Publications (Last update March, 2016).

Books and Book Chapters Authored:

 

B1.         Radio Frequency System Architecture and Design, by John W.M. Rogers, Calvin Plett, and Ian Marsland, published by Artech House in 2013.

B2.         Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design 2nd Ed. by John W.M. Rogers and Calvin Plett, published by Artech House in 2010.

B3.         "Frequency Synthesis for Multiband Wireless Networks" by J. Rogers, F. Dai, C. Plett, Chapter 15 in Wireless Technologies: Circuits, Systems, and Devices, edited by K. Iniewski, CRC Press 2008

B4.         Integrated Circuit Design for High-Speed Frequency Synthesis, John W. M. Rogers, Calvin Plett, and Foster Dai, published by Artech House in 2006. 

B5.         Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design by John W.M. Rogers and Calvin Plett, published by Artech House in 2003.

 

Publications in Refereed Journals:

(Students who I have supervised are listed in BOLD)

 

J1.          Mackenzie Cook, and John W. M. Rogers, “A Study of Nonlinearity Including Feedback Memory with Application to RF Amplifiers,” IEEE Microwave and Components Letters, Accepted Dec. 2015.

J2.          Jose Augusto Lima, John M. W. Rogers, and Rony E. Amaya, “Finding the Initial Estimate for the Diode Bias Point in Multi-Port Receivers,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, vol. 63, No. 1, pp. 34-38, Jan. 2016.

J3.          Jerry Lam, Tom Riley, Member, Norman M. Filiol, John W. M. Rogers, and Calvin Plett, “A 0.009 to 1.4 GHz Frequency Synthesizer with Suppressed Transients During VCO Band Switching,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, vol. 62, No. 12, pp. 1129-1133, Dec. 2015.

J4.          Jose Augusto Lima, John M. W. Rogers, and Rony E. Amaya, “Optimization of EVM Through Diode Bias Control Using a Blind Algorithm Applied to Multiport Receivers,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, vol. 62, No. 3, pp. 286-290, March 2015.

J5.          Oliver Werther, Mark Cavin, Angelika Schneider, Robert Renninger, Bo Liang, Long Bu, Yalin Jin, John Rogers, and John Marcincavage, “A fully integrated 14 band, 3.1 to 10.6 GHz 0.13 mm SiGe BiCMOS UWB RF transceiver,” IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, vol. 43, No. 12, pp. 2829-2843, December 2008.

J6.          P. Popplewell, V. Karam, A. Shamim, J. Rogers, L. Roy, and C. Plett, “A 5.2-GHz BFSK Transceiver Using Injection-Locking and an On-Chip Antenna,” IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, vol. 43, No. 4, pp. 981-990, April 2008.

J7.           S.H. Knox, J.W.M. Rogers, P.A.N. Chyurlia, N.G. Tarr J.A. Bardwell, H. Tang and S. Haffouz, “Characterization and Modeling of AlGaN/GaN Heterostructure Field Effect Transistors for Low Noise Amplifiers,” IEEE Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology, pp. 629-633, May/June 2006.

J8.           John W.M. Rogers, Foster F. Dai, Calvin Plett and Mark S. Cavin, “A Tutorial on the Design and Characterization of a 5GHz SD Fractional-N Frequency Synthesizer for Low Phase Noise Performance,” EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, Vol. 2006 Article ID 48489, pp. 1-11, May 2006.

J9.           Dave G. Rahn, Mark S. Cavin, Foster F. Dai, Neric Fong, Richard Griffith, Jose Macedo, David Moore, John W. M. Rogers, and Mike Toner, “A Fully Integrated Multi-Band MIMO WLAN Transceiver RFIC,” IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, vol. 40, No. 8, pp. 1629-1641, August 2005.

J10.       V. V. Levenets, R. E. Amaya, N. G. Tarr, T. J. Smy, and John W.M. Rogers, "Characterization of silver CPWs for applications in silicon MMICs," IEEE Electron Device Letters, vol. 26, No. 6, pp. 357-359, June 2005.

J11.       V. V. Levenets, R. E. Amaya, N. G. Tarr, T. Smy, and J. W. M. Rogers, “Silver coplanar waveguides as the passive components of choice for microwave integrated circuits,” IEEE Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology, vol. 23, No. 5, pp. 1924-1928, 2005.

