Paul Munday

Paul Munday BEng (Hons.), MIET

Paul has spent his career working in the field of high tech research into RF technologies, circuits and systems for a wealth of commercial and military applications. His primary experience is in the development of novel low cost circuit packaging techniques for high frequency and mm-wave applications that underpin numerous security screening, communications and radar systems from 1 to >100GHz. In addition, Paul has experience of the wider fields of MMIC circuit design, novel semiconductor process development and both on-wafer and in-package circuit testing. Paul has either authored or co-authored numerous technical papers and patent applications.

In the past five years Paul’s work has included:

Development of low noise, wide bandwidth receiver circuits for MMIC mm-wave imaging systems. Numerous systems have been developed for security screening, border security and helicopter landing aid applications. To realise low-cost receiver circuits novel techniques have been developed including small form factor waveguide and mm-wave circuit-board packages.
Development of novel semiconductor processes for mm-wave MMIC devices including work on passive component realisation on InSb materials for >200GHz MMICs and university collaboration to develop a UK mHEMT MMIC process for >400GHz applications.
Design and implementation of an integrated mm-wave front-end for a short range 65 GHz communications system using novel low-cost mm-wave circuit board techniques.
RF interface design for high data rate GaAs optical modulator circuits using complex 3D electromagnetic (EM) simulation techniques to increase the bandwidth available from COTS packaging components.
Design and development of GaN power amplifier modules for high power tube amplifier replacement at 15GHz. Development work also included the implementation of a temperature controlled on-wafer load-pull measurement capability in order to measure device performance.
Successfully managing suppliers to develop the RF front-end of a military radar system from definition of a sub-system specification through management of proposals and customer deliverables.