Proceedings of the 4th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference Wafer Scale Package Construction and Usage for RF through Millimeter Wave Applications Henrik Morkner AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES INC. Wireless Semiconductor Division, 350 W. Trimble Rd., San Jose, CA, USA henrik.morkner-avagotech.com Abstract -- WSP (Wafer Scale Packaging) has come on the market for commercial applications in 2008.

Proceedings of the 4th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference S-Band Radar LDMOS Transistors S.J.C.H. Theeuwen, H. Mollee NXP Semiconductors, Gerstweg 2, 6534 AE, Nijmegen, The Netherlands steven.theeuwen-nxp.com, hans.mollee-nxp.com Abstract -- LDMOS transistors have become the device choice for microwave applications. An overview is given of the LDMOS technology improvements at 3.6 G

Proceedings of the 4th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference Equivalent Circuit Design of Compacted K-band Bandpass Filters by Standard 0.18-m CMOS Technology Shuiyang Lin#1, Xiaowei Sun#2, Lingyun Li#, Wei Wang# and Liwu Yang* # RF Lab, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Shanghai, 200050, China. 1 shuiyang.lin-shrcwc.org 2 xwsu

Proceedings of the 4th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference A New Approach for Nonlinear Metric Estimation of Limit Cycle Amplifiers F. Arfaei Malekzadeh, R. Mahmoudi, A.H.M. van Roermund Mixed Signal Microelectronics Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, 5600 MB, The Netherlands distortions are the most important factors to be co

Proceedings of the 4th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference Physics-Based Simulation of Field-Plate Effects on Substrate- and Surface-Related Current Slump in GaAs FETs T. Tanaka, K. Itagaki, A. Nakajima and K. Horio* Faculty of Systems Engineering, Shibaura Institute of Technology 307 Fukasaku, Minuma-ku, Saitama 337-8570, Japan * horio-sic.shibaura-it.ac.jp Abstract-- Two-dimensi

Proceedings of the 4th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference Anisotropic Effects in Circular Photonic Crystals Alessandro Massaro#1, Roberto Cingolani#, Massimo De Vittorio#, Adriana Passaseo#* # National Nanotechnology Laboratory of CNR-INFM, Distretto Tecnologico-ISUFI, Via Arnesano,73100 Lecce- Italy. 1 alessandro.massaro-unile.it * Permanent address: IMM-CNR sezione Lecce, Uni

Proceedings of the 4th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference A 10 Gb/s Coherent Detection System with Feed-Forward Equalizers for Optical Duobinary Transmission Kil-Hoon Lee, Debesh Bhatta, Hyoungsoo Kim, Edward Gebara, Joy Laskar Georgia Electronic Design Center, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30308, USA klee-gatech.edu, deb

Proceedings of the 39th European Microwave Conference The Com Side of Things Peter Olanders Ericsson AB S-164 80, Stockholm Sweden peter.olanders-ericsson.com Abstract--Wireless telecommunication continues to grow, in number as well in features and data rate. Here some of the major challenges are mentioned, with a focus on radio and microwave aspects. One of the most important requirements is cos

Proceedings of the 39th European Microwave Conference 40 Years of EuMC and Beyond Roberto Sorrentino#1, Thomas J. Brazil*2 # Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, University of Perugia, Via G. Duranti 93, 06125, Perugia 1 sorrentino-diei.unipg.it * Electronic Engineering, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland 2 tom.brazil-ucd.ie Abstract-- This paper presents a short

Proceedings of the 39th European Microwave Conference Some Observations on the Development of the European Microwave Association Andrew F. Wilson European Microwave Association, Place du Levant 3, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium The Institution of Engineering and Technology, Savoy Place, London WC2R 0BL, United Kingdom afwilson-theiet.org Abstract-- The Honorary Secretary of the European Microwa