Publications
Journals:
[29] Taylor Barton, Shea Smith, Yu Hao, Ryan Watson, Kyle Rogers, Parker Allred, Bibhu Datta Sahoo, Nancy Fulda, Jordan Yorgason, Karl Warnick, Mau-Chung Frank Chang, Yen-Cheng Kuan, and Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “A subthreshold time-domain analog spiking neuron with PLL-based leak circuit and capacitive DAC synapse,” IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters (SSCL), vol. 7, pp. 143-146, 2024. (No. 12 most-accessed paper in SSCL in Apr. 2024, No. 6 most-accessed paper in SSCL in May 2024, No. 6 most-accessed paper in SSCL in Jun. 2024) [Link]
[28] Behdad Jamadi, Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, and Armin Tajalli, “Trade-offs in design of wide-band inverter-based amplifiers,” IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (TVLSI) Systems, vol. 32, no. 7, pp. 1364-1368, Jul. 2024. (Top 10 most-accessed paper in TVLSI in Jul. 2024, Top 50 most-accessed paper in TVLSI in Aug. 2024) [Link]
[27] Shea Smith, Armin Tajalli, Yen-Cheng Kuan, and Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “A digital background calibration circuit for coarse-fine timing mismatch in VCO-based ADCs,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II (TCAS-II), vol. 71, no. 8, pp. 3650-3654, 2024. (No. 12 most-accessed paper in TCAS-II in Aug. 2024) [Link]
[26] Taylor Barton, Shea Smith, Yixin Song, Yen-Cheng Kuan and Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “Multi-Stage Charge Pump Design Methodology for Zero-Crossing-Based Amplifiers,” IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), Early Access, 2024. [Link]
[25] Alexander Petrie, Yixin Song, Whitney Kinnison, Yong Qu, Kent Layton, and Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “A 0.2-V 10-bit 5-kHz SAR ADC with dynamic bulk biasing and ultra-low-supply-voltage comparator,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I (TCAS-I), vol. 70, no. 7, pp. 2722-2733, Jul. 2023. (Top 50 most-accessed paper in TCAS-I in Jul. 2023) [Link]
[24] Parker AllredEric ChristieYixin SongDaniel E. AustinShiuh-hua Wood ChiangAaron R. Hawkins, “Flow-through charge detection mass spectrometry to categorize micron-sized particles,” AIP Review of Scientific Instruments, vol. 94, no. 3, Mar. 2023. [Link]
[23] Tyler Westover, Zach Westhoff, Sharisse Poff, Nick Morrill, David Miller, Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, Richard Vanfleet, and Robert Davis, “Miniaturized short-wavelength infrared spectrometer for diffuse light applications,” Advanced Photonics Nexus, 2023, vol. 2, no. 6, 066003, Oct. 2023. [Link]
[22] Shruti Konwar, Harshit Roy, Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, and Bibhu Datta Sahoo, “Deterministic dithering-based 12-b 8-MS/s SAR ADC in 0.18-μm CMOS,” IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters (SSCL), vol. 5, pp. 243-246, 2022. (No. 9 most-accessed paper in SSCL in Oct. 2022, No. 21 most-accessed paper in SSCL in Jan. 2023, Top 50 most-accessed paper in SSCL in Mar. 2023, Apr. 2023, Feb., Mar., Apr., May, Jun. 2024) [Link]
[21] Yixin Song, Shea Smith, Benjamin Karlinsey, Aaron R. Hawkins and Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “The digital-assisted charge amplifier: a digital-based approach to charge amplification,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I (TCAS-I), vol. 69, no. 8, pp. 3114-3123, Aug. 2022. (No. 4 most-accessed paper in TCAS-I in Aug. 2022, No. 8 most-accessed paper in TCAS-I in Sep. 2022) [Link]
[20] Taylor Barton, Hao Yu, Kyle Rogers, Nancy Fulda, Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, Jordan Yorgason, and Karl F. Warnick, “Towards low-power machine learning architectures inspired by brain neuromodulatory signalling,” Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications, vol. 12, no. 59, pp. 1-19, Nov. 2022. [Link]
[19] Eric Swindlehurst, Hunter Jensen, Alexander Petrie, Yixin Song, Yen-Cheng Kuan, Yong Qu, Mau-Chung Frank Chang, Jieh-Tsorng Wu, and Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “An 8-bit 10-GHz 21-mW time-interleaved SAR ADC with grouped DAC capacitors and dual-path bootstrapped switch,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 56, no. 8, pp 2347-2359, Aug. 2021. (Top 50 most-accessed paper in JSSC in Jul. and Sep. 2021, No. 4 most-accessed paper in JSSC in Aug. 2021) [Link]
[18] Jace Rozsa, Yixin Song, Austin Kerr, Naomi Debaene, Daniel Austin, Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, and Aaron R. Hawkins, “Optimizing the noise performance of multi-electrode image charge detectors constructed on printed circuit boards,” IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 70, no. 4, pp. 1503308, Apr. 2021. [Link]
