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Wed 10 Jun | 08:00 - 09:40
Room: 152
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Industry Workshop
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This workshop showcases the development of a phased array system for direction-of-arrival (DoA) estimation and beamforming, leveraging the Analog Devices Quad-Apollo ADXBAND16EBZ platform integrating with MATLAB. Participants will explore MATLAB-based hardware interfacing, array simulation for initial algorithm development (MUSIC and MVDR), and hardware-in-the-loop approaches to test algorithms in a controlled environment while contending with difficulties that come when working with real hardware. The workshop culminates in an over-the-air demonstration using a 16-element uniform rectangular array connected to the Quad-Apollo, highlighting array processing techniques with real signals. Attendees will gain practical insights into bridging algorithm design, simulation, and hardware implementation.
Wed
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Wed 10 Jun | 08:00 - 09:40
Room: 154
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Industry Workshop
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As serial link data rates push past 200 Gbps, precise characterization of high-speed interconnects becomes critical. traditional measurement approaches are increasingly limited by fixture effects, probe parasitic, and frequency-dependent losses that can mask true device performance. A glance at advanced de-embedding techniques that separate the behavior of test fixtures and measurement equipment from the device under test, enabling accurate modeling and validation at extreme bandwidths will be open for discussion. This workshop bring together researchers, system architects and test labs to address multidisciplinary engineering challenges and near-term deployment solutions for electrical and mixed electrical-optical interconnects operating beyond 200 Gbps.
Wed
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Wed 10 Jun | 08:00 - 09:40
Room: 252AB
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Technical Sessions
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This session presents recent advances in Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer (SWIPT) and wirelessly powered RF systems, spanning biomedical implants and 5G/NR communications. An invited keynote introduces SWIPT fundamentals, followed by papers on inductive powering and auto-localization of CMOS brain implants, a flexible, tileable phased array enabled by CMOS beamformers, and a rectifier-type mixer enabling wirelessly powered 5G NR transceivers. Together, these contributions highlight practical, scalable architectures for flexible, distributed, and energy-autonomous RF systems.
Wed
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Wed 10 Jun | 08:00 - 09:40
Room: 253ABC
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This session explores complex integration methods to enable novel radar, imaging, and sensing systems. The topics demonstrate key subsystems and architectures including synthesizers, antennas, and transceivers that enable advanced sensing systems. In addition, presentations discuss recent advances in MIMO sensing, cognitive radar, and repeater-aided radar networks.
Wed
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Wed 10 Jun | 08:00 - 09:40
Room: 254AB
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Technical Sessions
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Increased levels of integration make antennas, modulation sources, and circuit nodes inaccessible to direct measurement. This session explores measurement techniques that use the signals that are indirectly available, including contactless and modulation-based methods.
Wed
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Wed 10 Jun | 08:00 - 09:40
Room: 257AB
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Technical Sessions
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This session presents advances in simulation approaches for wireless systems and technologies for RF sensing. The keynote discusses simulation methodologies for satellite coverage analysis, providing context for broadband wireless system design. Subsequent papers demonstrate diverse microwave sensing applications: metalens-enhanced backscatter tags, dielectric resonators for industrial process monitoring, gas sensing through permittivity-modulated antennas, and reflectionless displacement sensors. These contributions showcase the convergence of sensing and communication functionalities in compact RF systems suitable for safety-critical and industrial deployment scenarios.
Wed
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Wed 10 Jun | 08:00 - 09:40
Room: 151AB
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Technical Sessions
Abstract
As quantum computing advances toward scalable and fault-tolerant architectures, the integration of high-fidelity qubits with cryogenic microwave electronics becomes a critical enabling factor. This focus session provides a unique platform to foster collaboration among the quantum hardware, cryogenic electronics, and microwave engineering communities, accelerating the path toward practical, fault-tolerant, and large-scale quantum computing systems. It brings together experts from industry and government laboratories to present recent advances in superconducting, semiconductor spin, and ion-trap qubit technologies, the associated cryogenic control and readout electronics, and quantum processor architectures.
Wed
10
Wed 10 Jun | 08:00 - 09:40
Room: 153AB
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Technical Sessions
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This session introduces advanced Doherty power amplifiers with power level greater than 10W over FR1 and FR3.
