Scientific awards

  • Audience Choice Award John Bandler Memorial Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) Competition, "Fast and Reliable Operating Point Switching for Mobile Network Basestation PAs to Reduce Global Energy Consumption", IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS), M. Becker, June 2025

  • First Place John Bandler Memorial Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) Competition, "Fast and Reliable Operating Point Switching for Mobile Network Basestation PAs to Reduce Global Energy Consumption", IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS), M. Becker, June 2025

  • 2nd prize Emerging Talent Award of the "Friends of IHP" association for the diploma thesis "Untersuchung eines duo-binären Lasertreibers", Maximilian Froitzheim, June 2025

  • Nomination for Best Student Paper Award and Presentation Award on Communication Systems, "Low-Loss GSG Bondwire Chip-to-Chip Interconnects from DC to 330 GHz", 14th IEEE International Conference on Modern Circuits and Systems Technologies (MOCAST), F.A. Dürrwald, June 2025

  • Georg-Helm-Preis 2024, Maximilian Froitzheim, Diploma Thesis "Untersuchung eines duo-binären Lasertreibers", Dez. 2024

  • Best WiCAS paper award, "Investigation of Modulation Bandwidth in High-Frequency VCOs Fabricated in 130nm SiGe BiCMOS Technology", IEEE International Conference on Electronic Circuits and Systems (ICECS), R. Riaz, Nov. 2024

  • Johannes-Görges-Preis 2024 of Wacker Chemie AG , M. Froitzheim, Nov. 2024

  • IEEE Sensors Letters Best Paper Runner-Up Award, "Smart glove with fully integrated textile sensors and wireless sensor frontend for the Tactile Internet", J. Wagner, July 2024

  • Finalist EuMIC Young Engineer Prize, "Switchable V-Band Power Amplifier with Ultra-Fast Turn-On for Aggressive Duty-Cycling", 18th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference (EuMIC), M. Becker, Sept. 2023

  • Best Student Paper Award, "A 60 GHz Up-Conversion Mixer in 22 nm FD-SOI CMOS With Back-Gate Mode Switching", IEEE International Symposium on Radio-Frequency Integration Technology (RFIT), X. Xu, Aug. 2023

  • Best Student Paper Award, " Two Wilkinson-Power-Combiners designed with Transmission Lines and Lumped Elements in 22 nm FD-SOI CMOS ", IEEE RADIO international conference, X. Xu, May 2023

  • Silver Leaf Award for the top 10-20% publication "Complementary High-Voltage Compliant High-Current Output Stages for PoDL" at PRIME 2022, F. Schwarze, June 2022

  • Student Best Paper Award – Winner (1st Place), "Stability Analysis of Mutually Synchronized Spatially Distributed 24 GHz Oscillators", International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference  (I2MTC), C. Hoyer, May 2022

  • BMBF Innovations Award „Green ICT“, Awardee with project DAKORE, Aug. 2021

  • 1st Place - Young Professionals Best Paper Award, 21st IEEE Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON), L. Szilagyi, April 2021

  • Best Student Paper Award, IEEE Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC), X. Xu, Dec. 2020

  • Student Award for outstanding work in a paper, IEEE International Symposium on Radio-Frequency Integration Techznology (RFIT), Z. Tibenzky, September 2020

  • Harry-Dember-Preis , L. Petrauskas, 2020.

  • Enno-Heidebroek-Urkunde, L. Petrauskas, 2020.

  • Enno-Heidebroek-Urkunde for excellent achievments in studies as one of the best graduate of course Nanoelectric Systems, Y. Jiao, December 2019

  • Heinrich-Barkhausen-Award for the best dissertation at Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering of TU Dresden, P. V. Testa, Dresden, November 2019

  • 1st rank at 25th Dresdner Marketing-Award for advertising campaign in electrical engineering,  PartyProfs (F. Ellinger, A. Seidel, F. Schwarze), November 2019

  • Gold Leaf Award for a top 10% publication at PRIME 2019, T. Drechsel, Juli 2019

