Name : Esmaeil Najafi Aghdam
Date of Birth : 1964 Zonouz
Nationality : Iranian
Marital Status : Married (3 children)
Tel :+98 (0)41334 59326  , 09143098997
Fax : +98 (0)41334 44322
Email: najafiaghdam@sut.ac.ir , 
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Employment:
Professor, Sahand University of  Technology, Electrical Engineering Department. Room No. E213, University Campus, Sahand City, 5331811111, Tabriz, Iran
Education:
Ph.D.  :   
·         Electronics Engineering, SUPELEC (école supérieure d’électricité), University of Paris-XI, France, 2002-2006,

• Grade: "Très honorable" (highest possible in France)
• Thesis: Writhen in French: « NOUVELLES TECHNIQUES D'APPARIEMENT DYNAMIQUE DANS UN CNA MULTIBIT POUR LES CONVERTISSEURS SIGMA-DELTA »

English: “Novel dynamic element matching techniques for multibit DAC used in a delta-sigma modulator”

• Supervisor: Prof. Philippe Benabes

M.Sc. :
·         Electronics Engineering, Amir-Kabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran 1991 and 1994, GPA: 16.82/20 .
·         Thesis: Design & Implementation a low-phase noise C-Band oscillator (8 GHz)
·         Supervisors:(late) Prof. Akbar Adibi and Prof. Hormoz Bouzari
B.Sc. :   

• Electronics Engineering, University of Sistan & Baluchestan (USB), Zahedan, Iran, 1990, GPA: 15.78/20 (rank 1)
• Thesis: Design & Implementation a UHF power amplifier
• Supervisor: Prof. Jalil Rashed Mohassel

 
Membre and academic activities : 

• IEEE , the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
• IRAMIS , the Iranian Association of Micro Electronic Integrated Systems , www.iramis.org
• Reviwer  (some journals and conferences  in electronics circuits&systems) 

 
Research Interests:
·         First Topics: Delta-Sigma Converter, ADC& DAC, Multibit DSM, Multi Standard Receivers, Analogue & Mixe-Mode RF circuits.
·         Second Topics: Ultrasonic systems and circuits design and applications, NDT
Lectures:
·         Under Graduate: Electrical circuits-I, Electronics circuits-I, II, III, Physics of  Semiconductors, Electronics measurements, Communication circuits.
·         Graduate: Linear integrated circuit design / Analog CMOS integrated circuits design, 
High performance A/D and D/A converter Design, RF Integrated Circuit Design (RFIC), Selected Topics on Ultrasonic (Medical and Industrial application)
 
Publications (Journal papers):
[51] M Abdoli, E Najafiaghdam, « A second-order two-channel time-interleaved delta-sigma modulator circuit design», Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, 4 July 2022, 10.1007/s10470-022-02066-3
[50] M Dadgar, Esmaeil Najafi Aghdam, « A high contact force and high‐isolation radio‐frequency microelectromechanical systems switch for radio‐frequency front‐end applications »,International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications 50 (5), 1442-1461,2022, (ISI)
 
 [49] S Firouz, Esmaeil Najafi Aghdam, R Jafarnejad « A low power CMOS programmable gain amplifier employing positive feedback technique » International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications,2022, (ISI)
 
[48] H Mirzajani, C Cheng, RH Vafaie, J Wu, J Chen, S Eda, EN Aghdam, «  Optimization of ACEK-enhanced, PCB-based biosensor for highly sensitive and rapid detection of bisphenol a in low resource settings, Biosensors and Bioelectronics 196, 113745,  2022, (ISI)
 
[47]  F Eshaghi, T Moeinfard, E Najafiaghdam, H Kassiri,  A Neurostimulator IC With Impedance-Aware Dynamic-Precision One-Shot Charge Balancing,  IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters 4, 202-205, 2021, (ISI)
 [46] F Eshaghi, Esmaeil Najafi Aghdam, H Kassiri , A 24-Channel Neurostimulator IC With Channel-Specific Energy-Efficient Hybrid Preventive-Detective Dynamic-Precision Charge Balancing,   IEEE Access 9, 95884-95895, 2021, (ISI)
 
