Adil Koukab
Unité: SEL-ENS
EPFL SV SSV-GE
ELB 234 (Bâtiment ELB)
Station 11
CH-1015 Lausanne
EPFL STI GR-SCI-IEL
ELB 234 (Bâtiment ELB)
Station 11
CH-1015 Lausanne
Biographie
June 1993: Master of Science (DEA Optique-Electronique) from Nancy I University
June 1998: Post-Graduate diploma (DESS)in Business Administration From IAE-Metz
1993-97: Three years (PhD) in electronics research laboratory of Sup-Elec (LICM), working on the physics, modeling and characterization of microelectronic III-V based devices and deep-submicron MOSFETs.
1997 - 98: Postdoctoral position, working on Deep-Submicron MOSFETs and VDMOSFETs (CLOES Institut, Supélec France),
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Since 1999: Project leader in Swiss Federal Institute of Technology-Lausanne (EPFL/LEG). he was Involved in the following European projects:
PASCALE (Parasitic substrate coupling analysis by layout extraction) Partners : ATMEL, ERICSSON, STMicroelectronics, etc.
SUPREGE (A low power superregenerative transceiver for wireless data transmission at short distances) qui sest effectué avec les sociétés suisses Logitech SA et Mead SA ainsi quavec la société française Transval SA.
SODERA (Reconfigurable low power radio architecture for software defined radio for third generation mobile terminals). Partners : STMicroelectronics (Geneva), Alcatel (France) et le LETI (France).
MuMoR (Multi-Mode Radio Architecture Platform for Enhanced 3G) Partners : STMicroelectronics (France), Nokia (Allemagne) et le LETI (France).
MegaWatch Ultra Low-Cost Low-Power Radio for Distributed Ad-Hoc Network.
Compétences
Design RF and analogue ICs (RX,TX) for wireless communications standards (GSM, UMTS, WLAN, Bluetooth, UWB
)
-Noise in Mixed-Signal and RF System on chip
-Numerical and Computational methods: Spectral Method, Boundary Element Method...
-devices Physics and modeling
-Noise in Mixed-Signal and RF System on chip
-Numerical and Computational methods: Spectral Method, Boundary Element Method...
-devices Physics and modeling
Publications
Infoscience
P. Gosselin; A. Koukab; M. Kayal : Computing the Impact of White and Flicker Noise in Continuous-Time Integrator-Based ADCs. 2016. 23rd International Conference on Mixed Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (MIXDES), Lodz, POLAND, JUN 23-25, 2016. p. 316-320.
D. Sallin; N. Abdo; A. Koukab; M. Estribeau; P. Magnan et al. : Silicon-on-Insulator Technology for Bioluminescence Imaging and Application to a Switching Photodetector. 2015. 22nd International Conference on Mixed Design of Integrated Circuits & Systems (MIXDES), Torun, POLAND, JUN 25-27, 2015. p. 511-514.
S. Okhonin; M. Gureev; D. Sallin; J. Appel; A. Koukab et al. : A dynamic operation of a PIN photodiode; Applied Physics Letters. 2015. DOI : 10.1063/1.4906488.
D. Sallin; A. Koukab; M. Kayal : Toward direct light-to-digital conversion using a pulse-driven hybrid MOS-PN photodetector; Optics Letters. 2015. DOI : 10.1364/Ol.40.000669.
O. T. Amiri; A. Koukab : A 10-W modified LINC Power amplifier with a reduced-size Chireix Power Combiner. 2014. IEEE Topical Conference on Power Amplifiers for Wireless and Radio Applications, California, CA, JAN 19-22, 2014. p. 25-27. DOI : 10.1109/PAWR.2014.6825733.
D. Sallin; A. Koukab; M. Kayal : MOS-PN Hybrid Device With Minimum Dark Current for Sensitive Digital Photodetection; Ieee Photonics Technology Letters. 2014. DOI : 10.1109/Lpt.2014.2346812.
D. Sallin; A. Koukab; M. Kayal : Hybrid MOS-PN photodiode with positive feedback for pulse-modulation imaging; Optics Express. 2014. DOI : 10.1364/Oe.22.014441.
