The ECE Ph.D. student was recognized during the Student Paper Competition, and research from three other ECE-affiliated groups were presented at the conference.
The Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) had a successful trip to the 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Phased Array Systems and Technology in Boston this October.
It was highlighted by Ph.D. student Seung Yoon Lee winning the third prize of Student Paper Competition for his research titled, “Highly Integrated mmWave Antenna-on-Chip Arrays Using Substrate-Integrated Air Cavities.”
The paper was selected out of 172 accepted papers at the conference.
It presents the design, fabrication, and characterization of a 60 gigahertz (109 hertz) beamforming array for 6G high data-rate wireless systems. Specially, it introduces mmWave 1×8 on-chip miniaturized cavity antenna arrays with high efficiency and reduced mutual coupling, leading to better connectivity.
The proposed silicon-based antenna offers the potential for future wireless system-on-a-chip (SoC) applications better equipped to handle high data throughput. Microfabrication of the proposed antennas and cavities was performed at Georgia Tech cleanroom facility.
Lee completed the research in Associate Professor Nima Ghalichechian’s mmWave Antennas and Arrays Laboratory.
This is the latest of many research recognitions for Lee. He most recently received the IEEE Antenna and Propagation Society grant for the development of a highly efficient on-chip antenna array, in hopes of addressing growing global mobile video traffic.
Lee has also published seven peer-reviewed journal articles, 14 international conference papers, and is the inventor of 19 patents.
Three other ECE research groups presented research at the conference: Professor Morris Cohen’s Low Frequency Radio Group, Professor Visvesh Sathe’s Processing Systems Lab, and Professor Manos Tentzeris’ ATHENA Research Group.