Journals

• A Single-Phase Contention- and Redundant Transition-Free Flip-Flop with Improved DQ Latency

Bomin Joo, Minkyu Ko, Geonhwi Lee, and Bai-Sun Kong

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 60, no. 6, pp. 2249-2260, June 2025 

• Biomimetic Spiking Neural Network Based on Monolayer 2D Synapse with Short-Term Plasticity for Auditory Brainstem Processing

Jieun Kim, Peng Zhou, Unbok Wi, Bomin Joo, Donguk Choi, Myeong-Lok Seol, Sravya Pulavarthi, Linfeng Sun, Heejun Yang, Woo-Jong You, Jin-Woo Han, Sung-Mo Kang, and Bai-Sun Kong

IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 247-258, April 2025

• RRAM-Based Spiking Neural Network With Target-Modulated Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity

Kalkidan Deme Muleta and Bai-Sun Kong

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 385-392, April 2025 

• A Low-Power Fully-Static Contention-Free Flip-Flop with Reduced Clock Load 

Minkyu Ko, Bomin Joo, and Bai-Sun Kong

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, vol. 72, no. 2, pp. 419-423, February 2025

• A Bio-inspired Energy- and Area-efficient Sound Localization Neural Network

Bomin Joo, Minkyu Ko, Jieun Kim, and Bai-Sun Kong

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 72, no. 2, pp. 719-729, February 2025 

• A Genetic Algorithm Accelerator based on Memristive Crossbar Array for Massively Parallel Computation

Mohammadhadi Baghbanmanesh and Bai-Sun Kong

IEEE Access, vol. 12,  pp. 122437-122451, September 2024

• CMOS Clock-Gated Synchronous Up/Down Counter with High-Speed Local Clock Generation and Compact Toggle Flip-Flop

Geonhwi Lee, Bomin Joo, and Bai-Sun Kong

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 70, no. 12, pp. 5316-5327, December 2023

• Low-Power High-Speed Sense-Amplifier-Based Flip-Flops with Conditional Bridging

Bomin Joo and Bai-Sun Kong

IEEE Access, vol. 11, pp. 121835-121844, October 2023

• A Polymorphic Memtransistor with Tunable Metallic and Semiconducting Channel

Yonas Assefa Eshete, Eunji Hwang, Junhyung Kim, Phuong Lien Nguyen, Woo Jong Yu, Bai-Sun Kong, Min Seok Jang, Jaekwang Lee, Suyeon Cho, and Heejun Yang

Advanced Materials, vol. 35, no. 15, April 2023

• Energy- and Area-Efficient CMOS Synapse and Neuron for Spiking Neural Networks With STDP Learning

Bomin Joo, Jin-Woo Han, and Bai-Sun Kong 

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 69, no. 9, pp. 3632-3642, September 2022

• How to Build a Memristive Integrate-and-Fire Model for Spiking Neuronal Signal Generation

Sung Mo Kang, Donguk Choi, Jason K. Eshraghian, Peng Zhou, Jieun Kim, Bai-Sun Kong, Xiaojian Zhu, Ahmet Samil Demirkol, Alon Ascoli, Ronald Tetzlaff, Wei D. Lu, and Leon O. Chua 

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 68, no. 12, pp. 4837-4850, December 2021

* Received the "2023 Darlington Best Paper Award" from the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society

• Linearity Enhancement of VCO-Based Continuous-Time Delta-Sigma ADCs Using Digital Feedback Residue Quantization

Moo-Yeol Choi and Bai-Sun Kong

Electronics, vol. 10, no. 22, 2773, November 2021

• High-Speed Column Driver IC Having Buffer Amplifier with Embedded Isolation Switch and Compact Adaptive Biasing for Flat-Panel Displays

Hyoung-Rae Kim, Chang-Ho An, and Bai-Sun Kong

Electronics, vol. 10, no. 18, 2309, September 2021

• In-Sensor Reservoir Computing for Language Learning via Two-Dimensional Memristors

Linfeng Sun, Zhongrui Wang, Jinbao Jiang, Ye-ji Kim, Bomin Joo, Shoujun Zheng, Seungyeon Lee, Woo-Jong Yu, Bai-Sun Kong, and Hee-jun Yang

