{"title":"An Interactive Web-based Learning Module for Metallic Rectangular Waveguides","authors":"Yi-Hsin Pang, T. Ma, Zuo‐Min Tsai, R. Wu","doi":"10.1109/IMaRC45935.2019.9118680","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMaRC45935.2019.9118680","url":null,"abstract":"To improve the interactive animated teaching platform developed in the electromagnetics revitalization program in Taiwan, a project was granted by IEEE MTT-S Education Committee under the SIGMA-WE initiative in the end of 2018. New interactive web-based learning modules have also been voluntarily developed. Among them, a learning module for metallic rectangular waveguide will be introduced in this paper. This module shows the animation of mode patterns of a rectangular waveguide, such as the electric field of TE10 mode and the magnetic field of TM11 mode. Cut planes to show the field patterns are freely selectable by users. Operating frequency is also a user-input parameters to facilitate the learning of cutoff behavior. The web-based learning module is developed using JavaScript and related cross-browser libraries.","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":"129742298","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}
H. Baskey, V. K. Sutrakar, A. Dixit, S. Abbas, N. Prasad
{"title":"Multilayered Nonwoven Carbon Film Integrated with Flexible FSS for Aerospace Absorber Application","authors":"H. Baskey, V. K. Sutrakar, A. Dixit, S. Abbas, N. Prasad","doi":"10.1109/IMaRC45935.2019.9118666","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMaRC45935.2019.9118666","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the electromagnetic design, simulation and fabrication of microwave absorber composite based on non woven carbon film and frequency selective surfaces. The filler ingredients i.e. the non woven carbon films were used in conjunction with the glass fabrics and epoxy for the fabrication of proposed absorber. The constituent electromagnetic properties i.e. dielectric constant and loss tangent of carbon films and glass fibers reinforced plastics have been measured and used in the electromagnetic simulation and optimization of absorber composite. Furthermore the optimized configuration have been used for composite fabrication and tested for its electromagnetic absorption. Experimental results shows minimum 10 dB reflection loss (90% electromagnetic absorption) in the entire 8.20-12.40 GHz frequency region. The fabricated composite shows potential application for radar cross section reduction in various strategic applications.","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":"125512501","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":"A Fixed-Tuned 85-105 GHz Subharmonic Mixer Using Schottky Diodes","authors":"Sadhana Kumari, P. Mondal","doi":"10.1109/IMaRC45935.2019.9118704","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMaRC45935.2019.9118704","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the design of a broadband fixed-tuned subharmonic (SHM) mixer at millimeter-wave frequency using commercially available simulators. GaAs based anti-parallel Schottky diode AP1/G2/0P95 from Rutherford Appleton Laboratory having cutoff frequency in THz range is chosen for the mixer design and its physical structure is modelled to reflect the diode parasites. The diode is flipped-chip bonded to quartz substrate for mixing operation. Simulations show that the conversion loss remains within 8 dB over the frequency range 85-105 GHz for an 8 dBm of local oscillator (LO) power with the minimum value of 6.5 dB at 95 GHz. Corresponding measured values are 13.58 and 7.5 dB, respectively. In all the cases, LO frequency is kept fixed at 47 GHz. Thus, the present modeling technique is found to predict well the mixer performance and the developed prototype shows a state-of-the-art performance.","PeriodicalId":338001,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave and RF Conference (IMARC)","volume":"43 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":"123753886","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":"Miniaturized Wide Stopband Half-Mode SIW Bandpass Filter","authors":"Sambaiah Pelluri, M. Fasil, M. Kartikeyan","doi":"10.1109/IMaRC45935.2019.9118655","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMaRC45935.2019.9118655","url":null,"abstract":"Miniaturized four pole Half-mode substrate integrated waveguide (HMSIW) bandpass filter is designed with wide stopband and high skirt characteristics. Due to the absence of even harmonics, HMSIW gives wide stopband behaviour. A quarter wavelength resonator is loaded to the filter. It adds a transmission zero (TZ) where this length equals to quarter wavelength and also adds one reflection zero to the filter. To improve the performance at the lower side of the passband, a halfwavelength resonator is arranged in U-shape around the quarter wavelength