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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

Generalization and Personalization of Machine Learning for Multimodal Mobile Sensing in Everyday Life

Lakmal Buddika Meegahapola

A range of behavioral and contextual factors, including eating and drinking behavior, mood, social context, and other daily activities, can significantly impact an individual's quality of life and overall well-being. Therefore, inferring everyday life aspe ...

EPFL2024

Imaging sensor device using an array of single-photon avalanche diode photodetectors

Edoardo Charbon, Andrei Ardelean

The invention relates to an Imaging sensor device in a stacked arrangement comprising: - a pixel array tier comprising a plurality of pixel segments each having a plurality of pixels for photon detection each providing a digital pixel output; - a processin ...

2024

Integrated Wireless Power, Data Communication, and Thermal Sensing System for Autonomous Multisite Brain Implants

Implanted medical devices (IMDs) have been widely developed to support the monitoring and recording of biological data inside the body or brain. Wirelessly powered IMDs, a subset of implantable electronics, have been proposed to eliminate the limitations r ...

EPFL2024

Silicon CMOS and InGaAs(P)/InP SPADs for NIR/SWIR detection

Utku Karaca

Applications demanding imaging at low-light conditions at near-infrared (NIR) and short-wave infrared (SWIR) wavelengths, such as quantum information science, biophotonics, space imaging, and light detection and ranging (LiDAR), have accelerated the develo ...

EPFL2024

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

Sandro Carrara, Johanna Zikulnig, Jürgen Kosel

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

Single-Photon Avalanche Diode Image Sensors for Harsh Radiation Environments

Ming-Lo Wu

The space industry has experienced substantial growth in recent years, leading to rapid advancements in space exploration and space-based technologies. Consequently, the study of electronics and sensor performance in extreme environments has become crucial ...

EPFL2024

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

Rakesh Chawla, Albert Perez, François Robert, Andrea Rizzi, Martin Fuchs, Stefano Michelis, Alexis Kalogeropoulos, Varun Sharma, Davide Ceresa, Ashish Sharma, David Vannerom, David Parker, Alessandro Caratelli, Thomas Muller, Yong Yang, Kai Yi, Andromachi Tsirou, Georgios Anagnostou, Konstantin Androsov, Ajay Kumar, Werner Lustermann, Xin Chen, Jing Li

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

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

Edoardo Charbon, Ashish Sharma, 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

Computational Imaging SPAD Cameras

Andrei Ardelean

Vision systems built around conventional image sensors have to read, encode and transmit large quantities of pixel information, a majority of which is redundant. As a result, new computational imaging sensor architectures were developed to preprocess the r ...

EPFL2023

Burst Vision Using Single-Photon Cameras

Edoardo Charbon, Paul Mos, Mohit Gupta

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

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

LenslessPiCam: A Hardware and Software Platform for Lensless Computational Imaging with a Raspberry Pi

Martin Vetterli, Sepand Kashani, Matthieu Martin Jean-André Simeoni, Eric Bezzam

This toolkit has everything you need to perform imaging with a lensless camera. We make use of a low-cost implementation of DiffuserCam, namely replacing the lens with a piece of tape and using the Raspberry Pi HQ camera sensor. Similar principles and meth ...

Zenodo2023

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

Edoardo Charbon, Ashish Sharma, 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

The Pixel Luminosity Telescope: a detector for luminosity measurement at CMS using silicon pixel sensors

Alexis Kalogeropoulos, Valérie Scheurer, Joanna Malgorzata Wanczyk, André Donadon Servelle

The Pixel Luminosity Telescope is a silicon pixel detector dedicated to luminosity measurement at the CMS experiment at the LHC. It is located approximately 1.75 m from the interaction point and arranged into 16 "telescopes", with eight telescopes installe ...

2023

Methodology for selecting measurement points that optimize information gain for model updating

Ian Smith, Numa Joy Bertola

Information collected through sensor measurements has the potential to improve knowledge of complex-system behavior, leading to better decisions related to system management. In this situation, and particularly when using digital twins, the quality of sens ...

2023

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

Third-harmonic generation monitoring of femtosecond-laser-induced in-volume functional modifications

Christian Enz, Yves Bellouard, Olivier Bernard, Assim Boukhayma, Andrea Kraxner

During the last two decades, ultrafast in-volume laser-based processing of transparent materials has emerged as a key 3D-printing method for manufacturing a variety of complex integrated photonic devices and micro-parts. Yet, identifying suitable laser pro ...

2023

On Artificial Intelligence and Manipulation

Marcello Ienca

The increasing diffusion of novel digital and online sociotechnical systems for arational behavioral influence based on Artificial Intelligence (AI), such as social media, microtargeting advertising, and personalized search algorithms, has brought about ne ...

SPRINGER2023

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