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... João Manuel Torres Caldinhas Simões Vaz

Senior Researcher

João Vaz

Academic position: Assistant Professor
Joining date: 04-10-2002
Roles in IT: Senior Researcher
Thematic Line: Wireless Technologies
Group: Wireless Circuits – Lx

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Address: IT – Lisboa
Instituto Superior Técnico - Torre Norte - Piso 10
Av. Rovisco Pais, 1
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SCHOLAR

Scientific Achievements

  • PhD, Instituto Superior Técnico, 23-07-1998
  • MSc, Instituto Superior Técnico, 01-03-1991
  • Licenciatura, Instituto Superior Técnico, 30-09-1987
  • Instituto Superior Técnico, 28-07-1998, Assistant Professor
  • IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 01-12-1996, Senior Member
  • Ordem dos Engenheiros, 01-12-1987, Sócio
  • CMOS high-efficiency power amplifiers
  • CMOS frequency analog and digital synthesizers
  • CMOS and SiGe transceivers design
  • Ultra Low Power Design
  • CMOS Wireless Sensors for IoT
  • Monolhitic passive components design and characterization
8Lecture courses
2Supervision of PhD theses
As Supervisor
As Co-supervisor
15Supervision of MSc theses
As Supervisor
1Books Chapters
  • P. M. Santos, L. Mendes, J. Vaz, HJQ Quaresma, Chapter 8: Layout strategies for substrate crosstalk reduction in low cost CMOS processes, Chapter in, Noise Coupling in System-on-Chip, Thomas Noulis, CRC-Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, 2017
13Papers in Journals
  • L. Mendes, J. Vaz, F. Passos, N. Lourenço, R. M. Martins, In-Depth Design Space Exploration of 26.5-to-29.5-GHz 65-nm CMOS Low-Noise Amplifiers for Low-Footprint-and-Power 5G Communications Using One-and- Two -Step Design Optimization, IEEE Access, Vol. 9, No. --, pp. 70353 - 70368, May, 2021,
    | Abstract     | Full text (PDF 3 MBs) | BibTex
  • M. Pereira, M. Assunção, J. Vaz, Analysis and Design of Current Mode Class-D Power Amplifiers With Finite Feeding Inductors, IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1 - 10, February, 2020,
    | Abstract     | BibTex
  • M. Pereira, J. T. Sousa, J. Costa Freire, J. Vaz, A 1.7-mW -92-dBm Sensitivity Low-IF Receiver in 0.13-μm CMOS for Bluetooth LE Applications, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, Vol. 67, No. 1, pp. 332 - 346, January, 2019 | BibTex
  • M. Pereira, J. Vaz, Power optimisation of both a high-speed counter and a retiming element for 2.4 GHz digital PLLs, Electronics Letters, Vol. 54, No. 4, pp. 284 - 285, March, 2018,
    | Abstract     | BibTex
  • M. Pereira, J. Vaz, A Single-Ended Modified Class-E PA With HD2 Rejection for Low-Power RF Applications, IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 22 - 25, January, 2018,
    | Abstract     | BibTex
  • M. Pereira, J. Vaz, C.A. Leme, J. Costa Freire, Gain Compression Improvement on Low-Power Cascaded Current Reuse LNAs, International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications, Vol. 44, No. 10, pp. 1767 - 1779, October, 2016,
    | Abstract     | BibTex
  • M. Pereira, J. Vaz, C.A. Leme, J. T. Sousa, J. Costa Freire, A 170-μA All-Digital GFSK Demodulator with Rejection of Low SNR Packets for Bluetooth-LE, IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, Vol. 26, No. 6, pp. 452 - 454, June, 2016,
    | Abstract     | BibTex
  • L. Mendes, P. M. Santos, J. Vaz, Substrate noise isolation improvement in a single-well standard CMOS process, Integration, the VLSI Journal, Vol. 52, No. -, pp. 122 - 128, January, 2016,
    | Abstract     | BibTex
  • L. Mendes, E. S. Pires Pires, J. Vaz, M. Rosário, P. B. Oliveira, J. A. Machado, Automated Design of Microwave Discrete Tuning Differential Capacitance Circuits in Si Integrated Technologies, Microwave and Optical Tech. Letters, Vol. 52, No. 3, pp. 629 - 634, March, 2010 | BibTex
