Searching for innovative approaches to detect single photons remains at the center of science and technology for decades. This paper proposes a zero transit-time, non-avalanche quantum capacitive photodetector to register single photons. In this detector, the absorption of a single photon changes the wave function of a single electron trapped in a quantum dot (QD), leading to a charge density r...

Analysis and design techniques for designing a lumped-element 3-dB quadrature coupler with wide-band flat coupling are proposed for microwave integrated-circuit/monolithic-microwave integrated-circuit applications. The proposed design technique can produce a coupler with flat coupling over 50% fractional bandwidth, which is wider than the conventional lumped-element design methods. A prototype ...

This paper presents a new CAD tool – F3D – for accurate 3D capacitance and distributed RC model extraction for image sensor designs. F3D overcomes limitations of existing parasitic extraction tools and field solvers, and enables a predictive accurate capacitance extraction and distributed RC model generation, automated identification of all relevant capacitive coupling components, including lon...

Crosstalk noise in on-chip interconnect plays a major role in the performance of modern integrated circuits. Multi-aggressor capacitive and inductive coupling complicates both the modeling and mitigation of the noise. A novel method to model and analyze noise in RLC multi-line structures is proposed in this paper, exhibiting an error of up to 9% as compared to SPICE. This method is physically i...

A new multi-layer substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) structure is developed to design dual-band evanescent-mode band-pass filters (BPFs). Two independent series LC circuits are implemented by incorporating metallic irises in the different layers of the structure. The combination of the metallic irises with capacitive-plates is embedded inside the SIW to independently excite two evane...

This paper proposes a simple lumped circuit modeling approach for describing noncontact EMI coupling mechanisms in switching power converters. The resulting model assumes a minimum number of noise sources and contains essential coupling paths that allow easy physical interpretations. Essentially, all capacitive couplings are represented by an equivalent noise voltage source and six coupling imp...