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Hall, Drew A. (author), Makinwa, K.A.A. (author), Jang, Taekwang (author)There has been a long-standing interest in controlling and instrumenting the human body. Whether to restore lost function with neural prosthetics, monitor blood glucose levels, or augment human capabilities, there are countless opportunities for sensors inside ( e.g., ingestible, injectable, and implantable) and outside ( e.g., wearable) the...journal article 2023
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Low Noise Opto-Electro-Mechanical Modulator for RF-to-Optical Transduction in Quantum CommunicationsBonaldi, Michele (author), Borrielli, Antonio (author), Di Giuseppe, Giovanni (author), Malossi, Nicola (author), Morana, B. (author), Natali, Riccardo (author), Piergentili, Paolo (author), Sarro, Pasqualina M (author), Serra, E. (author), Vitali, David (author)In this work, we present an Opto-Electro-Mechanical Modulator (OEMM) for RF-to-optical transduction realized via an ultra-coherent nanomembrane resonator capacitively coupled to an rf injection circuit made of a microfabricated read-out able to improve the electro-optomechanical interaction. This device configuration can be embedded in a...journal article 2023
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Mohammad Zaki, A.R. (author), Nihtianova, S. (author)Small charge detection is used for a wide range of applications: advanced industrial process control, experimental physics and space instruments, and material testing and medical imaging. These applications give rise to the development of a wide variety of charge-sensitive readout integrated circuits (ROICs). The trend in the state-of-the-art...conference paper 2023
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Campos de Oliveira, A. (author), Pan, Sining (author), Wiegerink, Remco J. (author), Makinwa, K.A.A. (author)This article presents a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) Coriolis-based mass-flow-to-digital converter (Φ DC) that can be used with both liquids and gases. It consists of a micromachined Coriolis mass flow sensor and a CMOS interface circuit that drives it into oscillation and digitizes the resulting mass flow information. A phase-locked...journal article 2022
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Mohammad Zaki, A.R. (author), Nihtianova, S. (author)Particle detection circuits are used for a wide range of applications from experimental physics to material testing and medical imaging. In the state-of-The-Art systems, the trend is to design low-noise and low-power readout front-end electronics with a low detection error rate and small silicon area occupation. This paper presents the design...conference paper 2022
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Mohammad Zaki, A.R. (author), Nihtianova, S. (author)This article presents the experimentally characterized performance of a low noise and wideband sensor readout integrated circuit (ROIC). The ROIC is designed to detect small amounts of charge generated by a silicon p-i-n detector as a result of particle detection, with very high time resolution and limited power consumption. The architecture...journal article 2022
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Zhang, Youming (author), Wei, Zhennan (author), Tang, Xusheng (author), Zhang, L. (author), Huang, Fengyi (author)This letter presents a convenient approach based on the two-port kQ-product theory to analyze the influence of interwinding capacitive coupling on the efficiency of the transformer. It is demonstrated that a transformer with proper size can benefit from the interwinding capacitive coupling to maximize its efficiency at a desired frequency....journal article 2022
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Barzgari, Mohammad (author), Ghafari, A. (author), Meghdadi, Masoud (author), Medi, Ali (author)This article presents the theory and implementation of a quadrature and differential RF front-end receiver. Combining balun, low-noise amplifier (LNA), mixer, and oscillator in a single stage, the proposed circuit, named the Blixator, is well suited for low-power applications. The baseband's transimpedance amplifier (TIA) also shares part of...journal article 2022
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Chen, C. (author), Pertijs, M.A.P. (author)As medical ultrasound imaging moves from conventional cart-based scanners to new form factors such as imaging catheters, hand-held point-of-care scanners and ultrasound patches, there is an increasing need for integrated transceivers that can be closely integrated with the transducer to provide channel-count reduction, improved signal quality...journal article 2021
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Merino Martinez, R. (author), Kennedy, John (author), Bennett, Gareth J. (author)The landing gear system is the dominant airframe noise source for most modern commercial aircraft during approach. This manuscript reports the results from the ALLEGRA (Advanced Low Noise Landing (Main and Nose) Gear for Regional Aircraft) project. This project assessed the performance of several highly realistic low–noise technologies (LNTs)...journal article 2021
