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A. Bevilacqua and A. M. Niknejad, "An Ultra Wideband CMOS Low Noise Amplifier for 3.1-10.6 GHz Wireless Receivers", IEEE Int. Solid-State Circuits Conf. Dig. Tech. Papers, 2004. C. H. Doan, S. Emami, A. M. Niknejad, and R. W. Brodersen, "Design of CMOS for 60GHz Applications", IEEE Int. Solid-State Circuits Conf. Dig. Tech. Papers, 2004. A. D. Berny, A. M. Niknejad, R. G. Meyer, "A 1.8 GHz LC VCO with 1.3 GHz Tuning Range and Mixed-signal Amplitude Calibration," to appear at the VLSI 2004. A. M. Niknejad, C. H. Doan, S. Emami, D. Sobel, R. W. Brodersen "60 GHz CMOS Radio for Gb/s Wireless LAN," to appear at RFIC 2004. M. Y. Bohsali and A. M. Niknejad, "Microwave Performance of Monolithic Silicon Passive Transformers," to appear at RFIC 2004. S. Emami, C. H. Doan, A. M. Niknejad, R. W. Brodersen , "Large-Signal Millimeter-Wave CMOS Modeling with BSIM3," to appear RFIC 2004. C. H. Doan, S. Emami, A. M. Niknejad, R.W. Brodersen, "Millimeter-Wave CMOS Device Modeling and Simulation," to appear at ISCAS 2004. Y. H. Chee, A. M. Niknejad, J. Rabaey, "A Class A/B Low Power Amplifier For Wireless Sensor Networks," to appear at ISCAS 2004. A. M. Niknejad, M. Chan, C. Hu, X. Xi, J. He, P. Su, Y. Cao, H. Wan, M. Dunga, C. Doan, S. Emami, and C.-H. Lin, "Compact Modeling for RF and Microwave Integrated Circuits," published in the Proceedings of the 2003 Workshop on Compact Modeling (WCM). A. D. Berny, A. M. Niknejad, R. G. Meyer, "A Wideband Low-Phase-Noise CMOS VCO," IEEE 2003 Custom Integrated Circuits Conference. A. M. Niknejad, "Modeling of Passive Elements with ASITIC," invited paper at RFIC 2002. A. M. Niknejad, J. L. Tham, and R. G. Meyer, "Fully-Integrated Low Phase Noise Bipolar Differential VCOs at 2.9 and 4.4 GHz," Proceedings of the 25th European Solid-State Circuits Conference, 1999. pp.198-201. K. L. Fong and R. G. Meyer, "A 2.4GHz Monolithic Mixer for Wireless LAN Applications," IEEE 1997 Custom Integrated Circuits Conference. A. M. Niknejad and R. G. Meyer, "Analysis and Optimization of Monolithic Inductors and Transformers for RF IC's," IEEE 1997 Custom Integrated Circuits Conference.

Journal Publications

K. S. Kundert, R. G. Meyer, M. T. Terrovitis, "Cyclostationary noise in radio-frequency communication systems," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Fundamental Theory and Applications, Volume 49, Issue 11, Nov 2002. A. M. Niknejad and R. G. Meyer, "Analysis of Eddy Current Losses over Conductive Substrates with Applications to Monolithic Inductors and Transformers," IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, Vol. 39, No. 1, January 2001. M. T. Terrovitis and R. G. Meyer, "Intermodulation Distortion in Current-Commutating CMOS Mixers," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 35, No. 10, October 2000. K. A. Kouznetsov and R. G. Meyer, "Phase Noise in LC-Oscillators," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 35, No. 8, August 2000. M. T. Terrovitis and R. G. Meyer, "Noise in Current-Commutating CMOS Mixers," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 34, No. 6, June 1999.  A. M. Niknejad and R. G. Meyer, "Analysis, Design, and Optimization of Spiral Inductors and Transformers on Si RF IC's," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 33, No. 10, October1998. K. L. Fong and R. G. Meyer, "High-Frequency Nonlinear Analysis of Common-Emitter and Differential-Pair Transconductance Stages," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 33, No. 4, April 1998. A. M. Niknejad, R. Gharpurey, R. G. Meyer, "Numerically Stable Green Function for Modeling and Analysis of Substrate Coupling in Integrated Circuits," IEEE Transactions of Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Vol. 17, No. 4, April 1998. K. L. Fong, C. D. Hull, R. G. Meyer, "A Class AB Mixer for 900-MHz Applications," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 32, No. 8, August 1997.

Books

A. M. Niknejad and R. G. Meyer, "Design, Simulation and Applications of Inductors and Transformers for Si RF ICs," Kluwer Academic Publishers; ISBN: 0792379861

Recent Theses

S. C. Rose, "A CMOS Sub-harmonic Mixer for WCDMA," (PDF) MS Thesis, University of California, Berkeley, March 2002. S. Son, "High Dynamic Range CMOS Mixer Design," (PDF) PhD Thesis, University of California, Berkeley, December 2001.