  • E. S. Pires Pires, L. Mendes, P. B. Oliveira, J. A. Machado, J. Vaz, M. Rosário, Design of Radio-Frequency Integrated CMOS Discrete Tuning Varactors Using the Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. --, No. 5518, pp. 1231 - 1239, June, 2009 | BibTex
  • L. Mendes, E. S. Pires Pires, P. B. Oliveira, J. A. Machado, N. M. Ferreira, J. Vaz, M. Rosário, Design Optimization of Radio Frequency Discrete Tuning Varactors, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. --, No. 5484, pp. 343 - 352, April, 2009 | BibTex
  • J. Vaz, J. Costa Freire, Millimeter-Wave Monolithic Power Amplifier for Mobile Broadband System, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, Vol. 49, No. 6, pp. 1211 - 1215, June, 2001 | BibTex
  • K. K. Tan, G.M. Marques, J. Vaz, J. Costa Freire, MMIC Lumped and Transversal Filter with LC Tuned Amplifiers, Microwave Engineering Europe, Vol. 1, No. 11, pp. 57 - 61, November, 1999 | BibTex
40Papers in Conferences
  • F. Passos, R. M. Martins, N. Lourenço, L. Mendes, J. Vaz, N. Horta, Efficient Hierarchical mm-Wave System Synthesis with Embedded Accurate Transformer and Balun Machine Learning Models, Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference ASP-DAC, Tokyo, Japan, January, 2023,
    | Abstract     | BibTex
  • L. Mendes, J. Vaz, F. Passos, N. Lourenço, R. M. Martins, Automatic Design of High-Gain 26.5-to-29.5-GHz Transformer-Less Low-Noise Amplifier 1.86-to-8.87-mW Variants in 65-nm CMOS, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems ISCAS, Austin, United States, May, 2022,
    | Abstract     | BibTex
  • EJB Baptista, K. Buisman, J. Vaz, C. Fager, Analysis of Thermal Coupling Effects in Integrated MIMO Transmitters, IEEE International Microwave Symposium IMS, Honolulu, United States, June, 2017 | BibTex
  • M. Pereira, J. C. Costa, M. Santos, J. Vaz, An 1µA Voltage Reference Circuit With High PSRR and Temperature Compensation, Conference on Design of Circuits and Integrated Systems DCIS, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, November, 2015 | BibTex
  • M. Pereira, J. Vaz, C.A. Leme, J. T. Sousa, J. Costa Freire, An Ultra-Low Power Low-IF GFSK Demodulator for Bluetooth-LE applications, IEEE International Symp. on Circuits and Systems - ISCAS, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1226 - 1229, May, 2015,
    | Abstract     | BibTex
  • P.G. Pereira, M. Pereira, R.M.F. Alves, A.M.C. Costa, J. Vaz, C.A. Leme, All-Digital Phase Locked Loop for Bluetooth Low Energy Transmitters, Conf. on Design of Circuits and Integrated Systems, San Sebastian, Spain, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, November, 2013,
    | Abstract     | BibTex
  • M. Pereira, J. Vaz, A 20 dBm Fully Integrated Single Stage CMOS Power Amplifier with 40 dB Power Gain, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Castelo Branco, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 175 - 178, May, 2013,
    | Abstract     | BibTex
  • V. Canosa, M. Pereira, P. Gomes, J. Vaz, J. Costa Freire, Fully Integrated Switched Dual-Band CMOS LNA for 802.11b/g WLAN and WiMAX applications, European Microwave Integrated Circuits - EuMIC, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Vol., pp. 397 - 400, October, 2012,
    | Abstract     | BibTex
  • V. Canosa, M. Pereira, P. Gomes, J. Vaz, J. Costa Freire, Fully integrated switched dual-band CMOS LNA for 802.11b/g WLAN and WiMAX applications, European Microwave Integrated Circuits - EuMIC, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Vol., pp. 397 - 400, October, 2012 | BibTex
  • V. Canosa, J. Vaz, M. Pereira, Switched Dual-band CMOS LNA for 802.11b/g WLAN and WiMAX Applications, Conf. on Design of Circuits and Integrated Systems, Albufeira, Portugal, Vol., pp. 235 - 240, November, 2011 | BibTex
  • M. Pereira, J. Vaz, V. Canosa, A 2.45 GHz 30 dBm Differential 0.18 μm CMOS Class-E Power Amplifier with 42% PAE, Conf. on Design of Circuits and Integrated Systems, Albufeira, Portugal, Vol., pp. 381 - 385, November, 2011 | BibTex
