Department of Microelectronics
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science

MSc Montazerolghaem

PhD student
Electronic Circuits and Architectures (ELCA), Department of Microelectronics


Promotor: Masoud Babaie, Leo de Vreede

Themes: XG - Next Generation Sensing and Communication

Biography

Mohammad received the B.Sc and M.Sc degrees in electrical engineering from University of Isfahan (2012) and Amirkabir University of Technoloy (2014), respectively. He is currently working on discrete time receivers as a Ph.D. student at the Delft University of Technology.

Projects history

High Power RF-DAC

This project investigates the next generation of high power RF-DACs and digital intensive receivers

  1. A Highly Selective Receiver With Programmable Zeros and Second-Order TIA
    Montazerolghaem, Mohammad Ali; de Vreede, Leo C. N.; Babaie, Masoud;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 59, Issue 6, pp. 1668-1683, 2024. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2023.3335921
    Keywords: ... Impedance;Radio frequency;Notch filters;Linearity;5G mobile communication;Mixers;Filtering;Current-mode receiver;fifth-generation (5G) user equipment applications;N-path filters;out-of-band linearity;programmable zeros;surface acoustic wave (SAW)-less receiver;second-order transimpedance amplifier (TIA).

  2. A Highly Linear Receiver Using Parallel Preselect Filter for 5G Microcell Base Station Applications
    Montazerolghaem, Mohammad Ali; de Vreede, Leo C. N.; Babaie, Masoud;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 58, Issue 8, pp. 2157-2172, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2023.3267723
    Keywords: ... Radio frequency;Linearity;Filtering;Impedance;Band-pass filters;Notch filters;Noise measurement;Blocker-tolerant;current-mode receiver (RX);fifth-generation (5G);harmonic rejection (HR);high-order bandpass filter;preselect filter;software-defined radio;wideband RX.

  3. 19.1 A 300MHz-BW, 27-to-38dBm In-Band OIP3 sub-7GHz Receiver for 5G Local Area Base Station Applications
    Montazerolghaem, Mohammad Ali; de Vreede, Leo C. N.; Babaie, Masoud;
    In 2023 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC),
    pp. 292-294, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/ISSCC42615.2023.10067266
    Keywords: ... Radio frequency;Base stations;Frequency modulation;Baseband;5G mobile communication;Linearity;Receivers.

  4. A 0.5-3GHz Receiver with a Parallel Preselect Filter Achieving 120dB/dec Channel Selectivity and +28dBm Out-of-Band IIP3
    Montazerolghaem, M. A.; de Vreede, Leo C. N.; Babaie, Masoud;
    In 2022 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC),
    pp. 11-12, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/CICC53496.2022.9772854
    Keywords: ... Radio frequency;Noise figure;Fluctuations;Baseband;Filtering;Conferences;Linearity.

  5. 6.5 A 3dB-NF 160MHz-RF-BW Blocker-Tolerant Receiver with Third-Order Filtering for 5G NR Applications
    Montazerolghaem, Mohammad Ali; Pires, Sergio; de Vreede, Leo C.N.; Babaie, Masoud;
    In 2021 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC),
    pp. 98-100, 2021. DOI: 10.1109/ISSCC42613.2021.9365849
    Keywords: ... Noise figure;Filtering;Spectral efficiency;Linearity;Receivers;Solid state circuits;Standards.

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Last updated: 19 Jun 2025

Mohammad Ali Montazerolghaem

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