O. T. Amiri; A. Koukab : A Zero Capacitive LINC Architecture for Efficient Broadband Transmitters. 2013. 43rd European Microwave Conference (EuMC), Nuremberg, GERMANY, OCT 07-10, 2013. p. 680-683.
F. Jazaeri; L. Barbut; A. Koukab; J.-M. Sallese : Analytical model for ultra-thin body junctionless symmetric double gate MOSFETs in subthreshold regime; Solid-State Electronics. 2013. DOI : 10.1016/j.sse.2013.02.001.
A. Koukab; F. Jazaeri; J.-M. Sallese : On performance scaling and speed of junctionless transistors; Solid-State Electronics. 2013. DOI : 10.1016/j.sse.2012.08.001.
A. Koukab; O. Talebi Amiri : On Gm-boosting and cyclostationary noise mechanisms in low-voltage CMOS differential Colpitts VCOs. 2012. IEEE Topical Meeting on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems (SiRF),, Jan 16-18 2012. DOI : 10.1109/SiRF.2012.6160136.
A. Koukab : Reactive Power Imbalances in LC VCOs and their Influence on Phase Noise Mechanisms; IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques. 2011. DOI : 10.1109/TMTT.2011.2169496.
A. Koukab; O. T. Amiri : Analysis and Modeling of On-Chip Power Combiners and Their Losses in LINC Transmitters. 2011. 33rd IEEE Annual Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) - The Showcase for Circuit Design in the Heart of Silicon Valley, San Jose, CA, Sep 19-21, 2011. p. -.
A. Koukab : LC-VCO Design With Dual-Gm, Boosted for RF Oscillation and Attenuated for LF Noise; Ieee Microwave And Wireless Components Letters. 2010. DOI : 10.1109/LMWC.2010.2087011.
A. Koukab : Multistandard carrier generation system for quad-band GSM/WCDMA (FDD-TDD)/WLAN (802.11 a-b-g) radio. 2006. IEEE Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2005. ESSCIRC 2005., 2005. DOI : 10.1109/ESSCIR.2005.1541588.
A. Koukab; Y. Lei; M. J. Declercq : A GSM-GPRS/UMTS FDD-TDD/WLAN 802.11a-b-g multi-standard carrier generation system; IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. 2006. DOI : 10.1109/JSSC.2006.873928.
B. Koc; A. Koukab; G. Dundar : Phase noise in bipolar and CMOS VCO's - an analytical comparison. 2006. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2006. ISCAS 2006. Proceedings. 2006, 2006. DOI : 10.1109/ISCAS.2006.1693926.
A. Koukab; M. Declercq ; Analogue self-calibration method and apparatus for low noise, fast and wide-locking range phase locked loop. US7902929 ; US2009128241 ; US7479834 ; US2007040617 ; WO2005081406 ; EP1564890 . 2005.
Y. LEI; A. Koukab; M. Declercq : Design and optimization of CMOS prescaler. 2005. IEEE PhD Research in Microelectronics and Electronics PRIME, 2005. DOI : 10.1109/RME.2005.1543021.
A. Koukab; Y. Lei; M. Declercq : Design and optimization of a linear wide-band VCO for multimode applications, RFIC) Symposium, 2005. Digest of Papers. 2005 IEEE Radio Frequency integrated Circuits. 2005. p. 527-530. DOI : 10.1109/RFIC.2005.1489865.
A. Koukab; K. Banerjee; M. Declercq : Modeling techniques and verification methodologies for substrate coupling effects in mixed-signal system-on-chip designs; IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems. 2004. DOI : 10.1109/TCAD.2004.828117.
Infoscience
P. Gosselin; A. Koukab; M. Kayal : Computing the Impact of White and Flicker Noise in Continuous-Time Integrator-Based ADCs. 2016. 23rd International Conference on Mixed Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (MIXDES), Lodz, POLAND, JUN 23-25, 2016. p. 316-320.
D. Sallin; N. Abdo; A. Koukab; M. Estribeau; P. Magnan et al. : Silicon-on-Insulator Technology for Bioluminescence Imaging and Application to a Switching Photodetector. 2015. 22nd International Conference on Mixed Design of Integrated Circuits & Systems (MIXDES), Torun, POLAND, JUN 25-27, 2015. p. 511-514.
