Electronics Research Laboratory
Dept. of Microelectronics

Masoud Babaie

Publications

  1. A Highly Linear Receiver Using Parallel Preselect Filter for 5G Microcell Base Station Applications
    Montazerolghaem, Mohammad Ali; de Vreede, Leo C. N.; Babaie, Masoud;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    pp. 1-16, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2023.3267723

  2. 19.1 A 300MHz-BW, 27-to-38dBm In-Band OIP3 sub-7GHz Receiver for 5G Local Area Base Station Applications
    Montazerolghaem, Mohammad Ali; de Vreede, Leo C. N.; Babaie, Masoud;
    In 2023 IEEE International Solid- State Circuits Conference (ISSCC),
    pp. 292-294, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/ISSCC42615.2023.10067266

  3. A Four-Way Series Doherty Digital Polar Transmitter at mm-Wave Frequencies
    Mortazavi, Mohsen; Shen, Yiyu; Mul, Dieuwert; de Vreede, Leo C. N.; Spirito, Marco; Babaie, Masoud;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 57, Issue 3, pp. 803-817, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2021.3133861

  4. A 23.8–30.4-GHz Vector-Modulated Phase Shifter With Two-Stage Current-Reused Variable-Gain Amplifiers Achieving 0.23° Minimum RMS Phase Error
    Zhang, Linghan; Shen, Yiyu; de Vreede, Leo; Babaie, Masoud;
    IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters,
    Volume 5, pp. 150-153, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/LSSC.2022.3179661

  5. A Low-Spur Fractional-N PLL Based on a Time-Mode Arithmetic Unit
    Gao, Zhong; He, Jingchu; Fritz, Martin; Gong, Jiang; Shen, Yiyu; Zong, Zhirui; Chen, Peng; Spalink, Gerd; Eitel, Ben; Alavi, Morteza S.; Staszewski, Robert Bogdan; Babaie, Masoud;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    pp. 1-20, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2022.3209338

  6. A 0.5-3GHz Receiver with a Parallel Preselect Filter Achieving 120dB/dec Channel Selectivity and +28dBm Out-of-Band IIP3
    Montazerolghaem, M. A.; de Vreede, Leo C. N.; Babaie, Masoud;
    In 2022 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC),
    pp. 11-12, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/CICC53496.2022.9772854

  7. A 2.6-to-4.1GHz Fractional-N Digital PLL Based on a Time-Mode Arithmetic Unit Achieving -249.4dB FoM and -59dBc Fractional Spurs
    Gao, Zhong; He, Jingchu; Fritz, Martin; Gong, Jiang; Shen, Yiyu; Zong, Zhirui; Chen, Peng; Spalink, Gerd; Eitel, Ben; Yamamoto, Ken; Staszewski, Robert Bogdan; Alavi, Morteza S.; Babaie, Masoud;
    In 2022 IEEE International Solid- State Circuits Conference (ISSCC),
    pp. 380-382, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/ISSCC42614.2022.9731561

  8. A DPLL-Based Phase Modulator Achieving -46dB EVM with A Fast Two-Step DCO Nonlinearity Calibration and Non-Uniform Clock Compensation
    Gao, Zhong; Fritz, Martin; He, Jingchu; Spalink, Gerd; Staszewski, Robert Bogdan; Alavi, Morteza S.; Babaie, Masoud;
    In 2022 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits (VLSI Technology and Circuits,
    pp. 14-15, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/VLSITechnologyandCir46769.2022.9830398

  9. A Fractional-N Digitally Intensive PLL Achieving 428-fs Jitter and<-54-dBc Spurs Under 50-mV \$ \_ \pp\ \$ Supply Ripple
    Chen, Yue; Gong, Jiang; Staszewski, Robert Bogdan; Babaie, Masoud;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    2021.

