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Peer Reviewed Technical Journals from Core Projects

Thrust I: Energy Harvesting and Storage

  1. Richa Agrawal and Chunlei Wang. “On-Chip Asymmetric Microsupercapacitors Combining Reduced Graphene Oxide and Manganese Oxide for High Energy-Power Tradeoff”. In: Micromachines 9.8 (2018), p. 399
  2. Joseph B Andrews, Kunal Mondal, Taylor V Neumann, et al. “Patterned liquid metal contacts for printed carbon nanotube transistors”. In: ACS nano 12.6 (2018), pp. 5482–5488
  3. Amir Reza Aref, Chih-Chuan Chou, Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan, et al. “Bimodal porous carbon electrodes derived from polyfurfuryl alcohol/phloroglucinol for ionic liquid based electrical double layer capacitors”. In: Journal of Materials Research 33.9 (2018), pp. 1189–1198
  4. Amir Reza Aref, Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan, and Clive A Randall. “High-Voltage Stability of Ionic-Liquid- Based Electrochemical Double Layer Capacitors with a Bimodal Porous Carbon Electrode”. In: ChemElectroChem 5.22 (2018), pp. 3460–3467
  5. Meredith H Barbee, Kunal Mondal, John Z Deng, et al. “Mechanochromic Stretchable Electronics”. In: ACS applied materials & interfaces 10.35 (2018), pp. 29918–29924
  6. Ishan D Joshipura, Hudson R Ayers, Gilbert A Castillo, et al. “Patterning and Reversible Actuation of Liquid Gallium Alloys by Preventing Adhesion on Rough Surfaces”. In: ACS applied materials & interfaces 10.51 (2018), pp. 44686–44695
  7. Payam Norouzzadeh, Kenneth F Ede, and Daryoosh Vashaee. “The effect of nanostructuring on the spectral population of electrons and phonons”. In: Journal of Alloys and Compounds 753 (2018), pp. 234–238
  8. Amin Nozariasbmarz, Kelvin Dsouza, and Daryoosh Vashaee. “Field induced decrystallization of silicon: Evidence of a microwave non-thermal effect”. In: Applied Physics Letters 112.9 (2018), p. 093103
  9. Sungjune Park, Kunal Mondal, Robert M Treadway III, et al. “Silicones for Stretchable and Durable Soft Devices: Beyond Sylgard-184”. In: ACS applied materials & interfaces 10.13 (2018), pp. 11261–11268
  10. Shad Roundy and Susan Trolier-McKinstry. “Materials and approaches for on-body energy harvesting”. In: MRS Bulletin 43.3 (2018), pp. 206–213
  11. Binh Duc Truong and Shad Roundy. “Wireless power transfer system with center-clamped magneto-mechano-electric (MME) receiver: model validation and efficiency investigation”. In: Smart Materials and Structures 28.1 (2018), p. 015004
  12. Binh Duc Truong, Caleb Roundy, Erik Andersen, et al. “Analysis of resonance and anti-resonance frequencies in a wireless power transfer system: analytical model and experiments”. In: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs (2018)
  13. Tiancheng Xue, Shane Williams, Robert Rantz, et al. “System Modeling, Characterization, and Design Considerations for Generators in Commercial Watches With Application to Energy Harvesting for Wearables”. In: IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics 23.5 (2018), pp. 2515–2524
  14. Tiancheng Xue, Hong Goo Yeo, Susan Trolier-McKinstry, et al. “Wearable inertial energy harvester with sputtered bimorph lead zirconate titanate (PZT) thin-film beams”. In: Smart Materials and Structures 27.8 (2018), p. 085026
  15. Hong Goo Yeo and Susan Trolier-McKinstry. “Effect of piezoelectric layer thickness and poling conditions on the performance of cantilever piezoelectric energy harvesters on Ni foils”. In: Sensors and Actuators A: Physical 273 (2018), pp. 90–97
  16. Hong Goo Yeo, Tiancheng Xue, Shad Roundy, et al. “Strongly (001) Oriented Bimorph PZT Film on Metal Foils Grown by rf-Sputtering for Wrist-Worn Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters”. In: Advanced Functional Materials 28.36 (2018), p. 1801327

