Peer-Reviewed Publications

2025

X. Cai, T. Zhang, W. Jie, Y. Zheng, D. Li, Y. Zhang, Y. Zhao, Y. Li, H. Jiang, P. Mercier, and H. Wang, “BASS-PLL: A Bandwidth Augmented Sub-Sampling PLL Achieving a Wide Bandwidth Above 30% of the Reference Frequency and a Worst Case FoMREF of -247.9dB at 3GHz with a Ring Oscillator,” 2025 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), Boston, MA, USA, 2025, pp. 1-3. (Best Paper Finalist) [Paper LINK]

R. Huo, T. Zhang, W. Jie, Y. Zheng, D. Li, L. Gao, Y. Zhao, H. Jiang, Y. Li, P. Mercier, and H. Wang, “4.2 A 1.8-to-3.0GHz Fully Integrated All-In-One CMOS Frequency Management Module Achieving -47/+42ppm Inaccuracy from -40 to 95°C and -150/+70ppm After Accelerated Aging,” 2025 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), San Francisco, CA, USA, 2025, pp. 78-80. [Paper LINK]

2024

T. Zhang, R. Huo, P. P. Mercier, H. Wang, “A 1.2 GHz 5-bit RC-Based Phase Interpolator with High Linearity Achieved by Self-Centering Interpolation and Buffer Delay Matching,” 2024 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS), Xi’an, China, 2024, pp. 1-5. [Paper LINK]

T. Zhang, D. Zhang, J. Jin, P. P. Mercier, H. Wang, “Design and Analysis of a Family of pW-Level Sub-1V CMOS VRGs by Stacking a Current-Source Transistor and a Resistive-Load Transistor,” 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Singapore, Singapore, 2024, pp. 1-5. [Paper LINK]

R. Huo, D. Zhang, J. Jin, J. Zhou and H. Wang, “A 16MHz CMOS RC Frequency Reference with ±125ppm Inaccuracy from -40°C to 85°C Enabled by a Capacitively Modulated RC Time Constant (CMT) Generation and a Die-to-Die Error Removal (DDER) Technique,” 2024 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), Denver, CO, USA, 2024, pp. 01-02. [Paper LINK]

Publications Before 2024 (Selected)

H.Wang and P. P. Mercier, “A 763 pW 230 pJ/Conversion Fully Integrated CMOS Temperature-to-Digital Converter With +0.81 °C/-0.75 °C Inaccuracy,” in IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 54, no. 8, pp. 2281-2290, Aug. 2019. [Paper LINK]

H. Wang and P. P. Mercier, “A Battery-Powered Wireless Ion Sensing System Consuming 5.5 nW of Average Power,” in IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 53, no. 7, pp. 2043-2053, Jul. 2018. [Paper LINK]

H. Wang and P. P. Mercier, “A Reference-Free Capacitive-Discharging Oscillator Architecture Consuming 44.4pW/75.6 nW at 2.8 Hz/6.4 kHz,” in IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 51, no. 6, pp. 1–13, June 2016. [Paper LINK]

H. Wang, X. Wang, J. Park, A. Barfidokht, J. Wang and P. P. Mercier, “A 5.5 nW battery-powered wireless ion sensing system,” ESSCIRC 2017 – 43rd IEEE European Solid State Circuits Conference, Leuven, Belgium, 2017, pp. 364-367. [Paper LINK]

H. Wang and P. P. Mercier, “A 1.6%/V 124.2 pW 9.3 Hz Relaxation Oscillator Featuring a 49.7 pW Voltage and Current Reference Generator,” ESSCIRC 2017 – 43rd IEEE European Solid State Circuits Conference, Leuven, Belgium, 2017, pp. 99-102. [Paper LINK]

H. Wang and P. P. Mercier, “A 420 fW self-regulated 3T voltage reference generator achieving 0.47%/V line regulation from 0.4-to-1.2 V,” ESSCIRC 2017 – 43rd IEEE European Solid State Circuits Conference, Leuven, Belgium, 2017, pp. 15-18. [Paper LINK]

H. Wang and P. P. Mercier, “A 51 pW reference-free capacitive-discharging oscillator architecture operating at 2.8 Hz,” 2015 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), San Jose, CA, USA, 2015, pp. 1-4. (Best Paper Finalist) [Paper LINK]