DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory

Traditional homodyne/heterodyne transmitter architectures have been the dominant RF and microwave transmitter architectures for decades. The advent of deep submicron silicon technologies and push towards higher transmit frequencies has opened the door for novel transmitter architectures to challenge the dominance of homodyne/heterodyne transmitters. Dr. LaRue will overview recent trends in novel transmitter architectures, focusing on his past work in outphasing transmitters in heterogeneously integrated silicon and GaN technologies and his current work in multiplier-based transmitter architectures.

Biography:

Dr. Matthew LaRue is a research electrical engineering at DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory in the RF Devices and Circuits branch. He received his BS in Electrical Engineering from Valparaiso University in 2012, and MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from The Ohio State University in 2017 and 2018.  His graduate research focused on high-efficiency integrated transmitters in a heterogeneous CMOS/GaN process technology. He worked at Northrop Grumman Mission Systems for 3.5 years as a RF integrated design engineer before joining the DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory in 2021. He also serves as a professional lecturer in ASIC design at The George Washington University. His current research interests include RF, microwave, mixed-signal, and digital integrated circuit design.