{"title":"An integrated antenna-mixer for compact microwave sensors","authors":"Arun Kumar","doi":"10.1109/IMaRC.2018.8897541","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMaRC.2018.8897541","url":null,"abstract":"Design and analysis of a compact integrated antenna-mixer using a microstrip rectangular patch at 2.4 GHz for microwave sensor applications is presented in this paper. Field configurations of TM10 resonant mode of the microstrip rectangular patch antenna is utilized for mixer design to achieve good LO-to-IF and RF-to-IF isolations without using an IF filter. A Schottky barrier diode is used for mixing purpose. The structure exhibits minimum isotropic conversion loss of 8.4 dB and LO-to-IF and RF-to-IF isolations greater than 25 dB and 40dB respectively for 3 dB RF bandwidth of 120 MHz. The integrated antenna-mixer can be used in low power, low cost short range microwave sensors design.","PeriodicalId":201571,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave and RF Conference (IMaRC)","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125241412","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":"Low Power USB-Controlled Network Analyzer with Detector Compensation Technique","authors":"D. Ghosh, G. Kumar","doi":"10.1109/IMaRC.2018.8877338","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMaRC.2018.8877338","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explains the design of a low power USB-controlled scalar network analyzer. This analyzer is designed using a programmable RF synthesizer, a supurious harmonic suppressor, a high directivity signal separator, and power detectors. The operation of the analyzer is controlled using a microcontroller and a host PC through USB. The network analyzer offers raw dynamic range of 24 to 37 dB, over the frequency range from 1.7 to 2.5 GHz. A technique to reduce error through detector compensation is also implemented. All subsystems of the network analyzer have been designed in microstrip technique, thereby making the designs suitable for planar and compact realization. The network analyzer can be used for band-specific, low power field testing applications, and use of FR4 substrate makes it suitable for low cost realization.","PeriodicalId":201571,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave and RF Conference (IMaRC)","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125330551","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}
Rishi Kashyap, Verandra Kumar, R. Gangwar, P. Vasistha, Ravindra Kumar
{"title":"RCS Analysis of scaled down chaff clouds using Ansys ED(HFSS) to understand the behaviour of real time model","authors":"Rishi Kashyap, Verandra Kumar, R. Gangwar, P. Vasistha, Ravindra Kumar","doi":"10.1109/IMaRC.2018.8877310","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMaRC.2018.8877310","url":null,"abstract":"Chaff is an Electronic counter measure used by the Air Force and Navy, to generate false target to confuse enemy radar tracking. It comprises of large no. of dipole of different lengths scattered in atmosphere, forming a cloud. Chaff cloud has a dynamic RCS whose value depends upon various factors for e.g. shape, size, orientation, length of dipoles present in the chaff cloud, as well as blooming radius and spacing between them. Thus an efficient study of RCS of chaff cloud becomes very important. The present paper deals with Monostatic RCS analysis of chaff clouds using HFSS software, with each cloud varying in the length of dipole and number of dipoles used from another cloud. The RCS analysis of the experimental chaff designed in HFSS would help us to understand the behaviour of the clouds dispensed in atmosphere efficiently and the results obtained can easily be extrapolated to understand the RCS behaviour of real time chaff clouds.","PeriodicalId":201571,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave and RF Conference (IMaRC)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125913279","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":"Symmetric Planar and Stacked Millimeter-wave Transformers Using a Single Thick Metal","authors":"Venkata Narayana Rao Vanukuru, J. Pekarik","doi":"10.1109/IMaRC.2018.8877339","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMaRC.2018.8877339","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, planar and stacked transformers with enhanced symmetry across both primary and secondary are proposed for mm-wave applications. A 0.13 μm BiCMOS technology using a single thick metal is used for comparison. Trade-offs involving symmetry and insertion loss (IL) of the transformer are demonstrated using silicon measurements upto 50 GHz. Measurements show 8.6 % (0.944 - 1.026) and 13.3% (1.162 - 1.317) increase in IL at 28 GHz for planar and stacked configurations, respectively while achieving enhanced symmetry.","PeriodicalId":201571,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave and RF Conference (IMaRC)","volume":"137 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121916405","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":"GaN HEMT based L-Band Self Oscillating Active Integrated Antenna","authors":"Rakhi Kumari, A. Basu, S. Koul","doi":"10.1109/IMaRC.2018.8877156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMaRC.2018.8877156","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we implemented GaN high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) based self oscillating active integrated antenna (AIA) operating in L-Band. A negative resistance oscillator is designed. Patch antenna is designed in such a way to absorb the load network of oscillator. Oscillator and Patch antenna is integrated. AIA is fabricated on single substrate and measured. Measured performance shows fundamental frequency of oscillation 1.512 GHz and effective isotropic radiated power (EIRP) of 18.2 dBm. To the authors best knowledge this is the first demonstration of GaN HEMT based self oscillating active integrated antenna.","PeriodicalId":201571,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave and RF Conference (IMaRC)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124010024","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}
Reena Mamgain, A. Rathi, D. Deb, Rashi Jain, D. Seshagiri