[17] Khalil Gammoh, Cameron Peterson, David Penry, and Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “Linearity theory of stochastic phase-interpolation time-to-digital converter,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I (TCAS-I), vol. 67, no. 12, pp. 4348-4359, Dec. 2020. (Top 50 most-accessed paper in TCAS-I in Dec. 2020) [Link]
[16] Yong Qu, Wei Shu, Lei Qiu, Yen-Cheng Kuan, Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, and Joseph Chang, “A low-profile high-efficiency fast battery charger with unifiable constant-current and constant-voltage regulation,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I (TCAS-I), vol. 67, no. 11, pp. 4099-4109, Nov. 2020. (Top 50 most-accessed paper in TCAS-I in Nov. 2020) [Link]
[15] Yixin Song, Jace Rozsa, Joan Magalhaes, Shea Smith, Benjamin Karlinsey, Whitney Kinnison, Elaura Gustafson, Daniel Austin, Aaron Hawkins, and Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “A solid-state charge detector with gain calibration using photocurrent,” IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 69, no. 12, pp. 9398-9407, Dec. 2020. [Link]
[14] Jace Rozsa, Yixin Song, Devon Webb, Naomi Debaene, Austin Kerr, Elaura Gustafson, Tabitha Caldwell, Halle Murray, Daniel Austin, Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, and Aaron Hawkins, “Simulation and measurement of image charge detection with printed-circuit-board detector and differential amplifier”, AIP Review of Scientific Instruments, vol. 91, no. 5, May 2020. [Link]
[13] Eric Swindlehurst, Hunter Jensen, Alexander Petrie, Yixin Song, Yen-Cheng Kuan, Mau-Chung Frank Chang, Jieh-Tsorng Wu, and Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “An 8-bit 10-GHz 21-mW time-interleaved SAR ADC with grouped DAC capacitors and dual-path bootstrapped switch,” IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters (SSCL), vol. 2, no. 9, pp. 83-86, Sep. 2019. (Invited paper. No. 6 most-accessed paper in SSCL in Oct. 2019, Top 50 most-accessed paper in SSCL in Nov. 2019, Jan., Feb., and Mar. 2020, Mar. 2023, Jan., Feb., Mar., Apr., May 2024) [Link]
[12] Devon Janke, Andrew Monk, Eric Swindlehurst, Kent Layton, and Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “A 9-Bit 10-MHz 28-µW SAR ADC using tapered bit periods and a partially interdigitated DAC,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II (TCAS-II), vol. 66, no. 2, pp. 187-191, Feb. 2019. (No. 5 most-accessed paper in TCAS-II in Jun. 2018, Top 50 most-accessed paper in TCAS-II in Feb. 2019) [Link]
[11] Andres Galan, Gregory Nordin, and Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “Design and characterization of a package-less hybrid PDMS-CMOS-FR4 contact-imaging system for microfluidic integration,” SPIE Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 034501-1-034501-8, Jul. 2018. [Link]
[10] Nathan Whitehead, Yixin Song, and Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “Direct measurement of high-gain and complementary charge-steering amplifiers,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II (TCAS-II), vol. 65, no. 6, pp. 714-718, Jun. 2018. [Link]
[9] Danilo Bustamante, Devon Janke, Eric Swindlehurst, and Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “High-precision, mixed-signal mismatch measurement of metal-oxide-metal capacitors,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II (TCAS-II), vol. 64, no. 11, pp. 1272-1276, Nov. 2017. (Top 50 most-accessed paper in TCAS-II in Nov. 2017) [Link]
[8] Wanyang Zhang, David Comer, and Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “Design of low power ultra-high voltage gain differential cascode stages,” International Journal of Electronics, vol. 104, no. 6, pp. 982-992, Jun. 2017. [Link]
[7] Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “Comparator offset calibration using unbalanced clocks for high speed and high power efficiency,” IET Electronics Letters, vol. 52, no. 14, pp. 1206-1207, Jul. 2016. (Top 50 most-accessed paper in EL in Jul. 2016) [Link]
[6] Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “Charge-dumping switching scheme for successive-approximation-register analogue-to-digital converters,” IET Electronics Letters, vol. 52, no. 5, pp. 348-350, Mar. 2016. (Top 50 most-accessed paper in EL in Mar. 2016) [Link]
[5] Eric Swindlehurst and Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “Histogram-based calibration of capacitor mismatch in SAR ADCs,” IET Electronics Letters, vol. 51, no. 25, pp. 2096-2098, Dec. 2015. [Link]
[4] Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, Hyuk Sun, and Behzad Razavi, “A 10-bit 800-MHz 19-mW CMOS ADC,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), pp. 935-949, Apr. 2014. (Invited paper. No. 1 most-accessed paper in JSSC in Mar. and Apr. 2014, Top 25 most-accessed paper in JSSC in May and Jun. 2014, Top 100 most-accessed paper in all IEEE journals in Mar., Apr., and May 2014) [Link]
