Milton Nance Ericson

Nance Ericson

Distinguished R&D Staff, Group Leader - Sensors & Electronics Group

Contact

ERICSONMN@ORNL.GOV

Bio

M. Nance Ericson received the B.S. degree from Christian Brothers University in Memphis, TN, USA, in 1987, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA, in 1993 and 2002, respectively, all in electrical engineering. He is a Distinguished R&D Staff Member and the Group Leader of the Sensors and Electronics Group at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, TN, USA.  In addition, he serves as an Adjunct Faculty Member with the Min H. Kao Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and also serves in a similar role with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Tennessee Tech University.  His research interests include very low power, mixed-signal integrated circuits and systems, harsh environment electronics including wide bandgap semiconductor based (SiC, GaN) and CMOS radiation and/or temperature hardened circuits. He has over 150 technical publications and holds 16 patents in the areas of electronics and electronics systems including high-temperature measurement, integrated photo-spectrometers, and implantable sensing methods.  He is the recipient of two R&D100 awards (1999, 2014), is an ORNL Distinguished Inventor, and is a Senior Member of IEEE.

Professional Experience

1987-present               Research Staff, Sensors and Embedded Systems, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN

2003-present                Assistant Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Elec. Engr. and Comp. Sci., The Univ. of Tenn, Knoxville

2007-2020                   ORNL/UT Joint Faculty, Dept. of Elec. Engr. and Comp. Sci., The Univ. of Tenn, Knoxville

2020-present               Assistant Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Elec. and Comp. Engr., Cookville TN  

2005-2007                   Analog IC Design Consultant, Concorde Microsystems, Inc., Knoxville, TN

2007-2008                   Analog IC Design Consultant, XYZ Microsystems, Inc., Knoxville, TN 

2015-2018                   Electronics Consultant, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

 

Awards

  • 2018 ORNL Distinguished Inventor Award (14 or more issued U.S. patents)

  • 2014 R&D 100 Award Recipient for “High Performance Silicon Carbide based Plug In Hybrid Electric Vehicle Battery Charger.”

  • 2013 ORNL Technology Commercialization Award.

  • 2009 ORNL Significant Event Team Award regarding outstanding work for DOD customer.

  • 2008 National Training and Simulation Association (NTSA) M&S (Modeling & Simulation) Award (team award) for outstanding achievement in Modeling & Simulation in developing a system of sensors, electronics, and communications for early detection and warning of wildfires.

  • 2006 Significant Event Award (team award) for optical cancer detection system demonstration.

  • 2003 Federal Laboratory Consortium Award of Excellence in Technology Transfer (team award) in the area of robust wireless technologies (Southeast Region).

  • 2003 ORNL Significant Event Team Award “Fabrication of the Full Custom GS2 Integrated Circuit for Microcantilever Readout.”

  • 1999 R&D 100 Award Recipient for the development of ‘The Multifunctional Biochip’, Tuan Vo-Dinh, Alan Wintenberg, Nance Ericson, J.P. Alarie, Gordon Miller, Minoo Askari and Narayan Isola.

  • Recipient of the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society 1997 Early Achievement Award ‘For contribution to advancing the state-of-the-art of nuclear instrumentation and leadership in bringing integrated circuit technology to this field.’

  • 1999 LMER Technical Achievement Award for research on the integrated wireless nose.

  • 1998 LMER Technical Achievement Award for research  in the area of integrated wireless instrumentation

  • 1998 LMER Technical Achievement Award for research on deadtime-less chipset for collider physics experiments.

  • 1998 ORNL Significant Event Team Award for moving the first major custom integrated circuits for the PHENIX experiment from prototyping to production.

  • 1997 LMER Technical Achievement Award for research in the area of integrated photo-spectrometers.

  • 1994 DOE Award Of Excellence Co-recipient for research in the area of ‘Miniaturized Electronics for Environmental Monitoring.’

Education

Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, August 2002, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

M.S. Electrical Engineering, August 1993, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

B.S. Electrical Engineering, May 1987, Christian Brothers University, Memphis, TN

Professional Service

  • Assistant Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Elec. Engr. and Comp. Sci., The Univ. of Tenn, Knoxville, 2003-present.
  • Assistant Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Elec. And Comp. Engineering, Tenn. Tech. University, Cookville, TN, 2021-Present.
  • ORNL/UT Joint Faculty, Dept. of Elec. Engr. and Comp. Sci., The Univ. of Tenn, Knoxville, 2007-2021.

  • Served on 18 Graduate Committees (6 Ph.D., 12 M.S.) as an Assistant Adjunct Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of the University of Tennessee Knoxville.

    Funded and directed multiple M.S. theses and Ph.D. dissertations of UTK graduate students as part of my ORNL research projects.       

Professional Affiliations

Senior Member IEEE

Tau Beta Pi

Alpha Chi

Trademarks and Patents

U.S. Patent No. 5,327,029 July 5, 1994. Logarithmic Current Measurement Circuit with Improved Accuracy and Temperature Stability and Associated Method.

U.S. Patent No. 5,862,170 January 1999. Temperature Measurement Method Using Temperature Coefficient Timing for Resistive or Capacitive Sensors.

U.S. Patent  No. 5,965,873 October 1999.  Photospectrometers, Methods of Use and Manufacture.

U.S. Patent No. 6,197,503  March 6, 2001. Integrated Circuit Biochip Microsystem Containing Lens.

U.S. Patent No. 6,456,096  September 24, 2002.  Monolithically Compatible Impedance Measurement Method.

U.S. Patent No. 6,448,064  September 10, 2002. Integrated Circuit Biochip Microsystem.

U.S. Patent No. 6,533,733  March 18, 2003.  Implantable Device for In-Vivo Intracranial and Cerebrospinal Fluid Pressure Monitoring.

U.S. Patent No. 7,621,878  November 24, 2009.  Implant for In-Vivo Parameter Monitoring, Processing and Transmitting. 

U.S. Patent No. 8,425,596 B2  April 23, 2013.  Retinal Instrument.

U.S. Patent No. 8,591,481 November 26, 2013. Microfabricated Instruments and Methods to Treat Recurrent Corneal Erosion.

U.S. Patent No. 8,657,883  February 25, 2014.  Remote actuated valve implant.

U.S. Patent No. 9,044,299  June 2, 2015.  Microfabricated Instruments and Methods to Treat Recurrent Corneal Erosions.

U.S. Patent No. 9,333,067 B2  May 10, 2016.  Remote actuated valve implant.

U.S. Patent No. 10,110,119 October 23, 2018.  Power Supply and Method of Manufacturing the Power Supply.

U.S. Patent No. 10,634,732 April 28, 2020.  Electrical Meter Probe Contact Verification System.

U.S. Patent No.10,993,668  May 4, 2021.  Sampling Device.

Publications

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Other Publications

Journal Publications:

