Peer-Reviewed Publications

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~ 2024 ~

Aditi Jain, Saeromi Chung, Eliah Aronoff-Spencer, and Drew A. Hall, “An Electrochemical CMOS Biosensor Array Using Phase-Only Modulation With 0.035% Phase Error And In-Pixel Averaging,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (TBioCAS), To Appear. [Paper]

Tyler Hack, Joel Bisarra, Saeromi Chung, Shekher Kummari, and Drew A. Hall, “Mitigating Medication Tampering and Diversion via Real-time Intravenous Opioid Quantification,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (TBioCAS), vol. 18, no. 4, Aug 2024. (Invited paper.) [Paper]

Aditi Jain, Eric Fogleman, Paul Botros, Ritwik Vatsyayan, Corentin Pochet, Andrew Bourhis, Zhaoyi Liu, Suhas Chethan, Hanh-Phuc Le, Ian Galton, Shadi Dayeh, and Drew A. Hall, “A 2.5-20kSps in-pixel direct digitization front-end for ECoG with in-stimulation recording,” IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), Denver, CO, Apr. 21-24, 2024. [Paper | Slides] Outstanding Student Paper Award.

Michael Sveiven, Ana K. Serrano, Joshua Rosenberg, Douglas J. Conrad, Drew A. Hall, and Anthony J. O’Donoghue, “A GMR Enzymatic Assay for Quantifying Nuclease and Peptidase Activity,” Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, vol. 12, Mar 2024. [Paper | Supplemental]

~ 2023 ~

Michael Sveiven, Andrew Gassman, Joshua Rosenberg, Matthew Chan, Jay Boniface, Anthony J. O’Donoghue, Louise C. Laurent, and Drew A. Hall, “A Dual-Binding Magnetic Immunoassay to Predict Spontaneous Preterm Birth,” Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, vol. 11, Sep 2023. [Paper | Supplemental]

Zhaoyi Liu, Sang Heon Lee, Omid Ghadami, and Drew A. Hall, “The price for integrated bioelectronics: Quantifying the impact of e-beam post-processing,” IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems (BioCAS) Conference, Toronto, CA, Oct 19-21, 2023. [Poster | Paper]

Tyler Hack, Joel Bisarra, Saeromi Chung, and Drew A. Hall, “Ensuring pain medication dosage- A real-time intravenous opioid monitoring system,” IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems (BioCAS) Conference, Toronto, CA, Oct 19-21, 2023. [Slides | Paper]

Riya Varma, Asish Koruprolu, and Drew A. Hall, “Impedance-Based Detection of Blood Clotting Time,” IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems (BioCAS) Conference, Toronto, CA, Oct 19-21, 2023. [Poster | Paper]

Edward Wang, Louise C. Laurent, Drew A. Hall, and Yuhwa Lo, “Sample Preconcentration Through Airjet-Induced Liquid Phase Enrichment,” RSC Lab on a Chip (LOC), vol. 23, Aug 2023. [Preprint | Paper | Supplemental]

Ashesh Ray Chaudhuri, Chulmin Choi, Raymond Lobaton, Drew A. Hall, Prem Sinha, Manoj Jaysankar, Philippe Helin, Carl W. Fuller, Paul W. Mola, Barry Merriman, and Simone Severi, “Monolithic Fabrication of Nano Gap Electrodes for Single-Molecule Biosensing,” IEEE Transducers, Kyoto, Japan, Jun 25-29, 2023. [Paper | Slides]

Drew A. Hall, Kofi Makinwa, and Taekwang Jang, “Quantifying Biomedical Amplifier Efficiency – The Noise Efficiency Factor,” IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine (SSCM), vol. 15, no. 2, Jun 2023. (Invited paper.) [Paper]

Peter Asbeck, Dinesh Bharadia, Ian Galton, Drew A. Hall, Hanh-Phuc Le, Patrick Mercier, and Gabriel Rebeiz, “Integrated circuits for wireless communications: research activities at UCSD,” IEEE Microwave Magazine, vol. 24, no. 5, May 2023. (Invited paper.) [Paper]

Naveen K. Singh, Saeromi Chung, An-Yi Chang, Joseph Wang, and Drew A. Hall, “A Non-Invasive Wearable Stress Patch for Real-Time Cortisol Monitoring Using a Pseudoknot-Assisted Aptamer,” Biosensors and Bioelectronics, vol. 227, no. 115097, Feb. 2023. [Preprint | Paper | Supplemental]

~ 2022 ~

Drew A. Hall, Nagaraj Ananthapadmanabhan, Chulmin Choi, Le Zheng, Paul P. Pan, Christoph Von Jutrzenka, Thuan Nguyen, Jose Rizo, Macklan Weinstein, Raymond Lobaton, Prem Sinha, Trevor Sauerbrey, Cruz Sigala, Kathryne Bailey, Paul Mudondo, Ashesh Ray Chaudhuri, Simone Severi, Carl W. Fuller, James M. Tour, Sungho Jin, Paul W. Mola, and Barry Merriman, “A Scalable CMOS Molecular Electronics Chip for Single-Molecule Biosensing,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (TBioCAS), vol. 16, no. 6, Dec 2022. (Invited paper.) [Paper]

Tom Kalisky, Steven Saggese, Yunting Zhao, Daniel Johnson, Maya Azarova, Lilia Edith Duarte-Vera, Lucila Alejandra Almada-Salazar, Daniel Perales-Gonzalez, Enrique Chacon-Cruz, Jiaxing Wang, Rishi Graham, Alexandra Hubenko, Drew A. Hall, and Eliah Aronoff-Spencer, “Biometric recognition of newborns and young children for vaccinations and health care: A non-randomized prospective clinical trial,” Nature Scientific Reports, vol. 12, no. 22520, Dec. 2022. [Preprint | Paper | Supplemental]

