{"499331":{"#nid":"499331","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech ECE-Toshiba Team Win Microwave Magazine Best Paper Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHua Wang and his colleagues from Georgia Tech and Toshiba Corporation have been named the recipients of the 2016 \u003Cem\u003EMicrowave Magazine\u003C\/em\u003E Best Paper Award of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S). This award recognizes a peer-reviewed technical article from the prior calendar year that provides the finest overview of the state-of-the-art in a given area of the IEEE MTT Society\u2019s field of interest. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe award-winning paper, entitled \u201cThe Wireless Workhorse: Mixed-Signal Power Amplifiers Leverage Digital and Analog Techniques to Enhance Large-Signal RF Operations,\u201d is based on Wang\u2019s collaboration with Toshiba Corporation and was published in the September 2015 issue of \u003Cem\u003EMicrowave Magazine\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWang is the Demetrius T. Paris Junior Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). His coauthors on the paper are Shouhei Kousai and Kohei Onizuka, collaborators from Toshiba, and Song Hu, an ECE Ph.D. student in the Georgia Tech Electronics and Micro-System Lab, which Wang directs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis paper reviews recently reported new architectures for\u0026nbsp;silicon-based\u0026nbsp;power amplifiers\u0026nbsp;(PAs)\u0026nbsp;that exploit mixed-signal (both analog and digital) techniques to substantially improve PA performance, such as PA back-off power\u0026nbsp;efficiency, in-band\/out-of-band linearity, and robustness against antenna load variations. These advanced PA architectures and\u0026nbsp;designs have become complex, mixed-signal\/mixed-mode RF systems with orchestrated collaborations among analog, digital, and large-signal RF operations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe team will be presented with the award at the IEEE MTT-S Awards Banquet, which will be held on May 25 in San Francisco during the 2016 International Microwave Symposium.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Assistant Professor\u0026nbsp;Hua Wang and his colleagues from Georgia Tech and Toshiba Corporation have been named the recipients of the 2016 \u003Cem\u003EMicrowave Magazine\u003C\/em\u003E Best Paper Award of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE Assistant Professor Hua Wang and his colleagues from Georgia Tech and Toshiba Corporation have been named the recipients of the 2016 Microwave Magazine Best Paper Award of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S)."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2016-02-11 15:03:25","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:42","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-02-11T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2016-02-11T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"274201":{"id":"274201","type":"image","title":"Hua Wang","body":null,"created":"1449244112","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:48:32","changed":"1475894964","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:49:24","alt":"Hua Wang","file":{"fid":"198716","name":"hua_wang_0.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/hua_wang_0_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/hua_wang_0_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":4678905,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/hua_wang_0_0.jpg?itok=qjhh-HjI"}},"383471":{"id":"383471","type":"image","title":"Song Hu","body":null,"created":"1449246246","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:24:06","changed":"1475894395","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:39:55","alt":"Song Hu","file":{"fid":"75337","name":"photo_songhu.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/photo_songhu.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/photo_songhu.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1057999,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/photo_songhu.jpg?itok=pEStaUn0"}}},"media_ids":["274201","383471"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff-directory\/hua-wang","title":"Hua Wang"},{"url":"http:\/\/www2.ece.gatech.edu\/research\/labs\/gems\/","title":"Georgia Tech Electronics and Micro-System Lab"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.mtt.org\/microwave-magazine","title":"Microwave Magazine"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"85861","name":"Georgia Tech Electronics and Micro-System Lab"},{"id":"67901","name":"Hua Wang"},{"id":"1298","name":"IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society"},{"id":"171699","name":"International Microwave Symposium"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"170827","name":"Song Hu"},{"id":"171700","name":"Toshiba Corporation"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}