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The discovery of a large fab-to-fab variability in the TID response of the CMOS technologies used in the design of ASICs for the particle detectors of the HL-LHC triggered a monitoring effort to verify the consistency of the CMOS production process over ti ...
IOP Publishing Ltd2023Electronic readout of DNA amplification in nanoliter chambers. Strategies towards highly parallel semiconductor-based nucleic acid amplification testing.
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) has been the most significant driver in the field of nucleic acid testing (NAT) since its invention. Popularized as an abbreviation by the Covid-19 pandemic, PCR-based methods are the gold standard in the field of diagnostic ...
EPFL2023A Compact Front-End Circuit for a Monolithic Sensor in a 65-nm CMOS Imaging Technology
Edoardo Charbon, Francesco Piro
This article presents the design of a front-end circuit for monolithic active pixel sensors (MAPSs). The circuit operates with a sensor featuring a small, low-capacitance (
Piscataway2023Improving Standard-Cell Design Flow using Factored Form Optimization
Giovanni De Micheli, Alessandro Tempia Calvino
Factored form is a powerful multi-level representation of a Boolean function that readily translates into an implementation of the function in CMOS technology. In particular, the number of literals in a factored form correlates strongly with the number of ...
New York2023Monitoring of Protein and pH Levels in Human Biofluids using FD-SOI Silicon Nanowire Arrays
Medical research and technological advancements are heading towards tailored healthcare approaches that prioritize individual needs, allowing for more accurate diagnoses, more effective treatments, and better patient outcomes overall. One such approach is ...
EPFL2023Energy-Efficient Electronic Functions Based on the Co-integration of 2D and Ferroelectric Materials
The digital revolution has significantly transformed our world over the past decades, driven by the scaling of transistor dimensions and the exponential increase in computation power. However, as the CMOS scaling era approaches its end, the semiconductor i ...
EPFL2023A 0.21-ps FOM Capacitor-Less Analog LDO with Dual-Range Load Current for Biomedical Applications
This paper presents an output capacitor-less low-dropout regulator (LDO) with a bias switching scheme for biomedical applications with dual-range load currents. Power optimization is crucial for systems with multiple activation modes such as neural interfa ...
ArXiv2023Millimeter-wave to near-terahertz sensors based on reversible insulator-to-metal transition in VO2
Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Teodor Rosca, Fatemeh Qaderi Rahaqi
In the quest for low power bio-inspired spiking sensors, functional oxides like vanadium dioxide are expected to enable future energy efficient sensing. Here, we report uncooled millimeter-wave spiking detectors based on the sensitivity of insulator-to-met ...
SPRINGERNATURE2023500 MHz high resolution proximity sensors with fully integrated digital counter
Giovanni Boero, Nergiz Sahin Solmaz, Reza Farsi
We report on the design and characterization of two inductive proximity sensors based on LC oscillators operating at 500 MHz. The distance from the target is obtained by measuring the oscillation frequency variation. Both sensors contain an off-chip LC res ...
ELSEVIER SCI LTD2023Integrated electronics for time-of-flight positron emission tomography photodetectors
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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