Single CMOS Research Articles

GI-FI Technology using UWB Modulation

Abstract: Gi-Fi or Gigabit Wireless refers to wireless with data transfer rates in excess of a billion bits (Gigabit) per second. Ten times faster than other technologies. Its chip offers multi-gigabit transfer rates in a local environment up to 5 Gbit/s at a distance of 10 meters. It is the world's first transmitter integrated on a single CMOS chip and operates in the currently largely unused 60 GHz frequency band. It uses a 5mm square chip with a 1mm antenna that uses less than times to transmit data at high speed over short distances, just like Bluetooth. The exciting features and\advantages of this new technology can influence the most anticipated technologies in the huge global market\to transform large file transfers\in seconds. It should be the key wireless technology enabling the digital economy of the future. Gi-Fi speeds up wireless communication.

Volumetric Temperature Mapping Using Light-Sheet Microscopy and Upconversion Fluorescence from Micro- and Nano-Rare Earth Composites.

We present a combination of light-sheet excitation and two-dimensional fluorescence intensity ratio (FIR) measurements as a simple and promising technique for three-dimensional temperature mapping. The feasibility of this approach is demonstrated with samples fabricated with sodium yttrium fluoride nanoparticles co-doped with rare-earth ytterbium and erbium ions (NaYF4:Yb3+/Er3+) incorporated into polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) as a host material. In addition, we also evaluate the technique using lipid-coated NaYF4:Yb3+/Er3+ nanoparticles immersed in agar. The composite materials show upconverted (UC) fluorescence bands when excited by a 980 nm near-infrared laser light-sheet. Using a single CMOS camera and a pair of interferometric optical filters to specifically image the two thermally-coupled bands (at 525 and 550 nm), the two-dimensional FIR and, hence, the temperature map can be readily obtained. The proposed method can take optically sectioned (confocal-like) images with good optical resolution over relatively large samples (up to the millimetric scale) for further 3D temperature reconstruction.

A compact online proton spectrometer for diagnosis of picosecond intense-laser accelerated protons

A compact online proton spectrometer based on a CMOS plate detector was proposed for the diagnosis of picosecond intense-laser accelerated protons. Inside the CMOS plate detector, a composite structure that composed of a scintillator screen, a fiber optic plate (FOP), and a CMOS sensor was designed to detect the protons safely and efficiently. The scintillator screen converted the incident protons to visible light, which, in turn, was collected by using the FOP and detected by using the CMOS sensor. An additional aluminum housing was designed to decrease the strong electromagnetic pulse (EMP) impact on the electronic readout system from picosecond laser–plasma interaction. This online spectrometer is compact and cost-effective than the system based on the micro-channel plate or scintillator screen in combination with an electron multiplying CCD camera and has better resistance to radiation damage than the system based on a single CMOS sensor.

Deep Learning-Based Single-View Fluorescence Dose Reconstruction for 3D Dosimetry

3D dose distribution measurement is crucial for precise radiotherapy. Radiation-excited fluorescence imaging has potential for the 3D dosimetry with high spatial resolution, but multiple fluorescence images from different view-angles are required for analytical reconstruction techniques. Furthermore, the imaging data are contaminated by anisotropic Cherenkov light emission and statistical noise. This project aims to establish a novel deep learning-based model to predict 3D dose distributions from a single-view 2D fluorescence image while simultaneously removing the adverse effects of Cherenkov signals and other noises. A total of 124 single-aperture static photon beams were delivered to an acrylic tank containing 1 g/L quinine hemisulfate water solution with varying aperture shapes and collimator angle. The emitted optical signals were detected by a low-cost CMOS camera for 20 seconds, and image pre-processing was performed to obtain input 2D fluorescence images with 0.3 × 0.3 mm spatial resolution. 3D back-projected dose distribution images were also calculated from the input fluorescence images. Ground-truth of 3D dose distributions and 2D field map images were obtained from a clinical treatment planning system with 1.4 × 1.4 × 1.4 mm spatial resolution. The proposed deep learning-based dose reconstruction method involved 3 steps. First, 2D fluence map images at the bottom plane of the tank were predicted from the fluorescence images by using a customized convolutional neural network (CNN). Second, the predicted fluence map images were transformed into the 2D field map images on the isocenter plane by applying perspective transformation. Finally, 2D dose distributions at a given radiological depth were calculated by using the predicted field map images, the back-projected dose distribution images, and the radiological depth value as inputs of a shallow CNN. Both CNN models were trained separately, and the 3D dose distributions were predicted by concatenating the output 2D dose distributions at various radiological depths. The proposed CNN model yielded accurate 2D field map images. Averaged Dice similarity coefficient and mean absolute error of the field maps in the test data was 92.0% ± 4.6% and 0.0132 ± 0.0113, respectively. Moreover, our deep learning-based approach was able to predict accurate 3D dose distributions from the 2D fluorescence images. Mean squared error and averaged 3D gamma passing ratio (3%/3mm) were 9.55 mGy ± 6.8 mGy and 86.3% ± 9.86%, respectively. Theproposed deep learning-based method calculated accurate 3D dose distributions from a single-view 2D fluorescence image. Since this technique require only a single CMOS camera image and fluorescent material, it can be readily used for any external radiotherapy modalities, including SRS/SBRT with small fields. This method is useful for acquiring 3D dose distribution data for precise dose verification within a few seconds.

