Short CV
Zsolt M. KOVACS VAJNA
Zsolt M. Kovacs Vajna was born in Budapest (Hungary). He received the D.Eng. degree with honors
from University of Bologna, Italy, in 1988. He’s completed a Specialization in Organization and
Management at the University of Bologna in 1989. He received the Ph.D. degree in "Electronics
Engineering and Computer Sciences" from the same University in 1994 thanks to his research
activity on circuit simulation techniques and on handwritten character recognitions systems. From
1989 to 1998 he was with the Department of Electronics, Computer Sciences and Systems (DEIS)
in Bologna, where he was Assistant Professor and Research Associate in Electronics. In 1998 he
joined the Department of Electronics Engineering (now Department of Information Engineering) of
the University of Brescia, Italy. He’s founded the Microelectronics Laboratory which offers research
opportunities to students at MS, doctorate and post-doc levels. The laboratory is also the core of
many research activities funded by several companies, like ST Microelectronics.
Mr. Kovacs is currently Full Professor of Electronics and teaches the courses of "Microelectronics"
and "Electronics Circuit Design".
Mr. Kovacs is reviewer of the major scientific journals in the field of electronics. He is also member
of the Italian national fund reviewer board.
His current research interests include analogue integrated circuit design, circuit simulation
techniques, electromagnetic interference analysis in integrated circuits, modelling of organic
devices, genetic variation and Alzheimer’s disease association techniques, and color theory. He
authors more than 160 international scientific publications, including articles in journals, in
conference proceedings and 35 patents. He is Senior Member of the IEEE.
Filed Patents:
1. Zs. M. Kovacs, Alphanumeric Character Picture Recognition Device, Japan Patent No.
JP7282202, pub. date: 27.10.1995
2. Zs. Kovacs Vajna, Method and Device for Fingerprint Discrimination, Japan Patent No.
JP9326028, pub. date: 16.12.1997
3. Zs. M. Kovacs-Vajna, Metodo di Identificazione di Impronte Digitali Utilizzando una Memoria
Flash Analogica, Italian Patent No. 0001293656, Filing date: 29.07.1997, Issued:
08.03.1999
4. Zs. Kovacs Vajna, Method and Device for Identifying Fingerprints, U.S.A. Patent No.
US6,236,741, filing date: 19.02.1997, Issued: 22.05.2001
5. N. Manaresi, R. Rambaldi, M. Tartagni, Zs. Kovacs Vajna, Low-Cost Semiconductor User
Input Device, U.S.A. Patent No. US6,256,022, filing date: 6.11.1998, Issued: 03.07.2001
6. R. Rambaldi, M. Tartagni, Zs. Kovacs Vajna, N. Manaresi, Touchpad Computer Input System
and Method, U.S.A. Patent No. US6,292,173, filing date: 11.09.1998, Issued: 18.09.2001
7. Zs. Kovacs Vajna, Method and Device for Identifying Fingerprints Using an Analog Flash
Memory, U.S.A. Patent No. US6,330,347, filing date: 28.07.1998, Issued: 11.12.2001
