{"title":"A 40/85 GHz dual-band, bidirectional variable gain amplifier","authors":"Tissana Kijsanayotin, J. Buckwalter","doi":"10.1109/MWSYM.2013.6697680","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MWSYM.2013.6697680","url":null,"abstract":"A dual-band, bidirectional amplifier is proposed for millimeter-wave front-ends in CMOS silicon-on-insulator (SOI). The circuit is electronically controlled to amplify in either the forward or reverse direction at either 40 GHz (Q-band) or 81 GHz (W-band). The measured amplifier has a gain variation of 20 dB with a peak gain of 4.6 dB at both 40 GHz and 81 GHz. The circuit is fabricated in a 45-nm CMOS SOI process with an active area occupying only 0.17 mm2 of die space.","PeriodicalId":128968,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest (MTT)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121417464","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 640–1030 MHz four-pole tunable filter with improved stopband rejection and controllable bandwidth and transmission zeros","authors":"Hong-Ming Lee, Gabriel M. Rebeiz","doi":"10.1109/MWSYM.2013.6697603","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MWSYM.2013.6697603","url":null,"abstract":"A compact 4-pole tunable filter with improved stopband rejection is presented. Three combline resonators are employed, and the coupling between the adjacent and non-adjacent resonators are achieved by tuning varactors. It is shown that with the non-adjacent coupling path, two transmission zeroes at both sides of the passband (totally four) are present, and therefore the stopband rejection is significantly improved. This non-adjacent coupling also contributes one additional pole to the passband response. The positions of the transmission zeroes and passband bandwidth are controllable by changing the coupling values. A tunable filter at 640-1030 MHz is demonstrated with a controllable bandwidth of 8-12% and a wide stopband region. The application areas are in modern multi-standard communication systems.","PeriodicalId":128968,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest (MTT)","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121562491","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 fractional-order RLGC model for Terahertz transmission line","authors":"Y. Shang, Wei Fei, Hao Yu","doi":"10.1109/MWSYM.2013.6697392","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MWSYM.2013.6697392","url":null,"abstract":"A causal and compact fractional-order transmission line (T-line) model is developed for CMOS on-chip conductor at Terahertz (THz). With consideration of frequency-dependent dispersion loss and non-quasi-static effect at THz, good agreement of characteristic impedance is observed between the proposed fractional-order model and measurement up to 110GHz, while traditional integer-order model can only match up to 10GHz. The developed fractional-order model is deployed in design of CMOS on-chip standing-wave oscillator, which shows large improvement in accuracy such as oscillation amplitude with preserved causality.","PeriodicalId":128968,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest (MTT)","volume":"21 8","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114017382","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":"The ALMA Telescope","authors":"J. Webber","doi":"10.1109/MWSYM.2013.6697433","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MWSYM.2013.6697433","url":null,"abstract":"The Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) is an interferometer array of 54 12-m and 12 7-m antennas, operating in the atmospheric windows from 31 to 950 GHz. The cryogenic receivers for 10 bands employ SIS mixers and low-noise amplifiers. The aggregate data at a rate of 6.3 Tbit/s are processed in real time to yield cross-correlation functions used to construct mm/submm wavelength images with spatial resolution finer than the Hubble Space Telescope produces at optical wavelengths.","PeriodicalId":128968,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest (MTT)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124304426","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":"Mixerless 40 GHz wireless link using a photonic upconverting transmitter and a photonic downsampling receiver","authors":"T. McKenna, J. Nanzer, M. Dennis, T. Clark","doi":"10.1109/MWSYM.2013.6697614","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MWSYM.2013.6697614","url":null,"abstract":"We demonstrate a mixerless architecture for 40 GHz wireless communication that allows for fiber-remoting of both the transmitter and receiver. The architecture allows for carrier frequencies into the W-band and minimizes the hardware required at the antennas. The system uses photonic upconversion to data modulate the carrier frequency for transmission and photonic downsampling to downconvert the received signal to baseband. A total data rate of 3 Gb/s is demonstrated using multiple subcarrier 16-QAM.","PeriodicalId":128968,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest (MTT)","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127594034","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}
T. Chen, F. Artis, D. Dubuc, J. Fournié, M. Poupot, K. Grenier
