Research Interests

RFIC, analogue and mixed-signal integrated circuit design (RFCMOS and BiCMOS) wireless architectures and systems, system-on-chip, broadband system

Biography

Dr. Albasha joined American University of Sharjah in 2007. He received his BEng and PhD degrees in electronic engineering from the University of Leeds, UK, in 1990 and 1995, respectively. He also obtained an MSc (with distinction) in 1991.  After spending two years as a research fellow at Leeds, he joined Sony Corporation in 1997. He was credited for a series of chip designs for mobile handsets. He joined Filtronic PLC in 2000 where he created a group and pioneered the design of handset GSM/3G switches that subsequently matured into a massively successful business in one of Europe’s largest foundries. In mid-2001, he returned to Sony Corporation as their lead designer and worked on highly integrated state-of-the-art silicon integrated circuits for GSM and 3G systems. Dr. Albasha took technical leadership for digital TV RFIC front-end for terrestrial (DVB-T) and mobile (DVB-H) receiver chips and was involved with the international standard for Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) and product development for Mobile TV ICs.

Dr. Albasha received four outstanding recognition awards from Sony UK and Sony Japan for his contributions to Sony’s first quad-band GSM/EDGE direct-conversion transceiver, Sony’s successful handset frontend products and more recently for his technical leadership of Sony’s first Mobile TV (DVB-H) chipset. He was also awarded the Leslie H. Paddle Prize from the IEE for his academic research.  He has authored and co-authored over 25 refereed papers in various journals and conferences. He has also authored numerous technical reports and design concepts within Sony.  He was the organizer and chairperson for Mobile- TV Workshop during the European Wireless Week in Manchester, UK, in 2006 and a member of the steering committee for the IEEE Radio and Wireless Conference, 1999, Colorado, USA. He served on the technical committees for the IEEE Radio and Wireless Conference, USA, between 1998-2003. He was invited as guest editor for a special issue of IEEE MTT Transactions and acts as a reviewer for it.  He was a reviewer for a special RFIC issue of IEEE MTT Transactions in 2007. Dr. Albasha is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits and Microwave Theory and Techniques societies.

Publications

Journal Papers

1. J.C. Clifton L. Albasha, A. Lawrenson, A. Eaton
   Novel Multi-Mode JPHEMT Front-End Architecture with Power Control Scheme for Maximum Efficiency
   Proceedings of IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, Vol. 53, No.6, June 2005.
   
2. L. Albasha, C. M. Snowden and Roger D. Pollard
   A New HEMT Breakdown Model Incorporating Gate and Thermal Effects
   International Journal of VLSI Design, Vol. 8, Nos. 1-4, pp.349-353, 1998 (Gorden and Breach Publishers, Ref: ISSN: 1065-514X VLDEEZ).
   
3. Albasha L, C. M. Snowden
   New Integrated Simulation Techniques for the Electromagnetic Analysis of Microwave Circuits Using the TLM method
   International Journal of Numerical Modelling: Electronic Networks, Devices and Fields, Vol. 9, pp. 375-393, 1996 (Publishers: John Wiley & Sons Ltd).

Conference Papers

4. L. Albasha, Chris Clifton
   Meeting the Needs of Cellular Dual-Mode (EGPRS/3G) Power Amplifiers Proceedings of SONY North America Technical Symposium, San Diego USA, Nov 2004.
5. L. Albasha, Chris Clifton
   Novel Control Architecture for JPHEMT Power Amplifiers achieving High Efficiency EDGE Application
   Proceedings of IEEE Topical Workshop on Power Amplifier for Wireless Communications, UCSD, San Diego USA, Sept 2004.
6. L. Albasha, Alan Lawrenson and Chris Clifton
   Novel Control Architecture for JPHEMT Power Amplifiers achieving High Efficiency EDGE Application
   Proceedings of IEEE Radio and Wireless Conference, Atlanta USA, Sept 2004, pp.343-347.
   
7. C. Clifton, L. Albasha, Alan Lawrenson,
   Meeting the Needs of Cellular Dual-Mode (EGPRS/3G) Power Amplifiers
   Proceedings of 34th European Microwave Conference, Amsterdam, Holland, Oct 2004.
8. L. Albasha
   A New Fully Integrated BiCMOS Digital Terrestrial TV Tuner using Direct Conversion Architecture
   Presented at SONY University Makimoto Research Conference, Basingstoke, UK, 2004.
   