[45] F Hemmati, EN Aghdam A low-power CT 2nd order Delta Sigma modulator using a new design methodology for biomedical applications, AEU-International Journal of Electronics and Communications 137, 153779  , 2021,(ISI),
‎[44] Samira Firouz, Esmaeil Najafi Aghdam and Roya Jafarnejad, "A Low Power, Low Noise, Single-Ended to Differential TIA for Ultrasound Imaging Probes", IEEE-TCAS-II-07579-2020, 2020, (ISI),
‎[43] V. Moradino, E.N. Aghdam, “Design of a SAW-Less, Noise-Canceling Receiver Using an LPTV Analysis of a General System with an Arbitrary Number of N-Path Filters”, AEU-International Journal of Electronics and Communications, 2020, (ISI),
‎[42]  O. Qorbani, E.N. Aghdam, “Two-Phase Flow Measuring with Ultrasonic Tomography”, Archives of Acoustics 45 (3), 459–465.‎ , (ISI),
‎[41]  A Abbaszadeh, E.N. Aghdam, A Rosado-Muñoz, “Digital background calibration algorithm and its FPGA implementation for timing mismatch correction of time-interleaved ADC”, Microelectronics Journal,2018.‎ , (ISI),
[40] Alireza Shamsi and Esmaeil Najafi Aghdam, “Continuous Time Feedforward Quadrature Delta Sigma Modulator Design Omitting the Power Hungry adders for LOW-IF Receivers», TABRIZ JOURNAL OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, vol. 49, no. 1, spring 2019, (ISC  Journal,)
‎[39]  A Abbaszadeh, E.N. Aghdam, A Rosado-Muñoz,” Digital background calibration algorithm and its FPGA implementation for timing mismatch correction of time-interleaved ADC”, Microelectronics Journal,2018.‎ , (ISI),
 [38] Tayebeh Azadmousavi, Esmaeil Najafi Aghdam, Javad Frounchi, "A Power-Efficient Configurable FSK–OOK Transmitter with Scalable Data Rate for Wireless Medical Applications", in IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability. 2019, (ISI), 
[37] Alireza Shamsi and Esmaeil Najafi Aghdam, “A new Mismatch cancelation for Quadrature Delta Sigma Modulator », nternational Journal of Industrial Electronics, Control and Optimisation, 196-204, 2020-05-01 , (ISC Journal)
[36] M Abdoli, E Najafi Aghdam , « Noise-Coupled Time-Interleaved Delta-Sigma Modulator with Reduced Hardware Complexity «   Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers,  World Scientific Publishing, Page : 1-13,  2020, (ISI), 
[35] M Abdoli, EN Aghdam, F Hemmati, A novel noise-coupled time-interleaved delta-sigma modulator with analysis of practical limitations, Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, 1-13, (ISI), 
 [34] T. Azadmousavi, H. Faraji Baghtash, E Najafi Aghdam, "An Ultra-Low Power Variable Gain Current Mirror",  Iranian Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering 15 (2), 269-274. 2019
[33] S. Javahernia, E.N. Aghdam, P. Torkzadeh, ” An Ultra-Low Power, 16 Bits, CT Delta Sigma Modulator Using 4-Bit Asynchronous SAR Quantizer for Medical Applications”, Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers,2019.‎
 [32] T. Azadmousavi  and  E. N. Aghdam, "Adaptive Body Biasing Circuit for Reliability and Variability Compensation of Low Power RF Amplifier, " in IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability. 2019,  (ISI), DOI: 10.1109/TDMR.2019.2899399
[31] M. A. Gharbali, M. Azadbakht, E. Feyzi, J. Sobhi, E. N. Aghdam, and Z. D. Koozekanni, "A 2.4 GHz integer-N frequency synthesizer for ZigBee applications," Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, 2018, pp. 1-9 , (ISI),
‎[30] S Javahernia, E.N. Aghdam, P Torkzadeh,” A CT ΔΣ Modulator Using 4-Bit Asynchronous SAR ‎Quantizer and MPDWA DEM”, AEU-International Journal of Electronics and Communications, 2018.‎ , (ISI),
‎[29] A Abbaszadeh, E.N. Aghdam, A Rosado-Muñoz” Low complexity digital background calibration ‎algorithm for the correction of timing mismatch in time-interleaved ADCs”, Microelectronics Journal,2018.‎ , (ISI),
‎[28] H Karrari, E.N. Aghdam, HF Baghtash, “A wide-band noise-cancelling direct-conversion balun-LNA-‎mixer front-end”, Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing , 67-78,2018‎ , (ISI), DOI
