Chun-Ping Chen, Y. Kamiji, J. Oda, N. Nagaoka, T. Anada, S. Takeda
{"title":"A novel bandpass filter using higher-order degenerate modes of planar photonic crystal microcavity in terahertz regime","authors":"Chun-Ping Chen, Y. Kamiji, J. Oda, N. Nagaoka, T. Anada, S. Takeda","doi":"10.23919/EUMC.2012.6459387","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/EUMC.2012.6459387","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a new dual-mode bandpass filter using higher-order degenerate resonant modes of a square lattice photonic crystal microcavity in terahertz frequency band. In order to design a photonic crystal high-Q microcavity, the dispersion relations of photonic bandgap are firstly calculated by using the plane wave expansion method. Secondly, the transmission properties of photonic crystal waveguides, microcavities and the proposed dual mode filters for THz applications are numerically investigated by using simplified TD-BPM and full-wave FDTD.","PeriodicalId":243164,"journal":{"name":"2012 7th European Microwave Integrated Circuit Conference","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126628354","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. Fujita, T. Yasuzumi, Y. Tsuda, R. Suga, O. Hashimoto, T. Wano, Y. Fukuda
{"title":"Alternate lamination of high-permittivity dielectric materials for super thin wave absorber","authors":"T. Fujita, T. Yasuzumi, Y. Tsuda, R. Suga, O. Hashimoto, T. Wano, Y. Fukuda","doi":"10.23919/EUMC.2012.6459384","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/EUMC.2012.6459384","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, alternate lamination of high-permittivity dielectric materials for super thin wave absorber is presented. The material had anisotropic relative permittivity values due to an array direction of the compounded graphite. Equivalent relative permittivities were calculated for various number of laminated layers. It was found that the equivalent relative permittivity was came close to arithmetic average values. Then the absorber was designed with the matching frequency of 2.0 GHz and a guaranteed absorption for the number of layers was studied. These results showed that more than 20 dB guaranteed absorption was achieved with six or more layers. Measured results of absorption characteristics agreed well with the simulated ones. The thickness of the fabricated absorber was very thin as 4.52 mm (d/λ=0.029).","PeriodicalId":243164,"journal":{"name":"2012 7th European Microwave Integrated Circuit Conference","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130679000","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":"Efficient amplification of signals with high PAPR using a novel multilevel LINC transmitter architecture","authors":"A. Aref, A. Askar, A. Nafe, M. Tarar, R. Negra","doi":"10.23919/EUMC.2012.6459148","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/EUMC.2012.6459148","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a novel energy-efficient multi-standard multilevel LINC transmitter architecture. The proposed system is able to provide a large number of reconfigurable multiple levels by arbitrarily controlling the output power of the two efficient power amplifiers. The novelty of the architecture relies in the efficient generation of the arbitrary multilevels. In fact, the system uses only one fixed supply voltage. An algorithm is developed to optimise the different symmetrical levels depending on the actual signal statistics in order to boost average system efficiency. A multilevel LINC transmitter system demonstrator was build to validate the proposed concept. Besides The system employs two identical hybrid power amplifiers designed using GaN HEMTs for a centre frequency of 2.28 GHz and output power of 40 dBm, the system employs only off-the-shelf components or measurement equipment. Measurement results on the demonstrator show that compared with a conventional LINC transmitter, average power efficiency of the proposed system can be improved from 28 % to 41 % for a WCDMA signal with a measured adjacent-channel-power ratio (ACPR) below -45 dBc. For a 10 MHz LTE signal efficiency is improved by nearly 24 percentage-points compared with a regular LINC system.","PeriodicalId":243164,"journal":{"name":"2012 7th European Microwave Integrated Circuit Conference","volume":"3 8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127978906","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. Benevent, E. Bergeret, M. Egels, P. Pannier, A. Aliane, A. Daami, R. Coppard
