Pedro Nuno Mendonça dos Santos

Pedro Santos

Academic position:	Assistant Professor
Joining date:	01-01-1999
Roles in IT:	Senior Researcher
Thematic Line:	Wireless Technologies
Group:	Wireless Circuits – Lx

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Address: IT – Lisboa
Instituto Superior Técnico - Torre Norte - Piso 10
Av. Rovisco Pais, 1
1049 - 001 Lisboa
Tel: +351 21 841 84 54
Fax: +351 21 841 84 72

https://www.orcid.org/0000-0001-5310-6907

Scientific Achievements

Degrees

PhD, Instituto Superior Técnico, 04-07-2002
MSc, Instituto Superior Técnico, 01-11-1994
Licenciatura, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 01-01-1989

Affiliations

Academia Militar, 01-01-2011, Coordenador
Ordem dos Engenheiros, 30-03-1993,

Expertise Topics

High_Voltage CMOS
Semiconductor Devices and Circuits
ultra-low voltage CMOS design
Microelectronics
CMOS Technology
Power Electronics

Academic Activities

4Lecture courses

Fundamentos de Electrónica, Academia Militar, Engenharia Eletrotécnica Militar
Electrónica I, Academia Militar, Engenharia Eletrotécnica Militar
Electrónica II, Academia Militar, Engenharia Eletrotécnica Militar
Análise de Circuitos, Academia Militar, Engenharia Eletrotécnica Militar

1Supervision of PhD theses

As Co-supervisor

Modelling and Characterization of Passive Structures on Silicon Technologies, PhD Student, Mário Jorge Simão de Assunção, Defended 06-2015

13Supervision of MSc theses

As Supervisor

Gestão de múltiplas fontes de recolha de energia, MSc Student, David José Machado Gonçalves, Concluded 12-2022
Sistema de gesta ̃o de poteˆncia para energia recolhida de fontes de RF, MSc Student, Pedro Emanuel Amorim Teixeira, Concluded 12-2022
Step-up dc-dc converter supplied by thermoelectric generators for IoT applications, MSc Student, Jos ́e Carlos Sequeira Almeida, Concluded 11-2021
Gestão de Potência em Células Fotovoltaicas Orgânicas em Tecnologia CMOS, MSc Student, Sérgio Moreira, Concluded 02-2021
Fully integrated step-up dc-dc converters for energy harvesting of OPV cells, MSc Student, Duarte Vivas Batista, Concluded 12-2018

As Co-supervisor

Voltage references for IoT sensor nodes integrated circuits, MSc Student, Eduardo Daniel Roque Martins, Expected conclusion 12-2024
Current references for IoT sensor nodes integrated circuits, MSc Student, José Pedro Garrucho de Oliveira, Expected conclusion 12-2024
Light-Harvesting Battery Charger for IoT Sensor Node, MSc Student, Maísa Santos Craveiro Seidi, Concluded 06-2023
Conversor DC-DC elevador de tensão integrado para termogeradores de baixa potência, MSc Student, José Carlos Sequeira de Almeida, Concluded 12-2021
Fully Integrated Magnetic Sensor for IoT Wireless Node, MSc Student, Bruno José Camacho Vieira Abreu, Concluded 05-2018
Conversores DC-DC para células fotovoltaicas orgânicas, MSc Student, Pedro Serras Duarte, Concluded 09-2017
Conversor DC-DC “boost” para aplicações “energy harvesting”, MSc Student, Luis Filipe Esteves Machado Fontela, Concluded 12-2016
Conversor DC-DC redutor quasi-square wave em tecnologia CMOS, MSc Student, Paulo César Paixão Pereira, Concluded 12-2016

Publications

2Books Chapters

B. Borges, H. R. Marques, V. Costa, P. M. Santos, Resonant Converters, Chapter in, Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronic Power Engineering, Jorge Garcia, Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, 2022
P. M. Santos, L. Mendes, J. Vaz, HJQ Quaresma, Chapter 8: Layout strategies for substrate crosstalk reduction in low cost CMOS processes, Chapter in, Noise Coupling in System-on-Chip, Thomas Noulis, CRC-Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, 2017

