Maher Kayal
Professeur titulaire
maher.kayal@epfl.ch +41 21 693 39 81 http://elab.epfl.ch/
Nationalité: Swiss
Date de naissance: 03.12.1959
Domaines de compétences
- Analog Circuits Design Modeling and Deign Methodologies.
- Mixed-mode Low Power Low Voltage electronics design.
- Sensors interface and signal processing.
- CAD tools for Analog circuits.
Mission
The Electronics Laboratory (ELab) know-how has originally been built around CMOS analog and mixed-signal ICs design. It has progressively been extended to MOS device physics and modeling. Some results obtained in modeling and circuit design techniques are translated into specific software tools as a subset of the main commercial CAD environment. Today, the main focus of the Elab in the field of IC Design, is concentrated on:- Ultra low power sensors interface,
- High efficiency energy harvesting,
- Electronics for Smart buildings management,
- Real time electronics dedicated to Power grids emulation for smart grid technologies,
- Smart power design and modeling for automotive applications.
Biographie
Maher Kayal received M.S. and Ph.D degrees in electrical engineering from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland) in 1983 and 1989 respectively. He has been with the Electronics laboratories of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland) since 1990, where he is currently a professor and director of the Energy Management and Sustainability" section. He has published many scientific papers, coauthor of three text books dedicated to mixed-mode CMOS design and he holds eleven patents. His technical contributions have been in the area of analog and Mixed-signal circuits design including highly linear and tunable sensors microsystems, signal processing and green energy management.Prizes and Honors :
Electronics Letters journal Premium Award 2013,
Outstanding Paper Award? IEEE Mixdes 2013
Basil Papadias paper Award, IEEE Powertech 2013
Best Paper Awards, Mixdes 2013
Best Paper Awards, ICCAS 2012
Outstanding Paper Award- IEEE Mixdes 2012.
Poland Section IEEE ED Chapter special award in 2011.
Credit Suisse Award for Best Teaching- 2009.
The William M. Portnoy Award at the Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition , California Sept 2009.
Best Paper Award - IEEE-Mixdes 2009.
High Quality Paper - IEEE Power Tech Conference June 2009.
Best Paper Award - IEEE-Mixdes 2007.
Best Paper Award - IEEE-TTTC International Conference on Automation, Quality and Testing, Robotics - 2006.
Best Application Specific Integrated Circuit at the International European Design and Test Conference ED&TC - 1997.
Ascom Award for the Best Work in Telecommunication Fields 1990.
Publications Books.
Books:
Methodology for the Digital Calibration of Analog Circuits and Systems, Marc Pastre & Maher Kayal. Springer Publisher- (ISBN 1-4020-4252-3)-2006.
Structured Analog CMOS Design, Danica Stefanovic & Maher Kayal. Springer Publisher-(ISBN 978-1-4020-8572-7)-2008.
Linear CMOS RF Amplifiers for Wireless Applications, Maher Kayal, Springer Publisher. (ISBN 978-90-481-9360-8)-2010.
Coeditor of Microelectronics Education Kluwer Academic Publishers. (ISBN 1-4020-2072-4). -2004.
