Department of Microelectronics
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science

Selected publications

  1. Pulsed Electromagnetic Field Interaction With a Transmission Line: An Analytical Traveling-Wave Approach Based on Reciprocity
    M. Štumpf; G. Antonini; I. E. Lager; J. Ekman;
    IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag.,
    2025. Early access. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2025.3546055

  2. Beyond Conventional Characterization: Defect Engineering Role for Sensitivity and Selectivity of Room-Temperature UV-Assisted Graphene-Based NO₂ Sensors
    Álvaro Peña; Jesús López-Sánchez; Leandro Sacco; Sten Vollebregt; Jorge Marqués-Marchán; M. Carmen Horrillo; Pilar Marín; Daniel Matatagui;
    Talanta,
    2025. DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2024.127507

  3. Vibrational modes as the origin of dielectric loss at 0.27–100 THz in 𝑎-Si⁢C:H
    B.T. Buijtendorp; A. Endo; W. Jellema; K. Karatsu; K. Kouwenhoven; D. Lamers; A. J. van der Linden; K. Rostem; H. M. Veen; E. J. Wollack; J. J. A. Baselmans; S. Vollebregt;
    Physical Review Applied,
    Volume 23, pp. 014035, 2025. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.23.014035

  4. Bayesian Algorithms for Kronecker-structured Sparse Vector Recovery With Application to IRS-MIMO Channel Estimation
    Yanbin He; Geethu Joseph;
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing,
    2025.

  5. Ferrocene-decorated graphene nanosheets built by edge-to-face π-π interaction for room temperature ppb-level NO sensing
    Lulu Zhang; Yixun Gao; Yancong Feng; Zhijian Mai; Jianqiang Wang; Yanwei Chang; Fengnan Wang; Hao Li; Peerasak Paoprasert; Yi-Kuen Lee; Paddy J. French; Ahmad M Umar Siddiqui; Gofu Zhou; Yao Wang;
    Talanta,
    2025. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.talanta.2024.127365
    Keywords: ... Nitric oxide Gas sensor Ferrocene Graphene π-π interaction Supramolecular assembly.

    Abstract: ... The development of materials toward ppb-level nitric oxide (NO) sensing at room temperature remains in high demand for the monitoring of respiratory inflammatory diseases. In order to find an iron-containing molecule without steric hindrance to combine with graphene for room temperature NO gas sensing, here a supramolecular assembly of ferrocene (Fc) and reduced graphene oxide (rGO) was designed and prepared for NO sensing. The assembly of Fc/rGO was characterized using FT-IR, TEM, and XPS measurements. The Fc/rGO-based sensors exhibited superior NO sensing properties at room temperature including high response (Ra/Rg = 1.73, 1 ppm), high selectivity against other exhaled gases, reliable repeatability and stability (less than 4 % decrease after 40 days). A practical limit of detection (LOD) of 200 ppb was achieved. The theoretical simulation demonstrates that ferrocene is assembled via π-π interaction with rGO in edge-to-face configuration which provides relatively lower energy than face-to-face configuration does for the whole assembly. It was first verified that the enhanced adsorption capacity and the charge transfer between NO and Fc/rGO would result in improvement of the assembly's sensitivity toward NO after ferrocene was assembled with graphene. This work provides a fresh approach of anchoring iron on graphene for gas sensing via supramolecular methods.

  6. Practical ppb-Level Room Temperature Chemiresistive Nitric Oxide Sensing Assembly Based on Ultrathin Thick Porphyrin MOF Nanosheets
    Zijing Fu; Yanwei Chang; Zhuo Chen; Huiming Xie; Yancong Feng; Fengnan Wang; Yao Wang; Hao Li; Yixun Gao; Tao Ren; Patrick J French; Ahmad Mohammad Umar Siddiqui; Guofu Zhou;
    Small,
    Issue 2411264, 2025. DOI: DOI: 10.1002/smll.202411264
    Abstract: ... Nitric oxide is an endogenous biological signaling molecule, and the corresponding fractional exhaled NO serves as an important indicator in clinical diagnostics and therapeutic applications. However, achieving accurate and rapid monitoring of ppb-level fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO) at room temperature remains a significant challenge. Herein, ultrathin porphyrin metal–organic framework (MOF) sheets are selected to assemble with supramolecularly functionalized graphene sheets through hydrogen bonding and electrostatic interaction with 6 nm thickness. The resulting porphyrin MOF/graphene sheet-on-sheet nanohybrid is designed as a chemiresistive NO sensor which exhibits superior gas sensing performance at room temperature including an ultralow practical limit of detection (Ra /Rg = 1.047, 5 ppb NO), reliable repeatability, excellent selectivity against other exhaled gases, and relative long-term stability. Mechanism study indicates that the prominent NO sensing performance is attributed to the ordered framework of active sites of ferric-pyrrole (Fe─N4 ) sites and less than 10 nm thick sheet-on-sheet heterojunction structure in the nanohybrid. The potential clinical utility of the obtained sensors is validated by exhalation tests toward exhalation samples from healthy individuals and asthma patients, respectively. This work provides an effective strategy of developing MOF-based room temperature ppb-level chemiresistive NO sensors for practical FeNO monitoring.

  7. Equivalent circuit representation of a parallel plate waveguide fed connected array
    C. M. Coco Martin; D. Cavallo;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 73, Issue 3, pp. 1496-1504, Mar. 2025. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2024.3508061

  8. Reconstruction of Extended Target Intensity Maps and Velocity Distribution for Human Activity Classification
    Kruse, Nicolas C.; Guendel, Ronny G.; Fioranelli, Francesco; Yarovoy, Alexander;
    IEEE Transactions on Radar Systems,
    Volume 3, pp. 14-25, 2025. DOI: 10.1109/TRS.2024.3509775

  9. A PNP-Based Temperature Sensor With Continuous-Time Readout and ±0.1 ∘C (3σ) Inaccuracy From -55 ∘C to 125 ∘C
    Toth, Nandor G.; Tang, Zhong; Someya, Teruki; Pan, Sining; Makinwa, Kofi A. A.;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 60, Issue 2, pp. 593-602, 2025. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2024.3402131
    Keywords: ... Temperature sensors;Resistors;Energy efficiency;Instruments;Temperature dependence;Modulation;Energy resolution;Bitstream-controlled (BSC) dynamic-element-matching (DEM);continuous-time (CT) ΔΣ-modulator;current-mode readout;PNP-based temperature sensor;resistor ratio self-calibration.

  10. Gait Symmetry Analysis With FMCW MIMO Radar
    López-Delgado, Ignacio E.; Wang, Dingyang; Fioranelli, Francesco; Grajal, Jesús;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    pp. 1-0, 2025. DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2025.3542183

  11. A 0.028-mm2 32-MHz RC Frequency Reference With an Inaccuracy of ±900 ppm From -40 ∘C to 125 ∘C and ±1600 ppm After Accelerated Aging
    Pan, Sining; Cheng, Yihang; Wu, Guohua; Wang, Zhihua; Makinwa, Kofi A. A.; Wu, Huaqiang;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    pp. 1-11, 2025. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2025.3530944
    Keywords: ... Resistors;Temperature dependence;Frequency locked loops;Accelerated aging;Voltage-controlled oscillators;Voltage;Capacitors;Standards;Transistors;Temperature measurement;Accelerated aging;bipolar junction transistor (BJT);CMOS frequency reference;long-term inaccuracy;RC frequency reference;temperature compensation.

  12. A 0.8-V BJT-Based Temperature Sensor With an Inaccuracy of $\pm$ 0.4 $^\circ$ C (3 $\sigma$ ) From $-$ 40 $^\circ$ C to 125 $^\circ$ C in 22-nm CMOS
    Tang, Zhong; Yu, Xiao-Peng; Makinwa, Kofi A. A.; Tan, Nick Nianxiong;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    pp. 1-9, 2025. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2024.3523482
    Keywords: ... Temperature sensors;Capacitors;Sensors;Voltage;Charge pumps;Switches;Voltage control;Accuracy;Transistors;Discharges (electric); $\Delta\Sigma$ modulator;capacitively biased (CB) bipolar junction transistor (BJT);charge pump;inverter-based amplifier;temperature sensor;temperature to digital converter.

  13. DeepEgo+: Unsynchronized Radar Sensor Fusion for Robust Vehicle Ego-Motion Estimation
    Zhu, Simin; Ravindran, Satish; Chen, Lihui; Yarovoy, Alexander; Fioranelli, Francesco;
    IEEE Transactions on Radar Systems,
    pp. 1-1, 2025. DOI: 10.1109/TRS.2025.3546001

  14. A Sub-1-V Capacitively-Biased Voltage Reference With an Auto-Zeroed Buffer and a TC of 18-ppm/°C
    Eum, Heungsik; Makinwa, Kofi A. A.; Lee, Inhee; Chae, Youngcheol;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs,
    Volume 72, Issue 1, pp. 8-12, 2025. DOI: 10.1109/TCSII.2024.3454348
    Keywords: ... Circuits;Discharges (electric);Timing;Temperature measurement;Noise;Capacitors;CMOS process;CMOS voltage reference;capacitively-bias circuit;sub-threshold voltage reference;CMOS analog design;sub-1-V;high-precision circuits.

  15. Inverted Pyramid 3-axis Silicon Hall Effect Magnetic Sensor With Offset Cancellation
    Jacopo Ruggeri; Udo Ausserlechner; Helmut Köck; Karen Dowling;
    Microsystems & Nanonengineering,
    Jan 2025. accepted for publication.
    Abstract: ... Microelectronic magnetic sensors are essential in diverse applications, including automotive, industrial, and consumer electronics. Hall-effect devices hold the largest share of the magnetic sensor market, and they are particularly valued for their reliability, low cost and CMOS compatibility. This paper introduces a novel 3-axis Hall-effect sensor element based on an inverted pyramid structure, realized by leveraging MEMS micromachining and CMOS processing. The devices are manufactured by etching the pyramid openings with TMAH and implanting the sloped walls with n-dopants to define the active area. Through the use of various bias-sense detection modes, the device is able to detect both in-plane and out-of-plane magnetic fields within a single compact structure. In addition, the offset can be significantly reduced by one to three orders of magnitude by employing the current-spinning method. The device presented in this work demonstrated high in-plane and out-of-plane current- and voltage-related sensitivities ranging between 64.1 to 198 V A^−1 T^−1 and 14.8 to 21.4 mV V^−1 T^−1, with crosstalk below 4.7 %. The sensor exhibits a thermal noise floor which corresponds to approximately 0.5 μV√Hz at 1.31 V supply. This novel Hall-effect sensor represents a promising and simpler alternative to existing state-of-the-art 3-axis magnetic sensors, offering a viable solution for precise and reliable magnetic field sensing in various applications such as position feedback and power monitoring.

  16. On the longevity and inherent hermeticity of silicon-ICs: Evaluation of bare-die and PDMS-coated ICs after accelerated aging and implantation studies
    Kambiz Nanbakhsh; Ahmad Shah Idil; Callum Lamont; Csaba Dücső; Ömer Can Akgun; Domonkos Horváth; Kinga Tóth; Domokos Meszéna; István Ulbert; Federico Mazza; Timothy G. Constandinou; Wouter Serdijn; Anne Vanhoestenberghe; Nick Donaldson; Vasiliki Giagka;
    Nature Communications,
    Volume 16, Issue 1, Jan. 2 2025.
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  17. Systematic and accurate method to model dielectric stratifications in artificial dielectric layers
    Tapia Barroso, R.G.; Cavallo, D.;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 73, Issue 4, pp. 2654-2659, Apr. 2025. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2025.3529196

  18. An efficient analysis method for artificial dielectric layers with vertical metal inclusions
    A.J. van Katwijk; A. Neto; D. Cavallo;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 73, Issue 5, pp. 3322-3327, May 2025. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2025.3529189

  19. Towards wafer-scale 2D material sensors
    P.G Steeneken; M. Soikkeli; S. Arpiainen; A. Rantala; R. Jaaniso; R. Pezone; S. Vollebregt; S. Lukas; S. Kataria; M. Houmes; R. Álvarez-Diduk; K. Lee; H.S. Wasisto; S. Anzinger; M. Fueldner; G.J. Verbiest; F. Alijani; D.H. Shin; E. Malic; R. van Rijn; T. Nevanen; A. Centeno; A. Zurutuza; H.S.J. van der Zant; A. Merkoci; G.S. Duesberg; M.C. Lemme;
    2D Materials,
    Volume 12, Issue 2, pp. 023002, 2025. DOI: 10.1088/2053-1583/adac73

  20. An In Vivo Biostability Evaluation of ALD and Parylene-ALD Multilayers as Micro-Packaging Solutions for Small Single-Chip Implants
    Kambiz Nanbakhsh; Matthias Van Gompel; Riina Ritasalo; Astrid Gollhardt; Domonkos Horváth; Kinga Tóth; Domokos Meszéna; István Ulbert; Wouter Serdijn; Vasiliki Giagka;
    Small,
    2025.
    document

  21. Classification of Dynamic Vulnerable Road Users Using a Polarimetric mm-Wave MIMO Radar
    Bouwmeester, Wietse; Fioranelli, Francesco; Yarovoy, Alexander;
    IEEE Transactions on Radar Systems,
    pp. 1-1, 2025. DOI: 10.1109/TRS.2025.3527884

  22. Capturing Head Poses Using FMCW Radar and Deep Neural Networks
    Kumchaiseemak, Nakorn; Fioranelli, Francesco; Wilaiprasitporn, Theerawit;
    IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems,
    pp. 1-12, 2025. DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2025.3529412

  23. Provable Privacy Advantages of Decentralized Federated Learning via Distributed Optimization
    Yu, Wenrui; Li, Qiongxiu; Lopuhaä-Zwakenberg, Milan; Græsbøll Christensen, Mads; Heusdens, Richard;
    IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security,
    Volume 20, pp. 822-838, 2025. DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2024.3516564
    Keywords: ... Privacy;Peer-to-peer computing;Protocols;Servers;Optimization;Data models;Data privacy;Computational modeling;Topology;Iterative methods;Federated learning;privacy preservation;information theory;distribution optimization;ADMM;PDMM.

  24. Non-Contact Dielectric Spectroscopy of Multi-Layered Substrates: Towards Organ-on-Chip Applications
    T. Hosman; M. Mastrangeli; M. Spirito;
    IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF, and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology,
    2025. DOI: 10.1109/JERM.2025.3538953

  25. Practical ppb-Level Room Temperature Chemiresistive Nitric Oxide Sensing Assembly Based on Ultrathin Thick Porphyrin MOF Nanosheets
    Zijing Fu; Yanwei Chang; Zhuo Chen; Huiming Xie; Yancong Feng; Fengnan Wang; Yao Wang; Hao Li; Yixun Gao; Tao Ren; Patrick J French; Ahmad Mohammad Umar Siddiqui; Guofu Zhou;
    Small,
    Issue 2411264, 2025. DOI: DOI: 10.1002/smll.202411264
    Abstract: ... Nitric oxide is an endogenous biological signaling molecule, and the corresponding fractional exhaled NO serves as an important indicator in clinical diagnostics and therapeutic applications. However, achieving accurate and rapid monitoring of ppb-level fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO) at room temperature remains a significant challenge. Herein, ultrathin porphyrin metal–organic framework (MOF) sheets are selected to assemble with supramolecularly functionalized graphene sheets through hydrogen bonding and electrostatic interaction with 6 nm thickness. The resulting porphyrin MOF/graphene sheet-on-sheet nanohybrid is designed as a chemiresistive NO sensor which exhibits superior gas sensing performance at room temperature including an ultralow practical limit of detection (Ra /Rg = 1.047, 5 ppb NO), reliable repeatability, excellent selectivity against other exhaled gases, and relative long-term stability. Mechanism study indicates that the prominent NO sensing performance is attributed to the ordered framework of active sites of ferric-pyrrole (Fe─N4 ) sites and less than 10 nm thick sheet-on-sheet heterojunction structure in the nanohybrid. The potential clinical utility of the obtained sensors is validated by exhalation tests toward exhalation samples from healthy individuals and asthma patients, respectively. This work provides an effective strategy of developing MOF-based room temperature ppb-level chemiresistive NO sensors for practical FeNO monitoring.

  26. A 2000-volumes/s 3-D Ultrasound Probe With Monolithically-Integrated 23 $\times$ 23-mm2 4096-Element CMUT Array
    Rozsa, Nuriel N. M.; Chen, Zhao; Kim, Taehoon; Guo, Peng; Hopf, Yannick M.; Voorneveld, Jason; dos Santos, Djalma Simoes; Noothout, Emile; Chang, Zu-Yao; Chen, Chao; Henneken, Vincent A.; de Jong, Nico; Vos, Hendrik J.; Bosch, Johan G.; Verweij, Martin D.; Pertijs, Michiel A. P.;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    pp. 1--14, 2025. early access. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2025.3534087
    Abstract: ... This article presents a 4096-element ultrasound probe for high volume-rate (HVR) cardiovascular imaging. The probe consists of two application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), each of which interfaces with a 2048-element monolithically-integrated capacitive micro-machined ultrasound transducer (CMUT) array. The probe can image a 60∘ × 60∘ × 10-cm volume at 2000 volumes/s, the highest volume-rate with in-probe channel-count reduction reported to date. It uses 2 × 2 delay-and-sum micro-beamforming (μBF) and 2× time-division multiplexing (TDM) to achieve an 8× receive (RX) channel-count reduction. Equalization, trained using a pseudorandom bit-sequence generated on the chip, reduces TDM-induced crosstalk by 10 dB, enabling power-efficient scaling of the cable drivers. The ASICs also implement a novel transmit (TX) beamformer (BF) that operates as a programmable digital pipeline, which enables steering of arbitrary pulse-density modulated (PDM) waveforms. The TX BF drives element-level 65 V unipolar pulsers, which in turn drive the CMUT array. Both the TX BF and RX μBF are programmed with shift-registers (SRs) that can either be programmed in a row-column fashion for fast upload times, or daisy-chain fashion for a higher flexibility. The layout of the ASICs is matched to the 365-μm-pitch monolithically-integrated CMUT array. While operating, the RX and logic power consumption per element is 0.85 and 0.10 mW, respectively. TX power consumption is highly waveform dependent, but is nominally 0.34 mW. Compared to the prior art, the probe has the highest volume rate, and features among the largest imaging arrays (both in terms of element-count and aperture) with a high flexibility in defining the TX waveform. These properties make it a suitable option for applications requiring HVR imaging of a large region of interest.

  27. Fabrication of pH and oxygen sensors for monitoring myocardial ischaemia during open heart surgery
    Avik Sett; Robbert Friendwijk; Alireza Tajeddin; Massimo Mastrangeli; Paddy French;
    American Journal of Electronics & Communication,
    Volume 1, pp. 73-76, 2025.

  28. FORCETRACKER: A versatile tool for standardized assessment of tissue contractile properties in 3D Heart-on-Chip platforms
    J. M. Rivera-Arbeláez; M. Dostanić; Laura M. Windt; J. M. Stein; C. Cofiño-Fabres; T. Boonen; M. Wiendels; A. van den Berg; L. I. Segerink; C. L. Mummery; P. M. Sarro; B. J. van Meer; M. C. Ribeiro; M. Mastrangeli; R. Passier;
    PLoS ONE,
    Volume 20, Issue 2, pp. e0314985, 2025. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0314985

  29. Advancements in Laser and LED-Based Optical Wireless Power Transfer for IoT Applications: A Comprehensive Review
    Kimia Ahmadi; Wouter Serdijn;
    IEEE Internet of Things Journal,
    pp. 1-25, 2025. DOI: 10.1109/jiot.2025.3542968
    Abstract: ... Optical wireless power transfer (OWPT) has emerged as a promising technology for efficient wireless power transfer (WPT), offering advantages such as directionality, suitability for far-field applications, and the ability to transfer power and data simultaneously. This comprehensive review classifies OWPT systems into laser power transfer (LPT) and LED-based OWPT. LPT uses the narrow divergence of laser beams for high-density, long-distance energy transfer, making it suitable for applications such as satellites, autonomous drones, and electric vehicle charging. In contrast, LED-based OWPT offers a safer, more cost-effective solution for low-power applications, especially in the Internet of Things (IoT) domain. It offers advantages such as lower power consumption and fewer safety restrictions compared to LPT. Innovations in LPT, such as high-intensity laser power beaming, distributed laser charging, adaptive distributed laser charging, simultaneous lightwave information and power transfer, and resonant beam charging are discussed. Also, recent advancements in LED-OWPT, including single-lens and double-lens systems, collimation techniques, and multi-LED arrays, are explored for their potential in powering IoT devices, wearable electronics, and smart infrastructure. First, we present a radar chart comparing various WPT techniques with respect to performance criteria. After reviewing the methods of LPT and LED-OWPT in detail, a comparison of these techniques is provided, evaluating their strengths, limitations, and application suitability. A concluding radar chart offers insights for optimizing OWPT systems tailored to specific applications. Future research directions are identified, emphasizing the need for further advancements in beam alignment, safety protocols, and hybrid systems to enhance OWPT’s scalability and practicality in real-world scenarios.

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  30. Detection of Faulty Elements From Sparse Far-Field Data in Active Phased Arrays via Machine Learning
    Kannan, Aparna; Onat, Nehir Berk; Spirito, Marco; Yarovoy, Alexander; Aslan, Yanki;
    IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation,
    pp. 1-1, 2025. DOI: 10.1109/OJAP.2025.3542185

  31. Controlling the number of layers of Mo-grown CVD graphene through the catalyst thickness
    Leandro Nicolas Sacco; Artur Dobrowolski; Bart Boshuizen; Jakub Jagiełło; Beata Pyrzanowska; Adam Łaszcz; Tymoteusz Ciuk; Sten Vollebregt;
    Diamond and Related Materials,
    Volume 154, pp. 112195, 2025. DOI: 10.1016/j.diamond.2025.112195

  32. High-resolution imaging algorithms for automotive radar: challenges in real driving scenarios
    Yuan, Sen; Fioranelli, Francesco; Yarovoy, Alexander;
    IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine,
    pp. 1-11, 2025. DOI: 10.1109/MAES.2025.3550301

  33. Full-wave lens antenna analysis with the proxy sources method
    Ozzola, R.; Tadolini, C.; Speksnijder, E. A.; Neto, A.;
    IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag.,
    2025. Early Access. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2025.3567458

  34. Multi-objective Bayesian optimisation of spinodoid cellular structures for crush energy absorption
    Hirak Kansara; Siamak F. Khosroshahi; Leo Guo; Miguel A. Bessa; Wei Tan;
    Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering,
    Volume 440, pp. 117890, 2025. DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2025.117890

  35. Piezoelectric ion gated organic electrochemical transistors for efficient vibration sensing and on-site amplification
    Linta Sohail; Sofia Drakopoulou; Tiago L. Costa; George D. Spyropoulos;
    npj flexible electronics,
    Volume 9, Issue 39, May 2025. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41528-025-00418-3
    document

  36. Low-Resolution Compressed Sensing and Beyond for Communications and Sensing: Trends and Opportunities
    Geethu Joseph; et al.;
    Elsevier Signal Processing,
    2025.

  37. Wideband Relative Transfer Function (RTF) Estimation Exploiting Frequency Correlations
    Giovanni Bologni; Richard C. Hendriks; Richard Heusdens;
    IEEE Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process.,
    Volume 33, pp. 731–747, 2025. DOI: 10.1109/TASLPRO.2025.3533371
    document • software

  38. Multimicrophone Signal Parameter Estimation in a Multi-Source Noisy Reverberant Scenario
    Changheng Li; Richard C. Hendriks;
    IEEE Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process.,
    Volume 33, pp. 678–692, 2025. DOI: 10.1109/TASLPRO.2025.3533374
    document • software

  39. In search of a driver for atrial fibrillation
    Lianne N. van Staveren; Yannick J. H. J. Taverne; Richard C. Hendriks; Natasja M. S. de Groot;
    Heart Rhythm,
    2025. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrthm.2025.05.024

  40. An efficient method of moments analysis of cavity-backed slot arrays with a reduced number of basis functions
    J. Geng; D. Cavallo;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    2025. Early Access. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2025.3580256

  41. An In-package EMC based Relative Humidity Sensor
    R. Sattari; H. Van Zeijl; Z.Y. Chang; G.Q. Zhang;
    IEEE Sensors Journal,
    2025. DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2025.3571230

  42. Transparent transfer-free multilayer graphene microelectrodes enable high quality recordings in brain slices
    Nerea Alvarez de Eulate; Christos Pavlou; Gonzalo León González; Lukas Holzapfel; Zhenyu Gao; Sten Vollebregt; Vasiliki Giagka;
    bioRxiv,
    2025. DOI: 10.1101/2025.06.13.657566

  43. Investigation on fabrication of silicon nanoporesusing an electrochemical passivation etch-stopstrategy
    Hao Hong; Xin Lei; Jiangtao Wei; Wenjun Tang; Minjie Ye; Jianwen Sun; Guoqi Zhang; Pasqualina M. Sarro; Zewen Liu;
    Microsystems & Nanoengineering,
    2025. DOI: doi.org/10.1038/s41378-025-00973-9

  44. Advances in Hardware and Measurement Techniques to Enable Better Millimeter-Wave Device Characterization and Modeling
    Spirito, Marco; Martens, Jon;
    IEEE Microwave Magazine,
    Volume 26, Issue 4, pp. 32-44, 2025. DOI: 10.1109/MMM.2024.3524849
    Keywords: ... Radio frequency;Performance evaluation;Microwave measurement;Millimeter wave devices;Measurement techniques;Microwave devices;Microwave theory and techniques;Hardware;Foundries;Frequency measurement.

  45. Non-Contact Dielectric Spectroscopy of Multi-Layered Substrates: Towards Organ-on-Chip Applications
    Hosman, Tim; Mastrangeli, Massimo; Spirito, Marco;
    IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology,
    pp. 1-8, 2025. DOI: 10.1109/JERM.2025.3538953
    Keywords: ... Probes;Sensors;Permittivity measurement;Permittivity;Sensitivity;Dielectrics;Thickness measurement;Position measurement;Phantoms;Noise measurement;Dielectric spectroscopy;label-free;micro-physiological systems;non-contact;open-ended coaxial probe;organ-on-chip;proof-of-principle;reflectometer;sensing;single-layer extraction.

  46. Energy dissipation in silicon nitride microbeam resonators with a 3D-printed polymer layer
    Crocetto, Lucia; Manzaneque, Tomás; Ghatkesar, Murali Krishna;
    Micro and Nano Engineering,
    Volume 28, pp. 100300, September 2025. DOI: 10.1016/j.mne.2025.100300

  47. Environmental impacts of artificial intelligence in health care: considerations and recommendations
    Cristina Richie; Saba Hinrichs‑Krapels; Roel Dobbe; Paddy French; Jonathan C. J. Wei1; J. C. Diehl; Ran Kong;
    Health and technology,
    2025. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12553-025-01003-4
    Abstract: ... Anthropogenic resource use contributes to pollution, violent conflict over scarce resources, loss of biodiversity, and diminished quality of life for humans. Moreover, the “safe” amount of carbon dioxide—350 parts per million—has been exceeded. The health care industry is responsible for 4–5% of total world emissions,[i] which is similar to the global food sector.[ii] Health care carbon emissions come from health care infrastructures, supply chains and health care delivery. Increasingly, health care delivery is reliant on technologies which require the use of artificial intelligence to provide supportive care, such as triage algorithms, electronic patient records, and robotics.[iii] While these technological innovations have advanced health care significantly, they also contribute to the negative effects on the environment, among others, through carbon emissions. The environmental impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) in health care—in particular—are understudied. This research seeks to fill this gap.

  48. Speckle Denoising of Dynamic Contrast- Enhanced Ultrasound Using Low-Rank Tensor Decomposition
    M. Calis; M. Mischi; A.J. van der Veen; B. Hunyadi;
    IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging,
    Volume 44, Issue 7, pp. 2854-2867, 2025. DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2025.3551660
    document

  49. High-Speed Raman Readout of Single Polypeptides Via Plasmonic Nanopores
    F. Khozeymeh Sarbishe; K. Khabarov; M. Blanco Formoso; I. M. Baldi; M. Mastrangeli; F. Difato; F. Villa; F. Tantussi; F. De Angelis;
    Advanced Materials,
    2025. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202504436

  50. Advances in Organ-on-a-Chip Technology to Examine the Impact of Air Pollutants on Epithelial Barrier Tissues
    S. Koornneef; F. J. Horne; H. Bing Thio; M. Mastrangeli; R. J. Rottier; W. A. Dik; E. de Geus;
    Environmental Research,
    Volume 285, pp. 122289, 2025. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2025.122289

  51. Biodegradable microwave cavity resonator
    M. J. Bathaei; S. Hashemizadeh; F. A. Cardoso; D. Nikolayev; C. M. Boutry;
    IEEE Microwave and Wireless Technology Letters,
    2025.

  52. Design formulas for flat gradient index lenses with planar or spherical output wavefront
    W. Hu; C. M. Coco Martin; D. Cavallo;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 72, Issue 3, pp. 2555-2563, Mar. 2024. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2024.3363433

  53. Spectral Domain Green’s Function of an Infinite Dipole With Nonzero Metal Thickness and Rectangular Cross Section
    E. A. Speksnijder; R. Ozzola; A. Neto;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 72, Issue 8, pp. 4530 - 4541, Aug. 2024. DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2024.3361532

  54. A Fully Integrated Sequential Synchronized Switch Harvesting on Capacitors Rectifier Based on Split-Electrode for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting
    Xinling Yue; Jiarui Mo; Zhiyuan Chen; Sten Vollebregt; Guoqi Zhang; Sijun Du;
    IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics,
    Volume 39, Issue 6, pp. 7643-7653, 2024. DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2024.3369728

  55. Measuring residual stresses in individual on-chip interconnects using synchrotron nanodiffraction
    Yaqian Zhang; Leiming Du; Olof Bäcke; Sebastian Kalbfleisch; Guoqi Zhang; Sten Vollebregt; Magnus Hörnqvist Colliander;
    Applied Physics Letters,
    Volume 124, pp. 083501-1-6, 2024. DOI: 10.1063/5.0192672

  56. Pulsed electromagnetic excitation of a narrow slot between two dielectric halfspaces
    M. Štumpf; I.E. Lager; G. Antonini;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 72, Issue 1, pp. 123-130, Jan. 2024. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2022.3226341

  57. Surface modification of multilayer graphene neural electrodes by local printing of platinum nanoparticles using spark ablation
    Nasim Bakhshaee Babaroud; Samantha J. Rice; Maria Camarena Perez; Wouter A. Serdijn; Sten Vollebregt; Vasiliki Giagka;
    Nanoscale,
    Volume 16, pp. 3549-3559, 2024. DOI: 10.1039/D3NR05523J

  58. Highly-sensitive wafer-scale transfer-free graphene MEMS condenser microphones
    Roberto Pezone; Sebastian Anzinger; Gabriele Baglioni; Hutomo Suryo Wasisto; Lina Sarro; Peter Steeneken; Sten Vollebregt;
    Microsystems & Nanoengineering,
    Volume 10, Issue 27, pp. 1-9, 2024. DOI: 10.1038/s41378-024-00656-x

  59. Integrated Electrochemical and Optical Biosensing in Organs-on-Chip
    Pratik Tawade; Massimo Mastrangeli;
    ChemBioChem,
    Volume 25, Issue 3, pp. e202300560, 2024. DOI: 10.1002/cbic.202300560

  60. Characterization of Concomitant Gradient Fields and Their Effects on Image Distortions Using a Low-Field Point-of-Care Halbach-Cased MRI System
    B. de Vos; R.F. Remis; A.G. Webb;
    Magnetic Resonance in Medicine,
    Volume 91, Issue 2, pp. 828-841, Feb. 2024. DOI: doi: 10.1002/mrm.29879

  61. Connected slot array with interchangeable ADL radome for sub-8 GHz 5G applications
    R. Ozzola; A. Neto; U. Imberg; D. Cavallo;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 72, Issue 1, pp. 992-997, Jan. 2024. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2023.3333541

  62. Focal Plane Array of Shaped Quartz Lenses for Wide Field-of-view Sub-millimeter Imaging Systems
    Huasheng Zhang; Shahab Oddin Dabironezare; Jochem J. A. Baselmans; Nuria Llombart;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 72, Issue 2, pp. 1263-1274, Feb. 2024. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2023.3334391

  63. Surface modification of multilayer graphene electrodes by local printing of platinum nanoparticles using spark ablation for neural interfacing
    Nasim Bakhshaee Babaroud; Samantha June Rice; Maria Camarena Perez; Wouter A. Serdijn; Sten Vollebregt; Vasiliki Giagka;
    Nanoscale,
    Volume 16, Issue 7, pp. 3549-3559, Jan. 2024. DOI: 10.1039/D3NR05523J
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  64. Doppler Spectrum Parameter Estimation for Weather Radar Echoes Using a Parametric Semianalytical Model
    Dash, Tworit; Driessen, Hans; Krasnov, Oleg A.; Yarovoy, Alexander;
    IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing,
    Volume 62, pp. 1-18, 2024. DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2023.3338233

  65. A Power-Efficient Oscillatory Synchronization Feature Extractor for Closed-Loop Neuromodulation
    Yassin, Hoda; Akhoundi, Arash; Hasaneen, El-Sayed; Muratore, Dante G;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II - Express Briefs,
    January 2024. DOI: 10.1109/TCSII.2024.3353927

  66. Spike sorting in the presence of stimulation artifacts: a dynamical control systems approach
    Shokri, Mohammad; Gogliettino, Alex R; Hottowy, Pawel andSher, Alexander; Litke, Alan M; Chichilnisky, E J; Pequito, Sérgio; Muratore, Dante;
    Journal of Neural Engineering,
    January 2024. DOI: 10.1088/1741-2552/ad228f

  67. Design of Wideband Flat Artificial Dielectric Lenses at mmWave Frequencies
    C. M. Coco Martin; W. Hu; D. Cavallo;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 72, Issue 2, pp. 1418-1428, Feb. 2024. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2024.3357992

  68. PMUT and CMUT Devices for Biomedical Applications: A Review
    Elisabetta Moisello; Lara Novaresi; Eshani Sarkar; Piero Malcovati; Tiago L. Costa; Edoardo Bonizzoni;
    IEEE Access,
    2024. DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3359906

  69. Radar Point Cloud Processing Methods for Human Activity Classification With Point Transformer Networks
    Kruse, Nicolas C.; Fioranelli, Francesco; Yarovoy, Alexander;
    IEEE Transactions on Radar Systems,
    Volume 2, pp. 1-12, 2024. DOI: 10.1109/TRS.2023.3341230

  70. Statistical Modelling of Polarimetric RCS of Road Surfaces for Scattering Simulation and Optimal Antenna Polarisation Determination
    Bouwmeester, Wietse; Fioranelli, Francesco; Yarovoy, Alexander;
    IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing,
    pp. 1-13, 2024. DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2024.3349856

  71. Multipath Exploitation for Human Activity Recognition using a Radar Network
    Guendel, Ronny G.; Kruse, Nicolas C.; Fioranelli, Francesco; Yarovoy, Alexander;
    IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing,
    pp. 1-1, 2024. DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2024.3363631

  72. Testing Stationarity and Statistical Independence of Multistatic/Polarimetric Sea-Clutter with Application to NetRAD Data
    Aubry, Augusto; Carotenuto, Vincenzo; De Maio, Antonio; Fioranelli, Francesco;
    IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing,
    pp. 1-1, 2024. DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2024.3362872

  73. A Single-Supply Balun-First Three-Way mm-Wave Doherty PA
    Kumaran, Anil Kumar; Pashaeifar, Masoud; Alexanderson, Mats; de Vreede, Leonardus Cornelis Nicolaas; Alavi, Morteza S.;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    pp. 1-16, 2024. DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2024.3365697
    Keywords: ... Inductors;Integrated circuit modeling;5G mobile communication;Capacitors;Bandwidth;Impedance;Peak to average power ratio;Compact;Doherty;lumped components;millimeter wave;Norton transformation;power amplifier (PA);three-stage.

  74. Effect of air-loading on the performance limits of graphene microphones
    R. Pezone; G. Baglioni; C. Van Ruiten; S. Anzinger; H. S. Wasisto; P. M. Sarro; P. G. Steeneken; S. Vollebregt;
    Applied Physics Letters,
    Volume 124, Issue 12, 2024. DOI: 10.1063/5.0191939

  75. A high aspect ratio surface micromachined accelerometer based on a SiC-CNT composite material
    Jiarui Mo; Shreyas Shankar; Roberto Pezone; Guoqi Zhang; Sten Vollebregt;
    Microsystems & Nanoengineering,
    Volume 10, Issue 42, 2024. DOI: 10.1038/s41378-024-00672-x

  76. An Acoustically Transparent Electrical Cap for Piezoelectric Ultrasound Transducers on Silicon
    Gandhika Wardhana; Tiago L. Costa; Massimo Mastrangeli;
    Proceedings,
    Volume 97, Issue 1, pp. 50, 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2024097050

  77. Feasibility Study for a High-Frequency Flexible Ultrasonic Cuff for High-Precision Vagus Nerve Ultrasound Neuromodulation
    Cornelis van Damme; Gandhika K. Wardhana; Andrada Iulia Velea; Vasiliki Giagka; Tiago L. Costa;
    IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control,
    Volume 71, Issue 7, 2024. DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2024.3381923
    document

  78. An Analog to Digital Converter in a SiC CMOS Technology for High-temperature Applications
    Jiarui Mo; Yunfan Niu; Alexander May; Mathias Rommel; Chiara Rossi; Joost Romijn; Guoqi Zhang; Sten Vollebregt;
    Applied Physics Letters,
    Volume 124, Issue 15, 2024. DOI: 10.1063/5.0195013

  79. Convergence of Expectation-Maximization Algorithm with Mixed-Integer Optimization
    Geethu Joseph;
    IEEE Signal Processing Letters,
    2024.

  80. Optimisation-based alignment of wide-band integrated superconducting spectrometers for submillimeter astronomy
    Moerman, A.; Karatsu, K.; Yates, S. J. C.; Huiting, R.; Steenvoorde, F.; Dabironezare, S. O.; Takekoshi, T.; Baselmans, J. J. A.; Brandl, B. R.; Endo, A.;
    Astronomy & Astrophysics,
    Volume 684, pp. A161, Apr. 2024.

  81. NeuroDots: From Single-Target to Brain-Network Modulation: Why and What Is Needed?
    Dirk de Ridder; Muhammad Ali Siddiqi; Justin Dauwels; Wouter A. Serdijn; Christos Strydis;
    Neuromodulation,
    April 16, 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurom.2024.01.003
    document

  82. A 120-MHz BW, 122-dBFS SFDR CTΔΣ ADC With a Multi-Path Multi-Frequency Chopping Scheme
    Javvaji, Sundeep; Bolatkale, Muhammed; Bajoria, Shagun; Rutten, Robert; Essink, Bert Oude; Beijens, Koen; Makinwa, Kofi A. A.; Breems, Lucien J.;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 59, Issue 4, pp. 1184-1193, 2024. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2024.3354574
    Keywords: ... Quantization (signal);1/f noise;Resistors;Capacitors;Inverters;Clocks;Switches;Analog-to-digital converter (ADC);continuous time (CT);delta–sigma (ΔΣ);multi-path chopping;wideband receiver.

  83. On the cross-polarization levels of arrays with wide angle impedance matching layers
    A. J. Van Katwijk; C. M. Coco Martin; G. Toso; D. Cavallo;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 72, Issue 6, pp. 5078-5087, Jun. 2024. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2024.3394208

  84. Centimeter-scale nanomechanical resonators with low dissipation
    Andrea Cupertino; Dongil Shin; Leo Guo; Peter G. Steeneken; Miguel A. Bessa; Richard A. Norte;
    Nature Communications,
    Volume 15, pp. 4255, 2024. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-48183-7

  85. Block-Based Perceptually Adaptive Sound Zones with Reproduction Error Constraints
    N. de Koeijer; M Moller; J. Martinez; P. Martinez; R. C. Hendriks;
    Trans. Audio, Speech and Language Processing,
    2024.

  86. Anomaly Detection via Learning-Based Sequential Controlled Sensing
    Geethu Joseph; Chen Zhong; M. Cenk Gursoy; Senem Velipasalar; Pramod K. Varshney;
    IEEE Sensors,
    2024.

  87. Occupancy Grid Mapping for Automotive Driving Exploiting Clustered Sparsity
    Çağan Önen; Ashish Pandharipande; Geethu Joseph; Nitin Jonathan Myers;
    IEEE Sensors,
    2024.

  88. Rectification in Ionic Field Effect Transistors Based on Single Crystal Silicon Nanopore
    Hao Hong; Xin Lei; Jiangtao Wei; Yang Zhang; Yulong Zhang; Jianwen Sun; Guoqi Zhang; Pasqualina M. Sarro; Zewen Liu;
    Advanced Electronic Materials,
    pp. 2300782, 2024. DOI: 10.1002/aelm.202300782

  89. Assessing Radar Waveforms for Spectral Coexistence via the PARSAX System
    Aubry, A.; Carotenuto, V.; De Maio, A.; Fioranelli, F.; Krasnov, O.; Yarovoy, A.; van der Zwan, F.;
    IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems,
    pp. 1-13, 2024. DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2024.3412867

  90. 3DRUDAT: 3D Robust Unambiguous Doppler Beam Sharpening Using Adaptive Threshold for Forward-Looking Region
    Yuan, Sen; Fioranelli, Francesco; Yarovoy, Alexander G.;
    IEEE Transactions on Radar Systems,
    Volume 2, pp. 138-153, 2024. DOI: 10.1109/TRS.2024.3353202

  91. Demonstration of Near Diffraction-Limited Terahertz Images Using a CMOS-Integrated Chessboard Array
    M. Hoogelander; R. van Dijk; M. Spirito; N. Llombart; M. Alonso-delPino;
    IEEE Trans. Terahertz Sci. Technol.,
    Volume 14, Issue 4, pp. 531-536, Jul. 2024. DOI: 10.1109/TTHZ.2024.3387650

  92. A PNP-Based Temperature Sensor With Continuous-Time Readout and ± 0.1 °C (3σ) Inaccuracy From -55 °C to 125 °C
    Toth, Nandor G.; Tang, Zhong; Someya, Teruki; Pan, Sining; Makinwa, Kofi A. A.;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    pp. 1-10, 2024. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2024.3402131
    Keywords: ... Temperature sensors; Resistors; Energy efficiency; Instruments; Temperature dependence; Modulation; Energy resolution;Bitstream-controlled (BSC) dynamic-element-matching (DEM);continuous-time (CT) ΔΣ-modulator; current-mode readout; PNP-based temperature sensor; resistor ratio self-calibration.

    Abstract: ... This article describes a PNP-based temperature sensor that achieves both high energy efficiency and accuracy. Two resistors convert the CTAT and PTAT voltages generated by a PNP-based front-end into two currents whose ratio is then digitized by a continuous-time (CT) ΔΣ-modulator. Chopping and dynamic-element-matching (DEM) are used to mitigate the effects of component mismatch and 1/f noise, while the spread in VBE and in the ratio of the two resistors is digitally trimmed at room temperature (RT). Fabricated in a 0.18 μm CMOS process, the sensor occupies 0.12 mm2, and draws 9.5 μA from a supply voltage ranging from 1.7 to 2.2 V. Measurements on 40 samples from one batch show that it achieves an inaccuracy of ±0.1 °C (3σ ) from −55 °C to 125 °C, and a commensurate supply sensitivity of only 0.01 °C/V. Furthermore, it achieves high energy efficiency, with a resolution Figure of Merit (FoM) of 0.85 pJ·K2.

  93. Single-Component Electroactive Polymer Architectures for Non-Enzymatic Glucose Sensing
    Kousseff, Christina J.; Wustoni, Shofarul; Silva, Raphaela K. S.; Lifer, Ariel; Savva, Achilleas; Frey, Gitti L.; Inal, Sahika; Nielsen, Christian B.;
    Advanced Science,
    Volume n/a, Issue n/a, pp. 2308281, 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202308281
    Keywords: ... electropolymerization, glucose sensor, organic bioelectronics, organic electrochemical transistors, PEDOT.

    Abstract: ... Abstract Organic mixed ionic-electronic conductors (OMIECs) have emerged as promising materials for biological sensing, owing to their electrochemical activity, stability in an aqueous environment, and biocompatibility. Yet, OMIEC-based sensors rely predominantly on the use of composite matrices to enable stimuli-responsive functionality, which can exhibit issues with intercomponent interfacing. In this study, an approach is presented for non-enzymatic glucose detection by harnessing a newly synthesized functionalized monomer, EDOT-PBA. This monomer integrates electrically conducting and receptor moieties within a single organic component, obviating the need for complex composite preparation. By engineering the conditions for electrodeposition, two distinct polymer film architectures are developed: pristine PEDOT-PBA and molecularly imprinted PEDOT-PBA. Both architectures demonstrated proficient glucose binding and signal transduction capabilities. Notably, the molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) architecture demonstrated faster stabilization upon glucose uptake while it also enabled a lower limit of detection, lower standard deviation, and a broader linear range in the sensor output signal compared to its non-imprinted counterpart. This material design not only provides a robust and efficient platform for glucose detection but also offers a blueprint for developing selective sensors for a diverse array of target molecules, by tuning the receptor units correspondingly.

    document

  94. Organic Mixed Ionic–Electronic Conductors Based on Tunable and Functional Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) Copolymers
    Wu, Jiaxin; Gu, Modi; Travaglini, Lorenzo; Lauto, Antonio; Ta, Daniel; Wagner, Pawel; Wagner, Klaudia; Zeglio, Erica; Savva, Achilleas; Officer, David; Mawad, Damia;
    ACS Applied Materials \& Interfaces,
    Volume 16, Issue 22, pp. 28969-28979, 2024. PMID: 38778796. DOI: 10.1021/acsami.4c03229
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  95. High-Performance Flexible Strain Sensor Fabricated Using Laser Transmission Pyrolysis
    S. Wang; Huiru Yang; Qihang Zong; Qianming Huang; Chunjia Tan; Chenshan Gao; Shinzhen Li; Huaiyu Yem; Guoqi Zhang; Paddy French;
    IEEE Sensors Journal,
    Volume 24, pp. 7521-7529, 2024. DOI: doi: 10.1109/JSEN.2023.3337233
    Keywords: ... Laser transmission pyrolysis (LTP), metal film, polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) pattering, stretchable strain sensors, ultraviolet (UV) laser..

    Abstract: ... n recent years, metal crack-based stretchable flexible strain sensors have attracted significant attention in wearable device applications due to their extremely high sensitivity. However, the tradeoff between sensitivity and detection range has been an intractable dilemma, severely limiting their practical applications. Herein, we propose a laser transmission pyrolysis (LTP) technology for fabricating high-performance flexible strain sensors based on (Au) metal cracks with the microchannel array on the polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) surface. The fabricated flexible strain sensors exhibit high sensitivity [gauge factor (GF) of 2448], wide detection range (59% for tensile strain), precise strain resolution (0.1%), fast response and recovery times (69 and 141 ms), and robust durability (over 3000 cycles). In addition, experiment and simulation results reveal that introducing a microchannel array enables the stress redistribution strategy on the sensor surface, which significantly improves the sensing sensitivity compared to conventional flat surface sensors. Based on the excellent performance, the sensors are applied to detect subtle physiological signals, such as pulse and swallowing, as well as to monitor large-scale motion signals, such as knee flexion and finger bending, demonstrating their potential applications in health monitoring, human–machine interactions, and electronic skin.

  96. Sheet-on-sheet architectural assembly of MOF/graphene for high-stability NO sensing at room temperature
    Yanwei Chang; Jingxing Zhang; Ruofei Lu; Weiran Li; Yuchen Feng; Yixun Gao; Haihong Yang; Fengnan Wang; Hao Li; Yi-Kuen Lee; Patrick J. French; Ahmad M. Umar Siddiqui; Yao Wang; Guofu Zhou;
    Journal of Materials Chemistry C,
    Volume 12, pp. 7520-7531, 2024. DOI: DOI: 10.1039/d4tc00091a
    Abstract: ... Fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO) can be used to describe inflammatory processes in the respiratory tract. Directly detecting ppb-level nitric oxide (NO) with chemiresistive sensors at room temperature faces the challenges of simultaneously obtaining high sensitivity and high stability for sensors. We aimed to improve the stability and sensitivity of NO sensors. We assembled sheet-like porphyrin-based MOF DLS-2D-Co-TCPP(Fe) with 5-aminonaphthalene-1-sulfonic acid–rGO (ANS–rGO) nanosheets through coordination interactions. In this way, we offered a room-temperature NO-sensing hybrid, DLS-2D-Co-TCPP(Fe)/ANS–rGO, with a sheet-on-sheet (SOS) architectural heterojunction. The DLS-2D-Co-TCPP(Fe)/ANS–rGO-based sensor demonstrated superior NO-sensing performance, including high sensitivity (Ra/Rg = 1.33, 250 ppb), reliable repeatability, high selectivity, and fast response/recovery (150 s/185 s, 1 ppm) at a sensing concentration from 100 ppb to 10 ppm at room temperature. The obtained sensor showed high stability, retaining >85% of its initial response after 60 days. Designing NO-responsive Fe–N4 active units containing MOF nanosheets, along with constructing a heterojunction with an SOS architecture to facilitate carrier migration, collaboratively dominated the superior performance of synthesized NO sensors. This work provides a strategy for designing SOS architectural heterojunctions to obtain high-performance MOF-based gas-sensing materials.

  97. CO2-induced switching between MOF-based bio-mimic slow anion channel and proton pump for medical exhalation detection
    Honghao Chen; Xiaorui Yue; Yifei Fan; Bin Zheng; Sitao Lv; Fengnan Wang; Yixun Gao; Hao Li; Yi-Kuen Lee; Patrick J. French; Ahmad M. Umar Siddiqui; Yao Wang; Guofu Zhou;
    Chemical Engineering Journal,
    Volume 493, pp. 152633, 2024. DOI: https://doi-org.tudelft.idm.oclc.org/10.1016/j.cej.2024.1526

  98. Effects of Current Filaments on IGBT Avalanche Robustness: A Simulation Study
    Jingping Zhang; Houcai Luo; Huan Wu; Bofeng Zheng; Xianping Chen; Guoqi Zhang; Paddy French; Shaogang Wang;
    Electronics,
    2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics13122347
    Keywords: ... IGBT; avalanche; current filament; robustness; SOA.

    Abstract: ... With the increase in voltage level and current capacity of the insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT), the avalanche effect has become an important factor limiting the safe operating area (SOA) of the device. The hole injection into the p/n junction on the backside of the IGBT after avalanche is the main feature that distinguishes the avalanche effect from other devices. In this paper, the avalanche breakdown characteristics of IGBT and the nature of current filament are investigated using theoretical analysis and numerical simulation, and the underlying physical mechanism controlling the nature of current filaments is revealed. The results show that the hole injection on the backside of the IGBT leads to an additional negative differential resistance (NDR) branch on the avalanche breakdown curve. The device’s common-base current gain, αpnp, is a crucial factor in determining the current filament. As αpnp increases, the avalanche-induced current filament becomes stronger and slower, resulting in weaker avalanche robustness of the device.

  99. Si, O‑Codoped Carbonized Polymer Dots with High Chemiresistive Gas Sensing Performance at Room Temperature
    Yubo Yin; Yixun Gao; Jianqiang Wang; Quan Wang; Fengnan Wang; Hao Li; Paddy J French; Peerasak Paoprasert; Ahmad M. Umar Siddiqui; Yao Wang; Guofu Zhou;
    ACS Sensors,
    Volume 9, pp. 3282-3289, 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acssensors.4c00617
    Keywords: ... carbonized polymer dots gas sensor ammonia Si O-codoping.

    Abstract: ... A new type of carbonized polymer dot was prepared by the one-step hydrothermal method of triethoxylsilane (TEOS) and citric acid (CA). The sensor made from carbonized polymer dots (CPDs) showed superior gas sensing performance toward ammonia at room temperature. The Si, O-codoped CPDs exhibited superior ammonia sensing performance at room temperature, including a low practical limit of detection (pLOD) of 1 ppm (Ra/Rg: 1.10, 1 ppm), short response/recovery time (30/36 s, 1 ppm), high humidity resistance (less than 5% undulation when changing relative humidity to 80 from 30%), high stability (less than 5% initial response undulation after 120 days), reliable repeatability, and high electivity against other interferential gases. The gas sensing mechanism was investigated through control experiments and in situ FTIR, indicating that Si, O-codoping essentially improves the electron transfer capability of CPDs and ynergistically dominates the superior ammonia sensing properties of the CPDs. This work resents a facile strategy for constructing novel high-performance, single-component carbonized polymer dots for gas sensing.

  100. Research on the health impact of climate must consider distributive justice and environmental sustainability
    C. Richie; P. Garcia-Gomez; H. B. Thio; A. Rwei; C. Joo; U. Staufer; D. Muratore; M. Mastrangeli; I. Dedoussi; J. van Exel; T. van Ourti; I. Bonfrer; A. Gianoli; A. Los; G. T. J. van der Horst; M. van Hagen; L. Burdorf; J. V. Been; M. Hermans; R. Stadhouders; R. J. Rottier; A. Bornioli; I. Chaves; W. A. Dik;
    PLoS Climate,
    Volume 3, Issue 6, pp. e0000431, 2024. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pclm.0000431

  101. Quantifying stress distribution in ultra-large graphene drums through modeshape imaging
    Ali Sarafraz; Hanqing Liu; Katarina Cvetanović; Marko Spasenović; Sten Vollebregt; Tomás Manzaneque Garcia; Peter G. Steeneken; Farbod Alijani; Gerard J. Verbiest;
    npj 2D materials and applications,
    Volume 8, Issue 45, 2024. DOI: 10.1038/s41699-024-00485-6

  102. Classification Strategies for Radar-Based Continuous Human Activity Recognition with Multiple Inputs and Multi-Label Output
    Ullmann, Ingrid; Guendel, Ronny G.; Kruse, Nicolas Christian; Fioranelli, Francesco; Yarovoy, Alexander;
    IEEE Sensors Journal,
    pp. 1-1, 2024. DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2024.3429549

  103. Constrained Infinitesimal Dipole Modeling Assisted Ensemble Prediction of Embedded Element Patterns via Machine Learning
    Onat, Nehir Berk; Roldan, Ignacio; Fioranelli, Francesco; Yarovoy, Alexander; Aslan, Yanki;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    pp. 1-1, 2024. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2024.3433515

  104. Binaural Beamforming Taking into Account Spatial Release from Masking
    Johannes W. de Vries; Steven van de Par; Geert Leus; Richard Heusdens; Richard C. Hendriks;
    IEEE/ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process.,
    Volume 32, pp. 4002–4012, 2024. DOI: 10.1109/TASLP.2024.3451988 Additional material: software

  105. Standardizing designed and emergent quantitative features in microphysiological systems
    D. Nahon; R. Moerkens; H. Aydogmus; B. Lendemeijer; A. Martínez-Silgado; J. Stein; M. Dostanic; J.-P. Frimat; C. Gontan; M. de Graaf; M. Hu; D. Kasi; L. Koch; K. Le; S. Lim; H. Middelkamp; J. Mooiweer; P. Motreuil-Ragot; E. Niggl; C. Pleguezuelos; J. Puschhof; N. Revyn; J. Rivera; J. Slager; L. Windt; M. Zakharova; B. van Meer; V. Orlova; F. de Vrij; S. Withoff; M. Mastrangeli; A. van der Meer; C. L. Mummery;
    Nature Biomedical Engineering,
    Volume 8, pp. 941-962, 2024. DOI: 10.1038/s41551-024-01236-0

  106. Counter-Aliasing Is Better Than De-Aliasing: Application to Doppler Weather Radar With Aperiodic Pulse Train
    Dash, Tworit; Driessen, Hans; Krasnov, O. A.; Yarovoy, Alexander;
    IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing,
    Volume 62, pp. 1-17, 2024. DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2024.3438567

  107. A Singular-value-based Map to Highlight Abnormal Regions Associated with Atrial Fibrillation Using High-resolution Electrograms and Multi-lead ECG
    H. Moghaddasi; R.C. Hendriks; B. Hunyadi; P. Knops; M.S. van Schie; N.M.S. de Groot; A.J. van der Veen;
    IEEE Trans. Biomedical Eng.,
    2024. DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2024.3420412
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  108. Temperature Sensing Elements for Harsh Environments in a 4H-SiC CMOS Technology
    Jiarui Mo; Jinglin Li; Alexander May; Mathias Rommel; Sten Vollebregt; Guoqi Zhang;
    IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices,
    Volume 71, Issue 10, pp. 5881-5887, 2024. DOI: 10.1109/TED.2024.3450828

  109. Adaptive Beamforming for Situation-aware Automotive Radars Under Uncertain Side Information
    Edoardo Focante; Nitin Jonathan Myers; Geethu Joseph; Ashish Pandharipande;
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing,
    2024.

  110. Spectral Domain Analysis of Lossy and Nonzero Thickness Dipoles of Finite Length Radiating in Layered Media
    R. Ozzola; C. Tadolini; A. Neto;
    IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag.,
    Volume 72, Issue 11, pp. 8888-8892, Nov. 2024. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2024.3456966

  111. A Robust Backscatter Modulation Scheme for Uninterrupted Ultrasonic Powering and Back-Communication of Deep Implants
    Lukas Holzapfel; Vasiliki Giagka;
    IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control,
    2024. DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2024.3465268
    Abstract: ... Traditionally, implants are powered by batteries, which have to be recharged by an inductive power link. In the recent years, ultrasonic power links are being investigated, promising more available power for deeply implanted miniaturized devices. These implants often need to transfer back information. For ultrasonically powered implants, this is usually achieved with On-Off Keying based on backscatter modulation, or active driving of a secondary transducer. In this paper, we propose to superimpose subcarriers, effectively leveraging Frequency-Shift Keying, which increases the robustness of the link against interference and fading. It also allows for simultaneous powering and communication, and inherently provides the possibility of frequency domain multiplexing for implant networks. The modulation scheme can be implemented in miniaturized application specific integrated circuits, field programmable gate arrays, and microcontrollers. We have validated this modulation scheme in a water tank during continuous ultrasound and movement. We achieved symbol rates of up to 104 kBd, and were able to transfer data through 20 cm of water and through a 5 cm tissue phantom with additional misalignment and during movements. This approach could provide a robust uplink for miniaturized implants that are located deep inside the body and need continuous ultrasonic powering.

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  112. Spatial analysis of transcript and protein expression in skeletal muscle
    P. Pisterzi; C. Martinez Mir; O. Dahri; I. de Poorter; S. Batlles Parera; M. Dostanic; M. Mastrangeli; C. Mummery; N. Geijsen; F. Sage;
    STAR Protocols,
    Volume 5, Issue 4, pp. 103378, 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xpro.2024.103378

  113. Pointwise-Sparse Actuator Scheduling for Linear Systems with Controllability Guarantee
    Luca Ballotta; Geethu Joseph; Irawati Rahul Thete;
    IEEE Control Systems Letters,
    2024.

  114. A Core-Shell Lens for Antenna On-Package Integration at D-Band
    Rooijen, Nick van; Alonso-delPino, Maria; Bueno, Juan; Bechrakis Triantafyllos, Alexandros; Sberna, Paolo M.; Spirito, Marco; Llombart, Nuria;
    IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag.,
    Volume 72, Issue 8, pp. 6195-6208, 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TAP.2024.3417628

  115. Comprehensive MPSP for Fast Optimal Control: Algorithm Development and Convergence Analysis
    Prem Kumar; Geethu Joseph; Chandra R. Murthy; Radhakant Padhi;
    Transactions of the Indian National Academy of Engineering,
    2024.

  116. Chitosan oligosaccharide laser lithograph: a facile route to porous graphene electrodes for flexible on-chip microsupercomputers
    QM Huang; HR Yang; SG Wang; X Liu; CJ Tanand; QH Zong; CS Gao; SZ Li; PJ French; HY Ye;
    ACS Applied Materials & Interface,
    Volume 16, 2024. DOI: doi: 10.1021/ascami.4c2139

  117. A Deep Automotive Radar Detector using the RaDelft Dataset
    Roldan, Ignacio; Palffy, Andras; Kooij, Julian F. P.; Gavrila, Dariu M.; Fioranelli, Francesco; Yarovoy, Alexander;
    IEEE Transactions on Radar Systems,
    pp. 1-1, 2024. DOI: 10.1109/TRS.2024.3485578

  118. Estimation of mutual coupling in integrated lens arrays using a geometrical optics-based technique with bi-directional forward ray-tracing
    S. Oddin Dabironezare; A. Nair; A. Neto; N. Llombart;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 72, Issue 6, pp. 4796-4805, Jun. 2024. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2024.3390998

  119. 3D high-resolution imaging algorithm using 1D MIMO array for autonomous driving application
    Yuan, Sen; Fioranelli, Francesco; Yarovoy, Alexander;
    IEEE Transactions on Radar Systems,
    pp. 1-1, 2024. DOI: 10.1109/TRS.2024.3493992

  120. A Coupling-Adaptive Wireless Power Transfer System With Voltage-/Current-Mode Receiver and Global Digital-PWM Regulation
    Lu, Tianqi; Du, Sijun;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    pp. 1-13, 2024. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2024.3461857

  121. Dual-Band Submillimeter-Wave Leaky-Wave Lens Antenna for Heterodyne Cometary Mapping
    Bosma, Sjoerd; van Berkel, Sven L.; Alonso-delPino, Maria; Blanco, Darwin; Jung-Kubiak, Cecile; Lin, Robert; Chattopadhyay, Goutam; Siles, Jose V.; Llombart, Nuria;
    IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology,
    2024. Early access. DOI: 10.1109/TTHZ.2024.3510652

  122. Enhanced Frequency Response in Coherent Photoconductive Pulsed Sources Using Leaky Wave Connected Arrays
    Huiskes, Martijn D.; Bueno, Juan; Zhang, Huasheng; Sberna, Paolo Maria; Llombart, Nuria; Neto, Andrea;
    IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology,
    Volume 14, Issue 6, pp. 843-850, Nov. 2024. DOI: 10.1109/TTHZ.2024.3449123

  123. Microgel-based etalon membranes: Characterization and properties
    G. Kontaxi; G. Wensink; P. M. Sberna; M. Rücker; V. Garbin; M. J. Serpe; H. Bazyar;
    APL Materials,
    Volume 12, Issue 091113, pp. 1-14, Sep. 2024. DOI: doi.org/10.1063/5.0227483

  124. Geometry dependence of two-level-system noise and loss in 𝑎-Si⁢C:H parallel-plate capacitors for superconducting microwave resonators
    K. Kouwenhoven; G.P.J. van Doorn; B.T. Buijtendorp; S.A.H. de Rooij; D. Lamers; D.J. Thoen; V. Murugesan; J.J.A. Baselmans; P.J. de Visser;
    Physical Review Applied,
    Volume 21, Issue 044036, pp. 1-13, Apr. 2024. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.21.044036

  125. A Bias-Flip Rectifier With Duty-Cycle-Based MPPT for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting
    Yue, Xinling; Javvaji, Sundeep; Tang, Zhong; Makinwa, Kofi A. A.; Du, Sijun;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 59, Issue 6, pp. 1771-1781, 2024. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2023.3313733
    Keywords: ... Rectifiers;Maximum power point trackers;Power generation;Vibrations;Voltage measurement;Energy harvesting;Capacitors;Bias-flip rectifier;duty-cycle-based (DCB);energy harvesting;maximum power point tracking (MPPT);piezoelectric energy harvester;synchronized switch harvesting on inductor (SSHI).

  126. A Single-Stage Dual-Output Regulating Voltage Doubler for Wireless Power Transfer
    Lu, Tianqi; Makinwa, Kofi A. A.; Du, Sijun;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 59, Issue 9, pp. 2922-2933, 2024. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2024.3378675
    Keywords: ... Video recording;Voltage control;Rectifiers;Topology;Coils;Power transistors;Periodic structures;Biomedical implantable devices;dual output;regulating rectifier;single-stage receiver (RX);voltage doubler (VD);wireless power transfer (WPT).

  127. A β-Compensated NPN-Based Temperature Sensor With ±0.1 °C (3σ) Inaccuracy From -55 °C to 125 °C and 200fJ · K² Resolution FoM
    Toth, Nandor G.; Makinwa, Kofi A. A.;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 59, Issue 12, pp. 4068-4076, 2024. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2024.3440071
    Keywords: ... Temperature sensors;Accuracy;Energy efficiency;Resistors;Energy resolution;Noise;Calibration;β-compensation;continuous-time (CT) ΔΣ-modulator;current-mode readout;NPN-based temperature sensor;resistor ratio calibration.

  128. A 14-b BW /Power Scalable Sensor Interface With a Dynamic Bandgap Reference
    Tang, Zhong; Liu, Yuyan; Chen, Pengpeng; Wang, Haining; Yu, Xiao-Peng; Makinwa, Kofi A. A.; Nianxiong Tan, Nick;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 59, Issue 12, pp. 4077-4087, 2024. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2024.3471820
    Keywords: ... Capacitors;Noise;Discharges (electric);Photonic band gap;Modulation;Temperature sensors;Time-domain analysis;Temperature measurement;Turning;Inverters; $\Delta \Sigma $ ADC;analog-to-digital converter;bandgap reference (BGR);capacitively biased (CB) BJT;floating inverter amplifier (FIA);poly-phase filter (PPF).

  129. Permanent magnet systems to study the interaction between magnetic nanoparticles and cells in microslide channels
    Abelmann, Leon; Gwag, Eunheui; Sung, Baeckkyoung;
    Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials,
    Volume 591, 2024. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmmm.2023.171696
    Keywords: ... 3D printing; Cell culture; Cells; Hematite; Nanomagnetics; Cylindrical magnets; Force density; Halbach array; Hepg4; Magnet systems; Magnetic force; Micromod; Optimized designs; Soft magnetics; Uniform force; Permanent magnets.

    Abstract: ... We optimized designs of permanent magnet systems to study the effect of magnetic nanoparticles on cell cultures in microslide channels. This produced two designs, one of which is based on a large cylindrical magnet that applies a uniform force density of 6 MN/m3 on soft magnetic iron-oxide spherical nanoparticles at a field strength of over 300 mT. We achieved a force uniformity of better than 14 % over the channel area, leading to a concentration variation that was below our measurement resolution. The second design was aimed at maximizing the force by using a Halbach array. We indeed increased the force by more than one order of magnitude at force density values over 400 MN/m3, but at the cost of uniformity. However, the latter system can be used to trap magnetic nanoparticles efficiently and to create concentration gradients. We demonstrated both designs by analyzing the effect of magnetic forces on the cell viability of human hepatoma Hep G2 cells in the presence of bare Fe2O3 and cross-linked dextran iron-oxide cluster-type particles (MicroMod). Python scripts for magnetic force calculations and particle trajectory modeling as well as source files for 3D prints have been made available so these designs can be easily adapted and optimized for other geometries. © 2023

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  130. Enhanced magnetic halloysite nanotubes for dye removal at different pH conditions
    Nguyen, Ngoc Quang; Jeong, Younhee; Abelmann, Leon; Ryu, Jungju; Sohn, Daewon;
    Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects,
    Volume 680, 2024. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2023.132631
    Keywords: ... Kaolinite; Raman spectroscopy; Ultraviolet visible spectroscopy; Wastewater treatment; halloysite nanotube; Dye absorption; Dye removal; Dyes adsorptions; Eco-friendly; Halloysite; Halloysite nanotubes; Magnetic particle; pH condition; Structures and properties; Sunset yellows; absorption; Article; chemical structure; controlled study; energy dispersive X ray spectroscopy; Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy; pH; Raman spectrometry; scanning electron microscopy; transmission electron microscopy; ultraviolet visible spectroscopy; waste component removal; waste water management; X ray diffraction; X ray photoemission spectroscopy; zeta potential; Nanotubes.

    Abstract: ... Halloysite nanotubes (HNTs) have been extensively investigated for potential utilization due to their unique structure and properties as a type of natural, eco-friendly clay. The synthesis and modification of magnetic halloysite nanotubes was studied using several experimental techniques including SEM, TEM, FT-IR, Raman spectroscopy, UV-Vis spectroscopy, and BET. Dye absorption experiments were conducted to understand bonding using EDS, XPS, XRD, and Raman spectroscopy. In this study, we evaluated Sunset Yellow FCF (SY) dye removal as a model to understand bonding structures among magnetic HNTs, magnetic particles, and dye molecules. We focus on the interactions of SY-magnetic HNTs and characteristics of magnetization by VSM after SY dye adsorption, which highlight the notable features of magnetic halloysite nanotubes. We used different pH environments to study the behavior of magnetic HNTs after dye absorption. The application of these modified HNTs is promising for future organic dye removal and wastewater treatment. © 2023 Elsevier B.V.

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  131. A 125μm-Pitch-Matched Transceiver ASIC with Micro-Beamforming ADC and Multi-Level Signaling for 3-D Transfontanelle Ultrasonography
    Peng Guo; Fabian Fool; Zu-Yao Chang; Emile Noothout; Hendrik J. Vos; Johan G. Bosch; Nico de Jong; Martin D. Verweij; Michiel A. P. Pertijs;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 59, Issue 8, pp. 2604--2617, August 2024. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2024.3355854
    Abstract: ... This article presents a pitch-matched transceiver application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) for a wearable ultrasound device intended for transfontanelle ultrasonography, which includes element-level 20-V unipolar pulsers with transmit (TX) beamforming, and receive (RX) circuitry that combines eightfold multiplexing, four-channel micro-beamforming (μBF), and subgroup-level digitization to achieve an initial 32-fold channel-count reduction. The μBF is based on passive boxcar integration, merged with a 10-bit 40 MS/s SAR ADC in the charge domain, thus obviating the need for explicit anti-alias filtering (AAF) and power-hungry ADC drivers. A compact and low-power reference generator employs an area-efficient MOS capacitor as a reservoir to quickly set a reference for the ADC in the charge domain. A low-power multi-level data link, based on 16-level pulse-amplitude modulation, concatenates the outputs of four ADCs, providing an overall 128-fold channel-count reduction. A prototype transceiver ASIC was fabricated in a 180-nm BCD technology, and interfaces with a 2-D PZT transducer array of 16×16 elements with a pitch of 125 μm and a center frequency of 9 MHz. The ASIC consumes 1.83 mW/element. The data link achieves an aggregate 3.84 Gb/s data rate with 3.3 pJ/bit energy efficiency. The ASIC’s functionality has been demonstrated through electrical, acoustic, and imaging experiments.

  132. An Ultrasound Matrix Transducer for High-Frame-Rate 3-D Intra-cardiac Echocardiography
    dos Santos, Djalma Simões; Ossenkoppele, Boudewine; Hopf, Yannick M.; Soozande, Mehdi; Noothout, Emile; Vos, Hendrik J.; Bosch, Johan G.; Pertijs, Michiel A. P.; Verweij, Martin D.; de Jong, Nico;
    Ultrasound in Medicine \& Biology,
    Volume 50, Issue 2, pp. 285--294, February 2024. DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2023.11.001
    Abstract: ... Objective - Described here is the development of an ultrasound matrix transducer prototype for high-frame-rate 3-D intra-cardiac echocardiography. Methods - The matrix array consists of 16 × 18 lead zirconate titanate elements with a pitch of 160 µm × 160 µm built on top of an application-specific integrated circuit that generates transmission signals and digitizes the received signals. To reduce the number of cables in the catheter to a feasible number, we implement subarray beamforming and digitization in receive and use a combination of time-division multiplexing and pulse amplitude modulation data transmission, achieving an 18-fold reduction. The proposed imaging scheme employs seven fan-shaped diverging transmit beams operating at a pulse repetition frequency of 7.7 kHz to obtain a high frame rate. The performance of the prototype is characterized, and its functionality is fully verified. Results - The transducer exhibits a transmit efficiency of 28 Pa/V at 5 cm per element and a bandwidth of 60% in transmission. In receive, a dynamic range of 80 dB is measured with a minimum detectable pressure of 10 Pa per element. The element yield of the prototype is 98%, indicating the efficacy of the manufacturing process. The transducer is capable of imaging at a frame rate of up to 1000 volumes/s and is intended to cover a volume of 70° × 70° × 10 cm. Conclusion - These advanced imaging capabilities have the potential to support complex interventional procedures and enable full-volumetric flow, tissue, and electromechanical wave tracking in the heart.

  133. An Amplitude-Programmable Energy-Recycling High-Voltage Resonant Pulser for Battery-Powered Ultrasound Devices
    Bellouki, Imad; Rozsa, Nuriel N. M.; Chang, Zu-Yao; Chen, Zhao; Tan, Mingliang; Pertijs, Michiel A. P.;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    pp. 1--12, 2024. Early Access. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2024.3494536
    Abstract: ... This article presents an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) for battery-powered ultrasound (US) devices. The ASIC implements a novel energy-efficient high-voltage (HV) pulser that generates HV transmit (TX) pulses directly from a low-voltage (LV) battery supply. By means of a single off-chip inductor, energy is supplied to a US transducer in a resonant fashion, directly generating half-period sinusoidal HV pulses on the transducer, while consuming substantially less energy than a conventional class-D pulser. By recycling residual reactive energy from the transducer back to the input, the energy consumption is further reduced by more than 50%. The autocalibration techniques are leveraged to deal with tolerances of the inductor, transducer, and battery supply and thus maximize the energy efficiency. A prototype chip was fabricated in TSMC 0.18-μm HV BCD technology and used to drive external 120pF capacitive micromachined US transducers (CMUTs) with a center frequency of approximately 2.5 MHz. Electrical measurements show that the prototype can generate pulses with a peak amplitude between 10 and 30 V accurate to within ±1 V. Acoustic measurements demonstrate successful ultrasonic pulse transmission and pulse-echo measurements. The prototype reaches a peak efficiency of 0.23 fCV2, which is the highest reported to date for HV pulsers targeting US imaging.

  134. On the Asymptotic Evaluation of the Radiative Near-Field in Resonant Leaky Wave Antennas Using a Nonuniform Phase Center: Application to Small Lenses
    Bechrakis Triantafyllos, Alexandros; N. Llombart;
    IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag.,
    Volume 72, Issue 12, pp. 9534-9539, Dec. 2024. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2024.3481650

  135. Pulsed operation of a weakly dispersive, leaky wave antenna: A causal numerical study
    J. Gu, M. Štumpf, A. Neto, I. E. Lager;
    IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag.,
    Volume 72, Issue 1, pp. 720-732, Jan. 2024.

  136. Pulsed electromagnetic excitation of a narrow slot between two dielectric halfspaces
    M. Štumpf, G. Antonini, I. E. Lager;
    IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag.,
    Volume 72, Issue 1, pp. 123-130, Jan. 2024.

  137. Distributed Optimisation With Linear Equality and Inequality Constraints Using PDMM
    Heusdens, Richard; Zhang, Guoqiang;
    IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks,
    Volume 10, pp. 294-306, 2024. DOI: 10.1109/TSIPN.2024.3375597
    Keywords: ... Optimization;Convergence;Signal processing algorithms;Convex functions;Propagation losses;Distributed databases;Transforms;Convex optimization;distributed optimization;linear programming;PDMM.

  138. Adaptive Differentially Quantized Subspace Perturbation (ADQSP): A Unified Framework for Privacy-Preserving Distributed Average Consensus
    Li, Qiongxiu; Gundersen, Jaron Skovsted; Lopuhaä-Zwakenberg, Milan; Heusdens, Richard;
    IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security,
    Volume 19, pp. 1780-1793, 2024. DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2023.3343599
    Keywords: ... Privacy;Perturbation methods;Protocols;Mutual information;Measurement;Costs;Quantization (signal);Secure multiparty computation;differential privacy;decentralized networks;subspace perturbation;data aggregation;consensus;quantization.

  139. Improved Multiplicative Regularization for CSI-EPT
    F. Helfferich; P. M. van den Berg; R. F. Remis;
    IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology,
    Volume 8, Issue 1, pp. 84-89, Mar. 2024. DOI: 10.1109/JERM.2024.3363428

  140. Segmented RF shield design to minimize eddy currents for low-field Halbach MRI systems
    Bart de Vos; Rob Remis; Andrew Webb;
    Journal of Magnetic Resonance,
    Volume 362, Issue 107669, pp. 1-9, 2024. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2024.107669

  141. A Review on Gate Oxide Failure Mechanisms of Silicon Carbide Semiconductor Devices
    Jinglin Li; Aditya Shekhar; Willem D. van Driel; GouQi Zhang;
    IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices,
    Volume 71, Issue 12, pp. 7230-7243, 2024. DOI: 10.1109/TED.2024.3482252

  142. A Core-Shell Lens for Antenna On-Package Integration at D-Band
    Rooijen, Nick van; Alonso-delPino, Maria; Bueno, Juan; Bechrakis Triantafyllos, Alexandros; Sberna, Paolo M.; Spirito, Marco; Llombart, Nuria;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 72, Issue 8, pp. 6195-6208, 2024. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2024.3417628
    Keywords: ... Lenses;Antennas;Antenna feeds;Permittivity;Geometry;Bandwidth;Antenna arrays;D-band;dual-lens antenna;lens antenna;millimeter-wave antenna;on-package antenna.

  143. Demonstration of Near Diffraction-Limited Terahertz Images Using a CMOS-Integrated Chessboard Array
    Hoogelander, Martijn; van Dijk, Robbin; Spirito, Marco; Llombart, Nuria; Alonso-delPino, Maria;
    IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology,
    Volume 14, Issue 4, pp. 531-536, 2024. DOI: 10.1109/TTHZ.2024.3387650
    Keywords: ... Imaging;Lenses;Image resolution;Cameras;Couplings;Image edge detection;Terahertz communications;Diffraction;Optical imaging;Diffraction-limited resolution;direct-detection;focal plane array (FPA);quasi-optical (QO) imaging system;silicon-integrated antenna array;terahertz imaging.

  144. A Wideband Digital-Intensive Current-Mode Transmitter Line-Up
    Y. Shen; M. Hoogelander; R. Bootsman; M. S. Alavi; L. C. N. de Vreede;
    IEEE Journal Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 58, Issue 9, pp. 2489-2500, Sep. 2023. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2023.3279235

  145. A Pitch-matched Low-noise Analog Front-end with Accurate Continuous Time-gain Compensation for High-density Ultrasound Transducer Arrays
    Peng Guo; Zu-Yao Chang; Emile Noothout; Hendrik J. Vos; Johan G. Bosch; Nico de Jong; Martin D. Verweij; Michiel A. P. Pertijs;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 58, Issue 6, pp. 1693--1705, June 2023. DOI: 10.1109/jssc.2022.3200160

  146. Stabilizability of Linear Dynamical Systems Using Sparse Control Inputs
    Chandrasekhar Sriram; Geethu Joseph; Chandra R. Murthy;
    IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control,
    2023. DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2022.3217102

  147. Phased array with pattern shaping and scan loss reduction for millimeter waves
    R. M. Van Schelven; W. Syed; G. Carluccio; K. Doris; A. De Graauw; A. Neto; D. Cavallo;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 71, Issue 1, pp. 159-168, Jan. 2023. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2022.3217340

  148. Low-earth orbit user segment in the Ku and Ka-band: An overview of antennas and RF front-end technologies
    G. Amendola; D. Cavallo; T. Chaloun; N. Defrance; N.J.G. Fonseca; G. Goussetis; M. Margalef-Rovira; E. Martini; O. Quevedo-Teruel; V. Valenta; M. Ettorre;
    IEEE Microwave Magazine,
    Volume 24, Issue 2, pp. 32-48, Feb. 2023. DOI: 10.1109/MMM.2022.3217961

  149. Efficient semi-analytical method for the analysis of large finite connected slot arrays
    A. J. van Katwijk; A. Neto; G. Toso; D. Cavallo;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 71, Issue 1, pp. 402-410, Jan. 2023. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2022.3209272

  150. Optimization of multilayer graphene-based gas sensors by ultraviolet photoactivation
    Álvaro Peña; Daniel Matatagui; Filiberto Ricciardella; Leandro Sacco; Sten Vollebregt; Daniel Otero; JesúsLópez-Sánchez; Pilar Marína; M.Carmen Horrillo;
    Applied Surface Science,
    Volume 610, pp. 155393, 2023. DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2022.155393

  151. Manufacturing thin ionic polymer metal composite for sensing at the microscale
    Paul Motreuil-Ragot; Andres Hunt; Leandro N. Sacco; Pasqualina M. Sarro; Massimo Mastrangeli;
    Smart Materials and Structures,
    Volume 32, pp. 035006, 2023. DOI: 10.1088/1361-665X/acb305

  152. Fractional Fourier Transform Receiver for Modulated Chirp Waveforms
    Petrov, Nikita; Yarovoy, Alexander G.;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 71, Issue 2, pp. 818-826, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2022.3222225

  153. Performance Optimization of SSHC Rectifiers for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting
    Yue, X.; Du, S.;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs,
    Volume 70, Issue 4, pp. 1560-1564, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/TCSII.2022.3224033

  154. A Dynamically Reconfigurable Recursive Switched- Capacitor DC–DC Converter With Adaptive Load Ability Enhancement
    Q. Lu, S. Li, B. Zhao, J. Jiang, Z. Chen; S. Du;
    IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics,
    Volume 38, Issue 4, pp. 5032-5040, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2023.3235305

  155. Overview of Engineering Carbon Nanomaterials such as Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs), Carbon Nanofibers (CNFs), Graphene and Nanodiamonds and Other Carbon Allotropes inside Porous Anodic Alumina (PAA) Templates
    Leandro Sacco; Sten Vollebregt;
    MDPI Nanomaterials,
    Volume 13, Issue 2, pp. 260, 2023. DOI: 10.3390/nano13020260

  156. Transient thermal measurement on nano-metallic sintered die-attach joints using a thermal test chip
    R. Sattari; Dong Hu; Xu Liu; H. van Zeijl; S. Vollebregt; GuoQi Zhang;
    Applied Thermal Engineering,
    Volume 221, pp. 119503, 2023. DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2022.119503

  157. Joint Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Microphone Array Parameters for a Reverberant Single Source Scenario
    Changheng Li; Jorge Martinez; Richard C. Hendriks;
    IEEE/ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process.,
    Volume 31, pp. 695–705, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/TASLP.2022.3231706
    document • software

  158. Development of a microfluidic device for low-volume sample lysis
    Abbas Husseini; Ali Mohammad Yazdani; Alper Sisman;
    Microfluidics and Nanofluidics,
    2023.

  159. A Wideband Energy-Efficient Multi-Mode CMOS Digital Transmitter
    Beikmirza, Mohammadreza; Shen, Yiyu; de Vreede, Leo C. N.; Alavi, Morteza S.;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 58, Issue 3, pp. 677-690, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2022.3222028

  160. A Single-Stage Regulating Voltage-Doubling Rectifier for Wireless Power Transfer
    Tianqi Lu; Sijun Du;
    IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters,
    Volume 6, pp. 29-32, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/LSSC.2023.3239691

  161. Exploring the Use of Granger Causality for the Identification of Chemical Exposure Based on Physiological Data
    S. Difrancesco ; J. U. Van Baardewijk; A. S. Cornelissen; C. Varon; R. C. Hendriks; A. M. Brouwer;
    Frontiers in Network Physiology,
    Volume 3, 2023. DOI: 10.3389/fnetp.2023.1106650

  162. A Plant-inspired Light Transducer for High-performance Near-infrared Light Mediated Gas Sensing
    Hongping Liang; Xin Guo; Lanpeng Guo; Siying Liu; Qiuqiang Zhan; Haihong Yang; Hao Li; Nicolaas Frans de Rooij; Yi-Kuen Lee; Paddy J. French; Yao Wang; Guofu Zhou;
    Advanced Functional Materials,
    Issue 2215099, pp. 10, 2023. DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202215099
    Abstract: ... Constructing near-infrared light (NIR) light-enhanced room temperature gas sensors is becoming more promising for practical application. In this study, learning from the structure and photosynthetic process of chlorophyll thylakoid membranes in plants, the first “Thylakoid membrane” structural formaldehyde (HCHO) sensor is constructed by matching the upconversion emission of the lanthanide-doped upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) and the UV–vis adsorp- tion of the as-prepared nanocomposites. The NIR-mediated sensor exhibits excellent performances, including ultra-high response (Ra / Rg = 2.22, 1 ppm), low practical limit of detection (50 ppb), reliable repeatability, high selectivity,and broadband spectral response. The practicality of the NIR-mediated gas sensor is confirmed through the remote and external stimulation test. A study of sensing mechanism demonstrates that it is the UCNPs-based light transducer produces more light-induced oxygen species for gas response in the process of non-radiative/radiative energy transfer, playing a key role in significantly improving the sensing properties of the sensor. The universality of NIR-mediated gas sensors based on UCNPs is verified using ZnO, In2O3, and SnO2 systems. This work paves a way for fabricating high-performance NIR-mediated gas sensors and will expand the application fields of NIR light.

  163. Coupling Model of Electromigration and Experimental Verification – Part I: Effect of Atomic Concentration Gradient
    Zhen Cui; Xuejun Fan; Yaqian Zhang; Sten Vollebregt; Jiajie Fan; Guoqi Zhang;
    Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids,
    Volume 174, pp. 105257, 2023. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmps.2023.105257

  164. Coupling Model of Electromigration and Experimental Verification – Part II: Impact of Thermomigration
    Zhen Cui; Xuejun Fan; Yaqian Zhang; Sten Vollebregt; Jiajie Fan; Guoqi Zhang;
    Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids,
    Volume 174, pp. 105256, 2023. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmps.2023.105256

  165. Efficient waveguide power combiners at mm-wave frequencies
    Ralph M. van Schelven; Marco Spirito; Daniele Cavallo;
    IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation,
    Volume 17, Issue 6, pp. 467-477, May 2023. DOI: 10.1049/mia2.12349

  166. Ultra-sensitive graphene membranes for microphone applications
    Gabriele Baglioni; Roberto Pezone; Sten Vollebregt; Katarina Cvetanović Zobenica; Marko Spasenović; Dejan Todorovic; Hanqing Liu; Gerard Verbiest; Herre S.J. van der Zant; Peter Gerard Steeneken;
    Nanoscale,
    Volume 15, pp. 6343-6352, 2023. DOI: 10.1039/D2NR05147H

  167. Microfabricated albedo insensitive sun position sensor system in silicon carbide with integrated 3D optics and CMOS electronics
    Joost Romijn; Sten Vollebregt; Vincent G. de Bie; Luke M. Middelburg; Brahim El Mansouri; Henk W. van Zeijl; Alexander May; Tobias Erlbacher; Johan Leijtens; Guoqi Zhang; Pasqualina M. Sarro;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical,
    Volume 354, pp. 114268, 2023. DOI: 10.1016/j.sna.2023.114268

  168. Additive Manufacturing of Linear Continuous Permittivity Profiles and their Application to Cylindrical Dielectric Resonator Antennas
    Hehenberger, Simon P.; Caizzone, Stefano; Yarovoy, Alexander;
    IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation,
    pp. 1-1, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/OJAP.2023.3258147

  169. High Dominant Frequencies and Fractionated Potentials Do Not Indicate Focal or Rotational Activation During AF
    L. N. van Staveren; R. C. Hendriks; Y. J. H. J. Taverne; N. M. S. de Groot;
    Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Clinical Electrophysiology,
    2023.

  170. The sensitivity enhancement of TiO2-based VOCs sensor decorated by gold at room temperature
    Mostafa Shooshtari; Sten Vollebregt; Yas Vaseghi; Mahshid Rajati; Saeideh Pahlavan;
    IOP Nanotechnology,
    Volume 34, Issue 25, pp. 255501, 2023. DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/acc6d7

  171. Modeling and Characterization of Pre-Charged Collapse-Mode CMUTs
    M. Saccher; S. Kawasaki; J. H. Klootwijk; R. Van Schaijk; R. Dekker;
    IEEE Open Journal of Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control,
    Volume 3, pp. 14-28, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/OJUFFC.2023.3240699

  172. A Highly Linear Temperature Sensor Operating up to 600°C in a 4H-SiC CMOS Technology
    Jiarui Mo; Jinglin Li; Yaqian Zhang; Joost Romijn; Alexander May; Tobias Erlbacher; Guoqi Zhang; Sten Vollebregt;
    IEEE Electron Device Letters,
    Volume 44, Issue 6, pp. 995-998, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/LED.2023.3268334

  173. Large-Area and Visible-Light-Driven Heterojunctions of In2O3/Graphene Built for ppb-Level Formaldehyde Detection at Room Temperature
    L Guo; H Liang; H Hu; S Shi; C Wang; H Li; YK Lee; PJ French; Y Wang;
    ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces,
    Volume 15, pp. 15, 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.3c00218
    Keywords: ... In2O3 nanorods, supramolecularly functionalized graphene, formaldehyde sensing, room temperature, visible-light-driven heterojunctions.

    Abstract: ... Achieving convenient and accurate detection of indoor ppb-level form- aldehyde is an urgent requirement to ensure a healthy working and living environment for people. Herein, ultrasmall In2O3 nanorods and supramolecularly functionalized reduced graphene oxide are selected as hybrid components of visible-light-driven (VLD) heterojunctions to fabricate ppb-level formaldehyde (HCHO) gas sensors (named InAG sensors). Under 405 nm visible light illumination, the sensor exhibits an outstanding response toward ppb-level HCHO at room temperature, including the ultralow practical limit of detection (pLOD) of 5 ppb, high response (Ra/Rg = 2.4, 500 ppb), relatively short response/recovery time (119 s/179 s, 500 ppb), high selectivity, and long-term stability. The ultrasensitive room temperature HCHO-sensing property is derived from visible-light-driven and large-area heterojunctions between ultrasmall In2O3 nanorods and supra-molecularly functionalized graphene nanosheets. The performance of the actual detection toward HCHO is evaluated in a 3 m3 test chamber, confirming the practicability and reliability of the InAG sensor. This work provides an effective strategy for the development of low-power-consumption ppb-level gas sensors.

  174. A Survey on Radar-Based Continuous Human Activity Recognition
    Ullmann, Ingrid; Guendel, Ronny G.; Kruse, Nicolas Christian; Fioranelli, Francesco; Yarovoy, Alexander;
    IEEE Journal of Microwaves,
    pp. 1-13, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/JMW.2023.3264494

  175. Self-Supervised Learning for Enhancing Angular Resolution in Automotive MIMO Radars
    Roldan, Ignacio; Fioranelli, Francesco; Yarovoy, Alexander;
    IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology,
    pp. 1-10, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2023.3269199

  176. An organ-on-chip device with integrated charge sensors and recording microelectrodes
    Hande Aydogmus; Michel Hu; Lovro Ivancevic; Jean-Philippe Frimat; Arn M. J. M. van den Maagdenberg; Pasqualina M. Sarro; Massimo Mastrangeli;
    Scientific Reports,
    Volume 13, Issue 8062, 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-34786-5

  177. Study on the controllability of the fabrication of single-crystal silicon nanopores/nanoslits with a fast-stop ionic current-monitored TSWE method
    Hao Hong; Jiangtao Wei; Xin Lei; Haiyun Chen; Pasqualina M. Sarro; Guoqi Zhang; Zewen Liu;
    Microsystems & Nanoengineering,
    Volume 9, pp. 63, 2023. DOI: 10.1038/s41378-023-00532-0

  178. Optical self-cooling of a membrane oscillator in a cavity optomechanical experiment at room temperature
    P. Vezio; M. Bonaldi; A. Borrielli; F. Marino; B. Morana; P.M. Sarro; E. Serra; F. Marin;
    Physical Review A,
    Volume 108, pp. 063508, 2023. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.108.063508

  179. Nanostructured Thermoelectric Films Synthesised by Spark Ablation and Their Oxidation Behaviour
    Joost van Ginkel; Lisa Mitterhuber; Marijn Willem van de Putte; Mark Huijben; Sten Vollebregt; Guoqi Zhang;
    Nanomaterials,
    Volume 13, Issue 11, pp. 1778, 2023. DOI: 10.3390/nano13111778

  180. Grouped People Counting Using mm-wave FMCW MIMO Radar
    Ren, Liyuan; Yarovoy, Alexander; Fioranelli, Francesco;
    IEEE Internet of Things Journal,
    pp. 1-1, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2023.3282797

  181. IEEE Signal Processing Society: Celebrating 75 Years of Remarkable Achievements [From the Guest Editors]
    R.G. Guido; T. Adali; E. Bjornson; L. Blanc-Feraud; U. Braga-Neto; B. Ghoraani; C. Jutten; A.J. van der Veen; Hong Zhao; Xiaoxing Zhu;
    IEEE Signal Processing Magazine,
    Volume 40, Issue 4, pp. 3-6, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/MSP.2023.3269591
    document

  182. A Wideband Digital-Intensive Current-Mode Transmitter Line-Up
    Shen, Yiyu; Hoogelander, Martijn; Bootsman, Rob; Alavi, Morteza S.; de Vreede, Leo C. N.;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    pp. 1-12, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2023.3279235

  183. An Inverted Doherty Power Amplifier Insensitive to Load Variation With an Embedded Impedance Sensor in Its Output Power-Combining Network
    Singh, Gagan Deep; Nemati, Hossein Mashad; Alavi, Morteza S.; de Vreede, Leonardus Cornelis Nicolaas;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    pp. 1-15, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2023.3277081

  184. A Highly Linear Receiver Using Parallel Preselect Filter for 5G Microcell Base Station Applications
    Montazerolghaem, Mohammad Ali; de Vreede, Leo C. N.; Babaie, Masoud;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    pp. 1-16, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2023.3267723

  185. Road Surface Conditions Identification via H α A Decomposition and Its Application to mm-Wave Automotive Radar
    Bouwmeester, Wietse; Fioranelli, Francesco; Yarovoy, Alexander G.;
    IEEE Transactions on Radar Systems,
    Volume 1, pp. 132-145, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/TRS.2023.3286282

  186. DeepEgo: Deep Instantaneous Ego-motion Estimation using Automotive Radar
    Zhu, Simin; Yarovoy, Alexander; Fioranelli, Francesco;
    IEEE Transactions on Radar Systems,
    pp. 1-1, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/TRS.2023.3288241

  187. Reverse Recovery Optimization of Multiepi Superjunction MOSFET Based on Tunable Doping Profile
    Ke Liu; Chunjian Tan; Shizhen Li; Wucheng Yuan; Xu Liu; Guoqi Zhang; Paddy French; Huaiyu Ye; Shaogang Wang;
    Electronics,
    Volume 12, Issue 2977, 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12132977
    Keywords: ... superjunction; MOSFET; doping profile; reverse recovery; body diode.

    Abstract: ... This paper proposes and simulates research on the reverse recovery characteristics of two novel superjunction (SJ) MOSFETs by adjusting the doping profile. In the manufacturing process of the SJ MOSFET using multilayer epitaxial deposition (MED), the position and concentration of each Boron bubble can be adjusted by designing different doping profiles to adjust the resistance of the upper half P-pillar. A higher P-pillar resistance can slow down the sweep out speed of hole carriers when the body diode is turned off, thus resulting in a smoother reverse recovery current and reducing the current recovery rate (dir/dt) from a peak to zero. The simulation results show that the reverse recovery peak current (Irrm) of the two proposed devices decreased by 5% and 3%, respectively, compared to the conventional SJ. Additionally, the softness factor (S) increased by 64% and 55%, respectively. Furthermore, this study also demonstrates a trade-off relationship between static and reverse recovery characteristics with the adjustable doping profile, thus providing a guideline for actual application scenarios.

  188. Low Noise Opto-Electro-Mechanical Modulator for RF-to-Optical Transduction in Quantum Communications
    Michele Bonaldi; Antonio Borrielli; Giovanni Di Giuseppe; Nicola Malossi; Bruno Morana; Riccardo Natali; Paolo Piergentili; Pasqualina Maria Sarro; Enrico Serra; David Vitali;
    Entropy,
    Volume 25, Issue 7, 2023. DOI: 10.3390/e25071087

  189. Chessboard focal plane array for a CMOS-integrated terahertz camera
    M. Hoogelander; S. van Berkel; S. Malotaux; M. Alonso-delPino; D. Cavallo; M. Spirito; N. Llombart;
    IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology,
    Volume 13, Issue 6, pp. 704-717, Nov. 2023. DOI: 10.1109/TTHZ.2023.3297072

  190. Patching sulfur vacancies: A versatile approach for achieving ultrasensitive gas sensors based on transition metal dichalcogenides
    Xiangcheng Liu; Yue Niu; Duo Jin; Junwei Zeng; Wanjiang Li; Lirong Wang; Zhipeng Hou; Yancong Feng; Hao Li; Haihong Yang; Yi-Kuen Lee; Paddy J. French; Yao Wang; Guofu Zhou;
    Journal of Colloid and Interface Science,
    Volume 649, pp. 909-917, 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2023.06.092.
    Keywords: ... 2D materials Transition metal dichalcogenides Gas sensing Patching sulfur vacancies N-doping.

    Abstract: ... Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) garner significant attention for their potential to create high-performance gas sensors. Despite their favorable properties such as tunable bandgap, high carrier mobility, and large surface-to-volume ratio, the performance of TMDCs devices is compromised by sulfur vacancies, which reduce carrier mobility. To mitigate this issue, we propose a simple and universal approach for patching sulfur vacancies, wherein thiol groups are inserted to repair sulfur vacancies. The sulfur vacancy patching (SVP) approach is applied to fabricate a MoS2-based gas sensor using mechanical exfoliation and all-dry transfer methods, and the resulting 4-nitrothiophenol (4NTP) repaired molybdenum disulfide (4NTP-MoS2) is prepared via a sample solution process. Our results show that 4NTP-MoS2 exhibits higher response (increased by 200 %) to ppb-level NO2 with shorter response/recovery times (61/82 s) and better selectivity at 25 °C compared to pristine MoS2. Notably, the limit of detection (LOD) toward NO2 of 4NTP-MoS2 is 10 ppb. Kelvin probe force microscopy (KPFM) and density functional theory (DFT) reveal that the improved gas sensing performance is mainly attributed to the 4NTP-induced n-doping effect on MoS2 and the corresponding increment of surface absorption energy to NO2. Additionally, our 4NTP-induced SVP approach is universal for enhancing gas sensing properties of other TMDCs, such as MoSe2, WS2, and WSe2.

  191. 3-D Ego-motion Estimation using Multi-channel FMCW Radar
    Yuan, Sen; Zhu, Simin; Fioranelli, Francesco; Yarovoy, Alexander;
    IEEE Transactions on Radar Systems,
    pp. 1-1, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/TRS.2023.3299180

  192. Vehicular Motion-based DOA Estimation with a Limited Amount of Snapshots for Automotive MIMO Radar
    Yuan, Sen; Fioranelli, Francesco; Yarovoy, Alexander;
    IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems,
    pp. 1-15, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2023.3291335

  193. Automated assessment of human engineered heart tissues using deep learning and template matching for segmentation and tracking
    J. M. Rivera‐Arbeláez; D. Keekstra; C. Cofiño‐Fabres; Tom Boonen; M. Dostanic; S. A. Ten Den; K. Vermeul; M. Mastrangeli; A. van den Berg; L. I. Segerink; M. C. Ribeiro; N. Strisciuglio; R. Passier;
    Bioengineering & Translational Medicine,
    Volume 8, Issue 3, pp. e10513, 2023. DOI: 10.1002/btm2.10513

  194. Stabilizability of Linear Dynamical Systems Using Sparse Control Inputs
    Chandrasekhar Sriram; Geethu Joseph; Chandra R. Murthy;
    IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control,
    2023. DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2022.3217102

  195. Output Controllability of a Linear Dynamical System with Sparse Controls
    Geethu Joseph;
    IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems,
    2023. DOI: 10.1109/TCNS.2022.3188484

  196. Scalable and Decentralized Algorithms for Anomaly Detection via Learning-Based Controlled Sensing
    Geethu Joseph; Chen Zhong; M. Cenk Gursoy; Senem Velipasalar; Pramod K. Varshney;
    IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks,
    2023.

  197. Centimeter-scale nanomechanical resonators with low dissipation
    Andrea Cupertino; Dongil Shin; Leo Guo; Peter G. Steeneken; Miguel A. Bessa; Richard A. Norte;
    arXiv,
    2023. DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2308.00611

  198. Data Compression Versus Signal Fidelity Tradeoff in Wired-OR Analog-to-Digital Compressive Arrays for Neural Recording
    Pumiao Yan; Arash Akhoundi; Nishal P Shah; Pulkit Tandon; Dante G Muratore; EJ Chichilnisky; Boris Murmann;
    IEEE transactions on biomedical circuits and systems,
    July 2023. DOI: 10.1109/TBCAS.2023.3292058

  199. Rapid Fabrication of High-Performance Flexible Pressure Sensors Using Laser Pyrolysis Direct Writing
    Shaogang Wang; Qihang Zong; Huiru Yang; Chunjian Tan; Qianming Huang; Xu Liu; Guoqi Zhang; Paddy French; Huaiyu Ye;
    Applied Materials and Interfaces,
    2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.3c04290
    Keywords: ... flexible pressure sensor, UV laser, laser direct writing, continuous laser pyrolysis, PDMS, micro-truncated pyramid.

    Abstract: ... The fabrication of flexible pressure sensors with low cost, high scalability, and easy fabrication is an essential driving force in developing flexible electronics, especially for high-performance sensors that require precise surface microstructures. However, optimizing complex fabrication processes and expensive microfabrication methods remains a significant challenge. In this study, we introduce a laser pyrolysis direct writing technology that enables rapid and efficient fabrication of high-performance flexible pressure sensors with a microtruncated pyramid array. The pressure sensor demonstrates exceptional sensitivities, with the values of 3132.0, 322.5, and 27.8 kPa−1 in the pressure ranges of 0−0.5, 0.5−3.5, and 3.5−10 kPa, respectively. Furthermore, the sensor exhibits rapid response times (loading: 22 ms, unloading: 18 ms) and exceptional reliability, enduring over 3000 pressure loading and unloading cycles. Moreover, the pressure sensor can be easily integrated into a sensor array for spatial pressure distribution detection. The laser pyrolysis direct writing technology introduced in this study presents a highly efficient and promising approach to designing and fabricating high-performance flexible pressure sensors utilizing micro-structured polymer substrates.

  200. The (Intra-Aortic) Hematopoietic Cluster Cocktail: What is in the Mix?
    Chris S. Vink; Elaine Dzierzak;
    Experimental Hematology,
    Volume 118, pp. 1--11, February 2023. DOI: 10.1016/j.exphem.2022.12.002
    document

  201. Fabrication of high-performance visible-blind ultraviolet photodetectors using electro-ionic conducting supramolecular nanofibers
    S. Kundu; S. J. George; G. U. Kulkarni;
    ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces,
    Issue 15, pp. 19270, 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.3c00716

  202. Emulating Ebbinghaus forgetting behavior in a neuromorphic device based on 1D supramolecular nanofibres
    T.S. Rao; S. Kundu; B. Bannur; S. J. George; G. U. Kulkarni;
    Nanoscale,
    Issue 15(16), pp. 7450-7459, 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D3NR00195D

  203. Emulating Ebbinghaus forgetting behavior in a neuromorphic device based on 1D supramolecular nanofibres
    T. S. Rao; S. Kundu; B. Bannur; S. J. George; G. U. Kulkarni;
    Nanoscale,
    Issue 15(16), pp. 7450-7459, 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D3NR00195D

  204. On the equivalence of OSDM and OTFS
    I. van der Werf; H. S. Dol; K. C. H. Blom; R. Heusdens; R. C. Hendriks; G. J. T. Leus;
    Elsevier Signal Processing,
    2023.

  205. Copper Nanoparticle Sintering Enabled Hermetic Packaging With Fine Sealing Ring for MEMS Application
    Dong Hu; Mustafeez Bashir Shah; Jiajie Fan; Sten Vollebregt; Guoqi Zhang;
    IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices,
    Volume 70, Issue 11, pp. 5818-5823, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/TED.2023.3312066

  206. Miniaturized engineered heart tissues from hiPSC-derived triple cell type co-cultures to study human cardiac function
    L Windt; M. Wiendels; M. Dostanic; M. Bellin; P. M. Sarro; M. Mastrangeli; C. L. Mummery; B. J. van Meer;
    Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications,
    Volume 681, pp. 200-211, 2023. DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2023.09.034

  207. De Novo Hematopoietic (Stem) Cell Generation — A Differentiation or Stochastic Process?
    Chris S. Vink; Anna Popravko; Elaine Dzierzak;
    Current Opinion in Cell Biology,
    Volume 85, Issue 102255, pp. 1--9, December 2023. DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2023.102255
    document

  208. Broadband Effective Permittivity Simulation and Measurement Techniques for 3-D-Printed Dielectric Crystals
    Hehenberger, Simon P.; Caizzone, Stefano; Thurner, Stefan; Yarovoy, Alexander G.;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 71, Issue 10, pp. 4161-4172, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2023.3259479

  209. A bio-inspired and switchable H+/OH− ion-channel for room temperature exhaled CO2 chemiresistive sensing
    Honghao Chen; Ruofei Lu; Yixun Gao; Xiaorui Yue; Haihong Yang; Hao Li; Yi-Kuen Lee; Paddy J. French; Yao Wang; Guofu Zhouab;
    Journal of Materials Chemistry A,
    Volume 11, Issue 21959-21971, 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D3TA04685K
    Abstract: ... Inspired by the CO2-induced reversible activation mechanism of the slow anion channel 1 (SLAC1) in plant stomatal guard cells during plant photosynthesis, we designed and prepared a CO2- switchable H+/OH− ion channel (CSPH ion channel). A high-performance chemiresistive room temperature CO2 sensor has been prepared based on this CSPH ion channel. The obtained CO2 room temperature sensor γ-CD-MOF@RhB exhibits high sensitivity (Rg/R0 = 1.50, 100 ppm), excellent selectivity, good stability (less than 5% reduction in 30 days response value), and 99.96% consistency with commercial infrared CO2 meter. The practical limit of detection (pLOD) of the γ-CD-MOF@RhB sensor reaches 10 ppm at room temperature toward CO2, which is the lowest for reported MOF-derived chemiresistive room temperature CO2 sensors so far. Ion conduction mechanism studies have shown that the CSPH ion channel behaves as a CO2-switchable H+/OH− ion channel with a switching point of approximately 60 000 ppm CO2. As an application attempt, the fabricated low pLOD CO2 sensor has been used for human exhaled CO2 detection to compare CO2 concentration in the breath of individuals before and after exercise and COVID-19. It was also logically indicated that the average concentration of human exhaled CO2 after COVID-19 recovery is different for undiseased subjects.

  210. A transmit lens array with high-gain and beam-steering capabilities at submillimeter wavelengths
    M. Alonso-delPino; S. Bosma; C. Jung-Kubiak; J. Bueno; G. Chattopadhyay; N. Llombart;
    IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology,
    2023. early access. DOI: 10.1109/TTHZ.2023.3321253

  211. Spread-spectrum modulated multi-channel biosignal acquisition using a shared analog CMOS front-end
    Samprajani Rout; Bert Monna; Fabio Pareschi; Gianluca Setti; Wouter A. Serdijn;
    IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems,
    2023. DOI: 10.1109/TBCAS.2023.3317188
    document

  212. A 2D Ultrasound Phased-Array Transmitter ASIC for High-Frequency US Stimulation and Powering
    Hassan Rivandi; Tiago L. Costa;
    IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (IEEE TbioCAS),
    2023. DOI: 10.1109/TBCAS.2023.3288891

  213. Hybrid neuroelectronics: towards a solution-centric way of thinking about complex problems in neurostimulation tools
    Sofia Drakopoulou; Francesc Varkevisser; Linta Sohail; Masoumeh Aqamolaei; Tiago L. Costa; George D. Spyropoulos;
    Frontiers in Electronics,
    2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/felec.2023.1250655

  214. A 1.2 mW/Channel Pitch-Matched Transceiver ASIC Employing a Boxcar-Integration-Based RX Micro-Beamformer for High-Resolution 3-D Ultrasound Imaging
    Peng Guo; Fabian Fool; Zu-Yao Chang; Emile Noothout; Hendrik J. Vos; Johan G. Bosch; Nico de Jong; Martin D. Verweij; Michiel A. P. Pertijs;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 58, Issue 9, pp. 2607--2618, September 2023. DOI: 10.1109/jssc.2023.3271270

  215. A Pitch-Matched High-Frame-Rate Ultrasound Imaging ASIC for Catheter-Based 3D Probes
    Yannick M. Hopf; Djalma Simoes dos Santos; Boudewine W. Ossenkoppele; Mehdi Soozande; Emile Noothout; Zu-Yao Chang; Chao Chen; Hendrik J. Vos; Johan G. Bosch; Martin D. Verweij; Nico de Jong; Michiel A. P. Pertijs;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 59, Issue 2, pp. 476--491, February 2023. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2023.3299749
    Abstract: ... This article presents an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) for catheter-based 3-D ultrasound imaging probes. The pitch-matched design implements a comprehensive architecture with high-voltage (HV) transmitters, analog front ends, hybrid beamforming analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), and data transmission to the imaging system. To reduce the number of cables in the catheter while maintaining a small footprint per element, transmission (TX) beamforming is realized on the chip with a combination of a shift register (SR) and a row/column (R/C) approach. To explore an additional cable-count reduction in the receiver part of the design, a channel with a combination of time-division multiplexing (TDM), subarray beamforming, and multi-level pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) data transmission is also included. This achieves an 18-fold cable-count reduction and minimizes the power consumption in the catheter by a load modulation (LM) cable driver. It is further explored how common-mode interference can limit beamforming gain and a strategy to reduce its impact with local regulators is discussed. The chip was fabricated in TSMC 0.18-μm HV BCD technology and a 2-D PZT transducer matrix of 16 × 18 elements with a pitch of 160 μm and a center frequency of 6 MHz was manufactured on the chip. The system can generate all required TX patterns at up to 30 V, provides quick settling after the TX phase, and has an reception (RX) power consumption of only 1.12 mW/element. The functionality and operation of up to 1000 volumes/s have been demonstrated in electrical and acoustic imaging experiments.

  216. An ultrasound matrix transducer for high-frame-rate 3D intracardiac echocardiography
    Djalma Simoes dos Santos; Boudewine Ossenkoppele; Yannick M. Hopf; Mehdi Soozande; Emile Noothout; Hendrik J. Vos; Johan G. Bosch; Michiel A. P. Pertijs; Martin D. Verweij; Nico de Jong;
    Ultrasound in Medicine \& Biology,
    2023. accepted.
    Abstract: ... Objective: This paper presents the development of an ultrasound matrix transducer prototype for high frame rate three-dimensional (3D) intracardiac echocardiography (ICE). Methods: The matrix array consists of 16 ×18 lead zirconate titanate (PZT) elements with a pitch of 160 µm × 160 µm built on top of an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) that generates transmission signals and digitizes the received signals. To reduce the number of cables in the catheter to a feasible number, we implement subarray beamforming and digitization in receive and use a combination of time-division multiplexing and pulse amplitude modulation data transmission, achieving an 18-fold reduction. The proposed imaging scheme employs seven fan-shaped diverging transmit beams operating at a pulse repetition frequency of 7.7 kHz to obtain a high frame rate. The performance of the prototype is characterized and its functionality is fully verified. Results: The transducer exhibits a transmit efficiency of 28 Pa/V at 5 cm per element and a bandwidth of 60% in transmission. In receive, a dynamic range of 80 dB is measured with a minimum detectable pressure of 10 Pa per element. The element yield of the prototype is 98%, indicating the efficacy of the manufacturing process. The transducer is capable of imaging at a frame rate of up to 1000 volumes/s and is intended to cover a volume of 70° × 70° × 10 cm. Conclusion: These advanced imaging capabilities have the potential to support complex interventional procedures and enable full-volumetric flow, tissue, and electro-mechanical wave tracking in the heart.

  217. Quantifying stress distribution in ultra-large graphene drums through mode shape imaging
    Ali Sarafraz; Hanqing Liu; Katarina Cvetanović; Marko Spasenović; Sten Vollebregt; Tomas Manzaneque Garcia; Peter G. Steeneken; Farbod Alijani;
    arXiv,
    2023. DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2311.00443

  218. Joint Ranging and Phase Offset Estimation for Multiple Drones using ADS-B Signatures
    Mohammadkarimi, Mostafa; Leus, Geert; Rajan, Raj Thilak;
    IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology,
    2023. DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2023.3318192

  219. Enabling Technologies for Navigation and Communication of UAS operating in the context of BVLOS
    Politi, Elena; Purucker, Patrick; Larsen, Morten; Dos Reis, Ricardo J; Rajan, Raj Thilak; Penna, Sergio Duarte; Boer, Jan-Floris; Rodosthenous, Panagiotis; Dimitrakopoulos, George; Varlamis, Iraklis; others;
    2023.

  220. A 120.9-dB DR Digital-Input Capacitively Coupled Chopper Class-D Audio Amplifier
    Zhang, Huajun; Berkhout, Marco; Makinwa, Kofi A. A.; Fan, Qinwen;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    pp. 1-11, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2023.3318731

  221. A Hybrid Magnetic Current Sensor With a Dual Differential DC Servo Loop
    Jouyaeian, Amirhossein; Fan, Qinwen; Ausserlechner, Udo; Motz, Mario; Makinwa, Kofi A. A.;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    pp. 1-8, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2023.3307471

  222. A Sub-1 V Capacitively Biased BJT-Based Temperature Sensor With an Inaccuracy of ±0.15°C (3σ) from −55°C to 125°C
    Tang, Zhong; Pan, Sining; Grubor, Miloš; Makinwa, Kofi A. A.;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    pp. 1-9, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2023.3308554

  223. A Chopper-Stabilized Amplifier With a Relaxed Fill-In Technique and 22.6-pA Input Current
    Rooijers, Thije; Huijsing, Johan H.; Makinwa, Kofi A. A.;
    IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters,
    Volume 6, pp. 165-168, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/LSSC.2023.3286779

  224. A Glimpse of the History of Analog ICs: A Tale of Amplifiers, Data Converters, and Sensor Interfaces
    Chae, Youngcheol; Lopez, Carolina Mora; Makinwa, Kofi A.A.; Ortmanns, Maurits; Sansen, Willy;
    IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine,
    Volume 15, Issue 3, pp. 43-52, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/MSSC.2023.3282557

  225. Quantifying Biomedical Amplifier Efficiency: The noise efficiency factor
    Hall, Drew A.; Makinwa, Kofi A.A.; Jang, Taekwang;
    IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine,
    Volume 15, Issue 2, pp. 28-33, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/MSSC.2023.3256353

  226. A Hybrid Magnetic Current Sensor With a Multiplexed Ripple-Reduction Loop
    Jouyaeian, Amirhossein; Fan, Qinwen; Zamparette, Roger; Ausserlechner, Udo; Motz, Mario; Makinwa, Kofi A. A.;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 58, Issue 10, pp. 2874-2882, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2023.3273389

  227. A Bias-Flip Rectifier With Duty-Cycle-Based MPPT for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting
    Yue, Xinling; Javvaji, Sundeep; Tang, Zhong; Makinwa, Kofi A. A.; Du, Sijun;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    pp. 1-11, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2023.3313733

  228. High-Strength Amorphous Silicon Carbide for Nanomechanics
    Xu, Minxing; Shin, Dongil; Sberna, Paolo M.; van der Kolk, Roald; Cupertino, Andrea; Bessa, Miguel A.; Norte, Richard A.;
    Advanced Materials,
    pp. 2306513, 2023.

  229. PyPO: a Python package for Physical Optics
    Arend Moerman; Maikel H. Gafaji; Kenichi Karatsu; Akira Endo;
    Journal of Open Source Software,
    Volume 8, Issue 88, pp. 5247, 2023. DOI: 10.21105/joss.05478

  230. Self-Assembled Lenalidomide/AIE Prodrug Nanobomb for Tumor Imaging and Cancer Therapy
    Zhijian Mai; Nengjie Cao; Erzhuo Cheng; Zhiwen Zeng; Yancong Feng; Yao Wang; Paddy J. French; Yi-Kuen Lee; Haihong Yang; Bin Yang; Hao Li; Guofu Zhou;
    Applied Nano Materials,
    Volume 6, pp. 19807-19817, 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.3c03611
    Keywords: ... small-molecule prodrug, Schiff base linkage, aggregation-induced emission, self-assembly, tumor-targeted diagnosis and therapy.

    Abstract: ... To develop multifunctional small-molecule prodrugs is highly desirable for cancer treatment but remains challenging in intrinsic traceability. As an acid-cleavable linkage, a Schiff bases benefiting from its distinctive fluorescence quenching ability was selected to prepare a small-molecule prodrug with cancer-targeted and self-indicating. In this study, we designed and developed a multifunctional self-assembled nanobomb of amphiphilic TPE-Lenalidomide prodrug, which comprises a hydrophobic aggregation-induced emission (AIE) probe 4-(1,2,2- triphenylvinyl)benzaldehyde (TPE-CHO) and a hydrophilic anticancer drug Lenalidomide via a Schiff base linkage. We investigated the synergistic effect of d-PET and CN isomerization which would keep the fluorescence of TPE-Lenalidomide in the “always off” state by density functional theory (DFT) calculation. Once reaching the pathological site, such a vesicular nanobomb of TPE-Lenalidomide will be acidolyzed to release the AIE probe and Lenalidomide molecules simultaneously, consequently realizing high-efficiency effects of tumor imaging and cancer therapy (cell viability: normal cell L929, ∼79.49%; cancer cell 4T1, ∼27.08%; p = 0.000118). This work may pave an avenue to prepare small-molecule prodrugs for tumor-targeted diagnosis and cancer therapy.

  231. Fabrication and Characterization of a Leaky Lens Photo-Conductive Antenna on Low Temperature Grown GaAs Membranes
    Juan Bueno; Paolo M. Sberna; Arturo Fiorellini-Bernardis; Huasheng Zhang; Andrea Neto; Nuria Llombart;
    IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology,
    Volume 13, Issue 5, pp. 431-439, Sep. 2023. DOI: 10.1109/TTHZ.2023.3281770

  232. Time Domain Modelling of Pulsed Photo Conducting Sources. Part II: Characterization of a LT-GaAs Bow Tie Antenna
    Arturo Fiorellini-Bernardis; Paolo M. Sberna; Juan Bueno; Huasheng Zhang; Nuria Llombart; Andrea Neto;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 71, Issue 3, pp. 2536 - 2545, Mar. 2023. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2023.3236763

  233. Time-Domain Modelling of Pulsed Photoconducting Sources—Part I: The Norton Equivalent Circuit
    A. Neto; N. Llombart; A. Freni;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 71, Issue 3, pp. 2527-2535, Mar. 2023. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2022.3184517

  234. Radiofrequency Safety of High Permittivity Pads in MRI - Impact of Insulation Material
    W.M. Brink; R.F. Remis; A.G. Webb;
    Magnetic Resonance in Medicine,
    Volume 89, Issue 5, pp. 2109-2116, 2023. DOI: 10.1002/mrm.29580

  235. An Integrated Target Field Framework for Point-of-Care Halbach Array Low-Field MRI System Design
    B. de Vos; R.F. Remis; and A.G. Webb;
    Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology, and Medicine,
    Volume 36, pp. 395-408, 2023. DOI: 10.1007/s10334-023-01093-z

  236. Time-Domain Electromagnetic Leaky Waves
    M. Štumpf; J. Gu; I. E. Lager;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 71, Issue 4, pp. 3382-3392, Apr. 2023.

  237. An f/0.27 High-Gain Lens Antenna for Ultrasmall Platforms at THz Frequencies
    S. van Berkel; M. Alonso-delPino; C. Jung-Kubiak; G. Chattopadhyay;
    IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology,
    Volume 13, Issue 5, pp. 549-560, Sept. 2023. DOI: 10.1109/TTHZ.2023.3291450

  238. Characterization of widefield THz optics using phase shifting interferometry
    Nicolás Reyes; Ivan Cámara Mayorga; Gerrit Grutzeck; Stephen J.C. Yates; Andrey Baryshev; Jochem Baselmans; Axel Weiss; Bernd Klein;
    IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology,
    Volume 13, Issue 6, pp. 614-621, Nov. 2023. DOI: 10.1109/TTHZ.2023.3320554

  239. Resolving Power of Visible-To-Near-Infrared Hybrid β-Ta/Nb-Ti-N Kinetic Inductance Detectors
    Kevin Kouwenhoven; Daniel Fan; Enrico Biancalani; Steven A.H. de Rooij; Tawab Karim; Carlas S. Smith; Vignesh Murugesan; David J. Thoen; Jochem J.A. Baselmans; Pieter J. de Visser;
    Physical Review Applied,
    Volume 19, Issue 3, Mar. 2023. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.19.034007

  240. Occupancy Grid Mapping for Automotive Driving Exploiting Clustered Sparsity
    Çağan Önen; Ashish Pandharipande; Geethu Joseph; Nitin Jonathan Myers;
    IEEE Sensors Journal,
    2023.

  241. Resolution Limits of Resonant Sensors
    Tomás Manzaneque; Murali K. Ghatkesar; Farbod Alijani; Minxing Xu; Richard A. Norte; Peter G. Steeneken;
    Physical Review Applied,
    Volume 19, pp. 054074, 5 2023. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.19.054074
    Abstract: ... Resonant sensors hold great promise in measuring small masses, to enable future mass spectrometers, and small forces in applications like atomic and magnetic force microscopy. During the last decades, scaling down the size of resonators has led to huge enhancements in sensing resolution, but has also raised the question of what the ultimate limit is. Current knowledge suggests that this limit is reached when a resonator oscillates at the maximum amplitude for which its response is predominantly linear. We present experimental evidence that it is possible to obtain better resolutions by oscillation amplitudes beyond the onset of nonlinearities. An analytical model is developed that explains the observations and unravels the relation between ultimate sensing resolution and speed. In the high-speed limit, we find that the ultimate resolution of a resonator is improved when decreasing its damping. This conclusion contrasts with previous works, which proposed that lowering the damping does not affect or even harms the ultimate sensing resolution.

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  242. Discrete Femtolitre Pipetting with 3D Printed Axisymmetrical Phaseguides
    Blankespoor, Maarten; Manzaneque, Tomás; Ghatkesar, Murali Krishna;
    Small Methods,
    pp. 2300942, 2023.

  243. Damping of 3D-printed polymer microbeam resonators
    de Winter, Jikke; Manzaneque, Tomás; Ghatkesar, Murali Krishna;
    Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering,
    2023.

  244. A Bias-Flip Rectifier With Duty-Cycle-Based MPPT for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting
    Yue, X.; Javvaji, S.; Tang, Z.; Makinwa, K. A. A.; Du, S.;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    pp. 1-11, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2023.3313733

  245. A Level Shifter With Almost Full Immunity to Positive dv/dt for Buck Converters
    Yang, Y.; Huang, M.; Du, S.; Martins, R. P.; Lu, Y.;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers,
    Volume 70, Issue 11, pp. 4595-4604, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2023.3307869

  246. A Self-Bias-Flip With Charge Recycle Interface Circuit With No External Energy Reservoir for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Array
    Li, Z.; Chen, Z.; Wang, J.; Wang, J.; Jiang, J.; Du, S.; Cheng, X.; Zeng, X.; Han, J.;
    IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics,
    Volume 38, Issue 9, pp. 11630-11641, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2023.3286399

  247. The Advances in Conversion Techniques in Triboelectric Energy Harvesting: A Review
    Peng, W.; Du, S.;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers,
    Volume 70, Issue 7, pp. 3049-3062, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2023.3261780

  248. A Synchronized Switch Harvesting Rectifier With Reusable Storage Capacitors for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting
    Yue, X.; Du, S.;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 58, Issue 9, pp. 2597-2606, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2023.3260145

  249. A Single-Stage Three-Mode Reconfigurable Regulating Rectifier for Wireless Power Transfer
    Liu, S.; Lu, T.; Tang, Z.; Chen, Z.; Jiang, J.; Zhao, B.; Du, S.;
    IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics,
    Volume 38, Issue 7, pp. 9195-9205, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2023.3262728

  250. High-Performance Flexible Strain Sensor Fabricated Using Laser Transmission Pyrolysis
    Shaogang Wang; Huiru Yang; Qihang Zong; Qianming Huang; Chunjian Tan; Chenshan Gao; Shizhen Li; Huaiyu Ye; Guoqi Zhangand; Paddy French;
    IEEE Sensors Journal,
    2023. DOI: doi: 10.1109/JSEN.2023.3337233
    Keywords: ... Stretchable strain sensors, Metal film, UV laser, Laer transmission pyrolysis, PDMS pattering..

    Abstract: ... In recent years, metal crack-based stretchable flexible strain sensors have attracted significant attention in wearable device applications due to their extremely high sensitivity. However, the trade-off between sensitivity and detection range has been an intractable dilemma, severely limiting their practical applications. Herein, we propose a laser transmission pyrolysis technology for fabricating high-performance flexible strain sensors based on (Au) metal cracks with the microchannel array on the polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) surface. The fabricated flexible strain sensors exhibit high sensitivity (gauge factor of 2448), wide detection range (59% for tensile strain), precise strain resolution (0.1%), fast response and recovery times (69 ms and 141 ms), and robust durability (over 3000 cycles). In addition, experiment and simulation results reveal that introducing a microchannel array enables the stress distribution strategy on the sensor surface, which significantly improves the sensing sensitivity compared to conventional flat surface sensors. Based on the excellent performance, the sensors are applied to detect subtle physiological signals such as pulse and swallowing, as well as to monitor large-scale motion signals such as knee flexion and finger bending, demonstrating their potential applications in health monitoring, human-machine interactions, and electronic skin

  251. Total Variation Compressive Sensing for 3D Shape Estimation in Short-Range Imaging Radars
    Roldan, Ignacio; Fioranelli, Francesco; Yarovoy, Alexander;
    IEEE Transactions on Radar Systems,
    Volume 1, pp. 583-592, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/TRS.2023.3322630

  252. A Review of Automatic Classification of Drones Using Radar: Key Considerations, Performance Evaluation and Prospects
    Ahmad, Bashar I.; Rogers, Colin; Harman, Stephen; Dale, Holly; Jahangir, Mohammed; Antoniou, Michael; Baker, Chris; Newman, Mike; Fioranelli, Francesco;
    IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine,
    pp. 1-12, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/MAES.2023.3335003

  253. From Cooling to Coupling and Back: A Novel Beam- Switching Heatsink Antenna Array With CSRR Embedded Isolation Wall
    Celik, Feza Turgay; Yarovoy, Alexander; Aslan, Yanki;
    IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters,
    Volume 22, Issue 11, pp. 2690-2694, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2023.3302572

  254. A 1024-Channel 268-nW/Pixel 36×36μm2/Channel Data-Compressive Neural Recording IC for High-Bandwidth Brain–Computer Interfaces
    Jang, Moonhyung; Hays, Maddy; Yu, Wei-Han; Lee, Changuk; Caragiulo, Pietro; Ramkaj, Athanasios T.; Wang, Pingyu; Phillips, A. J.; Vitale, Nicholas; Tandon, Pulkit; Yan, Pumiao; Mak, Pui-In; Chae, Youngcheol; Chichilnisky, E. J.; Murmann, Boris; Muratore, Dante G.;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    December 2023. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2023.3344798

  255. An MTI-like Approach for Interference Mitigation in FMCW Radar Systems
    López-Valcárcel, Luis A.; García Sánchez, Manuel; Fioranelli, Francesco; Krasnov, Oleg A.;
    IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems,
    pp. 1-16, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2023.3345263

  256. The Efficiency and Power Utilization of Current-Scaling Digital Transmitters
    Mul, Dieuwert P. N.; Bootsman, Robert J.; Beikmirza, Mohammadreza; Alavi, Morteza S.; de Vreede, Leo C. N.;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    pp. 1-17, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2023.3336984
    Keywords: ... Switches;Radio frequency;Clocks;Logic gates;Transmitters;Power generation;Loading;Current mode;current scaling;digital transmitter (DTX);Doherty;efficiency;multiphase;peak-to-average-power ratio (PAPR);polar;power utilization;RF-DAC;signed Cartesian (SC);upconversion.

  257. Joint ego-motion estimation and 3D imaging for forward-looking region using automotive radar
    Yuan, Sen; Fioranelli, Francesco; Yarovoy, Alexander;
    IET Conference Proceedings,
    pp. 364-369(5), 2023. DOI: 10.1049/icp.2024.1106

  258. Photo-Chemical Stimulation of Neurons with Organic Semiconductors
    Savva, Achilleas; Hama, Adel; Herrera-López, Gabriel; Schmidt, Tony; Migliaccio, Ludovico; Steiner, Nadia; Kawan, Malak; Fiumelli, Hubert; Magistretti, Pierre J.; McCulloch, Iain; Baran, Derya; Gasparini, Nicola; Schindl, Rainer; Głowacki, Eric D.; Inal, Sahika;
    Advanced Science,
    Volume 10, Issue 31, pp. 2300473, 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202300473
    Keywords: ... non-fullerene acceptors, organic bioelectronics, photo-stimulation.

    Abstract: ... Abstract Recent advances in light-responsive materials enabled the development of devices that can wirelessly activate tissue with light. Here it is shown that solution-processed organic heterojunctions can stimulate the activity of primary neurons at low intensities of light via photochemical reactions. The p-type semiconducting polymer PDCBT and the n-type semiconducting small molecule ITIC (a non-fullerene acceptor) are coated on glass supports, forming a p–n junction with high photosensitivity. Patch clamp measurements show that low-intensity white light is converted into a cue that triggers action potentials in primary cortical neurons. The study shows that neat organic semiconducting p–n bilayers can exchange photogenerated charges with oxygen and other chemical compounds in cell culture conditions. Through several controlled experimental conditions, photo-capacitive, photo-thermal, and direct hydrogen peroxide effects on neural function are excluded, with photochemical delivery being the possible mechanism. The profound advantages of low-intensity photo-chemical intervention with neuron electrophysiology pave the way for developing wireless light-based therapy based on emerging organic semiconductors.

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  259. 3D organic bioelectronics for electrical monitoring of human adult stem cells
    Savva, Achilleas; Saez, Janire; Withers, Aimee; Barberio, Chiara; Stoeger, Verena; Elias-Kirma, Shani; Lu, Zixuan; Moysidou, Chrysanthi-Maria; Kallitsis, Konstantinos; Pitsalidis, Charalampos; Owens, Róisín M.;
    Mater. Horiz.,
    Volume 10, pp. 3589-3600, 2023. DOI: 10.1039/D3MH00785E
    Abstract: ... Three-dimensional in vitro stem cell models have enabled a fundamental understanding of cues that direct stem cell fate. While sophisticated 3D tissues can be generated{,} technology that can accurately monitor these complex models in a high-throughput and non-invasive manner is not well adapted. Here we show the development of 3D bioelectronic devices based on the electroactive polymer poly(3{,}4-ethylenedioxythiophene)-poly(styrenesulfonate)–(PEDOT:PSS) and their use for non-invasive{,} electrical monitoring of stem cell growth. We show that the electrical{,} mechanical and wetting properties as well as the pore size/architecture of 3D PEDOT:PSS scaffolds can be fine-tuned simply by changing the processing crosslinker additive. We present a comprehensive characterization of both 2D PEDOT:PSS thin films of controlled thicknesses{,} and 3D porous PEDOT:PSS structures made by the freeze-drying technique. By slicing the bulky scaffolds we generate homogeneous{,} porous 250 μm thick PEDOT:PSS slices{,} constituting biocompatible 3D constructs able to support stem cell cultures. These multifunctional slices are attached on indium-tin oxide substrates (ITO) with the help of an electrically active adhesion layer{,} enabling 3D bioelectronic devices with a characteristic and reproducible{,} frequency dependent impedance response. This response changes drastically when human adipose derived stem cells (hADSCs) grow within the porous PEDOT:PSS network as revealed by fluorescence microscopy. The increase of cell population within the PEDOT:PSS porous network impedes the charge flow at the interface between PEDOT:PSS and ITO{,} enabling the interface resistance (R1) to be used as a figure of merit to monitor the proliferation of stem cells. The non-invasive monitoring of stem cell growth allows for the subsequent differentiation 3D stem cell cultures into neuron like cells{,} as verified by immunofluorescence and RT-qPCR measurements. The strategy of controlling important properties of 3D PEDOT:PSS structures simply by altering processing parameters can be applied for development of a number of stem cell in vitro models as well as stem cell differentiation pathways. We believe the results presented here will advance 3D bioelectronic technology for both fundamental understanding of in vitro stem cell cultures as well as the development of personalized therapies.

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  260. Recent advances in magnetic polymer composites for BioMEMS: A review
    Zhengwei Liao; Oualid Zoumhani; Clementine M Boutry;
    MDPI Materials,
    Volume 16, Issue 10, 2023.

  261. Construction of Flower-like ZnO Nanoclusters on Functionalized Graphene Nanosheets for Room Temperature Formaldehyde Sensing
    Hu, Huiyun; Guo, Lanpeng; Liang, Hongping; Lu, Ruofei; Lv, Sitao; Wang, Chenxu; Liu, Liming; Yang, Haihong; Lee, Yi-Kuen; French, Paddy J.; Li, Hao; Wang, Yao; Zhou, Guofu;
    Current Chinese Science,
    Volume 3, pp. 275-284, 2023. DOI: https://doi-org.tudelft.idm.oclc.org/10.2174/221029810366623
    Keywords: ... ZnO, graphene, dipole, formaldehyde, room temperature gas sensor, HCHO sensor.

    Abstract: ... Background: Formaldehyde (HCHO) is one of the sources of indoor air pollution and a recognized carcinogenic gas, which sets a huge threat to human health. Therefore, it is urgent to develop a formaldehyde gas sensor with high efficiency, low consumption, and low limit of detection. Methods: With solvothermal and supramolecular assembly methods, we fabricate a nanocom-posite of ZnO/5-aminonaphthalene-1-sulfonic acid (ANS)-reduced graphene oxide (rGO) through in situ assembling flower-like ZnO nanoclusters on ANS-modified graphene nanosheets for room temperature formaldehyde detection. Results: The flower-like ZnO/ANS-rGO based gas sensor exhibits high response (32%, 5 ppm), ultra-fast response/recovery times (18/23 s), high selectivity, long-term stability and a low practical limit of detection (pLOD) of 1 ppm toward HCHO at room temperature, offering significant advantages and competitiveness in chemiresistive room temperature HCHO sensors. Conclusion: The unique flower-like nanostructure of ZnO and the functionalization with ANS molecules jointly improved the HCHO sensing performance of the composite at room temperature. This work provides a new approach to designing and preparing high-performance room temperature gas sensing materials

  262. IEEE Signal Processing Society: Celebrating 75 Years of Remarkable Achievements (Part 2)[From the Guest Editors]
    R.C. Guido; T. Adali; E. Bjornson; L. Blanc-Feraud; U. Braga-Neto; B. Ghoraani; C. Jutten; A.J. Van Der Veen; Hong Zhao; Xiaoxing Zhu;
    IEEE Signal Processing Magazine,
    Volume 40, Issue 5, pp. 8--11, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/MSP.2023.3285483

  263. The construction and characterization of MgO transmission dynodes
    Hong Wah Chan; V. Prodanovic; A. Theulings; S. Tao; J. Smedley; C. Hagen; P. Sarro; H. van der Graaf;
    Journal of Instrumentation,
    Volume 18, pp. P06028, 2023. DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/18/06/P06028

  264. A 120.9-dB DR Digital-Input Capacitively Coupled Chopper Class-D Audio Amplifier
    Zhang, Huajun; Berkhout, Marco; Makinwa, Kofi A. A.; Fan, Qinwen;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 58, Issue 12, pp. 3470-3480, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2023.3318731
    Keywords: ... Pulse width modulation;Quantization (signal);Gain;Choppers (circuits);Preamplifiers;Jitter;Finite impulse response filters;DC-AC power converters;Intersymbol interference;Capacitively coupled chopper amplifier (CCCA);class-D amplifier (CDA);digital-to-analog converter;dynamic element matching (DEM);intersymbol interference (ISI).

  265. A Hybrid Magnetic Current Sensor With a Dual Differential DC Servo Loop
    Jouyaeian, Amirhossein; Fan, Qinwen; Ausserlechner, Udo; Motz, Mario; Makinwa, Kofi A. A.;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 58, Issue 12, pp. 3442-3449, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2023.3307471
    Keywords: ... Coils;Capacitors;DSL;Servomotors;Bandwidth;Sensors;Magnetic tunneling;Temperature measurement;Contactless sensing;dc servo loop (DSL);high resolution;hybrid current sensors;magnetic current sensing;temperature compensation.

  266. A Sub-1 V Capacitively Biased BJT-Based Temperature Sensor With an Inaccuracy of ±0.15 °C (3σ) From—55 °C to 125 °C
    Tang, Zhong; Pan, Sining; Grubor, Miloš; Makinwa, Kofi A. A.;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 58, Issue 12, pp. 3433-3441, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2023.3308554
    Keywords: ... Temperature sensors;Voltage;Switches;Energy efficiency;Capacitors;Switching circuits;Mathematics;Inverters;Converters;Δ Σ ADC;capacitively biased bipolar junction transistor (BJT);inverter-based amplifier;temperature sensor;temperature to digital converter.

  267. A Chopper-Stabilized Amplifier With a Relaxed Fill-In Technique and 22.6-pA Input Current
    Rooijers, Thije; Huijsing, Johan H.; Makinwa, Kofi A. A.;
    IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters,
    Volume 6, pp. 165-168, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/LSSC.2023.3286779
    Keywords: ... Choppers (circuits);Current measurement;Solid state circuits;Voltage measurement;Floors;1/f noise;Clocks;Chopping;duty-cycled OTA;intermodulation distortion (IMD);relaxed fill-in technique.

  268. A Glimpse of the History of Analog ICs: A Tale of Amplifiers, Data Converters, and Sensor Interfaces
    Chae, Youngcheol; Lopez, Carolina Mora; Makinwa, Kofi A.A.; Ortmanns, Maurits; Sansen, Willy;
    IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine,
    Volume 15, Issue 3, pp. 43-52, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/MSSC.2023.3282557
    Keywords: ... Integrated circuits;Technological innovation;System performance;Analog circuits;Sensor systems;Sensors;Transistors;Electronic circuits;History;Integrated circuit synthesis.

  269. Quantifying Biomedical Amplifier Efficiency: The noise efficiency factor
    Hall, Drew A.; Makinwa, Kofi A.A.; Jang, Taekwang;
    IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine,
    Volume 15, Issue 2, pp. 28-33, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/MSSC.2023.3256353
    Keywords: ... Integrated circuits;Low-noise amplifiers;Power demand;Instruments;Recording;Glucose;Biomedical monitoring.

  270. A Hybrid Magnetic Current Sensor With a Multiplexed Ripple-Reduction Loop
    Jouyaeian, Amirhossein; Fan, Qinwen; Zamparette, Roger; Ausserlechner, Udo; Motz, Mario; Makinwa, Kofi A. A.;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 58, Issue 10, pp. 2874-2882, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2023.3273389
    Keywords: ... Coils;Sensitivity;Magnetic fields;Temperature sensors;Sensors;System-on-chip;Multiplexing;Galvanic isolation;hybrid current sensors;magnetic current sensing;ripple-reduction loop (RRL);temperature compensation;wide bandwidth.

  271. A Compact 10-MHz RC Frequency Reference With a Versatile Temperature Compensation Scheme
    Pan, Sining; An, Xiaomeng; Yu, Zheru; Jiang, Hui; Makinwa, Kofi A. A.;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 58, Issue 12, pp. 3450-3458, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2023.3322307
    Keywords: ... Resistors;Capacitors;Frequency locked loops;Voltage-controlled oscillators;Prototypes;Voltage;Time-frequency analysis;CMOS technology;Temperature measurement;CMOS frequency reference;on-chip trimming;resistor aging;temperature compensation.

  272. Asymptotic homogenization in the determination of effective intrinsic magnetic properties of composites
    Soyarslan, Celal; Havinga, Jos; Abelmann, Leon; van den Boogaard, Ton;
    Results in Physics,
    Volume 44, 2023. All Open Access, Gold Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1016/j.rinp.2022.106188
    Abstract: ... We present a computational framework for two-scale asymptotic homogenization to determine the intrinsic magnetic permeability of composites. To this end, considering linear magnetostatics, both vector and scalar potential formulations are used. Our homogenization algorithm for solving the cell problem is based on the displacement method presented in Lukkassen et al. 1995, Composites Engineering, 5(5), 519-531. We propose the use of the meridional eccentricity of the permeability tensor ellipsoid as an anisotropy index quantifying the degree of directionality in the linear magnetic response. As application problems, 2D regular and random microstructures with overlapping and nonoverlapping monodisperse disks, all of which are periodic, are considered. We show that, for the vanishing corrector function, the derived effective magnetic permeability tensor gives the (lower) Reuss and (upper) Voigt bounds with the vector and scalar potential formulations, respectively. Our results with periodic boundary conditions show an excellent agreement with analytical solutions for regular composites, whereas, for random heterogeneous materials, their convergence with volume element size is fast. Predictions for material systems with monodisperse overlapping disks for a given inclusion volume fraction provide the highest magnetic permeability with the most increased inclusion interaction. In contrast, the disk arrangements in regular square lattices result in the lowest magnetic permeability and inadequate inclusion interaction. Such differences are beyond the reach of the isotropic effective medium theories, which use only the phase volume fraction and shape as mere statistical microstructural descriptors. © 2023 The Authors

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  273. Magnetic Soft Helical Manipulators with Local Dipole Interactions for Flexibility and Forces
    Richter, Michiel; Kaya, Mert; Sikorski, Jakub; Abelmann, Leon; Kalpathy Venkiteswaran, Venkatasubramanian; Misra, Sarthak;
    Soft Robotics,
    Volume 10, Issue 3, pp. 647 – 659, 2023. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1089/soro.2022.0031
    Keywords: ... Magnetic Fields; Magnetics; Magnets; Phantoms, Imaging; Dipole moment; Economic and social effects; Functional polymers; Magnetic fields; Magnetic moments; Medical applications; Permanent magnets; Continuum robot; Cosserat rod; Dipole interaction; Direct contact; External magnetic field; Flexibility; Flexible magnetics; Local dipole interaction; Magnetic continuum manipulator; Manipulator designs; magnetic field; magnetism; Manipulators.

    Abstract: ... Magnetic continuum manipulators (MCMs) are a class of continuum robots that can be actuated without direct contact by an external magnetic field. MCMs operating in confined workspaces, such as those targeting medical applications, require flexible magnetic structures that contain combinations of magnetic components and polymers to navigate long and tortuous paths. In cylindrical MCM designs, a significant trade-off exists between magnetic moment and bending flexibility as the ratio between length and diameter decreases. In this study, we propose a new MCM design framework that enables increasing diameter without compromising on flexibility and magnetic moment. Magnetic soft composite helices constitute bending regions of the MCM and are separated by permanent ring magnets. Local dipole interactions between the permanent magnets can reduce bending stiffness, depending on their size and spacing. For the particular segment geometry presented herein, the local dipole interactions result in a 31% increase in angular deflection of composite helices inside an external magnetic field, compared to helices without local interactions. In addition, we demonstrate fabrication, maneuverability, and example applications of a multisegment MCM in a phantom of the abdominal aorta, such as passing contrast dye and guidewires. © Copyright 2023, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers 2023.

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  274. Influence of sputter pressure on magnetic and structural properties of Permalloy thin films
    Singh, Sukhvinder; Abelmann, Leon; Gao, Haibin; Hartmann, Uwe;
    Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials,
    Volume 586, 2023. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmmm.2023.171138
    Keywords: ... Film preparation; Iron alloys; Magnetic force microscopy; Magnetic thin films; Nickel alloys; Argon pressure; Domain configurations; Increase in pressure; Magnetic-force microscopy; Permalloy films; Permalloy thin films; Permalloys; Pressure domain; Sputter pressure; Sputtering; Magnetic domains.

    Abstract: ... Well-defined and technically relevant domain configurations are sought in patterned magnetic thin films. We used Magnetic Force Microscopy to investigate these in square-patterned Permalloy films. The films were prepared using dc sputter deposition by varying the Argon pressure from 1.5×10−3 to 30.0×10−3 mbar. The Landau domain configuration was found in films prepared at 1.5×10−3 mbar pressure. With an increase in pressure, tulip and irregular domains were consecutively formed. Based on magnetic and structural characterizations, an increase in coercivity and a decrease in Permalloy film density were observed at the same time. © 2023 Elsevier B.V.

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  275. Alternating Least-Squares-Based Microphone Array Parameter Estimation for a Single-Source Reverberant and Noisy Acoustic Scenario
    Changheng Li; Richard C. Hendriks;
    IEEE/ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process.,
    Volume 31, pp. 3922–3934, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/TASLP.2023.3306713
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  276. Design, Fabrication, and Characterization of a 4H-SiC CMOS Readout Circuit for Monolithic Integration with SiC Sensors
    R. Sattari; H. van Zeijl; G. Zhang,;
    24th European Microelectronics and Packaging Conference & Exhibition (EMPC),
    pp. 1-3, 2023. DOI: 10.23919/EMPC55870.2023.10418435

  277. Design and Manufacturing of an In-Package Relative Humidity Sensor with Multi-Width Interdigital Electrodes Towards Enhanced Sensitivity for Characterization of Packaging Encapsulation Materials
    R. Sattari; H. van Zeijl; G. Zhang;
    IEEE 25th Electronics Packaging Technology Conference (EPTC),
    pp. 588-591, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/EPTC59621.2023.10457675

  278. Chessboard Focal Plane Array for a CMOS-Integrated Terahertz Camera
    Hoogelander, Martijn; van Berkel, Sven; Malotaux, Eduard Satoshi; Alonso-delPino, Maria; Cavallo, Daniele; Spirito, Marco; Llombart, Nuria;
    IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology,
    Volume 13, Issue 6, pp. 704-717, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/TTHZ.2023.3297072
    Keywords: ... Lenses;Apertures;Imaging;Antenna arrays;Silicon;Feeds;Cameras;CMOS technology;High-resolution imaging;Leaky wave antennas;Ultra wideband technology;CMOS antenna array;direct detector;focal plane array (FPA);high-resolution imaging;leaky-wave antennas;lens antenna array;passive imaging;terahertz (THz);ultrawideband.

  279. Multilayer CVD graphene electrodes using a transfer-free process for the next generation of optically transparent and MRI-compatible neural interfaces
    Nasim Bakhshaee Babaroud; Merlin Palmar; Andrada Iulia Velea; Chiara Coletti; Sebastian Weingärtner; Frans Vos; Wouter A. Serdijn; Sten Vollebregt; Vasiliki Giagka;
    Nature Microsystems & Nanoengineering,
    Volume 8, pp. 107, 2022. (featured article). DOI: 10.1038/s41378-022-00430-x

  280. On the relation between beam coupling and feed coupling in wideband antenna arrays
    R. Ozzola; D. Cavallo; A. Neto;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 70, Issue 1, pp. 260-267, Jan. 2022. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2021.3090536

  281. Drude Dispersion in the Transmission Line Modelling of Bulk Absorbers at Sub-mm Wave Frequencies: A Tool for Absorber Optimization
    R.M. van Schelven; Fiorellini Bernardis, A.; P. Sberna; A. Neto;
    IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine,
    Volume 64, Issue 1, pp. 50-60, Feb. 2022. DOI: 10.1109/MAP.2021.3073092

  282. 5G SIW-Based Phased Antenna Array With Cosecant-Squared Shaped Pattern
    Puskely, Jan; Mikulasek, Tomas; Aslan, Yanki; Roederer, Antoine; Yarovoy, Alexander;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 70, Issue 1, pp. 250-259, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2021.3098577

  283. Analysis of nonsquare artificial dielectric layers and application to the design of anisotropic slabs
    R. M. Van Schelven; D. Cavallo;
    IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters,
    Volume 21, Issue 2, pp. 302-306, Feb. 2022. DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2021.3128724

  284. Technology Development for MEMS: A Tutorial
    P. J. French; G. J. Krijnen; S. Vollebregt; M. Mastrangeli;
    IEEE Sensors Journal,
    Volume 22, Issue 11, pp. 10106-10125, June 2022. DOI: doi: 10.1109/JSEN.2021.3104715
    Abstract: ... Silicon sensors date back to before 1960 with early Hall and piezoresistive devices. These used simple processing that was part of the early integrated circuit (IC) industry. As the IC industry developed, silicon sensors could benefit from the technological advances. As silicon sensors advanced, there came the need for new technologies specifically for microsystems. This led to a range of 3-D structures using micromachining and enabled the development of both sensors and actuators. The integration of sensors with electronics on a single chip also presented new challenges to ensure that both sensor and electronics would function correctly at the end of the processing. In recent years many new technologies and new materials were introduced to enhance the functionality of microsystems. Some sensors are still based on silicon, but others introduce new materials such as carbon nanotubes and graphene. Technologies that have been used in other applications for many years are now integral part of the microsystem technology portfolio. These include screen printing and inkjet printing. Moving more into the third dimension, 3-D printing presents many new opportunities to fabricate novel structures on a silicon substrate. This tutorial focuses on the additional technologies which have been developed to supplement standard IC processes to create MEMS structures.

  285. Thin Film Encapsulation for LCP-Based Flexible Bioelectronic Implants: Comparison of Different Coating Materials Using Test Methodologies for Life-Time Estimation
    A. Pak; K. Nanbakhsh; O. Hölck; R. Ritasalo; M. Sousa; M. van Gompel; B. Pahl; J. Wilson; C. Kallmayer; V. Giagka;
    Micromachines,
    Volume 13, Issue 4, pp. 544, Marchch 2022. DOI: 10.3390/mi13040544
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  286. Time-domain analysis of thin-wire structures based on the Cagniard-DeHoop method of moments
    M. Štumpf; I.E. Lager; G. Antonini;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 70, Issue 6, pp. 4655-4662, Apr. 2022. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2022.3140782

  287. Focused connected array antenna as a broadband beam-steering feed for quasi-optical systems
    Pascual Laguna, A.; D. Cavallo; J.J.A. Baselmans; N. Llombart;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 70, Issue 7, pp. 5995-6000, Jul. 2022. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2022.3142291

  288. Parallel plate waveguide feeding structure for planar connected arrays
    D. Cavallo;
    IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters,
    Volume 21, Issue 4, pp. 765-768, Jan. 2022. DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2022.3145458

  289. Carbon-Iron Electron Transport Channels in Porphyrin–Graphene Complex for ppb-Level Room Temperature NO Gas Sensing
    Yixun Gao; Jianqiang Wang; Yancong Feng; Nengjie Cao; Hao Li; Nicolaas Frans de Rooij; Ahmad Umar; Paddy J. French; Yao Wang; Guofu Zhou;
    SMALL,
    pp. 9, 2022. DOI: 10.1002/smll.202103259
    Abstract: ... It is a great challenge to develop efficient room-temperature sensing materials and sensors for nitric oxide (NO) gas, which is a biomarker molecule used in the monitoring of inflammatory respiratory diseases. Herein, Hemin (Fe (III)-protoporphyrin IX) is introduced into the nitrogen-doped reduced graphene oxide (N-rGO) to obtain a novel sensing material HNGethanol. Detailed XPS spectra and DFT calculations confirm the formation of carbon–iron bonds in HNG-ethanol during synthesis process, which act as electron transport channels from graphene to Hemin. Owing to this unique chemical structure, HNG-ethanol exhibits superior gas sensing properties toward NO gas (Ra/Rg = 3.05, 20 ppm) with a practical limit of detection (LOD) of 500 ppb and reliable repeatability (over 5 cycles). The HNG-ethanol sensor also possesses high selectivity against other exhaled gases, high humidity resistance, and stability (less than 3% decrease over 30 days). In addition, a deep understanding of the gas sensing mechanisms is proposed for the first time in this work, which is instructive to the community for fabricating sensing materials based on graphene-iron derivatives in the future.

  290. An accurate and efficient method to train classifiers for atrial fibrillation detection in ECGs: Learning by asking better questions
    F. J. Wesselius; M. S.van Schie ; N. M. S. de Groot; Richard C. Hendriks;
    Computers in Biology and Medicine,
    Volume 143, April 2022. DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2022.105331
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  291. Joint cardiac tissue conductivity and activation time estimation using confirmatory factor analysis
    Miao Sun; Natasja de Groot; Richard C. Hendriks;
    Computers in Biology and Medicine,
    Volume 144, May 2022. DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2022.105393
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  292. Classification of De Novo Post-Operative and Persistent Atrial Fibrillation Using Multi-Channel ECG Recordings
    Hanie Moghaddasi; Richard C. Hendriks; Alle-Jan van der Veen; Natasja M.S. de Groot; Borbala Hunyadi;
    Computers in Biology and Medicine,
    Volume 143, April 2022. DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2022.105270
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  293. Focused ultrasound neuromodulation on a multiwell MEA
    M. Saccher; S. Kawasaki; Proietti Onori, M.; van Woerden, G. M.; V. Giagka; R. Dekker;
    Bioelectronic Medicine,
    Volume 8, Issue 2, pp. 1-10, January 2022. DOI: 10.1186/s42234-021-00083-7
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  294. Delay Estimation for Ranging and Localization Using Multiband Channel State Information
    Kazaz, Tarik; Janssen, Gerard J. M.; Romme, Jac; van der Veen, Alle-Jan;
    IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications,
    Volume 21, Issue 4, pp. 2591-2607, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2021.3113771
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  295. Data portability for activities of daily living and fall detection in different environments using radar micro-Doppler
    Shah, Syed Aziz; Tahir, Ahsen; Le Kernec, Julien; Zoha, Ahmed; Fioranelli, Francesco;
    Neural Computing and Applications,
    Jan 2022. DOI: 10.1007/s00521-022-06886-2

  296. A Four-Way Series Doherty Digital Polar Transmitter at mm-Wave Frequencies
    Mortazavi, Mohsen; Shen, Yiyu; Mul, Dieuwert; de Vreede, Leo C. N.; Spirito, Marco; Babaie, Masoud;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 57, Issue 3, pp. 803-817, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2021.3133861
    Keywords: ... Transformers;Power generation;Impedance;Transmitters;Resistance;Linearity;Baseband;Digital phase modulator (DPM);digital polar transmitter (DPTX);digital power amplifier (DPA);Doherty design guide;millimeter-wave transmitter (TX);power amplifier (PA);series Doherty combiner (SDC).

  297. Distributed radar fusion and recurrent networks for classification of continuous human activities
    Guendel, Ronny G.; Fioranelli, Francesco; Yarovoy, Alexander;
    IET Radar, Sonar and Navigation,
    pp. 12, 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1049/rsn2.12249
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  298. Opto-chemical pH detection of Myocardial Ischaemia using Fluorescent Hydrogels
    Ger de Graaf; Maurits Frans Vriesendorp; Amin Hassan; Patrick James French;
    IEEE Sensors Journal,
    Volume 22, Issue 11, pp. 10901-10909, June 2022. DOI: doi: 10.1109/JSEN.2022.3166709
    Keywords: ... Fluorescence, ischaemia, hydrogel, optical pH probe, HPTS, pyranine, fluorescent dye, dual wavelength excitation, ratiometric detection.

    Abstract: ... In this research fluorescent optochemical pH probes for the detection of ischaemia have been investigated. Myocardial ischaemia is the most prominent risk during heart surgery. During open heart surgery the heart is temporarily arrested and, since there no blood flowing, oxygen supply and removal of waste products is stopped and heart cells can be damaged. In this paper we propose a novel method to monitor the condition of the heart by placing optochemical pH sensors on several strategic places around the heart during surgery. Low cost opto-chemical pH sensors, using a HPTS (8-hydroxy-1,3,6-pyrene trisulfonic acid trisodium salt) fluorescent dye encapsulated in a thin bio-compatible hydrogel layer, were investigated for this application. Our research started with an extensive optical characterization of several types of hydrogel layers at different pH levels. Secondly a reflection probe prototype using several of these layers was designed, built and tested. Dual wavelength excitation and ratiometric detection of the fluorescent signals was used to detect the pH level. Typical output signals of 35% to 53% per pH in the range from 6.5-8.0 pH have been measured and a response time of typically 400 seconds was obtained for the prototypes. Finally based on our measurements on the HPTS layers and the reflection probe we propose an improved type of pH probe for the detection of ischaemia during open heart surgery.

  299. The science case and challenges of space-borne sub-millimeter interferometry
    Leonid I. Gurvits; others;
    Acta Astronautica,
    Volume 196, pp. 314-333, 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2022.04.020
    Keywords: ... Radio interferometry, VLBI, Millimeter and sub-millimeter astronomy, Space-borne astrophysics.

    Abstract: ... Ultra-high angular resolution in astronomy has always been an important vehicle for making fundamental discoveries. Recent results in direct imaging of the vicinity of the supermassive black hole in the nucleus of the radio galaxy M87 by the millimeter VLBI system Event Horizon Telescope and various pioneering results of the Space VLBI mission RadioAstron provided new momentum in high angular resolution astrophysics. In both mentioned cases, the angular resolution reached the values of about 10–20 microarcseconds (0.05–0.1 nanoradian). Further developments towards at least an order of magnitude “sharper” values, at the level of 1 microarcsecond are dictated by the needs of advanced astrophysical studies. The paper emphasis that these higher values can only be achieved by placing millimeter and submillimeter wavelength interferometric systems in space. A concept of such the system, called Terahertz Exploration and Zooming-in for Astrophysics, has been proposed in the framework of the ESA Call for White Papers for the Voyage 2050 long term plan in 2019. In the current paper we present new science objectives for such the concept based on recent results in studies of active galactic nuclei and supermassive black holes. We also discuss several approaches for addressing technological challenges of creating a millimeter/sub-millimeter wavelength interferometric system in space. In particular, we consider a novel configuration of a space-borne millimeter/sub-millimeter antenna which might resolve several bottlenecks in creating large precise mechanical structures. The paper also presents an overview of prospective space-qualified technologies of low-noise analogue front-end instrumentation for millimeter/sub-millimeter telescopes. Data handling and processing instrumentation is another key technological component of a sub-millimeter Space VLBI system. Requirements and possible implementation options for this instrumentation are described as an extrapolation of the current state-of-the-art Earth-based VLBI data transport and processing instrumentation. The paper also briefly discusses approaches to the interferometric baseline state vector determination and synchronisation and heterodyning system. The technology-oriented sections of the paper do not aim at presenting a complete set of technological solutions for sub-millimeter (terahertz) space-borne interferometers. Rather, in combination with the original ESA Voyage 2050 White Paper, it sharpens the case for the next generation microarcsecond-level imaging instruments and provides starting points for further in-depth technology trade-off studies.

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  300. Feasibility Study of Quasi-Optical MIMO Antennas for Radiative Near-Field Links
    Nuria Llombart; Shahab Oddin Dabironezare;
    IEEE Transaction on Antenna and Propagation,
    2022. Early access. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TAP.2022.3168724

  301. 650 GHz Imaging as Alignment Verification for Millimeter Wave Corneal Reflectometry
    Y. Hu; M. Baggio; S. O. Dabironezare; A. Tamminen; J. Ala- Laurinaho; E. Brown; N. Llombart; B. Toy; S. X. Deng; V. Wallace; Z. D. Taylor;
    IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology,
    Volume 12, Issue 2, pp. 151-164, Mar. 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TTHZ.2021.3140199

  302. Interference Mitigation for FMCW Radar With Sparse and Low-Rank Hankel Matrix Decomposition
    Wang, Jianping; Ding, Min; Yarovoy, Alexander;
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing,
    Volume 70, pp. 822--834, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2022.3147863
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  303. Improving the Security of the IEEE 802.15.6 Standard for Medical BANs
    M.A. Siddiqi; G. Hahn; S. Hamdioui; W.A. Serdijn; C. Strydis;
    IEEE Access,
    Volume 10, pp. 62953-62975, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3181630
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  304. Kilohertz alternating current neuromodulation of the pudendal nerves: effects on the anal canal and anal sphincter in rats
    R.L. Coolen; K.M. Emmer; P.I. Spantidea; E. van Asselt; J.R. Scheepe; W.A. Serdijn; B.F.M. Blok;
    Journal of Applied Biomedicine,
    Volume 20, Issue 2, pp. 56–69, June 2022. DOI: 10.32725/jab.2022.009
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  305. Speed-Power Improvement in High-Voltage Switches Employed in Multi-Electrode Arrays
    A. Safarpour; F. Dehnavi; M. Saberi; R. Lotfi; W.A. Serdijn;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs,
    Volume 69, Issue 7, pp. 3139-3143, July 2022. DOI: 10.1109/TCSII.2022.3161202
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  306. Continuous Human Activity Recognition With Distributed Radar Sensor Networks and CNN–RNN Architectures
    Zhu, Simin; Guendel, Ronny Gerhard; Yarovoy, Alexander; Fioranelli, Francesco;
    IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing,
    Volume 60, pp. 1-15, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2022.3189746

  307. Low-Cost Wearable Fluidic Sweat Collection Patch for Continuous Analyte Monitoring and Offline Analysis
    A Stijlen; KMB Jansen; J Bastemeijer; PJ French; A Bossche;
    Analytical Chemistry,
    Volume 94, pp. 6893-6901, April 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.2c01052
    Abstract: ... Sweat sensors allow for new unobtrusive ways to continuously monitor an athlete’s performance and health status. Significant advances have been made in the optimization of sensitivity, selectivity, and durability of electrochemical sweat sensors. However, comparing the in situ performance of these sensors in detail remains challenging because standardized sweat measurement methods to validate sweat sensors in a physiological setting do not yet exist. Current collection methods, such as the absorbent patch technique, are prone to contamination and are labor-intensive, which limits the number of samples that can be collected over time for offline reference measurements. We present an easy-to-fabricate sweat collection system that allows for continuous electrochemical monitoring, as well as chronological sampling of sweat for offline analysis. The patch consists of an analysis chamber hosting a conductivity sensor and a sequence of 5 to 10 reservoirs that contain level indicators that monitor the filling speed. After testing the performance of the patch in the laboratory, elaborate physiological validation experiments (3 patch locations, 6 participants) were executed. The continuous sweat conductivity measurements were compared with laboratory [Na+] and [Cl–] measurements of the samples, and a strong linear relationship (R2 = 0.97) was found. Furthermore, sweat rate derived from ventilated capsule measurement at the three locations was compared with patch filling speed and continuous conductivity readings. As expected from the literature, sweat conductivity was linearly related to sweat rate as well. In short, a successfully validated sweat collection patch is presented that enables sensor developers to systematically validate novel sweat sensors in a physiological setting.

  308. Spartus: A 9.4 TOp/s FPGA-Based LSTM Accelerator Exploiting Spatio-Temporal Sparsity
    Chang Gao et al.;
    IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS),
    2022. DOI: 10.1109/TNNLS.2022.3180209
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  309. Carbon Dots Embedded in Cellulose Film: Programmable, Performance-Tunable, and Large-Scale Subtle Fluorescent Patterning by in Situ Laser Writing
    Yuanyuan Guo; Quan Wang; Hao Li; Yixun Gao; Xuezhu Xu; Biao Tang; Yao Wang; Bai Yang; Yi-Kuen Lee; Paddy J. French; Guofu Zhou;
    ACS Nano,
    Volume 16, pp. 11, 2022. DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.1c09999
    Keywords: ... fluorescent pattern, tunable intensity, surface microstructure, laser direct writing, carbon dots.

    Abstract: ... Fluorescent patterns with multiple functions enable highsecurity anti-counterfeiting labels. Complex material synthesis and patterning processes limit the application of multifunctional fluorescent patterns, so the technology of in situ fluorescent patterning with tunable multimodal capabilities is becoming more necessary. In this work, an in situ fluorescent patterning technology was developed using laser direct writing on solid cellulose film at ambient conditions without masks. The fluorescent intensity and surface microstructure of the patterns could be adjusted by programmable varying of the laser parameters simultaneously. During laser direct writing, carbon dots are generated in situ in a cellulose ester polymer matrix, which significantly simplifies the fluorescent patterning process and reduces the manufacturing cost. Interestingly, the tunable fluorescent intensity empowers the fabrication of visual stereoscopic fluorescent patterns with excitation dependence, further improving its anti-counterfeiting performance. The obtained fluorescent patterns still show ultrahigh optical properties after being immersed in an acid/base solution (pH 5−12) over one month. In addition, the anti-UV performance of the obtained laser-patterned film with transmittance around 90% is comparable to that of commercial UV-resistant films. This work provided an advanced and feasible approach to fabricating programmable, performance-tunable, subtle fluorescent patterns in large-scale for industrial application.

