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| Dr. Elvis Mak Pui In (left), IEEE CAS Society President Prof. Gianluca Setti (middle), and Prof. Rui Martins (right) |
Dr. Elvis Mak Pui In of the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology (FST), University of Macau (UM), has attained impressive achievements in the field of microelectronics over the past decade. Recently he received the 2010 Outstanding Young Author Best Journal Paper Award from the IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) CAS (Circuits and Systems) Society, becoming the first scholar from Macao to ever receive this prestigious award. The good news reflects UM’s growing international status in microelectronics research.
Dr. Mak received the 2010 Outstanding Young Author Best Journal Paper Award for one of the 5 Best Paper Awards among all Transactions published by the IEEE CAS Society. The awarded paper entitled “Design of an ESD-Protected Ultra-Wideband LNA in Nanoscale CMOS for Full-Band Mobile TV Tuners” (co-authored with Prof. Rui Martins) was an Invited Journal Paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems – I Regular Papers in May 2009.
IEEE is the world’s largest professional association dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity. It has more than 370,000 members from over 160 countries.. The Award was founded by CASS in 1985. The award-presentation ceremony was held on 1 June 2010 at the annual flagship conference of the IEEE CAS Society, the International Symposium on Circuits and Systems – ISCAS 2010, in Paris, which was attended by 1500 delegates from around the world.
Dr. Mak’s awarded paper presents an electrostatic discharge (ESD)-protected ultra-wideband (UWB) low-noise amplifier (LNA) for full-band (170-to-1700 MHz) mobile TV tuners. It features a PMOS-based open-source input structure to optimize the I/O swings under a mixed-voltage ESD protection while offering an inductorless broadband input impedance match. The amplification core exploiting double current reuse and single-stage thermal-noise cancellation enhances the gain and noise performances with high power efficiency.
Dr. Mak’s main research interest is wireless and biomedical microelectronics. So far he has published approximately 50 articles in IEEE/IEE journals and conferences, with several receiving outstanding paper awards or best paper awards. Last year he received the 2009 IEEE MGA GOLD Achievement Award. The project “Two-Step Channel Selection for Wireless Receiver Front-Ends” of which he was the first author was granted the first US patent in the field of microelectronics for Macao.
