{"title":"IEEE Microwave and Wireless Technology Letters Information for Authors","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/LMWT.2024.3444435","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LMWT.2024.3444435","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73297,"journal":{"name":"IEEE microwave and wireless technology letters","volume":"34 9","pages":"C3-C3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10666898","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142143694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Communication-Assisted Chirp Sequence Radar With Improved Data Rate","authors":"Mohamad Basim Alabd;Lucas Giroto de Oliveira;Benjamin Nuss;Yueheng Li;Xueyun Long;Axel Diewald;Johannes Galinsky;Zsolt Kollár;Thomas Zwick","doi":"10.1109/LMWT.2024.3451413","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LMWT.2024.3451413","url":null,"abstract":"This letter presents a novel communication-assisted chirp sequence radar (CaCSR) system with an improved communication data rate, where part of each chirp is modulated with communication symbols. The transmit signal is partially modulated by one of the digital constellation schemes, such as phase-shift keying. Extending a previous study, which investigated the general idea of the partial modulation at 4 GHz under AWGN scenarios, this letter analyzes the channel effect on the CaCSR communication performance and presents results from measurement at 79 GHz. For this purpose, the number of assigned communication symbols is compared with the channel length, the duration of the communication section, and the pause between the chirps, where the communication receiver comprises a direct architecture with a small fraction of the whole radar bandwidth. Finally, the performance of the proposed system is verified via simulation and measurement results, showing that it achieves superior communication performance compared with a reference method where only one modulation symbol is transmitted per chirp at the cost of negligible radar performance degradation.","PeriodicalId":73297,"journal":{"name":"IEEE microwave and wireless technology letters","volume":"34 10","pages":"1214-1217"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142397432","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":"TechRxiv: Share Your Preprint Research with the World","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/LMWT.2024.3444443","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LMWT.2024.3444443","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73297,"journal":{"name":"IEEE microwave and wireless technology letters","volume":"34 9","pages":"1134-1134"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10666808","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142143753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Broadband High-Efficiency GaN Transistor-Based Rectifier With Variable Phase Shift","authors":"Zhiwei Zhang;Dengfa Zhou;Chao Gu;Xuefei Xuan","doi":"10.1109/LMWT.2024.3450594","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LMWT.2024.3450594","url":null,"abstract":"This article proposes a new method for expanding the operating bandwidth of transistor-based rectifiers. The standard continuous inverse class-GF is used as the core operating mode, and the relationship between phase shift and input/output impedances is constructed, thereby obtaining the available phase shift range corresponding to the expected rectification efficiency. It allows a variable range of phase shift, rather than a fixed 180°. This variable phase shift range greatly releases the design of the broadband matching, providing the possibility to expand the bandwidth of the rectifier. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed method, this work designs a broadband high-efficiency rectifier based on a GaN transistor. The test results show that within the operating frequency range of 1.8–2.8 GHz, a rectification efficiency of 60%–88% is achieved when the dc load is \u0000<inline-formula> <tex-math>$75Omega $ </tex-math></inline-formula>\u0000 and the input power is 40 dBm.","PeriodicalId":73297,"journal":{"name":"IEEE microwave and wireless technology letters","volume":"34 10","pages":"1198-1201"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142397420","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 24-to-28-GHz Asymmetric GaN MMIC Doherty Power Amplifier With 32% PAE at 8-dB Back-Off Using Optimal Phase Dispersion Inverter","authors":"Ruijia Liu;Xiao-Wei Zhu;Jing Xia;Peng Chen;Lei Zhang;Chao Yu;Wei Hong;Anding Zhu","doi":"10.1109/LMWT.2024.3450752","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LMWT.2024.3450752","url":null,"abstract":"In this letter, a high-performance millimeter-wave (mm-wave) asymmetric gallium nitride (GaN) monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) Doherty power amplifier (DPA) for 5G-new-radio (NR) n258 band application is presented. To ensure that each transistor can achieve a proper