Publications
Publications Infoscience
Medipix4, a high granularity four sides buttable pixel readout chip for high resolution spectroscopic X-ray imaging at rates compatible with medical CT scans
Lausanne, EPFL, 2022. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8617.ANTIGONE: A Programmable Energy-Efficient Current Digitizer for an ISFET Wearable Sweat Sensing System
Sensors. 2021-03-16. DOI : 10.3390/s21062074.Cooperative energy management of a community of smart-buildings: A Blockchain approach
International Journal Of Electrical Power & Energy Systems. 2020-05-01. DOI : 10.1016/j.ijepes.2019.105643.Enhanced-performance integrated Resonant Switched-Capacitor and Buck DC-DC converters for application in extreme radiation and magnetic field environments
Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7552.On Smart-Buildings and their Integration into the Smart-Grid
Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7380.A Fully Integrated 60 mV Cold-Start Circuit for Single Coil DC-DC Boost Converter for Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting
Ieee Transactions On Circuits And Systems Ii-Express Briefs. 2019-10-01. DOI : 10.1109/TCSII.2019.2922683.A high sensitivity low-power capacitive front-end for insulin injection pens
Microelectronics Journal. 2019-03-01. DOI : 10.1016/j.mejo.2019.02.008.Design of an Energy-Efficient Current-to-Frequency Converter for a Wearable Sensor Platform
2019-01-01. 26th International Conference on Mixed Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (MIXDES), Rzeszow, POLAND, Jun 27-29, 2019. p. 210-214. DOI : 10.23919/MIXDES.2019.8787106.Comparison of MPC Formulations for Building Control under Commercial Time-of-Use Tariffs
2019-01-01. IEEE Milan PowerTech Conference, Milan, ITALY, Jun 23-27, 2019. DOI : 10.1109/PTC.2019.8810854.A programmable low-power ADC interface for an ISFET sweat sensor used in a wearable multi-sensing system
2019-01-01. 8th IEEE International Workshop on Advances in Sensors and Interfaces (IWASI), Otranto, ITALY, Jun 13-14, 2019. p. 210-214. DOI : 10.1109/IWASI.2019.8791350.Analysis of photosensor frontends for biomedical applications: a focus on noise
Lausanne, EPFL, 2019. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9545.Toward ultra-low power design methodology for frequency generation in the IoT design space
Lausanne, EPFL, 2019. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9146.A Dual-Edge Pulsewidth Modulator for Fast Dynamic Response DC-DC Converters
Ieee Transactions On Power Electronics. 2019-01-01. DOI : 10.1109/TPEL.2018.2836385.Switched-capacitor high-speed emulator for real-time fault location in electrical power systems
Analog Integrated Circuits And Signal Processing. 2018-12-01. DOI : 10.1007/s10470-018-1226-1.A Reliability and Efficiency Optimization System for Hard-Switching DC/DC Converters
2018-01-01. 16th IEEE International New Circuits and Systems Conference (NEWCAS), Montreal, CANADA, Jun 24-27, 2018. p. 157-161. DOI : 10.1109/NEWCAS.2018.8585694.A 32kHz crystal oscillator leveraging voltage scaling in an ultra-low power 40nA real-time clock
2018-01-01. 31st IEEE International System-on-Chip Conference (SOCC), Arlington, VA, Sep 04-07, 2018. p. 308-313. DOI : 10.1109/SOCC.2018.8618534.Ultra High-Speed Hardware Emulator for Real-Time Fault Location in Multi-Conductor Power Systems
2018-01-01. 16th IEEE International New Circuits and Systems Conference (NEWCAS), Montreal, CANADA, Jun 24-27, 2018. p. 313-316. DOI : 10.1109/NEWCAS.2018.8585599.Subthreshold Logic for Low-Area and Energy Efficient True Random Number Generator
2018-01-01. IEEE Symposium in Low-Power and High-Speed Chips (COOL CHIPS), Yokohama, JAPAN, Apr 18-20, 2018. DOI : 10.1109/CoolChips.2018.8373081.High-speed analogue sampled-data signal processing for real-time fault location in electrical power networks