{"title":"Wind Turbine Clutter Spectrum Analysis of Radar Data and Mitigation at Tracker for Airborne Surveillance Radar","authors":"Reena Mamgain, A. Rathi, D. Deb, Rashi Jain, D. Seshagiri","doi":"10.1109/IMaRC.2018.8877109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMaRC.2018.8877109","url":null,"abstract":"Wind energy has a major contribution in fulfilling green energy mission of India as it is an important renewable energy resource which is available in abundance. Towards this, India is the fourth country in the world for largest wind turbines installations over wide geographical areas. However, the impact of these wind turbines on radar performance degradation cannot be neglected. In this paper, Doppler spectrum of wind turbine clutter is analysed for the real radar data collected over different wind farms from S-band, phased array airborne surveillance radar. The motivation to model wind turbine clutter by using standard mathematical models arise from the fact that the rotation angle, yaw angle and rotation speed of wind turbine and its effect on radar returns is not known and need to be investigated by variation of different parameters and comparing it with real data. The simulated range Doppler map for wind turbine clutter is compared with different sets of real radar data resulting in clarity of wind turbine clutter impact on radar performance. In this paper, the analysis of wind turbine clutter effect on radar tracker along with mitigation is proposed at radar tracker level. Real data of radar tracker over wind farm is used for analysis and mitigation at radar tracker level.","PeriodicalId":201571,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave and RF Conference (IMaRC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129162229","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":"Linear Tapers: Analysis, Design and Applications","authors":"Ramanand Sagar Sangam, Rakhesh Singh Kshetrimayum","doi":"10.1109/IMaRC.2018.8877280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMaRC.2018.8877280","url":null,"abstract":"Linear tapers are the most common taper which are used for impedance matching networks and also in the design of filters, power dividers, antennas, etc. Surprisingly, they have not been theoretically characterized in the literature. By using theory of small reflections, the characteristics of linear impedance taper (generalized case) and linear width taper (approximate case) have been analyzed in terms of reflection coefficient and results are compared with characteristics of other tapers which validated the same. It has been found that reflection coefficient response for the linear tapers is very close to exponential taper. Moreover, using linear width taper, a novel linearly tapered coupled-line ultra-broadband bandpass filter is designed which possesses a very compact size of $0.34{lambda _{{g_0}}} times 0.26{lambda _{{g_0}}}$ and wide 10 dB passband of 4.5 to 12 GHz.","PeriodicalId":201571,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave and RF Conference (IMaRC)","volume":"387 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123005038","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":"Compact Microstrip Lowpass Filter with High Harmonic Suppression","authors":"T. Rekha, P. Abdulla, T. A. Nisamol","doi":"10.1109/IMaRC.2018.8877197","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMaRC.2018.8877197","url":null,"abstract":"A planar lowpass filter designed using two resonators of different shape and four high-low impedance transmission lines being used as suppressing cells is realized with wide stopband and compact size. The proposed filter is found to remove up to seventh harmonics. The influence of each resonator on the design is studied separately. The cutoff frequency of the proposed filter is 2.57 GHz and its physical size is 14.6 mm x 9.6 mm. The selectivity is 92.5 dB/GHz. The measured stopband at 18 dB attenuation level is observed from 2.78 GHz to 20 GHz. Simulated results are validated with the measurement results and a good matching is observed between them.","PeriodicalId":201571,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave and RF Conference (IMaRC)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132798837","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":"Stabilization of phase noise of PLL system under random vibration environment","authors":"Vipin Kumar, Jayasheela C S, S. R, M. R","doi":"10.1109/imarc.2018.8897542","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/imarc.2018.8897542","url":null,"abstract":"Phase noise performance of PLL during Random vibration environment is discussed in this article. Experimentation is carried out in X band frequency. It's basically achieved by following methodologies, via; vibration- isolator compensation technique, purification tactic of source Crystal Reference for PLL and also analyzed the spatial location to find out center of gravity for mounting of Crystal Reference. It helps to avoid UUT (unit under test) resonance out of frequency spectrum (PSD) of Random vibration profile which avoids resonance pickups during testing in Phase noise performance.","PeriodicalId":201571,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave and RF Conference (IMaRC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129798721","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}
Juhi Kumari Modi, R. Gangwar, P. Ashwin, V. S. Gangwar, A. K. Singh, Soni Singh
{"title":"Investigation on Novel Synthesis Approach for Thinned Planar Arrays Employing Modified GA Optimizer","authors":"Juhi Kumari Modi, R. Gangwar, P. Ashwin, V. S. Gangwar, A. K. Singh, Soni Singh","doi":"10.1109/IMaRC.2018.8877371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMaRC.2018.8877371","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, a novel approach for the synthesis of thinned planar antenna (TPA) arrays is proposed which furnishes maximally reduced peak side lobe levels (PSLL). The proposed approach is effective not only for reduction in PSLL at boresight but also at pre-specified scan angles away from the boresight. A modified binary coded genetic algorithm is employed to determine best possible combination of ‘ON’ and ‘OFF’ antenna elements on array aperture corresponding to lowest possible PSLL. To evidence the capability of the proposed strategy, a 12×12-element antenna array is numerically contemplated. The results incurred at antenna boresight through the aimed strategy are equated with those of same sized arrays reported in literature. The array is further steered to the scan angles of 200 and 400 off the boresight and the results are compared with that obtained at antenna boresight.","PeriodicalId":201571,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave and RF Conference (IMaRC)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130946208","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}