People


Current York Group:

Click on name for individual web pages.  Links to specific projects at right.


Nadia Pervez
805
893-5936

nadia@ece.ucsb.edu
bullet Growth and Characterization of Thin Film BST and Related Materials
bullet Thin-Film Ferroelectrics and Applications
   George Saddick
805 893-5935
gnsaddik@umail.ucsb.edu
bullet BST-based Resonators
 Raj Santhakumar
805 893-5935
rajkumar@umail.ucsb.edu
bullet GaN mm-wave power devices
Val Zomorrodian
805 893-5935
vzomorro@ece.ucsb.edu
bullet GaN mm-wave power devices

York Group Alumni:

   PhD Students

bullet Dr. Chris Sanabria Chris is currently employed at Triquint Semiconductor Inc. in Dallas, TX. He was awarded the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in June 2006 for his thesis entitled "Noise in AlGaN/GaN HEMTs and Oscillators"
bullet Dr. Hongtao Xu  Hongtao is currently employed at Intel in Hillsboro, OR. He was awarded the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in Sept 2005 for his thesis entitled "MMICs using GaN HEMTS and Thin-FIlm BST Capacitors"
bullet Dr. Peter Hansen  Pete was co-advised by Prof. York and Prof. Jim Speck, and is currently employed at Inogen Inc. in Goleta, CA. He was awarded the Ph.D. in Materials in March 2004 for his thesis entitled "Integration of high k and polar oxides with gallium nitride"
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Dr. Troy R. TaylorTroy was co-advised by Prof. York and Prof. Jim Speck, and is currently employed at Teledyne (formerly Rockwell Science Center) in Thousand Oaks, CAHe was awarded the Ph.D. in Materials in December 2003 for his thesis entitled "Stoichiometry and thermal mismatch effects on sputtered barium strontium titanate thin films"

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Dr. Vicki Chen. Vicki is currently employed at Agile Materials and Technologies in Goleta, CA.  She was awarded the Ph.D. in June 2003 for her thesis "K-band Spatial Combiner using Active Array Modules in an oversized rectangular waveguide".

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Dr. Paolo Maccarini. Paolo is currently an Associate Professor at Duke University.  He was awarded his Ph.D. in December 2002, for his thesis entitled "Advances in Nonlinear Phased Arrays".

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Dr. Pengcheng Jia.  Pengcheng is currently the Chief Technical Officer at CAP Wireless in Thousand Oaks, CA.  He was awarded his Ph.D. in September of 2002 with the thesis "Broadband High Power Amplifiers Using Spatial Power Combing Technique".

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Dr. Yu (Bruce) Liu. Bruce is currently employed at Texas Instruments in Dallas.  He was awarded his PhD in 2002 for his work entitled "MEMS and BST Technologies for Microwave Applications".

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Dr. Baki Acikel.  Baki is currently employed at Lockheed Martin in Philadelphia, PA.  He was awarded a PhD in August 2002 for this thesis "High Performance Barium Strontium Titanate Varactor Technology for Low Cost Circuit Applications".

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Dr. Jane Xu. Jane is currently employed at Skyworks, Inc., Newbury Park, CA.  She was awarded her PhD degree in December 2000 with her thesis entitled, "AlGaN/GaN High-Electron-Mobility-Transistors Based Flip-chip Integrated Broadband Power Amplifiers."

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Dr. Amit S. Nagra.  Amit is currently employed at Phasebridge, Pasadena, CA.  He was awarded his PhD degree in 1999 with his thesis entitled, "Varactor based Technologies for the Tuning and Control of Microwave Circuits and Antennas."  

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Dr. Nai-Shuo (Nick) Cheng.  Nick is currently a Senior Manager at SST Communications, Inc..  He was awarded his PhD degree in 1999 with his thesis entitled, "Waveguide-Based Spatial Power Combiners."

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Dr. Angelos Alexanian.  Angelos is currently employed at Anokiwave, Boston MA.  He received his BS degree from Virginia Tech, VA, and MSEE degree from University of Michigan, MI, in 1991 and 1993. In 1997, he was awarded his PhD degree with his dissertation entitled, "Planar and Distributed Spatial Power Combiners."

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Dr. Heng-Chia (Henry) Chang.   Henry spent 2 years in the York Group and completed his dissertation with Prof. Yeh, entitled "Noise and Stability Analysis of Coupled Oscillators"

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Dr. Huan-Shang (Corey) Tsai. He is currently employed at Infinera, Sunnyvale, CA.   He received his BS degree in mechanical engineering from National Taiwan University, Taiwan, in 1990 and was awarded his PhD degree in 1995 with his thesis entitled, "FDTD Analysis of Quasi- Optical Amplifier Arrays."

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Dr. Jonathan J. Lynch. He is currently employed at HRL Laboratories, Malibu, CA. He was awarded his PhD degree in 1995 with his thesis entitled, "Analysis and Design of Coupled Microwave Oscillators."

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Dr. Peter Liao.  Peter received his bachelor degree from Cooper Union in 1989. He was awarded his PhD degree from UCSB in 1995 with his dissertation entitled, "Coupled-oscillator arrays for Power-Combining and Beam Scanning" 

Masters Students

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Shannon Petzold, MS.  Shannon was awarded a Masters degree in 2003 with her thesis entitled, "One-Half Wavelength Helical Antenna with Nulling Capabilities for GPS Applications".  She is currently employed at Toyon Research Corp. in Goleta, CA. 

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Justin Serraiocco, MSJustin was awarded his MS Degree in 2003.  His masters thesis was entitled "Compact phse-shifter deign using Barium Strontium Titanate Thin-Film Varactors".  He is currently employed by Remec Corp.

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James Buckwalter, MS Jim was awarded his Masters degree in 2003.  His undergraduate studies were completed at Caltech, and Jim returned to Caltech for his PhD.

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Erich Erker, MS Eric was awarded his Masters degree in 1999.  His undergraduate studies were completed at Technische Universitat Wien.

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Jeff Zachan, MS. Jeff is currently employed at Conexant Systems, Inc., Newport Beach, CA in the GSM RFIC Design Group .  He was awarded his Masters degree in 1999.

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Eric Shapiro.  Eric was awarded his Masters degree in 1997 with his thesis entitled, "A High-Efficiency Traveling Wave Power Amplifer Topology Using Improved Power Combining Techniques". 

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Eric Hufstedler.  Eric was awarded his Masters degree in 1996.  His undergraduate studies were completed at  Ohio State University, 1994 NSF Graduate Fellowship Recipient.

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Ron Munroe.  Ron was awarded his Masters degree in 1995 with his thesis entitled, "Gyromagnetic Quasi-Optical Beam-Switch" His undergraduate studies were completed at Worcester Polytechnical Institute, 1986.  

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Harris P. Moyer.  Chip was awarded his Masters degree in 1993 with his thesis entitled, "Cavity-backed Slot Antennas".  His undergraduate studies were completed at the University of Michigan in 1989. 

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