Proceedings of the 43rd European Microwave Conference Concurrent Dual-band 1-bit Digital Transmitter Using Band-Pass Delta-Sigma Modulator Takashi Maehata1, Kazuyuki Totani1, Suguru Kameda2, Noriharu Suematsu2 1 Information & Communications Laboratories, Sumitomo Electric Industries, 1-1-3 Shimaya Konohana-ku, Osaka 554-0024, Japan 2 Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku Univers

Proceedings of the 43rd European Microwave Conference A 25-to-45-GHz 45 Power Divider Jui-Chih Kao*1, Yuan-Hung Hsiao*2, Kuang-Sheng Yeh*3, Chau-Ching Chiong+, Yu-Hsuan Lin*4, Kun-You Lin*5, and Huei Wang*6 * Department of Electrical Engineering and Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan 6 hueiwang-ntu.edu.tw + Institute of Astronomy and

Proceedings of the 43rd European Microwave Conference A LSNA configured to perform Baseband Engineering for Device Linearity Investigations under Modulated Excitations F.L. Ogboi, P.J. Tasker, M. Akmal, J. Lees, J.Benedikt Centre for High Frequency Engineering, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom, ogboifl2-cardiff.ac.uk Abstract--A Large Signal Network Analyzer (LSNA) system has been conf

Proceedings of the 43rd European Microwave Conference A 2.3GHz Single-Ended Energy Recovery Rectifier with Stepped-Impedance Resonator for Improved Efficiency of Outphasing Amplifier Defu Wang and Renato Negra Mixed-Signal CMOS Circuits, UMIC Research Centre RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, 52056, Germany Abstract-- This paper proposes an energy recovery rectifier suitable for the use in outphasi

Proceedings of the 43rd European Microwave Conference Coplanar Stripline Microchamber for Electrical Detection of Live and Dead Biological Cells Yaqing Ning, Caroline Multari, Xi Luo, Cristiano Palego, David Molinero, Xuanhong Cheng, and James C. M. Hwang Lehigh University Bethlehem, PA 18015, USA yan210-lehigh.edu Abstract--An improved microchamber for electrical detection of biological cells wa

Proceedings of the 43rd European Microwave Conference High Power GaN Monolithically Integrated RF MEMS Switches A.M. Mahmoud Mohamed, S. Boumaiza, R.R. Mansour Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Waterloo Waterloo, ON, Canada a5mahmou-uwaterloo.ca I. Zine-El-Abidine Microsystems and Nanotechnology CMC Microsystems Canada Kingston, ON, Canada Abstract-- This paper outlines the desi

Proceedings of the 43rd European Microwave Conference Six-Port Microwave Interferometer Radar for Mechanical Vibration Analysis G. Vinci*, S. Lindner, S. Mann, F. Barbon, S. Linz, R. Weigel, and A. Koelpin Institute for Electronics Engineering, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, 91058 Erlangen, Germany Email: {lindner, mann, barbon, linz, weigel, koelpin}-lfte.de *InnoSenT GmbH, Am Roedentor 30, 9

Proceedings of the 43rd European Microwave Conference Analysis and Optimization of a focusing Metaldielectric Probe for Near-field Terahertz Imaging B. Zhu, J. Stiens, R. Vounckx Department of Electronics and Informatics Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) Brussels, Belgium bzhu-etro.vub.ac.be G. He School of Physical Electronics University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Chengdu, Chi

Proceedings of the 43rd European Microwave Conference Modified Spiral RFID Tag Antenna Optimal Design Using Artificial Bee Colony Optimization Sotirios K. Goudos, Katherine Siakavara Radiocommunications Laboratory, Department of Physics Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Thessaloniki, Greece sgoudo-physics.auth.gr, skv-auth.gr John N. Sahalos Radio & Telecommunications Lab, Department of Elect

Proceedings of the 43rd European Microwave Conference Topology Optimization Method for Microstrips using Boundary Condition Representation and Adjoint Analysis Tsuyoshi Nomura , Makoto Ohkado , Paul Schmalenberg , Jae Lee , Osman Ahmed and Mohamed Bakr Toyota Research Institute of North America, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, 48105 Email: tsuyoshi.nomura-tema.toyota.com Toyota Central R&D Labs., In