Catherine Dehollain
Professor Emeritus
catherine.dehollain@epfl.ch +41 21 693 69 71 http://rfic.epfl.ch
Citizenship: Swiss and French
Birth date: 20.11.1957
Fields of expertise
- RF Wireless communications of sensor nodes: Impulse radio UWB, super-regenerative receivers, 868 MHz ISM band, 2.45 GHz ISM bands, etc.- Remotely powered sensor nodes through magnetic/electro-magnetic/electro-acoustic coupling. - Remote powering and data communication of biomedical sensors: wireless cortical implant, mouse sensor, intelligent knee prosthesis. - Electrical Analog filters. - Broadband Impedance Matching Circuits. - RFID Communication through magnetic coupling (125 KHz up to 27MHz) or electro-magnetic coupling(100 MHz up to 6 GHz).
Biography
She got the Master Degree in Electrical Engineering in 1982 from EPFL. Then, she worked in Geneva up to 1990 as a Senior Design Engineer in telecommunications at the European research center of Motorola. From 1990 up to 1995, she did her PhD thesis at the Chaire des Circuits et Systemes at EPFL in the domain of impedance broadband matching circuits. Since 1995, she is responsible at EPFL for the RFIC group. She has participated to different Swiss research projects as well as European projects dedicated to data communication of sensors nodes (e.g. MuMoR, Minami European projects) as well as remote powering of sensor nodes. Her main domains of interest are telecom applications (e.g. Impulse radio Ultra-Wide Band, super-regenerative receivers, RFIDs)as well as biomedical applications. She has been the coordinator of European projects (e.g. FP6 SUPREGE, FP7 Ultrasponder)and of Swiss projects (e.g. CAPED CTI project, NEURO-IC SNF project).Publications
Infoscience publications
Publications
Integrated Wireless Power, Data Communication, and Thermal Sensing System for Autonomous Multisite Brain Implants
Lausanne, EPFL, 2024. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10749.An offset-enhanced active rectifier with delay compensated active diodes for wirelessly powered biomedical implants
Electronics Letters. 2024. DOI : 10.1049/ell2.13274.An Analysis of an ASK Demodulator With Dual Self-Biased Separated Voltages for Implantable Applications
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs. 2024. DOI : 10.1109/TCSII.2024.3357212.Wirelessly Powered and Bi-Directional Data Communication System With Adaptive Conversion Chain for Multisite Biomedical Implants Over Single Inductive Link
IEEE transactions on biomedical circuits and systems. 2024. DOI : 10.1109/TBCAS.2024.3359772.A High Dynamic Range Envelop Detector for Heterodyne Receiver Architecture
Ieee Transactions On Circuits And Systems Ii-Express Briefs. 2024. DOI : 10.1109/TCSII.2023.3329038.Intelligent RF System for Ultra Low Power Spectrum Sensing with Machine Learning
Lausanne, EPFL, 2024. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10599.An area efficient inductorless super-regenerative receiver front-end for biomedical implant devices
Aeu-International Journal Of Electronics And Communications. 2024. DOI : 10.1016/j.aeue.2024.155128.Analytical Modeling of Short-Channel MOSFET Differential Pair Non-Linearity
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers. 2024. DOI : 10.1109/TCSI.2024.3399001.A Wireless Power Conversion Chain With Fully On-Chip Automatic Resonance Tuning System for Biomedical Implants
Ieee Open Journal Of Circuits And Systems. 2024. DOI : 10.1109/OJCAS.2024.3382355.Wireless Power and Data Transceiver in A Central Implanted Unit for Biomedical Applications
2024. 15 IEEE Latin American Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Punta del Este, Uruguay, 2024-02-27 - 2024-03-01. DOI : 10.1109/LASCAS60203.2024.10506150.An Ultra-Low-Power Widely-Tunable Complex Band-Pass Filter for RF Spectrum Sensing