  10. 6.5 A 3dB-NF 160MHz-RF-BW Blocker-Tolerant Receiver with Third-Order Filtering for 5G NR Applications
    Montazerolghaem, Mohammad Ali; Pires, Sergio; de Vreede, Leo C.N.; Babaie, Masoud;
    In 2021 IEEE International Solid- State Circuits Conference (ISSCC),
    pp. 98-100, 2021. DOI: 10.1109/ISSCC42613.2021.9365849

  11. Artificial Neural Network Modelling for Cryo-CMOS Devices
    Hart, Pascal A. ‘t; van Staveren, Job; Sebastiano, Fabio; Xu, Jianjun; Root, David E.; Babaie, Masoud;
    In 2021 IEEE 14th Workshop on Low Temperature Electronics (WOLTE),
    pp. 1-4, 2021. DOI: 10.1109/WOLTE49037.2021.9555438

  12. A 30GHz 4-way Series Doherty Digital Polar Transmitter Achieving 18% Drain Efficiency and -27.6dB EVM while Transmitting 300MHz 64-QAM OFDM Signal
    Mortazavi, Mohsen; Shen, Yiyu; Mul, Dieuwert. P. N.; de Vreede, Leo C. N.; Spirito, Marco; Babaie, Masoud;
    In 2021 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC),
    pp. 1-2, 2021. DOI: 10.1109/CICC51472.2021.9431396

  13. A Scalable Cryo-CMOS Controller for the Wideband Frequency-Multiplexed Control of Spin Qubits and Transmons
    Van Dijk, Jeroen Petrus Gerardus; Patra, Bishnu; Subramanian, Sushil; Xue, Xiao; Samkharadze, Nodar; Corna, Andrea; Jeon, Charles; Sheikh, Farhana; Juarez-Hernandez, Esdras; Esparza, Brando Perez; Rampurawala, Huzaifa; Carlton, Brent R.; Ravikumar, Surej; Nieva, Carlos; Kim, Sungwon; Lee, Hyung-Jin; Sammak, Amir; Scappucci, Giordano; Veldhorst, Menno; Vandersypen, Lieven M. K.; Charbon, Edoardo; Pellerano, Stefano; Babaie, Masoud; Sebasti;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 55, Issue 11, pp. 2930-2946, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2020.3024678

  14. Designing a DDS-Based SoC for High-Fidelity Multi-Qubit Control
    van Dijk, Jeroen P. G.; Patra, Bishnu; Pellerano, Stefano; Charbon, Edoardo; Sebastiano, Fabio; Babaie, Masoud;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers,
    Volume 67, Issue 12, pp. 5380-5393, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2020.3019413

  15. Analysis and Design of Power Supply Circuits for RF Oscillators
    Urso, Alessandro; Chen, Yue; Dijkhuis, Johan F.; Liu, Yao-Hong; Babaie, Masoud; Serdijn, Wouter A.;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers,
    Volume 67, Issue 12, pp. 4233-4246, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2020.3020001

  16. A Switched-Capacitor DC-DC Converter Powering an LC Oscillator to Achieve 85% System Peak Power Efficiency and −65dBc Spurious Tones
    Urso, Alessandro; Chen, Yue; Staszewski, Robert Bogdan; Dijkhuis, Johan F.; Stanzione, Stefano; Liu, Yao-Hong; Serdijn, Wouter A.; Babaie, Masoud;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers,
    Volume 67, Issue 11, pp. 3764-3777, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2020.3012106

  17. Characterization and Analysis of On-Chip Microwave Passive Components at Cryogenic Temperatures
    Patra, Bishnu; Mehrpoo, Mohammadreza; Ruffino, Andrea; Sebastiano, Fabio; Charbon, Edoardo; Babaie, Masoud;
    IEEE Journal of the Electron Devices Society,
    Volume 8, pp. 448-456, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/JEDS.2020.2986722

  18. A Wideband Low-Power Cryogenic CMOS Circulator for Quantum Applications
    Ruffino, Andrea; Peng, Yatao; Sebastiano, Fabio; Babaie, Masoud; Charbon, Edoardo;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 55, Issue 5, pp. 1224-1238, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2020.2978020

  19. Characterization and Modeling of Mismatch in Cryo-CMOS
    ’T Hart, P. A.; Babaie, M.; Charbon, Edoardo; Vladimirescu, Andrei; Sebastiano, Fabio;
    IEEE Journal of the Electron Devices Society,
    Volume 8, pp. 263-273, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/JEDS.2020.2976546

