Yanqing Cheng, Shuyun Lin, Qi Chen, Jinqi Dong, Lunyi Liu
{"title":"A Broadband Reconfigurable Frequency-Selective Surface in Terahertz Band Based on Different Metal-Insulator Transition Temperature of VO<sub>2</sub>","authors":"Yanqing Cheng, Shuyun Lin, Qi Chen, Jinqi Dong, Lunyi Liu","doi":"10.1587/elex.20.20230372","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1587/elex.20.20230372","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a broadband reconfigurable frequency-selective surface (FSS) in terahertz band based on different metal-insulator transition (MIT) temperature of vanadium dioxide (VO2) is proposed. By using different MIT temperature of VO2, the broadband reconfigurable design of the FSS is realized. The results show that the center frequency of the FSS is 2.15 THz and when the temperature is lower than 60℃, the relative bandwidth is 74.19%. When the temperature is between 60℃ and 72℃, the relative bandwidth is 55.59%. Above 72℃, the relative bandwidth is 33.78%. The FSS has broad application prospects in other emerging terahertz fields such as terahertz regulation and communication.","PeriodicalId":50387,"journal":{"name":"Ieice Electronics Express","volume":"78 9","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135087343","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ning Liu, Haoyong Ding, Xianjun Sheng, Xiangyan Liu, Hongwei Wang
{"title":"Effective medium modeling method for gridded square loop FSS","authors":"Ning Liu, Haoyong Ding, Xianjun Sheng, Xiangyan Liu, Hongwei Wang","doi":"10.1587/elex.20.20230398","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1587/elex.20.20230398","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an effective medium modeling method for frequency selective surface (FSS). The proposed method only retrieves the electromagnetic parameters of the effective medium once, then the reflection/transmission coefficients under arbitrary incidence can be calculated. Compared with previous works, the proposed method reduces the modeling and calculation time by equating the complex FSS to single-layer or multi-layer dielectric slabs. For verification, we built an effective medium model for gridded square loop FSS and obtained a modeling empirical formula. The calculated results are in good agreement with CST and better than the equivalent circuit method.","PeriodicalId":50387,"journal":{"name":"Ieice Electronics Express","volume":"77 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135087359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hiroaki Takahashi, Ziad Hatab, Erich Schlaffer, Helmut Paulitsch, Wolfgang Bösch
{"title":"Experimental analysis of grounded coplanar waveguide structures based on different PCB processes with uncertainty analysis","authors":"Hiroaki Takahashi, Ziad Hatab, Erich Schlaffer, Helmut Paulitsch, Wolfgang Bösch","doi":"10.1587/elex.20.20230381","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1587/elex.20.20230381","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an experimental characterization of grounded coplanar waveguides (GCPWs) with uncertainty analysis. GCPW lines to be analyzed were fabricated using different subtractive printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturing processes: panel plating method and pattern plating method. Using a modified multiline method, we have extracted the propagation constants with uncertainty propagation analysis. This considered instrumentation noise, length uncertainty, and impedance mismatch caused by variations in cross-section due to the fabrication capabilities of each manufacturing process. By reformulating the propagation constant, we obtained the attenuation per unit length and the effective relative permittivity as a function of frequencies up to 43.5GHz with 95% confidence interval. These results showed good agreement with full-wave simulations and highlighted the differences between the PCB manufacturing processes.","PeriodicalId":50387,"journal":{"name":"Ieice Electronics Express","volume":"74 23","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135088356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Accelerating Event-based Deep Neural Networks via Flexible Data Encoding","authors":"Yuanli Zhong, Yongqi Xu, Bosheng Liu, Yibing Tang, Jigang Wu","doi":"10.1587/elex.20.20230379","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1587/elex.20.20230379","url":null,"abstract":"Event-based deep neural networks (DNNs) have shown great promise in computer vision under difficult lighting conditions. However, existing hardware solutions cannot provide efficient event-based DNN accelerations owing to the characteristic of event streams, which are typically in low datarate and high-dynamic range. In this letter, we present a novel hardware design that can handle event-based DNNs according to the data characteristic of event streams. Furthermore, we provide a dataflow that enables flexible DNN data encodings (including both bitmask and compressed sparse row (CSR)) based on the event data characteristic for energy saving. Comprehensive evaluations based on four famous event-based benchmarks show that the proposed design can achieve higher performance and better energy efficiency compared with representative accelerator baselines.","PeriodicalId":50387,"journal":{"name":"Ieice Electronics Express","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135088526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Haipeng Duan, Qin Chen, Xuan Wang, Depeng Cheng, Xin Chen, Xu Wu, Dongming Wang, Lianming Li
