RFIC Best Student Paper Awards
| Author(s), University | Paper Title | |
| 2022 | ||
| 1st | C. Yang, S. Su, M. S. Chen University of Southern California, USA |
A Millimeter-Wave Mixer-First Receiver with Non-Uniform Time-Approximation Filter Achieving >45-dB Blocker Rejection |
| 2nd | E. Zolkov, N. Ginzberg, E. Cohen Technion Institute of Technology, Israel |
An Integrated Reconfigurable SAW-Less Quadrature Balanced N-Path Transceiver for Frequency-Division and Half Duplex Wireless |
| 3rd | P. Porsandeh Khial, S. Nooshabadi, A. Fikes, A. Hajimiri California Institute of Technology, USA |
Multi-beam, Scalable 28 GHz Relay Array with Frequency and Spatial Division Multiple Access Using Passive, High-Order N-Path Filters |
| 2021 | ||
| 1st | Muhammad Ibrahim Wasiq Khan1, Jongchan Woo1, Xiang Yi1, Mohamed I. Ibrahim1, Rabia Tugce Yazicigil2, Anantha Chandrakasan1, Ruonan Han1 1MIT, USA, 2Boston University, USA |
A 0.31THz CMOS Uniform Circular Antenna Array Enabling Generation-Detection of Waves with Orbital-Angular Momentum |
| 2nd | Naga Sasikanth Mannem, Tzu‑Yuan Huang, Elham Erfani, Sensen Li, Hua Wang Georgia Institute of Technology, USA |
A Mm-Wave Transmitter MIMO with Constellation Decomposition Array (CDA) for Keyless Physically Secured High-Throughput Links |
| 3rd | Xiaoteng Zhao, Yong Chen, Lin Wang, Pui‑In Mak, Franco Maloberti, Rui P. Martins University of Macau, China |
A Sub-0.25pJ-bit 47.6-to-58.8Gb-s Reference-Less FD-Less Single-Loop PAM-4 Bang-Bang CDR with a Deliberately-Current-Mismatch Frequency Acquisition Technique in 28nm CMOS |
| Gaofeng Jin1, Fei Feng1, Xiang Gao1, Wen Chen2, Yiyang Shu2, Xun Luo2 1Zhejiang University, China, 2UESTC, China |
A 3.3-4.5GHz Fractional-N Sampling PLL with A Merged Constant Slope DTC and Sampling PD in 40nm CMOS | |
| 2020 | ||
| 1st | Han Hao, Lin Du, Andrew G. Richardson, Timothy H. Lucas, Mark G. Allen, Jan Van der Spiegel, and Firooz Aflatouni University of Pennsylvania, USA |
A Hybrid-Integrated Artificial Mechanoreceptor in 180nm CMOS |
| 2nd | Ali Binaie1, Sohail Ahasan1, Armagan Dascurcu1, Mahmood Baraani Dastjerdi1, Robin Garg2, Manoj Johnson2, Arman Galioglu1, Arun Natarajan2, and Harish Krishnaswamy1 1Columbia University, USA; 2Oregon State University, USA |
A Scalable 60GHz 4-Element MIMO Transmitter with a Frequency-Domain-Multiplexing Single-Wire Interface and Harmonic-Rejection-Based De-Multiplexing |
| 3rd | Rundao Lu, Christine Weston, Daniel Weyer, Fred Buhler and Michael P. Flynn University of Michigan, USA |
A 16-Element Fully Integrated 28GHz Digital Beamformer with In-Package 4×4 Patch Antenna Array and 64 Continuous-Time Band-Pass Delta-Sigma Sub-ADCs |
| 2019 | ||
| 1st | Y. Wang, R. Wu, J. Pang, D. You, A. Fadila, R. Saengchan, X. Fu, D. Matsumoto, T. Nakamura, R. Kubozoe, M. Kawabuchi, B. Liu, H. Zhang, J. Qiu, H. Liu, W. Deng, N. Oshima, K. Motoi, S. Hori, K. Kunihiro, T. Kaneko, A. Shirane, and K. Okada Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan |
A 39GHz 64-Element Phased-Array CMOS Transceiver with Built-in Calibration for Large-Array 5G NR |
| 2nd | Li-Xuan Chuo, Yejoong Kim, Nikolaos Chiotellis, Makoto Yasuda, Satoru Miyoshi, Masaru Kawaminami, Anthony Grbic, David Wentzloff, Hun-Seok Kim, and David Blaauw University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI |
A 4×4×4-mm3 Fully Integrated Sensor-to-Sensor Radio using Carrier Frequency Interlocking IF Receiver with -94 dBm Sensitivity |
| 3rd | Vijaya Kumar Purushothaman, Eric Klumperink, Berta Trullas Clavera, and Bram Nauta University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands |
A Sub-mW All-Passive RF Front End with Implicit Capacitive Stacking Achieving 13 dB Gain, 5 dB NF and +25 dBm OOB-IIP3 |
| 2018 | ||
| 1st | Aravind Nagulu and Prof. Harish Krishnaswamy Columbia University, New York, NY |
Fully-Integrated Non-Magnetic 180nm SOI Circulator with >1W P1dB, >+50dBm IIP3 and High Isolation Across 1.85 VSWR |
| 2nd | Sensen Li and Prof. Hua Wang Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA |
A 28GHz Packaged Chireix Transmitter with Direct On-Antenna Outphasing Load Modulation Achieving 56%/38% PA Efficiency at Peak/6dB Back-Off Output Power |
| 3rd | Matthew Bajor and Prof. Peter Kinget Columbia University, New York, NY |
An 8-Element, 1-3GHz Direct Space-to-Information Converter for Rapid, Compressive-Sampling Direction-of-Arrival Finding Utilizing Pseudo-Random Antenna-Weight Modulation |
| 2017 | ||
| 1st | Mohammadreza Mehrpoo and Prof. Leo de Vreede Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherland |
A Wideband Linear Direct Digital RF Modulator using Harmonic Rejection and I/Q-Interleaving RF DACs |
| 2nd | Zhi Hu and Prof. Ruonan Han Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA |
Fully-Scalable 2D THz Radiating Array: A 42- Element Source in 130-nm SiGe with 80-µW Total Radiated Power at 1.01 THz |
| 3rd | Marco Vigilante and Prof. Patrick Reynaert Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium |
A 29-to-57GHz AM-PM Compensated Class-AB Power Amplifier for 5G Phased Arrays in 0.9V 28nm Bulk CMOS |
| 2016 | ||
| 1st | Voravit Vorapipat and Prof. Peter Asbeck University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA |
A Wideband Voltage Mode Doherty Power Amplifier |
| 2nd | Min-Yu Huang and Prof. Hua Wang Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA |
A 5GHz All-Passive Negative Feedback Network for RF Front-End Self-Steering Beam-Forming with Zero DC Power Consumption |
| 3rd | Dongyi Liao and Prof. Fa Foster Dai Auburn University, Auburn, AL |
An 802.11 a/b/g/n Digital Fractional-N PLL with Automatic TDC Linearity Calibration for Spur Cancellation |
| 2015 | ||
| 1st | Tolga Dinc and Prof. Harish Krishnaswamy Columbia University, New York, NY |
A 60 GHz same-channel full-duplex CMOS transceiver and link based on reconfigurable polarization-based antenna cancellation |
| 2nd | Yang Xu and Prof. Peter R. Kinget Columbia University, New York, NY |
A Switched-Capacitor RF Front End with Embedded Programmable High Order Filtering and a +15dBm OB-B1dB |
| 3rd | Amir Hossein Masnadi Shirazi and Prof. Sudip Shekar University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada |
A Class-C Self-Mixing-VCO Architecture with High Tuning- Range and Low Phase-Noise for mm-Wave Applications |
| 2014 | ||
| 1st | Song Hu and Prof. Hua Wang Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA |
A +27.3dBm Transformer-Based Digital Doherty Polar Power Amplifier Fully Integrated in Bulk CMOS |
| 2nd | Hajir Hedayati and Prof. Kamran Entesari AMSC, Texas A&M University |
A +1.8 dB NF Blocker-Filtering Noise-Canceling Wideband Receiver with Shared TIA in 40nm CMOS |
| 3rd | Venumadhav Bhagavatula and Prof. J. C. Rudell University of Washington, Seattle, WA |
A Compact 24-54 GHz CMOS Band-pass Distributed Amplifier for High Fractional Bandwidth Signal Amplification |