Lab News

Pouyan and Divya's paper titled "Design of an S-Band Nanowatt-Level Wakeup Receiver with Envelope Detector-First Architecture" is accepted at the 2020 IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques. Congrats Pouyan, Divya and team!

Rob's paper titled "A 10-GHz Bandwidth Transimpedance Amplifier With Input DC Photocurrent Compensation Loop" is accepted at the 2020 IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters. Congrats Rob!

Rob and Xiaochuan's paper titled "Low-Noise Balanced Photoreceiver with Waveguide SiN Photodetectors and SiGe TIA" is accepted for presentation at the 2020 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO). Congrats Rob, Xiaochuan and team!

Jay's paper titled "A Differential Digital 4-Way Doherty Power Amplifier with 48% Peak Drain Efficiency for Low Power Applications" is accepted for presentation at the 2020 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC). Congrats Jay!

Anjana and Henry's paper titled "A Multichannel, MEMS-Less −99dBm 260nW Bit-Level Duty Cycled Wakeup Receiver" is accepted for presentation at the 2020 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits. Congrats Anjana, Henry and team!

Anjana's paper titled "A -108dBm Sensitivity, -28dB SIR, 130nW to 41μW, Digitally Reconfigurable Bit-Level Duty-Cycled Wakeup and Data Receiver " is accepted for presentation at the 2020 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC). Congrats Anjana and team!

Pouyan and Divya's paper titled "A Temperature-Robust 27.6nW -65dBm Wakeup Receiver at 9.6GHz X-Band" is accepted for presentation at the 2020 International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC). This paper presents a temperature- and interference-robust sub-100nW event driven wake-up receiver for IoT sensing applications. Congrats Pouyan, Divya and team!

Dr. Steven M. Bowers, an assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Virginia has received the ECE Department Faculty Research Award.This award is given for outstanding innovations, breakthroughs, and impact in research and scholarship. Dr. Bower's research team collective contributions to the development and advancement of ultra-low power wakeup receivers have resulted in technologies critical to applications such as healthcare, smart cities, environmental and industrial monitoring, security and surveillance, and agriculture.

Jesse Moody's paper titled "Triode-mode Envelope Detectors for IoE Wake-up Receivers" is accepted for presentation in the 2019 International Microwave Symposium (IMS). This paper presents a new topology for Dickson envelope detectors, with diodes that operate in the triode regime. This envelope detector can be used in RF front-end of IoT wakeup receivers. Congrats Jesse!

Jesse Moody's paper titled "A -106dBm 33nW Bit-Level Duty-Cycled Tuned RF Wake-up Receiver" is accepted for presentation in the 2019 Symposium on VLSI Circuits. This paper presents an ultra-low power event driven wake-up receiver for IoT sensing applications. Congrats Jesse and team!