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EuMC01 Focus Session on 3D/Additive and Inkjet-Printed RF Components, Modules and

Large-Area Smart Skins and Antenna Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
EuMC02 Transmission Lines and New Technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
EuMC03 Recongurable and Multi-Band Antennas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
EuMC04 Propagation Modelling and Characterisation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
EuMC05 Broadband Planar Couplers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
EuMC06 Integrated Millimetre Wave and Terahertz Antennas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
EuMC07 Measurement of Permittivity and Permeability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
EuMC08 Wireless Systems and Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
EuMC09 Microwave Sensing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
EuMC10 Advanced Waveguide Filter Realisations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10
EuMC11 MEMS Based Techniques for Tuneable Devices and Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11
EuMC12 Power Dividers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
EuMC13 Multi-Channel and Antenna Array Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
EuMC14 Passive RFID Technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13
EuMC15 Focus Session on Microwave Biosensing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
EuMC16 Advances in Resonators and Transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
EuMC17 Planar Passive Circuits and Antennas Based on Metamaterials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
EuMC18 Innovative Approaches Enabling Tuneability and Recongurability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16
EuMC19 Graphene Devices and Novel Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17
EuMC20 Novel Antenna Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17
EuMC21 New Modelling Techniques for Guiding Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18
EuMC22 Wireless Power Transfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19
EuMC23 Special Session: A Tribute to Arthur A. Oliner and His Scientic Heritage for the
European Microwave Community. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19
EuMC24 Non Planar Passive Components for Power Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
EuMC25 Microwave-Based Medical Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21
EuMC26 Emerging Tuneable and Recongurable Devices and Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22
EuMC27 Emerging Technologies and Novel Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22
EuMC28 Lumped Elements and Wideband Planar Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23
EuMC29 Frequency- and Time-Domain Electromagnetic Modelling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24
EuMC30 High Frequency Monolithic VCOs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24
EuMC31 Integrated Transceivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25
EuMC32 Filter Synthesis and Practical Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26
EuMC33 Characterisation of Material Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26
EuMC34 Rectennas and Electromagnetic Energy Harvesting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27
EuMC35 Emerging Optical Components and Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28
EuMC36 Bioelectromagnetic Sensors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28
EuMC37 Microwave VCOs and Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29
EuMC38 Special Session on 50 years of Matthaei, Young, Joness Handbook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30
EuMC39 Microwave Measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30
EuMC40 RFID and Energy Harvesting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31
EuMC41 Bioelectromagnetics for Medicine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32
EuMC42 THz Circuits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32
EuMC43 Digital Predistortion and Crest Factor Reduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
EuMC44 Filters Based on SIW Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34
EuMC45 Advanced Antenna Design Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
EuMC46 FSS and AMC: Modelling and Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
EuMC47 High Data-Rate Wireless Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36
EuMC48 Components for Microwave Front-Ends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37

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EuMC50 Special Session on Asia Pacic Microwave Conference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38
EuMC51 Advances in Metamaterials and EBG Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39
EuMC52 Interconnects, Packaging and MCM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39
EuMC53 Advanced Signal Generation Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40
EuMC54 Microwave Techniques for Sensing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41
EuMC55 Advances in Design and Implementation of Planar Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42
EuMC56 Planar Passive Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42
EuMC Poster EuMC Poster Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43
EuMC/EuMIC01 High Linearity CMOS Power Ampliers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48
EuMC/EuMIC02 GaN RF PA Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49
EuMC/EuMIC03 From Device Physics to Linear Power Ampliers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50
EuMC/EuMIC04 Device and Circuit-Level Modelling Techniques. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51
EuMC/EuMIC05 GaN Solutions for X- and K-Bands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51
EuMC/EuMIC06 Advanced Architectures for Power Ampliers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52
EuMC/EuMIC07 CMOS and BiCMOS Solutions for RF and Millimetre-Wave PA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53
EuMC/EuMIC08 Technologies and Designs for Low-Noise Circuits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53
EuMC/EuMIC09 Characterisation and Modelling of Dispersion and Noise in Microwave
Transistors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54
EuMC/EuMIC10 Focus Session on System Level Characterisation and Modelling for Mobile
Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55
EuMC/EuMIC11 Focus Session on Advances and New Applications in Carbon-Based
Nanoelectronics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .56
EuMC/EuMIC Poster EuMC/EuMIC Poster Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .56
EuMC/EuRAD01 Antenna Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61
EuMC/EuRAD02 Application-Driven Antenna Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62
EuMC/EuRAD03 Technologies for Communication, Radar and Remote Sensing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62
EuMC/EuRAD04 Antennas for Communication Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63
EuMC/EuRAD05 Phased Arrays: System Aspects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64
EuMC/EuRAD06 Special Session on Autonomous Driving: Status-Quo and the Next Generation of
Automotive RADAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65
EuMC/EuRAD07 Phased Arrays: Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65
EuMC/EuRAD08 High-Resolution FMCW/SFCW Radars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66
EuMC/EuRAD Poster EuMC/EuRAD Poster Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67

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EuMC01 : Focus Session on 3D/Additive
and Inkjet-Printed RF Components, Modules
and Large-Area Smart Skins and Antenna
Arrays
Venue: Giulia, 09:00 10:40, Tuesday 7th October 2014
Chair: Manos Tentzeris, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Co-Chair: Luca Roselli, Universit di Perugia, Italy
Novel Inkjet Printed Modules for Sensing, Radar and
Energy Harvesting Applications
Anya Traille 1 , Antony Coustou 1 , Herve Aubert 1 ,
Sangkil Kim 2 , John Kimionis 2 , Manos M. Tentzeris 2 ,
Apostolos Georgiadis 3 , Ana Collado 3 ; 1 LAAS, France;
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Georgia Institute of Technology, USA; 3 CTTC, Spain
EuMC01-01, Time: 09:00
Flexible inkjet-printed sensor platforms fabricated on exible
substrates are demonstrated to be a sustainable economical so-
lution for 2D Zero-Power sensing and active energy harvesting
applications as well as multilayer 3D structures and complete radar
systems. Several designs featuring the advantages, challenges and
prospects of inkjet printing technology are presented. These
designs demonstrate not only the feasibility of exible 2D/3D
sensing modules on polymer or paper but also the ruggedness and
reliability they have to perform in humid biomedical conditions or
harsh outdoor environments. Improving mechanical robustness for
wearability or conformability and the addition of protective layers
for corrosion resistance and prevention of component detachment
will improve the foundation for inkjet-printed high-complex mod-
ules as well as future paths in the area of environmentally-friendly
(green) RF electronics and conformal sensors.
Inkjet-Printed Reection Amplier for
Increased-Range Backscatter Radio
John Kimionis 1 , Manos M. Tentzeris 1 , Apostolos
Georgiadis 2 , Ana Collado 2 ; 1 Georgia Institute of
Technology, USA; 2 CTTC, Spain
EuMC01-02, Time: 09:20
Building ultra large scale wireless sensor networks (WSNs) requires
very low-power and low-cost sensor designs. Backscatter radio
is a communication scheme that can accommodate for these two
constraints, as opposed to active radio architectures. For large
scale applications, backscatter communication range extension is a
necessity; for this, careful tag design has to be employed, in order
to minimize the tag information bit-error-rate (BER) at the reader.
Conventional backscatter radio/RFID load modulators achieve
reection coecients whose magnitude is less than unity; thus, the
reection coecients dierence magnitude which is directly
related to the backscatter signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is upper
bounded by | | 2. This is a limitation for SNR maximization,
and alternative system architectures have to be exploited for
load modulators. In this work, an architecture is presented that
overcomes this limitation with the use of a low-power reection
amplier, which shows a reection coecient greater than unity on
its port. The amplify-and-reect system proposed can be utilized
to signicantly increase the SNR of the backscattered signals and
the uplink range of RF tags.
A Metamaterial-Inspired Temperature Stable
Inkjet-Printed Microuidic-Tunable Bandstop Filter
W. Su 1 , C. Mariotti 2 , B.S. Cook 1 , S. Lim 3 , L. Roselli 2 ,
Manos M. Tentzeris 1 ; 1 Georgia Institute of Technology,
USA; 2 Universit di Perugia, Italy; 3 Chung-Ang
University, Korea
EuMC01-03, Time: 09:40
A low-cost and disposable microuidic-tunable bandstop lter
is presented which is fabricated utilizing a novel inkjet-printing
based microuidics platform. The proposed bandstop lter is
based on a split-ring-resonator (SRR) unit cell embedded within
the ground of a co-planar waveguide (CPW) transmission line. By
loading the capacitive gap of the SRR with an array of uids with
dierent permittivities, the resonant frequency of the resonator
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can be tuned over a wide bandwidth. Utilizing only 6 L of uid,
which is approximately one twentieth of a drop of water, a 30%,
or 0.4%/r change in resonant frequency can be achieved which is
higher than current cleanroom-fabricated microuidic RF devices
in the literature. The high temperature stability of the low-cost
microuidic lter is presented, which demonstrates below 1%
variance in resonant frequency for operating temperatures ranging
from 273K to 332K.
Inkjet-Printed Elastomeric Millimeter-Wave Devices
Sbastien Pacchini 1 , Sami Hage-Ali 1 , Alinor
Togonal 1 , Nicolas Tiercelin 2 , Philippe Pernod 2 ,
Philippe Coquet 1 ; 1 CINTRA, Singapore; 2 IEMN, France
EuMC01-04, Time: 10:00
Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS Sylgard 184) has become a popular
substrate for stretchable electronics and conformal microwave
devices in the 60-GHz band. In this communication we describe
the fast prototyping and measurements of transmission lines and
antennas at millimeter waves, based on the inkjet printing of silver
nanoparticles inks on PDMS. The surface treatment of PDMS and
the inkjet printing technique are detailed. There is a good agree-
ment between modeling and millimeter-wave measurements, thus
validating the potential of this approach for low cost ultra-exible
millimeter-wave electronics.
Wireless Power Transmission Based on Resonant
Electrical Coupling
Ricardo Dias Fernandes, Joo Nuno Matos,
Nuno Borges Carvalho; Universidade de Aveiro,
Portugal
EuMC01-05, Time: 10:20
A novel technique for wirelessly transferring power over non-
negligible distances is proposed and discussed in this document.
In this technique the transfer of power is based on electrical
coupling and resonance. In contrast, other systems proposed in
the literature in the same class tend to make use of magnetic
coupling. With prototypes measuring 16 by 16 cm by 3.7 cm at
most it was possible to achieve a power eciency of approximately
40% at a distance of 5 meters. These preliminary results indicate
that resonant electrical coupling can be used for wireless power
transmission (WPT) purposes.
EuMC02 : Transmission Lines and New
Technologies
Venue: Hortensia, 09:00 10:40, Tuesday 7th October 2014
Chair: Marco Dionigi, Universit di Perugia, Italy
Co-Chair: Cristiano Tomassoni, Universit di Perugia, Italy
Non-Uniform C-Section Phasers for Enhanced Design
Flexibility in Radio Analog Signal Processing
Sajjad Taravati 1 , Qingfeng Zhang 2 , Christophe
Caloz 1 ; 1 cole Polytechnique de Montral, Canada;
2
SUSTC, China
EuMC02-01, Time: 09:00
A non-uniform C-section phaser is introduced as a powerful
approach to enhance the design exibility of uniform phasers.
Moreover, an ecient synthesis technique is provided to design
such phasers. Two design examples are presented. The rst
example is a single non-uniform C-section phaser. The second one
is a cascaded double non-uniform C-section phaser featuring larger
group delay swing and bandwidth, and hence higher resolution in
Radio Analog Signal Processing (R-ASP).
Coupled Line Negative Group Delay Circuits with
Very Low Signal Attenuation and Multiple-Poles
Characteristics
Girdhari Chaudhary 1 , Phirun Kim 1 , Jaeyeon Kim 1 ,
Yongchae Jeong 1 , Jongsik Lim 2 ; 1 Chonbuk National
University, Korea; 2 Soonchunhyang University, Korea
EuMC02-02, Time: 09:20
This paper presents a novel design of negative group delay circuit
(NGDC) with very low signal attenuation (SA) and multiple-poles in
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group delay (GD) characteristics. The very low SA is obtained due
to high characteristics of coupled lines. Theoretical analysis shows
that the multiple-poles in GD characteristics can provide wider
negative GD bandwidth and be obtained by connecting coupled
lines resonators with slightly dierent center frequencies sepa-
rated by quarter-wavelength transmission lines. For experimental
validation, the NGDCs with 2-poles and 3-poles in GD character-
istics are designed, simulated, and measured. The measurement
results have a good agreement with theoretical predictions.
Broadband Monolithic Left-Handed Coupled-Lines
Incorporating Interwoven Capacitor and Stacking
Inductor
GuangFu Li, Hsien-Shun Wu, Ching-Kuang Clive
Tzuang; Tianjin University, China
EuMC02-03, Time: 09:40
This paper presents the designs of monolithic left-handed coupled
lines to achieve the coupling bandwidth exceeding 213 GHz.
The interwoven-capacitor and the stacking-inductor are applied
to achieve lower cut-o frequency of left-handed transmission
line without sacricing the size of the unit cell. The complex
propagation constant of the single transmission line is extracted
from two-port scattering parameters to theoretically conrm the
prediction. The prototypes of the coupled-line, fabricated by
RF CMOS 0.13 m 1P8M technology, are characterized through
the full-wave simulations and the on-wafer measurements. The
complex propagation constants in even/odd mode, which are
extracted from four-port scattering parameters, reveal that the
coupling bandwidths of the two designs are 213 GHz, and 297
GHz, respectively.
Crosstalk in Substrate Integrated Waveguides: A
Semi-Analytical Approach Based on Side Leakage
M. Pasian, Maurizio Bozzi, L. Perregrini; Universit di
Pavia, Italy
EuMC02-04, Time: 10:00
Substrate Integrated Waveguide, an emerging technology for
microwave and mm-wave circuits, merges the advantages of planar
manufacturing techniques (e.g. cost, weight, integration) while
oering some benets of tradition all-metal waveguides (e.g. high
quality factor). However, a limit to the integration possibilities
is posed by the lateral leakage, a typical aspect of Substrate
Integrated Waveguide, which causes a crosstalk between adjacent
transmission lines.
This paper describes a semi-analytical approach, based on the cal-
culation of the side leakage, able to predict the expected crosstalk
between two adjacent transmission lines. A comparison with
measured results is proposed.
Broadside-Coupled Multi-Octave Impedance
Transformer
Zihui Zhang, Georg Boeck; Technische Universitt
Berlin, Germany
EuMC02-05, Time: 10:20
This paper presents a novel structure for ultra broadband 4:1
broadside-coupled PCB impedance transformer. Analysis, sim-
ulations and measurements of the developed transformer are
introduced and discussed. Three prototypes of the proposed
structure are implemented at center frequencies 5.65 GHz, 4.35
GHz and 3.65 GHz, respectively with fractional bandwidth of
greater than 180%. The implemented transformers show an ultra
broadband performance with a transmission loss less than 1
dB and return loss at least 10 dB across the desired bandwidth.
During comparison, simulations and measurements are found very
close to each other. To the authors best knowledge the achieved
performance of the designed transformer is better than so far
published state of the art results.
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EuMC03 : Recongurable and Multi-Band
Antennas
Venue: Iustina, 09:00 10:40, Tuesday 7th October 2014
Chair: Jozef Modelski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Co-Chair: Christian Waldschmidt, Universitt Ulm, Germany
Frequency Tunable Patch Antenna with Electrically
Actuated Supported Polymer Membrane
Samuel Baron, Benoit Guiard, Ala Sharaiha; IETR,
France
EuMC03-01, Time: 09:00
In this paper, we present a frequency-agile microstrip patch
antenna printed on a new soft elastomeric polyurethane (PU) sub-
strate (r 3.5 at 10 GHz). Membrane suspended over an air cavity
technology is used to increase the antenna eciency ( 31.7%)
in frequency X band and adds a supplementary degree of freedom
in the purpose of frequency agility. The membrane deection is
realized by electrical actuation (electromechanical reconguration)
and changes the air gap height between the patch and the ground
plane and thus the resonant frequency. This actuation depends on
the initial strain of the membrane. So, a frequency shift from 9.61
to 9.12 GHz (5.23% under 145 V) is obtained when the membrane
is relaxed. Besides, it is also shown the potentiality of beveled
structure to improve the deection control and strongly reduce the
required applied DC voltage to reach close tunability (4.10% under
30 V).
Design of a Compact Wideband Slot Antenna Using
Parasitic Reactive Tuning
Krishna Naishadham; Georgia Institute of Technology,
USA
EuMC03-02, Time: 09:20
Multi-band antennas are increasingly deployed in wireless systems
(e.g., cellular base stations) utilizing multiple dissimilar radiators
with separate feed networks for each band. A major diculty in
such design is to control the isolation between bands, and often the
elements are widely separated in space, for example, by allocating
the antennas for each frequency band to a separate dielectric layer.
Two major challenges to overcome then are the increased array
size and weight, and the complexity in feed design. This paper
presents the design of a compact, dual-port, printed slot antenna
that employs parasitic reactive coupling from an inter-digitated
capacitor (IDC) embedded in the microstrip feed line to provide
broadband impedance matching. An overlay lm above the IDC
(such as low-loss graphene thin lms) can be incorporated in
the design for additional tunability of the wide frequency band.
Antenna losses are minimized by isolating the IDC and the lm
from the radiator. The eects of the IDC and the overlay lms
surface impedance variation are parametrically examined through
simulations, and the wide impedance bandwidth (greater than
100%) is experimentally corroborated with and without a graphene
overlay lm.
A Frequency and Polarization Recongurable Patch
Antenna at K-Band
Benjamin Rohrdantz, Chinh Luong, Arne F. Jacob;
Technische Universitt Hamburg-Harburg, Germany
EuMC03-03, Time: 09:40
A K-band patch antenna with recongurable frequency and polar-
ization properties is proposed. It can be operated in two distinct
frequency bands around 20GHz and can be switched between
left and right hand circular polarization. The operating mode is
changed by means of pin diodes. The geometry and the radiation
behavior are optimized for array applications. The antenna relies
on a standard printed circuit board technology. It is therefore
well suited for ground segment applications in future Ka-Band
satellite communications. The paper presents the antenna design,
the optimization, and the verication through simulation and
measurement.
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A Compact and Recongurable Beam Pattern ESPAR
Antenna with Automatic Impedance Matching
System
Sol-Ji Yoo, Kwang-Seok Kim, Tae-Dong Yeo, Soo-Ji Lee,
Dong-Jin Lee, Jong-Won Yu; KAIST, Korea
EuMC03-04, Time: 10:00
A compact ESPAR antenna that is composed of 1 active-RF element
and 6 parasitic elements surrounding driven element is proposed
in this paper. This antenna is operated at 915 MHz and recong-
urable beam patterns that changed not only beam angel but also
beam width. Any beam patterns form, it is available to radiate and
minimize the return loss by using automatic impedance matching
system. The achievable realized gain is from 3.12 dBi to 4.8 dBi.
Substrate Integrated Waveguide Cavity Backed Slot
Antenna for Dual-Frequency Application
Soumava Mukherjee, Animesh Biswas, Kumar Vaibhav
Srivastava; IIT Kanpur, India
EuMC03-05, Time: 10:20
In this paper, a dual-frequency substrate integrated waveguide
(SIW) cavity backed slot antenna has been presented. The unique
slot structure includes a pair of slot stubs connected at the center
of the radiating slot which helps to create an additional hybrid
mode resonance at the higher frequency end. As a result, the
antenna resonates at two dierent frequencies 8.96 GHz and 15.84
GHz with a bandwidth of 240 MHz (2.67%) and 300 MHz (1.89%)
and gain of 4.47 dBi and 5.4 dBi respectively. The proposed design
has been fabricated and measured results are also presented. The
measured front-to-back ratio (FTBR) of the radiation pattern is 12
dB and 10 dB respectively and cross polarization level is 20 dB
below at both frequencies in the broadside direction.
EuMC04 : Propagation Modelling and
Characterisation
Venue: Baebiana, 14:20 16:00, Tuesday 7th October 2014
Chair: Nuno Carvalho, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Co-Chair: Stefano Pisa, Universit di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
Numerical and Experimental Analysis of UWB Pulse
Propagation into Human Tissues
Erika Pittella, Stefano Pisa, M. Cavagnaro; Universit di
Roma La Sapienza, Italy
EuMC04-02, Time: 14:40
In this paper an experimental validation of the results obtained
studying the reection of a UWB pulse by a multilayer human
body model is performed. The simulated received signal presents
a rst reection due to the air-skin interface and a second small
reection due to the interface between the posterior lung wall and
the bone. Measurements with commercial impulse radar have been
conducted to assess the simulation results, conrming that the
second refection is well distanced in time from the rst one and
that it can be used to detect lung and heart movements associated
with the cardio-respiratory activity.
Indoor O-Body Channel Measurements Using
Miniaturized Chip Antennas with Pattern Diversity
1 1 2 2
R. Masood , R. Burghelea , A. Carer , M. Le Gentil ,
O. Sentieys 2 , P. Pajusco 1 , C. Person 1 , Ronan Sauleau 3 ;
1
Lab-STICC, France; 2 INRIA, France; 3 IETR, France
EuMC04-03, Time: 15:00
In this paper, o-body channel measurements are proposed using
miniaturized chip antennas (dimension: 7 2 1.20 mm3 ) under
pattern diversity conguration at 2.22.3 GHz. The measurements
were carried out in a multipath indoor laboratory environment
using two sensors as transmitter and receiver deployed on-body
and free-space, respectively where each sensor comprises two
miniature chip antennas oering pattern diversity. The resulting
radio channels have been recorded while varying the inter-sensor
distance. Radio channel parameters such as link budget, power
delay prole and capacity were extracted from the measured
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data. Results show that pattern diversity can oer improvement
in perspective of link budget and channel capacity compared to
single-input single-output system for o-body channels proving
the suitability of miniaturized chip antennas for smart, low power
body area networks.
Narrowband Direction-of-Arrival Estimation of
Near-Field Sources Using Compressed Sensing
Artur Nalobin, Ilona Rolfes; Ruhr-Universitt Bochum,
Germany
EuMC04-04, Time: 15:20
This contribution deals with the direction-of-arrival estimation
of narrowband signals in near-eld scenarios using compressed
sensing strategies. The considerations relate to a single snapshot
of the signal impinging on a sensor array. For the estimation a
near-eld formulation of the array manifold vector is used. This
approach also allows to draw conclusion on the distance between
the array and the sources. Simulation as well as measurement
results are provided to present the performance of the proposed
method.
Statistical Model for Satellite to Helicopter Radio
Channel
Edgar Lemos Cid 1 , Ana Vzquez Alejos 1 , Manuel
Garca Snchez 1 , Santiago Garca Fernndez 2 ;
1
Universidade de Vigo, Spain; 2 Armada Espaola,
Spain
EuMC04-05, Time: 15:40
We have developed a semi-Markov model for the satellite to
helicopter radio channel at Ku band. It is a simple narrowband
model to characterize signal level variations. Firstly, we performed
several propagation measurements using two actual helicopters.
Then, we identied three dierent states in the received signal
uctuation. The rst one corresponds to a Line of Sight (LoS)
situation, with low diraction contributions, and hence small
signal level oscillation. The second state corresponds to the
obstruction of the LoS by the rotor blades, and the signal exhibits
deeper fades and larger level variations. The third state occurs
in between the previous two states, and corresponds to the LoS
situation with signicant diraction contributions. Finally, we
estimated the state parameters from the measurements. We have
also considered diversity reception and assessed the performance
of dierent diversity combining techniques.
EuMC05 : Broadband Planar Couplers
Venue: Hortensia, 14:20 16:00, Tuesday 7th October 2014
Chair: Christian Person, Lab-STICC, France
Co-Chair: Stphane Bila, XLIM, France
Multi-Octave Planar Microwave Slot-Coupled
Directional Coupler up to 28GHz with Novel Phase
Velocity Compensation
Andreas Oborovski, Maximilian Hofmann, Robert
Weigel, Dietmar Kissinger; FAU Erlangen-Nrnberg,
Germany
EuMC05-01, Time: 14:20
A nonuniform symmetrical QTEM-mode directional slot-line cou-
pler operating in a multi-octave frequency range from 2.5 GHz
up to 28.6GHz is presented. The calculated continuously varying
even- and odd-mode line impedances are realized by a 3D electro-
magnetic (EM) eld simulation of the slot-coupled microstrip cross
section. A new method of even- and odd-mode phase velocity
compensation, based on a continuously structured prepreg, is
suggested. A -8.34 dB coupling factor is achieved, showing a
low amplitude and phase imbalance up to 28 GHz. Furthermore,
a tandem conguration is evaluated by utilizing two -8.34 dB
directional coupler to form a wideband -3.01 dB coupler.
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On-Chip Miniaturized 3-dB Directional Coupler
Using Coupled Synthesized CPWs on Integrated
Passive Device (IPD) Process
Ying-Cheng Tseng, Tzyh-Ghuang Ma; NTUST, Taiwan
EuMC05-02, Time: 14:40
An on-chip miniaturized 3-dB directional coupler is investigated in
this paper using coupled synthesized coplanar waveguides (CPWs)
on the integrated passive device (IPD) process. Coupled spiral
inductors and MIM capacitors are used to achieve tight coupling
between the lines. The proposed on-chip coupler is only 15% the
length of a conventional design in CPW form on the same substrate.
The design principles and experimental results are discussed. A
comparison table with the state-of-the-art designs helps support
the uniqueness of the proposed approach.
An Ultra Wideband, High Directivity 3dB Coupler
Oren Aharoni, Khona Garb, Raphael Kastner; Tel Aviv
University, Israel
EuMC05-03, Time: 15:00
High directivity is achieved in a 3 dB directional coupler operating
over the 618 GHz range. A symmetric, tri-sectional microstrip
structure is employed with tight and weak coupling at the center
and adjacent sections, respectively. To enhance directivity and
return loss in the weak coupling sections, a new design method-
ology is used, based on manipulating the gap and metal lines
such that even and odd modes phase velocities are equalized. The
tight section is designed in a tandem structure. A small physical
size (38 mm2 ) is also attained. The method is established with
simulations and measurements.
Broadband Branch-Line Coupler with Very Loose
Coupling Utilizing Open/Short-Circuited
Coupled-Transmission Lines
Tadashi Kawai 1 , Nobuo Nakajima 1 , Akira
Enokihara 1 , Isao Ohta 1 , Kei Satoh 2 , Yasunori Suzuki 2 ,
Hiroshi Okazaki 2 , Shoichi Narahashi 2 ; 1 University of
Hyogo, Japan; 2 NTT DOCOMO, Japan
EuMC05-04, Time: 15:20
In this paper broadband branch-line couplers with loose cou-
plings (less than -10 dB) utilizing open/short-circuited coupled-
transmission lines are proposed. By applying the equivalent
admittance approach to the proposed branch-line coupler, broad-
band characteristics with a relative bandwidth of 47.5% for 20
dB return loss and directivity can be obtained in the case of the
branch-line coupler with a coupling factor of -20 dB. The validity of
this design procedure has been demonstrated by electromagnetic
simulations and experiments.
DC Isolated Directional Coupler
Pavel Turalchuk 1 , Irina Munina 1 , Irina Vendik 1 , Jia
Ni 2 , Jiasheng Hong 2 ; 1 St. Petersburg Electrotechnical
University, Russia; 2 Heriot-Watt University, UK
EuMC05-05, Time: 15:40
Novel designs of directional couplers with input and output
isolation for microwave circuits are proposed. The low-loss direc-
tional coupler on coupled lines designed with implementation of
multilayer liquid crystal polymer (LCP) technology is considered
as a component of phase shifters. Using thin layers of LCP circuit
material makes it possible to realize a periodical capacitive loading
of coupled lines in order to obtain dc isolation between input and
outputs, which allows signicant simplifying the biasing circuitry
of phase shifters and as a result reducing overall size. In line with
the experimental results of the coupled line structure the insertion
loss does not exceed 0.1 dB in operational frequency band 2.73.2
GHz.
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EuMC06 : Integrated Millimetre Wave and
Terahertz Antennas
Venue: Iustina, 14:20 16:00, Tuesday 7th October 2014
Chair: Andreas Stelzer, Johannes Kepler Universitt Linz, Austria
Co-Chair: Tuami Lasri, IEMN, France
Design and Characterization Concepts of a
Broadband Chip-Integrated Antenna
Martin Hitzler, Christian Waldschmidt; Universitt
Ulm, Germany
EuMC06-01, Time: 14:20
This paper presents the integrated antenna of a frequency mod-
ulated constant wave (FMCW) radar chip operating in the 79 GHz
band. Besides the transmitting and receiving mode of the chip,
an alternative to characterize the antenna reection coecient,
gain, and radiation pattern are implemented on chip. The multi-
ple options are established by using the focused ion beam (FIB)
process in combination with a short-circuited quarter wavelength
transformer. Additionally, a through-reect-line (TRL) calibration
is provided on chip to deembed the probe tips. The measured 10
dB matching bandwidth of the antenna is 9 GHz with a at gain of
2 dBi and a radiation eciency of about 30%.
Dual Polarised Antenna for THz Space Applications:
Design and Optimization
Nuria Llombart 1 , Ozan Yurduseven 1 , Andrea Neto 1 ,
Ioan E. Lager 1 , Jochem Baselmans 2 ; 1 Technische
Universiteit Delft, The Netherlands; 2 SRON, The
Netherlands
EuMC06-02, Time: 14:40
The design of a dual polarized Leaky Lens Antenna is discussed. Its
performance in case of two possible feeding structures consisting
of either a microstrip or a coplanar waveguide is examined. The
aperture eciency is optimised by means of a parametric study
concerning variable extension lengths. The optimised LLA shows
high eciency and clean symmetric patterns in both polarisations.
The resulting antenna is intended to be integrated with a Kinetic
Inductance Detector, this approach yielding a broadband THz
detector with high potential for future space applications.
Small Size 60GHz CMOS Antenna-on-Chip: Gain and
Eciency Enhancement Using Asymmetric Articial
Magnetic Conductor
Adel Barakat 1 , Ahmed Allam 1 , Hala Elsadek 2 ,
Haruichi Kanaya 3 , Ramesh K. Pokharel 3 ; 1 E-JUST,
Egypt; 2 Electronics Research Institute, Egypt; 3 Kyushu
University, Japan
EuMC06-03, Time: 15:00
This paper presents a small size 60 GHz Antenna-on-Chip (AoC)
designed and fabricated using 0.18 m TSMC Complementary
Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) process. AoC performance is
enhanced using asymmetric Articial Magnetic Conductor (AMC).
The AoC area including the AMC is 1715 m by 710 m. As AMC
shields AoC from the lossy CMOS substrate, simulated gain of -0.25
dBi is achieved at 60 GHz for design rule compatible circular AoC
with 12.8 dB front-to-back ratio (FBR) due to removal of AMC cells
below the AoC. Measurements agree well with simulation results
and conrm operation at the 60 GHz band with a peak measured
gain of -3 dBi at 64 GHz.
A 60-GHz Eciency-Enhanced On-Chip Dipole
Antenna Using Helium-3 Ion Implantation Process
Rui Wu 1 , Wei Deng 1 , Shinji Sato 1 , Takuichi Hirano 1 ,
Ning Li 1 , Takeshi Inoue 2 , Hitoshi Sakane 2 , Kenichi
Okada 1 , Akira Matsuzawa 1 ; 1 Tokyo Institute of
Technology, Japan; 2 S.H.I. Examination & Inspection,
Japan
EuMC06-04, Time: 15:20
A 60-GHz CMOS on-chip dipole antenna with eciency-
enhancement technique is presented. A helium-3 ion irradiation
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process is used to reduce the substrate losses of the on-chip
antenna. The radiation eciency of the antenna is doubled using
the ion implantation technique. The antenna is fabricated in a
65-nm CMOS technology with a core area of 0.48 mm2 . The on-chip
antenna achieves a peak gain of -4.1 dBi at 60GHz and a gain
uctuation of around 1dB from 57 GHz to 67GHz.
A High-Impedance Surface Antenna on Silicon
Interposer for 3D Integrated mmW Transceivers
Ossama El Bouayadi, Yann Lamy, Laurent Dussopt;
CEA-LETI, France
EuMC06-05, Time: 15:40
A novel design of millimeter-wave antennas integrated with a
high-impedance surface (HIS) reector is presented within the
particular context of 3D heterogeneous integration on silicon
interposer an its specic requirements. Then, the design steps of
a 60-GHz folded dipole antenna for short-range communications
are detailed. Simulation and measurement results show promising
performances in terms of gain and radiation eciency while a
bandwidth enhancement method is proposed for future designs.
Process and fabrication issues are addressed and an experimental
validation is proposed with a DC/RF test vehicle.
EuMC07 : Measurement of Permittivity and
Permeability
Venue: Aurelia, 16:40 18:20, Tuesday 7th October 2014
Chair: Steve Nightingale, Cobham
Co-Chair: Adrian Porch, Cardi University, UK
Wideband Characterization of Dielectric Material by
New Approaches Based on Near Field Microwave
Microscopy
Jamal Rammal, Olivier Tantot, Nicolas Delhote, Serge
Verdeyme; XLIM, France
EuMC07-01, Time: 16:40
We present in this paper an electromagnetic model based on nite
elements method for the characterization of dielectric samples
with a near eld microwave microscopy, this proposed model
is a useful tool to determine for, a given microcopy probe, the
minimum substrate thickness required to extract accurately the
substrate relative permittivity and loss tangent. This paper pro-
poses a practical application with a wideband characterization
apparatus.
Monitoring of Electromagnetic Characteristics of
Split Cylinder Resonator and Dielectric Material for
Temperature Characterization
Jamal Rammal, Olivier Tantot, Damien Passerieux,
Nicolas Delhote, Serge Verdeyme; XLIM, France
EuMC07-02, Time: 17:00
The method of the split cylinder resonator cavity (SCR) is used to
characterize accurately and simultaneously in one temperature
cycle, dimensional and electrical characteristics of the cavity and
the electromagnetic properties of a dielectric material. To do this
several modes are used, some to control the cavity and others to
control the sample.
A Permittivity Characterization Method by Detuned
Ring-Resonators for Bulk Materials up to 110GHz
Armin Talai 1 , Frank Steinhuer 2 , Achim Bittner 2 ,
Ulrich Schmid 2 , Robert Weigel 1 , Alexander Koelpin 1 ;
1
FAU Erlangen-Nrnberg, Germany; 2 Technische
Universitt Wien, Austria
EuMC07-03, Time: 17:20
An accurate characterization of microwave materials is essential
for reliable high frequency circuit design. This paper presents a
measurement setup, which enables a quick and accurate determi-
nation of the relative permittivity of dielectric bulk materials up to
110 GHz. A ring-resonator is manufactured on a well characterized
substrate dealing as reference resonator. The Material Under Test
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(MUT) is placed on top of the ring, which increases the eective
permittivity and therefore introduces a shift of the resonance
frequency of the resonator. Electromagnetic eld simulations with
dierent heights and relative permittivities of the MUT provide
a lookup table for the measured resonance frequencies. The
functionality of the proposed measurement setup is validated by
measurement results of dierent MUTs.
Microwave Complex Permeability of Magnetite
Using Non-Demagnetising and Demagnetising
Cavity Modes
Jerome Alexander Cuenca 1 , Sylke Klein 2 , Reinhold
Rger 2 , Adrian Porch 1 ; 1 Cardi University, UK;
2
Merck, Germany
EuMC07-04, Time: 17:40
This paper investigates the use of a cylindrical microwave cavity
resonator to measure the complex permeability of mixtures of
magnetite (Fe3 O4 ) and silicon dioxide (SiO2 ) using dierent eld
orientations. The weight percentages of the mixtures are varied
and the eective bulk permeability is measured at frequencies
from 3.8GHz to 10.16GHz using the TM110 and TE0np modes.
The calculated permeability using the TM110 mode (where the
sample experiences demagnetisation owing to the perpendicular
eld orientation) is veried using TE0np modes (where the sample
demagnetisation is small). The TM110 measurement follows the
permeability and loss trends with frequency, demonstrating the
eectiveness of this non-invasive technique for measuring the
broadband magnetic properties of powder mixtures at microwave
frequencies.
Applications of Dielectric Periodic Structure in the
Measurement of Complex Permittivity
Weihai Fang, Feng Nian, Peng Fei, Yunmei Cheng, Jun
Ge; Beijing Institute of Radio Metrology &
Measurement, China
EuMC07-05, Time: 18:00
New free-space measurement for complex permittivity has been
proposed in which dielectric periodic structure (DPS) is intro-
duced. Because of the absence of phase information, there are
no instability and phase-shift ambiguity problems. Because of
the resonance characteristic of DPS, it can also measure low-loss
materials. The scattering characteristics of DPS added loss sample
layer are systemically analyzed by a method which combines
the multimode network theory with the rigorous mode matching
method. The eects of complex permittivity on the amplitudes
and center frequencies of the maximum reections are analyzed in
details.
