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Takayasu Sakurai

Takayasu Sakurai

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering
Japan
2025

D-Index & Metrics

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
78
Citations
27873
World Ranking
569
National Ranking
12

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Japan Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Japan Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Japan Leader Award
  • 2010 - IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits “For pioneering contributions to the design and modeling of high-speed and low-power CMOS logic circuits.”

Overview

Takayasu Sakurai is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan and specializes primarily in the field of Engineering, with a particular focus on Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Their research spans multiple subfields including Aerospace Engineering, Media Technology, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, and Biomedical Engineering.

Their publications predominantly address several main topics of work:

  • Silicon Carbide Semiconductor Technologies
  • Wireless Power Transfer Systems
  • Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks
  • Advancements in Semiconductor Devices and Circuit Design
  • Advanced DC-DC Converters
  • Multilevel Inverters and Converters
  • Electrostatic Discharge in Electronics

Sakurai has contributed to various research outputs, including noteworthy papers such as:

  • "Digital Transmitter Coil for Wireless Power Transfer Robust Against Variation of Distance and Lateral Misalignment," published in 2020 in IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques
  • "A 6.78-MHz Multiple-Transmitter Wireless Power Transfer System With Efficiency Maximization by Adaptive Magnetic Field Adder IC," from 2022 in IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
  • "High-Speed Searching of Optimum Switching Pattern for Digital Active Gate Drive to Adapt to Various Load Conditions," published in 2021 in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
  • "An Optimization Method of a Digital Active Gate Driver Under Continuous Switching Operation Being Capable of Suppressing Surge Voltage and Power Loss in PWM Inverters," published in 2021 in IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications
  • "Equalization of DC and Surge Components of Drain Current of Two Parallel-Connected SiC MOSFETs Using Single-Input Dual-Output Digital Gate Driver IC," in 2022 at the 2022 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC)

The publication venues associated with Sakurai's work include:

  • IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques
  • IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
  • 2022 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC)
  • IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
  • IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Research collaboration is a significant aspect of Sakurai's work. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Makoto Takamiya
  • Katsuhiro Hata
  • Hao Qiu
  • Keiji Wãda
  • Toru Sai

Sakurai's contributions to the design and modeling of electronic circuits have been formally recognized by professional bodies. In 2010, they received the IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits for pioneering contributions to the design and modeling of high-speed and low-power CMOS logic circuits.

Best Publications

  • A large-area, flexible pressure sensor matrix with organic field-effect transistors for artificial skin applications

    Takao Someya;Tsuyoshi Sekitani;Shingo Iba;Yusaku Kato

  • Alpha-power law MOSFET model and its applications to CMOS inverter delay and other formulas

    T. Sakurai;A.R. Newton

  • Conformable, flexible, large-area networks of pressure and thermal sensors with organic transistor active matrixes

    Takao Someya;Yusaku Kato;Tsuyoshi Sekitani;Shingo Iba

  • Organic Nonvolatile Memory Transistors for Flexible Sensor Arrays

    Tsuyoshi Sekitani;Tomoyuki Yokota;Ute Zschieschang;Hagen Klauk

  • Closed-form expressions for interconnection delay, coupling, and crosstalk in VLSIs

    T. Sakurai

  • A 0.9-V, 150-MHz, 10-mW, 4 mm/sup 2/, 2-D discrete cosine transform core processor with variable threshold-voltage (VT) scheme

    T. Kuroda;T. Fujita;S. Mita;T. Nagamatsu

  • Simple formulas for two- and three-dimensional capacitances

    T. Sakurai;K. Tamaru

  • Approximation of wiring delay in MOSFET LSI

    T. Sakurai

  • A large-area wireless power-transmission sheet using printed organic transistors and plastic MEMS switches

    Tsuyoshi Sekitani;Makoto Takamiya;Yoshiaki Noguchi;Shintaro Nakano

  • A reduced clock-swing flip-flop (RCSFF) for 63% power reduction

    H. Kawaguchi;T. Sakurai

  • Variable supply-voltage scheme for low-power high-speed CMOS digital design

    T. Kuroda;K. Suzuki;S. Mita;T. Fujita

  • Power optimization of real-time embedded systems on variable speed processors

    Youngsoo Shin;Kiyoung Choi;Takayasu Sakurai

  • A simple MOSFET model for circuit analysis

    T. Sakurai;A.R. Newton

  • Run-time voltage hopping for low-power real-time systems

    Seongsoo Lee;Takayasu Sakurai

  • Delay analysis of series-connected MOSFET circuits

    T. Sakurai;A.R. Newton

  • 0.5-V input digital LDO with 98.7% current efficiency and 2.7-µA quiescent current in 65nm CMOS

    Yasuyuki Okuma;Koichi Ishida;Yoshikatsu Ryu;Xin Zhang

  • Integration of organic FETs with organic photodiodes for a large area, flexible, and lightweight sheet image scanners

    T. Someya;Y. Kato;Shingo Iba;Y. Noguchi

  • A super cut-off CMOS (SCCMOS) scheme for 0.5-V supply voltage with picoampere stand-by current

    H. Kawaguchi;K. Nose;T. Sakurai

  • Bending experiment on pentacene field-effect transistors on plastic films

    Tsuyoshi Sekitani;Yusaku Kato;Shingo Iba;Hiroshi Shinaoka

  • Theory of continuously distributed trap states at Si‐SiO2 interfaces

    T. Sakurai;T. Sugano

Frequent Co-Authors

Makoto Takamiya
Makoto Takamiya University of Tokyo
Tsuyoshi Sekitani
Tsuyoshi Sekitani Osaka University
Takao Someya
Takao Someya University of Tokyo
Tadahiro Kuroda
Tadahiro Kuroda University of Tokyo
Toshiro Hiramoto
Toshiro Hiramoto University of Tokyo
Tomoyuki Yokota
Tomoyuki Yokota University of Tokyo
Hagen Klauk
Hagen Klauk Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Ute Zschieschang
Ute Zschieschang Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Ken Takeuchi
Ken Takeuchi University of Tokyo
Kinji Asaka
Kinji Asaka National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

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