Low Power Emerging Wireless Technologies

Large Signal and Small Signal Building Blocks for Cellular Infrastructure
Mustafa Acar, Jos Bergervoet, Mark van der Heijden, Domine Leenaerts, and Stefan Drude

Efficient MIMO Receiver Design for Next Generation Wireless Systems
Ji-Woong Choi, Hyukjoon Kwon, Jungwon Lee, and Inyup Kang

A Low Noise, Low Distortion Radio Design
Ahmet Tekin and Hassan Elwan

Radio Frequency (RF) Radiation Exposure and Health
Hubregt J. Visser

Multifunctional Software-Defined Radar Sensors for Detection, Imaging, and Navigation
Dmitriy Garmatyuk, Kyle Kauffman, Y. T. (Jade) Morton, and John Raquet

Ultrawide Bandwidth Radio Frequency Identification and Localization
Davide Dardari

Passive Imaging in Silicon Technologies
Payam Heydari

Ultralow Power Radio Design for Emerging Healthcare Applications
Maja Vidojkovic, Li Huang, Julien Penders, Guido Dolmans, and Harmke de Groot

Ultralow Power Techniques in Small Autonomous Implants and Sensor Nodes
Benoit Gosselin, Sébastien Roy, and Farhad Sheikh Hosseini Lori

An Open-Loop Multiphase Local-Oscillator Generation Technique
Kai-Fai Un, Pui-In Mak, and Rui P. Martins

On-Chip Accelerometers Using Bondwire Inertial Sensing
Yu-Te Liao, William Biederman, and Brian Otis

Design of a Frequency-Shift-Based CMOS Magnetic Sensor Array for Point-of-Care (PoC) Biomolecular Diagnosis Applications
Hua Wang and Ali Hajimiri

Receiver Front Ends with Robustness to Process Variations
Pooyan Sakian Dezfulio, Reza Mahmoudi, and Arthur van Roermund

Biography

Krzysztof (Kris) Iniewski manages R&D at Redlen Technologies, Inc., a startup company in Vancouver, Canada. He is also a president of CMOS Emerging Technologies, an organization of high-tech events covering communications, microsystems, optoelectronics, and sensors. Dr. Iniewski has held numerous faculty and management positions at the University of Toronto, University of Alberta, SFU, and PMC-Sierra, Inc. He has published more than 100 research papers in international journals and conferences. He holds 18 international patents granted in the United States, Canada, France, Germany, and Japan. He is a frequent invited speaker, has consulted for multiple organizations internationally, and has written and edited several books.

Reza Mahmoudi is currently an associate professor in the field of ultrahigh frequency front-end electronics in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands. He earned his Ph.D. from the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, in 2001. He has worked for Philips Discrete Semiconductors in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and Advanced Wave Research in El Segundo, California. Dr. Mahmoudi’s research efforts concentrate on the areas of ultrahigh speed communication as well as high resolution imaging systems. He has contributed to 85 academic publications.

"This book focuses on the state of the art in wireless communication for 3G/4G cellular telephones, millimeter-wave applications, wireless sensor networks, and wireless medical technologies. Many new and exciting areas in satellite communications, automobile radar detection, wearable electronics, body area networks, and medical applications are discussed. ... This is an interesting book for those wanting to know more about emerging trends and technologies in low power wireless communications. ... It covers a variety of topics that will appeal to a broad audience, and is intended for engineers with some integrated circuit background in the wireless communication field. It could also be used as supplementary material in a graduate-level course."
--John J. Shea, IEEE Electrical Insulation Magazine, May/June 2014 - Vol. 30, No. 3