Projects
Advanced MIMO channel modeling and signal processing for highbitrate chip-to-chip interconnects prone to manufacturing variability Ghent University
The advent of new electronic systems, operating at ever higher frequencies and bitrates, poses many challenges to the electrical engineer. Moreover, miniaturization is leading to an increased influence of manufacturing tolerances on the design. In this project, the focus is on a critical part of state-of-the-art electronic systems, namely the chip-to-chip links that interconnect driver and receiver Integrated Circuits (ICs –chips). The ...
mmWave PA Design for the Next Generation Communication Networks in 22nm FD-SOI KU Leuven
Mobile connectivity has become an indispensable part of our lives. This is evident in the statistics as well: the number of people using mobile internet is increasing at a great pace.
This increase in usage also puts great pressure on the infrastructure. Newer generations of internet connectivity are in the development continuously. Experts try to increase the data rates, reduce the latency and improve efficiency while making chips ...
Modelling, exploration and technology assessment of steep-subthreshold-slope transistors for N5/N3 CMOS power-performance scaling KU Leuven
For more than half a century, semiconductor integrated circuits (ICs) have evolved with the miniaturization of transistor footprint, the improvement of chip performance and the reduction in operating power, which are collectively referred to as “power-performance-area” (PPA) scaling. Moving on to the sub-deca-nm scaling regime, the main workhorse of the IC industry, Si MOSFET, increasingly struggles to keep up with the unrelenting demand for ...
Smart Hybrid DC-DC converters for Li-ion Battery Operated Portable Electronics KU Leuven
The goal of this dissertation is to develop power management integrated circuits (PMICs) for Li-ion battery-operated portable electronics that are lightweight, affordable, and efficient. On the one hand, a limited energy source, such as a small battery, mandates efficient use of energy to extend battery life. Emerging applications like internet-of-things (IoTs), on the other hand, push for incredibly smaller footprints. The traditional method ...
Extreme High Speed ADC KU Leuven
Design and implementation of photonic-enabled large-scale active antenna systems for fifth-generation wireless communication systems and beyond Ghent University
The current 4G system already exploits the available bandwidth optimally. The stringent demands of the 5G wireless communication system, the Internet-of-Things and future aerospace applications require either larger bandwidths, only available at mm-wave frequencies, or the deployment of multi-antenna systems at a massive scale. We propose an innovative generic design
procedure for the pervasive integration and implementation of ...
Ab initio modeling of Extreme UV - Matter interactions KU Leuven
For many decades, progress in the electronics industry has been, and is still, driven by the miniaturization of integrated circuits (ICs). Besides getting smaller the circuit designs are also getting more and more complex. Creating the patterns to realize these circuits on a chip is performed by using photolithography. In photolithography a chemical photoresist is irradiated by laser light in the desired pattern. After washing away the ...
Photonic interconnect layer on silicon / Ultra low power Photonic Ics for optical interconnects sand communication networks Ghent University
Future high performance microprocessors will be confronted with a bottleneck on the datacommunication level: classical electrical interconnects will no longer suffice. To overcome this, this project will investigate an optical interconnect layer for on-chip communication. The most important component in the source, a nanolaser with minimal power consumption.
- We aim the developing new device concepts for micro-lasers, detectors, ...
A Zeolitic Imidazolate Framework-8 (ZIF-8)-coated Coupled Resonant Gas Sensor KU Leuven
The fast development of society and technology drive great demand for monitoring personal well-being and health issues as well as a better control of everything in our environment.These trends require the development of ever more sensitive, compact and energy efficient sensor systems preferentially sensitive to multiple environmental parameters. Among many kinds of sensors, gas sensor has attracted a great deal of attention due to its wide ...