  • Exzellenzpreis 2019 of Deutsch-Französischen Hochschule (DFH), J. M. Eckhardt for diploma thesis "Entwurf eines MIMO-Primärradarsystems", January 2019

  • Enno-Heidebroek-Urkunde for excellent achievments in studies as one of the best graduate  Electrical Engineering, Xin Xu, December 2018

  • Best Student Paper Award: 2nd Place, Ali Ferchichi, IEEE MWSCAS 2018

  • Georg-Helm-Preis, Johannes Eckhardt, Diploma Thesis "Entwurf eines MIMO-Primärradarsystems", 2018

  • Co-contribution for photo which was basis for ZEIT Career-Award 2018 of TU Dresden, https://tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/newsportal/news/tu-dresden-gewinnt-erneut-zeit-karriere-award

  • Best Student Paper Award, IEEE Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC), P. V. Testa, Nov. 2017
  • Best Paper Award, 30th IEEE International System-on-Chip Conference (SOCC), J. Pliva, Sept. 2017
  • Runner-up Paper Award, 14th International Conference on Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design (SMACD) 2017, M. Kreißig, June 2017
  • Silver Leaf Award  for a top 10-20% publication at PRIME 2017, M. El-Shennawy, June 2017
  • Gold Leaf Award for a top 10% publication at PRIME 2017, P. Testa, June 2017
  • Gold Leaf Award for a top 10% publication at PRIME 2017, R. Ma, June 2017
  • Best Poster Award Competition, 21th International Student Conference on Electrical Engineering, C. Hoyer, 2017
  • Lohrmann-Medaille of the TU Dresden for the best of class in electrical engineering, S. Buhr, 2017
  • Best Student Paper Award, IEEE International conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband (ICUWB) 2016, M. Barahona,  October 2016
  • Gold Leaf Award for a top 10% publication at PRIME 2016, J.D. Leufker, June 2016
  • Silver Leaf Award for a top 10-20% publication at PRIME 2016, G. Belfiore, June 2016
  • Bronze Leaf Award for a top 20-30% publication at PRIME 2016, M. El-Shennawy, June 2016
  • Vodafone Innovation Award 2016, F. Ellinger, June 2016 (press release)
  • Best Poster Award, 10th German Microwave Conference (GeMIC), M. Schulz, March 2016
  • 3rd rank Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS), M. El-Shennawy, Dec. 2015
  • 1st rank Best Student Paper Award, IEEE MTT-S/SBMO International Micorwave and Optoelectronics Conference (IMOC), D. Schoeniger, Nov. 2015
  • 3rd rank Cool Silicon Award 2015 for excellent scientific paper, L. Szilagyi, G. Belfiore, R. Henker, F. Ellinger, Oct. 2015
  • 1st rank Cool Silicon Award 2015 for excellent scientific paper, D. Fritsche, C. Carta, F. Ellinger, Oct. 2015
  • Bronze Leaf Award for a top 20-30% publication at PRIME 2015,  M. El-Shennawy, June 2015
  • Bronze Leaf Award for a top 20-30% publication at PRIME 2015, R. Paulo, June 2015
  • 3rd place Best Student Paper Award, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), L. Szilagyi, May 2015
  • Forschungspreis Technische Kommunikation of Alcatel-Lucent Stiftung für Kommunikationsforschung 2014, F. Ellinger, November 2014 (press release)
  • GLOBALFOUNDRIES-Award 2014 for the best diploma thesis in Microelectronics, J. Pliva, Dresden, November 2014
  • Young Engineer Prize für eine Veröffentlichung auf der IEEE European Microwave Integrated Circuit Conference (EuMIC), C. Tzschoppe, Oktober 2014
  • Student Paper Award for a top 10 publication at 57th International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, L. Szilagyi, August 2014
  • EU-Projekt LYNCEUS received Lloyd's List Global Innovation Award 2014, CCN coordinates the development of a SILO-based positioning system for rescue at sea
