Proceedings of the 43rd European Microwave Conference Variable Gain Amplifier Architecture with Constant Matching and Insertion Phase Mirko Palomba, Andrea Bentini, Riccardo Cleriti, Ernesto Limiti Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettronica Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata Rome, Italy Abstract--In this contribution, a Variable Gain Amplifier architecture with a reduced phase deviation is pr

Proceedings of the 43rd European Microwave Conference An Efficient SiGe Double-Balanced Mixer with a Differential Rat-Race Coupler Herman Jalli Ng 1 , Martin Jahn 2 , Reinhard Feger 1 , Christoph Wagner 3 , Andreas Stelzer 1,2 Christian Doppler Laboratory for Integrated Radar Sensors, Johannes Kepler University, Altenberger Str. 69, A-4040 Linz, Austria h.ng-nthfs.jku.at 2 Institute for Communica

Proceedings of the 43rd European Microwave Conference Reliability of Nanocrystalline Diamond MEMS Capacitive Switches L. Michalas1,a, S.Saada2,b, M. Koutsoureli1, C. Mer2, A. Leuliet3,c, P. Martins3, S. Bansropun3, G. Papaioannou1, P. Bergonzo2, A. Ziaei3 1 Solid State Section, Physics Department University of Athens, Athens, Greece a lmichal-phys.uoa.gr 2 Diamond Sensors Lab., CEA-LIST F-91191

Proceedings of the 43rd European Microwave Conference Speeding Up N-port VNA Calibration Eliminating One-Port Calibrations Frans Verbeyst, Marc Vanden Bossche Network Analysis Center of Excellence National Instruments Zaventem, Belgium frans.verbeyst-ni.com to a 10-term error model in case of a two port where the crosstalk between the ports is negligible). In the latter case, one must insert a re

Proceedings of the 43rd European Microwave Conference Ultra-Wideband Based Dynamic Target Tracking Using Cost-Reference Particle Filtering Devika Kakkar*1, Piotr Karbownik*2, Thorsten Nowak*, Grzegorz Krukar*, Norbert Franke* and Roman Galas# Locating and Communication Systems Department Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, Nuremberg, Germany 2 * kakkarda-iis.fraunhofer.de piotr.karbow

Proceedings of the 43rd European Microwave Conference Reducing the Interference in Compact MIMO Antennas of CRLH-TL-Based Broadside-Capacitive and Slot Couplings Kyeongnam Jang #1, S. Kahng #2, K.-S. Kahng #3, Inkyu Yang#4, Yongjin Kim*5 # Dept. of Information & Telecommunication Engineering, University of Incheon Incheon, Korea jkn626-incheon.ac.kr s-kahng-incheon.ac.kr 3 kskahng-incheon.ac.kr

Proceedings of the 43rd European Microwave Conference Dual-Band Unequal Power-Divider Miniaturized by Fully Printed CRLH Phase-Shift Lines Inkyu Yang #1, Sungtek Kahng #2, K.-S. Kahng #3, Jinil Lee#4, Dajeong Eom*5 # Dept. of Information & Telecommunication Engineering, University of Incheon Incheon, Korea {1yik86,2s-kahng,3kskahng,4victorlee}-incheon.ac.kr *Electronics Laboratory, LG Electroni

Proceedings of the 43rd European Microwave Conference Optically Reconfigurable E-plane Waveguide Resonators and Filters N. Mohottige, D. Budimir Wireless Communications Research Group, University of Westminster 115 New Cavendish Street, London, W1W 6UW, UK d.budimir-wmin.ac.uk Abstract--This paper presents an optically reconfigurable Eplane waveguide resonator and filter. N-type silicon dice dope

Proceedings of the 43rd European Microwave Conference Phase-only pattern synthesis using a modified Least Squares Method for phased arrays Bruno Pompeo , Leandro Pralon , Mariana Pralon , Rafael Mendes Army Technological Center-Brazil pralon-ctex.eb.br, pompeo-ctex.eb.br, pmariana-ctex.eb.br State University of Campinas-Brazil rafael-dca.fee.unicamp.br Abstract--Current excitation of each active

Proceedings of the 43rd European Microwave Conference A New Family of Passive Wireless RF Harvesters based on R-C-Quartz Oscillators Antwi Nimo*, Dario Grgi, Tolgay Ungan, Leonhard M. Reindl University of Freiburg ­ IMTEK, Department of Microsystems Engineering, Laboratory for Electrical Instrumentation, Freiburg, Germany *E-mail: antwi.nimo-imtek.de Abstract--This work presents Resistor-Capacit