Ieee Transactions On Circuits And Systems I-Regular Papers. 2023. DOI : 10.1109/TCSI.2023.3300965.An Implantable Wireless System for Remote Hemodynamic Monitoring of Heart Failure Patients
Ieee Transactions On Biomedical Circuits And Systems. 2023. DOI : 10.1109/TBCAS.2023.3273711.Power Feedback Control Unit for Closed-Loop Wirelessly Powered Biomedical Implants
Ieee Transactions On Circuits And Systems Ii-Express Briefs. 2023. DOI : 10.1109/TCSII.2023.3260994.A Wireless Power and Bi-Directional Data Transfer System Using A Single Inductive Link for Biomedical Implants
2023. IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, Toronto, Canada, 2023-10-19 - 2023-10-21. DOI : 10.1109/BioCAS58349.2023.10388617.A 13.56MHz Active Rectifier with Digitally-Assisted and Delay Compensated Comparators for Biomedical Implantable Devices
2023. IEEE 49th European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), Lisbon, PORTUGAL, SEP 11-14, 2023. p. 313 - 316. DOI : 10.1109/ESSCIRC59616.2023.10268779.Integrated Electronics for Deep Implants to Remotely Monitor Hemodynamics
Lausanne, EPFL, 2023. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9992.Design of a Dual-Band Wireless Power and Data Transfer Coil for Multisite Biomedical Implants
2023. 9th IEEE Nordic Circuits and Systems Conference (NorCAS), Aalborg, DENMARK, OCT 31-NOV 01, 2023. DOI : 10.1109/NorCAS58970.2023.10305491.An Energy-Efficient Bridge-to-Digital Converter for Implantable Pressure Monitoring Systems
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems. 2022. DOI : 10.1109/TBCAS.2022.3187828.Strategies, Techniques and Systems for powering low-maintenance and battery-free devices through Energy Harvesting and Wireless Power Transfer
Lausanne, EPFL, 2022. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10099.Cardiovascular monitoring system
US2024115229 ; EP4287930 ; CN116829058 ; CA3207258 ; WO2022167382 ; EP4039173 . 2022.A 16-Channel Neural Recording System-on-Chip With CHT Feature Extraction Processor in 65-nm CMOS
IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. 2022. DOI : 10.1109/JSSC.2022.3161296.Self-Powered Measurement System for Remote Monitoring of Human Metabolism
2022. 17th IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications (IEEE MeMeA), Messina, ITALY, Jun 22-24, 2022. DOI : 10.1109/MEMEA54994.2022.9856588.An Implantable Inductive Sensor for Direct and Continuous Monitoring of the Pulmonary Artery Cross-Sectional Area
2022. 2022 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS), Taipei, Taiwan, October 13-15, 2022. p. 31 - 35. DOI : 10.1109/BioCAS54905.2022.9948566.A smart battery free system for wireless condition monitoring using piezoelectric energy harvester
2022. 2022 Smart Systems Integration Conference and Exhibition, Grenoble, France, 2022-04-27 - 2022-04-28. DOI : 10.1109/SSI56489.2022.9901426.A Capacitively-Coupled Chopper Instrumentation Amplifier for Implantable Bridge Sensor Systems
2022. 20th IEEE Interregional NEWCAS Conference (IEEE NEWCAS), Quebec City, CANADA, Jun 19-22, 2022. p. 208 - 212. DOI : 10.1109/NEWCAS52662.2022.9842137.Simultaneous Wireless Power and Data Transmission Through a Single Inductive Link For Multiple Implantable Medical Devices
2022. 17th Conference on Ph.D Research in Microelectronics and Electronics (PRIME), Villasimius, ITALY, Jun 12-15, 2022. p. 253 - 256. DOI : 10.1109/PRIME55000.2022.9816782.A Battery-Free Wireless Smart Sensor platform with Bluetooth Low Energy Connectivity for Smart Agriculture
