Journals
Refereed Conference Publications
Book Chapters

1. D. G. Chen, F. Tang, M-K Law, and A. Bermak, "A 12 pJ/pixel Analog-to-Information Converter based 816 x 640 CMOS Image Sensor," .IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol 49, Issue 5, pp.1210-1222, May 2014.
   
   
2. Xiaojin Zhao, Xiaofang Pan, Xiaolei Fan, Ping Xu, Amine Bermak and Vladimir G. Chigrinov, "Patterned dual-layer achromatic micro-quarter-wave-retarder array for active polarization imaging", Optics Express, vol. 22, no. 7, pp. 8024-8034, 2014.
   
   
3. Fang Tang,D. Chen, B. Wang, Amine Bernak, S.Mohamad "CMOS On-Chip Stable True-Random ID Generation Using Antenna Effect", IEEE Electron Device Letters, Vol. 35, pp. 54-56, 2014.
   
   
4. Bo Wang, Man Kay Law, Amine Bermak, and Howard C. Luong, "A Passive RFID Tag Embedded Temperature Sensor with Improved Process Spreads Immunity for a -30oC to 60oC Sensing Range," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I, Issue 2, Vol. 61, pp 337-346, 2014.
   
   
5. Xiaoxiao Zhang, Farid Boussaid*, Amine Bermak, "A 32x32-bit Multi-precision Razor-based Dynamic Voltage Scaling Multiplier with Operands Scheduler," IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems, Vol. 22, Issue 4, pp 759-770, April 2014.
   
   
6. Fang Tang, Amine Bermak, Abbes Amira, Mohieddine Amor Benammar, Debiao He, Xiaojin Zhao, "Two Steps Single Slope/SAR ADC With Error Correction For CMOS Image Sensor", The Scientific World Journal, Vol. 2014, Article ID 861278, pp. 1-6, 2014.
   
   
7. Fang Tang, Amine Bermak, Abbes Amira, Mohieddine Amor Benammar, "Continous-Time Sigma Delta ADC With Implicit Variable Gain Amplifier For CMOS Image Sensor", The Scientific World Journal, Vol. 2014, Article ID 208540, pp. 1-8, 2014.
   
   
8. Xiaofang Pan, Xi Liu, Amine Bermark, Zhiyong Fan, "Self-gating Effect Induced Large Performance Improvement of ZnO Nanocomb Gas Sensors", ACS Nano, 7 (2013) 9318-9324.
   
   
9. M. Assaad, I. Yohannes and A. Bermak "Two-Stage Interface Circuit Design for a 32-Color Resolution Optical Sensor", IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol. 13, Issue 2, pp. 610-617, February 2013.
   
   
10. Maher Assaad, Mohammed H. Alser and Amine Bermak, "Design and Characterization of Low Power and Low Noise Truly All-Digital Clock and Data Recovery Circuit for SERDES Devices", Journal of Low Power Electronics, Volume 9, Number 1, pp. 63-72(10), April 2013.
    
    
11. Fang Tang, Denis Chen, Amine Bermak, "Low-Power CMOS Image Sensor Based on Column-Parallel Single-Slope/SAR Quantization Scheme," IEEE Transaction on Electron Devices, vol. 60, no. 8, pp. 2561-2566, Aug. 2013.
    
    
12. Denis Chen, Fang Tang, Amine Bermak, "A Low-power Pilot-DAC based Column Parallel 8b SAR ADC with Forward Error Correction for CMOS Image Sensors," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I, Regular Papers, vol.60, no.10, pp.2572-2583, Oct. 2013.
    
    
13. Jaber Al Yamani, Farid Boussaid, Amine Bermak and Dominique Martinez "Glomerular latency coding in artificial olfaction" Frontiers in Neuromorphic Engineering, January 2012.
    
    
14. Fang Tang, Amine Bermak, Zhouye Gu, "Low power dynamic logic circuit design using a pseudo dynamic buffer", Integration, the VLSI Journal , Volume 45, Issue 4, September 2012, Pages 395-404
    
    
15. Al-Yamani, J., Boussaid, F., Bermak, A., Martinez, D., "Glomerular latency coding in artificial olfaction", Frontiers in Neuroengineering , Issue JANUARY, 2012, Article Number 18
    
    
16. Vladimir G. Chigrinov, Hoi Sing Kwok, Andrew Poon, Amine Bermak, "Recent Liquid Crystal Photonics Research in HKUST", Photonics Letters of Poland , Vol 3, No 1.
    
