ABSTRACT
The art and science of RFIC design developed over a period of at least 150 years. The fundamental work of the philosopher-scientists of the nineteenth century paved the way with invaluable empirical discoveries related to electricity and magnetism. The identities of these early players are known to us today through the basic units that electrical engineers have been using over the past century: Volta, Ohm, Ampere, Henry, and Faraday. In 1873, Maxwell laid the theoretical foundation for the propagation of electromagnetic energy through space in his famous treatise. Maxwell’s equations demonstrated that electric and magnetic fields are inexorably coupled and fueled by charges and currents.
