AWARDS
AWARDS 2023
BEST PAPER AWARD
ESSCIRC 2023
A 40 kS s Calibration-Free Incremental AE ADC Achieving 104 dB DR and 105.7 dB SFDR
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Mohamed A. Mokhtar Institute of Microelectronics, University of Ulm, 89081 Ulm, Germany (Now with Robert Bosch GmbH)
Omar Ismail Institute of Microelectronics, University of Ulm, 89081 Ulm, Germany
Patrick Vogelmannt Institute of Microelectronics, University of Ulm, 89081 Ulm, Germany (Now with EMCE GmbH)
John G. Kauffman Institute of Microelectronics, University of Ulm, 89081 Ulm, Germany
Maurits Ortmanns Institute of Microelectronics, University of Ulm, 89081 Ulm, Germany
BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD
ESSCIRC 2023
A 291nW Real-Time Event-Driven Spectrogram Extraction unit in 28nm FD-SOI CMOS for Keyword Spotting Application
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Soufiane Mourrane STMicroelectronics, Crolles, France - Univ. Lille, CNRS, Centrale Lille, Junia, Univ. Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, UMR 8520 - IEMN, F-59000 Lille
Benoit Larras Univ. Lille, CNRS, Centrale Lille, Junia, Univ. Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, UMR 8520 - IEMN, F-59000 Lille
Sylvain Clerc STMicroelectronics, Crolles, France
Andreia Cathelin STMicroelectronics, Crolles, France
Antoine Frappéz Univ. Lille, CNRS, Centrale Lille, Junia, Univ. Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, UMR 8520 - IEMN, F-59000 Lille
BEST PAPER AWARD
ESSDERC 2023
Integration of HfO2-based 3D OxRAM with GAA stacked-nanosheet transistor
for high-density embedded memory
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T. Dubreuil, S. Barraud, J.-M. Pedini, J.-M. Hartmann, F. Boulard, A. Sarrazin, A. Gharbi, J. Sturm, A. Lambert,
S. Martin, N. Castellani, A. Anotta, A. Magalhaes-Lucas, A. Souhaité, and F. Andrieu
CEA-Leti, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, F-38000 Grenoble, France​
BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD
ESSDERC 2023
New Insights into Read Current Margin and Memory Window of HfO2-based Ferroelectric FET with Re-exploration of the Role of Ferroelectric Dynamics and Interface Charges during Readout
Chang Su School of Integrated Circuits, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
Zhongxin Liang School of Integrated Circuits, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
Zhiyuan Fu School of Integrated Circuits, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
Shaodi Xu School of Integrated Circuits, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
Kaifeng Wang School of Integrated Circuits, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
Puyang Cait School of Integrated Circuits, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
Liang Chen School of Integrated Circuits, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
Ru Huang School of Integrated Circuits, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China - Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Integrated Circuits, Beijing 100871, China
Qianqian Huang School of Integrated Circuits, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China - Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Integrated Circuits, Beijing 100871, China - Beijing Superstring Academy of Memory Technology, Beijing 100176, China
BEST PAPER AWARD
ESSCIRC ESSDERC 2023
A 256-kb Fully Row/Column-parallel 22m MRAM In-Memory-Computing Macro with Differential Readout for Robust Parallelization and Scale-up
Peter Deville, Bonan Zhang, Naveen Verma
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD
ESSCIRC ESSDERC 2023
A Benchmark of Cryo-CMOS 40-nm Embedded SRAM/DRAMs for Quantum Computing
Rob A. Damsteegt Department of Quantum & Computing Engineering & QuTech, TU Delft, The Netherlands