Wed
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Wed 10 Jun | 08:00 - 09:40
Room: 156AB
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Technical Sessions
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This session highlights key advances in novel 3D components, substrate technologies, and subsystem packaging, including Multi-Chip Modules (MCMs) and additive manufacturing techniques such as metal and 3D printing. The papers explore heterogeneous integration and shape-changing materials, alongside technologies operating above 100GHz. Featured works include high-efficiency PAs, pH sensors, and low-cost techniques for reconfigurable antenna elements and lenses.
Wed
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Wed 10 Jun | 08:00 - 09:40
Room: 157AB
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Technical Sessions
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This session presents the latest advances in reconfigurable components and systems, as well as true-time-delay structures. The presented papers cover a range of topics, such as tunable filters, limiters, and delay structures. Additionally, a full-duplex antenna integrated into a substrate-integrated waveguide (SIW) using spatiotemporal modulation is presented.
Wed
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Wed 10 Jun | 09:45 - 10:00
Room: MicroApps Theater, IMS Exhibit Hall
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MicroApps Seminar
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The latest generation of ADI monolithically integrated software defined radio chip is introduced in this MicroApp. This 6th generation device builds on 15 years, and 5 generations of ADI integrated transceiver SoCs. It contains 4 transmitters, and 4 receiver chains along with a rich set of radio signal processing features. The latest addition to this generation is the low-PHY functionality supporting 4G and 5G wireless standards, 2x25Gbps Ethernet based fronthaul interface in accordance with ORAN standard, and a processor sub-system eliminating the need for an external FPGA.
Wed
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Wed 10 Jun | 10:02 - 10:17
Room: MicroApps Theater, IMS Exhibit Hall
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MicroApps Seminar
Abstract
Quantum computing is a promising technology for cryptography and optimization, while Rapid Single Flux Quantum (RSFQ) is a promising technology for cryogenic logic and memory circuits. Quantum design requires accurate prediction of inductance and resonance frequencies which is challenging for superconductors because of kinetic inductance. Many commercial extraction tools don’t model superconducting physics. RaptorQu is ideal for this task because it accurately models superconducting physics and it integrates within common die-design platforms for easy and seamless modeling of superconducting quantum circuits. This MicroApp will present RaptorQu and prove its utility and accuracy for designing quantum circuits operating above 1 GHz.
Wed
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Wed 10 Jun | 10:10 - 11:50
Room: 152
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Industry Workshop
Abstract
Low earth orbit (LEO) communications constellations have radically changed the space communications industry. Emerging Satellite Communication (SatCom) applications like broadband internet access in remote areas, enhanced emergency response systems, and vehicle and object tracking, amongst other, are all driven by advancements in high-throughput satellites (HTS) and smaller, more affordable satellite technologies. These networks require new ecosystems that support a wide range of terminals with different cost, performance, and ruggedization requirements. This workshop provides a top-to-bottom review of the ecosystem for LEO satellite communication networks: Market trends, system requirements, applications and practical solution implementations.
Wed
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Wed 10 Jun | 10:10 - 11:50
Room: 154
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Industry Workshop
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This workshop explores the evolution of wireless standards from 2G to 6G, highlighting the economic impact on network operators, equipment vendors, and semiconductor providers. We examine how software-defined radios (SDRs) have adapted to each generation and the role of standard interfaces in enabling scalable, efficient development. The session concludes with a real-world example from Analog Devices, showcasing an SDR transceiver integrated with signal processing and physical layer functionality aligned with the open radio access network (O-RAN) standard.
Wed
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We2A: Wireless Power Transfer Subsystems: Rectifiers, Rectennas, and Backscattering-Enabled Hardware
Wed 10 Jun | 10:10 - 11:50
Room: 252AB
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Technical Sessions
Abstract
This session provides a comprehensive view of state-of-the-art wireless power transfer subsystems, bridging device-level innovation, circuit architectures, and system-oriented functionality essential for scalable and efficient wireless energy solutions. The selected papers address key challenges in wireless power transfer hardware, including efficiency optimization, broadband operation, and ultra-wide dynamic range.
Wed
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Wed 10 Jun | 10:10 - 11:50
Room: 253ABC
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Technical Sessions
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Radar sensors have found a wide variety of use cases in industrial and scientific measurement applications. This session explores how recent advances in hardware and techniques are enabling novel applications and enhanced performance for microwave and mm-wave radar sensors. Topics include radar systems for non-destructive testing, human sensing and tracking, and coherent multi-static imaging.
