IEEE Conference and Journal Papers:
Z. Xia and J. T. Stauth, "A Cascaded Hybrid Switched-Capacitor DC–DC Converter Capable of Fast Self Startup for USB Power Delivery," in IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 57, no. 6, pp. 1854-1864, June 2022.
P. H. McLaughlin, K. Datta and J. T. Stauth, "A Monolithic 3:1 Resonant Dickson Converter with Variable Regulation and Magnetic-Based Zero-Current Detection and Autotuning," 2022 IEEE International Solid- State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2022.
Y. Li, B. L. Dobbins and J. T. Stauth, "An Optically Powered, High-Voltage, Switched- Capacitor Drive Circuit for Microrobotics," in IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 56, no. 3, pp. 866-875, March 2021.
Z. Xia and J. Stauth, "17.1 A Two-Stage Cascaded Hybrid Switched-Capacitor DC-DC Converter with 96.9% Peak Efficiency Tolerating 0.6V/μs Input Slew Rate During Startup," 2021 IEEE International Solid- State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2021, pp. 256-258.
Y. Li, B. L. Dobbins and J. T. Stauth, "33.8 A Decentralized Daisy-Chain-Controlled Switched-Capacitor Driver for Microrobotic Actuators with 10× Power-Reduction Factor and Over 300V Drive Voltage," 2021 IEEE International Solid- State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2021.
P. H. McLaughlin, J. S. Rentmeister, M. H. Kiani and J. T. Stauth, "Analysis and Comparison of Hybrid-Resonant Switched-Capacitor DC–DC Converters With Passive Component Size Constraints," in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 3111-3125, March 2021.
J. S. Rentmeister, M. H. Kiani, K. Pister and J. T. Stauth, "A 120–330V, Sub-μA, 4-Channel Driver for Microrobotic Actuators with Wireless-Optical Power Delivery and over 99% Current Efficiency," 2020 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits, 2020.
P. H. McLaughlin, Z. Xia and J. T. Stauth, "A Monolithic Resonant Switched-Capacitor Voltage Regulator With Dual-Phase Merged-LC Resonator," in IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 55, no. 12, pp. 3179-3188, Dec. 2020.
P. H. McLaughlin, Z. Xia and J. T. Stauth, "11.2 A Fully Integrated Resonant Switched-Capacitor Converter with 85.5% Efficiency at 0.47W Using On-Chip Dual-Phase Merged-LC Resonator," 2020 IEEE International Solid- State Circuits Conference - (ISSCC), 2020,
Z. Xia, B. L. Dobbins and J. T. Stauth, "Natural Balancing of Flying Capacitor Multilevel Converters at Nominal Conversion Ratios," 2019 20th Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), Toronto, ON, Canada, 2019, pp. 1-8.
P. H. McLaughlin, P. A. Kyaw, M. H. Kiani, C. R. Sullivan and J. T. Stauth, "A 48 V:16 V, 180 W Resonant Switched Capacitor Converter with High-Q Merged Multiphase LC Resonator," in IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics.
J. S. Rentmeister and J. T. Stauth, "Zero Voltage Switching for Flying Capacitor Multilevel Converters at Nominal Conversion Ratios," 2019 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), Anaheim, CA, USA, 2019, pp. 30-36.
Z. Xia, B. L. Dobbins, J. S. Rentmeister and J. T. Stauth, "State Space Analysis of Flying Capacitor Multilevel DC-DC Converters for Capacitor Voltage Estimation," 2019 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), Anaheim, CA, USA, 2019, pp. 50-57.
P. H. McLaughlin, P. Aung Kyaw, M. H. Kiani, C. R. Sullivan and J. T. Stauth, "Two-Phase Interleaved Resonant Switched-Capacitor DC-DC Converter with Coupled Inductors and Custom LC Resonator," 2019 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), Anaheim, CA, USA, 2019, pp. 37-44.
C. Schaef, J. Rentmeister and J. T. Stauth, "Multimode Operation of Resonant and Hybrid Switched-Capacitor Topologies," in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 33, no. 12, pp. 10512-10523, Dec. 2018.
M. H. Kiani and J. T. Stauth, "Passive Component Modeling and Optimal Size Allocation for Hybrid-Resonant Switched Capacitor DC-DC Converters," 2018 IEEE 19th Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), Padua, 2018, pp. 1-8.
