J. Kuo, Chun-Chin Wang, Chong Lay Ng, Chun-Hung Lin, P. Wong
{"title":"New Alternative Realizations of a Cross Coupled Quadruplet Bandpass Filter","authors":"J. Kuo, Chun-Chin Wang, Chong Lay Ng, Chun-Hung Lin, P. Wong","doi":"10.1109/APMC46564.2019.9038399","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APMC46564.2019.9038399","url":null,"abstract":"New alternative realizations of a quadruplet bandpass filter are investigated. The feasibility of these new alternative coupling schemes is validated by two-port Y- parameters of the lowpass prototype network with constant inverters. Two experimental circuits are fabricated and measured. Good agreement between measured responses and simulated data validates the concept.","PeriodicalId":162908,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC)","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128509896","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":"Performance Optimization of Profile Conical Horn Antenna using Mirror Image Geometry","authors":"Jay Gupta, D. Pujara","doi":"10.1109/APMC46564.2019.9038657","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APMC46564.2019.9038657","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the design of a profile horn antenna using polynomial interpolation having multiple node points. The conical horn antennas with profiling are designed for D-band (110–170 GHz) frequencies. The mirror image concept is used to form the profile for enhancing the performance of the horn antenna. The proposed design is compared with the interpolation profile horn having two node points. The proposed design offers narrower beam width and side-lobes better than −24 dB.","PeriodicalId":162908,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128380241","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}
Yi-Ching Wu, Yuh-Jing Hwang, Chau-Ching Chiong, Bo-Ze Lu, Huei Wang
{"title":"A 40-nm CMOS Mixer with 36-GHz IF Bandwidth and 60–148 GHz RF Passband","authors":"Yi-Ching Wu, Yuh-Jing Hwang, Chau-Ching Chiong, Bo-Ze Lu, Huei Wang","doi":"10.1109/APMC46564.2019.9038677","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APMC46564.2019.9038677","url":null,"abstract":"An innovative mixing unit of the proposed mixer named JIM (Joint-Injection-Mixing) featured wide IF and RF bandwidths is proposed. The JIM mixer is designed to cover RF frequency range of 60 GHz to 148 GHz and IF frequency range of dc to 36 GHz. The LO driving power of JIM mixer is 0 dBm with dc power consumption of 2 mW. The conversion gain (CG) of JIM mixer is from −8 dB to −14 dB. The JIM mixer in this work is implemented for fundamental mixing as down-conversion. By utilizing the proposed balun, the LO-to-RF isolation of JIM mixer achieves at least 40 dB. The process fabricated for JIM mixer is 40nm CMOS. The chip sizes excluding and including pads are 0.144 mm2 and 0.22 mm2, respectively. The proposed JIM mixer features the state-of-the-art mixer in terms of IF with the widest bandwidth.","PeriodicalId":162908,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128486956","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":"Ka-Band Near-Field Focusing Lens Antenna with Frequency Scanning Focal Spots","authors":"Shi Lin Liu, X. Lin","doi":"10.1109/APMC46564.2019.9038491","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APMC46564.2019.9038491","url":null,"abstract":"A near-field (NF) focusing lens antenna with frequency scanning focal spots is proposed in this paper. The 3-D printing technology is employed to fabricate the transmitting lens, which simplifies the manufacturing process and reduces the cost. A dual-mode horn antenna is employed to illuminate the lens with a separated distance of 80 mm (the corresponding focal-to-depth (F/D) of 0.8). The focal points are located on the horizontal parallel plane 200 mm away from the lens, which scan from −13 mm to 10 mm along x-axis direction, with frequency increasing from 30 GHz to 40 GHz. Measured results are in good coincidence with the simulation. The proposed method could be applicable in various practical applications such as imaging systems, radar and so forth.","PeriodicalId":162908,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC)","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124627494","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":"Linearity-enhanced Dual-power-mode CMOS RF Power Amplifier Design Using Post-distortion","authors":"Chenxi Zhai, K. Cheng","doi":"10.1109/APMC46564.2019.9038345","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APMC46564.2019.9038345","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the novel design of CMOS RF power amplifier (PA) with dual-power-mode operation and enhanced linearity. By the adoption of the proposed reconfigurable output network (for differential signal combining and impedance matching) and post-linearizing diode, the PA can be made to operate in either high-power (HP) or low-power (LP) mode with improved signal integrity. For verification, the proposed design is implemented using 0.35 µm CMOS process. Under continuous wave excitation, a power-added efficiency of 38.2% (31.3%) at 27.2 dBm (21.4 dBm) in HP (LP) operation is found. In addition, WCDMA test (carrier frequency of 2 GHz) results indicate that the proposed PA is capable of delivering average output power of 25.3 dBm (20.5 dBm) in HP (LP) mode, subject to 33 dBc ACLR specification.","PeriodicalId":162908,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129684745","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 of wideband small footprint 3D posts antenna with coupled meta-surface patches","authors":"Gaurangi