EuMC08 : Wireless Systems and
Applications
Venue: Cecilia, 16:40 18:20, Tuesday 7th October 2014
Chair: Tuami Lasri, IEMN, France
Co-Chair: Huib Visser, IMEC, Univ. of Endhoven
How Do Trac Signs Look Like in Radar?
Klaudius Werber 1 , Michael Barjenbruch 2 , Jens
Klappstein 1 , Juergen Dickmann 1 , Christian
Waldschmidt 2 ; 1 Daimler, Germany; 2 Universitt Ulm,
Germany
EuMC08-01, Time: 16:40
In this paper RCS measurements of trac signs, a sign pole and
a guide post for dierent viewing angles are presented. The
signs show strongly angle dependent reection characteristics and
several sources of reections. Furthermore, the eects of these
characteristics relevant for a vehicle approaching a trac sign are
regarded.
These considerations constitute a basis for using such trac
objects as landmarks for radar based vehicle self-localization.
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Performance Evaluation of In-Band LTE Mobile
Relays in High Speed Railway Environments
Jaime Calle-Sanchez, Mariano Molina-Garca, David
De-Antonio-Monte, J.I. Alonso; Universidad Politcnica
de Madrid, Spain
EuMC08-02, Time: 17:00
Nowadays, the increased use of smartphones, laptops and tablets,
has led to an exponential increment of mobile data services in
high speed mobility scenarios. Under this scope, the 3GPP work-
ing group for LTE standardization, is paying more attention to
communication in railways environments. This standardization
group is promoting the usage of mobile relay nodes for improving
performance in high speed railways scenario. In this paper, the
authors investigate the issue of mobile relay capacity improvement
for on-board train users and its impact on the overall network
performance.
3.5kW Wind Turbine for Cellular Base Station: Radar
Cross Section Modelling and Measurement
Tran Vu La 1 , Franois Le Pennec 1 , Fabrice Comblet 1 ,
Serge Elenga 2 ; 1 Lab-STICC, France; 2 IDSUD ENERGIES,
France
EuMC08-03, Time: 17:20
Due to dramatic increase in power demand for future mobile
networks (LTE/4G, 5G), hybrid- (solar-/wind-/fuel-) powered base
station has become an eective solution to reduce fossil fuel
consumption. Such base stations are powered by small wind
turbines (SWT) having nominal power in the range of 1.57.5 kW.
In the context of the OPERA-Net2 European project, the study
aims to quantify and possibly mitigate radio interaction between
such SWTs and BTSs. Compared to megawatt WTs, SWTs have the
diversity of shape, material and orientation (horizontal / vertical).
Thus, a simple representative model (RSWT) was rst designed.
It is fully metallic to correspond to the worst radio case and its
dimensions are scalable to SWT nominal power. In this paper, the
RSWT dimensions have been optimized to improve the match of
RCS between the RSWT and realistic SWT models having the same
nominal power. To verify, comparisons have been done between
the RSWT and 3.5 kW Nheowind 3D100 (IDSUD ENERGIES). A scaled
prototype of the 3.5 kW RSWT with ratio 1:10 was manufactured.
Its RCS as a function of azimuth angle was measured in an ane-
choic chamber at 9 and 17 GHz with dierent blade positions.
Comparison between simulation and measurement shows a good
agreement.
Towards a Broadband Front-End for Cooperative
Spectrum Sensing Networks
Peter Lohmiller 1 , Ahmed Elsokary 1 , Hermann
Schumacher 1 , Sbastien Chartier 2 ; 1 Universitt Ulm,
Germany; 2 Airbus Defence & Space, Germany
EuMC08-04, Time: 17:40
Cooperative spectrum sensing in cognitive radio (CR) avoids
hidden terminal problems common to network architectures with
central sensing nodes. It also lowers the requirements for the
sensing radio front-ends. This paper presents a multi-chip module
RF front-end implemented from custom RFICs realized in an
0.25 m SiGe BiCMOS technology. Using an up/down-conversion
heterodyne architecture, the front-end achieves a conversion gain
exceeding 17.2 dB and a frequency range up to 4.5 GHz. The noise
gure between 15.4 dB and 19.8 dB and the input referred third
order intercept point (IIP3) of -7.5dBm constitute a noise/linearity
trade-o and are acceptable for compact distributed sensing
nodes. The module draws 150mA from a single 5V supply. It
was validated in real-world sensing scenarios, combined with a
broadband discone antenna, external local oscillators, and a Virtex
6 FPGA evaluation board.
Study on Increasing Eciency of Radio
Communication Using Tunable Antenna and
Software-Dened Radio
Yosuke Saito, Tadashi Ebihara, Koichi Mizutani, Naoto
Wakatsuki; University of Tsukuba, Japan
EuMC08-05, Time: 18:00
The demand for a software-dened radio (SDR) is increasing
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because it can support variety of frequency bands and modulation
techniques. However, a condition of an antenna can become a
bottleneck of the communication system using SDR due to less
exibility of the antenna. For example, when the SDR changes the
signal frequency dynamically or the communication system faces
a disturbance such as human body presence, the communication
eciency becomes small compared to the ideal state due to an
impedance mismatching between the radio and the antenna. In
this study, we propose a communication system that achieves high
communication eciency by integrating the tunable antenna and
the SDR. The authors designed the SDR for not only to support
exible communication schemes but also to control the tunable
antenna actively. We considered two practical situations that raise
impedance mismatching and performed experiments whether the
proposal communication system can coordinate the impedance
of the antenna. We found that the proposed system can provide
a near perfect match by sensing the environment and controlling
the tuned circuit accurately. As a result, it was conrmed that the
proposed system can improve the utility of SDR by increasing the
communication eciency under various environments.
EuMC09 : Microwave Sensing
Venue: Domizia, 16:40 18:20, Tuesday 7th October 2014
Chair: Christian Waldschmidt, Universitt Ulm, Germany
Co-Chair: Dietmar Kissinger, FAU Erlangen-Nrnberg, Germany
Preliminary Results on Using of Microwave
Reectometer System for the Diagnostic of
Embedded Structural Anomalies in Timber Structure
Samuele Beni 1 , Filippo Micheletti 2 , R. Olmi 2 , Cristiano
Riminesi 3 ; 1 ELab Scientic, Italy; 2 CNR-IFAC, Italy;
3
CNR-ICVBC, Italy
EuMC09-01, Time: 16:40
The localization of structural anomalies in timber structures by
a robust, reliable and an user friendly system are the objects of
this research activity. In this contribution, authors present some
results of the activity and they highlight the potentiality of this
technique and its applications. The potentiality of the system as
diagnostic tool based on non-destructive techniques are certainly
useful for the framework of Cultural Heritage, such as others
frameworks of the building industry.
A Microwave Permittivity Sensing System Based on
a Hybrid Heterodyne Reectometer Circuit
J. Nehring, M. Schuetz, Robert Weigel, Dietmar
Kissinger; FAU Erlangen-Nrnberg, Germany
EuMC09-02, Time: 17:00
In this paper a microwave permittivity sensing system based
on a super-heterodyne reectometer is presented. A set of two
high directivity directional couplers is utilized for the derivation
of a reference and a reection measurement channel from a
1418GHz stimulus. Integrated Gilbert-cell circuits were fabri-
cated in a SiGe HBT technology and act as frequency converters
for the high frequency measurement signals to an intermediate
frequency of 1GHz. A second mixer stage is implemented for
further down-conversion to a second IF as low as 20 kHz. Low-cost
analog-to-digital converters and a digital signal processor provide
the measurement results on a serial interface. Permittivity mea-
surements with a coaxial dielectric probe were performed on ve
dierent mixture ratios of ethanol and methanol.
Humidity Dependent Permittivity Characterization
of Polyvinyl-Alcohol Film and its Application in
Relative Humidity RF Sensor
Donghang Lu, Yuliang Zheng, Andreas Penirschke,
Alex Wiens, Wenjuan Hu, Rolf Jakoby; Technische
Universitt Darmstadt, Germany
EuMC09-03, Time: 17:20
This work addresses the dielectric characterization of polyvinyl-
alcohol (PVA) in humidity sensing applications. The PVA lm is
characterized in relative humidity (RH) range from 12% to 94% over
a frequency span from 1 GHz to 10 GHz, and its suitability for
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RH sensing is veried with a sensor prototype by implementing
a resonator. The characterization results of the PVA lm are
applied to simulate the frequency response of the sensor, and the
discrepancy between the simulation and measurement is less than
8%. The maximal average sensitivity of the fabricated sensor is
42.7 MHz/%RH.
New Passive Ceramic Sensor for Corrosion
Detection
Jamal Rammal 1 , Nicolas Delhote 1 , Olivier Tantot 1 ,
Serge Verdeyme 1 , Franois Galle 2 , Stphane Rioual 3 ;
1
XLIM, France; 2 Lab-STICC, France; 3 LMB (EA 4522),
France
EuMC09-04, Time: 17:40
We present in this paper a new passive ceramic corrosion sensor
which can be integrated into a structure submitted to a corrosive
environment. The corrosion detection mechanism is based on the
modication of a resonator frequency as a function of the corrosion
level. An alumina substrate is covered with a metal enclosure that
is protected against corrosion apart from the middle of the top
face. This latter, patterned as a grid, is made of a metal sensitive to
corrosion. The cracks caused by the corrosion in the grid introduce
a capacitive eect and cause a frequency shift of the resonance
mode (fr ), and a degradation of unloaded quality factor (Q0 ) as a
function of the corrosion level.
A Low-Cost 2.4GHz Frequency Measurement System
for Microsecond Time Domain Pulses Based on
Six-Port Technology
Fabian Lurz, S. Lindner, Sebastian Mann, Sarah Linz,
Francesco Barbon, Robert Weigel, Alexander Koelpin;
FAU Erlangen-Nrnberg, Germany
EuMC09-05, Time: 18:00
This paper presents a fast responding frequency measurement
system based on Six-Port technology being able to determine
precisely the frequency of very short time domain pulses of one
microsecond and even less in the 2.4 GHz ISM band. By using a
delay line the frequency measurement can be reduced to a phase
measurement that can be quickly evaluated by the Six-Port network
implemented with lumped components. The delay line, currently
realized by a SMA cable, is extremely sensitive to temperature
variations even in the range of 0.1K due to changes of the eective
relative permittivity of the inner insulator. Thus, a temperature
compensation method based on reference measurements is pro-
posed and nal measurements show that this system can reach a
calibrated and temperature compensated error of only a few parts
per million (ppm).
EuMC10 : Advanced Waveguide Filter
Realisations
Venue: Flavia, 16:40 18:20, Tuesday 7th October 2014
Chair: Ian Hunter, University of Leeds, UK
Co-Chair: Vicente Boria, Universidad Politcnica de Valencia,
Spain
Waveguide Evanescent Mode Filters Using High-Q
Bypassed Cavities for Extreme Close-In Rejection
Simone Bastioli, Richard V. Snyder; RS Microwave, USA
EuMC10-01, Time: 16:40
An original solution for the realization of pseudoelliptic evanes-
cent mode lters with extreme close-in rejection is presented
in this paper. The basic idea consists of using high-Q bypassed
TE201 mode cavities embedded within two or more evanescent
mode resonators. Such a combination of resonators allows the
generation of extremely close transmission zeros while realizing
at the same time relatively wide passbands and stopbands, the
latter being a typical feature of the evanescent mode lter class. In
contrast with other pseudo-elliptic evanescent mode lters using
conventional approaches, the insertion loss degradation at the
lter cut-o frequencies is minimized thanks to the high-Q factor
of the bypassed TE201 mode cavities, whose corresponding poles
are located right at the edges of the passband. The experimental
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results of a waveguide evanescent mode lter having 9.95011.000
GHz passband and providing more than 45 dB rejection between
11.040 and 11.050 GHz validate the proposed solution.
Dual-Band Filters Based on TM Dual-Mode Cavities
Valeria Nocella 1 , Fabrizio Cacciamani 1 , Cristano
Tomassoni 1 , Roberto Sorrentino 1 , Luca Pelliccia 2 ;
1
Universit di Perugia, Italy; 2 RF Microtech, Italy
EuMC10-02, Time: 17:00
This paper presents a novel geometry for the realization of compact
dual-band waveguide lters. It is based on TM dual-mode cavities
that allow for asymmetric ltering functions with N transmission
poles and N transmission zeros. In contrast to previous works,
that are limited to structures with a single passband, here the TM
cavity geometry is used to generate one pole in each passband
and two transmission zeros located below, above or between the
two passbands. Thus, a basic building-block for the design of
multiple-cavity asymmetric dual-band lters is achieved. The use
of TM cavities signicantly minimizes the lter length without
reducing the RF performances, mainly in terms of insertion loss. A
three-cavity TM dual-band lter with six asymmetric transmission
zeros has been designed and manufactured to validate the pro-
posed geometry.
New Folded Conguration of Rectangular
Waveguide Filters with Asymmetrical Transmission
Zeros
Carlos Carceller 1 , Pablo Soto 1 , Vicente E. Boria 1 ,
Marco Guglielmi 2 , David Raboso 2 ; 1 Universidad
Politcnica de Valencia, Spain; 2 ESA, The Netherlands
EuMC10-03, Time: 17:20
This paper presents a novel lter topology for the implementation
of asymmetric responses with transmission zeros (TZs) in rect-
angular waveguide technology. It is based on a compact folded
E-plane arrangement where adjacent resonators are capacitively
coupled through rectangular slots, and non-adjacent resonators
are coupled through simple inductive windows. The new folded
conguration allows the introduction of transmission zeros above
the passband, which can be easily controlled. High order lters
can be designed by cascading an arbitrary number of resonators
in a folded layout. Components based on this novel conguration
are amenable to simple manufacturing processes and can be
used in high-power environments. A triplexer containing lters
implemented with the proposed topology has been designed. Mea-
surements of a manufactured prototype are included to validate
the use of this topology in practical applications.
Wide-Band Dielectric Filter at C-Band Manufactured
by Stereolithography
Yoann Marchives 1 , Nicolas Delhote 1 , Serge
Verdeyme 1 , Petronilo Martin Iglesias 2 ; 1 XLIM, France;
2
ESA, The Netherlands
EuMC10-04, Time: 17:40
In this paper, an original solution for dielectric wide bandpass
lters is introduced. A 4-pole lter based on the TM01 mode has
been designed in a single piece including resonators and coupling
elements. The dielectric part is based on a high permittivity
material (Zirconia) and has been manufactured using additive man-
ufacturing technology (stereolithography). The breadboard shows
a Q-factor around 1100, 5% bandwidth at 4GHz with insertion
losses of 0.25dB and an in-band return loss of -9dB. The intro-
duction of dielectric material for wide bandpass lters provides a
reduction size which a key drivers for space applications.
Low Insertion Loss 61GHz Narrow-Band Filter
Implemented with Groove Gap Waveguides
Antonio Berenguer, Mariano Baquero-Escudero, Daniel
Sanchez-Escuderos, Bernardo Bernardo-Clemente,
Vicente E. Boria; Universidad Politcnica de Valencia,
Spain
EuMC10-05, Time: 18:00
This paper presents a 61 GHz narrow-band lter, implemented with
Groove Gap Waveguide (GGW) coupled resonators. This structure
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does not require metal contact on the side walls and, therefore,
is very suitable for mm-wave applications. At these frequencies,
the manufacturing process imperfections become important, and
an appreciable response deterioration can be found using classical
microwave waveguides, such as the rectangular waveguide. The
presented lter is a 5 pole Chebyshev lter, having 2,5% relative
bandwidth. An important novelty in this design is the integration
of the coaxial feeding in the bottom metal piece, which allows even
more manufacturing exibility. The remarkable good results in
terms of insertion losses (1,5 dB), and return losses (13 dB), of the
fabricated prototype endorse this technology as a serious solution
for the mm-wave band.
EuMC11 : MEMS Based Techniques for
Tuneable Devices and Systems
Venue: Giulia, 16:40 18:20, Tuesday 7th October 2014
Chair: Fabio Coccetti, LAAS, France
Co-Chair: Mehmet Kaynak, IHP, Germany
A 010GHz SP16T MEMS Switch for Switched Beam
Satellite Antenna Systems
P. Farinelli 1 , H. El Ghannudi 1 , A. Cazzorla 2 , Roberto
Sorrentino 2 , L. Capponi 3 ; 1 RF Microtech, Italy;
2 lter when the three RF MEMS switches are actuated. The actuation
Universit di Perugia, Italy; 3 SpaceSys, Italy
EuMC11-01, Time: 16:40
This paper presents the design, manufacturing and testing of
a MEMS SP16T switch to be used in open loop recongurable
antenna systems. It consists of the hybrid integration of #5 MEMS
SP4T switches (realized on HR Silicon substrate) on a multilayer
substrate. The bilayer structure allows one to avoid RF and DC
signal crossovers that could degrade the switch performance. The
device is provided with SMA connectors and Control Electronic
Board to operate with standard 05V signals. A wideband device
was developed, working from DC up to 10GHz. The switch has
been designed using both circuital and full-wave EM models.
The simulations are presented in comparison with the measured
performance. The SP16T switch shows return and insertion loss
better than 12dB and 3.2dB, isolation better than 24dB from 0 up
to 10GHz. Tests on the actual antenna systems are on-going.
Compact 1212 Switch Matrix Integrating RF MEMS
Switches in LTCC Hermetic Packages
Franco Diaferia 1 , Francois Deborgies 2 , Sergio
Di Nardo 1 , Beatrice Espana 3 , P. Farinelli 4 , Andrea
Lucibello 5 , Romolo Marcelli 5 , Benno Margesin 6 , Flavio
Giacomozzi 6 , Larissa Vietzorreck 7 , Francesco Vitulli 1 ;
1
Thales Alenia Space, Italy; 2 ESA, The Netherlands;
3
Thales Alenia Space, France; 4 Universit di Perugia,
Italy; 5 CNR-IMM, Italy; 6 FBK, Italy; 7 Technische
Universitt Mnchen, Germany
EuMC11-02, Time: 17:00
A 1212 Switch Matrix Unit featuring silicon RF MEMS assem-
bled on LTCC boards has been developed under a Contract with
the European Space Agency (ESA) for satellite communication
application. The Switch Matrix is a complete Engineering Model
unit, housed in a mechanical box in aluminum with RF coaxial
connectors and DC connectors for powering and commanding. To
the authors knowledge, it is the rst complex equipment realized
in Europe exploiting the advanced features of the RF MEMS and
multilayer LTCC technology to achieve a signicant mass and size
reduction. Full wave simulations of entire structure are reported,
as well as test results. Their agreement is good up to the satellite
downlink C-band (3.74.2 GHz). An insertion loss of -20dB, return
loss of -10dB and isolation of 4045dB have been measured. The
matrix is passive (not provided with ampliers), having a DC power
consumption of less than half watt due to the digital command
circuitry.
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A Novel Micro-Fabrication Process for Integration of
Superconductor Niobium-Based RF Circuits with
Gold-Based RF MEMS Devices
Sara S. Attar 1 , Paul Laforge 2 , Raafat R. Mansour 1 ;
1
University of Waterloo, Canada; 2 University of Regina,
Canada
EuMC11-03, Time: 17:20
A novel 8-mask fabrication process for the integration of Low
Temperature Superconducting (LTS) niobium (Nb) RF circuits with
gold-based RF MEMS switches is proposed. A xed and a tunable
3-pole bandpass lter (BPF) are fabricated implementing the new
Nb-based fabrication process. The tunable BPF includes nine
dc-contact RF MEMS switches. The center frequency of the tunable
BPF shifts from 10 GHz to 9 GHz when the three switches that
change the length of the resonators are in the on state and the
other six are in the o state. The rst version of the tunable
BPF is all gold-based, which is measured at room temperature.
The insertion loss of the all gold-based tunable BPF is close to
5.5 dB. The switches actuation voltage is around 32 V at room
temperature. The xed version of the BPF is fabricated using Nb
as the lossless metal layer. Measurement of the xed Nb-based
BPF shows 4.4 dB improvement in the insertion loss at 4 K. The
tunable version of the superconducting BPF is also fabricated and
measured at 4 K. There is 1 GHz shift in the center frequency of the
voltage of the gold-based RF MEMS switches at 4 K is about 48 V.
MEMS Varactor with High RF Power Handling
Capability for Tuning of Wideband Low Noise RF
VCOs
G. Kahmen 1 , M. Kaynak 2 , M. Wietstruck 2 , B. Tillack 2 ,
Hermann Schumacher 3 ; 1 Rohde & Schwarz, Germany;
2
IHP, Germany; 3 Universitt Ulm, Germany
EuMC11-04, Time: 17:40
High Power handling capabilities are not the main focus in MEMS
varactor research and development. In this paper MEMS varactors
with excellent RF power handling capabilities of up to 16 VPP for
application in low noise wideband RF VCOs (Voltage controlled
oscillators) have been designed, fabricated and characterized.
These MEMS varactors are embedded in the BEOL (Back end of
line) metallization stack of a state- of-the-art Si/SiGe BiCMOS
semiconductor process and show an overall capacity ratio of > 4:1.
The pseudo linear tuning range before the membrane snap-down
is 1.4:1 without and 1.65 after de-embedding of interconnect and
substrate parasitics. This tuning range is not reduced signicantly
even when applying RF amplitudes of up to 16 VPP . This high
power handling capability makes this type of MEMS varactor an
excellent candidate for tuning of wideband ultra-low noise RF
VCOs. The mechanical and RF design was carried out applying a
novel interactive approach that allows an in depth understanding
of the various design constrains.
Slow-Wave Distributed MEMS Phase Shifter in CMOS
for Millimeter-Wave Applications
B.M. Verona 1 , G.P. Rehder 1 , A.L.C. Serrano 1 , M.N.P.
Carreo 1 , Philippe Ferrari 2 ; 1 Universidade de So
Paulo, Brazil; 2 IMEP-LAHC, France
EuMC11-05, Time: 18:00
This paper presents the rst experimental results of a distributed-
MEMS phase shifter for millimeter waves applications. It is based
on a tunable shielded coplanar waveguide (S-CPW) fabricated using
the back-end-of-line (BEOL) of AMS 0.35 m CMOS technology. A
simple maskless post-CMOS etch was used to remove the BEOL
silicon dioxide and release the ribbons of the S-CPW that can be
electrostatically displaced, changing the capacitance of the S-CPW,
altering the phase of the propagating signal. A phase shift of 25.1
with an insertion loss of 0.7 dB was measured in an 1120 m-long
S-CPW at 60 GHz, under a 60 V bias voltage, resulting in a Figure
of Merit of 36 /dB. The developed approach also leads to a small
insertion loss variation of 0.1 dB. These rst results should be
further improved by optimizing the mechanical design.
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EuMC12 : Power Dividers
Venue: Hortensia, 16:40 18:20, Tuesday 7th October 2014
Chair: Robin Sloan, University of Manchester, UK
Co-Chair: Hadia El Hennawy, Ain Shams University, Egypt
Novel Wideband Balanced Network with Wideband
Common Mode Suppression
Wenjie Feng 1 , Wenquan Che 1 , Quan Xue 2 ; 1 NUST,
China; 2 City University of Hong Kong, China
EuMC12-01, Time: 16:40
A novel wideband balanced power dividing/ combining network
is proposed in this paper. Based on matrix transformation, the
dierential mode and common mode equivalent circuits of the
wideband balanced network can be easily deduced. A planar
wideband balanced network with bandwidths of 55.3% (|Sdd21, 31 |
< 4 dB) for the dierential mode with wideband common mode
suppression is designed and fabricated. The theoretical and mea-
sured results agree well with each other and show good in-band
performances.
A 1:8 Cascaded Wilkinson Power Divider
Gavin T. Watkins; Toshiba Research Europe, UK
EuMC12-02, Time: 17:00
A high ratio Wilkinson power divider is produced by cascading
low ratio dividers. Combining two 1:2 and one 1:3 divider results
in a 1:8 ratio. Theoretically the 1:8 divider has an S21 of -0.51dB
and an S31 of -9.54dB. Under simulation the average S21 over a
1.72.7GHz band was -0.7dB and the S31 -10.3dB. A prototype
was built on standard 1.6mm FR4 substrate. The 1:3 divider uses
stacked substrates. Doubling substrate thickness allows a high
impedance line to be realized at a sensible width. The measured
average S21 was -1.6dB and the S31 -11.2dB. The FR4 substrate
has an estimated loss of 1.4dB. Allowing for this loss, the power
divider is operating close to the theory.
Microstrip Quad Mode Recongurable Power
Divider
Hany F. Hammad 1 , Yahia M.M. Antar 2 ; 1 German
University in Cairo, Egypt; 2 Royal Military College,
Canada
EuMC12-03, Time: 17:20
A new quad mode 2-way Microstrip recongurable power divider
is presented. The proposed power divider, through the use of 4
or 6 switches, can alternate the operating mode between a total
of 4 modes. The four operating modes are: totally directing the
power into one of the two output ports (1:0) & (0:1) and two-way
equal power split with + or - 90 phase shifts (1:j) & (j:1). Several
dividers were designed, and simulated. One design was fabricated
and measured; very close agreement was obtained between the
simulated and fabricated results.
Low-Cost Optimization of Compact Branch-Line
Couplers and its Application to Miniaturized Butler
Matrix Design
Slawomir Koziel, Piotr Kurgan; Reykjavik University,
Iceland
EuMC12-04, Time: 17:40
A low-cost technique for simulation-driven design optimization
of compact branch-line couplers (BLCs) is presented. In the
rst stage, the coupler cells are individually optimized using a
pattern search algorithm. In the second stage the entire coupler
structure undergoes a fast tuning exploiting fast surrogate model,
constructed from cascaded local response surface approximations
(RSAs) of the cells. Accurate, high-delity EM analysis of the entire
coupler structure is only needed at the tuning phase. The nal
design of the compact BLC (87.6% area reduction compared to
conventional coupler) is obtained at the cost of less than three
full-wave simulations. The optimized coupler is then successfully
applied in the design of miniaturized Butler matrix.
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Ultra-Wideband Compact Slot-Coupled 180 Hybrid
Based on Ultra-Wideband Wilkinson Power Divider
Yasmine Abdalla, Hany F. Hammad; German
University in Cairo, Egypt
EuMC12-05, Time: 18:00
In this paper, a novel 180 coupler is proposed. The proposed
hybrid uses the input port of an ultra wide band Wilkinson power
divider as the summation port and replaces the resistor by an
additional fourth port having the same characteristic impedance;
this port will act as the dierence port. The design of the proposed
hybrid is developed using microstrip line and slot line, hence
avoiding any complex structures. This conguration results in a
broadband frequency performance where the return loss of the
sum port and delta port is less than 10 dB for 80% bandwidth. Due
to its symmetric conguration, the power imbalance and the phase
imbalance between the output ports is less than 0.5 dB and 1 ,
respectively for over 200% bandwidth. The proposed hybrid also
exhibits summation and dierence port isolation with a measured
result less than -40 dB over the complete range of frequency.
EuMC13 : Multi-Channel and Antenna Array
Technology
Venue: Iustina, 16:40 18:20, Tuesday 7th October 2014
Chair: Thomas Zwick, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Co-Chair: Anton Tijhuis, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The
Netherlands
A Dual-Channel Wireless Communication System by
Multiplexing Twisted Radio Wave
Zhengyi Li, Yoji Ohashi, Kazumi Kasai; Fujitsu
Laboratories, Japan
EuMC13-01, Time: 16:40
In order to make full use of current wireless spectrum, we achieve
a dual-channel wireless communication system by multiplexing
twisted radio wave. In this system, a big challenge is antenna
design to generate and combine twisted radio wave. Therefore,
rstly, we propose a stacked antenna to achieve this. Secondly, we
set up the dual-channel wireless communication system at 8.3 GHz
by adopting the antenna. To our knowledge, this is the rst time
that a wireless communication system multiplexes two modes of
twisted radio wave. The experimental results show that the system
doubles the spectrum eciency and reaches a data speed of 1
Gbps with low bit error rate (<10-7 ).
Performance Assessment and Optimization of an
Active Ka-Band Antenna Array with Polarization
Multiplexing
Karsten Kuhlmann 1 , Benjamin Rohrdantz 2 , Arne F.
Jacob 2 ; 1 PTB, Germany; 2 Technische Universitt
Hamburg-Harburg, Germany
EuMC13-02, Time: 17:00
An active 30 GHz transmit antenna array featuring digital beam
forming and polarization multiplexing is presented. A fully
equipped scalable module with 16 antenna elements is realized
and tested. The active components and additional functional
elements such as a temperature monitoring system are character-
ized. The radiation pattern is thoroughly assessed. The impact of
mutual coupling is analyzed and a decoupled radiation pattern is
presented.
An Ecient and Realistic Simulation Platform
Suitable for the Analysis and Design of
Time-Modulated Arrays
Diego Masotti, Vittorio Rizzoli, Paolo Francia, Franco
Mastri, Alessandra Costanzo; Universit di Bologna,
Italy
EuMC13-03, Time: 17:20
The paper shows a nonlinear/electromagnetic co-simulation tool
for the rigorous analysis of time-modulated arrays in realistic
application scenarios, e.g. in presence of digitally modulated
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carriers. The Harmonic Balance (HB) technique is used for the
accurate description of the nonlinearities, and is combined to
the full-wave description of the radiating array. The developed
tool overcomes simplifying assumptions of previous approaches
and its eectiveness is veried with numerical examples in both
modulated and unmodulated carrier cases. The method is also
applied to dierent switch modulation patterns, thus showing a
high versatility suitable to cover a large plethora of applications.
Non-Uniform Description of Short CRLH Leaky Wave
Antenna with the Generalized Array Factor
Approach
Olivier Rance, Pierre Lemaitre-Auger, Romain
Siragusa, Etienne Perret; LCIS, France
EuMC13-04, Time: 17:40
Radiation-patterns of short uniform CRLH LWA of various lengths
have been computed. They show dierences from the array
factor approach predictions which cannot be explained by this
model. Better results are achieved if we consider non uniform
distributions of the leakage and propagation constants along the
line. Non uniform distributions are determined by an empirical
method based on the generalized array factor. The origin of this
phenomenon is discussed and compared to the case of small array
antennas.
Study of High Eciency and Low Sidelobe Level
CRLH Leaky-Wave Antenna Based on Short-End and
Tapered Cells
Hanseung Lee 1 , Yoshiaki Kasahara 2 , Tatsuo Itoh 1 ;
1 interrogation.
University of California at Los Angeles, USA; 2 NEC,
Japan
EuMC13-05, Time: 18:00
This paper presents a study that improves the radiation eciency
and the sidelobe level (SLL) of a composite right/left handed (CRLH)
substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) leaky-wave antenna (LWA).
Because of the constructive electric eld interference on each
interdigital slot of a SIW from short-end, a CRLH SIW LWA can have
higher radiation eciency. In addition, controlling leakage amount
of an interdigital slot, we can make a LWA have lower SLL. For
verifying the concept, the tapered CRLH SIW LWA with short-end is
designed and fabricated. The measured results verify the study.
EuMC14 : Passive RFID Technologies
Venue: Aurelia, 09:00 10:40, Wednesday 8th October 2014
Chair: Luciano Tarricone, Universit del Salento, Italy
Co-Chair: Alexandru Takacs, LAAS, France
Uncertainty and Applicability of RFID Power
Measurements for Passive Sensing
Cecilia Occhiuzzi 1 , Gaetano Marrocco 2 ;
1
RADIO6ENSE, Italy; 2 Universit di Roma Tor
Vergata, Italy
EuMC14-01, Time: 09:00
Although RFID sensors are gaining increasing attention from
Academic and Industrial world, their true applicability is still in
question. The aim of the work is to characterize the RFID sensing
platform in term of repeatability and reproducibility, such to
answer the question whether and in which condition it is possible
to distinguish the variation of the measured signals due to the
sensing activity from the measurement uncertainties. The analysis
presents theoretical and experimental contributions.
Multi-Sensor UWB Time-Coded RFID Tags for Smart
Cities Applications
Angel Ramos, Antonio Lazaro, David Girbau;
Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
EuMC14-02, Time: 09:20
This work presents a wireless sensor platform implemented on
a UWB time-coded semi-passive RFID tag. Several sensors are
integrated in the tag, connected to its microcontroller either by
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means of an analog-to-digital converter or using an I2C bus. An
EEPROM memory is also connected to the I2C bus to store mea-
surements. The sensor is normally in sleep mode and only wakes
up when the reader contacts it. The reader is implemented using
a commercial UWB radar. An asynchronous data transfer protocol
between reader and sensor tag permits to program the tag at
several measurement modes and avoids dicult synchronization
mechanisms. The system is designed for applications where the
reader is mobile and there is no permanent contact between reader
and tag.
Experimental Analysis of Selectivity and Dynamic
Ranges of Passive UHF-RFID Chemical Sensors
S. Manzari, Gaetano Marrocco, A. Catini, C. Di Natale;
Universit di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
EuMC14-03, Time: 09:40
Antennas doped with Chemical Interactive Materials (CIM) have
been recently proposed as wireless chemical sensors suitable to
integration with the battery-less UHF Radiofrequency Identica-
tion (RFID) technology. The open critical issue of this class of
devices is the specicity of the electromagnetic response to volatile
compounds dierent than those they were proposed for. This
contribution describes a chemical/electromagnetic experimental
procedure to investigate the response of both already experi-
mented and new CIMs to a range of common volatile compounds
by exploiting the unique features of RFID links. The experimental
campaign permitted to select four CIMs that are sensitive to
humidity, ammonia, ethanol and octane with dierent dynamic
ranges and complementarity, giving the base to develop future
battery-less radio-electronic noses with the possibility of remote
Feasibility of UHF-RFID Links Involving Loop-Tags
Implanted into Human Limbs
R. Lodato 1 , Gaetano Marrocco 1 , R. Pinto 2 , V.
Lopresto 2 ; 1 Universit di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy;
2
ENEA, Italy
EuMC14-04, Time: 10:00
This paper investigates the feasibility of direct and forward links
for UHF-RFID tags implanted into human limbs when interrogated
by a non-contacting readers antenna. Performance gain indicators
of the through-the-body RFID channel are estimated by electromag-
netic simulations over an anthropomorphic phantom as well as by
means of experimentation with a real RFID communication link
involving a simplied in-vitro set-up. The achieved results suggest
that, by exploiting the current potentialities of RFID technology, a
stable communication link with tags implanted inside limbs might
be already feasible up to 1035 cm from the body (depending on
the placement), with potentiality to process the received signal to
gather information about the limb motion.
Novel Fully-Passive Multifunction RFID-Enabled
Devices
Danilo De Donno, Riccardo Colella, Luciano Tarricone,
Luca Catarinucci; Universit del Salento, Italy
EuMC14-05, Time: 10:20
The emerging radio frequency identication (RFID) technology is
more and more adopted in a huge range of application scenarios.
Nevertheless, in many of them, a real added value would be given
by the use of novel RFID devices which, while ensuring cost eec-
tiveness and ease of use, also guarantee augmented functionalities,
such as on-board sensing and computation. In such a eld, this
work presents the progress in the design of smart, multi-function,
RFID-enabled devices at the Electromagnetic Lab Lecce. Specically,
the preliminary prototypes of SPARTACUS and RAMSES, which are
the two UHF RFID tags with augmented functionalities introduced
in our earlier works, have been signicantly improved in terms of
compactness, antenna design, sensing and computing capabilities.
The achieved operating ranges and sensing performance are the
main strengths making the two devices denitely suitable for a
wide array of applications.
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EuMC15 : Focus Session on Microwave
Biosensing
Venue: Baebiana, 09:00 10:40, Wednesday 8th October 2014
Chair: Eugene Kamenetskii, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev,
Israel
Co-Chair: Bart Nauwelaers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven,
Belgium
Microwave Dielectric Spectroscopy for Biological
Cells Suspensions Analysis and Proliferation
Evaluation
Franois Artis 1 , David Dubuc 1 , Jean-Jacques Fourni 2 ,
Mary Poupot 2 , Katia Grenier 1 ; 1 LAAS, France; 2 CRCT,
France
EuMC15-01, Time: 09:00
This paper presents the capabilities of microwave dielectric spec-
troscopy for biological cells suspensions analysis. The developed
biosensor integrates both microuidic channel for biological sam-
ples manipulation together with a microwave circuit for dielectric
spectroscopy. Experimental investigation validates the success
and accuracy of the microwave dielectric spectroscopy technique.
This technique is applied with various cells concentrations in
suspension in their culture medium. Results demonstrate that
both real and imaginary parts of the contrast of the dielectric
permittivity are proportional to the cells concentration with a
correlation coecient (R-square) greater than 0.99. The technique
is consequently suitable for proliferation evaluation of cells. More
widely, this work contributes to settle down the capabilities of
microwave sensing for biochemical and bio-cellular analysis appli-
cations.
Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy Calibration for
Microliter Samples of Biogenic Liquid
S. Liu 1 , I. Ocket 2 , P. Barmuta 1 , A. Lewandowski 3 ,
Dominique Schreurs 1 , B. Nauwelaers 1 ; 1 Katholieke
Universiteit Leuven, Belgium; 2 Interuniversity
Microelectronics Center, Belgium; 3 Warsaw University
of Technology, Poland
EuMC15-02, Time: 09:20
This paper reports on dielectric spectroscopy for microliter liquid
samples using reference materials. In order to fully determine the
calibration coecients, air and water are used as known reference
materials, while methanol is used as an unknown material, which is
also used to validate the approach up to 5 GHz for which reference
data is available. The method is then used up to 110 GHz for yeast
cell suspensions and beef protein solutions.
Evolution of a Microwave Instrument for Analysis
and Thermal Ablation of Organic Tissue
Margarita Puentes, Martin Schler, Christian Damm,
Rolf Jakoby; Technische Universitt Darmstadt,
Germany
EuMC15-03, Time: 09:40
The evolution from a 1D array to a dual mode microwave instru-
ment for the analysis and thermal ablation treatment of organic
tissue is presented. The initial prototypes were bulky and could
only detect the dielectric properties of organic tissue. Extensive
work was done to reduce the size of the devices to include them in
a minimal invasive tool and create a second operation mode were
the tissue could also be ablated with the same device by controlling
the input power and resonance frequency. The nal prototypes
are able to create a tailored ablation zone with a very low power of
10W , in comparison to other similar techniques.
Bi-Frequency-Based Microwave Liquid Sensor for
Multiple Solutes Quantication in Aqueous Solution
Thomas Chretiennot, David Dubuc, Katia Grenier;
LAAS, France
EuMC15-04, Time: 10:00
This paper presents a technique able to detect and quantify two
dierent solutes in aqueous solution thanks to a single shot mi-
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crowave measurements of a resonant liquid sensor at two dierent
frequencies. The principle of operation is based on isosbestic
characteristics of the sensor relatively to the two considered
solutes. The solutes quantication requires a calibration phase.
Extracted concentration from measurements leads to root mean
square error (RMSE) of only few g/L of solute (3.2 g/L for glucose
and 1.7 g/L for sodium chloride). The technique then reveals
the potential richness of the spectral signatures from microwave
sensor for identifying and quantifying complex liquids.
Near-Field Microwave Microscopy Based on Ferrite
Disk Sensors with Magnetostatic Resonances
R. Joe, E.O. Kamenetskii, R. Shavit; Ben-Gurion
University of the Negev, Israel
EuMC15-05, Time: 10:20
Recently, using near-eld scanning microwave microscopy (NSMM)
is gaining popularity in many areas. However as of today in areas
of medical diagnostics and nondestructive test it fails to meet the
expectations. The conventional NSMM are measuring only by dis-
placement of resonance frequency or by decrease of Q-factor which
depends from dielectric and conductivity properties of materials.
Because in such areas the relative permittivity practically is the
same and as a result the contrast is too small for good detection
what limit the performance of conventional NSMM performance.
We propose a novel near-eld microwave sensor with application
to material characterization and biology. The sensor is based on
a subwavelength ferrite-disk resonator with magnetostatic (MS)
oscillations. Strong energy concentration and chiral properties of
the near elds originated from the MS resonators allow eective
measuring material parameters in microwaves, both for ordinary
structures and objects with chiral properties. Recent experiments
inspire optimism for further research, were shown the ability to
determine properties of material not only by spectral displacement
but also by refers to the dierential absorption of left and right
circularly polarized wave. The ability which itself is very important
for eective sensing of biological material and living tissues.
EuMC16 : Advances in Resonators and
Transitions
Venue: Cecilia, 09:00 10:40, Wednesday 8th October 2014
Chair: Vesna Crnojevic-Bengin, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Co-Chair: Luca Perregrini, Universit di Pavia, Italy
A Novel Coaxial Resonator for High Power
Applications
Desireh Sh-Asanjan, Raafat R. Mansour; University of
Waterloo, Canada
EuMC16-01, Time: 09:00
This paper presents a simple analysis for analyzing the power
handling capability of microwave resonators and lters. The
method relates the resonator stored energy obtained by circuit
theory to that obtained by HFSS simulations. The method is used to
investigate the power handing capability of conventional combline
resonators as well as non-traditional coaxial resonator congu-
rations. A novel resonator conguration is proposed, oering a
15% improvement in power handling capability in comparison with
traditional combline resonators. Simulation and measured results
are given for a 4-pole lter employing the proposed resonator.
Recongurable E-Plane Waveguide Resonators for
Filter Applications
N. Mohottige, B. Bukvic, D. Budimir; University of
Westminster, UK
EuMC16-02, Time: 09:20
This paper presents recongurable E-plane waveguide resonators
at X-band. A graphene based switch and a silicon switch is used as
the switching elements and is connected to the edge of a metallic
n. Through electrical biasing of the graphene or optical illumina-
tion of the silicon dice, a dierent length of the n is realized, thus
creating a shift in resonant frequency of the structure. Frequency
shift of about 4.5% is achieved for the resonator using the graphene
switch. As a reference, measured results of a fabricated optically
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recongurable resonator are compared to that of the simulated
results of the graphene based recongurable resonator.
Quality Factor of Helical Coaxial Cavity Resonators
with Modulated Radius
Giuseppe Salza 1 , Jaione Galdeano 2 , George
Goussetis 3 , Savvas A. Kosmopoulos 1 , Marco
Guglielmi 2 ; 1 Space Engineering, Italy; 2 ESA, The
Netherlands; 3 Heriot-Watt University, UK
EuMC16-03, Time: 09:40
This paper presents an analytical method for the estimation of
the unloaded quality factor of helical coaxial cavity resonators
in the case where the radius of the helix is modulated along the
direction of its axis. The method exploits closed form expressions
available for the electric and magnetic elds in the sheath helix.
Appreciating that the ratio of stored versus dissipated power in
each helix turn is independent of the eld distribution within the
resonator, the aforementioned closed form expressions readily
enable the estimation of the Q-factor for arbitrary modulation
of the helix radius. In earlier works, the reduction of the helical
core towards the open end of the resonator has been proposed
as means to increase the power handling capability. The work
presented in this paper is a critical step towards optimizing the
trade-o between Q-factor and power handling performance in
helical coaxial cavity resonator lters.
Design and Analysis of an Impedance Tapered
Conical to Coaxial Transmission Line Transition
Ryno D. Beyers, Dirk I.L. de Villiers; Stellenbosch
University, South Africa
EuMC16-04, Time: 10:00
A simple method for designing and determining the impedance
taper of a smooth conical to coaxial transmission line transition is
presented. This type of transition is often used in conical line com-
biners and traditionally has a constant impedance. The presented
method allows the conical and coaxial lines to be designed with
dierent impedances and the transition to act as an impedance
taper. A conical combiner is designed where the conical impedance
taper and coaxial matching sections present in previous designs
are replaced by the tapered transition. The design is validated by
comparing the circuit model to full wave simulation results.
A Broadband Circular TE11 - to TE01 -Mode Converter
Using Stepped Waveguide Technique
Christian Schulz 1 , Ilona Rolfes 1 , Bianca Will 2 ;
1
Ruhr-Universitt Bochum, Germany; 2 Fachhochschule
Sdwestfalen, Germany
EuMC16-05, Time: 10:20
This paper introduces a broadband and compact circular TE11 -
to TE01 -mode converter, realized in stepped waveguide technique
and therefore easy to manufacture with standard mortising ma-
chines. The concept is presented exemplary for a conversion in a
frequency range from 23 GHz to 28 GHz. Hence, a bandwidth of
approximately 20% of the center frequency can be achieved. For
the development of an optimized converter design, 3D electro-
magnetic eld simulations are performed within CST Microwave
Studio 2013. The simulations include realistic production process
parameters, like llets or tolerances, and show a good return loss
of at least 17 dB, while the insertion loss is below 0.1 dB. Compared
to measurements of a rst prototype in back-to-back assembly,
the measurement results validate the expected excellent converter
behaviour. Hence, the suitability of the presented converter design
is proven and the feasibility is demonstrated.
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EuMC17 : Planar Passive Circuits and
Antennas Based on Metamaterials
Venue: Domizia, 09:00 10:40, Wednesday 8th October 2014
Chair: Ferran Martin, Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona, Spain
Co-Chair: Miguel G. Laso, Universidad Pblica de Navarra, Spain
Vialess Composite Right/Left-Handed Stripline and
its Applications for Broadband 3-dB and Tunable
Couplers
Jun H. Choi, Chung-Tse Michael Wu, Hanseung Lee,
Tatsuo Itoh; University of California at Los Angeles,
USA
EuMC17-01, Time: 09:00
Vialess shielded composite right/left-handed (CRLH) stripline is
proposed. The structure preserves the CRLH properties while
preventing undesired radiations and minimizing electromagnetic
interference (EMI) coupling from the surrounding noisy environ-
ments. The vialess topology also allows a simple realization
option. As an application example, a 3-dB directional coupler and
a novel broadband tunable directional coupler are designed and
fabricated. For the 3-dB coupler, both simulated and measured
results show high coupling level over 33% operation bandwidth.
For the broadband tunable coupler, a single varactor is used to
tune the coupling level between the two output ports. Simulation
results based on the ideal variable capacitor show the amplitude
dierence between the two outputs ports can be tuned from 0 to
6 dB over the percent bandwidth of around 32%. Fabricated circuit
shows the tuning capability, verifying the feasibility of designing
broadband tunable coupler based on CRLH stripline. The proposed
structure may be applicable for high frequency microwave waveg-
uides requiring broadband dispersive characteristics of the CRLH
structure.
Small Dual-Band 3-Way Metamaterial Power-Divider
with the Phase-Compensated Outputs
Kyeongnam Jang 1 , S. Kahng 1 , Jinsu Jeon 1 , Jaume
Anguera 2 ; 1 University of Incheon, Korea; 2 Fractus,
Spain
EuMC17-02, Time: 09:20
A miniature dual-band 3-way metamaterial power divider with the
three identical output phase is presented. Firstly, fully printed
CRLH(composite right and left-handed) 2:1-unequal and 1:1-equal
power dividers are designed for 900-MHz and 2.4-GHz bands.
Secondly, an initial 1:1:1 power divider is formed by combining
the input of the 2-way equal block into an output of the unequal
block, and trimming the interconnection parameters. Thirdly, to
have the same phase at the three outputs of the power divider, a
CRLH phase-compensating line is designed to treat the dierent
phase errors at the 2 frequencies.
Synthesis of Open Complementary Split Ring
Resonators (OCSRRs) Through Aggressive Space
Mapping (ASM) and Application to Bandpass Filters
Ana Rodrguez 1 , Vicente E. Boria 1 , Jordi Selga 2 , Marc
Sans 2 , Ferran Martn 2 ; 1 Universidad Politcnica de
Valencia, Spain; 2 Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona,
Spain
EuMC17-03, Time: 09:40
This paper deals with the automated synthesis of open comple-
mentary split ring resonators (OCSRRs) using aggressive space
mapping (ASM) for the rst time. These open resonators are
electrically small planar elements useful for the implementation
of shunt LC resonators in microstrip or coplanar waveguide
technology. However, their synthesis is in general complex and
requires the experience of the microwave engineers. To solve this
limitation, and to ease any design process involving OCSRRs, we
have developed an ecient iterative synthesis tool based on ASM,
able to provide the physical dimensions of the resonator from the
required reactive elements (given by specications) and substrate
parameters. As an example of application, the tool is used for
the synthesis and design of a planar wideband bandpass lter
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based on OCSRRs coupled through admittance inverters. Due to
the inherent transmission zeros associated to the OCSRRs, these
lters exhibit good stop band performance, with high selectivity at
the upper transition band.
Beam Antenna with Circular Polarization Rotation
Switching Based on Passive Components
Andrey Porokhnyuk 1 , Tetsuya Ueda 1 , Yuichi Kado 1 ,
Tatsuo Itoh 2 ; 1 Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan;
2
University of California at Los Angeles, USA
EuMC17-04, Time: 10:00
A new type of passive circularly polarized beam antenna with high
radiation eciency and polarization rotation switching capability
is proposed, based on phase-nonreciprocal metamaterial. The pro-
posed design implements circular polarization rotation switching
by means of an external dc magnetic system non-interfering with
the signal path. The planar antenna with a working area of less
than 6 cm in diameter demonstrated radiation with 11 dBi gain
in broadside direction and circular polarization with axial ratio
higher than 0.8 at 7.1 GHz.
Electrically Tunable Liquid Crystal Based Composite
Right/Left-Handed Leaky-Wave Antenna at 26.7GHz
Mara Roig, Matthias Maasch, Christian Damm, Rolf
Jakoby; Technische Universitt Darmstadt, Germany
EuMC17-05, Time: 10:20
A continuously electrically tunable composite right/left-handed
leaky-wave antenna based on liquid crystal is presented for Ka-band
applications. The antenna features one dimensional beam steering
capabilities for a xed operation frequency. Simulations, vectorial
network analysis, and far eld measurements of a built prototype
are presented in this work together with the detailed fabrication
process. Orientation of the LC molecules is done applying a tuning
voltage between 0 V and 60 V that leads to a beam steering range
from -5 to +9 degrees with respect to broadside at a xed operation
frequency of 26.7 GHz.
EuMC18 : Innovative Approaches Enabling
Tuneability and Recongurability
Venue: Giulia, 09:00 10:40, Wednesday 8th October 2014
Chair: Pierre Blondy, XLIM, France
Co-Chair: Raafat Mansour, University of Waterloo, Canada
A Method to Design Lumped-Element Tunable
Bandpass Filters with Constant Absolute Bandwidth
Dmitry Kholodnyak, Viacheslav Turgaliev, Alexandra
Baskakova; St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University,
Russia
EuMC18-01, Time: 09:00
A simple and ecient design method for tunable lters on lumped
elements is presented. The method allows designing bandpass
lters with tunable central frequency and constant absolute
bandwidth. The lter circuit consisting of series LC-tanks and
impedance inverters is used in contrast to the conventional ap-
proach. Theoretical restrictions of the method as well as practical
factors limiting its application are discussed. Feasibility of the
method is demonstrated by a design example of the three-pole
constant-bandwidth tunable lter using varactor diodes as con-
trolling components. A good agreement between simulated and
measured frequency responses of the tunable lter is shown.
Tunable Ka-Band Waveguide Resonators and a Small
Band Band-Pass Filter Based on Liquid Crystals
Tobias Franke, Alexander Gaebler, Ananto Eka
Prasetiadi, Rolf Jakoby; Technische Universitt
Darmstadt, Germany
EuMC18-02, Time: 09:20
In this paper we present the design of Liquid Crystal lled waveg-
uide resonators. Waveguide resonators achieve higher Q-factors
then planar technologies, and form the basis for lters of smaller
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bandwidth. Two possible approaches for positioning the Liquid
Crystal inside the cavity are discussed. One of this approaches is
designed to fulll the requirements for mechanical and tempera-
ture stability for space applications.
Measured Q-factors and tuning ranges for both variants are pre-
sented, including the verication of electric biasing.
Additionally a 3-pole bandpass lter operating at a center fre-
quency of 20 GHz and a relative bandwidth of 1% was constructed
and measured. Tunability with magnetic biasing was veried to be
greater than 450 MHz.
A 2-Pole RF-MEMS Tunable Bandpass Filter for
High-Power Applications
G. Chaabane, Arnaud Pothier, M. Chatras, Cyril
Guines, V. Madrangeas, Pierre Blondy; XLIM, France
EuMC18-03, Time: 09:40
This paper presents a novel type of tunable bandpass lters with
constant bandwidth and wide tuning range. A constant absolute
pass-band has been obtained by integrating a low-pass lter at the
input and the output of the lter. The lter fabricated on duroid
substrate can be tuned from 690MHz up to 1130MHz, by using
RF-MEMS switches mounted in series with xed capacitors. Match-
ing is better than -12dB and the 3dB passband is 65MHz+/-5MHz.
Measured insertion loss is less than 1.7dB at the upper end of the
band and 3.3dB at the lower end. The lter shows no compression
up to 1Watt of input power, and no measurable degradation of
ACPR at the same power level.
Intrinsically Switchable Bulk Acoustic Wave
Resonators Based on Paraelectric Films
A. Vorobiev, S. Gevorgian; Chalmers University of
Technology, Sweden
EuMC18-04, Time: 10:00
The concept of the frequency switching in the composite bulk
acoustic wave (BAW) resonators based on the thin lms of the
paraelectric-phase ferroelectrics is demonstrated experimentally
for the rst time. The composite BAW resonators based on the
Ba0.25 Sr0.75 TiO3 / SrRuO3 / Ba0.25 Sr0.75 TiO3 multilayer structure
are fabricated and characterized. It is shown that the resonance
frequency of the BAW resonators can be switched more than two
times (from 3.6 GHz to 7.7 GHz) by changing polarity of the 5 V dc
bias voltage at the one of the ferroelectric layers. The composite
BAW resonators performance is analyzed using the theory of
the dc eld induced piezoelectric eect in the paraelectric-phase
ferroelectrics.
Wide Range Continuously High Electrical
Performance Tunable E-Plane Filter by Mechanical
Translation
Nicolas Jolly 1 , Olivier Tantot 1 , Nicolas Delhote 1 , Serge
Verdeyme 1 , Laetitia Estagerie 2 , Ludovic Carpentier 2 ,
Damien Pacaud 3 ; 1 XLIM, France; 2 CNES, France;
3
Thales Alenia Space, France
EuMC18-05, Time: 10:20
This paper introduces a new concept capable of obtaining a
wide frequency excursion, keeping high electrical performances.
To reach such performances, the use of waveguide resonators
is chosen, actuated by a mechanical system is made. Starting
from a classical 2 pole E-plane lter, which consists of thin walls
implemented along the propagation axis inside a waveguide, we
make both the lter external coupling and the frequency tunable
by moveable walls. Thus, on the two pole presented, it allows to
control the resonance frequency of the system. A simulated 2-pole
lter is continuously tuned from 8,37 GHz to 10,04GHz (thus 20%)
with a quality factor Q of 6000. It was fabricated by a low cost
3D plastic printing, in order to validate the principle with a fast
prototyping technique.
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EuMC19 : Graphene Devices and Novel
Concepts
Venue: Hortensia, 09:00 10:40, Wednesday 8th October 2014
Chair: Luca Pierantoni, Universit Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
Co-Chair: Kamal K. Samanta, Milmega UK
Exploitation of Graphene as HIS and RIS for Devices
in the MW and THz Frequency Ranges
Martino Aldrigo 1 , Mircea Dragoman 1 , Alessandra
Costanzo 2 , Diego Masotti 2 ; 1 IMT Bucharest, Romania;
2 troscopy and Hall eect measurement were used for characterizing
Universit di Bologna, Italy
EuMC19-01, Time: 09:00
Graphene has become an outstanding material for revolutionary
wireless applications in the microwave and terahertz/infrared
frequency ranges. Due to its unique physical characteristics, a
family of completely new devices can be developed by exploiting
graphenes behaviour as High Impedance Surface (HIS) or highly-
Reactive Impedance Surface (RIS). In this paper we theoretically
investigate rst a 10 GHz-resonant gold dipole antenna suspended
over a graphene ake acting as a HIS reector: the radiator can
be placed at a very close distance from the graphene ground by
keeping at the same time very good radiation performance with
respect to classical metal reectors. Second, we consider a gold
dipole antenna operating at 10 THz directly attached to a graphene
layer. Excellent radiation performance can be achieved thanks to
the highly-inductive surface impedance of graphene at such high
frequencies. An in-depth description of the possibility of varying
graphenes conductivity by means of an applied gate voltage is
provided, thus demonstrating how radiating properties can be
tuned by simply applying a proper voltage to the reector. Hence,
the proposed antennas can be considered in reason as the starting
point for innovative graphene-based mm- and m-systems with
unique tunability properties.
Extraction of Carrier Transport Properties in
Graphene from Microwave Measurements
M.A. Andersson, A. Vorobiev, S. Gevorgian, Jan Stake;
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
EuMC19-02, Time: 09:20
Carrier transport parameters of graphene grown by chemical vapor
deposition (CVD) and graphene-metal contacts are extracted from
microwave measurements in the frequency range 0.120 GHz using
Corbino disks. It is shown that the charged impurities are eec-
tively screened by the high permittivity of the SrTiO3 substrate.
In the case of fused silica substrate the charged impurities are
not completely screened and the mobility is limited either by the
charged impurities or/and resonant scatterers depending on their
relative concentration.
Frequency Readout of Nanomechanical Graphene
Drums via a Microwave Resonator Coupling Method
Stefan Goniszewski 1 , Olena Shaforost 1 , Norbert
Klein 1 , John Gallop 2 , Ling Hao 2 , David Cox 2 ;
1 demonstrate good performance of a broad axial ratio bandwidth
Imperial College London, UK; 2 National Physical
Laboratory, UK
EuMC19-03, Time: 09:40
In this paper a novel microwave method with the capability of
simultaneous actuation and readout of nano-mechanical res-
onators is described along with the fabrication of graphene
nano-mechanical resonator sensor structures. The method uses a
high Q quarter wave coaxial resonator coupled to a sharpened con-
ductive tip to create a highly localised near eld. Hence allowing
for high sensitivity displacement measurements via measurement
of changes in the resonant frequency of the coaxial resonator
and a simultaneous driving force through a mutual capacitance
between probe tip a conducting mechanical resonator. We discuss
the use of the microwave system to measure monolayer graphene
mechanical resonators and achieve readout of a resonant mode in
a 3m suspended graphene drum.
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Fabrication and Characterization of CVD-Grown
Graphene Based Field-Eect Transistor
W. Wei, G. Deokar, Mohamed Moez Belhaj, David Mele,
Emiliano Pallecchi, E. Pichonat, Dominique Vignaud,
Henri Happy; IEMN, France
EuMC19-04, Time: 10:00
In this work, we present both fabrication process and characteri-
zation of graphene eld-eect transistors. Large scale monolayer
graphene was grown by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) on Cu
foils and transferred over pre-patterned back-gated devices on
Si/SiO2 substrate. Scanning electron microscopy, Raman spec-
graphene quality before and after the transfer. It was found that
monolayer graphene with a low defect density and hole mobility
up to 3180cm2 /Vs at n=1.31012 cm-2 , could be obtained. For
device characterization, devices with dierent gate length were
discussed. We report an intrinsic current gain cut-o frequency
(f t ) of 15.5 GHz and maximum oscillation frequency of 12 GHz,
deduced from the S-parameters measurements for device with
gate length of 100 nm. This study demonstrates the potential of
CVD-grown graphene for high speed electronics in combination
with a technological process compatible with arbitrary substrates.
High Gain Graphene Field Eect Transistors for
Wideband Ampliers
Omid Habibpour, Michael Winters, Niklas Rorsman,
Herbert Zirath; Chalmers University of Technology,
Sweden
EuMC19-05, Time: 10:20
We demonstrate graphene eld of transistors (G-FETs) providing
power gain of > 7 dB in a 50 system. The G-FETs have |S21 | > 0
dB up to 7 GHz. The result indicates the feasibility for G-FET based
wideband ampliers.
EuMC20 : Novel Antenna Concepts
Venue: Iustina, 09:00 10:40, Wednesday 8th October 2014
Chair: Diego Masotti, Universit di Bologna, Italy
Co-Chair: Parbhu Patel, HMGCC
A Low-Prole Circularly Polarized Dipole Antenna
Using a Novel Polarization Rotation Articial
Magnetic Conductor
Wanchen Yang 1 , Wenquan Che 1 , Wai-Wa Choi 2 ,
Kam-Weng Tam 2 ; 1 NUST, China; 2 University of Macau,
China
EuMC20-01, Time: 09:00
A novel polarization rotation surface based on articial magnetic
conductor structure (AMC) is proposed, which can reect incident
wave in orthogonal polarization state and simultaneously oer
a 90 phase dierence. The feature is theoretically analyzed
and validated. By using the proposed polarization rotation AMC,
right-handed circular polarization is achieved for a linearly po-
larized dipole antenna. Simulation and measured results both
and large axial ratio beamwidth in both xoz and yoz planes.
A Dual-Band Quasi-Magneto-Electric Patch Antenna
for X-Band Phased Array
S.E. Valavan, D. Tran, Alexander G. Yarovoy, A.G.
Roederer; Technische Universiteit Delft, The
Netherlands
EuMC20-02, Time: 09:20
The design and experimental validation of a dual-band array
antenna concept is presented. The antenna supports quasi-
magneto-electric radiation characteristics which simultaneously
utilizes both the electric and magnetic radiation characteristics
in the overall radiation mechanism. A prototype of the antenna
has been manufactured and the demonstrated performances
include dual-band operation with large frequency ratio, consistent
radiation patterns and good sub-band bandwidths. In addition to
this the antennas low-prole electrical dimensions are well-suited
for application in wide-scanning phased arrays.
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Planar Dipole Antenna Loaded with Bandstop
Reector
Mei Yang, Li Xie, Cheng Lu, Liang Yang, Shunli Li,
Hongxin Zhao, Xiaoxing Yin; Southeast University,
China
EuMC20-03, Time: 09:40
A planar dipole antenna loaded with bandstop reector is pre-
sented and investigated. The loading structure is composed of
two symmetrically positioned twin lines. The loading structure
acts as a bandstop lter in the corresponding frequency band,
and meanwhile functions as a reector in the operating frequency
band, which is not a combination but an integration of reector
and bandstop lter. Measured results show that the realized gain
of the loaded planar dipole antenna is 5.1 dBi for the allocated
operating frequency and -23 dBi for the stopband frequency. This
antenna can be used for rejection of image frequency or local
oscillator frequency in superheterodyne architecture.
A Multi-Band Isolation Enhanced Loaded Semi-Ring
MIMO Antenna
Sagar K. Dhar, Mohammad S. Sharawi; KFUPM, Saudi
Arabia
EuMC20-04, Time: 10:00
Due to the increasing demand of high data throughput and compact
size of wireless communication devices, miniaturized multiple-
input-multiple-output (MIMO) antennas are highly desirable. In
addition, multiband operation is highly desirable for multitasking
and covering dierent wireless standards. This paper presents a
two element semi-ring multiband compact MIMO antenna having a
total size of 32421.52mm3 . The natural high input impedance
of the semi-ring is matched using an input lumped capacitance
along with double stub matching provided by the inner half ring.
The antenna can cover both 1.85GHz and 2.45GHz bands with
eciencies of 43% and 61%, respectively. The isolation at both
bands is enhanced using a simple meandered defected ground
structure (DGS) and is found to be more than 10dB at both bands.
Ku-Band Dual-Polarized Patch Antenna Array
Arrangement Using Patch Sharing Technique
Haiyang Zhang, Yann Mahe, Tchanguiz Razban; IETR,
France
EuMC20-05, Time: 10:20
Patch sharing technique, to the best of the authors knowledge, is
the rst time proposed in the application of patch antenna array
arrangement. With this approach, the distance between antenna
unit cell can be decreased signicantly, which the inter-element
distance is assumed as a key parameter for beam forming and
to control sidelobe level of antenna array. However, most of
the time this distance is dicult to decrease due to the prole
of antenna unit cell and taking into account of electromagnetic
coupling between each unit. In this article, the authors would like
to introduce two antenna arrays which are arranged in 1D and 2D
separately with the proposed approach, simulated and measured
results indicate that patch sharing technique works well.
EuMC21 : New Modelling Techniques for
Guiding Structures
Venue: Niside, 09:00 10:40, Wednesday 8th October 2014
Chair: Jan Machac, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech
Republic
Co-Chair: Maurizio Bozzi, Universit di Pavia, Italy
Perturbation Modeling of High-Loss Waveguide
Components by the BI-RME Method
A. Giannini, Maurizio Bozzi, M. Bressan, M. Pasian, L.
Perregrini; Universit di Pavia, Italy
EuMC21-01, Time: 09:00
This paper presents the application of the Boundary Integral-
Resonant Mode Expansion (BI-RME) method to the modeling of
waveguide components comprising lossy dielectric materials. The
proposed technique is based on the combination of the BI-RME
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method and of a perturbation approach. The BI-RME method yields
the frequency response in terms of the generalized admittance
matrix, expressed as a pole expansion in the frequency domain.
The inclusion of dielectric losses by the perturbation approach is
mainly performed by considering the quality factor of the modes
of the cavity obtained by short-circuiting the ports of the circuit.
The BI-RME method can be applied to waveguide components lled
with a piece-wise homogeneous dielectric medium, by adopting the
segmentation technique. Two examples are presented to validate
the accuracy and robustness of the proposed method.
On the Analysis of Radiation Losses in Substrate
Integrated Waveguide Using Mode-Matching and
Method of Moments
Elena Diaz Caballero 1 , Hector Esteban 1 , Vicente E.
Boria 1 , Angel Belenguer 2 ; 1 Universidad Politcnica de
Valencia, Spain; 2 Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha,
Spain
EuMC21-02, Time: 09:20
In this paper we extend a recently published mode-matching and
method of moments hybrid technique that eciently analyzes sub-
strate integrated waveguide (SIW) devices. That method included
two fast frequency sweep schemes and already considered the
conductor and dielectric losses in the SIW structure. However, it
neglected the potential leakage problem due to the periodic gaps.
Here a more rigorous analysis is provided so that the radiation
losses can be also considered.
Steady-State Skin Eect in Multilayer-Conductor
Coaxial Lines
Sherko Zinal; PTB, Germany
EuMC21-03, Time: 09:40
A steady-state analytical solution for the current distribution in
a multilayer-conductor coaxial transmission line is presented.
Dissipated power in each particular conductor layer and hence
attenuation along the transmission line are given by analytical
expressions. The calculations are compared with numerical simu-
lations and with common plane wave approximations.
Investigation of Multipactor Eect in Microwave
Components in the Presence of Fringing Fields
A. Al-Mudhafar 1 , J. Puech 2 , H. Hartnagel 1 ;
1
Technische Universitt Darmstadt, Germany; 2 CNES,
France
EuMC21-04, Time: 10:00
As part of the EVEREST project of ESA, we implemented in CST Par-
ticle Studio models of dierent microwave samples for L- and Ku-
bands to investigate the Multipactor eect in the presence of the
fringing elds. Using a diversity of Secondary Electron Yield (SEY)
data provided from dierent measurement facilities along with the
available ECSS standards, cross validation is examined between
the simulation Multipactor results and thresholds achieved by the
measurement activity. This study is important in determining the
source of inconsistency between both activities. It also provides
the possibility to update the existent Multipactor chart for fringing
eld structures. The convergence studies to acquire accurate
numerical results are also presented.
Combining the Partial-Capacitance and the
Conformal Mapping Techniques for Analysis of the
Multiconductor Microstrip Lines
Aleksandr N. Sychev, Mikhail A. Chekalin, Sergey M.
Struchkov; TUSUR, Russia
EuMC21-05, Time: 10:20
For the rst time the partial-capacitance and conformal mapping
techniques are applied for modeling of the open multiconductor
microstrip lines of nite thickness. To build new model, the con-
cept of magnetic slits is introduced, which allows the cross-section
multiple connected region to reduce into the simple connected
region. The obtained polygonal region is conformal mapped by an-
alytical Schwarz-Christoel transformation, which is implemented
in the form of computer numerical procedures. New technique is
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realized in MATLAB and has high computationally eectiveness,
accuracy sucient for practice, and allows easy visualization of
the electric eld distribution.
EuMC22 : Wireless Power Transfer
Venue: Aurelia, 11:20 13:00, Wednesday 8th October 2014
Chair: Apostolos Georgiadis, CTTC, Spain
Co-Chair: Nuno Carvalho, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Rigorous Design of Magnetic-Resonant Wireless
Power Transfer Links Realized with Two Coils
Alessandra Costanzo 1 , Marco Dionigi 2 , Franco
Mastri 1 , Mauro Mongiardo 2 , Johannes A. Russer 3 ,
Peter Russer 3 ; 1 Universit di Bologna, Italy;
2 RF/DC conversion eciency. For most modulation type and
Universit di Perugia, Italy; 3 Technische Universitt
Mnchen, Germany
EuMC22-01, Time: 11:20
Magnetic resonant wireless power transfer has been typically
realized by using systems of coupled resonators. We show that
the essential elements are only the coupled inductances. In fact,
by starting from coupled inductances, and by introducing their
conjugate image impedances, we can derive the series and parallel
matching topologies that realize maximum wireless power transfer.
By sacricing some eciency we show that we can realize a
matched (lossless case) mid-range wireless power transfer link by
using just one inductive coil on the secondary side and having the
required capacitances all on the primary side (or vice versa). The
proposed topology greatly simplies the design; in addition, when
tuning is required due to coils misalignment or to link distance
variation, it can be attained without the need for a feed-back
through the communication link. A preliminary experimental
verication of the proposed approach is also presented.
Enhanced Magnetic Shield Using a Loop on Ferrite
for Wireless Power Transmission
Byung-Chul Park, Jeong-Hae Lee; Hongik University,
Korea
EuMC22-02, Time: 11:40
This paper describes an enhanced shield consisting of an auxiliary
loop on a ferrite in metallic environment at 6.78 MHz. Utilizing
an in-phase current of the auxiliary loop on the ferrite, the per-
formances such as the power transfer eciency and the coupling
coecient are improved. Conventional shielding method that uses
high permeability ferrite has a limitation of the utilization because
of their high magnetic loss tangent. However, the proposed method
using the auxiliary loop coated on the ferrite can provide better
eciency than the conventional method. In particular, at distance
of 20cm, the measured eciency is improved by 30% after applying
the auxiliary loop. It is thought that the proposed method is useful
to the WPT systems having a ground plane.
Resonantly-Coupled Wireless Powered Seat
Locomotion in Automotive Applications
Matthew J. Chabalko 1 , M. Laifenfeld 2 , Y. Buchbut 2 ,
David S. Ricketts 3 ; 1 Carnegie Mellon University, USA;
2
General Motors, Israel; 3 North Carolina State
University, USA
EuMC22-03, Time: 12:00
We report on a resonantly-coupled wireless power (RWPT) system
for locomotion of a seat in an automobile environment. The seat
moves transversely 28 cm, resulting in a time-varying geometry and
coupling. In addition, the proximity of a metallic undercarriage
creates the potential for interference and additional loss. We
present a system that was able to achieve 80% eciency over the
entire 28 cm travel distance and was not signicantly aected by
the metallic environment. This work demonstrates the viability
for complex RWPT systems in automotive and other complex
environments.
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Evaluation on Use of Modulated Signal for
Microwave Power Transmission
Goh Fukuda 1 , Satoshi Yoshida 2 , Yoshirou Kai 1 , Naoki
Hasegawa 3 , Shigeo Kawasaki 2 ; 1 Tokyo University of
Science, Japan; 2 Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency,
Japan; 3 Kyoto University, Japan
EuMC22-04, Time: 12:20
This paper evaluates a liability in use of modulated signal for
microwave wireless power transmission. A microwave rectier
is designed and fabricated for the evaluation process. In design,
inverse Class-F theory has been applied. Rectiers RF/DC con-
version eciency is set as a Figure Of Merit (FOM). This FOM is
acquired for dierent modulation type and bandwidth, in condi-
tion of equivalent total input RF power, through simulation and
measurement. It is then compared with single tone RF CW signals
bandwidth, modulated signal had advantage in RF/DC conversion
eciency over CW achieving at highest 7.8% higher eciency from
measurement.
Surrogate-Based Optimization of Ecient Resonant
Wireless Power Transfer Links Using Conjugate
Image Impedances
Marco Dionigi 1 , Mauro Mongiardo 1 , Slawomir Koziel 2 ;
1
Universit di Perugia, Italy; 2 Reykjavik University,
Iceland
EuMC22-05, Time: 12:40
A methodology for improving eciency of wireless power transfer
(WPT) systems, derived from the concept of conjugate image
impedances, is presented. For accuracy reasons, enhancement of
the system eciency through adjustment of its geometry parame-
ters is based on full-wave electromagnetic (EM) simulation models.
Fast WPT system design is realized by means of surrogate-based
optimization exploiting auxiliary equivalent network model, fre-
quency scaling and response correction techniques.
EuMC23 : Special Session: A Tribute to
Arthur A. Oliner and His Scientic Heritage
for the European Microwave Community
Venue: Baebiana, 11:20 13:00, Wednesday 8th October 2014
Chair: Paolo Lampariello, Universit di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
Co-Chair: Alessandro Galli, Universit di Roma La Sapienza,
Italy
Advances in Leaky-Wave Periodic Structures After
Oliners Pioneering Research
P. Lampariello 1 , F. Frezza 1 , Alessandro Galli 1 , P.
Baccarelli 1 , P. Burghignoli 1 , G. Lovat 1 , S. Paulotto 2 ,
Guido Valerio 3 , D.R. Jackson 4 ; 1 Universit di Roma
La Sapienza, Italy; 2 Maxtena, USA; 3 IETR, France;
4
University of Houston, USA
EuMC23-01, Time: 11:20
The research activity jointly developed during the last decade
between the groups coordinated by P. Lampariello in Europe
and by D. R. Jackson in the U.S.A. is reviewed, on the basis of
the fruitful scientic interaction had with Prof. Oliner since the
Eighties. The main focus here is on advances in leaky waves and
leaky-wave antennas based on periodic structures. This involves
topics of dierent nature, such as issues of numerical modeling in
periodic Greens functions, leakage features in metamaterials and
other innovative media, and one-dimensional and two-dimensional
congurations of printed and planar leaky-wave radiators.
