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About the Authors
John Rogers received a B.Eng. in 1997, an M.Eng. in 1999, and a Ph.D. in
2002, all in electrical engineering from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
During his master’s degree research, he was a resident researcher at Nortel
Networks’ Advanced Technology Access and Applications Group, where he
did exploratory work on voltage-controlled oscillators and developed a copper
interconnect technology for building high-quality passives for radio frequency
(RF) applications. From 2000 to 2002, he collaborated with SiGe Semiconductor
Ltd. while pursuing his Ph.D. on low-voltage RF integrated circuits (RFIC) for
wireless applications. Concurrent with his Ph.D. research, Dr. Rogers worked
as part of a design team that developed a cable modem integrated circuit for
the DOCSIS standard. He is currently an assistant professor at Carleton University
and collaborating with Cognio Canada Ltd. His research interests are in
the areas of RFIC design for wireless and broadband applications.
Dr. Rogers was the recipient of an IEEE Solid-State Circuits Predoctoral
Fellowship, and received the Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting
(BCTM) best student paper award in 1999. He holds one U.S. patent with
three pending, and is a member of the Professional Engineers of Ontario.
Calvin Plett received a B.A.Sc. in electrical engineering from the University of
Waterloo, Canada, in 1982, and an M.Eng. and a Ph.D. from Carleton University,
Ottawa, Canada, in 1986 and 1991, respectively. From 1982 to 1984 he
worked with Bell-Northern Research. In 1989 he joined the Department of
Electronics at Carleton University, where he is now an associate professor. Since
1995 he has done consulting work for Nortel Networks in the area of RF and
broadband integrated circuit design. He has also supervised numerous graduate
students, often cooperatively with industrial partners, including Nortel Net-
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