Proceedings of the 16th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference Statistical Modeling of GaN HEMTs by Direct Transfer of Variations to Model Parameters Petros Beleniotis1, Serguei Chevtchenko2, Matthias Rudolph1,2 1 Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU), Ulrich L. Rohde Chair of RF and Microwave Techniques, Germany 2 Ferdinand-Braun-Institut gGmbH, Leibniz-Insti

Proceedings of the 16th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference A DC to 20 GHz Variable Gain Amplifier with Tunable Input Matching in 22 nm FDSOI Technology Seyyedmohsen Seyyedrezaei1 , Manu Viswambharan Thayyil, Corrado Carta, Frank Ellinger Chair for Circuit Design and Network Theory, Technische Universit¨at Dresden, Germany 1 seyyedmohsen.seyyedrezaei-tu-dresden.de VDD Abstract ? Th

Proceedings of the 16th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference Implementation of Slow-Wave Thin-Film Microstrip Transmission Lines in a 35nm InGaAs Technology Athanasios Gatzastras#1 , Hermann Massler* , Arnulf Leuther* , S´ebastien Chartier* , Ingmar Kallfass#2 # Institute of Robust Power Semiconductor Systems, University of Stuttgart, Germany Institute for Applied Solid State Physic

Proceedings of the 16th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference Effect of Switch Figure of Merit on Frequency-Reconfigurable Power Amplifier Performance Adam Der, William Sear, Taylor Barton RFPAL, University of Colorado Boulder, USA {Adam.Der, William.Sear, Taylor.W.Barton}-colorado.edu Abstract ? This work studies the effect of switch figure of merit on frequency-reconfigurable power

Proceedings of the 16th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference A Digital Power Amplifier for 32-QAM Gavin T. Watkins Toshiba Europe Limited, 32 Queen Square Bristol, BS4 4EH, England Gavin.watkins-toshiba-bril.com Abstract ? A 500 MHz 3-bit digital power amplifier (DPA) exploiting load modulation is described. Three individual amplifiers are enabled and disabled alternatively by their

Proceedings of the 16th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference Wideband Phase Modulator MMIC for K-Band Supply-Modulated Power Ampli?er Linearization Gregor Lasser#1 , Connor Nogales#2 , Maxwell R. Duffy*3 , Zoya Popovi´c#4 # Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, USA Grumman, Redondo Beach, USA {1 gregor.lasser, 2 connor.nogales, 4 zoya}-colorado.edu, 3 duffy.mr-gmail.com * Northrop Abstract ?

Proceedings of the 16th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference A 3.3 to 11.3 GHz Differential LNA with Slight Imbalance Active Balun in 0.15-?m GaAs pHEMT Process for Radio Astronomical Receiver Ting-Hsuan Fan#, Chau-Ching Chiong*, and Huei Wang#? # Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan * Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy

Proceedings of the 16th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference Noise Modeling of GaN/AlN HEMT Sanaul Haque#1 , Frank Schnieder* , Oliver Hilt* , Ralf Doerner* , Frank Brunner* , Matthias Rudolph*# # Ulrich L. Rohde Chair of RF and Microwave Techniques, Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus, Germany * Ferdinand-Braun-Institut gGmbH, Leibniz-Institut f¨ ur H¨ochstfrequenztechnik

Proceedings of the 16th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference A 30-W GaN Quasi-MMIC Doherty Power Amplifier Based on All-Distributed Inductors Load Network Rui-Jia Liu#1, Xiao-Wei Zhu#2, Jing Xia*3, Peng Chen#4, Chao Yu#5, Lv Zhang?6, and Zhi-Yong Chen#?7 # School of Information Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China School of Computer Science and Commun

Proceedings of the 16th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference A 30-to-38 GHz Active and Passive Combined Downconversion Variable Gain Mixer with Low OP1dB Variation in 65-nm CMOS Mu-Heng Li, Chun-Nien Chen, Yunshan Wang, Huei Wang Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan Abstract ? In this paper, a 30?? to 38 GHz variable gain mix