The influence of transistor size reduction (scaling) on the speed of realistic multi-stage integrated circuits (ICs) represents the main performance metric of a given transistor technology. Despite extensive interest in graphene electronics, scaling efforts have so far focused on individual transistors rather than multi-stage ICs. Here we study the scaling of graphene ICs based on transistors f...

INTRODUCTION The bioluminescent bioreporter integrated circuit represents a new advance in the development of whole-cell biosensors. These devices consist of a genetically engineered bioreporter organism interfaced with an integrated circuit (Fig. 1). The bioreporter is engineered to luminesce when a targeted substance is encountered, while the circuit is designed to detect the luminescence, pr...

Fabless semiconductor industries are facing the rise of design costs of integrated circuits. This rise is link to the technology change and the complexity increasing. It follows that integrated circuits have become targets of counterfeiting and theft. The SALWARE project aims to study (theoretically and experimentally) salutary hardware design in order to fight against theft, illegal cloning an...

This talk reviews recent advances on chip level interconnections and low cost heterogeneous integrated photonics circuits for high speed optical links. We review recent breakthroughs in silicon photonic technology and components and describe progress in silicon photonic integrated circuits.

1 Structural Engineering Department, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, MG 36036-330, Brazil 2 Institute of Modeling and Computation, Hamburg University of Technology, 21073 Hamburg, Germany 3 Department of Mechanics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 845 03 Bratislava, Slovakia 4 CICC—Research Center in Construction Sciences, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Coimbra, 303...

An imbalance in the transport current among the strands of a Cable-in-Conduit conductors (CICC) can be associated with the change of their performance. In order to understand and improve the performance of CICC’s, it is essential to study the current imbalance. This paper focuses on the study of the current imbalance in two short samples of the SeCRETS (Segregated Copper Ratio Experiment on Tra...

Very large scale integrated circuitry is playing a key role in the development of modern electronic systems at APL. In the Microelectronics Group, activities have been focused on creating a resource to ensure that all personnel have access to high-performance, high-reliability integrated circuits. This article describes progress in the design, acquisition, packaging, testing, and insertion of v...

A monolithically integrated photocurrent driven wavelength converter is fabricated and characterized. Bit-Error-Rate measurements at 10Gb/s show 1dB power penalties over 32nm with extinction ratios between 8.5-9.5dB. Input power is -11dBm and conversion efficiency is +13dB. ©2005 Optical Society of America OCIS codes: (250.5300) Photonic Integrated Circuits; (250.3140) Integrated Optoelectronic...