[27] T. Azadmousavi, M Azadbakht, E.N Aghdam, J Frounchi, « A novel zero dead zone PFD and efficient CP for PLL applications”, Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing 95 (1), 83-91, (ISI),
[26] T. Azadmousavi, E.N Aghdam , “  A Low Power Current-Reuse LC-VCO with an Adaptive Body-Biasing Technique “ , AEU-International Journal of Electronics and Communications, 2018, , (ISI), DOI
[25] Adel Pourmand, Seyed Ali Mousavi Shaegh, Habib Badri Ghavifekr, Esmaiel Najafiaghdam, Mehmet Remzi Dokmeci, Ali Khademhosseini, Yu ShrikeZhang, “ Fabrication of Whole-Thermoplastic Normally Closed Microvalve, Micro Check Valve, and Micropump” Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical , 28 December 2017,  (ISI), DOI
(Internal Journal Paper) [24] عادل پورمند، سید علی موسوی شائق، حبیب بدری قویفکر ، اسماعیل نجفی قدم، "پیاده‌سازی و مشخصه‌یابی یک ریزشیر کواک با استفاده از مواد ‏گرمانرم برای کاربردهای آزمایشگاه روی تراشه ‏ " ، مجله مهندسی برق دانشگاه تبریز، جلد ..، شماره ..، تاریخ 1396
[23]  Alireza Shamsi and Esmaeil Najafi Aghdam , “A Wideband Continuous Time Quadrature Delta Sigma Modulator Based on a Real DSM for Low Power WLAN Receiver,  J CIRCUIT SYST COMP 27, 1850044 (2018) [17 pages], (ISI),  https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218126618500445
[22]  Azadbakht, Mostafa, Sahafi, Ali, Aghdam, Esmaeil Najafi, “A Dual Band Fractional-N Frequency Synthesizer with a Self-Calibrated Charge Pump for WLAN Standards” , Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers, 1850131, ISSN: 0218-1266, (ISI), 
[21] Shaegh, S.A.M.,  Pourmand, A.,  Nabavinia, M.,  Avci, H.,  Tamayol, A.,  Mostafalu, P.,  Ghavifekr, H.B.,  Aghdam, E.N.,  Dokmeci, M.R.,  Khademhosseini, A.,  Zhang, Y.S., Rapid prototyping of whole-thermoplastic microfluidics with built-in microvalves using laser ablation and thermal fusion bonding, Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical, Volume 255, 2018, Pages 100-109, (ISI,IF=7.1), DOI  10.1016/j.snb.2017.07.138
[20]     حبیب زاده شریف، امیر،   گوزل پور، فرشاد ، نجفی اقدم اسماعیل،  " طراحی یک فرستنده IR-UWB با چگالی طیفی توان تطبیق پذیر در محدوده Gpps 4/1-02/0 " ، مجله مهندسی برق دانشگاه تبریز، جلد ، شماره، تاریخ1396 (ISC Journal Paper)
[19] Mirzajani, H., Cheng, C., Wu, J., Chen, J., Eda, S., Najafi Aghdam, E., Badri Ghavifekr, H. “A highly sensitive and specific capacitive aptasensor for rapid and label-free trace analysis of Bisphenol A (BPA) in canned foods”, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, Volume 89, 15 March 2017, Pages 1059-1067, (ISI,IF=10.257), DOI  10.1016/j.bios.2016.09.109
[18] شمسی، علیرضا، نجفی اقدم اسماعیل، “ طراحی مدولاتور دلتا سیگمای متعامد پیشخور زمان پیوسته با حذف جمع کننده به روشی جدید برای گیرنده های LOW-IF کم مصرف” ، مجله مهندسی برق دانشگاه تبریز، جلد، شماره x، تاریخ 1396(ISC Journal Paper)
[17] Asghar Charmin, Esmaeil Najafi Aghdam, “A low power reconfigurable multi-mode continuous time Delta Sigma modulator for seven different mobile standards with VCO based quantizer”, Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, Springer February 2017, Volume 90, Issue 2, pp 321–331 (ISI), DOI 10.1007/s10470-016-0907-x,
[16] Hamid Karrari, Hassan Faraji Baghtash, Esmaeil Najafi Aghdam, “A high speed single-pole two-stage fully differential amplifier with intrinsic CMFB”, Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, Springer Vol.9, Dec.2016 (ISI), DOI 10.1007/s10470-016-0885-z  ,
[15] Hadi Mirzajani, Esmaeil Najafi Aghdam , Habib Badri Ghavifekr,  “A highly sensitive and specific capacitive aptasensor for rapid and label-free trace analysis of Bisphenol A (BPA) in canned foods”, Sensors and Actuators, BIOS9226, (ISI, IF: 7.476) DOI :10.1016/j.bios.2016.09.109 , 2016