    
17. D. G. Chen, F. Tang, and A. Bermak, "A Low-Power Pilot-DAC Based Column Parallel 8b SAR ADC With Forward Error Correction for CMOS Image Sensors,", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, accepted in 2012.
    
    
18. K. T. Ng, F. Boussaid and A. Bermak, "A robust CMOS single-chip gas recognition circuit for metal oxide gas sensor arrays", IEEE Transaction on Circuits and Systems I, vol. 58, no. 7, pp. 1569-1580, 2011.
    
    
19. X. Zhao, F. Boussaid, A. Bermak, and V. G. Chigrinov, "High-resolution thin 'guest-host' micropolarizer arrays for visible imaging polarimetry", Optics Express, vol. 19, no. 6, pp. 5565-5573, 2011.
    
    
20. M. K. Law, C. Shi and A. Bermak, "A Low Power Energy Harvesting Logarithmic CMOS Image Sensor with Reconfigurable Resolution using Two-Level Quantization Scheme", IEEE Transaction on Circuits and Systems II, vol. 58, no. 2, pp. 80-84, 2011.
    
    
21. Q. Li and A. Bermak, "A Low-Power Hardware-Friendly Binary Decision Tree Classifier for Gas Identification", Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 45-58, 2011.
    
    
22. C. Shi, M. K. Law and A. Bermak, "A Novel Asynchronous Pixel for Energy Harvesting CMOS Image Sensor", IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 118-129, 2011.
    
    
23. D. G. Chen, D. Matolin, A. Bermak and C. Posch, "Pulse Modulation Imaging - Review and Performance Analysis", IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 64-82, 2011.
    
    
24. H. T. Chen, K. T. Ng, A. Bermak, M. K. Law and D. Martinez, "Spike latency coding in a biologically inspired micro-electronic nose", IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 160-168, 2011.
    
    
25. X. Zhang, S. Leomant, K. L. Lau and A. Bermak, "A Compact Digital Pixel Sensor (DPS) Using 2T-DRAM", Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 77-96, 2011.
    
    
26. S. Chen, A. Bermak, and Y. Wang, "A CMOS Image Sensor with on Chip Image Compression based on Predictive Boundary Adaptation and Memoryless QTD Algorithm", IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 538-547, 2011.
    
    
27. Y. Cao and A. Bermak, "An Analog Implementation of Gamma Correction for the Logarithmic CMOS Image Sensor," Integration, VLSI Journal, Elseiver, 2010 (Under review).
    
    
28. M. Zhang and A. Bermak, "Hardware Friendly Image Compression using Adaptive Differential Quantization," Integration, VLSI Journal, Elseiver, 2010 (Under review).
    
    
29. X. Zhao, A. Bermak, F. Boussaid and V. G. Chigrinov, "Liquid-crystal micropolarimeter array for full Stokes polarization imaging in visible spectrum," Optics Express, vol. 18, no. 17, pp. 17776-17787, 2010.
    
    
30. J. Yin, J. Yi, M. K. Law, Y. Ling, M. C. Lee, K. P. Ng, B. Gao, H. C. Luong, A. Bermak, M. Chan, W. H. Ki, C. Y. Tsui and M. Yuen, "A system-on-chip EPC Gen-2 passive UHF RFID tag with embedded temperature sensor", IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 45, no. 11, pp. 2404-2420, 2010.
    
    
31. F. Tang and A. Bermak, "A 4T Low-Power Linear-Output Current-Mediated CMOS Imager", IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems, vol. 18, no. 10, (10 pages), 2010.
    
    
32. M. Zhang and A. Bermak, "CMOS Image Sensor with On-Chip Image Compression - A Review and Performance Analysis", Journal of Sensors, vol. 2010, 920693, 2010.
    
