Journal Papers

  1. Ahmad Reza Danesh, Haoran Pu, Mahyar Safiallah, An H. Do, Zoran Nenadic, and Payam Heydari, “ CMOS BD-BCI: Neural Recorder with Time-Domain Pipelined Quantizer and Multi-Polar Stimulator with Dual-Mode Charge Balancing,” Trans. on Biomed. Circuits and Systems, vol. 18, no. XX, pp. XX, 2024.
  2. Mohammad Oveisi, S. Ali Hosseinisangchi, and Payam Heydari, “A Study of Out-of-Band Emission in Digital Transmitters Due to PLL Phase Noise, Circuit Non-Linearity, and Bandwidth Limitation,” IEEE Open Journal of Circuits and Systems, DOI: 10.1109/OJCAS.2023.3328871, 2023.
  3. Claudia Serrano-Amenos, Payam Heydari, Charles Y. Liu, An H. Do and Zoran Nenadic, “Power Budget of a Skull Unit in a Fully-Implantable Brain-Computer Interface: Bio-heat Model,” IEEE Trans. on Neural Systems & Rehabilitation Eng., vol. 31, no. 10, pp. 4029-4039, Oct. 2023.
  4. Jeffrey Lim et al., Payam Heydari, An H. Do, Richard Andresen, Charles Y Liu, and Zoran Nenadic, “Suppression of Cortical Electrostimulation Artifacts using Pre-Whitening and Null Projection,” J. Neural Eng., 2023.
  5. Mahyar Safiallah, Ahmad Reza Danesh, Haoran Pu, and Payam Heydari, “A Current-Adjusting Auto-Zeroing Technique for DC-Offset and Flicker-Noise Cancellation,” IEEE Trans. on VLSI Systems, 2023.
  6. Ahmad Reza Danesh, Haoran Pu, Mahyar Safiallah, and Payam Heydari, “An Isolated Frequency Compensation Technique for Ultra-Low-Power Low-Noise Two-Stage OTAs,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 70, no. XXX, 2023
  7. Payam Heydari and Mahyar Safiallah, ““Evolution of Broadband Amplifier Design: From Single-Stage to Distributed Topology,” IEEE Microwave Magazine, vol. 24, no. 9, pp. 18-29, Sept. 2023. 
  8. Mohammad Oveisi, Huan Wang, and Payam Heydari, “A Study of a Millimeter-Wave Transmitter Architecture Realizing QAM Directly in RF Domain,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 70, no. 6, pp. 2243-2256, June 2023. 
  9. Md Hedayatullah Maktoomi, Soheil Saadat, Omeed Momeni, Payam Heydari, and Hamidreza Aghasi, “Broadband Antenna Design for Terahertz Communication Systems,” IEEE Access, vol. 11, pp. 20897-20911, 2023. 
  10. Won Joon Son et al., Payam Heydari, Zoran Nenadic, and An H. Do “ A Benchtop and Bedside Validation of a Low-cost Programmable Cortical Stimulator in a Testbed for Bi-directional Brain-Computer-Interface (BD-BCI) Research ,” Frontiers in Neuroscience, vol. 16:1076971, Jan. 2023.
  11. Jeffrey Lim et al., Payam Heydari, and Zoran Nenadic, “Artifact Propagation in Subdural Cortical Electrostimulation: Characterization and Modeling,” Frontiers in Neuroscience, Issue 16:1021097, Oct. 2022. 
  12. Md Hedayatullah Maktoomi, Zisong Wang, Huan Wang, Soheil Saadat, Payam Heydari, and Hamidreza Aghasi, “A Sub-Terahertz Wideband Stacked-Patch Antenna on a Flexible Printed Circuit for Beyond-5G Applications,” IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propag., vol. 70, no. 11, pp. 10047-10061, Nov. 2022. 
  13. Mohammad Oveisi and Payam Heydari, “A Study of BER and EVM Degradation in Digital Modulation Schemes Due to PLL Jitter and Communication-Link Noise,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 69, no. 8, pp. 3402-3415, Aug. 2022. 
