RFIC Home Industry Awards RFIC Best Student Paper Awards 2025 1st Topology-Optimized Nonintuitive Multilayered mm-Wave Power Amplifiers 2nd A 28-38 GHz Digitally-Assisted Frequency Tripler with Background Calibration in 55nm SiGe BiCMOS 3rd A 40GS/s 8bit Time-Interleaved Time-Domain ADC Featuring SFDR-Enhanced Sample-and-Hold Circuit and Power-Efficient Adaptive Pulse Generator in 28nm CMOS 2024 1st A Blocker-Tolerant mm-Wave MIMO Receiver with Spatial Notch Filtering Using Non-Reciprocal Phase-Shifters for 5G Applications 2nd A 2.8-4.3 GHz Simultaneous Dual-Carrier Transformer-Coupled Passive Mixer-First Receiver Front-End Supporting Blocker Suppression 3rd A Reconfigurable Ultra Compact Bi-directional Amplifier with a Build-in-Self Notch Filter for K/Ka-band Satellite Communication 2023 1st A D-Band Calibration-Free Passive 360° Phase Shifter with 1.2° RMS Phase Error in 45nm RFSOI 2nd A 112-Gbps, 0.73-pJ/Bit Fully-Integrated O-Band I-Q Optical Receiver in a 45-nm CMOS SOI Photonic Process 3rd A D-Band 20.4dBm OP1dB Transformer-Based Power Amplifier with 23.6% PAE in a 250-nm InP HBT Technology 2022 1st A Millimeter-Wave Mixer-First Receiver with Non-Uniform Time-Approximation Filter Achieving >45-dB Blocker Rejection 2nd An Integrated Reconfigurable SAW-Less Quadrature Balanced N-Path Transceiver for Frequency-Division and Half Duplex Wireless 3rd Multi-beam, Scalable 28 GHz Relay Array with Frequency and Spatial Division Multiple Access Using Passive, High-Order N-Path Filters 2021 1st A 0.31THz CMOS Uniform Circular Antenna Array Enabling Generation-Detection of Waves with Orbital-Angular Momentum 2nd A Mm-Wave Transmitter MIMO with Constellation Decomposition Array (CDA) for Keyless Physically Secured High-Throughput Links 3rd 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 A 3.3-4.5GHz Fractional-N Sampling PLL with A Merged Constant Slope DTC and Sampling PD in 40nm CMOS 2020 1st A Hybrid-Integrated Artificial Mechanoreceptor in 180nm CMOS 2nd A Scalable 60GHz 4-Element MIMO Transmitter with a Frequency-Domain-Multiplexing Single-Wire Interface and Harmonic-Rejection-Based De-Multiplexing 3rd 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 A 39GHz 64-Element Phased-Array CMOS Transceiver with Built-in Calibration for Large-Array 5G NR 2nd A 4×4×4-mm3 Fully Integrated Sensor-to-Sensor Radio using Carrier Frequency Interlocking IF Receiver with -94 dBm Sensitivity 3rd 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 Fully-Integrated Non-Magnetic 180nm SOI Circulator with >1W P1dB, >+50dBm IIP3 and High Isolation Across 1.85 VSWR 2nd 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 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 A Wideband Linear Direct Digital RF Modulator using Harmonic Rejection and I/Q-Interleaving RF DACs 2nd 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 A 29-to-57GHz AM-PM Compensated Class-AB Power Amplifier for 5G Phased Arrays in 0.9V 28nm Bulk CMOS 2016 1st A Wideband Voltage Mode Doherty Power Amplifier 2nd A 5GHz All-Passive Negative Feedback Network for RF Front-End Self-Steering Beam-Forming with Zero DC Power Consumption 3rd An 802.11 a/b/g/n Digital Fractional-N PLL with Automatic TDC Linearity Calibration for Spur Cancellation 2015 1st A 60 GHz same-channel full-duplex CMOS transceiver and link based on reconfigurable polarization-based antenna cancellation 2nd A Switched-Capacitor RF Front End with Embedded Programmable High Order Filtering and a +15dBm OB-B1dB 3rd A Class-C Self-Mixing-VCO Architecture with High Tuning- Range and Low Phase-Noise for mm-Wave Applications 2014 1st A +27.3dBm Transformer-Based Digital Doherty Polar Power Amplifier Fully Integrated in Bulk CMOS 2nd A +1.8 dB NF Blocker-Filtering Noise-Canceling Wideband Receiver with Shared TIA in 40nm CMOS 3rd A Compact 24-54 GHz CMOS Band-pass Distributed Amplifier for High Fractional Bandwidth Signal Amplification