  1. B. LaRiviere, P. Ramuhalli, F.K. Reed, P.C. Joshi, M.N. Ericson, et al. "Irradiation-Induced Degradation of Surface Acoustic Wave Devices Fabricated on Bulk AlN," in IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 493-499, Dec. 2022, doi: 10.1109/TDMR.2022.3212050.
  2. Kan Sun, Yongjia Wu, Feng Qian, Hyunjun Jung, Suresh Kaluvan, He Huijin, Cheng Zhang, Kyle F. Reed, M. Nance Ericson, Haifeng Zhang, and Lei Zuo, “Self-powered Through-wall Communication for Dry Cask Storage Monitoring,” Annals of Nuclear Energy 177 (2022) 109306. 
  3. M. N. Ericson, T. E. Gebhart, L. R. Baylor, S. S. Frank, A. Nycz, G. B. Long, and R. J. Warmack, "A Prototype High-Voltage Pulsed Power Supply for Control of the ITER Shattered Pellet Injection System Flyer Plate Valve," in IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, vol. 50, no. 11, pp. 4182-4186, Nov. 2022, doi: 10.1109/TPS.2022.3187369.
  4. T. E. Gebhart, M. N. Ericson, L. R. Baylor, W. L. Gardner, T. S. Bigelow, and D. A. Rasmussen,  "Design and Testing of a Prototype Eddy Current Actuated Valve for the ITER Shattered Pellet Injection System," in IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, vol. 50, no. 11, pp. 4177-4181, Nov. 2022, doi: 10.1109/TPS.2022.3165384.
  5. F.  K. Reed,  M.  N. Ericson,  N.  D. B.  Ezell,  R.  A.  Kisner, L.  Zuo,Z.  Haifeng, and  R.  Flammang, “A  100  Mrad (Si)  JFET-Based  Sensing and  Communications  System for  Extreme  Nuclear Instrumentation Environments,”Nuclear Technology, June 2022 (Early Access), DIO: 10.1080/00295450.2022.2057776.
  6. Ghiozzi, Adriana G., Danah A. Velez, T. E. Gebhart, Monica L. Gehrig, Milton N. Ericson, Larry R. Baylor, and David A. Rasmussen. "Pressure Response Optimization of an Eddy Current-Driven Flyer Plate Valve for the ITER Shattered Pellet Injection System." Fusion Science and Technology 77, no. 7-8 (2021): 915-920.
  7. Trey E. Gebhart, Larry R. Baylor, M. Nance Ericson, Steve J. Meitner, A. Lou Qualls, and David A. Rasmussen. "Recent progress in shattered pellet injection technology in support of the ITER disruption mitigation system." Nuclear Fusion (2021).
  8. ALICE TPC Collaboration:  J. Adolfsson, …, M. N. Ericson, et al. “The upgrade of the ALICE TPC with GEMs and continuous readout,” Journal of Instrumentation, Vol. 16, March 15, 2021, DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/16/03/P03022.
  9. Sina Sabury, Ben LaRiviere, M. Nance Ericson, and S. Michael Kilbey, II “Nucleobase-Functionalized Poly(alkylthiophene)s: One-Pot, Sequential Direct Arylation Polymerization and Deprotection, and Surface Modification for Oil−Water Separations,” ACS Applied Polymer Materials 20213 (2), 1012-1021, DOI: 10.1021/acsapm.0c01281.
  10. A.S. Moore, L.G. Worrall, C. Britton, S. Croft, K. Dayman, M.N. Ericson, R.D. McElroy, A.D. Nicholson, G. Nutter, R.B Warmack, J.P. Hayward, “Development and evaluation of a list mode neutron coincidence collar for spatial response measurements of fresh fuel assemblies,” Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. A, Vol 976, Oct 1, 2020, 164274, DOI:10.1016/j.nima.2020.164274.
  11. T. Awes, C. L. Britton, Chujo, T. Cormier, M. N. Ericson et al., “Design and performance of a silicon-tungsten calorimeter prototype module and the associated readout”, Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. A, Vol 988, Feb 1, 2021, 164796, DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2020.164796. 
  12. Sina Sabury, Graham S. Collier, M. Nance Ericson, and S. Michael Kilbey, II, “Synthesis of a soluble adenine-functionalized polythiophene through direct arylation polymerization and its fluorescence responsive behavior,” Polym. Chem., 2020, 11, 820-829.  DOI: 10.1039/C9PY01142K.
  13. A.T. Simone, S. Croft, C.L. Britton, R.D. McElroy, M.N. Ericson, J.P. Hayward, “Investigating the non-ideal behavior of the Amptek A111 charge sensitive preamplifier & discriminator board—3He proportional counter combination used in common safeguards neutron coincidence counters”, Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. A, Vol 954, Feb 21, 2020, 161355, DOI:10.1016/j.nima.2018.10.033.
  14. Baba JS, McKnight TE, Ericson MN, Johnson A, Moise KJ Jr, Evans BM, “Characterization of a reversible thermally-actuated polymer-valve: A potential dynamic treatment for congenital diaphragmatic hernia,” PLoS One, 2018 Dec. 27, 13 (12):e0209855, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0209855.
  15. Robinson, M.B., Wisniowiecki, A.M., Butcher, R.J., Wilson, M.A., Ericson, M.N., Cote, G.L., “In vivo performance of a visible wavelength optical sensor for monitoring intestinal perfusion and oxygenation,” Journal of Biomedical Optics, Volume: 23, Issue: 5, May 2018.
  16. Graham S. Collier, Lauren A. Brown, Evan S. Boone, Meesha Kaushal, M. Nance Ericson, Michael G. Walter, Brian K. Long, and S. Michael Kilbey II, “Linking design and properties of purine-based donor-acceptor chromophores as optoelectronic materials,” J. Mater. Chem. C, 2017, 5, 6891, DOI: 10.1039/c7tc01835e.
  17. Travis S. Humble, M. Nance Ericson, Jacek Jakowski, Jingsong Huang, Charles Britton, Franklin G. Curtis, Eugene F. Dumitrescu, Fahd A. Mohiyaddin, and Bobby G. Sumpter, ‘A computational workflow for designing silicon donor qubits,’ Nanotechnology, 27(42), Oct. 21, 2016. 
  18. T. A. Wellington, B. A. Palles, J. A. Mullens, J. T. Mihalczo, D. E. Archer, T. Thompson, C. L. Britton, N. D. Bull Ezell,   M. N. Ericson, E. Farquhar, R. Lind, J. Carter, ‘Recent Fast Neutron Imaging Measurements with the Fieldable Nuclear Materials Identification System,’ Physics Procedia 66, pp. 432-438, 2015.
  19. T. J. Akl, M. A. Wilson, M. N. Ericson, and G. L. Coté, “Quantifying Tissue Mechanical Properties using Photoplethysmography,” Biomedical Optics Express 5 (7), pp. 2362-2375, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/BOE.5.002362
  20. T. J. Akl, M. A. Wilson, M. N. Ericson, E. Farquhar, and G. L. Coté, “Wireless Monitoring of Liver Perfusion and Oxygenation Changes In Vivo,” PLoS ONE, 9 (7), pg. E102396, July 14, 2014.
  21. M. Glover, P. Shepherd, M. Francis, M. Mudholkar, H. A. Mantooth, M. Ericson, S. Frank, C. Britton, L. Marlino, T. McNutt, A. Barkley, B. Whitaker, and A. Lostetter, “A UVLO circuit in SiC compatible with power MOSFET integration,” IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 425–433, Sep. 2014.
  22. M. N. Ericson, S. S. Frank, C.L. Britton, L. Marlino, et. al “A 4H Silicon Carbide Gate Buffer for Integrated Power Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics –Letters in 29(2), February 2014, doi: 10.1109/TPEL.2013.2271906.
  23. Mihir Mudholkar, Shamim Ahmed, M. Nance Ericson, S. Shane Frank, Charles L. Britton, Jr., H. Alan Mantooth, “Datasheet Driven Silicon Carbide Power MOSFET Model,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 29(5), pp. 2220-2228, May 2014. 
  24. Tony J. Akl; Mark A. Wilson; M. Nance Ericson; Gerard L. Cote, “Intestinal perfusion monitoring using photoplethysmography,” J. Biomed. Opt. 18 (8), 087005 (August 12, 2013);  doi: 10.1117/1.JBO.18.8.087005.
  25. K.V. Tham, C. Ulaganathan, N. Nambiar, R.L. Greenwell, C.L. Britton, M.N. Ericson, J. Holleman, B.J. Blalock, “PVT Compensation for Wilkinson Single-Slope Measurement Systems,” IEEE Trans. on Nucl. Sci., Vol. 59, Issue 5, pp. 2444-2450, October 2012.
  26. Tony J. Akl, Travis J. King, Ruiqi Long, Michael J. McShane, M. Nance Ericson, Mark A. Wilson, and Gerard L. Cote,  “Performance assessment of an opto-fluidic phantom mimicking porcine liver parenchyma,” J. Biomed. Opt. 17, 077008 (2012), DOI:10.1117/1.JBO.17.7.077008.
  27. Z. Yu, T.E. McKnight, M.N. Ericson, A.V. Melechko, M.L. Simpson, B. Morrison, “Vertically aligned carbon nanofiber as nanoneuron interface for monitoring neural function,” Nanomedicine: NBM, Vol. 8, Issue 4, pp. 419-423, 2012.
  28. M.A. Adeeb, A.B. Islam, M.R. Haider, F.S. Tulip, M.N. Ericson, S.K. Islam, “An Inductive Link-Based Wireless Power Transfer System for Biomedical Applications,” Active and Passive Electronic Components, Vol 2012 (2012), Article ID 879294, http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/879294.
  29. Tony J. Akl, Ruiqi Long, Michael J. McShane, M. Nance Ericson, Mark A. Wilson, and Gerard L. Cote, "Optimizing probe design for an implantable perfusion and oxygenation sensor," Biomedical Optics Express, Vol. 2, Issue 8, pp. 2096-2109, 2011.
  30. Ruiqi Long, Travis King, Tony Akl, M. Nance Ericson, Mark Wilson, Gerard L. Cote, and Michael J. McShane, "Optofluidic phantom mimicking optical properties of porcine livers," Biomedical Optics Express, Vol. 2, Issue 7, pp. 1877-1892, 2011.
  31. Sazia A. Eliza, Ida Lee, Fahmida S. Tulip, Salwa Mostafa, Elias Greenbaum, M. Nance Ericson, and Syed K. Islam, "Isolated Photosystem I Reaction Centers on a Functionalized Gated High Electron Mobility Transistor," IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience,  Vol. 10, Issue 3., ppl 201-208, 2011.
  32. Sazia A. Eliza, Syed K. Islam, Touhidur Rahman, M. Nance Ericson, "A Precision Dose Control Circuit for Maskless E-Beam Lithography With Massively Parallel Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanofibers," IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 60(4), pp. 1132-1140, April 2011.
  33. N. Nambiar, B. J. Blalock, and M. Nance Ericson, “A Novel Current-Mode Multi-Channel Integrating ADC,” Journal of Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing,  Volume 63, Number 2, May 2010.
  34. Yu Z, McKnight TE, Ericson MN, et al. “Vertically aligned carbon nanofiber arrays record electrophysiological signals from hippocampal slices,” Nanoletters, 7 (8): 2188-2195, August 2007.
  35. Yu Z, McKnight TE, Ericson MN, et al. “Vertically aligned carbon nanofiber array: A new type of microelectrode array for electrophysiological recording,” Journal of Neurotrauma,  24 (7): 1235-1235 P22, July 2007.
  36. T. Rahman, S. K. Islam, R. Vijayaraghavan, T. Gundman, S. A. Eliza, A. B. M. I. Hossain, B. Blalock, L. R. Baylor, T. S. Bigelow, M. N. Ericson, W. L. Gardner, J. A. Moore, and S. J. Randolph, "Integration of a Dose Control Circuit with a Vertically Aligned NanoFiber Field Emission Device", Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B 25(2), pp. 655 – 660, 2007.
  37. B.L. Fletcher, T. E. McKnight, A.V. Melechko, D.K. Hensley, D.K. Thomas, M.N. Ericson, and M.L. Simpson, “Transfer of Flexible Arrays of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanofiber Electrodes to Temperature Sensitive Substrates,” Advanced Materials, 18(13), pp. 1689+, July 2006.
  38. T.E. McKnight, A.V. Melechko, B.L. Fletcher, S.W. Jones, D.K. Hensley, D.B. Peckys, G.D. Griffin, M.L. Simpson, M.N. Ericson, “Resident Neuroelectrochemical Interfacing Using Carbon Nanofiber Arrays,” J. Phys. Chem. B, 110(31), 15317-15327, August 2006.
  39. H. Subramanian, B.L. Ibey, W. Xu, M.A. Wilson, M.N. Ericson, and G.L. Coté, "Real time separation of perfusion and oxygenation signals for an implantable sensor using adaptive filtering", IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Engr, V52, N12, pp. 2016-2023, Dec. 2005.
  40. H. Subramanian, B.L. Ibey, W. Xu, M.A.Wilson, M.N. Ericson, and G.L. Coté, "An autocorrelation based time domain analysis technique for monitoring perfusion and oxygenation in transplanted organs", IEEE Trans. on Biomed. Eng., V52, N7, pp. 1355-58, July 2005.
  41. S.J. Lee, B.L. Ibey, W. Xu, M.A. Wilson, M.N. Ericson, and G.L. Coté, "Processing of pulse oximeter data using discrete wavelet analysis ", IEEE Trans. on Biomed. Eng., V52, N7, pp. 1350-52, July 2005. 
  42. S.C.Terry, B.J. Blalock, J.M. Rochelle, M.N. Ericson,, and S.D. Caylor, “Time-domain noise analysis of linear time-Invariant and linear time-variant systems using MATLAB and HSPICE,” IEEE Trans. on Nucl. Sci., V 52, N3, pt.2, pp. 805-12, June 2005.
  43. M. N. Ericson, M.A. Wilson, G.L. Coté, J.S. Baba, W. Xu, M. Bobrek, C.L. Britton, M.S. Hileman, M.R. Moore, M.S. Emery, and R. Lenarduzzi, “Implantable sensor for blood flow monitoring after transplant surgery,” Minimally Invasive Therapy  & Allied Technologies, 13(2), April 2004, pp. 87-94 (invited).
  44. M. N. Ericson, C. L. Britton, Jr., J. M. Rochelle, B. J. Blalock, D. M. Binkley, A. L. Wintenberg, and B. D. Williamson, “Flicker noise behavior of MOSFETs fabricated in 0.5mm fully depleted (FD) silicon-on-sapphire (SOS) CMOS in weak, moderate, and strong inversion,” IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., Vol. 50, No. 4, August 2003,  pp. 963-968.
  45. M. Allen et. al, “PHENIX Inner Detectors,” Nucl. Instrum. Meth A, 499(2-3), March 1, 2003, pp. 549-559.

