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High-Performance III-V MOSFETs and Tunnel-FETs Integrated on Silicon

Silicon transistor scaling is approaching its end and a transition to novel materials and device concepts is more than ever essential. High-mobility compound semiconductors are considered promising candidates to replace silicon, targeting low-power logic a ...

EPFL2020

Silicon heterojunction solar cells and methods of manufacture

Christophe Ballif, Andrea Ingenito, Gizem Nogay, Philipp Friedrich Hermann Löper

The present invention relates to a solar cell comprising a heterojunction photoelectric device comprising, a front electrode layer, a back electrode layer comprising a metallic contact layer (300), a light-absorbing silicon layer (1 ) arranged between said ...

2018

A comparative experimental investigation on responsivity and response speed of photo-diode and photo-BJT structures integrated in a low-cost standard CMOS process

Alexandre Schmid, Yusuf Leblebici, Nikola Katic

A variety of smart imaging and neuromorphic applications perform time-domain image acquisition in order to imitate biological systems and reduce the growing transmission bandwidth of the modern imaging devices. Because they operate in time-domain, they req ...

Elsevier2015

Design and characterization of micromachined sensor array integrated with CMOS based optical readout

Yusuf Leblebici, Yüksel Temiz, Ulas Adiyan, Refik Burak Erarslan

This paper reports a micro electro-mechanical system (MEMS) based sensor array integrated with CMOS-based optical readout. The integrated architecture has several unique features. MEMS devices are passive and there are no electrical connections to the MEMS ...

Elsevier2014

Design Methodologies and CAD for Emerging Nanotechnologies

Shashi Kanth Bobba

With technology scaling reaching the fundamental limits of Si-CMOS in the near future, the semiconductor industry is in quest for innovation from various disciplines of integrated circuit (IC) design. At a fundamental level, technology forms the main drive ...

EPFL2013

9.4-14.1 T small-animal PET-MR imaging: Feasibility analysis of LYSO APD readout via long signal lines

Rolf Gruetter, Jorge André Dinis Neves, Joao Varela

In the present work we intend to assess the readout feasibility of Avalanche Photodiode (APD) detectors via long signal lines for the development of a combined small-animal PET-MR prototype based on the ClearPEM technology. The detection performance of a L ...

Elsevier2013

A Low-Noise CMOS Imaging Pixel Circuit with In-Pixel Voltage Amplification

Peter Seitz, Christian Lotto

A pixel circuit for CMOS active sensor imaging applications is presented. An in-pixel open-loop voltage amplifier achieves efficient bandwidth limitation using low capacitance values, and it allows excellent reduction of downstream readout circuit noise, t ...

2009