{"title":"Implementation and field test of a Broadband ESPAR antenna","authors":"Bashir Alshami, Hassan Aboulnour, M. Dib","doi":"10.1109/MMW.2010.5605207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMW.2010.5605207","url":null,"abstract":"The implementation and field test of a BroadBand Electrically Steerable Parasitic Array Radiator (BB-ESPAR) antenna [1], as well as a comparison between experimental and simulation results are presented in this paper. BB-ESPAR antenna was modeled, implemented and experimentally characterized. A prototype of the proposed antenna has experimentally produced a horizontal directivity of 8 dBi gain and VSWR less then 3:1 value in the frequency band [465–700] MHz. Experimental and simulation results showed a good agreement.","PeriodicalId":145274,"journal":{"name":"2010 10th Mediterranean Microwave Symposium","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130994789","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":"An inverted microstrip resonator for complex permittivity measurement of medium loss liquids using 3D-FDTD simulation","authors":"M. Mosalanejad, G. Moradi, A. Abdipour","doi":"10.1109/MMW.2010.5605099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMW.2010.5605099","url":null,"abstract":"A novel microstrip resonator is designed to measure complex permittivities of liquids with medium loss. This resonator has two layers, the first one is the liquid under test and the second one is the base that the patch is printed on it. The base layer is inverted on the sample layer and S-parameter is measured from 0.1 GHz to 1 GHz. The complex permittivities of binary liquid mixtures of methanol and ethanol are reconstructed from the resonant frequency and the quality factor. The experimental results agree with reference values. The maximum errors are 11.34% and 22.12% for the real and imaginary part of the permittivity, respectively.","PeriodicalId":145274,"journal":{"name":"2010 10th Mediterranean Microwave Symposium","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123941807","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":"Design constraints in conical line power combiners","authors":"D. D. De Villiers, P. Van Der Walt, P. Meyer","doi":"10.1109/MMW.2010.5605205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMW.2010.5605205","url":null,"abstract":"A study is presented on the constraints on the size of conical line power combiners. The constraints are imposed by the occurrence of higher order modes which cause unpredictable behavior in electrically large structures. A simple method is presented to estimate the maximum size of the combining structure to ensure predictable transverse electromagnetic mode behavior.","PeriodicalId":145274,"journal":{"name":"2010 10th Mediterranean Microwave Symposium","volume":"118 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124154584","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":"Real frequency techniques to design ultra wideband circuits","authors":"B. Yarman","doi":"10.1109/MMW.2010.5605111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMW.2010.5605111","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a historical review of real frequency techniques are presented.","PeriodicalId":145274,"journal":{"name":"2010 10th Mediterranean Microwave Symposium","volume":"37 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124518893","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":"An exact time domain evaluation for radiated fields from a Hertz dipole","authors":"A. Ergin, S. Karaca","doi":"10.1109/MMW.2010.5605141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMW.2010.5605141","url":null,"abstract":"This paper provides an exact derivation of the radiated fields of a Hertz dipole in time domain. The usual derivation of the frequency domain dipole fields involves neglecting the phase variation across the dipole and hence, it is not exact. The time domain derivations presented here do not involve any approximations. The relations between time domain and frequency domain fields of an infinitesimal dipole are studied by taking the limit of the exact field expressions as the dipole length goes to zero.","PeriodicalId":145274,"journal":{"name":"2010 10th Mediterranean Microwave Symposium","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121986324","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":"Wideband matching circuit design for differantial output systems by using real frequency technique","authors":"O. Ceylan, H. B. Yagci, S. Yarman","doi":"10.1109/MMW.2010.5605180","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMW.2010.5605180","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, an ultra wideband power transfer network is designed by using Real Frequency Technique to use single microstrip antenna with the TI CC1110. CC1110 is a Texas Instruments' transceiver device which supports 3 different