Thermal Analysis of RF-MEMS Switches for Power Handling Front-end F. Coccetti, B. Ducarouge, E. Scheid, D. Dubuc, K. Grenier, and R.Plana LAAS-CNRS, 7. Avenue du Colonel Roche, 31077 Toulouse Cedex 4, France Abstract -- An experimental setup for the characterization of electromagnetic induced heat on MEMS devices undertaking high RF power regime (> 5W) is here proposed. The technique is based on

Reconfigurable Mixed-Signal Single-Chip Transmitter for Multistandard-Terminals Georg Strasser1 , Gernot Hueber2 , Linus Maurer3 , Thomas Bauernfeind2 , Simon Martin4 , and Andreas Springer1 1 LCM GmbH, Altenbergerstrasse 69, 4040 Linz, Austria, 0043/70/757 868-170, georg.strasser-lcm.at 2 Research Institute for Integrated Circuits (RIIC), University of Linz, Austria 3 Dice - Danube Integrated Ci

A New 40 GHz Analog Phase Shifter Using Phase-Locked Loops Tae-Gyu Kim, Dong-Sik Woo, Chang-Won Lee, Kang Wook Kim School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Kyungpook National University, Sangyeok-dong, Buk-gu, Daegu, 702-701, Korea, E-mail : kang_kim-ee.knu.ac.kr Abstract -- A new analog phase shifter at 40 GHz using phase-locked loops have been successfully designed and implemented

Analysis of Cylindrical Geometries in Rectangular Waveguides Using Mode Matching Sergio Llorente-Romano1 , Benito Gimeno2 , Magdalena Salazar-Palma3 Universidad Polit´ cnica de Madrid, Dep. Se~ ales, Sistemas y Radiocomunicaciones, e n Ciudad Universitaria, 28032 Madrid, Spain, +34 913367358, llorente-ieee.org 2 Universidad de Valencia, Departmento de F´sica Aplicada i c/ Dr. Moliner 50, 46100 Val

An Eight Pole Self-Equalised Quasi-Elliptic Superconductor Planar Filter For Satellite Applications J-F Seaux1, S. Courreges1, S. Bila1, V. Madrangeas1, M. Maignan2, C. Zanchi3 1 IRCOM ­ UMR CNRS n°6615, University of LIMOGES, 123 Av Albert Thomas, 87060 Limoges Cedex ­ France 2 ALCATEL SPACE ­ 26 Av Champollion ­ 31037 Toulouse Cedex ­ France 3 CNES ­ 18 Av Edouard Belin ­ 31055 Toulouse - Franc

Perfect Isolation in Microwave Dual Channel Measurement Systems Using an Optical Fiber Assembly Anton Widarta, Hitoshi Iida, Tomoteru Kawakami and Koji Komiyama National Metrology Institute of Japan (NMIJ/AIST) AIST Central 3, 1-1-1 Umezono, Tsukuba 305-8563, Japan, Phone: +81-29-861-5598 optical fiber assembly by modulated the light source directly. Sufficient isolation figure for precision measu

Design of a Dielectric-Based Tunable Waveguide Backshort Ville S. Möttönen, Antti V. Räisänen MilliLab, Radio Laboratory/SMARAD, Helsinki University of Technology, P.O. Box 3000, FI-02015 TKK, Finland, Phone: +358-9-4512256, E-mail: Ville.Mottonen-tkk.fi Abstract -- This paper describes a dielectric-based tunable waveguide backshort and precision tuning mechanism for it. It also gives measured and

An improved coupling method for time domain Load-Pull measurements Fabien De Groote1, Jan Verspecht2, Denis Barataud1, Jean-Pierre Teyssier1 1 University of Limoges, IRCOM, CNRS, 7 rue Jules Vallès, 19100 Brive, France, +33 5 55 86 73 24 2 Jan Verspecht bvba, Gertrudeveld 15, 1840 Steenhuffel, Belgium, +32(0)479 855 939 The second approach is shown on Fig. 7. After the DUT and the probe, RF pa th

Novel Tunable High Q Filter Design for Branching Networks with Extreme Narrowband Channels at mmWave Frequencies Uwe Rosenberg and Michael Knipp Marconi Communications GmbH, Microwave Technology Centre, Gerberstr. 33, D-71520 Backnang, Germany, Phone +49 7191 132744 bands from 3.4 to 40GHz, the relative bandwidth changes by one order of magnitude, i.e., from 0.8% at 3.4GHz to 0.07% at 40GHz for th

Application of the Arnoldi Method in FDFD Analysis of Periodic Guided-Wave Structure Feng Xu, Ke Wu Poly-Grames Research Center, Department of Electrical Engineering Ecole Polytechnique, C. P. 6079, Succ. Centre-Ville, Montreal, Canada H3C 3A7, 1-514-340-4711 Abstract -- This paper shows how to apply the Arnoldi method in accelerating the calculation of standard matrix eigenvalue problem with a hi