Analysis and Comparison of Two Stage and Single Stage Operational Amplifiers Using 0.18µm Technology

Operational amplifier exists in many numbers of configurations. The there are many types of the Operational amplifiers. These are: two stage, single stage, three stage and multistage amplifiers. Identifying the better op amp is important to get better application. The better op amp will be selected by considering the performance parameters (DC Gain, Slew Rate, Power Dissipation, etc.) of op amp. In project work a two stage cmos and single stage CMOS operational has been compared and contrasted based on values of their performance parameters by using 0.18µm CMOS technology and the same power supply (5V). Based on these values, By comparing the performance parameters single stage CMOS op amp is more stable and operate longer duration of time than two stage cmos op amp with small energy loss; while two stage op amp produces the output which is twice larger than single stage op amp, and also the noise in the output of two stage op amp is less than single stage op amp. So to get more output it is better to use two stage op amps. By results and reasons suitable choices for high gain and high performance applications are two stage topologies.

Development of integration mode proton imaging with a single CMOS detector for a small animal irradiation platform

A novel irradiation platform for preclinical proton therapy studies foresees proton imaging for accurate setup and treatment planning. Imaging at modern synchrocyclotron-based proton therapy centers with high instantaneous particle flux is possible with an integration mode setup. The aim of this work is to determine an object’s water-equivalent thickness (WET) with a commercially available large-area CMOS sensor. Image contrast is achieved by recording the proton energy deposition in detector pixels for several incoming beam energies (here, called probing energies) and applying a signal decomposition method that retrieves the water-equivalent thickness. A single planar 114 mm × 65 mm CMOS sensor (49.5 µm pixel pitch) was used for this study, aimed at small-animal imaging. In experimental campaigns, at two isochronous cyclotron-based facilities, probing energies suitable for small-animal-sized objects were produced once with built-in energy layer switching and the other time, using a custom degrader wheel. To assess water-equivalent thickness accuracy, a micro-CT calibration phantom with 10 inserts of tissue-mimicking materials was imaged at three phantom-to-detector distances: 3 mm, 13 mm, and 33 mm. For 3 mm and 13 mm phantom-to-detector distance, the average water-equivalent thickness error compared to the ground truth was about 1% and the spatial resolution was 0.16(3) mm and 0.47(2) mm, respectively. For the largest separation distance of 33 mm air gap, proton scattering had considerable impact and the water-equivalent thickness relative error increased to 30%, and the spatial resolution was larger than 1.75 mm. We conclude that a pixelated CMOS detector with dedicated post-processing methods can enable fast proton radiographic imaging in a simple and compact setup for small-animal-sized objects with high water-equivalent thickness accuracy and spatial resolution for reasonable phantom-to-detector distances.

Subthreshold Modeling of a Tunable CMOS Schmitt Trigger

In this article, the subthreshold characteristics of a tunable single input CMOS Schmitt trigger (ST) are modeled for the first time. The high-to-low and low-to-high hysteresis transition points are analytically determined as a function of the tuning voltages and the transistors’ geometrical parameters. The derived expressions allow to design the ST with desired hysteresis width in subthreshold region. Furthermore, the proposed model allows to estimate the minimum supply voltage for which hysteresis occurs. The derived expressions also provide physical insight into the circuit behavior, by predicting the effect of supply voltage and temperature variations on the hysteresis width. The model is validated through simulations, and the maximum error between the analytical and simulated transition points is less than 5%. The model is also experimentally validated with an ASIC fabricated in AMS <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$0.35~\mu \text{m}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> CMOS process. The maximum error between the analytical and measured transition points is below 6%. The analytical model allows performance optimization in subthreshold region for low power applications.

