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An Ultralow-Power Triaxial MEMS Accelerometer With High-Voltage Biasing and Electrostatic Mismatch Compensation

This article presents a triaxial micro electromechani-cal system (MEMS) capacitive accelerometer using a high-voltage biasing technique to achieve high resolution with ultralow power. The accelerometer system generates a differential pair of high voltages ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

A Two-Wired High Input Impedance and High CMRR Active Electrode Insensitive to Component Mismatch

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This article proposes a new two-wired amplifying active electrode (AE), presenting a high input impedance and a high common-mode rejection ratio (CMRR). In the proposed structure, the input impedance and the CMRR of the system are considerably increased by ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

Energy-Efficient Electronic Functions Based on the Co-integration of 2D and Ferroelectric Materials

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EPFL2023

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

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A Delta Sigma-Modulated Sample and Average Common-Mode Feedback Technique for Capacitively Coupled Amplifiers in a 192-nW Acoustic Analog Front-End

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This work presents an acoustic analog front-end based on a delta sigma-modulated sample and average common-mode feedback technique. The proposed feedback offers a process and temperature stable high pass (HP) frequency corner, unity dc feedback gain, and a ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

A Capacitively-Coupled Chopper Instrumentation Amplifier for Implantable Bridge Sensor Systems

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IEEE2022

Energy-Efficient Design Techniques for High-Speed Wireline Serial Links

Firat Çelik

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EPFL2021

An 8-Bit 800 MS/s Loop-Unrolled SAR ADC With Common-Mode Adaptive Background Offset Calibration in 28 nm FDSOI

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This paper presents a low-power single-channel 8-bit loop-unrolled (LU) successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital-converter (ADC) with a novel common-mode adaptive background comparator offset calibration scheme. LU-SAR ADCs use multiple co ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Intrinsic switching in Si-doped HfO2: A study of Curie-Weiss law and its implications for negative capacitance field-effect transistor

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HfO2-based ferroelectrics are considered a promising class of materials for logic and memory applications due to their CMOS compatibility and ferroelectric figures of merit. A steep-slope field-effect-transistor (FET) switch is a device for logic applicati ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2021

Towards Single Photon Detection with Amorphous Silicon Based Microchannel Plates

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An exciting new approach for microchannel plate (MCP) detectors could help make them suitable for single photon detection. State-of-the-art clean room technology allows amorphous silicon based microchannel plates (AMCPs) to take a variety of shapes. This v ...

EPFL2021

Analysis of Large-Signal Output Capacitance of Transistors using Sawyer–Tower Circuit

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Jessy Anthony Ançay, Armin Jafari, Palliyage Srilak Nirmana Perera, Georgios Kampitsis, Remco Franciscus Peter van Erp

A detailed analysis on the Sawyer–Tower method used in the measurement of large-signal output capacitance (Co) of power transistors is presented, followed by important design recommendations to obtain accurate results. Key factors affecting the proper impl ...

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An AC-Coupled Wideband Neural Recording Front-End With Sub-1 mm2×fJ/conv-step Efficiency and 0.97 NEF

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This letter presents an energy-and-area-efficient ac-coupled front-end for the multichannel recording of wideband neural signals. The proposed unit conditions local held and action potentials using an inverter-based capacitively coupled low-noise amplifier ...

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Multiplier Architectures: Challenges and Opportunities with Plasmonic-based Logic

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2020

Negative Capacitance as Universal Digital and Analog Performance Booster for Complementary MOS Transistors

Christian Enz, Igor Stolichnov, Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Farzan Jazaeri, Ali Saeidi

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Nature Research2019

On-Chip High-Voltage Sensors Based on Trap-Assisted 2DEG Channel Control

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Armin Jafari

In this work, we present a new device concept for compact high-voltage sensing with high-impedance input port, consisting of an AlGaN/GaN high-electron-mobility channel controlled by trapped carriers generated by a metallic electrode. The high-voltage appl ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2019

Response of noise-amplifier flows: From linear control to nonlinear jet breakup

Isha Shukla

Among hydrodynamically unstable flows, the amplifier-flows are characterized by their large amplification potential in presence of external noise. Since amplifiers do not have an intrinsic dynamics, a chosen forcing can be applied to eventually control the ...

EPFL2019

A CMOS Analog Front-End for Implantable Pulmonary Artery Pressure Monitoring System

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

This paper presents an energy-efficient analog front-end circuit to monitor the pulmonary artery pressure (PAP) with piezoresistive pressure sensors. A low-power capacitively-coupled instrumentation amplifier (CCIA) is developed in order to boost the ampli ...

IEEE2019

A programmable low-power ADC interface for an ISFET sweat sensor used in a wearable multi-sensing system

Maher Kayal, François Krummenacher, Evgenia Voulgari

An application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) named ANTIGONE (ANalog To dIGital cONvErter) was designed in AMS 0.35 mu m technology to interface with four Ion-sensitive field-effect transistor (ISFET) sensors and perform real-time monitoring of some bi ...

IEEE2019

On the Differential Input Impedance of an Electro-Explosive Device

In this paper, a model for the input impedance of a hot-wire electro-explosive device (EED) based on differential-mode measurements is proposed. The model represents the EED using three transmission line segments in cascade. The characteristics of each seg ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2018