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Emulating Multimemristive Behavior of Silicon Nanowire-Based Biosensors by Using CMOS-Based Implementations

Kapil Bhardwaj, Sandro Carrara, Junrui Chen

The research presented in this article draws inspiration from previous efforts aimed at replicating the functions of various solid-state memristors using a variety of materials. The memristor circuit emulator serves as a cost-effective tool for circuit des ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

Unified Harmonic Power-Flow and Stability Analysis of Power Grids with Converter-Interfaced Distributed Energy Resources

Johanna Kristin Maria Becker

Modern power distribution systems are experiencing a large-scale integration of Converter-Interfaced Distributed Energy Resources (CIDERs). Their presence complicates the analysis and mitigation of harmonics, whose creation and propagation may be amplified ...

EPFL2024

Technology-Aware Logic Synthesis for Superconducting Electronics

Giovanni De Micheli, Alessandro Tempia Calvino, Siang-Yun Lee, Dewmini Sudara Marakkalage, Mingfei Yu, Rassul Bairamkulov

Superconducting electronics provide us with cryogenic digital circuits that can rival established technologies in performance and energy consumption. Today, the lack of tools for the design of large-scale integrated superconducting circuits is a major obst ...

2024

On the use of Cramér-Rao Lower Bound for least-variance circuit parameters identification of Li-ion cells

Mario Paolone, Vladimir Sovljanski

Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) and Equivalent Circuit Models (ECMs) are widely used to characterize the impedance and estimate parameters of electrochemical systems such as batteries. We use a generic ECM with ten parameters grouped to model ...

2024

Design and manufacture of edible microfluidic logic gates

Dario Floreano, Bokeon Kwak, Shuhang Zhang

Edible robotics is an emerging research field with potential use in environmental, food, and medical scenarios. In this context, the design of edible control circuits could increase the behavioral complexity of edible robots and reduce their dependence on ...

IEEE2023

Modeling and Design Optimization of Loosely Coupled PCB Spiral Coils in Inductive Power Transfer Systems

Drazen Dujic, Xiaotong Du

There are various possibilities to realize coil winding designs for an inductive power transfer system. In order to achieve high power transfer efficiency and power density and explore trade-offs between the two, design optimization around the coil link is ...

2023

Modal engineering of electromagnetic circuits to achieve rapid settling times

Matthias Imboden

Inductive circuits and devices are ubiquitous and important design elements in many applications, such as magnetic drives, galvanometers, magnetic scanners, applying direct current (DC) magnetic fields to systems, radio frequency coils in nuclear magnetic ...

AIP Publishing2023

Static and Dynamic Stochastic Analysis of a Temperature-Sensitive VO2 Spiking Neuron

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Teodor Rosca

In this work, we investigate the intrinsic cycle-to-cycle variations in a spiking temperature-sensitive neuron, based on the resistive switching of a Vanadium dioxide (VO2) two-terminal device. We study how this phenomenon impacts the spike rate jitter, an ...

IEEE2023

A Wide-Frequency-Tuning Micro-Loop-Gap Resonator for Miniature Rubidium Vapor-Cell Atomic Frequency Standards

Anja Skrivervik, Yuanyan Su

To miniaturize the double-resonance (DR) rubidium (Rb) vapor-cell atomic clocks, a new type of micro-loop-gap microwave resonator (mu-LGR) is proposed for TE011-like mode where the magnetic field inside the cavity is homogeneous and oriented along its long ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2023

Neuromechanical Simulations of Animats with Decentralised Control

Jonathan Patrick Arreguit O'Neill

The transition from aquatic to terrestrial environments represents a significant event in the history of evolution. For this transition to occur, animals had to adapt their morphology, physiology and locomotory skills to handle the challenges and interacti ...

EPFL2023

Instruction-Level Power Side-Channel Leakage Evaluation of Soft-Core CPUs on Shared FPGAs

Mathias Josef Payer, Mirjana Stojilovic, Ognjen Glamocanin, Shashwat Shrivastava

Side-channel disassembly attacks recover CPU instructions from power or electromagnetic side-channel traces measured during code execution. These attacks typically rely on physical access, proximity to the victim device, and high sampling rate measuring in ...

2023

Fab-to-fab and run-to-run variability in 130 nm and 65 nm CMOS technologies exposed to ultra-high TID

Gennaro Termo, Jean-Michel Sallese, Adil Koukab

The discovery of a large fab-to-fab variability in the TID response of the CMOS technologies used in the design of ASICs for the particle detectors of the HL-LHC triggered a monitoring effort to verify the consistency of the CMOS production process over ti ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

A Compact Front-End Circuit for a Monolithic Sensor in a 65-nm CMOS Imaging Technology

Edoardo Charbon, Francesco Piro

This article presents the design of a front-end circuit for monolithic active pixel sensors (MAPSs). The circuit operates with a sensor featuring a small, low-capacitance (

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2023

A combined Control by Interconnection—Model Predictive Control design for constrained Port-Hamiltonian systems

Anna Ngoc Minh Trang Vu

This paper proposes a Control by Interconnection design, for a class of constrained Port-Hamiltonian systems, which is based on an associated Model Predictive Control optimization problem. This associated optimization problem allows to consider both state ...

2022

Hard and Soft Switching Losses in Power Converters: Role of Transistor Output Capacitance

Palliyage Srilak Nirmana Perera

To best utilize power converters, a sound understanding of the relationship between the circuit topology and the power-semiconductor-device characteristics is required. This is especially important in high-frequency switching, where device parasitics start ...

EPFL2022

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Jean-Philippe Brantut

Atomtronics is an emerging field that aims to manipulate ultracold atom moving in matter-wave circuits for fundamental studies in both quantum science and technological applications. In this Colloquium, recent progress in matter-wave circuitry and atomtron ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2022

Contact Design for Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells

Luca Massimiliano Antognini

Today more than ever the world needs clean energy sources and thus a fast deployment and scaling up of the photovoltaic industry. In this context improving solar cell efficiency plays a major role. In order to achieve the maximum single junction efficiency ...

EPFL2022

Study of the enhanced electricity output of a sliding droplet-based triboelectric nanogenerator for droplet sensor design

Wei Xu, Jürgen Brugger, Xia Liu

Triboelectric nanogenerators are establishing themselves as promising candidates for realizing high-efficient energy harvesting from largely available droplets. However, the conventional droplet-based liquid-solid triboelectric nanogenerator (DLS-TENG) has ...

Elsevier2022

Zero-Knowledge IOPs with Linear-Time Prover and Polylogarithmic-Time Verifier

Alessandro Chiesa

Interactive oracle proofs (IOPs) are a multi-round generalization of probabilistically checkable proofs that play a fundamental role in the construction of efficient cryptographic proofs. ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2022

An All-Digital 1 Mbps, 57 pJ/bit Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Backscatter ASIC in 65 nm CMOS

James Daniel Rosenthal

We present an all-digital application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) that implements Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)-compatible backscatter communication. The ASIC was fabricated in a 65 nm CMOS process and occupies an active area of 0.12 mm(2) while consum ...

IEEE2022