Corentin Pochet and Drew A. Hall, “A pseudo-virtual ground feedforwarding technique enabling linearization and higher-order noise shaping in VCO-based ∆Σ modulators,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 57, no. 12, Dec. 2022. (Invited paper.) [Paper]

Saeromi Chung, Naveen Singh, Valentin Gribkoff, and Drew A. Hall, “Electrochemical carbamazepine aptasensor for therapeutic drug monitoring at the point of care,” ACS Omega, vol. 7, no. 43, Nov. 2022. [Paper | Supplemental]

Patrick P. Mercier, Benton H. Calhoun, Po-Han Peter Wang, Anjana Dissanayake, Linsheng Zhang, Drew A. Hall, and Steven M. Bowers, “Low-Power RF Wake-Up Receivers: Analysis, Trade-Offs, and Design,” IEEE Open Journal of the Solid-State Circuits Society (OJ-SSCS), vol. 2, Nov. 2022. (Invited paper.) [Paper]

Da Ying, Joshua Rosenberg, Naveen K. Singh, and Drew A. Hall, “A 26.5 pArms Neurotransmitter Front-End with Class-AB Background Subtraction,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (TBioCAS), vol. 16, no. 4, Aug. 2022. [Paper]

Omid Ghadami, Hongyu Lu, Matthew Chan, Mila Tan, Saeromi Chung, Sang Heon Lee, Matthew T. Holden, Ryan de Ridder, Barry Merriman, and Drew A. Hall, “Helix: An Electrochemical CMOS DNA Synthesizer,” IEEE Symp. on VLSI Circuits (VLSI), Honolulu, HI, Jun. 14-16, 2022. [Paper | Slides | Video]

Aditi Jain, Haowei Jiang, Corentin Pochet, and Drew A. Hall, “A 310 nW Temperature Sensor Achieving 9.8 mK Resolution using a DFLL-based Readout Circuit,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II (TCAS2), vol. 69, no. 3, Mar. 2022. [Paper]

Drew A. Hall, Nagaraj Ananthapadmanabhan, Chulmin Choi, Le Zheng, Paul P. Pan, Carl W. Fuller, Pius P. Padayatti, Calvin Gardner, Daniel Gebhardt, Zsolt Majzik, Prem Sinha, Paul W. Mola, and Barry Merriman, “A CMOS Molecular Electronics Chip for Single-Molecule Biosensing,” IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), San Francisco, CA, Feb. 20-24, 2022. [Paper | Slides | Video]

Corentin Pochet and Drew A. Hall, “A 4.4µW, 2.5kHz-BW, 92.1dB-SNDR 3rd-Order VCO-based ADC with Pseudo Virtual Ground Feedforward Linearization,” IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), San Francisco, CA, Feb. 20-24, 2022. [Paper | Slides | Video]

Carl W. Fuller, Pius S. Padayatti, Hadi Abderrahim, Lisa Adamiak, Nolan Alagar, Nagaraj Ananthapadmanabhan, Jihye Baek, Sarat Chinni, Chulmin Choi, Kevin J. Delaney, Rich Dubielzig, Julie Frkanec, Chris Garcia, Calvin Gardner, Daniel Gebhardt, Tim Geiser, Zachariah Gutierrez, Drew A. Hall, Andrew P. Hodges, Guangyuan Hou, Sonal Jain, Teresa Jones, Raymond Lobaton, Zsolt Majzik, Allen Marte, Prateek Mohan, Paul Mola II, Paul Mudondo, James Mullinix, Thuan Nguyen, Frederick Ollinger, Sarah Orr, Yuxuan Ouyang, Paul Pan, Namseok Park, David Porras, Keshav Prabhu, Cassandra Reese, Travers Ruel, Trevor Sauerbrey, Jaymie R. Sawyer, Prem Sinha, Jacky Tu, A. G. Venkatesh, Sushmitha VijayKumar, Le Zheng, Sungho Jin, James M. Tour, George M. Church, Paul W. Mola, and Barry Merriman, “Molecular electronics sensors on a scalable semiconductor chip: A platform for single-molecule measurement of binding kinetics and enzyme activity,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), vol. 119, no. 5, Feb. 2022. [Paper | Supplemental]

~ 2021 ~

Corentin Pochet, Jason Huang, Patrick Mercier, and Drew A. Hall, “A 174.7-dB FoM, 2nd-order VCO-based ExG-to-Digital Front-End Using a Multi-phase Gated-Inverted Ring Oscillator Quantizer,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (TBioCAS), vol. 15, no. 6, Dec 2021. (Invited paper.) [Paper]

Da Ying, Chi-Yang Tseng, Ping-Wei Chen, Yu-Hwa Lo, and Drew A. Hall, “A 30.3 fA/√Hz Biosensing Current Front-End with 139 dB Cross-Scale Dynamic Range,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (TBioCAS), vol. 15, no. 6, Dec 2021. [Paper]

Saeromi Chung, Lars Bode, and Drew A. Hall, “Point-of-care human milk testing for maternal secretor status,” Springer Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry (ABC), Nov 2021. (Invited, featured paper.) [Paper | Supplemental]

Somok Mondal, Chung-Lun Hsu, Roozbeh Jafari, and Drew A. Hall, “A Dynamically Reconfigurable ECG Analog Front-End with a 2.5× Data-Dependent Power Reduction,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (TBioCAS), vol. 15, no. 15, Oct 2021. [Paper]