8. Zs. M. Kovacs, Apparatus for Recognizing Alphanumeric Characters, U.S.A. Patent No.
US6,363,171, filing date: 13.01.1995, Issued: 26.03.2002
9. Zs. M. Kovacs, Alphanumeric Characters Images Recognizing System, European Patent No.
EP0663644, Bulletin 95/29, 19.07.1995, Issued: 18.09.2002
10. Zs. Kovacs Vajna, Method and Device for Identifying Fingerprints, U.S.A. Patent No.
US6,480,617, filing date: 04.04.2001, Issued: 12.11.2002
11. Zs. Kovacs Vajna, Method and Device for Identifying Fingerprints, European Patent No.
EP0791891, Bulletin 1997/35, 27.08.1997, Issued: 22.01.2003
12. Zs. Kovacs, Alphanumeric Characters Images Recognizing System, German Patent No.
DE69431393, pub. date: 23.01.2003
13. Zs. Kovacs-Vajna, Method and device for identifying fingerprints, German Patent No.
DE69625891, pub. date: 13.11.2003
14. M. Carmina, L. Colalongo, Zs. M. Kovacs-Vajna, Hybrid Inductive-Capacitive Charge Pump
with Improved Diode Driving Capability, U.S.A. Patent No. US7,034,601, filing date:
28.04.2003, pub. date: 07.10.2004, Issued: 25.04.2006
15. Richelli, A Savio, Zs. M. Kovacs-Vajna, Integrated Transformer Based Step-Up Converter,
U.S.A. Patent No. US7,196,915, filing date: 13.01.2003, pub. date: 15.07.2004, Issued:
27.03.2007
16. L. Mensi, A. Richelli, L. Colalongo, Zs. M. Kovacs-Vajna, Charge Pump Circuit with Dynamic
Biasing of Pass Transistors, U.S.A. Patent No. US7,248,096, filing date: 22.11.2004 , pub.
date: 25.5.2006, Issued: 24.07.2007
17. L. Mensi, A. Richelli, L. Colalongo, Zs. M. Kovacs-Vajna, Charge Pump Circuit with Reuse of
Accumulated Electrical Charge, U.S.A. Patent No. US7,317,347, filing date: 28.10.2005,
pub. date: 25.5.2006, Issued: 8.01.2008
18. F. Mondinelli, M. Borgatti, Zs. Kovacs, Routing Procedure and System, Corresponding
Network, such as a Network on Chip (NOC), and Computer Program Product therefor, U.S.A.
Patent No. US7,466,701, filing date: 12.11.2004, pub. date: 18.5.2006, Issued:
16.12.2008
19. Cacciatori, G. Cavagnini, Zs. M. Kovacs-Vajna, Radar Apparatus, and Garment and Garment
Assembly Comprising such Apparatus, Patent (PCT) No. WO 2011080688, filing date:
27.12.2010, pub. date: 07.07.2011
20. Cacciatori, G. Cavagnini, Zs. M. Kovacs-Vajna, Radar Apparatus, and Garment and Garment
Assembly Comprising such Apparatus, EU Patent EP 2519833, pub. date: 7/11/2012
21. Cacciatori, G. Cavagnini, Zs. M. Kovacs-Vajna, Dispositivo Radar 3D, Italian Patent No.
0001397141, filing date: 28.12.2009, pub. date: 29.6.2011, Issued: 4/1/2013
22. Zs. Kovacs, D. Lena, M. Pasotti, G. Pisoni, F. Torricelli , Single Dispositivo di Memoria FTP
Programmabile e Cancellabile a Livello di Cella, Italian Patent No. 0001397229, filing date:
