Kenneth R. Laker
Professor
Electrical and Systems Engineering (ESE)
Honors and Awards: Emberson Award of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers - 2004
Research Expertise: Circuits | VLSI | Microelectronics
Ken's research is in mixed mode integrated circuit design and testing. He focuses on high performance, low-power data acquisition and RF systems, which have many important applications and present challenging obstacles for design, implementation and testing. The primary areas of research are: the development of architectures that enable the realization of high dynamic range requirements when implemented in low voltage technologies; the exploration of distributed and parallel architectures that expand the signal bandwidth available in over sampled analog-to-digital converters; switched capacitor systems; and the development of robust test methodologies for mixed-signal and RFICs.
Recent Publications 
- The making of the president, 1999, Laker, K.R., IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine, 2011
- IEEE - A bold leader in changing the essence of technical publications, Laker, K.R., Proceedings of 2009 IEEE Conference on the History of Technical Societies, 2009
- A fully integrated CMOS phase-locked loop with 30 MHz to 2 GHz locking range and ±35 ps jitter, Xu, C. | Sargeant, W. | Laker, K.R. | Van Der Spiegel, J., Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, 2003
- An extended frequency range CMOS voltage-controlled oscillator, Xu, C. | Sargeant, W. | Laker, K. | Van Der Spiegel, J., Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems, 2002
- Guest editorial: The educational activities of the IEEE History Center, Geselowitz, M.N. | Sloan, M.E. | Laker, K.R., IEEE Transactions on Education, 2002