Rony E. Amaya, Ph.D.(
Invited Papers and Seminars
1.
Yazi
Cao, R. E. Amaya
and Qi-Jun Zhang, "A Combined Parametric
Modeling and Design Optimization Technique for Microwave Components Utilizing
Neural Networks", CRC Internal
Seminar Series, Mar. 2012
2.
R.E. Amaya,
"Advance Packaging Options for Millimetre-Wave
System-On-Package Integration", Seminar presented to the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Universite du
Quebec and Outaouais, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada, Mar.
2012.
3.
R.E. Amaya,
"Recent Advances in GaN Modeling and Circuit
design at the Communications Research Centre", Invited seminar presented
at the Canadian GaN Workshop, Canadian
Microelectronics Corporation, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Nov. 2010.
4.
R.
E. Amaya and Greg Brzezina, "Millimeter-Wave Integrated Circuit Design:
SOC vs. SOP", CRC Internal Seminar
Series, Jun. 2009
5.
R.E. Amaya,
"Millimetre-wave Integrated Circuits: SOC vs. SiP", Seminar presented to the Department of
Electronics, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Jan. 2008.
6.
R.E. Amaya,
"Millimetre-wave Integrated Circuit Design: A
System-in-Package (SiP) approach", Seminar
presented to the IEEE Kingston Chapter and Queens University, Kingston,
Ontario, Canada, Nov. 2007.
Publications in Refereed Journals
1.
Xing Zhou, L. Roy and Rony E. Amaya,
" Design and Performance Analysis of a Highly Efficient Asymmetric
Distributed GaN PA," Submitted to IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems II, Jan. 2013.
2.
Xing Zhou, L. Roy and Rony E. Amaya,
" 1W, Highly Efficient, Ultra-Broadband Asymmetric Distributed Power Amplifier
in GaN," Submitted
to IEEE Microwave and Wireless Letters,
Oct. 2012.
3. Rony E. Amaya, Adrian Momciu, and Ibrahim Haroun,
" High-Performance, Compact Quasi-Elliptic Band Pass Filters for V-band
High Data Rate Radios," Accepted for
publication to the IEEE Trans. in Advance Packaging, Mar. 2012.
4. B. Spokoinyi, R. E. Amaya, I. Haroun and J.S.
Wight, "System-On-Package MHMIC mm-Wave Frequency Synthesizer for 60 GHz
WPANs," International Journal of
Microwave Science and Technology, Mar. 2012.
5.
Ming Li and Rony E. Amaya, "Design of mM-W Fully Integrated CMOS
Standing-Wave VCOs Using Low-Loss CPW Resonators", IEEE
Trans. Circuits and Systems II,
Vol. 59 , No. 2, pp. 78-82, Feb.
2012.
6.
Tyler
Ross, Gabriel Cormier, Khelifa Hettak
and Rony E. Amaya,
"Particle Swarm Optimization in the Determination of the Optimal bias
Current for Noise Performance of Gallium Nitride HEMTs," IEEE Microwave
and Optical Technology Letters, Vol. 53, No. 2, pp. 652-656, Mar. 2011.
7. Ming Li, Rony E. Amaya, Robert G. Harrison, and N.
Garry Tarr, "X-Parameter
Measurement of Pulse-Compression Nonlinear Transmission Lines", Hindawi Journal of Electrical and Computer
Engineering (JECE), Volume 2010 (2010), Article ID 415315, 5
pages, Jan. 2010.
8.
M. Li, R. E.
Amaya, R. Harrison and N.G. Tarr,
"Investigation of CMOS Varactors for RF and mM-W
Applications", Hindawi Journal of
Electrical and Computer Engineering (JECE),
Volume 2009 (2009), Article ID 535809, 4 pages, May 2009.
9.
V.V.
Levenets, R.E. Amaya,
N.G. Tarr and T.J. Smy,
“Application of PVD silver for integrated microwave passives in silicon
technology,” Solid-State Electronics, Volume 50, Issues 7-8, July-August 2006,
Pages 1389-1394
10. R. E. Amaya, P. Popplewell, C. Plett, “EM and Substrate Coupling in Silicon RFICs,” IEEE
Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 40, No. 9, pp.
1968-1971 Aug. 2005.
11. V. Levenets and R. E. Amaya and N.G. Tarr and T.J. Smy and J.W.M. Rogers, “Characterization of silver CPWs for
applications in silicon MMICs,” IEEE Electron Device Letters, vol. 26, no. 6,
pp. 357-359, Jun. 2005.
12. V. Levenets, R. E. Amaya, N.G. Tarr, and T.J. Smy, “Silver coplanar waveguides as the passives of choice
for microwave integrated circuits,” Journal of Vacuum and Science Technology,
Feb. 2005.
13. V. Levenets, R. E. Amaya, N.G. Tarr, and T.J. Smy, Application of PVD Silver for Integrated Microwave
Passives in Silicon Technology,” IEEE Transactions on Advanced Packaging, Apr.
2005.
