Publications

Three books on neural interfaces, integrated power management, and low-power radios now available: 

S. Ha, C. Kim, P.P. Mercier, G.C. Cauwenberghs, High-Density Electrocortical Neural Interfaces, Academic Press, 2019.

M.M. Hella and P.P. Mercier (eds.), Power Management Integrated Circuits, CRC Press, 2016.

P.P. Mercier and A.P. Chandrakasan (eds.), Ultra-Low-Power Short-Range Radios, Springer, 2015.

Peer-Reviewed Publications:

2024

S. Agarwal, G. Pillonett, H. Lu, N.S.K. Fathy, P.P. Mercier, “A Current-Source-Free Constant-Current Wireless Adiabatic Neural Stimulator Achieving a 5.5-27.7x Improved RF-to-Electrode Stimulation Efficiency Factor,” in Proc. IEEE VLSI Symposium, Jun. 2024.

G. Pillonnet, P. Mercier, “Analytical Benchmarking of Direct Hybrid Switched-Capacitor DC-DC Converters,” IEEE Open Journal of Power Electronics, 2024. [ OPEN ACCESS ]

D. Valencia, P.P. Mercier, A. Alimohammad, “An Efficient Brain-Switch for Asynchronous Brain-Computer Interfaces,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, 2024. [ paper PDF ]

N.S.K. Fathy, R. Vatsyayan, A.M. Bourhis, S.A. Dayeh, P.P. Mercier, “A 0.00179 mm²/Ch Chopper-Stabilized TDMA Neural Recording System with Dynamic EOV Cancellation and Predictive Mixed-Signal Impedance Boosting,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, 2024. [ paper PDF ]

T. Zhang, D. Zhang, P.P. Mercier, H. Wang, “Design and Analysis of a Family of pW-Level Sub-1V CMOS VRGs by Stacking a Current-Source Transistor and a Resistive-Load Transistor,” in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), May. 2024.

J. Wu, A. Akinin, J. Somayajulu, M.S. Lee, A. Paul, H. Lu, Y. Park, S.-J. Kim, P.P. Mercier, G. Cauwenberghs, “A Low-Noise Low-Power 0.001Hz-1kHz Neural Recording System-on-Chip with Sample-Level Duty-Cycling,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 263-273, Apr. 2024. [ paper LINK ]

E.H. Shinn, A.S. Garden, S.K. Peterson, D.J. Leupi, M. Chen, R. Blau, L. Becerra, T. Rafeedi, J. Ramirez, D. Rodriquez, F. VanFossen, S. Zehner, P.P. Mercier, J. Wang, K. Hutcheson, E. Hanna, D.J. Lipomi, “Iterative Patient Testing of a Stimuli-Responsive Swallowing Activity Sensor to Promote Extended User Engagement During the First Year After Radiation: Multiphase Remote and In-Person Observational Cohort Study”, JMIR Cancer, 2024. [ paper LINK ]

D. Valencia, P.P. Mercier, A. Alimohammad, “Efficient In Vivo Neural Signal Compression Using an Autoencoder-based Neural Network,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, 2024. [ paper LINK ]

R. Burns, A. Wiechmann, P. Sadeghi, N. Lobandi, N. Fathy, R. Huang, N. Sun, P.P. Mercier, “A 24.4mW Room Temperature Gas Sensor based on Molecularly Imprinted Polymers Demonstrating SARS-Cov-2 and D-Glucose Aerosol Sensing,” in Proc. IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), Apr. 2024.

A. Gadelkarim, P.P. Mercier, “A 18.2mW Subsampling mm-Wave Receiver Employing a Subtractive Anti-Aliasing Active Bandstop Filter at 23GHz,” in Proc. IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), Apr. 2024.

W.-C.B. Liu, P.P. Mercier, “A Merged Backside Series/Parallel Hybrid Piezoelectric-Resonator-Based DC-DC Converter,” in Proc. IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), Feb. 2024. [ paper LINK ]

W.-C.B. Liu, G. Pillonnet, P.P. Mercier, “An Integrated Dual-Side Series/Parallel Piezoelectric Resonator-based 20-to-2.2V DC-DC Converter Achieving a 310% Loss Reduction,” in Proc. IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Feb. 2024. [ paper LINK ]

H. Lu, H.R. Kooshkaki, P.P. Mercier, “A Mixer-First Receiver with On-Demand Passive Harmonic Rejection,” IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters, Jan. 2024. [ paper LINK ]

 

2023

S.-H. Kuo, M. Dunna, D. Bharadia, P.P. Mercier, “A WiFi and Bluetooth Low Energy Backscatter Combo Chip with Beam Steering Capabilities,” IEEE Open Journal of the Solid-State Circuits Society, Sep. 2023. [ paper OPEN ACCESS ]

Y. Xu, E. De la Paz, A. Paul, K. Mahato, J.R. Sempionatto, N. Tostado, M. Lee, G. Hota, M. Lin, A. Uppal, W. Chen, S. Dua, L. Yin, B.L. Wuerstle, S. Deiss, P. Mercier, S. Xu, J. Wang, G. Cauwenberghs, “In-ear integrated sensor array for the continuous monitoring of brain activity and of lactate in sweat,” Nature Biomedical Engineering, Sep. 2023. [ paper OPEN ACCESS ]

M. Meng, M. Dunna, S.-K. Kuo, P.-H.P. Wang, D. Bharadia, P.P. Mercier, “A Fully-Reflective WiFi-Compatible Backscatter Communication System with Retro-Reflective MIMO Gain for Improved Range,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 58, no. 9, pp. 2501-2512, Sep. 2023. [ paper LINK ]

S.-K. Kuo, M. Dunna, H. Lu, A. Agarwal, D. Bharadia, P.P. Mercier, “LTE-Powered BLE-to-WiFi Backscattering Chip Toward Single-Device Interrogation RFID-Like Systems,” IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters, vol. 6, no. 8, pp. 225-228, Aug. 2023. [ paper LINK ]

W.-C. Liu, C.-H. Cheng, P.P. Mercier, C.C. Mi, “Small Signal Analysis and Design of Constant On-Time Controlled Buck Converters with Duty-Cycle-Independent Quality Factors,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 38, no. 7, pp. 8379-8393, Jul. 2023. [ paper LINK ]

H.R. Kooshkaki, P.P. Mercier, “A 0.75mW Receiver Front-end for NB-IoT,” in Proc. IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC), Jun. 2023. [ paper LINK ]

G. Pillonnet, M. Kamel, P.P. Mercier, “Normalized Benchmarking of Hybrid Switched-Capacitor DC-DC Converters,” in Proc. IEEE Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), Jun. 2023.

J. Wu, A. Akinin, M. Lee, A. Paul, H. Lu, Y. Park, P. Fowler, S.-J. Kim, P.P. Mercier, G.C. Cauwenberghs, “A Low-Noise 0.001Hz-1kHz Sample-Level Duty-Cycling Neural Recording System-on-Chip,” in Proc. IEEE International Circuits and Systems Conference (ISCAS), May. 2023. (Best Runner Up Paper Award; Women in Circuits and Systems Runner Up Award)

W.-C.B. Liu, P.P. Mercier, “A Series/Parallel Magnetic-Less Step-Down Converter based on Piezoelectric Resonators,” in Proc. IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC), Mar. 2023. [ paper LINK ]

E. Wen, D.F. Sievenpiper, P.P. Mercier, “Analysis of Coil Coupling in the Near-Field Far-Field Hybrid Region,” IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation, 2023. [ paper LINK ]

C.B. Gungor, P.P. Mercier, H. Toreyin, “A 2.2 nW Analog Electrocardiogram Processor based on Stochastic Resonance Achieving a 99.94% QRS Complex Detection Sensitivity,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, 2023. [ paper LINK ]

H.A. Zadeh, H.R. Kooshkaki, K.-Y. Lee, P.P. Mercier, “An Adaptive Constant-On-Time-Controlled Hybrid Multilevel DC-DC Converter Operating from Li-ion Battery Voltages with Low Spurious Output,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 38, no. 5, pp. 5763-5776, May 2023.  [ paper LINK ]

A. Nikoofard, H. Givehchian, N. Bhaskar, A. Schulman, D. Bharadia, P.P. Mercier, “Protecting Bluetooth User Privacy through Obfuscation of Carrier Frequency Offset,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, vol. 70, no. 2, pp. 541-545, Feb. 2023. [ paper LINK ]

C. Hardy, H. Pham, M.M. Jatlaoui, F. Voiron, T. Xie, P.-H. Chen, S. Jha, P.P. Mercier, H.-P. Le, “A Scalable Heterogeneous Integrated Two-Stage Vertical Power Delivery Architecture for High Performance Computing,” in Proc. IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Feb. 2023. [ paper LINK ]

S.-H. Kuo, M. Dunna, H. Lu, A. Agarwal, D. Bharadia, P.P. Mercier, “An LTE-harvesting BLE-to-WiFi Backscattering Chip for Single-Device RFID-like Interrogation,” in Proc. IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Feb. 2023. [ paper LINK ]

D. Valencia, G. Leone, N. Keller, P.P. Mercier, A. Alimohammad, “Power-Efficient In Vivo Brain-Machine Interfaces via Brain-State Estimation,” Journal of Neural Engineering, 20, 016032, Jan. 2023. [ paper LINK ]

B. Polat, T. Rafeedi, L. Becerra, A.X. Chen, K. Chiang, V. Kaipu, R. Blau, P.P. Mercier, C.-K. Cheng, D.J. Lipomi, “External Measurement of Swallowed Volume During Exerise Enabled by Stretchable Derivatives of PEDOT:PSS, Graphene, Metallic Nanoparticles, and Machine Learning,” Advanced Sensor Research, 2200060, Jan. 2023. [ paper OPEN SOURCE ]

B. H. Lam, H. Lu, A.G. Gadelkarim, N. Fathy, P. Gudem, P.P. Mercier, “A 0.11mW 2.4GHz Receiver Employing a Q-Boosted Impedance Transformer and Regenerative Amplifier Achieving a -101dBm Sensitivity and -28dB SIR,” IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters, vol. 6, Jan. 2023. [ paper LINK ]

 

2022

E. De La Paz, N.H. Maganti, A. Trifonov, I. Jeerapan, K. Mahato, L. Yin, T. Sonsa-ard, N. Ma, W. Jung, R. Burns, A. Zarrinpar, J. Wang, P.P. Mercier, “A self-powered ingestible wireless biosensing system for real-time in situ monitoring of gastrointestinal tract metabolites,” Nature Communications, vol. 13, 7405, Dec. 2022. [ paper OPEN ACCESS ]

P.P. Mercier, B.H. Calhoun, P.-H.P. Wang, A. Dissanayake, L. Zhang, D.A. Hall, S.M. Bowers, “Low-Power RF Wake-Up Receivers: Analysis, Trade-Offs, and Design,” IEEE Open Journal of the Solid-State Circuits Society, vol. 2, pp. 144-164, 2022. [ paper PDF ]

H.R. Kooshkaki, P.P. Mercier, “A 36 uW 2.8–3.4 dB Noise Figure Impedance Boosted and Noise Attenuated LNA for NB-IoT,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, 2022. [ paper LINK ]

D. Valencia, P.P. Mercier, A. Alimohammad, “In Vivo Neural Spike Detection with Adaptive Noise Estimation,” Journal of Neural Engineering, 19, 046018, 2022. [ paper LINK ]

B.H. Lam, P. Gudem, P.P. Mercier, “Analysis and Measurement of Noise Suppression in Nonlinear Regenerative Amplifier,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, vol. 69, no. 10, pp. 4117-4127, Oct. 2022. [ paper LINK ]

S. Chamanian, P.P. Mercier, “MIPSIMO: A Multi-Input Piezo-Adaptive Single-Inductor Multi-Output Energy Harvester Achieving using a Shared Inductor with an Integrated Analog Computer Achieving 95% MPPT Efficiency,” IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters, vol. 5, pp. 222-225, Sep. 2022. [ paper LINK ]

A. Nikoofard, P.P. Mercier, “A 900MHz GFSK and 16-FSK TX Achieving up to 63.9% TX Efficiency and 76.2% PA Efficiency via a DC-DC-Powered Class-D VCO and a Class-EE PA,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, vol. 69, no. 9, pp. 3739-3743, Sep. 2022. [ paper LINK ]

C.B. Gungor, P.P. Mercier, H. Toreyin, “A Stochastic Resonance Electrocardiogram Enhancement Algorithm for Robust QRS Detection,” IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, vol. 26, no. 8, pp. 3743-3754, Aug. 2022. [ paper LINK ]

H. Cui, D. Yao, H. Lu, A. Calderon, Z. Xu, S. Davaria, Z. Wang, P. Mercier, P. Tarazaga, X. Zheng, “Design and printing of proprioceptive three-dimensional architecture robotic metamaterials,” Science, 376, 6599, pp. 1272-1272, Jun. 2022. [ paper LINK ]

F. Tehrani, H. Teymourian, B. Wuerstle, J. Kavner, R. Patel, A. Furmidge, R. Aghavali, H. Hosseini-Toudeshki, C. Brown, F. Zhang, K. Mahato, Z. Li, A. Barfidokht, L. Yin, P. Warren, N. Huang, Z. Patel, P.P. Mercier & J. Wang, “An integrated wearable microneedle array for the continuous monitoring of multiple biomarkers in interstitial fluid,” Nature Biomedical Engineering, 2022. [ paper LINK ]

M. Meng, H.R. Kooshkaki, X. Wang, S.-H. Kuo, E. Wen, P.P. Mercier, “A GMSK/PAM4 Multi-Channel Magnetic Human Body Communication Transceiver,” IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters, 2022. [ paper LINK ]

N.S.K. Fathy, J. Huang, P.P. Mercier, “A Digitally Assisted Multiplexed Neural Recording System With Dynamic Electrode Offset Cancellation via an LMS Interference-Canceling Filter,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 57, no. 3, pp. 953-964, Mar. 2022. [ paper LINK ]

E. Wen, D. Sievenpiper, P.P. Mercier, “Channel Characterization of Magnetic Human Body Communication,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 69, no 2, pp. 569-579, Feb. 2022. [ paper LINK ]

S.-K. Kuo, M. Dunna, D. Bharadia, P.P. Mercier, “A WiFi and Bluetooth Backscattering Combo Chip Featuring Beam Steering via a Fully-Reflective Phased-Controlled Multi-Antenna Termination Technique Enabling Operation Over 56 Meters,” in Proc. IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Feb. 2022. [ paper LINK ]

 

2021

C. Pochet, J. Huang, P. Mercier, D. Hall, “A 174.7-dB FoM, 2nd-order VCO-based ExG-to-Digital Front-End Using a Multi-phase Gated-Inverted Ring Oscillator Quantizer,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, vol. 15, no. 6, pp. 1283-1294, Dec. 2021. [ paper LINK ]

A. Akinin, J.M. Ford, J. Wu, C. Kim, H.D. Thacker, P.P. Mercier, G. Cauwenberghs, “An Optically Addressed Nanowire-Based Retinal Prosthesis With Wireless Stimulation Waveform Control and Charge Telemetering,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 56, no. 11, pp. 3263-3273, Nov. 2021. [ paper LINK ] (ISSCC Special Issue)

J. Huang, P.P. Mercier, “A 178.9-dB FoM 128-dB SFDR VCO-Based AFE for ExG Readouts With a Calibration-Free Differential Pulse Code Modulation Technique,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 56, no. 11, pp. 3236-3246, Nov. 2021. [ paper LINK ]

W-C. Liu, C.-H. Cheng, C.C. Mi, P.P. Mercier, “A Novel Ultra-Fast Transient Constant On-Time Buck Converter for Multi-Phase Operation,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 36, no. 11, pp. 13096-13106, Nov. 2021. [ paper LINK ]

B. Polat, L. Becerra, P.-Y. Hsu, V. Kaipu, P. Mercier, C.-K. Cheng, D. Lipomi, “Epidermal Graphene Sensors and Machine Learning for Estimating Swallowed Volume,” ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2021. [ paper LINK ] (Editors’ Choice highlight)

J. Lee, V. Leung, A. Lee, J. Huang, P. Asbeck, P.P. Mercier, S. Shellhammer, L. Larson, F. Laiwalla, A. Nurmikko, “Neural recording and stimulation using wireless networks of microimplants,” Nature Electronics, no 4, pp. 604-614, Aug. 2021. [ paper LINK ]

C. Gungor, P. Mercier, H. Toreyin, “A 1.2nW Analog Electrocardiogram Processor Achieving a 99.63% QRS Complex Detection Sensitivity,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 617-628, Jun. 2021. [ paper LINK ]

C. Gungor, P.P. Mercier, H. Toreyin, “Investigating well potential parameters on neural spike enhancement in a stochastic-resonance pre-emphasis algorithm,” Journal of Neural Engineering, 2021. [ paper LINK ]

A. Akinin, J.M. Ford, J. Wu, J. Park, H.D. Thacker, G. Cauwenberghs, P.P. Mercier, “Maximizing Wireless Power Transfer to Intraocular Implants under Unconstrained Eye Movements,” in IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, May 2021.

M. Dunna, M. Meng, P.-H. Wang, C. Zhang, P. Mercier, D. Bharadia, “SyncScatter: Enabling WiFi like synchronization and range for WiFi backscatter Communication,” Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), pp. 923-937, Apr. 2021. [ paper and presentation LINK ]

J. Huang, P.P. Mercier, “A 112-dB SFDR 89-dB SNDR VCO-based Sensor Front-end Enabled by Background-Calibrated Differential Pulse Code Modulation,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 56, no. 4, pp. 1046-1057, Apr. 2021. [ paper LINK ] (VLSI Special Issue)

A. Nikoofard, H. Abbasi Zadeh, P.P. Mercier, “A 0.6-mW 116-FSK Receiver Achieving a Sensitivity of -103 dBm at 100 kb/s,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 56, no. 4, pp. 1299-1309, Apr. 2021. [ paper LINK ] (VLSI Special Issue)

P-H. P. Wang, P.P. Mercier, “A Dual-Mode Wi-Fi/BLE Wake-up Receiver,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 56, no. 4, pp. 1288-1298, Apr. 2021. [ paper LINK ] (VLSI Special Issue)

P-H. Wang, P.P. Mercier, “An Interference-Resilient BLE-Compatible Wake-up Receiver Employing Single-Die Multi-Channel FBAR-Based Filtering and a 4-D Wake-Up Signature,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 56, no. 4, pp. 416-426, Feb. 2021. [ paper LINK ]

A. Abdulsalm, P.P. Mercier, “A 98.2%-Efficiency Reciprocal Direct Charge Recycling Inductor-First DC-DC Converter,” in Proc. IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Feb. 2021. [ paper LINK ]

J. Huang, P.P. Mercier, “A Distortion-Free VCO-based Sensor-to-Digital Front-end Achieving 178.9-dB FoM and 128-dB SFDR with a Calibration-Free Differential Pulse Code Modulation Technique,” in Proc. IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Feb. 2021. [ paper LINK ]

M. Meng, M. Dunna, H. Yu, S. Kuo, D. Bharadia, P.P. Mercier, “Improving the Range of Wi-Fi Backscatter via a Passive Retro-Reflective Single-Side-Band-Modulating MIMO Array and Non-Absorbing Termination,” in Proc. IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Feb. 2021. [ paper LINK ]

C. Pochet, J. Huang, P.P. Mercier, D.A. Hall, “A 400mVpp, 92.3 dB-SNDR, 1kHz-BW, 2nd-order VCO-based ExG-to-Digital Front-End Using a Multiphase Gated-Inverted Ring-Oscillator Quantizer,” in Proc. IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Feb. 2021. [ paper LINK ]

A. Akinin, J. Ford, J. Wu, C. Kim, H. Thacker, P.P. Mercier, G.C. Cauwenberghs, “An Optically-Addressed Nanowire-Based Retinal Prosthesis with 73% RF-to-Stimulation Power Efficiency and 20nC-3uC Wireless Charge Telemetering,” in Proc. IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Feb. 2021. [ paper LINK ]

 

2020

P-H. Wang, C. Zhang, H. Yang, M. Dunna, D. Bharadia, P.P. Mercier, “A Low-Power Backscatter Modulation System Communicating Across Tens of Meters with Standards-Compliant Wi-Fi Transceivers,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 55, no. 11, pp. 2959-2969, Nov. 2020.  [ paper LINK ] (ISSCC Special Issue)

J. Lee, A.-H. Lee, V. Leung, J. Huang, P. Asbeck, P.P. Mercier, S. Shellhammer, L. Larson, F. Laiwalla, A. Nurmikko, “A Wireless Network of Microimplants for Neural Recording and Microstimulation,” in Proc. IEEE Brain Workshop on Advanced Neural Technologies, Oct. 2020. [ LINK ]

D-G. Lee, A. Nikoofard, P.P. Mercier, “A -254.1 dB FoM 2.4 GHz Sub-Sampling PLL with a -76 dBc Reference Spur by Employing a Varactor-Based Cancellation Technique,” IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters, vol. 3, pp. 102-105, Jul. 2020. [ paper LINK ]

J. Huang, P.P. Mercier, “A -105dB THD 87dB-SNDR VCO-based Sensor Front-end Enabled by Background-Calibrated Differential Pulse Code Modulation,” in Proc. IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits, Jun. 2020. (Best student paper award nominee)

P-H. Wang, P.P. Mercier, “A 4.4µW -92/-90.3dBm Sensitivity Dual-mode BLE/Wi-Fi Wake-up Receiver,” in Proc. IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits, Jun. 2020. (Best student paper award nominee)

A. Nikoofard, H. Abbasi Zadeh, P.P. Mercier, “A 920MHz 16-FSK Receiver Achieving a Sensitivity of -103dBm at 0.6mW via an Integrated N-Path Filter Bank,” in Proc. IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits, Jun. 2020.

D-G. Lee, P.P. Mercier, “A Sub-mW 2.4-GHz Active-Mixer-Adopted Sub-Sampling PLL Achieving an FoM of -256 dB,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 55, no. 6, pp. 1542-1552, Jun. 2020. [ paper LINK ]

H. Jiang, P.-H. Wang, L. Gao, C. Pochet, G.M. Rebeiz, D.A. Hall, P.P. Mercier, “A 22.3-nW, 4.55 cm² Temperature-Robust Wake-Up Receiver Achieving a Sensitivity of -69.5 dBm at 9 GHz,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 55, no. 6, pp. 1530-1541, Jun. 2020. [ paper LINK ]

H.R. Kooshkaki, P.P. Mercier, “A 0.55mW Fractional-N PLL with a DC-DC Powered Class-D VCO Achieving Better than -66dBc Fractional and Reference Spurs for NB-IoT,” in Proc. IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), Mar. 2020. [ paper LINK ]

S.S. Amin, P.P. Mercier, “H-SIMO: A Hybrid Single-Inductor Multi-Output 5-Level Thin-Oxide Power Management Unit Achieving 91.4% Efficiency from Li-ion Battery Voltages in 28nm FD-SOI,” in Proc. IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), Mar. 2020. [ paper LINK ]

X. Wang, P.P. Mercier, “A 11.1nJ-Start-up 16/20MHz Crystal Oscillator with Multi-Path Feedforward Negative Resistance Boosting and Optional Dynamic Pulse Width Injection,” in Proc. IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), Mar. 2020. [ paper LINK ]

A. Abdulslam, P.P. Mercier, “A Symmetric Modified Multilevel Ladder PMIC for Battery-Connected Applications,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 55, no. 3, pp. 767-780, Mar. 2020. (CICC Special Issue) [ paper LINK ]

X. Wang, P.P. Mercier, “A Dynamically-High-Impedance Charge-Pump-Based LDO with Digital-LDO-Like Properties Achieving a sub-4fs FoM,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 55, no. 3, pp. 719-730, Mar. 2020 (CICC Special Issue) [ paper LINK ]

P.-H. Wang, C. Zhang, H. Yang, D. Bharadia, P.P. Mercier, “A 28μW IoT Tag That Can Communicate with Commodity WiFi Transceivers via a Single-Side-Band QPSK Backscatter Communication Technique,” in Proc. IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Feb. 2020. [ paper LINK ]

 

2019

H. Teymourian, C. Moonla, F. Tehrani, E. Vargas, A. Barfidokht, R. Aghavali, T. Tangkuaram, P.P. Mercier, E. Dassau, J. Wang, “Microneedle-Based Detection of Ketone Bodies along with Glucose and Lactate: Toward Real-Time Continuous ISF Monitoring of Diabetic Ketosis/Ketoacidosis,” Analytical Chemistry, Dec. 2019. [ paper LINK ]

L. Pisha, J. Warchall, T. Zubatiy, S. Hamilton, C.-H. Lee, G. Chockalingam, P.P. Mercier, R. Gupta, B.D. Rao, H. Garudadri, “A Wearable, Extensible, Open-Source Platform for Hearing Healthcare Research,” IEEE Access, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 162083-162101, Dec. 2019. [ paper LINK ]

C. Kim, J. Park, S. Ha, A. Akinin, R. Kubendran, P.P. Mercier, G.C. Cauwenberghs, “A 3 mm × 3 mm Fully Integrated Wireless Power Receiver and Neural Interface System-on-Chip” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, vol. 13, no. 6, pp. 1736-1746, Dec. 2019. [ paper LINK ]

J. Warchall, P. Theilmann, Y. Ouyang, H. Garudadri, P. Mercier, “Robust Biopotential Acquisition via a Distributed Multi-Channel FM-ADC,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, vol. 13, no. 6, pp. 1229-1242, Dec. 2019. [ paper LINK ] (ISSCC Special Issue)

J. Park, P.P. Mercier, “A sub-10pJ/bit 5Mbps Magnetic Human Body Communication Transceiver,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 54, no. 11, pp. 3031-3042, Nov. 2019. [ paper LINK ] (ISSCC Special Issue)

A. Abdulslam, P.P. Mercier, “A Passive-Stacked Third-Order Buck Converter with Inherent Input Filtering Achieving 0.7 W/mm² Power Density and 94% Peak Efficiency,” IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters, vol. 2, no. 11, pp. 240-243, Nov. 2019. [ paper LINK ] (ISSCC Special Issue)

G. Carfano, H. Murguia, P. Gudem, P.P. Mercier, “Impact of FR1 5G NR Jammers on UWB Indoor Position Location Systems,” in Proc. International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN), Sep.-Oct. 2019. [ paper LINK ]

H. Wang, P.P. Mercier, “A 763 pW 230 pJ/conversion Fully-Integrated CMOS Temperature-to-Digital Converter with +0.81/-0.75°C Inaccuracy,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 54, no. 8, pp. 2281-2290, Aug. 2019. [ paper LINK ]

X. Wang, P.P. Mercier, “A Charge-Pump-based Digital LDO Employing an AC-Coupled High-Z Feedback Loop Towards a sub-4fs FoM and a 105,000x Stable Dynamic Current Range,” IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), Apr. 2019. [ paper LINK ] Outstanding Student Paper Nominee 

A. Abdulslam, B.H. Lam, P.P Mercier, “A Battery-Connected Symmetric Modified Multilevel Ladder Converter Achieving 0.45W/mm² Power Density and 90% Peak Efficiency,” IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), Apr. 2019. [ paper LINK ]

V.W. Leung, L. Cui, S. Alluri, J. Lee, J. Huang, E. Mok, S. Shellhammer, R. Rao, P. Asbeck, P.P. Mercier, L. Larson, A. Nurmikko, F. Laiwalla, “Distributed Microscale Brain Implants with Wireless Power Transfer and Mbps Bi-directional Networked Communications,” IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), Apr. 2019. [ paper LINK ]

C.S. Levy, T.W. Kornack, P.P. Mercier, “Bell-Bloom Magnetometer Linearization by Intensity Modulation Cancellation,” IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurements, vol. 69, no. 3, pp. 883-892, Mar. 2019. [ paper LINK ]

S.S. Amin, P.P. Mercier, “A Fully-Integrated Li-ion-Compatible Hybrid 4-Level DC-DC Converter in 28nm FDSOI,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 54, no. 3, pp. 720-732, Mar. 2019. [ paper LINK ] CICC Special Issue

J. Lee, E. Mok, J. Huang, L. Cui, A.-H. Lee, V. Leung, P.P. Mercier, S. Shellhammer, L. Larson, R.R. Rao, Y.-K. Song, A. Nurmikko, F. Laiwalla, “An Implantable Wireless Network of Distributed Microscale Sensors for Neural Applications,” IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering (NER), Mar. 2019. [ paper LINK ]

P-H. Wang, P.P. Mercier, “A 220µW -85dBm Sensitivity BLE-compliant Wake-up Receiver Achieving -60dB SIR via Single-Die Multi-Channel FBAR-based Filtering and a 4-Dimentional Wake-Up Signature,” in Proc. IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Feb. 2019. [ paper LINK ]

J. Warchall, P. Thielmann, Y. Ouyang, H. Garudadi, P.P. Mercier, “A Rugged Wearable Modular ExG Platform Employing a Distributed Scalable Multi-Channel FM-ADC Achieving 101dB Input Dynamic Range and Motion-Artifact Resilience,” in Proc. IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Feb. 2019. [ paper LINK | presentation PDF ]

J. Park, P. P. Mercier, “A sub-40µW 5Mb/s Magnetic Human Body Communication Transceiver Demonstrating Trans-Body Delivery of High-Fidelity Audio to a Wearable In-Ear Headphone,” in Proc. IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Feb. 2019. [ paper LINK ]

A. Abdulslam, P.P. Mercier, “A Continuous-Input-Current Passive-Stacked Third-Order Buck Converter Achieving 0.7W/mm² Power Density and 94% Peak Efficiency,” in Proc. IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Feb. 2019. [ paper LINK | presentation PDF ]

S. Ha, C. Kim, J. Park, G. Cauwenberghs, P. Mercier, “A Fully Integrated RF-powered Energy-Replenishing Current-Controlled Stimulator,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 191-202, Feb. 2019. [ paper LINK ]

 

2018

S.S. Amin, P.P. Mercier, “MISIMO: A Multi-Input Single-Inductor Multi-Output Energy Harvesting Platform in 28nm FDSOI for Powering Net-Zero-Energy Systems,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 53, no. 12, Dec. 2018. [ paper LINK ] ISSCC Special Issue

A, Fazli Yeknami, X. Wang, I. Jeerapan, S. Imani, A. Nikoofard, J. Wang, P.P. Mercier, “A 0.3V Biofuel-Cell-Powered Glucose/Lactate Biosensing System,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 53, no. 11, Nov. 2018. [ paper LINK ] ISSCC Special Issue

T. Kan, F. Lu, T.-D. Nguyen, P.P. Mercier, C. Mi, “Integrated Coil Design for EV Wireless Charging Systems Using LCC Compensation Topology,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 33, no. 11, pp. 9231-9241, Nov. 2018. [ paper LINK ]

F. Laiwalla, J. Lee, J. Huang, V. Leung, L. Larson, P. Mercier, S. Shellhammer, R. Rao, P. Asbeck, A. Nurmikko, “A Wireless Microscale Sensor Network for Chronic Implantable Neural Interfaces,” IEEE Brain Initiative Workshop on Advanced NeuroTechnologies, Nov. 2018.