J12.       John W.M. Rogers, Foster F. Dai, Mark S. Cavin, and Dave G. Rahn, "A Multi-Band DS Fractional-N Frequency Synthesizer for a MIMO WLAN Transceiver RFIC," IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 678-689, March 2005.

J13.       John W. M. Rogers, and Calvin Plett, "A 5GHz Radio Front-End with Automatically Q Tuned Notch Filter and VCO," IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, vol. 38, No. 9, pp. 1547-1554, Sept. 2003. (Invited from BCTM as part of the special issue.)

J14.       John W. M. Rogers, David Rahn, and Calvin Plett, "A Study of Digital and Analog Automatic-Amplitude Control Circuitry for Voltage-Controlled Oscillators," IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 352-356, Feb. 2003.

J15.       John W. M. Rogers, Jose Macedo, and Calvin Plett, "A Completely Integrated 1.9 GHz Receiver Front-End with Monolithic Image Reject Filter and VCO," IEEE Transactions of Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 50, No. 1, pp.210-215, Jan. 2002.

J16.       John W. M. Rogers, V. Levenets, C.A. Pawlowicz, N.G. Tarr , T.J. Smy , and C. Plett, "Post-Processed Cu Inductors with Application to a Completely Integrated 2-GHz VCO," IEEE Trans. on Electron Devices vol. 48, No. 6, pp. 1284-1287, June 2001.

J17.       John W. M. Rogers, J. Macedo, and C. Plett, "The Effect of Varactor Non-Linearity on the Phase Noise of Completely Integrated VCOs," IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits vol. 35, No. 9, pp. 1360-1367, Sept 2000. (Invited from BCTM as part of the special issue.)

 

Publications in Refereed Conference Proceedings:

(Students who I have supervised are listed in BOLD)

 

C1.         Tongning Wu, Calvin Plett, John W.M. Rogers, and Ming Li, “A Fully Integrated 1 - 4 GHz GaN Class J Power Amplifier” WAMICOM June 2014.

C2.         Richard Beare, Calvin Plett, John Rogers, “Highly Reconfigurable Single-Ended Low Noise Amplifier for Software Defined Radio Applications”, Proc. NEWCAS, June 2012.

C3.       S. Shopov, R. E. Amaya, J. W. Rogers, and C. Plett, “High-Performance Reduced-Size 70-80 GHz CMOS Branch-Line Hybrid using CPW and CPWG Guided-Wave Structures” Proc. IEEE International Microwave Symposium, June 2012. 

C4.         Stefan Shopov, Rony E. Amaya, John W. M. Rogers, Calvin Plett, “Adapting the Doherty Amplifier for Millimetre-Wave CMOS ApplicationsNEWCAS, June 2011.

C5.         John W. M. Rogers, “The Design of Synthesizers for Modern Multi-Band and Multi-Standard Wireless Transceivers” INVITED to “Advanced Topics on Multi-Standard Wireless Transceiver RFIC Designs” as part of the IEEE Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits, June 2007.

C6.         Peter H. R. Popplewell, Victor Karam, Atif Shamim, John Rogers, and Calvin Plett, “An Injection-Locked 5.2GHz SoC Transceiver with On-Chip Antenna for Self-Powered RFID and Medical Sensor Applications,” IEEE Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits, pp. 88-89, June 2007.

C7.         Victor Karam, Peter H. R. Popplewell, Atif Shamim, John Rogers, Calvin Plett, “A 6.3 GHz BFSK Transmitter with On-Chip Antenna for Self-Powered Medical Sensor Applications,” IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium, pp. 101-104, June 2007.

C8.         Peter H. R. Popplewell, Victor Karam, Atif Shamim, John Rogers, and Calvin Plett, “A 5.2GHz BFSK Receiver with On-Chip Antenna for Self-Powered RFID Tags and Medical Sensors,” IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium, pp. 669-672, June 2007.

C9.         Vincent I. Karam, and John W. M. Rogers, “A 5.8mW Fully Integrated 1.5GHz Synthesizer in 0.13µm CMOS,” IEEE Meeting on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems, pp. 127-130, Jan. 2007.  

