{"title":"Integrated 915MHZ OFC SAW sensors","authors":"M. Gallagher, B. Santos, D. Malocha","doi":"10.1109/WAMICON.2010.5461895","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WAMICON.2010.5461895","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this paper is to present recent results on the integration of SAW orthogonal frequency coded (OFC) wireless sensors into a unified sensor target at 915MHz. Current proof of concept embodiments at 250MHz and 915MHz have been successful in demonstrating a functional sensor design and working interrogation system. However, previous work has done little to optimize the sensor platform into a single package containing the SAW device, matching network, and antenna. Through the work presented a more ubiquitous sensor network will be achieved by significantly reducing the tag footprint while optimizing device performance. The following will first briefly review the OFC device concept and present current device embodiments at the frequency of interest. An overview of current tag antenna and matching network design is presented next as a basis for the work to follow. Finally, a compact sensor target will be outlined based on optimizing trade-offs in device range and overall tag size.","PeriodicalId":112402,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE 11th Annual Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123469445","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":"3.6-to-4.4 GHz UWB impulse transmitter and 402-to-405MHz super-regenerative receiver for medical implant devices","authors":"M. Anis, M. Ortmanns, N. Wehn","doi":"10.1109/WAMICON.2010.5461876","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WAMICON.2010.5461876","url":null,"abstract":"This paper propose a multi-standard transceiver architecture, based on 3.6-to-4.4GHz UWB impulse transmitter and 402-to-405MHz super-regenerative receiver for medical implant devices. This architecture eliminates the requirement of frequency synthesizer and power amplifier at transmitter side and L??A, mixers, IF amplifiers and ADCs. at receiver side of implant transceiver. The multi-standard external PCB loop antenna is incorporated into the transceiver as inductive element to achieve high sensitivity and selectivity. The design concept is simulated in 0.24um Ihp CMOS technology. The exchange rate upto 120kbps is achieved for detecting −95dBm signals with the power consumption of 500uW.","PeriodicalId":112402,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE 11th Annual Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122353049","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":"LINC power amplifiers for reducing out-of-band spectral re-growth: A comparative study","authors":"C. Baylis, M. Moldovan, Loria Wang, Joshua Martin","doi":"10.1109/WAMICON.2010.5461868","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WAMICON.2010.5461868","url":null,"abstract":"The Linear Amplification with Nonlinear Components (LINC) power amplifier structure combiner implementation has an effect on the linearity and efficiency of the design. Understanding and using this tradeoff is helpful to radar and communication designers and can be used to assist in operating with optimum efficiency while meeting spectral mask requirements instituted by regulatory agencies. In this paper, a simulation-based investigation is performed into implementations with a 180-degree coupler and with a Chireix outphasing network. In general, the overall efficiency in both designs is a function of the amplitude modulation of the message signal in the LINC configuration; however, the 180-degree coupler has a potential to obtain higher linearity in many cases due to the isolation of its two input ports. In certain cases of amplitude modulation, however, much of the output power in the 180-degree coupler design is delivered to an unused termination rather than to the network output.","PeriodicalId":112402,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE 11th Annual Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125493034","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}
H. Ferchichi, M. Mabrouk, F. Ndagijimana, A. Ghazel
{"title":"The measurement impulse response of UWB antennas in the Time-Domain","authors":"H. Ferchichi, M. Mabrouk, F. Ndagijimana, A. Ghazel","doi":"10.1109/WAMICON.2010.5461845","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WAMICON.2010.5461845","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an experimental study, in which Time-Domain pulse technique is used to characterize the performances of an Ultra-Wide Band (UWB) antennas. Pulse with 4.0ns duration is generated, modulated and used to measure the far-field characteristics of printed antennas at 5.25GHz. The proposed method can be used for characterizing Ultra Wide Band antennas in the time domain, especially in a dense multi path environment.","PeriodicalId":112402,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE 11th Annual Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON)","volume":"108 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121947712","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":"UHF co-site interference filter","authors":"Jessica Vega, W. Joel, D. Johnson","doi":"10.1109/WAMICON.2010.5461844","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WAMICON.2010.5461844","url":null,"abstract":"UHF radios are subject to out-of-band interferers. As a result, a co-site interference filter is often necessary. This paper presents a design method and test results of a bandpass filter subject to very wideband requirements (10 kHz – 20 GHz).","PeriodicalId":112402,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE 11th Annual Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130687428","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}
M. Kheir, M. Anis, Tengiz Saran, H. Hammad, A. Omar
{"title":"Broadband characterization of planar whispering-gallery-mode dielectric resonators using a simple experimental setup","authors":"M. Kheir, M. Anis, Tengiz Saran, H. Hammad, A. Omar","doi":"10.1109/WAMICON.2010.5461898","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WAMICON.2010.5461898","url":null,"abstract":"A simple and cost-effective experimental setup for measuring the transmission coefficient of whispering-gallery (WG) mode dielectric resonators up to the mm-wave band is presented. The proposed setup consists of a sweep generator, a spectrum analyzer and a PC with a General Purpose Interface Bus (GPIB). The major advantage of such arrangement lies in the ease of measurement without standard calibration procedures as well as its cost-effectiveness. Using this setup, two WG resonators have been experimentally characterized over the K- and Ka-bands. The obtained results are in a good agreement with those obtained from a calibrated vector network analyzer.","PeriodicalId":112402,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE 11th Annual Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON)","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133481400","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":"CMOS Ku/K band distributed oscillators using cascade of CPW coupled n-FETs gain cells with record performance of phase noise and Ka-band third harmonic generation technique","authors":"K. Bhattacharyya","doi":"10.1109/WAMICON.2010.5530306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WAMICON.2010.5530306","url":null,"abstract":"A novel distributed oscillator (DO) is reported with cascade of inductive coplanar waveguide (CPW) coupled two common-source n-FETs, the novel gain-cell of DO. Two common-source n-FETs are connected with each other through a coplanar waveguide only, acting as an on-chip inductor. The design uses 3 stages of n-FETs cascade gain cell, with a bias of 1.4V. This oscillator called OSC-1 operates at K-band frequency 18.40G~z with 10.75dbm power level and the phase noise is a record in an industry standard 0.18pim CMOS technology of -126.857dBc/Hz at 1MHz offset from the carrier. A design modification is reported called OSC-1A and with body biasing of n-FETs from -1.5V to 0.6V, the frequency tuning of this 19.47 GHz D-VCO is 1.16 (18.89 - 20.05) GHz with uniform phase noise performances. With supply voltage variation, the OSC-1A frequency of 19.47 GHZ at 1.8V is tunable up to 18.57 GHz at a bias of 0.9V i.e. 900MHz. With different width of n-FETs, this design can be reused for other frequencies like Ku band frequency of 17.74 GHz with 5.07dBm or K-band frequency of 19.81GHz with 2.41dBm at 1.8V operation. A novel design is proposed for third harmonic generation in DO topology with five stages called OSC-TH, 3rd harmonic frequency of 29.27 GHz in Kaband with -0.3dBm power level is reported, whereas the fundamental is of -12.828dBm at 9.756G~z and 2nd harmonics of -17.289dBm.","PeriodicalId":112402,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE 11th Annual Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON)","volume":"337 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115462293","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":"Continuous-time sigma-delta modulator design for wireless biomedical sensing applications","authors":"Yi Yang, Changzhi Li, D. Binkley","doi":"10.1109/WAMICON.2010.5461869","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WAMICON.2010.5461869","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the use of continuous-time sigma-delta modulators for ADCs in wireless biomedical sensing applications. The advantages of the proposed continuous-time sigma-delta modulators include the fact that it eliminates the need for an anti-aliasing filter in front of the ADC because of its intrinsic anti-alias filtering property. Additionally, the use of weak inversion and a low flicker noise structure minimizes power consumption and low frequency flicker noise. Finally, the decimation filter used in ordinary sigma-delta ADCs to attenuate high-frequency noise is eliminated because the biomedical sensor analyzes the periodogram in software, thus significantly reducing the cost and power consumption. A design example illustrating these advantages is presented in this paper.","PeriodicalId":112402,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE 11th Annual Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON)","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115891733","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":"Advanced modeling of packaged RF MEMS switches and its application on tunable filter implementation","authors":"K. Entesari","doi":"10.1109/WAMICON.2010.5461855","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WAMICON.2010.5461855","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents advanced modeling of a packaged RF MEMS switch considering the effect of packaging, mounting pad and bond-wires. The importance of the switch advanced model for accurate prediction of tunable filter response is also investigated for three different types of RF MEMS tunable filters; a lumped element 25–75 MHz tunable filter, an inductively-loaded microstrip 1.06–1.23 GHz tunable filer and a surface-integrated-waveguide 1.8–2.3 GHz tunable filter.","PeriodicalId":112402,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE 11th Annual Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON)","volume":"95 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116276847","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":"A series-fed coplanar waveguide slot antenna array","authors":"J. McKnight, B. Zivanovic, T. Weller, C. Costas","doi":"10.1109/WAMICON.2010.5461865","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WAMICON.2010.5461865","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper a four-element, series-fed coplanar waveguide slot antenna array operating in the C-band is described. The array is fed from both ends using anti-phase signals in order to maintain broad-side radiation independent of the operating frequency. The meandered, coplanar waveguide section between individual elements is designed to provide equal phase and amplitude distribution to each slot. The array has a measured return loss bandwidth greater than 24% centered at 5 GHz, with a gain of 8 dBi. Simulated performance with a metal backing configuration is shown to provide increases in the gain of ∼2.5 dB.","PeriodicalId":112402,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE 11th Annual Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128301361","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}