{"title":"Design of Dual-Layer Fabry Perot Cavity Antenna","authors":"L. Feng, D. Cheng, Bin Hao","doi":"10.1109/IMWS-AMP49156.2020.9199725","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMWS-AMP49156.2020.9199725","url":null,"abstract":"A Dielectric Fabry Perot Cavity Antenna (FPCA) is proposed in this paper. It consists of a dual-layer superstrate with the same size placed on top of a square ground plane. It is fed by a waveguide attached at the bottom surface of the ground plane. It has an impedance bandwidth of 6.09 % and an antenna gain of 13.80 dBi. It achieved an antenna gain enhancement of more than 3dB compared with its single-layer counterpart.","PeriodicalId":163276,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on Advanced Materials and Processes for RF and THz Applications (IMWS-AMP)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123349962","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":"Study of 28 GHz Transceiver Module Integrated With LO Source for 5G mmWave Communication","authors":"Zewen Luo, Haidong Chen, W. Che, Q. Xue","doi":"10.1109/IMWS-AMP49156.2020.9199679","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMWS-AMP49156.2020.9199679","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a design of RF transceiver module for 5G communication, working in millimeter wave band of 24.25-29.5 GHz. The superheterodyne architecture, using 3.5 GHz as fixed IF, is adopted as transceiver architecture for the module, which is based on ADMV1013, ADMV1014, ADRF5020 and ADF4372 for full uplink module, downlink module functions. All these chips are studied and investigated, followed by the integration on a multi-layer PCB with FR4 and RO4350.The proposed design is a candidate unit of MIMO communication systems.","PeriodicalId":163276,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on Advanced Materials and Processes for RF and THz Applications (IMWS-AMP)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123602448","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 Waveguide-Fed Transmitting Antenna for High Efficiency Microwave Power Transmission","authors":"Junfeng Chen, Long Xiao, Liang Chen, Songcen Wang, Fengtao Wu, Deliang Zhao","doi":"10.1109/IMWS-AMP49156.2020.9199683","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMWS-AMP49156.2020.9199683","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a transmitting antenna fed by rectangular waveguide are intend for the operation at relatively high power levels in practical use, such as mid-range wireless charging. The proposed transmitter is composed of square patches on a 1.5mm thick dielectric substrate. The square patches are connected by main feeder and excited by rectangular feeding patches in the middle of the antenna. Single antenna is fed by a rectangular waveguide and sized for 370×480 mm (14.6×18.9 inch). The transmitting antenna is investigated by simulation and experimentally. The simulated results indicated that this antenna achieves 30dB gain and 150MHz bandwidth from 5.74 to 5.89 GHz. Experimental results are in accordance with those of the simulation results. The electromagnetic field distributions of antenna radiation direction have been characterized both in horizontal and vertical sections. Further analysis of the power density of the improved transmitting antenna is given.","PeriodicalId":163276,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on Advanced Materials and Processes for RF and THz Applications (IMWS-AMP)","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121758612","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 MMIC LNA Design","authors":"G. Qin, Liu Jing-ping, Liu Zi-ting, Lin Hui-jun","doi":"10.1109/IMWS-AMP49156.2020.9199767","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMWS-AMP49156.2020.9199767","url":null,"abstract":"In order to better adapt to the requirements of smaller noise and better performance in low-noise amplifiers in radio communications,this article simulates and designs a 35GHz broadband monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) low noise amplifier,by adopting InGaAs pseudo-crystal high electron mobility transistor (pHEMT) process model. The circuit uses a three-stage cascaded dual power supply structure. The front-stage amplifier circuit optimizes the noise figure while ensuring a good input and output standing wave ratio. The last two stages provide maximum gain matching, which guarantees the good noise figure, gain flatness and VSWR of the overall amplifier.In addition, the source negative feedback inductance and bias network circuit of each stage are optimized to achieve a broadband output and high gain under low noise. The simulation design shows that under the working conditions of gate and drain bias voltages of -0.5V and 3V, and current of 90mA respectively, the amplifier has a minimum noise figure