Proceedings of the 40th European Microwave Conference Design of Fixed- and Varactor-Tuned Bandstop Filters with Spurious Suppression Andrew C. Guyette Microwave Technology Branch, Naval Research Laboratory Washington, DC, 20375, USA andrew.guyette-nrl.navy.mil Abstract-- A new spurious suppression method for bandstop filters based on constructive interference is presented. The technique is succes

Proceedings of the 40th European Microwave Conference Biased K-Band LTCC Star Mixer with Substrate-Embedded Dielectrics Torben Baras #1 , Johannes M¨ ller 2 , and Arne F. Jacob 2 u now with: EADS Deutschland GmbH, Defence Electronics W¨ rthstrasse 85, 89077 Ulm, Germany, Phone: +49 731 392 4965 o 1 # torben.baras-eads.com Institut f¨ r Hochfrequenztechnik - Tech. Univ. Hamburg-Harburg u Denick

Proceedings of the 40th European Microwave Conference A Simplified Method for Measuring Complex S-Parameters Dedicated to Synthetic Instrumentation Marcus Schramm #1 , Michael Hrobak # , Jan Sch¨ r # , Lorenz-Peter Schmidt # , Armin Lechner 2 u # Chair for Microwave Engineering and High Frequency Technology (LHFT), University Erlangen-Nuremberg Cauerstr. 9, 91058 Erlangen, Germany 1 marcus-lhft

Proceedings of the 40th European Microwave Conference Packaged Hybrid Si-IPDTM Antenna for 60 GHz Applications C. Calvez#1, C. Person#, JP. Coupez#, F. Gallée#, F. Gianesello*, D. Gloria*, D. Belot*, H. Ezzeddine$ # Lab-STICC UMR CNRS 3192 - Telecom Bretagne / Microwave Department Technopôle Brest-Iroise - CS 83818 - 29238 Brest Cedex 3 ­ France 1 christophe.calvez-telecom-bretagne.eu STMicroe

Proceedings of the 40th European Microwave Conference Simplified Analytic Model for Improved Field Calculation inside the Coaxial Gyrotron Cavity Gennadiy I. Zaginaylov #1, Stefan Kern*2 National Science Center "Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology", Science & Production Establishment "Renewable Energy Sources and Sustainable Technologies", 1Akademicheskaya St., Kharkov, 61108, Ukraine 1

Proceedings of the 40th European Microwave Conference A Millimeter-wave Transition from Microstrip to Waveguide Using A Differential Microstrip Antenna Ziqiang Tong#1, Andreas Stelzer#,*2 # * Institute for Communications Engineering and RF-Systems, J. K. University, Austria Christian Doppler Laboratory for Integrated Radar Sensors, J. K. University, Austria 1,2 {z.tong, a.stelzer}-nthfs.jku.at

Proceedings of the 40th European Microwave Conference Evidence of Successive Fowler-Nordheim and Frenkel-Poole Conductions in Si3N4 Based RF-MEMS Capacitive Switches David Mardivirin#1, Stanis Courrèges#, Aurelian Crunteanu#, Arnaud Pothier#, Pierre Blondy#, Fabio Coccetti* and Robert Plana*. # XLIM UMR 6172 - Université de Limoges/CNRS - 123 Avenue Albert Thomas - 87060 LIMOGES Cedex - FRANCE C

Proceedings of the 40th European Microwave Conference Two Layer Slot-Antenna Array in SIW Technology D.V. Navarro-Méndez*, L.F. Carrera-Suárez*, M. Baquero-Escudero+, V.M. Rodrigo-Peñarrocha+ * DETRI, Escuela Politécnica Nacional Quito, Ecuador dnavarro-mailfie.epn.edu.ec fcarrera-mailfie.epn.edu.ec + ITEAM, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia Valencia 46022, Spain mbaquero-dcom.upv.es Abstra

Proceedings of the 40th European Microwave Conference Second and third harmonic suppression in parallel coupled line filter using sliding coupling Ana Afkhami#1, Gholamreza Askari#2, Atefeh kordzadeh*3, Hamid Mirmohammad Sadeghi#4 # Information and communication technology institute (ICTI), Isfahan university of technology (IUT), 84156, Isfahn, Iran Afkhami-icti.ir Askarigh-cc.iut.ac.ir 4 sadegi

Proceedings of the 40th European Microwave Conference Enhanced Linearity and Efficiency of HBT MMIC Power Amplifiers for WCDMA Applications # Zeji Gu# and Shuyun Zhang* 16 Fairland Street, Lexington, MA 02421 USA guzeji-yahoo.com * Linear Products, Analog Devices, Wilmington, MA 01801 Shuyun.Zhang-analog.com Abstract-- A novel linearizer based on a bias boosting technique is proposed, which i