Catherine Dehollain
Adjunct Professor
catherine.dehollain@epfl.ch +41 21 693 69 71 http://rfic.epfl.ch
Citizenship : Swiss and French
Birth date : 20.11.1957
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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
Advanced Monitoring Systems Based on Battery-Less Asset Tracking Modules Energized through RF Wireless Power Transfer
Sensors. 2020-05-26. DOI : 10.3390/s20113020.High Precision Capacitive Moisture Sensor for Polymers: Modeling and Experiments
IEEE Sensors Journal. 2020-03-15. DOI : 10.1109/JSEN.2019.2957108.Beyond Cameras: Real-Time High-Resolution 3D and Panoramic MultiView Vision Systems with Their Applications
Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7901.Electron Spin Resonance Magnetometers for Particle Accelerators
Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10162.Physical Layer Aspects of LoRa and Full-Duplex Wireless Transceivers
Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10258.A New Concept of Sensor for Ultra-high Levels of Radiation based on Radiation Enhanced Oxidation of Copper Thin-films
Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7604.Analysis, modeling and design of a CMOS Super-Regenerative Receiver for implanted medical devices under square and sinusoidal quench signals
Integration-The Vlsi Journal. 2019-07-01. DOI : 10.1016/j.vlsi.2019.03.003.Optical pancreatic beta cell based biosensor, applications and glucose monitoring
2019-01-01. 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
2019-01-01. 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.Pancreatic beta cell based optical biosensor and system for continuous glucose monitoring
2019-01-01. IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS), Nara, JAPAN, Oct 17-19, 2019.Modeling and performance investigation of insulin injection pen for diabetic persons
2019-01-01. 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.High Speed SAR ADC Architectures in 28nm FDSOI CMOS
Lausanne, EPFL, 2019. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9727.A Real-Time Multi-Camera Depth Estimation ASIC with Custom On-Chip Embedded DRAM
Lausanne, EPFL, 2019. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7163.A CMOS Analog Front-End for Implantable Pulmonary Artery Pressure Monitoring System
2019-01-01. 15th Conference on Ph.D Research in Microelectronics and Electronics (PRIME), Lausanne, SWITZERLAND, Jul 15-18, 2019. p. 261-264.Optical microsystems for genetically engineered biosensors. Case study: Glucose monitoring
Lausanne, EPFL, 2019. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9609.Material and Electrical study of HfO2-Based Resistive Random Access Memories (ReRAMs)
Lausanne, EPFL, 2019. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7412.Three-Dimensional Model and Evaluation of an Insulin Injection Pen for Precise Dose Capacitive Measurement
Ieee Access. 2019-01-01. DOI : 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2936290.Modeling Dielectric Constant Variability in Aggregate Polymers from CV Measurements
2019-01-01. Latin American Electron Devices Conference (LAEDC), Armenia, Colombia, February 24-27, 2019. p. 100-103.Analysis of photosensor frontends for biomedical applications: a focus on noise
Lausanne, EPFL, 2019. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9545.Toward ultra-low power design methodology for frequency generation in the IoT design space
Lausanne, EPFL, 2019. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9146.Design of approximate and precision-scalable circuits for embedded multimedia and neural-network processing
Lausanne, EPFL, 2019. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9144.Electron Spin Resonance detectors from 400 MHz to 360 GHz
Lausanne, EPFL, 2019. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9356.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. 2018-07-05. DOI : 10.1109/TCSII.2018.2853190.Design and Modelling of a Super-Regenerative Receiver for Medical Implant Devices
2018-01-01. 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.Modeling of a capacitive sensor dedicated to drug injection
2018-01-01. 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.TIA Linearity Analysis for Current Mode Receivers
2018-01-01. 16th IEEE International New Circuits and Systems Conference (NEWCAS), Montreal, CANADA, Jun 24-27, 2018. p. 53-56.High Precision Capacitive Moisture Sensor for Polymers
2018-01-01. 17th IEEE SENSORS Conference, New Delhi, INDIA, Oct 28-31, 2018. p. 212-215.Human Building Interaction System Design - Energy Awareness and Learning Approach
Lausanne, EPFL, 2018. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8028.Pediatric Size Swallowable Glass Pill for Digestive Motility Analysis
2018-01-01. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Florence, ITALY, May 27-30, 2018.Remotely-Powered Front-End at 2.45 GHz for Real-Time Continuous Temperature Sensing
2018-01-01. IEEE International Conference on RFID (RFID), Orlando, FL, Apr 10-12, 2018.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
2018-01-01. 44th IEEE European Solid State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), Dresden, GERMANY, Sep 03-06, 2018. p. 226-229.Adaptive Learning-Based Compressive Sampling for Low-power Wireless Implants
2018. 1st International Symposium on Integrated Circuits and Systems (ISICAS), Taormina, Italy, September 02-03, 2018. p. 3929-3941. DOI : 10.1109/TCSI.2018.2853983.Learning-Based Hardware Design for Data Acquisition Systems
Lausanne, EPFL, 2018. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8693.Prosthetic Control and Sensory Feedback for Upper Limb Amputees
Lausanne, EPFL, 2018. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8816.Self-Heating Aware Design of ICs in Deep Sub-Micron FDSOI and Bulk Technologies
Lausanne, EPFL, 2018. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8690.Signal processing techniques for cardiovascular monitoring applications using conventional and video-based photoplethysmography
EPFL, 2018. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8493.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.Broadband single-chip transceivers for compact NMR probes
Lausanne, EPFL, 2017. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7755.Design Techniques for Ultra High Frequency Clock Generation in 28 nm FDSOI Technology
