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Rensselaer High Frequency Integrated Circuits (RHFIC)Laboratory

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Books:

 

-        Mona Hella, and Mohammed Ismail, “RF CMOS Power Amplifier, Theory, Design, and Implementation, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002

 

Book Chapters:

-        Mona Hella, and Burak Catli, “Silicon-Based Millimeter-Wave Power Amplifiers,” in the book “Radio Design in Nanometer Technologies, Springer, 2006.

 

-        Mona Hella, and Mohammed Ismail, “Design of Integrated CMOS Power Amplifiers for Wireless Transceievers”, in the edited book, “Wireless Communications Circuits, and Systems, IEE publishers, 2004

 

Journal Publications:

 

1.               Burak Catli, and Mona Hella, “Band Limited Negative Resistance Based Dual-Band Oscillators: Theory and Implementation” in preparation for IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits.

2.               Tristan Lawry and Mona Hella, “Simultaneous Optimization of Performance Parameters in Wideband, Noise-Canceling LNAs,” in prep. IEEE trans. on Circuit and Systems-I.

3.               Asantha Kempitiya, Mona Hella, John Tichy, and Diana-Andra Borca-Tasciuc,” Microscale Power Generators Employing Inter-digitated Capacitors with Switchable Liquid-Air Dielectric Media,” submitted to Journal of Mechanical Design.

4.               Asantha Kempitiya, Diana-Andra Borca-Tasciuc, and Mona Hella, “System Level Analysis of Asynchronously Controlled Electrostatic Energy Harvesters,” submitted to sensors and actuators.

5.               L. Korduba, M. Grabowsky, R. Uhl, M. Hella, and E. Ledet, “RFID as a Testbed for Low Frequency RF Communication in Orthopedic Implants,” Submitted to Journal of Orthopedic Research, July, 2010.

6.               H. Peng, V. Pala, P. Wright, T.P. Chow, and M. Hella, ”High Efficiency, High Switching Speed, AlGaAs/GaAs P-HEMT DC-DC Converter for Integrated Power Amplifier Modules,” accepted for publication, Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing.

7.               B. Catli and M. M. Hella, Triple Push Operation for Combined Oscillation/Division Functionality in Millimeter-Wave Frequency Synthesizers” in Press, IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, Special Issue on CICC 2009, August 2010.

8.               Andrew Pye and Mona M. Hella, “Analysis and Optimization of Series Power Combiners for High Efficiency, Wide Dynamic Range Power Amplifiers,  in Press, IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems-I,  December 2010.

9.               B. Nakhkoob, M. Bilgi, M. Yuksel, and M. Hella, “Multi-Transceiver Optical Wireless Spherical Structures for MANETs,” IEEE Journal of Selected Areas of Communication, Vol. 27, no. 9, December 2009.

10.           Burak Catli and Mona Hella, “A 1.94 to 2.55GHz, 3.6 to 4.77GHz Tunable CMOS VCO Based On Double-Tuned, Double-Driven Coupled Resonators,” IEEE Trans. on Solid-state Circuits, Vol. 44, No. 9, pp- 2463-2477, September 2009.

11.           A. Kempitiya, D. Borca-Tasciuc, H. Mohamed, and M. Hella, “Localized Microwave Heating for Ultra-Fast, Parallel DNA Amplification Platforms,” Applied Physics Letters, vol. 94, Issue 6, Feb. 2009.

12.           Burak Catli, and Mona Hella, "Frequency synthesizer architecture eliminating high speed frequency dividers for millimeter-wave applications," IEE Electronics Letters, vol. 44, no. 18, August 28, 2008, pp.1071-1072.

13.           B. Catli and M. Hella, “Dual-band Ultra-Wide Tuning Range CMOS Voltage Controlled Oscillator”, IEE Electronic Letters, vol. 42,  Issue 21,  Oct. 2006, pp. 1215 – 1216.Summary: Not available.....

