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iEEE JournAL of soLid-stAtE circuits BEst pApEr AwArd through thE yEArs
Each year, the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits Best Paper Award is presented to the authors of a paper that is considered by
the journal's editorial staff and reviewers to be the most exceptional paper published in the preceding full-year volume. The
award is based on accuracy, originality, technical content, and the quality of the article. The award is presented each year at
the International Solid-State Circuits Conference.
2014
Michael Boers, Bagher Afshar, Iason Vassiliou, Saikat Sarkar, Sean T.
Nicolson, Ehsan Adabi, Bevin George Perumana, Theodoros Chalvatzis,
Spyros Kavvadias, Padmanava Sen, Wei Liat Chan, Alvin Hsing-Ting
Yu, Ali Parsa, Med Nariman, Seunghwan Yoon, Alfred Grau Besoli,
Chryssoula A. Kyriazidou, Gerasimos Zochios, Jesus A. Castaneda,
Tirdad Sowlati, Maryam Rofougaran, and Ahmadreza Rofougaran, "A
16TX/16RX 60 GHz 802.11ad Chipset with Single Coaxial Interface and
Polarization Diversity," vol. 49, no. 12, pp. 3031-3045, Dec. 2014.

2007
John Poulton, Robert Palmer, Andrew Fuller, Trey Greer, John Eyles,
William Dally, and Mark Horowitz, "A 14-mW 6.25-Gb/s Transceiver in
90-nm CMOS," vol. 42, no. 12, pp. 2745-2757, Dec. 2007.

2013
Ron Kapusta, Junhua Shen, Steven Decker, Hongxing Li, Eitake Ibaragi,
and Haiyang Zhu, "A 14b 80 MS/s SAR ADC with 73.6 dB SNDR in
65 mm CMOS," vol. 48, no. 12, pp. 3059-3066, Dec. 2013.

2006
Jonathan B. Ashbrook, Hyeon-Min Bae, Sanjiv Chopra, Jinki Park, Naresh R. Shanbhag, and Andrew C. Singer, "An MLSE Receiver for Electronic Dispersion Compensation of OC-192 Fiber Links Digital," vol. 41,
no. 11, pp. 2541-2554, Nov. 2006

2012
David Murphy, Hooman Darabi, Asad Abidi, Amr Amin Hafez, Ahmad
Mirzael, Mohyee Mikhemar, and Mau-Chung Frank Chang, "A BlockerTolerant, Noise-Cancelling Receiver Suitable for Wideband Wireless
Applications," vol. 47, no. 12, pp. 2943-2963, Dec. 2012.

2005
Michiel A.P. Pertijs, Kofi A.A. Makinwa, and Johan H. Huijsing, "A
CMOS Smart Temperature Sensor with a 3s Inaccuracy of + 0.1° C from
-55° C to 125° C," vol. 40, no. 12, pp. 2805-2815, Dec. 2005.

2011
Muhammed Bolatkale, Lucien J. Breems, Robert Rutten, and Kofi A. A.
Makinwa, "A 4-GHz Continuous-Time Δ-Σ ADC with 70-dB DR and -74
dBFS THD in 125-MHz BW," vol. 46, no. 12, pp. 2857-2868, Dec. 2011.
2010
Christopher Peter Hurrell, Colin Lyden, David Laing, Derek Hummerston, and Mark Vickery, "An 18 b 12.5 MS/s ADC With 93 dB SNR," vol.
45, no. 12, pp. 2647-2654, Dec. 2010.
2009
Byungsub Kim, Yong Liu, Timothy O. Dickson, John F. Bulzacchelli, and
Daniel J. Friedman, "A 10-Gb/s Compact Low-Power Serial I/O with
DFE-IIR Equalization in 65-nm CMOS," vol. 44, no. 12, pp. 3526-3538
Dec. 2009.

Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MSSC.2016.2602181
Date of publication: 14 November 2016

of Solid-State Circuits Papers." By
decade from 1966, average numbers of citations for each of the top
ten papers are: 879, 584, 868, 1,124,
and 437. Many of those 50 papers are

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2008
Junghwan Han and Ranjit Gharpurey, "Recursive Receiver DownConverters with Multiband Feedback and Gain-Reuse," vol. 43, no. 5,
pp. 1119-1131, May 2008.

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2004
Xiang Guan, Hossein Hashemi, and Ali Hajimiri, "A Fully Integrated 24GHz Eight-Element Phased-Array Receiver in Silicon," vol. 39, no. 12,
pp. 2311-2320, Dec. 2004.
2003
Danilo Manstretta, Massimo Brandolini, and Francesco Svelto, "Second-Order Intermodulation Mechanisms in CMOS Downconverters,"
vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 394-406, Mar. 2003
2002
Alireza Shirvani, David K. Su, and Bruce A. Wooley, "A CMOS RF Power Amplifier with Parallel Amplification for Efficient Power Control,"
vol. 37, no. 6, pp. 684-693, June 2002.
2001
Marko Sokolich, Charles H. Fields, Stephen Thomas III, Binqiang Shi,
Young Kim Boegeman, Mary Montes, Rosanna Martinez, Allan R. Kramer,
and Meena Madhav, "A Low-Power 72.8-GHz Static Frequency Divider
in AlInAs/InGaAs HBT Technology," vol. 36, pp. 1328-1333, Sept. 2001.

indeed foundational contributions to
our field.
In the first two decades, 14 of the
20 most cited papers can be classified as primarily analog. From 1986

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to 2005, 15/20 were primarily analog
in character. From 2006 to 2015, 7/10
analog. Today, although the vast
majority of electronic circuits are
digital, it seems that the challenges



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