Wed
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Wed 10 Jun | 10:10 - 11:50
Room: 254AB
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Technical Sessions
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This session highlights advanced sensing, imaging, and interfacing technologies at the intersection of microwaves and biomedicine. Topics range from broadband microwave probes for electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy to highly sensitive SIW-based pulse sensors, and explore sub-GHz wireless power transfer links for bio-implants and wideband low-impedance receive interfaces for untuned coils. Together, these contributions showcase innovative hardware and system solutions enabling next-generation biomedical measurement and instrumentation.
Wed
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Wed 10 Jun | 10:10 - 11:50
Room: 257AB
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Technical Sessions
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This session discusses state-of-the art research in microwave/mm-wave photonics systems. The session starts with a keynote talk about reconfigurable microwave photonics systems, followed by talks on a pseudo-random microwave generator photonics chip and photonically-enabled wideband, low noise microwave/mm-wave signal generators. The session is concluded with a talk about a mm-wave radio-over-fiber co-integrated EIC/PIC transceiver.
Wed
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Wed 10 Jun | 10:10 - 11:50
Room: 151AB
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Technical Sessions
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This session presents recent advances in compact modeling for commercial simulators, specifically targeting cryogenic and quantum applications. The papers feature a physics-based, temperature-dependent compact model for cryogenic spiral inductors, as well as an investigation into the suitability of embedded wafer-level BGA packaging for RF cryogenic use. Finally, the session introduces a reflective phase-shifter optimized for these extreme environments.
Wed
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Wed 10 Jun | 10:10 - 11:50
Room: 153AB
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Technical Sessions
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This session presents state-of-the-art developments in high-efficiency power amplification, focusing on advanced GaN, GaAs, and switched-capacitor architectures for Ku-band and 6G FR3 applications. The featured papers explore sophisticated techniques for bandwidth extension and linearity enhancement, including a broadband GaN Doherty Power Amplifier (DPA) utilizing relative input phase compensation and a continuous-mode harmonic-tuning MMIC DPA achieving an 18.7% fractional bandwidth. Innovations in non-reciprocal and phase-control circuits are highlighted through a vector-sum phase-shifter for analog pre-distortion in GaAs HBT and a GaN-on-Si DPA employing a differential power combiner for enhanced performance in the FR3 band. The session concludes with a digital-intensive intra-cell IQ Generation SCPA that leverages time-domain charge redistribution to achieve high drain efficiency, collectively demonstrating diverse semiconductor strategies to meet the stringent requirements of next-generation wireless systems.
Wed
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Wed 10 Jun | 10:10 - 11:50
Room: 156AB
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Technical Sessions
Abstract
Phase and amplitude control blocks are central to scalable phased array beamforming, but pushing bandwidth, accuracy, bidirectionality, and integration density simultaneously remains challenging. This session highlights recent circuit innovations that deliver phase-invariant gain control, wideband vector-modulation phase shifting, and switchless bidirectional operation. The papers span ultracompact reciprocal phase-inverting architectures, broadband bidirectional amplitude–phase control for multibeam transceivers, and phase-compensated VGA designs over wide tuning ranges.
Wed
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Wed 10 Jun | 10:10 - 11:50
Room: 157AB
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Technical Sessions
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This session presents novel works related to non-planar filters and multiplexers. The papers discuss compact waveguide quadruplet filters realized with advanced topologies, diplexer designs with compact footprints based on innovative synthesis techniques, and compact metal-insert dual-band filters. Additionally, the session explores ridge-waveguide filters and diplexers designed for high-performance applications.
Wed
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Wed 10 Jun | 10:19 - 10:43
Room: MicroApps Theater, IMS Exhibit Hall
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MicroApps Seminar
Abstract
This microapp deals with the RF and EM simulation of a design using multiple process and PDKs for 3D integration.
It presents step by step the design and simulation of a front-end device (10GHz LNA + Bypass switch) targeting Satcom application.
The TPS65RSC SOI Switch is flipped on top of the SiGe TPS65SG6 LNA, either bumped or using hybrid wafer bonding.
No modification of existing pdk or EM process file is required.
Both die are co-EM simulated using EMX and co-optimized in a single test bench. We will conclude by presenting the simulation results of the entire system.