C10.     Vincent I. Karam, and John W. M. Rogers, “A 3.5mW fully integrated 1.8GHz synthesizer in 0.13mm CMOS,” IEEE Northeast Workshop on Circuits and Systems, pp. 49-52, June 2006.    

C11.     Hao Shang, John W. M. Rogers, and James Chiu, “A fully differential 24GHz transmit PLL in a 0.13mm CMOS technology,” IEEE Northeast Workshop on Circuits and Systems, pp. 45-48, June 2006.    

C12.     Travis Lovitt, Calvin Plett, and John Rogers, "A 0.13mm CMOS Delay Cell for 40 Gb/s FFE Equalization," IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Kos Greece, pp. 5680-5683, May 2006.

C13.     P. H. R. Popplewell, V. Karam, A. Shamim, J.W.R. Rogers, M. Cloutier, C. Plett, "5.2 GHz Self-Powered Lock and Roll Radio using VCO Injection Locking and On-Chip Antennas," IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Kos Greece, pp. 5206-5209, May 2006.

C14.     A. Shamim, P. Popplewell, V. Karam, L. Roy, J. Rogers, and C. Plett, "Silicon Differential Antenna/Inductor for Short Range Wireless Communication Applications," Canadian Conference of Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), Ottawa, Ontario. May 2006, pp. 94-97.

C15.     A. Shamim, P. Popplewell, V. Karam, L. Roy, J. Rogers and C. Plett, "5.2 GHz on-chip antenna/inductor for short range wireless communication applications,” IEEE Int. Workshop on Antenna Technology, March, 2006, pp. 213-216.

C16.     Justin Abbott, Calvin Plett, and John W. M. Rogers, "A 1.2V CMOS multiplier for 10 Gbit/s Equalization," IEEE European Solid-State Circuits Conference in Grenoble, France, pp. 379-382, Sept. 2005.

C17.     Justin Abbott, Calvin Plett, and John W. M. Rogers, "A 15GHz, 1.8V, Variable-Gain Modified Cheery-Hooper Amplifier," IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference in San Jose, USA, pp. 645-648, Sept. 2005.

C18.     John W. M. Rogers, Dave G. Rahn, Mark S. Cavin, Foster F. Dai, Neric Fong, Richard Griffith, Jose Macedo, David Moore, and Mike Toner, "A Fully Integrated Multi-Band MIMO WLAN Transceiver RFIC," IEEE Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits, pp. 290-293, June 2005.

C19.     Justin P. Abbott, Calvin Plett, and John W. M. Rogers, "A 1.2V CMOS Multiplier for 10 Gbit/s Equalization," IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, pp. 1936-1939, May 2005. 

C20.     V. V. Levenets, R. E. Amaya, N. G. Tarr, T. Smy, and J. W. M. Rogers, “Characterization of silver coplanar waveguides for applications in Si MMIC,” Advanced Metallization Conference, pp. 171-176, 2004.  

C21.     Stephen Knox, John W. M. Rogers, and Garry Tarr, "A Low Voltage 5.2GHz LNA with an On-Chip Image Filter," IEEJ International Analog VLSI Workshop, pp. 267-272, Oct. 2004. (Won the best paper award.)

C22.     Paul Laferriere, Dave Rahn, Calvin Plett and John W. M. Rogers, "A 5GHz Direct-Conversion Receiver with DC Offset Correction," IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, pp. IV 269-272, May 2004.

C23.     Paul Laferriere, Dave Rahn, Neric Fong, Calvin Plett, and John W. M. Rogers, "DC Offset Correction Utilizing Differential-Mode Feedback with Application to a 5GHz Direct Conversion Receiver," Workshop on Wireless Circuits and Systems, pp. 47-48, May 21-22, 2004.

C24.     John W. M. Rogers, Mark Cavin, Foster Dai, and Dave Rahn, "A Delta-Sigma Fractional-N Frequency Synthesizer with Multi-Band PMOS VCOs for 2.4 and 5GHz WLAN Applications," IEEE European Solid-State Circuits Conference 2003, pp. 651-654, Sept. 2003.

C25.     John W. M. Rogers, and C. Plett, “A 5GHz Radio Front-End with Automatically Q Tuned Notch Filter,” IEEE Bipolar and BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting, pp. 69-72, Oct. 2002.