14.           M. Hella, and M. Ismail, “2GHz Controllable Power Amplifier in standard CMOS process for short-range wireless applications”, IEE Proceedings, Circuits, Devices, and Systems, Oct/Dec. 2002, pp. 363-369.

15.           S. Li, B. O'koon, M. Hella, M. Ismail, M. Rubeiz, "The Implementation of a VHDL-AMS to Spice Converter", Journal of Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, vol.22, 1999, pp.113-121.

16.           Mona M. Ahmed, H. F. Ragaie, and H. Haddara, ”Hierarcial Behavioral Modeling of Neural Networks”, Journal of Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, vol.16, No. 2, June 1998, pp.121-140.

 

Conference Publications:

 

1.                  Behrooz Nakhkoob and Mona Hella, “Power-Aware Design for High Data Rate Free Power-Aware Design for High Data Rate Free Space Optical Receivers," accepted for presentation,  IEEE International Conference on Microelectronics, Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 2010.

2.                  Asantha Kempitiya, D-A Borca-Tasciuc, and Mona Hella, “Low Power Electrostatic Energy Harvesting System IC“,  accepted for poster presentation,  PowerMEMS, Dec.  2010.

3.                  Burak Catli and M. Hella,” 'Systematic Design of mm-wave PLLs Based on N-push Oscillators”, accepted for presentation, International Workshop on mmWave Communications: from Circuits to Networks, Chicago, IL, September 2010.

4.                  V. Pala, H. Peng, M.M. Hella and T.P. Chow,” Application of GaAs pHEMT Technology for Efficient High Frequency Switching Regulators,” accepted for International Symp. On Power Semiconductor Devices and ICs (ISPSD) 2010, Hiroshima, Japan, June 2010.

5.                  Han Peng, V. Pala, T.C. Chow, and M. Hella, “A 150MHz, 84% efficiency, Two Phase Interleaved DC-DC Converter in AlGaAs/GaAs P-HEMT Technology for Integrated Power Amplifier Modules,” accepted for IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symp. RFIC, May 2010.

6.                  Burak Catli and Mona M. Hella, "A 60GHz CMOS Combined mm-wave VCO/Divider with 10-GHz Tuning Range," Custom Integrated Circuits Conference CICC, San Jose, CA, Sept. 2009, pp. 665-668.

7.                  Burak Catli, and Mona Hella, “A Low Power, Dual-band Oscillator based on Band-Limited Negative Resistance,” IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symp. RFIC, Boston, MA ,7-9 June 2009, pp. 251-254.

8.                  Burak Catli, and Mona Hella, “A 30-GHz Triple-Push Oscillator on Silicon for mm-wave Applications IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems ISCAS, Taiwan, 24-27 May 2009, pp. 1105 - 1108.

9.                  Han Peng, Paul Chow, and Mona Hella,” A Highly Efficient Interleaved DC-DC Converter using Coupled Inductors in GaAs Technology”, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems ISCAS, Taiwan, 24-27 May 2009, pp. 2037-2040.

10.              Burak Catli, and Mona Hella, "A 0.5-V 3.6/5.2 GHz CMOS multi-band LC VCO for ultra low-voltage wireless applications," IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 18-21 May 2008, pp.996-999.

11.              A. Gupta, H. Denver, D-A Borca-Tasciuc, A. Joshi, R. Kane, M. Hella,” Local temperature measurement near remotely heated, ultra-small gold nanoparticles,” Technical Proceedings of the 2008 Nanotechnology Conference, Volume 3, Boston, May 2008, pp.253-255.

12.              A. Gupta, H. Denver, A. Joshi, R. Kane, M. Hella, and D.-A. Borca-Tasciuc, “ Fluorescent quantum dots thermometry for nanoscale temperature measurement in RF heated nanoparticle suspensions,” 6th US-Japan Joint Seminar on Nanoscale Transport Phenomena-Science and Engineering, Boston, MA, July 13-16, 2008.

