Donhee Ham Research Group

Research Laboratory of Electronics &  Integrated Circuits at Harvard University

Principal Investigator - Donhee Ham
Gordon McKay Professor of EE and Applied Physics, SEAS, Harvard U
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Research Papers [*For a selected list of publications, click here*]

Xiaofeng Li and Donhee Ham, "Copying information" submitted.

Xiaofeng Li and Donhee Ham, "On the phase Brownian motion in self-sustained oscillators," submitted.

O. Ozgur Yildirim, David S. Ricketts, and Donhee Ham, "Reflection soliton oscillator," IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Technique, October 2009 (to appear).

Nan Sun, Yong Liu, Hakho Lee, Ralph Weissleder, and Donhee Ham, "CMOS RF Biosensor utilizing nuclear magnetic resonance," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 44, no. 5, pp. 1629-1643, May 2009.

Dongwan Ha, Kyoungho Woo, Scott Meninger, Thucydides Xanthopoulos, Ethan Crain, and Donhee Ham, "DLL-based CMOS time-domain temperature sensor," to appear in IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits.

Kyoungho Woo, Scott Meninger, Thucydides Xanthopoulos, Ethan Crain, Dongwan Ha, and Donhee Ham, "Dual-DLL-based CMOS all-digital temperature sensor for microprocessor thermal monitoring," IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) Digest of Technical Papers, pp. 68-69, Feb 2009.

Nan Sun, Hakho Lee, William Andress, Ralph Weissleder, and Donhee Ham, "Disposable CMOS NMR RF biosensor utilizing proton filter and on-chip passive amplification & cancer marker detection," submitted.

Christine Y. Wang, L. Kuznetsova, V. M. Gkortsas, L. Diehl, F. X. Kartner, M. A. Belkin, A. Belyanin, Xiaofeng Li, Donhee Ham, H. Schneider, P. Grant, C. Y. Song, S. Haffouz, Z. R. Wasilewski, H. C. Liu, and Federico Capasso, "Stable mode-locked pulses from mid-infrared semiconductor lasers," submitted.

Donhee Ham, "Silicon microelectronic chips in the human healthcare and life sciences," submitted.

Nan Sun, Matthew Cole, and Donhee Ham, "Digital background calibration of pipelined ADCs using dual modes and zero-cost acceleration," submitted.

Qi Jie Wang, Christian Pflügl, William F. Andress, Donhee Ham, Federico Capasso, and Masamichi Yamanishi, "Gigahertz surface acoustic wave generation on ZnO thin films deposited by radio frequency magnetron sputtering on III-V semiconductor substrates," Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B, vol. 26, issue 6, pp. 1848-1851, Nov/Dec 2008.

Nan Sun, Hae-Seung Lee, and Donhee Ham, "Digital background calibration in pipelined ADCs utilizing commutated feedback capacitor switching," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems - II, vol. 55, no. 9, pp. 877-881, September 2008.

Hakho Lee, Eric Sun, Donhee Ham, and Ralph Weissleder, "Chip-NMR biosensor for detection and molecular analysis of cells," Nature Medicine, vol. 14, no. 8, pp. 869-874, August 2008.

Yong Liu, Nan Sun, Hakho Lee, Ralph Weissleder, and Donhee Ham, "CMOS mini nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) system and its application for biomolecular sensing," IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) Digest of Technical Papers, pp. 140 - 141, Feb 2008.

Nan Sun, William Andress, Kyoungho Woo, and Donhee Ham, "Surpassing tradeoffs by separation: examples in transmission line resonators, phase-locked loops, and analog-to-digital converters," (invited paper) Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science, September 2008 (in press).

Kyongho Woo, Yong Liu, Eunsoo Nam, and Donhee Ham, "Fast-lock hybrid PLL combining fractional-N and integer-N modes of differing bandwidths," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 43, no. 2, pp. 379 - 389, February 2008.

William Andress, Kyoungho Woo, and Donhee Ham, "Surpassing tradeoffs by separation: examples in frequency generation circuits," (Invited paper), SiRF, January 2008.

Xiaofeng Li, David Ricketts, and Donhee Ham, "Solitons in electrical networks," McGraw-Hill 2008 Yearbook of Science and Technology, McGraw-Hill, 2008.

Donhee Ham and Robert M. Westervelt, "The silicon that moves and feels small living things," IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Newsletter, Fall issue, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 4-9, October 2007.

David Ricketts, Xiaofeng Li, Nan Sun,
Kyoungho Woo, and Donhee Ham, "On the self-generation of electrical soliton pulses," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 42, no. 8, pp. 1657 - 1668, August 2007. See also Comments & Response, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 43, no. 6, pp. 1491 - 1493, June 2008.

