Faculty Publications - Ali Niknejad

Books

• A. Niknejad and H. Hashemi, mm-Wave Silicon Technology: 60 GHz and Beyond, Springer, 2008.
• A. Niknejad, Electromagnetics for High-Speed Analog and Digital Communication Circuits, Cambridge University Press, 2007.
• A. M. Niknejad and R. G. Meyer, Design, Simulation and Applications of Inductors and Transformers for Si RF ICs, Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science: Analog Circuits and Signal Processing, Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000.

Book chapters or sections

• M. Dunga, C. Lin, A. Niknejad, and C. Hu, "BSIM-CMG: A Compact Model for Multi-Gate Transistors," in FinFETs and Other Multi-Gate Transistors, Springer, 2008, pp. 113-153.
• A. Niknejad, "RF Building Blocks for the Next-Gen Wireless Systems," in Wireless Technologies: Circuits, Systems, and Devices, K. Iniewski, Ed., CRC Press, 2007, pp. 3-56.

Articles in journals or magazines

• D. Chowdhury, P. Reynaert, and A. Niknejad, "Transformer-Coupled Power Amplifier Stability and Power Back-Off Analysis," IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems II, vol. 55, pp. 507-511, June 2008.
• P. Haldi, D. Chowdhury, P. Reynaert, G. Liu, and A. Niknejad, "A 5.8 GHz 1 V Linear Power Amplifier Using a Novel On-Chip Transformer Power Combiner in Standard 90 nm CMOS," IEEE J. of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 43, pp. 1054-1063, May 2008.
• W. Chen, G. Liu, Z. Boos, and A. Niknejad, "A Highly Linear Broadband CMOS LNA Employing Noise and Distortion Cancellation," IEEE J. of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 43, pp. 1164-1176, May 2008.
• Y. Wang, A. Niknejad, V. Gaudet, and K. Iniewski, "A CMOS IR-UWB Transceiver Design for Contact-Less Chip Testing Applications," IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems II, vol. 55, pp. 334-338, April 2008.
• G. Liu, P. Haldi, T. King, and A. Niknejad, "Fully Integrated CMOS Power Amplifier with Efficiency Enhancement at Power Back-Off," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 60-70, March 2008.
• B. Heydari, M. Bohsali, E. Adabi, and A. Niknejad, "Millimeter-Wave Devices and Circuit Blocks up to 104 GHz in 90 nm CMOS," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 42, no. 12, pp. 2893-2903, Dec. 2007.
• N. Poobuapheun, W. Chen, Z. Boos, and A. Niknejad, "A 1.5-V 0.72.5-GHz CMOS Quadrature Demodulator for Multiband Direct-Conversion Receivers," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 42, pp. 1669-1677, Aug. 2007.
• 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.
• 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.
• S. B. T. Wang, A. Niknejad, and R. W. Brodersen, "Design of a sub-mW 960-MHz UWB CMOS LNA," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 41, no. 11, pp. 2449-2456, 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.
• Y. H. Chee, A. Niknejad, and J. M. Rabaey, "An ultra-low-power injection locked transmitter for wireless sensor networks," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 41, no. 8, pp. 1740-1748, Aug. 2006.
• J. M. Rabaey, F. De Bernardinis, A. Niknejad, B. Nikolic, and A. L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, "Embedding mixed-signal design in systems-on-chip (Invited Paper)," Proc. IEEE, vol. 94, no. 6, pp. 1070-1088, June 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. 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.
• C. H. Doan, S. Emani, A. Niknejad, and R. W. Brodersen, "Millimeter-wave CMOS design," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 144-155, Jan. 2005.
• A. Bevilacqua and A. Niknejad, "An ultrawideband CMOS low-noise amplifier for 3.1-10.6-GHz wireless receivers," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 39, no. 12, pp. 2259-2268, Dec. 2004.
• K. Scott, T. Hirano, H. Yang, H. Singh, R. Howe, and A. Niknejad, "High-performance inductors using capillary based fluidic self-assembly," J. of Microelectromechanical Systems, vol. 13, pp. 300-309, April 2004.
• S. Lam, H. Wan, P. Su, P. Wyatt, C. Chen, A. Niknejad, C. Hu, P. Ko, and M. Chan, "RF characterization of metal T-gate structure in fully-depleted SOI CMOS technology," IEEE Electron Device Letters, vol. 24, pp. 251-253, April 2003.
• P. Su, S. Fung, P. Wyatt, W. Hui, A. Niknejad, M. Chan, and C. Hu, "On the body-source built-in potential lowering of SOI MOSFETs," IEEE Electron Device Letters, vol. 24, pp. 90-92, Feb. 2003.
• A. Niknejad and R. G. Meyer, "Analysis of eddy current losses over highly conductive substrates," IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 166-176, Jan. 2001.
• A. Niknejad and R. G. Meyer, "Analysis, design, and optimization of spiral inductors and transformers for Si RF ICs," IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, vol. 33, no. 10, pp. 1470-1481, Oct. 1998.
• A. Niknejad, R. Gharpurey, and R. G. Meyer, "Numerically stable green function for modeling and analysis of substrate coupling in integrated circuits," IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 305-315, April 1998.

