Congratulations to Tomás!
August 2021
Congratulations to Tomás! He is starting an assistant professor in Department of Microelectronics of TU Delft.
Schmidt Science Fellows Program
June 2021
Congratulations to Ahmed! He has been selected as one of nine students to represent the University of Illinois in the national competition for the Schmidt Science Fellows Program!
Award
June 2021
Congratulations to our former group member, Professor Ming-Huang Li for winning Transducers Early Career Award!
We are really proud of you!
Conference
June 2021
Prof. Gong will give an invited talk at IUS 2021!
Conference Acceptance
June 2021
Congratulations to Yansong, Ruochen, Ahmed, Liuqing and Steffen! Their papers have been accepted at IUS 2021 for oral presentation!
Award
April 2021
Congratulations to Ahmed! He has been awarded P. D. Coleman Outstanding Research Award by the ECE department!
Award
April 2021
Congratulations to Liuqing! She has been awarded Raj Mittra Outstanding Research Award by the ECE department!
Graduation
March 2020
Congratulations to Dr. Ali Kourani for defending his PhD thesis!
Congratulations to Steffen!
March 2021
Congratulations to Steffen! He has been selected as the finalist of the 2021 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship!
Congratulations to Ahmed!
Feburary 2021
Congratulations to Ahmed! His paper has been accepted at IMS 2021 for an oral presentation!
Award
September 2020
Congratulations to Liuqing! She has won the student paper competition at IUS 2020!
Award
August 2020
Congratulations to Liuqing! She has won the 3rd place in best paper competition at IMS 2020!
Congratulations to Ruochen!
June 2020
Congratulations to Ruochen! He will join ECE UTAustin as a tenure-track assistant professor in Jan 2021!
Award
May 2020
Congratulations to Liuqing! She has been awarded John Bardeen Memorial Graduate Research Award by the ECE department!
Mavis Future Faculty Fellow
May 2020
Congratulation to Ahmed! He has been selected as a Mavis Future Faculty Fellow.
Conference Acceptance
Feburary 2020
Congratulations to Liuqing, Shibin, Yansong and Ruochen! Four papers accepted at IMS 2020 for oral presentations!
Award
Feburary 2020
Congratulations to Ali for being selected to receive an MTT-S Graduate Fellowship for 2020!
Award
October 2019
Congratulations to Prof. Gong for 2018 Ultrasonic Early Career Investigator Award!
Best Paper Award
October 2019
Congratulations to Yansong Yang for 2019 IUS best paper award!
HOLONYAK RESEARCHER YANSONG YANG AWARDED BEST PAPER FOR WORK ON 5G FILTER
Conference Acceptance
June 2019
Congratulations to Yansong and Ruochen! Their papers are accepted at IUS 2019. Yansong is also a finalist for student paper competition!
Best Paper Award
April 2019
Congratulations to Ali Kourani for 2019 IFCS best paper award!
Award
March 2019
Congratulations to Prof. Gong for eraning Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research!
Graduate Award
March 2019
Congratulations to Ruochen Lu for winning 2019 Raj Mittra outstanding research award, Ali Kourani for winning 2019 Paul D. Coleman outstanding research award, Yansong Yang for winning 2019 Paul D. Coleman outstanding research award, Ahmed Emad for winning 2019 OK Kyun Kim Fellowship, Liuqing Gao for winning 2019 OK Kyun Kim Fellowship!
Paper Acceptance
January 2019
Our paper Accurate Extraction of Large Electromechanical Coupling in Piezoelectric MEMS Resonators is published in JMEMS. Source Code for Accurately Fitting Resonator Response is now available.
Graduation
December 2018
Congratulations to Dr. Anming Gao for defending his PhD thesis and Sarah Shim for graduating with MS!
Best Paper Award
October 2018
Congratulations to Ruochen for 2018 IUS best paper award! The paper titled S0-Mode Lithium Niobate Acoustic Delay Lines with 1 dB Insertion Loss is also highlighted in the closing ceremony as a significant advance in FBAR, SAW, and MEMS devices this year! Great Job, Ruochen!
Conference Acceptance
October 2018
Six papers accepted at 2019 MEMS! Congratulations to Yansong, Ahmed, Ming-huang, Tao, Anming, and Ruochen. Fantastic job, team!
Conference Acceptance
September 2018
Congrats to Yansong. His paper Scaling Acoustic Filters Towards 5G has been accepted to IEDM 2018.
Paper Acceptance
September 2018
Congratulations to Ali! His paper A Tunable Low Power Oscillator based on High Q Lithium Niobate MEMS Resonators and 65 nm CMOS is published in Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques.
Paper Acceptance
August 2018
Congratulations to Ruochen, Tomas, and Yansong! Their paper RF Filters with Periodic Passbands for Sparse Fourier Transform-Based Spectrum Sensing is published in Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, 2018.