Science Advances, vol. 7, no. 20, May 2021

• High-Speed Rail-to-Rail Class-AB Buffer Amplifier with Compact, Adaptive Biasing for FPD Applications

Chang-Ho An and Bai-Sun Kong

Electronics, vol. 9, no. 12, 2018, November 2020

• A Minimum Energy Tracking Loop with Accurate Energy Sensing and Hierarchical Tracking

Jong-Woo Kim, Bomin Joo, Jung-Duk Suh, Joo-Seong Kim, and Bai-Sun Kong

Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 311-319, August 2020

• Self-Selective van der Waals Heterostructures for Large Scale Memory Array

Linfeng Sun, Yishu Zhang, Gyeongtak Han, Geunwoo Hwang, Jinbao Jiang, Bomin Joo, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Young-Min Kim, Woo Jong Yu, Bai-Sun Kong, Rong Zhao, and Heejun Yang

Nature Communications, vol. 10, July 2019

• A Fast Response PWM Buck Converter with Active Ramp Tracking Control in a Load Transient Period

Jung-Duk Suh, Jinmin Seok, and Bai-Sun Kong

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, vol. 66, no. 3, pp. 467-471, March 2019

• High-Efficiency DC-DC Converter with Charge-Recycling Gate-Voltage Swing Control

Jung-Duk Suh, Yeong-Ho Yun, and Bai-Sun Kong

Energies, vol. 12, no. 5, 899, March 2019

• Pair-Wise Staggering Transmitter for Single-Ended Parallel Signaling

Jeong-Keun Ahn, Jae-Seung Jeong, Jung-Duk Suh, Young-Do Um, Dong-Ha Lee, and Bai-Sun Kong

IEICE Electronics Express, vol. 15, no. 5, March 2018

• Charge Sharing Write Driver and Half-VDD Precharge 8T SRAM with Virtual Ground for Low-Power Write and Read Operation

Naeem Maroof and Bai-Sun Kong

IET Circuits, Devices & Systems, vol. 12, no. 1, 94-98, January 2018

• A 5.8-Gb/s Adaptive Integrating Duobinary DFE Receiver for Multi-Drop Memory Interface

Hyun-Wook Lim, Sung-Won Choi, Jeong-Keun Ahn, Woong-Ki Min, Sang-Kyu Lee, Chang-Hoon Baek, Jae-Youl Lee, Gyoo-Cheol Hwang, Young-Hyun Jun, and Bai-Sun Kong

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 52, no. 6, pp. 1563-1575, June 2017

• Widely Tunable Adaptive Resolution-Controlled Read-Sensing Reference Current Generation for Reliable PRAM Data Read at Scaled Technologies

Mu-Hui Park and Bai-Sun Kong

Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science, vol. 17, no. 3, June 2017

• 10T SRAM Using Half-VDD Precharge and Row-Wise Dynamically Powered Read Port for Low Switching Power and Ultralow RBL Leakage

Naeem Maroof and Bai-Sun Kong

IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 1193-1203, April 2017

• Conditional-Boosting Flip-Flop for Near-Threshold Voltage Application

Ji-Hoon Park, Hyun-Seung Seo, and Bai-Sun Kong

IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 779-782, February 2017

• Ultra-Fast Adaptive Frequency-Controlled Hysteretic Buck Converter for Portable Devices

Kwang-Ho Kim and Bai-Sun Kong

Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science, vol. 16, no. 5, pp. 615-623, October 2016

• Continuous-Time ΔΣ Modulator Having Time-Interleaved Switched-Capacitor Brief-Return-to-Zero DAC with First-Order Jitter Noise Shaping

Moo-Yeol Choi, Hyung-Dong Roh, Myung-Jin Lee, S. Kwon, Yong-Hee Lee, Ho-Jin Park, and Bai-Sun Kong 

Electronics Letters, vol. 52, no. 11, pp. 910-911, May 2016

• Double-Sampled ΔΣ Modulator with 1.5-bit FIR Feedback DAC for Reduced Noise Folding and Increased Power Efficiency

