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Kenneth L. Shepard

Kenneth L. Shepard

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
69
Citations
29560
World Ranking
946
National Ranking
397

Overview

Kenneth L. Shepard is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their research contributions span multiple disciplines, primarily focused on engineering and neuroscience. Within these overarching fields, the subfields addressed in their work include Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Biomedical Engineering, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's research topics feature a range of specialized areas related to brain function and technology. These include Neuroscience and Neural Engineering, Neural Dynamics and Brain Function, Photoreceptor and Optogenetics Research, Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging, Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures, Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy Techniques, and Advanced Memory and Neural Computing.

Publications by Kenneth L. Shepard have appeared in several notable venues with recurring contributions in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Science Advances
  • Nature Electronics
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems

Some recent papers authored under their research include:

  • Development of a neural interface for high-definition, long-term recording in rodents and nonhuman primates, 2020, Science Translational Medicine
  • Application of a sub-0.1-mm 3 implantable mote for in vivo real-time wireless temperature sensing, 2021, Science Advances
  • Integrated Neurophotonics: Toward Dense Volumetric Interrogation of Brain Circuit Activity-at Depth and in Real Time, 2020, Neuron
  • A 0.065-mm3 Monolithically-Integrated Ultrasonic Wireless Sensing Mote for Real-Time Physiological Temperature Monitoring, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems
  • Optogenetic stimulation probes with single-neuron resolution based on organic LEDs monolithically integrated on CMOS, 2023, Nature Electronics

Kenneth L. Shepard has frequently collaborated with several co-authors, including:

  • Ilke Uguz
  • David Lynall
  • Victoria Andino-Pavlovsky
  • Jeffrey Elloian
  • Adriaan J. Taal

Best Publications

  • Boron nitride substrates for high-quality graphene electronics

    C. R. Dean;A. F. Young;I. Meric;C. Lee

  • One-dimensional electrical contact to a two-dimensional material.

    L. Wang;I. Meric;P. Y. Huang;Q. Gao

  • Current saturation in zero-bandgap, top-gated graphene field-effect transistors.

    Inanc Meric;Melinda Y. Han;Andrea F. Young;Barbaros Ozyilmaz

  • Chip-integrated ultrafast graphene photodetector with high responsivity

    Xuetao Gan;Ren-Jye Shiue;Yuanda Gao;Inanc Meric

  • Multicomponent fractional quantum Hall effect in graphene

    C. R. Dean;A. F. Young;P. Cadden-Zimansky;L. Wang

  • Electron tunneling through atomically flat and ultrathin hexagonal boron nitride

    Gwan Hyoung Lee;Young Jun Yu;Changgu Lee;Cory Dean

  • Integrated nanopore sensing platform with sub-microsecond temporal resolution

    Jacob K Rosenstein;Meni Wanunu;Meni Wanunu;Christopher A Merchant;Marija Drndic

  • Chemical vapor deposition-derived graphene with electrical performance of exfoliated graphene.

    Nicholas Petrone;Cory R. Dean;Cory R. Dean;Inanc Meric;Inanc Meric;Arend M. van Der Zande;Arend M. van Der Zande

  • Label-free single-molecule detection of DNA-hybridization kinetics with a carbon nanotube field-effect transistor

    Sebastian Sorgenfrei;Chien-yang Chiu;Ruben L. Gonzalez;Young-Jun Yu

  • Noise in deep submicron digital design

    Kenneth L. Shepard;Vinod Narayanan

  • Graphene mechanical oscillators with tunable frequency

    Changyao Chen;Sunwoo Lee;Vikram V. Deshpande;Gwan Hyoung Lee;Gwan Hyoung Lee

  • Graphene Field-Effect Transistors Based on Boron–Nitride Dielectrics

    I. Meric;C. R. Dean;N. Petrone;Lei Wang

  • Graphene based heterostructures

    C. Dean;A.F. Young;L. Wang;I. Meric

  • Differentiation of short, single-stranded DNA homopolymers in solid-state nanopores.

    Kimberly Venta;Gabriel Shemer;Matthew Puster;Julio A. Rodríguez-Manzo

  • Digital Circuit Design Challenges and Opportunities in the Era of Nanoscale CMOS

    B.H. Calhoun;Yu Cao;Xin Li;Ken Mai

  • A fully integrated on-chip DC-DC conversion and power management system

    G. Patounakis;Y.W. Li;K.L. Shepard

  • Active CMOS Sensor Array for Electrochemical Biomolecular Detection

    Peter M. Levine;Ping Gong;Rastislav Levicky;Kenneth L. Shepard

  • Photothermal and photoconductive determination of surface and bulk defect densities in amorphous silicon films

    Z E. Smith;V. Chu;K. Shepard;S. Aljishi

  • A 2.5D Integrated Voltage Regulator Using Coupled-Magnetic-Core Inductors on Silicon Interposer

    N. Sturcken;E. J. O'Sullivan;N. Wang;P. Herget

  • Development of a neural interface for high-definition, long-term recording in rodents and nonhuman primates.

    Chia Han Chiang;Sang Min Won;Amy L. Orsborn;Amy L. Orsborn;Ki Jun Yu

  • Channel Length Scaling in Graphene Field-Effect Transistors Studied with Pulsed Current—Voltage Measurements

    Inanc Meric;Cory R. Dean;Andrea F. Young;Natalia Baklitskaya

  • Digital Circuit Design Challenges and Opportunities in the Era of Nanoscale CMOS : Small transistors necessitate big changes, in the way digital circuits are modeled and optimized for manufacturability, and new strategies for logic, memory, clocking and power distribution

    Benton H. Calhoun;Yu Cao;Xin Li;Ken Mai

Frequent Co-Authors

James Hone
James Hone Columbia University
Cory Dean
Cory Dean Columbia University
Philip Kim
Philip Kim Harvard University
Takashi Taniguchi
Takashi Taniguchi National Institute for Materials Science
Kenji Watanabe
Kenji Watanabe National Institute for Materials Science
Colin Nuckolls
Colin Nuckolls Columbia University
Ioannis Kymissis
Ioannis Kymissis Columbia University
Marija Drndic
Marija Drndic University of Pennsylvania
Michael L. Roukes
Michael L. Roukes California Institute of Technology
William J. Gallagher
William J. Gallagher Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (Taiwan)

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