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Smarty is a fully-reconfigurable on-chip feed-forward artificial neural network (ANN) with ten integrated time-to-digital converters (TDCs) designed in a 16 nm FinFET CMOS technology node. The integration of TDCs together with an ANN aims to reduce system ...

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Cascaded all-optical quantization employing step-size MMI and shape-optimized power splitter

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As a key unit of future high-throughput communications, optical analog to digital converter (OADC) with all-optical quantizer element that simultaneously possesses high resolution, large bandwidth and compact size is highly promising. A pending issue of co ...

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Integrated electronics for time-of-flight positron emission tomography photodetectors

Andrada Alexandra Muntean

Positron emission tomography is a nuclear imaging technique well known for its use in oncology for cancer diagnosis and staging. A PET scanner is a complex machine which comprises photodetectors placed in a ring configuration that detect gamma photons gene ...

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GeSn as next-generation material for short-wave infrared single-photon detection

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In recent years, the automotive industry has aspired to bring self-driving vehicles to the generalpublic and light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensors have emerged as the preferred solution forcar vision systems. At present, LiDAR technologies employ exp ...

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Metasurface-stabilized optical microcavities

Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus

Cavities concentrate light and enhance its interaction with matter. Confining to microscopic volumes is necessary for many applications but space constraints in such cavities limit the design freedom. Here we demonstrate stable optical microcavities by cou ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

Off-axis electron holography for the direct visualization of perpendicular shape anisotropy in nanoscale 3D magnetic random-access-memory devices

Perpendicular shape anisotropy (PSA) and double magnetic tunnel junctions (DMTJs) offer practical solutions to downscale spin-transfer-torque Magnetic Random-Access Memory (STT-MRAM) beyond 20 nm technology nodes, while retaining their thermal stability an ...

AIP Publishing2022

Low-Cost Side-Channel Secure Standard 6T-SRAM-Based Memory With a 1% Area and Less Than 5% Latency and Power Overheads

Robert Giterman

Side-channel attacks constitute a concrete threat to IoT systems-on-a-chip (SoCs). Embedded memories implemented with 6T SRAM macrocells often dominate the area and power consumption of these SoCs. Regardless of the computational platform, the side-channel ...

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Cryogenic Characterization of 16 nm FinFET Technology for Quantum Computing

Edoardo Charbon, Christian Enz, Farzan Jazaeri, Hung-Chi Han, Antonio D'Amico

This study presents the first in depth characterization of deep cryogenic electrical behavior of a commercial 16 nm CMOS FinFET technology. This technology is well suited for a broad range of applications, including quantum computing, quantum sensing, and ...

IEEE2021

Manufacture and characterization of graphene membranes with suspended silicon proof masses for MEMS and NEMS applications

Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Sayedeh Shirin Afyouni Akbari, Stefan Wagner

Graphene's unparalleled strength, chemical stability, ultimate surface-to-volume ratio and excellent electronic properties make it an ideal candidate as a material for membranes in micro- and nanoelectromechanical systems (MEMS and NEMS). However, the inte ...

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Power Analysis Resilient SRAM Design Implemented with a 1% Area Overhead Impedance Randomization Unit for Security Applications

Robert Giterman

Power analysis attacks are an effective tool to extract sensitive information using side-channel analysis, forming a serious threat to IoT systems-on-a-chip (SoCs). Embedded memories implemented with conventional 6T SRAM macrocells often dominate the area ...

IEEE2019

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