    
33. M. Zhang and A. Bermak, "Quadrant Based On-line Spatial and Temporal Compressive Acquisition for CMOS Image Sensor", IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems, vol. 18, no. 10, (10 pages), 2010.
    
    
34. M. K. Law and A. Bermak, "High Voltage Generation with Stacked Photodiodes in Standard CMOS Process", IEEE Electron Device Letters, vol. 31, no. 12, pp. 1425-1427, 2010.
    
    
35. M. K. Law, A. Bermak and H. C. Luong, "A Sub-uW Embedded CMOS Temperature Sensor for RFID Food Monitoring Application", IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 45, no. 6, pp.1246-1255, 2010.
    
    
36. M. Zhang and A. Bermak, "Compressive Acquisition CMOS Image Sensor --From Algorithmic Solution to Hardware Implementation", IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems, vol. 18, no. 3, pp.490-500, 2010.
    
    
37. X. Zhao, A. Bermak, F. Boussaid, T. Du and V. G. Chigrinov, "High-resolution photo-aligned liquid-crystal micropolarizer array for polarization imaging in visible spectrum," Optics Letters, vol. 34, no. 23, pp. 3619-3621, 2009.
    
    
38. M. K. Law and A. Bermak, "A 405nW CMOS Temperature Sensor based on Linear MOS Operation", IEEE Transactions Circuits and Systems II (TCAS-II), vol. 56, no. 12, pp. 891-895, 2009.
    
    
39. X. Zhao, F. Boussaid, A. Bermak and V. G. Chigrinov, "Thin Photo-Patterned Micropolarizer Array for CMOS Image Sensors," IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 21, no. 12, pp. 805-807, 2009.
    
    
40. A. B. Far, F. Flitti, B. Guo, and A. Bermak, "A Bio-inspired Pattern recognition System for tin oxide gas sensor applications," IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 9, no. 6, pp.713-722, 2009.
    
    
41. X. Li, M. Zhang, Z. Wang, A. Bermak, "A Smart Image Sensor Integrating Low Complexity Image Processing for Wireless Endoscope Capsule", Tsinghua Science and Technology Journal, vol. 14, no. 5, pp. 586-592, 2009.
    
    
42. F. Flitti, B. Guo, A. B. Far and A. Bermak, "A Robust and Low Complexity Gas recognition Technique for on-Chip Tin-Oxide Gas Sensor Array," Journal of Sensors, vol. 2008, pp. 1-6, 2008.
    
    
43. S. Chandrasekaran, A. Amira A. Bermak and M. Shi, "An Efficient VLSI Architecture and FPGA Implementation of the Finite Ridgelet Transform" Journal of Real-Time Image Processing, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 183-193, 2008.
    
    
44. M. Shi, A. Bermak, S. Chandrasekaran and A. Amira, "A Committee Machine gas identification System Based on Dynamically Reconfigurable FPGA," IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 403-414, 2008.
    
    
45. B. Guo, A. Bermak, P. C. H. Chan and G. Yan, "Characterization of Integrated Tin Oxide Gas Sensors with Metal Additives and Ion Implantations," IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 8, no. 8, pp. 1397-1398, 2008.
    
    
46. S. Chen, F. Boussaid and A. Bermak, "Robust Intermediate Read-Out for Deep Submicron Technology CMOS Image Sensors," IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 286-294, 2008.
    
    
47. X. Zhao, F. Boussaid and A. Bermak, "Characterization of a 0.18 mu m CMOS Color Processing Scheme for Skin Detection," IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 7, no. 11, pp. 1471-1474, 2007.
    
    
48. S. Chen and A. Bermak, "Arbitrated Time-To-First Spike CMOS Image Sensor with On-Chip Histogram Equalization," IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 346-357, 2007.
    
    
49. S. Chen and A. Bermak, W. Yan and D. Martinez, "Adaptative-Quantization Digital Image Sensor for Low-Power, Real-Time Image Compression," IEEE Transactions Circuits and Systems I (TCAS-I), vol.54, Issue1,pp.13-25,Jan.2007.
    
    
50. B. Guo, A. Bermak, G. Yan and P. C.H. Chan, "An Integrated Surface Micromachined Convex Microhotplate Structure for Tin Oxide Gas Sensor Array," IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 7, no. 12,pp. 1720-1726, 2007.
    