C26.     John W. M. Rogers, D. Rahn, C. Plett, "A 2.4GHz Wide Tuning Range VCO with Automatic Level Control Circuitry," pp. 356-359, Proc. IEEE European Solid-State Circuits Conference 2001, Villach, Austria, Sept 2001.

C27.     John W. M. Rogers, C. Plett, "A Completely Integrated 1.8 Volt, 5GHz Tunable Image Reject Notch Filter," IEEE RFIC Symposium 2001, pp. 72-75, Phoenix, May 2001.

C28.     John W. M. Rogers, Vladislav Levenetts, Chris A. Pawlowicz, N.G. Tarr, Tom J. Smy, Calvin Plett, "A Completely Integrated 2GHz VCO with Post-Processed Cu Inductors," IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference 2001, pp. 575-578, San Diego, May 2001. 

C29.     John W. M. Rogers, J. Macedo, C. Plett, "A Completely Integrated 1.9 GHz Receiver Front-End with Monolithic Image Reject Filter and VCO," IEEE RFIC Symposium, pp. 143-146, Boston, June 2000.  

C30.     John W. M. Rogers, Jose Macedo, Jugnu Ojha, C. Plett, "The Effect of Varactor Non-Linearity on the Phase Noise of a Completely Integrated 1.8GHz VCO," IEEE Bipolar and BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting, pp. 141-144, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Sept, 1999.

C31.     John W. M. Rogers, L. Tan, T. Smy, N. Tait, N. G. Tarr, “A high Q on-chip Cu inductor post process for Si integrated circuits,” IEEE International Interconnect Technology Conference, pp. 239-241, June 1999.

Patents

1.            Meathods Related to Frequency Synthesis Control, Rachel Katumba, Darren Frenette, Ardeshir Namdar, and John Rogers, Jan. 14, 2016, US 2016/0013797 A1.

2.            Circuits and Methods for Eliminating Reference Spurs in Fractional-N Frequency Synthesis, Ardeshir Namdar, Darren Frenette, and John Rogers, Dec. 3, 2015, US 2015/0349788 A1.

3.            Systems and Methods for Controlling Frequency Synthesis, Rachel Katumba, Darren Frenette, Ardeshir Namdar, and John Rogers, March 24, 2015, US 8,989,332 B2.

4.            Circuits and Methods for Eliminating Reference Spurs in Fractional-N Frequency Synthesis, Darren Frenette, Ardeshir Namdar, and John Rogers, June 23, 2015, US 9,065,457 B2.

5.            Low Voltage Voltage-Controlled Oscillator Topology, John W. M. Rogers and Calvin Plett, USPTO 6,469,586, October 22, 2002.  

6.            Automatic gain control for a voltage controlled oscillator, John W. M. Rogers, USPTO, 6,680,655, January 20, 2004.

7.            On-chip image reject filter, John W. M. Rogers and Calvin Plett, USPTO, 6,681,103January 20, 2004

8.            Voltage-controlled oscillator with an automatic amplitude control circuit, John W. M. Rogers, USPOT, 6,700,450, March 2, 2004.

9.            Integrated circuit radio frequency amplifier with notch filter, John W. M. Rogers, USPTO 6,873,212, March 29, 2005.

Submitted to Refereed Journals

Publications Submitted to Refereed Conferences

Other Publications

J.W.M. Rogers, C. Plett , "Low Power RF Front-End Components in SiGe for 5 GHz Applications: A Completely Integrated 1.8 Volt Tunable Image Reject Notch Filter," Proceedings Micronet Annual Workshop, pp. 43,44, Aylmer Quebec, April 20, 2001

J.W.M. Rogers, V. Levenets, C. Pawlowicz, N.G. Tarr , T.J. Smy , C. Plett , "Post-Processed Copper Inductrors with Application to a Completely Integrated 2GHz VCO Proceedings Micronet Annual Workshop, pp. 97,98, Aylmer Quebec, April 20, 2001

John Rogers, Tom J. Smy , Calvin Plett , "Oscillator Design Using Copper Inductors," Micronet Workshop,Ottawa, Ont., May, 1999.

J. Rogers, C. Plett , T.J. Smy , "A Completely Integrated 1.8 GHz VCO," (Winner of SMC Industrial Collaboration Award) MR&DCAN,, Ottawa, Ont., June 1998.