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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

Multi-Ported GC-eDRAM Bitcell with Dynamic Port Configuration and Refresh Mechanism

Adam Shmuel Teman, Robert Giterman

Embedded memories occupy an increasingly dominant part of the area and power budgets of modern systems-on-chips (SoCs). Multi-ported embedded memories, commonly used by media SoCs and graphical processing units, occupy even more area and consume higher pow ...

MDPI2024

Advanced Silicon and SWIR Single-Photon Avalanche Diodes: Design, Simulation, and Characterization

Ekin Kizilkan

Low-level light detection with high spatial and timing accuracy is a growing area of interest by virtue of applications such as light detection and ranging (LiDAR), biomedical imaging, time-resolved Raman spectroscopy, and quantum applications. Single-phot ...

EPFL2024

Integrated electronics for time-of-flight positron emission tomography photodetectors

Andrada Alexandra Muntean

Positron emission tomography is a nuclear imaging technique well known for its use in oncology for cancer diagnosis and staging. A PET scanner is a complex machine which comprises photodetectors placed in a ring configuration that detect gamma photons gen ...

EPFL2023

System-Level Exploration of In-Package Wireless Communication for Multi-Chiplet Platforms

David Atienza Alonso, Giovanni Ansaloni, Marina Zapater Sancho, Joshua Alexander Harrison Klein, Rafael Medina Morillas

Multi-Chiplet architectures are being increasingly adopted to support the design of very large systems in a single package, facilitating the integration of heterogeneous components and improving manufacturing yield. However, chiplet-based solutions have to ...

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

Integrated silicon photonic MEMS

Niels Quack, Alain Yuji Takabayashi, Hamed Sattari

Silicon photonics has emerged as a mature technology that is expected to play a key role in critical emerging applications, including very high data rate optical communications, distance sensing for autonomous vehicles, photonic-accelerated computing, and ...

SPRINGERNATURE2023

A 128-kbit GC-eDRAM With Negative Boosted Bootstrap Driver for 11.3x Lower-Refresh Frequency at a 2.5% Area Overhead in 28-nm FD-SOI

Andreas Peter Burg, Robert Giterman, Halil Andac Yigit, Emmanuel Nieto Casarrubias

Gain-cell embedded DRAM (GC-eDRAM) is a high-density logic-compatible alternative to conventional static random-access memory (SRAM) and embedded DRAM (eDRAM). However, GC-eDRAM suffers from a reduced data retention time (DRT) at deeply-scaled process node ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2023

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

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

Jean-Michel Sallese, Adil Koukab, Gennaro Termo

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 heterogeneously integrated lithium niobate-on-silicon nitride photonic platform

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Rui Ning Wang, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Anat Siddharth, Mikhail Churaev, Miles Henry Anderson, Viacheslav Snigirev, Terence Albert Emile Blésin

The availability of thin-film lithiumniobate on insulator (LNOI) and advances in processing have led to the emergence of fully integrated LiNbO3 electro-optic devices. Yet to date, LiNbO3 photonic integrated circuits have mostly been fabricated using non-s ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Ultra-Low Power Short-Range 60-GHz FMCW Radar Front-End

Sammy Cerida Rengifo

The millimeter wave (mmWave) frequency band is becoming very interesting over the past years because it provides the opportunity to operate using large bandwidths which are not available at lower frequencies. This enables new communication standards suppor ...

EPFL2023

Off-axis electron holography for the direct visualization of perpendicular shape anisotropy in nanoscale 3D magnetic random-access-memory devices

Victor Carle Adrien Boureau

Perpendicular shape anisotropy (PSA) and double magnetic tunnel junctions (DMTJs) offer practical solutions to downscale spin-transfer-torque Magnetic Random-Access Memory (STT-MRAM) beyond 20 nm technology nodes, while retaining their thermal stability an ...

AIP Publishing2022

An Energy-Efficient Bridge-to-Digital Converter for Implantable Pressure Monitoring Systems

Marco Mattavelli, Catherine Dehollain, Franco Maloberti, Diego Ruben Barrettino, Kerim Türe, Mustafa Besirli

This paper presents an energy-efficient, duty-cycled, and spinning excitation bridge-to-digital converter (BDC) designed for implantable pressure sensing systems. The circuit provides the measure of the pulmonary artery pressure that is particularly releva ...

2022

Silicon photonic microelectromechanical systems add-drop ring resonator in a foundry process

Niels Quack, Alain Yuji Takabayashi, Hamed Sattari

Photonic add-drop filters are crucial components for the implementation of wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) in fiber-optic communication systems. The recent progress in photonic integration has shown the potential to integrate photonic add-drop filte ...

SPIE-SOC PHOTO-OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEERS2022

Development of a large-area, light-weight module using the MALTA monolithic pixel detector

Edoardo Charbon, Francesco Piro

The MALTA pixel chip is a 2 cm x 2 cm large monolithic pixel detector developed in the Tower 180 nm imaging process. The chip contains four CMOS transceiver blocks at its sides which allow chip-to-chip data transfer. The power pads are located mainly at th ...

ELSEVIER2022

A Low-noise CMOS SPAD Pixel with 12.1 ps SPTR and 3 ns Dead Time

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Francesco Gramuglia, Myung Jae Lee, Ming-Lo Wu

In this paper, we present the first CMOS SPAD with performance comparable or better than that of the best custom SPADs, to date. The SPAD-based design, fully integrated in 180 nm CMOS technology, achieves a peak PDP of 55% at 480nm with a very broad spectr ...

2022

Integration of MEMS in Silicon Photonics

Alain Yuji Takabayashi

Like integrated electronics, integrated photonics such as Silicon Photonics benefit from increased device-density on a single chip. Silicon is an excellent material for integrated photonics because its high refractive index allows devices to be made small, ...

EPFL2021

Cryogenic MOSFET Modeling for Large-Scale Quantum Computing

Arnout Lodewijk M Beckers

Promising results of state-of-the-art quantum computers fuel a world-wide effort in academic and private research laboratories to scale up the number of qubits and improve their characteristics in large arrays. To meet the scale-up challenge, innovative mi ...

EPFL2021

Low-Power and Wide-Tuning Range Frequency Generation for FMCW Radars in Advanced CMOS Technologies

Francesco Chicco

Nowadays, the internet of things (IoT) nodes have started to spread in various domains of our society, from the industrial to the domestic environment. The remote sensing is one among their fundamental functions. The implementation of a radio detection and ...

EPFL2021