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GEDC Receives Several Honors and Awards At IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium 2007

Saikat Sarkar, right, explains an exhibit depicting GEDC’s multi-gigabit wireless research to an attendee at IMS 2007, held recently in Honolulu. GEDC and Georgia Tech sent more than 50 attendees to the annual microwave conference.

Honolulu --  Researchers from the Georgia Electronic Design Center (GEDC) received numerous honors at the recent IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium 2007 (IMS 2007), including two prize-winning student papers. 
PhD students Saikat Sarkar and Li Yang both received a third prize for their papers. Sarkar, advised by Prof. Joy Laskar, submitted a paper focusing on multi-gigabit wireless; Yang, advised by Prof. Manos Tentzeris, wrote his paper on RFID/wireless sensor research.
GEDC, an internationally  recognized mixed-signal design/development center at the Georgia Institute of Technology, also had the largest number of papers submitted from one institution.
“The student awards were a great honor for GEDC,” said Laskar, who is director of the center. “Four Georgia Tech student papers were finalists, and half of those were prizewinners -- a strong indication of our focus on research issues that are important to industry.”
Laskar was also recognized at the conference for his service as MTT-S Distinguished Microwave Lecturer for 2004-06.

The IMS 2007 Symposium -- held in Honolulu from June 3 through June 8 – reported a total of 7,307 attendees. More than 50 Georgia Tech and GEDC researchers and administrators were among those attending the symposium, which is the premier conference of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) and features a major trade show as well as a wide variety of technical-paper presentations and workshops.
GEDC held a Waikiki Beach social event June 7  that was attended by 160 people from industry, government and academia.  Paul Carney, of Radio Frequency Systems Inc., was the main raffle winner, taking home a Nokia N95 cell phone.

The student paper competition, one of the largest IMS 2007 technical events, recognizes the best student work of the year. At IMS 2007, there were 183 student papers, which represented approximately 20 percent of all papers submitted.
About half of the submitted student papers were accepted for presentation, and 24 of those papers were named as finalists.

The four Georgia Tech student papers to qualify as finalists were:
• " A Single-Chip 25pJ/bit Multigigabit 60GHz Receiver Module", S.Sarkar, J.Laskar (GEDC)
• "Design and Characterization of Novel Paper-Based Inkjet-Printed RFID and Microwave Structures for Telecommunications and Sensing Applications", L. Yang, M. M. Tentzeris. (GEDC)
• " Multilayer Quasielliptic Filters using Dual-Mode Resonators on Liquid Crystal Polymer Technology", R. Bairavasubramanian, J. Papapolymerou (GEDC)
• " Analysis and Suppression of Memory Effects in Envelope Eliminitation and Restoration (EER) Power Amplifiers", P. Fedorenko, J. S. Kenny. (Georgia Tech Analog Consortium)

GEDC students also won significant fellowship awards at the IMS 2007 MTT-S symposium.  Amin Rida won a 2006 MTT-S undergraduate fellowship.  Trang Thai and Eva Tsai won 2007 MTT-S undergraduate fellowships.  Yuan Li won a Graduate MTT-S Fellowship Award.
The awards were announced during the Honolulu gathering.

The IMS 2007 symposium was the centerpiece of a larger event --  Microwave Week 2007.   In addition to the symposium, Microwave Week in Honolulu included a microwave exhibition, a historical exhibit, the RFIC Symposium and the ARFTG Conference. The IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium was also held in Honolulu  from June 9-15.
The IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) is a transnational society with more than 9,000 members and 80 chapters worldwide. The society promotes the advancement of microwave theory and its applications, usually at frequencies from 200 MHz to 1 THz and beyond.
For more than 50 years, the MTT-S has worked to advance the professional standing of its members and enhance the quality of life for all people through the development and application of microwave technology.