J. S. Rentmeister and J. T. Stauth, "Multi-Mode Operation of Resonant Switched Capacitor Converters for Optimized Efficiency," 2018 IEEE 19th Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), Padua, 2018, pp. 1-7.
J. S. Rentmeister and J. T. Stauth, "Modeling the Dynamic Behavior of Hybrid-Switched-Capacitor Converters in State Space," 2018 IEEE 19th Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), Padua, 2018, pp. 1-7.
J. T. Stauth, "Pathways to mm-scale DC-DC converters: Trends, opportunities, and limitations," 2018 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), San Diego, CA, USA, 2018, pp. 1-8.
C. Schaef and J.T. Stauth, “A Highly-Integrated Series-Parallel Switched-Capacitor Converter with 12-Volt-Input and Quasi-Resonant Voltage-Mode Regulation,” in IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics (JESTPE), vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 456-464, June 2018.
S. R. Pasternak, M. H. Kiani, J. S. Rentmeister, and J. T. Stauth, "Modelling and Performance Limits of Switched-Capacitor DC-DC Converters Capable of Resonant Operation with a Single Inductor," in IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics (JESTPE) vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 1746-1760, Dec. 2017
C. Schaef, E. Din, and J. T. Stauth, "A Hybrid Switched-Capacitor Battery Management IC With Embedded Diagnostics for Series-Stacked Li–Ion Arrays," IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 52, no. 12, pp. 3142-3154, Dec. 2017.
M. H. Kiani and J. T. Stauth, "Optimization and comparison of hybrid-resonant switched capacitor DC-DC converter topologies," 2017 IEEE 18th Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), Stanford, CA, USA, 2017, pp. 1-8.
J. S. Rentmeister and J. T. Stauth, "Bypass capacitance and voltage ripple considerations for resonant switched capacitor converters," 2017 IEEE 18th Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), Stanford, CA, USA, 2017, pp. 1-8.
J. Rentmeister, C. Schaef, and J. T. Stauth, “A 48V:2V Flying Capacitor Multilevel Converter Using Current-Limit Control for Flying Capacitor Balance,” in IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC), 2017.
C. Schaef, E. Din, and J. T. Stauth, “A Digitally Controlled 94.8%-Peak-Efficiency Hybrid Switched-Capacitor Converter for Bidirectional Balancing and Impedance-Based Diagnostics of Lithium-Ion Battery Arrays,” in IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Digest of Technical Papers, Feb., 2017.
C. Schaef and J. T. Stauth, "A 12-volt-input hybrid switched capacitor voltage regulator based on a modified series-parallel topology," 2017 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), Tampa, FL, 2017, pp. 2453-2458.
E. Din, C. Schaef, K. Moffat and J. T. Stauth, "A Scalable Active Battery Management System With Embedded Real-Time Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy," in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics (TPEL), vol. 32, no. 7, pp. 5688-5698, July 2017.
S. Pasternak, C. Schaef, and J. Stauth, “Equivalent resistance approach to optimization, analysis and comparison of hybrid/resonant switched-capacitor converters,” in 2016 IEEE 17th Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), 2016, pp. 1–8. [Best Paper Award]
S. Pasternak and J. Stauth, “Design considerations for digitally controlled buck converters with large input transients,” in 2016 IEEE 17th Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), 2016, pp. 1–7.
J. Rentmeister, C. Schaef, B. Foo, and J. T. Stauth, “A Flying Capacitor Multilevel Converter with Sampled Valley-Current Detection for Multi-Mode Operation and Capacitor Voltage Balancing,” in IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), 2016.
C. Schaef and J. T. Stauth, “Efficient Voltage Regulation for Microprocessor Cores Stacked in Vertical Voltage Domains,” IEEE Trans. Power Electron. (TPEL), vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 1795–1808, Feb. 2016.
C. Schaef, K. Kesarwani, and J. T. Stauth, “A variable-conversion-ratio 3-phase resonant switched capacitor converter with 85% efficiency at 0.91W/mm2 using 1.1nH PCB-trace inductors,” in 2015 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference - (ISSCC) Digest of Technical Papers, 2015, vol. 58, pp. 1–3.
