Introduction to the Special Section on the IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium

This Special Section of the IEEE JOURNAL OF SOLID-STATE CIRCUITS includes a selection of papers presented at the 2013 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium, held June 2-4, 2013 in Seattle,WA, USA. The symposium is co-located with the IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS). This annual meeting covers all aspects of RF and microwave circuits and systems. The 2013 RFIC Symposium received 202 submissions from across the world, covering a broad range of topics including transceiver SoCs and associated blocks such as power amplifier/tunable front-ends, frequency synthesis circuits, baseband circuits, and high-speed I/O circuits, as well as papers covering low-power/wireless sensor transceivers and mm-wave/THz circuits. This issue of the Journal presents four papers selected from a total of 103 presented at the Symposium. An overview of the technical articles is presented.