Wed
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Wed 10 Jun | 10:36 - 10:51
Room: MicroApps Theater, IMS Exhibit Hall
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MicroApps Seminar
Abstract
Computational electromagnetic solvers will often utilize tetrahedra and adaptive meshing to provide accurate results. This methodology has presented many challenges from capacity to solve time. By changing the paradigm away from tetrahedra and instead shifting to triangular prisms, meshing can be sped up while maintaining accuracy. Problems that used to be unsolvable with traditional FEM tetrahedra-based methods can instead be handled by triangular prisms. This seminar will explore the state-of-the-art possibilities of handling massive interposers that would previously be restricted to 2.5D solvers.
Wed
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Wed 10 Jun | 10:53 - 11:08
Room: MicroApps Theater, IMS Exhibit Hall
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MicroApps Seminar
Abstract
The wireless industry is exploring the use of low-cost Wi-Fi SoC for applications outside of Wi-Fi. Some use cases include point-to-point wireless, airborne communications and other medium-range communications standards. Typical SoC/DFE functions are expensive for wireless transmission. Engineers can make use of Qorvo RF Synthesizers with integrated mixers, along with the newly introduced Qorvo high-performance TCXOs for medium range airborne communications systems. This approach simplifies the design and lowers costs while still allowing designers flexibility to work within allocated frequency bands.
Wed
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Wed 10 Jun | 11:10 - 11:55
Room: MicroApps Theater, IMS Exhibit Hall
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MicroApps Seminar
Wed
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Wed 10 Jun | 12:00 - 12:15
Room: MicroApps Theater, IMS Exhibit Hall
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MicroApps Seminar
Abstract
MEMS based oscillators entered the market about 20 years ago, providing clocks and timing for digital systems. With recent improvements in bandwidth, resolution, programmability, stability, and phase noise, MEMS oscillators are challenging Quartz and SAW based technologies in RF applications. MEMS based products now include XO, TCXO, and VCXO functions, along with complex multi-output clock generators and low noise frequency multipliers. This paper compares the performance of leading MEMS products against legacy solutions and highlights design considerations when choosing between these two fundamentally different technologies.
Wed
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Wed 10 Jun | 12:00 - 13:30
Room: 156C
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Panel Session
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This panel is for academics and commercial attendees who need a deeper understanding of the opportunities for RF/UW components and solutions as part of a quantum solution and are determining when the industry will reach quantum advantage and what impact that has the RF industry.
Quantum industry experts and leaders will provide insights into the state of the quantum industry, where and how RF/uW components are used and what can be expected in the future. They will also discus educational requirements for this industry and where to look for opportunities.
Wed
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Wed 10 Jun | 12:00 - 13:30
Room: 256
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Panel Session
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This panel will explore advancements in Integrated Sensing & Communications (ISAC) technologies that unify sensing with wireless connectivity across automotive and aerospace domains. Speakers will outline how tight co‑design of sensing and communication stacks can potentially enable dual use of RF hardware (Wi‑Fi, UWB, cellular, radar) to cut BOM cost, conserve spectrum, reduce power, and simplify architectural complexity for future software‑defined vehicles and aircraft. The discussion is organized around three complementary domains: (1) short‑range ISAC repurposing commodity wireless technologies (e.g., Wi‑Fi and UWB) for in‑cabin, near‑vehicle, and in‑flight sensing applications including intrusion detection, child presence / occupant vital sign monitoring, occupant localization, and classification; (2) long‑range ISAC leveraging cellular infrastructure and high‑definition maps for non‑line‑of‑sight detection of occluded road users (e.g., to mitigate crashes at intersections and highway merges), and evolution of dual‑purpose radar sensors supporting both high‑resolution perception and high‑bandwidth links to the network edge; (3) aerospace ISAC applications encompassing UAV/drone traffic management with integrated sensing and communication, aircraft collision avoidance systems combining radar sensing with air‑to‑air and air‑to‑ground data links, airport surface surveillance, and satellite‑based ISAC for simultaneous Earth observation and communication services.
