{"id":17,"date":"2016-10-27T20:32:40","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T20:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/template\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2021-08-12T18:43:20","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T18:43:20","slug":"publications","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/rashtian\/publications\/","title":{"rendered":"Publications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Engineering Education:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Journal Papers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[J1] M. del Rosario, N. Hosein, T. Ambrose, R. Amirtharajah, A. Knoesen and H. Rashtian, \u201cEnabling student success in an online lab-based circuits course,\u2019 <em><strong>Advances In Engineering Education: the impact on Engineering Education of the COVID-19 Epidemic (special issue)<\/strong><\/em>, vol. 8, no. 4, fall 2020.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conference Papers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[C3] J. Ouyang and H. Rashtian, \u201cWork in progress: experiential modules using Texas Instruments Robotic System Learning Kit (TI RSLK) for teaching control systems,\u201d in Proceeding of <em><strong>the 2020 American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Virtual Conference, <\/strong><\/em>June 2020.<\/p>\n<p>[C2] S. Nguyen, A. Knoesen, and H. Rashtian, &#8220;A new curriculum to teach system-level understanding to sophomore electrical engineering students using a music-following robot,&#8221; in Proceeding of <strong>the<\/strong> <em><strong>2019 American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference<\/strong><\/em>, Tampa, FL, USA, June 2019.<\/p>\n<p>[C1] H. Rashtian and J. Ouyang, &#8220;A new application-oriented electronic circuit course for non-electrical engineering students using Arduino and NI VirtualBench,&#8221; in <em>Proceeding of <strong>the<\/strong> <strong>2017 American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference<\/strong><\/em>, Columbus, OH, USA, June 2017.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Integrated Circuit Design:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Journal Papers and Letters:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[J12] H. Rashtian and O. Momeni, &#8220;Gain boosting in distributed amplifiers for close-to-<em>f<sub>max<\/sub><\/em> operation in silicon,&#8221; <em><strong>IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/em>vol. 67, no. 3, pp. 1039 &#8211; 1049, March 2019.<\/p>\n<p>[J11] H. Wang, J. Chen, J. T. S. Do, H. Rashtian, and X. Liu, &#8220;High-efficiency millimeter-wave single-ended and differential fundamental oscillators in CMOS,&#8221;\u00a0<em><strong>IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/em>vol. 53, no. 8, pp. 2151-2163, August 2018.<\/p>\n<p>[J10] A. H. Masnadi Shirazi, H. Rashtian, R. Molavi, T. Taris, H. Miri Lavasani and S. Mirabbasi, \u201cOn the design of combined LNA-VCO-Mixer for low-power low-voltage CMOS receiver front-ends,\u201d <em><strong>Microelectronics Journal<\/strong>, <\/em>vol. 57, issue. 11, pp. 34-47, November 2016.<\/p>\n<p>[J9] X. Yu, H. Rashtian, S. Mirabbasi, P. P. Pande, and D. Heo, \u201cAn 18.7-Gb\/s 60-GHz OOK demodulator in 65-nm CMOS for wireless network-on-chip,\u201d <strong><em>IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers<\/em><\/strong>, vol. 62, no. 3, pp. 799-806, March 2015.<\/p>\n<p>[J8] T. Taris, H. Rashtian, A. H. Masnadi Shirazi, and S. Mirabbasi, \u201cA low-power 2.4-GHz combined LNA-VCO structure in 0.13-\u03bcm CMOS,\u201d <strong><em>Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing<\/em><\/strong><em>, <\/em>vol. 81, no. 3, pp. 667-675, December 2014.