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ECE’s Tejinder Singh, PhD student under the supervision of Professor Raafat Mansour, was awarded the 1st place Best Paper award in the Student Paper Competition (SPC) at the prestigious 2019 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS) in Boston, MA for his research on “Monolithically PCM Based Miniaturized T-type RF Switch for Millimeter Wave Redundancy Switch Matrix Applications.”

ECE’s Gowrish Basavarajappa, PhD student of Professor Raafat Mansour was awarded Best Paper Award in Advanced Practice Paper Competition (APPC) held at the most prestigious 2019 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS) at Boston, MA, USA for his research work on “A Tunable Coaxial Filter with Minimum Variations in Absolute Bandwidth and Q Using a Single Tuning Element.”

ECE Professor, Raafat Mansour, has been selected by IEEE Canada as the 2019 recipient of the  IEEE Canada A.G.L. McNaughton Award. The Medal is awarded to an Outstanding Canadian Engineer who is recognized for exemplary contributions to the engineering profession.  Professor Mansour will receive his award in May at the IEEE Canada Awards Gala.

Tejinder Singh, PhD student under the supervision of Professor Raafat Mansour, wins 1st place Best Paper award at the 2018 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on Advanced Materials and Processes for RF and THz Applications (IMWS-AMP) held in Ann Arbor, MI, USA for his research on “Chalcogenide Phase Change Material GeTe Based Inline RF SPST Series and Shunt Switches.”

Following equipment have been added to the CIRFE Lab

• Oxford PlasmaPro 100 Deep Reactive Ion Etching (DRIE) with Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP) Etch System
• Angstrom DC magnetron and RF sputtering System
• Intlvac Nanoquest Pico Ion-Milling System
• Keysight PNA Network Analyzer N5227B DC-67 GHz

Full list of equipment at CIRFE can be found here

When delegates gathered in San Francisco for a big annual conference in his field earlier in 2016, Raafat Mansour was eager to find out how many of his former Waterloo Engineering graduate students were among them.

The Centre for Integrated Radio Frequency Engineering (CIRFE) contains everything you need to create the next generation of microelectronic RF communications devices and nanotechnology instruments. 

- Excerpts from WIN Annual Report 2016-17. Click here to read the WIN Annual Report.

Professor Raafat Mansour's PhD student, Tejinder Singh, has won the prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship for his research project "Miniature Phase-Change Materials-based RF Switch Matrices for Wireless and Satellite Communication Systems." 

Neil Sarkar, Co-founder at ICSPI Corp. and Adhawk Microsystems receives Outstanding Paper Award at TRANSDUCERS Conference.

Congratulations Neil! 

Tejinder Singh, PhD candidate at CIRFE receives the 2016-2017 WIN Nanofellowship for his cross-disciplinary PhD research on RF micro/nanotechnology.