 [14] Vahid Sabouhi, Esmaeil Najafi Aghdam, Saeed Saeedi, “A single‐bit continuos‐time delta‐sigma modulor using clock‐jitter and inter‐symbol‐interference suppression technique”  , International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications“, January 2016, (ISI, IF= 1.76),    DOI: 10.1002/cta.2224
‎[13] Hadi Mirzajani, Esmaeil Najafi Aghdam, Habib Badri Ghavifekr, “Design and characterization of a passive, disposable wireless AC-electroosmotic lab-on-a-film for particle and fluid manipulation”, Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, B235,P330-342, (ISI, IF= 7.476) , DOI :10.1016/j.snb.2016.05.073, 2016
[12] Afshin Kashani Ilkhechi , Hadi Mirzajani, Esmaeil Najafi Aghdam, Habib Badri Ghavifekr, “A new electrostatically actuated rotary three-state DC-contact RF MEMS switch for antenna switch applications”, Microsystem Technologies, Springer,(ISI, IF=1.59), pp 1-13, 06 Nov. 2015, DOI: ‎10.1007/s00542-015-2714-1
[11] Afshin Kashani Ilkhechi, Hadi Mirzajani, Esmaeil Najafi Aghdam, Habib Badri Ghavifekr, “A Novel SPDT Rotary RF MEMS Switch for Low Loss and Power Efficient Signal Routing”, IETE Journal of Research, 2015-09-16, Pages: 1 - 13, (ISI),   DOI: 10.1080/03772063.2015.1083896
[10] ‎‏  مهدی فلاح، رسول کاظم زاده، اسماعيل نجفی اقدم،‎ “بهبود پاسخ گذرا و دائم روش جبرانسازی تئوری توان لحظه‌ای با استفاده از حداقل مربعات بازگشتی و تبديل موجک در شرايط ‏ولتاژ غير ‏ايده‌آل ‎‎”‎ مجله سامانه های غيرخطی در مهندسی برق‎, ‎دوره 3، شماره 1-6-1394‏‎ , ‎صفحات  21-5(ISC Journal Paper),
‎[9] Meysam Mohammadi Khanghah, Amir AlipourAsl, Esmaeil Najafi Aghdam, Khosrov Dabbagh Sadeghipour, “Skip–Swap” method instead of “Skip–Fill” method in background calibration of pipelined ADCs”, Springer US. Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, Volume 84, Issue 1 , pp 127-135. 2015 , (ISI),   DOI: 10.1007/s10470-015-0550-y
‎ [8] اصغر چرمين، اسماعيل نجفی اقدم،, طراحی مدولاتور دلتا سيگمای زمان پيوسته چند استانداردی با کوانتايزر مبتنی بر" ‏VCO" ، ‎‎مجله سامانه های غيرخطی در مهندسی برق‎, ‎دوره 2، شماره2-10-1393‏‎ , ‎صفحات  44-27‏(ISC Journal Paper)
‎[7] محمد هنرپرور، اسماعیل نجفی اقدم, “طراحی مدولاتور دلتا سیگمای هیبریدی زمان پیوسته/گسسته برای کاربرده های ‏مخابرات چند استانداردی”, مجله سامانه های غيرخطی در مهندسی برق, دوره 2، شماره 1 -3-1393‏‎, صفحات 44-27(ISC Journal Paper)
[6] Hadi Mirzajani, Habib BadriGhavifekr, Esmaeil Najafi Aghdam, Hamed Demaghsi, Reza HadjiaghaieVafaie,“ Enhancement of mechanical resonant modes by iniaturization of frequency tunable MEMS‑enabled microstrip patch antenna”, Microsystem Technologies-Micro- and Nanosystems Information Storage and Processing Systems, Springer, 2014, (ISI),    DOI 10.1007/s00542-014-2126-7
[5] J. Abbaszadeh, H. Abdul Rahim, E. Najafiaghdam, R. Abdul Rahim, S. Sarrafi, “Increasing the efficiency of ultrasonic dispersion system with use of control loop to automatic frequency adjusting “, International Journal on Smart Sensing and Intelligent Systems, Vol. 4, No. 2, June 2011, (ISI), 
[4] Mohammad Honarparvar,  Esmaeil Najafi Aghdam,  “Reconfigurable Hybrid CT / DT Delta-Sigma Modulator with Op-Amp Sharing Technique Dedicated to Multi Mode Receivers”,  Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, Springer Journals, Vol.79, N.1, April 2014, , (ISI),  (DOI: 10.1007/s10470-014-0277-1)
[3] Zahra Deyhim, Zeynab Yousefi, Habib Badri Ghavifekr, Esmaeil Najafi Aghdam, "A high sensitive and robust controllable MEMS gyroscope with inherently linear control force using a high performance 2‑DOF oscillator” Microsystem Technol, Springer,  Dec.2013,(ISI),DOI:10.1007/s00542-013-1984-8
 [2] Mojtaba Khoddam, Esmaeil Najafi Aghdam, “A Power Efficient Multi-Standard Continuous-Time ΣΔ Converter for 4G Radios” International Review on Modelling and Simulations (I.RE.MO.S.), Vol. 4, n. 6 April 2012, 
[1] Parisa MAHMOUDI, Habib BADRIGHAVIFEKR, Esmaeil NAJAFIAGHDAM,  “A Combined Thermo-Electrostatic MEMS-Based Switch with Low Actuation Voltage” , Sensors & Transducers Journal (S&T e-Digest), ISSN 1726-5479, Vol. 115, Issue 4, April 2010, pp. 61-70
 
