Publications de Montserrat Fernandez-Bolanos Badia

NanoElectronics roadmap for Europe: From nanodevices and innovative materials to system integration

Lucia Baldi Unser, Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Montserrat Fernandez-Bolanos Badia

The NEREID project ("NanoElectronics Roadmap for Europe: Identification and Dissemination") is dedicated to mapping the future of European Nanoelectronics. NEREID's objective is to develop a medium and long term roadmap for the European nanoelectronics ind ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2019

3D Smith charts scattering parameters frequency-dependent orientation analysis and complex-scalar multi-parameter characterization applied to Peano reconfigurable vanadium dioxide inductors

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Andreas Schueler, Josef Andreas Schuler, Montserrat Fernandez-Bolanos Badia, Emanuele Andrea Casu, Junrui Zhang, Anna Krammer, Matteo Cavalieri, Andrei Müller

Recently, the field of Metal-Insulator-Transition (MIT) materials has emerged as an unconventional solution for novel energy efficient electronic functions, such as steep slope subthermionic switches, neuromorphic hardware, reconfigurable radiofrequency fu ...

Nature Research2019

A Reconfigurable Inductor Based on Vanadium Dioxide Insulator-to-Metal Transition

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Montserrat Fernandez-Bolanos Badia, Emanuele Andrea Casu, Alessandro Fumarola, Matteo Cavalieri, Andrei Müller

This letter introduces a reconfigurable planar square-coil-shaped inductor exploiting as the tuning mechanism the insulator-to-metal transition (IMT) of a vanadium dioxide (VO2) switch placed in the interwinding space in an unprecedented manner. The VO2 th ...

2018

Tunable RF phase shifters based on Vanadium Dioxide metal insulator transition

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Josef Andreas Schuler, Montserrat Fernandez-Bolanos Badia, Wolfgang Amadeus Vitale, Emanuele Andrea Casu, Nicolò Oliva, Anna Krammer, Alessandro Fumarola, Matteo Cavalieri, Andrei Müller

2018

Vanadium Oxide Bandstop Tunable Filter for Ka Frequency Bands Based on a Novel Reconfigurable Spiral Shape Defected Ground Plane CPW

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Josef Andreas Schuler, Montserrat Fernandez-Bolanos Badia, Emanuele Andrea Casu, Anna Krammer, Alessandro Fumarola, Andrei Müller

2018

Advanced Sensor Systems by Low-Temperature Heterogeneous 3D Integration Processes

Montserrat Fernandez-Bolanos Badia, Andrei Müller, Josef Weber

A few application demonstrators of heterogeneous 3D integrated systems including innovative nanosensors for gas detection and biofludic applications have been successfully implemented showing efficient low-temperature heterogeneous integration processes, m ...

IEEE2018

Embedded Passive Nano-Liter Micropump For Sweat Collection And Analysis

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Fabien Patrick Wildhaber, Montserrat Fernandez-Bolanos Badia, Johan Frédéric Longo, Hoël Maxime Guérin, Erick Antonio Garcia Cordero, Francesco Bellando

This paper presents a method to integrate biocompatible passive microfluidic systems within a sensing platform to allow continuous analysis of sweat in a wearable microsystem. The technology is promising for miniaturization of systems to enable access to b ...

IEEE2018

Low Impedance ALD HfO2 Partially-Filled-Gap Flexural and Bulk MEMS Resonators Piezoresistively Detected for Distributed Mass Sensing

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Montserrat Fernandez-Bolanos Badia, Emanuele Andrea Casu, Mariazel de la Candelas Maqueda López

2017

Shunt capacitive switches based on VO2 metal insulator transition for RF phase shifter applications

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Andreas Schueler, Josef Andreas Schuler, Montserrat Fernandez-Bolanos Badia, Wolfgang Amadeus Vitale, Emanuele Andrea Casu, Mariazel de la Candelas Maqueda López, Michele Tamagnone, Nicolò Oliva, Anna Krammer

IEEE2017

Lowering motional resistance by partially HfO2 gap filling in double-ended tuning fork MEMS resonators

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Montserrat Fernandez-Bolanos Badia, Emanuele Andrea Casu, Mariazel de la Candelas Maqueda López

IEEE2017

Electrothermal actuation of vanadium dioxide for tunable capacitors and microwave filters with integrated microheaters

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Andreas Schueler, Montserrat Fernandez-Bolanos Badia, Antonio Paone, Clara-Fausta Moldovan, Wolfgang Amadeus Vitale, Luca Petit

We report the fabrication, modeling and characterization of novel microwave tunable capacitors based on the metal-insulator transition (MIT) of Vanadium Dioxide (VO2) as a future replacement solution for microelectromechanical capacitive switches. We prese ...