  • R. F. Ribeiro Ribeiro, L. Mendes, J. Vaz, M. Rosário, J. Costa Freire, A 130 nm CMOS LNA for 30 GHz Applications, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, April, 2011 | BibTex
  • E. S. Pires Pires, L. Mendes, P. B. Oliveira, J. A. Machado, J. Vaz, M. Rosário, Maximin Spreading Algorithm, IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence - WCCI, Barcelona, Spain, Vol., pp. -- - --, July, 2010 | BibTex
  • F. Azevedo, L. Mendes, V. Fialho, J. Vaz, F. Fortes, M. Rosário, A 1.8V/5GHz CMOS WLAN Low Noise Amplifier Integrated with Active BALUN, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal, Vol. n, pp. n - n, May, 2009,
    | Abstract     | BibTex
  • J. Vaz, V. Fialho, A 2.4GHz CMOS Integer-N Phase-Locked Loop, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal, Vol. 0, pp. 0 - 0, May, 2009 | BibTex
  • F. Azevedo, L. Mendes, J. Vaz, F. Fortes, M. Rosário, A 5GHz/1.8V Low Power CMOS Low-Noise Amplifier, Asia Pacific Microwave Conf. - APMC, Hong Kong, China, Vol. 000, pp. 000 - 000, December, 2008,
    | Abstract     | BibTex
  • F. Azevedo, L. Mendes, J. Vaz, F. Fortes, M. Rosário, A 5GHz/1.8V CMOS Active Balun Integrated With LNA, Asia Pacific Microwave Conf. - APMC, Hong Kong, China, Vol. na, pp. na - na, December, 2008,
    | Abstract     | BibTex
  • L. Mendes, J. Vaz, M. Rosário, A Low Power Low Phase Noise Wide Switched Tuned Band LC VCO for S Band Applications, Asia Pacific Microwave Conf. - APMC, Hong Kong – Macau, Hong Kong, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, December, 2008 | BibTex
  • L. Mendes, E. S. Pires Pires, J. Vaz, M. Rosário, P. B. Oliveira, Automated Synthesis Procedure of RF Discrete Tuning Differential Capacitance Circuits, Asia Pacific Microwave Conf. - APMC, Hong Kong – Macau, Hong Kong, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, December, 2008 | BibTex
  • F. Azevedo, L. Mendes, J. Vaz, F. Fortes, M. Rosário, A Low Power 1.8V/5GHz Monolithic Low-Noise Amplifier, Jornadas de Engenharia de Electrónica e Telecomunicações e de Computadores do ISEL, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. na, pp. na - na, November, 2008,
    | Abstract     | BibTex
  • E. S. Pires Pires, L. Mendes, P. B. Oliveira, J. Vaz, M. Rosário, Single-Objective Pareto Front Optimization: Application to RF Circuit Design, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conf. - GECCO, Atlanta, United States, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, July, 2008 | BibTex
  • L. Mendes, E. S. Pires Pires, J. Vaz, M. Rosário, A High-Performance Digitally Controlled LC Oscillator for Ku-Band Applications, IEEE International Conf. on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, Marrakech, Morocco, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, December, 2007 | BibTex
  • L. Mendes, E. S. Pires Pires, J. Vaz, M. Rosário, An Evolutionary Synthesis Algorithm to Design Optimum Performance CMOS RFSSCAs, IEEE International Conf. on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, Marrakech, Morocco, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, December, 2007 | BibTex
  • J. Torres, J. Vaz, J. Costa Freire, 30GHz Amplifiers with 0.25ƒÝm SiGe BiCMOS, IEEE International Conf. on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, marrakesh, Morocco, Vol. I, pp. 0 - 0, December, 2007 | BibTex
  • F. Azevedo, F. Fortes, J. Vaz, M. Rosário, A Wideband CMOS LNA Integrated with Balun and Linear Digital Gain Control, IEEE International Conf. on Electronics, Circuits and Integrated Systems - ICECS, Marrakesh, Morocco, Vol. na, pp. na - na, December, 2007 | BibTex
