Publications related to Low-noise amplifier

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

Design and in vitro Characterization of a Wearable Multisensing System for Hydration Monitoring

Sandro Carrara, Ata Jedari Golparvar, Ali Meimandi, Sarah Tonello

Dehydration is a frequent condition in the elderly and can lead to serious health complications if not compensated timely. Early diagnosis can be problematic, as medical examinations in the hospital would be needed. Fully wearable low-cost multisensing dev ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

Ultra-Low Power Short-Range 60-GHz FMCW Radar Front-End

Sammy Cerida Rengifo

The millimeter wave (mmWave) frequency band is becoming very interesting over the past years because it provides the opportunity to operate using large bandwidths which are not available at lower frequencies. This enables new communication standards suppor ...

EPFL2023

GTC Follow-up Observations of Very Metal-poor Star Candidates from DESI

Pascale Jablonka, Arjun Dey

The observations from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will significantly increase the numbers of known extremely metal-poor stars by a factor of similar to 10, improving the sample statistics to study the early chemical evolution of the Mil ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2023

Millimeter-wave to near-terahertz sensors based on reversible insulator-to-metal transition in VO2

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Teodor Rosca, Fatemeh Qaderi Rahaqi

In the quest for low power bio-inspired spiking sensors, functional oxides like vanadium dioxide are expected to enable future energy efficient sensing. Here, we report uncooled millimeter-wave spiking detectors based on the sensitivity of insulator-to-met ...

SPRINGERNATURE2023

A Delta Sigma-Modulated Sample and Average Common-Mode Feedback Technique for Capacitively Coupled Amplifiers in a 192-nW Acoustic Analog Front-End

Kyojin Choo

This work presents an acoustic analog front-end based on a delta sigma-modulated sample and average common-mode feedback technique. The proposed feedback offers a process and temperature stable high pass (HP) frequency corner, unity dc feedback gain, and a ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

A Cryo-CMOS Wideband Quadrature Receiver With Frequency Synthesizer for Scalable Multiplexed Readout of Silicon Spin Qubits

Edoardo Charbon, Andrea Ruffino, Yatao Peng

In this article, a cryo-CMOS receiver integrated with a frequency synthesizer for scalable multiplexed readout of qubits is presented, focusing on radio frequency (RF) reflectometry readout of silicon-based semiconductor spin qubits/quantum dots. The propo ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

A Cryo-CMOS Oscillator With an Automatic Common-Mode Resonance Calibration for Quantum Computing Applications

Edoardo Charbon, Fabio Sebastiano, Yue Chen

This article presents a 4-to-5 GHz LC oscillator operating at 4.2K for quantum computing applications. The phase noise (PN) specification of the oscillator is derived based on the control fidelity for a single-qubit operation. To reveal the substantial gap ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Does powder averaging remove dispersion bias in diffusion MRI diameter estimates within real 3D axonal architectures?

Marco Pizzolato, Tim Bjørn Dyrby

Noninvasive estimation of axon diameter with diffusion MRI holds the potential to investigate the dynamic properties of the brain network and pathology of neurodegenerative diseases. Recent studies use powder averaging to account for complex white matter a ...

ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE2022

Improving Railway Track Coverage with mmWave Bridges: A Measurement Campaign

Andreas Peter Burg, Ruben Merz, Adrian Schumacher

Bringing cellular capacity into modern trains is challenging because they act as Faraday cages. Building a radio frequency (RF) corridor along the railway tracks ensures a high signal-to-noise ratio and limits handovers. However, building such RF corridors ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2021

A Cryogenic Broadband Sub-1-dB NF CMOS Low Noise Amplifier for Quantum Applications

Edoardo Charbon, Andrea Ruffino, Yatao Peng

A cryogenic broadband low noise amplifier (LNA) for quantum applications based on a standard 40-nm CMOS technology is reported. The LNA specifications are derived from the readout of semiconductor quantum bits at 4.2 K, whose quantum information signals ar ...

2021

On the effect of linear feedback and parametric pumping on a resonator's frequency stability

Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo

Resonant sensors based on micro- and nano-electro mechanical systems (M/NEMS) are ubiquitous in many sensing applications due to their outstanding performance capabilities, which are directly proportional to the quality factor (Q) of the devices. We addres ...

2020

Compressed sensing with signal averaging for improved sensitivity and motion artifact reduction in fluorine-19 MRI

Tobias Kober, Tom Hilbert, Jérôme Yerly, Ruud van Heeswijk, Elena Najdenovska

Fluorine-19 (F-19) MRI of injected perfluorocarbon emulsions (PFCs) allows for the non-invasive quantification of inflammation and cell tracking, but suffers from a low signal-to-noise ratio and extended scan time. To address this limitation, we tested the ...

WILEY2020

An AC-Coupled Wideband Neural Recording Front-End With Sub-1 mm2×fJ/conv-step Efficiency and 0.97 NEF

Volkan Cevher, Yusuf Leblebici, Arda Uran

This letter presents an energy-and-area-efficient ac-coupled front-end for the multichannel recording of wideband neural signals. The proposed unit conditions local held and action potentials using an inverter-based capacitively coupled low-noise amplifier ...

2020

TDCOSMO II. Six new time delays in lensed quasars from high-cadence monitoring at the MPIA 2.2m telescope

Frédéric Courbin, Vivien François Bonvin, Eric Gérard Guy Paic, Sun Hee Kim, Hung-Hsu Chan, Martin Raoul Robert Millon, Karina Alexandra Rojas Olate, Cameron Alexander Campbell Lemon, Adriano Agnello

We present six new time-delay measurements obtained from Rc-band monitoring data acquired at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPIA) 2.2m telescope at La Silla observatory between October 2016 and February 2020. The lensed quasars HE0047 1756, WG0 ...

EDP SCIENCES S A2020

An Ultra Low-Noise Micropower PPG Sensor

Antonino Caizzone

Nowadays, efficient and remote health monitoring is becoming increasingly important, given both the ageing of population and the combined action of an increase in obesity level and cardiovascular diseases. The healthcare industry is becoming more reliant o ...

EPFL2020

Quanta burst photography

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Arin Can Ülkü, Mohit Gupta, Shantanu Gupta

Single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) are an emerging sensor technology capable of detecting individual incident photons, and capturing their time-of-arrival with high timing precision. While these sensors were limited to singlepixel or low-resolution dev ...

2020

Monolithic Silicon-Based Nanobeam Cavities for Integrated Nonlinear and Quantum Photonics

Vincenzo Savona, Juan Pablo Vasco Cano, Kilian Robert Seibold

Photonic resonators that allow an electromagnetic field to be confined in an ultrasmall volume with a long decay time are crucial to a number of applications requiring enhanced nonlinear effects. For applications to integrated photonic devices on chip, com ...

American Physical Society (APS)2020

A CMOS Analog Front-End for Implantable Pulmonary Artery Pressure Monitoring System

Marco Mattavelli, Catherine Dehollain, Diego Ruben Barrettino, Kerim Türe, Mustafa Besirli

This paper presents an energy-efficient analog front-end circuit to monitor the pulmonary artery pressure (PAP) with piezoresistive pressure sensors. A low-power capacitively-coupled instrumentation amplifier (CCIA) is developed in order to boost the ampli ...

IEEE2019

A single-chip integrated transceiver for high field NMR magnetometry

Giovanni Boero, Marco Grisi, Gaurasundar Marc Conley

We present the design and performance of a broad-band single-chip integrated transceiver specifically conceived for nuclear magnetic resonance magnetometry. The single-chip transceiver is realized using a standard silicon complementary metal-oxide-semicond ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2019