  14. Payam Heydari, “Frequency Tuning and PLL-Based Synthesizers at Millimeter-Wave and Terahertz,” IEEE RFIC Virtual Journal, Issue 25, 2022.
  15. Haoran Pu, Omid Malekzadeh-Arasteh, Ahmad Reza Danesh, Zoran Nenadic, An H. Do, and Payam Heydari, “A CMOS Dual-Mode Brain-Computer Interface Chipset with 2-mV Precision Time-Based Charge Balancing and Stimulation-Side Artifact Suppression,” IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 57, no. 6, June 2022.
  16. Payam Heydari, “Fundamentals of Millimeter-Wave Oscillators,” IEEE RFIC Virtual Journal, Issue 24, Sept. 2021. [Selected in Quarterly Highlight of IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society, Winter 2022]
  17. Payam Heydari, “Terahertz Integrated Circuits and Systems for High-Speed Wireless Communications: Challenges and Design Perspectives,” IEEE Open Journal of the Solid-State Circuits Society (OJ-SSCS), vol. 1, no. 1, Sept. 2021. [Invited Paper; Selected in Quarterly Highlight of IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society, Fall 2021]
  18. Huan Wang, Zisong Wang, Payam Heydari, “An LO Leakage Suppression Technique for Blocker-Tolerant Wideband Receivers with High-Q Selectivity at RF Input,” in IEEE J. of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 56, no. 6, pp. 1682-1696, Jun. 2021.
  19. Payam Heydari, Huan Wang, Hossein Mohammadnezhad, Peyman Nazari “Energy Efficient 100+ GHz Transceivers Enabling Beyond-5G Wireless Communications,” IEEE Wireless Communications, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 144-151, Feb. 2021.
  20. Hamidreza Afzal, Razieh Abedi, Rouzbeh Kananizadeh, Payam Heydari, Omeed Momeni, “An mm-Wave Scalable PLL-Coupled Array for Phased-Array Applications in 65-nm CMOS,” IEEE Trans. on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 69, no. 2, pp. 1439-1452, Feb. 2021
  21. Omid Malekzadeh-Arasteh, Ahmad Reza Danesh, An H. Do, Zoran Nenadic, and Payam Heydari, “An Analysis of CMRR Degradation in Multi-Channel Biosignal Recording Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 68, no. 1, pp. 151-155, Jan. 2021.
  22. Hamidreza Aghasi and Payam Heydari, “Millimeter-Wave Radars-on-Chip Enabling Next-Generation Cyberphysical Infrastructures,” IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 58, no. 12, pp. 70-76, Dec. 2020.
  23. Alireza Karimi-Bidhendi, and Payam Heydari, “A Study of Multi-Phase Injection on Accelerating Crystal Oscillator Start-Up,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 67, no. 12, pp. 2868-2872, Dec. 2020.
  24. Haoran Pu, Jeffrey Lim, Spencer Kellis, Charles Y. Liu, Richard A. Andersen, An H. Do, Payam Heydari, and Zoran Nenadic, “Optimal artifact suppression in simultaneous electrocorticography stimulation and recording for bi-directional brain-computer interface applications,” J. Neural Eng., vol. 17, no.2, pp. 026038, Apr. 2020.
  25. Omid Malekzadeh-Arasteh, Haoran Pu, Jeffrey Lim, Charles Y. Liu, An H. Do Zoran Nenadic, and Payam Heydari, “An Energy-Efficient CMOS Dual-Mode Array Architecture for High-Density ECoG-Based Brain-Machine Interfaces,” IEEE Trans. on Biomed. Circuits and Systems, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 332-342, Apr. 2020.
  26. Peyman Nazari, Saman Jafarlou, and Payam Heydari, ” A CMOS Two-Element 170-GHz Fundamental-Frequency Transmitter with Direct RF-8PSK Modulation,” IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 282-297, Feb. 2020.