2022. 21st IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (IEEE MELECON), Palermo, ITALY, Jun 14-16, 2022. p. 554 - 558. DOI : 10.1109/MELECON53508.2022.9842920.An energy autonomous and battery-free measurement system for ambient light power with time domain readout
Measurement. 2021. DOI : 10.1016/j.measurement.2021.110158.A Self-Powered and Battery-Free Vibrational Energy to Time Converter for Wireless Vibration Monitoring
Sensors. 2021. DOI : 10.3390/s21227503.A 0.4 nJ Excitation Energy Bridge-to-Digital Converter for Implantable Pulmonary Artery Pressure Monitoring
2021. 2021 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS), Berlin, Germany, October 7-9, 2021. DOI : 10.1109/BioCAS49922.2021.9644941.An Energy-Autonomous Wireless Sensor With Simultaneous Energy Harvesting and Ambient Light Sensing
Ieee Sensors Journal. 2021. DOI : 10.1109/JSEN.2021.3068134.A 16-Channel Wireless Neural Recording System-on-Chip with CHT Feature Extraction Processor in 65nm CMOS
2021. 2021 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), Virtual, April 25-30, 2021. DOI : 10.1109/CICC51472.2021.9431458.Wireless Power and Data Transmission for Implanted Devices via Inductive Links: A Systematic Review
Ieee Sensors Journal. 2021. DOI : 10.1109/JSEN.2021.3049918.A Self-powered Ambient Light Power Measurement Platform with Time-domain Readout
2021. IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC), ELECTR NETWORK, May 17-20, 2021. DOI : 10.1109/I2MTC50364.2021.9459848.Intrinsically Self-powered, Battery-free, and Sensor-free Ambient Light Control System
2021. 20th IEEE Sensors Conference, ELECTR NETWORK, Oct 31-Nov 04, 2021. DOI : 10.1109/SENSORS47087.2021.9639712.Dynamic Range and Complexity Optimization of Mixed-Signal Machine Learning Systems
2021. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (IEEE ISCAS), Daegu, SOUTH KOREA, May 22-28, 2021. DOI : 10.1109/ISCAS51556.2021.9401331.A Novel RF Spectrum Monitoring Architecture for an Ultra-Low-Power Wi-Fi Geopositioning System
2021. 19th IEEE International New Circuits and Systems Conference (NEWCAS), ELECTR NETWORK, Jun 13-16, 2021. DOI : 10.1109/NEWCAS50681.2021.9462768.Capacitive sensor to monitor the level of drug inside an injector pen
Lausanne, EPFL, 2021. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8487.Advanced Monitoring Systems Based on Battery-Less Asset Tracking Modules Energized through RF Wireless Power Transfer
Sensors. 2020. DOI : 10.3390/s20113020.High Precision Capacitive Moisture Sensor for Polymers: Modeling and Experiments
IEEE Sensors Journal. 2020. DOI : 10.1109/JSEN.2019.2957108.Speed detection of battery-free nodes based on RF Wireless Power Transfer
2020. IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for Industry 4.0 and IoT (METROIND4.O and IoT), ELECTR NETWORK, Jun 03-05, 2020. p. 374 - 378. DOI : 10.1109/MetroInd4.0IoT48571.2020.9138178.Analysis, modeling and design of a CMOS Super-Regenerative Receiver for implanted medical devices under square and sinusoidal quench signals
Integration-The Vlsi Journal. 2019. DOI : 10.1016/j.vlsi.2019.03.003.Pancreatic beta cell based optical biosensor and system for continuous glucose monitoring
2019. IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS), Nara, JAPAN, Oct 17-19, 2019. DOI : 10.1109/BIOCAS.2019.8919186.Modeling Dielectric Constant Variability in Aggregate Polymers from CV Measurements
2019. Latin American Electron Devices Conference (LAEDC), Armenia, Colombia, February 24-27, 2019. p. 100 - 103. DOI : 10.1109/LAED.2019.8714730.A CMOS Analog Front-End for Implantable Pulmonary Artery Pressure Monitoring System
2019. 15th Conference on Ph.D Research in Microelectronics and Electronics (PRIME), Lausanne, SWITZERLAND, Jul 15-18, 2019. p. 261 - 264. DOI : 10.1109/PRIME.2019.8787811.Three-Dimensional Model and Evaluation of an Insulin Injection Pen for Precise Dose Capacitive Measurement
