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A new versatile hybrid MEMS technology for high sensitivity, fluid proof sensing applications

The field of micro electromechanical systems (MEMS) evolved from the microelectronic industry and the technologies developed to fabricate integrated circuits. As a result, MEMS are commonly fabricated on silicon wafers. The development of MEMS has been dri ...

EPFL2022

Characterization and Modeling of Total Ionizing Dose Effects on Nanoscale MOSFETs for Particle Physics Experiments

Chunmin Zhang

Total ionizing radiation compromises electrical characteristics of microelectronic devices and even causes functional failures of integrated circuits. It has been identified as a potential threat to electronic components, especially those in high-energy ph ...

EPFL2021

Silicon Nitride Integrated Nonlinear Photonics

Junqiu Liu

Recently, microresonator-based dissipative Kerr soliton frequency combs ( "soliton microcomb " ) have emerged as miniaturized optical frequency combs. So far, soliton microcombs have been realized in many CMOS-compatible material platforms including silico ...

EPFL2020

Microfluidic sensor and method for obtaining such a sensor

Philippe Renaud, Luc Gaëtan Aeberli, Thomas Michael Braschler, David Vincent Bonzon, Marc Lany, Georges Muller, Jonas Choppe, Niklas Van Neyghem

The invention describes a method for producing hybrid microelectronic/microfluidic sensors at industrial scale. The method is characterized in that it comprises the following steps for obtaining said microfluidic channel: a) a first lamination step of a dr ...

2018

Overview on low temperature co-fired ceramic sensors

Thomas Maeder

Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramics (LTCC) is one of the microelectronic techniques. This technology was initially developed as an alternative to Printed Circuit Boards (PCB) and classical thick-film technology, and it has found application in the fabricatio ...

Elsevier2015

Remote Powering and Wireless Communication of a Smart Knee Prosthesis

Oguz Atasoy

With the advance in microelectronics and microsystems, better instruments in every domain are designed and built. For many years, scientists have tried to understand nature, and engineers to mimic the perfect design. One example of this is the human knee, ...

EPFL2013

High Throughput-Per-Footprint Inertial Focusing

Martinus Gijs, Ata Tuna Ciftlik, Maxime Ettori

Matching the scale of microfluidic flow systems with that of microelectronic chips for realizing monolithically integrated systems still needs to be accomplished. However, this is appealing only if such re-scaling does not compromise the fluidic throughput ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2013

On-Chip Cooling of Hot-Spots with a Copper Micro-Evaporator

John Richard Thome, Etienne Costa-Patry

Hot-spots are present in micro-electronics and are challenging to cool effectively. Using a copper micro-evaporator mounted on a pseudo-chip, on-chip two-phase cooling was found to very effectively cool the hot-spots without inducing flow instabilities. Bu ...

Ieee2012

Active Microelectromechanical Resonator : The Vibrating Body Field Effect Transistor

Daniel Grogg

The progress in the technology of microelectronic devices has led to a strong miniaturization and high performance for circuits and systems, enabling modern applications such as mobile computing and communications. Today, remaining "off-chip" components th ...

EPFL2010

Reliable MEMS Actuators for Driving Large Microsystems

Nicolas Bernard Golay

Nowadays many consumer electronic devices are using small engines (micromotors). Thanks to technological innovation, the components can be imbedded into numerous portable systems. The key factors for a nomadic integration are: reduction of power consumptio ...

EPFL2010