Ramon W.J. Overwater Department of Quantum & Computing Engineering & QuTech, TU Delft, The Netherlands
Masoud Babaie Department of Microelectronics & QuTech, TU Delft, The Netherlands
Fabio Sebastiano Department of Quantum & Computing Engineering & QuTech, TU Delft, The Netherlands
AWARDS 2022
BEST PAPER AWARD
ESSCIRC 2022
​A 590 µW, 106.6 dB SNDR, 24 kHz BW Continuous-Time
Zoom ADC with a Noise-Shaping 4-Bit SAR ADC
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Shubham Mehrotra NXP Semiconductor, Netherlands
Efraïm Eland TU Delft, Netherlands
Shoubhik Karmakar TU Delft, Netherlands
Angqi Liu TU Delft, Netherlands
Burak Gönen TU Delft, Netherlands
Muhammed Bolatkale NXP Semiconductor, TU Delft, Netherlands
Robert Van Veldhoven NXP Semiconductor, Netherlands
Kofi A. A. Makinwa TU Delft, Netherlands
BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD
ESSCIRC 2022
A 2.4GHz Full-Duplex Transceiver with Broadband (+120MHz),
Linearity-Calibrated and Long-Delayed Self-Interference Cancellation
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Xichen Li, Yi-Hsiang Huang, Fucheng Yin, Jacques Chris Rudell
University of Washington, USA
BEST PAPER AWARD
ESSDERC 2023
Device Optimization for 200V GaN-on-SOI Platform for Monolithicly Integrated Power Circuits
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Olga Syshchyk imec, Belgium
Thibault Cosnier imec, Belgium
Zheng-Hong Huang National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Deepthi Cingu imec, Belgium
Dirk Wellekens imec, Belgium
Anurag Vohra imec, Belgium
Karen Geens imec, Belgium
Pavan Vudumula KU Leuven, Belgium
Urmimala Chatterjee imec, Belgium
Stefaan Decoutere imec, Belgium
Tian-Li Wu National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Benoit Bakeroot imec, Belgium - Ghent University, Belgium
BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD
ESSDERC 2023
Multilayer Structure in SeAsGeSi-Based OTS for High Thermal Stability
and Reliability Enhancement
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Camille Laguna CEA-LETI, University of Grenoble Alpes, University of Lyon, France
Mathieu Bernard CEA-LETI, University of Grenoble Alpes, France
Julien Garrione CEA-LETI, University of Grenoble Alpes, France
Niccolo Castellani CEA-LETI, University of Grenoble Alpes, France
Valentina Meli CEA-LETI, University of Grenoble Alpes, France
Simon Martin CEA-LETI, University of Grenoble Alpes, France
François Aussenac CEA-LETI, University of Grenoble Alpes, France
Denis Rouchon CEA-LETI, University of Grenoble Alpes, France
Névine Rochat CEA-LETI, University of Grenoble Alpes, France
Emmanuel Nolot CEA-LETI, University of Grenoble Alpes, France
Guillaume Bourgeois CEA-LETI, University of Grenoble Alpes, France
Marie-Claire Cyrille CEA-LETI, University of Grenoble Alpes, France
Liviu Militaru CEA-LETI, University of Grenoble Alpes, University of Lyon, France
Abdelkader Souifi University of Lyon, INSA Lyon, France
François Andrieu CEA-LETI, University of Grenoble Alpes, France
Gabriele Navarro CEA-LETI, University of Grenoble Alpes, France
BEST PAPER AWARD
ESSCIRC ESSDERC 2023
A Cryogenic SRAM Based Arbitrary Waveform Generator in 14 nm for Spin Qubit Control
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Mridula Prathapan IBM Research, Switzerland
Peter Mueller IBM Research, Switzerland
Christian Menolfi Cisco Systems, Switzerland
Matthias Brändli IBM Research, Switzerland
Marcel Kossel IBM Research, Switzerland
Pier Andrea Francese IBM Research, Switzerland
David Heim IBM Research, Switzerland
Maria Vittoria Oropallo IBM Research, Switzerland
Andrea Ruffino IBM Research, Switzerland
Cezar Zota IBM Research, Switzerland
Thomas Morf IBM Research, Switzerland
BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD
ESSCIRC ESSDERC 2023
A 1-to-4b 16.8-POPS/W 473-TOPS/mm2 6T-Based In-Memory Computing SRAM in 22nm
FD-SOI with Multi-Bit Analog Batch-Normalization​
