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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”.

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!

Jesse Moody's paper titled "A -76dBm 7.4nW Wakeup Radio with Automatic Offset Compensation" is accepted for presentation in the 2018 International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC). This paper presents an ultra-low power event driven wake-up receiver for IoT sensing applications. Congrats Jesse and team!

Robert Costanzo's paper titled "A 10 GHz Bandwidth Balanced Photoreceiver with 41 V/W Optical Conversion Gain" is accepted for presentation in the 2017 European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference (EuMIC). This paper presents a 10 GHz bandwidth photoreceiver. Congrats Robert and team!

Pouyan Bassirian's paper titled "Analysis of Quadratic Dickson Based Envelope Detectors for IoE Sensor Node Applications" is accepted for presentation in the International Microwave Symposium 2017. This paper presents a study of passive Dickson envelope detectors operating in the quadratic small signal regime that are used in RF front-end of IoT sensor nodes. Congrats Pouyan and Jesse!

Jesse Moody's paper titled "An 8.3 nW -72 dBm Event Driven IoE Wake-up Receiver" is accepted for presentation in the 2017 European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference (EuMIC). This paper presents an ultra-low power event driven wake-up receiver for IoT sensing applications. Congrats Jesse and team!

Pouyan Bassirian's paper titled "A passive 461 MHz AlN-CMOS RF front-end for event-driven wakeup receivers" is accepted for presentation in the SENSORS Conference 2017. This paper presents a fully passive front-end operating at 461 MHz, as a building block for implementation of wakeup receivers in sensor networks. Congrats Pouyan and team!