S. Okhonin; M. Gureev; D. Sallin; J. Appel; A. Koukab et al. : A dynamic operation of a PIN photodiode; Applied Physics Letters. 2015. DOI : 10.1063/1.4906488.
D. Sallin; A. Koukab; M. Kayal : Toward direct light-to-digital conversion using a pulse-driven hybrid MOS-PN photodetector; Optics Letters. 2015. DOI : 10.1364/Ol.40.000669.
O. T. Amiri; A. Koukab : A 10-W modified LINC Power amplifier with a reduced-size Chireix Power Combiner. 2014. IEEE Topical Conference on Power Amplifiers for Wireless and Radio Applications, California, CA, JAN 19-22, 2014. p. 25-27. DOI : 10.1109/PAWR.2014.6825733.
D. Sallin; A. Koukab; M. Kayal : MOS-PN Hybrid Device With Minimum Dark Current for Sensitive Digital Photodetection; Ieee Photonics Technology Letters. 2014. DOI : 10.1109/Lpt.2014.2346812.
D. Sallin; A. Koukab; M. Kayal : Hybrid MOS-PN photodiode with positive feedback for pulse-modulation imaging; Optics Express. 2014. DOI : 10.1364/Oe.22.014441.
O. T. Amiri; A. Koukab : A Zero Capacitive LINC Architecture for Efficient Broadband Transmitters. 2013. 43rd European Microwave Conference (EuMC), Nuremberg, GERMANY, OCT 07-10, 2013. p. 680-683.
F. Jazaeri; L. Barbut; A. Koukab; J.-M. Sallese : Analytical model for ultra-thin body junctionless symmetric double gate MOSFETs in subthreshold regime; Solid-State Electronics. 2013. DOI : 10.1016/j.sse.2013.02.001.
A. Koukab; F. Jazaeri; J.-M. Sallese : On performance scaling and speed of junctionless transistors; Solid-State Electronics. 2013. DOI : 10.1016/j.sse.2012.08.001.
A. Koukab; O. Talebi Amiri : On Gm-boosting and cyclostationary noise mechanisms in low-voltage CMOS differential Colpitts VCOs. 2012. IEEE Topical Meeting on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems (SiRF),, Jan 16-18 2012. DOI : 10.1109/SiRF.2012.6160136.
A. Koukab : Reactive Power Imbalances in LC VCOs and their Influence on Phase Noise Mechanisms; IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques. 2011. DOI : 10.1109/TMTT.2011.2169496.
A. Koukab; O. T. Amiri : Analysis and Modeling of On-Chip Power Combiners and Their Losses in LINC Transmitters. 2011. 33rd IEEE Annual Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) - The Showcase for Circuit Design in the Heart of Silicon Valley, San Jose, CA, Sep 19-21, 2011. p. -.
A. Koukab : LC-VCO Design With Dual-Gm, Boosted for RF Oscillation and Attenuated for LF Noise; Ieee Microwave And Wireless Components Letters. 2010. DOI : 10.1109/LMWC.2010.2087011.
A. Koukab : Multistandard carrier generation system for quad-band GSM/WCDMA (FDD-TDD)/WLAN (802.11 a-b-g) radio. 2006. IEEE Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2005. ESSCIRC 2005., 2005. DOI : 10.1109/ESSCIR.2005.1541588.
A. Koukab; Y. Lei; M. J. Declercq : A GSM-GPRS/UMTS FDD-TDD/WLAN 802.11a-b-g multi-standard carrier generation system; IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. 2006. DOI : 10.1109/JSSC.2006.873928.
B. Koc; A. Koukab; G. Dundar : Phase noise in bipolar and CMOS VCO's - an analytical comparison. 2006. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2006. ISCAS 2006. Proceedings. 2006, 2006. DOI : 10.1109/ISCAS.2006.1693926.
A. Koukab; M. Declercq ; Analogue self-calibration method and apparatus for low noise, fast and wide-locking range phase locked loop. US7902929 ; US2009128241 ; US7479834 ; US2007040617 ; WO2005081406 ; EP1564890 . 2005.
