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This paper presents the design and analysis of a wearable CMOS biosensor with three different designs of energy-resolution scalable time-based resistance to digital converters (RDC), targeted towards either minimizing the energy/conversion…

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This paper presents a low-area and low-power consumption CMOS differential current controlled oscillator (CCO) for neuromorphic applications. The oscillation frequency is improved over the conventional one by reducing the number of MOS…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-03 Xueyong Zhang , Jyotibdha Acharya , Arindam Basu

We report on an industry-grade CMOS-compatible qubit fabrication approach using a CMOS pilot line, enabling a yield of functional devices reaching 92.8 %, with a resistance spread evaluated across the full wafer 200 mm diameter of 12.4 %…

Silicon carbide is a wide-bandgap semiconductor with an emerging CMOS technology platform and it is widely deployed in high power and harsh environment electronics. This material is also attracting interest for quantum technologies through…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Megan Powell , Euan Parry , Conor McGeough , Alexander Zotov , Alessandro Rossi

Activation functions are widely used in neural networks to decide the activation value of the neural unit based upon linear combinations of the weighted inputs. The effective implementation of activation function is highly important, as…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Nursultan Kaiyrbekov , Olga Krestinskaya , Alex Pappachen James

This paper demonstrates the use of voltage noise thermometry, with a cross-correlation technique, as a dissipation-free method of thermometry inside a CMOS integrated circuit (IC). We show that this technique exhibits broad agreement with…

Reliable operation of photonic integrated circuits at cryogenic temperatures would enable new capabilities for emerging computing platforms, such as quantum technologies and low-power cryogenic computing. The silicon-on-insulator platform…

Confining electrons or holes in quantum dots formed in the channel of industry-standard fully depleted silicon-on-insulator CMOS structures is a promising approach to scalable qubit architectures. In this communication, we present…

Superconducting qubits are one of the most promising candidates to implement quantum computers. The superiority of superconducting quantum computers over any classical device in simulating random but well-determined quantum circuits has…

The scaling of the already-matured CMOS technology is steadily approaching its physical limit, motivating the quest for a suitable alternative. Cryogenic operation offers a promising pathway towards continued improvement in computing speed…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Shamiul Alam , Md Mazharul Islam , Md Shafayat Hossain , Akhilesh Jaiswal , Ahmedullah Aziz

We perform the characterization and modeling of a floating-gate device realized with a commercial 350-nm CMOS technology at cryogenic temperature. The programmability of the device offers a solution in the realization of a precise and…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-10-25 Michele Castriotta , Enrico Prati , Giorgio Ferrari

Inspired by recent interest in quantum computing and recent studies of cryo CMOS for control electronics, this paper presents a hybrid semiconductor-superconductor approach for engineering scalable computing systems that operate across the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-30 Erik P. DeBenedictis

Superconducting quantum computers require microwave control lines running from room temperature to the mixing chamber of a dilution refrigerator. Adding more lines without preliminary thermal modeling to make predictions risks overwhelming…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Naomi Raicu , Tom Hogan , Xian Wu , Mehrnoosh Vahidpour , David Snow , Matthew Hollister , Mark Field

For superconducting quantum processors, microwave signals are delivered to each qubit from room-temperature electronics to the cryogenic environment through coaxial cables. Limited by the heat load of cabling and the massive cost of…

In this letter, we characterize the electrical properties of commercial bulk 40-nm MOSFETs at room and deep cryogenic temperatures, with a focus on quantum information processing (QIP) applications. At 50 mK, the devices operate as…

This paper shows the effect of scaling silicon accelerometers down from MEMS to NEMS. It models both electronics and Brownian noise sources for both capacitive and resonant devices, and computes the minimum detectable signal attainable.…

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The development of high-quality solid-state photon sources is essential to nano optics, quantum photonics, and related fields. A key objective of this research area is to develop tunable photon sources that not only enhance the performance…

This work introduces a fully tunable, ultra-low power unipolar memory cell inspired by the Schmitt-trigger comparator and designed in CMOS using only nine transistors. The proposed circuit operates entirely in the current domain and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Arthur Fyon , Loris Mendolia , Jean-Michel Redouté , Alessio Franci , Guillaume Drion

The description of carrier dynamics in spatially confined semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs), which have enhanced electron-hole and exciton-phonon interactions, is a great challenge for modern computational science. These NCs typically…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-01 Dipti Jasrasaria , Daniel Weinberg , John P. Philbin , Eran Rabani

Complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology has radically reshaped the world by taking humanity to the digital age. Cramming more transistors into the same physical space has enabled an exponential increase in computational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-11 M. F. Gonzalez-Zalba , S. de Franceschi , E. Charbon , T. Meunier , M. Vinet , A. S. Dzurak