  310. Review of Scaling effects on physical properties and practicalities of cantilever sensors
    C-K Yang; E van der Drift; PJ French;
    IOP JMM,
    Volume 32, Issue 103002, 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6439/ac8559
    Abstract: ... Reducing sensor dimension is a good way to increase system sensitivity and response. However the advantages gained must be weighed against other effects which also became significant during the scaling process. In this paper, the scaling effect of cantilever sensors from micrometer to nanometer regimes is reviewed. Changes in the physical properties such as Q-factor, Young's modulus, noise and nonlinear deflections, as well as effects on practical sensor applications such as sensor response and sensor readouts, are presented. Since cantilever is an elemental transducer and device building block, its scaling effects can be further extrapolated to other sensing systems and applications.

  311. Measurement of Pipe and Fluid Properties with a Matrix Array-based Ultrasonic Clamp-on Flow Meter
    J. Massaad; P. L. M. J. van Neer; D. M. van Willigen; A. Sabbadini; N. de Jong; M. A. P. Pertijs; M. D. Verweij;
    IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control,
    Volume 69, Issue 1, pp. 309--322, January 2022. DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2021.3111710

  312. A Compact Integrated High-Voltage Pulser Insensitive to Supply Transients for 3D Miniature Ultrasound Probes
    Yannick M. Hopf; Boudewine Ossenkoppele; Mehdi Soozande; Emile Noothout; Zu-Yao Chang; Hendrik J. Vos; Johan G. Bosch; Martin D. Verweij; Nico de Jong; Michiel A. P. Pertijs;
    IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters,
    Volume 5, pp. 166--169, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/lssc.2022.3180071
    Abstract: ... In this paper, a compact high-voltage (HV) transmit circuit for dense 2D transducer arrays used in 3D ultrasonic imaging systems is presented. Stringent area requirements are addressed by a unipolar pulser with embedded transmit/receive switch. Combined with a capacitive HV level shifter, it forms the ultrasonic HV transmit circuit with the lowest reported HV transistor count and area without any static power consumption. The balanced latched-based level shifter implementation makes the design insensitive to transients on the HV supply caused by pulsing, facilitating application in probes with limited local supply decoupling, such as imaging catheters. Favorable scaling through resource sharing benefits massively arrayed architectures while preserving full individual functionality. A prototype of 8 x 9 elements was fabricated in TSMC 0.18 μm HV BCD technology and a 160 μm x 160 μm PZT transducer matrix is manufactured on the chip. The system is designed to drive 65 V peak-to-peak pulses on 2 pF transducer capacitance and hardware sharing of 6 elements allows for an area of only 0.008 mm2 per element. Electrical characterization as well as acoustic results obtained with the 6 MHz central frequency transducer are demonstrated.

  313. Imaging Scheme for 3-D High Frame Rate Intracardiac Echography: a Simulation Study
    M. Soozande; B. Ossenkoppele; Y. Hopf; M. Pertijs; M. Verweij; N. de Jong; H. Vos; J. Bosch;
    IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control,
    Volume 69, Issue 10, pp. 2862--2874, October 2022. DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2022.3186487
    Abstract: ... Atrial fibrillation is the most common cardiac arrhythmia, and normally treated by RF ablation. Intracardiac echography (ICE) is widely employed during RF ablation procedures to guide the electrophysiologist in navigating the ablation catheter, although only 2-D probes are currently clinically used. A 3-D ICE catheter would not only improve visualization of the atrium and ablation catheter, it might also provide 3-D mapping of the electromechanical wave propagation pattern, which represents the mechanical response of cardiac tissue to electrical activity. The detection of this electromechanical wave needs 3-D high frame rate imaging, which is generally only realizable in trade-off with channel count and image quality. In this simulation-based study, we propose a high volume rate imaging scheme for a 3-D ICE probe design that employs 1-D micro-beamforming in elevation direction. Such probe can achieve a high frame rate while reducing the channel count sufficiently for realization in a 10-Fr catheter. To suppress the grating-lobe artifacts associated with micro-beamforming in elevation direction, a limited number of fan-shaped beams with a wide azimuthal and narrow elevational opening angle are sequentially steered to insonify slices of the region of interest. An angular weighted averaging of reconstructed sub-volumes further reduces the grating lobe artifacts. We optimize the transmit beam divergence and central frequency based on the required image quality for electromechanical wave imaging (EWI). Numerical simulation results show that a set of 7 fan-shaped transmission beams can provide a frame rate of 1000 Hz and a sufficient spatial resolution to visualize the electromechanical wave propagation on a large 3-D surface.

  314. Design and Proof-of-Concept of a Matrix Transducer Array for Clamp-on Ultrasonic Flow Measurements
    J. Massaad; P. L. M. J. van Neer; D. M. van Willigen; E. C. Noothout; N. de Jong; M. A. P. Pertijs; M. D. Verweij;
    IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control,
    Volume 69, Issue 8, pp. 2555--2568, August 2022. DOI: 10.1109/tuffc.2022.3186170
    Abstract: ... Common clamp-on ultrasonic flow meters consist of two single-element transducers placed on the pipe wall. Flow speed is measured non-invasively, i.e. without interrupting the flow and without perforating the pipe wall, which also minimizes safety risks and avoids pressure drops inside the pipe. However, before metering, the transducers have to be carefully positioned along the pipe axis to correctly align the acoustic beams and obtain a well-calibrated flow meter. This process is done manually, is dependent on the properties of the pipe and the liquid, does not account for pipe imperfections, and becomes troublesome on pipelines with an intricate shape. Matrix transducer arrays are suitable to dynamically steer acoustic beams and realize self-alignment upon reception, without user input. In this work, the design of a broadband 37x17 matrix array (center frequency of 1 MHz) to perform clamp-on ultrasonic flow measurements over a wide range of liquids (c = 1000 - 2000m/s, α≤1 dB/MHz.cm) and pipe sizes is presented. Three critical aspects were assessed: efficiency, electronic beam steering, and wave mode conversion in the pipe wall. A prototype of a proof-of-concept flow meter consisting of two 36-element linear arrays (center frequency of 1.1 MHz) was fabricated and placed on a 1 mm-thick, 40 mm-inner diameter stainless steel pipe in a custom-made flow loop filled with water. At resonance, simulated and measured efficiencies in water of the linear arrays compared well: 0.88 kPa/V and 0.81 kPa/V, respectively. Mean flow measurements were achieved by electronic beam steering of the acoustic beams and using both compressional and shear waves generated in the pipe wall. Correlation coefficients of R2 > 0.99 between measured and reference flow speeds were obtained, thus showing the operational concept of an array-based clamp-on ultrasonic flow meter.

  315. Integrated Digital and Analog Circuit Blocks in a Scalable Silicon Carbide CMOS Technology
    Joost Romijn; Sten Vollebregt; Luke M. Middelburg; Brahim El Mansouri; Henk W. van Zeijl; Alexander May; Tobias Erlbacher; Guoqi Zhang; Pasqualina M. Sarro;
    IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices,
    Volume 69, Issue 1, pp. 4-10, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/TED.2021.3125279

  316. Technology Development for MEMS: A Tutorial
    Paddy J French; Gijs JM Krijnen; Sten Vollebregt; Massimo Mastrangeli;
    IEEE Sensors Journal,
    Volume 22, Issue 11, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2021.3104715

  317. Mass and density determination of porous nanoparticle films using a quartz crystal microbalance
    Hendrik Joost van Ginkel; Sten Vollebregt; GuoQi Zhang; Andreas Schmidt-Ott;
    IOP Nanotechnology,
    Volume 33, Issue 48, 2022. DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/ac7811

  318. Characterization of low-loss hydrogenated amorphous silicon films for superconducting resonators
    Bruno T. Buijtendorp; Juan Bueno; David J. Thoen; Vignesh Murugesan; Paolo M. Sberna; Jochem J. A. Baselmans; Sten Vollebregt; Akira Endo;
    J. of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems,
    Volume 8, Issue 2, pp. 028006, 2022. DOI: 10.1117/1.JATIS.8.2.028006

  319. Rapid Prototyping of Organ-on-a-Chip Devices Using Maskless Photolithography
    Dhanesh G. Kasi; Mees N. S. de Graaf; Paul A. Motreuil-Ragot; Jean-Phillipe M. S. Frimat; Michel D. Ferrari; Pasqualina M. Sarro; Massimo Mastrangeli; Arn M. J. M. van den Maagdenberg; Christine L. Mummery; Valeria V. Orlova;
    Micromachines,
    Volume 13, pp. 49, 2022. DOI: 10.3390/mi13010049

  320. Effects of Temperature and Grain Size on Diffusivity of Aluminium: Electromigration Experiment and Molecular Dynamic Simulation
    Zhen Cui; Yaqian Zhang; Dong Hu; Sten Vollebregt; Jiajie Fan, Xuejun Fan; Guoqi Zhang;
    Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter,
    Volume 34, pp. 175401, 2022. DOI: 10.1088/1361-648X/ac4b7f

  321. Enhancement of Room Temperature Ethanol Sensing by Optimizing the Density of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanofibers Decorated with Gold Nanoparticles
    Mostafa Shooshtari; Leandro Nicolas Sacco; Joost Van Ginkel; Sten Vollebregt; Alireza Salehi;
    MDPI Materials,
    Volume 15, Issue 4, pp. 1383, 2022. DOI: 10.3390/ma15041383

  322. Sensitive Transfer-Free Wafer-Scale Graphene Microphones
    Roberto Pezone; Gabriele Baglioni; Pasqualina M. Sarro; Peter G. Steeneken; Sten Vollebregt;
    ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces,
    Volume 14, Issue 18, pp. 21705-21712, 2022. DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c03305

  323. Direct Wafer-Scale CVD Graphene Growth under Platinum Thin-Films
    Yelena Hagendoorn; Gregory Pandraud; Sten Vollebregt; Bruno Morana; Pasqualina M. Sarro; Peter G. Steeneken;
    MDPI Materials,
    Volume 15, Issue 10, pp. 3723, 2022.
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  324. Angle Sensitive Optical Sensor for Light Source Tracker Miniaturization
    Joost Romijn; Secil Sanseven; Guoqi Zhang; Sten Vollebregt; Pasqualina M. Sarro;
    IEEE Sensors Letters,
    Volume 6, Issue 6, pp. 1-4, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/LSENS.2022.3175607

  325. Output Controllability of a Linear Dynamical System with Sparse Controls
    Geethu Joseph;
    IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems,
    2022. DOI: 10.1109/TCNS.2022.3188484

  326. Smoothed Phase-Coded FMCW: Waveform Properties and Transceiver Architecture
    Kumbul, Utku; Petrov, Nikita; Vaucher, Cicero S.; Yarovoy, Alexander;
    IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems,
    pp. 1-18, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2022.3206173

  327. Energy efficiency of pulse shaping in electrical stimulation: the interdependence of biophysical effects and circuit design losses
    Francesc Varkevisser; Tiago Costa; Wouter Serdijn;
    Biomedical Physics & Engineering Express,
    Volume 8, Issue 6, 13 September 2022. DOI: 10.1088/2057-1976/ac8c47
    document

  328. Design of a Closed-Loop Vagus Nerve Stimulator Comprising a Wearable EEG Recorder and an Implantable Pulse Generator
    Xiaolong Li; Ming Yu, Jin Zhu, Wei Zheng, Guojun Ma, Xiaoqiao Deng, Weijia Huang,; Wouter Serdijn;
    IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine,
    Volume 22, Issue 3, pp. 22-40, Sept. 2022. DOI: 10.1109/MCAS.2022.3189886
    document

  329. Multilayer CVD graphene electrodes using a transfer-free process for the next generation of optically transparent and MRI-compatible neural interfaces
    Nasim Bakhshaee; Merlin Palmar; Andrada Iulia Velea; Chiara Coletti; Sebastian Weingaertner; Frans Vos; Wouter A. Serdijn; Sten Vollebregt; Vasiliki Giagka;
    Microsystems & Nanoengineering,
    Volume 8, Issue 107, pp. 1-14, Sep 2022. DOI: 10.1038/s41378-022-00430-x
    Abstract: ... Multimodal platforms combining electrical neural recording and stimulation, optogenetics, optical imaging, and magnetic resonance (MRI) imaging are emerging as a promising platform to enhance the depth of characterization in neuroscientific research. Electrically conductive, optically transparent, and MRI-compatible electrodes can optimally combine all modalities. Graphene as a suitable electrode candidate material can be grown via chemical vapor deposition (CVD) processes and sandwiched between transparent biocompatible polymers. However, due to the high graphene growth temperature (≥ 900 °C) and the presence of polymers, fabrication is commonly based on a manual transfer process of pre-grown graphene sheets, which causes reliability issues. In this paper, we present CVD-based multilayer graphene electrodes fabricated using a wafer-scale transfer-free process for use in optically transparent and MRI-compatible neural interfaces. Our fabricated electrodes feature very low impedances which are comparable to those of noble metal electrodes of the same size and geometry. They also exhibit the highest charge storage capacity (CSC) reported to date among all previously fabricated CVD graphene electrodes. Our graphene electrodes did not reveal any photo-induced artifact during 10-Hz light pulse illumination. Additionally, we show here, for the first time, that CVD graphene electrodes do not cause any image artifact in a 3T MRI scanner. These results demonstrate that multilayer graphene electrodes are excellent candidates for the next generation of neural interfaces and can substitute the standard conventional metal electrodes. Our fabricated graphene electrodes enable multimodal neural recording, electrical and optogenetic stimulation, while allowing for optical imaging, as well as, artifact-free MRI studies.

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  330. Learning Time-Varying Graphs From Online Data
    Natali, A.; Isufi, E.; Coutino, M.; Leus, G.;
    IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing,
    Volume 3, pp. 212--228, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/OJSP.2022.3178901

  331. Efficient Angle Estimation for MIMO Systems via Redundancy Reduction Representation
    Zhang, Yu; Wang, Yue; Tian, Zhi; Leus, G.; Zhang, Gong;
    IEEE Signal Processing Letters,
    Volume 29, pp. 1052--1056, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2022.3164850

  332. Computational Array Signal Processing via Modulo Non-Linearities
    Fernandez-Menduina, S.; Krahmer, F.; Leus, G.; Bhandari, A.;
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing,
    Volume 70, pp. 2168--2179, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2021.3101437

  333. Efficient Super-Resolution Two-Dimensional Harmonic Retrieval With Multiple Measurement Vectors
    Zhang, Yu; Wang, Yue; Tian, Zhi; Leus, G.; Zhang, Gong;
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing,
    Volume 70, pp. 1224--1240, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2022.3150964

  334. A Cascaded Structure for Generalized Graph Filters
    Coutino, M.; Leus, G.;
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing,
    Volume 70, pp. 3499--3513, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2021.3099630

  335. Decentralized coordination for truck platooning
    Zeng, Yikai; Wang, Meng; Rajan, Raj Thilak;
    Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering,
    2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/mice.12899
    document

  336. A benchmark for the number of independent line of sight links on a given volume platform
    R. Ozzola; D. Cavallo; A. Freni; N. Llombart; A. Neto;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 70, Issue 12, pp. 12071-12080, Dec. 2022. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2022.3209203

  337. The science case and challenges of space-borne sub-millimeter interferometry
    Leonid I. Gurvits; Zsolt Paragi; Ricardo I. Amils; Ilse {van Bemmel}; Paul Boven; Raj Thilak Rajan; others;
    Acta Astronautica,
    Volume 196, Issue 314-333, 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2022.04.020
    document

  338. Hydrogenated amorphous silicon carbide: A low-loss deposited dielectric for microwave to submillimeter-wave superconducting circuits
    B. T. Buijtendorp; S. Vollebregt; K. Karatsu; D. J. Thoen; V. Murugesan; K. Kouwenhoven; S. Hähnle; J. J. A. Baselmans; A. Endo;
    Physical Review Applied,
    Volume 18, pp. 064003, 2022. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.18.064003

  339. Board level vibration test method of components for automotive electronics: State-of-the-art approaches and challenges
    V. Thukral; M. van Soestbergen; J.J.M. Zaal; R. Roucou; R.T.H. Rongen; W.D. van Driel; GuoQi Zhang;
    Microelectronics Reliability,
    Volume 139, pp. 114830, 2022. DOI: 10.1016/j.microrel.2022.114830

  340. Biodegradable sensors are ready to transform autonomous ecological monitoring
    Sarab S. Sethi; Mirko Kovac; Fabian Wiesemüller; Aslan Miriyev; Clementine M. Boutry;
    Nature Ecology & Evolution,
    Volume 6, pp. 1245-1247, 2022. DOI: 10.1038/s41559-022-01824-w

  341. Ultra-thin corrugated metamaterial film as large-area transmission dynode
    Hong Wah Chan; V. Prodanović; A.M.M.G. Theulings; T. ten Bruggencate; C.W. Hagen; P.M. Sarro; H. v.d. Graaf;
    Journal of Instrumentation,
    Volume 17, pp. P09027, 2022. DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/17/09/P09027

  342. 25.8 Gb/s Submillimeter Optical Data Link Module for Smart Catheters
    Jian Li; Chenhui Li; Vincent Henneken; Marcus Louwerse; Jeannet Van Rens; Paul Dijkstra; Oded Raz; Ronald Dekker;
    Journal of Lightwave Technology,
    Volume 40, Issue 8, pp. 2456-2464, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2021.3137981

  343. A Microfluidic Cancer-on-Chip Platform Predicts Drug Response Using Organotypic Tumor Slice Culture
    Sanjiban Chakrabarty; William F. Quiros-Solano; Maayke M.P. Kuijten; Ben Haspels; Sandeep Mallya; Calvin Shun Yu Lo; Amr Othman; Cinzia Silvestri; Anja van de Stolpe; Nikolas Gaio; Hanny Odijk; Marieke van de Ven; Corrina M.A. de Ridder; Wytske M. van Weerden; Jos Jonkers and Ronald Dekker; Nitika Taneja; Roland Kanaar; Dik C. van Gent;
    Cancer Research,
    Volume 82, Issue 3, pp. 510-520, 2022. DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-21-0799

  344. Reliability of LED-based systems
    Willem D. van Driel; B. Jacobs; P. Watte; X. Zhao;
    Microelectronics Reliability,
    Volume 129, pp. 114477, 2022. DOI: 10.1016/j.microrel.2022.114477

  345. Focused ultrasound neuromodulation on a multiwell MEA
    Marta Saccher; Shinnosuke Kawasaki; Martina Proietti Onori; Geeske M. van Woerden; Vasiliki Giagka; Ronald Dekker;
    Bioelectronic Medicine,
    Volume 8, 2022. DOI: 10.1186/s42234-021-00083-7

  346. Integrated 64 pixel UV image sensor and readout in a silicon carbide CMOS technology
    Joost Romijn; Sten Vollebregt; Luke M. Middelburg; Brahim El Mansouri; Henk W. van Zeijl; Alexander May; Tobias Erlbacher; Johan Leijtens; Guoqi Zhang; Pasqualina M. Sarro;
    Nature Microsystems & Nanoengineering,
    Volume 8, pp. 114, 2022. DOI: 10.1038/s41378-022-00446-3

  347. A 23.8–30.4-GHz Vector-Modulated Phase Shifter With Two-Stage Current-Reused Variable-Gain Amplifiers Achieving 0.23° Minimum RMS Phase Error
    Zhang, Linghan; Shen, Yiyu; de Vreede, Leo; Babaie, Masoud;
    IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters,
    Volume 5, pp. 150-153, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/LSSC.2022.3179661

  348. A Millimeter-Wave CMOS Series-Doherty Power Amplifier With Post-Silicon Inter-Stage Passive Validation
    Pashaeifar, Masoud; de Vreede, Leo C. N.; Alavi, Morteza S.;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 57, Issue 10, pp. 2999-3013, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2022.3175685

  349. Load-Modulation-Based IMD3 Cancellation for Millimeter-Wave Class-B CMOS Power Amplifiers Achieving EVM < 1.2%
    Pashaeifar, Masoud; de Vreede, Leo C. N.; Alavi, Morteza S.;
    IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters,
    Volume 32, Issue 6, pp. 716-719, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/LMWC.2022.3166257

  350. High-Power Digital Transmitters for Wireless Infrastructure Applications (A Feasibility Study)
    Bootsman, Robert J.; Mul, Dieuwert P. N.; Shen, Yiyu; Hashemi, Mohsen; Heeres, Rob M.; van Rijs, Fred; Alavi, Morteza S.; de Vreede, Leo C. N.;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 70, Issue 5, pp. 2835-2850, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2022.3153000

  351. A Wideband IQ-Mapping Direct-Digital RF Modulator for 5G Transmitters
    Shen, Yiyu; Bootsman, Robert; Alavi, Morteza S.; de Vreede, Leo C. N.;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 57, Issue 5, pp. 1446-1456, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2022.3144362

  352. Lossless Matching Layer for Silicon Lens Arrays At 500 GHz Using Laser Ablated Structures
    Bueno, Juan; Bosma, Sjoerd; Bußkamp-Alda, Tobias; Alonso-delPino, Maria; Llombart, Nuria;
    IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology,
    Volume 12, Issue 6, pp. 667-672, Aug. 2022. DOI: 10.1109/TTHZ.2022.3202031

  353. First Demonstration of Dynamic High-Gain Beam Steering With a Scanning Lens Phased Array
    Bosma, Sjoerd; Van Rooijen, Nick; Alonso-Delpino, Maria; Spirito, Marco; Llombart, Nuria;
    IEEE Journal of Microwaves,
    Volume 2, Issue 3, pp. 419-428, Jul. 2022. DOI: 10.1109/JMW.2022.3179953

  354. A wideband leaky-wave lens antenna with annular corrugations in the ground plane
    Bosma, Sjoerd; Van Rooijen, Nick; Alonso-delPino, Maria; Llombart, Nuria;
    IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters,
    Volume 21, Issue 8, pp. 1649-1653, May 2022. DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2022.3176884

  355. A hybrid optical–wireless network for decimetre-level terrestrial positioning
    J.C.J. Koelemeij; Han Dun; C.E.V. Diouf; E.F. Dierikx; G.J.M. Janssen; C.J.M. Tiberius;
    Nature,
    Volume 611, pp. 473-478, 2022. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05315-7

  356. Benchmarking classification algorithms for radar-based human activity recognition.
    Fioranelli, Francesco; Zhu, Simin; Roldan, Ignacio;
    IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine,
    pp. 1-4, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/MAES.2022.3216262

  357. Compatibility Assessment of Multistatic/Polarimetric Clutter Data with the SIRP Model
    Aubry, A.; Carotenuto, V.; De Maio, A.; Fioranelli, F.;
    IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems,
    pp. 1-16, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2022.3184916

  358. Angle-Insensitive Human Motion and Posture Recognition Based on 4D Imaging Radar and Deep Learning Classifiers
    Yubin Zhao; Olexander Yarovoy; Francesco Fioranelli;
    IEEE Sensors Journal,
    Volume 22, Issue 12, pp. 12173-12182, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2022.3175618

  359. A Novel Approach to Unambiguous Doppler Beam sharpening for Forward-looking MIMO Radar
    Yuan, Sen; Aubry, Pascal; Fioranelli, Francesco; Yarovoy, Alexander;
    IEEE Sensors Journal,
    pp. 1-1, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2022.3215862

  360. Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon Carbide: A Low-loss Deposited Dielectric for Microwave to Submillimeter Wave Superconducting Circuits
    Buijtendorp, B. T.; Vollebregt, S. ; Karatsu, K.; Thoen, D. J.; Murugesan, V.; Kouwenhoven, K.; Hähnle, S.; Baselmans, J. J. A.; Endo, A.;
    Physical Review Applied,
    Volume 18, Issue 6, pp. 064003, 2022. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.18.064003

  361. Model and Measurements of an Optical Stack for Broadband Visible to Near-Infrared Absorption in TiN MKIDs
    Kouwenhoven, K., Elwakil, I., Wingerden, J. van, Murugesan, V., Thoen, D. J., Baselmans, J. J. A., Visser, P. J. d.;
    Journal of Low Temperature Physics,
    2022. DOI: 10.1007/s10909-022-02774-0

  362. Assembly of Core/Shell Nanospheres of Amorphous Hemin/ Acetone-Derived Carbonized Polymer with Graphene Nanosheets for Room-Temperature NO Sensing
    Jianqiang Wang; Yixun Gao; Fengjia Chen; Lulu Zhang; Hao Li; Nicolaas Frans de Rooij; Ahmad Umar; Yi-Kuen Lee; Paddy J. French; Bai Yang, Yao Wang; Guofu Zhou;
    Applied Materials and Interfaces,
    Volume 14, December 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.2c16769
    Keywords: ... nitric oxide sensor, Hemin, graphene, carbonized polymer, core−shell structure.

    Abstract: ... Implementing parts per billion-level nitric oxide (NO) sensing at room temperature (RT) is still in extreme demand for monitoring inflammatory respiratory diseases. Herein, we have prepared a kind of core−shell structural Hemin-based nanospheres (Abbr.: Hemin-nanospheres, defined as HNSs) with the core of amorphous Hemin and the shell of acetone-derived carbonized polymer, whose core−shell structure was verified by XPS with argon-ion etching. Then, the HNSassembled reduced graphene oxide composite (defined as HNS-rGO) was prepared for RT NO sensing. The acetone-derived carbonized polymer shell not only assists the formation of amorphous Hemin core by disrupting their crystallization to release more Fe−N4 active sites, but provides protection to the core. Owing to the unique core−shell structure, the obtained HNS-rGO based sensor exhibited superior RT gas sensing properties toward NO, including a relatively higher response (Ra/Rg = 5.8, 20 ppm), a lower practical limit of detection (100 ppb), relatively reliable repeatability (over 6 cycles), excellent selectivity, and much higher long-term stability (less than a 5% decrease over 120 days). The sensing mechanism has also been proposed based on charge transfer theory. The superior gas sensing properties of HNS-rGO are ascribed to the more Fe−N4 active sites available under the amorphous state of the Hemin core and to the physical protection by the shell of acetonederived carbonized polymer. This work presents a facile strategy of constructing a high-performance carbon-based core−shell nanostructure for gas sensing.

  363. A Pitch-Matched Transceiver ASIC with Shared Hybrid Beamforming ADC for High-Frame-Rate 3D Intracardiac Echocardiography
    Yannick M. Hopf; Boudewine W. Ossenkoppele; Mehdi Soozande; Emile Noothout; Zu-Yao Chang; Chao Chen; Hendrik J. Vos; Johan G. Bosch; Martin D. Verweij; Nico de Jong; Michiel A. P. Pertijs;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 57, Issue 11, pp. 3228--3242, November 2022. DOI: 10.1109/jssc.2022.3201758
    Abstract: ... In this article, an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) for 3-D, high-frame-rate ultrasound imaging probes is presented. The design is the first to combine element-level, high-voltage (HV) transmitters and analog front-ends, subarray beamforming, and in-probe digitization in a scalable fashion for catheter-based probes. The integration challenge is met by a hybrid analog-to-digital converter (ADC), combining an efficient charge-sharing successive approximation register (SAR) first stage and a compact single-slope (SS) second stage. Application in large ultrasound imaging arrays is facilitated by directly interfacing the ADC with a charge-domain subarray beamformer, locally calibrating interstage gain errors and generating the SAR reference using a power-efficient local reference generator. Additional hardware-sharing between neighboring channels ultimately leads to the lowest reported area and power consumption across miniature ultrasound probe ADCs. A pitch-matched design is further enabled by an efficient split between the core circuitry and a periphery block, the latter including a datalink performing clock data recovery (CDR) and time-division multiplexing (TDM), which leads to a 12-fold total channel count reduction. A prototype of 8×9 elements was fabricated in a TSMC 0.18- μm HV BCD technology and a 2-D PZT transducer matrix with a pitch of 160μm , and a center frequency of 6 MHz was manufactured on the chip. The imaging device operates at up to 1000 volumes/s, generates 65-V transmit pulses, and has a receive power consumption of only 1.23 mW/element. The functionality has been demonstrated electrically as well as in acoustic and imaging experiments.

  364. Algorithm to Correct Measurement Offsets Introduced by Inactive Elements of Transducer Arrays in Ultrasonic Flow Metering
    Jack Massaad; Paul L. M. J. van Neer; Douwe M. van Willigen; Michiel A. P. Pertijs; Nicolaas de Jong; Martin D. Verweij;
    Sensors,
    Volume 22, Issue 23, pp. 2--14, November 2022. DOI: 10.3390/s22239317
    Abstract: ... Ultrasonic flow meters (UFMs) based on transducer arrays offer several advantages. With electronic beam steering, it is possible to tune the steering angle of the beam for optimal signal-tonoise ratio (SNR) upon reception. Moreover, multiple beams can be generated to propagate through different travel paths, covering a wider section of the flow profile. Furthermore, in a clamp-on configuration, UFMs based on transducer arrays can perform self-calibration. In this manner, userinput is minimized and measurement repeatability is increased. In practice, transducer array elements may break down. This could happen due to aging, exposure to rough environments, and/or rough mechanical contact. As a consequence of inactive array elements, the measured transit time difference contains two offsets. One offset originates from non-uniform spatial sampling of the generated wavefield. Another offset originates from the ill-defined beam propagating through a travel path different from the intended one. In this paper, an algorithm is proposed that corrects for both of these offsets. The algorithm also performs a filtering operation in the frequency-wavenumber domain of all spurious (i.e., flow-insensitive) wave modes. The advantage of implementing the proposed algorithm is demonstrated on simulations and measurements, showing improved accuracy and precision of the transit time differences compared to the values obtained when the algorithm is not applied. The proposed algorithm can be implemented in both in-line and clamp-on configuration of UFMs based on transducer arrays.

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  365. A Tiled Ultrasound Matrix Transducer for Volumetric Imaging of the Carotid Artery
    dos Santos, Djalma Simões; Fool, Fabian; Mozaffarzadeh, Moein; Shabanimotlagh, Maysam; Noothout, Emile; Kim, Taehoon; Rozsa, Nuriel; Vos, Hendrik J.; Bosch, Johan G.; Pertijs, Michiel A. P.; Verweij, Martin D.; de Jong, Nico;
    Sensors,
    Volume 22, Issue 24, pp. 1--23, 2022. DOI: 10.3390/s22249799
    Abstract: ... High frame rate three-dimensional (3D) ultrasound imaging would offer excellent possibilities for the accurate assessment of carotid artery diseases. This calls for a matrix transducer with a large aperture and a vast number of elements. Such a matrix transducer should be interfaced with an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) for channel reduction. However, the fabrication of such a transducer integrated with one very large ASIC is very challenging and expensive. In this study, we develop a prototype matrix transducer mounted on top of multiple identical ASICs in a tiled configuration. The matrix was designed to have 7680 piezoelectric elements with a pitch of 300 μm × 150 μm integrated with an array of 8 × 1 tiled ASICs. The performance of the prototype is characterized by a series of measurements. The transducer exhibits a uniform behavior with the majority of the elements working within the −6 dB sensitivity range. In transmit, the individual elements show a center frequency of 7.5 MHz, a −6 dB bandwidth of 45%, and a transmit efficiency of 30 Pa/V at 200 mm. In receive, the dynamic range is 81 dB, and the minimum detectable pressure is 60 Pa per element. To demonstrate the imaging capabilities, we acquired 3D images using a commercial wire phantom.

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  366. Personalized local SAR prediction for parallel transmit neuroimaging at 7T from a single T1‐weighted dataset
    W.M. Brink; S. Yousefi; P. Bhatnagar; R.F. Remis; M. Staring; A.G. Webb;
    Magnetic Resonance in Medicine,
    Volume 88, Issue 1, pp. 464-475, 2022. DOI: 10.1002/mrm.29215
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  367. Deep learning-based single image super-resolution for low-field MR brain images
    M.L. de Leeuw den Bouter; G. Ippolito; T.P.A. O’Reilly; R.F. Remis; M.B. van Gijzen; A.G. Webb;
    Scientific Reports,
    Volume 12, Issue 6362, pp. 1-10, 2022. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-10298-6
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  368. Learning a preconditioner to accelerate compressed sensing reconstructions in MRI
    K. Koolstra; R.F. Remis;
    Magnetic Resonance in Medicine,
    Volume 87, Issue 4, pp. 2063-2073, 2022. DOI: 10.1002/mrm.29073
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  369. Combining deep learning and 3D contrast source inversion in MR‐based electrical properties tomography
    R. Leijsen; C. van den Berg; A. Webb; R. Remis; S. Mandija;
    NMR in Biomedicine,
    Volume 35, Issue 4, 2022. DOI: 10.1002/nbm.4211
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  370. Generalized Signal Models and Direct FID-Based Dielectric Parameter Retrieval in MRI
    P S. Fuchs; R.F. Remis;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 70, Issue 2, pp. 1451-1461, Feb. 2022. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2021.3111324
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  371. A 90.6% Efficient, 0.333 W/mm2 Power Density Direct 48V-to-1V Dual Inductor Hybrid Converter with Delay-line Based V2D Controller
    Hua, Y.; Lu, Q.; Li, S.; Zhao, B.; Du, S.;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs,
    pp. 1-5, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/TCSII.2022.3219243

  372. A Crystal-Less Clock Generation Technique for Battery-Free Wireless Systems
    Chang, Z.; Zhang, Y.; Yang, C.; Luo, Y.; Du, S.; Chen, Y.; Zhao, B.;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers,
    pp. 1-12, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2022.3201196

  373. An Output Bandwidth Optimized 200-Gb/s PAM-4 100-Gb/s NRZ Transmitter With 5-Tap FFE in 28-nm CMOS
    Wang, Z.; Choi, M.; Lee, K.; Park, K.; Liu, Z.; Biswas, A.; Han, J.; Du, S.; Alon, E.;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 57, Issue 1, pp. 21-31, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2021.3109562

  374. Evaluation of convolution integrals at late-times revisited
    I.E. Lager; M. Štumpf; G.A.E. Vandenbosch; G. Antonini;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 70, Issue 10, pp. 9953-9958, Oct. 2022. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2022.3168347

  375. Characterization of low-loss hydrogenated amorphous silicon films for superconducting resonators
    Bruno T. Buijtendorp; Juan Bueno; David J. Thoen; Vignesh Murugesan; Paolo M. Sberna; Jochem J. A. Baselmans; Sten Vollebregt; Akira Endo;
    Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems,
    Volume 8, Issue 2, pp. 028006, 2022. DOI: 10.1117/1.JATIS.8.2.028006

  376. Ultra-sensitive THz Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors for future space telescopes
    J.J.A. Baselmans; F. Facchin; Pascual Laguna, A.; J. Bueno ; V. Murugesan ; N. Llombart; P.J. de Visser , 17, 1–10 (2022).;
    Astronomy & Astrophysics,
    2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202243840

  377. TiEMPO: open-source time-dependent end-to-end model for simulating ground-based submillimeter astronomical observations
    Huijten, E.; Roelvink, Y.; Brackenhoff, S. A.; Taniguchi, A.; Bakx, T. J. L. C.; Marthi, K. B.; Zaalberg, S.; Doing A.-K.; Baselmans, J. J. A.; Chin, K. W.; Huiting, R.; Karatsu, K.; Pascual Laguna, A.; Tamura, Y.; Takekoshi, T.; Yates, S. J. C.; van Hoven, M.; Endo, A.;
    J. of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments and systems,
    Volume 8, Issue 2, 2022. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.8.2.028005

  378. Model and Measurements of an Optical Stack for Broadband Visible to Near-Infrared Absorption in TiN MKIDs
    Kouwenhoven, K.; Elwakil, I.; Wingerden; J. van, Murugesan; V., Thoen, D. J.; Baselmans, J. J. A.; Visser, P. J. d.;
    Journal of Low Temperature Physics,
    pp. 0123456789, 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-022-02774-0

  379. On the Near-Field Spherical Wave Formation in Resonant Leaky-Wave Antennas: Application to Small Lens Design
    S. Bosma; A. Neto; N. Llombart;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 70, Issue 2, pp. 801-812, Feb. 2022. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2021.3137238

  380. A -121.5-dB THD Class-D Audio Amplifier With 49-dB LC Filter Nonlinearity Suppression
    Huajun Zhang; Marco Berkhout; Kofi A. A. Makinwa; Qinwen Fan;
    {IEEE} Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 57, Issue 4, pp. 1153--1161, April 2022. DOI: 10.1109/jssc.2021.3125526
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  381. A 4-$\upmu$W Bandwidth/Power Scalable Delta\textendashSigma Modulator Based on Swing-Enhanced Floating Inverter Amplifiers
    Menglian Zhao; Yibo Zhao; Huajun Zhang; Yaopeng Hu; Yuanxin Bao; Le Ye; Wanyuan Qu; Zhichao Tan;
    {IEEE} Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 57, Issue 3, pp. 709-718, March 2022. DOI: 10.1109/jssc.2021.3123261
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  382. A 121.4-dB DR Capacitively Coupled Chopper Class-D Audio Amplifier
    Huajun Zhang; Marco Berkhout; Kofi A. A. Makinwa; Qinwen Fan;
    {IEEE} Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 57, Issue 12, pp. 3736--3745, December 2022. DOI: 10.1109/jssc.2022.3207907
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  383. A Chopper Class-D Amplifier for PSRR Improvement Over the Entire Audio Band
    Huajun Zhang; Nuriel N. M. Rozsa; Marco Berkhout; Qinwen Fan;
    {IEEE} Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 57, Issue 7, pp. 2035--2044, July 2022. DOI: 10.1109/jssc.2022.3161136
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  384. A -121.5-dB THD Class-D Audio Amplifier With 49-dB LC Filter Nonlinearity Suppression
    Huajun Zhang; Marco Berkhout; Kofi A. A. Makinwa; Qinwen Fan;
    {IEEE} Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 57, Issue 4, pp. 1153--1161, April 2022. DOI: 10.1109/jssc.2021.3125526
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  385. A Low-Spur Fractional-N PLL Based on a Time-Mode Arithmetic Unit
    Gao, Zhong; He, Jingchu; Fritz, Martin; Gong, Jiang; Shen, Yiyu; Zong, Zhirui; Chen, Peng; Spalink, Gerd; Eitel, Ben; Alavi, Morteza S.; Staszewski, Robert Bogdan; Babaie, Masoud;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    pp. 1-20, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2022.3209338

  386. Phase-Coded FMCW for Coherent MIMO Radar
    U. Kumbul; N. Petrov; C. S. Vaucher; A. Yarovoy;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    pp. 1-13, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2022.3228950

  387. MIMO ambiguity functions of different codes with application to phase-coded FMCW radars
    U. Kumbul; N. Petrov; S. Yuan; C. S. Vaucher; A. Yarovoy;
    IET Conference Proceedings,
    pp. 336-341(5), January 2022.
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  388. Fabrication of High-performance Supercapacitors Using Hierarchical MnO2 Nanostructures on a Frosted Glass Surface.
    S. Kundu; G. U. Kulkarni;
    Energy Technology,
    July 2022. DOI: 2200505
    Abstract: ... Supercapacitors have emerged to fill the gap between batteries and capacitors. The electrodes comprising a high surface area are utilized to fabricate the supercapacitors. However, the processes involved to fabricate electrodes are often strenuous and time-consuming. Herein, the fabrication of high-performance supercapacitors using frosted glass as a template to grow electrodes is reported. The frosted substrates can host much higher ions owing to the numerous surface features arising from micro- and nano-level roughnesses, resulting in one order higher capacitance than the plain surface. Electrodepositing MnO2 nanostructures on the frosted surface further increases the capacitance and attains the highest value of 11 mF cm−2 at 300 min of electrodeposition, which is 6.5 times higher than the electrodes without MnO2. The stacked supercapacitors are made using polyvinyl alcohol/H2SO4 gel electrolyte, and the devices exhibit superior electrochemical properties such as high scan rate stability (100 V s−1), high cut-off frequency (333 Hz), low iR drop, high cyclic stability (93% capacitance retention after 10 000 cycles), and low self-discharge. The roughened nature of the frosted glass can be imprinted onto the surface of polydimethylsiloxane substrate to fabricate flexible and stretchable supercapacitors. The present work can pave the way for facile and low-cost fabrication of supercapacitor electrodes.

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  389. Embryonic Origins of the Hematopoietic System: Hierarchies and Heterogeneity
    Chris S. Vink; Samanta A. Mariani; Elaine Dzierzak;
    HemaSphere,
    Volume 6, Issue 6, pp. e737, June 2022. DOI: 10.1097/hs9.0000000000000737
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  390. PDGFRβ+ Cells Play a Dual Role as Hematopoietic Precursors and Niche Cells During Mouse Ontogeny
    Diana Sá da Bandeira; Alastair M. Kilpatrick; Madalena Marques; Mario Gomez-Salazar; Telma Ventura; Zaniah N. Gonzalez; Dorota Stefancova; Fiona Rossi; Matthieu Vermeren; Chris S. Vink; Mariana Beltran; Neil C. Henderson; Bongnam Jung; Reinier van der Linden; Harmen J. G. van de Werken; Wilfred F.J. van IJcken; Christer Betsholtz; Stuart J. Forbes; Henar Cuervo; Mihaela Crisan;
    Cell Reports,
    Volume 40, Issue 3, pp. 111114, July 2022. DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2022.111114
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  391. Measurement of pipe and liquid parameters using the beam steering capabilities of array-based clamp-on ultrasonic flow meters
    J. Massaad; P. L. M. J. van Neer; D. M. van Willigen; M. A. P. Pertijs; N. de Jong; M. D. Verweij;
    Sensors,
    Volume 22, Issue 14, pp. 5068, July 2022. DOI: 10.3390/s22145068
    Abstract: ... Clamp-on ultrasonic flow meters (UFMs) are installed on the outside of the pipe wall. Typically, they consist of two single-element transducers mounted on angled wedges, which are acoustically coupled to the pipe wall. Before flow metering, the transducers are placed at the correct axial position by manually moving one transducer along the pipe wall until the maximum amplitude of the relevant acoustic pulse is obtained. This process is time-consuming and operator-dependent. Next to this, at least five parameters of the pipe and the liquid need to be provided manually to compute the flow speed. In this work, a method is proposed to obtain the five parameters of the pipe and the liquid required to compute the flow speed. The method consists of obtaining the optimal angles for different wave travel paths by varying the steering angle of the emitted acoustic beam systematically. Based on these optimal angles, a system of equations is built and solved to extract the desired parameters. The proposed method was tested experimentally with a custom-made clamp-on UFM consisting of two linear arrays placed on a water-filled stainless steel pipe. The obtained parameters of the pipe and the liquid correspond very well with the expected (nominal) values. Furthermore, the performed experiment also demonstrates that a clamp-on UFM based on transducer arrays can achieve self-alignment without the need to manually move the transducers.

  392. A MEMS Coriolis-Based Mass-Flow-to-Digital Converter for Low Flow Rate Sensing
    de Oliveira, Arthur Campos; Pan, Sining; Wiegerink, Remco J.; Makinwa, Kofi A. A.;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 57, Issue 12, pp. 3681-3692, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2022.3210003

  393. A −91 dB THD+N, Class-D Piezoelectric Speaker Driver Using Dual Voltage/Current Feedback for Resistor-Less LC Resonance Damping
    Karmakar, Shoubhik; Berkhout, Marco; Makinwa, Kofi A. A.; Fan, Qinwen;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 57, Issue 12, pp. 3726-3735, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2022.3207386

  394. A 121.4-dB DR Capacitively Coupled Chopper Class-D Audio Amplifier
    Zhang, Huajun; Berkhout, Marco; Makinwa, Kofi A. A.; Fan, Qinwen;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 57, Issue 12, pp. 3736-3745, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2022.3207907

  395. A Versatile ±25-A Shunt-Based Current Sensor With ±0.25% Gain Error From −40 °C to 85 °C
    Tang, Zhong; Zamparette, Roger; Furuta, Yoshikazu; Nezuka, Tomohiro; Makinwa, Kofi A. A.;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 57, Issue 12, pp. 3716-3725, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2022.3204520

  396. A 210 nW NPN-Based Temperature Sensor With an Inaccuracy of ±0.15 °C (3σ) From −15 °C to 85 °C Utilizing Dual-Mode Frontend
    Someya, Teruki; van Hoek, Vincent; Angevare, Jan; Pan, Sining; Makinwa, Kofi;
    IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters,
    Volume 5, pp. 272-275, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/LSSC.2022.3222578

  397. A 2.5-µW Beyond-the-Rails Current Sensor With a Tunable Voltage Reference and ±0.6% Gain Error From −40 °C to +85 °C
    Zamparette, Roger; Makinwa, Kofi;
    IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters,
    Volume 5, pp. 264-267, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/LSSC.2022.3219214

  398. A 16 MHz CMOS RC Frequency Reference With ±90 ppm Inaccuracy From −45 °C to 85 °C
    Gürleyük, Çağrı; Pan, Sining; Makinwa, Kofi A. A.;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 57, Issue 8, pp. 2429-2437, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2022.3142662

  399. A 0.9-V 28-MHz Highly Digital CMOS Dual-RC Frequency Reference With ±200 ppm Inaccuracy From −40 °C to 85 °C
    Choi, Woojun; Angevare, Jan; Park, Injun; Makinwa, Kofi A. A.; Chae, Youngcheol;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 57, Issue 8, pp. 2418-2428, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2021.3135939

  400. An Auto-Zero-Stabilized Voltage Buffer With a Quiet Chopping Scheme and Constant Sub-pA Input Current
    Rooijers, Thije; Huijsing, Johan H.; Makinwa, Kofi A. A.;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 57, Issue 8, pp. 2438-2448, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2021.3127462

  401. A −121.5-dB THD Class-D Audio Amplifier With 49-dB LC Filter Nonlinearity Suppression
    Zhang, Huajun; Berkhout, Marco; Makinwa, Kofi A. A.; Fan, Qinwen;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 57, Issue 4, pp. 1153-1161, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2021.3125526

  402. Measuring nanoparticles in liquid with attogram resolution using a microfabricated glass suspended microchannel resonator
    Mehdi Mollaie Daryani; Tomás Manzaneque; Jia Wei; Murali Krishna Ghatkesar;
    Microsystems and Nanoengineering,
    Volume 8, 12 2022. DOI: 10.1038/s41378-022-00425-8
    Abstract: ... The use of nanoparticles has been growing in various industrial fields, and concerns about their effects on health and the environment have been increasing. Hence, characterization techniques for nanoparticles are essential. Here, we present a silicon dioxide microfabricated suspended microchannel resonator (SMR) to measure the mass and concentration of nanoparticles in a liquid as they flow. We measured the mass detection limits of the device using laser Doppler vibrometry. This limit reached a minimum of 377 ag that correspond to a 34 nm diameter gold nanoparticle or a 243 nm diameter polystyrene particle, when sampled every 30 ms. We compared the fundamental limits of the measured data with an ideal noiseless measurement of the SMR. Finally, we measured the buoyant mass of gold nanoparticles in real-time as they flowed through the SMR. [Figure not available: see fulltext.].

  403. Interfacial charge transfer and Schottky barriers at c-Si/a-In heterojunctions
    P. X. Fang; S. Nihtianov; P. Sberna; G.A. de Wijs; C. Fang;
    Journal of Physics Communications,
    Volume 6, Issue 8, pp. 085010 1-12, Aug. 2022. DOI: 10.1088/2399-6528/ac8854

  404. DESHIMA 2.0: Development of an Integrated Superconducting Spectrometer for Science Grade Astronomical Observations
    A Taniguchi; T Bakx; J Baselmans; R Huiting; K Karatsu; N Llombart; M Rybak; T Takekoshi; Y Tamura; H Akamatsu; S Brackenhoff; J Bueno; B Buijtendorp; S Dabironezare; AK Doing; Y Fujii; K Fujita; M Gouwerok; S Hähnle; T Ishida; S Ishii; R Kawabe; T Kitayama; K Kohno; A Kouchi; J Maekawa; K Matsuda; V Murugesan; S Nakatsubo; T Oshima; A Pascual Laguna; D Thoen; P vd Werf; S Yates; A Endo;
    Journal of Low Temperature Physics,
    Volume 209, pp. 278-286, Nov. 2022. DOI: 10.1007/s10909-022-02888-5

  405. An open-source automated magnetic optical density meter for analysis of suspensions of magnetic cells and particles
    Welleweerd, Marcel K.; Hageman, Tijmen; Pichel, Marc; Van As, Dave; Keizer, Hans; Hendrix, Jordi; Micheal, Mina M.; Khalil, Islam S. M.; Mir, Alveena; Korkmaz, Nuriye; Kr{\"a}winkel, Robbert; Chevrier, Daniel M.; Faivre, Damien; Fernandez-Castane, Alfred; Pfeiffer, Daniel; Abelmann, Leon;
    Review of Scientific Instruments,
    Volume 93, Issue 9, 2022. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1063/5.0098008
    Keywords: ... Magnetic Fields; Magnetics; Magnets; Spectrophotometry; Suspensions; 3D printers; Bacteria; Cost effectiveness; Density measurement (optical); Magnetism; Meteorological instruments; Open source software; Spectrophotometers; Suspensions (fluids); 3d prints; Board layout; Circuit boards; Density meter; Design circuits; Electronic design; Magnetic cells; Magnetic particle; Magnetotactic Bacteria; Open-source; magnet; magnetic field; magnetism; procedures; spectrophotometry; suspension; Density (optical).

    Abstract: ... We present a spectrophotometer (optical density meter) combined with electromagnets dedicated to the analysis of suspensions of magnetotactic bacteria. The instrument can also be applied to suspensions of other magnetic cells and magnetic particles. We have ensured that our system, called MagOD, can be easily reproduced by providing the source of the 3D prints for the housing, electronic designs, circuit board layouts, and microcontroller software. We compare the performance of our system to existing adapted commercial spectrophotometers. In addition, we demonstrate its use by analyzing the absorbance of magnetotactic bacteria as a function of their orientation with respect to the light path and their speed of reorientation after the field has been rotated by 90°. We continuously monitored the development of a culture of magnetotactic bacteria over a period of 5 days and measured the development of their velocity distribution over a period of one hour. Even though this dedicated spectrophotometer is relatively simple to construct and cost-effective, a range of magnetic field-dependent parameters can be extracted from suspensions of magnetotactic bacteria. Therefore, this instrument will help the magnetotactic research community to understand and apply this intriguing micro-organism. © 2022 Author(s).

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  406. Ferrofluids to improve field homogeneity in permanent magnet assemblies
    Klein, Yannick P.; Abelmann, Leon; Gardeniers, Han;
    Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials,
    Volume 555, 2022. All Open Access, Green Open Access, Hybrid Gold Open Access. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmmm.2022.169371
    Keywords: ... Magnetic fields; Magnetic fluids; Magnetic resonance; Saturation magnetization; Field homogeneity; Halbach; Halbach magnets; Homogeneous magnetic field; Inhomogeneities; Magnetic field profile; Magnetic-field; Microliters; Micromagnets; Permanent magnet assemblies; Permanent magnets.

    Abstract: ... A novel principle of passive magnetic field shimming for permanent magnet assemblies is introduced, based on defined amounts of a ferrofluid suspension contained in a microliter volume plastic container that is accurately positioned within the magnet bore. The ferrofluid volume acts as a micromagnet that compensates inhomogeneities in the magnetic field profile. A proof of principle is shown for a permanent magnet assembly, derived from a Halbach design, with two additional movable rings of magnets. These rings result in an average magnetic field strength of 1.06 T inside the bore, 19 % higher than the Halbach alone. Two options for field shimming with ferrofluids are shown: changing the material volume or choosing a ferrofluid with different saturation magnetization value. With the tested simple single-cube ferrofluid implementation the field homogeneity is improved from 86 ppm to 8 ppm over a sampling length of 5.5 mm. Better homogeneity is expected with more sophisticated ferrofluid arrangements. The complete assembly has a size of 5 × 5 × 4.2 cm3 and a weight of 332 g. The demonstrated concept is particularly attractive for mobile magnetic resonance systems, as it does not require electrical power during operation. © 2022 The Authors

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  407. IRONSperm swimming by rigid-body rotation versus transverse bending waves influenced by cell membrane charge
    Magdanz, Veronika; Klingner, Anke; Abelmann, Leon; Khalil, Islam S. M.;
    Journal of Micro-Bio Robotics,
    Volume 18, Issue 1-2, pp. 49 – 60, 2022. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1007/s12213-023-00158-5
    Keywords: ... Cytology; Electrostatics; Iron; Nanomagnetics; Reynolds number; Rigid structures; Self assembly; Stiffness; Bending stiffness; Bending wave; Bio-hybrids; Electrostatic self-assembly; Magnetic; Membrane potentials; Micro robots; Sperm cells; Swimming speed; Transverse bending; Cells.

    Abstract: ... Cell membrane potential affects the electrostatic self-assembly of magnetizable nanoparticles around the flagellum of sperm cells, leading to the formation of biohybrid microrobots (i.e., IRONSperm) with various bending stiffness. Here we explain the influence of bull sperm cell membrane potential on the formation of two types of IRONSperm samples that are produced by electrostatic self-assembly. The first type is a proximal-coated soft body with nanoparticles concentrated on the head to maintain high flexibility of the flagellum and create a passively propagating transverse bending wave under the influence of an external rotating magnetic field. The second type is a rigid-body with nanoparticles approximately uniformly distributed along the length to provide arbitrary geometry that maintains a constant chiral shape and propel by rotation about its long axis. We present a magneto-elastohydrodynamic model to predict the swimming speed at low Reynolds number for rigid IRONSperm with arbitrary shapes, and show that decreasing the bending stiffness allows the model to capture the behavior of its soft counterpart. While the response of a rigid chiral IRONSperm is distinguished by a greater swimming speed with a smooth decay with frequency, the benefit of a soft flagellum in certain scenarios would present a much smaller range of frequencies for wireless actuation. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.

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  408. Drug-Loaded IRONSperm clusters: Modeling, wireless actuation, and ultrasound imaging
    Middelhoek, Kaz I. N. A.; Magdanz, Veronika; Abelmann, Leon; Khalil, Islam S. M.;
    Biomedical Materials (Bristol),
    Volume 17, Issue 6, 2022. All Open Access, Green Open Access, Hybrid Gold Open Access. DOI: 10.1088/1748-605X/ac8b4b
    Keywords: ... Cells; Controlled drug delivery; Cytology; Magnetohydrodynamics; Remote control; Targeted drug delivery; Ultrasonic imaging; doxorubicin; ferromagnetic material; iron nanoparticle; iron oxide nanoparticle; self assembled nanomaterial; Bio-hybrids; Cell delivery; Clusters model; In-vivo; Magnetic actuation; Micro robots; Microrobot aggregation; Rotating magnetic fields; Sperm; Ultrasound imaging; animal cell; Article; cell viability; controlled study; cytotoxicity; drug delivery system; echography; female; human; human cell; in vivo study; magnetic field; magnetism; magneto hydrodynamic model; male; nanopharmaceutics; nonhuman; particle size; sperm; spermatozoon; static electricity; statistical model; ultrasound; viscosity; Aspect ratio.

    Abstract: ... Individual biohybrid microrobots have the potential to perform biomedical in vivo tasks such as remote-controlled drug and cell delivery and minimally invasive surgery. This work demonstrates the formation of biohybrid sperm-templated clusters under the influence of an external magnetic field and essential functionalities for wireless actuation and drug delivery. Ferromagnetic nanoparticles are electrostatically assembled around dead sperm cells, and the resulting nanoparticle-coated cells are magnetically assembled into three-dimensional biohybrid clusters. The aim of this clustering is threefold: First, to enable rolling locomotion on a nearby solid boundary using a rotating magnetic field; second, to allow for noninvasive localization; third, to load the cells inside the cluster with drugs for targeted therapy. A magneto-hydrodynamic model captures the rotational response of the clusters in a viscous fluid, and predicts an upper bound for their step-out frequency, which is independent of their volume or aspect ratio. Below the step-out frequency, the rolling velocity of the clusters increases nonlinearly with their perimeter and actuation frequency. During rolling locomotion, the clusters are localized using ultrasound images at a relatively large distance, which makes these biohybrid clusters promising for deep-tissue applications. Finally, we show that the estimated drug load scales with the number of cells in the cluster and can be retained for more than 10 h. The aggregation of microrobots enables them to collectively roll in a predictable way in response to an external rotating magnetic field, and enhances ultrasound detectability and drug loading capacity compared to the individual microrobots. The favorable features of biohybrid microrobot clusters place emphasis on the importance of the investigation and development of collective microrobots and their potential for in vivo applications. © 2022 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd.

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  409. Inductive XY calibration method for multi-material fused filament fabrication 3D printers
    Schouten, Martijn; Abelmann, Leon; Krijnen, Gijs;
    Additive Manufacturing,
    Volume 56, 2022. All Open Access, Green Open Access, Hybrid Gold Open Access. DOI: 10.1016/j.addma.2022.102890
    Keywords: ... Calibration; Extrusion; Fabrication; Image processing; Inductive sensors; Optical data processing; Printing presses; 3-D printing; 3D-printing; Calibration method; Calibration procedure; Detection coils; Fused filament fabrication; Inductive method; Metallics; Multi materials; Optical-; 3D printers.

    Abstract: ... In this work an optical and inductive calibration procedures for calibrating multi-material fused filament fabrication 3D printers in the x and y directions is presented. The inductive calibration is based on the principle that the inductance of a detection coil placed on the print bed changes when the (metallic) extrusion nozzle passes it. This calibration method shows a repeatability of up to 2µm. To determine the accuracy of this calibration method, another calibration method is proposed that directly measures the position of the deposited material. During this alternative process, a calibration structure is printed on an A4-format sheet of paper using every tool. The paper is subsequently scanned using a digital scanner, and the resulting image is analyzed using an image-processing script. Using this method as a reference, it was determined that the inductive method has an accuracy of approximately 45µm. For applications where this accuracy is sufficient, the inductive method provides a fast solution that requires little to no user interaction. For more demanding applications, the optical calibration might be the better choice, since it is more time-consuming but yields a more accurate solution. It is expected that the accurate calibration of tool offsets will reduce both the chance of poor adhesion between materials and the mixing of filaments due to local over- and under-extrusion at material interfaces. © 2022 The Author(s)

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  410. Estimation of the Effective Magnetic Properties of Two-Phase Steels
    Soyarslan, Celal; Havinga, Jos; Abelmann, Leon; van den Boogaard, Ton;
    Key Engineering Materials,
    Volume 926 KEM, pp. 2040 – 2049, 2022. All Open Access, Green Open Access, Hybrid Gold Open Access. DOI: 10.4028/p-3no5jw
    Abstract: ... We investigate the predictive performance of specific analytical and numerical methods to determine the effective magnetic properties of two-phase steels at the macroscale. We utilize various mixture rules reported in the literature for the former, some of which correspond to rigorous bounds, e.g., Voigt (arithmetic) and Reuss (harmonic) averages. For the latter, we employ asymptotic homogenization together with the finite element method (FEM) and periodic boundary conditions (PBC). The voxel-based discretization of the representative volume element is conducted with digital image processing on the existing micrographs of DP600-grade steel. We show that unlike the considered isotropic mixture rules, which use only the phase volume fraction as the statistical microstructural descriptor, finite element method-based first-order asymptotic homogenization allows prediction of both phase content and directional dependence in the magnetic permeability by permitting an accurate consideration of the underlying phase geometry. © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Trans Tech Publications Ltd, Switzerland.

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  411. Communication efficient privacy-preserving distributed optimization using adaptive differential quantization
    Qiongxiu Li; Richard Heusdens; Mads Græsbøll Christensen;
    Signal Processing,
    Volume 194, pp. 108456, 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sigpro.2022.108456
    Keywords: ... Distributed optimization, Quantization, Communication cost, Privacy, Information-theoretic, ADMM, PDMM.

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  412. First Demonstration of Dynamic High-Gain Beam Steering With a Scanning Lens Phased Array
    Bosma, Sjoerd; Van Rooijen, Nick; Alonso-Delpino, Maria; Spirito, Marco; Llombart, Nuria;
    IEEE Journal of Microwaves,
    Volume 2, Issue 3, pp. 419-428, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/JMW.2022.3179953
    Keywords: ... Lenses;Phased arrays;Arrayed waveguide gratings;Gratings;Antenna radiation patterns;Phase measurement;Beam steering;Beam steering;lens antennas;millimeter waves;phase shifting;phased arrays.

  413. Localization Based on Enhanced Low Frequency Interaural Level Difference
    Metin Calis; Steven van de Par; Richard Heusdens; Richard C. Hendriks;
    IEEE/ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process.,
    Volume 29, pp. 3025–3039, 2021. DOI: 10.1109/TASLP.2021.3111583
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  414. Simulation framework for activity recognition and benchmarking in different radar geometries
    Boyu Zhou; Yier Lin; Julien Le Kernec; Shufan Yang; Francesco Fioranelli; Olivier Romain; Zhiqin Zhao;
    IET Radar, Sonar and Navigation,
    Volume n/a, Issue n/a, 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1049/rsn2.12049
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  415. Analyzing the Effect of Electrode Size on Electrogram and Activation Map Properties
    Bahareh Abdi; Mathijs S. van Schie; N. M. S. de Groot; Richard C. Hendriks;
    Computers in Biology and Medicine,
    Volume 134, July 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2021.104467
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  416. Highly-conformal sputtered through-silicon vias with sharp superconducting transition
    J. A. Alfaro-Barrantes, M. Mastrangeli, D. J. Thoen, S. Visser, J. Bueno, J. J. A. Baselmans, P. M. Sarro;
    Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems,
    Volume 30, Issue 2, pp. 253 - 261, April 2021. DOI: 10.1109/JMEMS.2021.3049822
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  417. A Self-Calibrated Hybrid Thermal-Diffusivity/Resistor-Based Temperature Sensor
    S. Pan; and J. A Angevare; K. A. A. Makinwa;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    July 2021. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2021.3094166
    Abstract: ... This article describes a hybrid temperature sensor in which an accurate, but energy-inefficient, thermal diffusivity (TD) sensor is used to calibrate an inaccurate, but efficient, resistor-based sensor. The latter is based on silicided polysilicon resistors embedded in a Wien-bridge (WB) filter, while the former is based on an electrothermal filter (ETF) made from a p-diffusion/metal thermopile and an n-diffusion heater. The use of an on-chip sensor for calibration obviates the need for an external temperature reference and a temperature-stabilized environment, thus reducing the cost. To mitigate the area overhead of the TD sensor, it reuses the WB filter's readout circuitry. Realized in a 180-nm CMOS technology, the hybrid sensor occupies 0.2 mm². After calibration at room temperature (~25 °C) and at an elevated temperature (~85 °C), it achieves an inaccuracy of 0.25 °C (3σ) from -55 °C to 125 °C. The WB sensor dissipates 66 μ W from a 1.8-V supply and achieves a resolution of 450 μ K_rms in a 10-ms conversion time, which corresponds to a resolution figure-of-merit (FoM) of 0.13 pJ·K². The sensor also achieves a sub-10-mHz 1/f noise corner, which is comparable to that of bipolar junction transistor (BJT)-based temperature sensors.

  418. Coherent Fourier Optics Model for the Synthesis of Large Format Lens Based Focal Plane Arrays
    Shahab Oddin Dabironezare; Giorgio Carluccio; Angelo Freni; Andrea Neto; Nuria Llombart;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,,
    Volume 69, Issue 2, pp. 734-746, Feb. 2021. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2020.3016501
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  419. Design of an Ultrasound Transceiver ASIC with a Switching-Artifact Reduction Technique for 3-D Carotid Artery Imaging
    T. Kim; F. Fool; D. Simoes dos Santos; Z. Y. Chang; E. Noothout; H. J. Vos; J. G. Bosch; M. D. Verweij; N. de Jong; M. A. P. Pertijs;
    Sensors,
    Volume 21, Issue 1, pp. 150, January 2021. DOI: 10.3390/s21010150
    Abstract: ... This paper presents an ultrasound transceiver application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) directly integrated with an array of 12 × 80 piezoelectric transducer elements to enable next-generation ultrasound probes for 3D carotid artery imaging. The ASIC, implemented in a 0.18 µm high-voltage Bipolar-CMOS-DMOS (HV BCD) process, adopted a programmable switch matrix that allowed selected transducer elements in each row to be connected to a transmit and receive channel of an imaging system. This made the probe operate like an electronically translatable linear array, allowing large-aperture matrix arrays to be interfaced with a manageable number of system channels. This paper presents a second-generation ASIC that employed an improved switch design to minimize clock feedthrough and charge-injection effects of high-voltage metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistors (HV MOSFETs), which in the first-generation ASIC caused parasitic transmissions and associated imaging artifacts. The proposed switch controller, implemented with cascaded non-overlapping clock generators, generated control signals with improved timing to mitigate the effects of these non-idealities. Both simulation results and electrical measurements showed a 20 dB reduction of the switching artifacts. In addition, an acoustic pulse-echo measurement successfully demonstrated a 20 dB reduction of imaging artifacts.

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  420. On the Excitation of Anomalous EM Transients Along the Surface of a Thin Highly Contrasting Sheet With Dielectric and Conductive Properties
    M. Štumpf; I. E. Lager;
    IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters,
    Volume 20, Issue 1, pp. 58-62, Jan. 2021. DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2020.3039510

  421. Wideband Circularly Polarized Antenna With In-Lens Polarizer for High-Speed Communications
    Arias Campo, M.; G. Carluccio; D. Blanco; O. Litschke; S. Bruni; N. Llombart;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 69, Issue 1, pp. 43-54, Jan. 2021 2021. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2020.3008638

  422. H-band Quartz-Silicon Leaky-Wave Lens with Air-Bridge Interconnect to GaAs Front-End
    Arias Campo, M; K. Holc; R. Weber; C. De Martino; M. Spirito; A. Leuther; S. Bruni; N. Llombart;
    IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology,
    2021. Early Access. DOI: 10.1109/TTHZ.2021.3049640

  423. A Fourier Optics Tool to Derive the Plane Wave Spectrum of Quasi-Optical Systems [EM Programmer's Notebook]
    Huasheng Zhang; Shahab O. Dabironezare; Giorgio Carluccio; Andrea Neto; Nuria Llombart;
    IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine,
    Volume 63, Issue 1, pp. 103-116, Feb. 2021. DOI: 10.1109/MAP.2020.3027233

  424. An RF Energy Harvesting and Power Management Unit Operating over -24 to +15 dBm Input Range
    Gustavo C. Martins; Wouter A. Serdijn;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers,
    Volume 68, Issue 3, pp. 1342-1353, March 2021. DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2020.3041175
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  425. Augmenting interictal mapping with neurovascular coupling biomarkers by structured factorization of epileptic EEG and fMRI data
    Van Eyndhoven, Simon; Dupont, Patrick; Tousseyn, Simon; Vervliet, Nico; Van Paesschen, Wim; Van Huffel, Sabine; Hunyadi, Borbala;
    NeuroImage,
    Volume 228, pp. 117652, 2021. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117652

  426. Pulsed Electromagnetic Field Signal Transfer Across a Thin Magneto-Dielectric Sheet
    M. Štumpf; G. Antonini; I. E. Lager; G. A. E. Vandenbosch;
    IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility,
    Volume 63, Issue 4, Aug. 2021. DOI: 10.1109/TEMC.2021.3056484

  427. A USRP-Based Testbed for Wideband Ranging and Positioning Signal Acquisition
    Cherif Diouf; Gerard Janssen; Han Dun; Tarik Kazaz; Christian Tiberius;
    IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement,
    Volume 70, pp. 1--15, 2021.
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  428. Silicone encapsulation of thin-film SiOx, SiOxNy and SiC for modern electronic medical implants: a comparative long-term ageing study
    C. Lamont; T. Grego; K. Nanbakhsh; A. Shah Idil; V. Giagka; A. Vanhoestenberghe; S. Cogan; N. Donaldson;
    Journal of Neural Engineering,
    March 2021.
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  429. An 800 nW Switched-Capacitor Feature Extraction Filterbank for Sound Classification
    D.A. Villamizar; D.G. Muratore; J.B. Wieser; B. Murmann;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I Regular Papers, pp. 1–11, 2021,
    Volume 68, pp. 578 - 1588, January 2021. DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2020.3047035
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  430. Radar-based sleep stage classification in children undergoing polysomnography: a pilot-study
    R. de Goederen; S. Pu; M. Silos Viu; D. Doan; S. Overeem; W.A. Serdijn; K.F.M. Joosten; X. Long; J. Dudink;
    Sleep Medicine,
    2021. ISSN: 1389-9457. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleep.2021.03.022
    Keywords: ... Sleep stages, sleep, radar, respiration, breathing rate, obstructive sleep apnea, central sleep apnea, age.

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  431. Sub-Orbital Flight Demonstration of a 183/540–600 GHz Hybrid CMOS-InP and CMOS-Schottky-MEMS Limb-Sounder
    A. Tang; M. M. Alonso-delPino; Y. Kim; Y. Zhang; T. Reck; C. Jung-Kubiak; D. Nemchick; L. Dyer; G. Virbila; G. Chattopadhyay; M.-C.F. Chang;
    IEEE Journal of Microwaves,
    Volume 1, Issue 2, pp. 560-573, 2021. DOI: 10.1109/JMW.2021.3060622
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  432. Causal excitation in antenna simulations
    I.E. Lager;
    Radioengineering,
    Volume 30, Issue 1, pp. 1-9, Apr. 2021. DOI: 10.13164/re.2021.0001

  433. A Novel SAR Sidelobe Suppression Method Based on CNN
    Yuan, Sen; Yu, Ze; Li, Chunsheng; Wang, Shusen;
    IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters,
    Volume 18, Issue 1, pp. 132-136, 2021. DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2020.2968336

  434. Measurements and discrimination of drones and birds with a multi-frequency multistatic radar system
    Riccardo Palama; Francesco Fioranelli; Matthew Ritchie; Michael Inggs; Simon Lewis; Hugh Griffiths;
    IET Radar, Sonar and Navigation,
    Volume 15, Issue 8, pp. 841-852, 2021. DOI: 10.1049/rsn2.12060

  435. Application of a sub–0.1-mm3 implantable mote for in vivo real-time wireless temperature sensing
    Chen Shi; Victoria Andino-Pavlovsky; Stephen A. Lee; Tiago Costa; Jeffrey Elloian; Elisa E. Konofagou; Kenneth L. Shepard;
    Science Advances,
    Volume 7, Issue 19, pp. eabf6312, 2021. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abf6312
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  436. A Readout IC for Capacitive Touch Screen Panels with 33.9 dB Charge-Overflow Reduction Using Amplitude-Modulated Multi-Frequency Excitation
    J.-S. An; J.-H. Ra; E. Kang; M. Pertijs; S.-H. Han;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 56, Issue 11, pp. 3486-3498, November 2021. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2021.3100470
    Abstract: ... This paper presents a readout integrated circuit (ROIC) for capacitive touch-screen panels employing an amplitude-modulated multiple-frequency excitation (AM-MFE) technique. To prevent charge overflow, which occurs periodically at the beat frequency of the excitation frequencies, the ROIC modulates the amplitude of the excitation voltages at a mixing frequency derived from the excitation frequencies. Thus, the ROIC can sense the charge signal without charge overflow and maximize the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) by increasing the amplitude of the excitation voltages up to the sensing range of the readout circuit. The proposed ROIC was fabricated in a 0.13-µm standard CMOS process and was measured with a 32-inch 104×64 touch-screen panel using 1 mm and 10 mm metal pillars. It reduces charge overflow up to 33.9 dB compared to operation without AM-MFE. In addition, the ROIC achieves a frame rate of 2.93 kHz, and SNRs of 41.7 dB and 61.6 dB with 1 mm and 10 mm metal pillars, respectively.

  437. Enabling Robust Radar-based Localization and Vital Signs Monitoring in Multipath Propagation Environments
    M. Mercuri; Yiting Lu; S. Polito; F. Wieringa; Yao-Hong Liu; A.J. van der Veen; C. van Hoof; Tom Torfs;
    IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering,
    Volume 68, Issue 11, pp. 3228-3240, 2021. DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2021.3066876
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  438. A New Approach for Monitoring Sweat Ammonia Levels Using a Ventilated Capsule
    Annemarijn Steijlen; Jeroen Bastemaijer; Robbert Nederhoff; Kasper Jansen; Paddy French; Andre Bossche;
    engineering proceedings,
    Volume 38, pp. 6, 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/ecsa-8-11332
    Keywords: ... sweat sensor; NH3; metal oxide gas sensor; ventilated capsule.

    Abstract: ... Ammonium levels in sweat can potentially be used to measure muscle fatigue and to diagnose particular metabolic myopathies. To research the potential use of ammonia in sweat as a biomarker, a new real-time monitoring system is developed. This system consists of a capsule that is placed at the skin and ventilated with dry air. A metal oxide gas sensor in the capsule detects the ammonia that is evaporated from sweat. The sensor system was built, and calibration experiments were performed. The sensors show good sensitivity from 27 mV/ppm to 1.1 mV/ppm in the desired measurement range of 1 to 30 ppm respectively. A temperature and humidity sensor are integrated to compensate for temperature and humidity effects on the NH3 sensor.

  439. Wideband modeling of CMOS Schottky barrier diode detectors for THz radiometry
    S. van Berkel; S. Malotaux; C. de Martino; M. Spirito; D. Cavallo; A. Neto; N. Llombart;
    IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology,
    Volume 11, Issue 5, pp. 495-507, Sep. 2021. DOI: 10.1109/TTHZ.2021.3085137

  440. A Transceiver ASIC for a Single-Cable 64-Element Intra-Vascular Ultrasound Probe
    D. van Willigen; J. Janjic; E. Kang; Z. Y. Chang; E. Noothout; M. Verweij; N. de Jong; M. Pertijs;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 56, Issue 10, pp. 3157-3166, October 2021. DOI: 10.1109/jssc.2021.3083217
    Abstract: ... This article presents an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) designed for intra-vascular ultrasound imaging that interfaces 64 piezoelectric transducer elements to an imaging system using a single micro-coaxial cable. Thus, it allows a single-element transducer to be replaced by a transducer array to enable 3-D imaging. The 1.5-mm-diameter ASIC is intended to be mounted at the tip of a catheter, directly integrated with a 2-D array of piezoelectric transducer elements. For each of these elements, the ASIC contains a high-voltage (HV) switch, allowing the elements to transmit an acoustic wave in response to an HV pulse generated by the imaging system. A low-noise amplifier then amplifies the resulting echo signals and relays them as a signal current to the imaging system, while the same cable provides a 3-V supply. Element selection and other settings can be programmed by modulating configuration data on the supply, thus enabling full synthetic aperture imaging. An integrated element test mode measures the element capacitance to detect bad connections to the transducer elements. The ASIC has been fabricated in a 0.18-μm HV CMOS technology and consumes only 6 mW in receive. Electrical measurements show correct switching of 30-V transmit pulses and a receive amplification with a 71-dB dynamic range, including 12 dB of programmable gain over a 3-dB bandwidth of 21 MHz. The functionality of the ASIC has been successfully demonstrated in a 3-D imaging experiment.

  441. Exploiting nonlinear wave propagation to improve the precision of ultrasonic flow meters
    J. Massaad; P. L. M. J. van Neer; D. M. van Willigen; N. de Jong; M. A. P. Pertijs; M. D. Verweij;
    Ultrasonics,
    Volume 116, pp. 106476, September 2021. DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2021.106476

  442. Can Radar Remote Life Sensing Technology Help Combat COVID-19?
    Islam, Shekh M. M.; Fioranelli, Francesco; Lubecke, Victor M.;
    Frontiers in Communications and Networks,
    Volume 2, pp. 3, 2021. DOI: 10.3389/frcmn.2021.648181
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  443. Practical Investigation of a MIMO radar system capabilities for small drones detection
    Yang, Fawei; Xu, Feng; Fioranelli, Francesco; Le Kernec, Julien; Chang, Shaoqiang; Long, Teng;
    IET Radar, Sonar \& Navigation,
    2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1049/rsn2.12082
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  444. A Dual-Polarized 27-dBi Scanning Lens Phased Array Antenna for 5G Point-to-Point Communications
    Huasheng Zhang; Sjoerd Bosma; Andrea Neto; Nuria Llombart;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 69, Issue 9, pp. 5640-5652, Apr. 2021. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2021.3069494

  445. A Low-Loss Silicon MEMS Phase Shifter Operating in the 550 GHz Band
    Rahiminejad, Sofia; Alonso-delPino, Maria; Reck, Theodore James; Peralta, Alex; Lin, Robert; Jung-Kubiak, Cecile; Chattopadhyay, Goutam;
    IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology,
    2021. DOI: 10.1109/TTHZ.2021.3085123

  446. 180 GHz Pulsed CMOS Transmitter for Molecular Sensing
    Nemchick, Deacon; Hakopian, Hayk; Drouin, Brian; Tang, Adrian; Alonso-delPino, Maria; Chattopadhyay, Goutam; Chang, Frank;
    IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology,
    2021. DOI: 10.1109/TTHZ.2021.3085138

  447. A 200-μW Interface for High-Resolution Eddy-Current Displacement Sensors
    M. Pimenta; Ç. Gürleyük; P. Walsh; D. O’Keeffe; M. Babaie; K. A. A. Makinwa;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 56, pp. 1036-1045, January 2021. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2020.3044027
    Abstract: ... This article presents a low-power eddy-current sensor interface for touch applications. It is based on a bang-bang digital phase-locked loop (DPLL) that converts the displacement of a metal target into digital information. The PLL consists of a digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) built around a sensing coil and a capacitive DAC, a comparator-based bang-bang phase/frequency detector (PFD), and a digital loop filter (DLF). The PLL locks the DCO to a reference frequency, making its digital input a direct representation of the sensing coil inductance. To compensate for the coil inductance tolerances, the DCO’s center frequency can be trimmed by a second capacitive DAC. This approach obviates the need for a reference coil. When combined with a 5-mm-diameter sensing coil located 500 μm from a metal target, the interface achieves a displacement resolution of 6.7 nm (rms) in a 3-kHz bandwidth. It consumes 200 μW from a 1.8-V power supply, which represents the best-reported tradeoff between power consumption, bandwidth, and resolution.

  448. A 440-μW, 109.8-dB DR, 106.5-dB SNDR Discrete-Time Zoom ADC With a 20-kHz BW
    E. Eland; S. Karmakar; B. Gönen; R. van Veldhoven; K. A. A. Makinwa;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 56, pp. 1207-1215, January 2021. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2020.3044896
    Abstract: ... This article describes a discrete-time zoom analog-to-digital converter (ADC) intended for audio applications. It uses a coarse 5-bit SAR ADC in tandem with a fine third-order delta–sigma modulator ( ΔΣM ) to efficiently obtain a high dynamic range. To minimize its over-sampling ratio (OSR) and, thus, its digital power consumption, the modulator employs a 2-bit quantizer and a loop filter notch. In addition, an extra feed-forward path minimizes the leakage of the SAR ADC’s quantization noise into the audio band. The prototype ADC occupies 0.27 mm 2 in a 0.16- μm technology. It achieves 109.8-dB DR, 106.5-dB SNDR, and 107.5-dB SNR in a 20-kHz bandwidth while dissipating 440 μW . It also achieves state-of-the-art energy efficiency, as demonstrated by a Schreier FoM of 186.4 dB and an SNDR FoM of 183.6 dB.

  449. Concentric Ring Array Synthesis for Low Side Lobes: An Overview and a Tool for Optimizing Ring Radii and Angle of Rotation
    Aslan, Yanki; Roederer, Antoine; Yarovoy, Alexander;
    IEEE Access,
    pp. 1-1, 2021. DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3109171

  450. An Integrated 2D Ultrasound Phased Array Transmitter in CMOS with Pixel Pitch-Matched Beamforming
    Tiago Costa; Chen Shi; Kevin Tien; Jeffrey Elloian; Filipe A. Cardoso; Kenneth Shepard;
    IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems,
    pp. 1, July 2021. DOI: 10.1109/TBCAS.2021.3096722
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  451. Wideband Multimode Leaky-Wave Feed for Scanning Lens-Phased Array at Submillimeter Wavelengths
    Alonso-delPino, Maria; Bosma, Sjoerd; Jung-Kubiak, Cecile; Chattopadhyay, Goutam; Llombart, Nuria;
    IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology,
    Volume 11, Issue 2, pp. 205-217, March 2021. DOI: 10.1109/TTHZ.2020.3038033

  452. Delay Estimation for Ranging and Localization Using Multiband Channel State Information
    T. Kazaz; G.J.M. Janssen; J. Romme; A.J. van der Veen;
    IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications,
    pp. 1-1, 2021. DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2021.3113771
    document

  453. A Wideband Four-Way Doherty Bits-In RF-Out CMOS Transmitter
    Beikmirza, Mohammadreza; Shen, Yiyu; de Vreede, Leo C. N.; Alavi, Morteza S.;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 56, Issue 12, pp. 3768-3783, 2021. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2021.3105542

  454. A Millimeter-Wave Mutual-Coupling-Resilient Double-Quadrature Transmitter for 5G Applications
    Pashaeifar, Masoud; de Vreede, Leo C. N.; Alavi, Morteza S.;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 56, Issue 12, pp. 3784-3798, 2021. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2021.3111126

  455. Orthogonal Versus Zero-Forced Beamforming in Multibeam Antenna Systems: Review and Challenges for Future Wireless Networks
    Aslan, Yanki; Roederer, Antoine; Fonseca, Nelson J. G.; Angeletti, Piero; Yarovoy, Alexander;
    IEEE Journal of Microwaves,
    Volume 1, Issue 4, pp. 879-901, 2021. DOI: 10.1109/JMW.2021.3109244

  456. Semisupervised Human Activity Recognition With Radar Micro-Doppler Signatures
    Li, Xinyu; He, Yuan; Fioranelli, Francesco; Jing, Xiaojun;
    IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing,
    pp. 1-12, 2021. DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2021.3090106

  457. A Constrained POMDP Formulation and Algorithmic Solution for Radar Resource Management in Multi-Target Tracking
    Schöpe, Max Ian; Driessen, Hans; Yarovoy, Alexander;
    ISIF Journal of Advances in Information Fusion,
    Volume 16, Issue 1, pp. 31-47, June 2021.
    document

  458. Applications and Potentials of Intelligent Swarms for magnetospheric studies
    Raj Thilak Rajan; Shoshana Ben-Maor; Shaziana Kaderali; Calum Turner; Mohammed Milhim; Catrina Melograna; Dawn Haken; Gary Paul; Vedant; V. Sreekumar; Johannes Weppler; Yosephine Gumulya; Riccardo Bunt; Asia Bulgarini; Maurice Marnat; Kadri Bussov; Frederick Pringle; Jusha Ma; Rushanka Amrutkar; Miguel Coto; Jiang He; Zijian Shi; Shahd Hayder; Dina Saad Fayez Jaber; Junchao Zuo; Mohammad Alsukour; Cécile Renaud; Matthew Chris;
    Acta Astronautica,
    2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2021.07.046
    Keywords: ... Satellite swarms, Intelligent swarms, Heliophysics, Magnetosphere, Cubesats, Next generation space systems.

    Abstract: ... Earth’s magnetosphere is vital for today’s technologically dependent society. To date, numerous design studies have been conducted and over a dozen science missions have flown to study the magnetosphere. However, a majority of these solutions relied on large monolithic satellites, which limited the spatial resolution of these investigations, as did the technological limitations of the past. To counter these limitations, we propose the use of a satellite swarm carrying numerous and distributed payloads for magnetospheric measurements. Our mission is named APIS — Applications and Potentials of Intelligent Swarms. The APIS mission aims to characterize fundamental plasma processes in the Earth’s magnetosphere and measure the effect of the solar wind on our magnetosphere. We propose a swarm of 40 CubeSats in two highly-elliptical orbits around the Earth, which perform radio tomography in the magnetotail at 8–12 Earth Radii (RE) downstream, and the subsolar magnetosphere at 8–12 RE upstream. These maps will be made at both low-resolutions (at 0.5 RE, 5 s cadence) and high-resolutions (at 0.025 RE, 2 s cadence). In addition, in-situ measurements of the magnetic and electric fields, plasma density will be performed by on-board instruments. In this article, we present an outline of previous missions and designs for magnetospheric studies, along with the science drivers and motivation for the APIS mission. Furthermore, preliminary design results are included to show the feasibility of such a mission. The science requirements drive the APIS mission design, the mission operation and the system requirements. In addition to the various science payloads, critical subsystems of the satellites are investigated e.g., navigation, communication, processing and power systems. Our preliminary investigation on the mass, power and link budgets indicate that the mission could be realized using Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) technologies and with homogeneous CubeSats, each with a 12U form factor. We summarize our findings, along with the potential next steps to strengthen our design study.

    document

  459. Matrix-Pencil Approach-Based Interference Mitigation for FMCW Radar Systems
    Wang, Jianping; Ding, Min; Yarovoy, Alexander;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 69, Issue 11, pp. 5099-5115, 2021. DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2021.3090798

  460. Optimization of virtually aperiodic linear sparse arrays
    Aslan, Yanki;
    Microwave and Optical Technology Letters,
    pp. 7, 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/mop.33086

  461. Integrated Transceivers for Emerging Medical Ultrasound Imaging Devices: A Review
    C. Chen; M. Pertijs;
    IEEE Open Journal of the Solid-State Circuits Society,
    Volume 1, pp. 104-114, September 2021. DOI: 10.1109/OJSSCS.2021.3115398

  462. A Fractional-N Digitally Intensive PLL Achieving 428-fs Jitter and<-54-dBc Spurs Under 50-mV \$ \_ \pp\ \$ Supply Ripple
    Chen, Yue; Gong, Jiang; Staszewski, Robert Bogdan; Babaie, Masoud;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    2021.

  463. Critical appraisal of technologies to assess electrical activity during atrial fibrillation: a position paper
    N.M.S. de Groot; D. Shah; P.M. Boyle; E. Anter; G.D. Clifford; I. Deisenhofer; T. Deneke; P. van Dessel; O. Doessel; P. Dilaveris; F.R. Heinzel; S. Kapa; P. Lambiase; J. Lumens; P.G. Platonov; T. Ngarmukos; J.P. Martinez; A. Sanchez; Y. Takahashi; B.P. Valdigem; A.J. van der Veen; K. Vernooy; R. Casado-Arroyo;
    EP Europace,
    pp. 1-18, December 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/europace/euab254
    document

  464. Roadmap on signal processing for next generation measurement systems
    Dimitris K Iakovidis; Melanie Ooi; Ye Chow Kuang; Serge Demidenko; Alexandr Shestakov; Vladimir Sinitsin; Manus Henry; Andrea Sciacchitano; Stefano Discetti; Silvano Donati; Michele Norgia; Andreas Menychtas; Ilias Maglogiannis; Selina C Wriessnegger; Luis Alberto Barradas Chacon; George Dimas; Dimitris Filos; Anthony H Aletras; Johannes Töger; Feng Dong; Shangjie Ren; Andreas Uhl; Jacek Paziewski; Jianghui Geng; Francesco Fioranelli;
    Measurement Science and Technology,
    Volume 33, Issue 1, pp. 012002, November 2021. DOI: 10.1088/1361-6501/ac2dbd
    document

  465. A One-Class Classification Method for Human Gait Authentication Using Micro-Doppler Signatures
    Ji, Haoran; Hou, Chunping; Yang, Yang; Fioranelli, Francesco; Lang, Yue;
    IEEE Signal Processing Letters,
    Volume 28, pp. 2182-2186, 2021. DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2021.3122344

  466. CFAR-Based Interference Mitigation for FMCW Automotive Radar Systems
    Wang, Jianping;
    IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems,
    pp. 1-10, 2021. DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2021.3111514

  467. Smart sensor tights: Movement tracking of the lower limbs in football
    Annemarijn Steijlen; Bastiaan Burgers; Erik Wilmes; Jeroen Bastemeijer; Bram Bastiaansen; Patrick French; Andre Bossche; Kaspar Jansen;
    Wearable technologies,
    Volume 2, 2021. DOI: 10.1017/wtc.2021.16
    Keywords: ... inertial measurement units, wearable sensors, football, movement tracking.

    Abstract: ... This article presents a novel smart sensor garment with integrated miniaturized inertial measurements units (IMUs) that can be used to monitor lower body kinematics during daily training activities, without the need of extensive technical assistance throughout the measurements. The smart sensor tights enclose five ultra-light sensor modules that measure linear accelerations, angular velocities, and the earth magnetic field in three directions. The modules are located at the pelvis, thighs, and shanks. The garment enables continuous measurement in the field at high sample rates (250 Hz) and the sensors have a large measurement range (32 g, 4,000°/s). They are read out by a central processing unit through an SPI bus, and connected to a centralized battery in the waistband. A fully functioning prototype was built to perform validation studies in a lab setting and in a field setting. In the lab validation study, the IMU data (converted to limb orientation data) were compared with the kinematic data of an optoelectronic measurement system and good validity (CMCs >0.8) was shown. In the field tests, participants experienced the tights as comfortable to wear and they did not feel restricted in their movements. These results show the potential of using the smart sensor tights on a regular base to derive lower limb kinematics in the field.

  468. Three-Dimensional Graphene-Based Foams with “Greater Electron Transferring Areas” Deriving High Gas Sensitivity
    Zhuo Chen; Jinrong Wang; Nengjie Cao; Yao Wang; Hao Li; Nicolaas Frans de Rooij; Ahmad Umar; Yancong Feng; Paddy French; Guofu Zhou;
    Applied Nano Materials,
    Volume 4, pp. 13234-13245, 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.1c02759
    Keywords: ... graphene foams, supramolecular assembly, lyophilization, charge transfer, gas sensors.

    Abstract: ... Graphene foams are promising three-dimensional (3D) architectures with the combination of the intrinsic nature of graphene and unique cellular structures for various realms. Herein, a facile technique is developed by combining supramolecular assembly with lyophilization to functionalize graphene with donor−π-acceptor (D−π- A) molecules and then massively transform the two-dimensional (2D) plane nanosheets into 3D foams. The as-prepared gas sensors work at room temperature (RT) and reveal comprehensive gas sensing performance with an ultrahigh response (Ra/Rg = 3.2, 10 ppm), excellent selectivity, and reliable repeatability toward NO2. Notably, a gas sensing enhancement mechanism with density functional theory (DFT) calculations is proposed to unravel the synergetic effect of the “Greater Electron Transferring Area” and the specific 3D foam structure for the enhancement of charge transfer and NO2 adsorption. The combination of supramolecular assembly and the lyophilization technique provides a strategy to prepare 3D architectural graphene-based materials for high-performance gas sensors and chemical trace detectors.

  469. Amplitude-modulated, cosine PE and WP pulses: Theory and applicability
    I.E. Lager; M. Štumpf;
    Radioengineering,
    Volume 30, Issue 2, pp. 443-448, Jun. 2021. DOI: re.2021.0443

  470. Terahertz band-pass filters for wideband superconducting on-chip filter-bank spectrometers
    Pascual Laguna, A.; K. Karatsu; D.J. Thoen; V. Murugesan; B. T. Buijtendorp and A. Endo; J.J.A. Baselmans;
    IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology,
    Volume 11, Issue 6, pp. 635-646, Nov. 2021. DOI: 10.1109/TTHZ.2021.3095429

  471. Strong reduction of quasiparticle fluctuations in a superconductor due to decoupling of the quasiparticle number and lifetime
    de Rooij, Steven A. H.; Baselmans, Jochem J. A.; Murugesan, Vignesh; Thoen, David J.; de Visser, Pieter J.;
    Physical Review B,
    Volume 104, Issue 18, pp. L180506, Nov. 2021. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.104.L180506
    document

  472. Phonon-Trapping-Enhanced Energy Resolution in Superconducting Single-Photon Detectors
    de Visser, Pieter J.; de Rooij, Steven A.H.; Murugesan, Vignesh; Thoen, David J.; Baselmans, Jochem J.A.;
    Physical Review Applied,
    Volume 16, Issue 3, pp. 034051, Sep. 2021. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.16.034051
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  473. Superconducting Microstrip Losses at Microwave and Submillimeter Wavelengths
    Hähnle, S.; Kouwenhoven, K.; Buijtendorp, B.; Endo, A.; Karatsu, K.; Thoen, D.J.; Murugesan, V.; Baselmans, J.J.A.;
    Physical Review Applied,
    Volume 16, Issue 1, pp. 014019, Jul. 2021. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.16.014019

  474. Highly-conformal sputtered through-silicon vias with sharp superconducting transition
    Alfaro-Barrantes, J.A.; Mastrangeli, M.; Thoen, D.J.; Visser, S.; Bueno, J.; Baselmans, J.J.A.; Sarro, P.M.;
    IEEE Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems,
    Volume 30, Issue 2, pp. 253-261, Apr. 2021.

  475. The power of ECG in multimodal patient‐specific seizure monitoring: Added value to an EEG‐based detector using limited channels
    Vandecasteele, Kaat; De Cooman, Thomas; Chatzichristos, Christos; Cleeren, Evy; Swinnen, Lauren; Macea Ortiz, Jaiver; Van Huffel, Sabine; Dumpelmann, Matthias; Schulze-Bonhage, Andreas; De Vos, Maarten; Van Patschen, Wim; Hunyadi, Borbala;
    Epilepsia,
    Volume 62, Issue 10, pp. 2333-2343, October 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/epi.16990

  476. Cardiac Tissue Conductivity Estimation Using Confirmatory Factor Analysis
    Miao Sun; Natasja M.S. de Groot; Richard C. Hendriks;
    Computers in Biology and Medicine,
    Volume 135, Aug. 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2021.104604
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  477. Automotive radar interference study for different radar waveform types
    U. Kumbul; F. Uysal; C. S. Vaucher; A. Yarovoy;
    IET Radar, Sonar and Navigation,
    Volume n/a, Issue n/a, pp. 1-14, 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1049/rsn2.12203
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  478. Auto-Calibration of Automotive Radars in Operational Mode Using Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping
    Petrov, Nikita; Krasnov, Oleg; Yarovoy, Alexander G;
    IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology,
    Volume 70, Issue 3, pp. 2062--2075, 2021. DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2021.3058778

  479. Highly-Conformal Sputtered Through-Silicon Vias with Sharp Superconducting Transition
    J. A. Alfaro-Barrantes; M. Mastrangeli; D. J. Thoen; S. Visser; J. Bueno; J. J. A. Baselmans; P. M. Sarro;
    Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems,
    Volume 30, Issue 2, pp. 253-261, 2021. DOI: 10.1109/JMEMS.2021.3049822

  480. Multi-Layer Graphene Pirani Pressure Sensors
    Romijn, Joost; Dolleman, Robin; Singh, Manvika; van der Zant, Herre; Steeneken, Peter; Sarro, Pasqualina; Vollebregt, Sten;
    IOP Nanotechnology,
    Volume 32, Issue 33, pp. 335501, 2021. DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/abff8e

  481. Effect of Temperature and Humidity on the Sensing Performance of TiO2 Nanowire-based Ethanol Vapor Sensors
    Mostafa Shooshtari; Alireza Salehi; Sten Vollebregt;
    IOP Nanotechnology,
    Volume 32, Issue 32, pp. 325501, 2021. DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/abfd54

  482. Surface-micromachined Silicon Carbide Pirani Gauges for Harsh Environments
    Jiarui Mo; Luke Middelburg; Bruno Morana; H.W. Van Zeijl; Sten Vollebregt; GuoQi Zhang;
    IEEE Sensors Letters,
    Volume 21, Issue 2, pp. 1350-1358, 2021. DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2020.3019711

  483. Monolithic Integration of a Smart Temperature Sensor on a Modular Silicon-based Organ-on-a-chip Device
    Ronaldo Martins da Ponte; Nikolas Gaio; Henk van Zeijl; Sten Vollebregt; Paul Dijkstra; Ronald Dekker; Wouter A. Serdijn; Vasiliki Giagka;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical,
    Volume 317, pp. 112439, 2021. DOI: 10.1016/j.sna.2020.112439
    document

  484. Influence of defect density on the gas sensing properties of multi-layered graphene grown by chemical vapor deposition
    Filiberto Ricciardella; Sten Vollebregt; Rita Tilmann; Oliver Hartwig; Cian Bartlam; Pasqualina M. Sarro; Hermann Sachdev; Georg S.Duesberg;
    Carbon Trends,
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  485. A Review of Modification Methods of Solid Electrolytes for All-Solid-State Sodium-Ion Batteries
    Dai, Hanqing; Chen, Yuanyuan; Xu, Wenqian; Hu, Zhe; Gu, Jing; Wei, Xian; Xie, Fengxian; Zhang, Wanlu; Wei, Wei; Guo, Ruiqian; Zhang, Guoqi;
    Energy Technology,
    Volume 9, Issue 1, pp. 2000682, 2021. DOI: 10.1002/ente.202000682
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  486. Insights into the high-sulphur aging of sintered silver nanoparticles: An experimental and ReaxFF study
    Dong Hu; Tijian Gu; Zhen Cui; Sten Vollebregt; Xuejun Fan; Guoqi Zhang; Jiajie Fan;
    Corrosion Science,
    pp. 109846, 2021. DOI: 10.1016/j.corsci.2021.109846

  487. Co-Reduction of Common Mode Noise and Loop Current of Three-Level Active Neutral Point Clamped Inverters
    Wang, Jianing; Liu, Xiaohui; Peng, Qiang; Xun, Yuanwu; Yu, Shaolin; Jiang, Nan; Wang, Wenbo; Hou, Fengze;
    IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics,
    Volume 9, Issue 1, pp. 1088-1103, 2021. DOI: 10.1109/JESTPE.2020.3043018

  488. Optical ventricular cardioversion by local optogenetic targeting and LED implantation in a cardiomyopathic rat model
    Emile C. A. Nyns; Tianyi Jin; Magda S Fontes; Titus van den Heuvel; Vincent Portero; Catilin Ramsey; Cindy I. Bart; Katja Zeppenfeld; Martin J. Schalij; Thomas J. van Brakel; Arti A. Ramkisoensing; GuoQi Zhang; René H. Poelma; Balazs Ördög; Antoine A. F. de Vries; Daniël A. Pijnappels;
    Cardiovascular Research,
    September 2021. DOI: 10.1093/cvr/cvab294

  489. Organs-on-chip: The way forward
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    Stem Cell Reports,
    Volume 16, pp. 2037-2043, July 2021. DOI: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2021.06.015

  490. Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon Carbide: A Low-loss Deposited Dielectric for Microwave to Submillimeter Wave Superconducting Circuits
    B. T. Buijtendorp; S. Vollebregt; K. Karatsu; D. J. Thoen; V. Murugesan; K. Kouwenhoven; S. Hähnle; J. J. A. Baselmans, A. Endo;
    arXiv,
    2021.
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  491. Enhanced Sensitivity Pt/AlGaN/GaN Heterostructure NO₂ Sensor Using a Two-Step Gate Recess Technique
    Jianwen Sun; Teng Zhan; Robert Sokolovskij; Zewen Liu; Pasqualina M. Sarro; Guoqi Zhang;
    IEEE Sensors Journal,
    Volume 21, Issue 15, pp. 16475-16483, 2021. DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2021.3082205

  492. Design of a Fan-Out Panel-Level SiC MOSFET Power Module Using Ant Colony Optimization-Back Propagation Neural Network
    Qian, Yichen; Hou, Fengze; Fan, Jiajie; Lv, Quanya; Fan, Xuejun; Zhang, Guoqi;
    IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices,
    Volume 68, Issue 7, pp. 3460-3467, 2021. DOI: 10.1109/TED.2021.3077209

  493. Ultrasound-Guided Optogenetic Gene Delivery for Shock-Free Ventricular Rhythm Restoration
    Emile C.A. Nyns, Tianyi Jin, Cindy I. Bart, Wilhelmina H. Bax, Guoqi Zhang, René H. Poelma, Antoine A.F. de Vries, Daniël A. Pijnappels;
    Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology,
    December 23 2021. DOI: 10.1161/CIRCEP.121.009886

  494. Room temperature ppt-level NO2 gas sensor based on SnOx/SnS nanostructures with rich oxygen vacancies
    Hongyu Tang; Chenshan Gao; Huiru Yang; Leandro Nicolas Sacco; Robert Sokolovskij; Hongze Zheng; Huaiyu Ye; Sten Vollebregt; Hongyu Yu; Xuejun Fan; Guoqi Zhang;
    2D Materials,
    2021. DOI: 10.1088/2053-1583/ac13c1

  495. A DFT study of As doped WSe2: A NO2 sensing material with ultra-high selectivity in the atmospheric environment
    Zhaokun Wang; Chenshan Gao; Shuhan Hou; Huiru Yang; Ziyuan Shao; Siyuan Xu; Huaiyu Ye;
    Materials Today Communications,
    Volume 28, pp. 102654, 2021. DOI: 10.1016/j.mtcomm.2021.102654
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  496. Cavity-BOX SOI: Advanced Silicon Substrate with Pre-Patterned BOX for Monolithic MEMS Fabrication
    Kluba, Marta Maria; Li, Jian; Parkkinen, Katja; Louwerse, Marcus; Snijder, Jaap; Dekker, Ronald;
    Micromachines 2021, 12(4), 414;,
    Volume 12, Issue 4, 2021. DOI: 10.3390/mi12040414
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  497. Active feedback cooling of a SiN membrane resonator by electrostatic actuation
    A. Borrielli; M. Bonaldi; E. Serra; P. M. Sarro; B. Morana;
    Journal of Applied Physics,
    Volume 130, pp. 014502, 2021.
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  498. System level reliability assessment for high power light-emitting diode lamp based on a Bayesian network method
    Mesfin Seid Ibrahim; Jiajie Fan; Winco K.C. Yung; Zhou Jing; Xuejun Fan; Willem van Driel; Guoqi Zhang;
    Measurement,
    Volume 176, pp. 109191, 2021. DOI: 10.1016/j.measurement.2021.109191
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  499. Low Leakage and High Forward Current Density Quasi-Vertical GaN Schottky Barrier Diode With Post-Mesa Nitridation
    X. Kang; Y. Sun; Y. Zheng; K. Wei; H. Wu; Y. Zhao; Xu Liu; GuoQi Zhang;
    IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices,
    Volume 68, Issue 3, pp. 1369-1373, 2021. DOI: 10.1109/TED.2021.3050739

  500. Prediction of software reliability
    W. van Driel; J.W. Bikker; M. Tijink;
    Microelectronics Reliability,
    Volume 119, pp. 114074, 2021. DOI: 10.1016/j.microrel.2021.114074
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  501. Investigating the Electrochemical Performance of Smart Self-Powered Bionic Skin Fragment Based on Bioelectricity Generation
    Dai, H.; Chen, Y.; Dai, W.; Hu, Z.; Xie, F.; Xu, W.; Cui, Z.; Wei, X.; Chen, Z.; Yang, B.; Zhang, W.; Wei, W.; Guo, R.; Zhang, GuoQi;
    Advanced Materials Technologies,
    Volume 6, Issue 3, 2021. DOI: 10.1002/admt.202000848
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  502. A High-Linearity and Low-EMI Multilevel Class-D Amplifier
    Zhang, Huajun; Karmakar, Shoubhik; Breems, Lucien J.; Sandifort, Quino; Berkhout, Marco; Makinwa, Kofi A. A.; Fan, Qinwen;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 56, Issue 4, pp. 1176-1185, 2021. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2020.3043815

  503. Facile Synthesis of Ag Nanowire/TiO2 and Ag Nanowire/TiO2/GO Nanocomposites for Photocatalytic Degradation of Rhodamine B
    Hajipour, Pejman; Bahrami, Abbas; Mehr, Maryam Yazdan; van Driel, Willem Dirk; Zhang, GuoQi;
    Materials,
    Volume 14, Issue 4, 2021. DOI: 10.3390/ma14040763
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  504. Correction: The inactivation mechanism of chemical disinfection against SARS-CoV-2: from MD and DFT perspectives
    Tan, Chunjian; Gao, Chenshan; Zhou, Quan; Van Driel, Willem; Ye, Huaiyu; Zhang, GuoQi;
    RSC Adv.,
    Volume 11, pp. 3509-3509, 2021. DOI: 10.1039/D0RA90127J
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  505. Effects of Defect and Temperature on the Mechanical Performance of WS2: A Multiscale Analysis
    Hongyu Tang; Dong Hu; Zhen Cui; Huaiyu Ye; GuoQi Zhang;
    Journal of Physical Chemistry C,
    2021.
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  506. Simple and rapid gas sensing using a single-walled carbon nanotube field-effect transistor-based logic inverter
    Salomé Forel; Leandro Sacco; Alice Castan; Ileana Florea; Costel Sorin Cojocaru;
    Nanoscale Advances,
    2021.

  507. Exploring water and ion transport process at silicone/copper interfaces using in-situ electrochemical and Kelvin probe approaches
    B. Munirathinam; J.P.B. van Dam; A. Herrmann; W.D. van Driel; F. De Buyl; S.J.F. Erich; L.G.J. van der Ven; O.C.G. Adan; J.M.C. Mol;
    Journal of Materials Science & Technology,
    Volume 64, pp. 203 - 213, 2021. SI: Advanced Corrosion-Resistant Materials and Emerging Applications. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmst.2019.07.044
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  508. Smart sensor tights: Movement tracking of the lower limbs in football”, Wearable Technologies
    Annemarijn Steijlen; Bastiaan Burgers; Erik Wilmes; Jeroen Bastemeijer; Bram Bastiaansen; Patrick French; Andre Bossche; Kaspar Janse;
    Waerable Technologies,
    Volume 2, 2021. DOI: e17 doi:10.1017/wtc.2021.16

  509. Direction of Arrival Estimation of Wideband Sources Using Sparse Linear Arrays
    Wang, Feiyu; Tian, Zhi; Leus, G.; Fang, Jun;
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing,
    Volume 69, pp. 4444--4457, 2021. DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2021.3094718

  510. A Momentum-Guided Frank-Wolfe Algorithm
    Li, Bingcong; Coutino, M.; Giannakis, G.B.; Leus, G.;
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing,
    Volume 69, pp. 3597--3611, 2021. DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2021.3087910

  511. The Dual Graph Shift Operator: Identifying the Support of the Frequency Domain
    G. Leus; S. Segarra; A. Ribeiro; A.G. Marques;
    Journal of Fourier Analysis and Applications,
    Volume 27, Issue 49, 2021.

  512. Graphon Filters: Graph Signal Processing in the Limit
    Morency, M.W.; Leus, G.;
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing,
    Volume 69, pp. 1740--1754, 2021. DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2021.3061575

  513. Node-Adaptive Regularization for Graph Signal Reconstruction
    Yang, Maosheng; Coutino, M.; Leus, G.; Isufi, E.;
    IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing,
    Volume 2, pp. 85--98, 2021. DOI: 10.1109/OJSP.2021.3056897

  514. Electrical properties tomography: A methodological review
    R. Leijsen; W. Brink; C. van den Berg; A. Webb; R.F. Remis;
    Diagnostics,
    Volume 11, Issue 2, 2021. DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics11020176
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  515. Assessing the signal quality of electrocardiograms from varied acquisition sources: A generic machine learning pipeline for model generation
    A. Albaba; Neide Simoes-Capela; Yuyang Wang; Richard C. Hendriks; Walter De Raedt; Chris Van Hoof;
    Computers in Biology and Medicine,
    Volume 130, March 2021. DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2020.104164
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  516. Effects of Simulated Error-Sources on Different 3-D CSI-EPT Strategies
    R.L. Leijsen; W.M. Brink; A.G. Webb; R.F. Remis;
    IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging,
    Volume 7, pp. 713-723, 2021. DOI: 10.1109/TCI.2021.3094742
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  517. Transceive phase corrected 2D contrast source inversion‐electrical properties tomography
    P.R.S. Stijnman; S. Mandija; P.S. Fuchs; C.A.T. van den Berg; R.F. Remis;
    Magnetic Resonance in Medicine,
    Volume 85, Issue 5, pp. 2856-2868, 2021. DOI: 10.1002/mrm.28619
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  518. Design, Characterisation and Performance of an Improved Portable and Sustainable Low-Field MRI System
    B. de Vos; J. Parsa; Z. Abdulrazaq; W. Teeuwisse; C. van Speybroeck; D.H. de Gans; R.F. Remis; T. O’Reilly; A.G. Webb;
    Frontiers in Physics,
    Volume 9, 2021. DOI: 10.3389/fphy.2021.701157
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  519. Low-field magnetic resonance imaging using multiplicative regularization
    M.L. de Leeuw den Bouter; M.B. van Gijzen; R.F. Remis;
    Magnetic Resonance Imaging,
    Volume 75, pp. 21-33, 2021. DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2020.10.001
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  520. Inversion of incomplete spectral data using support information with an application to magnetic resonance imaging
    M.L. de Leeuw den Bouter; P.M. van den Berg; R.F. Remis;
    Journal of Physics Communications,
    Volume 5, 2021. DOI: 10.1088/2399-6528/abfd45
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  521. Towards Quantitative Magnetisation Mapping
    R.F. Remis; P.M. van den Berg;
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.02097,
    2021. DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2109.02097
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  522. Transverse-EPT: A local first order electrical properties tomography approach not requiring estimation of the incident fields
    R. Leijsen; W. Brink; Xin An; A. Webb; R.F. Remis;
    Progress In Electromagnetics Research,
    Volume 102, pp. 137-148, 2021. DOI: 10.2528/PIERM21021006
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  523. DESHIMA 2.0: Rapid redshift surveys and multi-line spectroscopy of dusty galaxies
    Rybak, M.; Bakx, T.; Baselmans, J.; Karatsu, K.; Kohno, K.; Takekoshi, T.; Tamura, Y.; Taniguchi, A.; van der Werf, P.; Endo, A.;
    Journal of Low Temperature Physics,
    2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-022-02730-y

  524. Digital Biomarkers and Algorithms for Detection of Atrial Fibrillation using Surface Electrocardiograms: A Systematic Review
    Fons J.Wesselius; Mathijs S. van Schie; Natasja M. S. de Groot; Richard C. Hendriks;
    Computers in Biology and Medicine,
    2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2021.104404
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  525. Dielectric Gratings Enhancing the Field of View in Low Dielectric Permittivity Elliptical Lenses
    M. A. Campo; G. Carluccio; S. Bruni; N. Llombart;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 69, Issue 11, pp. 7308-7322, Nov. 2021. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2021.3076524

  526. H-Band Quartz-Silicon Leaky-Wave Lens With Air-Bridge Interconnect to GaAs Front-End
    Arias Campo, Marta; Holc, Katarzyna; Weber, Rainer; De Martino, Carmine; Spirito, Marco; Leuther, Arnulf; Bruni, Simona; Llombart, Nuria;
    IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology,
    Volume 11, Issue 3, pp. 297-309, May 2021. DOI: 10.1109/TTHZ.2021.3049640

  527. Power-Efficiency Evolution of Capacitive Sensor Interfaces
    Zhichao Tan; Hui Jiang; Huajun Zhang; Xiyuan Tang; Haoming Xin; Stoyan Nihtianov;
    {IEEE} Sensors Journal,
    Volume 21, Issue 11, pp. 12457--12468, June 2021. DOI: 10.1109/jsen.2020.3035109
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  528. A High-Linearity and Low-EMI Multilevel Class-D Amplifier
    Huajun Zhang; Shoubhik Karmakar; Lucien J. Breems; Quino Sandifort; Marco Berkhout; Kofi A. A. Makinwa; Qinwen Fan;
    {IEEE} Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 56, Issue 4, pp. 1176--1185, April 2021. DOI: 10.1109/jssc.2020.3043815
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  529. Parts per billion sensitive, highly selective ambient operable, ammonia sensor with supramolecular nanofibres as active element.
    S. Kundu; S. J. George; G. U. Kulkarni;
    Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical,
    Volume 347, November 2021. DOI: 130634
    Abstract: ... Ammonia is among the most produced chemicals worldwide, and the detection in case of leakage is crucial because of its adverse effects on human health and the environment. The efficacy of commercial metal oxide-based ammonia sensors is limited because of their poor selectivity and high power requirements. In this article, we report the fabrication of a high performance ammonia sensor using 1D supramolecular nanofibres as the active material. The fibres are an inverse micellar assembly of a donor, coronene tetracarboxylate (CS) and an acceptor, dodecyl methyl viologen (DMV), with an absorbed water layer around which dissolves and ionises ammonia molecules and improves conductivity. The sensor can effectively detect ammonia at moderate humidity values (> 60% RH) without using an additional heating element. The sensors can even detect 1 ppb of ammonia with a remarkable response of around 40%. The response and recovery times are of few seconds, better than most of the literature reports. The present sensor shows high selectivity and response towards ammonia compared to the commercial ammonia sensors tested in this work. The sensor fabricated on PET substrate demonstrated good stability with almost 90% retention of the initial response even after 2000 bending cycles. In combination with a commercial humidity sensor, the present ammonia sensor could differentiate between humidity and ammonia. The real-time detection of ammonia is shown possible by integrating the present device on an Arduino micro-controller board.

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  530. Aesthetically acceptable, breath friendly triboelectric face masks: design, fabrication and its efficacy
    P. K. Santra; A. K. Singh; G. U. Kulkarni; S. Kundu; T. S. Rao; M. K. Ganesha;
    Energy Technology,
    September 2021.
    Abstract: ... Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, several attempts have been made worldwide to control the spread of the virus. It is widely accepted that wearing face masks in public and workplaces suppresses the transmission of the virus. Highly effective face masks, e.g. N95, have a high filtration efficiency but with a large pressure drop, which does not allow one to wear the mask comfortably for long hours. A larger population wearing a moderate efficiency mask can also cut the transmission at large. Herein, mask panels from readily available fabrics are developed, that can generate triboelectricity, which enhances the filtration efficiency by around 18% without compromising the pressure drop—allowing one to wear the mask for an extended period. The unique cup-shaped design of the mask provides a snug fit with no speech distortion or fogging on the glasses.

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  531. Extended X-Ray Emission Associated with the Radio Lobes and the Environments of 60 Radio Galaxies.
    A. Gill; M. M. Boyce; C. P. O'Dea; S. A. Baum; P. Kharb; N. Campbell; G. R. Tremblay; S. Kundu;
    The Astrophysical Journal,
    May 2021. DOI: 912 88
    Abstract: ... The Astrophysical Journal The American Astronomical Society, find out more The Institute of Physics, find out more Extended X-Ray Emission Associated with the Radio Lobes and the Environments of 60 Radio Galaxies Ajay Gill1,2, Michelle M. Boyce3, Christopher P. O'Dea3, Stefi A. Baum4, Preeti Kharb5, Neil Campbell6, Grant R. Tremblay7, and Suman Kundu8 Published 2021 May 7 • © 2021. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 912, Number 2 Citation Ajay Gill et al 2021 ApJ 912 88 DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/abec74 DownloadArticle PDF DownloadArticle ePub Figures Tables References 840 Total downloads 22 total citations on Dimensions. Turn on MathJax Get permission to re-use this article Share this article Share this content via email Share on Facebook (opens new window) Share on Twitter (opens new window) Share on Mendeley (opens new window) Article and author information Abstract This paper studied the faint, diffuse extended X-ray emission associated with the radio lobes and the hot gas in the intracluster medium (ICM) environment for a sample of radio galaxies. We used shallow (∼10 ks) archival Chandra observations for 60 radio galaxies (7 FR I and 53 FR II) with 0.0222 ≤ z ≤ 1.785 selected from the 298 extragalactic radio sources identified in the 3CR catalog. We used Bayesian statistics to look for any asymmetry in the extended X-ray emission between regions that contain the radio lobes and regions that contain the hot gas in the ICM. In the Chandra broad band (0.5–7.0 keV), which has the highest detected X-ray flux and the highest signal-to-noise ratio, we found that the nonthermal X-ray emission from the radio lobes dominates the thermal X-ray emission from the environment for ∼77% of the sources in our sample. We also found that the relative amount of on-jet axis nonthermal emission from the radio lobes tends to increase with redshift compared to the off-jet axis thermal emission from the environment. This suggests that the dominant X-ray mechanism for the nonthermal X-ray emission in the radio lobes is due to the inverse Compton upscattering of cosmic microwave background (CMB) seed photons by relativistic electrons in the radio lobes, a process for which the observed flux is roughly redshift independent due to the increasing CMB energy density with increasing redshift.

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  532. A Mechanically Flexible, Implantable Neural Interface for Computational Imaging and Optogenetic Stimulation Over 5.4×5.4 mm 2 FoV
    Moazeni, Sajjad; Pollmann, Eric H; Boominathan, Vivek; Cardoso, Filipe Arroyo; Robinson, Jacob T; Veeraraghavan, Ashok; Shepard, Kenneth L;
    IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems,
    Volume 15, Issue 6, pp. 1295-1305, 2021.

  533. An integrated 2D ultrasound phased array transmitter in CMOS with pixel pitch-matched beamforming
    Costa, Tiago; Shi, Chen; Tien, Kevin; Elloian, Jeffrey; Cardoso, Filipe Arroyo; Shepard, Kenneth L;
    IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems,
    Volume 15, Issue 4, pp. 731-742, 2021.

  534. Relativistic Pythagorean three-body problem
    Tjarda C. N. Boekholt; Arend Moerman; Simon F Portegies Zwart;
    Phys. Rev. D,
    Volume 104, Issue 8, pp. 083020, Oct. 2021.

  535. Unexpected Redundancy of Gpr56 and Gpr97 During Hematopoietic Cell Development and Differentiation
    Antonio Maglitto*; Samanta A. Mariani*; Emma de Pater; Carmen Rodriguez-Seoane; Chris S. Vink; Xianhua Piao; Mari-Liis Lukke; Elaine Dzierzak;
    Blood Advances,
    Volume 5, Issue 3, pp. 829--842, February 2021. DOI: 10.1182/bloodadvances.2020003693
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  536. A Fill-In Technique for Robust IMD Suppression in Chopper Amplifiers
    Rooijers, Thije; Karmakar, Shoubhik; Kusuda, Yoshinori; Huijsing, Johan H.; Makinwa, Kofi A. A.;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 56, Issue 12, pp. 3583-3592, 2021. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2021.3107350

  537. A Self-Calibrated Hybrid Thermal-Diffusivity/Resistor-Based Temperature Sensor
    S. Pan; and J. A Angevare; K. A. A. Makinwa;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 56, Issue 12, pp. 3551-3559, July 2021. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2021.3094166
    Abstract: ... This article describes a hybrid temperature sensor in which an accurate, but energy-inefficient, thermal diffusivity (TD) sensor is used to calibrate an inaccurate, but efficient, resistor-based sensor. The latter is based on silicided polysilicon resistors embedded in a Wien-bridge (WB) filter, while the former is based on an electrothermal filter (ETF) made from a p-diffusion/metal thermopile and an n-diffusion heater. The use of an on-chip sensor for calibration obviates the need for an external temperature reference and a temperature-stabilized environment, thus reducing the cost. To mitigate the area overhead of the TD sensor, it reuses the WB filter's readout circuitry. Realized in a 180-nm CMOS technology, the hybrid sensor occupies 0.2 mm². After calibration at room temperature (~25 °C) and at an elevated temperature (~85 °C), it achieves an inaccuracy of 0.25 °C (3σ) from -55 °C to 125 °C. The WB sensor dissipates 66 μ W from a 1.8-V supply and achieves a resolution of 450 μ K_rms in a 10-ms conversion time, which corresponds to a resolution figure-of-merit (FoM) of 0.13 pJ·K². The sensor also achieves a sub-10-mHz 1/f noise corner, which is comparable to that of bipolar junction transistor (BJT)-based temperature sensors.

  538. A 200-μW Interface for High-Resolution Eddy-Current Displacement Sensors
    M. Pimenta; Ç. Gürleyük; P. Walsh; D. O’Keeffe; M. Babaie; K. A. A. Makinwa;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 56, Issue 4, pp. 1036-1045, January 2021. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2020.3044027
    Abstract: ... This article presents a low-power eddy-current sensor interface for touch applications. It is based on a bang-bang digital phase-locked loop (DPLL) that converts the displacement of a metal target into digital information. The PLL consists of a digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) built around a sensing coil and a capacitive DAC, a comparator-based bang-bang phase/frequency detector (PFD), and a digital loop filter (DLF). The PLL locks the DCO to a reference frequency, making its digital input a direct representation of the sensing coil inductance. To compensate for the coil inductance tolerances, the DCO’s center frequency can be trimmed by a second capacitive DAC. This approach obviates the need for a reference coil. When combined with a 5-mm-diameter sensing coil located 500 μm from a metal target, the interface achieves a displacement resolution of 6.7 nm (rms) in a 3-kHz bandwidth. It consumes 200 μW from a 1.8-V power supply, which represents the best-reported tradeoff between power consumption, bandwidth, and resolution.

  539. A 440-μW, 109.8-dB DR, 106.5-dB SNDR Discrete-Time Zoom ADC With a 20-kHz BW
    E. Eland; S. Karmakar; B. Gönen; R. van Veldhoven; K. A. A. Makinwa;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 56, Issue 4, pp. 1207-1215, January 2021. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2020.3044896
    Abstract: ... This article describes a discrete-time zoom analog-to-digital converter (ADC) intended for audio applications. It uses a coarse 5-bit SAR ADC in tandem with a fine third-order delta–sigma modulator ( ΔΣM ) to efficiently obtain a high dynamic range. To minimize its over-sampling ratio (OSR) and, thus, its digital power consumption, the modulator employs a 2-bit quantizer and a loop filter notch. In addition, an extra feed-forward path minimizes the leakage of the SAR ADC’s quantization noise into the audio band. The prototype ADC occupies 0.27 mm 2 in a 0.16- μm technology. It achieves 109.8-dB DR, 106.5-dB SNDR, and 107.5-dB SNR in a 20-kHz bandwidth while dissipating 440 μW . It also achieves state-of-the-art energy efficiency, as demonstrated by a Schreier FoM of 186.4 dB and an SNDR FoM of 183.6 dB.

  540. Secondary electron emission from multi-layered TiN/Al2O3 transmission dynodes
    Hong Wah Chan; V. Prodanovic; A. Theulings; C. Hagen; P. Sarro; H. van der Graaf;
    Journal of Instrumentation,
    Volume 16, pp. P07024, 2021. DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/16/07/P07024

  541. CCSDS 131.2-B-1 Transmitter Design on FPGA with Adaptive Coding and Modulation Schemes for Satellite Communications
    Lamoral Coines, Adrián; Jiménez, Víctor P. Gil;
    Electronics,
    Volume 10, Issue 20, 2021. DOI: 10.3390/electronics10202476
    Abstract: ... Satellite communications are a well-established research area in which the main innovation of last decade has been the use of multi-carrier modulations and more robust channel coding techniques. However, in recent years, novel advanced signal processing has started being developed for these communications due to the increase in the signal processing capacity of transmitters and receivers. Although signal processing capabilities are increasing, they are still constrained by large limitations because these techniques need to be implemented in real hardware, thus making complexity a matter of critical importance. Therefore, this paper presents the design and implementation of a transmitter with adaptable coding and modulation on a field-programmable-gate-array (FPGA). The main motivation came from the standard CCSDS 131.2-B-1 which recommends that such a novel transmitter which has to date not been implemented in a real system The system was modeled by MATLAB with the purpose of being programmed in VHDL following the AXI-stream protocol between components. Behavioral simulation results were obtained in VIVADO and compared with MATLAB for verification purposes. The transmitter logical circuit was synthesized in a FPGA Zynq Ultrascale RFSoC ZU28DR, showing low resource consumption and correct functioning, leading us to conclude that the deployment of new communication systems in state-of-the-art hardware in satellite communications is justified.

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  542. Quantifying and dispensing of magnetic particles in a self-assembled magnetic particle array
    Song, Suk-Heung; Yoon, Jinsik; Jeong, Yongkyo; Jung, Yong-Gyun; Abelmann, Leon; Park, Wook;
    Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials,
    Volume 539, 2021. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmmm.2021.168341
    Keywords: ... Automation; Dispensers; Glass; Magnetic bubbles; Suspensions (components); Automatic dispenser; Glass-coated particle; Low-costs; Magnetic metals; Magnetic particle; Mass production process; Metal core; Particle arrays; Rod-shape particle; Rod-shaped; Self assembly.

    Abstract: ... We develop a low-cost, mass-production process for creating rod-shaped glass-coated magnetic particles consisting of a magnetic metal core and glass shell structure. We investigate their magnetic properties by analyzing their optical absorbance in suspension as a function of the orientation of a 1 mT magnetic field. From the response we derive that the magnetization of the particles is 0.1 MA/m. We demonstrate an automated system that quantifies and dispenses a large amount of RGMPs by magnetic self-assembly on a high-volume plate patterned with an array of holes. This automatic dispenser can provide packaging forms with the smallest unit of RGMPs for in-vitro diagnostics and is expected to reduce the time and effort required for the assembly and packaging process. © 2021 Elsevier B.V.

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  543. Influence of the Distribution of the Properties of Permanent Magnets on the Field Homogeneity of Magnet Assemblies for Mobile NMR
    Klein, Y. P.; Abelmann, L.; Gardeniers, J. G. E.;
    IEEE Transactions on Magnetics,
    Volume 57, Issue 7, 2021. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2021.3077301
    Keywords: ... Magnetic fields; Magnetization; Monte Carlo methods; Permanent magnets; Sensitivity analysis; Active shimming; Different sizes; Field homogeneity; General designs; Magnet assembly; Magnet configurations; Magnetic field homogeneity; Positioning error; Nuclear magnetic resonance.

    Abstract: ... We optimized the magnetic field homogeneity of two canonical designs for mobile microfluidic nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) applications: two parallel magnets with an air gap and a modified Halbach array. Along with the influence of the sample length, general design guidelines will be presented. For a fair comparison, the sensitive length of the sample has been chosen to be the same as the gap size between the magnets to ensure enough space for the transmitting and receiving unit, as well as basic electric shimming components. Keeping the compactness of the final device in mind, a box with an edge length 5 times the gap size has been defined, in which the complete magnet configuration should fit. With the chosen boundary conditions, the simple parallel cuboid configuration reaches the best homogeneity without active shimming ( 0.5 B s, 41 ppm), while the pseudo-Halbach configuration has the highest field strength ( 0.9 B s , 994 ppm), assuming perfect magnets. However, permanent magnet configurations suffer from imperfections, such as magnetization, fabrication, and positioning errors, which results in worse magnetic field homogeneities than expected from simulations using a fixed optimized parameter set. We present a sensitivity analysis for a magnetic cube and the results of studies of the variations in the magnetization and angle of magnetization of magnets purchased from different suppliers, composed of different materials and coatings, and of different sizes. We performed a detailed Monte Carlo simulation on the effect of the measured distribution of magnetic properties on the mentioned configurations. The cuboid design shows a mean homogeneity of 430 ppm (std. dev. 350 ppm), the Pseudo-Halbach has a mean homogeneity of 1086 ppm (std dev. 8 ppm). © 1965-2012 IEEE.

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  544. Agglomeration structure of superparamagnetic nanoparticles in a nematic liquid crystal medium: Image analysis datasets based on cryo-electron microscopy and polarised optical microscopy techniques
    Sung, Baeckkyoung; Abelmann, Leon;
    Data in Brief,
    Volume 34, 2021. All Open Access, Gold Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2021.106716
    Abstract: ... This dataset shows the agglomerate dimension and structure of oleic acid-coated superparamagnetic nanoparticles (SPIONs), which are dispersed in the nematic fluid of a thermotropic liquid crystal (LC), 4-cyano-4′-pentylbiphenyl (5CB). The analysed datasets were acquired from the raw images of the SPION-5CB mixtures obtained using cryogenic transmission electron microscopy (cryo-TEM) and polarised optical microscopy. The image data were quantitatively analysed to extract statistical information on the sizes of SPIONs and their agglomerates and the inter-particle spacing of the agglomerated SPIONs. This dataset supports the fundamental understanding on how colloidal nanospheres behave in an anisotropic fluid, and has a potential to be used as a part of database for automated design of new hybrid materials. © 2021 The Author(s)

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  545. Multi-Axis Electric Stepper Motor
    Groenhuis, Vincent; Rolff, Gijs; Bosman, Koen; Abelmann, Leon; Stramigioli, Stefano;
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters,
    Volume 6, Issue 4, pp. 7201 – 7208, 2021. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2021.3097077
    Keywords: ... Agricultural robots; Degrees of freedom (mechanics); Compact solutions; Mechanical design; Mechanical systems; Multiple degrees of freedom; Multiple joints; Multiple rotors; Revolutions per minutes; Robotic systems; Stepping motors.

    Abstract: ... Multi-axis stepper motors offer a compact solution to actuate multiple degrees of freedom in a mechanical system by a single device. This research presents an electric stepper motor with three coaxial shafts driven by a single stator. The motor dimensions are 42 × 42 × 44 mm3 (excluding output shafts), its mass is 0.326 kg and it includes three rotors of height 7 mm and different number of teeth. The maximum torque for one rotor at low speed and 1 A current is 0.10 N m, which is comparable to that of a conventional stepper motor with similar rotor size. When multiple rotors are driven simultaneously, then the total power has to be distributed over the three rotors, resulting in 42% lower torque on average. The maximum no-load speed is 4000 revolutions per minute. The coaxial output shaft configuration poses significant challenges but also unique opportunities in actuating multiple joints of a robotic system. In many applications, the mechanical design can be redesigned to make effective use of the multi-motor design. An example of a three-DOF robot arm is demonstrated that can be efficiently driven by the proposed motor. © 2016 IEEE.

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  546. Optimal halbach configuration for flow-through immunomagnetic ctc enrichment
    Stevens, Michiel; Liu, Peng; Niessink, Tom; Mentink, Anouk; Abelmann, Leon; Terstappen, Leon;
    Diagnostics,
    Volume 11, Issue 6, 2021. All Open Access, Gold Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics11061020
    Keywords: ... epithelial cell adhesion molecule; ferrofluid; antigen expression; Article; cell separation; cellular distribution; circulating tumor cell; comparative study; controlled study; enrichment culture; finite element analysis; flow rate; human; human cell; immunomagnetic separation; male; measurement; prediction.

    Abstract: ... Due to the low frequency of circulating tumor cells (CTC), the standard CellSearch method of enumeration and isolation using a single tube of blood is insufficient to measure treatment effects consistently, or to steer personalized therapy. Using diagnostic leukapheresis this sample size can be increased; however, this also calls for a suitable new method to process larger sample inputs. In order to achieve this, we have optimized the immunomagnetic enrichment process using a flow-through magnetophoretic system. An overview of the major forces involved in magnetophoretic separation is provided and the model used for optimizing the magnetic configuration in flow through immunomagnetic enrichment is presented. The optimal Halbach array element size was calculated and both optimal and non-optimal arrays were built and tested using anti-EpCAM ferrofluid in combination with cell lines of varying EpCAM antigen expression. Experimentally measured distributions of the magnetic moment of the cell lines used for comparison were combined with predicted recoveries and fit to the experimental data. Resulting predictions agree with measured data within measurement uncertainty. The presented method can be used not only to optimize magnetophoretic separation using a variety of flow configurations but could also be adapted to optimize other (static) magnetic separation techniques. © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.

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  547. Magnetic microgels and nanogels: Physical mechanisms and biomedical applications
    Sung, Baeckkyoung; Kim, Min-Ho; Abelmann, Leon;
    Bioengineering and Translational Medicine,
    Volume 6, Issue 1, 2021. All Open Access, Gold Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1002/btm2.10190
    Keywords: ... Gels; Gene therapy; Hybrid materials; Hydrogels; Magnetism; Medical applications; Nanostructured materials; Physicochemical properties; Structural design; catalase; chitosan; collagen; diclofenac; doxorubicin; fluorouracil; gadolinium; graphene; graphene oxide; hyaluronic acid; hydrogel; macrogol; magnetic microgel; magnetic nanoparticle; methotrexate; microgel (material); nanocomposite; nanogel; nanomaterial; nanoparticle; polymer; polyvinyl alcohol; reactive oxygen metabolite; superoxide dismutase; unclassified drug; Anticancer treatment; Biological environments; Biomedical applications; Engineering principles; Inorganic nanoparticle; Micro and nanostructures; Multifunctional composites; Physico-chemical mechanisms; biocatalysis; biodegradability; biomanipulation; biomedicine; bioseparation; cancer chemotherapy; cancer gene therapy; cancer therapy; crystal structure; decellularization; drug delivery system; drug diffusion; electrospinning; encapsulation; entropy; enzyme immobilization; exosome; fluorescence microscopy; gene therapy; hydrogen bond; hydrophobicity; hysteresis; magnetic field; microfluidics; nanofabrication; nanomedicine; personalized medicine; photodynamic therapy; photoluminescence; photothermal therapy; polymerization; regenerative medicine; Review; tissue engineering; tissue regeneration; Magnetic nanoparticles.

    Abstract: ... Soft micro- and nanostructures have been extensively developed for biomedical applications. The main focus has been on multifunctional composite materials that combine the advantages of hydrogels and colloidal particles. Magnetic microgels and nanogels can be realized by hybridizing stimuli-sensitive gels and magnetic nanoparticles. They are of particular interest since they can be controlled in a wide range of biological environments by using magnetic fields. In this review, we elucidate physical principles underlying the design of magnetic microgels and nanogels for biomedical applications. Particularly, this article provides a comprehensive and conceptual overview on the correlative structural design and physical functionality of the magnetic gel systems under the concept of colloidal biodevices. To this end, we begin with an overview of physicochemical mechanisms related to stimuli-responsive hydrogels and transport phenomena and summarize the magnetic properties of inorganic nanoparticles. On the basis of the engineering principles, we categorize and summarize recent advances in magnetic hybrid microgels and nanogels, with emphasis on the biomedical applications of these materials. Potential applications of these hybrid microgels and nanogels in anticancer treatment, protein therapeutics, gene therapy, bioseparation, biocatalysis, and regenerative medicine are highlighted. Finally, current challenges and future opportunities in the design of smart colloidal biodevices are discussed. © 2020 The Authors. Bioengineering & Translational Medicine published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of American Institute of Chemical Engineers.

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  548. Wideband Modeling of CMOS Schottky Barrier Diode Detectors for THz Radiometry
    Berkel, Sven van; Malotaux, Eduard Satoshi; Martino, Carmine de; Spirito, Marco; Cavallo, Daniele; Neto, Andrea; Llombart, Nuria;
    IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology,
    Volume 11, Issue 5, pp. 495-507, 2021. DOI: 10.1109/TTHZ.2021.3085137
    Keywords: ... Modeling;Ultra wideband technology;Submillimeter wave technology;Wideband;Radiometry;Schottky diodes;Noise-equivalent power (NEP);noise-equivalent temperature difference (NETD);passive imaging;radiometry;Schottky barrier diode (SBD);submillimeter wave;terahertz (THz);ultrawideband.

  549. H-Band Quartz-Silicon Leaky-Wave Lens With Air-Bridge Interconnect to GaAs Front-End
    Arias Campo, Marta; Holc, Katarzyna; Weber, Rainer; De Martino, Carmine; Spirito, Marco; Leuther, Arnulf; Bruni, Simona; Llombart, Nuria;
    IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology,
    Volume 11, Issue 3, pp. 297-309, 2021. DOI: 10.1109/TTHZ.2021.3049640
    Keywords: ... Lenses;Dipole antennas;Antennas;Wideband;Silicon;Antenna feeds;Gallium arsenide;Air-bridge chip interconnect;antenna-in-package;H-band;leaky-wave antenna;lens antenna;mm-wave;off-chip antenna.

  550. Personalizing Heart Rate-Based Seizure Detection Using Supervised SVM Transfer Learning
    Thomas De Cooman; Kaat Vandecasteele; Carolina Varon; Borbala Hunyadi; Evy Cleeren; Wim Van Paesschen; Sabine Van Huffel;
    Frontiers in Neurology,
    Volume 11, pp. 145, 2020. DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2020.00145
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  551. Analysis and Design of Power Supply Circuits for RF Oscillators
    Alessandro Urso; Yue Chen; Johan F. Dijkhuis; Yao-Hong Liu; Masoud Babaie; Wouter A. Serdijn;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers,
    04 September 2020. DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2020.3020001
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  552. Analysis of tilted dipole arrays: Impedance and radiation properties
    C. Yepes; E. Gandini; S. Monni; A. Neto; F.E. van Vliet; D. Cavallo;
    IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag.,
    Volume 68, Issue 1, pp. 254-265, Jan. 2020. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2019.2938838

  553. Time-domain electromagnetic field transmission between small loop antennas on a half-space with conductive and dielectric properties
    M. Štumpf; G. Antonini; I.E. Lager; G.A.E. Vandenbosch;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 68, Issue 2, pp. 938-946, Feb 2020.
    document

  554. Electromagnetism in the electrical engineering classroom
    I.E. Lager; G.A.E. Vandenbosch; M. Štumpf;
    IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine,
    Volume 62, Issue 2, pp. 14-23, Apr. 2020.

  555. Hierarchical Sensor Fusion for Micro-Gestures Recognition with Pressure Sensor Array and Radar
    H. Li; X. Liang; A. Shrestha; Y. Liu; H. Heidari; J. Le Kernec; F. Fioranelli;
    IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology,
    Volume 4, Issue 3, pp. 225-232, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/JERM.2019.2949456

  556. Impact of Bit Errors in Digitized RF Data on Ultrasound Image Quality
    Z. Chen; M. Soozande; H. Vos; J. Bosch; M. Verweij; N. de Jong; M. Pertijs;
    IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control,
    Volume 67, Issue 1, pp. 13-24, January 2020. DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2019.2937462
    Abstract: ... This paper quantitatively analyzes the impact of bit errors in digitized RF data on ultrasound image quality. The quality of B-mode images in both linear and phased array imaging is evaluated by means of three objective image quality metrics: peak signal-to-noise ratio, structural similarity index and contrast-to-noise ratio, when bit errors are introduced to the RF data with different bit-error rates (BERs). The effectiveness of coding schemes for forward error detection and correction to improve the image quality is also studied. The results show that ultrasound imaging is inherently resilient to high BER. The image quality suffers unnoticeable degradation for BER lower than 1E-6. Simple 1-bit parity coding with 9% added redundancy helps to retain similar image quality for BER up to 1E-4, and Hamming coding with 33.3% added redundancy allows the BER to increase to 1E-3. These results can serve as a guideline in the datalink design for ultrasound probes with in-probe receive digitization. With much more relaxed BER requirements than in typical datalinks, the design can be optimized by allowing fewer cables with higher data rate per cable or lower power consumption with the same cable count.

  557. Doppler Influence on Waveform Orthogonality in 79 GHz MIMO Phase-Coded Automotive Radar
    J. Overdevest; F. Jansen; Faruk Uysal; Alexander Yarovoy;
    IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology,
    Volume 69, Issue 1, pp. 16-25, January 2020. DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2019.2951632

  558. Improved local activation time annotation of fractionated atrial electrograms for atrial mapping
    Bahareh Abdi; Richard C. Hendriks; Alle-Jan van der Veen; Natasja M.S. de Groot;
    Computers in Biology and Medicine,
    Volume 117, February 2020. ISSN: 0010-4825. DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2019.103590
    document • software

  559. A linear array of skewed dipoles with asymmetric radiation for angular filtering
    C. Yepes; E. Gandini; S. Monni; A. Neto and. E. van Vliet; D. Cavallo;
    IEEE Antenna Wireless Propag. Lett.,
    Volume 10, Issue 3, pp. 408-412, Mar. 2020. DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2020.2971347

  560. Multilevel Interval Coded Scoring to Assess the Cardiovascular Status of Sleep Apnea Patients using Oxygen Saturation Markers
    Margot Deviaene; Pascal Borzee; Merel Van Gilst; Johannes Van Dijk; Sebastiaan Overeem; Bertien Buyse; Dries Testelmans; Sabine Van Huffel; Carolina Varon;
    IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering,
    2020. DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2020.2972126
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  561. A 117-dB In-Band CMRR 98.5-dB SNR Capacitance-to-Digital Converter for Sub-nm Displacement Sensing With an Electrically Floating Target
    Hui Jiang; Samira Amani; Johan G. Vogel; Saleh Heidary Shalmany; Stoyan Nihtianov;
    IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters,
    Volume 3, pp. 9--12, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/lssc.2019.2952851

  562. A Comparative Study of ECG-derived Respiration in Ambulatory Monitoring using the Single-lead ECG
    C. Varon; J. Morales; J. Lazaro; M. Orini; M. Deviaene; S. Kontaxis; D. Testelmans; B. Buyse; P. Borzee; L. Sornmo; P. Laguna; E. Gil; R. Bailon;
    Scientific Reports,
    Volume 10, 2020. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-62624-5
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  563. Zero-Power Defense Done Right: Shielding IMDs from Battery-Depletion Attacks
    Muhammad Ali Siddiqi; Wouter A. Serdijn; Christos Strydis;
    Journal of Signal Processing Systems (Elsevier),
    8 April 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11265-020-01530-5
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  564. Dop-NET: a micro-Doppler radar data challenge
    Matthew Ritchie; Richard Capraru; Francesco Fioranelli;
    Electronics Letters,
    Volume 56, Issue 11, pp. 568-570, 2020. DOI: 10.1049/el.2019.4153
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  565. Micromachining for Advanced Terahertz: Interconnects and Packaging Techniques at Terahertz Frequencies
    M. Alonso-delPino; C. Jung-Kubiak; T. Reck; C. Lee; G. Chattopadhyay;
    IEEE Microwave Magazine,
    Volume 21, Issue 1, pp. 18-34, Jan. 2020.
    document

  566. A Compact, Low Power Consumption, and Highly Sensitive 95 GHz Doppler Radar
    K.B. Cooper; R. Rodriguez Monje; R.J. Dengler; C.J. Cochrane; M. Alonso-Delpino; A. Tang; T.O. El Bouayadi; O. Pradhan;
    IEEE Sensors Journal,
    Volume 20, Issue 11, pp. 5865-5875, Jun. 2020.
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  567. Using Biosensors and Digital Biomarkers to Assess Response to Cardiac Rehabilitation: Observational Study
    Helene De Canniere; Christophe Smeets; Melanie Schoutteten; Carolina Varon; Chris Van Hoof; Sabine Van Huffel; Willemijn Groenendaal; Pieter Vandervoort;
    J Med Internet Res,
    Volume 22, Issue 5, pp. e17326, 2020. DOI: 10.2196/17326
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  568. DESHIMA on ASTE: On-Sky Responsivity Calibration of the Integrated Superconducting Spectrometer
    T. Takekoshi; K. Karatsu; J. Suzuki; Y. Tamura; T. Oshima; A. Taniguchi; S. Asayama; T.J.L.C. Bakx; J.J.A. Baselmans; S. Bosma; J. Bueno; K.W. Chin; Y. Fujii; K. Fujita; R. Huiting; S. Ikarashi; T. Ishida; S. Ishii; R. Kawabe; T.M. Klapwijk; K. Kohno; A. Kouchi; N. Llombart; J. Maekawa; V. Murugesan; S. Nakatsubo; M. Naruse; K. Ohtawara; Pascual Laguna, A.; K. Suzuki; D.J. Thoen; T. Tsukagoshi; T. Ueda; P.J. ;
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  569. G-Band Radar for Humidity and Cloud Remote Sensing
    K.B. Cooper; R.J. Roy; R. Dengler; R.R. Monje; M. Alonso-delPino; J.V. Siles; O. Yurduseven; C. Parashare; L. Millán; M. Lebsock;
    IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing,
    2020. Early Access. DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2020.2995325

  570. Bidirectional Bioelectronic Interfaces: System Design and Circuit Implications
    Y. Liu; A. Urso; Martins da Ponte, Ronaldo; T. Costa; V. Valente; V. Giagka; W.A. Serdijn; T.G. Constandinou; T. Denison;
    IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine,
    Volume 12, Issue 2, pp. 30-46, 23 June 2020. DOI: 10.1109/MSSC.2020.2987506
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  571. Motion-based Separation and Imaging of Closely-Spaced Extended Targets
    Shengzhi Xu; Alexander Yarovoy;
    IEEE Sensors Journal,
    2020. DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2020.3004909

  572. IC compatible materials for sensors
    PJ French;
    Key Engineering Materials,
    Volume 843, pp. 58-63, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.843
    document

  573. Continuous human activity classification from FMCW radar with Bi-LSTM networks
    A. Shrestha; H. Li; J. Le Kernec; F. Fioranelli;
    IEEE Sensors Journal,
    2020. DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2020.3006386

  574. 3-D Short-Range Imaging With Irregular MIMO Arrays Using NUFFT-Based Range Migration Algorithm
    Jianping Wang; Pascal Aubry; Alexander Yarovoy;
    IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing,
    Volume 58, Issue 7, pp. 4730-4742, July 2020. DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2020.2966368

  575. Decoupling the Doppler Ambiguity Interval from the Maximum Operational Range and Range-Resolution in FMCW Radars
    S. Neemat; O.A. Krasnov; F. Van der Zwan; Alexander Yarovoy;
    IEEE Sensors Journal,
    Volume 20, Issue 11, pp. 5992--6003, June 2020. DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2020.2972152
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  576. A Chip Integrity Monitor for Evaluating Moisture/Ion Ingress in mm-Sized Single-Chip Implants
    Omer Can Akgun; Kambiz Nanbakhsh; Vasiliki Giagka; Wouter Serdijn;
    IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems,
    7 July 2020. DOI: 10.1109/TBCAS.2020.3007484
    Keywords: ... —Chip integrity, flexible implants, encapsulation, interlayer dielectric (ILD), silicon dioxide, resistance, time-mode, monitoring, reliability.

    document

  577. Spatial images from temporal data
    Alex Turpin; Gabriella Musarra; Valentin Kapitany; Francesco Tonolini; Ashley Lyons; Ilya Starshynov; Federica Villa; Enrico Conca; Francesco Fioranelli; Roderick Murray-Smith; Daniele Faccio;
    Optica,
    Volume 7, pp. 900--905, Aug 2020. DOI: 10.1364/OPTICA.392465
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  578. An Algorithm to Minimize the Zero-Flow Error in Transit-Time Ultrasonic Flow Meters
    Douwe M. van Willigen; Paul L.M.J. van Neer; Jack Massaad; Nico de Jong; Martin D. Verweij; Michiel A.P. Pertijs;
    IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement,
    2020. DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2020.3007907
    Abstract: ... Transit-time ultrasonic flow meters are widely used in industry to measure fluid flow. In practice ultrasonic flow meters either show a zero-flow error or suffer from a significant random error due to a limited signal-to-noise ratio, requiring a significant amount of averaging to achieve good precision. This work presents a method that minimizes the zero-flow error whilst keeping the random error low, independent of the hardware used. The proposed algorithm can adjust to changing zero-flow errors while a flow is present. The technique combines the benefits of two common methods of determining the transit-time difference between the upstream and downstream ultrasonic waves: cross-correlation and zero-crossing detection. The algorithm is verified experimentally using a flow-loop. It is shown that the zero-flow error can be greatly reduced without compromising the random error or increasing circuit complexity.

  579. Quantum Limited SIS Receiver Technology for the Detection of Water Isotopologue Emission from Comets
    J.W. Kooi; D.J. Hayton; B. Bumble; H.G. LeDuc; A. Skalare; M. Alonso-delPino; A. Peralta; R. Lin; P. Von Allmen; P. F. Goldsmith; I. Mehdi; G. Chattopadhyay;
    IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology,
    2020. Early Access. DOI: 10.1109/TTHZ.2020.3010123

  580. Suppression of Mainbeam Deceptive Jammer with FDA-MIMO Radar
    L. Lan; J. Xu; G. Liao; Y. Zhang; F. Fioranelli; So H.C.;
    IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology,
    2020.

  581. Multiple beam synthesis of passively cooled 5G planar arrays using convex optimization
    Y. Aslan; J. Puskely; A. Roederer; A. Yarovoy;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 68, Issue 5, pp. 3557-3566, May 2020. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2019.2955885

  582. Synthesis of optimal 5G array layouts with wide-angle scanning and zooming ability for efficient link setup and high-QoS communication
    Y. Aslan; A. Roederer; A. Yarovoy;
    EEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters,
    Volume 19, Issue 9, pp. 1481-1485, September 2020. DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2020.3006314

  583. A Switched-Capacitor DC-DC Converter Powering an LC Oscillator to Achieve 85% System Peak Power Efficiency and -65 dBc Spurious Tones
    Alessandro Urso; Yue Chen; Robert Bogdan Staszewski; Johan F. Dijkhuis; Stefano Stanzione; Yao-Hong Liu; Wouter A. Serdijn; Masoud Babaie;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers,
    07 August 2020. DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2020.3012106
    document

  584. In-vivo microsystems: A review
    PJ French;
    Sensors,
    Volume 2, pp. 22, September 2020. DOI: doi:10.3390/s20174953
    Keywords: ... medical sensors, implants, in-vivo devices, microsystems.

    Abstract: ... In-vivo sensors yield valuable medical information by measuring directly on the living tissue of a patient. These devices can be surface or implant devices. Electrical activity in the body,from organs or muscles can be measured using surface electrodes. For short term internal devices,catheters are used. These include cardiac catheter (in blood vessels) and bladder catheters. Due to the size and shape of the catheters, silicon devices provided an excellent solution for sensors. Since many cardiac catheters are disposable, the high volume has led to lower prices of the silicon sensors. Many catheters use a single sensor, but silicon offers the opportunity to have multi sensors in a single catheter, while maintaining small size. The cardiac catheter is usually inserted for a maximum of 72 h. Some devices may be used for a short-to-medium period to monitor parameters after an operation or injury (1–4 weeks). Increasingly, sensing, and actuating, devices are being applied to longer term implants for monitoring a range of parameters for chronic conditions. Devices for longer term implantation presented additional challenges due to the harshness of the environment and the stricter regulations for biocompatibility and safety. This paper will examine the three main areas of application for in-vivo devices: surface devices and short/medium-term and long-term implants. The issues of biocompatibility and safety will be discussed.

  585. Guest Editorial: Innovative Radar Detection, Tracking and Classification for Small UAVs as an Emerging Class of Targets
    Carmine Clemente; Francesco Fioranelli; Gang Li;
    IET Radar, Sonar and Navigation,
    Volume 14, Issue 4, pp. 503-504, 2020. DOI: 10.1049/iet-rsn.2020.0089
    document

  586. A 64-Channel Transmit Beamformer with ±30V Bipolar High-Voltage Pulsers for Catheter-Based Ultrasound Probes
    M. Tan; E. Kang; J.-S. An; Z. Y. Chang; P. Vince; T. Matéo; N. Sénégond; M. A. P. Pertijs;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 55, Issue 7, pp. 1796-1806, July 2020. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2020.2987719
    Abstract: ... This article presents a fully integrated 64-channel programmable ultrasound transmit beamformer for catheter-based ultrasound probes, designed to interface with a capacitive micro-machined ultrasound transducer (CMUT) array. The chip is equipped with programmable high-voltage (HV) pulsers that can generate ±30-V return-to-zero (RZ) and non-RZ pulses. The pulsers employ a compact back-to-back isolating HV switch topology that employs HV floating-gate drivers with only one HV MOS transistor each. Further die-size reduction is achieved by using the RZ switches also as the transmit/receive (T/R) needed to pass received echo signals to low-voltage receive circuitry. On-chip digital logic clocked at 200 MHz allows the pulse timing to be programmed with a resolution of 5 ns, while supporting pulses of 1 cycle up to 63 cycles. The chip has been implemented in 0.18-μm HV Bipolar-CMOS-DMOS (BCD) technology and occupies an area of 1.8 mm x 16.5 mm, suitable for integration into an 8-F catheter. Each pulser with embedded T/R switch and digital logic occupies only 0.167 mm². The pulser successfully drives an 18-pF transducer capacitance at pulse frequencies up to 9 MHz. The T/R switch has a measured ON-resistance of ~180 Ω . The acoustic results obtained in combination with a 7.5-MHz 64-element CMUT array demonstrate the ability to generate steered and focused acoustic beams.

  587. Suppression of Lamb wave excitation via aperture control of a transducer array for ultrasonic clamp-on flow metering
    J. Massaad; P. L. M. J. van Neer; D. M. van Willigen; M. A. P. Pertijs; N. de Jong; M. D. Verweij;
    Journal of the Acoustical Society of America,
    Volume 147, Issue 4, pp. 2670-2681, February 2020. DOI: 10.1121/10.0001135
    Abstract: ... During ultrasonic clamp-on flow metering, Lamb waves propagating in the pipe wall may limit the measurement accuracy by introducing absolute errors in the flow estimates. Upon reception, these waves can interfere with the up and downstream waves refracting from the liquid, and disturb the measurement of the transit time difference that is used to obtain the flow speed. Thus, suppression of the generation of Lamb waves might directly increase the accuracy of a clamp-on flow meter. Existing techniques apply to flow meters with single element transducers. This paper considers the application of transducer arrays and presents a method to achieve a predefined amount of suppression of these spurious Lamb waves based on appropriate amplitude weightings of the transducer elements. Finite element simulations of an ultrasonic clamp-on flow measurement setting will be presented to show the effect of array aperture control on the suppression of the Lamb waves in a 1-mm-thick stainless steel pipe wall. Furthermore, a proof-of-principle experiment will be shown that demonstrates a good agreement with the simulations.

  588. Towards a calibration-free ultrasonic clamp-on flow meter: Pipe geometry measurements using matrix arrays
    J. Massaad; P. L. M. J. van Neer; D. M. van Willigen; M. A. P. Pertijs; N. de Jong; M. D. Verweij;
    Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics,
    Volume 39, Issue 1, February 2020. DOI: 10.1121/2.0001187
    Abstract: ... Current ultrasonic clamp-on flow meters are manually calibrated. This process is based on manual placement of two single-element transducers along a pipe wall. Due to the usually unknown pipe properties and inhomogeneities in the pipe geometry, the axial distance of the transducers needs to be manually calibrated to align the location of the emitted beam on the receiver. In this work it is presented an automatic calibration procedure, based on matrix transducer arrays, to provide calibration information that would normally be entered into the instrument manually prior to ultrasonic clamp-on flow measurements. The calibration consists of two steps: First, along the axial direction of the pipe, Lamb waves are excited and recorded. Then, the measured time signals are combined with the Rayleigh-Lamb dispersion equation to extract pipe wall thickness and bulk wave sound speeds. Second, along the circumferential direction of the pipe, a specific Lamb wave mode is excited and recorded, from which the pipe diameter is estimated. The potential of both calibration procedures is shown, and the necessity of a matrix transducer array (i.e. small elements) is highlighted.

  589. An Algorithm to Minimize the Zero-Flow Error in Transit-Time Ultrasonic Flow Meters
    D. M. van Willigen; P. L. M. J. van Neer; J. Massaad; N. de Jong; M. D. Verweij; M. A. P. Pertijs;
    IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement,
    Volume 70, pp. 1-9, July 2020. DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2020.3007907
    Abstract: ... Transit-time ultrasonic flowmeters are widely used in industry to measure fluid flow. In practice, ultrasonic flowmeters either show a zero-flow error or suffer from a significant random error due to a limited signal-to-noise ratio, requiring a significant amount of averaging to achieve good precision. This work presents a method that minimizes the zero-flow error while keeping the random error low, independent of the hardware used. The proposed algorithm can adjust to changing zero-flow errors, while a flow is present. The technique combines the benefits of two common methods of determining the transit time difference between the upstream and downstream ultrasonic waves: cross correlation and zero-crossing detection. The algorithm is verified experimentally using a flow loop. It is shown that the zero-flow error can be greatly reduced without compromising the random error or increasing circuit complexity.

  590. Receive/Transmit Aperture Selection for 3D Ultrasound Imaging with a 2D Matrix Transducer
    M. Mozaffarzadeh; M. Soozande; F. Fool; M. A. P. Pertijs; H. J. Vos; M. D. Verweij; J. G. Bosch; N. de Jong;
    MDPI Applied Sciences,
    Volume 10, Issue 15, July 2020. DOI: 10.3390/app10155300
    Abstract: ... Recently, we realized a prototype matrix transducer consisting of 48 rows of 80 elements on top of a tiled set of Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) implementing a row-level control connecting one transmit/receive channel to an arbitrary subset of elements per row. A fully sampled array data acquisition is implemented by a column-by-column (CBC) imaging scheme (80 transmit-receive shots) which achieves 250 volumes/second (V/s) at a pulse repetition frequency of 20 kHz. However, for several clinical applications such as carotid pulse wave imaging (CPWI), a volume rate of 1000 per second is needed. This allows only 20 transmit-receive shots per 3D image. In this study, we propose a shifting aperture scheme and investigate the effects of receive/transmit aperture size and aperture shifting step in the elevation direction. The row-level circuit is used to interconnect elements of a receive aperture in the elevation (row) direction. An angular weighting method is used to suppress the grating lobes caused by the enlargement of the effective elevation pitch of the array, as a result of element interconnection in the elevation direction. The effective aperture size, level of grating lobes, and resolution/sidelobes are used to select suitable reception/transmission parameters. Based on our assessment, the proposed imaging sequence is a full transmission (all 80 elements excited at the same time), a receive aperture size of 5 and an aperture shifting step of 3. Numerical results obtained at depths of 10, 15, and 20 mm show that, compared to the fully sampled array, the 1000 V/s is achieved at the expense of, on average, about two times wider point spread function and 4 dB higher clutter level. The resulting grating lobes were at −27 dB. The proposed imaging sequence can be used for carotid pulse wave imaging to generate an informative 3D arterial stiffness map, for cardiovascular disease assessment.

  591. A Variable-Gain Low-Noise Transimpedance Amplifier for Miniature Ultrasound Probes
    E. Kang; M. Tan; J. S. An; Z. Y. Chang; P. Vince; N. Sénégond; T. Mateo; C. Meynier; M. A. P. Pertijs;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 55, Issue 12, pp. 3157--3168, December 2020. DOI: 10.1109/jssc.2020.3023618
    Abstract: ... This article presents a low-noise transimpedance amplifier (TIA) designed for miniature ultrasound probes. It provides continuously variable gain to compensate for the time-dependent attenuation of the received echo signal. This time-gain compensation (TGC) compresses the echo-signal dynamic range (DR) while avoiding imaging artifacts associated with discrete gain steps. Embedding the TGC function in the TIA reduces the output DR, saving power compared to prior solutions that apply TGC after the low-noise amplifier. The TIA employs a capacitive ladder feedback network and a current-steering circuit to obtain a linear-in-dB gain range of 37 dB. A variable-gain loop amplifier based on current-reuse stages maintains constant bandwidth in a power-efficient manner. The TIA has been integrated in a 64-channel ultrasound transceiver application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) in a 180-nm BCDMOS process and occupies a die area of 0.12 mm². It achieves a gain error below ±1 dB and a 1.7 pA/√ Hz noise floor and consumes 5.2 mW from a ±0.9 V supply. B-mode images of a tissue-mimicking phantom are presented that show the benefits of the TGC scheme.

  592. A Deep-Learning Method for Radar Micro-Doppler Spectrogram Restoration
    He, Yuan; Li, Xinyu; Li, Runlong; Wang, Jianping; Jing, Xiaojun;
    Sensors,
    Volume 20, Issue 17, pp. 5007, 2020. DOI: 10.3390/s20175007
    document

  593. Unambiguous Recovery of Multistatic SAR Data for Nonzero Cross Track Baseline Case
    O. Dogan; F. Uysal; P. L. Dekker;
    IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters,
    2020. DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2020.3021759
    document

  594. Human Motion Recognition With Limited Radar Micro-Doppler Signatures
    X. Li; Y. He; F. Fioranelli; X. Jing; A. Yarovoy; Y. Yang;
    IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing,
    2020. DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2020.3028223

  595. A 6.6-μW Wheatstone-Bridge Temperature Sensor for Biomedical Applications
    S. Pan; K. A. A. Makinwa;
    IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters,
    Volume 3, pp. 334-337, August 2020. DOI: 10.1109/LSSC.2020.3019078
    Abstract: ... This letter presents a compact, energy-efficient, and low-power Wheatstone-bridge temperature sensor for biomedical applications. To maximize sensitivity and reduce power dissipation, the sensor employs a high-resistance (600 kΩ) bridge that consists of resistors with positive (silicided-poly) and negative (n-poly) temperature coefficients. Resistor spread is then mitigated by trimming the n -poly arms with a 12-bit DAC, which consists of a 5-bit series DAC whose LSB is trimmed by a 7-bit PWM generator. The bridge is readout by a second-order delta–sigma modulator, which dynamically balances the bridge by tuning the resistance of the silicided-poly arms via a 1-bit series DAC. As a result, the modulator’s bitstream average is an accurate and near-linear function of temperature, which does not require further correction in the digital domain. Fabricated in a 180-nm CMOS technology, the sensor occupies 0.12mm2 . After a 1-point trim, it achieves +0.2 °C/−0.1 °C (3σ) inaccuracy in a ±10 °C range around body temperature (37.5 °C). It consumes 6.6 μW from a 1.6-V supply, and achieves 200-μK resolution in a 40-ms conversion time, which corresponds to a state-of-the-art resolution FoM of 11 fJ⋅K2 . Duty cycling the sensor results in even lower average power: 700nW at 10 conversions/s.

  596. A 10 fJ·K² Wheatstone Bridge Temperature Sensor With a Tail-Resistor-Linearized OTA
    S. Pan; K. A. A. Makinwa;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 56, Issue 501-510, September 2020. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2020.3018164
    Abstract: ... This article describes a highly energy-efficient Wheatstone bridge temperature sensor. To maximize sensitivity, the bridge is made from resistors with positive (silicided diffusion) and negative (poly) temperature coefficients. The bridge is balanced by a resistive (poly) FIR-DAC, which is part of a 2nd-order continuous-time delta-sigma modulator (CTΔ ΣM). Each stage of the modulator is based on an energy-efficient current-reuse OTA. To efficiently suppress quantization noise foldback, the 1st stage OTA employs a tail-resistor linearization scheme. Sensor accuracy is enhanced by realizing the poly arms of the bridge and the DAC from identical unit elements. Fabricated in a 180-nm CMOS technology, the sensor draws 55 μW from a 1.8-V supply and achieves a resolution of 150 μK_rms in an 8-ms conversion time. This translates into a state-of-the-art resolution figure-of-merit (FoM) of 10 fJ·K². Furthermore, the sensor achieves an inaccuracy of ±0.4 °C (3σ) from -55 °C to 125 °C after a ratio-based one-point trim and systematic non-linearity removal, which improves to ±0.1 °C (3σ) after a 1st-order fit.

  597. A Study on Reference Microphone Selection for Multi-Microphone Speech Enhancement
    Jie Zhang; Huawei Chen; Li-Rong Dai; Richard C. Hendriks;
    IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech and Language Processing,
    Volume 29, pp. 671 - 683, Nov. 2020. DOI: 10.1109/TASLP.2020.3039930
    document

  598. A novel planar, broadband, high gain lateral wave antenna array for body scanning applications
    F. Tokan; D. Cavallo; A. Neto;
    Journal of Electrical Engineering,
    Volume 71, Issue 5, pp. 308-316, Nov. 2020. DOI: 10.2478/jee-2020-0042

  599. Monolithic Integration of a Smart Temperature Sensor on a Modular Silicon-based Organ-on-a-Chip Device
    Martins da Ponte, Ronaldo; Nikolas Gaio; Henk van Zeijl; Sten Vollebregt; Paul Dijkstra; Ronald Dekker; Wouter A. Serdijn; Vasiliki Giagka;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical,
    Nov. 21 2020. ISSN 0924-4247.
    Keywords: ... Organs-on-a-chip; Smart temperature sensor; Time-mode domain signal processing; MEMS; CMOS Monolithic Integration; MEMS-Electronics co-fabrication.