Naveen Singh, Saeromi Chung, Michael Sveiven, and Drew A. Hall, “Cortisol detection in undiluted human serum using a sensitive electrochemical structure switching aptamer over an antifouling nanocomposite layer,” ACS Omega, vol. 6, no. 42, Oct 2021. [Paper | Supplemental]

Naveen K. Singh, Partha Ray, Aaron F. Carlin, Celestine Magallanes, Sydney Morgan, Louise C. Laurent, Eliah S. Aronoff-Spencer, and Drew A. Hall, “Dataset on optimization and development of a point-of-care glucometer-based SARS-CoV-2 detection assay using aptamers,” Elsevier Data in Brief, vol. 38, no. 107278, Oct 2021. [Paper | Dataset]

Da Ying and Drew A. Hall, “Current Sensing Front-Ends: A Review and Design Guidance,” IEEE Sensors, vol. 21, no. 20, Oct. 2021. [Paper]

Xiahan Zhou, Enhan Mai, Michael Sveiven, Corentin Pochet, Haowei Jiang, Chih-Cheng Huang, and Drew A. Hall, “A 9.7-nTrms, 704-ms Magnetic Biosensor Front-End for Detecting Magneto-Relaxation,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 56, no. 7, July 2021. [Paper]

Libin Sun, Douglas Conrad, Drew A. Hall, Kurt D. Benkstein, Steve Semancik, and Mona E. Zaghloul, “Plasmonic Sensing Studies of a Gas-Phase Cystic Fibrosis Marker in Moisture Laden Air,” MDPI Sensors, vol. 21, no. 3776, May 2021. [Paper]

Saeromi Chung, Jason K. Sicklick, Partha Ray, and Drew A. Hall, “Development of a Soluble KIT Electrochemical Aptasensor for Cancer Theranostics,” ACS Sensors, vol. 6, no. 5, May 2021. [Preprint | Paper]

Corentin Pochet, Haowei Jiang, and Drew A. Hall, “Ultra-Low Leakage ESD Protection Achieving 10.5 fA Leakage,” IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Daegu, South Korea, May 22-28, 2021. [Paper | Slides | Video]

Naveen K. Singh, Partha Ray, Aaron F. Carlin, Celestine Magallanes, Sydney Morgan, Louise C. Laurent, Eliah S. Aronoff-Spencer, and Drew A. Hall, “Hitting the diagnostic sweet spot: Point-of-care SARS-CoV-2 salivary antigen testing with an off-the-shelf glucometer,” Biosensors and Bioelectronics, vol. 180, no. 113111, May 2021. [Preprint | Paper]

Somok Mondal, Omid Ghadami, and Drew A. Hall, “A 139μW 104.8dB-DR 24kHz-BW CTΔΣM with Chopped AC-coupled OTA-Stacking and FIR DACs,” IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), San Francisco, CA, Feb. 13-22, 2021. [Paper | Slides | Video]

Corentin Pochet, Jason Huang, Patrick Mercier, and Drew A. Hall, “A 400mVpp, 92.3dB-SNDR, 1kHz-BW, 2nd-order VCO-based ExG-to-Digital Front-End Using a Multiphase Gated-Inverted Ring-Oscillator Quantizer,” IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), San Francisco, CA, Feb. 13-22, 2021. [Paper | Slides | Video]

Bassem Ibrahim, Drew A. Hall, and Roozbeh Jafari, “Pulse Wave Modeling using Bio-Impedance Simulation Platform based on a 3D Time-Varying Circuit Model,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits (TBioCAS), vol. 15, no. 1, Feb. 2021. [Paper]

~ 2020 ~

Chih-Cheng Huang, Partha Ray, Matthew Chan, Xiahan Zhou, and Drew A. Hall, “An aptamer-based magnetic flow cytometer using matched filtering,” Biosensors and Bioelectronics, vol. 169, no. 112362, Dec. 2020. [Preprint | Paper | Supplemental]

Haowei Jiang, Chih-Cheng Huang, Matthew Chan, and Drew A. Hall, “A 2-in-1 Temperature and Humidity Sensor with a Single FLL Wheatstone-Bridge Front-End,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 55, no. 8, Aug. 2020. [Paper]

Somok Mondal and Drew A. Hall, “A 67-μW Ultra-Low Power PVT-Robust MedRadio Transmitter,” IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC), Los Angeles, CA, June 21-26, 2020. [Paper | Slides | Video]

Haowei Jiang, Po-Han Peter Wang, Li Gao, Corentin Pochet, Gabriel M. Rebeiz, Drew A. Hall, and Patrick P. Mercier, “A 22.3 nW, 4.55 cm2 Temperature-Robust Wake-up Receiver Achieving a Sensitivity of -69.5 dBm at 9 GHz,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 55, no. 6, Jun. 2020. [Paper]

Sandeep Adem, Sonal Jain, Michael Sveiven, Xiahan Zhou, Anthony J. O’Donoghue, and Drew A. Hall, “Giant magnetoresistive biosensors for real-time quantitative detection of protease activity,” Nature Scientific Reports, vol. 10, no. 7941, May 2020. [Preprint | Paper | Online Paper]

Somok Mondal and Drew A. Hall, “A 13.9-nA ECG Amplifier Achieving 0.86/0.99 NEF/PEF Using AC-coupled OTA-Stacking,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 55, no. 2, Feb. 2020. [Paper]

~ 2019 ~

Xiahan Zhou, Michael Sveiven, and Drew A. Hall, “A CMOS Magnetoresistive Sensor Front-End with Mismatch-Tolerance and Sub-ppm Sensitivity for Magnetic Immunoassays,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits (TBioCAS), vol. 13, no. 6, pp. 1254-1263, Dec 2019. (Invited paper.) [Paper]

Bassem Ibrahim, Drew. A. Hall, and Roozbeh Jafari, “Bio-Impedance Simulation Platform Using 3D Time-Varying Impedance Grid for Arterial Pulse Wave Modeling,” IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS), Nara, Japan, Oct. 17-19, 2019. [Paper | PosterBest Poster Award.

