S. Pulipati, V. Ariyarathna, Udara De Silva, Najath Akram, E. Alwan, A. Madanayake, S. Mandal, T. Rappaport
{"title":"A Direct-Conversion Digital Beamforming Array Receiver with 800 MHz Channel Bandwidth at 28 GHz using Xilinx RF SoC","authors":"S. Pulipati, V. Ariyarathna, Udara De Silva, Najath Akram, E. Alwan, A. Madanayake, S. Mandal, T. Rappaport","doi":"10.1109/COMCAS44984.2019.8958039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMCAS44984.2019.8958039","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses early results associated with a fully-digital direct-conversion array receiver at 28 GHz. The proposed receiver makes use of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) electronics, including the receiver chain. The design consists of a custom 28 GHz patch antenna sub-array providing gain in the elevation plane, with azimuthal plane beamforming provided by real-time digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms running on a Xilinx Radio Frequency System on Chip (RF SoC). The proposed array receiver employs element-wise fully-digital array processing that supports ADC sample rates up to 2 GS/second and up to 1 GHz of operating bandwidth per antenna. The RF mixed-signal data conversion circuits and DSP algorithms operate on a single-chip RFSoC solution installed on the Xilinx ZCU1275 prototyping platform.","PeriodicalId":276613,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Conference on Microwaves, Antennas, Communications and Electronic Systems (COMCAS)","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126610268","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":"Metasurface for Wireless Power Transfer to Multiple Receivers","authors":"Mingzhao Song, P. Belov, P. Kapitanova","doi":"10.1109/COMCAS44984.2019.8958292","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMCAS44984.2019.8958292","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we present a metasurface for wireless power transfer system. The metasurface supports a surface wave, which greatly enhances the power transfer distance. In this way, WPT efficiency of 80% to a single receiver is obtained at a distance 80 cm. In addition, we show that an efficient power transfer to multiple receivers is possible. An overall efficiency of 82% can be obtained at the distance of 45 cm.","PeriodicalId":276613,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Conference on Microwaves, Antennas, Communications and Electronic Systems (COMCAS)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120940250","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":"Bright and Dark Supermodes of Twin Dielectric Nanowire Photonic Molecule Excited by a Modulated Electron Beam","authors":"Dariia O. Yevtushenko","doi":"10.1109/COMCAS44984.2019.8958106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMCAS44984.2019.8958106","url":null,"abstract":"The visible-light radiation caused by a harmonically modulated beam of charged particles moving between two identical circular dielectric nanowires is studied. The field of such a beam in the free space is a slow wave, which decays exponentially from the beam trajectory. When it is scattered by the nearby objects, the diffraction radiation depends on their shape, material, and location. We reduce our wave-scattering problem to the discrete form using the field expansions in local azimuth coordinates of each wire and the addition theorems for the Bessel functions. To provide mathematically guaranteed convergence, we re-scale the derived matrix equation to the form known as Fredholm second-kind type. Photonic molecule built on two twin wires is an open optical resonator, which supports supermodes of four orthogonal symmetry classes. The radiated power is resonantly enhanced at the supermode wavelengths, and some of the peaks emerge only if the trajectory of beam deviates from the central (i.e. symmetric) position. If the wire material permittivity does not depend on the wavelength, this feature can be scaled to the other ranges. It can be used in the beam position monitoring.","PeriodicalId":276613,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Conference on Microwaves, Antennas, Communications and Electronic Systems (COMCAS)","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124873257","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}
Valentin Grams, Andres Seidel, Paul Stärke, J. Wagner, F. Ellinger