resonator. It provides bypass coupling and generates a TZ at the lower side of the passband. A four pole HMSIW bandpass filter is fabricated on RT/Duroid 5880 substrate using normal PCB etching process. The simulated insertion loss, return loss, and fractional bandwidth are 1.64 dB, better than 19 dB and 8.8%, respectively.","PeriodicalId":338001,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave and RF Conference (IMARC)","volume":"79 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":"132240618","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":"S/C Band Harmonic Radar for Honey Bee Detection","authors":"Fatima Mumtaz, S. S. Ram, Swapna R. Purandare","doi":"10.1109/IMaRC45935.2019.9118776","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMaRC45935.2019.9118776","url":null,"abstract":"Harmonic radar technology has been researched and developed for studying the foraging behaviour of honey bees. This work presents the development of a working prototype of a narrow-band harmonic radar system, at 2.5/5GHz, using off-the-shelf components to detect the presence of Indian honey bees. Based on empirical tests on the tag, we estimate the radar probability of detection and probability of false alarms as 88% and 0.3% respectively. The maximum detectable range for a monostatic configuration of the radar is 3.84 m.","PeriodicalId":338001,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave and RF Conference (IMARC)","volume":"40 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":"133195613","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":"Universal Terahertz Integrated Systems: Bridging the ‘THz’ and ‘Application’ Gap in the Next Decade","authors":"K. Sengupta","doi":"10.1109/IMaRC45935.2019.9118734","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMaRC45935.2019.9118734","url":null,"abstract":"The spectrum beyond 100 GHz has undergone transformative changes in the past decade, both in the form of technological progress and simultaneously in application development. With the evolution of 5G in the sister millimeter-wave band, the field of integrated THz technology has progressed significantly towards enabling efficient and compact Terahertz systems operable at room temperature and deployable at large scales. This has been facilitated by key developments in a multitude of integrated technology substrates in electronics, photonics and also hybrid systems. While fmax of III-V based devices have crossed 1.5 THz, silicon-based THz systems have shown remarkable advancements in complex systems including chip-scale phased arrays, active and passive imagers, and wireless communication systems. While this technological progress has led to steady closing of the ‘THz gap’ in the past ten years, there needs to be concerted effort in closing the ‘THz’ and ‘application’ gap in the next ten years to allow large scale deployment of THz technology. In this paper, we summarize the advancements in integrated THz systems in the past decade, discuss future challenges and directions to progress towards that goal.","PeriodicalId":338001,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave and RF Conference (IMARC)","volume":"132 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":"132767002","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}
M. Adhikary, Anirban Sarkar, Sunil Kumar Sahoo, A. Biswas, M. Akhtar
{"title":"Half-mode SIW based Active Integrated Circularly Polarized Leaky Wave Antenna for Automated Beam Scanning Applications","authors":"M. Adhikary, Anirban Sarkar, Sunil Kumar Sahoo, A. Biswas, M. Akhtar","doi":"10.1109/IMaRC45935.2019.9118685","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMaRC45935.2019.9118685","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, an active integrated circularly polarized leaky wave antenna (AICPLWA) is proposed. The proposed design works in X-band. The leaky wave antenna is designed using half-mode substrate integrated waveguide technique, that provides circularly polarized beam. The proposed active integrated antenna consists of a leaky wave antenna section which is cascaded with active device to make a self-oscillating radiating structure. The leaky wave antenna has beam scanning ability by varying the input signal frequency and hence the oscillator section is modified using an active tunable reactance to provide a voltage tunable oscillation frequency to the leaky wave antenna section to achieve automatic beam scanning ability. The proposed active tunable reactance provides wider tuning range than commercial varactor for a small range of variation of tuning voltage. The proposed leaky wave antenna has a wide operating range covering the whole X-band and has axial ratio of better than −4.5 dB throughout the frequency range of interest. The oscillation frequency range provided by the active section is 10.5-10.95 GHz with the variation of tuning voltage from −4 V to −1.1 V. The AICPLWA covers an automated beam scanning range from 34°-40° for the 10.5-10.95 band. The proposed AICPLWA can be used in various applications such as microwave imaging, sensing radars requiring automotive beam scanning module.","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":"133038316","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}
