Proceedings of the 6th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference RF Waveform Investigation of VSWR Sweeps on GaN HFETs William McGenn, Johannes Benedikt, Paul Tasker Centre for High Frequency Engineering Cardiff University The Parade, Cardiff, CF24 3AA mcgennw-Cardiff.ac.uk Jeff Powell, Michael Uren QinetiQ Ltd Malvern, Worcestershire, UK. WR14 3PS Abstract--Solid state amplifiers are o

Proceedings of the 6th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference Compact Wideband Differential SiGe BiCMOS Low Noise Amplifier for Application in Digital Beam-Forming Receivers S. Chartier, M. Epp, M. B¨ ck o and M. Oppermann Cassidian Cassidian Electronics W¨ rthstrasse 85, 89077 Ulm, Germany o Email: sebastien.chartier-cassidian.com P. Lohmiller and H. Schumacher Ulm University Institu

Proceedings of the 6th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference Low-Frequency Waveform Engineering Technique for Class-F Microwave Power Amplifier Design Sergio Di Falco, Antonio Raffo and Giorgio Vannini Department of Engineering University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy giorgio.vannini-unife.it Valeria Vadalà Microwave Electronics for Communication M.E.C. srl Bologna, Italy contact.mec-me

Proceedings of the 6th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference Modulator non linearity influence on UWB signal performance over RoF link Anne-Laure Billabert1, Frédérique Deshours2, Luis Moreno1, Catherine Algani1, Christian Rumelhard1 1 Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers/ESYCOM 292, rue Saint-Martin 75141 Paris Cedex 03, France 2 UPMC UNIVERSITE PARIS 06, L2E 4, place Jussieu,

Proceedings of the 6th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference An Integrated Harmonic Transmitter Front-End for 122 GHz FMCW/CW Radar Sensor Yaoming Sun and Christoph J. Scheytt IHP Im Technologiepark 25 D-15236 Frankfurt (Oder), Germany sun-ihp-microelectronics.com Abstract--This paper presents an integrated harmonic transmitter front-end for a single-chip 122 GHz FMCW/CW radar sensor

Proceedings of the 6th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference A New Resonant Circuit for 2.45 GHz LC VCO with Linear Frequency Tuning Samet Zihir#1, Ferhat Tasdemir, Tolga Dinc, and Yasar Gurbuz#2 Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences ­ FENS, Sabanci University, Orhanli-Tuzla 34956 Istanbul, TURKEY 1 sametzihir-sabanciuniv.edu 2 yasar-sabanciuniv.edu Abstract-- A new MOS varact

Proceedings of the 6th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference Cryogenic Performance of Gold-Based and Niobium-Based RF MEMS Devices Sara S. Attar, Sormeh Setoodeh, Reenal Al-Dahleh, Raafat R. Mansour Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Waterloo Waterloo, Canada Abstract-- This paper presents the results of a comprehensive study on the performance of RF MEMS devices at cry

Proceedings of the 6th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference Reconfigurable Wideband LNAs Using Ohmic Contact and Capacitive RF-MEMS Switching Circuits R. Malmqvist1,5, C. Samuelsson1, W. Simon2, D. Smith3, P. Rantakari4, T. Vähä-Heikkilä4, S. Reyaz5, J. Varis4, and R. Baggen2 Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), Olaus Magnus väg 42, SE-58330 Linköping, Sweden 2 IMST GmbH, Carl-Frie

Proceedings of the 6th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference A Novel Tunable Multimodal Bandpass Filter Adrián Contreras1, Lluís Pradell Signal Theory and Communications Department Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) Barcelona, Spain 1 acontrer-ieee.org Abstract--This paper presents a novel uniplanar tunable bandpass filter. In this filter, each resonator can be reconfigured easil

Proceedings of the 6th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference A 60 GHz CMOS Power Amplifier Using Capacitive Cross-Coupling Neutralization with 16 % PAE Hiroki Asada, Kota Matsushita, Keigo Bunsen, Kenichi Okada, and Akira Matsuzawa Department of Physical Electronics, Tokyo Institute of Technology 2-12-1-S3-27, Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 152-8552, Japan Tel & Fax: +81-3-5734-3764 Emai