Abbas Barfidokht, Rupesh K. Mishra, Rajesh Seenivasan, Shuyang Liu, Lee J. Hubble, Joseph Wang, and Drew A. Hall, “Wearable electrochemical glove-based sensor for rapid and on-site detection of fentanyl,” Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, vol. 296, pp. 126442. [Paper]

Da Ying, Ping-Wei Chen, Chi Tseng, Yu-Hwa Lo, and Drew A. Hall, “A Sub-pA Current Sensing Front-End for Transient Induced Molecular Spectroscopy,” IEEE Symp. on VLSI Circuits, Kyoto, Japan, Jun. 11-13, 2019. [Paper | Slides]

Haowei Jiang, Chih-Cheng Huang, Matthew Chan, and Drew A. Hall, “A 2-in-1 Temperature and Humidity Sensor Achieving 62 fJ·K2 and 0.83 pJ·(%RH)2,” IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), Austin, TX, Apr. 14-17, 2019. [Paper | Slides]

Somok Mondal and Drew A. Hall, “A 107 μW MedRadio Injection-Locked Clock Multiplier with a CTAT-biased 126 ppm/°C Ring Oscillator,” IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), Austin, TX, Apr. 14-17, 2019. [Paper | Slides]

Xiahan Zhou, Michael Sveiven, and Drew A. Hall, “A Fast-Readout, Mismatch-Insensitive Magnetoresistive Biosensor Front-End Achieving Sub-ppm Sensitivity,” IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), San Francisco, CA Feb. 17-21, 2019. [Paper | Slides]

Alex Sun and Drew A. Hall, “Point-of-Care Smartphone-based Electrochemical Biosensing,” Electroanalysis, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 2–16, 2019. (Invited paper.) [Paper]

~ 2018 ~

Kyunglok Kim, Drew Hall, Chengyang Yao, Jung-Rok Lee, Chin Chun Ooi, Daniel Bechstein, Yue Guo, and Shan Wang, “Magnetoresistive biosensors with on-chip pulsed excitation and magnetic correlated double sampling,” Nature Scientific Reports, vol. 8, no. 1, p. 16493, Nov. 2018. [Paper]

A.G. Venkatesh, H. Brickner, D. Looney, D. A. Hall, E. Aronoff-Spencer, “Clinical Detection of Hepatitis C Viral Infection by Yeast-Secreted HCV-Core:Gold-Binding-Peptide,” Biosensors and Bioelectronics, vol. 119, pp. 230-236, Nov. 2018. [Paper]

Po-Han Peter Wang, Haowei Jiang, Li Gao, Pinar Sen, Young-Han Kim, Gabriel M. Rebeiz, Patrick P. Mercier, and Drew A. Hall, “A 6.1 nW Wake-Up Receiver Achieving −80.5 dBm Sensitivity via a Passive Pseudo-Balun Envelope Detector,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits Letters (SSCL), vol. 1, no. 5, pp. 134-137, Oct. 2018. [Paper]

Haowei Jiang, Po-Han Peter Wang, Patrick P. Mercier, and Drew A. Hall, “0.4 V 0.93 nW/kHz Relaxation Oscillator Exploiting Comparator Temperature-Dependent Delay to Achieve 94 ppm/°C Stability,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 53, no. 10, pp. 3004-3011, Oct. 2018. [Paper]

Xing Su, Noureddine Tayebi, Grace Credo, Kai Wu, Oguz Elibol, David Liu, Jonathan Daniels, Handong Li, Drew Hall, and Madoo Varma, “Scalable Nanogap Sensors for Non-redox Enzyme Assays,” ACS Sensors, vol. 3, no. 9, pp. 1773-1781, Aug. 2018. [Paper]

Alexander C. Sun, Enrique Alvarez-Fontecilla, A. G. Venkatesh, Eliah Aronoff-Spencer, and Drew A. Hall, “High-Density Redox Amplified Coulostatic Discharge-Based Biosensor Array,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 53, no. 7, pp. 2054-2064, July 2018. (Invited paper.) [Paper]

Po-Han Peter Wang, Haowei Jiang, Li Gao, Pinar Sen, Young-Han Kim, Gabriel M. Rebeiz, Patrick P. Mercier, and Drew A. Hall, “A Near-Zero-Power Wake-up Receiver Achieving −69 dBm Sensitivity,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 53, no. 6, pp. 1640-1652, Jun. 2018. [Paper]

Haowei Jiang,* Xiahan Zhou,* Saurabh Kulkarni, Michael Uranian, Rajesh Seenivasan, and Drew A. Hall, “A Sub-1 µW Multiparameter Injectable BioMote for Continuous Alcohol Monitoring,” IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), San Diego, CA, Apr. 9-11, 2018. [Paper | Slides]
* Equal Contribution
+ Outstanding student paper nominee

Chung-Lun Hsu, Alexander Sun, Yunting Zhao, Eliah Aronoff-Spencer, and Drew A. Hall, “A 16×20 Electrochemical CMOS Biosensor Array with In-Pixel Averaging Using Polar Modulation,” IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), San Diego, CA, Apr. 9-11, 2018. [Paper | Slides]