  46. K. Adcox et. al, “PHENIX Detector Overview,”Nucl. Instrum. Meth A, 499(2-3), March 1, 2003, pp. 469-479.

  47. S. S. Adler et. al, “PHENIX On-Line Systems,” Nucl. Instrum. Meth A, 499(2-3), March 1, 2003, pp. 560-592.

  48. W. A. Zajc, “Overview of PHENIX Results From the First RHIC Run,” Nuclear Physics A, 698, February 11, 2002, pp. 39C-53C.

  49. T.L. Ferrell, C.L. Britton, W.L. Bryan, L.G. Clonts, M.S. Emery, N. Ericson, F. Merraudeau, W. Morrison, A. Passian, S.F. Smith, T.D. Threatt, G.W. Turner, and A.L. Wintenberg, “Telesensor Integrated Circuits,” World Journal of Surgery, 25(11), November 2001, pp. 1412-1418.

  50. U. Jagadish, C. L. Britton, M.N. Ericson, et al., “A Preamplifier-Shaper-Stretcher Integrated Circuit System for use With Germanium Strip Detectors,” IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., Vol. 47, No. 6, December 2000, pp. 1868-1871.

  51. S. F. Hahn, J. P Sullivan, H. W. Van Hecke, J. E. Simon-Gillo, G. D. Smith, A. Sun, C. L. Britton, M. N. Ericson, M. S. Emery, G. R. Young, and M. Bobrek, "High Density Interconnect Multi-Chip Module for the Front-End Electronics of the PHENIX MVD,” IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. Vol. 47, No. 3, June 2000 (802-805).

  52. C. L. Britton, Jr., M. N. Ericson, S. S. Frank, J. A. Moore, M. L. Simpson, G. R. Young, R. S. Smith, L. G. Clonts, J. Boissevain, S. Hahn, J. S. Kapustinsky, J. Simon-Gillo, J. P. Sullivan, and H. van Hecke "A 32-Channel Preamplifier Chip for the Multiplicity Vertex Detector at PHENIX ,” Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 70, No. 3, pp. 1684-1687, March 1999.

  53. M. J. Bennett, J. Bernardin, J. Boissevain, C. Britton, J. Chang, D. Clark, R. Conway, R. Cunningham, M. Emery, N. Ericson, S.-Y. Fung, S. Hahn, H. van Hecke, D. Jaffe, J.-H. Kang, S.-Y. Kim, Y.-G. Kim, R. Lind, L. Marek, K. McCabe, T. Moore, J.-H. Park, G. Richardson, S.-S. Ryu, B. Scheli, R. Seto, T. Shiina, J. Simon-Gillo, M. Simpson, G. Smith, J. P. Sullivan, Y Takahashi, A. Wintenberg, and G. Xu, “Simulations of the Performance of the MVD in PHENIX,” IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. Vol. 46, No. 6, December 1999, pp. 2022-2026.

  54. M.L. Simpson, M.N. Ericson, G.E. Jellison, Jr., W.B. Dress, A.L. Wintenberg, and M. Bobrek, “Application Specific Spectral Response with CMOS Compatible Photodiodes,” IEEE Trans. on Electron Devices, Vol. 46, Issue 5, May 1999, pp. 905 –913.

  55. T. Vo-Dinh, J.P. Alarie, N. Isola, D. Landis, A.L. Wintenberg, and M. N. Ericson, “DNA Biochip Using a Phototransistor Integrated Circuit,” Analytical Chemistry, 71(2), January 15, 1999, pp. 358-363.