<\/p>\n<p>[J7] X. Yu, S. P. Sah, H. Rashtian, S. Mirabbasi, D. Heo, and P. P. Pande, \u201cA 1.2-pJ\/bit 16-Gb\/s 60-GHz OOK transmitter in 65-nm CMOS for wireless network-on-chip,\u201d <strong><em>IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques<\/em><\/strong>, vol. 62, no. 10, pp. 2357-2369, October 2014.<\/p>\n<p>[J6] H. Rashtian, A. H. Masnadi Shirazi, and S. Mirabbasi, \u201cOn the use of body biasing to improve linearity in low LO-power CMOS active mixers,\u201d <strong><em>Microelectronics Journal<\/em><\/strong><em>, <\/em>vol. 45, issue. 8, pp. 1026-1032, August 2014.<\/p>\n<p>[J5] H. Rashtian and S. Mirabbasi, \u201cApplications of body biasing in multi-stage CMOS low-noise amplifiers,\u201d <strong><em>IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers<\/em><\/strong><em>, <\/em>vol. 61, no. 6, pp. 1638 &#8211; 1647, June 2014.<\/p>\n<p>[J4] H. Rashtian and S. Mirabbasi, \u201cDesign and layout techniques for a mm-wave body-biased variable-gain amplifier,\u201d <strong><em>International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering<\/em><\/strong><em>, <\/em>vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 470-477, July 2014.<\/p>\n<p>[J3] A. Zargaran-Yazd, K. Keikhosravy, H. Rashtian, and S. Mirabbasi, \u201cA hardware-efficient phase-detection technique for digital clock and data recovery,\u201d <strong><em>Electronics Letters<\/em><\/strong><em>, <\/em>vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 20-22, January 2013.<\/p>\n<p>[J2] H. Rashtian, S. Mirabbasi, T. Taris, Y. Deval, and J. B. Begueret, \u201cA 4-stage 60-GHz low-noise amplifier in 65-nm CMOS with body-biasing to control gain, linearity, and input matching,\u201d <strong><em>Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing<\/em><\/strong>, vol. 73, no. 3, pp. 757-768, December 2012.<\/p>\n<p>[J1] H. Rashtian and S. Mirabbasi, \u201cUsing body biasing to control phase-noise of CMOS <em>LC<\/em> oscillators,\u201d <strong><em>Electronics Letters<\/em><\/strong>, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 168-169, February 2012.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conference Papers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[C14] H. Rashtian and O. Momeni, &#8220;A gain-boosted 52-142 GHz band-pass distributed amplifier in 0.13\u00b5m SiGe process with <em>f<sub>max<\/sub><\/em> of 210 GHz,&#8221; in <em>Proceeding of\u00a0the <strong>13th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference (EuMIC)<\/strong><\/em>, Madrid, Spain, September 2018.<\/p>\n<p>[C13] J. Segovia-Fernandez, J. Do, X. Jiang, Y. Liu, J. M. Tsai, H. Rashtian, X. Liu, and D. A. Horsley, \u201cMonolithic aluminum nitride MEMS-CMOS resonant transformer for wake-up receivers,\u201d in\u00a0<em>Proceeding of <\/em>\u00a0<strong><em>IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium<\/em><\/strong><em>, <\/em>Washington, DC, USA, September 2017.<\/p>\n<p>[C12] H. Wang, D. Kuzmenko, B. Yu, Y. Ye, J. Q. Gu, H. Rashtian, X. Liu, \u201cA compact 213 GHz CMOS fundamental oscillator with 0.56 mW\u00a0 output power and 3.9% efficiency using a capacitive transformer,\u201d in <em>Proceeding of <strong>IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS)<\/strong><\/em>, Honolulu, HI, USA, June 2017.<\/p>\n<p>[C11] S. Block, X. Jiang, C. Cui, J. Segovia-Fernandez, R. Amirtharajah, D. Horsely, H. Rashtian, and X. Liu, \u201cA 100nW CMOS wake-up receiver with -60dBm sensitivity using AlN high-<em>Q<\/em> piezoelectric resonators,\u201d in <em>Proceeding of <strong>IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)<\/strong><\/em>, Baltimore, MD, USA, May 2017.