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Adrian Kneip, Martin Lefebvre, Julien Verecken, David Bol
UC Louvain, Belgium
AWARDS 2021
BEST PAPER AWARD
ESSCIRC 2021
A Resolution-Adaptive 8mm2 9.98 Gb/s 39.7 pJ/b
32-Antenna All-Digital Spatial Equalizer for mm WaveMassive MU-MIMO in 65m CMOS
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Oscar Castañedal Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Zachariah Boynton School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Seyed Hadi Mirfarshbafan Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Shimin Huang School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Jamie C. Ye School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Alyosha Molnar School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Christoph Studer Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD
ESSCIRC 2021
VERILOR: A Verilog-A Model of Lorentzian Spectra for
Simulating Trap-related Noise in CMOS Circuits
Angeliki Tataridou, Gerard Ghibaudo, Christoforos Theodorou
IMEP-LAHC, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, Grenoble INP, Grenoble, 38000, France
BEST PAPER AWARD
ESSDERC 2021
Complementary Two-Dimensional (2-D) MoS2 FET Technology
Cristine Jin Estrada, Zichao Ma, Mansun Chan
Department of ECE, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong SAR, China
BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD
ESSDERC 2021
A -109.1 dB/-98 dB THD/THD+N Chopper Class-D Amplifier with >83.7 dB PSRR Over the Entire Audio Band
Huajun Zhang Department of Microelectronics, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
Nuriel Rozsa Department of Microelectronics, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
Marco Berkhout Goodix Technology, Nijmegen, The Netherlands​
Qinwen Fan Department of Microelectronics, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
BEST PAPER AWARD
ESSCIRC ESSDERC 2021
4.6um Low Power Indirect Time-of-Flight Pixel Achieving 88.5% Demodulation Contrast at 200MHz for 0.54MPix Depth Camera
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Cedric Tubert, Pascal Mellot, Yann Desprez, Celine Mas, Arnaud Authie, Laurent Simony, Gregory Bochet, Stephane Drouard, Jeremie Teyssier, Damien Miclo, Jean-Raphael Bezal, Thibault Augey, Franck Hingant, Thomas Bouchet, Blandine Roig, Aurelien Mazard, Raoul Vergara, Gabriel Mugny
STMicroelectronics, Grenoble, FRANCE
Arnaud Tournier, Frederic Lalanne, Francois Roy, Boris Rodrigues Goncalves, Matteo Vignetti, Pascal Fonteneau, Vincent Farys, Francois Agut
STMicroelectronics, Crolles, FRANCE
Joao Miguel Melo Santos, David Hadden, Kevin Channon, Christopher Townsend, Bruce Rae, Sara Pellegrini
STMicroelectronics, Edinburgh, UNITED KINGDOM
BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD
ESSCIRC ESSDERC 2021
Cryogenic Characterization and Modeling of 14 nm Bulk FinFET Technology
Asma Chabane, Mridula Prathapan, Peter Mueller, Eunjung Cha, Pier Andrea Francese, Marcel Kossel,
Thomas Morf, Cezar Zota
IBM Research GmbH, Saumerstrasse 4, Ruschlikon 8803, Switzerland
AWARDS 2017
BEST PAPER AWARD
ESSCIRC 2017
A 13.2-dBm, 138-GHz I/Q RF-DAC with 64-QAMand OFDM Free-Space Constellation Formation
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S. Shopov ECE Department, University of Toronto, Canada
O. D. Gurbuz ECE Department, University of California at San Diego, USA
G. M. Rebeiz ECE Department, University of California at San Diego, USA
S. P. Voinigescu ECE Department, University of Toronto, Canada
BEST "YOUNG SCIENTIST" PAPER AWARD
ESSCIRC 2017
Background Calibration Using Noisy Reference ADC for a 12 b 600 MS/s 2´TI SAR ADC in 14 nm CMOS FinFET
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D. Luu ETH Zurich, Switzerland, IBM Research, Zurich, Rueschlikon, Switzerland
L. Kull IBM Research, Zurich, Rueschlikon, Switzerland
