Research and Teaching Interests: Electromagnetics, guided wave structures, lower-power wireless electronics, integrated passive components in antennas, photonic bandgap structures and metamaterial applications, RF technologies, sensors and transponders |
Awards and Recognitions |
2014 | Microsoft Academic Search; Listed No. 1 in Electrical Engineering |
2014 | Thompson Reuters: Highly Cited Researcher |
2014 | Featured Article in IEEE Trans. Terahertz Science and Technology P.Siegel, “Terahertz Pioneer: Tatsuo Itoh,” IEEE Trans. Terahertz Science and Technology, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 298-306 |
2014 | IEEE International Microwave Symposium Second Place in the Student Design Competition for his X-band Low Phase Noise Oscillator, Phd Student Chung-Tse Michael Wu (Advisor: Prof. Tatsuo Itoh) |
2013 | National Academy of Inventors |
2012 | University of Illinois College of Engineering Alumni Award for Distinguished Service |
2012 | Best Paper Award in IEEE Trans. Terahertz Science and Technology P. W. C. Hon, A. A. Tavallaee, Q.-S. Chen, B. S. Williams and T. Itoh, “Radiation model for terahertz transmission-line metamaterial quantaum-cascade lasers,” IEEE Trans. Terahertz Science and Technology, vol.2, no.3¸ May 2012, pp.323-332 |
2011 | IEEE/MTT-S Microwave Career Award “For a Career of Leadership, Meritorious Achievement, Creativity and Outstanding Technical Contributions in the Field of Microwave Theory and Techniques.” |
2011 | 2nd Place in the Asia Pacific Microwave Conference Student Paper Competition C.-T. M. Wu, Y. Dong and T. Itoh “Transponder Using SIW Based Negative and Zeroth Order Resonance Dual-Band Antenna and Sub-Harmonic Self-Oscillating Mixer” |
2011 | Best Paper Award in the Asia Pacific Microwave Conference H.Lee and T. Itoh “Dual Band Isolation Circuits Based on CRLH Transmission Lines for Triplexer Application” |
2009 | EuMA Outstanding Career Award |
2008 | Research Award in the 26th Conference of Japan Society for Simulation Technology, N. Michishita, T. Ueda and T. Itoh “Finite Element Analysis of Dielectric Metamaterial Structures Excited by an NRD Guide” |
2006 | Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference, the APMC 2006 Prize was given to a paper co-authored by K. Leong, A. Lai and T. Itoh. |
2005 | Top 5 downloaded papers during 2005 in IEEE Microwave Magazine A. Lai, C. Caloz and T. Itoh “Composite right/left-handed transmission line metamaterials,” IEEE Microwave Magazine, vol.5, no.3, pp. 34-50, September 2004 |
2004 | IEEE Distinguished Microwave Lecturer |
2003 | National Academy of Engineering |
2000 | IEEE/MTT-S Distinguished Educator Award “for his outstanding achievements as an educator, mentor and role model of microwave engineers and engineering students.” |
1982 | IEEE Fellow |
Selected Publications |
- P. W. C. Hon, Z. Liu, T. Itoh and B. S. Williams, “Leaky and bound modes in terahertz metasurface made of transmission-line metamaterials,” J. of Applied Physics, vol.113, no.3, January 2013, 033105-1 – 10
- J. H. Choi, J. S. Sun and T. Itoh , “Frequency-scanning phased-array feed network based on composite right/left-handed transmission lines,” IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol.61, no.8, Aug 2013, pp.3148-3157
- A. Porokhnyuk, T. Ueda, Y. Kado and T. Itoh , “Mode analysis of phase-constant nonreciprocity in ferrite-embedded CRLH metamaterial,” IEICE Trans. Electronics, vol.E96-C, no.10, October 2013, pp.1263-1272
- C. T. M. Wu, S. Gharavi, B. Daneshrad and T. Itoh , “A dual-purpose reconfigurable negative group delay circuit based on distributed amplifiers,” IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, vol.23, no.11, November 2013, pp.593-595
- J. H, Choi, Y. Dong, J. S. Sun and T. Itoh, “Retrodirective array immune to incident waves with arbitrary polarizations,” IEEE Trans. Antennas and Propagation, vol.61, no.12, December 2013, pp.6008-6013
- A. Porokhnyuk, T. Ueda, Y. Kado and T. Itoh , “Phase-constant-nonreciprocal composite right/left-handed metamaterials based on coplanar waveguides,” J. of Applied Physics, vol.115, 17E519, February 21, 2014
- C-T. M. Wu, J. H. Choi, H. Lee and T. Itoh , “Magnetic-current-loop-induced electric dipole antenna based on substrate integrated waveguide cavity,” IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol.13, pp.519-522, March 26, 2014
- C-T. M. Wu and T. Itoh , “Maximally flat negative group-delay circuit: A microwave transversal filter approach,” IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol.62, no.6, pp.1330-1342, June 2014
- H. Lee, C-T. M. Wu and T. Itoh , “Study and analysis of contiguous channel triplexer based on combining method of two filtering circuits using CRLH and RH isolation circuits,” International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies, vol. 6, pp.287-295, June 2014. (Invited paper)
- J. H. Choi, P. W. C. Hon and T. Itoh , “Dispersion analysis and design of planar electromagnetic bandgap ground plane for broadband common-mode suppression,” IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, vol.24, no.11, pp.772-774, November 2014