Proceedings of the 3rd European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference A rigorous assessment of electro-thermal device instabilities via Harmonic Balance modeling Federica Cappelluti1 , Fabio L. Traversa 2, Fabrizio Bonani3 Dipartimento di Elettronica, Politecnico di Torino Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, I-10129 Torino, Italy 1 federica.cappelluti-polito.it 2 fabio.traversa-polito.it 3 fabrizio.

Proceedings of the 3rd European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference Large-Signal Performance of Resonant Tunnelling Diodes in K-Band Oscillators B. Münstermann, A. Matiss*, W. Brockerhoff and F.-J. Tegude Solid-State Electronics Department, University of Duisburg-Essen Lotharstrasse 55, 47057 Duisburg, Germany *now at u2t photonics, Reuchlinstrasse 10/11, 10553, Berlin benjamin.muenstermann-

Proceedings of the 3rd European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference Impact of Diode Geometry on Local Oscillator Breakthrough in Sub-Harmonic Mixers Venkata Gutta #1 , Anthony Fattorini 2 , Anthony E. Parker #3 , James T. Harvey 4 # Department of Electronic Engineering, Macquarie University Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia 1 vgutta-ieee.org, 3 tonyp-ieee.org 2 Mimix Broadband Inc. 10795 Ro

Proceedings of the 3rd European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference Monolithic MEMS T-type Switch for Redundancy Switch Matrix Applications King Yuk (Eric) Chan#*, Mojgan Daneshmand*, Arash A. Fomani*, Raafat R. Mansour*, Rodica Ramer# # School of Electrical and Telecommunications Engineering, University of New South Wales UNSW Sydney NSW 2052 Australia z3025962-student.unsw.edu.au ror-unsw

Proceedings of the 3rd European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference Vertical RF Transition with Mechanical Fit for Three-Dimensional Heterogeneous Integration Lihan Chen 1 , Joe Wood2 , Sanjay Raman3 , N. Scott Barker 1 4 Charles L. Brown Dept. of ECE, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA lc4kh-virginia.edu, 2 4 barker-virginia.edu sraman-vt.edu Bradley Department of

Proceedings of the 3rd European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference DC-Contact RF MEMS Switches using Thin-Film Cantilevers Hui Shen, Songbin Gong, N. Scott Barker Charles L. Brown Dept. of ECE, University of Virginia 351 McCormick Rd. Charlottesville, VA, USA · 22904-4743 shenhui-virginia.edu songbin-virginia.edu Barker-virginia.edu Abstract--This paper describes the development of DC-cont

Proceedings of the 3rd European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference A 75 ­ 95 GHz Wideband CMOS Power Amplifier Byron Wicks#1, Efstratios Skafidas#2, Rob Evans#3 # National ICT Australia, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia 2 bnw-ee.unimelb.edu.au s.skafidas-ee.unimelb.edu.au 3 r.evans-ee.unimelb.edu.au 1 Abstr

Proceedings of the 3rd European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference X- and K-band Tunable Phase Generation Circuits for Monolithic mm-Wave Phased Arrays Corrado Carta 1 , Munkyo Seo, Upamanyu Madhow and Mark Rodwell Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of California at Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9560, USA 1 corrado.carta-ieee.org IFi IFq Q 7 RF1,1 RF1,2 RF1,k Abstract-

Proceedings of the 3rd European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference Performance Analysis of Balanced and Unbalanced Feed-Forward Equalizer Structures for Multi-Gigabit Applications in 0.18µm CMOS Process H. S. Kim1, D. Bhatta, K. H. Lee , C. Scholz, E. Gebara, and J. Laskar Georgia Electronic Design Center (GEDC), School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

Proceedings of the 3rd European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference Miniaturized Multilayer CPW pHEMT Amplifiers Q. Sun#1, V. T. Vo*1, J. Tan #2, R. A. Davies *2, A. A. Rezazadeh#3 # The Electromagnetics Research Centre, School of Electrical and Electronics, The University of Manchester, Sackville Street, P.O. Box 88, Manchester, M60 1QD, United Kingdom q.sun-postgrad.manchester.ac.uk Filt