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. 11.4% 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%
- 5.1k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 11.4% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- -5% the tick is no change
Which countries lead Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design research?
By volume, China and the United States publish the most (2.1k and 687 works in 2022–2025).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 China 2.1k works
- 2 United States 687 works
- 3 India 573 works
- 4 South Korea 367 works
- 5 Germany 333 works
- 6 Taiwan 224 works
- 7 Japan 219 works
- 8 France 170 works
- 9 Italy 141 works
- 10 Canada 105 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.
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Which institutions lead Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design research?
By volume in 2022–2025, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China publishes the most Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design research, followed by Southeast University and Xidian University.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 196 works
- 2 Southeast UniversityChina 125 works
- 3 Xidian UniversityChina 109 works
- 4 South China University of TechnologyChina 85 works
- 5 Tsinghua UniversityChina 82 works
- 6 Tianjin UniversityChina 77 works
- 7 Hangzhou Dianzi UniversityChina 66 works
- 8 Fudan UniversityChina 52 works
- 9 Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 50 works
- 10 National Taiwan UniversityTaiwan 43 works
Who are the leading researchers in Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design include Robert W. Heath.
- 1 Robert W. Heath United States 7.1k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design research done?
The largest centres of Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design research in 2022–2025 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, 2022–2025
Where it is the local speciality
- Nanjing34.0 works50×
- Santa ClaraUS · 27.7 works18×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design than the world average.
Where is the best place to study Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design?
Among universities, judged by research, University of California, Santa Barbara, Chalmers University of Technology and University of Electronic Science and Technology of China 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.
One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of California, Santa BarbaraUnited States | 60.9 | 16.1% | 12.1× | 23 | +16.2% |
| 2 | Chalmers University of TechnologySweden | 57.7 | 11.8% | 20.6× | 31 | -15.9% |
| 3 | University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina | 56.4 | 2.8% | 29.0× | 196 | +46.4% |
| 4 | Xidian UniversityChina | 56.1 | 6.6% | 24.9× | 109 | +18.4% |
| 5 | Southeast UniversityChina | 56.0 | 5.0% | 15.5× | 125 | +22.3% |
| 6 | University of MacauMacau | 55.4 | 4.9% | 12.9× | 25 | +79.1% |
| 7 | South China University of TechnologyChina | 54.3 | 4.9% | 13.3× | 85 | +48.8% |
| 8 | University College DublinIreland | 54.1 | 9.8% | 8.5× | 21 | +91.5% |
| 9 | Nanjing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina | 53.2 | 2.3% | 12.7× | 32 | +234.2% |
| 10 | Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina | 52.0 | 3.7% | 13.7× | 50 | +104.2% |
Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.
Is Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 5% lower than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2002. The fastest-growing topics are Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design.
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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.