R. Nikandish, J. He and B. Haghi, "Multi-Feature Fusion and Compressed Bi-LSTM for Memory-Efficient Heartbeat Classification on Wearable Devices," IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, doi: 10.1109/JBHI.2026.3669719.

R. Nikandish, C. Sheedy, J. He, R. Crowe and D. Rao, "Contactless Glucose Sensing Using Miniature mm-Wave Radar and Tiny Machine Learning," IEEE Journal of Microwaves, March 2025. 

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R. Nikandish, "GaN System-on-Chip: Pushing the Limits of Integration and Functionality," IEEE Journal of Microwaves, Oct. 2024. 

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A. O’Dwyer Boyle and R. Nikandish, “A Hybrid Quantum-Classical Generative Adversarial Network for Near-Term Quantum Processors," IEEE Access, July 2024.

R. Nikandish, A. Yousefi, and E. Mohammadi, “Spurs in Millimeter-Wave FMCW Radar System-on-Chip,” IEEE Transactions on Radar Systems, Dec. 2023.

R. Nikandish, "GaN Integrated Circuit Power Amplifiers: Developments and Prospects," IEEE Journal of Microwaves, Jan. 2023.

Invited Paper

G. R. Nikandish, A. Nasri, A. Yousefi, A. Zhu and R. B. Staszewski, "A Broadband Fully Integrated Power Amplifier Using Waveform Shaping Multi-Resonance Harmonic Matching Network," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, Regular Papers, Jan. 2022.

R. B. Staszewski, A. Esmailiyan, H. Wang, E. Koskin, P. Giounanlis, X. Wu, A. Koziol, A. Sokolov, I. Bashir, M. Asker, D. Leipold, R. Nikandish, T. Siriburanon and E. Blokhina, "Cryogenic Controller for Electrostatically Controlled Quantum Dots in 22-nm Quantum SoC," IEEE Open Journal of the Solid-State Circuits Society, 2022.

R. Nikandish, E. Blokhina, D. Leipold and R. B. Staszewski, "Semiconductor Quantum Computing: Toward a CMOS quantum computer on chip," IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine, Dec. 2021.

G. R. Nikandish, R. B. Staszewski, and A. Zhu, “Unbalanced Power Amplifier: An Architecture for Broadband Back-Off Efficiency Enhancement,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Feb. 2021.

G. R. Nikandish, R. B. Staszewski and A. Zhu, "A Fully Integrated GaN Dual-Channel Power Amplifier With Crosstalk Suppression for 5G Massive MIMO Transmitters," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, Jan. 2021.

G. R. Nikandish, R. B. Staszewski and A. Zhu, "A Fully Integrated Reconfigurable Multimode Class-F2,3 GaN Power Amplifier," IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters, 2020.

G. R. Nikandish, R. B. Staszewski, and A. Zhu, “Broadband Fully Integrated GaN Power Amplifier with Minimum-Inductance BPF Matching and Two-Transistor AM-PM Compensation,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, Regular Papers, Dec. 2020.

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G. Nikandish, R. B. Staszewski and A. Zhu, "Breaking the Bandwidth Limit: A Review of Broadband Doherty Power Amplifier Design for 5G," IEEE Microwave Magazine, April 2020.

G. Nikandish, R. B. Staszewski and A. Zhu, "Broadband Fully Integrated GaN Power Amplifier With Embedded Minimum Inductor Bandpass Filter and AM–PM Compensation," IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters, Sept. 2019

G. Nikandish, R. B. Staszewski and A. Zhu, "Bandwidth Enhancement of GaN MMIC Doherty Power Amplifiers Using Broadband Transformer-Based Load Modulation Network," IEEE Access, Aug. 2019.

G. Nikandish, R. B. Staszewski and A. Zhu, "Design of Highly Linear Broadband Continuous Mode GaN MMIC Power Amplifiers for 5G," IEEE Access, May 2019.

G. Nikandish, R. B. Staszewski and A. Zhu, "The (R)evolution of Distributed Amplifiers: From Vacuum Tubes to Modern CMOS and GaN ICs," IEEE Microwave Magazine, June 2018.

G. Nikandish and A. Medi, “A 40-GHz Bandwidth Tapered Distributed LNA,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, Nov. 2018.

G. Nikandish, A. Yousefi and M. Kalantari, "A Broadband Multistage LNA With Bandwidth and Linearity Enhancement," IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, Oct. 2016.

G. Nikandish and A. Medi, "Transformer-Feedback Dual-Band Neutralization Technique," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, May 2017.

G. Nikandish and A. Medi, "Transformer-Feedback Interstage Bandwidth Enhancement for MMIC Multistage Amplifiers," IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, Feb. 2015.

G. Nikandish and A. Medi, “Unilateralization of MMIC Distributed Amplifiers,” IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, Dec. 2014.

G. Nikandish and A. Medi, "Design and Analysis of Broadband Darlington Amplifiers With Bandwidth Enhancement in GaAs pHEMT Technology," IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, Aug. 2014.

G. Nikandish, E. Babakrpur and A. Medi, "A Harmonic Termination Technique for Single- and Multi-Band High-Efficiency Class-F MMIC Power Amplifiers," IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, May 2014.

G. Nikandish and A. Medi, "A Design Procedure for High-Efficiency and Compact-Size 5–10-W MMIC Power Amplifiers in GaAs pHEMT Technology," IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, Aug. 2013.

R. Nikandish, A. Yousefi and A. Bozorg, "Impact of Circuit Nonlinearities on the Performance of Millimeter-Wave FMCW Radar-on-Chip Systems," 2022 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf22), New York City, NY, USA, 2022.

G. Nikandish, R. B. Staszewski and A. Zhu, "A Fully Integrated Reconfigurable Multimode Class-F2,3 GaN Power Amplifier,” IEEE 46th European Solid State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), Virtual Conference, 2020.

G. Nikandish, R. B. Staszewski and A. Zhu, "A Broadband Continuous Class-F GaN MMIC PA Using Multi-Resonance Matching Network," 14th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference (EuMIC), Paris, France, 2019.

G. Nikandish, R. B. Staszewski and A. Zhu, "Broadband Fully Integrated GaN Power Amplifier With Embedded Minimum Inductor Bandpass Filter and AM–PM Compensation," IEEE 45th European Solid State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), Cracow, Poland, 2019.

G. Nikandish and A. Medi, "Analysis of random capacitor mismatch errors in pipeline analog-to-digital converters," IEEE International Symposium of Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2011.

R. Nikandish and H. Rahmani, Balanced Mixer-First Receiver, U.S. Provisional Patent App. No. 63/920,162, Filing Date: April 2026.

R. Nikandish and H. Rahmani, Interference-Tolerant Receiver with Adaptive LNA-First to Mixer-First Reconfiguration, U.S. Provisional Patent App. No. 63/920,162, Filing Date: November 2025.

R. Nikandish, C. Sheedy, and J. He, Non-Invasive Glucose Sensing Systems and Methods, UK Patent Application No. 2417825.3, Filing Date: December 2024.

G. Nikandish, A. Zhu, and R. B. Staszewski, Power Amplifiers, U.S. Patent US 2022/0158594 A1, Publication Date: May 2022.