I. Kallfass, F. Gruson, P. Abele, K. Michelakis, T. Hackbarth, K. Hieber, J. Muller, H. Schumacher
{"title":"A SiGe HEMT Mixer IC with Low Conversion Loss","authors":"I. Kallfass, F. Gruson, P. Abele, K. Michelakis, T. Hackbarth, K. Hieber, J. Muller, H. Schumacher","doi":"10.1109/EUMA.2003.340976","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EUMA.2003.340976","url":null,"abstract":"The authors present the first SiGe HEMT mixer integrated circuit. The active mixer stage, operating up to 10GHz RF, has been designed and realized using a 0.1 ¿m gate length transistor technology. The design is based on a new large-signal simulation model developed for the SiGe HEMT. Good agreement between simulation and measurement is reached. The mixer exhibits 4.0dB and 4.7dB conversion loss when down-converting 3.0GHz and 6.0GHz signals, respectively, to an intermediate frequency of 500MHz using high-side injection of 5dBm local oscillator power. Conversion loss is less than 8dB for RF frequencies up to 10GHz with a mixer linearity of ¿8.8dBm input related 1dB compression point.","PeriodicalId":156210,"journal":{"name":"2003 33rd European Microwave Conference, 2003","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121443385","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 60 GHz Image Rejection Filter Manufactured Using a High Resolution LTCC Screen Printing Process","authors":"I. Ferrer, J. Svedin","doi":"10.1109/EUMA.2003.340980","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EUMA.2003.340980","url":null,"abstract":"An LTCC test panel including various mm-wave test circuits has been designed and manufactured using a recently developed screen printing process (Thales Microelectronics) having a highly optimised resolution, here evaluated using a minimum microstrip line width/gap of 2 mil (50.8 ¿m). In this paper we report on a 60 GHz microstrip coupled lines bandpass filter manufactured on a 3.7 mil (94.0 ¿m) thick Ferro A6S substrate using a minimum line gap of 2 mil. The electromagnetic effects caused by the top conductor recess were taken into account using direct full-wave simulations (Ansoft HFSS) but also by a circuit simulation methodology based on the use of effective relative permittivity and substrate height parameters [1]. Preliminary measurement results show a 3 dB bandwidth of approximately 5 GHz, a passband insertion loss of 4 dB and a center frequency slightly above the simulated value. This bandpass filter could e.g. serve as an image rejection filter together with the 60 GHz WLAN chipset [2] where it would demonstrate a 55 GHz image suppression of approximately 20 dB.","PeriodicalId":156210,"journal":{"name":"2003 33rd European Microwave Conference, 2003","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126626316","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 1 GHz Class E LDMOS Power Amplifier","authors":"A. Ådahl, H. Zirath","doi":"10.1109/EUMA.2003.340946","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EUMA.2003.340946","url":null,"abstract":"A class E power amplifier working at 1 GHz and with an LDMOS transistor as switching element has been developed. The circuit is implemented with lumped and distributed elements. An output power of 6.2 W at 69 % drain efficiency with a gain of 11 dB was obtained at 1 GHz. Both simulations and measurements of the amplifier are presented within this paper. This is to our knowledge the highest efficiency and output power reported for a class E amplifier at 1 GHz.","PeriodicalId":156210,"journal":{"name":"2003 33rd European Microwave Conference, 2003","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117017536","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. Nilsson, C. Samuelsson, M. Alfredson, A. Ouacha
{"title":"Key Circuits for a Reconfigurable and Bi-directional Beamformer for Ultra wideband Applications","authors":"T. Nilsson, C. Samuelsson, M. Alfredson, A. Ouacha","doi":"10.1109/EUMA.2003.341058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EUMA.2003.341058","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the performance of reconfigurable broadband active power splitter and combiner intended for a two-dimensional beamformer for ultra-wideband active phased array. The topology of the beamformer has been developed so that it allows bi-directionality and reconfigurability. Simulated performance of a broadband reconfigurable 8x8 active beamformer is also presented.","PeriodicalId":156210,"journal":{"name":"2003 33rd European Microwave Conference, 2003","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126164731","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":"Microwave Characterization of Thin Ferroelectric Films","authors":"A. Deleniv, S. Abadei, S. Gevorgian","doi":"10.1109/EUMA.2003.340995","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EUMA.2003.340995","url":null,"abstract":"A simple technique for characterization of dielectrics at high microwave frequencies is proposed and verified experimentally. The technique makes use of the measured impedance of a test structure. The latter is a simple capacitor, formed on the top of a substrate with an arbitrary number of dielectric/conductor layers and contains a material under test (MUT) layer with unknown loss tangent and dielectric constant. Assuming that all other layers are specified, a simple method is given to calculate RF impedance of such a structure enabling extraction of MUT properties","PeriodicalId":156210,"journal":{"name":"2003 33rd European Microwave Conference, 2003","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134206752","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 94 GHz RF Electronics Subsystem for the CloudSat Cloud Profiling