RFIC 2021 Student Paper Showcase
The RFIC Symposium’s Student Paper Award is devised to both encourage student paper submissions to the conference as well as give the authors of the finalists’ papers a chance to promote their research work. A total of thirteen outstanding student paper finalists were nominated this year by the RFIC Technical Program Committee to enter the final contest.
A committee of ten TPC judges has selected the top-three papers after rigorous reviews and discussions. All finalists benefit from a complimentary RFIC registration. The top-three Student Papers be displayed on the RFIC website and on a rolling slideshow prior to the RFIC Plenary Session on 7 June 2021 in Atlanta. Each winner will receive an honorarium and a plaque.
Ali A. Farid - RFIC Student Showcase - IMS 2021
Paper Authors: Ali A. Farid, Ahmed S.H. Ahmed, Mark J.W. Rodwell
Author Affiliations: University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Paper Title: A 27.5dBm EIRP D-Band Transmitter Module on a Ceramic Interposer
Shimin Huang - RFIC Student Showcase - IMS 2021
Paper Authors: Shimin Huang, Alyosha Molnar
Author Affiliations: Cornell University, USA
Paper Title: A 3.7–6.5GHz 8-Phase N-Path Mixer-First Receiver with LO Overlap Suppression Achieving <5dB NF and >5dBm OOB B1dB
Gaofeng Jin - RFIC Student Showcase - IMS 2021
Paper Authors: Gaofeng Jin1, Fei Feng1, Xiang Gao1, Wen Chen2, Yiyang Shu2, Xun Luo2
Author Affiliations: 1Zhejiang University, China, 2UESTC, China
*3rd Place* Paper Title: A 3.3–4.5GHz Fractional-N Sampling PLL with a Merged Constant Slope DTC and Sampling PD in 40nm CMOS
Siwei Li - RFIC Student Showcase - IMS 2021
Paper Authors: Siwei Li, Gabriel M. Rebeiz
Author Affiliations: University of California, San Diego, USA
Paper Title: A 130–151GHz 8-Way Power Amplifier with 16.8–17.5dBm Psat and 11.7–13.4% PAE Using CMOS 45nm RFSOI
Naga Sasikanth Mannem - RFIC Student Showcase - IMS 2021
*2nd Place* Paper Authors: Naga Sasikanth Mannem, Tzu‑Yuan Huang, Elham Erfani, Sensen Li, Hua Wang
Author Affiliations: Georgia Tech, USA
Paper Title: A mm-Wave Transmitter MIMO with Constellation Decomposition Array (CDA) for Keyless Physically Secured High-Throughput Links
Prateek Kumar Sharma - RFIC Student Showcase - IMS 2021
Paper Authors: Prateek Kumar Sharma1, Nagarjuna Nallam2
Author Affiliations: 1GLOBALFOUNDRIES, India, 2IIT Guwahati, India
Paper Title: A Frequency-and-Spatial Blocker Tolerant Butler Matrix Based 4×4 MIMO Receiver Using a Switched-Capacitor Quadrature Coupler
Kejian Shi - RFIC Student Showcase - IMS 2021
Paper Authors: Kejian Shi1, Hooman Darabi2, Asad A. Abidi1
Author Affiliations: 1University of California, Los Angeles, USA, 2Broadcom, USA
Paper Title: An Electrical Balance Duplexer for FDD Radios That Isolates TX from RX Independently in Two Bands
Xinyan Tang - RFIC Student Showcase - IMS 2021
Paper Authors: Xinyan Tang, Johan Nguyen, Giovanni Mangraviti, Zhiwei Zong, Piet Wambacq
Author Affiliations: imec, Belgium
Paper Title: A 140GHz T/R Front-End Module in 22nm FD-SOI CMOS
Lorenzo Tomasin - RFIC Student Showcase - IMS 2021
Paper Authors: Lorenzo Tomasin1, Giovanni Boi2, Fabio Padovan2, Andrea Bevilacqua1
Author Affiliations: 1Università di Padova, Italy, 2Infineon Technologies, Austria
Paper Title: A 10.7–14.1GHz Reconfigurable Octacore DCO with -126dBc/Hz Phase Noise at 1MHz Offset in 28nm CMOS
Muhammad Ibrahim Wasiq Khan - RFIC Student Showcase - IMS 2021
Paper Authors: Muhammad Ibrahim Wasiq Khan1, Jongchan Woo1, Xiang Yi1, Mohamed I. Ibrahim1, Rabia Tugce Yazicigil2, Anantha Chandrakasan1, Ruonan Han1
Author Affiliations: 1MIT, USA, 2Boston University, USA
*1st Place* Paper Title: A 0.31THz CMOS Uniform Circular Antenna Array Enabling Generation/Detection of Waves with Orbital-Angular Momentum
Xiaoteng Zhao - RFIC Student Showcase - IMS 2021
Paper Authors: Xiaoteng Zhao, Yong Chen, Lin Wang, Pui‑In Mak, Franco Maloberti, Rui P. Martins
Author Affiliations: University of Macau, China
*3rd Place* Paper Title: 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