{"title":"A Novel Direction of Arrival Estimation Planar Monopulse Receiver","authors":"Hanxiang Zhang, Powei Liu, B. Arigong","doi":"10.1109/WMCS58822.2023.10194269","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WMCS58822.2023.10194269","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a monopulse receiver is proposed to estimate the arrival of angle. The entire system is composed of a 4 - element planar monopulse array and a down conversion link. The array is composed of planar comparator network including novel coupler and zero-phase delay crossover. The down conversion link is composed of filter, low noise amplifier, mixer, and PLL. To verify the design concept, a prototype planar monopulse array operating at 5.7 GHz is designed and fabricated, and Keysight microwave kits is configured as down conversion to receive the signals from array. The system level measurement results are aligned well with simulation and theory, and the angular information of remote target is estimated from the two-channel signal.","PeriodicalId":363264,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE Texas Symposium on Wireless and Microwave Circuits and Systems (WMCS)","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121771499","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}
Samuel Hussey, A. Clegg, C. Baylis, Austin Egbert, Adam Goad, Trevor Van Hoosier, R. Marks
{"title":"Spectrum Sharing Policy for a Cooperative Brokering System","authors":"Samuel Hussey, A. Clegg, C. Baylis, Austin Egbert, Adam Goad, Trevor Van Hoosier, R. Marks","doi":"10.1109/WMCS58822.2023.10194279","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WMCS58822.2023.10194279","url":null,"abstract":"As use of the radio frequency spectrum continues to grow, risk of interference to passive RF systems becomes greater. A cooperative spectral broker is proposed to dynamically coordinate frequency allocations amongst devices, offering protection for incumbents without compromising their performance and providing opportunistic access to frequencies outside original assignments and allocations. Policy measures necessary to support systems of this nature are suggested, and a case study for identifying bands and applications that could benefit from such a system and policy is discussed.","PeriodicalId":363264,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE Texas Symposium on Wireless and Microwave Circuits and Systems (WMCS)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130068915","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":"Energy Flow in Polarization and Beam Splitting","authors":"H. Schantz","doi":"10.1109/WMCS58822.2023.10194278","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WMCS58822.2023.10194278","url":null,"abstract":"Energy flow streamlines yield insights to the physics of polarized electromagnetic waves. This paper uses Numerical Electromagnetic Code (NEC) analysis of energy flow to validate the sometimes counter-intuitive energy flow rules of Wünscher, Hauptmann, and Herrmann. Specific cases include energy flow between interacting orthogonally polarized electromagnetic beams and energy flow associated with electromagnetic beams interacting with polarizers at normal and obliques angles of incidence. Fields and energy are two different yet complementary phenomena and follow different trajectories. Understanding this crucial but little appreciated fact of electromagnetic science, that fields guide energy, provides insights to the physics of polarization.","PeriodicalId":363264,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE Texas Symposium on Wireless and Microwave Circuits and Systems (WMCS)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121503904","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":"An Efficient Mulitfeed Rectenna For RF Energy Harvesting","authors":"Jack Tomkiewicz, Qiang Zhou, T. Chi","doi":"10.1109/WMCS58822.2023.10194263","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WMCS58822.2023.10194263","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a multifeed rectenna for high-efficiency RF energy harvesting. By using a multifeed slot loop antenna and co-designing the antenna and the rectifier circuit, the lossy impedance matching network between the antenna and the rectifier is eliminated to boost the RF-to-DC conversion efficiency. Additionally, using multiple antenna feeds extends the high-efficiency region of the rectifier, which in turn, allows for high DC output power and high efficiency simultaneously. A proof-of-concept two-feed rectenna is designed and tested at 960 MHz. It achieves a peak efficiency of 64.5% and a combined DC output voltage of 1.72 V at an input power density of $mathbf{2.3} mu mathbf{W}/mathbf{cm}^{2}$, demonstrating state-of-the-art RF energy harvesting performance.","PeriodicalId":363264,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE Texas Symposium on Wireless and Microwave Circuits and Systems (WMCS)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124952504","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}
Pouria Pazhouhesh, Katherine E. Pearson, J. Kitchen
{"title":"A 10 W X-Band Balanced Power Amplifier with Harmonic Rejection for SATCOM Applications","authors":"Pouria Pazhouhesh, Katherine E. Pearson, J. Kitchen","doi":"10.1109/WMCS58822.2023.10194270","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WMCS58822.2023.10194270","url":null,"abstract":"This work presents a balanced X-band power amplifier (PA) architecture that uses Wilkinson wideband hybrid couplers to split input power to two commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) Gallium Nitride (GaN) monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) PAs and combine their output powers. The presented balanced PA manufactured on a Rogers 4003C substrate yields increased small signal gain and saturated output power under CW operation compared to the single MMIC PA used in the design under pulsed operation. The presented PA operates from 7.5 GHz to 11.5 GHz, has a maximum small signal gain of 36.3 dB, a maximum saturated power out of 40.0 dBm, and a maximum power added efficiency (PAE) of 38%.","PeriodicalId":363264,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE Texas Symposium on Wireless and Microwave Circuits and Systems (WMCS)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132586315","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}
S.R. Kythakyapuzha, John Liu, O. Eliezer, J. Kitchen