Thrust II: Emerging Nanodevices and Architecture

  1. Xueqing Li, Sumitha George, Yuhua Liang, et al. “Lowering Area Overheads for FeFET-Based Energy-Efficient Nonvolatile Flip-Flops”. In: IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices 65.6 (2018), pp. 2670–2674
  2. Kaisheng Ma, Jinyang Li, Xueqing Li, et al. “IAA: Incidental Approximate Architectures for Extremely Energy-Constrained Energy Harvesting Scenarios using IoT Nonvolatile Processors”. In: IEEE Micro 38.4 (2018), pp. 11–19

Thrust III: Low Power Wearable Sensors

  1. Michael Lim, Steven Mills, Bongmook Lee, et al. “Investigation of O 3 Adsorption on Ultra-Thin ALD SnO 2 by QCM”. in: IEEE Sensors Journal 18.9 (2018), pp. 3590–3594
  2. Pandiaraj Manickam, Renny Edwin Fernandez, Yogeswaran Umasankar, et al. “Salivary cortisol analysis using metalloporphyrins and multi-walled carbon nanotubes nanocomposite functionalized electrodes”. In: Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical 274 (2018), pp. 47–53
  3. Sohini RoyChoudhury, Yogeswaran Umasankar, Jose Jaller, et al. “Continuous Monitoring of Wound Healing Using a Wearable Enzymatic Uric Acid Biosensor”. In: Journal of The Electrochemical Society 165.8 (2018), B3168–B3175
  4. Sohini RoyChoudhury, Yogeswaran Umasankar, Joshua D Hutcheson, et al. “Uricase Based Enzymatic Biosensor for Non-Invasive Detection of Uric Acid by Entrapment in PVA-SbQ Polymer Matrix”. In: Electroanalysis 30.10 (2018), pp. 2374–2385
  5. Tim Shay, Orlin D Velev, and Michael D Dickey. “Soft electrodes combining hydrogel and liquid metal”. In: Soft matter 14.17 (2018), pp. 3296–3303

Thrust IV: Low Power Systems-on-Chip

  1. Abdullah Alghaihab, Hun-Seok Kim, and David D Wentzloff. “Analysis of Circuit Noise and Non-ideal Filtering Impact on Energy Detection Based Ultra-Low-Power Radios Performance”. In: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs (2018)
  2. Avish Kosari, Jacob Breiholz, NingXi Liu, et al. “A 0.5 V 68 nW ECG Monitoring Analog Front-End for Arrhythmia Diagnosis”. In: Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications 8.3 (2018), p. 27
  3. Christopher John Lukas, Farah Yahya, Jacob Breiholz, et al. “A 1.02 μW Battery-less, Continuous Sensing and Post-processing SiP for Wearable Applications”. In: IEEE transactions on biomedical circuits and systems (2019)
  4. Farah Yahya, Christopher Lukas, and Benton Calhoun. “A Top-Down Approach to Building Battery-Less Self-Powered Systems for the Internet-of-Things”. In: Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications 8.2 (2018), p. 21
  5. Taiwei Yue, Zhi Hao Jiang, and Douglas H Werner. “A Compact Metasurface-Enabled Dual-Band Dual-Circularly-Polarized Antenna Loaded With Complementary Split Ring Resonators”. In: IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation (2018)

Engineered Systems and Testbeds

  1. Cemile Aksu, Wade Ingram, Philip D Bradford, et al. “Laser-etch patterning of metal oxide coated carbon nanotube 3D architectures”. In: Nanotechnology 29.33 (2018), p. 335302
  2. Hasan Shahariar, Inhwan Kim, Henry Soewardiman, et al. “Inkjet Printing of Reactive Silver Ink on Textiles”. In: ACS applied materials & interfaces (2019)

Conference Proceedings from Core Projects

Thrust I: Energy Harvesting and Storage

  1. Shad Roundy, Robert Rantz, Tiancheng Xue, et al. “Inertial Energy Harvesting for Wearables”. In: 2018 IEEE SENSORS. IEEE. 2018, pp. 1–4