{"title":"Microwave biosensor dedicated to the dielectric spectroscopy of a single alive biological cell in its culture medium","authors":"T. Chen, F. Artis, D. Dubuc, J. Fournié, M. Poupot, K. Grenier","doi":"10.1109/MWSYM.2013.6697740","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MWSYM.2013.6697740","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a biosensor dedicated to the dielectric spectroscopy of a single and living biological cell in its liquid culture medium in the micro and millimeter wave ranges. This detector works in the near field and involves a capacitive gap to perform the electromagnetic sensing, while a microfluidic system has been developed and adapted to the RF circuit to precisely localize the single biological cell under study. Both capacitive and conductive contrasts of a living biological cell measured in its culture medium are accessible. A living B lymphoma cell has then been measured from 40 MHz up to 40 GHz, with a measured capacitive contrast of the order of several hundreds of attofarads.","PeriodicalId":128968,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest (MTT)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125708311","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}
E. Bryerton, K. Saini, Jim Muehlberg, D. Vaselaar, D. Thacker
{"title":"Low-noise sub-millimeter wave local oscillators for ALMA","authors":"E. Bryerton, K. Saini, Jim Muehlberg, D. Vaselaar, D. Thacker","doi":"10.1109/MWSYM.2013.6697622","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MWSYM.2013.6697622","url":null,"abstract":"High signal-to-noise ratio sub-millimeter wave local oscillators (LOs) were developed and produced for the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA). They cover fractional bandwidths of 15-25% from 92 to 942 GHz. The LOs were designed and tested for high signal-to-noise ratio since they are used to drive single-ended mixers. Integrated millimeter-wave multi-chip MMIC modules, employing custom and commercial MMICs, were designed to yield the required power and SNR performance. 73 modules of the LO have been produced for each of the six bands to date, with two more bands currently under construction.","PeriodicalId":128968,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest (MTT)","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121954847","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":"Automated tuning and matching of a 16-channel TEM transmit-only array used in conjunction with a 32-channel receive-only loop array for MR cardiac imaging at 7 tesla","authors":"C. Snyder, L. DelaBarre, J. Vaughan","doi":"10.1109/MWSYM.2013.6697724","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MWSYM.2013.6697724","url":null,"abstract":"Radiofrequency (RF) coils are antenna-like devices used in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to inductively excite and receive the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) signal in anatomy. Recently, coil arrays have shown significant advantages over large single channel volume coils at ultra-high magnetic field strengths. However, to maximize the full potential, each individual coil within the array needs to be “tuned and matched” to the anatomy (load) prior to imaging. Tuning and matching can be a tedious and time consuming process, and has been cited as a problem that precludes ultra-high field strength MRI from a becoming a clinical reality. Here, we have developed an electromechanical solution. A 16-channel transmit-only TEM array was designed and fitted with piezoelectric actuators mechanically linked to sliding cylindrical tuning and matching capacitors to automate the tuning and matching process, based on the coil's reflection coefficient.","PeriodicalId":128968,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest (MTT)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127947397","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":"Frequency-stabilized radio-over-fiber signal generation based on optical frequency comb source with injection-locking technique","authors":"A. Kanno, T. Kawanishi","doi":"10.1109/MWSYM.2013.6697377","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MWSYM.2013.6697377","url":null,"abstract":"Frequency-stabilized millimeter- and submillimeter-wave radio-over-fiber (RoF) signal generation is successfully demonstrated using an injection-locking laser with an optical frequency comb (OFC) source. A frequency-shifter-based OFC generator can easily provide a frequency-locked optical component with an available bandwidth of up to 1 THz. An injection-locking technique that uses this comb improves the signal-to-noise ratio of the RoF signal without any degradation of phase noise.","PeriodicalId":128968,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest (MTT)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115959827","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}
R. Agethen, M. PourMousavi, H. Forstner, M. Wojnowski, K. Pressel, R. Weigel, D. Kissinger
{"title":"60 GHz industrial radar systems in silicon-germanium technology","authors":"R. Agethen, M. PourMousavi, H. Forstner, M. Wojnowski, K. Pressel, R. Weigel, D. Kissinger","doi":"10.1109/MWSYM.2013.6697731","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MWSYM.2013.6697731","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a fully integrated 60GHz SiGe transceiver for industrial radar applications. The transceiver is packaged in an eWLB technology which allowes for direct embedding of two dipole antennas in the package. The compact transceiver frontend has been evaluated in an FMCW radar setup. The transceiver features a wide tunable operating range and is comprised of a vector modulator and a homodyne IQ receiver. The overall transceiver MMIC has a maximum output power of 3 dBm and an overall power consumption of less then 1 W. The directivity of the embedded antenna is 9dBi and shows an operating bandwidth of 5 GHz.","PeriodicalId":128968,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest (MTT)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132513167","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}