Title: Practical Approaches to Industrializing Near-THz Communication Systems
Abstract: In the past few years, we have seen the proliferation of mm-Wave communication radios due to the global effort to make ultra-high capacity 5G a reality. Such systems benefit not only from RFIC innovations, but also from packaging, material engineering and co-design of various elements to produce scalable and manufacturable products. Near-THz is poised to offer even higher peak capacity for a new generation of 6G wireless networks. This workshop focuses on the path to make near-THz system manufacturable at scale and at a price-point suitable for mass deployment. This workshop will present various RFICs, packaging and interposer technology operating at D-Band (110GHz - 170GHz) and capable of achieving tens of gigabit per second at high spectral efficiency.
Bio: Shahriar Shahramian (SM ’06) received his Ph.D. degree from University of Toronto in 2010 where he focused on the design of mm-wave data converters and transceivers. Shahriar has been with the Bell Laboratories – Nokia since 2009 and is currently the Lab Leader (Director) of the RFIC & Packaging Research Lab. His research focus includes the design of mm-wave wireless and wireline integrated circuits and systems. Shahriar is a Bell Labs Fellow and leads the design and architecture of several state-of-the-art ASICs for optical coherent and wireless backhaul products.
Shahriar serves as the chair mm-Wave & THz subcommittee of IEEE BCICTS & mm-Wave SoCs at IEEE RFIC and member of the technical program committee IEEE ISSCC. He has also served as the guest Editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC).
Shahriar has been the recipient of Ontario Graduate Scholarship, University of Toronto Fellowship and the best paper award at the CSICS Symposium in 2005, 2015 and RFIC Symposium in 2015, 2020 and ISSCC in 2018. Shahriar is also the recipient of the IEEE MTT Young Engineer Award in 2020. He holds an Adjunct Associate Professor position at Columbia University, has received several teaching awards and is the founder and host of The Signal Path educational video series. Shahriar has also presented short courses and workshops at the IEEE CSICS, BCTM, BCICTS, RFIC/IMS and ISSCC conferences. |