  56. M. N. Ericson, M. D. Allen, J. Boissevain, C. L. Britton, Jr., M. S. Emery, S. F. Hahn, J. S. Kapustinsky, R. E. Lind, M. S. Musrock, J. Simon-Gillo, D. E. Smith, J. P. Sullivan, H. Van Hecke, G. R. Young, and M. C. Smith, “Front-End Module Readout and Control Electronics for the PHENIX Multiplicity Vertex Detector,” IEEE Trans. Nucl Sci., Vol. 45, No. 3, June 1998, pp.  833-837.

  57. M. L. Simpson, W. B. Dress, M. N. Ericson, G. E. Jellison, D. N. Sitter, A. L. Wintenberg, and D. F. French, “A Photospectrometer Realized in a Standard CMOS Integrated Circuit Process,” Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 69, No. 2, 1998, pp. 377-383.

  58. M. N. Ericson., M. D. Allen, M. S. Musrock, J. W. Walker, C. L. Britton, Jr., A. L. Wintenberg, and G. R. Young,  “Development Of A Front End Controller/Heap Manager for PHENIX,” IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., Vol. 44, No. 3, June 1997,  pp. 312-317.

  59. J. Kapustinsky, et. al, “A Multiplicity-Vertex Detector for the PHENIX Experiment at RHIC,” Nucl Instrum Meth A, 392(1-3), June 21, 1997, pp. 192-196.

  60. M. N. Ericson, M. S. Musrock, J. W. Walker, M. D. Allen, C. L. Britton, A. L. Wintenberg, and G. R. Young,  “A Flexible Analog Memory Address List Manager / Controller for PHENIX,” IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., Vol. 43, No. 3, August 1996, pp. 1629-1633.

  61. M. N. Ericson, M. L. Simpson, C. L. Britton, M. D. Allen, R. A. Kroeger, and S. E. Inderhees, “A Low-Power, CMOS Peak Detect and Hold Circuit for Nuclear Pulse Spectroscopy,” IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., Vol. 42, No. 4, August 1995, pp. 724-728.

  62. M. N. Ericson, G. W. Turner, D. E. McMillan, R. A. Todd, B. S. Hoffheins, and J. M. Hiller, "A Miniaturized ASIC-Based Multichannel Scaler Instrument,” IEEE Trans.  Nucl. Sci., Vol. 41, No. 4, August 1994, pp. 1217-1220.

  63. M. N. Ericson, K. G. Falter, and J. M. Rochelle, "A Wide Range Logarithmic Electrometer with Improved Accuracy and Temperature Stability,” IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 41, No. 6, December 1992, pp. 968-973.

  64. M. L. Simpson, M. N. Ericson, G. E. Jellison, W. B. Dress, A. L. Wintenberg, and M. Bobrek. "Application Specific Spectral Response with CMOS Compatible Photodiodes," IEEE Trans. Elect. Dev., Vol. 46, No. 5, May 1999, pp. 905-913.

  65. M. S. Emery, S. S. Frank, C. L. Britton, Jr., A. L. Wintenberg, M. L. Simpson, M. N. Ericson, G. R. Young, L. G. Clonts, and M. D. Allen, “A Multi-Channel ADC for Use in the PHENIX Detector,” IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., Vol. 44, No. 3, June 1997, pp. 374-378.

  66. C. L. Britton, Jr, W. L. Bryan, M. S. Emery, M. N. Ericson, M. S. Musrock, M. L. Simpson, M. C. Smith, J. W. Walker, A. L. Wintenberg, G. R. Young, M. D. Allen, L. G. Clonts, R. L. Jones, E. J. Kennedy, R. S. Smith, J. Boissevain, B. V. Jacak, D. Jaffe, J. S. Kapustinsky, J. Simon-Gillo, J. P. Sullivan, H. Van Hecke, and N. Xu, “Design and Performance of Beam Test Electronics for the PHENIX Multiplicity Vertex Detector,” IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., Vol. 44, No. 3, June 1997,  pp. 283-288.

  67. R. A. Kroeger, W. N. Johnson, R. L. Kinzer, J. D. Kurfess, S. Inderhees, M. D. Allen, G. T. Alley, C. L. Britton, L. C. Clonts, M. N. Ericson, and M. L. Simpson, “Charge Sensitive Preamplifier and Pulse Shaper using CMOS process for Germanium Spectroscopy,”  IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., Vol. 42, No. 4, August 1995, pp. 921-924.

  68. J. P. Alarie, T. Vo-Dinh, G. Miller, M. N. Ericson, S. R. Maddox, W. Watts, D. Eastwood, R. Lidberg, and M. Dominguez, "Development of a Battery-Powered Portable Synchronous Luminescence Spectrofluorometer,” Rev. Sci. Instrum., Vol. 64, No. 9, September 1993, pp. 2541-2546.

  69. A. L. Wintenberg, C. L. Britton, Jr., M. N. Ericson, R. A. Maples, G. R. Young, and T. C. Awes, "WA80 BGO Calorimetry Electronics,” IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., Vol. 39, October 1992, pp. 518-522.

  70. D. F. Newport, C. L. Britton, Jr., G. T. Alley, W. L. Bryan, M. S. Emery, M. N. Ericson, H. R. Brashear, and D. W. Bouldin, "Integrating and Enhancing Tools for ASIC Design Using MOSIS Fabrication,” IEEE Trans. Nuc. Sci., NS-37, No. 2, April 1990, pp. 370-373.

  71. W. L. Bryan, S. R. Maddox, M. N. Ericson, C. L. Britton, M. S. Emery, and G. T. Alley, ‘Advantages of a Modular Design Approach for Radiological Instrumentation,” IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., NS-37, No. 2, April 1990, pp. 873-877.

Conference Publications:

  1. Srikanth Yoginath, Michael Iannacone, Varisara Tansakul, Ali Passian, Rob Jordan, Joel Asiamah, M. Nance Ericson, Gavin Long, and Joel A. Dawson. 2022. Stealthy Cyber Anomaly Detection On Large Noisy Multi-material 3D Printer Datasets Using Probabilistic Models. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM CCS Workshop on Additive Manufacturing (3D Printing) Security (AMSec'22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 25–38. https://doi.org/10.1145/3560833.3563564.
  2. D. Liao, F. Combs, M. Ericson, R. Kerekes, S. Killough and K. Reed, "On the Performance of Tree-Based Antennas for SLF-VLF Signal Reception," 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (APS/URSI), 2021, pp. 483-484, doi: 10.1109/APS/URSI47566.2021.9704616.
  3. Nance Ericson (PI), Gavin Long, Lloyd Clonts, Shane Frank, Chuck Britton, Scott Dolvin, Gregory Sheets, Kyle Reed, “Analog Signal Processing for Deployable Sensor Systems”, SPAN2020 Workshop, Virtual, November 10-11, 2020.

  4. Joel Dawson, Michael Iannacone, Srikanth Yoginath, Varisara Tansakul, Rob Jordan, Ali Passian, Joel Asiamah, Milton Nance Ericson and Gavin Long, “Control-Theory-Informed Feature Selection for Detecting Malicious Tampering in Additive Layer Manufacturing Processes,” 16th International Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security, (ICCWS 2021), Feb, 2021, DOI: 10.34190/IWS.21.036.

  5. G. B. Long, M. Nance Ericson, Charles L. Britton, Jr., Benjamin D. Roehrs, Ethan D. Farquhar, S. Shane Frank, Alec Yen, Benjamin J. Blalock, "A Sub-Threshold Low-Power Integrated Bandpass Filter for Highly-Integrated Spectrum Analyzers," 2020 27th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS), Glasgow, Scotland, UK, 2020, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/ICECS49266.2020.9294964.

  6. Yongjia Wu, Lei Zuo, Suresh Kaluvan, Haifeng Zhang, Nance Ericson, Kyle Reed, Roger Kisner. “Self-powered Wireless Through-wall Data Communication for Nuclear Environments,” Proceedings of the 11th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT), ISBN: 978-0-89448-783-5, February 9-14, 2019, Orlando FL.

