Shuxia Yan;Yuxing Li;Fengqi Qian;Weicong Na;Jia Nan Zhang
{"title":"An Efficient Sensitivity-Driven Stepwise Method Incorporating Transfer Learning for Wide-Range Parametric Modeling of Microwave Components","authors":"Shuxia Yan;Yuxing Li;Fengqi Qian;Weicong Na;Jia Nan Zhang","doi":"10.1109/LMWT.2024.3486160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LMWT.2024.3486160","url":null,"abstract":"This letter proposes an efficient sensitivity-driven stepwise modeling method for microwave components with a wide range of geometrical parameter variations. In the proposed method, the Pearson correlation coefficient is explored to solve the sensitivity analysis difficulty in accurately classifying the geometrical parameters into high-sensitivity parameters and low-sensitivity parameters. The relationship between high-sensitivity parameters and circuit responses is learned by the neural network as the first modeling step. Then, the effect of low-sensitivity parameters on the circuit response is restored in the second modeling step through transfer learning (TL), which leverages the knowledge gained from high-sensitivity parameters. Using the proposed sensitivity-driven stepwise modeling method allows us to achieve a much faster training convergence speed through effective knowledge transfer and reuse, consequently achieving similar accuracy in a shorter training time compared with existing methods using the same data. Two microwave modeling examples are used to illustrate the proposed method.","PeriodicalId":73297,"journal":{"name":"IEEE microwave and wireless technology letters","volume":"35 1","pages":"19-22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142938488","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 the E-Band Power Amplifier With Cascode Gain- and Power-Boosting and Shunt Capacitance Matching Improvement","authors":"Yuen-Sum Ng;Yunshan Wang;Huei Wang","doi":"10.1109/LMWT.2024.3488099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LMWT.2024.3488099","url":null,"abstract":"This letter presents an E-band power amplifier (PA) fabricated in 65-nm CMOS technology. This PA adopts a three-stage design approach and a cascode structure to extend the supply voltage for higher gain and output power. The two-way power-combining technique is exploited to further improve the power delivered. By introducing an additional shunt capacitance, the insertion loss is reduced in the interstage matching before the power stage. This PA exploits the transformer coupling technique for interstage connection and compact layout techniques to make the PA suitable for millimeter-wave (mmW) applications. The PA provides 21.2 dBm of saturated output power (\u0000<inline-formula> <tex-math>$P_{mathrm {sat}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>\u0000), 24.6 dB of transducer gain, and 20.6% of power-added efficiency (PAE) under a multiple supply voltage of 1.2 and 2.4 V and current consumption of 150 and 220 mA at 80 GHz, respectively. The PA occupies a core die size of \u0000<inline-formula> <tex-math>$800times 360~mu $ </tex-math></inline-formula>\u0000m. To the author’s knowledge, it is the first publication to improve the performance using shunt capacitance to improve the performance under cascode configuration.","PeriodicalId":73297,"journal":{"name":"IEEE microwave and wireless technology letters","volume":"35 1","pages":"87-90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142938484","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.2024.3480634","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LMWT.2024.3480634","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73297,"journal":{"name":"IEEE microwave and wireless technology letters","volume":"34 11","pages":"1314-1314"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10746912","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142595089","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":"IEEE Microwave and Wireless Technology Letters Information for Authors","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/LMWT.2024.3475165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LMWT.2024.3475165","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73297,"journal":{"name":"IEEE microwave and wireless technology letters","volume":"34 11","pages":"C3-C3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10746893","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142595042","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 0.3–28-GHz Frequency Range, 1.2-dB Noise Figure, Cascode Distributed LNA With Wide Temperature Range for Satellite Communications","authors":"Xiaodong Han;Qiangji Wang;Zhongliang Li;Weibin Qin;Jiawen Wang;Haonan Fan;Guanda Wang;Wangchen Fan;Zhichao Xu;Wenbin Wang;Weifeng Sun;Zhongyuan Fang","doi":"10.1109/LMWT.2024.3485217","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LMWT.2024.3485217","url":null,"abstract":"A broadband cascode distributed low-noise amplifier (CDLNA) with a wide operating temperature range is proposed in this work. A series of diodes are used as bias networks to achieve temperature compensation. To enhance the gain level in the passband, the negative resistance network is employed to offset drain transmission line losses. An attenuator based on reverse-biased diodes and resistors is designed to improve stability across the wideband. The circuit is implemented using a 0.15-\u0000<inline-formula> <tex-math>$mu $ </tex-math></inline-formula>\u0000m GaAs pHEMT process with a chip area of \u0000<inline-formula> <tex-math>$2.6times 1.55$ </tex-math></inline-formula>\u0000 mm2. Test results show that the CDLNA achieves an average gain of 17.5 dB, a linearity index OP1 dB of 14.0 dBm, a minimum noise figure (NF) of 1.2 dB, and an operating frequency range of 0.3–28 GHz. The operating temperature range is -55 °C to 85 °C, within which the gain variation is less than 742 ppm/°C, and the NF variation is less than 2667 ppm/°C","PeriodicalId":73297,"journal":{"name":"IEEE microwave and wireless technology letters","volume":"35 1","pages":"79-82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142938397","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":"K-Band