IET CIRCUITS DEVICES AND SYSTEMS. 2018. DOI : 10.1049/iet-cds.2017.0212.Design of a fA wide dynamic range ADC for current sensing (pg 1, 2018)
ANALOG INTEGRATED CIRCUITS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING. 2018. DOI : 10.1007/s10470-018-1264-8.A secure and distributed message oriented middleware for smart building applications
AUTOMATION IN CONSTRUCTION. 2018. DOI : 10.1016/j.autcon.2017.10.030.IoT Bio-Electronic Multi-Panel Device for On-line Monitoring of Anaesthesia Delivery
Lausanne, EPFL, 2018. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8800.Characterization of a 9-Decade Femtoampere ASIC Front-End for Radiation Monitoring
2018-03-20. Topical Workshop on Electronics for Particle Physics (TWEPP-17), Santa Cruz, California, 11 - 14 September 2017. p. 003. DOI : 10.22323/1.313.0003.Design of a fA wide dynamic range ADC for current sensing
Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing. 2018-06-06. DOI : 10.1007/s10470-018-1224-3.Utopia: A Nine Decade Femtoampere Sensitivity Current Digitizer and its Application in Ionizing Radiation Monitoring
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. 2018-02-07. DOI : 10.1109/TNS.2018.2803339.A 9-decade current to frequency converter with active leakage compensation
2017-08-15. Strasbourg, France, June 25-28, 2017. p. 345-348. DOI : 10.1109/NEWCAS.2017.8010176.A Scalable and Secure System Architecture for Smart Buildings
Lausanne, EPFL, 2017. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7905.A Nine Decade Femtoampere Current to Frequency Converter
Lausanne, EPFL, 2017. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7853.Electronic solutions for power system emulation
Lausanne, EPFL, 2017. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7761.Variability of Low Frequency Noise and mismatch in CORNER DOPED and standard CMOS technology
2017. 2017 International Conference on Noise and Fluctuations (ICNF), Vilnius, Lithuania, 20-23 June 2017. p. 1-4. DOI : 10.1109/ICNF.2017.7985953.Electronics Emulation for Real-Time Fault Location in Power Systems
Lausanne, EPFL, 2017. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7757.Towards the next generation of intelligent building: An assessment study of current automation and future IoT based systems with a proposal for transitional design
Sustainable Cities And Society. 2017. DOI : 10.1016/j.scs.2016.08.019.Distributed Intelligent Modules System Using Power-line Communication for Electrical Appliance Automation
ES2697128 ; DK3025428 ; PT3025428 ; EP3025428 ; US9774467 ; US2016164695 ; EP3025428 ; WO2015011528 . 2016.JouleSense: A Simulation based Platform for Proactive Feedback on Building Occupants' Energy Use
2016. 5th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems (SMARTGREENS), Rome, ITALY, APR 23-25, 2016. p. 279-285. DOI : 10.5220/0005778602790285.Think Energy Efficiency the Energy Book for Building Human Interaction
2016. 18th Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (MELECON), Limassol, CYPRUS, APR 18-20, 2016. DOI : 10.1109/MELCON.2016.7495420.GeoAware: A Hybrid Indoor and Outdoor Localization Agent for Smart Buildings
2016. 18th Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (MELECON), Limassol, CYPRUS, APR 18-20, 2016. DOI : 10.1109/MELCON.2016.7495392.Implementation Guidelines for a Real-Time Fault Location System in Electrical Power Networks
2016. 15th Biennial Blatic Electronics Conference (BEC), Tallinn, ESTONIA, OCT 03-05, 2016. p. 47-50. DOI : 10.1109/BEC.2016.7743725.Analysis of Substrate Currents Propagation in HVCMOS technology
2016. 46th European Solid-State Device Research Conference (ESSDERC) / 42nd European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), Lausanne, Switzerland, September 12-15, 2016. p. 319-322. DOI : 10.1109/ESSDERC.2016.7599650.Event-driven Human Based Evolutionary Knowledge Base for Smart Buildings