Y. LEI; A. Koukab; M. Declercq : Design and optimization of CMOS prescaler. 2005. IEEE PhD Research in Microelectronics and Electronics PRIME, 2005. DOI : 10.1109/RME.2005.1543021.
A. Koukab; Y. Lei; M. Declercq : Design and optimization of a linear wide-band VCO for multimode applications, RFIC) Symposium, 2005. Digest of Papers. 2005 IEEE Radio Frequency integrated Circuits. 2005. p. 527-530. DOI : 10.1109/RFIC.2005.1489865.
A. Koukab; K. Banerjee; M. Declercq : Modeling techniques and verification methodologies for substrate coupling effects in mixed-signal system-on-chip designs; IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems. 2004. DOI : 10.1109/TCAD.2004.828117.
Autres publications
| D. Sallin, A. Koukab, and M. Kayal Optics Express, Vol. 22, Issue 12, pp. 14441-14449 (2014) |
Hybrid MOS-PN photodiode with positive feedback for pulse-modulation imaging |
| O. T. Amiri and A. Koukab IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, Issue 99, 2014. |
A Miniaturized Power Combiner for Multi-Band LINC Transmitters |
| O.T. Amiri and A. Koukab IEEE Topical Conference on RF/Microwave Power Amplifiers for Radio and Wireless Applications (2014) |
A 10-W modified LINC Power amplifier with a reduced-size Chireix Power Combiner |
| O. T. Amiri and A. Koukab IEEE European Microwave Conference (EuMC), 43rd (2013) |
A Zero Capacitive LINC Architecture for Efficient Broadband Transmitters |
| F Jazaeri, L Barbut, A. Koukab, JM Sallese Solid-State Electronics, int. Journal (April 2013) |
Analytical model for ultra-thin body junctionless symmetric double gate MOSFETs in subthreshold regime |
| A. Koukab, F. Jazaeri and J-M. Sallese Solid-State Electronics, int. Journal 79, 18-21, ( January 2013) |
"On Performance Scaling and Speed of Junctionless Transistors" |
| O. T. Amiri and A. Koukab IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS 2012) |
"Design Methodology and Integration of a 1.8GHz Outphasing Power Amplifier for Mobile Terminals" |
| A. Koukab IEEE International Conference on electron device and solid state ciruits(EDSSC 2012) |
"On Threshold Voltage Modeling and Variability in Junctionless nanowires FETs" |
| A. Koukab and O. Talebi IEEE International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies (ISCIT 2012) |
"Circuit-Oriented Approach for Modeling and Analysis of Outphasing Transmitters " |
| A. Koukab and O. Talebi IEEE Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems conf., January 2012. |
�On Gm-boosting and Cyclostationary noise Mechanisms in Low-Voltage CMOS Differential Colpitts VCOs" |
| A. Koukab IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, Issue: 99, Page(s): 1 - 4, 2011 |
"Reactive Power Imbalances in LC VCOs and Their Influence on Phase-Noise Mechanisms" |
| A. Koukab IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, Volume: 20 , Issue: 12 Page(s): 675 - 677 Year: 2010 |
"LC-VCO Design With Dual-Gm, Boosted for RF Oscillation and Attenuated for LF Noise" |
| A. Koukab;O.T Amiri IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), 2011 |
"Analysis and modeling of on-chip power combiners and their losses in LINC transmitters" |
| A. Koukab, Y. Lei, and M. Declercq
IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits Volume 41, Issue 7, July 2006 Page(s):1513 � 152. |
�A GSM-GPRS / UMTS FDD-TDD / WLAN 802.11 a-b-g Multi-Standard Carrier Generation System� |
| A. Koukab, Y. Lei, and M. Declercq
IEEE 31st European Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2005. ESSCIRC 2005. Proceedings of the 12-16 Sept. 2005 Page(s):177 � 180 |
�Multi-Standard Carrier Generation System for Quad-band GSM / WCDMA (FDD-TDD) / WLAN (802.11 a-b-g) Radio� |
