Peter Levine, PhD, PEng

Peter Levine is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. His research group develops complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) integrated circuits (ICs) that translate the chemical world of biology to the digital world. By combining standard CMOS analog/mixed-signal ICs with novel structures, materials, or devices, he and his team are developing advanced CMOS imagers and biosensors for a wide range of life-science and biosensing applications.

• CMOS analog/mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs)
• CMOS electrochemical biosensors
• CMOS imagers (visible, IR, and X-ray)

• 2009, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, U.S.A.
• 2004, M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering, McGill University, Canada
• 2002, B.Eng. in Computer Engineering, McGill University, Canada

• 2016 Teledyne DALSA Componentware/CAD Award, CMC Texpo
• 2015 Best Paper Award, IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS)
• 2014 Teledyne DALSA Componentware/CAD Award, CMC Texpo
• 2005 Intel Foundation Ph.D. Fellowship

• ECE 240 - Electronic Circuits 1
  • Taught in 2019, 2020, 2021
• ECE 298 - Instrumentation and Prototyping Laboratory
  • Taught in 2022
• ECE 340 - Electronic Circuits 2
  • Taught in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
• ECE 444 - Integrated Analog Electronics
  • Taught in 2024
• ECE 636 - Advanced Analog Integrated Circuits
  • Taught in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023

* Only courses taught in the past 5 years are displayed.

• R. Mohammadi, P. M. Levine, and K. S. Karim, "A monolithic amorphous-selenium/CMOS small-pixel-effect-enhanced X-ray-energy-discriminating quantum-counting pixel for biomedical imaging," Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits (VLSI Symposium), Kyoto, Japan, June 2023, pp. C15-3.1-C15-3.2.
• R. Mohammadi, P. M. Levine, and K. S. Karim, "Experimental demonstration of the small pixel effect in an amorphous photoconductor using a monolithic spectral single photon counting capable CMOS-integrated amorphous-selenium sensor," IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), San Francisco, CA, Dec. 2022, pp. 467-470.
• A. Krishnan and P. M. Levine, "CMOS ring-oscillator-based electrochemical capacitance imager with frequency-division-multiplexed readout," IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Austin, Texas, May 2022, pp. 1082-1086.
• A. El-Falou, A. Camlica, R. Mohammadi, P. M. Levine, and K. S. Karim, "A monolithic amorphous-selenium/CMOS single-photon-counting X-ray detector," IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 68, no. 4, pp. 1746-1752, Apr. 2021.
• Y. Z. Li, M. Hamid, C. C. Scott, R. Lohr, A. El-Falou, P. M. Levine, and K. S. Karim, “A monolithic amorphous-selenium/CMOS visible-light imager with sub-9-um pixel pitch and extended full-well capacity,” IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 339-346, Jan. 2021.
• A. Camlica, M. Z. Kabir, J. Liang, P. M. Levine, D.L. Lee, and K. S. Karim, "Use of pulse-height spectroscopy to characterize the hole conduction mechanism of a polyimide blocking layer used in amorphous-selenium radiation detectors," IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 67, no. 2, pp. 633-639, Feb. 2020.
• A. Camlica*, A. El-Falou*, R. Mohammadi, P. M. Levine, and K. S. Karim, "CMOS-integrated single-photon-counting X-ray detector using an amorphous-selenium photoconductor with 11x11-um2 pixels," Proceedings of the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), San Francisco, CA, Dec. 2018, pp. 32.5.1-32.5.4. (*equal contribution)
• M. J. Chow, B. Sun, Y. He, M. M. Payne, J. E. Anthony, Y. Li, P. M. Levine, and W. S. Wong, "Transistor sizing for bias-stress instability compensation in inkjet-printed organic complementary inverters," IEEE Electron Device Letters, vol. 37, no. 11, pp. 1438-1441, Nov. 2016.
• H. Huang, J. Xia, A. Islam, E. Ng, P. M. Levine, and S. Boumaiza, "Digitally assisted analog/RF predistorter with a small-signal-assisted parameter identification algorithm," IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 63, no. 12, pp. 4297-4305, Dec. 2015.
• C. Scott*, A. Parsafar*, A. El-Falou, P. M. Levine, and K. S. Karim, "High dose efficiency, ultra-high resolution amorphous selenium/CMOS hybrid digital X-ray imager," Proceedings of the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), Washington, DC, Dec. 2015, pp. 30.6.1-30.6.4. (*equal contribution)
• A. Ali, N. Pal, and P. M. Levine, "CMOS impedance spectroscopy sensor array with synchronous voltage-to-frequency converters," Proceedings of the IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), Fort Collins, CO, Aug. 2015, pp. 1-4.
• A. Parsafar, C. C. Scott, A. El-Falou, P. M. Levine, and K. S. Karim, "Direct-conversion CMOS X-ray imager with 5.6 um x 6.25 um pixels," IEEE Electron Device Letters, vol. 36, no. 5, pp. 481-483, May 2015.
• H. Huang, A. Islam, J. Xia, P. Levine, and S. Boumaiza, "Linear filter assisted envelope memory polynomial for analog/radio frequency predistortion of power amplifiers," Proceedings of the IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS), Phoenix, AZ, May 2015, pp. 1-3.
• M. M. R. Ibrahim and P. M. Levine, "CMOS transimpedance amplifier for biosensor signal acquisition," Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Melbourne, Australia, June 2014, pp. 25-28.
• D. L. Bellin, H. Sakhtah, J. K. Rosenstein, P. M. Levine, J. Thimot, K. Emmett, L. E. P. Dietrich, and K. L. Shepard, "Integrated circuit-based electrochemical sensor for spatially resolved detection of redox-active metabolites in biofilms," Nature Communications, vol. 5, no. 3256, Feb. 10, 2014, doi: 10.1038/ncomms4256.
• K. A. Jensen, V. C. Gaudet, and P. M. Levine, "Noise analysis and measurement of integrator-based sensor interface circuits for fluorescence detection in lab-on-a-chip applications," Proceedings of the International Conference on Noise and Fluctuations (ICNF), Montpellier, France, 2013, doi: 10.1109/ICNF.2013.6578905.
• C. O'Sullivan, P. M. Levine, and S. Garg, "Vertically-addressed test structures (VATS) for 3D IC variability and stress measurements," Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), Santa Clara, CA, Mar. 2013, pp. 96-103.
• P. M. Levine, P. Gong, R. Levicky, and K. L. Shepard, "Multiplexed, real-time electrochemical DNA detection using an active CMOS biosensor array with integrated sensor electronics," Biosensors and Bioelectronics, vol. 24, no. 7, pp. 1995-2001, Mar. 2009.
• P. M. Levine, P. Gong, R. Levicky, and K. L. Shepard, "Active CMOS sensor array for electrochemical biomolecular detection," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 43, no. 8, pp. 1859-1871, Aug. 2008.

• P. M. Levine, K. L. Shepard, P. Gong, and R. Levicky, “Active CMOS sensor array for electrochemical biomolecular detection,” U.S. Patent No. 10,718,732, granted July 2020.
• K. L. Johnson, J. Jordan, P. M. Levine, and M. J. Milgrew, “Chemical detection device having multiple flow channels,” U.S. Patent No. 8,983,783, granted Mar. 17, 2015 (assigned to Life Tech. Corp.).
• P. Levine, M. Milgrew, and T. Rearick, “Capacitive charge pump,” U.S. Patent No. 8,823,380, granted Sept. 2, 2014 (assigned to Life Tech. Corp.).
• P. Levine, “Array column integrator,” U.S. Patent No. 8,432,149, granted Apr. 30, 2013 (assigned to Life Tech. Corp.).