{"title":"SDR Solution for Enhanced Quality Wider Bandwidth Communication","authors":"Girish Chandra Tripathi, M. Rawat","doi":"10.1109/IMaRC45935.2019.9118657","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMaRC45935.2019.9118657","url":null,"abstract":"The chip-based implementation of transceivers paved the way for tremendous growth in software-defined radios (SDRs). Although software programming makes things reconfigurable, the limitation of hardware components cannot be avoided. These limitations translate to the problem of DC offset, local oscillator (LO) leakage and in-phase/quadrature-phase imbalance along with bandwidth limitation. This paper presents a digital intermediate-frequency-based method to expand the bandwidth of the multichannel SDR transmitter using a single LO configuration while avoiding RF imperfections. The proposed method is experimentally validated.","PeriodicalId":338001,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave and RF Conference (IMARC)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126046453","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":"Aspects of 5G and Millimetre-wave Miniaturised Components and Circuits for Highly Integrated Modules","authors":"K. Samanta","doi":"10.1109/IMaRC45935.2019.9118747","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMaRC45935.2019.9118747","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes multilayer miniaturized and high performance millimeter-wave (mmW) components and circuits for mmW modules at a low cost using advanced thick film technology for 5G applications. A 28 GHz mmW module has been designed, which integrates MMICs (PA, LAN, converter, amplifier), and passives, including LD combline filter, parallel coupled line (PCL) BPF, patch antenna array with embedded splitter and matching network, and bias network, onto a single substrate. Here the IC mounting cavities are formed from trench-vias and with precise dimensional control. The multilayer miniaturized components, using lumped-distributed (LD), broadside coupling, and meander-line approaches, have been designed and characterized off-chip, covering 2 GHz to 100 GHz. These include LD combline filter, PCL BPF, couple, EM coupled patch antenna array, and embedded splitter and matching network. A new multilayer coplanar waveguide capacitor configuration, where for increasing the capacitance density yet maintaining high performance, a number of pairs of parallel plates were employed horizontally. Using this configuration, a range of off-chip capacitors are designed and modelled, with a self-resonance frequency beyond 40 GHz. Further TFMS and FGCPW interconnect were designed and accurately characterized to 100 GHz for various transverse dimensions with a low loss for mmW MCM applications.","PeriodicalId":338001,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave and RF Conference (IMARC)","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121854600","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":"Intracavitary Microwave Hyperthermia Applicator with Resistive Coating for Targeted Heat Delivery","authors":"S. Kp, K. Arunachalam","doi":"10.1109/IMaRC45935.2019.9118707","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMaRC45935.2019.9118707","url":null,"abstract":"Targeted heating and minimum invasiveness are desired characteristics for interstitial or intracavitary hyperthermia and ablation applicators. Coaxial monopole wire antennas provide minimum invasiveness, but the current induced on the outer conductor radiates backwards and extends the heating zone beyond the antenna active zone. Coaxial BALUN is widely used for choking the back current at the cost of increased applicator size and invasiveness in the tissue. In this paper, we investigate the scope of resistive coating on the outer conductor of a 915 MHz monopole antenna proposed for hyperthermia treatment. Numerical simulations are presented for a conventional coaxial monopole with and without a thin coating of PEDOT:PSS to study the influence of the resistive coating on suppressing the current induced on the outer conductor and tissue specific absorption rate (SAR) for varying antenna insertion depth in the tissue.","PeriodicalId":338001,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave and RF Conference (IMARC)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134176529","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 Pulsed Multichannel Transmit Module (MTM)","authors":"Rohit Lahiri, Ruchit Ms, H. M. V","doi":"10.1109/IMaRC45935.2019.9118764","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMaRC45935.2019.9118764","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the design and realization of compact pulsed X-band multichannel transmit module for RADAR application. The module amplifies lower power RF signal fed to the input of this module, and then splits this RF power to individual channels, conditions and further amplifies to the desired saturated output before feeding it to antenna port of each channel. The entire module operates for 900MHz BW in X-Band, with each channel capable of generating saturated pulsed power of 23W(min) for a range pulse widths 50nsec to 100μsecs and duty cycle of maximum up to 20%. The entire module is realized on a single multilayer composite board and enclosed on a mechanical enclosure of 100x66x9 mm³ and weighing about 100gms. Controls & supply to this module is through compact Nano-d connector. The interface to the module is SPI.","PeriodicalId":338001,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave and RF Conference (IMARC)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129713185","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":"Design of coplanar terahertz spoof surface plasmonic waveguide and its application in low pass filter","authors":"S. Singh, Nilesh Kumar Tiwari, M. Akhtar","doi":"10.1109/IMaRC45935.2019.9118626","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMaRC45935.2019.9118626","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, a