  7. Fahd A. Mohiyaddin, Jacek Jakowski, Franklin G. Curtis, Jingsong Huang, Yousif W. Almulla, M. Nance Ericson, Charles Britton, Eugene F Dumitrescu, Bobby G. Sumpter, Travis S. Humble, “Significance of Accurate Electronic Structure Calculation Methods in Designing Silicon Donor Qubits,” International Workshop on Silicon Quantum Electronics, Hillsboro Oregon, Aug. 18-20, 2017.
  8. Fahd A. Mohiyaddin, Jacek Jakowski, M. Nance Ericson, Jingsong Huang, Charles L. Britton Jr., Franklin G. Curtis, Eugene F Dumitrescu, Bobby G. Sumpter, Travis S. Humble, “A Computational Design Framework for Silicon Donor Qubits,” 2017 Joint Nanoscience and Neutron Scattering User Meeting, Presentation, International Workshop on Silicon Quantum Electronics, July 31, 2017 – Aug 03, 2017.
  9. Fahd A. Mohiyaddin, Jacek Jakowski, Rajib Rahman, Guilherme Tosi, Rachpon Kalra, Franklin G. Curtis, Jingsong Huang, Nance Ericson, Arne Laucht, Gerhard Klimeck, Andrew S. Dzurak, Andrea Morello, Travis S. Humble, “Designing Silicon Qubits with Advanced Simulation Methods’, NFS/DOE Quantum Science Summer School, Abstract/Poster, Baltimore Maryland, June 2017.
  10. N. Dianne Bull Ezell, M.J. Roberts, Chuck Britton, David Holcomb, Nance Ericson, Seddik Djouadi, Richard Wood, “A Novel Technique Applying Spectral Estimation to Johnson Noise Thermometry,” 10th International Embedded Topical Meeting on Nuclear Power Plant Instrumentation, Control and Human-Machine Interface Technologies (ANS NPIC & HMIT 2017), Abstract, Presentation and Conference Proceedings, San Francisco CA, June 2017.
  11. Fahd A. Mohiyaddin, Jacek Jakowski, Jingsong Huang, M. Nance Ericson, Charles L. Britton Jr., Franklin G. Curtis, Eugene F Dumitrescu, Bobby G. Sumpter, Travis S. Humble, “Significance of Accurate Electronic Structure Calculation Methods in Designing Silicon Donor Qubits, APS March Meeting, Abstract/Presentation, New Orleans, LA, March 13-17, 2017. 
  12. Fahd A. Mohiyaddin, Jacek Jakowski, Jingsong Huang, M. Nance Ericson, Charles L. Britton Jr., Franklin G. Curtis, Eugene F Dumitrescu, Bobby G. Sumpter, Travis S. Humble, “A Computational Workflow for Designing Silicon Donor Qubits – From Electronic Structure to Device Modeling,” 68th Southeastern Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Abstract/Presentation, Columbia, Missouri, October, 2016.
  13. D.E. Archer, C.L. Britton, Jr., Robert J. Carter, M.N. Ericson, et. al, ‘Fieldable Nuclear Material Identification System,’ Proceedings of the INMM 57th Annual Meeting, Atlanta GA, July 24-28, 2016.
  14. M.S. Lyttle, L.R. Baylor, J.R. Carmichael, S.K. Combs, M.N. Ericson, N.D. Bull-Ezell, P.W. Fisher1, S.J. Meitner1, A. Nycz1, D.A. Rasmussen, J.M. Shoulders, S.F. Smith, R.J. Warmack, J.B. Wilgen, S. Maruyama, G. Kiss, S. Maruyama, G. Kiss, ‘Fast Acting Eddy Current Driven Valve for Massive Gas Injection on ITER,’ Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE Symposium on Fusion Engineering (SOFE), June 2015, Austin TX, to be published in conference proceedings.
  15. L.R. Baylor, C. C. Barbier,J. R. Carmichael, S.K. Combs, M. N. Ericson, N. D. Bull Ezell, P.W. Fisher, M.S. Lyttle, S.J. Meitner,  D.A. Rasmussen, S.F. Smith ,J.B. Wilgen, S. Maruyama, G. Kiss, ‘Disruption Mitigation System Developments and Design for ITER,’ Conference proceedings of the ANS 21st Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE), November 2014, Anaheim CA. 
  16. M. N. Ericson, S. S. Frank, C. L. Britton, L. D. Marlino, D. D. Janke, D. B. Ezell, Ryu, S.-H., R. Lamichhane, A. M. Francis, P. D. Shepherd, M. D. Glover, H. A. Mantooth, B. Whitaker, Z. Cole, B. Passmore, T. McNutt, ‘An integrated gate driver in 4H-SiC for power converter applications,” Proceedings 2014 IEEE Workshop on Wide Bandgap Power Devices and Applications (WiPDA), 2014, pp. 66-69, DOI: 10.1109/WiPDA.2014.6964626.
  17. B. Whitaker, Z. Cole, B. Passmore, D. Martin, T. McNutt, A. Lostetter, M. N. Ericson, S. S. Frank, C. L. Britton, L. D. Marlino, A. Mantooth, M. Francis, R. Lamichhane, P. Shepherd, M. Glover, “High-temperature SiC power module with integrated SiC gate drivers for future high-density power electronics applications,”   Proceedings 2014 IEEE Workshop on Wide Bandgap Power Devices and Applications (WiPDA), 2014, pp. 36-40, DOI: 10.1109/WiPDA.2014.6964620.
  18. T. J. Akl, M. A. Wilson, M. N. Ericson, and G. L. Coté, “Photoplethysmography beyond perfusion and oxygenation monitoring: pulse wave analysis for hepatic graft monitoring” SPIE Photonics West (2014). 
  19. Lamichhane, R.R.; Ericson, N.; Frank, S.; Britton, C.; Marlino, L.; Mantooth, A; Francis, M.; Shepherd, P.; Glover, M.; Perez, S.; McNutt, T.; Whitaker, B.; Cole, Z., "A wide bandgap silicon carbide (SiC) gate driver for high-temperature and high-voltage applications," 2014 IEEE 26th International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices & IC's (ISPSD), pp.414,417, 15-19 June 2014.
  20. Mark. S. Lyttle, Charlotte N. Barbier, Larry R. Baylor, Stephen K. Combs, M. Nance Ericson, Paul W. Fisher, S. J. Meitner, David A. Rasmussen, John B. Wilgen, “Design and Development of Shattered Pellet and Massive Gas Injection Technologies for Disruption Mitigation on ITER,” accepted for presentation at the Symposium on Fusion Technology, San Sebastian, Spain, Sept. 29 – Oct. 3, 2014.
  21. Tracey Wellington, Blake Palles, James A. Mullens, John Mihalczo, Dan Archer, Thad Thompson, Charles Britton, Diane Bull Ezell, Nance Ericson, Ethan Farquhar, Randall Lind, “Recent Fast Neutron Imaging Measurements with the Fieldable Nuclear Materials Identification System,” CAARI 2014 Conference Proceedings, San Antonio, TX, May 25-30, 2014.
  22. Farquhar E., Nycz A., Evans III B., Ericson M. N., Lind R., Wilken J. M., Rábago C. A., Wiley A. S., Kelley K., Pusch M., Oehler S., Marcard T . "Mobile Gait Analysis System for Prosthesis Fitting and Amputee Rehabilitation." Military Health System Research Symposium, Fort Lauderdale, FL, Florida, USA, August 12—15, 2013.
  23. T. J. Akl, M. A. Wilson, M. N. Ericson and G. L. Cote “Optical Modeling toward Optimizing Monitoring of Intestinal Perfusion in Trauma Patients,” Proc. SPIE 8591, February 6, 2013, doi 10.1117/12.2003352.
  24. Tony J. Akl, Travis J. King, Ruiqi Long, M. N. Ericson, Mark A. Wilson, Michael J. McShane, Gerard L. Coté, “In vitro performance of a perfusion and oxygenation optical sensor using a unique liver phantom,”Proc. SPIE. 8229, February 9, 2012, doi: 10.1117/12.908645.