  • E. S. Pires Pires, L. Mendes, P. B. Oliveira, J. A. Machado, N. M. Ferreira, J. Vaz, M. Rosário, Single-Objective MaxMin Sorting Scheme: Application to Radio Frequency Circuit Design, International Conf. on Electrical Engineering, Coimbra, Portugal, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, November, 2007 | BibTex
  • F. Azevedo, F. Fortes, J. Vaz, M. Rosário, A 1.7V Wideband CMOS Low Noise Amplifier with Linear Digital Gain Control, International Microwave and Optics Conf., Salvador BA, Brazil, Vol. na, pp. na - na, October, 2007 | BibTex
  • L. Mendes, E. S. Pires Pires, J. Vaz, M. Rosário, Automated Design of Radio-Frequency Single-Ended Switched Capacitor Arrays using Genetic Algorithms, Midwest Symp. on Circuits and Systems, Montréal, Canada, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, August, 2007 | BibTex
  • L. Mendes, J. Vaz, M. Rosário, Wide Tuning Band Low Phase Noise LC Voltage Controlled Oscillators Designed in Low Cost CMOS Technologies, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Peniche, Portugal, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, May, 2007 | BibTex
  • G. St´Aubyn, J. Vaz, J. Costa Freire, Voltage Controlled Phase Shifters on CMOS Technology, Asia Pacific Microwave Conf. - APMC, Yokohama, Japan, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, December, 2006 | BibTex
  • L. Mendes, J. Vaz, M. Rosário, Performance of Si-Integrated Wide-Band Single-Ended Switched Capacitor Arrays, IEEE International Conf. on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, Nice, France, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, December, 2006 | BibTex
  • J.O. Oliveira, J. Vaz, A CAD Oriented Method for Monolithic LC VCO Design, Conf. on Design of Circuits and Integrated Systems, Barcelona, Spain, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, November, 2006 | BibTex
  • L. Mendes, J. Vaz, M. Rosário, Modeling of CMOS or BiCMOS Ultra-Wide-Band Single-Ended Switched Capacitor Arrays, Conf. on Design of Circuits and Integrated Systems, Barcelona, Spain, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, November, 2006 | BibTex
  • L. Mendes, J. Vaz, M. Rosário, A Closed-Form Input Admittance Solution for RF and Microwave Switched Capacitor Arrays, IEEE International Symp. on Circuits and Systems - ISCAS, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, August, 2006 | BibTex
  • L. Mendes, J. Vaz, M. Rosário, Fully Integrated CMOS LC Voltage Controlled Oscillator for IEEE802.11a and HiperLAN2 WLAN Transceivers, International Conf. on Electrical Engineering, Coimbra, Portugal, Vol. na, pp. na - na, October, 2005 | BibTex
  • J. Bernardino, J. Vaz, High Q MMIC GaAs Active Filter for K Band Subsystems, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Tomar, Portugal, Vol. na, pp. na - na, April, 2005 | BibTex
  • J. Vaz, M. Rosário, J. Costa Freire, Low Cost Si MMIC Design for RF Front Ends, Asia Pacific Microwave Conf. - APMC, New Delhi, India, Vol., pp. 1 - 2, December, 2004 | BibTex
  • J.O. Oliveira, J. Vaz, Oscilador Sinusoidal LC em Tecnologia BiCMOS para 2.4GHz, Workshop de Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Engenharia Electrotécnica e das Telecomunicações, Castelo Branco, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, February, 2004 | BibTex
  • M. Rosário, F. Le-Strat, P. Alleaume, J. Vaz, J. Schrotg, T. Mueller, J. Costa Freire, Low Cost LTCC Filters for a 30GHz Satellite System, European Microwave Conf. - EMC, Munique, Germany, Vol. 1, pp. 817 - 820, October, 2003 | BibTex
  • J.O. Oliveira, J. Vaz, A 2.4GHz LC-tuned VCO in BiCMOS technology, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 531 - 533, June, 2003 | BibTex

Closed Projects15

Acronym Name Funding Agency Start date Ending date
ACTFIL Active filters IT/LA 01-01-2004 31-12-2005
AME Advanced Microelectronics Engineering ICEP 01-10-2002 22-10-2003
COMMET A COmplete analog front-end for 3G MultiMEdia Terminals ADI 01-11-2002 31-10-2005
Digital_PAs Digital_PAs - Digital RF Power Amplifiers for Wireless Applications FCT/PTDC 01-01-2009 01-06-2012