Chung Lun Hsu and Drew A. Hall, “A Current Measurement Front-end with 160dB Dynamic Range and 7 ppm INL,” IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), San Francisco, CA, Feb. 12-14, 2018. [Paper | Slides]

~ 2017 ~

Chih-Cheng Huang, Xiahan Zhou, Da Ying, and Drew A. Hall, “A GMR-Based Magnetic Flow Cytometer Using Matched Filtering,” Proceedings of IEEE Sensors, Glasgow, Scotland, Oct. 30 – Nov. 1, 2017. [Paper | Slides]

Bassem Ibrahim, Drew A. Hall, and Roozbeh Jafari, “Bio-Impedance Spectroscopy (BIS) Measurement System for Wearable Devices,” IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS), Turin, Italy, Oct. 19-21, 2017. [Paper | Slides]

Xiahan Zhou, Chih-Cheng Huang, and Drew A. Hall, “Magnetoresistive Biosensors for Quantitative Proteomics,” Proceedings of SPIE Optics + Photonics, San Diego, CA, Aug. 6-10, 2017. [Paper | Slides]

Po-Han Peter Wang, Haowei Jiang, Li Gao, Pinar Sen, Young-Han Kim, Gabriel M. Rebeiz, Patrick P. Mercier, and Drew A. Hall, “A 400 MHz 4.5 nW -63.8 dBm Sensitivity Wake-Up Receiver Employing an Active Pseudo-Balun Envelope Detector,” IEEE European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), Leuven, Belgium, Sep. 12-14, 2017. [Paper | Slides]

Alexander Sun, Enrique Alvarez, A. G. Venkatesh, Eliah Aronoff-Spencer, and Drew A. Hall, “A 64×64 High-Density Redox Amplified Coulostatic Discharge-Based Biosensor Array in 180nm CMOS,” IEEE European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), Leuven, Belgium, Sep. 12-14, 2017. [Paper | Slides]

Xiahan Zhou, Chih-Cheng Huang, and Drew A. Hall, “Giant Magnetoresistive Biosensor Array for Detecting Magnetorelaxation,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (TBioCAS), vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 755-764, Aug. 2017. [Paper]

Tom Phelps, Haowei Jiang, and Drew A. Hall, “Development of a Smartphone-Based Pulse Oximeter with Adaptive SNR/Power Balancing,” IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC), Jeju Island, Korea, July 11-15, 2017. [Paper | Slides]

Christoph Carter, Kevan Akrami, Drew Hall, Davey Smith, and Eliah Aronoff-Spencer, “Lyophilized Visually Readable Loop-Mediated Isothermal Reverse Transcriptase Nucleic Acid Amplification Test for Detection Ebola Zaire RNA,” Journal of Virological Methods, vol. 244, pp. 32-38, Jun. 2017. [Paper]

Alexander Sun, Tom Phelps, Chengyang Yao, A. G. Venkatesh, Douglas Conrad, and Drew A. Hall, “Smartphone-based pH Sensor for at Home Monitoring of Pulmonary Exacerbations in Cystic Fibrosis,” Sensors, vol. 17, no. 6, p. 1245, May 2017. [Paper]

Somok Mondal and Drew A. Hall, “An ECG Chopper Amplifier Achieving 0.92 NEF and 0.85 PEF with AC-Coupled Inverter-Stacking for Noise Efficiency Enhancement,” IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Baltimore, MD, May 29-31, 2017. [Paper | Slides]

Somok Mondal, Chung-Lun Hsu, Roozbeh Jafari, and Drew Hall, “A Dynamically Reconfigurable ECG Analog Front-End with a 2.5× Data-Dependent Power Reduction,” IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), Austin, TX, May 1-3, 2017. [Paper | Slides]

Chih-Cheng Huang, Xiahan Zhou, and Drew A. Hall, “Giant Magnetoresistive Biosensors for Time-Domain Magnetorelaxometry: A Theoretical Investigation and Progress Toward an Immunoassay,” Scientific Reports, vol. 7, p. 45493, Apr. 2017. [Paper]

Haowei Jiang, Po-Han Peter Wang, Li Gao, Pinar Sen, Young-Han Kim, Gabriel M Rebeiz, Drew A Hall, and Patrick P Mercier, “A 4.5nW Wake-Up Radio with -69dBm Sensitivity,” IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), San Francisco, CA, February 6-8, 2017. [Paper | Slides]

Haowei Jiang, Alex Sun, A. G. Venkatesh, and Drew A. Hall, “An Audio Jack-Based Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy Sensor for Point-of-Care Diagnostics,” IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 589-597, Feb. 2017. [Paper]

~ 2016 ~

E. Aronoff-Spencer, A.G. Venkatesh, A. Sun, H. Brickner, D. Looney, and D. A. Hall, “Detection of Hepatitis C core antibody by dual-affinity yeast chimera and smartphone-based electrochemical sensing,” Biosensors and Bioelectronics, vol. 86, pp. 690–696, Dec. 2016. [Paper]

A. Sun, A.G. Venkatesh, and D. A. Hall, “A Multi-Technique Reconfigurable Electrochemical Biosensor: Enabling Personal Health Monitoring in Mobile Devices,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (TBioCAS), vol. 10, no. 5, pp. 945–954, Oct. 2016. (Invited paper.) [Paper]

