CHIEN LAB Biosystem IC devices

News

2024

ISSCC paper acceptance

Our paper on CMOS/microfluidics has been accepted to ISSCC 2025! Congrats to the team! Another paper led by collaborator Ali Ameri and Prof. Ali Niknejad is also aceepted, congratulation!

PhD Openings for Fall 2025

We have 3-4 PhD opening this application cycle (start at 2025 Fall). You are welcome to apply if you are interested in our research on sensing and RF. The deadline is early December!

IEDM paper acceptance

Our IEDM paper on CMOS microfluidics is accepted to IEEE IEDM 2024! Congrats to the team!

NSF Award

Our lab recently receives a NSF Grant to apply inverse design concept to microwave passives. This is in collaboration with Prof. Eric Ma from Physics Department at Berkeley.

R21 Trailblazer Award

Our team recently receives a NIH R21 Trailblazer Award to develop silicon-based molecular diagnostics!

NSF Award

Our lab recently receives a NSF Grant to devleop smart health devices for continuos monitoring!

Awards

Congratulations to the NTU RF team to receive TSRI (Taiwan Semiconductor Research Institute) Outstanding Research Award! Congrats!

France-Berkeley Fund (FBF)

We are receiving support from France-Berkeley Fund (https://fbf.berkeley.edu/) to develop the next-generation CMOS flow cytometry!

Awards

Congratulations to the NTU RF team to receive MediaTek Outstanding Research Award! Keep up the good work!

Medicine Innovates Series

Our CMOS/microfluidics flow-cytometry-on-CMOS system has been highlighted in Medicine Innovates series (https://medicineinnovates.com)! Please see link below: https://medicineinnovates.com/ghz-frequency-microfluidics-integrated-cmos-platform-label-free-cellular-dielectric-spectroscopy/. We believe that by miniaturizng electronics using a millimeter-sized chip yet at high performance will ofer the pathway for the next-generation medical biosensing devices.

GE role

Prof. Jun-Chau Chien will serve as the Guest Editor for IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC) for ISSCC 2024 special issue.

ECS invited talk

Prof. Jun-Chau Chien will give an invited talk at 245th ECS meeting at San Francisco on CMOS/aptamer implantables for in vivo continuous molecular monitoring.

Paper Acceptance

Ying-Han’s 60-GHz PLL paper using SWO has been accepted to IEEE Microwave and Wireless Technology Letter! Congratulations!

Fellowship

Congratulations to our NTU lab member Wei-Yang on receiving the Berkeley-Taiwan Fellowship!

Fellowship

Congratulations to Wei on receiving the prestigious NSF GRFP Fellowship!

Patents

Two US non-provisional patent applications based on NTU work have been submitted! Congratulation to the inventors and best luck!

AE role

Prof. Jun-Chau Chien started the Associate Editor role for IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systerms (T-BioCAS) and IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters (SSC-L)! Welcome submissions!

2023

Congratulation on passing NTU oral defense!

Congratulation to Hung-Yu, Yan-Ting, Ying-Han, and Guan-Yu on passing the NTU oral defense! Good job!

Welcome New Undergraduate Researchers!

Welcome Guru Rajesh, Alex Di, Jimmy Yang, Shanw Zhang, and Tony Li for joining the group! Exciting!

AMX/Xilinx support!

Thanks to AMD/Xilinx’s support for developing a novel phase-noise cancelling PLL!

IEEE J-MEMS paper acceptance

Congratulation to Wei-Yang’s paper being accepted to IEEE J-MEMS! Paper title: “Impedance Sensing in CMOS-Embedded Microfluidics Using BEOL Electrodes”. Nice work! Wei-Yang!

DUST chip is taped out!!

Our largest ever chip!

Drift Cancelation Paper Published!

Our first journal paper is published!

Welcome new members!

Welcome to our first tier of PhD students!

Fellowship

Congratulations to Justine and Wei-Yu on receiving the Berkeley-Taiwan Fellowship!