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Alberto Valdes-Garcia

Alberto Valdes-Garcia

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
50
Citations
15122
World Ranking
2739
National Ranking
1040

Overview

Alberto Valdes-Garcia is affiliated with IBM in the United States and specializes in engineering, with a focus on electrical and electronic engineering. Their research spans several subfields, including aerospace engineering and biomedical engineering, with a predominant concentration on microwave engineering and waveguides as well as millimeter-wave propagation and modeling.

Their work covers a range of topics related to advanced wireless communications and radio frequency technologies. These include:

  • Microwave Engineering and Waveguides
  • Millimeter-Wave Propagation and Modeling
  • Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization
  • Full-Duplex Wireless Communications
  • Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design
  • Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies
  • Antenna Design and Optimization

Valdes-Garcia has published extensively on the development and optimization of phased arrays and antenna technology, often aimed at improving 5G wireless communication systems. Some of their recent papers include:

  • A 24-30-GHz 256-Element Dual-Polarized 5G Phased Array Using Fast On-Chip Beam Calculators and Magnetoelectric Dipole Antennas, 2022, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
  • Antenna-in-Package Integration for a Wideband Scalable 5G Millimeter-Wave Phased-Array Module, 2021, IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters
  • A 24-to-30GHz 256-Element Dual-Polarized 5G Phased Array with Fast Beam-Switching Support for >30,000 Beams, 2022, 2022 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC)
  • 3-D Imaging Using Millimeter-Wave 5G Signal Reflections, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques
  • Multi-Mode 60-GHz Radar Transmitter SoC in 45-nm SOI CMOS, 2020, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

The venues in which Valdes-Garcia frequently publishes reflect a technical and focused audience, including:

  • IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
  • IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters
  • 2022 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC)
  • IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques
  • Computer Networks

Collaboration is a significant aspect of Valdes-Garcia's research career. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Arun Paidimarri
  • Bodhisatwa Sadhu
  • Wooram Lee
  • Çağlar Özdağ
  • Yujiro Tojo

Best Publications

  • Ultrafast graphene photodetector

    Fengnian Xia;Thomas Mueller;Yu-ming Lin;Alberto Valdes-Garcia

  • Operation of Graphene Transistors at Gigahertz Frequencies

    Yu-Ming Lin;Keith A. Jenkins;Alberto Valdes-Garcia;Joshua P. Small

  • Operation of Graphene Transistors at GHz Frequencies

    Yu-Ming Lin;Keith A. Jenkins;Alberto Valdes-Garcia;Joshua P. Small

  • Wafer-Scale Graphene Integrated Circuit

    Yu-Ming Lin;Alberto Valdes-Garcia;Shu-Jen Han;Damon B. Farmer

  • A 28-GHz 32-Element TRX Phased-Array IC With Concurrent Dual-Polarized Operation and Orthogonal Phase and Gain Control for 5G Communications

    Bodhisatwa Sadhu;Yahya Tousi;Joakim Hallin;Stefan Sahl

  • State-of-the-art graphene high-frequency electronics.

    Yanqing Wu;Keith A. Jenkins;Alberto Valdes-Garcia;Damon B. Farmer

  • A Fully Integrated 16-Element Phased-Array Transmitter in SiGe BiCMOS for 60-GHz Communications

    A Natarajan;S K Reynolds;Ming-Da Tsai;S T Nicolson

  • 60GHz Technology for Gbps WLAN and WPAN: From Theory to Practice

    Su-Khiong Yong;Pengfei Xia;Alberto Valdes-Garcia

  • 7.2 A 28GHz 32-element phased-array transceiver IC with concurrent dual polarized beams and 1.4 degree beam-steering resolution for 5G communication

    Bodhisatwa Sadhu;Yahya Tousi;Joakim Hallin;Stefan Sahl

  • Millimeter-wave communications using a reflector

    Alberto Valdes-Garcia

  • Antenna-in-Package Design Considerations for Ka-Band 5G Communication Applications

    Duixian Liu;Xiaoxiong Gu;Christian W. Baks;Alberto Valdes-Garcia

  • A Fully Integrated 16-Element Phased-Array Transmitter in SiGe BiCMOS for 60-GHz Communications

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  • Dual-Gate Graphene FETs With $f_{T}$ of 50 GHz

    Yu-Ming Lin;Hsin-Ying Chiu;K.A. Jenkins;D.B. Farmer

  • Dual Gate Graphene FETs with fT of 50 GHz

    Yu-Ming Lin;Hsin-Ying Chiu;Keith A. Jenkins;Damon B. Farmer

  • Development, Implementation, and Characterization of a 64-Element Dual-Polarized Phased-Array Antenna Module for 28-GHz High-Speed Data Communications

    Xiaoxiong Gu;Duixian Liu;Christian Baks;Ola Tageman

  • The More (Antennas), the Merrier: A Survey of Silicon-Based mm-Wave Phased Arrays Using Multi-IC Scaling

    Bodhisatwa Sadhu;Xiaoxiong Gu;Alberto Valdes-Garcia

  • Ultimate RF Performance Potential of Carbon Electronics

    S. O. Koswatta;A. Valdes-Garcia;M. B. Steiner;Yu-Ming Lin

  • A Broadband CMOS Amplitude Detector for On-Chip RF Measurements

    A. Valdes-Garcia;R. Venkatasubramanian;J. Silva-Martinez;E. Sanchez-Sinencio

  • A multilayer organic package with 64 dual-polarized antennas for 28GHz 5G communication

    Xiaoxiong Gu;Duixian Liu;Christian Baks;Ola Tageman

  • A 90nm SiGe BiCMOS technology for mm-wave and high-performance analog applications

    John J. Pekarik;J. Adkisson;P. Gray;Q. Liu

  • A 1V 17.9dBm 60GHz power amplifier in standard 65nm CMOS

    Jie-Wei Lai;Alberto Valdes-Garcia

  • A CMOS RF RMS detector for built-in testing of wireless transceivers

    A. Valdes-Garcia;R. Venkatasubramanian;R. Srinivasan;J. Silva-Martinez

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Olivier Plouchart
Jean-Olivier Plouchart IBM (United States)
Duixian Liu
Duixian Liu IBM (United States)
Xiaoxiong Gu
Xiaoxiong Gu IBM (United States)
Arun Natarajan
Arun Natarajan Oregon State University
Scott K. Reynolds
Scott K. Reynolds IBM (United States)
Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio
Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio Texas A&M University
Daniel J. Friedman
Daniel J. Friedman IBM (United States)
Christian W. Baks
Christian W. Baks IBM (United States)
Phaedon Avouris
Phaedon Avouris IBM (United States)
Yu-Ming Lin
Yu-Ming Lin Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (Taiwan)

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