{"600493":{"#nid":"600493","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Chi Chosen for IEEE SSCS Pre-doctoral Achievement Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETaiyun Chi, a Ph.D. student in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), has been selected for the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Pre-doctoral Achievement Award for 2017-18. This award is the highest honor that a Ph.D. student can receive from the IEEE SSCS.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAdvised by Hua Wang, director of the Georgia Tech Electronics and Micro-System Lab and ECE\u0026rsquo;s Demetrius T. Paris Junior Professor, Chi is conducting research for his Ph.D. thesis topic, \u0026quot;Millimeter-Wave and Terahertz Signal Generation and Detection in Silicon.\u0026rdquo; This is the third year in a row that one of Wang\u0026rsquo;s Ph.D. students has been chosen for this award.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe IEEE SSCS Pre-doctoral Achievement Award recognizes Chi\u0026#39;s three\u0026nbsp;major research achievements in the field of\u0026nbsp;RF\/mm-Wave wireless\u0026nbsp;circuits and systems through his Ph.D work.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EChi has\u0026nbsp;demonstrated the world\u0026rsquo;s first mm-Wave full-duplex\u0026nbsp;chip-to-chip communication link\u0026nbsp;with 4Gbit\/s data rate using the 45nm CMOS silicon-on-insulator (SOI) process. The technology can be directly applied in\u0026nbsp;future full-duplex massive MIMO systems for high-throughput\u0026nbsp;5G applications such as\u0026nbsp;vehicle-vehicle\/vehicle-infrastructure communication, drone-based communication, and AR\/VR. This work will be presented at the\u0026nbsp;2018 IEEE\u0026nbsp;International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), to be held in San Francisco from February 11-15.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe showed a novel\u0026nbsp;antenna-electronics co-design methodology\u0026nbsp;whose first\u0026nbsp;implementation demonstrated a\u0026nbsp;multi-feed antenna driven concurrently by multiple coherent signal sources, such as mm-Wave transmitters or power amplifiers, for on-antenna low loss power combining at mm-wave. This work achieved 4-times output power and 2-times\u0026nbsp;efficiency improvement over state-of-the-art silicon-based transmitters at 60GHz, and this may serve as an enabling\u0026nbsp;technology for future\u0026nbsp;low-cost\u0026nbsp;mm-Wave MIMO\u0026nbsp;base\u0026nbsp;stations and\u0026nbsp;wireless infrastructures.\u0026nbsp;This work was presented at the\u0026nbsp;2017 IEEE ISSCC, also held in San Francisco.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EChi also led a project on \u0026quot;invisible sensor nodes,\u0026quot; which utilizes\u0026nbsp;THz (320GHz) carrier signals and nonlinear transmitter\/receiver architectures\u0026nbsp;to achieve a\u0026nbsp;nano-scaled (mm^3) sensor\u0026nbsp;platform. This platform supports a wide variety of miniaturized\u0026nbsp;sensors and provides reliable meter-scaled\u0026nbsp;wireless communication with 4.4Mbit\/s data rate\u0026nbsp;and micro-watt\u0026nbsp;average\u0026nbsp;power consumption.\u0026nbsp;This was the world\u0026#39;s first demonstration of leveraging THz carrier signals to realize\u0026nbsp;ultra-miniaturization of low-power\u0026nbsp;radio\u0026nbsp;platforms. This technology opens the door to future massively field-deployable\u0026nbsp;\u0026quot;invisible sensor nodes\u0026quot; and sensor networks for various defense and consumer applications, including Internet-of-Things. This work was presented at the 2017 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), held in Austin, Texas, and won the 2017 IEEE CICC Best Paper Award as the top paper among all the\u0026nbsp;papers presented at the conference.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Ph.D. student\u0026nbsp;Taiyun Chi has been selected for the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Pre-doctoral Achievement Award for 2017-18.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE Ph.D. student\u00a0Taiyun Chi has been selected for the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Pre-doctoral Achievement Award for 2017-18."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2018-01-05 21:34:44","changed_gmt":"2018-01-05 21:34:44","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-01-05T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2018-01-05T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"499911":{"id":"499911","type":"image","title":"ECE Ph.D. student Taiyun Chi with his advisor Hua Wang","body":null,"created":"1455904800","gmt_created":"2016-02-19 18:00:00","changed":"1475895258","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:18","alt":"ECE Ph.D. student Taiyun Chi with his advisor Hua Wang","file":{"fid":"204687","name":"141022r508.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/141022r508_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/141022r508_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1503290,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/141022r508_0.jpg?itok=F1c0hbzG"}}},"media_ids":["499911"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/gems.ece.gatech.edu","title":"Georgia Tech Electronics and Micro-System Lab"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu","title":"Georgia Tech "},{"url":"https:\/\/sscs.ieee.org","title":"IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society"},{"url":"http:\/\/isscc.org","title":"IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"147","name":"Military Technology"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"171703","name":"Taiyun Chi"},{"id":"67901","name":"Hua Wang"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"366","name":"Graduate"},{"id":"176696","name":"invisible sensor nodes"},{"id":"173664","name":"wireless communication"},{"id":"68951","name":"Internet of Things"},{"id":"97401","name":"IoT"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"171546","name":"IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society"},{"id":"176697","name":"IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC)"},{"id":"85861","name":"Georgia Tech Electronics and Micro-System Lab"},{"id":"176698","name":"MIMO systems"},{"id":"172364","name":"5G"},{"id":"34141","name":"Drones"},{"id":"1597","name":"Augmented Reality"},{"id":"145251","name":"virtual reality"},{"id":"176699","name":"solid-state circuits"},{"id":"176700","name":"antenna-electronics co-design"},{"id":"176701","name":"mm-Wave"},{"id":"176702","name":"power amplifiers"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39481","name":"National Security"}],"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\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}