{"title":"A 12nm FinFET-based High-Efficiency 2.4GHz 16dBm Power Amplifier with Digitally Controlled Harmonic Suppression","authors":"S.R. Kythakyapuzha, John Liu, O. Eliezer, J. Kitchen","doi":"10.1109/WMCS58822.2023.10194266","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WMCS58822.2023.10194266","url":null,"abstract":"A highly-efficient (32%) power amplifier (PA) with 16.5dBm output power and digitally controlled harmonic suppression is designed in a 12 nm FinFET CMOS process. The PA operates from a supply voltage of 1.6 V, consumes 124 mW, and has a total die area is 0.27 mm2.","PeriodicalId":363264,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE Texas Symposium on Wireless and Microwave Circuits and Systems (WMCS)","volume":"268 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122174195","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":"Omnidirectionality Investigation of Wraparound Microstrip Antennas","authors":"Tauseef Ashraf, D. Jackson, Jiefu Chen","doi":"10.1109/WMCS58822.2023.10194261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WMCS58822.2023.10194261","url":null,"abstract":"Microstrip patch antennas are commonly used as radiators in various applications due to their low cost and simple construction on a printed circuit board. The wraparound microstrip antenna is formed by wrapping the antenna completely around a cylindrical surface in the nonresonant dimension. The wraparound antenna is fed at multiple points along the width (circumference) to improve the omnidirectionality. The relationship between resonance frequency, radius of the cylinder, and the number of feeds required to obtain a certain degree of omnidirectionality is investigated here. All the simulations are done using HFSS and CST Microwave and the results are compared, and a good agreement was observed between the results.","PeriodicalId":363264,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE Texas Symposium on Wireless and Microwave Circuits and Systems (WMCS)","volume":"19 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121004016","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":"Excitation of the $text{TM}_{01}$ Spherical Wave Function by Vehicular Wireless Charging Systems via the Conservative Electric Field of the Windings","authors":"J. Mclean","doi":"10.1109/WMCS58822.2023.10194271","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WMCS58822.2023.10194271","url":null,"abstract":"A wireless power transfer (WPT) system for electric vehicle (EV) charging consisting of two “circular” couplers as described in the SAE J2954 standard has been shown, somewhat surprisingly, to significantly excite the $text{TM}_{01}$ spherical wavefunction (SWF) when operating with the EV in place. This is due to coupling from the WPT system to a natural or characteristic mode of the EV which acts as vertical electric dipole which, in turn, excites the $text{TM}_{01}$ SWF. However, it is not obvious how the circular couplers, which have been presumed to behave as magnetic loops, couple to TM (electric) vehicular characteristic modes. This coupling mechanism is explored in detail here. We show here that it is the turn-to-turn voltage drop which produces a conservative electric field (to be distinguished from the solenoidal electric field predicted by Faraday's law) which excites the vehicle like a coaxial aperture. That is, at the most idealized level, the vehicle acts like a conducting convex, object, similar to a sphere or ellipsoid located just above a coaxial aperture. It also occurs in the absence of common-mode (CM) excitation due to imbalance in the primary-side source, which is typically an H-bridge. The coaxial aperture alone would excite primarily a $text{TM}_{02}-R$ SWF and it can be shown that a $text{TM}_{02}-R$ source, in place of the WPT system under the vehicle, gives similar results, strongly exciting the $text{TM}_{01}$ SWF. The $text{TM}_{01}$ SWF is problematic as it excites the HF ground wave potentially presenting a source of RF interference. The forgoing assertions were verified using simulations of the near and far fields with HFSS and FEKO.","PeriodicalId":363264,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE Texas Symposium on Wireless and Microwave Circuits and Systems (WMCS)","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121081766","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":"Microstrip Antennas with Height Discontinuities for Wireless Power Transfer","authors":"Linsheng Zhang, C. S. Lee, Guang Yang","doi":"10.1109/WMCS58822.2023.10194264","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WMCS58822.2023.10194264","url":null,"abstract":"A novel device for efficient wireless power transfer (WPT) is presented. The proposed WPT system utilizes modified microstrip antennas with height discontinuities (MAHDs) to improve the power transfer. The resultant structure is similar to an inductive WPT design in operation providing a good transmission efficiency while the structure is compact and easy to fabricate. The proposed WPT device does not need any input/output interfaces that most inductive WPT systems require.","PeriodicalId":363264,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE Texas Symposium on Wireless and Microwave Circuits and Systems (WMCS)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126078879","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 3.1 W High Gain 51% Fractional Bandwidth GaN HEMT Power Amplifier Design for Far-Field Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) Applications","authors":"Rafsan Mahin, I. Mahbub","doi":"10.1109/WMCS58822.2023.10194258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WMCS58822.2023.10194258","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the design of a high gain and efficient power amplifier (PA) that is capable of operating within the ultra-wideband (UWB) frequency range (3.1 - 10.6 GHz) for wireless power transfer (WPT) applications. Qorvo TGF2977 GaN HEMT transistor has been used for the proposed design since it is capable of operating in the desired UWB frequency range from DC to 12 GHz. An impedance matching technique has been proposed in this paper so that when the matching network elements are translated through the T-line elements, the impedance of the matching network incorporating the T-line elements is matched to the optimal source and load impedances of the transistor. An analytical model of the microstrip T-line has been developed in this paper so that proper impedance matching can be achieved by tuning and controlling the width of the T-line elements. The desired S-parameter response can be obtained by using this technique so that the target performances of the PA can be achieved. The proposed PA is chosen to operate in the class-C mode since this mode of operation can achieve a very high efficiency. The designed PA is capable of achieving a gain of 14.34 dB and has a $-3dB$ gain bandwidth of 3.03 GHz (51% fractional bandwidth) from 4.22 – 7.25 GHz. The PA is able to generate the highest output power of 34.9 dBm $(3.1W)$ at the $P_{1dB}$ of 22 dBm input power at 6 GHz frequency. At the same frequency and the $P_{1dB}$ input power, the proposed PA is able to achieve a power added efficiency (PAE) of 37.1% while the highest PAE of 45.6% is achieved at the 28 dBm input power.","PeriodicalId":363264,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE Texas Symposium on Wireless and Microwave Circuits and Systems (WMCS)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120973734","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}