    Abstract: ... One of the many applications of organ-on-a-chip (OOC) technology is the study of biological processes in human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) during pharmacological drug screening. It is of paramount importance to construct OOCs equipped with highly compact in situ sensors that can accurately monitor, in real time, the extracellular fluid environment and anticipate any vital physiological changes of the culture. In this paper, we report the co-fabrication of a CMOS smart sensor on the same substrate as our silicon-based OOC for real-time in situ temperature measurement of the cell culture. The proposed CMOS circuit is developed to provide the first monolithically integrated in situ smart temperature-sensing system on a micromachined silicon-based OOC device. Measurement results on wafer reveal a resolution of less than ±0.2 °C and a nonlinearity error of less than 0.05% across a temperature range from 30 °C to 40 °C. The sensor's time response is more than 10 times faster than the time constant of the convection-cooling mechanism found for a medium containing 0.4 ml of PBS solution. All in all, this work is the first step towards realising OOCs with seamless integrated CMOS-based sensors capable to measure, in real time, multiple physical quantities found in cell culture experiments. It is expected that the use of commercial foundry CMOS processes may enable OOCs with very large scale of multi-sensing integration and actuation in a closed-loop system manner.

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  600. A wearable fluidic collection patch and ion chromatography method for sweat electrolyte monitoring during exercise
    Annemarijn Steijlen, Jeroen Bastemeijer, Pim Groen, K.M.B Jansen, Patrick French ; Andre Bossche;
    Analytical Methods,
    pp. 8, November 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D0AY02014A
    Abstract: ... This paper presents a method to continuously collect and reliably measure sweat analyte concentrations during exercise. The method can be used to validate newly developed sweat sensors and to obtain insight in intraindividual variations of sweat analytes in athletes. First, a novel design of a sweat collection system is created. The sweat collection patch, that is made from hydrophilized foil and a double-sided acrylate adhesive, consists of a reservoir array that collects samples consecutively in time. During a physiological experiment, sweat can be collected from the back of a participant and the filling speed of the collector is monitored by a camera. After the experiment, Na+, Cl- and K+ levels are measured with ion chromatography. Sweat analyte variations are measured during an exercise of an hour at three different locations at the back. The Na+ and Cl- variations show a similar trend and the absolute concentrations vary with patch location. Na+ and Cl concentrations increase and K+ concentrations seem to decrease during this exercise. With this new sweat collection system,sweat Na+, Cl- and K+ concentrations can be collected over time during an exercise at medium to high intensity, to analyse the trend in electrolyte variations per individual.

  601. Joint Doppler and DOA estimation using (Ultra-)Wideband FMCW signals
    Shengzhi Xu; Bert Jan Kooij; Alexander Yarovoy;
    Signal Processing,
    Volume 168, pp. 107259, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sigpro.2019.107259

  602. Radar classifications of consecutive and contiguous human gross-motor activities
    Moeness G. Amin; Ronny G. Guendel;
    IET Radar, Sonar Navigation,
    Volume 14, Issue 9, pp. 1417-1429, 09 2020. DOI: 10.1049/iet-rsn.2019.0585

  603. DopplerNet: a convolutional neural network for recognising targets in real scenarios using a persistent range–Doppler radar
    I. Roldan; C. R. del-Blanco; Á. Duque de Quevedo; F. Ibañez Urzaiz; J. Gismero Menoyo; A. Asensio López; D. Berjón; F. Jaureguizar; N. García;
    IET Radar, Sonar Navigation,
    Volume 14, Issue 4, pp. 593-600, 2020. DOI: 10.1049/iet-rsn.2019.0307

  604. Transverse slot with control of amplitude and phase for travelling-wave SIW antenna arrays
    Tomas Mikulasek; Jan Puskely; Alexander G. Yarovoy; Jaroslav Lacik; Holger Arthaber;
    IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation,
    Volume 14, pp. 1943-1946(3), December 2020. DOI: 10.1049/iet-map.2020.0069

  605. Joint Features Extraction for Multiple Moving Targets Using (Ultra-)Wideband FMCW Signals in the Presence of Doppler Ambiguity
    S. Xu; A. Yarovoy;
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing,
    Volume 68, pp. 6562-6577, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2020.3039565

  606. Privacy-Preserving Distributed Optimization via Subspace Perturbation: A General Framework
    Qiongxiu Li; R. Heusdens; M. Graesboll Christensen;
    IEEE Trans. Signal Processing,
    Volume 68, pp. 5983-5996, October 2020.

  607. Phase-based Classification for Arm Gesture and Gross-Motor Activities using Histogram of Oriented Gradients
    R. G. Guendel; F. Fioranelli; A. Yarovoy;
    IEEE Sensors Journal,
    pp. 10, 12 2020. DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2020.3044675

  608. Wideband double leaky slot lens antennas in CMOS technology at sub-millimeter wavelengths
    Sven Van Berkel; Satoshi Malotaux; Carmine De Martino; Marco Spirito; Danielle Cavallo; Andrea Neto; Nuria Llombart;
    IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology,
    Volume 10, Issue 5, pp. 540-553, Jul. 2020. DOI: 10.1109/TTHZ.2020.3006750

  609. An Ultra-Wideband Leaky Lens Antenna for Broadband Spectroscopic Imaging Applications
    S. Hahnle; O. Yurduseven; S.L. van Berkel; N. Llombart; J. Bueno; S. Yates; V. Murugesan; D. Thoen; A. Neto; J. Baselmans;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 78, Issue 7, pp. 5675-5679, July 2020. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2019.2963563
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  610. Wideband multi-mode leaky-wave feed for scanning lens phased array at submillimeter wavelengths
    M. Alonso-delPino; S. Bosma; C. Jung-Kubiak; G. Chattopadhyay; N. Llombart;
    IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology,
    Volume 11, Issue 2, pp. 205 - 217, Nov. 2020. DOI: 10.1109/TTHZ.2020.3038033

  611. Spatially Correct Rate-Constrained Noise Reduction For Binaural Hearing Aids in Wireless Acoustic Sensor Networks
    Jamal Amini; Richard C. Hendriks; Richard Heusdens; Meng Guo; Jesper Jensen;
    IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech and Language processing,
    Volume 28, pp. 2731-2742, Oct. 2020. DOI: 10.1109/TASLP.2020.3028264
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  612. Graph-Time Spectral Analysis for Atrial Fibrillation
    Miao Sun; Elvin Isufi; Natasja M.S. de Groot; Richard C. Hendriks;
    Biomedical Signal Processing and Control,
    Volume 59, May 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bspc.2020.101915
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  613. Single-pixel thermopile infrared sensing for people counting
    E. Hagenaars; A. Pandharipande; A. Murthy; G. Leus;
    IEEE Sensors Journal,
    2020. DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2020.3029739
    document

  614. Graphs, Convolutions, and Neural Networks: From Graph Filters to Graph Neural Networks
    F. Gama; E. Isufi; G. Leus; A. Ribeiro;
    IEEE Signal Processing Magazine,
    Volume 37, Issue 6, pp. 128-138, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/MSP.2020.3016143
    document

  615. Submodularity in Action: From Machine Learning to Signal Processing Applications
    E. Tohidi; R. Amiri; M. Coutino; D. Gesbert; G. Leus; A. Karbasi;
    IEEE Signal Processing Magazine,
    Volume 37, Issue 5, pp. 120-133, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/MSP.2020.3003836
    document

  616. Compressed-Domain Detection and Estimation for Colocated MIMO Radar
    E. Tohidi; A. Hariri; H. Behroozi; M. M. Nayebi; G. Leus; A.P. Petropulu;
    IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems,
    Volume 56, Issue 6, pp. 4504-4518, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2020.2995528
    document

  617. State-Space Network Topology Identification From Partial Observations
    M. Coutino; E. Isufi; T. Maehara; G. Leus;
    IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks,
    Volume 6, pp. 211-225, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/TSIPN.2020.2975393
    document

  618. Antenna Placement in a Compressive Sensing-Based Colocated MIMO Radar
    A. Ajorloo; A. Amini; E. Tohidi; M. H. Bastani; G. Leus;
    IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems,
    Volume 56, Issue 6, pp. 4606-4614, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2020.2998196
    document

  619. Consensus Based Distributed Sparse Bayesian Learning by Fast Marginal Likelihood Maximization
    C. Manss; D. Shutin; G. Leus;
    IEEE Signal Processing Letters,
    Volume 27, pp. 2119-2123, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2020.3039481
    document

  620. Time-Varying Convex Optimization: Time-Structured Algorithms and Applications
    A. Simonetto; E. Dall'Anese; S. Paternain; G. Leus; G.B. Giannakis;
    Proceedings of the IEEE,
    Volume 108, Issue 11, pp. 2032-2048, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2020.3003156
    document

  621. Superconducting High-Aspect Ratio Through-Silicon Vias With DC-Sputtered Al for Quantum 3D Integration
    J.A. Alfaro-Barrantes; M. Mastrangeli; D.J. Thoen; S. Visser; J. Bueno; J.J.A. Baselmans; P.M. Sarro;
    IEEE Electron Device Letters,
    Volume 41, Issue 7, pp. 1114-1117, July 2020. DOI: 10.1109/LED.2020.2994862

  622. Suppression of radiation loss in high kinetic inductance superconducting co-planar waveguides Suppression of radiation loss in high kinetic inductance superconducting co-planar waveguides
    S. Haenle; N. v. Marrewijk; A. Endo; K. Karatsu; D.J. Thoen; V. Murugesan; J.J.A. Baselmans;
    Applied Physics Letters,
    Volume 116, Issue 18, 2020. DOI: 10.1063/5.0005047
    document

  623. Sequential Human Gait Classification with Distributed Radar Sensor Fusion
    H. Li; A. Mehul; J. Le Kernec; S. Z. Gurbuz; F. Fioranelli;
    IEEE Sensors Journal,
    pp. 13, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2020.3046991

  624. On the Use of Fly’s Eye Lenses with Leaky-Wave Feeds for Wideband Communications
    Arias Campo, M.; Blanco, D; Bruni, S.; Neto, A.; Llombart, N.;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,,
    Volume 68, Issue 4, pp. 2480-2493, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2019.2952474
    document

  625. Equivalent Circuit Modeling of a Single-Ended Patch Sensing Element in Integrated Technology
    Thippur Shivamurthy, H.; Z. Hu; G. Vlachogiannakis; M. Spirito; A. Neto;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 68, Issue 1, pp. 17-26, Jan. 2020. DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2019.2956938

  626. The Observable in Complex Scattering Scenarios
    Fiorellini Bernardis, A.; Neto, A.; Emer, D.; Freni, A.; Llombart, N.;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 68, Issue 7, pp. 5544-5555, July 2020. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2020.2978885
    document

  627. Visual seizure annotation and automated seizure detection using behind-the-ear electroencephalographic channels
    Vandecasteele, Kaat; De Cooman, Thomas; Dan, Jonathan; Cleeren, Evy; Van Huffel, Sabine; Hunyadi, Borbala; Van Paesschen, Wim;
    Epilepsia,
    Volume 61, Issue 4, pp. 766--775, 2020. DOI: 10.1111/epi.16470
    document

  628. Zebrafish-based screening of antiseizure plants used in Traditional Chinese Medicine: Magnolia officinalis extract and its constituents Magnolol and Honokiol exhibit potent anticonvulsant activity in a therapy-resistant epilepsy model
    Li, Jing; Copmans, Danielle; Partoens, Michele; Hunyadi, Borbala; Luyten, Walter; de Witte, Peter;
    ACS chemical neuroscience,
    Volume 11, Issue 5, pp. 730--742, 2020. DOI: 10.1021/acschemneuro.9b00610
    document

  629. A wearable fluidic collection patch and ion chromatography method for sweat electrolyte monitoring during exercise
    Steijlen, Annemarijn SM; Bastemeijer, Jeroen; Groen, Pim; Jansen, Kaspar MB; French, Patrick J; Bossche, Andre;
    Analytical Methods,
    Volume 12, Issue 48, pp. 5885--5892, 2020. DOI: 10.1039/D0AY02014A
    Abstract: ... This paper presents a method to continuously collect and reliably measure sweat analyte concentrations during exercise. The method can be used to validate newly developed sweat sensors and to obtain insight into intraindividual variations of sweat analytes in athletes. First, a novel design of a sweat collection system is created. The sweat collection patch, that is made from hydrophilized foil and a double-sided acrylate adhesive, consists of a reservoir array that collects samples consecutively in time. During a physiological experiment, sweat can be collected from the back of a participant and the filling speed of the collector is monitored by using a camera. After the experiment, Na+, Cl− and K+ levels are measured with ion chromatography. Sweat analyte variations are measured during exercise for an hour at three different locations on the back. The Na+ and Cl− variations show a similar trend and the absolute concentrations vary with the patch location. Na+ and Cl− concentrations increase and K+ concentrations seem to decrease during this exercise. With this new sweat collection system, sweat Na+, Cl− and K+ concentrations can be collected over time during exercise at medium to high intensity, to analyse the trend in electrolyte variations per individual.

  630. An Inertial Measurement Unit Based Method to Estimate Hip and Knee Joint Kinematics in Team Sport Athletes on the Field
    Bastiaansen, Bram JC; Wilmes, Erik; Brink, Michel S; de Ruiter, Cornelis J; Savelsbergh, Geert JP; Steijlen, Annemarijn; Jansen, Kaspar MB; van der Helm, Frans CT; Goedhart, Edwin A; van der Laan, Doris; others;
    JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments),
    Issue 159, pp. e60857, 2020. DOI: 10.3791/60857
    Abstract: ... Current athlete monitoring practice in team sports is mainly based on positional data measured by global positioning or local positioning systems. The disadvantage of these measurement systems is that they do not register lower extremity kinematics, which could be a useful measure for identifying injury-risk factors. Rapid development in sensor technology may overcome the limitations of the current measurement systems. With inertial measurement units (IMUs) securely fixed to body segments, sensor fusion algorithms and a biomechanical model, joint kinematics could be estimated. The main purpose of this article is to demonstrate a sensor setup for estimating hip and knee joint kinematics of team sport athletes in the field. Five male subjects (age 22.5 ± 2.1 years; body mass 77.0 ± 3.8 kg; height 184.3 ± 5.2 cm; training experience 15.3 ± 4.8 years) performed a maximal 30-meter linear sprint. Hip and knee joint angles and angular velocities were obtained by five IMUs placed on the pelvis, both thighs and both shanks. Hip angles ranged from 195° (± 8°) extension to 100.5° (± 8°) flexion and knee angles ranged from 168.6° (± 12°) minimal flexion and 62.8° (± 12°) maximal flexion. Furthermore, hip angular velocity ranged between 802.6 °·s-1 (± 192 °·s-1) and -674.9 °·s-1 (± 130 °·s-1). Knee angular velocity ranged between 1155.9 °·s-1 (± 200 °·s-1) and -1208.2 °·s-1 (± 264 °·s-1). The sensor setup has been validated and could provide additional information with regard to athlete monitoring in the field. This may help professionals in a daily sports setting to evaluate their training programs, aiming to reduce injury and optimize performance.

  631. Coding Mask Design for Single Sensor Ultrasound Imaging
    P. van der Meulen; P. Kruizinga; J.G. Bosch; G. Leus;
    IEEE Trans. on Computational Imaging,
    Volume 6, pp. 358--373, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/TCI.2019.2948729

  632. Observing and Tracking Bandlimited Graph Processes from Sampled Measurements
    E. Isufi; P. Banelli; P. Di Lorenzo; G. Leus;
    Signal Processing,
    Volume 177, pp. 107749, December 2020.

  633. DOA Estimation in Heteroscedastic Noise with Sparse Bayesian Learning
    P. Gerstoft; C.F. Mecklenbrauker; S. Nannuru; G. Leus;
    Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society J.,
    Volume 35, Issue 11, pp. 1439--1440, November 2020.

  634. Underwater Acoustic Communication Using Multiple-Input–Multiple-Output Doppler-Resilient Orthogonal Signal Division Multiplexing
    T. Ebihara; H. Ogasawara; G. Leus;
    IEEE J. of Oceanic Engineering,
    Volume 45, Issue 4, pp. 1594--1610, October 2020. DOI: 10.1109/JOE.2019.2922094

  635. Sensor Placement and Resource Allocation for Energy Harvesting IoT Networks
    O.M. Bushnaq; A. Chaaban; S.P. Chepuri; G. Leus; T.Y. Al-Naffouri;
    Digital Signal Processing,
    Volume 105, pp. 102659, October 2020.

  636. Towards a General Framework for Fast and Feasible k-Space Trajectories for MRI Based on Projection Methods
    S. Sharma; M. Coutino; S.P. Chepuri; G. Leus; K.V.S. Hari;
    Magnetic Resonance Imaging,
    Volume 72, pp. 122--134, October 2020.

  637. Fast Spectral Approximation of Structured Graphs with Applications to Graph Filtering
    M. Coutino; S.P. Chepuri; T. Maehara; G. Leus;
    Algorithms,
    Volume 13, Issue 9, pp. 214, August 2020.

  638. Joint Channel and Doppler Estimation for OSDM Underwater Acoustic Communications
    Jing Han; S.P. Chepuri; G. Leus;
    Signal Processing,
    Volume 170, pp. 107446, May 2020.

  639. Equalization of OSDM over Time-Varying Channels Based on Diagonal-Block-Banded Matrix Enhancement
    Jing Han; Yujie Wang; Zehui Gong; G. Leus;
    Signal Processing,
    Volume 168, pp. 107333, March 2020.

  640. Low-Complexity Equalization of MIMO-OSDM
    Jing Han; Shengqian Ma; Yujie Wang; G. Leus;
    IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technology,
    Volume 69, Issue 2, pp. 2301--2305, February 2020. DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2019.2957542

  641. Power-saving design opportunities for wireless intracortical brain-computer interfaces
    N. Even-Chen; D.G. Muratore; S.D. Stavisky; L.R. Hochberg; J.M. Henderson; B. Murmann; K.V. Shenoy;
    Nature biomedical engineering,
    Issue 4, pp. 984–996, Augustus 2020.
    document

  642. A 0.065-mm(3) Monolithically-Integrated Ultrasonic Wireless Sensing Mote for Real-Time Physiological Temperature MonitoringSyst
    C. Shi; T. Costa; J. Elloian; Y. Zhang; K.L. Shepard;
    IEEE Trans Biomed Circuits,
    Volume 14, Issue 3, pp. 412-424, June 2020. DOI: 10.1109/TBCAS.2020.2971066.
    document

  643. Ablation of piezoelectric polyvinylidene fluoride with a 193 nm excimer laser
    J. Elloian; J. Sherman; T. Costa; C. Shi; K. Shepard;
    Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A,
    Volume 38, Issue 3, pp. 033202, February 2020. DOI: 10.1116/1.5142494
    document

  644. A Novel Calibration Method for Active Interferometer-Based VNAs
    Mubarak, F. A.; Romano, R.; Rietveld, G.; Spirito, M.;
    IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters,
    Volume 30, Issue 8, pp. 829-832, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/LMWC.2020.3006701
    Keywords: ... Calibration;Interferometers;Measurement uncertainty;Impedance measurement;Impedance;Q measurement;Radio frequency;Calibration;extreme impedance measurement;impedance mismatch;measurement;microwave interferometry;nanoelectronics;nanostructures;noise;traceability;vector network analyzer (VNA).

  645. Hardware and Software Solutions for Active Frequency Scalable (Sub)mm-Wave Load–Pull
    De Martino, Carmine; Galatro, Luca; Romano, Raffaele; Parisi, Gaetano; Spirito, Marco;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 68, Issue 9, pp. 3769-3775, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2020.3005178
    Keywords: ... Frequency control;Hardware;Frequency modulation;Frequency synthesizers;Frequency measurement;Power measurement;Device modeling;large-signal characterization;load–pull;mixed-signal;mm-wave.

  646. Wideband Double Leaky Slot Lens Antennas in CMOS Technology at Submillimeter Wavelengths
    van Berkel, Sven; Malotaux, Eduard Satoshi; De Martino, Carmine; Spirito, Marco; Cavallo, Daniele; Neto, Andrea; Llombart, Nuria;
    IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology,
    Volume 10, Issue 5, pp. 540-553, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/TTHZ.2020.3006750
    Keywords: ... Lenses;Silicon;Antenna measurements;Slot antennas;Metals;Bandwidth;CMOS antennas;direct detection;double slot;leaky lenses;leaky wave;millimeter waves;on-chip antennas;submillimeter waves;terahertz (THz);THz imaging;ultrawideband.

  647. Equivalent Circuit Modeling of a Single-Ended Patch Sensing Element in Integrated Technology
    Shivamurthy, Harshitha Thippur; Hu, Zhebin; Vlachogiannakis, Gerasimos; Spirito, Marco; Neto, Andrea;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 68, Issue 1, pp. 17-26, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2019.2956938
    Keywords: ... Sensors;Permittivity;Apertures;Biological system modeling;Computational modeling;Load modeling;Numerical models;Equivalent transmission line model;permittivity sensors.

  648. A roadmap towards a space-based radio telescope for ultra-low frequency radio astronomy
    M.J. Bentum; M.K. Verma; R.T. Rajan; A.J. Boonstra; C.J.M. Verhoeven; E.K.A. Gill; A.J. {van der Veen}; H. Falcke; M. Klein Wolt; B. Monna; S. Engelen; J. Rotteveel; L.I. Gurvits;
    Advances in Space Research,
    Volume 65, Issue 2, pp. 856-867, 2020. High-resolution space-borne radio astronomy. DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2019.09.007
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  649. A Resistive Degeneration Technique for Linearizing Open-Loop Amplifiers
    M. S. Akter; R. Sehgal; K. Bult;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs,
    Volume 67, Issue 11, pp. 2322-2326, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/TCSII.2020.2966276

  650. Low-friction, wear-resistant, and electrically homogeneous multilayer graphene grown by chemical vapor deposition on molybdenum
    Borislav Vasic; Uros Ralevic; Katarina Cvetanovic Zobenica; Milce Smiljanic; Rados Gajic; Marko Spasenovic; Sten Vollebregt;
    Applied Surface Science,
    Volume 509, pp. 144792, 2020. DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2019.144792

  651. 2020 Index IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits Vol. 55
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 55, Issue 12, pp. 3429-3496, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2021.3054535

  652. A Scalable Cryo-CMOS Controller for the Wideband Frequency-Multiplexed Control of Spin Qubits and Transmons
    Van Dijk, Jeroen Petrus Gerardus; Patra, Bishnu; Subramanian, Sushil; Xue, Xiao; Samkharadze, Nodar; Corna, Andrea; Jeon, Charles; Sheikh, Farhana; Juarez-Hernandez, Esdras; Esparza, Brando Perez; Rampurawala, Huzaifa; Carlton, Brent R.; Ravikumar, Surej; Nieva, Carlos; Kim, Sungwon; Lee, Hyung-Jin; Sammak, Amir; Scappucci, Giordano; Veldhorst, Menno; Vandersypen, Lieven M. K.; Charbon, Edoardo; Pellerano, Stefano; Babaie, Masoud; Sebasti;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 55, Issue 11, pp. 2930-2946, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2020.3024678

  653. Designing a DDS-Based SoC for High-Fidelity Multi-Qubit Control
    van Dijk, Jeroen P. G.; Patra, Bishnu; Pellerano, Stefano; Charbon, Edoardo; Sebastiano, Fabio; Babaie, Masoud;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers,
    Volume 67, Issue 12, pp. 5380-5393, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2020.3019413

  654. Analysis and Design of Power Supply Circuits for RF Oscillators
    Urso, Alessandro; Chen, Yue; Dijkhuis, Johan F.; Liu, Yao-Hong; Babaie, Masoud; Serdijn, Wouter A.;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers,
    Volume 67, Issue 12, pp. 4233-4246, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2020.3020001

  655. A Switched-Capacitor DC-DC Converter Powering an LC Oscillator to Achieve 85% System Peak Power Efficiency and −65dBc Spurious Tones
    Urso, Alessandro; Chen, Yue; Staszewski, Robert Bogdan; Dijkhuis, Johan F.; Stanzione, Stefano; Liu, Yao-Hong; Serdijn, Wouter A.; Babaie, Masoud;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers,
    Volume 67, Issue 11, pp. 3764-3777, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2020.3012106

  656. Characterization and Analysis of On-Chip Microwave Passive Components at Cryogenic Temperatures
    Patra, Bishnu; Mehrpoo, Mohammadreza; Ruffino, Andrea; Sebastiano, Fabio; Charbon, Edoardo; Babaie, Masoud;
    IEEE Journal of the Electron Devices Society,
    Volume 8, pp. 448-456, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/JEDS.2020.2986722

  657. A Wideband Low-Power Cryogenic CMOS Circulator for Quantum Applications
    Ruffino, Andrea; Peng, Yatao; Sebastiano, Fabio; Babaie, Masoud; Charbon, Edoardo;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 55, Issue 5, pp. 1224-1238, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2020.2978020

  658. Characterization and Modeling of Mismatch in Cryo-CMOS
    ’T Hart, P. A.; Babaie, M.; Charbon, Edoardo; Vladimirescu, Andrei; Sebastiano, Fabio;
    IEEE Journal of the Electron Devices Society,
    Volume 8, pp. 263-273, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/JEDS.2020.2976546

  659. A Cryogenic CMOS Parametric Amplifier
    Mehrpoo, Mohammadreza; Sebastiano, Fabio; Charbon, Edoardo; Babaie, Masoud;
    IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters,
    Volume 3, pp. 5-8, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/LSSC.2019.2950186

  660. A High-Linearity and Low-EMI Multilevel Class-D Amplifier
    H. Zhang; S. Karmakar; L. J. Breems; Q. Sandifort; M. Berkhout; K. A. A. Makinwa; Qinwen Fan;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 56, pp. 1176-1185, December 2020. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2020.3043815
    Abstract: ... This article presents a Class-D audio amplifier for automotive applications. Low electromagnetic interference (EMI) and, hence, smaller LC filter size are obtained by employing a fully differential multilevel output stage switching at 4.2 MHz. A modulation scheme with minimal switching activity at zero input reduces idle power, which is further assisted by a gate-charge reuse scheme. It also achieves high linearity due to the high loop gain realized by a third-order feedback loop with a bandwidth of 800 kHz. The prototype, fabricated in a 180-nm high-voltage BCD process, achieves a minimum THD+N of −107.8 dB/−102 dB and a peak efficiency of 91%/87% with 8- and 4- Ω loads, respectively, while drawing 7-mA quiescent current from a 14.4-V supply. The prototype meets the CISPR 25 Class 5 EMI standard with a 5.7-dB margin using an LC filter with a cutoff frequency of 580 kHz.

  661. A 28-W, -102.2-dB THD+N Class-D Amplifier Using a Hybrid Δ Σ M-PWM Scheme
    S. Karmakar; H. Zhang; R. van Veldhoven; L. J. Breems; M. Berkhout; Qinwen Fan; K. A. A. Makinwa;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    September 2020. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2020.3023874
    Abstract: ... This article presents a 28-W class-D amplifier for automotive applications. The combination of a high switching frequency and a hybrid multibit Δ ΣM-PWM scheme results in high linearity over a wide range of output power, as well as low AM-band EMI. As a result, only a small (150-kHz cutoff frequency), and thus low-cost, LC filter is needed to meet the CISPR-25 EMI average limit (150 kHz-30 MHz) with 10-dB margin. At 28-W output power, the proposed amplifier achieves 91% efficiency while driving a 4-Ω load from a 14.4-V supply. It attains a peak THD+N of 0.00077% (-102.2 dB) for a 1-kHz input signal.

  662. Fan-out Panel-level PCB Embedded SiC Power MOSFETs Packaging
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    IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics,
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  663. Review of Packaging Schemes for Power Module
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    IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics,
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  664. The influence of phosphor particles on the water transport in optical silicones for LEDs
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  665. Microchannel Thermal Management System with Two-Phase Flow for Power Electronics over 500 W/cm2 Heat Dissipation
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  666. Ultra-sensitive NO2 gas sensors based on single-wall carbon nanotube field effect transistors: Monitoring from ppm to ppb level
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  668. Quantum Signature of a Squeezed Mechanical Oscillator
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  669. Towards Multi-Functional SiO2@YAG:Ce Core–Shell Optical Nanoparticles for Solid State Lighting Applications
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  670. Low-Impedance PEDOT:PSS MEA Integrated in a Stretchable Organ-on-Chip Device
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  671. From bioethanol containing fuels towards a fuel economy that includes methanol derived from renewable sources and the impact on European Union decision-making on transition pathways
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  672. From bioethanol containing fuels towards a fuel economy that includes methanol derived from renewable sources and the impact on European Union decision-making on transition pathways
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  673. Maintaining Transparency of a Heated MEMS Membrane for Enabling Long-Term Optical Measurements on Soot-Containing Exhaust Gas
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  674. Self-aligned micro-optic integrated photonic platform
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  675. The interface adhesion of CaAlSiN3: Eu2+ phosphor/silicone used in light-emitting diode packaging: a first principles study
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  676. Controlling the pinning time of a receding contact line under forced wetting conditions
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  677. Bottom-up assembly of micro/nanostructures
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  678. Infrared absorbance of vertically-aligned multi-walled CNT forest as a function of synthesis temperature and time
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  679. Toward a Self-Sensing Piezoresistive Pressure Sensor for all-SiC Monolithic Integration
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  680. Low-Humidity Sensing Properties of Multi-Layered Graphene Grown by Chemical Vapor Deposition
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  681. Wafer-scale transfer-free process of multi-layered graphene grown by chemical vapor deposition
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  682. Software Reliability for Agile Testing
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    Mathematics,
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  683. Three-dimensional self-assembly using dipolar interaction
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  684. Statistical reprogramming of macroscopic self-assembly with dynamic boundaries
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  685. Vertically-Aligned Multi-Walled Carbon Nano Tube Pillars with Various Diameters under Compression: Pristine and NbTiN Coated
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  686. The Impact of Gate Recess on the H2 Detection Properties of Pt-AlGaN/GaN HEMT Sensors
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  687. Superconducting High-Aspect Ratio Through-Silicon Vias with DC-Sputtered Al for Quantum 3D integration
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    IEEE Electron Device Letters,
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  688. A miniaturized EHT platform for accurate measurements of tissue contractile properties
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  689. The influence of H2 and NH3 on catalyst nanoparticle formation and carbon nanotube growth
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    Carbon,
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  690. Low power AlGaN/GaN MEMS pressure sensor for high vacuum application
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  691. Effect of Humidity on Gas Sensing Performance of Carbon Nanotube Gas Sensors Operated at Room Temperature
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  692. Thermal kinetic and mechanical behaviors of pressure-assisted Cu nanoparticles sintering: A molecular dynamics study
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  693. Quantum motion of a squeezed mechanical oscillator attained via an optomechanical experiment
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  694. Recent advances in 2D/nanostructured metal sulfide-based gas sensors: mechanisms, applications, and perspectives
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  695. A high responsivity and controllable recovery ultraviolet detector based on a WO3 gate AlGaN/GaN heterostructure with an integrated micro-heater
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  696. An effective optics-electrochemistry approach to random packing density of non-equiaxed ellipsoids
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  697. Dynamic prediction of optical and chromatic performances for a light-emitting diode array based on a thermal-electrical-spectral model
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  698. Effect of porous Cu addition on the microstructure and mechanical properties of SnBi-xAg solder joints
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  699. Blue light therapy to treat candida vaginitis with comparisons of three wavelengths: An in vitro study
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  700. Effective Approaches of Improving the Performance of Chalcogenide Solid Electrolytes for All-Solid-State Sodium-Ion Batteries
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  701. Entropy generation methodology for defect analysis of electronic and mechanical components-A review
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  702. Experimental Investigation on the Sintering Kinetics of Nanosilver Particles Used in High-Power Electronic Packaging
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  703. Machine Learning and Digital Twin Driven Diagnostics and Prognostics of Light‐Emitting Diodes
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  704. Machine-Learning Assisted Prediction of Spectral Power Distribution for Full-Spectrum White Light-Emitting Diode
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  705. Lifetime Prediction of Ultraviolet Light-Emitting Diodes Using a Long Short-Term Memory Recurrent Neural Network
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  706. Optimization of Mesa Etch for a Quasi-Vertical GaN Schottky Barrier Diode (SBD) by Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP) and Device Characteristics
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  707. The inactivation mechanism of chemical disinfection against SARS-CoV-2: from MD and DFT perspectives
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  708. Multi-axial electro-mechanical testing methodology for highly stretchable freestanding micron-sized structures
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  709. Soft, flexible and transparent graphene-based active spinal cord implants for optogenetic studies
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  710. Functionalisation of Multi-Layer Graphene-Based Gas Sensor by Au Nanoparticles
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  711. P-type β-Ga2O3 metal-semiconductor-metal solar-blind photodetectors with extremely high responsivity and gain-bandwidth product
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  712. Recent Advances in the Critical Heat Flux Amelioration of Pool Boiling Surfaces Using Metal Oxide Nanoparticle Deposition
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  713. Highlights From the Signal Processing Theory and Methods Technical Committee
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  714. Gradient Coil Design and Realization for a Halbach-Based MRI System
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  715. Accelerating Implant RF Safety Assessment Using a Low-Rank Inverse Update Method
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  716. Modal Analysis of Photonic and Plasmonic Resonators
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  717. Transceive Phase Corrected 2D Contrast Source Inversion -- Electrical Properties Tomography
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  718. A 28-W, -102.2-dB THD$\mathplus$N Class-D Amplifier Using a Hybrid $\upDelta$$\upSigma$M-PWM Scheme
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  719. A novel numerical model to simulate acoustofluidic particle manipulation
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  720. Numerical and Experimental Studies on the Effect of Surface Roughness and Ultrasonic Frequency on Bubble Dynamics in Acoustic Cavitation
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  721. Electric field assisted assembly of 1D supramolecular nanofibres for enhanced supercapacitive performance
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  722. Humidity sensing and breath analyzing applications of TiO2 slanted nanorod arrays.
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    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical,
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    Abstract: ... Humidity sensing devices are fabricated using titanium dioxide nanorod arrays and studied in this work. TiO2 slanted nanorods were grown by using electron beam assisted physical evaporation technique by keeping quartz substrates at a glancing angle of 80°. TiO2 slanted nanorod arrays were characterized using XRD, FESEM with EDS, HR-TEM, and Raman spectroscopy techniques. XRD characterization reveals that as-deposited nanorods are amorphous, and annealing at 500 ℃ for 6 hrs leads to anatase crystal structure. FESEM confirms the growth of uniformly distributed nanorods without any cracks throughout the substrate. Further, the humidity sensing property was analyzed for both as-deposited and annealed samples with bottom gap electrode configuration. The sensing towards a wide humidity range was tested for fabricated TiO2 devices of both as-deposited and annealed TiO2 nanorods in a homemade humidity sensing setup. Remarkably, the annealed TiO2 nanorod sensor is found to be having high sensitivity and fast response and recovery times of 145 and 210 ms, respectively, for 95 % humidity. Finally, to check the practical applicability, the TiO2 nanorod sensors were used to analyze the humidity level in exhaled human breath to determine the dehydration level.

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  723. CNS Macrophages Differentially Rely on an Intronic Csf1r Enhancer for Their Development
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  724. Iterative Single-Cell Analyses Define the Transcriptome of the First Functional Hematopoietic Stem Cells
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  725. Notch Ligand Dll4 Impairs Cell Recruitment to Aortic Clusters and Limits Blood Stem Cell Generation
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  726. A 28-W, −102.2-dB THD+N Class-D Amplifier Using a Hybrid ΔΣM-PWM Scheme
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    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
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  727. A BJT-Based Temperature-to-Digital Converter With a ±0.25 °C 3 $\sigma$ -Inaccuracy From −40 °C to +180 °C Using Heater-Assisted Voltage Calibration
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  728. A 10 fJ·K² Wheatstone Bridge Temperature Sensor With a Tail-Resistor-Linearized OTA
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    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 56, Issue 501-510, pp. 501-510, September 2020. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2020.3018164
    Abstract: ... This article describes a highly energy-efficient Wheatstone bridge temperature sensor. To maximize sensitivity, the bridge is made from resistors with positive (silicided diffusion) and negative (poly) temperature coefficients. The bridge is balanced by a resistive (poly) FIR-DAC, which is part of a 2nd-order continuous-time delta-sigma modulator (CTΔ ΣM). Each stage of the modulator is based on an energy-efficient current-reuse OTA. To efficiently suppress quantization noise foldback, the 1st stage OTA employs a tail-resistor linearization scheme. Sensor accuracy is enhanced by realizing the poly arms of the bridge and the DAC from identical unit elements. Fabricated in a 180-nm CMOS technology, the sensor draws 55 μW from a 1.8-V supply and achieves a resolution of 150 μK_rms in an 8-ms conversion time. This translates into a state-of-the-art resolution figure-of-merit (FoM) of 10 fJ·K². Furthermore, the sensor achieves an inaccuracy of ±0.4 °C (3σ) from -55 °C to 125 °C after a ratio-based one-point trim and systematic non-linearity removal, which improves to ±0.1 °C (3σ) after a 1st-order fit.

  729. A 6.6-μW Wheatstone-Bridge Temperature Sensor for Biomedical Applications
    S. Pan; K. A. A. Makinwa;
    IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters,
    Volume 3, pp. 334-337, August 2020. DOI: 10.1109/LSSC.2020.3019078
    Abstract: ... This letter presents a compact, energy-efficient, and low-power Wheatstone-bridge temperature sensor for biomedical applications. To maximize sensitivity and reduce power dissipation, the sensor employs a high-resistance (600 kΩ) bridge that consists of resistors with positive (silicided-poly) and negative (n-poly) temperature coefficients. Resistor spread is then mitigated by trimming the n -poly arms with a 12-bit DAC, which consists of a 5-bit series DAC whose LSB is trimmed by a 7-bit PWM generator. The bridge is readout by a second-order delta–sigma modulator, which dynamically balances the bridge by tuning the resistance of the silicided-poly arms via a 1-bit series DAC. As a result, the modulator’s bitstream average is an accurate and near-linear function of temperature, which does not require further correction in the digital domain. Fabricated in a 180-nm CMOS technology, the sensor occupies 0.12mm2 . After a 1-point trim, it achieves +0.2 °C/−0.1 °C (3σ) inaccuracy in a ±10 °C range around body temperature (37.5 °C). It consumes 6.6 μW from a 1.6-V supply, and achieves 200-μK resolution in a 40-ms conversion time, which corresponds to a state-of-the-art resolution FoM of 11 fJ⋅K2 . Duty cycling the sensor results in even lower average power: 700nW at 10 conversions/s.

  730. Measurement of the transmission secondary electron yield of nanometer-thick films in a prototype Timed Photon Counter
    T. van der Reep; B. Looman; Hong Wah Chan; C. Hagen; H. van der Graaf;
    Journal of Instrumentation,
    Volume 15, pp. P10022, 2020. DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/15/10/P10022

  731. Experimental comparison of four nonlinear magnetic detection methods and considerations on clinical usability
    Van De Loosdrecht, M. M.; Abelmann, L.; Ten Haken, B.;
    Biomedical Physics and Engineering Express,
    Volume 7, Issue 1, 2020. All Open Access, Green Open Access, Hybrid Gold Open Access. DOI: 10.1088/2057-1976/abce90
    Keywords: ... Humans; Magnetic Fields; Magnetics; Magnetite Nanoparticles; Signal-To-Noise Ratio; Harmonic analysis; Iron oxides; Magnetometry; Nanomagnetics; superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticle; magnetite nanoparticle; Clinical application; Detection methods; Experimental comparison; External magnetic field; Field strengths; Magnetic detection; Nonlinear magnetic response; Nonlinear magnetics; Second harmonic detection; Superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles; Article; excitation; intermethod comparison; magnetic particle spectroscopy; magnetometry; signal noise ratio; spectroscopy; human; magnetic field; magnetism; signal noise ratio; Signal to noise ratio.

    Abstract: ... Superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs) are promising for clinical applications, because they have a characteristic nonlinear magnetic response when an external magnetic field is applied. This nonlinearity enables the distinct detection of SPIONs and makes measurements less sensitive to the human body and surgical steel instruments. In clinical applications, only a limited field strength for the magnetic detection is allowed. The signal to noise ratios (SNRs) of four nonlinear magnetic detection methods are compared. These methods include differential magnetometry and three variations of magnetic particle spectroscopy: frequency mixing, second harmonic detection and third harmonic detection. All methods were implemented on the same hardware and experimentally compared for various field strengths. To make the comparison fair, the same power was supplied to the excitation coil each time. In general, the SNR increases with increasing field strength. The SNR per drive field of all methods stabilizes or even decreases for field strengths above 6 mT. The second harmonic detection has the best SNR and the most room for improvement. © 2020 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd.

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  732. Inhomogeneous nematic-isotropic phase transition of a thermotropic liquid crystal doped with iron oxide nanoparticles
    Sung, Baeckkyoung; Yan, Huan; Kim, Chanjoong; Abelmann, Leon;
    Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics,
    Volume 384, Issue 36, 2020. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1016/j.physleta.2020.126927
    Keywords: ... Aggregates; Crystal structure; Glass transition; High resolution transmission electron microscopy; Iron metallography; Magnetic nanoparticles; Metal nanoparticles; Nematic liquid crystals; Textures; Thermotropic liquid crystals; Aggregated structure; Cryogenic transmission electron microscopy; Iron oxide nanoparticle; Local distributions; Local heterogeneity; Nematic isotropic phase transition; Nematic-isotropic; Polarized microscopy; Iron oxides.

    Abstract: ... We elucidate the local distribution and aggregated structure of iron oxide nanoparticles (IONPs; 6 nm in diameter) doped in the matrix of a nematic liquid crystal (LC), 4-cyano-4'-pentylbiphenyl, utilizing in situ cryogenic transmission electron microscopy and polarized light microscopy. We show that tens of IONPs aggregate into a sphere-like morphology, and the aggregates combine into elongated clusters with a length of hundreds of nm. With the IONP-doped LC matrix confined to a thin glass cell, we study the nematic-isotropic (N-I) phase transition, and suggest that local heterogeneity of LC textures as seen in polarized microscopy is caused by the existence of IONP aggregate clusters. These clusters act also as nuclei for the formation of isotropic domains upon heating. © 2020 Elsevier B.V.

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  733. A Thermodynamic Description of Turbulence as a Source of Stochastic Kinetic Energy for 3D Self-Assembly
    L{\"o}thman, Per A.; Hageman, Tijmen A. G.; Elwenspoek, Miko C.; Krijnen, Gijs J. M.; Mastrangeli, Massimo; Manz, Andreas; Abelmann, Leon;
    Advanced Materials Interfaces,
    Volume 7, Issue 5, 2020. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1002/admi.201900963
    Keywords: ... Boltzmann equation; Higher order statistics; Kinetic energy; Random processes; Self assembly; Stochastic systems; Thermodynamics; Three dimensional computer graphics; Turbulence; Turbulent flow; Boltzmann distribution; Boltzmann statistics; Directional component; Macroscopic particles; magnetics; Self assembly process; Thermodynamic description; Thermodynamic theory; Kinetics.

    Abstract: ... The extent to which one can use a thermodynamic description of turbulent flow as a source of stochastic kinetic energy for 3D self-assembly of magnetically interacting macroscopic particles is investigated. It is confirmed that the speed of the objects in the flow field generated in this system obeys the Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution, and their random walk can be defined by a diffusion coefficient following from the Einstein relation. However, it is discovered that the analogy with Brownian dynamics breaks down when considering the directional components of the velocity. For the vectorial components, neither the equipartition theorem nor the Einstein relation is obeyed. Moreover, the kinetic energy estimated from the random walk of individual objects is one order of magnitude higher than the value estimated from Boltzmann statistics on the interaction between two spheres with embedded magnets. These results show that introducing stochastic kinetic energy into a self-assembly process by means of turbulent flow can to a great extent be described by standard thermodynamic theory, but anisotropies and the specific nature of the interactions need to be taken into account. © 2019 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim

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  734. Three-dimensional self-assembly using dipolar interaction
    Abelmann, Leon; Hageman, Tijmen A. G.; L{\"o}thman, Per A.; Mastrangeli, Massimo; Elwenspoek, Miko C.;
    Science Advances,
    Volume 6, Issue 19, 2020. All Open Access, Gold Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aba2007
    Keywords: ... Crystals; Antiparallel state; Dipolar forces; Dipolar interaction; Micrometer ranges; One-dimensional chains; Regular structure; Three-dimensional crystals; Three-dimensional structure; article; controlled study; crystal; dipole; tumor spheroid; Self assembly.

    Abstract: ... Interaction between dipolar forces, such as permanent magnets, generally leads to the formation of one-dimensional chains and rings. We investigated whether it was possible to let dipoles self-assemble into three-dimensional structures by encapsulating them in a shell with a specific shape. We found that the condition for self-assembly of a three-dimensional crystal is satisfied when the energies of dipoles in the parallel and antiparallel states are equal. Our experiments show that the most regular structures are formed using cylinders and cuboids and not by spheroids. This simple design rule will help the self-assembly community to realize three-dimensional crystals from objects in the micrometer range, which opens up the way toward previously unknown metamaterials. Copyright © 2020 The Authors,

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  735. Comments on “Compact, Energy-Efficient High-Frequency Switched Capacitor Neural Stimulator With Active Charge Balancing"
    Alessandro Urso; Vasiliki Giagka; Wouter A. Serdijn;
    IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems,
    2019. DOI: 10.1109/TBCAS.2019.2898555
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  736. Single-Mode Tapered Vertical SU-8 Waveguide Fabricated by E-Beam Lithography for Analyte Sensing
    Y. Xin; G. Pandraud; Y. Zhang; P. French;
    Sensors,
    Volume 19, pp. 12, 2019. DOI: 10.3390/s19153383
    Keywords: ... E-beam lithography, evanescent sensing, single-mode, SU-8 photoresist, taper, vertical waveguide.

    Abstract: ... In this paper, we propose a novel vertical SU-8 waveguide for evanescent analyte sensing. The waveguide is designed to possess a vertical and narrow structure to generate evanescent waves on both sides of the waveguide's surface, aimed at increasing the sensitivity by enlarging the sensing areas. We performed simulations to monitor the influence of different parameters on the waveguide's performance, including its height and width. E-beam lithography was used to fabricate the structure, as this one-step direct writing process enables easy, fast, and high-resolution fabrication. Furthermore, it reduces the sidewall roughness and decreases the induced scattering loss, which is a major source of waveguide loss. Couplers were added to improve the coupling efficiency and alignment tolerance, and will contribute to the feasibility of a plug-and-play optical system. Optical measurements show that the transmission loss is 1.03 ± 0.19 dB/cm. The absorption sensitivity was measured to be 4.8 dB per refractive index unit (dB/RIU) for saline solutions with various concentrations.

  737. Diversity considerations in wideband radar detection of migrating targets in clutter
    Le Chevalier, Francois; Petrov, Nikita;
    Science China Information Sciences,
    Volume 62, Issue 4, pp. 40302, 2019. DOI: 10.1007/s11432-018-9735-6
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  738. Wind turbine clutter mitigation via non- convex regularizers and multidimensional processing
    Y. Hu; F. Uysal; I. Selesnick;
    Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology,
    Volume 36, Issue 4, pp. 1093–1104, 2019. DOI: 10.1175/JTECH-D-18-0164.1

  739. Relative kinematics of an anchorless network
    R. T. Rajan; G. Leus; A.J. van der Veen;
    Signal Processing,
    Volume 157, pp. 266-279, April 2019. ISSN: 0165-1684. DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2018.11.005
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  740. A Method for Determining the Length of FBG Sensors Accurately
    Aydin Rajabzadeh; Richard Heusdens; Richard C. Hendriks; Roger M. Groves;
    IEEE Photonics Technology Letters,
    Volume 31, Issue 2, pp. 197-200, January 2019. DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2019.2891009
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  741. Miniaturized Broadband Microwave Permittivity Sensing for Biomedical Applications
    G. Vlachogiannakis; Z. Hu; H. T. Shivamurthy; A. Neto; M. A. P. Pertijs; M. Spirito; L. C. N. de Vreede;
    IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology,
    Volume 3, Issue 1, pp. 48--55, March 2019. DOI: 10.1109/JERM.2018.2882564
    Abstract: ... A compact sensing pixel for the determination of the localized complex permittivity at microwave frequencies is proposed. Implemented in the 40-nm CMOS, the architecture comprises a square patch, interfaced to the material-under-test sample, that provides permittivity-dependent admittance. The patch admittance is read out by embedding the patch in a double-balanced, RF-driven Wheatstone bridge. The bridge is cascaded by a linear, low-intermediate frequency switching downconversion mixer, and is driven by a square wave that allows simultaneous characterization of multiple harmonics, thus increasing measurement speed and extending the frequency range of operation. In order to allow complex permittivity measurement, a calibration procedure has been developed for the sensor. Measurement results of liquids show good agreement with theoretical values, and the measured relative permittivity resolution is better than 0.3 over a 0.1-10-GHz range. The proposed implementation features a measurement speed of 1 ms and occupies an active area of 0.15x0.3 mm², allowing for future compact arrays of multiple sensors that facilitate 2-D dielectric imaging based on permittivity contrast.

  742. An Ultra High-Frequency 8-Channel Neurostimulator Circuit with 68% Peak Power Efficiency
    Alessandro Urso; Vasiliki Giagka; Marijn Van Dongen; Wouter A. Serdijn;
    IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems,
    2019. DOI: 10.1109/TBCAS.2019.2920294
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  743. A Compact Matrix Model for Atrial Electrograms for Tissue Conductivity Estimation
    Bahareh Abdi; Richard C. Hendriks; Alle-Jan van der Veen; Natasja M. S. de Groot;
    Computers in Biology and Medicine,
    Volume 107, pp. 284-291, April 2019. DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2019.02.012
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  744. DOA estimation in heteroscedastic noise
    P. Gerstoft; S. Nannuru; C.F. Mecklenbrauker; G. Leus;
    Signal Processing,
    March 2019. DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2019.03.014
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  745. Advances in Distributed Graph Filtering
    M. Coutino; E. Isufi; G. Leus;
    IEEE Tr. Signal Processing,
    Volume 67, Issue 9, pp. 2320-2333, May 2019. DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2019.2904925
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  746. Online Graph-Adaptive Learning With Scalability and Privacy
    Yanning Shen; G. Leus; G.B. Giannakis;
    IEEE Tr. Signal Processing,
    Volume 67, Issue 9, pp. 2471-2483, May 2019. DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2019.2904922
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  747. Low-complexity equalization of orthogonal signal-division multiplexing in doubly-selective channels
    Jing Han; Lingling Zhang; Qunfei Zhang; G. Leus;
    IEEE Tr. Signal Processing,
    Volume 67, Issue 4, pp. 915-929, February 2019. DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2018.2887191
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  748. Convolutional neural network architectures for signals supported on graphs
    F. Gama; A.G. Marques; G. Leus; A. Ribeiro;
    IEEE Tr. Signal Processing,
    Volume 67, Issue 4, pp. 1034-1049, February 2019. DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2018.2887403
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  749. Sparse Antenna and Pulse Placement for Colocated MIMO Radar
    E. Tohidi; M. Coutino; S.P. Chepuri; H. Behroozi; M.M. Nayebi; G. Leus;
    IEEE Tr. Signal Processing,
    Volume 67, Issue 3, pp. 579-593, February 2019. DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2018.2881656
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  750. Time-domain oversampled orthogonal signal-division multiplexing underwater acoustic communications
    Jing Han; Yujie Wang; Lingling Zhang; G. Leus;
    The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America,
    Volume 145, Issue 1, pp. 292-300, 2019. DOI: 10.1121/1.5087131
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  751. A Convex Approximation of the Relaxed Binaural Beamforming Optimization Problem
    Andreas I. Koutrouvelis; Richard C. Hendriks; Richard Heusdens; Jesper Jensen;
    IEEE/ACM Trans. on Audio, Speech and Language Processing,
    Volume 27, Issue 2, pp. 321-331, February 2019. DOI: 10.1109/TASLP.2018.2878618
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  752. Distributed Rate-Constrained LCMV Beamforming
    Jie Zhang; Andreas Koutrouvelis; Richard Heusdens; Richard C. Hendriks;
    IEEE Signal Processing Letters,
    Volume 26, Issue 5, pp. 675-697, May 2019. DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2019.2905161
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  753. Asymmetric Coding for Rate-Constrained Noise Reduction in Binaural Hearing Aids
    Jamal Amini; Richard C. Hendriks; Richard Heusdens; Meng Guo; Jesper Jensen;
    IEEE/ACM Trans. on Audio, Speech and Language Processing,
    Volume 27, Issue 1, pp. 154-167, 2019. DOI: 10.1109/TASLP.2018.2876172
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  754. On the Distributed Method of Multipliers for Separable Convex Optimization Problems
    T. Sherson; R. Heusdens; W.B. Kleijn;
    IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks,
    March 2019. DOI: 10.1109/TSIPN.2019.2901649
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  755. Development of temporal lobe epilepsy during maintenance electroconvulsive therapy: A case of human kindling?
    C. Schotte; E. Cleeren; K. Goffin; B. Hunyadi; S. Buggenhout; K. Van Laere; W. Van Paesschen;
    Epilepsia Open,
    Volume 4, Issue 1, pp. 200-205, 2019. DOI: 10.1002/epi4.12294
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  756. Characterisation of Transverse Matrix Cracks in Composite Materials Using Fibre Bragg Grating Sensors
    A. Rajabzadeh; R. Heusdens; R. C. Hendriks; R. M. Groves;
    IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology,
    Volume 37, Issue 18, pp. 4720 - 4727, 2019. DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2019.2919339
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  757. Robust Joint Estimation of Multimicrophone Signal Model Parameters
    Andreas I. Koutrouvelis; Richard C. Hendriks; Richard Heusdens; Jesper Jensen;;
    IEEE/ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process.,
    Volume 27, Issue 7, pp. 1136–1150, Jul. 2019. DOI: 10.1109/TASLP.2019.2911167
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  758. Relative Acoustic Transfer Function Estimation in Wireless Acoustic Sensor Networks
    Jie Zhang; Richard Heusdens; Richard C. Hendriks;
    IEEE/ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process.,
    Volume 27, Issue 10, pp. 1507–1519, 2019. DOI: 10.1109/TASLP.2019.2923542
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  759. Equivalent circuit models of finite slot antennas
    R. van Schelven; D. Cavallo; A. Neto;
    IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag.,
    Volume 67, Issue 7, pp. 4367-4376, Jul. 2019. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2019.2908112

  760. Reconfigurable Range-Doppler Processing and Range Resolution Improvement for FMCW Radar
    Neemat, S.; Uysal, F.; Krasnov, O.A.; Yarovoy, A.;
    IEEE Sensors Journal,
    Volume 19, Issue 20, pp. 9294-9303, 15 Oct 2019. DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2019.2923053
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  761. Velocity-Based EDR Retrieval Techniques Applied to Doppler Radar Measurements from Rain: Two Case Studies
    Oude Nijhuis, A.C.P.; Unal, C.M.H.; Krasnov, O.A.; Russchenberg, H.W.J.; Yarovoy,A.;
    Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology,
    Volume 36, pp. 1693–1711, September 2019. DOI: 10.1175/JTECH-D-18-0084.1
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  762. Short-Range Quality-Factor Modulation (SQuirM) for Low Power High Speed Inductive Data Transfer
    M. Schormans; D. Jiang; V. Valente; A. Demosthenous;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers,
    Volume 66, Issue 9, pp. 3254-3265, Sept. 2019. DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2019.2922124
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  763. Analysis of artificial dielectric layers with finite conductivity
    D. Cavallo;
    Forum for Electromagnetic Research Methods and Application Technologies (FERMAT),
    Volume 31, Issue 5, Jan.-Feb. 2019. ISSN 2470-4202.
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  764. An Interference Mitigation Technique for FMCW Radar Using Beat-Frequencies Interpolation in the STFT Domain
    S. Neemat; O. Krasnov; A. Yarovoy;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Technique,
    Volume 67, Issue 3, pp. 1207-1220, March 2019. DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2018.2881154
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  765. Use of subarrays in linear array for improving wide angular scanning performance
    F.S. Akbar; L.P. Ligthart; G. Hendrantoro; I.E. Lager;
    IEEE Access,
    Volume 7, pp. 135290-135299, Sep. 2019. DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2941398
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  766. Pulsed EM field transfer between a horizontal electric dipole and a transmission line – A closed-form model based on the Cagniard-DeHoop technique
    M. Štumpf; G. Antonini; I.E. Lager;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 68, Issue 4, pp. 2911-2918, Apr. 2019. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2019.2935115
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  767. Phase-only control of peak sidelobe level and pattern nulls using iterative phase perturbations
    Yanki Aslan; Jan Puskely; Antoine Roederer; Alexander Yarovoy;
    IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters,
    Volume 18, Issue 10, pp. 2081 - 2085, Oct. 2019. DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2019.2937682

  768. Building Blocks for a European Organ-on-Chip Roadmap
    M. Mastrangeli; S. Millet; C. Mummery; P. Loskill; D. Braeken; W. Eberle; M. Cipriano; L. Fernandez; M. Graef; X. Gidrol; N. Picollet-D'Hahan; B. van Meer; I. Ochoa; M. Schutte; J. van den Eijnden-van Raaij;
    ALTEX - Alternatives to Animal Experimentation,
    Volume 36, Issue 3, pp. 481-492, 2019. DOI: 10.14573/altex.1905221

  769. Continuous Human Motion Recognition With a Dynamic Range-Doppler Trajectory Method Based on FMCW Radar
    Ding, Chuanwei; Hong, Hong; Zou, Yu; Chu, Hui; Zhu, Xiaohua; Fioranelli, Francesco; Le Kernec, Julien; Li, Changzhi;
    IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING,
    Volume 57, Issue 9, pp. 6821-6831, SEP 2019. DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2019.2908758

  770. Fusion of Deep Representations in Multistatic Radar Networks to Counteract the Presence of Synthetic Jamming
    Patel, Jarez S.; Fioranelli, Francesco; Ritchie, Matthew; Griffiths, Hugh D.;
    IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL,
    Volume 19, Issue 15, pp. 6362-6370, AUG 1 2019. DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2019.2909685

  771. Radar Signal Processing for Sensing in Assisted Living The challenges associated with real-time implementation of emerging algorithms
    Le Kernec, Julien; Fioranelli, Francesco; Ding, Chuanwei; Zhao, Heng; Sun, Li; Hong, Hong; Lorandel, Jordane; Romain, Olivier;
    IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING MAGAZINE,
    Volume 36, Issue 4, pp. 29-41, JUL 2019. DOI: 10.1109/MSP.2019.2903715

  772. DopNet: A Deep Convolutional Neural Network to Recognize Armed and Unarmed Human Targets
    Chen, Qingchao; Liu, Yang; Fioranelli, Francesco; Ritchie, Matthew; Tan, Bo; Chetty, Kevin;
    IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL,
    Volume 19, Issue 11, pp. 4160-4172, JUN 1 2019. DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2019.2895538

  773. Radar sensing for healthcare
    Fioranelli, Francesco; Shah, Syed Aziz; Li, Haobo; Shrestha, Aman; Yang, Shufan; Le Kernec, Julien;
    ELECTRONICS LETTERS,
    Volume 55, Issue 19, pp. 1022-1024, SEP 19 2019. DOI: 10.1049/el.2019.2378

  774. Magnetic and Radar Sensing for Multimodal Remote Health Monitoring
    Li, Haobo; Shrestha, Aman; Heidari, Hadi; Le Kernec, Julien; Fioranelli, Francesco;
    IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL,
    Volume 19, Issue 20, SI, pp. 8979-8989, OCT 15 2019. DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2018.2872894

  775. Evaluation of lameness detection using radar sensing in ruminants
    Busin, Valentina; Viora, Lorenzo; King, George; Tomlinson, Martin; LeKernec, Julien; Jonsson, Nicholas; Fioranelli, Francesco;
    Veterinary Record,
    Volume 185, Issue 18, 2019. DOI: 10.1136/vr.105407

  776. Radar for Health Care: Recognizing Human Activities and Monitoring Vital Signs
    F. Fioranelli; J. Le Kernec; S. A. Shah;
    IEEE Potentials,
    Volume 38, Issue 4, pp. 16-23, 2019. DOI: 10.1109/MPOT.2019.2906977

  777. Trade-offs Between the Quality of Service, Computational Cost and Cooling Complexity in Interference-Dominated Multi-User SDMA Systems
    Yanki Aslan; Jan Puskely; Antoine Roederer; Alexander Yarovoy;
    IET Communications,
    pp. 1-8, 2019. DOI: 10.1049/iet-com.2019.0206

  778. RF Sensing Technologies for Assisted Daily Living in Healthcare: A Comprehensive Review
    S. A. Shah; F. Fioranelli;
    IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine,
    Volume 34, Issue 11, pp. 26-44, 2019. DOI: 10.1109/MAES.2019.2933971

  779. Bi-LSTM Network for Multimodal Continuous Human Activity Recognition and Fall Detection
    H. Li; A. Shrestha; H. Heidari; J. Le Kernec; F. Fioranelli;
    IEEE Sensors Journal,
    2019. DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2019.2946095

  780. An Energy-Efficient 3.7nV/√Hz Bridge-Readout IC with a Stable Bridge Offset Compensation Scheme
    H. Jiang; S. Nihtianov; K.A.A. Makinwa;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 53, pp. 856-864, 3 2019. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2018.2885556
    Abstract: ... This paper describes an energy-efficient bridge readout IC (ROIC), which consists of a capacitively coupled instrumentation amplifier (CCIA) that drives a continuous-time delta-sigma modulator (CTΔΣM). By exploiting the CCIA's ability to block dc common-mode voltages, the bridge's bias voltage may exceed the ROIC's supply voltage, allowing these voltages to be independently optimized. Since bridge output is typically much smaller than bridge offset, a digital to analog converter (DAC) is used to compensate this offset before amplification and thus increase the CCIA's useful dynamic range. Bridge loading is reduced by using a dual-path positive feedback scheme to boost the CCIA's input impedance. Furthermore, the CCIA's output is gated to avoid digitizing its output spikes, which would otherwise limit the ROIC's linearity and stability. The ROIC achieves an input-referred noise density of 3.7 nV/√Hz, a noise efficiency factor (NEF) of 5, and a power efficiency factor (PEF) of 44, which both represent the state of the art. A pressure sensing system, built with the ROIC and a differential pressure sensor (AC4010), achieves 10.1-mPa (1ιι) resolution in a 0.5-ms conversion time. The ROIC dissipates about 30% of the system's power dissipation and contributes about 6% of its noise power. To reduce the sensor's offset drift, a temperature compensation scheme based on an external reference resistor is used. After a two-point calibration, this scheme reduces bridge offset drift by 80× over a 50 °C range.

  781. A 15nW per Button Interference-Immune Readout IC for Capacitive Touch Sensors
    S. Hussaini; H. Jiang; P. Walsh; D. MacSweeney; K.A.A. Makinwa;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 54, pp. 1874-1882, 7 2019. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2019.2907041
    Abstract: ... This paper presents a readout IC that uses an asynchronous capacitance-to-digital-converter (CDC) to digitize the capacitance of a touch sensor. A power-efficient tracking algorithm ensures that the CDC consumes negligible power consumption in the absence of touch events. To facilitate its use in wake-on-touch applications, the CDC can be periodically triggered by a co-integrated ultra-low-power relaxation oscillator. At a 38-Hz scan rate, the readout IC consumes 15 nW per touch sensor, which is the lowest reported to date.

  782. A 6800‐μm² Resistor‐Based Temperature Sensor in 180‐nm CMOS
    J. Angevare; K.A.A. Makinwa;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 54, pp. 2649-2657, 10 2019. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2019.2921450
    Abstract: ... This paper describes a compact resistor-based temperature sensor that has been realized in a 180-nm CMOS process. It occupies only 6800 μm 2 , thanks to the use of a highly digital voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO)-based phase-domain sigma-delta modulator, whose loop filter consists of a compact digital counter. Despite its small size, the sensor achieves ±0.35 °C (3σ) inaccuracy from -35 °C to 125 °C. Furthermore, it achieves 0.12 °C (1σ) resolution at 2.8 kSa/s, which is mainly limited by the time-domain quantization imposed by the counter.

  783. A 5800 μm2 Resistor-based Temperature Sensor with a one-point Trimmed 3σ Inaccuracy of ±1.1 °C from −50 to 105 °C in 65 nm CMOS
    Y-T Lee; W. Choi; T. Kim; S. Song; K. Makinwa; Y. Chae;
    IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters,
    Volume 2, pp. 67-70, 10 2019. DOI: 10.1109/LSSC.2019.2937441
    Abstract: ... This letter describes a compact resistor-based temperature sensor intended for the thermal monitoring of microprocessors and DRAMs. It consists of an RC poly phase filter (PPF) that is read out by a frequency-locked loop (FLL) based on a dual zero-crossing (ZC) detection scheme. The sensor, fabricated in 65-nm CMOS, occupies 5800 μm 2 and achieves moderate accuracy [±1.2 °C (3σ)] over a wide temperature range (-50 °C to 105 °C) after a one-point trim. This is 2x better than the previous compact resistor-based sensors. Operating from 0.85 to 1.3-V supplies, it consumes 32.5-μA and achieves 2.8-mK resolution in a 1-ms conversion time, which corresponds to a resolution FoM of 0.26 pJ·K 2.

  784. Filter Design for Autoregressive Moving Average Graph Filters
    Jiani Liu; E. Isufi; G. Leus;
    IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks,
    Volume 5, Issue 1, pp. 47-60, March 2019. DOI: 10.1109/TSIPN.2018.2854627
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  785. Super-Resolution Channel Estimation for Arbitrary Arrays in Hybrid Millimeter-Wave Massive MIMO Systems
    Yue Wang; Yu Zhang; Zhi Tian; Geert Leus; Gong Zhang;
    IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing,
    Volume 13, Issue 5, pp. 947--960, 2019. ISSN: 1932-4553. DOI: 10.1109/JSTSP.2019.2937632
    Abstract: ... This paper develops efficient channel estimation techniques for millimeter-wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems under practical hardware limitations, including an arbitrary array geometry and a hybrid hardware structure. Taking on an angle-based approach, this work adopts a generalized array manifold separation approach via Jacobi-Anger approximation, which transforms a non-ideal, non-uniform array manifold into a virtual array domain with a desired uniform geometric structure to facilitate super-resolution angle estimation and channel acquisition. Accordingly, structure-based optimization techniques are developed to effectively estimate both the channel covariance and the instantaneous channel state information (CSI) within a short sensing time. The different time-varying scales of channel path angles versus path gains are capitalized to design a two-step CSI estimation scheme that can quickly sense fading channels. Theoretical results are provided on the fundamental limits of the proposed technique in terms of sample efficiency. For computational efficiency, a fast iterative algorithm is developed via the alternating direction method of multipliers. Other related issues such as spurious-peak cancellation in non-uniform linear arrays and extensions to higher-dimensional cases are also discussed. Simulations testify the effectiveness of the proposed approaches in hybrid mmWave massive MIMO systems with arbitrary arrays.

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  786. Semi-automated EEG enhancement improves localization of ictal onset zone with EEG-correlated fMRI
    S. Van Eyndhoven; B. Hunyadi; P. Dupont; W. Van Paesschen; S. Van Huffel;
    Frontiers in Neurology,
    Volume 10, 2019. DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2019.00805
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  787. Nonconvulsive epileptic seizure monitoring with incremental learning
    Y.R. Rodriguez Aldana; E.J. Maranon Reyes; F. Sanabria Macias; V. Rodriguez Rodriguez; L. Morales Chacon; S. Van Huffel; B. Hunyadi;
    Computers in Biology and Medicine,
    Volume 114, pp. 103434, 2019. ISSN 0010-4825. DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2019.103434
    Keywords: ... Nonconvulsive epileptic seizures, Hilbert huang transform, Multiway data analysis, Incremental learning.

    Abstract: ... Nonconvulsive epileptic seizures (NCSz) and nonconvulsive status epilepticus (NCSE) are two neurological entities associated with increment in morbidity and mortality in critically ill patients. In a previous work, we introduced a method which accurately detected NCSz in EEG data (referred here as ‘Batch method’). However, this approach was less effective when the EEG features identified at the beginning of the recording changed over time. Such pattern drift is an issue that causes failures of automated seizure detection methods. This paper presents a support vector machine (SVM)-based incremental learning method for NCSz detection that for the first time addresses the seizure evolution in EEG records from patients with epileptic disorders and from ICU having NCSz. To implement the incremental learning SVM, three methodologies are tested. These approaches differ in the way they reduce the set of potentially available support vectors that are used to build the decision function of the classifier. To evaluate the suitability of the three incremental learning approaches proposed here for NCSz detection, first, a comparative study between the three methods is performed. Secondly, the incremental learning approach with the best performance is compared with the Batch method and three other batch methods from the literature. From this comparison, the incremental learning method based on maximum relevance minimum redundancy (MRMR_IL) obtained the best results. MRMR_IL method proved to be an effective tool for NCSz detection in a real-time setting, achieving sensitivity and accuracy values above 99%.

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  788. Pixel Optimizations and Digital Calibration Methods of a CMOS Image Sensor Targeting High Linearity
    Fei Wang; Albert Theuwissen;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers,
    Volume 66, Issue 3, pp. 930--940, March 2019. DOI: 10.1109/tcsi.2018.2872627
    Abstract: ... In this paper, different methodologies are employed to improve the linearity performance of a prototype CMOS image sensor (CIS). First, several pixel structures, including a novel pixel design based on a capacitive trans-impedance amplifier (CTIA), are proposed to achieve a higher pixel-level linearity. Furthermore, three types of digital linearity calibration methods are explored. A prototype image sensor designed in 0.18-μm, 1-poly, and 4-metal CIS technology with a pixel array of 128×160 is used to verify these linearity improvement techniques. The measurement results show that the proposed CTIA pixel has the best linearity result out of all pixel structures. Meanwhile, the proposed calibration methods further improved the linearity of the CIS without changing the pixel structure. The pixel mode method achieves the most significant improvement on the linearity. One type of 4T pixel attains a nonlinearity of 0.028% with pixel mode calibration, which is two times better than the state of the art. Voltage mode (VM) and current mode (CM) calibration methods get rid of the limitation on the illumination condition during calibration operation; especially, CM calibration can further suppress the nonlinearity caused by the integration capacitor C FD on the floating diffusion node, which is remnant in VM.

  789. Compensation for Process and Temperature Dependency in a CMOS Image Sensor
    Shuang Xie; Albert Theuwissen;
    Sensors,
    Volume 19, Issue 4, pp. 870, February 2019. DOI: 10.3390/s19040870

  790. A CMOS-Imager-Pixel-Based Temperature Sensor for Dark Current Compensation
    Shuang Xie; Accel Abarca Prouza; Albert Theuwissen;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs,
    pp. 1--1, May 2019. DOI: 10.1109/tcsii.2019.2914588
    Abstract: ... This paper proposes employing each of the classical 4 transistor (4T) pinned photodiode (PPD) CMOS image sensor (CIS) pixels, for both imaging and temperature measurement, intended for compensating the CISs’ dark current and dark signal non-uniformity (DSNU). The proposed temperature sensors rely on the thermal behavior of MOSFETs working in subthreshold region, when biased with ratiometric currents sequentially. Without incurring any additional hardware or penalty to the CIS, they are measured to have thermal curvature errors less than ±0.3 ∘C and 3 σ process variations within ±1.3 ∘C, from 108 sensors on 4 chips, over a temperature range from -20 ∘C to 80 ∘C. Each of them consumes 576 nJ/conversion at a conversion rate of 62 samples/s, when quantized by 1st-order 14 bit delta-sigma ADCs and fabricated using 0.18 μm CIS technology. Experimental results show that they facilitate digital compensation for average dark current and DSNU by 78 % and 20 %, respectively.

  791. Suppression of spatial and temporal noise in a CMOS image sensor
    Shuang Xie; Albert Theuwissen;
    IEEE Sensors Journal,
    pp. 1--1, 2019. DOI: 10.1109/jsen.2019.2941122
    Abstract: ... This paper presents methodologies for suppressing the spatial and the temporal noise in a CMOS image sensor (CIS). First of all, it demonstrates by using a longer-length column bias transistor, both the fixed pattern noise (FPN) and temporal noise can be suppressed. Meantime, it employs column-level oversampling delta-sigma ADCs to suppress temporal noise as well as to facilitate the realization of the thermal compensation of dark signal non-uniformity (DSNU). In addition, the image pixels are re-configured as temperature sensors with inaccuracies within ±0.65°C, between -20 and 80°C. If the dark current and its non-uniformities are caused by thermal gradients, the obtained in-pixel thermal information can be employed to compensate for the measured dark current by 95 % and DSNU, up to 13 %. All the column-level 13 bit 2nd-order incremental delta-sigma ADCs are measured with SNR around 65 dB and INL around 1.5 LSB, when tested with a -8 dB input signal and sampling at 2 MHz with an oversampling ratio (OSR) of 128, when the full scale voltage is 2 Vp-p. The 4T Pinned Photodiode (PPD) CIS is measured to have a temporal noise of 34 μV rms (with an OSR of 128, or, an input referred temporal noise of 0.5 e-rms, with a conversion gain, CG, of 73 μV/ e- ), a column gain FPN of 0.06 %, a dynamic range (DR) of 92 dB (with OSR=512), as well as a linearity of 1 %. It has a measured DSNU of 3.2 %, after the thermal compensation using the in-pixel temperature sensors, a dark current of 290 pA/cm2 and 15 pA/cm2, measured at 60 °C, before and after the thermal compensation, respectively.

  792. All-MOS self-referenced temperature sensor
    Shuang Xie; Albert Theuwissen;
    Electronics Letters,
    Volume 55, Issue 19, pp. 1045--1047, September 2019. DOI: 10.1049/el.2019.1784
    Abstract: ... This Letter presents an all-MOS self-referenced temperature sensor, intended for thermal compensation of dark current in CMOS image sensors (CIS). Its thermal sensing front-end is based on a self-biased nMOS pair working in the subthreshold region. Biased with ratiometric currents, the differential voltage output of the nMOS pair is proportional to the absolute temperature. The thermal sensing voltage is quantised by a self-referenced first-order incremental delta–sigma ADC, which obtains its reference voltage from the thermal sensing front-end. This reference voltage has been virtually attenuated, through switch capacitor charge sampling, to improve the resolution of the temperature sensor. Measured between −20 and 80°C, the proposed temperature sensor achieves an inaccuracy within ±0.55°C.

  793. On-Chip Smart Temperature Sensors for Dark Current Compensation in CMOS Image Sensors
    Shuang Xie; Albert Theuwissen;
    IEEE Sensors Journal,
    Volume 19, Issue 18, pp. 7849--7860, September 2019. DOI: 10.1109/jsen.2019.2919655
    Abstract: ... This paper proposes various types of on-chip smart temperature sensors, intended for thermal compensation of dark current in CMOS image sensors (CIS). It proposes four different architectures of metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS)-based and bipolar junction transistor (BJT)-based temperature sensors inside and outside the CIS array. Both of the MOS-based temperature sensors make use of the thermal dependence of MOS transistors working in the subthreshold region with ratiometric currents and are quantized by the 14-bit first-order incremental delta-sigma analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). Fabricated using 0.18-μm CIS technology and measured on four chips, the proposed temperature sensors are compared, on their resolution and process variability, as well as on their effects on the neighboring image pixels implemented on the same chip. Experimental results show that the MOS-based temperature sensors inside and outside the array consume a power of 36 and 40 μW, respectively, both achieving 3-sigma (σ) inaccuracy less than ±0.75 °C on four different chips, over a temperature range from -20°C to 80 °C at a conversion time of 16 ms. The temperature sensors facilitate the digital thermal compensation of dark current in the CIS array, by at least 80%, in experiments.

  794. A 10 bit 5 MS/s column SAR ADC with digital error correction for CMOS image sensors
    Shuang Xie; Albert Theuwissen;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs,
    pp. 1--1, May 2019. DOI: 10.1109/tcsii.2019.2928204
    Abstract: ... This paper proposes a SAR ADC whose readout speed is improved by 33%, through applying a digital error correction (DEC) method, compared to an alternative without using the DEC technique. The proposed addition-only DEC alleviates the ADC’s incomplete settling errors, hence improving conversion rate while maintaining accuracy. It is based on a binary bridged SAR architecture with 4 redundant capacitors and conversion cycles, which ensure the ADC’s linearity of 10 bit within a 5 bit accuracy’s settling time. The proposed SAR keeps the same straightforward timing diagram as that in a conventional SAR ADC, incurring no offset to the ADC. Measurement results of 15 columns of SAR ADCs, sampling at 5 MS/s on the same CMOS image sensor (CIS) chip, show integral nonlinearity (INL) around 3 LSB (1LSB = 1mV), when sampling at 5 MHz, after a proposed swift digital background calibration that incurs no additional hardware complexity. The CIS array read out by the proposed column-level SAR ADCs is measured reasonable photoelectron transfer characteristics.

  795. Metal and Polymeric Strain Gauges for Si-Based, Monolithically Fabricated Organs-on-Chips
    Quirós-Solano, William F.; Gaio, Nikolas; Silvestri, Cinzia; Pandraud, Gregory; Dekker, Ronald; Sarro, Pasqualina M.;
    Micromachines,
    Volume 10, Issue 8, pp. 536, Aug 2019. DOI: 10.3390/mi10080536
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  796. Hydrolysis kinetic study of CaAlSiN3:Eu2+ red phosphor with both water immersion test and first-principles calculation
    Jiajie Fan; Ling Zhou; Zhen Cui; Shanghuan Chen; Xuejun Fan; GuoQi Zhang;
    Journal of Luminescence,
    Volume 219, pp. 116874, 2019. DOI: 10.1016/j.jlumin.2019.116874
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  797. Heart Rate Extraction in a Headphone Using Infrared Thermometry
    Ger de Graaf; Daniel Kuratomi Cruz; Jaap Haartsen; Frank Hooijschuur; Paddy French;
    IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems,
    pp. 1--1, July 2019. DOI: 10.1109/tbcas.2019.2930312
    Abstract: ... In this work we have analyzed, built and tested a novel system that uses infrared differential thermometry to detect the heart rate in the auricle. The sensor system was fitted into a commercial headphone since this work is a first step into integration of the system in a Bluetooth headset. Infrared thermography is a non-contact technique with improved user comfort and low power consumption. Positive results have been obtained after extraction of the frequency features of the bioheat transfer signal on test persons in rest. The heart rate is a vital indicator of the health state of an individual. By continuously monitoring it, the fitness and health of the cardiovascular system of a user can be analyzed and impending problematic health episodes could be addressed better.

  798. Vertical SiC taper with a small angle fabricated by slope transfer method
    Yu Xin; Gregory Pandraud; Paddy J. French;
    Electronics Letters,
    Volume 55, Issue 11, pp. 661--663, May 2019. DOI: 10.1049/el.2019.0232
    Abstract: ... In this Letter, a slope transfer method to fabricate vertical waveguide couplers is proposed. This method utilises wet etched Si as a mask, and takes advantage of dry etching selectivity between Si and SiC, to successfully transfer the profile from the Si master into SiC. By adopting this method, a <2° slope is achieved. Such a taper can bring the coupling efficiency in SiC waveguides to 80% (around 1 dB loss) or better from around 10% (10 dB loss) without taper. It further increases the alignment tolerance at the same time, which ensures the successful development of a plug-and-play solution for optical sensing. This is the first reported taper made in SiC.

  799. An energy efficient time-mode digit classification neural network implementation
    Omer Can Akgun; J. Mei;
    Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A - Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences,
    23 December 2019. DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2019.0163
    Abstract: ... This paper presents the design of an ultra-low energy neural network that uses time-mode signal processing). Handwritten digit classification using a single-layer artificial neural network (ANN) with a Softmin-based activation function is described as an implementation example. To realize time-mode operation, the presented design makes use of monostable multivibrator-based multiplying analogue-to-time converters, fixed-width pulse generators and basic digital gates. The time-mode digit classification ANN was designed in a standard CMOS 0.18 μm IC process and operates from a supply voltage of 0.6 V. The system operates on the MNIST database of handwritten digits with quantized neuron weights and has a classification accuracy of 88%, which is typical for single-layer ANNs, while dissipating 65.74 pJ per classification with a speed of 2.37 k classifications per second. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Harmonizing energy-autonomous computing and intelligence’.

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  800. Single-Mode Tapered Vertical SU-8 Waveguide Fabricated by E-Beam Lithography for Analyte Sensing
    Yu Xin; Gregory Pandraud; Yongmeng Zhang; Paddy French;
    Sensors,
    Volume 19, Issue 15, pp. 3383, August 2019. DOI: 10.3390/s19153383

  801. A Low-Power MEMS IDE Capacitor with Integrated Microhotplate: Application as Methanol Sensor using a Metal-Organic Framework Coating as Affinity Layer
    Venkatesh, Manjunath R; Sachdeva, Sumit; El Mansouri, Brahim; Wei, Jia; Bossche, Andre; Bosma, Duco; de Smet, Louis CPM; Sudhölter, Ernst JR; Zhang, Guo Qi;
    Sensors,
    Volume 19, Issue 4, pp. 888, 2019.
    Abstract: ... Capacitors made of interdigitated electrodes (IDEs) as a transducer platform for the sensing of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) have advantages due to their lower power operation and fabrication using standard micro-fabrication techniques. Integrating a micro-electromechanical system (MEMS), such as a microhotplate with IDE capacitor, further allows study of the temperature dependent sensing response of VOCs. In this paper, the design, fabrication, and characterization of a low-power MEMS microhotplate with IDE capacitor to study the temperature-dependent sensing response to methanol using Zeolitic imidazolate framework (ZIF-8), a class of metal-organic framework (MOF), is presented. A Titanium nitride (TiN) microhotplate with aluminum IDEs suspended on a silicon nitride membrane is fabricated and characterized. The power consumption of the ZIF-8 MOF-coated device at an operating temperature of 50 °C is 4.5 mW and at 200 °C it is 26 mW. A calibration methodology for the effects of temperature of the isolation layer between the microhotplate electrodes and the capacitor IDEs is developed. The device coated with ZIF-8 MOF shows a response to methanol in the concentration range of 500 ppm to 7000 ppm. The detection limit of the sensor for methanol vapor at 20 °C is 100 ppm. In situ study of sensing properties of ZIF-8 MOF to methanol in the temperature range from 20 °C to 50 °C using the integrated microhotplate and IDE capacitor is presented. The kinetics of temperature-dependent adsorption and desorption of methanol by ZIF-8 MOF are fitted with double-exponential models. With the increase in temperature from 20 °C to 50 °C, the response time for sensing of methanol vapor concentration of 5000 ppm decreases by 28%, whereas the recovery time decreases by 70%.

  802. Internet of Things and LoRaWAN-Enabled Future Smart Farming
    B. Citoni; F. Fioranelli; M. A. Imran; Q. H. Abbasi;
    IEEE Internet of Things Magazine,
    Volume 2, Issue 4, pp. 14-19, 2019. DOI: 10.1109/IOTM.0001.1900043

  803. Noise Behavior and Implementation of Interferometer-Based Broadband VNA
    Mubarak, Faisal Ali; Romano, Rafaelle; Galatro, Luca; Mascolo, Vincenzo; Rietveld, Gert; Spirito, Marco;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 67, Issue 1, pp. 249-260, 2019. DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2018.2874667
    Keywords: ... Noise measurement;Impedance measurement;Frequency measurement;Impedance;Broadband communication;Radio frequency;Sensitivity;Extreme impedance measurement;impedance mismatch;microwave interferometry;nanoelectronics;nanostructures;noise;vector network analyzer (VNA).

  804. Miniaturized Broadband Microwave Permittivity Sensing for Biomedical Applications
    Vlachogiannakis, Gerasimos; Hu, Zhebin; Shivamurthy, Harshitha Thippur; Neto, Andrea; Pertijs, Michiel A. P.; de Vreede, Leo C. N.; Spirito, Marco;
    IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology,
    Volume 3, Issue 1, pp. 48-55, 2019. DOI: 10.1109/JERM.2018.2882564
    Keywords: ... Sensors;Permittivity;Bridge circuits;Radio frequency;Permittivity measurement;Metals;Microwave circuits;Bridge circuits;biomedical sensors;complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) sensors;complex permittivity measurement;microwave sensors.

  805. Impact of Classical Control Electronics on Qubit Fidelity
    van Dijk, Jeroen PG; Kawakami, Erika; Schouten, Raymond N; Veldhorst, Menno; Vandersypen, Lieven MK; Babaie, Masoud; Charbon, Edoardo; Sebastiano, Fabio;
    Physical Review Applied,
    Volume 12, Issue 4, pp. 044054, 2019.

  806. A supply pushing reduction technique for LC oscillators based on ripple replication and cancellation
    Chen, Yue; Liu, Yao-Hong; Zong, Zhirui; Dijkhuis, Johan; Dolmans, Guido; Staszewski, Robert Bogdan; Babaie, Masoud;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 54, Issue 1, pp. 240--252, 2019.

  807. Clock generation
    Pourmousavian, Naser; Siriburanon, Teerachot; Kuo, Feng-Wei; Babaie, Masoud; Staszewski, Robert Bogdan;
    Digitally Enhanced Mixed Signal Systems,
    pp. 255, 2019.

  808. An Ultralow Power Burst-Chirp UWB Radar Transceiver for Indoor Vital Signs and Occupancy Sensing in 40-nm CMOS
    Liu, Yao-Hong; Sheelavant, Sunil; Mercuri, Marco; Mateman, Paul; Babaie, Masoud;
    IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters,
    Volume 2, Issue 11, pp. 256--259, 2019.

  809. 1.2V Energy-Efficient Wireless CMOS Potentiostat for Amperometric Measurements
    V. Valente; N. Neshatvar; E. Pilavaki; M. Schormans; A. Demosthenous;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs,
    2019. DOI: 10.1109/TCSII.2019.2944258
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  810. An accurate and power-efficient period-modulator-based interface for grounded capacitive sensors
    Arash Ahmadpour Bijargah; Ali Heidary; Pooya Torkzadeh; Stoyan Nihtianov;
    International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications,
    May 2019. DOI: 10.1002/cta.2642
    Abstract: ... A low‐power and high‐resolution capacitance‐to‐period converter (CPC) based on period modulation (PM) for subnanometer displacement measurement systems is proposed. The presented circuit employs the interface developed in a previous work, “a grounded capacitance‐to‐voltage converter (CVC) based on a zoom‐in structure,” further improving its performance through a symmetrical design of the applied autocalibration technique. The scheme is based on the use of a relaxation oscillator. To minimize the error contributed by the CPC circuitry, different precision techniques such as chopping, autocalibration, and active shielding are applied. The proposed CPC is realized in a 0.18‐μm complementary metal‐oxide‐semiconductor (CMOS) technology, occupies an area of 0.5 mm2, and consumes 135 μA from a 2‐V power supply. In order to achieve optimal performance and avoid overdesigning, a noise estimation of various parts of the CPC has been done. Accordingly, for a 10‐pF sensor capacitance, the overall CPC demonstrates a capacitance resolution of 0.5 fF for a latency of 128 microseconds, corresponding to an effective number of bits (ENOB) of 12.5 bits and an energy efficiency of 6 pJ/step. The nonlinearity error has been evaluated as well, resulting in a less than 0.03% full‐scale span (FSS).

  811. Beam Scanning of Silicon Lens Antennas Using Integrated Piezomotors at Submillimeter Wavelengths
    M. Alonso-delPino; C. Jung-Kubiak; T. Reck; N. Llombart; G. Chattopadhyay;
    IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology,
    Volume 9, Issue 1, pp. 47-54, Jan. 2019.
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  812. Wideband on-chip terahertz spectrometer based on a superconducting filterbank
    A.Endo; K. Karatsu; Pascual Laguna, A.; B. Mirzaei; R. Huiting; D.J. Thoen; V. Murugesan; S.J.C. Yates; J. Bueno; N. van Marrewijk; S. Bosma; O. Yurduseven; N. Llombart; J. Suzuki; M. Naruse; P.J. de Visser; P.P. van der Werf; T.M. Klapwijk; and J.J.A. Baselmans;
    J. Astron. Telesc. Instrum. Syst.,
    Volume 5, Issue 3, pp. 35004-(1-12), 2019.
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  813. First light demonstration of the integrated superconducting spectrometer
    A. Endo; K. Karatsu; Y. Tamura; T. Oshima; A. Taniguchi; T. Takekoshi; S. Asayama; T.J.L. C. Bakx; S. Bosma; J. Bueno; K. W. Chin; Y. Fujii; K. Fujita; R. Huiting; S. Ikarashi; T. Ishida; S. Ishii; R. Kawabe; T. M. Klapwijk; K. Kohno; A. Kouchi; N. Llombart; J. Maekawa; V. Murugesan; S. Nakatsubo; M. Naruse; K. Ohtawara; Pascual Laguna, A.; J. Suzuki; K. Suzuki; D.J. Thoen; T. Tsukagoshi; T. Ueda; P.J. de Vis;
    Nat. Astron.,
    Volume 3, pp. 989-996, 2019.
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  814. Mitigation of cosmic ray effect on microwave kinetic inductance detector arrays
    K. Karatsu; A. Endo; J. Bueno; P.J. de Visser; R. Barends; D.J. Thoen; V. Murugesan; N. Tomita; J.J.A. Baselmans;
    Appl. Phys. Lett.,
    Volume 114, Issue 3, 2019.
    document

  815. Complex Field Mapping of Large Direct Detector Focal Plane Arrays
    KK. Davis; S.J.C. Yates; W. Jellema; C.E. Groppi; J.J.A. Baselmans; K. Kohno; A.M. Baryshev;
    IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology,
    Volume 9, Issue 1, pp. 67-77, Jan. 2019. DOI: 10.1109/TTHZ.2018.2883820
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  816. A Connected Array of Coherent Photoconductive Pulsed Sources to Generate mW Average Power in the Submillimeter Wavelength Band
    A.Garufo; P.M. Sberna; G. Carluccio; J.R. Freeman; D.R. Bacon; J. Bueno; J.J.A. Baselmans; E.H. Linfield; A.G. Davies; N. Llombart; A. Neto;
    IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology,
    Volume 9, Issue 3, pp. 221-236, May 2019. DOI: 10.1109/TTHZ.2019.2896791
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  817. A Low Power Continuous-Time Zoom ADC for Audio Applications
    B. Gönen; S. Karmakar; R. van Veldhoven; K. A. A. Makinwa;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 55, pp. 1023-1031, 12 2019. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2019.2959480
    Abstract: ... This article presents a continuous-time zoom analog to digital converter (ADC) for audio applications. It employs a high-speed asynchronous SAR ADC that dynamically updates the references of a continuous-time delta-sigma modulator (CTDSM). Compared to previous switched-capacitor (SC) zoom ADCs, its input impedance is essentially resistive, which relaxes the power dissipation of its reference and input buffers. Fabricated in a 160-nm CMOS process, the ADC occupies 0.27 mm 2 and achieves 108.1-dB peak SNR, 106.4-dB peak signal to noise and distortion ratio (SNDR), and 108.5-dB dynamic range in a 20-kHz bandwidth while consuming 618 μW. This results in a Schreier figure of merit (FoM) of 183.6 dB.

  818. A 750-W High Efficiency LDMOS New Four-way Doherty Amplifier for Base-Station Applications
    X. Jiang, T. Zhang, Jingchu He, S. Loysel, B. Zhang; J. Gajadharsing,;
    2019 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS),
    2019. DOI: 0.1109/MWSYM.2019.8700811

  819. An Integrated Programmable High-Voltage Bipolar Pulser with Embedded Transmit/Receive Switch for Miniature Ultrasound Probes
    M. Tan; E. Kang; J.-S. An; Z. Y. Chang; P. Vince; N. Sénégond; M. A. P. Pertijs;
    IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters,
    Volume 2, Issue 9, pp. 79-82, September 2019. DOI: 10.1109/LSSC.2019.2938141
    Abstract: ... This letter presents a compact programmable high-voltage (HV) pulser for ultrasound imaging, designed for driving capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers (CMUTs) in miniature ultrasound probes. To enable bipolar return-to-zero (RZ) pulsing and embedded transmit/receive switching, a compact back-to-back isolating HV switch is proposed that employs HV floating-gate drivers with only one HV MOS transistor each. The pulser can be digitally programmed to generate bipolar pulses with and without RZ, with a peak-to-peak swing up to 60 V, as well as negative and positive unipolar pulses. It can generate bursts of up to 63 pulses, with a maximum pulse frequency of 9 MHz for an 18-pF transducer capacitance. Realized in TSMC 0.18um HV BCD technology, the pulser occupies only 0.167mm2 . Electrical characterization results of the pulser, as well as acoustic results obtained in the combination with a 7.5-MHz CMUT transducer, are presented.

  820. Vertical SiC taper with a small angle fabricated by slope transfer method
    Y Xin; G Pandraud; P.J. French;
    Electronics Letters,
    Volume 55, pp. 661-663, 2019. DOI: 10.1049/el.2019.0232
    Abstract: ... In this Letter, a slope transfer method to fabricate vertical waveguide couplers is proposed. This method utilises wet etched Si as a mask, and takes advantage of dry etching selectivity between Si and SiC, to successfully transfer the profile from the Si master into SiC. By adopting this method, a <2° slope is achieved. Such a taper can bring the coupling efficiency in SiC waveguides to 80% (around 1 dB loss) or better from around 10% (10 dB loss) without taper. It further increases the alignment tolerance at the same time, which ensures the successful development of a plug-and-play solution for optical sensing. This is the first reported taper made in SiC.

  821. HEART RATE EXTRACTION IN A HEADPHONE USING INFRARED THERMOMETRY
    G. de Graaf; D. Kuratomi Cruz; J. Haartsen; F. Hooijschuur; P. French;
    IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems.,
    Volume 13, Issue 5, pp. 1052-1062, 10 2019. DOI: 10.1109/TBCAS.2019.2930312
    Keywords: ... IR Sensor, heart rate, ear piece.

    Abstract: ... The heart rate is a vital indicator of the health state of an individual. By continuously monitoring it, the fitness and health of the cardiovascular system of a user can be analyzed and impending problematic health episodes could be addressed better. Existing techniques to measure heart rate, such as electrocardiogram or photoplethysmography, are either uncomfortable for the user, or are not low-power or sensitive to motion artifacts. Infrared thermography is a non-contact technique with improved user comfort and low power consumption. In this paper, we have analyzed, built, and tested a novel system that uses infrared differential thermometry to detect the heart rate in the auricle. The sensor system was fitted into a commercial headphone since this paper is a first step into integration of the system in a Bluetooth headset. To the best of our knowledge, there has been no previous work on the detection of the heart rate signal in the ear using infrared thermometry. Positive results have been obtained after extraction of the frequency features of the bioheat transfer signal on test persons in rest.

  822. Spark plasma sintering of Ni 3 Al-xB-1wt% CNT (0.0 < x < 1.5 at%) nanocomposite
    Mohammadnejad, A.; Bahrami, A.; Sajadi, M.; Mehr, M. Y.;
    Journal of Alloys and Compounds,
    2019. DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2019.02.225

  823. A Reliability Prediction Methodology for LED Arrays
    Bo Sun; Jiajie Fan; Xuejun Fan; GuoQi Zhang; Guohao Zhang;
    IEEE Access,
    Volume 7, pp. 8127-8134, 2019.

  824. Analysis of a calibration method for non-stationary CVD multi-layered graphene-based gas sensors
    Filiberto Ricciardella; Tiziana Polichetti; Sten Vollebregt; Brigida Alfano; Ettore Massera; Lina Sarro;
    IOP Nanotechnology,
    Volume 30, pp. 385501-1-8, 2019. DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/ab2aac
    document

  825. Effects of sintering pressure on the densification and mechanical properties of nanosilver double side sintered power module
    Hao Zhang; Yang Liu; Lingen Wang; Fenglian Sun; Jiajie Fan; Mark D. Placette; Xuejun Fan; GuoQi Zhang;
    IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology,
    2019. DOI: 10.1109/TCPMT.2018.2884032

  826. Evolution of the Microstructure of Sn58Bi Solder Paste with Sn-3.0Ag-0.5Cu Addition During Isothermal Aging
    Ruisheng Xu; Yang Liu; Hao Zhang; Zhao Li; Fenglian Sun; GuoQi Zhang;
    Journal of Electronic Materials,
    Volume 48, Issue 3, pp. 1758-1765, 2019. DOI: 10.1007/s11664-018-06865-1

  827. Characterization of an Acetone Detector based on a Suspended WO3-Gate AlGaN/GaN HEMT Integrated with Micro-heater
    Jianwen Sun; Robert Sokolovskij; Elina Iervolino; Fabio Santagata; Zewen Liu; Pasqualina M. Sarro; GuoQi Zhang;
    IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices,
    2019. DOI: 10.1109/TED.2019.2936912
    document

  828. A thermodynamic description of turbulence as a source of stochastic kinetic energy for 3D self-assembly
    P. A. Loethman; T. A. Hageman; M. C. Elwenspoek; G. J. M. Krijnen; M. Mastrangeli; A. Manz; L. Abelmann;
    Advanced Materials Interfaces,
    Volume 7, Issue 5, pp. 1900963, 2019. DOI: 10.1002/admi.201900963

  829. Growth of multi-layered graphene on molybdenum catalyst by solid phase reaction with amorphous carbon
    Filiberto Ricciardella; Sten Vollebregt; Evgenia Kurganova; A.J.M. Giesbers; Majid Ahmadi; Lina Sarro;
    2D Materials,
    Volume 6, pp. 035012, 2019. DOI: 10.1088/2053-1583/ab1518

  830. Root cause analysis of surface cracks in heavy steel plates during the hot rolling process
    Bahrami, A.; Khouzani, M. K.; Mokhtari, S. A.; Zareh, S.; Mehr, M. Y.;
    Metals,
    2019. DOI: 10.3390/met9070801

  831. First principles study of gas molecules adsorption on monolayered β-SnSe
    Liu, T.; Qin, H.; Yang, D.; GuoQi Zhang;
    Coatings,
    2019. DOI: 10.3390/COATINGS9060390

  832. Tunable electronic and optical properties of the WS2/IGZO heterostructure via an external electric field and strain: A theoretical study
    Hongyu Tang; Chunjian Tan; Huiru Yang; Kai Zheng; Yutao Li; Huaiyu Ye; Xianping Chen; Xuejun Fan; Tianling Ren; Kuochi Zhang;
    Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics,
    pp. 14713-14721, 2019. DOI: 10.1039/c9cp02084e

  833. Spark plasma sintering of Stellite®-6 superalloy
    M. Kiani Khouzani; A. Bahrami; M. Yazdan Mehr;
    Journal of Alloys and Compounds,
    Volume 782, pp. 461-468, 2019.

  834. Effects of Thermal Reflowing Stress on Mechanical Properties of Novel SMT-SREKs
    Cai, M.; Liang, Y.; Yun, M.; Chen, X-Y.; Yan, H.; Yu, Z.; Yang, D.; GuoQi Zhang;
    IEEE Access,
    2019. DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2900361

  835. Adhesive elastocapillary force on a cantilever beam
    T. Gilet; S. M. Gernay; L. Aquilante; M. Mastrangeli; P. Lambert;
    Soft Matter,
    Volume 15, pp. 3999-4007, 2019. DOI: 10.1039/C9SM00217K

  836. A Low-Power MEMS IDE Capacitor with Integrated Microhotplate: Application as Methanol Sensor using a Metal-Organic Framework Coating as Affinity Layer
    Venkatesh, M.R.; Sachdeva, S.; El Mansouri, B.; Wei, J.; Bossche, A.; Bosma, D.; de Smet; L. C. P. M.; Sudhölter, E. J. R.; GuoQi Zhang;
    Sensors (Basel, Switzerland),
    2019. DOI: 10.3390/s19040888

  837. High-resolution MEMS inertial sensor combining large-displacement buckling behaviour with integrated capacitive readout
    Brahim El Mansouri; Luke M. Middelburg; Rene H. Poelma; GuoQi Zhang; Henk W. van Zeijl; Jia Wei; Hui Jiang; Johan G. Vogel; Willem D. van Driel;
    Microsystems & Nanoengineering,
    Volume 5, 2019.
    document

  838. A first-principles study: Adsorption of small gas molecules on GeP3 monolayer
    Niu, F.; Cai, M.; Pang, J.; Li, X.; GuoQi Zhang, G.; Yang, D.;
    Surface Science,
    2019. DOI: 10.1016/j.susc.2019.02.008

  839. A multi-step etch method for fabricating slightly tapered through-silicon vias based on modified Bosch process
    Lin, P.; Xie, X.; Wang, Y.; Lian, B.; GuoQi Zhang;
    Microsystem Technologies,
    2019. DOI: 10.1007/s00542-018-4249-8

  840. Degradation of optical materials in solid-state lighting systems
    Yazdan Mehr, M.; Bahrami, A.; van Driel, W. D.; Fan, X. J.; Davis, J. L.; GuoQi Zhang;
    International Materials Reviews,
    2019. DOI: 10.1080/09506608.2019.1565716

  841. Miniaturized Broadband Microwave Permittivity Sensing for Biomedical Applications
    G. Vlachogiannakis; Z. Hu; Thippur Shivamurthy, H.; A. Neto; M.A.P. Pertijs; L.C.N. de Vreede; M. Spirito;
    IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology,
    Volume 3, Issue 1, pp. 48-55, Mar. 2019. DOI: 10.1109/JERM.2018.2882564

  842. A Data-Compressive Wired-OR Readout for Massively Parallel Neural Recording
    Dante Muratore; P. Tandon; M. Wootters; E.J. Chichilnisky; S. Mitra; B. Murmann;
    IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems,
    pp. 1128 - 1140, August 2019. DOI: 10.1109/TBCAS.2019.2935468
    document

  843. Low-Noise Integrated Potentiostat for Affinity-Free Protein Detection With 12 nV/rt-Hz at 30 Hz and 1.8 pArms Resolution
    S. Fischer; D. Muratore; S. Weinreich; A. Peña-Perez; R.M. Walker; C. Gupta; R.T. Howe; B. Murmann;
    IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters,
    Volume 2, Issue 6, pp. 41-44, June 2019. DOI: 10.1109/LSSC.2019.2926644
    document

  844. Controllability of Bandlimited Graph Processes Over Random Time Varying Graphs
    F. Gama; E. Isufi; A. Ribeiro; G. Leus;
    IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing,
    Volume 67, Issue 24, pp. 6440--6454, December 2019. DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2019.2952053

  845. Forecasting Time Series With VARMA Recursions on Graphs
    E. Isufi; A. Loukas; N. Perraudin; G. Leus;
    IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing,
    Volume 67, Issue 18, pp. 4870--4885, September 2019. DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2019.2929930

  846. Sparse Sampling for Inverse Problems With Tensors
    G. Ortiz-Jimenez; M. Coutino; S.P. Chepuri; G. Leus;
    IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing,
    Volume 67, Issue 12, pp. 3272--3286, June 2019.

  847. Iterative Per-Vector Equalization for Orthogonal Signal-Division Multiplexing Over Time-Varying Underwater Acoustic Channels
    Jing Han; S.P. Chepuri; Qunfei Zhang; G. Leus;
    IEEE J. of Oceanic Engineering,
    Volume 44, Issue 1, pp. 240--255, January 2019.

  848. Effect of Nano-SnS and Nano-MoS2 on the corrosion protection performance of the polyvinylbutyral and zinc-rich polyvinylbutyral coatings
    Qu, Z.; Wang, L.; Hongyu Tang; Ye, H.; Li, M.;
    Nanomaterials,
    2019. DOI: 10.3390/nano9070956

  849. Effects of humidity and phosphor on silicone/phosphor composite in white light-emitting diode package
    Hoque, M. A.; Bradley, R. K.; Fan, J.; Fan, X.;
    Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics,
    2019. DOI: 10.1007/s10854-019-02393-8

  850. First-principles investigation of the adsorption behaviors of CH 2 O on BN, AlN, GaN, InN, BP, and P monolayers
    Feng, C.; Qin, H.; Yang, D.; GuoQi Zhang;
    Materials,
    2019. DOI: 10.3390/ma12040676

  851. Experimental evaluation of a compact two-phase cooling system for high heat flux electronic packages
    Fengze Hou; Wang, W.; Zhang, H.; Chen, C.; Chen, C.; Lin, T.; Cao, L.; GuoQi Zhang; Ferreira, J. A.;
    Applied Thermal Engineering,
    Volume 163, pp. 114338, 2019. DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2019.1143

  852. SnSe monolayer: A promising candidate of SO 2 sensor with high adsorption quantity
    Ye, H.; Liu, L.; Xu, Y.; Wang, L.; Chen, X.; Zhang, K.; Liu, Y.; Koh, S.; GuoQi Zhang;
    Applied Surface Science,
    2019. DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2019.03.346

  853. High performance mixed potential type NO2 gas sensor based on porous YSZ layer formed with graphite doping
    Hong, H.; Jianwen Sun; Wu, C.; Liu, Z.;
    Sensors (Switzerland),
    2019. DOI: 10.3390/s19153337

  854. Fabrication of porous anodic alumina (PAA) templates with straight pores and with hierarchical structures through exponential voltage decrease technique
    Sacco, L.; Florea, I.; Cojocaru, C-S.;
    Surface and Coatings Technology,
    2019. DOI: 10.1016/j.surfcoat.2019.02.086

  855. High moisture accelerated mechanical behavior degradation of phosphor/silicone composites used in white light-emitting diodes
    Fan, J.; Wang, Z.; Zhang, X.; Deng, Z.; Fan, X.; GuoQi Zhang;
    Polymers,
    2019. DOI: 10.3390/polym11081277

  856. Root Cause Analysis of Failure in Superheater Tubes in a Power Plant
    Bahrami, A.; Rafiaei, S. M.; Yazdan Mehr, M.;
    Metallography, Microstructure, and Analysis,
    2019. DOI: 10.1007/s13632-019-00533-4

  857. Terahertz radiation enhancement in dipole photoconductive antenna on LT-GaAs using a gold plasmonic nanodisk array
    Bashirpour, M.; Poursafar, J.; Kolahdouz, M.; Hajari, M.; Forouzmehr, M.; Neshat, M.; Hajihoseini, H.; Fathipour, M.; Kolahdouz, Z.; GuoQi Zhang;
    Optics and Laser Technology,
    2019. DOI: 10.1016/j.optlastec.2019.105726

  858. A Highly Linear Wideband Polar Class-E CMOS Digital Doherty Power Amplifier
    Hashemi, Mohsen; Zhou, Lei; Shen, Yiyu; de Vreede, Leo C. N.;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 67, Issue 10, pp. 4232-4245, 2019. DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2019.2933204

  859. Oxygen-based digital etching of AlGaN/GaN structures with AlN as etch-stop layers
    Wu, J.; Lei, S.; Cheng, W-C.; Sokolovskij, R.; Wang, Q.; Xia, G. M.; Yu, H.;
    Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A: Vacuum, Surfaces and Films,
    2019. DOI: 10.1116/1.5115427

  860. Reliability Assessment of Light-Emitting Diode Packages with Both Luminous Flux Response Surface Model and Spectral Power Distribution Method
    Chen, W.; Fan, J.; Qian, C.; Pu, B.; Fan, X.; GuoQi Zhang;
    IEEE Access,
    2019. DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2916878

  861. Novel method of alignment to buried cavities in cavity-SOI wafers for advanced MEMS devices
    Mountain, C.; Kluba, M.; Bergers, L.; Snijder, J.; Dekker, R.;
    Micro and Nano Engineering,
    2019. DOI: 10.1016/j.mne.2019.100043

  862. Liquid-phase exfoliated SnS as a semiconductor coating filler to enhance corrosion protection performance
    Hongyu Tang; Qu, Z.,; Wang, L.; Ye, H.; GuoQi Zhang; Fan, X.;
    Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics,
    2019. DOI: 10.1039/c9cp03381e

  863. Modeling electrical resistivity of naturally aged Al–Mg–Si Alloys
    Bahrami, A.; Mehr, M. Y.;
    Metals,
    2019. DOI: 10.3390/met9030310

  864. Review of the recent progress on GaN-based vertical power Schottky barrier diodes (SBDs)
    Yue Sun; Kang, X.; Zheng, Y.; Lu, J.; Tian, X.; Wei, K.; Wu, H.; Wang, W.; Liu, X. an GuoQi Zhang;
    Electronics (Switzerland),
    2019. DOI: 10.3390/electronics8050575

  865. Continuous shock-free termination of atrial fibrillation by local optogenetic therapy and arrhythmia-triggered activation of an implanted light source
    E C A Nyns; R H Poelma; L Volkers; C I Bart; T J Van Brakel; K Zeppenfeld; M J Schalij; GuoQi Zhang; A A F De Vries; D A Pijnappels;
    European Heart Journal,
    Volume 40, Issue 1, 2019. DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehz748.0090

  866. Impact of high temperature H2 pre-treatment on Pt-AlGaN/GaN HEMT sensor for H2S detection
    Jian Zhang; Robert Sokolovskij; Ganhui Chen; Yumeng Zhu; Yongle Qi; Xinpeng Lin; Wenmao Li; GuoQi Zhang; Yu-Long Jiang; Hongyu Yu;
    Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical,
    Volume 280, pp. 138-143, 2019. DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2018.10.052

  867. An automated hybrid bioelectronic system for autogenous restoration of sinus rhythm in atrial fibrillation
    Emile C. A. Nyns; René H. Poelma; Linda Volkers; Jaap J. Plomp; Cindy I. Bart; Annemarie M. Kip; Thomas J. van Brakel; Katja Zeppenfeld; Martin J. Schalij; GuoQi Zhang; Antoine A. F. de Vries; Daniël A. Pijnappels;
    Science Translational Medicine,
    Volume 11, Issue 481, 2019. DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aau6447

  868. PVP-Mediated Galvanic Replacement Synthesis of Smart Elliptic Cu− Ag Nanoflakes for Electrically Conductive Pastes
    Yu Zhang; Pengli Zhu; Gang Li; Zhen Cui; Chengqiang Cui; Kai Zhang; Jian Gao; Xin Chen; GuoQi Zhang; Rong Sun; Chingping Wong;
    ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces,
    2019.

  869. Ultra-High Sensitive NO2 Gas Sensor Based on Tunable Polarity Transport in CVD-WS2/IGZO p-N Heterojunction
    Hongyu Tang; Yutao Li; Robert Sokolovskij; Leandro Sacco; Hongze Zheng; Huaiyu Ye; Hongyu Yu; Xuejun Fan; He Tian; Tian-Ling Ren; GuoQi Zhang;
    ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces,
    pp. 40850-40859, 2019. DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b13773

  870. 循环电载荷下大功率LED金引线疲劳断裂寿命预测
    Fan, J.; Li, L.; Qian, C.; Hu, A.; Fan, X.; GuoQi Zhang;
    Journal of Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
    2019. DOI: 10.13700/j.bh.1001-5965.2018.0401

  871. Calibrated quantum thermometry in cavity optomechanics
    Chowdhury, Avishek; Vezio, Paolo; Bonaldi, Michele; Borrielli, Antonio; Marino, Francesco; Morana, Bruno; Pandraud, Gregory; Pontin, Antonio; Prodi, Giovanni; Sarro, Lina; Serra, Enrico; Marin, Francesco;
    Quantum Science and Technology,
    2019.

  872. Characterization of PCB Embedded Package Materials for SiC MOSFETs
    Fengze Hou; Wang, W.; Lin, T.; Cao, L.; GuoQi Zhang; Ferreira, J. A.;
    IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology,
    Volume 9, Issue 6, pp. 1054-1061, 2019. DOI: 10.1109/TCPMT.2019.2904533

  873. Suspended tungsten trioxide (WO3) gate AlGaN/GaN heterostructure deep ultraviolet detectors with integrated micro-heater
    Jianwen Sun; Teng Zhan; Zewen Liu; Junxi Wang; Xiaoyan Yi; Lina Sarro; GuoQi Zhang;
    Optics Express,
    Volume 27, Issue 25, 2019.
    document

  874. A DFT study of In doped Tl2O: a superior NO2 gas sensor with selective adsorption and distinct optical response
    Chenshan Gao; Yingying Zhang; Huiru Yang; Yang Liu; Yufei Liu; Jihe Dua; Huaiyu Ye; GuoQi Zhang;
    Applied Surface Science,
    2019. DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2019.07.067

  875. Self-folding using capillary forces
    K. S. Kwok; Q. Huang; M. Mastrangeli; D. H. Gracias;
    Advanced Materials Interfaces,
    Volume 7, Issue 5, pp. 1901677, 2019. DOI: 10.1002/admi.201901677

  876. Organ-on-Chip in Development: Towards a roadmap for organs-on-chip
    M. Mastrangeli; S. Millet; the ORCHID partners; J. van den Eijnden-van Raaij;
    ALTEX-Alternatives to Animal Experimentation,
    Volume 36, Issue 4, pp. 650-668, 2019. DOI: 10.14573/altex.1908271

  877. Suspended AlGaN/GaN HEMT NO2 Gas Sensor Integrated with Micro-heater
    Jianwen Sun; Robert Sokolovskija; Elina Iervolino; Zewen Liu; Pasqualina M. Sarro; GuoQi Zhang;
    Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems,
    2019.
    document

  878. Metal and Polymeric Strain Gauges for Si-Based, Monolithically Fabricated Organs-on-Chips
    W. F. Quirós-Solano, N. Gaio, C. Silvestri, G. Pandraud, R. Dekker, P. M. Sarro;
    Micromachines,
    Volume 10, Issue 8, pp. 536, 2019. DOI: 10.3390/mi10080536

  879. Stress analysis of pressure-assisted sintering for the double-side assembly of power module
    Yang Liu; Hao Zhang; Lingen Wang; Xuejun Fan; GuoQi Zhang; Fenglian Sun;
    Soldering and Surface Mount Technology,
    2019. DOI: 10.1108/SSMT-01-2018-0005

  880. Indentation hardness, plasticity and initial creep properties of nanosilver sintered joint
    Hao Zhang; Yang Liu; Lingen Wang; Fenglian Sun; Xuejun Fan; GuoQi Zhang;
    Results in Physics,
    Volume 12, pp. 712-717, 2019. DOI: 10.1016/j.rinp.2018.12.026

  881. High-performance humidity sensor using Schottky-contacted SnS nanoflakes for noncontact healthcare monitoring
    Hongyu Tang; Yutao Li; Huaiyu Ye; Fafei Hu; Chenshan Gao; Luqi Tao; Tao Tu; Guangyang Gou; Xianping Chen; Xuejun Fan; Tianling Ren; GuoQi Zhang;
    Nanotechnology,
    Volume 31, Issue 5, pp. 055501, Nov 2019. DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/ab414e
    document

  882. Mass measurement of graphene using quartz crystal microbalances
    Robin J Dolleman; Mick Hsu; Sten Vollebregt; John E Sader; Herre SJ van der Zant; Peter G Steeneken; Murali K Ghatkesar;
    Applied Physics Letters,
    Volume 115, Issue 5, pp. 053102, 2019. DOI: 10.1063/1.5111086
    document

  883. General coupling model for electromigration and one-dimensional numerical solutions
    Zhen Cui; Xuejun Fan; GuoQi Zhang;
    Journal of Applied Physics,
    Volume 125, pp. 105101-1-9, 2019. DOI: 10.1063/1.5065376

  884. Multipath exploitation for knowledge-aided adaptive target detection
    U. Kumbul; H.T. Hayvaci;
    IET Radar, Sonar and Navigation,
    Volume 13, Issue 6, pp. 863-870, 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-rsn.2018.5221
    document

  885. Quasinormal Mode Solvers for Resonators with Dispersive Materials
    P. Lalanne; W. Yan; A. Gras; C. sauvan; J.-P. Hugonin; M. Besbes; G. Demesy; M.D. Truong; B. Gralak; F. Zolla; A. Nicolet; F. Binkowski; L. Zschiedrich; S. Burger; J. Zimmerling; R. Remis; P. Urbach; H.T.;
    Journal of the Optical Society of America A,
    Volume 36, pp. 686-704, 2019. DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.36.000686
    document

  886. Developments in Electrical Properties Tomography Based on the Contrast-Source Inversion Method
    R. Leijsen; P. Fuchs; W. Brink; A. Webb; Rob Remis;
    Journal of Imaging,
    Volume 5, 2019. DOI: 10.3390/jimaging5020025
    document

  887. A Simulation Study on the Effect of Optimized High Permittivity Materials on Fetal Imaging at 3T
    J. van Gemert; W. Brink; R. Remis; A. Webb;
    Magnetic Resonance in Medicine,
    Volume 82, pp. 1822-1831, 2019. DOI: 10.1002/mrm.27849
    document

  888. Accelerating Implant RF Safety Assessment Using a Low-Rank Inverse Update Method
    P.R.S. Stijnman; J.P. Tokaya; J. van Gemert; P.R. Luijten; J.P.W. Pluim; W.M. Brink; R.F. Remis; C.A.T. van den Berg; A.J.E. Raaijmakers;
    Magnetic Resonance in Medicine,
    2019. DOI: 10.1002/mrm.28023
    document

  889. Conjugate Gradient Variants for $\ell_p$-Regularized Image Reconstruction in Low-Field MRI
    Merel de Leeuw den Bouter; Martin van Gijzen; Rob Remis;
    SN Applied Sciences,
    Volume 1, pp. 1736, 2019. DOI: 10.1007/s42452-019-1670-2
    document

  890. High-Permittivity Pad Design Tool for 7T Neuroimaging and 3T Body Imaging
    J. van Gemert; W. Brink; A. Webb; R. Remis;
    Magnetic Resonance in Medicine,
    Volume 81, pp. 3370-3378, 2019. DOI: 10.1002/mrm.27629
    document

  891. Accelerating Compressed Sensing in Parallel Imaging Reconstructions Using an Efficient Circulant Preconditioner for Cartesian Trajectories
    K. Koolstra; J. van Gemert; P. Bornert; A. Webb; R. Remis;
    Magnetic Resonance in Medicine,
    Volume 81, pp. 670-681, 2019. DOI: 10.1002/mrm.27371
    document

  892. Rate-Constrained Noise Reduction in Wireless Acoustic Sensor Networks
    Jamal Amini; Richard C. Hendriks; Richard Heusdens; Meng Guo; Jesper Jensen;
    IEEE/ACM Trans. on Audio, Speech and Language Processing,
    Volume 28, Issue 1-12, 2019. DOI: 10.1109/TASLP.2019.2947777
    document

  893. A 6 \textdollar\textbackslashmu\textdollar W 95 dB SNDR Inverter Based \textdollar\textbackslashSigma\textbackslashDelta\textdollar Modulator With Subtractive Dithering and SAR Quantizer
    Huajun Zhang; Zhichao Tan; Yi Zhang; Baozhen Chen; Roberto Maurino; Robert Adams; Khiem Nguyen;
    {IEEE} Transactions on Circuits and Systems {II}: Express Briefs,
    Volume 66, Issue 4, pp. 552--556, April 2019. DOI: 10.1109/tcsii.2018.2869103
    document

  894. A 1-V 560-nW SAR ADC With 90-dB SNDR for IoT Sensing Applications
    Huajun Zhang; Zhichao Tan; Chao Chu; Baozhen Chen; Hongxing Li; Michael Coln; Khiem Nguyen;
    {IEEE} Transactions on Circuits and Systems {II}: Express Briefs,
    Volume 66, Issue 12, pp. 1967--1971, December 2019. DOI: 10.1109/tcsii.2019.2898365
    document

  895. A 6 $\mu$W 95 dB SNDR Inverter Based $\Sigma\Delta$ Modulator With Subtractive Dithering and SAR Quantizer
    Huajun Zhang; Zhichao Tan; Yi Zhang; Baozhen Chen; Roberto Maurino; Robert Adams; Khiem Nguyen;
    {IEEE} Transactions on Circuits and Systems {II}: Express Briefs,
    Volume 66, Issue 4, pp. 552--556, April 2019. DOI: 10.1109/tcsii.2018.2869103
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  896. A planar supercapacitor made of supramolecular nanofibre based solid electrolyte exhibiting 8 V window
    S. Kundu; U. Mogera; S. J. George; G. U. Kulkarni;
    Nano Energy,
    Volume 61, pp. 259-266, 2019.
    document

  897. Go with the flow: advances and trends in magnetic flow cytometry
    Soares, Rita; Martins, Verónica C; Macedo, Rita; Cardoso, Filipe Arroyo; Martins, Sofia AM; Caetano, Diogo M; Fonseca, Pedro H; Silvério, Vânia; Cardoso, Susana; Freitas, Paulo P;
    Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry,
    Volume 411, pp. 1839-1862, 2019.

  898. Biosensors for on-farm diagnosis of mastitis
    Martins, Sofia AM; Martins, Ver{\'o}nica C; Cardoso, Filipe Arroyo; Germano, José; Rodrigues, Mónica; Duarte, Carla; Bexiga, Ricardo; Cardoso, Susana; Freitas, Paulo P;
    Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology,
    Volume 7, pp. 186, 2019.

  899. A Role for Macrophages in Hematopoiesis in the Embryonic Head
    Zhuan Li; Samanta Mariani; Carmen Rodriguez-Seoane; Wenyan He; Xiaowei Ning; Bing Liu; Chris S. Vink; Elaine Dzierzak;
    Blood,
    October 2019. DOI: 10.1182/blood.2018881243
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  900. Pro-inflammatory Aorta-Associated Macrophages Are Involved in Embryonic Development of Hematopoietic Stem Cells
    Samanta A. Mariani; Zhuan Li; Siobhan Rice; Carsten Krieg; Stamatina Fragkogianni; Mark Robinson; Chris S. Vink; Jeffrey W. Pollard; Elaine Dzierzak;
    Immunity,
    Volume 50, Issue 6, pp. 1439--1452.e5, June 2019. DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2019.05.003
    document

  901. Macrophages Restrict the Nephrogenic Field and Promote Endothelial Connections During Kidney Development
    David AD Munro; Yishay Wineberg; Julia Tarnick; Chris S. Vink; Zhuan Li; Clare Pridans; Elaine Dzierzak; Tomer Kalisky; Peter Hohenstein; Jamie A. Davies;
    eLife,
    Volume 8, February 2019. DOI: 10.7554/elife.43271
    document

  902. A Low Power Continuous-Time Zoom ADC for Audio Applications
    B. Gönen; S. Karmakar; R. van Veldhoven; K. A. A. Makinwa;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 55, Issue 4, pp. 1023-1031, 12 2019. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2019.2959480
    Abstract: ... This article presents a continuous-time zoom analog to digital converter (ADC) for audio applications. It employs a high-speed asynchronous SAR ADC that dynamically updates the references of a continuous-time delta-sigma modulator (CTDSM). Compared to previous switched-capacitor (SC) zoom ADCs, its input impedance is essentially resistive, which relaxes the power dissipation of its reference and input buffers. Fabricated in a 160-nm CMOS process, the ADC occupies 0.27 mm 2 and achieves 108.1-dB peak SNR, 106.4-dB peak signal to noise and distortion ratio (SNDR), and 108.5-dB dynamic range in a 20-kHz bandwidth while consuming 618 μW. This results in a Schreier figure of merit (FoM) of 183.6 dB.

  903. A 6800‐μm² Resistor‐Based Temperature Sensor in 180‐nm CMOS
    J. Angevare; K.A.A. Makinwa;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 54, Issue 10, pp. 2649-2657, 10 2019. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2019.2921450
    Abstract: ... This paper describes a compact resistor-based temperature sensor that has been realized in a 180-nm CMOS process. It occupies only 6800 μm 2 , thanks to the use of a highly digital voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO)-based phase-domain sigma-delta modulator, whose loop filter consists of a compact digital counter. Despite its small size, the sensor achieves ±0.35 °C (3σ) inaccuracy from -35 °C to 125 °C. Furthermore, it achieves 0.12 °C (1σ) resolution at 2.8 kSa/s, which is mainly limited by the time-domain quantization imposed by the counter.

  904. A 15nW per Button Interference-Immune Readout IC for Capacitive Touch Sensors
    S. Hussaini; H. Jiang; P. Walsh; D. MacSweeney; K.A.A. Makinwa;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 54, Issue 7, pp. 1874-1882, 7 2019. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2019.2907041
    Abstract: ... This paper presents a readout IC that uses an asynchronous capacitance-to-digital-converter (CDC) to digitize the capacitance of a touch sensor. A power-efficient tracking algorithm ensures that the CDC consumes negligible power consumption in the absence of touch events. To facilitate its use in wake-on-touch applications, the CDC can be periodically triggered by a co-integrated ultra-low-power relaxation oscillator. At a 38-Hz scan rate, the readout IC consumes 15 nW per touch sensor, which is the lowest reported to date.

  905. An Energy-Efficient 3.7nV/√Hz Bridge-Readout IC with a Stable Bridge Offset Compensation Scheme
    H. Jiang; S. Nihtianov; K.A.A. Makinwa;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 53, Issue 3, pp. 856-864, 3 2019. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2018.2885556
    Abstract: ... This paper describes an energy-efficient bridge readout IC (ROIC), which consists of a capacitively coupled instrumentation amplifier (CCIA) that drives a continuous-time delta-sigma modulator (CTΔΣM). By exploiting the CCIA's ability to block dc common-mode voltages, the bridge's bias voltage may exceed the ROIC's supply voltage, allowing these voltages to be independently optimized. Since bridge output is typically much smaller than bridge offset, a digital to analog converter (DAC) is used to compensate this offset before amplification and thus increase the CCIA's useful dynamic range. Bridge loading is reduced by using a dual-path positive feedback scheme to boost the CCIA's input impedance. Furthermore, the CCIA's output is gated to avoid digitizing its output spikes, which would otherwise limit the ROIC's linearity and stability. The ROIC achieves an input-referred noise density of 3.7 nV/√Hz, a noise efficiency factor (NEF) of 5, and a power efficiency factor (PEF) of 44, which both represent the state of the art. A pressure sensing system, built with the ROIC and a differential pressure sensor (AC4010), achieves 10.1-mPa (1ιι) resolution in a 0.5-ms conversion time. The ROIC dissipates about 30% of the system's power dissipation and contributes about 6% of its noise power. To reduce the sensor's offset drift, a temperature compensation scheme based on an external reference resistor is used. After a two-point calibration, this scheme reduces bridge offset drift by 80× over a 50 °C range.

  906. Long-term observation of Magnetospirillum gryphiswaldense in a microfluidic channel
    Hageman, Tijmen A. G.; Pichel, Marc P.; L{\"o}thman, Per A.; Cho, Jiung; Choi, Miri; Korkmaz, Nuriye; Manz, Andreas; Abelmann, Leon;
    Archives of Microbiology,
    Volume 201, Issue 10, pp. 1427 – 1433, 2019. All Open Access, Green Open Access, Hybrid Gold Open Access. DOI: 10.1007/s00203-019-01713-0
    Keywords: ... Bacteriological Techniques; Magnetospirillum; Microfluidics; Time Factors; article; illumination; magnetic field; Magnetospirillum gryphiswaldense; nonhuman; rotation; Magnetospirillum; microbiological examination; microfluidics; physiology; procedures; time factor.

    Abstract: ... We controlled and observed individual magneto-tactic bacteria (Magnetospirillum gryphiswaldense) inside a 5μm-high microfluidic channel for over 4 h. After a period of constant velocity, the duration of which varied between bacteria, all observed bacteria showed a gradual decrease in their velocity of about 25nm/s2. After coming to a full stop, different behaviour was observed, ranging from rotation around the centre of mass synchronous with the direction of the external magnetic field, to being completely immobile. Our results suggest that the influence of the high-intensity illumination and the presence of the channel walls are important parameters to consider when performing observations of such long duration. © 2019, The Author(s).

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  907. A Wideband Linear $I/Q$ -Interleaving DDRM
    Mehrpoo, Mohammadreza; Hashemi, Mohsen; Shen, Yiyu; de Vreede, Leo C. N.; Alavi, Morteza S.;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 53, Issue 5, pp. 1361-1373, 2018. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2017.2786685

  908. Practical Inductive Link Design for Biomedical Wireless Power Transfer: A Tutorial
    Schormans, Matthew; Valente, Virgilio; Demosthenous, Andreas;
    IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems,
    pp. 1--19, 2018. DOI: 10.1109/TBCAS.2018.2846020
    document

  909. CMOS Image Sensor for Lateral Flow Immunoassay Readers
    Pilavaki, Evdokia; Valente, Virgilio; Demosthenous, Andreas;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs,
    pp. 1--1, 2018. DOI: 10.1109/TCSII.2018.2855054
    document

  910. A Low-Power, Wireless, Capacitive Sensing Frontend Based on a Self-Oscillating Inductive Link
    Schormans, Matthew; Valente, Virgilio; Demosthenous, Andreas;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers,
    pp. 1--12, 2018. DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2018.2835148
    document

  911. Evaluation of aggregate models of plug-in electric vehicles for primary frequency control
    Seyedmahdi Izadkhast,Pablo Garcia-Gonzalez, Pablo Frías, Pavol Bauer; Laura Ramírez-Elizondo;
    Inderscience International Journal of Automotive Technology and Management,
    Volume 18, Issue 3, pp. 270-294, 2018.
    Abstract: ... This paper summarises and evaluates in detail aggregate models of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) for primary frequency control (PFC) through dynamic simulations. A basic aggregate model of PEVs for PFC is introduced and then gradually developed in the following steps: 1) technical characteristics of PEVs are incorporated into the model; 2) technical characteristics of distribution networks are formulated and added; 3) a strategy is described to well-design the frequency-droop controller of PEVs for PFC. Moreover, from an economic point of view, a method is presented to assess the benefits which could result from PEVs for PFC. Four simulation scenarios are defined to evaluate the impact of: 1) different PEV’s penetration levels; 2) PEV’s operating modes and constraints; 3) power consumed in the network during the PFC; 4) well-designed frequency droop controller, on the frequency response following a contingency event. Simulation results show that aggregate PEVs have a great potential not only to improve the frequency response, while preserving the overall stability, but also to save some costs associated with PFC.

  912. Iterative Per-Vector Equalization for Orthogonal Signal-Division Multiplexing Over Time-Varying Underwater Acoustic Channels
    Jin Han; S.P. Chepuri; Qunfei Zhang; G. Leus;
    IEEE Journ. of Oceanic Engineering,
    October 2018.
    document

  913. Cryo-CMOS Circuits and Systems for Quantum Computing Applications
    Bishnu Patra; Rosario M. Incandela; Jeroen P. G. van Dijk; Harald A. R. Homulle; Lin Song; Mina Shahmohammadi; Robert B. Staszewski; Andrei Vladimirescu; Masoud Babaie; Fabio Sebastiano; Edoardo Charbon;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 53, Issue 1, pp. 1-13, Jan 2018. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2017.2737549
    Keywords: ... CMOS technology;Cryogenics;Oscillators;Process control;Quantum computing;Temperature;CMOS characterization;Class-F oscillator;cryo-CMOS;low-noise amplifier (LNA);noise canceling;phase noise (PN);quantum bit (qubit);quantum computing;qubit control;single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD)..

    Abstract: ... A fault-tolerant quantum computer with millions of quantum bits (qubits) requires massive yet very precise control electronics for the manipulation and readout of individual qubits. CMOS operating at cryogenic temperatures down to 4 K (cryo-CMOS) allows for closer system integration, thus promising a scalable solution to enable future quantum computers. In this paper, a cryogenic control system is proposed, along with the required specifications, for the interface of the classical electronics with the quantum processor. To prove the advantages of such a system, the functionality of key circuit blocks is experimentally demonstrated. The characteristic properties of cryo-CMOS are exploited to design a noise-canceling low-noise amplifier for spin-qubit RF-reflectometry readout and a class-F2,3 digitally controlled oscillator required to manipulate the state of qubits.

  914. Filter design for autoregressive moving average graph filters
    Jiani Liu; E. Isufi; G. Leus;
    IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks,
    2018. ISSN: 2373-776X. DOI: 10.1109/TSIPN.2018.2854627
    document

  915. Spatio-temporal field estimation using Kriged Kalman Filter (KKF) with sparsity-enforcing sensor placement
    V. Roy; A. Simonetto; G. Leus;
    Sensors,
    Volume 8, Issue 6, 2018. DOI: 10.3390/s18061778
    document

  916. A Resistor-Based Temperature Sensor with a 0.13pJ·K2 Resolution FOM
    S. Pan; Y. Luo; S.H. Shalmany; K.A.A. Makinwa;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 53, Issue 1, pp. 164-173, 1 2018. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2017.2746671
    Abstract: ... This paper describes a high-resolution energy-efficient CMOS temperature sensor, intended for the temperature compensation of MEMS/quartz frequency references. The sensor is based on silicided poly-silicon thermistors, which are embedded in a Wien-bridge RC filter. When driven at a fixed frequency, the filter exhibits a temperature-dependent phase shift, which is digitized by an energy-efficient continuous-time phase-domain delta-sigma modulator. Implemented in a 0.18-μm CMOS technology, the sensor draws 87 μA from a 1.8 V supply and achieves a resolution of 410 μKrms in a 5-ms conversion time. This translates into a state-of-the-art resolution figure-of-merit of 0.13 pJ·K². When packaged in ceramic, the sensor achieves an inaccuracy of 0.2 °C (3σ) from -40 °C to 85 °C after a single-point calibration and a correction for systematic nonlinearity. This can be reduced to ±0.03 °C (3σ) after a first-order fit. In addition, the sensor exhibits low 1/f noise and packaging shift.

  917. A 40-nm CMOS Complex Permittivity Sensing Pixel for Material Characterization at Microwave Frequencies
    Vlachogiannakis, Gerasimos; Pertijs, Michiel A. P.; Spirito, Marco; de Vreede, Leo C. N.;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 66, Issue 3, pp. 1619-1634, 2018. DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2017.2753228
    Keywords: ... Permittivity;Permittivity measurement;Biomedical measurement;Microwave theory and techniques;Microwave measurement;Sensor phenomena and characterization;Biomedical sensors;bridge circuits;complex permittivity measurement;integrated microwave circuits;micro-wave sensors.

  918. Mission-Driven Resource Management for Reconfigurable Sensing Systems
    T. H. de Groot; O. A. Krasnov; A. G. Yarovoy;
    IEEE Systems Journal,
    Volume 12, Issue 2, pp. 1531-1542, 2018. DOI: 10.1109/JSYST.2016.2599072
    document

  919. Extension of the GMMV-based Linear Method to Quantitative Inverse Scattering
    Shilong Sun; B. J. Kooij; A. G. Yarovoy;
    IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters,
    Volume 17, Issue 1, pp. 94 - 97, January 2018. DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2017.2776526
    document

  920. A linear model for microwave imaging of highly conductive scatterers
    Shilong Sun; B. J. Kooij; A. G. Yarovoy;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 66, Issue 3, pp. 1149 - 1164, March 2018. DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2017.2772795
    document

  921. Self-aligning and self-calibrating capacitive sensor system for displacement measurement in inaccessible industrial environments
    Oscar S. van de Ven; Johan G. Vogel; Sha Xia; Jo W. Spronck; Stoyan Nihtianov;
    IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement,
    Volume 67, Issue 2, pp. 350-358, Feb 2018. DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2017.2764333
    Abstract: ... High-precision positioning often requires high speed and high resolution displacement measurements in order to compensate for the small vibrations of critical components. The displacement sensor must be precise and stable over a long period of time to avoid expensive recalibration. This requires tight mounting tolerances, which are especially difficult to meet in inaccessible environments. The proposed sensor system is based on a capacitive sensor and consists of three subsystems: 1) a mechanical “zoom-in” system that performs self-alignment of the capacitive sensor electrode in order to reduce the mounting tolerances of the sensor; 2) a real-time capacitance-to-digital converter that employs an internal reference and electrical zoom-in technique to effectively reduce the dynamic range of the measured capacitance, thus improving the power efficiency; and 3) a self-calibration circuit that periodically calibrates the internal references to eliminate their drift. In previous publications, the three subsystems have been introduced. This paper shows how the different subsystems can be integrated to achieve optimal performance and presents new repeatability and stability measurement results. The overall system demonstrates a displacement measurement resolution of 65 pm (in terms of capacitance 65 aF) for a measurement time of 20 μs . Furthermore, the thermal drift of the sensor is within 6 ppm/K, owing to the self-calibration circuit. In measurement mode, the system consumes less than 16 mW.

  922. Angularly stable frequency selective surface combined with a wide-scan phased array
    C. Yepes; D. Cavallo; E. Gandini; S. Monni; A. Neto; F. E. van Vliet;
    IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag.,
    Volume 66, Issue 2, pp. 1046-1051, Feb. 2018. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2017.2778768

  923. Factor Analysis From Quadratic Sampling
    S. P. Chepuri;
    IEEE Signal Processing Letters,
    Volume 25, Issue 1, pp. 65-69, January 2018. ISSN 1070-9908. DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2017.2763154
    document

  924. An Instrumental Intelligibility Metric Based on Information Theory
    S. Van Kuyk; W. B. Kleijn; R. C. Hendriks;
    IEEE Signal Processing Letters,
    Volume 25, Issue 1, pp. 115-119, January 2018. ISSN: 1070-9908. DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2017.2774250
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    A Matlab implementation can be downloaded here

  925. A 1.55 μW Bio-Impedance Measurement System for Implantable Cardiac Pacemakers in 0.18 μm CMOS
    Milad Zamani; Yasser Rezaeiyan; Omid Shoaei; Wouter A. Serdijn;
    IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems,
    Volume 12, Issue 3, June 2018. DOI: 10.1109/TBCAS.2017.2776528
    document

  926. Cryo-CMOS Circuits and Systems for Quantum Computing Applications
    B. Patra; R. M. Incandela; J. P. G. van Dijk; H. A. R. Homulle; L. Song; M. Shahmohammadi; R. B. Staszewski; A. Vladimirescu; M. Babaie; F. Sebastiano; E. Charbon;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 53, Issue 1, pp. 309-321, Jan 2018. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2017.2737549
    Keywords: ... CMOS technology;Cryogenics;Oscillators;Process control;Quantum computing;Temperature;CMOS characterization;Class-F oscillator;cryo-CMOS;low-noise amplifier (LNA);noise canceling;phase noise (PN);quantum bit (qubit);quantum computing;qubit control;single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD).

  927. A Novel Rotated Antenna Array Topology for Near-Field 3-D Fully Polarimetric Imaging
    Jianping Wang; P. Aubry; A. Yarovoy;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 66, Issue 3, pp. 1584 - 1589, March 2018. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2018.2794408
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  928. Antenna Coupled MKID Performance Verification at 850 GHz for Large Format Astrophysics Arrays
    Ferrari, Lorenza; Yurduseven, Ozan; Llombart, Nuria; Yates, Stephen JC; Bueno, Juan; Murugesan, Vignes; Thoen, David J; Endo, Akira; Baryshev, Andrey M; Baselmans, Jochem JA;
    IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology,
    Volume 8, Issue 1, pp. 127-139, Jan. 2018.
    document

  929. A 0.5 μA/channel front-end for implantable and external ambulatory ECG recorders
    Yasser Rezaeiyan; Milad Zamani; Omid Shoaei; Wouter A. Serdijn;
    Microelectronics Journal,
    Volume 74, April 2018. DOI: 10.1016/j.mejo.2018.01.016
    document

  930. A 40-nm CMOS Complex Permittivity Sensing Pixel for Material Characterization at Microwave Frequencies
    G. Vlachogiannakis; M. A. P. Pertijs; M. Spirito; L. C. N. de Vreede;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 66, Issue 3, pp. 1619-1634, March 2018. DOI: 10.1109/tmtt.2017.2753228
    Abstract: ... A compact sensing pixel for the determination of the localized complex permittivity at microwave frequencies is proposed. Implemented in the 40-nm CMOS, the architecture comprises a square patch, interfaced to the material-under-test sample, that provides permittivity-dependent admittance. The patch admittance is read out by embedding the patch in a double-balanced, RF-driven Wheatstone bridge. The bridge is cascaded by a linear, low-intermediate frequency switching downconversion mixer, and is driven by a square wave that allows simultaneous characterization of multiple harmonics, thus increasing measurement speed and extending the frequency range of operation. In order to allow complex permittivity measurement, a calibration procedure has been developed for the sensor. Measurement results of liquids show good agreement with theoretical values, and the measured relative permittivity resolution is better than 0.3 over a 0.1-10-GHz range. The proposed implementation features a measurement speed of 1 ms and occupies an active area of 0.15x0.3 mm², allowing for future compact arrays of multiple sensors that facilitate 2-D dielectric imaging based on permittivity contrast.

  931. Efficient Implementation of GPR Data Inversion in Case of Spatially Varying Antenna Polarizations
    Jianping Wang; Pacscal Aubry; A. Yarovoy;
    IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing,
    Volume 56, Issue 4, pp. 2387-2396, April 2018. DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2017.2779788
    document

  932. Detection of range migrating targets in compound-Gaussian clutter
    N. Petrov; F. Le Chevalier; A. Yarovoy;
    IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems,
    Volume 54, Issue 1, pp. 37 - 50, Feb. 2018. DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2017.2731558

  933. A Linear Method for Shape Reconstruction Based on the Generalized Multiple Measurement Vectors Model
    Shilong Sun; B. J. Kooij; A. G. Yarovoy; T. Jin;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 66, Issue 4, pp. 2016-2025, April 2018. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2018.2806404

  934. Realizing flexible bioelectronic medicines for accessing the peripheral nerves – technology considerations
    Vasiliki Giagka; Wouter Serdijn;
    Bioelectronic Medicine,
    Volume 4, Issue 8, June 26 2018. DOI: 10.1186/s42234-018-0010-y
    document

  935. Mixed-Signal IC With Pulse Width Modulation Wireless Telemetry for Implantable Cardiac Pacemakers in 0.18-µm CMOS
    Yasser Rezaeiyan; Milad Zamani; Omid Shoaei; Wouter A. Serdijn;
    IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems,
    15 May 2018. DOI: 10.1109/TBCAS.2018.2819021
    document

  936. Multiline 3D beamforming using micro-beamformed datasets for pediatric transesophageal echocardiography
    D. Bera; S. B. Raghunathan; C. Chen; Z. Chen; M. A. P. Pertijs; M. D. Verweij; V. Daeichin; H. J. Vos; A. F. W. van der Steen; N. de Jong; J. G. Bosch;
    Physics in Medicine \& Biology,
    Volume 63, Issue 7, pp. 1-16, March 2018. DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/aab45e
    Abstract: ... Until now, no matrix transducer has been realized for 3D transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) in pediatric patients. In 3D TEE with a matrix transducer, the biggest challenges are to connect a large number of elements to a standard ultrasound system, and to achieve a high volume rate (>200 Hz). To address these issues, we have recently developed a prototype miniaturized matrix transducer for pediatric patients with micro-beamforming and a small central transmitter. In this paper we propose two multiline parallel 3D beamforming techniques (µBF25 and µBF169) using the micro-beamformed datasets from 25 and 169 transmit events to achieve volume rates of 300 Hz and 44 Hz, respectively. Both the realizations use angle-weighted combination of the neighboring overlapping sub-volumes to avoid artifacts due to sharp intensity changes introduced by parallel beamforming. In simulation, the image quality in terms of the width of the point spread function (PSF), lateral shift invariance and mean clutter level for volumes produced by µBF25 and µBF169 are similar to the idealized beamforming using a conventional single-line acquisition with a fully-sampled matrix transducer (FS4k, 4225 transmit events). For completeness, we also investigated a 9 transmit-scheme (3  ×  3) that allows even higher frame rates but found worse B-mode image quality with our probe. The simulations were experimentally verified by acquiring the µBF datasets from the prototype using a Verasonics V1 research ultrasound system. For both µBF169 and µBF25, the experimental PSFs were similar to the simulated PSFs, but in the experimental PSFs, the clutter level was ~10 dB higher. Results indicate that the proposed multiline 3D beamforming techniques with the prototype matrix transducer are promising candidates for real-time pediatric 3D TEE.

  937. Connected-slot array with artificial dielectrics: A 6 to 15 GHz dual-pol wide-scan prototype
    D. Cavallo; W. H. Syed; A. Neto;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 66, Issue 6, pp. 3201-3206, Jun. 2018. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2018.2811841

  938. High-Pass ΣΔ Converter Design Using a State-Space Approach and Its Application to Cardiac Signal Acquisition
    Samprajani Rout; Wouter A. Serdijn;
    IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems,
    Volume 12, Issue 3, June 2018. Open Access. DOI: 10.1109/TBCAS.2018.2817926
    document

  939. A 60 mV Input Voltage, Process Tolerant Start-Up System for Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting
    Mohammadjavad Dezyani; Hassan Ghafoorifard; Samad Sheikhaei; Wouter A. Serdijn;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers,
    2018. DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2018.2834312
    document

  940. Wavenumber-Domain Multiband Signal Fusion With Matrix-Pencil Approach for High-Resolution Imaging
    Jianping Wang; Pascal Aubry; Alexander Yarovoy;
    IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing,
    Volume 56, Issue 7, pp. 4037-4049, July 2018. DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2018.2821001
    document

  941. PRIFIRA: General regularization using prior-conditioning for fast radio interferometric imaging
    S. Naghibzadeh; A.J. van der Veen;
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society,
    Volume 479, Issue 4, pp. 5638–5656, October 2018. DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty1501
    document

  942. Coatings for sensing and protection in silicon sensors
    P.J. French;
    Advanced Materials Letters,
    Volume 9, Issue 6, pp. 392--399, May 2018. DOI: 10.5185/amlett.2018.1892
    Keywords: ... silicon sensor; coatings; harsh environments.

    Abstract: ... Silicon is an excellent material for sensing. Sensors for all signal domains can be realised, and in many cases, integrated with read-out electronics. However, in some applications an addition layer may be required for sensing and/or to protect the silicon device. Piezoelectric, polymers or magneto resistive layers can be added to expand the options of silicon. In the case of some implants, the polymer is used to protect the body from the device. In harsh chemical environments, the coating layer can be used to protect the silicon and in some cases also function as the sensor. Layers such as SiC represent a chemically resilient layer to protect the layers below, but this layer can also be used as a sensing layer. Atomic layer deposition (ALD) provides thin uniform, and pinhole free layers which can be used as protection and sensing. Other materials include graphene. In cases such as extreme temperature, it is more difficult to protect the silicon device, and in these cases the electronics must be isolated from the heat. This paper will show examples of how coating layers can enhance the sensing capabilities of silicon devices and also provide protection.

  943. Dissipation losses in artificial dielectric layers
    D. Cavallo;
    IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag.,
    Volume 66, Issue 12, pp. 7460-7465, Dec. 2018. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2018.2869241

  944. A Reconfigurable Ultrasound Transceiver ASIC With 24 × 40 Elements for 3D Carotid Artery Imaging
    E. Kang; Q. Ding; M. Shabanimotlagh; P. Kruizinga; Z. Y. Chang; E. Noothout; H. J. Vos; J. G. Bosch; M. D. Verweij; N. de Jong; M. A. P. Pertijs;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 53, Issue 7, pp. 2065-2075, July 2018. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2018.2820156
    Abstract: ... This paper presents an ultrasound transceiver application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) designed for 3-D ultrasonic imaging of the carotid artery. This application calls for an array of thousands of ultrasonic transducer elements, far exceeding the number of channels of conventional imaging systems. The 3.6 x 6.8 mm² ASIC interfaces a piezo-electric transducer (PZT) array of 24 x 40 elements, directly integrated on top of the ASIC, to an imaging system using only 24 transmit and receive channels. Multiple ASICs can be tiled together to form an even bigger array. The ASIC, implemented in a 0.18 μm high-voltage (HV) BCD process, consists of a reconfigurable switch matrix and row-level receive circuits. Each element is associated with a compact bootstrapped HV transmit switch, an isolation switch for the receive circuits and programmable logic that enables a variety of imaging modes. Electrical and acoustic experiments successfully demonstrate the functionality of the ASIC. In addition, the ASIC has been successfully used in a 3-D imaging experiment.

  945. Fast volumetric imaging using a matrix TEE probe with partitioned transmit-receive array
    D. Bera; F. van den Adel; N. Radeljic-Jakic; B. Lippe; M. Soozande; M. A. P. Pertijs; M. D. Verweij; P. Kruizinga; V. Daeichin; H. J. Vos; A. F. W. van der Steen; J. G. Bosch; N. de Jong;
    Ultrasound in Medicine \& Biology,
    Volume 44, Issue 9, pp. 2025-2042, July 2018. DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2018.05.017
    Abstract: ... We describe a 3-D multiline parallel beamforming scheme for real-time volumetric ultrasound imaging using a prototype matrix transesophageal echocardiography probe with diagonally diced elements and separated transmit and receive arrays. The elements in the smaller rectangular transmit array are directly wired to the ultrasound system. The elements of the larger square receive aperture are grouped in 4 × 4-element sub-arrays by micro-beamforming in an application-specific integrated circuit. We propose a beamforming sequence with 85 transmit–receive events that exhibits good performance for a volume sector of 60° × 60°. The beamforming is validated using Field II simulations, phantom measurements and in vivo imaging. The proposed parallel beamforming achieves volume rates up to 59 Hz and produces good-quality images by angle-weighted combination of overlapping sub-volumes. Point spread function, contrast ratio and contrast-to-noise ratio in the phantom experiment closely match those of the simulation. In vivo 3-D imaging at 22-Hz volume rate in a healthy adult pig clearly visualized the cardiac structures, including valve motion.

  946. A Front-End ASIC with High-Voltage Transmit Switching and Receive Digitization for 3D Forward-Looking Intravascular Ultrasound Imaging
    M. Tan; C. Chen; Z. Chen; J. Janjic; V. Daeichin; Z. Y. Chang; E. Noothout; G. van Soest; M. D. Verweij; N. de Jong; M. A. P. Pertijs;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 53, Issue 8, pp. 2284-2297, August 2018. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2018.2828826
    Abstract: ... This paper presents an area- and power-efficient application-specified integrated circuit (ASIC) for 3-D forward-looking intravascular ultrasound imaging. The ASIC is intended to be mounted at the tip of a catheter, and has a circular active area with a diameter of 1.5 mm on the top of which a 2-D array of piezoelectric transducer elements is integrated. It requires only four micro-coaxial cables to interface 64 receive (RX) elements and 16 transmit (TX) elements with an imaging system. To do so, it routes high-voltage (HV) pulses generated by the system to selected TX elements using compact HV switch circuits, digitizes the resulting echo signal received by a selected RX element locally, and employs an energy-efficient load-modulation datalink to return the digitized echo signal to the system in a robust manner. A multi-functional command line provides the required sampling clock, configuration data, and supply voltage for the HV switches. The ASIC has been realized in a 0.18-μm HV CMOS technology and consumes only 9.1 mW. Electrical measurements show 28-V HV switching and RX digitization with a 16-MHz bandwidth and 53-dB dynamic range. Acoustical measurements demonstrate successful pulse transmission and reception. Finally, a 3-D ultrasound image of a three-needle phantom is generated to demonstrate the imaging capability.

  947. Acoustic characterization of a miniature matrix transducer for pediatric 3D transesophageal echocardiography
    V. Daeichin; D. Bera; S. Raghunathan; M. ShabaniMotlagh; Z. Chen; C. Chen; E. Noothout; H. J. Vos; M. Pertijs; J. Bosch; N. de Jong; M. Verweij;
    Ultrasound in Medicine \& Biology,
    Volume 44, Issue 10, pp. 2143-2154, October 2018. DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2018.06.009
    Abstract: ... This paper presents the design, fabrication and characterization of a miniature PZT-on-CMOS matrix transducer for real-time pediatric 3-dimensional (3D) transesophageal echocardiography (TEE). This 3D TEE probe consists of a 32 × 32 array of PZT elements integrated on top of an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC). We propose a partitioned transmit/receive array architecture wherein the 8 × 8 transmitter elements, located at the centre of the array, are directly wired out and the remaining receive elements are grouped into 96 sub-arrays of 3 × 3 elements. The echoes received by these sub-groups are locally processed by micro-beamformer circuits in the ASIC that allow pre-steering up to ±37°. The PZT-on-CMOS matrix transducer has been characterized acoustically and has a centre frequency of 5.8 MHz, -6 dB bandwidth of 67%, a transmit efficiency of 6 kPa/V at 30 mm, and a receive dynamic range of 85 dB with minimum and maximum detectable pressures of 5 Pa and 84 kPa respectively. The properties are very suitable for a miniature pediatric real-time 3D TEE probe.

  948. A Phase-Domain Readout Circuit for a CMOS-Compatible Hot-Wire CO$_2$ Sensor
    Z. Cai; R. van Veldhoven; H. Suy; G. de Graaf; K. Makinwa; M. Pertijs;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 53, Issue 11, pp. 3303--3313, November 2018. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2018.2866374
    Abstract: ... This paper presents a readout circuit for a carbon dioxide (CO2) sensor that measures the CO2-dependent thermal time constant of a hot-wire transducer. The readout circuit periodically heats up the transducer and uses a phase-domain modulator to digitize the phase shift of the resulting temperature transients. A single resistive transducer is used both as a heater and as a temperature sensor, thus greatly simplifying its fabrication. To extract the transducer’s resistance, and hence its temperature, in the presence of large heating currents, a pair of transducers is configured as a differentially driven bridge. The transducers and the readout circuit have been implemented in a standard 0.16-μm CMOS technology, with an active area of 0.3 and 3.14 mm2, respectively. The sensor consumes 6.8 mW from a 1.8-V supply, of which 6.3 mW is dissipated in the transducers. A resolution of 94-ppm CO2 is achieved in a 1.8-s measurement time, which corresponds to an energy consumption of 12 mJ per measurement, >10× less than prior CO2 sensors in CMOS technology.

  949. A Capacitively-Degenerated 100dB Linear 20-150MS/s Dynamic Amplifier
    M. S. Akter; K.A.A. Makinwa; K. Bult;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 53, pp. 1115 - 1126, 4 2018. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2017.2778277
    Abstract: ... This paper presents a new dynamic residue amplifier topology for pipelined analog-to-digital converters. With an input signal of 100 mVpp,diff and 4x gain, it achieves -100-dB total harmonic distortion, the lowest ever reported for a dynamic amplifier. Compared to the state of the art, it exhibits 25 dB better linearity with twice the output swing and similar noise performance. The key to this performance is a new linearization technique based on capacitive degeneration, which exploits the exponential voltage-to-current relationship of MOSFET in weak inversion. The prototype amplifier is fabricated in a 28-nm CMOS process and dissipates only 87 μW at a clock speed of 43 MS/s, thereby improving the energy per cycle by 26x compared with that of state-of-the-art high-linearity amplifiers.

  950. A 4.5 nV/\sqrtHz Capacitively-Coupled Continuous-Time Sigma-Delta Modulator with an Energy-Efficient Chopping Scheme
    H. Jiang; C. Ligouras; S. Nihtianov; K.A.A. Makinwa;
    IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters,
    Volume 1, pp. 18-21, 2018. DOI: 10.1109/LSSC.2018.2803447
    Abstract: ... When chopping is applied to a continuous-time sigmadelta modulator (CTΣΔM), quantization noise fold-back often occurs, leading to increased in-band noise. This can be prevented by employing a return-to-zero (RZ) digital-to-analog converter (RZ DAC) in the modulator's feedback path and arranging the chopping transitions to coincide with its RZ phases. In this letter, this technique has been extended and implemented in an energy-efficient CTΣΔM intended for the readout of Wheatstone bridge sensors. To achieve a wide common-mode input range, the modulator's summing node is implemented as an embedded capacitively coupled instrumentation amplifier which can be readily combined with a highly linear 1-bit capacitive RZ DAC. Measurements show that the proposed chopping scheme does not suffer from quantization noise fold-back and also allows a flexible choice of chopping frequency. When chopped at one-tenth of the sampling frequency, the modulator achieves 15 ppm INL, 4.5 nV/√Hz input-referred noise and a state-of-the-art noise efficiency factor of 6.1.

  951. A 19.8 mW Sub-nanometer Eddy-current Displacement Sensor Interface
    V. Chaturvedi; M.R. Nabaviy; J.G. Vogel; K.A.A. Makinwa; S. Nihtianov;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 53, pp. 2273-2283, 5 2018. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2018.2832168
    Abstract: ... This paper presents an eddy-current sensor (ECS) interface intended for sub-nanometer (sub-nm) displacement sensing in hi-tech applications. The interface employs a 126-MHz excitation frequency to mitigate the skin effect, and achieve high resolution and stability. An efficient on-chip sensor offset compensation scheme is introduced which removes sensoroffset proportional to the standoff distance. To assist in the ratiometric suppression of noise and drift of the excitation oscillator, the ECS interface consists of a highly linear amplitude demodulation scheme that employs passive capacitors for voltageto-current (V2I) conversion. Using a printed circuit board-based pseudo-differential ECS, stability tests were performed which demonstrated a thermal drift of <;7.3 nm/°C and long-term drift of only 29.5 nm over a period of 60 h. The interface achieves an effective noise floor of 13.4 pm/√Hz which corresponds to a displacement resolution of 0.6 nm in a 2-kHz noise bandwidth. The ECS interface is fabricated in TSMC 0.18-μm CMOS technology and dissipates only 19.8 mW from a 1.8-V supply.

  952. A ±12A High-Side Current Sensor with 25V Input CM Range and 0.35% Gain Error from -40ºC to 85ºC
    L. Xu; J.H. Huijsing; K.A.A. Makinwa;
    IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters,
    Volume 1, pp. 94-97, 4 2018. DOI: 10.1109/LSSC.2018.2855407
    Abstract: ... This letter presents the most accurate shunt-based high-side current sensor ever reported. It achieves a 25 V input common-mode range from a single 1.8-V supply by using a beyond-the-rails ADC. A hybrid analog/digital temperature compensation scheme is proposed to simplify the circuit implementation while maintaining the state-of-the-art accuracy. Over a ±12-A current range, the sensor exhibits 0.35% gain error from -40 °C to 85 °C with 3× better power efficiency.

  953. An Evaluation of Intrusive Instrumental Intelligibility Metrics
    Steven Van Kuyk; W. Bastiaan Kleijn; Richard C. Hendriks;
    IEEE Trans. on Audio, Speech and Language Processing,
    Volume 26, Issue 11, pp. 2153-2166, November 2018. ISSN: 2329-9290. DOI: 10.1109/TASLP.2018.2856374
    document

  954. A Low-Cost Robust Distributed Linearly Constrained Beamformer for Wireless Acoustic Sensor Networks with Arbitrary Topology
    A.I. Koutrouvelis; T.W. Sherson; R. Heusdens; R.C. Hendriks;
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing,
    Volume 26, Issue 8, pp. 1434-1448, August 2018. ISSN: 2329-9290. DOI: 10.1109/TASLP.2018.2829405
    document • software

  955. Calculation of the Mean Strain of Non-uniform Strain Fields Using Conventional FBG Sensors
    Aydin Rajabzadeh; Richard Heusdens; Richard C. Hendriks; Roger M. Groves;
    Journal of Lightwave Technology,
    Volume 36, Issue 17, pp. 3716-3725, September 2018.
    document • software

  956. Rate-Distributed Spatial Filtering Based Noise Reduction in Wireless Acoustic Sensor Networks
    Jie Zhang; R. Heusdens; R. C. Hendriks;
    IEEE/ACM trans. Audio, Speech and Language Processing,
    Volume 26, Issue 11, pp. 2015-2026, November 2018. ISSN: 2329-9290. DOI: 10.1109/TASLP.2018.2851157
    document • software

  957. Microphone Subset Selection for MVDR Beamformer Based Noise Reduction
    Jie Zhang; S. P. Chepuri; R. C. Hendriks; R. Heusdens;
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing,
    Volume 26, Issue 3, pp. 550-563, March 2018. ISSN: 2329-9290. DOI: 10.1109/TASLP.2017.2786544
    document • software

  958. Uniaxial Acoustic Vector Sensors for direction-of-arrival estimation
    K. Nambur Ramamohan; D. Fernandez Comesana; G. Leus;
    Journal of Sound and Vibration,
    Volume 437, pp. 276-291, 2018. ISSN: 0022-460X. DOI: 10.1016/j.jsv.2018.08.031
    document

  959. Submodular Sparse Sensing for Gaussian Detection With Correlated Observations
    M. Coutino; S. P. Chepuri; G. Leus;
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing,
    Volume 66, Issue 15, pp. 4025-4039, August 2018. ISSN: 1053-587X. DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2018.2846220
    document

  960. Experimental Assessment of the Coarray Concept for DoA Estimation in Wireless Communications
    Jiachen Wang; Hantao Xu; G.J.T. Leus; G.A.E. Vandenbosch;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 66, Issue 6, pp. 3064-3075, June 2018. ISSN: 0018-926X. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2018.2819824
    document

  961. Adaptive Graph Signal Processing: Algorithms and Optimal Sampling Strategies
    P. Di Lorenzo; P. Banelli; E. Isufi; S. Barbarossa; G. Leus;
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing,
    Volume 66, Issue 13, pp. 3584-3598, July 2018. ISSN: 1053-587X. DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2018.2835384
    document

  962. Blind Graph Topology Change Detection
    E. Isufi; A. S. U. Mahabir; G. Leus;
    IEEE Signal Processing Letters,
    Volume 25, Issue 5, pp. 655-659, May 2018. ISSN: 1070-9908. DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2018.2819127
    document

  963. Underwater acoustic communication using Doppler-resilient orthogonal signal division multiplexing in a harbor environment
    T. Ebihara; G. Leus; H. Ogasawara;
    Physical Communication,
    Volume 27, pp. 24-35, 2018. ISSN: 1874-4907. DOI: 10.1016/j.phycom.2018.01.001
    document

  964. Distributed Optimization Using the Primal-Dual Method of Multipliers
    Guoqiang Zhang; R. Heusdens;
    IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks,
    Volume 4, Issue 1, pp. 173-187, March 2018. ISSN: 2373-776X. DOI: 10.1109/TSIPN.2017.2672403
    document

  965. Eigendecomposition-Based Partial FFT Demodulation for Differential OFDM in Underwater Acoustic Communications
    Jing Han; Lingling Zhang; Qunfei Zhang; Geert Leus;
    IEEE Tr. Vehicular Technology,
    Volume 67, Issue 7, pp. 6706-6710, 2018. ISSN: 0018-9545. DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2018.281332
    document

  966. Structured ultrasound microscopy
    J. Janjic; P. Kruizinga; P. van der Meulen; G. Springeling; F. Mastik; G. Leus; J.G. Bosch; A.F.W. van der Steen; G. van Soest;
    Applied Physics Letters,
    Volume 112, Issue 25, April 2018. DOI: 10.1063/1.5026863
    document

  967. Reference-Free Calibration in Sensor Networks
    Raj Thilak Rajan; Rob-van Schaijk; Anup Das; Jac Romme; Frank Pasveer;
    IEEE Sensor letters,
    Volume 2, Issue 3, pp. 1-4, Sept. 2018. DOI: 10.1109/LSENS.2018.2866627
    document

  968. An Element-Matched Electro-Mechanical ΔΣ ADC for Ultrasound Imaging
    M. D'Urbino; C. Chen; Z. Chen; Z. Y. Chang; J. Ponte; B. Lippe; M. Pertijs;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 53, Issue 10, pp. 2795-2805, October 2018. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2018.2859961
    Abstract: ... This paper presents a power- and area-efficient approach to digitizing the echo signals received by piezoelectric transducer elements, commonly used for ultrasound imaging. This technique utilizes such elements not only as sensors but also as the loop filter of an element-level Δ Σ analog to digital converter (ADC). The receiver chain is thus greatly simplified, yielding savings in area and power. Every ADC becomes small enough to fit underneath a 150 μ m x 150 μ m transducer element, enabling simultaneous acquisition and digitization from all the elements in a 2-D array. This is especially valuable for miniature 3-D probes. Experimental results are reported for a prototype receiver chip with an array of 5 x 4 element-matched ADCs and a transducer array fabricated on top of the chip. Each ADC consumes 800 μ W from a 1.8 V supply and achieves a SNR of 47 dB in a 75% bandwidth around a center frequency of 5 MHz.