Kyoungho Woo, Yong Liu, and Donhee Ham, "Fast-lock hybrid PLL combining fractional- & integer-N modes of differing bandwidths," Proceedings of IEEE VLSI Symposium, pp. 260-261, June 2007 - The
PDF in the link is an unofficial, but editorially better version of the paper.

Hakho Lee, Yong Liu, Donhee Ham, and Robert M. Westervelt, "Integrated cell manipulation system - CMOS/microfluidic hybrid," Lab on a Chip, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 331-337, March 2007.

Yong Liu, Woogeun Rhee, Daniel Friedman, and Donhee Ham, "All-digital dynamic self-detection and self-compensation of static phase offsets in charge-pump PLLs," IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) Digest of Technical Papers, pp. 176-177, Feb. 2007.

Donhee Ham, Xiaofeng Li, Scott A. Denenberg, Thomas H. Lee, and David S. Ricketts, "Ordered and chaotic electrical solitons: communication perspectives," (Invited paper) IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 44, no. 12, pp. 126-135, December 2006.

Yong Liu, Hakho Lee, Robert M. Westervelt, and Donhee Ham, "CMOS meets bio," (Invited paper)
Proceedings of IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC), pp. 419-422, November 2006.

William F. Andress, David S. Ricketts, Xiaofeng Li, and Donhee Ham, "
Passive & active control of regenerative standing & soliton waves," (Invited paper) Proceedings of the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), pp. 29-36, September 2006.

David Ricketts, Xiaofeng Li, and Donhee Ham, "Electrical soliton modelocking," (Invited cover article) IEEE LEOS Newsletter, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 4-11, June 2006.

Hakho Lee, Yong Liu, Robert M. Westervelt, and Donhee Ham, "IC/Microfluidic hybrid system for magnetic manipulation of biological cells," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 41, no. 6, pp. 1471-1480, June 2006.

David Ricketts, Xiaofeng Li, and Donhee Ham, "Taming electrical solitons - A new direction in picosecond electronics," (Invited Paper) Proceedings of the IEEE RFIC Symposium, pp. 33 - 36, June 2006.

Nature, News & Views article by Thomas H. Lee, "Electrical solitons come of age," Nature,
vol. 440, 36-37, March 2006. This article reviews Ricketts, Li, and Ham, "Electrical soliton oscillator," IEEE Trans. Microw. Theory & Tech. (T-MTT), vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 373-382, Jan. 2006.
Also see Harvard Gazette.

David Ricketts and Donhee Ham, "A chip-scale electrical soliton modelocked oscillator," IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) Digest of Technical Papers, pp. 432-433, Feb. 2006.

David Ricketts, Xiaofeng Li, and Donhee Ham, "Electrical soliton oscillator," IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques (T-MTT), vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 373-382, Jan. 2006.

Yong Liu, Hakho Lee, Robert M. Westervelt, and Donhee Ham, "IC/microfluidic hybrid system for biology: review," (Invited Paper) Proceedings of the IEEE Bipolar/BiCMOS Technology Meeting (BCTM), pp. 174-179, Oct. 2005.

David Ricketts, Xiaofeng Li, Matt DePetro, and Donhee Ham, "A self-sustained electrical soliton oscillator,"
IEEE International Microwave Symposium, June 2005.

Robin S. Friedman, Michael C. McAlpine, David S. Ricketts, Donhee Ham, and Charles M. Lieber,
"High-speed integrated nanowire circuits,"
Nature 434, 1085, April 2005. Click here for Crimson story.

William Andress and Donhee Ham, "Standing wave oscillators utilizing wave-adaptive tapered transmission lines,"
IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 40, no. 3, pp. 638-651, March 2005.

Hakho Lee, Yong Liu, Eben Alsberg, Donald E. Ingber, Robert M. Westervelt, and Donhee Ham, "An IC/microfluidic hybrid microsystem for 2D magnetic manipulation of individual biological cells,
" IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) Digest of Technical Papers, pp. 80-81, Feb. 2005.

William Andress and Donhee Ham, "Recent developments in standing wave oscillator design: review," (Invited Paper) Proeedings of the IEEE RFIC Symposium, pp. 119-122, June 2004.

William Andress and Donhee Ham, "Standing wave oscillators utilizing wave-adaptive tapered transmission lines," Proceedings of the IEEE VLSI Symposium, pp. 50-53, June 2004.


Donhee Ham and William Andress, "A circular standing wave oscillator," IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) Digest of Technical Papers, pp. 380-381, Feb. 2004.


Publications prior to Harvard

"Virtual damping and Einstein relation in oscillators," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 38, p. 407, 2003.


"Virtual damping in oscillators," IEEE CICC 2002. 

"Concepts and methods in optimization of integrated LC VCOs," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 36, p. 896, 2001.


"Design and optimization of a low noise 2.4 GHz CMOS VCO with int. LC tank ..." IEEE ISCAS 2000.


"Complete noise analysis for CMOS switching mixers via stochastic differential ..." IEEE CICC 2000.

