Calit2 and Jacobs School Researchers Finish Banner 'Microwave Week'
San Diego, June 13, 2009 -- Engineers from Calit2 and UCSD's Jacobs School of Engineering were in Boston this week, presenting a bumper crop of 19 papers at the co-located Radio Frequency Integrated Chips conference (RFIC 2009) and International Microwave Symposium (IMS 2009) during Microwave Week 2009. The showing was particularly impressive because of the intense competition among researchers seeking to present their research: the overall acceptance rate of papers at RFIC was around 45 percent, and for IMS less than 48 percent.
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“Our success at this conference is a direct result of the investment that UC San Diego has made over many decades in the field of wireless communications," said Larson, chair of the ECE department and an active academic participant in Calit2. "The RFIC field requires an interdisciplinary team, because it requires innovation in the areas of electronic devices, integrated circuit theory, electromagnetic theory and communications systems. The broad skills of the UCSD faculty have made this extraordinary level of research innovation possible.”
In addition to the award-winning paper at the International Microwave Symposium mentioned above, an additional seven UC San Diego papers were presented at IMS 2009, including five co-authored by Rebeiz and his graduate students. Calit2 principal development engineer Don Kimball co-authored a paper with Peter Asbeck and members of his lab. At IMS, UC San Diego ranked second after Purdue in terms of the most papers presented.On June 12, the last day of IMS 2009, Rebeiz co-organized a workshop on "Emerging Applications of RF-MEMS" (radio frequency-microelectro-mechanical systems), at which he delivered a talk on "Development of High-Q Evanescent Mode Tunable Filters and Planar Ceramic Tunable Filters for 1.5-6.0GHz Applications".
At workshops in connection with RFIC 2009, ECE professor Larry Larson delivered two invited talks: "Power Amplifier Integration Challenges for Highly Integrated Multi-Mode Transceivers" at a workshop on challenges for future RF integration; and "Digitally Enhanced RF Circuits" at a half-day workhop on digitally assisted analog and RF circuits. In addition, Qualcomm engineer and UCSD Ph.D. candidate Paul Draxler presented on "Techniques for Envelope Tracking Linearization" during a workshop on power amplifier linearization.Of the technical papers presented throughout the week, Qualcomm had co-authors on six of the UCSD papers, while Broadcom and STMicroelectronics had two each (see details in box).
The highlight of RFIC 2009 for UC San Diego was the #3 best-paper award to the team that invented radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs). Click here to read more about the high-performance W-Band silicon-germanium (SiGe) radio frequency integrated circuits for passive millimeter-wave imaging on the Jacobs School of Engineering website.
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Daniel Kane, Jacobs School of Engineering, 858-534-3262, dbkane@ucsd.edu or Doug Ramsey, Calit2, 858-822-5825, dramsey@ucsd.edu.