  • Silver Leaf Award for a top 10-20% publication at PRIME 2014, L. Szilagyi, June 2014
  • Enno-Heidebroek-Urkunde of TU Dresden for the best graduates in electrical engineering, J. Pliva, Dresden, January 2014
  • Heinrich-Barkhausen-Award for the best dissertation at Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering of TU Dresden, U. Meyer, Dresden, November 2013
  • IHP Award for an outstanding diploma thesis, J. Schulze, Franktfurt/Oder, September 2013
  • GoldenLeaf Award for a top Top 10% publication at PRIME 2013, J. Zhao, June 2013
  • Bronze Leaf Award for a top 20-30% publication at PRIME 2013, J.D. Leufker, June 2013
  • Enno-Heidebroek-Urkunde for the best graduates of the TU Dresden in engineering sciences , G. Tretter, Dresden, December 2012
  • Innovationspreis des Industrieclubs Sachsen 2011, C. Knochenhauer, Dresden, May 2012
  • Förderpreis der Friedrich-und-Elisabeth-Boysen-Stiftung 2011, C. Knochenhauer, Dresden, April 2012
  • Enno-Heidebroek-Urkunde of the TU Dresden for one of the best graduates in electrical engineering, D. Fritsche, Dresden, January 2012
  • Johannes-Görges Award 2011 from ABB, A. Richter, Nov. 2011
  • IHP Award for excellent diploma thesis, D. Fritsche, Franktfurt/Oder, September 2011
  • Hermann-Willkomm-Preis, N. Joram, November 2010
  • Elektronik Ecodesign-Preis, Falk Haßler, Dresden October 2010 (award, press release)
  • IEEE MTT-S Outstanding Young Engineer Award, Frank Ellinger, Anaheim/Los Angeles, 2010 (press release)
  • Innovation award of the Industrieclub Sachsen e.V., Falk Haßler, Dresden, 2010
  • Lohrmann-Medaille of the TU Dresden for the best of class in electrical engineering, R. Wolf, December 2009 (press release)
  • Frank Ellinger has been elected by the IEEE MTTS as IEEE Distinguished Microwave Lecturer for 2009-2010
  • Johannes-Görges Award 2008 from ABB, U. Mayer, Nov. 2008
  • Rohde & Schwarz EEEfCOM innovation award 2008 for innovative research and development in MIMAX, R. Eickhoff, F. Ellinger, U. Mayer, R. Krämer, I. Santamaria, October 2008 (ceremony, press release, SMT 11/2008)
  • IHP Award for excellent diploma thesis, D. Schöniger, 2008
  • Werner von Siemens Excellence Award, R. Bieber, Dresden, 2008
  • Werner von Siemens Excellence Award, C. Knochenhauer, Dresden, 2008
  • Semiconductor Conference Dresden, Best Student Paper Award, Michael Wickert, April 2008
  • IEEE International Microwave and Optoelectronic Conference 2007, Best Student Paper Award, F. Haßler, Nov. 2007
  • AMD Award for outstanding works in the area of circuit design, S. Hauptmann, Dresden, Nov. 2006
  • Philips Award for excellent performance during the studies in electrical engineering, R. Wolf, Dresden, Jan. 2006
  • EEEfCom Innovation Award of Rohde & Schwarz, Agilent and Gerotron, F. Ellinger, Berlin, 2005
  • Philips Award for excellent performance during the studies in electrical engineering, M. Wickert, Dresden, Jan. 2005
  • A IEEE Journal on Solid-State Circuits paper of F. Ellinger has been under the 3 most-read (down-loaded) papers, 2004
  • Philips Award for excellent performance during the studies in electrical engineering, S. Hauptmann, Dresden, Dec. 2002
  • Philips Award for excellent performance during the studies in electrical engineering, C. Knochenhauer, Dresden, Dec. 2002
  • Denzler Prize of the Swiss Electrotechnical Association (SEV) for outstanding works in the area of electrical engineering, F. Ellinger, Zürich, 2001
  • ETH Medal for excellent scientific works, F. Ellinger, Zürich, 2001
  • ETH PhD Award (Bonus 29) for outstanding doctoral theses, F. Ellinger, Zürich 2001

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