Energy-constrained RF
Always-on receivers, low-power sensing, and circuits that extract useful information before the energy budget disappears.
- Wake-up receivers
- Low-power sensing
- Signal detection
RF circuits, architectures, and electromagnetic systems
New ways to sense, communicate, and shape waves.
We investigate new circuit and system architectures spanning ultra-low-power sensing, resilient RF, millimeter-wave electronics, heterogeneous integration, and unconventional apertures.
01 / Research
What becomes possible when circuits, interfaces, and apertures are designed together?
We develop new architectures and analytical understanding, then use integrated circuits and experiments to test the ideas.
Resilient integrated circuits
RF and microwave circuits designed for interference, radiation, extreme environments, and the other realities hidden by clean simulations.
- RFICs
- Harsh environments
- Contested spectrum
Millimeter-wave systems
Power generation, frequency synthesis, and compact front ends spanning microwave through millimeter-wave and sub-terahertz frequencies.
- Power amplifiers
- Frequency generation
- Sub-THz
Heterogeneous integration
Circuits, devices, packaging, and interfaces developed together to combine technologies that do not belong on a single die.
- 3D integration
- Multi-technology systems
- Advanced packaging
02 / Selected results
Ideas made testable.
Representative peer-reviewed results connecting broader questions to measured circuits, systems, and experimental methods.
012024 · IEEE T-MTT
A millimeter-wave receiver exploiting complementary current reuse and power-efficient biasing
Millimeter-wave systems · Integrated circuits
02UMD · Radar systems
Symbol-rate polarization scrambling for sidelobe coherence suppression and intercept denial
Electromagnetic systems · Resilient sensing
032025 · ISSCC
A micromachined heterogeneously integrated active probe for non-disruptive in-situ measurements
Heterogeneous integration · Measurement science
042024 · IMS
A near-zero-power reconfigurable and robust multiband RF wake-up receiver
Energy-constrained RF · Resilient sensing
03 / People
Researchers who move fluently between abstraction levels.
Students learn to formulate questions, develop circuits and architectures, and evaluate them through analysis, simulation, and experiment.
Join the lab
Come study difficult RF problems.
We are interested in students who want to ask original questions, develop deep technical skills, and carry ambitious ideas from first principles through convincing validation.
Contact Professor Moody