Publications related to Gain (electronics)

A Two-Wired High Input Impedance and High CMRR Active Electrode Insensitive to Component Mismatch

This article proposes a new two-wired amplifying active electrode (AE), presenting a high input impedance and a high common-mode rejection ratio (CMRR). In the proposed structure, the input impedance and the CMRR of the system are considerably increased by ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

Emulating Multimemristive Behavior of Silicon Nanowire-Based Biosensors by Using CMOS-Based Implementations

Sandro Carrara, Junrui Chen, Kapil Bhardwaj

The research presented in this article draws inspiration from previous efforts aimed at replicating the functions of various solid-state memristors using a variety of materials. The memristor circuit emulator serves as a cost-effective tool for circuit des ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

Toward Metantennas: Metamaterial-Based Antennas for Wireless Communications

Yuanyan Su

Antennas have historically been the most common electromagnetic (EM) technology for wireless communication systems. Antenna as hardware is entirely dependent on the EM properties of the materials used, mostly related to the permittivity and permeability. I ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2023

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

Closed-loop technique using gain balance for fast Brillouin Optical Time-Domain Analysis

Luc Thévenaz, Zhisheng Yang, Li Zhang, Ana Gabriela Correa Mena

A closed-loop servo control based on the gain ratio of two probing frequencies is proposed for fast BOTDA, where the feedback is independent of probe and pump loss, making it robust in harsh environment. ...

Optica Publishing Group2022

A Capacitively-Coupled Chopper Instrumentation Amplifier for Implantable Bridge Sensor Systems

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

This paper presents an energy and area efficient capacitively-coupled chopper instrumentation amplifier (CCIA) dedicated to implantable bridge sensor systems. Chopper stabilization is employed to decrease its offset and 1/f noise and the resulting ripple d ...

IEEE2022

A Compact Transformation Optics-based Luneburg Lens Antenna using Curved Reactive Impedance Surface

Anja Skrivervik, Yuanyan Su

This paper is to investigate the pattern distortion that happens in the extremely low incidence angle for a flat TM-polarized half Luneburg lens antenna (HLLA) by using a purely reactive impedance surface (RIS). For the scenario of a radar mounted on an un ...

IEEE2021

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

Free Carrier Mobility, Series Resistance, and Threshold Voltage Extraction in Junction FETs

Jean-Michel Sallese, Farzan Jazaeri, Matthias Bucher

In this brief, extraction methods are proposed for determining the essential parameters of double gate junction field-effect transistors (FETs). First, a novel method for determining free carrier effective mobility, similar to a recently proposed method fo ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

Fully Soft-Switched High Step-Up Nonisolated Three-Port DC-DC Converter Using GaN HEMTs

Marco Mattavelli, Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Georgios Kampitsis, Rasoul Faraji

In this article, a soft-switched nonisolated high step-up multi-input dc-dc converter is proposed. The proposed converter has overcome the hard switching problem of the conventional boost three port converter (boost-TPC) by providing zero-voltage-switching ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

Wideband Multiport Antennas

Anja Skrivervik, Abdulkadir Uzun

In this paper, a wideband four port 2-6 GHz antenna is proposed. One-, two-, and four-port antennas are implemented and characterized between 2 and 6 GHz. The isolation between the ports is improved by connecting and optimizing the ground plane sections. T ...

2020

A Comparison of Three Feeding Networks for CubeSat L/S-dual-band Stacked-Patch Antennas

Anja Skrivervik, Miroslav Veljovic

The CubeSat nanosatellite standard puts strict limitations on the antenna volume, resulting in a low impedance and axial-ratio (AR) bandwidths of patch antennas. The AR of a circularly polarized patch antenna can be improved with the introduction of a dedi ...

IEEE2019

Performance analysis of the differential pulse-width pair Brillouin optical time domain analysis using the log normalized and linearly normalized gain

Luc Thévenaz, Simon Adrien Zaslawski, Zhisheng Yang

The performance of the differential pulse-width pair Brillouin optical time domain analysis (DPP-BOTDA) is evaluated experimentally using either the gain from log normalization or linear normalization for the subtraction of traces collected with pump pulse ...

SPIE2019

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

2D nanopores: fabrication, energy harvesting and field-effect sensing

Michael Graf

Solid-state nanopores are man-made, nano-sized openings in membranes separating two chambers containing an electrolyte solution. When applying an electric field across the membrane, the nanopore provides the only path for mobile ions to pass from one side ...

EPFL2019

Nonreciprocity in Microwave Optomechanical Circuits

Tobias Kippenberg, Nathan Rafaël Bernier, László Dániel Tóth

Nonreciprocal devices such as isolators and circulators are necessary to protect sensitive apparatus from unwanted noise. Recently, a variety of alternatives were proposed to replace ferrite-based commercial technologies, with the motivation to be integrat ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2018

Quantum-Limited Directional Amplifiers with Optomechanics

Tobias Kippenberg, Nathan Rafaël Bernier, László Dániel Tóth

Directional amplifiers are an important resource in quantum-information processing, as they protect sensitive quantum systems from excess noise. Here, we propose an implementation of phase-preserving and phase-sensitive directional amplifiers for microwave ...

2018

Negative capacitance tunnel F£Ts: Experimental demonstration of outstanding simultaneous boosting of on-current, transconductance, overdrive, and swing

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Igor Stolichnov, Farzan Jazaeri, Ali Saeidi

This paper demonstrates and experimentally reports the highest ever performance boosting in strained silicon-nanowire homojunction TFETs with negative capacitance, provided by matched PZT capacitors. Outstanding enhancements of I on , g m , and overdrive a ...

IEEE2018

ICRH antenna &ITS&IT-matrix measurements and plasma coupling characterisation at JET

Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Martinus Gijs, Jonathan Graves, Yves Martin, Duccio Testa, Patrick Blanchard, Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia, Alessandro Pau, Pierre-Thomas Paul Brun, Cristian Sommariva, Henri Weisen, Richard Pitts, Sun Hee Kim, Yann Camenen, Jan Horacek, Javier García Hernández, Marco Wischmeier, Mikhail Maslov, Nicola Vianello, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Federico Nespoli, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Liang Yao, Yao Zhou, David Pfefferlé, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Robin Humphry-Baker, Davide Galassi, José Pedro Rebelo Ferreira Marques, Ana Francisca Leal Silva Soares, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Daniel Scott Alessi, Arnout Lodewijk M Beckers, Julio Rodriguez, Hamish William Patten, Jonnathan Cesar Hidalgo Acosta, , , , , , , , ,

Negative Capacitance Tunnel FETs: Experimental Demonstration of Outstanding Simultaneous Boosting of On-current, Transconductance, Overdrive, and Swing

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Igor Stolichnov, Farzan Jazaeri, Ali Saeidi

This paper demonstrates and experimentally reports the highest ever performance boosting in strained silicon-nanowire homojunction TFETs with negative capacitance, provided by matched PZT capacitors. Outstanding enhancements of Ion, gm, and overdrive are a ...

2017