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D-Index
75
Citations
20644
World Ranking
683
National Ranking
303

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Semiconductor Industry Association University Researcher Award

Overview

Ali M. Niknejad is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley, in the United States. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Engineering, with a focus on Electrical and Electronic Engineering and related subfields such as Biomedical Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

The scientist's work covers multiple topics related to integrated circuit design and microwave engineering. Significant areas of study include:

  • Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design
  • Microwave Engineering and Waveguides
  • Advancements in Semiconductor Devices and Circuit Design
  • Photonic and Optical Devices
  • Advancements in PLL and VCO Technologies
  • Semiconductor materials and devices
  • Millimeter-Wave Propagation and Modeling

Among the recent papers authored or coauthored by Ali M. Niknejad are:

  • "A Low-Power 70-100-GHz Mixer-First RX Leveraging Frequency-Translational Feedback" (2020), published in IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
  • "Design of High-Linearity Mixer-First Receivers for mm-Wave Digital MIMO Arrays" (2021), published in IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
  • "A 71-to-86-GHz 16-Element by 16-Beam Multi-User Beamforming Integrated Receiver Sub-Array for Massive MIMO" (2021), published in IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
  • "An Enhanced Mixer-First Receiver With Distortion Cancellation, Achieving 80-dB/decade RF Selectivity and +8-dBm B1dB for Adjacent Channel Blockers" (2021), published in IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters
  • "Microfluidic Packaging Integration with Electronic-Photonic Biosensors Using 3D Printed Transfer Molding" (2020), published in Biosensors

The frequent publication venues for Ali M. Niknejad include:

  • IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
  • IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters
  • IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I Regular Papers

Collaborative work has involved coauthors including Darsen D. Lu, Yogesh Singh Chauhan, Girish Pahwa, Avirup Dasgupta, and Sriramkumar Venugopalan, each appearing frequently in joint publications with counts around a dozen.

In 2020, Ali M. Niknejad received the Semiconductor Industry Association University Researcher Award.

Best Publications

  • Analysis, design, and optimization of spiral inductors and transformers for Si RF ICs

    A.M. Niknejad;R.G. Meyer

  • Millimeter-wave CMOS design

    C.H. Doan;S. Emami;A.M. Niknejad;R.W. Brodersen

  • An ultrawideband CMOS low-noise amplifier for 3.1-10.6-GHz wireless receivers

    A. Bevilacqua;A.M. Niknejad

  • A 90 nm CMOS Low-Power 60 GHz Transceiver With Integrated Baseband Circuitry

    C. Marcu;D. Chowdhury;C. Thakkar;Jung-Dong Park

  • Wireless physiological sensor patches and systems

    Surendar Magar;Venkateswara Rao Sattiraju;Ali Niknejad;Louis Yun

  • A Highly Linear Broadband CMOS LNA Employing Noise and Distortion Cancellation

    Wei-Hung Chen;Gang Liu;B. Zdravko;A.M. Niknejad

  • Modeling and analysis of substrate coupling in integrated circuits

    R. Gharpurey;R.G. Meyer

  • A 1.8-GHz LC VCO with 1.3-GHz tuning range and digital amplitude calibration

    A.D. Berny;A.M. Niknejad;R.G. Meyer

  • Design considerations for 60 GHz CMOS radios

    C.H. Doan;S. Emami;D.A. Sobel;A.M. Niknejad

  • Extremely Bendable, High-Performance Integrated Circuits Using Semiconducting Carbon Nanotube Networks for Digital, Analog, and Radio-Frequency Applications

    Chuan Wang;Jun Chau Chien;Kuniharu Takei;Toshitake Takahashi

  • An ultra-wideband CMOS LNA for 3.1 to 10.6 GHz wireless receivers

    A. Bevilacqua;A.M. Niknejad

  • mm-Wave Silicon Technology: 60 GHz and Beyond

    Ali M. Niknejad;Hossein Hashemi

  • Electromagnetics for High-Speed Analog and Digital Communication Circuits

    Ali Niknejad

  • Fully Integrated CMOS Power Amplifier With Efficiency Enhancement at Power Back-Off

    Gang Liu;P. Haldi;Tsu-Jae King Liu;A.M. Niknejad

  • A Fully Integrated Dual-Mode Highly Linear 2.4 GHz CMOS Power Amplifier for 4G WiMax Applications

    D. Chowdhury;C.D. Hull;O.B. Degani;Y. Wang

  • A 260 GHz fully integrated CMOS transceiver for wireless chip-to-chip communication

    Jung-Dong Park;Shinwon Kang;Siva V Thyagarajan;Elad Alon

  • Design of CMOS for 60GHz applications

    C.H. Doan;S. Emami;A.M. Niknejad;R.W. Brodersen

  • A 65 nm CMOS 4-Element Sub-34 mW/Element 60 GHz Phased-Array Transceiver

    M. Tabesh;Jiashu Chen;C. Marcu;Lingkai Kong

  • A 240 GHz Fully Integrated Wideband QPSK Transmitter in 65 nm CMOS

    Shinwon Kang;Siva V. Thyagarajan;Ali M. Niknejad

  • Millimeter-Wave Devices and Circuit Blocks up to 104 GHz in 90 nm CMOS

    B. Heydari;M. Bohsali;E. Adabi;A.M. Niknejad

  • A Highly Integrated 60GHz CMOS Front-End Receiver

    S. Emami;C.H. Doan;A.M. Niknejad;R.W. Brodersen

Frequent Co-Authors

Chenming Hu
Chenming Hu University of California, Berkeley
Mansun Chan
Mansun Chan Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Elad Alon
Elad Alon University of California, Berkeley
Borivoje Nikolic
Borivoje Nikolic University of California, Berkeley
Yogesh Singh Chauhan
Yogesh Singh Chauhan Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Robert G. Meyer
Robert G. Meyer University of California, Berkeley
Robert W. Brodersen
Robert W. Brodersen University of California, Berkeley
Jan M. Rabaey
Jan M. Rabaey University of California, Berkeley
Luke P. Lee
Luke P. Lee University of California, Berkeley

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