16 innovations from Bar-Ilan University, available for licensing, co-investment, or spin-out through BIRAD.
Shpaisman Hagay
Current methods for production of alternative meat cuts from plant-based products does not fit industrial standards. We offer a new procedure for production of plant-based meat cuts by a novel system that allows continuous and uniform extrusion through a customizable component. Our procedure allows high production rates and is based on machinery that fits industrial standards.
Shor Joseph
A new architecture of an on-die process monitor circuit is demonstrated in 28nm. The proposed circuit can extract the threshold voltage, VTH, and random mismatch of a transistor using multiple extraction methods including the second derivative method. A sigma-delta modulator analog-to-digital converter samples the output to enable on-die processing of the results. A VDS voltage control loop enables VTH extraction in both the linear and saturation regions of the device. The circuit has a compact area of 5510aμm2
Zalevsky Zeev
The feasibility analysis for the development and the integration of a Near-field Scanning Optical Microscope (NSOM) tip-photodetector operating in the visible domain of wavelengths to an Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) cantilever has been simulated, processed and measured. The new tip-photodetector consists in a Platinum-Silicon truncated conical photodetector, sharing a subwavelength aperture and processed using advanced nanotechnology tools on a commercial silicon cantilever. Such a combined device enables a dual-mode usage of both AFM and NSOM measurements, when collecting the reflected light, directly from the scanned surface while having a more efficient light collection process. In addition to its quite simple fabrication process, it is demonstrated that the AFM tip, on which the photodetector is processed, is still operational, i.e. the AFM imaging capability is not altered by the process. The AFM-NSOM capability of the processed tip is presented, and obtained results show a significant improvement in surface characterization accuracy and efficiency.
Teman Adam
The invention is the product of my Magneton project with CEVA. It includes a novel architecture for generating flip flop based register files with many ports (more than two read and write ports). The architecture uses clock gating based on word selection to reduce power consumption. It uses guided placement to reduce area.
Lior Klein
A method, a non-transitory computer readable medium and a system for compensating for an electromagnetic interference induced deviation of an electron beam. The method may include obtaining measurement information about a magnetic field within an electron beam tool, the measurement information is generated by at least one planar Hall Effect magnetic sensor that is located within the electron beam tool; wherein the at least one planar Hall Effect magnetic sensor comprises at least one magnetometer integrated with at least one magnetic flux concentrator; estimating the electromagnetic interference induced deviation of the electron beam, the estimating is based on the magnetic field; and setting a trajectory of the electron beam to compensate for the electromagnetic interference induced deviation of the electron beam.
Tischler Yaakov Raphael
The invention is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) platform physically and optically linked to a remote base station via a flexible, high-bandwidth optical fiber tether. The architecture decouples the heavy, high-cost, and environmentally sensitive components of a spectroscopic system (such as high-power pulsed/tunable laser engines, complex modulation optics, and laboratory-grade spectrographs or gas-phase analysis hardware) from the mobile flight platform. The flexible tether is optimized for advanced optical transport, supporting single-fiber configurations (utilizing co-axial transceiver optics or double-clad fibers to route both excitation and collection paths through a single line) or multi-fiber bundles (separating excitation and collection lines). To eliminate fiber-induced background noise and accommodate ultra-fast pulses, the system incorporates hollow-core photonic crystal fibers (HC-PCFs), or alternatively utilizes standard, cost-effective solid silica fibers combined with an on-board micro-optical filtering payload head on the UAV. This payload head incorporates high-performance laser cleanup bandpass filters that actively strip away fiber-induced silica Raman sideband spectral peaks and autofluorescence before the excitation light hits the target, alongside longpass/notch/shortpass edge filters that isolate the target's weak spectroscopic signals from backscattered pump light. The UAV payload head features a dynamically adjustable optical delivery system capable of switching between a tightly focused beam configuration (for high-power density point-and-shoot spectroscopy like spontaneous/resonance Raman or LIBS) and a collimated beam configuration (for wide-area illumination, plume absorption, or thermal-ignition mitigation of sensitive energetics). Additionally, the drone features an extractive sampling configuration containing an enclosed internal gas cell for high-precision Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy (CRDS) or Tunable Diode Laser Absorption Spectroscopy (TDLAS). To operate in intense ambient-light environments (such as bright daylight) without blinding the spectrometer, the system incorporates distributed optical and electronic noise-suppression packages. These include: An excitation/collection package using ultra-fast time-gating to physically slice out daylight; A spectral-modulation package utilizing Shifted Excitation Raman Difference Spectroscopy (SERDS) under both continuous-wave and pulsed regimes to mathematically subtract invariant background light; and A payload-filtering package on the UAV utilizing tunable Fabry-Pérot etalons or narrow-band collection filters to isolate the signal before it propagates down the return line. The system also supports hybrid photo-acoustic and laser Doppler vibrometry (LDV) tracking, using phase-locked lock-in demodulation distributed on-board or down-fiber to isolate target signatures from UAV motor and rotor noises.
Naveh Doron
State-of-the-art methods for printing highly resolved pixels of two-dimensional (2D) materials on technologically important substrates typically involve multiple and time-consuming processing steps which increase device fabrication complexity and the risk of impurity contamination. This work introduces an alternative printing approach based on the Laser Induced Forward Transfer (LIFT) technique for the successful digital transfer of graphene, MoS2 hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) and, Bi2Se(3-x)Sx. Using LIFT, graphene pixels of 30 μm x 30 μm, MoS2 and Bi2Se3 flakes are transferred on SiO2/Si and flexible polymer substrates. The potential of upscaling this novel approach by reaching sizes of up to 300 μm x 300 μm for transferred graphene patches is also demonstrated. The transferred 2D materials are employed for the fabrication of devices including flexible touch sensors and Field-Effect-Transistors. By repeating the printing process also heterostructures of 2D materials can be developed.
Desiatov Boris
he invention relates to a hybrid optical phased array (OPA) platform combining thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) photonic circuits with three-dimensional polymer end-fire antennas fabricated using two-photon polymerization. The architecture enables compact, broadband, and high-speed optical beam steering by integrating electro-optic phase control with elevated 3D antenna arrays. The technology is suitable for applications including LiDAR, free-space optical communication, and adaptive photonic systems.
Lior Klein
Planar Hall effect sensors capable of measuring multiple components of the magnetic field
Yavits Leonid
Modern computer chips are increasingly stacked in advanced 2.5D/3D dense packages, making it impossible to test individual layers for radiation damage in space. Our invention embeds tiny memory-based sensors directly inside the chip package. These sensors simultaneously detect multiple types of radiation damage through a single, simple measurement. A built-in AI mechanism analyzes the sensor data and automatically reconfigures the system to keep it operational, potentially trading performance for survival as radiation accumulates. This allows ordinary commercial chips to operate reliably in space without expensive space-grade components.
Teman Adam
This invention proposes a scalable and variation-aware algorithm for skew balancing of digital circuits. The skew balancing has two main objectives: the application of clockless wave-propagated pipelining (CWPP) and the reduction of dynamic glitch power. The algorithm achieves the balancing of the maximum and minimum delays through all internal gates of a combanatorial block by iteratively applying delays to the faster paths, while overcoming variation by using a skew balanced strobe signal for output capture.
Yavits Leonid
A dedicated hardware unit embedded within the shared substrate of a heterogeneous multi-chiplet semiconductor package. It continuously monitors the package's physical health using thermal, mechanical strain, and electrical aging sensors, runs embedded AI inference to predict failures, and autonomously adjusts power and frequency to prevent damage and optimize the operation — all from within the package substrate itself.