  20. A Cryogenic CMOS Parametric Amplifier
    Mehrpoo, Mohammadreza; Sebastiano, Fabio; Charbon, Edoardo; Babaie, Masoud;
    IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters,
    Volume 3, pp. 5-8, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/LSSC.2019.2950186

  21. Cryogenic-CMOS for Quantum Computing
    Charbon, Edoardo; Sebastiano, Fabio; Babaie, Masoud; Vladimirescu, Andrei;
    Murmann, Boris; Hoefflinger, Bernd (Ed.);
    Cham: Springer International Publishing, , pp. 501--525, 2020. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-18338-7_26
    Abstract: ... In the 2010s quantum technologies have emerged as a compelling complement to classical technologies for a number of applications, including quantum sensing, metrology, imaging, communicationsCommunication, securitySecurity, and computing.

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  22. Cryo-CMOS Interfaces for Large-Scale Quantum Computers
    Sebastiano, F.; van Dijk, J.P.G.; Hart, P.A. ‘t; Patra, B.; van Staveren, J.; Xue, X.; Almudever, C.G.; Scappucci, G.; Veldhorst, M.; Vandersypen, L.M.K.; Vladimirescu, A.; Pellerano, S.; Babaie, M.; Charbon, E.;
    In 2020 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM),
    pp. 25.2.1-25.2.4, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/IEDM13553.2020.9372075

  23. A 10-to-12 GHz 5 mW Charge-Sampling PLL Achieving 50 fsec RMS Jitter, -258.9 dB FOM and -65 dBc Reference Spur
    Gong, Jiang; Sebastiano, Fabio; Charbon, Edoardo; Babaie, Masoud;
    In 2020 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC),
    pp. 15-18, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/RFIC49505.2020.9218380

  24. A 200μW Eddy Current Displacement Sensor with 6.7nmRMS Resolution
    Pimenta, Matheus; Gürleyük, Çağri; Walsh, Paul; O'Keeffe, Daniel; Babaie, Masoud; Makinwa, Kofi;
    In 2020 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits,
    pp. 1-2, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/VLSICircuits18222.2020.9162849

  25. Cryo-CMOS for Analog/Mixed-Signal Circuits and Systems
    van Dijk, Jeroen; Hart, Pascal't; Kiene, Gerd; Overwater, Ramon; Padalia, Pinakin; van Staveren, Job; Babaie, Masoud; Vladimirescu, Andrei; Charbon, Edoardo; Sebastiano, Fabio;
    In 2020 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC),
    pp. 1-8, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/CICC48029.2020.9075882

  26. 19.3 A 200dB FoM 4-to-5GHz Cryogenic Oscillator with an Automatic Common-Mode Resonance Calibration for Quantum Computing Applications
    Gong, Jiang; Chen, Yue; Sebastiano, Fabio; Charbon, Edoardo; Babaie, Masoud;
    In 2020 IEEE International Solid- State Circuits Conference - (ISSCC),
    pp. 308-310, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/ISSCC19947.2020.9062913

  27. 19.1 A Scalable Cryo-CMOS 2-to-20GHz Digitally Intensive Controller for 4×32 Frequency Multiplexed Spin Qubits/Transmons in 22nm FinFET Technology for Quantum Computers
    Patra, Bishnu; van Dijk, Jeroen P. G.; Subramanian, Sushil; Corna, Andrea; Xue, Xiao; Jeon, Charles; Sheikh, Farhana; Juarez-Hernandez, Esdras; Esparza, Brando Perez; Rampurawala, Huzaifa; Carlton, Brent; Samkharadze, Nodar; Ravikumar, Surej; Nieva, Carlos; Kim, Sungwon; Lee, Hyung-Jin; Sammak, Amir; Scappucci, Giordano; Veldhorst, Menno; Vandersypen, Lieven M. K.; Babaie, Masoud; Sebastiano, Fabio; Charbon, Edoardo; Pellerano, Stefano;
    In 2020 IEEE International Solid- State Circuits Conference - (ISSCC),
    pp. 304-306, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/ISSCC19947.2020.9063109

  28. Impact of Classical Control Electronics on Qubit Fidelity
    van Dijk, Jeroen PG; Kawakami, Erika; Schouten, Raymond N; Veldhorst, Menno; Vandersypen, Lieven MK; Babaie, Masoud; Charbon, Edoardo; Sebastiano, Fabio;
    Physical Review Applied,
    Volume 12, Issue 4, pp. 044054, 2019.

