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The International Space Station astronaut Jessica Meir completed the first U.S. Naval Research Laboratory power-beaming demonstration in orbit February 12, 2020, using relatively simple components suitable for STEM activities. ISS LEctenna video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo7w0D6vz5g How to build a LEctenna: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j7sAjWgySQ NRL press release: https://www.nrl.navy.mil/news/releases/nrl-power-beaming-demonstrated-international-space-station

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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/

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Date: Sept 29th – Paris – Porte de Versailles Session: WS-08 Chair/Vice-Chair: Gabriele Formicone / Guillaume Callet Abstract: Latest or emerging trends in radar and communications take advantage of operation over multiple frequency bands to achieve system capabilities unobtainable through operation over a standard frequency band. One example of such trend is clearly manifested in […]

Session: WMC – June 3rd Organizers: Didier Belot, Eric Kerhervé Organizers organizations: CEA-LETI, IMS (UMR5218) Abstract 5G spectrum is presently open world-wide to sub-6GHz and mm-Wave bands at 26GHz, 28GHz, and other bands at 40GHz, 60GHz (V) and 71-86GHz (E) are under evaluation in most parts of the world. Different power amplifier architectures and process technology […]

Session: WMA – June 3rd 2019 Organizers: Guillaume Callet, Ko-Tao Lee Organizers organizations: UMS, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Abstract Over the past decades, the RF/microwave community has expanded and benefited from the rapid development of the semiconductor industry. Advances in exploratory materials and structures have enabled devices switching at higher frequency, while keeping a […]

WORKSHOPS Title: Microwave Engineering Applications of Machine Learning: Past, Present and Future Place: International Microwave Symposium, Boston, MA Date: 2019-06-07 Description: The remarkable advances in the available computational power over the past few years, and those anticipated to come, have propelled machine learning algorithms (some developed decades ago) to the forefront of R&D in a […]