PhD Student Wins 2nd Place Paper at IEEE Microwave Acoustics & Mechanics Conference

A paper led by PhD student Ian Anderson, "Tunable Ferroelectric Acoustic Resonators in Monolithic Thin-Film Barium Titanate," won the Best Paper Award (Second Prize) at the IEEE International Conference on Microwave Acoustics & Mechanics (IC-MAM 2026), held April 20-22 in Barcelona, Spain.

The work is a collaboration with UT physics professor Alexander Demkov and his research group and demonstrates a new class of electrically tunable acoustic resonators built on epitaxial thin-film barium titanate on silicon, targeting future RF filter and sensing applications.