Rony E. Amaya, Ph.D.(Carleton University)

 

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.