Department of Microelectronics
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science

dr. Yue Chen

PhD student
Electronic Circuits and Architectures (ELCA), Department of Microelectronics

PhD thesis (Mar 2022): Supply-Insensitive Frequency Synthesis for an LDO-Free Powering Scheme in SoCs
Promotor: Masoud Babaie, Bogdan Staszewski

Themes: Autonomous sensor systems, XG - Next Generation Sensing and Communication

Biography

Yue Chen is a PhD candidate researcher at Delft University of Technology (TUDelft), since Sep. 2014. Before he joined ELCA, he received the B.E. degree and master degree in electronic engineering from Xian Jiaotong University, Xian, China, in 2011 and 2014, respectively.

Digitally Dominant Analog Blocks for Ultra-Low-Power Wireless Sensor Network

All-digital phase-locked loops, inductor/capacitor-based DC-DC switching converters

  1. 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.

  2. Analysis and Design of Power Supply Circuits for RF Oscillators
    Alessandro Urso; Yue Chen; Johan F. Dijkhuis; Yao-Hong Liu; Masoud Babaie; Wouter A. Serdijn;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers,
    04 September 2020. DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2020.3020001
    document

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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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.

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

  9. 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.

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Last updated: 20 Jun 2022

Yue Chen

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  • Left in 2020