John Wood
John Wood, PhD
Dr. John Wood is currently a Senior Member of the Technical Staff responsible for RF CAD & Modeling in the RF Division of Freescale Semiconductor, Inc, Tempe, AZ, USA. His areas of expertise include the development of compact device models and behavioural models for RF power transistors and ICs, linearization and pre-distortion of high-power amplifiers, and in the development of large-signal network analyzer (LSNA), loadpull, and envelope measurement techniques.
Dr. Wood received B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Leeds, UK, in 1976 and 1980, respectively. From 1997-2005 he worked in the Microwave Technology Center of Agilent Technologies (then Hewlett Packard) in Santa Rosa, CA, USA, where his research work has included the investigation, characterization, and development of large-signal and bias-dependent linear FET models for millimeter-wave applications, and nonlinear behavioural modeling using LSNA measurements and nonlinear system identification techniques.
Dr. Wood has organized, co-organized, and presented at workshops at IMS and RWS in recent years; he was on the Steering Committee for IMS 2006, and is a member of the IMS Technical Program Committee. He has been a member of the ARFTG Technical Program Committee for the past three years, and the Technical Program Chair for the 70th ARFTG Conference (2007). He was Technical Program Chair for the IEEE Power Amplifier Symposium 2008, and General Chair in 2009. He is a regular reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory & Techniques, on Electron Devices, and on Circuits & Systems. He is author or co-author of ~100 papers and articles in the fields of microwave device and system modeling and characterization, and microwave device technology.
Dr. Wood is the co-author of Modeling and Characterization of RF and Microwave Power FETs (Cambridge, 2007), and co-editor of Fundamentals of Nonlinear Behavioral Modeling for RF and Microwave Design (Artech House, 2005). He received the ARFTG Technology Award in 2007. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, and a member of the Microwave Theory and Techniques, and Electron Devices Societies.