  969. A Pitch-Matched Front-End ASIC with Integrated Subarray Beamforming ADC for Miniature 3-D Ultrasound Probes
    C. Chen; Z. Chen; D. Bera; E. Noothout; Z. Y. Chang; M. Tan; H. Vos; J. Bosch; M. Verweij; N. de Jong; M. Pertijs;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 53, Issue 11, pp. 3050-3064, November 2018. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2018.2864295
    Abstract: ... This paper presents a front-end application-specified integrated circuit (ASIC) integrated with a 2-D PZT matrix transducer that enables in-probe digitization with acceptable power dissipation for the next-generation endoscopic and catheter-based 3-D ultrasound imaging systems. To achieve power-efficient massively parallel analog-to-digital conversion (ADC) in a 2-D array, a 10-bit 30 MS/s beamforming ADC that merges the subarray beamforming and digitization functions in the charge domain is proposed. It eliminates the need for costly intermediate buffers, thus significantly reducing both power consumption and silicon area. Self-calibrated charge references are implemented in each subarray to further optimize the system-level power efficiency. High-speed datalinks are employed in combination with the subarray beamforming scheme to realize a 36-fold channel-count reduction and an aggregate output data rate of 6 Gb/s for a prototype receive array of 24 x 6 elements. The ASIC achieves a record power efficiency of 0.91 mW/element during receive. Its functionality has been demonstrated in both electrical and acoustic imaging experiments.

  970. Joint Detection and Localization of an Unknown Number of Sources Using the Algebraic Structure of the Noise Subspace
    M. W. Morency; S. A. Vorobyov; G. Leus;
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing,
    Volume 66, Issue 17, pp. 4685--4700, September 2018.
    document

  971. Incoherent Detection of Orthogonal Polarizations via an Antenna Coupled MKID: Experimental Validation at 1.55 THz
    Ozan Yurduseven; Juan Bueno; Stephen Yates; Andrea Neto; Jochem Baselmans; Nuria Llombart;
    IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology,
    2018.
    document

  972. Norton Equivalent Circuit for Pulsed Photoconductive Antennas–Part I: Theoretical Model
    Alessandro Garufo; Giorgio Carluccio; Nuria Llombart; Andrea Neto;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 66, Issue 4, pp. 1635-1645, Apr. 2018.
    document

  973. Norton Equivalent Circuit for Pulsed Photoconductive Antennas—Part II: Experimental Validation
    Alessandro Garufo; Giorgio Carluccio; Joshua R. Freeman; David R. Bacon; Nuria Llombart; Edmund H. Linfield; Alexander G. Davies; Andrea Neto;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 66, Issue 4, pp. 1646-1659, Apr. 2018.
    document

  974. The Observable Field for Antennas in Reception
    Andrea Neto; Nuria Llombart; Angelo Freni;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 66, Issue 4, pp. 1736-1746, Apr. 2018.
    document

  975. Design of a temperature sensor with optimized noise-power performance
    A. Heidari; G. Wang; Motahareh Abdollahpour; G.C.M. Meijer;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical,
    Volume 282, pp. 79--89, October 2018. DOI: 10.1016/j.sna.2018.09.006
    Abstract: ... This paper presents the design aspect of a BJT-based temperature sensor implemented in standard CMOS technology that is optimized for its noise-power performance. The interface electronics of the sensor consists of a continuous-time duty-cycle modulator, where a capacitor is periodically charged and discharged, with two temperature-dependent current sources, between two thresholds determined by a Schmitt trigger. In order to optimize the noise properties of the sensor, the major noise sources have been analyzed and optimized using target specifications of the manufacturer. Experimental results are in agreement with those of simulations and analytical calculations. The sensor has been implemented in 0.7μm CMOS technology. At 3.3V supply, the measured temperature resolution amounts to 3mK for a measurement time of 1.8ms. The test results show that a Resolution Figure of Merit (RFoM) of 3.2pJK² has been achieved in this design, which is the best reported result for BJT-based temperature sensors in the market.

  976. A sub-nW neuromorphic receptors for wide-range temporal patterns of post-synaptic responses in 65 nm CMOS
    X. You; A. Zjajo; S. Kumar; R. van Leuken;
    Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing,
    2018. DOI: 10.1007/s10470-018-1276-4
    document

  977. A real-time reconfigurable architecture for large-scale biophysically-accurate neuron simulation
    A. Zjajo; J. Hofmann; G.J. Christiaanse; M. van Eijk; G. Smaragdos; C. Strydis; A. de Graaf; C. Galuzzi; R. van Leuken;
    IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems,
    Volume 12, Issue 2, pp. 326-337, 2018. DOI: 10.1109/TBCAS.2017.2780287
    document

  978. A ±4-A High-Side Current Sensor With 0.9% Gain Error From −40 °C to 85 °C Using an Analog Temperature Compensation Technique
    L. Xu; J. H. Huijsing; K. A. A. Makinwa;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 53, Issue 12, pp. 3368-3376, 12 2018. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2018.2875106
    Abstract: ... This paper presents a fully integrated shunt-based current sensor that supports a 25-V input common-mode range while operating from a single 1.5-V supply. It uses a high-voltage beyond-the-rails ADC to directly digitize the voltage across an on-chip shunt resistor. To compensate for the shunt's large temperature coefficient of resistance (~0.335%/°C), the ADC employs a proportional-to-absolute-temperature voltage reference. This analog compensation scheme obviates the need for the explicit temperature sensor and calibration logic required by digital compensation schemes. The sensor achieves 1.5-μVrms noise over a 2-ms conversion time while drawing only 10.9 μA from a 1.5-V supply. Over a ±4-A range, and after a one-point trim, the sensor exhibits a 0.9% (maximum) gain error from -40 °C to 85 °C and a 0.05% gain error at room temperature.

  979. A Compact Resistor-Based CMOS Temperature Sensor With an Inaccuracy of 0.12 °C (3σ) and a Resolution FoM of 0.43 pJ⋅K^2 in 65-nm CMOS
    W. Choi; Y. Lee; S. Kim; S. Lee; J. Jang; J. Chun; K. A. A. Makinwa; Y. Chae;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 53, Issue 12, pp. 3356-3367, 12 2018. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2018.2871622
    Abstract: ... This paper presents a compact resistor-based CMOS temperature sensor intended for dense thermal monitoring. It is based on an RC poly-phase filter (PPF), whose temperature-dependent phase shift is read out by a frequency-locked loop (FLL). The PPF's phase shift is determined by a zero-crossing (ZC) detector, allowing the rest of the FLL to be realized in an area-efficient manner. Implemented in a 65-nm CMOS technology, the sensor occupies only 7000 μm². It can operate from supply voltages as low as 0.85 V and consumes 68 μW. A sensor based on a PPF made from silicided p-poly resistors and metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitors achieves an inaccuracy of ±0.12 °C (3σ) from -40 °C to 85 °C and a resolution of 2.5 mK (rms) in a 1-ms conversion time. This corresponds to a resolution figure-of-merit (FoM) of 0.43 pJ·K².

  980. A 0.25 mm2-Resistor-Based Temperature Sensor With an Inaccuracy of 0.12 °C (3σ) From −55 °C to 125 °C
    S. Pan; K. A. A. Makinwa;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 53, Issue 12, pp. 3347-3355, 12 2018. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2018.2869595
    Abstract: ... This paper describes a compact, energy efficient, resistor-based temperature sensor that can operate over a wide temperature range (-55 °C-125 °C). The sensor is based on a Wheatstone bridge (WhB) made from silicided poly-silicon and non-silicided poly-silicon resistors. To achieve both area and energy efficiencies, the current output of the WhB is digitized by a continuous-time zoom analog-to-digital converter (ADC). Implemented in a standard 180-nm CMOS technology, the sensor consumes 52 μA from a 1.8-V supply and achieves a resolution of 280 μKrms in a 5-ms conversion time. This corresponds to a state-of-the-art resolution figure-of-merit (FoM) of 40 fJ · K². After a first-order fit, the sensor achieves an inaccuracy of ±,0.12 °C (3σ) from -55 °C to 125 °C.

  981. A 280μW Dynamic Zoom ADC With 120 dB DR and 118 dB SNDR in 1 kHz BW
    S. Karmakar; B. Gonen; F. Sebstiano; R. van Veldhoven; K. A. A. Makinwa;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 53, Issue 12, pp. 3497-3507, 12 2018. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2018.2865466
    Abstract: ... This paper presents a dynamic zoom analog-to-digital converter for use in low-bandwidth (<1 kHz) instrumentation applications. It employs a high-speed asynchronous successive approximation register (SAR) ADC that dynamically updates the references of a fully differential ΔΣ ADC. Compared to previous zoom ADCs, faster reference updates relax the loop filter requirements, thus allowing the adoption of energy-efficient amplifiers. Fabricated in a 0.16- μm CMOS process, the prototype occupies 0.26 mm 2 and achieves 119.1-dB peak signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), 118.1-dB peak signal-to-noise-and-distortion-ratio (SNDR), and 120.3-dB dynamic range (DR) in a 1-kHz bandwidth while consuming 280 μW . This results in a Schreier figure of merit (FoM) of 185.8 dB.

  982. A CMOS Dual-RC Frequency Reference with ±200-ppm Inaccuracy from −45 °C to 85 °C
    Ç. Gürleyük; L. Pedalà; S. Pan; F. Sebastiano; K. A. A. Makinwa;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 53, Issue 12, pp. 3386-3395, 12 2018. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2018.2869083
    Abstract: ... This paper presents a 7-MHz CMOS RC frequency reference. It consists of a frequency-locked loop in which the output frequency of a digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) is locked to the combined phase shifts of two independent RC (Wien bridge) filters, each employing resistors with complementary temperature coefficients. The filters are driven by the DCO’s output frequency and the resulting phase shifts are digitized by high-resolution phase-to-digital converters. Their outputs are then combined in the digital domain to realize a temperature-independent frequency error signal. This digitally assisted temperature compensation scheme achieves an inaccuracy of ±200 ppm from –45 °C to 85 °C after a two-point trim. The frequency reference draws 430 μA from a 1.8-V supply, while achieving a supply sensitivity of 0.18%/V and a 330-ppb Allan deviation floor in 3 s of measurement time.

  983. Derivation and analysis of the primal-dual method of multipliers based on monotone operator theory
    T.W. Sherson; R. Heusdens; W.B. Kleijn;
    IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks,
    October 2018.

  984. MEMS for biofuel composition measurement based on thermal impedance spectroscopy
    Ghaderi, Mohammadamir; Jiang, Bo; Bossche, Andre; Visser, Jaco H; Wolffenbuttel, Reinoud F;
    Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical,
    Volume 277, pp. 281--288, December 2018. DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2018.08.098
    Abstract: ... Continuous monitoring of the composition of E85 biofuel is essential for a quick start and clean and efficient operation of Flex-Fuel Vehicles. The actual ethanol concentration in E85 fuel is in the range 50%–85% and fuel-line sensors are used for ethanol-gasoline composition measurement. However, also a small amount of water is typically present, which cannot be reliably detected using state-of-the-art capacitive fuel-line sensors. Thermal impedance spectroscopy has been investigated as a non-destructive technique to determine the composition of ternary mixtures of biofuels. The principle of the thermal conductivity detector has been extended for measuring both the thermal conductivity and the thermal capacity of biofuel in the range up to 10 kHz using an AC-operated polysilicon heater for injecting a sinusoidal heat flux, and another polysilicon strip at a well-defined spacing or thermopile sensors for measuring the in-phase and quadrature components of the resulting AC temperature difference. Measurements on the components are in reasonable agreement with simulations, with a −3 dB cut-off frequency at 422.5 Hz and 340.8 Hz for ethanol and gasoline, respectively. However, the cut-off frequency of water was found to be significantly lower than simulations due to its high surface tension, thus limiting access to the detector.

  985. A Novel 12-Lead Electrocardiographic System for Home Use: Development and Usability Testing
    Annemarijn SM Steijlen; Kaspar MB Jansen; Armagan Albayrak; Derk O Verschure; Diederik F Van Wijk;
    JMIR mHealth and uHealth,
    Volume 6, Issue 7, pp. e10126, July 2018. DOI: 10.2196/10126
    Abstract: ... Background: Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Early diagnosis is of pivotal importance for patients with cardiac arrhythmias and ischemia to minimize the consequences like strokes and myocardial infarctions. The chance of capturing signals of arrhythmias or ischemia is substantially high when a 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) can be recorded at the moment when a patient experiences the symptoms. However, until now, available diagnostic systems (Holter monitors and other wearable ECG sensors) have not enabled patients to record a reliable 12-lead ECG at home. Objective: The objective of this project was to develop a user-friendly system that enables persons with cardiac complaints to record a reliable 12-lead ECG at home to improve the diagnostic process and, consequently, reduce the time between the onset of symptoms and adequate treatment. Methods: Using an iterative design approach, ECGraph was developed. The system consists of an ECG measurement system and a mobile app, which were developed with the help of several concept tests. To evaluate the design, a prototype of the final design was built and a final technical performance test and usability test were executed. Results: The ECG measurement system consists of a belt and 4 limb straps. Ten wet Ag/AgCl electrodes are placed in the belt to optimize skin-electrode contact. The product is controlled via an app on the mobile phone of the user. Once a person experiences symptoms, he or she can put on the belt and record ECGs within a few minutes. Short instructions, supported by visualizations, offer guidance during use. ECGs are sent wirelessly to the caregiver, and the designated expert can quickly interpret the results. Usability tests with the final prototype (n=6) showed that the participants were able to put on the product within 8 minutes during first-time use. However, we expect that the placement of the product can be executed faster when the user becomes more familiar with the product. Areas of improvement focus mainly on confidence during product use. In the technical performance test, a 12-lead ECG was made and reproduced 6 times. Conclusions: We developed a new 12-lead ECG system for home use. The product is expected to be more user-friendly than current hospital ECG systems and is designed to record more reliable data than current ECG systems for home use, which makes it suitable for expert interpretation. The system has great potential to be incorporated into an outpatient practice, so that arrhythmias and ischemia can be diagnosed and treated as early as possible.

  986. A 2D Ultrasound Transducer with Front-End ASIC and Low Cable Count for 3D Forward-Looking Intravascular Imaging: Performance and Characterization
    J. Janjic; M. Tan; E. Noothout; C. Chen; Z. Chan; Z. Y. Chang; R. H. S. H. Beurskens; G. van Soest; A. F. W. van der Steen; M. D. Verweij; M. A. P. Pertijs; N. de Jong;
    IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control,
    Volume 65, Issue 10, pp. 1832--1844, October 2018. Featured Cover Article. DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2018.2859824
    Abstract: ... Intravascular ultrasound is an imaging modality used to visualize atherosclerosis from within the inner lumen of human arteries. Complex lesions like chronic total occlusions require forward-looking intravascular ultrasound (FL-IVUS), instead of the conventional side-looking geometry. Volumetric imaging can be achieved with 2D array transducers, which present major challenges in reducing cable count and device integration. In this work we present an 80-element lead zirconium titanate (PZT) matrix ultrasound transducer for FL-IVUS imaging with a front-end application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) requiring only 4 cables. After investigating optimal transducer designs we fabricated the matrix transducer consisting of 16 transmit (TX) and 64 receive (RX) elements arranged on top of an ASIC having an outer diameter of 1.5 mm and a central hole of 0.5 mm for a guidewire. We modeled the transducer using finite element analysis and compared the simulation results to the values obtained through acoustic measurements. The TX elements showed uniform behavior with a center frequency of 14 MHz, a -3 dB bandwidth of 44 % and a transmit sensitivity of 0.4 kPa/V at 6 mm. The RX elements showed center frequency and bandwidth similar to the TX elements, with an estimated receive sensitivity of 3.7 μV/Pa. We successfully acquired a 3D FL image of three spherical reflectors in water using delay-and-sum beamforming and the coherence factor method. Full synthetic aperture acquisition can be achieved with frame rates on the order of 100 Hz. The acoustic characterization and the initial imaging results show the potential of the proposed transducer to achieve 3D FL-IVUS imaging.

  987. Thermal-Aware Synthesis of 5G Base Station Antenna Arrays: An Overview and a Sparsity-Based Approach
    Yanki Aslan; Jan Puskely; J. H. J. Janssen; Marcel Geurts; Antoine Roederer; Alexander Yarovoy;
    IEEE Access,
    Volume 6, pp. 15, 2018. DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2873977
    document

  988. Heat source layout optimization for two-dimensional heat conduction using iterative reweighted L1-norm convex minimization
    Yanki Aslan; Jan Puskely; Alexander Yarovoy;
    International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer,
    Volume 122, pp. 432-441, July 2018. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2018.02.001
    document

  989. Wind Hazard and Turbulence Monitoring at Airports with Lidar, Radar, and Mode-S Downlinks: The UFO Project
    Oude Nijhuis, A.C.; L.P. Thobois; F. Barbaresco; S. De Haan; A. Dolfi-Bouteyre; D. Kovalev; O.A. Krasnov; D. Vanhoenacker-Janvier; R. Wilson; A.G. Yarovoy;
    Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society,
    Volume 99, pp. 2275–2293, November 2018. DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-15-00295.1
    document

  990. Synchronous and asynchronous radar interference mitigation
    F. Uysal;
    IEEE Access,
    Volume 7, pp. 5846–5852, 2018. DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2884637

  991. MIMO–monopulse target localisation for automotive radar
    R. Feng; F. Uysal; P. Aubry; A. Yarovoy;
    IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation,
    Volume 12, Issue 10, pp. 1131, August 2018. DOI: 10.1049/iet-rsn.2018.5013

  992. Human Activity Classification With Radar: Optimization and Noise Robustness With Iterative Convolutional Neural Networks Followed With Random Forests
    Lin, Yier; Le Kernec, Julien; Yang, Shufan; Fioranelli, Francesco; Romain, Olivier; Zhao, Zhiqin;
    IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL,
    Volume 18, Issue 23, pp. 9669-9681, DEC 1 2018. DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2018.2872849

  993. Practical classification of different moving targets using automotive radar and deep neural networks
    Angelov, Aleksandar; Robertson, Andrew; Murray-Smith, Roderick; Fioranelli, Francesco;
    IET RADAR SONAR AND NAVIGATION,
    Volume 12, Issue 10, SI, pp. 1082-1089, OCT 2018. DOI: 10.1049/iet-rsn.2018.0103

  994. Effect of sparsity-aware time-frequency analysis on dynamic hand gesture classification with radar micro-Doppler signatures
    Li, Gang; Zhang, Shimeng; Fioranelli, Francesco; Griffiths, Hugh;
    IET RADAR SONAR AND NAVIGATION,
    Volume 12, Issue 8, pp. 815-820, AUG 2018. DOI: 10.1049/iet-rsn.2017.0570

  995. Review of radar classification and RCS characterisation techniques for small UAVs or drones
    Patel, Jarez S.; Fioranelli, Francesco; Anderson, David;
    IET RADAR SONAR AND NAVIGATION,
    Volume 12, Issue 9, pp. 911-919, SEP 2018. DOI: 10.1049/iet-rsn.2018.0020

  996. Animal Lameness Detection With Radar Sensing
    A. Shrestha; C. Loukas; J. Le Kernec; F. Fioranelli; V. Busin; N. Jonsson; G. King; M. Tomlinson; L. Viora; L. Voute;
    IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters,
    Volume 15, Issue 8, pp. 1189-1193, 2018. DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2018.2832650

  997. Multistatic radar classification of armed vs unarmed personnel using neural networks
    Patel, Jarez S.; Fioranelli, Francesco; Ritchie, Matthew; Griffiths, Hugh;
    EVOLVING SYSTEMS,
    Volume 9, Issue 2, pp. 135-144, JUN 2018. DOI: 10.1007/s12530-017-9208-6

  998. Personnel Recognition and Gait Classification Based on Multistatic Micro-Doppler Signatures Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
    Chen, Zhaoxi; Li, Gang; Fioranelli, Francesco; Griffiths, Hugh;
    IEEE GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING LETTERS,
    Volume 15, Issue 5, pp. 669-673, MAY 2018. DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2018.2806940

  999. Suppression Approach to Main-Beam Deceptive Jamming in FDA-MIMO Radar Using Nonhomogeneous Sample Detection
    Lan, Lan; Liao, Guisheng; Xu, Jingwei; Zhang, Yuhong; Fioranelli, Francesco;
    IEEE ACCESS,
    Volume 6, pp. 34582-34597, 2018. DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2850816

  1000. A Multisensory Approach for Remote Health Monitoring of Older People
    H. Li; A. Shrestha; H. Heidari; J. L. Kernec; F. Fioranelli;
    IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology,
    Volume 2, Issue 2, pp. 102-108, 2018. DOI: 10.1109/JERM.2018.2827099

  1001. Sampling Design of Synthetic Volume Arrays for Three-Dimensional Microwave Imaging
    Jianping {Wang}; Alexander {Yarovoy};
    IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging,
    Volume 4, Issue 4, pp. 648-660, Dec 2018. DOI: 10.1109/TCI.2018.2875332

  1002. A review on discoloration and high accelerated testing of optical materials in LED based-products
    M. Yazdan Mehr; M.R. Toroghinejad; F. Karimzadeh; W.D. van Driel; GuoQi Zhang;
    Microelectronics Reliability,
    Volume 81, pp. 136-142, 2018.

  1003. A Platform for Mechano(-Electrical) Characterization of Free-Standing Micron-Sized Structures and Interconnects
    Angel Savov; Shivani Savov; Salman Shafqat; Johan Hoefnagels; Marcus Louwerse; Ronald Stoute; Ronald Dekker;
    Micromachines,
    Volume 9, Issue 1, pp. 39, 2018.
    document

  1004. Thermal Management on IGBT Power Electronic Devices and Modules
    Cheng Qian; Amir Mirza Gheytaghi; Jiajie Fan; Hongyu Tang; Bo Sun; Huaiyu Ye; GuoQi Zhang;
    IEEE Access,
    Volume 6, pp. 12868-12884, 2018.

  1005. A design and qualification of LED flip Chip-on-Board module with tunable color temperatures
    Jiajie Fan; Jianwu Cao; Chaohua Yu; Cheng Qian; Xuejun Fan; GuoQi Zhang;
    Microelectronics Reliability,
    Volume 84, pp. 140-148, 2018.

  1006. Tomorrow’s advanced packaging; for electronics and heterogeneous system integration
    H. Yi; A. M. Gheytaghi; B. El Mansouri; L.M. Middelburg; GuoQi Zhang;
    ETV Maxwell,
    Volume 21.2, 2018.

  1007. Effect of Nanostructured Microporous Surfaces on Pool Boiling Augmentation
    Amir Mirza Gheytaghi; Hamid Saffari; GuoQi Zhang;
    Heat Transfer Engineering,
    2018.

  1008. Effect of thermal annealing and chemical treatments on secondary electron emission properties of atomic layer deposited MgO
    Violeta Prodanovic; Hong Wah Chan; Anil U. Mane; Jeffrey W. Elam; Matthias M. Minjauw; Christophe Detavernier; Harry van der Graaf; Pasqualina M. Sarro;
    Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A,
    Volume 36, Issue 6, pp. 06A102-1-9, 2018.
    document

  1009. Kinetics of orbitally shaken particles constrained to two dimensions
    D. Ipparthi; T. A. G. Hageman; N. Cambier; M. Sitti; M. Dorigo; L. Abelmann; M. Mastrangeli;
    Physical Review E,
    Volume 98, pp. 042137, 2018. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.98.042137

  1010. A Review on Water Vapor Pressure Model for Moisture Permeable Materials Subjected to Rapid Heating
    Liangbiao Chen; Jiang Zhou; Hsing-Wei Chu; GuoQi Zhang; Xuejun Fan;
    Applied Mechanics Reviews,
    Volume 70, Issue 2, pp. 020803-1-16, 2018.

  1011. Microfabricated tuneable and transferable porous PDMS membranes for Organs-on-Chips
    W. F. Quirós-Solano; N. Gaio; O. M. J. A. Stassen; Y. B. Arik; C. Silvestri; N. C. A. Van Engeland; A. Van der Meer; R. Passier; C. M. Sahlgren; C. V. C. Bouten; A. van den Berg; R. Dekker; P. M. Sarro;
    Scientific Reports,
    pp. 13524, 2018. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-31912-6

  1012. Silicon Nitride MOMS Oscillator for Room Temperature Quantum Optomechanics
    Enrico Serra, Bruno Morana, Antonio Borrielli, Francesco Marin, Gregory Pandraud, Antonio Pontin, Giovanni Andrea Prodi, Pasqualina M. Sarro,; Michele Bonaldi;
    ArXiv preprint,
    2018.

  1013. System in package (SiP) technology: fundamentals, design and applications
    F. Santagata, J. Sun, E. Iervolino, H. Yu, F. Wang, G. Zhang, P. M. Sarro, G. Zhang;
    Microelectronics International,
    2018. DOI: 10.1108/MI-09-2017-0045

  1014. A 0.5-V 1.6-mW 2.4-GHz fractional-N all-digital PLL for Bluetooth LE with PVT-insensitive TDC using switched-capacitor doubler in 28-nm CMOS
    Pourmousavian, Naser; Kuo, Feng-Wei; Siriburanon, Teerachot; Babaie, Masoud; Staszewski, Robert Bogdan;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 53, Issue 9, pp. 2572--2583, 2018.

  1015. An all-digital PLL for cellular mobile phones in 28-nm CMOS with- 55 dBc fractional and- 91 dBc reference spurs
    Kuo, Feng-Wei; Babaie, Masoud; Chen, Huan-Neng Ron; Cho, Lan-Chou; Jou, Chewn-Pu; Chen, Mark; Staszewski, Robert Bogdan;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers,
    Volume 65, Issue 11, pp. 3756--3768, 2018.

  1016. Grafeen: een zoektocht naar de toepassing
    Sten Vollebregt; Jos Giesbers; Johan Klootwijk;
    Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Natuurkunde,
    pp. 16-20, September 2018.

  1017. Advances in the electronics for cyclic voltammetry: the case of gas detection by using microfabricated electrodes
    Giorgio Pennazza; Marco Santonico; Luca Vollero; Alessandro Zompanti; Anna Sabatini; Nandeesh Kumar; Ivan Pini; William F Quiros Solano; Lina Sarro; Arnaldo D'Amico;
    Frontiers in Chemistry,
    Volume 6, pp. 327, 2018.
    document

  1018. Carbon Nanotube Array: Scaffolding Material for Opto, Electro, Thermo, and Mechanical Systems
    Amir M. Gheytaghi; H. van Zeijl; S. Vollebregt; R.H. Poelma; C. Silvestri; R. Ishihara; G. Q. Zhang; P. M. Sarro;
    Innovative Materials,
    Volume 3, pp. 22-25, 2018.

  1019. Quantum nondemolition measurement of optical field fluctuations by optomechanical interaction
    A Pontin; M Bonaldi; A Borrielli; L Marconi; F Marino; G Pandraud; GA Prodi; PM Sarro; E Serra; F Marin;
    Physical Review A,
    Volume 97, Issue 3, pp. 033833, 2018.

  1020. A MEMS Actuator System for an Integrated 3-D Optical Coherent Tomography Scanner
    Aleksandar Jovic; Grégory Pandraud; Nuria Sanchez Losilla; Juan Sancho; Kirill Zinoviev; Jose Luis Rubio; Eduaro Margallo-Ballbas; Pasqualina M. Sarro;
    Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems,
    Volume 27, Issue 2, pp. 259-268, 2018.
    document

  1021. A new hermetic sealing method for ceramic package using nanosilver sintering technology
    Hao Zhang; Yang Liu; Lingen Wang; Jiajie Fan; Xuejun Fan; Fenglian Sun; GuoQi Zhang;
    Microelectronics Reliability,
    Volume 81, pp. 143-149, 2018.

  1022. Effect of Sintering Pressure on the Porosity and the Shear Strength of the Pressure-Assisted Silver Sintering Bonding
    Yang Liu; Hao Zhang; Lingen Wang; Xuejun Fan; GuoQi Zhang; Fenglian Sun;
    IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability,
    Volume 18, Issue 2, pp. 240-246, 2018.

  1023. Failure of AISI 304H stainless steel elbows in a heat exchanger
    A. Bahrami; S. H. Mousavi Anijdan; P. Taheri; M. Yazdan Mehr;
    Engineering Failure Analysis,
    Volume 90, pp. 397-403, 2018.

  1024. A Spherical Aberration Corrective Lens for Centimeter through Submillimeter Wavelength Antennas
    P.F. Goldsmith; M. Alonso-delPino;
    IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters,
    Volume 17, Issue 12, pp. 2228-2231, Dec. 2018.
    document

  1025. A Ku-Band CMOS FMCW Radar Transceiver for Snowpack Remote Sensing
    Y. Kim; T.J. Reck; M. Alonso-delPino; T.H. Painter; H.P. Marshall; E.H. Bair; J. Dozier; G. Chattopadhyay; K.N. Liou; M.C.F. Chang; A. Tang;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 66, Issue 5, pp. 2480-2494, May 2018.
    document

  1026. Effects of Voids on Mechanical and Thermal Properties of the Die Attach Solder Layer Used in High-Power LED Chip-Scale Packages
    Chengshuo Jiang; Jiajie Fan; Cheng Qian; Hao Zhang; Xuejun Fan; Weiling Guo; GuoQi Zhang;
    IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology,
    Volume 8, Issue 7, pp. 1254-1262, 2018.

  1027. Exploring cosmic origins with CORE: Survey requirements and mission design
    J.J.A. Baselmans; et al.;
    Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics,
    Volume 2018, April 2018. DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2018/04/014

  1028. Exploring cosmic origins with CORE: The instrument
    J.J.A. Baselmans; et al.;
    Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics,
    Volume 2018, April 2018. DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2018/04/015

  1029. Ultrasensitive Kilo-Pixel Imaging Array of Photon Noise-Limited Kinetic Inductance Detectors Over an Octave of Bandwidth for THz Astronomy
    J. Bueno; V. Murugesan; K. Karatsu; D.J. Thoen; J.J.A. Baselmans;
    Journal of Low Temperature Physics,
    2018. DOI: 10.1007/S10909-018-1962-8

  1030. Germanene on single layer ZnSe substrate: Novel electronic and optical properties
    H. Y. Ye; F. F. Hu; Hongyu Tang; L. W. Yang; X. P. Chen; L. G. Wang; GuoQi Zhang;
    Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics,
    Volume 20, Issue 23, pp. 16067-16076, 2018.

  1031. A stochastic process based reliability prediction method for LED driver
    Bo Sun; Xuejun Fan; Willem van Driel; Chengqiang Cui; GuoQi Zhang;
    Reliability Engineering and System Safety,
    Volume 178, pp. 140-146, 2018.

  1032. High Selective Gas Detection for small molecules based on Germanium selenide monolayer
    Liu, L.; Yang, Q.; Wang, Z.; Ye, H.; Chen, X.; Fan, X.; GuoQi Zhang;
    Applied Surface Science,
    pp. 575-581, 2018. DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2017.10.084

  1033. Hydrogen sulfide detection properties of Pt-gated AlGaN/GaN HEMT-sensor
    Sokolovskij, R.; Zhang, J.; Iervolino, E.; Zhao, C.; Santagata, F.; Wang, F.; Yu, H.; Sarro, P. M.; GuoQi Zhang;
    Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical,
    2018. DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2018.08.015

  1034. Large Angle Optical Access in a Sub-Kelvin Cryostat
    S. Hanle; J. Bueno; S.J.C. Yates; J.J.A. Baselmans;
    Journal of Low Temperature Physics,
    2018.
    document

  1035. MKID Large Format Array Testbed
    L. Ferrari; S.J.C. Yates; M. Eggens; A.M. Baryshev; J.J.A. Baselmans;
    IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology,
    Volume 8, Issue 6, pp. 572-580, Nov. 2018.
    document

  1036. Investigation of 'Fur-like' Residues Post Dry Etching of Polyimide Using Aluminum Hard Etch Mask
    Shivani Joshi; Angel Savov; Salman Shafqat; Ronald Dekker;
    Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing,
    Volume 75, pp. 130-135, 2018.
    document

  1037. Imaging Correlations in Heterodyne Spectra for Quantum Displacement Sensing
    Pontin, A.; Lang, J. E.; Chowdhury, A.; Vezio, P.; Marino, F.; Morana, B.; Serra, E.; Marin, F.; Monteiro, T. S.;
    Physical Review Letters,
    2018. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.020503

  1038. Ultra-thin Alumina and Silicon Nitride MEMS Fabricated Membranes for the Electron Multiplication
    Violeta Prodanović; Hong Wah Chan; W A van der Graaf; Lina Sarro;
    Nanotechnology,
    Volume 29, pp. 155703, 2018.
    document

  1039. In Situ Failure Detection of Electronic Control Units Using Piezoresistive Stress Sensor
    Prisacaru, A.; Palczynska, A.; Theissler, A.; Gromala, P.; Han, B.; GuoQi Zhang;
    IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology,
    Volume 750-763, 2018. DOI: 10.1109/TCPMT.2018.2816259

  1040. Influence of pressure on the mechanical and electronic properties of wurtzite and zinc-blende gaN crystals
    Qin, H.; Kuang, T.; Luan, X.; Li, W.; Xiao, J.; Zhang, P.; Yang, D.; GuoQi Zhang;
    Crystals,
    2018. DOI: 10.3390/cryst8110428

  1041. Special issue: International conference on thermal, mechanical & multiphysics simulation and experiments in micro- and nano-electronics and systems [EuroSimE2017]
    van Driel, W. D.; Wymyslowski, A.;
    Microelectronics Reliability,
    2018. DOI: 10.1016/j.microrel.2018.06.012

  1042. The effects of graphene stacking on the performance of methane sensor: A first-principles study on the adsorption, band gap and doping of graphene
    Yang, N.; Yang, D.; GuoQi Zhang; Chen, L.; Liu, D.; Cai, M.; Fan, X.;
    Sensors,
    2018. DOI: 10.3390/s18020422

  1043. Study on the Degradation of Optical Silicone Exposed to Harsh Environments
    Yazdan Mehr, M.; van Driel, W.; De Buyl, F.; GuoQi Zhang;
    Materials,
    2018. DOI: 10.3390/ma11081305

  1044. MEMS-based multi-modal vibration energy harvesters for ultra-low power autonomous remote and distributed sensing
    Iannacci, J.; Serra, E.; Sordo, G.; Bonaldi, M.; Borrielli, A.; Schmid, U.; Bittner, A.; Schneider, M.; Kuenzig, T.; Schrag, G.; Pandraud, G.; Sarro, P. M.;
    Microsystem Technologies,
    pp. 5027-5036, 2018. DOI: 10.1007/s00542-018-3923-1

  1045. Microstructure and hardness of SAC305 and SAC305-0.3Ni solder on Cu, high temperature treated Cu, and graphene-coated Cu substrates
    Li, S.; Yang Liu; Hao Zhang; Cai, H.; Sun, F.; GuoQi Zhang;
    Results in Physics,
    2018. DOI: 10.1016/j.rinp.2018.10.005

  1046. Microstructure and hardness of SAC305-xNi solder on Cu and graphene-coated Cu substrates
    Yang Liu; Li, S.; Hao Zhang; Cai, H.; Sun, F.; GuoQi Zhang;
    Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics,
    pp. 13167-13175, 2018. DOI: 10.1007/s10854-018-9440-2

  1047. Microstructure and mechanical properties of spark plasma sintered nanocrystalline Ni3Al-xB alloy
    Mohammadnejad, A.; Bahrami, A.; Sajadi, M.; Karimi, P.; Fozveh, H. R.; Mehr, M. Y.;
    Materials Today Communications,
    2018. DOI: 10.1016/j.mtcomm.2018.09.002

  1048. Promoting sensitivity and selectivity of HCHO sensor based on strained InP3 monolayer: A DFT study
    Yang, H.; Wang, Z.; Ye, H.; Zhang, K.; Chen, X.; GuoQi Zhang;
    Applied Surface Science,
    pp. 554-561, 2018. DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2018.08.014

  1049. A photovoltaic window with sun-tracking shading elements towards maximum power generation and non-glare daylighting
    Yuan Gao; Jianfei Dong; Olindo Isabella; Rudi Santbergen; Hairen Tan; Miro Zeman; GuoQi Zhang;
    Applied Energy,
    Volume 228, pp. 1454-1472, 2018.

  1050. Quality and Reliability in Solid-State Lighting: Qua Vadis?
    Vos, T; den Breeijen, P.; van Driel, W. D.;
    Solid State Lighting Reliability Part 2: Components to Systems,
    2018. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-58175-0_1

  1051. Reception Power Pattern of Distributed Absorbers in Focal Plane Arrays: A Fourier Optics Analysis
    Nuria Llombart; Shahab Oddin Dabironezare; Giorgio Carluccio; Angelo Freni; Andrea Neto;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 66, Issue 11, pp. 5990 - 6002, Aug. 2018. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2018.2862359
    document

  1052. A Dual Band Focal Plane Array of Kinetic Inductance Bolometers Based on Frequency Selective Absorbers
    Shahab Oddin Dabironezare; Juha Hassel; Erio Gandini; Leif Grönberg; Hannu Sipola; Visa Vesterinen; Nuria Llombart;
    IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology,
    Volume 8, Issue 6, pp. 746 - 756, Oct. 2018. DOI: 10.1109/TTHZ.2018.2873973

  1053. Automated tuning of inter-dot tunnel coupling in double quantum dots
    C.J. van Diepen; P.T. Eendebak; B.T. Buijtendorp; U. Mukhopadhyay, T. Fujita; C. Reichl; W. Wegscheider; L.M.K. Vandersypen;
    Applied Physics Letters,
    Volume 113, Issue 3, pp. 033101, 2018. DOI: 10.1063/1.5031034

  1054. Effects of Conformal Nanoscale Coatings on Thermal Performance of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes
    Cinzia Silvestri; Michele Riccio; René H. Poelma; Aleksandar Jovic; Bruno Morana; Sten Vollebregt; Andrea Irace; GuoQi Zhang; Pasqualina M. Sarro;
    Small,
    Volume 14, Issue 20, pp. 1800614, 2018. DOI: 10.1002/smll.201800614

  1055. A 66 dB SNDR Pipelined Split-ADC in 40 nm CMOS Using a Class-AB Residue Amplifier
    M. S. Akter; R. Sehgal; F. van der Goes; K. A. A. Makinwa; K. Bult;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 53, pp. 2939-2950, 10 2018. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2018.2859415
    Abstract: ... This paper presents a closed-loop class-AB residue amplifier for pipelined analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). It consists of a push–pull structure with a “split-capacitor” biasing circuit that enhances its power efficiency. The amplifier is inherently quite linear, and so incomplete settling can be used to save power while still maintaining sufficient linearity. This also allows the amplifier’s gain to be corrected by adjusting its bias current. When combined with digital gain-error detection, in this case the split-ADC technique, the result is a power-efficient gain calibration scheme. In a prototype pipelined ADC, this scheme converges in only 12 000 clock cycles. With a near-Nyquist input, the ADC achieves 66-dB SNDR and 77.3-dB SFDR at 53 MS/s. Implemented in 40-nm CMOS, it dissipates 9 mW, of which 0.83 mW is consumed in the residue amplifiers. This represents a 1.8 × improvement in power efficiency compared to state-of-the-art class-AB residue amplifiers.

  1056. Unsupervised heart-rate estimation in wearables with Liquid states and a probabilistic readout
    Anup Das; Paruthi Pradhapan; Willemijn Groenendaal; Prathyusha Adiraju; Raj Thilak Rajan; Francky Catthoor; Siebren Schaafsma; Jeffrey L. Krichmar; Nikil Dutt; Chris {Van Hoof};
    Neural Networks,
    Volume 99, pp. 134-147, 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2017.12.015
    Keywords: ... Electrocardiogram (ECG), Spiking neural networks, Liquid state machine, Spike timing dependent plasticity (STDP), Homeostatic plasticity, Fuzzy c-Means clustering.

    Abstract: ... Heart-rate estimation is a fundamental feature of modern wearable devices. In this paper we propose a machine learning technique to estimate heart-rate from electrocardiogram (ECG) data collected using wearable devices. The novelty of our approach lies in (1) encoding spatio-temporal properties of ECG signals directly into spike train and using this to excite recurrently connected spiking neurons in a Liquid State Machine computation model; (2) a novel learning algorithm; and (3) an intelligently designed unsupervised readout based on Fuzzy c-Means clustering of spike responses from a subset of neurons (Liquid states), selected using particle swarm optimization. Our approach differs from existing works by learning directly from ECG signals (allowing personalization), without requiring costly data annotations. Additionally, our approach can be easily implemented on state-of-the-art spiking-based neuromorphic systems, offering high accuracy, yet significantly low energy footprint, leading to an extended battery-life of wearable devices. We validated our approach with CARLsim, a GPU accelerated spiking neural network simulator modeling Izhikevich spiking neurons with Spike Timing Dependent Plasticity (STDP) and homeostatic scaling. A range of subjects is considered from in-house clinical trials and public ECG databases. Results show high accuracy and low energy footprint in heart-rate estimation across subjects with and without cardiac irregularities, signifying the strong potential of this approach to be integrated in future wearable devices.

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  1057. High Efficiency and Wide Bandwidth Quasi-Load Insensitive Class-E Operation Utilizing Package Integration
    Qureshi, Abdul Raheem; Acar, Mustafa; Pires, Sergio C.; de Vreede, Leo Cornelis Nicolaas;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 66, Issue 12, pp. 5310-5321, 2018. DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2018.2868876

  1058. Complex Factor Analysis and Extensions
    A.M. Sardarabadi; A.J. van der Veen;
    IEEE Tr. Signal Processing,
    Volume 66, Issue 4, February 2018. DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2017.2780047
    document • software
    Matlab code: http://sps.ewi.tudelft.nl/data/allejan/fa_code.zip

  1059. Compressing Large-Scale Wave Propagation Models via Phase-Preconditioned Rational Krylov Subspaces
    Druskin, V.; Remis, R.; Zaslavsky, M.; Zimmerling, J.;
    SIAM Multiscale Modeling and Simulation,
    Volume 16, Issue 4, pp. 1486-1518, 2018. DOI: 10.1137/17M1156848
    document

  1060. First-Order Induced Current Density Imaging and Electrical Properties Tomography in MRI
    P. Fuchs; S. Mandija; P.R.S. Stijnman; W.M. Brink; N. van den Berg; R.F. Remis;
    IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging,
    Volume 4, pp. 624-631, 2018. ISSN: 2333-9403. DOI: 10.1109/TCI.2018.2873407
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  1061. Accelerating compressed sensing in parallel imaging reconstructions using an efficient circulant preconditioner for cartesian trajectories
    K. Koolstra; J. van Gemert; P. Bornert; A. Webb; R.F. Remis;
    Magnetic Resonance in Medicine,
    pp. 1-16, 2018. DOI: 10.1002/mrm.27371
    document

  1062. 3-D Contrast Source Inversion-Electrical Properties Tomography
    R. L. Leijsen; W. M. Brink; C. A. T. van den Berg; A. G. Webb; R. F. Remis;
    IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging,
    Volume 37, Issue 9, pp. 2080-2089, September 2018. ISSN: 0278-0062. DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2018.2816125
    document

  1063. High-Permittivity Pad Design for Dielectric Shimming in Magnetic Resonance Imaging Using Projection-Based Model Reduction and a Nonlinear Optimization Scheme
    J. H. F. van Gemert; W. M. Brink; A. G. Webb; R. F. Remis;
    IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging,
    Volume 37, Issue 4, pp. 1035-1044, April 2018. ISSN: 0278-0062. DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2018.2791179
    document

  1064. Model-order reduction of electromagnetic fields in open domains
    J. Zimmerling; V. Druskin; M. Zaslavsky; R.F. Remis;
    Geophysics,
    Volume 83, Issue 2, pp. WB61-WB70, 2018. DOI: 10.1190/geo2017-0507.1
    document

  1065. High‐permittivity pad design tool for 7T neuroimaging and 3T body imaging
    J. van Gemert; W. Brink; A. Webb; R. Remis;
    Magnetic Resonance in Medicine,
    pp. 1-9, December 2018. DOI: 10.1002/mrm.27629
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  1066. A 280μW Dynamic Zoom ADC With 120 dB DR and 118 dB SNDR in 1 kHz BW
    S. Karmakar; B. Gonen; F. Sebstiano; R. van Veldhoven; K. A. A. Makinwa;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 53, Issue 12, pp. 3497-3507, 12 2018. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2018.2865466
    Abstract: ... This paper presents a dynamic zoom analog-to-digital converter for use in low-bandwidth (<1 kHz) instrumentation applications. It employs a high-speed asynchronous successive approximation register (SAR) ADC that dynamically updates the references of a fully differential ΔΣ ADC. Compared to previous zoom ADCs, faster reference updates relax the loop filter requirements, thus allowing the adoption of energy-efficient amplifiers. Fabricated in a 0.16- μm CMOS process, the prototype occupies 0.26 mm 2 and achieves 119.1-dB peak signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), 118.1-dB peak signal-to-noise-and-distortion-ratio (SNDR), and 120.3-dB dynamic range (DR) in a 1-kHz bandwidth while consuming 280 μW . This results in a Schreier figure of merit (FoM) of 185.8 dB.

  1067. A CMOS Dual-RC Frequency Reference with ±200-ppm Inaccuracy from −45 °C to 85 °C
    Ç. Gürleyük; L. Pedalà; S. Pan; F. Sebastiano; K. A. A. Makinwa;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 53, Issue 12, pp. 3386-3395, 12 2018. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2018.2869083
    Abstract: ... This paper presents a 7-MHz CMOS RC frequency reference. It consists of a frequency-locked loop in which the output frequency of a digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) is locked to the combined phase shifts of two independent RC (Wien bridge) filters, each employing resistors with complementary temperature coefficients. The filters are driven by the DCO’s output frequency and the resulting phase shifts are digitized by high-resolution phase-to-digital converters. Their outputs are then combined in the digital domain to realize a temperature-independent frequency error signal. This digitally assisted temperature compensation scheme achieves an inaccuracy of ±200 ppm from –45 °C to 85 °C after a two-point trim. The frequency reference draws 430 μA from a 1.8-V supply, while achieving a supply sensitivity of 0.18%/V and a 330-ppb Allan deviation floor in 3 s of measurement time.

  1068. A ±4-A High-Side Current Sensor With 0.9% Gain Error From −40 °C to 85 °C Using an Analog Temperature Compensation Technique
    L. Xu; J. H. Huijsing; K. A. A. Makinwa;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 53, Issue 12, pp. 3368-3376, 12 2018. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2018.2875106
    Abstract: ... This paper presents a fully integrated shunt-based current sensor that supports a 25-V input common-mode range while operating from a single 1.5-V supply. It uses a high-voltage beyond-the-rails ADC to directly digitize the voltage across an on-chip shunt resistor. To compensate for the shunt's large temperature coefficient of resistance (~0.335%/°C), the ADC employs a proportional-to-absolute-temperature voltage reference. This analog compensation scheme obviates the need for the explicit temperature sensor and calibration logic required by digital compensation schemes. The sensor achieves 1.5-μVrms noise over a 2-ms conversion time while drawing only 10.9 μA from a 1.5-V supply. Over a ±4-A range, and after a one-point trim, the sensor exhibits a 0.9% (maximum) gain error from -40 °C to 85 °C and a 0.05% gain error at room temperature.

  1069. A Compact Resistor-Based CMOS Temperature Sensor With an Inaccuracy of 0.12 °C (3σ) and a Resolution FoM of 0.43 pJ⋅K^2 in 65-nm CMOS
    W. Choi; Y. Lee; S. Kim; S. Lee; J. Jang; J. Chun; K. A. A. Makinwa; Y. Chae;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 53, Issue 12, pp. 3356-3367, 12 2018. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2018.2871622
    Abstract: ... This paper presents a compact resistor-based CMOS temperature sensor intended for dense thermal monitoring. It is based on an RC poly-phase filter (PPF), whose temperature-dependent phase shift is read out by a frequency-locked loop (FLL). The PPF's phase shift is determined by a zero-crossing (ZC) detector, allowing the rest of the FLL to be realized in an area-efficient manner. Implemented in a 65-nm CMOS technology, the sensor occupies only 7000 μm². It can operate from supply voltages as low as 0.85 V and consumes 68 μW. A sensor based on a PPF made from silicided p-poly resistors and metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitors achieves an inaccuracy of ±0.12 °C (3σ) from -40 °C to 85 °C and a resolution of 2.5 mK (rms) in a 1-ms conversion time. This corresponds to a resolution figure-of-merit (FoM) of 0.43 pJ·K².

  1070. A 0.25 mm2-Resistor-Based Temperature Sensor With an Inaccuracy of 0.12 °C (3σ) From −55 °C to 125 °C
    S. Pan; K. A. A. Makinwa;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 53, Issue 12, pp. 3347-3355, 12 2018. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2018.2869595
    Abstract: ... This paper describes a compact, energy efficient, resistor-based temperature sensor that can operate over a wide temperature range (-55 °C-125 °C). The sensor is based on a Wheatstone bridge (WhB) made from silicided poly-silicon and non-silicided poly-silicon resistors. To achieve both area and energy efficiencies, the current output of the WhB is digitized by a continuous-time zoom analog-to-digital converter (ADC). Implemented in a standard 180-nm CMOS technology, the sensor consumes 52 μA from a 1.8-V supply and achieves a resolution of 280 μKrms in a 5-ms conversion time. This corresponds to a state-of-the-art resolution figure-of-merit (FoM) of 40 fJ · K². After a first-order fit, the sensor achieves an inaccuracy of ±,0.12 °C (3σ) from -55 °C to 125 °C.

  1071. A Phase-Domain Readout Circuit for a CMOS-Compatible Hot-Wire CO2 Sensor
    Z. Cai; R. van Veldhoven; H. Suy; G. de Graaf; K. Makinwa; M. Pertijs;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 53, Issue 11, pp. 3303--3313, November 2018. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2018.2866374
    Abstract: ... This paper presents a readout circuit for a carbon dioxide (CO2) sensor that measures the CO2-dependent thermal time constant of a hot-wire transducer. The readout circuit periodically heats up the transducer and uses a phase-domain modulator to digitize the phase shift of the resulting temperature transients. A single resistive transducer is used both as a heater and as a temperature sensor, thus greatly simplifying its fabrication. To extract the transducer’s resistance, and hence its temperature, in the presence of large heating currents, a pair of transducers is configured as a differentially driven bridge. The transducers and the readout circuit have been implemented in a standard 0.16-μm CMOS technology, with an active area of 0.3 and 3.14 mm2, respectively. The sensor consumes 6.8 mW from a 1.8-V supply, of which 6.3 mW is dissipated in the transducers. A resolution of 94-ppm CO2 is achieved in a 1.8-s measurement time, which corresponds to an energy consumption of 12 mJ per measurement, >10× less than prior CO2 sensors in CMOS technology.

  1072. A 19.8 mW Sub-nanometer Eddy-current Displacement Sensor Interface
    V. Chaturvedi; M.R. Nabaviy; J.G. Vogel; K.A.A. Makinwa; S. Nihtianov;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 53, Issue 8, pp. 2273-2283, 5 2018. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2018.2832168
    Abstract: ... This paper presents an eddy-current sensor (ECS) interface intended for sub-nanometer (sub-nm) displacement sensing in hi-tech applications. The interface employs a 126-MHz excitation frequency to mitigate the skin effect, and achieve high resolution and stability. An efficient on-chip sensor offset compensation scheme is introduced which removes sensoroffset proportional to the standoff distance. To assist in the ratiometric suppression of noise and drift of the excitation oscillator, the ECS interface consists of a highly linear amplitude demodulation scheme that employs passive capacitors for voltageto-current (V2I) conversion. Using a printed circuit board-based pseudo-differential ECS, stability tests were performed which demonstrated a thermal drift of <;7.3 nm/°C and long-term drift of only 29.5 nm over a period of 60 h. The interface achieves an effective noise floor of 13.4 pm/√Hz which corresponds to a displacement resolution of 0.6 nm in a 2-kHz noise bandwidth. The ECS interface is fabricated in TSMC 0.18-μm CMOS technology and dissipates only 19.8 mW from a 1.8-V supply.

  1073. A ±12A High-Side Current Sensor with 25V Input CM Range and 0.35% Gain Error from -40ºC to 85ºC
    L. Xu; J.H. Huijsing; K.A.A. Makinwa;
    IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters,
    Volume 1, Issue 4, pp. 94-97, 4 2018. DOI: 10.1109/LSSC.2018.2855407
    Abstract: ... This letter presents the most accurate shunt-based high-side current sensor ever reported. It achieves a 25 V input common-mode range from a single 1.8-V supply by using a beyond-the-rails ADC. A hybrid analog/digital temperature compensation scheme is proposed to simplify the circuit implementation while maintaining the state-of-the-art accuracy. Over a ±12-A current range, the sensor exhibits 0.35% gain error from -40 °C to 85 °C with 3× better power efficiency.

  1074. A 4.5 nV/\sqrtHz Capacitively-Coupled Continuous-Time Sigma-Delta Modulator with an Energy-Efficient Chopping Scheme
    H. Jiang; C. Ligouras; S. Nihtianov; K.A.A. Makinwa;
    IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters,
    Volume 1, Issue 1, pp. 18-21, 2018. DOI: 10.1109/LSSC.2018.2803447
    Abstract: ... When chopping is applied to a continuous-time sigmadelta modulator (CTΣΔM), quantization noise fold-back often occurs, leading to increased in-band noise. This can be prevented by employing a return-to-zero (RZ) digital-to-analog converter (RZ DAC) in the modulator's feedback path and arranging the chopping transitions to coincide with its RZ phases. In this letter, this technique has been extended and implemented in an energy-efficient CTΣΔM intended for the readout of Wheatstone bridge sensors. To achieve a wide common-mode input range, the modulator's summing node is implemented as an embedded capacitively coupled instrumentation amplifier which can be readily combined with a highly linear 1-bit capacitive RZ DAC. Measurements show that the proposed chopping scheme does not suffer from quantization noise fold-back and also allows a flexible choice of chopping frequency. When chopped at one-tenth of the sampling frequency, the modulator achieves 15 ppm INL, 4.5 nV/√Hz input-referred noise and a state-of-the-art noise efficiency factor of 6.1.

  1075. A Capacitively-Degenerated 100dB Linear 20-150MS/s Dynamic Amplifier
    M. S. Akter; K.A.A. Makinwa; K. Bult;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 53, Issue 4, pp. 1115 - 1126, 4 2018. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2017.2778277
    Abstract: ... This paper presents a new dynamic residue amplifier topology for pipelined analog-to-digital converters. With an input signal of 100 mVpp,diff and 4x gain, it achieves -100-dB total harmonic distortion, the lowest ever reported for a dynamic amplifier. Compared to the state of the art, it exhibits 25 dB better linearity with twice the output swing and similar noise performance. The key to this performance is a new linearization technique based on capacitive degeneration, which exploits the exponential voltage-to-current relationship of MOSFET in weak inversion. The prototype amplifier is fabricated in a 28-nm CMOS process and dissipates only 87 μW at a clock speed of 43 MS/s, thereby improving the energy per cycle by 26x compared with that of state-of-the-art high-linearity amplifiers.

  1076. A 66 dB SNDR Pipelined Split-ADC in 40 nm CMOS Using a Class-AB Residue Amplifier
    M. S. Akter; R. Sehgal; F. van der Goes; K. A. A. Makinwa; K. Bult;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 53, Issue 10, pp. 2939-2950, 10 2018. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2018.2859415
    Abstract: ... This paper presents a closed-loop class-AB residue amplifier for pipelined analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). It consists of a push–pull structure with a “split-capacitor” biasing circuit that enhances its power efficiency. The amplifier is inherently quite linear, and so incomplete settling can be used to save power while still maintaining sufficient linearity. This also allows the amplifier’s gain to be corrected by adjusting its bias current. When combined with digital gain-error detection, in this case the split-ADC technique, the result is a power-efficient gain calibration scheme. In a prototype pipelined ADC, this scheme converges in only 12 000 clock cycles. With a near-Nyquist input, the ADC achieves 66-dB SNDR and 77.3-dB SFDR at 53 MS/s. Implemented in 40-nm CMOS, it dissipates 9 mW, of which 0.83 mW is consumed in the residue amplifiers. This represents a 1.8 × improvement in power efficiency compared to state-of-the-art class-AB residue amplifiers.

  1077. A Resistor-Based Temperature Sensor with a 0.13pJ·K2 Resolution FOM
    S. Pan; Y. Luo; S.H. Shalmany; K.A.A. Makinwa;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 53, Issue 1, pp. 164-173, 1 2018. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2017.2746671
    Abstract: ... This paper describes a high-resolution energy-efficient CMOS temperature sensor, intended for the temperature compensation of MEMS/quartz frequency references. The sensor is based on silicided poly-silicon thermistors, which are embedded in a Wien-bridge RC filter. When driven at a fixed frequency, the filter exhibits a temperature-dependent phase shift, which is digitized by an energy-efficient continuous-time phase-domain delta-sigma modulator. Implemented in a 0.18-μm CMOS technology, the sensor draws 87 μA from a 1.8 V supply and achieves a resolution of 410 μKrms in a 5-ms conversion time. This translates into a state-of-the-art resolution figure-of-merit of 0.13 pJ·K². When packaged in ceramic, the sensor achieves an inaccuracy of 0.2 °C (3σ) from -40 °C to 85 °C after a single-point calibration and a correction for systematic nonlinearity. This can be reduced to ±0.03 °C (3σ) after a first-order fit. In addition, the sensor exhibits low 1/f noise and packaging shift.

  1078. Magnetic response of Magnetospirillum gryphiswaldense observed inside a microfluidic channel
    Pichel, M. P.; Hageman, T. A. G.; Khalil, I. S. M.; Manz, A.; Abelmann, L.;
    Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials,
    Volume 460, pp. 340 – 353, 2018. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmmm.2018.04.004
    Keywords: ... Bacteria; Control engineering; Drag; Fluidic devices; Microfluidics; Torque; Trajectories; Accurate measurement; Drag torque; Magnetic response; Magnetic torques; Magnetospirillum gryphiswaldense; Magnetotactic Bacteria; Microfluidic channel; Rotating magnetic fields; Magnetism.

    Abstract: ... In this study we modelled and measured the U-turn trajectories of individual magnetotactic bacteria under the application of rotating magnetic fields, ranging in amplitude from 1 to 12 mT. The model is based on the balance between rotational drag and magnetic torque. For accurate verification of this model, bacteria were observed inside 5 μm tall microfluidic channels, so that they remained in focus during the entire trajectory. From the analysis of hundreds of trajectories and accurate measurements of bacteria and magnetosome chain dimensions, we confirmed that the model is correct within measurement error. The resulting average rate of rotation of Magnetospirillum gryphiswaldense is 0.74 ± 0.03 rad/mTs. © 2018 Elsevier B.V.

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  1079. Magnetophoretic Sorting of Single Catalyst Particles
    Solsona, Miguel; Nieuwelink, Anne-Eva; Meirer, Florian; Abelmann, Leon; Odijk, Mathieu; Olthuis, Wouter; Weckhuysen, Bert M.; van den Berg, Albert;
    Angewandte Chemie - International Edition,
    Volume 57, Issue 33, pp. 10589 – 10594, 2018. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1002/anie.201804942
    Keywords: ... Catalysis; Catalysts; Fluid catalytic cracking; Iron; Magnetic moments; Magnetic properties; Microfluidics; Screening; Catalyst particles; Deactivation process; Fluid catalytic cracking(FCC); High throughput; Magnetophoresis; Particle heterogeneity; Particle sorting; Solid catalysts; Catalytic cracking.

    Abstract: ... A better understanding of the deactivation processes taking place within solid catalysts is vital to design better ones. However, since inter-particle heterogeneities are more a rule than an exception, particle sorting is crucial to analyse single catalyst particles in detail. Microfluidics offers new possibilities to sort catalysts at the single particle level. Herein, we report a first-of-its-kind 3D printed magnetophoretic chip able to sort catalyst particles by their magnetic moment. Fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) particles were separated based on their Fe content. Magnetophoretic sorting shows that large Fe aggregates exist within 20 % of the FCC particles with the highest Fe content. The availability of Brønsted acid sites decreases with increasing Fe content. This work paves the way towards a high-throughput catalyst diagnostics platform to determine why specific catalyst particles perform better than others. © 2018 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim

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  1080. Kinetics of orbitally shaken particles constrained to two dimensions
    Ipparthi, Dhananjay; Hageman, Tijmen A. G.; Cambier, Nicolas; Sitti, Metin; Dorigo, Marco; Abelmann, Leon; Mastrangeli, Massimo;
    Physical Review E,
    Volume 98, Issue 4, 2018. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.98.042137
    Keywords: ... Kinetic energy; Molecular dynamics; Self assembly; Diffusive motions; Experimental system; Macroscopic particles; Random walk modeling; Translational velocity; Two dimensional spaces; Two-dimension; Kinetics.

    Abstract: ... We present an experimental study of the kinetics of orbitally-shaken, sliding macroscopic particles confined to a two-dimensional space bounded by walls. Discounting the forcing action of the external periodic actuation, the particles undergo a qualitative transition from a ballistic to a diffusive motion regime with time. Despite the deterministic input of kinetic energy provided by the shaker, the particles show translational velocities and diffusivity consistent with a confined random walk model. Such experimental system may therefore represent a suitable macroscopic analog to investigate aspects of molecular dynamics and self-assembly. © 2018 American Physical Society.

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  1081. Macroscopic equivalence for microscopic motion in a turbulence driven three-dimensional self-assembly reactor
    Hageman, T. A. G.; L{\"o}thman, P. A.; Dirnberger, M.; Elwenspoek, M. C.; Manz, A.; Abelmann, L.;
    Journal of Applied Physics,
    Volume 123, Issue 2, 2018. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1063/1.5007029
    Keywords: ... Boltzmann equation; Brownian movement; Flow of water; Spheres; Characteristic time; Macroscopic self-assembly; Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution; Physical simulator; Random walk modeling; Self assembly process; Trajectory analysis; Turbulent water flow; Self assembly.

    Abstract: ... We built and characterised a macroscopic self-assembly reactor that agitates magnetic, centimeter-sized particles with a turbulent water flow. By scaling up the self-assembly processes to the centimeter-scale, the characteristic time constants also drastically increase. This makes the system a physical simulator of microscopic self-assembly, where the interaction of inserted particles is easily observable. Trajectory analysis of single particles reveals their velocity to be a Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution and it shows that their average squared displacement over time can be modelled by a confined random walk model, demonstrating a high level of similarity to the Brownian motion. The interaction of two particles has been modelled and verified experimentally by observing the distance between two particles over time. The disturbing energy (analogue to temperature) that was obtained experimentally increases with sphere size and differs by an order of magnitude between single-sphere and two-sphere systems (approximately 80 μJ versus 6.5 μJ, respectively). © 2018 Author(s).

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  1082. Design of Plug-In Electric Vehicle's Frequency-Droop Controller for Primary Frequency Control and Performance Assessment
    Izadkhast, S.; Garcia-Gonzalez, P.; Frías, P.; Bauer, P.;
    IEEE Transactions on Power Systems,
    Volume 32, Issue 6, pp. 4241--4254, November 2017. DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2017.2661241
    Abstract: ... This paper describes a novel strategy to design the frequency-droop controller of plug in electric vehicles (PEVs) for primary frequency control (PFC). To be able to properly compare the frequency response of control system with and without PEVs, the design is done to guarantee the same stability margin for both systems in the worst case scenario. To identify the worst case, sensitivity analyses are conducted on a large set of system parameters performing eigenvalue analysis and bode plots. Three main contributions are included in this work: 1) we demonstrate that PEVs using the well-design droop controller significantly improve the PFC response while successfully preserving the frequency stability, 2) since the fast response of PEVs may cause to mask the governor-turbine response in conventional units, a novel control scheme is developed to replace some portion of PEV's reserve after a certain time by the reserve of conventional units during PFC, and 3) a method is proposed to evaluate the positive economic impact of PEV's participation in PFC. For the latter, the system PFC cost savings mainly through the avoidance of under frequency load shedding by PEVs are calculated. A large-scale power system and an islanded network are evaluated and compared through dynamic simulations, which illustrate the validity and effectiveness of the proposed methodologies.

  1083. A Planar Near-Field Setup for Millimeter-Wave System-Embedded Antenna Testing
    Alonso-delPino, Maria; Rosa, Marco di; Simeoni, Massimiliano; Spella, Maristella; De Martino, Carmine; Spirito, Marco;
    IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters,
    Volume 16, pp. 83-86, 2017. DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2016.2557239
    Keywords: ... Antenna measurements;Probes;Semiconductor device measurement;Antenna radiation patterns;Phase measurement;Frequency measurement;Embedded antenna;near-field measurement;on-module antenna.

  1084. Radar network topology optimization for joint target position and velocity estimation
    I. Ivasho; G. Leus; A. Yarovoy;
    Signal Processing,
    Volume 130, pp. 279-288, 2017. DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2016.07.010
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  1085. Autoregressive Moving Average Graph Filtering
    E. Isufi; A. Loukas; A. Simonetto; G. Leus;
    IEEE Trans. Signal Processing,
    Volume 65, Issue 2, pp. 274-288, January 2017. DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2016.2614793
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  1086. A 7μW Offset-and Temperature-Compensated pH-to-Digital Converter
    S. H. Shalmany; M. Merz; A. Fekri; Z. Y. Chang; R. J. O. M. Hoofman; M. A. P. Pertijs;
    Journal of Sensors,
    Volume 2017, Issue 6158689, January 2017. DOI: 10.1155/2017/6158689
    Abstract: ... This paper demonstrates a micropower offset- and temperature-compensated smart pH sensor, intended for use in battery-powered RFID systems that monitor the quality of perishable products. Low operation power is essential in such systems to enable autonomous logging of environmental parameters, such as the pH level, over extended periods of time using only a small, low-cost battery. The pH-sensing element in this work is an ion-sensitive extended-gate field-effect transistor (EGFET), which is incorporated in a low-power sensor front-end. The front-end outputs a pH-dependent voltage, which is then digitized by means of a co-integrated incremental delta-sigma ADC. To compensate for the offset and temperature cross-sensitivity of the EGFET, a compensation scheme using a calibration process and a temperature sensor has been devised. A prototype chip has been realized in a 0.16 μm CMOS process. It occupies 0.35 × 3.9 mm2 of die area and draws only 4 μA from a 1.8 V supply. Two different types of custom packaging have been used for measurement purposes. The pH sensor achieves a linearity of better than ±0.1 for pH values ranging from 4 to 10. The calibration and compensation scheme reduces errors due to temperature cross-sensitivity to less than ±0.1 in the temperature range of 6°C to 25°C.

  1087. Superconducting NbTin Thin Films With Highly Uniform Properties Over a ∅ 100 mm Wafer
    D.J Thoen; B.G.C. Bos; E.A.F. Haalebos; T.M. Klapwijk J.J.A. Baselmans; A. Endo;
    IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity,
    Volume 27, Issue 4, pp. 1500505, 2017.
    document

  1088. A kilo-pixel imaging system for future space based far-infrared observatories using microwave kinetic inductance detectors
    J.J.A. Baselmans; J. Bueno; S.J.C. Yates; O. Yurduseven N. Llombart K. Karatsu; A.M. Baryshev L. Ferrari; A. Endo; D.J. Thoen; et al;
    arXiv preprint,
    2017. DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201629653
    document

  1089. Reactive magnetron sputter deposition of superconducting niobium titanium nitride thin films with different target sizes
    B.G.C. Bos; D.J. Thoen; E.A.F. Haalebos; P.M.L. Gimbel; T.M. Klapwijk; J.J.A. Baselmans; A. Endo;
    IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity,
    Volume 27, Issue 4, pp. 1500405, 2017. 10.1109/TASC.2016.2631939.
    document

  1090. Fighting Dark Silicon: Toward Realizing Efficient Thermal-Aware 3-D Stacked Multiprocessors
    S.S. Kumar; A. Zjajo; T.G.R.M. van Leuken;
    IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems,
    Volume 25, Issue 4, pp. 1549-1562, 2017. ISSN 1063-8210. DOI: 10.1109/TVLSI.2016.2642587
    document

  1091. An RF-Powered DLL-Based 2.4-GHz Transmitter for Autonomous Wireless Sensor Nodes
    Mark Stoopman; Kathleen Philips; Wouter A. Serdijn;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    2017. Date of Publication: 02 February 2017, DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2017.2651817.
    document

  1092. Equivalent transmission line models for the analysis of edge effects in finite connected and tightly-coupled arrays
    D. Cavallo; W. H. Syed; A. Neto;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 65, Issue 4, pp. 1788-1796, Apr. 2017. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2017.2670616

  1093. Relaxed Binaural LCMV Beamforming
    A. I. Koutrouvelis; R. C. Hendriks; R. Heusdens; J. Jensen;
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing,
    Volume 25, Issue 1, pp. 137-152, Jan. 2017. DOI: 10.1109/TASLP.2016.2628642
    document • software • software

  1094. Millimeter-Wave On-Wafer TRL Calibration Employing 3-D EM Simulation-Based Characteristic Impedance Extraction
    Galatro, Luca; Spirito, Marco;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 65, Issue 4, pp. 1315-1323, 2017. DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2016.2609413
    Keywords: ... Calibration;Impedance;Transmission line measurements;Capacitance;Substrates;Impedance measurement;Coplanar waveguides;Calibration;characteristic impedance;measurement;millimeter wave;silicon;TRL;vector network analyzer.

  1095. A Charge-Redistribution Phase-Domain ADC Using an IQ-Assisted Binary-Search Algorithm
    Leila Rajabi; Mehdi Saberi; Yao Liu; Reza Lotfi; Wouter A. Serdijn;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers,
    28 March 2017. DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2017.2681461.
    document

  1096. Distributed Optimization Using the Primal-Dual Method of Multipliers
    Guoqiang Zhang; R. Heusdens;
    IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks,
    February 2017. ISSN 2373-776X. DOI: 10.1109/TSIPN.2017.2672403
    document

  1097. Consistent sensor, relay, and link selection in wireless sensor networks
    R. Arroyo-Valles; A. Simonetto; G.J.T. Leus;
    Signal Processing,
    Volume 140, pp. 32-44, 2017. DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2017.04.020
    document

  1098. Filtering Random Graph Processes Over Random Time-Varying Graphs
    E. Isufi; A. Loukas; A. Simonetto; G. Leus;
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing,
    Volume 65, Issue 16, pp. 4406-4421, August 2017. ISSN: 1053-587X. DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2017.2706186
    document

  1099. Intelligibility Enhancement Based on Mutual Information
    S. Khademi; R.C. Hendriks; W.B. Kleijn;
    IEEE/ACM Trans. Audio, Speech, Language Process.,
    Volume 25, Issue 8, pp. 1694-1708, August 2017. ISSN 2329-9290. DOI: 10.1109/TASLP.2017.2714424
    document • software

  1100. Analysis and Design of a Passive Receiver Front-End using an Inductive Antenna Impedance
    Yao Liu; Wouter A. Serdijn;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I: Regular Papers,
    14 August 2017. DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2017.2734851
    document

  1101. Analysis and Design of VCO-Based Phase-Domain ΣΔ Modulators
    U. Sonmez; F. Sebastiano; K. Makinwa;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I,
    Volume 64, pp. 1075-1084, 5 2017. DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2016.2638827

  1102. Robust Differential Received Signal Strength-Based Localization
    Yongchang Hu; G. Leus;
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing,
    Volume 65, Issue 12, pp. 3261-3276, June 2017. ISSN: 1053-587X. DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2017.2684741
    document

  1103. Decentralized Prediction-Correction Methods for Networked Time-Varying Convex Optimization
    A. Simonetto; A. Koppel; A. Mokhtari; G. Leus; A. Ribeiro;
    IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control,
    Volume 62, Issue 11, pp. 5724-5738, November 2017. ISSN: 0018-9286. DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2017.2694611
    document

  1104. Sensitive and Reversible Detection of Methanol and Water Vapor by In Situ Electrochemically Grown CuBTC MOFs on Interdigitated Electrodes
    S. Sachdeva; M.R. Venkatesh; B.E. Mansouri; J. Wei; A. Bossche; F. Kapteijn; G.Q. Zhang; J. Gascon; L.C.P.M. de Smet; E.J.R. Sudhölter;
    Small,
    Volume 13, Issue 29, 08 2017. DOI: 10.1002/smll.201604150
    Abstract: ... The in situ electrochemical growth of Cu benzene-1,3,5-tricarboxylate (CuBTC) metal-organic frameworks, as an affinity layer, directly on custom-fabricated Cu interdigitated electrodes (IDEs) is described, acting as a transducer. Crystalline 5-7 µm thick CuBTC layers are grown on IDEs consisting of 100 electrodes with a width and a gap of both 50 µm and a height of 6-8 µm. These capacitive sensors are exposed to methanol and water vapor at 30 °C. The affinities show to be completely reversible with higher affinity toward water compared to methanol. For exposure to 1000 ppm methanol, a fast response is observed with a capacitance change of 5.57 pF at equilibrium. The capacitance increases in time followed diffusion-controlled kinetics (k = 2.9 mmol s-0.5 g-1CuBTC ). The observed capacitance change with methanol concentration follows a Langmuir adsorption isotherm, with a value for the equilibrium affinity Ke = 174.8 bar-1 . A volume fraction fMeOH = 0.038 is occupied upon exposure to 1000 ppm of methanol. The thin CuBTC affinity layer on the Cu-IDEs shows fast, reversible, and sensitive responses to methanol and water vapor, enabling quantitative detection in the range of 100-8000 ppm.

  1105. THz Imaging Using Uncooled Wideband Direct Detection Focal Plane Arrays
    Sven van Berkel; Ozan Yurduseven; Angelo Freni; Andrea Neto; Nuria Llombart;
    IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology,
    Volume 7, Issue 5, pp. 481 - 492, August 2017. DOI: 10.1109/TTHZ.2017.2736338
    document

  1106. UWB pulse detection and TOA estimation using GLRT
    Yan Xie; G.J.M. Janssen; S. Shakeri; C.J.M. Tiberius;
    EURASIP J. Adv. Signal Processing,
    Volume 68, September 2017. DOI: 10.1186/s13634-017-0500-1
    document

  1107. Analytical formulas for artificial dielectrics with non-aligned layers
    D. Cavallo; C. Felita;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 65, Issue 10, pp. 5303-5311, Oct. 2017. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2017.2738064

  1108. Eddy-Current Sensing Principle in Inertial Sensors
    J. G. Vogel; V. Chaturvedi; S. Nihtianov;
    IEEE Sensors Letters,
    Volume 1, Issue 5, pp. 1-4, 2017. DOI: 10.1109/LSENS.2017.2737940
    Keywords: ... Eddy-current sensing;high-resolution;inertial sensor;thermal sensitivity.

    Abstract: ... The eddy-current displacement sensing principle is, to the best of our knowledge, not yet used in inertial sensors. The main reasons for this are the important performance limitations of the existing eddy-current sensor solutions, such as: low sensitivity, poor stability, high power consumption and bulkiness. Our novel high-frequency Eddy-Current Displacement Sensor (ECDS), however, has significantly improved performance with respect to these limitations and allows the use of planar, stable coils, making it a viable candidate for use in inertial sensors. An implementation example of an ECDS-based inertial sensor with a bandwidth of 370 Hz and a noise floor of 13 um/Hz^0.5 is proposed. Although not yet competitive with state-of-the-art inertial sensors, it performs better than other types of inductive accelerometers and offers the inherent advantages of ECDSs, such as insensitivity to the environment.

  1109. Solution-Based Fabrication of Polycrystalline Si Thin-Film Transistors from Recycled Polysilanes
    P. M. Sberna; M. Trifunovic; R. Ishihara;
    ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng.,
    Volume 5, Issue 7, pp. 5642-5645, 2017.
    document

  1110. Analysis of polydihydrosilane crystallization by excimer laser annealing
    M. Trifunovic; P. M. Sberna; T. Shimoda; R. Ishihara;
    Thin Solid Films,
    Volume 638, pp. 73-80, 2017.
    document

  1111. Solution-based polycrystalline silicon transistors produced on a paper substrate
    M. Trifunovic; P. M. Sberna; T. Shimoda; R. Ishihara;
    npj Flexible Electronics,
    Volume 1, Issue 12, Dec. 2017. DOI: 10.1038/s41528-017-0013-x
    document

  1112. Optical System Design for Noncontact, Normal Incidence, THz Imaging of in Vivo Human Cornea
    S. Sung; S. O. Dabironezare; N. Llombart; S. Selvin; N. Bajwa; S. Chantra; B. Nowroozi; J. Garritano; J. Goell; A. Li; S. X. Deng; E. Brown; W. S. Grundfest; Z. D. Taylor;
    IEEE Transaction on Terahertz Science and Technology,
    Volume 8, Issue 1, pp. 1 - 12, November 2017. DOI: 10.1109/TTHZ.2017.2771754
    document

  1113. Compact Thermal-Diffusivity-Based Temperature Sensors in 40-nm CMOS for SoC Thermal Monitoring
    U. Sonmez; F. Sebastiano; K. Makinwa;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 52, Issue 3, pp. 834-843, March 2017. DOI: 10.1109/jssc.2016.2646798

  1114. Nullor-based circuits for quantum technology
    Hoekstra, J.;
    International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications,
    Volume 45, Issue 7, pp. 1001--1016, 2017. cta.2352. DOI: 10.1002/cta.2352
    Keywords: ... quantum technology, quantum circuits, circuit theory, nullor, chain matrix, read-out systems, SET electrometer.

    document

  1115. Quantum information density scaling and qubit operation time constraints of CMOS silicon-based quantum computer architectures
    Davide Rotta; Fabio Sebastiano; Edoardo Charbon; Enrico Prati;
    npj Quantum Information,
    Volume 3, Issue 1, pp. 26, 2017. DOI: 10.1038/s41534-017-0023-5
    Abstract: ... Even the quantum simulation of an apparently simple molecule such as Fe2S2 requires a considerable number of qubits of the order of 106, while more complex molecules such as alanine (C3H7NO2) require about a hundred times more. In order to assess such a multimillion scale of identical qubits and control lines, the silicon platform seems to be one of the most indicated routes as it naturally provides, together with qubit functionalities, the capability of nanometric, serial, and industrial-quality fabrication. The scaling trend of microelectronic devices predicting that computing power would double every 2 years, known as Moore�s law, according to the new slope set after the 32-nm node of 2009, suggests that the technology roadmap will achieve the 3-nm manufacturability limit proposed by Kelly around 2020. Today, circuital quantum information processing architectures are predicted to take advantage from the scalability ensured by silicon technology. However, the maximum amount of quantum information per unit surface that can be stored in silicon-based qubits and the consequent space constraints on qubit operations have never been addressed so far. This represents one of the key parameters toward the implementation of quantum error correction for fault-tolerant quantum information processing and its dependence on the features of the technology node. The maximum quantum information per unit surface virtually storable and controllable in the compact exchange-only silicon double quantum dot qubit architecture is expressed as a function of the complementary metal�oxide�semiconductor technology node, so the size scale optimizing both physical qubit operation time and quantum error correction requirements is assessed by reviewing the physical and technological constraints. According to the requirements imposed by the quantum error correction method and the constraints given by the typical strength of the exchange coupling, we determine the workable operation frequency range of a silicon complementary metal�oxide�semiconductor quantum processor to be within 1 and 100?GHz. Such constraint limits the feasibility of fault-tolerant quantum information processing with complementary metal�oxide�semiconductor technology only to the most advanced nodes. The compatibility with classical complementary metal�oxide�semiconductor control circuitry is discussed, focusing on the cryogenic complementary metal�oxide�semiconductor operation required to bring the classical controller as close as possible to the quantum processor and to enable interfacing thousands of qubits on the same chip via time-division, frequency-division, and space-division multiplexing. The operation time range prospected for cryogenic control electronics is found to be compatible with the operation time expected for qubits. By combining the forecast of the development of scaled technology nodes with operation time and classical circuitry constraints, we derive a maximum quantum information density for logical qubits of 2.8 and 4?Mqb/cm2 for the 10 and 7-nm technology nodes, respectively, for the Steane code. The density is one and two orders of magnitude less for surface codes and for concatenated codes, respectively. Such values provide a benchmark for the development of fault-tolerant quantum algorithms by circuital quantum information based on silicon platforms and a guideline for other technologies in general.

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  1116. A reconfigurable cryogenic platform for the classical control of quantum processors
    Harald Homulle; Stefan Visser; Bishnu Patra; Giorgio Ferrari; Enrico Prati; Fabio Sebastiano; Edoardo Charbon; Enrico Prati;
    Review of Scientific Instruments,
    Volume 88, Issue 4, pp. 045103, 2017. DOI: 10.1063/1.4979611
    Abstract: ... The implementation of a classical control infrastructure for large-scale quantum computers is challenging due to the need for integration and processing time, which is constrained by coherence time. We propose a cryogenic reconfigurable platform as the heart of the control infrastructure implementing the digital error-correction control loop. The platform is implemented on a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) that supports the functionality required by several qubit technologies and that can operate close to the physical qubits over a temperature range from 4 K to 300 K. This work focuses on the extensive characterization of the electronic platform over this temperature range. All major FPGA building blocks (such as look-up tables (LUTs), carry chains (CARRY4), mixed-mode clock manager (MMCM), phase-locked loop (PLL), block random access memory, and IDELAY2 (programmable delay element)) operate correctly and the logic speed is very stable. The logic speed of LUTs and CARRY4 changes less then 5%, whereas the jitter of MMCM and PLL clock managers is reduced by 20%. The stability is finally demonstrated by operating an integrated 1.2 GSa/s analog-to-digital converter (ADC) with a relatively stable performance over temperature. The ADCs effective number of bits drops from 6 to 4.5 bits when operating at 15 K.} url={https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4979611

  1117. A Hybrid Multi-Path CMOS Magnetic Sensor with 76 ppm/˚C Sensitivity Drift and Discrete-Time Ripple Reduction Loops
    J. Jiang; K.A.A. Makinwa;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 52, pp. 1876 - 1884, 7 2017. DOI: 10.1109/jssc.2017.2685462

  1118. Stationary Graph Processes and Spectral Estimation
    A. G. Marques; S. Segarra; G. Leus; A. Ribeiro;
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing,
    Volume 65, Issue 22, pp. 5911-5926, November 2017. ISSN: 1053-587X. DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2017.2739099
    document

  1119. Active Electrodes for Wearable EEG Acquisition: Review and Design Methodology
    J. Xu; S. Mitra; C. Van Hoof; R. Yazicioglu; K.A.A Makinwa;
    IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering,
    Volume PP, pp. 1-1, 2017. DOI: 10.1109/RBME.2017.2656388

  1120. A Dynamic Zoom ADC with 109-dB DR for Audio Applications
    B. Gonen; F. Sebastiano; K. Makinwa;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 52, pp. 1542-1550, 6 2017. DOI: 10.1109/jssc.2017.2669022

  1121. On a unified framework for linear nuisance parameters
    Yongchang Hu; G. Leus;
    EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing,
    Volume 2017, Issue 1, pp. 4, January 2017. ISSN: 1687-6180. DOI: 10.1186/s13634-016-0438-8
    document

  1122. Space-Time and Space-Frequency Block Coded Vector OFDM Modulation
    Jing Han; G. Leus;
    IEEE Communications Letters,
    Volume 21, Issue 1, pp. 204-207, January 2017. ISSN: 1089-7798. DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2016.2614812
    document

  1123. A BJT-based Temperature-to-Digital Converter with ±60mK (3σ) Inaccuracy from −55°C to +125°C in 0.16μm Standard CMOS
    B. Yousefzadeh; S.H. Shalmany; K. Makinwa;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 52, Issue 4, pp. 1044-1052, 4 2017. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2016.2638464

  1124. A Low-Power Microcontroller in a 40-nm CMOS Using Charge Recycling
    K. Blutman; A. Kapoor; A. Majumdar; J.G. Martinez; L. Sevat; A.P. van der Wel; H. Fatemi; K.A.A. Makinwa; J.P. de Gyvez;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 52, Issue 4, pp. 950-960, 1 2017. DOI: 10.1109/jssc.2016.2637003

  1125. A ±36A Integrated Current-Sensing System with 0.3% Gain Error and 400μA Offset from −55°C to +85°C
    S.H. Shalmany; D. Draxelmayr; K.A.A. Makinwa;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 52, Issue 4, pp. 1034-1043, 4 2017. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2016.2639535

  1126. An accurate BJT-based CMOS temperature sensor with Duty-Cycle-Modulated output
    G. Wang; A. Heidari; K.A.A. Makinwa; G.C.M. Meijer;
    IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics,
    Volume 64, 2 2017. DOI: 10.1109/tie.2016.2614273

  1127. Multipath Wide-Bandwidth CMOS Magnetic Sensors
    J. Jiang; K.A.A. Makinwa;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 52, pp. 198-209, 1 2017. DOI: 10.1109/jssc.2016.2619711

  1128. Binaural Sound Localization Based on Reverberation Weighting and Generalized Parametric Mapping
    Cheng Pang; Hong Liu; Jie Zhang; Xiaofei Li;
    IEEE Tr. Audio, Speech and Language Processing,
    2017. DOI: 10.1109/TASLP.2017.2703650
    document

  1129. Multi-domain spectroscopy for composition measurement of water-containing bio-ethanol fuel
    L.M. Middelburg; G. de Graaf; A. Bossche; J. Bastemeijer; M. Ghaderi; F.S. Wolffenbuttel; J. Visser; R. Soltis; R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    Fuel Processing Technology,
    Volume 167, pp. 127-135, 2017. DOI: 10.1016/j.fuproc.2017.06.007
    Abstract: ... Measuring the ethanol/water ratio in biofuel of high ethanol content, such as E85, is important when used in a flex-fuel engine. A capacitive probe is generally used for measuring the ethanol/gasoline ratio. However, the water content in E85 biofuel cannot be disregarded or considered constant and full composition measurement of biofuel is required. Electric impedance spectroscopy with a customized coaxial probe operating in the 10 kHz to 1 MHz frequency range was investigated. An in-depth investigation of the electrical impedance domain has led to the conclusion that additional information is required to unambiguously determine the composition of the ternary biofuel mixture. Among the different options of measurement domains and techniques, optical absorption spectroscopy in the UV spectral range between 230 and 300 nm was found to be the most appropriate. The typical absorbance in the UV range is highly dominated by gasoline, while ethanol and water are almost transparent. This approach is experimentally validated using actual fuels.

  1130. A Front-end ASIC with Receive Sub-Array Beamforming Integrated with a 32 × 32 PZT Matrix Transducer for 3-D Transesophageal Echocardiography
    C. Chen; Z. Chen; D. Bera; S. B. Raghunathan; M. Shabanimotlagh; E. Noothout; Z. Y. Chang; J. Ponte; C. Prins; H. J. Vos; J. G. Bosch; M. D. Verweij; N. de Jong; M. A. P. Pertijs;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 52, Issue 4, pp. 994‒1006, April 2017. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2016.2638433
    Abstract: ... This paper presents a power- and area-efficient front-end application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) that is directly integrated with an array of 32 × 32 piezoelectric transducer elements to enable next-generation miniature ultrasound probes for real-time 3-D transesophageal echocardiography. The 6.1 × 6.1 mm2 ASIC, implemented in a low-voltage 0.18-μm CMOS process, effectively reduces the number of receive (RX) cables required in the probe's narrow shaft by ninefold with the aid of 96 delay-and-sum beamformers, each of which locally combines the signals received by a sub-array of 3 × 3 elements. These beamformers are based on pipeline-operated analog sample-and-hold stages and employ a mismatch-scrambling technique to prevent the ripple signal associated with the mismatch between these stages from limiting the dynamic range. In addition, an ultralow-power low-noise amplifier architecture is proposed to increase the power efficiency of the RX circuitry. The ASIC has a compact element matched layout and consumes only 0.27 mW/channel while receiving, which is lower than the state-of-the-art circuit. Its functionality has been successfully demonstrated in 3-D imaging experiments.

  1131. Compressive 3D ultrasound imaging using a single sensor
    P. Kruizinga; P. van der Meulen; A. Fedjajevs; F. Mastik; G. Springeling; N. de Jong; J.G. Bosch; G. Leus;
    Science Advances,
    Volume 3, December 2017. ISSN: 2375-2548. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1701423
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  1132. A Precision Capacitance-to-Digital Converter with 16.7-bit ENOB and 7.5 ppm/°C Thermal Drift
    R. Yang; M. A. P. Pertijs; S. Nihtianov;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 52, Issue 11, pp. 3018-3031, November 2017. DOI: 10.1109/jssc.2017.2734900
    Abstract: ... This paper presents a high-precision capacitance-to-digital converter (CDC) for displacement measurement in advanced industrial applications, based on a charge-balancing third-order delta–sigma modulator. To achieve high precision, this CDC employs a precision external resistive reference and a quartz-oscillator-based time reference instead of a reference capacitor. To minimize the error contribution of the CDC circuitry, various precision circuit techniques, such as chopping and auto-zeroing, are applied at both system and circuit level. Measurement results of the prototype realized in 0.35-μm CMOS technology show that the CDC achieves an rms resolution of 42 aF across a capacitance range from 6 to 22 pF, corresponding to an effective number of bits (ENOB) of 16.7 bit. The conversion time for one measurement is 10.5 ms, during which the CDC consumes 230 μA from a 3.3-V single supply. The measured thermal stability is within ±7.5 ppm/°C across a temperature range from 20 °C to 70 °C, which represents a significant improvement compared to the state of the art. After a two-point calibration, all ten measured samples from one batch show absolute accuracy below ±25 fF across the entire capacitance measurement range.

  1133. A Power-Efficient Signal-Specific ADC for Sensor-Interface Applications
    Rahiminejad, E.; Saberi, M.; Lotfi, R.;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs,
    Volume 64, Issue 9, pp. 1032-1036, 2017. DOI: 10.1109/TCSII.2016.2622161

  1134. A low-power capacitor switching scheme with low common-mode voltage variation for successive approximation ADC
    Rasool Ghasemi, A.; Saberi, M.; Lotfi, R.;
    Microelectronics Journal,
    Volume 61, pp. 15-20, 2017. DOI: 10.1016/j.mejo.2016.12.009

  1135. Performance of THz Components Based on Microstrip PECVD SiNx Technology
    Finkel, Matvey; Thierschmann, Holger; Galatro, Luca; Katan, Allard J.; Thoen, David J.; de Visser, Pieter J.; Spirito, Marco; Klapwijk, Teun M.;
    IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology,
    Volume 7, Issue 6, pp. 765-771, 2017. DOI: 10.1109/TTHZ.2017.2759507
    Keywords: ... Transmission line measurements;Power transmission lines;Dielectrics;Couplers;Submillimeter wave circuits;Coplanar waveguides;Micromechanical devices;Coupling circuits;micromechanical devices;submillimeter wave circuits;thin film circuits.

  1136. A Total-Power Radiometer Front End in a 0.25- $\mu \textm$ BiCMOS Technology With Low $1/f$ -Corner
    Malotaux, Satoshi; Babaie, Masoud; Spirito, Marco;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 52, Issue 9, pp. 2256-2266, 2017. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2017.2705659
    Keywords: ... Radiometry;Detectors;Radio frequency;Bandwidth;Signal to noise ratio;Antennas;BiCMOS integrated circuits;Direct detection;flicker noise;low-noise amplifier (LNA);millimeter-wave (mm-wave);radiometer;square-law detector.

  1137. Capacitively Loaded Inverted CPWs for Distributed TRL-Based De-Embedding at (Sub) mm-Waves
    Galatro, Luca; Pawlak, Andreas; Schroter, Michael; Spirito, Marco;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 65, Issue 12, pp. 4914-4924, 2017. DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2017.2727498
    Keywords: ... Calibration;Coplanar waveguides;Substrates;Dielectrics;Impedance;Power transmission lines;Transmission line measurements;CPW;distributed de-embedding;millimeter waves;silicon;slow wave;thru-reflect line (TRL);VNA.

  1138. SIW-fed Vivaldi antenna with beam steering capabilities
    Puskely, Jan; Mikulasek, Tomas; Lacik, Jaroslav; Raida, Zbynek; Arthaber, Holger;
    Microwave and Optical Technology Letters,
    Volume 59, Issue 5, pp. 1022--1027, 2017. DOI: 10.1002/mop.30447

  1139. Reply to "Comments on 'Wideband Skin-Equivalent Phantom for V- and W-Band'"
    J. Lacik; V. Hebelka; J. Velim; Z. Raida; J. Puskely;
    IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters,
    Volume 16, Issue 99, pp. 3258 - 3258, 2017. DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2017.2675624
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  1140. L/S-Band Frequency Reconfigurable Multiscale Phased Array Antenna With Wide Angle Scanning
    Haider, N.; Yarovoy, A. G.; Roederer, A. G.;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 65, Issue 9, pp. 4519-4528, 2017. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2017.2722685

  1141. Radar network topology optimization for joint target position and velocity estimation.
    Ivashko, I.; Leus, G.; Yarovoy, A.;
    Signal Processing,
    Volume 130, pp. 279-288, 2017. DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2016.07.010

  1142. Linearized 3-D Electromagnetic Contrast Source Inversion and Its Applications to Half-Space Configurations
    Shilong Sun; Kooij, B. J.; Yarovoy, A. G.;
    IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing,
    Volume 55, Issue 6, pp. 3475 - 3487, 2017. DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2017.2672861

  1143. Application of Waveform Weighting for a Frequency-Invariant Transmit Beampattern
    Faruk Uysal; Z. Dunn; R. Rincon;
    IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine,
    Volume 31, Issue 12, pp. 4-12, 2017. DOI: 10.1109/MAES.2016.150201

  1144. Comparison of range migration correction algorithms for range-Doppler processing
    Faruk Uysal;
    Journal of Applied Remote Sensing,
    Volume 11, Issue 3, pp. 036023-1/036023, 2017. DOI: 10.1117/1.JRS.11.036023

  1145. Cross-Correlated Contrast Source Inversion
    Shilong Sun; Kooij, B. J.; Jin, T.; Yarovoy, A. G.;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 65, Issue 5, pp. 2592 - 2603, 2017. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2017.2673758

  1146. A doping-less junction-formation mechanism between n-silicon and an atomically thin boron layer
    V. Mohammadi; S. Nihtianov; C. Fang;
    Scientific Reports,
    Volume 7, Issue 1, 2017. cited By 0. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-13100-0
    Abstract: ... The interest in nanostructures of silicon and its dopants has significantly increased. We report the creation of an ultimately-shallow junction at the surface of n-type silicon with excellent electrical and optical characteristics made by depositing an atomically thin boron layer at a relatively low temperature where no doping of silicon is expected. The presented experimental results and simulations of the ab initio quantum mechanics molecular dynamics prove that the structure of this new type of junction differs from all other known rectifying junctions at this time. An analysis of the junction formation has led to the conclusion that the chemical interaction between the surface atoms of crystalline silicon and the first atomic layer of the as-deposited amorphous boron is the dominant factor leading to the formation of a depletion zone in the crystalline silicon which originates from the surface. The simulation results show a very strong electric field across the c-Si/a-B interface systems where the charge transfer occurs mainly from the interface Si atoms to the neighboring B atoms. This electric field appears to be responsible for the creation of a depletion zone in the n-silicon resulting in a rectifying junction-formation between the n-silicon and the atomically thin boron layer.

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  1147. New Trends in Smart Sensors for Industrial Applications - Part I
    S. Nihtianov; Z. Tan; B. George;
    IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics,
    Volume 64, Issue 9, pp. 7281-7283, Sept 2017. DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2017.2725558
    Keywords: ... manufacturing systems;sensors;industrial systems;production equipment;sensor performance;smart sensors;Intelligent sensors;Performance evaluation;Sensor arrays;Sensor phenomena and characterization;Smart devices;Special issues and sections;Wireless sensor networks.

    Abstract: ... In modern industry, productivity, quality, reliability, and safety heavily depend on the performance of the sensors employed. They form an interface between the production equipment and the surrounding environment providing feedback based on the results of the executed operations. Thus, sensors can be found in an extremely wide range of applications in industrial systems, in which they play a very important role. The first element in any control and measurement system is the sensor itself. Sensor performance defines the performance of the control/measurement system and that of the industrial system as a whole. It is not possible to distinguish between correct and incorrect information provided by a sensor, unless additional information provided by another sensor is used. This validates the statement: No machine can perform better than its sensors.

  1148. New Trends in Smart Sensors for Industrial Applications - Part II
    S. Nihtianov; Z. Tan; B. George;
    IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics,
    Volume 64, Issue 12, pp. 9592-9594, Dec 2017. DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2017.2758038
    Keywords: ... Capacitive sensors;Gas detectors;Intelligent sensors;Magnetic sensors;Special issues and sections;Tactile sensors.

    Abstract: ... This Special Section is dedicated to the latest trends in smart sensors for industrial applications. It has in total 26 papers, published in two parts, each consisting of 13 papers. In the Guest Editorial of Part I, published in the September 2017 issue, we validate the indispensable role sensors have in modern industry. Productivity, quality, reliability, and safety heavily depend on the performance of the sensors employed. This is because sensors form an interface between the production equipment and the surrounding environment and provide feedback based on the results of the executed operations. Consequently, sensors can be found in an extremely wide range of applications in industrial systems. Here, we introduce and briefly summarize the remaining 13 papers from this "Special Section on New Trends in Smart Sensors for Industrial Applications" of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics .

  1149. Stability, local structure and electronic properties of borane radicals on the Si(100) 2x1:H surface: A first-principles study
    C.M. Fang; V. Mohammadi; S. Nihtianov; M.H.F. Sluiter;
    Computational Materials Science,
    Volume 140, Issue Supplement C, pp. 253 - 260, 2017. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.commatsci.2017.08.036
    Keywords: ... Borane deposition, H passivated Si(001) surface, PureB process, Ab initio calculations.

    Abstract: ... Abstract Deposition of a thin B layer via decomposition of B2H6 on Si (PureB process) produces B-Si junctions which exhibit unique electronic and optical properties. Here we present the results of our systematic first-principles study of BHn (n=0-3) radicals on Si(100)2x1:H surfaces, the initial stage of the PureB process. The calculations reveal an unexpectedly high stability of BH2 and BH3 radicals on the surface and a plausible atomic exchange mechanism of surface Si atoms with B atoms from absorbed BHn radicals. The calculations show strong local structural relaxation and reconstructions, as well as strong chemical bonding between the surface Si and the BHn radicals. Electronic structure calculations show various defect states in the energy gap of Si due to the BHn absorption. These results shed light on the initial stages of the complicated PureB process and also rationalize the unusual electronic, optical and electrical properties of the deposited Si surfaces.

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  1150. Advances in Capacitive, Eddy Current, and Magnetic Displacement Sensors and Corresponding Interfaces
    B. George; Z. Tan; S. Nihtianov;
    IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics,
    Volume 64, Issue 12, pp. 9595-9607, Dec 2017. DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2017.2726982
    Keywords: ... capacitance measurement;capacitive sensors;displacement measurement;eddy currents;electric current measurement;inductance measurement;inductive sensors;magnetic field measurement;magnetic sensors;position measurement;absolute displacement measurement;absolute displacement sensors;acceleration measurement;capacitive sensors;eddy current sensors;inductive sensor;inertia measurement;magnetic displacement sensors;micrometer scales;nanometer scales;position measurement;pressure measurement;subnanometer scales;vibration measurement;Capacitance;Capacitive sensors;Capacitors;Eddy currents;Electrodes;Magnetic sensors;Capacitive sensors;displacement;eddy current sensors;magnetic sensors.

    Abstract: ... This paper presents a review of the latest advances in the field of capacitive, inductive (eddy current), and magnetic sensors, for measurement of absolute displacement. The need for accurate displacement and position measurement in the micrometer, nanometer, and subnanometer scales has increased significantly over the last few years. Application examples can be found in high-tech industries, metrology, and space equipment. Besides measuring displacement as a primary quantity, absolute displacement sensors are also used when physical quantities such as pressure, acceleration, vibration, inertia, etc., have to be measured. A better understanding of the commonalities between capacitive, inductive, and magnetic displacement sensors, as well as the main performance differences and limitations, will help one make the best choice for a specific application. This review is based on both theoretical analysis and experimental results. The main performance criteria used are: sensitivity, resolution, compactness, long-term stability, thermal drift, and power efficiency.

  1151. A Power-Efficient Readout for Wheatstone-Bridge Sensors With COTS Components
    H. Jiang; J. G. Vogel; S. Nihtianov;
    IEEE Sensors Journal,
    Volume 17, Issue 21, pp. 6986-6994, Nov 2017. DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2017.2755074
    Keywords: ... bridge circuits;convertors;differential amplifiers;microsensors;operational amplifiers;piezoresistive devices;pressure measurement;pressure sensors;readout electronics;sigma-delta modulation;COTS component;CTΔΣM;MEMS piezoresistive differential pressure sensor;Wheatstone-bridge sensor;direct digital converter;off-the-shelf component;operational amplifier;power 7.58 mW;power 9.55 mW;power-efficient readout;pressure 12.7 mPa;resistance 0.41 mohm;second-order continuous-time sigma-delta modulator;time 0.5 ms;voltage 5 V;Bridge circuits;Clocks;Energy efficiency;Modulation;Radio frequency;Sensors;Topology;Direct digital converter;bridge sensor readout;continuous-time sigma-delta modulator;mPa-level differential pressure sensing.

    Abstract: ... This paper presents a direct digital converter for Wheatstone bridge sensors, which is realized with commercial off-the-shelf components. The power efficiency of the readout is enhanced by embedding the bridge sensor in a second-order continuous-time sigma-delta modulator (CTDeltaSigmaM). By directly digitizing the output signal of a Wheatstone bridge in the current mode, the noise performance is dominated by the operational amplifier in the first integrator and the bridge sensor. To demonstrate the performance of the proposed circuit, an MEMS piezoresistive differential pressure sensor is used. Measurement results show that a resolution of 12.7 mParms (0.41 mOhmrms), with a 0.5-ms conversion time, can be achieved. Powered by 5 V, the circuit and the bridge sensor draw 9.55 and 7.58 mW, respectively.

  1152. Model-based image reconstruction for medical ultrasound
    P. Kruizinga; P. van der Meulen; F. Mastik; N. de Jong; J. G. Bosch; G. Leus;
    The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America,
    Volume 141, Issue 5, pp. 3610-3610, June 2017. DOI: 10.1121/1.4987733

  1153. Immediate Neighborhood Temperature Adaptive Routing for Dynamically Throttled 3-D Networks-on-Chip
    S. S. Kumar; A. Zjajo; R. van Leuken;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs,
    Volume 64, Issue 7, pp. 782-786, July 2017. ISSN 1549-7747. DOI: 10.1109/TCSII.2015.2503613
    document

  1154. Space-frequency coded orthogonal signal-division multiplexing over underwater acoustic channels
    Jing Han; Wentao Shi; G. Leus;
    The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America,
    Volume 141, Issue 6, pp. EL513-EL518, 2017. DOI: 10.1121/1.4983632
    document

  1155. Functionalizing a Tapered Microcavity as a Gas Cell for On-Chip Mid-Infrared Absorption Spectroscopy
    N. Pelin Ayerden; Julien Mandon; Frans J. M. Harren; Reinoud F. Wolffenbuttel;
    Sensors,
    Volume 17, Issue 9}, ARTICLE NUMBER = {204, 2017. DOI: 10.3390/s17092041
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  1156. Fabrication Tolerance Sensitivity in Large-Area Mid-Infrared Metamaterial Absorbers
    Mohammadamir Ghaderi; Ehsan Karimi; N. Pelin Ayerden; Reinoud F. Wolffenbuttel;
    Proceedings,
    Volume 1, Issue 4}, ARTICLE NUMBER = {328, 2017. DOI: 10.3390/proceedings1040328
    document

  1157. The Miniaturization of an Optical Absorption Spectrometer for Smart Sensing of Natural Gas
    N. P. Ayerden; R. F. Wolffenbuttel;
    IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics,
    Volume 64, Issue 12, pp. 9666 - 9674, 2017. DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2017.2719600
    Keywords: ... Absorption;Detectors;Mirrors;Optical device fabrication;Optical resonators;Optical sensors;Sensitivity;Gas sensor;microspectrometer;mid-IR;natural gas;optical absorption spectroscopy.

  1158. PDMS Microlenses for Optical Biopsy Microsystems
    J. F. Ribeiro; A. C. Costa; J. M. Gomes; C. G. Costa; S. Goncalves; R. F. Wolffenbuttel; H. Correia;
    IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics,
    Volume 64, Issue 12, pp. 9683 - 9690, 2017. DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2017.2716874
    Keywords: ... Biomedical optical imaging;Biopsy;Lenses;Light emitting diodes;Microoptics;Optical device fabrication;Optical imaging;Biomedical imaging;Microlens;Optic microsystem;Optical biopsy;Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS).

  1159. Graph Sampling for Covariance Estimation
    S. P. Chepuri; G. Leus;
    IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks,
    Volume 3, Issue 3, pp. 451-466, September 2017. DOI: 10.1109/TSIPN.2017.2731161
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  1160. Multi-Layer Precoding: A Potential Solution for Full-Dimensional Massive MIMO Systems
    A. Alkhateeb; G. Leus; R. W. Heath;
    IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications,
    Volume 16, Issue 9, pp. 5810-5824, September 2017. ISSN: 1536-1276. DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2017.2716362
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  1161. Détection des cibles mobiles par radar large bande non-ambigu
    François Le Chevalier; Nikita Petrov;
    La Revue de l’Electricité et de l’Electronique (REE, https://www.see.asso.fr/ree),
    Issue 5, pp. 2-15, 2017.
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  1162. An Intrinsically Linear Wideband Polar Digital Power Amplifier
    Mohsen Hashemi, Yiyu Shen, Mohammadreza Mehrpoo, Morteza S. Alavi, Leo C. N. de Vreede,;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 52, Issue 12, pp. 3312 – 3328., 2017.

  1163. A Complete Tool for Analyzing Mutual Couplings in Nonuniform Arrays of Rectangular Aperture Radiators
    Z. Wang; M. Simeoni; I. E. Lager;
    IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters,
    Volume 16, pp. 3192-3195, November 2017. DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2017.2768225
    document

  1164. An ultracompact 9.4–14.8-GHz transformer-based fractional-N all-digital PLL in 40-nm CMOS
    A. R. Ximenes, G. Vlachogiannakis,; R. B. Staszewski;
    IEEE Trans. on Microwave Theory and Techniques (TMTT),
    Volume 65, Issue 11, pp. 4241–4254, 2017. DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2017.2687901

  1165. A 3.5–6.8-GHz wide-bandwidth DTC-assisted fractional-N all-digital PLL with a MASH ΔΣ-TDC for low in-band phase noise
    Y. Wu, M. Shahmohammadi, Y. Chen, P. Lu,; R. B. Staszewski;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC),
    Volume 52, Issue 7, pp. 1885–1903, July 2017. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2017.2682841

  1166. Numerical model of an injection-locked wideband frequency modulator for polar transmitters
    I. Bashir, R. B. Staszewski,; P. Balsara;
    IEEE Trans. on Microwave Theory and Techniques (TMTT),,
    Volume 65, Issue 5, pp. 1914–1920, May 2017. DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2016.2634537

  1167. System design of a 2.75-mW discrete-time superheterodyne receiver for Bluetooth low energy
    S. Binsfeld Ferreira, F.-W. Kuo, M. Babaie, S. Bampi,; R. B. Staszewski,;
    IEEE Trans. on Microwave Theory and Techniques (TMTT,
    Volume 65, Issue 5, pp. 1904–1913, May 2017. DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2017.2668407

  1168. An ultra-low power 1.7-2.7 GHz fractional-N sub-sampling digital frequency synthesizer and modulator for IoT applications in 40 nm CMOS
    Y.-H. Liu, J. vd Heuvel, T. Kuramochi, B. Busze, P. Mateman, V. K. Chillara, B. Wang, R. B. Staszewski,; K. Philips;
    IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems I (TCAS-I),,
    Volume 64, Issue 5, pp. 1094–1105, May 2017. DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2016.2625462

  1169. Tuning range extension of a transformer-based oscillator through common-mode Colpitts resonance
    M. Shahmohammadi; M. Babaie; R. B. Staszewski;
    IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems I (TCAS-I),,
    Volume 64, Issue 4, pp. 836–846, April 2017. DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2016.2625199

  1170. A Bluetooth low-energy transceiver with 3.7-mW all-digital transmitter, 2.75-mW high-IF discrete-time receiver, and TX/RX switchable on-chip matching network
    F.-W. Kuo, S. Binsfeld Ferreira, H.-N. R. Chen, L.-C. Cho, C.-P. Jou, F.-L. Hsueh, I. Madadi, M. Tohidian, M. Shahmohammadi, M. Babaie,; R. B. Staszewski;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC),,
    Volume 52, Issue 4, pp. 1144–1162, April 2017. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2017.2654322

  1171. A fully integrated discrete-time superheterodyne receiver
    M. Tohidian, I. Madadi,; R. B. Staszewski;
    IEEE Trans. on VLSI Systems (TVLSI,
    Volume 25, Issue 2, pp. 635–647, Feb 2017. DOI: DOI: 10.1109/TVLSI.2016.2598857

  1172. A 0.5e-rms temporal noise CMOS image sensor with Gm-Cell-Based pixel and period-controlled variable conversion gain
    X. Ge; A.J.P. Theuwissen;
    IEEE transactions on electron devices,
    Volume 64, Issue 12, pp. 5019-5026, October 2017. DOI: 10.1109/TED.2017.2759787
    Abstract: ... A deep subelectron temporal noise CMOS image sensor (CIS) with a Gm-cell based pixel and a correlated-double charge-domain sampling technique has been developed for photon-starved imaging applications. With the proposed technique, the CIS, which is implemented in a standard 0.18-µm CIS process, features pixel level amplification and achieves an input-referred noise of 0.5 e−rms with a correlated double sampling period of 5 µs and a row read-out time of 10 µs. The proposed structure also realizes a variable conversion gain (CG) with a period controlled method. This enables the read-out path CG and the noise-equivalent number of electrons to be programmable according to the application without any change in hardware. The experiments show that the measured CG can be tuned from 50 µV/e- to 1.6 mV/e- with a charging period from 100 ns to 4 µs. The measured characteristics of the prototype CIS are in a good agreement with expectations, demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed techniques.

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  1173. Full characterisation of a background limited antenna coupled KID over an octave of bandwidth for THz radiation
    Bueno, J; Yurduseven, O; Yates, Stephen JC; Llombart, N; Murugesan, V; Thoen, DJ; Baryshev, AM; Neto, A; Baselmans, JJA;
    Applied Physics Letters,
    Volume 110, Issue 23, pp. 233503, 2017. DOI: 10.1063/1.4985060
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  1174. Surface wave control for large arrays of microwave kinetic inductance detectors
    Yates, Stephen JC; Baryshev, Andrey M; Yurduseven, Ozan; Bueno, Juan; Davis, Kristina K; Ferrari, Lorenza; Jellema, Willem; Llombart, Nuria; Murugesan, Vignesh; Thoen, David J;
    IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology,
    Volume 7, Issue 6, pp. 789-799, 2017.
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  1175. Performance of THz Components Based on Microstrip PECVD SiN x Technology
    Finkel, Matvey; Thierschmann, Holger; Galatro, Luca; Katan, Allard J; Thoen, David J; de Visser, Pieter J; Spirito, Marco; Klapwijk, Teun M;
    IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology,
    Volume 7, Issue 6, pp. 765-771, 2017.
    document

  1176. Experimentally simulating the dynamics of quantum light and matter at deep-strong coupling
    Langford, NK; Sagastizabal, R; Kounalakis, M; Dickel, C; Bruno, A; Luthi, F; Thoen, DJ; Endo, A; DiCarlo, L;
    Nature communications,
    Volume 8, Issue 1, pp. 1715, 2017.
    document

  1177. Design and manufacture of cosecant squared complementary reflectarrays for low-cost applications
    G. Carluccio; A. Mazzinghi; A. Freni;
    IEEE Transaction on Antenna and Propagation,
    Volume 65, Issue 10, pp. 5220-5227, Oct. 2017. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2017.2743743
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  1178. Flexible, general-purpose code based on the iterative physical optics algorithm - Analyzing electromagnetic scattering in electrically large scenarios
    L. Pandolfo; P. De Vita; M. Bandinelli; G. Carluccio; M. Albani;
    IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine,
    Volume 59, Issue 5, pp. 150-158, Oct. 2017. DOI: 10.1109/MAP.2017.2731210
    document

  1179. Finite temporal support pulses for EM excitation
    I. E. Lager; S. L. van Berkel;
    IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters,
    Volume 16, pp. 1659-1662, June 2017. DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2017.2662205
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  1180. A CMOS Readout Circuit for Resistive Transducers Based on Algorithmic Resistance and Power Measurement
    Z. Cai; L. Rueda Guerrero; A. Louwerse; H. Suy; R. van Veldhoven; K. Makinwa; M. Pertijs;
    IEEE Sensors Journal,
    Volume 17, Issue 23, pp. 7917-7927, December 2017. DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2017.2764161
    Abstract: ... This paper reports a readout circuit capable of accurately measuring not only the resistance of a resistive transducer, but also the power dissipated in it, which is a critical parameter in thermal flow sensors or thermal-conductivity sensors. A front-end circuit, integrated in a standard CMOS technology, sets the voltage drop across the transducer, and senses the resulting current via an on-chip reference resistor. The voltages across the transducer and the reference resistor are digitized by a time-multiplexed high-resolution analog-todigital converter (ADC) and post-processed to calculate resistance and power dissipation. To obtain accurate resistance and power readings, a voltage reference and a temperature-compensated reference resistor are required. An accurate voltage reference is constructed algorithmically, without relying on precision analog signal processing, by using the ADC to successively digitize the base–emitter voltages of an on-chip bipolar transistor biased at several different current levels, and then combining the results to obtain the equivalent of a precision curvature-corrected bandgap reference with a temperature coefficient of 18 ppm/°C, which is close to the state-of-the-art. We show that the same ADC readings can be used to determine die temperature, with an absolute inaccuracy of ±0.25 °C (5 samples, min–max) after a 1-point trim. This information is used to compensate for the temperature dependence of the on-chip polysilicon reference resistor, effectively providing a temperature-compensated resistance reference. With this approach, the resistance and power dissipation of a 100 transducer have been measured with an inaccuracy of less than ±0.55 and ±0.8\%, respectively, from −40 °C to 125 °C.

  1181. A CMOS Front-End with Integrated Magnetoresistive Sensors for Biomolecular Recognition Detection Applications
    Costa, T.; Cardoso, F.A.; Germano, J.; Freitas, P.P.; Piedade, M.S.;
    IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems,
    Volume 11, Issue 5, pp. 988-1000, 2017. DOI: 10.1109/TBCAS.2017.2743685

  1182. Radar and RGB-Depth Sensors for Fall Detection: A Review
    Cippitelli, Enea; Fioranelli, Francesco; Gambi, Ennio; Spinsante, Susanna;
    IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL,
    Volume 17, Issue 12, pp. 3585-3604, JUN 15 2017. DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2017.2697077

  1183. Simultaneous data collection of small maritime targets using multistatic radar and forward scatter radar
    Ritchie, Matthew; Fioranelli, Francesco; Woodbridge, Karl; Griffiths, Hugh; Daniel, Liam; De Luca, Alessandro; Hristov, Stanislav; Gashinova, Marina; Cherniakov, Mikhail;
    IET RADAR SONAR AND NAVIGATION,
    Volume 11, Issue 6, pp. 937-945, JUN 2017. DOI: 10.1049/iet-rsn.2016.0526

  1184. Feature Diversity for Optimized Human Micro-Doppler Classification Using Multistatic Radar
    Fioranelli, Francesco; Ritchie, Matthew; Gurbuz, Sevgi Zubeyde; Griffiths, Hugh;
    IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AEROSPACE AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS,
    Volume 53, Issue 2, pp. 640-654, APR 2017. DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2017.2651678

  1185. Practical investigation of multiband mono- and bistatic radar signatures of wind turbines
    Fioranelli, Francesco; Ritchie, Matthew; Balleri, Alessio; Griffiths, Hugh;
    IET RADAR SONAR AND NAVIGATION,
    Volume 11, Issue 6, pp. 909-921, JUN 2017. DOI: 10.1049/iet-rsn.2016.0503

  1186. Multistatic micro-Doppler radar feature extraction for classification of unloaded/loaded micro-drones
    Ritchie, Matthew; Fioranelli, Francesco; Borrion, Herve; Griffiths, Hugh;
    IET RADAR SONAR AND NAVIGATION,
    Volume 11, Issue 1, pp. 116-124, JAN 2017. DOI: 10.1049/iet-rsn.2016.0063

  1187. First-Principles Study of Nitric Oxide Sensor Based on Blue Phosphorus Monolayer
    HC Luo; RS Meng; H Gao; X Sun; J Xiao; HY Ye; GuoQi Zhang; XP Chen;
    IEEE Electron Device Letters,
    Volume 38, Issue 8, pp. 1139-1142, 2017.

  1188. Effect of droplet shrinking on surface acoustic wave response in microfluidic applications
    Thu Hang Bui; Van Nguyen; Sten Vollebregt; Bruno Morana; Henk van Zeijl; Trinh Chu Duc; P.M. Sarro;
    Applied Surface Science,
    Volume 426, pp. 253-261, 2017.
    document

  1189. Multi-domain spectroscopy for composition measurement of water-containing bio-ethanol fuel
    L.M. Middelburg; G. de Graaf; A. Bossche; J.Bastemeijer; M. Ghaderi; F.S. Wolffenbuttel; J. Visser; R. Soltis; R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    Fuel Processing Technology,
    Volume 167, pp. 127-135, 2017.

  1190. Effects of Graphene Monolayer Coating on the Optical Performance of Remote Phosphors
    Maryam Yazdan Mehr; S. Vollebregt; W. D. van Driel; GuoQi Zhang;
    Journal of Electronic Materials,
    Volume 46, Issue 10, pp. 5866--5872, 2017. DOI: 10.1007/s11664-017-5592-8
    Keywords: ... graphene, Light-emitting diode, reliability, remote phosphor.

  1191. Color shift acceleration on mid-power LED packages
    Guangjun Lu; Driel, W.D. van; Xuejun Fan; Jiajie Fan; Cheng Qian; GuoQi Zhang;
    Microelectronics Reliability,
    Volume 78, Issue Supplement C, pp. 294 -- 298, 11 2017. DOI: 10.1016/j.microrel.2017.09.014
    Keywords: ... Color shift, Mid-power LED package, Temperature stress, Current stress, Humidity stress.

  1192. Reliability and diffusion-controlled through thickness oxidation of optical materials in LED-based products
    Yazdan Mehr, M.; M.R. Toroghinejad; F. Karimzadeh; van Driel, W.D.; GuoQi Zhang;
    Microelectronics Reliability,
    Volume 78, pp. 143--147, 2017. DOI: 10.1016/j.microrel.2017.08.014
    Keywords: ... BPA-PC, LED-based products, Optics, Oxidation, Yellowing.

  1193. Microstructure, hardness, and shear behavior of the as-soldered SnBi–SAC composite solder pastes
    Y Liu; H Fu; H Zhang; F Sun; X Wang; GuoQi Zhang;
    Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics,
    Volume 28, Issue 24, pp. 19113-19120, 2017.

  1194. Overdriving reliability of chip scale packaged LEDs: Quantitatively analyzing the impact of component
    Hongyu Tang; H Ye; CKY Wong; SYY Leung; J Fan; X Chen; X Fan; GuoQi Zhang;
    Microelectronics Reliability,
    Volume 78, pp. 197-204, 2017.

  1195. Phosphor–silicone interaction effects in high power white light emitting diode packages
    J Fan; M Zhang; X Luo; C Qian; X Fan; A Ji; GuoQi Zhang;
    Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics,
    Volume 28, Issue 23, pp. 17557-17569, 2017.

  1196. Photometric and Colorimetric Assessment of LED Chip Scale Packages by Using a Step-Stress Accelerated Degradation Test (SSADT) Method
    C Qian; J Fan; J Fang; C Yu; Y Ren; X Fan; GuoQi Zhang;
    Materials,
    Volume 10, Issue 10, pp. 1181, 2017.

  1197. Liquid identification by using a micro-electro-mechanical interdigital transducer
    Thu Hang Bui; Bruno Morana; Atef Akhnoukh; Trinh Chu Duc; Pasqualina M Sarro;
    Analyst,
    Volume 142, Issue 5, pp. 763-771, 2017.

  1198. Effects of graphene defects on gas sensing properties towards NO2 detection
    Filiberto Ricciardella; Sten Vollebregt; Tiziana Polichetti; Mario Miscuglio; Brigida Alfano; Maria L. Miglietta; Ettore Massera; Girolamo Di Francia; Pasqualina M. Sarro;
    Nanoscale,
    Volume 9, pp. 6085-6093, 2017.
    document

  1199. Modeling nonlinear moisture diffusion in inhomogeneous media
    L Chen; J Zhou; H Chu; GuoQi Zhang; X Fan;
    Microelectronics Reliability,
    Volume 75, pp. 162-170, 2017.

  1200. CVD transfer-free graphene for sensing applications
    Chiara Schiattarella; Sten Vollebregt; Tiziana Polichetti; Brigida Alfano; Ettore Massera; Maria Lucia Miglietta; Girolamo Di Francia; Pasqualina Maria Sarro;
    Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology,
    Volume 8, pp. 1015-1022, 2017.
    document

  1201. Humidity sensor based on the ionic polymer metal composite
    E Esmaeli; M Ganjian; H Rastegar; M Kolahdouz; Z Kolahdouz; GuoQi Zhang;
    Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical,
    Volume 247, pp. 498-504, 2017.

  1202. Silicon-based multi-functional wafer-level-package for LEDs in 7-mask BiCMOS process
    Zahra Kolahdouz; T Ma; H Abdy; M Kolahdouz; H van Zeijl; GuoQi Zhang;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical,
    Volume 263, pp. 622-632, 2017.

  1203. Sensitive and Reversible Detection of Methanol and Water Vapor by In Situ Electrochemically Grown CuBTC MOFs on Interdigitated Electrodes
    Sumit Sachdeva; Manjunath R. Venkatesh; Brahim El Mansouri; Jia Wei; Andre Bossche; Freek Kapteijn; GuoQi Zhang; Jorge Gascon; Louis C. P. M. de Smet; Ernst J. R. Sudhölter;
    Small,
    Volume 13, Issue 29, pp. 1604150, 2017.

  1204. Hybrid plasmonics slot THz waveguide for subwavelength field confinement and crosstalk between two waveguides
    J Xiao; QQ Wei; DG Yang; P Zhang; N He; GuoQi Zhang; XP Chen;
    IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics,
    Volume 23, Issue 4, 2017.

  1205. Experimental Verification and Optimization Analysis of Warpage for Panel-Level Fan-Out Package
    Fengze Hou; T Lin; L Cao; F Liu; J Li; X Fan; GuoQi Zhang;
    IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology,
    Volume 7, Issue 10, pp. 1721-1728, 2017.

  1206. Nitrogen Dioxide Gas Sensor Based on Monolayer SnS: A First-Principle Study
    FF Hu; Hongyu Tang; CJ Tan; HY Ye; XP Chen; GuoQi Zhang;
    IEEE Electron Device Letters,
    Volume 38, Issue 7, pp. 983-986, 2017.

  1207. Thermal/luminescence characterization and degradation mechanism analysis on phosphor-converted white LED chip scale packages
    J Fan; C Yu; C Qian; X Fan; GuoQi Zhang;
    Microelectronics Reliability,
    Volume 74, pp. 179-185, 2017.

  1208. A Reliability Prediction for Integrated LED Lamp With Electrolytic Capacitor-Free Driver
    Bo Sun; X Fan; L Li; H Ye; W van Driel; GuoQi Zhang;
    IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging and Manufacturing Technology,
    Volume 7, Issue 7, pp. 1081-1088, 2017.

  1209. Studies of the light output properties for a GaN based blue LED using an electro-optical simulation method
    C Qian; Y Li; J Fan; X Fan; J Fu; L Zhao; GuoQi Zhang;
    Microelectronics Reliability,
    Volume 74, pp. 173-178, 2017.

  1210. Integrated virtual impactor enabled PM 2.5 sensor
    Mingzhi Dong; E Iervolino; F Santagata; G Zhang; GuoQi Zhang;
    IEEE Sensors Journal,
    Volume 17, Issue 9, pp. 2814-2821, 2017.

  1211. A novel lifetime prediction for integrated LED lamps by electronic-thermal simulation
    Bo Sun; X Fan; H Ye; J Fan; C Qian; W van Driel; GuoQi Zhang;
    Reliability Engineering & System Safety,
    Volume 163, pp. 14-21, 2017.

  1212. Sulfur Dioxide and Nitrogen Dioxide Gas Sensor Based on Arsenene: A First-Principle Study
    XP Chen; LM Wang; X Sun; RS Meng; J Xiao; HY Ye; GuoQi Zhang;
    IEEE Electron Device Letters,
    Volume 38, Issue 5, pp. 661-664, 2017.

  1213. Color shift modeling of light-emitting diode lamps in step-loaded stress testing
    M Cai; D Yang; J Huang; M Zhang; X Chen; C Liang; S Koh; GuoQi Zhang;
    IEEE Photonics Journal,
    Volume 9, Issue 1, pp. 1-14, 2017.

  1214. Monolithically integrated light feedback control circuit for blue/UV LED smart package
    Zahra K Esfahani; M Tohidian; H van Zeijl; M Kolahdouz; GuoQi Zhang;
    IEEE Photonics Journal,
    Volume 9, Issue 2, pp. 1-13, 2017.

  1215. Identification and robust control of the nonlinear photoelectrothermal dynamics of LED systems
    J Dong; GuoQi Zhang;
    IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics,
    Volume 64, Issue 3, pp. 2215-2225, 2017.

  1216. Prediction of lumen depreciation and color shift for phosphor-converted white light-emitting diodes based on a spectral power distribution analysis method
    C Qian; J Fan; X Fan; GuoQi Zhang;
    IEEE Access,
    Volume 5, pp. 24054-24061, 2017.

  1217. Color shift failure prediction for phosphor-converted white LEDs by modeling features of spectral power distribution with a nonlinear filter approach
    J Fan; MG Mohamed; C Qian; X Fan; GuoQi Zhang; M Pecht;
    Materials 10,
    Volume 7, pp. 819, 2017.

  1218. Numerical Thermal Analysis and Optimization of Multi-Chip LED Module Using Response Surface Methodology and Genetic Algorithm
    Hongy Tang; HY Ye; XP Chen; C Qian; XJ Fan; GuoQi Zhang;
    IEEE Access,
    Volume 5, Issue 5, pp. 16459-16468, 2017.

  1219. 60 GHz wideband class E/F 2 power amplifier
    Babaie, Masoud; Staszewski, Robert Bogdan;
    2017.

  1220. A Bluetooth low-energy transceiver with 3.7-mW all-digital transmitter, 2.75-mW high-IF discrete-time receiver, and TX/RX switchable on-chip matching network
    Kuo, Feng-Wei; Ferreira, Sandro Binsfeld; Chen, Huan-Neng Ron; Cho, Lan-Chou; Jou, Chewn-Pu; Hsueh, Fu-Lung; Madadi, Iman; Tohidian, Massoud; Shahmohammadi, Mina; Babaie, Masoud; others;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 52, Issue 4, pp. 1144--1162, 2017.

  1221. System design of a 2.75-mW discrete-time superheterodyne receiver for Bluetooth low energy
    Ferreira, Sandro Binsfeld; Kuo, Feng-Wei; Babaie, Masoud; Bampi, Sergio; Staszewski, Robert Bogdan;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 65, Issue 5, pp. 1904--1913, 2017.

  1222. Efficiency Optimization of Spherical Reflectors by Feed Position Adjustment
    M. Alonso-delPino; P. F. Goldsmith; C. Elmaleh; T. Reck; and G. Chattopadhyay;
    IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters,
    Volume 16, pp. 2856-2868, 2017.
    document

  1223. Development of Silicon Micromachined Microlens Antennas at 1.9 THz
    M. Alonso-delPino; T. Reck; C. Jung-Kubiak; C. Lee; G. Chattopadhyay;
    IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology,
    Volume 7, Issue 2, pp. 191-198, March 2017.
    document

  1224. A Planar Near-Field Setup for Millimeter-Wave System-Embedded Antenna Testing
    M. Alonso-delPino; M. d. Rosa; M. Simeoni; M. Spella; C. De Martino; M. Spirito;
    IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters,
    Volume 16, pp. 83-86, 2017.
    document

  1225. Superconducting NbTin Thin Films With Highly Uniform Properties Over a ∅ 100 mm Wafer
    D.J. Thoen; B.G.C. Bos; E.A.F. Haalebos; T.M. Klapwijk; J.J.A. Baselmans; A. Endo;
    IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity,
    Volume 27, Issue 4, June 2017. DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2016.2631948

  1226. High-Resolution Time-Interleaved Eight-Channel ADC for Li-Ion Battery Stacks
    D.G. Muratore; E. Bonizzoni; S. Verri; F. Maloberti;
    IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Express Briefs,
    pp. 620-624, June 2017. DOI: 10.1109/TCSII.2016.2597358
    document

  1227. An Intrinsically Linear Wideband Polar Digital Power Amplifier
    Hashemi, Mohsen; Shen, Yiyu; Mehrpoo, Mohammadreza; Alavi, Morteza S.; de Vreede, Leo C. N.;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 52, Issue 12, pp. 3312-3328, 2017. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2017.2737647

  1228. A Review of Urban Air Pollution Monitoring and Exposure Assessment Methods
    Xie, Xingzhe; Semanjski, Ivana; Gautama, Sidharta; Tsiligianni, Evaggelia; Deligiannis, Nikos; Rajan, Raj; Pasveer, Frank; Philips, Wilfried;
    ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information,
    Volume 6, Issue 12, pp. 389, Dec 2017. DOI: 10.3390/ijgi6120389
    document

  1229. Blind separation of partially overlapping data packets
    Mu Zhou; A.J. van der Veen;
    Digital Signal Processing,
    Volume 68, pp. 154-166, September 2017. [Considers blind separation of AIS signals]. DOI: 10.1016/j.dsp.2017.06.009
    document • software
    Matlab code: http://sps.ewi.tudelft.nl/data/allejan/ais.zip

  1230. An Efficient Methodology for the Analysis of Dielectric Shimming Materials in Magnetic Resonance Imaging
    J. Van Gemert; W. Brink; A. Webb; R. Remis;
    IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging,
    Volume 36, Issue 2, pp. 666-673, February 2017. ISSN 0278-0062. DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2016.2624507
    document

  1231. B1-based SAR reconstruction using contrast source inversion–electric properties tomography (CSI-EPT)
    E. Balidemaj; C.A.T. van den Berg; A.L. van Lier; A.J. Nederveen; L. J. A. Stalpers; H. Crezee; R. F. Remis;
    Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing,
    Volume 55, Issue 2, pp. 225, February 2017. ISSN 0140-0118. DOI: 10.1007/s11517-016-1497-6
    document

  1232. Inverter-based low-power delta\textendashsigma modulator using correlated level shifting technique
    H. Zhang; Z. Tan; K. Nguyen;
    Electronics Letters,
    Volume 53, Issue 25, pp. 1663--1665, December 2017. DOI: 10.1049/el.2017.3593
    document

  1233. Inverter-based low-power delta\textendashsigma modulator using correlated level shifting technique
    H. Zhang; Z. Tan; K. Nguyen;
    Electronics Letters,
    Volume 53, Issue 25, pp. 1663--1665, December 2017. DOI: 10.1049/el.2017.3593
    document

  1234. 2017 Index IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems Vol. 11
    Abarbanel, HDI; Abbott, D; Abdelhalim, K; Adamantidis, A; Ahmad, IL; Ahmad, MR; Ahmadi, A; Akhter, M; Akinin, A; Alharbi, A; others;
    IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems,
    Volume 11, Issue 6, pp. 1501, 2017.

  1235. A CMOS front-end with integrated magnetoresistive sensors for biomolecular recognition detection applications
    Costa, Tiago; Cardoso, Filipe Arroyo; Germano, José; Freitas, Paulo P; Piedade, Mois{\'e}s S;
    IEEE transactions on biomedical circuits and systems,
    Volume 11, Issue 5, pp. 988-1000, 2017.

  1236. Lab-on-chip devices: gaining ground losing size
    Romao, Veronica C; Martins, Sofia AM; Germano, Jose; Cardoso, Filipe Arroyo; Cardoso, Susana; Freitas, Paulo P;
    ACS nano,
    Volume 11, Issue 11, pp. 10659-10664, 2017.

  1237. In Vivo Single Cell Analysis Reveals Gata2 Dynamics in Cells Transitioning to Hematopoietic Fate
    Christina Eich; Jochen Arlt; Chris S. Vink; Parham Solaimani Kartalaei; Polynikis Kaimakis; Samanta A. Mariani; Reinier van der Linden; Wiggert A. van Cappellen; Elaine Dzierzak;
    Journal of Experimental Medicine,
    Volume 215, Issue 1, pp. 233--248, December 2017. DOI: 10.1084/jem.20170807
    document

  1238. A CMOS Readout Circuit for Resistive Transducers Based on Algorithmic Resistance and Power Measurement
    Z. Cai; L. Rueda Guerrero; A. Louwerse; H. Suy; R. van Veldhoven; K. Makinwa; M. Pertijs;
    IEEE Sensors Journal,
    Volume 17, Issue 23, pp. 7917-7927, December 2017. DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2017.2764161
    Abstract: ... This paper reports a readout circuit capable of accurately measuring not only the resistance of a resistive transducer, but also the power dissipated in it, which is a critical parameter in thermal flow sensors or thermal-conductivity sensors. A front-end circuit, integrated in a standard CMOS technology, sets the voltage drop across the transducer, and senses the resulting current via an on-chip reference resistor. The voltages across the transducer and the reference resistor are digitized by a time-multiplexed high-resolution analog-todigital converter (ADC) and post-processed to calculate resistance and power dissipation. To obtain accurate resistance and power readings, a voltage reference and a temperature-compensated reference resistor are required. An accurate voltage reference is constructed algorithmically, without relying on precision analog signal processing, by using the ADC to successively digitize the base–emitter voltages of an on-chip bipolar transistor biased at several different current levels, and then combining the results to obtain the equivalent of a precision curvature-corrected bandgap reference with a temperature coefficient of 18 ppm/°C, which is close to the state-of-the-art. We show that the same ADC readings can be used to determine die temperature, with an absolute inaccuracy of ±0.25 °C (5 samples, min–max) after a 1-point trim. This information is used to compensate for the temperature dependence of the on-chip polysilicon reference resistor, effectively providing a temperature-compensated resistance reference. With this approach, the resistance and power dissipation of a 100 transducer have been measured with an inaccuracy of less than ±0.55 and ±0.8\%, respectively, from −40 °C to 125 °C.

  1239. A Hybrid Multi-Path CMOS Magnetic Sensor with 76 ppm/˚C Sensitivity Drift and Discrete-Time Ripple Reduction Loops
    J. Jiang; K.A.A. Makinwa;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 52, Issue 7, pp. 1876 - 1884, 7 2017. DOI: 10.1109/jssc.2017.2685462

  1240. Active Electrodes for Wearable EEG Acquisition: Review and Design Methodology
    J. Xu; S. Mitra; C. Van Hoof; R. Yazicioglu; K.A.A Makinwa;
    IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering,
    Volume PP, pp. 1-1, 2017. DOI: 10.1109/RBME.2017.2656388

  1241. A Dynamic Zoom ADC with 109-dB DR for Audio Applications
    B. Gonen; F. Sebastiano; K. Makinwa;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 52, Issue 6, pp. 1542-1550, 6 2017. DOI: 10.1109/jssc.2017.2669022

  1242. Analysis and Design of VCO-Based Phase-Domain ΣΔ Modulators
    U. Sonmez; F. Sebastiano; K. Makinwa;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I,
    Volume 64, Issue 5, pp. 1075-1084, 5 2017. DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2016.2638827

  1243. A BJT-based Temperature-to-Digital Converter with ±60mK (3σ) Inaccuracy from −55°C to +125°C in 0.16μm Standard CMOS
    B. Yousefzadeh; S.H. Shalmany; K. Makinwa;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 52, Issue 4, pp. 1044-1052, 4 2017. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2016.2638464

  1244. A Low-Power Microcontroller in a 40-nm CMOS Using Charge Recycling
    K. Blutman; A. Kapoor; A. Majumdar; J.G. Martinez; L. Sevat; A.P. van der Wel; H. Fatemi; K.A.A. Makinwa; J.P. de Gyvez;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 52, Issue 4, pp. 950-960, 1 2017. DOI: 10.1109/jssc.2016.2637003

  1245. A ±36A Integrated Current-Sensing System with 0.3% Gain Error and 400μA Offset from −55°C to +85°C
    S.H. Shalmany; D. Draxelmayr; K.A.A. Makinwa;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 52, Issue 4, pp. 1034-1043, 4 2017. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2016.2639535

  1246. Compact Thermal-Diffusivity-Based Temperature Sensors in 40-nm CMOS for SoC Thermal Monitoring
    U. Sonmez; F. Sebastiano; K. Makinwa;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 52, Issue 3, pp. 834-843, March 2017. DOI: 10.1109/jssc.2016.2646798

  1247. An accurate BJT-based CMOS temperature sensor with Duty-Cycle-Modulated output
    G. Wang; A. Heidari; K.A.A. Makinwa; G.C.M. Meijer;
    IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics,
    Volume 64, Issue 2, pp. 1572-1580, 2 2017. DOI: 10.1109/tie.2016.2614273

  1248. Multipath Wide-Bandwidth CMOS Magnetic Sensors
    J. Jiang; K.A.A. Makinwa;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 52, Issue 1, pp. 198-209, 1 2017. DOI: 10.1109/jssc.2016.2619711

  1249. Temperature dependence of the energy barrier and switching field of sub-micron magnetic islands with perpendicular anisotropy
    Vries, Jeroen De; Bolhuis, Thijs; Abelmann, Leon;
    New Journal of Physics,
    Volume 19, Issue 9, 2017. All Open Access, Gold Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/aa8082
    Keywords: ... Anisotropy; Chemical activation; Energy barriers; Extrapolation; Magnetic materials; Magnetism; Temperature distribution; Anomalous hall effects; Magnetic elements; Magnetic reversal; Perpendicular anisotropy; Switching field distribution; Temperature dependence; Temperature dependent; Temperature-dependent measurements; Switching.

    Abstract: ... Using the highly sensitive anomalous Hall effect we have been able to measure the reversal of a single magnetic island, of diameter 220 nm, in an array consisting of more than 80 of those islands. By repeatedly traversing the hysteresis loop, we measured the thermally induced fluctuation of the switching field of the islands at the lower and higher ends of the switching field distribution. Based on a novel easy-to-use model, we determined the switching field in the absence of thermal activation, and the energy barrier in the absence of an external field from these fluctuations. By measuring the reversal of individual dots in the array as a function of temperature, we extrapolated the switching field and energy barrier down to 0 K. The extrapolated values are not identical to those obtained from the fluctation of the switching field at room temperature, because the properties of the magnetic material are temperature dependent. As a result, extrapolating from temperature dependent measurements overestimates the energy barrier by more than a factor of two. To determine fundamental parameters of the energy barrier between magnetisation states, measuring the fluctuation of the reversal field at the temperature of application is therefore to be preferred. This is of primary importance to applications in data storagea and magnetic logic. For instance in fast switching, where the switching field in the absence of thermal activation plays a major role, or in long term data stability, which is determined by the energy barrier in the absence of an external field. © 2017 IOP Publishing Ltd and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft.

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  1250. A Fast Method for High-Resolution Voiced/Unvoiced Detection and Glottal Closure/Opening Instant Estimation of Speech
    A.I. Koutrouvelis; G.P. Kafentzis; N.D. Gaubitch; R. Heusdens;
    IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech and Language Processing,
    Volume 24, Issue 2, pp. 316-328, February 2016. Matlab code available from Xplore. DOI: 10.1109/TASLP.2015.2506263
    document • software

  1251. A High-Speed and Power-Efficient Voltage Level Shifter for Dual-Supply Applications
    Hosseini, S.R.; Saberi, M.; Lotfi, R.;
    IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems,
    2016.
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  1252. Nonuniformity Analysis of a 65-kpixel CMOS SPAD Imager
    I.M. Antolovic; S. Burri; C. Bruschini; R. Hoebe; E. Charbon;
    IEEE Tr. Electron Devices,
    Volume 63, Issue 1, pp. 57-64, January 2016. DOI: 10.1109/TED.2015.2458295
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  1253. An Autonomous Wireless Sensor Node With Asynchronous ECG Monitoring in 0.18 um CMOS
    Andre L. Mansano; Yongjia Li; Wouter A. Serdijn;
    IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems,
    2016.
    document

  1254. Development of sub-micron broadband lens-coupled LEKIDs for sub-mm astronomy
    A. Gomez; P. Prieto; J. Bueno; S. Doyle; P. Barry; A. Bideaud; N. Llombart; D. Granados; J. L. Costa-Kramer; J. Martin-Pintado; J. J. A. Baselmans;
    Low Temp. Phys.,
    Feb. 2016. 10.1007/s10909-016-1517-9.
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  1255. Linearisation scheme for large kinetic inductance detector arrays based on readout frequency response
    L. Bisigello; S.J.C. Yates; V. Murugesan; J.J.A. Baselmans; A.M. Baryshev;
    Low Temp. Phys.,
    "accepted" 2016.

  1256. Multiplexed readout for 1000-pixel arrays of microwave kinetic inductance detectors
    J. van Rantwijk; M. Grim; D. van Loon; S. Yates; A. Baryshev; J. Baselmans;
    IEEE Trans. on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    April 2016. 10.1109/TMTT.2016.2544303.
    document

  1257. Characterization of a dual-polarized connected-dipole array for Ku-band mobile terminals
    R. J. Bolt; D. Cavallo; G. Gerini; D. Deurloo; R. Grooters; A. Neto; G.Toso;
    IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag.,
    Volume 64, Issue 2, pp. 591-598, Feb. 2016. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2015.2509505

  1258. Sparsity-Based Optimization of the Sensors Positions in Radar Networks with Separated Transmit and Receive Nodes
    I. M. Ivashko; O. A. Krasnov; A. G. Yarovoy;
    International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks,
    Volume 2016, Issue Article ID 9437602, pp. 1-10, 2016. DOI: 10.1155/2016/9437602
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  1259. Multistage Complex-Impedance Matching Network Analysis and Optimization
    Gustavo Campos Martins; Wouter Serdijn;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs,
    2016. DOI: 10.1109/TCSII.2016.2534738.
    document

  1260. Spatial Filtering of RF Interference in Radio Astronomy Using a Reference Antenna Array
    A.M. Sardarabadi; A.J. van der Veen; A.J. Boonstra;
    IEEE Tr. Signal Processing,
    Volume 64, Issue 2, pp. 432-447, January 2016. DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2015.2483481
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  1261. Advanced flooding-based routing protocols for underwater sensor networks
    E. Isufi; H. Dol; G. Leus;
    EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing,
    Volume 2016:52, Issue 1, pp. 1-12, January 2016. DOI: 10.1186/s13634-016-0346-y
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  1262. Compressive Covariance Sensing: Structure-based compressive sensing beyond sparsity
    D. Romero; D.D. Ariananda; Zhi Tian; G. Leus;
    IEEE Signal Processing Magazine,
    Volume 33, Issue 1, pp. 78-93, January 2016. DOI: 10.1109/MSP.2015.2486805
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  1263. Direct target localization with an active radar network
    Jonathan Bosse; Oleg Krasnov; Alexander Yarovoy;
    Signal Processing,
    Volume 125, Issue C, pp. 21-35, August 2016.
    document

  1264. Dynamic rainfall monitoring using microwave links
    V. Roy; S. Gishkori; G. Leus;
    EURASIP J. Adv. Signal Processing,
    pp. 1-17, 2016. DOI: 10.1186/s13634-016-0367-6
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  1265. Spatio-temporal sensor management for environmental field estimation
    V. Roy; A. Simonetto; G. Leus;
    Signal Processing,
    Volume 128, pp. 369-381, November 2016. DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2016.05.011
    document

  1266. A 60 GHz 5-bit digital controlled phase shifter in a digital 40-nm CMOS technology without ultra-thick metals
    Hao Gao; Kuangyuan Ying; Marion Matters-Kammerer; Pieter Harpe; Bindi Wang; Bo Liu; Wouter Serdijn; Peter Baltus;
    Electronics Letters,
    August 12 2016. DOI: 10.1049/el.2016.0949 , Print ISSN 0013-5194, Online ISSN 1350-911X Available online: 12 August 2016.
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  1267. Assessment of the rain drop inertia effect for radar-based turbulence intensity retrievals
    OudeNijhuis,Albert C.P.; Yanovsky,Felix J.; Krasnov,Oleg; Unal,Christine M.H.; Russchenberg,Herman W.J.; Yarovoy,Alexander;
    International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies,
    Issue 8, pp. 1-10, 2016.
    document

  1268. A dual-polarized leaky lens antenna for wideband focal plane arrays
    O. Yurduseven; N. Llombart; A. Neto;
    IEEE Transaction on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 64, Issue 8, pp. 3330-3337, Aug. 2016. 10.1109/TAP.2016.2574903.
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  1269. Radiation of logarithmic spiral antennas in the presence of dense dielectric lenses
    A. Garufo; N. Llombart; A. Neto;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 64, Issue 10, October 2016. 10.1109/TAP.2016.2593744.
    document

  1270. Leaky-wave thinned phased array in PCB technology for telecommunication applications
    D. Blanco; E. Rajo-Iglesias; A. Montesano; N. Llombart;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 64, Issue 10, pp. 4288-4296, Oct 2016. 10.1109/TAP.2016.2597642.
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  1271. A Quasi-Analytical Tool for the Characterization of Transmission Lines at High Frequencies
    S. van Berkel; A. Garufo; N. Llombart; Andrea Neto;
    IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine,
    Volume 58, Issue 3, pp. 82-90, Jun. 2016. 10.1109/MAP.2016.2541617.
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  1272. Micro thermal conductivity detector with flow compensation using a dual MEMS device
    G. de Graaf; A.A. Prouza; M. Ghaderi; R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical,
    Volume 249, pp. 186-198, 2016.

  1273. A miniaturized optical gas-composition sensor with integrated sample chamber
    Ayerden, N. Pelin; Ghaderi, Mohammadamir; Enoksson, Peter; de Graaf, Ger; Wolffenbuttel, Reinoud F.;
    Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical,
    Volume 236, pp. 917-925, 2016.

  1274. Thermal annealing of thin PECVD silicon-oxide films for airgap-based optical filters
    M. Ghaderi; G. de Graaf; R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering,
    Volume 26, Issue 8, pp. 084009, 2016.

  1275. A 45° saw-dicing process applied to a glass substrate for wafer-level optical splitter fabrication for optical coherence tomography
    M.J. Maciel; C.G. Costa; M.F. Silva; S.B. Gonçalves; A.C. Peixoto; A.F Ribeiro; R.F. Wolffenbuttel; J.H. Correia;
    Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering,
    Volume 26, Issue 8, pp. 084001, 2016.

  1276. Compact gas cell integrated with a linear variable optical filter
    N.P. Ayerden; G. de Graaf; R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    Optics Express,
    Volume 24, Issue 3, pp. 2981-3002, 2016.

  1277. A wafer-level miniaturized Michelson interferometer on glass substrate for optical coherence tomography applications
    M.J. Maciel; C.G. Costa; M.F. Silva; A.C. Peixoto; R.F. Wolffenbuttel; J.H. Correia;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical,
    Volume 242, pp. 210-216, 2016.

  1278. Medical apps in need of optical microspectrometers
    R.F. Wolffenbuttel; T.M. Hosli Wolffenbuttel;
    Microsystem Technologies,
    Volume 22, Issue 7, pp. 1549-1555, 2016.

  1279. Optical microsystem design and fabrication for medical image magnification
    C.G. Costa; J.M. Gomes; R.F. Wolffenbuttel; J.H. Correia;
    Microsystem Technologies,
    Volume 22, Issue 7, pp. 1747-1755, 2016.

  1280. NBI Optical Filters in Minimally Invasive Medical Devices
    M.F. Silva; J.A. Rodrigues; M. Ghaderi; L.M. Goncalves; G. de Graaf; R.F. Wolffenbuttel; J.H. Correia;
    IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics,
    Volume 22, Issue 4, pp. 1-7, 2016.

  1281. An Improved-Accuracy Approach for Readout of Large-Array Resistive Sensors
    Yarahmadi, R.; Safarpour, A.; Lotfi, R.;
    IEEE Sensors Journal,
    Volume 16, Issue 1, pp. 210-215, 2016.
    document

  1282. Towards a wearable near infrared spectroscopic probe for monitoring concentrations of multiple chromophores in biological tissue in vivo
    Danial Chitnis; Dimitrios Airantzis; David Highton; Rhys Williams; Phong Phan; Vasiliki Giagka; Samuel Powell; Robert J Cooper; Ilias Tachtsidis; Martin Smith; Clare E Elwell; Jeremy C Hebden; Nicholas Everdell;
    Review of Scientific Instruments,
    Volume 87, Issue 6, pp. 065112, June 1 2016. Publisher: AIP Publishing.
    document

  1283. Resilient chip multiprocessors with mixed-grained reconfigurability
    Sourdis, I., Khan, D.A., Malek, A., Tzilis, S., Smaragdos, G.; Strydis, C.;
    IEEE Micro,
    Volume 36, Issue 1, pp. 35-45, 2016.
    document

  1284. The VINEYARD approach: Versatile, integrated, accelerator-based, heterogeneous data centres
    Kachris, C., Soudris, D., Gaydadjiev, G., Nguyen, H.-N., Nikolopoulos, D.S., Bilas, A., Morgan, N.; Strydis, C.; Tsalidis, C., Balafas, J., Jimenez-Peris, R., Almeida, A.;
    Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics),
    Volume 9625, pp. 3-13, 2016.
    document

  1285. Simple transmit diversity technique for phased array radar
    G. Babur; P. Aubry; François Le Chevalier;
    IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation,
    Volume 10, Issue 6, pp. 1046-1056, 2016.
    document

  1286. Out-of-Band Immunity to Interference of Single-Ended Baseband Amplifiers Through IM2 Cancellation
    Emil Totev; Cong Huang; Leo C. N. de Vreede; John R. Long; Wouter A. Serdijn; Chris Verhoeven;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers,
    Volume 63, Issue 11, pp. 1785 - 1793, November 2016. DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2016.2593341.
    document

  1287. A Lanczos model-order reduction technique to efficiently simulate electromagnetic wave propagation in dispersive media
    J. Zimmerling; Lei Wei; P. Urbach; R.F. Remis;
    Journal of Computational Physics,
    Volume 315, pp. 348-362, 2016. ISSN 0021-9991. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2016.03.057
    document

  1288. Efficient computation of the spontaneous decay rate of arbitrarily shaped 3D nanosized resonators: a Krylov model-order reduction approach
    J. Zimmerling; Lei Wei; P. Urbach; R.F. Remis;
    Applied Physics A,
    Volume 122, Issue 3, pp. 158, 2016. ISSN 1432-0630. DOI: 10.1007/s00339-016-9643-4
    document

  1289. Comments on 'Cooperative Density Estimation in Random Wireless Ad Hoc Networks'
    Yongchang Hu;
    IEEE Comm. Letters,
    Volume 20, Issue 4, pp. 832-835, April 2016. DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2016.2532881
    document

  1290. A Class of Prediction-Correction Methods for Time-Varying Convex Optimization
    A. Simonetto; A. Mokhtari; Alec Koppel; G. Leus; A. Ribeiro;
    IEEE Tr. Signal Proc.,
    Volume 64, Issue 17, pp. 4576-4591, September 2016. DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2016.2568161
    document

  1291. Primal Recovery from Consensus-Based Dual Decomposition for Distributed Convex Optimization
    A. Simonetto; H. Jamali-Rad;
    J. Optim. Theory Appl.,
    Volume 168, pp. 172-197, 2016. DOI: 10.1007/s10957-015-0758-0
    document

  1292. Power-Efficiency of Signal Processing Circuits in Implantable Multichannel Brain-Machine Interface
    A. Zjajo;
    Journal of Low Power Electronics,
    Volume 12, Issue 4, pp. 342-351, 2016.
    document

  1293. Space-time and space-frequency block coded vector OFDM modulation
    Jing Han; G. Leus;
    IEEE Communication Letters,
    Volume PP, Issue 99, pp. 1-1, October 2016. DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2016.2614812
    document

  1294. Sparse Sensing for Distributed Detection
    S.P. Chepuri; G. Leus;
    IEEE Tr. Signal Proc.,
    Volume 64, Issue 6, pp. 1446-1460, March 2016. DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2015.2491890
    document

  1295. Doppler-Resilient Orthogonal Signal-Division Multiplexing for Underwater Acoustic Communication
    T. Ebihara; G. Leus;
    IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering,
    Volume 41, Issue 2, pp. 408-427, 2016. DOI: 10.1109/JOE.2015.2454411
    document

  1296. Partial FFT Demodulation for MIMO-OFDM Over Time-Varying Underwater Acoustic Channels
    Jing Han; Lingling Zhang; G. Leus;
    IEEE Signal Processing Letters,
    Volume 23, Issue 2, pp. 282-286, February 2016. DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2015.2514059
    document

  1297. Robust Censoring Using Metropolis-Hastings Sampling
    G. Kail; S.P. Chepuri; G. Leus;
    IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing,
    Volume 10, Issue 2, pp. 270-283, March 2016. DOI: 10.1109/JSTSP.2015.2506142
    document

  1298. Sampling of Graph Signals with Successive Local Aggregations
    A. Marques; S. Segarra; G. Leus; A. Ribeiro;
    IEEE Transaction on Signal Processing,
    Volume 64, Issue 7, pp. 1832-1843, 2016. DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2015.2507546
    document

  1299. Harbor trial of underwater acoustic communication using Doppler-resilient orthogonal signal division multiplexing
    T. Ebihara; G. Leus; H. Ogasawara;
    The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America,
    Volume 140, Issue 4, pp. 3229-3230, 2016. DOI: 10.1121/1.4970207

  1300. Reconstruction of Graph Signals Through Percolation from Seeding Nodes
    S. Segarra; A. G. Marques; G. Leus; A. Ribeiro;
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing,
    Volume 64, Issue 16, pp. 4363--4378, August 2016. DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2016.2552510
    document

  1301. Sensor Selection for Estimation with Correlated Measurement Noise
    S. Liu; S. P. Chepuri; M. Fardad; E. Masazade; G. Leus; P.K. Varshney;
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing,
    Volume 64, Issue 13, pp. 3509--3522, July 2016. DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2016.2550005
    document

  1302. Fast imaging method for security systems using ultrawideband radar
    Takuya Sakamoto; T Sato; Pascal Aubry; Olexander Yarovyi;
    IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems,
    Volume 52, Issue 2, 5 2016.

  1303. Wideband Fully-Programmable Dual-Mode CMOS Analogue Front-End for Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy
    Valente, Virgilio; Demosthenous, Andreas;
    Sensors,
    Volume 16, Issue 8, pp. 1159, July 2016. DOI: 10.3390/s16081159
    document

  1304. Frequency Splitting Analysis and Compensation Method for Inductive Wireless Powering of Implantable Biosensors
    Schormans, Matthew; Valente, Virgilio; Demosthenous, Andreas;
    Sensors,
    Volume 16, Issue 8, pp. 1229, August 2016. DOI: 10.3390/s16081229
    document

  1305. Prof. R. Bogdan Staszewski Gives Short Course on All-Digital Phase-Locked Loops at SSCS Chengdu Chapter [Chapters]
    Y. Zhan;
    IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine,
    Volume 8, Issue 4, pp. 97-98, Fall 2016.

  1306. An Ultra-Low Power 1.7-2.7 GHz Fractional-N Sub-Sampling Digital Frequency Synthesizer and Modulator for IoT Applications in 40 nm CMOS
    Y. H. Liu; J. van den Heuvel; T. Kuramochi; B. Busze; P. Mateman; V. K. Chillara; B. Wang; R. B. Staszewski; K. Philips;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers,
    Volume PP, Issue 99, pp. 1-12, 2016.

  1307. A charge transfer model for CMOS image sensors
    H. Liqiang; S. Yao; A.J.P. Theuwissen;
    IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices,
    Volume 63, Issue 1, pp. 32-41, 2016.

  1308. A ±5A Integrated Current-Sensing System with ±0.3% Gain Error and 16μA Offset from −55°C to +85°C
    S.H. Shalmany; D. Draxelmayr; K.A.A. Makinwa;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 51, Issue 4, pp. 800-808, 2016. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2015.2511168

  1309. A thin-film silicon/silicon hetero-junction hybrid solar cell for photoelectrochemical water-reduction applications
    R.A. Vasudevan; Z. Thanawala; L. Han; T. Buijse; D. Deligiannis; P. Perez Rodriguez; I.A. Digdaya; W.A. Smith; M. Zeman; A.H.M. Smets;
    Solar Energy Materials \& Solar Cells,
    Volume 150, Issue June, pp. 82-87, 2016.

  1310. Lateral gas phase diffusion length of boron atoms over Si/B surfaces during CVD of pure boron layers
    V. Mohammadi; S. Nihtianov;
    AIP Advances,
    Volume 6, Issue 2, pp. 025103, 2016.
    document

  1311. Introduction to the special issue on solid-state sensors
    A.J.P. Theuwissen;
    IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices,
    Volume 63, Issue 1, pp. 5-9, 2016.

  1312. A potential-based characterization of the transfer gate in CMOS image sensors
    Y. Xu; X. Ge; A.J.P. Theuwissen;
    IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices,
    Volume 63, Issue 1, pp. 42-48, 2016.

  1313. A VCO Based Highly Digital Temperature Sensor With 0.034°C/mV Supply Sensitivity
    T. Anand; K.A.A. Makinwa; P.K. Hanumolu;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 51, Issue 11, pp. 2651-2663, 2016. DOI: 10.1109/jssc.2016.2598765

  1314. Precision in Harsh Environments
    P.J. French; G. Krijnen; F. Roozeboom;
    Microsystems & Nanoengineering:Nature,
    Volume 2, pp. 16048, Oct 2016. DOI: 10.1038/micronano.2016.48
    Abstract: ... Microsystems are increasingly being applied in harsh and/or inaccessible environments, but many markets expect the same level of functionality for long periods of time. Harsh environments cover areas that can be subjected to high temperature, (bio)-chemical and mechanical disturbances, electromagnetic noise, radiation, or high vacuum. In the field of actuators, the devices must maintain stringent accuracy specifications for displacement, force, and response times, among others. These new requirements present additional challenges in the compensation for or elimination of cross-sensitivities. Many state-of-the-art precision devices lose their precision and reliability when exposed to harsh environments. It is also important that advanced sensor and actuator systems maintain maximum autonomy such that the devices can operate independently with low maintenance. The next-generation microsystems will be deployed in remote and/or inaccessible and harsh environments that present many challenges to sensor design, materials, device functionality, and packaging. All of these aspects of integrated sensors and actuator microsystems require a multidisciplinary approach to overcome these challenges. The main areas of importance are in the fields of materials science, micro/nano-fabrication technology, device design, circuitry and systems, (first-level) packaging, and measurement strategy. This study examines the challenges presented by harsh environments and investigates the required approaches. Examples of successful devices are also given.

  1315. Near- and Far-Field Characterization of Planar mm-Wave Antenna Arrays with Waveguide-to-Microstrip Transition
    Salhi, Mohammed Adnan; Kazemipour, Alireza; Gentille, Gennaro; Spirito, Marco; Kleine-Ostmann, Thomas; Schrader, Thorsten;
    Journal of Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves,
    Volume 37, Issue 9, pp. 857--873, 2016.
    document

  1316. Probing the nuclear spin-lattice relaxation time at the nanoscale
    J.J.T. Wagenaar; A.M.J. Den Haan; J.M. De Voogd; T.A. De Jong; M. De Wit; K.M. Bastiaans; D.J. Thoen; A. Endo; T.M. Klapwijk; J. Zaanen; et al;
    arXiv preprint,
    2016. 10.1103/physrevapplied.6.014007.
    document

  1317. Superconducting coplanar waveguide filters for submillimeter wave on-chip filterbank spectrometers
    A. Endo; S.J.C. Yates; J. Bueno; D.J. Thoen; V. Murugesan; A.M. Baryshev; T.M. Klapwijk; P.P. van der Werf; J.J.A. Baselmans;
    Low Temp. Phys.,
    Volume 184, Issue 1-2, pp. 412-147, March 2016. 10.1007/s10909-016-1579-8.
    document

  1318. Experimentally simulating the dynamics of quantum light and matter at ultrastrong coupling
    N.K. Langford; R. Sagastizabal; M. Kounalakis; C. Dickel A. Bruno; F. Luthi; D.J. Thoen; A. Endo; L. DiCarlo;
    arXiv preprint,
    2016.
    document

  1319. Wideband, wide-scan planar array of connected slots loaded with artificial dielectric superstrates
    Syed, W.H.; Cavallo,D.; Thippur Shivamurthy, H.; Neto, A.;
    IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag.,
    Volume 64, Issue 2, pp. 543-553, Feb. 2016. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2015.2507167

  1320. Proof-of-Concept Demonstration of Vector Beam Pattern Measurements of Kinetic Inductance Detectors
    K.K. Davis; W. Jellema; S.J.C. Yates; L. Ferrari; J.J.A. Baselmans; K. Kohno; D. Thoen; V. Murugesan; A.M. Baryshev;
    IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology,
    Volume 7, Issue 1, pp. 98-106, Nov. 2016. 10.1109/TTHZ.2016.2617869. DOI: 10.1109/TTHZ.2016.2617869
    document

  1321. Graph Sampling for Covariance Estimation
    S.P. Chepuri; G. Leus;
    In Subm. IEEE Journ. of Selec. Topics in Signal Proc.,
    November 2016.

  1322. Wireless Power Transfer and Optogenetic Stimulation of Freely Moving Rodents
    Farnaz Nassiri Nia; Freek E. Hoebeek; Wouter A. Serdijn;
    Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience,
    Nov. 29 2016.
    document

  1323. Sputtered cuprous oxide thin films and nitrogen doping by ion implantation
    P. M. Sberna; I. Crupi; F. Moscatelli; V. Privitera; F. Simone; M. Miritello;
    Thin Solid Films,
    Volume 600, pp. 71-75, 2016.
    document

  1324. Effects of Mg doping on Cu2O thin films and their behavior on the TiO2/Cu2O heterojunction solar cells
    K. Kardarian; D. Nunes; P. M. Sberna; A. Ginsburg; D. A. Keller; J. Vas Pinto; J. Deuermeier; A. Y. Anderson; A. Zaban; R. Martins; E. Fortunato;
    Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells,
    Volume 147, pp. 27-36, 2016.
    document

  1325. Tunable single hole regime of a silicon field effect transistor in standard CMOS technolog
    Marco Turchetti; Harald Homulle; Fabio Sebastiano; Giorgio Ferrari; Edoardo Charbon; Enrico Prati;
    Applied Physics Express,
    Volume 9, Issue 1, pp. 014001, 2016. DOI: 10.7567/APEX.9.014001
    Abstract: ... The electrical properties of a Single Hole Field Effect Transistor (SH-FET) based on CMOS technology are analyzed in a cryogenic environment. Few electron?hole Coulomb diamonds are observed using quantum transport spectroscopy measurements, down to the limit of single hole transport. Controlling the hole filling of the SH-FET is made possible by biasing the top gate, while the bulk contact is employed as a back gate that tunes the hole state coupling with the contacts and their distance from the interface. We compare the cryogenic Coulomb blockade regime with the room temperature regime, where the device operation is similar to that of a standard p-MOSFET.

    document

  1326. A Broadband Polyvinylidene Difluoride-Based Hydrophone with Integrated Readout Circuit for Intravascular Photoacoustic Imaging
    V. Daeichin; C. Chen; Q. Ding; M. Wu; R. Beurskens; G. Springeling; E. Noothout; M. D. Verweij; K. W. A. van Dongen; J. G. Bosch; A. F. W. van der Steen; N. de Jong; M. Pertijs; G. van Soest;
    Ultrasound in Medicine \& Biology,
    Volume 42, Issue 5, pp. 1239‒1243, May 2016. DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2015.12.016
    Abstract: ... Intravascular photoacoustic (IVPA) imaging can visualize the coronary atherosclerotic plaque composition on the basis of the optical absorption contrast. Most of the photoacoustic (PA) energy of human coronary plaque lipids was found to lie in the frequency band between 2 and 15 MHz requiring a very broadband transducer, especially if a combination with intravascular ultrasound is desired. We have developed a broadband polyvinylidene difluoride (PVDF) transducer (0.6 × 0.6 mm, 52 μm thick) with integrated electronics to match the low capacitance of such a small polyvinylidene difluoride element (<5 pF/mm2) with the high capacitive load of the long cable (∼100 pF/m). The new readout circuit provides an output voltage with a sensitivity of about 3.8 μV/Pa at 2.25 MHz. Its response is flat within 10 dB in the range 2 to 15 MHz. The root mean square (rms) output noise level is 259 μV over the entire bandwidth (1–20 MHz), resulting in a minimum detectable pressure of 30 Pa at 2.25 MHz.

