Ph.D., Cornell University
Circuits, integrated systems, microwave, fields and radiation
Tousi Research Group Site
Our research group is focused on innovative integrated systems with applications ranging from high performance wireless communication and radar to low power and low cost sensing and imaging.
Prospective students: we have multiple openings this year for motivated applicants with strong background in electronics and physics. If interested, send me an email along with your CV.
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2020 DARPA Young Faculty Award
2019 IEEE JSSC Best Paper
B. Sadhu, Y. Tousi, et.al., “A 28GHz 32-element phased-array transceiver IC with concurrent dual polarized beams and 1.4 degree beam-steering resolution for 5G communication,” IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference Digest of Technical Papers (ISSCC), San Francisco, CA, 2017 pp. 128-129.
Y. Tousi and A. V. Garcia, “A Ka-band digitally-controlled phase shifter with sub-degree phase precision,” IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC), San Francisco, CA, 2016, pp. 356-359.
Y. Tousi and E. Afshari, “A High-power and scalable 2-D phased array for Terahertz CMOS integrated systems,” in IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 50, no. 2, pp. 597-609, Feb. 2015.
Y. Tousi and E. Afshari, “14.6 A scalable THz 2D phased array with +17dBm of EIRP at 338GHz in 65nm bulk CMOS,” 2014 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference Digest of Technical Papers (ISSCC), San Francisco, CA, 2014, pp. 258-259.
Y. Tousi, et al., “A Novel CMOS High-Power Terahertz VCO Based on Coupled Oscillators: Theory and Implementation,” in IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 47, no. 12, pp. 3032-3042, Dec. 2012.
Y. Tousi, et al., “A 283-to-296GHz VCO with 0.76 mW peak output power in 65nm CMOS,” IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference Digest of Technical Papers (ISSCC), San Francisco, CA, 2012, pp. 258-260.
Y. Tousi, et. al., “Delay coupled oscillators for frequency tuning of solid-state terahertz sources”, Physical Review Letters, vol. 108, pp. 234101, June 2012.