2026 James F. Buckwalter: Electronics and Electrical Engineering Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Electronics and Electrical Engineering	36	5347	5134	1845	1722	316	5412

Overview

James F. Buckwalter is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of engineering, with a focus on electrical and electronic engineering as well as related subfields including atomic and molecular physics, condensed matter physics, hardware and architecture, and aerospace engineering.

Their work extensively covers several main topics, including:

Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design
Photonic and Optical Devices
Microwave Engineering and Waveguides
Optical Network Technologies
Advanced Power Amplifier Design
Advanced Photonic Communication Systems
GaN-based semiconductor devices and materials

Frequent publication venues for James F. Buckwalter include:

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques
Journal of Lightwave Technology
IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
2022 IEEE/MTT-S International Microwave Symposium - IMS 2022
IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology

Their collaboration network includes frequent co-authors such as:

Clint L. Schow
Aaron Maharry
Hector Andrade
Junqian Liu
Jesús Grajal

Representative recent papers by James F. Buckwalter include:

"High Linearity and High Gain Performance of N-Polar GaN MIS-HEMT at 30 GHz" (2020), published in IEEE Electron Device Letters
"Analog Coherent Detection for Energy Efficient Intra-Data Center Links at 200 Gbps Per Wavelength" (2020), published in Journal of Lightwave Technology
"Towards Energy Efficient Mobile Wireless Receivers Above 100 GHz" (2020), published in IEEE Access
"First Demonstration of an O-Band Coherent Link for Intra-Data Center Applications" (2023), published in Journal of Lightwave Technology
"A Survey of GaN HEMT Technologies for Millimeter-Wave Low Noise Applications" (2023), published in IEEE Journal of Microwaves

Best Publications

Analysis and Design of Stacked-FET Millimeter-Wave Power Amplifiers

Hayg-Taniel Dabag;Bassel Hanafi;Fatih Golcuk;Amir Agah

348
Citations
A Monolithic 25-Gb/s Transceiver With Photonic Ring Modulators and Ge Detectors in a 130-nm CMOS SOI Process

J. F. Buckwalter;Xuezhe Zheng;Guoliang Li;K. Raj

210
Citations
Bandwidth Enhancement With Low Group-Delay Variation for a 40-Gb/s Transimpedance Amplifier

Joohwa Kim;James F Buckwalter

134
Citations
A 40-Gb/s Optical Transceiver Front-End in 45 nm SOI CMOS

Joohwa Kim;J. F. Buckwalter

132
Citations
Cancellation of crosstalk-induced jitter

J.F. Buckwalter;A. Hajimiri

117
Citations
Multi-Drive Stacked-FET Power Amplifiers at 90 GHz in 45 nm SOI CMOS

Amir Agah;Jefy Alex Jayamon;Peter M. Asbeck;Lawrence E. Larson

91
Citations
An Integrated Subharmonic Coupled-Oscillator Scheme for a 60-GHz Phased-Array Transmitter

J.F. Buckwalter;A. Babakhani;A. Komijani;A. Hajimiri

89
Citations
Power Consumption Analysis for Mobile MmWave and Sub-THz Receivers

Panagiotis Skrimponis;Sourjya Dutta;Marco Mezzavilla;Sundeep Rangan

88
Citations
A 0.4–6-GHz 17-dBm B1dB 36-dBm IIP3 Channel-Selecting Low-Noise Amplifier for SAW-Less 3G/4G FDD Diversity Receivers

Cheng-kai Luo;Prasad S. Gudem;James F. Buckwalter

87
Citations
Multigate-Cell Stacked FET Design for Millimeter-Wave CMOS Power Amplifiers

Jefy A. Jayamon;James F. Buckwalter;Peter M. Asbeck

84
Citations
Predicting data-dependent jitter

J. Buckwalter;B. Analui;A. Hajimiri

84
Citations
Active Millimeter-Wave Phase-Shift Doherty Power Amplifier in 45-nm SOI CMOS

Amir Agah;Hayg-Taniel Dabag;Bassel Hanafi;Peter M. Asbeck

83
Citations
High Linearity and High Gain Performance of N-Polar GaN MIS-HEMT at 30 GHz

Pawana Shrestha;Matthew Guidry;Brian Romanczyk;Nirupam Hatui

83
Citations
A Case for Digital Beamforming at mmWave

Sourjya Dutta;C. Nicolas Barati;David Ramirez;Aditya Dhananjay

81
Citations
Deterministic jitter in broadband communication

James Franklin Buckwalter

79
Citations
A 2.5-dB Insertion Loss, DC-60 GHz CMOS SPDT Switch in 45-nm SOI

Mehmet Parlak;James F. Buckwalter

77
Citations
Data-dependent jitter in serial communications

B. Analui;J.F. Buckwalter;A. Hajimiri

75
Citations
A Q-Band Amplifier Implemented with Stacked 45-nm CMOS FETs

Sataporn Pornpromlikit;Hayg-Taniel Dabag;Bassel Hanafi;Joohwa Kim

74
Citations
An active analog delay and the delay reference loop

J. Buckwalter;A. Hajimiri

71
Citations
Analog Coherent Detection for Energy Efficient Intra-Data Center Links at 200 Gbps Per Wavelength

Takako Hirokawa;Sergio Pinna;Navid Hosseinzadeh;Aaron Maharry

70
Citations
Phase and amplitude pre-emphasis techniques for low-power serial links

J.F. Buckwalter;M. Meghelli;D.J. Friedman;A. Hajimiri

66
Citations
Staggered Gain for 100+ GHz Broadband Amplifiers

Joohwa Kim;J F Buckwalter

61
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter M. Asbeck University of California, San Diego

Clint L. Schow University of California, Santa Barbara

Lawrence E. Larson Brown University

Chung-Kuan Cheng University of California, San Diego

Ali Hajimiri California Institute of Technology

Mark J. W. Rodwell University of California, Santa Barbara

Gabriel M. Rebeiz University of California, San Diego

Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy Axalume

Xuezhe Zheng Innolight Technology Research Institute

Miguel Urteaga Teledyne Technologies (United States)

External Links

Personal website of James F. Buckwalter

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