9. Roberts, M., Albasha, L., Bosch, W., Gotch, D., Mayock, J.
   Highly Linear Low Voltage GaAs pHEMT MMIC Switches for Multimode Wireless Handset Applications
   Proceedings of IEEE Radio and Wireless Conference, Aug. 2001, pp. 61 64, Colorado, USA.
10. Clifton, J.C.; Albasha, L.
    RFIC Antenna Switch Solutions for GSM Dualband Telephones
    IEE Colloquium on Multi-Chip Modules and RFICs (Ref. No. 1998/231), May 1998 , Pages:4/1 - 4/4, London, UK.
11. L. Albasha, C. M. Snowden and Roger D. Pollard
    A New HEMT Breakdown Model Incorporating Gate and Thermal Effects
    Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Computational Electronics, 1997, Notre Dame, IN, USA.
12. L. Albasha, C. M. Snowden
    New Methods for the Excitation and Modelling of Planar Circuitry in Three-Dimensional Electromagnetic Simulations
    Proceedings of Progress in Electromagnetic Research Symposium, July 1997, Boston USA.
13. Albasha, L.; Snowden, C.M.
    Electromagnetic Analysis of Planar Circuitry and the Dimensionality Argument Proceedings of IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest, 1997,Volume: 1, 8-13 June 1997 Pages:321 - 324 vol.1, Denver, USA.
14. L. Albasha, R.G. Johnson, C. M. Snowden and Roger D. Pollard
    An Investigation of Breakdown in Power HEMTs and MESFETs Utilising an Advanced Temperature-Dependent Physical Model
    Proceedings of 24th International Symposium on Compound Semiconductors, San Diego, CA USA, 1997 (IEEE Catalog: 97TH8272).
15. Albasha, L.; Snowden, C.M.; Pollard, R.D.
    Breakdown Characterisation of HEMTs and MESFETs Based on a New Thermally Driven Gate Model
    Proceedings of International Conference on Simulation of Semiconductor Processes and Devices, 1997. SISPAD '97., 1997, 8-10 Sept. 1997, pp. 277–280, MA, USA.
16. Albasha, L.; Snowden, C.M.; Pollard, R.D
    Power HEMT CAD for Wireless Communications Applications
    Proceedings of Wireless Communications Conference, Aug 1997, pp. 129–133, Colorado, USA.
17. Albasha, L.; Johnson, R.G.; Snowden, C.M.; Pollard, R.D.
    An Investigation of Breakdown in Power HEMTs and MESFETs Utilising an Advanced Temperature-dependent Physical Model
    Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Compound Semiconductors, Sept. 1997, pp. 471–474. San Diego, USA.
18. Albasha, L.; Snowden, C.M.
    The Application of the TLM Method for the Design and Analysis of Microwave Filter Circuits
    Proceedings of IEE Colloquium on High Frequency Simulation in Practice (Digest No. 1997/010), May 1997, pp. 5/1-5/4.
19. Albasha L., C. M. Snowden
    New Integrated Simulation Techniques for the Electromagnetic Analysis of Microwave Circuits Using the TLM Method
    International Journal of Numerical Modelling: Electronic Networks, Devices and Fields, Vol. 9, pp. 375-393, 1996 (Publishers: John Wiley & Sons Ltd).
20. Albasha L.; Snowden, C.M.;
    TLM Time-Domain Modelling and the use of Windowing Profiles for Frequency-Domain Transformations Applied to Microwave Cavity Resonators
    Proceedings of Third International Conference on Computation in Electromagnetics, 1996, April 1996, pp. 358-363(Conf. Publ. No. 420).
21. Albasha L., C. M. Snowden
    TLM Time-Modelling and the use of windowing profiles for frequency domain transformation applied to microwave cavity resonators
    Proceedings of IEE 3rd International Conference on Computations in Electromagnetics, Pub No. 420, pp10-12, 1996
22. Albasha L., C. M. Snowden
    A New Integrated Technique for the Electromagnetic Modelling of Lumped Elements using the TLM Method
    Proceedings of 11th URSI Student Meeting, Liverpool, July 1994.
23. Albasha L., C. M. Snowden
    An Integrated Simulation Technique for the Modelling of Lumped Elements Using the TLM Method
    Proceedings for the 24th European Microwave Conference (EuMC), Vol. 1, pp. 848-853, Cannes, France, Sept 1994 1993 (Publishers: IEE & IEEE).
24. Albasha L., C. M. Snowden
    Modelling of Microwave Elements using the TLM Method
    Proceedings of IEE Colloquium (Digest: Developments in TLM), April 1993 (Publishers: IEE & IEEE).