Publications associées à Design and Measurement Methodology for a Sub-picoampere Current Digitiser

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Aqueous zinc-ion batteries have emerged as promising candidates for safe and cost-effective energy storage, yet their performance remains constrained by electrode stability and electrolyte composition. In this study, we investigate the electrochemical beha ...

2025

Automating the Design of Programmable Interconnect for Reconfigurable Architectures

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With Moore's law coming to an end, increasingly more hope is being put in specialized hardware implemented on reconfigurable architectures such as Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). Yet, it is often neglected that these architectures themselves experi ...

EPFL2023

Simulating Current Distribution of Oxygen Evolution Reaction in Microcells Using Finite Element Method

Vasiliki Tileli, Tzu-Hsien Shen, Morgan Julien André Barbey-Binggeli

A three-dimensional finite element method (FEM) model simulating the electrochemical behaviour of Pt coplanar thin-film electrodes used for liquid cell transmission electron microscopy measurements was developed. The model included reaction kinetics and it ...

ELECTROCHEMICAL SOC INC2021

Subthreshold Mismatch in Nanometer CMOS at Cryogenic Temperatures

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Cryogenic device models are essential for the reliable design of the cryo-CMOS electronic interface necessary to build future large-scale quantum computers. This paper reports the characterization of the drain-current mismatch of NMOS and PMOS devices fabr ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

The JET upgraded toroidal Alfven Eigenmode Diagnostic System

Ambrogio Fasoli, Duccio Testa, Patrick Blanchard

The Alfven Eigenmode Active Diagnostic system (AEAD) has undergone a major upgrade and redesign to provide a state-of-the-art excitation and real-time detection system for JET. The new system consists of individual 4 kW amplifiers allowing for increased cu ...

2019

A Nine Decade Femtoampere Current to Frequency Converter

Evgenia Voulgari

Various applications require ultra-low current sensing. Some of these applications are related to ionizing radiation detection. Radiation monitoring is important in particle physics experiments, nuclear facilities, hadron therapy institutes and hospitals. ...

EPFL2017

Virtual Submodule Concept for Fast Semi-Numerical Modular Multilevel Converter Loss Estimation

Drazen Dujic, Alexandre François Christe

During the design phase of a modular multilevel converter (MMC), an accurate loss evaluation of the submodule (SM) plays an important role. In this paper, a method based on the analytical description of the MMC key waveforms that allows to directly obtain ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017

Signaling in 3-D integrated circuits, benefits and challenges

Somayyeh Rahimian Omam

Three-dimensional (3-D) or vertical integration is a design and packaging paradigm that can mitigate many of the increasing challenges related to the design of modern integrated systems. 3-D circuits have recently been at the spotlight, since these circuit ...

EPFL2015

Integrated Electronics to Control and Readout Electrochemical Biosensors for Implantable Applications

Seyedeh Sara Ghoreishizadeh

Biosensors can effectively be used to monitor multiple metabolites such as glucose, lactate, ATP and drugs in the human body. Continuous monitoring of these metabolites is essential for patients with chronic or critical conditions. Moreover, this can be us ...

EPFL2015

Real-Time High-Resolution Multiple-Camera Depth Map Estimation Hardware and Its Applications

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Depth information is used in a variety of 3D based signal processing applications such as autonomous navigation of robots and driving systems, object detection and tracking, computer games, 3D television, and free view-point synthesis. These applications r ...

EPFL2015

Exploration of Sub-VT and Near-VT 2T Gain-Cell Memories for Ultra-Low Power Applications under Technology Scaling

Andreas Peter Burg, Adam Shmuel Teman, Pascal Andreas Meinerzhagen, Robert Giterman

Ultra-low power applications often require several kb of embedded memory and are typically operated at the lowest possible operating voltage (VDD) to minimize both dynamic and static power consumption. Embedded memories can easily dominate the overall sili ...

2013

A Scalable and Adaptive Technique for Compensating Process Variations and Controlling Leakage and Delay in the FPGA

Yusuf Leblebici, Bahman Kheradmand Boroujeni, Christian Piguet

A new circuit style is proposed to tune the delay, subthreshold leakage (ISUB), and gate leakage (IG) of high fan-in multiplexer circuits, such as the FPGA Look-Up Table (LUT) and Switch-Box (SB), without increasing the Gate Induced Drain Leakage (GIDL) cu ...

American Scientific Publishers2013

Subthreshold Leakage Reduction: A Comparative Study of SCL and CMOS Design

Yusuf Leblebici, Seyed Armin Tajalli

The large subthreshold leakage current of static CMOS logic circuits designed in modern nanometer-scale technologies is one of the main barriers for implementing ultra-low power digital systems. Subthreshold source-coupled logic (STSCL) circuits are based ...

IEEE2009

Suppression of leakage currents in GaN-based LEDs induced by reactive-ion etching damages

Nicolas Grandjean, Jean-François Carlin, Eric Feltin, Julien Dorsaz, Antonino Francesco Castiglia

Forward and reverse leakage currents in GaN/InGaN multi-quantum well light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are caused by reactive-ion etching (RIE) damages during device patterning. A method to recover the damaged surfaces, based on a chemical etch in KOH: ethylene ...

EDP Sciences2008

A telemetric pressure sensor system for biomedical applications

Philippe Renaud

A new implantable pressure sensor for long-term monitoring of intracranial pressure is presented. The sensor is powered by telemetry and can be interrogated wirelessly. A capacitive pressure transducer, whose capacitance is converted to a frequency-encoded ...

2008

A new interconnect-centric design methodology for high-speed standard cells with crosstalk immunity

Ilhan Hatirnaz

One of the biggest challenges that are facing the Very Large Scale Integrated Circuits (VLSI) technologies today is the significant performance gap (3× to 9×) between full custom circuits and Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) designed in the ...

EPFL2006