Recent News

• Dr. Youngno Youn successfully defends his Doctoral Thesis titled "A Concept of Spatial Impedance Adjustment for Space-modulated Beamforming Electromagnetic Surface" Congratulations Dr. Youn! (August, 2023)

• Youngno Youn receives the the prestigious 2023 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Fellowship Program! Congratulations!! (July, 2023)

• Prof. Hong's groups receives the 1st Best Student Paper Award and 2nd Best Paper Award in 2023 IEEE iWAT (International Workshop on Antenna Technology), Aalborg, Denmark (May 2023)

• Prof. Hong's group receives the Gold Prize Award in the prestigious Samsung HumanTech Paper Award for their work on mmWave and sub-THz RIS for wireless applications (Cheonga Lee and Youngno Youn). This work is a collaboration with Prof. Byung-Chan Chae of Yonsei University (February 2023) 

• Suho Chang receives the Best Masters Disseration Award from the Department of Electrical Engineering, POSTECH (January 2023)

• Prof. Hong recieves Commendation from the Ministry of SME and Startups (중소기업벤처부 장관상) for his contributions in the antenna and RF systems startup ecosystem of Korea (December 2022)

• Our paper titled "Dual-polarized Dual-band Antenna-on-Display using Via-less and Single-Layer" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters (December 2022)

• Youngno Youn is the recipient of the prestigious Wonik Award from the National Academdy of Engineering of Kora (한국공학한림원). This recognition is awarded to very few number of outstanding graduate students in the field of engineering in the nation. Congratualtions! (December 2022)

• Prof. Hong has been elected as  IEEE Fellow. He is the first elected Fellow in the field of antennas in Korea (November 2022)

• Our paper titled Planar Scan Angle Enhancing Metasurface Lens featuring Distortionless, Scan-lossless properties at mmWave" Suho Chang, Youngno Youn, Dongseop Lee, Daehyeon Kim, Kyoungchun Kweon and Wonbin Hong,  IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagations has been accepted (November 2022) 

• Our paper titled "A Shared Aperture Cavity Slot Antenna-in-Package Concept featuring End-Fire and Broadside Radiation for Enhanced Beam Coverage of mmWave Mobile Devices" by Bumhyun Kim, Myoungsun Kim, Dongseop Lee, Jeonghyo Lee, Youngno Youn, and Wonbin Hong, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagations has been accepted (November 2022) 

• Our paper titled "Enabling Spherical Beam Coverage for Millimeter-wave Stationary and Mobile Applications Using Stackable Patch Antenna" Junho Park, Ahmed Abdelmottaleb Omar, Jonghyun Kim, Jaehyun Choi, Beakjun Seong, Jongwoo Lee, and Wonbin Hong, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, Early Access, 2-14, 2022 has been accepted (October 2022)

• Our paper titled ""Dual-band Patch Antenna Matching Network comprised of Separated Ground Layers and Via Posts for Adjustable Return Current Path" Youngno Youn, Jaehyun Choi, Bumhyun Kim, Woonbong Hwang, Chow-Yen-Desmond Sim, and Wonbin Hong, IEEE Access has been accepted (August 2022)

• Our paper titled "Scattering Mitigation Frequency Selective Surface for Unidirectional Blockage Compensation" Youngno Youn, Daehyeon Kim, Jaehyun Choi, Suho Chang, and Wonbin Hong, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagations has been accpeted (July 2022)

• Our paper titled "Dome-shaped mmWave Lens Antenna Optimization for Wide-angle Scanning and Scan Loss Mitigation using Geometric Optics and Multiple Scattering" Youngno Youn, Jaehong Choi, Daehyeon Kim, Ahmed Omar, Jaehyun Choi, Suho Chang, Inseop Yoon, Seung-Tae Ko, Jungyub Lee, Youngju Lee, Mobayode O. Akinsolu, Bo Liu, and Wonbin Hong, IEEE Journal on Multiscale and Multiphysics Computational Techniques has been accepted (July 2022

