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Toru Tanzawa

Toru Tanzawa

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
33
Citations
7156
World Ranking
5935
National Ranking
250

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to integrated high-voltage circuits

Overview

Toru Tanzawa is affiliated with Shizuoka University in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on engineering, with a strong emphasis on electrical and electronic engineering, as well as contributions to mechanical engineering, materials chemistry, biomedical engineering, and computer networks and communications. Their work spans practical and theoretical aspects of energy and electronic device technologies.

The main topics of their research include:

  • Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks
  • Innovative Energy Harvesting Technologies
  • Wireless Power Transfer Systems
  • Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices
  • Semiconductor materials and devices
  • Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
  • Advanced Memory and Neural Computing

Tanzawa has contributed to several publication venues, notably Electronics, where they have published 15 papers. Additional venues include Preprints.org, IEEE Transactions on Circuits & Systems II Express Briefs, International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications, and IEEE Access.

Recent papers include:

  • Charge Pumps for Ultra-Low-Power Applications: Analysis, Design, and New Solutions (2021), IEEE Transactions on Circuits & Systems II Express Briefs
  • Linear distribution of capacitance in Dickson charge pumps to reduce rise time (2020), International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications
  • A Charge Loss Aware Advanced Model of Dickson Voltage Multipliers (2022), IEEE Access
  • Design of a Charge Pump Circuit and System with Input Impedance Modulation for a Flexible-Type Thermoelectric Generator with High-Output Impedance (2021), Electronics
  • A Fully Integrated AC-DC Converter in 1 V CMOS for Electrostatic Vibration Energy Transducer with an Open Circuit Voltage of 10 V (2021), Electronics

Frequent co-authors in Tanzawa's research include Andrea Ballo, Alfio Dario Grasso, G. Palumbo, Takuma Hashimoto, and Kazuma Koketsu.

In addition to journal publications, they have authored a book titled Fully-Integrated Power Management Circuits for Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting, published in 2024 by Morgan & Claypool Publishers.

Toru Tanzawa has been recognized as an IEEE Fellow in 2016 for contributions to integrated high-voltage circuits.

Best Publications

  • A CMOS bandgap reference circuit with sub-1-V operation

    H. Banba;H. Shiga;A. Umezawa;T. Miyaba

  • Semiconductor memory device.

    Tomoharu Tanaka;Hiroshi Nakamura;Toru Tanzawa

  • Non-volatile semiconductor memory device and method of programming a non-volatile memory cell to a predetermined state

    Tetsuo Endoh;Yoshiyuki Tanaka;Seiichi Aritome;Riichiro Shirota

  • A dynamic analysis of the Dickson charge pump circuit

    T. Tanzawa;T. Tanaka

  • A multipage cell architecture for high-speed programming multilevel NAND flash memories

    K. Takeuchi;T. Tanaka;T. Tanzawa

  • Circuit techniques for a 1.8-V-only NAND flash memory

    T. Tanzawa;T. Tanaka;K. Takeuchi;H. Nakamura

  • Nonvolatile semiconductor memory device capable of controlling mutual timing of write voltage pulse and transfer voltage pulse

    Shinji Satoh;Riichiro Shirota;Toru Tanzawa

  • Optimization of Word-line Booster Circuits for Low-Voltage Flash Memories

    Toru Tanzawa;Shigeru Atsumi

  • A compact on-chip ECC for low cost flash memories

    T. Tanzawa;T. Tanaka;K. Takeuchi;R. Shirota

  • Method and apparatus for generating temperature-compensated read and verify operations in flash memories

    Toru Tanzawa

  • 7.7 A 768Gb 3b/cell 3D-floating-gate NAND flash memory

    Tomoharu Tanaka;Mark Helm;Tommaso Vali;Ramin Ghodsi

  • Boosted voltage generating circuit and semiconductor memory device having the same

    Toru Tanzawa;Takeshi Miyaba;Shigeru Atsumi

  • Quantum tunneling effect device and semiconductor composite substrate

    Hiroshi Watanabe;Naoki Yasuda;Akira Toriumi;Tomoharu Tanaka

  • A CMOS band-gap reference circuit with sub 1 V operation

    H. Banba;H. Shiga;A. Umezawa;T. Miyaba

  • Pump circuit with active-mode and stand-by mode booster circuits

    Toru Tanzawa;Shigeru Atsumi

  • On Two-Phase Switched-Capacitor Multipliers With Minimum Circuit Area

    T Tanzawa

  • A Program Disturb Model and Channel Leakage Current Study for Sub-20 nm nand Flash Cells

    A Torsi;Yijie Zhao;Haitao Liu;T Tanzawa

  • Quantum Mechanics of a Particle Confined to a Twisted Ring

    Shin Takagi;Tôru Tanzawa

  • Nonvolatile semiconductor memory with temperature compensation for read/verify referencing scheme

    Toru Tanzawa;Tomoharu Tanaka;Ken Takeuchi

  • SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE HAVING A VOLTAGE REGULATOR

    Tanzawa Toru

Frequent Co-Authors

Tomoharu Tanaka
Tomoharu Tanaka Toshiba (Japan)
Ken Takeuchi
Ken Takeuchi University of Tokyo
Hiroshi Nakamura
Hiroshi Nakamura Toshiba (Japan)
Gaetano Palumbo
Gaetano Palumbo University of Catania

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