P. Raybole, S. Sureshkumar, Ankur Ankur, S. Rai, Shrikant Bhujbal, Lalit Chaudhary
{"title":"RFI shielded enclosure for radio telescope receiver electronics","authors":"P. Raybole, S. Sureshkumar, Ankur Ankur, S. Rai, Shrikant Bhujbal, Lalit Chaudhary","doi":"10.1109/IMaRC45935.2019.9118755","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMaRC45935.2019.9118755","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents the Radio Frequency Interference shielded enclosure design for electrical, electronics and computer network system housed in a radio quite zone of a radio observatory. The systems equipped at the antenna needs a multiple shielding and this paper presents the low cost and custom build shielded enclosure for the sub-systems placed at the antenna and central signal processing station of the observatory. Shielding requirements are of non-standard dimensions and needs a custom design to house the sub-system and at reduced cost. The designed RFI shielded enclosure offer > 74 dB isolation over (0.07-1.6 GHz) with all types of connector interface and cooling fans to avoid heating of the systems. The design is scalable to any non-standard sizes to shield UPS, Computers, Network components, communication equipment, air-conditioner units and lights used at radio observatory.","PeriodicalId":338001,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave and RF Conference (IMARC)","volume":"86 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":"133047175","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":"NASA Planetary Science Instrument Development Programs","authors":"R. Simons","doi":"10.1109/IMaRC45935.2019.9118689","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMaRC45935.2019.9118689","url":null,"abstract":"Priority questions in Planetary Science for the next decade published in \"Vision and Voyages for Planetary Science in the Decade 2013-2022\" identified 3 themes; understanding solar system beginnings, searching for the requirements for life in planetary habitats, and revealing planetary processes through time. Science instruments for future missions require a focused technology development strategy to mature critical technologies for measurements that could provide answers. This paper describes three instrument development programs within the Planetary Science Division (PSD) within NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD). PSD recognizes that instrument development and maturation is vital to increasing PSD’s scientific capabilities and the measurements necessary to address the questions in future missions.","PeriodicalId":338001,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave and RF Conference (IMARC)","volume":"118 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":"116417160","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":"Magnetite Nano Hollow Spheres: Efficient and Tunable Electro- Magnetic wave Absorber","authors":"D. Mandal, K. Mandal","doi":"10.1109/IMaRC45935.2019.9118658","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMaRC45935.2019.9118658","url":null,"abstract":"Design of a proper microwave absorbing material with light-weight, broad-band and higher stability for the fields of both electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding and radar stealth has still remained a challenge. Herein, Magnetite nano hollow spheres (FO NHS) of diameter ~ 285 nm are prepared by template free facile solvothermal method and their magnetic, dielectric and microwave absorption properties are investigated. A minimum reflection loss (RL) ~ −35.8 dB is observed at ~ 11.7 GHz on composite filled with epoxy resin (20 wt% and thickness of 2 mm) with a broad band width of 9-12 GHz frequency region with RL ≤ −10 dB i.e. absorption > 90%. Also, in the studied X-Band (8-12 GHz) multiple peak regions with effective absorption are found. Hollow core of NHS suggests multiple internal reflections of incident wave with higher surface area and lower density. Throughout the frequency region, shielding efficiency (SE) maintains a value < −10 dB and a high value (~ 115) of attenuation constant (α) is observed. These properties of FO NHS make it a promising candidate for applications towards Communication devices, Information security and EMI shielding.","PeriodicalId":338001,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave and RF Conference (IMARC)","volume":"41 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":"123268606","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}