Realizing avalanche criticality in neuromorphic networks on a 2D hBN platform.

Networks and systems which exhibit brain-like behavior can analyze information from intrinsically noisy and unstructured data with very low power consumption. Such characteristics arise due to the critical nature and complex interconnectivity of the brain and its neuronal network. We demonstrate a system comprising of multilayer hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) films contacted with silver (Ag), which can uniquely host two different self-assembled networks, which are self-organized at criticality (SOC). This system shows bipolar resistive switching between the high resistance state (HRS) and the low resistance state (LRS). In the HRS, Ag clusters (nodes) intercalate in the van der Waals gaps of hBN forming a network of tunnel junctions, whereas the LRS contains a network of Ag filaments. The temporal avalanche dynamics in both these states exhibit power-law scaling, long-range temporal correlation, and SOC. These networks can be tuned from one to another with voltage as a control parameter. For the first time, two different neural networks are realized in a single CMOS compatible, 2D material platform.

A Packaged Multiplexed Fluorescent Biomolecular Sensor Array and Ultralow-Power Wireless Interface in CMOS for Ingestible Electronic Applications

Ingestible electronics capable of laboratory quality biomolecular analysis occupying pill-sized volume, operating at sub-mW with a robust wireless interface can transform medical diagnostics and personalized healthcare. Miniaturization of complex biomolecular systems in such a volume is extremely challenging, including a wireless interface that is capable of robust communication through inches of tissue. This article presents for the first time a fully packaged biosensor system with transmitter (Tx)/receiver (Rx) antennas coupled to a single CMOS chip that integrates a low-power wireless interface and a 15-pixel fluorescence biosensor array with on-chip nanoplasmonic optical filters. The IC, operating across multiple industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM)/medical implant communication system (MICS) bands, employs pulse-pause-encoded ASK/OOK modulation, and achieves reception energy efficiency of 28 pJ/bit at 7 Mb/s and −58 dBm of sensitivity with <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$196 \mu \text{W}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> of dc power. The entire biocompatible package is miniaturized to a size of 1.2 <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\times $ </tex-math></inline-formula> 2.5 cm2. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this work demonstrates for the first time a packaged bio-pill with in situ biomolecular sensing and quantification with pM sensitivity in CMOS ICs that also encompasses wireless transmission capability through inches of tissue at state-of-the-art energy efficiency.

Biologically inspired intraoral camera for multifunctional dental imaging

Biological vision offers intriguing inspiration for functional features in imaging systems with small form factors. We report biologically inspired intraoral camera (BIOC) for assorted dental imaging. This fully packaged BIOC features a convex-concave lens, inverted microlens arrays (iMLAs), LED module, and a single CMOS image sensor on a flexible printed circuit board in a handpiece holder. The iMLAs also collect light from wide angles by mounting the convex-concave lens to increase the viewing angle. The clinical trials have been successfully conducted for real-time and multifunctional intraoral monitoring of human teeth, including infinite depth of field, close-up, wide field-of-view, three-dimensional, and autofluorescence imaging. This biomedical camera provides insights for functional imaging not only in dental applications but also in surgical robots and endoscopy applications.

CMOS SPAD sensor chip for the readout of scintillating fibers

The detection of light from optical fibers is required in a variety of particle detector types like fiber trackers or sampling calorimeters. Instead of using classical photo sensors like PMTs or SiPMs and associated readout electronics, we propose to combine Single Photon Sensitive Avalanche Diodes (SPADs) and CMOS readout electronics on the same silicon die. We have developed, fabricated and initially characterized such a ‘Digital SiPM’ solution. In order to provide a high flexibility in fiber diameters and positions, our architecture allows for assigning the individual SPADs to programmable ‘groups’ which are routed to chip pins. The purely digital output signals provide the timing by the rising edge and an amplitude information by the pulse width. The first available chip has been successfully used to detect light of individual fibers from a fiber bundle. The proposed concept could significantly reduce the mechanical and electronic complexity as well as the cost of fiber readouts and possibly improve their performance.