Gupta, A. Harish","doi":"10.1109/APMC46564.2019.9038212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APMC46564.2019.9038212","url":null,"abstract":"Wideband performance can be obtained by the interaction between the 3D posts antenna with surrounding meta-surface patches. The antenna footprint has been reduced by 52% for the 3D posts antenna by the systematic analysis of the current distribution on the meta-surface patches. The modified antennas present comparable performance with the original antennas in terms of antenna bandwidth and radiation properties.","PeriodicalId":162908,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129798986","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 Automatic Design Approach for Microstrip Line Impedance Transformer for Triple-Band Application","authors":"R. Barik, Q. Cheng, K. S. Subramanian","doi":"10.1109/APMC46564.2019.9038330","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APMC46564.2019.9038330","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a novel automatic design approach of the microstrip line impedance transformer for triple-band application is presented. The cross-shaped line and two series transmission lines are employed to allow matching between source impedance and a given load impedances at three different operating frequencies. The required circuit parameters of the proposed structure are computed using the derived analytical equations. A simple synthesis approach is provided to develop triple-band impedance transformer. To validate the analytical derivation, two prototypes of triple-band impedance transformer are designed, simulated and tested for smaller (10 Ω) as well as larger (400 Ω) load impedances. The simulated and measured return loss are greater than 20 dB at three operating frequencies. The prototypes exhibit good performance between measured and simulated results.","PeriodicalId":162908,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130104073","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":"On-wafer Non-Fifty Ohm X-parameter Model Verification Measurement System for Active Device","authors":"Hsu-Feng Hsiao, C. Tu, H. Tsai, Y. Juang","doi":"10.1109/APMC46564.2019.9038290","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APMC46564.2019.9038290","url":null,"abstract":"The paper proposes the on-wafer non-fifty ohm X-parameter model verification measurement system so that RF designer can verify the active device designed in nonlinear amplifier. The measured output power contours and power added efficiency (PAE) contours of the 0.15um pHEMT X-parameter model compared with those of the WIN semiconductor foundry process design kit (PDK) model shows good results in smith chart.","PeriodicalId":162908,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130339686","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 Dual-Function Circuit with Switchable Crossover/Branch-Line Coupler Characteristics","authors":"I-Ju Chen, Chia-I Lu, Yi-Hsin Pang","doi":"10.1109/APMC46564.2019.9038481","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APMC46564.2019.9038481","url":null,"abstract":"A dual-function circuit is introduced in this paper. The proposed circuit has characteristics of either a branch-line coupler or a crossover at the same frequency which is switchable with diodes being reverse or forward biased. A 1-GHz prototype has been realized on an RO4003C substrate. The 10 dB bandwidth of measured return loss in a crossover mode is 69%, and the bandwidth with a branch-line coupler behavior is 96%. To the best of authors' knowledge, this is the first time to present a dual-function circuit with switchable crossover/branch-line coupler behavior which could be useful in beam forming technology.","PeriodicalId":162908,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC)","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127017127","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":"Multi band Multi standard 50W high efficiency and highly linear Power Amplifier for Macro Base Stations","authors":"P. Rao, D. Krishna, V. M. Pandharipande","doi":"10.1109/APMC46564.2019.9038430","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APMC46564.2019.9038430","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, design of multi band multi standard LDMOS 50W high efficiency, high gain and highly linear Asymmetric Doherty Power Amplifier (ADPA) in a common PCB without layout changes to cover all lower 3gpp frequency bands from 729 to 960MHz was presented. To cover different wireless frequency bands, different passive matching components for different frequency bands were used without changing the layout. Quarter wave line lengths were adjusted to cover various bands by providing options with a series of capacitors on quarter wave lines. Care has been taken to keep same matching circuit for at least two adjacent frequency bands. This paper also proposed a drain feed design technique to achieve good Digital Pre Distortion (DPD) performance. The ADPA was characterized with LTE 5MHz signal, achieved a total gain of 52dB with final Doherty Power-Added-Efficiency reaching to 48% over the frequency range at 47dBm output power with output power back off of 8dB from peak. The uncorrected Adjacent Channel Power Ratio (ACPR) over the frequency range observed was −35 dBc, after DPD correction ACPR observed was −63dBc, the LTE 5 MHz 64 QAM Error vector magnitude (EVM) observed was 3.5%, and the ADPA peak power achieved was greater than 55.5dBm.","PeriodicalId":162908,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129107670","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}