[3] Stuart Kleinfelder, Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, and Wei Huang, “Multi-GHz synchronous waveform acquisition with real-time pattern-matching trigger generation,” IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, pp. 3785-3792, Oct. 2013. [Link]
[2] Patricia Nieva, Jim Kuo, Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, and Abdullah Syed, “A novel MOEMS pressure sensor: modeling and experimental evaluation,” Springer India, Journal Sadhana, vol. 34, pp. 615-623, Aug. 2009. [Link]
[1] Stuart Kleinfelder, Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, Wei Huang, Ashish Shah, and Kris Kwiatkowski, “High-speed, high dynamic-range optical sensor arrays,” IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 56, pp. 1069-1075, Jun. 2009. [Link]
Conferences:
[26] Shea Smith, Taylor Barton, Yen-Cheng Kuan, Armin Tajalli, Mau-Chung Frank Chang, and Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “A 0.12-V 200-Hz-BW 10-bit ADC using quad-channel VCO and interpolation linearization,” IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC), Nov. 2023. (No. 2 most-accessed paper in A-SSCC in Dec. 2023, Top 50 most-accessed paper in A-SSCC in May, Jun. 2024) [Link]
[25] Shea Smith, Armin Tajalli, and Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “A VCO linearization technique using dual-VCO and interpolation for time-based ADCs,” IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), Aug. 2023. (Top 50 most-accessed paper in MWSCAS in May 2024) [Link]
[24] Taylor Barton, Yen-Cheng Kuan, and Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “A multi-stage zero-crossing-based amplifier using floating-inverter amplifier with background offset calibration and self-timed loop,” IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), Aug. 2023. [Link]
[23] Cheng-Yu Chiang, Chia-Lin Hu, Mark Po-Hung Lin, Yu-Szu Chung, Shyh-Jye Jou, Jieh-Tsorng Wu, Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, Chien-Nan Liu, and Hung-Ming Chen, “On automating finger-cap array synthesis with optimal parasitic matching for custom SAR ADC,” Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), Jan. 2023. [Link]
[22] Sharisse Poff, Daniel Tebbs, Robert C. Davis, and Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “Pulsatile impedance monitoring circuit,” IEEE Intermountain Engineering, Technology, and Computing Conference (IETC), May 2023. (Best Paper Award) [Link]
[21] Benjamin Fisher, Benjamin Arnesen, Tyler Stowell, Jared Marchant, Christian Carver, Ryan M. Camacho, and Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “Co-design of transimpedance amplifiers and photonic quantum random number generators,” IEEE Intermountain Engineering, Technology, and Computing Conference (IETC), May 2023. (2nd-Best Paper Award) [Link]
[20] Abigail Mae Hardy, Nicholas J Hartley, Daniel Hodge, Sean Sheehan, Eric Christie, Taylor Buckway, David Allred, Michael Ware, Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, Alex Halavanau, Hilary Tarvin, Joseph Wunschel, Yuming Xiao, Paul Chow, Arianna E Gleason, Ryan Camacho, Gary Walker, and Richard L. Sandberg, “Evidence of parametrically down-converted photon pairs in the X-ray spectrum,” Optica Imaging Congress (3D, COSI, DH, FLatOptics, IS, pcAOP), Aug. 2023. [Link]
[19] Barry M. Lunt, Eric Christie, Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, Robert C. Davis, and Matthew R. Linford, “Permanent digital data storage: an overview and report,” CERN PV2023, May. 2023. [Link]
[18] Daniel Kwabena Yirenya-Tawiah, Alexander Blackham, Alison Langford, Brian Mazzeo, and Shiuh-Hua Wood Chiang, “Design and measurement of a 24.5-mW, 33-mWh, 1.8-V-output solar energy harvester for bluetooth sensor nodes,” IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), Aug. 2022. [Link]
[17] Parker Allred, Juhang Kim, Yixin Song, Shiuh-Hua Wood Chiang, and Aaron R. Hawkins, “Charge detection mass spectrometry of micron-sized particles using a differential amplifier,” IEEE Intermountain Engineering, Technology and Computing (IETC), May 2022. [Link]
[16] Yong Qu, Wei Shu, Yen-Cheng Kuan, Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, Yue Li, Zixian Zheng, and Joseph Chang, “A 12-W 96.1%-efficiency eFuse-based ultrafast battery charger supporting wireless and USB power inputs,” IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), Mar. 2021. [Link]
[15] Alexander Petrie, Whitney Kinnison, Yixin Song, Kent Layton, and Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “A 0.2-V 10-bit 5-kHz SAR ADC with dynamic bulk biasing and ultra-low-supply-voltage comparator,” IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), Mar. 2020. (Top 50 most-accessed paper in CICC in May and Jul. 2020) [Link]