New Wine in Old Barrels: The Use of the Oliners
Method in Metasurface Antenna Design
F. Caminita, S. Maci; Universit di Siena, Italy
EuMC23-02, Time: 11:40
This paper presents a generalization of the Oliners method used
to investigate the guided modes supported by a Sinusoidally-
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Modulated Surface Reactance (SM-SR). In its original paper, Oliner
applied the procedure to the case of a scalar and impenetrable
impedance sheet in free space; in this work, this approach has been
extended to nd the guided mode congurations (both leaky and
surface waves) for the more general case of Sinusoidally-Modulated
Tensor Surface Reactance (SM-TSR), placed inside a generic dielec-
tric stratication. SM-TSR can be seen as the simplest version of
metasurface able to realize leaky-wave antenna with circular po-
larization. The results obtained have been successfully compared,
in terms of complex propagation constant and polarization, with
those of actual sinusoidally modulated metasurfaces constituted
by small printed element over a ground dielectric substrate. These
rst results conrmed the possibility to use the SM-TSR as local
canonical problem for the analysis of more complex metasurfaces.
Analysis and Design of Controllable Leaky-Wave
Antennas Inspired by Prof. Arthur Oliner: A Tribute
to Prof. Oliner
J.L. Gmez-Tornero 1 , A. Alvarez-Melcn 1 , F. Mesa 2 , F.
Medina 2 , George Goussetis 3 , Y. Jay Guo 4 ;
1
Universidad Politcnica de Cartagena, Spain;
2
Universidad de Sevilla, Spain; 3 Heriot-Watt University,
UK; 4 CSIRO, Australia
EuMC23-03, Time: 12:00
In this paper, we make a summary on the dierent leaky-wave
antenna (LWA) technologies developed by Spanish groups in
collaboration with UK and Australia, and which have been inspired
by seminal works of Prof. Oliner. First, we will describe the
LWAs based on asymmetric waveguides proposed by Prof. Oliner
and collaborators in the 80s90s. Also, the labor of Prof. Oliner
to reveal the nature of leaky modes in microstrip lines will be
reminded. Based on these pioneering works, the contribution of
the authors to the analysis and design of LWAs in three distinct
technologies will be described. Namely: hybrid waveguide-printed
circuit technology, Fabry-Prot (FP) technology, and Substrate In-
tegrated Waveguide (SIW) technology. The control of the complex
leaky-mode wavenumber is necessary for the synthesis of high-gain
frequency scanning patterns. This paper gives an overview of the
working mechanism and taper principles used for each technology,
in a tribute to Prof. Oliner and collaborators who inspired all these
ideas.
Generation of Non-Diractive Bessel Beams Using
Leaky-Wave Modes
Mauro Ettorre 1 , Guido Valerio 1 , Ronan Sauleau 1 ,
Walter Fuscaldo 1 , Alessandro Galli 2 , Anthony Grbic 3 ;
1
IETR, France; 2 Universit di Roma La Sapienza,
Italy; 3 University of Michigan, USA
EuMC23-04, Time: 12:20
This paper presents a novel direction in leaky-wave phenomenon
research: the generation of non-diractive Bessel beams by leaky-
wave modes. A radial waveguide loaded by a capacitive impedance
sheet is used to support an azimuthally invariant leaky-wave mode
whose normal electric-eld component is a truncated, zeroth-order
Bessel function. In particular, the generation of propagating Bessel
beams using the lowest and higher-order leaky-wave modes sup-
ported by the radial waveguide is considered. Design relations are
provided in both cases, based on an accurate vector eld approach
and on the dispersion analysis of the proposed structure. Mea-
surement results validate the design approach for the lowest order
leaky-wave radial waveguide. Numerical results are presented
for the higher-order case. Non-diractive Bessel-beams may nd
application in sensing and wireless power transfer at microwaves
and millimeter waves.
SIW Leaky Wave Antennas
Jan Machac; Czech Technical University in Prague,
Czech Republic
EuMC23-05, Time: 12:40
The substrate integrated waveguide can easily be integrated with
planar microwave circuits. Antennas designed on this transmission
line have a planar structure, and can be fabricated by a standard
PCB technology, so they are suitable for mass production. This pa-
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per presents the results of an investigation of leaky wave antennas
designed on a substrate integrated waveguide. The interest is given
to three antenna types: antenna radiating from a slot in the top
waveguide wall, CRLH and dual band CRLH leaky wave antennas.
EuMC24 : Non Planar Passive Components
for Power Applications
Venue: Cecilia, 11:20 13:00, Wednesday 8th October 2014
Chair: Magdalena Salazar Palma, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid,
Spain
Co-Chair: Vesna Crnojevic-Bengin, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Synthesis of Single- and Dual-Band Short-Circuited
Waveguide Orthomode Transducers
Yun Tao 1 , Zhongxiang Shen 2 ; 1 ST Electronics,
Singapore; 2 Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore
EuMC24-01, Time: 11:20
This paper presents a synthesis method for short-circuited waveg-
uide orthomode transducers (OMTs). An equivalent circuit model
of slot-coupled square waveguide T-junction is initially proposed,
and useful formulas are derived for synthesis of the single-band
OMT. Then a dual-band OMT connected with two lters is further
designed using the circuit model and the synthesis theory for a
lter matched with a complex load.
Design of a 70116GHz W-Band Turnstile OMT
Doug Henke, Stphane Claude; NRC Herzberg, Canada
EuMC24-02, Time: 11:40
An orthomode transducer (OMT) is important to separate the
incoming signal into two linear polarizations. Using a turnstile
junction, good input match, high isolation, and low cross-
polarization can be achieved over a wide bandwidth. We report
on a design covering 70116 GHz that is directly machined from
aluminum.
Planar Contra-Wound Helix for Application in TWTs
with Reduced Backward-Wave Oscillation
Chen Zhao 1 , Nilotpal Jha 1 , Sheel Aditya 1 , Ciersiang
Chua 2 ; 1 Nanyang Technological University, Singapore;
2
CST South East Asia, Singapore
EuMC24-03, Time: 12:00
Backward-wave oscillation is frequently a problem in TWT ampli-
ers that use the conventional circular helix slow-wave structure
(SWS). Circular contra-wound helix SWS, proposed in the past to
solve this problem, is hard to fabricate at high frequencies. In
this paper, we propose a planar contra-wound planar helix SWS
with potential for microfabrication. It is shown with the help of
simulated dispersion characteristics that the proposed structure
decreases the risk of backward-wave oscillation in a TWT. Also pre-
sented is a proof-of-concept low frequency design of the proposed
structure that can be fabricated using printed circuit techniques.
Design and Realization of 3dB Hybrid Stripline
Coupler in 0.518.0GHz
Mauro Anselmi, Massimiliano Pingue, Antonio Manna,
Roberto Flamini, Luigi Cosmi; Elettronica, Italy
EuMC24-04, Time: 12:20
In this article the design and the construction of an ultrawideband
(UWB) 3 dB hybrid coupler are presented. The coupler is realized
in broadside stripline technology to cover the operating bandwidth
0.518 GHz (more than ve octaves). Detailed electromagnetic
design has been carried to optimize performances according
to bandwidth. The comparison between simulations and mea-
surements validated the design approach. The rst prototype
guaranteed an insertion loss lower than 5 dB and a phase shift
equal to 90 +/- 5 in bandwidth.
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Single-Pole Multiple-Throw Waveguide Switch for Numerical Models of Microwave Thermal Ablation
Twelve Output Ports (SP12T) Procedures
Jorge A. Ruiz-Cruz 1 , Mohamed M. Fahmi 2 , Raafat R. M. Cavagnaro 1 , R. Pinto 2 , V. Lopresto 2 ; 1 Universit di
Mansour 3 ; 1 Universidad Autnoma de Madrid, Spain; Roma La Sapienza, Italy; 2 ENEA, Italy
2
Nanowave Technologies, Canada; 3 University of EuMC25-03, Time: 12:00
Waterloo, Canada Microwave thermal ablations therapies are based on the absorption
EuMC24-05, Time: 12:40 of an electromagnetic eld at microwave frequencies to induce a
very high and localized temperature increase to remove unhealthy
This paper addresses the design of a single-pole multiple-throw
tissue. The development of clinical protocols for treatment plan-
(SP12T) switch with twelve output ports in waveguide technology.
ning is strictly linked to the availability of numerical models able
The cumbersome and bulky routing waveguide networks required
to correctly predict the procedure outcomes. In this paper, some
to deal with large number of ports in waveguide switches are
numerical models proposed in the literature were considered and
reduced to a very compact structure that uses ridge waveguide
their results were compared.
junctions. The switch concept is provided by short circuit elements
inside the ridge waveguides that select the signal path inside the
waveguide structure. This concept avoids the use of complex
Space Distribution of SAR and Temperature in
rotary systems to provide path switching, resulting in an extremely Human Body Model with Tumor Using Waveguide
compact network. A SP12T waveguide switch is built and tested Applicator Array
to validate the concept. The fabricated prototype integrates the
transitions to SMA outputs and metallic posts for the short-circuit Ondrej Fiser Jr., Ilja Merunka, Lucie Vojckov, Jan
elements. The experimental results show that the proposed ap- Vrba; Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech
proach provides a very compact structure, with design parameters Republic
that can be optimized depending on the targeted application. EuMC25-04, Time: 12:20
The way to treat tumors in head and neck region is the main
EuMC25 : Microwave-Based Medical aim of this work. For this purpose we used array of waveguide
applicators working on frequency 434 MHz. Characteristics of used
Applications applicator array tested through the EM eld simulator SEMCAD X
Venue: Domizia, 11:20 13:00, Wednesday 8th October 2014 on numerical model and model made from CT scans. We observed
Chair: Wolfgang Menzel, Universitt Ulm, Germany SAR and temperature distribution in tumor and sensitive tissues.
Co-Chair: Reinhard Feger, Johannes Kepler Universitt Linz, For better results we optimized SAR distribution and tried to focus
Austria energy to tumor. This contribution shows good control of SAR
distribution patterns and oers a solution for patients with large
An Electromagnetic Device for Autonomous tumors.
Mobility of Visually Impaired People Microwave Waveguide-Based Dielectrometry for the
V. Di Mattia, P. Russo, A. De Leo, V. Mariani Primiani, Monitoring Erythrocytes Beta-Receptors Activity
V. Petrini, G. Cerri, L. Scalise; Universit Politecnica Kateryna Arkhypova 1 , Pavlo Krasov 1 , Anatoliy
delle Marche, Italy Fisun 1 , Seil Sautbekov 2 , Volodymyr Lychko 3 ,
EuMC25-01, Time: 11:20
Volodymyr Malakhov 3 ; 1 National Academy of Sciences
The design of an electromagnetic (EM) novel device to be used
of Ukraine, Ukraine; 2 L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National
as travel support to the mobility of visually impaired people is
presented in this work. In particular, a preliminary study has been University, Kazakhstan; 3 Kharkov Medical Academy of
carried out using laboratory instrumentation in order to inves- Post-Graduate Education, Ukraine
tigate the performances of an EM system in detecting obstacles EuMC25-05, Time: 12:40
located along user pathway, both in indoor and outdoor cluttered
In the present work we propose a new integrated approach to
environments. Moreover, a portable EM system prototype has been
characterization of cellular reactivity using human erythrocytes in
realized and tested with a blind volunteer in order to both demon-
health and disease. We have applied two methods microwave
strate potentialities and highlight peculiarities of using EM pulses
waveguide-based dielectrometry (39.5 GHz) and osmotic fragility
for this application. The proposed EM system accomplishes most
technique based on photometry to monitor receptor-specic
of the operative requirements of electronic travel aids for visually
response of blood cells caused by the beta-blocker exposure. Our
impaired subjects and can even provide additional information on
results showed that dielectric response of erythrocytes depends on
obstacles, as for example height from the ground, distance and
the physiological state of blood donors that is in good agreement
position.
with the degree of their beta-receptors activity (beta-ARM index).
We found that drug-induced changes in complex permittivity and
A 4-Channel RF Coil Based on a Novel the values of beta-ARM index are inversely related. The proposed
Dipole-Element with Eigen-Resonant Shielding Plate approach is intended to supplement current cellular analysis used
for 7-Tesla Magnetic Resonance Imaging for healthcare, which will allow obtaining more information about
health status of the patients at the cellular level.
Zhichao Chen, Oliver Kra, Klaus Solbach, Daniel Erni,
Andreas Rennings; Universitt Duisburg-Essen,
Germany
EuMC25-02, Time: 11:40
First imaging tests of a 4-channel RF coil using novel 41cm-long
dipole elements with an eigen-resonant shielding plate in a 7-Tesla
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system are presented. The
proposed 4-channel coil is loaded by a homogeneous phantom to
model the human body. Gradient echo images on the transverse,
sagittal and coronal planes are acquired in CP+ mode and com-
pared to the more established 25cm-long elements. Relative B+ 1
maps for each channel show good separation of transmit sensitivi-
ties. The proposed coil exhibits improved image homogeneity on
transverse planes due to the broader eld distribution, and a large
longitudinal eld-of-view.

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EuMC26 : Emerging Tuneable and
Recongurable Devices and Systems
Venue: Giulia, 11:20 13:00, Wednesday 8th October 2014
Chair: Rolf Jacoby, Technische Universitt Darmstadt, Germany
Co-Chair: Amir Mortazawi, University of Michigan, USA
Characterization of Ferroelectric BST MIM
Capacitors up to 65GHz for a Compact Phase Shifter
at 60GHz
Rosa De Paolis 1 , Fabio Coccetti 1 , Sandrine Payan 2 ,
Mario Maglione 2 , Guillaume Guegan 3 ; 1 LAAS, France;
2 metal (MIM) conguration, which is fully inkjet-printed on top
ICMCB, France; 3 STMicroelectronics, France
EuMC26-01, Time: 11:20
The voltage- and frequency-dependent material properties of
(Ba,Sr)TiO3 (BST) thin lm have been extracted up to 65 GHz.
To this aim, a set of MIM capacitors has been characterized by
means of a lumped elements equivalent circuit validated by tting
on de-embedded experimental data. At 60 GHz the tunability is
80% (025 V bias), and the loss tangent is better than 0.16 (value
at 0 V), demonstrating that the BST is a promising candidate to
operate at millimeter frequencies. The results have been exploited
in the design of the rst tunable phase shifter based on MIM BST
capacitors working at 60 GHz. The measured phase shift and the
FoM at 60 GHz are, respectively, 135 and 23 /dB, when passing
from 0 V to 30 V, and 150 and 22 /dB, when passing from 0 V to
90 V. The size is very compact (1.5 0.8 mm2 , i.e., area/20 < 0.05).
The insertion loss is between -1.3 and -5.9 dB, and the return loss
is better than -12 dB. The achieved performances are superior to
the state-of-the-art.
Tunable Impedance Matching Networks on Printed
Ceramics for Output Matching of RF-Power
Transistors
Alex Wiens 1 , Olof Bengtsson 2 , Christian Kohler 3 ,
Daniel Kienemund 1 , M. Nikfalazar 1 , Holger Maune 1 ,
A. Friederich 3 , Joachim R. Binder 3 , Wolfgang
Heinrich 2 , Rolf Jakoby 1 ; 1 Technische Universitt
Darmstadt, Germany; 2 FBH, Germany; 3 KIT, Germany
EuMC26-02, Time: 11:40
This work addresses tunable matching networks fabricated on
functional thick lm layers of Barium-Strontium-Titanate (BST) for
RF-power transistors. The deposition of BST layers is performed
in a screen-printing process and the fabricated components are
patterned by photolithography. Around 2.0 GHz, the insertion
loss varies in a range between 0.7 dB and 1.1 dB depending on the
tuning state and frequency, transforming 7.5Ohm to 50 Ohm. For
verication, the tunable matching network is implemented as the
main part of the output matching of three cells of a bare-die GaN
HEMT. The transistor is operated in class AB at 2.0 GHz at 15V and
28V drain voltage with a peak power of 36.9 dBm and 40.1dBm
along with 47.1% and 41% drain eciency respectively, which is an
improvement of approximately 10%-points in eciency and more
than 6 dB in power compared to previous work.
Switching Reliability and Switching Speed of Barium
Strontium Titanate (BST) BAW Devices
Victor Lee, Seungku Lee, Seyit Ahmet Sis, Amir
Mortazawi; University of Michigan, USA
EuMC26-03, Time: 12:00
Adaptive circuits are essential for the design of multi standard
and recongurable radios. Ferroelectric thin lm technology has
demonstrated its advantages for the design of varactors and
more recently, switchable and tunable bulk acoustic wave (BAW)
resonators and lters. Some important performance characteristic
of barium strontium titanate (BST) based resonators and lters
have been well studied. However, their tuning and switching speed
has not been well characterized yet. In this work, measurement
results on the switching reliability as well as the switching speed
of BST BAW resonators and lters are presented.
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Fully Inkjet-Printed Tunable S-Band Phase Shifter on
BST Thick Film
M. Nikfalazar 1 , Yuliang Zheng 1 , Alex Wiens 1 , Rolf
Jakoby 1 , A. Friederich 2 , Christian Kohler 2 , Joachim R.
Binder 2 ; 1 Technische Universitt Darmstadt, Germany;
2
KIT, Germany
EuMC26-04, Time: 12:20
In this paper, a novel inkjet printing technology is presented, which
allows the fabrication of fully printed tunable RF components. A
tunable phase shifter is fabricated to demonstrate the capabilities
of this simple, exible and low-cost method. The proposed phase
shifter contains tunable ferroelectric varactors in metal-insulator-
of an alumina carrier substrate with metallic and dielectric inks.
The printed phase shifter achieved phase shift of 156 at 2.8GHz
(300 /cm2 ).
Electrically Recongurable Waveguide Polarizer
Using Liquid Crystal Technology for Ka-Band
Applications
Sebastian Strunck, Alexander Gaebler, Onur Hamza
Karabey, Matthias Jost, Rolf Jakoby; Technische
Universitt Darmstadt, Germany
EuMC26-05, Time: 12:40
A broadband liquid crystal based polarizer is presented in this
paper, electrically changing the orientation of the fundamental
TE01 -mode of a square waveguide. The basic concept is similar
to the twisted nematic cell in LC-display technology, however,
adapted to the microwave regime as a waveguide component.
This allows for continuous, electrical reconguration of the lin-
ear polarization from -90 to 90 with respect to the incoming
mode. Besides the demonstration of the prototype, methods for
implementation are shown regarding the optimal length for the
maximum crosspolarisation suppression. The polarizer has an
insertion loss of about 6 dB to 7 dB between 28 GHz and 40 GHz.
EuMC27 : Emerging Technologies and Novel
Applications
Venue: Hortensia, 11:20 13:00, Wednesday 8th October 2014
Chair: Kamal K Samanta, Milmega UK
Co-Chair: Dimitris Pavlidis, Boston University
Aerosol Jet Printing for 3-D Multilayer Passive
Microwave Circuitry
Fan Cai, Spyridon Pavlidis, John Papapolymerou,
Yung Hang Chang, Kan Wang, Chuck Zhang, Ben
Wang; Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
EuMC27-01, Time: 11:20
Aerosol jet printed 3-D coplanar waveguides up to 50 GHz are
demonstrated in this paper for the rst time featuring a multilayer
aerosol jet deposition process. The aerosol jet printing utilized in
this paper is the rst aerosol jet process to demonstrate multilayer
deposition with bi-materials and is host substrate independent.
The paper provides an insight into the fabrication process, the
technology assessment and the characterization of the polyimide
as well as the nano silver particles. The printed polyimide could
achieve a thickness of 60 m. The three-dimensional printed
transmission lines demonstrated losses of 0.5 dB/mm at 50 GHz.
Logo Antenna on Textile Materials
Giuseppina Monti, Laura Corchia, Luciano Tarricone;
Universit del Salento, Italy
EuMC27-02, Time: 11:40
This paper presents a novel logo-shaped antenna. The proposed
antenna has been fabricated by using a conductive non-woven tex-
tile on a layer of jeans. Experimental data referring to a prototype
working at 1.8 GHz are presented and compared with numerical
results. A relative bandwidth of about 70% and a dipole-like
radiation pattern is demonstrated.
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A Novel Multilayered SIW Filter with Two
Mono-Modal Cavities and Three Poles
Maurizio Bozzi 1 , Fermn Mira 2 , Apostolos Georgiadis 2 ;
1
Universit di Pavia, Italy; 2 CTTC, Spain
EuMC27-03, Time: 12:00
This work presents a novel class of lters in substrate integrated
waveguide (SIW) technology, based on a multilayered conguration.
The peculiarity of these lters is the presence of additional poles
and zeros, due to the resonant slot etched in the common metal
layer between two dielectric substrates. In this way, a lter with
two mono-modal cavities, coupled by a resonant slot, exhibits a
frequency response with three poles and two transmission zeros.
The experimental verication of a prototype operating at 11 GHz
is presented in this letter, and the possible extensions of this lter
topology are discussed.
Simulation and Analysis of InGaP/GaAs DHPTs
Using Eye Diagrams for Short Wavelength Optical
Detection
Yongjian Zhang 1 , Ali A. Rezazadeh 1 , Hassan A.
Khan 2 , Emerson P. Sinulingga 1 , Peter B. Kyabaggu 1 ,
Mohammad A. Alim 1 ; 1 University of Manchester, UK;
2
LUMS, Pakistan
EuMC27-04, Time: 12:20
Eye diagram is adopted as a powerful tool to analyse the perfor-
mance of an optical detector, which provides highly insightful infor-
mation about components performance than S-parameter and pho-
toresponse analysis. In this work a 1620 m2 In0.49 Ga0.51 P/GaAs
DHPT operating as a short wavelength (850nm) photodetector is
evaluated. PRBS signals with data rates between 0.5 to 3Gbps are
used as the input signal to a modied small signal T-model circuit,
which includes an optical current source, to simulate eye diagram
in ADS. Through analysing eye diagrams deteriorations caused by
the input optical power, data rate and physical parameters of the
device variations, eye diagram would assist in device optimizations
for performance enhancement.
An Equivalent Circuit Model of CNT Inkjet Printed
Paper-Based Structures
Carlos Paragua 1 , Kamel Frigui 1 , Stphane Bila 1 ,
Dominique Baillargeat 1 , Sbastien Pacchini 2 ; 1 XLIM,
France; 2 CINTRA, Singapore
EuMC27-05, Time: 12:40
This paper proposes an equivalent circuit model of carbon nan-
otubes (CNTs) lms dropped on demand by inkjet printing and
using low cost paper substrate. The CNTs are printed in gap of
the central line of coplanar waveguides used as test structures.
The proposed model was validated by experimental measurement.
The suggested equivalent model can be exploited in the imple-
mentation of dierent inkjet-printed modules and carbon-based
nanotechnology for microwave devices.
EuMC28 : Lumped Elements and Wideband
Planar Filters
Venue: Iustina, 11:20 13:00, Wednesday 8th October 2014
Chair: Ferran Martin, Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona, Spain
Co-Chair: Luciano Accatino, ACC, Italy
Novel Synthesis of Wideband Filter Using
Open-Short-Circuited Stepped Impedance
Resonators
Chun-Ping Chen 1 , Noriki Kato 1 , Takemasa Kato 1 ,
Katsuhiro Kamata 1 , Tetsuo Anada 1 , Shigeki Takeda 2 ;
1 MHz band is presented. The lter, based on the trisection topology,
Kanagawa University, Japan; 2 Antenna Giken, Japan
EuMC28-01, Time: 11:20
A wideband lter consisting of a cascade connection of open-short-
circuited stepped impedance resonators (OSSIRs) is proposed
with a corresponding synthesis theory. The pseudo-Chebyshev-
function-based formulae are derived to design the wideband lter
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with an arbitrary fractional bandwidth. By introducing the center
frequency of the passband as a designable parameter, the distance
between the center frequencies of the passband and spurious can
be also controlled in our novel synthesis technique. To validate the
proposed technique, a wideband lter with a bandwidth of 35GHz
is designed, simulated, fabricated and measured. The measured
responses of the lter agree well with the simulation and theoreti-
cal ones, which validates the eectiveness of the newly-proposed
lter structure and the corresponding design scheme.
Pseudo-Elliptic Function Ultra Wideband Bandstop
Filter with Stepped Impedance Stubs
J.A.G. Malherbe; University of Pretoria, South Africa
EuMC28-02, Time: 11:40
This paper describes a new pseudo-elliptic structure that has the
same number of transmission zeros as comparable Cauer lters.
The lter diers from previous structures in that it has two three-
section stepped stubs which contribute an additional transmission
zero, ensuring even better performance and substantially increased
range of realizable stopband attenuation levels.
Miniaturized Ultra-Wideband Bandpass Filter Based
on CRLH-TL Unit Cell
Abdullah Alburaikan, Mohammed Aqeeli, Xianjun
Huang, Zhirun Hu; University of Manchester, UK
EuMC28-03, Time: 12:00
In this paper, a novel ultra-wideband (UWB) bandpass lter design
based on a composite right/left handed transmission line (CRLH-
TL) unit cell is presented. The series capacitance of CRLH-TL is
realised by the interdigital capacitor, and shunt inductance is
provided by the grounded stubs. By cascading the interdigital
coupled line with a low-pass lter (LPF) based on symmetrical
split ring resonator (SSRR) defected ground structure (DGS), an
UWB frequency response is obtained. SSRR DGS was used to
obtain wider upper stopband and sharp roll-o rate. The lter
has compact size (13 8.5 mm2 ) and exhibits an attenuation level
greater than 23 dB at both upper and lower stopband. The lter
has an insertion loss of 1 dB, a return loss better than 13 dB, and a
fractional bandwidth of more than 100%.
On the Development of Compact Lumped-Element
LCP Filters
Laura Hepburn, Jiasheng Hong; Heriot-Watt University,
UK
EuMC28-04, Time: 12:20
This paper presents a novel compact, UHF-band lumped element
lter that shows good results versus other similar designs, with a
20% fractional bandwidth operating at 500MHz with a 17dB return
loss. The circuit was designed using multilayer LCP, with a focus
on minimising the footprint and the number of vias present, which
was achieved by folding the design and implementing a block of
shared ground vias, avoiding unwanted coupling in the process.
Using a 4-pole tubular lter circuit model, the initial lter designed
showed a good response and underwent a subsequent successful
redesign that reduced the footprint by 60% and the number of vias
by 37.5% without sacricing the response of the lter.
Advanced Lumped-Element Trisection Filter for
Digital Microwave Power Ampliers
M. Martnez-Mendoza 1 , A. Wentzel 1 , Wolfgang
Heinrich 1 , A. Alvarez-Melcn 2 ; 1 FBH, Germany;
2
Universidad Politcnica de Cartagena, Spain
EuMC28-05, Time: 12:40
In this paper, a compact lumped element bandpass reconstruction
lter for digital microwave power amplier applications in the 800
includes a cross coupling which produces a transmission zero for
maximum selectivity. In contrast to common lter designs the
input impedance characteristic is optimized broadband to values
dierent from 50 , as is required for proper amplier operation.
The lter achieves an insertion loss of 0.8 dB and an equiripple
bandwidth of 240 MHz, with improved out-of-band suppression.
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EuMC29 : Frequency- and Time-Domain
Electromagnetic Modelling
Venue: Niside, 11:20 13:00, Wednesday 8th October 2014
Chair: Clive Tzuang, Tianjin University, China
Co-Chair: Peter Russer, Technische Universitt Mnchen,
Germany
A Fast MoM Code for Finite Arrays
Ruggero Taddei 1 , Giacomo Guarnieri 2 , Giuseppe
Mauriello 2 , Giuseppe Pelosi 1 , Stefano Selleri 1 ;
1
Universit di Firenze, Italy; 2 Antenna Engineering,
Italy
EuMC29-01, Time: 11:20
This paper presents the novel implementation of a general purpose
Method of Moments (MoM), specialized in the treatment of nite
planar arrays. The proposed implementation is fast and accurate,
and exploits open source libraries and tools. It is capable of
analyzing isolated structures, innite arrays via periodic boundary
conditions and nite arrays. In a subsequent phase the solution
of the nite array problem is going to be accelerated via the
exploitation of Characteristics/Macro Basis Functions deriving
from the Array Scanning Method.
Numerical Analysis of the EM Field from a Moving
Source and the Application for a Moving Vehicle
1 2 1 Chair: Noriharu Suematsu, Tohoku University, Japan
Tatsuya Akata , Shafrida Sahrani , Michiko Kuroda ;
1
Tokyo University of Technology, Japan; 2 Universiti
Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia
EuMC29-02, Time: 11:40
Many practical engineering applications require the numerical
solution for the analysis of the EM eld by a moving source and/or
a moving body. We have previously proposed the Overset Grid
Generation method coupled with FDTD method for the analysis of
the EM eld with moving boundaries considering Doppler Eect.
By overlapping one moving sub-mesh on a static main mesh, each
mesh is calculated alternately by using interpolation technique.
For higher velocity value, Lorentz transformation is applied to the
FDTD method. In this paper, after verifying the accuracy of this
technique, it is applied for the EM eld at an intersection when the
input source is moving towards the moving vehicle.
Characterization of Short Pulse Propagation Using
Euclid Distance
Shunli Li, Li Xie, Liang Yang, Xingwen Zhang, Hongxin
Zhao, Xiaoxing Yin; Southeast University, China
EuMC29-03, Time: 12:00
The characterization of short pulse signals transmission along
the microstrip line and in the free space using the signal space
method and Euclid distance is presented. The short pulse signals
in the microstrip line and along the main direction of the antipodal
Vivaldi antenna are obtained and partly validated with measured
results. The variation of delity and Euclid distance with the
transmission distance is analyzed and portrayed. This analysis
provides more insight into the propagation of short pulse along
the microstrip line and in free space and thus is fundamental for
the analysis and design of the microstrip line networks and pulse
antennas.
Brunes Four-Port Equivalent Circuit Models for
MMMWICs
Farooq Mukhtar 1 , Johannes A. Russer 1 , Sidina Wane 2 ,
Damienne Bajon 3 , An-Yu Kuo 4 , Peter Russer 1 ;
1 17.8 GHz are achieved. For the V-band VCO, the measured phase
Technische Universitt Mnchen, Germany; 2 NXP
Semiconductors, France; 3 ISAE, France; 4 Cadence
Design Systems, USA
EuMC29-04, Time: 12:20
A systematic algorithm based on the Brune-Tellegen process is ap-
plied to synthesize a lumped-element equivalent circuit modeling
a monolithic integrated millimeterwave transformer module in the
frequency range from 53 GHz to 73 GHz. The lumped element
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equivalent circuit contains only positive resistors, inductors and
capacitors as the circuit elements and ideal transformers in the
connection circuit. The algorithm is based on the representation
of the multiport by a positive real matrix obtained from numerical
data by vector-tting. From this positive real matrix stepwise parts
corresponding to canonical sub circuits are extracted until the
order of the remaining matrix reaches zero.
Coupling Matrix Synthesis by Solving Nonlinear
Equations Using Newtons Method
Changsoo Kwak, Manseok Uhm, In-Bok Yom; ETRI,
Korea
EuMC29-05, Time: 12:40
This paper presents a new coupling matrix synthesis method. The
method synthesizes a coupling matrix by moving poles and zeros
to their own target positions in the complex plane. Mathematically
speaking, the procedure is to solve a system of nonlinear equations
using Newtons method. In addition, a new algorithm for gener-
ating the initial values is devised. The method exhibits a lower
possibility of falling into local minima and faster convergence
than the existing optimization methods. The method veries
its performance by synthesizing high-order asymmetric lters
repeatedly in a very short time period without failure.
EuMC30 : High Frequency Monolithic VCOs
Venue: Aurelia, 14:20 16:00, Wednesday 8th October 2014
Co-Chair: Mike Roberts, Slipstream Engineering Design
A Low Phase-Noise 24GHz CMOS Quadrature-VCO
Using PMOS-Source-Follower Coupling Technique
Ping-Yi Wang 1 , Yin-Cheng Chang 1 , Kai-Hsin Chuang 1 ,
Da-Chiang Chang 2 , Shawn S.H. Hsu 1 ; 1 National Tsing
Hua University, Taiwan; 2 NARLabs, Taiwan
EuMC30-01, Time: 14:20
An eective coupling topology for multi-phase oscillators is pro-
posed and demonstrated in a standard 90nm CMOS technology.
Compared with the conventional parallel or series coupling meth-
ods, the PMOS-source-follower coupled (PSFC) technique with the
coupling transistors operated in the cut-o region can signicantly
reduce the icker noise and hence the phase noise of VCO. The
proposed PSFC QVCOs at 24.39GHz demonstrates a low phase
noise of -106.05dBc/Hz at 1MHz oset with a tuning range of
3.22GHz under the supply voltage and current consumption of
1V and 6.2mA, respectively. The proposed PSFC-QVCO exhibits a
better FOMT of 188.2dBc/Hz and smaller chip area (core area only
0.18 mm2 ) than previous works.
Wide Tuning Range Millimeter-Wave VCOs Based on
Switchable Inductive Tuning Methodology in 90nm
CMOS Technology
Tzuen-Hsi Huang, Pen-Li You, Chen-Hao Chiu,
Chen-Yu Wu; National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
EuMC30-02, Time: 14:40
This paper presents the application of switchable inductive tuning
technique to the frequency tuning range (FTR) enhancement for
millimeter-wave oscillators. By rearranging the induced-current
path in the guard ring of a planar inductor, the inductance value
can be changed and therefore the resulted total tuning range
of the oscillator can be extended. Two VCOs are fabricated for
demonstrating the eectiveness of this tuning technique. By using
90nm CMOS technology, a V-band 55 GHz direct VCO with an FTR
of 9.95 GHz and a W-band push-push 109 GHz VCO with an FTR of
noise ranges from -110 to -120 dBc/Hz over the whole tuning
range, no matter the switches are either turned on or o. The
power consumption is 11.3 mW with a 0.9 V supply. The evaluated
FOM is -184.2 dBc/Hz and FOMT is -189.3 dBc/Hz. For the W-band
VCO, the measured phase noise is -108.9 dBc/Hz at 10 MHz oset
from the carrier frequency of 100.6 GHz, while it consumes 22.8
mW from a 1.2 V supply. The evaluated FOM is -175.4 dBc/Hz and
the FOMT is -179.5 dBc/Hz.
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A Low-Power K-Band Frequency Synthesizer Using
Push-Push Transformer-Feedback VCO in 0.18-m
CMOS Technology
Hsin-Chuan Chen 1 , Jen-Hao Cheng 1 , Jeng-Han Tsai 2 ,
Ming-Hang Wu 1 , Tian-Wei Huang 1 ; 1 National Taiwan
University, Taiwan; 2 National Taiwan Normal
University, Taiwan
EuMC30-03, Time: 15:00
In this paper, a K-band frequency synthesizer using 0.18-m CMOS
technology is presented. To achieve low-power consumption, a
transformer-feedback voltage-controlled oscillator (TF-VCO) with a
cascoded current mode logic (CML) frequency divider is proposed.
Furthermore, the push-push structure is selected in TF-VCO to
overcome the design trade-o between operating frequency and dc
power consumption of CML divider. Based on the aforementioned
techniques, the measured phase noise of proposed frequency
synthesizer is -114 dBc/Hz at 10 MHz oset at 21.5 GHz. The total
power consumption is 20.1 mW.
A V-Band Push-Push VCO with Wide Tuning Range
in 0.18m CMOS Process
Yu-Hsin Chang, Yen-Chung Chiang; National Chung
Hsing University, Taiwan
EuMC30-04, Time: 15:20
In this paper, a wide tuning range push-push voltage-controlled
oscillator (VCO) implemented in the TSMC 0.18m CMOS process
technology for V-band applications is presented. By adopting
source degeneration inductors, the characteristic of the overall LC
tank is improved and a wide tuning range can be achieved with a
larger size of the varactor. The output signal with frequency which
is twice of that in the VCO core is extracted from the center tap of
one of the parallel connected source degeneration inductors. The
measured output frequency is from 59.1 GHz to 65.8 GHz which
corresponds to 10.73% tuning range of the proposed VCO. The
measured phase noises at 1MHz and 10MHz frequency osets are
-82dBc/Hz and -113dBc/Hz, respectively, at the 65.43 GHz output
frequency. The power consumption of the core circuit is 15.3mW
from a 1.8-V supply.
