Publications by Naser Khosro Pour

Design of Ultra-low power energy harvesting and sensor interfacing circuits for miniaturized wireless sensor nodes

EPFL2014

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

An ultra-low power energy-efficient microsystem for hydrogen gas sensing applications

Maher Kayal, François Krummenacher, Naser Khosro Pour

This paper presents a fully integrated power management and sensing microsystem that harvests solar energy from a micro-power photovoltaic module for autonomous operation of a miniaturized hydrogen sensor. In order to measure H-2 concentration, conductance ...

Springer US2013

A miniaturised autonomous sensor based on nanowire materials platform: the SiNAPS mote

Maher Kayal, Naser Khosro Pour

A micro-power energy harvesting system based on core(crystalline Si)-shell(amorphous Si) nanowire solar cells together with a nanowire-modified CMOS sensing platform have been developed to be used in a dust-sized autonomous chemical sensor node. The mote ( ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2013

CCNoC: Specializing On-Chip Interconnects for Energy Efficiency in Cache-Coherent Servers

Giovanni De Micheli, Babak Falsafi, Boris Robert Grot, Ciprian Seiculescu, Stavros Volos, Naser Khosro Pour

Manycore chips are emerging as the architecture of choice to provide power efficiency and improve performance, while riding Moore’s Law. In these architectures, on-chip interconnects play a pivotal role in ensuring power and performance scalability. As sup ...

2012

Fully integrated ultra-low power management system for micro-power solar energy harvesting applications

Maher Kayal, François Krummenacher, Naser Khosro Pour

A fully integrated, area-efficient and ultra-low power management system for micro-power solar energy harvesting applications is proposed. This system harvests energy from miniaturised solar cells connected in series to charge a rechargeable microbattery. ...

Institution of Engineering and Technology2012

A Miniaturized Autonomous Microsystem for Hydrogen Gas Sensing Applications

Maher Kayal, François Krummenacher, Naser Khosro Pour

This paper presents a fully integrated, ultra-low power microsystem that is used for hydrogen gas sensing in an autonomous wireless sensor node. The proposed circuit harvests solar energy from a micro-power photovoltaic module to measure temperature and hy ...

Ieee2012