RFIC Home Student Awards RFIC Best Industry Paper Awards 2025 1st Enabling Fast Steering of Arbitrary Beams with Phased Arrays 2nd D-Band Radio-on-Glass Modules for Spectrally-Efficient FD & FDD Multi-Kilometer Wireless Backhaul Links 3rd A High Power SOI-CMOS WI-FI 6 Front-End Module with Reconfigurable Class-J Power Amplifier and On-Chip Body-Bias Supply Generator for High PAE 2024 1st Heterogeneously-Integrated Gallium Nitride and Indium Phosphide Devices for Ka-band Amplifiers 2nd A 21–27-GHz Frequency Quadrupler in 0.13μm SiGe BiCMOS with 0-dBm POUT and 40-dBc HRR for Wideband 5G Applications 2023 1st A 14-nm Low-Cost IF Transceiver IC with Low-Jitter LO and Flexible Calibration Architecture for 5G FR2 Mobile Applications 2nd A 28nm CMOS Dual Band Concurrent WLAN and Narrow Band Transmitter with On-chip Feedforward TX-to-TX Interference Cancellation Path for Low Antenna-to-Antenna Isolation in IoT Devices 3rd A Wi-Fi Tri-Band Switchable Transceiver with 57.9fs-RMS-Jitter Frequency Synthesizer, Achieving -42.6dB EVM floor for EHT320 4096-QAM MCS13 signal 2022 1st A 2Gb-s 9.9pJ-b Sub-10GHz Wireless Transceiver for Reconfigurable Full-duplex Wireless Networks and Short-Range Multicast Applications 2nd DC to 12+GHz, +30dBm OIP3, 7.2dB Noise Figure Active Balun in 130nm BiCMOS for RF-Sampling Receivers 3rd An All-Silicon E-Band Backhaul-on-Glass Frequency Division Duplex Module with >25Gbps Data Rate 2021 1st A Fully-Digital 0.1-to-27Mb/s ULV 450MHz Transmitter with Sub-100μW Power Consumption and 35% Peak System Efficiency for IoT Applications in 65nm CMOS 2nd Doubly-Tuned Transformer-Based Class-E Power Amplifiers in 130nm BiCMOS for mmWave Applications 3rd A 128Gb/s PAM4 Linear TIA with 12.6pA/√Hz Noise Density in 22nm FinFET CMOS 2020 1st A D-Band Radio-on-Glass Module for Spectrally-Efficient and Low-Cost Wireless Backhaul 2nd A Reconfigurable SOI CMOS Doherty Power Amplifier Module for Broadband LTE High-Power User Equipment Applications 3rd High Resolution CMOS IR-UWB Radar for Non-Contact Human Vital Signs Detection 2019 1st An 802.11ba-Based, -92.6dBm-Sensitivity, Blocker Tolerant 495µW Wake-up Radio Fully Integrated in 14nm FinFET CMOS for IoT Applications 2nd Reconfigurable mmWave Radar Transmitter SoC with Broadband Frequency Tripler in 45-nm CMOS SOI 3rd Direct Digital Synthesizer with 14 GS/s Sampling Rate Heterogeneously Integrated on Silicon Using III-V DHBT Technology 2018 1st A 57-71 GHz Beamforming SiGe Transceiver for 802.11ad-Based Fixed Wireless Access 2nd Q-Band CMOS Transmitter System-on-Chip for Protected Satellite Communication 3rd A 28nm CMOS Wireless Connectivity Combo IC with a Reconfigurable 2x2 MIMO WiFi supporting WLAN 802.11a/b/g/n/ac and Bluetooth 5.0 2017 1st A 28GHz CMOS Direct Conversion Transceiver with Packaged Antenna Arrays for 5G Cellular System 2016 1st A Wideband Single-PLL RF Receiver for Simultaneous Multi-band and Multi-channel Reception 2015 1st A 16-Element W-Band Phased Array Transceiver Chipset with Flip-Chip PCB Integration
