Texas Tech Doctoral Student Wins Award
June 8, 2010
Written by Sherrel Jones
A doctoral student from Texas Tech University’s Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering was awarded “Best Student Paper Award” at a Paris conference.
Li Yan, a doctoral student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, won the award at the 2010 Institute Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ International Symposium on Circuits and Systems conference (IEEE ISCAS 2010), where 2,058 hopeful students from around the world submitted papers that were reviewed and scrutinized. Yan won for his paper “Efficiency Enhancement and Linearity Trade-Off for Cascode vs. Common-Emitter SiGe Power Amplifiers in WiMAX Polar Transmitters.”
In simple terms, this research could make cell phone/wireless Internet faster and more energy efficient, said Donald Lie, Keh-Shew Lu Regents Chair associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Yan said the highly integrated radio frequency polar transmitter research in Lie’s lab can potentially lower both the peak and average power consumption in 4G mobile handsets and portable electronics, such as iPads and iPhones by a factor of two to 10, considerably increasing battery operating time and improving energy efficiency for all mobile wireless devices.
“I also want to express appreciation to another fellow doctoral student and a key co-author of the paper, Jerry Lopez, in Dr. Lie’s group,” Yan said, “as well as the external sponsored research support from the Industrial Technology Research Institute in Taiwan.”
The IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems is the annual flagship meeting of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society and the world’s premier networking forum of leading researchers in the highly active fields of theory, design and implementation of circuits and systems.
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CONTACT: Donald Y.C. Lie, Keh-Shew Lu Regents chair associate professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas Tech University, donald.lie@ttu.edu