Articles in conference proceedings

• C. Marcu and A. Niknejad, "A 60 GHz High-Q Tapered Transmission Line Resonator in 90nm CMOS," in International Microwave Symposium, 2008.
• Y. Wang, B. Afshar, T. Cheng, G. Vincent, and A. Niknejad, "A 2.5mW inductorless wideband VGA with dual feedback DC-offset correction in 90nm CMOS technology," in RFIC Digest of Papers, 2008, pp. 91-94.
• E. Adabi and A. Niknejad, "Broadband variable passive delay elements based on an inductance multiplication technique," in RFIC Digest of Papers, 2008, pp. 445-448.
• A. Arbabian and A. Niknejad, "A tapered cascaded multi-stage distributed amplifier with 370GHz GBW in 90nm CMOS," in RFIC Digest of Papers, 2008, pp. 57-60.
• C. Lin, M. Dunga, D. Lu, A. Niknejad, and C. Hu, "Statistical Compact Modeling of Variations in Nano MOSFETs," in International Symposium on VLSI Technology, Systems and Applications, 2008, pp. 165-166.
• B. Afshar, Y. Wang, and A. Niknejad, "A Robust 24mW 60GHz Receiver in 90nm Standard CMOS," in ISSCC Dig. Tech. Papers, 2008, pp. 182-183.
• D. Chowdhury, P. Reynaert, and A. Niknejad, "A 60GHz 1V +12.3dBm Transformer-Coupled Wideband PA in 90nm CMOS," in ISSCC Dig. Tech. Papers, 2008, pp. 560-561.
• A. Arbabian and A. Niknejad, "A Broadband Distributed Amplifier with Internal Feedback Providing 660GHz GBW in 90nm CMOS," in ISSCC Dig. Tech. Papers, 2008, pp. 196-197.
• D. D. Lu, M. V. Dunga, C. Lin, A. Niknejad, and C. Hu, "A Multi-Gate MOSFET Compact Model Featuring Independent-Gate Operation," in IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), 2007, pp. 565-568.
• A. Niknejad, S. Emami, B. Heydari, M. Bohsali, and E. Adabi, "Nanoscale CMOS for mm-Wave Applications," in 2007 IEEE Compound Semiconductor Integrated Circuit Symposium, 2007, pp. 1-4.
• B. Heydari, P. Reynaert, E. Adabi Firouzjaei, M. Y. Bohsali, B. Afshar, M. A. Arbabian, and A. Niknejad, "A 60-GHz 90-nm CMOS cascode amplifier with interstage matching," in Microwave Integrated Circuit Conference (EuMIC), 2007, pp. 88-91.
• E. Adabi and A. Niknejad, "CMOS Low Noise Amplifier with Capacitive Feedback Matching," in Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), 2007, pp. 643-646.
• B. Heydari, M. Bohsali, E. Adabi, and A. Niknejad, "A 60 GHz Power Amplifier in 90nm CMOS Technology," in Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), 2007, pp. 769-772.
• A. Cathelin, B. Martineau, N. Seller, S. Douyere, J. Gorisse, S. Pruvost, C. Raynaud, F. Gianesello, S. Montusclat, S. P. Voinigescu, A. Niknejad, D. Belot, and J. P. Schoellkopf, "Design for millimeter-wave applications in silicon technologies," in 33rd European Solid State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), 2007, pp. 464-471.
• P. Reynaert and A. Niknejad, "Power combining techniques for RF and mm-wave CMOS power amplifiers," in 33rd European Solid State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), 2007, pp. 272-275.
• B. Heydari, E. Adabi, M. Bohsali, B. Afshar, M. A. Arbabian, and A. Niknejad, "Internal UnitaleralizationTechnique for CMOS mm-Wave Amplifiers," in RFIC Digest of Papers, 2007, pp. 463-466.
• E. Adabi, B. Heydari, M. Bohsali, and A. Niknejad, "30 GHz CMOS Low Noise Amplifier," in RFIC Digest of Papers, 2007, pp. 625-628.
• P. Haldi, D. Chowdhury, G. Liu, and A. Niknejad, "A 5.8 GHz Linear Power Amplifier in a Standard 90nm CMOS Process using a 1V Power Supply," in RFIC Digest of Papers, 2007, pp. 431-434.
• W. Chen, G. Liu, B. Zdravko, and A. Niknejad, "Noise and Distortion Cancellation," in RFIC Digest of Papers, 2007, pp. 61-64.
• C. Doan, S. Emami, A. Niknejad, and R. W. Brodersen, "A 60 GHz CMOS Front-End Reciever," in ISSCC 2007, 2007, pp. 190-191.
• 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.
• N. Poobuapheun, W. Chen, Z. Boos, and A. Niknejad, "A 1.5V 0.7-2.5GHz CMOS Quadrature Demodulator for Multi-Band Direct-Conversion Receivers," in Proceedings of CICC, 2006, pp. 797-800.
• 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.
• Y. Chee, A. Niknejad, and J. M. Rabaey, "A class A/B low power amplifier for wireless sensor networks," in Proceedings of ISCAS, 2004, pp. IV 409-412.
• S. Wang, A. Niknejad, and R. W. Brodersen, "Modeling omnidirectional small antennas for UWB applications," in Antennas and Propagation Society Symposium, 2004, pp. 1295-1298.
• H. Dogan, R. G. Meyer, and A. Niknejad, "S DC-10 GHz linear-in-dB attenuator in .13 micron CMOS technology," in Proceedings of CICC, 2004, pp. 609-612.
• M. Y. Bohsali and A. Niknejad, "Micrwave performance of monolithic silicon passive transformers," in RFIC Digest of Papers, 2004, pp. 647-650.
• A. Niknejad, C. Doan, S. Emami Neyestanak, D. A. Sobel, and R. W. Brodersen, "60 GHz CMOS radio for Gb/s wireless LAN," in RFIC Digest of Papers, 2004, pp. 2004.
• A. Berny, A. Niknejad, and R. G. Meyer, "A 1.8 GHz Lc VCO with 1.3 GHz tuning range and mixed-signal amplitude calibration," in VLSI Circuits Digest of Technical Papers, 2004, pp. 54-57.
• C. Doan, S. Emami Neyestanak, A. Niknejad, and R. W. Brodersen, "Design of CMOS for 60GHz applications," in ISSCC Digest of Technical Papers, 2004, pp. 440-538.
• A. Bevilacqua and A. Niknejad, "An ultra wideband CMOS low noise amplifier for 3.1-10.6 GHz wireless receivers," in ISSCC Digest of Technical Papers, 2004, pp. 382-383.
• C. Doan, S. Emami Neyestanak, A. Niknejad, and R. W. Brodersen, "Millimeter-wave CMOS device modeling and simulation," in Proceedings of ISCAS, 2004, pp. V524-V527.
• X. Xi, J. He, M. V. Dunga, C. Lin, B. Heydari, H. Wan, M. Chan, A. Niknejad, and C. Hu, "The next generation BSIM for sun-100nm mixed-signal circuit simulation," in Proceedings of CICC, 2004, pp. 13-16.
• S. Emami, C. H. Doan, A. Niknejad, and R. W. Brodersen, "Large-signal millimeter-wave CMOS modeling with BSIM3," in RFIC Digest of Papers, Y. Deval, Ed., Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, 2004, pp. 163-166.
• M. Chan, C. Lin, J. He, Y. Taur, A. Niknejad, and C. Hu, "A framework for modeling double-Gate MOSFETs," in Workshop on Compact Modeling, 2003, pp. N/A.
• J. He, X. Xi, M. Chan, A. Niknejad, and C. Hu, "An advanced surface-potential-plus MOSFET model," in Workshop on Compact Modeling, 2003, pp. N/A.
• M. V. Dunga, X. Xi, J. He, I. Polishchuk, Q. Lu, M. Chan, A. Niknejad, and C. Hu, "Modeling of direct tunneling current in multi-layer gate stacks," in Workshop on Compact Modeling, 2003, pp. N/A.
• A. Niknejad, M. Chan, C. Hu, X. Xi, J. He, P. Su, Y. Cao, H. Wan, M. V. Dunga, C. Doan, S. Emami Neyestanak, and C. Lin, "Compact modeling for RF and microwave applications (Invited)," in Workshop on Compact Modeling, 2003, pp. N/A.
• A. Berny, A. Niknejad, and R. G. Meyer, "A wideband low-phase-noise CMOS VCO," in Proceedings of CICC, 2003, pp. 555-558.
• C. Lin, J. He, X. Xi, H. Kam, A. Niknejad, M. Chan, and C. Hu, "The impact of scaling on volume inversion in symmetric double-gate MOSFETs," in Semiconductor Device Research Symposium, 2003, pp. 148-149.
• C. Lin, P. Su, Y. Taur, X. Xi, J. He, A. Niknejad, M. Chan, and C. Hu, "Circuit performance of double-gate SOI CMOS," in Semiconductor Device Research Symposium, 2003, pp. 266-267.
• P. Su, S. Fung, P. Wyatt, H. Wan, M. Chan, A. Niknejad, and C. Hu, "A unified model for partial-depletion and full depletion SOI circuit designs: Using BSIMPD as a foundation," in Proceedings of CICC, 2003, pp. N/A.
• A. Niknejad, "Modeling of passive elements with ASITIC," in RFIC Digest of Papers, 2002, pp. 303-306.
• P. Su, S. Fung, H. Wan, A. Niknejad, M. Chan, and C. Hu, "An impact ionization model for SOI circuit simulation," in IEEE International SOI Conference, 2002, pp. 201-202.
• A. Niknejad, J. Tham, and R. G. Meyer, "Fully-integrated low phase noise bipolar differential VCOs at 2.9 and 4.4 GHz," in Proceedings of ESSCIRC, 1999, pp. 198-201.
• A. Niknejad and R. G. Meyer, "Analysis and optimization of monolithic inductors and transformers for RF ICs," in Proceedings of CICC, 1997, pp. 375-378.

Patents

• S. A. Paul, T. J. Dupuis, and A. M. Niknejad, "Shielded capacitor structure," U.S. Patent Application. Nov. 2005.
• S. A. Paul, T. J. Dupuis, and A. M. Niknejad, "Method for making shielded capacitor structure," U.S. Patent 6,969,680. Nov. 2005.
• T. J. Dupuis, D. R. Welland, A. M. Niknejad, and S. A. Paul, "RF power detector," U.S. Patent 6,927,630. Aug. 2005.
• T. J. Dupuis, D. R. Welland, S. A. Paul, and A. M. Niknejad, "Absolute power detector," U.S. Patent 6,917,245. July 2005.
• T. J. Dupuis, D. R. Welland, S. A. Paul, and A. M. Niknejad, "Absolute power detector," U.S. Patent Application. Dec. 2004.
• T. J. Dupuis, D. R. Welland, S. A. Paul, and A. M. Niknejad, "Absolute power detector," U.S. Patent 6,756,849. June 2004.
• S. A. Paul, T. J. Dupuis, and A. M. Niknejad, "Shielded capacitor structure," U.S. Patent 6,737,698. May 2004.
• T. J. Dupuis, D. R. Welland, A. M. Niknejad, and S. A. Paul, "RF power detector," U.S. Patent 6,727,754. April 2004.
• S. A. Paul, T. J. Dupuis, and A. M. Niknejad, "Shielded capacitor structure," U.S. Patent Application. March 2004.

Ph.D. Theses

• Y. H. Chee, J. M. Rabaey, and A. Niknejad, "Ultra Low Power Transmitters for Wireless Sensor Networks," EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Tech. Rep. UCB/EECS-2006-57, May 2006.
• A. D. Berny, R. G. Meyer, and A. Niknejad, "Analysis and Design of Wideband LC VCOs," EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Tech. Rep. UCB/EECS-2006-50, May 2006.

Masters Reports

• C. Marcu and A. Niknejad, "60 GHz Tapered Transmission Line Resonators," EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Tech. Rep. UCB/EECS-2008-117, Sep. 2008.
• E. Adabi Firouzjaei and A. Niknejad, "Microwave and mm-Wave CMOS Low Noise Amplifiers," EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Tech. Rep. UCB/EECS-2007-160, Dec. 2007.