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A Low-Noise CMOS THz Imager Based on Source Modulation and an In-Pixel High-Q Passive Switched-Capacitor N-Path Filter

Christian Enz, Assim Boukhayma

This paper presents the first low noise complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) terahertz (THz) imager based on source modulation and in-pixel high-Q filtering. The 31 × 31 focal plane array has been fully integrated in a 0 . 13 μ m standard CMOS pr ...

Mdpi Ag2016

Optimized Detection of Hypoglycemic Glucose Ranges in Human Serum by Raman Spectroscopy with 532 nm Laser Excitation

Christian Enz, Sandro Carrara, Assim Boukhayma, Ata Jedari Golparvar

Raman scattering-based biomedical detection has usually been proposed with near-infrared laser sources. However, a low-cost CMOS imager's quantum efficiency is optimum around green wavelength, and their sensitivity substantially decreases in near-infrared ...

SCITEPRESS2021

Ionizing-Radiation Response and Low-Frequency Noise of 28-nm MOSFETs at Ultrahigh Doses

Christian Enz

Total ionizing dose (TID) mechanisms are investigated in 28-nm MOSFETs via dc static and low-frequency noise measurements. nMOSFETs and pMOSFETs are irradiated up to 1 Grad(SiO2) and annealed at high temperatures. TID sensitivity depends on the channel len ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

An improved subthreshold swing expression accounting for back-gate bias in FDSOI FETs

Christian Enz, Farzan Jazaeri, Hung-Chi Han

In a MOSFET transistor, the subthreshold swing defines the switching efficiency, and the associated slope factor, or so-called body factor, is a critical parameter in charge-based models. However, in an advanced Fully -Depleted Silicon-On-Insulator (FDSOI) ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2023

Generalized Boltzmann relations in semiconductors including band tails

Christian Enz, Arnout Lodewijk M Beckers, Farzan Jazaeri

Boltzmann relations are widely used in semiconductor physics to express the charge-carrier densities as a function of the Fermi level and temperature. However, these simple exponential relations only apply to sharp band edges of the conduction and valence ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2021

An Ultralow Power Short-Range 60-GHz FMCW Radar in 22-nm FDSOI CMOS

Christian Enz, Francesco Chicco

This article presents the design of an ultralow power short-range 57-66 GHz frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radar. The transmitter (TX) path includes a BPSK modulator in order to implement a low-IF architecture and it is optimized for short-rang ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2024

A Sub-0.5 Electron Read Noise VGA Image Sensor in a Standard CMOS Process

Christian Enz, Assim Boukhayma

A sub-0.5e−rms temporal read noise VGA (640H×480V) CMOS image sensor has been integrated in a standard 0.18μm 4PM CMOS process. The low noise performance is achieved exclusively through circuit optimization without any process refinements. The presented im ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2016

A 2.4-GHz low power polar transmitter for wireless body area network applications

Christian Enz, Vladimir Kopta

A 2.4 GHz low power polar transmitter is proposed in this paper. A dynamic biasing circuit, controlled by a digital envelope signal, is used as a direct digital-to-RF envelope converter. It effectively linearizes the input-output characteristic of the over ...

Springer Verlag2014

A 2.4-GHz low power polar transmitter for wireless body area network applications

Christian Enz, Vladimir Kopta

A 2.4-GHz low power polar transmitter architecture is proposed in this paper. A dynamic biasing circuit, controlled by a digital envelope signal, is used to linearize the input-output characteristic of the overdriven class-C power amplifier. A model of the ...