Paper Acceptance
July 2018
Congratulations to Ruochen, Tomas, and Yansong! Three of their papers have been accepted as oral presentations at 2018 International Ultrasonic Symposium.
Best Paper Award
June 2018
Congratulations to Yansong for winning the second place in the Best Student Paper competition at IMS 2018! Great job!
Graduate Award
March 2018
Congratulations to Liuqing for winning James M. Henderson Fellowship for 2018-2019.
Graduate Award
March 2018
Congratulations to Ruochen for winning Nick and Katherine Holonyak, Jr. Graduate Student Fellowship.
Paper Acceptance
Feb. 2018
Congrats to Ruochen and Tomas. Two Papers accepted at Hilton Head 2018.
Post-Doc Position Opening
Feb. 2018
Dr. Songbin Gong seeks outstanding candidates to fill a Post-Doc position in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. see more info. (Position Filled)
Conference Acceptance
January 2018
Congrats to Yansong. His paper Towards Ka Band Acoustics: Lithium Niobate Asymmetrical Mode Piezoelectric MEMS Resonators has been accepted to IFCS 2018 as a single session oral presentation.
Journal Publication
February 2018
Congrats to Ruochen and Tomas.Their paper Lithium Niobate Phononic Crystals for Tailoring Performance of RF Laterally Vibrating Devices is published in IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control.
Conference Acceptance
January 2018
Congrats to Ali. His paper A 175 MHz 72µW Voltage Controlled Oscillator with 1.4% Tuning Range based on Lithium Niobate MEMS Resonator and 65 nm CMOS was accepted to IMS2018.
Conference Acceptance
January 2018
Congrats to Yansong. His paper GHz Lithium Niobate MEMS Resonators with FoM of 336 and f∙Q of 9.15×10^12 was accepted to IMS2018.
Award
November 2017
Congratulations to Anming Gao for receiving the Lam Research Corporation Scholarship, one of the most prestigious scholarships awarded to students who have demonstrated excellence in their research and academic studies.
Paper Acceptance
November 2017
Congrats to Ruochen, Tomas, Yansong, and Ali. Three Papers accepted at IEEE MEMS 2018.
Post-Doc Position Opening
October 2017
Dr. Songbin Gong seeks outstanding candidates to fill a Post-Doc position in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. see more info...
Award
October 2017
Congratulations to Prof. Gong. He has won the 2017 NASA early career faculty award!
Conference Acceptance
October 2017
Congratulations to Sarah, her paper titled "Intraocular Display for Vision Restoration" has been accepted for a presentation at 2017 AAO Conference
Journal Publication
October 2017
Congratulations to Tomas and Ruochen. Their journal paper on chirp compressors is published in Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems.
Best Paper Award
July 2017
Congratulations to Ruochen! He won the best paper award at the 2017 International Frequency Control Symposium.
New Members
August 2017
ILIRM Group welcomes a new member: Dr. Ming-Huang Li !
Conference Acceptance
July 2017
Congratulations to Arunita, her paper titled "Characterization of Lithium Niobate Microdisk Resonators with Grating Couplers" has been accepted for an oral presentation at 2017 IEEE Photonics Conference.
Post-Doc Position Opening
May 2017
Dr. Songbin Gong seeks outstanding candidates to fill a Post-Doc position in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. see more info...
Conference Acceptance
April 2017
Congratulations to Tomas and Ruochen, their papers have been accepted to 2017 International Frequency Control Symposium for oral presentations.
New Members
August 2017
ILIRM Group welcomes a new member: Liuqing Gao and Ahmed Emad.!
Conference Acceptance
April 2017
Congratulations to Jack! His paper titled "A non-magnetic gyrator using switched delay lines" is accepted at 2017 European Microwave Conference.
Graduate Award
March 2017
Congratulations to Brandon for winning Lieutenant General Thomas M. Rienzi Graduate Award.
Graduate Award
March 2017
Congratulations to Ruochen for winning Nick and Katherine Holonyak, Jr. Graduate Student Award.
Conference Acceptance
Febuary 2017
Congratulations to Tomas! His paper titled “A High FOM Lithium Niobate Resonant Transformer for Passive Voltage Amplification" has been accepted for oral presentation at Transducers 2017!
Conference Acceptance
Febuary 2017
Congratulations to Yongha! His paper titled “A 1.17 GHZ Wideband MEMS Filter using Higher Order SH0 Lithium Niobate Resonators ” has been accepted for oral presentation at Transducers 2017!
Journal Publication
Febuary 2017
Congratulations to Yongha! His paper titled "Wideband Spurious-free Lithium Niobate RF-MEMS Filters" has been accepted for publication in Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems.
