N. Popovic, E. Marksz, A. Hagerstrom, J. Booth, E. Garboczi, N. Orloff, C. Long
{"title":"Three Planar Devices for Extracting Capacitance per Unit Length","authors":"N. Popovic, E. Marksz, A. Hagerstrom, J. Booth, E. Garboczi, N. Orloff, C. Long","doi":"10.1109/COMCAS44984.2019.8958422","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMCAS44984.2019.8958422","url":null,"abstract":"Circuit designers need materials with well-known properties to make predictive circuit models, which is particularly challenging in the millimeter-wave regime. Typical material characterization approaches include on-wafer devices. To get the material properties from these measurements, on-wafer calibrations require a known characteristic impedance. Often, this requirement uses low-loss substrates and a series or shunt load to calculate the capacitance per unit length of the transmission line. This paper investigates three devices with independent analysis procedures to estimate the capacitance per unit length. Although the devices have the same cross section, we observed a significant different in the extracted values and discuss possible mechanisms which may contribute to this difference.","PeriodicalId":276613,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Conference on Microwaves, Antennas, Communications and Electronic Systems (COMCAS)","volume":"4 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":"126191946","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. Holdengreber, M. Mizrahi, V. Khavkin, S. Schacham, E. Farber
{"title":"Improved THz Reception by Non-Conventional Structure of Planar Dipole Antenna with Superconducting Josephson Junction Detector","authors":"E. Holdengreber, M. Mizrahi, V. Khavkin, S. Schacham, E. Farber","doi":"10.1109/COMCAS44984.2019.8958169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMCAS44984.2019.8958169","url":null,"abstract":"Intensity and frequency of THz RF radiation are easily derived from superconducting Josephson junctions detectors I-V characteristics. The RF radiation generates current steps, correlated to intensity. The voltage at the steps renders accurately the RF frequency. DC measurements simplify significantly the detection systems. Implementing junctions in high temperature superconductors, requiring liquid nitrogen cooling only, reduces drastically operating complexity and cost. System efficiency is highly sensitive to impedance mismatch between antenna and low impedance junction. We propose improved planar dipole antenna structure, where the junction is placed between the ends of two strips, removed from the dipole. Theoretical RF analysis of the influence of junction parameters on input impedance was carried out. Extensive simulations of detection system were performed. High impedance matching was obtained for 195 to 215GHz, show high directivity, with radiation gain of 5. 22dB and low return losses of 35dB.","PeriodicalId":276613,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Conference on Microwaves, Antennas, Communications and Electronic Systems (COMCAS)","volume":"3 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":"124203726","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":"LOS Classification of UAV-to-Ground Links in Built-Up Areas","authors":"Eran Greenberg, Amitay Bar, Edmund Klodzh","doi":"10.1109/COMCAS44984.2019.8958045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMCAS44984.2019.8958045","url":null,"abstract":"The use of UAVs for various applications is a rapidly growing research field nowadays. Knowledge of the wireless UAV-to-ground propagation channel is crucial for designing an efficient communication system and for evaluating its performance. The presence of LOS is essential for radio network planning and RF coverage prediction. Built-up areas contain a mixture of LOS and NLOS conditions due to buildings shadowing, states which cannot be easily distinguishable. Hence ray-tracing simulations were performed to model the UAV trajectory, the site-specific urban environment and terrain. In this contribution we develop a method to identify the LOS and the NLOS conditions based on the NB and WB channel statistical parameters: received power, K-factor, mean ToA and delay spread, and their combinations. Population classifications using a single feature and multiple features were investigated. We found that a classification between LOS and NLOS populations based on a single feature leads to poor to moderate performances depending on the feature. However, combing a few features improved the classification performance. Variances of KNN, decision tree and SVM classifiers were trained based on all features, resulting in good true positive and true negative rates of 87% and 75%, respectively.","PeriodicalId":276613,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Conference on Microwaves, Antennas, Communications and Electronic Systems (COMCAS)","volume":"1 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":"129496432","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":"Radiation Characteristics of Gregorian Antennas with Resonant Size Reflectors","authors":"Oleh Sukharevskyi, S. Nechitaylo, V. Vasilets","doi":"10.1109/COMCAS44984.2019.8958049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMCAS44984.2019.8958049","url":null,"abstract":"The iterative calculation method for radiation characteristics of Gregorian antenna is proposed for resonant frequency range. The method accounts for interactions between reflectors. Proposed procedure uses calculation method for electromagnetic scattering by conducting unclosed screens with finite thickness for each iteration. Last one is based on using the E-field integral equation that takes into consideration approximate surface impedance boundary conditions (SIBC). Radiation patterns for Gregorian antenna have been obtained for different sizes of subreflector and feed placement. The number of iterations has been estimated for obtaining stable radiation pattern data.","PeriodicalId":276613,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Conference on Microwaves, Antennas, Communications and Electronic Systems (COMCAS)","volume":"22 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":"129842481","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}
G. Kolezas, G. P. Zouros, G. Pagiatakis, J. Roumeliotis