Measuring both thermal and kinematic full-fields using a single CMOS camera during high temperature tests

In numerous domains, both kinematic and thermal fields are sought to study temperature dependent phenomena. They are usually obtained by digital image correlation and infrared thermography, respectively. Although these techniques are well mastered, their combination is not straightforward since they need radically different conditions to work efficiently. This paper presents a procedure to measure accurately thermal and kinematic full-fields simultaneously using a single CMOS camera in a chosen region of interest. The kinematic field is measured by global digital image correlation and the thermal field by near-infrared thermography for temperatures above 700 ∘C. A procedure is detailed to identify the radiometric model and compute the thermal field without being affected by the heterogeneous emissivity of the sample surface caused by the speckle pattern. A methodology showing how to manage temperature measurements during high thermal transients is also presented. The proposed approach aims to be widely accessible since it does not need strong knowledge in DIC algorithms and only requires a standard camera. The method is first validated on a virtual test case, before being used on real experiments performed at high temperature with a stereo setup.

An Integrated RF-Powered Wake-Up Wireless Transceiver With –26 dBm Sensitivity

This article presents a fully RF-powered wireless transceiver integrating an efficient RF energy harvester (RFEH), a Wake-up Receiver (WuRx), and a Wake-up Transmitter (WuTx) on a single CMOS chip. The WuRx is designed to operate with supply voltages as low as 300 mV allowing to be entirely powered up by the RF energy at power levels as low as −26 dBm. The capability of the WuRx to operate without using a power management unit (PMU) enhances the sensitivity and overall conversion efficiency of the RFEH system. By utilizing an ultralow-power ultralow-voltage envelope detector to obtain the required signal levels, using passive amplification instead of an active low-noise amplifier, and eliminating the voltage regulator removing its power overhead, the transceiver’s input sensitivity has been improved at least by a factor 2 (3 dB) compared to the other previously reported RF-powered transceivers. The proposed transmitter consists of a fast start-up oscillator and an efficient class E power amplifier, which can be externally tuned for different output powers. Fabricated in the TSMC’s 130-nm CMOS process, the measurement results show that the proposed WuRx consuming only 5.7 nW works with input powers as low as −26 dBm, and the proposed transmitter can work with input powers as low as −23 dBm. The WuTx outputs −11 dBm with 51% efficiency at 2.45 GHz using high-Q off-chip components.

Reconstructing the Spatial Parameters of a Laser Beam Using the Transport-of-Intensity Equation.

A simple method for reconstructing the spatial parameters of a laser beam, based on the transport-of-intensity equation, is presented. Registration of cross-section intensity distributions in several planes was carried out using a single CMOS camera. The processing of the experimental measurements with the help of specialized software helped to reconstruct all of the spatial parameters, namely, the radius and position of the waist, Rayleigh length, angular divergence, quality parameter The method was compared with measurements made according to the international standard ISO 11146 and showed that the difference in the spatial parameters is 10% or less, which shows good agreement.

Stacked metasurfaces for enhancing the emission and extraction rate of single nitrogen-vacancy centers in nanodiamond

Dielectric metasurfaces with unique possibilities of manipulating light–matter interaction lead to new insights in exploring spontaneous emission control using single quantum emitters. Here, we study the stacked metasurfaces in one- (1D) and two-dimensions (2D) to enhance the emission rate of a single quantum emitter using the associated optical resonances. The 1D structures with stacked bilayers are investigated to exhibit Tamm plasmon resonance optimized at the zero phonon line (ZPL) of the negative nitrogen-vacancy (NV−) center. The 2D stacked metasurface comprising of two-slots silicon nano-disks is studied for the Kerker condition at ZPL wavelength. The far-field radiation plots for the 1D and 2D stacked metasurfaces show an increased extraction efficiency rate for the NV− center at ZPL wavelength that reciprocates the localized electric field intensity. The modified local density of optical states results in large Purcell enhancement of 3.8 times and 25 times for the single NV− center integrated with 1D and 2D stacked metasurface, respectively. These results have implications in exploring stacked metasurfaces for applications such as single photon generation and CMOS compatible light sources for on-demand chip integration.