of less than 2dB and a maximum gain of more than 20dB in the 25-45GHz band. At 35GHz, it has a minimum noise figure of 1.702dB, a maximum gain of 24.594dB, an input standing wave ratio of 2.236 and an output standing wave ratio of 1.122.The designed low-noise amplifier can be implemented in a broadband millimeter wave transceiver system.","PeriodicalId":163276,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on Advanced Materials and Processes for RF and THz Applications (IMWS-AMP)","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123848346","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":"Conformal Metasurface for Wideband RCS Reduction","authors":"Yajin Wang, Jianxun Su","doi":"10.1109/IMWS-AMP49156.2020.9199688","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMWS-AMP49156.2020.9199688","url":null,"abstract":"A cylindrical conformal metasurface is introduced for wideband RCS reduction, utilizing the optimized multielement phase cancellation. The metasurface is divided into eight regions containing a total of 40 lattices that are printed on a cylindrically curved ground plane. For different regions of the curved surface, the incident angle and wave path difference caused by the bending of the conformal structure are considered. Hybrid array pattern synthesis and particle swarm optimization are used to control and optimize the interaction between multiple backscattered waves generated by the lattices, so as to realize wideband destructive interference. The designed metasurface can achieve a 10 dB reduction in backscattered RCS under normal incidence for HH polarization from 5 to 6.8 GHz and 7.3 to 10 GHz with the fractional bandwidths of 30.5% and 31.2%, respectively. The estimated and simulated results are in good agreement and prove that the proposed method can be used to solve the wideband RCS reduction of the conformal targets.","PeriodicalId":163276,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on Advanced Materials and Processes for RF and THz Applications (IMWS-AMP)","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126301180","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 Highly Efficient 60 GHz CMOS Doherty Power Amplifier With Adaptive Gate Biases","authors":"Run-Ze Zhan, Yuan Chun Li, Haiwei Zhang","doi":"10.1109/IMWS-AMP49156.2020.9199696","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMWS-AMP49156.2020.9199696","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a Doherty power amplifier (DPA) in 65 nm CMOS process at 60 GHz is presented. In the proposed design, both the gate biases of carrier and peaking amplifiers are adaptively controlled according to input power levels. Different bias control schemes are applied for the carrier and peaking amplifiers respectively to achieve efficient Doherty operation and improve efficiency. Power detectors are applied to achieved the dynamic bias voltages and consumes very low power. By combining active load modulation and the adaptive biases, both the back-off and saturation power added efficiencies (PAEs) of the DPA are enhanced and the gain compression point is extended. Simulated results show that the 20% saturation PAE and 13% 6-dB back-off PAE are achieved, and the output 1-dB gain compression point (OP1dB) is around 17 dBm.","PeriodicalId":163276,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on Advanced Materials and Processes for RF and THz Applications (IMWS-AMP)","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120880526","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 Reconfigurable Mixer for 1.8-5GHz Software-Defined Radios","authors":"Shilpa Mehta, Xue Jun Li, A. Aneja","doi":"10.1109/IMWS-AMP49156.2020.9199668","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMWS-AMP49156.2020.9199668","url":null,"abstract":"This paper demonstrates a reconfigurable current bleeding mixer using SiGe 8HP process due to its high performance. In this work a down-conversion mixer has been proposed which is based on a double-balanced topology. The mixer operates between 1.8GHz and 5GHz, LO as 1.9GHz, and results affirm its feasibility for software-defined radio applications. The impedance matching section consists of varactors and spiral inductors to match at different frequencies within a band. The analysis shows that the proposed mixer design has a high conversion gain of 13.5-18.5 dB with a noise figure of 1.2-1.8 dB and dissipated 10mW power. The mixer operates at 1.2V and has moderate linearity performance with CP1 of -17.1 dBm and IIP3 as -3.89dBm.","PeriodicalId":163276,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on Advanced Materials and Processes for RF and THz Applications (IMWS-AMP)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116531661","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":"60 GHz Optimised Nickel-free Gold-plated Enclosed Coplanar Waveguide