K. Kesarwani, R. Sangwan, and J. T. Stauth, “Resonant-Switched Capacitor Converters for Chip-Scale Power Delivery: Design and Implementation,” IEEE Trans. Power Electron. (TPEL), vol. 30, no. 12, pp. 6966–6977, Dec. 2015.
C. Schaef and J. T. Stauth, “A 3-Phase Resonant Switched Capacitor Converter Delivering 7.7 W at 85% Efficiency Using 1.1 nH PCB Trace Inductors,” IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, (JSSC) vol. 50, no. 12, pp. 2861–2869, Dec. 2015.
K. Kesarwani and J. T. Stauth, “Resonant and multi-mode operation of flying capacitor multi-level DC-DC converters,” in 2015 IEEE 16th Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), 2015, pp. 1–8.
E. Din, C. Schaef, K. Moffat, and J. T. Stauth, “Online spectroscopic diagnostics implemented in an efficient battery management system,” in 2015 IEEE 16th Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), 2015, pp. 1–7.
C. Schaef, B. Reese, C. R. Sullivan, and J. T. Stauth, “Design aspects of multi-phase interleaved resonant switched-capacitor converters with mm-scale air-core inductors,” in 2015 IEEE 16th Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), 2015, pp. 1–5.
K. Kesarwani and J. T. Stauth, “The direct-conversion resonant switched capacitor architecture with merged multiphase interleaving: Cost and performance comparison,” in 2015 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), 2015, pp. 952–959. [Best Presentation Award]
C. Schaef and J. T. Stauth, “A multilevel VR implementation and MIMO control scheme for vertically-stacked microprocessor cores,” in 2015 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), 2015, pp. 2090–2096. [Best Poster Award]
B. Brummel, J. Daily, and J. Stauth, “Guidelines for Constructing Expert Witness Role-plays for Engineering Ethics,” 2015 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Proceedings, June, 2015.
K. Kesarwani, R. Sangwan, and J. T. Stauth, “A 2-phase resonant switched-capacitor converter delivering 4.3W at 0.6W/mm2 with 85% efficiency,” in 2014 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference Digest of Technical Papers (ISSCC), 2014, pp. 86–87.
C. Schaef and J. T. Stauth, "Multilevel Power Point Tracking for Partial Power Processing Photovoltaic Converters," in IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics (JESTPE), vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 859-869, Dec. 2014.
A. J. Hanson, C. A. Deline, S. M. MacAlpine, J. T. Stauth, and C. R. Sullivan, “Partial-Shading Assessment of Photovoltaic Installations via Module-Level Monitoring,” IEEE J. Photovoltaics (JPV), vol. 4, no. 6, pp. 1618–1624, Nov. 2014.
R. Sangwan, K. Kesarwani, and J. T. Stauth, “High-density power converters for sub-module photovoltaic power management,” in 2014 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), 2014, pp. 3279–3286.
A. J. Hanson, C. A. Deline, S. M. MacAlpine, J. T. Stauth, and C. R. Sullivan, “Partial-Shading Assessment of Photovoltaic Installations via Module-Level Monitoring,” Photovoltaics Specialists Conference (PVSC), 40th, June 8-13, 2014.
C. Schaef and J. T. Stauth, “Multilevel Power-Point-Tracking for Variable-Conversion-Ratio Photovoltaic Ladder Converters,” in 2013 IEEE 14th Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), 2013, pp. 1–7.
J. T. Stauth, M. D. Seeman, and K. Kesarwani, “Resonant Switched-Capacitor Converters for Sub-module Distributed Photovoltaic Power Management,” IEEE Trans. Power Electron. (TPEL), vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 1189–1198, Mar. 2013.
K. Kesarwani, R. Sangwan, and J. T. Stauth, “Resonant switched-capacitor converters for chip-scale power delivery: Modeling and design,” in 2013 IEEE 14th Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), 2013, pp. 1–7. [Best Paper Award]
C. Schaef, K. Kesarwani, and J. T. Stauth, “A coupled-inductor multi-level ladder converter for sub-module PV power management,” in 2013 Twenty-Eighth Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), 2013, pp. 732–737.
K. Kesarwani, C. Schaef, C. R. Sullivan, and J. T. Stauth, “A multi-level ladder converter supporting vertically-stacked digital voltage domains,” in 2013 Twenty-Eighth Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), 2013, pp. 429–434.
