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IEEE Buenaventura July 2019 Newsletter
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Local IEEE Events •  July 18: The 20-year Cassini Mission — Skyworks, Lawrence Drive •  July 23: Can GaN RF and Millimeter-Wave Technology Be Linear and Efficient? — Skyworks, Lawrence Drive •  July 25: IEEE Buenaventura Summer Mixer: 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11 — Details Coming Soon Other IEEE Announcements •  Amazon Web Services Providing IEEE Entrepreneurship Member Benefit Sponsors and Job Opportunities •  Advanced Personnel Profiles — Staffing & Recruiting Since 1995 •  Syntesis Global — Management Consulting
Local IEEE Events
July 18, 2019 The 20-year Cassini Mission Reception and Networking: 6:30 PM Presentation: 7:00 PM Speaker: David Doody Meetings are free and open to the public. No registration needed for this event. Abstract Dave Doody, JPL's Lead Engineer for real-time Mission Control operations of the Cassini-Huygens Mission, will touch on how we got to Saturn, show highlights from over a decade in the Saturnian system, and share the mission's spectacular Grand Finale. Near the end of its 20-year flight, Cassini began what became a whole new mission. After repeatedly flying close outside the main rings, a daring jump provided twenty-two orbits that skimmed between the gas giant's atmosphere and its innermost rings. Finally, the spacecraft plunged to its meteoric destruction (on purpose!) into Saturn's atmosphere on September 15. Join us for this unique opportunity to hear from someone directly involved with exploring our solar system. About the Speaker After serving in the U.S. Air Force, Dave Doody worked as an instructor for Japan Air Lines teaching Captains and First Officers of JAL. At the same time, he led an instructional systems development effort at the JAL flight crew training center. Having landed at Catalina Island after sailing the coast, Dave worked as a systems engineer there for three years before joining the NASA-JPL Deep Space Network in Pasadena to create instructional systems and training materials for operators of the worldwide spacecraft-communications systems. On completion of the Deep Space Network contract, Dave got his master's degree and then went to work on the NASA Voyager mission flight operations team while Voyager 2 cruised from Saturn to Uranus and Neptune. Flight operations on Magellan, the Venus mapper, then led to flight ops work on the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn and Titan, where he has been since 1994. All during the Voyager, Magellan, and Cassini mission operations, Dave has also been publishing in the technical and popular literature, teaching short courses, and speaking in public about space-flight related subjects. Once in a while you can find Dave playing sidewalk astronomer in Pasadena, offering free telescope views of the planets to passers-by. And once a year, Dave welcomes participants in his "Basics of Interplanetary Flight" seminar with Art Center College of Design Public Programs in Pasadena. Location Skyworks Solutions 649 Lawrence Drive Newbury Park, CA  91320 (Not the main building; please use map to arrow that pinpoints building) Presented by: IEEE Buenaventura Microwave Theory and Techniques Society Chapter Flyer (PDF) July 23, 2019 Can GaN RF and Millimeter-Wave Technology Be Linear and Efficient? Gather and Pizza/Refreshments: 6:30 PM Presentation: 7:00 PM Speaker: Jeong-Sun Moon Meetings are free and open to the public. Register at www.ieee-bv.org/meet/2019-07-edcas Abstract RF communications utilizes complex modulation schemes that require amplifier linearity. As amplifier operating frequency moves into the millimeter wave (mm-wave) range, the power added efficiency becomes also important to save the system prime power. As for 5G applications, high efficiency and linearity of amplifiers are required to support complex waveforms with high peak-to-average ratio (PAPR) and large instantaneous bandwidth. Recently, CMOS-based 28 GHz power amplifiers demonstrated 40% peak power-added efficiency (PAE) at 18.9 dBm saturated output power using 45 nm n-type CMOS SOI technology. GaN HEMTs have a high breakdown voltage that offers high output impedance and power density per input capacitance over GaAs PHEMTs or CMOS. Thus, over the last decade, various GaN RF amplifiers are utilized for both commercial and defense applications. In this talk, we will present recent change in GaN RF and mm-wave technology for linearity and efficiency. About the Speaker Dr. Jeong-Sun Moon is a Fellow of IEEE and Senior Scientist at HRL Laboratories, Malibu, CA, currently serving as an Editor of a top-notch IEEE journal, Electron Device Letters. He has been with HRL since 2000 and has been a PI for numerous contracts from DARPA, ONR, NRO, JPL and NASA. He received 2014 George Abraham Outstanding Paper Award from Government Microcircuit Applications and Critical Technology Conference (GOMACTech), and NASA SPACE ACT Board Award in 2009. He received his Ph.D. in physics from Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, in 1995 in the area of nano/quantum devices and digital signal processing (DSP). With nanoscale devices, he studied electron and spin quantum transport and its 1/f noise in nanoscale. Using DSP, he developed a complete software-defined programmable digital transceiver/spectrum analyzer in C/Assembly in 1992. Before HRL, he worked at Sandia National Laboratories, where he worked on III-V semiconductor nanoscale devices such as first 2D-2D resonant tunneling transistors. At HRL, his research focuses on emerging materials, novel high-speed devices, and applications toward RF circuits, using GaN, InP, GaSb, SiGe, Graphene, and phase-change material, as well as optical devices. He has published two book chapters and has authored or co-authored more than 100 papers and holds 20 patents. He also gave numerous invited conference and workshop presentations and tutorials/ short courses. His work was featured in various magazines including IEEE Spectrum, Compound Semiconductor, NASA Tech Briefs, Microwave Journal, and MIT Technology Review. He served on the Program Committee for the Device Research Conference. He is a member of Technical Program Committee in Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S). Location Skyworks Solutions 649 Lawrence Drive Newbury Park, CA  91320 (Not the main building; please use map to arrow that pinpoints building) Presented by: IEEE Buenaventura Electron Devices/Circuits and Systems Chapter Flyer (PDF)
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