Proceedings of the 44th European Microwave Conference A Constant -Q Tunable Combline Bandpass Filter using Angular Tuning Technique M. A. Iskander, M. Nasresfahani and R. R. Mansour Center for Integrated RF Engineering (CIRFE) University of Waterloo Waterloo, ON, Canada m7iskand-uwaterloo.ca Abstract-- This paper presents the design and implementation of a high-Q bandpass filter using a tuning t

Proceedings of the 44th European Microwave Conference Switching Reliability and Switching Speed of Barium Strontium Titanate (BST) BAW Devices Victor Lee, Seungku Lee, Seyit Ahmet Sis, and Amir Mortazawi Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA viclee-umich.edu, seungku-umich.edu, siss-umich.edu, amirm-umich.edu Abstract--Adaptive

Proceedings of the 44th European Microwave Conference Mitigation of Distortion and Memory Effect in a Concurrent Dual-band Six Port Receiver Abdullah O. Olopade 1, Mohamed Helaoui 2 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Calgary 1 Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada aoolopad-ucalgary.ca, 2 mhelaoui-ucalgary.ca leads to significant degradation in the receiver performance [4]. An

Proceedings of the 44th European Microwave Conference Using Waveform Engineering to Optimize Class-F Power Amplifier Performance in an Envelope Tracking Architecture Z. A. Mokhti, P.J. Tasker and J. Lees Centre for High Frequency Engineering Cardiff University Cardiff, UK amokhtiz-cardiff.ac.uk Abstract--Achieving optimal efficiency in FET-based power amplifiers used in envelope tracking (ET) ar

Proceedings of the 44th European Microwave Conference A Low Power K- and Ka-band Receiver for Beamforming Applications Suman P. Sah, and Deukhyoun Heo School of EECS, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99163 {ssah, dheo}-eecs.wsu.edu Abstract -- A K- and Ka-band RF phase-shifting receiver for beamforming applications is presented in this paper. Wideband design is carried out to enable a si

Proceedings of the 44th European Microwave Conference Use of reduced aperture waveguide as a calculable standard for the verification of millimetre-wave vector network analyzers M J Salter and N M Ridler Time, Quantum and Electromagnetics Division National Physical Laboratory Teddington, UK Abstract-- In this paper, 3D electromagnetic simulation is used to predict the attenuation of a length of r

Proceedings of the 44th European Microwave Conference Broadband Monolithic Left-Handed Coupled-Lines Incorporating Interwoven Capacitor and Stacking Inductor GuangFu Li, Hsien-Shun Wu, and Ching-Kuang C. Tzuang School of Electronic Information Engineering, Tianjin University 92 Weijin Road, Nankai District, Tianjin, P.R.China guangfuc-tju.edu.cn Abstract--This paper presents the designs of monol

Proceedings of the 44th European Microwave Conference A Method to Design Lumped-element Tunable Bandpass Filters with Constant Absolute Bandwidth Dmitry Kholodnyak, Viacheslav Turgaliev and Alexandra Baskakova Microwave Microelectronics Laboratory, Department of Microelectronics & Radio Engineering St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University "LETI" St. Petersburg, Russia Dmitry.Kholodnyak-mwlab.sp

Proceedings of the 44th European Microwave Conference Multibeam Bifocal Reflector Antenna Design with 40º Field of View: A Candidate for High Gain Ground Station Application 1 Andrey N. Plastikov 1,2 Antennas & Radio Propagation Department, National Research University "Moscow Power Engineering Institute", Moscow, Russia 2 Antenna Systems Department, CJSC "KIA Systems", Moscow, Russia E-mail: Pl

Proceedings of the 44th European Microwave Conference An Ultra-Broadband Planar Millimeter-Wave Mixer with IF Bandwidth covering 0.5 to 34 GHz Alexander Feldman, Utkarsh Unnikrishna, Irfan Ashiq, Amarpal Khanna Microwave Components National Instruments, Santa Clara, CA, USA. paul.khanna-ni.com, utkarsh.krishna-ni.com Abstract-- This paper presents a uniplanar passive ultrabroadband microwave mix