Ieee Access. 2019. DOI : 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2936290.Optical microsystems for genetically engineered biosensors. Case study: Glucose monitoring
Lausanne, EPFL, 2019. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9609.Modeling and performance investigation of insulin injection pen for diabetic persons
2019. 16th International Conference on Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design (SMACD), Lausanne, SWITZERLAND, Jul 15-18, 2019. p. 153 - 156. DOI : 10.1109/SMACD.2019.8795249.Optical pancreatic beta cell based biosensor, applications and glucose monitoring
2019. 18th IEEE Sensors Conference, Montreal, CANADA, Oct 27-30, 2019. DOI : 10.1109/SENSORS43011.2019.8956793.An RF Wireless Power Transfer system to power battery-free devices for asset tracking
2019. 26th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS), Genoa, ITALY, Nov 27-29, 2019. p. 534 - 537. DOI : 10.1109/ICECS46596.2019.8965070.Wireless Power Transfer and Data Communication for Implantable Autonomous Monitoring and Detection of Epilepsy In Vivo
Lausanne, EPFL, 2019. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9285.Area and Power Efficient Ultra-Wideband Transmitter Based on Active Inductor
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs. 2018. DOI : 10.1109/TCSII.2018.2853190.High Precision Capacitive Moisture Sensor for Polymers
2018. 17th IEEE SENSORS Conference, New Delhi, INDIA, Oct 28-31, 2018. p. 212 - 215. DOI : 10.1109/ICSENS.2018.8589775.Design and Modelling of a Super-Regenerative Receiver for Medical Implant Devices
2018. 15th International Conference on Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design (SMACD) / 14th Conference on PhD Research in Microelectronics and Electronics (PRIME), Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC, Jul 02-05, 2018. p. 245 - 248. DOI : 10.1109/PRIME.2018.8430322.TIA Linearity Analysis for Current Mode Receivers
2018. 16th IEEE International New Circuits and Systems Conference (NEWCAS), Montreal, CANADA, Jun 24-27, 2018. p. 53 - 56. DOI : 10.1109/NEWCAS.2018.8585587.All Wireless, 16-channel Epilepsy Control System with Sub-mu W/channel and Closed-loop Stimulation Using a Switched-Capacitor-Based Active Charge Balancing Method
2018. 44th IEEE European Solid State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), Dresden, GERMANY, Sep 03-06, 2018. p. 226 - 229. DOI : 10.1109/ESSCIRC.2018.8494252.Modeling of a capacitive sensor dedicated to drug injection
2018. 15th International Conference on Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design (SMACD) / 14th Conference on PhD Research in Microelectronics and Electronics (PRIME), Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC, Jul 02-05, 2018. p. 217 - 220. DOI : 10.1109/PRIME.2018.8430369.Pediatric Size Swallowable Glass Pill for Digestive Motility Analysis
2018. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Florence, ITALY, May 27-30, 2018. DOI : 10.1109/ISCAS.2018.8351157.Remotely-Powered Front-End at 2.45 GHz for Real-Time Continuous Temperature Sensing
2018. IEEE International Conference on RFID (RFID), Orlando, FL, Apr 10-12, 2018. DOI : 10.1109/RFID.2018.8376200.A 30 mu W Remotely Powered Local Temperature Monitoring Implantable System
Ieee Transactions On Biomedical Circuits And Systems. 2017. DOI : 10.1109/Tbcas.2016.2574895.System for active skull replacement for brain interface and method of using the same
US10232168 ; US2017368330 . 2017.Power/data platform for high data rate in implanted neural monitoring system