13.              P. Garg, M. Hella, D. Borca-Tasciuc, and H. Mohamed, “DNA Amplification by PCR using Low Cost, Programmable Microwave Heating,” Technical Proceedings of the 2008 Nanotechnology Conference, Volume 2, Boston, May 2008, pp.577 – 580

14.              Andrew Pye, and Mona Hella, “On-chip, Scaled Power Combining for Efficient, Wide Dynamic Range CMOS Power Amplifiers”,  IEEE Power Amplifier Workshop, Orlando, January 2008.

15.              Marwa Salem, Mona Salem, D. Borca-Tasciuc, and M. Hella, “Electrostatic MEMS Converters with a Switchable Dielectric Constant for Micro-Scale Power Generation,” International Conference on Microelectronics  ICM, Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 2007, pp. 205-209.

16.              Shengling Deng, Jun Liao, Z. Rena Huang, Mona Hella, and Kenneth Connor,” Wireless Connections of Sensor Network using RF and Free   Space Optical Links,”  Proc. SPIE Optics East, Vol. 6773, Boston,  September 2007.

17.              Burak Catli, and Mona Hella, “A Multi-band CMOS Oscillator Based on Double-Tuned, Double-Driven Transformer”, Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Design RFIC Symposium, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 3-5, 2007, pp. 595-598.

18.              Laryssa A Korduba, Eric H Ledet, Mary Beth Grabowsky, Mona M Hella, and Richard L Uhl, “RFID as a Testbed for Low Frequency RF Communication in Orthopedic Trauma Implants,”  53rd Annual Meeting of the Orthopedic Research Society, Feb. 2007.

19.              Jie Weng and Mona Hella, “"A Highly-Linear 5-GHz SiGe Power Amplifier with Breakdown-Voltage Protection", IEEE Midwest Circuits and Systems Symposium, MWCAS, Puerto Rico, August 2006.

20.              Peter Paliwoda and Mona Hella, “An Optimized CMOS Gilbert Mixer Using Inter-Stage Inductance for Ultra Wideband Receivers”, IEEE Midwest Circuits and Systems Symposium, MWCAS, Puerto Rico, August 2006.

21.              Mona Hella and Richard Panock, “Dual Control Loop for Laser Drivers for 3.125GHZ Optical Transceivers,” IEEE International Circuits and Systems Symposium (ISCAS), May 2005, pp. 1170-1173.

22.              Mona Hella, S. Deverajan, James Lu, Ken Rose, and Ron Gutmann,” Die-on-wafer and Wafer-level 3D Integration for Millimeter-Wave Smart Antenna Transceivers,” IEEE Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference, Vol. 1, April 2005.

23.              Mona Hella, and Mohammed Ismail, “A 2GHz, 16dBm  Controllable CMOS Power Amplifier”,  2001 IEEE Topical Workshop on Power Amplifiers for wireless Communications, San Diego, CA, Sept, 2001.

24.              Mona Hella, and Mohammed Ismail, “A Digitally Controlled CMOS RF Power Amplifier”, Proc. of the 2001 Midwest Symposium, Dayton, OH, August 2001.

25.              S. Yoo, H. Ahn, Mona Hella, and Mohammed Ismail, “The Design of 433 MHz class AB CMOS Power Amplifier”, Proc. of 2000 Southwest Symposium on Mixed Signal Design, pp. 26-29.

26.              Mona M. Ahmed, H.F. Ragaie, and H. Haddara, ”A Hierarcial Approach to the Analog Behavioral Modeling of Neural Networks”, Proc. Of the EURODAC’96, Geneva, Switzerland, Spet. 1996, pp. 2-9.

27.              Mona M. Ahmed, H.F. Ragaie, and H. Haddara, ”Analog CMOS Implementation of Kohonen Neural Network”, Proc. of Intenrnational Conference on Microelecronics ICM’96, Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 1996.

 

 

 

 

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