    
51. B. Guo, A. Bermak, G. Yan and P. C. H. Chan, "A Monolithically integrated 4x4 Tin Oxide Gas Sensor Array with on-chip multiplexing and Differential Readout Circuits," Solid-State Electronics, vol. 51, no.1, pp. 69-76, 2007.
    
    
52. A. Bermak and A. Kitchen, "A Novel Adaptive Logarithmic Digital Pixel Sensor," IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 18, no. 20, pp. 2147-2149, 2006.
    
    
53. M. Shi and A. Bermak, "An Efficient Digital VLSI Implementation of Gaussian Mixture Models-based classifier," IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems, vol. 14, no. 9, pp. 962-974, 2006.
    
    
54. S. Chen, A. Bermak and F. Boussaid, "A Compact Reconfigurable Counter Memory for Spiking Pixels," IEEE Electron Device Letters, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 255-257, 2006.
    
    
55. A. Bermak and Y. F. Yung, "A DPS Array with programmable Resolution and reconfigurable Conversion Time," IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 15-22, 2006.
    
    
56. M. Shi, A. Bermak, S. B-Belhouari and P. Chan, "Gas Identification based on a committee machine for Microelectronics gas sensors," IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurements, vol. 55, no. 5, pp. 1786-1793, 2006.
    
    
57. A. Bermak and S. B-Belhouari, "Bayesian Learning using Gaussian Process for Gas Identification," IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurements, vol. 55, no. 3, pp. 787-792, 2006.
    
    
58. A. Kitchen, A. Bermak and A. Bouzerdoum, "A DPS Array with Programmable Dynamic Range," IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 52, no. 12, pp. 2591-2601, 2005.
    
    
59. S. B-Belhouari, A. Bermak, M. Shi and P. Chan, "Fast and Robust Gas Identification System Using an Integrated Gas Sensor Technology and Gaussian Mixture Models," IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 5, no. 6, pp. 1433-1444, 2005.
    
    
60. S. B-Belhouari and A. Bermak, "Gas Identification using density models," Pattern Recognition Letters, Elsevier Science Publisher, vol. 26, no. 6, pp. 699-706, 2005.
    
    
61. A. Bermak, "VLSI Implementation of a neuromorphic spiking pixel and investigation of various focal-plane excitation schemes," International Journal of Robotics and Automation, Special Issue on Neuromorphic Systems, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 197-205, 2004.
    
    
62. A. Kitchen, A. Bermak and A. Bouzerdoum, "A PWM digital pixel sensor based on asynchronous self-resetting scheme," IEEE Electron Device Letters, vol. 25, no. 7, pp. 471-473, 2004.
    
    
63. F. Boussaid, A. Bermak and A. Bouzerdoum, "An Ultra-Low power operating technique for Mega-pixels current-mediated CMOS imagers," IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 46-53, 2004. (2004 IEEE Chester Sall best paper Award).
    
    
64. S. B-Belhouari and A. Bermak, "Gaussian Process for Nonstationary Time series Prediction," Journal of Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Elsevier Science Publisher, vol. 47, pp. 705-712, 2004.
    
    
65. A. Bermak and D. Martinez, "A Compact 3D VLSI Classifier using Threshold Network Ensembles," IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, vol. 14, no. 5, pp.1097-1109, 2003.
    
    
66. A. Bermak, A. Bouzerdoum and K. Eshraghian, "A Vision Sensor with On-Pixel ADC and in-built Light Adaptation Mechanism," Microelectronics Journal, vol. 33, no. 12 pp. 1091-1096, 2002.
    
    
67. A. Bermak, F. Boussaid and A. Bouzerdoum, "A CMOS Imager with On-Chip Processing for Image Enhancement and Edge Detection," Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, IEEE Publishing, vol. 26, no. 3-4, pp.153-157, 2001.
    
    
68. A. Bermak, D. Martinez and J. L. Noullet, "A High-Density 16/8/4-bit configurable multiplier," IEE proceedings -Circuits, Devices and Systems, vol. 144, no. 5, pp. 272-276, 1997.