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Azad Naeemi Tapped to Receive 2007 Paul Rappaport Award
Azad Naeemi, research engineer II at Georgia Tech’s Microelectronics Research Center (MiRC), has been named the recipient of the IEEE Electron Device Society’s 2007 Paul Rappaport Award. Dr. Naeemi’s paper, “Design and Performance Modeling for Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes as Local, Semiglobal, and Global Interconnects in Gigascale Integrated Systems,” was judged as the best paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices during 2007. The award will be presented this December at the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco.

Dr. Naeemi’s paper, co-authored with MiRC Director Jim Meindl, described the potential performance of carbon nanotube interconnects. These nanotubes are being investigated worldwide to interconnect nanoscale transistors in integrated circuits and make faster, lower power and more reliable electronic systems. (April 14, 2008)

Etta Pittman Receives OMED Mentor Award
Etta Pittman, ECE associate director of development, has received the 2008 OMED Mentor Award. OMED is the Office of Minority Education Development at Georgia Tech. The award was presented at the 2008 Tower Awards banquet, which was held at the Omni Hotel on April 3. The Mentor Award is given to those who have gone beyond the call of duty to support OMED’s initiatives and the Institute’s underrepresented minority student population. (April 8, 2008)

Mark Richards Tapped for Professional Education Award
Mark Richards, ECE principal research engineer and adjunct professor, will receive the Georgia Tech Professional Education Award. Given by the Institute Faculty Honors Committee, this award recognizes Dr. Richards’ 20-plus years of teaching Georgia Tech professional education courses in radar system design, radar signal processing, and other radar-related areas. The award will be presented at the Georgia Tech Faculty Staff Honors Luncheon, to be held on April 10 at noon in Tech’s Student Center Ballroom. (March 13, 2008)

Yanzhu Zhao and Mark Allen Win Best Poster Paper Award
ECE graduate student Yanzhu Zhao and Mark Allen, senior vice provost for research and innovation, have been named recipients of the Best Poster Paper Award at the 57th IEEE Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC), held last year. The paper was co-authored with Yong-Kyu Yoon, a Ph.D. alumnus of Dr. Allen’s. The group will receive this award in May 2008 during ECTC 2008, which will take place in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.

In this award-winning paper, “Metal-Transfer-Micromolded RF Components for System-On-Package (SOP),” Dr. Allen and his team introduced a ‘metal transfer’ mechanism into the conventional molding process, creating precisely metalized three-dimensional micro-structures in a single low-cost molding step. This technique is demonstrated in the fabrication of integrated RF passive components made on plastics, and it has great potential in many applications such as RF front-ends, RFID, and wireless sensors. (February 27, 2008)

Drs. Adibi and Doolittle Win 2008 Faculty Research Awards
Two ECE faculty members, Ali Adibi and Alan Doolittle, have been named recipients of the 2008 Institute Faculty Research Awards. These awards will be presented at the Georgia Tech Faculty Staff Honors Luncheon, to be held on April 10 at 12 p.m. in the Student Center Ballroom. The awards are sponsored by the Georgia Tech Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Research and Innovation.

Dr. Adibi, associate professor in optics and photonics, is being recognized for Outstanding Faculty Leadership for the Development of Graduate Research Assistants. Dr. Doolittle, an associate professor in microelectronics/microsystems, is being recognized for Outstanding Achievement in Research Program Development. (February 27, 2008)

Drs. Bakir and Meindl Win Outstanding Paper Award
ECE faculty members Muhannad Bakir and Jim Meindl have been named recipients of the Outstanding Paper Award selected from the oral sessions at the 57th IEEE Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC). This event was held in Reno, Nev., last year, and the award will be presented during ECTC 2008, to be held this May in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.

Their winning paper, “‘Trimodal’ Wafer-Level Package: Fully Compatible Electrical, Optical, and Fluidic Chip I/O Interconnects,” was co-authored with Bing Dang and Oluwafemi Ogunsola, Ph.D., alumni of Dr. Meindl’s research group who now work in industry R&D centers in New York. A critical hurdle to the development of ultimate-performance and compact computing systems is the realization of a low-cost chip-scale integrated I/O interconnect network that is capable of addressing the heat removal, I/O bandwidth, and power delivery requirements for a gigascale nanosilicon system. The main feature of the research presented in this paper is to develop and integrate all significant I/O interconnect technologies that are critical to the realization of the “ultimate-performance” nanosilicon systems. Since this paper was completed, the work has been extended to 3D integrated systems. (February 18, 2008)

ECE Student Diana Fuertes Wins MTT-S Scholarship
Diana Fuertes, an ECE graduate student, has been chosen to receive a 2007-08 IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) Undergraduate/Pregraduate Scholarship. A student researcher in John Papapolymerou’s Microwave Circuit Technology Group, Diana is working on the development of low-loss integrated filters and diplexers for wireless microwave and mm wave systems. She will receive this award at the 2008 International Microwave Symposium, which will be held in Atlanta from June 15-20 at the Georgia World Congress Center. (February 18, 2008)

Last revised on April 14, 2008.