Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium Research Articles

IEEE Society Interaction, Industry Engagement, and Young Professionals Are the Future of the MTT-S [President’s Column

From my perspective in June 2023, the IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society (MTT-S) is a vibrant Society, with many activities ongoing related to our technical field. Several conferences have occurred with a significant impact on our members; those include the International Microwave and Antenna Symposium (IMAS), in Cairo, Egypt ( <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">Figure 1</xref> ); the IEEE Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference, in Florida, USA; the IEEE Texas Symposium on Wireless and Microwave Circuits and Systems, in Texas, USA; the IEEE MTT-S International Wireless Symposium, in Qingdao, China; and the IEEE Workshop on Signal and Power Integrity, in Aveiro, Portugal. For June, we have an entire month of events, including the brand-new Wireless Power Transfer and Exhibition, in San Diego, CA, USA; the IEEE RF Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium; our flagship conference, the IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium; and the Automatic Radio Frequency Techniques Group Microwave Measurement Conference, all co-located in San Diego. At the end of the month, the International Conference on Numerical Electromagnetic and Multiphysics Modeling and Optimization will be held in Winnipeg, MB, Canada. At all these events, we have a vibrant number of Young Professionals (YPs) events planned along with our industry colleagues, creating an excellent opportunity for academic, industry, and government interaction, impacting the future of microwaves and technology worldwide.

RFIC 2022 Guest Editorial

This Mini-Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques (TMTT) includes six articles that have been expanded from innovative works presented at the 2022 Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium, which was held in June 2022 in Denver, CO, USA. After virtual and hybrid formats for the past two years, the complete in-person conference was highly expected and at the same time challenging. The conference offered panels, technical lectures, interactive workshops, and 18 engaging technical sessions to attendees and authors. The conference was very successful under the great leadership of the 2022 General Chair, Osama Shana, and the Technical Program Chair and Co-Chair, Donald Lie and Danilo Manstretta, respectively.

Guest Editorial 2022 Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium

This Special Issue of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits features expanded versions of selected articles presented at the 2022 Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC) that was held in Denver, CO, USA, during June 19–21, 2022. The invited papers introduce innovative concepts at the circuit or architecture levels and cover low-power RF to high-data-rate mm-wave wireless systems.

RFIC 2021 Guest Editorial

This Mini-Special Issue of the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques (TMTT) includes five articles that have been expanded from innovative works presented at the 2021 Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium, which was held in June 2021. After over a year of virtual conferences, the 2021 RFIC Symposium was held both virtually and in-person in Atlanta, GA, USA. The hybrid format offered panels, technical lectures, interactive workshops, and 14 engaging technical sessions to attendees and authors. All virtual events were live-streamed. The opportunity to attend in both formats was only possible with the diligence, creativity, and excellent leadership of the 2021 General Chair, Brian Floyd, and the Technical Program Chair and Co-Chair, Osama Shana’a and Donald Lie.

Guest Editorial Introduction to the Special Section on the 2021 RFIC Symposium

This Special Issue of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC) features a Special Section on key invited papers presented at the 2021 Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC Symposium), held in hybrid mode on June 6–8 (in-person) and June 21–July 20, 2021 (online). The RFIC Symposium is the world’s premier conference focused on RF and millimeter-wave (mm-wave)-integrated circuits and systems technology. It shares the venue with the IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS) as part of the Microwave Week and is co-sponsored by the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society.

RFIC 2020 Guest Editorial

This Mini-Special Issue of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MICROWAVE THEORY AND TECHNIQUES (TMTT) is comprised of expanded articles from the 2020 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (IEEE RFIC), held virtually on August 4–6, 2020, in response to the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. First, we are grateful to the organizers of the symposium, including the steering and the technical committees, as well as the sponsors of the symposium—it is due to their tremendous work that we were able to switch from the planned 2020 symposium at Los Angeles to a rewarding and engaging virtual symposium instead. The virtual symposium, held as part of the IEEE Microwave Week, in combination with the IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS), the IEEE Automatic Radio Frequency Techniques Group (ARFTG), and the Industry Exhibition, had more than 5000 registered participants.

Guest Editorial Introduction to the Special Section on the 2020 RFIC Symposium

This Special Issue of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC) features a Special Section on key invited papers presented at the 2020 Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC Symposium), held virtually on August 4–6, 2020.

Introduction to the Special Section on the 2019 RFIC Symposium

This Special Section of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC) covers expanded articles from the 2019 Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC Symposium), which was held on June 2–4, 2019, in Boston, MA, USA.

Guest Editorial

This Transactions’ Mini-Special Issue includes a selection of papers presented last year at the 2018 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium held in the Pennsylvania Convention Center and Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Philadelphia, PA, USA, during June 10–12, 2018. The 2018 RFIC Symposium focused on the major themes of millimeter-wave 5G and autonomous vehicles in the plenary sessions. The first plenary talk was delivered by Zachary J. Lemnios, the Vice President of IBM Research, and discussed silicon-based mm-wave systems for 5G and beyond. The second plenary talk was presented by Lars Reger, CTO of NXP Semiconductors’ Automotive Business Unit, and focused on RF systems in the automotive industry, including the technical aspects related to future self-driving cars.

Introduction to the Special Section on the 2018 RFIC Symposium

This Special Section of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits covers expanded papers from the 2018 Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC Symposium), which was held on June 10–12, 2018, in Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Guest Editorial

This Transaction’s Mini-Special Issue includes a selection of papers presented last year at the 2017 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC 2017) held in the Hawaii Convention Center, Honolulu, HI, USA, on June 4–6, 2017. The main theme of the 2017 RFIC Symposium was emerging 5G technology.

Introduction to the Special Section on the 2017 RFIC Symposium

This Issue of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits features a special section with expanded versions of key invited papers presented at the 2017 Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC Symposium), held in the Hawaii Convention Center, Honolulu, HI, USA, on June 4, 2017–June 6, 2017.

Introduction to the Special Section on the 2016 Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium

This issue of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits includes a selection of papers presented at last year’s Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium, highlighting some of the main advances in radio-frequency integrated circuit design. The RFIC Symposium, which is part of the IEEE MTT-S Microwave Week, is considered the premier conference for publishing advances in the area of wireless IC design. The focus areas of last year’s meeting, held in San Francisco, CA, USA, cover a broad range of topics from 5G millimeter-wave-integrated systems to low-power wireless sensors, from spectrum sensing to mixed-signal power amplifiers, from terahertz to baseband circuits.

Introduction to the Special Section on the 2015 Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium

The twelve papers in this special section were presented at the 2015 Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium that was held in Phoenix, AZ. The focus areas of the meeting covered a broad range of topics from transceiver system-on-chips to low-power wireless sensors, from THz to baseband circuits. The papers describe innovative circuit solutions for the main challenges and opportunities offered by today’s wireless IC design, such as carrier aggregation, beamforming, interference tolerance, linear power amplification, and millimeter-wave frequency generation.

Guest Editorial

The twelve papers in this special section were presented at the 2015 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC 2015) held in Phoenix, AZ, from May 17–19, 2015.

A 120 GHz QVCO with 16.2 GHz tuning range resistent against VCO pulling in 45 nm CMOS

Frequency pulling of an oscillator integrated in a quadrature phase-shift keying wireless transmitter degrades the performance of the wireless system. This paper analyses the behavior of an oscillator in the presence of coupling between the oscillator and a power amplifier or antenna. Symbol switching in the modulator will cause frequency shifts in the oscillator at the modulation frequency. A new architecture for a 120 GHz quadrature frequency generator with large tuning range and immunity against PA---VCO coupling is presented. Combining the output signals of two independent oscillators, the pulling effect is removed and the frequency generator can be integrated with a PA and an antenna on the same chip. This architecture also makes quadrature generation with large tuning range feasible at 120 GHz. The chip is fabricated in a 45 nm CMOS technology and shows a tuning range of 16.2 GHz (13.5 $$\%$$%), a phase noise of $$-$$-112 dBc/Hz @ 10 MHz offset and a phase error of 5$$^\circ$$? (Volkaerts et al. in: IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC), 2013).

Introduction to the Special Section on the IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium

This Special Section of the IEEE JOURNAL OF SOLID-STATE CIRCUITS includes a selection of papers presented at the 2013 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium, held June 2-4, 2013 in Seattle,WA, USA. The symposium is co-located with the IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS). This annual meeting covers all aspects of RF and microwave circuits and systems. The 2013 RFIC Symposium received 202 submissions from across the world, covering a broad range of topics including transceiver SoCs and associated blocks such as power amplifier/tunable front-ends, frequency synthesis circuits, baseband circuits, and high-speed I/O circuits, as well as papers covering low-power/wireless sensor transceivers and mm-wave/THz circuits. This issue of the Journal presents four papers selected from a total of 103 presented at the Symposium. An overview of the technical articles is presented.

Guest Editorial [Mini special issue intro.

This Transactions' Mini-Special Issue includes four papers from the 2013 Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium, Seattle, WA, USA, June 2-4, 2013. The symposium is one of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (IEEE MTT-S) premier symposia and is co-located with the IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS) each year. Out of 202 papers submitted, 103 papers were accepted (51% acceptance rate) for presentation in the conference and publication in the 2013 RFIC Symposium Digest. These papers have also been published online on IEEE Xplore. After the symposium, the conference chairs invited eight authors of papers presented at the symposium to submit expanded papers to this Transactions' Mini-Special Issue. A total of six papers were submitted, and the reviewers for every paper were selected from the RFIC Technical Program Committee and this Transactions' Editorial Board. After rigorous reviews, four papers were accepted for publication in this Mini-Special Issue. Each of the Mini-Special Issue papers is briefly described.

2010 Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium Mini-Special Issue

The six papers in this special mini-special issue are based on papers originally presented at the IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium, Anaheim, CA, May 23-28, 2010. These papers are distributed in the section "Hybrid and Monolithic RF Integrated Circuits," and a note had been added to the footnote on the first page of each paper that identifies the paper as part of the 2010 RFIC Symposium.

Overview for the Special Section on the 2008 Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium

The twelve papers in this special issue were selected from a total of 129 papers presented at the 2008 RFIC Symposium.