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April 2004
Volume 50, Number 10
Publication No: USPS 580-500
“The IEEE Newsletter” (North
Jersey Section), is published monthly except June and July by The Institute of
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SECTION OFFICERS
Chairman....................................... Dr.
Durga Misra
dmisra “AT” njit.edu (973) 596-5739
Vice-Chairman-1.................................... Har
Dayal
har.dayal “AT” baesystems.com
(973) 633-4618
Vice-Chairman-2......................... Bhanu Chivakula
b.chivakula “AT” computer.org
(732) 718-3818
Treasurer........................ Dr. Edward (Ted)
Byrne
flatland “AT” compuserve.com
(973) 822-3219
Secretary................................. Dr.
Sanghoon Shin
s.shin “AT” ieee.org
(973) 492-1207 Ext. 22
Members-at-Large:
Dr. Nirwan Ansari
(nirwan.ansari “AT” njit.edu)
Naz Simonelli
(naz “AT” ieee.org)
Dr. Richard
Snyder (r.snyder “AT” ieee.org)
The North Jersey Section Executive
Committee usually meets the first Wednesday (except holidays and December) of
each month at 7:00 PM. Meetings are
open to all members. For information on
meeting agenda contact Secretary Dr. Sanghoon Shin at (973) 492-1207 Ext. 22, s.shin
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IEEE
North Jersey Section Activities
April
2004
Apr. 1 – “Pico Radios - What Does it Take to Design a
Link Between Them?” - NJ Communications Chapter, 7:00 PM (refreshments at
6:45 PM), NJIT, 202 ECE Center, Newark, NJ.
Dr. Nirwan Ansari (973) 596-3670 (nirwan.ansari “AT” njit.edu) or check
http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj for the latest updates.
Apr. 1 – “Silicon-Germanium Three-dimensional
Nanostructures: Against All Odds” -
EDS/C&S and LEOS Chapters, 5:00PM (buffet at 4:45PM), NJIT, 202 ECE Center,
Newark, NJ. Dr. H. Grebel (973)
596-3538 (grebel “AT” njit.edu).
Apr. 6-8 – “2004
ASME/IEEE Joint Rail Conference” – IEEE VTS, Renaissance Harborplace Hotel, 202
East Pratt St, Baltimore, MD. See http://www.asmeconferences.org/jrc04/
for details. Elio Manes (manese “AT”
asme.org)
Apr. 7 – “NJ Section
Executive Committee Meeting” - 7:00 PM, ITT, 100 Kingsland Rd, Clifton,
NJ. Dr. Sanghoon Shin at (973) 492-1207
Ext. 22 or s.shin “AT” ieee.org.
Apr. 10 – “IPv6: The new and improved Internet Protocol” – NJ
Coast & Consultants Network, 8:00 AM-12:00 PM, Clarion Hotel,
Somerset, NJ. Dr. Amruthur Narasimhan
(732) 957-0850 (anarasimhan “AT” ieee.org) or see http://mywebpages.comcast.net/anarasimhan3/seminar/seminar-main.htm.
Apr. 14 – “PACE, GOLD Meet
- Part 2, Trends Affecting Engineering Professionals, Plus: What we can do?”
- NJ PACE, 6:30 – 9:00 PM, Clifton Memorial Library, 292 Piaget Ave, Clifton,
NJ. Paul Ward (973) 790-1625 (PWard1130
“AT” aol.com) or Richard F. Tax (201)
664-6954 (rtax “AT” bellatlantic.net).
Apr. 16 – “Electrical Transients & Power Quality Seminar” -
NJ IAS/PES Chapters, 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM, PSE&G Training Center, 234 Pierson
Ave, Edison, NJ. Ronald W. Quade, PE,
(212) 833-0268 or rwquade “AT” ieee.org.
Apr. 21 – “Functional MRI Motor Mapping for Tumor Patients”
- NJ Signal Processing Chapter, 4:45 PM (refreshments at 4:30 PM), NJIT, 202
ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Dr. Yun Shi
(973) 596-3501 (shi “AT” njit.edu), Dr. Alfredo Tan (201) 692-2347 (tan “AT”
mailbox.fdu.edu), Dr. Hong Man (201) 216-5038 (hman “AT” stevens-tech.edu).
Apr. 22 – “Fundamentals of Electrical Noise” - MTT/S/AP-S,
7:00 PM (pre-meeting buffet at 6:00 PM), New Jersey Institute of Technology
(NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center, Newark, NJ.
