Deji Akinwande Stanford Home Page
I am currently a graduate student in the Dept. of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University . For now this is a technical page. I am pursuing studies and research in analog RF/microwave circuits, nanoelectronics and carbon nanotube devices. This page is mostly a personal resource for me. If you find it useful for any reasons, great.
Research
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Description: A simplified flowchart of the interaction between an electron beam - resist interaction.
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Description: A collection of recipes from journal papers, books, and some graduate students.
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Supervisor: Proffessor Phillip Wong
Description: A study of the properties of carbon nanotubes and their potential as a high-performance and low-cost device for RF transistors and circuits.
Note: This is a very exciting report and was paticularly well received for the clarity in which carbon nanotubes was introduced and explained. A good introduction of carbon nanotubes and the related test and modelling challenges at high frequencies.
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Description: Explored breakdown mechanism in microstrip lines. The purpose of the study was to investigate how much power can be transported in microstrip lines before breakdown occurs.
Note: There is hardly any paper on this topic in the literature. This should be very useful for power combiner circuits that are exploring how much power that can be combined using microstrip as the combining media.
Class Projects
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Instructor: Proffessor Krishna Saraswat
Description: We built a CMOS wafer from scratch at the Stanford Nanofabrication Facility. The wafer contained NMOS, PMOS, parasitic BJTs and other test and circuit structures.
Award: We were awarded full points (100%) for our final paper. Our report was used as a benchmark for other groups. Our final report consisted of almost 200 pages detailing the simulation of structures, fabrication and testing of the devices.
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Instructor: Proffessor Thomas Lee
Description: A 2.4GHz LNA in 0.13um CMOS technology with less than 10mW power dissipation. Package effects had to be included in the design. We achieved 0.78dB NF and a gain of 10dB.
Award: We got a "Cheezy" Award from Proffessor Tom Lee for designing one of the best LNAs.
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Instructor: Proffessor Thomas Lee
Description: A 900MHz to 1GHz crystal locked VCO was designed and built on FR4 boards using copper tape for interconnects and as microstrip lines. We achieved decent phase noise and output power.
Other comments: This Lab was A LOT OF TIME and caused much stress. We were so happy to get it to finally work.
Low Power OTA Design (for EE214)
Instructor: Proffessor Boris Murmann
Description: A fully differential 500MHz OTA in 0.35um CMOS technology with about 1mW power dissipation. Very exciting design using the gm/Id design approach.
Recognition: I was within the top 5% of the class that met all the specs and achieved less than or about 1mW of power dissipation.
Teaching Assistant
EE309 Spring 2006: Teaching Assistant EE309 (Semiconductor Memory Devices and Technology)
EE314 Winter 2006: Teaching Assistant EE314 (CMOS RFICs)
EE344 Fall 2005: Teaching Assistant to Proffessor Donald Cox for EE344 (High Frequency Class/Lab)
EE414 Spring 2005: Teaching Assistant to Proffessor Tom Lee for EE414 (RF Transceiver Design Class/Lab)
Some Course Sequences Taken
- Circuit Classes
EE214: Analog Integrated Circuit Design
EE314: CMOS RFICs Design
EE344: High Frequency Circuit Lab
EE414: Discrete Transceiver Design Lab
- Devices and Condensed Matter
EE216: Principles and Models of Semiconductor Devices
EE218: Introduction to Nanoelectronics and Nanotechnology
EE228: Basic Physics for Semiconductor Devices
AP272: Solid State Physics I
AP273: Solid State Physics II
- Device Fabrication
EE212: VLSI Fabrication Processes
EE410: Integrated Circuit Fabrication Lab
Nature is the teacher of all things (Tao philosophy).
Do you have any comments or suggestions?
updated 2006