30.12.2009, pub. date: 1.7.2011, Issued: 4/1/2013
23. Cacciatori, G. Cavagnini, Zs. M. Kovacs-Vajna, Dispositivo Radar Perfezionato, Italian Patent
No. 0001397142, filing date: 28.12.2009, pub. date: 29.6.2011, Issued: 4/1/2013
24. Cacciatori, G. Cavagnini, Zs. M. Kovacs-Vajna, Generatore di Impulsi, Italian Patent No.
0001398122, filing date: 19.2.2010, pub. date: 20.8.2011, Issued: 7/2/2013
25. M. Pasotti, D. Lena, G. Pisoni, F. Torricelli , Zs. M. Kovacs-Vajna, FTP Memory Device
Programmable and Erasable at Cell Level, U.S.A. Patent No. US8,493,787, filing date:
21.12.2010, pub. date: 30.6.2011, Issued: 23/07/2013
26. F. Torricelli, L. Colalongo, A. Richelli, Zs. M. Kovacs Vajna, NVM (nonvolatile memory)
device, Chinese Patent Application No. CN203366749, filing date: 25.6.2013, pub. date:
25.12.2013
27. F. Torricelli, L. Colalongo, A. Richelli, Zs. M. Kovacs Vajna, Dispositivo di Memoria Non
Volatile con Celle di Memoria a Singolo Strato di Polisilicio, Patent No. IT TO2012A000559,
filing date: 25.6.2012, pub. date: 26.12.2013
28. F. Torricelli, L. Colalongo, A. Richelli, Zs. M. Kovacs Vajna, Non Volatile Memory Device with
Single-Polysilicion-Layer Memory Cells, Chinese Patent Application No. CN103515393, filing
date: 25.6.2013, pub. date: 15.1.2014
29. L. Milani, F. Torricelli, A, Richelli, L. Colalongo, Zs. M. Kovacs Vajna, Memoria Non Volatile
Integrata con Celle Di Memoria a Singolo Strato di Polisilicio Cancellabile Tramite Iniezione di
Elettroni Caldi Indotti da Corrente Elettrica da Banda a Banda e Programmabile Tramite
Tunneling di Flower-Nordheim, Patent No. MI2014A000154, filing date: 4/2/2014
30. L. Milani, F. Torricelli, A, Richelli, L. Colalongo, Zs. M. Kovacs-Vajna, Memoria Non Volatile
Integrata con Celle di Memoria a Singolo Strato di Polisilicio Programmabile Tramite
Iniezione di Elettroni Caldi Indotti da Corrente Elettrica da Banda a Banda e Cancellabile
Tramite Tunneling di Flower-Nordheim, Patent No. MI2014A000155, filing date: 04/02/2014
31. L. Milani, F. Torricelli, A, Richelli, L. Colalongo, Zs. M. Kovacs-Vajna, Memoria Non Volatile
Integrata con Celle di Memoria a Singolo Strato di Polisilicio Programmabile Tramite
Iniezione di Portatori di Carica Elettrica Caldi e Cancellabile Tramite Tunneling di FowlerNordheim, Patent No. MI2014A000156, filing date: 4/2/2014
32. F. Torricelli, L. Colalongo, A. Richelli, Zs. M. Kovacs Vajna, Non Volatile Memory Device with
Single-Polysilicion-Layer Memory Cells, U.S.A. Patent No. US8,873,291, filing date:
25.6.2013, pub. date: 26.12.2013, Issued: 28/10/2014
33. L. Milani, F. Torricelli, A. Richelli, L. Colalongo, Zs. M. Kovacs-Vajna, Embedded Non-Volatile
Memory With Single Polysilicon Layer Memory Cells Programmable Through Channel Hot
Electrons And Erasable Through Fowler-Nordheim Tunneling, US Patent App. No.
US2015221371, Filed 26.01.2015, pub. date: 6.8.2015
34. L. Milani, F. Torricelli, A. Richelli, L. Colalongo, Zs. M. Kovacs-Vajna, Embedded Non-Volatile
Memory With Single Polysilicon Layer Memory Cells Programmable Through Band-To-Band
Tunneling-Induced Hot Electron And Erasable Through Fowler-Nordheim Tunneling, US
Patent App. No. US2015221372, Filed 26.01.2015, pub. date: 6.8.2015
35. L. Milani, F. Torricelli, A. Richelli, L. Colalongo, Zs. M. Kovacs-Vajna, Embedded Non-Volatile
Memory With Single Polysilicon Layer Memory Cells Erasable Through Band To Band
Tunneling Induced Hot Electron And Programmable Through Fowler-Nordheim Tunneling, US
Patent App. No. US2015221661, Filed 26.01.2015, pub. date: 6.8.2015
Main publications on international journals:
1. Zs. M. V.-Kovacs, M. Rudan, Boundary-Fitted Coordinate Generation for Device
Analysis on Composite and Complicated Geometries, IEEE Trans. on Computer-Aided
Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Vol. 10, Num. 10, pp. 1242-1250, Oct. 1991
[ISSN: 0278-0070; DOI: 10.1109/43.88920]
2. D. Golzio, S. Graffi, Zs. M. V.-Kovacs, G. Masetti, Circuit Macromodels and Large Signal
Behaviour of FET-Input Operational Amplifiers, International Journal of Circuit Theory
and
Applications,
Vol.
20,
pp.