Dr. Edip Niver (973) 596-3542
(NJIT), Kirit Dixit (201) 400-2313, or Har Dayal (973) 633-4618.
Apr. 27 – “The Rational Unified Process Software Development
Methodology” - NJ Computer Chapter, 7:00 PM (pre-meeting buffet at 6:00
PM), Public Meeting Room, Morris County Library, 30 E. Hanover Ave, Whippany,
NJ. Seth Jakel (973) 731-1902 (sgjakel
“AT” comcast.net) or Vivek Shaiva (908) 221-6125 (vshaiva “AT” computer.org).
Apr. 28 – “Evolution and Recent Advances in RF/Microwave
Transistors” - EDS/C&S Chapters, 7:00 PM (buffet at 6:15 PM), NJIT, 202
ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Dr. Richard
Snyder (973) 492-1207 (RS Microwave), Dr. Durga Misra (973) 596-5739 (dmisra
“AT” njit.edu) or Dr. Edip Niver (973)
596-3542 (NJIT).
Apr. 29 – “Lightning Protection” - NJ Consultants'
Network, 7:30 PM, Aeroflex/KDI-Integrated Products, 60 S. Jefferson Rd,
Whippany, NJ. Robert Walker (973)
728-0344 or www.TechnologyOnTap.org.
Upcoming Meetings
May 2 - “NJ Section Awards Reception” - 3:00 to
6:00 PM at the Birchwood Manor, 111 North Jefferson Rd, Whippany, NJ. Anne Giedlinski (973) 377-3175.
May 5 – “NJ Section
Executive Committee Meeting” - 7:00 PM, ITT, 100 Kingsland Rd, Clifton,
NJ. Dr. Sanghoon Shin at (973) 492-1207
Ext. 22 or s.shin “AT” ieee.org.
May 12 – “Carbon Nanotubes” - EDS/C&S and LEOS
Chapters, 7:00PM (buffet at 6:15 PM), NJIT, 202 ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Dr. H. Grebel (973) 596-3538 (grebel “AT”
njit.edu).
May 20 – “Power Management Control Systems” - NJ
IAS/PES Chapters, 7:00PM, General Electric Atlantic Region Office, 1st Floor, Maple
Plaza 1, 4 Campus Dr, Parsippany, NJ.
Ken Oexle (973) 386-1156.
May 20 – “Collections:
How to Get Paid” - NJ Consultants' Network, 7:30 PM,
Aeroflex/KDI-Integrated Products, 60 S. Jefferson Rd, Whippany, NJ. Robert Walker (973) 728-0344 or www.TechnologyOnTap.org.
Oct. 19&20 – “IEEE
Lightwave Technologies in Instrumentation & Measurement Conference” – IEEE
METSAC, IBM Palisades Executive Conference Center in Palisades, NY. http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r1/metsac/LTWV.htm.
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2004 IEEE NORTH JERSEY FELLOWS
Atam P.
Dhawan
“for contributions to optical imaging of skin-lesions and multi-modality
medical image analysis.”
Atam P. Dhawan,
PhD obtained his B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the
University of Roorkee, Roorkee, India.
He was a Canadian Commonwealth Fellow at the University of Manitoba
where he completed his PhD in Electrical Engineering with specialization in
medical imaging in 1985. In 1984, he
won the first prize and the Martin Epstein Award in the Symposium of Computer Application
in Medical Care Paper Competition at the Eighth SCAMC Annual Congress in
Washington, DC, for his work on developing a three-dimensional (3D) imaging
technique to detect early skin-cancer called melanoma. From 1985 to 1988, he was an Assistant Professor
in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Houston. Later, in 1988, he joined the University of
Cincinnati as an Assistant Professor where he became Professor of Electrical
and Computer Engineering and Computer Science, and Radiology (joint
appointment). From 1990-96, he was the
Director of Center for Intelligent Vision and Information System. From 1996-98, he was Professor of Electrical
Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington, and Adjunct Professor of
Radiology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at
Dallas. From 1998-2000, he was
Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Toledo and Director of Medical
Imaging and Informatics Laboratory.
Since 2000, he has been Professor of Electrical & Computer
Engineering and Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the New Jersey Institute
of Technology.
Dr. Dhawan has published more than 58 research
articles in refereed journals, and edited books, and 100 research papers in
refereed conference proceedings.
