I work with Prof. Larry Larson and my research involves RFIC design. I am working on the monolithic integration of RF band pass filter in a transceiver.

The present world is moving towards integration; the demand is to integrate every block on a single chip, making it more robust and cheaper. In particular, the WCDMA front-end RF transceiver transmits and receives at the same time. This allows the transmitter signal to leak into the receiver path through the duplexer, creating interference in the reception. To suppress this, a band pass filter at RF frequency (~2GHz) is required. This is implemented using external SAW filter, because till date no on-chip filter is capable of meeting the desired specifications. The main challenges are the lossy components, primarily, spiral inductors. My goal is to investigate the problem and to come up with novel design to mitigate the problem.

Education

  • PhD Candidate (Sep 2003-present)
    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
    University of California San Diego
    La Jolla, CA 92037
  • M S (2005)
    Electrical Engineering
    University of California San Diego,
    La Jolla, CA 92037
  • B Tech (2002)
    Electrical Engineering
    Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur,
    Kanpur, India 208016

Contact Info

  • University of California, San Diego
    4801, Cal-IT2
    9500 Gilman Drive
    La Jolla, CA - 92093-0407
    Ph: 858-822-5817
    Email: hkhatri [at] ucsd.edu
    Web : rfic.ucsd.edu/~hkhatri