75-85,
1992
[ISSN:
1097-007X;
DOI:
10.1002/cta.4490200106]
3. Zs. M. Kovacs, R. Guerrieri, Computer Recognition of Hand-Written Characters using
the Distance Transform, IEE Electronics Letters, Vol. 28, No. 19, pp. 1825-1827, Sep.
1992 [ISSN: 0013-5194; DOI: 10.1049/el:19921164]
4. S. Graffi, Zs. M. V.-Kovacs, G. Masetti, D. Golzio, EMI-Induced Failures in IntegratedCircuit Operational Amplifiers, Microelectronics and Reliability, Vol. 32, No. 11, pp. 15511557, Nov. 1992 [ISSN: 0026-2714; DOI: 10.1016/0026-2714(92)90455-T]
5. G. F. Dalla Betta, S. Graffi, Zs. M. Kovacs, G. Masetti, CMOS Implementation of an
Analogically Programmable Cellular Neural Network, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and
Systems - II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing, Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 206-215, Mar. 1993
[ISSN 1057-7130; DOI: 10.1109/82.222820]
6. Zs. M. Kovacs, R. Ragazzoni, R. Rovatti, R. Guerrieri, Improved handwritten character
recognition using second-order information from training set, Electronics Letters, V.
29, No. 14, pp. 1308-1310, Jul 1993 [ISSN: 1350-911X; DOI: 10.1049/el:19930873]
7. D. Golzio, S. Graffi, Zs. M. V.-Kovacs, G. Masetti, Correlation between EMI-Induced
Failures and Large-Signal Response of FET-Input Op-Amps, Quality and Reliability
Engineering International, Vol. 9, pp. 401-405, Nov. 1993 [ISSN: 0748-8017; DOI:
10.1002/qre.4680090503]
8. Zs. M. Kovacs-V., A. Benedetti, S. Graffi, G. Masetti, MUSIC: a Novel MUltilevel
Simulator for Integrated Circuits, IEICE Trans. on Electronics, Vol. E77-C, No. 2, pp.
206-213, Feb. 1994 [ISSN: 0916-8524]
9. Zs. M. Kovacs-V., R. Guerrieri, G. Baccarani, Co-operative Classifiers for High Quality
Handprinted Character Recognition, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, Vol. 9, No. 9/10, pp.
611-615, 1994 [ISSN: 0956-5663; DOI: 10.1016/0956-5663(94)80056-1]
10. P. Mattei, S. Graffi, Zs.M. Kovacs-V., G. Masetti, Design of Integrated BiCMOS
Operational Amplifiers with Low-Probability EMI-Induced-Failures, Microelectronics
and Reliability, Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 567-586, Mar. 1995 [ISSN: 0026-2714; DOI:
10.1016/0026-2714(95)93076-M]
11. Zs. M. Kovacs, R. Guerrieri, Massively-Parallel Hand-Written Character Recognition
Based on the Distance Transform, Pattern Recognition, Vol. 28, No. 3, pp. 293-301, Mar.
1995 [ISSN: 0031-3203; DOI: 10.1016/0031-3203(94)00099-8]
12. R. Rovatti, R. Ragazzoni, Zs. M. Kovacs, R. Guerrieri, Adaptive Voting Rules fo k-NN
Classifiers, Neural Computation, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 594-605, May. 1995 [ISSN: 0899-7667;
DOI: 10.1162/neco.1995.7.3.594]
13. Zs. M. Kovacs-V, A Novel Architecture for High Quality Hand-Printed Character
Recognition, Pattern Recognition, Vol. 28, No. 11, pp. 1685-1692, Nov. 1995 [ISSN: 00313203; DOI: 10.1016/0031-3203(95)00044-Z]
14. G. Masetti, S. Graffi, D. Golzio, Zs.M. Kovacs-V., Failures Induced on Analog Integrated
Circuits from Conveyed Electromagnetic Interferences: a Review, Microelectronics
