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).
• If you are an Columbia Undergraduate, Master's, or Ph.D. student interested in doing a project (for credit) that involves designing, simulating, building and/or measuring Analog or RF hardware or Integrated Circuits, contact Prof. Kinget.

Open Undergraduate & M.S. Project Announcements

• Design of Organics Interface Circuits

• Ultra-low Voltage Analog Integrated Circuit Design

• Device Variations Characterization in Advanced IC Processes

• Energy Harvesting Sensor Node Design and Implementation

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.

Fall 2008

• Modeling of Device Mismatch in 90nm CMOS

• Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Node Design

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), accepted, 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