Elsevier Science Sa2016

Carbon nanotube gas sensor array for multiplex analyte discrimination

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Montserrat Fernandez-Bolanos Badia, Hoël Maxime Guérin, Elizabeth Buitrago Godinez

The lack of selectivity toward a particular analyte has always been the primary concern regarding CNT-based gas sensors. For that reason, in here we present a gas discrimination strategy that focuses on the electrode-CNT junction. The junction is shown to ...

Elsevier Science Sa2015

Tunable Capacitors and Microwave Filters Based on Vanadium Dioxide Metal-Insulator Transition

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Josef Andreas Schuler, Montserrat Fernandez-Bolanos Badia, Antonio Paone, Clara-Fausta Moldovan, Wolfgang Amadeus Vitale

We report the fabrication, modeling and characterization of novel microwave tunable capacitors based on the metal-insulator transition (MIT) of Vanadium Dioxide (VO2). We present the advantages of VO2-based capacitors over alternative technologies for micr ...

2015

Fine Pitch 3D-TSV Based High Frequency Components for RF MEMS Applications

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Montserrat Fernandez-Bolanos Badia, Wolfgang Amadeus Vitale, Josef Weber

The development of interconnections suitable for radio- frequency (RF) and millimeter-wave (mm-wave) applications is of foremost importance for the feasibility of high-quality substrate-integrated devices. For this purpose, we introduce and validate the te ...

2015

Ultra Fine-Pitch TSV Technology for Ultra-Dense High-Q RF Inductors

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Montserrat Fernandez-Bolanos Badia, Wolfgang Amadeus Vitale, Josef Weber

We demonstrate that fine-pitch TSV technology can be exploited to fabricate micro-inductors on high resistivity substrate, with record-high inductance per area and preserving their performance at GHz frequencies. We report an extensive experimental study o ...

2015

Solid-gap wine-glass mode disks VB-FET resonators applied to biomass sensing

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Montserrat Fernandez-Bolanos Badia, Wolfgang Amadeus Vitale, Mariazel de la Candelas Maqueda López

The working principle of an electromechanical resonator for mass sensing applications is based on monitoring the characteristic resonance frequency downshift due to the particles attachment on the surface of the device. Solid-Gap Vibrating-Body Field Effec ...

Elsevier Science Bv2015

Component design and testing for a miniaturised autonomous sensor based on a nanowire materials platform

Maher Kayal, François Krummenacher, Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Montserrat Fernandez-Bolanos Badia, Naser Khosro Pour, Elizabeth Buitrago Godinez

We present the design considerations of an autonomous wireless sensor and discuss the fabrication and testing of the various components including the energy harvester, the active sensing devices and the power management and sensor interface circuits. A com ...

Springer2014

Nanoelectromechanical digital logic circuits using curved cantilever switches with amorphous-carbon-coated contacts

Daniel Grogg, Montserrat Fernandez-Bolanos Badia, Antonios Bazigos

Nanoelectromechanical (NEM) switches have the potential to complement or replace traditional CMOS transistors in the area of ultra-low-power digital electronics. This paper reports the demonstration of prototype circuits including the first 3-stage ring os ...

2014

Electrical characterization of high performance, liquid gated vertically stacked SiNW-based 3D FET biosensors

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Montserrat Fernandez-Bolanos Badia, Hoël Maxime Guérin, Elizabeth Buitrago Godinez

A 3D vertically stacked silicon nanowire (SiNW) field effect transistor featuring a high density array of fully depleted channels gated by a backgate and one or two symmetrical platinum side-gates through a liquid has been electrically characterized for th ...

Elsevier Science Sa2014

The top-down fabrication of a 3D-integrated, fully CMOS-compatible FET biosensor based on vertically stacked SiNWs and FinFETs

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Montserrat Fernandez-Bolanos Badia, Sara Rigante, Elizabeth Buitrago Godinez

A 3D vertically stacked silicon nanowire (SiNW) and Fin field effect transistor (FET) featuring a high density array (7 or 8 x 20 SiNWs, > 4 Fins vertically stacked) of fully depleted, ultra-thin (SiNWs diameters similar to 15-30 nm, Fin width/height fw si ...

Elsevier2014