Intel Alumni Fellow
January 2017
Congratulations to Prof. Gong for being named as the Intel Alumni Fellow of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Conference Acceptance
January 2017
Congratulations to Brandon! His paper titled "Simultaneous Wireless Power Transfer and Communication to Chip-Scale Devices" has been accepted for oral presentation at IMS2017.
Papers Acceptance
January 2017
Congratulations to Ali! His paper titled "150 MHz Voltage Controlled Oscillator using Lithium Niobate RF-MEMS Resonator" has been accepted for oral presentation at IMS 2017.
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Papers Acceptance
November 2016
Congratualtions to Tomas and Ruochen,their papers is accepted for an oral presentation (10% selection rate) at IEEE MEMS 2017!
Undergraduate Research Assistant Position Opening
November 2016
Dr. Songbin Gong seeks outstanding candidates to fill an undergraduate research assistant position in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. Candidates must have taken either ECE444 or ME487 in order to be considered for the position.
IEEE Publication
November 2016
Congratulations to Yansong and Anming, their papers is accepted for a poster presentation at IEEE MEMS 2017!
IEEE Publication
March 2016
Congratulations to Anming! His paper "Harnessing Mode Conversion for Spurious Mode Suppression in AlN Laterally Vibrating Resonators " has been accepted for publication in IEEE Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems.
IEEE Publication
March 2016
Congratulations to Yongha! His paper, titled "Analysis and Removal of Spurious Response in SH0 Lithium Niobate MEMS Resonators", has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices.
New Members
March 2016
ILIRM Group welcomes a new member: Ali Kourani, Sarah Shim, and Jack Krol!
E.C. Jordan Award
February 2016
Congratulations to Liuqing Gao for winning the E. C. Jordan Award!
Nick and Katherine Holonyak, Jr.
February 2016
Congratulations to Anming Gao for being awarded Nick and Katherine Holonyak, Jr Graduate Student Fellowship!
Lieutenant General Thomas M. Rienzi Award
February 2016
Congratulations to Brandon for winning Lieutenant General Thomas M. Rienzi Graduate Research Award!
Presentation Acceptance
February 2016
The paper based on our collaboration with Coventor. Inc has been accepted for presentation at Hilton Head workshop on Solid State Sensors, Actuators, and Microsystems! Congrats to Ruhal, Ruochen and Matt.
Presentation Acceptance
February 2016
Congratulations to Ruochen and Anming! Their paper titled “AlN Piezoelectric Parametric Oscillators with Low Phase Noise” has been accepted for oral presentation at 2016 Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Workshop (Hilton Head 2016).
IFCS Presentation Acceptance
February 2016
Congratulations to Michael, Ruochen, and Anming! Their paper titled “High Speed Mid-Infrared Detectors Based on MEMS Resonators and Spectrally Selective Metamaterials” has been accepted for oral presentation at 2016 International Frequency Control Symposium (IFCS).
Paper Acceptance
February 2016
Congratulations to Anming! His paper titled “Mitigation of A0 Spurious Modes in AlN MEMS Resonators with SiO2 Addendums” has been accepted for oral presentation at 2016 International Frequency Control Symposium (IFCS).
Paper Acceptance
February 2016
Congratulations to Ruochen and Tomas! Their paper titled "Piezoelectric RF Resonant Voltage Amplifiers for IoT Applications" has been accepted for oral presentation at IMS 2016.
Paper Acceptance
February 2016
Congratulations to Liuqing, Yansong, and Brandon! Their paper titled "Radio Frequency Wireless Power Transfer to Chip-scale Apparatuses" has been accepted for oral presentation at IMS 2016.
Paper Acceptance
October 2015
Congratulations to Anming, Ruochen, and Yongha for their papers being accepted to international conference on micro-electron-mechanical systems (MEMS) 2016.
Graduate RA Opening
October 2015
(Position has been filled)Dr. Songbin Gong seeks outstanding candidates to join his research group as graduate research assistants. The positions are available starting August 15th, 2016. The candidates will be working on research projects related to radio frequency microsystems. Interested individuals should contact Dr. Gong via email.
Paper Publication
October 2015
Congratulations to Yongha for publishing the paper titled "Elimination of Spurious Modes in SH0 Lithium Niobate Laterally Vibrating Resonators" with Electron Device Letters!
Lam Research Award
October 2015
Congratulations to Ruochen for being selected to receive the Lam Research Award! What a honor! The Lam research award is to recognize outstanding students within the ECE department at Illinois.
Paper Acceptance
August 2015
Congratulations to Yongha! His paper on "Spurious Mode Suppression in SH0 Lithium Niobate Laterally Vibrated MEMS Resonators" has been accepted to appear in IEDM 2015!