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Christian W. Baks is affiliated with IBM in the United States, contributing to research primarily in engineering with a focus on electrical and electronic engineering. Their publications span multiple subfields including aerospace engineering, atomic and molecular physics and optics, biomedical engineering, and condensed matter physics.

Their work covers several main topics, reflecting a diverse and interdisciplinary approach to technology and science. These topics include:

  • Microwave Engineering and Waveguides
  • Advancements in PLL and VCO Technologies
  • Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices
  • Optical Network Technologies
  • Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuit Design
  • Millimeter-Wave Propagation and Modeling
  • Full-Duplex Wireless Communications

Baks has published in various respected venues with frequent appearances in:

  • IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
  • 2022 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits (VLSI Technology and Circuits)
  • IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters
  • Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • IEEE Journal of Microwaves

Some notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Baks 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 Cryo-CMOS Low-Power Semi-Autonomous Transmon Qubit State Controller in 14-nm FinFET Technology, 2022, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
  • A 72-GS/s, 8-Bit DAC-Based Wireline Transmitter in 4-nm FinFET CMOS for 200+ Gb/s Serial Links, 2022, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
  • An 8-bit 56GS/s 64x Time-Interleaved ADC with Bootstrapped Sampler and Class-AB Buffer in 4nm CMOS, 2022, 2022 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits (VLSI Technology and Circuits)

Baks collaborates frequently with several coauthors who have contributed to multiple publications together. Frequent collaborators include:

  • John F. Bulzacchelli
  • Bodhisatwa Sadhu
  • Arun Paidimarri
  • Duixian Liu
  • Xiaoxiong Gu

Best Publications

  • A 71-Gb/s NRZ Modulated 850-nm VCSEL-Based Optical Link

    Daniel M. Kuchta;Alexander V. Rylyakov;Fuad E. Doany;Clint L. Schow

  • Terabus: Terabit/Second-Class Card-Level Optical Interconnect Technologies

    L. Schares;J.A. Kash;F.E. Doany;C.L. Schow

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

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

  • Monolithic Silicon Integration of Scaled Photonic Switch Fabrics, CMOS Logic, and Device Driver Circuits

    Benjamin G. Lee;Alexander V. Rylyakov;William M. J. Green;Solomon Assefa

  • 160 Gb/s Bidirectional Polymer-Waveguide Board-Level Optical Interconnects Using CMOS-Based Transceivers

    F.E. Doany;C.L. Schow;C.W. Baks;D.M. Kuchta

  • 64Gb/s transmission over 57m MMF using an NRZ modulated 850nm VCSEL

    Daniel M. Kuchta;Alexander V. Rylyakov;Clint L. Schow;Jonathan E. Proesel

  • 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

  • A 50 Gb/s NRZ Modulated 850 nm VCSEL Transmitter Operating Error Free to 90 °C

    Daniel M. Kuchta;Alexander V. Rylyakov;Clint L. Schow;Jonathan E. Proesel

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

    Xiaoxiong Gu;Duixian Liu;Christian Baks;Ola Tageman

  • Terabit/s-Class Optical PCB Links Incorporating 360-Gb/s Bidirectional 850 nm Parallel Optical Transceivers

    F. E. Doany;C. L. Schow;B. G. Lee;R. A. Budd

  • 120-Gb/s VCSEL-based parallel-optical interconnect and custom 120-Gb/s testing station

    D.M. Kuchta;Y.H. Kwark;C. Schuster;C. Baks

  • Design and Fabrication of Low-Insertion-Loss and Low-Crosstalk Broadband $2 imes 2$ Mach–Zehnder Silicon Photonic Switches

    Nicolas Dupuis;Benjamin G. Lee;Alexander V. Rylyakov;Daniel M. Kuchta

  • Terabit/Sec VCSEL-Based 48-Channel Optical Module Based on Holey CMOS Transceiver IC

    F. E. Doany;B. G. Lee;D. M. Kuchta;A. V. Rylyakov

  • Is 25 Gb/s On-Board Signaling Viable?

    D.G. Kam;M.B. Ritter;T.J. Beukema;J.F. Bulzacchelli

  • Probe based MMW antenna measurement setup

    T. Zwick;C. Baks;U.R. Pfeiffer;Duixian Liu

  • Real-time scalable cortical computing at 46 giga-synaptic OPS/watt with ~100× speedup in time-to-solution and ~100,000× reduction in energy-to-solution

    Andrew S. Cassidy;Rodrigo Alvarez-Icaza;Filipp Akopyan;Jun Sawada

  • A 24–30-GHz 256-Element Dual-Polarized 5G Phased Array Using Fast On-Chip Beam Calculators and Magnetoelectric Dipole Antennas

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  • Wireless communications package with integrated antennas and air cavity

    Christian Wilhelmus Baks;Xiaoxiong Gu;Duixian Liu;Alberto Valdes-Garcia

  • 35-Gb/s VCSEL-Based optical link using 32-nm SOI CMOS circuits

    J. E. Proesel;B. G. Lee;C. W. Baks;C. L. Schow

  • Millimeter-wave radio frequency integrated circuit packages with integrated antennas

    Christian W. Baks;Xiaoxiong Gu;Md. Rashidul Islam;Duixian Liu

  • End-to-End Multicore Multimode Fiber Optic Link Operating up to 120 Gb/s

    B. G. Lee;D. M. Kuchta;F. E. Doany;C. L. Schow

  • A 64-Gb/s 1.4-pJ/b NRZ Optical Receiver Data-Path in 14-nm CMOS FinFET

    Ilter Ozkaya;Alessandro Cevrero;Pier Andrea Francese;Christian Menolfi

Frequent Co-Authors

Clint L. Schow
Clint L. Schow University of California, Santa Barbara
Daniel M. Kuchta
Daniel M. Kuchta IBM (United States)
Fuad E. Doany
Fuad E. Doany IBM (United States)
Alexander V. Rylyakov
Alexander V. Rylyakov Nokia (United States)
Benjamin G. Lee
Benjamin G. Lee Nvidia (United States)
Xiaoxiong Gu
Xiaoxiong Gu IBM (United States)
Duixian Liu
Duixian Liu IBM (United States)
Alberto Valdes-Garcia
Alberto Valdes-Garcia IBM (United States)
William M. J. Green
William M. J. Green IBM (United States)
Cornelia K. Tsang
Cornelia K. Tsang IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center

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