<\/p>\n<p>[C10] H. Rashtian, L. P. B. Katehi, Q. J. Gu, and X. Liu, \u201cA 200-GHz triple-push oscillator in 65-nm CMOS with design techniques for enhancing DC-to-RF efficiency,\u201d in <em>Proceeding of\u00a0 <strong>IEEE Topical Meetings on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems (SiRF)<\/strong><\/em>, Austin, TX, USA, January 2016.<\/p>\n<p>[C9] S. P. Sah, X. Yu, P. Agarwal, H. Rashtian, P. P. Pande, D. Heo, and S. Mirabbasi, \u201cA V-band wide locking-range injection-locked CMOS VCO for wireless network-on-chip receiver,\u201d in <em>Proceeding of <strong>IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS)<\/strong><\/em>, Seattle, WA, USA, June 2013.<\/p>\n<p>[C8] T. Taris, H. Rashtian, A. H. Masnadi Shirazi, and S. Mirabbasi, \u201cA low-power 2.4-GHz combined LNA-VCO structure in 0.13-\u03bcm CMOS,\u201d in <em>Proceeding of<\/em> <em>11<sup>th<\/sup> IEEE International New Circuits and Systems Conference (NEWCAS)<\/em><em>, <\/em>pp. 1-4, Paris, France, June 2013.<\/p>\n<p>[C7] H. Rashtian and S. Mirabbasi, \u201cImproving linearity in class-AB power amplifiers using a body-biased NMOS predistortion stage,\u201d in <em>Proceeding of<\/em> <strong><em>International Green Computing Conference (IGCC)<\/em><\/strong>, pp. 1-6, Arlington, VA, USA, June 2013.<\/p>\n<p>[C6] A. H. Masnadi Shirazi, H. Rashtian, and S. Mirabbasi, \u201cA linearity enhancement technique and its application to CMOS wideband low-noise amplifiers,\u201d in <em>Proceeding of <strong>IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS)<\/strong><\/em>, pp. 57-60, Seville, Spain, December 2012.<\/p>\n<p>[C5] H. Rashtian, A. H. Masnadi Shirazi, and S. Mirabbasi, \u201cImproving linearity of CMOS Gilbert-cell mixers using body biasing,\u201d in <em>Proceeding of<\/em> <strong><em>IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems <\/em>(<em>MWSCAS<\/em>)<\/strong>, pp. 61-64, Boise, Idaho, USA, August 2012 <em>(<u>Invited Paper<\/u>)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>[C4] J. Shiah, H. Rashtian, and S. Mirabbasi, \u201cA low-noise parasitic-insensitive switched-capacitor CMOS interface circuit for MEMS capacitive sensors,\u201d in <em>Proceeding of <strong>IEEE International New Circuits and Systems Conference (NEWCAS)<\/strong>, <\/em>pp. 470-473, Bordeaux, France, June 2011.<\/p>\n<p>[C3] H. Rashtian, C. Majek, S. Mirabbasi, T. Taris, Y. Deval, and J. B. Begueret, \u201cOn the use of body biasing to control gain, linearity and noise figure of a mm-wave CMOS LNA,\u201d in <em>Proceeding of <strong>IEEE International New Circuits and Systems Conference (NEWCAS)<\/strong>, <\/em>pp. 333-336, Montreal, Canada, June 2010. <strong><em>(<u>Best Student Paper Award, Third Place<\/u>)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[C2] J. Shiah, H. Rashtian, and S. Mirabbasi, \u201cA low-noise high-sensitivity switched-capacitor readout circuit for MEMS capacitive sensors,\u201d in <em>Proceeding of <strong>IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)<\/strong>,<\/em> pp. 3280-3283, Paris, France, June 2010.<\/p>\n<p>[C1] H. Rashtian and R. Dehghani, \u201cA new model for contribution of triode noise to phase noise of CMOS <em>LC <\/em>oscillators,\u201d in <em>Proceeding of <strong>IEEE Topical Meetings on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems (SiRF)<\/strong><\/em>, pp. 1-4, San Diego, CA, USA, January 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engineering Education: Journal Papers: [J1] M. del Rosario, N. Hosein, T. Ambrose, R. Amirtharajah, A. Knoesen and H. Rashtian, \u201cEnabling student success in an online lab-based circuits course,\u2019 Advances In Engineering Education: the impact on Engineering Education of the COVID-19 Epidemic (special issue), vol. 8, no. 4, fall 2020. 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