EuMW 2001. Inauguration & Keynote Address Fifty Years of Microwaves ­ A Personal View Peter Clarricoats (Emeritus Professor at Queen Mary, University of London and Chairman of the Technology Advisory Board of Filtronic plc.) The lecture begins with a review of the systems that have driven microwave technology over the last fifty years before examining some of the important developments in that te

OPTIMIZATION OF SPIRAL INDUCTOR ON SILICON Arokiaswami Alphones *, Wong Kai Yee ¶ * School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering , Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798 ealphones-ntu.edu.sg ¶ Department of ECE, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117576 ABSTRACT A simulation program is developed based on Grover's formulas and Greenhouse method to calculate the inductance valu

Fully Monolithically Integrated Wide-Band RF-Source A. Megej, K. Beilenhoff£ , C. Sydlo, and H. L. Hartnagel Institut für Hochfrequenztechnik, Technische Universität Darmstadt Merckstr. 25, D-64283 Darmstadt, Germany. Tel.: +49 6151 16 3262; Fax: +49 6151 16 4367; E-mail: megej-ieee.org £Now with United Monolithic Semiconductors (UMS), Route Departementale 128 - BP 46, 91401 Orsay Cedex, France. E

FAST METHOD TO INCLUDE PARASITIC COUPLING IN PLANAR MICROWAVE CIRCUITS CALCULATIONS B. L. A. Van Thielen 1 and G.A. E. Vandenbosch.1 1 vthielen-esat.kuleuven.ac.be and vdbosch-esat.kuleuven.ac.be ESAT/TELEMIC Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Kasteelpark 10, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium ABSTRACT As modern circuits become smaller and the frequencies that they work at become higher, inevitably, parasitic

THE SIMPLEST NOTCH AND BANDSTOP FILTERS BASED ON THE SLOTTED STRIPS A. Kirilenko *, L. Mospan * Institute of Radiophysics and Electronics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine 12, Ac. Proskury Str., 61085, Kharkov, Ukraine phone: 380 572 448518, fax: 380 572 441105, 380 572 124829, E-mail kirilenko-ire.kharkov.ua Institute of Radiophysics and Electronics of the National Academy of Scie

Hybrid Dyadic - MPIE Integral Equation Analysis of Passive Microwave Devices in Layered Media Mark Vrancken, Guy A. E. Vandenbosch Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Department of Electrical Engineering Division ESAT-TELEMIC Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 B-3001 Heverlee (Leuven), BELGIUM phone +32/(0)16/321820 fax +32/(0)16/321986 Mark.Vrancken-esat.kuleuven.ac.be abstract Integral equation modeling of elec

Frequency Dependence of HEMT Under Optical Illumination Huang Yajian* Arokiaswami Alphones, Senior Member IEEE *Department of Electrical Engineering School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering National University of Singapore Nanyang Technological University Singapore, 639798 Singapore, 119260 Abstract-- An analysis of the AC characteristics of AlGaAs/GaAs HEMT under illumination with modulate

THERMAL RESISTANCE EXTRACTION OF POWER TRANSISTORS USING ELECTRIC FIELD SIMULATION Yu Zhu, Qian Cai, and Jason Gerber Ansoft Corp., Elmwood Park, NJ 07407, USA, E-mail: yzhu-comsoft.com ABSTRACT The use of electric field simulation to extract thermal resistance of power transistor for circuit analysis is described. Compared with conventional techniques based on thermal field simulation, our appro

Mode transformer for hard-surface waveguides T. Uusitupa, A. Viitanen Electromagnetics Laboratory Department of Electrical and Communications Engineering Helsinki University of Technology, P.O. Box 3000, FIN-02015 HUT, Finland e-mail: tero.uusitupa-hut.fi, ari.viitanen-hut.fi Abstract Mode transformation effect inside a corrugated circular waveguide filled with gyrotropic material, e.g., magnetopl

High Dynamic-Range and Very Low Noise K-Band p-HEMT LNA MMIC for LMDS and Satellite Communication M. Hirata*, Y. Mimino, Y. Hasegawa and J. Fukaya Fujitsu Quantum Devices Ltd. Kokubo-Kogyo-Danchi, Showa, Nakakoma, Yamanashi 409-3883, JAPAN *Fujitsu Compound Semiconductor, Inc. 2355 Zanker Road, San Jose, CA 95131, USA, MHirata-fcsi.fujitsu.com Abstract An excellent noise figure and high linearit