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A 1-GS/s 6-8-b Cryo-CMOS SAR ADC for Quantum Computing

This article presents a two-times interleaved, loop-unrolled SAR analog-to-digital converter (ADC) operational from 300 down to 4.2 K. The 6-8-bit resolution and the sampling speed up to 1 GS/s are targeted at digitizing the multi-channel frequency-multipl ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2023

Optimal sensor placement for personal inhalation exposure detection in static and dynamic office environments

Dusan Licina, Seoyeon Yun

Modern health and productivity concerns related to air pollutant exposure in buildings have sparked the need for occupant-centric monitoring and ventilation control. The existing personal exposure monitoring is often restricted to stationary air quality se ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2023

On the Maximum Power Density of Implanted Antennas within Simplified Body Phantoms

Anja Skrivervik, Mingxiang Gao

With the application requirements of wireless technology in implantable bioelectronics, knowledge of the fundamental limits for implanted antennas becomes critical. In this work, we investigated the variation of maximum power density within simplified body ...

IEEE2022

Torque Computation With the Isogeometric Mortar Method for the Simulation of Electric Machines

Rafael Vazquez Hernandez, Bernard Kapidani

In this work, isogeometric mortaring is used for the simulation of a six-pole permanent magnet synchronous machine. Isogeometric mortaring is especially well suited for the efficient computation of rotating electric machines, as it allows for an exact geom ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2022

Zero-defect manufacturing the approach for higher manufacturing sustainability in the era of industry 4.0: a position paper

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Foivos Psarommatis Giannakopoulos

For manufacturing companies, quality management is a key feature for increasing the competitiveness, productivity, profitability, and sustainability of their systems. Quality improvement (QI) methods aim to achieve high-quality parts without reducing perfo ...

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2022

From C/C plus plus Code to High-Performance Dataflow Circuits

Paolo Ienne, Andrea Guerrieri, Lana Josipovic

High-level synthesis (HLS) tools typically generate statically scheduled datapaths. Static scheduling implies that the resulting circuits have a hard time exploiting parallelism in code with potential memory dependences, with control dependences, or where ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Epileptic Seizure Detection With Patient-Specific Feature and Channel Selection for Low-power Applications

Alexandre Schmid, Keyvan Farhang Razi

An accurate epileptic seizure detector using intracranial electroencephalography (iEEG) recordings, suitable for low-power wearable/implantable applications, is presented. Eleven time-domain features with low hardware complexity are employed in the feature ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

GaAs nanowires on Si nanopillars: towards large scale, phase-engineered arrays

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Wonjong Kim, Jean-Baptiste Leran, Didem Dede, Nicholas Paul Morgan, Akshay Balgarkashi, Lea Ghisalberti

Large-scale patterning for vapor-liquid-solid growth of III-V nanowires is a challenge given the required feature size for patterning (45 to 60 nm holes). In fact, arrays are traditionally manufactured using electron-beam lithography,for which processing t ...

2022

High Performance Low cost Transition Connectors for 5G mmWave Applications

Anja Skrivervik

Millimeter wave (mmWave) is an interesting research area in recent years. Transition connectors are key components of mmWave passive systems. The commercially available cable connectors are lossy and expensive in mmWave frequencies. In this paper, various ...

IEEE2022

Quantitative and sensitive detection of alpha fetoprotein in serum by a plasmonic sensor

Wen Chen

Quantitative molecular detection based on surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) is still a great challenge because of the highly nonuniform distribution of the SERS hot spots and the nondeterministic spatial and spectral overlap of the analyte with th ...

WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH2022

Optimization of robot configurations for motion planning in industrial riveting

Sylvain Calinon, Teguh Santoso Lembono, Hakan Girgin

Collaborative robots (cobots) have been increasingly used in the industry in recent years. The cobots are often 7-axis kinematically redundant manipulators. Exploiting these redundancies in industrial tasks is still a challenge as the change in the robot j ...

IEEE2021

Revisiting Cation Complexation and Hydrogen Bonding of Single-Chain Polyguluronate Alginate

Zezhong Li

Modifying the properties of bio-based materials has garnered increasing interest in recent years. In related applications, the ability of alginates to complex with metal ions has been shown to be effective in liquid-to-gel transitions, useful in the develo ...

American Chemical Society2021

Variance-Reduced Stochastic Learning Under Random Reshuffling

Ali H. Sayed, Kun Yuan, Bicheng Ying

Several useful variance-reduced stochastic gradient algorithms, such as SVRG, SAGA, Finito, and SAG, have been proposed to minimize empirical risks with linear convergence properties to the exact minimizer. The existing convergence results assume uniform d ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

Fine Particle Iron in Soils and Road Dust Is Modulated by Coal-Fired Power Plant Sulfur

Athanasios Nenes

Transition metal ions, such as water-soluble iron (WS-Fe), are toxic components of fine particles (PM2.5). In Atlanta, from 1998 to 2013, a previous study found that WS-Fe was the PM2.5 species most associated with adverse cardiovascular outcomes. We exami ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Properties of convex optimal power flow model based on power loss relaxation

Mario Paolone, Zhao Yuan

We derive the branch ampacity constraint associated to power losses for the convex optimal power flow (OPF) model based on the branch flow formulation. The branch ampacity constraint derivation is motivated by the physical interpretation of the transmissio ...

Elsevier2020

Low-temperature carbon-based electrodes in perovskite solar cells

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Bowen Yang, Jaekeun Lim

Carbon-based electrodes have been widely applied in perovskite solar cells (PSCs) because of their chemical inertness and compatibility with up-scalable techniques, signifying their solid potential for mass-production. The material scarcity and complexity ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2020

Challenging the Limitations of Atrial Fibrillation Detection in the Presence of Other Cardiac Arrythmias

Jean-Marc Vesin, Fabian Braun

Atrial fibrillation (AF) affects millions of people worldwide and needs to be diagnosed in its early stage to provide proper treatment. However, the numerous wearable devices available today are not yet able to discriminate AF episodes from other cardiac a ...

IEEE2020

Modifier Adaptation as a Feedback Control Scheme

Dominique Bonvin, Alejandro Gabriel Marchetti, Sean Costello, Tafarel de Avila Ferreira

As a real-time optimization technique, modifier adaptation (MA) has gained much significance in recent years. This is mainly due to the fact that MA can deal explicitly with structural plant-model mismatch and unknown disturbances. MA is an iterative techn ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Impact of Fin Width on Tri-Gate GaN MOSHEMTs

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Jun Ma, Luca Nela, Taifang Wang, Giovanni Santoruvo

In this paper, we present a detailed investigation of the impact of fin width (w(fin)) on tri-gate AlGaN/GaN metal-oxide-semiconductor high electron mobility transistors (MOSHEMTs). As w(fin) is reduced, the threshold voltage (V-TH) increases, which is due ...

2019

Substrate morphology repetition in "thick" polymer films

Using Grazing-incidence small-angle scattering (GISAXS) technique we investigated the surface morphology of polymer films spin-coated on different silicon substrates. As substrates we used either technologically smooth silicon wafers or the same silicon wa ...

2005