Jung-Rok Lee, D. James Haddon, Nidhi Gupta, Jordan V. Price, Grace M. Credo, Vivian K. Diep, Kyunglok Kim, Drew A Hall, Emily C. Baechler, Michelle Petri, Madoo Varma, Paul J. Utz, and Shan X. Wang, “High Resolution Analysis of Antibodies to Post-Translational Modifications Using Peptide Nanosensor Microarrays,” ACS Nano, vol 10, no. 12, pp. 10652-10660, Sep. 2016. [Paper]

B. Hong, A. Sun, L. Pang, A. G. Venkatesh, D. Hall, and Y. Fainman, “Integrated biosensor for simultaneous detection by surface plasmon resonance and Faradaic electrochemical impedance spectroscopy,” Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, San Jose, CA, June 10, 2016. [Paper | Slides]

J.-R. Lee, D. J. Haddon, H. E. Wand, J. V. Price, V. K. Diep, D. A. Hall, M. Petri, E. C. Baechler, I. M. Balboni, P. J. Utz, and S. X. Wang, “Multiplex giant magnetoresistive biosensor microarrays identify interferon-associated autoantibodies in systemic lupus erythematosus,” Scientific Reports, vol. 6, p. 27623, Jun. 2016. [Paper]

A. C. Sun, C. Yao, V. A.G., and D. A. Hall, “An efficient power harvesting mobile phone-based electrochemical biosensor for point-of-care health monitoring,” Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, vol. 235, pp. 126–135, May 2016. [Paper]

Drew A Hall, Jonathan S Daniels, Bibiche Geuskens, Noureddine Tayebi, Grace M Credo, David J Liu, Handong Li, Kai Wu, Xing Su, Madoo Varma, Oguz Elibol, “A Nanogap Transducer Array on 32nm CMOS for Electrochemical DNA Sequencing,” IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), San Francisco, CA, February 1-3, 2016. [Paper | Slides]

Jung-Rok Lee, Noriyuki Sato, Daniel Bechstein, Sebastian Osterfeld, Junyi Wang, Adi Wijaya Gani, Drew Hall, and Shan X. Wang, “Experimental and theoretical investigation of the precise transduction mechanism in giant magnetoresistive biosensors,” Scientific Reports, vol. 6, p. 18692, Jan. 2016. [Paper]

~ 2015 ~

C.-L. Hsu, H. Jiang, A. G. Venkatesh, and D. A. Hall, “A Hybrid Semi-Digital Transimpedance Amplifier With Noise Cancellation Technique for Nanopore-Based DNA Sequencing,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (TBioCAS), vol. 9, no. 5, pp. 652–661, 2015. (Invited paper.) [Paper]

B. Hong, A. Sun, L. Pang, A. G. Venkatesh, D. Hall, and Y. Fainman, “Integration of Faradaic electrochemical impedance spectroscopy into a scalable surface plasmon biosensor for in tandem detection,” Optics Express, vol. 23, no. 23, pp. 30237–30249, Nov. 2015. [Paper]

Chung-Lun Hsu, Tiantian Zhang, Yu-Hwa Lo, and Drew A. Hall, “A Low-Noise Gain-Enhanced Readout Amplifier for Induced Molecular Electronic Signal,” IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS), Atlanta, GA, October 22-24, 2015. [Paper | Slides]

Alex Sun, Travis Wambach, A. G. Venkatesh, and Drew A. Hall, “A Multitechnique Reconfigurable Electrochemical Biosensor for Integration into Mobile Technologies,” IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS), Atlanta, GA, October 22-24, 2015. [Paper | Poster]

Qingxue Zhang, Chakameh Zahed, Visam Nathan, Drew A. Hall, and Roozbeh Jafari, “An ECG Dataset Representing Real-world Signal Characteristics for Wearable Computers,” IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS), Atlanta, GA, October 22-24, 2015. [Paper | Poster]

Alex Sun, Anthony Au, A. G. Venkatesh, Vikash Gilja, and Drew A. Hall, “A Scalable High-Density Electrochemical Biosensor Array for Parallelized Point-of-Care Diagnostics,” IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS), Atlanta, GA, October 22-24, 2015. [Paper | Poster]

Chengyang Yao, Alexander Sun, and Drew A. Hall, “Efficient Power Harvesting from the Mobile Phone Audio Jack for mHealth Peripherals,” IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC), Seattle, WA, October 8-11, 2015. [Paper | Slides]

D. J. B. Bechstein, E. Ng, J.-R. Lee, S. G. Cone, R. S. Gaster, S. J. Osterfeld, D. A. Hall, J. A. Weaver, R. J. Wilson, and S. X. Wang, “Microfluidic multiplexed partitioning enables flexible and effective utilization of magnetic sensor arrays,” Lab on a Chip, vol. 15, no. 22, pp. 4273–4276, Oct. 2015. [Paper]

A.G. Venkatesh, Alex Sun, Howard Brickner, David Looney, Drew A. Hall, and Eliah Aronoff-Spencer, “Yeast Dual-Affinity BioBricks: Progress Towards Renewable Whole-Cell Biosensors,” Biosensors and Bioelectronics, vol. 70, pp. 462–468, Aug. 2015. [Paper]

Chengzhi Zong, Somok Mondal, Drew Hall, and Roozbeh Jafari, “Digitally Assisted Analog Front-end Power Management Strategy via Dynamic Reconfigurability for Robust Heart Rate Monitoring,” 7th Workshop on Adaptive and Reconfigurable Embedded Systems (APRES), Seattle, WA, April 13-17, 2015. [Paper]

~ 2014 ~

Alexander Sun, Travis Wambach, A. G. Venkatesh, and Drew A. Hall, “A Low-Cost Smartphone-Based Electrochemical Biosensor for Point-of-Care Diagnostics,” IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS), Lausanne, Switzerland, October 22-24, 2014. [Paper | Poster]