• Prof. Hong's group and LG Uplus team up to deploy 6G RIS technology for future wireless networks (July 2022)

https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20220718027000017

• Daehyun Kim, Bumhyun Kim, Dongseop Lee received the 2022 IEEE IEEE AP-S/URSI Student Travel Grant (April 2022)

• Bumhyun Kim and Suho Chang each recived 2022 IEEE AP-S/URSI Honorable Mention for their respective submitted papers (April 2022)

• Youngno Youn has recieved the prestigious POSTECHIAN Fellowship, the sole recipient in the Department of Electrical Engineering. Congratulations! (April 2022)

• Our paper titled "A Programmable Reconfigurable Two-Port Half-Loop Antenna Concept for mmWave Wireless Applications" Bumhyun Kim, Junho Park, Dongkwon Choi, Dongseop Lee, Shao Yong Zheng, Sumin Yun, Jaehoon Jo, Hosaeng Kim, and Wonbin Hong, IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation has been accepted (April 2022)

• Youngno Youn has recieved the prestigious POSTECHIAN Fellowship, the sole recipient in the Department of Electrical Engineering. Congratulations! (April 2022)

• Our paper titled "Antenna-on-Display Concept on an Extremely Thin Substrate for Sub-6GHz Wireless Applications" has been accepted to the IEEE Transaction on Antennas and Propagation (TAP) (February, 2022)

• Prof. Hong gives an Invited Talk at Meta (Facebook), USA (December 2021)

• Our paper titled "Achieving Hemispherical Beam Coverage for a 39 GHz Integrated Lens featuring Double-Elliptical Boundaries through sequential GO and multiple Scattering" has received the 2nd Place Best Student Paper Award at the 2021 IEEE AP-S Symposium on Antennas and Propagation!  Congratulations Youngno!! (December 2021)

• Prof. Hong is elected in the 2022 has been elected into the 2022 Young Korean Academy of Science and Technology (Y-KAST) (December 2021)

• Our paper titled "Microwave Sensor for Non-Destructive, Volume-Indepement Liquid Characterization" authored by J. Kim and W. Hong has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Sensors Letters (December 2021)

• Prof. Hong delivers a Keynote Speech at the 2021 IEEE International Workshop on Electromagnetics, Applications and Student IInnovation (iWEMS). (November, 2021)

• Our paper titled "Accurate Electromagnetic and Physical Characters of Antenna Radome's at Millimeter-wave using Real-time Inverse Estimation Method " wins the 20th Paper Contest Excellence Award held by the Korean Institue of Electromagnetic Engeering and Science (KIEES). Congratulations to Dongseop and Suho! (November 2021)

• Congratulations to Ahmed! His recent paper titled "A Compact Wideband Vertically Polarized End-Fire Millimeter-Wave Antenna Utilizing Slot, Dielectric, and Cavity Resonator "  published in the IEEE Transaction on Antennas and Propagation (TAP) has been identified by the IEEE as the top accessed paper in the TAP for the month of September 2021!  (October, 2021)

• Our paper titled "A Planar, Polarization-switchable Endfire and ±Broadside Millimeter-Wave Antenna Array without Lumped Components" authored by A. Omar, J. Choi, J. Kim, J. Park, B. Seong, J. Lee and W. Hong has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transaction on Antennas and Propagation (October, 2021)

• Myungjin Hwang and Junhyeok Ahn joins us. Welcome! (August, 2021)

• Prof. Hong (POSTECH), LPKF and Kreemo agree to collaborate on the field of 5G and 6G antennas using laser direct structuring technologys (August 2021) (https://www.dongascience.com/news.php?idx=48731) 

• Prof. Hong (Principal Investigator), Prof.  Wooksung Kim (POSTECH) and Prof. Jungseok Oh (Seoul National University) are awarded the prestigious Samsung STF Grant. The 3-year research will focus on developing a new class of Cognitive Organic Reconfigurable Electronics for 6G. Mores news to come in the future! (August, 2021)

• Prof. Hong gives an Invited Talk titled "Key Technologies for 6G Wireless" at Korea Communications Agency (KCA), Naju, Korea (August 2021)

• Prof. Hong gives an Invited Talk titled "Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface for 6G Wireless" at LG Electronics, Seoul, Korea (June 2021)

• Junho Park successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis titled "Formulation of Homogeneous Antennas on Heterogeneous Surfaces for mmWave Spherical Beamforming Using Field Equivalence Principle". Congratulations Dr. Park!! (June 2021)

• Yerim Oh successfully defends her Masters thesis titled "Design and Characterization of Antennas Integrated on Lossy, Stratified Medium ". Congratulations! (June 2021)

• Jaehong Choi successfully defends his Masters thesis. Congratulations! (June 2021)

• Prof. Hong gives an Invited Talk titled "Transparent Antennas: Present and Challenges" at ETRI, Korea (May 2021)

• Prof. Hong gives an invited Talk titled "Maximizing the Possibilities of mmWave 5G through 360 Degrees Antennas and Measurement Solutions " at Qualcomm, San Diego USA (May, 2021)

• Prof. Hong gives an Invited Talk titled "State-of-the-Art millimeter-wave antennas" at Sunway Communications, San Diego, USA (April 2021)

• Prof. Hong give an Invited Talk titled "Electromagnetic Solutions using Glass Substrates" at Corning Precision Materials, Cheonan, Korea (April 2021)

• Our paper titled "Broadband and Wide-Angle Scanning Capability in Low-Coupled mm-Wave Phased-Arrays Incorporating ILA with HIS Fabricated on FR-4 PCB " authored by J.Y. Lee, J. Choi. D. Choi, Y. Youn and W. Hong has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology  (February 2021)

• Jonghyun Kim receives the Most Outstanding Masters Thesis Award from the Department of Electrical Engineering, POSTECH. Congratulations! (January 2021)

• Our paper titled "A Compact Wideband Vertically Polarized End-Fire Millimeter-Wave Antenna Utilizing Slot, Dielectric, and Cavity Resonators" authored by A. Omar, J. Park, W. Kwon, and W. Hong has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transaction on Antennas and Propagation (January 2021)

• Prof. Hong gives a Plenary Talk titled "Challenges and Opportunities for Millimeter-wave and sub-THz mobile antennas for Beyond 5G and 6G " at 2020 IEEE International RF & Microwave Conference (RFM), Malaysia (December 2020)

• Our paper titled "A Wideband Switched-Beam Antenna Array fed by Compact Single-layer Butler Matrix" authored by J. M. Wen, C. K. Wang, W. Hong, Y. Pan, and S. Y. Zheng has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transaction on Antennas and Propagation (December 2020)

• Junho Park receives the prestigious 2020 IEEE AP-S C.J. Reddy Educational Grant from IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society/IEEE AP-S . Congratulations Junho!

• Prof. Hong gives an invited Speech titled "The present and future of 5G/6G materials and RF components" at SK HTM (October 2020)

• Our paper titled "Adaptive 5G Architecture for a mmWave Antenna Front-End Package Consisting of Tunable Matching Network and Surface-mount Technology" authored by Jaehyun Choi, Dooseok Choi, Jongwoo Lee, Woonbong Hwang and Wonbin Hong has been been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transaction on Industrial Electronics (October 2020)

• Our paper titled "mmWave 5G NR Cellular Handset Prototype Featuring Optically Invisible Beamforming Antenna-on-Display" authored by Wonbin Hong, Jaehyun Choi, Dongpil Park, Myunsoo Kim, Chisang You, Doochan Jung and Junho Park has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Communication Magazine (September 2020)

• Prof. Hong gives an invited Speech  titled "Achieving 360 Degree Coverage using Antenna-on-Display/mmWave Antenna-in-Package" at Google (September 2020)

• Prof. Hong gives an invited Speech titled "Invisible Antenna-on-Displays: Technology and Applications" at Google (September 2020)

• Our paper titled "Achieving 360◦ Coverage Dynamic and Switchable Beamforming Through Resource-Efficient Switchable Antennas for Future mmWave IoT Devices" authored by Ohyun Jo, Wonpyo Kwon and Wonbin Hong has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transaction on Industrial Electronics (September 2020)

• Dr. Ahmed Omar received the prestigious POSTECH Initiative for fostering Unicorn of Research & Innovation Fellowship award. He is the first to receive this award in the history of the Department of Electrical Engineering. Congratulations Ahmed! (September 2020)

• Prof. Hong gives an invited Speech titled "The present and future of 5G/6G materials and RF components" at SK HTM (October 2020)

• Prof. Hong gives an invited talk titled "Recent trends in millimeter-wave based Beyond 5G mobile antennas: Challenges and possible approaches " at the 5th International Conference on UK-China Emerging Technologies (August 2020)

• Prof. Hong received the ‘Scientist of the Month Award’ by the Ministry of Science and ICT, and National Research Foundation of Korea for the month of August. Scientist of the Month is the award granted to a researcher who has contributed to scientific technology development with his/her research (August 2020).

• Our paper titled "Optically Invisible Touch Sensor Panel Integrated Antenna: Concept and Demonstration at mmWave Spectrum" has received the 1st Place Best Student Paper Award at the 2020 IEEE AP-S Symposium on Antennas and Propagation!  Congratulations Junho!!

• Prof. Hong received an official commendation from the Minister of Science and ICT on the 55th Annual Invention Day hosted by the Korean Intellectual Property Office. Prof. Hong was recognized for his contribution of inventing and commercializing the source technology on 5G millimeter-wave, which is the new 5G antenna technology paradigm (June 2020). 

• Our paper titled "A Software-Programmable Directivity, Beamsteering, and Polarization Reconfigurable Block Cell Antenna Concept for Millimeter-wave 5G Phased-Array Architectures " authored by Junho Park,  Moogoong Choo, Sohyeon Jung, Dongkwon Choi, Jaehong Choi, and Wonbin Hong has been accepted  for publication in the IEEE Transaction on Antennas and Propagation (June 2020)

• Our paper titled "A Symmetrically-Stacked Planar Antenna Concept Exhibiting Quasi-Isotropic Radiation Coverage" authored by Jonghyun Kim,  Junho Park,  Ahmed Abdelmottaleb Omar, and Wonbin Hong, has been accepted  for publication in the IEEE Antennas s and Wireless Propagation Letters (June, 2020)

• Prof. Hong is appointed as a Mueunjae Chair Professor (June 2020) 

• Our paper titled ‘Metal Stamped Antenna-in-Package for Millimeter-wave Large-scale Phased-array Applications Using Multiphysics Analysis’ authored by Junho Park and Wonbin Hong has been awarded the 2020 EuCAP Best Student Paper Award! (March 2020)!

• Two of our papers have been accepted to the IEEE International Microwave Symposium 2020 (IMS 2020) (February 2020)

• Prof. Hong gives an invited talk titled "Trends in Antenna-in-Package and Interconnects" at Samsung Electronics, Korea (January 2020)

• Our Paper titled "Frequency Adjustable Planar Folded Slot Antenna Using Fully-Integrated Multi-Throw Function for 5G Mobile Devices at Millimeter-Wave Spectrum" authored by Jaehyun Choi, Junho Park, Youngno Youn, Woonbong Hwang, Heechang Seong, Yong Nam Whang and Wonbin Hong has been accepted to the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Technique (December 2019)

• Prof. Hong gives an invited talk titled "State-of-the-Art Millimeter-wave Antennas and RF Technologies for 5G/6G Mobile Devices " at the National University of Singapore hosted by NUS/CRFID chapter jointly with IEEE MTT/AP and EMC chapters. Thank you Prof. Zhi Ning Chen for your hospitality (December 2019)

• Our paper titled "Polarization and Frequency-selective Surface for Vehicular Beamforming Communications requiring near-zero profile " authored by Youngno Youn, Sungmin Cho, Hojin Song and Wonbin Hong has been accepted to the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology  (December 2019)

• Our paper titled "Efficient NFC Coil Antennas for Fully Enclosed Metallic-Framed Wearable Devices" authored by Jaehyun Choi, Sangho Lim and Wonbin Hong has been accepted to the IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation (November 2019)

• Our paper titled "Tight Coupling Dual-band Coupler with Large Frequency Ratio and Arbitrary Power Division Ratios over Two Bands" authored by Liang Gao, Shaoyong Shen, Wonbin Hong, Yuanxin Li and Yunliang Long has been accepted to IEEE Access (November 2019)

• Prof. Hong's research group has been awarded the Next Generation Engineering Researcher Program by the National Research Foundation of Korea  for 5G+/6G Composite Materials, Fabrication and Components (차세대 공학 연구자 육성 사업단)". The 3-year research and educated project will be lead by Prof. Hong and Prof. Hojin Song and Prof. Suseok Choi will be serving as co-PIs (November, 2019)

• Our paper titled "Millimeter-wave Phased-Array Antenna-in-Package (AiP) using Stamped Metal Process for Enhanced Heat Dissipation" authored by Junho Park, Dooseok Choi and Wonbin Hong has been accepted to the IEEE Antennas s and Wireless Propagation Letters (August, 2019)

• Our paper titled "Characterizing Volume Density of Sub-Wavelength Particles at 220-325 GHz Using Deep Neural Network and Non-featured Scattering Matrix " authored by Sohyeon Jung and Wonbin Hong has been accepted to the IEEE Antenns s and Wireless Propagation Letters (August, 2019)

• Our paper titled "Energy Efficient 5G Phased-Arrays incorporating Vertically-Polarized Endfire Planar Folded Slot Antenna for mmWave Mobile Terminals" authored by Junho Park, Heechang Seong, Yongnam Whang, and Wonbin Hong has been accepted to the IEEE Transaction on Antennas and Propagation (July 2019)

• Our paper titled "Performance Enhancement in Compact Inverted-L Antenna by Using 1-D EBG Ground Structures and Beam Directors" authored by Jae-Yeong Lee, Jaehyun Choi, Jaehyung Jang and Wonbin Hong has been accepted to the IEEE Access (July 2019)

• Prof. Hong gives an invited talk titled "5G Display Antennas" at 2019 Tech week, sponsored by eTnews (http://english.etnews.com/ ) in Seoul Korea (June, 2019)

• Prof. Nader Behdad of University of Wisconsin, USA, gives an invited talk on "Microwave ablation for biomedical applications" during is visit to our group. Thank you for your wonderful visit! (May, 2019)

• Prof. Hong gives an invited talk titled "Software-controlled pattern- and polarization- reconfigurable block cell antenna concept with infinite scalability" at the 2019 Antenna Technology Workshop sponsored by KIEES/IEEE AP-S in Seoul, Korea (April, 2019)

• The POSTECH Beyond 5G Research Consortium (headed by Prof. Hong and consisting of seven institutions and global industry members) officially announces the world's first demonstration of an "Antenna-on-Display (AoD) for millimeter-wave 5G and Beyond 5G Mobile/AR/V2X Devices (March, 2019). 

news.joins.com/article/23423903 

m.dongascience.donga.com/news.php?idx=27659 

• Prof. Hong gives an invited talk at the National Intelligence Agency (March, 2019)

• Prof. Hong gives an invited talk titled "Latest advances in 5G Wireless Systems " at Amotech, Seoul, Korea (March, 2019)

• Prof. Hong gives an invited presentation titled "Compact MIMO Antenna Concept Realizing Entire 4G LTE and 5G Spectrum for Full-Display Metallic Handsets" in Miam, FL, USA during the 2019 International Workshop on Antenna Technology (iWAT) (March, 2019)

• Our paper titled "An Optically Invisible Antenna-on-Display (AoD) Concept for Millimeter-wave 5G Cellular Devices" authored by Joonho Park, Seungyoon Lee, Jongmin Kim, Dongpil Park, Woo Choi, and Wonbin Hong has been accepted to the IEEE Transaction on Antennas and Propagation (February, 2019)

• Prof. Hong's research team and SK Telecom develops a self-diagnosis and calibration technology for millimeter-wave 5G cellular antennas. This first-of-the-kind technology is expected to be commercially deployed in upcoming smartphones in mmWave 5G ready markets (January, 2019)

http://biz.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2019/01/15/2019011500871.html- 

• Seung Yoon Lee has been selected as the 2018 Outstanding Master's Student Award by the Electrical Engineering Department of POSTECH. This prestigious award is annually given to one graduating Master's student whom have displayed extraordinary strength in research and academics. Congratulations! (January, 2019)

• Prof. Hong receives the 2018 Young Researcher Award from the Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science (November, 2018)

• Our paper titled "Optically Invisible Antenna-on-Display (AoD) for Millimeter-wave 5G Cellular Devices" authored by Joonho Park (first author) receives the Silver Medal in the 14th Samsung Electro-Mechanics Best Paper Award (November, 2018). Congrats Joonho!

http://www.samsungsem.com/global/sem_thesis/prize/index.jsp 

• Our paper titled "Wideband 39 GHz Vertically-Polarized Endfire Antenna-in-Package (AiP) Array Featuring Near-Planar Profile" authored by Joonho Park, Seungyoon Lee, and Wonbin Hong has been selected as the 1st Best Student Paper Award at 2018 IEEE ISAP (October, 2018)

• Our paper titled "Four-element Reconfigurable Coupled Loop MIMO Antenna Featuring LTE Full Band Operation for Metallic-rimmed Smartphone" authored by Jaehyun Choi, Woonbong Hwang, Chisang You, Byungwoon Jung and Wonbin Hong has been accepted to the IEEE Transaction on Antennas and Propagation (October, 2018)

• Prof. Hong gives two invited talks respectively titled "Antenna-on-Display", "5G Technologies for Future Mobile Devices" at Google, Mountain View, CA, U.S.A (October, 2018)

• Prof. Hong gives an invited talked titled "RF Circuits" at LG Electronics, Seoul, Korea (August, 2018)

• Prof. Hong is awarded a 3-year research grant from IITP along with KAIST and TTA to explore measurement and calibration methodologies for future wireless devices (July, 2018) 

• Prof. Hong gives an invited talk titled "Evolution of millimeter-wave and 5G Frontends" at EMC Korea 2018, Seoul, Korea (July, 2018)

• Our paper titled "High Efficiency Crossed-Loop 4G LTE Antenna for All-Display Metallic-rimmed Smartphones" authored by Jaehyun Choi, Woonbong Hwang, Chisang You, Byungwoon Jung and Wonbin Hong has been accepted to the International Journal of Antennas and Propagation. (July, 2018)

• POSTECH (PI: Prof. Hong) signs a multi-year MOU with SK Telecom to collaborate on cellular 5G antenna technologies and systems. (June, 2018)

http://news.naver.com/main/ranking/read.nhn?mid=etc&sid1=111&rankingType=popular_day&oid=018&aid=0004134604&date=20180626&type=1&rankingSeq=9&rankingSectionId=105

• Prof. Hong gives an invited talk titled "IC, antennas, packaging, and interconnects for Beyond 5G" at Samsung Electronics LSI Business Division, Hwaseong, Korea (June, 2018)

• Prof. Hong gives an invited talk titled "Electromagnetic Surfaces for millimeter-wave 5G communications " at Corning Sullivan Park Science and Technology Center, Corning, Corning, NY, U.S.A. (June, 2018)

• On behalf of POSTECH Information Research Laboratory (PIRL), Prof. Hong and Prof. Song receives a generous donation from Keysignt Technologies. The $8 million gift contains state-of-the-art software and hardware solutions to assist in exploring fundamental concepts and solutions for 5G and beyond.  Furthermore, our research group has been designated as an official "Keysight-branded Laboratory for Beyond 5G and IoT" , which is the first of its kind in Korea (June 2018) 

(http://www.yonhapnews.co.kr/bulletin/2018/06/01/0200000000AKR20180601141000053.HTML?input=1195m)