Thomas H. Lee is an electrical engineering

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 professor at Stanford University

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. In 1994 he founded the Stanford Microwave Integrated Circuits Laboratory. He has written and co-authored several books and papers.

Lee received his S.B. (1983), S.M. (1985) and Sc.D. (1990) degrees in electrical engineering, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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From 1990 through 1992, Lee worked on high-speed clock recovery with Analog Devices. In 1992, he joined Rambus Inc. where he developed high-speed analog circuitry for 500 megabyte/s CMOS DRAMs. He cofounded Matrix Semiconductor, which was acquired by Sandisk

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 in 2006, and is also the founder of ZeroG Wireless, acquired by Microchip Technology

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 in January 2010.

He is the winner of the 2011 Ho-Am Prize in Engineering, informally known as "the Korean Nobel Prize." In April of 2011 he began a leave of absence from Stanford University to serve as Director of the Microsystems Technology Office of DARPA.

Books

• The design of CMOS radio-frequency integrated circuits, Cambridge University Press
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  , 2004, ISBN 0-5218-3539-9 Cited 1457 times according to Google scholar
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• The Design and Implementation of Low-Power CMOS Radio Receivers, co-authored with Derek K. Shaeffer, Springer, 1999, ISBN 0-7923-8518-7 Cited 62 times according to Google scholar
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• The Design of Low Noise Oscillators, co-authored with Ali Hajimiri, Springer, 1999, ISBN 0-7923-8455-5 Cited 155 times according to Google scholar
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• Planar Microwave Engineering: A Practical Guide to Theory, Measurement, and Circuits, Thomas H. Lee, Cambridge University Press
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  , 2004, ISBN 0521835267, 9780521835268, 880 pages cited 22 times according to Google scholar
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External links

• Thomas H. Lee Stanford Microwave Integrated Circuits Laboratory at Stanford University
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• ZeroG Wireless ZeroG Wireless builds chips and modules to connect the Internet of Things
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