Chung-Lun Hsu, A. G. Venkatesh, Haowie Jiang, and Drew A. Hall, “Hybrid Semi-Digital Transimpedance Amplifier for Nanopore-Based DNA Sequencing,” IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS), Lausanne, Switzerland, October 22-24, 2014. [Paper | Slides]

~ 2013 ~

Dokyoon Kim, Francesco Marchetti, Zuxiong Chen, Sasa Zaric, Robert J. Wilson, Drew A. Hall, Richard S. Gaster et al., “Nanosensor dosimetry of mouse blood proteins after exposure to ionizing radiation,” Scientific Reports, 3, 2013. [Paper]

Drew A. Hall, Richard S. Gaster, Kofi Makinwa, Shan X. Wang, Boris Murmann, “A 256 pixel magnetoresistive biosensor microarray in 0.18um CMOS,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 48, 1290-1301, 2013. [Paper]

~ 2008 – 2012 ~

Drew A. Hall, Richard S. Gaster, Sebastian J. Osterfeld, Kofi Makinwa, Shan X. Wang, Boris Murmann, “A 256 Channel Magnetoresistive Biosensor Microarray for Quantitative Proteomics,” IEEE Symp. VLSI Circuits Dig., Kyoto, Japan, July 15-17, 2011. [Paper | Slides]

Richard S. Gaster, Liang Xu, Shu-Jen Han, Robert J. Wilson, Drew A. Hall, Sebastian J. Osterfeld, Heng Yu, and Shan X. Wang, “Quantification of Protein Interactions and Solution Transport Using High-Density GMR Sensor Arrays,” Nature Nanotechnology, 6, 314-320, 2011. [Paper Nature Nanotechnology highlight]

R.S. Gaster, D.A. Hall, Shan X. Wang, “nanoLAB: An ultraportable, hand-held diagnostic laboratory for global health,” Lab on a Chip, 11, 950-956, 2011. [Paper]

Richard S. Gaster, Drew A. Hall, Shan X. Wang, “Autoassembly Protein Arrays for Analyzing Antibody Cross-Reactivity,” Nano Letters, 11, 2579-2583, 2011. [Paper | Cover Art]

D.A. Hall, R.S. Gaster, T. Lin, S.J. Osterfeld, S. Han, B. Murmann, and S.X. Wang, “GMR biosensor arrays: a system perspective,” Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 25, 2051-2057, 2010. [Paper]

D.A. Hall, R.S. Gaster, S.J. Osterfeld, B. Murmann, and S.X. Wang, “GMR biosensor arrays: correction techniques for reproducibility and enhanced sensitivity,” Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 25, 2177-2181, 2010. [Paper]

Drew A. Hall, Richard S. Gaster, Shan X. Wang, Boris Murmann, “Portable biomarker detection with magnetic nanotags,” IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Paris, France, June 3, 2010. [Paper]

Richard S. Gaster, Drew A. Hall, Carsten Neilson, Sebastian J. Osterfeld, Heng Yu, Kathleen Mach, Robert J. Wilson, Boris Murmann, Joseph C Liao, Sanjiv S. Gambhir, Shan X. Wang, “Matrix-insensitive protein assays push the limits of biosensors in medicine,” Nature Medicine, 15, 1327-1332, 2009. [Paper | Nature highlight]

S. J. Osterfeld, H. Yu, R. S. Gaster, S. Caramuta, L. Xu, S.-J. Han, D. A. Hall, R. J. Wilson, S. Sun, R. L. White, R. W. Davis, N. Pourmand, and S. X. Wang, “Multiplex Protein Assays Based on Real-Time Magnetic Nanotag Sensing,” PNAS, 105, 20637-20640, 2008. [Paper]

Conference and Workshop Talks

Drew A. Hall “Injectable Biosensors: Is there a future?,” IEEE Symp. on VLSI Circuits (VLSI), Workshop, Honolulu, HI, June 16-20, 2024. [Abstract | Slides] 

Drew A. Hall, “A CMOS Molecular Electronics Chip for Single-Molecule Biosensing,” IEEE Advances in Analog Circuit Design (AACD) Workshop, Pavia, Italy, April 9-11, 2024. [Abstract | Slides]

Drew A. Hall, Daniel Beriault, and Dan Werb, “Development and validation of a novel point-of-care technology for rapid non-targeted identification of emerging threats in North American drug markets,” American Chemical Society Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Aug. 15, 2023. [Abstract | Slides]

Drew A. Hall, “A CMOS Molecular Electronics Chip for Single Molecule Biosensing,” IEEE Sensor Interface Meeting (SIM), Veldhoven, Netherlands, May 8-9, 2023. [Abstract | Slides]

Drew A. Hall, “Point-of-care human milk testing,” Human Milk Institute (HMI) Point-of-Care Milk Testing, San Diego, CA, Mar. 30, 2023. [Abstract | Slides]

Corentin Pochet and Drew A. Hall, “VCO-based ADCs for direct digitization of ExG signals,” IEEE Advances in Analog Circuit Design (AACD) Workshop, Cork, Ireland, Oct. 4-6, 2022. [Abstract | Slides]

Michael Sveiven, Kavya Balaji, Drew A. Hall, Anthony J. O’Donoghue, “Giant magnetoresistive biosensors for real-time quantitative detection of protease and endonuclease activity,” Pacific Coast Protease Spring School, Borrego Springs, CA, April 24-27, 2022.

