Welcome to the ARC Lab
The Yale Analog and RF Circuits (ARC) Lab focuses on the design of analog/RF/mm-wave integrated circuits for communication and sensing systems.
We are part of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Yale University.
Arun Natarajan
Professor of Electrical Engineering
Recent News
Jan. 2026: Congrats to Soumya Gupta on receiving the Best Student Paper Award at 2026 IEEE Radio Wireless Week!
Jan. 2026: Kareem's paper on RF analog-to-feature conversion using margin-propagation ciruits has been accepted to IEEE CICC 2026. Congrats!
Aug. 2025: Welcome Sumeeth Muchandimath to Yale and the ARC group!
Oct 2024: Congrats to Kareem and Aswin! Their work on low-power analog computation was invited to JSSC and published.
Oct 2024: Congrats to Aswin and Kareem! Our collaboration with Professor Nagulu and Professor Chakrabartty's groups at WuSTL on low-power analog computation has been accepted to ISSCC 2024!
Sep. 2024: Congrats to Dr. Amin Aghighi on defending this thesis. Good luck at Rohde and Schwarz!
Aug. 2024: Looking forward to collaborating with Professors Nagulu and Chakrabartty (WuSTL) on analog computing for radar as part of the NSF FuSE program!
July 2024: Congrats to Dr. Mostafa Essawy on defending this thesis. Good luck at Marvell!
Oct 2023: Congrats to Kareem and Aswin! Our collaboration with Professor Nagulu and Professor Chakrabartty's groups at WuSTL on low-power analog computation has been accepted to ISSCC 2024!
Sep 2023: Congrats to Soumya and Ben! Their paper on low-power mm-wave RX was presented at EuMIC 2023.
Mar 2023: Congrats to Hayden! The ISSCC paper on low-power distributed mixers has been invited to the IEEE JSSC.
Jan 2023: Working with Professors Nagulu and Chakrabartty and Professor Cauwenberghs on the DARPA MAX program.
Dec 2022: Congrats to Mostafa and Amin! Papers on mm-wave frequency doublers and cancellers accepted for IEEE RFIC 2023.
Oct 2022: Congrats to Hayden! Work on low-power mixers accepted to ISSCC 2023.
June 2021: Congrats to Dr. Robin Garg on defending his Ph. D. Thesis! Good luck at Mediatek!
June 2021: Congrats to Joshua Thelen on receiving your M.S.!
Mar 2021: Working on the DARPA Wideband Adaptive RF Protection (WARP) program.
Mar 2021: Congrats to Hayden, Sohail, Ali and Kamala! ISSCC paper on low-power receivers invited to IEEE JSSC.
Feb 2021: Robin received the IEEE SSCS Predoctoral Achievement Award!
Feb 2021: Collaboration on noise-cancelling accepted for presentation at RFIC 2021.
Dec 2020: Congrats to Dr. Manoj Johnson on defending his Ph.D. Thesis! Welcome to Mixcomm Inc.
Nov 2020: Professor Natarajan gave the Tech Talk Tuesday Seminar at Oregon State.
Oct 2020: Circulator-RX and low-power wideband RX papers accepted for ISSCC 2021.
Sep 2020: Congrats to Dr. Kamala Raghavan Sadagopan on defending her Ph.D. Thesis!
Aug 2020: Best Paper, 2nd Place award at IEEE RFIC 2020 for the collaboration with Columbia University.
Oct 2019: Beam-space MIMO work accepted for presentation at ISSCC 2020.
Sep 2019: Welcome Amin Aghigi, Mostafa Essawy, Paul Dania and Kuei Jih Lu!
Aug 2019: Congrats to Dr. Sanket Jain on defending his Ph.D. Thesis!
Mar 2019: Congrats to Dr. Yao Liu and Dr. Kai Zhan on defending their Ph.D. theses!
Dec 2018: Kamala received the IEEE SSCS Predoctoral Achievement Award!
Dec 2018: Dr. Natarajan gave the last talk of the NYU "Circuits: Terahertz (THz) and Beyond" Seminar Series.
Dec 2018: Siyuan Chen defended her M.S. Thesis.
Oct 2018: MIMO full-duplex CMOS receiver collaboration accepted for presentation at IEEE ISSCC 2019.
Sep 2018: Investigating scalable digital beamforming arrays as part of the DARPA MIDAS program.
Sep 2018: Dan Taylor received his M.S. for Real-time Self-Interference Cancellation.
Aug 2018: Working on a smart bandage supported by the NIH.
Aug 2018: Anoop Sheokand defended his M.S Thesis on UWB Receivers.
Mar. 2018: Jian Kang defended his thesis on RF-powered sensors.
Oct 2017: NanoWatt wireless energy harvesting and low-noise circulator-RX papers accepted for ISSCC 2017.
June 2017: Abhishek Agrawal defended his thesis! Dr. Natarajan received the 2017 DARPA Young Faculty Award!
Feb 2017: Low-power mm-wave array, single-wire link, and wake-up receiver papers accepted to IMS and RFIC.
Sep 2016: Received the Oregon State Engelbrecht Young Faculty Award.
July 2016: Wirelessly-powered sensors project named Best Faculty Project in CDADIC.
Feb 2016: Dr. Natarajan received the NSF CAREER award.
Oct 2015: Scalable 28GHz coupled-PLL and sensitive rectifier-antenna papers accepted for ISSCC 2016.
Feb 2015: Wide-tuning range VCO and wirelessly-powered UWB transmitter papers accepted to IEEE RFIC 2015.
Dec 2014: Jash's paper on a ~1mW 2.4GHz receiver appears in IEEE JSSC.
Jan 2014: Received funding from DARPA Arrays at Commercial Timescales.
Oct 2013: Jash's paper on sub-sampling PSK receivers accepted for ISSCC 2014.
June 2013: 94 GHz phased array work presented at IEEE RFIC 2013.
Mar 2012: Phased-array Radar research presented at GOMAC 2012.