Xiaoguang "Leo" Liu

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  • Tel: (530)-289-6367
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  • Website: http://ucdart.net

Education

  • Ph.D. Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA August 2010
  • B.S. Zhejiang University, China, June, 2004

Professional Experience

  • Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis, 2011-Present
  • Post-doctoral Research Associate, Purdue University, 2010-2011

Research Interests

Micro/Nano-ElectroMechanical (M/NMES) Systems, RF MEMS; High-Q reconfigurable circuits and antennas; Microwave and millimeter-wave integrated circuits and antennas; Terahertz (THz) electronics; MEMS Sensors, Bio-M/NEMS sensors.

Selected Publications

  1. Xiaoguang Liu, Linda P. B. Katehi, William J. Chappell, and Dimitrios Peroulis, "High-Q Tunable Microwave Cavity Resonators and Filters using SOI-based RF MEMS Tuners," IEEE/ASME Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 774-784, Aug. 2010
  2. Xiaoguang Liu, Linda P. B. Katehi, William J. Chappell, and Dimitrios Peroulis, Power Handling of High-Q MEMS Tunable Evanescent-mode Resonators and Filters," accepted by the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques
  3. Xiaoguang Liu, Joshua Small, David Berdy, Linda Katehi, William J. Chappell, and Dimitrios Peroulis, "Impact of Mechanical Vibration on the Performance of RF MEMS Evanescent-mode Tunable Resonators," accepted for publication in IEEE Microwave and Wireless Component Letters.
  4. Xiaoguang Liu, Linda P. B. Katehi, William J. Chappell, and Dimitrios Peroulis, "A 3.4-6.2 GHz Continuously Tunable Electrostatic MEMS Resonator with Quality Factor of 460-530," 2009 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium, Boston, MA, USA, Jun. 2009