Book chapters or sections

• S. M. Lanzisera and K. Pister, "RF ranging methods and performance limits for sensor localization," in Localization Algorithms and Strategies for Wireless Sensor Networks: Monitoring and Surveillance Techniques for Target Tracking, G. Mao and B. Fidan, Eds., Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2008.
• M. A. Horton, A. Broad, M. Grimmer, K. Pister, S. S. Sastry, T. Rosenbury, and N. A. Whitaker, "Deployment ready multimode micropower wireless sensor networks for intrusion detection, classification, and tracking," in Sensors, and Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I): Technologies for Homeland Defense and Law Enforcement, E. M. Carapezza, Ed., Proceeding of SPIE, Vol. 4708, Bellingham, WA: SPIE -- Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, 2002, pp. 290-295.

Articles in journals or magazines

• J. V. Clark and K. Pister, "Modeling, simulation, and verification of an advanced micromirror using SUGAR," J. Microelectromechanical Systems, vol. 16, no. 6, pp. 1524-1536, Dec. 2007.
• B. W. Cook, A. Berny, A. Molnar, S. Lanzisera, and K. Pister, "Low-power 2.4-GHz transceiver with passive RX front-end and 400-mV supply," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 41, no. 12, pp. 2757-2766, Dec. 2006.
• R. Conant and K. Pister, "Say, you want a revolution?," InTech, vol. 53, no. 11, pp. 22-28, Nov. 2006.
• B. W. Cook, S. M. Lanzisera, and K. Pister, "SoC issues for RF smart dust (Invited Paper)," Proc. IEEE, vol. 94, no. 6, pp. 1177-1196, June 2006.
• L. Zhou, J. M. Kahn, and K. Pister, "Scanning micromirrors fabricated by an SOI/SOI wafer-bonding process," J. Microelectromechanical Systems, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 24-32, Feb. 2006.
• B. S. Leibowitz, B. Boser, and K. Pister, "A 256-element CMOS imaging receiver for free-space optical communication," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 40, no. 9, pp. 1948-1956, Sep. 2005.
• M. D. Scott, B. Boser, and K. Pister, "An ultralow-energy ADC for Smart Dust," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 38, no. 7, pp. 1123-1129, July 2003.
• L. Doherty, B. A. Warneke, B. Boser, and K. Pister, "Energy and performance considerations for smart dust," Intl. J. Parallel and Distributed Systems & Networks, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 121-133, March 2001.
• B. Warneke, M. Last, B. Liebowitz, and K. Pister, "Smart Dust: Communicating with a cubic-millimeter computer," Computer, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 44-51, Jan. 2001.
• J. M. Kahn, R. H. Katz, and K. Pister, "Emerging challenges: Mobile networking for "Smart Dust"," J. Communications and Networks, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 188-196, Sep. 2000.
• K. Pister, M. W. Judy, S. R. Burgett, and R. S. Fearing, "Microfabricated hinges," Sensors and Actuators A (Physical), vol. A33, no. 3, pp. 249-256, June 1992.
• R. M. Murray, D. C. Deno, K. Pister, and S. S. Sastry, "Control primitives for robot systems," IEEE Trans. Systems, Man and Cybernetics, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 183-193, Jan. 1992.

