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Prof.
Saavedra is awarded an NSERC
Discovery Accelerator Supplement (DAS) grant for the period 2011-2014.
The success rate for the DAS award
is 3% from a total pool of 3,482 applicants from all of the
physical sciences and engienering disciplines across Canada.
The DAS award will enable the Gigahertz Integrated Circuits
Group to pursue
in-depth
research on advanced frequency converters for wireless communications
transceivers.
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Prof. Saavedra is interviewed
by EEWeb.com, a community of electrical
engineers. To read the interview, click here.
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Congratulations to
our recent graduates!
Ahmed
El-Gabaly
Degree: Doctor of Philosophy.
Thesis: "Pulsed RF Circuits for Ultrawideband Communications and Radar
Applications."
Defense date: August 4, 2011.
Shan He
Degree: Master of Applied Science.
Thesis: "Design of Low Distortion and Low-Power CMOS RF Integrated
Circuits using Volterra Analysis."
Defense date: July 25, 2011.
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Our paper
describing a wideband VCO with high DC-to-RF power efficiency was the #1 accessed paper in
the IEEE Transactions on Circuits
and Systems II: Express Briefs in the month of August 2011.
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Two
papers
by members of the Gigahertz Integrated Circuits
group were in the Top
100 Documents
Accessed in the entire IEEE
Xplore
Digital library during the month of May
2010. Both papers were in the area of mixer integrated circuits.
The IEEE digital
library contains over 2.8 million documents.
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Group
members win the Best
Student Paper
Award at the 2009 IEEE
Topical Meeting on Silicon Monolithic
Circuits in RF Systems in San Diego, California for their work on distortion cancellation
techniques
for RF amplifiers.
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Group
members win second
place at the 2010 IEEE Kingston Section
and at the Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) Kingston Chapter
student paper competitions for their design of a pulse generator chip
for deep-brain stimulation.
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