Electronic & Computer Engineering PhD Students won in Paper Contest of IEEE Conference
Two PhD students from Electronic and Computer Engineering won the First and Third Prizes respectively in the Student Paper Contest of 2010 IEEE International Conference on Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits (EDSSC 2010). The First Prize recipient, Jing Xiaocheng, won with his paper “Soft-Start Circuit with Duty Ratio Controlled Voltage Clamping and Adaptive Sizing Technique for Integrated DC-DC Converters”. He is supervised by Prof Philip Mok. The Third Prize recipient, Zhan Chenchang, had his paper on “Output-Capacitor-Free Adaptively Biased Low-Dropout Regulators”. His supervisor is Prof Wing Hung Ki. The conference was held in Hong Kong in December 2010.
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