Articles in conference proceedings

• S. M. Lanzisera and K. Pister, "Burst mode two-way ranging with Cramer-Rao bound noise performance," in Proc. 2008 IEEE Global Communications Conf. (GLOBECOM '08), Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2008.
• S. M. Lanzisera and K. Pister, "Theoretical and practical limits to sensitivity in IEEE 802.15.4 receivers," in Proc. 14th IEEE Intl. Conf. on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS 2007), Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2007, pp. 1344-1347.
• S. Venkatraman, J. D. Long, K. Pister, and J. M. Carmena, "Wireless inertial sensors for monitoring animal behavior," in Proc. 29th Annual Intl. Conf. of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS 2007), Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2007, pp. 378-381.
• S. Bergbreiter and K. Pister, "Design of an autonomous jumping microrobot," in Proc. 2007 IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA '07), Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2007, pp. 447453.
• S. Bergbreiter and K. Pister, "Elastomer-based micromechanical energy storage system," in Proc. ASME 2006 Intl. Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE '06), New York, NY: ASME Press, 2006, pp. 539-545.
• A. M. Mehta and K. Pister, "Flexure-based two degree-of-freedom legs for walking microrobots," in Proc. ASME 2006 Intl. Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE '06), New York, NY: ASME Press, 2006, pp. 441-450.
• S. Venkatraman, M. E. Last, and K. Pister, "Methods and characterization of pick and place microassembly," in Proc. ASME 2006 Intl. Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE '06), New York, NY: ASME Press, 2006, pp. 199-208.
• M. E. Last, S. Venkatraman, and K. Pister, "A microassembled large-deflection tip/tilt micromirror from a single-mask DRIE process," in Hilton Head 2006 Technical Digest: A Solid State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Workshop, San Diego, CA: Transducer Research Foundation, Inc., 2006, pp. 4 pg.
• S. M. Lanzisera, D. T. Lin, and K. Pister, "RF time of flight ranging for wireless sensor network localization," in Proc.4th Intl. Workshop on Intelligent Solutions in Embedded Systems (WISES 2006), W. Elmenreich, G. Novakand, and R. E. D. Seepold, Eds., Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2006, pp. 12 pg.
• B. W. Cook, A. D. Berny, A. Molnar, S. Lanzisera, and K. Pister, "An ultra-low-power 2.4GHz RF transceiver for wireless sensor networks in 130nm CMOS with 400mV supply and an integrated passive RX front-end," in 2006 IEEE Intl. Solid-State Circuits Conf. (ISSCC '06). Digest of Technical Papers, L. C. Fujino, Ed., Vol. 49, Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2006, pp. 370-371.
• M. Last, B. S. Leibowitz, B. Cagdaser, A. Jog, L. Zhou, B. Boser, and K. Pister, "Toward a wireless optical communication link between two small unmanned aerial vehicles," in Proc. 2003 IEEE Intl. Symp. on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2003), Vol. 3, Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2003, pp. 930-933.
• S. Hollar, A. Flynn, S. Bellew, and K. Pister, "Solar powered 10 mg silicon robot," in Proc. IEEE 16th Annual Intl. Conf. on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems, Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, 2003, pp. 706-711.
• B. A. Warneke, M. D. Scott, B. S. Leibowitz, L. Zhou, C. L. Bellew, J. A. Chediak, J. M. Kahn, B. Boser, and K. Pister, "An autonomous 16 mm3 solar-powered node for distributed wireless sensor networks," in Proc. 2002 1st Intl. Conf. on Sensors, Vol. 2, Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2002, pp. 1510-1515.
• J. V. Clark, D. Bindel, W. Kao, E. Zhu, A. Kuo, N. Zhou, J. Nie, J. Demmel, Z. Bai, S. Govindjee, K. Pister, M. Gu, and A. Agogino, "Addressing the needs of complex MEMS design," in Proc. 15th IEEE Intl. Conf. on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems, Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2002, pp. 204-209.
• B. S. Leibowitz, B. Boser, and K. Pister, "CMOS "smart pixel" for free-space optical communication," in Proc. SPIE: Sensors and Camera Systems for Scientific, Industrial, and Digital Photography Applications II, M. M. Blouke, J. Canosa, and N. Sampat, Eds., Vol. 4306, Bellingham, WA: SPIE, 2001, pp. 308-318.
• L. Doherty, K. Pister, and L. El Ghaoui, "Convex position estimation in wireless sensor networks," in Proc. 20th Annual Joint Conf. of the IEEE Computer and Communications Society (INFOCOM 2001), Vol. 3, Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2001, pp. 1655-1663.
• L. Schenato, W. Wu, L. El Ghaoui, and K. Pister, "Process variation analysis for MEMS design," in Proc. SPIE: Smart Electronics and MEMS II, D. Abbott, V. K. Varadan, and K. F. Boehringer, Eds., Vol. 4236, Bellingham, WA: SPIE, 2001, pp. 264-271.
• J. M. Kahn, R. H. Katz, and K. Pister, "Next century challenges: Mobile networking for "Smart Dust" (Best Paper Award)," in Proc. 5th Annual ACM/IEEE Intl. Conf. on Mobile Computing and Networking (MOBICOM '99), New York, NY: The Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 1999, pp. 271-278.
• P. B. Chu, J. T. Chen, R. Yeh, G. Lin, J. C. P. Huang, B. A. Warneke, and K. Pister, "Controlled pulse-etching with xenon difluoride," in TRANSDUCERS '97 Digest of Technical Papers, Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, 1997, pp. 665-668.
• D. C. Deno, R. M. Murray, K. Pister, and S. S. Sastry, "Fingerlike biomechanical robots," in Proc. 1992 IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA '92), Vol. 1, Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society, 1992, pp. 566-572.
• D. C. Deno, R. M. Murray, K. Pister, and S. S. Sastry, "Control primitives for robot systems," in Proc. 1990 IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA '90), Vol. 3, Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society, 1990, pp. 1866-1871.

