3D ACTIVE MODULES FOR HIGH INTEGRATION ACTIVE ANTENNAS Patrice ULIAN, Philippe MONFRAIX, Sebastien GEORGE, Christian TRONCHE, Claude DREVON, Jean-Louis CAZAUX. ALCATEL SPACE, 26 avenue J-F Champollion, 31037 TOULOUSE, FRANCE ABSTRACT This paper describes the different parts of active antenna sub-systems currently developed in Alcatel Espace. These modules are realized according to some new 3D R

EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION AND CAD INVESTIGATION OF CLASS B HFET TRANSISTOR OPERATION AT MICROWAVE FREQUENCIES M.C. Curnis-Francos, P.I. Tasker#, M. Femandez-Barciela, S.S. O'Keefe#, Y. Campos-Roca, E. Sanchez, G.D. Edwards*, W.A. Phillips* Universidad de Vigo, ETSI Telecomunicaci6n, Campus Universitario, 36207, Vigo, Spain # Univ. of Wales Cardiff, Cardiff School of Engineering, P.O. Box 689, Car

COMPENSATING DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MEASUREMENT AND CALIBATION WAFER IN PROBE TIP CALIBRATIONS DEEMBEDDING OF LINE PARAMETERS G. Carchon*, D. Schreurs*, S. Vandenberghe*, B. Nauwelaers* and W. De Raedt+ K.U.Leuven, div. ESAT-TELEMIC, Kard. Mercierlaan 94, B-3001 Heverlee, Belgium * + IMEC, div. MAP, Kapeldreef75, B-3001 Heverlee,Belgium Tel. +32-(0)16-321875, Fax. +32-(0)16-321986, E-mail: geert.ca

Error-Term Computation for the 15-Term Error-Model preserving Measurement Dynamic A. Gronefeld, B. Schiek Institut fUrHochfrequenztechnik, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum UniversitatsstraBe 150, 44780 Bochum, Gennany Abstract Calibration of vector network analyzers (VNAs) according to the cross-talk including 15-term errormodel suffers from a significant reduction in measurement dynamic, if no cross-tal

Ka BAND TEST FIXTURE WITH DC BIAS CIRCUIT FOR ACTIVE DEVICE CHARACTERIZATION M. Le Goff, D. Bourreau, A. Peden LEST/ENSTB - UMR CNRS 6616 - BP 832 - 29285 Brest Cedex - France Alain.Peden-enst-bretagne.fr ABSTRACT This paper presents the S parameter measurements of PHEMT chip transistors in the Ka band. The transistor is mounted on an alumina substrate on which the DC bias circuit is included usi

THE COMPLETE AND ACCURATE DETERMINATION OF TWO-PORT NOISE PARAMETERS WITHOUT SEPERATE MEASUREMENTS OF THE TWO-PORT INPUT IMPEDANCE Arbeitsgruppe Reinhard Stolle & Burkhard Schiek HF-MeBtechnik, UniversitatsstraBe 150, Gebaude IC 6, D-44780 Bochum, Germany rest-hf.ruhr-uni-bochum.de ABSTRACT Improvements in the determination of the 4 real parameters Fmin, Rn, Gopt, Bopt which completely describe t

A NOVEL MICROS TRIP TO COPLANAR WAVEGUIDE TRANSITION FOR FLIP-CHIP INTERCONNECTION USING ELECTROMAGNETIC COUPLING Juno Kim and Tatsuo Itoh Department of Electrical Engineering University of California, Los Angeles 405 Hilgard Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA Phone: (310) 206-4820, Fax: (310) 206-4819, e-mail) titoh-ucla.edu ABSTRACT A novel compact microstrip to coplanar waveguide (CPW) transitio

NEW GAINP/GAAS-HBT LARGE-SIGNAL APPLICATIONS MODEL FOR POWER M. Rudolph, R. Doerner, P. Heymann Ferdinand-Braun-Institut fUrHochstfrequenztechnik, Rudower Chaussee 5, D-12489 Berlin Phone: +49 30 6392 2644, Fax: +49 30 6392 2642, e-mail: rudolph-fbh-berlin.de ABSTRACT A new GaInP/GaAs HBT model for power applications is presented. It is based on the GUMMEL-POON model. Additionally, it accounts

A NEW HIGHLY LINEAR MMIC SINGLE SIDE-BAND CONVERTER FOR DIGITAL RADIO LINKS F. Rasa, M. Pagani, B. Gabbrielli ALCATEL 1ELECOM Viale Provinciale per Monza, 33 - 20049 Concorezzo (MI) Italy ABSTRACT . This paper describes the design of a very compact Monolithic Single Side-band (SSB) Mixer for Digital Radio Links. The mixer can be used in transmitters as an SSB up-converter over the 5.6+8.5 GHz r

A COMPACT COPLANAR MMIC MIXER FOR 2.4 GHz TRANSPONDER SYSTEMS R. Tempel, W. Liitke, and I. Wolff, FELLOWIEEE Institut fur Mobil- und Satellitenfunktechnik Carl-Friedrich-GauB-Str. 2, D-47475 Kamp-Lintfort, FRG Phone: +49-2842-981-222 Fax: +49-2842-981-299 email: tempel-imst.de ABSTRACT A compact coplanar passive MMIC mixer has been developed, realized and tested successfully as a cost effective p