14. R. E. Amaya, V. Levenets, C. Plett, and N. G. Tarr, “Copper
Coplanar Waveguides in Si Substrates for 10 GHz Applications,” Journal of
Vacuum and Science Technology-A, May. 2004.
15. R. Amaya, H. Tang, J.A. Bardwell, J.B. Webb, T.W. MacElwee and N.G. Tarr
"Contact resistance reduction in AlGaN/GaN heterostructure field effect
transistors," Physica Status Solidi
c0, pp. 236-239, Jun. 2002.
Publications in Conference Proceeding
1. M. Li, R. E. Amaya,
A. Momciu and K. Hettak,
"A Dual-Mode CPW Resonator for 60 GHz Broadband Standing-Wave VCO
Applications," Accepted for
publication at the 2013 IMS Symposium, Seattle, USA, Jun. 2013.
2. Stefan Shopov, Rony E. Amaya,
Calvin Plett and John W. Rogers, "High-Performance
Reduced-Size 70-80 GHz CMOS Branch-Line Hybrid using CPW and CPWG Guided Wave
Structures", 2012 IEEE IMS
Symposium, Montreal, Jun. 2012.
3. S.G. Seneviratne, M.C.E. Yagoub, Rony E. Amaya, "MMIC
Doherty Power Amplifier for a 5W pico-cell base
station in GaN HFET technology", IEEE Int. Conf. on Microelectronics (ICM
2012), Algiers, Algeria, Dec. 17-20. 2012.
4. Greg Brzezina, Rony E. Amaya, K. Hettak,
J. Sydor and Langis Roy,
"A 60-GHz System-On-Package Balanced Antipodal Vivaldi Antenna with
Stepped Dielectric Director (BAVA-SDD) in LTCC", 2011 IEEE European Microwave Conf., pp. 547-550, Oct. 2011.
5. I. Haroun, C. Plett,
A. Momciu and R.E. Amaya,
"60-GHz
Hybrid system-on-package receiver front-end for low-cost high data rate
radios", Midwest Symp.
on Circuits and Systems., Art. No. 6026635, Aug. 2011.
6. E. Ruscito, H. Chuang, R.E.
Amaya, L. Roy and B. Syrett,
"A Low Cost Oscillator for High Data Rate E-band Transceivers," IEEE FBY Conference, Montreal, Jun.
2011.
7.
Stefan
Shopov, Rony E. Amaya, John W. M. Rogers and Calvin Plett,
"Adapting the Doherty Amplifier for Millimetre-Wave
CMOS Applications," Presented at the 2011
IEEE NEWCAS Conference, Bordeaux, June 2011.
8.
Ming Li, Rony E. Amaya and Adrian Momciu,
"Standing-Wave Transmission-Line-Resonator VCO for E-band
Applications", Submitted to the 12th
annual IEEE Wireless and Microwave Technology (WAMI) Conference, April 2011.
9.
Tyler
Ross, Gabriel Cormier, Khelifa Hettak
and Rony E. Amaya,
"Current Density Dependance of Minimum Noise
Figure for Gallium Nitride HEMTs,", Presented at the 2010 European Microwave
Conference, Paris, France, Sep. 2010.
10.
R. E. Amaya, M. Li and K. Hettak,
" A Broadband 3D Vertical Microstrip to Stripline Transition in LTCC using
a Quasi-Coaxial Structure for Millimetre-Wave SOP Applications," Presented
at the 2010 European Microwave Conference, Paris, France, Sep. 2010.
11.
R. E. Amaya, " A Layout Efficient, Vertically Stacked,
Resonator-Coupled Bandpass Filter in LTCC for 60 GHz SOP Transceivers,"
2010 IEEE RFIC Conference, Anaheim, USA, May 2010, pp. 245-248.
12.
K. Hettak, R. E. Amaya, and G.A. Morin " A Novel Compact
Three-Dimensional CMOS Branch-Line Coupler using the Meandering ECPW, TFMS, and
Buried Micro Coaxial Technologies at 60 GHz," 2010 IEEE MTT-S, Anaheim,
USA, May 2010, pp. 1576-1579,.
13.
Ming Li, and Rony E. Amaya,
"A High-Frequency Power Amplifier Using GaN Power Cell Technology",
Accepted for publications at the 11th
annual IEEE Wireless and Microwave Technology (WAMI) Conference, April 2010.
14. R.
E. Amaya, " A Layout Efficient,
Vertically Stacked, Resonator-Coupled Bandpass Filter in LTCC with Higher
Immunity to Process Variations," 14th. ANTEM/URSI Symposium, Ottawa,
Ontario, July. 2010, pp. 1-4.
15.
R. E. Amaya and C. J. Verver, "A
60 GHz CMOS balanced downconversion mixer with a layout efficient 90o
hybrid coupler", Proceedings of the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits
Conference, pp. 235-238, Sept. 2009.
16.
R.
