Faculty Publications - Kristofer Pister

Articles in journals or magazines

• B. S. Leibowitz, B. Boser, and K. Pister, "A 256-element CMOS imaging receiver for free-space optical communication," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 40, no. 9, pp. 1948-1956, Sep. 2005.
• M. D. Scott, B. Boser, and K. Pister, "An ultralow-energy ADC for Smart Dust," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 38, no. 7, pp. 1123-1129, July 2003.
• L. Doherty, B. A. Warneke, B. Boser, and K. Pister, "Energy and performance considerations for smart dust," Intl. J. Parallel and Distributed Systems & Networks, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 121-133, March 2001.
• B. Warneke, M. Last, B. Liebowitz, and K. Pister, "Smart Dust: Communicating with a cubic-millimeter computer," Computer, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 44-51, Jan. 2001.
• J. M. Kahn, R. H. Katz, and K. Pister, "Emerging challenges: Mobile networking for "Smart Dust"," J. Communications and Networks, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 188-196, Sep. 2000.
• K. Pister, M. W. Judy, S. R. Burgett, and R. S. Fearing, "Microfabricated hinges," Sensors and Actuators A (Physical), vol. A33, no. 3, pp. 249-256, June 1992.

Articles in conference proceedings

• B. W. Cook, A. D. Berny, A. Molnar, S. Lanzisera, and K. Pister, "An ultra-low-power 2.4GHz RF transceiver for wireless sensor networks in 130nm CMOS with 400mV supply and an integrated passive RX front-end," in 2006 IEEE Intl. Solid-State Circuits Conf. Digest of Technical Papers, L. C. Fujino, Ed., Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, 2006, pp. 1460-1469.
• M. Last, B. S. Leibowitz, B. Cagdaser, A. Jog, L. Zhou, B. Boser, and K. Pister, "Toward a wireless optical communication link between two small unmanned aerial vehicles," in Proc. 2003 IEEE Intl. Symp. on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2003), Vol. 3, Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2003, pp. 930-933.
• S. Hollar, A. Flynn, S. Bellew, and K. Pister, "Solar powered 10 mg silicon robot," in Proc. IEEE 16th Annual Intl. Conf. on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems, Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, 2003, pp. 706-711.
• B. A. Warneke, M. D. Scott, B. S. Leibowitz, L. Zhou, C. L. Bellew, J. A. Chediak, J. M. Kahn, B. Boser, and K. Pister, "An autonomous 16 mm3 solar-powered node for distributed wireless sensor networks," in Proc. 2002 1st Intl. Conf. on Sensors, Vol. 2, Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2002, pp. 1510-1515.
• J. V. Clark, D. Bindel, W. Kao, E. Zhu, A. Kuo, N. Zhou, J. Nie, J. Demmel, Z. Bai, S. Govindjee, K. Pister, M. Gu, and A. Agogino, "Addressing the needs of complex MEMS design," in Proc. 15th IEEE Intl. Conf. on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems, Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2002, pp. 204-209.
• B. S. Leibowitz, B. Boser, and K. Pister, "CMOS "smart pixel" for free-space optical communication," in Proc. SPIE: Sensors and Camera Systems for Scientific, Industrial, and Digital Photography Applications II, M. M. Blouke, J. Canosa, and N. Sampat, Eds., Vol. 4306, Bellingham, WA: SPIE, 2001, pp. 308-318.
• L. Doherty, K. Pister, and L. El Ghaoui, "Convex position estimation in wireless sensor networks," in Proc. 20th Annual Joint Conf. of the IEEE Computer and Communications Society (INFOCOM 2001), Vol. 3, Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2001, pp. 1655-1663.
• L. Schenato, W. Wu, L. El Ghaoui, and K. Pister, "Process variation analysis for MEMS design," in Proc. SPIE: Smart Electronics and MEMS II, D. Abbott, V. K. Varadan, and K. F. Boehringer, Eds., Vol. 4236, Bellingham, WA: SPIE, 2001, pp. 264-271.
• J. M. Kahn, R. H. Katz, and K. Pister, "Best Paper: Next century challenges: Mobile networking for "Smart Dust"," in Proc. 5th Annual ACM/IEEE Intl. Conf. on Mobile Computing and Networking (MOBICOM '99), New York, NY: The Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 1999, pp. 271-278.
• P. B. Chu, J. T. Chen, R. Yeh, G. Lin, J. C. P. Huang, B. A. Warneke, and K. Pister, "Controlled pulse-etching with xenon difluoride," in TRANSDUCERS '97 Digest of Technical Papers, Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, 1997, pp. 665-668.

Technical Reports

• L. Schenato, W. Wu, L. Ghaoui, and K. Pister, "Process Variation Analysis for MEMS Design," EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Tech. Rep. UCB/ERL M00/44, 2000.
• V. Hsu, J. M. Kahn, and K. Pister, "Wireless Communications for Smart Dust," EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Tech. Rep. UCB/ERL M98/2, 1998.
• D. Deno, K. Pister, R. Murray, and S. S. Sastry, "Finger-Like Biomechanical Robots," EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Tech. Rep. UCB/ERL M92/12, 1992.
• D. Deno, R. Murray, K. Pister, and S. S. Sastry, "Control Primitives for Robot Systems," EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Tech. Rep. UCB/ERL M90/39, 1990.

Software

• A. Agogino, D. Bindel, J. Clark, J. Demmel, S. Govindjee, M. Gu, Z. Bai, K. Pister, C. H. Séquin, N. Zhou, and J. Nie, "SUGAR -- Simulation tool for micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS)," 2002.

Patents

• K. S. J. Pister, Y. S. Zats, R. Conant, and N. Treuhaft, "Low-powered autonomous radio node with temperature sensor and crystal," U.S. Patent Application. May 2005.
• K. S. J. Pister, Y. S. Zats, R. Conant, and N. Treuhaft, "Low-power autonomous node for mesh communication network," U.S. Patent Application. Oct. 2004.
• K. S. J. Pister, "Digraph based mesh communication network," U.S. Patent Application. Aug. 2004.
• L. Muller, K. E. Arnett, L. Fabiny, and K. S. J. Pister, "Grating fabrication process using combined crystalline-dependent and crystalline-independent etching," U.S. Patent 6,517,734. Feb. 2003.
• K. S. J. Pister, "Etchants for use in micromachining of CMOS microaccelerometers and microelectromechanical devices and method of making the same," U.S. Patent 5,726,480. March 1998.
• W. J. Kaiser, K. S. J. Pister, O. M. Stafsudd, P. R. Nelson, and A. Burstein, "CMOS integrated microsensor with a precision measurement circuit," U.S. Patent 5,659,195. Aug. 1997.

Ph.D. Theses

• K. J. Pister, "Hinged Polysilicon Structures with Integrated CMOS Thin Film Transistors," 1992.