{"title":"Full-printed inductors on flexible plastic foils for electromagnetic energy harvesting Fabrication, characterization, modeling","authors":"E. Benevent, E. Bergeret, M. Egels, P. Pannier, A. Aliane, A. Daami, R. Coppard","doi":"10.23919/EUMC.2012.6459340","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/EUMC.2012.6459340","url":null,"abstract":"The fabrication, characterization and modeling of fully-printed inductors on flexible plastic foils are presented. An appropriate equivalent circuit is proposed to model the frequency behavior of a screen-printed spiral inductor on PEN (polyethylene naphthalate) substrate. A cascade open-short-thru de-embedding method for microwave on-wafer characterization is applied. The paper is focused on high-value inductors and the results are compared from 40 MHz to 10 GHz. Five turns inductors present a 90 nH and 105 nH inductances with a self-resonance frequency equal to 1.3 GHz. These inductances are sufficient to be used for electromagnetic energy harvesting in UHF (ultra-high frequency) RFID (radio-frequency identification) passive tags if their quality factors are improved.","PeriodicalId":243164,"journal":{"name":"2012 7th European Microwave Integrated Circuit Conference","volume":"138 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128751727","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. Lim, J. Jimenez, P. Benech, J. Fournier, P. Galy
{"title":"Transmission line with integrated symmetrical 1-kV HBM DC - 100 GHz ESD protection in advanced CMOS technologies","authors":"T. Lim, J. Jimenez, P. Benech, J. Fournier, P. Galy","doi":"10.23919/EUMC.2012.6459233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/EUMC.2012.6459233","url":null,"abstract":"Advanced CMOS technologies provide an easier way to realize radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs). However, transistor gates are getting smaller and electrostatic discharges (ESD) issues become more significant. Unfortunately, ESD protections parasitic capacitance limits the operating bandwidth of the RFICs. ESD protection size dimensions are also an issue to protect RFICs. This paper presents for the first time an ESD solution (DC-100 GHz) able to be implemented in an I/O pad to protect RFICs in advanced CMOS technologies.","PeriodicalId":243164,"journal":{"name":"2012 7th European Microwave Integrated Circuit Conference","volume":"250 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115837657","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":"Investigations on noise processes in optical resonator based microwave oscillators","authors":"K. Saleh, P. Merrer, O. Llopis, G. Cibiel","doi":"10.23919/EUMC.2012.6459191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/EUMC.2012.6459191","url":null,"abstract":"Optoelectronic oscillators based on high Q optical resonators are presented in this paper. These oscillators use a Pound-Drever-Hall laser stabilization technique and two different types of resonators: fiber ring and monocrystalline disk resonators. Noise processes in the oscillators are discussed, particularly the influence of the laser noise conversion and nonlinear optical scattering noise. A modeling approach using CAD software is also proposed.","PeriodicalId":243164,"journal":{"name":"2012 7th European Microwave Integrated Circuit Conference","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117324436","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. Ta, S. Tanifuji, S. Kameda, N. Suematsu, T. Takagi, K. Tsubouchi
{"title":"A Si-CMOS 5-bit baseband phase shifter using fixed gain amplifier matrix","authors":"T. Ta, S. Tanifuji, S. Kameda, N. Suematsu, T. Takagi, K. Tsubouchi","doi":"10.23919/EUMC.2012.6459303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/EUMC.2012.6459303","url":null,"abstract":"For millimeter wave beam forming system, instead of using phase shifter at very high frequency of radio frequency (RF) or local oscillator (LO) frequency, low frequency baseband (BB) phase shifter has more potential for realization. Conventional BB phase shifters use variable gain amplifiers (VGA), which have low linearity, and calibration is required for over 3-bit BB phase shifters. In this paper, we propose a novel BB phase shifter using fixed gain amplifiers (FGA) matrix with in/out-phase switches. Since FGA normally has higher linearity than VGA, it is possible to reduce overall power consumption to achieve same linearity. FGA has fixed reflection and transfer characteristic, so mismatch between phase shift states are reduced. By dividing phase shifter into smaller stages, the effects of process mismatches on very nearby transistors are small. So proposed structure has robustness against