J. Warchall, S. Kaleru, N. Jayapalan, B. Nayak, H. Garudadri, P.P. Mercier, “A 678mW Frequency-Modulation Based ADC with 104dB Dynamic Range in 44kHz Bandwidth,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, vol. 65, no. 10, pp. 1370-1374, Oct. 2018. [ paper LINK ]

H. Jiang, P.-H. Wang, P.P. Mercier, D.A. Hall, “0.4 V 0.93 nW/kHz Relaxation Oscillator Exploiting Comparator Temperature-Dependent Delay to Achieve 94 ppm/°C Stability,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 53, no. 10, pp. 3004-3011, Oct. 2018. [ paper LINK ]

J. Kim, J.R. Sempionatto, S. Imani, M.C. Hartel, A. Barfidokht, G. Tang, A.S. Campbell, P.P. Mercier, J. Wang, “Simultaneous Monitoring of Interstitial Fluid and Sweat using a Single Flexible Wearable Iontophoretic-Biosensor Platform,” Advanced Science, Aug. 2018. [ paper PDF ]

T. Kan, Y. Zhang, Z. Yan, P.P. Mercier, C.C. Mi, “A Rotation-Resilient Wireless Charging System for Lightweight Autonomous Underwater Vehicles,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 67, no. 8, pp. 6935-6942, Aug. 2018. [ paper LINK ]

T. Kan, R. Mai, P.P. Mercier, C. Mi, “Design and Analysis of a Three-Phase Wireless Charging System for Lightweight Autonomous Underwater Vehicles,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 33, no. 8, pp. 6622-6632, Aug. 2018. [ paper LINK ]

A. Abdulslam, B. Mohammad, M. Ismail, P.P. Mercier, Y. Ismail, “A 93% Peak Efficiency Fully-Integrated Multilevel Multistate Hybrid DC-DC Converter”, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, vol. 65, no. 8, pp. 2617-2630, Aug. 2018. [ paper LINK ]

J. Huang, F. Laiwalla, J. Lee, L. Cui, V. Leung, A. Nurmikko, P.P. Mercier, “A 0.01mm² Mostly Digital Capacitor-Less AFE for Distributed Autonomous Neural Sensor Nodes,” IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters, vol. 1, no. 7, pp. 162-165, Jul 2018. [ paper LINK ]

H. Wang, X. Wang, J. Park, A. Barfidokht, J. Wang, P.P. Mercier, “A Battery-Powered Wireless Ion Sensing System Consuming 5.5 nW of Average Power,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 53, no. 7, pp. 2043-2053, Jul. 2018. [ paper PDF ] ESSCIRC Special Issue

P-H. Wang, H. Jiang, L. Gao, P. Sen, Y.-H. Kim, G. Rebeiz, P.P. Mercier, D. Hall, “A Near-Zero-Power Wake-up Receiver Achieving -69 dBm Sensitivity,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 53, no. 6, pp. 1640-1652, Jun. 2018. [ paper LINK ]

H. Wang, P.P. Mercier, “A Current-Mode Capacitively-Coupled Chopper Instrumentation Amplifier for Biopotential Recording With Resistive or Capacitive Electrodes,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, vol. 65, no. 6, pp. 699-703, Jun. 2018. [ paper LINK ]

J. Ramírez, D. Rodriquez, F. Qiao, J. Warchall, J. Rye, E. Aklile, A.S.-C. Chiang, B.C. Marin, P.P. Mercier, C.K. Cheng, K.A. Hutcheson, E.H. Shinn, D.J. Lipomi, “Metallic Nanoislands on Graphene for Monitoring Swallowing Activity in Head and Neck Cancer Patients,” ACS Nano, vol. 12, no. 6, pp. 5913-5922, Jun. 2018. [ paper LINK ]

D.-G. Lee, P.P. Mercier, “AMASS PLL: An Active‐Mixer‐Adopted Sub‐Sampling PLL Achieving an FOM of ‐255.5dB and a Reference Spur of ‐ 66.5dBc,” in Proc. IEEE VLSI Symposium, Jun. 2018. [ paper LINK ]

P-H. Wang, H. Jiang, L. Gao, P. Sen, Y.-H. Kim, G.M. Rebeiz, P.P. Mercier, D.A. Hall, “A 6.1 nW Wake-Up Receiver Achieving -80.5 dBm Sensitivity via a Passive Pseudo-Balun Envelope Detector,” in IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters, vol. 1, no. 5, pp. 134-137, May 2018. [ paper LINK ]

H. Wang, P.P. Mercier, “A 3.4 pW 0.4 V 469.3 ppm/°C Five-Transistor Current Reference Generator,” in IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters, vol. 1, no. 5, pp. 122-125, May 2018. [ paper LINK ]

S.S. Amin, P.P. Mercier, “A 78%-Efficiency Li-ion-Compatible Fully-Integrated Modified 4-Level Converter with 0.01-40mW DCM-Operation in 28nm FDSOI,” in Proc. IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), Apr. 2018. [ paper LINK | presentation PDF ] Outstanding student paper award nominee 

A.J. Bandodkar, S. Imani, R. Nunez-Flores, R. Kumar, C. Wang, A.M.V. Mohan, J. Wang, P.P. Mercier, “Re-usable electrochemical glucose sensors integrated into a smartphone platform,” Biosensors and Bioelectronics, vol. 101, pp. 181-187, Mar. 2018. [ paper LINK ]

S.S. Amin, P.P. Mercier, “MISIMO: A Multi-Input Single-Inductor Multi-Output Energy Harvester Employing Event-Driven MPPT Control to Achieve 89% Peak Efficiency and a 60,000x Dynamic Range in 28nm FDSOI,” in Proc. IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Feb. 2018. [ paper LINK | presentation PDF ]

A. Fazli Yeknami, X. Wang, S. Imani, A. Nikoofard, I. Jeerapan, J. Wang, P.P. Mercier, “A 0.3V Biofuel-Cell-Powered Glucose/Lactate Biosensing System Employing a 180nW 64dB SNR Passive ∆∑ ADC and a 920MHz Wireless Transmitter,” in Proc. IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Feb. 2018. [ paper LINK | presentation PDF ]

L.G. Salem, P.P. Mercier, “A sub-1.55mV Accuracy 36.9ps FOM Digital Low-Dropout Regulator Employing Switched-Capacitor Resistance,” in Proc. IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Feb. 2018. [ paper LINK ]

L.G. Salem, J. Warchall, P.P. Mercier, “A Successive-Approximation Recursive Digital Low-Dropout Voltage Regulator with PD Compensation and Sub-LSB Duty Control,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 53, no. 1, pp. 35-49, Jan. 2018. [ paper LINK ] ISSCC Special Issue

 

2017

H. Wang, P.P. Mercier, “A 113 pW Fully Integrated CMOS Temperature Sensor Operating at 0.5 V,” in Proc. IEEE Sensors Conference, Oct. 2017.

J. Park, C. Kim, A. Akinin, G.C. Cauwenberghs, P.P. Mercier, “Wireless Powering of mm-Scale Fully-on-Chip Neural Interfaces,” in Proc. IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS), Oct. 2017.

H. Wang, X. Wang, J. Park, A. Barfidokht, J. Wang, P.P. Mercier, “A 5.5nW Battery-Powered Wireless Ion Sensing System,” in Proc. IEEE European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), Sep. 2017.

H. Wang, P.P. Mercier, “A 420fW Self-Regulated 3T Voltage Reference Generator Achieving 0.47%/V Line Regulation from 0.4-to-1.2V,” in Proc. IEEE European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), Sep. 2017.