Radar","authors":"R. LaBelle, R. Girard, G. Arbery","doi":"10.1109/EUMA.2003.341140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EUMA.2003.341140","url":null,"abstract":"The CloudSat spacecraft, scheduled for launch in 2004, will carry the 94 GHz Cloud Profiling Radar (CPR) instrument. The design, assembly and test of the flight Radio Frequency Electronics Subsystem (RFES) for this instrument has been completed and is presented here. The RFES consists of an Upconverter (which includes an Exciter and two Drive Amplifiers (DA's)), a Receiver, and a Transmitter Calibrator assembly. Some key performance parameters of the RFES are as follows: dual 100 mW pulse-modulated drive outputs at 94 GHz, overall Receiver noise figure <5.0 dB, a highly stable W-band noise source to provide knowledge accuracy of Receiver gain of <0.4 dB over the 2 year mission life, and a W-band peak power detector to monitor the transmitter output power to within 0.5 dB over life. Some recent monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) designs were utilized which implement the DA's in 0.1 um GaAs high electron-mobility transistor (HEMT) technology and the Receiver low-noise amplifier (LNA) in 0.1 um InP HEMT technology.","PeriodicalId":156210,"journal":{"name":"2003 33rd European Microwave Conference, 2003","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115623530","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}
D. Mercier, M. Chatras, J. Orlianges, C. Champeaux, A. Catherinot, P. Blondy, D. Cros, J. Papapolymerou
{"title":"A Micromachined Tunable Cavity Resonator","authors":"D. Mercier, M. Chatras, J. Orlianges, C. Champeaux, A. Catherinot, P. Blondy, D. Cros, J. Papapolymerou","doi":"10.1109/EUMA.2003.341043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EUMA.2003.341043","url":null,"abstract":"This paper focuses on a tunable resonator fabricated using bulk and surface micro-machining techniques. The resonator consists of a silicon micro-machined metalized cavity coupled with a MEMS bridge capacitor for tunability purposes. The resonator is excited using coplanar waveguide lines to avoid losses from transitions and facilitate measurements. The unloaded quality factor of the device is about 150 depending on the MEMS varactor position and the simulated tuning range is 0.4 GHz (1.45%) at 27.8 GHz.","PeriodicalId":156210,"journal":{"name":"2003 33rd European Microwave Conference, 2003","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128412159","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 Channelized 2nd IF/LO Downconverter for the EOS Microwave Limb Sounder","authors":"R. LaBelle","doi":"10.1109/EUMA.2003.341141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EUMA.2003.341141","url":null,"abstract":"The Earth Observing System (EOS) Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) is scheduled for launch in 2004 on the EOS Aura spacecraft. The design, assembly and test of the flight2nd Intermediate Frequency/Local Oscillator(2nd IF/LO) subsystem for this instrument has been completed and is presented here. The 2nd IF/LO subsystem consists of 5 separate microwave assemblies, 1 for each of the 5 millimeter wave radiometer front ends, providing a total of 33 separate IF channels. Some key requirements of the subsystem are as follows: provide frequency multiplexing of overlapping or closely spaced 1st IF channels while maintaining low ripple in the passbands; generate 18 different 2nd LO frequencies, in the range of 4-20 GHz, with low phase noise and a placement resolution of 400 KHz; downconvert the 1st IF's to a common 2nd IF frequency centered at 900 MHz; minimize cost and schedule by using common designs for the 5 different assemblies wherever possible.","PeriodicalId":156210,"journal":{"name":"2003 33rd European Microwave Conference, 2003","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116951487","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, A. Baryshev, R. Hesper, K. Saini, D. Thacker
{"title":"A 660-GHz Electronically Tunable Local Oscillator","authors":"E. Bryerton, A. Baryshev, R. Hesper, K. Saini, D. Thacker","doi":"10.1109/EUMA.2003.340863","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EUMA.2003.340863","url":null,"abstract":"We present an electronically tunable local oscillator from 630-675 GHz with upcoming extension to 600-720 GHz using a 13.33-16.00 GHz source followed by a x45 multiplier chain. Output power measurements show >30 ¿W from 630-675 GHz. FTS and receiver noise measurements using this LO are also presented.","PeriodicalId":156210,"journal":{"name":"2003 33rd European Microwave Conference, 2003","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132218216","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":"Delay Lines Based on Coupled Slow-Wave Structures","authors":"Y. Pchelnikov, D. Nyce","doi":"10.1109/EUMA.2003.340905","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EUMA.2003.340905","url":null,"abstract":"A novel method to obtain an electromagnetic signal delay is described. It is shown that the positive magnetic and electric coupling between impedance conductors produces an increase in the time delay. It is also shown that the increase in delay time is obtained without additional attenuation. This allows a reduction in electromagnetic losses, by a factor of several times, for a delay time. An approximate analysis of electromagnetic delay lines based on coupled impedance conductors with \"spiral\" and \"meander\" patterns allowed obtaining very simple expressions for the wave deceleration factor, wave impedance, and attenuation factor. The results of the analysis are confirmed by the results of measurements.","PeriodicalId":156210,"journal":{"name":"2003 33rd European Microwave Conference, 2003","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115712878","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}