and Reliability, Vol. 36, No. 7/8, pp. 955-972, 1996 [ISSN: 0026-2714; DOI:
10.1016/0026-2714(96)00025-X]
15. Farina, Zs. M. Kovacs-Vajna, A. Leone, Fingerprint Minutiae Extraction from
Skeletonized Binary Images, Pattern Recognition, Vol. 32, No. 5, pp. 877-889, Apr. 1999
[ISSN: 0031-3203; DOI: 10.1016/S0031-3203(98)00107-1]
16. N. Manaresi, R. Rambaldi, M. Tartagni, Zs. M. Kovacs-Vajna, R. Guerrieri, A CMOS-only
Micro Touch Pointer, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 34, No. 12, pp. 1860-1868,
Dec. 1999 [ISSN: 0018-9200; DOI: 10.1109/4.808911]
17. Zs. M. Kovacs-Vajna, R. Rovatti, M. Frazzoni, Fingerprint Ridge Distance Computation
Methodologies, Pattern Recognition, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 69-80, Jan. 2000 [ISSN: 00313203; DOI: 10.1016/S0031-3203(99)00040-0]
18. Zs. M. Kovacs-Vajna, A Fingerprint Verification System Based on Triangular Matching
and Dynamic Time Warping, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine
Intelligence, Vol. 22, No. 11, pp. 1266-1276, Nov. 2000 [ISSN: 0162-8828; DOI:
10.1109/34.888711]
19. D. Crescini, V. Ferrari, Zs. Kovacs Vajna, D. Marioli, A. Taroni, A. Borgese, M. Marinelli, E.
Milani, A. Paoletti, A. Tucciarone, G. Verona-Rinati, Design and development of a
piezoresistive pressure sensor on micromachined silicon for high-temperature
applications and of a signal-conditioning electronic circuit, Micro System
Technologies, Vol. 9, No. 6-7, Springer Verlag, pp. 431-435, Sep. 2003 [ISSN 0946-7076;
DOI: 10.1007/s00542-002-0288-1]
20. Richelli, L. Colalongo, Zs. M. Kovacs-Vajna, Increasing the Immunity to
Electromagnetic Interferences of CMOS Operational Amplifiers, IEEE Transactions on
Reliability, Vol. 52, No. 3, pp. 349-353, Sep. 2003 [ISSN: 0018-9529; DOI:
10.1109/TR.2003.817847]
21. Richelli, L. Colalongo, M. Quarantelli, M. Carmina, Zs. M. Kovacs-Vajna, A Fully-Integrated
Inductor-Based 1.8-6V Step-up Converter, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 39,
No. 1, pp. 242-245, Jan. 2004 [ISSN: 0018-9200; DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2003.820859]
22. F. Mondinelli, Zs. Kovacs-Vajna, Self-Localizing Sensor Network Architectures, IEEE
Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 53, No. 2, pp. 277-283, Apr. 2004
[ISSN: 0018-9456; DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2003.822475]
23. Richelli, L. Colalongo, M. Quarantelli, Zs. M. Kovacs-Vajna, Robust design of low EMI
susceptibility CMOS OpAmp, IEEE Transactions on ElectroMagnetic Compatibility, Vol. 46,
No. 2, pp. 291-298, May 2004 [ISSN: 0018-9375; DOI: 10.1109/TEMC.2004.826874]
24. E. Calvetti, L. Colalongo, Zs. M. Kovacs-Vajna, Organic Thin Film Transistors: a
DC/Dynamic model for Circuit Simulation, Solid State Electronics, Vol. 49/4, pp. 567577, 2005 [ISSN: 0038-1101; DOI: 10.1016/j.sse.2005.01.006]
25. E. Calvetti, A. Savio, L. Colalongo, Zs. M. Kovacs-Vajna, Analytical Model for Organic
Thin-Film Transistors Operating in the Subthreshold Region, Appl. Phys. Lett., Vol.