Technical Reports

• M. Chiri, S. Bergbreiter, and K. Pister, "Joystick Control for TinyOS Robot," EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Tech. Rep. UCB/ERL M02/24, Aug. 2002.
• L. Schenato, W. Wu, L. El Ghaoui, and K. Pister, "Process Variation Analysis for MEMS Design," EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Tech. Rep. UCB/ERL M00/44, Aug. 2000.
• V. Hsu, J. M. Kahn, and K. Pister, "Wireless Communications for Smart Dust," EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Tech. Rep. UCB/ERL M98/2, Jan. 1998.
• D. Deno, R. Murray, K. Pister, and S. S. Sastry, "Finger-Like Biomechanical Robots," EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Tech. Rep. UCB/ERL M92/12, Feb. 1992.
• D. Deno, R. Murray, K. Pister, and S. S. Sastry, "Control Primitives for Robot Systems," EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Tech. Rep. UCB/ERL M90/39, May 1990.

Software

• A. Agogino, D. Bindel, J. Clark, J. Demmel, S. Govindjee, M. Gu, Z. Bai, K. Pister, C. H. Séquin, N. Zhou, and J. Nie, "SUGAR -- Simulation tool for micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS)," 2002.

Patents

• Y. Zats, K. Pister, W. A. Lindsay, and L. R. Doherty, "Self managing a low power network," U.S. Patent 8,532,002. Sep. 2013.
• K. Pister, "Digraph based mesh communication network," U.S. Patent 8,194,655. June 2012.
• K. Pister, "Digraph network timing synchronization," U.S. Patent 8,059,629. Nov. 2011.
• K. Pister and R. M. Shear, "Digraph network subnetworks," U.S. Patent 7,961,664. June 2011.
• K. Pister, Y. S. Zats, R. A. Conant, and N. Treuhaft, "Low-powered autonomous radio node with temperature sensor and crystal oscillator," U.S. Patent 7,881,239. Feb. 2011.
• K. Pister and R. M. Shear, "Digraph network superframes," U.S. Patent 7,873,043. Jan. 2011.
• K. Pister, Y. S. Zats, R. Conant, and N. Treuhaft, "Low-power autonomous node for mesh communication network," U.S. Patent 7,529,217. May 2009.
• K. Pister and R. M. Shear, "Digraph network superframes," U.S. Patent 7,420,980. Sep. 2008.
• K. S. J. Pister, Y. S. Zats, R. Conant, and N. Treuhaft, "Low-powered autonomous radio node with temperature sensor and crystal," U.S. Patent Application. May 2005.
• K. S. J. Pister, Y. S. Zats, R. Conant, and N. Treuhaft, "Low-power autonomous node for mesh communication network," U.S. Patent Application. Oct. 2004.
• K. S. J. Pister, "Digraph based mesh communication network," U.S. Patent Application. Aug. 2004.
• L. Muller, K. E. Arnett, L. Fabiny, and K. S. J. Pister, "Grating fabrication process using combined crystalline-dependent and crystalline-independent etching," U.S. Patent 6,517,734. Feb. 2003.
• K. S. J. Pister, "Etchants for use in micromachining of CMOS microaccelerometers and microelectromechanical devices and method of making the same," U.S. Patent 5,726,480. March 1998.
• W. J. Kaiser, K. S. J. Pister, O. M. Stafsudd, P. R. Nelson, and A. Burstein, "CMOS integrated microsensor with a precision measurement circuit," U.S. Patent 5,659,195. Aug. 1997.