[14] Yixin Song, Whitney Kinnison, Jace Rozsa, Daniel Austin, Aaron Hawkins, and Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “A compact measurement technique for detector capacitance of charge amplifiers,” IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Oct. 2020. [Link]
[13] Jia-Sheng Huang, Yu-Cheng Huang, Chia-Wei Kao, Che-Wei Hsu, Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, and Chia-Hung Chen, “A two-step multi-stage noise-shaping incremental analog-to-digital converter,” IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), Aug. 2020. (Invited paper) [Link]
[12] Devon Webb, Yixin Song, Jace Rozsa, Elaura Gustafson, Daniel Austin, Aaron Hawkins, and Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “Low-noise, low-power pulse shaper for particle detection,” IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), Aug. 2020. (Invited paper, Top 50 most-accessed paper in MWSCAS in Sep. 2020) [Link]
[11] Yixin Song, Jace Rozsa, Joan Magalhaes, Shea Smith, Benjamin Karlinsey, Whitney Kinnison, Elaura Gustafson, Daniel Austin, Aaron Hawkins, and Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “Design of common-mode feedback for high-gain charge amplifier,” IEEE Intermountain Engineering, Technology, and Computing Conference (IETC), Oct. 2020. [Link]
[10] Jace Rozsa, Yixin Song, Devon Webb, Naomi Debaene, Austin Kerr, Elaura Gustafson, Tabitha Caldwell, Halle Murray, Daniel Austin, Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, Aaron Hawkins, “A verified simulation method for image charge detection with non-cylindrical electrodes,” IEEE Intermountain Engineering, Technology, and Computing Conference (IETC), Oct. 2020. [Link]
[9] Eric Swindlehurst, Hunter Jensen, Alexander Petrie, Yixin Song, Yen-Cheng Kuan, Mau-Chung Frank Chang, Jieh-Tsorng Wu, and Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “An 8-bit 10-GHz 21-mW time-interleaved SAR ADC with grouped DAC capacitors and dual-path bootstrapped switch,” IEEE European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), Sep. 2019. (Top 50 most-accessed paper in ESSCIRC in Nov. 2019 and Feb. 2020) [Link]
[8] Elaura Gustafson, Halle Murray, Yixin Song, Jace Rozsa, Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, Aaron Hawkins, and Daniel Austin, “Charge detection mass spectrometry of microparticles using printed circuit board electrode arrays,” American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS), Jun. 2019.
[7] Yixin Song, Justin Chu, Joan Magalhaes, Jacob Nowjack, Jace Rozsa, Eric Swindlehurst, Sanjiv Pant, Kent Layton, Xiao Wang, Nathan Porter, Edgar Lee, Steve Lammert, Milton Lee, Aaron Hawkins, and Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “High-pressure solid-state ion detector with 10 uV/e- gain and 180-e- noise,” American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS), Jun. 2019.
[6] Devon Janke, Andrew Monk, Eric Swindlehurst, Kent Layton, and Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “A 9-Bit 10-MHz 28-µW SAR ADC using tapered bit periods and a partially interdigitated DAC,” IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), May 2019. [Media]
[5] Nathan Whitehead, Yixin Song, and Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “Direct measurement of high-gain and complementary charge-steering amplifiers,” IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), May 2018. [Media]
[4] Danilo Bustamante, Devon Janke, Eric Swindlehurst, and Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “High-precision, mixed-signal mismatch measurement of metal-oxide-metal capacitors,” IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), May 2017. [Link]
[3] Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, Hyuk Sun, and Behzad Razavi, “A 10-bit 800-MHz 19-mW CMOS ADC,” IEEE Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits (VLSI), pp. 100-101, Jun. 2013. [Link]
[2] Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang and Stuart Kleinfelder, “Scaling and design of a 16-mega-pixel CMOS image sensor for electron microscopy,” IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium (NSS), pp. 1249-1256, Nov. 2009. [Link]
[1] Wei Huang, Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, and Stuart Kleinfelder, “Waveform digitization with programmable windowed real-time trigger capability,” IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium (NSS), pp. 422-427, Nov. 2009. [Link]
Patents:
Time-interleaved successive approximation register analog to digital converter with grouped digital to analog capacitors, US Patent 11101814, 2021. [Link]
Solid-state charge detector, US Patent 16889700, 2020. (pending)
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