Publications related to Differential signalling

An Ultralow-Power Triaxial MEMS Accelerometer With High-Voltage Biasing and Electrostatic Mismatch Compensation

This article presents a triaxial micro electromechani-cal system (MEMS) capacitive accelerometer using a high-voltage biasing technique to achieve high resolution with ultralow power. The accelerometer system generates a differential pair of high voltages ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

Analysis and Design for Medium Voltage Dual Active Bridge Converter Based on Series-Connected SiC MOSFETs

Chengmin Li, Rui Lu, Heng Fang

In this article, a series-connected SiC MOSFETs-based medium voltage (MV) dual active bridge (DAB) converter featuring a lowvoltage difference amongdevices and high efficiency is proposed. In the developed DAB converter, the zero voltage switching-on chara ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2023

Radiation Hardness of MALTA2, a Monolithic Active Pixel Sensor for Tracking Applications

Edoardo Charbon, Francesco Piro, Ashish Sharma

MALTA is a depleted monolithic active pixel sensor (DMAPS) developed in the Tower Semiconductor 180-nm CMOS imaging process. Monolithic CMOS sensors offer advantages over current hybrid imaging sensors in terms of both increased tracking performance due to ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2023

Magnetic force microscopy contrast formation and field sensitivity

Marcos Penedo Garcia, Johannes Schwenk

The magnetic force microscope (MFM) is an established experimental tool for imaging stray fields with high spatial resolution and sensitivity. The MFM contrast can however contain contributions from the sample topography, variations in the surface Kelvin p ...

2022

High sensitivity, incoherent differential imaging

Chiara Bonati

Microscopic visualisation of optically transparent samples has been a topic of interest for several decades. Features such as density or chemical composition can influence the optical phase of transmitted light, and phase contrast can reveal these structur ...

EPFL2022

Energy-Efficient Design Techniques for High-Speed Wireline Serial Links

Firat Çelik

The exponential growth in computing power and multimedia services has caused a tremendous increase in data traffic in recent years. This increase in data traffic brings a strong demand for data bandwidth of electrical input/output (I/O) links and pushes th ...

EPFL2021

System and methods for differential imaging using a lock-in camera

Christophe Moser, Timothé Laforest, Damien Claude-Marie Loterie, Chiara Bonati

The present invention describes an imaging system that allows visualization of a wide range of samples both in terms of morphology and in terms of material (e.g. density distribution, varying chemical composition, or anything that induces a change of optic ...

2021

An 8-Bit 800 MS/s Loop-Unrolled SAR ADC With Common-Mode Adaptive Background Offset Calibration in 28 nm FDSOI

Yusuf Leblebici, Firat Çelik, Ayça Akkaya

This paper presents a low-power single-channel 8-bit loop-unrolled (LU) successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital-converter (ADC) with a novel common-mode adaptive background comparator offset calibration scheme. LU-SAR ADCs use multiple co ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Towards Single Photon Detection with Amorphous Silicon Based Microchannel Plates

Janina Christine Isabelle Löffler

An exciting new approach for microchannel plate (MCP) detectors could help make them suitable for single photon detection. State-of-the-art clean room technology allows amorphous silicon based microchannel plates (AMCPs) to take a variety of shapes. This v ...

EPFL2021

Hierarchical Control in Islanded DC Microgrids With Flexible Structures

Giancarlo Ferrari Trecate, Pulkit Nahata, Alessio La Bella

Hierarchical architectures stacking primary, secondary, and tertiary layers are widely employed for the operation and control of islanded dc microgrids (dcmGs) composed of distribution generation units (DGUs), loads, and power lines. However, a comprehensi ...

2020

MORPHIC: Programmable photonic circuits enabled by silicon photonic MEMS

Niels Quack, Hamed Sattari, Alain Yuji Takabayashi, Banafsheh Abasahl

In the European project MORPHIC we develop a platform for programmable silicon photonic circuits enabled by waveguide-integrated micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS). MEMS can add compact, and low-power phase shifters and couplers to an established sili ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2020

Ultra High Voltage Switch for Bidirectional DC-DC Converter Driving Dielectric Elastomer Actuator

Yves Perriard, Yoan René Cyrille Civet, Morgan Almanza, Lucas Pniak

Specific applications, such as dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) or electroactive polymers, require to switch voltage levels exceeding the ratings of existing semiconductor devices. In low power application, reversible flyback are widely used to supply ...

2020

Open-Loop Power Sharing Characteristic of a Three-Port Resonant LLC Converter

Drazen Dujic, Yan-Kim Tran, Francisco Daniel Freijedo Fernández

The Solid State Transformer (SST) is an attractive solution for highly flexible, cost-effective, compact and efficient power transfer among different grids. Furthermore, a three-port topology is proven as a suitable solution to integrate energy storage res ...

2019

Two-Element Antenna-Active Phase Shifter Packaging at 77 GHz

Anja Skrivervik, Efe Öztürk

This work presents a low cost and wire-bonded active phase shifter chip to RF circuitry on PCB board packaging for implementing a two-element phased array antenna at 77 GHz. The 1.5 mm × 1.1 mm chip is embedded in RO3003 PCB board and its GSG ports are wir ...

IEEE2019

On the Differential Input Impedance of an Electro-Explosive Device

In this paper, a model for the input impedance of a hot-wire electro-explosive device (EED) based on differential-mode measurements is proposed. The model represents the EED using three transmission line segments in cascade. The characteristics of each seg ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2018

Interfacing Qubits via Cryo-CMOS Front Ends

Edoardo Charbon, Andrea Ruffino, Yatao Peng

This work describes a basic interface between solid-state quantum bits (qubits) and classical environments. We describe a multiplexer, a circulator, and a low noise amplifier, designed for cryogenic temperature operation in a 40 nm CMOS technology node. Th ...

IEEE2018

An Eight lanes 7Gb/s/pin Source Synchronous Single-Ended RX with Equalization and Far-End Crosstalk Cancellation for Backplane Channels

Volkan Cevher, Cosimo Aprile, Yusuf Leblebici, Alessandro Cevrero, Lukas Kull, Thomas Toifl

This paper presents a versatile crosstalk cancellation scheme for single-ended multi-lane backplane links. System-level investigations show that a scheme, which combines analog filters and decision-feedback crosstalk compensation on the receiver (RX) side ...

2018

Using Electromagnetic Time Reversal to Locate Faults in Transmission Lines: Definition and Application of the Mirrored Minimum Energy Property

Mario Paolone, Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Zhaoyang Wang, Reza Razzaghi, Asia Codino

This paper presents an application of the Electro-magnetic Time Reversal (EMTR) in changing media to identify the fault location along a single-conductor transmission line. It is shown that the time-reversed quantities exhibit a property, called Mirrored M ...

2017

Operation regimes and electrical transport of steep slope Schottky Si-FinFETS

Giovanni De Micheli, Jian Zhang, Pierre-Emmanuel Julien Marc Gaillardon

In the quest for energy efficient circuits, considerable focus has been given to steep slope and polarity-controllable devices, targeting low supply voltages and reduction of transistor count. The recently proposed concept of the three-independent gated Si ...

2017

Low-energy biomarker detection through charge-based impedance measurements

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Junrui Zhang, Marco Mazza

A novel approach for the detection of biomarkers in aqueous condition via differential impedance is presented. The binding of biomarkers onto functionalized inter-digital electrodes induces a change in the sensor impedance, both in its real and imaginary c ...

2016