H. Wang, P.P. Mercier, “A 1.6%/V 124.2pW 9.3Hz Relaxation Oscillator Featuring a 49.7pW Voltage and Current Reference Generator,” in Proc. IEEE European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), Sep. 2017.

P.-H. Wang, H. Jiang, L. Gao, P. Sen, Y.-H. Kim, G. Rebeiz, P.P. Mercier, D.A. Hall, “A 400 MHz 4.5 nW -63.8 dBm Sensitivity Wake-up Receiver Employing an Active Pseudo-Balun Envelope Detector,” in Proc. IEEE European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), Sep. 2017.

D.-G. Lee, P.P. Mercier, “Noise Analysis of Phase-Demodulating Receivers Employing Super-Regenerative Amplification,” IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 65, no. 9, pp. 3299-3311, Sep. 2017. [ paper LINK ]

X. Wang, P.-H. Wang, Y. Cao, P.P. Mercier, “A 0.6V 75nW All-CMOS Temperature Sensor with 1.67m◦C/mV Supply Sensitivity,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 64, no. 9, pp. 2274-2283, Sep. 2017. [ paper LINK ]

T.F. O’Connor, M.E. Fach, R. Miller, S.E. Root, P.P. Mercier, D.J Lipomi, “The Language of Glove: Wireless gesture decoder with low-power and stretchable hybrid electronics,” PLoS ONE, vol. 12, no. 7, e0179766, Jul. 2017. [ paper OPEN SOURCE ]

L.G. Salem, J.F. Buckwalter, P.P. Mercier, “A Recursive Switched-Capacitor House-of-Cards Power Amplifier,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 52, no. 7, pp. 1719-1738, Jul. 2017. [ paper LINK ] ESSCIRC Special Issue

H. Wang, P.P. Mercier, “Near-Zero-Power Temperature Sensing via Tunneling Currents Through Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Transistors,” Scientific Reports, vol. 7, no. 4427, Jun. 2017. (doi:10.1038/s41598-017-04705-6) [ paper OPEN SOURCE ] (highlighted in many press articles such as Yahoo News, The Engineer, and others, putting it in the top 5% of all research outputs as scored by Altmetric)

A.J. Bandodkar, J.-M. You, N.-H. Kim, Y. Gu, R. Kumar, A. M.V. Mohan, J. Kurniawan, S. Imani, T. Nakagawa, B. Parish, M. Parthasarathy, P.P. Mercier, S. Xu, J. Wang, “Soft, stretchable, high power density electronic skin-based biofuel cells for scavenging energy from human sweat,” Energy and Environmental Science, vol. 10, pp. 1581-1589, 2017. [ paper LINK ] (highlighted in many press articles such as Yahoo News, New Scientist, and others)

C. Kim, S. Ha, A. Akinin, J. Park, R. Kubendran, H. Wang, P.P. Mercier, G. Cauwenberghs, “Design of Miniaturized Wireless Power Receivers for mm-sized Implants,” in Proc. IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), May 2017. [ paper LINK ] Invited paper

J. Sempionatto, T.T. Nakagawa, A. Pavinatto, S.T. Menash, S. Imani, P. Mercier, J. Wang, “Eyeglasses-based Wireless Electrolyte and Metabolite Sensor Platform,” Lab on a Chip, vol. 17, pp. 1834-1842, Apr. 2017. [ paper LINK ]

T. Kan, R. Mai, P.P. Mercier, C. Mi, “A Three-Phase Wireless Charging System for Lightweight Autonomous Underwater Vehicles,” in Proc. Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC), Mar. 2017. [ paper LINK ]

H. Jiang, P.-H. Wang, L. Gao, P. Sen, Y.-H. Kim, G. Rebeiz, D. Hall, P.P. Mercier, “A 4.5nW Wake-Up Radio with -69dBm Sensitivity,” in Proc. IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Feb. 2017. [ paper LINK ]

L.G. Salem, P.P. Mercier, “A 0.4-1V 1MHz-to-2GHz Switched-Capacitor Adiabatic Clock Driver Achieving 55.6% Clock Power Reduction,” in Proc. IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Feb. 2017. [ paper LINK ]

L.G. Salem, J. Warchall, P.P. Mercier, “A 100nA-2mA Successive-Approximation Digital LDO with PD Compensation and sub-LSB Duty Control Achieving a 15.1ns Response-Time at 0.5V,” in Proc. IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Feb. 2017. [ paper LINK ]

J. Park, H. Garudadri, and P.P. Mercier, “Channel Modeling of Miniaturized Battery-Powered Capacitive Human Body Communication Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (TBME), vol. 64, no. 2, pp. 452-462, Feb. 2017. [ paper LINK ]

S. Ha, A. Akinin, J. Park, C. Kim, H. Wang, C. Maier, P.P. Mercier, G.C Cauwenberghs, “Silicon Integrated High-Density Electrocortical Interfaces,” Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 105, no. 1, pp. 11-33, Jan. 2017. [ paper LINK ]

 

2016

L.G. Salem, J.G. Louie, P.P. Mercier, “Flying-Domain DC-DC Power Conversion,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 51, no. 12, pp. 2830-2842, Dec. 2016. [ paper LINK ] ISSCC Special Issue

L.G. Salem, J.F. Buckwalter, P.P. Mercier, “A Recursive House-of-Cards Digital Power Amplifier Employing a \lambda/4-less Doherty Power Combiner in 65nm CMOS,” in Proc. IEEE European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), Sep. 2016. [ paper LINK | presentation PDF ]

J. Kim, I. Jeerapan, S. Imani, T.N. Cho, A. Bandodkar, S. Cinti, P.P. Mercier, J. Wang, “Non-Invasive Alcohol Monitoring using a Wearable Tattoo-based Iontophoretic Biosensing System,” ACS Sensors, vol. 1, no. 8, pp. 1011-1019, Aug. 2016. [ paper LINK ]    (highlighted in many press articles and/or on TV or radio in the BBC, IEEE Spectrum, PC Magazine, Yahoo News, CTV Canada, etc.; top-10 most read ACS Sensors paper)

R. Cánovas, M. Parrilla, P. Mercier, F.J. Andrade, J. Wang, “Balloon-Embedded Sensors Withstanding Extreme Multiaxial Stretching and Global Bending Mechanical Stress: Towards Environmental and Security Monitoring,” Advanced Materials Technology, May, 2016. doi:10.1002/admt.201600061 [ paper LINK ]

D. Ahn and P.P. Mercier, “Wireless Power Transfer with Concurrent 200 kHz and 6.78 MHz Operation in a Single Transmitter Device,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 31, No. 7, pp 5018-5029, Jul. 2016. [ paper LINK ]   (highlighted in many press articles from EE Times, phys.org, Science Daily, RF Globalnet, etc.)

