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Although hardware is commonly believed to be security-resilient, it is often susceptible to vulnerabilities arising from design and implementation flaws. These flaws have the potential to jeopardize not only the hardware's security, but also its operations
Anna Vaskuri, Jordan Wheeler, Jason Austermann, Michael Vissers, James Beall, James R. Burgoyne, Victoria Butler, Scott Chapman, Steve K. Choi, Abigail Crites, Cody J. Duell, Rodrigo Freundt, Anthony Huber, Zachary Huber, Johannes Hubmayr, Jozsef Imrek, Ben Keller, Lawrence Lin, Alicia Middleton, Michael D. Niemack, Thomas Nikola, Douglas Scott, Adrian Sinclair, Ema Smith, Gordon Stacey, Joel Ullom, Jeffrey Van Lanen, Eve Vavagiakis, Samantha Walker, Bugao Zou
First light observations of the 280 GHz instrument module of the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) in the CCAT Collaboration are expected in 2026. The focal plane of this module will consist of three superconducting microwave kinetic inductance
Pragya Shrestha, Alexander Zaslavsky, Valery Ortiz Jimenez, Jason Campbell, Curt Richter
This paper presents a high-endurance capacitorless one-transistor (1T) cryogenic memory, fabricated in a 180 nm bulk CMOS technology, with a high memory window of (107 I1/I0 sense current ratio) and prolonged retention. The memory is enabled by the
Brandon Zink, Advait Madhavan, William Borders, Jabez McClelland
In-memory computing is a promising solution for solving the Von-Neumann bottleneck. In particular, computational random-access memory (CRAM) is a promising form of in-memory computing where cascading logic operations can be performed directly within the
Cristiano Malica, Kostya Novoselov, Kamal Choudhary
This perspective addresses the topic of harnessing the tools of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for boosting innovation in functional materials design and engineering as well as discovering new materials for targeted applications in biomedicine, composites
Nicholas G. Paulter Jr., John Jendzurski, Luca De Vito, Sergio Rapuano, Jerome Blair, William Boyer
There is a global need to standardize the terms and the test and computational methods that are used to describe and/or measure the parameters that characterize and define the performance of devices that generate signals and subsequently measure and
The growing demand for wireless communications has caused significant spectrum congestion, requiring multiple WLAN protocols to share limited spectrum resources. To address this, further research is necessary to optimize spectrum sharing and improve
Robert Jones, Jerome Cheron, Benjamin Jamroz, Ari Feldman, Peter Aaen
In this paper we verify the small-signal performance and simulation accuracy of two common-emitter and one common-base multi-finger HBT cells used in power amplifier designs at 220 GHz. We first verify the accuracy of the manifold simulation using passive
Paul Szypryt, Douglas Bennett, Ian Fogarty Florang, Joseph Fowler, Jiansong Gao, Andrea Giachero, Ruslan Hummatov, Adriana Lita, John Mates, Sae Woo Nam, Daniel Swetz, Joel Ullom, Michael Vissers, Jordan Wheeler
Single-photon detectors based on the superconducting transition-edge sensor are used in a number of visible to near-infrared applications, particularly for photon-number-resolving measurements in quantum information science. To be practical for large-scale
We develop a novel post-synthesis obfuscation technique, POTENT, to protect NoC fabrics against reverse engineering attacks. POTENT integrates programmable switches at NoC routers, concealing topology and communication paths under a dynamically controlled
In this paper we describe an enhanced three-antenna gain extrapolation technique that allows one to determine antenna gain with significantly fewer data points and at closer distances than with the well-established traditional three-antenna gain
Jerome Cheron, Robert Jones, Bryan Bosworth, Jeffrey Jargon, Benjamin Jamroz, Ari Feldman
We report accurate small-signal measurements of heterojunction-bipolar-transistors (HBTs) that are characterized with two on-wafer multiline thru-reflect-line (mTRL) calibration kits. The first calibration kit is designed with thin-film microstrip
The mission of the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) CHIPS Research and Development Office (CHIPS R&D) under the Department of Commerce's CHIPS for America Program is to accelerate the development and commercial deployment of
With the globalization of hardware manufacturing and the growing demand for electronics, companies now heavily rely on offshore facilities for most of the design and manufacturing processes, including emerging technologies like Structured ASICs
Juntian Tu, Alessandro Restelli, Tsz-Chun Tsui, Kevin Weber, Ian Spielman, James(Trey) Porto, Steven Rolston, Sarthak Subhankar
The Pound-Drever-Hall (PDH) technique is routinely used to stabilize the frequency of a free-running laser to an ultralow expansion (ULE) reference cavity. The electronic sideband (ESB) locking scheme—a variant of the standard PDH locking scheme—helps
Huairuo Zhang, Albert Davydov, Shafin Hamid, Eric Pop, Asir Khan
Spiking neural networks (SNN) with Ge2Sb2Te5 (GST) based phase change memory (PCM) synaptic devices are promising for edge applications. However, from a de-vice standpoint, the performance of such SNN is often con-strained by the abrupt depression
Robert Jones, Jerome Cheron, Benjamin Jamroz, Dylan Williams, Ari Feldman, Peter Aaen, Christian Long, Nathan Orloff
In this article we extract the capacitance of shunt and series metal-insulator-metal capacitors from on-wafer S-parameter measurements in the WR1.0 waveguide band. We verify consistency of the measured devices in two different state-of-the-art terahertz
Peter Bradley, Elizabeth Sorenson, Damian Lauria, Li-Anne Liew
Micro Electromechanical Systems (MEMS) switches offer many advantages over conventional larger switches. One potential application we are exploring is the use of commercial radio frequency (RF) MEMS switches for quantum computing applications. However, it
This paper describes the implementation of a system for the generation and measurement of DC power and energy for voltages with magnitudes up to 800 V DC and currents up to 400 A DC. Power generation is based on the "phantom" power approach, where the
Jerome Cheron, Rob Jones, Dylan Williams, Miguel Urteaga, Bryan Bosworth, Nick Jungwirth, Jeffrey Jargon, Ben Jamroz, Chris Long, Nate Orloff, Ari Feldman, Peter Aaen
We report a novel design approach of on-wafer multiline thru-reflect-line (mTRL) calibration kit fabricated on a commercial semiconductor-based transistor process that we validate from 0.1 GHz to 1.1 THz. The on-wafer calibration standards are designed