  1327. A Prototype PZT Matrix Transducer with Low-Power Integrated Receive ASIC for 3D Transesophageal Echocardiography.
    C. Chen; S. Raghunathan; Z. Yu; M. Shabanimotlag; Z. Chen; Z. Y. Chang; S. Blaak; C. Prins; J. Ponte; E. Noothout; H. J. Vos; J. G. Bosch; M. D. Verweij; N. de Jong; M. A. P. Pertijs;
    IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control,
    Volume 63, Issue 1, pp. 47‒59, January 2016. DOI: 10.1109/tuffc.2015.2496580
    Abstract: ... This paper presents the design, fabrication, and experimental evaluation of a prototype lead zirconium titanate (PZT) matrix transducer with an integrated receive ASIC, as a proof of concept for a miniature three-dimensional (3-D) transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) probe. It consists of an array of 9 × 12 piezoelectric elements mounted on the ASIC via an integration scheme that involves direct electrical connections between a bond-pad array on the ASIC and the transducer elements. The ASIC addresses the critical challenge of reducing cable count, and includes front-end amplifiers with adjustable gains and microbeamformer circuits that locally process and combine echo signals received by the elements of each 3 × 3 subarray. Thus, an order-of-magnitude reduction in the number of receive channels is achieved. Dedicated circuit techniques are employed to meet the strict space and power constraints of TEE probes. The ASIC has been fabricated in a standard 0.18-μm CMOS process and consumes only 0.44 mW/channel. The prototype has been acoustically characterized in a water tank. The ASIC allows the array to be presteered across ±37° while achieving an overall dynamic range of 77 dB. Both the measured characteristics of the individual transducer elements and the performance of the ASIC are in good agreement with expectations, demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed techniques.

  1328. A 30-ppm <80 nJ Ring-Down-Based Readout Circuit for Resonant Sensors
    H. Jiang; Z. Y. Chang; M. A. P. Pertijs;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 51, Issue 1, pp. 187‒195, January 2016. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2015.2470552
    Abstract: ... This paper presents an energy-efficient readout circuit for micro-machined resonant sensors. It operates by briefly exciting the sensor at a frequency close to its resonance frequency, after which resonance frequency and quality factor are determined from a single ring-down transient. The circuit employs an inverter-based trans-impedance amplifier to sense the ring-down current, with a programmable feedback network to enable the readout of different resonant sensors. An inverter-based comparator with dynamically-adjusted threshold levels tracks the ring-down envelope to measure quality factor, and detects zero crossings to measure resonance frequency. The excitation frequency is dynamically adjusted to accommodate large resonance frequency shifts. Experimental results obtained with a prototype fabricated in 0.35 μm standard CMOS technology and three different SiN resonators are in good agreement with conventional impedance analysis. The prototype achieves a frequency resolution better than 30 ppm while consuming less than 80 nJ/meas from a 1.8 V supply, which is 7.8x less than the state-of-the-art.

  1329. A Novel Approach to Full-Polarimetric Short-Range Imaging with Co-polarized Data
    Jianping Wang; P. Aubry; A.G. Yarovoy;
    IEEE Transactions Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 64, Issue 11, pp. 4733-4744, Nov. 2016. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2016.2610102

  1330. Model-Based Evaluation of Signal-to-Clutter Ratio for Landmine Detection Using Ground-Penetrating Radar
    I. Giannakis, A. Giannopoulos; A. Yarovoy;
    IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing,
    Volume 54, Issue 6, pp. 3564-3573, June 2016. DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2016.2520298

  1331. An Aggregate Model of Plug-in Electric Vehicles Including Distribution Network Characteristics for Primary Frequency Control
    Izadkhast, S.; Garcia-Gonzalez, P.; Frìas, P.; Ramìrez-Elizondo, L.; Bauer, P.;
    IEEE Transactions on Power Systems,
    Volume 31, Issue 4, pp. 2987--2998, July 2016. DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2015.2471091
    Abstract: ... In the future, the number of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) that will participate in the primary frequency control (PFC) is likely to increase. In our previous research, the computational complexity of the PFC problem for a large number of PEVs was reduced using aggregate models of PEVs. However, in the literature on the PFC, the distribution network characteristics have not been included in the aggregate models of PEVs for the PFC, despite the fact that PEVs will be dispersedly connected to the distribution network. This paper proposes an aggregate model of PEVs for the PFC that further incorporates distribution network characteristics, i.e., the distribution network power loss (DNPL) and the maximum allowed current (MAC) of the lines and transformers. The DNPL variation is formulated according to the line and transformer impedance, spatial distribution of PEVs and loads, and active power variation of PEVs. Then, DNPL variation together with the MAC of the lines and transformers are incorporated in the proposed model of PEVs. Finally, the simulation results show an excellent agreement of 98\% between the detailed model and the proposed aggregate model of PEVs.

  1332. A 1/f Noise Upconversion Reduction Technique for Voltage-Biased RF CMOS Oscillators
    M. Shahmohammadi; M. Babaie; R. B. Staszewski;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 51, Issue 11, pp. 2610-2624, Nov 2016. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2016.2602214
    Keywords: ... 1/f noise;CMOS integrated circuits;LC circuits;flicker noise;harmonics suppression;interference suppression;phase noise;radiofrequency oscillators;1/f noise upconversion reduction technique;CMOS technology;class-D oscillators;class-F oscillators;common mode excitations;current harmonics;differential mode excitations;equivalent resistance;flicker noise upconversion;inductor based tanks;phase noise;tank current;transformer based tanks;voltage biased RF CMOS oscillators;Capacitors;Harmonic analysis;Oscillators;Radio frequency;Resistors;Resonant frequency;Transistors;Class-D oscillator;class-F oscillator;digitally controlled oscillator;flicker noise;flicker noise upconversion;impulse sensitivity function (ISF);phase noise (PN);voltage-biased RF oscillator.

  1333. A Fully Integrated Bluetooth Low-Energy Transmitter in 28 nm CMOS With 36\% System Efficiency at 3 dBm
    M. Babaie; F. W. Kuo; H. N. R. Chen; L. C. Cho; C. P. Jou; F. L. Hsueh; M. Shahmohammadi; R. B. Staszewski;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 51, Issue 7, pp. 1547-1565, July 2016. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2016.2551738
    Keywords: ... Bluetooth;CMOS digital integrated circuits;MOSFET circuits;constant current sources;digital phase locked loops;low-power electronics;oscillators;radio transmitters;radiofrequency integrated circuits;radiofrequency power amplifiers;1/f noise reduction;Bluetooth low-energy mode;CMOS transistors;all-digital PLL;class-E-F2 switching power amplifier;digitally controlled oscillator;direct DCO data modulation;efficiency 36 percent;energy-hungry RF circuits;fully integrated Bluetooth low-energy transmitter architecture;metal density;power 3.6 mW;power 5.5 mW;sampling rate reduction;size 28 nm;supply voltage reduction;switching current sources;threshold voltage;ultra-low power radios;CMOS integrated circuits;Inductors;Oscillators;Q-factor;Radio frequency;Radio transmitters;Switches;All-digital PLL;Bluetooth Low-Energy;Internet of Things (IoT);class-E/F 2 power amplifier;low-power transmitter;low-voltage oscillator;switching current-source oscillator.

  1334. A Digitally Controlled Injection-Locked Oscillator With Fine Frequency Resolution
    I. Bashir; R. B. Staszewski; P. T. Balsara;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 51, Issue 6, pp. 1347-1360, June 2016. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2016.2539342
    Keywords: ... LC circuits;MMIC oscillators;circuit tuning;field effect MMIC;frequency modulation;injection locked oscillators;DCO step size;LC-tank;TSMC digital CMOS;amplitude manipulation;auxiliary loop;digitally controlled injection-locked RF oscillator;frequency 4 GHz;frequency modulation;injection strength;phase manipulation;size 40 nm;time-delayed resonating voltage;tuning range;Capacitors;Frequency modulation;Injection-locked oscillators;Tuning;All-digital PLL (ADPLL);digital phase rotator (DPR);digital-to-frequency converter (DFC);digitally controlled delay (DCD);digitally controlled oscillator (DCO);multi-stage noise Σ Δ (MASH);multi-stage noise ΣΔ (MASH).

  1335. A 60 GHz Frequency Generator Based on a 20 GHz Oscillator and an Implicit Multiplier
    Z. Zong; M. Babaie; R. B. Staszewski;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 51, Issue 5, pp. 1261-1273, May 2016. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2016.2528997
    Keywords: ... CMOS digital integrated circuits;field effect MIMIC;frequency multipliers;millimetre wave frequency convertors;millimetre wave oscillators;phase noise;FoM;PN performance;digital CMOS process;extraction techniques;figure-of-merit;frequency 20 GHz;frequency 57.8 GHz;frequency 60 GHz;frequency generator;frequency tuning range;implicit multiplier;local oscillator signal;mm-wave frequency generation technique;phase detection;phase noise performance;phase-locked loop;power efficiency;size 40 nm;third-harmonic boosting techniques;Boosting;Frequency conversion;Harmonic analysis;Oscillators;Phase locked loops;Power demand;Resonant frequency;60 GHz;60 GHz;PLL;frequency divider;harmonic boosting;harmonic extraction;implicit multiplier;mm-wave;oscillator;phase noise (PN);transformer.

  1336. Analysis and Design of a Multi-Core Oscillator for Ultra-Low Phase Noise
    S. A. R. Ahmadi-Mehr; M. Tohidian; R. B. Staszewski;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers,
    Volume 63, Issue 4, pp. 529-539, April 2016. DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2016.2529218
    Keywords: ... CMOS integrated circuits;LC circuits;MMIC oscillators;field effect MMIC;network analysis;network synthesis;phase noise;RF oscillator;current 39 mA to 59 mA;digital CMOS technology;dualcore LC-tank oscillator;frequency 4.07 GHz to 4.91 GHz;high swing class-C topology;multicore oscillator;phase noise reduction;ultralow phase noise;voltage 2.15 V;CMOS integrated circuits;Inductance;Inductors;Phase noise;Power demand;Topology;Basestation (BTS);LC-tank;class-C oscillator;coupled oscillators;figure of merit (FoM);phase noise.

  1337. Toward Solving Multichannel RF-SoC Integration Issues Through Digital Fractional Division
    S. A. R. Ahmadi Mehr; M. Tohidian; R. B. Staszewski;
    IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems,
    Volume 24, Issue 3, pp. 1071-1082, March 2016. DOI: 10.1109/TVLSI.2015.2436979
    Keywords: ... frequency dividers;system-on-chip;LC-tank oscillator;RF system on chips;digital fractional divider;frequency divider;frequency planning technique;high-swing class-C oscillator;integer harmonic frequency relationship;multichannel RF-SoC integration;phase rotator;Couplings;Frequency conversion;Frequency modulation;Harmonic analysis;Oscillators;Radio frequency;Substrates;Digital fractional divider;RF-SoC;digitally controlled oscillator (DCO);frequency pulling;injection locking;multi-core radio;system on chip (SoC);system on chip (SoC)..

  1338. A High IIP2 SAW-Less Superheterodyne Receiver With Multistage Harmonic Rejection
    I. Madadi; M. Tohidian; K. Cornelissens; P. Vandenameele; R. B. Staszewski;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 51, Issue 2, pp. 332-347, Feb 2016. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2015.2504414
    Keywords: ... CMOS integrated circuits;band-pass filters;superheterodyne receivers;surface acoustic wave devices;4G cellular applications;CMOS;IIP2 SAW-less superheterodyne receiver;blocker-resilient octal charge-sharing bandpass filter;cascaded harmonic rejection circuitry;multistage harmonic rejection;power 22 mW to 40 mW;size 28 nm;surface acoustic wave-less superheterodyne receiver;wideband noise-canceling low-noise transconductance amplifier;Band-pass filters;Calibration;Capacitors;Mixers;Radio frequency;Receivers;Surface acoustic waves;Bandpass filter (BPF);IIP2;charge-sharing;discrete-time;process-scalable;receiver;superheterodyne;surface acoustic wave (SAW)-less.

  1339. A Ratiometric Readout Circuit for Thermal-Conductivity-Based Resistive CO$_2$ Sensors
    Z. Cai; R. H. M. van Veldhoven; A. Falepin; H. Suy; E. Sterckx; C. Bitterlich; K. A. A. Makinwa; M. A. P. Pertijs;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 51, Issue 10, pp. 2453‒2474, October 2016. DOI: 10.1109/jssc.2016.2587861
    Abstract: ... This paper reports a readout circuit for a resistive CO2 sensor, which operates by measuring the CO2-dependent thermal conductivity of air. A suspended hot-wire transducer, which acts both as a resistive heater and temperature sensor, exhibits a CO2-dependent heat loss to the surrounding air, allowing CO2 concentration to be derived from its temperature rise and power dissipation. The circuit employs a dual-mode incremental delta-sigma ADC to digitize these parameters relative to those of an identical, but isolated, reference transducer. This ratiometric approach results in a measurement that does not require precision voltage or power references. The readout circuit uses dynamically-swapped transducer pairs to cancel their baseline-resistance, so as to relax the required dynamic range of the ADC. In addition, dynamic element matching (DEM) is used to bias the transducer pairs at an accurate current ratio, making the measurement insensitive to the precise value of the bias current. The readout circuit has been implemented in a standard 0.16 μm CMOS technology. With commercial resistive micro-heaters, a CO2 sensing resolution of about 200 ppm (1σ) was achieved in a measurement time of 30 s. Similar results were obtained with CMOS-compatible tungsten-wire transducers, paving the way for fully-integrated CO2 sensors for air-quality monitoring.

  1340. An Implantable Stimulator With Safety Sensors in Standard CMOS Process for Active Books
    Liu, Xiao; Valente, Virgilio; Zong, Zhulin; Jiang, Dai; Donaldson, Nick; Demosthenous, Andreas;
    IEEE Sensors Journal,
    Volume 16, Issue 19, pp. 7161--7172, October 2016. DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2016.2577688
    document

  1341. An accelerated test method of luminous flux depreciation for LED luminaires and lamps
    C. Qian; X.J.Fan; J.J.Fan; C.A.Yuan; GuoQi Zhang;
    Reliability Engineering and System Safety,
    Volume 147, pp. 84-92, 2016.

  1342. Potential applications of electron emission membranes in medicine
    Yevgen Bilevych; Stefan E. Brunner; Hong Wah Chan; Edoardo Charbon; Harry van der Graaf; Cornelis W. Hagen; Gert Nützelf; Serge D. Pintof; Violeta Prodanović; Daan Rotman; Fabio Santagata; Lina Sarro; Dennis R. Schaar;
    Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment,
    Volume 809, pp. 171-174, 2016.

  1343. Data Communication Pathway for Sensing Guidewire at Proximal Side: A Review
    Sharei H; Stoute R; van den Dobbelsteen J; Siebes M; Dankelman J.;
    Journal of Medical Devices,
    2016.

  1344. PoF-Simulation Assisted Reliability Prediction for Electrolytic Capacitor in LED Drivers
    Bo Sun; Xuejun Fan; Cheng Qian; GuoQi Zhang;
    IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics,
    pp. 99, 2016.

  1345. A CMOS-Compatible Hybrid Plasmonic Slot Waveguide With Enhanced Field Confinement
    Jing Xiao; Qi-Qin Wei; Dao-Guo Yang; Ping Zhang; Ning He; GuoQi Zhang;
    IEEE Electron Device Letters,
    Volume 37, Issue 4, 2016.

  1346. Degradation Mechanism Decoupling of Mid-Power White-Light LEDs by SPD Simulation
    Jianlin Huang; D. S. Golubović; S. Koh; D. Yang; X. Li; X. Fan; GuoQi Zhang;
    IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices,
    Volume 63, pp. 2807-2814, 2016.

  1347. Output blue light evaluation for phosphor based smart white LED wafer level packages
    Z. Kolahdouz; A. Rostamian; M. Kolahdouz; T. Ma; H. van Zeijl; GuoQi Zhang;
    Optics Express,
    Volume 24, Issue 4, pp. 174-177, 2016.

  1348. Lumen degradation modeling of white-light LEDs in step stress accelerated degradation test
    Jianlin Huang, D. S. Golubović, S. Koh, D. Yang, X. Li, X. Fan,; G. Q. Zhang;
    Reliability Engineering & System Safety,
    Volume 154, pp. 152-159, 2016.

  1349. Silicon microfabrication based particulate matter sensor
    Mingzhi Dong; Elina Iervolino; Fabio Santagata; GuoQi Zhang;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical,
    Volume 247, pp. 115-124, 2016.

  1350. Increasing color saturation by optimizing light spectra constrained on color rendering properties
    H. Wu; J. Dong; GuoQi Zhang.;
    Journal of the Optical Society of America A,
    Volume 33, Issue 2, pp. 192-2014, 2016.

  1351. SiNW-FET in-Air Biosensors for High Sensitive and Specific Detection in Breast Tumor Extract
    F. Puppo; M.-A. Doucey; J.-F. Delaloye; T.S.Y. Moh; G. Pandraud; P.M. Sarro; G. De Micheli; S. Carrara;
    IEEE Sensors Journal,
    Volume 16, Issue 10, pp. 3374-3381, 2016.
    document

  1352. A mixing surface acoustic wave device for liquid sensing applications: Design, simulation, and analysis
    T.H. Bui; B. Morana; T. Scholtes; T. Chu Duc; P.M. Sarro;
    Journal of Applied Physics,
    Volume 120, Issue 7, pp. 074504, 2016.

  1353. Cytostretch, an Organ-on-Chip Platform
    Gaio, N.; van Meer, B.; Quiros Solano, W.; Bergers, L.; van de Stolpe, A.; Mummery, C.; Sarro, P.M.; Dekker, R.;
    Micromachines,
    Volume 7, Issue 7, pp. 120, 2016.

  1354. Thermally induced oxidative growth of copper oxide nanowire on dendritic micropowder and reductive conversion to copper nanowire
    A. M. Gheytaghi; S.H. Tabatabaie; H. Saffari; GuoQi Zhang;
    Micro and Nano Letters,
    Volume 11, Issue 8, pp. 412, 2016.

  1355. Fabrication and characterization of an Upside-down Carbon Nanotube (CNT) Microelectrode array (MEA)
    Gaio, N.; Silvestri, C.; van Meer, B.; Vollebregt, S.; Mummery, C.; Dekker, R.;
    IEEE Sensors Journal,
    Volume 16, Issue 24, pp. 8685, 2016.

  1356. Control of recoil losses in nanomechanical SiN membrane resonators
    A. Borrielli; L. Marconi; F. Marin; F. Marino; B. Morana; G. Pandraud; A. Pontin; G. A. Prodi; P. M. Sarro; E. Serra; M. Bonaldi;
    Physical Review B,
    Volume 94, pp. 121403, 2016.

  1357. Adhesion Improvement of Polyimide/PDMS Interface by Polyimide Surface Modification
    Shivani Joshi; Antonie van Loona; Angel Savov; Ronald Dekker;
    MRS Advances,
    Volume 1, pp. 33-38, 2016.

  1358. Thermal characterization of carbon nanotube foam using MEMS microhotplates and thermographic analysis
    Cinzia Silvestri; Michele Riccio; Rene Poelma; Bruno Morana; Sten Vollebregt; Fabio Santagata; Andrea Irace; GuoQi Zhang; Pasqualina M. Sarro;
    Nanoscale,
    Volume 8, pp. 8266-8275, 2016.
    document

  1359. Microfabrication of large-area circular high-stress silicon nitride membranes for optomechanical applications
    E. Serra; M. Bawaj; A. Borrielli; G. Di Giuseppe; S. Forte; N. Kralj; N. Malossi; L. Marconi; F. Marin; F. Marino; B. Morana; R. Natali; G. Pandraud; A. Pontin; G. A. Prodi; M. Rossi; P. M. Sarro; D. Vita;
    AIP Advances,
    Volume 6, pp. 065004, 2016.

  1360. Dynamical two-mode squeezing of thermal fluctuations in a cavity opto-mechanical system
    A. Pontin; M. Bonaldi; A. Borrielli; L. Marconi; F. Marino; G. Pandraud; G. A. Prodi; P.M. Sarro; E. Serra; F. Marin;
    Physical Review Letters,
    Volume 116, pp. 103601, 2016.

  1361. Stretchable Binary Fresnel Lens for Focus Tuning
    Xueming Li; Lei Wei; Ren� H. Poelma; Sten Vollebregt; Jia Wei; Hendrik Paul Urbach; Pasqualina M. Sarro; GuoQi Zhang;
    Scientific Reports,
    Volume 6, pp. 25348, 2016.

  1362. The growth of carbon nanotubes on electrically conductive ZrN support layers for through-silicon vias
    Sten Vollebregt; Sourish Banerjee; Frans D. Tichelaar; Ryoichi Ishihara;
    Microelectronic Engineering,
    Volume 156, pp. 126-130, 2016.
    document

  1363. Effects of Nanostructure and Coating on the Mechanics of Carbon Nanotube Arrays
    R. H. Poelma; X. J. Fan; Z. Y. Hu; G. van Tendeloo; H.W. van Zeijl; GuoQi Zhang;
    Advanced Functional Materials,
    Volume 26, Issue 8, pp. 1233-1242, 2016.

  1364. LED degradation: From component to system
    B. Hamon; van Driel, Willem;
    Microelectronics Reliability,
    Volume 64, pp. 599--604, 9 2016. DOI: DOI: 10.1016/j.microrel.2016.07.014

  1365. Effect of excimer laser annealing on a -InGaZnO thin-film transistors passivated by solution-processed hybrid passivation layers
    Juan Paolo Bermundo; Yasuaki Ishikawa; Mami N Fujii; Toshiaki Nonaka; Ryoichi Ishihara; Hiroshi Ikenoue; Yukiharu Uraoka;
    Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics,
    Volume 49, Issue 3, pp. 035102-1-7, 2016.

  1366. A review of small heat pipes for electronics
    Xianping Chen; Huaiyu Ye; Xuejun Fan; Tianling Ren; GuoQi Zhang;
    Applied Thermal Engineering,
    Volume 96, pp. 1-17, 2016.

  1367. The Direct Growth of Carbon Nanotubes as Vertical Interconnects in 3D Integrated Circuits
    Sten Vollebregt; Ryoichi Ishihara;
    Carbon,
    Volume 96, pp. 332-338, 2016.
    document

  1368. Lumen maintenance predictions for LED packages
    van Driel, Willem; M Schuld; B. Jacobs; F. Commissaris; van der Eyden, J; B. Hamon;
    Microelectronics Reliability,
    Volume 62, pp. 39--44, 3 2016. DOI: 10.1016/j.microrel.2016.03.018

  1369. Creep fatigue models of solder joints: A critical review
    E.H. Wong; van Driel, Willem; A. Dasgupta; M. Pecht;
    Microelectronics Reliability,
    Volume 59, pp. 186--194, 1 2016.

  1370. Colour shift and mechanism investigation on the PMMA diffuser used in LED-based luminaires
    G Lu; van Driel, WD; Xuejun Fan; Yazdan Mehr, M; Jiajie Fan; Cheng Qian; KMB Jansen; GQ Zhang;
    Optical Materials,
    Volume 54, pp. 282--287, 2016. harvest. DOI: 10.1016/j.optmat.2016.02.023
    Keywords: ... Colour shift, PMMA, Solid state lighting, LED-based luminaire, Infrared absorption spectroscopy.

  1371. Semi-quantitative method for streptococci magnetic detection in raw milk
    Duarte, C.; Costa, T.; Carneiro, C.; Soares, R.; Jitariu, A.; Cardoso, S.; Piedade, M.; Bexiga, R.; Freitas, P.;
    Biosensors,
    Volume 6, Issue 2, 2016. DOI: 10.3390/bios6020019

  1372. Centroid features for classification of armed/unarmed multiple personnel using multistatic human micro-Doppler
    Fioranelli, Francesco; Ritchie, Matthew; Griffiths, Hugh;
    IET RADAR SONAR AND NAVIGATION,
    Volume 10, Issue 9, SI, pp. 1702-1710, NOV 2016. DOI: 10.1049/iet-rsn.2015.0493

  1373. Analysis of polarimetric bistatic sea clutter using the NetRAD radar system
    Fioranelli, Francesco; Ritchie, Matthew; Griffiths, Hugh; Sandenbergh, Stephan; Inggs, Michael;
    IET RADAR SONAR AND NAVIGATION,
    Volume 10, Issue 8, pp. 1356-1366, OCT 2016. DOI: 10.1049/iet-rsn.2015.0416

  1374. Experimental analysis of multistatic multiband radar signatures of wind turbines
    Fioranelli, Francesco; Ritchie, Matthew; Balleri, Alessio; Griffiths, Hugh;
    IET RADAR SONAR AND NAVIGATION,
    Volume 10, Issue 8, pp. 1400-1410, OCT 2016. DOI: 10.1049/iet-rsn.2015.0474

  1375. Experimental analysis of multistatic wind turbine radar clutter statistics
    Fioranelli, F.; Ritchie, M.; Balleri, A.; Griffiths, H.;
    ELECTRONICS LETTERS,
    Volume 52, Issue 3, pp. 226-227, FEB 4 2016. DOI: 10.1049/el.2015.3907

  1376. Performance Analysis of Centroid and SVD Features for Personnel Recognition Using Multistatic Micro-Doppler
    Fioranelli, Francesco; Ritchie, Matthew; Griffiths, Hugh;
    IEEE GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING LETTERS,
    Volume 13, Issue 5, pp. 725-729, MAY 2016. DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2016.2539386

  1377. Calibration Scheme for Large Kinetic Inductance Detector Arrays Based on Readout Frequency Response
    L. Bisigello; S.J.C. Yates; V. Murugesan; J.J.A. Baselmans; A.M Baryshev;
    Journal of Low Temperature Physics,
    Volume 184, pp. 161-166, 2016. DOI: 10.1007/S10909-016-1524-X

  1378. Contactless Measurement of Absolute Voltage Waveforms by a Passive Electric-Field Probe
    Hou, Rui; Spirito, Marco; Van Rijs, Fred; de Vreede, Leo C. N.;
    IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters,
    Volume 26, Issue 12, pp. 1008-1010, 2016. DOI: 10.1109/LMWC.2016.2623250
    Keywords: ... Circuit testing;Nonlinear network analysis;Calibration;Capacitance;Voltage measurement;Microstrip;Microwave measurement;Calibration;electric-field probe;microwave circuit testing;nonlinear vector network analyzer (NVNA).

  1379. Out-of-Band Immunity to Interference of Single-Ended Baseband Amplifiers Through $IM_2$ Cancellation
    Totev, Emil; Huang, Cong; de Vreede, Leo C. N.; Long, John R.; Serdijn, Wouter A.; Verhoeven, Chris;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers,
    Volume 63, Issue 11, pp. 1785-1793, 2016. DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2016.2593341

  1380. Nonintrusive Near-Field Characterization of Spatially Distributed Effects in Large-Periphery High-Power GaN HEMTs
    Hou, Rui; Lorenzini, Martino; Spirito, Marco; Roedle, Thomas; van Rijs, Fred; de Vreede, Leo C. N.;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 64, Issue 11, pp. 4048-4062, 2016. DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2016.2613525
    Keywords: ... Gallium nitride;HEMTs;MODFETs;Load modeling;Power measurement;Logic gates;Device characterization;gallium nitride (GaN);high electron-mobility transistor (HEMT);near-field measurement.

  1381. An Efficient Methodology for the Analysis of Dielectric Shimming Materials in Magnetic Resonance Imaging
    J. van Gemert; W. Brink; A. Webb; R. Remis;
    preprint; IEEE Tr. Medical Imaging,
    November 2016. DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2016.2624507
    document

  1382. In Vivo Electric Conductivity of Cervical Cancer Patients Based on B1+ Maps at 3T MRI
    E. Balidemaj; P. de Boer; A. L. H. M. W. van Lier; R. F. Remis; L. J. A. Stalpers; G. H. Westerveld; A. J. Nederveen; C. A. T. van den Berg; J. Crezee;
    Physics in Medicine and Biology,
    Volume 61, pp. 1596-1607, 2016.
    document

  1383. B1+ Based SAR Reconstruction Using Contrast Source Inversion and Electric Properties Tomography
    E. Balidemaj; C.A.T. van den Berg; A. van Lier; J. Trinks; A. Nederveen; L. Stalpers; H. Crezee; R.F. Remis;
    Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing,
    April 2016. DOI: 10.1007/s11517-016-1497-6
    document

  1384. Implementing a strategy for on-chip detection of cell-free DNA fragments using GMR sensors: A translational application in cancer diagnostics using ALU elements
    Dias, TM; Cardoso, Filipe Arroyo; Martins, SAM; Martins, VC; Cardoso, S; Gaspar, JF; Monteiro, G; Freitas, PP;
    Analytical Methods,
    Volume 8, Issue 1, pp. 119-128, 2016.

  1385. Advanced NDT inspection tools for titanium surfaces based on high-performance magnetoresistive sensors
    Franco, Fernando; Cardoso, Filipe Arroyo; Rosado, Luís S; Ferreira, Ricardo; Cardoso, Susana; Piedade, Moisés; Freitas, Paulo P;
    IEEE Transactions on Magnetics,
    Volume 53, Issue 4, pp. 1-5, 2016.

  1386. Identification of Novel Regulators of Developmental Hematopoiesis Using Endoglin Regulatory Elements as Molecular Probes
    Rabab Nasrallah; Eva M. Fast; Parham Solaimani; Kathy Knezevic; Alexia Eliades; Rahima Patel; Roshana Thambyrajah; Ashwin Unnikrishnan; Julie Thoms; Dominik Beck; Chris S. Vink; Aileen Smith; Jason Wong; Mairi Shepherd; David Kent; Rahul Roychoudhuri; Fabian Paul; Julia Klippert; Annette Hammes; Thomas Willnow; Bertie Gottgens; Elaine Dzierzak; Leonard I. Zon; George Lacaud; Valerie Kouskoff; John E. Pimanda;
    Blood,
    Volume 128, Issue 15, pp. 1928--1939, October 2016. DOI: 10.1182/blood-2016-02-697870
    document

  1387. Hematopoietic (Stem) Cell Development - How Divergent Are the Roads Taken?
    Mari-Liis Kauts; Chris S. Vink; Elaine Dzierzak;
    FEBS Letters,
    Volume 590, Issue 22, pp. 3975--3986, September 2016. DOI: 10.1002/1873-3468.12372
    document

  1388. Subregional Localization and Characterization of Ly6aGFP-Expressing Hematopoietic Cells in the Mouse Embryonic Head
    Zhuan Li; Chris S. Vink; Samanta A. Mariani; Elaine Dzierzak;
    Developmental Biology,
    Volume 416, Issue 1, pp. 34--41, August 2016. DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2016.05.031
    document

  1389. BMP and Hedgehog Regulate Distinct AGM Hematopoietic Stem Cells Ex Vivo
    Mihaela Crisan; Parham Solaimani Kartalaei; Alex Neagu; Sofia Karkanpouna; Tomoko Yamada-Inagawa; Caterina Purini; Chris S. Vink; Reinier van der Linden; Wilfred van Ijcken; Susana M. Chuva de Sousa Lopes; Rui Monteiro; Christine Mummery; Elaine Dzierzak;
    Stem Cell Reports,
    Volume 6, Issue 3, pp. 383--395, March 2016. DOI: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2016.01.016
    document

  1390. Functional and Molecular Characterization of Mouse Gata2-Independent Hematopoietic Progenitors
    Polynikis Kaimakis*; Emma de Pater*; Christina Eich*; Parham Solaimani Kartalaei; Mari-Liis Kauts; Chris S. Vink; Reinier van der Linden; Martine Jaegle; Tomomasa Yokomizo; Dies Meijer; Elaine Dzierzak;
    Blood,
    Volume 127, Issue 11, pp. 1426--1437, March 2016. DOI: 10.1182/blood-2015-10-673749
    document

  1391. The Tynode: A new vacuum electron multiplier
    Harry van der Graaf; Hassan Akhtar; Neil Budko; Hong Wah Chan; Cornelis W. Hagen; Conny C.T. Hansson; Gert Nützel; Serge D. Pinto; Violeta Prodanović; Behrouz Raftari; Pasqualina M. Sarro; John Sinsheimer; John Smedley; Shuxia Tao; Anne M.M.G. Theulings; Kees Vuik;
    Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment,
    2016.
    document

  1392. Secondary Electron Emission Materials for Transmission Dynodes in Novel Photomultipliers: A Review
    S. Tao; Hong Wah Chan; H. van der Graaf,;
    Materials,
    Volume 9, pp. 1017, 2016. DOI: 10.3390/ma9121017

  1393. Using magnetic levitation for 2D and 3D self-assembly of cubic silicon macroparticles
    Woldering, L{\' e}on A.; Been, Auke J.; Alink, Laurens; Abelmann, Leon;
    Physica Status Solidi - Rapid Research Letters,
    Volume 10, Issue 2, pp. 176 – 184, 2016. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1002/pssr.201510298
    Keywords: ... Hydrophilicity; Hydrophobicity; Magnetic levitation; Magnetic levitation vehicles; Nanotechnology; Silicon; 3D self-assembly; Functional structure; Hydrophobic interactions; Macro-particles; Paramagnetic fluid; Polymer spheres; Scaling limits; Silicon particles; Self assembly.

    Abstract: ... Today's micro- and nano-fabrication is essentially two-dimensional, with very limited possibilities of accessing the third dimension. The most viable way to mass-fabricate functional structures at the nano-scale, such as electronics or MEMS, with equal feature sizes in all directions, is by three-dimensional self-assembly. Up to now, three-dimensional self-assembly has mainly been restricted to crystals of polymer spheres. We report on two- and three-dimensional self-assembly of silicon cubes, levitated in a paramagnetic fluid. We demonstrate the benefits of templating and study the effect of a change in hydrophilicity of the cubes. These experiments bring us one step closer to three-dimensional self-assembly of anisotropic, semiconducting units, which is a crucial milestone in overcoming the scaling limits imposed by contemporary 2D microfabrication. © 2016 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.

    document

  1394. Let's twist again: Elasto-capillary assembly of parallel ribbons
    Legrain, Antoine; Berenschot, Erwin J. W.; Abelmann, Leon; Bico, Jos{\' e}; Tas, Niels R.;
    Soft Matter,
    Volume 12, Issue 34, pp. 7186 – 7194, 2016. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1039/c6sm00910g
    Keywords: ... Silicon nitride; Silicon wafers; 3D microstructures; Batch fabrication; Capillary assembly; Controllable structures; Macroscopic scale; Micrometer scale; Model experiments; Self-assembly technique; Self assembly.

    Abstract: ... We show the self-assembly through twisting and bending of side by side ribbons under the action of capillary forces. Micro-ribbons made of silicon nitride are batch assembled at the wafer scale. We study their assembly as a function of their dimensions and separating distance. Model experiments are carried out at the macroscopic scale where the tension in ribbons can easily be tuned. The process is modeled considering the competition between capillary, elastic and tension forces. Theory shows a good agreement for macroscale assemblies, while the accuracy is within 30% at the micrometer scale. This simple self-assembly technique yields highly symmetric and controllable structures which could be used for batch fabrication of functional 3D micro-structures. © 2016 The Royal Society of Chemistry.

    document

  1395. Residual stress and Young's modulus of pulsed laser deposited PZT thin films: Effect of thin film composition and crystal direction of Si cantilevers
    Nazeer, H.; Nguyen, M. D.; Rijnders, G.; Abelmann, L.; Sardan Sukas, {\"O}.;
    Microelectronic Engineering,
    Volume 161, pp. 56 – 62, 2016. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1016/j.mee.2016.04.004
    Keywords: ... Crystal orientation; Deposition; Elastic moduli; Epitaxial growth; Lead; Nanocantilevers; Pulsed laser deposition; Pulsed lasers; Residual stresses; Silicon; Thermal expansion; X ray diffraction; Cantilever bending; Crystal direction; Mechanical parameters; Preferred orientations; Resonance frequencies; Silicon cantilever; Thin film composition; X-ray diffraction data; Thin films.

    Abstract: ... We investigated the residual stress and Young's modulus of Pb(ZrxTi1 - x)O3 (PZT) thin films with a (110) preferred orientation and a composition x ranging from 0.2 to 0.8. The films are grown by pulsed laser deposition on silicon cantilevers aligned along the <110> and <100> silicon crystal directions. Changes in resonance frequency and static bending of the cantilevers are used to determine the Young's modulus and residual stress respectively. The Young's modulus was found to be in the range of 100-200 GPa. The residual stress is tensile and shows a sharp increase from about 50 to 250 MPa at a composition of x = 0.2 to 0.4. These mechanical parameters clearly depend on the cantilever orientation with respect to the silicon crystal, which we suspect to be linked to the epitaxial growth of the films. The variation in stress with composition can be explained by the difference in thermal expansion between silicon and PZT, if we assume an intrinsic stress of 200-300 MPa to be already present immediately after deposition. Strain calculated from X-ray diffraction data leads to unreasonably high residual stress values, at least one order of magnitude higher than measured by cantilever bending. © 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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  1401. An Implantable Versatile Electrode-Driving ASIC for Chronic Epidural Stimulation in Rats
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  1408. Radar micro-Doppler of wind turbines: simulation and analysis using rotating linear wire structures
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  1415. Indoor Granular Presence Sensing and Control Messaging With an Ultrasonic Circular Array Sensor
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  1417. Channel Measurements and Modeling for a 60 GHz Wireless Link Within a Metal Cabinet
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  1421. Localization Packet Scheduling for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks
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  1423. A 0.042 mm^2 programmable biphasic stimulator for cochlear implants suitable for a large number of channels
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  1424. A 2.4 GHz Power Amplifier With 40% Global Efficiency at 5 dBm Output for Autonomous Wireless Sensor Nodes
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  1425. Co-Design of Electrically-Short Antenna-Electronics Interfaces in the Receiving Mode
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  1426. Cerebellar output controls generalized spike-and-wave discharge occurrence
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  1427. High frequency switched-mode stimulation can evoke postsynaptic responses in cerebellar principal neurons
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  1428. The injectable neurostimulator: an emerging therapeutic device
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  1429. Does a coupling capacitor enhance the charge balance during neural stimulation? An empirical study
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  1431. Design, fabrication and measurement of 0.3 THz on-chip double-slot antenna enhanced by artificial dielectrics.
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  1432. Guest Editorial Special Section on the 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2014)
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  1433. Multibeam Pillbox Antenna With Low Sidelobe Level and High-Beam Crossover in SIW Technology Using the Split Aperture Decoupling Method
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  1434. Space-based Aperture Array For Ultra-Long Wavelength Radio Astronomy
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  1435. Optimizing Speech Intelligibility in a Noisy Environment: A unified view
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  1436. Fourier Optics for the Analysis of Distributed Absorbers Under THz Focusing Systems
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  1437. The non-equilibrium response of a superconductor to pair-breaking radiation measured over a broad frequency band
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  1438. Directivity Enhancement and Spurious Radiation Suppression in Leaky-Wave Antennas Using Inductive Grid Metasurfaces
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  1439. Antenna-coupled TES bolometers used in BICEP2, Keck array, and SPIDER
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  1440. Development of Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detector for Cosmological Observations
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  1441. Immediate neighborhood temperature adaptive routing for 3D networks-on-chip
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  1442. Frequency locking and monitoring based on bi-directional terahertz radiation of a 3rd-order distributed feedback quantum cascade laser
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  1443. On the adequacy of the far-field conditions for pulsed radiated EM fields
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  1445. TD radiation properties of array antennas composed of pulsed electric-current excited elements
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  1446. APEX-CHAMP+ high-J CO observations of low-mass young stellar objects. IV. Mechanical and radiative feedback
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  1447. Superconducting on-chip spectrometery for millimeter-submillimeter wave astronomy
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  1448. A first single-photon avalanche diode fabricated in standard SOI CMOS technology with a full characterization of the device
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  1449. A 1 x 400 Backside-Illuminated SPAD Sensor With 49.7 ps Resolution, 30 pJ/Sample TDCs Fabricated in 3D CMOS Technology for Near-Infrared Optical Tomography
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  1450. CMOS SPAD Based on Photo-Carrier Diffusion Achieving PDP >40% From 440 to 580 nm at 4 V Excess Bias
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  1452. Frequency Reconfiguration of a Dual-Band Phased Array Antenna with Variable-Impedance Matching
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  1453. Texture-Based Automatic Separation of Echoes from Distributed Moving Targets in UWB Radar Signals
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  1454. Urban Objects Classification with an Experimental Acoustic Sensor Network
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  1455. Ultra-Wideband Radar Imaging Using a Hybrid of Kirchhoff Migration and Stolt F-K Migration with an Inverse Boundary Scattering Transform
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  1456. Range-Doppler surface: a tool to analyse human target in ultra-wideband radar
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  1457. An analytical model for the description of the full-polarimetric sea surface Doppler signature
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  1458. Future Ocean Scatterometry: On the Use of Cross-Polar Scattering to Observe Very High Winds
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  1459. Bayesian sparse Fourier representation of off-grid targets with application to experimental radar data
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  1460. Dual-Polarized Planar Phased Array Analysis for Meteorological Applications
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  1461. Robust Acoustic Localization Via Time-Delay Compensation and Interaural Matching Filter
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  1462. Optimal Near-End Speech Intelligibility Improvement Incorporating Additive Noise and Late Reverberation under an Approximation of the Short-Time SII
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  1463. Distributed Estimation of the Inverse of the Correlation Matrix for Privacy Preserving Beamforming Signal Processing
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  1464. An Ultra-Low Phase Noise Class-F 2 CMOS Oscillator With 191 dBc/Hz FoM and Long-Term Reliability
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  1465. Design of Spur-Free \Sigma \Delta Frequency Tuning Interface for Digitally Controlled Oscillators
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  1466. Minimizing stress in large-area surface micromachined perforated membranes with slits
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  1467. Water-enhanced guarding of polymer-coated IDE platforms as a key mechanism for achieving response immunity towards parasitic coupling events
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  1468. Extracting large photovoltages from a-SiC photocathodes with an amorphous TiO2 front surface field layer for solar hydrogen evolution
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  1469. A thermistor-based temperature sensor for a real-time clock with ±2 ppm frequency stability
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  1470. A comparative analysis of phase-domain ADC and amplitude-domain IQ ADC
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  1471. Dependable multicore architectures at nanoscale: The view from Europe
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  1472. Increasing the trustworthiness of embedded applications
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  1473. Secure hardware-software architectures for robust computing systems
    Athanasopoulos, E., Boehner, M., Ioannidis, S., Giuffrida, C., Pidan, D., Prevelakis, V., Sourdis, I.; Strydis, C.; Thomson, J.;
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  1474. Design, Fabrication, and Measurements of a 0.3 THz On-Chip Double Slot Antenna Enhanced by Artificial Dielectrics
    Syed, Waqas H.; Fiorentino, Giuseppe; Cavallo, Daniele; Spirito, Marco; Sarro, Pasqualina M.; Neto, Andrea;
    IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology,
    Volume 5, Issue 2, pp. 288-298, 2015. DOI: 10.1109/TTHZ.2015.2399276
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  1475. Frequency reconfiguration of a dual-band phased array antenna with variable-impedance matching
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  1476. Threat-based sensor management for target tracking
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    Volume 51, Issue 4, pp. 2772--2785, 2015.

  1477. Ultra-wideband radar imaging using a hybrid of Kirchhoff migration and stolt F-K migration with an inverse boundary scattering transform
    T Sakamoto; T Sato; PJ Aubry; A Yarovoy;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 63, Issue 8, pp. 3502--3512, 2015.

  1478. A 15-Channel digital active electrode system for multi-parameter biopotential measurement
    J. Xu; B. Busze; C. van Hoof; K.A.A. Makinwa; R.F. Yazicioglu;
    IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits,
    Volume 50, Issue 9, pp. 2090-2100, 2015. Available online 1-5-2015.

  1479. TiO2/Cu2O All-Oxide Heterojunction Solar Cells Produced by Spray Pyrolysis
    M. Pavan; S. Rühle; A. Ginsburg; D. A. Keller; H. Barad; P. M. Sberna; D. Nunes; R. Martins; A. Y. Anderson; A. Zaban; E. Fortunato;
    Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells,
    Volume 132, pp. 549-556, Jan. 2015.
    document

  1480. An Aggregate Model of Plug-In Electric Vehicles for Primary Frequency Control
    Izadkhast, S.; Garcia-Gonzalez, P.; Frías, P.;
    IEEE Transactions on Power Systems,
    Volume 30, Issue 3, pp. 1475--1482, May 2015. DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2014.2337373
    Abstract: ... The penetration level of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) has the potential to be notably increased in the near future, and as a consequence, power systems face new challenges and opportunities. In particular, PEVs are able to provide different types of power system ancillary services. The capability of storing energy and the instantaneous active power control of the fast-switching converters of PEVs are two attractive features that enable PEVs to provide various ancillary services, e.g., primary frequency control (PFC). However, concurrently, PEVs are obliged to be operated and controlled within limits, which curbs the grid support from PEVs. This paper proposes a new model for PEV using a participation factor, which facilitates the incorporation of several PEV fleets characteristics such as minimum desired state of charge (SOC) of the PEV owners, drive train power limitations, constant current and constant voltage charging modes of PEVs. In order to reduce computational complexity, an aggregate model of PEVs is provided using statistical data. In the end, the performance of PEVs for the provision of PFC is evaluated in a power system. Results show that PEV fleets can successfully improve frequency response, once all the operating constraints are respected.

  1481. Silicon-Based Technology for Integrated Waveguides and mm-Wave Systems
    Jovanović, Vladimir; Gentile, Gennaro; Dekker, Ronald; de Graaf, Pascal; de Vreede, Leo C. N.; Nanver, Lis K.; Spirito, Marco;
    IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices,
    Volume 62, Issue 10, pp. 3153-3159, 2015. DOI: 10.1109/TED.2015.2466441
    Keywords: ... Waveguide transitions;Silicon;Rectangular waveguides;Metals;Waveguide components;Capacitors;Resistors;Deep reactive-ion etching (DRIE);IC technology;millimeter-wave (mm-wave) system;substrate transfer;substrate-integrated waveguide (SIW);waveguide.;Deep reactive-ion etching (DRIE);IC technology;millimeter-wave (mm-wave) system;substrate transfer;substrate-integrated waveguide (SIW);waveguide.

  1482. Outphasing transmitters, enabling digital-like amplifier operation with high efficiency and spectral purity
    de Vreede, Leo C. N.; Acar, Mustafa; Calvillo-Cortes, David A.; van der Heijden, Mark P.; Wesson, Rosbin; de Langen, Michel; Qureshi, Jawad;
    IEEE Communications Magazine,
    Volume 53, Issue 4, pp. 216-225, 2015. DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2015.7081097

  1483. Design and fabrication of a foldable 3D silicon based package for solid state lighting applications
    R. Sokolovskij; Pan Liu; H.W. van Zeijl; B. Mimoun; GuoQi Zhang;
    Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering,
    Volume 25, Issue 5, pp. 055017, 2015.

  1484. Optimization of LED light spectrum to enhance colorfulness of illuminated objects with white light constraints
    H. Wu; J. Dong; G. Qi; GuoQi Zhang;
    Journal of the Optical Society of America A,
    Volume 32, Issue 7, pp. 1262-1270, 2015.

  1485. Optimal Design of Life Testing for High Brightness White LEDs Using the Six Sigma DMAIC Approach
    Chuen Yung; Xuejun Fan; GuoQi Zhang; Michael Pecht;
    IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability,
    Volume 15, Issue 4, pp. 576-587, 2015.

  1486. Ab Initio Study of Temperature, Humidity, and Covalent Functionalization-Induced Bandgap Change of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
    Xian-Ping Chen; Ning Yang; Jun-Ke Jiang; Qiu-Hua Liang; Dao-Guo Yang; GuoQi Zhang;
    IEEE Electron Device Letters,
    Volume 36, Issue 6, 2015.

  1487. Rapid degradation of mid-power white-light LEDs in saturated moisture conditions
    Jianlin Huang, D. S. Golubovic, S. Koh, D. Yang, X. Li, X. Fan,; GuoQi Zhang;
    IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability,
    Volume 15, Issue 4, pp. 478-485, 2015.

  1488. Light-Emitting n-ZnO Nanotube/n+-GaAs Heterostructures Processed at Low Temperatures
    F. Karegar; M. Kolahdouz; F. D. Nayeri; R. Soleimanzadeh; M. Hosseini; Z Kolahdouz; GuoQi Zhang;
    IEEE Photonics Technology Letters,
    Volume 27, Issue 13, pp. 1430-1433, 2015.

  1489. Degradation modeling of mid-power white-light LEDs by using Wiener process
    Jianlin Huang; D. S. Golubović; S. Koh; D. Yang; X. Li; X. Fan; GuoQi Zhang;
    Optics Express,
    Volume 23, pp. A966-A978, 2015.

  1490. Sequential microwave-assisted ultra-fast ZnO nanorod growth on optimized sol–gel seedlayers
    R. Soleimanzadeh; M. S. S. Mousavi; A. Mehrfar; Z. Kolahdouz; M. Kolahdouz; GuoQi Zhang;
    Journal of Crystal Growth,
    Volume 426, pp. 228-233, 2015.

  1491. Optical degradation mechanisms of mid-power white-light LEDs in LM-80-08 tests
    Jianlin Huang, D. S. Golubović, S. Koh, D. Yang, X. Li, X. Fan,; GuoQi Zhang;
    Microelectronics Reliability,
    Volume 55, Issue 2654-2662, 2015.

  1492. Highly selective and responsive ultra-violet detection using an improved phototransistor
    R. Soleimanzadeh; M. Kolahdouz; M. A. Charsooghi; Z. Kolahdouz; GuoQi Zhang;
    Applied Physics Letters,
    Volume 106, Issue 23, pp. 231102, 2015.

  1493. Degradation Mechanisms of Mid-power White-light LEDs under High Temperature-Humidity Conditions
    Jianlin Huang; D.S. Golubović; S. Koh; D. Yang; X. Li; X. Fan; GuoQi Zhang;
    IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability,
    Volume 15, Issue 2, pp. 220-228, 2015.

  1494. SiNW-FET in-Air Biosensors for High Sensitive and Specific Detection in Breast Tumor Extract
    Puppo, F.; Doucey, Marie-Agnes; Delaloye, Jean-Francois; Moh, T.S.Y.; Pandraud, G.; Sarro, P.M.; De Micheli, G.; Carrara, S.;
    IEEE Sensors Journal,
    2015.

  1495. Manufacturing uniform field silicon drift detector using double boron layer
    Negin Golshani; C.I.M Beenakker; Ryoichi Ishihara;
    Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A,
    Volume 794, pp. 206-214, 2015.

  1496. Degradation of Microcellular PET Reflective Materials Used in LED-based Products
    Guangjun Lu; W.D. van Driel; Xuejun Fan; M. Yazdan Mehr; Jiajie Fan; K.M.B. Jansen; GuoQi Zhang;
    Optical Materials,
    Volume 49, pp. 79-84, 2015.

  1497. Solution-processed polycrystalline silicon on paper
    M. Trifunovic; T. Shimoda; R. Ishihara;
    Applied Physics Letters,
    Volume 106, pp. 163502, 2015.

  1498. Low loss single-crystal silicon mechanical resonators for the investigation of thermal noise statistical properties
    E.Serra; M. Bonaldi; A.Borrielli; L.Conti; G. Pandraud; P. M. Sarro;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical,
    Volume 227, pp. 48-54, 2015.

  1499. Fabrication of Low Temperature Carbon Nanotube Vertical Interconnects Compatible with Semiconductor Technology
    S. Vollebregt; R. Ishihara;
    Journal of Visual Experiments,
    Volume 106, pp. e53260, 2015.
    document

  1500. First-principles study of the effect of functional groups on polyaniline backbone
    X P Chen; J K Jiang; Q H Liang; N Yang; Huaiyu Ye; M Cai; L Shen; D G Yang; T L Ren;
    Scientific Reports,
    Volume 5, pp. 16907, 2015.

  1501. Color shift investigations for LED secondary optical designs: Comparison between BPA-PC and PMMA
    Guangjun Lu; M. Yazdan Mehr; W.D. van Driel; Xuejun Fan; Jiajie Fan; K.M.B. Jansen; GuoQi Zhang;
    Optical Materials,
    Volume 45, pp. 37-41, 2015.

  1502. Impact of the atomic layer deposition precursors diffusion on solid-state carbon nanotube based supercapacitors performances
    G Fiorentino; S Vollebregt; FD Tichelaar; R Ishihara; PM Sarro;
    IOP Nanotechnology,
    Volume 26, Issue 6, pp. 064002, 2015.
    document

  1503. Dynamical back-action effects in low loss optomechanical oscillators
    A. Pontin; M. Bonaldi; A. Borrielli; F. Marino; L. Marconi; A. Bagolini; G. Pandraud; E. Serra; G.A. Prodi; F. Marin;
    Annalen der Physik,
    Volume 527, Issue 1-2, pp. 89-99, 2015.

  1504. High-ohmic resistors fabricated by PureB layer for silicon drift detectors applications
    Negin Golshani; Jaber Derakhshandeh; C.I.M. Beenakker; R. Ishihara;
    Solid-State Electronics,
    Volume 105, pp. 6-11, 2015.

  1505. 3D system-in-package design using stacked silicon submount technology
    Mingzhi Dong; Fabio Santagata; Robert Sokolovskij; Jia Wei; Cadmus Yuan; GuoQi Zhang;
    Microelectronics International,
    Volume 32, Issue 2, pp. 63-72, 2015.

  1506. Fabrication and characterization of low loss MOMS resonators for cavity opto-mechanics
    E. Serra; M. Bonaldi; A. Borrielli; F. Marin; L. Marconi; F. Marino; G. Pandraud; A. Pontine; G.A. Prodi; P.M. Sarro;
    Microelectronic Engineering,
    2015.
    document

  1507. Role of atomic layer deposited aluminum oxide as oxidation barrier for silicon based materials
    G. Fiorentino; B. Morana; S. Forte; P.M .Sarro;
    Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A,
    Volume 33, pp. 01A142, 2015.

  1508. Ingredients for sensors science
    Arnaldo D'Amicoa; Corrado Di Natalea; Pasqualina M. Sarro;
    Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical,
    Volume 207, pp. 1060-1068, 2015.

  1509. Structured film for compensation of anthropogenic radiative forcing
    G. Vdovin; P.M. Sarro; O. Soloviev; M. Loktev; R. Angel;
    Optics Letters,
    2015.

  1510. Intelligent voltage ramp-up time adaptation for temperature noise reduction on memory-based PUF systems
    Cortez, Mafalda; Hamdioui, Said; Kaichouhi, Ali; van der Leest, Vincent; Maes, Roel; Schrijen, Geert-Jan;
    IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems,
    Volume 34, Issue 7, pp. 1162--1175, 2015.
    document

  1511. A High-Power CMOS Class-D Amplifier for Inductive-Link Medical Transmitters
    Valente, Virgilio; Eder, Clemens; Donaldson, Nick; Demosthenous, Andreas;
    IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics,
    Volume 30, Issue 8, pp. 4477--4488, August 2015. DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2014.2353214
    document

  1512. Aspect angle dependence and multistatic data fusion for micro-Doppler classification of armed/unarmed personnel
    Fioranelli, Francesco; Ritchie, Matthew; Griffiths, Hugh;
    IET RADAR SONAR AND NAVIGATION,
    Volume 9, Issue 9, SI, pp. 1231-1239, DEC 2015. DOI: 10.1049/iet-rsn.2015.0058

  1513. Personnel recognition based on multistatic micro-Doppler and singular value decomposition features
    Fioranelli, F.; Ritchie, M.; Griffiths, H.;
    ELECTRONICS LETTERS,
    Volume 51, Issue 25, pp. 2144-2145, DEC 10 2015. DOI: 10.1049/el.2015.3513

  1514. Classification of loaded/unloaded micro-drones using multistatic radar
    Fioranelli, F.; Ritchie, M.; Griffiths, H.; Borrion, H.;
    ELECTRONICS LETTERS,
    Volume 51, Issue 22, pp. 1813-1814, OCT 22 2015. DOI: 10.1049/el.2015.3038

  1515. Classification of Unarmed/Armed Personnel Using the NetRAD Multistatic Radar for Micro-Doppler and Singular Value Decomposition Features
    Fioranelli, Francesco; Ritchie, Matthew; Griffiths, Hugh;
    IEEE GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING LETTERS,
    Volume 12, Issue 9, pp. 1933-1937, SEP 2015. DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2015.2439393

  1516. Multistatic human micro-Doppler classification of armed/unarmed personnel
    Fioranelli, Francesco; Ritchie, Matthew; Griffiths, Hugh;
    IET RADAR SONAR AND NAVIGATION,
    Volume 9, Issue 7, pp. 857-865, AUG 2015. DOI: 10.1049/iet-rsn.2014.0360

  1517. Through-The-Wall Detection With Gated FMCW Signals Using Optimized Patch-Like and Vivaldi Antennas
    Fioranelli, Francesco; Salous, Sana; Ndip, Ivan; Raimundo, Xavier;
    IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION,
    Volume 63, Issue 3, pp. 1106-1117, MAR 2015. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2015.2389793

  1518. Measurement and analysis of multiband bistatic and monostatic radar signatures of wind turbines
    Ritchie, M.; Fioranelli, F.; Balleri, A.; Griffiths, H. D.;
    ELECTRONICS LETTERS,
    Volume 51, Issue 14, pp. 1112+, JUL 9 2015. DOI: 10.1049/el.2015.0856

  1519. Novel Methods to Accelerate CS Radar Imaging by NUFFT
    Sun, Shilong; Zhu, Guofu; Jin, Tian;
    IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing,
    Volume 53, Issue 1, pp. 557-566, Jan 2015. DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2014.2325492
    document

  1520. CSI-EPT: A Contrast Source Inversion Approach to Improved MRI-Based Electric Properties Tomography
    E. Balidemaj; C. van den Berg; J. Trinks; A. van Lier; A. Nederveen; L. Stalpers; H. Crezee; R. Remis;
    IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging,
    Volume 34, pp. 1788-1796, 2015.
    document

  1521. A Theoretical Approach Based on Electromagnetic Scattering for Analysing Dielectric Shimming in High Field MRI
    W. Brink; R. Remis; A. Webb;
    Magnetic Resonance in Medicine,
    pp. 1-10, 2015. DOI: 10.1002/mrm.25783
    document

  1522. Magnetic counter for Group B Streptococci detection in milk
    Duarte, Carla Margarida; Fernandes, Ana Carolina; Cardoso, Filipe Arroyo; Bexiga, Ricardo; Cardoso, Susana Freitas; Freitas, Paulo JP;
    IEEE Transactions on Magnetics,
    Volume 51, Issue 1, pp. 1-4, 2015.

  1523. Real-time monitoring of magnetic nanoparticles diffusion in lateral flow microporous membrane using spin valve sensors
    Chicharo, Alexandre; Cardoso, Filipe Arroyo; Cardoso, Susana; Freitas, Paulo JP;
    IEEE Transactions on Magnetics,
    Volume 51, Issue 1, pp. 1-4, 2015.

  1524. Magnetic-based biomolecule detection using giant magnetoresistance sensors
    Kokkinis, G; Jamalieh, M; Cardoso, Filipe Arroyo; Cardoso, S; Keplinger, F; Giouroudi, I;
    Journal of Applied Physics,
    Volume 117, Issue 17, pp. 17B731, 2015.

  1525. A novel approach for detection and quantification of magnetic nanomarkers using a spin valve GMR-integrated microfluidic sensor
    Devkota, J; Kokkinis, G; Berris, T; Jamalieh, M; Cardoso, S; Cardoso, Filipe Arroyo; Srikanth, Hariharan; Phan, Manh-Huong; Giouroudi, I;
    RSC Advances,
    Volume 5, Issue 63, pp. 51169-51175, 2015.

  1526. BMP Signalling Differentially Regulates Distinct Haematopoietic Stem Cell Types
    Mihaela Crisan; Parham Solaimani Kartalaei; Chris S. Vink; Tomoko Yamada-Inagawa; Karine Bollerot; Wilfred van IJcken; Reinier van der Linden; Susana M. Chuva de Sousa Lopes; Rui Monteiro; Christine Mummery; Elaine Dzierzak;
    Nature Communications,
    Volume 6, Issue 1, August 2015. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9040
    document

  1527. Bidirectional microfluidic pumping using an array of magnetic Janus microspheres rotating around magnetic disks
    Van Den Beld, Wesley T. E.; Cadena, Natalia L.; Bomer, Johan; De Weerd, Eddy L.; Abelmann, Leon; Van Den Berg, Albert; Eijkel, Jan C. T.;
    Lab on a Chip,
    Volume 15, Issue 13, pp. 2872 – 2878, 2015. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1039/c5lc00199d
    Keywords: ... Magnetics; Microfluidic Analytical Techniques; Microspheres; Models, Theoretical; Rotation; ferromagnetic material; microsphere; polystyrene; algorithm; Article; dipole; flow measurement; flow rate; fluid flow; force; lab on a chip; magnetic field; microfluidics; microscopy; priority journal; rotation; viscosity; devices; magnetism; microfluidic analysis; theoretical model.

    Abstract: ... We demonstrate a novel, flexible and programmable method to pump liquid through microchannels in lab-on-a-chip systems without the use of an external pump. The pumping principle is based on the rotation of ferromagnetic Janus microspheres around permalloy disks, driven by an external rotating magnetic field. By placing the disks close to the edge of the microchannel, a pumping rate of at least 0.3 nL min-1 was measured using tracking microspheres. Geometric programming of the pumping direction is possible by positioning the magnetic disk close to the side wall. A second degree of freedom in the pumping direction is offered by the rotational direction of the external magnetic field. This method is especially suited for flow-controlled recirculation of chemical and biological species in microchannels - for example, medium recirculation in culture chambers - opening the way towards novel, portable, on-chip applications without the need for external fluidic or electrical connections. © The Royal Society of Chemistry.

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  1528. Young's modulus and residual stress of GeSbTe phase-change thin films
    Nazeer, Hammad; Bhaskaran, Harish; Woldering, L{\' e}on A.; Abelmann, Leon;
    Thin Solid Films,
    Volume 592, pp. 69 – 75, 2015. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1016/j.tsf.2015.08.049
    Keywords: ... Antimony compounds; Digital storage; Elastic moduli; Germanium compounds; Residual stresses; Strain; Tellurium compounds; Crucial parameters; GeSbTe; Micro-cantilevers; Non-volatile; Non-volatile data; Phase Change; Phase change films; Phase change thin films; Phase change materials.

    Abstract: ... The mechanical properties of phase change materials alter when the phase is transformed. In this paper, we report on experiments that determine the change in crucial parameters such as Young's modulus and residual stress for two of the most widely employed compositions of phase change films, Ge1Sb2Te4 and Ge2Sb2Te5, using an accurate microcantilever methodology. The results support understanding of the exact mechanisms that account for the phase transition, especially with regard to stress, which leads to drift in non-volatile data storage. Moreover, detailed information on the change in mechanical properties will enable the design of novel low-power nonvolatile MEMS. © 2015 Elsevier B.V.

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  1529. Vacuum behavior and control of a MEMS stage with integrated thermal displacement sensor
    Krijnen, B.; Brouwer, D. M.; Abelmann, L.; Herder, J. L.;
    Sensors and Actuators, A: Physical,
    Volume 234, pp. 321 – 330, 2015. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1016/j.sna.2015.09.005
    Keywords: ... Control; Frequency domain analysis; Low pass filters; Mechanisms; MEMS; Notch filters; Q factor measurement; Thermal conductivity; Vacuum; Closed-loop behavior; Electrostatic comb drives; Integral controllers; Integrated sensors; Q-factors; Reduced resolution; Thermal displacement sensors; Vacuum environment; Controllers.

    Abstract: ... We investigate the applicability of a MEMS stage in a vacuum environment. The stage is suspended by a flexure mechanism and is actuated by electrostatic comb-drives. The position of the stage is measured by an integrated sensor based on the conductance of heat through air. The vacuum behavior of the sensor and the stage is identified. A model for thermal conductivity and viscous damping as a function of the vacuum pressure is presented and validated by measuring the decreasing sensor response and the increasing Q-factor for decreasing pressure. We have identified the system in the frequency domain, which is used to compare the closed-loop behavior with three different controllers: an integral controller, an integral controller with low-pass filter, and an integral controller with notch filter. The integral controller can become unstable due to the high Q-factor in vacuum. Adding a low-pass or a notch filter improves the stability at low pressures. Since the integral controller with notch filter shows the lowest settling time, this is the preferred controller. Overall, we are able to control the position of the MEMS stage at a pressure of 1 mbar with a reduced resolution of approximately 1.1 μm, but with a good settling time of 2.2 ms. © 2015 Elsevier B.V.© 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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  1530. Direct coupling of a free-flow isotachophoresis (FFITP) device with electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS)
    Park, J. K.; Campos, C. D. M.; Neu{\v z}il, P.; Abelmann, L.; Guijt, R. M.; Manz, A.;
    Lab on a Chip,
    Volume 15, Issue 17, pp. 3495 – 3502, 2015. All Open Access, Green Open Access, Hybrid Gold Open Access. DOI: 10.1039/c5lc00523j
    Keywords: ... Citric Acid; Equipment Design; Fluorescein; Isotachophoresis; Lab-On-A-Chip Devices; Models, Chemical; Spectrometry, Mass, Electrospray Ionization; citric acid; fluorescein; analytical equipment; Article; electric field; electrospray mass spectrometry; free flow isotachophoresis; free flow isotachophoresis device; hydrodynamics; isotachophoresis; microfluidics; microtechnology; optical resolution; priority journal; proteomics; chemical model; devices; electrospray mass spectrometry; equipment design; isotachophoresis; lab on a chip.

    Abstract: ... We present the online coupling of a free-flow isotachophoresis (FFITP) device to an electrospray ionization mass spectrometer (ESI-MS) for continuous analysis without extensive sample preparation. Free-flow-electrophoresis techniques are used for continuous electrophoretic separations using an electric field applied perpendicular to the buffer and sample flow, with FFITP using a discontinuous electrolyte system to concurrently focus a target analyte and remove interferences. The online coupling of FFITP to ESI-MS decouples the separation and detection timeframe because the electrophoretic separation takes place perpendicular to the flow direction, which can be beneficial for monitoring (bio)chemical changes and/or extensive MSn studies. We demonstrated the coupling of FFITP with ESI-MS for simultaneous concentration of target analytes and sample clean-up. Furthermore, we show hydrodynamic control of the fluidic fraction injected into the MS, allowing for fluidically controlled scanning of the ITP window. Future applications of this approach are expected in monitoring biochemical changes and proteomics. © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2015.

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  1531. Magnetic drug delivery with FePd nanowires
    Pondman, Kirsten M.; Bunt, Nathan D.; Maijenburg, A. Wouter; Van Wezel, Richard J. A.; Kishore, Uday; Abelmann, Leon; Ten Elshof, Johan E.; Ten Haken, Bennie;
    Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials,
    Volume 380, pp. 299 – 306, 2015. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmmm.2014.10.101
    Keywords: ... Blood; Cell culture; Drug delivery; Drug interactions; Endothelial cells; Hemodynamics; Magnetic moments; Magnetism; Magnets; Nanoparticles; Nanowires; Toxicity; Endothelial cell line; High magnetic moments; Immune response; In-vivo experiments; Magnetic drug delivery; Magnetic nano-particles; Negative side effects; Systemic administration; Nanomagnetics.

    Abstract: ... Magnetic drug delivery is a promising method to target a drug to a diseased area while reducing negative side effects caused by systemic administration of drugs. In magnetic drug delivery a therapeutic agent is coupled to a magnetic nanoparticle. The particles are injected and at the target location withdrawn from blood flow by a magnetic field. In this study a FePd nanowire is developed with optimised properties for magnetic targeting. The nanowires have a high magnetic moment to reduce the field gradient needed to capture them with a magnet. The dimensions and the materials of the nanowire and coating are such that they are dispersable in aqueous media, non-cytotoxic, easily phagocytosed and not complement activating. This is established in several in-vitro tests with macrophage and endothelial cell lines. Along with the nanowires a magnet is designed, optimised for capture of the nanowires from the blood flow in the hind leg of a rat. The system is used in a pilot scale in-vivo experiment. No negative side effects from injection of the nanowires were found within the limited time span of the experiment. In this first pilot experiment no nanowires were found to be targeted by the magnet, or in the liver, kidneys or spleen, most likely the particles were removed during the fixation procedure. © 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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  1532. Erratum to "A Large-Stroke 3DOF Stage With Integrated Feedback in MEMS"
    Krijnen, Bram; Swinkels, Koen R.; Brouwer, Dannis M.; Abelmann, Leon; Herder, Just L.;
    Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems,
    Volume 24, Issue 5, pp. 1659, 2015. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1109/JMEMS.2015.2452791
    document

  1533. Capillary origami of micro-machined micro-objects: Bi-layer conductive hinges
    Legrain, A.; Berenschot, J. W.; Tas, N. R.; Abelmann, L.;
    Microelectronic Engineering,
    Volume 140, pp. 60 – 66, 2015. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1016/j.mee.2015.06.004
    Keywords: ... Electrodes; Platinum; Silicon nitride; Capillary force; Conductive electrodes; Different layers; Electronic functionality; Fabrication yield; Folding process; Plasma cleaning; Platinum electrodes; Hinges.

    Abstract: ... Recently, we demonstrated controllable 3D self-folding by means of capillary forces of silicon-nitride micro-objects made of rigid plates connected to each other by flexible hinges (Legrain et al., 2014). In this paper, we introduce platinum electrodes running from the substrate to the plates over these bendable hinges. The fabrication yield is as high as (77 ± 2)% for hinges with a length less than 75 μm. The yield reduces to (18 ± 2)% when the length increases above 100 μm. Most of the failures in conductivity are due to degradation of the platinum/chromium layer stack during the final plasma cleaning step. The bi-layer hinges survive the capillary folding process, even for extremely small bending radii of 5 μm, nor does the bending have any impact on the conductivity. Stress in the different layers deforms the hinges, which does not affect the conductivity. Once assembled, the conductive hinges can withstand a current density of (1.6 ± 0.4) × 106 A/cm2. This introduction of conductive electrodes to elastocapillary self-folded silicon-based micro-objects extends the range of their possible applications by allowing an electronic functionality of the folded parts. © 2015 Elsevier B.V.All rights reserved.

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  1534. Electric field controlled nanoscale contactless deposition using a nanofluidic scanning probe
    Geerlings, Jo{\" e}l; Sarajlic, Edin; Berenschot, Erwin J. W.; Sanders, Remco G. P.; Siekman, Martin H.; Abelmann, Leon; Tas, Niels R.;
    Applied Physics Letters,
    Volume 107, Issue 12, 2015. All Open Access, Green Open Access, Hybrid Gold Open Access. DOI: 10.1063/1.4931354
    Keywords: ... Electric fields; Liquids; Nanotechnology; Sodium deposits; Sodium sulfate; Substrates; Wetting; Contact less; Contactless deposition; Deposition current; Liquid deposition; Non-contact; Polar liquids; Scanning probes; Simple modeling; Deposition.

    Abstract: ... A technique for contactless liquid deposition on the nanoscale assisted by an electric field is presented. By the application of a voltage between the liquid inside a (FluidFM) nanofountain pen AFM probe and a substrate, accurate contactless deposition is achieved. This technique allows for the deposition of polar liquids on non-wetting substrates. Sodium sulfate dried deposits indicate that the spot size and height increases with t0.33±0.04 and t0.35±0.10, respectively. The minimum observed diameter was 70nm. By measuring the probe deflection and the electric deposition current, we confirm that deposition is truly non-contact. We propose a simple model based on a constant stream of liquid to the substrate, which explains our observations qualitatively. © 2015 Author(s).

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  1535. A Large-Stroke 3DOF Stage With Integrated Feedback in MEMS
    Krijnen, Bram; Swinkels, Koen R.; Brouwer, Dannis M.; Abelmann, Leon; Herder, Just L.;
    Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems,
    Volume 24, Issue 6, pp. 1720 – 1729, 2015. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1109/JMEMS.2015.2432054
    Keywords: ... Electromechanical devices; Electrostatic actuators; Electrostatics; Mechanisms; MEMS; Transfer functions; Displacement sensor; Electrostatic comb drives; Fabrication process; Flexure mechanism; Geometric transfer functions; Kinematic relations; Micro electromechanical system (MEMS); Positioning stage; Position control.

    Abstract: ... In this paper, we design, fabricate, and validate a large-stroke 3-degree-of-freedom (DOF) positioning stage with integrated displacement sensors for feedback control in a single-mask microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) fabrication process. Three equal shuttles exactly define the position of the stage in x, y, and Rz. The kinematic relation between the shuttle positions and the stage position is given by the geometric transfer function. By increasing the order of this geometric transfer function, the stage error can be reduced. Each shuttle consists of a flexure mechanism, a position sensor, and electrostatic comb drive actuators for actuation along a straight line. The range of motion of the stage is limited by electrostatic pull-in of these comb drives. Three parameters of the stage, the leafspring length, the eccentricity, and the tangential arm, have been varied to find their influence on the stage range of motion. These simulation results can be used to design stages with different specifications. Position control of the individual shuttles is applied to control the position of the stage. The stroke of the 3DOF stage is verified up to 161 μm in x, 175 μm in y, and 325 mrad in Rz. This exceeds the range of motion of existing stages. [2014-0314] © 2015 IEEE.

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  1536. Compositional dependence of the young's modulus and piezoelectric coefficient of (110)-oriented pulsed laser deposited PZT thin films
    Nazeer, Hammad; Nguyen, Minh D.; Sukas, {\"O}zlem Sardan; Rijnders, Guus; Abelmann, Leon; Elwenspoek, Miko C.;
    Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems,
    Volume 24, Issue 1, pp. 166 – 173, 2015. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1109/JMEMS.2014.2323476
    Keywords: ... Ceramic materials; Deposition; Electromechanical devices; Lead; MEMS; Microelectromechanical devices; Piezoelectricity; Pulsed laser deposition; Pulsed lasers; Thin films; Zirconium; Compositional dependence; Coupling coefficient; Flexural resonance frequency; Piezoelectric coefficient; Piezoelectric property; Preferred orientations; PZT; Young's Modulus; Elastic moduli.

    Abstract: ... In this contribution, we report on the compositional dependence of the mechanical and piezoelectric properties of Pb(ZrxTi1-x)O3 (PZT) thin films fabricated by pulsed laser deposition (PLD). These films grow epitaxially on silicon with a (110) preferred orientation and have excellent piezoelectric properties, which make them outstanding candidates for application in microelectromechanical system devices. Vibrometric measurements on capacitors showed that the effective longitudinal piezoelectric coefficient (d33,f) of 100-nm thick PZT films has a maximum value of 72 pm/V for a composition of x = 0.52. The Young's modulus was determined by measuring the difference in the flexural resonance frequencies of cantilevers before and after the deposition of the PZT thin films. The compositional dependence of the Young's modulus shows an increase in value for the Zr-rich compositions, which is in agreement with the trend observed in their bulk ceramic counterparts. From the obtained dielectric constant and d33,f, we show that the calculated coupling coefficients of the PLD-PZT thin films have higher values for most of the compositions than their ceramic counterparts. [2013-0039] © 2014 IEEE.

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  1537. A 3 ppm 1.5 × 0.8 mm 2 1.0 µA 32.768 kHz MEMS-Based Oscillator
    Zaliasl, Samira; Salvia, Jim C.; Hill, Ginel C.; Chen, Lijun; Joo, Kimo; Palwai, Rajkumar; Arumugam, Niveditha; Phadke, Meghan; Mukherjee, Shouvik; Lee, Hae-Chang; Grosjean, Charles; Hagelin, Paul M.; Pamarti, Sudhakar; Fiez, Terri S.; Makinwa, Kofi A. A.; Partridge, Aaron; Menon, Vinod;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 50, Issue 1, pp. 291-302, 2015. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2014.2360377
    Keywords: ... Oscillators;Micromechanical devices;Clocks;Phase locked loops;Resonant frequency;Temperature sensors;Modulation;Low power design;MEMS oscillator;MEMS resonator;real time clock;sub-threshold;32 kHz oscillator;32 kHz XO and TCXO.

  1538. Sparsity-Aware Sensor Selection: Centralized and Distributed Algorithms
    H. Jamali-Rad; A. Simonetto; G. Leus;
    IEEE Signal Processing Letters,
    Volume 21, Issue 2, pp. 217-220, February 2014.
    document

  1539. Channel estimation and hybrid precoding for millimeter wave cellular systems
    A. Alkhateeb; O. El Ayach; G. Leus; R.W. Heath;
    IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing,
    Volume 8, Issue 5, pp. 831-846, October 2014. DOI: 10.1109/JSTSP.2014.2334278
    document

  1540. Compressive sampling-based multiple symbol differential detection for UWB communications
    S. Gishkori; V. Lottici; and G. Leus;
    IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications,
    Volume 13, Issue 7, pp. 3778–3790, July 2014.
    document

  1541. Distributed maximum likelihood sensor network localization
    A. Simonetto; G. Leus;
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing,
    Volume 62, Issue 6, pp. 1424–1437, March 2014.
    document

  1542. Time-of-arrival estimation by UWB radios with low sampling rate and clock drift calibration
    Yiyin Wang; G. Leus; H. Delic;
    Elsevier Signal Processing,
    Volume 94, Issue 1, pp. 465-475, January 2014.
    document

  1543. Multizone Speech Reinforcement
    J.B. Crespo; R.C. Hendriks;
    IEEE/ACM Trans. Audio, Speech, and Language Processing,
    Volume 22, Issue 1, pp. 54-66, January 2014. DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2013.2283100
    document

  1544. Distributed Delay and Sum Beamformer for Speech Enhancement via Randomized Gossip
    Yuan Zeng; R.C. Hendriks;
    IEEE/ACM Trans. Audio, Speech, and Language Processing,
    Volume 22, Issue 1, pp. 260-273, January 2014. DOI: 10.1109/TASLP.2013.2290861
    document

  1545. Parallel Channel Estimator and Equalizer for Mobile OFDM Systems
    Yongfeng Guan; Tao Xu; R. van Leuken; Manyi Qian;
    Circuits Syst Signal Process.,
    Volume 33, pp. 839-861, March 2014. DOI: 10.1007/s00034-013-9664-6
    document

  1546. System fault-tolerance analysis of COTS-based satellite on-board computers
    D. Burlyaev; T.G.R.M. van Leuken;
    Microelectronics Journal,
    Volume 45, Issue 10, pp. 1335-1341, October 2014. DOI: 10.1016/j.mejo.2014.01.007
    document

  1547. Pronto: A Low Overhead Message Passing System for High Performance Many-Core Processors
    S.S. Kumar; Mitzi Tijin-A-Djie; T.G.R.M. van Leuken;
    International Journal of Networking and Computing,
    Volume 4, Issue 2, pp. 307-320, July 2014. ISSN 2185-2839.
    document

  1548. Considering Crosstalk Effects in Statistical Timing Analysis
    Qin Tang; A. Zjajo; M. Berkelaar; N.P. van der Meijs;
    IEEE Tr. Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems,
    Volume 33, Issue 2, pp. 318-322, February 2014. DOI: 10.1109/TCAD.2013.2279515
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  1549. Statistical Transistor-Level Timing Analysis Using a Direct Random Differential Equation Solver
    Qin Tang; J. Rodriguez; A. Zjajo; M. Berkelaar; N.P. van der Meijs;
    IEEE Tr. Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems,
    Volume 33, Issue 2, pp. 210-223, February 2014. DOI: 10.1109/TCAD.2013.2287179
    document

  1550. Source positioning in a large-scale tiny-sensor network of arbitrary topology
    D. Penkin; G.J.M. Janssen; A. Yarovoy;
    EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing,
    Volume 2014, Issue 4, pp. 1-11, April 2014.
    document

  1551. Impact of a half-space interface on the wireless link between tiny sensor nodes
    D. Penkin; G.J.M. Janssen; A. Yarovoy;
    Radio Science,
    Volume 49, Issue 9, pp. 798-811, September 2014.
    document

  1552. Gradient-based Optimization Algorithms for Networks of Reconfigurable Sensors
    de Groot, T.H.; Krasnov, O.A.; Yarovoy, A.G.;
    Control Engineering Practice,
    Volume 29, Issue 1, pp. 74-85, August 2014.
    document

  1553. A System Level Methodology for Interconnect Aware and Temperature Constrained Power Management of 3D MP-SoCs
    S.S. Kumar; A. Aggarwal; R. Jagtap; A. Zjajo; R. van Leuken;
    IEEE Tr. Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems,
    Volume 22, pp. 1606-1619, 2014.

  1554. Dynamic Thermal Estimation Methodology for High Performance 3D MPSoC
    A. Zjajo; N.P. van der Meijs; R. van Leuken;
    IEEE Tr. Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems,
    Volume 22, pp. 1920-1933, 2014.

  1555. A level-crossing based QRS-detection algorithm for wearable ECG sensors
    Ravanshad, N., Rezaee-Dehsorkh, H.; R. Lotfi; Lian, Y.;
    IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics,
    Volume 18, Issue 1, pp. 183-192, 2014.

  1556. Nonlinear signal-specific ADC for efficient neural recording in brain-machine interfaces
    Judy, M., Sodagar, A.M.; R. Lotfi; Sawan, M.;
    IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems,
    Volume 8, Issue 3, pp. 371-381, 2014.

  1557. A low-power subthreshold to above-threshold voltage level shifter
    Hosseini, S.R., Saberi, M.; R. Lotfi;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs,
    Volume 61, Issue 10, pp. 753-757, 2014.

  1558. Analysis and design of a low-voltage low-power double-tail comparator
    Babayan-Mashhadi, S.; R. Lotfi;
    IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems,
    Volume 22, Issue 2, pp. 343-352, 2014.

  1559. A new approach to design safe and reliable electrical stimulator
    Moradi, S., Maghsoudloo, E.; R. Lotfi;
    International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology,
    Volume 15, Issue 4, pp. 305-316, 2014.

  1560. Segmented architecture for successive approximation analog-to-digital converters
    Saberi, M.; R. Lotfi;
    IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems,
    Volume 22, Issue 3, pp. 593-606, 2014.

  1561. A rigorous equivalent network for linearly polarized THz absorbers
    B. Bl&amp;aacutezquez; N. Llombart; D. Cavallo; A. Freni; A. Neto;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 62, Issue 10, pp. 5077-5088, Oct. 2014. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2014.2341292

  1562. Rigid Body Localization Using Sensor Networks
    S.P. Chepuri; G.J.T. Leus; A.J. van der Veen;
    IEEE Trans. Signal Processing,
    Volume 62, Issue 8, August 2014.
    document

  1563. Sparsity-Aware Multi-Source RSS Localization
    H. Jamali-Rad; H. Ramezani; G. Leus;
    Signal Processing,
    Volume 101, pp. 174-191, August 2014.
    document

  1564. Time-Delay Multiplexing With Linear Arrays of THz Radar Transceivers
    B. Blázquez; K. B. Cooper; N. Llombart;
    IEEE Transactions on TeraHertz Science and Technology,
    Volume 4, Issue 2, pp. 232-239, March 2014.
    document

  1565. Refocusing a THz Imaging Radar: Implementation and Measurements
    N. Llombart; B. Blázquez;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 62, Issue 3, pp. 1529-1534, March 2014.
    document

  1566. The lateral wave antenna
    F. Tokan; N. Turker Tokan; A. Neto; D. Cavallo;
    IEEE Transaction on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 62, Issue 6, pp. 2909-2916, Jun. 2014. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2014.2310465

  1567. Wideband dielectric lens antenna with stable radiation patterns fed by coherent array of connected leaky slots
    O. Yurduseven; D. Cavallo; A. Neto;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 62, Issue 4, pp. 1895-1902, Apr. 2014. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2014.2298875

  1568. Pulsed EM field, close-range signal transfer in layered configurations ? A time-domain analysis
    I. E. Lager; V. Voogt; B. J. Kooij;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 62, Issue 5, pp. 2642-2651, May 2014.
    document

  1569. On the use of leaky wave phased arrays for the reduction of the grating lobe level
    D. Blanco; N. Llombart; E. Rajo-Iglesias;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 62, Issue 4, pp. 1789-1795, April 2014.
    document

  1570. Demonstration of the leaky lens antenna at sub-millimeter wavelengths
    A. Neto; N. Llombart; J. Baselmans; A. Baryshev; S. J. C. Yates;
    IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology,
    Volume 4, Issue 1, pp. 26-32, January 2014.
    document

  1571. SPADnet: Embedded coincidence in a smart sensor network for PET applications
    C. Bruschini; E. Charbon; C. Veerappan; L.H.C. Braga; N. Massari; M. Perenzoni; L. Gasparini; D. Stoppa; R. Walker; A. Erdogan; R. K. Henderson; S. East; L. Grant; B. Jatekos; F. Ujhelyi; G. Erdei; E. L?rinc;
    Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment,
    Volume 734, Issue Part B, pp. 122-126, Jan. 2014.
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  1572. Architecture and applications of a high resolution gated SPAD image sensor
    S. Burri; Y. Maruyama; X. Michalet; F. Regazzoni; C. Bruschini; E. Charbon;
    Optics Express,
    Volume 22, Issue 14, pp. 17573-17589, Jul. 2014.
    document

  1573. Single-photon imaging in complementary metal oxide semiconductor processes
    E. Charbon;
    Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical, Physical \& Engineering Sciences,
    Volume 372, Issue 2012, pp. 1-31, Mar. 2014.
    document

  1574. A 780 x 800 um^2 Multichannel Digital Silicon Photomultiplier With Column-Parallel Time-to-Digital Converter and Basic Characterization
    S. Mandai; V. Jain; E. Charbon;
    IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science,
    Volume 61, Issue 1, pp. 44-52, Feb. 2014.
    document

  1575. Timing optimization utilizing order statistics and multichannel digital silicon photomultipliers
    S. Mandai; E. Venialgo; E. Charbon;
    Optics Letters,
    Volume 39, Issue 3, pp. 552-554, Feb. 2014.
    document

  1576. A 1024 8, 700-ps Time-Gated SPAD Line Sensor for Planetary Surface Exploration With Laser Raman Spectroscopy and LIBS
    Y. Maruyama; J. Blacksberg; E. Charbon;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 49, Issue 1, pp. 179-189, Jan. 2014.
    document

  1577. Single-Photon Avalanche Diode Imagers Applied to Near-Infrared Imaging
    J. M. Pavia; M. Wolf; E. Charbon;
    IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics,
    Volume 20, Issue 6, pp. 3800908, Nov.-Dec. 2014.
    document

  1578. Measurement and modeling of microlenses fabricated on single-photon avalanche diode arrays for fill factor recovery
    J. M. Pavia; M. Wolf; E. Charbon;
    Optics Express,
    Volume 22, Issue 4, pp. 4202-4213, Feb. 2014.
    document

  1579. UV-Sensitive Low Dark-Count PureB Single-Photon Avalanche Diode
    L. Qi; K. R. C. Mok; M. Aminian; E. Charbon; L. K. Nanver;
    IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices,
    Volume 61, Issue 11, pp. 3768-3774, Nov. 2014.

  1580. A Flexible Ultrathin-Body Single-Photon Avalanche Diode With Dual-Side Illumination
    P. Sun; E. Charbon; R. Ishihara;
    IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics,
    Volume 20, Issue 6, pp. 3804708, Nov.-Dec. 2014.

  1581. A Substrate Isolated CMOS SPAD Enabling Wide Spectral Response and Low Electrical Crosstalk
    C. Veerappan; E. Charbon;
    IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics,
    Volume 20, Issue 6, pp. 3801507, Nov.-Dec. 2014.

  1582. Tracking target signal strengths on a grid using sparsity
    S. Farahmand; G.B. Giannakis; G.J.T. Leus; Zhi Tian;
    EURASIP J. Advances Signal Proc.,
    Volume 2014, Issue 7, July 2014. DOI: 10.1186/1687-6180-2014-7
    document

  1583. Signal processing for the 5G revolution
    R.W. Heath; G. Leus; T.Q.S. Quek; S. Talwar; Peiying Zhou;
    IEEE Signal Processing Magazine,
    Volume 31, Issue 6, pp. 12-13, November 2014.
    document

  1584. Closed-form analysis of artificial dielectric layers-Part II: Extension to multiple layers and arbitrary illumination
    D. Cavallo; W. H. Syed; A. Neto;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 62, Issue 12, pp. 6265-6273, Dec. 2014. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2014.2365236

  1585. Closed-form analysis of artificial dielectric layers-Part I: Properties of a single layer under plane-wave incidence
    D. Cavallo; W. H. Syed; A. Neto;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 62, Issue 12, pp. 6256-6264, Dec. 2014. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2014.2365233

  1586. A 0.5-V, 2-nW, 55-dB DR, fourth-order bandpass filter using single branch biquads: an efficient design for FoM enhancement
    Chutham Sawigun; Wannaya Ngamkham; Wouter A. Serdijn;
    Microelectronics Journal,
    Volume 45, Issue 4, pp. 367?374, April 2014. ISSN 0026-2692.
    document
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mejo.2014.01.002

  1587. A 90 nm-CMOS IR-UWB BPSK Transmitter With Spectrum Tunability to Improve Peaceful UWB-Narrowband Coexistence
    Sayed Vahid Mir-Moghtadaei; Ali Fotowat-Ahmady; Abolghasem Zeidaabadi Nezhad; Wouter A. Serdijn;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I: Regular Papers,
    Volume 61, Issue 6, pp. 1836-1848, June 2014. Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TCSI.2013.2290849.
    document

  1588. A Frequency-Selective Broadband Low-Noise Amplifier With Double-Loop Transformer Feedback
    Sumit Bagga; Andre L. Mansano; Wouter A. Serdijn; John R. Long; Koen van Hartingsveldt; Kathleen Philips;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I: Regular Papers,
    Volume 61, Issue 6, pp. 1883-1891, June 2014. Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TCSI.2013.2295010.
    document

  1589. Low-Dropout Voltage Source: An Alternative Approach for Low-Dropout Voltage Regulators
    Hamed Aminzadeh; Mohammad R. Nabavi; Wouter A. Serdijn;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-II: Express Briefs,
    Volume 61, Issue 6, pp. 413-417, June 2014. Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TCSI.2013.2295010.
    document

  1590. Efficacy of high frequency switched-mode stimulation in activating purkinje cells
    M. van Dongen; F. Hoebeek; S. Koekkoek; C. de Zeeuw; W. Serdijn;
    ArXiv.org,
    June 2014.
    document

  1591. Co-Design of a CMOS Rectifier and Small Loop Antenna for Highly Sensitive RF Energy Harvesters
    Mark Stoopman; Shady Keyrouz; Hubregt J. Visser; Kathleen Philips; Wouter A. Serdijn;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 49, Issue 3, pp. 622-634, March 2014. Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/JSSC.2014.2302793.
    document

  1592. Bayesian sparse estimation of migrating targets for wideband radar
    Bidon, S.; Tourneret, J.-Y.; Savy, L.; Le Chevalier, F.;
    Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Transactions on,
    Volume 50, Issue 2, pp. 871-886, April 2014.
    document

  1593. Antenna Coupling Effects for Space-Time Radar Waveforms: Analysis and Calibration
    Babur, G.; Aubry, P.J.; Le Chevalier, F.;
    Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on,
    Volume 62, Issue 5, pp. 2572-2586, May 2014.
    document

  1594. Self-similarity matrix based slow-time feature extraction for human target in high-resolution radar
    Yuan He; Pascal Aubry; Francois Le Chevalier; Alexander Yarovoy;
    International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies,
    Volume 6, pp. 423-434, 2014. doi:10.1017/S1759078714000087.
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  1595. An ECG Recording Front-End With Continuous-Time Level-Crossing Sampling
    Yongjia Li; Andre L. Mansano; Yuan Yuan; Duan Zhao; Wouter A. Serdijn;
    IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems,
    2014. Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TBCAS.2014.2359183.
    document

  1596. A Power-Efficient Multichannel Neural Stimulator Using High-Frequency Pulsed Excitation From an Unfiltered Dynamic Supply
    Marijn van Dongen; Wouter A. Serdijn;
    IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems,
    2014. Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TBCAS.2014.2363736.
    document

  1597. A Comparative Analysis of Phase-Domain ADC and Amplitude-Domain IQ ADC
    Yao Liu; Reza Lotfi; Yongchang Hu; Wouter A. Serdijn;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I: Regular Papers,
    2014. Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TCSI.2014.2374852.
    document

  1598. Source positioning in a large-scale tiny-sensor network of arbitrary topology
    Penkin, D.; Janssen, G.; Yarovoy, A.;
    EURASIP Journal On Advances In Signal Processing,
    Issue 1, pp. 1-11, 2014. doi:10.1186/1687-6180-2014-57.
    document

  1599. Analysis and Design of a High-Order Discrete-Time Passive IIR Low-Pass Filter
    M. Tohidian; I. Madadi; R. B. Staszewski;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 49, Issue 11, pp. 2575-2587, Nov 2014.

  1600. Design, fabrication and characterization of infrared LVOFs for measuring gas composition
    M. Ghaderi; N.P. Ayerden; A. Emadi; P. Enoksson; J.H. Correia; G. de Graaf; R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering,
    Volume 24, Issue 8, pp. 1-8, 2014.

  1601. Gas viscosity sensing based on the electrostatic pull-in time of microactuators
    R.A. Dias; G. de Graaf; R.F. Wolffenbuttel; L.A. Machado da Rocha;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume 216, pp. 376-385, 2014.

  1602. A continuous-time ripple reduction technique for spinning-current Hall sensors
    J. Jiang; W.J. Kindt; K.A.A. Makinwa;
    IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits,
    Volume 49, Issue 7, pp. 1525-1534, 2014. Harvest.

  1603. High-speed broadband FTIR system using MEMS
    N.P. Ayerden; U. Aygun; S.T.S. Holmstrom; S. Olcer; B. Can; J.L. Stehle; H. Urey;
    Applied Optics,
    Volume 53, Issue 31, pp. 7267-7272, 2014. Harvest.

  1604. Plenoptic wavefront sensor with scattering pupil
    G.V. Vdovin; O.A. Soloviev; M. Loktev;
    Optics Express,
    Volume 22, Issue 8, pp. 9314-9323, 2014. NEO.

  1605. Measuring in the subnanometer range: Capacitive and eddy current nanodisplacement sensors
    S. Nihtianov;
    IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine,
    Volume 8, Issue 1, pp. 6-15, 2014. Harvest.

  1606. Waveguide structures for efficient evanescent field coupling to zero mode waveguides
    M. Sarkar; A.J.H. Wachters; H.P. Urbach; JJ.H.B. Schleipen; P.J. van der Zaag; R. Wimberger-Friedl;
    Journal of the European Optical Society - Rapid Publications,
    Volume 9, pp. 1-10, 2014.

  1607. A wearable 8-channel active-electrode EEG/ETI acquisition system for body area networks
    J. Xu; S. Mitra; A. Matsumoto; S. Patki; C. van Hoof; K.A.A. Makinwa;
    IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits,
    Volume 49, Issue 9, pp. 2005-2016, 2014. Harvest Available online 12-6-2014.

  1608. Cerebellar control of gait and interlimb coordination
    Vinueza Veloz, M.F., Zhou, K., Bosman, L.W.J., Potters, J.-W., Negrello, M., Seepers, R.M.; Strydis, C.; Koekkoek, S.K.E., De Zeeuw, C.I.;
    Brain Structure and Function,
    Volume 220, Issue 6, pp. 3513-3536, 2014.
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  1609. Real-time olivary neuron simulations on dataflow computing machines
    Smaragdos, G., Davies, C.; Strydis, C.; Sourdis, I., Ciobanu, C., Mencer, O., De Zeeuw, C.I.;
    Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics),
    Volume 8488 LNCS, pp. 487-497, 2014.
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  1610. DeSyRe: On-demand adaptive and reconfigurable fault-tolerant SoCs
    Sourdis, I.; Strydis, C.; Armato, A., Bouganis, C.-S., Falsafi, B., Gaydadjiev, G.N., Isaza, S., Malek, A., Mariani, R., Pagliarini, S., Pnevmatikatos, D.N., Pradhan, D.K., Rauwerda, G., Seepers, R.M., Shafik, R.A., Smaragdos, G., Theodoropoulos, D.;
    Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics),
    Volume 8405 LNCS, pp. 312-317, 2014.
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  1611. Towards scalable arithmetic units with graceful degradation
    Riemens, D.P., Gaydadjiev, G.N., De Zeeuw, C.I.; Strydis, C.;
    ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems,
    Volume 13, Issue 4, 2014.
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  1612. Decentralised tracking for human target in multistatic ultra-wideband radar
    Yuan He; P. J. Aubry; F. Le Chevalier; A. Yarovoy;
    IET Radar, Sonar and Navigation,
    Volume 8, Issue 9, pp. 1215--1223, 2014. DOI: 10.1049/iet-rsn.2014.0021
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  1613. Dual-Band Wide-Angle Scanning Planar Phased Array in X/Ku-Bands
    S. E. Valavan; D. Tran; A. G. Yarovoy; A. G. Roederer;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 62, Issue 5, pp. 2514-2521, May 2014. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2014.2307336
    document

  1614. Impact of a half-space interface on the wireless link between tiny sensor nodes
    D. Penkin; G. J. M. Janssen; A. Yarovoy;
    Radio Science,
    Volume 49, Issue 9, pp. 798--811, 2014. DOI: 10.1002/2013RS005365
    document

  1615. Planar dual-band wide-scan phased array in X-band
    S. E. Valavan; D. P. Tran; A. Yarovoy; A. G. Roederer;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 62, Issue 10, pp. 5370--5375, Oct 2014. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2014.2343252
    document

  1616. Highly-stable electronic sensor interface for capacitive position measurement
    R. Nojdelov; S. Nihtianov;
    Key Engineering Materials,
    Volume 613, pp. 51-57, 2014. Harvest Chapter 2: Position & Displacement Metrology.

  1617. Numerical gas flow and heat transfer simulation in the ASM Epsilon 2000 CVD reactor for Pure Boron deposition
    V. Mohammadi; S. Mohammadi; S. Ramesh; S. Nihtianov;
    Annual Journal of Electronics,
    Volume 8, pp. 28-31, 2014.

  1618. High efficiency UV photodiodes fabricated on p-type substrate
    P. Ramachandra Rao; S. Milosavljevic; U. Kroth; C. Laubis; S. Nihtianov;
    Annual Journal of Electronics,
    Volume 8, pp. 24-27, 2014.

  1619. Recoding of the stop codon UGA to glycine by a BD1-5/SN-2 bacterium and niche partitioning between Alpha- and Gammaproteobacteria in a tidal sediment microbial community naturally selected in a laboratory chemostat
    A. Hanke; E. Hamann; R. Sharma; J. Geelhoed; T. Hargesheimer; B. Kraft; V. Meyer; S. Lenk; H Osmers; R. Wu; K.A.A. Makinwa; RL Hettich; JF Banfield; HE Tegetmeyer; Marc Strous;
    Frontiers in Microbiology,
    Volume 5, Issue art. 231, pp. 1-17, 2014.

  1620. A miniaturized micro-digital sun sensor by means of low-power low-noise CMOS imager
    N. Xie; A.J.P. Theuwissen;
    IEEE Sensors Journal,
    Volume 14, Issue 1, pp. 96-103, 2014.

  1621. A Frequency-Selective Broadband Low-Noise Amplifier With Double-Loop Transformer Feedback
    S. Bagga; A. L. Mansano; W. A. Serdijn; J. R. Long; K. Van Hartingsveldt; K. Philips;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers,
    Volume 61, Issue 6, pp. 1883-1891, June 2014.

  1622. A 780 #x2013;950 MHz, 64 #x2013;146 #x00B5;W Power-Scalable Synchronized-Switching OOK Receiver for Wireless Event-Driven Applications
    X. Huang; P. Harpe; G. Dolmans; H. de Groot; J. R. Long;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 49, Issue 5, pp. 1135-1147, May 2014.

  1623. A 10 Gb/s, 6 V p-p , Digitally Controlled, Differential Distributed Amplifier MZM Driver
    Y. Zhao; L. Vera; J. R. Long;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 49, Issue 9, pp. 2030-2043, Sept 2014.

  1624. A Low Phase Noise Oscillator Principled on Transformer-Coupled Hard Limiting
    A. Visweswaran; R. B. Staszewski; J. R. Long;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 49, Issue 2, pp. 373-383, Feb 2014.

  1625. A 56.4-to-63.4 GHz Multi-Rate All-Digital Fractional-N PLL for FMCW Radar Applications in 65 nm CMOS
    W. Wu; R. B. Staszewski; J. R. Long;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 49, Issue 5, pp. 1081-1096, May 2014.

  1626. Fe ion-implanted TiO2 thin film for efficient visible-light photocatalysis
    G. Impellizzeri; V. Scuderi; L. Romano; P. M. Sberna; E. Arcadipane; R. Sanz; F. Simone; V. Privitera;
    J. Appl. Phys.,
    Volume 116, Issue 173507, 2014.
    document

  1627. Highlights of the ISSCC 2013 Processors and High Performance Digital Sessions
    T. Fischer; B. G. Nam; L. Chang; T. Kuroda; M. A. P. Pertijs;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 49, Issue 1, pp. 4‒8, 2014. DOI: 10.1109/jssc.2013.2284658
    Abstract: ... This special issue covers the ISSCC conference held in San Francisco, CA, USA, on February 17-21, 2013. The issue includes the topics from the low power and high performance digital, memory, and technology directions as well as imagers, medical and sensors. There are 27 papers in the issue.

  1628. Fabrication and application of temperature triggered MEMS switch for active cooling control in solid state lighting system
    Huaiyu Ye; Jai Wei; van Zeijl, HW; Sarro, PM; GuoQi Zhang;
    Microelectronics Reliability,
    Volume 54, Issue 6-7, pp. 1338-1343, 2014.

  1629. A Flexible Ultrathin-Body Single-Photon Avalanche Diode With Dual-Side Illumination
    Pengfei Sun; Charbon, E.; Ishihara, R.;
    IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics,
    Volume 20, Issue 6, pp. 1-8, Nov 2014.
    document

  1630. Research Update: Reactively sputtered nanometer-thin ZrN film as a diffusion barrier between Al and boron layers for radiation detector applications
    Golshani, Negin; Mohammadi, V.; Schellevis, H.; Beenakker, C. I. M.; Ishihara, R.;
    APL Materials,
    Volume 2, Issue 10, pp. 100702, 2014.
    document

  1631. A novel stretchable micro-electrode array (SMEA) design for directional stretching of cells
    S Khoshfetrat Pakazad; A Savov; A van de Stolpe; R Dekker;
    Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering,
    Volume 24, Issue 3, pp. 034003, 2014.

  1632. Surface aspects of discolouration in Bisphenol A Polycarbonate (BPA-PC), used as lens in LED-based products
    Maryam Yazdan Mehr; W. D. van Driel; H. Udono; GuoQi Zhang;
    Optical Materials,
    Volume 37, pp. 155-159, 2014.

  1633. Atomic-scale imaging of Pt and Pd nanoparticle catalysts during CO oxidation at 1 Bar reaction conditions
    Vendelbo, SB; Elkjaer, CF; Puspitasari, I; Creemer, JF; Dona, P; Mele, L; Morana, B; Nelissen, BJ; Roobol, S; Rijn, R van; Helveg, S; Kooyman, PJ;
    Microscopy and Microanalysis,
    Volume 20, Issue S3, pp. 1570-1571, 2014.

  1634. Electrical-thermal-luminous-chromatic model of phosphor-converted white light-emitting diodes
    Huaiyu Ye; Sau Wee Koh; Cadmus Yuan; Henk van Zeijl; Alexander W.J. Gielen; Shi-Wei Ricky Lee; GuoQi Zhang;
    Applied Thermal Engineering,
    Volume 63, Issue 2, pp. 588-597, 2014.

  1635. Multi-modal vibration based MEMS energy harvesters for ultra-low power wireless functional nodes
    Iannacci, J; Serre, E; Di Criscienzo, R; Sordo, G; Gottardi, M; Borrielli, A; Bonaldi, M; Kuenzig, T; Schrag, G; Pandraud, G; Sarro, PM;
    Microsystem Technologies: micro and nanosystems - information storage and processing systems,
    Volume 20, Issue 4-5, pp. 627-640, 2014.

  1636. Flow-Through Cell Electroporation Microchip Integrating Dielectrophoretic Viable Cell Sorting
    Zewen Wei; Xueming Li; Deyao Zhao; Hao Yan; Zhiyuan Hu; Zicai Liang; Zhihong Li;
    Analytical chemistry,
    Volume 86, Issue 20, pp. 10215-10222, 2014.

  1637. Thermal and mechanical effects of voids within flip chip soldering in LED packages
    Yang Liu; Stanley Y.Y. Leung; Jia Zhao; Cell K.Y. Wong; Cadmus A. Yuan; GuoQi Zhang; Fenglian Sun; Liangliang Luo;
    Microelectronics Reliability,
    Volume 54, Issue 9-10, pp. 2028-2033, 2014.

  1638. Self-healing thermally conductive adhesives
    Lafont, UL; Moreno Belle, C.; Zeijl, HW van; Zwaag, S van der;
    Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures,
    Volume 25, Issue 1, pp. 67-74, 2014.

  1639. Dominant thermal boundary resistance in multi-walled carbon nanotube bundles fabricated at low temperature
    Vollebregt, Sten; Banerjee, Sourish; Chiaramonti, Ann N; Tichelaar, Frans D; Beenakker, Kees; Ishihara, Ryoichi;
    Journal of Applied Physics,
    Volume 116, Issue 2, pp. 023514, 2014.

  1640. Carbon nanotube vertical interconnects fabricated at temperatures as low as 350 �C
    Vollebregt, Sten; Tichelaar, FD; Schellevis, H; Beenakker, CIM; Ishihara, R;
    Carbon,
    Volume 71, pp. 249--256, 2014.

  1641. Stiction-Induced Sealing of Surface Micromachined Channels
    B Morana; RH Poelma; G Fiorentino; J Wei; JF Creemer; PM Sarro;
    Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems,
    Volume 23, Issue 2, pp. 459-470, 2014.
    document

  1642. Single-Grain Si Thin-Film Transistors for Monolithic 3D-ICs and Flexible Electronics:
    Ryoichi ISHIHARA; Jin ZHANG; Miki TRIFUNOVIC; Jaber DERAKHSHANDEH; Negin GOLSHANI; Daniel M.R. TAJARI MOFRAD; Tao CHEN; Kees BEENAKKER; Tatsuya SHIMODA;
    IEICE Transactions on Electronics,
    Volume E97.C, Issue 4, pp. 227--237, 2014.

  1643. Failure Analysis and Reliability of Low-Temperature-Grown Multi-Wall Carbon Nanotube Bundles Integrated as Vias in Monolithic Three-Dimensional Integrated Circuits
    Chiaramonti, Ann N; Vollebregt, Sten; Sanders, Aric W; Ishihara, Ryoichi; Read, David T;
    Microsc. Microanal,
    Volume 20, pp. 1762-1763, 2014.

  1644. Reliability and optical properties of LED lens plates under high temperature stress
    Maryam Yazdan Mehr; van Driel, WD; Koh, SW; GuoQi Zhang;
    Microelectronics Reliability,
    2014.

  1645. Tailoring the Mechanical Properties of High-Aspect-Ratio Carbon Nanotube Arrays using Amorphous Silicon Carbide Coatings
    Poelma, RH; Morana, Bruno; Vollebregt, Sten; Schlangen, Erik; van Zeijl, HW; Fan, Xuejun; Zhang, GuoQi;
    Advanced Functional Materials,
    Volume 24, Issue 36, pp. 5737-5744, 2014.
    document

  1646. Accelerated life time testing and optical degradation of remote phosphor plates
    Maryam Yazdan Mehr; van Driel, WD; GuoQi Zhang;
    Microelectronics Reliability,
    Volume 54, Issue 8, pp. 1544-1548, 2014.

  1647. A polymer based miniature loop heat pipe with silicon substrate and temperature sensors for high brightness light-emitting
    Huaiyu Ye; Sokolovskij, R; van Zeijl, HW; Gielen, AWJ; GuoQi Zhang;
    Microelectronics Reliability,
    Volume 54, Issue 6-7, pp. 1355-1362, 2014.

  1648. Lifetime assessment of Bisphenol-A Polycarbonate (BPA-PC) plastic lens, used in LED-based products
    Maryam Yazdan Mehr; van Driel, WD; Jansen, KMB; Deeben, P; GuoQi Zhang;
    Microelectronics Reliability,
    Volume 54, Issue 1, pp. 138-142, 2014.

  1649. Multi-physics reliability simulation for solid state lighting drivers
    Tarashioon, S; van Driel, WD; GuoQi Zhang;
    Microelectronics Reliability,
    Volume 54, Issue 6-7, pp. 1212-1222, 2014.

  1650. Visualization of oscillatory behaviour of Pt nanoparticles catalysing CO oxidation
    Vendelbo, SB; Elkj{\ae}r, CF; Falsig, H; Puspitasari, I; Dona, P; Mele, L; Morana, B; Nelissen, BJ; Rijn, R van; Creemer, JF; Kooyman, PJ; Helveg, S;
    Nature Materials,
    Volume 13, Issue 9, pp. 884-890, 2014.

  1651. A hybrid silicon-PDMS optofluidic platform for sensing applications
    Testa, G; Persichetti, G; Sarro, PM; Bernini, R;
    Biomedical Optics Express,
    Volume 5, Issue 2, pp. 417-426, 2014.

  1652. Formation and evolution of intermetallic layer structures at SAC305/Ag/Cu and SAC0705-Bi-Ni/Ag/Cu solder joint interfaces after reflow and aging
    Yang Liu; Joost Meerwijk; Liangliang Luo; Honglin Zhang; Fenglian Sun; Cadmus A. Yuan; GuoQi Zhang;
    Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics,
    Volume 25, Issue 11, pp. 4954-4959, 2014.

  1653. RF-noise modeling in advanced CMOS technologies
    Smit, GDJ; Scholten, AJ; Pijper, RMT; Tiemeijer, LF; van der Toorn, R; Klaassen, D.B.M;
    IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices,
    Volume 61, Issue 2, pp. 245-254, 2014.

  1654. Amorphous silicon carbide nitride layer as an alternative to a disordered silicon surface to suppress RF/microwave losses
    Evseev, S; Nanver, LK; Rejaei Salmassi, B; Milosavljevic, S;
    Microelectronic Engineering,
    Volume 125, pp. 2-7, 2014.

  1655. Design of silicon micro-resonators with low mechanical and optical losses for quantum optics experiments
    Borrielli, A; Bonaldi, M; Serre, E; Bagolini, A; Bellutti, P; Cataliotti, FS; Marin, F; Marino, F; Pontin, A; Prodi, GA; Pandraud, G; Sarro, PM; Lorito,; Zoumpoulidis, T;
    Microsystem Technologies,
    Volume 20, Issue 4-5, pp. 907-917, 2014.

  1656. Single-Grain Si TFTs Fabricated From Sputtered Si on a Polyimide Substrate
    Jin Zhang; Michiel van der Zwan; Ryoichi Ishihara;
    Journal of Display Technology,
    Volume 10, Issue 11, pp. 945-949, 2014.

  1657. Robust UV/VUV/EUV PureB Photodiode Detector Technology with High CMOS Compatibility
    L.K. Nanver; L. Qi; V. Mohammadi; K.R.M. Mok; W.B. de Boer; N. Golshani; A. Sammak; T.L.M. Scholtes; A. Gottwald; U. Kroth; F. Scholze;
    Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics,
    Volume 20, Issue 6, pp. pp.1-11, 2014.

  1658. Fracture toughness of Cu-EMC interfaces in pressurized steam
    Sadeghinia, M; Jansen, KMB amd Ernst, LJ; Pape, H; Maus, I; van Driel, WD; GuoQi Zhang;
    International Journal of Adhesion and Adhesives,
    Volume 49, pp. 73-79, 2014.

  1659. Temperature Dependency of the Kinetics of PureB CVD Deposition over Patterned Si/SiO2 Surfaces
    V. Mohammadi; N. Golshani; K.R.C. Mok; W.B. de Boer; J. Derakhshandeh; L.K. Nanver;
    Microelectronic Engineering,
    Volume 125, pp. 45-50, 2014.

  1660. A Wideband 2$\times$ 13-bit All-Digital I/Q RF-DAC
    Alavi, Morteza S.; Staszewski, Robert Bogdan; de Vreede, Leo C. N.; Long, John R.;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 62, Issue 4, pp. 732-752, 2014. DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2014.2307876

  1661. A CMOS Smart Temperature and Humidity Sensor with Combined Readout
    Eder, Clemens; Valente, Virgilio; Donaldson, Nick; Demosthenous, Andreas;
    Sensors,
    Volume 14, Issue 9, pp. 17192--17211, September 2014. DOI: 10.3390/s140917192
    document

  1662. A neuronal signal detector for biologically generated magnetic fields
    Costa, T.; Piedade, M.S.; Germano, J.; Amaral, J.; Freitas, P.P.;
    IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement,
    Volume 63, Issue 5, pp. 1171-1180, 2014. DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2013.2296417

  1663. Frequency-Modulated Interrupted Continuous Wave as Wall Removal Technique in Through-the-Wall Imaging
    Fioranelli, Francesco; Salous, Sana; Raimundo, Xavier;
    IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING,
    Volume 52, Issue 10, pp. 6272-6283, OCT 2014. DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2295835

  1664. An extended Krylov subspace model-order reduction technique to simulate wave propagation in unbounded domains
    V. Druskin; R.F. Remis; M. Zaslavsky;
    Journal of Computational Physics,
    Volume 272, pp. 608-618, September 2014. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2014.04.051
    document

  1665. Magnetic tunnel junction based eddy current testing probe for detection of surface defects
    Cardoso, Filipe Arroyo; Rosado, L; Ferreira, R; Paz, E; Cardoso, S; Ramos, PM; Piedade, M; Freitas, PP;
    Journal of Applied Physics,
    Volume 115, Issue 17, pp. 17E516, 2014.

  1666. Microfluidics for the rapid detection of pathogens using giant magnetoresistance sensors
    Kokkinis, Georgios; Cardoso, Susana F; Cardoso, Filipe Arroyo; Giouroudi, Ioanna;
    IEEE Transactions on Magnetics,
    Volume 50, Issue 11, pp. 1-4, 2014.

  1667. A bacteriophage detection tool for viability assessment of Salmonella cells
    Fernandes, E; Martins, VC; Nóbrega, Cláudia; Carvalho, CM; Cardoso, Filipe Arroyo; Cardoso, S; Dias, J; Deng, D; Kluskens, LD; Freitas, PP; others;
    Biosensors and Bioelectronics,
    Volume 52, pp. 239-246, 2014.

  1668. MgO-based magnetic tunnel junction sensors array for non-destructive testing applications
    Guo, DW; Cardoso, Filipe Arroyo; Ferreira, R; Paz, E; Cardoso, S; Freitas, PP;
    Journal of Applied Physics,
    Volume 115, Issue 17, pp. 17E513, 2014.

  1669. An in-depth noise model for giant magnetoresistance current sensors for circuit design and complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor integration
    Roldán, A; Roldán, JB; Reig, C; Cardoso, S; Cardoso, Filipe Arroyo; Ferreira, R; Freitas, PP;
    Journal of Applied Physics,
    Volume 115, Issue 17, pp. 17E514, 2014.

  1670. Eddy currents testing probe with magneto-resistive sensors and differential measurement
    Rosado, Luis S; Cardoso, Filipe Arroyo; Cardoso, Susana; Ramos, Pedro M; Freitas, Paulo P; Piedade, Moisés;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical,
    Volume 212, pp. 58-67, 2014.

  1671. Lab-on-chip cytometry based on magnetoresistive sensors for bacteria detection in milk
    Fernandes, Ana C; Duarte, Carla M; Cardoso, Filipe Arroyo; Bexiga, Ricardo; Cardoso, Susana; Freitas, Paulo P;
    Sensors,
    Volume 14, Issue 8, pp. 15496-15524, 2014.

  1672. Improved magnetic tunnel junctions design for the detection of superficial defects by eddy currents testing
    Cardoso, Filipe Arroyo; Rosado, Luís S; Franco, Fernando; Ferreira, Ricardo; Paz, Elvira; Cardoso, Susana F; Ramos, Pedro M; Piedade, Moises; Freitas, Paulo JP;
    IEEE Transactions on Magnetics,
    Volume 50, Issue 11, pp. 1-4, 2014.

  1673. Dynamical detection of magnetic nanoparticles in paper microfluidics with spin valve sensors for point-of-care applications
    Chicharo, Alexandre; Cardoso, Filipe Arroyo; Cardoso, Susana; Freitas, Paulo P;
    IEEE Transactions on Magnetics,
    Volume 50, Issue 11, pp. 1-4, 2014.

  1674. Customized design of magnetic beads for dynamic magnetoresistive cytometry
    Vila, Ana; Martins, Veronica C; Chícharo, Alexandre; Rodriguez-Abreu, Carlos; Fernandes, Ana Carolina; Cardoso, Filipe Arroyo; Cardoso, Susana; Rivas, Jose; Freitas, Paulo;
    IEEE Transactions on Magnetics,
    Volume 50, Issue 11, pp. 1-4, 2014.

  1675. Whole-transcriptome analysis of endothelial to hematopoietic stem cell transition reveals a requirement for Gpr56 in HSC generation
    Parham Solaimani Kartalaei*; Tomoko Yamada-Inagawa*; Chris S. Vink; Emma de Pater; Reinier van der Linden; Jonathon Marks-Bluth; Anthon van der Sloot; Mirjam van den Hout; Tomomasa Yokomizo; M. Lucila van Schaick-Solerno; Ruud Delwel; John E. Pimanda; Wilfred F.J. van IJcken; Elaine Dzierzak;
    Journal of Experimental Medicine,
    Volume 212, Issue 1, pp. 93--106, December 2014. DOI: 10.1084/jem.20140767
    document

  1676. HIF1-Alpha is a Regulator of Hematopoietic Progenitor and Stem Cell Development in Hypoxic Sites of the Mouse Embryo
    Parisa Imanirad*; Parham Solaimani Kartalaei*; Mihaela Crisan*; Chris S. Vink; Tomoko Yamada-Inagawa; Emma de Pater; Dorota Kurek; Polynikis Kaimakis; Reiner van der Linden; Nancy Speck; Elaine Dzierzak;
    Stem Cell Research,
    Volume 12, Issue 1, pp. 24--35, January 2014. DOI: 10.1016/j.scr.2013.09.006
    document

  1677. MagnetoSperm: A microrobot that navigates using weak magnetic fields
    Khalil, Islam S. M.; Dijkslag, Herman C.; Abelmann, Leon; Misra, Sarthak;
    Applied Physics Letters,
    Volume 104, Issue 22, 2014. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1063/1.4880035
    Keywords: ... Cobalt; Flexible structures; Frequency response; Magnetic fields; Magnetic heads; Nickel; Average speed; Cobalt-nickel; Magnetic field line; Micro robots; Propulsion mechanisms; Propulsion system; Thrust forces; Weak magnetic fields; Propulsion.

    Abstract: ... In this work, a propulsion system similar in motion to a sperm-cell is investigated. This system consists of a structure resembling a sperm-cell with a magnetic head and a flexible tail of 42 μm and 280 μm in length, respectively. The thickness, length, and width of this structure are 5.2 μm, 322 μm, and 42 μm, respectively. The magnetic head includes a 200 nm-thick cobalt-nickel layer. The cobalt-nickel layer provides a dipole moment and allows the flexible structure to align along oscillating weak (less than 5mT) magnetic field lines, and hence generates a propulsion thrust force that overcomes the drag force. The frequency response of this system shows that the propulsion mechanism allows for swimming at an average speed of 158 ± 32 μm/s at alternating weak magnetic field of 45 Hz. In addition, we experimentally demonstrate controlled steering of the flexible structure towards reference positions. © 2014 AIP Publishing LLC.

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  1678. Design and fabrication of in-plane AFM probes with sharp silicon nitride tips based on refilling of anisotropically etched silicon moulds
    Geerlings, J.; Sarajlic, E.; Berenschot, J. W.; Siekman, M. H.; Jansen, H. V.; Abelmann, L.; Tas, N. R.;
    Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering,
    Volume 24, Issue 10, 2014. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1088/0960-1317/24/10/105013
    Keywords: ... Electrostatic actuators; Silicon nitride; AFM probe; in-plane tip; KOH etching; Video rates; Atomic force microscopy.

    Abstract: ... In this paper a micromachining method for batch fabrication of in-plane atomic force microscope (AFM) probes that consist of a sharp silicon nitride tip on a monocrystalline silicon cantilever is presented. The tips are realized by conformal deposition of silicon nitride inside an anisotropically etched cavity inside a silicon wafer. The best measured radius of the sharp tips was 8 nm. Our fabrication method is fully compatible with silicon-on-insulator (SOI) micromachining, allowing a straightforward monolithic integration of the AFM probes with high-aspect-ratio monocrystalline silicon MEMS. The fabrication method allows for lateral cantilevers, which oscillate in the plane of the fabrication wafer. This allows for simple integration of micromechanical transducers, opening the way towards dedicated probes for high speed AFMs. To demonstrate the innovation potential of this method, three different probe designs were fabricated: a plane passive AFM probe, a probe with integrated electrostatic actuator, and a probe which allows scanning on vertical sidewalls. The passive probes were successfully tested in a commercial AFM set-up. Correct operation of the probes with integrated actuator was demonstrated by actuation under a laser vibrometer. © 2014 IOP Publishing Ltd.

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  1679. Controllable elastocapillary folding of three-dimensional micro-objects by through-wafer filling
    Legrain, A.; Janson, T. G.; Berenschot, J. W.; Abelmann, L.; Tas, N. R.;
    Journal of Applied Physics,
    Volume 115, Issue 21, 2014. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1063/1.4878460
    Keywords: ... Physical properties; Physics; 3D microstructures; Bending stiffness; Fabrication process; Folded structures; Folding modeling; Hydro-mechanical; Micro-objects; Pumping systems; Silicon nitride.

    Abstract: ... We present a technique for the controllable capillary folding of planar silicon nitride templates into 3D micro-structures by means of through-wafer liquid application. We demonstrate for the first time hydro-mechanical, repeatable, actuation of capillary folded structures via the addition or retraction of water on demand. Silicon nitride objects with a central through-wafer tube are connected to a dedicated pumping system to enable assembly. When remaining wetted, structures can be assembled and reopened up to several dozens of times and still reach the same final folding angle. Objects were actuated up to 60 times without signs of wear. Extracted curves from our self-folding experiments are in agreement with our two-dimensional elastocapillary folding model. When structures are allowed to dry in between foldings, we observe an increase in the bending stiffness of the hinges, by a factor 50% after first folding and subsequent drying. This stiffening causes a decrease of the finally achieved angle. Residue from the fabrication process found on the structures after folding is suspected to be the cause of the stiffening. © 2014 AIP Publishing LLC.

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  1680. Ultra-flat bismuth films for diamagnetic levitation by template-stripping
    Kokorian, J.; Engelen, J. B. C.; De Vries, J.; Nazeer, H.; Woldering, L. A.; Abelmann, L.;
    Thin Solid Films,
    Volume 550, pp. 298 – 304, 2014. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1016/j.tsf.2013.11.074
    Keywords: ... Atomic force microscopy; Crystal structure; Deposition; Elastic moduli; Surface roughness; X ray diffraction; Average surface roughness; C-axis orientations; Diamagnetic levitation; Peak-to-peak values; Polycrystalline textures; Template stripping; X-ray diffraction measurements; Young's Modulus; Bismuth.

    Abstract: ... In this paper we present a method to deposit thin films of bismuth with sub-nanometer surface roughness for application to diamagnetic levitation. Evaporated films of bismuth have a high surface roughness with peak to peak values in excess of 100 nm and average values on the order of 20 nm. We expose the smooth backside of the films using a template stripping method, resulting in a great reduction of the average surface roughness, to 0.8 nm. Atomic force microscope and X-ray diffraction measurements show that the films have a polycrystalline texture with preferential c-axis orientation. On the back side of the film, fine grains are grouped into larger clusters. Cantilever resonance shift measurements indicate that the Young's modulus of the films is on the order of 20 GPa. © 2013 Elsevier B.V.

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  1681. Magnetic-based motion control of paramagnetic microparticles with disturbance compensation
    Khalil, Islam S. M.; Abelmann, Leon; Misra, Sarthak;
    IEEE Transactions on Magnetics,
    Volume 50, Issue 10, 2014. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2014.2323940
    Keywords: ... Disturbance compensation; Disturbance force; Magnetic; Micro manipulation; Model mismatch; Radio.

    Abstract: ... Magnetic systems have the potential to control the motion of microparticles and microrobots during targeted drug delivery. During their manipulation, a nominal magnetic force-current map is usually derived and used as a basis of the control system design. However, the inevitable mismatch between the nominal and actual force-current maps along with external disturbances affects the positioning accuracy of the motion control system. In this paper, we devise a control system that allows for the realization of the nominal magnetic force-current map and the point-to-point positioning of paramagnetic microparticles. This control is accomplished by estimating and rejecting the 2-D disturbance forces using an inner loop based on a disturbance force observer. In addition, an outer loop is utilized to achieve stable dynamics of the overall magnetic system. The control system is implemented on a magnetic system for controlling microparticles of paramagnetic material, which experience magnetic forces that are related to the gradient of the field-squared. We evaluate the performance of our control system by analyzing the transient- and steady-state characteristics of the controlled microparticle for two cases. The first case is done without estimating and rejecting the mismatch and the disturbance forces, whereas the second case is done while compensating for these disturbance forces. We do not only obtain 17% faster response during the transient state, but we are also able to achieve 23% higher positioning accuracy in the steady state for the second case (compensating disturbance forces). Although the focus of this paper is on the wireless magnetic-based control of paramagnetic microparticle, the presented control system is general and can be adapted to control microrobots. © 2014 IEEE.

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  1697. Toward One Giga Frames per Second Ð Evolution of In-Situ Storage Image Sensors
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  1716. Closed-form analytic expressions for the pulsed-source radiated electromagnetic field in a class of media with time-varying wave speed
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  1730. ON-CHIP FILTER BANK SPECTROSCOPY AT 600-700 GHZ USING NBTIN SUPERCONDUCTING RESONATORS
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  1731. High optical efficiency and photon noise limited sensitivity of microwave kinetic inductance detectors using phase readout
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  1742. Reliable inkjet-printed interconnections on foil type Li-ion batteries
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  1743. Biologically inspired CMOS image sensor for fast motion and polarization detection
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  1744. A 256 pixel magnetoresistive biosensor microarray in 0.18 μm CMOS
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  1745. A 6.3 μW 20 bit incremental zoom-ADC with 6 ppm INL and 1 μV offset
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  1746. Capacitive response of PDMS-coated IDE platforms directly exposed to aqueous solutions containing volatile organic compounds
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  1747. 3D imaging by fast deconvolution algorithm in short- range UWB radar for concealed weapon detection
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  1748. A hybrid FDTD/SEM model for physics-oriented analysis of time-domain radiation properties of antenna-based sensors
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  1749. Circuital characteristics and radiation properties of an UWB electric-magnetic planar antenna for Ku-band applications
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  1750. Directive electric-magnetic antenna for ultra-wideband applications
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  1751. Multi-channel reconfigurable front-end architeture for waveform-agile radar
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  1752. Recent developments in reconfigurable and multiband antenna technology
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  1753. A 60-GHz Passive Broadband Multibeam Antenna System in Fused Silica Technology
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    IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters,
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  1754. Low-power high-accuracy micro-digital sun sensor by means of a CMOS image sensor
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  1755. A CMOS temperature sensor with a voltage-calibrated inaccuracy of ±0.15°C (3σ) from -55 to 125°C
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  1756. Stability characterization of high-sensitivity silicon-based EUV photodiodes in a detrimental environment
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  1757. Fabrication, characterization, and simulation of a cantilever-based airflow sensor integrated with optical fiber
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  1758. Feedforward effect in standard CMOS pinned photodiodes
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    IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices,
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  1759. Noise and Sensitivity in RF Envelope Detection Receivers
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    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs,
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  1760. Comparative study on pulse distortion and phase aberration of directive UWB antennas
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    IET Microwaves Antennas and Propagation,
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  1761. Large Scale LP Decoding with Low Complexity
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  1762. Objective Estimation of Speech Quality for Communication Systems.
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  1763. Characterization of low temperature deposited atomic layer deposition TiO2 for MEMS applications
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  1764. Measurement and analysis of current noise in chopper amplifiers
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    IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits,
    Volume 48, Issue 7, pp. 1575-1584, 2013. Harvest.

  1765. Photodegradation of bisphenol A polycarbonate under blue light radiation and its effect on optical properties
    Maryam Yazdan Mehr; W. D. van Driel; K. M. B. Jansen; P. Deeben; M. Boutelje; GuoQi Zhang;
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  1766. Thermal Analysis of Remote Phosphor in LED Modules
    Mingzhi Dong; Jia Wei; Huaiyu Ye; Cadmus Yuan; GuoQi Zhang;
    Journal of Semiconductors,
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  1767. Nanofabrication processes for innovative nanohole-based solar cells
    C. Garozzo; C. Bongiorno; S. Di Franco; M. Italia; A. La Magna; S. Scalese; P. M. Sberna; R. A. Puglisi;
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  1768. Competition between uncatalyzed and catalyzed growth during the plasma synthesis of Si nanowires and its role on their optical properties
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  1769. Enhanced light scattering in Si nanostructures produced by pulsed laser irradiation
    P. M. Sberna; G. G. Scapellato; N. Piluso; S. Boninelli; M. Miritello; I. Crupi; E. Bruno; V. Privitera; F. Simone; S. Mirabella;
    Appl. Phys. Lett.,
    Volume 103, Issue 221902, 2013.
    document

  1770. Raman and photoluminascence spectroscopy of Si nanocrystals: Evidence of a form factor
    G. Faraci; G. Mannino; A. R. Pennisi; R. Ruggeri; P. M. Sberna; V. Privitera;
    J. Appl. Phys.,
    Volume 113, Issue 063518, 2013.
    document

  1771. Size-Dependent Effects on the Temperature Coefficient of Resistance of Carbon Nanotube Vias
    Vollebregt, Sten; Banerjee, Sourish; Beenakker, Kees; Ishihara, Ryoichi;
    Electron Devices, IEEE Transactions on,
    Volume 60, Issue 12, pp. 4085--4089, 2013.

  1772. Thermal conductivity of low temperature grown vertical carbon nanotube bundles measured using the three-ω method.
    S. Vollebregt; S. Banerjee; C.I.M. Beenakker; R. Ishihara;
    Applied Physics Letters,
    Volume 102, Issue 19, pp. 1-4, 2013.

  1773. Local Loading Effect of The Pure-Boron-Layer Chemical-Vapor Depositions
    V. Mohammadi; W.B. de Boer; T.L.M. Scholtes; L.K. Nanver;
    ECS Transactions,
    Volume 50, Issue 4, pp. 333-341, 2013. DOI 10.1149/05004.0333ecst.

  1774. Resonance frequency of locally heated cantilever beams
    E. Iervolino; M. Riccio; F. Santagata; J. Wei; A.W. van Herwaarden; A. Irace; G. Breglio; P.M. Sarro;
    Sensors and Actuators A,
    Volume 190, pp. 6-12, Feb. 2013. DOI 10.1016/j.sna.2012.10.008.

  1775. Residue-free plasma etching of polyimide coatings for small pitch vias with improved step coverage
    B. Mimoun; H.T.M. Pham; V. Henneken; R. Dekker;
    Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B: Microelectronics and Nanometer Structures,
    Volume 31, Issue 2, pp. 021201-021201-6, Mar. 2013. DOI 10.1116/1.4788795.

  1776. Fully back-end TSV process by Cu electro-less plating for 3D smart sensor systems
    F. Santagata; C. Farriciello; G. Fiorentino; H.W. van Zeijl; C. Silvestri; GuoQi Zhang; P.M. Sarro;
    Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering,
    2013.

  1777. Towards the integration of carbon nanotubes as vias in monolithic three-dimensional integrated circuits
    S. Vollebregt; Chiaramonti A.N.; J. van der Cingel; C.I.M. Beenakker; R. Ishihara;
    Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. Part 1, Regular Papers Brief Communications & Review Papers,
    Volume 52, Issue 1-5, 2013.

  1778. VUV/Low-Energy-Electron Si Photodiodes with Post-Metal 400�C PureB Deposition
    V. Mohammadi; L. Qi; N. Golshani; K. R. C. Mok; W. B. de Boer; A. Sammak; J. J. Derakhshandeh. van der Cingel; L. K. Nanver;
    IEEE Electron Device Letters,
    Volume 34, Issue 12, 2013. DOI 10.1109/LED.2013.2287221.

  1779. Single-grain Si thin-film transistors on flexible polyimide substrate fabricated from doctor-blade coated liquid-Si.
    Jin Zhang; M. Trifunovic; M. van der Zwan; H. Takagishi; R. Kawajiri; T. Shimoda; C.I.M. Beenakker; R. Ishihara;
    Applied Physics Letters,
    Volume 102, Issue 24, pp. 1-4, 2013.

  1780. Effects of Annealing on Chemical-Vapor Deposited PureB Layers
    K. R. C. Mok; A. H. G. Vlooswijk; V. Mohammadi; L. K. Nanver;
    ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology,
    Volume 2, Issue 9, pp. 413-417, 2013. DOI 10.1149/2.044309jss.

  1781. A Simple Model describing the kinetic of CVD Deposition of Pure-Boron Layers from Diborane
    V. Mohammadi; W.B. de Boer; T.L.M. Scholtes; L.K. Nanver and;
    ECS Transactions,
    Volume 45, Issue 31, pp. 57-65, 2013. DOI 10.1149/04531.0057ecst.

  1782. Low temperature high-mobility InZnO thin-film transistors fabricated by excimer laser annealing
    Fujii; M; Ishikawa; Y; R. Ishihara; J. van der Cingel; Mofrad; MRT; Horita; M; Uraoka; Y;
    Applied Physics Letters,
    Volume 102, Issue 12, pp. 1-4, 2013.

  1783. Flex-to-Rigid (F2R): A Generic Platform for the Fabrication and Assembly of Flexible Sensors for Minimally Invasive Instruments
    Benjamin Mimoun; Vincent Henneken; Arjen van der Horst; Ronald Dekker;
    IEEE Sensors Journal,
    Volume 13, Issue 10, 2013. DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2013.2252613

  1784. A generalized Fourier domain: Signal processing framework and applications
    Jorge Martinez; Richard Heusdens; Richard C. Hendriks;
    Signal Processing,
    Volume 93, Issue 5, pp. 1259 - 1267, 2013. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sigpro.2012.10.015
    document

  1785. An interface for eddy-current displacement sensors with 15-bit resolution and 20 MHz excitation
    M. R. Nabavi; M. A. P. Pertijs; S. Nihtianov;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 48, Issue 11, pp. 2868‒2881, November 2013. DOI: 10.1109/jssc.2013.2281692
    Abstract: ... This paper presents an integrated interface for eddy-current sensors (ECSs) for displacement measurement. The employed architecture helps bridging the performance gap between the requirements of demanding and precision industrial applications and the performance of existing ECS interfaces. The interface operates with a sensor excitation frequency of 20 MHz, which is more than one order of magnitude higher than typical values. This high excitation frequency limits the eddy-current penetration depth in the target down to a few tens of micrometers, thus enabling the use of thin targets required in precision applications. The proposed interface consists of a low-power front-end oscillator that incorporates the sensor, and a two-channel offset-compensated synchronous demodulator. A ratio-metric measurement approach along with offset and 1/f noise reduction techniques is applied to improve the system stability. The interface has been realized in a 0.35-μm 3.3 V BiCMOS technology and consumes 18 mW. Measurement results obtained using two flat sensing coils show a full-range non-linearity of the sensor interface of only 0.4\%, and a resolution of 15.5 bits (65 nm on a 3 mm measurement range), with 1 kHz signal bandwidth. This translates into 1.5 pico-Henry inductance-measurement resolution, which is comparable with the performance of the most advanced LCR meters. Using the proposed solution, a long-term instability below 20 ppm (for 17 hours) and a thermal drift of 30 ppm/°C are obtained without any temperature compensation. Compared to the state-of-the-art, the proposed interface achieves a considerably better trade-off between power consumption, resolution, bandwidth, and excitation frequency.

  1786. A 1.2-V 8.3-nJ CMOS humidity sensor for RFID applications
    Z. Tan; R. Daamen; A. Humbert; Y. V. Ponomarev; Y. Chae; M. A. P. Pertijs;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 48, Issue 10, pp. 2469‒2477, October 2013. DOI: 10.1109/jssc.2013.2275661
    Abstract: ... This paper presents a fully integrated CMOS humidity sensor for a smart RFID sensor platform. The sensing element is a CMOS-compatible capacitive humidity sensor, which consists of top-metal finger-structure electrodes covered by a humidity-sensitive polyimide layer. Its humidity-sensitive capacitance is digitized by an energy-efficient capacitance-to-digital converter (CDC) based on a third-order delta-sigma modulator. This CDC employs current-efficient operational transconductance amplifiers based on current-starved cascoded inverters, whose limited output swing is accommodated by employing a feedforward loop-filter topology. A programmable offset capacitor is included to remove the sensor's baseline capacitance and thus reduce the required dynamic range. To reduce offset errors due to charge injection of the switches, the entire system is auto-zeroed. The proposed humidity sensor has been realized in a 0.16- μm CMOS technology. Measurement results show that the CDC performs a 12.5-bit capacitance-to-digital conversion in a measurement time of 0.8 ms, while consuming only 8.6 μA from a 1.2-V supply. This corresponds to a state-of-the-art figure-of-merit of 1.4 pJ/conversion-step. Combined with the co-integrated humidity sensing element, it provides a resolution of 0.05\% RH in the range from 30\% RH to 100\% RH while consuming only 8.3 nJ per measurement, which is an order-of-magnitude less energy than the state-of-the-art.

  1787. A Low-Power CMOS Smart Temperature Sensor with a Batch-Calibrated Inaccuracy of ±0.25°C (±3σ) from -70°C to 130°C
    A. Aita; M. Pertijs; K. Makinwa; J. Huijsing; G. Meijer;
    IEEE Sensors Journal,
    Volume 13, Issue 5, pp. 1840‒1848, May 2013. DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2013.2244033
    Abstract: ... In this paper, a low-power CMOS smart temperature sensor is presented. The temperature information extracted using substrate PNP transistors is digitized with a resolution of 0.03°C using a precision switched-capacitor (SC) incremental ΔΣ A/D converter. After batch calibration, an inaccuracy of ±0.25°C (±3) from -70°C to 130°C is obtained. This represents a two-fold improvement compared to the state-of-the-art. After individual calibration at room temperature, an inaccuracy better than ±0.1°C over the military temperature range is obtained, which is in-line with the state-of-the-art. This performance is achieved at a power consumption of 65 μW during a measurement time of 100 ms, by optimizing the power/inaccuracy tradeoffs, and by employing a clock frequency proportional to absolute temperature. The latter ensures accurate settling of the SC input stage at low temperatures, and reduces the effects of leakage currents at high temperatures.

  1788. An energy-efficient readout circuit for resonant sensors based on ring-down measurement
    Z. Zeng; M. A. P. Pertijs; D. M. Karabacak;
    Review of Scientific Instruments,
    Volume 84, Issue 2, pp. 025005, February 2013. DOI: 10.1063/1.4792396
    Abstract: ... This paper presents an energy-efficient readout circuit for resonant sensors that operates based on a transient measurement method. The resonant sensor is driven at a frequency close to its resonance frequency by an excitation source that can be intermittently disconnected, causing the sensor to oscillate at its resonance frequency with exponentially decaying amplitude. By counting the zero crossings of this ring-down response, the interface circuit can detect the resonance frequency. In contrast with oscillator-based readout, the presented readout circuit is readily able to detect quality factor (Q) of the resonator from the envelope of the ring-down response, and can be used even in the presence of large parasitic capacitors. A prototype of the readout circuit has been integrated in 0.35 μm CMOS technology, and consumes only 36 μA from a 3.3 V supply during a measurement time of 2 ms. The resonance frequency and quality factor of a micro-machined SiN resonator obtained using this prototype are in good agreement with results obtained using impedance analysis. Furthermore, a clear transient response is observed to ethanol flow using the presented readout, demonstrating the use of this technique in sensing applications.

  1789. Integration of TMR sensors in silicon microneedles for magnetic measurements of neurons
    Amaral, J.; Pinto, V.; Costa, T.; Gaspar, J.; Ferreira, R.; Paz, E.; Cardoso, S.; Freitas, P.P.;
    IEEE Transactions on Magnetics,
    Volume 49, Issue 7, pp. 3512-3515, 2013. DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2013.2239274

  1790. Measuring brain activity with magnetoresistive sensors integrated in micromachined probe needles
    Amaral, J.; Gaspar, J.; Pinto, V.; Costa, T.; Sousa, N.; Cardoso, S.; Freitas, P.;
    Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing,
    Volume 111, Issue 2, pp. 407-412, 2013. DOI: 10.1007/s00339-013-7621-7

  1791. A Package-Integrated Chireix Outphasing RF Switch-Mode High-Power Amplifier
    Calvillo-Cortes, David A.; van der Heijden, Mark P.; Acar, Mustafa; de Langen, Michel; Wesson, Robin; van Rijs, Fred; de Vreede, Leo C. N.;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 61, Issue 10, pp. 3721-3732, 2013. DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2013.2279372

  1792. Silicon-Filled Rectangular Waveguides and Frequency Scanning Antennas for mm-Wave Integrated Systems
    Gentile, Gennaro; Jovanović, Vladimir; Pelk, Marco J.; Jiang, Lai; Dekker, Ronald; de Graaf, P.; Rejaei, Behzad; de Vreede, Leo C. N.; Nanver, Lis K.; Spirito, Marco;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 61, Issue 12, pp. 5893-5901, 2013. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2013.2281518
    Keywords: ... Arrays;Waveguide transitions;Frequency measurement;Coplanar waveguides;Transmission line measurements;Rectangular waveguides;Metals;Flip-chip;frequency scanning array;integration;mm-wave interconnect;mm-wave system;radar;substrate integrated waveguide (SIW);W-band;waveguide.

  1793. An Electric Field Volumne Integral Equation Approach to Simulate Surface Plasmon Polaritons
    R. Remis; E. Charbon;
    Advanced Electromagnetics,
    Volume 2, Issue 1, pp. 15-24, January 2013.
    document

  1794. A Krylov Stability-Corrected Coordinate-Stretching Method to Simulate Wave Propagation in Unbounded Domains
    V. Druskin; R.F. Remis;
    SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing,
    Volume 35, pp. B376 - B400, 2013. doi:10.1137/12087356X.
    document

  1795. Challenges in spintronic platforms for biomedical applications
    Freitas, PP; Cardoso, FA; Martins, VC; Fernandes, Elisabete Ramos; Martins, SAM; Dias, T; Amaral, JP; Cardoso, S; Germano, J; Costa, T; others;
    2013.

  1796. Spintronic devices for biomedical applications
    Freitas, PP; Cardoso, S; Cardoso, FA; Dias, T; Martins, VC; Fernandes, Elisabete Ramos; Carvalho, Carla AOCM; Azeredo, Joana; Amaral, JP; Pinto, V{\'\i}tor; others;
    2013.

  1797. Magnetic tunnel junction sensors with pTesla sensitivity
    Freitas, S Cardoso; Leitao, DC; Gameiro, L; Cardoso, F; Ferreira, R; Paz, E; Freitas, PP;
    2013.

  1798. Gata2 is Required for HSC Generation and Survival
    Emma de Pater; Polynikis Kaimakis; Chris S. Vink; Tomomasa Yokomizo; Tomoko Yamada-Inagawa; Reinier van der Linden; Parham Solaimani Kartalaei; Sally A. Camper; Nancy Speck; Elaine Dzierzak;
    Journal of Experimental Medicine,
    Volume 210, Issue 13, pp. 2843--2850, December 2013. DOI: 10.1084/jem.20130751
    document

  1799. Design parameters for voltage-controllable directed assembly of single nanoparticles
    Porter, Benjamin F.; Abelmann, Leon; Bhaskaran, Harish;
    Nanotechnology,
    Volume 24, Issue 40, 2013. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/24/40/405304
    Keywords: ... Assembly; Electric fields; Gating and feeding; Surface plasmon resonance; Assembly process; Design parameters; Directed assembly; Nano-assemblies; Nano-manufacturing; Nonlinear poisson-boltzmann equation; Optimum design parameters; Single nanoparticle; Nanoparticles.

    Abstract: ... Techniques to reliably pick-and-place single nanoparticles into functional assemblies are required to incorporate exotic nanoparticles into standard electronic circuits. In this paper we explore the use of electric fields to drive and direct the assembly process, which has the advantage of being able to control the nano-assembly process at the single nanoparticle level. To achieve this, we design an electrostatic gating system, thus enabling a voltage-controllable nanoparticle picking technique. Simulating this system with the nonlinear Poisson-Boltzmann equation, we can successfully characterize the parameters required for single particle placement, the key being single particle selectivity, in effect designing a system that can achieve this controllably. We then present the optimum design parameters required for successful single nanoparticle placement at ambient temperature, an important requirement for nanomanufacturing processes. © 2013 IOP Publishing Ltd.

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  1800. Energy barrier versus switching field for patterned Co80Pt 20 alloy and Co/Pt multilayer films
    de Vries, Jeroen; Bolhuis, Thijs; Abelmann, Leon;
    Journal of Applied Physics,
    Volume 113, Issue 17, 2013. DOI: 10.1063/1.4801399
    Keywords: ... Alloys; Energy barriers; Magnetic materials; Multilayer films; Multilayers; Anomalous hall effects; Co/Pt multilayer; Ion beam etching; Laser interference lithography; Magnetic island; Magnetic layers; Switching field distribution; Thermal switching; Switching.

    Abstract: ... Two Co/Pt multilayer samples have been fabricated with a difference in the number of bilayers, leading to a total magnetic layer thickness of 3 nm and 20 nm. From these films, large arrays of magnetic islands have been patterned using laser interference lithography and ion beam etching. We have investigated the switching field distribution (SFD) of approximately 80 islands and thermal switching field distribution SFDT of individual islands of both samples using the anomalous Hall effect. We compare the results of these measurements with the (SFDT) of a previously investigated alloy with a magnetic layer thickness of 20 nm by comparing the results of over 1000 hysteresis loops of a single weak island and a single strong island. We found that that the energy barrier for the multilayer islands increases with increasing switching field, whereas it was previously found that the energy barrier for the alloy stays constant with varying switching fields. When comparing the two multilayer samples, we observe that the grain size, anisotropy, and switching field distribution are more or less independent on thickness, whereas the switching field at both 0 K and 300 K decreases with film thickness. © 2013 AIP Publishing LLC.

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  1801. Nanopositioner actuator energy cost and performance
    Engelen, Johan B. C.; Khatib, Mohammed G.; Abelmann, Leon; Elwenspoek, Miko C.;
    Sensors and Actuators, A: Physical,
    Volume 199, pp. 353 – 365, 2013. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1016/j.sna.2013.05.020
    Keywords: ... Actuators; Analytical models; Electrodynamics; Electrostatics; Energy efficiency; Energy utilization; MEMS; Models; Probes; Virtual storage; Comb-drive actuator; Electrodynamic actuators; Electrostatic comb drives; Energy cost; Energy efficient; High-acceleration; Nano-positioner; Nanopositioners; Electrostatic actuators.

    Abstract: ... We investigate the energy consumption and seek-time performance of different actuator types for nanopositioners, with emphasis on their use in a parallel-probe-based data-storage system. Analytical models are derived to calculate the energy consumption and performance of electrodynamic (coil and permanent magnet) and comb-drive actuators. The equations are used to simulate the operation of probe-storage devices with these actuator types under a realistic file system load. The electrostatic comb-drive actuators are more energy efficient than the electrodynamic actuators, by an order of magnitude for slow movements and a factor of 2.5 for high-acceleration movements. Overall in a probe-storage device, comb-drive actuation is a factor of 3.3 more energy efficient than electrodynamic actuation, at the same level of performance. The analytical model presented in this work can be used to direct the optimization of nanopositioners and their use, for example, in terms of the data layout on the medium and the 'shutdown' policy of probe-storage devices. © 2013 Elsevier B.V.

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  1802. Emitter Localization Given Time Delay and Frequency Shift Measurements
    A. Amar; G. Leus; B. Friedlander;
    IEEE Trans. Aerospace and Electronic Systems,
    Volume 48, Issue 2, pp. 1826-1837, February 2012.
    document

  1803. Spectrum sensing for cognitive radio
    E. Axell; G. Leus; E.G. Larsson; H.V. Poor;
    IEEE Signal Processing Magazine,
    Volume 29, Issue 3, pp. 101-116, May 2012.
    document

  1804. Optimization of Hard Fusion Based Spectrum Sensing for Energy-Constrained Cognitive Radio Networks
    S. Maleki; S.P. Chepuri; G. Leus;
    Physical Communication,
    June 2012. ISSN 1874-4907. DOI: 10.1016/j.phycom.2012.07.003
    document

  1805. Special issue on Compressive Sensing in Communications
    W.U. Bajwa; G. Leus; A. Scaglione; M. Stojanovic; Zhi Tian;
    Physical Communication,
    Volume 5, Issue 2, pp. 61-63, June 2012. ISSN 1874-4907. DOI: 10.1016/j.phycom.2011.11.003
    document

  1806. Compressive sampling based differential detection for UWB impulse radio signals
    S. Gishkori; G. Leus; V. Lottici;
    Physical Communication,
    Volume 5, Issue 2, pp. 185-195, June 2012. ISSN 1874-4907. DOI: 10.1016/j.phycom.2011.09.005
    document

  1807. Ranging in an Underwater Medium with Multiple Isogradient Sound Speed Profile Layers
    H. Ramezani; G. Leus;
    Sensors,
    Issue 12, pp. 2996-3017, 2012. ISSN 1424-822. DOI: 10.3390/s120302996
    document

  1808. Compressive Wideband Power Spectrum Estimation
    D.D. Ariananda; G. Leus;
    IEEE Trans. Signal Proc.,
    Volume 60, Issue 9, pp. 4775-4789, September 2012.
    document

  1809. Dynamic Multidimensional Scaling for Low-Complexity Mobile Network Tracking
    H. Jamali-Rad; G. Leus;
    IEEE Trans. Signal Proc.,
    Volume 60, Issue 8, pp. 4485-4491, August 2012.
    document

  1810. Identification of black-box wave propagation models using large-scale convex optimization
    T. van Waterschoot; M. Diehl; M. Moonen; G. Leus;
    Proc. 16th IFAC Symp. System Identification (SYSID'12),
    July 2012.
    document

  1811. Reference-free time-based localization for an asynchronous target
    Yiyin Wang; G. Leus;
    EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing,
    Volume 19, pp. 21, 2012.
    document

  1812. Nominate an IEEE Fellow today!
    J.R. Treichler; A.J. van der Veen;
    IEEE Signal Processing Magazine,
    Volume 29, Issue 5, pp. 10, 148, November 2012. DOI: 10.1109/MSP.2012.2212084
    document

  1813. Performance Evaluation of a Low-Complexity Receiver Concept for TOA-Based Ultrawideband Ranging
    G. Bellusci; G.J.M. Janssen; J. Yan; C.C.J.M. Tiberius;
    IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol.,
    Volume 61, Issue 9, pp. 3825-3837, November 2012.
    document

  1814. Low-Power Die-Level Process Variation and Temperature Monitors for Yield Analysis and Optimization in Deep-Submicron CMOS
    A. Zjajo; M.J. Barragan; J. Pineda de Gyvez;
    IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement,
    Volume 61, Issue 8, pp. 2212-2221, August 2012.
    document

  1815. Digital Adaptive Calibration of Multi-Step Analog to Digital Converters
    A. Zjajo; M.J. Barragan; J. Pineda de Gyvez;
    Journal of Low Power Electronics,
    Volume 8, Issue 2, pp. 182-196, April 2012.
    document

  1816. ADC Multi-Site Test Based on a Pre-Test with Digital Input Stimulus
    Xiaoqin Sheng; H. Kerkhoff; A. Zjajo; G. Gronthoud;
    Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Application,
    Volume 28, Issue 4, pp. 393-404, August 2012.
    document

  1817. Stimulus generation for RF MEMS switches test application
    Mingxin Song; Jinghua Yin; Zuobao Cao; Tong Wu; Yu Zhao; Zhao Jin; A. Zjajo;
    International Journal of Simulation and Process Modeling,
    Volume 7, Issue 1, pp. 107-114, February 2012.
    document

  1818. A Precise and High Speed Charge-Pump PLL Model Based on SystemC/SystemC-AMS
    Kezheng Ma; T.G.R.M. van Leuken; M. Vidojkovic; J. Romme; S. Rampu; H. Pflug; Li Huang; Guido Dolmans;
    Intl. Journal of Electronics and Telecommunications,
    Volume 58, Issue 3, pp. 225-231, September 2012. ISSN 0867-6747. DOI: 10.2478/v10177-012-0031-5

  1819. A Time-Resolved, Low-Noise Single-Photon Image Sensor Fabricated in Deep-Submicron CMOS Technology
    M. Gersbach; Y. Maruyama; R. Trimananda; M.W. Fishburn; D. Stoppa; J.A. Richardson; R. Walker; R.K.Henderson; E. Charbon;
    Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 47, Issue 6, pp. 1394-1407, June 2012.
    document

  1820. A Wide Spectral Range Single-Photon Avalanche Diode Fabricated in an Advanced 180nm CMOS Technology
    S. Mandai; E. Charbon;
    Optics Express,
    Volume 20, Issue 3, pp. 5849-57, March 2012.
    document

  1821. Optically-Clocked Instruction Set Extensions for High Efficiency Embedded Processors
    C. Favi; T.H. Kluter; C. Mester; E. Charbon;
    Transactions on Circuits and Systems,
    Volume 59, Issue 3, pp. 604-615, March 2012.
    document

  1822. A 128-Channel, 8.9ps LSB Column-Parallel Two-Stage TDC Based on Time Difference Amplification for Time-Resolved Imaging
    S. Mandai; E. Charbon;
    Transactions on Nuclear Science,
    Volume 59, Issue 5, pp. 2463-2470, October 2012.
    document

  1823. FPGA implementation of a 32x32 autocorrelator array for analysis of fast image series
    J. Buchholz; J. W. Krieger; G. Mocsar; B. Kreith; E. Charbon; G. Vamosi; U. Kebschull; and J. Langowski;
    Optics Express,
    Volume 20, Issue 16, pp. 17767-17782, July 2012.
    document

  1824. Fluorescent Magnetic Bead and Cell Differentiation/Counting using a CMOS SPAD Matrix
    E. DuPont; M. Gijs; E. Charbon;
    Sensors and Actuators B Chemical,
    Volume 174, pp. 609-615, July 2012.
    document

  1825. Some OFDM waveforms for a fully polarimetric weather radar
    van Genderen,Piet; Krasnov,Oleg A.; Wang,Zongbo; Tigrek,Recep Firat;
    International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies,
    Volume 4, pp. 163--169, 4 2012.
    document

  1826. Interleaved OFDM Radar Signals for Simultaneous Polarimetric Measurements
    Zongbo Wang; Tigrek, F.; Krasnov, O.A.; van der Zwan, W.F.; van Genderen, P.; Yarovoy, A.;
    IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems,
    Volume 48, Issue 3, pp. 2085-2099, July 2012.
    document

  1827. A 10-bit 50-MS/s redundant SAR ADC with split capacitive-array DAC
    Arian, A., Saberi, M., Hosseini-Khayat, S.; R. Lotfi; Leblebici, Y.;
    Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing,
    Volume 71, Issue 3, pp. 583-589, 2012.

  1828. Impacts of NBTI/PBTI on performance of domino logic circuits with high-k metal-gate devices in nanoscale CMOS
    Houshmand Kaffashian, M.; R. Lotfi; Mafinezhad, K., Mahmoodi, H.;
    Microelectronics Reliability,
    Volume 52, Issue 8, pp. 1655-1659, 2012.

  1829. An offset cancellation technique for comparators using body-voltage trimming
    Babayan-Mashhadi, S.; R. Lotfi;
    Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing,
    pp. 1-10, 2012.

  1830. Fabrication and optical measurements of a TiO2-ALD evanescent waveguide sensor
    A. Purniawan; G. Pandraud; T.S.Y. Moh; A. Marthen; K.A. Vakalopoulos; P.J. French; P.M. Sarro;
    Sensors and Actuators A,
    Volume 188, pp. 127-132, Dec. 2012. DOI 10.1016/j.sna.2012.05.037.

  1831. SIW Slotted Waveguide Array with Pillbox Transition for Mechanical Beam Scanning
    E. Gandini; M. Ettorre; M. Casaletti; K. Tekkouk; L. Le Coq; R. Sauleau;
    IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters,
    Volume 11, pp. 1572-1575, December 2012.
    document

  1832. Model pulses for performance prediction of digital microlectronic systems
    I. E. Lager; A. T. de Hoop; T. Kikkawa;
    IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology,
    Volume 2, Issue 11, pp. 1859-1870, November 2012.
    document

  1833. THz time-domain sensing: the antenna dispersion problem and a possible solution
    N. Llombart; A. Neto;
    IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology,
    Volume 2, Issue 4, pp. 416-423, July 2012.
    document

  1834. A bifocal ellipsoidal Gregorian reflector system for THz imaging applications
    A. Garcia - Pino; N. Llombart; B. Gonzalez - Valdes; O. Rubinos-Lopez;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
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  1835. Real time quasiparticle tunneling measurements on an illuminated quantum capacitance detector
    K. J. Stone; K. G. Megerian; P. K. Day; P. M. Echternach; J. Bueno; N. Llombart;
    Applied Physics Letters,
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  1836. A grating-based circular polarization duplexer for submillimeter-wave transceivers
    K. B. Cooper; N. Llombart; G. Chattopadhyay; R. J. Dengler; R.E. Cofield; C. Lee; S. Filchenkov; E. Koposova;
    IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters,
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  1837. Suppressing beam systematics in antenna-coupled TES bolometers for CMB polarimetry
    R. C. O' Brient; J. J. Bock; J. Bonnetti; P. Day; H. Hui; C. L. Kuo; N. Llombart; M. Lueker; H. Ngyen; Z. Stanizewski;
    Journal of Low Temperature Physics,
    Volume 167, Issue 3-4, pp. 497-503, May 2012. DOI: 10.1007/s10909-011-0435-0

  1838. Leaky wave enhanced feeds for multibeam reflector to be used for telecom satellite based links
    A. Neto; M. Ettorre; G. Gerini; P. De Maagt;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
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  1839. Analytical description and design of printed dipole arrays for wideband wide-scan applications
    D. Cavallo; A. Neto; G. Gerini;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 60, Issue 12, pp. 6027-6031, Dec. 2012. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2012.2209856

  1840. Microwave-induced excess quasiparticles in superconducting resonators measured through correlated conductivity fluctuations
    de Visser,PJ; Baselmans,JJA; Yates,SJC; Diener,P; Endo,A; Klapwijk,TM;
    Applied Physics Letters,
    Volume 100, Issue 16, pp. 1--4, 2012.

  1841. Design of an integrated filterbank for DESHIMA: on chip submillimeter imaging spectrograph based on superconducting resonators
    Endo,A; van der werf,p; Janssen,RMJ; de Visser,PJ; Klapwijk,TM; Baselmans,JJA; Ferrari,L; Baryshev,AM; Yates,SJC;
    Low Temperature Physics,
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  1842. Generation-Recombination Noise: The Fundamental Sensitivity Limit for Kinetic Inductance Detectors
    de Visser,PJ; Baselmans,JJA; Diener,P; Endo,A; Klapwijk,TM;
    Journal of Low Temperature Physics,
    Volume 167, Issue 3-4, pp. 335--340, 2012.

  1843. Power Handling and Responsivity of Submicron Wide Superconducting Coplanar Waveguide Resonators
    Janssen,RMJ; Endo,A; baselsmans,J.J.A.; de Visser,PJ; Barends,R; Klapwijk,TM;
    Journal of Low Temperature Physics,
    Volume 137, Issue 3-4, pp. 354--359, 2012.

  1844. Development of NBTIN-AL direct antenna coupled kinetic inductance detectors
    Lankwarden,YJY; Baselmans,JJA; Bruijn,MP; Endo,A;
    Journal of Low Temperature Physics,
    Volume 167, Issue 3-4, pp. 367--372, 2012.

  1845. A Low-complexity Spectro-Temporal Distortion Measure for Audio Processing Applications
    Cees H. Taal; Richard C. Hendriks; Richard Heusdens;
    IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech language Proc.,
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  1846. Unbiased MMSE-based noise power estimation with low complexity and low tracking delay
    Timo Gerkmann; Richard C. Hendriks;
    IEEE Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process.,
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  1847. Optimal Index Assignment for Multiple Description Scalar Quantization with Translated Lattice Codebooks
    Guoqiang Zhang; Janusz Klejsa; W. Bastiaan Kleijn;
    IEEE Trans. Signal Processing,
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  1848. Linear Coordinate-Descent Message-Passing for Quadratic Optimization
    Guoqiang Zhang; Richard Heusdens;
    Neural Computation,
    Volume 24, Issue 12, pp. 3340-3370, December 2012.

  1849. Design and implementation of a digital real-time target emulator for secondary surveillance radar / identification friend or foe
    Neemat, S.; Inggs, M.;
    IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine,
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  1850. Implementing Wavelets in Continuous-Time Analog Circuits With Dynamic Range Optimization
    Joel Karel; Sandro Haddad; Senad Hiseni; Ronald Westra; Wouter Serdijn; Ralf Peeters;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I: Regular Papers,
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  1851. On the Design of Broadband Power-to-Current Low Noise Amplifiers
    Xiaolong Li; Wouter A. Serdijn;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I: Regular Papers,
    Volume 59, Issue 3, pp. 493-504, March 2012. Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TCSI.2011.2165413.
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  1852. A Compact Rail-to-Rail Class-AB CMOS Buffer With Slew-Rate Enhancement
    Chutham Sawigun; Andreas Demosthenous; Xiao Liu; Wouter A. Serdijn;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-II: Express Briefs,
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  1853. Does enriched acoustic environment in humans abolish chronic tinnitus clinically and electrophysiologically? A double blind placebo controlled study
    Vanneste, S; van Dongen, M; De Vree, B; Hiseni, S; van der Velden, E; Strydis, C; Kathleen, J; Norena, A; Serdijn, W; De Ridder, D;
    Hearing Research,
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  1854. Spectral Magnitude Minimum Mean-Square Error Estimation Using Binary and Continuous Gain Functions
    Jesper Jensen; Richard C. Hendriks;
    IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech Language Proc.,
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  1855. Noise Correlation Matrix Estimation for Multi-Microphone Speech Enhancement
    Richard C. Hendriks; Timo Gerkmann;
    IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech Language Proc.,
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  1856. A review of visible-range Fabry-Perot microspectrometers in silicon for the industry
    Carmo Paulo Joao; R.P. Rocha; M. Bartek; G. de Graaf; R.F. Wolffenbuttel; J.H. Correia;
    Optics & Laser Technology,
    Volume 44, Issue 7, pp. 2312-2320, 2012.

