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Three-wave-mixing quantum-limited kinetic inductance parametric amplifier operating at 6 T near 1 K

Pasquale Scarlino, Simone Frasca, Guillaume Beaulieu, Camille René Charles Roy

Parametric amplifiers play a crucial role in modern quantum technology by enabling the enhancement of weak signals with minimal added noise. Traditionally, Josephson junctions have been the primary choice for constructing parametric amplifiers. Nevertheles ...

American Physical Society (APS)2024

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

A Cryo-CMOS Wideband Quadrature Receiver With Frequency Synthesizer for Scalable Multiplexed Readout of Silicon Spin Qubits

Edoardo Charbon, Andrea Ruffino, Yatao Peng

In this article, a cryo-CMOS receiver integrated with a frequency synthesizer for scalable multiplexed readout of qubits is presented, focusing on radio frequency (RF) reflectometry readout of silicon-based semiconductor spin qubits/quantum dots. The propo ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Nanoplasma-based Millimiter-wave Modulators on a Single Metal Layer

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Mohammad Samizadeh Nikooytabalvandani

Fundamental constraints imposing power-frequency trade-offs in conventional electronics have stimulated research on alternative technologies for millimeter-wave and sub-millimeter-wave applications. In this work, we use the picosecond threshold firing of n ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2022

Medipix4, a high granularity four sides buttable pixel readout chip for high resolution spectroscopic X-ray imaging at rates compatible with medical CT scans

Viros Sriskaran

Medipix4 is the latest member in the Medipix/Timepix family of pixel detector chips aimed at high rate spectroscopic X-ray imaging using high-Z materials. The chip address the limitations of conventional hybrid pixel detectors for X-ray imaging. Its predec ...

EPFL2022

Measurements and analysis of different front-end configurations for monolithic SiGe BiCMOS pixel detectors for HEP applications

Edoardo Charbon

This paper presents a small-area monolithic pixel detector ASIC designed in 130 nm SiGe BiCMOS technology for the upgrade of the pre-shower detector of the FASER experiment at CERN. The purpose of this prototype is to study the integration of fast front-en ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021

Blumino: The First Fully Integrated Analog SiPM With On-Chip Time Conversion

Edoardo Charbon, Andrei Ardelean, Emanuele Ripiccini, Andrada Alexandra Muntean, Esteban Venialgo Araujo

Blumino is the first analog silicon photomultiplier with integrated amplifier, comparator and time-to-digital converter (TDC). The combination of a photodetector together with on-chip readout circuitry enables system-level advantages, such as internal para ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

AlGaN/GaN Nanowires: from Electron Transport to RF Applications

Giovanni Santoruvo

Gallium Nitride (GaN) and all III-Nitride compounds have revolutionized the world with the development of the blue light emitting diode (LED). In addition, GaN-based epi-structures, such as AlGaN/GaN, enable the fabrication of high electron mobility transi ...

EPFL2020

Performance of chip-scale optical frequency comb generators in coherent WDM communications

Tobias Kippenberg

Optical frequency combs have the potential to become key building blocks of wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) communication systems. The strictly equidistant narrow-band spectral lines of a frequency comb can serve either as carriers for parallel WDM ...

2020

A Molecular Dual Pump

Cristian Pezzato

Artificial molecular machines (AMMs) built from mechanically interlocked molecules (MIMs) can use energy ratchets to control the unidirectional motion of their component parts. These energy ratchets are operated by the alteration of kinetic barriers and th ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Near Hysteresis-Free Negative Capacitance InGaAs Tunnel FETs with Enhanced Digital and Analog Figures of Merit below VDD=400mV

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Igor Stolichnov, Ali Saeidi

We report the universal boosting impact of a true negative capacitance (NC) effect on digital and analog performances of Tunnel FETs (TFETs), mirrored for the first time in near hysteresis-free experiments and exploiting the S-shaped polarization character ...

2019

Ultralow-power chip-based soliton microcombs for photonic integration

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Maxim Karpov, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Hairun Guo, Arslan Sajid Raja, Michail Zervas, Nils Johan Engelsen, Bahareh Ghadiani

The generation of dissipative Kerr solitons in optical microresonators has provided a route to compact frequency combs of high repetition rate, which have already been employed for optical frequency synthesizers, ultrafast ranging, coherent telecommunicati ...

OPTICAL SOC AMER2018

Near Hysteresis-Free Negative Capacitance InGaAs Tunnel FETs with Enhanced Digital and Analog Figures of Merit below V-DD=400mV

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Igor Stolichnov, Ali Saeidi

IEEE2018

Implantable IoT System for Closed-Loop Epilepsy Control based on Electrical Neuromodulation

Alexandre Schmid, Reza Ranjandish

A closed-loop system aiming at epilepsy control is proposed in this paper, in which electrical stimulation is triggered upon a decision aggragating different biological signatures of the seizure such as changes in the heart rate, blood flow in the brain, a ...

IEEE2018

Rise time reduction of thermal actuators operated in air and water through optimized pre-shaped open-loop driving

Georg Fantner, Nahid Hosseini, Tom Larsen

Electrothermal actuators have many advantages compared to other actuators used in micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS). They are simple to design, easy to fabricate and provide large displacements at low voltages. Low voltages enable less stringent pass ...

2017

Modeling and Analysis for Thermal Management in Gallium Nitride HEMTs Using Microfluidic Cooling

Gunjan Agarwal

In this paper, thermal management in GaN (gallium nitride) based microelectronic devices is addressed using microfluidic cooling. Numerical modeling is done using finite element analysis (FEA), and the results for temperature distribution are presented for ...

American Society of Mechanical Engineers2017

Versatile short-wave and mid-infrared sources based on wideband parametric conversion

Adrien Billat

The mid-infrared part of the optical spectrum is of high interest in a wide range of applications such as environmental gas monitoring, contaminant detection in the chemical, food or pharmaceutical industry, medical diagnosis, or defense and security. Rele ...

EPFL2017

Digital Predistortion of Power Amplifier Non-Linearities for Full-Duplex Transceivers

Andreas Peter Burg, Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming, Andrew Charles Mallory Austin

Non-linearities introduced by the power amplifier stage can significantly reduce the performance of self-interference cancellation in full-duplex transceivers. Accordingly, we propose a full-duplex system architecture that predistorts the digital baseband ...

Ieee2016

A remotely powered fully integrated low power class-E power amplifier for implantable sensor systems

Catherine Dehollain, Enver Gürhan Kilinç, Kerim Türe

This paper presents a fully integrated low power class-E power amplifier and its integration to remotely powered sensor system. The on-chip 1.2 GHz power amplifier is implemented in 0.18 A mu m CMOS process with 0.2 V supply. The implantable system is powe ...

Springer2016

Wearable, multi-parametric wireless system-in-patch for hydration level monitoring

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Hoël Maxime Guérin

Wearable system based on an in-situ four-probe impedance measurement at different signal frequencies for the topical monitoring of at least one physiological parameter reflecting the hydration status such as skin conductivity, ion concentration in sweat or ...

2016