A 270GHz Push-Push Oscillator in
InP-DHBT-on-BiCMOS Technology
M. Hossain, N. Weimann, O. Krueger, V. Krozer,
Wolfgang Heinrich; FBH, Germany
EuMC30-05, Time: 15:40
A 270-GHz reection-type push-push oscillator is presented, real-
ized using 0.8m emitter InP-DHBTs. The InP DHBT-on-BiCMOS
oers both InP HBT and BiCMOS technologies but in this case only
the InP part is used. The transistors exhibit a maximum oscillation
frequency fmax of 300 GHz. The oscillator delivers -9.5 dBm output
power. DC consumption is only 31 mW from a 1.8 volts power
supply, which corresponds to 0.4% overall DC-to-RF eciency.
EuMC31 : Integrated Transceivers
Venue: Baebiana, 14:20 16:00, Wednesday 8th October 2014
Chair: Franz Dielacher, Inneon
Co-Chair: Alessandro Cidronali, Universit di Firenze, Italy
IQ Demodulator for the IEEE 802.15.3c Standard in
the 90nm CMOS Technology
Mohammed K. Ali, Amin Hamidian, Andrea
Malignaggi, Georg Boeck; Technische Universitt
Berlin, Germany
EuMC31-01, Time: 14:20
The design of an IQ-Demodulator for the IEEE 802.15.3c standard
is presented. The design is targeted for low noise, low power
consumption and small chip area. The IQ-Demodulator is fabri-
cated in a 90 nm CMOS technology; it converts down a 2 GHz wide
channel at around the IF of 20 GHz to the neighborhood of the
zero frequency. New current bleeding network with resonating
inductors is used for the direct-conversion mixer to mitigate the
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icker noise eect, while other techniques are used to lower the
DC current of the frequency divider at the required operating
frequency. The conversion gain of the IQ-Demodulator is 6 dB and
its input referred compression point -12 dBm. The demodulator
consumes a total power of 50 mW. The total chip size including
pads is 0.841.15 mm2 .
Multi-Channel Low-Noise Receiver and Transmitter
for 7681GHz Automotive Radar Systems in 65nm
CMOS
Toshihiro Shimura, Hiroshi Matsumura, Yoichi
Kawano, Masaru Sato, Toshihide Suzuki, Yoji Ohashi;
Fujitsu Laboratories, Japan
EuMC31-03, Time: 15:00
This paper presents the design and characteristics of a receiver
and a transmitter in 65-nm CMOS technology for automotive radar
systems covering dual radar bands of 76 GHz and 79 GHz. The
receiver has a 4-channel fully dierential conguration for DBF
systems. A unit receiver achieves a single-side band noise gure
of 12 dB at an IF range from 1 to 200 kHz using a low 1/f-noise
double-balanced resistive mixer and a low-noise dierential ampli-
er. Using an on-chip multi-channel DAC, the receiver maintains
a constant conversion gain with varying temperature by means
of the ne control of gate bias voltages. The transmitter has a
2-channel conguration for multi-transmitting mode and includes
a frequency PLL synthesizer. The transmitter achieves a phase
noise of -84 dBc/Hz at a 100 kHz oset using an XOR-type phase
detector and a 49-MHz reference. Due to the wider frequency
circuit operation of frequency dividers and a VCO, the frequency
synthesizer in the transmitter achieves a 7681 GHz frequency
range operation. We demonstrate 5-GHz band width FMCW and
10-s fast-FM signal generation using the transmitter.
A CMOS Advanced Class-S Transmitter Architecture
Based on Tri-Level Envelope Encoding
Young-Kyun Cho, Sung Jun Lee, Seung Hyun Jang,
Bong Hyuk Park, Jae Ho Jung, Kwang Chun Lee; ETRI,
Korea
EuMC31-04, Time: 15:20
An advanced class-S transmitter architecture using a tri-level
envelope encoding is presented. With tri-level encoding based on
a delta-sigma modulator (DSM), a coding eciency is improved
compared to the two-level case, and sampling frequency is lowered
to 522.24 MHz, which leads to an enhanced system eciency. An
analog/RF interface block is designed to control the propagation
delay of the envelope signal. A wideband mixer and drive amplier
are also included to combine the modulated envelope with the
phase signal and shift the spectrum to a 2.6-GHz center frequency.
Measurement results from an implementation in a 130 nm CMOS
process show that the DSM achieves a peak signal-to-noise and dis-
tortion ratio of 44.4 dB in a 20-MHz input bandwidth. Transmitter
measurements on a 10-MHz long-term evolution signal show an
error vector magnitude of 3.2% and an adjacent channel leakage
ratio of 40.5 dB at 2.6 GHz.
Challenges in RF-DPLL Design for Wideband Phase
Modulation Supporting SC-FDMA in LTE Uplink
T. Buckel 1 , C. Wicpalek 2 , T. Mayer 2 , S. Tertinek 2 , P.
Preyler 2 , B. Neurauter 2 , Robert Weigel 1 , T.
Ussmueller 1 ; 1 FAU Erlangen-Nrnberg, Germany;
2
DMCE, Austria
EuMC31-05, Time: 15:40
As one central part in polar modulators and polar transmitters
the phase modulation of the RF carrier is typically realized by a
two-point modulation of the RF digital phase locked loop (DPLL)
generating the carrier. However, with increasing channel band-
widths, advanced modulation and channel access schemes the
phase modulation suers from several impairments such as digi-
tally controlled oscillator gain nonlinearity and delay mismatches.
But also process, voltage and temperature (PVT) variation as
well as the impact of the used access scheme on calibration and
tracking algorithms inside the RF-DPLL will play an important
role. Those eects and their impact on characteristics like EVM,
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ACLR and out-of-band emissions are evaluated with respect to
dierent resource block (RB) allocation scenarios found in single
carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) utilized in
LTE uplink transmission. It is shown that the phase modulation
performance is sensitive to the almost arbitrary RB allocation
found in SC-FDMA especially in case of multi-cluster transmission
scenarios.
EuMC32 : Filter Synthesis and Practical
Considerations
Venue: Cecilia, 14:20 16:00, Wednesday 8th October 2014
Chair: Richard V. Snyder, RS Microwave, USA
Co-Chair: Marco Guglielmi, ESA, The Netherlands
Synthesis of Dual-Band Filters with
Parallel-Connected Networks
Giuseppe Macchiarella 1 , Stefano Tamiazzo 2 ;
1
Politecnico di Milano, Italy; 2 CommScope, Italy
EuMC32-01, Time: 14:20
We discuss in this work a novel approach to the synthesis of
dual-band lters having a parallel-connected topology. The only
existing synthesis technique for this class of lters oers a very
limited control over the topology of the two constituting lters.
The approach we propose allows to control the number of trans-
mission zeros of each lter connected in parallel, making the
realization of the overall dual-band lter more convenient from a
practical point of view. The solution of the problem is based on the
introduction of additional transmission zeros which are obtained
by means of an iterative procedure. Two examples illustrate the
eectiveness of the proposed approach in case of symmetrical and
asymmetrical response of the dual-band lter.
Synthesis and Design of a Dual-Band Dual-Mode
Filter in All-Inductive Waveguide Technology
M. Martnez-Mendoza 1 , D. Canete Rebenaque 2 , A.
Alvarez-Melcn 2 ; 1 FBH, Germany; 2 Universidad
Politcnica de Cartagena, Spain
EuMC32-02, Time: 14:40
This work presents a novel topology for the design and realization
of a dualband microwave lter combining for the rst time single
and dual-mode cavities in all-inductive waveguide technology. The
lter response includes one transmission zero between the two
pass-bands for maximum isolation. The dualband lter has been
synthesized, designed, manufactured and successfully tested in
order to demonstrate the validity of the proposal. The relevant
aspects related to the lter synthesis procedure, required to
obtain the associated coupling topology, and key stored energy
considerations, are also addressed in this paper.
Implementation of Extracted Pole Filters in
Rectangular Waveguide
Sergio Llorente Romano, Magdalena Salazar-Palma;
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
EuMC32-03, Time: 15:00
Many authors have published methods to synthesize microwave l-
ters that provide a circuit prototype composed of ideal resonators
and ideal couplings between them. Usually, the implementation
step of that network with a particular technology is provided
with few details. This work presents a method to synthesize a
rectangular waveguide lter with transmission zeros designed
by the extracted pole method, focusing on the modelling and
implementation of the non-resonant nodes by means of detuned
cavities.
Tolerance Considerations for Wireless Backhaul
Diplexer Circuits
J. Ross Aitken, Jiasheng Hong; Heriot-Watt University,
UK
EuMC32-04, Time: 15:20
A novel topology is presented which can relax fabrication toler-
ances associated with an E-band waveguide diplexer circuit. This is
achieved by using a narrow wall short slot coupler/highpass lter
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conguration, in addition to a low order bandpass lter which
reduces the required number of resonating structures by halve
when compared to other E-band diplexers in the literature. This
is advantageous when tolerance is considered as it is found that
resonating structures associated with bandpass lters contribute
to fabrication sensitivity. In addition to this, it is found that
capacitive iris coupling has benets over inductive iris coupling
due to the positive length of the impedance inverter.
Correction of Manufacturing Deviations in
Circular-Waveguide Dual-Mode Filters Using
Aggressive Space Mapping
Mara Brumos 1 , Vicente E. Boria 1 , Marco Guglielmi 2 ,
Santiago Cogollos 1 ; 1 Universidad Politcnica de
Valencia, Spain; 2 ESA, The Netherlands
EuMC32-05, Time: 15:40
The space mapping technique is used to correct manufactur-
ing tolerances related to the production of circular-waveguide
dual-mode lters. The tuning screws placed inside each cavity
are replaced by xed square insertions that can be fabricated in
separated pieces. A series of these insertion pieces are designed
following a space mapping technique, and are then fabricated,
thus being able to progressively match the measured response
of the manufactured lter with the desired one. This technique
substitutes the traditional manual tuning process needed in this
sort of lters, avoiding the typical disadvantages of tuning screws.
EuMC33 : Characterisation of Material
Properties
Venue: Domizia, 14:20 16:00, Wednesday 8th October 2014
Chair: Yves Rolain, VUB
Co-Chair: Antti Risnen, Aalto University, Finland
Near-Field Microwave Microscopy for Liquid
Characterization
Sijia Gu, Kamel Haddadi, Tuami Lasri; IEMN, France
EuMC33-01, Time: 14:20
A near-eld microwave microscopy platform for the character-
ization of liquids is proposed. The technique is based on the
association of a network analyzer and an evanescent microwave
coaxial probe. The major feature of the system proposed is the
development of a broadband tunable matching network inserted
between the test port of the network analyzer and the probe. The
tunable matching network based on microwave interferometry
gives the possibility to achieve a strong electromagnetic coupling
between the probe tip and the liquid in the range 120 GHz. As a
demonstration, the monitoring of the evaporation of small volumes
of liquids shows that he system is considerably sensitive to any
microscopic level change of liquid volume.
A Novel Concentration Detection Method of
Hydrogen Peroxide Using Microwave Cavity
Perturbation Technique
Heungjae Choi, Jerome Alexander Cuenca, Gary
Attard, Adrian Porch; Cardi University, UK
EuMC33-02, Time: 14:40
Since there has been no eort at all in using a microwave cavity res-
onator in the detection of hydrogen peroxide in water, we propose
a simple detection method of hydrogen peroxide concentration
based on the well-known microwave cavity perturbation technique
for the TM010 mode at of a copper cylindrical cavity at 3.48 GHz.
From the measurements, we found that the main parameters for
cavity perturbation namely center frequency shifts and bandwidth
(or quality factor Q) changes both exhibit strong correlation with
the concentration.
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Free-Space Quasi-Optical Spectrometer for Material
Characterization in the 50500GHz Frequency
Range
Alireza Kazemipour 1 , Martin Hudlicka 2 , Mohammed
Salhi 1 , Thomas Kleine-Ostmann 1 , Thorsten Schrader 1 ;
1
PTB, Germany; 2 Czech Metrology Institute, Czech
Republic
EuMC33-03, Time: 15:00
A compact free-space setup is designed based on 90-degree o-axis
parabolic mirrors and pyramidal horn antennas to cover a wide
frequency range from 50 GHz to 500 GHz. A commercial VNA with
frequency extenders is used to measure s-parameters and provide
raw data to extract intrinsic material characteristics. The calibra-
tion process is simplied and a method is presented to extract
both real and imaginary part of permittivity. Several materials
were measured and the extracted parameters are presented.
Propagation Constant Measurements of Silver
Nanowires, Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene at
75110GHz
I.I. Nefedova, D.V. Lioubtchenko, A.V. Risnen; Aalto
University, Finland
EuMC33-04, Time: 15:20
The results from our eorts to characterize propagation constant
of carbon nanotube, graphene and silver nanowire layers in the
frequency range of 75 to 110 GHz are presented. The method
is based on measurements of propagation characteristics of a
dielectric rod waveguide unloaded and loaded with the layers
under study. The losses caused by carbon nanotube layers can
be explained by high absorption. The losses caused by silver
nanowires and graphene are quite low. Measurement results agree
well with the simulations.
245GHz SiGe Sensor System for Gas Spectroscopy
Klaus Schmalz 1 , Ruoyu Wang 1 , Yanfei Mao 1 , Wojciech
Debski 2 , Heiko Gulan 3 , Heinz-Wilhelm Hbers 4 ,
Philipp Neumaier 4 , Johannes Borngrber 1 ; 1 IHP,
Germany; 2 Silicon Radar, Germany; 3 KIT, Germany;
4 S. Gomes 1 , J. Fernandes 1 , P. Anacleto 1 , P.M. Mendes 1 ,
DLR, Germany
EuMC33-05, Time: 15:40
A 245 GHz sensor system for gas spectroscopy is presented, which
includes a SiGe receiver (RX), a SiGe transmitter (TX), and a 0.6 m
long gas absorption cell between the TX and RX. The integrated
local oscillators of the RX and the TX are controlled by two external
PLLs, whose reference frequencies are swept with constant fre-
quency oset for a low IF of the RX. The RX consists of a dierential
LNA, an integrated 122 GHz local oscillator with 1/64 divider, a 90
dierential hybrid, and active subharmonic mixer. The TX consists
of an integrated 122 GHz local oscillator with 1/64 divider, and a
frequency doubler. The RX and TX are fabricated in 0.13 m SiGe
BiCMOS with ft/fmax of 300GHz/500GHz. Using external dielectric
lenses for the TX and RX, the absorption spectrum of methanol
has been measured.
EuMC34 : Rectennas and Electromagnetic
Energy Harvesting
Venue: Giulia, 14:20 16:00, Wednesday 8th October 2014
Chair: Kamran Ghorbani, RMIT University, Australia
Co-Chair: Ana Collado, CTTC, Spain
Rectenna Design for K Band Application
A. Takacs 1 , Herve Aubert 1 , A. Luca 1 , S. Charlot 1 , S.
Fredon 2 , L. Despoisse 3 ; 1 LAAS, France; 2 CNES, France;
3 polyester dielectric allowing 3D rectenna design. The realized
Thales Alenia Space, France
EuMC34-01, Time: 14:20
An ultra-compact (2.5 cm2 ) rectenna design based on an innovative
topology using a coplanar stripline connected to a crossed dipoles
antenna array is reported here. Experimental results in the K-band
show that a DC power up to 0.9 mW can be harvested on a 0.3
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k load by using the proposed compact rectenna for incident
power density of 1413 W/cm2 . The targeted application for this
rectenna is to power autonomous wireless sensors for satellite
health monitoring.
28.3THz Bowtie Antenna Integrated Rectier for
Infrared Energy Harvesting
M.N. Gadalla, Atif Shamim; KAUST, Saudi Arabia
EuMC34-02, Time: 14:40
The design, fabrication and characterization of an asymmetric 28.3
THz antenna integrated rectier (rectenna) using Au/Al2 O3 /Pt
is presented. The rectenna design comprises a sharp tip bowtie
antenna and a tunneling Metal-insulator-Metal (MIM) diode. The
design benets from the geometric eld enhancement around the
nano tips of the bowtie antenna. Simultaneous optimization of
the antennas length and are angle resulted in a relative intensity
enhancement of 104 for a 10 nm gap. In order to benet from
the eld enhancement, the THz diode is realized through the
overlap of the bowtie sharp tips exactly at the hot spot. Dissimilar
electrodes are used to allow THz signals rectication at zero bias,
which is critical for energy harvesting applications. The rectenna
exhibits a zero bias responsivity of 10 A/W.
Analysis and Design of a Medium Wave High
Sensitivity Electromagnetic Energy Harvester
Xiaoyu Wang, Amir Mortazawi; University of Michigan,
USA
EuMC34-03, Time: 15:00
This paper presents theoretical analysis and experimental results
for the optimum impedance matching condition of a rectenna in an
EM energy harvester operating at low ambient power densities. The
nonlinear behavior around the threshold voltage of the rectier
is analyzed. Closed-form equations for impedance matching and
for predicting the dc output power are derived. A medium wave
rectenna was designed and tested. The experimental results show
a good agreement with theoretical predictions.
Ultra-Small Energy Harvesting Microsystem for
Biomedical Applications
E. Gultepe 2 , D. Gracias 2 ; 1 Universidade do Minho,
Portugal; 2 Johns Hopkins University, USA
EuMC34-04, Time: 15:20
Wireless power transfer using coupling in the near-eld, in op-
position to far-eld, shows advantages concerning link eciency,
however the link performance is widely dependent on proper
antenna positioning. The transmission of energy using a far-eld
link would be desirable in many applications, namely for powering
biomedical devices placed inside the body. This paper presents re-
sults from a system that was designed to operate inside the human
body and relies on a 3D antenna (500500500 m3 ), fabricated
using self-folding technology, operating in the low gigahertz range.
Wireless power transmission and power conversion between 1 and
4 GHz were evaluated. Far-eld wireless power transmission was
demonstrated using the electrically small microantenna and a DC
load of 1 k.
3D Compact Rectenna for Anti-Counterfeiting
Application
I. Kharrat 1 , P. Xavier 1 , T.-P. Vuong 1 , J.-M. Duchamp 1 ,
Ph. Benech 1 , G. Eymin 2 , Petot Tourtollet 2 ;
1
IMEP-LAHC, France; 2 CTP, France
EuMC34-05, Time: 15:40
In this paper, a design of a 3D 2.45 GHz energy harvesting circuit
also called rectenna is presented. The circuit is made on exible
circuit dedicated to anti-counterfeiting applications is stacked on
wine bottles in order to test the product authenticity. Bending im-
pact on antenna was tested in order to choose the best orientation.
The recovered DC voltage for a received power of 0.16mW is 600
mV for a compact rectenna of 18.65 cm3 .
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EuMC35 : Emerging Optical Components
and Applications
Venue: Hortensia, 14:20 16:00, Wednesday 8th October 2014
Chair: Dimitris Pavlidis, Boston University
Co-Chair: Luca Pierantoni, Universit Politecnica delle Marche,
Italy
Electro-Optic Single-Sideband Modulator Integrated
with Branch-Line Coupler of Miniaturized
Conguration Prepared on LiNbO3 Substrate
Katsuyuki Yamamoto 1 , Tadashi Kawai 1 , Akira
Enokihara 1 , Tetsuya Kawanishi 2 ; 1 University of
Hyogo, Japan; 2 NICT, Japan
EuMC35-01, Time: 14:20
The branch-line coupler (BC) circuit of miniaturized conguration
using periodically installed open circuit stabs was designed onto
an electro-optic (EO) crystal, LiNbO3 , substrate at 10 GHz. The
operation as the 90 degree hybrid was conrmed at around the
center frequency by the experiment. By using this BC circuit as the
signal power divider, we proposed a compact EO single sideband
(SSB) modulator. The SSB modulator was designated and fabricated
for 1550 nm light wavelength. In the experiment, the optical SSB
signal with the sideband suppression ratio of about 30 dB was
observed.
Refractive-Index Sensitivities of Optical Resonances
of a Finite Comb-Like Silver Nanostrip Grating
Olga V. Shapoval; National Academy of Sciences of
Ukraine, Ukraine
EuMC35-02, Time: 14:40
We investigate the interplay of the optical resonances in the
scattering of light by optical nanoantennas shaped as nite
comb-like nanostrip gratings illuminated with an H-polarized
plane: excitation of the surface plasmon resonances (SPR), the
periodicity-induced grating (G) resonances and specic cavity (C)
modes caused by the optical interaction between the adjacent
strips. The cavity and grating resonances of the nite comb-like
strip gratings demonstrate the higher values of both bulk sensitiv-
ity and gure-of-merit (FOM) than plasmons in whole visible band,
while sensitivity of the grating resonances do not depends on the
refractive index of the surrounding medium and are proportional
to the period.
All-Dielectric Optical Huygens Source
Alexander E. Krasnok, Ekaterina A. Krasnok, Dmitry S.
Filonov, Polina V. Kapitanova, Pavel A. Belov; NRU
ITMO, Russia
EuMC35-03, Time: 15:00
The concept of all-dielectric nanoantennas operating in optical
frequency domain is suggested. A huygens source consisting of
a high-permittivity dielectric sphere excited by a point-like dipole
is considered. We demonstrate that in addition to the electric
resonance, the sphere exhibits a very strong magnetic resonance,
resulting in a narrow radiation pattern, overall high nanoantenna
directivity and radiation direction control. To verify the proposed
concept experimentally we scale up the nanoantenna design to mi-
crowave frequency range. We nd an excellent agreement between
the experimental data and numerical results and verify directly
high-performance characteristics of the all-dielectric antennas.
Analog Optical Link Operating at the Gain Peak
Wavelength of an Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplier
K. Mikitchuk, A. Chizh, S. Malyshev; NASB, Belarus
EuMC35-04, Time: 15:20
In the paper we present a complete analysis of the analog optical
link operating at the gain peak wavelength (GPW) of 1.53 m
instead of the at gain wavelength of 1.55 m of an erbium-doped
ber amplier (EDFA) for microwave photonic applications. It is
theoretically and experimentally demonstrated that the usage of
an EDFA at the GPW of 1.53 m can signicantly improve link
gain in comparison to the optically-amplied link operating at the
wavelength of 1.55 m.
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60GHz-Band Electro-Optic Modulators Using Array
Antenna Electrodes and Polarization-Reversed
Structures for SDM Wireless Systems
Hiroshi Murata, Naohiro Kohmu, Yasuyuki Okamura;
Osaka University, Japan
EuMC35-05, Time: 15:40
New array antenna electrode electro-optic (EO) modulators us-
ing a thin EO crystal lm stacked on a glass substrate and
polarization-reversed structures were proposed for 60 GHz space-
division-multiplexing (SDM) wireless systems. 4-channel 60 GHz
SDM wireless signals were successfully converted to dierent light-
wave signals according to their irradiation angles. The measured
SDM channel isolation was over 13 dB. In this paper, the device
structure, operational principle, analysis, design and experimental
results are presented.
EuMC36 : Bioelectromagnetic Sensors
Venue: Niside, 14:20 16:00, Wednesday 8th October 2014
Chair: Bart Nauwelaers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Co-Chair: Arkadiusz Lewandowski, Warsaw University of
Technology, Poland
Quasi-Lumped Coplanar Transmission-Line Sensors
for Broadband Liquid Characterization
Nora Meyne, Wiebke Mller-Wichards, Hoc Khiem
Trieu, Arne F. Jacob; Technische Universitt
Hamburg-Harburg, Germany
EuMC36-01, Time: 14:20
Quasi-lumped structures are used to develop two sensors based on
coplanar waveguide transmission lines. The broadband sensors are
fabricated using microsystems technology and are used between 1
and 35 GHz. A calibration method to determine the sample per-
mittivity is adapted. The sensors are intended for the non-invasive
characterization of biological cells. Saline solutions, water, and an
ethanol-water mixture are used to experimentally verify the func-
tionality of the sensors for this purpose. The simulated sensitivity
of a quasi-lumped sensor is shown to be up to seven times higher
than that of a conventional coplanar waveguide sensor. This hints
at the miniaturization potential of these sensors.
Eect of the Meniscus at the Solid-Liquid Interface
on the Microwave Exposure of Biological Samples
Alessandra Pa 1 , Francesca Apollonio 1 , Micaela
Liberti 1 , Quirino Balzano 2 ; 1 Universit di Roma La
Sapienza, Italy; 2 University of Maryland, USA
EuMC36-02, Time: 14:40
In this study, numerical simulations have been carried out to show
the importance of modeling the meniscus for in vitro theoretical
and experimental dosimetry. A plane wave has been considered
impinging from dierent directions on a Petri dish lled with 2 or 4
mL of culture medium at 0.9, 1.8, and 2.5 GHz. Results indicate that
the meniscus has a signicant eect on the distributions of power
loss density and temperature inside the medium; thus it must be
taken into consideration for correct dosimetric evaluations.
Cell Detection and Discrimination by a
Microuidic-Integrated Broadband Microchamber
Agnese Denzi 1 , Francesca Apollonio 1 , Micaela
Liberti 1 , Merla Caterina 2 , Yaqing Ning 3 , Caroline
Multari 3 , Cristiano Palego 3 , Xuanhong Cheng 3 ,
James C.M. Hwang 3 ; 1 Universit di Roma La
Sapienza, Italy; 2 ENEA, Italy; 3 Lehigh University, USA
EuMC36-03, Time: 15:00
In the last years, the development of broadband microwave sensors
for cell detection has become a great challenge. In this work, a
broadband microchamber integrated with microuidics is used
for cell detection in the GHz range. Measurements of scattering
parameters have been carried out, demonstrating the capability
of the device to discriminate dierent number of cells between
the electrodes. Stable and reliable results on Jurkat cell solutions
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have been achieved. An equivalent circuit model, dependent on
the number of cells trapped within the channel, has been extracted
from the experimental data sets. We demonstrate the possibility
to detect and isolate the electrical contribution of biological cells.
A 7GHz Biosensor for Permittivity Change with
Enhanced Sensitivity Through Phase Compensation
Jan Wessel 1 , Klaus Schmalz 1 , Chak Meliani 1 , Brian
Cahill 2 , J. Christoph Scheytt 3 ; 1 IHP, Germany; 2 IBA,
Germany; 3 Universitt Paderborn, Germany
EuMC36-04, Time: 15:20
A calibration technique as well as measurement results for a 7
GHz Biosensor are presented. It is shown that the applied sensor
structure can be calibrated by adjusting the phase of a sensing
elements transmission S21. This is realized by slowing down
the wave traveling a microstrip line serving as a reference in the
dierential sensor structure. The dielectric properties along with
certain physical boundaries of an obstacle covering parts of the
microstrip line evoke that eect. Measurements with an ethanol
serious along with simulation results showed that sensitivity can be
increased substantially with this calibration technique. A change
of the real part of the samples permittivity of 48 leads to a 18 MHz
frequency shift.
Wearable Wideband Exposimeter Design for
Electromagnetic Field Exposure Measurements
Muhammad Shoaib Anwar 1 , Yann Toutain 1 , Adrin
Sanchez 2 , David Dassonville 3 , Yolanda Fernandez 2 ,
Serge Bories 3 ; 1 SATIMO, France; 2 TTI, Spain;
3 Mohsen Yazdani, David Bates, Luke Murphy; Dielectric
CEA-LETI, France
EuMC36-05, Time: 15:40
A novel architecture is proposed for the design and implementa-
tion of a wideband exposimeter covering the telecommunication
standards in the 700 MHz 6 GHz frequency band. The design is
based on a simplied direct down conversion receiver principle.
The proposed architecture is highly exible in order to incorporate
future Radio Access Technologies (RAT). The proposed design is
validated using calculations and measurements. The results are
in agreement with the specication requirements for wideband
exposure measurements.
EuMC37 : Microwave VCOs and Modules
Venue: Aurelia, 16:40 18:20, Wednesday 8th October 2014
Chair: Vadim Issakov, Intel Mobile Communications
Co-Chair: Michael Gadringer, Graz University of Technology
A Tail-Feedback VCO with Self-Adjusting Current
Modulation Scheme
Aravind Tharayil Narayanan, Wei Deng, Kenichi
Okada, Akira Matsuzawa; Tokyo Institute of
Technology, Japan
EuMC37-01, Time: 16:40
This paper proposes a tail-feedback VCO with adaptive current
modulation scheme. The proposed current modulation scheme
ensures robust startup conditions for the tail-feedback VCO. The
proposed VCO is implemented in a 0.18-m CMOS process. The
measured phase noise is -119.3dBc/Hz at 1MHz oset with a power
dissipation of 6.8mW at 4.6GHz.
Temperature-Insensitive Gyrator-Based Active
Inductor with the Complementary Technique and its
Applications
Chun-Yi Lin, Wei-Tsung Li, Pei-Zong Rao, Shyh-Jong
Chung; National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
EuMC37-02, Time: 17:00
In this paper, a novel temperature-insensitive gyrator is pro-
posed with a temperature-compensated technique. The proposed
gyrator-based active inductor composed of two back-to-back
transconductors with a complementary technique are realized
in triple-well 0.18-m CMOS technology. The complementary
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circuit topology is adopted to decrease the variation caused by
temperature eect on the transconductance of the gyrator. Based
on the temperature-compensated gyrator, the measured resonate
frequency variation of the proposed gyrator-based active LC-tank
circuit topology is less than 1% from 8.72% when the temper-
ature varies from -20 to +60 degree centigrade ( C). The value
of frequency variation percentage over per degree centigrade is
simply 0.012 which presents a lowest frequency variation than the
traditional gyrator topology.
A C-Band Tunable Oscillator Based on
Complementary Coupled Resonator Using Substrate
Integrated Waveguide Cavity
Chung-Tse Michael Wu 1 , Tatsuo Itoh 1 , Ajay K.
Poddar 2 , Ulrich L. Rohde 2 ; 1 University of California at
Los Angeles, USA; 2 Synergy Microwave, USA
EuMC37-03, Time: 17:20
A low cost, fully planar tunable oscillator with a low phase noise,
high DC-RF conversion eciency for C-band is presented in this
work. The proposed oscillator utilizes a novel complementary
coupled resonator based on substrate integrated waveguide (SIW)
that has a broad tuning range of 8.84% relative bandwidth, and
thereby achieves a continuous tuning oscillation range from 4.85
GHz to 5.1 GHz, or a 5.15% relative bandwidth of the proposed
tunable oscillator with a low phase noise of -115.2 dBc/Hz and a
DC-RF conversion eciency of 19%.
The Design and Fabrication of a Compact Low Phase
Noise Dielectric Cavity Resonator Oscillator
Laboratories, USA
EuMC37-04, Time: 17:40
This paper presents the design and fabrication of a compact low
phase-noise X band voltage controlled oscillator (VCO). The proto-
type is designed based on closed loop topology and includes GaAs
PHEMT MMIC, a novel shielded high dielectric cavity resonator,
microstrip low-pass lter and phase shifter network. To achieve
low phase noise oscillation, a compact two port high dielectric
cavity resonator is designed, and properly embedded into the
feedback Loop as a frequency stabilization element. The tuning
system includes varactor diodes lightly coupled into the closed
loop circuit and allows 50 MHz tunability across the desired band-
width. A Prototype design has been built to verify the analysis.
The measurement results show the completed assembly is 6mm
6mm 1.5mm with 11.4 dBm output power and -94 dBc/Hz phase
noise at 10 kHz oset.
Compact High-Power High-Eciency Microwave
Generator with Dierential Outputs
Christian Bansleben, Wolfgang Heinrich; FBH,
Germany
EuMC37-05, Time: 18:00
This paper reports a compact high power oscillator operating from
2.3 GHz to 2.9 GHz. Its two dierential outputs deliver up to 57
W of power with an eciency peaking at 54%. A phase noise of
-125 dBc / Hz is achieved at 1 MHz oset frequency. The oscillator
is realized as a hybrid circuit with two GaN HEMTs. Including the
housing, it ts in an area of less than 13 cm2 .
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EuMC38 : Special Session on 50 years of
Matthaei, Young, Joness Handbook
Venue: Baebiana, 16:40 18:20, Wednesday 8th October 2014
Chair: Richard V. Snyder, RS Microwave, USA
Co-Chair: Tibor Berceli, BME, Hungary
The History and Some of the Research Associated
with the Book: Microwave Filters,
Impedance-Matching Networks, and Coupling
Structures
George L. Matthaei; University of California at Santa
Barbara, USA
EuMC38-01, Time: 16:40
There was no microwave engineering until, due to interest in radar
and related systems, a great deal of research developed just before
and during WWII. In the US this work was centered at the MIT
Radiation Laboratory. At the wars end the research there was
reported in a 28-volume book series. Starting around 1953 the
US Army Signal Corps initiated a series of contracts with Stanford
Research Institute to further explore microwave technology. Most
of this research was reported on in the book: Matthaei, Young,
and Jones, Microwave Filters, Impedance-Matching Networks, and
Coupling Structures. The largest part of the books preparation
was supported by the Signal Corps. The talk will discuss the
history of the book and of some of the lter types and concepts
presented in the book. These lter types and concepts were new
at the time of the research, but may have become commonplace by
now.
My Memories About the Book: Microwave Filters,
Impedance-Matching Networks, and Coupling
Structures
Tibor Berceli; BME, Hungary
EuMC38-02, Time: 17:00
More than fty years ago I was involved into research and devel-
opment of microwave circuits based on the waveguide technology.
At the beginning of my work I had the opportunity to be visiting
researcher at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. During my
stay there I heard about the book entitled: Microwave lters,
impedance-matching networks, and coupling structures. I felt
that was the book which we needed for our work indeed and
bought it immediately. I was right; we used the book called as
Black Bible for many years.
My Black Bible: Bedraggled, Beat-up but Brilliant:
MYJ 50 Years of Wisdom
Richard V. Snyder; RS Microwave, USA
EuMC38-03, Time: 17:20
I received my original copy in 1964, and I set my self to the task
of essentially memorizing the contents, but the small matter of
military service intervened. About 3 years later, I was able to
obtain some of the Ft. Monmouth sponsored and reported material
that had been assembled as the backbone of this great book, and
returned to my studies of this Book of Knowledge. I cannot
say that the entire book has been set to memory, because I still
uncover gems from time to time. In this paper, I will discuss one
such gem, maintaining absolute bandwidth in a tunable lter.
A History of the Evolution of RADAR
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Tapan K. Sarkar , Magdalena Salazar-Palma ; 2 UK
1 EuMC39-03, Time: 17:20
Syracuse University, USA; 2 Universidad Carlos III de
Madrid, Spain
EuMC38-04, Time: 17:40
This presentation provides a cursory overview of the history of the
German, British and the American eorts on the initial evolution of
RADAR which necessitated the development of several microwave
components. Finally, a short summary is presented about the
evolution of the magnetron in radar.
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Beauty in MYJ Coupled-Resonator Filter Design
Approach of Innite Solution Space
Ching-Kuang Clive Tzuang; Tianjin University, China
EuMC38-05, Time: 18:00
The paper revisits the mathematical and physical origin of the
microwave lter design approach described in Microwave Filters,
Impedance-Matching Networks, and Coupling Structures, au-
thored by Matthaei-Young-Jones (MYJ), leading to the investigation
of popular, state-of-the-arts lter designs, and revealing the beauty
of the MYT coupled-resonator lter design methodology of innite
possibility.
EuMC39 : Microwave Measurements
Venue: Domizia, 16:40 18:20, Wednesday 8th October 2014
Chair: Danielle Vanhoenacker-Janvier, UCL
Co-Chair: Nick Ridler, National Physical Laboratory, UK
Extended Range Distance Measurements Based on
Frequency and Power Compensated Six-Port
Receiver
Francesco Barbon, S. Lindner, Sebastian Mann, Sarah
Linz, Robert Weigel, Alexander Koelpin; FAU
Erlangen-Nrnberg, Germany
EuMC39-01, Time: 16:40
Six-Port interferometers for distance measurement show a low
cost solution able to operate in harsh environment where other
solutions are not suitable. The increase of the distance range
requires new calibration strategies in order to compensate the
signals high dynamic power range. Here, an enhanced Six-Port
receiver is presented having the capability of sensing the frequency
of the reference signal and featuring a dynamic compensation of
the power levels of the signals fed to the interferometer. These
attributes allow the receiver to increase the distance detection
range.
I/Q Imbalance Compensation for Six-Port
Interferometers in Radar Applications
Sarah Linz 1 , Gabor Vinci 2 , S. Lindner 1 , Sebastian
Mann 1 , Fabian Lurz 1 , Francesco Barbon 1 , Robert
Weigel 1 , Alexander Koelpin 1 ; 1 FAU
Erlangen-Nrnberg, Germany; 2 InnoSenT, Germany
EuMC39-02, Time: 17:00
Six-port interferometers are of great interest for displacement and
vibration measurements in industrial as well as medical applica-
tions. However, they show osets as well as amplitude and phase
imbalances in their dierential in-phase and quadrature signals,
leading to inaccuracies of the measured displacement. If a very
slow moving or vibrating target has to be monitored, an additional
phase shifter for calibration is needed, so that the systems errors
can be compensated. A method for calculation and compensation
of errors is presented and a compact and cost-ecient implemen-
tation of a phase shifter for 24 GHz Six-port interferometers is
shown.
