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Jason T. Stauth

Associate Professor of Engineering

Director, Partner School Dual Degree Program

jason.t.stauth@dartmouth.edu

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 | 10393818
System and method for reducing power loss in switched-capacitor power converters | 9793794
System and method for reducing power loss in switched-capacitor power converters copy | 9660523

Courses

ENGS 32: Electronics: Introduction to Linear and Digital Circuits
ENGG 199.14: High Frequency and Switching Electronic Circuits
ENGS 125: Power Electronics and Electromechanical Energy Conversion
ENGS 61: Intermediate Electrical Circuits

Videos

Seminar: Small-Scale Electronics for Large-Scale Energy

Dartmouth Undergrads in the Lab: Solar Panel Efficiency

News

Power Pioneers: Making Tech Cheaper, Smaller, and More Efficient
Jun 02, 2023

UC San Diego Joins Dartmouth in Industry-University Collaboration to Take Power Electronics to the Next Level
Dec 06, 2021

Transforming Power
Aug 01, 2020

New NSF Industry-University Collaborative Research Center at Dartmouth Aims to Transform Power Electronics
Jan 28, 2020

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Research Quick Takes

miniaturized low-power, high-voltage step-up ratio capacitive load driver

Feb 27, 2025

IEEE Predoctoral Achievement Award

PhD candidate Yanqiao Li, advised by Professor Jason Stauth, received the 2024–25 IEEE Solid State Circuits Society (SSCS) Predoctoral Achievement Award, their highest honor for PhD students, at the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco. The award recognizes Li's research on "miniaturized low-power, high-voltage step-up ratio capacitive load drivers" which enable microrobots to be fully autonomous and energy-efficient for medical, consumer, and industrial automation, as well as for haptics, printing, and ultrasound applications.

Aug 01, 2024

NSF National I-Corps Team "uDrive"

PhD students Bahlakoana Mabetha and Yanqiao Li—mentored by Google Research Scientist Hong Tan and advised by Professor Jason Stauth—were awarded $50,000 from the National Science Foundation’s Innovation Corps (I-Corps™) National Teams training program. After developing small, efficient integrated circuits, Li and Mabetha formed "uDrive" to commercialize their novel high-voltage low-power drivers for haptics that can solve key challenges in human-machine interactions through the sense of touch. They attended three trade shows and interviewed over 100 industry experts during the eight-week program.