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Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design

Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design is a research topic within Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Science Explorer counts 45k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the design and optimization of radio frequency integrated circuits (RF ICs) in CMOS technology, covering topics such as oscillators, low-noise amplifiers, millimeter-wave circuits, phase noise characterization, transceivers, inductors, and frequency synthesizers.

  • CMOS
  • Oscillators
  • Low-Noise Amplifiers
  • Millimeter-Wave
  • RF
  • Integrated Circuits
  • Phase Noise
  • Transceivers
  • Inductors
  • Frequency Synthesizer
Research works
45k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+6%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
44% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design

Which countries lead Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (2.4k and 754 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2.4k works
  2. 2 United States 754 works
  3. 3 India 630 works
  4. 4 South Korea 409 works
  5. 5 Germany 361 works
  6. 6 Taiwan 244 works
  7. 7 Japan 229 works
  8. 8 France 181 works
  9. 9 Italy 154 works
  10. 10 Canada 115 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 43.7%United States: 13.8%India: 11.5%South Korea: 7.5%6 others listed: 23.5%44%largest
China2,383 · 43.7%United States754 · 13.8%India630 · 11.5%South Korea409 · 7.5%6 others listed1,283 · 23.5%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China publishes the most Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design research, followed by Southeast University and Chinese Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 213 works
  2. 2 Southeast UniversityChina 167 works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 145 works
  4. 4 Xidian UniversityChina 121 works
  5. 5 Tsinghua UniversityChina 94 works
  6. 6 South China University of TechnologyChina 93 works
  7. 7 Tianjin UniversityChina 83 works
  8. 8 Hangzhou Dianzi UniversityChina 74 works
  9. 9 Fudan UniversityChina 64 works
  10. 10 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 63 works

Who are the leading researchers in Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design include Wei Huang, Kenji Watanabe and Takashi Taniguchi.

  1. 1 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  2. 2 Kenji Watanabe Japan 237k citations
  3. 3 Takashi Taniguchi Japan 227k citations
  4. 4 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  5. 5 Ronald Carl Petersen United States 207k citations
  6. 6 Frede Blaabjerg Denmark 203k citations
  7. 7 Hua Zhang Singapore 196k citations
  8. 8 Qiang Zhang China 184k citations
  9. 9 Douglas Scott Canada 172k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design?

The most cited paper in Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design is "An introduction to millimeter-wave mobile broadband systems" (Zhouyue Pi, Farooq Khan, 2011), with 2,642 citations. Next come "Review of Multibody Charm Analyses" (2,548) and "A general theory of phase noise in electrical oscillators" (2,412).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 An introduction to millimeter-wave mobile broadband systems Zhouyue Pi, Farooq Khan · IEEE Communications Magazine Jun 2011 2,642
2 Review of Multibody Charm Analyses David M. Asner, J. H. Rademacker · Explore Bristol Research Open access 4 Oct 2016 2,548
3 A general theory of phase noise in electrical oscillators Ali Hajimiri, T.H. Lee · IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits 1998 2,412
4 AlGaN/GaN HEMTs-an overview of device operation and applications Umesh Kumar Mishra, Primit Parikh, Yifeng Wu · Proceedings of the IEEE Jun 2002 2,296
5 Analog-to-digital converter survey and analysis R.H. Walden · IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications Apr 1999 2,196
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design research done?

The largest centres of Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Chengdu (China) and Seoul (South Korea). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Nanjing and Santa Clara.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 483 works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 290 works
  3. 3 ChengduChina 252 works
  4. 4 SeoulSouth Korea 224 works
  5. 5 Xi'anChina 202 works
  6. 6 ShanghaiChina 166 works
  7. 7 GuangzhouChina 165 works
  8. 8 HangzhouChina 125 works
  9. 9 TianjinChina 105 works
  10. 10 TokyoJapan 105 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Nanjing36.0 works51×
  2. Santa ClaraUS · 30.9 works18×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Macau, South China University of Technology and Xidian University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 17.52%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of MacauXidian UniversitySouth China Universi…University of Electr…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of MacauChina 68.017.4%15.4×29 +23.5%
2South China University of TechnologyChina 65.913.6%14.6×92 +213.5%
3Xidian UniversityChina 65.416.1%28.6×121 +151.5%
4University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 65.210.1%32.7×213 +22.4%
5Tsinghua UniversityChina 65.020.2%7.0×94 +62.3%
6City University of Hong KongChina 64.833.3%3.2×11 +21.2%
7University College DublinIreland 63.229.9%7.4×22 -18.5%
8Southeast UniversityChina 62.810.5%19.4×167 +37.6%
9Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 58.813.9%15.8×59 +80.1%
10Tianjin UniversityChina 58.110.2%11.7×83 +223.4%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design, country by country

Is Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 6% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2002. The fastest-growing topics are Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.029% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design9.5% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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