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D-Index
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Citations
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World Ranking
5354
National Ranking
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Chih-Kong Ken Yang publication distribution in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Chih-Kong Ken Yang sits on this spectrum.

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34 publications 1,065+

This scientist: 139 publications — 11th percentile

11% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,065 publications or more.

Chih-Kong Ken Yang D-index placement in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Electronics and Electrical Engineering scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Chih-Kong Ken Yang sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 111+

This scientist: 36 D-Index — 24th percentile

24% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 111 D-Index or more.

Overview

Chih-Kong Ken Yang is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research is primarily situated in the fields of engineering and physics and astronomy, with a strong focus on electrical and electronic engineering, biomedical engineering, instrumentation, atomic and molecular physics and optics, as well as automotive engineering.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuit Design
  • Advanced Optical Sensing Technologies
  • Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies
  • Advancements in Semiconductor Devices and Circuit Design
  • Semiconductor Materials and Devices
  • Advanced Battery Technologies Research
  • Advanced DC-DC Converters

Chih-Kong Ken Yang has published in several specialized venues, notably:

  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I Regular Papers
  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters
  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits & Systems II Express Briefs
  • IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems

Selected recent publications include:

  • "A 92%-Efficiency Battery Powered Hybrid DC-DC Converter for IoT Applications," 2020, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I Regular Papers
  • "A 9-μm Precision 5-MSa/s Pulsed-Coherent Lidar System With Subsampling Receiver," 2020, IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters
  • "A Scalable 20V Charge-Pump-Based Driver in 65nm CMOS Technology," 2021, IEEE Transactions on Circuits & Systems II Express Briefs
  • "A Class-D FVF LDO With Multi-Level PWM Gate Control, 280-ns Settling Time, and No Overshoot/Undershoot," 2020, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I Regular Papers
  • "A Comparative Analysis of Low Temperature and Room Temperature Circuit Operation," 2024, IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems

Frequent collaborators in their work include:

  • Li-Yang Chen
  • Abhinav Kumar Vinod
  • Chee Wei Wong
  • Mahmoud Elhebeary
  • James F. McMillan

Best Publications

  • High-speed electrical signaling: overview and limitations

    M. Horowitz;Chih-Kong Ken Yang;S. Sidiropoulos

  • A 0.3-/spl mu/m CMOS 8-Gb/s 4-PAM serial link transceiver

    R. Farjad-Rad;C.-K.K. Yang;M.A. Horowitz

  • A 0.5-/spl mu/m CMOS 4.0-Gbit/s serial link transceiver with data recovery using oversampling

    Chih-Kong Ken Yang;Ramin Farjad-Rad;M.A. Horowitz

  • Fast frequency acquisition phase-frequency detectors for GSa/s phase-locked loops

    M. Mansuri;D. Liu;C.-K.K. Yang

  • Fast frequency acquisition phase-frequency detectors for Gsamples/s phase-locked loops

    M. Mansuri;D. Liu;C.-K.K. Yang

  • A 27-mW 3.6-gb/s I/O transceiver

    K.-L.J. Wong;H. Hatamkhani;M. Mansuri;C.-K.K. Yang

  • A 0.4-/spl mu/m CMOS 10-Gb/s 4-PAM pre-emphasis serial link transmitter

    R. Farjad-Rad;C.-K.K. Yang;M.A. Horowitz;T.H. Lee

  • A 0.8-/spl mu/m CMOS 2.5 Gb/s oversampling receiver and transmitter for serial links

    Chih-Kong Ken Yang;M.A. Horowitz

  • Jitter optimization based on phase-locked loop design parameters

    M. Mansuri;Chih-Kong Ken Yang

  • A low-power adaptive bandwidth PLL and clock buffer with supply-noise compensation

    M. Mansuri;C.-K.K. Yang

  • Offset compensation in comparators with minimum input-referred supply noise

    K.-L.J. Wong;C.-K.K. Yang

  • A serial-link transceiver based on 8-GSamples/s A/D and D/A converters in 0.25-/spl mu/m CMOS

    C.-K.K. Yang;V. Stojanovic;S. Modjtahedi;M.A. Horowitz

  • Design of high-speed serial links in CMOS

    Chih-Kong Ken Yang

  • GAD: A 12-GS/s CMOS 4-bit A/D converter for an equalized multi-level link

    W. Ellersick;Chih-Kong Ken Yang;M. Horowitz;W. Dally

  • Scalability and Design-Space Analysis of a 1T-1MTJ Memory Cell for STT-RAMs

    R. Dorrance;Fengbo Ren;Y. Toriyama;A. A. Hafez

  • A 6.0-mW 10.0-Gb/s receiver with switched-capacitor summation DFE

    Azita Emami-Neyestanak;Aida Varzaghani;John F. Bulzacchelli;Alexander Rylyakov

  • A 5-mW 6-Gb/s Quarter-Rate Sampling Receiver With a 2-Tap DFE Using Soft Decisions

    K.-L.J. Wong;A. Rylyakov;C.-K.K. Yang

  • A Cmos 500 Mbps/pin Synchronous Point to Point Link Interface

    S. Sidiropoulos;Chih-Kong Ken Yang;M. Horowitz

  • Power Optimized ADC-Based Serial Link Receiver

    E-Hung Chen;R. Yousry;Chih-Kong Ken Yang

  • A 0.3-/spl mu/m CMOS 8-Gb/s 4-PAM serial link transceiver

    R. Farjad-Rad;Chih-Kong Ken Yang;M. Horowitz;T. Lee

  • Techniques for improving the accuracy of geometric-programming based analog circuit design optimization

    Jintae Kim;Jaeseo Lee;L. Vandenberghe;Chih-Kong Ken Yang

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Horowitz
Mark Horowitz Stanford University
Alexander V. Rylyakov
Alexander V. Rylyakov Nokia (United States)
Vladimir Stojanovic
Vladimir Stojanovic University of California, Berkeley
Lieven Vandenberghe
Lieven Vandenberghe University of California, Los Angeles
Jared L. Zerbe
Jared L. Zerbe Apple (United States)
Ron Ho
Ron Ho Lattice Semiconductor (United States)
Daniel J. Friedman
Daniel J. Friedman IBM (United States)
Jason C. S. Woo
Jason C. S. Woo University of California, Los Angeles
Dejan Markovic
Dejan Markovic University of California, Los Angeles
Thomas H. Lee
Thomas H. Lee Stanford University

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