APMC 2026 Prize and APMC 2026 Student Prize | APMC 2026 Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference 2026

Papers presented at APMC 2026 will be judged by the APMC 2026 Prize Award Committee, and the authors of selected papers will be awarded the APMC 2026 Prize for outstanding contributions to the microwave field. Outstanding student papers presented at APMC 2026 will be awarded the APMC 2026 Student Prize.

The following are the lists of finalists.

APMC 2026 Prize Finalists

APMC 2026 Prize Finalists: paper numbers, titles and authors
MO1-R2-1	A Latent-Diffusion-Based Inverse Model for Generating High-Resolution BPF Geometry Images Ryota Maezaki, Masataka Ohira and Hiroyuki Deguchi (Doshisha University, Japan)
MO2-R2-1	Low-Loss and Miniaturized Bandpass Filter Utilizing Quarter-Mode Patch Resonator Based on Hybrid Integrated Suspended Line Platform Shuangxu Li and Kaixue Ma (Tianjin University, China); Yi Wu (Tianjin University, China); Weiqi Liu and Zhan Yu (Tianjin University, China)
MO2-R3-2	A Compact Low-Cost Metasurface-Enabled Programmable Transmitter for Simultaneous Frequency Filtering and Dynamic Beam Scanning Chao Song, Han Wei Tian and Qian Zhu (Southeast University, China); Wei-Xiang Jiang (Southeast University, China)
MO2-R4-1	Flight Demonstration of HAPS Feeder-Link Wireless Relay System Using Non-Regenerative Architecture Yuki Takagi (SoftBank Corp., Japan); Kazuki Matsuura and Mitsukuni Konishi (SoftBank Corp., Japan); Yoshichika Ohta (SoftBank Corp., Japan)
MO2-R5-1	Machine Learning Based Causality Error Correction Model for the Impedance Corrected 2X-Thru de-Embedding Hiroyuki Yoshinaga and Hiroshi Sato (Nisshinbo Micro Devices Inc., Japan)
TU1-R1-2	20-57 GHz Ultra-Wideband MMIC Power Amplifier Jiyong Park, Carlo Poledrelli and Michael Ciardullo (Mini-Circuits, USA)
TU1-R3-1	A Novel Filter-Theory-Based Design Approach for Feed and Inter-Element Transmission Lines in Standing-Wave-Excited Strip Array Antennas Kenichi Iio (Furuno Electric & University of Hyogo Doctoral Program in Engineering, Japan); Tadashi Kawai (University of Hyogo, Japan); Isao Ohta (University of Hyogo, Japan)
WE2-R5-1	D-Band Power Amplifier with 21.2% PAE and 16.2 dBm Psat in 130-nm SiGe BiCMOS Hüseyin Kaya (Sabanci University, Turkey); Aniello Franzese (IHP - Leibniz Institute for High Performance Microelectronics, Germany); Volkan Erturk (IHP - Leibniz Institute for High Performance Microelectronics, Germany); Seyyid Dilek and Batuhan Sütbaş (IHP - Leibniz Institute for High Performance Microelectronics, Germany); Corrado Carta (IHP - Leibniz Institute for High Performance Microelectronics, Germany & Technische Universität Berlin, Germany); Yasar Gurbuz (Sabanci University, Turkey)

APMC 2026 Student Prize Finalists

APMC 2026 Student Prize Finalists: paper numbers, titles and authors
MO1-R3-1	Investigation of on-Feed Focusing Dielectric Lens Antennas for Arbitrary Focusing, Multi-Beam and on-Axis Multi-Focusing Applications Ali Al-Tayar (Institute of Microwave Systems, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany)
MO2-R2-2	Design and Fabrication of the Dual-Mode Dual-Level J-Inverter for Dual-Band Filters Koma Kikuya (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
TU1-R1-1	A 24-31 GHz Continuous Class-F Power Amplifier with Improved AM-AM Distortion Achieving 17.1% Modulation PAE in 65nm CMOS Xuanxuan Yang (Southeast University, China)
TU1-R4-1	In-Cabin Short-Time Child Presence Detection Using Radar with GLRT-Based Statistical Weighting Ming-Huan Hsu (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan)
TU1-R5-1	Detection of Water Contamination in Organic Solvents Using a Phase Variation Microwave Sensor Umesha Sandarenu (RMIT University, Australia)
TU2-R1-2	A 2.5 W Rectified DC Output Power with 73% RF-DC Conversion Efficiency Diamond SBD Operating at 200 Degrees Celsius in 2.45 GHz-Band Kosuke Saito (Tohoku University, Japan)
TU2-R2-2	Miniaturized Dual-Band Filter with High Selectivity Based on Multilayer PCB Technology Lin Gu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
TU2-R3-1	Wideband Millimeter-Wave Endfire Multibeam Antenna Based on 12 × 16 Three-Layer Ridge Gap Waveguide Butler Matrix Chuhan Wei (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China)