Faculty members participating in antennas, microwaves, and wave optics research:
Slim Boumaiza is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo.
His research is focused on defining, conceptualizing, designing, and realizing high-performing microwave and millimeter wave circuits and systems for wireless communications (with applications in 4G, 5G and the Internet of Things). He directs the Emerging Radio System Research Group (EmRG), which conducts multidisciplinary research encompassing the semiconductor device, circuit, and system levels of radio hardware.
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Microwave and Millimeter Wave (mm-wave) Circuits and Systems
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High Efficiency Power Amplifiers for Wireless Communications (sub 6 GHz and mm-wave)
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Digital Predistortion Techniques for 4G and 5G Power Amplifiers and Massive MIMO\/Beamforming Transmitters
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Nonlinear Microwave Circuits Characterization and Modeling
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Advanced Circuits and Systems for Microwave and mm-wave Radio Front-ends (printed circuit boards and integrated circuit technologies)
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Advanced Signal Processing for Wireless Communications
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5G Radio Hardware
Na Young Kim is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. She has an affiliation with the Institute for Quantum Computing and and Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology and cross-appointments with the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Department of Chemistry. Na Young leads the Quantum Innovation (QuIN) laboratory, which aims to build large-scale quantum processors based on novel materials and advanced technologies.
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Large-Scale Solid-State Quantum Computer
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Quantum Simulator
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Quantum Information Processing & Communications
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Quantum Artificial Intelligence
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Quantum Security
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Nanotechnology
John R. Long received the B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Calgary in 1984, and the M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in Electronics from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, in 1992 and 1996, respectively. Since January 2002 he has been chair of the Electronics Research Laboratory at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. His current research interests include high speed wireline and high frequency, low power and mobile transceiver circuits for integrated wireless communications systems.
- Advanced Manufacturing
Amir Hamed Majedi is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and cross-appointed to the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Waterloo. Professor Majedi leads the Integrated Quantum Optoelectronics Lab (IQOL) within the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology.
His main research interests lie within engineering quantum electrodynamics with a focus on superconducting optoelectronics and quantum photonics. His research activities encompass superconducting nanowire single photon detectors, single photon sources based on nanowire quantum dots, superconducting plasmonic detectors and waveguides, superconducting-based quantum dot LEDs for single and entangled photon sources, and graphene photonics.
- Quantum photonics
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Superconducting optoelectronics
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Microwave-photonics
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Superconducting & photonic quantum devices
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THz photonic devices
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Systems Electromagnetic band gap structures
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Nano-electrophotonics
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Nano-electrodynamics
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Microwaves & Photonics
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Nano-electronics
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Single-Photon Technology
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Photonics
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Quantum Information Technology
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Quantum Electronics
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Solid-state Quantum Electrodynamics
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Nanotechnology
Raafat Mansour is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. He is a former holder of a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Micro-Nano Integrated RF Systems. He held an NSERC Industrial Research Chair (IRC) for two terms (2001-2005) and (2006-2010). Prior to joining the University of Waterloo in January 2000, Dr. Mansour was with COM DEV Cambridge, Ontario from 1986-1999, where he held various technical and management positions in COM DEV’s Corporate R&D Department. Professor Mansour holds 37 US and Canadian patents and has more than 380 refereed publications to his credit. He is a co-author of a 23-chapter book published by Wiley and has contributed 6 chapters of 4 other books.
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Tunable \/ Reconfigurable Microwave and Millimeter-wave circuits and subsystems
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Filters and Multiplexers
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RF MEMS Technology
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RF Phase Change Material (PCM) Technology
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Microwave and Millimeter-wave Components for 5G Communication Systems
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Superconductive Microwave and Millimeter-wave Devices
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Computer-aided Tuning of Microwave Devices
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Intelligent RF\/Microwave Sub-systems
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CMOS-MEMS Nano Instrumentations
Omar Ramahi is an Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor at the University of Waterloo.
Professor Ramahi’s research interests include radiating systems, renewable energy technology, biomedical applications of electromagnetic waves and fields, electromagnetic compatibility and interference, metamaterials and its engineering applications, and material measurements. In addition to his research, he co-founded Applied Electromagnetic Technology, LLC., and Wave Intelligence Inc
- Radiating Systems, Theoretical and Computational Electromagnetics, Electromagnetic Compatibility, Interference and Electronic Packaging, Biomedical Applications of Electromagnetics, Photonics, Material measurements, Antennas, Microwaves & Photonics, Medical imaging, Scanning, Energy harvesting/bio-energy, Renewable energy, Sensors and devices, Wireless communications/networking
Simarjeet Saini is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. He completed his doctorate at the University of Maryland, College Park in 2001 under the guidance of Professor Mario Dagenais. Professor Saini’s Ph.D. thesis was on design and development of a new platform technology for monolithic integration of photonic devices called Passive Active Resonant Coupler (PARC). The resulting technology led to the foundation of a start-up company called Covega Corporation in Jessup, Maryland. Professor Saini worked as the Lead Optoelectronics Device Engineer at Covega, and later, as a Lead Applications Engineer. He led the design and development of Covega’s single angled facet chips, semiconductor optical amplifiers and high power lasers.
- Monolithic Integration of photonics devices, Optoelectronics components for datacom and telecom, High speed optical networks, Tunable mid-IR lasers, Nanophotonics Chem-Bio Sensors, Microwave photonics, Antennas, Microwaves & Photonics, Water, Nanotechnology
Professor Lan Wei received her B.S. in Microelectronics and Economics from Peking University, Beijing, China in 2005 and M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, USA (with Professor H.–S. Philip Wong) in 2007 and 2010, respectively. Before joining University of Waterloo in 2014, she worked at Altera Corporation in San Jose, California, where her responsibilities included foundary technology evaluation, power management and Stratix X FPGA product development with Intel 14nm technology. She also worked as a post-doctoral associate in Microsystems Technology Laboratories, Massachusetts Institute of Technology under Professor Dimitri Antoniadis. Her research focuses on device-circuit interactive design and optimization, cryogenic CMOS electronics for quantum computing, error-resilient computation, and integrated electronic systems using emerging technologies including GaN, RRAM and low-dimensional materials.
- Nanoelectronic devices
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Device-circuit interactive design and optimization
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Cryogenic CMOS electronics for quantum computing
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GaN-based devices and circuits
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Low-dimensional materials based integrated nanoelectronic systems
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RRAM device, circuit, and integrated system
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Device-circuit interactive design
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Error-resilient computing
General fields of application of the research programs include: