IEM Seminar Series: The Power of Working in Concert
Event details
| Date | 27.01.2026 |
| Hour | 15:15 › 16:00 |
| Speaker | Prof. Ali Hajimiri, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), USA |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
| Event Language | English |
Abstract
Operation of a large number of similar entities can generate behavior that cannot be expected from single one. This principle combined with the physical concept of coherence in waves enables creation of programmable 3-dimensional focal points that can be used to enable many applications such as wireless energy transfer at distance on earth and even from space, flat lensless projectors and cameras, and various other present and future applications. It can manifest itself in the form of focusing arrays with an ensemble of synchronized wave generating or receiving elements. While the individual element behavior may be rather unremarkable, such systems can lead to rich and useful behaviors. We will go through a journey based on this principle and a progression of its potential applications of such systems in RF, mm-wave, THz, and optical range.
Bio
Ali Hajimiri is Bren Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering and Medical Engineering, Director of Caltech Holistic Integrated Circuit Laboratory, and co-Director of the Space-based Solar Power Project at California Institute of Technology (Caltech). His research interests are high-speed and high-frequency electronics and photonics integrated circuits for applications in sensors, photonics, communication, wireless energy transfer, and biomedical devices. He co-founded Axiom Microdevices Inc., whose fully-integrated CMOS PA has shipped around 400,000,000 units, and was acquired by Skyworks Inc.
He is a Fellow of National Academy of Inventors (NAI). He is also a Fellow of IEEE and has served as a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Solid-State and Microwave Societies. He is the winner of the Microwave Prize. He has also won the Feynman Prize for Excellence in Teaching, Caltech’s most prestigious teaching honor, as well as Caltech’s Graduate Students Council Teaching and Mentoring award. He is also three-times winner of the Associated Students of Caltech (ASCIT) Undergraduate Excellence in Teaching Award. He was a co-recipient of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits Best Paper Award, the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) Jack Kilby Outstanding Paper Award, a co-recipient of RFIC best paper award, a two-time co-recipient of CICC best paper award, and a three-time winner of the IBM faculty partnership award as well as National Science Foundation CAREER award and Okawa Foundation award. He has 200 issued patents.
He has served on the Technical Program Committee of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) as the chair of the technology directions sub-committee, and as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems (TCAS): Part-II, a member of the Technical Program Committees of the International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), Guest Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, and Guest Editorial Board of Transactions of Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers of Japan (IEICE).
Operation of a large number of similar entities can generate behavior that cannot be expected from single one. This principle combined with the physical concept of coherence in waves enables creation of programmable 3-dimensional focal points that can be used to enable many applications such as wireless energy transfer at distance on earth and even from space, flat lensless projectors and cameras, and various other present and future applications. It can manifest itself in the form of focusing arrays with an ensemble of synchronized wave generating or receiving elements. While the individual element behavior may be rather unremarkable, such systems can lead to rich and useful behaviors. We will go through a journey based on this principle and a progression of its potential applications of such systems in RF, mm-wave, THz, and optical range.
Bio
Ali Hajimiri is Bren Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering and Medical Engineering, Director of Caltech Holistic Integrated Circuit Laboratory, and co-Director of the Space-based Solar Power Project at California Institute of Technology (Caltech). His research interests are high-speed and high-frequency electronics and photonics integrated circuits for applications in sensors, photonics, communication, wireless energy transfer, and biomedical devices. He co-founded Axiom Microdevices Inc., whose fully-integrated CMOS PA has shipped around 400,000,000 units, and was acquired by Skyworks Inc.
He is a Fellow of National Academy of Inventors (NAI). He is also a Fellow of IEEE and has served as a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Solid-State and Microwave Societies. He is the winner of the Microwave Prize. He has also won the Feynman Prize for Excellence in Teaching, Caltech’s most prestigious teaching honor, as well as Caltech’s Graduate Students Council Teaching and Mentoring award. He is also three-times winner of the Associated Students of Caltech (ASCIT) Undergraduate Excellence in Teaching Award. He was a co-recipient of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits Best Paper Award, the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) Jack Kilby Outstanding Paper Award, a co-recipient of RFIC best paper award, a two-time co-recipient of CICC best paper award, and a three-time winner of the IBM faculty partnership award as well as National Science Foundation CAREER award and Okawa Foundation award. He has 200 issued patents.
He has served on the Technical Program Committee of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) as the chair of the technology directions sub-committee, and as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems (TCAS): Part-II, a member of the Technical Program Committees of the International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), Guest Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, and Guest Editorial Board of Transactions of Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers of Japan (IEICE).
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Contact
- Philippe Gay-Balmaz