  25. M.N. Ericson, S.S. Frank, C.L. Britton, J.S. Baba, S.J. Lee, T.E. McKnight, M. Bobrek, E. Farquhar, T.J. Akl, G.L. Coté, and M.A. Wilson, “A Custom Electronics Platform for Implantable Perfusion Sensor Development,” Future of Instrumentation International Workshop, Oak Ridge, TN, November 2011, in press.
  26. J.K.P. Mueller, B.M. Evans, M.N. Ericson, E. Farquhar, R.L. Lind, K. Kelley, M. Pusch, T.V. Marcard, J.M. Wilken, “A Mobile Motion Analysis System Using Inertial Sensors for Analysis of Lower Limb Prosthetics,” Future of Instrumentation International Workshop, Oak Ridge, TN, November 2011, in press.
  27. T. J. Akl, T. J. King, R. Long, J. S. Baba,  M. J. McShane,  M. N. Ericson, M. A. Wilson, and G. L. Cote, "Optimizing source detector separation for an implantable perfusion and oxygenation sensor," in Proc. SPIE, (SPIE, 2011), 790605.
  28. T. J. Akl, T. J. King, R. Long, J. S. Baba, M. J. McShane, M. N. Ericson, M. A. Wilson, G. L. Coté, “Performance Validation of Phantoms Used in Conjunction with Optical Measurement of Tissue,” Proc. SPIE. 7906, February 10, 2011, doi: 10.1117/12.875731.
  29. T. J. Akl, T. J. King, R. Long, M. N. Ericson, M. A. Wilson, M. J. McShane, G. L. Coté " In vitro performance of a perfusion and oxygenation optical sensor using a unique liver phantom" Proc. SPIE, (SPIE 2012) ,8229A-3, In Press.
  30. R. J. Nikolic, Q. Shao, L. F. Voss, A. M. Conway, R. Radev, T. F. Wang, M. Dar, N. Deo, C. L. Cheung, L. Fabris, C. L. Britton and M. N. Ericson, "Si pillar structured thermal neutron detectors: fabrication challenges and performance expectations", Proc. SPIE 8031, 803109 (2011).
  31. J.S. Baba, T.J. Akl, G.L. Cote, M.A. Wilson, and M.N. Ericson, " Investigation of source-detector separation optimization for an implantable perfusion and oxygenation sensor for liver blood vessels", Proc. SPIE 7890-9, 78900A (2011).
  32. T. J. Akl, W. Xu, M. N. Ericson, M. A. Wilson, G. L. Coté “Ex Vivo validation studies of an implantable perfusion and oxygenation sensor.” Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) meeting, Hartford CT, October 2011.
  33. R.J. Nikolic, A.M. Conway, R. Radev, Q. Shao, L. Voss, T.F. Wang, J.R. Brewer, C.L. Cheung, L. Fabris, C.L. Britton, and M.N. Ericson,“Nine Element Si-based Pillar Structured Thermal Neutron Detector”, Conference on Hard X-Ray, Gamma-Ray and Neutron Detector Physics XII, SPIE Proceedings, Vol. 7805 (78050O) San Diego, CA, Aug. 2-4, 2010.
  34. Hensley, D.K.; Melechko, A.V.; Ericson, M.N.; Simpson, M.L.; McKnight, T.E (2010), Transparent microarrays of vertically aligned carbon nanofibers as a multimodal tissue interface,  Biomedical Sciences and Engineering Conference (BSEC),  vol., no., pp.1-4.
  35. M.R. Lamprecht, T.E. McKnight, M.N. Ericson, et al., VACNF arrays for recording dopamine concentrations in the brain,” 2010 IEEE 36th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference, Columbia NY, March 26-28, 2010.
  36. A.G. Antonacci, J.L. Britton, S.C. Bunch, M.N. Ericson, et al., “PATARA II: A 64-Channel Solid-State Neutron Detector Readout System with Integrated Analog and Digital Processing for the SNS,” 2009 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, Oct. 25-31, 2009, pp. 68-74.
  37. J.S. Baba, B.S. Letzen, M.N. Ericson, G.L. Cote, W. Xu, and M.A. Wilson, “Development of a Multispectral Tissue Characterization System for Optimization of an Implantable Perfusion Status Monitor for Transplanted Liver,” IEMBS '09, 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE-EMBS, Sept. 2-6, 2009 (invited), pp. 6565-6598.
  38. S.K. Islam, S.A. Eliza, N.D. Bull, T. Rahman, B. Blalock, L.R. Baylor, M.N. Ericson, and W.L. Gardner, “A Precision Dose Control Circuit for Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanofiber Based Maskless Lithography”, 22nd International Vacuum Nanoelectronics Conference (IVNC 2009), Hamamatsu, Japan, July 20-24, 2009.
  39. M. Kalyanaraman, S.T. Retterer, T.E. McKnight, M.N. Ericson, et al., “Controlled microfluidic production of alginate beads for in situ encapsulation of microbes,” 1st Annual ORNL Biomedical Science & Engineering Conference, Mar 18-19, 2009, pp. 100-103.
  40. Z.L. Ning, B.J. Blalock, M.N. Ericson, et al.,  “A High Voltage CCD Sensor Control Chip for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST),” Proceedings of the 2008 Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Oct 19-25, 2008, Dresden, Germany, pp. 1349-1353.
  41. N. Nambiar, B. J. Blalock, M. N. Ericson, M. H. Kao, “A Current mode multi-channel Wilkinson ADC,” International Conference on Signals and Electronic Systems, Sept. 14-17, 2008, Krakow, Poland, pp. 11-14.
  42. N. Nambiar, C. Ulaganathan, S. Chen, M. Hale, A. Antonacci, B. J. Blalock, C. L. Britton, Jr., and M. N. Ericson, “SiGe BiCMOS 12-bit 8-Channel Low Power Wilkinson ADC,” IEEE Midwest Symposium Circuits & Systems, Aug. 10-13, 2008, Knoxville, Tennessee, pp. 650-653. 
  43. Z. Ning, B. Blalock, M. N. Ericson, J. Oliver, R. Van Berg, P. O’Connor, and C. L. Britton, Jr., “A High Voltage CCD Sensor Control Chip for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST),” IEEE Midwest Symposium Circuits & Systems, Aug. 10-13, 2008, Knoxville, Tennessee, pp. 535-537. 
  44. C. Ulaganathan, N. Nambiar, B. Prothro, R. Greenwell, S. Chen, H. Hoang, R. Broughton, K. Cornett, G. Fu, B. J. Blalock, C. L. Britton, Jr., M. N. Ericson, H. A. Mantooth, J. D. Cressler, and R. W. Berger, “A SiGe BiCMOS Instrumentation Channel for Extreme Environment Applications,” IEEE Midwest Symposium Circuits & Systems, Aug. 10-13, 2008, Knoxville, Tennessee, pp. 217-220.
  45. S.A. Eliza, S.K. Islam, T. Rahman, R. Vijayaraghavan, T. Grundman, B. Blalock, S.J. Randolph, L.R. Baylor, T.S. Bigelow, W.L. Gardner, M.N. Ericson, J.A. Moore, “Digitally addressable vertically aligned carbon nanofibers for implementation of massively parallel maskless lithography,” Intl. Semiconductor Device Research Symposium, Dec 12-14, 2007,  pg 1-2.
  46. Eliza SA, Islam SK, Lee I, Greenbaum E, Ericson MN, Khan MA, “Detection of Photosystem I Reaction Centers using Chemically Derivatized High Electron Mobility Transistor”,IEEE Sensors 2007, 28-31 Oct. 2007, pp. 1456 – 1459.

