Dr. Eran Socher

Senior Lecturer

High Frequency Integrated Circuits Lab

School of Electrical Engineering – Physical Electronics

The Iby and Aladar Fleischman Faculty of Engineering

Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978

Israel

Office: 234 Wolfson EE Lab Bldg.

Tel: +972-3-640-5805

Fax: +972-3-642-3508

Email: socher@eng.tau.ac.il

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Openings

Excellent M.Sc and Ph.D students are welcome to join and work on various RFIC circuit design research projects

Current Research Interests

· RFICs at mm-wave frequencies and beyond

· Short-range ultra-fast wireless links

· RF interconnect in deep sub-micron CMOS

· 60GHz radio in CMOS

· Sensing and imaging in IR, THz and mm-wave frequencies

Recent Publications

· Bassam Khmaisi and Eran Socher, A 209-233GHz Frequency Source in 90 nm CMOS Technology, IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, Vol. 22, No. 5, 2012

· A. Vishnipolsky and E. Socher, F – Band Injection Locked Tripler Based On Colpitts Oscillator, IEEE Topical Meeting on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems (SiRF 2012)

· Ronny Sananes and Eran Socher, A 52-75GHz wideband low noise amplifier in 90nm CMOS Technology, IET Electronics Letters, Vol. 48, No. 2, pp. 71-72, 2012.

· Eran Socher and Samuel Jameson, A wide tuning range W-band Colpitts VCO in 90nm CMOS, IET Electronics Letters, Vol. 47, No. 22, pp. 1227–1229, 2011, Featured Paper

· N. Buadana and E. Socher, A Triple Band Travelling Wave VCO Using Digitally Controlled Artificial Dielectric Transmission Lines, IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Conference (RFIC 2011), June 2011, Baltimore

· Katz, O. Degani and E. Socher, Modeling and Design of a Low-Power Injection-Locked Frequency Divider in 90nm CMOS for 60GHz Applications, IEEE Topical Meeting on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems (SiRF 2011)

· Katz, O. Degani and E. Socher, Design and Optimization of a Low-Noise Cross-Coupled Fundamental VCO in 90nm CMOS for 60GHz Applications, IEEE Topical Meeting on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems (SiRF 2011)

· Vishnipolsky and E. Socher, A Compact Power Efficient Transformer Coupled Differential W-band CMOS Amplifier, IEEE 26-th Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, Nov. 2010, Eilat, Israel, Best Student Paper Award

· Hsing-Ting Yu, Sai-Wang Tam, Yanghyo Kim, Eran Socher, M.C. Frank Chang and Tatsuo Itoh, A Dual Band mm-Wave CMOS Oscillator with Left-Handed Resonator, IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory and Techniques, Vol. 58, No. 5, part 2, pp. 1401-1409, 2010

Other Research Interests

· CMOS compatible thermal imaging

· MEMS and integrated sensors

· CMOS readout circuits

Teaching

· Analog Electronic Circuits 0512-3513 (Spring 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012)

· RFIC Amplifier Design (Winter 2009, 2010, 2011)

· RFIC Communication Circuit Design (Spring 2010, 2011, 2012)

Education

· PhD (EE), Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (2005)

· MSc (EE), Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (1999)

· BSc (EE), Summa Cum Laude, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (1996)

· BA (Physics), Summa Cum Laude, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (1996)