Recently, he has authored a textbook, Medical Image Analysis published
by John Wiley & Sons. Dr. Dhawan is
a recipient of Martin Epstein Award (1984), National Institutes of Health FIRST
Award (1988), Sigma-Xi Young Investigator Award (1992), University of
Cincinnati Faculty Achievement Award (1994) and the prestigious IEEE
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Early Career Achievement Award (1995) and
University of Toledo Dorman Distinguished Lecture Award (1999). He is listed in Who’s Who in America, Who’s
Who in Engineering, Who’s Who in Education and Who’s Who in the World. He served as an Associate Editor of IEEE
Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (1996-2002) and Assistant Editor of IEEE
Transactions on Rehabilitation Engineering (1995-2000). He is an Associate Editor of International
Journal of Pattern Recognition. He also
serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Computing
Information and Technology. He has
served on many IEEE EMBS professional committees and has delivered workshops on
Intelligent Biomedical Image Analysis in IEEE EMBS International Conferences
(1996, 1997, 2000, 2003). He served as
the Chair of the “New Frontiers in Biomedical Engineering” Symposium at the World
Congress 2000 on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering. He is the Conference Chair of the 2006 IEEE
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society International Conference to be held
on August 31-September 3, 2006 in New York.
Dr. Dhawan is a Fellow of the Institute of
Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and a member of SPIE, ASEE and
Eta Kappa Nu Honor Society. His current
research interests are medical imaging, multi-modality medical image analysis,
multi-grid image reconstruction, wavelets, genetic algorithms, neural networks,
adaptive learning and pattern recognition.
Dr. Dhawan is listed in Who’s Who In the World (2004), Who’s Who in
America (2000-2004), Who’s Who in Engineering (2001, 2002, 2003), Who’s Who in
Education (2002) and Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers (2002, 2004).
Spencer P.
Kuo
“for contributions to the understanding of electromagnetic wave
propagation in plasmas.”
Dr. Kuo received both of his BS and
MS degrees from National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan R.O.C. in 1970 and 1973,
respectively. After he received his PhD
Degree in 1977 from Polytechnic University, he received from Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute a Research Associate position, working at the Oak Ridge
National Laboratory on the Elmo Bumpy Torus (EBT) fusion program. He returned to Polytechnic University in
September 1978 as Research Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering
Department and was promoted to full professor in 1986. He initiated and ran a “summer research
program for college juniors” in the EE department from 1985 to 1991. A similar program has since then been
adopted in many universities and national laboratories.
Dr. Kuo's research
activities cover several areas including microwave plasma interactions,
ionospheric and magnetospheric plasma physics, plasma sources, and plasma
aerodynamic effects on shock waves. He
conducted a novel experiment using rapidly created plasma to up-shift the
electromagnetic wave frequency. He also
showed analytically and experimentally that an added spatial-periodic
distribution in plasma density could trap a wave by downshifting the wave
frequency. He originated the
instability idea to enhance the efficiency of a virtual ionospheric antenna to
generate ELF/VLF waves for underwater communication and for the exploration of
the magnetosphere. He has patented a
plasma torch module, which can be used to form an array of plasma torches as a
large-volume atmospheric-pressure plasma source. This module was installed on a wind tunnel model for on-board
plasma generation to study the plasma aerodynamics in a Mach 2.5 supersonic
flow. The experiment showed that the
shock wave appearing normally in front of the model, which resembled a
supersonic vehicle, could be eliminated totally by the on-board generated plasma. The experimental discovery paves a new way
for solving aeronautic problems of sonic booms and severe wave drag in
supersonic flights.
Dr. Kuo has authored
over 150 journal papers and 60 proceedings issued articles, and has one
patent. He was an associate editor of
Radio Science from 1993 to 1996. He
received an outstanding research award from the New York Chapter of the Sigma
Xi in 1990, and was a recipient of the 1997 Tamkang Chair from Tamkang
University, R.O.C.
Wim
Sweldens
“for contributions to multiresolution methods for image and 3D geometry
compression.”
Wim Sweldens is the Computing
Sciences Research Vice President at Bell Laboratories, Lucent
Technologies. He received his PhD in
Applied Mathematics in 1994 from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium,
and has been with Lucent since 1995.
His research is concerned with wavelets and multiscale analysis and its
application in numerical analysis, signal processing, computer graphics, and
wireless communications. He is the
inventor of the lifting scheme, a new design and implementation technique for
wavelets, which now is part of the JPEG2000 standard.
MIT's “Technology
Review” recently chose him as one of 100 most promising young innovators. More recently he has been leading the
computer science and software research activities in Bell Labs, which focuses
on security, software quality, systems, and scientific computing.
