Publications

A DC-to-16.1 GHz wideband LNA in 90 nm digital CMOS is protected up to 4.5 kV HBM, equivalent 300 V CDM, and 1 kV HMM ESD stress by adding an area-efficient asymmetric T-diode with builtin local ESD protection in front of the RF input. Additional turn-off circuitry prevents any parasitic ESD path to be triggered in the core circuit. © 2009 ESDA.

Background: Hemoglobinopathies are common monogenic diseases forming a major public health problem due to their severity and disabling nature. Genetic identification of the two most frequently observed missense mutations in the beta-globin gene, HbS and HbC, are important epidemiologically and aid in prevention of the sickle cell trait and other serious hemoglobin disorders.

Aim: Our increasing patient population of Mediterranean, ...

Hemoglobinopathies are examples of autosomal recessive disorders of human hemoglobin. Hemoglobin E (HbE) and Hemoglobin D Punjab (HbD Punjab) are two of the most common hemoglobin variants geographically spread across Asian continent. These two variants differ from normal human hemoglobin (HbA) at a single amino acid residue caused by the point mutation of β globin gene. The presence of the mutated amino acid residue causes perturbation in the ...

This paper presents a high-efficiency transformer-based D-band power amplifier (PA) in 250-nm InP HBT. The PA has a saturated output power of 21 dBm and peak power-added efficiency (PAE) of 23.6 %. The small-signal gain and bandwidth are 19.8 dB and 24.4 GHz respectively. Careful design of the biasing networks results in a record OP1dB and associated PAE of 20.4 dBm and 23% respectively. To the authors best knowledge this is the highest PAE ever ...

Previous environmental and blood tests indicate that the area around the 3M company in Zwijndrecht is contaminated with PFAS. The purpose of this study is to protect public health and find out to what extent young people in the vicinity of 3M are exposed to PFAS, in what way the exposure occurs, and how it is related to health.
The researchers conducted human biomonitoring (HBM), which means "measuring in humans. Measurements in blood and ...

IM3 cancellation is a popular technique in LNAs to achieve very high linearity, but is also very sensitive to the exact device (bias) operating point. A 0.7-1.15GHz complementary common-gate LNA in 0.18µm silicon-on-insulator CMOS is presented that achieves good out-of-band (OOB) linearity without IM3 cancellation. Measurements of the 0.9mm2 prototype show a gain of >7dB, an NF of <2.3dB, more than +15dBm OOB IIP3 and over 0dBm B1dB. ...

Data generated by the rapidly evolving human biomonitoring (HBM) programmes are providing invaluable opportunities to support and advance regulatory risk assessment and management of chemicals in occupational and environmental health domains. However, heterogeneity across studies, in terms of design, terminology, biomarker nomenclature, and data formats, limits our capacity to compare and integrate data sets retrospectively (reuse). Registration ...

Within the European Human Biomonitoring (HBM) Initiative HBM4EU we derived HBM indicators that were designed to help answering key policy questions and support chemical policies. The result indicators convey information on chemicals exposure of different age groups, sexes, geographical regions and time points by comparing median exposure values. If differences are observed for one group or the other, policy measures or risk management options ...

Gallium nitride (GaN) technologies have become an essential role in commercial advanced RF systems, which accompany emerging RF electrostatic discharge (ESD) reliability challenges. As opposed to ESD clamp transistors in LV CMOS technologies, a mis-correlation between standard-defined human body model (HBM) ESD robustness and commonly used TLP failure current was observed in GaN (MIS) high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs). Using transient ...