Proceedings of the 40th European Microwave Conference Performances of Different Load Tolerant External Matching Units for the FAST-ICRH System Gian Luca Ravera #1, Riccardo Maggiora*2, Francesco Mirizzi #3, Angelo A. Tuccillo#4 # Associazione EURATOM-ENEA sulla Fusione. C.R. ENEA-Frascati POBox 65, 00044 Frascati (Rome) - Italy phone: +39 069400 5117 ­ fax +39 069400 5735 ravera-frascati.enea.it

Proceedings of the 40th European Microwave Conference A Broadband 3D Vertical Microstrip to Stripline Transition in LTCC using a Quasi-Coaxial Structure for Millimetre-Wave SOP Applications Rony E. Amaya #1, Ming Li #2, Khelifa Hettak #3 and Cornelius J. Verver#4 # Terrestrial Wireless Research Branch, Communications Research Centre Ottawa, Canada K2H 8S2 rony.amaya-crc.gc.ca 2 ming.li-crc.gc.ca

Proceedings of the 40th European Microwave Conference Evaluation of Antenna Types for RF Breast Cancer Imaging using 2-Layer Planar Tissue Model Giuseppe Ruvio#1, Raffaele Solimene*2, Max J. Ammann #3 # Antenna & High Frequency Research Centre, Dublin Institute of Technology Kevin Street, Dublin 8, Ireland 1 giuseppe.ruvio-dit.it 3 max.ammann-dit.it * Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informaz

Proceedings of the 40th European Microwave Conference A Novel Feeding System for the Design of Ultrawideband Miniaturized Microstrip Patch Antennas Homayoon Oraizi and Mehdi Hamidkhani Department of Electrical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology Narmak, Tehran,16846-13114, Iran h_oraizi-iust.ac.ir mhamidkhani-ee.iust.ac.ir Abstract-- In this paper, a novel feeding system as an

Proceedings of the 40th European Microwave Conference High loss liquids permittivity measurement using millimeter wave differential dielectrometer Zoya Eremenko, Valery Skresanov Institute for Radiophysics and Electronics National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Akademika Proscura Str.12, 61085, Kharkov, Ukraine zoya.eremenko-gmail.com Abstract-- The propagation of an electromagnetic wave in a di

Proceedings of the 40th European Microwave Conference Simulation and Measurement of Back Side Etched Inductors Falk Korndörfer#1, Mehmet Kaynak#2, Volker Mühlhaus*3 Innovations for High Performance Microelectronics Im Technologiepark 25, 15236 Frankfurt (Oder), Germany 1 # korndoerfer-ihp-microelectronics.com 2 kaynak-ihp-microelectronics.com * Dr. Mühlhaus Consulting & Software GmbH Drosselwe

Proceedings of the 40th European Microwave Conference Impact of the Electrodes on the Tunability of Paraelectric BST Film Based FBARs S. Gevorgian 1 and A. Vorobiev 2 Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden {1 spartak.gevorgian, 2 andrei.vorobiev}-chalmers.se Abstract ­ It is shown that tunability of the paraelectric film based FBARs

Proceedings of the 40th European Microwave Conference A High Resolution 2D Omnidirectional Synthetic Aperture Radar Scanner at K Band Faiza Ali, Alexander Urban, Martin Vossiek Institute of Electrical Information Technology, Clausthal University of Technology D-38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany {ali,urban,vossiek}-iei.tu-clausthal.de Abstract-- In this paper a K-band 360° 2D imaging radar util

Proceedings of the 40th European Microwave Conference Multi-layer Multi-permittivity Dielectric Resonator: A New Approach for Improved Spurious free window Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary1, Vishwa V. Mishra2, Kumar Vaibhav Srivastava3, Animesh Biswas4 Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, INDIA-208016 {1 raghav, 2 vvmishra, 3 kvs, 4 abiswas}-iitk.ac.in Abstract--

Proceedings of the 40th European Microwave Conference A Voltage-Mode Class-S Power Amplifier for the 450MHz Band Andreas Wentzel 1, Chafik Meliani, Wolfgang Heinrich Ferdinand-Braun-Institut (FBH), 12489 Berlin / Germany 1 andreas.wentzel-fbh-berlin.de Abstract -- This paper reports on a novel voltage-mode class-S power amplifier for the 450 MHz band, based on GaN-HEMT MMICs. It achieves a peak