process mismatch. Fabricated 5-bit BB phase shifter using proposed method has a very low power consumption to achieve almost same linearity as other works and has a 3-dB bandwidth of 1.2 GHz, 1.5° of rms phase error, lower than 0.2 dB of rms gain error without calibration. For ambient temperature from -20 °C to 80°C, simulated rms phase error varied by only 0.2°, and did not vary with process mismatch.","PeriodicalId":243164,"journal":{"name":"2012 7th European Microwave Integrated Circuit Conference","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131472689","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":"Band-pass non-TEM mode traveling-wave electro-optic polymer modulator","authors":"F. Fesharaki, K. Wu","doi":"10.23919/EUMC.2012.6459141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/EUMC.2012.6459141","url":null,"abstract":"High-frequency electro-optic modulator is critical for enabling signal processing and distribution in the next generation cloud-computing, tele-medicine, and telecommunications. In this paper, substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) is exploited as fundamental transmission line structure for the design and development of millimeter-wave (mmW) and terahertz (THz)traveling-wave electro-optical integrated polymeric waveguide modulator. Optical and full-wave electromagnetic analyses are carried out and structure optimization is made on the basis of such analyses in order to obtain millimeter-wave transmission and optical response. This bandpass non-TEM mode polymer electro-optic traveling-wave architecture presents numerous advantages, namely compact structure, low transmission loss, low driving power, simple packaging and flat optical response over a wide frequency range.","PeriodicalId":243164,"journal":{"name":"2012 7th European Microwave Integrated Circuit Conference","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132046869","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}
Ta-Yeh Lin, Chun-Chi Lin, T. Chiu, Chia-Chan Chang, Hsu-Chen Cheng, D. Chang
{"title":"Design of 60-GHz millimeter-wave integrated chip antenna and bandpass filter using IPD technology","authors":"Ta-Yeh Lin, Chun-Chi Lin, T. Chiu, Chia-Chan Chang, Hsu-Chen Cheng, D. Chang","doi":"10.23919/EUMC.2012.6459429","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/EUMC.2012.6459429","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a first reported compact 60-GHz millimeter-wave integrated chip antenna and bandpass filter with a glass substrate Integrated Passive Device (IPD) technology. The bandpass filter utilizes the half-wavelength microstrip resonators loaded with quarter-wavelength short-circuited stubs integrating with a quasi-Yagi antenna. The experimental results of the proposed integrated antenna-filter demonstrate that the measured reflection coefficient is less than -10 dB with -12 dB at 60-GHz and the measured radiation gain estimated by Friis' transmission formula is 2.6 dBi. The total chip size is 1.85 × 1.85 mm2. The proposed design is well suited for System-in-Package 60-GHz radio front-ends.","PeriodicalId":243164,"journal":{"name":"2012 7th European Microwave Integrated Circuit Conference","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131351684","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":"T/R module for CASA Phase-Tilt Radar Antenna Array","authors":"R. H. Medina, E. Knapp, J. Salazar, D. McLaughlin","doi":"10.23919/EUMC.2012.6459192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/EUMC.2012.6459192","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the transmit/receive module for the X-band Phase-Tilt array antenna being developed at the Engineering Research Center for the Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA). Architecture, fabrication and electrical performance are described. The RF subsystem is designed with commercial-off-the-shelf GaAS MMICs. The design includes a custom PIN diode based diversity switch that provides polarization diversity to the array elements in both transmit and receive channels. The module operates at 9.36 GHz and has a bandwidth of 1.0 GHz. Gain and phase are controlled by a 6-bit digital attenuator and 6-bit digital phase shifter respectively. Commands and RF switching signals are controlled with a FPGA. The T/R modules were fully tested using a measurement station developed specifically for this purpose.","PeriodicalId":243164,"journal":{"name":"2012 7th European Microwave Integrated Circuit Conference","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114779686","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}