Thrust II: Emerging Nanodevices and Architecture

  1. Matthew Jerry, Jeffrey A Smith, Kai Ni, et al. “Insinhts on the DC Characterization of Ferroelectric Field-Effect-Transistors”. In: 2018 76th Device Research Conference (DRC). IEEE. 2018, pp. 1–2
  2. K Ni, B Grisafe, W Chakraborty, et al. “In-Memory Computing Primitive for Sensor Data Fusion in 28 nm HKMG FeFET Technology”. In: 2018 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM). IEEE. 2018, pp. 16–1

Thrust III: Low Power Wearable Sensors

  1. Fatma Patlar Akbulut, Kevin Lawless, Akhilesh Tanneeru, et al. “Estimation of Beat-to-Beat Interval from Wearable Photoplethysmography Sensor on Different Measurement Sites During Daily Activities”. In: 2018 IEEE SENSORS. IEEE. 2018, pp. 1–4
  2. MM Mahmud, N Constantino, C Seok, et al. “A CMUT-Based Electronic Nose for Real-Time Monitoring of Volatiles Emitted by Plants: Preliminary Results”. In: 2018 IEEE SENSORS. IEEE. 2018, pp. 1–4
  3. Sohini Royhoudhury, Apoorva Shah, Ishaan Shah, et al. “Nano-Composite Enzymatic Xanthine Biosensor for Wound Diagnostics”. In: 2018 IEEE SENSORS. IEEE. 2018, pp. 1–4
  4. Sohini RoyChoudhury, Pulak Bhushan, Yogeswaran Umasankar, et al. “Multimodal Enzymatic Sensing for Continuous Wound Monitoring”. In: ECS Transactions 88.1 (2018), pp. 419–426
  5. Apurva Sonawane, Mubarak A Mujawar, and Shekhar Bhansali. “Cold Atmospheric Plasma Annealing of Plasmonic Silver Nanoparticles”. In: ECS Transactions 88.1 (2018), pp. 197–201
  6. Akhilesh Tanneeru, Zachary Taylor, Bongmook Lee, et al. “Highly Sensitive ALD SnO2 Sensors and the Role of its Thickness in Gas Sensing Capabilities”. In: 2018 IEEE SENSORS. IEEE. 2018, pp. 1–3
  7. Akhilesh Tanneeru, Bongmook Lee, and Veena Misra. “Building Blocks of a New ALD E-Nose-A First Step: N-Type and P-Type ALD Sensors”. In: 2018 IEEE SENSORS. IEEE. 2018, pp. 1–3
  8. Yogeswaran Umasankar, Mubarak Mujawar, and Shekhar Bhansali. “Towards Biosensor Enabled Smart Bandages for Wound Monitoring: Approach and Overview”. In: 2018 IEEE SENSORS. IEEE. 2018, pp. 1–4

Thrust IV: Low Power Systems-on-Chip

  1. Xing Chen, Jacob Breiholz, Farah Yahya, et al. “A 486 μW All-Digital Bluetooth Low Energy Transmitter with Ring Oscillator Based ADPLL for IoT applications”. In: 2018 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC). IEEE. 2018, pp. 168–171
  2. Christopher J Lukas, Farah B Yahya, and Benton H Calhoun. “An Ultra-low Power System On Chip Enabling DVS with SR Level Shifting Latches”. In: Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2018 IEEE International Symposium on. IEEE. 2018, pp. 1–4
  3. Idellyse Martinez and Douglas H Werner. “Circular-Polarized Textile Based Antenna for Wearable Body Area Networks”. In: 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation & USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting. IEEE. 2018, pp. 1195–1196
  4. Daniel S Truesdell and Benton H Calhoun. “Channel Length Sizing for Power Minimization in Leakage-Dominated Digital Circuits”. In: 2018 IEEE SOI-3D-Subthreshold Microelectronics Technology Unified Conference (S3S). IEEE. 2018, pp. 1–2
  5. Taiwei Yue and Douglas H Werner. “A Compact Dual-Band Antenna Based on SIW Technology”. In: 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation & USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting. IEEE. 2018, pp. 779–780