{"title":"Analysis and Design of an Asymmetric Doherty Power Amplifier at 2.6 GHz using GaAs pHEMTs","authors":"Valentin Grams, Andres Seidel, Paul Stärke, J. Wagner, F. Ellinger","doi":"10.1109/COMCAS44984.2019.8958384","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMCAS44984.2019.8958384","url":null,"abstract":"This work presents an analytical guideline for the design of N-way Doherty power amplifiers operating at an output back-off (OBO) larger than 6 dB. Using this concept, an asymmetric Doherty power amplifier (ADPA) is designed for efficient transmission of signals with a high peak to average power ratio (PAPR) of 8.5 dB. Both the main and peak amplifier consist of the discrete GaAs pHEMT TGF2025 from Qorvo. The ADPA achieves an output power of 28.5 dBm with a power added efficiency (PAE) of 56.0 % at 2.6 GHz. At the back-off power (BOP) of 20. 0dBm, the PAE reaches its first local maximum which is equal to 50.0 %. The bandwidth of the circuit corresponding to a power gain reduction of 1dB is 200MHz.","PeriodicalId":276613,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Conference on Microwaves, Antennas, Communications and Electronic Systems (COMCAS)","volume":"116 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128095751","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":"No-contact High-Frequency Large-Bandwith GPR scanner for floor investigation","authors":"M. Pieraccini, L. Miccinesi","doi":"10.1109/COMCAS44984.2019.8958161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMCAS44984.2019.8958161","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper a no-contact high-frequency large-bandwidth ground penetrating radar (GPR) scanner specially designed for investigating floors is presented. It operates at 10 GHz central frequency with 4 GHz bandwidth. Its mechanical positioner is able to scan a surface 0.3 m wide and 1.9 m large. The aim of this radar is to gather information about the shallow layers (coat, screed, embedded heating or water pipes) up to 0.5 m depth. The radar has been tested in laboratory and in a real case study: the second floor of the Bellariva sport Centre in Florence (Italy). This floor is under investigation because an evident long crack.","PeriodicalId":276613,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Conference on Microwaves, Antennas, Communications and Electronic Systems (COMCAS)","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132437912","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":"Terahertz Antenna for 5G Cellular Communication Systems: A Holistic Review","authors":"Uri Nissanov (Nissan), G. Singh","doi":"10.1109/COMCAS44984.2019.8958022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMCAS44984.2019.8958022","url":null,"abstract":"The next cellular communication in the 5G and beyond can be in the sub-Terahertz (sub-THz) band, i.e. (100–350) GHz, because data rate of (20-100) Gbps is needed. Following atmospheric path loss in THz frequency band, which can reach more than 100 dB/km, there is a need to operate in frequency windows below 1 THz, where the atmospheric attenuation is relatively low, and the high-gain antennas that allow the propagation of the signal beyond 100 meters, because of lack of solid-state communication sources with a power of over 10 mW, as well as wide bandwidth (BW) antennas that will enable data rates of at least 20 Gbps. In this technical review, we explain what the demands and the challenges of antennas at 5G and beyond: how to improve the gain and BW of the antennas simultaneously, what is the minimum gain and BW of the antennas. According to the studies carried out in this field, the most preferable way is the planar microstrip antenna in future cellular communication systems in the sub-THz band, which have the advantages of small size, light weight, etc. According to the research that we have done, there are still no practical implementations of prototype planar microstrip array antennas (only designs and simulations with CST Microwave Studio or Ansoft HFSS) for sub-THz to validate the simulations results with practical measurements. The gain required for such antennas is at least (15.27–20.71) dB for frequency of (100-350) GHz @ BW=4.1 GHz for data rate of 20 Gbps, at least.","PeriodicalId":276613,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Conference on Microwaves, Antennas, Communications and Electronic Systems (COMCAS)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133456603","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":"Metamaterial-by-Design-A Paradigm for the Industrial Synthesis of EM Manipulation Devices","authors":"G. Oliveri, A. Gelmini, G. Gottardi, M. Salucci","doi":"10.1109/COMCAS44984.2019.8958024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMCAS44984.2019.8958024","url":null,"abstract":"An overview of the metamaterial-by-design (MBD) paradigm as applied to the industrial synthesis of electromagnetic (EM) manipulation devices is provided. Thanks to the MbD, the constituent materials of innovative EM devices are regarded as additional degrees-of-freedom (DoF s) allowing to match several conflicting user-defined performance and/or geometric constraints. Innovative applications of the MbD to the multi-scale design of wide angle impedance matching (WAIM) layers and metamaterial lenses are presented, together with an illustrative example concerned with the conformal transformation of linear phased arrays through a novel Schwarz-Christoffel transformation optics (SCTO) MbD technique.","PeriodicalId":276613,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Conference on Microwaves, Antennas, Communications and Electronic Systems (COMCAS)","volume":"118 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133398948","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}