2017. 2017 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS). DOI : 10.1109/BIOCAS.2017.8325072.A remotely powered fully integrated low power class-E power amplifier for implantable sensor systems
2016. SPIE EUROPE Symposium on Microtechnologies, Barcelona, SPAIN, MAY 04-06, 2015. p. 1519 - 1527. DOI : 10.1007/s00542-015-2747-5.Reconfigurable electronics based on metal-insulator transition : steep-slope switches and high frequency functions enabled by Vanadium Dioxide
Lausanne, EPFL, 2016. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6949.Optimization of the Data Rate of an OOK CMOS Medical Transmitter Based on LC Oscillators
2016. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Montreal, CANADA, MAY 22-25, 2016. p. 2747 - 2750. DOI : 10.1109/ISCAS.2016.7539161.In-Vivo Validation of Fully Implantable Multi-Panel Devices for Remote Monitoring of Metabolism
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems. 2016. DOI : 10.1109/TBCAS.2016.2584239.Remotely powered PPM demodulator by inductive coupling for rodent applications
Analog Integrated Circuits And Signal Processing. 2016. DOI : 10.1007/s10470-016-0705-5.20-300 MHz Frequency Generator with-70 dBc Reference Spur for Low Jitter Serial Applications
2016. 2nd IEEE Nordic Circuits and Systems Conference (NORCAS), Copenhagen, DENMARK, NOV 01-02, 2016. DOI : 10.1109/NORCHIP.2016.7792883.184 mu W ultrasonic on-off keying/amplitude-shift keying demodulator for downlink communication in deep implanted medical devices
Electronics Letters. 2016. DOI : 10.1049/el.2015.4267.Full System for Translational Studies of Personalized Medicine with Free-Moving Mice (invited)
2015. International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Lisbon, Portugal, May 24-27, 2015. p. 1774 - 1777. DOI : 10.1109/ISCAS.2015.7168998.Design and Implementation of a 46-kS/s CMOS SC Dual-Mode Capacitive Sensor Interface With 50-dB SNR and 0.7% Nonlinearity
Ieee Sensors Journal. 2015. DOI : 10.1109/Jsen.2014.2361530.A Remotely Powered Implantable Biomedical System With Location Detector
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems. 2015. DOI : 10.1109/Tbcas.2014.2321524.A Low Power On-Chip Class-E Power Amplifier For Remotely Powered Implantable Sensor Systems
2015. Conference on Bio-MEMS and Medical Microdevices II, Barcelona, SPAIN, MAY 05-06, 2015. DOI : 10.1117/12.2178632.A System for Wireless Power Transfer and Data Communication of Long-Term Bio-Monitoring
IEEE Sensors Journal. 2015. DOI : 10.1109/JSEN.2015.2462362.Passive UHF RFID Systems for Capacitive Sensing Applications
Lausanne, EPFL, 2015. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6540.Design and Implementation of A Rail-to-Rail 460-kS/s 10-bit SAR ADC for the Power-Efficient Capacitance Measurement
Ieee Transactions On Instrumentation And Measurement. 2015. DOI : 10.1109/Tim.2014.2365405.Digitization Technique for UWB Receiver and Capacitive Sensor Interface
Lausanne, EPFL, 2014. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6176.In-Vivo Validation of a Compact Inductively-Powered Neural Recording Interface
2014. IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS). p. 360 - 363. DOI : 10.1109/BioCAS.2014.6981737.Wireless Power Transfer and Data Communication for Intracranial Neural Implants Case Study : Epilepsy Monitoring
Lausanne, EPFL, 2014. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6447.A 10.5 cm Ultrasound Link for Deep Implanted Medical Devices
Ieee Transactions On Biomedical Circuits And Systems. 2014. DOI : 10.1109/Tbcas.2013.2295403.Remotely-Powered Batteryless Implantable Local Temperature Monitoring System for Freely Moving Mice
Lausanne, EPFL, 2014. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6253.CMOS Sensor Interface Dedicated to Remotely Powered Biomedical Applications
