ICCS Researcher wins Early Career Best Paper Competition

The inaugural International Microwave Symposium (IMS) Early Career Paper Competition took place on 15 June 2023 in San Diego, USA as part of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society (MTT-S) International Microwave Symposium (IMS).

Dr Dhecha Nopchinda, a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow was shortlisted as one of the 6 finalists and subsequently announced as the winner at the closing ceremony of the conference. He was determined as the winner based on both the content of his paper, “Experimental Demonstration of Multi-Band Comb-Enabled mm-Wave Transmission”, and on the quality of his accompanying oral presentation.

On being the inaugural recipient of the award, Dr Nopchinda said,

I am very happy to have won this award. It highlights the importance of a cross-disciplinary effort, where in this case was only made possible by the collaboration between the specialists in ICE and ONG Groups in ICCS. Both bringing forth their expertise in mm-wave and optical techniques, respectively. My special thanks go to the co-authors and the judging panels and committees for their work.

The purpose of the Early Career Paper Competition is to spotlight outstanding technical contributions from early career professionals. The first author must be an individual who is not a full-time student or a faculty member and has fewer than 10 years of professional experience. The eligible paper can come from any sector: industry, governmental agency, organisations/labs, and postdoctoral research. The winner is judged on the quality, significance, impact, and novelty of the presented work.

About the paper

Invited for publication in IEEE Microwave and Wireless Technology Letters Special Issue on “Top IMS2023 Papers”, the award-winning work proposes a solution to meet the growing demands for capacity that networks will face with the inevitable rise of 6G networks. Promising a new frontier in microwave engineering, the authors have designed and experimentally demonstrated a novel system architecture that provides a method to generate multiple frequency-synchronised sources, which can be distributed to multiple locations, using only a single electronic oscillator. Thus, eliminating the need for multiple local oscillators at the transmitters and receivers, resulting in a cost-effective solution to the generation and the synchronization of mm-wave sources with enhanced phase noise performance.

Author List

D. Nopchinda, Z. Zhou, Z. Liu, and I. Darwazeh
IEEE Microwave and Wireless Technology Letters, vol. 33, no. 6, pp. 919-922, June 2023

You can read the full paper here. 

Links 

• Dr Dhecha Nopchinda’s profile
• International Microwave Symposium (IMS) Early Career Paper Competition
• IEEE Microwave Magazine article on the IMS Paper Competitions
• IMS2023 Early Career Competition Finalists
• Information and Communication Engineering Group
• Optical Networks Group 

Image Caption

Dhecha at the International Microwave Symposium (IMS) Early Career Paper Competition (third from the right)