Dr. W. Alan Davis

Office: 542 NH
Office Tel. No.: (817) 272-3495
Lab Tel. No.: (817) 272-3448
Email Address: adavis@uta.edu
adavis@uta.edu

Associate Professor and Undergraduate Advisor

Ph.D. University of Michigan 1971
M.S. University of Michigan 1964
B.S.E.E. University of Michigan 1963
B.S.E.M. University of Michigan 1963

Areas of Expertise

Microwave component design; microwave semiconductor circuit design.

Background

After graduating in 1971 from the University of Michigan, Dr. Davis was employed at McMaster University where he worked on automated network analysis, design of a PIN diode phase shifter, and a hardware simulation study for Canadian Satellite Communications. From 1973 to 1977, Dr. Davis was employed by General Electric at their R&D Center in Schnectady, New York. At GE his duties consisted of work in the design of alumina and ferrite microstrip IMPATT amplifiers, hybrid coupler power combiner, and microwave proximity detectors. In 1977 Dr. Davis joined Raytheon in Bedford, Massachusetts where he remained until the Fall of 1983. He worked on IMPATT diode power combiners, thermal response of IMPATT diodes, broadband directional couplers, Schiffman phase shifters and filter design. Here he was also involved in computer optimization techniques and in software design for automated test stations. More recently he has worked on magnetostatic surface wave devices, broadband microwave circuits, high frequency time domain measurements, and nonlinear parametric effects.