Optically Powered Fiber Optic Sensors (OPFOS) combine the advantages of fiber optic and microelectronic technologies [1-12]. Fiber optic and partially Fiber Optic Sensors (FOS) offer advantages that are significant in the field of variety of industrial, military and medical applications. FOS are immune to electromagnetic interference (EMI), they have low thermal and mechanical inertia, and they...

Vision chips are microelectronic devices which combine image sensing and processing on a single silicon die. In a way somewhat resembling the vertebrate retina these VLSI chips perform preliminary image processing directly on the sensory plane and are capable of very high processing speed at very low power consumption. This makes them particularly suitable for applications such as autonomous ro...

The vast majority of modern microelectronic devices rely on carriers within semiconductors due to their integrability. Therefore, the performance of these devices is limited due to natural semiconductor properties such as band gap and electron velocity. Replacing the semiconductor channel in conventional microelectronic devices with a gas or vacuum channel may scale their speed, wavelength and ...

As deep-sub-micron and beyond technology emerges, quality assurance of microelectronic circuits and systems becomes more important than ever. Consequentially, (1) a strong need for well-educated microelectronic circuits and systems test engineers is desired by the industry, (2) graduate-level research efforts are also called to overcome numerous microelectronic circuits and systems test issues....