Mark Moore

Mark Moore BSc, C.Eng. MIET

Mark has over 29 years experience as a microwave design engineer during which time he has worked on a wide range of projects giving him extensive experience in all aspects of active circuit design, assembly and test at frequencies from 10 kHz to 100 GHz. His circuit designs have included: power, low noise and transimpedance amplifiers, oscillators, mixers, frequency multipliers, beam forming networks, power detectors and switches. His MMIC design has used many foundries including: Triquint and Velocium (GaAs pHEMT), HRL and Ommic (GaAs mHEMT), GCS (InP HBT). He has worked on programmes ranging from research/early development (for customers such as the UK MOD, ESA and DARPA) to large volume commercial applications and high reliability space flight hardware. His innovative work has led to technical papers and patents. In addition has worked on RF system design and has acted as a group leader mentoring junior colleagues and technical lead on projects (requirements capture, writing specifications, architectural design, configuration management and leading the detailed design and test).

His work has included the following:

E-band MMIC mixer and frequency doubler design on the WIN PP10 process.
System and hardware design for a frequency converter to translate a 3G W-CDMA mobile communication system to a military frequency band. The work required synthesiser design and calculation of the system degradation effects (error vector magnitude) of the frequency converter.
10 W, 15 GHz GaN MMIC power amplifier design.
Design of a transimpedance amplifier and D-type flip-flip pulse stretcher RFIC used to detect as short as 5 ps zeros in a multi-level optical correlator signal. The design used mixed signal circuit techniques on the GCS InP SHBT process. This first pass design successfully de-risked the “DARPA hard” seedling contract.
65 GHz receiver design using multi-layer LCP packaging (a 65 GHz PCB) for a commercial customer.
6 to 18 GHz, 2.5 W, MMIC power amplifier design on the Triquint 0.25 umpHEMT process.
90 GHz LNA MMIC, a CPW circuit on the Ommic GaAs mHEMT process.
A radar EW study to determine how to achieve a broad frequency range, low cost, coherent, expendable radar decoy using commercially available components. This successful study caused the customer to change his technical approach, discarding two years previous work.
Design of a base band to 5 GHz IF converter board using commercial ICs for a 65 GHz communications transceiver.
90 GHz MMIC LNA, mixer and frequency doubler design including component characterisation on the HRL InP process.

Mark’s previous employers included: QinetiQ, British Aerospace Space Systems, Northern Telecom, GEC Telecommunications and Marconi Space and Defence Systems.