IEEE Microwave Magazine – April 2020 The April issue of the IEEE Microwave Magazine is out! This issue focuses on space-time modulation but also has two other features on power amplifiers, another Student Competition winner and an Application Note on filter design. As always the details will be in the Editor’s Desk column but we […]
Dear MTT-S Members, We are going through unprecedented times, 2020 will be a difficult year for all of us. The MTT-S leadership is monitoring the situation very closely, and I would like to give you an update on the society activities and services. Some of our conferences that were scheduled in the first half of […]
Dear Colleagues/Friends, It is with my great sorrow to inform you that Professor Roberto Sorrentino passed away in Italy on March 3rd, 2020. Professor Roberto Sorrentino began his career as an Assistant Professor at La Sapienza University of Rome in 1974. He was a Professor at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” from 1986 to […]
IEEE Microwave Magazine – March 2020 This issue’s features give a tour of filter synthesis, field analysis of filter structures, co-design of filters and passive circuits, and tunable filters. Microwave filters are a fascinating blend of pure mathematics, electromagnetic field analysis, mechanical engineering, and manufacturing tolerance and yield analysis. Your next stop should be our […]
Dear Colleagues/Friends, It is with my great sadness to inform you that Professor Peter Clarricoats died on Friday, January 17, 2020, after a short illness. Professor Clarricoats received his PhD from the University of London, UK, in 1958 and he was Professor of Electronic Engineering at Queen Mary, University of London, UK, from 1968 to […]
This initiative, established and sponsored by the IEEE MTT-S Administrative Committee, is available for all 1st/2nd year PhD students worldwide. The initiative provides sponsorship to attend IMS2020 and RFIC 2020 in Los Angeles, CA, USA. The Sponsorship includes: 5 nights accommodation (Check-in Sunday 21 June 2020, Check-out Friday 26 June 2020) Complimentary IMS and RFIC Registration Note: this does not include workshops […]
IEEE Microwave Magazine – February 2020 The February issue of the Microwave Magazine is out! The features in this issue cover everything from mature technology to promises of the future. And we have a final Student Competition paper from IMS 2019 on Doherty amplifier optimization. Not to mention we have an Application Note on mixed […]
Dear colleagues and friends, I am deeply saddened to inform you that Dr. Mojgan Daneshmand and Dr. Pedram Mousavi along with their two young daughters departed this world when the Ukrainian International Airlines Flight 752 crashed in Tehran on 8th January 2020 (local time). Both Dr. Daneshmand and Dr. Mousavi were professors in the University of […]
IEEE Microwave Magazine – January 2020 The January issue of the Microwave Magazine is out! In this issue we have two big things to celebrate: first, there are three feature articles on interconnects working at over 100 GHz; and second, we have articles from the IMS2019 Student Design Competition winners. The Design Competition articles are […]
IEEE Microwave Magazine – December 2019 The December issue of the IEEE Microwave Magazine is out! The December issue celebrates Radio & Wireless Week which is in San Antonio, Texas, this coming January. So this issue has a set of columns devoted to Radio & Wireless Week. The Symposium Chairs give you a Welcome and […]
One of our “Young Professionals”, Jackie Yao, has been appointed as the 2019 Alvarez Fellow at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Congratulations Jackie, and we look forward to your contributions in this new role. Press release: https://cs.lbl.gov/news-media/news/2019/jackie-yao-berkeley-labs-2019-alvarez-fellow/
IEEE Microwave Magazine – November 2019 The November issue of the IEEE Microwave Magazine is out! This issue reminds us of our origins in RADAR and is titled “Scanning the MTT Horizon” and our horizon is the breadth of the MTT. The feature articles are the big show in each issue. This issue has four […]
Call for Papers for IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques Special Issue on Broadband RF and Millimeter-wave Power Amplifiers (Submission due date: December 15th, 2019, Publication date: July 2020) Emerging broadband and millimeter-wave frequency applications including 5G wireless communications, high-speed optical networks, radars, sensors, imaging and security systems and measurement instrumentation will continue to […]
IEEE Microwave Magazine – October 2019 The October issue of the IEEE Microwave Magazine is out. The theme for this issue is Silicon-Ceramic (SiCer) substrates and is brought to us by the Microwave Acoustics technical committee. We have four feature articles and three of them focus on how low temperature confirmed ceramic can combine with […]
21 August 2019 Integrated GaAs Stacked-FET High-Power Amplifiers Stacking FETs in power amplifiers allows voltages higher than the breakdown voltage of a single transistor. Here is a procedure for designing such devices, producing a prototype three-transistor S-band GaAs stacked-FET with PAE over 40% at an output power of 20 W–more than twice the output power […]
IEEE MTT-S DMLs Class 2020-2022: 1. Broadband Label-free Noninvasive Electrical Characterization of Live Biological Cells James Hwang, Cornell University, USA, endorsed by TC-10 Speaker’s Bio: James Hwang is Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Cornell University. He graduated with a Ph.D. degree from the same department in 1978. After years of industrial […]