Lausanne, EPFL, 2014. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6153.Improving signal to noise of current mode circuits by a cross-coupled current mirror topology
Electronics Letters. 2014. DOI : 10.1049/el.2014.1005.A 15 mu W 5.5 kS/s Resistive Sensor Readout Circuit with 7.6 ENOB
Ieee Transactions On Circuits And Systems I-Regular Papers. 2014. DOI : 10.1109/Tcsi.2014.2334932.Base-Station Design for Passive UHF RFID Tags with Pulse-Width Modulated Backscattering
2014. 10th Conference on Ph D Research in Microelectronics and Electronics (PRIME), Grenoble, FRANCE, JUN 29-JUL 03, 2014. DOI : 10.1109/PRIME.2014.6872750.A Low-Power PPM Demodulator for Remotely Powered Batteryless Implantable Devices
2014. 57th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), College Station, TX, AUG 03-06, 2014. p. 318 - 321. DOI : 10.1109/MWSCAS.2014.6908416.Remotely-Powered Implantable Bio-Sensor System for Continuous Long-Term Monitoring of Freely Moving Animal
Lausanne, EPFL, 2014. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6105.Multi-Band Outphasing Power Amplifier Design for Mobile and Base Stations
Lausanne, EPFL, 2014. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6410.Far-Field Remotely Powered Wireless Sensor Platform for Real-Time Monitoring
Lausanne, EPFL, 2014. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6152.Remote Powering Platform for Implantable Sensor Systems at 2.45 GHz
2014. 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE-Engineering-in-Medicine-and-Biology-Society (EMBC), Chicago, IL, AUG 26-30, 2014. p. 2028 - 2031. DOI : 10.1109/EMBC.2014.6944014.Single frequency wireless power transfer and full-duplex communication system for intracranial epilepsy monitoring
Microelectronics Journal. 2014. DOI : 10.1016/j.mejo.2014.08.001.A System for Wireless Power Transfer of Micro-Systems In-Vivo Implantable in Freely Moving Animals
Ieee Sensors Journal. 2014. DOI : 10.1109/Jsen.2013.2284815.Full Fabrication and Packaging of an Implantable Multi-panel Device for Monitoring of Metabolites in Small Animals
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems. 2014. DOI : 10.1109/Tbcas.2014.2359094.An Ultrasound System for Wireless Energy Transfer and Communication dedicated to Implanted Medical Devices
Lausanne, EPFL, 2013. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-5631.Design of a parallel low power flash A/D converter for the sub-sampling IR-UWB receiver
Analog Integrated Circuits And Signal Processing. 2013. DOI : 10.1007/s10470-012-9966-9.Design and comparison of class-C and class-D power amplifiers for remotely powered systems
2013. 20th International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, December 8-11, 2013. DOI : 10.1109/ICECS.2013.6815454.RF MEMS power sensors for ultra-low power wake-up circuit applications
2013. 43rd Solid-State Device Research Conference (ESSDERC), Bucharest, Romania, September 16-20, 2013. DOI : 10.1109/ESSDERC.2013.6818875.Wireless Energy and Data Transfer for In-Vivo Epileptic Focus Localization
Ieee Sensors Journal. 2013. DOI : 10.1109/Jsen.2013.2264669.An Implantable Bio-Micro-system for Drug Monitoring
2013. IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BIOCAS 2013), Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Oct 31-Nov 2, 2013. p. 218 - 221. DOI : 10.1109/BioCAS.2013.6679678.Far-Field UHF Remotely Powered Front-End for Patient Monitoring with Wearable Antenna
2013. 11th IEEE International New Circuits and Systems Conference (NEWCAS), Paris, 16-19 June 2013. DOI : 10.1109/NEWCAS.2013.6573664.Remote Powering Link for a Passive UHF RFID Tag for Capacitive Sensor Applications