18Papers in Journals

Ricardo A. Marques Lameirinhas Lameirinhas, C. P. C. V. B. P. Correia V. Bernardo, J. Torres, H. veiga, P. M. Santos, Modelling the effect of defects and cracks in solar cells’ performance using the d1MxP discrete model, Scientific Reports, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 12490 - 12490, August, 2023 | BibTex
J. Torres, Ricardo A. Marques Lameirinhas Lameirinhas, C. P. C. V. B. P. Correia V. Bernardo, P. M. Santos, H. veiga, M. M. Martins, P. Figueiredo, Analysis of Different Third-Generation Solar Cells Using the Discrete Electrical Model d1MxP, Energies, Vol. 16, No. 7, pp. 3289 - 3289, April, 2023 | BibTex
J. Torres, Ricardo A. Marques Lameirinhas Lameirinhas, C. P. C. V. B. P. Correia V. Bernardo, H. veiga, P. M. Santos, A Discrete Electrical Model for Photovoltaic Solar Cells—d1MxP, Energies, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 2018 - 2018, February, 2023 | BibTex
P. M. Santos, A. Serralheiro, B. Borges, J. Torres, A. Charas, An Experimental Study on Step-Up DC–DC Converters for Organic Photovoltaic Cells, Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 2 - 16, April, 2022,
| Abstract | Full text (PDF 19 MBs) | BibTex
D. Batista, L. Oliveira, N. Paulino, C. Carvalho, J. P. Oliveira, J. Farinhas, A. Charas, P. M. Santos, Combined Organic Photovoltaic Cells and Ultra Low Power CMOS Circuit for Indoor Light Energy Harvesting, Sensors, Vol. 19, No. 1803, pp. 1 - 20, April, 2019,
| Abstract | Full text (PDF 13 MBs) | BibTex
L. Mendes, P. M. Santos, J. Vaz, Substrate noise isolation improvement in a single-well standard CMOS process, Integration, the VLSI Journal, Vol. 52, No. -, pp. 122 - 128, January, 2016,
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M. Assunção, P. M. Santos, J. Costa Freire, A Technique to Reduce On-Wafer Measurement Uncertainty for CMOS Transmission Line Characterization, IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, Vol. PP, No. 99, pp. 1 - 3, November, 2015 | BibTex
V. Costa, P. M. Santos, B. Borges, Design Methologies for Integrated Inductor-Based Soft-Switching DC-DC Converters, i-ETC : ISEL Academic Journal of Electronics, Telecomunications and Computers, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. id-17-1 - id-17-9, July, 2013,
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HJQ Quaresma, P. M. Santos, A. Serra, An equivalent doping profile for CMOS substrate characterization, Solid-State Electronics, Vol. 79, No. -, pp. 185 - 191, January, 2013,
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V. Costa, P. M. Santos, B. Borges, A design methodology for integrated inductor-based DC–DC converters, Microelectronics Journal, Vol. 43, No. 6, pp. 401 - 409, June, 2012,
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HJQ Quaresma, P. M. Santos, A. Serra, Impact of temperature on substrate coupling in low-doped substrate, Electronics Letters, Vol. 47, No. 23, pp. 1273 - 1275, November, 2011,
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D. D. Duflot, P. Limão-Vieira, A. Giuliani, E. Vasekova, J.M.C. Lourenço, P. M. Santos, S.V. Hoffmann, , , Electronic State Spectroscopy of c-C5F8 Explored by Photoabsortion, Electron Impact, Photoelectron Spectroscopies and Ab Initio Calculations, Journal of Physical Chemistry A, Vol. 112, No. 13, pp. 2782 - 2793, April, 2008 | BibTex
P. Limão-Vieira, E. Vasekova, A. Giuliani, J.M.C. Lourenço, P. M. Santos, D. D. Duflot, S.V. Hoffmann, Perfluorocyclobutane electronic state spectroscopy by high-resolution vacuum ultraviolet photoabsorption, electron impact, He I photoelectron spectroscopy, and ab initio calculations, Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, Vol. 76, No. 3, pp. 032509 -1 - 032509 -11, September, 2007 | BibTex
S. Finco, B. Borges, P. M. Santos, Smart Power Integrated Circuit Educational Tool, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 1290 - 1303, July, 2007 | BibTex
P. M. Santos, V. Costa, B. Borges, M. Lança, High-Voltage LDMOS Transistors Fully Compatible with a Deep Submicron 0.35 um CMOS Process, Microelectronics Journal, Vol. 38, No. 1, pp. 35 - 40, January, 2007 | BibTex
P. M. Santos, HJQ Quaresma, A. Silva, M. Lança, High-Voltage NMOS design in fully implanted twin-well CMOS, Microelectronics Journal, Vol. 35, No., pp. 723 - 730, September, 2004 | BibTex
P. M. Santos, M. I. Simas, M. Lança, High Voltage Solutions in CMOS Technology, Microelectronics Journal, Vol. 33, No. 8, pp. 609 - 617, August, 2002 | BibTex
P. M. Santos, M. I. Simas, M. Lança, CMOS Compatible HV Gate-Shifted LDD-NMOS, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Vol. 48, No. 5, pp. 1013 - 1015, May, 2001 | BibTex