  1857. A 21 nV/√ Hz chopper-stabilized multi-path current-feedback instrumentation amplifier with 2 μ v offset
    Qinwen Fan; J.H. Huijsing; K.A.A. Makinwa;
    IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits,
    Volume 47, Issue 2, pp. 464-475, February 2012. Harvest Article number: 6112184.

  1858. Reflectance-based two-dimensional TiO2 photonic crystal liquid sensors
    Yujian Huang; G. Pandraud; P.M. Sarro;
    Optics Letters,
    Volume 37, Issue 15, pp. 3162-3164, Aug. 2012. DOI 10.1364/OL.37.003162.

  1859. Surface-charge-collection-enhanced high-sensitivity high-stability silicon photodiodes for DUV and VUV spectral ranges
    L. Shi; S. Nihtianov; L. Haspeslagh; F. Scholze; A. Gottwald; L.K. Nanver;
    IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices,
    Volume 59, Issue 11, pp. 2888-2894, 2012. Harvest.

  1860. Piezo-thermal probe array for high throughput applications
    A. Gaitas; P.J. French;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical,
    Volume 186, pp. 125-129, 2012.

  1861. Fabrication and optical measurements of a TiO2 ALD evanescent waveguide sensor
    A. Purniawan; G. Pandraud; T.S.Y. Moh; A. Marthen; K.A. Vakalopoulos; P.J. French; P.M. Sarro;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical,
    Volume 188, pp. 127-132, 2012.

  1862. A 20-b ± 40-mV range read-out IC with 50-nV offset and 0.04% gain error for bridge transducers
    R. Wu; Y. Chae; J.H. Huijsing; K.A.A. Makinwa;
    IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits,
    Volume 47, Issue 9, pp. 2152-2163, September 2012. Harvest.

  1863. Abstracting synchronization process in workflow involving partial synchronization pattern
    F. Hu; J. Jiang; L. Ma; L. Liu;
    Applied Mechanics and Materials,
    Volume 182-183, pp. 1781-1785, 2012. Harvest Betreft: 2012 International Applied Mechanics, Mechatronics Automation Symposium (IAMMAS 2012); Shenyang, Liaoning.

  1864. Generating document tree of workflow with synchronization process
    F. Hu; J. Jiang; W. Qin; Y. Li;
    Applied Mechanics and Materials,
    Volume 182-183, pp. 1766-1770, 2012. Harvest Betreft: 2012 International Applied Mechanics, Mechatronics Automation Symposium (IAMMAS 2012); Shenyang, Liaoning.

  1865. Electrical and optical performance investigation of Si-based ultrashallow-junction VUV/EUV photodiodes
    S. Lei; S. Nihtianov; X. Sha; L.K. Nanver; A. Gottwald; F. Scholze;
    IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement,
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  1866. Effects of single vacancy defect position on the stability of carbon nanotubes
    R.H. Poelma; H. Sadeghian Marnani; S.W. Koh; G.Q. Zhang;
    Microelectronics Reliability,
    Volume 52, Issue 7, pp. 1279-1284, 2012. harvest Betreft: 12th International Conference on Thermal, Mechanical and Multi-Physics Simulation and Experiments in Microelectronics and Microsystems (EuroSimE 2011), Linz, Austria.

  1867. An SOI thermal-diffusivity-based temperature sensor with ±0.6 °C (3σ) untrimmed inaccuracy from -70 °C to 225 °C
    C.P.L. van Vroonhoven; K.A.A. Makinwa;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
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  1868. Characterization and closed-loop performance of a liquid mirror adaptive optical system
    E.S. ten Have; G.V. Vdovin;
    Applied Optics,
    Volume 51, Issue 12, pp. 2155-2163, 2012.

  1869. A scaled thermal-diffusivity-based 16 MHz frequency reference in 0.16 μm CMOS
    S.M. Kashmiri; K. Souri; K.A.A. Makinwa;
    IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits,
    Volume 47, Issue 7, pp. 1535-1545, July 2012. Harvest Article number: 6216450.

  1870. Column-parallel digital correlated multiple sampling for low-noise CMOS image sensors
    Y. Chen; Y. Xu; A.J. Mierop; A.J.P. Theuwissen;
    IEEE Sensors Journal,
    Volume 12, Issue 4, pp. 793-799, 2012.

  1871. The atomic layer deposition array defined by etch-back technique: A new method to fabricate TiO2 nanopillars, nanotubes and nanochannel arrays
    Yujian Huang; G. Pandraud; P.M. Sarro;
    Nanotechnology,
    Volume 23, pp. 1-8, Nov. 2012. DOI 10.1088/0957-4484/23/48/485306.

  1872. Hybrid silicon-PDMS optofluidic ARROW waveguide
    G. Testa; Yujian Huang; L. Zeni; P.M. Sarro;
    IEEE Photonics Technology Letters,
    Volume 24, Issue 15, pp. 1307-1309, Aug. 2012. DOI 10.1109/LPT.2012.2202645.

  1873. An autonomous microdigital sun sensor by a CMOS imager in space application
    N. Xie; A.J.P. Theuwissen;
    IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices,
    Volume 59, Issue 12, pp. 3405-3410, 2012. Harvest.

  1874. Power-efficient high-speed and high-resolution capacitive-sensor interface for subnanometer displacement measurements
    S. Xia; S. Nihtianov;
    IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement,
    Volume 61, Issue 5, pp. 1315-1322, 2012. Harvest Article number: 6151147.

  1875. In-situ TEM on (de)hydrogenation of Pd at 0.5�4.5 bar hydrogen pressure and 20�400�C
    T. Yokosawaa; T. Alan; G. Pandraud; B. Dam; H. Zandbergen;
    Ultramicroscopy,
    Volume 12, Issue 1, pp. 47-52, Jan. 2012. DOI 10.1016/j.ultramic.2011.10.010.

  1876. Location controlled high performance single-grain Ge TFTs on glass substrate
    T. Chen; R. Ishihara; C.I.M. Beenakker;
    Solid-State Electronics,
    Volume 69, pp. 94-98, Mar. 2012. DOI 10.1016/j.sse.2011.11.027.

  1877. 6 DOF force and torque sensor for micro-manipulation applications
    P. Estevez; J.M. Bank; M. Porta; J. Wei; P.M. Sarro; M. Tichem; U. Staufer;
    Sensors and Actuators A,
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  1878. Suspended submicron silicon-beam for high sensitivity piezoresistive force sensing cantilevers
    J. Wei; S. Magnani; P.M. Sarro;
    Sensors and Actuators A,
    Volume 186, pp. 80-85, Oct. 2012. DOI 10.1016/j.sna.2012.02.021.

  1879. Monolithic 3D-ICs with single grain Si thin film transistors
    R. Ishihara; J. Derakhshandeh; M.R. Tajari Mofrad; T. Chen; N. Golshani; C.I.M. Beenakker;
    Solid-State Electronics,
    Volume 71, pp. 80-87, May 2012. DOI 10.1016/j.sse.2011.10.025.

  1880. A molybdenum MEMS microhotplate for high-temperature operation
    L. Mele; F. Santagata; E. Iervolino; M. Mihailovic; T. Rossi; A.T. Tran; H. Schellevis; J.F. Creemer; P.M. Sarro;
    Sensors and Actuators A,
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  1881. A buried vertical filter for micro and nanoparticle filtration
    S.J. Li; C. Shen; P.M. Sarro;
    Sensors and Actuators A,
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  1882. A review of visible-range Fabry�Perot microspectrometers in silicon for the industry
    J.P. Carmoa; R.P. Rocha; M. Bartek; G. de Graaf; R.F. Wolffenbuttel; J.H. Correia;
    Optics & Laser Technology,
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  1883. An adaptive Cu trace fatigue model based on average cross-section strain
    D. Farley; Y. Zhou; A. Dasgupta; and J.W.C. De Vries;
    Microelectronics Reliability,
    Volume 52, Issue 11, pp. 2763-2772, 2012. DOI 10.1016/j.microrel.2012.06.114.

  1884. Linear and rotational thermal micro-stepper motors
    A. Khiat; J.W. Spronck; J. van Schieveen; S. Milosavljevic; J. Wei; P. Estevez; P.M. Sarro; U. Staufer;
    Microelectronic Engineering,
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  1885. Novel method for measuring surface tension
    E.S. ten Have; G.V. Vdovin;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume 173, Issue 1, pp. 90-96, 2012.

  1886. Geometric-mechanical origin of global planetary angular momentum dynamics
    R. van der Toorn;
    Journal of Sea Research,
    Volume 74, pp. 45-51., Nov. 2012. DOI 10.1016/j.seares.2012.08.006.

  1887. PureGaB p+n Ge diodes grown in large windows to Si with a sub-300 nm transition region
    A. Sammak; W.B. de Boer; L. L. Qi K. Nanver;
    Journal of Solid-State Electronics,
    Volume 74, Issue 1, pp. 126-133, Aug. 2012. DOI 10.1016/j.sse.2012.04.023.

  1888. Tube-shaped Pirani gauge for in situ hermeticity monitoring of SiN thin-film encapsulation
    F. Santagata; J.F. Creemer; E. Iervolino; P.M. Sarro;
    Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering,
    Volume 22, Issue 10, Sep. 2012. DOI 10.1088/0960-1317/22/10/105025.

  1889. Sensing performance of plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition SiC-SiO2-SiC horizontal slot waveguides
    G. Pandraud; E. Margallo-Balb�s; P.M. Sarro;
    Journal of Nanophotonics,
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  1890. Microcantilevers encapsulated in fluid wells for sensing in liquids
    W.J. Venstra; W.H. Wien; P.M. Sarro; J. van Eijk;
    Microelectronic Engineering,
    Volume 97, pp. 247-250, Sep. 2012. DOI 10.1016/j.mee.2012.03.030.

  1891. Mechanical design and characterization for MEMS thin-film packaging
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    Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems,
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  1892. Lateral-transistor test structures for evaluating the effectiveness of surface doping techniques
    L. Qi; G. Lorito; L.K. Nanver;
    IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing,
    Volume 25, Issue 4, pp. 581-588, 2012. DOI 10.1109/TSM.2012.2206834.

  1893. Micromachined nanofiltration modules for lab-on-a-chip applications
    C. Shen; V.R.S.S. Mokkapati; H.T.M. Pham; P.M. Sarro;
    Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering,
    Volume 22, Issue 2, pp. 1-10., Jan. 2012. DOI 10.1088/0960-1317/22/2/025003.

  1894. Analysis of u-Czochralski technique using two-dimensional crystallization simulator
    K. Matsuki; R. Saito; S. Tsukamoto; M. Kimura; R. Ishihara;
    Journal of Crystallization Process and Technology,
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  1895. A FDTD/SEM model for accurate analysis of time-domain radiation. Properties of antenna-based sensors
    D Caratelli; A Yarovoy;
    Micro and Nano Sensing: an International Journal,
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  1896. Accurate time-domain modeling of reconfigurable antenna sensors for non-invasive melanoma skin cancer detection
    D Caratelli; A Massaro; R Cingolani; A Yarovoy;
    IEEE Sensors Journal,
    Volume 12, Issue 3, pp. 635--643, 2012.

  1897. Design and full-wave analysis of piezoelectric micro-needle antenna sensors for enhanced near-field detection of skin cancer
    D Caratelli; A Yarovoy; A Massaro; A. Lay-Ekuakille;
    Progress In Electromagnetics Research (PIER) (online),
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  1898. Human body impact on UWB antenna radiation
    AV Vorobyov; A Yarovoy;
    Progress in Electromagnetics Research (PIER) M,
    Volume 22, pp. 259--269, 2012.

  1899. Interleaved OFDM radar signals for simultaneous polarimetric measurements
    Z Wang; RF Tigrek; OA Krasnov; {van der Zwan}, FW; {van Genderen}, P; A Yarovoy;
    IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems,
    Volume 48, Issue 3, pp. 2085--2099, 2012.

  1900. Study on two-dimensional sparse MIMO UWB arrays for high resolution near-field imaging
    X Zhuge; A Yarovoy;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 60, Issue 9, pp. 4173--4182, 2012.

  1901. Three-dimensional near-field MIMO array imaging using range migration techniques
    X Zhuge; A Yarovoy;
    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing,
    Volume 21, Issue 6, pp. 3026--3033, 2012.

  1902. Passive Circuit Technologies for mm-Wave Wireless Systems on Silicon
    J. R. Long; Y. Zhao; W. Wu; M. Spirito; L. Vera; E. Gordon;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers,
    Volume 59, Issue 8, pp. 1680-1693, Aug 2012.

  1903. An Experimental Power-Lines Model for Digital ASICs Based on Transmission Lines
    M. Costagliola; D. de Caro; A. Girardi; R. Izzi; N. Rinaldi; M. Spirito; P. Spirito;
    IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems,
    Volume 20, Issue 1, pp. 162-166, Jan 2012.

  1904. Surface-charge-layer sheet-resistance measurements for evaluating interface RF losses on high-resistivity-silicon substrates
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    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 60, Issue 11, pp. 3542-3550, Nov. 2012. DOI 10.1109/TMTT.2012.2215050.

  1905. High-efficiency silicon photodiode detector for sub-keV electron microscopy
    A. Sakic; G. van Veen; K. Kooijman; P. Vogelsang; T.L.M. Scholtes; W.B. de Boer; J. Derakhshandeh; W.H.A. Wien; S. Milosavljevic; L.K. Nanver;
    IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices,
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  1906. An Analytical Kinetic Model for Chemical-Vapor Deposition of Pure-Boron Layers from Diborane
    V. Mohammadi; W.B. de Boer; L.K. Nanver and;
    Journal of Applied Physics,
    Volume 112, 2012. DOI 10.1063/1.4767328.

  1907. Self-biased low loss conductor featured with skin effect suppression for high quality RF passives
    I. Iramnaaz; H. Schellevis; B. Rejaei; R. Fitch; Y. Zhuang;
    IEEE Transactions on Magnetics,
    Volume 48, Issue 11, pp. 4139-4142, Nov. 2012. DOI 10.1109/TMAG.2012.2200660.

  1908. High-quality integrated inductors based on multilayered meta-conductors
    I. Iramnaaz; H. Schellevis; B. Rejaei; R. Fitch; Y. Zhuang;
    IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters,
    Volume 22, Issue 7, pp. 345-347, Jul. 2012. DOI 10.1109/LMWC.2012.2201710.

  1909. Thick single grain silicon formation with microsecond green laser crystallization
    A. Arslan; H.J. Kahlert; P. Oesterlin; D.T. Mofrad; R. Ishihara; C.I.M. Beenakker;
    ECS Transactions,
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  1910. Fast etching of molding compound by an Ar/O2/CF4 plasma and process improvements for semiconductor package decapsulation
    Jiaqi Tang; D. Gruber; J.B.J. Schelen; H.-J. Funke; C.I.M. Beenakker;
    ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology,
    Volume 1, Issue 4, pp. P175-P178, Aug. 2012. DOI 10.1149/2.019204jss.

  1911. Design strategies for eddy-current displacement sensor systems: Review and recommendations
    M.R. Nabavi; S. Nihtianov;
    IEEE Sensors Journal,
    Volume 12, Issue 12, pp. 3346-3355, 2012. Harvest.

  1912. Comparative study of silicon-based ultraviolet photodetectors
    L. Shi; S. Nihtianov;
    IEEE Sensors Journal,
    Volume 12, Issue 7, pp. 2453-2459, 2012. Harvest Article number: 6175098.

  1913. Analyzing the radiation degradation of 4-transistor deep submicron technology CMOS image sensors
    J. Tan; B. Buttgen; A.J.P. Theuwissen;
    IEEE Sensors Journal,
    Volume 12, Issue 6, pp. 2278-2286, 2012. Harvest Article number: 6143978.

  1914. Electrical and optical performance investigation of si-based ultrashallow-junction p+-n VUV/EUV photodiodes
    L. Shi; S. Nihtianov; S. Xia; L.K. Nanver; A. Gottwald; F. Scholze;
    IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement,
    Volume 61, Issue 5, pp. 1268-1277, 2012. Harvest Article number: 6163408.

  1915. Low-cost technology for the integration of micro-and nanochips into fluidic systems on printed circuit board: Fabrication challenges
    N.B. Palacios-Aguilera; J. Bastemeijer; J.R. Mollinger; A. Bossche; V.R.S.S. Mokkapati RSS; H.A. Visser; R. Akkerman;
    International Journal on Advances in Systems and Measurements,
    Volume 5, Issue 1 & 2, pp. 11-21, 2012.

  1916. HermesE: A 96-channel full data rate direct neural interface in 0.13 μm CMOS
    H. Gao; R.M. Walker; P. Nuyujukian; K.A.A. Makinwa; K.V. Shenoy; B. Murmann; T.H.Y. Meng;
    IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits,
    Volume 47, Issue 4, pp. 1043-1055, April 2012. Harvest Article number: 6158616.

  1917. Pattern dependency and loading effect of pure-boron-layer chemical-vapor deposition
    V. Mohammadi; W.B. de Boer; T.L.M. Scholtes; L.K. Nanver;
    ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology,
    Volume 1, Issue 1, pp. Q16-Q20, 2012. DOI 10.1149/2.024201jss.

  1918. Influence of the growth temperature on the first and second-order Raman band ratios and widths of carbon nanotubes and fibers
    S. Vollebregt; R. Ishihara; F.D. Tichelaar; Y. Hou; C.I.M. Beenakker;
    Carbon,
    Volume 50, Issue 10, pp. 3542-3554, Aug. 2012. DOI 10.1016/j.carbon.2012.03.026.

  1919. Luminescence quenching of porous silicon nanoparticles in presence of ascorbic acid
    La Ferrara, Vera; Fiorentino, Giuseppe; Rametta, Gabriella; Di Francia, Girolamo;
    physica status solidi (a),
    Volume 209, Issue 4, pp. 736--740, 2012.

  1920. A Wideband, Dual-Path, Millimeter-Wave Power Amplifier With 20 dBm Output Power and PAE Above 15% in 130 nm SiGe-BiCMOS
    Y. Zhao; J. R. Long;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 47, Issue 9, pp. 1981-1997, Sept 2012.

  1921. Broad-Band Odd-Number CMOS Prescalers With Quadrature/Symmetrical Outputs
    P. Dekate; W. Redman-White; D. M. W. Leenaerts; J. R. Long;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs,
    Volume 59, Issue 7, pp. 399-403, July 2012.

  1922. A 915 MHz, Ultra-Low Power 2-Tone Transceiver With Enhanced Interference Resilience
    X. Huang; A. Ba; P. Harpe; G. Dolmans; H. de Groot; J. R. Long;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 47, Issue 12, pp. 3197-3207, Dec 2012.

  1923. Linear variable optical filter-based ultraviolet microspectrometer
    Emadi, Arvin; Wu, Huaiwen; de Graaf, Ger; Enoksson, Peter; Correia, Jose Higino; Wolffenbuttel, Reinoud;
    Applied optics,
    Volume 51, Issue 19, pp. 4308-4315, 2012.

  1924. Design and implementation of a sub-nm resolution microspectrometer based on a Linear-Variable Optical Filter
    Emadi, Arvin; Wu, Huaiwen; de Graaf, Ger; Wolffenbuttel, Reinoud;
    Optics Express,
    Volume 20, Issue 1, pp. 489-507, 2012.

  1925. Temperature dependence of chemical-vapor deposition of pure boron layers from diborane
    V. Mohammadi; W.B. de Boer; T.L.M. Scholtes; L.K. Nanver;
    Applied Physics Letters,
    Volume 101, Issue 11, pp. 1-4, 2012. DOI 10.1063/1.4752109.

  1926. Molecular modeling of protonic acid doping of emeraldine base polyaniline for chemical sensors
    X.P. Chen; C. Yuan; C.K.Y. Wong; H. Ye; S.Y.Y. Leung; GuoQi Zhang;
    Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical,
    Volume 174, pp. 210-216., 2012. DOI 10.1016/j.snb.2012.08.042.

  1927. Homogeneous superconducting phase in TiN film: A complex impedance study
    P. Diener; H. Schellevis; J.J.A. Baselmans;
    Applied Physics Letters,
    Volume 101, Issue 25, pp. 252601/1-4, Dec. 2012. DOI 10.1063/1.4771995.

  1928. Micro-fabricated channel with ultra-thin yet ultra-strong windows enables electron microscopy under 4-bar pressure
    T. Alan; T. Yokosawa; J. Gaspar; G. Pandraud; O. Paul; F. Creemer; P.M. Sarro; H.W. Zandbergen;
    Applied Physics Letters,
    Volume 100, pp. 1-4, 2012. DOI 10.1063/1.3688490.

  1929. Effects of single vacancy defect position on the stability of carbon nanotubes
    R.H. Poelma; H. Sadeghian; S. Koh; GuoQi Zhang;
    Microelectronics Reliability Journal,
    Volume 52, Issue 7, pp. 1279-1284, Jul. 2012. DOI 10.1016/j.microrel.2012.03.015.

  1930. An approach to �Design for Reliability� in solid state lighting systems at high temperatures
    S. Tarashioon; A. Baiano; H. van Zeijl; C. Guo; S.W. Koh; W.D. van Driel; GuoQi Zhang;
    Microelectronics Reliability,
    Volume 52, Issue 5, pp. 783-793, May 2012. DOI 10.1016/j.microrel.2011.06.029.

  1931. Diagnosing lumen depreciation in LED lighting systems: An estimation approach
    J. Dong; A. Pandharipande; W. van Driel; GuoQi Zhang;
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing,
    Volume 60, Issue 7, pp. 3796-3808, Jul. 2012. DOI 10.1109/TSP.2012.2192114.

  1932. Analytical large deflection method for carbon nanotube young�s modulus determination
    N. Tolou; A. Khiat; GuoQi Zhang; J.L. Herder;
    International Journal of Nonlinear Sciences and Numerical Simulation,
    Volume 12, Issue 1-8, pp. 51-58, Feb. 2012. DOI 10.1515/ijnsns.2011.300.

  1933. Establishment of the coarse grained parameters for epoxy-copper interfacial separation
    C.K.Y. Wong; S.Y.Y. Leung; R.H. Poelma; K.M.B. Jansen; C.C.A. Yuan; W.D. van Driel; GuoQi Zhang;
    Journal of Applied Physics,
    Volume 111, Issue 9, pp. 094906/1-094906, May 2012. DOI 10.1063/1.4712060.

  1934. Mechanical characterization of individual polycrystalline carbon tubes for use in electrical nano-interconnects
    A. Khiat; R.H. Poelma; GuoQi Zhang; F. Heuck; F.D. Tichelaar; M. Sarno; P. Ciambelli; S. Fontorbes; L. Arurault; U. Staufer;
    Microelectronic Engineering,
    Volume 98, pp. 317-320, Oct. 2012. DOI 10.1016/j.mee.2012.07.087.

  1935. An energy-efficient 15-bit capacitive-sensor interface based on period modulation
    Z. Tan; S. H. Shalmany; G. C. M. Meijer; M. A. P. Pertijs;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 47, Issue 7, pp. 1703‒1711, July 2012. DOI: 10.1109/jssc.2012.2191212
    Abstract: ... This paper presents an energy-efficient capacitive-sensor interface with a period-modulated output signal. This interface converts the sensor capacitance to a time interval, which can be easily digitized by a simple digital counter. It is based on a relaxation oscillator consisting of an integrator and a comparator. To enable the use of a current-efficient telescopic OTA in the integrator, negative feedback loops are applied to limit the integrator's output swing. To obtain an accurate ratiometric output signal, auto-calibration is applied. This eliminates errors due to comparator delay, thus enabling the use of a low-power comparator. Based on an analysis of the stability of the negative feedback loops, it is shown how the current consumption of the interface can be traded for its ability to handle parasitic capacitors. A prototype fabricated in 0.35 μm standard CMOS technology can handle parasitic capacitors up to five times larger than the sensor capacitance. Experimental results show that it achieves 15-bit resolution and 12-bit linearity within a measurement time of 7.6 ms for sensor capacitances up to 6.8 pF, while consuming only 64 μA from a 3.3 V power supply. Compared to prior work with similar performance, this represents a significant improvement in energy efficiency.

  1936. Front-end receiver electronics for a matrix transducer for 3-D transesophageal echocardiography
    Z. Yu; S. Blaak; Z. Y. Chang; J. Yao; J. G. Bosch; C. Prins; C. T. Lancee; N. de Jong; M. A. P. Pertijs; G. C. M. Meijer;
    IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control,
    Volume 59, Issue 7, pp. 1500‒1512, July 2012. DOI: 10.1109/tuffc.2012.2350
    Abstract: ... There is a clear clinical need for creating 3-D images of the heart. One promising technique is the use of transesophageal echocardiography (TEE). To enable 3-D TEE, we are developing a miniature ultrasound probe containing a matrix piezoelectric transducer with more than 2000 elements. Because a gastroscopic tube cannot accommodate the cables needed to connect all transducer elements directly to an imaging system, a major challenge is to locally reduce the number of channels, while maintaining a sufficient signal-to-noise ratio. This can be achieved by using front-end receiver electronics bonded to the transducers to provide appropriate signal conditioning in the tip of the probe. This paper presents the design of such electronics, realizing time-gain compensation (TGC) and micro-beamforming using simple, low-power circuits. Prototypes of TGC amplifiers and micro-beamforming cells have been fabricated in 0.35-μm CMOS technology. These prototype chips have been combined on a printed circuit board (PCB) to form an ultrasound-receiver system capable of reading and combining the signals of three transducer elements. Experimental results show that this design is a suitable candidate for 3-D TEE.

  1937. A Tripolar Current-Steering Stimulator ASIC for Field Shaping in Deep Brain Stimulation
    Valente, V.; Demosthenous, A.; Bayford, R.;
    IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems,
    Volume 6, Issue 3, pp. 197--207, June 2012. DOI: 10.1109/TBCAS.2011.2171036
    document

  1938. Integration of magnetoresistive biochips on a CMOS circuit
    Cardoso, F.A.; Costa, T.; Germano, J.; Cardoso, S.; Borme, J.; Gaspar, J.; Fernandes, J.R.; Piedade, M.S.; Freitas, P.P.;
    IEEE Transactions on Magnetics,
    Volume 48, Issue 11, pp. 3784-3787, 2012. DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2012.2198449

  1939. On the Compression and Blocking Distortion of Semiconductor-Based Varactors
    Huang, Cong; Buisman, Koen; Zampardi, Peter J.; Larson, Lawrence E.; de Vreede, Leo C. N.;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 60, Issue 12, pp. 3699-3709, 2012. DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2012.2221139

  1940. All-Digital RF $I/Q$ Modulator
    Alavi, Morteza S.; Staszewski, Robert Bogdan; de Vreede, Leo C. N.; Visweswaran, Akshay; Long, John R.;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 60, Issue 11, pp. 3513-3526, 2012. DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2012.2211612

  1941. RF Power Insensitive Varactors
    Buisman, Koen; Huang, Cong; Zampardi, Peter J.; de Vreede, Leo C. N.;
    IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters,
    Volume 22, Issue 8, pp. 418-420, 2012. DOI: 10.1109/LMWC.2012.2206209

  1942. Stable Subspace Tracking Algorithm Based on a Signed URV Decomposition
    Mu Zhou; A.J. van der Veen;
    IEEE Trans. Signal Processing,
    Volume 60, Issue 6, pp. 3036-3051, June 2012.
    document • software
    Matlab code: http://sps.ewi.tudelft.nl/data/allejan/surv.zip

  1943. Iterative Equalization for OFDM Systems over Wideband Multi-Scale Multi-Lag Channels
    Tao Xu; Zijian Tang; R. Remis; G. Leus;
    EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking,
    pp. 2012:280, September 2012. DOI: 10.1186/1687-1499-2012-280
    document

  1944. A Urinary Bcl-2 Surface Acoustic Wave Biosensor for Early Ovarian Cancer Detection
    O. Onen; A. Sisman; N.D. Gallant; P. Kruck; R. Guldiken;
    MDPI Sensors,
    December 2012. DOI: 10.3390/s120607423
    document

  1945. An Analog Integrated Circuit Beamformer for High- Frequency Medical Ultrasound Imaging
    G. Gurun; J. Zahorian; A. Sisman; M. Karaman; P. Hasler; F. L. Degertekin;
    IEEE Transactions On Biomedical Circuits And Systems,
    October 2012. DOI: 10.1109/TBCAS.2012.2219532
    document

  1946. A Synthetic Phased Array Surface Acoustic Wave Sensor for Quantifying Bolt Tension
    A. Sisman; J. Martinez; O. Onen; D. Velasquez; R. Guldiken;
    MDPI Sensors,
    2012. DOI: 10.3390/s120912265
    document

  1947. A randomized trial of tigecycline versus ampicillin-sulbactam or amoxicillin-clavulanate for the treatment of complicated skin and skin structure infections
    Alpert, M; Rahav, G; Rill, D; Zito, E; Gardiner, D; Pedersen, R; Babinchak, T; McGovern, PC; Armstrong, P; Berbel, G; others;
    2012.

  1948. Spintronic platforms for biomedical applications
    Freitas, PP; Cardoso, Filipe Arroyo; Martins, VC; Martins, SAM; Loureiro, J; Amaral, J; Chaves, RC; Cardoso, S; Fonseca, LP; Sebastião, AM; others;
    Lab on a Chip,
    Volume 12, Issue 3, pp. 546-557, 2012.

  1949. Quantitative biomolecular sensing station based on magnetoresistive patterned arrays
    Serrate, David; De Teresa, JM; Marquina, Clara; Marzo, J; Saurel, D; Cardoso, Filipe Arroyo; Cardoso, S; Freitas, PP; Ibarra, MR;
    Biosensors and Bioelectronics,
    Volume 35, Issue 1, pp. 206-212, 2012.

  1950. GMR sensors and magnetic nanoparticles for immuno-chromatographic assays
    Marquina, C; De Teresa, JM; Serrate, D; Marzo, J; Cardoso, Filipe Arroyo; Saurel, D; Cardoso, S; Freitas, PP; Ibarra, MR;
    Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials,
    Volume 324, Issue 21, pp. 3495-3498, 2012.

  1951. Integration of magnetoresistive biochips on a CMOS circuit
    Cardoso, Filipe Arroyo; Costa, T; Germano, J; Cardoso, S; Borme, J; Gaspar, J; Fernandes, JR; Piedade, MS; Freitas, PP;
    IEEE transactions on magnetics,
    Volume 48, Issue 11, pp. 3784-3787, 2012.

  1952. Waterborne pathogen detection using a magnetoresistive immuno-chip
    Martins, Sofia SA; Martins, Verónica C; Cardoso, Filipe Arroyo; Freitas, Paulo P; Fonseca, Luís P;
    Molecular biological technologies for ocean sensing,
    pp. 263-288, 2012.

  1953. Determination of bit patterned media noise based on island perimeter fluctuations
    Alink, Laurens; Groenland, J. P. J.; De Vries, Jeroen; Abelmann, Leon;
    IEEE Transactions on Magnetics,
    Volume 48, Issue 11, pp. 4574 – 4577, 2012. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2012.2201138
    Keywords: ... Fourier series; Bit-patterned media; Channel modeling; Fourier-series expansion; High density; Jitter noise; Laser interference lithography; Magnetic island; Media noise; Model-based OPC; Jitter.

    Abstract: ... We measured the fluctuation in shape of magnetic islands in bit patterned media fabricated by laser interference lithography. This fluctuation can be accurately described by a model based on a Fourier series expansion of the perimeter of the islands. The model can be easily linked to amplitude and jitter noise. We show that the amplitude and jitter noise are in principle correlated, and the jitter noise increases with increasing island area. The correlation is small for media prepared by laser interference lithography, but expected to gain importance for high density bit patterned media. © 1965-2012 IEEE.

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  1954. Cantilever arrays with self-aligned nanotips of uniform height
    Koelmans, W. W.; Peters, T.; Berenschot, E.; De Boer, M. J.; Siekman, M. H.; Abelmann, L.;
    Nanotechnology,
    Volume 23, Issue 13, 2012. DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/23/13/135301
    Keywords: ... Atomic force microscopy; Nanotips; Standards; AFM; Cantilever arrays; Contact modes; Convex corners; Data storage; Fabrication process; Free end; Load forces; Nano scale; Nano-manufacturing; Nanometres; Non-contact mode; Optical contact lithography; Probe-based; Process flows; Relative standard error; Resonance frequencies; Self-aligned; Sharp tip; Single-mask; Standard errors; Tip-sample distance; Tip-sample interaction; Wafer-scale; Nanocantilevers.

    Abstract: ... Cantilever arrays are employed to increase the throughput of imaging and manipulation at the nanoscale. We present a fabrication process to construct cantilever arrays with nanotips that show a uniform tipsample distance. Such uniformity is crucial, because in many applications the cantilevers do not feature individual tipsample spacing control. Uniform cantilever arrays lead to very similar tipsample interaction within an array, enable non-contact modes for arrays and give better control over the load force in contact modes. The developed process flow uses a single mask to define both tips and cantilevers. An additional mask is required for the back side etch. The tips are self-aligned in the convex corner at the free end of each cantilever. Although we use standard optical contact lithography, we show that the convex corner can be sharpened to a nanometre scale radius by an isotropic underetch step. The process is robust and wafer-scale. The resonance frequencies of the cantilevers within an array are shown to be highly uniform with a relative standard error of 0.26% or lower. The tipsample distance within an array of up to ten cantilevers is measured to have a standard error around 10nm. An imaging demonstration using the AFM shows that all cantilevers in the array have a sharp tip with a radius below 10nm. The process flow for the cantilever arrays finds application in probe-based nanolithography, probe-based data storage, nanomanufacturing and parallel scanning probe microscopy. © 2012 IOP Publishing Ltd.

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  1955. The micronium-a musical MEMS instrument
    Engelen, Johan B. C.; De Boer, Hylco; Beekman, Jethro G.; Fortgens, Laurens C.; De Graaf, Derk B.; Vocke, Sander; Abelmann, Leon;
    Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems,
    Volume 21, Issue 2, pp. 262 – 269, 2012. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1109/JMEMS.2011.2179016
    Keywords: ... Electromechanical devices; MEMS; Musical instruments; Resonators; Ambient pressures; Audible frequency; Audio signal; Capacitive displacement sensors; Comb drive; Electrostatic tuning; Many resonators; Mass spring systems; Measurement results; MEMS technology; Micro-instrument; MP3 files; Quality factors; Sine-wave; Tunable resonators; Tuning ratio; Instruments.

    Abstract: ... The Micronium is a musical instrument fabricated from silicon using microelectromechanical system (MEMS) technology. It isto the best of our knowledgethe first musical micro-instrument fabricated using MEMS technology, where the actual sound is generated by mechanical microstructures. The Micronium consists of mass-spring systems that are designed to resonate at audible frequencies. Their displacement is measured by comb drives and is used as the audio signal to drive a loudspeaker. The instrument's sounds are pure sine waves. An extensive set of measurements of individual resonators is presented and discussed. Quality factor measurements at various ambient pressures show that an ambient pressure of 1 mbar results in a note duration of 1 s. The realized frequency deviates considerably from the designed resonator frequency. Measurement results of many resonators are shown to obtain understanding of this deviation. Initial experiments with electrostatic tuning using variable-gap comb drives show a tuning ratio of 5% maximum, depending on the resonator frequency. An audio recording of the instrument is included as a supplementary MP3 file. © 2012 IEEE.

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  1956. Measurement of the nucleation and domain depinning field in a single Co/Pt multilayer dot by Anomalous Hall effect
    Delalande, M.; De Vries, J.; Abelmann, L.; Lodder, J. C.;
    Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials,
    Volume 324, Issue 7, pp. 1277 – 1280, 2012. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmmm.2011.09.037
    Keywords: ... Hall effect; Magnetic storage; Multilayers; Nucleation; Angular dependence; Anomalous Hall effects; Co/Pt multilayer; Depinning; Depinning fields; Domain nucleation; Easy axis; In-plane; Magnetic reversal; Nucleation field; Perpendicular anisotropy; Separate analysis; Magnetic domains.

    Abstract: ... Co/Pt multilayer dots with perpendicular anisotropy and with diameters of 250 and 350 nm were fabricated on top of a Hall cross configuration. The angular dependence of the magnetic reversal of the individual dot was investigated by Anomalous Hall effect measurements. At near in-plane angles (85° with the magnetic easy axis) the dot switches partially into a stable two-domain state. This allows for separate analysis of the angular dependence of both the field required for nucleation of a reversed domain, and the field required for depinning of the domain wall. The angular dependence of the depinning field fits accurately to a 1/cos(θ) behavior, whereas the angular dependence of the nucleation field shows a minimum close to 45°. The latter dependency can be accurately fitted to the modified Kondorsky model proposed by Schumacher [1]. © 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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  1957. Multichannel Sigma-Delta ADCs with integrated feedback beamformers to cancel interfering communication signals
    V. Venkateswaran; A.J. van der Veen;
    IEEE Tr. Signal Processing,
    Volume 59, Issue 5, pp. 2211-2222, May 2011.
    document

  1958. Fifty Years of Acoustic Feedback Control: State of the Art and Future Challenges
    T. van Waterschoot; M. Moonen;
    Proceedings of the IEEE,
    Volume 99, Issue 2, pp. 288-327, February 2011. DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2010.2090998
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  1959. Sparsity-Cognizant Total Least-Squares for Perturbed Compressive Sampling
    Hao Zhu; G. Leus; G.B. Giannakis;
    IEEE Tr. Signal Processing,
    Volume 59, Issue 5, pp. 2002-2016, May 2011. DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2011.2109956
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  1960. Joint Dynamic Resource Allocation and Waveform Adaptation for Cognitive Networks
    Zhi Tian; G. Leus; V. Lottici;
    IEEE J. Sel. Areas Comm. (JSAC),
    Volume 29, Issue 2, pp. 443-454, February 2011. DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2011.110216
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  1961. Power spectrum blind sampling
    G. Leus; D. Dony Ariananda;
    IEEE Signal Processing Letters,
    Volume 18, Issue 8, pp. 443-446, August 2011. DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2011.2158604
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  1962. Energy-Efficient Distributed Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Sensor Networks
    S. Maleki; A. Pandharipande; G. Leus;
    IEEE Sensors Journal,
    Volume 11, Issue 3, pp. 565-573, March 2011. DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2010.2051327
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  1963. Aliasing-Free Wideband Beamforming Using Sparse Signal Representation
    Z. Tang; G. Blacquiere; G. Leus;
    IEEE Tr. Signal Processing,
    Volume 59, Issue 7, pp. 3464-3469, 2011. ISSN 1053-587X. DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2011.2140108
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  1964. Trends Expert Overview Sessions Revived at ICASSP 2011 (In the Spotlight)
    A.J. van der Veen; J.C. Principe;
    IEEE Signal Processing Magazine,
    Volume 28, Issue 5, pp. 160, September 2011. ISSN: 1053-5888. DOI: 10.1109/MSP.2011.941984
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  1965. Signal Processing for Networking and Communications (In the Spotlight)
    Shuguang Cui; R.W. Heath; G. Leus;
    IEEE Signal Processing Magazine,
    Volume 28, Issue 5, pp. 151-152, September 2011. ISSN: 1053-5888; 10.1109/MSP.2011.941986.
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  1966. Robust Time-Based Localization for Asynchronous Networks
    Yiyin Wang; Xiaoli Ma; G. Leus;
    IEEE Tr. Signal Processing,
    Volume 59, Issue 9, pp. 4397-4410, September 2011. ISSN: 1053-587X. DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2011.2159215
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  1967. Round-Robin Scheduling for Orthogonal Beamforming with Limited Feedback
    C. Simon; G. Leus;
    IEEE Tr. Wireless Comm.,
    Volume 10, Issue 8, pp. 2486-2496, August 2011. DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2011.062011.091736
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  1968. A novel astronomical application for formation flying small satellites
    M.J. Bentum; C.J.M. Verhoeven; A.J. Boonstra; A.J. van der Veen; E.K.A. Gill;
    Tijdschrift van het NERG,
    Volume 76, Issue 1, pp. 8-15, 2011. ISSN 037434853.
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  1969. A 26 uW 8 bit 10 MS/s Asynchronous SAR ADC for Low Energy Radios
    P.J.A. Harpe; C. Zhou; Yu Bi; N.P. van der Meijs; X. Wang; K. Philips; G. Dolmans; H. de Groot;
    IEEE J. Solid State Circuits,
    Volume 46, Issue 7, pp. 1585-1595, July 2011. 10.1109/JSSC.2011.2143870.
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  1970. Occupancy based illumination control of LED lighting systems
    D. Caicedo; A. Pandharipande; G. Leus;
    Lighting Research and Technology,
    Volume 43, Issue 2, pp. 217-234, June 2011. DOI: DOI: 10.1177/1477153510374703
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  1971. Emitter localization given time delay and frequency shift measurements
    A. Amar; G. Leus; B. Friedlander;
    IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems,
    Volume 47, Issue 4, pp. 1-24, 2011.
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  1972. Time-varying MIMO-OFDM channel estimation with aid of pilots
    Zijian Tang; G. Leus;
    EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing (to appear),
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  1973. Single-Photon Detection--Evolving CMOS Technology for High-Performance
    E. Charbon;
    OPN Optics and Photonics News,
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  1974. Video-rate fluorescence lifetime imaging camera with CMOS single-photon avalanche diode arrays and high-speed imaging algorithm
    D.U. Li; J. Arlt; D. Tyndall; R. Walker; J. Richardson; D. Stoppa; E. Charbon; R.K. Henderson;
    Journal of Biomedical Optics,
    Volume 16, Issue 9, pp. 096012;1-12, September 2011.
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  1975. Fast Single-Photon Avalanche Diode Arrays for Laser Raman Spectroscopy
    J. Blacksberg; Y. Maruyama; E. Charbon; G. Rossman;
    Optics Letters,
    Volume 36, Issue 18, pp. 3672-3674, September 2011.
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  1976. Optically-Clocked Instruction Set Extensions for High Efficiency Embedded Processors
    C. Favi; T.H. Kluter; C. Mester; E. Charbon;
    IEEE Transactions of Circuits and Systems I(to appear),
    December 2011.
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  1977. Reduction of Fixed-Position Noise in Position-Sensitive, Single-Photon Avalanche Diodes
    M.W Fishburn; E. Charbon;
    Transactions on Electron Devices,
    Volume 58, Issue 8, pp. 2354-2361, May 2011.
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  1978. Hybrid Polymer Microlens Arrays with High Numerical Apertures Fabricated Using Simple Ink-Jet Printing Technique
    J.Y. Kim; N.B. Brauer; V. Fakhfouri; D.L. Boiko andE. Charbon; G. Grutzner; J. Brugger;
    OSA Optical Materials Express,
    Volume 1, Issue 2, pp. 259-269, May 2011.
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  1979. An Implementation of a Spike-Response Model with Escape Noise Using an Avalanche Diode
    T. Clayton; K. Cameron; B.R. Rae; N. Sabatier; E. Charbon; R.K. Henderson; G. Leng; A. Murray;
    IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems,
    Volume 5, Issue 3, pp. 231-243, June 2011.
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  1980. Hybrid Small Animal Imaging System Combining Magnetic Resonance Imaging with Fluorescence Tomography Using Single Photon Avalanche Diode Detectors
    F. Stucker; C. Baltes; K. Dikaiou; D. Vats; L. Carrara; E. Charbon; J. Ripoll; M. Rudin;
    IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging,
    Volume 30, Issue 6, pp. 1265-73, February 2011.
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  1981. Stochastic Analysis of Deep-Submicron CMOS Process for Reliable Circuits Designs
    A. Zjajo; Qin Tang; J. Pineda de Gyvez; M. Berkelaar; A. Di Bucchianico; N.P. van der Meijs;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I: Regular Papers,
    Volume 58, Issue 1, pp. 164-175, January 2011.
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  1982. Peak-to-Average-Power-Ratio (PAPR) reduction in WiMAX and OFDM/A systems
    S. Khademi; T. Svantesson; M. Viberg; T. Eriksson;
    EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing,
    Volume 2011, Issue 1, pp. 38, 2011. DOI: 10.1186/1687-6180-2011-38
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  1983. An Evaluation of Objective Measures for Intelligibility Prediction of Time-Frequency Weighted Noisy Speech
    Cees H. Taal; Richard C. Hendriks; Richard Heusdens; Jesper Jensen;
    Journal of the Acoustical Society of America,
    Volume 130, pp. 3013-3027, 2011.
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  1984. An Algorithm for Intelligibility Prediction of Time-Frequency Weighted Noisy Speech
    Cees H. Taal; Richard C. Hendriks; Richard Heusdens; Jesper Jensen;
    IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech Language Proc.,
    Volume 19, pp. 2125-2136, 2011.
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  1985. A Generalized Poisson Summation Formula and its Application to Fast Linear Convolution
    Jorge Martinez; Richard Heusdens; Richard C. Hendriks;
    {IEEE} Signal Process. Lett.,
    Volume 18, Issue 9, pp. 501 -504, September 2011. DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2011.2161078

  1986. Reconfigurable Digital Receiver for Polarimetric Radar with Dual-Orthogonal Signals
    Zongbo Wang; O.A. Krasnov; G.P. Babur; L.P. Ligthart; W.F. van der Zwan;
    International Journal of Microwaves and Wireless Technologies,
    Volume 3, Issue 3, pp. 355-364, June 2011. doi:10.1017/S175907871100033X.
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  1987. A low-power Successive Approximation ADC for biomedical applications
    Saberi, M., Sepehrian, H.; R. Lotfi; Mafinezhad, K.;
    IEICE Electronics Express,
    Volume 8, Issue 4, pp. 195-201, 2011.

  1988. An optimization method for NBTI-aware design of domino logic circuits in nano-scale CMOS
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    Keywords: ... CMOS integrated circuits;choppers (circuits);instrumentation amplifiers;wireless sensor networks;CMOS technology;CMRR;DC servo loop;PSRR;biopotential sensing;capacitively-coupled chopper instrumentation amplifier;chopping ripple;current 1.8 muA;electrode offset suppression;low-power precision instrumentation amplifier;noise efficiency factor;positive feedback loop;power 1.8 muW;rail-to-rail input common-mode range;ripple reduction loop;size 65 nm;voltage 1 V;wireless sensor nodes;Capacitors;Choppers;Impedance;Noise;Sensors;Topology;Wireless sensor networks;Bio-signal sensing;chopping;high power efficiency;low offset;low power;precision amplifier;wireless sensor nodes.

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  2007. Boron-layer silicon photodiodes for high-efficiency low-energy electron detection
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  2010. Atomic-scale electron-beam sculpting of near-defect-free graphene nanostructures
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  2012. A dual-band millimeter-wave kinetic inductance camera for the IRAM 30-meter telescope
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  2013. CO observations of the host galaxy of GRB 000418 at Z = 1.1
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  2014. Photon noise limited radiation detection with lens-antenna coupled microwave kinetic inductance detectors
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  2015. X-ray Nanodiffraction on a Single SiGe Quantum Dot inside a Functioning Field-Effect Transistor
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  2016. MEMS silicon-based micro-evaporator
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  2017. Arsenic-doped high-resistivity-silicon epitaxial layers for integrating low-capacitance diodes
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  2018. RF small signal avalanche for bipolar transistor circuit design: Characterization, modeling and repercussions
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  2019. An analytical model and verification for MEMS Pirani gauges
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  2020. A surface micromachined thermopile detector array with an interference-based absorber
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  2021. Mixed motion in deterministic ratchets due to anisotropic permeability
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  2022. Low-complexity full-melt laser-anneal process for fabrication of low-leakage implanted ultrashallow junctions
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  2023. Excimer laser crystallization of InGaZnO4 on SiO2 substrate
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  2024. Synergistic toughening of epoxy-copper interface using a thiol-based coupling layer
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  2025. MEMS for thermogravimetry: Fully integrated device for inspection of nanomasses
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  2026. Hot carrier effect and tunneling effect of location- and orientation-controlled (100)- and (110)-oriented single-grain Si TFTs without seed substrate
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  2027. Analysis of electrothermal effects in bipolar differential pairs
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  2028. Enhancing the wettability of high aspect-ratio through-silicon vias lined with LPCVD silicon nitride or PE-ALD titanium nitride for void-free bottom-up copper electroplating
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    IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology,
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  2029. A tube-shaped buried Pirani gauge for low detection limit with small footprint
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  2030. Monolithic 3-D integration of SRAM and image sensor using two layers of single-grain silicon
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    IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices,
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  2031. A review of passive thermal management of LED module
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    Volume 32, Issue 1, pp. 1-4, 2011. DOI 10.1088/1674-4926/32/1/014008.

  2032. Validation of forcefields in predicting the physical and thermophysical properties of emeraldine base polyaniline
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    Molecular Simulation,
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  2033. Nanopatterned platinum electrodes by focused ion beam in single palladium nanowire based devices
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    Microelectronic Engineering,
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  2034. Molecular modeling of temperature dependence of solubility parameters for amorphous polymers
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  2035. A numerical experimental approach for characterizing the elastic properties of thin films: Application of nanocantilevers
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  2036. Monolithic 3D Integration of SRAM and Image Sensor Using Two Layers of Single Grain Silicon
    Jaber Derakhshandeh; Negin Golshani; Ryoichi Ishihara; Mohammad Reza Tajari Mofrad; Michael Robertson; Thomas Morrison; C.I.M Beenakker;
    IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices,
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  2037. Analysis of Power Consumption and Linearity in Capacitive Digital-to-Analog Converters Used in Successive Approximation ADCs
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  2038. Analysis and design of a low-voltage, low-power, high-precision, class-AB current-mode subthreshold CMOS sample and hold circuit
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  2039. Charge Domain Interlace Scan Implementation in a CMOS Image Sensor
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  2040. Auto-calibration of capacitive MEMS accelerometers based on pull-in voltage
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  2041. Narrow-band pass filter array for integrated opto-electronic spectroscopy detectors to assess esophageal tissue
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    Biomedical Optics Express,
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  2042. A surface micromachined thermopile detector array with an interference-based absorber
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  2043. Design of a time-based micro-g accelerometer
    R.A. Dias; L. Mol; R.F. Wolffenbuttel; E. Cretu; L.A. Machado da Rocha;
    IEEE Sensors Journal,
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  2044. Controller design for a high-sampling-rate closed-loop adaptive optics system with piezo-driven deformable mirror
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    European Journal of Control,
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  2045. A single-trim CMOS bandgap reference with a 3σ inaccuracy of ±0.15% from -40°C to 125°C
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    IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits,
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  2046. A 240-frames/s 2.1-Mpixel CMOS image sensor with columnshared cyclic adc's
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    IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits,
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  2047. Integrated Polarization-Analyzing CMOS Image Sensor for Detecting Incoming Light Ray Direction
    M. Sarkar; D. San Segundo Bello; C. van Hoof; A.J.P. Theuwissen;
    IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement,
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  2048. A 0.12 mm2 7.4 μ W micropower temperature sensor with an inaccuracy of ±0.2°C (3σ) from -30°C to 125°C
    K. Souri; K.A.A. Makinwa;
    IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits,
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  2049. A 4 GHz continuous-time ΔΣ ADC with 70 dB DR and -74 dBFS THD in 125 MHz BW
    M. Bolatkale; L.J. Breems; R. Rutten; K.A.A. Makinwa;
    IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits,
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  2050. A 2.1 M pixels, 120 frame/s CMOS image sensor with column-parallel ¿¿ ADC Architecture
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    IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits,
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  2051. Design aspects of advanced eddy current sensor interface for industrial applications
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    IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics,
    Volume 58, Issue 9, pp. 4414-4423, 2011.

  2052. Charge Domain Interlace Scan Implementation in a CMOS Image Sensor
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    IEE Conference Publication Series,
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  2053. Integrated Polarization Analyzing CMOS Image Sensor for Real Time Material Classification
    M. Sarkar; D. San Segundo Bello; C. van Hoof; A.J.P. Theuwissen;
    IEEE Sensors Journal,
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  2054. A current-feedback instrumentation amplifier with a gain error reduction loop and 0.06% untrimmed gain error
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    IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits,
    Volume 46, Issue 12, pp. 2794-2806, December 2011. NEO.

  2055. DNA tracking within a nanochannel: device fabrication and experiments
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    Lab on a Chip,
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  2056. Effects of size and surface on the elasticity of silicon nanoplates: molecular dynamics and semi-continuum approaches
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    Thin Solid Films,
    Volume 520, Issue 1, pp. 391-399, 2011.

  2057. On the size-dependent elasticity of silicon nanocantilevers: impact of defects
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    Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics,
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  2058. A 160 μw 8-channel active electrode system for EEG monitoring
    J. Xu; R.F. Yazicioglu; B. Grundlehner; P. Harpe; K.A.A. Makinwa; C. van Hoof;
    IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems,
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  2059. A novel LTCC differentially fed UWB antenna for the 60 GHz band
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    International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies,
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  2060. A sparse aperture MIMO-SAR based UWB imaging system for concealed weapon detection
    X Zhuge; A Yarovoy;
    IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing,
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  2061. Analytical approaches for nano-plasmonic and micro-millimetric antennas
    A Massaro; D Caratelli; A Yarovoy; R Cingolani;
    IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation,
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  2062. Conformal antenna array for ultra-wideband direction-of-arrival estimation
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    International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies,
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  2063. Design and full-wave analysis of conformal ultra-wideband radio direction finders
    D Caratelli; I Liberal; A Yarovoy;
    IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation,
    Volume 5, Issue 10, pp. 1164--1174, 2011.

  2064. New approaches of nanocomposite materials for electromagnetic sensors and robotics
    A Massaro; F Spano; D Caratelli; A Yarovoy; R Cingolani; A Athanassiou;
    International Journal of Measurement Technologies and Instrumentation Engineering,
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  2065. Plastic-based supershaped dielectric resonator antennas for wide-band applications
    M Simeoni; R Cicchetti; A Yarovoy; D Caratelli;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 59, Issue 12, pp. 4820--4825, 2011.

  2066. Reconfigurable L/S band phased array
    N Haider; DP Tran; AG Roederer; A Yarovoy;
    Electronics Letters,
    Volume 47, Issue 23, pp. 1265--1266, 2011.

  2067. Sparse multiple-input multiple-output arrays for high-resolution near-field ultra-wideband imaging
    X Zhuge; A Yarovoy;
    IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation,
    Volume 5, Issue 13, pp. 1552--1562, 2011.

  2068. Silicon VLSI catches the millimeter wave
    J. R. Long; W. L. Chan; Y. Zhao; M. Spirito;
    IEEE Communications Magazine,
    Volume 49, Issue 10, pp. 182-189, Oct 2011.

  2069. PECVD silicon carbide surface micriomachining technology and selected MEMS applications
    V. Rajaraman; L. Pakula; H. Yang; P.J. French; P.M. Sarro;
    International Journal of Advances in Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics,
    pp. 1-7, 2011.

  2070. Experimental characterization of roughness induced scattering losses in PECVD SiC waveguides
    G. Pandraud; E. Margallo-Balbás; C.K. Yang; P.J. French;
    Journal of Lightwave Technology,
    Volume 29, Issue 5, pp. 744-749, 2011.

  2071. Silicon probes for cochlear auditory nerve stimulation and measurement
    N.S. Lawand; P.J. French; J. Briaire; J.H.M. Frijns;
    Advanced Materials Research,
    Volume 254, pp. 82-85, 2011.

  2072. A Novel Approach for Mitigation of RF Oscillator Pulling in a Polar Transmitter
    I. Bashir; R. B. Staszewski; O. Eliezer; B. Banerjee; P. T. Balsara;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 46, Issue 2, pp. 403-415, Feb 2011.

  2073. Photovoltaic Antennas for Autonomous Wireless Systems
    M. Danesh; J. R. Long;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs,
    Volume 58, Issue 12, pp. 807-811, Dec 2011.

  2074. An Autonomous Wireless Sensor Node Incorporating a Solar Cell Antenna for Energy Harvesting
    M. Danesh; J. R. Long;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 59, Issue 12, pp. 3546-3555, Dec 2011.

  2075. A Fully-Integrated, Short-Range, Low Data Rate FM-UWB Transmitter in 90 nm CMOS
    N. Saputra; J. R. Long;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 46, Issue 7, pp. 1627-1635, July 2011.

  2076. A Short-Range Low Data-Rate Regenerative FM-UWB Receiver
    N. Saputra; J. R. Long;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 59, Issue 4, pp. 1131-1140, April 2011.

  2077. Pull-in-based $\mu$g-resolution accelerometer: Characterization and noise analysis
    Dias, Rosana A; Cretu, Edmond; Wolffenbuttel, Reinoud; Rocha, Luis A;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical,
    Volume 172, Issue 1, pp. 47-53, 2011.

  2078. Digitally-controlled array of solid-state microcoolers for use in surgery
    Carmo, JP; Silva, MF; Ribeiro, JF; Wolffenbuttel, RF; Alpuim, P; Rocha, JG; Goncalves, LM; Correia, JH;
    Microsystem Technologies,
    Volume 17, Issue 8, pp. 1283-1291, 2011.

  2079. A 65-nm CMOS temperature-compensated mobility-based frequency reference for Wireless Sensor Networks
    Fabio Sebastiano; Lucien J. Breems; Kofi Makinwa; Salvatore Drago; Domine M. W. Leenaerts; Bram Nauta;
    {IEEE} J. Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 46, Issue 7, pp. 1544 - 1552, July 2011. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2011.2143630
    Keywords: ... CMOS integrated circuits;compensation;electron mobility;wireless sensor networks;MOS transistor;current 42.6 muA;electron mobility;mobility-based frequency reference;size 65 nm;temperature -55 degC to 125 degC;temperature-compensated CMOS frequency reference;two-point trim;voltage 1.2 V;wireless sensor networks;Accuracy;Frequency conversion;Oscillators;Temperature;Temperature measurement;Temperature sensors;Wireless sensor networks;CMOS integrated circuits;Charge carrier mobility;MOSFET;crystal-less clock;frequency reference;low voltage;sigma-delta modulation;smart sensors;temperature compensation;temperature sensors;ultra-low power;wireless sensor networks.

    Abstract: ... A temperature-compensated CMOS frequency reference based on the electron mobility in a MOS transistor is presented. Over the temperature range from -55 °C to 125 °C, the frequency spread of the complete reference is less than ±0.5% after a two-point trim and less than ±2.7% after a one-point trim. These results make it suitable for use in Wireless Sensor Network nodes. Fabricated in a baseline 65-nm CMOS process, the 150 kHz frequency reference occupies 0.2 mm² and draws 42.6 µA from a 1.2-V supply at room temperature.

  2080. Ultrasound beamformer using pipeline-operated S/H delay stages and charge-mode summation
    Z. Yu; M. A. P. Pertijs; G. C. M. Meijer;
    Electronics Letters,
    Volume 47, Issue 18, pp. 1011‒1012, September 2011. DOI: 10.1049/el.2011.1786
    Abstract: ... The proposed ultrasound beamformer is based on the delay-and-sum beamforming principle. The circuit consists of several programmable delay lines. Each delay line is constructed by pipeline-operated sample-and-hold (S/H) stages with digitally-assisted delay control, which ensure delay-independent gain and good timing accuracy. The summation is realised in the charge domain using the charge-averaging method, which consumes virtually no extra die area or power. A prototype beamformer has been fabricated in a 0.35 m CMOS process to interface nine transducer elements. Measurement results show that this circuit consumes much less power and chip area than the prior art, while maintaining good accuracy and flexibility.

  2081. A Single-Temperature Trimming Technique for MOS-Input Operational Amplifiers Achieving 0.33μV/°C Offset Drift
    M. Bolatkale; M. A. P. Pertijs; W. J. Kindt; J. H. Huijsing; K. A. A. Makinwa;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 46, Issue 9, pp. 2099‒2107, September 2011. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2011.2139530
    Abstract: ... A MOS-input operational amplifier has a reconfigurable input stage that enables trimming of both offset and offset drift based only on single-temperature measurements. The input stage consists of a MOS differential pair, whose offset drift is predicted from offset voltage measurements made at well-defined bias currents. A theoretical motivation for this approach is presented and validated experimentally by characterizing the offset of pairs of discrete MOS transistors as a function of bias current and temperature. An opamp using the proposed single-temperature trimming technique has been designed and fabricated in a 0.5 μm BiCMOS process. After single-temperature trimming, it achieves a maximum offset of ± 30 μV and an offset drift of 0.33 μV/°C (3σ) over the temperature range of -40°C to +125°C.

  2082. A Generalized Poisson Summation Formula and its Application to Fast Linear Convolution
    J. Martinez; R. Heusdens; R.C. Hendriks;
    IEEE Signal Process. Lett.,
    Volume 18, Issue 9, pp. 501-504, 2011. DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2011.2161078
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  2083. An Ultra-Low-Power BPSK Receiver and Demodulator Based on Injection-Locked Oscillators
    Yan, Han; Macias-Montero, Jose Gabriel; Akhnoukh, Atef; de Vreede, Leo C. N.; Long, John R.; Burghartz, Joachim N.;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 59, Issue 5, pp. 1339-1349, 2011. DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2011.2116037

  2084. On the Relation Between FDTD and Fibonacci Polynomials
    R.F. Remis;
    Journal of Computational Physics,
    Volume 230, pp. 1382-1386, January 2011.
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  2085. Self-powered, hybrid antenna-magnetoresistive sensor for magnetic field detection
    Macedo, R; Cardoso, Filipe Arroyo; Cardoso, S; Freitas, PP; Germano, J; Piedade, MS;
    Applied Physics Letters,
    Volume 98, Issue 10, pp. 103503, 2011.

  2086. On-chip measurement of the Brownian relaxation frequency of magnetic beads using magnetic tunneling junctions
    Donolato, Marco; Sogne, E; Dalslet, Bjarke Thomas; Cantoni, Matteo; Petti, Daniela; Cao, J; Cardoso, Filipe Arroyo; Cardoso, S; Freitas, PP; Hansen, Mikkel Fougt; others;
    Applied Physics Letters,
    Volume 98, Issue 7, pp. 073702, 2011.

  2087. Erythroid/Myeloid Progenitors and Hematopoietic Stem Cells Originate from Distinct Populations of Endothelial Cells
    Michael J. Chen; Yan Li; Maria Elena De Obaldia; Qi Yang; Amanda D. Yzaguirre; Tomoko Yamada-Inagawa; Chris S. Vink; Avinash Bhandoola; Elaine Dzierzak; Nancy A. Speck;
    Cell Stem Cell,
    Volume 9, Issue 6, pp. 541--552, December 2011. DOI: 10.1016/j.stem.2011.10.003
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  2088. Influence of silicon orientation and cantilever undercut on the determination of the Young's modulus of thin films
    Nazeer, H.; Woldering, L. A.; Abelmann, L.; Nguyen, M. D.; Rijnders, G.; Elwenspoek, M. C.;
    Microelectronic Engineering,
    Volume 88, Issue 8, pp. 2345 – 2348, 2011. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1016/j.mee.2011.01.028
    Keywords: ... Deposition; Elastic moduli; Elasticity; Finite element method; Nanocantilevers; Natural frequencies; Pulsed laser deposition; Silicon; Thin films; Vapor deposition; Cantilever; DRIE; PZT; Resonance frequency; Young's Modulus; Crystal orientation.

    Abstract: ... The Young's modulus of thin films can be determined by deposition on a micronsized Si cantilever and measuring the resonance frequency before and after deposition. The accuracy of the method depends strongly on the initial determination of the mechanical properties and dimensions of the cantilever. We discuss the orientation of the cantilever with respect to the Si crystal, and the inevitable undercut of the cantilever caused by process inaccuracies. By finite element modelling we show that the Young's modulus should be used instead of the analytical plate modulus approximation for the effective Young's modulus of Si cantilevers used in this work for both the 〈1 0 0〉 and 〈1 1 0〉 crystal orientation. Cantilever undercut can be corrected by variation of the cantilever length. As an example, the Young's modulus of PbZr0.52Ti0.48O3 (PZT) thin films deposited by pulsed laser deposition (PLD) was determined to be 99 GPa, with 1.4 GPa standard error. © 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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  2089. Determination of the Young's modulus of pulsed laser deposited epitaxial PZT thin films
    Nazeer, H.; Nguyen, M. D.; Woldering, L. A.; Abelmann, L.; Rijnders, G.; Elwenspoek, M. C.;
    Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering,
    Volume 21, Issue 7, 2011. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1088/0960-1317/21/7/074008
    Keywords: ... Deposition; Elastic moduli; Elasticity; Epitaxial films; Epitaxial growth; Nanocantilevers; Natural frequencies; Pulsed laser deposition; Semiconducting silicon compounds; Silicon wafers; Vapor deposition; Analytical relations; Crystal direction; Effective length; Epitaxial PZT; Epitaxially grown; Finite-element; Flexural rigidities; In-plane orientation; Micro-cantilevers; Over-etching; PZT; PZT thin film; Resonance frequencies; Standard errors; Young's Modulus; Pulsed lasers.

    Abstract: ... We determined the Young's modulus of pulsed laser deposited epitaxially grown PbZr0.52Ti0.48O3 (PZT) thin films on microcantilevers by measuring the difference in cantilever resonance frequency before and after deposition. By carefully optimizing the accuracy of this technique, we were able to show that the Young's modulus of PZT thin films deposited on silicon is dependent on the in-plane orientation, by using cantilevers oriented along the 〈1 1 0〉 and 〈1 0 0〉 silicon directions. Deposition of thin films on cantilevers affects their flexural rigidity and increases their mass, which results in a change in the resonance frequency. An analytical relation was developed to determine the effective Young's modulus of the PZT thin films from the shift in the resonance frequency of the cantilevers, measured both before and after the deposition. In addition, the appropriate effective Young's modulus valid for our cantilevers' dimensions was used in the calculations that were determined by a combined analytical and finite-element (FE) simulations approach. We took extra care to eliminate the errors in the determination of the effective Young's modulus of the PZT thin film, by accurately determining the dimensions of the cantilevers and by measuring many cantilevers of different lengths. Over-etching during the release of cantilevers from the handle wafer caused an undercut. Since this undercut cannot be avoided, the effective length was determined and used in the calculations. The Young's modulus of PZT, deposited by pulsed laser deposition, was determined to be 103.0 GPa with a standard error of ±1.4 GPa for the 〈1 1 0〉 crystal direction of silicon. For the 〈1 0 0〉 silicon direction, we measured 95.2 GPa with a standard error of ±2.0 GPa. © 2011 IOP Publishing Ltd.

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  2090. A simple two-dimensional coding scheme for bit patterned media
    Shao, Xiaoying; Alink, Laurens; Groenland, J. P. J.; Abelmann, Leon; Slump, Cornelis H.;
    IEEE Transactions on Magnetics,
    Volume 47, Issue 10, pp. 2559 – 2562, 2011. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2011.2157668
    Keywords: ... Digital storage; Jitter; Magnetic storage; Magnetism; 2D coding; 2D-ISI; Bit-patterned media; Magnetic bit patterned medias; Patterned medias; Probe storage; Storage capacity; Two-dimensional coding; Intersymbol interference.

    Abstract: ... This paper presents a simple code to combat the two-dimensional inter-symbol interference (2D-ISI) effect that is present in data storage on magnetic bit patterned media. Whether the ISI effect is constructive or destructive depends on the surrounding bits. Therefore, we propose a simple 2D coding scheme to mitigate the ISI effect. With this 2D coding scheme in square patterned media, every 2-by-3 array has one redundant bit which has the opposite or same value of one of its adjacent bits. Compared to the 2D coding scheme in under the condition of the same areal density, the proposed 2D coding scheme increases the allowable bit-position jitter in square patterned media by 1% at a BER of 10-4; while it allows the effective storage capacity to be increased by around 5.5%. © 2011 IEEE.

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  2091. Force modulation for enhanced nanoscale electrical sensing
    Koelmans, W. W.; Sebastian, A.; Abelmann, L.; Despont, M.; Pozidis, H.;
    Nanotechnology,
    Volume 22, Issue 35, 2011. DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/22/35/355706
    Keywords: ... Electric contacts; Nanotechnology; Platinum; Probes; Scanning probe microscopy; Silicides; Application area; Conductive probe; Data storage; Electrical contacts; Electrical sensing; Force modulation; Force modulation technique; Imaging experiments; Materials research; Nano scale; Platinum silicides; Probe-based; Semiconductor metrology; Tip wear; Electric properties.

    Abstract: ... Scanning probe microscopy employing conductive probes is a powerful tool for the investigation and modification of electrical properties at the nanoscale. Application areas include semiconductor metrology, probe-based data storage and materials research. Conductive probes can also be used to emulate nanoscale electrical contacts. However, unreliable electrical contact and tip wear have severely hampered the widespread usage of conductive probes for these applications. In this paper we introduce a force modulation technique for enhanced nanoscale electrical sensing using conductive probes. This technique results in lower friction, reduced tip wear and enhanced electrical contact quality. Experimental results using phase-change material stacks and platinum silicide conductive probes clearly demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed technique. Furthermore, conductive-mode imaging experiments on specially prepared platinum/carbon samples are presented to demonstrate the widespread applicability of this technique. © 2011 IOP Publishing Ltd.

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  2092. Predicted photonic band gaps in diamond-lattice crystals built from silicon truncated tetrahedrons
    Woldering, L{\' e}on A.; Abelmann, Leon; Elwenspoek, Miko C.;
    Journal of Applied Physics,
    Volume 110, Issue 4, 2011. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1063/1.3624604
    Keywords: ... Crystals; Diamonds; Energy gap; Optical properties; Photonic band gap; Self assembly; Structures (built objects); Band gaps; Band structure calculation; Electronic systems; Hard spheres; Self-assembled; Silicon micromachining; Silicon particles; Crystal structure.

    Abstract: ... Recently, a silicon micromachining method to produce tetrahedral silicon particles was discovered. In this report we determine, using band structure calculations, the optical properties of diamond-lattice photonic crystals when assembled from such particles. We show that crystal structures built from silicon tetrahedra are expected to display small stop gaps. Wide photonic band gaps appear when truncated tetrahedral particles are used to build the photonic crystals. With truncated tetrahedral particles, a bandgap with a width of 23.6% can be achieved, which is more than twice as wide compared to band gaps in self-assembled diamond-lattices of hard-spheres. The width of the bandgap is insensitive to small deviations from the optimal amount of truncation. This work paves the way to a novel class of silicon diamond-lattice bandgap crystals that can be obtained through self-assembly. Such a self-assembly approach would allow for easy integration of these highly photonic crystals in existing silicon microfluidic and -electronic systems. © 2011 American Institute of Physics.

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  2093. The 21st MicroMechanics Europe Workshop (MME 2010)
    Abelmann, Leon;
    Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering,
    Volume 21, Issue 7, 2011. All Open Access, Bronze Open Access. DOI: 10.1088/0960-1317/21/7/070201
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  2094. A single-mask thermal displacement sensor in MEMS
    Krijnen, B.; Hogervorst, R. P.; Van Dijk, J. W.; Engelen, J. B. C.; Woldering, L. A.; Brouwer, D. M.; Abelmann, L.; Soemers, H. M. J. R.;
    Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering,
    Volume 21, Issue 7, 2011. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1088/0960-1317/21/7/074007
    Keywords: ... Actuators; Electrostatic actuators; Capacitance model; Conductive heat transfer; Differential sensors; Displacement sensor; Doping concentration; Full-scale ranges; Operating temperature; Resistively heated; Sensor designs; Sensor resolution; Sensor sensitivity; Silicon structures; Single-mask; Thermal displacement sensors; Sensors.

    Abstract: ... This work presents a MEMS displacement sensor based on the conductive heat transfer of a resistively heated silicon structure towards an actuated stage parallel to the structure. This differential sensor can be easily incorporated into a silicon-on-insulator-based process, and fabricated within the same mask as electrostatic actuators and flexure-based stages. We discuss a lumped capacitance model to optimize the sensor sensitivity as a function of the doping concentration, the operating temperature, the heater length and width. We demonstrate various sensor designs. The typical sensor resolution is 2 nm within a bandwidth of 25 Hz at a full scale range of 110 μm. © 2011 IOP Publishing Ltd.

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  2095. The Effect of Local Scattering on the Gain and Beamwidth of a Collaborative Beampattern for Wireless Sensor Networks
    A. Amar;
    IEEE Tr. Wireless Comm.,
    Volume 9, Issue 9, pp. 2730-2736, September 2010.
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  2096. Occupancy-based illumination control of LED lighting systems
    D. Caicedo; A. Pandharipande; G. Leus;
    Lighting Research and Technology (online),
    Volume 0, pp. 1-18, August 2010. DOI: 10.1177/1477153510374703
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  2097. Calibration Challenges for the Next Generation of Radio Telescopes
    S.J. Wijnholds; S. van der Tol; R. Nijboer; A.J. van der Veen;
    IEEE Signal Processing Magazine,
    Volume 27, Issue 1, pp. 32-42, January 2010.
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  2098. Image formation in synthesis radio telescopes
    R. Levanda; A. Leshem;
    IEEE Signal Processing Magazine,
    Volume 27, Issue 1, pp. 14-29, January 2010.
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  2099. Astronomy and cosmology [From the Guest editors]
    A. Leshem; F. Kamalabadi; E.E. Kuruoglu; A.J. van der Veen;
    IEEE Signal Processing Magazine,
    Volume 27, Issue 1, pp. 13, January 2010.
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  2100. Adaptive precoding for downstream crosstalk precancellation in DSL systems using sign-error feedback
    J. Louveaux; A.J. van der Veen;
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing,
    Volume 58, Issue 6, pp. 3173-3179, June 2010.
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  2101. Efficient Estimation of a Narrowband Polynomial Phase Signal Impinging on a Sensor Array
    A. Amar;
    IEEE Tr. Signal Processing,
    Volume 58, Issue 2, pp. 923-927, February 2010.
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  2102. Analog beamforming in MIMO communications with phase shift networks and online channel estimation
    V. Venkateswaran; A.J. van der Veen;
    IEEE Tr. Signal Processing,
    Volume 58, Issue 8, pp. 4131-4143, August 2010.
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  2103. A Low Complexity Blind Estimator Of Narrowband Polynomial Phase Signals
    A. Amar; A. Leshem; A.J. van der Veen;
    IEEE Tr. Signal Processing,
    Volume 58, Issue 10, pp. 4674-4683, September 2010.
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  2104. Extending the classical multidimensional scaling algorithm given partial pairwise distance measurements
    A. Amar; Yiyin Wang; G. Leus;
    IEEE Signal Processing Letters,
    Volume 17, Issue 5, pp. 473-476, May 2010.
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  2105. Convergence Analysis of Downstream VDSL Adaptive Multichannel Partial FEXT Cancellation
    I. Bergel; A. Leshem;
    IEEE Tr. Communications,
    Volume 58, Issue 10, pp. 3021-3028, October 2010.
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  2106. Recursive Implementation of the Distributed Karhunen-Loeve Transform
    A. Amar; A. Leshem; M. Gastpar;
    IEEE Tr. Signal Processing,
    Volume 58, Issue 11, pp. 5320-5330, October 2010.
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  2107. Space-Time Block Coding for Doubly-Selective Channels
    K. Fang; G. Leus;
    IEEE Tr. Signal Processing,
    Volume 58, Issue 3 part 2, pp. 1934-1940, March 2010.
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  2108. Energy-Efficient Distributed Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Sensor Networks
    S. Maleki; A. Pandharipande; G. Leus;
    IEEE Sensors Journal,
    2010. DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2010.2051327
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  2109. On the 50th Birthday of the Kalman Filter: Remembrances of a Great Teacher [Historical Perspectives]
    P. Dewilde;
    IEEE Control Systems Magazine,
    Volume 30, Issue 2, pp. 91-92, April 2010. DOI: 10.1109/MCS.2010.935890
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  2110. On the numerical rank of the off-diagonal blocks of Schur complements of discretized elliptic PDEs
    S. Chandrasekharan; P. Dewilde; M. Gu; N. Somasunderam;
    SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl.,
    Volume 31, Issue 5, pp. 2261-2290, 2010.
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  2111. A New Single-photon Avalanche Diode in 90nm Standard CMOS Technology
    M.A. Karami; M. Gersbach; H.J. Yoon; E. Charbon;
    Optics Express,
    Volume 18, Issue 21, October 2010.
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  2112. New Ethylene Glycaol-Silane monolayer for Highly-specific DNA Detection onto Silicon Chips
    S. Carrara; A. Cavallini; Y. Maruyama; E. Charbon; G. De Micheli;
    Surface Science Letters,
    Volume 604, Issue 23-24, pp. 71-74, October 2010. DOI: 10.1016/j.susc.2010.08.025
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  2113. System Trade-Offs in Gamma-Ray Detection Utilizing SPAD Arrays and Scintillators
    M.W. Fishburn; E. Charbon;
    IEEE Trans. Nuclear Science,
    Volume 57, Issue 5, October 2010.
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  2114. RTS Noise Characterization in Single Photon Avalanche Diodes
    M.A. Karami; E. Charbon;
    IEEE Electron Device Letters,
    Volume 31, Issue 7, July 2010. DOI: 10.1109/LED.2010.2047234
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  2115. Monolithic Silicon Chip for Immunofluorescence Detection on Single Magnetic Beads
    E.P. Dupont; E. Labonne; C. Vandevyver; U. Lehmann; E. Charbon; M.A.M. Gijs;
    ACS Analytical Chemistry,
    Volume 82, Issue 1, pp. 49-52, January 2010. DOI: 10.1021/ac902241j
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  2116. SPAD Sensors Come of Age
    E. Charbon; S. Donati;
    Optics and Photonics News (OPN),
    Volume 21, pp. 35-41, February 2010.
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  2117. Statistical Moment Estimation of Delay and Power in Circuit Simulation
    A. Nigam; Qin Tang; A. Zjajo; M. Berkelaar; N.P. van der Meijs;
    Journal of Low Power Electronics,
    Volume 6, Issue 4, December 2010. Invited Paper.
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  2118. Stochastic Analysis of Deep-Submicron CMOS Process for Reliable Circuits Designs
    A. Zjajo; Qin Tang; J. Pineda de Gyvez; M. Berkelaar; A. Di Bucchianico; N.P. van der Meijs;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I: Regular Papers,
    2010. DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2010.2055291
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  2119. Block Transmissions over Doubly-Selective Channels: Iterative Channel Estimation and Turbo Equalization
    Kun Fang; G. Leus; L. Rugini;
    EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing,
    Volume 2010, pp. 13 pages, 2010. Article ID 974652. DOI: 10.1155/2010/974652
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  2120. Interference management in wireless communication systems: Theory and applications
    Yan Xin; Xiaodong Wang; G. Leus; Guosen Yue; Jinhua Jiang;
    EURASIP J. on Wireless Communications and Networking,
    2010. Article ID 687649.

  2121. n-Channel Asymmetric Entropy-Constrained Multiple-Description Lattice Vector Quantization
    Jan Ostergaard; Richard Heusdens; Jesper Jensen;
    IEEE Trans. Information Theory,
    Volume 56, December 2010.

  2122. On Low-Complexity Simulation of Multichannel Room Impulse Responses
    Jorge Martinez Castaneda; Richard Heusdens;
    IEEE Signal Processing Letters,
    Volume 17, Issue 7, pp. 667 -670, July 2010. DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2010.2051049

  2123. Basics and first experiments demonstrating isolation improvements in the agile polarimetric FM-CW radar - PARSAX
    Krasnov, O.A.; Babur, G.P.; Zongbo Wang; Ligthart, L.P.; van der Zwan, W.F.;
    International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies,
    Volume 2, Issue Special Issue 3-4, pp. 419-428, 2010.
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  2124. Design and implementation of cross-channel interference suppression for polarimetric LFM-CW radar.
    Babur, G.P.; Zongbo Wang; Krasnov, O.A.; Ligthart, L.P.;
    Proceedings SPIE,
    Volume 7745, pp. 1-6, 2010.
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  2125. Compensation of Range Migration for Cyclically Repetitive Doppler-Sensitive Waveform (OFDM)
    Tigrek, R.F.; van Genderen, P.;
    IEEE Trans. Aerospace and Electronic Systems,
    Volume 46, Issue 4, pp. 2118-2123, October 2010.
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  2126. De-ghosting of tomographic images in a radar network with sparse angular sampling
    Fasoula, Angie; Driessen, Hans; van Genderen, Piet;
    International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies,
    Volume 2, Issue Special Issue 3-4, pp. 359--367, August 2010.
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  2127. PECVD silicon carbide surface micriomachining technology and selected MEMS applications
    V. Rajaraman; L.S. Pakula; H. Yang; P.J. French; P.M. Sarro;
    International journal of advances engineering sciences and applied mathematics,
    Volume 2, Issue 1-2, pp. 28-34, 2010. DOI 10.1007/s12572-010-0020-9.

  2128. C-V profiling of ultra-shallow junctions using step like background profiles
    M. Popadic; V. Milovanovic; C. Xu; F. Sarubbi; L.K. Nanver;
    Solid-state electronics,
    Volume 54, Issue 9, pp. 890-896, 2010.

  2129. Design, fabrication and characterization of a femto-farad capacitive sensor for pico-liter liquid monitoring
    J. Wei; C. Yue; M. van der Velden; Z.L. Chen; Z.W. Liu; K.A.A. Makinwa; P.M. Sarro;
    Sensors and Actuators A,
    Volume 162, Issue 2, pp. 406-417, 2010.

  2130. Influence of layout design and on-wafer heatspreaders on the thermal behavior of fully-isolated Bipolar transistors: Part I - Static analysis
    S. Russo; La Spina; L; d'Alessandro; V; N. Rinaldi; L.K. Nanver;
    Solid-state electronics,
    Volume 54, Issue 8, pp. 745-753, 2010.

  2131. Ultra-high aspect ratio FinFET technology.
    V. Jovanovic; T. Suligoj; M. Poljak; Y. Civale; L.K. Nanver;
    Solid-state electronics,
    Volume 54, Issue 9, pp. 870-876, 2010.

  2132. Copper trace fatigue models for mechanical cycling, vibration and shock/drop of high-density PWAs
    D. Farley; Y. Zhou; F. Askari; M. Al-Bassyiouni; A. Dasgupta; J. Caers; J. DeVries;
    Microelectronics Reliability,
    Volume 50, pp. 937-947, Jul. 2010.

  2133. Comb-Actuated Resonant Torsional Microscanner with Mechanical Amplification
    A. Arslan; D. Brown; W. Davis; S. Holmstrom; S. K. Gokce; H. Urey;
    Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems (JMEMS),
    Volume 19, pp. 936-943, 2010.

  2134. MEMPHIS: a smart mix of electronics and photonics
    L.K. Nanver; Polmans; R; Leinse; A; Flannary; L; Mulders; H;
    Mikroniek,
    Volume 50, Issue 3, pp. 46-52, 2010.

  2135. Thermal budget considerations for excimer laser annealing of implanted dopant
    V. Gonda; J. Venturini; C. Sabatier; J. van der Cingel; L.K. Nanver;
    Journal of optoelectronics and advanced materials,
    Volume 12, Issue 3, pp. 466-469, 2010.

  2136. Growth of high density aligned carbon nanotubes using palladium as catalyst
    S. Vollebregt; J. Derakhshandeh; R. Ishihara; M. Y. Wu; C. I. M. Beenakker;
    Journal of Electronic Materials,
    Volume 39, Issue 4, pp. 371-375, 2010.

  2137. A silicon MEMS structure for characterization of femto-farad-level capacitive sensors with lock-in architecture
    J. Wei; C. Yue; Z.L. Chen; Z.W. Liu; P.M. Sarro;
    Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering,
    Volume 20, Issue 6, 2010.

  2138. Chemical vapor deposition of a-boron layers on silicon for controlled nanometer deep p+n junction formation
    F. Sarubbi; T.L.M. Scholtes; L.K. Nanver;
    Journal of Electronic Materials,
    Volume 39, Issue 2, pp. 162-173, 2010.

  2139. Angular momentum dynamics and the intrinsic drift of monopolar vortices on a rotating sphere
    Ramses van der Toorn; Joseph T. F. Zimmerman;
    Journal of Mathematical Physics,
    Volume 51, 2010. DOI 10.1063/1.3455315.

  2140. High speed 6T SRAM cells using single grain TFTs fabricated by ""angstrom""""micro""-Czochralski-Czochralski process at low temperature
    Negin Golshani; Jaber Derakhshandeh; R. Ishihara; C.I.M Beenakker;
    Japanese Journal of Applied Physics (JJAP),
    2010.

  2141. Thermal design of multifinger Bipolar transistors.
    L. La Spina; V. d'Alessandro; S. Russo; L.K. Nanver;
    IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices,
    Volume 57, Issue 8, pp. 1789-1800, 2010.

  2142. Wafer-level assembly and sealing of a MEMS nanoreactor for in situ microscopy
    L. Mele; F. Santagata; G. Pandraud; B. Morana; F. D. Tichelaar; J. F. Creemer; P. M. Sarro;
    J. Micromech. Microeng.,
    Volume 20, 2010.

  2143. High effective Gummel number of CVD boron layers in ultrashallow p+n diode configurations.
    F. Sarubbi; L.K. Nanver; T.L.M. Scholtes;
    IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices,
    Volume 57, Issue 6, pp. 1269-1278, 2010.

  2144. Merging standard CVD techniques for GaAs and Si epitaxial growth.
    A. Sammak; W.B. de Boer; Boogaard; A van den; L.K. Nanver;
    ECS Transactions,
    Volume 28, Issue 5, pp. 237-244, 2010.

  2145. n-Channel MOSFETs fabricated on SiGe dots for strain-enhanced mobility.
    V. Jovanovic; C. Biasotto; L.K. Nanver; J. Moers; D. Gruetzmacher; J. Gerharz; G. Mussler; J. van der Cingel; J.J. Zhang; G. Bauer; O.G. Schmidt; L. Miglio;
    IEEE Electron Device Letters,
    Volume 31, Issue 10, pp. 1083-1085, 2010.

  2146. Fluorescence lifetime biosensing with DNA microarrays and a CMOS-SPAD imager
    G. Giraud; H. Schulze; Day-Uei Li; T.T. Bachmann; J. Crain; D. Tyndall; J. Richardson; R. Walker; D. Stoppa; E. Charbon; R. Henderson; J. Arlt;
    Biomedical Optics Express,
    Volume 1, Issue 5, pp. 1302-1308, December 2010.
    document

  2147. Real-time Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging System with a 32x32 0.13um CMOS Low Dark-count Single-photon Avalanche Diode Array
    Day-Uei Li; J. Arlt; J. Richardson; R. Walker; A. Buts; D. Stoppa; E. Charbon; R. Henderson;
    Optics Express,
    Volume 18, Issue 10, pp. 10257-10269, May 2010.
    document

  2148. Systematic Design of a Transimpedance Amplifier with Specified Electromagnetic out-of-band Interference Behavior
    Marcel J. van der Horst; Andre C. Linnenbank; Wouter A. Serdijn; John R. Long;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems - I: Regular Papers,
    Volume 57, Issue 3, pp. 530-538, March 2010.
    document

  2149. A 1?2 GHz high linearity transformer-feedback power-to-current LNA
    Xiaolong Li; Wouter A. Serdijn; Bert E. M. Woestenburg; Jan Geralt Bij de Vaate;
    Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing,
    Issue 63, pp. 113-119, 2010. DOI: 10.1007/s10470-009-9442-3.
    document

  2150. On the operating principles of UWB, CPW-fed printed antennas
    F. M. Tanyer - Tigrek; A. Hizal; I. E. Lager; and L. P. Ligthart;
    IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine,
    Volume 52, Issue 3, pp. 46-50, June 2010.
    document

  2151. A CPW-fed printed loop antenna for ultra wideband applications, and its linear array performance
    F. M. Tanyer - Tigrek; I. E. Lager; L. P. Ligthart;
    IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine,
    Volume 52, Issue 4, pp. 31-40, August 2010.
    document

  2152. Pulsed electromagnetic field radiation from a narrow slot antenna with a dielectric layer
    M. Stumpf; A. T. de Hoop; I. E. Lager;
    Radio Science,
    Volume 45, October 2010.
    document

  2153. Multicriteria optimization of antennas in time-domain
    J. Láčk; I. E. Lager; Z. Raida;
    Radio-engineering,
    Volume 19, Issue 1, pp. 105-110, April 2010.
    document

  2154. Experimental validation of a linear array consisting of CPW fed, UWB, printed, loop antennas
    F. M. Tanyer - Tigrek; I. E. Lager; L. P. Ligthart;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 58, Issue 4, pp. 1411-1414, April 2010.
    document

  2155. Terahertz antenna system for a near video rate radar imager
    N. Llombart; K. B. Cooper; R. J. Dengler;
    IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine,
    Volume 52, Issue 5, pp. 251-259, October 2010.
    document

  2156. Submillimeter-wave 90 polarization twists for integrated waveguide circuits
    G. Chattopadhyay; J. S. Ward; N. Llombart; K.B. Cooper;
    IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters,
    Volume 20, Issue 11, pp. 529-594, November 2010.
    document

  2157. Time delay multiplexing of two beams in a terahertz imaging radar
    N. Llombart; K. B. Cooper; R. J. Dengler; T. Bryllert; G. Chattopadhyay; P. H. Siegel;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 58, Issue 7, pp. 1999-2007, July 2010.
    document

  2158. Confocal ellipsoidal reflector system for a mechanically scanned active terahertz imager
    N. Llombart; K. B. Cooper; R. J. Dengler; T. Bryllert; P. H. Siegel;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 58, Issue 6, pp. 1834-1841, June 2010.
    document

  2159. Frequency selective surfaces for extended bandwidth backing reflector functions
    M. Pasian; S. Monni; A. Neto; M. Ettorre; G. Gerini;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 58, Issue 1, pp. 43-50, January 2010.
    document

  2160. UWB, non dispersive radiation from the planarly fed leaky lens antenna. Part II: demonstrators and measurements
    A. Neto; S. Monni; F. Nennie;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 58, Issue 7, pp. 2248-2258, July 2010.
    document

  2161. UWB, non dispersive radiation from the planarly fed leaky lens antenna. Part I: theory and design"
    A. Neto;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 58, Issue 7, pp. 2238-2247, July 2010.
    document

  2162. Parametric analysis of multi source feeding flare rolling and corrugating effects for H-plane horn radiator
    A. S. Turk; O. Yurduseven;
    Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society,
    December 2010.

  2163. PCB slot based transformers to avoid common-mode resonances in connected arrays of dipoles
    D. Cavallo; A. Neto; G. Gerini;
    IEEE Transaction on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 58, Issue 8, pp. 2767-2771, Aug. 2010. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2010.2050430

  2164. Minimal resonator loss for circuit quantum electrodynamics
    Barends,R; Vercruyssen,N; Endo,A; de Visser,PJ; Zijlstra,T; Klapwijk,TM; Diener,P; Yates,SJC; Baselmans,JJA;
    Applied Physics Letters,
    Volume 97, Issue 2, pp. 023508-1--02350, 2010.

  2165. Reduced frequency noise in superconducting resonators
    Barends,R; Vercruyssen,N; Endo,A; de Visser,PJ; Zijlstra,T; Klapwijk,TM; Baselmans,JJA;
    Applied Physics Letters,
    Volume 97, Issue 3, pp. 033507-1--03350, 2010.

  2166. Spectral Analysis of Phase Noise in Bipolar LC-Oscillators ? Theory, Verification and Design
    Aleksandar Tasic; Wouter A. Serdijn; John R. Long;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems - I: Regular Papers,
    Volume 57, Issue 4, pp. 737-751, April 2010.
    document

  2167. Resonant-Inductive Degeneration for Manifold Improvement of Phase Noise in Bipolar LC-Oscillators
    Aleksandar Tasic; Wouter A. Serdijn; John R. Long;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems - I: Regular Papers,
    Volume 57, Issue 6, June 2010.
    document

  2168. 2.5 Gb/s CMOS preamplifier for low-cost fiber-optic receivers
    Jose Maria Garcia del Pozo; Wouter A. Serdijn; Aranzazu Otin; Santiago Celma;
    Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing,
    2010. DOI: 10.1007/s10470-010-9526-0.
    document

  2169. Some considerations of effects-induced errors in resonant cantilevers with the laser deflection method
    H. Sadeghian; C.K. Yang; K. Babaei Gavan; J.F.L. Goosen; EW.J.M. van der Drift; H.S.J. van der Zant; A. Bossche; P.J. French; F. van Keulen;
    Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering,
    Volume 20, Issue 10, pp. 105027-105036, 2010.

  2170. Miniature 10 kHz thermo-optic delay line in silicon
    E. Margallo Balbas; M. Geljon; G. Pandraud; P.J. French;
    Optics Letters,
    Volume 35, Issue 23, pp. 4027-4029, 2010. http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=ol-35-23-4027.

  2171. Smart sensors: advantages and pitfalls
    P.J. French;
    NATO Science for Peace and Security Series. B: Physics and Biophysics,
    pp. 249-259, 2010.

  2172. Design and empirical investigation of capacitive human detectors with opened electrodes
    R.A. Cardenas; H.M.M. Kerkvliet; G.C.M. Meijer;
    Measurement Science and Technology,
    Volume 21, Issue 1, pp. 1-8, 2010.

  2173. Fabrication and characterization of IC compatible linear variable optical filters with application in a micro spectrometer
    A. Emadi; H.W. Wu; S. Grabarnik; G. de Graaf; K. Hedsten; P. Enoksson; J.H.G. Correia; R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume 162, Issue 2, pp. 400-405, 2010.

  2174. Model-based aberration correction in a wavefront-sensor-less adaptive optics system
    H. Song; R. Fraanje; G. Schitter; H. Kroese; G.V. Vdovine; M. Verhaegen;
    Optics Express,
    Volume 18, Issue 23, pp. 24070-24084, 2010. NEO.

  2175. Effects of size and defects on the elasticity of silicon nanocantilevers
    H. Sadeghian Marnani; C.K. Yang; J.F.L. Goosen; A. Bossche; U. Staufer; P.J. French; F. van Keulen;
    Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering,
    Volume 20, Issue 064012, pp. 1-8, 2010.

  2176. Model-based aberration correction in a closed-loop wavefront-sensor-less adaprive optics system
    H. Song; P.R. Fraanje; G. Schitter; H. Kroese; G.V. Vdovin; M. Verhaegen;
    Optics Express,
    Volume 18, Issue 23, 2010.

  2177. Estimation of three- and four-element windkessel parameters using subspace model identification
    T. Kind; T.J.C. Faes; J.W. Lankhaar; A. Vonk-Noordegraaf; M. Verhaegen;
    IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering,
    Volume 57, Issue 7, pp. 1531-1538, 2010.

  2178. Impact of morphology on light transport in cancellous bone
    E. Margallo Balbas; P. Taroni; A. Pifferi; H.J. Koolstra; L.J. van Ruijven; P.J. French;
    Physics in Medicine and Biology,
    Volume 55, Issue 17, pp. 4917-4931, 2010.

  2179. Error source identification and stability test of a precision capacitance measurement system
    S. Nihtianov; X. Guo;
    SAIEE Africa Research Journal,
    Volume 101, Issue 3, pp. 106-111, 2010. NEO.

  2180. A telemetric light delivery system for metronomic photodynamic therapy (mPDT) in rats
    F. van Zaane; D. Subbaiyan; A. van der Ploeg; H.S. de Bruijn; E. Margallo Balbas; G. Pandraud; HJ.C.M. Sterenborg; P.J. French; D.J. Robinson;
    Journal of Biophotonics,
    Volume 3, Issue 5-6, pp. 347-355, 2010.

  2181. Microlamp for in situ tissue spectroscopy for the dosimetry of photodynamic therapy
    J. Amor-rio; E. Margallo Balbas; B. Song; G. Pandraud; D. Subbaiyan; F. van Zaane; D.J. Robinson; H.W. Zandbergen; P.J. French;
    Procedia Engineering,
    Volume 5, pp. 323-326, 2010.

  2182. Application of electrostatic pull-in instability on sensing adsorbate stiffness in nanomechanical resonators
    H. Sadeghian Marnani; J.F.L. Goosen; A. Bossche; F. van Keulen;
    Thin Solid Films,
    Volume 518, Issue 17, pp. 5018-5021, 2010.

  2183. Introduction to the Special Issue on the 2010 International Solid-State Circuits Conference
    K. Arimoto; K. Takeuchi; K.A.A. Makinwa; A. Burdett,;
    IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits,
    Volume 46, Issue 1, pp. 3-7, 2010.

  2184. Surface reconstruction and elastic behavior of silicon nanobeams: The impact of applied deformation
    H. Sadeghian Marnani; J.F.L. Goosen; A. Bossche; B.J. Thijsse; F. van Keulen;
    Thin Solid Films,
    Volume 518, pp. 3273-3275, 2010.

  2185. Design, fabrication and characterization of a femto-farad capacitive sensor for pico-liter liquid monitoring
    J. Wei; C. Yue; M. van der Velden; T. Chen; Z.W. Liu; K.A.A. Makinwa; P.M. Sarro;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume 162, Issue 2, pp. 406-417, 2010.

  2186. MCM based microlaboratory for simultaneous measurement of several biochemical parameters by spectrophotometry
    G. Minas; R.F. Wolffenbuttel; J.H.G. Correia;
    Biomedical Microdevices,
    Volume 12, Issue 4, pp. 727-736, 2010.

  2187. A high PSRR bandgap voltage reference with virtually diode-connected MOS transistors.
    K. Souri; H. Shamsi; M. Kazemi; Kamran Souri;
    IEICE Transactions on Electronics,
    Volume E93-C, Issue 12, pp. 1708-1712, 2010.

  2188. A planar thermoelectric power generator for integration in wearable microsystems
    Carmo Paulo Joao; Luis Miguel Goncalves; R.F. Wolffenbuttel; J.H.G. Correia;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume 161, Issue 1-2, pp. 199-204, 2010.

  2189. Demonstration of PECVD SiC-SiO2-SiC horizontal slot waveguides
    G. Pandraud; A.B. Neira; E. Margallo Balbas; C.K. Yang; P.M. Sarro;
    IEEE Photonics Technology Letters,
    Volume 22, Issue 6, pp. 398-400, 2010.

  2190. Model-based aberration correction in a closed-loop wavefront-sensor-less adaptive optics system
    H. Song; P.R. Fraanje; G. Schitter; H. Kroese; G.V. Vdovin; M. Verhaegen;
    Optics Express,
    Volume 18, Issue 23, pp. 24070-24084, 2010.

  2191. Design and modeling of a flexible contact mode piezoresistive detector for a time based acceleration sensing
    V. Rajaraman; Hau Bou sing; L.A. Rocha; P.J. French; K.A.A. Makinwa;
    Procedia Engineering,
    Volume 5, pp. 1063-1066, 2010.

  2192. A modified bow-rie antenna for improved pulse radiation
    AA Lestari; E Bharata; AB Suksmono; A Kurniawan; A Yarovoy; LP Ligthart;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 58, Issue 7, pp. 1--10, 2010.

  2193. Comparison of 10-18 Ghz SAR and MIMO-based short-range imaging radars
    TG Savelyev; X Zhuge; YC Yang; PJ Aubry; A Yarovoy; LP Ligthart; B Levitas;
    International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies,
    Volume 2, Issue 3-4, pp. 369--377, 2010.

  2194. Compressive stepped-frequency continuous-wave ground-penetrating radar
    AB Suksmono; E Bharata; AA Lestari; A Yarovoy; LP Ligthart;
    IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters,
    Volume 7, Issue 4, pp. 665--669, 2010.

  2195. Design and full-wave analysis of cavity-backed resistively loaded circular-end bow-tie antennas for gpr applications - part I
    D Caratelli; A Yarovoy;
    Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society. Journal,
    Volume 25, Issue 10, pp. 809--817, 2010.

  2196. Design and full-wave analysis of cavity-backed resistively loaded circular-end bow-tie antennas for gpr applications - part II
    D Caratelli; A Yarovoy;
    Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society. Journal,
    Volume 25, Issue 10, pp. 818--829, 2010.

  2197. Fourier solution of the 2d neumann problem for the helmholtz equation
    D Caratelli; P Natalini; PE Ricci; A Yarovoy;
    Lecture notes of seminario interdisciplinare di matematica,
    Volume 9, pp. 63--72, 2010.

  2198. Modified kirchhoff migration for uwb mimo array-based radar imaging
    X Zhuge; A Yarovoy; TG Savelyev; LP Ligthart;
    IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing,
    Volume 48, Issue 6, pp. 2692--2703, 2010.

  2199. Signal processing for improved detection of trapped victims using uwb radar
    A Nezirovic; A Yarovoy; LP Ligthart;
    IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing,
    Volume 48, Issue 4, pp. 2005--2014, 2010.

  2200. The neumann problem for the helmholtz equation in a starlike planar domain
    D Caratelli; P Natalini; PE Ricci; A Yarovoy;
    Applied Mathematics and Computation,
    Volume 216, pp. 556--564, 2010.

  2201. Unified time- and frequency-domain approach for accurate modeling of electromagnetic radiation processes in ultrawideband antennas
    D Caratelli; A Yarovoy;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 58, Issue 10, pp. 3239--3255, 2010.

  2202. Temperature sensitivity of silicon cantilevers' elasticity with the electrostatic pull-in instability
    H. Sadeghian Marnani; D. Yang; J.F.L. Goosen; A. Bossche; P.J. French; F. van Keulen;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume 162, pp. 220-224, 2010.

  2203. Introduction to the special issue on the 35th ESSCIRC
    Y. Deval; K.A.A. Makinwa; S. Rusu;
    IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits,
    Volume 45, Issue 7, pp. 1270-1272, 2010.

  2204. Demonstration of PECVD SiC thermal delay lines for optical coherence tomography in the visible
    G. Pandraud; E. Margallo Balbas; P.M. Sarro;
    Proceedings of SPIE- International Society for Optical Engineering,
    Volume 7715, pp. 1-10, 2010.

  2205. A 200 µA Duty-Cycled PLL for Wireless Sensor Nodes in 65 nm CMOS
    Salvatore Drago; Domine M.W. Leenaerts; Bram Nauta; Fabio Sebastiano; Kofi A.A. Makinwa; Lucien J. Breems;
    {IEEE} J. Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 45, Issue 7, pp. 1305 - 1315, July 2010. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2010.2049458
    Keywords: ... CMOS integrated circuits;UHF integrated circuits;frequency synthesizers;low-power electronics;phase locked loops;wireless sensor networks;CMOS technology;DCPLL circuit;current 200 muA;duty-cycled PLL;frequency 300 MHz to 1.2 GHz;frequency error;low-power high-frequency synthesizer;size 65 nm;voltage 1.3 V;wireless sensor networks;wireless sensor nodes;Batteries;CMOS technology;Energy consumption;Frequency synthesizers;Integrated circuit technology;Jitter;Oscillators;Phase locked loops;Phase noise;Wireless sensor networks;CMOS;PLL;WSN;duty-cycle;frequency stability;frequency synthesizer;fully integrated;ultra-low-power;wireless sensor networks.

    Abstract: ... The design of a duty-cycled PLL (DCPLL) capable of burst mode operation is presented. The proposed DCPLL is a moderately accurate low-power high-frequency synthesizer suitable for use in nodes for wireless sensor networks (WSN). Thanks to a dual loop configuration, the PLL's total frequency error, once in lock, is less than 0.25% from 300 MHz to 1.2 GHz. It employs a fast start-up DCO which enables its operation at duty-cycles as low as 10%. Fabricated in a baseline 65 nm CMOS technology, the DCPLL circuit occupies 0.19 x 0.15 mm² and draws 200 µA from a 1.3 V supply when generating bursts of 1 GHz signal with a 10% duty-cycle.

  2206. A 1.2-V 10-µW NPN-Based Temperature Sensor in 65-nm CMOS With an Inaccuracy of 0.2 °C (3σ) From -70 °C to 125 °C
    Fabio Sebastiano; Lucien J. Breems; Kofi Makinwa; Salvatore Drago; Domine M. W. Leenaerts; Bram Nauta;
    {IEEE} J. Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 45, Issue 12, pp. 2591 - 2601, December 2010. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2010.2076610
    Keywords: ... CMOS integrated circuits;correlation methods;signal sampling;temperature sensors;CMOS;correlated double sampling;dynamic element matching;npn transistor;power 10 muW;size 65 nm;temperature -70 C to 125 C;temperature sensor;voltage 1.2 V;CMOS analog integrated circuits;CMOS process;Intelligent sensors;Sigma delta modulation;Temperature sensors;CMOS analog integrated circuits;sigma-delta modulation;smart sensors;temperature sensors.

    Abstract: ... An NPN-based temperature sensor with digital output has been realized in a 65-nm CMOS process. It achieves a batch-calibrated inaccuracy of (3σ) and a trimmed inaccuracy of (3σ) over the temperature range from -70 °C to 125 °C. This performance is obtained by the use of NPN transistors as sensing elements, the use of dynamic techniques, i.e., correlated double sampling and dynamic element matching, and a single room-temperature trim. The sensor draws 8.3 µA from a 1.2-V supply and occupies an area of 0.1 mm².

  2207. On Low-Complexity Simulation of Multichannel Room Impulse Responses
    Jorge Martinez; Richard Heusdens;
    {IEEE} Signal Process. Lett.,
    Volume 17, Issue 7, pp. 667 -670, July 2010. DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2010.2051049
    Keywords: ... free-field plenacoustic spectrum;image source model;low-complexity RIR method;low-complexity simulation algorithm;multi-input multi-output system;multichannel room impulse response;next generation communication system;rigid boundaries;spatial aliasing;spectral sampling;virtual free-field sources;wall reflection;wave equation;MIMO communication;acoustic signal processing;architectural acoustics;image sampling;transient response;wave equations;wireless channels;.

  2208. A Thermal-Diffusivity-Based Frequency Reference in Standard CMOS With an Absolute Inaccuracy of ±0.1\% From -55°C to 125°C
    S. M. Kashmiri; M. A. P. Pertijs; K. A. A. Makinwa;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 45, Issue 12, pp. 2510‒2520, December 2010. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2010.2076343
    Abstract: ... An on-chip frequency reference exploiting the well-defined thermal-diffusivity (TD) of IC-grade silicon has been realized in a standard 0.7 μm CMOS process. A frequency-locked loop (FLL) locks the frequency of a digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) to the process-insensitive phase shift of an electrothermal filter (ETF). The ETF's phase shift is determined by its geometry and by the thermal diffusivity of bulk silicon (D). The temperature dependence of is compensated for with the help of die-temperature information obtained by an on-chip band-gap temperature sensor. The resulting TD frequency reference has a nominal output frequency of 1.6 MHz and dissipates 7.8 mW from a 5 V supply. Measurements on 16 devices show that it has an absolute inaccuracy of ±0.1\% (σ = ±0.05\%) over the military temperature range (-55°C to 125°C ), with a worst case temperature coefficient of ± 11.2 ppm/°C.

  2209. A 140 dB-CMRR current-feedback instrumentation amplifier employing ping-pong auto-zeroing and chopping
    M. A. P. Pertijs; W. J. Kindt;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 45, Issue 10, pp. 2044‒2056, October 2010. DOI: 10.1109/jssc.2010.2060253
    Abstract: ... This paper presents a precision general-purpose current-feedback instrumentation amplifier (CFIA) that employs a combination of ping-pong auto-zeroing and chopping to cancel its offset and 1/f noise. A comparison of offset-cancellation techniques shows that neither chopping nor auto-zeroing is an ideal solution for general-purpose CFIAs, since chopping results in output ripple, and auto-zeroing is associated with increased low-frequency noise. The presented CFIA mitigates these unintended side effects through a combination of these techniques. A ping-pong auto-zeroed input stage with slow-settling offset-nulling loops is applied to limit the bandwidth of the increased noise to less than half of the auto-zeroing frequency. This noise is then modulated away from DC by chopping the input stage at half the auto-zeroing frequency, reducing the low-frequency noise to the 27 nV/ white-noise level, without introducing extra output ripple. The auto-zeroing is augmented with settling phases to further reduce output transients. The CFIA was realized in a 0.5 μm analog CMOS process and achieves a typical offset of 2.8 μV and a CMRR of 140 dB in a common-mode voltage range that includes the negative supply.

  2210. Low-cost calibration techniques for smart temperature sensors
    M. A. P. Pertijs; A. L. Aita; K. A. A. Makinwa; J. H. Huijsing;
    IEEE Sensors Journal,
    Volume 10, Issue 6, pp. 1098‒1105, June 2010. DOI: 10.1109/jsen.2010.2040730
    Abstract: ... Smart temperature sensors generally need to be trimmed to obtain measurement errors below ±2°C. The associated temperature calibration procedure is time consuming and therefore costly. This paper presents two, much faster, voltage calibration techniques. Both make use of the fact that a voltage proportional to absolute temperature (PTAT) can be accurately generated on chip. By measuring this voltage, the sensor's actual temperature can be determined, whereupon the sensor can be trimmed to correct for its dominant source of error: spread in the on-chip voltage reference. The first calibration technique consists of measuring the (small) PTAT voltage directly, while the second, more robust alternative does so indirectly, by using an external reference voltage and the on-chip ADC. Experimental results from a prototype fabricated in 0.7 μm CMOS technology show that after calibration and trimming, these two techniques result in measurement errors (±3σ) of ±0.15°C and ±0.25°C, respectively, in a range from -55°C to 125°C.

  2211. 12-bit accurate voltage-sensing ADC with curvature-corrected dynamic reference
    N. Saputra; M. A. P. Pertijs; K. A. A. Makinwa; J. H. Huijsing;
    Electronics Letters,
    Volume 46, Issue 6, pp. 397‒398, March 2010. DOI: 10.1049/el.2010.3337
    Abstract: ... A sigma-delta analogue-to-digital converter (ADC) with a dynamic voltage reference is presented that achieves 12-bit absolute accuracy over the extended industrial temperature range (-40 to 105°C). Temperature-dependent gain errors due to the reference's curvature are digitally corrected by adjusting the gain of the ADC's decimation filter. The required correction factor is obtained by first using the reference to make a temperature measurement, and then translating the result into a correction factor by means of a lookup table and a linear interpolator. Thus, a dynamic voltage reference is realised with a measured temperature drift of less than 1.7 ppm/°C. The ADC was fabricated in 0.7 μm CMOS technology and consumes 85 μA from a 2.5-5.5 V supply.

  2212. Investigation of the turbulent structure of a cloud-capped mixed layer using Doppler radar
    Pinsky, M.; O.A. Krasnov; H.W.J. Russchenberg; A. Khain;
    Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology,
    Volume 49, Issue 6, pp. 1170-1190, June 2010. DOI: 10.1175/2010JAMC2280.1
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  2213. Silicon Filled Integrated Waveguides
    Gentile, G.; Dekker, Ronald; de Graaf, Pascal; Spirito, M.; Pelk, M. J.; de Vreede, L. C. N.; Rejaei Salmassi, B.;
    IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters,
    Volume 20, Issue 10, pp. 536-538, 2010. DOI: 10.1109/LMWC.2010.2063420

  2214. A GaAs Junction Varactor With a Continuously Tunable Range of 9 : 1 and an $OIP_3$ of 57 dBm
    Huang, Cong; Zampardi, Peter J.; Buisman, Koen; Cismaru, Cristian; Sun, Mike; Stevens, Kevin; Fu, Jianli; Marchetti, Mauro; de Vreede, Leo C. N.;
    IEEE Electron Device Letters,
    Volume 31, Issue 2, pp. 108-110, 2010. DOI: 10.1109/LED.2009.2037528

  2215. Challenges and trends in the development of a magnetoresistive biochip portable platform
    Martins, Verónica C; Germano, José; Cardoso, Filipe Arroyo; Loureiro, Joana; Cardoso, Susana; Sousa, Leonel; Piedade, Moisés; Fonseca, Luís P; Freitas, PP;
    Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials,
    Volume 322, Issue 9-12, pp. 1655-1663, 2010.

  2216. Picomolar detection limit on a magnetoresistive biochip after optimization of a thiol-gold based surface chemistry
    Martins, VC; Cardoso, Filipe Arroyo; Freitas, PP; Fonseca, LP;
    Journal of nanoscience and nanotechnology,
    Volume 10, Issue 9, pp. 5994-6002, 2010.

  2217. Parallel optical readout of cantilever arrays in dynamic mode
    Koelmans, W. W.; Van Honschoten, J.; De Vries, J.; Vettiger, P.; Abelmann, L.; Elwenspoek, M. C.;
    Nanotechnology,
    Volume 21, Issue 39, 2010. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/21/39/395503
    Keywords: ... Electromagnetic Fields; Interferometry; Lab-On-A-Chip Devices; Nanotechnology; Optics and Photonics; Atomic force microscopy; Bandwidth; Natural frequencies; Array of cantilevers; Available bandwidth; Beam deflection; Biological sensing; Cantilever arrays; Data storage; Diode pairs; Dynamic modes; Multi frequency; Nano scale; Nanomechanical response; Optical beam deflection; Optical readout; Probe-based; Quality factors; Received signals; Resonant frequencies; Single lasers; article; electromagnetic field; instrumentation; interferometry; lab on a chip; methodology; nanotechnology; optics; Nanocantilevers.

    Abstract: ... Parallel frequency readout of an array of cantilevers is demonstrated using optical beam deflection with a single laser-diode pair. Multi-frequency addressing makes the individual nanomechanical response of each cantilever distinguishable within the received signal. Addressing is accomplished by exciting the array with the sum of all cantilever resonant frequencies. This technique requires considerably less hardware compared to other parallel optical readout techniques. Readout is demonstrated in beam deflection mode and interference mode. Many cantilevers can be readout in parallel, limited by the oscillators' quality factor and available bandwidth. The proposed technique facilitates parallelism in applications at the nano-scale, including probe-based data storage and biological sensing. © 2010 IOP Publishing Ltd.

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  2218. Self-assembly of (sub-)micron particles into supermaterials
    Elwenspoek, Miko; Abelmann, Leon; Berenschot, Erwin; Van Honschoten, Joost; Jansen, Henri; Tas, Niels;
    Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering,
    Volume 20, Issue 6, 2010. DOI: 10.1088/0960-1317/20/6/064001
    Keywords: ... Electric properties; Magnetic properties; Mechanical properties; Phase interfaces; Phase transitions; Stiction; Three dimensional; Disordered regions; Dynamic property; Electrical and magnetic property; First-order phase transitions; Kinetic process; Macroscopic systems; Mechanical interconnections; Static friction; Technological challenges; Three-dimensional structure; Self assembly.

    Abstract: ... We review aspects of static self-assembly with regard to the synthesizing of new types of three-dimensional materials made of specifically designed particles in the 100 nm to 10 μm range. Mechanical interconnection technologies based on static friction used in the assembly of macroscopic systems (such as screws and nails) are unsuitable for self-assembly. An analogy of self-assembly with first-order phase transitions is used to argue that self-assembly is a process requiring interfaces separating assembled and disordered regions. Available types of interaction are reviewed with emphasis on scaling. We discuss at some length how interaction and dynamic properties scale with respect to the particle size. Chains of particles seem to be of particular importance as they might form three-dimensional structures similar to proteins. These structures are constrained by the sequence of the particles and by their interactions between themselves and with the solvent. Using chains might provide a viable route to complex, inhomogeneous, supermaterials and systems. Kinetic processes, specifically nucleation and the relationship between self-assembly and thermodynamic phase transitions form a major part of this paper. Finally we review some applications of self-assembly, notably in MEMS, and put forward some ideas for the assembly of new types of (smart) supermaterials with interesting optical, mechanical, electrical and magnetic properties and describe some of the technological challenges we face when attempting to realize these materials and systems thereof. © 2010 IOP Publishing Ltd.

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  2219. Spatial sensitivity mapping of Hall crosses using patterned magnetic nanostructures
    Alexandrou, M.; Nutter, P. W.; Delalande, M.; De Vries, J.; Hill, E. W.; Schedin, F.; Abelmann, L.; Thomson, T.;
    Journal of Applied Physics,
    Volume 108, Issue 4, 2010. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1063/1.3475485
    Keywords: ... Finite element method; Hall effect; Magnetic field effects; Nanostructured materials; Nanostructures; Platinum; Three dimensional; Anomalous Hall effects; Bit-patterned media; Co/Pt multilayer; Cross structures; Magnetic nanostructures; Magnetic switching; Nano-islands; Numerical simulation studies; Output voltages; Patterned magnetic nanostructure; Seed layer; Spatial sensitivity; Switching behaviors; Switching field distribution; Theoretical study; Three dimensional finite element model; Switching.

    Abstract: ... Obtaining an accurate profile of the spatial sensitivity of Hall cross structures is crucial if such devices are to be used to analyze the switching behavior of magnetic nanostructures and determine the switching field distribution of bit patterned media. Here, we have used the anomalous Hall effect to investigate the switching of patterned Co/Pt multilayer magnetic nanoislands, where the Hall cross has been integrated into the Pt seed layer. Using the anomalous Hall output voltage we have observed the magnetic switching of individual islands, allowing the spatial sensitivity across a Hall cross structure to be determined. The experimental results agree well with numerical simulation studies, using a three-dimensional finite element model, and with existing theoretical studies, where the spatial sensitivity of two-dimensional Hall cross structures have been found numerically. © 2010 American Institute of Physics.

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  2220. Self-assembled three-dimensional non-volatile memories
    Abelmann, Leon; Tas, Niels; Berenschot, Erwin; Elwenspoek, Miko;
    Micromachines,
    Volume 1, Issue 1, pp. 1 – 18, 2010. All Open Access, Gold Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.3390/mi1010001
    Keywords: ... Crosstalk; Data storage equipment; Electric connectors; Memory architecture; MEMS; Self assembly; Silicon wafers; Associative network; Bit density; Corner lithography; Data storage; Electrical connection; Magnetic; Magnetic rings; Nano-sized elements; Non-volatile data; Non-volatile memories; Ring core; Self-assembled; Single crystal silicon; Non-volatile memory; Three dimensional.

    Abstract: ... The continuous increase in capacity of non-volatile data storage systems will lead to bit densities of one bit per atom in 2020. Beyond this point, capacity can be increased by moving into the third dimension. We propose to use self-assembly of nanosized elements, either as a loosely organised associative network or into a cross-point architecture. When using principles requiring electrical connection, we show the need for transistor-based cross-talk isolation. Cross-talk can be avoided by reusing the coincident current magnetic ring core memory architecture invented in 1953. We demonstrate that self-assembly of three-dimensional ring core memories is in principle possible by combining corner lithography and anisotropic etching into single crystal silicon. © 2010 by the authors. licensee Molecular Diversity Preservation International, Basel, Switzerland.

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  2221. Optimized comb-drive finger shape for shock-resistant actuation
    Engelen, Johan B. C.; Abelmann, Leon; Elwenspoek, Miko C.;
    Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering,
    Volume 20, Issue 10, 2010. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1088/0960-1317/20/10/105003
    Keywords: ... Drives; Electric potential; Optimization; Voltage regulators; Analytical expressions; Analytical solutions; Comb drive; Comb-drive fingers; Commonly used; Constant force; External loads; Finger shape; Finite element analysis; Force Curve; Graphical methods; Large displacements; Unit cells; Finite element method.

    Abstract: ... This work presents the analytical solution, finite-element analysis, realization and measurement of comb drives with finger shapes optimized for shock-resistant actuation. The available force for actuating an external load determines how large shock forces can be compensated for. The optimized finger shape provides much more available force than the standard straight finger shape, especially at large displacements. A graphical method is presented to determine whether stable voltage control is possible for a given available force curve. An analytical expression is presented for the finger shape that provides a constant large available force over the actuation range. The new finger shape is asymmetric, and the unit-cell width is equal to the unit-cell width of standard straight fingers that are commonly used, and can be used in all applications where a large force is required. Because the unit-cell width is not increased, straight fingers can be replaced by the new finger shape without changing the rest of the design. It is especially suited for shock-resistant positioning and for applications where a constant force is desired. © 2010 IOP Publishing Ltd.

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  2222. Characterization of epitaxial Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 thin films deposited by pulsed laser deposition on silicon cantilevers
    Nguyen, M. D.; Nazeer, H.; Karakaya, K.; Pham, S. V.; Steenwelle, R.; Dekkers, M.; Abelmann, L.; Blank, D. H. A.; Rijnders, G.;
    Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering,
    Volume 20, Issue 8, 2010. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1088/0960-1317/20/8/085022
    Keywords: ... Atomic force microscopy; Computer simulation; Deposition; Electrodes; Finite element method; Lead; Mathematical models; MEMS; Microelectromechanical devices; Nanocantilevers; Natural frequencies; Piezoelectricity; Pulsed laser deposition; Semiconducting silicon compounds; Zirconium; Analytical model; Cantilever displacement; Conductive oxides; Finite element simulations; Initial bending; Laser doppler; Micro electro mechanical system; Oxide layer; Pb(Zr , Ti)O; Piezoelectric stack; Quality factors; Resonance frequencies; Silicon cantilever; Silicon-on-insulator substrates; Tip displacement; Vibrometers; White-light interferometer; Pulsed lasers.

    Abstract: ... This paper reports on the piezoelectric-microelectromechanical system micro-fabrication process and the behavior of piezoelectric stacks actuated silicon cantilevers. All oxide layers in the piezoelectric stacks, such as buffer-layer/bottom-electrode/film/top-electrode: YSZ/SrRuO3/Pb(Zr, Ti)3/SrRuO3, were grown epitaxially on the Si template of silicon-on-insulator substrates by pulsed laser deposition. By using an analytical model and finite element simulation, the initial bending of the cantilevers was calculated. These theoretical analyses are in good agreement with the experimental results which were determined using a white light interferometer. The dependences of the cantilever displacement, resonance frequency and quality factor on the cantilever geometry have been investigated using a laser-Doppler vibrometer. The tip displacement ranged from 0.03 to 0.42 μm V?1, whereas the resonance frequency and quality factor values changed from 1010 to 18.6 kHz and 614 to 174, respectively, for the cantilevers with lengths in the range of 100-800 μm. Furthermore, the effect of the conductive oxide electrodes on the stability of the piezoelectric displacement of the cantilevers has been studied. © 2010 IOP Publishing Ltd.

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  2223. Thermally induced switching field distribution of a single CoPt dot in a large array
    Engelen, J. B. C.; Delalande, M.; F{\`e}bre, A. J.; Bolhuis, T.; Shimatsu, T.; Kikuchi, N.; Abelmann, L.; Lodder, J. C.;
    Nanotechnology,
    Volume 21, Issue 3, 2010. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/21/3/035703
    Keywords: ... Hall effect; Hysteresis; Hysteresis loops; Magnetic field effects; Magnetic materials; Platinum; Rotating machinery; Semiconductor quantum dots; Shock absorbers; Switching; Anomalous Hall effects; Arrhenius models; Co-Pt dot; Continuous films; Dot array; High field; High sensitivity; Large arrays; Laser interference lithography; Magnetic dot arrays; Magnetic reversal; Perpendicular magnetic anisotropy; Switching field; Switching field distribution; Thermally induced; Magnetic anisotropy.

    Abstract: ... Magnetic dot arrays with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy were fabricated by patterning Co80Pt20-alloy continuous films by means of laser interference lithography. As commonly seen in large dot arrays, there is a large difference in the switching field between dots. Here we investigate the origin of this large switching field distribution, by using the anomalous Hall effect (AHE). The high sensitivity of the AHE permits us to measure the magnetic reversal of individual dots in an array of 80 dots with a diameter of 180nm. By taking 1000 hysteresis loops we reveal the thermally induced switching field distribution SFDT of individual dots inside the array. The SFD T of the first and last switching dots were fitted to an Arrhenius model, and a clear difference in switching volume and magnetic anisotropy was observed between dots switching at low and high fields. © 2010 IOP Publishing Ltd.

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  2224. Noncoherent Ultra-Wideband Systems
    K. Witrisal; G. Leus; G.J.M. Janssen; M. Pausini; F. Troesch; Th. Zasowski; J. Romme;
    IEEE Signal Processing Magazine,
    Volume 26, Issue 4, pp. 48-66, July 2009.
    document

  2225. A quantum imager for intensity correlated photons
    D.L. Boiko; N.J. Gunther; N. Brauer; M. Sergio; C. Niclass; G.B. Beretta; E. Charbon;
    New Journal of Physics,
    Volume 11, pp. 1-7, 2009. 1367-2630/09/013001+07.
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  2226. On the Application of a Monolithic Array for Detecting Intensity-Correlated Photons Emitted by Different Source Types
    D.L. Boiko; N.J. Gunther; B.N. Benedict; E. Charbon;
    Optics Express,
    Volume 17, Issue 17, pp. 15087-15103, August 2009. doi:10.1364/OE.17.015087.
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  2227. A Low-Noise Single-Photon Detector Implemented in a 130 nm CMOS Imaging Process
    M. Gersbach; J. Richardson; E. Mazaleyrat; S. Hardillier; C. Niclass; R. Henderson; L. Grant; E. Charbon;
    Solid-State Electronics,
    Volume 53, Issue 7, pp. 803-808, July 2009. doi:10.1016/j.sse.2009.02.014.
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  2228. Single-Photon Synchronous Detection
    C. Niclass; C. Favi; T. Kluter; F. Monnier; E. Charbon;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 44, Issue 7, pp. 1977-1989, July 2009. ISSN: 0018-9200. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2009.2021920
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  2229. Fast-Fluorescence Dynamics in Nonratiometric Calcium Indicators
    M. Gersbach; D.L. Boiko; C. Niclass; C. Petersen; E. Charbon;
    Optics Letters,
    Volume 34, Issue 3, pp. 362-364, February 2009. doi:10.1364/OL.34.000362.
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  2230. Finite Word Length Effects on Transmission Rate in Zero Forcing Linear Precoding for Multichannel DSL
    E. Sayag; A. Leshem; N.D. Sidiropoulos;
    IEEE Tr. Signal Processing,
    Volume 57, Issue 4, pp. 1469-1482, April 2009.
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  2231. Iterative Power Pricing for distributed spectrum coordination in DSL
    Y. Noam; A. Leshem;
    IEEE Tr. Communication,
    Volume 57, Issue 4, pp. 948-953, April 2009.
    document

  2232. Signal processing advances for 3G WCDMA: From rake receivers to blind techniques
    Youngchul Sung; Yirang Lim; Lang Tong; A.J. van der Veen;
    IEEE Communications Magazine,
    Volume 47, Issue 1, pp. 48-54, January 2009. ISSN 0163-6804. DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2009.4752676
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  2233. Double turbo equalization of continuous phase modulation with frequency domain processing
    B. Ozgul; M. Koca; H. Delic;
    IEEE Tr. Communications,
    Volume 57, Issue 2, pp. 423-429, February 2009. ISSN 0090-6778. DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2009.02.060674
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  2234. The impact of a realistic packet traffic model on the performance of surveillance wireless sensor networks
    I. Demirkol; C. Ersoy; F. Alagoz; H. Delic;
    Computer Networks,
    Volume 53, pp. 382-399, February 2009. DOI: 10.1016/j.comnet.2008.10.021
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  2235. Fast computational structures for an efficient implementation of the complete TDAC analysis/synthesis MDCT/MDST filterbanks
    V. Britanak; H.J. Lincklaen Arriens;
    Signal Processing,
    2009. DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2009.01.014
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  2236. Digital receiver design for transmitted-reference ultra-wideband systems
    Yiyin Wang; G. Leus; A.J. van der Veen;
    Eurasip J. Wireless Comm. Netw.,
    Volume 2009, pp. 17, June 2009. ArticleID 315264, doi:10.1155/2009/315264.
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  2237. Multisource self-calibration for sensor arrays
    S.J. Wijnholds; A.J. van der Veen;
    IEEE Tr. Signal Processing,
    Volume 57, Issue 9, pp. 3512-3522, September 2009.
    document

  2238. Performance Analysis of a Flexible Subsampling Receiver for Pulsed UWB Signals
    Y. Vanderperren; W. Dehaene; G. Leus;
    IEEE Tr. Wireless Communications,
    Volume 8, Issue 8, pp. 4134-4142, August 2009.
    document

  2239. Game theory and the frequency selective interference channel
    A. Leshem; E. Zehavi;
    IEEE Signal Processing Magazine,
    Volume 26, Issue 5, pp. 28-40, September 2009.
    document

  2240. A Novel Approach to UWB Data Detection with Symbol-Level Synchronization
    V. Lottici; Z. Tian; G. Leus;
    Physical Communication,
    Volume 2, Issue 4, pp. 296-305, 2009.
    document

  2241. Label free CMOS DNA image sensor based on the charge transfer technique
    Y. Maruyama; S. Terao; K. Sawada;
    Biosensors and Bioelectronics,
    Volume 24, pp. 3108-3112, 2009. ISSN 0956-5663.

  2242. Efficient Estimation of a Narrowband Polynomial Phase Signal Impinging on a Sensor Array
    A. Amar;
    IEEE Tr. Signal Processing,
    Volume 57, 2009.
    document

  2243. Ranging energy optimization for robust sensor positioning based on semidefinite programming
    T. Wang; G. Leus; L. Huang;
    IEEE Tr. Signal Processing,
    Volume 57, Issue 4, pp. 4777-4787, December 2009.
    document

  2244. Robust underwater telemetry with adaptive turbo multiband equalization
    P.A. van Walree; G. Leus;
    IEEE Tr. Oceanic Engineering,
    Volume 34, Issue 4, pp. 645-655, October 2009.
    document

  2245. Low Complexity DFT-Domain Noise PSD Tracking Using High-Resolution Periodograms
    Richard C. Hendriks; Richard Heusdens; Jesper Jensen; Ulrik Kjems;
    Eurasip Journal on Advances in Signal Processing,
    Volume 2009, 2009.
    document

  2246. On Optimal Multichannel Mean-Squared Error Estimators for Speech Enhancement
    Richard C. Hendriks; Richard Heusdens; Ulrik Kjems; Jesper Jensen;
    IEEE Signal Processing Letters,
    Volume 16, Issue 10, pp. 885-888, October 2009.
    document

  2247. Design of low-power single-stage operational amplifiers based on an optimized settling model
    Aminzadeh, H.; R. Lotfi; Mafinezhad, K.;
    Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing,
    Volume 58, Issue 2, pp. 153-160, 2009.

  2248. Modified model for settling behavior of operational amplifiers in nanoscale CMOS
    Rezaee-Dehsorkh, H., Ravanshad, N.; R. Lotfi; Mafinezhad, K.;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs,
    Volume 56, Issue 5, pp. 384-388, 2009.

  2249. Low-dropout voltage reference: An approach to low-temperature-sensitivity architectures with high drive capability
    Aminzadeh, H.; R. Lotfi; Mafinezhad, K.;
    Electronics Letters,
    Volume 45, Issue 24, pp. 1200-1201, 2009.

  2250. ar-infrared sensor with LPCVD-deposited low-stress Si-rich nitride absorber membranes: Part 1. Optical absorptivity
    F. Jutzi; D.H.B. Wicaksono; G. Pandraud; N. de Rooij; P.J. French;
    Sensors and actuators a-physical,
    Volume 152, pp. 119-125, 2009.

  2251. Far-infrared sensor with LPCVD-deposited low-stress Si-rich nitride absorber membrane: Part 2: Thermal property, and sensitivity
    F. jutzi; D.H.B. Wicaksono; G. Pandraud; N. de Rooij; P.J. French;
    Sensors and actuators a-physical,
    Volume 152, pp. 126-138, 2009.

  2252. Atomic layer deposition of TiO2 photonic crystal waveguide biosensors
    E. Jardinier; G. Pandraud; H.T.M. Pham; P.J. French; P.M. Sarro;
    Journal of physics: conference series,
    Volume 187, 2009.

  2253. Atomic layer deposition TiO2 photonic crystal waveguide of biosensors
    E. Jardinier; G. Pandraud; H.T.M. Pham; P.J. French; P.M. Sarro;
    IOP journal of physics,
    pp. 1-4, 2009.

  2254. High-aspect-ratio through-wafer parylene beams for stretchable silicon electronics.
    T. Zoumpoulidis; M. Bartek; P. de Graaf; R. Dekker;
    Sensors and actuators a-physical,
    Volume 156, Issue 1, pp. 257-264, 2009. ISSN 0924-4247.

  2255. Calorimeter chip calibration for thermal characterization of liquid samples
    E. Iervolino; A.W. van Herwaarden;
    Thermochimica acta,
    Volume 492, Issue 1-2, pp. 95-100, 2009.

  2256. Analytical Models of Front- and Back-Gate Potential Distribution and Threshold Voltage for Recessed Source/Drain UTB SOI MOSFETs
    B. Svilicic; V. Jovanovic; T. Suligoj;
    Solid-state electronics,
    Volume 53, Issue 5, pp. 540-547, 2009.

  2257. Improving bulk FinFET DC performance in comparison to SOI FinFET
    M. Poljak; V. Jovanovic; T. Suligoj;
    Microelectronic engineering,
    Volume 86, Issue 10, pp. 2078-2085, 2009.

  2258. X-ray investigation of buried SiGe islands for devices with strain-enhanced mobility
    Hrauda; N; J.J. Zhang; Stangl; J; A. Rehman-Khan; G. Bauer; M. Stoffel; O.G. Schmist; V. Jovanovic; L.K. Nanver;
    Journal of vacuum science & technology b,
    Volume 27, Issue 2, pp. 912-918, 2009.

  2259. Controlled Growth of Non-uniform Arsenic Profiles in Silicon RPCVD Epitaxial Layers
    M. Popadic; T.L.M. Scholtes; W. de Boer; F. Sarubbi; L.K. Nanver;
    Journal of Electronic Materials,
    Volume 38, Issue 11, pp. 2323-2328, 2009.

  2260. Direct observation of the electrical activity of coincidence-site lattice boundaries in location-controlled silicon islands using scanning spread resistance microscopy
    N. Matsuki; R. Ishihara; C.I.M. Beenakker;
    Journal of the society for information display,
    Volume 17, Issue 3, pp. 293-297, 2009.

  2261. Stacking of Single-Grain Thin-Film Transistors.
    M.R. Tajari Mofrad; J. Derakhshandeh; R. Ishihara; A. Baiano; J. van der Cingel; C.I.M. Beenakker;
    Japanese journal of applied physics,
    Volume 48, 2009. ISSN 0021-4922.

  2262. Modulation speed improvement in a FabryPerot thermo-optical modulator through a driving signal optimization technique
    F.G. della Corte; M. Merenda; G. Cocorullo; M. Iodice; I. Rendina; P.M. Sarro;
    Optical engineering,
    Volume 48, Issue 7, 2009.

  2263. Pattern transfer on a vertical cavity sidewall using SU8
    T. Verhaar; J. Wei; P.M. Sarro;
    Journal of micromechanics and microengineering,
    Volume 19, 2009.

  2264. Photolithography on bulk micromachined substrates. Journal of micromechanics and microengineering
    W.J. Venstra; J.W. Spronck; P.M. Sarro; J. van Eijk;
    Journal of micromechanics and microengineering,
    Volume 19, pp. 1-6, 2009.

  2265. On the Mechanisms Governing Aluminum-Mediated Solid-Phase Epitaxy of Silicon
    Y. Civale; G. Vastola; L.K. Nanver; R. Mary-Joy; J.R. Kim;
    Journal of electronic materials,
    Volume 38, Issue 10, pp. 2052-2062, 2009.

  2266. Ultra Linear Low-Loss Varactor Diode Configurations for Adaptive RF Systems
    C. Huang; K. Buisman; M. Maretti; L. K. Nanver; F. Sarubbi; M. Popadic; T. Scholtes; H. Schellevis; L. E. Larson; L. de Vreede;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 57, Issue 1, pp. 205-215, 2009.

  2267. Monolithic Stacking of Single-Grain Thin-Film Transistors to realize high performance three dimensional integrated circuits
    M.R Tajari Mofrad; Jaber Derakhshandeh; R. Ishihara; Cees Beenakker;
    Japanese Journal of Applied Physics,
    Volume 48, 2009.

  2268. Analytical Model of I-V Characteristics of Arbitrarily Shallow p-n Junctions
    M. Popadic; G. Lorito; L. K. Nanver;
    IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices,
    Volume 56, Issue 1, pp. 116-125, 2009.

  2269. Analytical Carrier Transport Model for Arbitrarily Shallow p-n Junctions
    M. Popadic; G. Lorito; L.K. Nanver;
    IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices,
    Volume 56, Issue 1, pp. 116-125, 2009.

  2270. Ultra linear low-loss varactor diode configurations for adaptive RF systems
    C. Huang; K. Buisman; L.K. Nanver; F. Sarubbi; M. Popadic; T.L.M. Scholtes; H. Schellevis;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 57, Issue 1, pp. 205-215, 2009.

  2271. Influence of Concurrent Electrothermal and Avalanche Effects on the Safe Operating Area of Multifinger Bipolar Transistors
    L. La Spina; V. Alessandro; S. Russo; N. Rinaldi; L.K. Nanver;
    IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices,
    Volume 56, Issue 3, pp. 483-491, 2009.

  2272. A 2_2 Optofluidic Multimode Interference Coupler
    R. Bernini; G. Testa; L. Zeni; P.M. Sarro;
    IEEE journal of selected topics quantum electronics,
    Volume 15, Issue 5, pp. 1478-1484, 2009. ISSN 1077-260X.

  2273. Thiol-based self-assembly nanostructures in promoting interfacial adhesion for copper-epoxy joint
    C. K. Y. Wong; M. M. F. Yuen; B. Xu;
    Applied Physics Letters,
    Volume 94, 2009.

  2274. Analysis of the Bipolar Current Mirror Including Electrothermal and Avalanche Effects
    N. Rinaldi; V. Alessandro; L.K. Nanver;
    IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices,
    Volume 56, Issue 6, pp. 1309-1321, 2009.

  2275. Improved RF Devices for Future Adaptive Wireless Systems Using Two-Sided Contacting and AlN Cooling
    L.K. Nanver; H. Schellevis; T.L.M. Scholtes; L. La Spina; G. Lorito; F. Sarubbi; V. Gonda; M. Popadic; K. Buisman; L.C.N. de Vreede; C. Huang; S. Milosavljevic; E.J.G. Goudena;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 44, Issue 9, pp. 2322-2338, 2009.

  2276. Nanoscale chemical imaging of the reduction behavior of a single catalyst particle
    E. Smit; I. Swart; J.F. Creemer; Karunakaran; C; Bertwistle; D; H.W. Zandbergen; F.M.F. de Groot; B.M. Weckhuysen;
    Angewandte chemie-international edition,
    pp. 3632-3635, 2009.

  2277. X-ray diffraction study of the composition and strain fields in buried SiGe islands
    N. Hrauda; J.J. Zhang; M. Stoffel; J. Stangl; G. Bauer; A. Rehman-Khan; V. Holy; O.G. Schmist; V. Jovanovic; L.K. Nanver;
    European physical journal-special topics,
    Volume 167, pp. 41-46, 2009.

  2278. Strained Single Grain Silicon n- and p-channel Thin Film Transistors by Excimer Laser
    A. Baiano; R. Ishihara; J. van der Cindel; K. Beenakker;
    Accepted IEEE Electron Device Letters,
    2009.

  2279. Atomic imaging of phase transitions and morphology transformations in nanocrystals
    M.A. van Huis; N.P. Young; G. Pandraud; J.F. Creemer; D. Vanmaekelbergh; A.I. Kirkland; H.W. Zandbergen;
    Advanced materials,
    Volume 21, pp. 4992-4995, 2009.

  2280. Emerging applications of wavelets: A review
    A.N. Akansu; I.W. Selesnick; W.A. Serdijn;
    Physical Communication (Elsevier),
    2009. doi:10.1016/j.phycom.2009.07.001.
    document

  2281. Guest Editorial Special Issue on ISCAS 2008
    A.C. Carusone; Y. Ismail; U. Moon; H. Schmid; W.A. Serdijn; G. Setti;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems - I: Regular Papers,
    Volume 56, Issue 5, pp. 861-864, May 2009.
    document

  2282. Ultralow-power, class-AB, CMOS four-quadrant current multiplier
    C. Sawigun; W.A. Serdijn;
    Electronics Letters,
    Volume 45, Issue 10, May 7 2009.
    document

  2283. Interleaved array antennas for FMCW radar applications
    I. E. Lager; C. Trampuz; M. Simeoni; L.P. Ligthart;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 57, Issue 8, pp. 2486-2490, August 2009.
    document

  2284. Implementation of polarization agility in planar phased-array antennas by means of interleaved sub-arrays
    M. Simeoni; I. E. Lager; C. I. Coman; A.G. Roederer;
    Radio Science,
    Volume 44, Issue 5, October 2009.
    document

  2285. CPW-fed, quasi-magnetic, printed antenna for ultra wide-band applications
    F. M. Tanyer-Tigrek; D. P. Tran; I. E. Lager; L.P. Ligthart;
    IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine,
    Volume 51, Issue 2, pp. 61-70, April 2009.
    document

  2286. Sunflower array antenna with adjustable density taper
    M. C. Vigano; G. Toso; G. Caille; C. Mangenot; I. E. Lager;
    International Journal of Antennas and Propagation,
    January 2009.
    document

  2287. The pulsed-field multiport antenna system reciprocity relation and its applications - A time-domain approach
    A. T. de Hoop; I. E. Lager; V. Tomassetti;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 57, Issue 3, pp. 594-605, March 2009.
    document

  2288. Design of a low loss metallo-dielectric EBG waveguide at submillimeter wavelengths
    N. Llombart; A. Mazzinghi; P. H. Siegel; A. Freni;
    IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters,
    Volume 19, Issue 7, pp. 437-439, July 2009.
    document

  2289. Frequency selective surface to prevent interference between radar and satcom antennas
    S. Monni; A. Neto; G. Gerini; A. Tijhuis; F. Nennie;
    IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters,
    Volume 8, pp. 220-223, 2009.
    document

  2290. Scanning performances of wideband connected arrays in the presence of a backing reflector
    A. Neto; D. Cavallo; G. Gerini; G. Toso;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 57, Issue 10, pp. 3092-3102, Oct. 2009. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2009.2028631

  2291. Far-infrared sensor with LPCVD-deposited low-stress Si-rich nitride absorber membrane¿Part 2: Thermal property, and sensitivity
    F. jutzi; D.H.B. Wicaksono; G. Pandraud; N. de rooij; P.J. French;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume 152, pp. 126-138, 2009.

  2292. Far-infrared sensor with LPCVD-deposited low-stress Si-rich nitride absorber membrane-part 2.Thermal property and sensitivity
    F. jutzi; D.H.B. Wicaksono; G. Pandraud; N. de rooij; P.J. French;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume A152-2(2), pp. 126-138, 2009.

  2293. Fast step-response settling of micro electrostatic actuators operated at low air pressure using input shaping
    L. Mol; L.A. Rocha; E. Cretu; R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering,
    Volume 19, pp. 074020(1)-0740, 2009.

  2294. Surface stress-induced change in overall elastic behavior and self-bending of ultrathin cantilever plates
    H. Sadeghian Marnani; J.F.L. Goosen; A. Bossche; F. van Keulen;
    Applied Physics Letters,
    Volume 94, Issue 231908, pp. 1-3, 2009.

  2295. Atomic layer deposition of TiO2 photonic crystal waveguide biosensors
    E. Jardinier; G. Pandraud; H.T.M. Pham; P.J. French; P.M. Sarro;
    Journal of Physics: Conference Series,
    Volume 187, pp. 012043-1-0120, 2009.

  2296. A CMOS image sensor with in pixel buried channel source follower and optimized row selector
    C. Yue; X. Wang; A. Mierop; A.J.P. Theuwissen;
    pp. 2390-2397, 2009.

  2297. A novel i nterface for eddy current displacement sensors
    M.R. Nabavi; S. Nihtianov;
    IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement,
    Volume 58, Issue 5, pp. 1623-1632, 2009.

  2298. Far-infrared sensor with LPCVD-deposited low-stress Si-rich nitride absorber membrane¿Part 1. Optical absorptivity
    F. jutzi; D.H.B. Wicaksono; G. Pandraud; N. de rooij; P.J. French;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume 152, pp. 119-125, 2009.

  2299. A temperature-to-digital converter based on an optimized electrothermal filter
    S.M. Kashmiri; S. Xia; K.A.A. Makinwa;
    IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits,
    Volume 44, Issue 7, pp. 2026-2035, 2009.

  2300. Low voltage, low power inverter-based switched-capacitor delta-sigma modulator
    Y. Chae; G. Han;
    IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits,
    Volume 44, Issue 2, pp. 458-472, 2009.

  2301. Characterization of thermal cross-talk in a MEMS-based thermopile detector array
    H.W. Wu; S. Grabarnik; A. Emadi; G. de Graaf; R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering,
    Volume 19, pp. 74022(1)-74022, 2009.

  2302. A single-chip CMOS smoke and temperature sensor for an intelligent fire detector
    J. Cheon; J. Lee; I. Lee; Y. Chae; Y. yoo; G. Han;
    IEEE Sensors Journal,
    Volume 9, Issue 8, pp. 914-921, 2009.

  2303. A chopper current-feedback instrumentation amplifier with a 1mHz 1/f noise corner and an AC-coupled ripple reduction loop
    R. Wu; K.A.A. Makinwa; J.H. Huijsing;
    IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits,
    Volume 44, pp. 3232-3243, 2009.

  2304. Characterizing size-dependent effective elastic modulus of silicon nanocantilevers using electrostatic pull-in instability
    H. Sadeghian Marnani; C.K. Yang; J.F.L. Goosen; E. Drift; A. Bossche; P.J. French; F. van Keulen;
    Applied Physics Letters,
    Volume 94, Issue 221903, pp. 1-3, 2009.

  2305. Smart CMOS image sensor with high SBR and subpixel resolution for light-selection-based range finding
    J. Cheon; Y. Chae; D. Kim; S. Lim; I. Lee; K. Lee; D.J. Kim; G. Han;
    IEEE Electron Device Letters,
    Volume 56, Issue 11, pp. 2546-2555, 2009.

  2306. On-Chip Pixel Binning in Photon-Counting EMCCD-Based Gamma Camera: A Powerful Tool for Noise Reduction
    A.H. Westra; J.W.T. Heemskerk; M.A.N. Korevaar; A.J.P. Theuwissen; R. Kreuger; K.M. Ligtvoet; F.J. Beekman;
    IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science,
    Volume 56, pp. 2559-2565, 2009.

  2307. On the direct computation of the time-domain plane-wave reflection coefficients
    M.F. Pantoja; A Yarovoy; A.R. Bretones;
    Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society. Journal,
    Volume 24, Issue 3, pp. 294--299, 2009. NEO.

  2308. Effects of surface stress on nanocantilevers
    H. Sadeghian Marnani; C.K. Yang; K. Babaei Gavan; J.F.L. Goosen; EW.J.M. van der Drift; H.S.J. van der Zant; A. Bossche; P.J. French; F. van Keulen;
    E-Journal of Surface Science and Nanotechnology,
    Volume 7, pp. 161-166, 2009.

  2309. Vertically tapered layers for optical applications fabricated using resist reflow
    A. Emadi; H.W. Wu; S. Grabarnik; G. de Graaf; R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering,
    Volume 19, pp. 074014(1)-0740, 2009.

  2310. Squeezed film damping measurements on a parallel-plate MEMS in the free molecule regime
    L. Mol; L.A. Rocha; E. Cretu; R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering,
    Volume 19, pp. 074021(1)-0740, 2009.

  2311. Dynamic offset canceling technique applied in the universal transducer interface
    J. ye; G.C.M. Meijer;
    Annual Journal of Electronics,
    pp. 105-108, 2009.

  2312. Impulse-Based Scheme for Crystal-Less ULP Radios
    Salvatore Drago; Fabio Sebastiano; Lucien J. Breems; Domine M.W. Leenaerts; Kofi A.A. Makinwa; Bram Nauta;
    {IEEE} Trans. Circuits Syst. {I},
    Volume 56, Issue 5, pp. 1041 - 1052, May 2009. DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2009.2015208
    Keywords: ... access protocols;ad hoc networks;clocks;low-power electronics;modulation;ultra wideband communication;wireless sensor networks;ad hoc modulation;crystal-less ULP radio;crystal-less clock generator;duty-cycled wake-up radio;frequency 17.7 MHz;frequency 2.4 GHz;impulse radio;medium access control protocol;power 100 muW;ultra-low-power radio;wireless sensor network;Crystal-less clock;EDICS Category: COMM110A5, COMM200, COMM250A5;impulse radio;ultra-low power (ULP);wake-up radio;wireless sensor network (WSN).

    Abstract: ... This study describes a method of implementing a fully integrated ultra-low-power (ULP) radio for wireless sensor networks (WSNs). This is achieved using an ad hoc modulation scheme (impulse radio), with a bandwidth of 17.7 MHz in the 2.4 GHz-ISM band and a specific medium access control (MAC) protocol, based on a duty-cycled wake-up radio and a crystal-less clock generator. It is shown that the total average power consumption is expected to be less than 100 µW with a clock generator inaccuracy of only 1%.

  2313. A Low-Voltage Mobility-Based Frequency Reference for Crystal-Less ULP Radios
    Fabio Sebastiano; Lucien J. Breems; Kofi A.A. Makinwa; Salvatore Drago; Domine M.W. Leenaerts; Bram Nauta;
    {IEEE} J. Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 44, Issue 7, pp. 2002 -2009, July 2009. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2009.2020247
    Keywords: ... CMOS integrated circuits;MOSFET;wireless sensor networks;CMOS technology;MOS transistor;crystal-less ULP radios;current 34 muA;electron mobility;frequency 100 kHz;low-voltage low-power circuit;low-voltage mobility-based frequency reference;size 65 nm;temperature -22 degC to 85 degC;temperature 293 K to 298 K;voltage 1.2 V;wireless sensor networks;CMOS technology;Circuits;Electron mobility;Energy consumption;Frequency synchronization;MOSFETs;Oscillators;Silicon;Temperature sensors;Wireless sensor networks;CMOS analog integrated circuits;Charge carrier mobility;crystal-less clock;low voltage;relaxation oscillators;ultra-low power;wireless sensor networks.

    Abstract: ... The design of a 100 kHz frequency reference based on the electron mobility in a MOS transistor is presented. The proposed low-voltage low-power circuit requires no off-chip components, making it suitable for application in wireless sensor networks (WSN). After a single-point calibration, the spread of its output frequency is less than 1.1% (3σ) over the temperature range from -22 °C to 85 °C . Fabricated in a baseline 65 nm CMOS technology, the frequency reference circuit occupies 0.11 mm² and draws 34 µA from a 1.2 V supply at room temperature.

  2314. Investigation of Droplet Size Distributions and Drizzle Formation Using A New Trajectory Ensemble Model. Part II: Lucky Parcels.
    Magaritz, L.; M. Pinsky; O.A. Krasnov; A. Khain;
    Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences,
    Volume 66, Issue 4, pp. 781-805, April 2009. DOI: 10.1175/2008JAS2789.1
    document

  2315. Cross-Correlation Decrease in FM-CW Polarimetric Radar with Simultaneous Measurement of Scattering Matrix Elements
    Babur, G.P.; O.A. Krasnov; L.P. Ligthart;
    URSI Benelux Forum 2009, June 8,
    Volume 1-4, 2009.

  2316. Improved RF Devices for Future Adaptive Wireless Systems Using Two-Sided Contacting and AlN Cooling
    Nanver, Lis K.; Schellevis, Hugo; Scholtes, Tom L. M.; La Spina, Luigi; Lorito, Gianpaolo; Sarubbi, Francesco; Gonda, Viktor; Popadic, Milos; Buisman, Koen; de Vreede, Leo C. N.; Huang, Cong; Milosavljevic, Silvana; Goudena, Egbert J. G.;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 44, Issue 9, pp. 2322-2338, 2009. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2009.2023016

  2317. A 90-W Peak Power GaN Outphasing Amplifier With Optimum Input Signal Conditioning
    Qureshi, Jawad H.; Pelk, Marco J.; Marchetti, Mauro; Neo, W. C. Edmund; Gajadharsing, John R.; van der Heijden, Mark P.; de Vreede, L. C. N.;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 57, Issue 8, pp. 1925-1935, 2009. DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2009.2025430

  2318. Ultra Linear Low-Loss Varactor Diode Configurations for Adaptive RF Systems
    Huang, Cong; Buisman, Koen; Marchetti, Mauro; Nanver, Lis K.; Sarubbi, Francesco; Popadic, Milos; Scholtes, Tom L. M.; Schellevis, Hugo; Larson, Lawrence E.; de Vreede, Leo C. N.;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 57, Issue 1, pp. 205-215, 2009. DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2008.2008978

  2319. A portable and autonomous magnetic detection platform for biosensing
    Germano, José; Martins, Verónica C; Cardoso, Filipe Arroyo; Almeida, Teresa M; Sousa, Leonel; Freitas, Paulo P; Piedade, Moisés S;
    Sensors,
    Volume 9, Issue 6, pp. 4119-4137, 2009.

  2320. On the modeling of new tunnel junction magnetoresistive biosensors
    de Almeida, Teresa Mendes; Piedade, Moisés S; Sousa, Leonel Augusto; Germano, José; Lopes, Paulo AC; Cardoso, Filipe Arroyo; Freitas, Paulo Peixeiro;
    IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement,
    Volume 59, Issue 1, pp. 92-100, 2009.

  2321. Femtomolar limit of detection with a magnetoresistive biochip
    Martins, VC; Cardoso, Filipe Arroyo; Germano, J; Cardoso, S; Sousa, L; Piedade, M; Freitas, PP; Fonseca, LP;
    Biosensors and Bioelectronics,
    Volume 24, Issue 8, pp. 2690-2695, 2009.

  2322. Magnetoresistive biochip-based portable platforms for biomolecular recognition detection
    Martins, V; Cardoso, Filipe Arroyo; Freitas, P; Germano, J; Cardoso, S; Sousa, L; Piedade, M; Fonseca, L;
    New Biotechnology,
    Issue 25, pp. S358-S359, 2009.

  2323. Alternative Runx1 Promoter Usage in Mouse Developmental Hematopoiesis
    Thomas Bee; Kate Liddiard; Gemma Swiers; Sorrel R.B. Bickley; Chris S. Vink; Andrew Jarratt; Jim R. Hughes; Alexander Medvinsky; Marella F.T.R. de Bruijn;
    Blood Cells, Molecules, and Diseases,
    Volume 43, Issue 1, pp. 35--42, July 2009. DOI: 10.1016/j.bcmd.2009.03.011
    document

  2324. A mass-balanced through-wafer electrostatic x/y-scanner for probe data storage
    Engelen, J. B. C.; Rothuizen, H. E.; Drechsler, U.; Stutz, R.; Despont, M.; Abelmann, L.; Lantz, M. A.;
    Microelectronic Engineering,
    Volume 86, Issue 4-6, pp. 1230 – 1233, 2009. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1016/j.mee.2008.11.032
    Keywords: ... Actuators; Aspect ratio; Data storage equipment; Drives; Electrostatics; Finite element method; MEMS; Microelectromechanical devices; Probes; Reactive ion etching; Scanning; Comb drive; Data storage applications; Data storages; Deep reactive ion etchings; DRIE; Finger shapes; Finite-element analysis (FEA); In planes; Out-of-plane directions; Probe storage; Prototype devices; Shock resistances; Electrostatic actuators.

    Abstract: ... In this work we describe the design, fabrication, and testing of a mass-balanced planar x/y-scanner designed for parallel-probe data storage applications. The scanner is actuated by comb drives, whose finger shape is improved using finite-element analysis to increase the force output. A mass-balancing concept is used for in-plane shock resistance; in the out-of-plane direction passive shock resistance is achieved using 1:40 aspect-ratio springs that are fabricated by deep reactive ion etching through the full thickness of a 400 μm wafer. A prototype device is presented and its performance is reported. © 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

    document

  2325. Tailoring particle arrays by isotropic plasma etching: An approach towards percolated perpendicular media
    Brombacher, Christoph; Saitner, Marc; Pfahler, Christian; Plettl, Alfred; Ziemann, Paul; Makarov, Denys; Assmann, Daniel; Siekman, Martin H.; Abelmann, Leon; Albrecht, Manfred;
    Nanotechnology,
    Volume 20, Issue 10, 2009. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/20/10/105304
    Keywords: ... Anisotropy; Cobalt; Crystallization; Macromolecular Substances; Magnetics; Materials Testing; Membranes, Artificial; Molecular Conformation; Nanostructures; Nanotechnology; Particle Size; Platinum; Surface Properties; Magnetic anisotropy; Magnetic multilayers; Nanostructures; Plasma etching; Plasmas; Polystyrenes; nanomaterial; polystyrene; cobalt; nanomaterial; platinum; Co/pt multilayers; Domain nucleations; Domain-wall pinning; Etching time; Isotropic plasmas; Linear dependences; Magnetic nanostructures; Magnetic reversals; Packed arrays; Particle arrays; Particle locations; Particle systems; Perpendicular magnetic anisotropies; Perpendicular medias; Polystyrene particles; Single domains; Sub-50 nm; anisotropy; article; chemical reaction; film; magnetism; particle size; periodicity; priority journal; anisotropy; artificial membrane; chemistry; conformation; crystallization; macromolecule; materials testing; methodology; nanotechnology; surface property; ultrastructure; Magnetic bubbles.

    Abstract: ... Plasma etching of densely packed arrays of polystyrene particles leads to arrays of spherical nanostructures with adjustable diameters while keeping the periodicity fixed. A linear dependence between diameter of the particles and etching time was observed for particles down to sizes of sub-50nm. Subsequent deposition of Co/Pt multilayers with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy onto these patterns leads to an exchange-decoupled, single-domain magnetic nanostructure array surrounded by a continuous magnetic film. The magnetic reversal characteristic of the film-particle system is dominated by domain nucleation and domain wall pinning at the particle locations, creating a percolated perpendicular media system. © 2009 IOP Publishing Ltd.

    document

  2326. Reduction of time-varying nanotesla magnetic fields from electric power lines by twisting
    Been, Auke J.; Folkertsma, Gerrit A.; Verputten, Hein H. J.; Bolhuis, Thijs; Abelmann, Leon;
    Journal of Electron Microscopy,
    Volume 58, Issue 4, pp. 251 – 252, 2009. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1093/jmicro/dfp002
    Keywords: ... Electric lines; Electron microscopy; Timing circuits; % reductions; Disturbance; Electric circuitry; Electric power lines; Electrical power; Instrumentation; Magnetic-field; Power lines; Time varying; Time-varying magnetic fields; Magnetic fields.

    Abstract: ... Time-varying magnetic fields generated by electrical power lines in the laboratory can disturb electron microscope imaging. Modern microscopes require these fields to be below 10 nT 2. We calculated and measured magnetic fields from straight and twisted current-carrying wires, and show that without twisting, this value cannot be reached.

    document

  2327. Shifted Known Symbol Padding for Efficient Data Communication in a WLAN Context
    O. Rousseaux; G. Leus; M. Moonen;
    Wireless Personal Communications,
    Volume 44, Issue 4, pp. 415-422, March 2008.
    document

  2328. A Novel Receiver Architecture for Single-Carrier Transmission over Time-Varying Channels
    Z. Tang; G. Leus;
    IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications,
    Volume 26, Issue 2, pp. 366-377, February 2008.
    document

  2329. Feedback quantization for linear precoded spatial multiplexing
    C. Simon; G. Leus;
    EURASIP J. Adv. Signal Proc.,
    Volume 2008, pp. 1-13, 2008. DOI: 10.1155/2008/683030
    document

  2330. Blind Source Separation: The Location of Local Minima in the Case of Finitely Many Samples
    A. Leshem; A.J. van der Veen;
    IEEE Tr. Signal Processing,
    Volume 56, Issue 9, pp. 4340-4353, September 2008. ISSN 1053-587X.
    document

  2331. Fundamental imaging limits of radio telescope arrays
    S. Wijnholds; A.J. van der Veen;
    IEEE J. Sel. Topics in Signal Processing,
    Volume 2, Issue 5, pp. 613-623, October 2008. ISSN 1932-4553.
    document

  2332. Parametric high resolution techniques for radio astronomical imaging
    C. Ben-David; A. Leshem;
    IEEE J. Sel. Topics in Signal Processing,
    Volume 2, Issue 5, pp. 670-684, October 2008. ISSN 1932-4553.
    document

  2333. Minimum Mean Squared Error Equalization for Second-Order Volterra Systems
    C. Krall; K. Witrisal; G. Leus; H. Koeppl;
    IEEE Tr. Signal Processing,
    Volume 56, Issue 10, pp. 4729-4737, October 2008.
    document

  2334. Low-Complexity Block Turbo Equalization for OFDM Systems in Time-Varying Channels
    K. Fang; L. Rugini; G. Leus;
    IEEE Tr. Signal Processing,
    Volume 56, Issue 11, pp. 5555-5566, November 2008. ISSN: 1053-587X. DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2008.929129
    document

  2335. Multiband OFDM for covert acoustic communications
    G. Leus; P.A. van Walree;
    IEEE J. Sel. Areas Comm.,
    Volume 26, Issue 9, December 2008.

  2336. A message from the outgoing Editor-in-Chief
    A.J. van der Veen;
    IEEE Tr. Signal Proc.,
    Volume 56, Issue 12, pp. 5745-5745, December 2008. ISSN 1053-587X.
    document

  2337. Introduction to the special issue on signal processing for space research and radio astronomy
    A. Leshem; J. Christou; B. Jeffs; E. Kuruoglu; A.J. van der Veen;
    IEEE J. Sel. Topics in Signal Processing,
    Volume 2, Issue 5, pp. 609-612, October 2008.
    document

  2338. A Single-Photon Avalanche Diode Array for Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy
    D.E. Schwartz; E. Charbon; K.L. Shephard;
    IEEE J. Solid State Circuits,
    Volume 43, Issue 11, pp. 2546-2557, November 2008.
    document

  2339. A 128x128 Single-Photon Image Sensor with Column-level 10-bit Time-to-Digital Converter Array
    C. Niclass; C. Favi; T. Kluter; M.A. Gersbach; E. Charbon;
    IEEE J. Solid State Circuits,
    Volume 43, Issue 12, pp. 2977-2989, December 2008.
    document

  2340. Link Budget Analysis and Modeling of Short-Range UWB Channels
    Z. Irahhauten; J. Dacuna; G.J.M. Janssen; H. Nikookar; A.G. Yarovoy; L.P. Ligthart;
    IEEE Tr. Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 56, Issue 8, part 2, pp. 2730-2738, August 2008.
    document

  2341. Integration of a Pulse Generator on Chip Into a Compact Ultrawideband Antenna
    A.V. Vorobyov; S. Bagga; A.G. Yarovoy; S.A.P. Haddad; W.A. Serdijn; J.R.Long; Z. Irahhauten; L.P. Ligthart;
    IEEE Tr. Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 56, Issue 3, pp. 858-868, March 2008.
    document

  2342. Cooperative Game Theory and the Gaussian Interference Channel
    A. Leshem; E. Zehavi;
    IEEE J. Sel. Areas Comm.,
    Volume 26, Issue 7, pp. 1078-1088, 2008.
    document

  2343. On the Estimation of Complex Speech DFT Coefficients Without Assuming Independent Real and Imaginary Parts
    Jan S. Erkelens; Richard C. Hendriks; Richard Heusdens;
    IEEE Signal Processing Letters,
    Volume 15, pp. 213-216, 2008.
    document • software

  2344. Tracking of nonstationary noise based on data-driven recursive noise power estimation
    Jan S. Erkelens; Richard Heusdens;
    IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech Language Proc.,
    Volume 16, Issue 6, pp. 1112-1123, August 2008.
    document

  2345. Noise Tracking using DFT Domain Subspace Decompositions
    Richard C. Hendriks; Jesper Jensen; Richard Heusdens;
    IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech Language Proc.,
    Volume 16, Issue 3, pp. 541-553, March 2008.

  2346. Design of high-speed two-stage cascode-compensated operational amplifiers based on settling time and open-loop parameters
    Aminzadeh, H., Danaie, M.; R. Lotfi;
    Integration, the VLSI Journal,
    Volume 41, Issue 2, pp. 183-192, 2008.

  2347. On the power efficiency of cascode compensation over miller compensation in two-stage operational amplifiers
    Aminzadeh, H.; R. Lotfi;
    Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers,
    Volume 17, Issue 1, pp. 1-13, 2008.

  2348. A sub-1-V high-gain single-stage operational amplifier
    Alireza Zabihian, S.; R. Lotfi;
    IEICE Electronics Express,
    Volume 5, Issue 7, pp. 211-216, 2008.