active load impedance across a wide bandwidth during load modulation, a method for designing the impedance inverter with the optimal phase dispersion characteristic is proposed. For verification, a 24-to-28-GHz asymmetric GaN MMIC DPA was designed using a 150-nm GaN-HEMT process. The fabricated DPA achieved a saturated power range of 36.8–38.1 dBm, with a saturated power-added efficiency (PAE) of 29.7%–36.8%. The PAEs at 8- and 9-dB power back-offs (PBOs) ranged from 18.6% to 32% and 18.8% to 29.7%, respectively. After applying digital predistortion, the DPA achieved a high average PAE of 29% with good linearity when excited by a 400-MHz modulated signal.","PeriodicalId":73297,"journal":{"name":"IEEE microwave and wireless technology letters","volume":"34 10","pages":"1174-1177"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142397444","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}
Haomiao Wei;Xiang Li;Yong Zhang;Xiang Luo;Huali Zhu;Tiedi Zhang;Bo Yan
{"title":"A 200–325-GHz Wideband Terahertz Frequency Tripler Using Waveguide Wedge Iris Match","authors":"Haomiao Wei;Xiang Li;Yong Zhang;Xiang Luo;Huali Zhu;Tiedi Zhang;Bo Yan","doi":"10.1109/LMWT.2024.3449883","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LMWT.2024.3449883","url":null,"abstract":"This letter reports a Schottky-based wideband 200–325-GHz terahertz (THz) frequency tripler adopting a waveguide wedge iris (WWI) match instead of a conventional reduced-height waveguide (RHW) match. The wedges in this letter provide the auxiliary impedance matching and in-line cavity configuration in one structure. The auxiliary matching function is derived from the capacity to implement both shunt capacitive iris (CI) and RHW matching of WWI in a simultaneous manner. Due to the merits of design flexibility and structure compactness, a WR-3 band THz monolithic integrated frequency tripler based on the matching waveguide wedges is fabricated and then packaged in an extremely small flange-like cavity. The verified tripler exhibits a conversion efficiency of 2%–6.6% across the bandwidth of 200–325-GHz under 150 mW of pumped power.","PeriodicalId":73297,"journal":{"name":"IEEE microwave and wireless technology letters","volume":"34 10","pages":"1186-1189"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142397447","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 33.5–92.6-GHz CMOS Injection-Locked Frequency Divider Using Fourth-Order Resonator","authors":"Guoqing Dong;Yizhu Shen;Sanming Hu","doi":"10.1109/LMWT.2024.3444001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LMWT.2024.3444001","url":null,"abstract":"This letter presents a novel fourth-order resonator for millimeter-wave (mmW) wideband injection-locked frequency divider (ILFD) in 40-nm CMOS. To operate at high frequencies, such as E-band, and obtain wide locking range (LR) simultaneously, the fourth-order transformer is intentionally designed with high coupling coefficient and low quality factor of secondary coil to achieve a flat and broad impedance response. The measurement results demonstrate an LR of 59.1 GHz from 33.5 to 92.6 GHz, with a fractional bandwidth of 93.7%. The chip features a compact core area of 0.0165 mm2 (\u0000<inline-formula> <tex-math>$0.0007lambda ^{2}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>\u0000) and consumes 6.18 mW from a 0.6-V voltage supply.","PeriodicalId":73297,"journal":{"name":"IEEE microwave and wireless technology letters","volume":"34 10","pages":"1190-1193"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142397448","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}
Hongliang Tian;Haiwen Liu;Zeren Song;Sidong Wang;Ruolin Wang;Shaofei Wang;Chao Du
{"title":"Fusion Design of Cryogenic Filtering Low-Noise Amplifier With High Out-of-Band Rejection Assisted by Grey Wolf Optimizer","authors":"Hongliang Tian;Haiwen Liu;Zeren Song;Sidong Wang;Ruolin Wang;Shaofei Wang;Chao Du","doi":"10.1109/LMWT.2024.3443852","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LMWT.2024.3443852","url":null,"abstract":"A cryogenic filtering low-noise amplifier (LNA) using 100-nm InP technology is presented in this letter. Fusion design method is utilized to incorporate filtering functionality seamlessly into LNA without adding extraneous noise and or occupying excessive chip area. The grey wolf optimization (GWO) algorithm is employed to increase the design efficiency and optimize the circuit performance. Experimental results demonstrate the 4–8-GHz filtering LNA at 5 K achieves a gain of 33.6 ± 1.5 dB and an average noise temperature of 4.8 K with a minimum noise temperature of 3.5 K at 4.4 GHz. Multiple zeroes are generated, leading to an out-of-band rejection of over 60.7 dB across 0–2 GHz and 50.9 dB from 12 to 30 GHz.","PeriodicalId":73297,"journal":{"name":"IEEE microwave and wireless technology letters","volume":"34 10","pages":"1162-1165"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142397441","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}