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Terahertz waveform synthesis in integrated thin-film lithium niobate platform

Jérôme Faist, Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus, Francesca Fabiana Settembrini

Bridging the "terahertz gap" relies upon synthesizing arbitrary waveforms in the terahertz domain enabling applications that require both narrow band sources for sensing and few-cycle drives for classical and quantum objects. However, realization of custom ...

Nature Portfolio2023

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

Programmable frequency-bin quantum states in a nano-engineered silicon device

Matteo Galli, Marco Clementi

Frequency-bin qubits get the best of time-bin and dual-rail encodings, but require external modulators and pulse shapers to build arbitrary states. Here, instead, the authors work directly on-chip by controlling the interference of biphoton amplitudes gene ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Thermal and Voltage-Aware Performance Management of 3D MPSoCs with Flow Cell Arrays and Integrated SC Converters

David Atienza Alonso, Halima Najibi, Giovanni Ansaloni, Marina Zapater Sancho, Alexandre Sébastien Julien Levisse

Flow cell arrays (FCAs) concurrently provide efficient on-chip liquid cooling and electrochemical power generation. This technology is especially promising for three-dimensional multi-processor systems-on-chip (3D MPSoCs) realized in deeply scaled technolo ...

2022

Development of a large-area, light-weight module using the MALTA monolithic pixel detector

Edoardo Charbon, Ashish Sharma, Francesco Piro

The MALTA pixel chip is a 2 cm x 2 cm large monolithic pixel detector developed in the Tower 180 nm imaging process. The chip contains four CMOS transceiver blocks at its sides which allow chip-to-chip data transfer. The power pads are located mainly at th ...

ELSEVIER2022

Laser soliton microcombs heterogeneously integrated on silicon

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Chao Xiang, Junqiu Liu, Wenle Weng, Zeyu Zhang, Zeyu Zhang

Silicon photonics enables wafer-scale integration of optical functionalities on chip. Silicon-based laser frequency combs can provide integrated sources of mutually coherent laser lines for terabit-per-second transceivers, parallel coherent light detection ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2021

At the end of scaling: 2D materials for computing and sensing applications

Nicolò Oliva

In the past half-century, the digital revolution completely changed the world we live in and the ways we experience it. Over this period, the underlying force supporting the continuous technological development has been the geometrical scaling of transisto ...

EPFL2020

A Real-Time Multi-Camera Depth Estimation ASIC with Custom On-Chip Embedded DRAM

Jonathan Emmanuel D Narinx

The capability to process high-resolution videos in real-time is becoming more important in a wide variety of applications such as autonomous vehicles, virtual reality or intelligent surveillance systems. The high-accuracy and complex video processing algo ...

EPFL2019

Learning-Based Hardware Design for Data Acquisition Systems

Cosimo Aprile

This multidisciplinary research work aims to investigate the optimized information extraction from signals or data volumes and to develop tailored hardware implementations that trade-off the complexity of data acquisition with that of data processing, conc ...

EPFL2018

Impedance-based real-time position sensor for lab-on-a-chip devices

Philippe Renaud, Harald Van Lintel, Jonathan Bastien Cottet

This paper presents the theoretical and experimental development of an integrated position sensor for lab-on-a-chip devices. The interest for single cell analysis is growing. However, this requires monitoring and controlling cell displacements in real time ...

2018

An optical-frequency synthesizer using integrated photonics

Nicolas Volet, Tobias Kippenberg, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer

Optical-frequency synthesizers, which generate frequency-stable light from a single microwave-frequency reference, are revolutionizing ultrafast science and metrology, but their size, power requirement and cost need to be reduced if they are to be more wid ...

2018

PowerCool: Simulation of Cooling and Powering of 3D MPSoCs with Integrated Flow Cell Arrays

David Atienza Alonso, Mohamed Mostafa Sabry Aly, Arvind Raj Mahankali Sridhar, Bruno Michel, Artem Andreev, Marina Zapater Sancho

Integrated Flow-Cell Arrays (FCAs) represent a combination of integrated liquid cooling and on-chip power generation, converting chemical energy of the flowing electrolyte solutions to electrical energy. The FCA technology provides a promising way to addre ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017

A Single-chip 2048x1080 Resolution 32fps 380mW Trinocular Disparity Estimation Processor in 28nm CMOS Technology

Yusuf Leblebici, Abdulkadir Akin, Tugba Demirci, Jonathan Emmanuel D Narinx

This paper presents a single-chip trinocular disparity estimation processor, capable of computing in real-time up to 2048×1080 resolution depth maps at 32fps with up to 256-pixel disparity range using two/three CMOS camera sensors. The most important featu ...

2017

Heterogeneous integration of lithium niobate and silicon nitride waveguides for wafer-scale photonic integrated circuits on silicon

Nicolas Volet, Michail Zervas, Tobias Kippenberg, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer

An ideal photonic integrated circuit for nonlinear photonic applications requires high optical nonlinearities and low loss. This work demonstrates a heterogeneous platform by bonding lithium niobate (LN) thin films onto a silicon nitride (Si3N4) waveguide ...

Optical Society of America2017

Copper TSV-Based Process Development for Die-Level Homogeneous and Heterogeneous 3D Integration Platform

Seniz Esra Küçük

Research and development efforts on chip and wafer-scale 3D integration for system miniaturization have been continuing for more than a decade. However, there are still only a handful of 3D integrated products available in the market due to the high cost a ...

EPFL2017

Single-chip electron spin resonance detectors operating at 50 GHz, 92 GHz, and 146 GHz

Giovanni Boero, Jürgen Brugger, Jens Anders, Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Ivica Zivkovic, Gabriele Gualco, Alessandro Valentino Matheoud

We report on the design and characterization of single-chip electron spin resonance (ESR) detectors operating at 50 GHz, 92 GHz, and 146 GHz. The core of the single-chip ESR detectors is an integrated LC-oscillator, formed by a single turn aluminum planar ...

Academic Press Inc - Elsevier Science2017

Nanoscale Sensors for Ultrasensitive Label-free Detection of Cancer Biomarkers and Monitoring of Therapeutic Compounds

Ioulia Tzouvadaki

Prostate cancer is a life-threatening malignant disease, one the most common cancer types in men and leading cause of death among men because of cancer. Considering the state of the art for the diagnosis of prostate cancer a man overall has to suffer uncom ...

EPFL2017

Robustness Analysis of Controllable-Polarity Silicon Nanowire Devices and Circuits

Hassan Ghasemzadeh Mohammadi

Substantial downscaling of the feature size in current CMOS technology has confronted digital designers with serious challenges including short channel effect and high amount of leakage power. To address these problems, emerging nano-devices, e.g., Silicon ...

EPFL2016

Anomalous visualization of sub-2 THz radiation on silicon- based CMOS and CCD sensors

Christoph Peter Hauri

Low frequency THz radiation is visualized on common optically-designed CCD and CMOS sensors. The CCD/CMOS technology offers smallest pixel size, large chip, very cheap cost, insensitivity to background noise, and multispectral detection. ...

Ieee2016

Chip-scale Optical Resonator Enabled Synthesizer (CORES) Miniature systems for optical frequency synthesis

Nicolas Volet, Tobias Kippenberg, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Hairun Guo

An approach for a low-power chip-scale package is described, that provides a laser output with a programmable frequency across 50 nm of bandwidth centered at 1550 nm, and a resolution of one part in 10(14). ...

Ieee2016