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Unpulbished Work

Nan Sun and Donhee Ham, "Digital acceleration of correlation-based digital background calibration in pipelined ADCs," Technical Report, Harvard University, August 2008.
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Dissertations

Kyoungho Woo, Hybrid-PLL Frequency Synthesizers and DLL-Based CMOS Temperature Sensors, PhD dissertation, Harvard University, 2008.

Yong Liu, CMOS Magnetic Cell Manipulator and CMOS NMR Biomolecular Sensor, PhD dissertation, Harvard University, 2007.

David S. Ricketts, The Electrical Soliton Oscillator, PhD dissertation, Harvard University, 2006.

William Andress, Standing Wave Adaptive 1D Resonator Tapering, BS thesis, Harvard U., 2004.

Donhee Ham, Statistical Electronics: Noise Processes in Integrated Communication Systems, PhD dissertation, Caltech, 2002.
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Book & Book Chapters

Hakho Lee, Donhee Ham, and Robert M. Westervelt (Eds), CMOS Biotechnology, Springer 2007.

David Ricketts, Xiaofeng Li, and Donhee Ham, "Soliton Electronics," in Circuits for Emerging Technologies - CMOS and beyond, CRC Press (to appear).

Donhee Ham, Hakho Lee, and Robert M. Westervelt, "Chapter 1: Introduction" in CMOS Biotechnology, Springer 2006 - excerpt here.

Hakho Lee, Donhee Ham, and Robert M. Westervelt, "Chapter 4: IC/Microfluidic hybrid system," in CMOS Biotechnology, Springer 2006.

Yong Liu, Hakho Lee, Robert M. Westervelt, and Donhee Ham, "Chapter 5: CMOS magnetophoresis," in CMOS Biotechnology, Springer 2006.

Donhee Ham, "Trade-offs in design of integrated LC voltage-controlled oscillators," an invited chapter in Trade-offs in Analog Circuit Design, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.
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Miscellaneous

D. Ham et al, Guest Editorial for the IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits Jan 2009 Issue.

S. Nam, X. Jiang, Q. Xiong, D. Ham, and C. M. Lieber, "Vertically-integrated three-dimensional nanowire CMOS circuits," MRS Symposium, Springer 2008.

X. Li, W. Andress, and D. Ham, "THz soliton and plasmonic science and technology," GOMACTECH, March 2008.

O. Ozgur Yildirim and D. Ham, "Picosecond electrical soliton oscillators & THz electronics," (Invited) International Semiconductor Device Research Symposium, College Park, MD, December 2007.

K. Woo and D. Ham, "Fast-locking integer/fractional-N hybrid PLL frequency synthesizer," Proceedings of IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits & Systems, August 2006.

R. S. Friedman, M. C. McAlpine, D. S. Ricketts, D. Ham, and C. M. Lieber, "Fully integrated high frequency nanowire ring oscillators," MRS Symposium, Spring 2005.

Hakho Lee, Tom Hunt, Yong Liu, Donhee Ham, and Robert M. Westervelt, "Electric and magnetic manipulation of biological systems," International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors, July 2004.

Donhee Ham, William Andress, and David S. Ricketts, "Phase noise in oscillators," (Invited Paper) International Workshop on SiP/SoC Integration of MEMS and Passive Components with RF-ICs, March 2004.
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Some Recent Talks (Representative Slides)

Research overview

GHz-to-THz circuits utilizing 1D nanoscale devices
IEEE ISSCC 2006 workshop, 2006 International Workshop on Innovations and Advanced Studies (Taiwan, 2006)


PLL design techniques for fast-locking & static-phase offset reduction
IEEE ISSCC 2007
, IEEE VLSI 2007.

Electrical soliton modelocking (Electrical soliton oscillators)
IEEE CICC 2006, IEEE RFIC 2006, IEEE ISSCC 2006, IEEE IMS 2005,
IEEE RFIC Workshop 2005; university & industry seminars.

Biological laboratory on integrated circuits
IEEE ISSCC 2005, IEEE A-SSCC 2006, IEEE BCTM 2005, ICPS 2004; university & industry seminars.


Wave-adaptive resonator tapering & self-sustained standing wave oscillators
IEEE CICC 2006,
IEEE RFIC Workshop 2005, IEEE RFIC 2004, IEEE VLSI 2004; university & industry seminars.

Circular standing wave oscillators
IEEE ISSCC 2004; university & industry seminars.

Statistical electronics: noise processes in oscillators and mixers
IEEE RFIC Workshop 2003; university & industry seminars.

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Maxwell-Dworkin Laboratory, Harvard U, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
PI Ph: (617) 496-9451, Fax:
(617) 495-2489, donhee@deas.harvard.edu
Lab1: (617) 496-0142, Lab2: (617) 496-0318, Lab3: (617) 495-1052