A 100-Gb/s PAM-4 Optical Receiver With 2-Tap FFE and 2-Tap Direct-Feedback DFE in 28-nm CMOS

Optical receivers (ORXs) with integrated CMOS electronics enable compact, low-power solutions for 400-G Ethernet and co-packaged optics. In this article, we present a 100-Gb/s PAM-4 ORX with TIA and sampler integrated into a single 28-nm CMOS IC. ORX sensitivity is optimized using a low noise, sub-Nyquist bandwidth TIA followed by a mixed signal sampler that includes 2-tap FFE and 2-tap DFE. A distributed current-integrating summer helps meet feedback latency requirements of 50-Gbaud direct-feedback PAM-4 DFE. Measurements characterizing the CMOS linear TIA indicate ~23-GHz trans-impedance (ZT) bandwidth (BW) with- <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$2.5~\mu \text{A}_{\mathrm {rms}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> input-referred noise. Optical measurement results at 100 Gb/s show that −8.9-dBm sensitivity is achieved at 2.4e-4 BER with 3.9-pJ/bit energy efficiency.

OL86 - Development of integration mode proton imaging with a single CMOS detector for a small animal irradiation platform

OL86 - Development of integration mode proton imaging with a single CMOS detector for a small animal irradiation platform

Measurement of energy spectrum by using 100 eyes Tomographic PIV

PIV is one of the methods to measure velocity in a flow field, but its dynamic velocity range is narrower than other flow velocimeter. This disadvantage is particularly apparent in measurements of spectrum in turbulent boundary layers, where the higher wave number side of the spectrum cannot be measured with high accuracy. In this study, we captured images of the same particle in the flow field from many different direction simultaneously, and reduced the measurement error of the particle displacement by averaging the acquired particle positions, so called ‘Multiple Eye PIV’ [Maekawa, A., Sakakibara, J., 2018, Meas. Sci. Tech., 29, 064011]. We applied this method to obtain the energy spectrum in a turbulent pipe flow aiming for resolving higher wave number. Particle images were captured by a single high-speed CMOS camera (Fastcam Nova S6, 6000 fps, Photron) through a mirror array consists of 110 flat mirrors arranged in the shape of an axisymmetric ellipsoid (Fig.1), as shown in Fig.2. The images were evaluated by Tomographic PIV method to resolve three-dimensional velocity field. Fig.3 shows energy spectrum in a pipe measured by Tomographic-PIV with number of mirrors, N, up to 100 in addition to the 2D2C-PIV with a single mirror. Although the spectrum curve for the result of Tomographic-PIV begins to depart from the reference curve at wavenumber beyond 10-1 , such wavenumber grows as N increases, and consequently the plateau of the curve appeared at lower energy. Such a downward shift of the plateau is expected due to the improvement of the dynamic velocityrange, which is approximately one order in energy, i.e. three times in velocity, found between N=4 and 100. Note that the cases of N=4 and 40 loses the dynamic range against the 2C2D-PIV case. From the above, we can summarize that the advantage of Multiple Eye PIV over the 2C2D-PIV is effective when the number of mirrors is more than 40. In this experiment, the issue is that particles images flickered. In order to resolve this issue, we tried to use fluorescent particles, and obtained a clear particle images in the following experiment. We are now analyzing whether the energy spectrum can be measured with higher accuracy due to improved resolution of the particles.

An Over 120 dB Single Exposure Wide Dynamic Range CMOS Image Sensor With Two-Stage Lateral Overflow Integration Capacitor

This article presents a prototype linear response single exposure CMOS image sensor with two-stage lateral overflow integration capacitors (LOFIC) exhibiting over the 120-dB dynamic range (DR) with 11.4 Me <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">-</sup> full well capacity (FWC) and maximum signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of 70 dB. The measured SNR at all switching points were over 35 dB thanks to the proposed two-stage LOFIC.

Combined Fluorescence and Bright Field Imaging via a Single CMOS Detector Without Filters to Improve on Patient Safety during Endoscopic Procedures – An Experimental Study Analysing the Output of both LASER and LED Near Infrared Sources on In Vitro Samples

Many endoscopic systems combine white light and NIR light via LED multiplexing in order to image tissue stained with Near Infrared (NIR) fluorescent markers such as Indocyanine Green (ICG). This can result in unnecessary in vivo energy exposure which can cause irreversible damage to tissue. A simple, single detector system is proposed in this work comprising a single excitation channel at a wavelength of 780 nm. We have demonstrated that a single 1.6 Megapixel CMOS camera with quantum efficiency of less than 30% is appropriate to capture both fluorescent and non-fluorescent landmarks at NIR wavelengths. Experimental results indicate that a LASER source generating between up to 10 mW of optical power at 780 nm could be considered as an alternative to LED.