 
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Publications (Conference Papers):
[61] O Qorbani, EN Aghdam, An Ultrasonic Tomography Flowmeter Implementation for Gas/Liquid Two-Phase Flow Measurement,, 2021 Iranian International Conference on Microelectronics (IICM), 22 – 24 December 2021, Tehran, Iran
 
[60] Mrs. Maryam Ahangar Darband, E Najafiaghdam,  « Diagnosing cancerous tumor by two techniques: photoacoustic imaging and thermoacoustic tomography with electric excitation—a numerical approach for comparison », 2021 Iranian International Conference on Microelectronics (IICM), 22 – 24 December 2021, Tehran, Iran
 
[59] SY Hojat, HF Baghtash, EN Aghdam, A 350μW Low Noise Amplifier for IOT Applications, 2021 Iranian International Conference on Microelectronics (IICM), 22 – 24 December 2021, Tehran, Iran
 
[58] F Eshaghi, E Najafiaghdam, H Kassiri, A 24-Channel Neurostimulator IC with One-Shot Impedance-Adaptive Channel-Specific Charge Balancing, 2021 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), 1-2
[57] Aysan Pashapour, Esmaeil Najafiaghdam, Hasan Faraji Baghtash, Tayebeh Azadmousavi, “A Low Voltage Noise Cancelling Balun LNA Using Body Bias Control”, The 2 nd Iranian Conference on Microelectronics (ICM2020) 23 – 25 December 2020, Tehran, Iran
[56]  Fatemeh Eshaghi, Esmaeil Najafi Aghdam, Hossein Kassiri, “A Resource-Optimized Patient-Specific Nonlinear-SVM Hypertension Detection Algorithm for Minimally-Invasive High Blood Pressure Control ”,  2020 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) , 10-21 Oct. 2020, DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS45731.2020.9180433, Sevilla, Spain
[55] Morteza Dadgar, Esmaeil Najafi Aghdam, “Design  and  simulation of a novel RF MEMS switch dedicated  for low-loss and  high  isolation  applications”,  The 2 nd Iranian Conference on Microelectronics (ICM2020) 23 – 25 December 2020, Tehran, Iran
[54] و محمود عبدلي اسماعيل نجفي اقدم “مدوالتور دلتاسیگمای گذر زمانی اتصال متقابل با کاهش پیچیدگیهای سختافزاری کاناله 8”, دومين کنفرانس بين المللي  ميکروالکترونيک  ايران(ICM2020)، 4-6 ديماه 1399 2020, تهران, ايران
[53] Samko Ahmad zadeh Asl, Esmaeil Najafiaghdam, “Designing an Integer-N Synthesizer for IEEE 802.11 a/n/g/b, Bluetooth and Zigbee standards”, The 2 nd Iranian Conference on Microelectronics (ICM2020) 23 – 25 December 2020, Tehran, Iran
[52] Samira Firouz, Roya jafarnejad, Esmael Najafi Aghdam, “A Low Power Low Noise Amplifier for Ultrasound Imaging Probes” 25-27 Decembre 2019, ICM2019, Tehran ,  Iran
[51] سجاد اینانلو، رضا اینانلو و اسماعیل نجفی اقدم،" طراحي و شبيه‌سازي يک مبدل آنالوگ به ديجيتال SAR با تکنیک شکل­دهی نویز"، 28th Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE2020),August ,2020, Tabriz ,IRAN, Pages 1-5
[50] Seyyed Mohammad Javad Zeynali, Esmaeil Najafi Aghdam, “Detecting and tracking drones using imaging sensors with background subtraction and neural networks",سومین کنفرانس بین المللی توسعه فناوری در مهندسی برق ایران، ۳اردیبهشت ۱۳۹۹, 2020,Tehran, IRAN,
[49] Morteza Dadgar, Esmaeil Najafi Aghdam, “Simulation of a RF MEMS switch for low power applications”,  25-27 Decembre 2019, ICM2019, Tehran ,  Iran
 [48] Ava Khoshgoftar, Tayebeh Azadmousavi, Hassan Faraji Baghtash, Esmaeil Najafi Aghdam, « Robust Low-Voltage LNA Design to Overcome Reliability and Variability Issues », 25-27 Decembre 2019, ICM2019, Tehran ,  Iran
[47] Tayebeh Azadmousavi, Esmaeil Najafi Aghdam, « A 0.6V LC-VCO with High Immunity to Threshold Voltage Variation », 25-27 Decembre 2019, ICM2019, Tehran ,  Iran
[46] Reza Ebrahimi, Nima Ayobi, Pouya Seyed Ghasemi, Esmaeil Najafi aghdam, “Real-Time Control of Resonance Point for Piezoelectric Transducers Based on Class D Power Converter”, 27th Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE2019),May ,2019, Yazd ,IRAN, Pages 1-5 , 978-1-7281-1508-5/19/$31.00 ©2019 IEEE
[45] Hamid Karari, Esmaeil Najafi Aghdam, “A 3-11GHz current-reuse low noise amplifier for ultra-wideband receivers”, 24rd Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE2016), May, 2016, Tehran, IRAN,  DOI: 10.1109/ICUFN.2016.7537095