Wim Sweldens is the
Computing Sciences Research Vice President at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies. He heads the computer science and software
research activities in Bell Labs with focus on security, software quality,
systems, and scientific computing. He
also manages the relationship between Bell Labs Research and the Lucent
Worldwide Services business unit and is responsible for bringing Bell Labs
innovations into services. Wim has been
with Bell Labs since 1995.
Stuart K.
Tewksbury
“for contributions to telecommunications and interconnections in high
performance digital systems.”
Stuart Tewksbury received his BS
and PhD degrees in Physics from the University of Rochester in 1964 and 1969,
respectively. He was with the research
division of AT&T Bell Laboratories from 1969 through 1990. Following retirement, he was on the faculty
of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at West Virginia from
1990 through 1998, when he joined Stevens Institute of Technology where he is
Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
His research
at Bell Laboratories started in the area of the emerging topic of digital
signal processing systems and extended to audio coding (delta modulation and
higher order delta-sigma coding). His
interests in the interplay between emerging/future technologies and systems
architectures evolved as a common thread underlying his research, which
included studies related to high temperature semiconductor interconnects,
optical interconnects, wafer-scale integration, hybrid wafer-scale packaging
(MCMs), 3-D stacked IC microsystems, and related topics. He has also explored the topic of parallel
processing architectures and their underlying network infrastructures for
small-scale , highly parallel computational systems. Following his transition to an academic career, he developed an
interest in the educational opportunities enabled by the rapidly evolving
Internet technologies and in the delivery of educational material to a broad
audience (beyond the traditional classroom).
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NJ Communications Society:
Pico Radios - What Does it Take to Design a Link Between Them?
On April 1, 2004, the IEEE
North Jersey Section Communications Society Chapter along with NJIT will host a
presentation on “Pico Radios - What Does it Take to Design a Link Between
Them?” The speaker will be Lizhi Charlie Zhong.
About the Talk
Wireless sensor
networks change the way we live: in
building environments, these tiny radios can work together to create a personalized
micro-climate; in home health care, a doctor can monitor the health of his
patients attributed to the networks of medical sensors in their homes; sensor
networks can also be used to control traffic, mitigate disaster as well as
improve the efficiency of the energy-generation, distribution, and consumption
infrastructure.
To these pico
radios, the power consumption is crucial.
It might be OK to charge your cell phone every day, but it would be a
nightmare to replace the batteries of hundreds of pico radios every day or even
every month. If the power consumption
of such a radio can be kept sufficiently low (e.g., < 100uW), power obtained
through energy scavenging techniques will be enough to keep it self-powered. The outcome is very exciting: maintenance will be much easier and the
network operation will be more robust, free from the impact of dead nodes. However, it is no easy task to bring the
overall power consumption down to such a low level. Designers of sensor networks have attempted to optimize the power
consumption of a component of a system in an isolated fashion, only to find
that when the power consumption of a component is pushing down, the power
consumption of another component goes up.
It has become evident to the designers that how the overall power
consumption depends on the design parameters of the components is the most
important question in power-aware designs.
In this talk, a
two-step approach to the above problem will be presented. In the first step, a system is divided into
smaller subsystems based on functionality.
For each component, an analytical model is developed. In the second step, the models of different
components are integrated. This
integration (often ignored by other designers) is essential to the disclosure
of the overall power consumption's dependency on the design parameters. In this integration process, an interface is
first defined for every model, after which the interactions between the
components are modeled with mathematical equations. The existence of the closed feedback loops makes the integration
much harder. I will show that they can
be solved using the fixed point theorems and an "optimization after
integration" technique.
We can use the
insights gained from the above modeling framework to obtain guidelines for
power-efficient designs. In fact, the
guidelines from our analysis have already had a real impact on the design of an
actual sensor network. For examples,
the speaker will introduce several emerging designs developed in the Berkeley Wireless
Research Center, including a channel hopping scheme and an adaptive sleep
discipline.
About the Speaker
Lizhi Charlie Zhong (BSEE 93, MSEE 95) is a
PhD candidate in electrical engineering and computer science at the University
of California at Berkeley. His
dissertation is on the analysis and design of energy-aware data-link layer for
wireless sensor networks. From June
2002 to present, he is with STMicroelectronics Central R&D Berkeley
Research Laboratory. He is currently
developing a MAC proposal to be submitted to the IEEE802.11n task group by June
2004. His research at ST also includes
the MAC design for cognitive radios.