20Papers in Conferences

D. Batista, L.oliveira Oliveira, P. M. Santos, Characterization and Optimization of an Inductive DC-DC Converter for Ultra-Low Power Energy Harvesting, IEEE International Young Engineers Forum on Electrical and Computer Engineering YEF-ECE, Costa da Caparica, Portugal, May, 2019 | BibTex
M. Assunção, J. Costa Freire, P. M. Santos, Lumped Model for CMOS Interconnections lines, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Castelo Branco, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 21 - 24, May, 2013,
| Abstract | Full text (PDF 959 KBs) | BibTex
V. Costa, P. M. Santos, B. Borges, Designing Soft-Switching DC-DC Converters in CMOS Technology, CETC- Conf. on Electronics, Telecommunications and Computers, Lisboa, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. ID59 - ID59, November, 2011,
| Abstract | BibTex
V. Costa, P. M. Santos, B. Borges, An Improved Design Method for Monolithic CMOS Quasi-Square-Wave DC-DC Converters, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Sta Maria Feira, Portugal, Vol. CD-ROM, pp. -, May, 2009,
| Abstract | Full text (PDF 126 KBs) | BibTex
V. Costa, P. M. Santos, B. Borges, Design Method for Monolithic DC-DC Converters Based on Losses Optimization of the Power Stage, IEEE Asia Pacific Conf. on Circuits and Systems - APCCAS, Macau, Macau, Vol. 1, pp. 1872 - 1875, December, 2008 | Full text (PDF 306 KBs) | BibTex
V. Costa, P. M. Santos, B. Borges, Método de Dimensionamento para Conversores CC-CC Monolíticos Baseado na Optimização das Perdas do Andar de Potência, Jornadas de Engenharia de Telecomunicações e Computadores, Lisboa, Portugal, Vol. CD-ROM, pp. -, November, 2008 | Full text (PDF 260 KBs) | BibTex
HJQ Quaresma, P. M. Santos, A. Serra, E. Sicard, A METHODOLOGY FOR EXTRACTING UNKNOWN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT PROCESS PARAMETERS, IEEE International Conf. on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, Gammarth, Tunisia, Vol. 1, pp. 84 - 88, December, 2005 | BibTex
V. Costa, P. M. Santos, B. Borges, Design Method for Integrated CMOS Quasi-Square-Wave DC-DC Converters, Conf. on Design of Circuits and Integrated Systems, Lisboa, Portugal, Vol. CD-ROM, pp. -, November, 2005 | Full text (PDF 210 KBs) | BibTex
V. Costa, P. M. Santos, B. Borges, Integração Monolítica de Conversores Comutados CC-CC de Comutação Suave : Soluções de Projecto e Simulações, Jornadas de Engenharia de Telecomunicações e Computadores, Lisboa, Portugal, November, 2005 | Full text (PDF 161 KBs) | BibTex
V. Costa, P. M. Santos, B. Borges, Soft-Switching DC-DC Converters for CMOS Integration, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Tomar, Portugal, Vol. CD-ROM, pp. -, April, 2005 | Full text (PDF 106 KBs) | BibTex
P. M. Santos, HJQ Quaresma, A. Silva, M. Lança, Design of High-Voltage devices in a fully implanted twin-well CMOS process, European Solid-State Device Research Conf., Estoril, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 343 - 346, September, 2003 | BibTex
P. M. Santos, HJQ Quaresma, A. Silva, M. Lança, Breakdown improvement and reliable driving of high-voltage NMOS fabricated in fully implanted CMOS, European Power Electronics Conf. - EPE, Toulouse, France, Vol. CDROM, pp. p1 - p10, September, 2003 | BibTex
P. M. Santos, HJQ Quaresma, A. Silva, M. Lança, High-Voltage NMOS in 0,5um CMOS Technology for fast switching applications, IEEE International Symp. on Industrial Electronics - ISIE, Rio de janeiro, Brazil, Vol. CDROM, pp. -, June, 2003 | BibTex
P. M. Santos, M. Lança, M. I. Simas, High Voltage Solutions in Standard CMOS, IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conf. - PESC, Vancouver, Canada, Vol. 1, pp. 371 - 377, June, 2001 | BibTex
P. M. Santos, M. I. Simas, M. Lança, The Gate-Shifted LDD-NMOS, European Power Electronics Conf. - EPE, Lausanne, Switzerland, Vol. CDROM, pp. - - -, September, 1999 | BibTex
P. M. Santos, M. I. Simas, M. Lança, Fully CMOS Compatible Gate-Shifted LDD NMOS, IEEE Industry Application Society Annual Meeting, St Louis, United States, Vol. 3, pp. 1119 - 1123, October, 1998 | BibTex
P. M. Santos, M. I. Simas, M. Lança, New Challenges Toward Smart Power, European Power Electronics Conf. - EPE, Trondheim, Norway, Vol. 3, pp. 1 - 8, September, 1997 | BibTex
P. M. Santos, M. I. Simas, M. Lança, Smart Power in MOS Technologies – An Overview, IEEE International Symp. on Industrial Electronics - ISIE, Guimarães, Portugal, Vol. 2, pp. 371 - 376, July, 1997 | BibTex
P. M. Santos, S. Finco, M. I. Simas, M. Lança, Breakdown Voltage Improvement of Standard MOS Technologies Targeted at Smart Power, IEEE Industry Application Society Annual Meeting, Orlando, United States, Vol. 2, pp. 937 - 945, October, 1995 | BibTex
P. M. Santos, S. Finco, M. I. Simas, M. Lança, 2D Characterization and Optimization of a Basic Switching Cell Aimed at Smart Power, IEEE Industry Application Society Annual Meeting, Denver, United States, Vol. 2, pp. 1161 - 1167, October, 1994 | BibTex

