing with Stimulated Raman Scattering (SRS)

Christian Enz, Sandro Carrara, Assim Boukhayma, Ata Jedari Golparvar

Optical blood glucose sensing offers pain-free, non-invasive, continuous monitoring with minimum risk of infection since it does not require breaking the skin barrier. Among various optical detection and spectroscopic techniques, only Raman scattering offe ...

IEEE2022

Design of Cryo-CMOS Analog Circuits using the Gm/ID Approach

Christian Enz, Hung-Chi Han

The Gm/ID approach has proven to be an efficient technique for the design of low-power analog circuits even in advanced technology nodes. It has already been shown that the normalized Gm/ID is actually a universal figure-of-merit (FoM) that is independent ...

IEEE2023

Design methodology for ultra low-power analog circuits using next generation BSIM6 MOSFET compact model

Christian Enz, Anurag Mangla, Maria-Anna Chalkiadaki

The recently proposed BSIM6 bulk MOSFET compact model is set to replace the hitherto widely used BSIM3 and BSIM4 models as the de-facto industrial standard. Unlike its predecessors which were threshold voltage based, the BSIM6 core is charge based and thus ...

Elsevier2013

Noise Modeling Methodologies in the Presence of Mobility Degradation and their Equivalence

Christian Enz, Jean-Michel Sallese, Ananda Sankar Roy

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2006

Influence of Halo Implantations on the Total Ionizing Dose Response of 28-nm pMOSFETs Irradiated to Ultrahigh Doses

Christian Enz

In this paper, the total ionizing dose (TID) response of a commercial 28-nm high-k CMOS technology at ultrahigh doses is measured and discussed. The degradation of pMOSFETs depends not only on the channel width but also on the channel length. Short-channel ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2019

Cryogenic MOS Transistor Model

Christian Enz, Arnout Lodewijk M Beckers, Farzan Jazaeri

This paper presents a physics-based analytical model for the MOS transistor operating continuously from room temperature down to liquid-helium temperature (4.2 K) from depletion to strong inversion and in the linear and saturation regimes. The model is dev ...

2018

Negative Capacitance as Performance Booster for Tunnel FETs and MOSFETs: An Experimental Study

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Christian Enz, Farzan Jazaeri, Igor Stolichnov, Ali Saeidi, Francesco Bellando

This letter reports for the first time a full experimental study of performance boosting of tunnel FETs (TFETs) and MOSFETs by negative capacitance (NC) effect. We discuss the importance of capacitance matching between a ferroelectric NC and a device capac ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017

Source–Drain Partitioning in MOSFET

Christian Enz, Jean-Michel Sallese, Ananda Sankar Roy

The Ward-Dutton (WD) partitioning scheme [IEEE Trans. Electron Devices, vol. ED-27, p. 1571, Aug. 1980] is used extensively to develop transient and high-frequency advanced compact models for MOSFET devices. Recently, it has been shown that WD partitioning ...

2007

A Narrowband Multi-Channel 2.4 GHz MEMS-Based Transceiver

Christian Enz

This paper presents a new radio architecture targeting RF transceivers for WSN, WBAN, and biomedical applications. The high miniaturization required by such applications is achieved thanks to the combination of high-Q MEMS devices, such as RF BAW re ...

2009

Hardware Acceleration of HDR-Image Tone Mapping on an FPGA-CPU Platform Through High-Level Synthesis

Christian Enz, Vincent Frédéric Camus, Alessandro Pezzotta, Jérémy Lucien Maurice Schlachter, Mattia Cacciotti

In this paper, the hardware acceleration of a tone-mapping algorithm for High-Dynamic-Range image processing is presented. Starting from the C++ source code, High-Level Synthesis has been performed using Xilinx SDSoC for a Xilinx Zynq SoC device. After an ...

IEEE2018

A CMOS Image Sensor Pixel Combining Deep Sub-Electron Noise With Wide Dynamic Range

Christian Enz, Assim Boukhayma, Antonino Caizzone

This letter introduces a 5-transistors (5T) implementation of CMOS Image Sensors (CIS) pixels enabling the combination of deep sub-electronnoise performance with wide dynamic range (DR). The 5T pixel presents a new technique to reduce the sense node capaci ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2020

Submicrometer Organic Thin-Film Transistors: Technology Assessment Through Noise Margin Analysis of Inverters

Christian Enz, Jean-Michel Sallese, Rolando Ferrini, Frédéric Zanella, Nenad Marjanovic

In this paper, we propose a methodology to evaluate the potential of submicrometer organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs) with nanoimprinted gate and self-aligned source and drain contacts. In the first step, the dedicated static model we previously reporte ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

Experimental Verification of the Impact of Analog CMS on CIS Readout Noise

Christian Enz, Assim Boukhayma, Raffaele Capoccia

In this article, the impact of the combination of the column-level gain and the correlated multiple sampling (CMS) on the noise of CMOS image sensor (CIS) readout chains is first analyzed. The theory is then validated experimentally with CIS readout chains ...

2020

RF Small-Signal and Noise Modeling Including Parameter Extraction of Nanoscale MOSFET From Weak to Strong Inversion

Christian Enz, Maria-Anna Chalkiadaki

The downscaling of CMOS processes has led to devices with an impressive RF performance. Advanced nanoscale RF MOSFETs present very high transit frequency, which can be traded off with lower power consumption, by shifting the operating point towards the wea ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2015

Ultra Low-Power MEMS-based Radio for Wireless Sensor Networks

Christian Enz, Nicola Scolari

The recent advances made in MEMS and particularly in RF MEMS technology are enabling new architectures for the integration of RF transceivers with improved performance and smaller size. Several fundamental building blocks benefit from the availability of h ...

2007

Modeling of the MOSFET for the Design of Cryo-CMOS Circuits

Edoardo Charbon, Christian Enz, Hung-Chi Han

This paper highlights some of the challenges faced in the modeling of MOSFET devices operating at cryogenic temperature (CT). It will review the most important phenomena, including the saturation of the subthreshold swing (S S) below a critical temperature ...

IEEE Computer Society2024

Avalanche noise diodes: A compact circuit model compatible with advanced CAD tools

Christian Enz, Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Gabriele Tasselli

This paper proposes, for the first time, a compact model for avalanche noise diodes that can easily be inserted in advanced CAD tools. The model is based on the theory of the Read type microwave avalanche diodes. It fully accounts for the electronic tuning ...

IEEE2015

A Novel Complex Gm-C IF Sub-Sampling Mixer

Christian Enz, Aravind Prasad Heragu Singaiyengar

In this paper, a novel circuit referred to as complex Gm-C sampler that can be used for sub-sampling IF signals is presented. The circuit employs a conventional cross-coupled Gm-C filter structure with a built-in sampler to combine th ...

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Automatic Hand Phantom Map Detection Methods

Christian Enz, Claudio Bruschini, Jörn Justiz, Huaiqi Huang

Many amputees have maps of referred sensation from their missing hand on their residual limb (phantom maps). This skin area can serve as a target for providing amputees with tactile sensory feedback. Providing tactile feedback on the phantom map can improv ...

2015

Analysis of CMS noise reduction for 65 nm CIS

Christian Enz, Assim Boukhayma, Raffaele Capoccia

This work explores the combination of a downscaled technology with in-pixel source-follower (SF) optimization, a high column-level gain and an analog implementation of Correlated-Multiple-Sampling (CMS) for noise reduction of CIS readout chains. Transient ...

2017