Publications associées à Integrated electronic device with embedded microchannels and a method for producing thereof

Graph generative deep learning models with an application to circuit topologies

Modern integrated circuits are tiny yet incredibly complex technological artifacts, composed of millions and billions of individual structures working in unison. Managing their complexity and facilitating their design drove part of the co-evolution of mode ...

EPFL2024

Towards Scalable Electronics: Synthetic 2D Materials for Large-Area 2D Circuit Integration

Zhenyu Wang

In the past decades, a significant increase of the transistor density on a chip has led to exponential growth in computational power driven by Moore's law. To overcome the bottleneck of traditional von-Neumann architecture in computational efficiency, effo ...

EPFL2024

REMOTE: Re-thinking Task Mapping on Wireless 2.5D Systems-on-Package for Hotspot Removal

David Atienza Alonso, Giovanni Ansaloni, Marina Zapater Sancho, Darong Huang, Rafael Medina Morillas

2.5D Systems-on-Package (SoPs) are composed by several chiplets placed on an interposer. They are becoming increasingly popular as they enable easy integration of electronic components in the same package and high fabrication yields. Nevertheless, they int ...

2023

Unraveling the Electrochemical Electrode Coupling in Integrated Organic Electrochemical Transistors

Hsin Tseng, Matteo Cucchi

Organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) have gained enormous attention due to their potential for bioelectronics and neuromorphic computing. However, their implementation into real-world applications is still impeded by a lack of understanding of the c ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2023

2D Nanosystems: Applications of 2D Semiconductors for In-Memory Computing

Guilherme Migliato Marega

Machine learning and data processing algorithms have been thriving in finding ways of processing and classifying information by exploiting the hidden trends of large datasets. Although these emerging computational methods have become successful in today's ...

EPFL2023

Integrated electronics for time-of-flight positron emission tomography photodetectors

Andrada Alexandra Muntean

Positron emission tomography is a nuclear imaging technique well known for its use in oncology for cancer diagnosis and staging. A PET scanner is a complex machine which comprises photodetectors placed in a ring configuration that detect gamma photons gen ...

EPFL2023

A new versatile hybrid MEMS technology for high sensitivity, fluid proof sensing applications

Matthias Neuenschwander

The field of micro electromechanical systems (MEMS) evolved from the microelectronic industry and the technologies developed to fabricate integrated circuits. As a result, MEMS are commonly fabricated on silicon wafers. The development of MEMS has been dri ...

EPFL2022

Kilowatt-range Picosecond Switching Based on Microplasma Devices

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Armin Jafari, Mohammad Samizadeh Nikooytabalvandani, Remco Franciscus Peter van Erp

Plasma formation in micro- and nano-scales enables an ultrahigh-dv/dt picosecond switching in an integrated circuit form factor. Such on-chip plasma devices could provide a transformative approach to achieving high-power levels at very high frequencies, fa ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2021

Nanowatt Acoustic Inference Sensing Exploiting Nonlinear Analog Feature Extraction

Christian Enz, Minhao Yang, Jun Zhang

Ultralow-power sensing with inference functionality embedded in sensor nodes is essential for enabling the emerging pervasive intelligence. For acoustic inference sensing, the feature extraction can take advantage of power-efficient analog circuits. Howeve ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

ANTIGONE: A Programmable Energy-Efficient Current Digitizer for an ISFET Wearable Sweat Sensing System

Maher Kayal, François Krummenacher, Evgenia Voulgari

This article describes the design and the characterization of the ANTIGONE (ANalog To dIGital cONvErter) ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) built in AMS 0.35 m technology for low dc-current sensing. This energy-efficient ASIC was specifically d ...

2021

Characterization and Modeling of Total Ionizing Dose Effects on Nanoscale MOSFETs for Particle Physics Experiments

Chunmin Zhang

Total ionizing radiation compromises electrical characteristics of microelectronic devices and even causes functional failures of integrated circuits. It has been identified as a potential threat to electronic components, especially those in high-energy ph ...

EPFL2021

Thermal management of components for high energy physics experiments and space applications

Timothée Robert Sophus Frei

High-energy physics (HEP) experiments and space missions share a common challenge: thermal management in harsh environments. The severe constraints in both fields make cooling of electronic components a major design concern. This thesis aims to develop hig ...

EPFL2021

Seed Dibbling Method for the Grow of High-Quality Diamond on GaN

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Riyaz Mohammed Abdul Khadar, Reza Soleiman Zadeh Ardebili, Remco Franciscus Peter van Erp, Mehdi Naamoun, Alessandro Floriduz

The integration of diamond and GaN has been highly pursued for thermal management purposes as well as combining their exceptional complementary properties for power electronics applications and novel semiconductor heterostructures. However, the growth of d ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Autonomous oil flow generated by self-oscillating polymer gels

Vito Cacucciolo

The previously reported gel and polymer actuators require external inputs, such as batteries, circuits, electronic circuits, etc., compared with autonomous motions produced by the living organisms. To realize the spontaneous motions, here, we propose to in ...

Nature Research2020

Integrated turnkey soliton microcombs

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Chao Xiang, Junqiu Liu, Jijun He, Tianyi Liu

Optical frequency combs have a wide range of applications in science and technology(1). An important development for miniature and integrated comb systems is the formation of dissipative Kerr solitons in coherently pumped high-quality-factor optical micror ...

NATURE RESEARCH2020

Energy- and Cost-Efficient VLSI DSP Systems Design with Approximate Computing

Reza Ghanaatian Jahromi

Technology scaling has progressed to enable integrated circuits with extremely high density enabling systems of tremendous complexity with manageable power consumption. With the continuation of Moore's law for many years, electronic chips have been able to ...

EPFL2020

Conformable Hybrid Systems for Implantable Bioelectronic Interfaces

Giuseppe Schiavone, Florian Dylan Fallegger, Stéphanie Lacour

Conformable bioelectronic systems are promising tools that may aid the understanding of diseases, alleviate pathological symptoms such as chronic pain, heart arrhythmia, and dysfunctions, and assist in reversing conditions such as deafness, blindness, and ...

Wiley2020

Embedded Microchannel Cooling for High Power-Density GaN-on-Si Power Integrated Circuits

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Reza Soleiman Zadeh Ardebili, Georgios Kampitsis, Remco Franciscus Peter van Erp, Luca Nela

In this work, we demonstrate a new thermal management approach for direct cooling of GaN-on-Si power integrated circuits (ICs), in which the Si substrate functions as a microfluidic heat sink, turning Si into a cost-effective, high thermal performance subs ...

IEEE2020

Data Structures and Algorithms for Logic Synthesis in Advanced Technologies

Eleonora Testa

Logic synthesis is a key component of digital design and modern EDA tools; it is thus an essential instrument for the design of leading-edge chips and to push the limits of their performance. In the last decades, the electronic circuits community has evolv ...

EPFL2020

High-Performance III-V MOSFETs and Tunnel-FETs Integrated on Silicon

Clarissa Convertino

Silicon transistor scaling is approaching its end and a transition to novel materials and device concepts is more than ever essential. High-mobility compound semiconductors are considered promising candidates to replace silicon, targeting low-power logic a ...

EPFL2020