{"title":"A Technique for Nanoscale Modeling of Uniaxial Spheroids","authors":"G. Kolezas, G. P. Zouros, G. Pagiatakis, J. Roumeliotis","doi":"10.1109/COMCAS44984.2019.8958107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMCAS44984.2019.8958107","url":null,"abstract":"In this work we develop a technique for nanoscale modeling of uniaxially anisotropic prolate spheroidal nanoantennas. To this end, we develop a formal series solution, valid for any aspect ratio of the spheroidal nanoantenna. To solve the problem, we follow a two-step procedure: first, spherical vector wave functions with discrete wavenumbers are used for the expansion of the fields in the domain of the anisotropic scatterer. Second, these spherical expansions are transformed to spheroidal ones, using suitable expansions relating the spherical vector wave functions with the spheroidal ones. Then, satisfying the boundary conditions at the spheroidal surface, we obtain infinite sets of nonhomogeneous equations from which, upon truncation, we may calculate the bistatic and the total scattering cross section. We sufficiently compare the cross sections obtained by the developed method, for different values of aspect ratio and anisotropy, with the discrete dipole approximation method. The magnetic and electric dipolar resonances are then investigated in the context of nanoantenna design.","PeriodicalId":276613,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Conference on Microwaves, Antennas, Communications and Electronic Systems (COMCAS)","volume":"1 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":"129882838","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":"Novel Conception of Loss Tangent Media Measurement with Laser-Driven Gallium Arsenide Switches","authors":"M. Kulygin, E. Novikov, I. Litovsky, R. Rozental","doi":"10.1109/COMCAS44984.2019.8958380","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMCAS44984.2019.8958380","url":null,"abstract":"A conception of using laser-driven resonator cavity switches with an active element of semiconductor to measure the semiconductor's loss tangent being unknown is proposed and discussed. A sample calculation for an existent gallium arsenide-based prototype for the frequencies around 300 GHz has demonstrated an unambiguous determination of the loss tangent in the range of at least four orders and two methods. Such a redundancy helps to come over a fabrication imprecision for each prototype and ensure high precision of measurements.","PeriodicalId":276613,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Conference on Microwaves, Antennas, Communications and Electronic Systems (COMCAS)","volume":"5 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":"127619536","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":"Metasurfaces for Radar Cross-Section Reduction","authors":"C. Balanis, A. Modi","doi":"10.1109/COMCAS44984.2019.8958162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMCAS44984.2019.8958162","url":null,"abstract":"This work reviews the most recent advancements in the techniqbes utilized for the reduction of Radar Cross Section (RCS) incorporating metasurfaces. Fundamental theory is briefly reviewed then followed by well-known broadband RCS-reduction metasurface designs.","PeriodicalId":276613,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Conference on Microwaves, Antennas, Communications and Electronic Systems (COMCAS)","volume":"43 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":"127879205","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":"FAST A+: A Cost-Effective Plan for Expanding FAST","authors":"Di Li, R. Duan","doi":"10.1109/COMCAS44984.2019.8958208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMCAS44984.2019.8958208","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present the current operational status of the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), the outcome of its first call for proposal, the publications of its first batch of science results, and the plans of its major surveys. In response to the rapid-developing new frontiers in radio astronomy, such as fast radio burst (FRB) and electromagnetic (EM) counterparts of gravitational wave (GW) events, we also discuss here a plan for expanding FAST with low cost, fiber-linked antenna arrays.","PeriodicalId":276613,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Conference on Microwaves, Antennas, Communications and Electronic Systems (COMCAS)","volume":"108 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":"120939986","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. Piacibello, R. Quaglia, V. Camarchia, C. Ramella, M. Pirola
{"title":"Optimisation of a Doherty power amplifier based on dual-input characterisation","authors":"A. Piacibello, R. Quaglia, V. Camarchia, C. Ramella, M. Pirola","doi":"10.1109/COMCAS44984.2019.8958432","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMCAS44984.2019.8958432","url":null,"abstract":"The success of the Doherty architecture compared to other efficiency enhancement techniques derives mainly from its simple design and full-RF nature, not requiring complex digital signal processing to achieve high back-off efficiency. In this work we propose a design strategy for the optimisation of a Doherty power amplifier to mitigate the typical practical issues of this architecture related to inaccuracy of the non-linear model and of the manufacturing. The approach is based on the experimental characterisation of a dual-input Doherty prototype without input section. This test structure is obtained from a single-input Doherty amplifier, designed only through non-linear simulations, by removing the input section and allowing for separate control of the two RF inputs. From the collected data, approximated functions for the phase shift and power splitting versus frequency are identified to be realizable in hardware with RF networks. Compared to the reference single-input Doherty stage, a significantly improved behavior is registered in terms of output power (up to 2.7 dB), efficiency at saturation and back-off (30 % and 15 % respectively) and power gain (2 dB).","PeriodicalId":276613,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Conference on Microwaves, Antennas, Communications and Electronic Systems (COMCAS)","volume":"33 44","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120929918","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":"Array-Level Approach to Nonlinear Equalization","authors":"Nicholas Peccarelli, C. Fulton","doi":"10.1109/COMCAS44984.2019.8958304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMCAS44984.2019.8958304","url":null,"abstract":"Low-cost digital arrays suffer from nonlinear distortion, in both the transmitters (Tx) and receivers (Rx), introducing nonlinear spurious products, compression, and memory effects. Many linearization techniques have been researched to mitigate nonlinear distortion, such as digital pre-distortion (DPD) for Tx and nonlinear equalization (NLEQ) for Rx. However, these linearization techniques have mostly focused on channel-level correction, ignoring the array-level aspects. This paper gives an overview of the array-level aspects that need to be taken into account to effectively use NLEQ for digital arrays. Furthermore, an averaging method is proposed to help reduce computational complexity of NLEQ techniques, while leveraging the previously discussed array-level advantages.","PeriodicalId":276613,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Conference on Microwaves, Antennas, Communications and Electronic Systems (COMCAS)","volume":"21 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":"132421992","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}