From January 1995 to August 1998, he was with AT&T Bell
Laboratories. His research interests
were in the area of digital wireless communications systems. Mr. Zhong has three technical patents on
CDMA. He also received two awards from
Bell Laboratories in 1996, including a Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award for
extraordinary achievements on the CDMA program.
All Welcome!
You do not have to be a member of
the IEEE to attend. Bring your friends.
Time: 7:00 PM
(refreshments start at 6:45 PM), Thursday, April 1, 2004.
Place: New
Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Directions are available at www.njit.edu.
Information: Dr. Nirwan Ansari (973) 596-3670
(nirwan.ansari “AT” njit.edu) or check http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj for the
latest updates.
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NJ Computer Chapter:
The Rational Unified Process Software Development Methodology
On Tuesday, April 27, 2004,
the IEEE North Jersey Section Computer Chapter will host a presentation on “The
Rational Unified Process Software Development Methodology” by Vivek Shaiva.
About the Talk
The Rational Unified Process
software development methodology captures many of the best practices in modern
software development to ensure the development of high quality software within
a predictable schedule and budget. The
talk provides an overview of the process and its application in several real
world projects. The shortcomings of
traditional waterfall based software development methodologies that have been
addressed by RUP are covered. The talk
describes the use of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and object oriented
design in association with the methodology.
Finally, the major pitfalls associated with the incorrect use of the RUP
are described.
About the
Speaker
Vivek
Shaiva is currently a Software Architect with NBC in New York. Mr. Shaiva has architected technical
application frameworks and best practices that have been used as the basis for
design and implementation of many enterprise wide applications. He has a diverse range of business
experience with a focus on media, finance and telecommunications. Vivek holds an MBA in Information Systems
from the Indian Institute of Management.
Vivek is also Programs Chairman for the IEEE North Jersey Section
Computer Chapter.
All Welcome!
You do not have to be a
member of the IEEE to attend. Bring
your friends and network during the free pre-meeting buffet starting at 6:00
PM.
Time: 7:00 PM,
Tuesday, April 27, 2004. Pre-meeting
buffet starting at 6:00 PM.
Place: Public
Meeting Room, Morris County Library, 30 E. Hanover Ave, Whippany, NJ, (973) 285-6930.
Information:
Seth Jakel (973) 731-1902 (sgjakel “AT” comcast.net), Vivek Shaiva (908)
229-6125 (vshaiva “AT” computer.org).
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NJ Consultants' Network:
Lightning Protection
On
Thursday, April 29, 2004, the IEEE Consultants’ Network of Northern NJ (CNNNJ)
will host a talk on “Lightning Protection.”
The
speaker will be Jacob K. Struck.
About the Talk
Lightning is a phenomenon
that impacts our lives, not only in the realm of personal safety, but also the
safety and reliability of technology.
Mr. Struck will speak on the science of lightning, its history, and the
present and emerging technologies of lightning protection. The presentation will address the following
topics:
·
History
of lightning protection
·
Existing
lightning regulations
·
Dynamics
of a lightning strike
·
Conventional
lightning protection
·
Unconventional
lightning protection (Voodoo science)
·
Emerging
protection methods and technology
·
Simple
precautions to avoid lightning injury & damage
A question and answer period
will follow.
About the
Speaker
Jacob K. Struck, a
world-renowned expert in the science of protecting munitions from lightning
strikes, is the leader of the Lightning Technology Team at U.S. Army Picatinny
Arsenal. Mr. Struck has received
numerous awards from the U.S. government for his work. He graduated with an EE Degree from NJIT.
About the
Consultants’ Network
Founded in 1992, the IEEE
Consultants Network of Northern NJ encourages and promotes the use of
independent technical consultants by business and industry.
All Welcome!
Everyone welcome. No registration needed.
Free admission.
Time: 7:30 PM, Thursday, April 29, 2004.
Place: Aeroflex/KDI-Integrated Products, 60 S. Jefferson Rd, Whippany,
NJ. (Entrance at rear of building)
Information: For directions and up-to-date meeting status, call
Robert Walker (973) 728-0344 or visit our website at www.TechnologyOnTap.org. To download a map to KDI, go to: http://www.mcekdi-integrated.com/directions.htm.
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NJ
Consultants' Network:
Collections: How to Get Paid
On
Thursday, May 20, 2004, the IEEE Consultants’ Network of Northern NJ (CNNNJ)
will host a talk on “Collections: How
to Get Paid” The speaker will be Brian R.
