Ali Niknejad

Associate Professor

Research Areas

• Design of Electronic Systems (DES)
• Integrated Circuits (INC), Microwave and mm-Wave Circuits and Systems
• Physical Electronics (PHY)
• Applied Electromagnetics

Research Centers

• Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC)
• Gigascale Systems Research Center (GSRC)

Biography

Ali M. Niknejad received the B.S.E.E. degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1994, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1997 and 2000. From 2000-2002 he worked at Silicon Laboratories in Austin, TX, where he was involved with the design and research of CMOS RF integrated circuits and devices for wireless communication applications. Presently he is an associate professor in the EECS department at UC Berkeley. He is a co-director of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC) and also the co-director of the BSIM Research Group. He served as an associate editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits and is currently serving on the TPC for the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) and the Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC). His current research interests lie within the area of RF/microwave and mm-wave integrated circuits, particularly as applied to wireless and broadband communication circuits. His interests also include device modeling and numerical techniques in electromagnetics.

Selected Publications

• C. Doan, S. Emami, A. Niknejad, and R. W. Brodersen, "A 60 GHz CMOS Front-End Reciever," in ISSCC 2007, 2007, pp. 190-191.
• A. Niknejad, M. Y. Bohsali, E. Adabi Firouzjaei, and B. Heydari, "Integrated circuit transmission-line transformer power combiner for millimeter-wave applications," Electronics Letters, vol. 43, no. 5, pp. 290-291, March 2007.
• A. Niknejad, Electromagnetics for High-Speed Analog and Digital Communication Circuits, Cambridge University Press, 2007.
• B. Heydari, M. Y. Bohsali, E. Adabi Firouzjaei, and A. Niknejad, "Low-Power mm-Wave Components up to 104GHz in 90nm CMOS," in Digest of Technical Papers, ISSCC, IEEE, 2007, pp. 200-201.
• B. Afshar and A. Niknejad, "X/Ku Band CMOS LNA Design Techniques," in Proceedings of CICC, 2006, pp. 389-392.
• G. Liu, T. King, and A. Niknejad, "A 1.2V, 2.4GHz Fully Integrated Linear CMOS Power Amplifier with Efficiency Enhancement," in Proceedings of the CICC, 2006, pp. 141-144.
• Z. Deng and A. Niknejad, "9.6/4.8 GHz dual-mode voltage-controlled oscillator with injection locking," Electronics Letters, vol. 42, pp. 1343-1344, Nov. 2006.
• M. V. Dunga, C. Lin, X. Xi, D. Lu, A. Niknejad, and C. Hu, "Modeling Advanced FET Technology in a Compact Model," IEEE Transactions on Electronic Devices, vol. 53, pp. 1971-1978, Sep. 2006.
• P. Haldi, G. Liu, and A. Niknejad, "CMOS compatible transformer power combiner," Electronics Letters, vol. 42, no. 19, pp. 1091-1092, Sep. 2006.
• J. M. Rabaey, F. De Bernardinis, A. Niknejad, and B. Nikolic, "Embedding mixed-signal design in systems-on-chip," Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 94, pp. 1070-1088, June 2006.
• S. Wang, A. Niknejad, and R. W. Brodersen, "Circuit modeling methodology for UWB omnidirectional small antennas," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 24, pp. 871-877, April 2006.
• A. Niknejad, M. V. Dunga, B. Heydari, H. Wan, C. Lin, S. Emami Neyestanak, C. Doan, X. Xi, J. He, and C. Hu, "Challenges in compact modeling for RF and microwave applications," in Workshop on Compact Modeling, 2005, pp. N/A.
• J. He, J. Xi, M. Chan, H. Wan, M. V. Dunga, B. Heydari, A. Niknejad, and C. Hu, "Charge-based core and the model architecture of BSIM5," in Quality of Electronic Design, 2005, pp. 96-101.
• Z. Deng and A. Niknejad, "Dual-Mode Voltage-Controlled Oscillator with Injection Lock," in Proc. EDSSC 2005, 2005, pp. N/A.
• A. Niknejad, C. Doan, S. Emami Neyestanak, M. V. Dunga, X. Xi, J. He, R. W. Brodersen, and C. Hu, "Next generation CMOS compact mofels for RF and microwave applications (Invited)," in RFIC Digest of Papers, 2005, pp. 141-144.
• H. Dogan, R. G. Meyer, and A. Niknejad, "A DC-2.5GHz wide dynamic-range attenuator in .13 µm CMOS technology," in VLSI Circuits Digest of Technical Papers, 2005, pp. N/A.
• Y. Chee, A. Niknejad, and J. M. Rabaey, "A 89-µW 1.9-GHz CMOs oscillator using FBAR resonator," in RFIC Digest of Papers, 2005, pp. 123-126.
• S. Wang, A. Niknejad, and R. W. Brodersen, "A sub-mW 960-MHz ultra-wideband CMOS LNA," in RFIC Digest of Papers, 2005, pp. 35-38.
• S. Emami, C. H. Doan, A. Niknejad, and R. W. Brodersen, "A 60-GHz down-converting CMOS single-gate mixer," in RFIC Digest of Papers, A. Jerng, Ed., Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, 2005, pp. 163-166.
• A. D. Berny, A. Niknejad, and R. G. Meyer, "A 1.8-GHz LC VCO with 1.3-GHz tuning range and digital amplitude calibration," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 909-917, April 2005.