Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles: A low voltage 10Gbps SiGe laser diode driver using adaptive RC compensation and common-mode feedback based current generators

Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles

"A low voltage 10Gbps SiGe laser diode driver using adaptive RC compensation and common-mode feedback based current generators"
by Maxim, A.
in the Proceedings of the 2004 Symposium on VLSI Circuits, 2004. Digest of Technical Papers.
17-19 June 2004 Page(s): 400 - 403

After careful and considered review, it has been determined that the above paper is in violation of IEEE's Publication Principles.

Specifically, the paper contains information that Adrian Maxim admits had been falsified. In response to an inquiry on this misconduct, Mr. Maxim acknowledged that the following people who have been listed as co-authors on several of his papers are fabricated names and that he is the only author:

C. Turinici, D. Smith, S. Dupue, M. Gheorge, R. Johns, D. Antrik

Additionally, in papers by Mr. Maxim that have co-authors other than those listed above, it was discovered in some cases that he had not consulted with them while writing the papers, and submitted papers without their knowledge.

Although Mr. Maxim maintains that not all of the data is falsified, IEEE nevertheless cannot assure the integrity of papers posted by him because of his repeated false statements.

Due to the nature of this violation, reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to the above paper, and to refrain from any future references.
A low voltage, high modulation current 10Gbps laser diode driver was realized in a 0.2 μm SiGe BICMOS technology, by using multiple common-mode feedback loops to generate both the output modulation current and the output driver variable biasing currents. Adaptive RC compensation networks provide an optimal switching speed while controlling the overshoot and ringing over a wide range of modulation current. On-chip summation of bias and modulation currents and built-in OpAmps for the bias and modulation current generators assure a compact assembly.