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Sanaz Sadeghi - IEEE Xplore Author Profile

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A high dynamic range N-path passive mixer-first receiver architecture capable of simultaneously down-converting two arbitrary bands through a single RF port is presented. The architecture consists of two passive mixers arranged in a series configuration with a transformer front-end to minimize cross-loading between mixers while still providing impedance transparency and associated interference sup...Show More
This paper presents a novel system architecture to suppress in-band artifacts (IBAs) generated from out-of-band (OOB) interferers, including reciprocal mixing by the local oscillator’s (LO) spurs and phase noise (PN), third-order intermodulation (IM3) artifacts, and harmonic down-conversion (HDC) artifacts. Theory and design procedure are explained, and measurement results from a prototype taped o...Show More
This paper presents a high dynamic range N-path passive mixer-first receiver architecture capable of simultaneously down-converting two arbitrary bands through a single RF port. The architecture consists of two passive mixers arranged in a series configuration with a transformer front-end to minimize cross-loading between mixers while still providing impedance transparency and associated interfere...Show More
This paper presents a novel technique for suppression of in-band artifacts from out-of-band (OOB) interference in widely tunable RF receivers. The technique employs a multi-tap inductor-capacitor network (LCN) to generate diversity in gain and phase between taps across the targeted frequency range. Using this network to feed a bank of identical receivers sharing a single local oscillator (LO) allo...Show More
While CMOS scaling has long been driven by economic and performance concerns in macroscale systems such as computers and smartphones, it has also been recognized that such physically small electronic components could pave the way to vanishingly small autonomous systems. Originally dubbed “smart dust”, these emerging systems include ultra-small wireless sensors, ID tags, and even robots. Such “Smar...Show More
In vivo, chronic neural recording is critical to understand the nervous system, while a tetherless, miniaturized recording unit can render such recording minimally invasive. We present a tetherless, injectable micro-scale opto-electronically transduced electrode (MOTE) that is ~60μm × 30μm × 330μm, the smallest neural recording unit to date. The MOTE consists of an AlGaAs micro-scale light emittin...Show More
Here we present a combined RF hardware/DSP technique to synthesize effective channel diversity in single-antenna wireless systems. This allows digital suppression of out-of-band interference artifacts in widely tunable wireless receivers with one or more antennas, including artifacts from LO phase noise. A passive inductor-capacitor (LC) network provides gain and phase diversity between channels a...Show More