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Eco-Conscious Approach to Wireless Gas Monitoring With a Hybrid Printed Passive Sensor Tag

Addressing the environmental impact of electronic waste in biomedical sensing, an eco-conscious approach to the realization of a Chitosan-based Acetone sensor tag for wireless gas monitoring is presented. The fabrication involves inkjet printing of silver ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

Morphological and Material Programability of a Hall-Effect Based Soft Tactile Sensors

Josephine Anna Eleanor Hughes, Sudong Lee

The different receptors in human skin show not only diversity in the stimuli to which they respond, but also variable sensitivity and directionality. This is often determined by their location or morphology, and can play an important role in filtering or a ...

IEEE2024

Front-End Circuits for Radiation-Hard Monolithic CMOS Sensors targeting High-Energy Physics Applications

Francesco Piro

Monolithic pixel sensors integrate the sensor matrix and readout in the same silicon die, and therefore present several advantages over the more largely used hybrid detectors in high-energy physics. They offer an easier detector assembly, lower cost, lower ...

EPFL2023

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

MALTA-Cz: a radiation hard full-size monolithic CMOS sensor with small electrodes on high-resistivity Czochralski substrate

Edoardo Charbon, Francesco Piro

Depleted Monolithic Active Pixel Sensor (DMAPS) sensors developed in the Tower Semiconductor 180 nm CMOS imaging process have been designed in the context of the ATLAS ITk upgrade Phase-II at the HL-LHC and for future collider experiments. The "MALTA-Czoch ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2023

Burst Vision Using Single-Photon Cameras

Edoardo Charbon, Paul Mos

Single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) are novel image sensors that record the arrival of individual photons at extremely high temporal resolution. In the past, they were only available as single pixels or small-format arrays, for various active imaging ap ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2023

Radiation Hardness of MALTA2, a Monolithic Active Pixel Sensor for Tracking Applications

Edoardo Charbon, Francesco Piro

MALTA is a depleted monolithic active pixel sensor (DMAPS) developed in the Tower Semiconductor 180-nm CMOS imaging process. Monolithic CMOS sensors offer advantages over current hybrid imaging sensors in terms of both increased tracking performance due to ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2023

Performance investigation of cameras using HDR sensors for daylight glare evaluations

Jan Wienold, Geraldine Cai Ting Quek, Dong Hyun Kim

This study presents a novel framework for evaluating the luminance measurement capabilities of High Dynamic Range (HDR) sensor cameras in indoor glare conditions. Results indicate that the practical usage range of the CSEM VIP camera is significantly lower ...

International Commission on Illumination2023

Additive and digital manufacturing of transient sensors and bioelectronics

Nicolas Francis Fumeaux

Transient electronics have emerged as a promising class of devices, capable of breaking down without harmful side effects to their environment. They have tremendous potential as bioresorbable electronics for temporary applications in the human body, and as ...

EPFL2023

Interlocking modular microfluidic cooling substrates for future high energy physics experiments

Massimo Angeletti

In high energy physics, semiconductor-based sensors are widely used in particle tracking applications. These sensors are typically glued on low-mass cooling substrates, which guarantee the correct thermal management and, at the same time, minimise their in ...

EPFL2023

Integrated Electronics for Deep Implants to Remotely Monitor Hemodynamics

Mustafa Besirli

The integration of technology in the medical field has greatly improved accuracy in diagnoses, thus leading to more effective treatments. Wearable and implantable medical devices offer great potential for remote patient monitoring, particularly for heart f ...

EPFL2023

Evaluation of HPK n plus -p planar pixel sensors for the CMS Phase-2 upgrade

Rakesh Chawla, Albert Perez, Alexis Kalogeropoulos, Varun Sharma, Alessandro Caratelli, Konstantin Androsov, Xin Chen

To cope with the challenging environment of the planned high luminosity upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC), scheduled to start operation in 2029, CMS will replace its entire tracking system. The requirements for the tracker are largely determine ...

Elsevier2023

Electronic readout of DNA amplification in nanoliter chambers. Strategies towards highly parallel semiconductor-based nucleic acid amplification testing

Saurabh Tomar

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) has been the most significant driver in the field of nucleic acid testing (NAT) since its invention. Popularized as an abbreviation by the Covid-19 pandemic, PCR-based methods are the gold standard in the field of diagnostic ...

EPFL2023

Evaluating, Exploiting, and Hiding Power Side-Channel Leakage of Remote FPGAs

Ognjen Glamocanin

The pervasive adoption of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) in both cyber-physical systems and the cloud has raised many security issues. Being integrated circuits, FPGAs are susceptible to fault and power side-channel attacks, which require physical ...

EPFL2023

3D printing of elastomeric mechanical sensors designed for human motion monitoring

Ryan Mitchell van Dommelen

In this thesis several advances are made to the emerging field of 3D printed mechanical sensors. Techniques and processes were developed to enable the integration of highly conductive, and capacitive and piezoresistive sensing features embedded within 3D p ...

EPFL2022

Highly Sensitive Detection of the Antidepressant Fluoxetine With an Extended Gate Field Effect Transistor

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Shokoofeh Sheibani

Fluoxetine (FL) is one of the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, which is used as an anti-depressant, as well as anti-panic drug. In this work, a sensor for label-free recognition of trace amounts of FL is introduced, which is based on an extended ga ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

A 500 x 500 Dual-Gate SPAD Imager With 100% Temporal Aperture and 1 ns Minimum Gate Length for FLIM and Phasor Imaging Applications

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Arin Can Ülkü, Andrei Ardelean, Paul Mos, Michael Alan Wayne

In this article, we report on SwissSPAD3 (SS3), a 500 x 500 pixel single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) array, fabricated in 0.18-mu m CMOS technology. In this sensor, we introduce a novel dual-gate architecture with two contiguous temporal windows, or gate ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Recent results with radiation-tolerant TowerJazz 180 nm MALTA sensors

Francesco Piro

To achieve the physics goals of future colliders, it is necessary to develop novel, radiation-hard silicon sensors for their tracking detectors. We target the replacement of hybrid pixel detectors with Depleted Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (DMAPS) that ...

ELSEVIER2022

Beam test performance of a prototype module with Short Strip ASICs for the CMS HL-LHC tracker upgrade

François Bianchi, Rakesh Chawla, Albert Perez, Chun Xia, Tian Cheng, Qian Wang, Varun Sharma, Jessica Prisciandaro, Alessandro Caratelli, Simone Scarfì, Konstantin Androsov, Davide Di Croce, Xin Chen

The Short Strip ASIC (SSA) is one of the four front-end chips designed for the upgrade of the CMS Outer Tracker for the High Luminosity LHC. Together with the Macro-Pixel ASIC (MPA) it will instrument modules containing a strip and a macro-pixel sensor sta ...

2022

Wafer-level hermetically sealed silicon photonic MEMS

Niels Quack, Hamed Sattari, Alain Yuji Takabayashi

The emerging fields of silicon (Si) photonic micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) and optomechanics enable a wide range of novel high-performance photonic devices with ultra-low power consumption, such as integrated optical MEMS phase shifters, tunable c ...

CHINESE LASER PRESS2022