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EPFL2023

Intelligent RF System for Ultra Low Power Spectrum Sensing with Machine Learning

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The crowdedness of the RF spectrum constitutes problems in communication, however it also accommodates large amount of useful information. This information can be used to determine existing signals and operating contexts. However, spectrum condition varies ...

EPFL2024

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EPFL2022

An All-Digital 1.25 Mbps 5-Subcarrier OFDM Backscatter Uplink with Delta-Sigma Modulation for Improved Spurious-Free Dynamic Range

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Blumino: The First Fully Integrated Analog SiPM With On-Chip Time Conversion

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IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Performance of chip-scale optical frequency comb generators in coherent WDM communications

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2020

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A remotely powered fully integrated low power class-E power amplifier for implantable sensor systems

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This paper presents a fully integrated low power class-E power amplifier and its integration to remotely powered sensor system. The on-chip 1.2 GHz power amplifier is implemented in 0.18 A mu m CMOS process with 0.2 V supply. The implantable system is powe ...

Springer2016

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Institution of Engineering and Technology2016

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EPFL2016

Digital Predistortion of Power Amplifier Non-Linearities for Full-Duplex Transceivers

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Non-linearities introduced by the power amplifier stage can significantly reduce the performance of self-interference cancellation in full-duplex transceivers. Accordingly, we propose a full-duplex system architecture that predistorts the digital baseband ...

Ieee2016

A Low Power On-Chip Class-E Power Amplifier For Remotely Powered Implantable Sensor Systems

Catherine Dehollain, Enver Gürhan Kilinç, Kerim Türe

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Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2015

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In this article, we present an integrated broadband complementary metal-oxide semiconductor single-chip transceiver suitable for the realization of multi-nuclear pulsed nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) probes. The realized single-chip transceiver can be in ...

American Institute of Physics2015

Design and comparison of class-C and class-D power amplifiers for remotely powered systems

Catherine Dehollain, Enver Gürhan Kilinç, Kerim Türe, Franco Maloberti

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2013

Small-signal amplifier based on single-layer MoS2

Andras Kis, Branimir Radisavljevic

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American Institute of Physics2012

Electrical impedance tomography system based on active electrodes

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Institute of Physics2012