Ph.D. Theses

• O. Chen, "Hydrogel Actuated Carbon Fiber Microelectrode Array," M. Maharbiz, K. Pister, and M. DeWeese, Eds., EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Tech. Rep. UCB/EECS-2023-59, May 2023.
• N. Deka, V. Subramanian, and K. Pister, "Design, Development and Applications of Portable Field Emission Devices," EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Tech. Rep. UCB/EECS-2021-224, Dec. 2021.
• B. Kilberg, "Actuation and Localization of Resource-Constrained Autonomous Microrobotic Systems," K. Pister, Ed., EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Tech. Rep. UCB/EECS-2021-20, May 2021.
• F. Maksimovic, "Monolithic Wireless Transceiver Design," K. Pister and A. Niknejad, Eds., EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Tech. Rep. UCB/EECS-2020-33, May 2020.
• K. Weekly, "Applied Estimation of Mobile Environments," A. Bayen, K. Pister, C. J. Spanos, and S. Glaser, Eds., EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Tech. Rep. UCB/EECS-2014-32, April 2014.
• R. Y. Su and K. Pister, "Towards a Synthesizable Standard-Cell Radio," EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Tech. Rep. UCB/EECS-2012-219, Dec. 2012.
• S. M. Lanzisera and K. Pister, "RF Ranging for Location Awareness," EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Tech. Rep. UCB/EECS-2009-69, May 2009.
• K. S. Pister, "Hinged Polysilicon Structures with Integrated CMOS Thin Film Transistors," 1992.

Masters Reports

• Y. Lin, "Towards a TMS- and MRI- Compatible Wireless EEG System," A. Niknejad and K. Pister, Eds., 2025.
• F. Toddywala, "Robust and Unsupervised Interest Point Detection for Efficient Visual Odometry," K. Pister, Ed., EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Tech. Rep. UCB/EECS-2020-64, May 2020.
• Y. Li, "Modeling and Control of Resonant Switched Capacitor DC-DC Converter," S. R. Sanders and K. Pister, Eds., EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Tech. Rep. UCB/EECS-2018-6, March 2018.
• L. Ibarra, M. Maharbiz, and K. Pister, "Implantable Beta Radiation Detecting Active Pixel Sensor Design For Prostate Cancer Surveillance," EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Tech. Rep. UCB/EECS-2017-177, Dec. 2017.
• C. Schindler, T. Watteyne, X. Vilajosana, and K. Pister, "Implementation and Characterization of a Multi-hop 6TiSCH Network for Experimental Feedback Control of an Inverted Pendulum," EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Tech. Rep. UCB/EECS-2017-26, May 2017.
• A. Ellaboudy, "Outlet Power Monitoring Using Wireless Sensor Networks," K. Pister, Ed., EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Tech. Rep. UCB/EECS-2012-152, June 2012.
• T. Massey and K. Pister, "Protocol-Independent Compression for Resource-Constrained Wireless Networks," EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Tech. Rep. UCB/EECS-2012-93, May 2012.