Frequency Mixing Divider for Translation Loop Applications","authors":"Yue-Fang Kuo;Jhih-Wei Yang;Jia-Chuan Lin","doi":"10.1109/LMWT.2024.3485679","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LMWT.2024.3485679","url":null,"abstract":"A K-band frequency mixing divider scheme includes a downconverter double-balanced mixer and a divide-by-3 injection-locked frequency divider implemented with a TSMC 180-nm CMOS process is proposed in this letter. The compact structure is suitable for low-phase noise translation loop frequency synthesizers. Based on an inductive degeneration topology, the proposed mixer achieves a voltage conversion gain (CG) of 9.1 dB and a noise figure of 8.7 dB at 25 GHz radio frequency (RF) frequency. The measured locking range of the proposed circuit is from 8 to 8.5 GHz when the RF input signal varies from 21.5 to 25.5 GHz. The locking phase noise of injection frequency divider (ILFD) at a 100-kHz offset frequency was -117.4 dBc/Hz, while the injection signal had a phase noise of -108.3 dBc/Hz. The whole chip size, including the on-wafer pads, is \u0000<inline-formula> <tex-math>$1.2times 0.986$ </tex-math></inline-formula>\u0000 mm2.","PeriodicalId":73297,"journal":{"name":"IEEE microwave and wireless technology letters","volume":"35 1","pages":"75-78"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142938396","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":"Combined Super-Resolution Fluorescence and Coaxial 3-D Scanning Microwave Microscopy: Proof-of-Concept In-Liquid Live-Cell Imaging: Toward a Biological Nano-Radar","authors":"Chia-Hung Lee;Kamel Haddadi;Peter J. Burke","doi":"10.1109/LMWT.2024.3483071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LMWT.2024.3483071","url":null,"abstract":"We present a proof-of-concept 3-D scanning microwave microscope based on a miniaturized coaxial probe combined with high-resolution fluorescence microscopy for in-liquid operation and live-cell imaging. The system simultaneously provides electric (GHz) and optical (super-resolution) imaging of live cells for broad applications in life sciences. It combines advantages offered by both open-ended coaxial probing and near-field scanning microwave microscopy (SMM) for accurate and quantitative local microwave measurements. The shielded tip minimizes unwanted absorption of microwaves by the biological media as compared to fringe fields of unshielded tips which we previously showed absorb over 90% of the signal and mask the true imaging signal. A proof-of-concept system built up with commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components is demonstrated in the frequency range 0.01–6 GHz with micrometric spatial resolution, only limited by the coaxial probe geometry. Our work at the microscale lays the technological foundation for a true nano-radar in liquid cell imaging system that will come with further advances in nanofabrication technologies applied to coaxial probes and can be integrated with super-resolution optical microscopy, for an integrated full electromagnetic spectrum to probe biology at the nanoscale, from dc to lightwave.","PeriodicalId":73297,"journal":{"name":"IEEE microwave and wireless technology letters","volume":"35 1","pages":"131-134"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142940860","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":"Synthesis of Wideband Bandpass Filter With Optimized Matrix Scaling for Direct Circuit Implementation Using Lumped Elements","authors":"Shidi Liu;Pedro Cheong;Wai-Wa Choi","doi":"10.1109/LMWT.2024.3486222","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LMWT.2024.3486222","url":null,"abstract":"This letter describes a synthesis method for wideband bandpass filters (BPFs) that uses an optimized matrix scaling technique for direct circuit implementation. The method commences with constructing filtering polynomials in the bandpass domain tailored for bandwidth, passband response, and the locations of transmission zeros (TZs). Then, the in-line lumped-element prototype is realized through a simple implementation. Subsequently, the proposed scaling matrix with solvable restraints and a tuning process is employed to adjust practical component values while maintaining the predetermined responses flexibly. The complexity of the circuit can be reduced by selecting critical values of the scaling factors. Finally, the proposed method is validated by several synthesis examples and measured results.","PeriodicalId":73297,"journal":{"name":"IEEE microwave and wireless technology letters","volume":"35 1","pages":"23-26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142938489","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 Dual- and Triple-Wideband Filters Using Interdigital Spoof Surface Plasmon Polaritons","authors":"Baoping Ren;Chunhua Qin;Xuehui Guan","doi":"10.1109/LMWT.2024.3484749","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LMWT.2024.3484749","url":null,"abstract":"A new interdigital spoof surface plasmon polaritons (SSPPs) unit is proposed to design dual- and triple-wideband filters in this letter. The dispersion properties of the proposed interdigital SSPPs are analyzed and indicating that the asymptotic frequency of the fundamental mode (Mode 0) of the transition SSPPs unit is higher than that of the first-order mode (Mode 1) of the transmission SSPPs unit, which provides the feasibility in the design of dual passbands using Modes 0 and 1 of the SSPPs simultaneously. Also, by adjusting the stopband between Modes 0 and 1 of the transition interdigital SSPPs unit reasonably, three passbands can further be constructed. For verification, dual- and triple-wideband filters are accordingly well designed, fabricated, and measured. Good agreement between the simulations and measurements validities the proposed structure and design method.","PeriodicalId":73297,"journal":{"name":"IEEE microwave and wireless technology letters","volume":"35 1","pages":"51-54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142938435","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}