  27. P. T. Wang, E. Camacho, M. Wang, Y. Li, S. Shaw, M. Armacost, H. Gong, D. Kramer, B. Lee, R. A. Andersen, C. Y. Liu, P. Heydari, Z. Nenadic, A. H. Do, “A Benchtop System to Assess the Feasibility of a Fully Independent and Implantable Brain-Machine Interface, ” J. Neural Eng., vol. 16, no. 6, pp. 1-13, Dec. 2019
  28. Huan Wang, Hossein Mohammadnezhad, and Payam Heydari, “Analysis and Design of High-Order QAM Direct-Modulation Transmitter for High-Speed Point-to-Point mm-Wave Wireless Links,” IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 54, no. 11, pp. 3161-3179, Nov. 2019.
  29. Hossein Mohammadnezhad, Huan Wang, Andreia Cathelin, and Payam Heydari, “A 115-135 GHz 8PSK Receiver Using Multi-Phase RF-Correlation-Based Direct-Demodulation Method,” IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 54, no. 9, pp. 2435-2448, Sep. 2019..
  30. Alireza Karimi-Bidhendi, Haoran Pu and Payam Heydari, “Study and Design of a Fast Start-up Crystal Oscillator Using Precise Dithered Injection and Active Inductance,” IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 54, no. 9, pp. 2543-2554, Sep. 2019..
  31. Mao-Cheng Lee, Alireza Karimi-Bidhendi, Omid Malekzadeh-Arasteh, Po T. Wang, An H. Do, Zoran Nenadic and Payam Heydari, “A CMOS MedRadio Transceiver with Supply-Modulated Power Saving Technique for an Implantable Brain-Machine Interface System,” IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 54, no. 6, pp. 1541-1552, Jun. 2019.
  32. Hossein Mohammadnezhad, Razieh Abedi, and Payam Heydari, “A Millimeter-Wave Partially-Overlapped Beamforming-MIMO Receiver: Theory, Design, and Implementation,” IEEE Trans. on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 67, no. 5, pp. 1924-1936, May 2019. [Journal Within a Journal on Microwave Systems and Applications]
  33. Razieh Abedi, Rouzbeh Kananizadeh, Omeed Momeni, and Payam Heydari, “A CMOS V-Band PLL with a Harmonic Positive Feedback VCO Leveraging Operation in Triode Region for Phase-Noise Improvement,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 66, no. 5, pp. 1818-1830, May 2019. [IEEE TCAS-I Special Issue of ISCAS 2018]
  34. Farzad Etemadi, Payam Heydari, Hamid Jafarkhani, “On Analog QAM Demodulation for Millimeter-Wave Communications, “IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 66, no. 3, pp. 402-406, March 2019.
  35. Alireza Karimi-Bidhendi, Hossein Mohammadnezhad, Michael M. Green, and Payam Heydari, “A Silicon-Based Low-Power Broadband Transimpedance Amplifier,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 65, no. 2, pp. 498-505, Feb. 2018.
  36. Hossein Mohammadnezhad, Huan Wang, and Payam Heydari, “Analysis and Design of a Wideband, Balun-Based, Differential Power Splitter at mm-Wave,”  IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 65, no. 11, pp. 1629-1633, Nov. 2018.
  37. Peyman Nazari, Saman Jafarlou, and Payam Heydari, “Analysis and Design of a Millimeter-Wave Cavity-Backed Circularly Polarized Radiator Based on Fundamental Theory of Multi-port Oscillators, “IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 52, no. 12, pp. 3293-3311, Dec. 2017. [IEEE JSSC Special Issue of ISSCC 2017]
  38. Payam Heydari, “Neutralization Techniques for high-Frequency Amplifiers,” IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 82-89, Fall 2017.
  39. Alireza Karimi-Bidhendi, Omid Malekzadeh-Arasteh, Mao-Cheng Lee, Colin M. McCrimmon, Zoran Nenadic, An H. Do, and Payam Heydari, “CMOS Ultra-Low Power Brain Signal Acquisition Front-Ends: Design and Human Testing,” IEEE Trans. on Biomed. Circuits and Systems , vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 1111-1122, Oct. 2017.