2016. 2nd International Conference on Event-Based Control, Communication, and Signal Processing (EBCCSP), Krakow, POLAND, JUN 13-15, 2016. DOI : 10.1109/EBCCSP.2016.7605246.Building Virtualization Engine: a Novel Approach Based on Discrete Event Simulation
2016. 2nd International Conference on Event-Based Control, Communication, and Signal Processing (EBCCSP), Krakow, POLAND, JUN 13-15, 2016. DOI : 10.1109/EBCCSP.2016.7605268.An Event-driven Low Power Electronics for Loads Metering and Control in Smart Buildings
2016. 2nd International Conference on Event-Based Control, Communication, and Signal Processing (EBCCSP), Krakow, POLAND, JUN 13-15, 2016. DOI : 10.1109/EBCCSP.2016.7605091.A 400 fJ Per-Cycle Frequency Reference for Internet of Things
International Journal of Microelectronics and Computer Science (IJMCS). 2016.Methodology for 3-D Substrate Network Extraction for SPICE Simulation of Parasitic Currents in Smart Power ICs
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems. 2016. DOI : 10.1109/Tcad.2015.2513008.OTA-C based high-speed analog processing for real-time fault location in electrical power networks
Analog Integrated Circuits And Signal Processing. 2016. DOI : 10.1007/s10470-016-0742-0.Computing the Impact of White and Flicker Noise in Continuous-Time Integrator-Based ADCs
2016. 23rd International Conference on Mixed Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (MIXDES), Lodz, POLAND, JUN 23-25, 2016. p. 316-320. DOI : 10.1109/MIXDES.2016.7529755.Active Guard Ring Characterization for Smart Power ICs
2016. 23rd International Conference on Mixed Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (MIXDES), Lodz, Poland, June 23-25, 2016. p. 305-309. DOI : 10.1109/MIXDES.2016.7529753.A nA Crystal - Less Oscillator for Internet of Things
2016. 23rd International Conference on Mixed Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (MIXDES), Lodz, POLAND, JUN 23-25, 2016. p. 136-139. DOI : 10.1109/MIXDES.2016.7529717.Simulation, Analysis, and Verification of Substrate Currents for Layout Optimization of Smart Power ICs
IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. 2016. DOI : 10.1109/Tpel.2015.2502759.Substrate Current Optimization in Smart Power ICs
Lausanne, EPFL, 2016. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6926.A low-voltage CMOS-compatible time-domain photodetector, device & front end electronics
Lausanne, EPFL, 2016. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6869.Substrate modeling of parasitic couplings in Smart Power ICs with generalized lumped devices
Lausanne, EPFL, 2016. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6871.Design and Measurement Methodology for a Sub-picoampere Current Digitiser
2015. 22nd International Conference on Mixed Design of Integrated Circuits & Systems (MIXDES), Torun, POLAND, JUN 25-27, 2015. p. 525-529. DOI : 10.1109/MIXDES.2015.7208578.Silicon-on-Insulator Technology for Bioluminescence Imaging and Application to a Switching Photodetector
2015. 22nd International Conference on Mixed Design of Integrated Circuits & Systems (MIXDES), Torun, POLAND, JUN 25-27, 2015. p. 511-514. DOI : 10.1109/MIXDES.2015.7208574.Spice Simulation of Passive Protection in Smart Power ICs
2015. 22nd International Conference on Mixed Design of Integrated Circuits & Systems (MIXDES), Torun, Poland, JUN 25-27, 2015. p. 500-503. DOI : 10.1109/MIXDES.2015.7208571.Modeling Parasitic Vertical PNP in HVCMOS
2015. 22nd International Conference on Mixed Design of Integrated Circuits & Systems (MIXDES), Torun, Poland, JUN 25-27, 2015. p. 486-489. DOI : 10.1109/MIXDES.2015.7208568.Performance assessment of pressurized fluid-distribution networks
Lausanne, EPFL, 2015. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6858.Tunnel Field Effect Transistors
Lausanne, EPFL, 2015. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6802.A mixed-signal computer architecture and its application to power system problems
Lausanne, EPFL, 2015. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6613.A dynamic operation of a PIN photodiode