Drew A. Hall, “Hitting the diagnostic sweet spot: Point-of-care SARS-CoV-2 salivary antigen testing with an off-the-shelf glucometer,” Springer Next Generation of Sensors, Mar. 24, 2021. [Abstract | Slides]

Drew A. Hall, “Getting the Most Out of a Little: Ultra-low Power Circuit Techniques for the IoT,” IEEE Symp. on VLSI Circuits (VLSI), Short Course, June 13-19, 2021. [Paper | Slides | Video]

Drew A. Hall, “The Internet-of-Medical Things (IoMT): An opportunity for ubiquitous health monitoring,” IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), Education Session, April 25-30,  2021. [Paper | Slides | Video]

Drew A. Hall, “Magnetoresistive Biosensors for Quantitative Proteomics,” CMOS ETR, Grenoble, France, July 6-8, 2014. [Abstract | Slides]

S.X. Wang, R.S. Gaster, D.A. Hall, “Wash-free multiplex protein assay based on magnetic nanotechnology and its applications in cancer research,” Digest of International Magnetics Conf., Taipei, Taiwan, April 25-29, 2011. [Abstract | Slides]

Drew A. Hall, Calvin Chu, Andrew Dotey, Jr., Richard S. Gaster, Kofi Makinwa, Boris Murmann, Shan X. Wang, “A GMR Spin-Valve Integrated into a Continuous Time ΣΔ Modulator for Quantitative, Real-Time Biosensing,” Digest of International Magnetics Conf., Taipei, Taiwan, April 25-29, 2011. [Abstract | Slides]

D. A. Hall, R. S. Gaster, H. Yu, S. J. Osterfeld, B. Murmann, S. X. Wang, “Multiplexed GMR Biosensor Arrays,” Digest of International Magnetics Conf., Sacramento, CA, May 5-8, 2009.

Drew A. Hall, Tondra De, “A New Approach to Maze Searching and Solving Techniques for Small Autonomous Mobile Robots,” IEEE Southwest Region Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, September 9-10, 2005.

Book Chapters

Richard S. Gaster, Drew A. Hall, and Shan X. Wang, “Magnetic Nanoparticle Diagnostic Chips,” invited book chapter in Point of Care Diagnostics on a Chip, Springer (Edited by Robert Westervelt and David Issadore), 2013. [Book]

Drew A. Hall, Richard S. Gaster, and Shan X. Wang, “GMR Biosensors,” invited book chapter in Handbook of Spin Transport and Magnetism, Taylor & Francis (Edited by Evgeny Tsymbal and Igor Žurić), 2011. [Book]

Patents

Saurabh Kulkarni and Drew A. Hall, “Implantable Biosensor,” United States Utility Patent No 16,620,337.

Chung-Lun Hsu and Drew A. Hall, “Wide Dynamic Range Current Measurement Front-End,” United States Utility Patent No. 11,320,468.

Kyunglok Kim, Drew A. Hall, Shan X. Wang, “Correlated double sampling for noise reduction in magnetoresistive sensors and sensor arrays,” United States Utility Patent No. 9,989,597, International Patent No. 20,160,054,397.

Oguz H Elibol, Grace M Credo, Xing Su, Madoo Varma, Jonathan S Daniels, Drew Hall, Handong Li, Noureddine Tayebi, Kai Wu, “High throughput biochemical detection using single molecule fingerprinting arrays,” United States Utility Patent No. 9,551,682.

Richard Gaster, Shan X. Wang, and Drew A. Hall, “Methods and devices for detecting the presence of an analyte in a sample,” United States Utility Patent No. 9,506,919, International Patent No. 20,110,027,901.

Drew A. Hall, Richard Gaster, Sebastian J. Osterfeld, and Shan X. Wang, “Temperature and Drift Compensation in Magnetoresistive Sensors,” United States Utility Patent No. 8,405,385, International Patent No. 2,010,104,589 and 2,406,649

Theses

Da Ying, “High-sensitivity Current Sensing Front-End for Biomedical Applications,” University of California, San Diego, 2022. [Thesis | Slides]

Chih-Cheng Huang, “Magnetoresistive Devices for Biosensing Applications,” University of California, San Diego, 2020. [Thesis | Slides]

Xiahan Zhou, “Magnetoresistive Biosensor Circuits and Systems for Ultrasensitive Point-of-Care Diagnostics,” University of California, San Diego, 2020. [Thesis | Slides]

Somok Mondal, “Circuits and Techniques for Power-Efficiency Enhancement of IoT Sensor Nodes,” University of California, San Diego, 2020. [Thesis | Slides]

Haowei Jiang, “Ultra-Low-Power Sensors and Receivers for IoT ApplicationsUltra-Low-Power Sensors and Receivers for IoT Applications,” University of California, San Diego, 2019. [Thesis | Slides]

Sandeep Adem, “Magnetic Biosensors for the Detection of Proteases,” University of California, San Diego, 2018. [Thesis | Slides]

Alex Sun, “Point-of-Care and High-Density Array Electrochemical Biosensors,” University of California, San Diego, 2018. [Thesis | Slides]

Chung-Lun Hsu, “Ultra-Low Noise Current​ ​Measurement Front-Ends for Biological Applications,” University of California, San Diego, 2018. [Thesis | Slides]

Sonal Jain, “Protease-Based Magnetic Sensor for Rapid Detection of Candidemia,” University of California, San Diego, 2017. [Thesis]

Saurabh Kulkarni, “A Sub-1 uW Implantable Alcohol and pH Biosensor,” University of California, San Diego, 2017. [Thesis]

Drew A. Hall, “GMR Spin-Valve Biochips and Interface Electronics for Ultrasensitive in-vitro Diagnostics,” Ph.D. Thesis, Stanford University, 2011. [Thesis]

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