- Recent activities on AHFE lab -June 2026- Our paper "A High Performance Complementary SiGe HBT Power Amplifier With A Three Conductor Coupled Line Four-Way Wilkinson Combiner Balun for Emerging K-band LEO SATCOM Transmit Front-End IC" won the first-place winner in GlobalFoundries design contest from 2026 IEEE RFIC Symposium. Congrats Seung Kyun Lee and Yoongoo Kang! Check the following article;
https://gf.com/news-and-events/blog/shaping-the-future-of-rf-gf-at-ims-and-rfic-2026/
Feb 2026- 2 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) symposium are accepted. Well done!
Jan 2026- Yun Hong Kwon joined AHFE lab. Welcome aboard!
Sep 2025- AHFE lab successfully delivered 9th tape out to GlobalFoundries. Well done!
Aug 2025- 1 APMC is accepted and it is invited to IEEE MWTL special issue. Well done!
July 2025- Seung Kyun Lee joined AHFE lab. Welcome aboard!
- IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits is accepted. Well done!
June 2025- Congrats Insu Han and Ki Woong Choi for their graduation!
Apr 2025- AHFE lab successfully delivered 8th tape out to GlobalFoundries. Well done!
- IEEE Microwave and Wireless Technology Letters is accepted. Well done!
Feb 2025- 1 RFIC and 1 IMS paper are accepted. Well done!
- Congrats Hanjung Lee and Jae Hyeon Hwang for their graduation!
Jan 2025- Seung-Pyo Han and Shin-Woo Kang joined AHFE lab. Welcome aboard!
- IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits is accepted. Well done!
Dec 2024- AHFE lab successfully delivered 1st tape out to IHP. Well done!
Nov 2024- IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs is accepted. Well done!
July 2024- Check our latest paper list presented at RFIC/IMS, Walter Convention Center, Washington D.C. 2024.
https://gf.com/news-events/events/ims-2024/May 2024- AHFE lab successfully delivered 6/7th tape out to GlobalFoundries. Well done!
Apr 2024- Our paper "An Efficient, High Power Q-band SiGe HBT Power Amplifier With A Compact Four-Way Wilkinson Power Combiner Balun for Emerging Very Low-Earth-Orbit SATCOM" is nominated for 11 Finalists of RFIC Symposium 2024 best student paper award.
Mar 2024- IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques is accepted. Well done!
Feb 2024- IEEE 3 RFICs and 1 IMS papers are accepted. Well done!
Jan 2024- AHFE lab successfully delivered 5th tape out to GlobalFoundries. Well done!
Dec 2023- Yoon-Goo Kang joined AHFE lab. Welcome aboard!
Sep 2023- In Su Han and Ki Woong Choi joined AHFE lab. Welcome aboard!
July 2023- AHFE lab successfully delivered 4th tape out to GlobalFoundries. Well done!
May 2023- AHFE lab successfully delivered 3rd tape out to GlobalFoundries. Well done!
Jan 2023- AHFE lab successfully delivered 2nd tape out to GlobalFoundries. Well done!
Oct 2022- AHFE lab successfully delivered the first tape out to GlobalFoundries. Well done!
June 2022- Han Jung Lee and Jae Hyeon Hwang joined AHFE lab and will begin graduate study in 2023. Welcome aboard!
May 2022- "A Compact, Low Loss, and Broadband Two-Section Lumped-Element Wilkinson Power Combiner Using 130 nm SiGe HBT BiCMOS Technology" was presented at 14th Global Symposium on Millimeter-waves & Terahertz in May 18~20, 2022
April 2022- For the first time in Korea, AHFE lab joins GlobalFoundries University Partner Program which will support multiple SiGe HBT BiCMOS chip fabrication for pioneering emerging 6G wireless integrated circuit and system
- "An Efficient, Broadband SiGe HBT Non-Uniform Distributed Power Amplifier Leveraging a Compact, Two-Section λ/4 Output Impedance Transformer" is for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques