Jason T. Stauth

Research Interests

High-frequency and chip-scale power electronics; photovoltaic and electrochemical system management; sensor interfaces and energy scavenging; integrated circuit design (analog/mixed signal, RF, power, and embedded applications); communications electronics; technology entrepreneurship

Education

BA, Physics, Colby College 1999
BE, Engineering Sciences, Dartmouth 2000
MS, Electrical Engineering, UC Berkeley 2006
PhD, Electrical Engineering, UC Berkeley 2008

Selected Publications

J.T. Stauth, "Pathways to mm-scale DC-DC converters: Trends, opportunities, and limitations," IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), 2018.
C. Schaef and J.T. Stauth, "A Highly Integrated Series–Parallel Switched-Capacitor Converter With 12 V Input and Quasi-Resonant Voltage-Mode Regulation," IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 456–464, June 2018.
S.R. Pasternak, M.H. Kiani, J.S. Rentmeister and J.T. Stauth, "Modeling and Performance Limits of Switched-Capacitor DC–DC Converters Capable of Resonant Operation With a Single Inductor," IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 1746–1760, Dec. 2017.
C. Schaef, E. Din and J.T. Stauth, "10.2 A digitally controlled 94.8%-peak-efficiency hybrid switched-capacitor converter for bidirectional balancing and impedance-based diagnostics of lithium-ion battery arrays," IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2017.
J.S. Rentmeister and J.T. Stauth, "A 48V:2V flying capacitor multilevel converter using current-limit control for flying capacitor balance," IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), 2017.
E. Din, C. Schaef, K. Moffat and J.T. Stauth, "A Scalable Active Battery Management System With Embedded Real-Time Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy," in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 32, no. 7, pp. 5688–5698, July 2017.
M.H. Kiani and J.T. Stauth, "Optimization and comparison of hybrid-resonant switched capacitor DC-DC converter topologies," IEEE Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), 2017.
C. Schaef, E. Din and J.T. Stauth, "A Hybrid Switched-Capacitor Battery Management IC With Embedded Diagnostics for Series-Stacked Li–Ion Arrays," in IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 52, no. 12, pp. 3142–3154, Dec. 2017.
K. Kesarwani, R. Sangwan and J.T. Stauth, "Resonant-Switched Capacitor Converters for Chip-Scale Power Delivery: Design and Implementation," IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 30, no. 12, pp. 6966–6977, Dec. 2015.
C. Schaef, K. Kesarwani and J.T. Stauth, "20.2 A variable-conversion-ratio 3-phase resonant switched capacitor converter with 85% efficiency at 0.91W/mm2 using 1.1nH PCB-trace inductors," IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference - (ISSCC), 2015.
J.T. Stauth, M.D. Seeman and K. Kesarwani, "Resonant Switched-Capacitor Converters for Sub-module Distributed Photovoltaic Power Management," IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 1189–1198, March 2013.

Patents

Systems and methods for characterizing impedance of an energy storage device | 10,393,818
System and method for reducing power loss in switched-capacitor power converters | 9,793,794
System and method for reducing power loss in switched-capacitor power converters copy | 9,660,523