The 107th ARFTG Microwave Measurement Conference was held on June 12, 2026, at the Westin Boston Seaport District Hotel, Boston, MA, USA. The conference was co-located with the IEEE International MTT Symposia (IMS) 2026, bringing together a broad community of experts in RF, microwave, millimeter-wave, and sub-THz measurement technologies.

ARFTG-107 recognized outstanding contributions across oral presentations, the interactive forum, and the industry exhibition. The award recipients were determined by attendee voting, tallied following the conference. The awards will be formally presented at the 108th ARFTG Conference Luncheon in Tampa, FL, USA, in January 2027.

The Best Oral Presentation Award is presented to three contributions:

• “Design and RF Performance Validation of a New Miniature Rectangular Waveguide Flange for Millimeter-wave Frequencies and Above” by James Skinner (NPL), Dave Richardson (Flann Microwave), Paul Hague (Flann Microwave), and Nick Ridler (NPL)
• “Wideband NPR Characterization of a Ka-Band Power Amplifier Using a Single ‘Multi-Notch’ Stimulus” by Ricardo Escobar (Thales Alenia Space), Tibault Reveyrand (XLIM), Sébastien Mons (XLIM), Denis Barataud (XLIM), and Jean-François Villemazet (Thales Alenia Space)
• “Analysis of Multiline Calibration Algorithms for Various Transmission Line Types up to 220 GHz” by Gregor Streitenberger (PTB), Gia Ngoc Phung (PTB), Ahmed Sayegh (PTB), Tianze Li (Cornell University), and James C. M. Hwang (Cornell University)

The Best Student Paper Award is presented to two contributions:

• “Inter-Laboratory Benchmarking of Continuous-Band 220 GHz S-Parameter Measurements of Millimeter-Wave GaN HEMTs” by Thomas Bonnen (Michigan State University), Rob Jones (NIST), Jerome Cheron (NIST), Benjamin Jamroz (NIST), and Nicholas Miller (Michigan State University)
• “Extracting Graphene Sheet Resistance in the WR-5 Band Using Graphene Embedded CPW Shunt Structures on High-Resistivity Silicon” by Zhuoya Zhou (University of Manchester), Zirui Zhang (University of Manchester), Liam Ausden (NPL), Xiaobang Shang (NPL), Yu-Wei Kang (University of Manchester), Guangda Dai (University of Manchester), and Zhirun Hu (University of Manchester)

The Best Interactive Forum Paper Award is presented to two contributions:

• “EM Assisted Open-Short De-embedding Technique for 16nm FinFET Technology” by Ciro Esposito, Federico D’Aniello, Gianni Bosi, Lorenzo Stevenazzi, Andrea Baschirotto, and Valeria Vadalà (University of Milano-Bicocca)
• “Dielectric Waveguide-Based Test Probes for Millimeter-Wave Range Test and Measurement Instrumentation” by Guillermo Carpintero-Del-Barrio (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Ashish Kumar (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Sergio Rivera (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Jiale Tian (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Luis Gonzalez Guerrero (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Muhsin Ali (Leapwave technologies), Daniel Gallego Cabo (Leapwave technologies), and Alejandro Rivera Lavado (Leapwave technologies)

The Best Exhibitor Award goes to Keysight Technologies.

Congratulations to all award recipients!

Xiaobang Shang

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