Quentzel, Esq.
About the Talk
Mr. Brian R. Quentzel, Esq.,
will tell us what we can do to ensure we get paid for the work done for our
clients. He will also describe the
collection services that he offers as an attorney.
This is a repeat visit to the
CNNNJ for Mr. Quentzel.
A question and answer period
will follow the talk.
About the
Speaker
Mr. Quentzel is a local
attorney specializing in helping people recover money owed to them. In business for over ten years, he offers
his services on a contingency basis, so that no fee is due unless and until he
collects the money owed from his client’s debtor. When he is successful, Mr. Quentzel charges a fee of one-third
the amount recovered.
Mr. Quenzel can be reached at
(201) 816-1901. His office is located
at 46 West Clinton Avenue, Tenafly, NJ 07670.
All Welcome!
Everyone welcome. No registration needed.
Free admission.
About the
Consultants’ Network
Founded in 1992, the IEEE
Consultants Network of Northern NJ encourages and promotes the use of
independent technical consultants by business and industry.
Time: 7:30 PM, Thursday, May 20, 2004.
Place: Aeroflex/KDI-Integrated Products, 60 S. Jefferson Rd, Whippany,
NJ. (Entrance at rear of building)
Information: For directions and up-to-date meeting status, call
Robert Walker (973) 728-0344 or visit our website at www.TechnologyOnTap.org. To download a map to KDI, go to: http://www.mcekdi-integrated.com/directions.htm.
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NJ EDS, C&S Chapters:
Evolution and Recent Advances in RF/Microwave Transistors
On April 28th,
2004, the IEEE NJ Section Electron Devices, Circuits and Systems Chapters
together with the New Jersey Institute of Technology will host a talk on
“Evolution and Recent Advances in RF/Microwave Transistors." The speaker will be Distinguished Lecturer,
Dr. Juin J. Liou.
About the Talk
The development of
RF/microwave transistors went almost unnoticed until early 1980’s because,
unlike Si VLSI, there were no mass consumer markets for such devices. Most applications for RF/microwave
transistors had been military or exotic scientific projects. Recently, this has
been changed drastically due to the explosive growth in the civil wireless
communications and internets. This talk
covers the evolution and current status of semiconductor devices for
RF/microwave electronics systems.
Important background, development and major milestones leading to modern
RF/microwave transistors are first presented.
This is followed by the discussions of the concept of heterostructure, a
feature used frequently in RF/microwave devices. Different transistor types, including Si-, III-V-, and wide
bandgap-based devices, and their figures of merit are then addressed. Finally the outlooks of RF/microwave
semiconductor devices and their future applications are given.
About the
Speaker
Juin J. Liou received the BS
(honors), MS, and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of
Florida, Gainesville, in 1982, 1983, and 1987, respectively. In 1987, he joined the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Central Florida,
Orlando, where he is now a Professor.
His current research interests are semiconductor device
modeling/simulation, RF device/IC design, and semiconductor manufacturing.
Dr. Liou has published six
textbooks (another in progress), more than 180 journal papers (including 12
invited articles), and more than 130 papers (including 35 keynote or invited
papers) in international and national conference proceedings. He has been awarded more than $4.5 million
of research grants from federal agencies (i.e., NSF, DARPA, Navy, Air Force,
Army, NIST), state government, and industry (i.e., Semiconductor Research Corp.,
Intersil Corp., Intel Corp., Lucent Technologies, Texas Instruments, Lockheed
Martin), and has held consulting positions with research laboratories and
companies in the United States, Japan, Taiwan, and Singapore. In addition, Dr. Liou serves as a technical
reviewer for various journals and publishers, as well as a chair or member of
the technical program committee for several international conferences. Currently, he is an associate editor for the
Simulation Journal in the area of VLSI and circuit simulation, and a regional
editor (in USA, Canada and South America) for the Microelectronics Reliability,
an international journal published by Elsevier Science.
Dr. Liou received ten
different awards on excellence in teaching and research from the University of
Central Florida and five different awards from the IEEE Electron Device
Society. In the summer of 1992, 1993,
and 1994, Dr. Liou was selected as an Air Force Summer Research Fellow at the
Air Force Research Laboratory, Dayton, Ohio, where he conducted research on
modeling and reliability of AlGaAs/GaAs heterojunction bipolar
transistors. In the Fall of 1997, Dr.
Liou took a sabbatical leave and held a position as a Visiting