Luís Miguel Moreira Mendes

Luís Mendes

Academic position:	Post. Doc.
Joining date:	01-12-2003
Roles in IT:	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
1049 - 001 Lisboa
Tel: +351 21 841 84 54
Fax: +351 21 841 84 72

Scientific Achievements

Degrees

PhD, Universidade de Coimbra, 12-02-2020
MSc, Universidade de Coimbra, 26-07-2002
Licenciatura, Universidade de Coimbra, 10-10-1995

Affiliations

Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão, 01-01-1997,

Academic Activities

1Lecture courses

1Supervision of MSc theses

As Supervisor

Dissertation, MSc Student, Ricardo Faria Ribeiro, Concluded 12-2012

3Supervision of BSc theses

As Co-supervisor

Correctores de distorção linear e não linear para aplicações em televisão terrestre, BSc Student, Dora Príncipe, Concluded 07-2005
Oscilador local para a banda IV e V, BSc Student, Nelson Santos, Concluded 09-2004
Amplificadores e Correctores de Distorção para repetidores de televisão terrestre, BSc Student, Sérgio Oliveira, Concluded 09-2004

Publications

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

6Papers 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,
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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,
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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, J. A. Machado, P. B. Oliveira, J. Boaventura Cunha Boaventura Cunha, L. Mendes, Particle Swarm Optimization with Fractional-Order Velocity, Nonlinear Dynamics, Vol. --, No. --, pp. -- - --, January, 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

30Papers in Conferences

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,
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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,
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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,
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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,
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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
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
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
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
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
Rafael Caldeirinha, L. Mendes, B.F.C Gabriel, Sintonizador de Impedâncias para Optimização de amplificadores de Potência de Rádio, Jornadas de Engenharia de Telecomunicações e Computadores, Lisboa, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. -, November, 2005 | BibTex
Rafael Caldeirinha, L. Mendes, B.F.C Gabriel, Oscilador Local para Repetidores de UHF, Jornadas de Engenharia de Telecomunicações e Computadores, Lisboa, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. -, November, 2005 | 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
Rafael Caldeirinha, L. Mendes, B.F.C Gabriel, Automatic Gain Control for Terrestrial Television Broadcasting Repeaters, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Tomar, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. -, April, 2005 | BibTex
Rafael Caldeirinha, L. Mendes, B.F.C Gabriel, A 1Hz Tuneable Local Oscillator for 450 to 900MHz Terrestrial Television Broadcasting Equipment, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Tomar, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. -, April, 2005 | BibTex
A. S. Serafim, Pedro Pinto Pinto, L. Mendes, L. Alves, Transceiver for an Unmanned Airborne Vehicle, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Tomar, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. - - -, April, 2005 | BibTex
S.M.M. Faria, P.A. Assunção, Nuno M. M. Rodrigues, L. Mendes, C. Lopes, C. Ribeiro, C. S. Silva, J. Pereira, L. Alves, P. C. Ventura, Sistema de Controlo e Comunicações de uma Aeronave Não Tripulada - SkyGu@rdian, Conf. da Engenharia - UBIEngenharias, Covilhã, Portugal, Vol. -, pp. - - -, November, 2003 | BibTex
A. S. Serafim, Pedro Pinto Pinto, L. Mendes, L. Alves, Sistema de Transmissão e Recepção de Dados via RF para o SKYGU@RDIAN, Conf. da Engenharia - UBIEngenharias, Covilhã, Portugal, Vol. -, pp. - - -, November, 2003 | BibTex
L. Mendes, H. A. Silva, SCM Optical Communication System Implementation without Optical Isolators, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Figueira da Foz, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 463 - 467, April, 2001 | BibTex
L. Mendes, H. A. Silva, Automatic Optical Power Control for Semiconductor Lasers, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Figueira da Foz, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 463 - 467, April, 2001 | BibTex
L. Mendes, T. Fernandes, Projecto e Construção de um Amplificador de Baixo Custo para Distribuição de Sinal SATV, Encontro do Colégio de Electrotecnia da Ordem dos Engenheiros, Matosinhos, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 159 - 164, April, 2001 | BibTex
L. Alves, L. Mendes, C. Lopes, T. Fernandes, P.A. Assunção, S.M.M. Faria, Nuno M. M. Rodrigues, M. Figueiredo, SimSAT – Desenvolvimento de Satélites de Baixa Altitude, Encontro do Colégio de Electrotecnia da Ordem dos Engenheiros, Porto, Portugal, Vol. 0, pp. 0 - 0, April, 2001 | BibTex
L. Mendes, H. A. Silva, Transmissor LASER e Receptor Óptico Sintonizado para um Sistema SCM em 2GHz, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 309 - 312, April, 1997 | BibTex

Projects

Currently running projects1

Acronym	Name	Funding Agency	Start date	Ending date
LAY(RF)^2	Ready-to-Fabricate RF and mmWave Integrated Circuit Layouts	IT	01-02-2020	31-01-2022

Closed Projects1

Acronym	Name	Funding Agency	Start date	Ending date
WiFiRx	Double-Band Multi_standard Frequency Front-End for WLAN aplications	FCT/PTDC	01-09-2007	01-04-2010

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