Slew-Rate and Efficiency Trade-off in Slow Envelope Tracking Power Amplifiers Pere L. Gilabert, Gabriel Montoro and Pedro Vizarreta Department of Signal Theory and Communications, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), C/ Esteve Terradas, 7 - 08860 Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain. [plgilabert, montoro, pvizarreta]-tsc.upc.edu Abstract -- This paper presents a study on the trade-off between th

Properties of Millimeter-Wave Signal Generation and Modulation using Mode-Locked Q-Dash Lasers for Gigabit RF-over-Fiber Links Friederike Brendel , Jianjia Yi # , Julien Po¨ tte # , B´ atrice Cabon # , Thomas Zwick e e Institut f¨ r Hochfrequenztechnik und Elektronik (IHE), Karlsruher Institut f¨ r Technologie (KIT), u u 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany # Institut de Micro´ lectronique, Electromagn´ t

A Full Ka-Band Microstrip-to-Waveguide Transition Using Tapered CPS Probe and V-Antenna Jin Li, Qiancheng Ying, and Jun Xu Institute of Applied Physics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Chengdu, Sichuan, 610054, P.R. China Abstract--A novel Ka-band microstrip-to-waveguide transition is presented in this paper. This transition is composed of a tapered coplanar strip (CPS) an

Proceedings of the 7th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference Tunable RF GaN-Power Transistor Implementing Impedance Matching Networks Based on BST Thick Films Holger Maune , Olof Bengtsson , Felix Gölden , Mohsen Sazegar , Rolf Jakoby and Wolfgang Heinrich Institute for Microwave Engineering and Photonics, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany Email: maune-imp.tu-darmstadt.de F

Proceedings of the 7th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference Noise Modeling of GaN HEMT Devices Matthias Rudolph1 , Ralf Doerner2 , Eric Ngnintendem1 , and Wolfgang Heinrich2 Brandenburg University of Technology Ulrich L. Rohde Chair of RF and Microwave Techniques, Siemens-Halske-Ring 14, 03046 Cottbus, Germany 2 Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, Leibniz-Institut f¨ r H¨ chstfrequenztechnik (

Proceedings of the 7th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference Characterization of Electrical Memory Effects for Complex Multi-tone Excitations using Broadband Active Baseband Load-pull M. Akmal, F. L. Ogboi, Z. Yusoff, J. Lees, V. Carrubba, H. Choi, S. Bensmida*, K. Morris*, M. Beach*, J. McGeehan*, J. Benedikt, P. J. Tasker Cardiff School of Engineering, University of Cardiff, The P

Proceedings of the 7th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference Single-Sleeve Waveguide-to-Microstrip Transition Probe for Full Waveguide Bandwidth Chi-Chang Lin and Yuh-Jing Hwang Academic Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics P.O. Box 23-141, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O. C. yjhwang-asiaa.sinica.edu.tw Abstract--A simple E-plane waveguide-to-microstrip transition probe on quartz substr

Proceedings of the 7th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference Doug Henke, Frank Jiang and Stéphane Claude NRC Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics Victoria, Canada Doug.Henke-nrc-cnrc.gc.ca -- - ! " # -- $ # # # # # # # I. INTRODUCTION A key component of a low-noise receiver used for radio astronomy is the low-noise amplifier (LNA). At Q-band frequencies (i.e., 33­50 GHz), it is nece

Proceedings of the 7th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference A Terahertz Micromachined On-Wafer Probe for WR-1.2 Waveguide Matthew Bauwens, Lihan Chen, Chunhu Zhang, Alex Arsenovic, Arthur Lichtenberger, N. Scott Barker, and Robert M. Weikle Charles L. Brown Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903, U.S.A. Abstract--A micromachined on-wa

Proceedings of the 7th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference Highly Integrated 60 GHz SSB MMIC Mixer With No DC Power Consumption Based on Subharmonic LO and CPW Circuits in GaAs pHEMT Technology K. Hettak1 , T. Ross2 , N. Irfan3 , G. Morin4 , M. C. E. Yagoub3 and J. Wight2 Research Centre Canada 3701 Carling Avenue, P.O. Box 11490, Station H, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K2H 8S2 khelifa.h