Proceedings of the 45th European Microwave Conference RF PA Modeling With One Chirp Measurement Filipe M. E. Barradas, Pedro M. Lavrador, Telmo R. Cunha, José C. Pedro DETI, Instituto de Telecomunicações Universidade de Aveiro Aveiro, Portugal filipebarradas-ua.pt Abstract--In this paper we present a technique for obtaining a behavioral model for a power amplifier using a single exponential chir

Proceedings of the 45th European Microwave Conference Optical Antennas in Hybrid Photonic Systems Ruud Hendrikx, Hugo Doeleman, Freek Ruesink, A. Femius Koenderink, and Ewold Verhagen* Center for Nanophotonics FOM Institute AMOLF 1098 XG Amsterdam, The Netherlands *verhagen-amolf.nl Abstract-- Plasmonic nano-antennas are widely employed for sensing and enhancing light-matter interactions. They a

Proceedings of the 45th European Microwave Conference Parametric study of a microwave sensor dedicated to the dielectric spectroscopy of single particles and biological cells W. Chen, D. Dubuc, K. Grenier CNRS, LAAS, Univ. de Toulouse, 7 avenue du colonel Roche, F-31400 Toulouse, France Abstract--This paper deals with a parametric study of a sensor dedicated to the microwave dielectric spectrosc

Proceedings of the 45th European Microwave Conference Characterization of GaN-based HEMTs as Varactor Diode Devices Abdelaziz Hamdoun, Langis Roy Dept. of Electronics Carleton University Ottawa, Canada Email: {ahamdoun, lroy}-doe.carleton.ca Abstract--Varactors fabricated in 0.5 µm and 0.15 µm GaN HEMT technologies (National Research Council of Canada's GaN500 and GaN150 processes) are investigat

Proceedings of the 45th European Microwave Conference A dual Band 915MHz/2.44GHz RF Energy Harvester Romain Bergès, Ludivine Fadel, Laurent Oyhenart, Valérie Vigneras and Thierry Taris IMS Laboratory, University of Bordeaux 33405 Talence Cedex, FRANCE ludivine.fadel-ims-bordeaux.fr Abstract -- This paper presents the development of a dualband rectenna optimized to convert far-field RF energy to D

Proceedings of the 45th European Microwave Conference Waveguide Photonic Choke Joint with Wide Out-of-band Rejection Kongpop U-yen and Edward J. Wollack NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, Maryland, USA Kongpop.u-yen-1-nasa.gov Abstract-- A photonic choke joint structure with a wide- stopband is proposed for use as a waveguide flange interface. The structure consists of arrays of square

Proceedings of the 45th European Microwave Conference Performance enhancement of 300 GHz on-chip double slot antenna by means of artificial dielectrics Waqas H. Syed, Giuseppe Fiorentino, Daniele Cavallo, Pasqualina M. Sarro, Andrea Neto, and Ioan E. Lager Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Mekelweg 4, 2628 CD Delft, the Netherland

Proceedings of the 45th European Microwave Conference Zero-IF Radar Signal Processing Stefano Turso, Thomas Bertuch Fraunhofer Institute for High Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques FHR Fraunhofer Str. 20, 53343 Wachtberg, Germany stefano.turso-fhr.fraunhofer.de, thomas.bertuch-fhr.fraunhofer.de Abstract--In this paper, a zero-IF radar architecture is presented. An agile prototyping environme

Proceedings of the 45th European Microwave Conference Synthesis of multi-element antennas using a measurement test bench C. Menudier1, E. Arnaud1, M. Thevenot1, F. Fezai1, A. Oueslati1, N. Chevalier2, S. Reynaud2, T. Monediere1 1 XLIM ­ Université de Limoges, 87060 Limoges Cedex, France 2 CISTEME, 87068 Limoges, France cyrille.menudier-xlim.fr Abstract--The computation of accurate weightings fo

Proceedings of the 45th European Microwave Conference A New Variant of the Indirect Learning Architecture for the Linearization of Power Amplifiers Jessica Chani-Cahuana1, Christian Fager2, Thomas Eriksson1 2 Department of Signals and Systems Department of Microtechnology and NanoScience Chalmers University of Technology 412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden chani-chalmers.se 1 Abstract--The indirect lear