Valdrin Qunaj

  • CMOS/III-V power amplifiers
  • mm-wave circuits
  • Wireless communication
Valdrin Qunaj
Valdrin Qunaj
Postdoc
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valdrin.qunaj@esat.kuleuven.be
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Career overview

Valdrin Qunaj was born in Prishtinë, Kosovo, in 1989.

He received his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from KU Leuven in 2017. The subject of his master's thesis was power detection for an RF power amplifier operating at 5Ghz.

Currently, he is working as a research assistant at the MICAS laboratories in the area of mm-wave CMOS Power Amplifiers.

Publications

Millimeter Wave Power Amplifiers for Wireless Communication in Advanced Semiconductor Technologies Valdrin Qunaj · Dissertation · May 31. 2023
A Ka-Band Doherty-Like LMBA for High-Speed Wireless Communication in 28-nm CMOS Valdrin Qunaj and Patrick Reynaert · Article · Dec 1. 2021 IEEE Journal Of Solid-State Circuits; 2021; Vol. 56; iss. 12; pp. 3694 - 3703
A Doherty-Like Load-Modulated Balanced Power Amplifier Achieving 15.5dBm Average P-out and 20% Average PAE at a Data Rate of 18Gb/s in 28nm CMOS Valdrin Qunaj and Patrick Reynaert · Conference Proceeding · Jan 1. 2021 2021 IEEE INTERNATIONAL SOLID-STATE CIRCUITS CONFERENCE (ISSCC); 2021; Vol. 64; pp. 356 - +
A Compact Ka-Band Transformer-Coupled Power Amplifier for 5G in 0.15um GaAs Valdrin Qunaj and Patrick Reynaert · Conference Proceeding · Jan 1. 2019 IEEE BiCMOS and Compound semiconductor Integrated Circuits and Technology Symposium (BCICTS); 2019; pp.
An E-band Fully-Integrated True Power Detector in 28nm CMOS Valdrin Qunaj and Patrick Reynaert · Conference Proceeding · Jan 1. 2019 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium, RFIC, Digest of Technical Papers; 2019; pp. 191 - 194
Compact Transformer-Based Matching Structures for Ka-Band Power Amplifiers Valdrin Qunaj and Patrick Reynaert · Conference Proceeding · Jan 1. 2019 IEEE Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC); 2019; pp.
An Integrated Power Detector for a 5GHz RF PA Valdrin Qunaj, Umut Celik, and Patrick Reynaert · Conference Proceeding · Jan 1. 2018 2018 14TH CONFERENCE ON PHD RESEARCH IN MICROELECTRONICS AND ELECTRONICS (PRIME 2018); 2018; pp. 141 - 144