Peter Blockley

Dr. Peter Blockley

Future generation high-performance radio communications circuits in gallium nitride technology

Mixer-Based, Vector-Corrected, Vector Signal/Network Analyzer Offering 300 kHz – 20 GHz Bandwidth and Traceable Phase Response

2005 Winner of the Macquarie University Innovative Partnership Award
2005 65th Automated RF Techniques Group Conference - Best Interactive Session Paper
2003 Australian Postgraduate Award - Three year Ph.D. scholarship with stipend
1997 Merit Award - Third in Electronics Technology for the state of New South Wales

15th - 20th June 2008 - International Microwave Symposium 2008 (Atlanta, Georgia)

12th - 16th June 2005 - International Microwave Symposium 2005 (Long Beach, CA)
Presented: "Mixer-Based, Vector-Corrected, Vector Signal/Network Analyzer Offering 300kHz-20GHz Bandwidth and Traceable Phase Response."

17th June 2005 - 65th Automated RF Techniques Group (Long Beach, CA)
Presented: "Towards Generic Calibration"
Poster: "Wide-Bandwidth, Vector-Corrected Measurement with High Spurious-Free Dynamic Range"

3rd-4th April - 2005 Short Course on Hidden Markov Models (Sydney, Australia)
22nd March 2005 - European Spring Mixer (Shanghai, China)
12th-20th March 2005 - 5th Annual Global Tech Leaders Symposium (Singapore and Shanghai, China)
Community service project: Web site for Eden Community Services Centre
30th Nov - 3rd December 2004 - 64th Automated RF Techniques Group (Orlando, Florida)
Presented: "Pulsed IV"
28th Oct 2004 - IEAUST/IEEE joint lecture (Sydney, Australia)
Presented: "Emerging Issues with Millimetre-wave Devices for Telecommunications Applications"
6th - 10th June 2004 - International Microwave Symposium 2004 (Fort Worth, Texas)
11th June 2004 63rd Automated RF Techniques Group (Fort Worth, Texas)
Presented: "A New Instrument Architecture for Millimetre-Wave Time-Domain Signal Analysis"
18th - 20th February 2004 Workshop on Applications of Radio Science (Hobart, Tasmania)
Poster: "An Analytical Method for Analysing Large-Signal Distortion"
8th - 13th June 2003 - International Microwave Symposium 2003 (Philadelphia, PA)
20-22 February 2002 Workshop on Applications of Radio Science (Blue Mountains, NSW)
Poster: "Your Finger on the Pulse of Microwave Transistors"

P. S. Blockley, J. B. Scott, D. Gunyan and A. E. Parker, "The Random Component of Mixer-Based Nonlinear Vector Network Analyzer Measurement Uncertainty," IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 55, pp. 2231-2239, Oct. 2007.
P. S. Blockley, J. B. Scott, D. Gunyan and A. E. Parker, "Noise Considerations when Determining Phase of Large-Signal Microwave Measurements," IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 54, pp. 3182-3190, Aug. 2006.
P. S. Blockley, J. B. Scott, D. Gunyan and A. E. Parker, "Nonlinear Network Analysis and Measurement," in Workshop on Applications in Radio Science, Feb 2006.
P. S. Blockley, D. Gunyan, and J. B. Scott, "Mixer-Based, Vector-Corrected, Vector Signal/Network Analyzer Offering 300kHz-20GHz Bandwidth and Traceable Phase Response," in 2005 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest, pp. 1497-1500, June 2005.
P. S. Blockley, D. Gunyan, and J. B. Scott, "Wide-Bandwidth, Vector-Corrected Measurement with High Spurious-Free Dynamic Range," in 65th ARFTG Conference Digest, June 2005. (Awarded Best Interactive Session Paper)
P. S. Blockley and J. G. Rathmell, "Towards Generic Calibration," in 65th ARFTG Conference Digest, June 2005.
J. Scott, P. Blockley, and A. Parker, "A New Instrument Architecture for Millimetre-Wave Time-Domain Signal Analysis," in 63th ARFTG Conference Digest, pp. 47-52, June 2004.

2005 - New measurement system for high frequency electrical circuits - Report in The Macquarie Researcher.
2005 - Electronics with an international flavour - Report in The Macquarie Globe.
2004 - Founded Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) student branch at Macquarie University
2003 - Postgraduate liaison officer
2002 - Honours liaison officer