  40. Colin M McCrimmon, Po T Wang, Payam Heydari, Angelica Nguyen, Susan J Shaw, Hui Gong, Luis A Chui, Charles Y Liu, Zoran Nenadic, An H Do, “Electrocorticographic Encoding of Human Gait in the Leg Primary Motor Cortex“, Cerebral Cortex, Volume 28, Issue 8, August 2018, Pages 2752–2762
  41. Colin M. McCrimmon, Jonathan L. Fu, Ming Wang, Lucas Silva Lopes, Po T. Wang, Alireza Karimi-Bidhendi, Charles Y. Liu, Payam Heydari, Zoran Nenadic, An H. Do, “Performance Assessment of a Custom, Portable, and Low-Cost Brain-Computer Interface Platform,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 64, no. 10, pp. 2313-2320, Oct. 2017.
  42. Zheng Wang and Payam Heydari, “A Study of Operating Condition and Design Methods to Achieve the Upper Limit of Power Gain in Amplifiers at Near-fmaxFrequencies,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems – Part I, vol. 64, no. 2, pp. 261-271, Feb. 2017
  43. Pei-Yuan Chiang, Zheng Wang, Omeed Momeni, and Payam Heydari, “A Silicon-Based THz Frequency Synthesizer with Wide Locking Range” IEEE J. Solid-State Cir­cuits, vol. 49, no. 12 pp. 2951-2963, Dec. 2014. [JSSC Special Issue of ISSCC 2014]
  44. Byung-Kwan Chun, Peyman Nazari, and Payam Heydari, “An SQNR Improvement Technique Based on Magnitude Segmentation for Polar Quantizers,” IEEE Trans. on Communications, vol. 62, no. 11, pp. 3835-3841, Nov. 2014
  45. Behrooz Javid and Payam Heydari, “Design and Implementation of a CMOS 4-bit 12GS/s Data Acquisition System-on-Chip,” IEEE Trans. on VLSI Systems, vol. 22, no. 10, pp. 2164-2175 Nov. 2014.
  46. Lee Swindlehurst, Ender Ayanoglu, Payam Heydari, Filippo Capolino, “Millimeter-Wave Massive MIMO: The Next Wireless Revolution?” IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 52, no. 9, pp. 56-62, September 2014.
  47. Shiji Pan, Francis Caster, Payam Heydari, and Filippo Capolino, “A 94 GHz Extremely Thin Metasurface-Based BiCMOS On-Chip Antenna,” IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 62, no. 9, pp. 4439-4451, Sep. 2014.
  48. Francis Caster, II, Leland Gilreath, Zheng Wang, Shiji Pan, Filippo Capolino, and Payam Heydari, “Design and Analysis of a W-band BiCMOS 9-Element Imaging Array Receiver Using Spatial-Overlapping Super-Pixels,” IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 49, no. 6, pp. 1317-1332, June 2014.
  49. Zheng Wang, Pei-Yuan Chiang, Peyman Nazari, Chun-Cheng Wang, Zhiming Chen, and Payam Heydari, “A CMOS 210GHz Fundamental Transceiver with OOK Modulation,” IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 49, no. 3, pp. 564-580, March 2014.
  50. Peyman Nazari, Byung-Kwan Chun, Fred Tzeng, and Payam Heydari, “Polar Quantizer for Wireless Receivers: Theory, Analysis, and CMOS Implementation,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems – Part I, vol. 61, no. 3, pp. 877-887, March 2014.
  51. Pei-Yuan Chiang, Omeed Momeni, and Payam Heydari, “A 200 GHz Inductively Tuned VCO with -7dBm Output Power in 130nm SiGe BiCMOS,” IEEE Trans. on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 61, no. 10, pp. 3666-3673, Oct. 2013.
  52. Shiji Pan, Leland Gilreath, Payam Heydari, and Filippo Capolino, “Investigation of a Wideband BiCMOS Fully On-chip W-Band Bowtie Slot Antenna,” IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 12, pp. 706-709, 2013.