Applied Physics Letters. 2015. DOI : 10.1063/1.4906488.Spice-compatible modeling of high injection and propagation of minority carriers in the substrate of Smart Power ICs
Solid-State Electronics. 2015. DOI : 10.1016/j.sse.2014.11.016.Modeling Minority Carriers Related Capacitive Effects for Transient Substrate Currents in Smart Power ICs
IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices. 2015. DOI : 10.1109/Ted.2015.2397394.Toward direct light-to-digital conversion using a pulse-driven hybrid MOS-PN photodetector
Optics Letters. 2015. DOI : 10.1364/Ol.40.000669.On the effect of integration algorithms on reduced accuracy computational architectures
2014. 7th Electrical and Computer Engineering Student Conference, Thessaloniki, Greece., April 11-13, 2014.Mixed-signal power system emulator extension to solve unbalanced fault transient stability analysis
2014. 2014 Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC), Wrocław, Poland, August 18-22, 2014. p. 1-7. DOI : 10.1109/PSCC.2014.7038503.Pipelined Numerical Integration on Reduced Accuracy Architectures for Power System Transient Simulations
2014. 2014 UKSim-AMSS 16th International Conference on Modelling and Simulation (UKSim), Cambridge, United Kingdom, 26-28 March 2014. p. 176-181. DOI : 10.1109/UKSim.2014.22.Simultaneous High-Speed High-Resolution Nanomechanical Mass Sensing
Ieee Sensors Journal. 2014. DOI : 10.1109/Jsen.2014.2322084.Spice Simulation of Substrate Minority Carriers Propagation with Equivalent Electrical Circuit
2014. 21st International Conference on Mixed Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (MIXDES), Lublin, POLAND, JUN 19-21, 2014. p. 347-350. DOI : 10.1109/MIXDES.2014.6872215.Optimization Strategy of Numerical Simulations Applied to EPFL Substrate Model
2014. 21st International Conference on Mixed Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (MIXDES), Lublin, POLAND, JUN 19-21, 2014. p. 334-337. DOI : 10.1109/MIXDES.2014.6872212.A novel approach to high-speed high-resolution on-chip mass sensing
Microelectronics Journal. 2014. DOI : 10.1016/j.mejo.2014.07.004.Impact of enhanced contact doping on minority carriers diffusion currents
2014. 10th Conference on PhD Research in Microelectronics and Electronics (PRIME), Grenoble, FRANCE, JUN 29-JUL 03, 2014. DOI : 10.1109/PRIME.2014.6872738.A Novel Technique for Online Partial Discharge Pattern Recognition in Large Electrical Motors
2014. IEEE 23rd International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE), Istambul, TURKEY, JUN 01-04, 2014. p. 721-726. DOI : 10.1109/ISIE.2014.6864701.Evaluation of characteristic parameters for high performance hall cells
Microelectronics Journal. 2014. DOI : 10.1016/j.mejo.2014.04.028.Energy Strategy Formation in the Middle East and North Africa Using a Technology-Driven Energy Planning Approach
Lausanne, EPFL, 2014. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6420.MOS-PN Hybrid Device With Minimum Dark Current for Sensitive Digital Photodetection
Ieee Photonics Technology Letters. 2014. DOI : 10.1109/Lpt.2014.2346812.Multi-Band Outphasing Power Amplifier Design for Mobile and Base Stations
Lausanne, EPFL, 2014. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6410.Hybrid MOS-PN photodiode with positive feedback for pulse-modulation imaging
Optics Express. 2014. DOI : 10.1364/Oe.22.014441.Design of Ultra-low power energy harvesting and sensor interfacing circuits for miniaturized wireless sensor nodes
Lausanne, EPFL, 2014. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6160.Ultra-high resolution A/D converters Analysis, modeling and optimization tools
Lausanne, EPFL, 2014. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6174.Component design and testing for a miniaturised autonomous sensor based on a nanowire materials platform
