An EMG Interface Comprising a Flexible a-IGZO Active Electrode Matrix and a 65-nm CMOS IC

In this work, a 4 × 4 active electrode (AE) matrix integrated on a flexible foil substrate to monitor muscular contraction is presented. The electrodes and their front ends (FEs) (i.e., AEs) are implemented on foil in amorphous indium gallium zinc oxide (a-IGZO) thin-film transistor (TFT) technology and interfaced with a custom 65-nm CMOS chip...

A printed proximity-sensing surface based on organic pyroelectric sensors and organic thin-film transistor electronics

In this work is presented for the first time a large-area proximity sensing surface fabricated by printing organic materials and featuring distributed Analog Frontend Electronics (AFE) based on Organic Thin-Film Transistors (OTFTs). The sensor foil enables detecting the presence of approaching heat sources (like humans or moving machines) at a...

60 GHz 5-bit digital controlled phase shifter in a digital 40 nm CMOS technology without ultra-thick metals

A 5-bit digital controlled switch-type passive phase shifter realised in a 40 nm digital CMOS technology without ultra-thick metals for the 60 GHz Industrial, Scientific and Medical (ISM) band is presented. A patterned shielding with electromagnetic bandgap structure and a stacked metals method to increase the on-chip inductor quality factor are...

High performance of treated and washed MSWI bottom ash granulates as natural aggregate replacement within earth-moist concrete

Municipal solid waste incineration bottom ash was treated with specially designed dry and wet treatment processes, obtaining high quality bottom ash granulate fractions (BGF) suitable for up to 100% replacement of natural gravel in concrete. The wet treatment (using only water for separating and washing) significantly lowers the leaching of e.g....

A 3μW fully-differential RF envelope detector for ultra-low power receivers

A fully differential envelope detector (ED) operating at 2.4GHz is designed in 90nm CMOS technology. The new design uses the common-gate topology to deal with large common-mode input signals through first-order current cancellation. Thereby, a fully differential ultra-low power super-regenerative front-end is enabled. It has a measured output...

A 30fJ/conversion-step 8b 0-to-10MS/s asynchronous SAR ADC in 90nm CMOS

Applications like wireless sensor nodes require ultra low-power receivers with power-efficient ADCs. Moreover, the power-efficiency should be maintained for a wide range of sampling rates to enable system-level flexibility. Previously, the use of SAR ADCs has been proposed for low-power applications [1], [2]. This work describes the...

A 500μW 5Mbps ULP super-regenerative RF front-end

This paper presents an ultra low power super-regenerative RF front-end for wireless body area network (WBAN) applications. The RF front-end operates in the 2.36-2.4 GHz medical BAN and 2.4-2.485 GHz ISM bands, and consumes 500 μW. It supports OOK modulation at high data rates ranging from 1-5 Mbps. It achieves a sensitivity of -67 dBm at a BER...