[45] Firouz Hemati ,  Esmaeil Najafi Aghdam, “DR and SNR improvement for 3rd and 4th order ΔΣ modulators using genetic algorithm ”, 1st  International Conference on New Research Achievements in Electrical and Computer Engineering  (ICNRAECE) ,May ,2016,Tehran,IRAN,Pages:, DOI: 978-1-5090-2702-6/16/$31.00 ©2016 IEEE
[44] Masoud Seifaei ,  Esmaeil Najafi Aghdam ,  “Implementation of Microcontroller Based PC-Controlled Precision I-V Curve Tracer”,  1ST International Conference on Advances Research on Electrical and Computer Engineering, May  ,2016,Tehran,IRAN, Pages:, CBCONF01_0831
[43] Mostafa Azadbakht; Ali Sahafi; Esmaeil Najafi Aghdam , “Low power fractional-N frequency synthesizer for IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n standards in 90-nm CMOS “ 24rd Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE2016),May ,2016,Tehran,IRAN,Pages:, DOI: 10.1109/IranianCEE.2016.7585755
[42]  Afshin Kashani Ilkhechi; Hadi Mirzajani; Esmaeil Najafi Aghdam; Habib Badri Ghavifekr , “A new electrothermally actuated 3-state high isolation and low power RF MEMS switch with latching mechanism “ , 24rd Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE2016), May, 2016, Tehran, IRAN, Pages:1634 - 1639, DOI: 10.1109/IranianCEE.2016.7585783
[41] Farnam Khalili, Abolfazl Moradpour, Esmaeil Najafi Aghdam,”, Center frequency and bandwidth tunable band pass delta sigma modulator , 24rd Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE2016),May  ,2016,Tehran,IRAN,Pages:, DOI: 10.1109/IranianCEE.2016.7585612
‎[40] Milad Tarassod Shoar and Esmaeil Najafi Aghdam, ‎”Design of High-Speed Low-Power Dynamic Latched Comparator for ‎Pipeline ADC Applications”, 2015 2nd International Conference on Knowledge-Based Engineering and Innovation (KBEI)
‎[39] Hamid Karrari; Esmaeil Najafi Aghdam , “A 2.8-10.6GHz Low-Power Low-Noise Amplifier for Ultra-Wideband Receivers “ , 2015 2nd International Conference on Knowledge-Based Engineering and Innovation (KBEI) ,Pages: 908 - 911, DOI: 10.1109/KBEI.2015.7436164
[38] Abolfazl Moradpour, Farnam Khalili, Esmaeil Najafi Aghdam, “A New Two-path Band pass Delta Sigma Modulator structure with tunability in filter resonance frequency”,23^rd Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE2015),May 10-14,2015,Tehran,IRAN,Pages:1327- 1331, DOI: 10.1109/IranianCEE.2015.7146422
[37] Babak Teymouri, and Esmaeil Najafi Aghdam, “Stability and Sensitivity Analysis and Optimization of Delta Sigma modulators”, 23^rd Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE2015),May 10-14, 2015, Tehran, IRAN, Pages: 1245 - 1248, DOI: 10.1109/IranianCEE.2015.7146406
[36]Afshin Kashani Ilkhechi, Hadi Mirzajani, Esmaeil Najafi Aghdam, Habib BadriGhavifekr, “A Novel Electrostatically Actuated SPDT Rotary RF MEMS Switch for Ultra-Broadband Applications”, 23^rd Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE2015), May 10-14, 2015, Tehran, IRAN, Pages: 1175 - 1179, DOI: 10.1109/IranianCEE.2015.7146392
 [35] Mirzajani, H.; Pourmand, A.; Aghdam, E.N.; Ghavifekr, H.B., “Frequency agile MEMS patch antenna for reconfigurable RF front-ends”,22^rd Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE2015),May 10-14, 2014, Tehran, IRAN,  Pages: 393 - 398, DOI: 10.1109/IranianCEE.2014.6999571
‎ [34] Sorore Benabid, Esmaeil Najafi Aghdam , “Design and simulation of a 6 th Order continuous-time sigma-delta modulator using integrated lc filter in a standard CMOS technology”, Applied Electronics (AE), 2014 International Conference on , Pages: 21 - 26, DOI: 10.1109/AE.2014.7011660, Sep. 2014,
 [33] Abbaszadeh Javad, Esmaeil Najafi Aghdam , Abdul Rahim Herlina, Abdul Rahim Ruzairi and Sahar Sarafi, “Design and Implementation a Microcontroller based High Power Ultrasonic Dispersion System with self-Frequency adjusting”, Proceedings of 4thInternational Conference on Power Engineering, Energy and Electrical Drives, POWERENG, Istanbul, Turkey, 13-17 May 2013
 [32] (Internal Conference Paper)   عسگر عباس زاده، اسماعیل نجفی اقدم،" طراحی و پیاده سازی رادار FMCWبرای محاسبه ارتفاع از 2 مترتا 1500 متر"، ششمین همایش ملی جنگ الکترونیک ایران،16-17 مهر 1392،تهران،ایران