2013. 2013 IEEE 20th International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 8-11 December 2013. p. 823 - 826. DOI : 10.1109/ICECS.2013.6815541.Wireless Data and Power Transmission Aiming Intracranial Epilepsy Monitoring
2013. Conference on SPIE Microtechnologies Bio-MEMS and Medical Microdevices, Grenoble, FRANCE, APR 25-26, 2013. DOI : 10.1117/12.2017440.Full-duplex Communication and Remote Powering Implementation of an Electronic Knee Implant
2013. 9th Conference on Ph D Research in Microelectronics and Electronics (PRIME), Villach, AUSTRIA, JUN 24-27, 2013. p. 217 - 220. DOI : 10.1109/PRIME.2013.6603158.A Closed-Loop Remote Powering Link for Wireless Cortical Implants
Ieee Sensors Journal. 2013. DOI : 10.1109/Jsen.2013.2259621.Development of Reconfigurable Circuits for WPAN Applications
Lausanne, EPFL, 2013. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-5773.Short Range Remote Powering of Implanted Electronics for Freely Moving Animals
2013. 11th IEEE International New Circuits and Systems Conference (NEWCAS), Paris, FRANCE, JUN 16-19, 2013. DOI : 10.1109/NEWCAS.2013.6573608.Remotely powered implantable heart monitoring system for freely moving animals
2013. 5th IEEE International Workshop on Advances in Sensors and Interfaces (IWASI), Bari, Italy, June 13-14, 2013. p. 10 - 13. DOI : 10.1109/IWASI.2013.6576092.Capacitive Detuning Optimization for Wireless Uplink Communication in Neural Implants
2013. 5th IEEE International Workshop on Advances in Sensors and Interfaces (IWASI), Bari, ITALY, JUN 13-14, 2013. p. 45 - 50. DOI : 10.1109/IWASI.2013.6576069.A Remotely Powered Implantable IC for Recording Mouse Local Temperature with +/- 0.09 degrees C Accuracy
2013. 9th IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC), Singapore, SINGAPORE, NOV 11-13, 2013. p. 93 - 96. DOI : 10.1109/ASSCC.2013.6690990.Predictive calibration technique for magnetic field position sensors
2013. 5th IEEE International Workshop on Advances in Sensors and Interfaces (IWASI), Bari, ITALY, JUN 13-14, 2013. p. 136 - 141. DOI : 10.1109/IWASI.2013.6576091.Wireless Energy and Data Transfer for Neural Recording and Stimulation Applications
2013. 9th Conference on Ph D Research in Microelectronics and Electronics (PRIME), Villach, AUSTRIA, JUN 24-27, 2013. p. 209 - 212. DOI : 10.1109/PRIME.2013.6603156.Fabrication and Packaging of a Fully Implantable Biosensor Array
2013. IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BIOCAS 2013), Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Oct 31-Nov 2, 2013. p. 166 - 169. DOI : 10.1109/BioCAS.2013.6679665.Design of a Passive UHF RFID Tag for Capacitive Sensor Applications
2013. 9th Conference on Ph D Research in Microelectronics and Electronics (PRIME), Villach, AUSTRIA, JUN 24-27, 2013. p. 213 - 216. DOI : 10.1109/PRIME.2013.6603157.A Low-Power Sensor Interface Circuit for Remotely Powered Implants
2013. 9th Conference on Ph D Research in Microelectronics and Electronics (PRIME), Villach, AUSTRIA, JUN 24-27, 2013. p. 321 - 324. DOI : 10.1109/PRIME.2013.6603173.Remote Powering and Wireless Communication of a Smart Knee Prosthesis
Lausanne, EPFL, 2013. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-5992.High-Q Adaptive Matching Network for Remote Powering of UHF RFIDs and Wireless Sensor Systems
2013. IEEE Topical Conference on Wireless Sensors and Sensor Networks (WiSNet), Austin, TX, JAN 20-23, 2013. p. 10 - 12. DOI : 10.1109/WiSNet.2013.6488617.Instrumented Knee Prosthesis for Force and Kinematics Measurements
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. 2013. DOI : 10.1109/TASE.2012.2226030.The Future of Intracranial EEG Recording in Epilepsy: a Technological Issue?