T. Toifl IBM Research, Zurich, Rueschlikon, Switzerland
C. Menolfi IBM Research, Zurich, Rueschlikon, Switzerland
M. Braendli IBM Research, Zurich, Rueschlikon, Switzerland
P. A. Francese IBM Research, Zurich, Rueschlikon, Switzerland
T. Morf IBM Research, Zurich, Rueschlikon, Switzerland
M. Kossel IBM Research, Zurich, Rueschlikon, Switzerland
H. Yueksel IBM Research, Zurich, Rueschlikon, Switzerland
A. Cevrero IBM Research, Zurich, Rueschlikon, Switzerland
I. Ozkaya IBM Research, Zurich, Rueschlikon, Switzerland
Q. Huang ETH Zurich, Switzerland​​
BEST PAPER AWARD
ESSDERC 2017
Anti-Ferroelectric ZrO2: An Enabler for Low Power Non-Volatile 1T-1C and 1T Random Access Memories
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M. Pešić NaMLab GmbH, Dresden, Germany, Institute of Applied Physics, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
M. Hoffmann NaMLab GmbH, Dresden, Germany
C. Richter NaMLab GmbH, Dresden, Germany
S. Slesazeck NaMLab GmbH, Dresden, Germany
T. Kämpfe Institute of Applied Physics, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
L. M. Eng Institute of Applied Physics, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
T. Mikolajick NaMLab GmbH, Dresden, Germany, Chair of Nanoelectronic Materials, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
U. Schroeder NaMLab GmbH, Dresden, Germany
BEST "YOUNG SCIENTIST" PAPER AWARD
ESSDERC 2017
Shunt Capacitive Switches Based on VO2 Metal Insulator Transition for RF Phase Shifter Applications
E. A. Casu Nanoelectronic Devices Laboratory (NanoLab)
W. A. Vitale Nanoelectronic Devices Laboratory (NanoLab)
M. Tamagnone Laboratory of Electromagnetics and Acoustics (LEMA)
M. Maqueda Lopez Nanoelectronic Devices Laboratory (NanoLab)
N. Oliva Nanoelectronic Devices Laboratory (NanoLab)
A. Krammer Solar Energy and Building Physics Laboratory (LESO-PB) École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland,
A. Schüler Solar Energy and Building Physics Laboratory (LESO-PB) École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
M. Fernández-Bolaños Nanoelectronic Devices Laboratory (NanoLab)
A. M. Ionescu Nanoelectronic Devices Laboratory (NanoLab)
AWARDS 2016
BEST PAPER AWARD
ESSCIRC 2016
A Hybrid Multi-Path CMOS Magnetic Sensor with 76 ppm/°C Sensitivity Drift
Junfeng Jiang Electronic Instrumentation Laboratory, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands - Texas Instruments, Freising, German
Kofi Makinwa Electronic Instrumentation Laboratory, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands
BEST "YOUNG SCIENTIST" PAPER AWARD
ESSCIRC 2016
An Energy-Scalable Accelerator for Blind Image Deblurring
Priyanka Raina, Mehul Tikekar, Anantha P. Chandrakasan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA, USA
BEST PAPER AWARD
ESSDERC 2016
Probing Defects Generation During Stress in High-k/Metal Gate FinFETs by Random Telegraph Noise Characterization
Francesco Maria Puglisi DIEF-Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Felipe Costantini DIEF-Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Ben Kaczer Imec, Leuven, Belgium
Luca Larcher DISMI-Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Paolo Pavan DIEF-Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
BEST "YOUNG SCIENTIST" PAPER AWARD
ESSDERC 2016
600 V, Low-Leakage AlGaN/GaN MIS-HEMT on Bulk GaN Substrates Characterization
M. Alshahed Institut für Mikroelektronik Stuttgart, Germany
M. Alomari Institut für Mikroelektronik Stuttgart, Germany
C. Harendt Institut für Mikroelektronik Stuttgart, Germany
J. N. Burghartz Institut für Mikroelektronik Stuttgart, Germany
C. Wächter AZUR SPACE Solar Power GmbH, Technology epitaxial materials, Heilbronn, Germany
T. Bergunde AZUR SPACE Solar Power GmbH, Technology epitaxial materials, Heilbronn, Germany
S. Lutgen Ill-V Semiconductor Consulting, Dresden, Germany​