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The CMOS image sensor is widely used in digital multimedia applications. Its performance ramps up every year with denser integration,…
With its all-surface 2D structure combined with very high carrier mobility, graphene is an extremely promising candidate for high sensitivity…
Arrays of MEMS Langmuir probes that are flush-mountable (Figure 1) can serve as a sensorial skin on a spacecraft for…
With the escalating costs of hospital visits, clinicians are opting to use at-home monitoring devices to diagnose patients. Current ECG…
Epilepsy is a common chronic neurological disorder that affects about 1% of the world population [1] . It is characterized…
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) occurs in over 1.4 million persons annually in the United States [1] . Monitoring of a…
Compressed sensing (CS) is a promising method for recovering sparse signals from fewer measurements than ordinarily used in Shannon’s sampling…
Silicon CMOS circuits have a well-defined lower limit on their achievable energy efficiency due to sub-threshold leakage. Once this limit…
Integrated photonic interconnects present a disruptive alternative to electrical I/O for many VLSI applications, with potential for superior bandwidth density…
Outphasing power amplifier architectures such as linear amplification with nonlinear components (LINC) have been used to improve the power efficiency…
Numerical algorithms are the basis of many important technologies employed in industry and academia. Their efficient implementation is key in…
Demand for bandwidth in chip-to-chip communication has been increasing as the industry demands a higher quantity and quality of information….
With the rise of many-core chips that require substantial bandwidth from the network-on-chip (NoC), integrated photonic links have been investigated…
Two-dimensional crystals, including graphene, hexagonal boron nitride, and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD) materials, have outstanding properties for developing the next…
Moore’s law scaling and the diminishing performance returns of complex uniprocessor chips have led to the advent of multicore processors…
For applications requiring the use of power amplifiers (PAs) operating at high frequencies and power levels, it is often preferable…
To achieve comfortable form factors for wireless medical devices, battery size, and thus power consumption, must be curtailed. Often the…
The Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasound Transducer (CMUT) is an alternative to traditional piezoelectric transducers. The CMUT technology provides an opportunity for…
Due to growing populations in cities, resources for city and village residents have become scarce while costs for public services…
Most current ultrasound imaging systems use piezoelectric materials for the ultrasound transducer. The recent development of micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) allowed…
High resolution and high speed in data converters are difficult to achieve at low power consumption levels [1] . …
Bandpass delta-sigma modulators (BPDSMs) are particularly useful in modern receiver systems. In a BPDSM system, high-frequency narrow band signals are…
As wireless communication technology is rapidly advancing, new wireless applications are continuously developed. Figure 1 shows each application space and…
This project focuses on two vibration non-idealities that affect the performance of vibration energy harvesters [1] [2] . Most vibration…
There is an ever-increasing demand for high-resolution and high-accuracy A/D converters in communication systems. In order to raise the sampling…
Wireless sensor nodes (WSNs) have a great potential to save energy and improve safety when applied to building energy monitoring,…
Circuits for wearable vital sign monitors have very stringent requirements on power dissipation due to limited energy storage capacity and…
Standard full-chip capacitance extraction algorithms rely for computational efficiency on 2D scanning and table lookup algorithms. These algorithms trade off…
During recent years, researchers in the Electronic Design Automation community have made great efforts to develop new techniques to automatically…
Traditional interconnect capacitance extraction tools usually employ 2D scanning and table look-up methods for fast extraction. For some structures, e.g.,…
Automatic generation of accurate, compact, and passive dynamical models for multiport linear structures such as interconnects is a crucial part…
The emergence of faster and lower-power non-volatile memory technologies has opened up the investigation of ways to integrate these technologies…
With computational imaging becoming an integral part of photography, enabling this functionality on portable multimedia device is important. Portable device…
High-efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) is a new video compression standard currently being standardized by the Joint Collaborative Team on Video…
On-chip memories are responsible for a large portion (40% by many estimates [1] ) of the total energy consumption and…
Today, power dissipation is one of the most important limiting factors in digital circuit design. As devices scale further and…
Designing a low-power wireless communication system involves two major milestones: use of very efficient RF architectures, including circuits for power…
This work focuses on using gallium nitride (GaN) FETs for an LED lighting system. The idea is to utilize the…
Advancements in low-power electronics have opened up many opportunities to provide healthcare solutions through continuous, unobtrusive sensing of vital physiological…
Continuous tracking of neurological disorders is crucial for the proper diagnosis and medication of epilepsy, and it mandates the design…
The ever-increasing demand for richer internet video content and larger video resolution has motivated work on algorithms that achieve higher…
An ultrasound image is formed from a collection of ultrasonic beams transmitted and received by an array of transducer elements. …
Sensing, data processing, and communication are essential functions of a useful sensor node, whether used in industrial, health or sports…
Speech recognition is becoming a ubiquitous component of the digital infrastructure, serving as an I/O adapter between people and electronic…
Nanostructured solar cells are attracting increasing attention as a promising photovoltaic (PV) technology [1] . Generation of free charge carriers…
In this work, the virtual source (VS) charge-based compact model is validated for standard cell libraries and digital circuits. The…
Electromechanical resonators such as quartz crystals, surface acoustic wave (SAW) resonators, and ceramic resonators have become essential components in electronic…
Technology scaling has enabled low-power operations in digital integrated circuits. Therefore, the trend to move analog-to-digital operations upstream to allow…