Use of Reduced Aperture Waveguide as a Calculable
Standard for the Verication of Millimetre-Wave
Vector Network Analyzers
M.J. Salter, N.M. Ridler; National Physical Laboratory,
In this paper, 3D electromagnetic simulation is used to predict the
attenuation of a length of reduced aperture waveguide (RAW) and
to estimate the uncertainty in the predicted attenuation due to
imperfect dimensions and alignment of the waveguide. This allows
the RAW to be used as a calculable standard for the verication of
mm-wave waveguide vector network analyzers (VNAs). The VNA is
veried if the attenuation of the RAW measured on the VNA agrees
with the predicted attenuation to within the uncertainties.
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Generalized Millimeter-Wave Distortion
Measurements Over a Wider Range of Time Scales
J. Martens; Anritsu, USA
EuMC39-04, Time: 17:40
Distortion measurements in mm-wave systems are becoming
increasingly important and sometimes in the context of more
complete digitally modulated structures. As at lower frequencies,
multisine and complex envelope techniques can yield useful
insight but now with wider instantaneous bandwidths and hence
a wider range of time constants that can be studied. Side-eects
can include more complicated calibrations (particularly for match-
related eects) and synchronization requirements but these can be
mitigated with an appropriate receiver structure. Using a W-Band
upconverting system as a test bed, multisine intermodulation
and multilevel pulsed envelope measurements covering ns-s
time ranges are examined in the sense of setup and calibration
requirements, dominant uncertainty sources and possible DUT
observations.
Investigation of Wideband and High Sensitivity RF
Power Detectors
Saad Qayyum, Muh-Dey Wei, Renato Negra; RWTH
Aachen University, Germany
EuMC39-05, Time: 18:00
This paper investigates the performance of wideband and high
sensitivity RF power detectors. A resistive-matching, reactive-
matching and distributed detectors are designed and measured.
The distributed detector employs an articial transmission-line
structure. A six-stage distributed detector with a characteristic
impedance of 205 , is demonstrated to operate from very low
frequencies to 3.2 GHz. The distributed detector has a signicant
improvement in the detected voltage over a wide bandwidth,
as compared to the resistive- and reactive-matching detectors.
Voltage sensitivity of the distributed detector is measured to be
0.35 V/mW at an input power level of 0 dBm.
EuMC40 : RFID and Energy Harvesting
Venue: Giulia, 16:40 18:20, Wednesday 8th October 2014
Chair: Herv Aubert, LAAS, France
Co-Chair: Luca Roselli, Universit di Perugia, Italy
ML Detection Based SISO Chipless RFID Tag Reading
Chamath Divarathne, Nemai C. Karmakar; Monash
University, Australia
EuMC40-01, Time: 16:40
Chipless RFID systems are perhaps the most eligible candidate for
catering the demand of low-cost multiple item tagging in the future.
Maximum Likelihood (ML) detection methods have been used in
communication systems successfully and this paper investigates
the possibility of using ML detection techniques for Chipless RFID
tag reading. The paper contains a channel estimation technique
and tag detection algorithm for the proposed single-input-single-
output (SISO) based chipless RFID systems and its robustness is
analyzed using Matlab simulations.
Cross-Polarized Printable Chipless RFID Tag with
Superior Data Capacity
Mohammad Zomorrodi, Nemai C. Karmakar; Monash
University, Australia
EuMC40-02, Time: 17:00
A novel technique in chipless RFID systems is presented providing
high data capacity on a fully printable tag. Tag structure includes
small polarizers that orthogonally backscatter signal respect to the
interrogation wave. The reader utilizes a simple continuous wave
(CW) form on its separate TX and RX antennas. The fully printable
tag is capable of carrying up to 35 bits in a credit card size while
the system is very robust towards multipath, clutter and noise. The
printer inaccuracy is also considered in the proposed theory and
suitable solution is suggested. High data capacity, small frequency
band usage, fully printable tag, robustness to multipath and noise
are the main aspects of the proposed technique.
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Chipless RFID Tag with an Improved RCS Response
Milan Polivka, Milan Svanda, Jan Machac; Czech
Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
EuMC40-03, Time: 17:20
This paper introduces a new 20-bit chipless RFID tag with an im-
proved radar cross section (RCS), based on a novel complementary
approach with the slot-in-plate array with respect to the array of
single resonator-based chipless tags. The backscatter pattern is
formed by a rectangular metallic plate 52 50 mm2 in size etched
on a thin dielectric substrate in which an array of 20 shorted copla-
nar slots is introduced. The originally monotonous RCS frequency
response of the rectangular plate exhibits dips corresponding to
the presence of individual slots, and thus enables binary coding
using amplitude shift keying. The tag has been measured in a
bi-static arrangement with two double-ridge horn antennas, and
provides a signicantly improved overall RCS response compared
to an array of resonator-based chipless tags. We also propose two
modications to the inter-arrangement of the slots in order to
eliminate the detuning eect of the missing slot representing 0 bit
information on the resonances of neighboring slots representing
1 bit information.
The Novel Prevention Technology of the Standing
Wave by SWC (Standing Wave Canceller): SWC for
Passive RFID Tags in All Metallic Shelf
Hiroshi Ashida, Yoji Ohashi; Fujitsu Laboratories,
Japan
EuMC40-04, Time: 17:40
Passive radio frequency identication (RFID) tag systems for the
management of objects stored on a metallic shelf have a problem
with dead-spots. These spots occur in low electric eld area of
the electromagnetic standing wave, causing degradation of the
tags readability [3], [4]. In this paper, we present standing wave
suppression technology by employing the SWC (Standing Wave
Canceller). The SWC is a conductive lm or dielectric with re-
ectance (r), installed at a specic distance (Ls) from the reecting
wall. Thus, a part of the electric eld is reected at the SWC (Efr),
while another part (Etr) with phase contrast () penetrates into the
SWC and is reected at the wall. These are synthesized into the
total reection electric eld (Er = Efr + Etr) at the SWC. When Efr
and Etr are anti-phase with respect to each other, e.g., the SWC is
installed at the position Ls = g/4( = ), Er is reduced and the
standing wave is suppressed. Our SWC was able to improve tag
readability, eliminating the dead-spot and saving power (4.7 dB)
during tag-reading experiments in a metallic shelf.
Power Generation by Spurious Emissions from
Compact Fluorescent Lamps
Giuseppina Monti, Paola Arcuti, Fabrizio Congedo,
Luciano Tarricone; Universit del Salento, Italy
EuMC40-05, Time: 18:00
Based on a magnetic coupling, this paper presents a novel device
for power generation by spurious electromagnetic emissions from
compact uorescent lamps. The proposed scavenger consists of
a resonant loop and an RF-to-DC voltage converter. Results of
experimental tests performed with a 30 W compact uorescent
lamp are reported and discussed. It is shown that 0.61 mW can
be generated, thus demonstrating the suitability of the proposed
device for powering low-consumption sensors.
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EuMC41 : Bioelectromagnetics for Medicine
Venue: Niside, 16:40 18:20, Wednesday 8th October 2014
Chair: Michal Mrozowski, Gdansk University of Technology
Co-Chair: Ilja Ocket, KU Leuven / imec
Prediction of Temperature Distribution for
Supercial Hyperthermia Treatment: Accuracy of
Temperature Dependent Blood Perfusion Model
Tomas Drizdal, Margarethus M. Paulides, Citlalli J.
Trujilo-Romero, Gerard C. van Rhoon; Erasmus MC
Cancer Institute, The Netherlands
EuMC41-01, Time: 16:40
During supercial hyperthermia treatment (SHT), temperature in
region of interest is increased to 4043 C, in order to enhance
the therapeutic eect of standard radiotherapy and chemotherapy
treatments. Temperature increase during SHT is usually monitored
using invasive thermometry which is burden for the patient. We
strongly believe that supercial hyperthermia treatment planning
has a potential replacing invasive thermometry system in clinical
practice. In this study we have investigated accuracy of tem-
perature prediction in SHT using temperature dependent blood
perfusion model for muscle and fat. For 40 patients treated with
recurrent breast cancer recurrences at the chest wall we compared
294 invasively measured and predicted temperature proles. We
found dierence of 0.881.69 C (meanstandard deviation) with
root mean square dierence of 1.9 C.
A Voxel-Based Approach in Phased-Array
Optimization for Microwave Hyperthermia
Fernando Bardati 1 , Piero Tognolatti 2 ; 1 Universit di
Roma Tor Vergata, Italy; 2 Universit dellAquila, Italy
EuMC41-02, Time: 17:00
The problem of eective power delivery to a deep target by a
near-eld phased array has been addressed for application to
oncological hyperthermia. Phased arrays are evaluated on the
basis of their ability to deliver the largest fraction of the available
power from generators to a tumor. Each voxel of the heated
volume was considered as a target, a tumor being the union of
some such voxels. Maps of eciencies and an array factor have
been produced for a head-neck volume. These maps may help in
appreciating tumor heatability by the phased array.
Microwave Hyperthermia Treatment of Neck Cancer
Using Eight UWB Antennas
Ilja Merunka, Ondrej Fiser Jr., Lucie Vojckov, Jan
Vrba, Jan Vrba, David Vrba; Czech Technical
University in Prague, Czech Republic
EuMC41-03, Time: 17:20
We analyse the application of an ultra wideband (UWB) balanced
antipodal Vivaldi antenna to hyperthermia head and neck cancer
treatment in this paper. Balanced antipodal Vivaldi antenna
was primary developed for microwave imaging. The shape of
isosurface, where specic absorption rate (SAR) decreases to
25% of its maximal value of one antenna, is observed in simple
rectangular phantom at frequency 915 MHz for three dierent
distances between antenna and phantom. Two dierent antenna
congurations are then considered. Eight antenna conguration,
where eight antennas are equidistantly placed in circle in one
plane and three antenna conguration, where only three nearest
antennas to the tumour region are placed in smaller circle with
centre in the tumour region. Optimization of SAR distribution
and thermal simulation was performed after electromagnetic
simulation. Although thyroid gland tissue was covered by SAR
quite well, its temperature did not rise. It conrms the importance
of thermal simulation in treatment planning procedure.
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Thermoablation for Breast Cancer Treatment Using
Microwave Interstitial Helix Applicators
Lucie Vojckov, Ilja Merunka, Ondrej Fiser Jr., Jan
Vrba; Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech
Republic
EuMC41-04, Time: 17:40
In this paper we studied the possibilities of usage of interstitial
applicators for the breast cancer treatment by microwave ther-
moablation. The applicators used in this work are the helix type
and the operating frequency was 2.45GHz. For here described
simulations two types of breast phantoms were used. The intersti-
tial applicators, virtually organized in several congurations, were
gradually inserted into these phantoms. The rst model of breast
was simply created by spherical segment. It was formed by three
parts: a homogeneous breast tissue, skin and a spherical tumour.
The second breast phantom was derived from magnetic resonance
images (MRIs) and includes more parts which are anatomically
realistic. The phantom includes a bit more complex shape of the
tumour. For calculation of SAR characteristics created by these
applicators a simulator of electromagnetic eld SEMCAD X was
used. A distribution of SAR value was especially monitored in
the area where the breast tumour was placed. Finally we could
compare the dierences between the simplied breast model and
the MRI-derived model.
Molecular Dynamics Simulations of EM Fields Acting
on SOD Enzyme
P. Marracino, Alessandra Pa, Micaela Liberti, G.
dInzeo, Francesca Apollonio; Universit di Roma La
Sapienza, Italy
EuMC41-05, Time: 18:00
Endogenous and exogenous perturbations acting on a protein can
alter the thermodynamic equilibrium of the system, leading to a
transition toward a denatured state. In this paper we show results
from molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of the superoxide
dismutase (SOD) in water exposed to CW 1 GHz and 2.45 GHz
signals, looking at the possible ways in which an external signal
can be transduced into biochemical eects.
EuMC42 : THz Circuits
Venue: Aurelia, 09:00 10:40, Thursday 9th October 2014
Chair: Antti Risnen, Aalto University, Finland
Co-Chair: Jan Stake, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
A Waveguide Embedded 250GHz Quasi-Optical
Frequency-Tripler Array
Robin Dahlbck 1 , Josip Vukusic 1 , Jan Stake 1 ,
Robert M. Weikle II 2 ; 1 Chalmers University of
Technology, Sweden; 2 University of Virginia, USA
EuMC42-01, Time: 09:00
A waveguide embedded 250 GHz HBV-varactor quasi-optical
multiplier array is presented. The module utilizes a mechanically
compact and simple shim system, combining the large array power
handling capability with the convenience of waveguide interfaced
circuits. At the same time this approach oers excellent power
and frequency scalability. The current tripler prototype produces
a non saturated output power of 8 mW at 248 GHz during initial
measurements at medium pump power.
Zero-Bias GaN Implanted Self-Switching Diode
Coupled with Bow-Tie Antenna for THz Applications
Paul Sangar, Guillaume Ducournau, Bertrand
Grimbert, Marc Faucher, Christophe Gaquire; IEMN,
France
EuMC42-02, Time: 09:20
Nanometer-scale devices known as Self-Switching Diodes represent
a new interesting component for Terahertz applications. It is
shown for the rst time than the use of ion implantation rather
than etching to dene an asymmetric nanochannel lead to an
improved device rectication, thus higher responsivity. In this
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paper, we report on the rst integration of implanted Gallium
nitride self-switching diode with bow-tie antenna. The responsivity
obtained in free space condition has been compared with the same
device topology measured on wafer. The results show a highly
reproducibility of the technological process and validates the rst
step toward practical terahertz applications of this nanorectier at
room temperature.
Tunable Whispering Gallery Mode Resonance
Structure for Millimeter-Wave/Sub-THz Applications
Aidin Taeb 1 , Suren Gigoyan 1 , Gholamreza Z. Ra 1 ,
Saeddin Safavi-Naeini 1 , M.A. Basha 2 ; 1 University of
Waterloo, Canada; 2 Zewail City of Science &
Technology, Egypt
EuMC42-03, Time: 09:40
This paper presents a novel approach to realize a low-cost wide tun-
able Whispering Gallery Mode (WGM) resonance-based structure at
Millimeter-wave and sub-THz range of frequencies. The tunability
is achieved by moving a metallic structure over the WGM resonator
using a micro-positioner. Perturbing the WGM resonance causes
shift in the resonance frequency and the coupling. Two types of
perturbation are tested for two dierent structures: grounded
Alumina-based WGM resonance structure and Silicon-On-Glass
(SOG) WGM resonance structure, operating in D-band (110170
GHz) and G-band (140220 GHz), respectively. The experimental
results reveal the SOG-based resonator has tuning range of 4.5
GHz at 154 GHz and resonance depth better than -20 dB over the
tuning range.
On the Finite Semiconductor Thickness Eect
Applied to Large Area Emitters Devices for THz
Radiation
Luis Enrique Garcia-Muoz 1 , Javier Montero-de-Paz 1 ,
Eduardo Ugarte-Muoz 1 , Alejandro Rivera-Lavado 1 ,
Mario Mendez-Aller 1 , Daniel Segovia-Vargas 1 ,
Gottfried H. Dhler 2 , Sascha Preu 2 , Stefan Malzer 2 ,
Sebastian Bauerschmidt 2 , Christian Muller 2 , David
Gonzalez-Ovejero 3 ; 1 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid,
Spain; 2 FAU Erlangen-Nrnberg, Germany; 3 Universit
di Siena, Italy
EuMC42-04, Time: 10:00
Arrays of coherently driven photomixers with antenna (antenna
emitter arrays, AEAs) have been evaluated as a possibility to
overcome the power limitations of individual conventional pho-
tomixers with antenna (antenna emitters, AEs) for the generation
of CW THz radiation. In this paper large area emitters (LAEs)
are proposed as an alternative approach. In this antenna-free new
scheme of photomixing, the THz radiation originates directly from
the acceleration of photo-induced charge carriers generated within
a large semiconductor area. The quasi-continuous distribution of
emitting elements corresponds to a high-density array and results
in favorable radiation proles without side lobes. Moreover, the
achievable THz power is expected to outnumber even large AEAs.
Last not least, the technological challenge of fabricating LAEs
appears to be signicantly less demanding. The radiation pattern
of a vertical LAE is shown from 0.1 THz up to 1 THz.
Pulse Shaping for Millimeter-Wave and Terahertz
Applications in Coplanar Technology
M. Chudzik 1 , I. Arnedo 1 , I. Arregui 1 , F. Teberio 1 , A.
Lujambio 1 , T. Lopetegi 1 , M.A.G. Laso 1 , Q. Yu 2 , N.S.
Barker 2 , A. Ghaddar 3 , A. Chahadih 3 , Guillaume
Ducournau 3 , J.F. Lampin 3 , T. Akalin 3 ; 1 Universidad
Pblica de Navarra, Spain; 2 University of Virginia,
USA; 3 IEMN, France
EuMC42-05, Time: 10:20
In this work, a pulse shaper in coplanar technology intended for
the unlicensed band up to the THz region is designed, fabricated,
and measured. This broadband frequency range is of great inter-
ests as it oers very high data rate communication in local area
networks. The technique employs tailored coplanar lines that
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have been designed using an exact analytical series solution of the
synthesis problem derived from the coupled-mode theory. The
frequency response of the pulse-shaping device introduced in the
synthesis method depends on the spectrum of the applied THz
impulse generator, application-dependent devices (e.g. antenna)
with known responses, and desired THz output response. Here,
the desired output pulse is a combination of Hermite polynomials
with 5 ps of temporal duration. The designed device has been
simulated in the frequency domain and the obtained result of the
S11 parameter has been used in the time domain calculation of the
output pulse giving good accordance with the desired THz pulse.
The prototype has been fabricated with gold metallization on HR-Si
substrate by e-beam lithography and lift-o process. A downscaled
version with spectral content up to 0.3 THz is also fabricated and
measured validating each component of the system.
EuMC43 : Digital Predistortion and Crest
Factor Reduction
Venue: Baebiana, 09:00 10:40, Thursday 9th October 2014
Chair: Raymond Qur, XLIM, France
Co-Chair: Alexander Klpin, FAU Erlangen-Nrnberg, Germany
A Novel Peak-Power Control Algorithm for Digital
Predistortion with Intuitive Direct Learning
Zhijian Yu, Jun Wu, Wei Wang, Erni Zhu; Shanghai
Huawei Technologies, China
EuMC43-01, Time: 09:00
A novel algorithm to control peak-power of the predistorted signal
is proposed. The digital predistortion expands peak-power un-
controllably when power ampliers are operated at saturation. In
order to control peak expansion, we introduce penalty of a barrier
function into the cost function of linearization optimization. Our
simulation demonstrates the eectiveness of peak-power control-
ling for the adaptation with new cost function. Experimental tests
show the peak-power controlled DPD makes peak-power under the
barrier with only 1 dB linearization performance loss.
A Novel Crest Factor Reduction Technique Using
Memoryless Polynomials
A. Farabegoli 1 , B. Sogl 1 , J.-E. Mueller 1 , Robert Weigel 2 ;
1
Intel Mobile Communications, Germany; 2 FAU
Erlangen-Nrnberg, Germany
EuMC43-02, Time: 09:20
Nowadays, dierent kinds of techniques to reduce the high peak-
to-average power ratio (PAPR) of WCDMA and LTE signals are
known. Most of them are based on a computationally intensive
and iterative optimization of the baseband signal to avoid uncon-
trolled distortions when decreasing the peaks. Moreover, all the
approaches with high performance inherently introduce memory
eects on the output signal, which increase the complexity of the
transmitter behaviour. This paper presents a novel method to
perform crest factor reduction (CFR) based on memoryless polyno-
mials. An optimization problem is used to nd the best polynomial
coecients adapted to the input signal statistic in order to reduce
the peaks fullling at the same time the 3GPP requirements. In this
way, simple polynomials can be used to reduce the PAPR up to 1.8
dB, having a low complexity and a memoryless implementation.
Volterra-Parafac Digital Predistorter for OFDM
Wireless Systems
Carlos Crespo-Cadenas, Javier Reina-Tosina, Mara J.
Madero-Ayora, Juan A. Becerra-Gonzlez; Universidad
de Sevilla, Spain
EuMC43-03, Time: 09:40
A novel digital predistorter (DPD) for the linearization of power
ampliers (PAs) is presented. The structure is based on a doubly-
symmetric Parafac tensor decomposition of Volterra kernels and
takes advantage of a frequency-domain representation, what
makes it specially attractive for the transmission of orthogonal
frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signals. The approach has
been successfully tested with a GaN PA using LTE signals, showing
a reduction of over 17 dB in the adjacent channel power ratio
and a better in-band equalization compared with a conventional
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time-domain DPD. As M-ary quadrature amplitude modulated
symbols can be directly pipelined into the OFDM transmission
framework, the running complexity of proposed structure oers
a saving of about four times the oating point operations (FLOPs)
compared to time-domain DPDs, with the added value of using
only the channel bandwidth for the predistorted signal generation.
Combating the Dimensionality of Nonlinear MIMO
Amplier Predistortion by Basis Pursuit
Efrain Zenteno 1 , Shoaib Amin 1 , Magnus Isaksson 1 ,
Daniel Rnnow 1 , Peter Hndel 2 ; 1 University of Gvle,
Sweden; 2 KTH, Sweden
EuMC43-04, Time: 10:00
A general description of nonlinear dynamic MIMO systems, given
by Volterra series, has signicantly larger complexity than SISO sys-
tems. Modeling and predistortion of MIMO ampliers consequently
become unfeasible due to the large number of basis functions. We
have designed digital predistorters for a MIMO amplier using a
basis pursuit method for reducing model complexity. This method
reduces the numerical problems that appear in MIMO Volterra
predistorters due to the large number of basis functions. The
number of basis functions was reduced from 1402 to 220 in a 22
MIMO amplier and from 127 to 13 in the corresponding SISO
case. Reducing the number of basis functions caused an increase
of approximately 1 dB of model error and adjacent channel power
ratio.
Combining Crest Factor Reduction and Digital
Predistortion with Automatic Determination of the
Necessary Crest Factor Reduction Gain
Amadou Mbaye 1 , Genevive Baudoin 1 , Abel Gouba 2 ,
Yves Louet 2 , Martine Villegas 1 ; 1 ESYCOM, France;
2
Suplec, France
EuMC43-05, Time: 10:20
Digital predistortion (DPD) and Crest Factor Reduction (CFR) are
applied separately in radio frequency power ampliers (PAs) in
general. This paper proposes a method to jointly optimize DPD
and CFR. For a given model of predistorter our solution gives
automatically the Peak to average power ratio (PAPR) reduction
gain to be applied by the CFR module. Within the DPD module
PAPRs of original input signal and PA output and PAPR at predis-
torter output without CFR are used to estimate an optimal CFR
gain through mathematical calculations. The combined CFR/DPD
module ensures that the PAPR at the output of predistorter will
not exceed a given limit. Hence, the envelope clipping module
which is typically present to protect the PA, may be removed. In
addition the proposed method oers a higher operating range of
the DPD while fullling out-of band requirements and preserving
low in-band distortion. Power eciency of amplication module is
improved as well. This solution has been tested by simulation and
on a class AB LDMOS power amplier in Agilent Advanced Design
System (ADS).
EuMC44 : Filters Based on SIW Technology
Venue: Cecilia, 09:00 10:40, Thursday 9th October 2014
Chair: Serge Verdeyme, XLIM, France
Co-Chair: Cedric Quendo, Universit Europenne de Bretagne,
France
Coupled Evanescent Mode Resonator Filter Using a
Defective Ground Structure to Increase Coupling
Stefan Pger 1 , Christian Waldschmidt 2 , Volker
Ziegler 1 ; 1 Airbus Group Innovations, Germany;
2 matrix is in good agreement with the full wave simulation result.
Universitt Ulm, Germany
EuMC44-01, Time: 09:00
A bandpass lter design based on a modied type of coupled
evanescent mode resonators is presented. The resonators are
implemented as a substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) structure
using a multilayer stack of organic microwave laminates. To realize
a high input and output coupling coecient required for many
wideband lter specications, the use of a U-shaped defective
groundplane structure is proposed. Without this structure, the
maximum achievable coupling coecient is limited by manufac-
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turing constraints. The use of the proposed defective groundplane
structure allows to increase the coupling coecient beyond these
limitations. The eect on the external couplings is analyzed by
simulations and experiments using a single resonator.
Based on the obtained results, a layout for the full bandpass lter
with a center frequency of 6GHz and a bandwidth of 500MHz is
derived. This lter design is veried by simulation and measure-
ment.
Novel SIW Based Interdigital Bandpass Filter with
Harmonic Suppression
Sinan Kurudere 1 , Vakur B. Ertrk 2 ; 1 Meteksan
Savunma, Turkey; 2 Bilkent University, Turkey
EuMC44-02, Time: 09:20
A novel conguration for substrate integrated waveguide (SIW)
based bandpass lter with interdigital type resonators is pre-
sented. In the proposed structure, interdigital type resonators
consisting of vias and circular caps at top of them are combined
into a bowtie SIW structure. SIW is fed by a tapered microstrip
line transition providing low loss and good matching. In order
to improve harmonic suppression performance of the lter, the
dumbbell shaped defected ground structure (DGS) is etched to the
ground side of the microstrip line feeding section. The proposed
lter structure is put in a conducting box in order to improve
attenuation levels at the band edges and prevent radiation to the
outside. The prototype is designed at 9 GHz center frequency with
500 MHz bandwidth, analyzed and fabricated for verication. The
measurement results are in good agreement with the simulations,
and the lter exhibits more than 30 dB harmonic suppression.
Broadband Implementation of Tunable,
Substrate-Integrated, Evanescent-Mode, Cavity
Bandpass Filters
Shahrokh Saeedi 1 , Juseop Lee 2 , Hjalti Sigmarsson 1 ;
1
University of Oklahoma, USA; 2 Korea University,
Korea
EuMC44-03, Time: 09:40
A novel structure for implementing broadband external and inter-
nal coupling in heavily loaded, substrate integrated, evanescent-
mode, cavity lters is presented. The proposed structure is based
on adding electric eld coupling to the magnetic eld iris cou-
pling, which is commonly used for such cavities. It is shown that
fractional bandwidth on the order of 40% can be achieved using
this new structure. As an illustration, a second order Butterworth
lter is designed using the presented coupling method and then
fabricated inside a two-layer RF circuit board. The measured and
simulated lter results are shown to be in good agreement, with
measured insertion loss of around 0.4 dB including connector
losses. Finally, the lter is continuously tuned from 2910 MHz to
3795 MHz.
A Novel Dual Mode Dual Band SIW Filter
Morteza Rezaee, Amir Reza Attari; Ferdowsi University
of Mashhad, Iran
EuMC44-04, Time: 10:00
In this article, a novel dual mode dual band substrate integrated
waveguide (SIW) lter is presented. Dual band operation of the
lter is realized by providing two paths for the input signal to
the output port. The signals of two paths have opposite sign and
equal amplitude at a frequency between two bands and hence,
a transmission zero is generated in this frequency. The dual
mode resonator is a square SIW cavity perturbed by corner cut. A
three-cavity dual mode dual band lter is designed using coupling
matrix. Frequency response of the lter obtained from the coupling
Compact Diplexer with Dual-Mode SIW Resonators
Alejandro Garca-Lamprez 1 , Magdalena
Salazar-Palma 1 , Sai Ho Yeung 2 ; 1 Universidad Carlos
III de Madrid, Spain; 2 Syracuse University, USA
EuMC44-05, Time: 10:20
A compact diplexer fabricated on substrate-integrated waveguide
(SIW) technology is presented. The diplexer is a sixth order
coupled-resonator network with no additional elements such as
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power dividers, composed exclusively of three dual-mode square
SIW cavities. The coupling between the two orthogonal resonant
modes of each cavity is generated by means of additional vias
perturbing the cavity symmetry, while inductive irises implement
the inter-cavity couplings. The coupling topology of the whole
diplexer is restricted by the orientation of the resonant modes. A
fabricated prototype with passbands around 10 GHz proves that
this approach is feasible.
EuMC45 : Advanced Antenna Design
Methods
Venue: Flavia, 09:00 10:40, Thursday 9th October 2014
Chair: Marco Pasian, Universit di Pavia, Italy
Co-Chair: Ioan E. Lager, Technische Universiteit Delft, The
Netherlands
Expedited Microstrip Antenna Array Design
Through Surrogate-Based Optimization
Slawomir Koziel, Stanislav Ogurtsov; Reykjavik
University, Iceland
EuMC45-01, Time: 09:00
In this work, a technique for expedited design of microstrip
antenna arrays using surrogate-based optimization is presented.
The proposed methodology exploits an antenna array model
which superposes EM-simulated responses (both radiation and
reection) of the array with only one radiator active at a time.
Low optimization cost is maintained by constructing the model
from coarse-discretization EM-simulation data. In the process,
the antenna array model is iteratively corrected and re-optimized
to yield an improved set of excitation amplitudes and/or phases.
Our approach permits simultaneous handling of the radiation
pattern and the reection coecients, i.e., accounting for design
specications imposed on both reection and radiation responses.
It is demonstrated using a planar 10 by 10 microstrip array with
the optimized design obtained at the cost corresponding to a few
evaluations the high-delity EM model.
Chiral-Field Microwave Antennas: Chiral Microwave
Near Fields for Far-Field Radiation
E.O. Kamenetskii, M. Berezin, R. Shavit; Ben-Gurion
University of the Negev, Israel
EuMC45-02, Time: 09:20
In a single-element structure we obtain a radiation pattern with
a squint due to chiral microwave near elds originated from a
magnetostatic-mode ferrite disk. At the magnetostatic resonances,
one has strong subwavelength localization of energy of microwave
radiation. Magnetostatic oscillations in a thin ferrite disk are char-
acterized by unique topological properties: the Poynting-vector
vortices and the eld helicity. The chiral-topology near elds
allow obtaining unique phase structure distribution for far-eld
microwave radiation.
A Theoretical and Numerical Approach for Selecting
Miniaturized Antenna Topologies on
Magneto-Dielectric Substrates
Alex Pacini, Alessandra Costanzo, Diego Masotti;
Universit di Bologna, Italy
EuMC45-03, Time: 09:40
There is an increasing interest in developing miniaturized antennas
for ultra-low power applications (tens of W) in the microwave
range. However, to guarantee the system operations in such low-
power conditions, radiation performances need to be preserved
even if the adopted antennas dimensions are small compared to
the wavelength. For this purpose, magneto-dielectric materials
are currently exploited as promising substrates. In this paper we
demonstrate by a theoretical approach that radiation eciency can
be preserved only by selected combinations of antenna topologies
and substrate characteristics. Indeed, materials with relative
permeability greater than unit, can be eciently adopted only by
antennas that may be represented as equivalent magnetic sources.
Conversely, we demonstrate that if equivalent electric sources are
involved, the antenna performance are signicantly degraded. The
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analytical development is then conrmed by full-wave numerical
simulations.
Probe and Line-Fed Cylindrical Microstrip Antennas
with Complex-Shaped Patches
Alexander Ye. Svezhentsev, Guy A.E. Vandenbosch;
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
EuMC45-04, Time: 10:00
Cylindrical microstrip antennas (CMAs) with complex-shaped
patches are analyzed by the moment method in the spectral
domain. The structures are fed by a probe as well as by a cylin-
drical microstrip line. The asymptote extraction technique for the
spectral Greens function is applied to increase the calculation
eciency not only for elements of the impedance coupling matrix
but also for the elements of the voltage vector produced by the
probe. Dierent shapes of parches are discussed: in particular
U-shaped patches, patches with slots and notches, and coupled
looped patches. The return loss for the probe and line fed CMA are
presented. The shift of the resonant frequency of the CMA is ana-
lyzed with respect to the resonant frequency of the CMA having a
traditional cylindrical rectangular patch. For the line-fed CMA with
two pairs of coupled loop patches an H-polarized omnidirectional
radiation pattern in the azimuthal plane has been reached.
On Screening of Antenna Near Fields by a Finite
Ground Plane
Sathya N. Venkatasubramanian, Sergei Tretyakov,
Katsuyuki Haneda; Aalto University, Finland
EuMC45-05, Time: 10:20
Compact back-to-back antennas are proposed for in-band full du-
plex relays to improve spectral eciency and increased end-to-end
data rates of a wireless link. The main technical problem in realiza-
tion of these systems is the requirement for high isolation between
closely located back-to-back antennas. One needs to understand
how the electromagnetic near elds below a nite ground plane
contribute to the mutual coupling between compact back-to-back
antennas. In this paper, we present an analysis of the electro-
magnetic elds below a nite ground plane when excited by basic
electric and magnetic sources with both horizontal and vertical
orientations. The image theory and physical optics approximation
are used for direct computations of the elds at close distances
below the ground plane for various ground plane dimensions.
This provides an insight on coupling mechanisms and isolation
obtained for dierent ground plane dimensions for dierent types
of sources. The analysis is scalable to all frequencies of operation.
It is observed that a combination of vertical electric and magnetic
dipoles on dierent sides of the ground plane or horizontal electric
dipoles used in conjunction with any other radiating elements can
improve the isolation between back-to-back antennas.
EuMC46 : FSS and AMC: Modelling and
Applications
Venue: Iustina, 09:00 10:40, Thursday 9th October 2014
Chair: Francisco Medina, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
Co-Chair: Filiberto Bilotti, Universit di Roma Tre, Italy
Microstructured Frequency Selective Quasi-Optical
Components for Submillimeter-Wave Applications
S.A. Kuznetsov 1 , M.A. Astafyev 1 , A.V. Gelfand 2 , A.V.
Arzhannikov 1 ; 1 Novosibirsk State University, Russia;
2
Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
EuMC46-01, Time: 09:00
We present the selected results of research-and-development activ-
ities focused on improving conventional and creating novel passive
quasi-optical components of submillimeter-wave instrumentation.
Realized as high-performance single- and multi-layered metallized
microstructures of sub-wavelength topology, the components
include band-pass lters, non-proled focusing devices, thin-lm
phase and polarization transformers, and ultra-thin resonant ab-
sorbers. The aspects of electromagnetic modeling, fabrication, and
characterization of the developed devices are described together
with their practical applications.
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Dual Band Polarization-Insensitive Wide Angle
Metamaterial Absorber for Radar Application
Devkinandan Chaurasiya, Saptarshi Ghosh,
Kumar Vaibhav Srivastava; IIT Kanpur, India
EuMC46-02, Time: 09:20
In this paper, an ultra-thin dual-band polarization-insensitive
metamaterial absorber with wide-angle characteristics has been
presented. The unit cell geometry comprises two circular rings
with the inner one cross-connected. Simulated results show two
discrete absorption peaks at 2.90 GHz (S-band) and 6.13 GHz (C-
band) with absorptivities of 99.66% and 99.83% respectively, which
can be used for surveillance and air defense radar applications.
The proposed structure is polarization-insensitive and shows high
absorption (over 80%) for wide incident angles up to 60 degree
for both TE and TM polarizations. The proposed structure has
been fabricated and measured, showing good agreement with the
simulated responses.
60GHz Articial Magnetic Conductor Loaded Dipole
Antenna in 65nm CMOS Technology
Mohamed I. Ibrahim, Sally I. El-Henawy, Amr M.E.
Safwat; Ain Shams University, Egypt
EuMC46-03, Time: 09:40
This paper presents a new equivalent circuit model for Articial
Magnetic Conductors (AMCs), proposes a new AMC unit cell that
provides a large capacitance, and set guidelines to design ecient
antennas in CMOS technology characterized by lossy silicon sub-
strate that has thickness slightly smaller than /4 of the radiation
frequency. The proposed procedure is investigated in the design
of a dipole antenna that operates at 60 GHz in 65 nm CMOS
technology. Theoretical results are conrmed by two dierent
commercial simulators. The antenna is matched within the entire
band of operation (i.e. 57 GHz to 64 GHz) with peak simulated
gain and total eciency of +2 dBi and 52%, respectively. The size
occupied by the antenna and AMC structure is 1.2 mm 1.8 mm.
Multi-Layer Sub-Wavelength Prole Broadband
Leaky-Wave Antenna
Konstantinos Konstantinidis, Alexandros P. Feresidis,
Peter Gardner, Peter S. Hall; University of Birmingham,
UK
EuMC46-04, Time: 10:00
A new concept for designing subwavelength-prole and broadband
high-gain leaky-wave antennas is introduced. A novel multi-layer
periodic array design is proposed for sub-wavelength Fabry-Perot
leaky-wave antennas with enhanced bandwidth performance. Two
double-layer periodic arrays of dissimilar dimensions are designed
and optimized, each double-layer array consisting of an Articial
Magnetic Conductor (AMC) and a Partially Reective Surface (PRS)
printed on either side of a dielectric substrate. They are placed
at about quarter wavelength from a ground plane and from each
other. Thus, two air cavities are created with a total prole of
less than /2. The proposed antenna has been simulated (using
CST Microwave Studio) achieving 18.3dBi directivity with 8% band-
width. This gain-bandwidth product outperforms any previous
Fabry-Perot antenna design with this prole.
