Biography of Dr. Alexander Rukhlenko
Dr. Alexander Rukhlenko received his degree in Radiophysics and Electronics (with distinction) from the Belarusian State University (BSU), Minsk, in 1978. He received the Ph. D. degree in acoustoelectronics from the Minsk Radio Engineering Institute in 1989. From 1980 to 1993, he was with the Laboratory of Acousto- and Optoelectronics at the Minsk Radio Engineering Institute, where he was responsible for research and development of the Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) devices for signal processing. In 1993, he joined Semiconductor Physics Department in the BSU, where he worked as Principal Researcher and headed the SAW devices group until 2001.
The year 1995 marked a crucial turning point in his international career, after he had won the SAW filter design competition organized and sponsored in the former USSR by the American company SAWTEK, Inc., one of the global leaders in SAW filter design and production, at the time. He served at SAWTEK as an independent SAW consultant in 1995-1996 including one year stay in the USA. His major duties were to improve SAW filter design models and algorithms at SAWTEK.
In 1997-1998 he worked as a visiting SAW researcher and designer for LG Company (South Korea), where he was engaged to design IF SAW filters for mobile and wireless communications (CDMA, PCS, GSM, WLL, WLAN, etc.).
In 2001-2002 he worked as Principal Engineer at the Swiss company TEMEX SAW (Neuchatel, Switzerland), where he was responsible for design of bidirectional and low-loss SPUDT IF SAW filters.
In 2003-2005 he cooperated with the SAW company SAWNICS (South Korea), where he has contributed a lot into SAW design software for bidirectional and low-loss IF SAW filters.
Since 2006 he had been with the German subdivision of the USA semiconductor company AVAGO/Broadcom, which is the global leader in the field of the thin-film Bulk Acoustic Wave (BAW) devices. He worked at Broadcom as Senior Staff Engineer, his responsibilities included development and maintenance of the company’s software to design and simulate Film Bulk Acoustic Wave Resonators (FBAR). His prior duty was to provide link between modeling and characterization team and design group. One of his major achievements at Broadcom was integration of the FBAR MATLAB models into the electronic circuit simulator ADS (Advanced Design System, Keysight). He has developed and programmed the unique generic interface between MATLAB models and C/C++ user-compiled models (UCM) to be used in ADS for FBAR filter design.
Dr. A. Rukhlenko is one of the top experts in the field of SAW/BAW computer-aided design. During his professional career he had contributed in the computer-aided design of SAW devices and practical development of SAW products for high-volume production at several SAW companies. In particular, he lectured and demonstrated his state-of-the-art SAW design software at EPCOS AG (Germany), Thomson Microsonics (France), Temex SAW (Switzerland), SAWTEK, Inc (USA), Vectron International (USA, UK), Andersen Laboratories (USA), Toko America (USA), and others.
He is one of the top MATLAB specialists to exploit effectively MATLAB computational power and flexibility in SAW/BAW design, modeling and simulation, with unique experience to interface MATLAB software and applications in C/C++ or FORTRAN. Besides, he is an author of the proprietary MATLAB SAW Filter Analysis Toolbox (SAWFAT) for designing bidirectional SAW IF filters acquired by industrial SAW companies and universities.
His current research interests comprise software development for computer-aided design of SAW/BAW devices, design and simulation of bidirectional or low-loss IF SAW filters, RF SAW filters including one- and two-port SAW resonators, Double Mode SAW (DMS) filters, ladder-type filters, FBAR filters, etc.
Since his retirement in 2023, he lives in Munich, Germany and works as an independent SAW/BAW consultant. He is capable to provide a wide spectrum of SAW/BAW consulting activities including (but not limited to) SAW/BAW research, development of the state-of-the-art SAW filter computer-aided design software, SAW filter education and training, SAW/BAW lecturing and technical writing, etc.