[CPCC] Seminar by Prof. Saeed Mohammadi

[Hamid Jafarkhani]

Title: Bring the System Down – to a Chip

Speaker: Prof. Saeed Mohammadi

Date: May 28, 2015, Thu.

Time: 4:00 PM

Venue: CALIT2 Room 3008

ABSTRACT

What if you can fit a cell phone inside a lapel pin? No batteries 
required! What if you can take the temperature of mitochondria inside a 
live cell without interfering with its activities? Future compact 
electronic systems including devices built for the internet of 
everything will rely on integration of various functions with efficient 
and ultra low power communication systems. The advent of highly reliable 
and scalable CMOS Silicon on Insulator (SOI) technology has opened up a 
pathway for tight integration of various functions on a single chip. The 
first part of the presentation will be devoted to RF and microwave power 
amplifiers, including a 5G RF front-end implemented in a scaled CMOS SOI 
technology. We will discuss how SOI technology facilitates the 
implementation of high performance power amplifier modules. Next, 
integrated sensing platforms based on CMOS SOI technology will be 
presented. Such platforms, when integrated with on-chip antenna, 
amplifiers and ultra-low power interface circuits allow observing 
physical and biological phenomena that have not yet been reported.

SPEAKER'S BIOGRAPHY

Saeed Mohammadi received his PhD degree from the University of Michigan 
in 2000. He is currently an associate professor of electrical 
engineering and a member of Birck nanotechnology center at Purdue 
University. Professor Mohammadi and his students are currently working 
on integrated system on a chip for electromechanical, biological, RF and 
microwave applications.