  29. A supply pushing reduction technique for LC oscillators based on ripple replication and cancellation
    Chen, Yue; Liu, Yao-Hong; Zong, Zhirui; Dijkhuis, Johan; Dolmans, Guido; Staszewski, Robert Bogdan; Babaie, Masoud;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 54, Issue 1, pp. 240--252, 2019.

  30. Clock generation
    Pourmousavian, Naser; Siriburanon, Teerachot; Kuo, Feng-Wei; Babaie, Masoud; Staszewski, Robert Bogdan;
    Digitally Enhanced Mixed Signal Systems,
    pp. 255, 2019.

  31. An Ultralow Power Burst-Chirp UWB Radar Transceiver for Indoor Vital Signs and Occupancy Sensing in 40-nm CMOS
    Liu, Yao-Hong; Sheelavant, Sunil; Mercuri, Marco; Mateman, Paul; Babaie, Masoud;
    IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters,
    Volume 2, Issue 11, pp. 256--259, 2019.

  32. RF CMOS Oscillators for Modern Wireless Applications
    Babaie, M.; Shahmohammadi, M.; Staszewski, R.B.;
    River Publishers, in River Publishers Series in Circuits and Systems Is a Series of Comprehensive Academic and Professional Books Which Focus on Theory and Applications of Circuit and Systems. This Includes Analog and Digital Integrated Circuits, Memory Technologies, System-O, 2019.
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  33. Benefits and challenges of designing cryogenic CMOS RF circuits for quantum computers
    Mehrpoo, M; Patra, B; Gong, J; van Dijk, JPG; Homulle, H; Kiene, G; Vladimirescu, A; Sebastiano, F; Charbon, E; Babaie, M; others;
    In 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS),
    IEEE, pp. 1--5, 2019.

  34. SPINE (SPIN Emulator)-A Quantum-Electronics Interface Simulator
    van Dijk, Jeroen; Vladimirescu, Andrei; Babaie, Masoud; Charbon, Edoardo; Sebastiano, Fabio;
    In 2019 IEEE 8th International Workshop on Advances in Sensors and Interfaces (IWASI),
    IEEE, pp. 23--28, 2019.

  35. Voltage References for the Ultra-Wide Temperature Range from 4.2 K to 300K in 40-nm CMOS
    van Staveren, J; Almudever, C Garc{\'\i}a; Scappucci, G; Veldhorst, M; Babaie, M; Charbon, E; Sebastiano, F;
    In ESSCIRC 2019-IEEE 45th European Solid State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC),
    IEEE, pp. 37--40, 2019.

  36. Subthreshold Mismatch in Nanometer CMOS at Cryogenic Temperatures
    t Hart, PA; Babaie, M; Charbon, E; Vladimirescu, A; Sebastiano, F;
    In ESSDERC 2019-49th European Solid-State Device Research Conference (ESSDERC),
    IEEE, pp. 98--101, 2019.

  37. A 6.5-GHz Cryogenic All-Pass Filter Circulator in 40-nm CMOS for Quantum Computing Applications
    Ruffino, Andrea; Peng, Yatao; Sebastiano, Fabio; Babaie, Masoud; Charbon, Edoardo;
    In 2019 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC),
    2019.

  38. LC Oscillator Powering Arrangement and Method of Powering an LC Oscillator
    Chen, Yue; Babaie, Masoud;
    December~5 2019. US Patent App. 16/427,933.

  39. Cryo-CMOS Circuits and Systems for Quantum Computing Applications
    B. Patra; R. M. Incandela; J. P. G. van Dijk; H. A. R. Homulle; L. Song; M. Shahmohammadi; R. B. Staszewski; A. Vladimirescu; M. Babaie; F. Sebastiano; E. Charbon;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 53, Issue 1, pp. 309-321, Jan 2018. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2017.2737549
    Keywords: ... CMOS technology;Cryogenics;Oscillators;Process control;Quantum computing;Temperature;CMOS characterization;Class-F oscillator;cryo-CMOS;low-noise amplifier (LNA);noise canceling;phase noise (PN);quantum bit (qubit);quantum computing;qubit control;single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD).