87, No 22, pp. 3506-3508, Nov. 2005 [ISSN: 0003-6951; DOI: 10.1063/1.2138788]
26. Pretelli, A. Richelli, L. Colalongo, Zs. M. Kovacs-Vajna, Reduction of EMI susceptibility in
CMOS bandgap reference circuits, IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility,
Vol. 48, No. 4, pp. 760 - 765, Nov. 2006 [ISSN: 0018-9375; DOI:
10.1109/TEMC.2006.884545]
27. Savio, L. Colalongo, M. Quarantelli, Zs. M. Kovacs-Vajna, Automatic Scaling Procedures
for Analog Design Reuse, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, Vol. 53, No. 12,
pp. 2539 - 2547, Dec. 2006 [ISSN: 1057-7122; DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2006.883849]
28. V. Ferrari, A. Ghisla, Zs. Kovács Vajna, D. Marioli, A. Taroni, ASIC front-end interface
with frequency and duty cycle output for resistive-bridge sensors, Sensors and
Actuators A: Physical, Vol. 128/1, pp. 112-119, Jul. 2007 [ISSN: 0924-4247; DOI:
10.1016/j.sna.2007.04.060]
29. F. Torricelli, Zs. M. Kovacs-Vajna, L. Colalongo, A charge control analytical model for
organic thin film transistors, Appl. Phys. Lett., Vol. 92, No. 11, pp. 113306-113308, Mar.
2008 [ISSN: 0003-6951; DOI: 10.1063/1.2898400]
30. F. Torricelli, Zs. M. Kovacs-Vajna, L.Colalongo, A Charge-Based OTFT Model for Circuit
Simulation, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Vo. 56, No. 1, pp. 20-30, Jan. 2009
[ISSN: 0018-9383; DOI: 10.1109/TED.2008.2007717]
31. Richelli, L. Colalongo, S. Tonoli, Zs. Kovacs-Vajna, A 0.2V-1.2V DC/DC Boost Converter
for Power Harvesting Applications, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Vol. 24, No.
6, pp. 1541-1546, Jun. 2009 [ISSN: 0885-8993; DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2009.2013224]
32. Richelli, L. Colalongo, L. Mensi, A. Cacciatori, Zs. M. Kovacs-Vajna, Charge Pump
Architectures Based on Dynamic Gate Control of the Pass-Transistors, IEEE
Transactions on VLSI, Vol. 17, No. 7, pp. 964-967, Jul. 2009 [ISSN 1063-8210; DOI:
10.1109/TVLSI.2008.2008832]
33. F. Torricelli, Zs. M. Kovacs-Vajna, L. Colalongo, The Role of the Density of States on the
Hole Mobility of Disordered Organic Semiconductors, Organic Electronics, Vol. 10, No.
5, pp. 1037-1040, Aug. 2009 [ISSN: 1566-1199; DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2009.05.013]
34. S. Sbaraini, A. Richelli, Zs. M. Kovacs-Vajna, EMI Susceptibility in a Bulk-driven Miller
OpAmp, IEE Electronics Letters, Vol. 46, No. 16, pp. 1111-1112, Aug. 2010 [ISSN: 00135194; DOI: 10.1049/el.2010.1029]
35. F. Torricelli, J. R. Meijboom, E. C. P. Smits, A. K. Tripathi, M. Ferroni, S. Federici, G. H.
Gelinck, L. Colalongo, Zs. M. Kovacs-Vajna, D. M. de Leeuw, E. Cantatore, Transport
Physics and Device Modeling of Zinc Oxide Thin Film Transistors - Part I: Long
Channel Devices, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Vol. 58, No. 8, pp. 2610-2619,
Aug. 2011 [ISSN: 0018-9383; DOI: 10.1109/TED.2011.2155910]