  47. S. A. Eliza, S. K. Islam, T. Rahman, R. Vijayaraghavan, T. Grundman, B. Blalock, and S. J. Randolph, L. R. Baylor, T. S. Bigelow, W. L. Gardner, M. N. Ericson and J. A. Moore, “Maskless Lithography using Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanofiber Field Emission,” Proceedings of the 16th Annual Connecticut Symposium on Microelectronics and Optoelectronics, 2007.

  48. LR Baylor, WL Gardner, SJ Randolph, YF Guan, PD Rack, JA Moore, and MN Ericson, “Operation of the Digital Electrostatic e-beam Array Lithography (DEAL) prototype with dose control”, 2007 IEEE  20th International Vacuum Nanoelectronics Conference, July  08-12, 2007,  pp. 175-176.
  49. T.E. McKnight, M.N. Ericson, S.W. Jones, A.V. Melechko, M.L. Simpson, “Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanofiber Arrays: An Electrical and Genetic Substrate for Tissue Scaffolding”Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE, Aug. 22-26, 2007, pp. 5381 – 5383.
  50. M.R. Haider, M.A. Huque, M.A. Adeeb, S.K. Islam, W. Qu, and N. Ericson, “A Low Power Sensor-Signal Read-out Circuit Powered by Inductive Link,” China conference ICSICT-2006, paper no: 665 (Oct. 23-26, 2006, Shanghai, China).
  51. S.J. Randolph, L.R. Baylor, K.L. Klein, W.L. Gardner, R.J. Kasica, M.A. Guillorn, D.K. Hensley, H.M. Meyer, S. Islam, P.D. Rack, R. Rucker, T. Rahman, T. Grundman, T. Bigelow, S.A. Eliza, R. Vijayar, J.A. Moore, M.L. Simpson, M.N. Ericson, “New Strategies for Improvement and Implementation of the Digital Electrostatic e-beam Array Lithography (DEAL),” 2006 Vacuum Nanoelectronics Conference and 50th International Field Emission Symposium, 2006 IVNC/IFES Technical Digest, July 2006.
  52. T. Rahman, S. K. Islam, R. Vijayaraghavan, T. Gundman, S. A. Eliza, A. B. M. I. Hossain, B. Blalock, L. R. Baylor, T. S. Bigelow, M. N. Ericson, W. L. Gardner, J. A. Moore, and S. J. Randolph, “Integration of a Dose Control Circuit with a Vertically Aligned NanoFiber Field Emission Device,” Technical Digest, 19th International Vacuum Nanoelectronics Conference & 50th International Field Emission Symposium, July 17 – 20, 2006, Guilin, China, pp. 161 – 162.
  53. S. J. Randolph, L. R. Baylor, W. L. Gardner, K. L. Klein, R. Vijayaraghavan, T. Grundman, S. Eliza, T. Rahman, S. Islam, D. C. Joy, P. D. Rack, T. Bigelow, M. N. Ericson, J. A. Moore, C. L. Britton, D. K. Hensley, R. J. Kasica, Y. Guan, H. M. Meyer III, J. B. Caughman, M. A. Guillorn, and R. B. Rucker, “Design Improvements and Performance Enhancements  of the Digital Electrostatic E-beam Array Lithography (DEAL) Prototype,” The 50th International Conference on Electron, Ion, Photon Beam Technology and Nanofabrication, May 30- June 2, 2006, Baltimore, MD, USA.

  54. W. Xu, M.N. Ericson, G.L. Cote, J. Baba, C.L. Britton, and M.A. Wilson, “An implantable micro-sensor for real-time tissue perfusion monitoring,” SHOCK, 23, Suppl. 3, p. 89, June 2005. 

  55. M.N. Ericson, M. Hasanuzzaman; S.C. Terry; C.L. Britton, C.L.; Ohme, B.; Frank, S.S.; Richmond, J.A.; Blalock, B.J., ‘1/f Noise and DC Characterization of Partially Depleted SOI N-and P-MOSFETs from 20ºC-250ºC’, Proc. 2005 IEEE Aerospace Conf., March 5-12, pp. 1-13.

  56. B. Ibey, H. Subramanian, N. Ericson W.J. Xu, M. Wilson, and G.L. Cote, “Processing of pulse oximeter signals using adaptive filtering and autocorrelation to isolate perfusion and oxygenation components,” Proc. of the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), San Jose, CA, Jan. 25-26, 2005, vol. 5702, pp. 54-60.

Oct. 4-7, 2004, pp.112 – 114.

 

  1. Ibey, B.L., Lee, S., Ericson, N., Wilson, M, and Coté, G.L., “Modeling of a three-source perfusion and blood oxygenation sensor for transplant monitoring using Multi-Layer Monte Carlo code”, Proc. of the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), San Jose, CA, Jan. 24-29, 2004, vol. 5325, pp. 62-69.

  2. B. Dixon, B. Ibey, N. Ericson, M. Wilson, and G.L. Cote, “Monte Carlo modeling for perfusion monitoring,” Proc. of the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), Jan. 28-29, 2003, San Jose California, vol. 4965,  pp. 42-48.

  3. M.N. Ericson,  M. A. Wilson, G. L. Coté, C.L. Britton, W. Xu, J. S. Baba, M. Bobrek, M. S. Hileman, M. R. Moore, and S. S. Frank, ‘Development of an Implantable Oximetry-Based Organ Perfusion Sensor,’ Proceedings of the 26th Annual International Conference of the IEEE EMBS, Sept. 1-5, 2004, pp. 2235-2238.

  4. M.N. Ericson,  M. Bobrek, A. Bobrek, C.L. Britton, J.M. Rochelle, B.J. Blalock, and R.L. Schultz,  “A High Resolution, Extended Temperature Sigma Delta ADC in 3.3V 0.5mm SOS-CMOS,” Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE Aerospace Conference, March 6-14, 2004, Big Sky, MT.

  5. R. Kisner, C.L. Britton, U. Jagadish, J.B. Wilgen, M. Roberts, T.V. Blalock, D. Holcomb, M. Bobrek, and M.N. Ericson, “Johnson Noise Thermometry for Harsh Environments,” Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE Aerospace Conference, March 6-14, 2004, Big Sky, MT.

  6. M.N. Ericson, G.L. Coté, M.A. Wilson, C.L. Britton, M. R. Moore, C. Johnson, M.S. Hileman, and W. Xu, “A Photonics-Based Implantable Sensor for Tissue Perfusion Monitoring,” presented at the IEEE BMES 2003 Annual Fall Meeting, Nashville, TN, October 1-4, 2003.

  7. M.N. Ericson, C.L. Britton, J.M. Rochelle, B.J. Blalock, B.D. Williamson, R.L. Greenwell, and R. Schultz, “High temperature DC characterization of fully-depleted 0.5mm SOS-CMOS MOSFETs for analog circuit design,” Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International SOI Conference, pp. 89-91,  Sept. 29 - Oct. 2, 2003.

  8. C. Johnson, C.L. Britton, M.N. Ericson, G.L. Cote, and M.A. Wilson, “Capacitive Communications For Implanted Sensor Systems,” presented at the IEEE BMES 2003 Annual Fall Meeting, Nashville, TN, October 1-4, 2003.

  9. M. Bobrek, M.N. Ericson, and A. Bobrek, "A Decimation Filter for Single- or Multiple-Loop High Resolution SD Analog-to-Digital Converters," Proceedings of the International Signal Processing Conference, Dallas, TX, April 2003.

  10. Dixon, J.B., Ibey, B.L., Ericson, M.N., Wilson, M.A., and Coté, G.L., "Monte Carlo Modeling for Perfusion Monitoring,” SPIE BIOS, Session 4965-07, San Jose, CA, January 2003.

  11. M.N. Ericson, J.M. Rochelle, M. Bobrek, C.L. Britton, A. Bobrek, B.J. Blalock, R. Schultz, and J.A. Moore, "2nd- and 4th-Order Modulators Fabricated in 3.3V 0.5mm SOS-CMOS for High-Temperature Applications,” Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE International SOI Conference, Williamsburg, VA, October 2002.

  12. M.N. Ericson, B.L. Ibey, G.L. Cote, J.S. Baba, J.B. Dixon, M.S. Hileman, C.L. Britton, and M.A. Wilson, “In vivo application of a minimally invasive oximetry based perfusion sensor,” Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE-EMBS/BMES Conference, Vol. 3, pp. 1789-1790, Oct. 2002.
  13. M. N. Ericson, C. L. Britton, Jr., A. L. Wintenberg, J. M. Rochelle, B. J. Blalock, D. M. Binkley and B. D. Williamson, “Noise Behavior of MOSFETs Fabricated in 0.5mm Fully-Depleted (FD) Silicon-on-Sapphire (SOS) CMOS In Weak, Moderate, and Strong Inversion,” Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Vol. 1, pp. 125-129, November 2002.
  14. M. N. Ericson, D. K. Johnson, M. S. Emery, J. M. Rochelle, R. E. Lind, S. F. Smith, G. W. Turner, T. L. Ferrell, R. S. Burlage, A. D. McMillan, C. A. Walls, D. E. McMillan, D. W. Bible, M. R. Moore, M. Bobrek, R. W. Rochelle, C. L. Britton, Jr., P. B. Crilly, and C. J. Foltz, “Development of Implantable Electronics For Phenotype Identification In Gene Expression Studies,” 1999 Tennessee Biomedical Engineering Conference, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, April 9-11, 1999, poster.
  15. M. N. Ericson, D. K. Johnson, M. S. Emery, J. M. Rochelle, R. E. Lind, S. F. Smith, G. W. Turner, T. L. Ferrell, R. S. Burlage, A. D. McMillan, C. A. Walls, D. E. McMillan, D. W. Bible, M. R. Moore, M. Bobrek, R. W. Rochelle, C. L. Britton, Jr., P. B. Crilly, and C. J. Foltz, “Development of Implantable Electronics For Phenotype Identification In Gene Expression Studies,” Proceedings of the Third Annual Southeastern Workshop on Mixed-Signal VLSI and Monolithic Sensors, Oak Ridge, TN, April 8-9, 1999.