(Internal Conference Paper) [31] رسول مرادی،اسماعیل نجفی اقدم،" طراحی یک مدولاتور برای مبدل دیجیتال به آنالوگ دلتا- سیگما با کاربردADSL"، ششمین همایش ملی جنگ الکترونیک ایران،16-17 مهر 1392،تهران،ایران
 (Internal Conference Paper) [30]  محمود عبدلی،اسماعیل نجفی اقدم،" ساختار اتصال متقابل برای مبدل­های آنالوگ به دیجیتال دلتا سیگمای جاداده شده درزمان"، ششمین همایش ملی جنگ الکترونیک ایران،16-17 مهر 1392،تهران،ایران
[29] Zeynab Yousefi, Zahra Deyhim, Esmaeil Najafi Aghdam, Habib BadriGhavifekr,"A Novel Design of MEMS Gyroscope with Control Capability", 21st Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering(ICEE2013), 14-16 May, 2013, Mashhad, IRAN, Pages: 1 - 4, DOI: 10.1109/IranianCEE.2013.6599662
[28] Meysam Mohammadi, Amir Alipour, Esmaeil N. Aghdam and Khosrov D. Sadeghipour, “A New Technique for Background Calibration of Pipelined ADCs”, 21st Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering(ICEE2013), 14-16 May, 2013, Mashhad, IRAN, Pages: 1 - 5, DOI: 10.1109/IranianCEE.2013.6599864
[27]Zahra Deyhim, Zeynab Yousefi, Esmaeil Najafi Aghdam, Habib BadriGhavifekr, “A High Resolution Multiple Feedback Electromechanical Delta Sigma Modulator for MEMS Inertial Sensors”, IOCEPC2013, 27-28 June 2013, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
[26] Abbaszadeh Javad, Esmaeil Najafi Aghdam, Abdul Rahim Herlina, Abdul Rahim Ruzairi and Sahar Sarafi, Design and Implementation a Microcontroller based High Power Ultrasonic Dispersion System with self-Frequency adjusting, Proceedings of International Conference on Power Engineering, Energy and Electrical Drives, POWERENG-2013
 [25] Mojtaba Khoddam ,Esmaeil Najafi Aghdam , Amirhosein Foroutan, “Multi-Levels Asynchronous Sigma-Delta Modulation Based ADC” ICIAS 2012, Juin  2012, Malaysia ,
[24] Mohammad Honarparvar ,Esmaeil Najafi Aghdam,  “Dual Mode Reconfigurable Continuous Time Delta-Sigma Modulator for GSM/WCDMA Standards” , 20th Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering, Tehran,
 [23]Adel Pourmand, Esmaeil Najafi Aghdam, Amir Zahedi, » A Fully Integrated CMOS Low Noise Amplifier for IEEE 802.11a Standard Applications», 19th Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering, Tehran,
[22] Yahya Hasanpour, Esmaeil Najafi Aghdam, Vahid Sabouhi, « Dynamic Element Matching Using Simultaneity Tow Different Techniques for Multibit Delta Sigma Modulator », 19th Iranian Conference on Elec. Eng., Tehran,
[21] Mohammad Honarparvar ,  Esmaeil Najafi Aghdam,  Mousa Shamsi,  , Amir Zahedi,  Mohammad Zafaranchi, “A Low Power, High Performance Multi-Mode Delta-Sigma ADC for GSM, WCDMA and WLAN Standards , ICEDSA, 25 - 27 April 2011, Malaysia,Pages: 92 - 97, DOI: 10.1109/ICEDSA.2011.5959046
[20] Yahya Hasanpour, Esmaeil Najafi Aghdam, Vahid Sabouhi, Morteza Mehdi sasan “ BandPass Dynamic Element Matching for Low OSR High Resolution Delta Sigma Modulators”ICEDSA2011, 25-7April 2011,Pages: 232 - 236, DOI: 10.1109/ICEDSA.2011.5959048,Malaysia
 (Internal Conference Paper) [19]علیرضا شمسی، اسماعیل نجفی اقدم، طراحی بهینه فیلتریکدهی توان پایین برای مبدل آنالوگ به دیجیتال سیگمادلتا، ، كنفرانس   مهندسي برق ايران ، نجف آباد اصفهان،  Feb. 2010
[18] Javad Abbaszadeh and E.Najafiaghdam, “Automatically Tuned High Power Ultrasonic Dispersion system Design and Implementation”, 18^th-ICEE, Isfahan, IRAN, paper ID: 2998. 15-17 May 2010
[17]R. Kazemzadeh, J. Amini, E.Najafi Aghdam « Sigma-Delta Modulation Applied to a 3-Phase Shunt Active Power Filter Using Compensation with Instantaneous Power Theory” 978-1-4244-5586-7/10/$26.00 ©2010 IEEE , Page: 88-92
[16] Javad Abbaszadeh and E.Najafiaghdam,« Ultrasonic Dispersion System Design and Optimization Using Multiple Transducers »,Symp. on Piezoelectricity, Acoustic Waves and Device Applications, IEEE ,Page:96-100, Dec 17-20,2009
[15] Parisa Mahmoudi, Esmaeil Najafi Aghdam, “DELAY LOCKED LOOP DESIGNED IN 0.18μM CMOS WITH DECREASED JITTER NOISE”, International Conference on Computer and Communication Engineering (ICCCE 2010), 11-13 May 2010, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, IEEE indexed
