Proceedings of the 36th European Microwave Conference Steerable Composite Right/Left-Handed Leaky Wave Antenna for Automotive Radar Applications Shin-ichiro Matsuzawa, Kazuo Sato, Yoshinori Inoe and Tsuyoshi Nomura Toyota Central Research and Development Laboratories, Inc. Nagakute, Aichi, 480-1192, JAPAN Tel: +81-561-63-4698, Fax: +81-561-63-6507, Email: matsuzawa-mosk.tytlabs.co.jp Abstract --

Proceedings of the 36th European Microwave Conference In-Plane Electrostatically-Actuated RF MEMS Switch Suspended on a Low-Resistivity Substrate David Girbau1, Lluís Pradell1, Antonio Lázaro2, Àlvar Nebot1 Signal Theory and Communications Department, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 08034 Barcelona, Spain. Phone: +34-93-401.68.34; pradell-tsc.upc.edu 2Electronics, Electrical and Automatics

Proceedings of the 36th European Microwave Conference A Small Monopole Antenna with Novel Impedance Matching Structure Dong-Jin Kim*, Young-Min Moon**, Se-Hyun Park**, Young-Eil Kim**, and Kyeong-Sik Min* *Department of Radio Sciences and Engineering, College of Sciences and Engineering, Korea Maritime University, #1 Dongsam-Dong, Youngdo-Ku, Busan, 606-791, Korea E-mail : djkim-bada.hhu.ac.kr, k

Proceedings of the 36th European Microwave Conference Wideband VGAs Using a CMOS Transconductor in Triode region Hui Dong Lee, Kyung Ai Lee, and Songcheol Hong Dept. EECS, KAIST 373-1, Guseong-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 305-701, Republic of Korea Abstract -- Wideband variable gain amplifiers (VGAs) fabricated using 0.18 m CMOS process are presented. A scheme with a CMOS triode transconductor is p

Proceedings of the 36th European Microwave Conference Compact Dual-Band Antenna Using an Anisotropic Metamaterial Cheng-Jung Lee, Kevin M. K. H. Leong, and Tatsuo Itoh University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Electrical Engineering 405 Hilgard Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA Abstract -- This paper presents a resonant type dual-band antenna with compact size which is realized by using

Proceedings of the 36th European Microwave Conference Contactless Dielectric Charging Mechanisms in RF-MEMS Capacitive Switches G. J. Papaioannou1, G. Wang2, D. Bessas1 and J. Papapolymerou2 1 University of Athens, Physics Dpt., Solid State Physics Section, Panepistimiopolis Zografos, Athens 15784, Greece, tel.+30 2107276817, fax. +30 2107276711 2 School of ECE, Georgia Institute of Technology,

Proceedings of the 36th European Microwave Conference Non Linear Bandstop Filters A New Method of Frequency Selective Limiting Padisan Phudpong and Ian C. Hunter Institute of Microwaves and Photonics, School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK Abstract -- The use of bandstop resonators incorporating non-linear components is presented. The non-linear r

Proceedings of the 36th European Microwave Conference Design, Simulation, and Fabrication of an On-Chip Antenna Fabricated Using Silicon Micromachining for Broad-Band Millimeter-Wave Wireless Communications Hojr Sedaghat-Pisheh1, 2, Mahmoud Shahabadi2, and Shamsodin Mohajerzadeh1 Thin Film Lab and 2Photonics Research Lab, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Camp

Proceedings of the 36th European Microwave Conference Low Cost DC to 6 GHz Electronic Step Attenuator SMT MCMs with Gate Lag Elimination By Use of High Intensity LEDs Dean Nicholson Agilent Technologies, Santa Rosa, California, 95403, USA Abstract -- Output step attenuators for microwave test instrumentation are continually being pushed to perform faster, more reliably, with lower loss and less d

Proceedings of the 36th European Microwave Conference Single-chip RF Front-end with T/R Switch on Standard Silicon Technology for 5-GHz WLANs D. Zito and B. Neri Radio-Frequency & Microwave Integrated Circuits Laboratory, Dipartimento di Ingnegneria dell'Informazione (DIIEIT), University of Pisa, Pisa, I-56122, Italy Abstract -- A fully integrated RF front-end on standard silicon technology for 5