H. Wang and P.P. Mercier, “A Reference-Free Capacitive-Discharging Oscillator Architecture Consuming 44.4 pW/75.6 nW at 2.8 Hz/6.4 kHz,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 51, no. 6, pp 1423-1435, Jun. 2016. [ paper LINK ]

C. Kim, J. Park, A. Akinin, S. Ha, R. Kubendran, H. Wang, P.P. Mercier, G.C. Cauwenberghs, “A Fully Integrated 144 MHz Wireless-Power-Receiver-on-Chip with an Adaptive Buck-Boost Regulating Rectifier and Low-Loss Fractal Signal Distribution,” IEEE VLSI Symposium, June 2016. [ paper LINK ]

S. Imani, A.J Bandodkar, A.M.V. Mohan, R. Kumar, S. Yu, J. Wang, P.P. Mercier, “A Wearable Chemical-Electrophysiological Hybrid Biosensing System for Real-Time Health and Fitness Monitoring,” Nature Communications, vol. 7, May 2016. doi:10.1038/ncomms11650 [ paper LINK | PDF ]    (highlighted in over 1000 press articles from Popular Science, NBC News, Gizmodo, CNET, etc., putting it in the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric)

H. Wang and P.P. Mercier, “A 14.5 pW, 31 ppm/C Resistor-Less 5 pA Current Reference Employing A Self-Regulated Push-Pull Voltage Reference Generator,” IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), May 2016. [ paper LINK ]

J. Warchall, A. Balakrishnan, O. Balkan, W.D. Hairston, P. Theilmann, P.P. Mercier, H. Garudadri, “A Multi-Channel EEG System Featuring Single-Wire Data Aggregation via FM-FDM Techniques,” IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), May 2016. [ paper LINK ]

S. Imani, A.J. Bandodkar, J. Kim, J. Wang, P.P. Mercier, “Wearable Chemical Sensors: Opportunities and Challenges,” IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), May 2016. [ paper LINK | presentation PDF ]

L.G. Salem, J.G. Louie, P.P. Mercier, “A Flying-Domain DC-DC Converter Powering a Cortex-M0 Processor with 90.8% Efficiency,” IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Feb. 2016. [ paper LINK | presentation PDF ]

 

2015

J. Kim, S. Imani, W. R. de Araujo, J. Warchall, G. Valdés-Ramírez, T. R.L.C. Paixão, P.P. Mercier, J. Wang, “Wearable salivary uric acid mouthguard biosensor with integrated wireless electronics,” Biosensors & Bioelectronics, vol. 74, pp 1061-1068, Dec. 2015. [ paper LINK ]    (highlighted in many press articles from the MIT Technology Review, EE Times, KPBS, Science World Report, etc.)

D.-G. Lee and P.P. Mercier, “A 1.65 mW PLL-free PSK Receiver Employing Super-regenerative Phase Sampling,” in Proc. IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, Oct. 2015. [ paper LINK ]

J.-H. Lin, H. Liu, C.-H. Liu, P. Lam, G.-Y. Pan, H. Zhaung, I. Kang, P.P. Mercier, C.-K. Cheng, “An Interdigitated Non-Contact ECG Electrode for Impedance Compensation and Signal Restoration,” in Proc. IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, Oct. 2015. [ paper LINK ]

H. Wang and P.P. Mercier, “A 51 pW Reference-Free Capacitive-Discharging Oscillator Architecture Operating at 2.8 Hz,” Proc. IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), Sep. 2015. [ paper LINK | presentation PDF ] Best paper nomination

L.G. Salem and P.P. Mercier, “A Single-Inductor 7+7 Ratio Reconfigurable Resonant Switched-Capacitor DC-DC Converter with 0.1-to-1.5V Output Voltage Range,” Proc. IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), Sep. 2015. [ paper LINK ]

J. Park and P.P. Mercier, “Magnetic Human Body Communication,” in Proc. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC), Aug. 2015. [ paper LINK ]    (highlighted in many press articles from the MIT Technology Review, Fortune, IEEE Spectrum, Engadget, etc.)

A. Yeung, H. Garudadri, C. Van Toen, P.P. Mercier, O. Balkan, S. Makeig, and N. Virji-Babul, “Comparison of Foam-Based and Spring-Loaded Dry EEG Electrodes with Wet Electrodes in Resting and Moving Conditions,” in Proc. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC), Aug. 2015. [ paper LINK ]

L.G. Salem and P.P. Mercier, “A Battery-Connected 24-Ratio Switched Capacitor PMIC Achieving 95.5%-Efficiency,” in Proc. IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits, Jun. 2015. [ paper LINK ]

S. Ha, A. Akinin, J. Park, C. Kim, H. Wang, C. Maier, G. Cauwenberghs, P.P. Mercier, “A 16-Channel Wireless Neural Interfacing SoC With RF-powered Energy-Replenishing Adiabatic Stimulation,” in Proc. IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits, Jun. 2015. [ paper LINK ] Highlighted paper

C. Kim, S. Ha, J. Park, A. Akinin, P.P. Mercier, G. Cauwenberghs, “A 144MHz Integrated Resonant Regulating Rectifier with Hybrid Pulse Modulation,” in Proc. IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits, Jun. 2015. [ paper LINK ]

L.G. Salem, P.P. Mercier, “A Footprint-Constrained Efficiency Roadmap for On-Chip Switched-Capacitor DC-DC Converters,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), May 2015. [ paper LINK | presentation PDF ]

D.-G. Lee, L.G. Salem, P.P. Mercier, “Narrowband Transmitters: Ultra-Low-Power Design,” IEEE Microwave Magazine, vol. 16, no. 3, pp 130-142, Apr. 2015. [ paper LINK ] Invited paper

 

2014

L.G. Salem, P.P. Mercier, “A Recursive Switched-Capacitor DC-DC Converter Achieving 2^N-1 Ratios With High Efficiency Over a Wide Output Voltage Range,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 49, no. 12, pp 2773-2787, Dec. 2014. [ paper LINK ] ISSCC Special Issue

S. Bandyopadhyay, P.P. Mercier, A.C. Lysaght, K.M. Stankovic, A.P. Chandrakasan, “A 1.1 nW Energy-Harvesting System with 544 pW Quiescent Power for Next-Generation Implants,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 49, no. 12, pp 2812-2824, Dec. 2014. [ paper LINK ] ISSCC Special Issue

T.-C. Chou, R. Subramanian, J. Park, P.P. Mercier, “A Miniaturized Ultrasonic Power Delivery System,” in Proc. IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS), Oct. 2014. [ paper LINK | presentation PDF ]

L.G. Salem and P.P. Mercier, “A 45-Ratio Recursively Sliced Series-Parallel Switched-Capacitor DC-DC Converter Achieving 86% Efficiency,” in Proc. IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), Sep. 2014. [ paper LINK ]

P.P. Mercier, S. Bandyopadhyay, A.C. Lysaght, K.M. Stankovic, A.P. Chandrakasan, “A Sub-nW 2.4 GHz Transmitter for Low Data-Rate Sensing Applications,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol.49, no.7, pp.1463-1474, July 2014. [ paper LINK ]

J. Kim. G. Valdés-Ramírez, A.J. Bandodkar, W. Jia, A.G. Martinez, J. Ramírez, P. Mercier, J. Wang, “Non-invasive mouthguard biosensor for continuous salivary monitoring of metabolites,” Analyst, vol. 139, pp 1632-1636, 2014. [ paper LINK ]

L.G. Salem and P.P. Mercier, “An 85%-Efficiency Fully-Integrated 15-Ratio Recursive Switched-Capacitor DC-DC Converter With 0.1-2.2V Output Voltage Range,” in Proc. IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), pp 88-89, Feb. 2014. [ paper LINK | presentation PDF ]

S. Bandyopadhyay, P.P. Mercier, A.C Lysaght, K.M. Stankovic, and A.P. Chandrakasan, “A 1.1nW Energy Harvesting System with 544pW Quiescent Power for Next Generation Implants,” in Proc. IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), pp 396-397, Feb. 2014. [ paper LINK ]

 

2013

H. Su, H. Liu, S-H.Weng, H. Wang, A. Presswala, H. Zhuang, J-H. Lin, P. Mercier, and C-K. Cheng, “A Non-contact Biopotential Sensing System With Motion Artifact Suppression,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications, Circuits, and Systems, Nov. 2013.

