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Khaled Elgaid

Professor Khaled Elgaid

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School of Engineering

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Available for postgraduate supervision

Overview

Dr. K Elgaid FIET, SIEEE, is presently leading a high frequency devices and integrated circuits research team using GaN technology. He has >140 publications, presented 5 invited talks in international conferences/workshops in the past 2 years and co-authored a book chapter in “RFIC and MMIC design and technology”; widely regarded as a reference text, translated into Chinese in 2007. He has >20 years’ experience in MMIC technology development operating up to 325GHz, i.e. world leading mHEMT performance (fT/fmax = 440/400 GHz), InP HEMT performance (fT 550GHz), highest reported 300nm T-gate RF GaN on LR Si HEMT (fT/fmax = 55/121 GHz), demonstrated UK only 200GHz MMIC LNA, Ka-Band diode based MMIC mixers/LNA and state of the art MMIC compatible integrated THz antennas technology. He has collaborated with world leading national/international industrial partners (e.g. QinetiQ, BAE Systems, DTC and Keysight).

GaN technology, with its exceptional power output, power added efficiency and low noise performance has the potential to become the mm-wave integrated circuit technology of choice for many applications above 75GHz; providing a step change in performance in 5G telecommunications, sensing (e.g. automotive, security, satellite and medical), EW and radar applications, as well as Terahertz Sources (GaN Schottky diode based).

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My research interests span the design and realization of compound semiconductor microwave and millimetre-wave integrated circuits using state of the art in-house nanotechnology facilities. These activities utilise different compound semiconductor high-speed electronic devices; including devices fabricated using GaN and GaAs. The group enhances its research activities with further integration including on chip antennas at sub millimeter-wave and terahertz frequencies. My research activities are funded by several government and industrial grants and deliver research in high-speed wireless communications, radar, sensors and systems applications. I have published over 130 papers in my research field area and invited speaker at several international conferences.

Teaching

  • Micro and Nano Technology
  • Microwave and Millimetre-Wave Circuit Design
  • Team Design Project 3
  • VLSI Design 4
  • Digital Signal Processing 4
  • BSc Project Supervision
  • BEng Project Supervision
  • MSc Project Supervision
  • MEng Product Design Engineering Supervision
  • Senior Adviser the MSc cohorts in EEE, EEE & Management
  • Senior Adviser the MSc cohorts in EEE & Management

Biography

Dr. Khaled Elgaid FIET, SMIEE. He obtained B.Sc., Evansville USA, M.Sc., Cincinnati USA, and Ph.D., Glasgow UK.

Honours and awards

Awarded Scientific Proposals Since January 2006 (PI)

  • A Feasibility Study for the Development of GaN - based High Frequency RF Devices - Innovate UK.
  • Integration of RF Circuits with High Speed GaN Switching on Silicon Substrates. Funded Value: £770,790; Funded Period: Aug 2016 - Jul 2019; Funder:  EPSRC. http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/projects?ref=EP%2FN014820%2F1.
  • Feasibility of producing MMICs in GaN on Si. Pump prime activity associated III-V Centre.
  • GaN Devices and Circuits.
  • EPSRC Funding “High Resolution Passive Imaging Operating at 200GHz.
  • Electro-Magnetic Remote Sensing (EMRS) Defence Technology Centre (DTC) Funding, ”UK source for mm-wave imager MMIC technology”, industrial partner QinetiQ.
  • Electro-Magnetic Remote Sensing (EMRS) Defence Technology Centre (DTC) Funding, “High Speed Sampling Downconverters for Radar and EW Applications”, Industrial Partner BAE.
  • Agilent Technologies Funding - University Research Grant Scheme “W-Band Ultra Wideband Medium Power Amplifiers for Instrumentation Applications”.
  • EPSERC Funding, Case Award for New Academic “PhD scholarship” joint project with QinetiQ.
  • QimetiQ Funding Award for New Academic “Partial PhD scholarship”.
  • Agilent Technologies Funding - University Equipment Donations Scheme“.
  • W-Band LNA (MMIC) With CPW to Microstrip Transition, XANIC Limited.
  • CPW-Microstrip Transition, SMART Award/XANIC Limited.

Previous Scientific Proposals (Partial Contribution) 

  • Speckled Computing and Wireless Communications
  • Sub 100nm III-V MOSFETs for Digital Applications
  • SiGe for MOS Technologies, Development and Applications
  • Millimeter-Wave Signal Processing for Data Communications and Radar Applications
  • Nanoelectronics Technologies for Ultrafast Devices and Systems on III-V

Professional memberships

  • IET Fellow - Institution of Engineering and Technology
  • IEEE Senior member - The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Academic positions

  • 2009 - 2017: Senior Lecturer, University of Glasgow, School of Engineering, Electronic&Nanoscale Engineering, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom.
  • 2006 - 2008: Lecturer, University of Glasgow, School of Engineering, Electronics&Electrical Engineering, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom.
  • 1997 - 2005: Lecturer, University of Glasgow, School of Engineering, Electronics&Electrical Engineering, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom.

Supervisions

  • Matthew Smith
  • Ian McGregor
  • Lai-Bun Lok
  • Zehao Wu
  • Michael Farage
  • Bhavana Benakaprasad
  • Abdalla Eblabla
  • Bhavana Benakaprasad
  • Fatemeh Aghamoradi
  • Oberdan Donadio
  • Nuredin Ahmed
  • Ibrahim Aref
  • Adel Emhemmed
  • Chi Jeon Hwang
  • Moath Alathbah
  • Aye Su Mon Kyaw
  • Abdulaziz BinKhudhayr
  • Ali Hamid
  • Zhewen Bao
  • Carwyn Anzani
  • Andrew McDonald
  • Yiran Tina
  • Patrick Gerard Melinn
  • Khaled Nauman
  • Saeed Alamri
  • Sana Quayum
  • Bing Zheng Shen

Contact Details

Email ElgaidK@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone +44 29208 75758
Campuses Queen's Buildings - North Building, Room N/1.52, 5 The Parade, Newport Road, Cardiff, CF24 3AA