Liquid Crystal Phase Shifter","authors":"Jinfeng Li","doi":"10.1109/IMWS-AMP49156.2020.9199680","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMWS-AMP49156.2020.9199680","url":null,"abstract":"A novel nickel-free gold-plated enclosed coplanar waveguide is experimentally demonstrated for a liquid crystal tunable delay line phase shifter at 60 GHz. By numerical investigations, we find that conventional surface impedance model (without meshing inside metals) fails to accurately characterise the effect of gold-plating thickness on conductor loss, especially when the plating thickness is smaller than 4 times of the gold's skin depth. To address this, adaptive meshing inside metals is performed for accurate modelling of the device. The gold-plating thickness is then experimentally optimised and tailored for the liquid crystal-based device-making procedures, i.e. taking into account the accelerated copper migration into gold problem during the alignment agent baking process at 200°C. Measurement results of assembled phase shifters at 60 GHz verify that a direct gold plating of 2μm on Cu can reduce the insertion loss by 1.79 dB and 2.85 dB as compared with that with a thinner plating of 50 nm, and no plating, respectively. The maximum insertion loss of -2.996 dB demonstrated at 60 GHz for the 0-π phase shifter delivers a figure-of-merit of 60°/dB, an improvement of 42°/dB as compared with up-to-date literature.","PeriodicalId":163276,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on Advanced Materials and Processes for RF and THz Applications (IMWS-AMP)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127916179","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 Novel Ka-band Waveguide Slotted Antenna With Wide-band Dual-Polarization","authors":"Guodong Liu, Xiao-fei Wang, Longwei He, Suixue Wang, Shi-gang Zhou","doi":"10.1109/IMWS-AMP49156.2020.9199736","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMWS-AMP49156.2020.9199736","url":null,"abstract":"Satellite communication is an indispensable part of modern communication. In recent years, with the rapid rise of 5G-Technology, satellite communication is developing towards high frequency, multi-polarization, wide spectrum and multi-mode, which requires the antenna to have the characteristics of low profile, wide-band, dual-polarization and high gain. The traditional waveguide dual-polarization antenna has some disadvantages, such as narrow bandwidth of VSWR, poor cross-polarization and port-isolation and so on. In this paper, a novel dual polarization waveguide slot antenna is proposed, which has the advantages of large bandwidth, high efficiency, low cross-polarization, high port-isolation, low profile and simple structure. At the same time, a 2 × 2 array in Ka band is designed. The simulation results show that in the frequency band range of 16%, the standing-wave ratio of the two polarities is less than 2, the radiation efficiency is more than 800%, the cross-polarization is less than -25dB, and the port isolation is more than 25dB.","PeriodicalId":163276,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on Advanced Materials and Processes for RF and THz Applications (IMWS-AMP)","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127786583","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":"LTCC Wideband 1-to-4 Power Dividing Networks with 90° or 180° Output Phase Differences","authors":"W. Qin, Ling-hua Shi, Jian‐Xin Chen","doi":"10.1109/IMWS-AMP49156.2020.9199759","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMWS-AMP49156.2020.9199759","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, two 1-to-4 wideband power-dividing networks based on the low temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC) technology is proposed. Both power-dividing networks own one input port and four output ports. The output signals are with equal magnitudes and 90° and 180° progressive phase differences. The one with 180° output phase differences is realized by a 1-to-4 Marchand balun, while the other one is realized by combining a 1-to-4 Marchand balun and two 90° phase shifters. Due to the broadside coupling in LTCC's 3-D structure, both power dividing networks feature wideband characteristics. For verification, the designed two power dividing networks are implemented and measured. The measured working frequency band of the 180° network is from 2GHz to 3GHz with an in-band return loss better than 12dB. The 90° network works from 1.2GHz to 1.6GHz with an in-band return loss better than 12dB. The measured and simulated results are in reasonably good agreement.","PeriodicalId":163276,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on Advanced Materials and Processes for RF and THz Applications (IMWS-AMP)","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117234498","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}