P.P. Mercier, S. Bandyopadhyay, A.P. Chandrakasan, “Enabling sub-nW RF Circuits through Subthreshold Leakage Management,” in Proc. IEEE SOI-3D-Subthreshold Microelectronics Technology Unified Conference, pp. 26-27, Oct. 2013. [ paper LINK | PDF ]

P.P. Mercier and A.P. Chandrakasan, “Rapid Wireless Capacitor Charging using a Multi-Tapped Inductively-Coupled Secondary Coil,” IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems I (TCAS-I), vol. 60, no. 9, pp 2263-2272, Sep. 2013. [ paper LINK | PDF ]

P.P. Mercier, S. Bandyopadhyay, A.C Lysaght, K.M. Stankovic, and A.P. Chandrakasan, “A 78 pW 1 b/s 2.4 GHz Radio Transmitter for Near-Zero-Power Sensing Applications,” in Proc. IEEE European Solid-State Circuits Conf. (ESSCIRC), pp. 133-136, Sep. 2013. [ paper LINK | PDF ]

A. Paidimarri, P.M. Nadeau, P.P. Mercier, A.P. Chandrakasan , “A 2.4 GHz Multi-Channel FBAR-based Transmitter With an Integrated Pulse-Shaping Power Amplifier,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 48, no. 4, pp 1042-1054, Apr. 2013. [ paper LINK | PDF ]

 

2012

P.P. Mercier and A.P. Chandrakasan, “A Supply-Rail-Coupled eTextiles Transceiver for Body-Area Networks,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 46, no. 6, pp 1284-1295, Jun. 2011.  [ paper PDF ]

2010

P.P. Mercier, M. Bhardwaj, Denis C. Daly and A.P. Chandrakasan, “A Low-Voltage Energy-Sampling IR-UWB Digital Baseband Employing Quadratic Correlation,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 45, no. 6, pp 1209-1219, Jun. 2010.  [ paper PDF ]

P.P. Mercier, A.P. Chandrakasan, “A 110uW 10Mb/s eTextiles Transceiver for Body Area Networks with Remote Batter Power,” IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), pp. 496-497, Feb. 2010.  [ paper PDF | slides PDF ]

D.C. Daly, P.P. Mercier, M. Bhardwaj, A.L. Stone, Z.N. Aldworth, T.L. Daniel, J. Voldman, J.G. Hildebrand, A.P. Chandrakasan, “A Pulsed UWB Receiver SoC for Insect Motion Control,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 45, no. 1, pp 153-166, Jan. 2010.  [ paper PDF ]

2009

P.P. Mercier, D.C. Daly, A.P. Chandrakasan, “An Energy-Efficient All-Digital UWB Transmitter Employing Dual Capacitively-Coupled Pulse-Shaping Drivers,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 44, no. 6, pp. 1679 – 1688, Jun. 2009.  [ paper PDF ]

A.P. Chandrakasan, F.S. Lee, D.D. Wentzloff V. Sze, G.P. Ginsburg, P.P. Mercier, D.C. Daly, and R. Blazquez, “Low-Power Impulse UWB Architectures and Circuits,” Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 97, pp. 332-352, Feb. 2009.  [ paper PDF ]

P.P. Mercier, M. Bhardwaj, D.C. Daly, A.P. Chandrakasan, “A 0.55V 16Mb/s 1.6mW Non-Coherent IR-UWB Digital Baseband with +-1ns Synchronization Accuracy,” IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), pp. 252-253, Feb. 2009.  [ paper PDF | slides PDF ]

D.C. Daly, P.P. Mercier, M. Bhardwaj, A.L. Stone, J. Voldman, R.B. Levine, J.G. Hildebrand, A. P. Chandrakasan, “A Pulsed UWB Receiver SoC for Insect Motion Control,” IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), pp. 200-201, Feb. 2009.  [ paper PDF ]

2008

P.P. Mercier, D.C. Daly, and A.P. Chandrakasan, “A 19pJ/pulse UWB transmitter with dual capacitively-coupled digital power amplifiers,” in Proc. IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symp. (RFIC), Jun. 2008.  [ paper PDF | slides PDF ]

P.P. Mercier, D.C. Daly, M. Bhardwaj, D.D. Wentzloff, F.S. Lee, and A.P. Chandrakasan, “Ultra-low-power UWB for sensor network applications,” in Proc. IEEE International Symp. on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), May 2008.  [ paper PDF | slides PDF ]

D.C. Daly, M. Bhardwaj, F.S. Lee, P.P. Mercier, D.D. Wenztloff, J. Voldman, and A.P. Chandrakasan, “Energy Efficient Pulsed-UWB Transceiver for Insect Flight Control,” Government Microcircuit Applications & Critical Technology Conferece (GOMACTech), pp. 401-404, Mar. 2008.

2007

P. Mercier, S.M. Kilambi, and B. Nowrouzian, “Optimization of FRM FIR digital filters over CSD and CDBNS multiplier coefficient spaces employing a novel genetic algorithm,” Journal of Computers, vol. 2, pp. 20-31, Sep. 2007.

D.D. Wentzloff, F.S. Lee, D.C. Daly, M. Bhardwaj, P.P. Mercier, and A.P. Chandrakasan, “Energy efficient pulsed-UWB CMOS circuits and systems,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Ultra-wideband (ICUWB), Sep. 2007.  [ paper PDF | slides PDF ]

K. Boyle, P. Mercier, N. Sadeghi, V. Gaudet, C. Schlegel, C. Winstead, M. Kashyap, “Design and implementation of an all-analog fast-fourier transform processor,” Midwest Symposium Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), pp.1532-1535, Aug. 2007.

2006

P. Mercier, S. Singh, K. Iniewski, B. Moore, and P. O’Shea, “Yield and cost modeling for 3D chip stack technologies,” in Proc. IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conf. (CICC), Sep. 2006.

P. Mercier and B. Nowrouzian, “Design of FRM digital filters over the CSD multiplier coefficient space employing genetic algorithms,” in Proc. IEEE International Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 2006.

P. Mercier and B. Nowrouzian, “A genetic algorithm for the design and optimization of FRM digital filters over a canonical double-base multiplier coefficient space,” in Proc. IEEE International Symp. on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), May 2006.

2005

K. Iniewski, C. Siu, S. Kilambi, S. Khan, B. Crowley, P. Mercier, and C. Schlegel, “Ultra-low power circuit and system design trade-offs for smart sensor network applications,” in Proc. IEEE International Conf. on Information and Communications Tech., Dec. 2005.

 

(Selected) invited presentations:

P.P. Mercier and V. Sridharan, “Low-Power Transmitters for Body-Area Networks,” IEEE Symposium on Power Amplifiers for Wireless Communication, La Jolla, CA, Sep. 2013.

P.P. Mercier, “Powering a 2.4 GHz Radio from the Biologic Battery in the Inner-Ear,” Presented at the CMOS Emerging Technologies Symposium, Whistler, BC, Canada, Jul. 2013.

A.C. Lysagth, P.P. Mercier, S. Bandyopadhyay, A.P. Chandrakasan, and K.M. Stankovic, “Endocochlear Potential Powered Electronics” Associated for Research in Otolaryngology Annual MidWinter Meeting, vol. 36, Baltimore, MD, Feb., 2013.

A. Paidimarri, P. Nadeau, P.P. Mercier, and A. Chandrakasan, “Ultra-low Power FBAR-based Multi-Channel Transceivers,” Presented at the ISSCC Student Research Preview, San Francisco, CA, Feb. 2012.

P.P. Mercier, “Self-Powered Personal Microsystems for Medical Monitoring Applications,” Presented at TechConnect World, Boston, MA, Jun. 2011.

P.P. Mercier, “Attaining Extreme Energy Efficiency in Body-Area Networks Using Electronic Textiles,” Presented at the MEDRC Next Generation Medical Electronic Systems Workshop, Cambridge, MA, May, 2011.

P.P. Mercier, “Energy Efficient Pulsed-UWB for Miniaturized Flying Vehicles,” Presented at the CMOS Emerging Technologies Workshop, Banff, AB, Canada, Feb. 2009.

P.P. Mercier, “A 22pJ/pulse All-Digital UWB Transmitter in 90nm CMOS,” Presented at the ISSCC Student Forum, San Francisco, CA, Feb. 2008.

P.P. Mercier, “Cost Modeling for Vertically Integrated Chip Sets,” Presented at the CMOS Emerging Technologies Workshop, Banff, AB, Canada, Jul. 2006.

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