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Aydin, E. (author), Makinwa, K.A.A. (author)This paper presents a portable and contactless microfluidic flowmeter based on the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) principle, which can measure flow rates up to 2.7 ml/min with \pm 16\ lmin (±0.6% full-scale) error. It consists of a millimeter-size RF coil wound around a microfluidic channel, custom readout electronics and a 0.5 T permanent...conference paper 2021
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Wang, Qian (author), Audley, Michael D. (author), Khosropanah, Pourya (author), van der Kuur, Jan (author), de Lange, Gert (author), Aminaei, Amin (author), Boersma, Dick (author), van der Tak, Floris (author), Gao, J.R. (author)The SPICA-SAFARI instrument requires extremely sensitive transition edge sensor (TES) arrays with a noise equivalent power of 2×10-19W/Hz and a readout system with an output noise that is dominated by the detector noise. It is essential to ensure the frequency domain multiplexing (FDM) readout system in SAFARI meets the noise requirement. The...journal article 2020
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Patra, B (author), Incandela, R.M. (author), van Dijk, J.P.G. (author), Homulle, Harald (author), Song, Lin (author), Shahmohammadi, M. (author), Staszewski, R.B. (author), Vladimirescu, A. (author), Babaie, M. (author), Sebastiano, F. (author), Charbon-Iwasaki-Charbon, E. (author)A fault-tolerant quantum computer with millions of quantum bits (qubits) requires massive yet very precise control electronics for the manipulation and readout of individual qubits. CMOS operating at cryogenic temperatures down to 4 K (cryo-CMOS) allows for closer system integration, thus promising a scalable solution to enable future quantum...contribution to periodical 2018
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Ge, X. (author), Theuwissen, A.J.P.A.M. (author)This paper presents a temporal noise analysis of charge-domain sampling readout circuits for Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) image sensors. In order to address the trade-off between the low input-referred noise and high dynamic range, a Gm-cell-based pixel together with a charge-domain correlated-double sampling (CDS) technique...journal article 2018
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Xu, Jiawei (author), Lin, Qiuyang (author), DIng, Ming (author), Liu, Y. (author), Van Hoof, Chris (author), Serdijn, W.A. (author), Van Helleputte, Nick (author)Simultaneous measurement of Electrocardiogram (ECG) and bio-impedance (BioZ) via disposable health patches is desired for patients suffering from chronic cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. However, a sensing IC must consume ultra-low power under a sub-volt supply to comply with miniaturized and disposable batteries. This work presents...conference paper 2018
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Ge, X. (author), Theuwissen, A.J.P.A.M. (author)A deep subelectron temporal noise CMOS image sensor (CIS) with a Gm-cell based pixel and a correlated-double charge-domain sampling technique has been developed for photon-starved imaging applications. With the proposed technique, the CIS, which is implemented in a standard 0.18-μm CIS process, features pixel-level amplification and achieves an...journal article 2017
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Tohidian, M. (author)In a radio-frequency (RF) system-on-chip (SoC), a digital baseband/application processor, which occupies most of the silicon area, determines the SoC fabrication process technology and voltage supply. The rest of the circuitry, including RF front-end and frequency synthesizer, must then adopt the chosen process technology, i.e., presently low...doctoral thesis 2015
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Kwok, K.C. (author)This thesis investigates the system design and circuit implementation of a 24GHz-band short-range radar receiver in CMOS technology. The propagation and penetration properties of EM wave offer the possibility of non-contact based remote sensing and through-the-wall imaging of distance stationary or moving objects. The feasibility of realizing...doctoral thesis 2015
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Tohidian, M. (author), Madadi, I. (author), Staszewski, R.B. (author)In this paper, we propose a discrete-time IIR low-pass filter that achieves a high-order of filtering through a charge-sharing rotation. Its sampling rate is then multiplied through pipelining. The first stage of the filter can operate in either a voltage-sampling or charge-sampling mode. It uses switches, capacitors and a simple gm-cell, rather...journal article 2014
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Xie, N. (author)A digital sun sensor is superior to an analog sun sensor in aspects of resolution, albedo immunity, and integration. The proposed Micro-Digital Sun Sensor (µDSS) is an autonomous digital sun sensor which is implemented by means of a CMOS image sensor, which is named APS+. The µDSS is designed specifically for micro-satellite application which...doctoral thesis 2012
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