A Proposed Geometry for Multi-Resonant Frequency
Selective Surfaces
Alfrdo Gomes Neto, Adaildo Gomes DAssuno Jr.,
Jeerson Costa e Silva, Andr Nascimento da Silva,
Hillner de Paiva Almeida Ferreira, Isaac Silva Sousa
Lima; IFPB, Brazil
EuMC46-05, Time: 10:20
Frequency selective surfaces, FSS, are structures with many
applications in telecommunication systems. Recently, FSS prin-
ciples have been employed in chipless RFID technology, where
an important point is to design a multi-resonant structure, tag,
wherein the information can be encoded. In this work, a geometry
for multi-resonant FSS is introduced. Considering the unit cell
dimensions, very low resonant frequencies and a multi-resonant
behavior are advantages of the proposed geometry, despite of the
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polarization dependence. Numerical results, obtained using the
ANSYS-Designer software (MoM) are presented from 0.1 GHz to
12.0 GHz. Four FSS were designed, fabricated and experimentally
characterized from 4.5 GHz to 12.0 GHz. A very good agreement
is observed when compared measured results to numerical ones.
Potential applications and the shown characteristics instigate other
research groups to investigate the introduced geometry.
EuMC47 : High Data-Rate Wireless
Communications
Venue: Aurelia, 11:20 13:00, Thursday 9th October 2014
Chair: Rdiger Quay, Fraunhofer IAF, Germany
Co-Chair: Timo Jaeschke, Ruhr-Universitt Bochum, Germany
A 140GHz Multi-Gigabits Self-Heterodyne
Transceiver for Chip-to-Chip Communications
Samuel Foulon 1 , Sbastien Pruvost 1 , Denis Pache 1 ,
Christophe Loyez 2 , Nathalie Rolland 2 ;
1
STMicroelectronics, France; 2 IEMN, France
EuMC47-01, Time: 11:20
A 140GHz fully-integrated wireless chip-to-chip solution using a
QPSK self-heterodyne topology is demonstrated for short range
and low power communication. Implemented in 0.13m SiGe:C
BiCMOS technology, the Tx and Rx silicon area including dipole
antennas is 0.31mm2 . This transceiver achieves a data rate of
10Gbps at a free air distance of 0.6mm with a Error Vector Magni-
tude equal to 27%.
90GHz Polarization-Division Duplex RF Transceiver
for Multi-Gigabit Transmission
Kwangseon Kim 1 , Minsoo Kang 1 , Bongsu Kim 1 ,
Woojin Byun 1 , Hyungchul Park 2 ; 1 ETRI, Korea;
2
SeoulTech, Korea
EuMC47-02, Time: 11:40
This paper presents a novel 90 GHz band RF transceiver using
polarization-division duplex (PDD) technology. A PDD architecture
is used for full-duplex communication in the single band. The RF
transceiver can deliver 6 Gbps through six channels with a band-
width of 3 GHz. The channel bandwidth is 500 MHz. A IF combining
structure is used for multi-channel. To implement the system, a
fourth-harmonically pumped mixer for RF up/down-conversion
and a low-noise amplier monolithic microwave integrated cir-
cuits (MMIC) are implemented using a 0.1 m gallium arsenide
pseudomorphic high-electron-mobility transistor (GaAs pHEMT)
process. RF transceiver has an output P1dB of 15dBm and a noise
gure of below 8dB. Experimental results of RF test-bed show that
the system can achieve a good performance at the 16 quadrature
amplitude modulation (QAM) transmission of both Single Carrier
and orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) method.
Performance of Burst-Mode LTE-A Signal on a
Converged RoF and W-Band Wireless System
Tien Dat Pham, Atsushi Kanno, Tetsuya Kawanishi;
NICT, Japan
EuMC47-03, Time: 12:00
We propose and experimentally investigate a high-speed burst-
mode LTE-A signal transmission on a seamlessly converged RoF
and millimeter-wave system at 90 GHz. Satisfactory transmission
performance over the converged RoF and a 1.2-m 90-GHz wireless
link is achieved. The obtained results conrm the potential to
use the system in future high-speed mobile and broadband access
networks.
A Focusing Technique Based on a Data Spatial
Diversity at Millimetre-Wave Frequency
Michael Bocquet, Atika Rivenq, Christophe Loyez,
Nathalie Rolland; IEMN, France
EuMC47-04, Time: 12:20
This paper presents a new topology of data coding and data
broadcasting exclusively sent to a specic location area. The
proposed technique exploits specically dierent received signals
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to focus energy and to rebuild information intelligibly only for a
chosen position. By this way, the receiver coordinates become its
own key to decode the transmitted data. The overall topology
uses multiple emitters and one receiver which reads clearly the
transmitted information only at precise coordinates. This Dedi-
cated Transmission technique enables a spatial multiplexing and
has been validated experimentally using Ultra Wide Band (UWB)
signals around 4.5 GHz and in the millimeter frequency range.
Ultra-High Data-Rate Wireless Transfer in a
Saturated Spectrum New Paradigms
Ioan E. Lager 1 , Robert B. Staszewski 1 , Adrianus B.
Smolders 2 , Domine M.W. Leenaerts 2 ; 1 Technische
Universiteit Delft, The Netherlands; 2 Technische
Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands
EuMC47-05, Time: 12:40
A novel strategy ensuring ultra-fast, safe and reliable wireless
data transfer in mobile networks is proposed. By starting from
state-of-the-art concepts in the present day mobile networks and
by examining specic, largely underused, potentials in electromag-
netic (EM) eld propagation, a transforming paradigm, combining
the advantages of standard network architectures with non-
conventional data transfer modalities is put forward. The elements
that are deemed requisite for one specic implementation of this
paradigm are briey cataloged.
EuMC48 : Components for Microwave
Front-Ends
Venue: Baebiana, 11:20 13:00, Thursday 9th October 2014
Chair: Asher Madjar, M2Microwaves LLC
Co-Chair: Alexander Koelpin, FAU Erlangen-Nrnberg, Germany
A Triple-Power-Mode Power Amplier Using an Rx
Band Noise Reduction Circuit for W-CDMA/LTE
Handsets
Masakazu Hirobe, Shintaro Shinjo, Kazuhiro Iyomasa,
Kazuya Yamamoto, Morishige Hieda; Mitsubishi
Electric, Japan
EuMC48-01, Time: 11:20
A triple-power-mode power amplier (PA) using a receive (Rx) band
noise reduction circuit for W-CDMA/LTE handsets is described.
The Rx band noise reduction circuit uses an LC trap circuit res-
onating at the dierence frequency between transmit (Tx) and Rx
signals, and suppresses the Rx band noise caused by mixing with
the Tx signal and the dierence frequency noise which comes
from an input matching network and a bias circuit in the PA. The
PA accommodates switchable signal paths corresponding to triple
(high, middle and low) power modes for saving battery current in
practical handset use. Simulations show an Rx band noise improve-
ment of 3.5 dB due to the LC trap circuit, and measurements show
both a low Rx band noise of -136 dBm/Hz and a high gain of 30 dB
at 29dBm of Pout. Measurements also show that the PA achieves
PAE as high as 41% at Pout of 29dBm while keeping ACLR less than
-38dBc in the high power mode under a condition of 3.4V Vcc and
1450MHz W-CDMA (3GPP Rel.99) modulated signals. In the middle
and low power modes, PAE of 22% at Pout of 18dBm and 16% at
7dBm are obtained with the same condition, respectively.
A DC6GHz, Packaged 100 Watt GaN SPDT Switch
MMIC
Ritu Jain, Sushil Kumar, Bernie Stocklingsky, Je
Shealy; RFMD, USA
EuMC48-02, Time: 11:40
A Low insertion loss, high isolation and high power DC-6GHz
SPDT has been developed using GaN on SiC using 0.5m HEMT
technology. The developed switch has CW P0.1 dB as 100W and
Pulsed Pmax >126W. Insertion loss of this SPDT is 0.8dB with
isolation 30dB & RL 20dB across the band. Measured ON/OFF
switching time was <20nS. Switch performed very well during hot
switching test for pulsed control voltage (Vc) =-30 to -60V. No
degradation in IL or Isolation was observed between hot and cold
switching. The switch is packaged in a plastic 5X5 QFN package.
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Digitally Assisted RF Filter: Self Interference
Cancellation System
P. Pratt, P. Forbes, J. McCormack; Analog Devices,
Ireland
EuMC48-03, Time: 12:00
In FDD radios, the problem of Self Interference, where the trans-
mitters own noise and distortion can desensitize the receiver is
traditionally solved by RF ltering. For bands with narrow duplex
spacing, this selectivity comes at the cost of bulky lters and inser-
tion loss with an associated power loss in the front end. Moreover,
with the drive towards, cheaper, smaller, integrated duplexers and
ultimately towards Full Duplex systems, conventional RF ltering
is becoming less viable. In this paper, we described a digitally
assisted RF lter system that addresses the isolation problem by
means of a novel, sub band, self interference cancellation system.
Sub band adaptation allows the canceller train in the presence of
both blockers and on-channel wanted signals. Lab bench proof-
of-concept results showing desense levels better than 0.1dB and
cancellations gains > 35dB are presented for a 3GPP Band 1 cellular
base station radio incorporating a ceramic duplexer with 55dB
isolation.
Design and Characterization of a Negative
Resistance Common Emitter InP Double
Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor Subcircuit for
Millimeter Wave and Submillimeter Wave
Applications
Clive Poole 1 , Izzat Darwazeh 1 , Herbert Zirath 2 , Klas
Eriksson 2 , Dan Kuylenstierna 2 , Szhau Lai 2 ;
1
University College London, UK; 2 Chalmers University
of Technology, Sweden
EuMC48-04, Time: 12:20
A negative resistance Indium Phosphide MMIC subcircuit element
is presented that employs a Double-Heterojunction Bipolar Tran-
sistor in Common Emitter conguration with series feedback. The
fabricated MMIC exhibits negative resistance up to 231GHz, this
being the highest known frequency at which negative resistance
has been measured for a transistor in the Common Emitter cong-
uration. The design methodology is based on a simple equation
that accurately predicts the value of series feedback reactance
required to generate negative resistance in a transistor. The
negative resistance subcircuit described has potential application
in a reection amplier or negative resistance oscillator, when
combined with a suitable resonator.
Design and Characterization of a Micromachined
Receiver for W Band Applications
Alina-Cristina Bunea 1 , Dan Neculoiu 1 , A. Takacs 2 ,
Pierre Calmon 2 ; 1 IMT Bucharest, Romania; 2 LAAS,
France
EuMC48-05, Time: 12:40
This paper presents for the rst time the design, electromagnetic
modeling and simulation of a W-band micromachined receiver with
a double folded slot antenna. The antenna was processed on a
thin dielectric membrane obtained through wet micromachining
of a 400 m thick, high-resistivity silicon substrate. A stand-alone
antenna structure was fabricated and characterized in terms of
reection losses, showing a working band (dened for |S11|< -10
dB) between 88.3105.8 GHz, in good agreement with simulations.
The maximum simulated directivity at 94 GHz is 6.3 dBi. The
direct conversion receiver uses a hybrid integrated GaAs zero
bias detector diode. Two new parameters based on the incident
isotropic power are introduced: isotropic voltage sensitivity and
isotropic tangential signal sensitivity. The measured isotropic
tangential sensitivity is lower than -40 dBm between 80105 GHz,
for a 10 kHz video bandwidth.
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EuMC49 : Tuneable and Multiband Planar
Filters
Venue: Cecilia, 11:20 13:00, Thursday 9th October 2014
Chair: Giuseppe Macchiarella, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Co-Chair: Gian Guido Gentili, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
A Dual-Band Switchable Bandpass Filter Using
Connected-Coupling Mechanisms
1 1 1
Shih-Fong Chao , Che-You Kuo , Wei-Cheng Lin ,
Wei-Ru Li 1 , Pu-Hua Deng 2 ; 1 National Kaohsiung
Marine University, Taiwan; 2 National University of
Kaohsiung, Taiwan
EuMC49-01, Time: 11:20
In this paper, a dual-band switchable bandpass lter using
switchable connected-coupling lines is presented. The switchable
connected-coupling line is formed by embedding a RF traveling-
wave switch into a connected-coupling line. In thru state, the
switchable connected-coupling line serves as an admittance in-
verter to provide adequate coupling for a bandpass response. In
isolated state, the switchable line acts as a RF switch to cut o the
coupling path to achieve a high isolation. A switchable dual-band
lter operating at 1.5 and 2.5 GHz was designed and fabricated to
validate the design concept.
Design of Quad-Band Bandpass Filter Using Nested
Dual-Mode Square Loop Resonators
Ceyhun Karpuz 1 , Ali Krsad Grr 2 , Ahmet zek 1 ,
Zuhra Karaca 3 ; 1 Pamukkale University, Turkey;
2 band with a wide pass-band, until K band. The third example
Nevsehir Haci Bektas Veli University, Turkey; 3 Nigde
University, Turkey
EuMC49-02, Time: 11:40
In this letter, design of a quad-band microstrip bandpass lter
is presented by using nested placed four dual-mode square loop
resonators (DMSLR) having dierent electrical lengths. Arms of the
square loop resonators (SLR) are formed with low/high impedance
parts, in order to obtain a maximum miniaturization by nesting
DMSLRs and perturbation eects by changing the lengths of low
impedance parts for the excitation of degenerate modes. Thus, the
proposed conguration allows the control of mode frequencies,
bandwidths and transmission zeros for each passband individually.
Resonators are coupled to input/output (I/O) ports by feedlines
having open-circuited stubs which suppress the harmonics. A
dual-mode quad-band bandpass lter has been designed with an
electrical length of 0.25g 0.25g and fabricated, where g is the
guided wavelength at 1.79 GHz (the lowest resonance frequency).
Measured and simulated results are in a good agreement.
Design of Compact Dual-Band Bandpass Filter Using
Frequency Transformation and its Implementation
with Split Ring Resonator: Dual-Band Bandpass
Filter Using SRR
Vaishali Rathore, Seema Awasthi, Animesh Biswas; IIT
Kanpur, India
EuMC49-03, Time: 12:00
This paper presents the design and implementation of a com-
pact dual-band band-pass lter using metamaterial Split Ring
Resonators. The coupling matrix is generated by frequency trans-
formation technique applied to advance ltering functions for
symmetric dual-band band-pass lter. The dual-band lter (22)
pole, with return loss 20 dB and bandwidth of 142 MHz and 138
MHz in two bands, at center frequencies 3.14 GHz and 3.37 GHz
respectively are designed, fabricated and tested. The measured and
simulated results are in good agreement over the desired band. The
size of the lter, which is as small as 55mm 55mm 1.27mm,
can be used for WiMAX Applications.
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Tunable Bandpass Filter with Wide Out-of-Band
Rejection
Mirna Akra 1 , Emmanuel Pistono 1 , Hamza Issa 2 , Akil
Jrad 3 , Philippe Ferrari 1 ; 1 IMEP-LAHC, France; 2 Beirut
Arab University, Lebanon; 3 Lebanese University,
Lebanon
EuMC49-04, Time: 12:20
This paper presents tunable microstrip bandpass lters. These
lters are based on Stub-Loaded Resonators. By properly loading
these resonators by variable capacitance (such as varactor diode),
the center frequency can be easily controlled. Thanks to the chosen
topology, the loading capacitors have no impact in the out-of-band
rejection. A complete resonant mode analysis is investigated. The
concept is demonstrated by considering a third-order parallel-
coupled bandpass lter. A tunable center frequency of +/- 7.6% is
obtained.
Adjustable Parallel Coupled Line Filters with
Wire-Bonding Technology
Stphane Denis 1 , Patrick Fouin 1 , Grard Haquet 1 ,
Georges Peyresoubes 1 , Anne-Catherine Tanguy 1 ,
Caroline Leduc 2 ; 1 Thales Microelectronics, France;
2
IETR, France
EuMC49-05, Time: 12:40
This paper presents three examples of adjustable planar lters
with wire-bonding technology. These lters are derived from
conventional parallel-coupled line lter topologies by introducing
tuning cells with bond-wires. The rst example is a band-pass
lter at Ku band. The second example is a stop-band lter at C
is a switched pass-band lter bank, semi-buried into multi-layer
substrates, covering from C to X band.
EuMC50 : Special Session on Asia Pacic
Microwave Conference
Venue: Hortensia, 11:20 13:00, Thursday 9th October 2014
Chair: Luca Perregrini, Universit di Pavia, Italy
Co-Chair: Atsushi Sanada, Yamaguchi University, Japan
Some Basic Q & A on Wireless Power Transfer
Jongmin Park, Hyunjin Shim, Yoon Goo Kim,
Sangwook Nam; Seoul National University, Korea
EuMC50-01, Time: 11:20
This paper presents some questions and answers on the wireless
power transfer. Firstly, it investigates the physical limitation
of a wireless power transfer using spherical modes. It is found
that there is a limitation on the transfer eciency depending on
the distance between the resonators and eciency of antennas.
Secondly, we compare the performance of WPTS with respect to
the source type. In addition, a method is suggested for ecient
WPT when the distance between antennas is varied. Thirdly, a
time division method is suggested for WPTS to charge multiple
receivers. Finally, we present an analytic formula which can be
used to dierentiate Inductive Coupling and Magnetic Resonance
Coupling which are ambiguously used in wireless power transfer
system.
Transmission Line Metamaterials for
Transformation Electromagnetics
Atsushi Sanada, Tsutomu Nagayama; Yamaguchi
University, Japan
EuMC50-02, Time: 11:40
In this paper, recent works on transmission line metamaterials for
transformation electromagnetics are overviewed. The concept the
transmission line approach using physical equivalent circuit model
for anisotropic materials is introduced. The validity of the model
is conrmed by demonstrations of an invisibility carpet cloak
design and circuit simulations. In addition, potential applications
of the coordinate transformation resonators and illusion cloaks at
microwave frequency region are presented.
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Nanomaterial in Microwave and Millimeterwave
Engineering Research in China
Erping Li 1 , Yi-Li Xu 1 , Wei Hong 2 ; 1 Zhejiang University,
China; 2 Southeast University, China
EuMC50-03, Time: 12:00
Recently, nanomaterial is a topic of very attractive research elds
from science to potential applications in microwave components
and circuits. This paper briey overviews the graphene and some
other nanomaterials research and development (R&D) of institu-
tions in China. For microwave applications, we show interconnect,
transistors and some other applications.
EuMC51 : Advances in Metamaterials and
EBG Structures
Venue: Iustina, 11:20 13:00, Thursday 9th October 2014
Chair: Alessandro Galli, Universit di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
Co-Chair: Oksana V. Shramkova, Queens University Belfast, UK
Advances in Mantle Cloaking Design
Alessio Monti 1 , Jason Soric 2 , Andrea Al 2 , Alessandro
Toscano 3 , Filiberto Bilotti 3 ; 1 Universit Niccol
Cusano, Italy; 2 University of Texas at Austin, USA;
3
Universit di Roma Tre, Italy
EuMC51-01, Time: 11:20
In this work we report some advances in the design of mantle
cloaking devices to reduce the scattering of an object at microwave
frequencies. We rst show how to design a cloaking device able to
reduce the scattering of canonical 1D, 2D or 3D objects overcoming
the restrictions aecting the current covers working for a single-
polarization only. Theoretical considerations as well as full-wave
simulations conrming the eectiveness of the proposed cloaks
are provided. Moreover, we present a generalization of the mantle
cloaking theoretical formulation in order to take into account
multilayer cloaking devices. This analysis allows to extend the
validity of the mantle cloaking approach beyond the quasi-static
condition, which is commonly considered as the main limitation of
scattering cancellation-based cloaks.
Carbon Nanotube Based Millimeterwave Fishnet
Metamaterials
Johannes A. Russer 1 , Ying Xiong 1 , Alaa Abdellah 1 ,
Ali E. Culhaoglu 2 , Wenquan Che 3 , Paolo Lugli 1 , Peter
Russer 1 ; 1 Technische Universitt Mnchen, Germany;
2
DLR, Germany; 3 NUST, China
EuMC51-02, Time: 11:40
Fishnet metamaterials consist of two or more conducting shnet
layers separated by homogeneous dielectric layers. Dierent
from other planar multilayer metamaterial structures shnet
metamaterials do not require vias for through-contacting between
the layers. This allows low-cost production of three-dimensional
metamaterials by spray coating with organic (carbon nanotubes
CNTs) or metallic (silver) nano pigment inks. Spray coating has
proven to be a low cost fabrication technique for high throughput.
Numerical studies are pursued in this contribution to investigate
shnet metamaterial using nano pigment inks. In this work we
compare shnet metamaterial structures fabricated from spray
coated layers of variable sheet conductance with shnet metama-
terial structures fabricated from highly conductive material with
superimposed homogeneous CNT layers of low sheet conductance.
In these cases the spray coated CNT layers allow to adjust the
area resistance of the conductive layers for optimum broad-band
design. The tunable resistance of sprayed thin lms allows for an
enhanced tailoring of the eective parameters of the metamaterial
structures and, hence, for an enhancement of their bandwidth of
negative refractive index.
Combinatorial Frequency Generation by Magnetised
Quasi-Periodic Stacks of Semiconductor Layers
O.V. Shramkova, A.G. Schuchinsky; Queens University
Belfast, UK
EuMC51-03, Time: 12:00
The combinatorial frequency generation by the quasi-periodic
Fibonacci and Thue-Morse stacks of magnetically biased semicon-
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ductor layers, illuminated by pump waves of two tones, has been
analysed in the self-consistent problem formulation, taking into
account the nonlinear dynamics of charges. It is demonstrated that
the external magnetic bias signicantly enhances the nonlinear
interactions in the stacks. The eects of the layer sequence and
parameters on the properties of the combinatorial frequency waves
emitted from the stacks of magnetised semiconductor layers are
discussed.
Microwave Photonic Structures and their
Application for Measurements of Parameters of
Thin Semiconductor Layers
D.A. Usanov 1 , A.V. Skripal 1 , D.V. Ponomarev 1 , E.V.
Latysheva 1 , S.A. Nikitov 2 ; 1 Saratov State University,
Russia; 2 Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
EuMC51-04, Time: 12:20
The possibility to simultaneously determine the thickness and the
electrical conductivity of thin semiconductor layer and the mobility
of its free charge carriers has been shown. The semiconductor layer
plays a role of the irregularity in the one-dimensional waveguide
photonic crystals. The results of the determination of highly doped
semiconductor epitaxial layer parameters by the inverse problem
solving using reection and transmission spectra in microwave
band are presented.
Novel Negative Impedance Converter with an
Emitter Follower Circuit for Stable Non-Foster
Elements
Takuya Kaneko 1 , Shogo Takagi 1 , Yasushi Horii 1 ,
Masahiro Akiyama 2 ; 1 Kansai University, Japan; 2 Kyoto
Institute of Technology, Japan
EuMC51-05, Time: 12:40
For generation of non-Foster circuit elements with negative capaci-
tance or negative inductance, this paper newly proposes a negative
impedance converter (NIC) with an emitter follower circuit. The
principle of the proposed circuit topology is introduced, and then,
the negative capacitance with -100 pF is demonstrated by using
bipolar transistors 2SC1815GR with hF E of 283. The results indi-
cate that (1) the voltage gain of the amplier, Av , used in the NIC
circuit should be 2 precisely, and (2) the emitter follower enhances
the bandwidth of the non-Foster response. As an application, this
paper shows that a negative group delay with the delay time from
-1 ns to -2 ns and negligible insertion loss is generated in a wide
frequency range.
EuMC52 : Interconnects, Packaging and
MCM
Venue: Niside, 11:20 13:00, Thursday 9th October 2014
Chair: Jean-Franois Villemazet, Thales Alenia Space
Co-Chair: John Papapolymerou, Georgia Institute of Technology,
USA
Highly Integrated Recongurable Microwave Switch
Matrix Module for Geostationary Satellites
S. Kaleem, S. Rentsch, S. Humbla, D. Stpel, R. Stephan,
J. Mller, M.A. Hein; Technische Universitt Ilmenau,
Germany
EuMC52-01, Time: 11:20
A hybrid integrated 44 recongurable switch matrix module bear-
ing four redundant paths is presented. Besides standard switching
functionality between inputs and outputs, the module exhibits a
transparent mode in case of on-board power failure. In the trans-
parent mode, the redundant paths establish a direct transmission
between an input and a corresponding output. Owing to the low
temperature co-red ceramic technology, the hermetically sealed
module exhibits compact dimensions of 32 mm 32 mm 1.7
mm and a light weight of just 6.15 g. The high degree of miniatur-
ization and static power consumption due to the PIN diodes based
design raise thermal concerns. Infrared thermographs and nite
element thermal simulation modeling provide an estimate of the
peak temperature on the package. Compared to its predecessor,
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the peak temperature of the most recent version was lowered by
22 K with the help of reduced bias currents and thermal vias. The
electrical and thermal considerations improve the reliability of the
module required for the long-life geostationary satellite. On-wafer
measurements revealed an insertion loss of (91) dB and return
loss 10 dB in normal and transparent modes, and an on-to-o
isolation of 50 dB over the entire Ka-band downlink frequency
band (17. . .22 GHz).
Low-Loss and High-Isolation Through Silicon via
Technology for High Performance RF Applications
1 1 1
Jong-Min Yook , Dongsu Kim , Jong-Chul Park ,
Chul-Young Kim 2 , Sok Ho Yi 3 , Jun Chul Kim 1 ; 1 KETI,
Korea; 2 Chungnam National University, Korea;
3 a 9 GHz bandwidth and a minimum insertion loss of 0.2 dB can
Cowon Innotech, Korea
EuMC52-02, Time: 11:40
In this study, new TSV structures, TOV (Through Organic Via) and
COV (Coaxial Via), are proposed to overcome the lossy problem
of the TSV. In the proposed via, a thick insulator, more than 10
m, can be realized by using the organic lamination process. The
lamination process is applied to the silicon hole which is formed
by using a deep RIE (Reactive Ion Etching) process. An UV laser
was used to drill the laminated organic. To make fully lled metal
via, sputtering seeds and copper electroplating methods are used.
As results, it was possible to make a 50 m through-via with a
150 m depth. The fabricated TOV and COV have very low signal
losses compared to standard TSV. Especially, COV has a very good
signal isolation due to shield ground wall. The signal loss and
isolation of the fabricated COV were 0.044 dB and 43 dB at 10 GHz,
respectively.
60-GHz OOK Multi-Chip Transceiver Modules for
Multi-Gbps Wireless Communications
Uroschanit Yodprasit, Stefan Schumann, Jan-Dirk
Leufker, Corrado Carta, Frank Ellinger; Technische
Universitt Dresden, Germany
EuMC52-03, Time: 12:00
Transmitter and receiver modules for 60-GHz multi-gigabit per
second (multi-Gbps) communications are presented. The On-
O-Keying (OOK) modulation scheme is utilized to minimize
the system complexity and thus the power consumption. The
transmitter module consists of voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO),
OOK modulator and medium-power power amplier (PA), while
the receiver requires only low-noise amplier (LNA) and OOK
demodulator. All circuits are fabricated in a 0.25-m SiGe BiC-
MOS process. Bondwire compensation structures are utilized to
mitigate the reections caused by bondwire interfaces. Wireless
measurements at 54 cm with 20-dBi horn antennas resulted in
an error-free transmission at 4.5 Gbps. The complete transceiver
chipset consumes 396 mW.
A Millimeter Wave Wideband Dierential Line to
Waveguide Transition Using Short Ended Slot Line
Takeshi Yuasa, Tetsuya Oba, Yukihiro Tahara, Yasuo
Morimoto, Tetsu Owada, Moriyasu Miyazaki; Mitsubishi
Electric, Japan
EuMC52-04, Time: 12:20
This paper presents a millimeter wave wideband dierential line
to waveguide transition using a short ended slot line. The slot line
connected in parallel to the rectangular waveguide can eectively
compensate the frequency dependence of the susceptance in the
waveguide. Thus it is suitable to achieve a wideband characteristic
together with a simpler structure. It is experimentally demon-
strated that the proposed transitions have the relative bandwidth
of 20.2% with respect to -10 dB reection, which is a signicant
wideband characteristic compared with the conventional transi-
tions bandwidth of 11%.
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Experimental Evaluation of Dierential
Chip-to-Antenna Bondwire Interconnects Above
110GHz
Vclav Valenta 1 , Hermann Schumacher 1 , Thomas
Spreng 2 , Volker Ziegler 2 , Dragos Dancila 3 , Anders
Rydberg 3 ; 1 Universitt Ulm, Germany; 2 Airbus Group
Innovations, Germany; 3 Uppsala University, Sweden
EuMC52-05, Time: 12:40
Bondwire interconnects for dierential chip-to-antenna interfaces
are investigated. Two dierent compensation structures for
dierent interconnect lengths are designed and evaluated using
dedicated transmit and receive BiCMOS modules operating across
a 110 to 156 GHz band. Measurement results demonstrate that
be achieved for interconnects as long as 0.8 mm, showing that
the well established wire-bonding techniques are still an attractive
solution even beyond 100 GHz. Reproducibility of the proposed
solution is assessed as well.
EuMC53 : Advanced Signal Generation
Techniques
Venue: Aurelia, 14:20 16:00, Thursday 9th October 2014
Chair: Tibor Berceli, BME, Hungary
Co-Chair: Richard Ranson, Radio System Design Ltd
Generation Method of a Driving Signal for a
Dual-Mode Supply Modulator in a 3-Level Envelope
Delta-Sigma Modulator Transmitter
Sung Jun Lee, Young-Kyun Cho, Jae Ho Jung; ETRI,
Korea
EuMC53-01, Time: 14:20
A generation method of a driving signal for a dual-mode supply
modulator (DMSM) that supplies dual dc supply voltages to a
power amplier (PA) in a 3-level envelope delta-sigma modulator
(EDSM) transmitter is proposed and conrmed by simulation and
measurement. This method is feasible in terms that it generates
a DMSM driving signal of trackable speed by the DMSM through
a real-time operation in the digital domain. Also, this method is
suitable in terms that an intended relation between the DMSM
driving signal and the output of a 3-level EDSM can be obtained,
provided the design parameter of a lowpass delta-sigma modulator
(LPDSM), out of band gain, is kept low (1.5). And, it is also shown
that this condition for the design parameter of a LPDSM is not
a limitation because it does not degrade the performance of the
3-level EDSM.
A Self-Injection Locked VCO with Adaptive Control
of Injection Phase
Kengo Kawasaki, Koji Tsutsumi, Masaomi Tsuru, Eiji
Taniguchi; Mitsubishi Electric, Japan
EuMC53-02, Time: 14:40
An adaptive control method of injection phase is proposed to
overcome the drawback of conventional self-injection locked VCO.
The self-injection locking is an eective method to reduce the
phase noise of the VCO, however there are some problems such
as a discontinuous frequency and a large phase noise variation.
The proposed circuit is composed of a VCO, a phase detector
(PD), a delay line and a phase shifter (PS) to optimize the injection
phase. In order to obtain an optimum injection phase, the phase
shifter is controlled based on the PD output. The IC which includes
Ka-band VCO and the PD is designed and fabricated by using a
0.18m SiGe BiCMOS technology. The proposed self-injection
locked VCO using the fabricated IC and the external delay line
shows the continuous frequency characteristic. Moreover, much
lower phase noise variation of 5 dB is obtained than that of 12 dB
of the conventional self-injection locked VCO.
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A Novel Programmable Harmonic Selection
Technique Based on the Pseudo-Locking of an
Oscillator by Periodically Repeated Oscillations
Train
Clement Jany 1 , Alexandre Siligaris 1 , Philippe Ferrari 2 ,
Pierre Vincent 1 ; 1 CEA-LETI, France; 2 IMEP-LAHC,
France
EuMC53-03, Time: 15:00
A new concept based on the injection of a periodically repeated
oscillations train into an oscillator is presented. It is based on
a phenomenon named pseudo-locking, leading to a novel pro-
grammable harmonic selection technique. Theoretical description
of the concept is presented, in particular an analytical condition
is carried out, paving the way of design rules. For a proof of
concept, an oscillator fabricated on a 40 nm CMOS technology was
measured. The concept was validated by measured phase noise
equivalent to classical fundamental injection locking phase noise
performance.
A Spur Suppression Method in FMCW Radar by
Reducing the Frequency Variation Periodicity with a
PLL
Kazuhide Higuchi, Hideyuki Nakamizo, Hiroyuki
Mizutani, Takuya Suzuki, Kenichi Tajima, Kenji
Kawakami; Mitsubishi Electric, Japan
EuMC53-04, Time: 15:20
This paper proposes a spur suppression method for a beat signal
in a frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radar system
whose transmitted signals are generated by a PLL. To suppress
spurs of the beat signal, frequencies of spurs are investigated with a
stair-like frequency variation model. From the investigated model,
we show that frequencies of spurs relate to a period of increment
or decrement of phase-locked loop (PLL) output frequency. To
reduce the periodicity of the frequency variation, we propose a
method in which frequency control word (FCW) set period varies in
each frequency chirp. We conrmed experimentally the reduction
of spurious level by 13.6dB with the proposed method.
Millimeter-Wave Signal Generation Using Cascaded
Optical Frequency Multiplication Technique
Atsushi Kanno, Tetsuya Kawanishi; NICT, Japan
EuMC53-05, Time: 15:40
We propose a frequency-octupling technique for millimeter-
wave and terahertz signal generation using cascaded optical
frequency multipliers based on optical modulation. A millimeter-
wave-capable optical frequency doubler connected to an optical
frequency quadrupler provides a 100200-GHz signal whose
number of multiplications is eight. The observed phase-noise
degradation is followed by theoretically expected degradation.
EuMC54 : Microwave Techniques for
Sensing
Venue: Baebiana, 14:20 16:00, Thursday 9th October 2014
Chair: Dominique Schreurs, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven,
Belgium
Co-Chair: Zoya Popovic, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
A SiGe BiCMOS Dielectric Sensor Utilizing an
Open-Ended Microstrip Line in a 28GHz Colpitts
Oscillator
Farabi Ibne Jamal, Subhajit Guha, Chak Meliani; IHP,
Germany
EuMC54-01, Time: 14:20
In this paper, a microwave dielectric sensor is presented using
an open-ended microstrip line. It is fabricated in a standard 0.25
m SiGe BiCMOS process (fT /fmax = 180/220 GHz). A theoretical
basis of open-ended microstrip line as dielectric sensor has been
proposed and it is used as a permittivity dependent capacitor in the
Colpitts oscillator. The sensor distinguishes permittivities ranging
from 1 to 20 in the frequency range 26 to 29 GHz. With no material
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on top of the sensor, oscillation frequency settles at 28.72 GHz.
Air, honey, epoxy resin (gray and orange) were used to verify and
calibrate the sensor experimentally. In a further step, the sensor
has been used to characterize water fraction in supersaturated
sugar solution (honey). A sensitivity of 250 MHz/Unit permittivity
has been shown. It spans an area of 0.6 mm2 and consumes 4.5
mA from a 3.3 V supply.
A Microwave Real-Time Dielectric Sensor Based on a
K-Band BICMOS LC Oscillator
I. Lahbib 1 , L. Leyssenne 1 , T.V. Dinh 1 , P. Descamps 1 , N.
Prou 1 , D. Lesnchal 1 , Sidina Wane 2 ; 1 LaMIPS, France;
2
NXP Semiconductors, France
EuMC54-02, Time: 14:40
This paper investigates various aspects relative to dielectric sensor
applications using stand-alone Voltage Controlled Oscillators
(VCO) designed in advanced SiGe:C BiCMOS technology. Design,
analysis and experimental verication of integrated dielectric
sensors backed up by proper methodologies for characterization
of material properties are presented. The proposed sensing system
extracts frequency dependent permittivities of dielectric and liquid
materials in the prospect of chemical composition monitoring.
RF MEMS Control of Planar Microchamber for
Adaptive Biosensing Applications
Cristiano Palego 1 , David Molinero 2 , Shawn
Cunningham 2 , Art Morris 2 , Marten Seth 2 ; 1 Bangor
University, UK; 2 WiSpry, USA
EuMC54-03, Time: 15:00
Integration of radiofrequency micro-electromechanical (RF MEMS)
tuning modules into a tested planar microchamber for agile
biosensing purposes is investigated. It is found that present
MEMS chips enable enhancement of the achievable sensitivity in
common sensing scenarios and without adding to technological
complexity, although over a relatively narrow frequency range.
Dedicated RF MEMS modules with higher capacitive resolution can
be prospectively employed for even more exible performance.