  40. A 0.5-V 1.6-mW 2.4-GHz fractional-N all-digital PLL for Bluetooth LE with PVT-insensitive TDC using switched-capacitor doubler in 28-nm CMOS
    Pourmousavian, Naser; Kuo, Feng-Wei; Siriburanon, Teerachot; Babaie, Masoud; Staszewski, Robert Bogdan;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 53, Issue 9, pp. 2572--2583, 2018.

  41. An all-digital PLL for cellular mobile phones in 28-nm CMOS with- 55 dBc fractional and- 91 dBc reference spurs
    Kuo, Feng-Wei; Babaie, Masoud; Chen, Huan-Neng Ron; Cho, Lan-Chou; Jou, Chewn-Pu; Chen, Mark; Staszewski, Robert Bogdan;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers,
    Volume 65, Issue 11, pp. 3756--3768, 2018.

  42. A 4.4 mW-TX, 3.6 mW-RX Fully Integrated Bluetooth Low Energy Transceiver for IoT Applications
    Babaie, Masoud; Ferreira, Sandro Binsfeld; Kuo, Feng-Wei; Staszewski, Robert Bogdan;
    In Hybrid ADCs, Smart Sensors for the IoT, and Sub-1V \& Advanced Node Analog Circuit Design,
    Springer, Cham, 2018.

  43. A co-design methodology for scalable quantum processors and their classical electronic interface
    van Dijk, Jeroen; Vladimirescu, Andrei; Babaie, Masoud; Charbon, Edoardo; Sebastiano, Fabio;
    In 2018 Design, Automation \& Test in Europe Conference \& Exhibition (DATE),
    IEEE, pp. 573--576, 2018.

  44. Towards a scalable quantum computer
    Almudever, Carmen G; Khammassi, Nader; Hutin, Louis; Vinet, Maud; Babaie, Masoud; Sebastiano, Fabio; Charbon, Edoardo; Bertels, Koen;
    In 2018 13th International Conference on Design \& Technology of Integrated Systems In Nanoscale Era (DTIS),
    IEEE, pp. 1--1, 2018.

  45. A 1.33 mW, 1.6 ps rms-Integrated-Jitter, 1.8-2.7 GHz Ring-Oscillator-Based Fractional-N Injection-Locked DPLL for Internet-of-Things Applications
    Gong, Jiang; He, Yuming; Ba, Ao; Liu, Yao-Hong; Dijkhuis, Johan; Traferro, Stefano; Bachmann, Christian; Philips, Kathleen; Babaie, Masoud;
    In 2018 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC),
    IEEE, pp. 44--47, 2018.

  46. Towards Ultra-Low-Voltage and Ultra-Low-Power Discrete-Time Receivers for Internet-of-Things
    Kuo, Feng-Wei; Ferreira, Sandro Binsfeld; Chen, Ron; Cho, Lan-Chou; Jou, Chewn-Pu; Chen, Mark; Babaie, Masoud; Staszewski, Robert Bogdan;
    In 2018 IEEE/MTT-S International Microwave Symposium-IMS,
    IEEE, pp. 1211--1214, 2018.

  47. Characterization and model validation of mismatch in nanometer CMOS at cryogenic temperatures
    van Dijk, JPG; Babaie, M; Charbon, E; Vladimircscu, A; Sebastiano, F; others;
    In 2018 48th European Solid-State Device Research Conference (ESSDERC),
    IEEE, pp. 246--249, 2018.

  48. A Total-Power Radiometer Front End in a 0.25- $mu textm$ BiCMOS Technology With Low $1/f$ -Corner
    S. Malotaux; M. Babaie; M. Spirito;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 52, Issue 9, pp. 2256-2266, Sept 2017. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2017.2705659
    Keywords: ... 1/f noise;BiCMOS integrated circuits;Ge-Si alloys;carbon;low noise amplifiers;millimetre wave amplifiers;millimetre wave detectors;radiometers;semiconductor materials;white noise;1/f -noise corner;BiCMOS technology;LNA;NEP;SiGe:C;bandwidth 6 GHz;frequency 56 GHz;heterojunction bipolar transistor;high-sensitivity millimeter-wave total-power radiometer front-end;large area high resistive value load resistor;low noise-equivalent power;low transformation ratio;optimum bias;size 0.25 nm;two cascode stage low-noise amplifier;voltage-driven common-emitter square-law detector;white noise;wideband signal transfer;Antennas;Bandwidth;BiCMOS integrated circuits;Detectors;Radio frequency;Radiometry;Signal to noise ratio;Direct detection;flicker noise;low-noise amplifier (LNA);millimeter-wave (mm-wave);radiometer;square-law detector.