2013

Power-Optimized Digitally Controlled Oscillator in 28-nm CMOS for Low-Power FMCW Radars

Christian Enz, Francesco Chicco, Sammy Cerida Rengifo

This work presents the design of a 24-GHz digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) in an advanced 28-nm bulk CMOS technology for short-range frequency-modulated continuous-wave radar system-on-chip for mobile and Internet-of-Things devices. The power minimiza ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Influence of Fin and Finger Number on TID Degradation of 16-nm Bulk FinFETs Irradiated to Ultrahigh Doses

Christian Enz

This article investigates the fin- and finger-number dependence of the total ionizing dose (TID) degradation in 16-nm bulk Si FinFETs at ultrahigh doses. n- and p-FinFETs designed with different numbers of fins and fingers are irradiated up to 500 Mrad(SiO ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Inflection Phenomenon in Cryogenic MOSFET Behavior

Christian Enz, Arnout Lodewijk M Beckers, Farzan Jazaeri

This brief reports the analytical modeling and measurements of the inflection in the MOSFET transfer characteristics at cryogenic temperatures. Inflection is the inward bending of the drain current versus gate voltage, which reduces the current in weak and ...

2020

Design of Energy-Efficient Discrete Cosine Transform using Pruned Arithmetic Circuits

Christian Enz, Vincent Frédéric Camus, Jérémy Lucien Maurice Schlachter

Inexact circuits and approximate computing have been gaining a lot of interest in order to improve performances and energy efficiency beyond the boundaries of conventional digital circuits. Image and video processing is one of the best candidate for applyi ...

IEEE2016

Nanowatt Acoustic Inference Sensing Exploiting Nonlinear Analog Feature Extraction

Christian Enz, Minhao Yang

Ultralow-power sensing with inference functionality embedded in sensor nodes is essential for enabling the emerging pervasive intelligence. For acoustic inference sensing, the feature extraction can take advantage of power-efficient analog circuits. Howeve ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Reducing Energy Dissipation in ULP Systems: PLL-Free FBAR-Based Fast Startup Transmitters

Christian Enz, David Ruffieux, Raghavasimhan Thirunarayanan

The energy dissipated by conventional phase-locked-loop-based transmitters (TXs) during the long startup phase is a major bottleneck that reduces the energy autonomy of duty-cycled ultra-low-power systems. In order to tackle this problem, this paper presen ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2015

AC/DC Ratio Enhancement in Photoplethysmography Using a Pinned Photodiode

Christian Enz, Assim Boukhayma, Antonino Caizzone

Photoplethysmography (PPG) enables non-invasive vitals monitoring. Nevertheless, it is intrinsically limited by the extremely small AC/DC ratio, also called perfusion-index (PI). This increases the dynamic-range requirements to reliably process the PPG wav ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2019

Design and Applications of Approximate Circuits by Gate-Level Pruning

Christian Enz, Vincent Frédéric Camus, Jérémy Lucien Maurice Schlachter

Energy-efficiency is a critical concern for many systems, ranging from Internet of things objects and mobile devices to high-performance computers. Moreover, after 40 years of prosperity, Moore's law is starting to show its economic and technical limits. N ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2017

Energy-Efficient Inexact Speculative Adder with High Performance and Accuracy Control

Christian Enz, Vincent Frédéric Camus, Jérémy Lucien Maurice Schlachter

Inexact and approximate circuit design is a promising approach to improve performance and energy efficiency in technology-scaled and low-power digital systems. Such strategy is suitable for error-tolerant applications involving perceptive or statistical ou ...

2015

Microfluidics by Additive Manufacturing for Wearable Biosensors: A Review

Christian Enz, Sandro Carrara

Wearable devices are nowadays at the edge-front in both academic research as well as in industry, and several wearable devices have been already introduced in the market. One of the most recent advancements in wearable technologies for biosensing is in the ...

2020

Compact Modeling of Charge Transfer in Pinned Photodiodes for CMOS Image Sensors

Christian Enz, Farzan Jazaeri, Assim Boukhayma, Raffaele Capoccia

In this paper, we propose a physics-based compact model of the pinned photodiode (PPD) combined with the transfer gate. A set of analytical expressions is derived for the 2-D electrostatic profile, the PPD capacitance, and the charge transfer current. The ...

2019