Moo-Yeol Choi, Hyung-Dong Roh, Yong-Hee Lee, Ho-Jin Park, and Bai-Sun Kong

Electronics Letters, vol. 52, no. 8, pp. 598-600, April 2016

• Current-Integrating DFE with Sub-UI ISI Cancellation for Multi-Drop Channels

Hwan-Wook Park, Hyun-Wook Lim, and Bai-Sun Kong

Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 112-117, February 2016

• Bootstrapped Ring Oscillator with Feedforward Inputs for Ultra-Low-Voltage Application

Hyun-Seung Seo, Ji-Hoon Park, and Bai-Sun Kong

IEICE Electronics Express, vol. 12, no. 23, December 2015

• Multi-Channel Audio CODEC with Channel Interference Suppression

Moo-Yeol Choi, Sung-No Lee, Myung-Jin Lee, Yong-Hee Lee, Ho-Jin Park, and Bai-Sun Kong

Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science, vol. 15, no. 6, December 2015

• Adaptive Digital Background Gain Mismatch Calibration for Multi-lane High-Speed Serial Links

Hyun-Wook Lim, Bai-Sun Kong, and Young-Hyun Jun

Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science, vol. 15, no. 1, February 2015

• High-Speed Column-Line Driving With Polarity Switch-Embedded Output Buffer Amplifiers for TFT-LCD Application

Chang-Ho An, J.-H.Ko, Hyoung-Rae Kim, and Bai-Sun Kong

Electronics Letters, vol. 51, no. 1, pp. 18-20, January 2015

• A Fast Response Integrated Current-Sensing Circuit for Peak-Current-Mode Buck Regulator

Jung-Woo Ha, Byeong-Ha Park, Bai-Sun Kong, and Jung-Hoon Chun

Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science, vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 810-817, December 2014

• CMOS Charge Pump with No Reversion Loss and Enhanced Drivability

Joung-Yeal Kim, Su-Jin Park, Kee-Won Kwon, Bai-Sun Kong, Joo-Sun Choi, and Young-Hyun Jun

IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 1441-1445, June 2014

• Fast Output Voltage-Regulated PWM Buck Converter with an Adaptive Ramp Amplitude Control

Ji-Soo Chang, Hyoung-Seok Oh, Young-Hyun Jun, and Bai-Sun Kong

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-II, vol. 60, no. 10, pp. 712-716, October 2013

• Accurate Quadruple-Gamma-Curve Correction for Line Inversion-based Mobile TFT-LCD driver ICs

Jae-Hyuck Woo, Jae-Goo Lee, Young-Hyun Jun, and Bai-Sun Kong

IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, vol. 59, no. 3, pp. 443-451, August 2013

• A DFE Receiver with Equalized VREF for Multidrop Single-Ended Signaling

Won-Hwa Shin, Young-Hyun Jun, Bai-Sun Kong

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-II, vol. 60, no. 7, pp. 412-416, July 2013

• Blind-Oversampling Adaptive Oversample-Level DFE Receiver for Unsynchronized Global On-Chip Serial Links

Won-Hwa Shin, Young-Hyun Jun, and Bai-Sun Kong

IEICE Electronics Express, vol. 10, no. 9, pp. 1-6, May 2013

• Memristance Drift Avoidance with Charge Bouncing for Memristor-based Nonvolatile Memories

Shyam Prasad Adhikari, Hyongsuk Kim, Bai-Sun Kong, and Leon O. Chua

Journal of the Korean Physical Society, vol. 61, no. 9, pp. 1418-1421, November 2012

• High-Speed Low-Power Boosted Level Converters for Dual Supply Systems

Sang-Keun Han, KeeChan Park, Young-Hyun Jun, and Bai-Sun Kong

IEICE Transactions on Electronics, vol. E95-C, no. 11, pp. 1824-1826, November 2012

• Enhanced Bootstrapped CMOS Driver for Large RC-load and Ultra-Low Voltage VLSI

Hyeon-Jun Kim, Jong-Woo Kim, and Bai-Sun Kong

IEICE Electronics Express, vol. 9, no. 14, pp. 1208-1213, July 2012

• High-Speed Low-Power Global On-Chip Interconnect Based on Delayed Symbol Transmission

Kwang-Il Park, Ja-Hyuck Koo, Won-Hwa Shin, Young-Hyun Jun, and Bai-Sun Kong

Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 168-174, July 2012

• Low-Voltage CMOS Differential Logic Style with Supply Voltage Approaching Device Threshold

