Kinget Group

• Our group has an active program of undergraduate and M.S. student research involvement during the semester and summer and we also participate in the School's Undergraduate Reseach Involvement Program (URIP).

• Self-driven, highly motivated candidates for projects for credit can contact Prof. Kinget. Before emailing, go carefully through this website. Please make sure your email includes details on your education (resume, grades, ...), on your motivation for doing a research project and on your prior research or design experience (copies of papers, reports, ...). Start the subject of your email with "[Student Interested in a Research Project]".

EE Student Projects Lab

• The EE deparment is happy to announce the Student Projects Lab. This lab is open to EE and CE students of all levels to pursue their own projects. See the announcement of the chair for details. The opening of the lab was also featured in the Columbia Campus Newspaper 'The Spectator'. Follow this link or take a look at a the article in pdf.

IEEE-MTT Fellowships

• The IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society offers undergraduate fellowships for senior undergraduate students who want to do a research project. Details can be found from the society's homepage www.mtt.org -> Awards -> Undergraduate Scholarships. Contact Prof. Kinget if you are interested to apply.

Summer 2013

• Automated Spectrum Occupancy Measurements

• UWB Pulse Radio Wireless Link for EnHANTs with Enhanced Range (demo/poster session)
  
  

• Energy Harvesting Module for EnHANTs (demo/poster session)

Spring 2013

• Automated Spectrum Occupancy Measurements

• UWB Pulse Radio Wireless Link for EnHANTs with Enhanced Range
  
  

• Energy Harvesting Module for EnHANTs

• Coherent UWB Pulse Radio Front Ends

Fall 2012

• Spectrum Occupancy Measurements

• VLSI Implementation of PN Sequence Generators

• Demonstrating a UWB Pulse Radio Wireless Link for EnHANTs
  
  see R. Margolies et al., "Demo: An Adaptive Testbed of Energy Harvesting Active Networked Tags (EnHANTs) Prototypes", in Proc. IEEE INFOCOM'13, Turin, Italy, Apr. 2013.

• Design and Analysis of Harmonic Reject Mixers
  
  see Teng Yang, et al., "A 0.5GHz-1.5GHz Order Scalable Harmonic Rejection Mixer," IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC), June 2013.

• Energy Harvesting Module for EnHANTs
  
  see R. Margolies et al., "Demo: An Adaptive Testbed of Energy Harvesting Active Networked Tags (EnHANTs) Prototypes", in Proc. IEEE INFOCOM'13, Turin, Italy, Apr. 2013.

• UWB Pulse Radio Testing

• Modeling of INL in Data Converters

Summer 2012

• FPGA implementation of a UWB pulse radio MAC
  
  see J. Sarik, et al. "Demo: Energy Harvesting Active Network Tag (EnHANTs) Prototypes and Prototype Testbed", IDTechEx Energy Harvesting and Storage USA'12, Washington, DC, November 2012 (invited demonstration).

• Efficient Residue Amplifier Architectures
  
  

• Demonstrating a UWB Pulse Radio Wireless Link for EnHANTs
  
  

• Modeling and Analysis of Iterative Downconverters

Spring 2012

• Demonstrating a UWB Pulse Radio Wireless Link for EnHANTs
  
  

• Modeling and Analysis of Iterative Downconverters

• Ultrasound Data Communications

• Modeling of INL in Data Converters

• Highly Integrated Power Factor Correction Circuits

Fall 2011

• Demonstrating a UWB Pulse Radio Wireless Link for EnHANTs
  
  see G. Stanje, et al., "Demo: Organic Solar Cell-equipped Energy Harvesting Active Networked Tag (EnHANT) Prototypes," ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (ACM SenSys 2011), Seattle, WA, Nov. 2011. Recipient of the "Best Student Demo Award".

• Modeling and Analysis of Iterative Downconverters

• Modeling of INL in Data Converters

• Highly Integrated Power Factor Correction Circuits

• Controllers for DC/DC converters

Summer 2011

• Demonstrating a UWB Pulse Radio Wireless Link for EnHANTs
  
  see J. Zhu et al., "Demo: Prototyping UWB Enabled EnHANTs," International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (MobiSys), June 2011.

Spring 2011

• Demonstrating a UWB Pulse Radio Wireless Link for EnHANTs

Fall 2010

• Design of a 300Msps 4-bit ADC

• Organic Circuit Design and Fabrication

Summer 2010

• Interfacing Mica2 Motes with an UWB Radio
  
  see M. Gorlatova et al., "Prototyping Energy Harvesting Active Networked Tags: Phase II MICA Mote-based Devices," ACM MobiCom'10, demo description, September 2010.

• Interfacing Ultrasound Wake-up Receivers to Mica2 Motes

• Organic Circuit Design and Fabrication

Spring 2010

• Interfacing Mica2 Motes with an UWB Radio
  
  see M. Gorlatova et al., "Prototyping Energy Harvesting Active Networked Tags (EnHANTs) with MICA2 Motes", Seventh Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad-Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), demo description, 3pp., June 2010.

• An automated system that measures energy harvested by a solar cell under different light conditions.
  
  see M. Gorlatova et al., "Prototyping Energy Harvesting Active Networked Tags (EnHANTs) with MICA2 Motes", Seventh Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad-Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), demo description, 3pp., June 2010.