  49. Tuning range extension of a transformer-based oscillator through common-mode Colpitts resonance
    M. Shahmohammadi; M. Babaie; R. B. Staszewski;
    IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems I (TCAS-I),,
    Volume 64, Issue 4, pp. 836–846, April 2017. DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2016.2625199

  50. 60 GHz wideband class E/F 2 power amplifier
    Babaie, Masoud; Staszewski, Robert Bogdan;
    2017.

  51. A Bluetooth low-energy transceiver with 3.7-mW all-digital transmitter, 2.75-mW high-IF discrete-time receiver, and TX/RX switchable on-chip matching network
    Kuo, Feng-Wei; Ferreira, Sandro Binsfeld; Chen, Huan-Neng Ron; Cho, Lan-Chou; Jou, Chewn-Pu; Hsueh, Fu-Lung; Madadi, Iman; Tohidian, Massoud; Shahmohammadi, Mina; Babaie, Masoud; others;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 52, Issue 4, pp. 1144--1162, 2017.

  52. System design of a 2.75-mW discrete-time superheterodyne receiver for Bluetooth low energy
    Ferreira, Sandro Binsfeld; Kuo, Feng-Wei; Babaie, Masoud; Bampi, Sergio; Staszewski, Robert Bogdan;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 65, Issue 5, pp. 1904--1913, 2017.

  53. 15.5 Cryo-CMOS circuits and systems for scalable quantum computing
    E. Charbon; F. Sebastiano; M. Babaie; A. Vladimirescu; M. Shahmohammadi; R. B. Staszewski; H. A. R. Homulle; B. Patra; J. P. G. van Dijk; R. M. Incandela; L. Song; B. Valizadehpasha;
    In 2017 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC),
    pp. 264-265, Feb 2017. DOI: 10.1109/ISSCC.2017.7870362
    Keywords: ... Cryogenics;Oscillators;Program processors;Quantum computing;Semiconductor device modeling;Substrates;Temperature sensors.

  54. Cryo-CMOS electronic control for scalable quantum computing
    Sebastiano, Fabio; Homulle, Harald; Patra, Bishnu; Incandela, Rosario; van Dijk, Jeroen; Song, Lin; Babaie, Masoud; Vladimirescu, Andrei; Charbon, Edoardo;
    In Proceedings of the 54th Annual Design Automation Conference 2017,
    pp. 1--6, 2017.

  55. Cryogenic CMOS interfaces for quantum devices
    Sebastiano, Fabio; Homulle, Harald AR; van Dijk, Jeroen PG; Incandela, Rosario M; Patra, Bishnu; Mehrpoo, Mohammadreza; Babaie, Masoud; Vladimirescu, Andrei; Charbon, Edoardo;
    In 2017 7th IEEE International Workshop on Advances in Sensors and Interfaces (IWASI),
    IEEE, pp. 59--62, 2017.

  56. A 350-mV 2.4-GHz quadrature oscillator with nearly instantaneous start-up using series LC tanks
    Chen, Yue; Babaie, Masoud; Staszewski, Robert Bogdan;
    In 2017 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC),
    IEEE, pp. 104--108, 2017.

  57. Transformer based impedance matching network and related power amplifier, ADPLL and transmitter based thereon
    Babaie, Masoud; Staszewski, Robert Bogdan;
    November~28 2017. US Patent 9,831,847.

  58. Radio frequency oscillator
    Shahmohammadi, Mina; Babaie, Masoud; Staszewski, Robert Bogdan;
    November~9 2017. US Patent App. 15/659,322.

  59. Resonator circuit
    Shahmohammadi, Mina; Babaie, Masoud; Staszewski, Robert Bogdan;
    December~21 2017. US Patent App. 15/659,204.