Jong-Woo Kim, Joo-Seong Kim, and Bai-Sun Kong

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-II, vol. 59, no. 3, pp. 173-177, March 2012

• Low-Power Dual-Supply Clock Networks with Clock Gating and Frequency Doubling

Hoi-Jin Lee, Jong-Woo Kim, Tae Hee Han, Jae Cheol Son, Jeong-Taek Kong, and Bai-Sun Kong

IEICE Electronics Express, vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 502-508, March 2012

• Simultaneous Reverse Body and Negative Word-Line Biasing Control Scheme for Leakage Reduction of DRAM

Dong-Su Lee, Young-Hyun Jun, and Bai-Sun Kong

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 46, no. 10, pp. 2396-2405, October 2011

• A Bandgap Reference with Resistance Variation Compensated

Joo-Seong Kim, Ja-Hyuck Koo, Jea-Ho Lee, and Bai-Sun Kong

IEICE Electronics Express, vol. 8, no. 19, pp. 1602-1607, October 2011

• A Novel Body Bias Selection Scheme for Leakage Minimization

Dong-Su Lee, Sung-Chan Kang, Young-Hyun Jun, and Bai-Sun Kong

IEICE Transactions on Electronics, vol. E94-C, no. 9, pp. 1490-1493, September 2011

• Low-Power High-Speed Data Serializer for Mobile TFT-LCD Driver ICs

Jae-Hyuck Woo, Jae-Goo Lee, Young-Hyun Jun, and Bai-Sun Kong

IEICE Trans. Fundamentals of Electronics Communications and Computer Sciences, vol. E93-A, no. 12, pp. 2621-2622, December 2010

• A Line Inversion-based Stepwise Data Driving for Low-Power Mobile TFT-LCDs

Jae-Hyuck Woo, Jae-Goo Lee, Young Hyun Jun, and Bai-Sun Kong

IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, vol. 56, no. 2, pp. 1002-1009, May 2010

• New Low-Voltage Low-Latency Mixed-Voltage I/O Buffer

Joung-Yeal Kim, Su-Jin Park, Yong-Ki Kim, Sang-Keun Han, Young-Hyun Jun, Chil-Gee Lee, Tae Hee Han, and Bai-Sun Kong

IEICE Transactions on Electronics, vol. 93-C, no. 5, pp. 709-711, May 2010

• New Low-Voltage Small-Area Mixed-Voltage I/O Buffer

Joung-Yeal Kim, Yoon-Suk Park, Young-Hyun Jun, and Bai-Sun Kong

IEICE Electronics Express, vol. 6, no. 13, pp. 897-903, July 2009

• CMOS Cross-Coupled Charge Pump with Improved Latch-up Immunity

Su-Jin Park, Yong-Gu Kang, Joung-Yeal Kim, Tae Hee Han, Young-Hyun Jun, Chilgee Lee, and Bai-Sun Kong

IEICE Electronics Express, vol. 6, no. 11, pp. 736-742, July 2009

• Low-Power CMOS Synchronous Counter with Clock Gating Embedded Into Carry Propagation

Young-Won Kim, Joo-Seong Kim, Jae-Hyuk Oh, Yoon-Suk Park, Jong-Woo Kim, Kwang-Il Park, Bai-Sun Kong, and Young-Hyun Jun

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-II, vol. 56, no. 8, pp. 649-653, August 2009

• CMOS Charge Pump with Transfer Blocking Technique for No Reversion Loss and Relaxed Clock Timing Restriction

Joung-Yeal Kim, Young-Hyun Jun, and Bai-Sun Kong

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-II, vol. 56, no. 1, pp. 11-15, January 2009

• Novel Bootstrapped CMOS Differential Logic Family for Ultra-Low Voltage SoCs

Byung-Hwa Jung, Sung-Chan Kang, Jae-Hyuk Oh, Yoon-Suk Park, Yong-Ki Kim, Yong-Gu Kang, Jong-Woo Kim, and Bai-Sun Kong

IEICE Electronics Express, vol. 5, no. 18, pp. 711-717, September 2008

• A 6 Gbps/pin Low-Power Half-Duplex Active Cross-Coupled LVDS Transceiver with Switched Termination

