Proceedings of the 1st European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference A New Harmonic Noise Frequency Filtering VCO and Mixer Co-design Jae-Ho Yoon and Nam-Young Kim RFIC Research and Education Center, Kwangwoon University 447-1 Wolgye-dong, Nowon-ku, Seoul 139-701, Korea Abstract -- An asymmetrical inductance tank (AIT) structure provides high quality factor in tank and harmonic noise frequenc

Proceedings of the 1st European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference Linear, Noise and Nonlinear HF Models for Advanced CMOS Technology F. Danneville1, G. Pailloncy2, A. Siligaris3, D. Gloria4, G. Dambrine1 1 2 IEMN CNRS UMR 8520, Avenue Poincaré, BP 69, 59652 Villeneuve d'ASCQ, France EMIC, Microwave Laboratory, Bât. Maxwell, 3 Place du Levant, B 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium 3 CEA-LETI/D

Proceedings of the 1st European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference RF and Noise Performance of Multiple-Gate SOI MOSFETs A.Lazaro, B.Iñiguez Dept. of Electronics, Electrics, and Automatic Engineering, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 43007Tarragona, Spain. Fax. 34-977559606 Phone. 34-977558668 e-mail: antonioramon.lazaro-urv.net Abstract -- We present a new model for Single-gate (SG) SOI, cyli

Proceedings of the 1st European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference A Fully Integrated 5-6 GHz CMOS Variable-Gain LNA Using Helix-stacked Inductors Chieh-Min Lo, Shih-Fong Chao, Chia-Chi Chang, and Huei Wang Department of Electrical Engineering and Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan Abstract-- This paper presents the design and imp

Proceedings of the 1st European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference An 8x8 Switch Matrix MMIC Integrating Eight InP-HEMT SP8T Switches for 10-Gbit/s Systems Hideki Kamitsuna, Yasuro Yamane, Masami Tokumitsu, Hirohiko Sugahara, and Takatomo Enoki NTT Photonics Laboratories, NTT Corporation 3-1 Morinosato Wakamiya, Atsugi-shi, Kanagawa 243-0198, Japan Abstract -- An 8x8 switch matrix MMIC usin

Proceedings of the 1st European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference GaN HEMT Performance ­ Measurements and Simulations of a 3.6 mm Device from Cree Asher Madjar 1 , Zygmond Turski2, Yifei Li2 1 ECE Department, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, e-mail: amadjar-temple.edu 2 F&H Applied Science Associates, Mt. Laurel, NJ 08054 characterization and evaluation of a CREE pre-production

Proceedings of the 1st European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference CAD Techniques for 183GHz Fixed Tuned SubHarmonic Mixer Using Foundry Diodes Steve Marsh, Byron Alderman1, Dave Matheson1 and Peter de Maagt2 MIDAS Consulting, Northampton, UK, email:steve.marsh-ieee.org 1 The Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL), UK 2 European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), The Netherlands

Proceedings of the 1st European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference Capabilities of a 10 GHz MEMS based VCO A. Coustou, D. Dubuc, K. Grenier, E. Fourn, O. Llopis, & R. Plana LAAS-CNRS, Université de Toulouse, 7 Av du Colonel Roche 31077 Toulouse, France, +33 561336956 e-mail: acoustou-laas.fr Abstract--This paper report on the investigation of a MEMS based Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO)

Proceedings of the 1st European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference RF-Power Amplifier Modeling and Predistortion Based on a Modular Approach P. L. Gilabert1, D. D. Silveira2, G. Montoro1 and G. Magerl2 1 Department of Signal Theory and Communications, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) Av/ Canal Olímpic s/n, 08860 ­ Barcelona - Email: plgilabert-tsc.up.edu ­ Spain. 2 Institute of

Proceedings of the 1st European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference A Frequency Domain Extraction Procedure of Low-Pass Equivalent Behavioural Models of Microwave PAs Claudio Siviero1 , Pedro Miguel Lavrador2 , Jos´ Carlos Pedro2 e di Torino, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino, Italy, Phone: +390115644168, E-Mail: claudio.siviero-polito.it 2 Universidade d