1962

B.Sc (with Distinction) in Engineering PhysicsUniversity of Alberta, Edmonton

M.S. in Electrical EngineeringUniversity of Illinois, Urbana

Ph.D. in Electrical EngineeringUniversity of Illinois, Urbana

Visiting Professor University of California, San Diego

Patents

L Forbes, "Technique for Producing Small Island of Silicon on Insulator," 6,174,784 January 16, 2001.

L. Forbes, "Sense Amplifier for Low Voltage Memory Arrays," 6,198,681 March 6, 2001.

L. Forbes, "Monolithic Inductance-Enhancing Integration Circuits, Complementary Metal Oxidize Semiconductor (CMOS) Inductance-Enhancing Integrated Circuits, Inductor Assemblies, and Inductance-Multiplying Methods," 6,201,287 March 13, 2001.

L. Forbes, " Monolithic Integrated Circuit Oscillators, Complementary Metal Oxidize Semiconductor (CMOS) Voltage-Controlled Oscillators, Integrated Circuit Oscillators, Oscillator-Forming Methods, and Oscillation Methods," 6,249,191 June 19, 2001.

L. Forbes, "Four Transistor Sram Cell with Improved Read Access," 6,275,433 Aug. 14, 2001.

L. Forbes, "Pseudo-Differential Current Sense Amplifier with Hysteresis," 6,288,575 September 11, 2001.

L. Forbes, "Flash Memory with Nanocrystalline Silicon Film as the Floating Gate," 6,300,193 October 9, 2001.

L. Forbes, M.S. Choi and L. Forbes, "1/f Noise of GaAs Resistors on Semi-insulating Substrates," IEEE Trans. on Electron Devices, Vol. ED-43, pp. 622-627, (April 1996).

L. Forbes, M.S. Choi and W. Cao, "1/f Noise in Bipolar Transistors due to Temperature Fluctuations in Heat Conduction," Microelectronics Reliability, Vol. 39, No. 9, pp. 1357-1364, Sept. 1999.

K.T. Yan, L. Forbes and S. Taylor, "A Simple Model for the Channel Noise Coefficient of FET's Including Hot Electron Effects," Microelectronics Reliability, Vol. 39, No. 12, pp. 1773-1786, Dec. 1999.

D. Xie and L. Forbes, "Phase Noise Effect on a 2 GHz CMOS LC Oscillator," IEEE Trans. on Computer Aided Design (TCAD), Vol. 19, No. 7, pp. 773-778, July 2000.

D. Xie, M. Cheng and L. Forbes, "Spice Models for Flicker Noise in N-Mosfet's From Subthreshold to Strong Inversion," IEEE Trans. on Computer Aided Design (TCAD),vol. 19, no. 11, pp. 1293-1303, Nov. 2000.

L. Forbes, M. Cheng and J. Zhou, " Simulation of Phase Noise Generated by White Noise in 1.7GHZ CMOS LC Oscillator," IEE Electronics Letters, Vol.36, No. 23, pp. 1909-1911, 2000.

J. Zhou, M. Cheng and L. Forbes, "Spice Models for Flicker Noise in P-Mosfet's in the Saturation Region," IEEE Trans. on Computer Aided Design (TCAD), in press.

L. Forbes, "Low Frequency Noise, Devices and Models," Report to NSF Center on the Design of Analog/Digital Integrated Circuits, Feb/July 1999, Feb. 2000.

L. Forbes, "Low Frequency Noise and Design of Low Phase Noise Oscillators," Report to NFS Center on the Design of Analog/Digital Integrated Circuits, Feb. 2000 Seattle WA, July 2000 Mt. Hood, OR.

L. Forbes, "Phase Noise and Clock Jitter in Oscillators," Feb. 2001 Seattle WA, July 2001, Lincoln City, OR.

L. Forbes, "Design and Simulation of Low Phase Noise Oscillators/Circuits," invited seminars: IBM Design Center, Encinitas, CA, 9 Nov. 2000 Qualcomm, San Diego, CA

"Who's Who in America," 55th ed., 2001.

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