Publications by Antonino Caizzone

Comparison of Two in Pixel Source Follower Schemes for Deep Subelectron Noise CMOS Image Sensors

Christian Enz, Minhao Yang, Assim Boukhayma, Antonino Caizzone, Daniel Mathias Bold, Andrea Kraxner

This paper compares two in-pixel source follower stage designs for low noise CMOS image sensors embedded both on a same 5 mm by 5 mm chip fabricated in a 180 nm CIS process. The presented chip embeds two pixel variants, one based on a body-effect-canceled ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Very Selective Detection of Low Physiopathological Glucose Levels by Spontaneous Raman Spectroscopy with Univariate Data Analysis

Christian Enz, Sandro Carrara, Assim Boukhayma, Antonino Caizzone, Ata Jedari Golparvar

After decades of research on non-invasive glucose monitoring, invasive devices based on finger blood sampling are still the predominant reference for diabetic patients for accurately measuring blood glucose levels. Meanwhile, research continues improving p ...

2021

Design and Optimization of Low Power and Low Light Sensor

Christian Enz, Assim Boukhayma, Antonino Caizzone, Raffaele Capoccia

The current trend towards embedding more and more light sensors in portable and wearable devices is calling for higher integration and reuse of the sensor interface electronics. In many applications, the light needs to be generated locally, which becomes t ...

IEEE2020

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

Time-of-flight device and 3d optical detector

Christian Enz, Assim Boukhayma, Antonino Caizzone

A Time-of-flight optical device and a 3D optical detector comprising a CMOS integrated circuit with an array of photosensitive pixels that are, at least in part, interconnected to form macro-pixels (180). Each macro-pixel (180) groups a plurality of indivi ...

2020

A CMOS Image Sensor Pixel Combining Deep Sub-Electron Noise With Wide Dynamic Range

Christian Enz, Assim Boukhayma, Antonino Caizzone

This letter introduces a 5-transistors (5T) implementation of CMOS Image Sensors (CIS) pixels enabling the combination of deep sub-electronnoise performance with wide dynamic range (DR). The 5T pixel presents a new technique to reduce the sense node capaci ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2020

A 2.6 μW Monolithic CMOS Photoplethysmographic (PPG) Sensor Operating With 2 μW LED Power for Continuous Health Monitoring

Christian Enz, Assim Boukhayma, Antonino Caizzone

2019

AC/DC Ratio Enhancement in Photoplethysmography Using a Pinned Photodiode

Christian Enz, Assim Boukhayma, Antonino Caizzone

Photoplethysmography (PPG) enables non-invasive vitals monitoring. Nevertheless, it is intrinsically limited by the extremely small AC/DC ratio, also called perfusion-index (PI). This increases the dynamic-range requirements to reliably process the PPG wav ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2019

A 2.6μW Monolithic CMOS Photoplethysmographic Sensor Operating with 2μW LED Power

Christian Enz, Assim Boukhayma, Antonino Caizzone

IEEE2019

An Ultra-Low Power PPG and mm-Resolution ToF PPD-Based CMOS Chip Towards All-in-One Photonic Sensors

Christian Enz, Assim Boukhayma, Antonino Caizzone

This paper presents a CMOS photonic sensor covering multiple applications from ambient light sensing to time resolved photonic sensing. The sensor is made of an array of gated pinned photodiodes (PPDs) averaged using binning and passive switched-capacitor ...

2019

Health monitoring device

Christian Enz, Assim Boukhayma, Antonino Caizzone

The invention relates to a photoplethysmography (PPG) sensing device comprising - a pulsed light source, - at least one pixel to create photo-generated electrons, synchronized with said pulsed light source. It is mainly characterized in that each pixel com ...

2019

An Accurate kTC Noise Analysis of CDS Circuits

Christian Enz, Assim Boukhayma, Antonino Caizzone

This work presents an analytical analysis of the thermal noise in widely used correlated double-sampling (CDS) circuits. The objective is to provide designers with simplified noise formulas essential for the design and optimization of such blocks. The obta ...

IEEE2018

Comprehensive Noise Analysis in PPG Read-out Chains

Christian Enz, Assim Boukhayma, Antonino Caizzone

2017