36. F. Torricelli, E. C. P. Smits, J. R. Meijboom, A. K. Tripathi, G. H. Gelinck, L. Colalongo, Zs. M.
Kovacs-Vajna, D. M. de Leeuw, E. Cantatore, Transport Physics and Device Modeling of
Zinc Oxide Thin Film Transistors - Part II: Contact Resistance in Short Channel
Devices, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Vol. 58, No. 9, pp. 3025-3033, Sep. 2011
[ISSN: 0018-9383; DOI: 10.1109/TED.2011.2159929]
37. Richelli, S. Comensoli, Zs. M. Kovacs-Vajna, A DC/DC Boosting Technique and Power
Management for Ultra Low Voltage Energy Harvesting Applications, IEEE
Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Vol. 59, No. 6, pp. 2701-2708, June. 2012 [ISSN:
0278-0046; DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2011.2167890]
38. Richelli, A. Cocchi, Zs. M. Kovacs-Vajna, Design of Hybrid Low Voltage DC/DC
Converters Based on Power Efficiency, Journal of Low Power Electronics - JOLPE, Vol. 9,
No. 1, pp. 97-102, Apr. 2013 [ISSN: 1546-1998; DOI: 10.1166/jolpe.2013.1244]
39. F. Torricelli, L. Milani, A. Richelli, L. Colalongo, M. Pasotti, Zs. M. Kovacs-Vajna, ”Half-MOS”
single-poly EEPROM cell in standard CMOS process, IEEE Transactions on Electron
Devices, Vol. 60, No. 6, pp. 1892-1897, Jun 2013 [ISSN: 0018-9383; DOI:
10.1109/TED.2013.2259175]
40. G. Bassi, L. Colalongo, A. Richelli, Zs. Kovács-Vajna, 100mV-1.2V Fully-Integrated DCDC Converters for Thermal Energy Harvesting, IET Power Electronics, Vol. 6, No. 6, pp.
1151-1156, Jun. 2013 [ISSN: 1755-4535; DOI: 10.1049/iet-pel.2012.0625]
41. Cacciatori, D. Modotto, S. Boscolo, M. Midrio, A. Locatelli, C. De Angelis, Zs. M. KovacsVajna, Broadband Printed Directional Bow-Tie Antenna For The 500-1600 Mhz
Band, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Vol. 55, N. 10, pp. 2329-2333, Oct. 2013
[ISSN: 1098-2760; DOI: 10.1002/mop.27837]
42. G. Bassi, L. Colalongo, A. Richelli, Zs. M. Kovacs-Vajna, A 150mV-1.2V Fully-Integrated
DC-DC Converter for Thermal Energy Harvesting, Journal of Energy and Power
Engineering, 2013
43. F. Torricelli, L. Milani, L. Colalongo, A. Richelli, Zs. M. Kovacs-Vajna, Half-MOS based
single-poly EEPROM cell with program and erase bit granularity, IEEE Electron Device
Letters, Vol. 34, No. 12, pp. 1509-1511, Dec 2013 [ISSN: 0741-3106; DOI:
10.1109/LED.2013.2285258]
44. A. Richelli, L. Colalongo, Zs. M. Kovacs-Vajna, A new simple P-MOS charge pump for
low voltage operations, Journal of Low Power Electronics, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 479-483, Dec
2013 [ISSN: 1546-1998; DOI: 10.1166/jolpe.2013.1277]
45. F. Torricelli, M. Ghittorelli, L. Colalongo, Zs. M. Kovacs-Vajna, Single-transistor method
for the extraction of the contact and channel resistances in organic field-effect
transistors, Appl. Phys. Lett., Vol. 104, No. 093303, pp. 1-5, 2014 [ISSN: 0003-6951;
DOI: 10.1063/1.4868042]
46. V. Hooli, Zs. M. Kovacs-Vajna, M. A. Blumenthal, K. Mullin, M. Mattheisen, C. Zhang, C.
Lange, G. Mohapatra, L. Bertram, R. E. Tanzi, Rare Autosomal Copy Number Variations
in Early-onset Familial Alzheimer’s disease, Molecular Psychiatry - Nature, Vol. 19, No.
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47. M. Ghittorelli, F. Torricelli, L. Calalongo, Zs. M. Kovacs-Vajna, Accurate analytical
physical modeling of amorphous InGaZnO thin-film transistors accounting for
trapped and free charges, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Vol. 61, No. 12, pp.
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48. F. Torricelli, M. Ghittorelli, M. Rapisarda, A. Valletta, L. Mariucci, S. Jacob, R. Coppard, E.