E. Amaya, M. Li, R. G. Harrison, and N. G. Tarr,
“Coplanar Waveguides in Silicon with Low Attenuation and Slow Wave Reduction,”
2007 IEEE European Microwave Conference , Munich, Germany, Oct. 2007, pp. 508 - 511
17.
M.
Li, R. E. Amaya, J. M. Duchamp, P. Ferrari, R.
G. Harrison, and N. G. Tarr, “CMOS Varactors in NLTL Pulse-Compression Applications,” 2007
IEEE European Microwave Conference, Munich, Germany, Oct. 2007, pp. 1405-1408.
18.
M.
Li, R. E. Amaya, J. M. Duchamp, P. Ferrari, R.
G. Harrison, and N. G. Tarr, “Low-Loss Low-Cost
All-Silicon CMOS NLTLs for Pulse Compression,” 2007 IEEE IMS Conference, Jun.
2007, Honolulu, Hawaii, pp. 449-452 .
19.
R.
E. Amaya, N. G. Tarr, and C. Plett,
“A 1-27 Fully Integrated CMOS Distributed Amplifier using Coplanar Waveguides,”
2004 IEEE RFIC conference, Jun. 2004, pp. 193-196.
20.
R.
E. Amaya, C. Plett, “The Design of High Gain Fully
Integrated Distributed Amplifier in CMOS,” 2003 IEEE ESSCIRC conference, Sept.
2003, pp. 145-147.
21.
R.
E. Amaya and V. Levenets and N.G. Tarr
and C. Plett, “Copper Coplanar Waveguides in Si
Substrates for 10 GHz Applications,” 11th Canadian Semiconductor Technology
Conference, no. Th1.2, Aug. 2003.
22.
R.
E. Amaya and V. Levenets and N.G. Tarr
and C. Plett, “Copper Coplanar Waveguides in Si and
suitable for 10 GHz operation,” 2003 Advance Metallization Conference (AMC),
Oct. 2003, pp. 59-63.
23.
R.
E. Amaya, V. Levenets, C. Plett,
and N. G. Tarr, “Copper Coplanar Waveguides on Si
Substrates for Frequencies up to 40 GHz,” Symposium on Antenna Technology and
Applied Electromagnetics, Jul. 2004, pp. 51-54.
24.
R.
E. Amaya and V. Levenets and N.G. Tarr,
“Improved Coplanar Waveguides for Silicon RF ICs,” Proceedings Micronet Annual Workshop, May. 2005.
25.
R.
E. Amaya, J. Aguirre, and C. Plett, “Gain Bandwidth
Considerations in Fully Integrated Distributed Amplifiers implemented in
Silicon,” 2004 IEEE ISCAS conference, May. 2004, pp. 273-276.
26.
V. Levenets and R. E. Amaya
and N.G. Tarr and T.J. Smy,
“Characterization of Silver CPWs for Applications in Silicon MMICs,” 2004
Advance Metallization Conference (AMC), Aug. 2004.
27.
P. Popplewell, R. E. Amaya,
M. Cloutier, and C. Plett,
“Calibration-Free On-Chip Inductor Coupling Experiment with Injection-Lockable
VCOs,” in IEEE Bipolar/BiCMOS Technology Meeting
Conference, Sep. 2004, pp. 261-264.
28.
R.
E. Amaya, P. Popplewell, M. Cloutier,
and C. Plett, “Analysis and Measurements of EM and
Substrate Coupling Effects in Common RF Integrated Circuits,” in IEEE Custom
Integrated Circuit Conference, Oct. 2004, pp. 363-366.
29.
P. Popplewell and R. E. Amaya
and C. Plett and M. Cloutier,
“Analysis and measurements of injection-lockable oscillators for high-gain,
high-Q applications,” IEEJ International Analog VLSI Workshop, pp. 35-40, Oct.
2004.
30.
V. Levenets and R. E. Amaya
and N.G. Tarr and T.J. Smy,
“PVD Silver as a Material of Choice for Microwave Passives in Silicon
Technology,” 205th Meeting of The Electrochemical Society, May. 2004.
31.
R.
E. Amaya and Jorge Aguirre and C. Plett, “Design of
Fully Integrated Distributed Amplifiers in Silicon Substrates,” Proceedings Micronet Annual Work-shop (Winner of Best Paper Award),
pp. 78, Sept. 2003.
32.
R.
E. Amaya , C. Plett and N.G.Tarr,
“A 0.5-10.5 GHz CMOS Distributed Amplifier using Copper Inductors,” Symposium
on Microelectronics Research & Development (MR&DCAN), Sept. 2001.
Patents
1.
Y. Cao and R.
E. Amaya, "Compact Planar Inverted F-Antenna
for Multiband Communication," US Patent Pending, Attorney Docket No.
C156-101 , filed on Mar. 2012.
2.
M. Li, R. E.
Amaya, K. Hettak,
"Integrated Standing-Wave Voltage Controlled Oscillator with Dual-Mode
Coplanar Waveguide Resonator," US Patent Pending, Attorney Docket No.
102-70 US, filed on Apr. 2012.