  60. A 1/f Noise Upconversion Reduction Technique for Voltage-Biased RF CMOS Oscillators
    M. Shahmohammadi; M. Babaie; R. B. Staszewski;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 51, Issue 11, pp. 2610-2624, Nov 2016. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2016.2602214
    Keywords: ... 1/f noise;CMOS integrated circuits;LC circuits;flicker noise;harmonics suppression;interference suppression;phase noise;radiofrequency oscillators;1/f noise upconversion reduction technique;CMOS technology;class-D oscillators;class-F oscillators;common mode excitations;current harmonics;differential mode excitations;equivalent resistance;flicker noise upconversion;inductor based tanks;phase noise;tank current;transformer based tanks;voltage biased RF CMOS oscillators;Capacitors;Harmonic analysis;Oscillators;Radio frequency;Resistors;Resonant frequency;Transistors;Class-D oscillator;class-F oscillator;digitally controlled oscillator;flicker noise;flicker noise upconversion;impulse sensitivity function (ISF);phase noise (PN);voltage-biased RF oscillator.

  61. A Fully Integrated Bluetooth Low-Energy Transmitter in 28 nm CMOS With 36\% System Efficiency at 3 dBm
    M. Babaie; F. W. Kuo; H. N. R. Chen; L. C. Cho; C. P. Jou; F. L. Hsueh; M. Shahmohammadi; R. B. Staszewski;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 51, Issue 7, pp. 1547-1565, July 2016. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2016.2551738
    Keywords: ... Bluetooth;CMOS digital integrated circuits;MOSFET circuits;constant current sources;digital phase locked loops;low-power electronics;oscillators;radio transmitters;radiofrequency integrated circuits;radiofrequency power amplifiers;1/f noise reduction;Bluetooth low-energy mode;CMOS transistors;all-digital PLL;class-E-F2 switching power amplifier;digitally controlled oscillator;direct DCO data modulation;efficiency 36 percent;energy-hungry RF circuits;fully integrated Bluetooth low-energy transmitter architecture;metal density;power 3.6 mW;power 5.5 mW;sampling rate reduction;size 28 nm;supply voltage reduction;switching current sources;threshold voltage;ultra-low power radios;CMOS integrated circuits;Inductors;Oscillators;Q-factor;Radio frequency;Radio transmitters;Switches;All-digital PLL;Bluetooth Low-Energy;Internet of Things (IoT);class-E/F 2 power amplifier;low-power transmitter;low-voltage oscillator;switching current-source oscillator.

  62. A 60 GHz Frequency Generator Based on a 20 GHz Oscillator and an Implicit Multiplier
    Z. Zong; M. Babaie; R. B. Staszewski;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 51, Issue 5, pp. 1261-1273, May 2016. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2016.2528997
    Keywords: ... CMOS digital integrated circuits;field effect MIMIC;frequency multipliers;millimetre wave frequency convertors;millimetre wave oscillators;phase noise;FoM;PN performance;digital CMOS process;extraction techniques;figure-of-merit;frequency 20 GHz;frequency 57.8 GHz;frequency 60 GHz;frequency generator;frequency tuning range;implicit multiplier;local oscillator signal;mm-wave frequency generation technique;phase detection;phase noise performance;phase-locked loop;power efficiency;size 40 nm;third-harmonic boosting techniques;Boosting;Frequency conversion;Harmonic analysis;Oscillators;Phase locked loops;Power demand;Resonant frequency;60 GHz;60 GHz;PLL;frequency divider;harmonic boosting;harmonic extraction;implicit multiplier;mm-wave;oscillator;phase noise (PN);transformer.

