Dr. Yuhua Cheng
Time: 7:00 PM, Wednesday, March 10, 2004. Free buffet will be starting at 6:15 PM.
Place: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Directions are available here.

On March 10th, 2004, the IEEE NJ Section Electron Devices, Circuits and Systems Chapters together with the New Jersey Institute of Technology will host a talk on “An Overview of CMOS Technology for RF IC Applications." The speaker will be Distinguished Lecturer, Dr. Yuhua Cheng.

About the Talk

This talk will discuss the HF device behavior of CMOS technology, which is an attractive potential process candidate for wireless communication applications. The impact of downscaling of CMOS technology to the RF applications will be introduced first. Then the trend of the device performance will be summarized to understand the device behavior better for RF design requirements. Several important figure-of-merits for MOS transistors such as cutoff frequency (fT), maximum oscillation frequency (fmax), power-gain, noise figure (NF) and linearity etc. will be analyzed together with the discussion of other device components to explore the details of RF CMOS technology. Issues limiting the recent advanced CMOS process for RF application are also addressed to have a complete understanding of RF CMOS technology.

About the Speaker

Yuhua Cheng received the BS Degree in Electrical Engineering from Shandong Polytechnic University, Jinan, China in 1982, the MS Degree in Electrical Engineering from Tianjin University, Tianjin, China in 1985, and the PhD Degree in Electrical Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 1989.

In 1990, he joined in the Institute of Microelectronics (IME), Peking University, China as an assistant professor. From 1992 to 1996, he was an associate professor in the IME and the Department of Computer Science and Technology. From 1994 to 1995, he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Trondheim, Norway, and a Research Fellow of the Norwegian Research Council. From 1995 to 1997, he was a Research Associate at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley. In 1997, he worked for a short period in Cadence Design Systems as a Member of Consultant Staff before he joined Skyworks Solutions (formerly Conexant Systems and Rockwell Semiconductor Systems), where he is currently the senior manager of device modeling and technology service team responsible for mixed-signal/RF device (bipolar, MOS and passive) modeling, physical verification, parasitics extraction and foundry technology evaluations/assessments for various (ASIC, Mixed-signal, RF) circuit designs.

He serves technical program committees in several international conferences including the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) and Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium. He has authored and co-authored over 70 research papers, and two books.

He is a senior member of IEEE, and serves in the Regions/Chapter Committee of IEEE Electron Device Society and the vice-chair of the North America West subcommittee for Regions/Chapters (SRC-NAW) of the EDS Regions/ Chapters Committee. He is an EDS Distinguished Lecturer.

All Welcome!

You do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend.

Information: 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)