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This paper presents the design and post-layout characteristics of a differential capacitance based inertial accelerometer This includes a MEMS based mechanical sensing element and a CMOS charge amplifier, which is the first stage of a…
The operating principle of squeeze-film pressure sensors is based on the pressure dependence of a membrane's resonance frequency, caused by the compression of the surrounding gas which changes the resonator stiffness. To realize such…
A shapeable planar Hall sensor has been fabricated by lift-off a bilayer structure of NiFe(10 nm)/IrMn (8 nm) grown on a Kapton/PDMS substrate without using a buffer layer. The sensor exhibits a magnetic field sensitivity of 0.74…
A novel room temperature capacitance-to-phase transducer is described, which uses a modified All-Pass filter architecture combined with a simple series resonant tank circuit with a moderate Q-factor. It is fashioned from a discrete inductor…
A wide swing charge sensitive amplifier (CSA) has been developed, as a part of a front-end electronics (FEE) readout ASIC, for a prototype silicon tungsten (Si-W) based electromagnetic (EM) calorimeter. The CSA, designed in 0.35 $\mu$m…
Active microelectromechanical systems can couple the nanomechanical domain with the electronic domain by integrating electronic sensing and actuation mechanisms into the micromechanical device. This enables very fast and sensitive…
With the increase of the speed of computers, timing and power requirements are becoming crucial for memory devices. The main objective of the paper is to modify 180nm CMOS sense amplifier design by using memristive devices and improve the…
We developed a metallic pressure cell made of nickel-chromium-aluminum (NiCrAl) for use with a non-destructive pulse magnet and a magnetic susceptibility measurement apparatus with a proximity detector oscillator (PDO) in pulsed magnetic…
Inspired by the dendritic integration and spiking operation of a biological neuron, flexible oxide-based neuron transistors gated by solid-state electrolyte films are fabricated on flexible plastic substrates for biochemical sensing…
For glucose electrochemical sensors, a comprehensive electronics interface is designed and constructed in 0.18 um, CMOS process technology, and 1.5 V supply voltage. This interface includes a programmable readout amplifier and bandgap…
Pursuing ultrasensitivity of pressure sensors has been a long-standing goal. Here, we report a piezoelectric sensor that exhibits supreme pressure-sensing performance, including a peak sensitivity up to 3.5*10^6 kPa^-1 in the pressure range…
This paper reports the application of zinc oxide (ZnO) in the pressure sensors that can be integrated with a microelectromechanical system (MEMS). ZnO is one of the materials that has received a great deal of attention due to its unique…
Recent developments in the domain of electronic materials and devices have attracted the interest of researchers toward flexible and printable electronic components like organic transistors, printable electrodes and sensors. Zinc Oxide…
We report in this paper the design, fabrication and experimental characterization of a piezoelectric MEMS microgenerator. This device scavenges the energy of ambient mechanical vibrations characterized by frequencies in the range of 1 kHz.…
The flexible capacitive pressure sensors are one of the most essential and famous devices with vast applications in automobile, aerospace, marine, healthcare, wearables, consumer, and portable electronics. The fabrication of pressure…
Electronic systems are becoming more and more ubiquitous as our world digitises. Simultaneously, even basic components are experiencing a wave of improvements with new transistors, memristors, voltage/current references, data converters,…
We demonstrate wide-field optical microscopy of the pressure distribution at approximately 20 GPa in a diamond anvil cell (DAC), using nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in nanodiamonds (NDs) as quantum sensors. Pressure and non-hydrostaticity…
We describe sensitive magnetometry using lumped-element resonators fabricated from a superconducting thin film of NbTiN. Taking advantage of the large kinetic inductance of the superconductor, we demonstrate a continuous resonance frequency…
We experimentally demonstrate stable trapping of a permanent magnet sphere above a lead superconductor, in vacuum pressures of $4 \times 10^{-8}$~mbar. The levitating magnet behaves as a harmonic oscillator, with frequencies in the 4-31~Hz…
A sensor that integrates high sensitivity micro-Hall effect magnetometry and high-frequency electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy capabilities on a single semiconductor chip is presented. The Hall-effect magnetometer was fabricated…