Sua Kim, Bai-Sun Kong Kong, Chilgee lee, Changhyun Kim, and Young-Hyun Jun

ETRI Journal, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 612-614, August 2008

• Low-Voltage Bootstrapped CMOS Drivers with Efficient Conditional Bootstrapping

Jong-Woo Kim and Bai-Sun Kong

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-II, vol. 55, no. 6, pp. 556-560, June 2008

• CMOS Differential Logic Family with Conditional Operation for Low-Power Application

Young-Won Kim, Joo-Seong Kim, Jong-Woo Kim, and Bai-Sun Kong

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-II, vol. 55, no. 5, pp. 437-441, May 2008

• Novel Area-Efficient Regenerator for Driving Long On-Chip Interconnects

Sung-Wook Lee, Joo-Seong Kim, Jun-Dong Cho, and Bai-Sun Kong

IEICE Electronics Express, vol. 5, no. 9, pp. 338-343, May 2008

• Self-Resetting Level-Conversion Flip-Flops with Direct Output Feedback for Dual-Supply SoCs

Joo-Seong Kim and Bai-Sun Kong

IEICE Transactions on Electronics, vol. E91-C, no. 2, pp. 240-243, February 2008

• Novel Explicit Pulse-based Flip-Flop for High Speed and Low Power SoCs

Sung-Chan Kang, Byung-Hwa Jung, and Bai-Sun Kong

IEICE Electronics Express, vol. 4, no. 23, pp. 731-737, December 2007

• Slew-Rate-Controlled Output Driver Having Constant Transition Time Over Process, Voltage, Temperature and Output Load Variations

Soon-Kyun Shin, Wang Yu, Young-Hyun Jun, Jae-Whui Kim, Bai-Sun Kong, and Chil-Gee Lee

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-II, vol. 54, no. 7, pp. 601-605, July 2007

• CMOS Level Converter with Balanced Rise and Fall Delay

Min-su Kim, Young-Hyun Jun, Sung-Bae Park, and Bai-Sun Kong

IEICE Transactions on Electronics, vol. E90-C, no. 1, pp. 192-195, January 2007

• CMOS Differential Logic Family with Self-Timing and Charge-Recycling for High-Speed and Low-Power VLSI

B.-S. Kong, J.-D. Im, Y.-C. Kim, S.-J. Jang, and Y.-H. Jun

IEE Proceeding-Circuits, Devices and Systems, vol. 150, no. 1, pp. 45-50, February 2003

• ASMD with Duty Cycle Correction Scheme for High-Speed DRAM

Seong-Jin Jang, Young-Hyun Jun, Jae-Goo Lee, and Bai-Sun Kong

Electronics Letters, vol. 37, no. 16, pp. 1004-1006, August 2001

• Conditional-Capture Flip-Flop for Statistical Power Reduction

Bai-Sun Kong, Sam-Soo Kim, and Young-Hyun Jun

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 36, no. 8, pp. 1263-1271, August 2001

• I/O Divided Column Redundancy Scheme for High-Speed DRAM with Multiple I/Os

Jae-Goo Lee, Young-Hyun Jun, Chilgee Lee, and Bai-Sun Kong

Electronics Letters, vol. 36, no. 24, pp. 1996-1997, November 2000

• A 1.5 V Full-Swing Bootstrapped CMOS Driver for Low-Voltage Application

Bai-Sun Kong, Dong-Oh Kang, and Young-Hyun Jun

Journal of the Korean Physical Society, vol. 35, pp. 983-986, December 1999

• Set of Self-Timed Latches for High-Speed VLSI

Bai-Sun Kong  and Young-Hyun Jun

IEE Proceedings-Circuits, Devices and Systems, vol. 146, no. 6, pp. 341-344, December 1999

• Power-Efficient Low-Voltage Bootstrapped CMOS latched driver

Bai-Sun Kong and Young-Hyun Jun

Electronics Letters, vol. 35, no. 24, pp. 2113-2115, November 1999

• Charge Recycling Differential Logic for Low Power Application

Bai-Sun Kong, Joo-Sun Choi, Seog-Jun Lee, and Kwyro Lee

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 31, no. 9, pp. 1267-1276, September 1996