  2349. Low-cost area-efficient low-dropout regulators using MOSFET capacitors
    Aminzadeh, H.; R. Lotfi; Mafinezhad, K.;
    IEICE Electronics Express,
    Volume 5, Issue 16, pp. 610-616, 2008.

  2350. 0.75 V micro-power SI memory cell with feedthrough error reduction
    C. Sawigun; W.A. Serdijn;
    Electronics Letters,
    Volume 44, Issue 9, April 24 2008.
    document

  2351. Guest Editorial Special Issue on Multifunctional Circuits and Systems for Future Generations of Wireless Communications?II
    Tasic, A.; Serdijn, W.A.; Larson, L.E.;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs,
    Volume 55, Issue 4, pp. 297-298, April 2008.
    document

  2352. Guest Editorial Special Issue on Multifunctional Circuits and Systems for Future Generations of Wireless Communications?I
    Tasic, A.; Serdijn, W.A.; Larson, L.E.;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs,
    Volume 55, Issue 3, pp. 207-208, March 2008.
    document

  2353. Integration of a Pulse Generator on Chip into a Miniaturized Ultra-Wideband Antenna
    A.V. Vorobyov; S. Bagga; A.G. Yarovoy; S.A.P. Haddad; Z. Irahhauten; W.A. Serdijn; J.R. Long; L.P. Ligthart;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    March 2008.
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  2354. Vertical silicon-on-nothing FET: Threshold voltage calculation using compact capacitance model
    B. Svilicic; V. Jovanovic; T. Suligoj;
    Solid-State Electronics,
    Volume 52, Issue 10, pp. 1505-1511, Oct. 2008.

  2355. Silicon nitride thin films deposited by electron cyclotron resonance plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition for micromechanical system applications
    C. Biasotto; J.A. Diniz; A.M. Daltrini; S.A. Moshkalev; M.J.R. Monteiro;
    Thin Solid Films,
    Volume 516, pp. 7777-7782, 2008.

  2356. Aluminum nitride for heatspreading in RF IC's
    L. La Spina; E. Iborra; H. Schellevis; M. Clement; J. Olivares; L. K. Nanver;
    Solid-State Electronics,
    Volume 52, Issue 9, pp. 1359-1363, 2008.

  2357. Single-Grain Si Thin Film Transistors SPICE Model, Analog and RF Circuit Applications
    A. Baiano; M. Danesh; N. Saputra; R. Ishihara; J. Long; W. Metselaar; C.I.M. Beenakker; N. Karaki; Y. Hiroshima; S. Inoue;
    Solid State Electronics,
    Volume 52, Issue 9, pp. 1345-1352, Aug. 2008.

  2358. Mechanics of Adhesively Bonded Flip-Chip-on-Flex Assemblies. Part II: Effect of Bump Coplanarity on Manufacturability and Durability of Non-Conducting Adhesive Assemblies
    D. Farley; A. Dasgupta; J. Caers;
    Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology,
    Volume 22, pp. 1757-1780, Sep. 2008.

  2359. Reduction of surface roughness of a silicon chip for advanced nanocalorimetry
    L. La Spina; Denis Ovchinnikov; Wim H.A. Wien; Alexander W. van Herwaarden; Egbert J.G. Goudena; Joachim Loos; Lis K. Nanver;
    Sensors and Actuators A,
    Volume 144, pp. 403-409, 2008.

  2360. Mechanics of Adhesively Bonded Flip-Chip-on-Flex Assemblies. Part I: Durability of Anisotropically Conductive Adhesive Interconnects
    J. Haase; D. Farley; P. Iyer; P. Baumgartner; A. Dasgupta; J.F.J. Caers;
    Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology,
    Volume 22, pp. 1733-1756, 2008.

  2361. Single-Grain Si TFTs and Circuits Fabricated Through Advanced Excimer-Laser Crystallization
    R. Ishihara; Vikas Rana; Ming He; Y. Hiroshima; S. Inoue; Wim Metselaar; Kees Beenakker;
    Solid State Electronics,
    Volume 52, pp. 353-358, 2008.

  2362. Location and Crystallographic Orientation Control of Si Grains Through Combined Metal Induced Lateral Crystallization and micro-Czochralski process
    Chen Tao; Ryoichi Ishihara; J. W .Metselaar; C.I.M Beenakker; Meng-Yue Wu;
    JJAP,
    Volume 47, Issue 3, pp. 1880-1883, 2008.

  2363. Vertical Silicon-on-Nothing FET: Subthreshold Slope Calculation Using Compact Capacitance Model
    B. Svilicic; V. Jovanovic; T. Suligoj;
    Informacije MIDEM Journal of Microelectronics Electronic Components and Materials,
    Volume 38, Issue 1, pp. 1-4, 2008.

  2364. Interfacial Adhesion Study for SAM Induced Covalent Bonded Copper-EMC Interface by Molecular Dynamics Simulation
    C. K. Y. Wong; H. Fan; M. M. F. Yuen;
    IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology, Part A: Packaging Technologies,
    Volume 31, pp. 297-308, 2008.

  2365. Continuous deep reactive ion etching of tapered via holes for three-dimensional integration
    R. Li; .Y Lamy; W.F.A. Besling; F. Roozeboom; P.M. Sarro;
    J. Micromech. Microeng.,
    Volume 18, 2008.

  2366. Enabling low-distortion varactors for adaptive transmitters
    C. Huang; L. C. N. de Vreede; F. Sarubbi; M. Popadic; K. Buisman; J. Qureshi; M. Mar.etti; A. Akhnoukh; T. L. M. Scholtes; L. E. Larson; L. K. Nanver;
    IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 56, Issue 5, pp. 1149-1163, May 2008.

  2367. An Assessment of angstrom micro-Czochralski, Single-Grain Silicon Thin-Film Transistor Technology for Large-Area, Sensor and 3-D Electronic Integation
    N. Saputra; M. Danesh; A. Baiano; R. Ishihara; J.R. Long; N. Karaki; S. Inoue;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 43, Issue 7, pp. 1563-1576, Jul. 2008.

  2368. An Assessment of �_-Czochralski, Single-Grain Silicon Thin-Film Transistor Technology for Large-Area, Sensor and 3-D Electronic Integration
    N. Saputra; M. Danesh; A. Baiano; R. Ishihara; J. R. Long; N. Karaki; S. Inoue;
    IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits,
    Volume 43, Issue 7, pp. 1563-1576, 2008.

  2369. A 67 dBm OIP3 Multistacked Junction Varactor
    C. Huang; K. Buisman; L. K. Nanver; F. Sarubbi; M. Popadic; T. L. M. Scholtes; H. Schellevis; L. E. Larson; L. C. N. de Vreede;
    IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters,
    Volume 18, Issue 11, pp. 749-751, 2008.

  2370. Accurate SIMS doping profiling of aluminum-doped solid-phase epitaxy silicon islands
    Y. Civale; L.K. Nanver; S.G. Alberici; A. Gammon; I. Kelly;
    Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters,
    Volume 11, Issue 4, pp. H74-H76, 2008.

  2371. On the Spherical Approximation of the Geopotential in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics and the use of a Spherical Coordinate System
    Ramses van der Toorn; and Joseph T.F. Zimmerman;
    Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics,
    Volume 102, Issue 4, pp. 349-371, 2008.

  2372. Formation of Location-Controlled Germanium Grains by Excimer Laser
    A. Baiano; R. Ishihara; J. van d. Cingel; K. Beenakker;
    ECS Transactions Thin Film Transistors,
    Volume 13, Issue 9, Oct. 2008.

  2373. Hyrogenation Assisted Lateral Micromachining of (111) Silicon Wafers
    S. Darbari; S. Azimi; S. Mohajerzadeh; A. Sammak; N. Izadi; S. Famini;
    IEEE Journal of Microelectromechanical systems,
    Volume 17,, Issue 6, pp. 1489-1494, Dec. 2008.

  2374. Reliability Analysis of Single Grain Si TFT using 2D Simulation
    A. Baiano; J. Tan; R. Ishihara; K. Beenakker;
    ECS Transactions Thin Film Transistors,
    Volume 13, Issue 9, Oct. 2008.

  2375. Investigation of Local Electrical Properties of Coincidence-Site-Lattice Boundaries in Location-Controlled Silicon Islands Using Scanning Capacitance Microscopy
    N. Matsuki; R. Ishihara; A. Baiano; K. Beenakker;
    Applied Physics Letters,
    Volume 93, Issue 6, Aug. 2008.

  2376. An ultra low power CMOS pA/V transconductor and its application to wavelet filters
    Peterson R. Agostinho; Sandro A. P. Haddad; Jader A. De Lima; Wouter A. Serdijn;
    Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing,
    2008. DOI: 10.1007/s10470-008-9193-6, invited paper.
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  2377. Penetrating 3D imaging at 4 and 25 meter range using a submillimeter-wave radar
    K. B. Cooper; R. J. Dengler; N. Llombart; T. Bryllert; G. Chattopadhyay; E. Schlecht; J. Gill; C. Lee; A. Skalare; I. Mehdi; P. H. Siegel;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 56, Issue 12, pp. 2771-2778, December 2008.
    document

  2378. Leaky wave enhanced feed arrays for the improvement of the edge of coverage gain in multi beam antennas
    N. Llombart; A. Neto; G. Gerini; M. Bonnedal; P. de Maagt;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 56, Issue 5, pp. 1280-1291, May 2008.
    document

  2379. Leaky-wave slot array antenna fed by a dual reflector system
    M. Ettorre; A. Neto; G. Gerini; S. Maci;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 56, Issue 10, pp. 3143-3149, October 2008.
    document

  2380. Impact of mutual coupling in leaky wave enhanced imaging arrays
    N. Llombart; A. Neto; G. Gerini; M. Bonnedal; P. de Maagt;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 56, Issue 4, pp. 1201-1206, April 2008.
    document

  2381. Low-voltage, low-power, low switching error, class-AB switched current memory cell
    C. Sawigun; W.A. Serdijn;
    Electronics Letters,
    Volume 44, Issue 12, June 5 2008.
    document

  2382. A novel interface circuit for grounded capacitive sensors with feedfrward-based active shielding
    F. Reverter; X. Li; G.C.M. Meijer;
    Measurement Science and Technology,
    Volume 19, Issue 2, pp. 1-5, 2008.

  2383. Degradation of CMOS image sensors in deep-submicron technology due to gamma-radiation
    Rao padmakumar; X. Wang; A.J.P. Theuwissen;
    Solid-State Electronics,
    Volume 52, pp. 1407-1413, 2008.

  2384. Features and design constraints for an optimized SC front-end circuit for capacitive sensors with a wide dynamic range
    A. Heidary; G.C.M. Meijer;
    IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits,
    pp. 1609-1616, 2008.

  2385. Tribler: a social-based peer-to-peer system
    J.A. Pouwelse; P.J. Garbacki; J. Wang; A. Bakker; J. Yang; A. Iosup; D.H.J. Epema; M.J.T. Reinders; {van Steen}, MR; HJ Sips;
    Concurrency and Computation: Practice & Experience,
    Volume 20, Issue 2, pp. 127-138, 2008.

  2386. An integrated interface circuit with a capacitance-to-voltage converter as front-end for grounded capacitive sensors
    A. Heidary; G.C.M. Meijer;
    Measurement Science and Technology,
    Volume 20, pp. 1-7, 2008.

  2387. Interface electronics for a CMOS electrothermal frequency-locked-loop
    C. Zhang; K.A.A. Makinwa;
    IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits,
    Volume 43, Issue 7, pp. 1603-1608, 2008.

  2388. Correction of low order aberrations using continuous deformable mirrors
    G.V. Vdovin; O.A. Soloviev; A.A. Samokhin; M. Loktev;
    Optics Express,
    Volume 16, Issue 5, pp. 2859-2866, 2008.

  2389. Influence of terrestrial cosmic rays on the reliability of CCD image sensors-pat 2:experiments at elevated temperature
    A.J.P. Theuwissen;
    IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices,
    Volume 55, Issue 9, pp. 2324-2328, 2008.

  2390. CMOS image sensors:state-of-the-art
    A.J.P. Theuwissen;
    Solid-State Electronics,
    Volume 52, pp. 1401-1406, 2008.

  2391. CCD structures implemented in standard 0.18 micrometer CMOS technology
    Rao padmakumar; X. Wang; A.J.P. Theuwissen;
    Electronics Letters,
    Volume 44, Issue 8, pp. 548-549, 2008.

  2392. Field emission for cantilever sensors
    C.K. Yang; A.J. le Fèbre; G. Pandraud; EW.J.M. van der Drift; P.J. French;
    Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology. Part B: Microelectronics and Nanometer Structures,
    Volume 26, Issue 3, pp. 927-933, 2008.

  2393. Fabrication and characterization of a PECVD SiC evanescent wave optical sensor
    G. Pandraud; P.J. French; P.M. Sarro;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume 142, pp. 61-66, 2008.

  2394. Optimal implementation of a microspectrometer based on a single flat diffraction grating
    S. Grabarnik; A. Emadi; E.A. Sokolova; G.V. Vdovin; R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    Applied Optics,
    Volume 47, pp. 2082-2090, 2008.

  2395. A high-performance interface for grounded conductivity sensors
    X. Li; G.C.M. Meijer;
    Measurement Science and Technology,
    Volume 19, Issue 11, pp. 1-7, 2008.

  2396. Read-out calibration of a SOI capacitive transducer using the pull-in voltage
    L. Mol; L.A. Rocha; E. Cretu; R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering,
    Volume 18, Issue 6, 2008.

  2397. Negative offset operation of four-transistor CMOS image pixels for increased well capacity and suppressed dark current
    B. Mheen; Y. Joo-song; A.J.P. Theuwissen;
    IEEE Electron Device Letters,
    Volume 29, Issue 4, pp. 347-349, 2008.

  2398. Fabrication of an imaging diffraction grating for use in a MEMS-based optical microspectrograph
    S. Grabarnik; A. Emadi; H.W. Wu; G. de Graaf; G.V. Vdovin; R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering,
    Volume 18, Issue 6, 2008.

  2399. High-resolution microspectrometer with an aberration-correcting planar grating
    S. Grabarnik; A. Emadi; H.W. Wu; G. de Graaf; R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    Applied Optics,
    Volume 47, pp. 6442-6447, 2008.

  2400. Fabrication and optical characterization of nano-hole arrays in gold and gold/palladium films on glass
    O.M. Piciu; M.W. Docter; M. van der KrogtC; Y. Garini; I.T. Young; P.M. Sarro; A. Bossche;
    Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Proceedings. Part N: Journal of Nanoengineering and Nanosystems,
    Volume 221, Issue 3, pp. 107-114, 2008.

  2401. Size-dependent trajectories of DNA macromolecules due to insulative dielectrophoresis in submicrometer-deep fluidic channels
    G.O.F. Parikesit; A.P. Markesteijn; O.M. Piciu; A. Bossche; J. Westerweel; I.T. Young; Y. Garini;
    Biomicrofluidics,
    Volume 2, Issue 024103, pp. 1-14, 2008.

  2402. A comparison of two-and four-electrode techniques to characterize blood impedance for the frequency range of 100 Hz to 100 MHz
    Z.Y. Chang; G.A.M. Pop; G.C.M. Meijer;
    IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering,
    Volume 55, Issue 3, pp. 1247-1249, 2008.

  2403. A current-feedback instrumentation amplifier with 5 microvolts offset for bidirectional high-side current-sensing
    J.F. Witte; J.H. Huijsing; K.A.A. Makinwa;
    IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits,
    Volume 43, Issue 12, pp. 2769-2775, 2008.

  2404. Integration of a pulse generator on chip into a compact ultrawideband antenna
    AV Vorobyov; S Bagga; A Yarovoy; SAP Haddad; WA Serdijn; JR Long; Z Irahhauten; LP Ligthart;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 56, Issue 3, pp. 858--868, 2008.

  2405. Link budget analysis and modeling of short-range UWB channels
    Z Irahhauten; J Dacuna; GJM Janssen; H Nikookar; A Yarovoy; LP Ligthart;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 56, Issue 8, pp. 2730--2738, 2008.

  2406. Opsporen van kabels en leidingen in de grond
    EC Slob; A Yarovoy;
    Land + Water: vakblad voor civiel- en milieutechniek,
    Volume 48, Issue 5, pp. 42--43, 2008.

  2407. Weighted near-field focusing in an array-based GPR
    TG Savelyev; A Yarovoy; LP Ligthart;
    Radio Science,
    Volume 43, pp. 1--9, 2008. citation remark RS411.

  2408. Design and performance of a room-temperature TeraHertz detection array for real-time imaging
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    IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics,
    Volume 14, Issue 2, pp. 363-369, 2008.

  2409. A thermopile detector array with scaled TE elements for use in an integrated IR microspectrometer
    H.W. Wu; S. Grabarnik; A. Emadi; G. de Graaf; R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering,
    Volume 18, Issue 6, 2008.

  2410. Nano-structure or nano-system:opportunities and pitfalls
    P.J. French; C.K. Yang;
    Sensors & Transducers,
    pp. 1-9, 2008.

  2411. Comparison of generalized differential quadrature and galerkin methods for the analysis of micro-electro-mechanical coupled systems
    H. Sadeghian Marnani; G. Rezazadeh;
    Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation,
    pp. 68850E-68850E8, 2008.

  2412. Investigation of Droplet Size Distributions and Drizzle Formation Using a New Trajectory Ensemble Model. Part I: Model Description and First Results in a Nonmixing Limit
    Pinsky, M.; Magaritz, L.; Khain, A.; Krasnov, O. A.; Sterkin, A.;
    Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences,
    Volume 65, Issue 7, pp. 2064-2086, 2008. DOI: 10.1175/2007JAS2486.1
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  2413. Advances in Continuously Profiling the Thermodynamic State of the Boundary Layer: Integration of Measurements and Methods
    Lohnert, U.; Crewell, S.; Krasnov, O. A.; O'Connor, E.; Russchenberg, H. W. J.;
    Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology,
    Volume 25, Issue 8, pp. 1251-1266, 2008. DOI: 10.1175/2007JTECHA961.1
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  2414. Combined Observational and Model Investigations of the Z-LWC Relationship in Stratocumulus Clouds
    Khain, A.; Pinsky, M.; Magaritz, L.; Krasnov, O.; and Russchenberg, H.W.J.;
    Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology,
    Volume 47, Issue 2, pp. 591-606, February 2008. DOI: 10.1175/2007JAMC1701.1
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  2415. Active Harmonic Load–Pull With Realistic Wideband Communications Signals
    Marchetti, Mauro; Pelk, Marco J.; Buisman, Koen; Neo, W. C. Edmund; Spirito, Marco; de Vreede, Leo C. N.;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 56, Issue 12, pp. 2979-2988, 2008. DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2008.2007330

  2416. A 67 dBm $OIP_3$ Multistacked Junction Varactor
    Huang, Cong; Buisman, Koen; Nanver, Lis K.; Sarubbi, Francesco; Popadic, Milos; Scholtes, Tom L. M.; Schellevis, Hugo; Larson, Lawrence E.; de Vreede, Leo C. N.;
    IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters,
    Volume 18, Issue 11, pp. 749-751, 2008. DOI: 10.1109/LMWC.2008.2005234

  2417. A High-Efficiency 100-W GaN Three-Way Doherty Amplifier for Base-Station Applications
    Pelk, Marco J.; Neo, W. C. Edmund; Gajadharsing, John R.; Pengelly, Raymond S.; de Vreede, Leo C. N.;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 56, Issue 7, pp. 1582-1591, 2008. DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2008.924364

  2418. Enabling Low-Distortion Varactors for Adaptive Transmitters
    Huang, Cong; de Vreede, Leo C. N.; Sarubbi, Francesco; Popadic, Milos; Buisman, Koen; Qureshi, Jawad; Marchetti, Mauro; Akhnoukh, Atef; Scholtes, Tom L. M.; Larson, Lawrence E.; Nanver, Lis K.;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 56, Issue 5, pp. 1149-1163, 2008. DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2008.921679

  2419. Measuring and extraction of biological information on new handheld biochip-based microsystem
    Lopes, Paulo AC; Germano, José; de Almeida, Teresa Mendes; Sousa, Leonel Augusto; Piedade, Moisés S; Cardoso, Filipe Arroyo; Ferreira, Hugo Alexandre; Freitas, Paulo P;
    IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement,
    Volume 59, Issue 1, pp. 56-62, 2008.

  2420. Detection of 130 nm magnetic particles by a portable electronic platform using spin valve and magnetic tunnel junction sensors
    Cardoso, Filipe Arroyo; Germano, J; Ferreira, R; Cardoso, S; Martins, VC; Freitas, PP; Piedade, MS; Sousa, L;
    Journal of Applied Physics,
    Volume 103, Issue 7, pp. 07A310, 2008.

  2421. Heat-assisted magnetic probe recording onto a thin film with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy
    Onoue, T.; Siekman, M.; Abelmann, L.; Lodder, J. C.;
    Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics,
    Volume 41, Issue 15, 2008. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/41/15/155008
    Keywords: ... Crystallography; Magnetic anisotropy; Magnetic materials; Magnetic recording; Thick films; Capacitive currents; Current source; Cylindrical domains; Demagnetizing fields; External fields; Film-thickness; Heating processes; Magnetic probe recording; Perpendicular magnetic anisotropy; Perpendicular medium; Magnetic properties.

    Abstract: ... The possibility of magnetic probe recording into a continuous perpendicular medium is discussed. By applying a current from the tip to the medium, a very localized area can be heated and bits as small as 80 nm in diameter could be written. This value is close to the calculated minimum diameter of reversed cylindrical domains in our perpendicular medium. A current can be injected directly from the tip to the medium by means of a current source, or one can use capacitive currents. We prefer the first method, since the current, and therefore the heating process, can be controlled more precisely. The energy required to write a bit is in the order of 1 nJ. Calculations show that most of the heat is dissipated at the tip end. Demagnetizing fields of the surrounding material play an important role and are so strong that bits can be written without applying an external field. By decreasing the film thickness, the demagnetizing fields are reduced, and selective overwriting of previously written bits could be demonstrated. © 2008 IOP Publishing Ltd.

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  2422. Field emission at nanometer distances for high-resolution positioning
    Le F{\`e}bre, A. J.; Abelmann, L.; Lodder, J. C.;
    Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B: Microelectronics and Nanometer Structures,
    Volume 26, Issue 2, pp. 724 – 729, 2008. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1116/1.2894898
    Keywords: ... Annealing; Atomic force microscopy; Silicon; Titanium compounds; High resolution positioning; Nanometer distances; Field emission.

    Abstract: ... The dependence of the field emission effect on distance is applied for displacement sensing and high-resolution positioning. Silicon atomic force microscopy probes were used as a field emission source by applying voltages up to 400 V between this probe and a counter-electrode sample consisting of TiW sputtered on a silicon wafer. From current-voltage characteristics measured for distances varying from 50 to 950 nm, values for the field enhancement factor were determined which show a dependence on the electrode separation. This dependence can be correctly described by a model the authors developed using finite-element calculations and is determined by the emitter geometry and tip radius. Feedback to the probe position was used to maintain a constant current to apply this distance dependence for positioning. When increasing the applied voltage from 5 to 40 V for a constant current of 3 nA, the probe position is raised ∼90 nm. The nonlinear sensitivity of this positioning method is determined by the varying field enhancement and can be fitted by the same calculated model. Using feedback, the field emitter can be positioned with high lateral resolution and scanned over a conducting surface. Increasing the bias voltage from 3 to 50 V results in an increase in the emitter-sample distance and a decrease in lateral resolution. Damage to the scanned surface has to be prevented by using a current-limiting resistor and by annealing the probe and sample under ultra high vacuum conditions before use. © 2008 American Vacuum Society.

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  2423. 2006 Best Paper Award Recipients: A message from the Editor-in-Chief
    A.J. van der Veen;
    IEEE Tr. Signal Proc.,
    Volume 55, Issue 6, pt.1, pp. 2373-2374, June 2007. ISSN 1053-587X. DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2007.896841
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  2424. Algebraic Algorithms to Separate Overlapping Secondary Surveillance Radar Replies
    N. Petrochilos; A.J. van der Veen;
    IEEE Tr. Signal Proc.,
    Volume 55, Issue 7 pt.2, pp. 3746-3759, July 2007. ISSN 1053-587X. DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2007.894248
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  2425. Self Calibration for the LOFAR Radio Astronomical Array
    S. van der Tol; B. Jeffs; A.J. van der Veen;
    IEEE Tr. Signal Processing,
    Volume 55, Issue 9, pp. 4497-4510, September 2007. ISSN 1053-587X. DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2007.896243
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  2426. Pilot-Assisted Time-Varying Channel Estimation for OFDM Systems
    Z. Tang; R.C. Cannizzaro; G. Leus; P. Banelli;
    IEEE Tr. Signal Proc.,
    Volume 55, Issue 5 pt.2, pp. 2226-2238, May 2007. DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2007.893198, ISSN 1053-587X
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  2427. Time-Multiplexed Training for Time-Selective Channels
    Z. Tang; G. Leus;
    IEEE Signal Processing Letters,
    Volume 14, Issue 9, pp. 585-588, September 2007. ISSN 1070-9908.
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  2428. Interpolation-Based Multi-Mode Precoding for MIMO-OFDM Systems with Limited Feedback
    N. Khaled; B. Mondal; G. Leus; R.W. Heath; and F. Petre;
    IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications,
    Volume 6, Issue 3, pp. 1003-1013, March 2007.
    document

  2429. A Decorrelating Multiuser Receiver for Transmit-Reference UWB Systems
    Q.H. Dang; A.J. van der Veen;
    IEEE J. Sel. Topics in Signal Processing,
    Volume 1, Issue 3, pp. 431-442, October 2007.
    document

  2430. Introduction to the Issue on Performance Limits of Ultra-Wideband Systems
    B. Sadler; D. Goeckel; M.L. Honig; A.J. van der Veen; Z. Xu;
    IEEE J. Sel. Topics in Signal Processing,
    Volume 1, Issue 3, pp. 337-339, October 2007.
    document

  2431. Minimum mean-square error estimation of discrete Fourier coefficients with generalized Gamma priors.
    Jan S. Erkelens; Richard C. Hendriks; Richard Heusdens; Jesper Jensen;
    IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech Language Proc.,
    Volume 15, Issue 6, pp. 1741-1752, August 2007.
    document • software • software

  2432. An MMSE Estimator for Speech Enhancement under a Combined Stochastic-Deterministic Speech Model
    Richard C. Hendriks; Richard Heusdens; Jesper Jensen;
    IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech Language Proc.,
    Volume 15, Issue 2, pp. 406-415, February 2007.
    document

  2433. MAP estimators for speech enhancement under normal and Rayleigh inverse Gaussian distributions
    Richard C. Hendriks; Rainer Martin;
    IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech Language Proc.,
    Volume 15, Issue 3, pp. 918-927, March 2007.
    document

  2434. A data-driven approach to optimizing spectral speech enhancement methods for various error criteria
    Jan S. Erkelens; Jesper Jensen; Richard Heusdens;
    Speech Communication, Special Issue on Speech Enhancement,
    Volume 49, pp. 530-541, July 2007.

  2435. Improved subspace-based single-channel speech enhancement using super-Gaussian priors
    Jesper Jensen; Richard Heusdens;
    IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech Language Proc.,
    Volume 15, Issue 3, pp. 862-872, March 2007.

  2436. High-Resolution Spherical Quantization of Sinusoidal Parameters
    P.E.L. Korten; Jesper Jensen; Richard Heusdens;
    IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech Language Proc.,
    Volume 15, Issue 3, pp. 966-981, March 2007.

  2437. Design guidelines for high-speed two-stage CMOS operational amplifiers
    Aminzadeh, H.; R. Lotfi;
    Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering,
    Volume 32, Issue 2 C, pp. 75-87, 2007.

  2438. Agglomeration of amorphous silicon film with high energy density excimer laser irradiation
    Ming He; Ryoichi Ishihara; Wim Metselaar; Kees Beenakker;
    Thin Solid Films,
    Volume 515, pp. 2872-2878, 2007.

  2439. Suppression of crystalline growth in silicon films deposited from hydrogen diluted silane using a layer-by-layer approach
    G. van Elzakker; F.D. Tichelaar; M. Zeman;
    Thin Solid Films 515,
    pp. 7460, 2007.

  2440. Eyring acceleration model in thick nitride/oxide dielectrics
    S. B. Evseev;
    Microelectronics Reliability,
    Volume 47, Issue 4-5, pp. 748-751, Apr. 2007.

  2441. A dual-side fabrication method for silicon plate springs with high out-of plane stiffness
    S.L.Paalvast; H.W. van Zeijl; J.Su; P.M. Sarro; J. van Eijk;
    J. Micromech. and Microeng.,
    Volume 17, Issue 7, pp. 197-203, 2007.

  2442. Deposition of sacrificial silicon oxide layers by electron cyclotron resonance plasma
    C. Biasotto; A. M. Daltrini; R. C. Teixeira; F. A. Boscoli; J. A. Diniz; S. A. Moshkalev; I. Doi;
    Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B: Microelectronics and Nanometer Structures,
    Volume 25, Issue 4, pp. 1166-1170, Jul. 2007.

  2443. Microstructure characterization of location-controlled Si-islands crystallized by excimer laser in the micro-Czochralski (grain filter) process
    R. Ishihara; D. Danciu; F. Tichelaar; M. He; Y. Hiroshima; S. Inoue; T. Shimoda; J.W. Metselaar; C.I.M. Beenakker;
    Journal of Crystal Growth,
    Volume 299, Issue 2, pp. 316-321, Feb. 2007.

  2444. An in-plane thermal unimorph using confined polymers
    G.K.Lau; T.Chu Duc; J.F.L Goosen; F. van Keulen; P.M. Sarro;
    J. Micromech. and Microeng.,
    Volume 17, Issue 7, pp. 174-183, 2007.

  2445. Large Polycrystalline Silicon Grains Prepared by Excimer Laser Crystallization of Sputtered Amorphous Silicon Film with Process Temperature at 100oC
    Ming He; Ryoichi Ishihara; Ellen J. J. Neihof; Yvonne van Andel; Hugo Schellevis; Wim Metselaar; Kees Beenakker;
    Japanese Journal of Applied Physics,
    Volume 46, Issue 3B, pp. 1245-1249, Mar. 2007.

  2446. A Monte-Carlo simulation of the effect of surface morphology on the fracture of nanobeams
    Tuncay Alan; Alan Zehnder;
    Int. J. Frac,
    2007.

  2447. Bulk-Micromachined Test Structure for Fast and Reliable Determination of the Lateral Thermal Conductivity of Thin Films
    L. La Spina; A. W. van Herwaarden; H. Schellevis; W. H. A. Wien; N. Nenadovic; L. K. Nanver;
    IEEE/ASME Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems,
    Volume 6, Issue 3, pp. 675-683, 2007.

  2448. A Monolithic Low-Distortion Low-Loss Silicon-on-Glass Varactor-Tuned Filter With Optimized Biasing
    K. Buisman; L. C. N. de Vreede; L. E. Larson; M. Spirito; A. Akhnoukh; Y. Lin; X. Liu; L. K. Nanver;
    IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters,
    Volume 17, Issue 1, pp. 58-60, Jan. 2007.

  2449. High Performance Single Grain Si TFTs Inside a Location-Controlled Grain by Micro-Czochralski Process with Capping Layer
    Rana Vikas; Ryoichi Ishihara; Yasushi Hiroshima; Daisuke Abe; Satoshi Inoue; Tatsuya Shimoda; J.W. Metselaar; C.I.M. Beenakker;
    IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices,
    Volume 54, Issue 1, pp. 124-130, Jan. 2007.

  2450. Deep vertical etching of silicon wafers using a hydrogenation assisted reactive ion etching
    A. Sammak; S. Azimi; N. Izadi; B. Khadem Hosseinieh; S. Mohajerzadeh;
    IEEE Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems,
    Volume 16, Issue 4, pp. 912-918, Aug. 2007.

  2451. Piezoresistive cantilever beam for force sensing in two dimensions
    T.Chu Duc; J.F. Creemer; P.M. Sarro;
    IEEE Sensors,
    Volume 7, pp. 96-104, 2007.

  2452. 2-D MMI devices based on integrated hollow ARROW waveguides
    R.Bernini; E.De Nuccio; F.Brescia; A.Minardo; L.Zeni; P.M. Sarro;
    IEEE J.of Selected Topics Quantum Electronics,
    Volume 13, Issue 2, pp. 194-201, 2007.

  2453. Threshold Current for the Onset of Kirk Effect in Bipolar Transistors With a Fully Depleted Nonuniformly Doped Collector
    R. van der Toorn;
    IEEE Electron Device Letters,
    Volume 28, Issue 1, pp. 54-57, Jan. 2007.

  2454. Microstructure of Hydrogenated Silicon Thin Films Prepared From Silane Diluted with Hydrogen
    J. Mallerovic; P. Zutta; G. van Elzakker; M. Zeman; M. Mikula;
    Applied Surface Science,
    2007.

  2455. Simulation of twin boundary effect on characteristics of single-grain silicon thin film transistors
    F. Yan; P. Migliorato; R. Ishihara;
    Applied Physics Letters,
    Volume 91, pp. 073509, 2007.

  2456. SiGe growth on patterned Si(001) substrates: Surface evolution and evidence of modified island coarsening
    J.J. Zhang; M. Stoffel; A. Rastrelli; O.G. Schmidt; V. Jovanovic; L.K. Nanver;
    Applied Physics Letters,
    Volume 91, 2007.

  2457. Powerful polymeric thermal micro-actuator with embedded silicon microstructure
    G.K. Lau; .F.L Goosen; F. van Keulen; T. Chu Duc; P.M. Sarro;
    Applied Physics Letters,
    Volume 90, Issue 21, 2007.

  2458. Polymer constraint effect for electro-thermal bimorph microactuators
    T. Chu Duc; G.K. Lau; P.M. Sarro;
    Appl. Phys. Lett.,
    Volume 91, 2007.

  2459. Fabrication of in situ ultrathin anodic aluminum oxide layers for nanostructuring on silicon substrate
    B. Yan; H.T.M. Pham; Y. Ma; Y. Zhuang; P.M. Sarro;
    Appl. Phys. Lett.,
    Volume 91, pp. 101902.1-3, 2007.

  2460. Design of Adaptive Multimode RF Front-End Circuits
    A. Tasic; S.-T. Lim; W.A. Serdijn; J.R. Long;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 42, Issue 2, pp. 313-322, Febr. 2007.
    document

  2461. Measurement of electrically large array antennas in small anechoic chambers
    M. Simeoni; I. E. Lager; C. I. Coman;
    IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine,
    Volume 49, Issue 2, pp. 100-106, April 2007.
    document

  2462. Sector PCS-EBG antenna for low-cost high-directivity applications
    M. Ettorre; S. Bruni; N. Llombart; A. Neto; G. Gerini; S. Maci;
    IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters,
    Volume 6, pp. 537-539, 2007.
    document

  2463. The ultrawideband leaky lens antenna
    S. Bruni; A. Neto; F. Marliani;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 55, Issue 10, pp. 2462-2653, October 2007.
    document

  2464. Multimode equivalent networks for the design and analysis of frequency selective surfaces
    S. Monni; G. Gerini; A. Neto; A. Tihuis;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 55, Issue 10, pp. 2824-2835, October 2007.
    document

  2465. 1D scanning arrays on dense dielectrics using PCS-EBG technology
    N. Llombart; A. Neto; G. Gerini; P. De Maagt;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    January 2007.
    document

  2466. EBG enhanced feeds for high aperture efficiency reflector antennas
    A. Neto; N. Llombart; G. Gerini; M. Bonnedal; P. de Maagt;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 55, Issue 7, pp. 1-5, August 2007.
    document

  2467. Planar double-grating micro spectrometer
    S. Grabarnik; R.F. Wolffenbuttel; A. Emadi; M. Loktev; E.A. Sokolova; G.V. Vdovin;
    Optics Express,
    Volume 15, Issue 6, pp. 3581-3588, 2007.

  2468. Extending the limits of a capacitive soil-water-content measument (U_SP_2_I_IC_T)
    Z.Y. Chang; B.P. Iliev; G.C.M. Meijer; J.F. de Groot;
    IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement,
    Volume 56, Issue 6, pp. 2240-2244, 2007.

  2469. Liquid-level measurement system based on a remote grounded capacitive sensor (U_SP_2_I_IC_T)
    F. Reverter; X. Li; G.C.M. Meijer;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    pp. 1-8, 2007.

  2470. Liquid-crystal intra ocular adaptive lens with wireless control
    A.N. Simonov; G.V. Vdovin; M. Loktev;
    Optics Express,
    pp. 7468-7478, 2007.

  2471. A novel method for nanoprecision alignment in wafer bonding applications
    L.D. Jiang; G. Pandraud; P.J. French; S.M. Spearing; M. kraft;
    Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering,
    Volume 17, Issue 7, pp. S61-S67, 2007.

  2472. Multiple-ramp column-parallel ADC architectures for CMOS image sensors
    M.F. Snoeij; A.J.P. Theuwissen; K.A.A. Makinwa; J.H. Huijsing;
    IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits,
    Volume 42, Issue 12, pp. 2968-2977, 2007.

  2473. PDL free plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition SIC optical waveguides and devices
    G. Pandraud; P.M. Sarro; P.J. French;
    Optics Communications,
    Volume 269, Issue 2, pp. 338-345, 2007.

  2474. A CMOS chopper offset-stabilized opamp
    J.F. Witte; K.A.A. Makinwa; J.H. Huijsing;
    IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits,
    Volume 42, Issue 7, pp. 1529-1535, 2007.

  2475. Low-frequency noise phenomena in switched MOSFETs
    M.F. Snoeij; A.P. van der wel; E.A.M. Klumperink; J.S. Kolhatkar; E. Hoekstra; C. Salm; H. Wallinga; B. Nauta;
    IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits,
    Volume 42, Issue 3, pp. 540-550, 2007.

  2476. PECVD SiC optical waveguide loss and mode characteristics
    G. Pandraud; H.T.M. Pham; P.J. French; P.M. Sarro;
    Optics & Laser Technology,
    Volume 39, Issue 3, pp. 532-536, 2007.

  2477. Liquid crystal wavefront corrector with model response based on spreading of the electric field in a dielectric material
    M. Loktev; G.V. Vdovin; N.A. Klimov;
    Optics Express,
    pp. 2770-2778, 2007.

  2478. Shape based monte carlo code for light transport in complex heterogenous tissues (U_SP_2_I_IC_T)
    E. Margallo-Balbás; P.J. French;
    Optics Express,
    Volume 15, Issue 21, pp. 14086-14098, 2007.

  2479. Stretchable diffraction gratings for spectrometry (U_SP_2_I_IC_T)
    A.N. Simonov; S. Grabarnik; G.V. Vdovin;
    Optics Express,
    pp. 9784-9792, 2007.

  2480. Technical Challenges and Recent progress in CCD Imagers
    J.T. Bosiers; C. Draijer; A.J.P. Theuwissen;
    Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research. Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors, and Associated Equipment,
    pp. 148-156, 2007.

  2481. Structured illumination microscopy using extraordinary transmission through sub-wavelength hole-arrays
    M.W. Docter; P.M. van den Berg; P.F.A. Alkemade; V.G. Kutchoukov; O.M. Piciu; A. Bossche; I.T. Young; Y. Garini;
    Journal of Nanophotonics,
    Volume 1, Issue 011665, pp. 1-10, 2007.

  2482. An IF-to-baseband sigma delta modulator for AM/FM/IBOC radio receivers with a 118 dB dynamic range
    P.G.R. Silva; K.A.A. Makinwa; J.H. Huijsing; L.J. Breems; R. Roovers;
    IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits,
    Volume 42, Issue 5, pp. 1076-1089, 2007.

  2483. A novel clutter suppression algorithm for landmine detection with gpr
    V Kovalenko; A Yarovoy; LP Ligthart;
    IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing,
    Volume 45, Issue 11, pp. 3740--3751, 2007.

  2484. Design of a ground-penetrating radar for humanitarian demining
    {van Genderen}, P; A Yarovoy;
    Journal of Design Research,
    Volume 5, Issue 3, pp. 368--381, 2007. ook online lb.

  2485. UWB array-based sensor for near-field imaging
    A Yarovoy; TG Savelyev; PJ Aubry; EP Lys; LP Ligthart;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 55, Issue 6, pp. 1288--1295, 2007.

  2486. A Mixed-Signal Approach Towards Linear and Efficient $N$-Way Doherty Amplifiers
    Neo, W. C. Edmund; Qureshi, Jawad; Pelk, Marco J.; Gajadharsing, John R.; de Vreede, Leo C. N.;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 55, Issue 5, pp. 866-879, 2007. DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2007.895160

  2487. A Monolithic Low-Distortion Low-Loss Silicon-on-Glass Varactor-Tuned Filter With Optimized Biasing
    Buisman, Koen; de Vreede, Leo C. N.; Larson, Lawrence E.; Spirito, Marco; Akhnoukh, Atef; Lin, Yu; Liu, Xiao-dong; Nanver, Lis K.;
    IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters,
    Volume 17, Issue 1, pp. 58-60, 2007. DOI: 10.1109/LMWC.2006.887262

  2488. Magnetoresistive sensors
    Freitas, PP; Ferreira, R; Cardoso, S; Cardoso, Filipe Arroyo;
    Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter,
    Volume 19, Issue 16, pp. 165221, 2007.

  2489. Noise characteristics and particle detection limits in diode + MTJ matrix elements for biochip applications
    Cardoso, Filipe Arroyo; Ferreira, R; Cardoso, S; Conde, JP; Chu, V; Freitas, PP; Germano, J; Almeida, T; Sousa, L; Piedade, MS;
    IEEE transactions on magnetics,
    Volume 43, Issue 6, pp. 2403-2405, 2007.

  2490. Thermal stability and switching field distribution of CoNi/Pt patterned media
    Murillo, R.; Siekman, M. H.; Bolhuis, T.; Abelmann, L.; Lodder, J. C.;
    Microsystem Technologies,
    Volume 13, Issue 2, pp. 177 – 180, 2007. DOI: 10.1007/s00542-006-0143-x
    Keywords: ... Cobalt compounds; Magnetic anisotropy; Magnetometers; Optical switches; Thermodynamic stability; Torque; Energy barriers; Magnetic force microscopy; Nanodots; Switching field distribution; Nanostructured materials.

    Abstract: ... The thermal dependence and distribution of the switching fields of arrays of magnetic Co50Ni50/Pt nanodots has been studied. These dots, with a diameter of 90 nm, are arranged in a hexagonal pattern with a periodicity of 300 nm. Field-dependent magnetic force microscopy was used to measure the switching field distribution of the array, which was found to range from 80 to 192 kA/m, a value which is confirmed by vibrating sample magnetometer measurements. Additionally, the temperature dependence on the collective behaviour of the switching fields of the array has been investigated. The energy barrier at zero field was estimated to have a value in between 1.8×10-19 and 2.1×10-19 J. Combining this value with the effective anisotropy determined by torque measurements, the switching volume can be estimated to lie in between 1.2×103 and 1.4×103 nm3. © Springer-Verlag 2007.

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  2491. New process for high optical quality InAs quantum dots grown on patterned GaAs(001) substrates
    Alonso-Gonz{\'a}lez, Pablo; Gonz{\'a}lez, Luisa; Gonz{\'a}lez, Yolanda; Fuster, David; Fern{\'a}ndez-Mart{\'i}nez, Iv{\'a}n; Martín-S{\'a}nchez, Javier; Abelmann, Leon;
    Nanotechnology,
    Volume 18, Issue 35, 2007. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/18/35/355302
    Keywords: ... Etching; Indium arsenide; Lithography; Molecular beam epitaxy; Oxidation; Semiconductor growth; Substrates; ozone; quantum dot; article; chemical binding; geometry; laser; optical resolution; oxidation; priority journal; quality control; ultraviolet radiation; Laser interference lithography; Optical quality; Patterning technologies; Semiconductor quantum dots.

    Abstract: ... This work presents a selective ultraviolet (UV)-ozone oxidation-chemical etching process that has been used, in combination with laser interference lithography (LIL), for the preparation of GaAs patterned substrates. Further molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) growth of InAs results in ordered InAs/GaAs quantum dot (QD) arrays with high optical quality from the first layer of QDs formed on the patterned substrate. The main result is the development of a patterning technology that allows the engineering of customized geometrical displays of QDs with the same optical quality as those formed spontaneously on flat non-patterned substrates. © IOP Publishing Ltd.

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  2492. Laser interferometric nanolithography using a new positive chemical amplified resist
    Luttge, R.; Van Wolferen, H. A. G. M.; Abelmann, L.;
    Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B: Microelectronics and Nanometer Structures,
    Volume 25, Issue 6, pp. 2476 – 2480, 2007. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1116/1.2800328
    Keywords: ... Interferometry; Lithography; Thin Films; Laser interferometry; Photoresists; Thin films; Chemical amplification; Chemical amplified resist; Lloyd mirror; Nanoarrays; Nanolithography.

    Abstract: ... The authors report on the progress of laser interference lithography at 266 nm laser wavelength with a chemical amplified resist containing a polyvinyl derivate dissolved in propylene glycol monoethyl ether ester. A continuous-wave deep-UV source combined with a Lloyd mirror is a simple and useful tool for the fabrication of nanoscale periodic structures generally called nanoarrays. Aiming for a robust pattern transfer technique to fabricate nanoarrays into magnetic materials, the authors investigated the utility of a chemical amplification positive tone resist, despite the relatively high theoretical resolution limit of 133 nm (λ2) pattern period for the laser source used. Taking advantage of this new type of resist, the authors demonstrated for the first time the fabrication of an 18 Gbit in.2 dot pattern on a platinum thin film. © 2007 American Vacuum Society.

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  2493. The role of MFM signal in mark size measurement in probe-based magnetic recording on CoNi/Pt multilayers
    Zhang, Li; Bain, James A.; Zhu, Jian-Gang; Abelmann, Leon; Onoue, Takahiro;
    Physica B: Condensed Matter,
    Volume 387, Issue 1-2, pp. 328 – 332, 2007. DOI: 10.1016/j.physb.2006.04.028
    Keywords: ... Cobalt compounds; Magnetic fields; Multilayers; Optical resolving power; Scanning tunneling microscopy; Full-width half-maximum (FWHM); High-density magnetic recording; Magnetic force microscopy (MFM); Magnetic recording.

    Abstract: ... A method of heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) potentially suitable for probe-based storage systems is characterized. Magnetic marks were formed by a scanning tunneling microscopy (STM)-based thermal magnetic mechanism on a perpendicular CoNi/Pt multilayered film. Magnetic force microscopy (MFM) was applied to display those marks. The MFM signal is dependent of the lift-height during MFM scanning: smaller lift-height leads to higher resolution of the MFM image and a double-peak signal line, while higher lift-height leads to lower resolution and a single-peak signal line. Theoretical calculation of the magnetic field from the mark was executed. It agrees well with experiments, and demonstrates the method of mark size measurement in perpendicular media: full-width half-maximum (FWHM) of the measured MFM signal. © 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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  2494. Two-dimensional coding for probe recording on magnetic patterned media
    Groenland, J. P. J.; Abelmann, L.;
    IEEE Transactions on Magnetics,
    Volume 43, Issue 6, pp. 2307 – 2309, 2007. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2007.893137
    Keywords: ... Bit error rate; Computer simulation; Magnetic force microscopy; Pattern matching; Redundancy; Signal encoding; Intertrack interference; Patterned media; Perpendicular magnetic recording; Two-dimensional coding; Magnetic recording.

    Abstract: ... The effect of intertrack intersymbol interference in a magnetic patterned medium is studied. A 2-D channel code is proposed, dedicated to perpendicularly magnetized media without soft underlayer, which exhibit read pulses showing overshoot. Read pulse shapes were investigated using a magnetic-force microscope tip scanning the patterned medium row by row. To test different codes, a bit-detection simulation program was developed to generate large amounts of data on which bit error rates can be measured. Application of the 2-D channel code, which implies recording of particular dot positions with fixed bits ("ones," "zeros") resulted in the elimination of 2-D worst case bit patterns and a subsequent reduction of detected-bit errors. The accompanying redundancy of 22% is inevitable for this type of 2-D code. © 2007 IEEE.

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  2495. Signal model and receiver algorithms for a transmit-reference ultra-wideband communication system
    Q.H. Dang; A. Trindade; A.J. van der Veen; G. Leus;
    IEEE J. Selected Areas in Communications,
    Volume 24, Issue 4 pt. 1, pp. 773-779, April 2006.
    document

  2496. Equalization for OFDM over doubly selective channels
    I. Barhumi; G. Leus; M. Moonen;
    IEEE Tr. Signal Proc.,
    Volume 54, Issue 4, pp. 1445-1458, April 2006.
    document

  2497. Estimation and equalization of doubly selective channels using known symbol padding
    O. Rousseaux; G. Leus; M. Moonen;
    IEEE Tr. Signal Proc.,
    Volume 54, Issue 3, pp. 979-990, March 2006.
    document

  2498. Linear and decision-feedback per tone equalization for DMT-based transmission over IIR channels
    K. Vanbleu; M. Moonen; G. Leus;
    IEEE Tr. Signal Proc.,
    Volume 54, Issue 1, pp. 258-273, January 2006.
    document

  2499. Error-sign feedback as an alternative to pilots for the tracking of FEXT transfer functions in downstream VDSL
    J. Louveaux; A.J. van der Veen;
    EURASIP J. Applied Signal Proc.,
    Volume 2006, pp. 14 pages, 2006. DOI: 10.1155/ASP/2006/94105
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  2500. A message from the incoming Editor-in-Chief
    A.J. van der Veen;
    IEEE Tr. Signal Processing,
    Volume 54, Issue 5, pp. 1574, May 2006. ISSN 1053-587X.
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  2501. Adaptive DSL crosstalk precancellation design using low rate feedback from end users
    J. Louveaux; A.J. van der Veen;
    IEEE Signal Processing Letters,
    Volume 11, Issue 3, pp. 665-668, November 2006.
    document

  2502. Effects of Parametric Constraints on the CRLB in Gain and Phase Estimation Problems
    S.J. Wijnholds; A.J. van der Veen;
    IEEE Signal Processing Letters,
    Volume 13, Issue 10, pp. 620-623, October 2006.
    document

  2503. 2005 Best Paper Award Recipients: A message from the Editor-in-Chief
    A.J. van der Veen;
    IEEE Tr. Signal Proc.,
    Volume 54, Issue 7, pp. 2469-2470, July 2006. ISSN 1053-587X.
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  2504. Minimal quasi-separable realizations for the inverse of a quasi-separable operator
    E. Alijagic; P.M. Dewilde;
    Lin. Alg. Appl.,
    Volume 414, Issue 2-3, pp. 445-463, April 2006.
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  2505. Low-Complexity Equalization of Time-Varying Channels With Precoding
    Z. Tang; G. Leus;
    IEEE Tr. Signal Proc.,
    Volume 54, Issue 9, pp. 3642-3648, September 2006.
    document

  2506. Low-Complexity Banded Equalizers for OFDM Systems in Doppler Spread Channels
    L. Rugini; P. Banelli; G. Leus;
    EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing,
    Volume 2006, pp. Article ID 6740, 2006.
    document

  2507. Estimation and Direct Equalization of Doubly Selective Channels
    I. Barhumi; G. Leus; M. Moonen;
    EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing,
    Volume 2006, pp. Article ID 6283, 2006.
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  2508. Editorial: Reliable Communications over Rapidly Time-Varying Channels
    G. Leus; G.B. Giannakis; J.P. Linnartz; X. Ma; A. Swami; C. Tepedelenlioglu;
    EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing,
    Volume 2006, pp. Article ID 3967, 2006.
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  2509. Distributed Space-Time Cooperative Systems with Regenerative Relays
    P.A. Anghel; G. Leus; M. Kaveh;
    IEEE Tr. Wireless Comm.,
    Volume 5, Issue 11, pp. 3130-3141, November 2006.
    document

  2510. A distributed structure for service description forwarding in mobile multi-agent systems
    F. Miletic; P. Dewilde;
    Int. Tr. Systems Science and Appl.,
    2006. To appear..

  2511. Blind synchronization in asynchronous ultra wideband (UWB) networks based on the transmit-reference scheme
    R. Djapic; G. Leus; A.J. van der Veen; A. Trindade;
    EURASIP J. Wireless Comm. Netw.,
    December 2006. DOI: 10.1155/WCN/2006/37952
    document

  2512. A fast solver for HSS representations via sparse matrices
    S. Chandrasekharan; P.M. Dewilde; M. Gu; W. Lyons; T. Pals;
    SIAM J. Matrix An.,
    Volume 29, Issue 1, pp. 67-81, 2006. ISSN 0895-4798.
    document

  2513. Rate-distortion Optimal Time-segmentation and Redundancy Selection for VoIP
    C.A. Rodbro; Jesper Jensen; Richard Heusdens;
    IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Proc.,
    2006.

  2514. Bit-Rate Scalable Intraframe Sinusoidal Audio Coding Based on Rate-Distortion Optimization
    Richard Heusdens;
    Journal of the Audio Engineering Society,
    Volume 54, Issue 3, pp. 167-188, March 2006.

  2515. n-Channel Entropy-Constrained Multiple-Description Lattice Vector Quantization
    Jan Ostergaard; Jesper Jensen; Richard Heusdens;
    IEEE Trans. Information Theory,
    Volume 52, Issue 5, pp. 1956-1973, May 2006.

  2516. Adaptive Time Segmentation for Improved Speech Enhancement
    Richard C. Hendriks; Richard Heusdens; Jesper Jensen;
    IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech Language Proc.,
    Volume 14, Issue 6, pp. 2064-2074, November 2006.
    document

  2517. Actuated elastometers with rigid vertical electrodes
    G.K. Lau; J.F.L. Goosen; F. van Keulen; P. French; P.M. Sarro;
    J. Micromech and Microeng.,
    Volume 16, Issue 6, pp. 35-44, 2006.

  2518. Thermally induced current bifurcation in bipolar transistors
    L. La Spina; N. Nenadovic; V. d'Alessandro; F. Tamigi; N. Rinaldi; L. K. Nanver; J. W. Slotboom;
    Solid-State Electronics,
    Volume 50, pp. 877-888, 2006.

  2519. Textured Self-assembled Square-shaped Poly-Si Grains by Multiple Shots Excimer Laser Crystallization
    Ming He; Ryoichi Ishihara; Wim Metselaar; Kees Beenakker;
    Journal of Applied Physics,
    Volume 100, 2006.

  2520. Lateral nanoNewton force sensing piezocantilevers for microparticle handling
    T. Chu Duc; J.F. Creemer; P.M. Sarro;
    J. Micromech and Microeng.,
    Volume 16, Issue 6, pp. 102-106, 2006.

  2521. Characteristics of AlN/Ni(111) heterostructures and their application to epitaxial growth of GaN
    T.W. Kim; N. Matsuki; J. Ohta; H. Fujioka;
    Jpn. J. Appl. Phys,
    Volume 45, Issue 14, pp. L396-L398, Mar. 2006.

  2522. Capping Layer on Thin Si Film for mu-Czochralski Process with Excimer Laser Crystallization
    Rana Vikas; Ryoichi Ishihara; Yasushi Hiroshima; Daisuke Abe; Satoshi Inoue; Tatsuya Shimoda; Wim Metselaar; Kees Beenakker;
    Japanese Journal of Applied Physics,
    Volume 45, Issue 5, pp. 4340-4343, 2006.

  2523. A Novel Selected Area Laser Assisted (SALA) System for Crystallization and Doping Processes in Low-Temperature Poly-Si Thin-Film Transistors
    R. Ishihara; A. Glazer; Y. Raab; P. Rusian; M. Dorfan; B. Lavi; I. Leizerson; A. Kishinevsky; Y. van Andel; X. Cao; J. W. Metselaar; C. I. M. Beenakker; S. Stolyarova; Y. Nemirovsky;
    Journal of IEICE,
    Volume E89-C, Issue 10, pp. 136-140, 2006.

  2524. Simulation of a tunable optically pumped terahertz intersubband laser with diluted magnetic semiconductors
    M. Popadic; V. Milanovic; Z. Ikonic; Dragan Indjin;
    Journal of Applied Physics,
    Volume 100, pp. 1-6, 2006.

  2525. In-package MEMS-based thermal actuators for micro-assembly
    V. Henneken; M. Tichem; P.M.Sarro;
    J. Micromech and Microeng.,
    Volume 16, Issue 6, pp. 107-115, 2006.

  2526. Effects of Capping Layer on Grain Growth with mu-Czochralski Process during Excimer Laser Crystallization
    Ming He; Ryoichi Ishihara; Yasushi Hiroshima; Satoshi Inoue; Tatsuya Shimoda; Wim Metselaar; Kees Beenakker;
    Japanese Journal of Applied Physics,
    Volume 45, Issue 1, 2006.

  2527. Epitaxial growth of AlN on Cu(111) substrates using pulsed laser deposition
    S. Inoue; K. Okamoto; N. Matsuki; T.W. Kim; H. Fujioka;
    J. Cryst. Growth,
    Volume 289, Issue 2, pp. 574-577, Apr. 2006.

  2528. New insights in microcrystalline silicon deposition with expanding thermal plasma chemical vapor deposition
    R.A.C.M.M. van Swaaij; R. Jiminez Zambrano; C. Smit; M. C. M. van de Sanden;
    J. Non-Cryst. Solids,
    Volume 352, Issue 933, 2006.

  2529. Silicon Micromachining of High Aspect Ratio, High-Density Through-Wafer Electrical Interconnects for 3-D Multichip Packaging
    Zheyao Wang; Lianwei Wang; N. T. Nguyen; Wim A. H. Wien; Hugo Schellevis; Pasqualina M. Sarro; Joachim N. Burghartz;
    IEEE Tr. Advanced Packaging,
    Volume 29, Issue 3, Aug. 2006.

  2530. A new approach in measuring Cu-EMC adhesion strength by AFM
    C. K. Y. Wong; H. Gu; B. Xu; M. M. F. Yuen;
    IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies,
    Volume 29, pp. 543-550, 2006.

  2531. In-package MEMS-based thermal actuators for micro-assembly
    V.A. Henneken; M. Tichem; P.M. Sarro;
    J. Micromech. Microeng.,
    Volume 16, pp. S107-S115, 2006.

  2532. Diode/magnetic tunnel junction cell for fully scalable matrix-based biochip
    F.A. Cardoso; H.A. Ferreira; J.P. Conde; V. Chu; P.P. Freitas; D. Vidal; J. Germano; L. Sousa; M.S. Piedade; B.A. Costa; J.M. Lemos;
    J. Appl. Phys.,
    2006.

  2533. Restabilizing mechanisms after the onset of thermal instability in bipolar transistors
    N. Nenadovic; V. d'Alessandro; L. La Spina; N. Rinaldi; L. K. Nanver;
    IEEE Trans. Electron Devices,
    Volume 53, Issue 4, pp. 643-653, 2006. ISSN: 0018-9383.

  2534. Effect of Surface Morphology on the Fracture Strength of Silicon Nanobeams
    Tuncay Alan; Melissa Hines; Alan Zehnder;
    Appl. Phys. Lett.,
    Volume 89, 2006.

  2535. Sub-500C Solid-Phase Epitaxy of Ultra-Abrupt p+-Silicon Elevated Contacts and Diodes
    Y. Civale; L.K. Nanver; P. Hadley; E.J.G. Goudena; H. Schellevis;
    IEEE Electron Device Lett,
    Volume 27, Issue 5, pp. 341-343, May 2006. ISSN 0741-3106.

  2536. Adaptive Multi-Band Multi-mode power amplifier using integrated varactor-based tunable matching networks
    W. C. E. Neo; Y. Lin; X.-D. Liu; L. C. N. de Vreede; L. E. Larson; M. Spirito; M. J. Pelk; K. Buisman; A. Akhoukh; A. De Graauw; L. K. Nanver;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 41, Issue 9, pp. 2166-2176, Sept. 2006. ISSN 0018-9200.

  2537. Methyl monolayers improve the fracture strength and durability of silicon nanobeams
    Tuncay Alan; Alan Zehnder; Debodhonyaa Sengupta; Melissa Hines;
    Appl. Phys. Lett.,
    Volume 89, 2006.

  2538. Unusual hydrogen distribution and its change in hydrogenated amorphous silicon prepared using bias electric-field molecular beam deposition
    N. Matsuki���; S. Shimizu; M. Kondo; A. Matsuda;
    Appl. Phys. Lett,
    Volume 89, Issue 1, Jul. 2006.

  2539. Preferred <100> surface and in-plane orientations in self-assembled poly-Si by multiple excimer-laser irradiation
    M. He; R Ishihara; C. I. M. Beenakker;
    Electrochemical Society Transaction,
    Volume 3, Issue 8, pp. 167-172, Oct. 2006.

  2540. Epitaxial growth of GaN on copper substrates
    S.Inoue; K. Okamoto; N. Matsuki; T.W. Kim,H. Fujioka;
    Appl. Phys. Lett,
    Volume 88, Issue 26, Jun. 2006.

  2541. Epitaxial growth of AlN on single-crystal Ni(111) substrates
    T.W. Kim; N. Matsuki���; J. Ohta; H. Fujioka;
    Appl. Phys. Lett,
    Volume 88, Issue 12, Mar. 2006.

  2542. Development and characterization of an integrated silicon micro flow cytometer
    R.Bernini; E.De Nuccio; F.Brescia; A.Minardo; L.Zeni; P.M. Sarro; R.Palumbo; M.R.Scarfi;
    Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry,
    Volume 386, pp. 1267-1272, 2006.

  2543. Charge deep-level transient spectroscopy study of high-energy-electron-beam-irradiated hydrogenated amorphous silicon
    A. Klaver; V. N��da?_dy; M. Zeman; R.A.C.M.M. van Swaaij;
    Appl. Phys. Lett.,
    Volume 89, 2006.

  2544. Codesign of an Impulse Generator and Miniaturized Antennas for IR-UWB
    Bagga S.; Vorobyov A.V.; Haddad S.A.P.; Serdijn W.A.; Yarovoy A.G; Long J.R;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 54, Issue 4 Part 2, pp. 1656-1666, April 2006.
    document

  2545. Adaptive Multi-Standard Circuits and Systems for Wireless Communications
    A. Tasic; W.A. Serdijn; J.R. Long;
    IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine,
    Volume 6, Issue 1, pp. 29-37, Jan. 2006. Special Issue on Software-Defined Radio.
    document

  2546. The history of cardiac pacemakers: an electronics perspective
    Sandro A.P. Haddad; Richard P.M. Houben; Wouter A. Serdijn;
    IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine,
    Volume 25, Issue 3, pp. 38-48, May/June 2006.
    document

  2547. The design of shared aperture antennas consisting of differently sized elements
    C. I. Coman; I. E. Lager; L.P. Ligthart;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 54, Issue 2, pp. 376-383, February 2006.
    document

  2548. Patch end-launchers - A family of compact colinear coaxial-to-rectangular waveguide transitions
    M. Simeoni; C. I. Coman; I. E. Lager;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 54, Issue 4, pp. 1503-1511, April 2006.
    document

  2549. Wideband localization of the dominant leaky wave poles in dielectric covered antennas
    A. Neto; N. Llombart;
    IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters,
    Volume 5, Issue 1, pp. 549-551, December 2006.
    document

  2550. Ultrawide-band properties of long slot arrays
    A. Neto; JJ.Lee;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 54, Issue 2, pp. 534-543, February 2006.
    document

  2551. On the optimal radiation bandwidth of printed slot antennas surrounded by EBGs
    A. Neto; N. Llombart; G. Gerini; P.J. de Maagt;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 54, Issue 4, April 2006.
    document

  2552. lab-on-a-chip for biological fluid analysis by spectrophotometry (U-SP-2-I-ICT)
    R.F. Wolffenbuttel; G. Minas; J.H.G. Correia;
    Arab Health World,
    Volume XX, Issue 3, pp. 17-18, 2006.

  2553. The Hole Role in Solid-State Imagers
    A.J.P. Theuwissen;
    pp. 2972-2980, 2006.

  2554. Piezoelectric deformable mirror with adaptive multiplexing control (U-SP-2-I-ICT)
    A.N. Simonov; G.V. Vdovin; S. Hong;
    Optical Engineering,
    Volume 45, Issue 7, pp. 1-3, 2006.

  2555. UV bandpass optical filters for microspectrometers (U-SP-2-I-ICT)
    A. Emadi; R.F. Wolffenbuttel; J.H.G. Correia;
    ECS Transactions,
    Volume 4, Issue 1, pp. 141-147, 2006.

  2556. Stability and accuracy of active shielding for grounded capacitive sensors (U-SP-2-I-ICT)
    F. Reverter; X. Li; G.C.M. Meijer;
    Measurement Science and Technology,
    Volume 17, pp. 2884-2890, 2006.

  2557. Actuated elastometers with rigid vertical electrodes
    G.K. Lau; J.F.L. Goosen; F. van Keulen; P.J. French; P.M. Sarro;
    Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering,
    Volume 16, Issue 6, pp. 35-44, 2006.

  2558. Predicting urban arterial travel time with state-space neural networks and Kalman filters
    H. Liu; H.J. van Zuylen; J.W.C. van Lint; R.J. Maria;
    Transportation Research Record,
    Volume 1968, pp. 99-108, 2006.

  2559. Measuring the Wavelength-dependent divergence of transmission through sub-wavelength hole-arrays by spectral imaging
    M.W. Docter; I.T. Young; O.M. Piciu; A. Bossche; P.F.A. Alkemade; P.M. van den Berg; Y. Garini;
    Optics Express,
    Volume 14, Issue 20, pp. 9477-9482, 2006.

  2560. Using dynamic voltage drive in a parallel-plate electrostatic actuator for full-gap travel range and positioning (U-SP-2-I-ICT)
    R.F. Wolffenbuttel; L.A. Rocha; E. Cretu;
    IEEE Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems,
    Volume 15, Issue 1, pp. 69-83, 2006.

  2561. A CMOS Imager With Column-Level ADC Using Dynamic column Fixed-pattern Noise Reduction (U-SP-2-I-ICT)
    M.F. Snoeij; A.J.P. Theuwissen; K.A.A. Makinwa; J.H. Huijsing;
    IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits,
    Volume 41, Issue 12, pp. 3007-3015, 2006.

  2562. An array of highly selective Fabry-perot optical channels for biological fluid analysis by optical absorption using a white light source for illumination (U-SP-2-I-ICT)
    R.F. Wolffenbuttel; G. Minas; J.H.G. Correia;
    Journal of Optics,
    Volume 8, pp. 272-278, 2006.

  2563. Polarization-insensitive PECVD SiC waveguides for sensor platform
    G. Pandraud; P.J. French; H.T.M. Pham; P.M. Sarro;
    Optical Materials,
    Volume 28, Issue 4, pp. 380-384, 2006.

  2564. An MCM based microsystem for calorimetric detection of niomolecules in biological fluids (U-SP-2-I-ICT)
    G. de Graaf; R.F. Wolffenbuttel; G. Minas; J.H.G. Correia;
    IEEE Sensors Journal,
    Volume 6, Issue 4, pp. 1003-1009, 2006.

  2565. A CMOS Temperature-to-Frequency Converter with an Inaccuracy of 0.5 degrees C from -40 to 105 degrees C (U-SP-2-I-ICT)
    K.A.A. Makinwa; M.F. Snoeij;
    IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits,
    Volume 41, Issue 12, pp. 1-6, 2006.

  2566. Systematic approach for the linearization and readout of non-symmetric impedance bridges (U-SP-2-I-ICT)
    R.F. Wolffenbuttel; G. de Graaf;
    IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement,
    Volume 55, Issue 5, pp. 1566-1572, 2006.

  2567. Measuring the near-field of extra-ordinary transmission through a periodic hole-array
    M.W. Docter; I.T. Young; O.M. Piciu; A. Bossche; P.F.A. Alkemade; P.M. van den Berg; Y. Garini;
    Proceedings of SPIE- International Society for Optical Engineering,
    Volume 6195, 2006.

  2568. A Solid-state 2-D Wind Sensor (U-SP-2-I-ICT)
    K.A.A. Makinwa; J.H. Huijsing; A. Hagedoorn;
    Lecture Notes in Computer Science,
    Issue 4017, pp. 1-8, 2006.

  2569. Capacitevely loaded bowtie antenna for ultrawideband impulse radio
    A Yarovoy; R Pugliese;
    Radio Science,
    Volume 41, Issue 3, pp. 1--9, 2006.

  2570. Codesign of an impulse generator and miniaturized antennas for IR-UWB
    S Bagga; O Vorobyov; SAP Haddad; A Yarovoy; WA Serdijn; JR Long;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 54, Issue 4, pp. 1556--1566, 2006.

  2571. UWB radar for human being detection
    A Yarovoy; LP Ligthart; J Matuzas; B Levitas;
    IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine,
    Volume 21, Issue 3, pp. 10--14, 2006.

  2572. CMOS Transconductors With Nearly Constant Input Ranges Over Wide Tuning Intervals
    Paolo Bruschi; Fabio Sebastiano; Nicol? Nizza;
    {IEEE} Trans. Circuits Syst. {II},
    Volume 53, Issue 10, pp. 1002 - 1006, October 2006. DOI: 10.1109/TCSII.2006.882126
    Keywords: ... CMOS integrated circuits;bipolar integrated circuits;circuit tuning;0.35 micron;CMOS transconductors;bipolar-CMOS-DMOS process;common-mode range;differential input range;low-frequency filters;prototype circuit;tuning intervals;Chemical sensors;Circuit optimization;Circuit simulation;Low pass filters;MOSFETs;Mirrors;Optimization methods;Stability;Transconductors;Voltage;CMOS transconductor;constant input range;low-frequency filters.

    Abstract: ... Three different bias strategies aimed to reduce the effect of tuning on either the differential input range or the common-mode range of triode-region CMOS transconductors are presented. The method is applied to an original transconductor topology that is optimized to produce ultralow Gm values. A prototype circuit, which was designed with the 0.35-µm bipolar-CMOS-DMOS (BCD6) process of STMicroelectronics, is presented. The effectiveness and limitations of the method are characterized by means of electrical simulations

  2573. Active Harmonic Load–Pull for On-Wafer Out-of-Band Device Linearity Optimization
    Spirito, Marco; Pelk, Marco J.; van Rijs, Fred; Theeuwen, Steven J. C. H.; Hartskeerl, Dave; de Vreede, Leo C. N.;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 54, Issue 12, pp. 4225-4236, 2006. DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2006.885568

  2574. A new hand-held microsystem architecture for biological analysis
    Piedade, Moisés; Sousa, Leonel Augusto; de Almeida, Teresa Mendes; Germano, José; da Costa, Bertinho d'Andrade; Lemos, João Miranda; Freitas, Paulo Peixeiro; Ferreira, Hugo A; Cardoso, Filipe Arroyo;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers,
    Volume 53, Issue 11, pp. 2384-2395, 2006.

  2575. CONTROLO 2006
    Costa, BA; Lemos, JM; Piedade, MS; Sousa, L; Almeida, T; Germano, J; Freitas, P; Ferreira, H; Cardoso, F;
    2006.

  2576. Magnetoresistive DNA chips based on ac field focusing of magnetic labels
    Ferreira, HA; Cardoso, Filipe Arroyo; Ferreira, R; Cardoso, S; Freitas, PP;
    Journal of applied physics,
    Volume 99, Issue 8, pp. 08P105, 2006.

  2577. Diode/magnetic tunnel junction cell for fully scalable matrix-based biochip
    Cardoso, Filipe Arroyo; Ferreira, HA; Conde, JP; Chu, V; Freitas, PP; Vidal, D; Germano, J; Sousa, L; Piedade, MS; Costa, BA; others;
    Journal of Applied Physics,
    Volume 99, Issue 8, pp. 08B307, 2006.

  2578. The effect of external magnetic field on mark size in heat-assisted probe recording on CoNi/Pt multilayers
    Zhang, Li; Bain, James A.; Zhu, Jian-Gang; Abelmann, Leon; Onoue, Takahiro;
    Journal of Applied Physics,
    Volume 99, Issue 2, 2006. DOI: 10.1063/1.2162272
    Keywords: ... Cobalt alloys; Computer simulation; Magnetic domains; Magnetic field effects; Mathematical models; Multilayers; Platinum; Scanning tunneling microscopy; Thin films; Threshold voltage; Field emission current; Heating sources; Probe based storage systems; Synthesized models; Magnetic recording.

    Abstract: ... A method of heat-assisted magnetic recording potentially suitable for probe-based storage systems is characterized. In this work, field-emission current from a scanning tunneling microscope tip is used as the heating source. Pulse voltages of 2-7 V were applied to a CoNiPt multilayered film. During heating, various external magnetic fields were applied. Experimental results show that a positive magnetic field increases mark size while a negative field decreases mark size, compared to the case of writing without an external field in which an average mark size of 170 nm was achieved. In addition, a positive field reduces the threshold voltage of writing as well. A synthesized model is built to quantitatively simulate the experimental results. It includes the model of emission current, heat transfer, and dynamics of magnetic domains in the film. Simulation results show that the calculated mark size in various cases is consistent with experimental results. Based on this model, we will be able to figure out the proposals to achieve small marks for the goal of 1 Tbit in.2 recording density. © 2006 American Institute of Physics.

    document

  2579. A model of heat transfer in STM-based magnetic recording on CoNi/Pt multilayers
    Zhang, Li; Bain, James A.; Zhu, Jian-Gang; Abelmann, Leon; Onoue, Takahiro;
    Physica B: Condensed Matter,
    Volume 381, Issue 1-2, pp. 204 – 208, 2006. DOI: 10.1016/j.physb.2006.01.007
    Keywords: ... Field emission cathodes; Magnetic recording; Multilayers; Substrates; Thermal conductivity; Bare silicon; High density magnetic recording; Multilayered film; Oxidized silicon; Heat transfer.

    Abstract: ... A method of heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) potentially suitable for probe-based storage systems is characterized. In this work, field emission current from a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) tip is used as the heating source. Pulse voltages of 3-7 V with a duration of 500 ns were applied to a CoNi/Pt multilayered film which is fabricated on a bare silicon and oxidized silicon, respectively. For both substrates, write threshold voltage of 4 V was observed. Above threshold, mark size was 170 and 260 nm for the films on bare silicon and oxidized silicon, respectively. A model of 2-D heat transfer in a multilayered film structure was applied and the mark size difference was explained by the thermal conductivity of the substrate. © 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

    document

  2580. Heat-assisted magnetic probe recording on a granular CoNi/Pt multilayered film
    Zhang, Li; Bain, James A.; Zhu, Jian-Gang; Abelmann, Leon; Onoue, Takahiro;
    Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics,
    Volume 39, Issue 12, pp. 2485 – 2487, 2006. DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/39/12/002
    Keywords: ... Electric potential; Heat treatment; Magnetic films; Magnetic recording; Magnetic storage; Magnetic probe recording; Multilayered film; Pulse voltages; Ultra-high recording density; Multilayers.

    Abstract: ... A method of heat-assisted magnetic recording potentially suitable for probe-based storage systems is characterized. Field emission current from a scanning tunnelling microscope tip is used as the heating source. Pulse voltages of 5 V were applied to a granular CoNi/Pt multilayered film. Experimental results show that an average mark size of 90-120 nm was achieved with the minimum of 70 nm. A model of dynamic domain formation is built to quantitatively explain the experimental results. It agrees with experiments. Based on this model, we will be able to figure out the proposals to achieve small marks for ultra-high recording density. © 2006 IOP Publishing Ltd.

    document

  2581. Comment on Wang, Liu, and Wang (2003)
    Davelaar, G. G.; Abelmann, L.;
    Synthese,
    Volume 153, Issue 3, pp. 457 – 458, 2006. DOI: 10.1007/s11229-006-9095-z
    document

  2582. Dynamic domain motion of thermal-magnetically formed marks on CoNi/Pt multilayers
    Zhang, Li; Bain, James A.; Zhu, Jian-Gang; Abelmann, Leon; Onoue, Takahiro;
    Journal of Applied Physics,
    Volume 100, Issue 5, 2006. DOI: 10.1063/1.2336505
    Keywords: ... Cobalt alloys; Coercive force; Magnetic domains; Magnetic recording; Platinum; Scanning tunneling microscopy; Field emission current; Magnetic domain dynamics; Recording density; Thermal-magnetically formed marks; Multilayers.

    Abstract: ... We characterized a method of heat-assisted magnetic recording, which is potentially suitable for probe-based storage systems. The field emission current from a scanning tunneling microscope tip was used as the heating source. Various pulse voltages were applied to two types of CoNi/Pt multilayered films: one is strongly coupled with low coercivity, and the other is weakly coupled with high coercivity. Experimental results show that marks achieved in strongly coupled medium are larger than that in granular one. An external magnetic field was then applied to those marks. For weak fields (lower than the coercivity of the medium) the size of marks changes distinctly in the strongly coupled medium but not in the granular one. A model of magnetic domain dynamics is built to quantitatively explain the experimental results. It agrees with experiments. Based on this model, we will be able to figure out the proposals to achieve small marks for ultrahigh recording density. © 2006 American Institute of Physics.

    document

  2583. Characterization of heat-assisted magnetic probe recording on CoNi/Pt multilayers
    Zhang, Li; Bain, James A.; Zhu, Jian-Gang; Abelmann, Leon; Onoue, Takahiro;
    Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials,
    Volume 305, Issue 1, pp. 16 – 23, 2006. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmmm.2005.11.022
    Keywords: ... Cobalt compounds; Magnetic recording; Platinum; Probes; Scanning tunneling microscopy; Silicon; Substrates; Heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR); High density perpendicular recording; Probe recording; Multilayers.

    Abstract: ... A method of heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) potentially suitable for probe-based storage systems is characterized. In this work, field emission current from a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) tip is used as the heating source. Pulse voltages of 2-7 V were applied to a CoNi/Pt multilayered film fabricated on either bare silicon or oxidized silicon substrates. Different types of Ir/Pt and W STM tips were used in the experiment. The results show that thermally recorded magnetic marks are formed with a nearly uniform mark size of 170 nm on the film fabricated on bare silicon substrate when the pulse voltage is above a threshold voltage. The mark size becomes 260 nm when they are written on the identical film fabricated on an oxidized silicon substrate. The threshold voltage depends on the material work function of the tip, with W having a threshold voltage about 1 V lower than Pt. A synthesized model, which contains the calculation of the emission current, the simulation of heat transfer during heating, and the study of magnetic domain formation, was introduced to explain experimental results. The simulation agrees well with the experiments. © 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

    document

  2584. Spatial filtering of interfering signals at the initial Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) phased array test station
    A.J. Boonstra; S. van der Tol;
    Radio Science,
    Volume 40, Issue RS5S09, pp. (16 pages), 2005. doi:10.1029/2004RS003135.
    document

  2585. Simple equalization of time-varying channels for OFDM
    L. Rugini; P. Banelli; G. Leus;
    IEEE Communication Letters,
    Volume 9, Issue 7, pp. 619-621, July 2005.
    document

  2586. Space-Time-Doppler Coding for Correlated Time-Selective Fading Channels
    X. Ma; G. Leus; G.B. Giannakis;
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing,
    Volume 53, Issue 6, pp. 2167-2181, June 2005.
    document

  2587. Performance Analysis of Spatial Filtering of RF Interference in Radio Astronomy
    S. van der Tol; A.J. van der Veen;
    IEEE Tr. Signal Proc.,
    Volume 53, Issue 3, pp. 896-910, March 2005.
    document

  2588. Time-varying FIR equalization for doubly selective channels
    I. Barhumi; G. Leus; M. Moonen;
    IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications,
    Volume 4, Issue 1, pp. 202-214, January 2005.
    document

  2589. Equivalent System Model and Equalization of Differential Impulse Radio UWB System
    K. Witrisal; G. Leus; M. Pausini; C. Krall;
    IEEE J. Selected Areas in Communication,
    Volume 23, Issue 9, pp. 1851-1862, September 2005.
    document

  2590. Synchronization and packet separation in wireless ad hoc networks by Known Modulus Algorithms
    R. Djapic; A.J. van der Veen; L. Tong;
    IEEE J. Spec. Areas in Comm.,
    Volume 23, Issue 1, pp. 51-64, January 2005.
    document

  2591. Editorial: Improved CDMA Detection Techniques for Future Wireless Systems
    G. Leus; P. Loubaton; D. Slock; M.D. Zoltowski;
    EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing,
    Volume 2005, Issue 5, pp. 601-603, May 2005.

  2592. Interpolation and approximation of quasiseparable systems: the Schur-Takagi case
    D. Alpay; P. Dewilde; D. Volok;
    Calcolo,
    Volume 42, Issue 3-4, pp. 139-156, December 2005.

  2593. Gaussian maximum-likelihood channel estimation with short training sequences
    O. Rousseaux; G. Leus; P. Stoica; M. Moonen;
    IEEE Tr. Wireless Comm.,
    Volume 4, Issue 6, pp. 2945-2955, November 2005.
    document

  2594. Balanced capacity of wireline multiuser channels
    T. Sartenaer; L. Vandendorpe; J. Louveaux;
    IEEE Tr. Communications,
    Volume 53, pp. 2029-2042, December 2005.
    document

  2595. Some fast algorithms for sequentially semiseparable representations
    S. Chandrasekaran; P. Dewilde; M. Gu; T. Pals; X. Sun; A.J. van der Veen; D. White;
    SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications,
    Volume 27, Issue 2, pp. 341-364, 2005.
    document

  2596. A Perceptual Model for Sinusoidal Audio Coding Based on Spectral Integration
    S. van de Par; A. Kohlraush; Richard Heusdens; Jesper Jensen; S.H. Jensen;
    EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing,
    Volume 2005, Issue 9, pp. 1292-1304, June 2005.

  2597. Optimal Time Segmentation For Overlap-Add Systems With Variable Amount Of Window Overlap
    O.A. Niamut; Richard Heusdens;
    IEEE Signal Processing Letters,
    Volume 12, Issue 10, pp. 665-668, October 2005.

  2598. Design of Multi-Standard Adaptive Voltage-Controlled Oscillators
    A. Tasic; W.A. Serdijn; J.R. Long;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 53, Issue 2, pp. 556-563, Febr. 2005.
    document

  2599. Adaptive voltage controlled oscillators ? theory, design and application
    A. Tasic; W.A. Serdijn; J.R. Long;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I,
    Volume 52, Issue 5, pp. 894-901, May 2005.
    document

  2600. Field-effect a-Si:H solar cells with transparent conductive oxide comb-shaped electrode
    N. Matsuki; Y. Abiko; M. Kobayashi; K. Miyazaki; H. Fujioka; H. Koinuma;
    Thin Solid Films,
    Volume 486, Issue 1-2, pp. 210-213, Aug. 2005.

  2601. High-rate deposition of microcrystalline silicon with an expanding thermal plasma
    C. Smit; A. Klaver; B. A. Korevaar; A. M. H. N. Petit; D. L. Williamson; R.A.C.M.M. van Swaaij; M. C. M. van de Sanden;
    Thin Solid Films,
    Volume 491, pp. 280, 2005.

  2602. Characteristics of single-crystal AlN films grown on ferromagnetic metal substrates
    K. Okamoto; S. Inoue; N. Matsuki; T.-W. Kim; H. Fujioka; M. Oshima;
    Phys. Stat. Sol. (a),
    Volume 202, Issue 14, pp. R149-R151, Nov. 2005.

  2603. Electrical property of coincidence site lattice grain boundary in location-controlled Si island by excimer-laser crystallization
    R. Ishihara; M. He; V. Rana; Y. Hiroshima; S. Inoue; T. Shimoda; J.W. Metselaar; C. I. M. Beenakker;
    Thin Solid Films,
    Volume 487, Issue 1-2, pp. 97-101, Sep. 2005.

  2604. Heteroepitaxitial growth of gallium nitride on muscovite mica plates by pulsed laser depo
    N. Matsuki; T.-W. Kim; J. Ohta; H. Fujioka;
    Solid State Commun,
    Volume 136, Issue 6, pp. 338-341, Nov. 2005.

  2605. Comparing the costs of photoresist coating using spin, spray or electrodeposition systems
    N. P. Pham; J. Bertens; L. van d.Brekel; P. M.Sarro;
    Micromagazine Apr.,
    pp. 45-49, 2005.

  2606. Particle filters integrated inside a silicon wafer
    W.Venstra; N.P. Pham; P.M. Sarro; J. van Eijk;
    Microlelectronic Engineering,
    Volume 78-79, 2005.

  2607. Fabrication of nanofluidic devices in glass with polysilicon electrodes
    V. G. Kutchoukov; L. Pakula; G. O. F Parikesit; Y. Garini; L. K. Nanver; A. Bossche;
    Sensors and Actuators A,
    Volume 123-124, pp. 602-607, 2005.

  2608. All electrical resistivity profiling technique for ion implanted semiconductor materials
    S. Daliento; L. Mele; P. Spirito; B. N. Limata;
    Materials Science and Engineering B,
    pp. 310-313, 2005.

  2609. Application of Encapsulated PECVED-grown Carbon Nano-Structure Field-Emission Devices in Nanolithography
    J. Koohsorkhi; Y. Adbi; S. Mohajerzadeh; J. Derakhshandeh; H. Hosseinzadegan; A. Khakifirooz;
    Nanotech,
    2005.

  2610. Electrothermal Characterization of Silicon-on-Glass VDMOSFETs
    N. Nenadovic; V. Cuoco; S.J.C.H. Theeuwen; L.K. Nanver; H. Schellevis; G. Spierings; H.F.F. Jos; J.W. Slotboom;
    Microelectronics Reliability,
    pp. 541-550, Mar. 2005.

  2611. PECVD-grown Carbon-nano-tubes on Silicon Substrates with an anomalous Nickel-seeded Tip-growth structure
    Y. Abdi; J. Koohsorkhi; J. Derakhshandeh; S. Mohajerzadeh; H. Hoseinzadegan; M.D. Robertson; C. Benet;
    Journal of Materials and Science Engineering C,
    2005.

  2612. Fabrication of 100nm Gate length MOSFET's using a novel carbon-nanotube-based nano-lithography
    J. Derakhshandeh; Y. Abdi; S. Mohajerzadeh; H. Hosseinzadegan; E. Asl. Soleimani; H. Radamson;
    Journal of Materials and Science Engineering B,
    2005.

  2613. Switch-on undershoot current observed in thin film transistors
    Feng Yan; Piero Migliorato; Yi Hong; V. Rana; R. Ishihara; Y. Hiroshima; D. Abe; S. Inoue; T. Shimoda;
    Journal of Applied Physics,
    Volume 87, Issue 1, 2005.

  2614. Light Emitting Nano-porous silicon structures fabricated using a plasma hydrogenation technique
    Y. Abdi; J. Derakhshandeh; S. Mohajerzadeh; F. Nayeri; E. Arzi; M.D. Robertson;
    Journal of Materials and Science Engineering B,
    2005.

  2615. Surface-passivated high-resistivity silicon as a true microwave substrate
    M. Spirito; F. de Paola; L. K. Nanver; E. Valletta; B. Rong; B. Rejaei; L. C. N. de Vreede; J. N. Burghartz;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 53, Issue 7, pp. 2340-2347, Jul. 2005.

  2616. Evaluation of an empirical mdel to estimate and optimize mechanical properties of PECVD SiC films
    H.T.M.Hoa; C.de Boer; P.M. Sarro;
    Journal of the Electrochemical Society,
    Volume 152, Issue 11, 2005.

  2617. Electrothermal characterization of silicon-on-glass VDMOSFETs
    N. Nenadovic; V. Cuoco; A. Griffo; H. Schellevis; L. K. Nanver; J. W. Slotboom; S. J. C. H Theeuwen; H. F. F. Jos;
    IEEE-Microelectronics Reliability,
    Volume 45, Issue 3-4, pp. 541-550, Mar. 2005.

  2618. Analysis of the Kirk effect in silicon-based bipolar transistors with a nonuniform collector profile
    R.J.E. Hueting; R. van der Toorn;
    IEEE Trans. Electron Devices,
    Volume 52, Issue 11, pp. 2489-2495, 2005.

  2619. Spray coating of photoresist for pattern transfer on high topography surfaces
    N P Pham; J.N.Burghartz; P.M. Sarro;
    J. Micromech. Microeng.,
    Volume 15, pp. 691-697, 2005.

  2620. Dependence of Single-Crystalline Si Thin-Film Transistor Characteristics on the Channel Position inside a Location-Controlled Grain
    V. Rana; R. Ishihara; Y. Hiroshima; D. Abe; S. Inoue; T. Shimoda; J.W.Metselaar; C. I.M. Beenakker;
    IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices,
    Volume 52, Issue 12, Dec. 2005.

  2621. GaAs 0.5 dB NF dual-loop negative-feedback broadband low-noise amplifier IC
    J. Xu; B. Woestenburg; J. Geralt bij de Vaate; W.A. Serdijn;
    Electronics Letters,
    Volume 41, Issue 14, pp. 780-782, July 7 2005.
    document

  2622. A Compact nA/V Triode-MOSFET Transconductor
    J.A. de Lima; W.A. Serdijn;
    Electronics Letters,
    Volume 41, Issue 20, pp. 1113-1114, Sept. 29 2005.
    document

  2623. Log-domain wavelet bases
    S.A.P. Haddad; S. Bagga; W.A. Serdijn;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems?I,
    Volume 52, Issue 10, pp. 2023-2032, Oct. 2005.
    document

  2624. Infinite bandwidth long slot array antenna
    A. Neto; J.J. Lee;
    IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters,
    Volume 4, pp. 75-78, 2005.
    document

  2625. Comments and reply on \"Infinite bandwidth long slot array antenna\"
    A. Neto; J.J. Lee;
    IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters,
    Volume 4, Issue 1, pp. 497, 2005.
    document

  2626. Design guidelines for terahertz mixers and detectors
    P. Focardi; R. Mc Grath; A. Neto;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 53, Issue 5, pp. 1653-1661, May 2005.
    document

  2627. The leaky lens: a broad-band, fixed-beam leaky-wave antenna
    A. Neto; S. Bruni; G. Gerini; M. Sabbadini;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 53, Issue 10, pp. 3240-3246, October 2005.
    document

  2628. Problem-matched basis functions for microstrip coupled slot antennas based on transmission line Green\s functions"
    S. Bruni; N. Llombart; A. Neto; G. Gerini; S. Maci;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 53, Issue 11, pp. 4060-4063, November 2005.
    document

  2629. Planar circularly symmetric EBG structures for reducing surface waves in printed antennas
    N. Llombart; A. Neto; G. Gerini; P.J. de Maagt;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 53, Issue 10, pp. 3210-3218, October 2005.
    document

  2630. A novel concept for a mid-field microscope
    M.W. Docter; I.T. Young; V.G. Kutchoukov; A. Bossche; P.F.A. Alkemade; Y. Garini;
    Proceedings of SPIE- International Society for Optical Engineering,
    Volume 5703, pp. 118-126, 2005.

  2631. Pre-distorted sinewave-driven parallel-plate electrostatic actuator for harmonic displacement
    G. de Graaf; L. Mol; L.A. Rocha; E. Cretu; R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering,
    Volume 15, pp. 103-108, 2005.

  2632. Thermo-electric characterization of APCVD PolySi/sub 0.7/Ge/sub 0.3/ for IC-compatible fabrication of integrated lateral Peltier elements
    D.D.L. Wijngaards; R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices,
    Volume 52, Issue 5, pp. 1014-1025, 2005.

  2633. Multiplexing control of a multichannel piezoelectric deformable mirror
    H. Song; A.N. Simonov; G.V. Vdovin;
    Proceedings of SPIE- International Society for Optical Engineering,
    Volume 6018, pp. F-1-F-12, 2005.

  2634. Phase extraction from three and more interferograms registered with different unknown wavefront tilts
    O.A. Soloviev; G.V. Vdovin;
    Optics Express,
    Volume 13, Issue 10, pp. 3743-3753, 2005.

  2635. Fabrication of nanofluidic devices in glass with polysilicon electrodes
    V.G. Kutchoukov; L. Pakula; G.O.F. Parikesit; Y. Garini; L.K. Nanver; A. Bossche;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume 123-124, pp. 602-607, 2005. 100% EI.

  2636. Measuring and interpreting the mechanical-thermal noise spectrum in a MEMS
    L.A. Rocha; E. Cretu; R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering,
    Volume 15, pp. 30-38, 2005.

  2637. A lab-on-a-chip for spectrophotometric analysis of biological fluids
    G. Minas; R.F. Wolffenbuttel; J.H. Correia;
    Lab On a Chip: microfluidic and nanotechnologies for chemistry, biology, and bioengineering,
    Volume 5, Issue 11, pp. 1303-1309, 2005.

  2638. Subjective adaptive correction of the abberations of the human eye
    G.V. Vdovin; M. Loktev; A.N. Simonov; V. Kijko; S. Volkov;
    Journal of Optical Technology,
    Volume 72, Issue 3, pp. 284-286, 2005.

  2639. MEMS-based mechanical spectrum analyzer
    L.A. Rocha; E. Cretu; R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement,
    Volume 54, Issue 3, pp. 1260-1265, 2005.

  2640. Hartmann-Shack test with random masks for modal wavefront reconstruction
    O.A. Soloviev; G.V. Vdovin;
    Optics Express,
    Volume 13, Issue 23, pp. 9570-9584, 2005.

  2641. MEMS-based optical mini- and microspectrometers for the visible and infrared spectral range
    R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering,
    Volume 15, pp. 145-152, 2005.

  2642. C- and L-band planar delay interferometer for DPSK decoders
    J. Gamet; G. Pandraud;
    IEEE Photonics Technology Letters,
    Volume 17, Issue 6, pp. 1217-1219, 2005.

  2643. A SU-8 fluidic microsystem for biological fluids analysis
    D.J. Ribeiro; G. Minas; P.B. Turmezei; R.F. Wolffenbuttel; J.H. Correia;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume 123-124, pp. 77-81, 2005.

  2644. Spectral performance of a micromachined infrared spectrum analyzer in silicon
    S.H. Kong; R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement,
    Volume 54, Issue 1, pp. 264-267, 2005.

  2645. A porous SiC ammonia sensor
    E.J. Connolly; B. Timmer; T.M.H. Pham; J. Groeneweg; P.M. Sarro; W. Olthuis; P.J. French;
    Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical: international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume 109, Issue 1, pp. 44-46, 2005. 50/50 EI/ECTM-sb.

  2646. Field matching Y-branch for low loss power splitter
    J. Gamet; G. Pandraud;
    Optics Communications,
    Volume 248, Issue 4-6, pp. 423-429, 2005.

  2647. Electroosmotic flow analysis of a branched U-turn nanofluidic device
    G.O.F. Parikesit; A.P. Markesteijn; V.G. Kutchoukov; O.M. Piciu; A. Bossche; J. Westerweel; Y. Garini; I.T. Young;
    Lab On a Chip: microfluidic and nanotechnologies for chemistry, biology, and bioengineering,
    Issue 5, pp. 1067-1074, 2005.

  2648. Adaptive correction of human-eye aberrations in a subjective feedback loop
    G.V. Vdovin; M. Loktev; A.N. Simonov; V. Kijko; S. Volkov;
    Optics Letters,
    Volume 30, Issue 7, pp. 795-797, 2005.

  2649. Biomimetic strain-sensing microstructure for improved strain sensor: fabrication results and optical characterization
    D.H.B. Wicaksono; J.F.V. Vincent; G. Pandraud; G. Craciun; P.J. French;
    Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering,
    Volume 15, pp. 72-81, 2005.

  2650. Experimental study of bent SiC optical waveguides
    G. Pandraud; P.J. French; P.M. Sarro;
    Microwave & Optical Technology Letters,
    Volume 47, Issue 3, pp. 219-220, 2005. 100% EI, sb.

  2651. A low-cost and accurate interface for four-electrode conductivity sensors
    X. Li; G.C.M. Meijer;
    IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement,
    Volume 54, Issue 6, pp. 2433-2437, 2005.

  2652. Light scanner based on a viscoelastic stretchable grating
    A.N. Simonov; G.V. Vdovin; O. Akhazar-Mehr;
    Optics Letters,
    Volume 30, Issue 9, pp. 949-951, 2005.

  2653. The noise performance of a high-speed capacitive-sensor interface based on a relaxation oscillator and a fast counter
    M. Gasulla; X. Li; G.C.M. Meijer;
    IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Magazine,
    Volume 54, Issue 5, pp. 1934-1940, 2005.

  2654. Nanoliter array advances: miniaturized, high-speed PCR sensing & control
    I.T. Young; V.P. Iordanov; H.R.C. Dietrich; A. Bossche;
    IEEE Sensors Journal,
    pp. 2919-2922, 2005.

  2655. Study of ic compatible on-chip thermoelectric coolers
    S.H. Kong; D.D.L. Wijngaards; R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. Part 2, Letters & Express Lettres,
    Volume 44, Issue 7B, pp. 5736-5739, 2005.

  2656. Optical detection of electrokinetically manipulated single molecules in a nanofluidic chip
    G.O.F. Parikesit; V.G. Kutchoukov; A. Bossche; I.T. Young; Y. Garini;
    Proceedings of SPIE- International Society for Optical Engineering,
    Volume 5718, pp. 133-141, 2005.

  2657. Adaptive wire bow-tie antenna for GPR applications
    AA Lestari; A Yarovoy; LP Ligthart;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 53, Issue 5, pp. 1745--1754, 2005.

  2658. Ultra-wideband 3D image processing for improving landmine detection with gpr
    E Ligthart; A Yarovoy; F Roth; LP Ligthart;
    Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology,
    Volume 2, pp. 9--15, 2005.

  2659. Optical detection of single molecules in nanofluidic chips
    G.O.F. Parikesit; V.G. Kutchoukov; W. van Oel; G.F. Liqui Lung; A. Bossche; I.T. Young; Y. Garini;
    Proceedings of SPIE- International Society for Optical Engineering,
    Volume 5718, pp. 133-141, 2005. phpub 39.

  2660. A CMOS smart temperature sensor with a 3σ inaccuracy of ±0.1°C from -55°C to 125°C
    M. A. P. Pertijs; K. A. A. Makinwa; J. H. Huijsing;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 40, Issue 12, pp. 2805‒2815, December 2005. (JSSC Best Paper Award). DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2005.858476
    Abstract: ... A smart temperature sensor in 0.7 μm CMOS is accurate to within ±0.1°C (3σ) over the full military temperature range of -55°C to 125°C. The sensor uses substrate PNP transistors to measure temperature. Errors resulting from nonidealities in the readout circuitry are reduced to the 0.01°C level. This is achieved by using dynamic element matching, a chopped current-gain independent PTAT bias circuit, and a low-offset second-order sigma-delta ADC that combines chopping and correlated double sampling. Spread of the base-emitter voltage characteristics of the substrate PNP transistors is compensated by trimming, based on a calibration at one temperature. A high trimming resolution is obtained by using a sigma-delta current DAC to fine-tune the bias current of the bipolar transistors.

  2661. A CMOS smart temperature sensor with a 3σ inaccuracy of ±0.5°C from -50°C to 120°C
    M. A. P. Pertijs; A. Niederkorn; X. Ma; B. McKillop; A. Bakker; J. H. Huijsing;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 40, Issue 2, pp. 454‒461, February 2005. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2004.841013
    Abstract: ... A low-cost temperature sensor with on-chip sigma-delta ADC and digital bus interface was realized in a 0.5 μm CMOS process. Substrate PNP transistors are used for temperature sensing and for generating the ADC's reference voltage. To obtain a high initial accuracy in the readout circuitry, chopper amplifiers and dynamic element matching are used. High linearity is obtained by using second-order curvature correction. With these measures, the sensor's temperature error is dominated by spread on the base-emitter voltage of the PNP transistors. This is trimmed after packaging by comparing the sensor's output with the die temperature measured using an extra on-chip calibration transistor. Compared to traditional calibration techniques, this procedure is much faster and therefore reduces production costs. The sensor is accurate to within ±0.5°C (3σ) from -50°C to 120°C.

  2662. Surface-passivated high-resistivity silicon as a true microwave substrate
    Spirito, M.; De Paola, F.M.; Nanver, L.K.; Valletta, E.; Bifeng Rong; Rejaei, B.; de Vreede, L.C.N.; Burghartz, J.N.;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 53, Issue 7, pp. 2340-2347, 2005. DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2005.850435

  2663. Heat-assisted magnetic probe recording on a CoNi/Pt multilayered film
    Onoue, T.; Siekman, M. H.; Abelmann, L.; Lodder, J. C.;
    Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials,
    Volume 287, Issue SPEC. ISS., pp. 501 – 506, 2005. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmmm.2004.10.083
    Keywords: ... Coercive force; Demagnetization; Electric currents; Magnetic field effects; Magnetic films; Magnetic storage; Multilayers; Heat assist; Magnetic force microscopy; Probe recording; Magnetic recording.

    Abstract: ... Heat-assisted magnetic probe recording on a CoNi/Pt multilayered film is demonstrated by delivering a current through a magnetic force microscopy tip into the recording medium, in combination with an external magnetic field. Without local heating by the probe, no bits could be written because the external field exceeds a level that demagnetizes the medium in its entirety due to local variations in the coercivity of the medium. In contrast, magnetic bits were successfully written by the heat-assisted magnetic probe recording into a saturated medium even if there was no external field, because of the demagnetization field from the surrounding of the heated area. A magnetic bit as small as 80 nm in diameter was obtained by this method. © 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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  2664. Fabrication of patterned magnetic nanodots by laser interference lithography
    Murillo, R.; Van Wolferen, H. A.; Abelmann, L.; Lodder, J. C.;
    Microelectronic Engineering,
    Volume 78-79, Issue 1-4, pp. 260 – 265, 2005. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1016/j.mee.2005.01.004
    Keywords: ... Antireflection coatings; Data storage equipment; Ion beams; Lithography; Magnetic materials; Photoresists; Spin coating; Laser interference lithography; Magnetic dots; Nanodots; Patterned media; Nanostructured materials.

    Abstract: ... A method of fabrication of patterned magnetic nanodots by means of laser interference lithography is presented. This method includes the use of a diluted positive photoresist, and modifications in the etching angle and acceleration voltage of the ion beam etching process. Vertical standing waves were suppressed by using a high exposure dose (supra-exposure) instead of an antireflective coating. Field dependent magnetic force microscopy was used to measure the switching field distribution, which was found to range from 80 to 192 kA/m. © 2005 Published by Elsevier B.V.

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  2665. A read and write element for magnetic probe recording
    Craus, C. B.; Onoue, T.; Ramst{\"o}ck, K.; Geerts, W. G. M. A.; Siekman, M. H.; Abelmann, L.; Lodder, J. C.;
    Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics,
    Volume 38, Issue 3, pp. 363 – 370, 2005. DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/38/3/002
    Keywords: ... Atomic force microscopy; Computer simulation; Etching; Ion beams; Magnetic anisotropy; Magnetic domains; Magnetoresistance; Microelectromechanical devices; Parameter estimation; Photolithography; Demagnetizing energy; Ion beam etching; Micromagnetic simulations; Scanning probe microscopy (SPM); Magnetic recording.

    Abstract: ... We present our results on the development of magnetic sensors for application in magnetic probe recording. Successful writing experiments on a magnetic medium with perpendicular anisotropy show that magnetic domains of 130 nm can be reversed in a heat-assisted process. For reading purposes we propose a magnetoresistive sensor. The optimization of the shape of the sensor was performed using micromagnetic simulations with the requirement that the sensor has to be capable of both read and write operations. At this stage, the experimental realization of the sensor was carried out at a wafer-base level. The fabrication technique consists of a combination of optical lithography and focused ion beam etching.

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  2666. Chip-interleaved block-spread CDMA versus DS-CDMA for cellular downlink: a comparative study
    S. Zhou; P. Xia; G. Leus; G.B. Giannakis;
    IEEE Tr. Wireless Comm.,
    Volume 3, Issue 1, pp. 176-190, January 2004.
    document

  2667. Editorial
    A.J. van der Veen;
    IEEE Signal Processing Letters,
    Volume 11, Issue 2, pp. 65-66, February 2004.
    document

  2668. Space-time frequency-shift keying
    G. Leus; W. Zhao; G.B. Giannakis; H. Delic;
    IEEE Trans. Communications,
    Volume 52, Issue 3, pp. 346-349, March 2004.
    document

  2669. Constant Modulus and Reduced PAPR Block Differential Encoding for Frequency-Selective Channels
    Y. Larsen; G. Leus; G.B. Giannakis;
    IEEE Trans. Communications,
    Volume 52, Issue 4, pp. 622-631, April 2004.
    document

  2670. An interference-suppressing RAKE receiver for the CDMA downlink
    S. Mudulodu; G. Leus; A. Paulraj;
    IEEE Signal Proc. Letters,
    Volume 11, Issue 5, pp. 521-524, May 2004.
    document

  2671. Space-Time Chip Equalization for Maximum Diversity Space-Time Block Coded DS-CDMA Downlink Transmission
    G. Leus; F. Petre; M. Moonen;
    EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing,
    Issue 5, pp. 740-750, May 2004.
    document

  2672. Orthogonal design of unitary constellations for uncoded and trellis-coded noncoherent space-time systems
    W. Zhao; G. Leus; G.B. Giannakis;
    IEEE Tr. Informat. Th.,
    Volume 50, Issue 6, pp. 1319-1327, June 2004.
    document

  2673. A low-complexity blind multi-user receiver for Long-Code WCDMA
    H.Q. Dang; A.J. van der Veen;
    Eurasip J. Wireless Comm. Netw.,
    Volume 2004, Issue 1, pp. 113-122, August 2004.
    document

  2674. Multi-carrier block-spread CDMA for broadband cellular downlink
    F. Petre; G. Leus; M. Moonen; H. De Man;
    Eurasip J. Applied Signal Proc.,
    Volume 2004, Issue 10, pp. 1568-1584, August 2004.

  2675. Improved initialization for time domain equalization in ADSL
    K. Van Acker; G. Leus; M. Moonen; T. Pollet;
    Signal Processing,
    Volume 84, Issue 10, pp. 1898-1908, October 2004.

  2676. Time-domain and Frequency-domain per-tone equalization for OFDM in doubly-selective channels
    I. Barhumi; G. Leus; M. Moonen;
    Signal Processing,
    Volume 84, Issue 11, pp. 2055-2066, November 2004.

  2677. Impulsive sound reflection from an absorptive and dispersive planar boundary
    C.H. Lam; B.J. Kooij; A.T. de Hoop;
    Journal of the Acoustical Soc. of America,
    Volume 116, Issue 2, pp. 677-685, August 2004.

  2678. Array signal processing for radio astronomy
    A.J. van der Veen; A. Leshem; A.J. Boonstra;
    Experimental Astronomy (EXPA),
    Volume 17, Issue 1-3, pp. 231-249, 2004. ISSN 0922-6435.
    document

  2679. A Perceptual Subspace Approach for Modelling of Speech and Audio Signals with Damped Sinusoids
    Jesper Jensen; Richard Heusdens; S.H. Jensen;
    IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Proc.,
    Volume 12, Issue 2, pp. 121-132, March 2004.

  2680. Analysis of dynamic non-linearities in pipeline ADCs
    Taherzadeh-Sani, M.; R. Lotfi; Shoaei, O.;
    IEICE Transactions on Electronics,
    Volume E87-C, Issue 6, pp. 976-984, 2004.

  2681. Pseudo-class-AB telescopic-cascode operational amplifier
    Taherzadeh-Sani, M.; R. Lotfi; Shoaei, O.;
    Electronics Letters,
    Volume 40, Issue 4, pp. 219-221, 2004.

  2682. The history and development of pacemakers: an electronics perspective
    S.A.P. Haddad, R. Houben; W.A. Serdijn;
    Klinische Fysica,
    Issue 1, pp. 8-15, 2004. invited paper.

  2683. A Switched-MOSFET Programmable Low-Voltage Filter
    L.C.C. Marques; W.A. Serdijn;
    Journal of Integrated Circuits and Systems,
    Volume 1, Issue 1, March 2004. invited paper, ISSN: 1807-1953.

  2684. Relative humidity sensors using porous SiC membranes and Al electrodes
    E. J. Connolly; H. T. M. Pham; J. Groeneweg; P. M. Sarro; P. J. French;
    Sensors and Actuators B,
    Volume 100, Issue 1-2, 2004, pp. 216-220, 2004.

  2685. Fabrication of a CMOS compatible pressure sensor for harsh environment
    L.S.Pakula; H.Yang; H.T.M.Pham; P.J. French; P.M. Sarro;
    J. Micromech. Microeng.,
    Volume 14, Issue 11, pp. 1478-1483, 2004.

  2686. Electro-deposition of high-quality conformal resist layers for MEMS, Advances in electronics manufacturing Technology
    C.M.A.Ashruf; L.D.M. van d.Brekel; G.J.Bertens; E.Boellard; N.P.Pham; M.Heschel;
    V-EMT,
    Volume 1, Issue 19, pp. 1-4, Sep. 2004.

  2687. Filter-protected photodiodes for high-throughput enzymatic analysis
    V.P. Iordanov; J.Bastermeijer; R.Ishihara; P.M. Sarro; A.Bossche; M.Vellekoop;
    IEEE Sensors Journal,
    Volume 4, Issue 5, pp. 584-588, Oct. 2004.

  2688. Optical modelling of thin-film silicon solar cells deposited on textured substrates
    J. Krc; M. Zeman; F. Smole; M. Topic;
    Thin Solid Films,
    Jan. 2004.

  2689. Integrated Coulter counter based on 2-dimensional liquid aperture control
    J.H. Nieuwenhuis; F. Kohl; J. Bastemeijer; P.M. Sarro; M.J. Vellekoop;
    Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical,
    2004.

  2690. Metal patterning on high topography surface for 3D RF devices fabrication
    N.P. Pham; E. Boellaard; W. Wien; L.D.M. van den Brekel; J.N. Burghartz; P.M. Sarro;
    Sensors and Actuators A,
    Volume 115, pp. 557-562, Mar. 2004.

  2691. Microfluidic sensor based on integrated optical hollow waveguides
    S.Campopiano; R.Bernini; L.Zeni; P.M. Sarro;
    Optics letters,
    Volume 29, Issue 16, pp. 1894-1896, Aug. 2004.

  2692. Optimization of a-SiGe:H solar cells with graded intrinsic layers using integrated optical and electrical modeling
    B.E. Pieters; M. Zeman; R.A.C.M.M. van Swaaij; W.J. Metselaar;
    Thin Solid Films,
    Volume 451, pp. 294, 2004.

  2693. Integrated Coulter counter based on 2-dimensional liquid aperture control
    J. H. Nieuwenhuis; F. Kohl; J. Bastemeijer; P. M. Sarro; M. J. Vellekoop;
    Sensors and Actuators B,
    Volume 102, Issue 1, pp. 44-50, 2004.

  2694. Arrow optical waveguides based sensors
    R.Bernini; S.Campopiano; L.Zeni; P.M. Sarro;
    Sensors and Actuators B,
    Volume 100, Issue 1-2, pp. 143-146, 2004.

  2695. Organized structures obtained from urethane/urea elastomers
    M.H. Godinho; A.C. Trindade; J.L. Figueirinhas; D. Vidal; L.V. Melo; P. Brogueira;
    Metals,
    Volume 147, Issue 1-3, pp. 209-213, Dec. 2004.

  2696. Concept and performance of field-effect amorphous silicon solar cell
    N. Matsuki; Y. Abiko; K. Miyazaki; M. Kobayashi; H.Fujioka; H. Koinuma;
    Semicond. Sci. Technol,
    Volume 19, Issue 1, pp. 61-64, Jan. 2004.

  2697. Novel low-temperature processing of low noise SDDs with on-detector electronics
    J. Sonsky; R. Koornneef; J. Huizenga; R.W. Hollander; L.K. Nanver; T. Scholtes; F. Roozeboom; C.W.E. van Eijk;
    Nuclear Instruments and Methods Physics Research Section A,
    Volume 517, Issue 1-3, pp. 301-312, Jan. 2004.

  2698. Limit Cycle Oscillations in CW Laser Driven NEMS
    Keith Aubin; Maxim Zalalutdinov; Tuncay Alan; Robert Reichenbach; Richard Rand; Alan Zehnder; Jeevak Parpia; Harold Craighead;
    J. Microelectromech. Syst.,
    Volume 13, pp. 1018, 2004.

  2699. Stress-assisted nickel-induced crystallization of silicon on glass
    P. Hashemi; J. Derakhshandeh; S. Mohajerzadeh; M. Robertson; A. Tonita;
    Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A (JVSTA),
    Volume 22, Issue 3, pp. 966-970, May 2004.

  2700. Photoresist Coating Methods for the Integration of Novel 3-D RF Microstructures
    N.P. Pham; E. Boellaard; J.N. Burghartz; P.M. Sarro;
    Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems,
    Volume 13, Issue 3, pp. 491-499, Jun. 2004. ISSN 1057-7157.

  2701. Novel network control in hydrogenated amorphous silicon by molecular beam deposition method
    N. Matsuki; M. Kondo; A. Matsuda;
    J. Non-Cryst. Solid,
    Volume 338-340, pp. 382-385, Jun. 2004.

  2702. Polymer interconnections for 3D-chip stacking technology: directional volume patterning of flexible substrates with conducting polymer wires
    C.Videlot; J. Ackermann; F.Fages; T.N.Nguyen; L.Wang; P.M. Sarro; D.Crawley; K.Nikolic; M.Forshaw;
    J. Micromech. Microeng.,
    Volume 14, pp. 1618-1624, 2004.

  2703. The role of the silyl radical in plasma deposition of microcrystalline silicon
    C. Smit; R.A.C.M.M. van Swaaij; E. A. G. Hamers; M. C. M. van de Sanden;
    J. Appl. Phys.,
    Volume 96, pp. 4076, 2004.

  2704. Electrothermal Limitations on the Current Density of High-Frequency Bipolar Transistors
    Nebojsa Nenadovic; Lis K. Nanver; Jan W. Slotboom;
    IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices,
    Volume 51, Issue 12, pp. 2175-2180, Dec. 2004.

  2705. A Back-Wafer Contacted Silicon-On-Glass Integrated Bipolar Process - Part II: A Novel Analysis of Thermal Breakdown
    N. Nenadovic; V. d Alessandro; L.K. Nanver; F. Tamigi; N. Rinaldi; J.W. Slotboom;
    IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices,
    Volume 51, Issue 1, pp. 51-62, Jan. 2004.

  2706. A Back-Wafer Contacted Silicon-On-Glass Integrated Bipolar Process - Part I: The Conflict Electrical Versus Thermal Isolation
    L.K. Nanver; N. Nenadovic; V. d Alessandro; H. H. Schellevis; W. van Zeijl; R. Dekker; D.B. de Mooij; V. Zieren; J.W. Slotboom;
    IEEE Trans. on Electron Devices,
    Volume 51, Issue 1, pp. 42-50, Jan. 2004.

  2707. Extraction and Modeling of Self-Heating and Mutual Thermal Coupling Impedance of Bipolar Transistors
    N. Nenadovic; S. Mijalkovic; L.K. Nanver; L.J.K. Vandamme; V. Alessandro; H. Schellevis; J.W. Slotboom;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 39, Issue 10, pp. 1764-1772, Oct. 2004. ISSN 0018-9200.

  2708. High-speed wavefront sensor compatible with standard CMOS technology
    D. W. de Lima Monteiro; G. Vdovin; P. M. Sarro;
    Sensors and Actuators A,
    Volume 109, Issue 3, pp. 220-230, Jan. 2004.

  2709. A pulsed laser ablation / plasma chemical vapor deposition cluster system for combinatorial device fabrication
    N. Matsuki; Y. Abiko; M. Kobayashi; K. Miyazaki; H. Fujioka; H. Koinuma;
    Applied Physics A,
    Volume 79, Issue 4-6, pp. 1413-1416, Sep. 2004.

  2710. RF power silicon-on-glass VDMOSFETs
    N. Nenadovic; V. Cuoco; S.J.C.H. Theeuwen; H. Schellevis; G. Spierings; A. Griffo; M. Pelk; L.K. Nanver; R.F.F. Jos; J.W. Slotboom;
    IEEE Electron Device Letters,
    Volume 25, Issue 6, pp. 424-426, Jun. 2004.

  2711. Gel-layer- assisted, directional electropolymerization: a versatile method for high resolution volume and/or surface patterning of flexible substrates with conjugated polymers
    J. Ackermann; C.Videlot; T.N.Nguyen; L.Wang; P.M. Sarro;
    Advanced Materials,
    Volume 16, Issue 19, 2004.

  2712. Input impedance of small-width slots fed by very small-gap printed between two dielectric media
    A. Neto; S. Maci;
    IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters,
    Volume 3, Issue 1, pp. 113-116, December 2004.
    document

  2713. Green\s function of an infinite slot printed between two homogeneous dielectrics. Part II: uniform asymptotic solution
    A. Neto; S. Maci;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 52, Issue 3, pp. 666-676, March 2004.
    document

  2714. The saturation current of silicon bipolar transistors at moderate stress levels and its relation to the energy-band structure
    J.F. Creemer; P.J. French;
    Journal of Applied Physics,
    Volume 96, Issue 8, pp. 4530-4538, 2004.

  2715. Galvanic etch stop for Si in KOH
    E. Connolly; P.J. French; J.J. Kelly;
    Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering,
    Volume 14, pp. 1215-1219, 2004.

  2716. Illumination source identification using a CMOS optical microsystem
    G. de Graaf; R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement,
    Volume 53, Issue 2, pp. 238-242, 2004. ed.is niet bekend.

  2717. Systematic design exploration of Delta-Sigma ADCs
    O. Bajdechi; G.G.E. Gielen; J.H. Huijsing;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Part 1: Fundamental Theory and Applications,
    Volume 51, Issue 1, pp. 86-95, 2004.

  2718. Fabrication of nanofluidic devices using glass-to-glass anodic bonding
    V.G. Kutchoukov; F. Laugere; W. van der Vlist; L. Pakula; Y. Garini; A. Bossche;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume 114, Issue 2-3, pp. 521-527, 2004. phpub 18.

  2719. Fabrication of a CMOS compatible pressure sensor for harsh environments
    L. Pakula; H. Yang; T.M.H. Pham; P.J. French; P.M. Sarro;
    Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering,
    Volume 14, pp. 1478-1483, 2004. ed.is niet bekend.

  2720. Analysis and analitycal modeling of static pull-in with application to MEMS-based voltage reference and process monitoring
    L.A. Rocha; E. Cretu; R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    IEEE Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems,
    Volume 13, Issue 2, pp. 342-354, 2004.

  2721. The Meyer-Neldel rule for diodes in forward bias
    R. Widenhorn; M. Fitzgibbons; E. Bodegom;
    Journal of Applied Physics,
    Volume 96, Issue 12, pp. 7379-7382, 2004. ed.is niet bekend.

  2722. Interlocking mechanical and fluidic interconnections for microfluidic circuits boards
    B.L. Gray; S.D. Collins; R.L. Smith;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume 112, pp. 18-24, 2004.

  2723. Dispersion resulting from wide passband shape in 50-GHz-spaced wavelength router
    J. Gamet; G. Pandraud; A.P. Vonsovici;
    Optical Engineering,
    Volume 43, Issue 7, pp. 1474-1475, 2004.

  2724. Sensors for catheter applications
    P.J. French; D. Tanase; J.F.L. Goosen;
    Sensors Update,
    Volume 13, Issue 1, pp. 107-153, 2004. ed. is Allen, M en Crooks, RM.

  2725. Compensation of temperature effects on the pull-in voltage of microstructures
    L.A. Rocha; E. Cretu; R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume 115, pp. 351-356, 2004.

  2726. An array of Fabry-Perot optical-channels for biological fluids analysis
    G. Minas; J.C. Ribeiro; J.S. Martins; R.F. Wolffenbuttel; J.H. Correia;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume 115, pp. 362-367, 2004. ed. is niet bekend.

  2727. Electrical and magnetic properties of NdTiO3+delta
    E. Connolly; R.J.D. Tilley; A. Arulraj; R. Gundakaram; C.N.R. Rao;
    Journal of Alloys and Compounds,
    Volume 388, Issue 1, pp. 153-157, 2004. ed. is niet bekend.

  2728. State-of-the-art in integrated optical microspectrometers
    R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement,
    Volume 53, Issue 1, pp. 197-202, 2004. ed. is niet bekend.

  2729. High resolution microscopy implemented by photon-plasmon interaction
    Y. Garini; V.G. Kutchoukov; P.F.A. Alkemade; I.T. Young;
    Cytometry,
    Volume 59A, Issue 1, pp. 101-101, 2004. phpub 42(?).

  2730. Integrated Coulter counter based on 2-dimensional liquid aperture control
    J.H. Nieuwenhuis; F. Kohl; J. Bastemeijer; P.M. Sarro; M.J. Vellekoop;
    Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical: international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume 102, Issue 1, pp. 44-50, 2004. ed. is niet bekend.

  2731. Relative humidity sensors using porous SiC membranes and Al electrodes
    E. Connolly; H.M.T. Pham; J. Groeneweg; P.M. Sarro; P.J. French;
    Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical: international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume 100, pp. 216-220, 2004. 50-50 EI-ECTM.

  2732. Electro-deposition for high-quality conformal resist layers for MEMS
    C.M.A. Ashruf; L.D.M. van den Brekel; G.J. Bertens; E. Boellaard; P.N. Pham; M. Heschel;
    Advances in electronics manufacturing technology,
    Volume 1, Issue 19, pp. 1-4, 2004. ed. is niet bekend.

  2733. On-line electrical impedance measurement for monitoring blood viscosity during on-pump heart surgery
    G.A.M. Pop; T.L.M. de Backer; M. de Jong; P.C. Struijk; L. Moraru; Z.Y. Chang; H.G. Goovaerts; C.J. Slager; AJJC bogers;
    European Surgical Research: clinical and experimental surgery,
    Volume 36, Issue 5, pp. 259-265, 2004.

  2734. Single-chip micro-thermostat applying both active heating and active cooling
    D.D.L. Wijngaards; G. de Graaf; R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume 110, pp. 187-195, 2004. ed. is niet bekend.

  2735. Optical CMOS sensor system for detection of light sources
    G. de Graaf; R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume 110, pp. 77-81, 2004. ed. is niet bekend.

  2736. Nano-array advances: Light measurement & temperature control
    I.T. Young; V.P. Iordanov; A.R. Kroon; H.R.C. Dietrich; L.R. van den Doel; A. Bossche; P.M. Sarro; G. van DedemWK;
    Cytometry,
    Volume 59A, Issue 1, pp. 53-53, 2004. phpub 31.

  2737. Comparison between bulk micromachined and CMOS X-ray detectors
    J.G. Rocha; C.G.J. Schabmueller; N.F. Ramos; S. Lanceros-Mendez; M.V. Moreira; A.G.R. Evans; R.F. Wolffenbuttel; J.H. Correia;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume 115, pp. 215-220, 2004. ed. is niet bekend.

  2738. Blood electrical impedance closely matches whole blood viscosity as parameter of hemorheology and inflammation
    G.A.M. Pop; W.J. Hop; L. Moraru; M. Jagt; J. Quak; D. Dekkers; Z.Y. Chang; F.J. Gijsen; DJ Duncker; C.J. Slager;
    Applied Rheology: Fliessverhalten steuern,
    Volume 13, Issue 6, pp. 305-312, 2004.

  2739. Operation modes of a liquid-crystal modal wave-front corrector
    M. Loktev; G.V. Vdovin; I.R. Guralnik;
    Applied Optics,
    Volume 43, Issue 11, pp. 2209-2225, 2004.

  2740. Magnetic-based navigation system for endovascular interventions
    D. Tanase; J.F.L. Goosen; N.H. Bakker; P.J. Trimp; J.A. Reekers; P.J. French;
    Klinische Fysica,
    Issue 1, pp. 3-7, 2004.

  2741. Catheter-based impedance measurements in the right atrium for continuously monitoring hematocrit and estimating blood viscosity changes; an in vivo feasibility study in swine
    G.A.M. Pop; Z.Y. Chang; C.J. Slager; B.J. Kooij; E.D. van Deel; L. Moraru; J. Quak; G.C.M. Meijer; DJ Duncker;
    Biosensors and Bioelectronics,
    Volume 19, Issue 12, pp. 1685-1693, 2004.

  2742. Through-wafer interconnect technology for silicon
    V.G. Kutchoukov; M. Shikida; J.R. Mollinger; A. Bossche;
    Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering,
    Volume 14, pp. 1029-1036, 2004.

  2743. Full characterisation of pull-in in single-sided clamped beams
    L.A. Rocha; E. Cretu; R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume 110, pp. 301-309, 2004.

  2744. CMOS X-rays detector array based on scintillating light guides
    J.G. Rocha; N.F. Ramos; S. Lanceros-Mendez; R.F. Wolffenbuttel; J.H. Correia;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume 110, pp. 119-123, 2004. ed. is niet bekend.

  2745. Ultralow-loss 1 X 8 splitter based on field matching Y junction
    J. Gamet; G. Pandraud;
    IEEE Photonics Technology Letters,
    Volume 16, Issue 9, pp. 2060-2062, 2004.

  2746. Toward the development of a three-dimensional midfield microscope
    Y. Garini; V.G. Kutchoukov; A. Bossche; P.F.A. Alkemade; M.W. Docter; P.W. Verbeek; L. van VlietJ; I.T. Young;
    Proceedings of SPIE- International Society for Optical Engineering,
    Volume 5327, pp. 115-122, 2004. phpub 13.

  2747. Biological microsystems for measuring uric acid in biological fluids
    G. Minas; J.S. Martins; J.C. Ribeiro; R.F. Wolffenbuttel; J.H. Correia;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume 110, pp. 33-38, 2004. ed. is niet bekend.

  2748. Filter-protected photodiodes for high-throughput enzymatic analysis
    V.P. Iordanov; J. Bastemeijer; R. Ishihara; P.M. Sarro; A. Bossche; M.J. Vellekoop;
    IEEE Sensors Journal,
    Volume 4, Issue 5, pp. 584-588, 2004. 50-50 ECTM-EI.

  2749. Behavioural analysis of the pull-in dynamic transition
    L.A. Rocha; E. Cretu; R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering,
    Volume 14, pp. S37-S42, 2004.

  2750. Ground influence on the impute impedance of transient dipole and Bow-Tie antennas
    AA Lestari; A Yarovoy; LP Ligthart;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 52, Issue 8, pp. 1970--1975, 2004.

  2751. Numerical and experimental analysis of circular-end wire bow-tie antennas over a lossy ground
    AA Lestari; A Yarovoy; LP Ligthart;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 52, Issue 1, pp. 26--35, 2004.

  2752. Numerical simulations of the scattered field near a statistically rough air-ground interface
    A Yarovoy; CN Vazouras; JG Fikioris; LP Ligthart;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 52, Issue 3, pp. 780--789, 2004.

  2753. RC-loaded bow-tie antenna for improved pulse radiation
    AA Lestari; A Yarovoy; LP Ligthart;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 52, Issue 10, pp. 2555--2563, 2004.

  2754. Precision temperature measurement using CMOS substrate PNP transistors
    M. A. P. Pertijs; G. C. M. Meijer; J. H. Huijsing;
    IEEE Sensors Journal,
    Volume 4, Issue 3, pp. 294‒300, June 2004. DOI: 10.1109/jsen.2004.826742
    Abstract: ... This paper analyzes the nonidealities of temperature sensors based on substrate pnp transistors and shows how their influence can be minimized. It focuses on temperature measurement using the difference between the base-emitter voltages of a transistor operated at two current densities. This difference is proportional to absolute temperature (PTAT). The effects of series resistance, current-gain variation, high-level injection, and the Early effect on the accuracy of this PTAT voltage are discussed. The results of measurements made on substrate pnp transistors in a standard 0.5μm CMOS process are presented to illustrate the effects of these nonidealities. It is shown that the modeling of the PTAT voltage can be improved by taking the temperature dependency of the effective emission coefficient into account using the reverse Early effect. With this refinement, the temperature can be extracted from the measurement data with an absolute accuracy of ±0.1°C in the range of -50 to 130°C.

  2755. On the design of unilateral dual-loop feedback low-noise amplifiers with simultaneous noise, impedance, and IIP3 match
    van der Heijden, M.P.; de Vreede, L.C.N.; Burghartz, J.N.;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 39, Issue 10, pp. 1727-1736, 2004. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2004.833759

  2756. A model for mark size dependence on field emission voltage in heat-assisted magnetic probe recording on CoNi/Pt multilayers
    Zhang, Li; Bain, James A.; Zhu, Jian-Gang; Abelmann, Leon; Onoue, Takahiro;
    IEEE Transactions on Magnetics,
    Volume 40, Issue 4 II, pp. 2549 – 2551, 2004. DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2004.830220
    Keywords: ... Diffusion; Field emission cathodes; Magnetic recording; Magnetic storage; Probes; Scanning tunneling microscopy; Size determination; Thermal effects; Threshold voltage; Field emission; High-density recording; Prolate spheroidal coordinates; Multilayers.

    Abstract: ... A method of heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) potentially suitable for probe-based storage systems is characterized. In this work, Held emission current from a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) tip is used as the heating source. Pulse voltages of 2-7 V with a duration of 500 ns were applied to a CoNi/Pt multilayered film. Different types of Ir/Pt and W STM tips were used in the experiment. The results show that thermally recorded magnetic marks are formed with a nearly uniform mark size of 170 nm when the pulse voltage is above a threshold voltage. The threshold voltage depends on the material work function of the tip, with W having a threshold voltage about 1 V lower than Pt. The emission area of our tip-sample system derived from an analytic expression for field emission current is approximately equal to the mark size, and is largely independent of pulse voltage. This emission area is large compared to lateral heat diffusion in the film. Thus higher applied voltages lead to higher peak temperatures in the model of the write process, but the mark diameter remains relatively unchanged.

    document

  2757. Probe recording on CoNi/Pt multilayered thin films by using an MFM tip
    Onoue, T.; Siekman, M. H.; Abelmann, L.; Lodder, J. C.;
    Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials,
    Volume 272-276, Issue III, pp. 2317 – 2318, 2004. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmmm.2003.12.940
    Keywords: ... Cobalt compounds; Magnetic amplifiers; Magnetic couplings; Magnetic materials; Magnetization; Multilayers; Probes; Thin films; CoNi/Pt multilayer; Exchange coupling; Magnetic bits; Probe recording; Magnetic recording.

    Abstract: ... Reversed single magnetic bits of 130nm in diameter were successfully written in a CoNi/Pt multilayered film by means of magnetic probe recording. A weak exchange coupled layer deposited onto a stronger exchange coupled layer effectively induces a local magnetic reversal, which results in the formation of small and stable magnetic bits. © 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

    document

  2758. Finite sample identifiability of multiple constant modulus sources
    A. Leshem; N. Petrochilos; A.J. van der Veen;
    IEEE Tr. Information Theory,
    Volume 49, Issue 9, pp. 2314-2319, September 2003.
    document

  2759. Gain calibration methods for radio telescope arrays
    A.J. Boonstra; A.J. van der Veen;
    IEEE Tr. Signal Processing,
    Volume 51, Issue 1, pp. 25-38, January 2003.
    document

  2760. Blind Decorrelating RAKE Receivers for Long-Code WCDMA
    Lang Tong; Alle-Jan van der Veen; Patrick Dewilde; Youngchul Sung;
    IEEE Tr. Signal Processing,
    Volume 51, Issue 6, pp. 1642-1655, June 2003.
    document

  2761. Analysis of Joint Angle-Frequency Estimation using ESPRIT
    A.N. Lemma; A.J. van der Veen; E.F. Deprettere;
    IEEE Tr. Signal Proc.,
    Volume 51, Issue 5, pp. 1264-1283, May 2003.
    document

  2762. Subband Merging in Cosine-Modulated Filter Banks
    O.A. Niamut; Richard Heusdens;
    IEEE Signal Processing Letters,
    Volume 10, Issue 4, pp. 111-114, April 2003.

  2763. Low-power design techniques for low-voltage fast-settling operational amplifiers in switched-capacitor applications
    R. Lotfi; Taherzadeh-Sani, M., Yaser Azizi, M., Shoaei, O.;
    Integration, the VLSI Journal,
    Volume 36, Issue 4, pp. 175-189, 2003.

  2764. Phase-Field Modelling of Excimer Laser Lateral Crustallization of Silicon Thin Films
    A. Burtsev; M. Apel; R. Ishihara; C.I.M. Beenakker;
    Thin Solid Films,
    Volume 427, Issue 1-2, pp. 309-313, Mar. 2003.

  2765. Photoluminescence properties of a-Si:H based thin films and corresponding solar cells
    E. Pincik; H. Kobayashi; et al;
    Thin Solid Films,
    Volume 433, Issue 1-2, pp. 344-351, Jun. 2003.

  2766. Effect of surface roughness of ZnO:Al films on light scattering in hydrogenated amorphous silicon solar cells
    J. Krc; M. Zeman; O. Kluth; F. Smole; M. Topic;
    Thin Solid Films,
    Volume 426, Issue 1-2, pp. 296-304, Feb. 2003.

  2767. Advanced excimer-laser crystallization process for single-crystalline thin film transistors
    R. Ishihara; P.Ch. van der Wilt; B.D. van Dijk; A. Burtsev; J.W. Metselaar; C.I.M. Beenakker;
    Thin Solid Films,
    Volume 427, Issue 1-2, pp. 77-85, Mar. 2003.

  2768. Spatial light modulators based on micromachined reflective membranes on viscoelastic layers
    S. Sakarya; G. Vdovin; P.M. Sarro;
    Sensors and Actuators A,
    Volume 108, Issue 1-3, pp. 271-275, Nov. 2003.

  2769. Three terminals optoelectronics devices integrated into a silicon on silicon waveguide
    G. Coppola; A. Irace; G. Breglio; M. Iodice; L. Zeni; A. Cutolo; P.M. Sarro;
    Optics and Lasers Engineering,
    Volume 39, Issue 3, pp. 317-332, Mar. 2003. ISSN 0143-8166.

  2770. Photoluminescence properties of a-Si:H based thin films and corresponding solar cells
    E. Pincik; H. Kobayashi; H. Gleskova; M. Kucera; L. Ortega; M. Jergel; C. Falcony; R. Brunner; T. Shimizu; V. Nadazdy; M. Zeman; M. Mikula; M. Kumeda; R.A.C.M.M. van Swaaij;
    Thin Solid Films,
    Volume 433, 2003.

  2771. X-ray grazing incidence study of inhomogeneous strain relaxation in Si/SiGe wires
    A. Daniel; Y. Zhuang; V. Holy; J. Stangl; S. Zerlauth; F. Schaffler; G. Bauer; N. Darowski; U. Pietsch;
    Nuclear Instruments and Methods Physics Research B,
    Volume 200C, pp. 267-272, 2003.

  2772. Determining the material structure of microcrystalline silicon from Raman spectra
    C. Smit; R.A.C.M.M. van Swaaij; H. Donker; A.M.H.N. Petit; W.M.M. Kessels; M.C.M. van de Sanden;
    J. Appl. Phys.,
    Volume 94, 2003.

  2773. Transient analysis of a high-speed thermo-optic modulator integrated in an all-silicon waveguide
    M. Iodice; F.G. Della Corte; I. Rendina; P.M. Sarro; M. Bellucci;
    Optical-Engineering,
    Volume 42, Issue 1, pp. 169-175, Jan. 2003.

  2774. Electrical Characteristics of Plasma-Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposited Silicon Carbide Thin Films
    H.T.M. Pham; T. Akkaya; C.R. de Boer; P.M. Sarro;
    Material Science Forum,
    Volume 433-436, pp. 451-454, 2003. ISSN 0255-5476.

  2775. Fabrication of crystalline membranes oriented in the (111) plane in a (100) silicon wafer
    W.J. Venstra; P.M. Sarro;
    Microelectronic Engineering,
    Volume 67-68, pp. 502-507, Jun. 2003.

  2776. Characterization of front- to backwafer bulk micromachining using electrical overlay test structures
    H. W. van Zeijl; J. Slabbekoorn;
    J. Micromech. Microeng,
    Volume 13, Issue 4, pp. S108-S112, Jul. 2003. ISSN 0960-1317.

  2777. On the Design of RF Spiral Inductors on Silicon
    J.N. Burghartz; B. Rejaei;
    IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices,
    Volume 50, Issue 3, pp. 718-729, 2003.

  2778. 3D molecular interconnection technology
    D. Crawley; K. Nikolic; M. Forshaw; J. Ackermann; C. Videlot; T.N. Nguyen; L. Wang; P.M. Sarro;
    J. Micromech. Microeng,
    Volume 13, Issue 5, pp. 655-662, Jun. 2003.

  2779. Patterned FeNi thin film for RF and microwave components
    M. Vroubel; Y. Zhuang; B. Rejaei; J.N. Burghartz;
    Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials,
    Volume 258-259, pp. 167-169, Mar. 2003. ISSN 0304-8853.

  2780. Substrate Transfer for RF Technologies
    R. Dekker; P.G.M. Baltus; H.G.R. Maas;
    IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices,
    Volume 50, Issue 3, pp. 747-757, Mar. 2003.

  2781. One chip photovoltaic water electrolysis device
    Y. Yamada; N. Matsuki; T. Ohmori; H. Mametsuka; M. Kondo; A. Matsuda; E. Suzuki;
    Int. J. Hydrogen Energy,
    Volume 28, Issue 11, pp. 1167-1169, Nov. 2003.

  2782. Planar antiresonant reflecting optical waveguides as integrated optical refractometer
    R. Bernini; S. Campopiano; L. Zeni; C. de Boer; P.M. Sarro;
    IEEE Sensors Journal,
    Volume 3, Issue 5, pp. 652-657, Oct. 2003.

  2783. Power amplifier PAE and ruggedness optimization by second-harmonic control
    M. Spirito; L.C.N. de Vreede; L.K. Nanver; S. Weber; J.N. Burghartz;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 38, Issue 9, pp. 1575-1583, 2003.

  2784. Self-Adjustment of Micro-mechatronic Systems
    M. Tichem; B. Karpuschewski; P.M. Sarro;
    Annals of the CIRP,
    Volume 52, Issue 1, pp. 17-20, 2003.

  2785. Integrated Solenoid Inductors with Patterned Sputter-Deposited Cr/Fe10Co90/Cr Ferromagnetic Cores
    Y. Zhuang; B. Rejaei; E. Boullaard; M. Vroubel; J.N. Burghartz;
    IEEE Electron Device Letters,
    Volume 24, Issue 4, pp. 224-226, 2003.

  2786. Miniaturized analytical assays in biotechnology
    R.A. Guijt-van Duijn; et al;
    Biotechnology Advances,
    Volume 21, Issue 5, pp. 431-444, Aug. 2003.

  2787. Micro-patterning of self-supporting layers with conducting polymer wires for 3D-chip interconnection applications
    J. Ackermann; C. Videlot; T.N. Nguyen; L. Wang; P.M. Sarro; D. Crawley; K. Nikoli; M. Forshaw;
    Applied Surface Science,
    Volume 212-213, pp. 411-416, May 2003.

  2788. Polymeric amorphous carbon as p-type window within amorphous silicon solar cells
    R.U.A. Khan; S.R.P. Silva; R.A.C.M.M. van Swaaij;
    Appl. Phys. Lett.,
    Volume 82, pp. 3979, 2003.

  2789. On optical, electrical and structural properties of amorphous silicon based semiconductors
    E. Pincik; H. Kobayashi; J. Mullerov�; K. Gmucov�; M. Jergel; R. Brunner; M. Zeman; M. Zahoran;
    Acta Physica Slovaca,
    Volume 53, Issue 4, pp. 267-278, 2003.

  2790. WGEMLab - A simulation platform for the analysis of rectangular waveguide aperture radiation
    I. E. Lager; C. I. Coman; A.T. de Hoop;
    IEEE Transactions on Magnetics,
    Volume 39, Issue 3, pp. 1697-1700, May 2003.
    document

  2791. Application of the domain-integrated field relations method to the solution of large scale static and stationary magnetic field problems
    I. E. Lager; G. Mur;
    IEEE Transactions on Magnetics,
    Volume 38, Issue 2, pp. 465-468, March 2003.
    document

  2792. Finite formulation and domainintegrated field relations in electromagnetics - A synthesis
    I. E. Lager; E. Tonti; A. T. de Hoop; G. Mur; M. Marrone;
    IEEE Transactions on Magnetics,
    Volume 39, Issue 3, pp. 1199-1202, May 2003.
    document

  2793. Green\s function of an infinite slot printed between two homogeneous dielectrics. Part I: magnetic currents
    A. Neto; S. Maci;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 51, Issue 7, pp. 1572-1581, July 2003.
    document

  2794. Entire domain basis functions for the full wave analysis of coplanar waveguide excited slot antennas
    A. Neto; P.J.I. de Maagt; S. Maci;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 51, Issue 7, pp. 1638-1646, July 2003.
    document

  2795. Modified Reynold's equation and analytical analysis of squeeze-film air damping of perforated structures
    M. Bao; H. Yang; Y. Sun; P.J. French;
    Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering,
    Volume 13, pp. 795-800, 2003.

  2796. Miniaturized analytical assays in biotechnology
    R.M. van Guijt; R. Moerman; A.R. Kroon; G. van DedemWK; R. van den Doel; L. van Vliet; I.T. Young; F.P.J. Laugere; A. Bossche; P.M. Sarro;
    Biotechnology Advances: research reviews,
    Volume 21, Issue 5, pp. 431-444, 2003. 50/50 EI/ECTM.

  2797. Study on temperature stability improvement of on-chip reference elements using integrated Peltier coolers
    D.D.L. Wijngaards; R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement,
    Volume 52, Issue 2, pp. 478-482, 2003.

  2798. Monitoring enzymatic reactions with in situ sensors
    I.T. Young; V.P. Iordanov; A.R. Kroon; H.R.C. Dietrich; R. Moerman; L.R. van den Doel; G. van DedemWK; A. Bossche; B.L. Gray; P.M. Sarro; P.W. Verbeek; L. van VlietJ;
    Proceedings of SPIE- International Society for Optical Engineering,
    Volume 4966, pp. 76-82, 2003.

  2799. Stability of a micromechanical pull-in voltage reference
    L.A. Machado da Rocha; E. Cretu; R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement,
    Volume 52, Issue 2, pp. 457-460, 2003.

  2800. Fast sampling multiplex detector for a hetrodyne interferometer with angstrom precision
    O.A. Soloviev; G.V. Vdovin; ML. Krieg;
    Proceedings of SPIE- International Society for Optical Engineering,
    Volume 5036, pp. 25-30, 2003.

  2801. On the possibility of intraocular adaptive optics
    G.V. Vdovin; M. Loktev; A.F. Naumov;
    Optics Express,
    Volume 11, Issue 7, pp. 810-817, 2003.

  2802. Minimization of the mechanical-stress-induced inaccuracy in bandgap voltage reference
    F. Fruett; G.C.M. Meijer; A. Bakker;
    IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits,
    Volume 38, Issue 7, pp. 1288-1291, 2003.

  2803. Technology and electro-optical properties of modal liquid crystal wavefront correctors
    S.P. Kotova; P. Clark; I.R. Guralnik; N.A. Klimov; M.Y. Kvashnin; M. Loktev; G.D. Love; A.F. Naumov; M.A. Rakhmatulin; C.D. Saunter; G.V. Vdovin; O.A. Zayakin;
    Journal of Optics,
    Volume 5, pp. 231-238, 2003.

  2804. Leakage current modeling of test structures for characterization of dark current in CMOS image sensors
    N.V. Loukianova; H-O. Folkerts; J.P.V. Maas; D.W.E. Verbugt; A.J. Mierop; W. Hoekstra; E. Roks; A.J.P. Theuwissen;
    IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices,
    Volume 50, Issue 1, pp. 77-83, 2003.

  2805. A contactless capacitive angular-position sensor
    M. Gasulla; X.J. Li; G.C.M. Meijer; L. van der Ham; J.W. Spronck;
    IEEE Sensors Journal,
    Volume 3, Issue 5, pp. 607-613, 2003.

  2806. Single-mask microfabrication of aspherical optics using KOH anisotropic etching of Si
    D.W. de Lima Monteiro; O. Akhzar-Mehr; P.M. Sarro; G.V. Vdovin;
    Optics Express,
    Volume 11, Issue 18, pp. 2244-2252, 2003.

  2807. Compensation of packaging asymmetry in a 2-D wind sensor
    SP. Matova; K.A.A. Makinwa; J.H. Huijsing;
    IEEE Sensors Journal,
    Volume 3, Issue 6, pp. 761-765, 2003.

  2808. On-chip contactless four-electrode conductivity detection for capillary electrophoresis devices
    F.P.J. Laugere; R.M. van Guijt; J. Bastemeijer; G. van der Steen; A. Berthold; H.A. Baltussen; P.M. Sarro; G. van DedemWK; M.J. Vellekoop; A. Bossche;
    Analytical Chemistry,
    Volume 75, Issue 2, pp. 306-312, 2003.

  2809. Navigation system for endovascular interventions
    D. Tanase; J.F.L. Goosen; P.J. Trimp; J.A. Reekers; P.J. French;
    Minimally Invasive Therapy and Allied Technologies,
    Volume 12, Issue 3/4, 2003.

  2810. X-ray detector based on a bulk micromachined photodiode combined with a scintillating crystal
    J.G. Rocha; C.G.J. Schabmueller; N.F. Ramos; S. Lanceros-Mendez; M.F. Costa; A.G.R. Evans; R.F. Wolffenbuttel; J.H. Correia;
    Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering,
    Volume 13, Issue 4, pp. 45-50, 2003.

  2811. Integrated flow-cells for novel adjustable sheath flows
    J.H. Nieuwenhuis; J. Bastemeijer; P.M. Sarro; M.J. Vellekoop;
    Lab On a Chip: microfluidic and nanotechnologies for chemistry, biology, and bioengineering,
    Issue 3, pp. 56-61, 2003.

  2812. Monitoring enzymatic reactions in nanolitre wells
    I.T. Young; R. Moerman; L.R. van den Doel; V.P. Iordanov; A.R. Kroon; H.R.C. Dietrich; G. van DedemWK; A. Bossche; B.L. Gray; P.M. Sarro; P.W. Verbeek; L. van VlietJ;
    Journal of Microscopy,
    Volume 212, Issue 3, pp. 254-263, 2003. 50/50 EI/ECTM.

  2813. An image sensor which captures 100 consecutive frames at 1 000 000 frames/s
    T. Goji Etoh; D. Poggemann; G. Kreider; H. Mutoh; A.J.P. Theuwissen; A. Ruckelshausen; Y. Kondo; H. Maruno; K Takubo; H Soya; K Takehara; T Okinaka; Y Takano;
    IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices,
    Volume 50, Issue 1, pp. 144-151, 2003.

  2814. A 35-mm format 11 M pixel full-frame CCD for professional digital still imaging
    J.T. Bosiers; B.G.M. Dillen; C. Draijer; A.C. Kleimann; F.J. Polderdijk; M. de Wolf; W. Klaassens; A.J.P. Theuwissen; H.L. Peek; H-O. Folkerts;
    IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices,
    Volume 50, Issue 1, pp. 254-265, 2003.

  2815. Technique for widening passband of wavelength router
    G. Pandraud; A.P. Vonsovici;
    Electronics Letters,
    Volume 39, Issue 15, pp. 1119-1121, 2003.

  2816. Near-field optical sensors for particle shape measurements
    J.H. Nieuwenhuis; J. Bastemeijer; A. Bossche; M.J. Vellekoop;
    IEEE Sensors Journal,
    Volume 3, Issue 5, pp. 646-651, 2003.

  2817. Power amplifier PAE and ruggedness optimization by second-harmonic control
    Spirito, M.; de Vreede, L.C.N.; Nanver, L.K.; Weber, S.; Burghartz, J.N.;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 38, Issue 9, pp. 1575-1583, 2003. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2003.815918

  2818. High-Resolution MFM: Simulation of Tip Sharpening
    Saito, Hitoshi; Van den Bos, Arnout; Abelmann, Leon; Lodder, J. Cock;
    IEEE Transactions on Magnetics,
    Volume 39, Issue 5 II, pp. 3447 – 3449, 2003. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2003.816178
    Keywords: ... Computer simulation; Magnetization; Optical resolving power; Thermal noise; Magnetic force microscopy (MFM); Magnetic domains.

    Abstract: ... The transfer functions of tips with various sharpened tip ends were calculated and the resolution of these tips was estimated by considering the resolution limit due to thermal noise at room temperature. The tip having an ellipsoidal tip end (ellipsoidal tip) is found to be a suitable candidate for high-resolution magnetic force microscopy. Sharpening of the flat tip end makes zero signal frequencies disappear for tips with ellipticities larger than tan 45°. The sensitivity shows a maximum around an ellipticity of tan 80°. The ellipsoidal tip shows a much smaller tip thickness dependence compared to the tip having a flat tip end because only the tip end mainly contributes to signals in case of the ellipsoidal tip.

    document

  2819. Large capacity probe recording using storage robots
    Abelmann, L.; Bolhuis, T.; Hoexum, A. M.; Krijnen, G. J. M.; Lodder, J. C.;
    IEE Proceedings: Science, Measurement and Technology,
    Volume 150, Issue 5, pp. 218 – 221, 2003. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1049/ip-smt:20030693
    Keywords: ... Cellular arrays; Computer architecture; Data recording; Magnetic heads; Microactuators; Robots; Storage allocation (computer); Mass data storage system architecture; Storage robots; Data storage equipment.

    Abstract: ... The authors propose a concept in mass data storage system architecture, in which thousands of read/write heads, storage robots or StoBots move independently over a large, flat storage medium. This concept, which has not been previously proposed, offers new degrees of freedom in data storage systems design, which could lead to a superior performance over conventional systems such as hard disks and tape. The impact of different file system architectures on the access time and data-rate of the StoBot drive is investigated.

    document

  2820. Blind separation of rotating machine sources: bilinear forms and convolutive mixtures
    A. Ypma; A. Leshem; R. Duin;
    Neurocomputing,
    Volume 49, pp. 349-368, 2002.

  2821. Statistical performance analysis of the Algebraic Constant Modulus Algorithm
    A.J. van der Veen;
    IEEE Trans. Signal Processing,
    Volume 50, Issue 12, pp. 3083-3097, December 2002.
    document

  2822. Spatial Filtering of RF Interference in Radio Astronomy
    J. Raza; A.J. Boonstra; A.J. van der Veen;
    IEEE Signal Processing Letters,
    Volume 9, Issue 2, pp. 64-67, February 2002.
    document

  2823. Brune sections in the non-stationary case
    D. Alpay; V. Bolotnikov; P. Dewilde;
    Lin. Alg. Appl.,
    Volume 343-344, pp. 389-418, March 2002.
    document

  2824. Special issue on Structured and Infinite Systems of Linear Equations
    P. Dewilde; V. Olshevsky; A. Sayed;
    Lin. Alg. Appl.,
    Volume 343-344, pp. 1-4, March 2002.
    document

  2825. Comparison of porous silicon, porous polysilicon and porous silicon carbide as materials for humidity sensing applications
    E.J. Connolly; G.M. O Halloran; H.T.M. Pham; P.M. Sarro; P.J. French;
    Sensors and Actuators A,
    Volume 99, Issue 1-2, pp. 25-30, Apr. 2002.

  2826. A new model of the effect of mechanical stress on the saturation current of bipolar transistors
    J.F. Creemer; P.J. French;
    Sensors and Actuators A,
    Volume 97-98, pp. 289-295, Apr. 2002.

  2827. Polyimide sacrificial layer and novel materials for post-processing surface micromachining
    A. Bagolini; L. Pakula; T.L.M. Scholtes; H.T.M. Pham; P.J. French; P.M. Sarro;
    Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering,
    Volume 12, Issue 4, pp. 385-389, Jul. 2002. ISSN 0960-1317.

  2828. Temperature influence on etching deep holes with SF6/O2 cryogenic plasma
    G. Craciun; M.A. Blauw; E. van der Drift; P.M. Sarro; P.J. French;
    J. of Micromechanics Microengineering,
    Volume 12, Issue 4, pp. 390-394, Jul. 2002.

  2829. Investigation of Microstrips with NiFe Magnetic Thin Film (II): Modelling
    M. Vroubel; Y. Zhuang; B. Rejaei; J.N. Burghartz;
    Transactions of The Magnetic Society of Japan,
    Volume 2, Issue 5, pp. 371-376, Dec. 2002.

  2830. Properties of semiconductor surfaces covered with very thin insulating overlayers prepared by impacts of low-energy particles
    E. Pincic; H. Gleskovic; J. Mllerovic; V. Nadazdy; S. Mric; L. Ortega; M. Jergel; C. Falcony; R. Brunner; K. Gmucovic; M. Zeman; R.A.C.M.M. van Swaaij; M. Kucera; R. Juric; M. Zahoran;
    Vacuum,
    Volume 67, 131 (2002), 2002.

  2831. Technology of reflective membranes for spatial light modulators
    S. Sakarya; G. Vdovin; P.M. Sarro;
    Sensors and Actuators A,
    Volume 97-98, pp. 468-472, Apr. 2002.

  2832. Investigation of Microstrips with NiFe Magnetic Thin Film (I): Experiment
    Y. Zhuang. M. Vroubel; B. Rejaei; E. Boellaard; J.N. Burghartz;
    Transactions of The Magnetic Society of Japan,
    Volume 2, Issue 5, pp. 367-370, Dec. 2002.

  2833. Correlation between the results of charge deep-level transient spectroscopy and ESR techniques for undoped hydrogenated amorphous silicon
    V. N�dazdy; R. Durn_; I. Thurzo; E. Pinc�k; A. Nishida; J. Shimizu; M. Kumeda; T. Shimizu;
    Physical Review B,
    Volume 66, Issue 19, pp. 195211/1-195211, 2002. ISSN 0163-1829.

  2834. Silicon thin-film UV filter for NADH fluorescence analysis
    V.P. Iordanov; G.W. Lubking; R. R. IshiharaF. Wolffenbuttel; P.M. Sarro; M.J. Vellekoop;
    Sensors and Actuators A,
    Volume 97-98, pp. 161-166, Apr. 2002.

  2835. Mechanical Reliability of Silicon Wafers with Through-Wafer Vias for Wafer-Level Packaging
    A. Polyakov; M. Bartek; J.N. Burghartz;
    Microelectronics Reliability,
    Volume 42, Issue 9-11, pp. 1783-1788, 2002. ISSN 0026-2714.

  2836. X-ray spectroscopy with a Multi-anode Sawtooth Silicon Drift Detector: the diffusion process
    J. Sonsky; R.W.Hollander; P.M. Sarro; C.W.E. van Eijk;
    Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A,
    Volume 477, pp. 93-98, 2002. ISSN 0168-9002.

  2837. Current Assisted Germanium Induced Crystallization of amorphous silicon on glass
    J. Derakhshandeh; N. Golshani; S. Mohajerzadeh;
    Journal of Thin Solid Films,
    2002.

  2838. Through-wafer copper electroplating for 3-D interconnects
    N.T. Nguyen; E. Boellaard; N.P. Pham; V.G. Kutchoukov; G. Craciun; P.M. Sarro;
    Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering,
    Volume 12, Issue 4, pp. 395-399, Jul. 2002. ISSN 0960-1317.

  2839. Substrate effects in monolithic RF transformers on silicon
    K.T. Ng; B. Rejaei; J.N. Burghartz;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 50, Issue 1, pp. 377-383, Jan. 2002.

  2840. Structural characterization of highly boron doped SiGe/Si heterostructures
    J.F. Woitok; C.C.G. Visser; T.L.M. Scholtes;
    Materials Science and Engineering B,
    Volume 89, Issue 1-3, pp. 216-220, Feb. 2002. ISSN 0921-5107.

  2841. Optical modeling of a-Si:H solar cells deposited on textured glass/SnO2 substrates
    J. Krc; M. Zeman; F. Smole; M. Topic;
    Journal of Applied Physics,
    Volume 92, Issue 2, pp. 749-755, Jul. 2002.

  2842. Fast deposition of microcrystalline silicon with an expanding thermal plasma
    C. E. Smit.A.G. Hamers; B.A. Korevaar; R.A.C.M.M. van Swaaij; M.C.M. van de Sanden;
    J. Non-Cryst. Solids,
    Volume 299, pp. 98, 2002.

  2843. Photo carrier generation in bipolar transistors
    J.H. Klootwijk; J.W. Slotboom; M.S. Peter; V. Zieren; D.B. de Mooy;
    IEEE Trans. on Electron Devices,
    Volume 49, Issue 9, pp. 1628-1631, Sept. 2002.

  2844. Theory and design of an ultra-linear square-law approximated LDMOS power amplifier in class-AB operation
    M.P van der Heijden; H.C. de Graaff; L.C.N. de Vreede; J.R. Gajadharsing; J.N. Burghartz;
    IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 50, Issue 9, pp. 2176-2184, Sep. 2002.

  2845. A novel frequency-independent third-order intermodulation distortion cancellation technique for BJT amplifiers
    M.P. van der Heijden; H.C. de Graaff; L.C.N. de Vreede;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 37, Issue 9, pp. 1176-1183, Sep. 2002. ISSN 0018-9200.

  2846. GHz Band-Stop Microstrip Filter Using Patterned Ni78Fe22 Ferromagnetic Film
    Y. Zhuang; B. Rejaei; E. Boellaard; M. Vroubel; J.N. Burghartz;
    IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters,
    Volume 12, Issue 12, pp. 473-475, Dec. 2002.

  2847. Gain and Threshold-Current Calculation of V-Groove Quantum-Wire InGaAs-InP Laser
    D. M. Gvozdic; N. M. Nenadovic; A. Schlachetzki;
    IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics,
    Volume 38, Issue 12, pp. 1565-1579, Dec. 2002.

  2848. A Single-Chip CMOS Optical Microspectrometer with Light-to-Frequency Converter and Bus Interface
    J.H. Correia; G. de Graaf; M. Bartek; R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 37, Issue 10, pp. 1344-1347, Oct. 2002. ISSN 0018-9200.

  2849. Through-silicon-chip transmission lines
    K.T. Ng; E. Boellaard; N.P. Pham; J.N. Burghartz;
    Electronics Letters,
    Volume 38, Issue 13, pp. 640-641, Jun. 2002.

  2850. Fabrication of a glass-implemented microcapillary electrophoresis device with integrated contactless conductivity detection
    A. Berthold; F. Laugere; H. Schellevis; C.R. de Boer; M. Laros; R.M. Guijt; P.M. Sarro; M.J. Vellekoop;
    Electrophoresis,
    Volume 23, Issue 20, pp. 3511-3519, Oct. 2002. ISSN 0173-0835.

  2851. On the causes of spurious solutions in electromagnetics
    G. Mur; I. E. Lager;
    Electromagnetics,
    Volume 22, Issue 4, pp. 357-367, May 2002.
    document

  2852. The space-time integrated model of electromagnetic field computation
    A. T. de Hoop; I. E. Lager; P. Jorna;
    Electromagnetics,
    Volume 22, Issue 5, pp. 371-379, May 2002.
    document

  2853. Distributed sources on coplanar waveguides: application to photomixer based THz local oscillators
    D. Pasqualini; A. Neto; R. Wyss;
    Microwave and Optical Technology Letters,
    Volume 33, Issue 6, pp. 430-435, June 2002.
    document

  2854. Coplanar-waveguide-based terahertz hot-electron-bolometer mixers: improved embedding circuit description
    P. Focardi; A. Neto; R. Mc. Grath;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 50, Issue 10, pp. 2374-2383, October 2002.
    document

  2855. Nos limities da visão: um desafio para a óptica adaptativa
    D.W. de Lima Monteiro; G.V. Vdovin;
    Ciencia Hoje,
    Volume 32, Issue 188, pp. 40-45, 2002.

  2856. Multi-parameter sensor system with intravascular navigation for catheter/guide wire application
    D. Tanase; J.F.L. Goosen; P.J. Trimp; P.J. French;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume A 97-98, pp. 116-124, 2002.

  2857. Evaluation of vascular and interventional procedures with time-action analysis: a pilot study
    N.H. Bakker; D. Tanase; J.A. Reekers; C.A. Grimbergen;
    Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology,
    Volume 13, pp. 483-488, 2002.

  2858. Environment-induced failure modes of thin film resensors
    R. Kazinczi; J.R. Mollinger; A. Bossche;
    Journal of Microlithography, Microfabrication, and Microsystems,
    Volume 1, Issue 1, pp. 63-69, 2002.

  2859. Polysilicon: a versatile material for microsystems
    P.J. French;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume A 99, pp. 3-12, 2002.

  2860. Remote sensing and petroleum leakage: a review and case study
    F.D. van der Meer; P. Dijk; H. van der Werff; H. Yang;
    Terra Nova: the European journal of geosciences,
    Volume 24, Issue 1, pp. 1-17, 2002.

  2861. Technological aspects of a custom CMOS sensor for adaptive optics
    D.W. de Lima Monteiro; G.V. Vdovin; P.M. Sarro;
    Proceedings of SPIE- International Society for Optical Engineering,
    pp. 31-36, 2002.

  2862. Universal transducer interface: specifications and applications
    X. Li; F.M.L. van de Goes; G.C.M. Meijer; R. de Boer;
    Sensor Review: the international journal of sensing for industry,
    Volume 22, Issue 1, pp. 51-56, 2002.

  2863. A single-chip CMOS optical microspectrometer with light-to-frequency converter and bus interface
    J.H. Correia; G. de Graaf; M. Bartek; R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits,
    Volume 37, Issue 10, pp. 1344-1347, 2002.

  2864. Modal liquid crystal wavefront corrector
    S.P. Kotova; M.Y. Kvashnin; M.A. Rakhmatulin; O.A. Zayakin; I.R. Guralnik; N.A. Klimov; P. Clark; G.D. Love; A.F. Naumov; C.D. Saunter; M. Loktev; G.V. Vdovin; LV Toporkova;
    Optics Express,
    Volume 10, Issue 22, pp. 1258-1272, 2002. niet eerder opgevoerd.

  2865. Constant power operation of a two-dimensional flow sensor
    K.A.A. Makinwa; J.H. Huijsing;
    IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement,
    Volume 51, Issue 4, pp. 840-844, 2002.

  2866. Frame transfer CCDs for digital still cameras: concept, design, and evaluation
    J.T. Bosiers; A.C. Kleimann; H.C. van Kuijk; L. Le Cam; H.L. Peek; J.P. Maas; A.J.P. Theuwissen;
    IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices,
    Volume 49, Issue 3, pp. 377-386, 2002.

  2867. A novel electrochemical etching technique for n-type silicon
    S. Izuo; H. Ohji; P.J. French; K. Tsutsumi;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume A 97-98, pp. 720-724, 2002.

  2868. Through-wafer copper electroplating for three-dimensional interconnects
    N.T. Nguyen; E. Boellaard; N.P. Pham; V.G. Kutchoukov; G. Craciun; P.M. Sarro;
    Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering,
    Volume 12, pp. 395-399, 2002.

  2869. Design of an electronic interface for capacitively coupled four-electrode conductivity detection in capillary electrophoresis microchip
    F.P.J. Laugere; G.W. Lubking; J. Bastemeijer; M.J. Vellekoop;
    Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical: international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume B 83, pp. 104-108, 2002.

  2870. Polyimide sacrificial layer and novel materials for post-processing surface micromachining
    A. Bagolini; L. Pakula; T.L.M. Scholtes; T.M.H. Pham; P.J. French; P.M. Sarro;
    Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering,
    Volume 12, pp. 385-389, 2002.

  2871. A new model of the effect of mechanical stress on the saturation current of bipolar transistors
    J.F. Creemer; P.J. French;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume A 97-98, pp. 289-295, 2002.

  2872. Comparison of porous silicon, porous polysilicon and porous silicon carbide as materials for humidity sensing applications
    E. Connolly; G.M. O'Halloran; T.M.H. Pham; P.M. Sarro; P.J. French;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume A 99, pp. 25-30, 2002.

  2873. Advanced time-multiplexed plasma etching of high aspect ratio silicon structures
    M.A. Blauw; G. Craciun; W.G. Sloof; P.J. French; EW.J.M. van der Drift;
    Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology. Part B: Microelectronics and Nanometer Structures,
    Volume 20, Issue 6, pp. 3106-3110, 2002.

