Asif Alam

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Research

Papers, patents and preprints

12 publications and 2 US patents on millimeter-wave antennas, RF interconnects and packaging, and how RF scales.

Profiles: Google Scholar · IEEE Xplore · ORCID · ResearchGate · Scopus · Web of Science · DBLP · Justia Patents

Patents

  1. Apparatus, Methods and Design System For Wide-Band Millimeter Wave RWG To Air-Filled SIW Transition. US 12,166,262, granted 2025. Google Patents, Justia. Gold Medal, 50th International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva, 2025.
  2. Millimeter Wave Connection Device for Rectangular/Substrate Integrated Waveguides. US 12,278,414, granted 2025. Google Patents, Justia.

Journal papers

  1. Asif Alam, M. Shah Alam. Is There a Moore's Law for RF? From Spark Gaps to the Edge of Terahertz. IEEE Microwave Magazine, Educator's Corner, 2026. doi:10.1109/MMM.2026.3681053
  2. The New RF Engineer. IEEE Microwave Magazine, 2026.
  3. Asif Alam, M. Shah Alam. KHz to THz: Unified Trends in RF Frequency Scaling. IEEE Access, Vol. 14, pp. 751–762, 2025. doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3646610
  4. Asif Alam, M. Shah Alam, Khalid AlMuhanna, Atif Shamim. A Critical Review of Interconnect Options for SIW Technologies. IEEE Access, Vol. 12, pp. 122902–122917, 2024. doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3450111
  5. Asif Alam, M. Shah Alam, Khalid AlMuhanna, Haoran Zhang, Atif Shamim, Zaid Ahmed Shamsan. A Wideband Transition Design Technique From RWG to SIW Technologies. IEEE Access, Vol. 11, pp. 109539–109552, 2023. doi:10.1109/access.2023.3321319

Conference papers

  1. Asif Alam, Ramez Askar, Markondeya Raj Pulugurtha, Satheesh Bojja-Venkatakrishnan. A Low-Cost Wideband Dual-Polarized ME-Dipole Antenna for Early-6G Distributed Systems. IEEE AP-S/URSI 2026, Detroit, MI, 2026.
  2. A Tilted Beam Circularly Polarized Air Filled SIW Multi-Beam Antenna Array. IEEE Texas Symposium on Wireless & Microwave Circuits, Waco, TX, 2025.
  3. Asif Alam, M. Shah Alam, Khalid AlMuhanna. A Millimeter Wave Multi Beam Air-Filled SIW Foldable Antenna Array. IEEE International Symposium on Phased Array Systems & Technology, Boston, MA, 2024.
  4. Asif Alam, M. Shah Alam, Khalid AlMuhanna. A Millimeter Wave Air Filled SIW Horn Antenna with Tilted Beam. IEEE 100th Vehicular Technology Conference, Washington, DC, 2024. doi:10.1109/vtc2024-fall63153.2024.10757884
  5. M. Shah Alam, Khalid AlMuhanna, Asif Alam, Haoran Zhang, Atif Shamim. A Wide-band Millimeter Wave RWG to Air-Filled SIW Transition. IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium, San Diego, CA, 2023. doi:10.1109/ims37964.2023.10188188
  6. Abdullah M. Alamri, Mohammed Almutlag, M. Shah Alam, Asif Alam, Khalid AlMuhanna. A Dual-Band Flexible Antenna With an Adaptable Design Technique. 2023 Workshop on Microwave Theory and Technology in Wireless Communications (MTTW), 2023. doi:10.1109/mttw59774.2023.10320043

Preprints

  1. Asif Alam, M. Shah Alam. Scaling Laws for Artificial Intelligence. SSRN Computer Science, 2026. doi:10.2139/ssrn.6649621