CMOS Circuits for Passive Wireless Microsystems

About the Author Fei Yuan received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from University of Waterloo, Canada in October 1999. He joined the Department of Electrical andComputer Engineering, RyersonUniversity, Toronto, Canada in 1999 and is currently a Professor. Dr. Yuan is the author of the bookCMOSActive Inductors and Transformers : Principle, Implementation, and Applications (Springer, New York, 2008), CMOS Current Mode Circuits for Data Communications (Springer, New York, 2006), the coauthor of the book Computer Methods for Analysis of Mixed Mode Switching Circuits (withAjoyOpal, KluwerAcademic Publishers, Boston, 2004), and the author / coauthor of 47 research papers in refereed scientific journals and over 90 research papers in refereed conference proceedings in the field of circuits and systems. Dr. Yuan currently serves the Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ryerson University. He also serves as the Associate Editor of Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering and is on the editorial board of several international journals. He was awarded the Ryerson Research Chair from Ryerson University in Jan. 2005, the Research Excellence Award from the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science of Ryerson University in 2004, the Early Tenure from Ryerson University in 2002, the Doctoral Scholarship from the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada during 19971998, and the Teaching Excellence Award from Changzhou Institute of Technology, Jiangsu, China in 1988. Dr. Yuan is a senior member of IEEE and a registered professional engineer in the province of Ontario, Canada.

Introduction to Passive Wireless Microsystems.- Fundamental Issues of Passive Wireless Microsystems.- Radio-Frequency Power Harvesting.- Modulation and Demodulation.- Ultra-Low Power Temperature-Compensated Precision References.- Clock Generation and Remote Calibration.- Ultra-Low Power Analog-to-Digital Converters.