PhD Courses in Denmark

The aim of the course is to present to participants recent advances in the field of high-speed, microwave, and terahertz integrated electronics. The course will enable the participants to evaluate current limitations in high-frequency semiconductor devices and to develop or refine large-signal and small-signal circuits operating up to terahertz frequencies. The participants of the course will be introduced to advanced design techniques for Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits (MMICs) based on nonlinear circuit analysis and electromagnetic simulations. Furthermore, the participants will also be introduced to high-speed integrated circuit design for optical communication receivers. Finally, the participants will improve their scientific dissimination skills by giving presentations and preparing scientific articles.

A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to:

• Analyze semiconductor device models in Si and III-V technologies
• Extract small-signal model parameters of modern high-frequency devices
• Develop and/or refine large-signal models incl. thermal effects
• Develop equivalent circuit models for circuit discontinuities using electromagnetic simulation
• Use de-embedding techniques for electromagnetic simulations
• Analyze nonlinear circuits using harmonic-balance and analytical techniques
• Design of MMIC power amplifiers, oscillators, multipliers, and mixers
• Design broadband transimpedance amplifiers and laser drivers
• Prepare articles of state-of-the-art in relevant scientific areas

The content of the course is covering the following areas: physical structure and operation of high-frequency semiconductor devices, large-signal and small-signal semiconductor device modelling, nonlinear circuit analysis, passive and active integrated devices, microwave monolithic integrated circuit design, large-signal operation of amplifiers, oscillators, multipliers, and mixers for millimeter-wave and terahertz systems.