Wed
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Wed 10 Jun | 12:17 - 12:32
Room: MicroApps Theater, IMS Exhibit Hall
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MicroApps Seminar
Abstract
Receiver performances (such as error vector magnitude) are degraded by nearby transmitters. This degradation is affected by noise, filtering, amplifier distortion, power levels, transmitter-to-receiver frequency spacing and other factors. While measurement of this phenomenon is straightforward in a lab, this is often too late for design changes. Ideally, this should be investigated during the design phase. Typical simulation techniques usually make this analysis slow and difficult. This presentation shows ways to simulate such degradation using Keysight ADS in a straightforward, fast approach that designers can use during their design process and not just as a final validation.
Wed
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Wed 10 Jun | 12:35 - 12:50
Room: MicroApps Theater, IMS Exhibit Hall
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MicroApps Seminar
Abstract
Printed Circuit Board (PCB) substrates have developed from materials we consider primitive today, like Bakelite and cardboard. The first PCB substrate using copper foil was invented in 1943. Safety and electrical performance have developed the PCB substrate industry into a diversified world of many different solutions for the wide array of complex electronic applications that exist today.
This paper addresses the pathway of development and commercialization of a disruptive solution to the needs of RF/microwave industry for a PCB substrate that provides a low dielectric constant, low dissipation factor material, that is easily processable and environmentally safe. See attachment.
Wed
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Wed 10 Jun | 12:52 - 13:07
Room: MicroApps Theater, IMS Exhibit Hall
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MicroApps Seminar
Abstract
Next-generation communication and radar platforms demand a low-jitter, high frequency clock synchronized to a global system reference. A typical approach uses a PLL (Phased Lock Loop) with a VCXO (Voltage-Controlled Crystal Oscillator). Qorvo introduces a fully digital Frequency Controlled Oscillator (FCXO) that delivers a single high-frequency output clock synchronized to a system reference. The device replaces both the PLL and VCXO with one small package device operating up to 2.2 GHz, enabling easy distribution across multiple modules in large phased-array antenna systems. The oscillator’s low jitter performance is validated with Error Vector Magnitude (EVM%) measurements of modulated signals.
Wed
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Wed 10 Jun | 13:09 - 13:24
Room: MicroApps Theater, IMS Exhibit Hall
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MicroApps Seminar
Wed
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Wed 10 Jun | 13:26 - 13:41
Room: MicroApps Theater, IMS Exhibit Hall
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MicroApps Seminar
Abstract
Nisshinbo has developed rectifiers for Wireless Power Transfer that achieve high efficiency and high dynamic range with low threshold diodes. The prototype device consists of a dual loop antenna with high antenna gain (9.6 dBi), high radiation efficiency (97% @ 5.9 GHz), and a balanced double current rectifier for low output DC voltage. This antenna and rectifier are direct matched, without the need for an impedance-matching circuit, which achieves high efficiency. The measured rectification efficiency is 79 % at a frequency of 5.9 GHz, with an input power of 29 dBm, and output voltage of 6.1 V.
Wed
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Wed 10 Jun | 13:30 - 15:10
Room: 152
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Industry Workshop
Abstract
As demand grows for high-frequency, high-bandwidth wireless connectivity, system designers face challenges balancing performance, power efficiency, and thermal management. This workshop explores Analog Devices’ mmWave technology evolution—from discrete RF components to integrated reference designs—highlighting solutions across generations of analog beamforming, frequency conversion, and frequency generation. Attendees will learn how ADI’s system-level innovations enable higher linear output power while maintaining strict power limits, reducing thermal complexity. Through technical discussions, design examples, and benchmarks, the session demonstrates how ADI’s scalable mmWave solutions accelerate development and meet the demands of next-generation wireless infrastructure including 5G FR2, FWA, and satellite communications.
Wed
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Wed 10 Jun | 13:30 - 15:10
Room: 154
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Industry Workshop
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Join our diverse team of engineers and discover how ADI’s first ever Software Defined Modem, integrated into the Nevis Narrowband Transceiver, is enabling smaller, lighter, and lower power radios than ever before while still delivering state of the art RF performance. This workshop combines theory with real-world performance data and real-time demonstrations to illustrate how users can leverage Nevis to advance the state of the art in their own radio designs. As a practical example, ADI will present how the combination of an SDR & SDM is being leveraged to create a new generation of Land Mobile Radios.
Wed
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Wed 10 Jun | 13:30 - 15:10
Room: 252AB
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Technical Sessions
Abstract
This session presents recent advances in microwave field–matter interaction for sensing, characterization, high-power applications, and quantum technologies. Topics include localized and near-field microwave excitation, resonant and metamaterial-based sensing, sub-wavelength electromagnetic imaging, and highly localized microwave delivery to quantum systems.