Engineered Systems and Testbeds

  1. Dawei Fan, Luis Lopez Ruiz, and John Lach. “Application-driven dynamic power management for self-powered vigilant monitoring”. In: 2018 IEEE 15th International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks (BSN). IEEE. 2018, pp. 210–213
  2. Laura Gonzalez, Boxuan Zhong, and Edgar Lobaton. “A Framework for Physiological Response Prediction with Joint Activity State optimization”. In: 2018 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC). IEEE. 2018, pp. 4623–4626
  3. Farrokh Mohammadzadeh, Chang S Nam, and Edgar Lobaton. “Prediction of Physiological Response over Varying Forecast Lengths with a Wearable Health Monitoring Platform”. In: 2018 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC). IEEE. 2018, pp. 437–440
  4. Tahzib Safwat, Zoubeida Ounaies, and Christopher D Rahn. “Modeling and design of electromagnetic and piezoelectric chest strain energy harvesters including soft tissue effects”. In: Active and Passive Smart Structures and Integrated Systems XII. vol. 10595. International Society for Optics and Photonics. 2018, 105951W
  5. Nathan Starliper, Farrokh Mohammadzadeh, Tanner Songkakul, et al. “Activity-Aware Wearable System for Power-Efficient Prediction of Physiological Responses”. In: Sensors 19.3 (2019), p. 441

Publications Resulting from Associated and Sponsored Projects

Peer Reviewed Technical Journals from Associated and Sponsored Projects

Thrust I: Energy Harvesting and Storage

  1. Michael Del Monico, Mohammadreza Tahriri, Mina D Fahmy, et al. “Cartilage and facial muscle tissue engineering and regeneration: a mini review”. In: Bio-Design and Manufacturing (2018), pp. 1–8
  2. Dixiong Wang, Hanzheng Guo, Carl S Morandi, et al. “Cold sintering and electrical characterization of lead zirconate titanate piezoelectric ceramics”. In: APL Materials 6.1 (2018), p. 016101
  3. Jingni Zhong, Dieff Vital, Shubhendu Bhardwaj, et al. “2.45 GHz Wearable RF-Harvester for Large Area Textile Harvester (LATH) Integration”. In: 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation & USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting. IEEE. 2018, pp. 2549–2550

Thrust II: Emerging Nanodevices and Architecture

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Thrust III: Low Power Wearable Sensors

  1. Rita Brugarolas, Sherrie Yuschak, Darcy Adin, et al. “Simultaneous Monitoring of Canine Heart Rate and Respiratory Patterns During Scent Detection Tasks”. In: IEEE Sensors Journal 19.4 (2019), pp. 1454–1462
  2. Ahmed H Jalal, Fahmida Alam, Sohini Roychoudhury, et al. “Prospects and challenges of volatile organic compound sensors in human healthcare”. In: ACS sensors 3.7 (2018), pp. 1246–1263
  3. Coralie Siebman, Orlin Velev, and Vera Slaveykova. “Probing Contaminant-Induced Alterations in Chlorophyll Fluorescence by AC-Dielectrophoresis-Based 2D-Algal Array”. In: Biosensors 8.1 (2018), p. 15
  4. Kristina R Rivera, Vladimir A Pozdin, Ashlyn T Young, et al. “Integrated phosphorescence-based photonic biosensor (iPOB) for monitoring oxygen levels in 3D cell culture systems”. In: Biosensors and Bioelectronics 123 (2019), pp. 131–140
  5. Teng Su, Ke Huang, Michael A Daniele, et al. “Cardiac Stem Cell Patch Integrated with Microengineered Blood Vessels Promotes Cardiomyocyte Proliferation and Neovascularization after Acute Myocardial Infarction”. In: ACS applied materials & interfaces 10.39 (2018), pp. 33088–33096
  6. D. Vital, J. Zhong, S. Bhardwaj, et al. “Loss-Characterization and Guidelines for Embroidery of Conductive Textiles”. In: 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting. July 2018, pp. 1301–1302. DOI: 10 . 1109 / APUSNCURSINRSM . 2018 . 8609304
  7. Michael D Wilkins, Brendan L Turner, Kristina R Rivera, et al. “Quantum dot enabled lateral flow immunoassay for detection of cardiac biomarker NT-proBNP”. in: Sensing and bio-sensing research 21 (2018), pp. 46–53
  8. Bailey Zwarycz, Adam D Gracz, Kristina R Rivera, et al. “IL22 inhibits epithelial stem cell expansion in an ileal organoid model”. In: Cellular and molecular gastroenterology and hepatology 7.1 (2019), pp. 1–17