J. Stauth, M. Seeman, and K. Kesarwani, “A high-voltage CMOS IC and embedded system for distributed photovoltaic energy optimization with over 99% effective conversion efficiency and insertion loss below 0.1%,” in 2012 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, (ISSCC) 2012, pp. 100–102.
J. T. Stauth, M. D. Seeman, and K. Kesarwani, “A Resonant Switched-Capacitor IC and Embedded System for Sub-Module Photovoltaic Power Management,” IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 47, no. 12, pp. 3043–3054, Dec. 2012.
K. Kesarwani and J. T. Stauth, “A comparative theoretical analysis of distributed ladder converters for sub-module PV energy optimization,” in 2012 IEEE 13th Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), 2012, pp. 1–6.
J. T. Stauth and S. R. Sanders, “A 2.4GHz, 20dBm class-D PA with single-bit digital polar modulation in 90nm CMOS,” in 2008 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), 2008, no. CICC, pp. 737–740.
J. T. Stauth and S. R. Sanders, “Pulse-density modulation for RF applications: The radio-frequency power amplifier (RF PA) as a power converter,” in 2008 IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference (PESC), 2008, pp. 3563–3568.
J. T. Stauth and S. R. Sanders, “Optimum Biasing for Parallel Hybrid Switching-Linear Regulators,” IEEE Trans. Power Electron. (TPEL), vol. 22, no. 5, pp. 1978–1985, Sep. 2007.
J. T. Stauth and S. R. Sanders, “Power Supply Rejection for RF Amplifiers: Theory and Measurements,” IEEE Trans. Microw. Theory Tech. (T-MTT), vol. 55, no. 10, pp. 2043–2052, Oct. 2007.
J. T. Stauth and S. R. Sanders, “Optimum Bias Calculation for Parallel Hybrid Switching-Linear Regulators,” in APEC 07 - Twenty-Second Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), 2007, pp. 569–574.
J. T. Stauth and S. R. Sanders, “Power Supply Rejection for Common-Source Linear RF Amplifiers: Theory and Measurements,” in IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium, 2006, pp. 317–320.
Book Chapters:
J. T. Stauth, C. Schaef, and K. Kesarwani, “Resonant and Multimode Switched Capacitor Converters for High-Density Power Delivery,” in Wideband Continuous-time ΣΔ ADCs, Automotive Electronics, and Power Management, A. Baschirotto, P. Harpe, and K. A. A. Makinwa, Eds. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017, pp. 263–280.
J. T. Stauth, “Resonant Switched Capacitor Power Converters and Architectures,” in Power Management Integrated Circuits, CRC Press, 2016, p. 145
Invited Talks, Presentations, and Seminars:
"Hybrid Switched Capacitor Converters: Topologies, Trends, and Comparison," Power Management Integration Center (PMIC) Seminar, May 2022, On the Web: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1soiMv8G9QY
"Hybrid Switched Capacitor Converters: Topologies, Trends, and Comparison," IEEE Workshop on Power Systems on Chip (PowerSOC), Philadelphia, PA, Oct 2021
“Towards Chip-Scale Power Management: A Circuits Perspective,” Systems-X Seminar, Stanford University, June 8, 2017
“Resonant and Multimode Switched Capacitor Converters: Power Management in the mm3 Regime,” IEEE Workshop on Power Systems on Chip (PowerSOC), Madrid, Invited Talk, Oct. 2016
“Resonant and Multimode Switched Capacitor Converters for High-Density Power Delivery,” IEEE Workshop on Advances in Analog Circuit Design (AACD), Invited Talk, Villach, April, 2016
“Resonant Switched Capacitor Converters for High-Density Power Delivery,” Invited Seminar: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), May 2015.
“Resonant Switched Capacitor Converters for High-Density Power Delivery,” IEEE Workshop on Power Systems on Chip (PowerSOC), Boston, Invited Talk, October, 2014.
“Understanding Solar Energy,” Tuck School of Business: Intersection of Technology Seminar Series, April 2014
“Distributed Power Management for Renewable Energy Systems,” University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), EECS Seminar, May 2012
“Photovoltaic Energy: A Circuits and Systems Perspective,” Rutgers University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Colloquium, October 31st, 2012
“Next-Generation Distributed Power Management for Photovoltaic Systems,” Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), July 29, 2011