Proceedings of the 14th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference Study of Thick Copper Metallization with WNx as Diffusion Barrier for AlGaN/GaN HEMTs Y. C. Lin1, M. W. Lee2, M. Y. Tsai3, C. Wang1, J. N. Yao4, T. J. Huang2, H. T. Hsu2, J. S. Maa3, and Edward Y. Chang124* 1 2 Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan International College of

Proceedings of the 14th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference Experimental Analysis of In-package Harmonic Manipulations with a 160 W GaN HEMT Power Bar Osman Ceylan1 , Ali I. Isik2 , Yi Zhu3 Sergio Pires4 Ampleon BV, The Netherlands {1 osman.ceylan, 2 ali.isik, 3 yi.zhu, 4 sergio.pires}-ampleon.com of an integrated 2nd harmonic termination at the gate with 120 W output power at S-Ba

Proceedings of the 14th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference A 2-38 GHz Linear GaAs pHEMT TIA for a Quasi-Coherent Optical Receiver Guillermo Silva Valdecasa#*1 , Jesper Bevensee Jensen* , Morten Didriksen+ , Tom K. Johansen# # Department of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark * Bifrost Communications Aps., Denmark + NIMODI Engineering, Denmark 1 gsival-elektro.d

Proceedings of the 14th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference Effective Resistivity Extraction of Low-Loss Silicon Substrate at Millimeter-Wave Frequencies Lucas Nyssens#1, Martin Rack#2, Jean-Pierre Raskin#3 # Department of electrical engineering ELEN, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium {1lucas.nyssens, 2martin.rack, 3jean-pierre.raskin}-uclouvain.be inductors [3], the harmo

Proceedings of the 14th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference A Digital Adjustable Fully Integrated Bistatic Interferometric Radar Transceiver at 60 GHz in a 130 nm BiCMOS Technology M. Voelkel#1 , M. Dietz# , A. Hagelauer# , E. M. Hussein* , D. Kissinger*+ , and R. Weigel# # Institute for Electronics Engineering, FAU Erlangen-N¨urnberg, Cauerstr. 9, 91058 Erlangen, Germany * IHP, Im

Proceedings of the 14th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference An Integrated mm-Wave Quadrature Up-Conversion Mixer Based on a Six-Port Modulator Vincent Rieß, Paul St¨arke, Corrado Carta and Frank Ellinger Chair for Circuit Design and Network Theory Technische Universit¨at Dresden , 01062 Dresden, Germany vincent.riess-tu-dresden.de PRF Abstract ? A quadrature up-conversion mixer for

Proceedings of the 14th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference 4096-QAM Microwave Transmitter Providing Efficiency Exceeding 50% and EVM Below 1% E. McCune, Q. Diduck Eridan Communications, Santa Clara, CA, 95050, USA Abstract ? While users of spectrum pay large sums of money for spectrum access, they do not sell spectrum to their customers but rather they market data rates. Developin

Proceedings of the 14th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference A 115-185 GHz 75-115 mW High-Gain PA MMIC in 250-nm InP HBT Zach Griffith, Miguel Urteaga, and Petra Rowell Teledyne Scientific Company, 1049 Camino Dos Rios, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360, USA zach.griffith-teledyne.com VC DC bus IC amp ? ? Series TL tune R base-ballast Q1 Shunt TL tune RF IN RF OUT Series TL tune RF gro

Proceedings of the 14th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference Systematic Experimental fT and fmax Comparison of 40-nm Bulk CMOS versus 45-nm SOI Technology J. Rimmelspacher1,2, A. Werthof2, R. Weigel1, V. Issakov2 1 Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Cauerstrasse 9, 91058 Erlangen, Germany 2 Infineon Technologies AG, Am Campeon 1-15, 85579 Neubiberg, Germany Ab

Proceedings of the 14th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference Comparative noise investigation of high-performance GaAs and GaN millimeter-wave monolithic technologies W. Ciccognani# , S. Colangeli#1 , A. Serino# , L. Pace# , S. Fenu# , P. E. Longhi# , E. Limiti# , J. Poulain* , R. Leblanc* # Dept. of Electronics Engineering, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy SAS, 2 rue du Moulin,