Montserrat Fernandez-Bolanos Badia

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Electrothermal actuation of vanadium dioxide for tunable capacitors and microwave filters with integrated microheaters

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Andreas Schueler, Clara-Fausta Moldovan, Montserrat Fernandez-Bolanos Badia, Wolfgang Amadeus Vitale, Antonio Paone, Luca Petit

We report the fabrication, modeling and characterization of novel microwave tunable capacitors based on the metal-insulator transition (MIT) of Vanadium Dioxide (VO2) as a future replacement solution for microelectromechanical capacitive switches. We prese ...

Elsevier Science Sa2016

Carbon nanotube gas sensor array for multiplex analyte discrimination

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Montserrat Fernandez-Bolanos Badia, Hoël Maxime Guérin, Elizabeth Buitrago Godinez

The lack of selectivity toward a particular analyte has always been the primary concern regarding CNT-based gas sensors. For that reason, in here we present a gas discrimination strategy that focuses on the electrode-CNT junction. The junction is shown to ...

Elsevier Science Sa2015

Tunable Capacitors and Microwave Filters Based on Vanadium Dioxide Metal-Insulator Transition

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Clara-Fausta Moldovan, Josef Andreas Schuler, Wolfgang Amadeus Vitale, Montserrat Fernandez-Bolanos Badia, Antonio Paone

We report the fabrication, modeling and characterization of novel microwave tunable capacitors based on the metal-insulator transition (MIT) of Vanadium Dioxide (VO2). We present the advantages of VO2-based capacitors over alternative technologies for micr ...

2015

Fine Pitch 3D-TSV Based High Frequency Components for RF MEMS Applications

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Montserrat Fernandez-Bolanos Badia, Wolfgang Amadeus Vitale, Josef Weber

The development of interconnections suitable for radio- frequency (RF) and millimeter-wave (mm-wave) applications is of foremost importance for the feasibility of high-quality substrate-integrated devices. For this purpose, we introduce and validate the te ...

2015

Ultra Fine-Pitch TSV Technology for Ultra-Dense High-Q RF Inductors

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Montserrat Fernandez-Bolanos Badia, Wolfgang Amadeus Vitale, Josef Weber

We demonstrate that fine-pitch TSV technology can be exploited to fabricate micro-inductors on high resistivity substrate, with record-high inductance per area and preserving their performance at GHz frequencies. We report an extensive experimental study o ...

2015

Solid-gap wine-glass mode disks VB-FET resonators applied to biomass sensing

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Mariazel de la Candelas Maqueda López, Montserrat Fernandez-Bolanos Badia, Wolfgang Amadeus Vitale

The working principle of an electromechanical resonator for mass sensing applications is based on monitoring the characteristic resonance frequency downshift due to the particles attachment on the surface of the device. Solid-Gap Vibrating-Body Field Effec ...

Elsevier Science Bv2015

Component design and testing for a miniaturised autonomous sensor based on a nanowire materials platform

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Maher Kayal, François Krummenacher, Montserrat Fernandez-Bolanos Badia, Naser Khosro Pour, Elizabeth Buitrago Godinez

We present the design considerations of an autonomous wireless sensor and discuss the fabrication and testing of the various components including the energy harvester, the active sensing devices and the power management and sensor interface circuits. A com ...

Springer2014

Nanoelectromechanical digital logic circuits using curved cantilever switches with amorphous-carbon-coated contacts

Montserrat Fernandez-Bolanos Badia, Antonios Bazigos, Daniel Grogg

Nanoelectromechanical (NEM) switches have the potential to complement or replace traditional CMOS transistors in the area of ultra-low-power digital electronics. This paper reports the demonstration of prototype circuits including the first 3-stage ring os ...

2014

Electrical characterization of high performance, liquid gated vertically stacked SiNW-based 3D FET biosensors

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Montserrat Fernandez-Bolanos Badia, Hoël Maxime Guérin, Elizabeth Buitrago Godinez

A 3D vertically stacked silicon nanowire (SiNW) field effect transistor featuring a high density array of fully depleted channels gated by a backgate and one or two symmetrical platinum side-gates through a liquid has been electrically characterized for th ...

Elsevier Science Sa2014

The top-down fabrication of a 3D-integrated, fully CMOS-compatible FET biosensor based on vertically stacked SiNWs and FinFETs

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Montserrat Fernandez-Bolanos Badia, Sara Rigante, Elizabeth Buitrago Godinez

A 3D vertically stacked silicon nanowire (SiNW) and Fin field effect transistor (FET) featuring a high density array (7 or 8 x 20 SiNWs, > 4 Fins vertically stacked) of fully depleted, ultra-thin (SiNWs diameters similar to 15-30 nm, Fin width/height fw si ...

Elsevier2014

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The top-down fabrication of a 3D-integrated, fully CMOS-compatible FET biosensor based on vertically stacked SiNWs and FinFETs

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Montserrat Fernandez-Bolanos Badia, Sara Rigante, Elizabeth Buitrago Godinez

Elsevier2014