ECIT Researcher wins best paper at 25th IEEE Conference on Electronics Circuits & Systems
Matthew Love, a second year PhD student at the Centre for Wireless Innovation at Queen’s University Belfast has been awarded the prestigious “Best Paper” award at the 25th IEEE International Conference on Electronics Circuits and Systems (ICECS) for his work entitled “A Compact 5 GHz Lumped-Element Wilkinson Power Combiner on 28 nm Bulk CMOS”, and received a grant which will aid in continuing his research in this field.
ICECS is an annual international conference dedicated to circuits and systems. The event took place in Bordeaux, France, this year, and covers a vast range of topics from digital, analog and RF circuit design to neural networks and signal processing. It attracted a record breaking number of submissions from all over the world (397 papers) with each paper subjected to over 3.3 reviews on average and the acceptance rate of 49.6%.
Matthew commented: “I’m very happy to receive this award for my work which was carried out alongside the engineers at Catena in The Netherlands. This outcome would not have been possible without the support and guidance from my supervisor, Dr Mury Thian.
Our research provides a simple and novel solution to reduce the size of magnetic coils in power combining circuits. Magnetic coils in integrated circuits are typically very large and significantly increase the cost of manufacturing.
Our work will prove useful for both researchers in academia and engineers in industry.”
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