Lausanne, EPFL, 2017. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7786.Ultra Selective and Sensitive Electrochemical Detection of Anti-Cancer and Anti-Viral Drugs by Optimized Nano-Bio-Sensors
Lausanne, EPFL, 2017. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7402.High-Speed Wireline Link Design
Lausanne, EPFL, 2017. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7758.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.Systematic Design Space Exploration of Dynamic Dataflow Programs for Multi-core Platforms
Lausanne, EPFL, 2017. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7607.20-300 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.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.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.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.Modulation, Coding, and Receiver Design for Gigabit mmWave Communication
Lausanne, EPFL, 2016. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7111.184 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.Reconfigurable electronics based on metal-insulator transition
Lausanne, EPFL, 2016. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6949.Intelligent remote powering
US2015200562 ; WO2014027306 ; WO2014027306 . 2015.Cryogenic single chip electron spin resonance detectors
Lausanne, EPFL, 2015. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6829.A Miniaturized Insect Eye Inspired Multi-camera Real-time Panoramic Imaging System
Lausanne, EPFL, 2015. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6844.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. p. 951805. 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.Implantable Multi-panel Platform for Continuous Monitoring of Exogenous and Endogenous Metabolites for Applications in Personalized Medicine
Lausanne, EPFL, 2015. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6604.Integrated Electronics to Control and Readout Electrochemical Biosensors for Implantable Applications
Lausanne, EPFL, 2015. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6600.A Remotely Powered Implantable Biomedical System With Location Detector
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems. 2015. DOI : 10.1109/Tbcas.2014.2321524.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.Robust Wearable UHF Antennas for Security Applications
Lausanne, EPFL, 2015. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6569.Passive UHF RFID Systems for Capacitive Sensing Applications
Lausanne, EPFL, 2015. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6540.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.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.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.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.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.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.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.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.Novel ECG and Intracardiac Electrograms Signal Processing Schemes for Predicting the Outcome of Atrial Fibrillation Catheter Ablation
Lausanne, EPFL, 2014. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6444.Wireless Power Transfer and Data Communication for Intracranial Neural Implants Case Study
Lausanne, EPFL, 2014. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6447.A 24 GHz Phased-Array Doppler Radar Sensor and Transceiver Front-End for Smart Streetlights
Lausanne, EPFL, 2014. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6286.Improving signal to noise of current mode circuits by a cross-coupled current mirror topology
Electronics Letters. 2014. DOI : 10.1049/el.2014.1005.Small antennas as wireless system components
Lausanne, EPFL, 2014. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6396.Remotely-Powered Batteryless Implantable Local Temperature Monitoring System for Freely Moving Mice
Lausanne, EPFL, 2014. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6253.Multi-Band Outphasing Power Amplifier Design for Mobile and Base Stations
Lausanne, EPFL, 2014. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6410.Junctionless Transistors
Lausanne, EPFL, 2014. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6243.Design of Digital SoC for Operation at High Temperatures
Lausanne, EPFL, 2014. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6369.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.Human Body Proximity Effects on Ultra-Wideband Antennas
Lausanne, EPFL, 2014. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6374.In-Vivo Validation of a Compact Inductively-Powered Neural Recording Interface
2014. IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS).Digitization Technique for UWB Receiver and Capacitive Sensor Interface
Lausanne, EPFL, 2014. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6176.Design and Implementation of CMOS Image Sensors for Biomedical Applications
Lausanne, EPFL, 2014. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6229.Far-Field Remotely Powered Wireless Sensor Platform for Real-Time Monitoring
Lausanne, EPFL, 2014. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6152.CMOS Sensor Interface Dedicated to Remotely Powered Biomedical Applications
Lausanne, EPFL, 2014. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6153.Electronic Interfaces for Carbon Nanotube Electromechanical Oscillators and Sensors
Lausanne, EPFL, 2014. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6127.Objective Assessment of Swimming Biomechanics Using Wearable Inertial Sensors
Lausanne, EPFL, 2014. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6055.Remotely-Powered Implantable Bio-Sensor System for Continuous Long-Term Monitoring of Freely Moving Animal
Lausanne, EPFL, 2014. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6105.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.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.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.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.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.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.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.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.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.Research
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
Teaching
Electrical and Electronics Engineering