GALACTIC Innovative GaAs MMICs and Avanced LTCC packaging technologies for multicomponents Ka Band subsystems EU 01-01-2002 31-12-2004
HAICAS Hierarchical Analog IC Automatic Synthesis IT 01-05-2020 30-04-2022
IRFDCMOS Integration of high-frequency dc-dc converters in RF CMOS SoC IT/LA 01-09-2005 01-06-2008
LAY(RF)^2 Ready-to-Fabricate RF and mmWave Integrated Circuit Layouts IT 01-02-2020 31-01-2022
LDMOSCA Low Distortion RF MOS Circuits Advances FCT/POCTI 01-01-2001 31-12-2002
NLRFCMOS Desenvolvimento de modelos não lineares de dispositivos para microondas e integração monolítica de circuitos não lineares em silício para telecomunicações CRUP 01-01-2003 31-12-2004
SiGeM Silicon Germanium MMICs for RF Front End Transceivers IT/LA 01-10-2005 01-07-2008
SWIPA Switching Mode Power Amplifiers for Wireless Communications IT/LA 01-11-2008 01-11-2010
uFlexBat Batteryless energy supply system based on flexible organic photovoltaic cells IT/LA 01-12-2016 30-06-2019
WiFiRx Double-Band Multi_standard Frequency Front-End for WLAN aplications FCT/PTDC 01-09-2007 01-04-2010
WSN_EM Wireless Sensor Network for Environmental Monitoring FCT 01-09-2018 31-08-2022
4Awards
  • J. Vaz, Excellent teacher on MT course, Considered excellent teacher on "Microelectrónica das Telecomunicações" MSc course, 1st term, 2017-2018., 01-05-2018
  • J. Vaz, Excellent teacher SIA course, Considered excellent teacher on "Sistemas Integrados Analógicos" MSc course, 2nd term, 2017-2018., 01-05-2018
  • J. Vaz, Docente Excelente, Considerado docente excelente relativamente à disciplina de Electrónica 1 leccionada no 2º semestre do ano lectivo 2010/11 no Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Electrotécnica e Computadores., 01-01-2012
  • J. Costa Freire, G.M. Marques, W. Tam, J. Vaz, MMIC Lumped and Transversal Filter with LC Tuned Amplifiers, Best Poster at GAAS'99 (, 05-10-1999
3Short Courses and Seminars
  • J. Vaz, EMERGENT TECHNOLOGIES FOR FUTURE WIRELESS SYSTEMS, Portugal, Aveiro, 09-2012
  • J. Vaz, Introdução às Telecomunicações” (Ciência Viva no Laboratório – Ocupação Científica de Jovens nas Férias), Portugal, Lisboa, 07-2012
  • J. Vaz, High-Efficiency Radiofrequency Power Amplifiers, Macau, Macau, 07-2011
1Prototypes
  • J. Vaz, M. Pereira, J. T. Sousa, Bluetooth Low Energy CMOS radio
1Conference Committees
  • Invited to chair Session 7b of XX Conference on Design of Circuits and Integrated Systems, Lisboa, Portugal, Outubro 2005., Sessions Chairman, 2005
7Refereeing Journals
  • ETRI Journal
    2013, 1 review(s); 2005, 1 review(s);
  • IEEE Microwave Magazine
    2016, 1 review(s); 2012, 1 review(s); 2011, 1 review(s);
  • Integration, the VLSI Journal
    2016, 1 review(s);
  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs
    2020, 1 review(s); 2017, 1 review(s); 2016, 3 review(s);
  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers
    2020, 1 review(s);
  • IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques
    2014, 1 review(s); 2013, 1 review(s); 2010, 2 review(s); 2009, 1 review(s); 2008, 2 review(s); 2006, 1 review(s);
  • Wireless Personal Communications
    2011, 1 review(s);
4Refereeing Conferences
  • IEEE International Symp. on Circuits and Systems - ISCAS
    2015, 1 review(s); 2014, 1 review(s); 2013, 1 review(s); 2012, 1 review(s); 2011, 1 review(s); 2009, 1 review(s);
  • Conf. on Design of Circuits and Integrated Systems
    2012, 1 review(s); 2009, 1 review(s); 2006, 1 review(s); 2005, 1 review(s); 2004, 1 review(s); 2003, 1 review(s); 2002, 1 review(s); 2000, 1 review(s); 1999, 1 review(s);
  • Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele
    2009, 1 review(s); 2005, 1 review(s); 2003, 1 review(s); 2001, 1 review(s);
  • International Conf. on Telecommunications - ICT
    2006, 1 review(s);
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