Research Our work in RF and Microwaves focuses on RF integrated circuits (RFICs) including component characterization and radio systems design.   Please visit our Mars Website for an example research project that encompasses both areas. For an overview of other areas we have worked in, see our Communications Research Laboratory website and our list of PUBLICATIONS HERE, and in the RF/Microwave area  below.

Here are a few of my favorite publications.  The first one is very topical, as it addresses propagation in the region of spectrum just released by the FCC :-)   The second one covers system design through circuit design for radio transceivers on-a-chip.

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• Xiaohu Zhang; Burress, ThomasWeston; Albers, Keith B.; Kuhn, William B., "Propagation comparisons at VHF and UHF frequencies" IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium, pp. 244-247, January 2009.
• Kuhn, W., Lay, N. E.,Grigorian, E.; Nobbe, D.; Kuperman, I.; Jeon, J.; Wong, K.; Tugnawat, Y.; He, X., "A Microtransceiver for UHF Proximity Links Including Mars Surface-to-Orbit Applications," Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 95, Issue 10, pp. 2019-2044, Oct 2007.

Please see below and our Communications Research Laboratory website for more complete publication lists.  

Doppler Radar designed and built in ECE764

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Education

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Selected Journal/Conference Publications

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• William B. Kuhn and Adam P. Boutz, "Measuring and Reporting High Quality Factors of Inductors Using Vector Network Analyzers", IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, pp. 1046 – 1055, April 2010.
• Jeongmin Jeon,; Kuhn, WilliamB., "A 400 to 500-MHz CMOS Power Amplifier with multi-Watt output," IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium, pp. 272 - 275, January 2009.
• Xiaohu Zhang; Burress, ThomasWeston; Albers, Keith B.; Kuhn, William B., "Propagation comparisons at VHF and UHF frequencies" IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium, pp. 244-247, January 2009.
• Adam Boutz and William B. Kuhn, "Measurement and Performance of Embedded LTCC Inductors Utilizing Full Tape Thickness Feature Conductors," IMAPS/ACerS 5th International Conference and Exhibition on Ceramic Interconnect and Ceramic Microsystems Technologies (CICMT 2009), January 2009.
• Tyler Van Slyke, William B.Kuhn, Balasubramaniam Natarajan, “Measuring Interference from a UWB Transmitter in the GPS L1 Band,” IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium,  pp. 887-890, January 2008.
• Kuhn, W., Lay, N. E.,Grigorian, E.; Nobbe, D.; Kuperman, I.; Jeon, J.; Wong, K.; Tugnawat, Y.; He, X., "A Microtransceiver for UHF Proximity Links Including Mars Surface-to-Orbit Applications," Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 95, Issue 10, pp. 2019-2044, Oct 2007.
• J. Jeon and W.B. Kuhn, “A UHF CMOS transceiver front-end with a resonant TR switch,” IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium, 2007.
• Kuhn, W.; Lay, N.; Grigorian, E.; "A UHF proximity micro-transceiver for Mars exploration," 2006 IEEE Aerospace Conference, 4-11 March 2006.
• Tugnawat, Y. and Kuhn, W., “Low temperature performance of COTS electronic components for Martian surface applications,” IEEE Aerospace Conference, 2006, 4-11 March 2006.
• William B Kuhn, Balasubramaniam Natarajan and Don Gruenbacher, "Work in Progress:  A Comprehensive Design Experience Based on Product Development across Multiple courses," 36th annual Frontiers in Education Conference, San Diego, California, October 28 - 31, 2006.
• Don Gruenbacher, Balasubramaniam Natarajan and William B Kuhn, "Work in Progress:  An Integrated Laboratory Experience - A new environment for teaching communications," 36th annual Frontiers in Education Conference, San Diego, California, October 28 - 31, 2006.
• W. Kuhn; N. Lay; and E.Grigorian, “A Low-Volume, Low-Mass, Low-Power UHF Proximity Micro-Transceiver for Mars Exploration,” 12^th NASA Symposium on VLSI Design, Oct 4-5, 2005.
• Y. Tugnawat; and W. Kuhn,“Low Temperature Performance of COTS Electronic Components for Future Mars Missions,” 12^th NASA Symposium on VLSI Design, Oct 4-5, 2005.
• W. B. Kuhn, M. Mojarradi, and A. Moussessian, “A resonant switch for LNA protection in watt-level CMOS transceivers,” IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, pp. 2819 - 2825, Sept. 2005.
• Xin He and William B. Kuhn, “A 2.5 GHz Low-power, High-dynamic range, Self-tuned Q-Enhanced LC filter in SOI,”  IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, pp. 1618-1628, Aug 2005.
• W. B. Kuhn, Xin He, M. Mojarradi, "Modeling spiral inductors in SOS processes", IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 51, (2004), p. 677-683, May 2004.
• W. B. Kuhn, D. Nobbe, D. Kelly, and A.W. Orsborn, “Dynamic Range Performance of On-Chip RF Bandpass Filters,”  IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing, pp. 685-694, October 2003.
• Erik J. Brandon, Emily Wesseling, Vincent Chang and William Kuhn, “Printed microinductors on flexible substrates for power applications” IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies, pp. 517-523, Sept. 2003.
• N. M. Ibrahim, and W. B. Kuhn, “An approach for the calculation of magnetic field within square spiral inductors at low frequency,” International Journal of Numerical Modelling: Electronic Networks, Devices, and Fields, 15:339-354, 2002.
• William B. Kuhn, Aaron W. Orsborn, Matthew C. Peterson, Shobak R. Kythakyapuzha, Aziza I. Hussein , Jun Zhang, Jianming Li, Eric A. Shumaker, and Nandakumar C. Nair, "Spiral Inductor Performance in Deep-Submicron Bulk-CMOS with Copper Interconnects," Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium, pp. 385-388, 2002.
• W. B. Kuhn and N. M. Ibrahim, "Analytical Modeling of Current Crowding Effects in Multi-turn Spiral Inductors," IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques , pp. 31-38, Jan. 2001.
• W. B. Kuhn, D.R. Hummels, and S. A. Dyer, "A Senior-Level RF Design Course Combining Traditional Lectures with an Open-Laboratory Format," Frontiers in Education Conference, September 2000.
• Kuhn, W. B., Design of Integrated, Low-Power, Radio Receivers in BiCMOS Technologies, Ph.D. Dissertation, Bradley Department of Electrical Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, December 1995.
• Cox, F. L., Kuhn, W. B., Murray, J. P., and Tynor, S. D., XSPICE Mixed-Mode Circuit Simulator, Source code and User/Design documents, Distributed by Georgia Tech Research Institute, 1993 - Present.  Used in several commercial simulators.
• Cox, F. L., Kuhn, W. B., Murray, J. P., and Tynor, S. D., “Code-Level Modeling in XSPICE ,” Proceedings IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 1992 (ISCAS ’92), vol. 2, pp. 871-874, 10-13 May, 1992.
• William B. Kuhn, "A Real-Time Pitch Recognition Algorithm for Music Applications," Computer Music Journal, vol. 14, no. 3, Fall 1990.

More Publications including Student Theses/Dissertations

Check out our indexed list of more publications from my students, myself, and associated groups at K-State I have had the pleasure of working with.

A Few Links

• K-State's Communication Circuits Laboratory
• Other K-State ECE Department Research Groups
• A listing of commercial and free software for RF design
• App Notes, Tutorials, Magazine Articles, and other stuff on RF

Last Update:  09 December 2011
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