{"title":"Inspiring Students With the SSCS in Bogotá, Colombia [Chapters]","authors":"Lucas Munoz","doi":"10.1109/MSSC.2026.3708327","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSSC.2026.3708327","url":null,"abstract":"Provides society information that may include news, reviews or technical notes that should be of interest to practitioners and researchers.","PeriodicalId":100636,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine","volume":"18 3","pages":"95-96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11659611","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148781124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"SSCS Leuven Student Chapter Hosts Five Events in the First Half of the 2025–2026 Academic Year [Chapters]","authors":"Bram Veraverbeke;Jun Feng","doi":"10.1109/MSSC.2026.3708363","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSSC.2026.3708363","url":null,"abstract":"Provides society information that may include news, reviews or technical notes that should be of interest to practitioners and researchers.","PeriodicalId":100636,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine","volume":"18 3","pages":"97-98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11659734","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148781808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"IEEE SSCS INSPIRE Program—Tunisia Chapter Activities Report [Chapters]","authors":"Brahim Mezghani","doi":"10.1109/MSSC.2026.3708274","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSSC.2026.3708274","url":null,"abstract":"Provides society information that may include news, reviews or technical notes that should be of interest to practitioners and researchers.","PeriodicalId":100636,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine","volume":"18 3","pages":"100-101"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11659723","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148781810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Doherty Power Amplifiers: Fundamentals and recent advances","authors":"Taiyun Chi;Qiang Zhou;Hao Guo;Xiaohan Zhang","doi":"10.1109/MSSC.2026.3699837","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSSC.2026.3699837","url":null,"abstract":"The Doherty power amplifier (PA), invented in 1936, remains a dominant PA architecture for achieving high energy efficiency under high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) signals. This article offers a tutorial review of the Doherty PA, from its foundational principles to the latest silicon implementations. The two classical architectures, i.e., the series and parallel Doherty, are discussed, along with the two key design ingredients for first-pass success: output network synthesis and main–auxiliary cooperation. The article then presents several recent advances, including RF bandwidth extension, multiway Doherty for deep-back-off efficiency enhancement, and miniaturization techniques enabling integration into mmWave beamformers.","PeriodicalId":100636,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine","volume":"18 3","pages":"44-54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148781095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"SSCS Online Mentoring Program: Building Connections Across Generations: A five-year journey [Society News]","authors":"Enis Kobal;Alireza Yousefi;Xiyuan Tang","doi":"10.1109/MSSC.2026.3708515","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSSC.2026.3708515","url":null,"abstract":"Provides society information that may include news, reviews or technical notes that should be of interest to practitioners and researchers.","PeriodicalId":100636,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine","volume":"18 3","pages":"89-91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11659626","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148781541","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Circuit Equivalence Versus Circuit Substitution [Circuit Intuitions]","authors":"Ali Sheikholeslami","doi":"10.1109/MSSC.2026.3706673","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSSC.2026.3706673","url":null,"abstract":"This article introduces the concept of circuit substitution and distinguishes it from Thévenin and Norton equivalent circuits. It shows that once the voltage of a node or the current through a branch becomes known, portions of a circuit can often be replaced by ideal voltage or current sources without affecting the remaining node voltages or branch currents. Through intuitive explanations and practical analog circuit examples, the article demonstrates how circuit substitution provides a powerful technique for simplifying circuit analysis while clarifying its limitations and relationship to the classical Substitution Theorem.","PeriodicalId":100636,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine","volume":"18 3","pages":"7-83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148781712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}