2014. Conference on Smart Sensors, Actuators and MEMS within the SPIE EUROPE Symposium on Microtechnologies. p. 971-988. DOI : 10.1007/s00542-014-2100-4.Electronic Interfaces for Carbon Nanotube Electromechanical Oscillators and Sensors
Lausanne, EPFL, 2014. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6127.High-Speed CMOS ADC Design for 100Gb/s Communication Systems
Lausanne, EPFL, 2014. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6037.System-Level Design Considerations for Carbon Nanotube Electromechanical Resonators
Journal of Sensors. 2013. DOI : 10.1155/2013/384643.On-chip Mass Sensing at the Physical Limits of Nanoelectromechanical Systems
2013. 5th IEEE International Workshop on Advances in Sensors and Interfaces (IWASI). p. 131-135. DOI : 10.1109/IWASI.2013.6576089.Distributed real-time dynamic security assessment using intelligent techniques
2013. 2013 IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies - Asia (ISGT Asia), Bangalore, India, November 10-13, 2013. p. 1-5. DOI : 10.1109/ISGT-Asia.2013.6698784.Power network transient stability electronics emulator using mixed-signal calibration
2013. International Conference in Mixed Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Gdynia, Poland, June 20-22, 2013. p. 369-373.A DC power flow extension
2013. 2013 4th IEEE/PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe (ISGT EUROPE), Lyngby, Denmark, October 6-9, 2013. p. 1-5. DOI : 10.1109/ISGTEurope.2013.6695265.A transient stability assessment method using post-fault trajectories
2013. 2013 IEEE Grenoble PowerTech, Grenoble, France, June 16-20, 2013. p. 1-4. DOI : 10.1109/PTC.2013.6652132.Generator coherency identification algorithm using modal and time-domain information
2013. IEEE EUROCON 2013, Zagreb, Croatia, July 1-4, 2013. p. 1025-1032. DOI : 10.1109/EUROCON.2013.6625107.A mixed-platform framework for Dynamic Stability Assessment
2013. 2013 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 21-25, 2013. p. 1-5. DOI : 10.1109/PESMG.2013.6672431.A 120 dB dynamic-range radiation-tolerant charge-to-digital converter for radiation monitoring
Microelectronics Journal. 2013. DOI : 10.1016/j.mejo.2013.08.020.Temperature considerations on Hall Effect sensors current-related sensitivity behaviour
Analog Integrated Circuits And Signal Processing. 2013. DOI : 10.1007/s10470-013-0188-6.A Self-Regulating Oscillator for Sensor Operation of Nanoelectromechanical Systems
2013. 11th IEEE International New Circuits and Systems Conference (NEWCAS), Paris, FRANCE, JUN 16-19, 2013. DOI : 10.1109/NEWCAS.2013.6573652.An ultra-low power energy-efficient microsystem for hydrogen gas sensing applications
Analog Integrated Circuits And Signal Processing. 2013. DOI : 10.1007/s10470-013-0138-3.A Circuit Model for CMOS Hall Cells Performance Evaluation including Temperature Effects
Advances In Condensed Matter Physics. 2013. DOI : 10.1155/2013/968647.A miniaturised autonomous sensor based on nanowire materials platform: the SiNAPS mote
2013. Conference on Smart Sensors, Actuators, and MEMS VI. DOI : 10.1117/12.2017520.A Fully Integrated Hall Sensor Microsystem for Contactless Current Measurement
Ieee Sensors Journal. 2013. DOI : 10.1109/Jsen.2013.2251971.Ultra high-speed electronics for power system dynamic emulation
Lausanne, EPFL, 2013. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-5842.Low phase noise, low power CMOS frequency synthesizers for miniature atomic clocks
Lausanne, EPFL, 2013. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-5843.An Ultra-High Speed Emulator Dedicated to Power System Dynamics Computation Based on a Mixed-Signal Hardware Platform
Ieee Transactions On Power Systems. 2013. DOI : 10.1109/TPWRS.2013.2259186.High-Speed Power System Transient Stability Simulation Using Highly Dedicated Hardware
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. 2013. DOI : 10.1109/TPWRS.2013.2259185.Enseignement & Phd
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