  53. Zhiming Chen, Chun-Cheng Wang, and Payam Heydari, “A BiCMOS W-Band 2×2 Focal-Plane Array With On-Chip Antenna,” IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 47, no. 10, pp. 2355-2371, Oct. 2012.
  54. Chun-Cheng Wang, Zhiming Chen, and Payam Heydari, “W-Band Silicon-Based Frequency Synthesizers Using Injection-Locked and Harmonic Triplers,” IEEE Trans. on Microwave Theory and Techniques – Special Issue on RFIC Symp. 2011, vol. 60, no. 5, pp. 1307-1320, May 2012.
  55. Amin Jahanian and Payam Heydari, “A CMOS Distributed Amplifier with Distributed Active Input Balun Using GBW and Linearity Enhancing Techniques,” IEEE Trans. on Microwave Theory and Techniques – Special Issue on RFIC Symp. 2011, vol. 60, no. 5, pp. 1331-1341, May 2012.
  56. Amin Jahanian and Payam Heydari, “Analysis and Optimization of Distributed Delay Circuits,” Springer Journal of Analog Signal Processing, 2012.
  57. Leland Gilreath, Vipul Jain, and Payam Heydari, “Design and Analysis of a W-Band SiGe Direct-Detection-Based Passive Imager Using a Balanced LNA with an Embedded Dicke Switch,” IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 46, no. 10, pp. 2240-2252, Oct. 2011.
  58. Lei Zhou, Zhiming Chen, Chun-Cheng Wang, Fred Tzeng, Vipul Jain, and Payam Heydari, “A 2Gbps RF-Correlation-Based Impulse-Radio UWB Transceiver Front-End in 130nm CMOS,” IEEE Trans. on Microwave Theory and Techniques – Special Issue on UWB Technologies, vol. 59, no. 4, pp. 1117-1130, April 2011.
  59. Lei Zhou, Chun-Cheng Wang, Zhiming Chen, and Payam Heydari, “A W-band CMOS Receiver Chipset for Millimeter-Wave Radiometer Systems,” IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 378-391, Feb. 2011.
  60. Deyi Pi, Byung-Kwan Chun, and Payam Heydari, “A Synthesis-Based Bandwidth Enhancement Technique for CMOS Amplifiers: Theory and Design,” IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 392-402, Feb. 2011.
  61. Houman Homayoun, M. A. Makhzan, Alex Veidenbaum, Hsin-Cheng Yao, and Payam Heydari, “MZZ-HVS: Multiple Sleep Modes Zig-Zag Horizontal and Vertical Sleep Transistor Sharing to Reduce Leakage Power in On-Chip SRAM Peripheral Circuits,” IEEE Trans. on VLSI Systems, vol. 19, pp. 2303-2316, Dec. 2011.
  62. Vipul Jain, Fred Tzeng, Lei Zhou, Payam Heydari, “A Single-Chip Dual-Band 22-29-GHz/77-81-GHz BiCMOS Transceiver for Automotive Radars,” IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 44, no. 12, pp. 3469-3485, Dec. 2009. [IEEE JSSC Special Issue of ISSCC 2009]
  63. Vipul Jain, Sriramkumar Sundararaman, and Payam Heydari, “A 22-29GHz UWB Pulse-Radar Receiver Front-End in 0.18μm CMOS,” IEEE Trans. on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 57, no. 8, pp. 1903-1914, Aug. 2009.
  64. Vipul Jain, Babak Javid, and Payam Heydari, “A BiCMOS Dual-Band Millimeter-Wave Frequency Synthesizer for Automotive Radars,” IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 44, no. 8, pp. 2100-2113, Aug. 2009.
  65. Fred Tzeng, Amin Jahanian, Deyi Pi, Payam Heydari, “A CMOS Code-Modulated Path-Sharing Multi-Antenna Receiver Front-End,” IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 44, no. 5, pp. 1321- 1335, May 2009.
  66. Amin Jahanian, Fred Tzeng, Payam Heydari, “Code-Modulated Path-Sharing Multi-Antenna Receivers: Theory and Analysis,” IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications, vo. 8, no. 5, pp. 2193-2201, May 2009.
