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This paper investigates the effects of total ionizing dose up to 1 Grad on 28-nm bulk MOSFETs under different bias conditions during irradiation. The aim is to assess the potential use of this commercial bulk CMOS technology in the future high-luminosity L ...

2018

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This paper uses the simplified charge-based EKV MOSFET model for studying the effects of total ionizing dose (TID) on analog parameters and figures-of-merit (FoMs) of 28nm bulk MOSFETs. These effects are demonstrated to be fully captured by the five key pa ...

2017

A low-voltage CMOS-compatible time-domain photodetector, device & front end electronics

Denis Sallin

During the last decades, the usage of silicon photodetectors, both as stand-alone sensor or integrated in arrays, grew tremendously. They are now found in almost any application and any market range, from leisure products to high-end scientific apparatuses ...

EPFL2016

Ultra Low Noise CMOS Image Sensors

Assim Boukhayma

CMOS Image Sensors (CIS) overtook the charge coupled devices (CCDs) in low noise performance. Photoelectron counting capability is the next step for CIS for ultimate low light performance and new imaging paradigms. This work presents a review of CMOS image ...

EPFL2016

A Low-Noise CMOS THz Imager Based on Source Modulation and an In-Pixel High-Q Passive Switched-Capacitor N-Path Filter

Christian Enz, Assim Boukhayma

This paper presents the first low noise complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) terahertz (THz) imager based on source modulation and in-pixel high-Q filtering. The 31 × 31 focal plane array has been fully integrated in a 0 . 13 μ m standard CMOS pr ...

Mdpi Ag2016

This paper presents an overview of the read noise in CMOS image sensors (CISs) based on four-transistors (4T) pixels, column-level amplification and correlated multiple sampling. Starting from the input-referred noise analytical formula, process level opti ...

Mdpi Ag2016

Multiple-Independent-Gate Field-Effect Transistors for High Computational Density and Low Power Consumption

Jian Zhang

Transistors are the fundamental elements in Integrated Circuits (IC). The development of transistors significantly improves the circuit performance. Numerous technology innovations have been adopted to maintain the continuous scaling down of transistors. W ...

EPFL2016

Recent trends in low-frequency noise reduction techniques for integrated circuits

Christian Enz, Assim Boukhayma

This paper presents the two main circuit techniques, namely autozeroing (AZ) and chopper stabilization (CS), that are used to reduce the 1/f noise and offset in amplifiers typically used in sensor electronics interfaces. After recalling their main properti ...

2015

A 2.4-GHz low power polar transmitter for wireless body area network applications

Christian Enz, Vladimir Kopta, Franz Xaver Pengg

A 2.4 GHz low power polar transmitter is proposed in this paper. A dynamic biasing circuit, controlled by a digital envelope signal, is used as a direct digital-to-RF envelope converter. It effectively linearizes the input-output characteristic of the over ...

Springer Verlag2014

FinFET integrated low-power circuits for enhanced sensing applications

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Antonios Bazigos, Alexandru Rusu, Sara Rigante, Paolo Livi

This work presents different circuit architectures that combine sensing and signal readout functions. The basic building block is a Fin Field-Effect Transistor (Fin-FET) used as both sensor and metal gate transistor. Moreover, a hybrid partially gated FinF ...

Elsevier2013