Thrust IV: Low Power Systems-on-Chip

  1. Sheikh Z Ahmed, Yaohua Tan, Daniel S Truesdell, et al. “Modeling tunnel field effect transistors—From interface chemistry to non-idealities to circuit level performance”. In: Journal of Applied Physics 124.15 (2018), p. 154503

Engineered Systems and Testbeds

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Conference Proceedings from Associated and Sponsored Projects

Thrust I: Energy Harvesting and Storage

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Thrust II: Emerging Nanodevices and Architecture

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Thrust III: Low Power Wearable Sensors

  1. Abdullah Alghaihab, Jacob Breiholz, Hun-Seok Kim, et al. “A 150 μW- 57.5 dBm-Sensitivity Bluetooth Low-Energy Back-Channel Receiver with LO Frequency Hopping”. In: 2018 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC). IEEE. 2018, pp. 324–327
  2. Eric C Beppler, James P Dieffenderfer, Charles D Hood, et al. “Accelerometer based Active Snore Detection for Behavioral Modification”. In: 2018 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC). IEEE. 2018, pp. 2881–2884
  3. Marc Foster, Patrick Erb, Brenna Plank, et al. “3D-Printed Electrocardiogram Electrodes for Heart Rate Detection in Canines”. In: 2018 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS). IEEE. 2018, pp. 1–4
  4. Marc Foster, Eric Beppler, Timothy Holder, et al. “A System for Assessment of Canine-Human Interaction during Animal-Assisted Therapies”. In: 2018 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC). IEEE. 2018, pp. 4347–4350
  5. James Reynolds, Parvez Ahmmed, and Alper Bozkurt. “Preliminary Evaluation of an Injectable Sensor for Subcutaneous Photoplethysmography in Animals”. In: 2018 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS). IEEE. 2018, pp. 1–4

Thrust IV: Low Power Systems-on-Chip

  1. Arijit Banerjee, Sumanth Kamineni, and Benton H Calhoun. “Multiple Combined Write-Read Peripheral Assists in 6T FinFET SRAMs for Low-VMIN IoT and Cognitive Applications”. In: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design. ACM. 2018, p. 32
  2. Steven M Bowers, Pouyan Bassirian, Anming Gao, et al. Nanowatt Level Wake-Up Receivers Using Co-Designed CMOS-MEMS Technologies. Tech. rep. University of Virginia Charlottesville, 2018
  3. Divya Akella Kamakshi, Xinfei Guo, Harsh N Patel, et al. “A post-silicon hold time closure technique using data-path tunable-buffers for variation-tolerance in sub-threshold designs”. In: 2018 19th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED). IEEE. 2018, pp. 341–346
  4. Ningxi Liu, Rishika Agarwala, Anjana Dissanayake, et al. “A 2.5 ppm/o C 1.05 MHz Relaxation Oscillator with Dynamic Frequency-Error Compensation and 8 μs Start-up Time”. In: ESSCIRC 2018-IEEE 44th European Solid State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC). IEEE. 2018, pp. 150–153
  5. J. Moody, P. Bassirian, A. Roy, et al. “A -76dBm 7.4nW wakeup radio with automatic offset compensation”. In: 2018 IEEE International Solid – State Circuits Conference – (ISSCC). Feb. 2018, pp. 452–454. DOI: 10.1109/ISSCC.2018.8310379

Engineered Systems and Testbeds

  1. Henry L Bishop, Peng Wang, Dawei Fan, et al. “Lighting IoT Test Environment (LITE) Platform: Evaluating Light Powered, Energy HarvestingEmbedded Systems”. In: 2018 Global Internet of Things Summit (GIoTS). IEEE. 2018, pp. 1–6