The Radio Systems research team of Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT) has been honored with two prestigious international awards at the 2025 edition of the IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS), held in San Francisco, USA. The team received the Best Journal Paper Awards from the IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society (MTT-S), acknowledging their outstanding contributions to microwave and wireless technologies.

Coordinated by Nuno Borges de Carvalho, senior researcher at IT, Director of the Department of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics (DETI), and Full Professor at the University of Aveiro.

Awarded Publications

1. 2025 IEEE Journal of Microwaves Best Paper Award

Title: "Microwave-Enabled Wearables: Underpinning Technologies, Integration Platforms, and Next-Generation Roadmap"

Authors: M. Wagih, L. Balocchi, F. Benassi, N.B. Carvalho, J.-C. Chiao, R. Correia, A. Costanzo, Y. Cui, D. Georgiadou, C. Gouveia, J. Grosinger, J.S. Ho, K. Hu, A. Komolafe, S. Lemey, C. Loss, G. Marrocco, P. Mitcheson, V. Palazzi, N. Panunzio, G. Paolini, P. Pinho, J. Preishuber-Pflügl, Y. Qaragoez, H. Rahmani, H. Rogier, J. Romero Lopera, L. Roselli, D. Schreurs, M. Tentzeris, X. Tian, R. Torah, R. Torres, P. van Torre, D. Vital, and S. Beeby.

Published in: IEEE Journal of Microwaves, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 193–266, Jan. 2023.

2. 2025 IEEE Microwave Magazine Best Paper Award

Title: "Radiative Wireless Power Transfer: Where We Are and Where We Want to Go"

Authors: V. Palazzi, R. Correia, X. Gu, S. Hemour, K. Wu, A. Costanzo, D. Masotti, E. Fazzini, A. Georgiadis, H. Kazemi, R. Pereira, N. Shinohara, D. Schreurs, J.-C. Chiao, A. Takacs, D. Dragomirescu, and N.B. Carvalho.

Published in: IEEE Microwave Magazine, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 57–59, Feb. 2023.

Authors

Nuno Borges Carvalho; Pedro Pinho; Ricardo Correia; Ricardo Torres; Ricardo Pereira.

These accolades highlight the scientific impact and technological innovation of the research carried out by the IT team. Nuno Borges de Carvalho personally accepted both awards during the IMS 2025 awards ceremony.

These awards further reinforce the international leadership of the Instituto de Telecomunicações and the University of Aveiro in the fields of microwave communications, wireless systems, and emerging radio technologies.