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Dr. Steven M. Bowers, an assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Virginia has received the ECE Department Faculty Research Award.This award is given for outstanding innovations, breakthroughs, and impact in research and scholarship. Dr. Bower's research team collective contributions to the development and advancement of ultra-low power wakeup receivers have resulted in technologies critical to applications such as healthcare, smart cities, environmental and industrial monitoring, security and surveillance, and agriculture.

Robert Costanzo's paper titled "Ge-on-Si Waveguide Photodiode Array for High-Power Applications" is accepted for presentation in the 2018 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC). This paper presents a Ge-on-Si photodiode array using the AIM Photonics silicon foundry. Congrats Robert and team!

Professor Steven M. Bowers was awarded the 2015 Microwave Prize for the most significant contribution by a published paper in 2015 to the field of interest of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society.Professor Steven M. Bowers was awarded the 2015 Microwave Prize for the most significant contribution by a published paper in 2015 to the field of interest of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society. This prize is awarded to him for his work on self-healing integrated circuits. The paper is entitled “Integrated Self-Healing for mm-Wave Power Amplifiers”.