IC–MEMS Co-Fabrication: Enabling smart–seamless microsystem integration for emerging biomedical technologies

The development of personalized healthcare solutions is a complex and multifaceted challenge that requires synergistic collaboration and cross-fertilization between multiple disciplines, including microelectronics, nanotechnology, materials science, and biotechnology. As numerous biomedical applications necessitate the precise regulation and...

The Zoom ADC: An Energy Efficient ADC for High Resolution

Analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) are an indispensable part of the digital age we are living in, as they form the interface between physical reality and virtual reality. Higher ADC energy efficiency is the dominant focus of ADC design research due to the high impact of ADC energy consumption to total energy consumption of the systems they are...

Efficient C₂-weighting for image warping

Handle-driven image warping based on linear blending is widely used in many applications because of its merits on intuitiveness, efficiency, and ease of implementation. In this paper, we develop a method to compute high-quality weights within a closed domain for image warping. The property of C₂ continuity in weights is guaranteed...

Carbon Nanotubes as Vertical Interconnects in 3D Integrated Circuits

Interconnects in integrated circuits (IC) are the major cause of power dissipation and delay. 3D integration has been proposed as a method to reduce these issues. For this 3D integration, fabrication of high aspect ratio reliable vertical interconnects (vias) are required. For this new materials, like carbon nanotubes (CNT), are being considered...

Single grain Si TFT's and circuits based on the µ-Czochralski process

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A combined BEM/FEM method for IC substrate modeling

The research presented in this thesis was done in the context of the modeling of parasitic physical effects, like field couplings and crosstalk, that may adversely affect the functional performance of Integrated Circuits (ICs). The modeling of parasitic effects, through simulations with the resulting models, provides insight into the performance...

Integration of a Pulse Generator on Chip Into a Compact Ultrawideband Antenna

For impulse radio ultrawideband communications an “antenna plus generator” system is co-designed and an on chip generator is integrated into the antenna. This approach does away with the need for intermediate transmission lines conventionally placed between an RF device/generator and an antenna and therefore eliminates the need for a balun,...