A. Maffucci, M. Migliore, S. Sibilia, A. Paddubskaya, Daniele Pinchera, F. Schettino
{"title":"Microwave Response of a Microstrip Circuit Embedding Carbon Nanotube Films","authors":"A. Maffucci, M. Migliore, S. Sibilia, A. Paddubskaya, Daniele Pinchera, F. Schettino","doi":"10.1109/COMCAS44984.2019.8958078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMCAS44984.2019.8958078","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the microwave range response of microstrip circuit where a film of carbon nanotubes is embedded into a microstrip-like circuit. Such a nanomaterial, as well as graphene, is currently embedded into planar structures like patch antennas, to exploit its novel features as, for instance, easy tunability. In view of these applications, in this paper it is analyzed the dependence of the scattering parameters from the geometrical and physical parameters of the circuit. The analysis is carried out either by means of experimental characterization via microstrip technique, and of numerical simulations with a full-wave electromagnetic simulation tool. In addition, by using these two results and by using structural characterization of the nanomaterial equivalent, an equivalent complex permittivity is retrieved, describing the embedded film.","PeriodicalId":276613,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Conference on Microwaves, Antennas, Communications and Electronic Systems (COMCAS)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114175118","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 K-Band LNA in 45 nm SOI CMOS","authors":"V. Issakov, R. Ciocoveanu","doi":"10.1109/COMCAS44984.2019.8958428","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMCAS44984.2019.8958428","url":null,"abstract":"This work presents a low-power K-band single stage cascode low-noise amplifier (LNA) realized in a 45 nm silicon-on-insulator (SOI) CMOS technology. The circuit uses a tapped-inductor resonator for impedance transformation to achieve simultaneously high gain and good output matching. Furthermore, thanks to a careful floorplaning and the proposed arrangement of inductor terminals, the interconnect losses are minimized. The amplifier achieves a gain of 10.7 dB and a noise Figure of 1.6 dB at the center frequency of 20.5 GHz. The circuit achieves a wide 3 dB bandwidth of 15-27 GHz and a linearity of 10.3 dBm input-referred 1 dB compression point. The LNA consumes only 6 mA from a single 1 V supply. The chip size including the pads is only 0.18 mm2. The presented LNA achieves a very competitive performance compared to the state of the art.","PeriodicalId":276613,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Conference on Microwaves, Antennas, Communications and Electronic Systems (COMCAS)","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114975677","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":"Results of the Radio Optical Modeling and Application of the New Radio Holography Method of the RATAN-600 Radio Telescope Surface Diagnosis","authors":"V. Khaikin, M. Lebedev, N. Ovchinnikova, A. Ripak","doi":"10.1109/COMCAS44984.2019.8958034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMCAS44984.2019.8958034","url":null,"abstract":"We describe a new radio holography method of the RATAN-600 radio telescope antenna diagnosis and adjustment, using the radial movement of the reference panel. We present the results of geometric optical ray tracing of the “South + Flat” antenna system in the autocollimation mode and radio optical modeling of the hologram recording and field reconstruction procedure, taking noise into account. Estimates for necessary isolation and acceptable spatial separation between transmitting and receiving feeds, geometrical tolerances, and requirements to the reference panel motion control are discussed. The experimental results of the method application to the diagnosis of radial errors in the positioning of panels of the RATAN-600 main mirror are reported.","PeriodicalId":276613,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Conference on Microwaves, Antennas, Communications and Electronic Systems (COMCAS)","volume":"136 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115093480","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}