  2874. Technology of reflective manbranes for spatial light modulators
    S. Sakarya; G.V. Vdovin; P.M. Sarro;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume A 97-98, pp. 468-472, 2002.

  2875. Technology of spatial light modulators based on viscoelastic layers
    S. Sakarya; G.V. Vdovin; P.M. Sarro;
    Proceedings of SPIE- International Society for Optical Engineering,
    pp. 466-471, 2002.

  2876. Silicon thin-film UV filter for NADH fluorescence analysis
    V.P. Iordanov; G.W. Lubking; R. Ishihara; R.F. Wolffenbuttel; P.M. Sarro; M.J. Vellekoop;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume A 97-98, pp. 161-166, 2002.

  2877. A 1.8-V (delta epsilon) modulator interface for an electric microphone with on-chip reference
    O. Bajdechi; J.H. Huijsing;
    IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits,
    Volume 37, Issue 3, pp. 279-285, 2002.

  2878. Modal liquid crystal wavefront corrector
    S.P. Kotova; M.Y. Kvashnin; M.A. Rakhmatulin; O.A. Zayakin; I.R. Guralnik; N.A. Kimov; P. Clark; A.F. Naumov; C.D. Saunter; M. Loktev; G.V. Vdovin; LV Toporkova;
    Optics Express,
    Volume 10, Issue 22, pp. 1258-1272, 2002.

  2879. Through-wafer copper electroplating for three-dimensional interconnects
    N.T. Nguyen; E. Boellaard; N.P. Pham; V.G. Kutchoukov; G. Craciun; P.M. Sarro;
    Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering,
    Volume 12, pp. 395-399, 2002.

  2880. A smart wind sensor using thermal sigma-delta modulation techniques
    K.A.A. Makinwa; J.H. Huijsing;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume A 97-98, pp. 15-20, 2002.

  2881. A smart CMOS wind sensor
    K.A.A. Makinwa; J.H. Huijsing;
    IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference. Digest of Technical Papers,
    Volume 45, pp. 432-544, 2002.

  2882. An accurate interface for capacitive sensors
    X.J. Li; G.C.M. Meijer;
    IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement,
    Volume 51, Issue 5, pp. 935-939, 2002. niet eerder opgevoerd.

  2883. Temperature influence on etching deep holes with SF6/O2 cryogenic plasma
    G. Craciun; M.A. Blauw; EW.J.M. van der Drift; P.M. Sarro; P.J. French;
    Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering,
    Volume 12, pp. 390-394, 2002.

  2884. Fabrication of a glass-implemented microcapillary elettrophoresis device integrated contactless conductivity
    A. Berthold; F.P.J. Laugere; H. Schellevis; C.R. de Boer; M. Laros; R.M. van Guijt; P.M. Sarro; M.J. Vellekoop;
    Electrophoresis,
    Volume 23, Issue 21, pp. 3511-3519, 2002. wet 6.

  2885. MEMS technology in eletrical metrology
    R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    Japanese Jounal of the Society On Instrumentation and Control Engineering,
    Volume 41, Issue 1, pp. 102-107, 2002.

  2886. Considerations on contactless conductivity detection in capillary detection in capillary alectrophoresis
    H.A. Baltussen; R.M. van Guijt; G. van der Steen; F.P.J. Laugere; S. Baltussen; G. van DedemWK;
    Electrophoresis,
    Volume 23, Issue 17, pp. 2888-2893, 2002.

  2887. Deformable mirror with thermal actuators
    G.V. Vdovin; M. Loktev;
    Optics Letters,
    Volume 27, Issue 9, pp. 677-679, 2002.

  2888. Pillar structures with a sub-micron space fabricated by macroporous-based micromachining
    H. Ohji; S. Izuo; P.J. French; K. Tsutsumi;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume A 97-98, pp. 744-748, 2002.

  2889. Delft University of Technology labotory review
    P.J. French;
    Transactions of the institute of electrical engineers of Japan,
    Volume 121E, Issue 10, pp. 576-577, 2002.

  2890. A CMOS optical microspectrometer with light-to-frequency converter, bus interface, and stray-light compensation
    J.H. Correia; G. de Graaf; M. Bartek; R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement,
    Volume 50, Issue 6, pp. 1530-1537, 2002.

  2891. Electronic protection methods for conductivity detectors in micro capillary electrophoresis devices
    J. Bastemeijer; W. Lubking; F.P.J. Laugere; M.J. Vellekoop;
    Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical: international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume B 83, pp. 98-103, 2002.

  2892. Adaptive antenna for ground penetrating radar applications
    AA Lestari; A Yarovoy; LP Ligthart;
    IEE Conference Publication Series,
    Issue 2, pp. 228--231, 2002.

  2893. Analysis and design of improved antennas of GPR
    AA Lestari; A Yarovoy; LP Ligthart;
    Subsurface Sensing Technologies and Applications,
    Volume 3, Issue 4, pp. 295--326, 2002.

  2894. Data processing and imaging in GPR system dedicated for landmine detection
    J Groenenboom; A Yarovoy;
    Subsurface Sensing Technologies and Applications,
    Volume 3, Issue 4, pp. 387--402, 2002.

  2895. High-resolution full-polarimetric video impulse radar for landmine detection
    A Yarovoy; AD Schukin; IV Kaploun; LP Ligthart;
    IEE Conference Publication Series,
    Issue 2, pp. 205--209, 2002.

  2896. Polarimetric video impulse radar for landmine detection
    A Yarovoy; LP Ligthart;
    Subsurface Sensing Technologies and Applications,
    Volume 3, Issue 4, pp. 271--293, 2002.

  2897. The dielectric wedge antenna
    A Yarovoy; AD Schukin; IV Kaploun; LP Ligthart;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 50, Issue 10, pp. 1460--1472, 2002.

  2898. A novel frequency-independent third-order intermodulation distortion cancellation technique for BJT amplifiers
    van der Heijden, M.P.; de Graaff, H.C.; de Vreede, L.C.N.;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 37, Issue 9, pp. 1176-1183, 2002. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2002.801198

  2899. Theory and design of an ultra-linear square-law approximated LDMOS power amplifier in class-AB operation
    van der Heijden, M.P.; de Graaff, H.C.; de Vreede, L.C.N.; Gajadharsing, J.R.; Burghartz, J.N.;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 50, Issue 9, pp. 2176-2184, 2002. DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2002.802332

  2900. High resolution magnetic force microscopy using focused ion beam modified tips
    Phillips, G. N.; Siekman, M.; Abelmann, L.; Lodder, J. C.;
    Applied Physics Letters,
    Volume 81, Issue 5, pp. 865 – 867, 2002. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1063/1.1497434
    Keywords: ... Aspect ratio; Atomic force microscopy; Cobalt; Focused ion beams; Ions; Magnetic force microscopy; Magnetism; Thermal evaporation; Ambient conditions; Atomic force microscopes; Co films; CoNi/Pt multilayer; Focused ion beam milling; High aspect ratio; High resolution; Magnetic elements; Magnetic images; Magnetic shape; Nm resolution; Magnetic anisotropy.

    Abstract: ... Atomic force microscope tips coated by the thermal evaporation of a magnetic 30 nm thick Co film have been modified by focused ion beam milling with Ga+ ions to produce tips suitable for magnetic force microscopy. Such tips possess a planar magnetic element with high magnetic shape anisotropy, an extremely high aspect ratio of greater than 30:1, and an end radius of less than 25 nm. These tips have been used in a commercial atomic force microscope under ambient conditions to obtain 30 nm resolution magnetic images of an established CoNi/Pt multilayer reference sample. © 2002 American Institute of Physics.

    document

  2901. Performance of focused ion beam trimmed yoke-type magnetoresistive heads for magnetic microscopy
    Phillips, Gavin N.; Eisenberg, Martin; Draaisma, Eddie A.; Abelmann, Leon; Lodder, J. Cock;
    IEEE Transactions on Magnetics,
    Volume 38, Issue 5 II, pp. 3528 – 3535, 2002. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2002.802743
    Keywords: ... Finite element method; Ion implantation; Magnetic flux; Magnetic recording; Magnetic tape; Magnetoresistance; Microscopic examination; Ion beam trimming; Magnetic microscopy; Magnetic heads.

    Abstract: ... Thin-film yoke-type magnetoresistive (MR) tape heads with eight channels have been used for scanning magnetoresistance microscopy. The NiFe read flux guides of the channels have been trimmed down from 12 μm to widths varying between 5 μm and 100 nm by focused ion-beam milling with Ga + ions. The tape-bearing surface of the milled regions has been reconstructed in situ by the local deposition of Pt. Tracks with a minimum bit length of 1 μm have been written on Co-Ni-O metal evaporated tape and Co-γ-Fe 2O 3 particulate tape with trimmed and untrimmed write channels and have been successfully imaged with all the trimmed read channels. A linear decrease in readback voltage across the MR sensor is observed for channels possessing flux guides trimmed down to 2 μm, in agreement with finite-element modeling of the trimmed heads. The severe attenuation in readback voltage observed for flux guides trimmed below 2 μm is attributed to a combination of micromagnetic effects. Additionally, damage to the NiFe from Ga + ion implantation may make a minor contribution to the loss in sensor performance. A 65% drop in readback voltage is observed for a channel possessing a flux guide that was trimmed by 98.3% to 200 nm.

    document

  2902. Micromagnetic simulations of the domain structure and the magnetization reversal of Co50Ni50/Pt multilayer dots
    Sindhu, S.; Haast, M. A. M.; Ramst{\"o}ck, K.; Abelmann, L.; Lodder, J. C.;
    Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials,
    Volume 238, Issue 2-3, pp. 246 – 251, 2002. DOI: 10.1016/S0304-8853(01)00919-2
    Keywords: ... Cobalt compounds; Computer simulation; Electron energy levels; Laser applications; Lithography; Magnetic domains; Magnetic hysteresis; Magnetic storage; Magnetization; Switching; Laser interference lithography; Magnetic dots; Multilayers.

    Abstract: ... The domain structure and the switching field of Co50Ni50/Pt multilayer dots, prepared by laser interference lithography, were micromagnetically simulated. The simulations were carried out with a three-dimensional simulation package, optimized for large-scale problems. The single-domain state is the lowest energy state for dots with a diameter below 75nm. The switching field was computed by using suitable minimization techniques, and was used to analyze the effect of size, dot shape and edge defects. © 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

    document

  2903. Het E-paleozoicum
    P.M. Dewilde;
    Bits en Chips,
    Volume 3, Issue 12, pp. 19-20, June 2001.

  2904. Systems of Low Hankel Rank: a survey
    P.M. Dewilde;
    Contemporary mathematics,
    Volume 280, pp. 91-101, 2001.

  2905. Asymptotic properties of the Algebraic Constant Modulus Algorithm
    A.J. van der Veen;
    IEEE Trans. Signal Processing,
    Volume 49, Issue 8, pp. 1796-1807, August 2001.
    document

  2906. Multichannel detection of Gaussian signals with uncalibrated receivers
    A. Leshem; A.J. van der Veen;
    IEEE Signal Processing Letters,
    Volume 8, Issue 4, pp. 120-122, April 2001.
    document

  2907. Special issue on Signal processing for Multiuser Wireless Communications
    V. Poor; A.J. van der Veen; G.W. Wornell;
    Journal of Communications and Networks,
    Volume 3, Issue 3, pp. 193-195, September 2001.

  2908. $0^\sharp$ and elementary end extensions of $V_\kappa$
    A. Leshem;
    Proc. of the AMS,
    Volume 129, Issue 8, pp. 2445-2450, August 2001.

  2909. Exploring embedded-systems architectures with Artemis
    A.D. Pimentel; L.O. Hertzberger; P. Lieverse; P. van der Wolf; E.F. Deprettere;
    Computer,
    Volume 34, Issue 11, pp. 57-63, November 2001.

  2910. A Methodology for Architecture Exploration of Heterogenous Signal Processing Systems
    P. Lieverse; P. van der Wolf; K. Vissers; E.F. Deprettere;
    Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems for Signal, Image and Video Technology,
    Volume 29, Issue 3, pp. 197-207, November 2001.

  2911. A unified algebraic transformation approach for parallel recursive and adaptive filtering and SVD algorithms
    Jun Ma; K.K. Parhi; E.F. Deprettere;
    IEEE Tr. Signal Processing,
    Volume 49, Issue 2, pp. 424-437, February 2001.

  2912. Vers des systemes elektronique a basse puissance au quotidien, la micro-electronique a basse puissance, pourquoi et comment?
    R. van Leuken; R. Nouta;
    Elektor, Electronique et Micro-Informatique,
    Issue 272, pp. 70-75, February 2001.

  2913. Auf dem weg zu Low-Power-Elektronik-Systemen im Alltag, Low-Power-Mikroelektronique: Warum und wie?
    R. van Leuken; R. Nouta;
    Elektor, Elektronik und Computertechnik,
    Issue 4, pp. 56-60, April 2001.

  2914. Towards low-power everyday electronic systems, low-power microelectronics, why and how?
    R. van Leuken; R. Nouta;
    Elektor, The Electronics and Computer Magazine,
    pp. 10-15, July-August 2001.

  2915. De ontwikkeling van low-power systemen, het hoe en waarom van low-power elektronica
    R. van Leuken; R. Nouta;
    Elektuur, elektronica en computertechniek,
    Volume 451, pp. 58-63, May 2001.

  2916. The Geometry of Darlington Synthesis
    P.M. Dewilde;
    Int. J. of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science,
    Volume 11, Issue 6, 2001.

  2917. Effect of smooth nonlinear distortion on OFDM symbol error rate
    C. van den Bos; M.H.L. Kouwenhoven; W.A. Serdijn;
    IEEE Transactions on Communications,
    Volume 49, Issue 9, pp. 1510-1514, Sept. 2001.
    document

  2918. A generalised class of dynamic translinear circuits
    J. Mulder; W.A. Serdijn; A.C. van der Woerd; A.H.M. van Roermund;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-II,
    Volume 48, Issue 5, pp. 501-504, May 2001.
    document

  2919. Dynamic behavior of dynamic translinear circuits: the linear time-varying approximation
    F.M. Diepstraten; F.C.M. Kuijstermans; W.A. Serdijn; P. van der Kloet; A. van Staveren; F.L. Neerhoff; C.J.M. Verhoeven; A.H.M. van Roermund;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I,
    Volume 48, Issue 11, pp. 1333-1337, Nov. 2001.
    document

  2920. The piezojunction effect in silicon sensors and circuits and its relation to piezoresistance
    J.F. Creemer; F. Fruett; G.C.M. Meijer; P.J. French;
    IEEE Sensors Journal,
    Volume 1, pp. 98-108, 2001.

  2921. Improved compact modeling of output conductance and cutoff frequency of bipolar transistors
    J.C.J. Paasschens; W.J. Kloosterman; R.J. Havens; H.C. de Graaff;
    IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 36, Issue 9, pp. 1390-1398, Sept. 2001.

  2922. A Combined TEM and Time-Resolved Optical Reflectivity Investigation Into The Excimer-Laser Crystallization of a-Si Films
    F. Voogt; R. Ishihara;
    Thin Solid Films,
    Volume 383, pp. 45-47, 2001.

  2923. Effect of Front and Back Contact Roughness on Optical Properties of Single Junction a-Si:H Solar Cells
    M. Zeman; R.A.C.M.M. van Swaaij; M. Zuiddam; J.W. Metselaar; R.E.I. Schropp;
    Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells,
    Volume 66, Issue 1-4, pp. 353-359, 2001.

  2924. Molecular-hydrogen interaction with a-SiC (100)3x2 and c(4x2) surfaces and with Si atomic lines
    V. Derycke; P. Fonteneau; N.P. Pham; P. Soukiassian;
    Physical Review B,
    Volume 63, Issue 20, pp. 201305/1-201305, May 2001. ISSN 0163-1829.

  2925. Combinatorial fabrication process for a-Si:H thin film transistors
    H. Aiyer; and R. Maruyama; H. Shinno; N. Matsuki; K. Miyazaki; H. Fujioka; H. Koinuma;
    Jpn. J. Appl. Phys,
    Volume 40, Issue 1A/B, pp. L81-L83, Jan. 2001.

  2926. Epitaxy and device behaviour of collector-up SiGe HBTs with a partial p-type collector
    L.C.M. van den Oever; L.K. Nanver; T.L.M. Scholtes; H.W. van Zeijl; W. van Noort; Q.W. Ren; J.W. Slotboom;
    Solid-State Electronics,
    Volume 45, Issue 11, pp. 1899-1904, 2001. ISBN: 0038-1101.

  2927. Introduction to the 2000 bipolar/BiCMOS circuits and technology meeting
    L.C.N. de Vreede;
    IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 36, Issue 9, pp. 1371-1372, Sept. 2001.

  2928. Structural and electronic properties of ZnSe/AlAs heterostructures
    S. Rubini; E. Milocco; L. Sorba; E. Pelucchi; A. Franciosi; A. Garulli; A. Parisini; Y. Zhuang; G. Bauer;
    Physical Review B,
    Volume 63, Issue 15, pp. 155312, 2001.

  2929. GID study of strains in Si due to patterned SiO2
    A. Daniel; V. Holy; Y. Zhuang; T. Roch; J. Grenzer; Z. Bochnicek; G. Bauer;
    Journal of Physics D (Applied Physics),
    Volume 34, Issue 10, pp. 197-202, 2001.

  2930. Diffusion of single quantum well Si1-xGex/Si layers under vacancy supersaturation
    M. Griglione; T.J. Anderson; M.E. Law; K.S. Jones; A. van den Bogaard; M. Puga-Lambers;
    Journal of Applied Physics,
    Volume 89, Issue 5, pp. 2904-2906, Mar. 2001. ISSN 0021-8979.

  2931. Spatial effects on ideality factor of amorphous silicon pin diodes
    M.A. Kroon; R.A.C.M.M. van Swaaij;
    J. Appl. Phys.,
    Volume 90, Issue 2, pp. 994, 2001.

  2932. Status and Trends of Silicon RF Technology
    J.N. Burghartz;
    Microelectronics Reliability,
    Volume 41, Issue 1, pp. 13-19, Jan. 2001.

  2933. Structure of thin polycrystalline silicon films on ceramic substrates
    A.J.M.M. van Zutphen; P. Zutta; F.D. Tichelaar; A. von Keitz; M. Zeman; J.W. Metselaar;
    Journal of Crystal Growth,
    Volume 223, pp. 332-340, 2001.

  2934. Thin photodiodes for a neutron scintillator silicon-well detector
    C.P. Allier; R.W. Hollander; C.W.E. van Eijk; P.M. Sarro; M. de Boer; J.B. Czirr; J.P. Chaminade; C. Fouassier;
    IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science,
    Volume 48, Issue 4, pp. 1154-1157, Aug. 2001.

  2935. Al/Si contacting of ultra-shallow epitaxially grown Si and SiGe junctions
    Q.W. Ren; L.K. Nanver; C.C.G. Visser; J.W. Slotboom;
    Journal of Materials Science: Materials Electronics,
    Volume 12, Issue 4-6, pp. 313-316, Apr. 2001. ISBN 0957-4522.

  2936. Electrical Detection and Simulation of Stress in Silicon Nitride Spacer Technology
    H.W. van Zeijl; S. Mijalkovic; L.K. Nanver;
    Journal of Material Science: Materials Electronics,
    Volume 12, pp. 339-341, 2001. ISBN: 0957-4522.

  2937. Arsenic-spike epi-layer technology applied to bipolar transistors
    W.D. van Noort; L.K. Nanver; J.W. Slotboom;
    IEEE Tr. Electr. Dev.,
    Volume 48, Issue 11, pp. 2500-2505, 2001.

  2938. A CMOS optical microspectrometer with light-to-frequency converter, bus interface, and stray-light compensation
    J.H. Correia; G. de Graaf; M. Bartek; R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    IEEE Trans. on Instrumentation and Measurement,
    Volume 50, Issue 6, pp. 1530-1537, Dec. 2001.

  2939. Bulk micromachined electrostatic RMS-to-DC converter
    G. de Graaf; M. Bartek; Z. Xiao; C.J. van Mullem; R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    IEEE Trans. on Instrumentation and Measurement,
    Volume 50, Issue 6, pp. 1508-1512, Dec. 2001.

  2940. Multi-anode sawtooth SDD for X-ray spectroscopy fabricated on NTD wafers
    J. Sonsky; R.W. Hollander; C.W.E. van Eijk; P.M. Sarro; V. Kouchpil;
    IEEE Trans. on Nuclear Science,
    Volume 48, pp. 258-261, 2001. ISSN 0018-9499.

  2941. IC-compatible two-level bulk micromachining process module for RF silicon technology
    N.P. Pham; P.M. Sarro; K.T. Ng; J.N. Burghartz;
    IEEE Tr. Electron Devices,
    Volume 48, Issue 8, pp. 1756-1764, Aug. 2001.

  2942. Reduction of UHF power transistor distortion with a nonuniform collector doping profile
    W.D. van Noort; H.F.F. Jos; L.C.N. de Vreede; L.K. Nanver; J.W. Slotboom;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 36, Issue 9, pp. 1399-1406, Sept. 2001.

  2943. Hydrogen production from solar light energy by photovoltaic water electrolysis
    T. Ohmori; H. Go; Y. Yamada; N. Matsuki; N. Yamaguchi; A. Nakayama; H. Mametsuka; E. Suzuki;
    Chem. Ind. Chem. Eng. Qualt,
    Volume 7, Issue 4, pp. 535-540, Dec. 2001.

  2944. Integrated silicon microspectrometers
    S.-H. Kong; J.H. Correia; G. de Graaf; M. Bartek; R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Magazine,
    Volume 4, Issue 3, pp. 34-38, Sept. 2001.

  2945. Formation of location-controlled crystalline islands using substrate-embedded-seeds in excimer-laser crystallization of silicon films
    P.Ch. van der Wilt; B.D. van Dijk; G.J. Bertens; R. Ishihara; C.I.M. Beenakker;
    Appl. Phys. Lett.,
    Volume 72, Issue 12, pp. 1819, 2001.

  2946. Improved performance of amorphous silicon thin film transistors by cyanide treatment
    H. Aiyer; D. Nishioka; N. Matsuki; H. Shinno; V. P. S. Perera; T. Chikyow; H. Kobayashi; H. Koinuma;
    Appl. Phys. Lett,
    Volume 78, Issue 6, pp. 751-753, Feb. 2001.

  2947. Effect of the internal reflections on the radiation properties and input impedance of integrated lens antennas: comparison between theory and measurements
    M. Van der Vorst; P.J.I. de Maagt; A. Neto; A. Reynolds; W. Luinge; R. Heres; M Herben;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 49, Issue 6, pp. 1118-1125, June 2001.
    document

  2948. The piezojunction effect in silicon sensors and circuits and its relation to piezoresistance
    J.F. Creemer; F. Fruett; G.C.M. Meijer; P.J. French;
    IEEE Sensors Journal,
    Volume 1, Issue 2, pp. 98-108, 2001.

  2949. A wind-sensor interface using thermal sigma-delta modulation techniques
    K.A.A. Makinwa; J.H. Huijsing;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume 92, pp. 280-285, 2001.

  2950. A smart and accurate interface for resistive sensors
    X. Li; G.C.M. Meijer;
    IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement,
    Volume 50, Issue 6, pp. 1648-1651, 2001.

  2951. The relationship between microsystem technology and metrology
    R.F. Wolffenbuttel; C.J. Mullem;
    IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement,
    Volume 50, Issue 6, pp. 1469-1475, 2001.

  2952. An interface circuit for R-C impedance sensors with a relaxation oscillator
    S.N. Nihtianov; G.P. Shterev; B.P. Iliev; G.C.M. Meijer;
    IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement,
    Volume 50, Issue 6, pp. 1563-1567, 2001.

  2953. IC fabrication-compatible processing for instrumentation and measurement applications
    D.D.L. Wijngaards; R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement,
    Volume 50, Issue 6, pp. 1475-1484, 2001.

  2954. Capillary electrophoresis with on-chip four-electrode capacitively coupeled conductivity detection for application in bioanalysis
    R.M. van Guijt; E. Baltussen; G. van der Steen; H. Frank; H. Billiet; T.G.M. Schalkhammer; F.P.J. Laugere; M.J. Vellekoop; A. Berthold; P.M. Sarro; G. van Dedem;
    Electrophoresis,
    Volume 22, pp. 2537-2541, 2001.

  2955. Experimental investigation of piezojunction effect in silicon and its temperature dependence
    F. Fruett; G.C.M. Meijer;
    Electronics Letters,
    Volume 37, Issue 22, pp. 1366-1367, 2001.

  2956. Integration of silicon MEMS devices: materials and processing considerations
    P.J. French;
    Smart Materials Bulletin,
    pp. 7-13, 2001.

  2957. Bulk micromachined electrostatic RMS-to-DC converter
    G. de Graaf; M. Bartek; Z. Xiao; C.J. Mullem; R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement,
    Volume 50, Issue 6, pp. 1508-1512, 2001.

  2958. Macroporous-based micromachining on full wafers
    H. Ohji; S. Izuo; P.J. French; K. Tsutsumi;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume 92, pp. 384-387, 2001.

  2959. Etching and passivation of silicon in alkaline solution: a coupled chemical/electrochemical system
    X.H. Xia; C.M.A. Ashruf; P.J. French; J. Rappich; J.J. Kelly;
    The Journal of Physical Chemistry Part B (Biophysical Chemistry, Biomaterials, Liquids, and Soft Matter),
    Volume 105, pp. 5722-5729, 2001.

  2960. Impedance measurements with second-order harmonic oscillator for testing food sterility
    S. Nihtianov; G.P. Shterev; N. Petrov; G.C.M. Meijer;
    IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement,
    Volume 50, Issue 4, pp. 976-980, 2001.

  2961. Comparison study of the performance of piston, thin plate and membrane mirrors for correction of turbulence-induced phase distortions
    M. Loktev; D.W. De Lima Monteiro; G. Vdovin;
    Optics Communications,
    Volume 192, pp. 91-99, 2001.

  2962. A CMOS nested-chopper instrumentation amplifier with 100-nV offset
    A. Bakker; K. Thiele; J.H. Huijsing;
    IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits,
    Volume 35, Issue 12, pp. 1877-1883, 2001.

  2963. A quadrature data-dependent DEM algorithm to improve image rejection of a complex sigma delta modulator
    L.J. Breems; EC. Dijkmans; J.H. Huijsing;
    IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits,
    Volume 36, Issue 12, pp. 1879-1886, 2001.

  2964. A new sensor structure using the piezojunction effect in PNP lateral transistors
    F. Fruett; G.C.M. Meijer;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume 92, pp. 197-202, 2001.

  2965. Galvanic cell formation: a review of approaches to silicon etching for sensor fabrication
    J.J. Kelly; X.H. Xia; C.M.A. Ashruf; P.J. French;
    IEEE Sensors Journal,
    Volume 1, Issue 2, pp. 127-142, 2001.

  2966. Integrated silicon: microspectrometers
    S.H. Kong; A. Correia; G. de Graaf; M. Bartek; R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Magazine,
    Volume 4, Issue 3, pp. 34-38, 2001.

  2967. A 1.8-mW CMOS Sigma-Delta modulator with integrated mixer for A/D conversion of IF siignals
    L.J. Breems; E.J. van der Zwan; J.H. Huijsing;
    IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits,
    Volume 35, Issue 4, pp. 468-475, 2001.

  2968. Infrared micro-spectrometer based on a diffraction grating
    S.H. Kong; D.D.L. Wijngaards; R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume 92, pp. 88-95, 2001.

  2969. Novel liquid-crystal wafefront correctors with modal control
    A.F. Naumov; M. Loktev; I.R. Guralnik; G. Vdovin;
    Rossiiskaya Akademiya Nauk. Izvestiya. Seriya Fizicheskaya,
    Volume 63, Issue 10, pp. 1998-2003, 2001.

  2970. Microchemical voltage reference using the pull-in of a beam
    E. Cretu; L.A. Machado da Rocha; R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement,
    Volume 50, Issue 6, pp. 1504-1507, 2001. niet eerder opgevoerd.

  2971. Capillary electrophoresis with on-chip four-electrode capacitively coupled conductivity for application in bioanalysis.
    R.M. van Guijt; H.A. Baltussen; G. van der Steen; H. Frank; H.A. Billiet; T.G.M. Schalkhammer; F.P.J. Laugere; M.J. Vellekoop; A. Berthold; P.M. Sarro; G. van DedemWK;
    Electrophoresis,
    Volume 22, Issue 12, pp. 2537-2541, 2001.

  2972. Temperature sensors and voltage references implemented in CMOS technology
    G.C.M. Meijer; Guijie Wang; F. Fruett;
    IEEE Sensors Journal,
    Volume 1, Issue 3, pp. 225-234, 2001.

  2973. SC front-end with wide dynamic range
    G.C.M. Meijer; V.P. Jordanov;
    Electronics Letters,
    Volume 37, Issue 22, pp. 1377-1378, 2001.

  2974. Downscaling aspects of a conductivity detector for application in on-chip capillary electrophoresis
    F.P.J. Laugere; W. Lubking; A. Berthold; J. Bastemeijer; M.J. Vellekoop;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume 92, pp. 109-114, 2001.

  2975. Patterning of polyimide and metal in deep trenches
    V.G. Kiutchoukov; J.R. Mollinger; M. Shikida; A. Bossche;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume 92, pp. 208-213, 2001.

  2976. Reduction of UHF power transistor distortion with a nonuniform collector doping profile
    van Noort, W.D.; de Vreede, L.C.N.; Jos, H.F.F.; Nanver, L.K.; Slotboom, J.W.;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 36, Issue 9, pp. 1399-1406, 2001. DOI: 10.1109/4.944669

  2977. Introduction to the 2000 Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting
    de Vreede, L.C.N.;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 36, Issue 9, pp. 1371-1372, 2001. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2001.944665

  2978. Scanning magneto-resistance microscopy with FIB trimmed yoke-type magneto-resistive tape heads
    Phillips, G. N.; Eisenberg, M.; Persat, N.; Draaisma, E. A.; Abelmann, L.; Lodder, J. C.;
    Sensors and Actuators, A: Physical,
    Volume 91, Issue 1-2, pp. 34 – 38, 2001. DOI: 10.1016/S0924-4247(01)00476-9
    Keywords: ... Computer simulation; Finite element method; Gallium; Ion beams; Magnetic recording; Magnetic tape; Magnetoresistance; Microscopic examination; Milling (machining); Probes; Focused ion beam milling; Magnetic recording heads; Magnetoresistive heads; Read back voltage; Read flux guides; Scanning magnetoresistance microscopy; Voltage drop; Magnetic heads.

    Abstract: ... Scanning magneto-resistance microscopy has been performed with thin film yoke-type magneto-resistive tape heads possessing eight channels. The read flux guides of these channels have been trimmed down from 24 μm to widths varying between 5.5 μm and 148 nm by focused ion beam milling with Ga+ ions. Tracks written on ME tape with an untrimmed write channel have been successfully imaged with all the trimmed channels. A significant attenuation (>5%) of read-back voltage across the MR sensor is only observed for channels possessing flux guides trimmed by 77% to 5.5 μm. A 52% (∼6 dB) drop in read-back voltage is observed for a channel possessing a flux guide trimmed by 99.4% to 148 nm.

    document

  2979. Radio Astronomical Imaging in the Presence of Strong Radio Interference
    A. Leshem; A.J. van der Veen;
    IEEE Tr. Information Th.,
    Volume 46, Issue 5, pp. 1730-1747, August 2000.
    document

  2980. Multichannel interference mitigation techniques in radio astronomy
    A. Leshem; A.J. van der Veen; A.J. Boonstra;
    Astrophysical Journal Supplements,
    Volume 131, Issue 1, pp. 355-374, November 2000.
    document

  2981. Inner-outer factorization and the inversion of locally finite systems of equations
    P. Dewilde; A.J. van der Veen;
    Linear Algebra Appl.,
    Volume 313, Issue 1-3, pp. 53-100, July 2000.
    document

  2982. Begin van het einde of einde van het begin?
    P. Dewilde;
    Electronica,
    Issue 4, pp. 14-15, 2000.

  2983. On the consistency of the definable tree property on $\aleph_1$
    A. Leshem;
    The Journal of Symbolic Logic,
    Volume 65, Issue 3, pp. 1204-1214, September 2000.

  2984. Array calibration in the presence of multipath
    A. Leshem; M. Wax;
    IEEE Trans. Signal Processing,
    Volume 48, Issue 1, pp. 53-59, January 2000.
    document

  2985. Maximum likelihood separation of constant modulus signals
    A. Leshem;
    IEEE Trans. Signal Processing,
    Volume 48, Issue 10, pp. 2948-2952, October 2000.
    document

  2986. Pipelined CORDIC-based cascade orthogonal IIR digital filters
    Jun Ma; K.K. Parhi; E.F. Deprettere;
    IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems II: analog and digital signal processing,
    Volume 47, Issue 11, pp. 1238-1253, November 2000.

  2987. Annihilation-reordering look-ahead pipelined CORDIC-based RLS adaptive filters and their application to adaptive beamforming
    Jun Ma; K.K. Parhi; E.F. Deprettere;
    IEEE Trans. Signal Processing,
    Volume 48, Issue 8, pp. 2414-2431, August 2000.

  2988. A floating point vectoring algorithm based on fast rotations
    K.J. Van der Kolk; J.A. Lee; E.F.A. Deprettere;
    J. VLSI Signal Proc. Systems for Signal, Image, and Video Technology,
    Volume 25, Issue 2, pp. 125-139, June 2000.

  2989. Simulation of circular array ultrasound transducers for intravascular applications
    J.M.G. Borsboom; E.I. Cespedes; A.F.W. van der Steen; C.T. Lancee; E.F. Deprettere;
    J. the Acoustical Soc. of America,
    Volume 108, Issue 2, pp. 827-835, August 2000.

  2990. Technology mapping for area and speed
    D. Jongeneel; R.H.J.M. Otten;
    Integration, The VLSI Journal,
    Volume 29, Issue 1, pp. 45-66, March 2000.

  2991. Combinatorial cell design for CMOS libraries
    F. Beeftink; P. Kudva; D.S. Kung; R. Puri; L. Stok;
    Integration, The VLSI Journal,
    Volume 29, Issue 1, pp. 67-93, March 2000.

  2992. Diagonalization algorithms for linear time-varying dynamic systems
    P. van der Kloet; F.L. Neerhoff;
    International Journal of Systems Science,
    Volume 31, Issue 8, pp. 1053-1057, August 2000.

  2993. Electronique, 1e partie, La consommation de ``basse puissance'' dans les systemes electroniques
    R. van Leuken; R. Nouta; T. Prichard;
    La Revue Polytechnique,
    Issue 9, pp. 520-522, September 2000.

  2994. Electronique, 2e partie, La consommation de ``basse puissance'' dans les systemes electroniques utilises au quotidien
    R. van Leuken; R. Nouta; T. Prichard;
    La Revue Polytechnique,
    Issue 10, pp. 611-613, October 2000.

  2995. Two Dimensional Physics of Josephson Arrays
    R. S. Newrock; C. J. Lobb; U. Geigenmuller; M. Octavio;
    Solid State Physics,
    Volume 54, pp. 263--512, 2000.

  2996. Performance planning
    R.H.J.M. Otten; R.K. Brayton;
    Integration, The VLSI Journal,
    Volume 29, Issue 1, pp. 1-24, March 2000.

  2997. Efficient Implementation of pipelined CORDIC based IIR digital filters using fast orthogonal $\mu$-rotations
    Jun Ma; E.F. Deprettere;
    IEEE Tr. Signal Proc.,
    Volume 48, Issue 9, pp. 2712-2716, September 2000.

  2998. Sections de Brune en theorie des systemes non stationaires
    D. Alpay; V. Bolotnikov; P. Dewilde; A. Dijksma;
    Comptes Rendus de l'Acadademie des Sciences,
    Volume 330 (I), Issue 3, pp. 173-178, February 2000.

  2999. A new current-mode synthesis method for dynamic translinear filters and its applications in hearing instruments
    D. Masmoudi; W. Serdijn; J. Mulder; A v.d. Woerd; J. Tomas; J.P. Dom;
    Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing,
    Volume 22, pp. 221-229, March 2000.
    document

  3000. Dynamic translinear circuits ? an overview
    J. Mulder; W.A. Serdijn; A.C. van der Woerd; A.H.M. van Roermund;
    Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing,
    Volume 22, pp. 111-126, March 2000.
    document

  3001. Special issue on dynamic translinear circuits
    W.A. Serdijn; J. Mulder (guest editors);
    Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing,
    Volume 22, March 2000. ISSN: 0925-1030.
    document

  3002. The piezojunction effect in bipolar transistors at moderate stress levels: a theoretical and experimental study
    J.F. Creemer; P.J. French;
    Sensors and Actuators A,
    Volume 82, Issue 1-3, pp. 181-185, May 2000.

  3003. Galvanic etching for sensor fabrication
    Ashruf C.M.A.; P.J. French; P.M. Sarro; R. Kazinczi; X.H. Xia; J.J. Kelly;
    Journal of micromechanics and microengineering,
    Volume 10, pp. 505-515, 2000. ISSN 0960-1317.

  3004. Optical and structural properties of Si/SiGe wires grown on patterned Si substrates
    Y. Zhuang; A. Daniel; C. Schelling; F. Sch�ffler; G. Bauer; J. Grenzer; S. Senz;
    Thin Solid films,
    Volume 380, pp. 51, 2000.

  3005. Structural and optical properties of Si/Si1-x Gex wires
    Y. ZC. Huang Schelling; J. Stangl; C. Penn; S. Senz; F. Sch�ffler; A. Daniel; U. Pietsch; G. Bauer;
    Thin Solid films,
    Volume 369, pp. 409, 2000.

  3006. Defect related photoluminescence of SiGe/Si heterostructures grown by APCVD
    J.L. L. ShiK. Nanver; K. Grimm; C.C.G. Visser;
    Thin Solid Films,
    Volume 364, pp. 254-258, 2000.

  3007. Silicon carbide as a new MEMS technology
    P.M. Sarro;
    Sensors and Actuators A,
    Volume 82, pp. 210-218, 2000. ISSN 0924-4247.

  3008. Spectral analysis through electromechanical coupling
    E. Cretu; M. Bartek; R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    Sensors and Actuators A,
    Volume 85, Issue 1-3, pp. 23-32, 2000. ISSN 0924-4247.

  3009. Effect of Surfactant on Surface Quality of Silicon Microstructures Etched in Saturated TMAHW Solutions
    P.M. Sarro; D. Brida; W. van der Vlist; S. Brida;
    Sensors and Actuators A,
    Volume 85, pp. 340-345, 2000. ISSN 0924-4247.

  3010. Glass-to-glass anodic bonding with standard IC technology thin films as intermediate layers
    A. Berthold; L. Nicola; P.M. Sarro; M.J. Vellekoop;
    Sensors and Actuators A,
    Volume 82, Issue 1-3, pp. 224-228, 2000.

  3011. Design and fabrication of infrared detector arrays for satellite attitude control
    A.W. van Herwaarden; F.G. van Herwaarden; S.A. Molenaar; E.J.G. Goudena; M. Laros; P.M. Sarro; C.A. Schot; W. van der Vlist; L. Blarre; J.P. Krebs;
    Sensors and Actuators A,
    Volume 83, pp. 101-108, 2000.

  3012. Single-chip CMOS optical microspectrometer
    J.H. Correia; G. de Graaf; S.H. Kong; M. Bartek; R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    Sensors and Actuators A,
    Volume 82, Issue 1-3, pp. 191-197, 2000. ISSN 0924-4247.

  3013. Ultraviolet-selective avalanche photodiode
    A. Pauchard; P.-A. Besse; M. Bartek; R.F. Wolffenbuttel; R.S. Popovic;
    Sensors and Actuators A,
    Volume 82, Issue 1-3, pp. 128-134, 2000. ISSN 0924-4247.

  3014. Strong effects of weak localization in charge-density-wave/normal-metal hybrids
    M.K. Visscher; B.Rejaei; G.E.W. Bauer;
    Physical Review B,
    Volume 62, Issue 11, Sept. 2000.

  3015. Fabrication of gate-oxide thin-film transistors using PECVD/PLD multichamber system
    N. Matsuki; J. Ohta; H. Fujioka; M. Oshima; M. Yoshimoto; H. Koinuma;
    Sci. Tech. Adv. Mat,
    Volume 1, Issue 1, pp. 187-190, Mar. 2000.

  3016. Kinetics of light-induced degradation in a-Si:H films investigated by computer modeling
    M.N. Meytin; M. Zeman; B.G. Budaguan; J.W. Metselaar;
    Semiconductors,
    Volume 34, pp. 742-747, 2000.

  3017. Micro-CAT with redundant electrodes (CATER)
    F.D. van den Berg; C.W.E. van Eijk; R.W. Hollander; P.M. Sarro;
    Nuclear Instruments and Methods Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment,
    Volume 453, Issue 3, pp. 530-535, Oct. 2000.

  3018. In-plane strain and shape analysis of Si/SiGe nanostructures by grazing incidence diffraction
    Y. Zhuang; V. Hol_; J. Stangl; N. Darowski; J. Grenzer; U. Pietsch; S. Zerlauth; F. Schaffler; G. Bauer;
    Physica B,,
    Volume 283, Issue 130, 2000.

  3019. Optical Modeling of a-Si:H Solar Cells: Effect of Back Contact and Interface Roughness
    M. Zeman; R.A.C.M.M. van Swaaij; J.W. Metselaar; R.E.I. Schropp;
    Journal of Applied Physics,
    Volume 88, Issue 11, pp. 6436-6443, Dec. 2000.

  3020. Location-Control of Large Si Grains by Dual-Beam Excimer-Laser and Thick Oxide Portion
    R. Ishihara; A. Burtsev; P. F. A. Alkemade;
    Jpn. Journal of Applied Physics,
    Volume 39, pp. 3872-3878, 2000. ISSN 0021-4922.

  3021. Powder formation in germane-silane plasmas
    R.A.C.M.M. van Swaaij; B.S. Girwar; J.W. Metselaar;
    J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A.,
    Volume 18, Issue 5, pp. 2116, 2000.

  3022. ZnSe/CdTe/ZnSe heterostructures
    S. Rubini; B. Bonanni; E. Pelucchi; A. Franciosi; A. Garulli; A. Parisini; Y. Zhuang; G. Bauer; V. Holy;
    J. Vac. Sci. Technol. (B),
    Volume 18, Issue 4, pp. 2263, 2000.

  3023. Defect re-distribution in amorphous silicon below equilibration temperature
    R.A.C.M.M. van Swaaij; V. N�dazdy; M. Zeman; E. Pinc�k; J.W. Metselaar;
    Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids,
    Volume 266-269, pp. 553-557, 2000.

  3024. Scintillation light read-out by low-gain thin avalanche photodiodes in silicon wells
    C.P. Allier; R.W. Hollander; P.M. Sarro; M. de Boer; C.W.E. van Eijk;
    IEEE Trans. on Nuclear Science,
    Volume 47, Issue 4, pp. 1303-1306, 2000.

  3025. Control of Arsenic Doping during Low-Temperature CVD Epitaxy of Silicon (100)
    W.D. van Noort; L.K. Nanver; J.W. Slotboom;
    J. of the Electrochemical Society,
    Volume 147, Issue 11, pp. 4301-4304, 2000.

  3026. RF potential of a 0.18 µm CMOS Logic Device Technology
    J.N. Burghartz; et al;
    IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices,
    Volume 47, Issue 4, Apr. 2000.

  3027. High-selectivity single-chip spectrometer in silicon for operation in visible part of the spectrum
    J.H. Correia; M. Bartek; R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    IEEE Trans. on Electron Devices,
    Volume 47, Issue 3, pp. 553-559, Mar. 2000. ISSN 0018-9383.

  3028. X-ray Detection With Multi-anode Sawtooth Silicon Drift Detectors
    J. Sonsky; J. Huizenga; R.W. Hollander; C.W.E. van Eijk; P.M. Sarro;
    IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci.,
    Volume 47, Issue 3, pp. 750-755, 2000. ISSN 0018-9499.

  3029. A better insight into the performance of silicon BJTs featuring highly nonuniform collector doping profiles
    P. Palestri; C. Fiegna; L. Selmi; Peter; M.S.; G.A.M. Hurkx; J.W. Slotboom; E. Sangiorgi;
    IEEE Trans. Electr. Dev.,
    Volume 48, Issue 5, pp. 1044-1051, May 2000.

  3030. Self-organized 1D nanostructures on the b-SiC(100) surface: silicon atomic lines and dimer vacancy chains
    V. Derycke; N.P. Pham; et al;
    Applied Surface Science 162-163,
    pp. 413-418, 2000.

  3031. Investigation of beta -SiC precipitation in Si/sub 1-y/C/sub y/ epilayers by X-ray scattering at grazing incidence
    Z. Kovats; T. H. Metzger; J. Peisl; J. Stangl; M. Muhlberger; Y. Zhuang; F. Schaffler; G. Bauer;
    Applied Physics Letter,
    Volume 76, Issue 23, pp. 3409, 2000.

  3032. Silicon drift detector with reduced lateral diffusion: experimental results
    J. Sonsky; H. Valk; J. Huizenga; R.W. Hollander; C.W.E. van Eijk; P.M. Sarro;
    IEEE Nucl. Instrum. and Meth. Phys. Res. A,
    Volume 439, Issue 2-3, pp. 513-518, 2000.

  3033. 7781af6e4ower added efficiency surface-mounted bipolar power transistors for low-voltage wireless applications
    R. Dekker; D.M.H. Hartskeer; H.G.R. Maas; F. Van Rijs; J.W. Slotboom;
    BCTM,
    pp. 191-194, 2000.

  3034. Enlargement of Location Controlled Si Grain by Dual-Beam Excimer-Laser Melting with Bump Structure
    A. Burtsev; R. Ishihara;
    Applied Surface Science 154-155,
    pp. 152-158, 2000. ISSN 0169-4332.

  3035. Scintillation light read-out by thin photodiodes in silicon wells
    C.P. Allier; R.W. Hollander; P.M. Sarro; C.W.E. van Eijk;
    IEEE Nuclear Instruments & Methods Physics Research A,
    Volume 442, pp. 255-258, 2000.

  3036. Challenges in amorphous silicon solar cell technology
    R.A.C.M.M. van Swaaij; M. Zeman; B.A. Korevaar; C. Smit; J.W. Metselaar; M.C.M. van de Sanden;
    Acta Physica Slovaca,
    Volume 50, Issue 4, pp. 559-570, 2000.

  3037. Influence of the plasma pretreatment of GaAs(100) and Si(100) surfaces on the optical and structural properties of Si3N4/GaAs and a-SiGe/Si interfaces
    E. Pinc��_k; M. Jergel; M. Kucera; R.A.C.M.M. van Swaaij; J. Ivanco; R. Senderak; M. Zeman; J. Mullerova; M. Brunel;
    Appl. Surf. Sci.,
    Volume 166, pp. 72, 2000.

  3038. Domain-integrated field equations approach to static magnetic field computation - Application to some two-dimensional configurations
    A. T. de Hoop; I. E. Lager;
    IEEE Transactions on Magnetics,
    Volume 36, Issue 4, pp. 654-658, July 2000.
    document

  3039. A truncated floquet waves diffraction method for the full wave analysis of large phased arrays: Part I formulation for 2D cases
    A. Neto; S. Maci; G. Vecchi; M. Sabbadini;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 48, Issue 4, pp. 594-600, April 2000.
    document

  3040. A truncated floquet waves diffraction method for the full wave analysis of large phased arrays: Part II generalization to 3D cases
    A. Neto; S. Maci; G. Vecchi; M. Sabbadini;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 48, Issue 4, pp. 601-611, April 2000.
    document

  3041. The Piezojunction effect in bipolar transistors at moderate stress levels: a theoretical and experimental study
    J.F. Creemer; P.J. French;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume 82, pp. 181-185, 2000.

  3042. Versatile tool for characterising long-term stability and reliabity of micromechanical structures
    R. Kazinczi; J.R. Mollinger; A. Bossche;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume 85, Issue 1-3, pp. 84-89, 2000.

  3043. Spectral analysis through electromechanical coupling
    E. Cretu; M. Bartek; R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume 85, Issue 1-3, pp. 23-32, 2000.

  3044. Wave front control systems based on modal liquid crystal lenses
    M. Loktev; V.N. Belopukhov; F.L. Vladimirov; G. Vdovin; G.D. Love; A.F. Naumov;
    Review of Scientific Instruments,
    Volume 71, Issue 9, pp. 3290-3297, 2000.

  3045. Galvanic cell formation in silicon/metal contacts: the effect on silicon surface morphology
    X.H. Xia; C.M.A. Ashruf; P.J. French; J.J. Kelly;
    Chemistry of Materials,
    Volume 12, pp. 1671-1678, 2000.

  3046. Temperature-compensated Love-wave sensors on quartz substrates
    B.H. Jakoby; J. Bastemeijer; M.J. Vellekoop;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume 82, Issue 1-3, pp. 83-88, 2000.

  3047. The temperature characteristics of bipolar transistors fabricated in CMOS technology
    Guijie Wang; G.C.M. Meijer;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume 87, pp. 81-89, 2000.

  3048. Glass-to-glass anodic bonding with standard IC technology thin films as intermediate layers
    A. Berthold; L. Nicola; P.M. Sarro; M.J. Vellekoop;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume 82, Issue 1-3, pp. 224-238, 2000.

  3049. Ultraviolet-selective avalanche photodiode
    A. Pauchard; P.A. Besse; M. Bartek; R.F. Wolffenbuttel; R.S. Popovic;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume 82, Issue 1-3, pp. 128-134, 2000.

  3050. Initial pits for electrochemical etching in hydrofluoric acid
    H. Ohji; P.J. French; S. Izuo; K. Tsutsumi;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume 85, pp. 390-394, 2000.

  3051. A CMOS nested-chopper instrumentation amplifier with 100-nV offset
    A. Bakker; K. Thiele; J.H. Huijsing;
    IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits,
    Volume 35, Issue 12, pp. 1877-1883, 2000.

  3052. New photoresist coating method for 3-D structured wafers
    V.G. Kiutchoukov; J.R. Mollinger; A. Bossche;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume 85, Issue 1-3, pp. 377-383, 2000.

  3053. Substrates for zero temperature coefficient Love wave sensors
    B.H. Jakoby; M.J. Vellekoop;
    IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control,
    Volume 47, Issue 3, pp. 701-705, 2000.

  3054. Single-chip CMOS optical microspectrometer
    J.H.G. Correia; G. de Graaf; S.H. Kong; M. Bartek; R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume 82, Issue 1-3, pp. 191-197, 2000.

  3055. Measurement and compensation of Piezoresistive coefficient Pi 44 for minority-carrier concentration
    F. Fruett; G.C.M. Meijer;
    Electronics Letters,
    Volume 36, Issue 2, pp. 173-175, 2000.

  3056. The Piezojunction effect in NPN and PNP vertical transistors and its influence on silicon temperature sensors
    F. Fruett; Guijie Wang; G.C.M. Meijer;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume 85, Issue 1-3, pp. 70-74, 2000.

  3057. Fabrication of a beam-mass structure using single-step electochemical etching for micro structures (SEEMS)
    H. Ohji; P.T.J. Gennissen; P.J. French; K. Tsutsumi;
    Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering,
    Volume 10, Issue 3, pp. 440-444, 2000.

  3058. Elimination of shunting conductance effects in a low-cost capacitive-sensor interface
    X. Li; G.C.M. Meijer;
    IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement,
    Volume 49, Issue 3, pp. 531-534, 2000.

  3059. High-selectivity single-chip spectrometer in silicon for operation at visible part of the spectrum
    J.H.G. Correia; M. Bartek; R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices,
    Volume 47, Issue 3, pp. 553-559, 2000.

  3060. Analysis of a biphase-based servo format for hard-disk drives
    K.A.A. Makinwa; J.W.M. Bergmans; J.O. Voorman;
    IEEE Transactions on Magnetics,
    Volume 36, Issue 6, pp. 4019-4027, 2000.

  3061. Galvanic etching for sensor fabrication
    C.M.A. Ashruf; P.J. French; P.M. Sarro; R. Kazinczi; X.H. Xia; J.J. Kelly;
    Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering,
    Volume 10, pp. 505-515, 2000.

  3062. High-resolution liquid volume detection in sub-nanoliter reactors
    K.T. Hjelt; L.R. van den Doel; W. Lubking; M.J. Vellekoop;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume 83, pp. 61-66, 2000.

  3063. Measuring liquid evaporation from micromachined wells
    K.T. Hjelt; L.R. van den Doel; W. Lubking; M.J. Vellekoop;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume 85, Issue 1-3, pp. 384-389, 2000.

  3064. Elimination of shunting conductance effects in a low-cost capacitive-sensor interface
    X. Li; G.C.M. Meijer;
    IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement,
    Volume 49, Issue 3, pp. 531-534, 2000.

  3065. Fabrication of mechanical structures in p-type silicon using electrochemical etching
    H. Ohji; P.J. French; K. Tsutsumi;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume 82, pp. 254-258, 2000.

  3066. FFT-based analysis of periodic structures in microacoustic devices
    B.H. Jakoby; M.J. Vellekoop;
    IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control,
    Volume 47, Issue 3, pp. 651-656, 2000.

  3067. Modulation characteristics of optically controllable transparencies based on a photoconductor-liquid-crystal structure
    F.L. Vladimirov; A.N. Chaika; I.E. Morichev; N.I. Pletneva; A.F. Naumov; M. Loktev;
    Journal of Optical Technology,
    Volume 67, Issue 8, pp. 712-715, 2000.

  3068. Analysis of viscous losses in the chemical interface layer of Love wave sensors
    B.H. Jakoby; M.J. Vellekoop;
    IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control,
    Volume 47, Issue 3, pp. 696-700, 2000.

  3069. The influence of electric-field bending on the nonlinearity of capacitive sensors
    X. Li; G. de Jong; G.C.M. Meijer;
    IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement,
    Volume 49, Issue 2, pp. 256-259, 2000.

  3070. Measuring liquid evaporation from micromachined wells.
    K.T. Hjelt; L.R. van den Doel; G.W. Lubking; M.J. Vellekoop;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume 85, pp. 384-389, 2000. ISSN: 0924-4247.

  3071. A high-temperature electronic system for pressure-transducers
    P.C. de Jong; G.C.M. Meijer;
    IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement,
    Volume 49, Issue 2, pp. 365-370, 2000.

  3072. Design and fabrication of on-chip integrated polySiGe and polySi Peltier devices
    D.D.L. Wijngaards; S.H. Kong; M. Bartek; R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume 85, Issue 1-3, pp. 316-323, 2000.

  3073. Focusing of astigmatic laser diode beam by combination of adaptive liquid crystal lenses
    J.J. Kelly; A.F. Naumov; M. Loktev; M.A. Rakhmatulin; O.A. Zayakin;
    Optics Communications,
    Volume 181, pp. 295-301, 2000.

  3074. Application of perturbation techniques to the problem of low-frequency electromagnetic wave scattering from an air-ground interface
    CN Vazouras; A Yarovoy; MA Moyssidis; {de Jongh}, RV; JG Fikioris; LP Ligthart;
    Radio Science,
    Volume 35, Issue 5, pp. 1049--1064, 2000.

  3075. Scattering propertie of a statistically rough interface inside a multilayered medium
    A Yarovoy; {de Jongh}, RV; LP Ligthart;
    Radio Science,
    Volume 35, Issue 2, pp. 455--462, 2000.

  3076. Ultra-wideband sensors for electromagnetic field measurements in time domain
    A Yarovoy; {de Jongh}, RV; LP Ligthart;
    Electronics Letters,
    Volume 36, Issue 20, pp. 1679--1680, 2000.

  3077. Single-chip computers with microelectromechanical systems-based magnetic memory (invited)
    Carley, L. Richard; Bain, James A.; Fedder, Gary K.; Greve, David W.; Guillou, David F.; Lu, Michael S. C.; Mukherjee, Tamal; Santhanam, Suresh; Abelmann, Leon; Min, Seungook;
    Journal of Applied Physics,
    Volume 87, Issue 9 III, pp. 6680 – 6685, 2000. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1063/1.372807
    Abstract: ... This article describes an approach for implementing a complete computer system (CPU, RAM, I/O, and nonvolatile mass memory) on a single integrated-circuit substrate (a chip) - hence, the name "single-chip computer." The approach presented combines advances in the field of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and micromagnetics with traditional low-cost very-large-scale integrated circuit style parallel lithographic manufacturing. The primary barrier to the creation of a computer on a chip is the incorporation of a high-capacity [many gigabytes (GB)] re-writable nonvolatile memory (in today's terminology, a disk drive) into an integrated circuit (IC) manufacturing process. This article presents the following design example: a MEMS-based magnetic memory that can store over 2 GB of data in 2 cm2 of die area and whose fabrication is compatible with a standard IC manufacturing process. © 2000 American Institute of Physics.

    document

  3078. Micromagnetics of a soft underlayer
    Litvinov, Dmitri; Chomko, Roman M.; Abelmann, Leon; Ramst{\"o}ck, Klaus; Chen, GaLane; Khizroev, Sakhrat;
    IEEE Transactions on Magnetics,
    Volume 36, Issue 5 I, pp. 2483 – 2485, 2000. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1109/20.908481
    Keywords: ... Cobalt alloys; Magnetic flux; Magnetic permeability; Magnetic thin films; Soft underlayers; Soft magnetic materials.

    Abstract: ... The micromagnetic properties of a soft underlayer in perpendicular media are studied. It is shown that stray fields from a recording layer can substantially modify magnetic properties of soft underlayer material. The degree of modification is determined by the characteristic bit size in the recording layer and by the soft underlayer material magnetic characteristics. It is found that there exists a thin layer within a soft underlayer with reduced permeability. The effects of the presence of such a reduced permeability region within a soft underlayer on both reading and writing processes are discussed.

    document

  3079. Micromagnetic simulation of an ultrasmall single-pole perpendicular write head
    Abelmann, Leon; Khizroev, Sakhrat K.; Litvinov, Dmitri; Zhu, Jian-Gang; Bain, James A.; Kryder, Mark H.; Ramst{\"o}ck, Klaus; Lodder, Cock;
    Journal of Applied Physics,
    Volume 87, Issue 9 III, pp. 6636 – 6638, 2000. DOI: 10.1063/1.372795
    Abstract: ... In single-pole heads with a pole tip cross section trimmed down to 100X200 nm by focused ion beam, the remanence of the head becomes nonzero if the pole length is too high. Large-scale three-dimensional micromagnetic simulations are performed to understand this effect, and to calculate the critical length of the pole as a function of the pole tip cross section. © 2000 American Institute of Physics.

    document

  3080. Micromagnetic simulation of a flux guide for a read head with sub-100 nm resolution
    Abelmann, Leon; Zhu, Jian-Gang; Bain, James A.; Ramst{\"o}ck, Klaus; Lodder, Cock;
    Journal of Applied Physics,
    Volume 87, Issue 9 II, pp. 5538 – 5540, 2000. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1063/1.373397
    Abstract: ... Large scale 3D micromagnetic simulations are performed on single pole read heads with pole tip cross sections of 45×45 and 100×200 nm. It is shown that tips with these dimensions have a much higher output than predicted by an analytical theory using the reciprocity theorem. The larger of these tips still behaves in a relatively soft manner and has an output waveform shape very close to the one predicted by the analytical model. The response of the small tip however is hysteretic. © 2000 American Institute of Physics.

    document

  3081. Micromagnetics of a soft underlayer
    Litvinov, D.; Chomko, R. M.; Abelmann, L.; Ramst{\"o}ck, K.; Khizroev, S.;
    Digests of the Intermag Conference,
    pp. BB – 2, 2000. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1109/INTMAG.2000.871878
    Abstract: ... Micromagnetic simulations and experimental studies were made to account for the physics of a soft underlayer. The existence of a reduced permeability region was observed. Results of the study suggest a set of criteria for a proper choice of the materials parameters, such as anisotropy, exchange length, and saturation magnetization to minimize the effect.

    document

  3082. A Clustering Approach to Explore Grain-sizes in the Definition of Processing Elements in Dataflow Architectures
    P. Lieverse; E.F. Deprettere; A.C.J. Kienhuis; E.A. de Kock;
    Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems for Signal, Image and Video Technology,
    Volume 22, Issue 1, pp. 9-20, August 1999.

  3083. VLSI Data Demodulator for a Microwave Landing System
    A.A. Abbo;
    IEE Proceedings--Circuits Devices and Systems,
    Volume 146, Issue 2, pp. 61-69, April 1999.
    document

  3084. Generalized Darlington Synthesis
    P. Dewilde;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I: Fundamental Theory and Applications,
    Volume vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 41-58, January 1999.
    document

  3085. Blind separation of BPSK sources with residual carriers
    A.J. van der Veen;
    Signal Processing,
    Volume 73, Issue 1, pp. 67-79, January 1999.
    document

  3086. On the equivalence of blind equalizers based on MRE and subspace intersections
    D. Gesbert; A.J. van der Veen; A. Paulraj;
    IEEE Tr. Signal Proc.,
    Volume 47, Issue 3, pp. 856-859, March 1999.
    document

  3087. Direction of Arrival Estimation for Constant Modulus Signals
    A. Leshem; A.J. van der Veen;
    IEEE Tr. Signal Proc.,
    Volume 47, Issue 11, pp. 3125-3129, November 1999.
    document

  3088. Multiresolution ESPRIT algorithm
    A. Lemma; A.J. van der Veen; E.F. Deprettere;
    IEEE Tr. Signal Proc.,
    Volume 47, Issue 6, pp. 1722-1726, June 1999.
    document

  3089. A 1-V class-AB translinear integrator, Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing
    P.J. Poort; W.A. Serdijn, J. Mulder, A.C. van der Woerd; A.H.M. van Roermund;
    Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing,
    Volume 21, Issue 1, pp. 79-90, Oct. 1999.
    document

  3090. Design of high-dynamic-range fully integratable translinear filters
    W.A. Serdijn, M.H.L. Kouwenhoven, J. Mulder; A.H.M. van Roermund;
    Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing,
    Volume 19, Issue 3, pp. 223-239, 1999.
    document

  3091. Guest Editorial 2nd Special issue on Low-voltage low-power analog integrated circuits
    W.A. Serdijn, A.C. van der Woerd; C.J.M. Verhoeven (guest editors);
    Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing,
    Volume 20, Issue 1, July 1999.
    document

  3092. Non-linear analysis of noise in static and dynamic translinear circuits
    J. Mulder, M.H.L. Kouwenhoven,W.A. Serdijn, A.C. van der Woerd; A.H.M. van Roermund;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-II,
    Volume 46, Issue 3, pp. 266-278, March 1999.
    document

  3093. Measurement of thermal conductivity and diffusivity of single and multilayer membranes
    A. Irace; P.M. Sarro;
    Sensors and Actuators,
    Volume A76, Issue 1-3, pp. 323-328, 1999.

  3094. Bipolar transistor epilayer design using the MAIDS mixed-level simulator
    L.C.N. de Vreede; H.C. de Graaff; Willemen; J.A.; W. van Noort; Jos; R.; Larson; L.E.; J.W. Slotboom; J.L. Tauritz;
    IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 34, Issue 9, pp. 1331-1338, Sept. 1999.

  3095. In-plane structure of an arsenic-absorbed Si(100) surface probed with grazing-angle x-ray standing wave
    O. Sakata; N. Matsuki; H. Hashizume;
    Phys. Rev. B,
    Volume 60, Issue 23, pp. 15546-15549, Dec. 1999.

  3096. Linking insulator-to-metal transitions at zero finite magnetic fields
    Y. Hanein; N. Nenadovic; D. Shahar; H. Shtrinkman; J. Yoon; C.C. Li; D.C. Tsui;
    Nature,
    Volume 400, pp. 735-737, Aug. 1999.

  3097. The Role of Front and Back Contact Roughness in the Performance Enhancement of Single Junction a-Si:H Solar Cells
    M. Zeman; R.A.C.M.M. van Swaaij; M. Zuiddam; J. W. Metselaar; R. E. I. Schropp;
    Sol. Energy Mater. Sol. Cells,
    Volume 66, 353 (2001), 1999.

  3098. X-ray diffraction from quantum wires and quantum dots
    Y. Zhuang; J. Stangl; A. A. Darhuber; G. Bauer; P. Mikulik; V. Holy; N. Darowski; U. Pietsch;
    Journal of Materials Science: Materials Electronics,
    Volume 10, pp. 215, 1999.

  3099. Strain relaxation in periodic arrays of Si/SiGe quantum wires determined by coplanar high resolution x-ray diffraction and grazing incidence diffraction
    Y. Zhuang; V. Holy; J. Stangl; A.A. Darhuber; P. Mikulik; S. Zerlauth; F. Schaffler; G. Bauer; N. Darowski; D. L�bbert; U. Pietsch;
    Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics,
    Volume 32, pp. 224, 1999.

  3100. New Developments in Amorphous Thin Film Silicon Solar Cells
    R.E.I. Schropp; M. Zeman;
    IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices,
    Volume 46, Issue 10, pp. 2086-2092, Oct. 1999. ISSN 0018-9383.

  3101. CdTe epitaxial layers in ZnSe-based heterostructures
    S. Rubini; B. Bonanni; E. Pelucchi; A. Franciosi; Y. Zhuang; G. Bauer;
    Journal of Crystal Growth,
    Volume 201, pp. 465, 1999.

  3102. Technology and applications of micromachined adaptive mirrors
    G,Vdovin; P.M. Sarro; S.Middelhoek;
    J.Micromech. Microeng.,
    Volume 9, pp. 8-20, 1999. ISSN-0960-1317.

  3103. Measurement of the Switching Speed of Single FETs
    K.A. Jenkins; J.N. Burghartz;
    IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices,
    Volume 45, Issue 6, pp. 1369-1373, 1999.

  3104. Defect re-distribution in amorphous silicon below equilibration temperature
    R.A.C.M.M. van Swaaij; V. N��_da��_dy; M. Zeman; E. Pin��_ik; J.W. Metselaar;
    J. Non-Cryst. Solids,
    Volume 266-269, pp. 553, 1999.

  3105. Device simulation and fabrication of field effect solar cells
    K. Miyazaki; N. Matsuki; H. Shinno; H. Fujioka; M. Oshima; H. Koinuma;
    Bull Mater. Sci,
    Volume 22, Issue 3, pp. 729-733, May 1999.

  3106. Electron confinement in multi-anode saw tooth silicon drift detectors with an anode pitch of 250µm
    J. Sonsky; H.Valk; J.Huizenga; and R.W.Hollander; C.W.E. van Eijk; P.M. Sarro;
    IEEE Trans on Nucl. Science,
    Volume 46, Issue 3, pp. 271-274, 1999. ISSN 0018-9499.

  3107. Thin photodiodes for a scintillator-silicon well detector
    C.P. Allier; R.W. Hollander; P.M. Sarro; C.W.E. van Eijk;
    IEEE Trans. on Nuclear Science,
    Volume 46, Issue 6, pp. 1948-1951, 1999.

  3108. Investigation of periodicity fluctuations in strained (GaNAs)1/(GaAs)m superlattices by the kinematical simulation of X-ray diffraction
    Z. Pan; Y.T. Wang; Y. ZY. Huang. W. Lin; Z.Q. Zhou; L.H. R. LiH. Wu; Q.M. Wang;
    Applied Physics Letter,
    Volume 75, Issue 2, pp. 223, 1999.

  3109. Diminished electron cloud broadening in a silicon drift detector by sawtooth p+ strips
    J. Sonsky; H.Valk; C. P. Allier; R.Hollander; C.W.E. van Eijk; P.M. Sarro;
    IEEE Trans on Nucl. Science,
    Volume 46, Issue 1, pp. 53-58, 1999. ISSN 0018-9499.

  3110. Micromachined RF Passive Components and their Application in MMICs
    Y. Sun; J.L. Tauritz; R.G.F. Baets;
    International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering,
    Volume 9, Issue 4, pp. 310-325, Jul. 1999.

  3111. Pulsed laser deposition of photosensitive a-Si films
    S. Yasuda; T. Chikyow; S. Inoue; N. Matsuki; K. Miyazaki; S. Nishio; M. Kakihana; H. Koinuma;
    Appl. Phys. A,
    Volume 69, pp. S925-S927, Dec. 1999.

  3112. A finite-element method for modeling of electromagnetic fields using generalized cartesian elements
    G. Mur; I. E. Lager;
    IEEE Transactions on Magnetics,
    Volume 35, Issue 3, pp. 1376-1379, May 1999.
    document

  3113. A note on the uniqueness of a class of non-linear electrostatic field problems
    A. T. de Hoop; I. E. Lager;
    IEE Proceedings Science, Measurement and Technology,
    Volume 146, Issue 4, pp. 175-181, July 1999.
    document

  3114. On wafer determination of impedance of planar 100GHz double slot antenna
    I.G. Thayne; D.L.Edgar; K.Elgaid; H. McLelland; S. Ferguson; A Ross; J.M. Arnold. R.M. Heeres; N. Whyborn; W. Luinge; M.J.M. van der Vorst; A. Neto; P.J.I. de Maagt;
    Electronic Letters,
    Volume 35, Issue 16, pp. 1291-1292, August 1999.
    document

  3115. Input impedance of integrated elliptical lens antennas
    A. Neto; L. Borselli; S. Maci; P.J. de Maagt;
    IEE Proceedings Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 146, Issue 3, pp. 181-186, June 1999.
    document

  3116. Mutual coupling between slots under an elliptical dielectric lens
    A. Neto; D. Pasqualini; A. Toccafondi; S. Maci;
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 47, Issue 10, pp. 1504-1507, October 1999.
    document

  3117. Future concepts for electromagnetic detection: from space-time-frequency resources management to wideband radars
    Le Chevalier, F.;
    Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, IEEE,
    Volume 14, Issue 10, pp. 9-17, Oct 1999.

  3118. Low-cost multiple sensor systems
    G.C.M. Meijer;
    Journal {"}A{"},
    Volume 40, Issue 1, pp. 20-25, 1999.

  3119. Bulk-micromachined tunable Fabry-Perot microinterferometer for the visible spectral range
    J.H.G. Correia; M. Bartek; R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume 76, Issue 1-3, pp. 191-196, 1999.

  3120. Silver-based reflective coatings for micromachined optical filters
    M. Bartek; J.H.G. Correia; R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering,
    Volume 9, pp. 162-165, 1999.

  3121. Integrated interfaces for low-cost multiple-sensor systems
    G.C.M. Meijer; F.M.L. van der Goes; P.C. de Jong; X. Li; F.N.Toth;
    Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures,
    Volume 10, pp. 105-115, 1999.

  3122. Application of the integrated reliability analysis system (IRAS)
    G. Kócza; A. Bossche;
    Reliability Engineering & System Safety,
    Volume 64, pp. 99-107, 1999.

  3123. Low-cost CMOS smart temperature sensor with digital bus interface
    A. Bakker; J.H. Huijsing;
    Journal {"}A{"},
    Volume 40, Issue 1, pp. 31-35, 1999.

  3124. Liquid-crystal lenses with a controlled focal length. II. Numerical optimisation and experiments
    G. Vdovin; I.R. Guralnik; S.P. Kotova; M. Loktev; A.F. Naumov;
    Quantum Electronics,
    Volume 29, Issue 3, pp. 261-264, 1999.

  3125. Liquid-crystal lenses with a controlled focal length. I. Theory
    G. Vdovin; I.R. Guralnik; S.P. Kotova; M. Loktev; A.F. Naumov;
    Quantum Electronics,
    Volume 29, Issue 3, pp. 256-260, 1999.

  3126. Galvanic porous silicon formation without external contacts
    C.M.A. Ashruf; P.J. French; PM.M.C. Bressers; J.J. Kelly;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume 74, Issue 1-3, pp. 118-122, 1999.

  3127. Finite element analysis of the open window plastic package for optical sensors
    C.V.B. Cotofana; A. Bossche;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume 76, Issue 1-3, pp. 386-394, 1999.

  3128. Single step electrochemical etching in ammonium fluoride
    H. Ohji; P.J. French;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume 74, pp. 109-112, 1999.

  3129. Compensation of piezoresistivity effect in p-type implanted resistors
    F. Fruett; G.C.M. Meijer;
    Electronics Letters,
    Volume 35, Issue 18, pp. 1587-1588, 1999.

  3130. A novel molecularly imprinted thin film applied to a Love wave gas sensor
    B.H. Jakoby; G.M. Ismail; M.P. Byfield; M.J. Vellekoop;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume 76, pp. 93-97, 1999.

  3131. Bipolar transistor epilayer design using the MAIDS mixed-level simulator
    de Vreede, L.C.N.; de Graaff, H.C.; Willemen, J.A.; van Noort, W.; Jos, R.; Larson, L.E.; Slotboom, J.W.; Tauritz, J.L.;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 34, Issue 9, pp. 1331-1338, 1999. DOI: 10.1109/4.782094

  3132. On the vectorial calibration of a vibrating sample magnetometer for thin film measurements
    Bolhuis, T.; Abelmann, L.; Lodder, J. C.; Samwel, E. O.;
    Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials,
    Volume 193, Issue 1-3, pp. 332 – 336, 1999. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1016/S0304-8853(98)00451-X
    Keywords: ... Calibration; Crosstalk; Curve fitting; Demagnetization; Electric coils; Magnetic tape; Magnetic thin films; Magnetization; Vectors; Vibrating sample magnetometers (VSM); Magnetometers.

    Abstract: ... A calibration method for the biaxial vector Vibrating Sample Magnetometer (VSM) is proposed to reduce the so-called 'cross talk' error, often observed during angular measurements on magnetic thin films. The coil system of the biaxial vector VSM consists of two sets of coils, one for each of the two co-ordinate axes. The method takes into account that each coil set is sensitive to all components of the magnetisation vector and moreover that the sensitivity to the components parallel and perpendicular to the film plane can be different. A correction for demagnetisation should be used to compensate the fact that the sample used for the calibration cannot be fully saturated with an applied field at angles close to the normal of the film plane. Curve-fitting on the sensitivity curves is used to reduce noise. These procedures result in a calibration which reduces the cross talk by a factor 4-8 depending on the coil configuration and the size and shape of the samples used. © 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

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  3133. Calculation of playback signals from MFM images using transfer functions
    Vellekoop, S. J. L.; Abelmann, L.; Porthun, S.; Lodder, J. C.; Miles, J. J.;
    Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials,
    Volume 193, Issue 1-3, pp. 474 – 478, 1999. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1016/S0304-8853(98)00524-1
    Keywords: ... Computational methods; Magnetic heads; Magnetism; Mathematical models; Microscopic examination; Transfer functions; Force transfer functions (FTF); Fourier space; Magnetic force microscopy (MFM); Micromagnetism; Playback transfer functions (PTF); Magnetic recording.

    Abstract: ... Magnetic force microscopy has proven to be a suitable tool for analysis of high-density magnetic recording materials. Comparison of the MFM image of a written signal with the actual read-back signal of the recording system can give valuable insight in the recording properties of both heads and media. In a first order approach one can calculate a 'signal' by plotting the line integral over the track width along the track direction (Glijer et al., IEEE Trans. Magn. 32 (1996) 3557). The method however does not take into account the spatial frequency dependence of the transfer functions of both the MFM and the readback system. For instance the gap width of the head (limiting the high frequency signals) and the finite length of the MFM tip (limiting the sensitivity for low frequencies) are completely disregarded (Porthun et al., J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 182 (1998) 238). This type of problem involving spatial frequencies can be very elegantly solved in the Fourier space. The response of the MFM is described by the force transfer function (FTF) as introduced by (Porthun et al. (J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 182 (1998) 238) and Hug et al. (J. Appl. Phys. 83 (1998) 5609), which describes the relation between the MFM signal and the sample stray field at the height of the tip. From this stray field an 'effective surface charge distribution' can be calculated, by means of the field transfer function (HTF). The same function HTF can be used to calculate the stray field at the height of the head. From this stray field the playback voltage can be calculated, resulting in the playback transfer function (PTF). In order to do this the Karlquist model had to be extended to three dimensions. © 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

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  3134. Magnetic characterization of large area arrays of single and multi domain CoNi/Pt multilayer dots
    Haast, M. A. M.; Heskamp, I. R.; Abelmann, L.; Lodder, J. C.; Popma, Th. J. A.;
    Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials,
    Volume 193, Issue 1-3, pp. 511 – 514, 1999. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1016/S0304-8853(98)00484-3
    Keywords: ... Arrays; Cobalt alloys; Coercive force; Etching; Ion beams; Laser applications; Lithography; Magnetic anisotropy; Magnetic hysteresis; Magnetic recording; Metallic superlattices; Platinum; Laser interference lithography; Magnetic force microscopy (MFM); Polar Kerr magnetometry; Torque magnetometry; Magnetic films.

    Abstract: ... Co50Ni50/Pt multilayers with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy have been patterned into single and multi domain dots by laser interference lithography and ion beam etching. The samples (typically 1 × 1 cm2) have been characterized by VSM, polar Kerr Magnetometry, Torque Magnetometry and Magnetic Force Microscopy. The relation between coercivity, anisotropy and dot size is discussed. Also the rotational hysteresis loss of single and multi domain dots is reported. © 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

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  3135. The role of oxygen in obliquely deposited tapes
    Bijker, M. D.; Abelmann, L.; Lodder, J. C.; Popma, Th. J. A.;
    Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials,
    Volume 193, Issue 1-3, pp. 357 – 361, 1999. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1016/S0304-8853(98)00455-7
    Keywords: ... Deposition; Evaporation; Fluorescence; Magnetic recording; Microstructure; Oxygen; Transmission electron microscopy; X ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis; Magnetic tape.

    Abstract: ... The role of oxygen will be discussed in comparing some experimental tapes to a commercial Hi8ME tape. Both the oxygen flow and the deposition rate play an important role in understanding how oxygen is incorporated in the film during the evaporation process. © 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

    document

  3136. Time-varying Biorthogonal Filter Banks: A State Space Approach
    A.N. Lemma; E.F. Deprettere;
    IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems-I,
    Volume 45, pp. 280-289, March 1998.

  3137. Algebraic methods for deterministic blind beamforming
    A.J. van der Veen;
    Proceedings of the IEEE,
    Volume 86, Issue 10, pp. 1987-2008, October 1998.
    document

  3138. Estimation of multipath parameters in wireless communications
    M.C. Vanderveen; A.J. van der Veen; A. Paulraj;
    IEEE Tr. Signal Processing,
    Volume 46, Issue 3, pp. 682-690, March 1998.
    document

  3139. Joint angle and delay estimation using shift-invariance techniques
    A.J. van der Veen; M.C. Vanderveen; A. Paulraj;
    IEEE Tr. Signal Processing,
    Volume 46, Issue 2, pp. 405-418, February 1998.
    document • software
    Matlab implementation http://cas.tudelft.nl/pubs/jade.zip

  3140. Noise considerations for translinear filters
    J. Mulder, M.H.L. Kouwenhoven,W.A. Serdijn, A.C. van der Woerd; A.H.M. van Roermund;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-II,
    Volume 45, Issue 9, pp. 1199-1204, Sept. 1998. invited paper.
    document

  3141. A 3.3 V current-controlled Sqrt-domain oscillator
    J. Mulder; W.A. Serdijn, A.C. van der Woerd; A.H.M. van Roermund;
    Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing,
    Volume 16, Issue 1, pp. 17-28, April 1998.
    document

  3142. A wide-tunable translinear second-order oscillator
    W.A. Serdijn, J. Mulder, A.C. van der Woerd; A.H.M. van Roermund;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 33, Issue 2, pp. 195-201, Feb. 1998.
    document

  3143. An instantaneous and syllabic companding translinear filter
    J. Mulder; W.A. Serdijn, A.C. van der Woerd; A.H.M. van Roermund;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I,
    Volume 45, Issue 2, pp. 150-154, Feb. 1998.
    document

  3144. A new contactless electrochemical etch stop based on a gold/silicon/TMAH galvanic cell
    C.M.A. Ashruf; P.J. French; P.M.M.C. Bressers; P.M. Sarro; J.J. Kelly;
    Sensors and Actuators A,
    Volume 66, Issue 1-3 (1998), pp. 284-292, 1998.

  3145. Temperature dependence and drift of a thermal accelerometer
    U.A. Dauderstadt; P.M. Sarro; P.J. French;
    Sensors & Actuators A,
    Volume 66, Issue 1-3, pp. 244-249, 1998.

  3146. Electrochemical etch stop engineering for bulk micromachining
    C.M.A. Ashruf; P.J. French; P.M. Sarro; M.C. Bressers; J.J. Kelly;
    Mechatronics,
    Volume 8 (1998), pp. 595-612, 1998.

  3147. Surface versus bulk micromachining: the contest for suitable applications
    P.J. French; P.M. Sarro;
    J. Micromech. Microeng.,
    Volume 8, pp. 45-53, 1998.

  3148. X-ray scattering study of quantum wires and lateral periodic heterostructures
    L. Tapfer; L. De Caro; Y. Zhuang; P. Sciacovelli; A. Sacchetti;
    Thin Solid Films,
    Volume 319, Issue 49, 1998.

  3149. Offset reduction of Hall plates in three different crystal planes
    S. Bellekom; P.M. Sarro;
    Sensors and Actuators A,
    Volume 66, Issue 1-3 (1998), pp. 23-28, 1998.

  3150. Epitaxial growth at high rates with LEPECVD
    C. Rosenblad; T. Graf; J. Stangl; Y. Zhuang; G. Bauer; J. Schulze; H. von K�nel;
    Thin Solid Films,
    Volume 336, Issue 89, 1998.

  3151. Relaxation processes and metastability in amorphous hydrogenated silicon investigated with differential scanning calorimetry
    B.G. Budaguan; A.A. Aivazov; M.N. Meytin; A. Yu. Sazonov; J.W. Metselaar;
    Physical Review B,
    Volume 252, pp. 198-206, 1998.

  3152. Anisotropic etching of silicon in saturated TMAHW solutions for IC-compatible micromachining
    P.M. Sarro; S. Brida; C.M.A. Ashruf; W. van d. Vlist; H. van Zeijl;
    Sensors and Materials,
    Volume 10, Issue 4, pp. 201-212, 1998.

  3153. Thermo-optic effect exploitation in Silicon microstructures
    G. Cocorullo; F.G. Della Corte; I. Rendina; P. M. Sarro;
    Sensors and Actuators A,
    Volume 71, Issue 1-2, pp. 19-26, 1998. ISSN-0924-4247.

  3154. Magnetic-field meassurement using an integrated resonant magnetic-field sensor
    Zs.Kadar; A.Bossche; P.M. Sarro; J.R.Mollinger;
    Sensors and Actuators A,
    Volume 70, pp. 225-232, 1998. ISSN-0924-4247.

  3155. Low stress PECVD thin film SiC for IC compatible microstructures
    P.M. Sarro; C.R. de Boer; E. Korkmaz; J.W.M. Laros;
    Sensors and Actuators A,
    Volume 67, pp. 175-180, 1998.

  3156. Double crystal X-ray diffraction study of MBE self-organized INAS quantum dots
    W. Yutian; Y. Zhuang; M. Wenquan; W. Wie; Y. Xiaoping; C. Zonggui; J. Desheng; Z. Houzhi;
    Science China, Series A (Mathematics, Physics, Astronomy),
    Volume 41, Issue 2, pp. 172, 1998.

  3157. Grain Location-Control in Excimer-Laser Crystallised Thin Silicon Films
    P. Ch. van der Wilt; R. Ishihara;
    Physica Status Solidi (a),
    Volume 166, Issue 2, pp. 619-627, 1998.

  3158. A microgap photomultiplier for the read-out of LaF3 : Nd (10%) scintillator
    J. van der Marel; V.R.Bom; C.W.E. van Eijk; R.W. Hollander; P.M Sarro;
    Nucl. Instr. and Meth. Phys.Res. A,
    Volume 410, pp. 229-237, 1998. ISSN 0168-9002.

  3159. An Anisotropic U-shape SF6 Based Plasma Silicon Trench Etching Investigation
    A. Burtsev; X.Y. Li; H.W. van Zeijl; C.I.M. Beenakker;
    Microelectronic Engineering,
    Volume 40, pp. 85-97, 1998. ISSN 0167-9317.

  3160. Collective charge density wave motion in inhomogeneous mesoscopic systems
    M.I. Visscher; B. Rejaei; G.E.W. Bauer;
    Physica B: Condensed Matter,
    Volume 249-251, pp. 490-495, Jun. 1998.

  3161. Design and characterization of MicroGap Counters on silicon
    F.D. van d. Berg; J. van d. Marel; C.W.E. van Eijk; R.W. Hollander; P.M. Sarro;
    Nucl Instr and Meth. A.,
    Volume 409, pp. 90-94, 1998.

  3162. Optical properties of a-SiGe:H solar cells on textured substrates
    J.H. van den Berg; M. Zeman; J.W. Metselaar;
    Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids,
    Volume 227-230, pp. 1262-1266, 1998.

  3163. Optical absorption edge in structure-inhomogeneous a-Si:H based alloys
    B.G. Budaguan; A.A. Aivazov; D.A. Stryahilev; J.W. Metselaar;
    Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids,
    Volume 226, pp. 217-224, 1998.

  3164. Location Control of Crystal Si Grain Followed by Excimer-Laser Melting of Si Thin-Films
    R. Ishihara; P.Ch. van der Wilt;
    Jpn.J.Appl.Phys.,
    Volume 37, pp. L15-L17, Jan. 1998.

  3165. Location Control of Large Grain Following Excimer-Laser Melting of Si Thin-Films
    R. Ishihara; A. Burtsev;
    Japan. J. Appl. Phys,
    Volume 37, Issue 1, pp. 1071-1075, 1998.

  3166. Spiral Inductors on Silicon - Status and Trends
    J.N. Burghartz;
    International Journal on Microwave and Millimeter Wave CAD,
    Volume 8, Issue 6, pp. 422-432, 1998.

  3167. Characteristics of field effect a-Si:H solar cells
    H. Fujioka; M. Oshima; C. Hu; M. Sumiya; N. Matsuki; H. Koinuma;
    J. of Non-Cryst. Solids,
    Volume 227-230, pp. 1287-1290, May 1998.

  3168. Amorphous Hydrogenated Silicon Films for Solar Cell Application Obtained with 55 kHz Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapour Deposition
    B.G. Budaguan; A. Sherchenkov; D.A. Stryahilev; A.Y. Sazonov; A.G. Radoselsky; V.D. Chernomordic; A.A. Popov; J.W. Metselaar;
    J. Electrochem. Soc.,
    Volume 145, pp. 2508-2512, 1998.

  3169. Strain and surface morphology in lattice-matched ZnSe/InxGa1-xAs heterostructures
    S. Heun; J.J. Paggel; L. Sorba; S. Rubini; A. Bonanni; R. Lantier; M. Lazzarino; B. Bonanni; A. Franciosi; J.-M. Bonard; J.-D. Ganiere; Y. Zhuang; G. Bauer;
    J. Appl. Phys.,
    Volume 83, Issue 5, pp. 2504, 1998.

  3170. Modelling and fabrication of Geiger mode avalanche photodiodes
    W.J. Kindt; H.W. van Zeijl;
    IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science,
    Volume 45, Issue 3, pp. 715-719, 1998.

  3171. Analysis and modeling of small-signal bipolar transistor operation at arbitrary injection levels
    N. Rinaldi; H.C. de Graaff; J.L. Tauritz;
    IEEE Trans. Electron Devices,
    Volume 45, pp. 1817-1825, Aug. 1998.

  3172. Two silicon optical modulators realizable with a fully compatible bipolar process
    G. Breglio; A. Cutolo; A. Irace; P. Spirito; L. Zeni; M. Iodice; P.M. Sarro;
    IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics vol. 4,
    Issue 6, pp. 1003-1010, 1998.

  3173. RF Circuit Design Aspects of Spiral Inductors on Silicon
    J.N. Burghartz; D.C. Edelstein; M. Soyuer; H.A. Ainspan; K.A. Jenkins;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 33, Issue 12, pp. 2028-2034, 1998.

  3174. Silicon-on-silicon rib waveguides with a high-confining ion-implanted lower cladding
    G. Cocorullo; F.G. Della Corte; M. Iodice; I. Rendina; P.M. Sarro;
    IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics,
    Volume 4, Issue 6, pp. 983-989, 1998.

  3175. SiGe Power HBTs for Low-Voltage, High-Performance RF Applications
    J.N. Burghartz; J.-O. Plouchart; K.A. Jenkins; C.S. Webster; M. Soyuer;
    IEEE Electron Device Letters,
    Volume 19, Issue 4, pp. 103-105, 1998.

  3176. In-plane strain and strain relaxation in laterally patterned periodic arrays of Si/SiGe quantum wires and dot arrays
    N. Darowski; U. Pietsch; Y. Zhuang; S. Zerlauth; G. Bauer; D. L�bbert; T. Baumbach;
    Appl. Phys. Lett.,
    Volume 73, Issue 6, pp. 806, 1998.

  3177. Extension of the collector charge description for compact bipolar epilayer models
    L.C.N. de Vreede; H.C. de Graaff; J.L. Tauritz; Baets; R.G.F;
    IEEE Tr. Electron Devices,
    Volume 45, Issue 1, pp. 277-285, Jan. 1998.

  3178. Hydrogenated amorphous silicon transverse junction solar cell
    M.A. Kroon; R.A.C.M.M. van Swaaij; M. Zeman; V.I. Kuznetsov; J.W. Metselaar;
    Appl. Phys. Lett.,
    Volume 72, pp. 209, 1998.

  3179. Static magnetic field computation - An approach based on the domain-integrated field equations
    A. T. de Hoop; I. E. Lager;
    IEEE Transactions on Magnetics,
    Volume 34, Issue 5, pp. 3355-3358, September 1998.
    document

  3180. Least-squares minimising finite-element formulation for static and stationary electric and magnetic fields
    I. E. Lager; G. Mur;
    IEEE Transactions on Magnetics,
    Volume 34, Issue 5, pp. 2419-2424, September 1998.
    document

  3181. Generalized Cartesian finite elements
    I. E. Lager; G. Mur;
    IEEE Transactions on Magnetics,
    Volume 34, Issue 4, pp. 2220-2227, July 1998.
    document

  3182. Reflections inside an elliptical dielectric lens antenna
    A. Neto; S. Maci; P.J. de Maagt;
    IEE Proceedings Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation,
    Volume 145, Issue 3, pp. 243-247, June 1998.
    document

  3183. Electrochemical etch stop engineering for bulk micromachining [ niet eerder opgevoerd ]
    C.M.A. Ashruf; P.J. French; P.M. Sarro; J.J. Kelly; PM.M.C. Bressers;
    Mechatronics,
    Volume 1998, Issue 8, pp. 595-612, 1998.

  3184. A novel low-cost noncontact resistive potentiometric sensor for the measurement of low speeds [niet eerder opgevoerd]
    X. Li; G.C.M. Meijer;
    IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement,
    Volume 47, Issue 3, pp. 776-781, 1998.

  3185. Surface versus bulk micromachining: the contest for suitable applications Surface versus bulk micromachining: the contest for suitable applications
    P.J. French; P.M. Sarro;
    Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering,
    Volume 8, Issue 2, pp. 45-53, 1998.

  3186. Magnetic-field measurements using an integrated resonant magnetic-field sensor [niet eerder opgevoerd]
    Z. Kádár; A. Bossche; P.M. Sarro; J.R. Mollinger;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical: an international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers,
    Volume 70, pp. 225-232, 1998.

  3187. VIERS-1 scatterometer model [niet eerder opgevoerd]
    PA.E.M. Janssen; H. Wallbrink; C.J. Calkoen; D. van Halsema; W.A. Oost; M.F. Snoeij;
    Journal Of Geophysical Research-Oceans,
    Volume 103, Issue C4, pp. 7807-7831, 1998.

  3188. Extension of the collector charge description for compact bipolar epilayer models
    de Vreede, L.C.N.; de Graaff, H.C.; Tauritz, J.L.; Baets, R.G.F.;
    IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices,
    Volume 45, Issue 1, pp. 277-285, 1998. DOI: 10.1109/16.658842

  3189. Quantitative magnetic force microscopy on perpendicularly magnetized samples
    Hug, Hans J.; Stiefel, B.; Van Schendel, P. J. A.; Moser, A.; Hofer, R.; Martin, S.; G{\" u}ntherodt, H.-J.; Porthun, Steffen; Abelmann, Leon; Lodder, J. C.; Bochi, Gabriel; O'Handley, R. C.;
    Journal of Applied Physics,
    Volume 83, Issue 11, pp. 5609 – 5620, 1998. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1063/1.367412
    Abstract: ... We present a transfer-function approach to calculate the force on a magnetic force microscope tip and the stray field due to a perpendicularly magnetized medium having an arbitrary magnetization pattern. Under certain conditions, it is possible to calculate the magnetization pattern from the measured force data. We apply this transfer function theory to quantitatively simulate magnetic force microscopy data acquired on a CoNi/Pt multilayer and on an epitaxially grown Cu/Ni/Cu/Si(001) magnetic thin film. The method described here serves as an excellent basis for (i) the definition of the condition for achieving maximum resolution in a specific experiment, (ii) the differences of force and force z-derivative imaging, (iii) the artificial distinction between domain and domain wall contrast, and finally (iv) the influence of various tip shapes on image content. © 1998 American Institute of Physics.

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  3190. On the determination of the internal magnetic structure by magnetic force microscopy
    Vellekoop, Bas; Abelmann, Leon; Porthun, Steffen; Lodder, Cock;
    Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials,
    Volume 190, Issue 1-2, pp. 148 – 151, 1998. DOI: 10.1016/S0304-8853(98)00280-7
    Keywords: ... Computational methods; Magnetic fields; Magnetic force microscopy (MFM); Magnetic variables measurement.

    Abstract: ... In this contribution it is proven mathematically that it is in principle impossible to determine the magnetic charge distribution inside a magnetic material by a method which measures the stray field outside the sample, such as magnetic force microscopy (MFM). A general source of stray field, Eσ, is defined and it is shown that different solutions can be found for Eσ that result in the same stray field. It is also shown how both a perpendicular and a longitudinal medium can be described with the same Eσ. Using the equations for stray field, resulting from Eσ, it is also proven that performing the same MFM measurement at different scanning heights does not provide any new information on the stray field for sample; from a measurement at one (constant) height, the stray field at all other heights can be calculated. Moreover, the component of the field parallel to the same plane can be obtained from a measurement of the field component perpendicular to the sample plane. © 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

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  3191. Optimization of lateral resolution inmagnetic forcemicroscopy
    Porthun, S.; Abelmann, L.; Vellekoop, S. J. L.; Lodder, J. C.; Hug, H. J.;
    Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing,
    Volume 66, Issue SUPPL. 1, pp. S1185–S1189, 1998. DOI: 10.1007/s003390051323
    Keywords: ... Magnetic fields; Magnetic force microscopy; Magnetic recording; Detector noise; High-lateral resolution; Lateral resolution; Recording media; Ultrahigh density; Magnetic heads.

    Abstract: ... Magnetic force microscopy (MFM) plays an important role in magnetic recording research. It is not only suited for the study of magnetic heads and recording media, but is also a possible technique for ultrahigh-density bit writing. One of the key properties of this technique is the geometric simplicity of the magnetic field-detecting element-which makes it suitable for reaching very high lateral resolution. Starting from the tip transfer function (TTF), as derived in [1], a minimum detectable wavelength will be used as a measure for the lateral resolution of the instrument. This minimum detectable wavelength will determine the detector noise level in the instrument's configuration. The model of the minimum detectable wavelength is then used to optimize the tip-sample configuration geometrically as well as magnetically. © 1998 Springer-Verlag.

    document

  3192. Comparing the resolution of magnetic force microscopes using the CAMST reference samples
    Abelmann, Leon; Porthun, Steffen; Haast, Marc; Lodder, Cock; Moser, Andreas; Best, Margaret E.; Van Schendel, Pieter J. A.; Stiefel, Bruno; Hug, Hans J.; Heydon, Greg P.; Farley, Andrew; Hoon, Steve R.; Pfaffelhuber, Thomas; Proksch, Roger; Babcock, Ken;
    Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials,
    Volume 190, Issue 1-2, pp. 135 – 147, 1998. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1016/S0304-8853(98)00281-9
    Keywords: ... Cobalt alloys; Magnetic storage; Magnetooptical devices; Microscopes; Multilayers; Magnetic force microscopes; Magnetic measuring instruments.

    Abstract: ... A set of reference samples for comparing the results obtained with different magnetic force microscopes (MFM) has been prepared. These samples consist of CoNi/Pt magneto-optic multilayers with different thicknesses. The magnetic properties of the multilayer are tailored in such a way that a very fine stripe domain structure occurs in remanence. On top of this intrinsic domain structure, bits were written thermomagnetically using different laser powers. These samples have been imaged in six different laboratories employing both home-built and commercial magnetic force microscopes. The resolution obtained with these different microscopes, tips and measurement methods varies between 30 and 100 nm. © 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

    document

  3193. Magnetic force microscopy of thin film media for high density magnetic recording
    Porthun, Steffen; Abelmann, Leon; Lodder, Cock;
    Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials,
    Volume 182, Issue 1-2, pp. 238 – 273, 1998. DOI: 10.1016/S0304-8853(97)01010-X
    Keywords: ... Magnetic domains; Magnetic field effects; Magnetic heads; Magnetic recording; Magnetooptical devices; Microscopic examination; Magnetic force microscopy; Magnetic imaging; Magnetic structures; Soft magnetic materials; Magnetic thin films.

    Abstract: ... This paper discusses various aspect of magnetic force microscopy (MFM) for use in the field of high density magnetic recording. After an introduction of the most important magnetic imaging techniques, an overview is given of the operation and theory of MFM. The developments in instrumentation, MFM tips, quantification of MFM data, high resolution imaging and application of external fields is discussed. Examples are given of the applications of MFM, such as the characterization of heads, magnetic structures (bits) in longitudinal and perpendicular recording media, bits in magneto-optic films and domain structures in soft magnetic materials. © 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

    document

  3194. Reversai mechanism of submicron patterned CoNi/Pt multilayers
    Haast, M. A. M.; Schuurhuis, J. R.; Abelmann, L.; Lodder, J. C.; Popma, T. J.;
    IEEE Transactions on Magnetics,
    Volume 34, Issue 4 PART 1, pp. 1006 – 1008, 1998. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1109/20.706339
    Keywords: ... Cobalt alloys; Coercive force; Lithography; Magnetic hysteresis; Magnetic recording; Metallic superlattices; Platinum; Laser interference lithography; Magnetic force microscopy; Magnetic films.

    Abstract: ... With laser interference lithography CosoNiso/Pt multilayers with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy have been patterned into regular matrices of submicron sized dots. Their magnetic properties have been studied with Vibrating Sample Magnetojnetry. Compared to continuous multilayers (Hc =15 kA/m) the coercivity for the patterned multilayers is much larger (H, = 115-270 kA/m). Though the hysteresis curves of ISO nm dots and 60 nm dots have identical shapes, virgin curves seem to indicate that the 180 urn dots are multidomain while the 60 nm dots are single domain. The latter has been confirmed with Magnetic Force Microscopy observations. © 1998 IEEE.

    document

  3195. A Subspace Approach to Blind Space-Time Signal Processing for Wireless Communication Systems
    A.J. van der Veen; S. Talwar; A. Paulraj;
    IEEE Trans. Signal Processing,
    Volume 45, Issue 1, pp. 173-190, January 1997.
    document

  3196. New silicon micromachining techniques for microsystems
    P.J. French; P.T.J. Gennissen; P.M. Sarro;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical,
    Volume 62, Issue 1-3, pp. 652-662, Jul. 1997.

  3197. Dual structural polysilicon BiFET-compatible surface-micromachining module
    Drieenhuizen; B.P. van; J.F.L. Goosen; Y.X. Li; M. Bartek; P.J. French; P.M. Sarro; R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering,
    Volume 7, Issue 3, pp. 148-150, Sep. 1997.

  3198. Optimization of a low stress silicon nitride process for surface micromachining applications
    P.J. French; P.M. Sarro; R. Mall?e; E.J.M. Fakkeldij; R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    Sensors and Actuators A,
    Volume 58, pp. 149-157, 1997.

  3199. Bipolar-compatible epitaxial poly for smart sensors: stress minimization and applications
    P.T.J. Gennissen; M. Bartek; P.J. French; P.M. Sarro;
    Sensors and Actuators A,
    Volume 62, pp. 636-645, 1997.

  3200. Ultra low power MOS integrated filter with transconductors with spoilt current sources
    J.C. Kuenen; M. van de Gevel;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 32, Issue 10, pp. 1576-1581, Oct. 1997.
    document

  3201. Signal x noise intermodulation in translinear filters
    J. Mulder, M.H.L. Kouwenhoven; A.H.M. van Roermund;
    Electronics Letters,
    Volume 33, Issue 14, pp. 1205-1207, July 3 1997.
    document

  3202. An RMS-DC converter based on the dynamic translinear principle
    J. Mulder, A.C. van der Woerd; W.A. Serdijn; A.H.M. van Roermund;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 32, Issue 7, pp. 1146-1150, July 1997.
    document

  3203. A current-efficient CMOS transconductor for continuous-time gm-c filters
    W.A. Serdijn, J.C. Kuenen, J. Mulder, M. van de Gevel, A.C. van der Woerd; A.H.M. van Roermund;
    Electronics Letters,
    Volume 33, Issue 9, pp. 769-771, April 24 1997.
    document

  3204. General current-mode analysis of translinear filters
    J. Mulder, A.C. van der Woerd; W.A. Serdijn; A.H.M. van Roermund;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I,
    Volume 44, Issue 3, pp. 193-197, March 1997.
    document

  3205. A low-voltage ultra-low-power translinear integrator for audio filter applications
    W.A. Serdijn, M. Broest, J. Mulder, A.C. van der Woerd; A.H.M. van Roermund;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 32, Issue 4, pp. 577-581, April 1997.
    document

  3206. A reduced area low-power low-voltage single-ended differential pair
    J. Mulder, M. van de Gevel; and A.H.M. van Roermund;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 32, Issue 2, pp. 254-257, Feb. 1997.
    document

  3207. Stability of oriented silicalite- 1 films in view of zeolite membrane preparation
    M.J. den Exter; F. Kapteijn; C.J.M. Rijn; H. van Bekkum; J.A. Moulijn; H. Schellevis; C.I.M. Beenakker;
    Zeolites,
    Volume 1997, Issue 19, pp. 13-20, 1997. ISSN: 0144-2449/97.

  3208. An integrated silicon interferometric temperature sensor
    G. Cocorullo; F.G. Della Corte; M. Iodice; I. Rendina; P.M. Sarro;
    Sensors and Actuators A,
    Volume 61, Issue 1-3, pp. 267-272, 1997.

  3209. Transport through mesoscopic charge density wave junctions
    Tanaka; M.I. Visscher; B. Rejaei; G.E.W. Bauer;
    Synthetic Metals,
    Volume 86, Issue 1-3, pp. 2217-2218, Feb. 1997.

  3210. Computer modelling of current matching in a-Si:H/a-Si-H tandem solar cells on textured TCO substrates
    M. Zeman; J.A. Willemen; L.L.A. Vosteen; G. Tao; J.W. Metselaar;
    Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells,
    Volume 46, pp. 81-99, 1997.

  3211. Integrated RF Components in a SiGe Bipolar Technology
    J.N. Burghartz; M. Soyuer; K.A. Jenkins; M. Kies; M. Dolan; K. Stein; J. Malinowski; D.L. Harame;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 32, Issue 9, pp. 1440-1445, 1997.

  3212. Low-Power SiGe C-Band Low-Noise Amplifiers for Wireless Applications
    M. Soyuer; J.-O. Plouchart; H.A. Ainspan; J.N. Burghartz; K.A. Jenkins; A.P. Kalinowski;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    1997.

  3213. An 11 GHz 3-V SiGe Voltage Controlled Oscillator with Integrated Resonator
    M. Soyuer; J.N. Burghartz; H.A. Ainspan; K.A. Jenkins; P. Xiao; A.R. Shahani; M.S. Dolan; D.L. Harame;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 32, Issue 9, pp. 1451-1454, 1997.

  3214. Backside-illuminated silicon photodiode array in an integrated spectrometer
    T.A. Kwa; . P.M. Sarro; R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices,
    Volume 44, Issue 5 (1997), pp. 761-765, 1997.

  3215. Excimer-laser-produced single-crystal silicon thin-film transistors
    R. Ishihara; M. Matsumura;
    Japanese Journal of Applied Physics,
    Volume 36, pp. 6167-6170, 1997.

  3216. A temperature all-silicon micro-sensor based on the thermo-optic effect
    G. Cocorullo; F.G. Della Corte; M. Iodice; I. Rendina; P.M. Sarro;
    IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices,
    Volume 44, Issue 5 (1997), pp. 766-774, 1997.

  3217. Electrostatic aluminum micromirrors using double pass metallization
    J. B�hler; J. Funk; J.G. Korvink; F.-P. Steiner; P.M. Sarro; H. Baltes;
    Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems,
    Volume 6, Issue 2, pp. 126-135, 1997.

  3218. Spiral Inductors and Transmission Lines in Silicon Technology Using Cu-Damascene Interconnects and Low-Loss Substrates
    J.N. Burghartz; D.C. Edelstein; K.A. Jenkins; Y.H. Kwark;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 45, Issue 2, pp. 1961-1968, 1997.

  3219. Lateral periodicity in high-strained (GaIn)As/Ga(PAs) superlattices investigated by x-ray scattering techniques
    Y. ZC. Huang Giannini; L. Tapfer; T. Marschner; W. Stolz;
    Nuovo Cimento,
    Volume 19, pp. 377, 1997.

  3220. Electronic effects of ion damage in hydrogenated amorphous silicon alloys
    R.A.C.M.M. van Swaaij; A.D. Annis; B.J. Sealy;
    J. Appl. Phys.,
    Volume 82, pp. 4800, 1997.

  3221. Mechanical behaviour during thermal cycling of AlVPd line patterns
    J.P. Lokker; A.J. Kalkman; H. Schellevis; G.C.A.M. Janssen; S. Radelaar;
    Microelectronic Engineering,
    Volume 33, pp. 129-135, 1997.

  3222. Technology and applications of micromachined silicon adaptive mirrors
    G. Vdovin; S. Middelhoek; P.M. Sarro;
    Opt. Eng.,
    Volume 36, Issue 5, pp. 1382-1390, 1997.

  3223. Silicon nitride as dielectric in low temperature SiGe HBT processing
    Q.W. Ren; L.K. Nanver; C.R. de Boer; H.W. van Zeijl;
    Microelectronic Engineering,
    Volume 36, Issue 1-4, pp. 179-182, Jun. 1997.

  3224. Josephson Current through Charge Density Waves
    M.I. Visscher; B. Rejaei;
    Phys. Re. Lett.,
    Volume 79, pp. 4461-4464, 1997.

  3225. Structural ordering and interface morphology in symmetrically strained(GaIn)As/Ga(PAs) superlattices grown off-oriented GaAs(100)
    C. Giannini; L. Tapfer; Y. Zhuang; L. De Caro; T. Marschner; W. Stolz;
    Phys. Re. B,
    Volume 55, Issue 1, 1997.

  3226. A silicon avalanche photodiode for single optical photon counting in the geiger mode
    W.J. Kindt; N.H. Shahrjerdy; H.W. van Zeijl;
    Sensors and Actuators A,
    Volume 60, pp. 98-102, 1997.

  3227. Structures of an asymmetrically coupled double-well superlattice by double crystal X-ray diffraction
    M. Wenquan; Y. Zhuang; W. Yutian; J. Desheng;
    Science China, Series A (Mathematics, Physics, Astronomy),
    Volume 40, Issue 9, pp. 1004, 1997.

  3228. An integrated charge amplifier for a pyroelectric sensor
    D. Setiadi; A. Armitage; T.D. Binnie; P.P.L. Regtien; P.M. Sarro;
    Sensors and Actuators A,
    Volume 61, Issue 1-3, pp. 421-426, 1997.

  3229. Finite element method for stationary and static electromagnetic fields
    I. E. Lager; G. Mur;
    Journal of Applied Physics,
    Volume 81, Issue 8, pp. 4079-4081, April 1997.

  3230. Joint angle and delay estimation using shift-invariance properties
    A.J. van der Veen; M.C. Vanderveen; A. Paulraj;
    IEEE Signal Processing Letters,
    Volume 4, Issue 5, pp. 142-145, May 1997.
    document • software
    Matlab implementation http://sps.ewi.tudelft.nl/data/allejan/jade.zip

  3231. Analytical Method for Blind Binary Signal Separation
    A.J. van der Veen;
    IEEE Trans. Signal Processing,
    Volume 45, Issue 4, pp. 1078-1082, April 1997.
    document • software
    Matlab implementation http://sps.ewi.tudelft.nl/data/allejan/racma.zip

  3232. Oblique evaporation and surface diffusion
    Abelmann, Leon; Lodder, Cock;
    Thin Solid Films,
    Volume 305, Issue 1-2, pp. 1 – 21, 1997. DOI: 10.1016/S0040-6090(97)00095-3
    Keywords: ... Diffusion in solids; Evaporation; Film growth; Mathematical models; Surface phenomena; Surface structure; Thermal effects; Oblique evaporation; Thin films.

    Abstract: ... The special structure of obliquely evaporated films has its origin in shadowing phenomena during film growth. Because of shadowing, the film consists of bundles of inclined columns with the bundles being aligned perpendicularly to the vapour incidence direction. The column inclination angle lies between the film normal and the vapour incidence direction. Different models found in literature relating process parameters and film structure are discussed. It is found that surface diffusion plays an important role, especially with regard to the difference between random and directional surface diffusion. The latter is induced by the oblique evaporation process. A quantitative expression is given for the relation between process conditions and surface diffusion including the influence of substrate temperature, rate and contamination with residual gasses. Using these models and adding our new calculations, the relation between surface diffusion and film structure is discussed in detail and found to be consistent with measurements published in the literature. © 1997 Elsevier Science S.A.

    document

  3233. Two-Sided controlled Transition in Biorthogonal Time-varying Filter Banks
    A.N. Lemma; E.F. Deprettere;
    IEEE Signal Proc. Letters,
    Volume 3, Issue 2, pp. 47-50, February 1996.

  3234. Design of lapped orthogonal transforms
    R. Heusdens;
    IEEE Trans. on Image Processing,
    Volume 5, Issue 8, pp. 1281-1284, August 1996.

  3235. On-line Subspace Estimation using a Schur-type Method
    J. G\"otze; A.J. van der Veen;
    IEEE Trans. Signal Processing,
    Volume 44, Issue 6, pp. 1585-1589, June 1996.
    document

  3236. A Schur Method for Low-rank Matrix Approximation
    A.J. van der Veen;
    SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl.,
    Volume 17, Issue 1, pp. 139-160, January 1996.
    document

  3237. $H_\infty$ output feedback control for linear discrete time-varying systems via the bounded real lemma
    J.M.A. Scherpen; M. Verhaegen;
    Int. J. Control,
    Volume 65, Issue 6, pp. 963-993, 1996.

  3238. The development of a low-stress polysilicon process compatible with standard device processing
    P.J. French; B.P. van Drieenhuizen; D. Poenar; J.F.L. Goosen; R. Mallee; P.M. Sarro; R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems,
    Volume 5, Issue 3, pp. 187-196, 1996.

  3239. Ultrafast interstitial injection during transient enhanced diffusion of boron in silicon
    H.G.A. Huizing; C.C.G. Visser; N.E.B. Cowern; P.A.Stolk; R.C.M. de Kruif;
    Appl. Phys. Lett,
    Volume 69, Issue 9, pp. 1211-1213, 1996.

  3240. Study of double barrier superlattice by synchrotron radiation and double-crystal x-ray diffraction
    Y. ZY. Huang.T. Wang; D.S. Jiang; Y.P. Yang; X.M. Jiang; J.Y. Wu; L.S. Xiu; W.L. Zheng;
    Appl. Phys. Lett.,
    Volume 68, Issue 8, pp. 1147, 1996.

  3241. Advanced modeling of distortion effects in bipolar transistors using the Mextram model
    L.C.N. de Vreede; H.C. de Graaff; Mouthaan; K.; de Kok; M.; J.L. Tauritz; Baets; R.G.F;
    J. Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 31, Issue 1, pp. 114-121, Jan. 1996.

  3242. Bipolar integrated Kelvin test structure for contact resistance measurement of self-aligned implantations
    L.K. Nanver; E.J.G. Goudena; J. Slabbekoorn;
    IEEE Trans. on Semiconductor Manufacturing,
    Volume 9, Issue 3, pp. 455-460, 1996.

  3243. Microwave Inductors and Capacitors in Standard Multilevel Interconnect Silicon Technology
    J.N. Burghartz; M. Soyuer; K.A. Jenkins;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 44, Issue 1, pp. 100-104, 1996.

  3244. Determination of the density of states in amorphous silicon-carbon alloys using a Fourier transformation of transient photocurrent data
    P. A. Bayley; J. M. Marshall; C. Main; D. P. Webb; R.A.C.M.M. van Swaaij; J. Bezemer;
    J. Non-Cryst. Solids,
    Volume 161, 1996.

  3245. Identification of Gate Electrode Discontinuities in Submicron CMOS Technologies, and Effect on Circuit Performance
    K.A. Jnkins; J.N. Burghartz; P.D. Agnello;
    IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices,
    Volume 43, Issue 5, pp. 759-765, 1996.

  3246. A 3-V 4-GHz nMOS Voltage-Controlled Oscillator with Integrated Resonator -
    M. Soyuer; K.A. Jenkins; J.N. Burghartz; M.D. Hulvey;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 31, Issue 12, pp. 2042-2045, 1996.

  3247. A 2.4-GHz Silicon Bipolar Oscillator with Integrated Resonator
    M. Soyuer; K.A. Jenkins; J.N. Burghartz; H.A. Ainspan; F.J. Canora; S. Ponnapalli; J.F. Ewen; W.E. Pence;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 31, Issue 2, pp. 268-270, 1996.

  3248. BiCMOS Process Integration and Device Optimization: Basic Concepts and New Trends
    J.N. Burghartz;
    Electronic Engineering,
    Volume 79, pp. 313-327, 1996.

  3249. Recombination centers identification in very thin silicon epitaxial layers via lifetime measurements
    S. Daliento; A. Sanseverino; P. Spirito; P.M. Sarro; L. Zeni;
    IEEE Electr. De van Lett,
    Volume 17, Issue 3, pp. 148-150, 1996.

  3250. Multi-Level Spiral Inductors Using VLSI Interconnect Technology
    J.N. Burghartz; K.A. Jenkins; M. Soyuer;
    IEEE Electron Device Letters,
    Volume 17, Issue 9, pp. 428-430, 1996.

  3251. Plasma_enhanced chemical vapor deposition of thick silicon nitride films with low stress on InP
    L. Shi; C. A. M. Steenbergen; A. H. de Vreede; M. K. Smit; T. L. M. Scholtes; F. H. Groen; J. W. Pedersen;
    J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A,
    Volume 14, pp. 471, 1996.

  3252. Ultra fast interstitial injection during transient enhanced boron diffusion in silicon
    H.G. A. Huizing; C.C.G. Visser; N.E.B. Cowern; P.A. Stolk; R.C.M. de Kruif;
    Appl. Phys. Letters,
    Volume 68, pp. 409-411, 1996.

  3253. A dynamical translinear RMS-DC converter
    J. Mulder, A.C. van der Woerd; W.A. Serdijn; A.H.M. van Roermund;
    Electronics Letters,
    Volume 32, Issue 22, pp. 2067-2068, Oct. 24 1996.
    document

  3254. De spanning eruit in buzzers, piepers en pacemakers
    W.A. Serdijn en G.L.E. Monna;
    Natuur en Techniek,
    Volume 64, Issue 4, pp. 54-59, April 1996. invited paper.

  3255. Design rules for an integratable low-power amplifier/filter combination
    R. Koster, A.C. van der Woerd; W.A. Serdijn;
    Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing,
    Volume 9, pp. 207-214, 1996.
    document

  3256. High-swing cascode MOS current mirror
    J. Mulder, A.C. van der Woerd; W.A. Serdijn; A.H.M. van Roermund;
    Electronics Letters,
    Volume 32, Issue 14, pp. 1251-1252, July 4 1996.
    document

  3257. Chain-rule resistance: a new circuit principle for inherently linear ultra-low-power on-chip transconductances or transresistances
    W.A. Serdijn, A.C. van der Woerd; A.H.M. van Roermund;
    Electronics Letters,
    Volume 32, Issue 4, pp. 278-279, Feb. 15 1996.
    document

  3258. A current-mode companding sqrt-domain integrator
    J. Mulder, A.C. van der Woerd; W.A. Serdijn; A.H.M. van Roermund;
    Electronics Letters,
    Volume 32, Issue 3, pp. 198-199, Feb. 1 1996.
    document

  3259. Collective transport through charge-density-wave heterostructures
    B. Rejaei; G.E.W. Bauer;
    Phys. Re. B,
    Volume 54, pp. 8487-8490, 1996.

  3260. Equivalence of the transmission-eigenvalue density in supersymmetric and scaling theories of disordered wires without time-reversal symmetry
    B. Rejaei;
    Phys. Re. B,
    Volume 53, pp. R13235-R13238, 1996.

  3261. LPCVD silicon-rich silicon nitride films for applications in micromechanics, studied with statistical experimental design
    Gardeniers; H.A.C. Tilmans; C.C.G. Visser;
    J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A,
    Volume 14, Issue 5, pp. 2879-2892, 1996.

  3262. De ontlading van een fotogeleider
    R.A.C.M. van Swaaij;
    Ned. Tijdschr. v. Natuurkunde,
    Volume 62, Issue 5, pp. 77, 1996.

  3263. Electrical and optical properties of plasma-deposited a-SiGe:H alloys: Role of growth temperature and postgrowth anneal
    V.I. Kuznetsov; M. Zeman; L.L.A. Vosteen; B.S. Girwar; J.W. Metselaar;
    Journal of Applied Physics,
    Volume 80, pp. 6496-6504, 1996.

  3264. Theory of tunneling conductance of CDW junctions
    Yukio Tanaka; Mark I. Visscher; Behzad Rejaei; Gerrit E. W. Bauer;
    Physica B: Condensed Matter,
    Volume 227, Issue 1-4, pp. 339-341, Sep. 1996.

  3265. Silicon three-axial tactile sensor
    Z.Chu; P.M. Sarro; S. Middelhoek;
    Sensors and Actuators A,
    Volume 54, pp. 505-510, 1996.

  3266. The PhotoElectroMagnetic Effect in planar silicon structures
    J.F. Creemer; S. Middelhoek; P.M. Sarro;
    Sensors and Actuators A,
    Volume 55, pp. 115-120, 1996.

  3267. Low temperature surface passivation for silicon solar cells
    C. Leguijt; P. L�lgen; A.R. Burgers; J.A. Eikelboom; A.W. Weeber; F.M. Schuurmans; W.C. Sinke; P.F.A. Alkemade; P.M. Sarro; C.H.M. Mar�e; L.A. Verhoef;
    Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells,
    Volume 40 (1996), pp. 297-345, 1996.

  3268. A 3x1 integrated pyroelectric sensor based on VDF/TrFE copolymer
    D. Setiadi; P.M. Sarro; P.P.L. Regtien;
    Sensors and Actuators A,
    Volume 52, pp. 103-109, 1996.

  3269. Tunneling spectroscopy of mesoscopic charge density wave systems
    Yukio Tanaka; Mark I. Visscher; Behzad Rejaei; G.E.W. Bauer;
    Solid State Communications, Volume 100, Issue 1,
    pp. 37-41, Oct. 1996.

  3270. Simulation aspects of a thermal accelerometer
    U.A. Dauerstadt; P.H.S. de Vries; R. Hiratsuka; J.G. Korvink; P.M. Sarro; H. Baltes; S. Middelhoek;
    Sensors and Actuators A,
    Volume 55 (1996), pp. 3-6, 1996.

  3271. The finite element modeling of static and stationary electric and magnetic fields
    I. E. Lager; G. Mur;
    IEEE Transactions on Magnetics,
    Volume 32, Issue 3, pp. 631-634, July 1996.
    document

  3272. An Analytical Constant Modulus Algorithm
    A.J. van der Veen; A. Paulraj;
    IEEE Trans. Signal Processing,
    Volume 44, Issue 5, pp. 1136-1155, May 1996.
    document • software
    Matlab implementation http://sps.ewi.tudelft.nl/data/allejan/acma.zip

  3273. Interaction in double layered ME tapes
    Immink, A. H. J.; Bijker, M. D.; Abelmann, L.; Lodder, J. C.;
    Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials,
    Volume 155, Issue 1-3, pp. 279 – 283, 1996. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1016/0304-8853(95)00730-X
    Keywords: ... Composition; Deposition; Etching; Magnetic recording; Magnetization; Magnetostatics; Morphology; Oxidation; Oxygen; Pressure effects; Scanning electron microscopy; Substrates; Double layered tapes; Metal evaporated tape; Mini-rollcoater set up; Negative magnetostatic interaction; Oxygen concentration; Magnetic tape.

    Abstract: ... A series of experimental double layered ME tapes with different oxygen concentrations were produced using an experimental mini-rollcoater set-up. δM measurements on these tapes indicate a negative (magnetostatic) interaction between the individual layers.

    document

  3274. Parallel and adaptive high resolution direction finding
    M. Moonen; F. Vanpoucke; E. Deprettere;
    IEEE Trans. Signal Processing,
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  3275. An algorithm and architecture based on orthonormal $ \mu $-rotations for computing the symmetric EVD
    J. Goetze; G.J. Hekstra;
    Integration, the VLSI Journal,
    Volume 20, pp. 21-39, 1995.
    document

  3276. Scalable parallel processor array for Jacobi-type matrix computations
    H.W. van Dijk; G.J. Hekstra; E.F. Deprettere;
    Integration, the VLSI journal,
    Volume 20, pp. 41-61, 1995.
    document

  3277. GRI ranking based on Cross-Rate Interference in Loran-C
    A.K. Nieuwland;
    International Journal of Navigation,
    Volume 48, Issue 1, pp. 136--152, January 1995.

  3278. Time-varying lossless systems and the inversion of large structured matrices
    A.J. van der Veen;
    Archiv f. Elektronik u. Ubertragungstechnik,
    Volume 49, Issue 5/6, pp. 372-382, September 1995.
    document

  3279. Blind Estimation of Multiple Digital Signals Transmitted over FIR Channels
    A.J. van der Veen; S. Talwar; A. Paulraj;
    IEEE Signal Processing Letters,
    Volume 2, Issue 5, pp. 99-102, May 1995.
    document

  3280. A Class of Subspace Model Identification Algorithms to identify Periodically and Arbitrarily Time-Varying Systems
    M. Verhaegen; X. Yu;
    Automatica,
    Volume 31, Issue 2, pp. 201-216, 1995.

  3281. Piecewise Stationary Perfect Reconstruction Filter Banks
    H.G.J. Theunis; E. F. Deprettere;
    Archiv f. Elektronik u. Ubertragungstechnik,
    Volume 49, Issue 5/6, pp. 344-361, September 1995.

  3282. Low-stress nitride as oxidation mask for submicrometre LOCOS isolation
    H.W. van Zeijl; L.K. Nanver; P.J. French;
    Electronics Letters,
    Volume 31, Issue 11, pp. 927-929, May 1995.

  3283. The role of surface charge in low-voltage electrophotography
    W. P. M. Willems; P. L. J. Welten; F. W. Marland; R.A.C.M.M. van Swaaij;
    J. Electrochem. Soc.,
    Volume 142, pp. 1615, 1995.

  3284. Realization of an integrated VDF/TrFE copolymer-on-silicon pyroelectric sensor
    D. Setiadi; P.P.L. Regtien; P.M. Sarro;
    Microelectronic Engineering,
    Volume 29, Issue 1-4, pp. 85-88, Dec. 1995.

  3285. Silicon accelerometer based on thermopiles
    U.A. Dauderstadt; P.H.S. de Vries; R. Hiratsuka; P.M. Sarro;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical,
    Volume 46, Issue 1-3, pp. 201-204, Jan.-Feb. 1995.

  3286. In-plane x-ray scattering of epitaxial structures
    S.F. Cui; Y.T. Wang; Y. Zhuang; M. Li; Z.H. Mai;
    Journal of Crystal Growth,
    Volume 152, pp. 354, 1995.

  3287. Electrophotographic discharge of CdS explained by a surface-depletion discharge model
    R.A.C.M.M. van Swaaij; W. P. M. Willems; J. P. Lokker; J. Bezemer; W. F. van der Weg;
    J. Appl. Phys.,
    Volume 77, pp. 1635, 1995.

  3288. Multilevel Monolithic Inductors in Silicon Technology
    M. Soyuer; J.N. Burghartz; K.A. Jenkins; S. Ponnapalli; J.F. Ewen; W.E. Pence;
    Electronics Letters,
    Volume 31, Issue 5, pp. 359-360, 1995.

  3289. Dopant Interaction During Diffusion of Arsenic and Boron in Opposite Directions in Polycrystalline/Monocrystalline Silicon Structures
    J.N. Burghartz; C.L. Stanis; P.A. Ronsheim;
    Applied Physics Letters,
    Volume 67, Issue 21, pp. 3156-3158, 1995.

  3290. Low-voltage low-power fully-integratable automatic gain controls
    W.A. Serdijn, A.C. van der Woerd, J. Davidse; A.H.M. van Roermund;
    Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing,
    Volume 8, pp. 131-143, 1995.
    document

  3291. Comment: GB-R impedances: New approach to impedance simulation
    M. van de Gevel;
    Electronics Letters,
    Volume 31, Issue 17, pp. 1398, Aug. 17 1995.

  3292. A low-voltage low-power fully-integratable front-end for hearing instruments
    W.A. Serdijn, A.C. van der Woerd, J. Davidse; A.H.M. van Roermund;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I,
    Volume 42, Issue 11, pp. 920-932, Nov. 1995.
    document

  3293. Application of the back gate in MOS weak inversion translinear circuits
    J. Mulder, A.C. van der Woerd; W.A. Serdijn; A.H.M. van Roermund;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I,
    Volume 42, Issue 11, pp. 958-962, Nov. 1995.
    document

  3294. Guest Editorial Special Issue on Low-Voltage Low-Power Analog Integrated Circuits
    W.A. Serdijn, A.C. van der Woerd; J.C. Kuenen (guest editors);
    Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing,
    Volume 8, July 1995.
    document

  3295. Design Principles for Low-Voltage Low-Power Analog Integrated Circuits
    W.A. Serdijn, A.C. van der Woerd, A.H.M. van Roermund; J. Davidse;
    Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing,
    Volume 8, pp. 115-120, July 1995.
    document

  3296. Blinking Detection Methods for Loran-C
    A.K. Nieuwland;
    International Journal of Navigation,
    Volume 47, Issue 1, pp. 46--53, January 1994.

  3297. Embedding of Time-Varying Contractive Systems in Lossless Realizations
    A.J. van der Veen; P.M. Dewilde;
    Math. Control Signals Systems,
    Volume 7, pp. 306-330, 1994.
    document

  3298. On Low-Complexity Approximation of Matrices
    A.J. van der Veen; P.M. Dewilde;
    Linear Algebra and its Applications,
    Volume 205-206, pp. 1145-1201, July 1994.
    document

  3299. Subspace Model Identification. Part III: Analysis of the Ordinary Output-Error State Space Model Identification Algorithm
    M. Verhaegen;
    Int. J. Control,
    Volume 58, pp. 555-586, 1994.

  3300. PSG layers for surface micromachining
    D. Poenar; P.J. French; R. Mall?e; P.M. Sarro; R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical,
    Volume 41, Issue 1-3, pp. 304-309, Apr. 1994.

  3301. An integrated silicon colour sensor using selective epitaxial growth
    M. Bartek; P.T.J. Gennissen; P.M. Sarro; P.J. French; R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    Sensors and Actuators A,
    Volume 41, Issue 1-3, pp. 123-128, Apr. 1994.

  3302. Reactive ion etching (RIE) techniques for micromachining applications
    Y.X. Li; M.R. Wolffenbuttel; P.J. French; M. Laros; P.M. Sarro; R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical,
    Volume 41, Issue 1-3, pp. 317-323, Apr. 1994.

  3303. Surface micromachined tuneable interferometer array
    K. Aratani; P.J. French; P.M. Sarro; D. Poenar; R.F. Wolffenbuttel; S. Middelhoek;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical,
    Volume 43, Issue 1-3, pp. 17-23, May 1994.

  3304. Accurate generation rate profiles in a-Si :H solar cells with textured TCO substrates
    G. Tao; M. Zeman; J.W. Metselaar;
    Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells,
    Volume 34, Issue 1-4, pp. 359-366, Sep. 1994.

  3305. Evaluation of liquid properties using a silicon lamb wave sensor
    M.J. Vellekoop; G.W. Lubking; P.M. Sarro;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical,
    Volume 43, Issue 1-3, pp. 175-180, May 1994.

  3306. Integrated-circuit-compatible design and technology of acoustic-wave-based microsensors
    M.J. Vellekoop; G.W. Lubking; P.M. Sarro;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical,
    Volume 44, Issue 3, pp. 249-263, Sep. 1994.

  3307. Liquid and gas micro-calorimeters for (bio)chemical measurements
    A. W. van Herwaarden; P.M. Sarro; J.W. Gardner; P. Bataillard;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical,
    Volume 43, Issue 1-3, pp. 24-30, May 1994.

  3308. Application of electrostatic feedback to critical damping of an integrated silicon capacitive accelerometer
    R.P. van Kampen; M.J. Vellekoop; P.M. Sarro; R.F. Wolffenbuttel;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical,
    Volume 43, Issue 1-3, pp. 100-106, May 1994.

  3309. A silicon-silicon nitride membrane fabrication process for smart thermal sensors
    P.M. Sarro; A.W. van Herwaarden; W. van der Vlist;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical,
    Volume 42, Issue 1-3, pp. 666-671, Apr. 1994.

  3310. Application of VDF/TrFE copolymer for pyroelectric image sensors
    D. Setiadi; P.P.L. Regtien; P. M. Sarro;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical,
    Volume 42, Issue 1-3, pp. 585-592, Apr. 1994.

  3311. Random-matrix theory of parametric correlations in the spectra of disordered metals and chaotic billiards
    C.W.J. Beenakker; B. Rejaei;
    Physica A: Statistical and Theoretical Physics,
    Volume 203, Issue 1, pp. 61-90, Feb. 1994.

  3312. X-ray scattering from a rough surface and damaged layer of polished wafer
    M. Li; Z.H. Mai; S.F. Cui; J.H. Li; Y.S. Gu; Y.T. Wang; Y. Zhuang;
    J. Phys. D,
    Volume 27, Issue 9, pp. 1929, 1994.

  3313. Exact solution for the distribution of transmission eigenvalues in a disordered wire and comparison with random-matrix theory
    C.W.J. Beenakker; B. Rajaei;
    Phys. Re. B,
    pp. 7499-7510, 1994.

  3314. Determination of surface roughness of InP (001) wafers by x-ray scattering
    S.F. Cui; J.H. Li; M. Li; C.R. Li; Y.S. Gu; Z.H. Mai; Y. ZY. Huang.T. Wang;
    J. Appl. Phys.,
    Volume 76, Issue 7, pp. 4154, 1994.

  3315. Scaling theory of conduction through a normal-superconductor microbridge
    C.W.J. Beenakker; B. Rejaei; J.A. Melsen;
    Phys. Re. Lett.,
    Volume 72, pp. 2470-2473, 1994.

  3316. A high gain silicon AGC amplifier with a 3 dB bandwidth of 4 GHz
    L.C.N. de Vreede; A.C. Dambrine; J.L. Tauritz; R.G.F. Baets;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 42, Issue 4, pp. 546-552, Apr. 1994.

  3317. Local structure and bonding states in a-Si1-xCx:H
    R.A.C.M.M. van Swaaij; A. J. M. Berntsen; W. G. J. H. M. van Sark; H. Herremans; J. Bezemer; W. F. van der Weg;
    J. Appl. Phys.,
    Volume 76, Issue 251, 1994.

  3318. A Low-Capacitance Bipolar/BiCMOS Isolation Technology, II - Circuit Performance and Device Self-Heating
    J.N. Burghartz; A.O. Cifuentes; J.D. Warnock;
    IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices,
    Volume 41, Issue 8, pp. 1388-1395, 1994.

  3319. A Low-Capacitance Bipolar/BiCMOS Isolation Technology, II - Concept, Fabrication Process, and Characterization
    J.N. Burghartz; R.C. McIntosh; C.L. Stanis;
    IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices,
    Volume 41, Issue 8, pp. 1379-1387, 1994.

  3320. High-Performance Emitter-Up/Down SiGe HBTs
    J.N. Burghartz; K.A. Jenkins; D.A. Grutzmacher; T.O. Sedgwick; C.L. Stanis;
    IEEE Electron Device Letters,
    Volume 15, Issue 9, pp. 360-362, 1994.

  3321. Extraction of amorphous silicon solar cell parameters by inverse modelling
    M. Zeman; J.A. Willemen; S. Solntsev; J.W. Metselaar;
    Acta Physica Slovaca,
    Volume 50, Issue 4, pp. 559, 1994.

  3322. A figure of merit for the high-frequency noise behavior of bipolar transistors
    L.C.N. de Vreede; H.C. de Graaff; G.A.M. Hurkx; J.L. Tauritz; R.G.F. Baets;
    IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits,
    Volume 29, Issue 10, pp. 1220-1226, Oct. 1994.

  3323. Surface scattering of x-ray from InP (001) wafers
    J.H. Li; S.F. Cui; M. Li; C.R. Li; Z.H. Mai; Y. ZY. Huang.T. Wang;
    Appl. Phys. Lett.,
    Volume 65, Issue 26, pp. 3317, 1994.

  3324. Low-voltage, low-power, wide-range controllable current amplifier for hearing aids
    R. Otte; A.H.M. van Roermund;
    Electronics Letters,
    Volume 30, Issue 3, pp. 178-180, Feb. 3 1994.
    document

  3325. Simple low-voltage weak inversion MOS 1/x circuit
    M. van de Gevel; J.C. Kuenen;
    Electronics Letters,
    Volume 30, Issue 20, pp. 1639, Sept. 29 1994.
    document

  3326. sqrt(x) circuit based on a novel, backgate-using multiplier
    M. van de Gevel; J.C. Kuenen;
    Electronics Letters,
    Volume 30, Issue 3, pp. 183-184, Feb. 3 1994.
    document

  3327. A low-voltage low-power fully-integratable automatic gain control for hearing instruments
    W.A. Serdijn, A.C. van der Woerd, J. Davidse; A.H.M. van Roermund;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 29, Issue 8, pp. 943-946, Aug. 1994.
    document

  3328. Doctor Analog on 1-V swing transconductances and transimpedances
    W.A. Serdijn;
    NEAR newsletter,
    Issue 5, pp. 42-44, Aug. 1994.

  3329. Low-power current-mode .9-V voltage regulator
    A.C. van der Woerd; W.A. Serdijn, R.H. van Beijnhem; R.J.H. Janse;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 29, Issue 9, pp. 1138-1141, Sept. 1994.
    document

  3330. Compatibility relations for time-domain and static electromagnetic field problems
    I. E. Lager; G. Mur;
    Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Journal,
    Volume 9, Issue 2, pp. 25-29, July 1994.
    document

  3331. A figure of merit for the high-frequency noise behavior of bipolar transistors
    de Vreede, L.C.N.; de Graaff, H.C.; Hurkx, G.A.M.; Tauritz, J.L.; Baets, R.G.F.;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 29, Issue 10, pp. 1220-1226, 1994. DOI: 10.1109/4.315206

  3332. A high gain silicon AGC amplifier with a 3 dB bandwidth of 4 GHz
    de Vreede, L.C.N.; Dambrine, A.C.; Tauritz, J.L.; Baets, R.G.F.;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 42, Issue 4, pp. 546-552, 1994. DOI: 10.1109/22.285058

  3333. Model and Methods for Regular Array Design
    E.F. Deprettere; P. Held; P. Wielage;
    Int. J. of High Speed Electronics, Special issue on Massively Parallel Computing-Part II,
    Volume 4, Issue 2, pp. 133-201, 1993.

  3334. An Optimal Detection Algorithm for Harmonic Interference Signals in Loran-C
    A.K. Nieuwland;
    Navigation: Journal of the Institute of Navigation,
    Volume 40, Issue 1, pp. 35--47, 1993.

  3335. A Single Chip Integrated Navigation System
    E. Aardoom; A.K. Nieuwland;
    International Journal of Navigation,
    Volume 46, Issue 1, pp. 95--104, January 1993.

  3336. Modeling Computational Networks by Time-varying Systems
    A.J. van der Veen; P.M. Dewilde;
    Integration, the VLSI Journal,
    Volume 16, Issue 3, pp. 267-291, December 1993.
    document

  3337. On the Hankel-Norm Approximation of Upper-Triangular Operators and Matrices
    P. Dewilde; A.J. van der Veen;
    Integral Equations and Operator Theory,
    Volume 17, Issue 1, pp. 1-45, 1993.
    document

  3338. Subspace Based Signal Analysis using Singular Value Decomposition
    A.J. van der Veen; E.F. Deprettere; A.L. Swindlehurst;
    Proceedings of the IEEE,
    Volume 81, Issue 9, pp. 1277-1308, September 1993.
    document

  3339. Single-electron tunneling in the fractional quantum Hall effect regime
    C.W.J. Beenakker; B. Rejaei;
    Physica B: Condensed Matter,
    Volume 189, Issue 1-4, pp. 147-156, Jun. 1993.

  3340. Nonlogarithmic repulsion of transmission eigenvalues in a disordered wire
    C.W.J. Beenakker; B. Rejaei;
    Phys. Re. Lett.,
    Volume 71, pp. 3689-3692, 1993.

  3341. Reliability Imposed Design Aspects of Submicrometer Polysilicon Bipolar Transistors
    J.N. Burghartz; Y.-J. Mii;
    IEEE Electron Devices Letters,
    Volume 14, Issue 7, pp. 363-365, 1993.

  3342. A pyroelectric matrix sensor using PVDF on silicon containing FET readout circuitry
    P.C.A. Hammes; P.P.L. Regtien; P.M. Sarro;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical,
    Volume 37-38, pp. 290-295, Jun.-Aug. 1993.

  3343. Quasi-Landau-level structure in the fractional quantum Hall effect
    B. Rejaei;
    Phys. Re. B,
    Volume 48, pp. 18016-18023, 1993.

  3344. A transmission electron microscopy study of interphase dislocation between decagonal quasicrystalline and crystalline phase in Al75Ni10Fe15 alloy
    Y. Zhuang; Z. Zhang; D.B. Williams;
    Journal of Non-crystalline Solids,
    1993.

  3345. A High-Speed Complementary Silicon Bipolar Technology with 12-fJ Power-Delay Product
    J.D. Cressler; J. Warnock; D.L. Harame; J.N. Burghartz; K.A. Jenkins; C.T. Chuang;
    IEEE Electron Device Letters,
    Volume 14, Issue 11, pp. 523-526, 1993.

  3346. Optimisation of base-link in fully-implanted NPNs
    L.K. Nanver; E.J.G. Goudena; H.W. van Zeijl;
    Electronics Letters,
    Volume 29, Issue 16, pp. 1451-1452, Aug. 1993.

  3347. Investigation of the interface properties of hydrogenated amorphous silicon p-i junctions
    M. Trijssenaar; M. Zeman; J.W. Metselaar;
    Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids,
    Volume 164-166, pp. 667-670, Dec. 1993.

  3348. Experimental dark discharge of a-Si1-xCx:H films and its comparison to Monte Carlo simulations
    R.A.C.M.M. van Swaaij; S. J. Elmer; W. P. M. Willems; J. Bezemer; J. M. Marshall; A. R. Hepburn;
    J. Non-Cryst. Solids,
    Volume 164-166, pp. 533, 1993.

  3349. Study of the temperature and field dependence of electron drift mobility in a-Si1-xCx:H using the time-of-flight technique
    P. A. Bayley; A. K. Browne; J. M. Marshall; R.A.C.M.M. van Swaaij; A. R. Hepburn;
    J. Non-Cryst. Solids,
    Volume 164-166, pp. 521, 1993.

  3350. A novel microphone preamplifier for use in hearing aids
    A.C. Pluygers;
    Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing,
    Volume 3, pp. 113-118, 1993.

  3351. Analog circuits for a single-chip infrared controlled hearing aid
    A.C. van der Woerd;
    Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing,
    Volume 3, pp. 91-103, 1993.

  3352. Biasing a differential pair in low-voltage analog circuits: a systematic approach
    A.C. van der Woerd; A.C. Pluygers;
    Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing,
    Volume 3, pp. 119-125, 1993.

  3353. Low-voltage low-power controlled attenuator for hearing aids
    A. van Staveren; A.H.M. van Roermund;
    Electronics Letters,
    Volume 29, Issue 15, pp. 1355-1356, July 22 1993.
    document

  3354. Low-voltage low-power controllable preamplifier for electret microphones
    A.C. van der Woerd; W.A. Serdijn;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 28, Issue 10, pp. 1052-1055, Oct. 1993.
    document

  3355. A low-voltage low-power current-mode high-pass leapfrog filter
    W.A. Serdijn;
    Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing,
    Volume 3, pp. 105-112, 1993.
    document

  3356. Analysis of torque measurements on films with oblique anisotropy
    Abelmann, Leon; Kambersky, Vladimir; Lodder, Cock; Popma, Theo J. A.;
    IEEE Transactions on Magnetics,
    Volume 29, Issue 6 pt 1, pp. 3022 – 3024, 1993. All Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1109/20.281089
    Keywords: ... Anisotropy; Cobalt compounds; Crystal orientation; Crystal structure; Fourier transforms; Harmonic generation; Magnetic films; Magnetization; Matrix algebra; Textures; Fourier analysis; Magnetic anisotropy energy; Oblique anisotropy; Spherical harmonics; Torque measurement.

    Abstract: ... A measurement method is discussed to determine the magnetic anisotropy energy in a sample without assuming an a priori model for the origins of the anisotropy. The measurement procedure involves torque measurements in five different planes. Since it is especially useful for films with an oblique anisotropy axis, the method is illustrated on an obliquely evaporated Co80Ni20 film.

    document

  3357. An SVD updating algorithm for subspace tracking
    M. Moonen; P. Van Dooren; J. Vandewalle;
    SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl.,
    Volume 13, Issue 4, pp. 1015-1038, 1992.

  3358. Parallel Architecture for a Pel-Recursve Motion Estimation Algorithm
    E.D. Frimout; N. Driessen; E.F. Deprettere;
    IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems for Video Technology,
    Volume 2, Issue 2, pp. 159-168, 1992.

  3359. Azimuth and Elevation Computation in High Resolution DOA Estimation
    A.J. van der Veen; P.B. Ober; E.F. Deprettere;
    IEEE Trans. Signal Processing,
    Volume 40, Issue 7, pp. 1828-1832, July 1992.
    document

  3360. Subspace Model Identification. Part II: Analysis of the Elementary Output-Error State Space Model Identification Algorithm
    M. Verhaegen; P. Dewilde;
    Int. J. Control,
    Volume 56, Issue 5, pp. 1211-1241, 1992.

  3361. Subspace Model Identification. Part I: The Output-Error State Space Model Identification Class of Algorithms
    M. Verhaegen; P. Dewilde;
    Int. J. Control,
    Volume 56, Issue 5, pp. 1187-1210, 1992.

  3362. Design considerations for the thermal accelerometer
    R. Hiratsuka; D.C. van Duyn; T. Otaredian; P. de Vries; P.M. Sarro;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical,
    Volume 32, Issue 1-3, pp. 380-385, Apr. 1992.

  3363. Vector-mean-field theory of the fractional quantum Hall effect
    B. Rejaei; C.W.J. Beenakker;
    Phys. Re. B,
    Volume 46, pp. 15566-15569, 1992.

  3364. Sensor technology strategy in silicon
    P.M. Sarro;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical,
    Volume 31, Issue 1-3, pp. 138-143, Mar. 1992.

  3365. Identification of Perimeter Depletion and Emitter Plug Effects in Submicrometer Shallow-Junction Polysilicon Bipolar Transistors
    J.N. Burghartz; J.Y.C. Sun; C.L. Stanis; S.R. Mader; J.D. Warnock;
    IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices,
    Volume 39, Issue 6, pp. 1477-1489, 1992.

  3366. A high frequency model based on the physical structure of the ceramic multilayer capacitor
    de L.C.N. de Vreede Kok; M.; van Dam; C.; J.L. Tauritz;
    Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Transactions on ,,
    Volume 40, Issue 7, pp. 1584-1587, Jul. 1992.

  3367. A transmission electron microscopy study of dislocations in Al70Ni10Co20 and Al75Ni10Fe15 decagonal quasicrystals
    Z. Zhang; Y. Zhuang;
    Philosophical Magazine Letters,
    Volume 65, Issue 4, pp. 2039, 1992.

  3368. Novel bipolar transistor isolation structure using combined selective epitaxial growth and planarization technique
    J.N. Burghartz; J. Warnock; J.D. Cressler; C.L. Stanis; R.C. McIntosh; J.Y.C. Sun; J.H. Comfort; J.M.C. Stork; K.A. Jenkins; E.F. Crabbe; et al.;
    Microelectronic Engineering,
    Volume 19, Issue 1-4, pp. 531-534, Sep. 1992.

  3369. Structural, compositional and optical properties of hydrogenated amorphous silicon-carbon alloys
    H. Herremans; W. Grevendonk; R.A.C.M.M. van Swaaij; W. G. J. M. van Sark; A. J. M. Berntsen; W. M. Arnold Bik; J. Bezemer;
    Philos. Mag. B,
    Volume 66, Issue 787, 1992.

  3370. A Scaled 0.25-um Bipolar Technology Using Full E-Beam Technology
    J.D. Cressler; J.D. Warnock; P.J. Coane; M.E. Rothwell; K.A. Jenkins; E.J. Petrillo; N.J. Mazzeo; A.C. Megdanis; F.J. Hohn; M.G.R. Thompson; J.Y.C. Sun; D.D. Tang;
    IEEE Electron Device Letters,
    Volume 13, Issue 5, pp. 956-958, 1992.

  3371. Partial SOI Isolation Structure for Reduced Bipolar Transistor Parasitics
    J.N. Burghartz; J.D. Cressler; J.D. Warnock; R.C. McIntosh; K.A. Jenkins; J.Y.C. Sun; J.H. Comfort; J.M.C. Stork; C.L. Stanis; W. Lee; D.D. Danner;
    IEEE Electron Device Letters,
    Volume 13, Issue 8, pp. 424-426, 1992.

  3372. A high frequency model based on the physical structure of the ceramic multilayer capacitor
    de Vreede, L.C.N.; de Kok, M.; van Dam, C.; Tauritz, J.L.;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 40, Issue 7, pp. 1584-1587, 1992. DOI: 10.1109/22.146342

  3373. Induced anisotropies in NiCo obliquely deposited films and their effect on magnetic domains
    Aitlamine, H.; Abelmann, L.; Puchalska, I. B.;
    Journal of Applied Physics,
    Volume 71, Issue 1, pp. 353 – 361, 1992. All Open Access, Bronze Open Access, Green Open Access. DOI: 10.1063/1.350715
    Abstract: ... Oblique and in-plane anisotropies in obliquely evaporated NiCo thin films were investigated in order to understand their origin. All the compositions studied clearly show the effect of columnar grain morphology coupled with some intrinsic factors such as magnetostriction and crystallinity. Energy calculations are undertaken to explain the effect of these anisotropies on domain structures and the existence of strong and weak stripe domains depending on the composition and incidence angle.

    document

  3374. Architectural synthesis of large, nearly regular algorithms: design trajectory and environment
    P. Dewilde; E.F. Deprettere;
    Annales des Telecommunications,
    Volume 46, Issue 1-2, pp. 49-59, 1991.

  3375. Parallel VLSI Matrix Pencil Algorithm for High Resolution Direction Finding
    A.J. van der Veen; Ed. F. Deprettere;
    IEEE Trans. Signal Processing,
    Volume 39, Issue 2, pp. 383-394, February 1991.
    document

  3376. Design considerations for a permanent-rotor-charge-excited micromotor with an electrostatic bearing
    R.F. Wolffenbuttel; J.F.L. Goosen; P.M. Sarro;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical,
    Volume 27, Issue 1-3, pp. 597-603, May 1991.

  3377. Superconductivity in the mean-field anyon gas
    B. Rejaei; C.W.J. Beenakker;
    Phys. Re. B,
    Volume 43, pp. 11392-11395, 1991.

  3378. Device Design Issues for a High-Performance Bipolar Technology with Si or SiGe Base -
    J.N. Burghartz; J.D. Cressler; K.A. Jenkins; J.Y.C. Sun; J.M.C. Stork; J.H. Comfort; T.A. Brunner; C.L. Stanis;
    Microelectronic Engineering,
    Volume 15, Issue 1-4, pp. 11-14, Oct. 1991.

  3379. The effect of hydrogen on the plasma deposition and hydrogen plasma etching of a-SiGe:H thin films
    M. Zeman; M.J. Geerts; J. Siegl; J.W. Metselaar;
    Solar Energy Materials,
    Volume 23, Issue 2-4, pp. 265-272, Dec. 1991.

  3380. The effect of hydrogen dilution on glow discharge a-SiGe:H alloys
    M. Zeman; I. Ferreira; M.J. Geerts; J.W. Metselaar;
    Solar Energy Materials,
    Volume 21, Issue 4, pp. 255-265, Jan. 1991.

  3381. Self-Aligned Bipolar Epitaxial Base NPN Transistors with Selective Epitaxial Emitter Window (SEEW) Technology
    J.N. Burghartz; S.R. Mader; B.J. Ginsberg; B.S. Meyerson; J.M.C. Stork; C.L. Stanis; J.Y.C. Sun; M.R. Polcari;
    IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices,
    Volume 38, Issue 2, pp. 378-385, 1991.

  3382. Novel In-Situ Doped PolysiliconEmitter Process with Buried Diffusion Source (BDS)
    J.N. Burghartz; A.C. Megdanis; J.D. Cressler; J.Y.C. Sun; C.L. Stanis; J.H. Comfort; K.A. Jenkins; F. Cardone;
    IEEE Electron Device Letters,
    Volume 12, Issue 12, pp. 679-681, 1991.

  3383. Selective Epitaxial Growth of Silicon and Some Potential Applications
    B.J. Ginsberg; J.N. Burghartz; G.B. Bronner; S.R. Mader;
    IBM Journal of Research and Development,
    Volume 35, Issue 2, pp. 1-13, 1991.

  3384. Parametrized Architectural Synthesis of Almost Regular DSP Algorithms: Environment, Design Trajectory and Applications
    E.F. Deprettere; P. Dewilde;
    IEEE VLSI Signal Processing IV,
    pp. 116-134, 1990.

  3385. A Model for the High-Level Description and Simulation of VLSI Networks
    A.J. van der Hoeven; A.A.J. de Lange; E.F. Deprettere; P. Dewilde;
    IEEE Micro; Chips, Systems and Applications,
    Volume 4, Issue 10, August 1990.

  3386. Compatibility of zinc oxide with silicon IC processing
    M.J. Vellekoop; C.C.G. P. Visser.M. Sarro;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical,
    Volume 23, Issue 1-3, pp. 1027-1030, Apr. 1990.

  3387. 75 GHz f-sub-T SiGe-Base Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors
    G.L. Patton; J.H. Comfort; B.S. Meyerson; E.F. Crabbe; G.J. Scilla; E. de Fresart; J.M.C. Stork; J.Y.C. Sun; D.L. Harame; J.N. Burghartz;
    IEEE Electron Device Letters,
    Volume 11, Issue 4, pp. 171-173, 1990.

  3388. The influence of deposition parameters on the growth of a-SiGe:H alloys in a plasma CVD system
    M. Zeman; I. Ferreira; M. J. Geerts; J.W. Metselaar;
    Applied Surface Science,
    Volume 46, Issue 1-4, pp. 245-248, Dec. 1990.

  3389. Self-Aligned SiGe-Base Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors by Selective Epitaxy Emitter Window (SEEW) Technology
    J.N. Burghartz; J.H. Comfort; G.L. Patton; B.S. Meyerson; J.Y.C. Sun; J.M.C. Stork; C.L. Stanis; G.J. Scilla; B.J. Ginsberg;
    IEEE Electron Device Letters,
    Volume 11, Issue 7, pp. 288-290, 1990.

  3390. Inversion of partially specified positive definite matrices by inverse scattering
    H. Nelis; P. Dewilde; E.F. Deprettere;
    Operator Theory: Advances and Applications,
    Volume 40, pp. 325-357, 1989.

  3391. A Systolic Algorithm and Architecture for Solving Sets of Linear Equations with Multi-Band Coefficient Matrix
    P.F.C. Krekel; E.F. Deprettere;
    Journal of VLSI Signal Processing,
    Volume 1, Issue 1, pp. 143-152, 1989.

  3392. A Systolic Algorithm and Architecture for Solving Sets of Linear Equations With Multi-Band Coefficient Matrix
    P.F.C. Krekel; E.F. Deprettere;
    Journal of VLSI Signal Processing,
    Volume 1, pp. 143-152, 1989.

  3393. A New Class of Parallel Algorithms for Solving Systems of Linear Equations
    K. Jainandunsing; E.F. Deprettere;
    SIAM J. Sct. Stat. Comput.,
    Volume 10, Issue 5, pp. 880-912, September 1989.

  3394. A new class of parallel algorithms for solving, systems of linear equations
    K. Jainandunsing; Ed.F. Deprettere;
    SIAM J. Sct. Stat. Comput.,
    Volume 10(5), pp. 880-912, September 1989.

  3395. A New Class of Parallel Algorithms for Solving Systems of Linear Equations
    K. Jainandunsing; Ed F. Deprettere;
    SIAM J. Sci. Stat. Comp.,
    Volume 10, Issue 5, pp. 880-912, 1989.

  3396. On the Existence and Construction of Solutions to the Partial Lossless Inverse Scattering Problem with Applications to Estimation Theory
    D. Alpay; P. Dewilde; H. Dym;
    IEEE Trans. Informat. Th.,
    Volume 35, Issue 6, pp. 1184-1205, November 1989.

  3397. Exchange interaction in type-II quantum wells
    B. Rejaei Salmassi; G. E. W. Bauer;
    Phys. Re. B 39,
    pp. 1970-1972, 1989.

  3398. Integrated thermopile sensors
    A.W. van Herwaarden; D.C. van Duyn; B.W. van Oudheusden; P.M. Sarro;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical,
    Volume 22, Issue 1-3, pp. 621-630, Jun. 1989.

  3399. FM radio receiver front-end circuitry with on-chip SAW filters
    P.T.M. van Zijl; J.H. Visser; L.K. Nanver;
    IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics,
    Volume 35, Issue 3, pp. 512-519, 1989.

  3400. Determination of the electric field at interfaces in amorphous-silicon devices using time-of-flight measurements
    H.M. Wentinck; W. Crans;
    IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices,
    Volume 36, Issue 12, pp. 2803-2809, Dec. 1989.

  3401. Selective Epitaxial Refill for In-Trench Device Fabrication
    J.N. Burghartz; J.D. Warnock; S.R. Mader; B.J. Ginsberg;
    Electronics Letters,
    Volume 25, Issue 20, pp. 1337-1338, 1989.

  3402. Sensor array with A/D conversion based on flip-flops
    W. Lian; S.E. Wouters; D.A. Aupers; P.M. Sarro;
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical,
    Volume 22, Issue 1-3, pp. 592-597, Jun. 1989.

  3403. Automatic Design and Partitioning of Systolic/Wavefront Arrays for VLSI
    H.W. Nelis; E.F. Deprettere;
    Circuits, Systems, Signal Processing,
    Volume 7, Issue 2, 1988.

  3404. A Class of Analysis-by-Synthesis Predictive Coders for High Quality Coding at Rates between 4.8 and 16 kbits/s
    P. Kroon; E.F. Deprettere;
    IEEE Selected Areas in Communications,
    Volume 6, Issue 2, pp. 353-363, 1988.

  3405. New Algebraic Methods for Modelling Large-Scale Integrated Circuits
    P. Dewilde;
    International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications,
    Volume 16, pp. 473-503, 1988.

  3406. Design considerations for integrated high-frequency p-channel JFETs
    L.K. Nanver; E.J.G. Goudena;
    IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices,
    Volume 35, Issue 11, pp. 1924-1934, 1988.

  3407. Selective Epitaxy Base Transistor
    J.N. Burghartz; B.J. Ginsberg; S.R. Mader; T.-C. Chen; D.L. Harame;
    IEEE Electron Device Letters,
    Volume 9, Issue 5, pp. 259-261, 1988.

  3408. Capacitance coefficients for VLSI multilevel metallization lines
    Z.Q. Ning; P. Dewilde; F.L. Neerhoff;
    IEEE Trans. on Electron Devices,
    Volume 34, Issue 3, pp. 644-649, 1987.

  3409. Object-oriented data management based on abstract data types
    J. Anneveling; P. Dewilde;
    Software Practice and Experience,
    Volume 17, Issue 11, November 1987.

  3410. The lossless inverse scattering problem in the Network Theory context
    P. Dewilde;
    Operator Theory, Advances and Applications,
    Volume 12, pp. 109-128, 1984.

  3411. Lossless Inverse Scattering, Digital Filters, and Estimation Theory
    P. Dewilde; H. Dym;
    IEEE Trans. Informat. Th.,
    Volume 30, Issue 4, pp. 644-662, July 1984.

  3412. The eigenstructure of an arbitraty polynomial matrix, computational aspects
    P. Dewilde;
    Linear Algebra and its Applications,
    Volume 50, pp. 545-579, 1983.

  3413. Lossless Chain Scattering Matrices and Optimum Linear Prediction: The Vector Case
    P. Dewilde; H. Dym;
    Circuit Theory and Appl.,
    Volume 9, pp. 135-175, 1981.

  3414. Minimal Cascade Factorization of Real and Complex Rational Transfer Matrices
    P. Van Dooren; P.M. Dewilde;
    IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst.,
    Volume 28, Issue 5, pp. 390-400, May 1981.

  3415. Schur Recursions, Error Formulas, and Convergence of Rational Estimators for Stationary Stochastic Sequences
    P. Dewilde; H. Dym;
    IEEE Trans. Informat. Th.,
    Volume 27, Issue 4, pp. 446-461, July 1981.

  3416. Orthogonal Cascade Realization of Real Multiport Digital Filters
    E. Deprettere; P. Dewilde;
    Circuit Theory and Appl.,
    Volume 8, pp. 245-272, 1980.

  3417. On the determination of the Smith-McMillan form of a rational matrix from its Laurent expansion
    P. Van Dooren; P. Dewilde; Vandewalle;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems,
    Volume 26, Issue 3, pp. 180-189, March 1979.

  3418. On a generalized Szego-Levinson realization algorithm for optimal linear predictors based on a network theoretic approach
    P. Dewilde; A. Vieira; T. Kailath;
    IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems,
    Volume CAS-25, Issue 9, pp. 663-675, September 1978.

  3419. A Local I/O Structure Theory for Multivariable Systems and Its Application to Minimal Cascade Realization
    J. Vandewalle; P. Dewilde;
    IEEE Trans. on Cicuits and Systems,
    Volume CAS-25, no. 5, pp. 279-289, May 1978.

  3420. On a Generalized Szego-Levinson Realization Algorithm for Optimal Linear Predictors Based on a Network Synthesis Approach
    P. Dewilde; A.C. Vieira; T. Kailath;
    IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst.,
    Volume 25, Issue 9, pp. 663-675, September 1978.

  3421. Electronic Conversion from a Scanning Radiometer to a Stereographic Projection Geometry
    H.J. Lincklaen Arriens; H. Vrijmoed; D. van Willigen; J.P. de Jongh;
    Journal of Applied Meteorology,
    Volume 17, Issue 7, pp. 1071-1076, July 1978.
    document

  3422. On the Irreducible Cascade Synthesis of a System with a Real Rational Transfer Matrix
    J. Vandewalle; P.M. Dewilde;
    IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst.,
    Volume 24, Issue 9, pp. 481-494, September 1977.

  3423. Input-Output Description of Roomy Systems
    P. Dewilde;
    SIAM J. Control and Optimization,
    Volume 14, Issue 4, pp. 712-736, July 1976.

  3424. Invariant Subspace Methods in Linear Multivariable-Distributed Systems and Lumped-Distributed Network Synthesis
    J.S. Baras; P. Dewilde;
    Proc. IEEE,
    Volume 64, Issue 1, pp. 160-178, January 1976.

  3425. On the factorization of a non-singular rational matrix
    P. Dewilde; J. Vandewalle;
    IEEE Tr. Circuits and Systems,
    Volume 22, pp. 637-645, August 1975.

  3426. On the minimal spectral factorization of non-singular positive rational matrices
    J.P. Vandewalle; P. Dewilde;
    IEEE Trans. on Information Theory,
    Volume 21, Issue 6, pp. 612-618, November 1975.

  3427. On the determination of the order and the degree of a zero of a rational matrix
    J. Vandewalle; P. Dewilde;
    IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control,
    Volume 29, Issue 5, October 1974.

  3428. On the Problem of Degree Reduction of a Scattering Matrix by Factorization
    P.M. Dewilde; A.V. Belevitch; R. Newcomb;
    J. Franklin Inst.,
    Volume 291, pp. 387-401, May 1971.

  3429. A passive synthesis for time-invariant transfer functions
    P. Dewilde; R.W. Newcomb; L. Silverman;
    IEEE Trans. on Circuit Theory,
    Volume 17, Issue 3, pp. 333-338, 1970.

  3430. A passive transfer function synthesis valid for unstable systems
    P. Dewilde; R.W. Newcomb;
    Revue H.F.,
    Volume 8, 1968.

  3431. Magnetoresistive Sensors for Biological and Biomedical Applications
    Freitas, PP; Cardoso, FA; Martins, VC; Loureiro, J; Amaral, J; Chaves, RC; Cardoso, S;

  3432. COMPARISON OF SPIN VALVE AND MAGNETIC TUNNEL JUNCTION MAGNETO RESISTIVE SENSORS IN EDDY CURRENT TESTING PROBES
    Rosado, Luis S; Cardoso, Filipe A; Cardoso, Susana; Santos, Telmo G; Ramos, Pedro M; Freitas, Paulo P; Piedade, Mois{\'e}s;

  3433. D1L-A: Amperometric Lab on CMOS Systems
    Moser, N; Leong, C; Hu, Y; Boutelle, M; Georgiou, P; Parsnejad, S; Li, H; Mason, A; Rate, Acidification; Nabovati, G; others;

  3434. ISCAS 2016 SPECIAL ISSUE
    Wang, G; Poscente, MD; Park, SS; Andrews, CN; Yadid-Pecht, O; Mintchev, MP; Costa, T; Cardoso, FA; Germano, J; Freitas, PP; others;

  3435. BIOLOGICAL DETECTION LIMIT OF A GMR-BASED BIOCHIP FOR PATHOGENIC ANALYSIS
    Martins, VC; Cardoso, FA; Cardoso, S; Fonseca, LP; Freitas, PP;

  3436. SPECIAL SECTION ON THE 2008 ADVANCED METHODS FOR UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATION IN MEASUREMENT WORKSHOP
    Djikpesse, H; Armstrong, P; Rufino, R; Hawthorn, A; Mencattini, A; Salicone, S; Rabottino, G; Salmeri, M; Germano, J; de Almeida, TM; others;

  3437. ISSCC 2021/SESSION 19/OPTICAL SYSTEMS FOR EMERGING APPLICATIONS/19.2
    Moazeni, Sajjad; Pollmann, Eric H; Boominathan, Vivek; Cardoso, Filipe A; Robinson, Jacob T; Veeraraghavan, Ashok; Shepard, Kenneth L;

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