An Analysis of Source Connections in GaN Power Transistor Packages Frank Schnieder1 , Franz-Josef Schm¨ ckle1 , Wolfgang Heinrich1 , Matthias Rudolph1,2 u 1 Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, 2 Ulrich-L.-Rohde Leibniz-Institut f¨ r H¨ chstfrequenztechnik, Berlin u o Chair for RF and Microwave Techniques, Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus Abstract--This paper presents an analysis of different

Tunable Frequency Selective Surface based on Ferroelectric Ceramics for Beam Steering Antennas Mar´a Roig, Mohsen Sazegar, Yuliang Zheng, and Rolf Jakoby i Institute of Microwave Engineering and Photonics, Technische Universit¨ t Darmstadt a Merckstrasse 25, 64283, Darmstadt, Germany Abstract--A Tunable Frequency Selective Surface (FSS) as a transmission array with beam steering capability is pres

Semicircular Bow-Tie Antenna-Integrated Double Waveguide 1.55 µm Mushroom Photodetectors for cw Photonic Millimeter Wave Transmitter Modules Vitaly Rymanov and Andreas Stöhr Universität Duisburg-Essen, Lotharstr. 55, 47057 Duisburg, Germany Abstract--In this work, we report on planar antennaintegrated double waveguide 1.55 µm mushroom photodetectors for integration in continuous-wave photonic mill

MetaBeam: A High-Gain Pencil-Beam Array Antenna based on corporately fed CRLH Meta-Lines for the 24 GHz ISM Band A. Rennings, B. Zhou, A. Al-Bassam, Z. Chen, S. Otto, K. Solbach, and D. Erni General and Theoretical Electrical Engineering (ATE) & High-Frequency Engineering (HFT), Faculty of Engineering, University of Duisburg-Essen, 47048 Duisburg, Germany Abstract-- One of the objectives in the "M

1 A Low Power Pulse Frequency Modulated UWB Radar Transmitter Concept Based on Switched Injection Locked Harmonic Sampling Christian Carlowitz1 , Alexander Esswein2 , Robert Weigel2 , Martin Vossiek1 1 Institute for Microwave Engineering and High Frequency Technology, 2 Institute for Electronics Engineering, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Cauerstraße 9, 91058 Erlangen Abstract--Pulse Frequen

Low Cost Highly Precision Time Interval Measurement Unit for Radar Applications Belal Al-Qudsi 1 , Ahmed Abbas H. Ameri 2 , and Axel Bangert 2 2 Microwave IIS, Nordostpark 93, D-90411 Nuremberg, Germany Electronics Lab, University of Kassel, Wilhelmshoeher Allee 73, D-34121 Kassel, Germany bbrengineer-daad-alumni.de, hussein-uni-kassel.de, bangert-uni-kassel.de 1 Fraunhofer Abstract--In this re

Rigorous investigations of a SiGe:C BiCMOS ring oscillator with optimized gate delay Mario Weiß, Amit Kumar Sahoo, Cristell Maneux, and Thomas Zimmer Laboratoire IMS, Universit´ de Bordeaux 1 - Cours de la Liberation - 33405 Talence Cedex, France e Abstract--This paper presents a SiGe HBT ring oscillator (RO) achieving a minimum gate delay gate of 2.7 ps in order to benchmark the applicability of

Toward Integrated Ultra-Wideband MIMO-Sensors Jürgen Sachs1, Martin Kmec1, Peter Rauschenbach2, Ralf Herrmann1, Kai Schilling1, Marko Helbig1 1 Institute for Information Technology, Ilmenau University of Technology, 98684 Ilmenau, Germany 2 MEODAT GmbH, 98693 Ilmenau, Germany Abstract-- The further development of ultra-wideband (UWB) sensing will largely be affected by the disposability of integ

Highly Birefringent Liquid Crystal for THz Applications M. Reuter1, K. Altmann1, N. Vieweg1, K.Garbat2, R. Dabrowski2, M. Koch1 1 Fachbereich Physik, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Hans-Meerwein-Straße MZG C06, 35032 Marburg, Germany 2 Institute of Chemistry, Military University of Technology, 00-908 Warsaw, Poland will due to the longer wavelength inevitably be of thicker construction in comparis

1 A Capacitively-Coupled Series-Fed Patch Leaky-Wave Antenna and Optimization Concepts for Efficient Broadside Radiation Amar Al-Bassam, Simon Otto, Zhichao Chen, Andreas Rennings and Klaus Solbach Department HFT & ATE, University of Duisburg-Essen, 47057 Duisburg, Germany Abstract--This paper presents a novel series-fed patch leakywave antenna (LWA) and furthermore demonstrates optimization str