coplanar terahertz plasmonic waveguide (CTPW) based on spoof surface plasmons (SSP) with grooved ground and signal strip is proposed. The confinement and the propagation of terahertz (THz) signal can easily be controlled by tuning the geometrical parameters of the grooved T-shaped SSP cells. The asymptotic frequency of the grooved T-shaped SSP unit cell basically restrict the THz signal propagation beyond this point and hence, it might act as a high cutoff frequency point for the designed waveguide, which can be used for low pass filter applications. The proposed idea of coplanar plasmonic waveguide is experimentally validated in microwave frequency region by scaling up the geometries of the proposed corrugated CTPW line, which are in good agreement with its simulated counterpart.","PeriodicalId":338001,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave and RF Conference (IMARC)","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126724574","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":"Active FSS Design using Multi-Resonators","authors":"S. S. Andrabi, K. R. Jha, S. Sharma, G. Singh","doi":"10.1109/IMaRC45935.2019.9118677","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMaRC45935.2019.9118677","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a method to design active frequency selective surfaces (AFSS) with the bandpass response in the lower frequency bands is proposed. The designed AFSS on a low cost 0.8 mm thick FR-4 substrate is capable to tune from 1.3 GHz-3.4 GHz in the TE mode of the impinging electromagnetic wave. The step wise step design procedure and its equivalent circuit model with the tuning capability has also been developed whose response is in close agreement to the proposed AFSS. To prove its novelty a state of the art comparison is also presented. Interestingly, the AFSS also tuned in the upper frequency band in the range of 9-13 GHz which along with the effect of angle of incidence and the measured results would be presented during the conference.","PeriodicalId":338001,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave and RF Conference (IMARC)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128396366","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":"Design of Iris Substrate Integrated Waveguide Cascaded Filter","authors":"Soumya Jain, A. Mishra","doi":"10.1109/IMaRC45935.2019.9118759","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMaRC45935.2019.9118759","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this work is to design a Substrate Integrated Waveguide Filter to control the propagation constant by cascading the SIW stages. The design of Iris SIW Cascaded Filter has been designed by cascading the SIW stages of same length, with varying Iris windows and experimented for Propagation Constant at each stages. A fitness Function is introduced to check the efficiency of proposed model by comparing the proposed model with simple rectangular waveguide.","PeriodicalId":338001,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave and RF Conference (IMARC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129756925","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":"Computer-aided Design of Receiver Front-end at X band with High Gain, Low Noise Figure and High Dynamic Range","authors":"Mousumi Sarkar, S. Bhanja, Sujit Das, Arijit Majumder, Arun Kumar, Md Irshad Parwez","doi":"10.1109/IMaRC45935.2019.9118700","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMaRC45935.2019.9118700","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper a computer aided design (CAD) of receiver front-end at X band with high gain, low noise figure (NF) and high dynamic range (DR) is presented. The receiver has two stage of down-conversion, filtering and amplification. A digitally controlled self-sustained feedback scheme has been implemented to achieve constant output power over 70 dB DR. A thorough simulation is carried out using system simulation software. A prototype is fabricated with external dimension of 10x8.1x2.6 cm. Fabricated prototype has measured gain of 98 dB, NF of 2.5dB.","PeriodicalId":338001,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave and RF Conference (IMARC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128945800","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":"Determination of Near Field Path Loss in Millimeter Wave Spectrum","authors":"Priyansha Kaurav, S. Koul, A. Basu","doi":"10.1109/IMaRC45935.2019.9118772","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMaRC45935.2019.9118772","url":null,"abstract":"Far field path loss can be calculated using Friis’s propagation formula. This does not hold true in near field region. This paper presents method for calculating path loss in near field region in millimeter band region. This method is verified using near field measurement setup working in D band (110—170GHz).","PeriodicalId":338001,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave and RF Conference (IMARC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122946783","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":"Educational Objectives for RF and Microwave Engineering Courses Having Significant RF CAD Software Based Content","authors":"Madhu S. Gupta","doi":"10.1109/IMaRC45935.2019.9118767","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMaRC45935.2019.9118767","url":null,"abstract":"The educational objectives that can be achieved in an RF and microwave design course based on CAD software-based work, can differ from those in traditional microwave engineering courses based on analytical work. The objectives at risk of being overlooked are identified, and some alternatives for retaining then are outlined. Recommendations are made for developing CAD exercises that will help meet additional instructional objectives.","PeriodicalId":338001,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave and RF Conference (IMARC)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123021145","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}