[14] Esmaeil Najafi Aghdam, Philippe Benabes, Javad abbasszadeh “Completely First Order and Tone Free Partitioned Data Weighted Averaging  Technique Used in a Multibit Delta Sigma Modulator ", 19th European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design, Turkey, ECCTD 2009 Monday August 24, 2009, 978-1-4244-3896-9/09/$25.00 ©2009 IEEE , Pages: 53-56
[13] Hamed Behin, Gholamreza Tabatabaee, Esmaeil Najafi Aghdam, « Low Voltage, Low Power Two Stage CMOS Operational »,  12^th-ICSEE, Tabriz, IRAN. 15-17 May 2009, Transconductance Amplifier with Nulling Resistor Compensation
[12] H.Haddadian, Javad abbaszadeh,  E.Najafiaghdam, « A Dual Band Concurrent Low Noise Amplifier for Bluetooth and WLAN Applications » , 12^th-ICSEE, Tabriz, IRAN. 15-17 May 2009,
[11]  (Internal Conference Paper) ج. عباس زاده، ق. طباطبایی، ا. نجفی اقدم، "  طراحی حلقه قفل فاز با لرزش کاهش يافته با استفاده از حلقه داخلی قفل فرکانس" .  17^th-ICEE 2009, Tehran, IRAN. Paper ID 3397,  Page : 237-242 , 15-17 May 2009
 (Internal Conference Paper) [10] ع. اصغری، ا. نجفی اقدم، ج. عباس زاده، " اندازه گيريي دقيق فاصله در طولهاي بزرگ  بوسيله امواج فراصوت"‘
First national Accostique Conference , May   2009, Shiraz, Iran
[9] M. Ashouri, S. Nikmehr, E. Najafi Aghdam, "Compact microstrip bandpass filter with a dual band response", 16^th Iranian Conference on Electrical Eng. (ICEE2008),May 13-15, 2008, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran,
[8] Esmaeil Najafi Aghdam, Philippe Benabes, " Reducing multibit DAC circuits errors by a simplified dynamic element matching algorithm used in delta-sigma converters",15^th-ICEE,Tehran, IRAN. 15-17 May 2007, P: 70-75.
[7] Esmaeil Najafi Aghdam, Philippe Benabes, "A hardware efficient 3-bit second-order dynamic element matching circuit clocked at 300MHz", IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2006). Kos, Grace, 21-24 May 2006,Page: 2977-2980.
[6] Esmaeil Najafi Aghdam, Philippe Benabes, "Higher order dynamic element matching by shortened tree-structure in Delta-Sigma modulators", ECCTD 2005 - European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design, Cork Ireland, 29 August - 2 September 2005, IEEE Digital O.I: 07803 9066 0=05=20:002005IEEE .
[5] S. Benabid, E. Najafi Aghdam, P. Benabes, S. Guessab, R. Kielbasa, "CMOS Design of a multibit bandpass continuous-time sigma delta modulator running at 1.2GHz," International Caracas Conference on Devices, Circuits & Systems, ICCDCS04, Nov. Pages:51-55IEEE Digital O.I. 10:1109=ICCDCS: 04:1393352
[4] E.N. Aghdam, P. Benabes, "A new mixed stable DEM algorithm or bandpass multibit delta sigma ADC", 10th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, ICECS 2003. Volume 3, 14-17 Dec. 2003 Page(s): 962 - 965, IEEE Digital O.I.: 10:1109=ICECS:2003:1301668
[3] E. Najafi Aghdam, P. Benabes, R.Kielbasa; "Stability and performance improvement in high order tree-structured dynamic element matching algorithms in delta-sigma modulators", Soumis à IEEE-Transaction on C&S [2] A. Adibi, E. Najafi Aghdam, H. Bouzari, Optimal Design of GaAs-MESFET Low phase noise oscillators, ICEE- 94, , Tehran, 17- 20, May, 1994
[1] A. Adibi, E. Najafi Aghdam, H. Bouzari, “Flicker noise modeling in GaAs-MESFET and its application to phase noise”, Int.Conf. on telecom.  Bali, Indonesia, 3-5, April, 1995

 
 
Patents  and  Books:
 
[P2] (Patent)   ثبت اختراع،سامانه الکترونیکی قرائت خاموش واراز راه دورکارکرد کنتورآب، سازمان ثبت اسناد و املاک جمهوری اسلامی ایران، شماره اظهارنامه، شماره ثبت اختراع ، تاریخ ثبت اختراع 8/05/91
[P1] (Patent) ثبت اختراع،راکتور پیوسته ی لوله ای فراصوتی۱۰۰۰۰واتي،سازمان ثبت اسناد و املاک جمهوری اسلامی ایران، شماره اظهارنامه 390070574، شماره ثبت اختراع 73058، تاریخ ثبت اختراع 04/10/90
[B1] HadiMirzajani, Habib BadriGhavifekr, Esmaeil Najafi Aghdam, “Broadband Wireless Access Networks for 4G: Theory, Application, and Experimentation, Chapter 10: MEMS-Enabled Smart Beam- Steering Antennas”, DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4888-3.ch010, Book published in the IGI Global book series Advances in Wireless Technologies and Telecommunication (AWTT), USA, 2014