• Switched Capacitor Power Converters

• High Speed, low resolution, low power ADCs

• High Performance PLLs
  
  see C. Hsu, K. Tripurari, S.-A. Yu, and P. Kinget, "A 2.2GHz PLL using a Phase-Frequency Detector with an Auxiliary Sub-Sampling Phase Detector for In-Band Noise Suppression," IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), 2011.

• ADC Testing

• Organic Circuit Design and Fabrication

Fall 2009

• Interfacing Mica2 Motes with an UWB Radio

• Inductive Power Transfer

• Multi Source Sound Experiment

• ADC Testing

• FPGA Implementation of Digital Calibration for Receivers

• Organic Circuit Design and Fabrication

• Switched Capacitor Power Converters

• High Speed, low resolution, low power ADCs

• High Speed DDFS

Summer 2009

• An automated system that measures energy harvested by a solar cell under different light conditions

• ADC Testing

• Organic Circuit Design and Fabrication

Spring 2009

• Modeling of Device Mismatch in 90nm CMOS

• Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Node Design

• Inductive Power Transfer

Fall 2008

• Characterization of Device Mismatch in 90nm CMOS

• Ultra-low voltage Pipelined ADC

• Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Node Design

Summer 2008

• Characterization of Device Mismatch in 90nm CMOS

Spring 2008

• Characterization of Device Mismatch in 90nm CMOS

• High gain, ultra-low voltage amplifiers

• Ultra Low Voltage Voltage Controlled Oscillator Design with High Power Supply Rejection

Fall 2007

• Wireless Testing of Integrated Circuits
  
  see J. Tompson, A. Dolin and P. Kinget, "2.6GHz RF Inductive Power Delivery for Contactless On- Wafer Characterization," IEEE International Conference on Microelectronic Test Structures (ICMTS), March 2008

• Reference circuits

• High gain, ultra-low voltage amplifiers

Summer 2007

• Device Variation Characterization

Spring 2007

• CMOS characterization for ultra-low voltage circuit design.

• Wireless Testing of Integrated Circuits

• Reference circuits

Fall 2006

• CMOS characterization for ultra-low voltage circuit design.

• Device Variation Characterization

• Wireless Testing of Integrated Circuits

• Reference circuits

Summer 2006

• CMOS characterization for ultra-low voltage circuit design.

• Automatic Measurement Setup for Device Variation Characterization

• Device Variation Characterization

Spring 2006

• Implementation of simulation scripts for Monte-Carlo Simulation of device parameter variations and mismatch.
  
  see H. Hung, V. Adzic, and P.Kinget, "Monte Carlo Simulation of Device Variations and Mismatch in Analog Integrated Circuits," in Proceedings of the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR), April 2006.

• CMOS characterization for ultra-low voltage circuit design.

• Automatic Measurement Setup for Device Variation Characterization

• Single-ended to Differential Signal Converter

• Wireless Testing of Integrated Circuits

Fall 2005

• Single-ended to Differential Signal Converter

• Implementation of simulation scripts for Monte-Carlo Simulation of device parameter variations and mismatch.

• CMOS characterization for ultra-low voltage circuit design.

• Device Variation Characterization

Summer 2005

• Implementation of simulation scripts for Monte-Carlo Simulation of device parameter variations and mismatch.

• CMOS characterization for ultra-low voltage circuit design.

• Device Variation Characterization

Spring 2005

• Voltage references operating from a low power supply

• Testing of Low Voltage Opamps

• Design of Low Voltage Programmable Gain Amplifiers

• Design of Low Voltage OTAs

Fall 2004

• Modeling and Characterization of MOS capacitors for ultra-low voltage circuit design.
  
  see T. Musah, and P.Kinget, "MOS varactors in weak inversion for 0.5 V analog filters," in Proceedings of the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR), Lexington (VA), April 2005.

• Design and simulation of compact, on-chip LC resonators
  
  see S. Sorgenfrei, and P.Kinget, "The effect of fill cell size on planar inductors" in Proceedings of the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR), Lexington (VA), April 2005.

• Novel Frequency Divider Integrated Circuit

• Design of a quadrature LC oscillator.

Summer 2004

• Modeling and Characterization of MOS capacitors for ultra-low voltage circuit design.

• Implementation of simulation scripts for Monte-Carlo Simulation of device parameter variations and mismatch.

• Implementation of parametrized layout cells for analog IC design.

• Design of operational amplifiers for the time encoding machine

• RF powered circuits.

Spring 2004

• Design and simulation of compact, on-chip LC resonators

• CMOS characterization for ultra-low voltage circuit design.

• Novel Frequency Divider Integrated Circuit

• Broadband integrated amplifier
  
  see F. Zhang and P. Kinget, "Low Power Programmable-Gain CMOS Distributed LNA for Ultra-Wideband Applications," in Digest of Technical Papers IEEE Symposium on VLSI circuits, (accepted for presentation), June 2005.

Fall 2003

• Novel Frequency Divider Integrated Circuit

• Broadband integrated amplifier

• CMOS characterization for ultra-low voltage circuit design.

Summer 2003

• Novel Biasing for LC oscillators

Fall 2002

• Electrocardiogram Measurements

• Short Range Wireless Data Transmission