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

MSc M. Pashaeifar

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

Expertise: RF IC, Digital Synthesis, Data Converters

Themes: XG - Next Generation Sensing and Communication

Biography

Masoud Pashaeifar is a Ph.D. candidate researcher at TU Delft since June 2018. He received the B.Sc. degree in electronics, from the Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran, and the M.Sc. degree in Circuits and Systems from the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

Before joining the ELCA group, he was a Ph.D. student of Circuits and Systems at the University of Tehran. Also, he was the head of the Hardware group at Bakhtar Processing Company, Tehran, Iran.

His main research activity involves designing linear and efficient mm-wave transmitters for 5G cellular applications.

 

Energy Efficient Wideband Transmitter, NXP Partnership ‘Advanced 5G Solutions’

This project providing enhanced average efficiency in wideband wireless transmitters while withstanding the changing load conditions that can occur in handheld devices and MIMO/smart-antenna communication systems.

  1. A Millimeter-Wave CMOS Series-Doherty Power Amplifier With Post-Silicon Inter-Stage Passive Validation
    Pashaeifar, Masoud; de Vreede, Leo C. N.; Alavi, Morteza S.;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 57, Issue 10, pp. 2999-3013, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2022.3175685

  2. Load-Modulation-Based IMD3 Cancellation for Millimeter-Wave Class-B CMOS Power Amplifiers Achieving EVM < 1.2%
    Pashaeifar, Masoud; de Vreede, Leo C. N.; Alavi, Morteza S.;
    IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters,
    Volume 32, Issue 6, pp. 716-719, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/LMWC.2022.3166257

  3. A Millimeter-Wave Front-End for FD/FDD Transceivers Featuring an Embedded PA and an N-Path Filter Based Circulator Receiver
    Pashaeifar, Masoud; De Vreede, Leo C.N.; Alavi, Morteza S.;
    In 2022 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC),
    pp. 11-14, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/RFIC54546.2022.9863209

  4. A Millimeter-Wave Mutual-Coupling-Resilient Double-Quadrature Transmitter for 5G Applications
    Pashaeifar, Masoud; de Vreede, Leo C. N.; Alavi, Morteza S.;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 56, Issue 12, pp. 3784-3798, 2021. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2021.3111126

  5. 14.4 A 24-to-30GHz Double-Quadrature Direct-Upconversion Transmitter with Mutual-Coupling-Resilient Series-Doherty Balanced PA for 5G MIMO Arrays
    Pashaeifar, Masoud; de Vreede, Leo C. N.; Alavi, Morteza S.;
    In 2021 IEEE International Solid- State Circuits Conference (ISSCC),
    pp. 223-225, 2021. DOI: 10.1109/ISSCC42613.2021.9365776

  6. On-Chip Output Stage Design for a Continuous Class-F Power Amplifier
    Kumaran, Anil Kumar; Pashaeifar, Masoud; D’Avino, Marco; de Vreede, Leo C. N.; Alavi, Morteza S.;
    In 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS),
    pp. 1-5, 2021. DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS51556.2021.9401788

  7. A 24-to-32GHz series-Doherty PA with two-step impedance inverting power combiner achieving 20.4dBm Psat and 38%/34% PAE at Psat/6dB PBO for 5G applications
    Pashaeifar, Masoud; Kumaran, Anil K.; Beikmirza, Mohammadreza; de Vreede, Leo C.N.; Alavi, Morteza S.;
    In 2021 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC),
    pp. 1-3, 2021. DOI: 10.1109/A-SSCC53895.2021.9634772

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Last updated: 16 Jun 2022

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