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 […]
IEEE Microwave Magazine – September 2019 The September issue of the IEEE Microwave Magazine is out. The theme for this issue is putting Theory into Practice. Our industry is continually evolving with biomedical applications, terahertz frequencies, RFID everywhere, RADARs in our cars, and taking advantage of 3D printers. The feature articles in this issue are […]
The MTT-S past president John Barr will be entering into the IEEE Technical Activities Board (TAB) Hall of Honor 2019. The TAB Hall of Honor honors persons who have made major contribution to IEEE Technical Activities. Contributions include the creation, development, or advancement of the technical objectives of IEEE. Objectives include the advancement of the theory […]
IEEE Microwave Magazine – August 2019 Our July issue of the Magazine is out! We have some really great feature articles this month, as usual. Three features and an Application Note to be exact. Our first Our August issue is out and we want to whet your appetite for the issue. The feature articles in […]
As part of the technical program, the Student Design Competition (SDC) is one of the most energetic parts of IMS. The SDCs have proven to be very successful events in the past 12 years, as evidenced by the ever increasing student participation and the support it has enjoyed from the organizers, both logistically and financially. […]
Date: Sept 29th – Paris – Porte de Versailles Session: WS – 04 Chair/Vice-Chair: Kazutaka Inoue / Kazuya Yamamoto Abstract: Various RF front-end technologies based on GaN, Si-CMOS etc. for 5G new radios (NRs) base stations have been discussed in major conferences up to now. Now, the 3GPP has announced that 5G standards have been […]
