GEDC Team Wins Top Microwave Conference Award for RFID Paper

A team from the Georgia Electronic Design Center (GEDC) has won a top award for a paper presented at the Asian Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC) 2006 Symposium, held from Dec. 12 -15 in Yokohama, Japan.

The GEDC team, led by Prof. Manos M. Tentzeris, received the APMC Conference Award 2006. The award recognized the paper as a "distinctive contribution" representing a revolutionary technology.

The paper, entitled "Design and Development of Novel Miniaturized UHF RFID Tags on Ultra-low-cost Paper-based Substrates," was authored by L.Yang, S.Basat, A.Rida and.Tentzeris.

“This award is a major honor for the RFID research team and for the Georgia Electronic Design Center,” said Joy Laskar, the center’s director. “It underscores the world-class quality of the research being performed at GEDC.”

The APMC, the leading microwave conference in Asia, receives 500-plus papers/presentations from around the world with a high selectivity level.

Tentzeris is an associate director of GEDC and a faculty member in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Based at Georgia Tech, GEDC supports world-class research and development of new communications technology in wireless/RF, wired/copper and fiber channel applications. The center employs some 250 faculty and student researchers, collaborates with more than 50 member companies and federal agency partners, and conducts more than $10 million in research annually.