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A 0.14-nJ/b 200-Mb/s 2.7-3.5-GHz Quasi-Balanced FSK Transceiver With PLL-Based Modulation and Sideband Energy Detection

This paper describes a balanced frequency shift keying (FSK) modulation, namely quasi-balanced FSK (QB-FSK), for energy-efficient high-data-rate communication. Not suffering from data-pattern dependency, the proposed modulation method enables frequency mod ...

2024

Electric-field-induced second-order nonlinear processes in stoichiometric silicon nitride

Boris Zabelich

Nonlinear optical frequency conversion is one of the driving research areas in photonics. Its quasi instantaneous response and the promise of low power consumption in integrated structures could cover the demand for fast signal processing with minimal ener ...

EPFL2024

Numerical and experimental investigations of a microwave interferometer for the negative ion source SPIDER

Ivo Furno, Rémy Jacquier, Riccardo Agnello

The electron density close to the extraction grids and the co-extracted electrons represent a crucial issue when operating negative ion sources for fusion reactors. An excessive electron density in the plasma expansion region can indeed inhibit the negativ ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

A Maximum-Likelihood-Based Two-User Receiver for LoRa Chirp Spread-Spectrum Modulation

Andreas Peter Burg, Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming, Orion Afisiadis, Joachim Tobias Tapparel, Mathieu Pierre Xhonneux

Long Range (LoRa) is an emerging low-power wide-area network technology offering long-range wireless connectivity to Internet of Things (IoT) devices. For energy efficiency reasons, LoRa end nodes implement a nonslotted ALOHA multiple access scheme to tran ...

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 Low-Complexity LoRa Synchronization Algorithm Robust to Sampling Time Offsets

Orion Afisiadis, Mathieu Pierre Xhonneux

LoRaWAN is nowadays one of the most popular protocols for low-power Internet of Things communications. Although its physical layer, namely LoRa, has been thoroughly studied in the literature, aspects related to the synchronization of LoRa receivers have re ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Electronic properties and ion migration of “in vacuo” lithiated nanoporous WO3:Mo thin films

Andreas Schueler, Josef Andreas Schuler, Luc Burnier, Jérémy Jacques Antonin Fleury

Electrochromic (EC) glazing helps manage daylight and solar heat gains in building, thereby allowing a reduction in energy consumption caused by heating, cooling, and artificial lighting. This study relates the optical and electronic properties of nanoporo ...

2022

Enhancing the Reliability of Dense LoRaWAN Networks With Multi-User Receivers

Andreas Peter Burg, Joachim Tobias Tapparel, Mathieu Pierre Xhonneux

LoRaWAN is a low-power wireless technology that provides long-range connectivity to battery-powered Internet of Things (IoT) devices. To minimize the energy consumption of the IoT nodes, LoRaWAN networks use for the uplink a pure non-slotted ALOHA multiple ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

High-Accuracy Calibration-Free Calorimeter for the Measurement of Low Power Losses

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Remco Franciscus Peter van Erp, Enea Figini, Armin Jafari, Reza Soleiman Zadeh Ardebili, Mohammad Samizadeh Nikooytabalvandani, Furkan Karakaya, Michaël Heijnemans

Wide-band-gap technologies enable ultra-high efficiencies in high-frequency power conversion. However, inadequate accuracies in electrical measurements could lead to spurious efficiency measurements, even above 100%. Furthermore, bandwidth limitations, par ...

2020

Low-loss SiN waveguides for efficient and broadly tunable nonlinear frequency conversion

Tobias Kippenberg, Camille Sophie Brès, Junqiu Liu, Florent Gilles Mazeas

We report on the use of low-loss Si3N4 waveguides for efficient frequency conversion tunable from the near infrared to the short-wave infrared. We achieve -15 dB conversion efficiency for 200 mW coupled pump power. ...

2020

Calibration-Free Calorimeter for Sensitive Loss Measurements: Case of High-Frequency Inductors

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Armin Jafari, Remco Franciscus Peter van Erp, Enea Figini, Palliyage Srilak Nirmana Perera, Furkan Karakaya, Michaël Heijnemans

Wide-band-gap technologies enable ultra-high efficiencies in high-frequency power conversion. However, inadequate accuracies in electrical measurements could lead to spurious efficiency measurements, even above 100%. Furthermore, bandwidth limitations, par ...

IEEE2020

Physical Layer Aspects of LoRa and Full-Duplex Wireless Transceivers

Orion Afisiadis

Wireless communications are currently faced with two main challenges. The first challenge stems from the enormous number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices that transmit very small amounts of data. The second challenge is the need for ever-increasing data ...

EPFL2020

Highly tunable second-harmonic generation in all-optically poled silicon nitride waveguides

Camille Sophie Brès, Anton Stroganov, Ozan Yakar, Edgars Nitiss

The availability of nonlinear parametric processes, such as frequency conversion in photonic integrated circuits is essential. In this contribution, we demonstrate a highly tunable second-harmonic generation in a fully complementary metal–oxide–semiconduct ...

2020

Wide band-pass FSS with reduced periodicity for energy efficient windows at higher frequencies

Josef Andreas Schuler, Luc Burnier, Jérémy Jacques Antonin Fleury

A simulation model and an experimental characterization of energy saving glazing transparent to mobile communication frequency up to 40 GHz is presented. A previous study showed that laser structured energy efficient windows with a frequency selective surf ...

SPRINGER HEIDELBERG2020

Transient Electronics for Smart Biodegradable Medical Implants

Matthieu Jean Michel Rüegg

Bioresorbable implantable medical devices show great potential for applications requiring medical care over well-defined periods of time. Such implants naturally degrade and resorb in the body, which eliminates adverse long-term effects or the need for a s ...

EPFL2020

Analysis, modeling and design of a CMOS Super-Regenerative Receiver for implanted medical devices under square and sinusoidal quench signals

Catherine Dehollain, Naci Pekçokgüler

Medical implant devices have found widespread application in recent years. The Super-Regenerative Receiver has been one preferred architecture due to its power advantage over other architectures. We present a detailed analysis of the circuits and their equ ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2019

Tokamak plasma edge studies by microwave short-pulse reflectometry and backscattering

Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera

Moving towards an increased understanding of the dynamic processes in the edge of tokamak plasmas requires continuous innovation in diagnostic capabilities, pushing the envelope in both spatial and temporal dimenstions. Plasma density and rotation, and the ...

EPFL2019

Transient Electronics: Biodegradable Frequency‐Selective Magnesium Radio‐Frequency Microresonators for Transient Biomedical Implants (Adv. Funct. Mater. 39/2019)

Jürgen Brugger, Giovanni Boero, Matthieu Jean Michel Rüegg, Remo Blum

In article number 1903051, Matthieu Rüegg, Juergen Brugger, and co-workers design, fabricate, and characterize biodegradable magnesium microresonators using an innovative microfabrication process based on ion beam etching. Under a radio-frequency magnetic ...

2019

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

Compute–Forward Multiple Access (CFMA): Practical Implementations

Michael Christoph Gastpar, Sung Hoon Lim, Jingge Zhu, Erixhen Sula, Adriano Pastore

We present a practical strategy that aims to attain rate points on the dominant face of the multiple access channel capacity using a standard low complexity decoder. This technique is built upon recent theoretical developments of Zhu and Gastpar on compute ...

2019