  63. A Bluetooth low-energy (BLE) transceiver with TX/RX switchable on-chip matching network, 2.75mW high-IF discrete-time receiver, and 3.6mW all-digital transmitter
    F. W. Kuo; S. B. Ferreira; M. Babaie; R. Chen; L. c. Cho; C. P. Jou; F. L. Hsueh; G. Huang; I. Madadi; M. Tohidian; R. B. Staszewski;
    In 2016 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits (VLSI-Circuits),
    pp. 1-2, June 2016. DOI: 10.1109/VLSIC.2016.7573480
    Keywords: ... Bluetooth;Internet of Things;MOS integrated circuits;band-pass filters;oscillators;phase locked loops;radio transceivers;radio transmitters;1-pin direct antenna connection;Bluetooth LE;Bluetooth low-energy transceiver;CMOS;Internet-of-Things;IoT;MOS devices;TX/RX switchable on-chip matching network;The receiver;all-digital PLL;all-digital transmitter;discrete-time architecture;high-IF discrete-time receiver;integrated on-chip matching network;multirate charge-sharing bandpass filters;power 2.75 mW;power 3.6 mW;power consumption;size 28 nm;switched-current-source digitally controlled oscillator;transmitter;ultra-low-power transceiver;Band-pass filters;Capacitors;Gain;Power demand;Switches;System-on-chip;Transceivers.

  64. Power Efficient RF/mm-wave Oscillators and Power Amplifiers for Wireless Applications
    M. Babaie;
    PhD thesis, Delft University of Technology, http://doi.org/10.4233/uuid:456a2f0e-529d-4bd8-91e0-4dba4f623f0f, 6 2016. Promotor: R.B. Staszewski.

  65. An Ultra-Low Phase Noise Class-F 2 CMOS Oscillator With 191 dBc/Hz FoM and Long-Term Reliability
    M. Babaie; R. B. Staszewski;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 50, Issue 3, pp. 679-692, March 2015.

  66. A fully integrated 28nm Bluetooth Low-Energy transmitter with 36% system efficiency at 3dBm
    F. W. Kuo; M. Babaie; R. Chen; K. Yen; J. Y. Chien; L. Cho; F. Kuo; C. P. Jou; F. L. Hsueh; R. B. Staszewski;
    In ESSCIRC Conference 2015 - 41st European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC),
    pp. 356-359, Sept 2015.

  67. 25.4 A 1/f noise upconversion reduction technique applied to Class-D and Class-F oscillators
    M. Shahmohammadi; M. Babaie; R. B. Staszewski;
    In 2015 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference - (ISSCC) Digest of Technical Papers,
    pp. 1-3, Feb 2015.

  68. A 60 GHz 25% tuning range frequency generator with implicit divider based on third harmonic extraction with 182 dBc/Hz FoM
    Z. Zong; M. Babaie; R. B. Staszewski;
    In 2015 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC),
    pp. 279-282, May 2015.

  69. A 0.5V 0.5mW switching current source oscillator
    M. Babaie; M. Shahmohammadi; R. B. Staszewski;
    In 2015 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC),
    pp. 183-186, May 2015.

  70. A wideband 60 GHz class-E/F2 power amplifier in 40nm CMOS
    M. Babaie; R. B. Staszewski; L. Galatro; M. Spirito;
    In 2015 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC),
    pp. 215-218, May 2015.

  71. A 12mW all-digital PLL based on class-F DCO for 4G phones in 28nm CMOS
    Feng-Wei Kuo; R. Chen; K. Yen; Hsien-Yuan Liao; Chewn-Pu Jou; Fu-Lung Hsueh; M. Babaie; R. B. Staszewski;
    In 2014 Symposium on VLSI Circuits Digest of Technical Papers,
    pp. 1-2, June 2014.

  72. A Class-F CMOS Oscillator
    M. Babaie; R. B. Staszewski;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 48, Issue 12, pp. 3120-3133, Dec 2013.

  73. Ultra-low phase noise 7.2 #x2013;8.7 Ghz clip-and-restore oscillator with 191 dBc/Hz FoM
    M. Babaie; A. Visweswaran; Z. He; R. B. Staszewski;
    In 2013 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC),
    pp. 43-46, June 2013.

  74. A study of RF oscillator reliability in nanoscale CMOS
    M. Babaie; R. B. Staszewski;
    In 2013 European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design (ECCTD),
    pp. 1-4, Sept 2013.

  75. Third-harmonic injection technique applied to a 5.87-to-7.56GHz 65nm CMOS Class-F oscillator with 192dBc/Hz FOM
    M. Babaie; R. B. Staszewski;
    In 2013 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference Digest of Technical Papers,
    pp. 348-349, Feb 2013.

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