Epileptologie. 2012.Theoretical Study for Safe and Efficient Energy Transfer to Deeply Implanted Devices Using Ultrasound
Ieee Transactions On Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics And Frequency Control. 2012. DOI : 10.1109/Tuffc.2012.2373.Remote Powering Realization for Smart Orthopedic Implants
2012. 10th IEEE International New Circuits and Systems Conference (NEWCAS), Montreal, CANADA, JUN 17-20, 2012. p. 521 - 524. DOI : 10.1109/NEWCAS.2012.6329071.Ultrasound energy harvesting system for deep implanted-medical-devices (IMDs)
2012. Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2012 IEEE International Symposium on, 2012. DOI : 10.1109/ISCAS.2012.6271911.A termination scheme using intended asymmetric spatial filter response for averaging flash A/D converter
Analog Integrated Circuits And Signal Processing. 2012. DOI : 10.1007/s10470-012-9832-9.IR-UWB transmitter
US8933756 ; US2012319784 . 2012.Fully Integrated Biochip Platforms for Advanced Healthcare
Sensors. 2012. DOI : 10.3390/s120811013.A discrete IR-UWB receiver with I/Q demodulation
2011. 7th Conference on PhD Research in Microelectronics and Electronics, madonna di Campiglio, Italy, July 4-8, 2011. p. 245 - 248.Instrumented Prosthesis for Knee Implants Monitoring
2011. IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (IEEE CASE), Trieste, Italy, August 24 - 27, 2011. p. 828 - 835. DOI : 10.1109/CASE.2011.6042490.A Discrete-Components Impulse-Radio Ultrawide-Band (IR-UWB) Transmitter
IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques. 2011. DOI : 10.1109/TMTT.2011.2114194.Inductive Power Link for a Wireless Cortical Implant With Two-Body Packaging
Ieee Sensors Journal. 2011. DOI : 10.1109/JSEN.2011.2170676.Wireless Voltage Regulation for Passive Transponders Using an IF to Communicate
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers. 2010. DOI : 10.1109/TCSI.2009.2024972.A Low Power Super-Regenerative Impulse Radio Ultra-Wideband Receiver in CMOS Technology
Lausanne, EPFL, 2010. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-4822.Inductive Power Link for a Wireless Cortical Implant with Biocompatible Packaging
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Research
Catherine Dehollain is responsible for research projects at Swiss level (SNF projects, CTI projects) as well as at European level (FP7 projects, Marie-Curie projects). Her activities are focused on wireless data communications of sensor nodes for telecoms applications and biomedical applications. She is also interested by remote powering of sensor nodes in order to avoid the use of a micro-battery or to use a rechargeable micro-battery. Moreover, she is interested by the domain of electrical filters as well as broadband impedance matching circuits. Since 15 years, she has a large activity dedicated to super-regenerative receivers as well as RFID circuits.Teaching & PhD
Past EPFL PhD Students
Atasoy Oguz , Azizighannad Mehrdad , Besirli Mustafa , Colli-Vignarelli Edmund James , Isa Erkan , Joly Sylvain Paul Fernand , Kapucu Kerem , Karimi Mohammad Javad , Kazanç Onur , Kilinç Enver Gürhan , Kovacs Imre , La Rosa Roberto , Liu Xiao , Mazzilli Francesco , Oguz Alp , Pekçokgüler Naci , Pillin Nicolas , Silay Kanber Mithat , Talebi Amiri Omid , Thoppay Egambaram Prakash , Türe Kerim , Vinchhi Bakul Jitendra , Vitale Wolfgang Amadeus , Wang Shenjie , Yilmaz Gürkan ,Courses
Energy Autonomous Wireless Smart Systems
The course provides in depth knowledge on how to design an energy autonomous microsystem embedding sensors with wireless transmission of information. It covers the energy generation, power management, and data processing and transmission with an emphasis on low-power and energy efficient operation.