  16. M. L. Simpson, J. M. Rochelle, D. W. Bouldin, M. J. Paulus, T. V. Blalock, W. L. Bryan, E. J. Kennedy, C. L. Britton, M. J. Roberts, A. L. Wintenberg , M. Karim, G. T. Alley, M. N. Ericson, and M. Bobrek. "Collaborative Graduate Education: The University of Tennessee/Oak Ridge National Laboratory Joint Program in Mixed-Signal VLSI and Monolithic Sensors". Proceedings of the 1999 Southwest Symposium on Mixed-Signal Design, April 11-13, 1999, Tucson, AZ, pp. 74-75.

  17. M. L. Simpson, D. H. Lowndes, G. E. Jellison, M. N. Ericson, W. B. Dress, J. C. Arnott, and M. A. Guillorn. "Single-Chip Photo-Spectrometers Realized in Standard Complementary-Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (CMOS) Technology,” Proceedings of the 44th Annual International Instrumentation Symposium, May 3-7, 1998, pp. 449-458.
  18. C. L. Britton, Jr., R. J. Warmack, S. F. Smith, P. I. Oden, G. M. Brown, W. L.Bryan, L. G. Clonts, M. G. Duncan, M. S. Emery, M. N. Ericson, Z. Hu, R. L.Jones, M. R. Moore, J. A. Moore, J. M. Rochelle, T. D. Threatt, T. Thundat, G. W. Turner, and A. L. Wintenberg, "MEMS Sensors and Wireless Telemetry for Distributed Systems," presented at the SPIE 5th International Symposium on Smart Materials and Structures, March 2, 1998, San Diego, CA.

  19. M. N. Ericson, S. S. Frank, A. L. Wintenberg, and J. S. Sam, “A Configurable CMOS Voltage DAC for Multichannel Detector Systems,” Proceedings of the 1997 Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference.

  20. R. A. Kroeger, W. N. Johnson, J. D. Kurfess,  W. G. Schwarz, M. E. Read, M. D. Allen, G. T. Alley, C. L. Britton,  L. C. Clonts,  M. N. Ericson, and M. L. Simpson,  “CMOS readout system for a double-sided germanium strip detector”
    1997 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (Cat. No.97CH36135), 1997, pt. 1, p 691-3 vol.1

  21. M. S. Emery, M. N. Ericson, C. L. Britton, Jr., M.C. Smith, S. S. Frank, G.R.Young, M. D. Allen, and L. G. Clonts, "Timing and Control Requirements for a 32-Channel AMU-ADC ASIC for the PHENIX Detector," Proceedings of the 1997 Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference.
  22. M. L. Simpson, M. N. Ericson, G. E. Jellison, and W. B. Dress, “Application Specific Spectral Response with CMOS Compatible Photodiodes,” presented at the Southeastern Workshop on Mixed-Signal VLSI and Monolithic Sensors, April 3, 1997.

  23. D. Johnson, M. Justice, K. Beattie, M. Buchanan, M. Ramsey, R. Ramsey, M.l Paulus, N. Ericson, D. Allison, R. Kress, R. Mural, E. Uberbacher, and R. Mann, "The Functional Genomics Initiative at Oak Ridge National Laboratory," The Sixth Department of Energy Contractor and Grantee Workshop, Santa Fe, NM, November 1997.

  24. C.L. Britton, et. al., “Low Noise, Low Power Dissipation Analog LSI Electronics for Heavy Ion Detectors,” Proceedings of the 1996 International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Vol. 1, May 1996, pp. 133-136.

  25. S. S. Frank, M. N. Ericson, M. L. Simpson, R. A. Todd, and D. P. Hutchinson,  “A CMOS Integrated Circuit for Pulse-Shape Discrimination,” presented at the 1995 Nuclear Science Symposium, San Francisco, CA, November 1995.

  26. C. L. Britton, Jr. et. al., “Multiplicity-Vertex Detector Electronics Development For Heavy-Ion Detectors,” presented at the First Workshop for LHC Electronics, Lisbon, Portugal, 1995.

  27. M. L. Simpson, et. al., “Integrated Readout Electronics for the PbWO4 Photon Spectrometer,” presented at the First Workshop for LHC Electronics, Lisbon, Portugal, 1995.

  28. R. A. Kroeger, W. N. Johnson, R. L. Kinzer, J. D. Kurfess, S. Inderhees, M. D. Allen, G. T. Alley, C. L. Britton, L. C. Clonts, M. N. Ericson, and M. L. Simpson, “Charge Sensitive Preamplifier and Pulse Shaper Using CMOS Process for Germanium Spectroscopy,” Presented at the 1994 Nuclear Science Symposium, Norfolk, VA, November 1994.

  29. A. L. Wintenberg, T. C. Awes, C. L. Britton, Jr., M. S. Emery, M. N. Ericson, F. Plasil, M. L. Simpson, J. W. Walker, and G. R. Young, “Monolithic Circuits for the WA98 Lead Glass Calorimeter,” Presented at the 1994 Nuclear Science Symposium, Norfolk, VA, November 1994.

  30. C. S. Stroud and M. N. Ericson, “Computer-Aided Design-Verification Vector Generation,”  Proceedings of the Seventh Annual IEEE International ASIC Conference and Exhibit, September 1994, pp. 144-147.

  31. A. L. Wintenberg, T. C. Awes,  C. L. Britton,  L. G. Clonts,  M. S. Emery, M. N. Ericson, F. Plasil, M. L. Simpson, J. W. Walker, and G. R. Young, "Monolithic Circuits for the WA98 Lead Glass Calorimeter," Proceedings of the 1994 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, November 1994.

  32. M. L. Bauer, A. M. Christopher, M. N. Ericson, E. J. Kennedy, and J. A. Ramsey, "Rotary Capacitance Transducers for Automotive Environments," presented at the Sensors Expo 1994.

  33. A. L. Wintenberg, C. L. Britton, Jr., M. N. Ericson, R. A. Maples, G. R. Young, and T. C. Awes, "WA80 BGO Calorimetry Electronics,” Proceedings of the 1991 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, November 1991, pp. 518-522.

  34. A. L. Wintenberg, M. N. Ericson, C. L. Britton, Jr., S. M. Babcock, G. A. Armstrong, P. L. Butler, Jr., W. R. Hamel, and D. F. Newport, "Sensor-Based Whole-Arm Obstacle Avoidance Utilizing ASIC Technology,” Proceedings of the American Nuclear Society Fifth Topical Meeting on Robotics and Remote Systems, April 1993, pp. 767-774.

  35. A. L. Wintenberg, P. L. Butler, S. M. Babcock, M. N. Ericson, G. A. Armstrong, C. L. Britton, Jr., and W. R. Hamel, “Sensor-Based Whole-Arm Obstacle Avoidance for Unstructured Environments,” Proceedings of the 1992 Winter Meeting of the American Nuclear Society, Vol. 66, November 1992, p. 533.

  36. M. L. Simpson, C. L. Carnal, M. N. Ericson, D. D. Falter, K. G. Falter, G. E. Jellison, Jr., R. C. Kryter, S. R. Maddox, J. K. Munro, J. M. Rochelle, and T. L. Spratlin, “New Shortwave Solar Radiometer with Information-Based Sparse Sampling,” Proceedings of the Second Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Science Team Meeting, October 1991, pp. 111-114.

  37. M. N. Ericson, C. L. Britton, Jr., and D. W. Bouldin, “A Virtual Zero-Time, Monolithic Systolic Sorting Array,” IEEE SoutheastCon '90 Conference Proceedings, April 1990, pp. 549-551.

  38. C. L. Britton, Jr., G. T. Alley, W. L. Bryan, M. S. Emery, M. N. Ericson, D. W. Bouldin, and D. F. Newport, “Tool Integration and Enhancement for Standard Cell Designs,” Proceedings of the 1989 VLSI Education Conference and Exposition, July 1989, pp. 97-104.

  39. J. C. Culioli, V. Protopopescu, C. L. Britton, Jr., and M. N. Ericson, “Neural Network Models for Linear Programming,” Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Washington, D. C., January 1990, Vol. 1, pp. 293-296.

  40. J. C. Culioli, V. Protopopescu, C. L. Britton, Jr., and M. N. Ericson, "A Neural Network for Explicitly Bounded Linear Programming,” Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Washington, D. C., January 1990, Vol. 1, pp. 381-384.

  41. C. L. Britton, Jr., J. M. Rochelle, G. T. Alley, D. F. Newport, W. L. Bryan, and M. N. Ericson, “Characteristics of CMOS Analog Integrated Structures Using MOSIS,” Presented at the 1989 Nuclear Science Symposium, January 1990.

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