| A. Koukab, Y. Lei, and M. Declercq
IEEE Radio Frequency integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium, 12-14 June 2005 Page(s):527 - 530 |
�Design and Optimization of a Linear Wide-band VCO for Multimode Applications� |
| Y. Lei, A. Koukab, and M. Declercq
IEEE-PRIME 2005, Volume 1, 25-28 July 2005 Page(s):129 - 132 vol.1 |
�Design and Optimization of UWB CMOS Prescaler� |
| A. Koukab, P. Deval, C. Dehollain,M. Declercq IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing,,Volume: 48 , Issue: 3 , March 2001, Pages:291 � 293 |
"Low-noise power supply technique for RF amplifiers" |
| A. Koukab, M. Declercq, C. Dehollain IEE Circuits, Devices and Systems, Volume: 148 , Issue: 5 , Oct. 2001 Pages:250 � 254 |
Analysis and improvement of the noise immunity in a single-chip super-regenerative transceiver |
| A. Koukab, M. Declercq, and C. Dehollain
International Workshop on low power RF ICs. Lausanne Oct (1999) |
Analysis and simulation of substrate coupling in RF ICs |
| A. Koukab, C. Dehollain, M. Declercq
Workshop on low power RF ICs dedicated 3G mobile phones� Lausanne Feb. (2004) |
A Multi-Mode Multi-band Voltage Controlled Oscillator for 3G enhanced mobile phones |
| A. Koukab, C. Dehollain,M. Declercq Design Automation Conference, DAC 2002. Proceedings. 39th , 10-14 June 2002 Pages:767 � 770 |
HSpeedEx: a high-speed extractor for substrate noise analysis in complex mixed-signal SOC |
| A. Koukab, K. Banerjee, M. Declercq IEEE International Conference on Computer Aided Design, 2002. ICCAD 2002. 10-14 Nov. 2002 Pages:309 � 3 |
"Analysis and optimization of substrate noise coupling in single-chip RF transceiver design" |
| A. Koukab, K. Banerjee, M. Declercq
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems,Volume: 23, Issue: 6 , June 2004 Pages:823 � 836 |
"Modeling techniques and verification methodologies for substrate coupling effects in mixed-signal system-on-chip designs" |
| A. Koukab, A. Bath and E. Losson Solid-State Electronics, int. Journal, 41, 635-641 (1997). |
"An improved high frequency C-V method for interface state analysis on MIS structures" |
| A. Koukab and A. Bath Solid-State Electronics, int. Journal, 41, 515-518 (1997) |
"Procedure to minimize interface-state errors in MIS doping profile determinations" |
| O. Baher, P. Th�venin, A. Bath, A. Koukab, E. Losson and B. Lepley: Materials Science and Engineering, int. Journal B 46, 101-104 (1997) |
"Preparation of boron nitride thin films by microwave plasma enhanced CVD for semiconductor applications" |
| A. Koukab, A. Bath and O. Baher Microelectronic Engineering, int. Journal 49 211-216 (1999) |
"Simple method for accurate determination of the mean interface state density of MIS (Metal/BN/InP) structures" |
| A. Koukab, A. Hoffmann, A. Bath and J-P. Charles
Solid-State Electronics, int. Journal, 43, 641-644 (1999). |
"A simple technique for hot-carrier-induced interface states analysis in thin oxide MOS capacitors" |
| A. Koukab, A. Bath, and P. Th�venin
Microelectronics Journal 31 647-651 (2000) |
"Improved bias-thermal-stress method for the insulator charge measurement of MIS (Metal/BN/InP) structures" |
| D. Sallin, A. Koukab and M. Kayal. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 26, num. 20, p. 2062-2065, 2014. |
MOS-PN Hybrid Device With Minimum Dark Current for Sensitive Digital Photodetection, |
| D. Sallin, A. Koukab and M. Kayal. Optics Letters (accepted) |
Towards direct Light-to-Digital conversion using a pulse-driven Hybrid MOS-PN photodetector |
| S. Okhonin,M. Gureev, D. Sallin, J. Appel, A. Koukab & al APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS (accepted) |
A dynamic operation of a PIN photodiode |
