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Zoya Popovic is a researcher affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their academic work is primarily situated within the field of Engineering, with a strong focus on Electrical and Electronic Engineering. They have also contributed to subfields including Biomedical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Condensed Matter Physics, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

The main topics of their research cover several areas of radio frequency and microwave technologies. These include:

  • Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design
  • Microwave Engineering and Waveguides
  • Advanced Power Amplifier Design
  • GaN-based semiconductor devices and materials
  • Full-Duplex Wireless Communications
  • Antenna Design and Analysis
  • Wireless Body Area Networks

Popovic's research has resulted in multiple recent papers published in peer-reviewed journals, with notable examples including:

  • "RF-Harvesting Tightly Coupled Rectenna Array Tee-Shirt With Greater Than Octave Bandwidth", 2020, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques
  • "The Evolution of Applications, Hardware Design, and Channel Modeling for Terahertz (THz) Band Communications and Sensing: Ready for 6G?", 2024, Proceedings of the IEEE
  • "Broadband RF Energy-Harvesting Arrays", 2022, Proceedings of the IEEE
  • "Microstrip Ferrite Circulator Design With Control of Magnetization Distribution", 2021, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques
  • "Power Amplifiers With Frequency-Selective Matching Networks", 2020, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Gregor Lasser
  • Taylor W. Barton
  • Laila Marzall
  • Scott Schafer
  • Gabriel Santamaría-Botello

Popovic's publications appear predominantly in IEEE journals and magazines, with significant contributions to:

  • IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques
  • IEEE Microwave Magazine
  • Proceedings of the IEEE
  • IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters
  • IEEE Microwave and Wireless Technology Letters

Best Publications

  • Power amplifiers and transmitters for RF and microwave

    F.H. Raab;P. Asbeck;S. Cripps;P.B. Kenington

  • Recycling ambient microwave energy with broad-band rectenna arrays

    J.A. Hagerty;F.B. Helmbrecht;W.H. McCalpin;R. Zane

  • RF and Microwave Power Amplifier and Transmitter Technologies — Part 1

    Frederick H. Raab;Peter Asbeck;Steve Cripps;Peter B. Kenington

  • Low-Power Far-Field Wireless Powering for Wireless Sensors

    Z. Popovic;E. A. Falkenstein;D. Costinett;R. Zane

  • Systems and methods for receiving and managing power in wireless devices

    Regan Zane;Zoya Popovic;Andrew Sharp;Diego Restrepo

  • Resistor Emulation Approach to Low-Power RF Energy Harvesting

    T. Paing;J. Shin;R. Zane;Z. Popovic

  • Active and quasi - optical arrays for solid - state power combining

    Robert A. York;Zoya B. Popovic

  • A 100-MESFET planar grid oscillator

    Z.B. Popovic;R.M. Weikle;M. Kim;D.B. Rutledge

  • Power Management System for Online Low Power RF Energy Harvesting Optimization

    Arseny Dolgov;Regan Zane;Zoya Popovic

  • Bow-tie antennas on a dielectric half-space: Theory and experiment

    R. Compton;R. McPhedran;Z. Popovic;G. Rebeiz

  • Low-Power Wireless Power Delivery

    E. Falkenstein;M. Roberg;Z. Popovic

  • High-Efficiency Harmonically Terminated Diode and Transistor Rectifiers

    M. Roberg;T. Reveyrand;I. Ramos;E. A. Falkenstein

  • The transmission-line high-efficiency class-E amplifier

    T.B. Mader;Z.B. Popovic

  • Active health monitoring of an aircraft wing with an embedded piezoelectric sensor/actuator network: II. Wireless approaches

    Xiaoliang Zhao;Tao Qian;Gang Mei;Chiman Kwan

  • Switched-mode high-efficiency microwave power amplifiers in a free-space power-combiner array

    T.B. Mader;E.W. Bryerton;M. Markovic;M. Forman

  • ET Comes of Age: Envelope Tracking for Higher-Efficiency Power Amplifiers

    Peter Asbeck;Zoya Popovic

  • Detection and Segmentation of Concealed Objects in Terahertz Images

    Xilin Shen;C.R. Dietlein;E. Grossman;Z. Popovic

  • A digitally controlled DC/DC converter for an RF power amplifier

    V. Yousefzadeh;Narisi Wang;Z. Popovic;D. Maksimovic

  • Scalable RF Energy Harvesting

    Zoya Popovic;Sean Korhummel;Steven Dunbar;Robert Scheeler

  • Codesign of PA, Supply, and Signal Processing for Linear Supply-Modulated RF Transmitters

    J. Hoversten;S. Schafer;M. Roberg;M. Norris

Frequent Co-Authors

Dragan Maksimovic
Dragan Maksimovic University of Colorado Boulder
Regan Zane
Regan Zane Utah State University
David B. Rutledge
David B. Rutledge California Institute of Technology
Samuel P. Benz
Samuel P. Benz National Institute of Standards and Technology
Paul D. Dresselhaus
Paul D. Dresselhaus National Institute of Standards and Technology
Charles J. Burroughs
Charles J. Burroughs National Institute of Standards and Technology
Victor M. Bright
Victor M. Bright University of Colorado Boulder
Peter M. Asbeck
Peter M. Asbeck University of California, San Diego
Robert A. York
Robert A. York University of California, Santa Barbara
Daniel Costinett
Daniel Costinett University of Tennessee at Knoxville

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