  67. Fred Tzeng, Amin Jahanian, Payam Heydari, “A Multi-Band Inductor Re-Use CMOS Low Noise Amplifier,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems – Part II,  vol. 55, no. 3, pp. 209-213, March 2008.[Special Issue on Multifunctional Circuits and Systems for Future Generation of Wireless Communications]
  68. Payam Heydari, “Design and Analysis of a Performance-Optimized CMOS UWB Distributed LNA,” IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 42, no. 9, pp. 1892-1905, Sept. 2007.
  69. Aminghasem Safarian, Lei Zhou, Payam Heydari, “CMOS Distributed Active Power Combiners and Splitters for Multi-Antenna UWB Beamforming Transceivers,” IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 42, no. 7, pp. 1481-1491, July 2007.
  70. Fred Tzeng, Deyi Pi, Aminghasem Safarian, Payam Heydari, “Theoretical Analysis of Novel Multi-Order LC Oscillators,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems – II, vol. 54, no. 3, pp. 287-291, March 2007.
  71. Aminghasem Safarian, Seema Anand, Payam Heydari, “On the Dynamics of Regenerative Frequency Dividers,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems – II, vol. 53, no. 12, pp. 1413-1417, Dec. 2006.
  72. Payam Heydari and Ravindran Mohanavelu, “A 40-GHz Flip-Flop-Based Frequency Divider,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems – II, vol. 53, no. 12, pp. 1358-1362, Dec. 2006.
  73. Lei Zhou, Aminghasem Safarian, Payam Heydari, “CMOS Wideband Analog Delay Stage,” IEEE Electronics letters, vol. 42, no. 21, pp. 1213, 1214, Oct. 2006.
  74. Aminghasem Safarian, et al., “A low-power, second-order Δ/Σ modulator using a single class-AB op-amp for voice-band applications,” Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, vol. 49, no. 2, pp. 199-211, Nov. 2006.
  75. Payam Heydari, “An analysis of high-frequency noise in RF active CMOS mixers,” Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 199-209, Sep. 2006.
  76. Payam Heydari and Massoud Pedram, “Model-Order Reduction Using Variational Balanced Truncation with Spectral Shaping,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems – I, vol. 53, no. 4, pp. 879-891, April 2006. (Recipient of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Guillemin-Cauer Award in 2007)
  77. Payam Heydari, “Characterizing the Effects of the PLL Jitter Due to Substrate Noise in Discrete-Time Delta-Sigma Modulators,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems – I, vol. 52, no. 6, pp. 1073-1085, June 2005.
  78. Amin Q. Safarian, Ahmad Yazdi, Payam Heydari, “Design and Analysis of an Ultra Wide-band Distributed CMOS Mixer,” IEEE Trans. on VLSI Systems, no. 5, vol. 13, pp. 618-629, May 2005.
  79. Payam Heydari and Massoud Pedram, “Capacitive Coupling Noise in High-Speed VLSI Circuits,” IEEE Trans. on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 478-488, Mar. 2005.
  80. Payam Heydari, “Analysis of the PLL Jitter Due to Power/Ground and Substrate Noise,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems I, vol. 51, no. 12, pp. 2404-2416, Dec. 2004. (Recipient of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Darlington Award in 2005)
  81. Payam Heydari and Ravindran Mohanavelu, “Design of Ultra High-Speed Low-Voltage CMOS CML buffers and Latches,” IEEE Trans. on VLSI Systems, vol. 12, no. 10, pp. 1081-1093, Oct. 2004.
  82. Payam Heydari, Soroush Abbaspour, Massoud Pedram, “Interconnect Energy Dissipation in High-Speed ULSI Circuits,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems – I: Fundamental Theory and Applications, vol. 51, no. 8, pp. 1501-1514, Aug. 2004.
  83. Payam Heydari and Massoud Pedram, “Ground Bounce in Digital VLSI Circuits,” IEEE Trans. on VLSI Systems, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 180-193, April 2003.