frequency (315, 433 and 868 MHz) for communication. Device output is balanced and has different output impedances at different frequencies. At first a microstrip antenna is designed and power transfer network was designed between antenna and CC1110 to transfer output power efficiently to antenna at different frequencies for using same circuit.","PeriodicalId":145274,"journal":{"name":"2010 10th Mediterranean Microwave Symposium","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123331376","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":"Rigorous solution by analytical regularization method to the problem of 3D TM-ϕ wave diffraction by a set of axially symmetrical annular PEC surfaces","authors":"H. Yiğit, F. Dikmen, O. Suvorova, Y. Tuchkin","doi":"10.1109/MMW.2010.5605163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMW.2010.5605163","url":null,"abstract":"The analytical regularization method is applied to the problem o f 3D TM-ϕ wave diffraction by perfectly conductive axially symmetrical a nnular surfaces consisting a set of closed and unclosed ones. The electromagnetic boundary value problem is reduced to t he infinite algebraic system of the second kind which in principal can be solved with any predetermined accuracy by means of truncation procedure. Numerical results, including condition number and field's space distribution for obstacles will be presented.","PeriodicalId":145274,"journal":{"name":"2010 10th Mediterranean Microwave Symposium","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123459039","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}
V. Turgul, Meltem Dirim, Sukru B. Bilgin, Halil I. Gok, T. Nesimoglu
{"title":"Broadband signal search and direction finding at UHF frequencies","authors":"V. Turgul, Meltem Dirim, Sukru B. Bilgin, Halil I. Gok, T. Nesimoglu","doi":"10.1109/MMW.2010.5605172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMW.2010.5605172","url":null,"abstract":"A technique for finding the strongest signal's power and direction using a receiver system in the lower UHF band is presented. For this purpose, a log-periodic dipole array antenna, a power sensing RF circuit and a microcontroller system for controlling a stepper motor are designed and tested. The receiver system rotates the antenna 360 degrees in azimuth with the stepper motor and measures RF power. The measured power is represented in the form of a DC voltage and stored in the memory of the microcontroller for comparison. Once the strongest signal and its direction are found, the antenna is rotated to that position and locked.","PeriodicalId":145274,"journal":{"name":"2010 10th Mediterranean Microwave Symposium","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129314388","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 tunable X-band SiGe HBT single stage cascode LNA","authors":"M. Doğan, I. Tekin","doi":"10.1109/MMW.2010.5605144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMW.2010.5605144","url":null,"abstract":"This pape r pre sents an X-band silic on-germanium (SiGe) single stage cascode tunable low-noise amplifier (LNA) for active phased arra y transm it/receive m odules. LNA is implemented by using IHP SiGe he terojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs) 0.25-μm SGB25V technology. Cadence is used in c ollaboration with ADS during sc hematic and lay out de sign and the r esults de pict that de signed LNA dissipates 15.36 mW from an 2. 4 V DC power supply and the maximum gain aroun d 18 dB in X-band while not exceeding the 2.4 dB noise figure (NF). Reverse gain of the LNA is very low (<−40 dB). Input terminal is matched so that S11 is below −10 dB in X-band.","PeriodicalId":145274,"journal":{"name":"2010 10th Mediterranean Microwave Symposium","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130789387","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":"OIP3 estimation based on DC power conditions","authors":"Jakub Duchon, J. Kangas, Olli-Pekka Lundén","doi":"10.1109/MMW.2010.5605174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMW.2010.5605174","url":null,"abstract":"To estimate OIP3 of low power RF amplifiers from DC power operating conditions is of a good help at the beginning of the design work. We introduce a simple formula intended for estimation of OIP3 of Bipolar Junctions Transistors. Harmonic balance simulations and measurements were carried out to validate usability of this formula. The results show that there is more relation between OIP3 and the collector current than between OIP3 and the collector emitter-voltage. The proposed formula is applicable for collector currents in the range of 2 mA to 8 mA and for collector-emitter voltages in the range of 2 V to 3 V.","PeriodicalId":145274,"journal":{"name":"2010 10th Mediterranean Microwave Symposium","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126234091","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}