Wed
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Wed 10 Jun | 13:30 - 15:10
Room: 254AB
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Technical Sessions
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This session presents emerging radar and mm-wave technologies for vital sign monitoring across diverse real-world scenarios. Topics include FMCW radar systems, D-band super-regenerative sensor arrays, pulse-Doppler self-injection-locked radar, and body-worn systems. Together, these talks highlight advances in high-frequency circuits, radar architectures, and wearable platforms enabling scalable, accurate, and non-intrusive health monitoring solutions.
Wed
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Wed 10 Jun | 13:30 - 15:10
Room: 257AB
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Technical Sessions
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This session focuses on accuracy and practical limits in mm-wave and sub-mm-wave measurements. It brings together recent advances in calibration and de-embedding methodologies spanning planar structures, cable and fixture characterization, and cryogenic S-parameter measurements using room-temperature calibration strategies. The session will open with a keynote talk revisiting and extending VNA-based non-linear mixer measurements up to mm-wave frequencies.
Wed
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Wed 10 Jun | 13:30 - 15:10
Room: 151AB
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Technical Sessions
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This session presents new advances in quantum computing and cryogenic circuits. The keynote address explores the challenges and microwave aspects of superconducting quantum processor readout. Subsequent papers feature a cryogenic FD-SOI fractional-N PLL for trapped-ion applications and high-performance cryogenic LNAs designed for both superconducting quantum computing and radio astronomy.
Wed
10
Wed 10 Jun | 13:30 - 15:10
Room: 153AB
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Technical Sessions
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This session is dedicated to showing the most recent advances in machine learning techniques for the linearization of power amplifiers under diverse dynamic scenarios, including variations in power, bandwidth, and center frequency.
Wed
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Wed 10 Jun | 13:30 - 15:10
Room: 156AB
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Technical Sessions
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This session includes a keynote talk on InP circuits for optical communication, followed by three papers discussing state-of-the-art technologies: a 270GHz bandwidth InP wideband amplifier, a mm-wave VCO, and a low-jitter 5GHz sampling PLL.
Wed
10
Wed 10 Jun | 13:30 - 15:10
Room: 157AB
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Technical Sessions
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This session covers the latest developments in compact time-delay phase shifter circuits, filters, and switches based on novel approaches using phase-change materials (PCM), magnetic, and MEMS technologies. The session includes commercially viable GeTe-based PCM switches and tunable magnetic filters over a broad frequency band. At the end of the session, an RF-MEMS-based SP4T switch is also presented.
Wed
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Wed 10 Jun | 13:43 - 13:58
Room: MicroApps Theater, IMS Exhibit Hall
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MicroApps Seminar
Abstract
Surrogate modelling is an innovative technique that can be adapted to electromagnetic simulations. By training on inputs and outputs of simulation results, surrogate models provide methodological advantages for antenna design. For design spaces that are many-dimensional, surrogate antenna modelling helps identify key analytics and relationships among design parameters in a quick, repeatable fashion, enabling more efficient simulations and optimized antenna designs.
Wed
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Wed 10 Jun | 14:00 - 14:15
Room: MicroApps Theater, IMS Exhibit Hall
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MicroApps Seminar
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This presentation explores transformative 3D printing technologies that are reshaping antenna design, particularly for direction-finding applications. The talk will detail the use of plastic 3D printing followed by metallization processes and direct metal 3D printing. These technologies, combined with 3D printed dielectric lenses, enable the creation of high-performance antennas with complex geometries that were previously unattainable. This approach not only enhances RF performance but also streamlines production processes, offering a significant advancement for the microwave technical community.
Wed
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Wed 10 Jun | 14:17 - 14:32
Room: MicroApps Theater, IMS Exhibit Hall
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MicroApps Seminar
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This session presents an innovative methodology to accelerate AI/ML solutions for RF applications using physics-based synthetic data generated by a GPU-accelerated Shooting and Bouncing Ray solver, Ansys Perceive EM. By integrating accurate electromagnetic (EM) solutions into the NVIDIA Omniverse platform, this approach supports industrial-scale digitalization and enables the creation of physically accurate virtual worlds for AI training in radar sensing and communication systems. Leveraging technologies such as OpenUSD, RTX rendering, and AI, the methodology facilitates advanced applications including human activity detection, drone detection, and communication channel aging prediction, showcasing the role of synthetic data in revolutionizing next-gen EM system design
Wed
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Wed 10 Jun | 14:34 - 14:49
Room: MicroApps Theater, IMS Exhibit Hall
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MicroApps Seminar
Abstract
Modern aerospace platforms demand multiple RF systems—communications, navigation, telemetry, electronic warfare—competing for limited mounting locations. Traditional co-site interference analysis on electrically large platforms requires extensive computational resources and weeks of iteration, restricting designers to few configurations before design freeze.
Using a representative flight vehicle case study, this presentation demonstrates Nullspace's complete workflow for rapid multi-antenna placement exploration: physics-aware defeaturing removing electromagnetically irrelevant details, comprehensive co-site evaluation including mutual coupling, pattern distortion, and platform scattering effects. Fast Adaptive Frequency Sweeps enable frequency-dependent analysis across multiple configurations in hours instead of weeks—enabling design space exploration while configuration changes remain practical.
Wed
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Wed 10 Jun | 14:51 - 15:06
Room: MicroApps Theater, IMS Exhibit Hall
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MicroApps Seminar
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As operating frequencies rise toward mmWave and sub-THz regimes, electromagnetic interaction between tightly integrated components becomes a dominant factor in system performance. Accurate simulation of complete electronic assemblies—such as connectors on multilayer PCBs with surface-mount components and antennas—is no longer optional; it is essential. Ansys HFSS Mesh Fusion enables full-system electromagnetic simulation using encrypted 3D component models, preserving intellectual property while ensuring accuracy and cross-vendor interoperability. Geometric intersections between components, such as connector pins traversing PCB layers, can disrupt simulation workflows. This presentation introduces intelligent technologies to automatically detect and resolve such intersections within the Mesh Fusion workflow.
Wed
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Wed 10 Jun | 15:08 - 15:23
Room: MicroApps Theater, IMS Exhibit Hall
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MicroApps Seminar
Abstract
Non-parametric optimization offers a flexible framework that adapts to diverse electromagnetic design problems without requiring predefined geometric parameters. This approach is applicable to antennas, filters, waveguides, and other RF components, enabling the exploration of unconventional geometries, the exploitation of advanced manufacturing capabilities, and performance gains beyond those achievable with traditional parametric methods. This presentation introduces workflow, in which material distribution is iteratively modified to obtain an optimized antenna structure with improved electromagnetic performance.
Wed
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Wed 10 Jun | 15:10 - 17:00
Room: Exhibit Hall Floor
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Interactive Forum
Wed
10
Wed 10 Jun | 15:10 - 17:00
Room: Exhibit Hall Floor
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Interactive Forum
Wed
10
Wed 10 Jun | 15:25 - 15:40
Room: MicroApps Theater, IMS Exhibit Hall
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MicroApps Seminar
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The workflow establishes a tightly integrated system-to-microelectronics process that unifies SysML requirements modeling with multi-domain RF and thermal simulations for rapid development of advanced microwave systems. By linking mission-level performance metrics to RF component parameters through reduced-order and behavioral models, it enables engineers to assess architectures, validate COTS or custom components, and predict system behavior under realistic conditions. An automated, error-mitigating digital backbone removes manual transfer steps and ensures rigorous traceability. The result is faster design cycles, earlier risk detection, and greater confidence that hardware implementations will satisfy requirements, improving the efficiency and reliability of complex RF system development.
Wed
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Wed 10 Jun | 15:42 - 15:57
Room: MicroApps Theater, IMS Exhibit Hall
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MicroApps Seminar
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New radio designs focusing on the n104 band require rigorous RF design methodologies. This session presents the design and characterization of high frequency PCBs and matching networks leveraging TI's AFE7952 RF sampling transceiver. We explore the validation differences between SOLT and TRL calibration methodologies necessary for accurate characterization above 6 GHz. The talk will cover optimized PCB layout and matching network synthesis extending RF transceiver performance into the 6.5 - 7.1 GHz range.
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Wed 10 Jun | 16:00 - 17:00
Room: MicroApps Theater, IMS Exhibit Hall
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MicroApps Seminar