Projects

Closed Projects10

Acronym	Name	Funding Agency	Start date	Ending date
AISMAD	AISMAD – Advanced Integrated Switched-Mode Audio Drivers	IT/LA	01-07-2011	01-12-2013
AME	Advanced Microelectronics Engineering	ICEP	01-10-2002	22-10-2003
Digital_PAs	Digital_PAs - Digital RF Power Amplifiers for Wireless Applications	FCT/PTDC	01-01-2009	01-06-2012
DISRUPTIVE	DISRUPTIVE - A Paradigm Shift in the Design of Analog and Mixed-Signal Nanoelectronic Circuits and Systems	FCT	01-04-2013	01-12-2016
HAICAS	Hierarchical Analog IC Automatic Synthesis	IT	01-05-2020	30-04-2022
IRFDCMOS	Integration of high-frequency dc-dc converters in RF CMOS SoC	IT/LA	01-09-2005	01-06-2008
OPERA	OPERA - Layout-Aware Analog IC Design Automation	IT/LA	01-03-2014	01-02-2016
SiGeM	Silicon Germanium MMICs for RF Front End Transceivers	IT/LA	01-10-2005	01-07-2008
SWIPA	Switching Mode Power Amplifiers for Wireless Communications	IT/LA	01-11-2008	01-11-2010
uFlexBat	Batteryless energy supply system based on flexible organic photovoltaic cells	IT/LA	01-12-2016	30-06-2019

Other Scientific Achievements

3Prototypes

P. M. Santos, B. Borges, 0,4-1.2V hybrid DC-DC converter for energy harvesting of OPV cells
P. M. Santos, B. Borges, 0,4-1.2V multilevel DC-DC converter for energy harvesting of OPV cells
P. M. Santos, 0,4-1.2V boost DC-DC converter for energy harvesting of OPV cells

Other Contributions

4Conference Committees

IEEE International Symp. on Circuits and Systems - ISCAS, Organizing Committee, 2015
IEEE Region 8 EUROCON 2011 International Conf. on Computer as a Tool joint with the Conf. on Telecommunications, Organizing Committee, 2011
IEEE Region 8 EUROCON 2011 International Conf. on Computer as a Tool joint with the Conf. on Telecommunications, Sessions Chairman, 2011
Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Organizing Committee, 2005

6Refereeing Journals

Measurement: Journal of the International Measurement Confederation
2007, 1 review(s);
Solid-State Electronics
2007, 1 review(s);
Intrnl. Journal of Power Management Electronics
2008, 1 review(s);
Intrnl. Journal of Power Electronics (IJPElec)
2008, 1 review(s);
IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
2008, 1 review(s);
Microelectronics Journal
2012, 2 review(s); 2011, 2 review(s);

7Refereeing Conferences

IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conf. - PESC
2008, 1 review(s); 2007, 1 review(s);
Conf. on Design of Circuits and Integrated Systems
2011, 1 review(s); 2008, 1 review(s); 2006, 1 review(s); 2005, 1 review(s); 2004, 1 review(s);
IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition - ECCE
2015, 1 review(s); 2011, 1 review(s); 2010, 1 review(s);
IEEE International Symp. on Industrial Electronics - ISIE
2010, 1 review(s);
IEEE Region 8 EUROCON 2011 International Conf. on Computer as a Tool joint with the Conf. on Telecommunications
2011, 1 review(s);
IEEE International Symp. on Circuits and Systems - ISCAS
2012, 1 review(s); 2011, 1 review(s);
2007, 1 review(s); 2005, 1 review(s); 2003, 1 review(s);

IT Member Profile

Pedro Santos

Scientific Achievements

As Co-supervisor

As Supervisor

As Co-supervisor

Closed Projects10