Cantatore, Zs. Miklos Kovacs-Vajna, L.Colalongo, Unified drain-current model of
complementary p- and n-type OTFTs, Organic Electronics, Vol. 22, pp. 5-11, Jul. 2015
[ISSN: 1566-1199; DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2015.03.021]
49. L.Colalongo, M. Ghittorelli, F. Torricelli, Zs. Miklos Kovacs-Vajna, Accurate analytical
approximation of the OTFTs surface potential by means of the Lagrange Reversion
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50. A. Richelli, L. Colalongo, Zs. M. Kovacs-Vajna, A 30 mV-2.5 V DC/DC converter for
energy harvesting, Journal of Low Power Electronics, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 190-195, 2015
[ISSN: 1546-1998; DOI: 10.1166/jolpe.2015.1372]
51. L. Milani, F. Torricelli, and Zs. M. Kovacs-Vajna, Single-Poly EEPROM Cell in Standard
CMOS Process for Medium-Density Applications, IEEE Transactions on Electron
Devices, Vol. 62, No. 10, Article number 7185390, pp. 3237-3243, Oct. 2015 [ISSN: 00189383; DOI: 10.1109/TED.2015.2461660]
52. C. Zuccarotto, A. Richelli, Zs. M. Kovacs-Vajna, Design of a low voltage high
symmetrical slew rate opamp based on self cascode in UMC 0.18 μm, Journal of Low
Power Electronics, Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 498-503, Dec. 2015 [ISSN: 15461998; DOI:
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53. M. Ghittorelli, F. Torricelli, Zs. M. Kovacs-Vajna, Analytical Physical-Based DrainCurrent Model of Amorphous InGaZnO TFTs Accounting for Both Non-Degenerate
and Degenerate Conduction, IEEE Electron Device Letters, Vol. 36, No. 12, Article
number
7307968,
pp.
1340-1343,
Dec.
2015
[ISSN:
07413106;
DOI:
10.1109/LED.2015.2495326]
54. A. Richelli, L. Colalongo, Zs. M. Kovacs-Vajna, A review of DC/DC converters for ultra
low voltage energy harvesting, Journal of Low Power Electronics, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 139, 2016 [ISSN: 15461998; DOI: 10.1166/jolpe.2016.1427]
55. F. Torricelli, M. Ghittorelli, E.C.P. Smits, C.W.S. Roelofs, R.A.J. Janssen, G.H. Gelinck, Zs. M.
Kovacs-Vajna, E. Cantatore, Ambipolar Organic Tri-Gate Transistor for Low-Power
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[ISSN: 09359648; DOI: 10.1002/adma.201503414]
56. F. Torricelli, L. Colalongo, D. Raiteri, Zs. M. Kovacs-Vajna, E. Cantatore, Ultra-high gain
diffusion-driven organic transistor, Nature Communications, Vol. 7, Article number
10550, Feb. 2016 [ISSN: 20411723; DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10550]
57. M. Zucchelli, L. Colalongo, A. Richelli, Zs. M. Kovacs-Vajna, Dickson charge pump using
integrated inductors in complementary metal-oxide semiconductor technology, IET
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10.1049/iet-pel.2014.0799]
58. M. Ghittorelli, F. Torricelli, Zs. M. Kovacs-Vajna, Physical Modeling of Amorphous
InGaZnO Thin-Film Transistors: The Role of Degenerate Conduction, IEEE
Transactions on Electron Devices, Vol. 63, No. 6, Article number 7464283, pp. 2417-2423,
Jun. 2016 [ISSN: 00189383; DOI: 10.1109/TED.2016.2553963]
59. L. Colalongo, A. Richelli, Zs. M. Kovacs-Vajna, Hermite interpolation method (HiM):
Compact surface potential MOSFET model based on the Hermite polynomial,
Electronics Letters, Vol. 52, No. 17, pp. 1490-1492, Aug. 2016 [ISSN: 00135194; DOI:
10.1049/el.2016.2289]
60. A. Rizzi, C. Bonanomi, S. Brazzoli, A. Cerutti, Zs. M. Kovacs-Vajna, Assessing appearance
in human dental colour space, Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical
Engineering: Imaging & Visualization, pp. 1-9, Published online: 13 May 2016 [ISSN: 21681163; DOI: 10.1080/21681163.2016.1164079]
[updated: 12th of September 2016]