Welcome to e-Lab at Yale University!
e-Lab is the leader research laboratory in silicon on sapphire (SOS) circuits and systems
e-Lab has worked on SOS device characterization, analog-to-digital converters, image sensors, ultra-wide-band radios, biomedical circuits and sensor interfaces.
A book on Silicon-on-sapphire
Coming soon: "Silicon-on-Sapphire Circuits and Systems, sensor and biosensor interfaces" by E. Culurciello and A. G. Andreou. Publisher: McGraw Hill (under contract).
E-Lab Philosophy
e-Lab (ELab) is a VLSI mixed-signal design laboratory specialized in the development of Advanced Sensory Communication Circuits and Systems.
e-Lab research focuses on extending human abilities to interact with the environment through technological advancements. By using emergent fabrication technologies, we design biomedical instrumentation and sensory processing circuits to improve everyday life and to help the scientific endeavor of understanding life.
Our goal is to seek ways to extend human senses, cognition, and health in the same ways that cellular phone and internet enlarged human communication capabilities, knowledge and information retrieval.
e-Lab research interests focus on circuits for sensing, conditioning and processing while mapping topologies and available technologies to the physical level of the source of information.
e-Lab research has global impact, please consider a donation to our research efforts!
News
May 2008: Our paper "Fall Detection Using an Address-Event Temporal Contrast Vision Sensor", has won the Best Paper Award at the 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Seattle USA, May 18-21, 2008.
January 2008: We obtained ONR funding for our project on hyperbaric instruments for electro-physiology, the title of the project is " Integrated Microscale Biosensor for Cell Membrane and Patch-Clamp".
January 2008: E. Culurciello and A.G. Andreou are writing a book on SOS circuits and systems with the Peregrine Semi. Process.
January 2008: All six of our submitted papers were accepted for oral presentation at IEEE ISCAS 2008. For details please refer to publications.
September 2007: We partnered with Peregrine Semiconductors to evaluate ultra low-power sensory and communication interfaces.
August 2007: We obtained ARO seed funding for our project on voltage-sensitive-dyes-imaging titled: “Development of an Implantable Optical Neuroprosthetic: System Integration and Testing” with Vincent Pieribone (Yale-Pierce Fnd.).
July 2007: We obtained NSF funding for our project on high-density patch-clamp amplifiers titled: “IDBR: High-Performance Integrated Patch Clamp Amplifiers” with prof. Fred Sigworth (Yale).
January 2007: 5 papers were accepted at IEEE ISCAS 2007. For details please refer to publications.
October 2006: We participated to the 2nd 3D-run by MIT Lincoln Laboratories with the design of a Silicon Retina.
September 2006: We obtained NSF funding for our project titled: “A Lightweight Event-Driven Network of Biomemetic Image Sensors” with A. Savvides (Yale).
March 2006: We co-developed an AER image sensor simulator to test the sensors before fabrication using a webcam. For details please look here.
March 2005: Farah won the best student paper award for: INTEGRATED PATCH CLAMP AMPLIFIER, Farah Laiwalla, Zhengming Fu, Kate Klemic, Fred Sigworth, Eugenio Culurciello, Yale University CMOC Symposium March 17th, 2005.