{"title":"A Ku-band transmitter front-end in 65-nm CMOS with >45-dBc image-rejection ratio and >43-dBc LOFT suppression","authors":"Haipeng Duan, Qin Chen, Xuan Wang, Depeng Cheng, Xin Chen, Xu Wu, Dongming Wang, Lianming Li","doi":"10.1587/elex.20.20230226","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1587/elex.20.20230226","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a fully integrated Ku-band transmitter front-end with high image rejection ratio (IRR), local oscillator feedthrough (LOFT) suppression, gain and output power for point-to-point (P2P) communication. To avoid the bulky off-chip image-rejection filter, the Hartley transmitter structure is employed, in which frequency plan is undertaken to improve the IRR and LOFT performance, and a two-stage polyphase filter (PPF) and an in/quadrature-phase (I/Q) Gilbert mixer are utilized to improve the IRR further. With the capacitive neutralization and transformer-based series power combining techniques, a two-stage power amplifier (PA) is used to obtain high gain and output power. In the LO buffer, a flexible phase inverting cascode structure is used to achieve reliable up-sideband operation, and the inductive peaking technique and cross-coupled transistor pair are employed to promote the LO swing. Fabricated in a 65-nm CMOS process, the proposed Ku-band transmitter occupies a chip area of 0.98 mm2, and consumes 304-mW power consumption from a 1.2-V supply voltage. With measurements, over 15.8-17.9-GHz radio frequency (RF) bandwidth, the transmitter achieves an IRR and LOFT suppression ratio of 45-55 and 43-52 dBc, respectively. Moreover, it exhibits a conversion gain of 28.5 dB, an output 1-dB compression point (OP1dB) of 13.3 dBm and a saturated output power (Psat) of 16 dBm.","PeriodicalId":50387,"journal":{"name":"Ieice Electronics Express","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135492966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Decoupling control of three-dimensional electromagnetic forces in linear induction motors based on novel equivalent circuit","authors":"Dihui Zeng, Qiongxuan Ge, A. L. Zhang","doi":"10.1587/elex.20.20230219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1587/elex.20.20230219","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50387,"journal":{"name":"Ieice Electronics Express","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67302102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A 41-GHz 19.4-dBm P<sub>sat</sub> CMOS Doherty power amplifier for 5G NR applications","authors":"Zheng Li, Zixin Chen, Qiaoyu Wang, Junqing Liu, Jian Pang, Atsushi Shirane, Kenichi Okada","doi":"10.1587/elex.20.20220558","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1587/elex.20.20220558","url":null,"abstract":"In this letter, a 41-GHz Doherty power amplifier (PA) in standard 65nm CMOS technology is introduced for 5G New Radio (NR) applications. The proposed PA implements the transformer-based parallel-combined Doherty structure to enhance the power-added efficiency (PAE). A tunable 90-deg hybrid coupler is proposed for output phase compensation. This work achieves a saturated output power (Psat) of 19.4dBm and an OP1dB of 18.6dBm at 41.5GHz under a 1-V power supply. The peak PAE and the PAE at 6-dB output power back-off (PBO) are 30.4% and 19.2%, respectively. This work also supports single-carrier mode (SC-mode) 400-MSymbols/s 256QAM and OFDMA-mode 400-MHz 256QAM. The core chip area is 0.22 mm2 with a static power consumption of 76mW.","PeriodicalId":50387,"journal":{"name":"Ieice Electronics Express","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136095419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design of PLC E<sub>31</sub>-E<sub>13</sub> and E-LP tapered mode converters using fast quasiadiabatic dynamics","authors":"Han Wang, Takeshi Fujisawa, Takanori Sato, Masaki Wada, Takayoshi Mori, Taiji Sakamoto, Ryota Imada, Takashi Matsui, Kazuhide Nakajima, Kunimasa Saitoh","doi":"10.1587/elex.20.20230392","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1587/elex.20.20230392","url":null,"abstract":"The previous PLC E31 and E13 mode converters employ linear tapered structures to fulfill the adiabatic coupling condition and achieve a high mode conversion efficiency, which requires long taper lengths. In this paper, we propose two types of PLC tapered structures that can be applied in different scenarios using fast quasiadiabatic dynamics. These structures enable mode conversions of E31-E13 modes, as well as E31-LP02 and E13-LP21b modes, respectively. The E31-E13 mode converter can be reduced from the previous three-stage linear taper of 12000 μm to approximately 4000 μm in length. Similarly, the E31-LP02, E13-LP21b mode converter can be reduced from the previous two-stage linear taper of over 6000 μm to approximately 4000 μm in length.","PeriodicalId":50387,"journal":{"name":"Ieice Electronics Express","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135104548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}