Combined Passive Radiofrequency Identication
and Machine Learning Technique to Recognize
Human Motion
Sara Amendola, Luigi Bianchi, Gaetano Marrocco;
Universit di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
EuMC54-04, Time: 15:20
Moving limbs within an electromagnetic eld radiated by an inter-
rogating antenna will generate a modulation of the backscattered
eld sensed by a receiver. The measured signals may therefore
carry raw information about the human motion. Moreover, the
proper placement of UHF passive Radiofrequency Identication
(RFID) tags over body segments will increase the amount of col-
lected signals. This paper investigate the potentiality of a possible
synergy between Electromagnetics and Machine Learning technol-
ogy at the purpose to recognize and classify, for the rst time,
the gestures of arms and legs by using only passive transponders.
Electromagnetic signals backscattered from the tags during limb
motion are collected by a xed reader antenna and then processed
by the Support Vector Machine (SVM) algorithm. Experimental
results demonstrated a degree of accuracy in the classication of
periodic movements that is fully comparable with that of more
complex systems involving active wearable transponders.
A Prototype of Laser-Hollowed Integrated Circuit for
Dielectric Sensing of Liquids: Perspectives for
Medical Applications
N. Prou 1 , L. Leyssenne 1 , I. Lahbib 1 , B. Domengs 1 , F.
Kerisit 1 , D. Lesnchal 1 , P. Descamps 1 , Sidina Wane 2 ;
1
LaMIPS, France; 2 NXP Semiconductors, France
EuMC54-05, Time: 15:40
This work investigates the impact of dielectric loading on the RF
performances of integrated VCO and PLL systems. Both On-Chip
and System-Level (On-Board) experimental characterizations are
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carried out to determine inuence of various substances (resins,
salted water, petroleum, sugar mixture) on frequency variations,
taking into account the importance of mechanical xture. Cali-
bration and monitoring aspects are discussed towards real-time
measurement of aqueous concentrations of liquids for medical
applications.
EuMC55 : Advances in Design and
Implementation of Planar Filters
Venue: Cecilia, 14:20 16:00, Thursday 9th October 2014
Chair: Antonio Morini, Universit Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
Co-Chair: Christoph Ernst, ESA ESTEC
SIW Q-Band Filters Using Advanced Multilayer PCB
Technology
S. Cadiou 1 , C. Quendo 1 , E. Schlaer 2 , W. Pessl 2 , A.
Le Fevre 3 , M. Brizoux 4 , D. Baudet 4 ; 1 Universit
Europenne de Bretagne, France; 2 AT&S, Austria;
3
Thales Communications & Security, France; 4 Thales
Global Services, France
EuMC55-01, Time: 14:20
This paper deals with the design of Q-band lters using a low-cost
multilayered Printed Circuit Board (PCB) substrate. In order to
meet strong electrical specications, the Substrate Integrated
Waveguide (SIW) technique has been used to take prot of the
complete build-up of the multilayered PCB. Advanced fabrication
techniques of vias and micro-vias have also been developed in
this project to implement 4th and 6th -order lters in this tech-
nology. The challenge here is to use a standard PCB process to
design complex microwave devices that usually require accurate
fabrication process and very low tolerances, especially in such
frequency ranges. Based on that, two 2.88mm2 prototypes have
been designed, simulated and fabricated on a 1mm-thick PCB made
of copper and blend of high performance resin material. Regarding
the results of these lters, measured insertion & return losses are
in a very good agreement with the simulation while exhibiting high
rejections and low footprint.
A Novel Ultra-Compact and Low-Insertion-Loss
77-GHz CMOS On-Chip Bandpass Filter with
Adjustable Transmission Zeros
Lung-Kai Yeh, Yu-Chen Chen, Huey-Ru Chuang;
National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
EuMC55-02, Time: 14:40
This paper presents a novel ultra-compact and low-insertion loss
77-GHz on-chip bandpass lter (BPF) fabricated with a 0.18-m
standard CMOS process. The stepped-impedance resonators (SIRs)
used in this lter allow for more freedom to adjust design parame-
ters and yield a transmission zero at the right side of the passband.
The other transmission zero is produced by two-path mechanism.
The transmission zeros are located at 32 and 109 GHz, and the
band-edge selectivity is much improved. The entire chip size of the
proposed lter is 182393 m2 , and the core size is 56353 m2 .
The proposed lter with a center frequency of 77 GHz exhibits an
insertion loss of less than 2.9-dB. The good agreement between the
simulation and measurement results is obtained.
Dual-Mode Microstrip Bandstop Filters Using Square
Loop Resonators
Adnan Gorur 1 , Elif Gunturkun 1 , Ceyhun Karpuz 2 ;
1
Nigde University, Turkey; 2 Pamukkale University,
Turkey
EuMC55-04, Time: 15:20
A new design of dual-mode bandstop lters with four poles
employed by single dual-mode microstrip square loop resonators
are proposed. Two fourth order lters with two pairs of reection
zeros at real or imaginary nite frequencies are demonstrated with
simulations and measurements. It is shown that the location of
reection zeros and degenerated modes can be easily controlled
by simply changing the perturbation element size. It is shown that
one of fourth order lters has two nite-frequency reection zeros
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on only left side of the stopband, while the other one has two
pairs of nite-frequency reection zeros in the lower and upper
passbands. Good agreement between simulated and measured
results is achieved.
Automated Inverse Design of Bandpass Filters with
Invariable Layout Through Linear Approximation of
Physical Dimensions
Oleksandr Glubokov, Slawomir Koziel; Reykjavik
University, Iceland
EuMC55-05, Time: 15:40
In this paper, an ecient methodology for nding initial designs
of microwave bandpass lters directly from specication (center
frequency f and bandwidth BW ) is presented. The proposed tech-
nique exploits an inverse linear surrogate model of the designable
parameters with respect to the lter specications, created using
an available accurate design. Fast calculation of the model gradi-
ents is possible through ecient optimization in the feature space
using a coarse discretization model. As a result, the proposed
methodology allows obtaining an accurate approximation of the
initial lter dimensions at the cost of a few ne model simulations.
The approach is illustrated with a 4th -order substrate-integrated
waveguide (SIW) lter design example. A study of the relative
model error within the design space is included.
EuMC56 : Planar Passive Devices
Venue: Iustina, 14:20 16:00, Thursday 9th October 2014
Chair: Philippe Ferrari, IMEP-LAHC, France
Co-Chair: Luca Perregrini, Universit di Pavia, Italy
Novel D-Band Si-Based Integrated Platform for
Millimeter Wave
M.A. Basha 1 , A. Samir 2 , Saeddin Safavi-Naeini 3 , B.
Biglarbegian 3 , Suren Gigoyan 3 ; 1 Zewail City of
Science & Technology, Egypt; 2 Mansoura University,
Egypt; 3 University of Waterloo, Canada
EuMC56-01, Time: 14:20
A low-cost and low-loss Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) integrated plat-
form is proposed for millimeter-wave (mm-wave) applications.
The proposed platform supports mm-wave components in the
D-band using dielectric image guide structure. The SOI mm-wave
integrated platform uses high resistivity Silicon wafers for very
low-loss in the D-Band. All passive components can be fabricated
on the same platform with high potential of integration of active
devices. There is no need for post-fabrication assembly steps for
complex systems, which will provide high accuracy of placement
of dierent components on the same platform. The platform is
theoretically and experimentally investigated. The fabrication pro-
cess is a simple one-mask fabrication process composed of deep
reactive ion etching of the device layer of the SOI wafer. Design of
dielectric image guide in the D-Band is performed. The simulation
results show attenuation better than 0.25 dB/cm. Fabrication and
experimental measurements are performed at 60 and 100 GHz.
High-Directivity Compact Slow-Wave CoPlanar
Waveguide Couplers for Millimeter-Wave
Applications
Jose Lugo-Alvarez, Alfredo Bautista, Florence Podevin,
Philippe Ferrari; IMEP-LAHC, France
EuMC56-02, Time: 14:40
A new concept of integrated coupled-lines couplers based on
coupled slow-wave CPWs is presented. Design rules are also
addressed. Two dierent couplers are designed for a proof-of-
concept, with weak (16 dB) and strong (3 dB) coupling. Great
directivity improvement and size area reduction is achieved when
compared to microstrip couplers. Moreover, strong coupling of 3
dB can be achieved with realizable geometries, whereas microstrip
lines geometries remain incompatible with standard CMOS process.
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Passive Reciprocal High-Pass/Low-Pass 4-Bit Phase
Shifter at 2.45GHz
M.T. Qureshi 1 , V. Desmaris 1 , M. Geurts 2 , J.
van de Sluis 2 ; 1 Chalmers University of Technology,
Sweden; 2 NXP Semiconductors, The Netherlands
EuMC56-03, Time: 15:00
This paper presents the design, fabrication and measurement of a
low cost, reciprocal 4-bit phase shifter at 2.45 GHz ISM band using
COTS components. High-pass/low-pass lters in conguration
are used to implement the phase shifter bit sections. SPDT switches
are realized with BAP51 dual PIN diodes, with resonant inductors in
the o-state to provide high isolation. The driver circuit consisting
of 74AHC240 octal buer/inverter was implemented to switch the
PIN diodes and control the phase states. A compact layout of the
4-bit phase shifter and driver circuitry was fabricated on a 4-layer
FR4 substrate. The total size of the PCB board was 4.95.3 cm.
The measurement results showed an RMS phase error better than
4.1 , insertion loss better than 8.8 dB and return loss better than
13 dB. The maximum power consumption of the 4-bit phase shifter
was 80 mW.
An Ultra-Broadband Planar Millimeter-Wave Mixer
with IF Bandwidth Covering 0.5 to 34GHz
Alexander Feldman, Utkarsh Unnikrishna, Irfan Ashiq,
Amarpal Khanna; National Instruments, USA
EuMC56-04, Time: 15:20
This paper presents a uniplanar passive ultra-broadband mi-
crowave mixer with 33 GHz to 67 GHz RF bandwidth and 0.5 to
34.5 GHz IF bandwidth in down-converter application with 9
2 dB conversion loss. The presented mixer topology is a mode
conversion single balanced mixer with CPW-to-slotline RF balun
and combined CPW LO and IF. An external diplexer is used as a
frequency selective device to separate the LO and IF signals. This
mixer is equally ecient in up & down converter applications.
Fast Synthesis of Microwave Devices With Arbitrary
Frequency Responses and Smooth Proles
E. Menargues 1 , M. Chudzik 1 , I. Arnedo 1 , I. Arregui 1 ,
F. Teberio 1 , A. Lujambio 1 , D. Benito 1 , T. Lopetegi 1 ,
M.A.G. Laso 1 , Santiago Cogollos 2 , C. Vicente 3 , J. Gil 3 ;
1
Universidad Pblica de Navarra, Spain; 2 Universidad
Politcnica de Valencia, Spain; 3 Aurorasat, Spain
EuMC56-05, Time: 15:40
A strategy for the fast synthesis of two-port passive microwave
devices with arbitrary frequency responses is proposed. It consists
in approximating the coupling coecient of some device either
linearly or by means of an adaptive method, reducing the number
of expensive direct calculations. An UWB pulse-shaper is shown as
an example to verify the proposed methods, which are compared
with the exact calculation of the coupling coecient. As it will be
shown, the adaptive method shows great advantages in terms of
accuracy and computational cost.
EuMC Poster : EuMC Poster Session
Venue: Exhibition Hall, 10:00 17:30, Wednesday 8th October
2014
Chair: Marco Pasian, Universit di Pavia, Italy
Co-Chair: Elisa Fratticcioli, RF Microtech, Italy
Parametric Identication of Stochastic EMI Sources
Based on Near-Field Measurements
Maxim Konovalyuk, Anastasia Gorbunova, Andrey
Baev, Yury Kuznetsov; Moscow Aviation Institute,
Russia
EuMC Poster01-01, Time: 13:00
In this paper a 2D stochastic EMI source identication algorithm
based on time domain measurements of electromagnetic near-eld
tangential components is presented. The radiating structure is
considered as a set of simple electrical dipoles arranged on grid in
the object plane. The autocorrelation and cross-correlation spectra
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are used for the characterization of stochastic eld distribution.
These characteristics are used to determine the distribution of
dipole moments which is used to determine the parameters of
the real radiation sources. The experimental data are processed
with proposed parametric identication procedure for a spatial
localization of equivalent dipoles and eective sources inside the
structure.
Using Common-Mode Filtering Structures with
Microstrip Dierential Lines in a Multilayer Printed
Circuit Board Environment
Evan Sawyer, Christopher Kodama, Christopher
ODaniel, Joshua Cook, Edward Wheeler; Rose-Hulman
Institute of Technology, USA
EuMC Poster01-02, Time: 13:00
This paper explores some aspects of the application of complemen-
tary split-ring resonators (CSRRs) for common-mode (CM) ltering
of dierential transmission lines in a multilayer printed circuit
board (PCB) environment. Many common-mode ltering structures
using CSRRs or other defected ground structures become less
eective when a second dielectric layer and metal layer is present
below the CSRR layer. With a second layer present, CSRR or
defected ground structure resonances can couple to parallel-plane
waveguide modes to limit eectiveness of CM ltering, provide a
coupling path for crosstalk, and result in unintentional radiation.
This paper demonstrates that vias are useful in shielding CSRRs
resonances from parallel-plane resonances resulting for more
eective CM ltering, an improved signal integrity environment
and lower levels of electromagnetic emissions.
Numerical and Experimental Approach on
Separation of Cells Using Dielectrophoresis for Early
Detection of Leukemic Disease at High Frequency
Bands
Futoshi Kuroki 1 , Ayumu Akashi 1 , Masanori Eguchi 2 ,
Takeshi Yamakawa 2 ; 1 Kure National College of
Technology, Japan; 2 Fuzzy Logic Systems Institute,
Japan
EuMC Poster01-03, Time: 13:00
To date, research and development to detect the leukemia is
proceeding by using the dielectrophoresis which is a phenomenon
that the particle is moved by the slope of the electric eld. Com-
pared with the traditional leukemia detection systems, this system
using the dielectrophoresis is more attractive because of low cost,
fast detection, and easy operation. With this in mind, the high
frequency characteristics of the sealing creak-gap electrode to
control the dielectrophoresis was investigated.
Modeling of Noisy Electromagnetic Fields Using
Principal Component Analysis
Johannes A. Russer, Tatjana Asenov, Peter Russer;
Technische Universitt Mnchen, Germany
EuMC Poster01-04, Time: 13:00
In this work, methods for the near eld computation of radiated
electromagnetic interference are discussed. Greens function
methods for near eld computation of the electromagnetic eld
correlation dyadics are introduced. Principal component analysis
(PCA) is applied for representing the stochastic sources of the
electromagnetic eld by a minimum set of mutually uncorrelated
equivalent sources.
A Constant-Q Tunable Combline Bandpass Filter
Using Angular Tuning Technique
M.A. Iskander, M. Nasresfahani, Raafat R. Mansour;
University of Waterloo, Canada
EuMC Poster01-05, Time: 13:00
This paper presents the design and implementation of a high-Q
bandpass lter using a tuning technique that maintains constant Q
value over a relatively wide tuning range. The traditional technique
for tuning combline lters is achieved by changing the gap between
the post and the tuning disk. Such technique is known to yield
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a Q value that degrades considerably at the lower edge of the
tuning range. The proposed angular tuning technique shows a 25%
improvement in Q value at the lower edge of the tuning range,
in comparison to what is typically achieved using the traditional
tuning technique. Using the proposed angular tuning technique, a
1% bandwidth 2-pole lter is designed, fabricated and tested with
a 430MHz tuning range at a center frequency of 3.6 GHz. The
measured insertion loss is changing between 0.25 and 0.33dB. The
lter is integrated with miniature piezoelectric motors, demon-
strating almost a constant insertion loss over the tuning range.
Fast and Accurate Computer Computation of
Diplexers Losses
1
Luciano Accatino , Giorgio Bertin , Mauro 1
Mongiardo 2 ; 1 ACC, Italy; 2 Universit di Perugia, Italy
EuMC Poster01-06, Time: 13:00
A rigorous method for evaluating the insertion loss of diplexers
is introduced. Starting from the electromagnetic computation of
the power loss inside the diplexer structure the lossy network
S-parameters are derived.
The favourable comparison between the computed and measured
insertion loss of a silver-plated Ku-band waveguide antenna
diplexer demonstrates the high eciency and accuracy of the
proposed approach.
A Novel Ultra-Broadband DC-36-to-66-GHz Hybrid
Diplexer Using Waveguide and SSL Technology
Irfan Ashiq, Amarpal Khanna; National Instruments,
USA
EuMC Poster01-07, Time: 13:00
This paper describes a novel wideband low-loss contiguous
diplexer with steep band selectivity achieved by combining a
planar suspended stripline (SSL) and waveguide lter. The diplexer
is comprised of an input circuit congured to receive a broadband
signal, a low-pass lter (LPF), and a high-pass lter (HPF) and
covers DC 36 to 66 GHz. The LPF is implemented using a planar
transmission line. The HPF is implemented using a waveguide and
is connected to the LPF using a SSL-to-waveguide transition.
Design of V-Band Dielectric Filled Waveguide Filters
with Improved Loss and Suppression of Parasitic
Waves
Luke Murphy 1 , Mohsen Yazdani 1 , David Bates 1 ,
Joseph Mautz 2 , Ercument Arvas 2 , Samir Tozin 3 ;
1
Dielectric Laboratories, USA; 2 Syracuse University,
USA; 3 Ajman University, UAE
EuMC Poster01-08, Time: 13:00
This paper presents the design and fabrication of a V-band surface
mountable or wire/ribbon bondable dielectric lled waveguide
bandpass lters. The lters are built on Alumina 99.6% substrate
and take advantage of a novel microstrip to waveguide transitions
(MWT). The lters provide 2.6dB or better of insertion loss across
their bandwidth as well as 14dB or better of return loss. The lters
are centered at 59GHz and 62GHz each with 3% of bandwidth over
their operating frequencies. The results are validated by a good
agreement between simulated and measured results.
Phase Noise Analysis of a
Tuned-Input/Tuned-Output Oscillator Based on a
GaN HEMT Device
Mikael Hrberg 1 , Lai Szhau 2 , Thanh Ngoc Thi Do 2 ,
Dan Kuylenstierna 2 ; 1 Ericsson, Sweden; 2 Chalmers
University of Technology, Sweden
EuMC Poster01-09, Time: 13:00
This paper reports on an experimental analysis of phase noise
in a tuned-input/tuned-output oscillator based on a bare-die
GaN HEMT device. To investigate phase noise dependency on
resonator coupling factor (), the circuit is designed with exibility
to modify the resonant tank, in terms of unloaded quality factor
(Q0 ) and impedance level. The reection coecient ( amp ) from
the reection amplier can also be varied. With exception for very
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high values of amp , the circuit is robust to variations in . It is
more important to choose a bias point where the icker noise is
low and the power reasonably high. A minimum phase noise of
-150dBc/Hz @ 1MHz o-set from a 1GHz oscillation frequency and
a power normalized gure of merit (FOM) of 186 are reached.
An interesting analytical result is also presented; power normalized
gure of merit, commonly used for benchmark of oscillators is
bound by Q0 and can be related to the theoretical noise oor limit.
A High Power and Low Loss GaN HEMT MMIC T/R
Switch Utilizing Band-Pass/Low-Pass Conguration
Masatake Hangai, Ryota Komaru, Kazuhiko Nakahara,
Yoshitaka Kamo, Morishige Hieda, Koji Yamanaka;
Mitsubishi Electric, Japan
EuMC Poster01-10, Time: 13:00
A high power and low loss GaN HEMT MMIC T/R switch has
been successfully developed. The switching circuit is based on a
band-pass/low-pass conguration. By using this conguration, the
T/R switch achieves high power and low loss performances. To
verify this methodology, we have fabricated a MMIC T/R switch
in X-band. The T/R switch has accomplished the power handling
capability of 20-W and the insertion loss of 1.2dB at Tx-mode,
0.8dB at Rx-mode.
A 40W AlGaN/GaN MMIC High Power Amplier for
C-Band Radar Applications
Jin-Cheol Jeong, Dong-Pil Jang, In-Bok Yom; ETRI,
Korea
EuMC Poster01-11, Time: 13:00
In this paper, we present a 40 W microwave monolithic integrated
circuit high power amplier using commercial 0.25 m AlGaN/GaN
technology for use in a C-band phased array radar system. This
two-stage amplier, with a chip size of 3.8 mm 3.9 mm can
achieve a saturated output power of 40 W with higher than 35%
power added eciency and 22 dB small signal gain over a fre-
quency range of 5.4 GHz to 6.1 GHz. An output power density of
2.6 W/mm2 is demonstrated with a compact 14.82 mm2 chip area.
Analog Read-Out Integrated W-Band
Dicke-Radiometer in 0.13m SiGe: Design and
Characterization of W-Band Radiometer RFIC
Intended for FPA Imager
Evgeny Shumaker, Danny Elad; IBM Haifa Research
Lab, Israel
EuMC Poster01-12, Time: 13:00
A W-band Dicke-radiometer RFIC featuring an on-chip integrated
analog read-out back-end optimized for power (75 mW) and area
eciency (0.32 mm2 ). The RFIC is and realized in a standard
IBM8HP 0.13m SiGe BiCMOS process. Initial characterization
yields an NEP derived 3-dB system bandwidth of 15 GHz (centered
at 92 GHz) with the measured average NEP of 37 fW/ Hz. For 30
msec frame-time this is equivalent to NETD of 0.78 K.
A Single-Chip, Low-Noise Video Amplier with
Variable Gain in a 0.5m GaAs pHEMT Technology
Ian Bisby; M/A-COM Technology Solutions, Ireland
EuMC Poster01-13, Time: 13:00
This paper presents a single-chip video amplier design with
integrated voltage variable attenuator (VVA) on a 0.5 m pHEMT
process. A measured gain of greater than 30 dB is presented with
an attenuation range of greater than 25 dB and an equivalent input
noise (EIN) of 3.2 pA/rtHz. These parameters are achieved over a
frequency range of 50 MHz 1GHz. The chip size is 2.35 mm2 .
Mitigation of Distortion and Memory Eect in a
Concurrent Dual-Band Six Port Receiver
Abdullah O. Olopade, Mohamed Helaoui; University of
Calgary, Canada
EuMC Poster01-14, Time: 13:00
A new calibration technique for a concurrent dual band six port
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receiver (SPR) is presented. This calibration technique uses a
modied memory polynomial (MP) to model the non-idealities and
imperfections in the six port receiver architecture which includes
the six port wave correlator and the diode detectors used. Using
an inverse model, the in-phase and quadrature component of a
transmitted signal is estimated. This is a black box model and
the calibration coecients are estimated by sending and receiving
a known training signal. The least square algorithm is used in
coecient estimation. The calibration technique is used to receive
concurrently two signals with dierent modulation and characteris-
tics. First 64-quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) and 16-QAM
signals are received concurrently. In a second measurement test,
WCDMA and LTE signals were concurrently received to validate the
suitability of the proposed technique for realistic communication
signals. The performance of the presented calibration technique
was compared with the simple linear combination (LC) calibration
technique. The MP calibration technique had EVMs of 1.6% and
1.3% while the EVMs using the LC calibration technique are 15.4%
and 14.1% for the 64 QAM and 16 QAM signal pair respectively.
Design and Implementation of a New Wideband
High Power Divider/Combiner Exploiting
Rectangular Probe Tuners
M. Ahmadzadeh, P. Rasekh, R. Saan, G. Askari, H.
MirMohamadSadeghi; Isfahan University of
Technology, Iran
EuMC Poster01-15, Time: 13:00
In this paper, a reciprocal broadband four-way spatial di-
vider/combiner based on coaxial probes with rectangular tuner
entering a rectangular cavity is simulated, experimentally fab-
ricated and tested. A combination of circuit model and full
electromagnetic wave methods is used to simplify the design pro-
cedure by increasing the role of the circuit model and, in contrast,
reducing the amount of full wave optimization. The presented
structure is compact and easy to fabricate. Keeping its return
loss greater than 10 dB, the constructed combiner operates with
a 100% bandwidth from 5 to 15 GHz. A through scenario is also
analyzed while both measured and simulated results indicating
negligible loss. The measurements are in good agreement with the
simulations done by HFSS software.
Development of a 85115GHz 90-Deg Phase Shifter
Using Corrugated Square Waveguide
Moon-Hee Chung, Do-Heung Je, Seog-Tae Han,
Seung-Rae Kim; KASI, Korea
EuMC Poster01-16, Time: 13:00
A 90-deg dierential phase shifter using corrugated square
waveguide structure has been developed for 86 GHz band VLBI
dual-circular polarization observation. The 90-deg phase shifter
was designed to have two corrugated walls inside the square
waveguide so that the vertically and horizontally polarized waves
at the output port have phase dierences of 90 3.3 degrees
across 85115 GHz band. Measurements show that the return and
insertion losses for both polarizations are better than 17 dB and
0.2 dB, respectively. The axial ratio is estimated to be less than
0.6 dB within the required frequency band.
Miniaturized MEMS-Based GSG Probes for
Microwave Characterization
Jaouad Marzouk, Steve Arscott, Kamel Haddadi, Tuami
Lasri, Gilles Dambrine; IEMN, France
EuMC Poster01-17, Time: 13:00
Miniaturized high-frequency ground-signal-ground (GSG) probes
with micrometric dimensions are investigated for the microwave
characterization of next generation nanoelectronic devices. A
design guide including electromechanical and electromagnetic
modeling of novel cantilever-based probes designed in silicon-
on-insulator (SOI) based MEMS technology is proposed. The
mechanical stress distribution and the deection of the cantilever-
based probe are studied in an eort to optimize the contact
resistance between the probe and the device under test and
maintaining low insertion loss. The insertion loss of the probes is
estimated lower than 0.5 dB at 30 GHz and the predicted contact
resistance is <1 . The present study helps to illuminate the
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roadmap for on-chip nanocharacterization using miniaturized HF
probes.
Investigation on Ecacy Optimization of RF-Driven
Automotive D-Lamps
Christoph Schopp 1 , Holger Heuermann 1 , Stephan
Holtrup 2 ; 1 FH Aachen, Germany; 2 Ruhr-Universitt
Bochum, Germany
EuMC Poster01-18, Time: 13:00
Investigations on driving high-intensity discharge xenon lamps
with a 2.45GHz signal show an increase of the ecacy. These lamps
are used as automotive headlights, because of their high ecacy
and their high luminance. The RF-signal also enables the usage
of several optimizing features such as amplitude modulation. By
enabling an amplitude modulated envelope an ecacy increase
of 17% is measured. The investigation of the optimization of the
ecacy is presented using a switched DC lamp, compact coaxial
lamp and low loss waveguide and verify the improvement. The
results are further analyzed using a photo diode to measure the
inuence of the modulation.
Fast Automatic Analysis of Graceful Degradation in
Power Combining Structures
Alain Peden 1 , Cristian-Filip Druta 1 , Soraya
Contreras 1 , Jean-Philippe Fraysse 2 ; 1 Lab-STICC,
France; 2 Thales Alenia Space, France
EuMC Poster01-19, Time: 13:00
Graceful degradation analysis in power combining structures is
essential, but time consuming, when the number of combined ways
is very large. The tool presented in this paper aims to automate the
graceful degradation analysis when ampliers fail or are switched
o for output power exibility or in phased array antenna applica-
tions. It is an alternative to commercial software as the tool highly
reduces the designer operations by automating, for each number
and combination of outages, the calculation of the 2-port scattering
parameters of the whole structure. Therefore, the comparison
between dierent isolation solutions of the combiner is made
easier and faster. Simulation and comparison with measurements
on a 16-way radial power amplier in the Ka band are presented.
Accurate Modeling of Nonreciprocal Microwave
Devices Based on Magnetic Opal Nanocomposites
G.S. Makeeva 1 , O.A. Golovanov 1 , A.B. Rinkevich 2 , M.I.
Samoylovich 3 ; 1 Penza State University, Russia;
2
Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia; 3 Technomash,
Russia
EuMC Poster01-20, Time: 13:00
A numerical technique for the accurate modeling of nonreciprocal
microwave devices (MDs) based on magnetic nanocomposites by
using rigorous mathematical models to solve the 3D diraction
boundary problems is developed. The models are based on the
solution of Maxwells equations with electrodynamic boundary
conditions complemented by the Landau-Lifshitz equation with
the exchange term. Using the decomposition algorithm based
on the projection method by autonomous blocks with magnetic
nanoinclusions and virtual Floquet channels (MFABs) the elements
of multimode multi-channel scattering matrix of magnetic opal
nanocomposite-based circulators were calculated at microwave
frequencies.
The waveguide transmission and reection measurements of scat-
tering parameters of the circulators based on magnetic opals were
performed at frequencies from 14 GHz to 38 GHz. The numerical
technique shows an excellent agreement with experimental data. It
is shown that the magnetic opal nanocomposite-based circulators
have improved performances: bigger isolation, smaller insertion
losses and a wider pass band as compared to ferrite-based MDs.
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Using Learning Through Play Strategies for RADAR:
RADAR Technology, a Game for Learning RADAR
Fundamentals
1 1 2
Laurens Vercauteren , Iigo Cuias , Jo Verhaevert ;
1
Universidade de Vigo, Spain; 2 Ghent University,
Belgium
EuMC Poster01-21, Time: 13:00
Our current students belong to a new generation that lives with In-
ternet, uses computers, and plays video games as natural skills. For
that generation, education based on traditional classes is dicult.
In this contribution, we propose learning RADAR fundamentals by
using video games. The newly designed game is described, and
has been tested by a group of students. Their learning results are
promising for continuing the work in that direction.
Analytical Calculation for Cuto Wavenumbers of
Metallic Waveguides with Elliptical-Circular and
Circular-Elliptical Cross Section
Georgios D. Kolezas, Grigorios P. Zouros, John A.
Roumeliotis; NTUA, Greece
EuMC Poster01-22, Time: 13:00
The cuto wavenumbers of the elliptical-circular and circular-
elliptical metallic waveguides are calculated accurately through
closed-form expressions. These analytical expressions give accu-
rate results for the cuto wavenumbers when the eccentricity of
the elliptical boundary is specialized to small values. The resulted
formulas are free of Mathieu functions, including only algebraic
expressions with Bessel functions. The expressions are valid for
every dierent value of the indices n and m, corresponding to
every higher-order TM or TE mode. Numerical results are given for
various higher-order modes, as well as a comparison with the exact
solution.
A New Calculation Algorithm for Permittivity
Measurements in the Low-Frequency Region
Yuto Kato, Masahiro Horibe, Michitaka Ameya, Satoru
Kurokawa; AIST, Japan
EuMC Poster01-23, Time: 13:00
We have developed a calculation algorithm for permittivity mea-
surements using the Transmission/Reection method in which
nite conductivity of metal wall is rigorously taken into account. In
the low-frequency region, the conduction loss and reection loss of
a coaxial line xture become pronounced, because the skin depth
and the deviation of characteristic impedance from 50 increase
compared to those in the high-frequency region. By introducing
the concept of the eective permittivity which involves the metal
conductivity eect, we conrmed that permittivity can be derived
from S-parameter data of a xture with and without a sample using
the conventional calculation algorithm which assumes a metal of a
xture as a perfect conductor.
A Parameter Optimized 3-Step LOD-FDTD Method
Based on the (2, 4) Stencil
Alok Kumar Saxena, Kumar Vaibhav Srivastava; IIT
Kanpur, India
EuMC Poster01-24, Time: 13:00
A parameter optimized 3-step locally one-dimensional nite
dierence time domain (LOD3-FDTD) method based on the (2,
4) stencil is presented here. Stability analysis shows that the
proposed method is unconditionally stable for all the real values
of the parameters. To reduce the numerical dispersion error of
the LOD3-FDTD method, two optimization schemes are proposed
in this paper. Minimization of dispersion error along the axial
directions and minimization of overall numerical dispersion error
using global phase velocity error (GPVE) are done in the rst and
second optimization schemes, respectively. Both the optimization
schemes signicantly reduce the numerical dispersion error of the
LOD3-FDTD method.
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Thin-Film Multiferroic Heterostructures for Dual
Tunable Microwave Devices
A.A. Nikitin 1 , A.B. Ustinov 1 , A.A. Semenov 1 , E.
Lahderanta 2 ; 1 St. Petersburg Electrotechnical
University, Russia; 2 Lappeenranta University of
Technology, Finland
EuMC Poster01-25, Time: 13:00
Propagation of spin-electromagnetic waves in thin-lm mul-
tilayered multiferroic structures have been investigated both
experimentally and theoretically. The thin-lm structure was com-
posed of a ferrite lm, a ferroelectric lm, and a slot transmission
line. It was shown that the spectrum of the spin-electromagnetic
wave was formed by hybridization of the spin wave in the ferrite
lm with the electromagnetic wave in the slot-line.
Diversity Contribution of a Versatile UHF RFID
Antenna System in Portal Applications
Olivier Roncire 1 , Sylvain Collardey 1 , Ronan
Sauleau 1 , Nebil Ben Mabrouk 2 , Paul Couderc 2 ; 1 IETR,
France; 2 INRIA, France
EuMC Poster01-26, Time: 13:00
A versatile ultra high frequency radiofrequency identication
(UHF RFID) antenna system is proposed. Spatial, polarization and
radiation pattern diversity is demonstrated with a very reduced
number of components. The diversity contribution of such an
antenna is then characterized in terms of radio coverage in a RFID
portal environment. Radio coverage in complex environment is
greatly improved compared to the classical geometry.
Highly Sensitive Rectier for Ecient RF Energy
Harvesting
Negin Shariati, Wayne S.T. Rowe, Kamran Ghorbani;
RMIT University, Australia
EuMC Poster01-27, Time: 13:00
RF (Radio Frequency) energy harvesting is a promising technique
to provide a sustainable energy source for the long-term conser-
vation of the environment and the global economy. To address
this, we proposed an ecient rectier over a wide low input RF
power range (-40 to -10 dBm) for broadcasting band (520590
MHz) to determine the usefulness of exploiting freely available
RF energy sources in this band. The input reection coecient
and rectied output power demonstrate the practical feasibility of
this low-power rectication technique. Power conversion eciency
(PCE) of 53% and 1.5% are achieved for a single-tone input power
of -10 dBm and -40 dBm respectively. Therefore, this innovative
technique has the potential to generate a viable perpetual energy
source for low power applications in urban environments.
Flexible Plastic Substrate-Based Inkjet Printed CPW
Resonators for 60GHz ISM Applications
Khelifa Hettak 1 , Tyler Ross 2 , Rob James 1 , Adrian
Momciu 1 , Jim Wight 2 ; 1 Communications Research
Centre Canada, Canada; 2 Carleton University, Canada
EuMC Poster01-28, Time: 13:00
This study investigates inkjet-printed millimetre-wave coplanar
waveguide (CPW) series tuning stubs printed on exible plastic
substrates such as Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET). These CPW
resonators exhibit a bandpass/bandstop response that is useful
for microwave and millimetre-wave ltering applications. The
60GHz CPW resonators were printed with a DMP-2800 series
inkjet printing system. A silver nanoparticle colloidal solution
was used as the printing ink. First, this process uses a plasma
polymerization technique to improve the PET surface for printing.
Next, silver lines are inkjet printed on the PET substrate and cured
in an oven to remove excess solvent and material impurities. The
experimental prototypes presented in this paper demonstrate the
eciency of the design method and the feasibility of creating CPW
resonators using inkjet printing technology.
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Optical Phase Noise Modeling for Heterodyne Radio
over Fiber Systems
W.-E. Kassa, S. Faci, A.-L. Billabert, C. Algani; ESYCOM,
France
EuMC Poster01-29, Time: 13:00
In this paper, the optical phase noise of the semiconductor laser is
integrated with its electrical equivalent circuit (large signal model)
to perform a system modeling approach. The model is employed in
a heterodyne radio over ber (RoF) system where two distributed
feedback (DFB) lasers are used to generate a millimeter-wave
(mm-wave) signal. An optical phase-locked loop (OPLL) is also
introduced to reduce the phase noise on the generated mm-wave
signal. With the developed model, phase noise contribution of
individual lasers is evaluated even with more complex systems like
OPLL in purely microwave simulator.
Graphene-Based Nano-Rectenna in the Far Infrared
Frequency Band
Diego Masotti 1 , Alessandra Costanzo 1 , Marco
Fantuzzi 1 , Franco Mastri 1 , Martino Aldrigo 2 , Mircea
Dragoman 2 ; 1 Universit di Bologna, Italy; 2 IMT
Bucharest, Romania
EuMC Poster01-30, Time: 13:00
In this paper we propose a realistic nano-rectenna able to harvest
from human heat in the infrared frequency band (around 30 THz).
The full-wave designs of both an array and a multi-element antenna
are presented, taking into account the non-trivial behavior of gold
at these frequencies. The use of an original diode realized on
a graphene layer, and the derivation of its model from ballistic
theory, allow to compare the rectifying performance from both
modelling and measurements point of view. Encouraging results
in terms of both rectied current of a single nano-rectenna and
of power rectied by a macro-system combining thousands of
nano-rectennas are shown.
Microwave Properties of 3D-Nanocomposites with
Particles Composed of Fe, Ni and Pd
A.B. Rinkevich 1 , D.V. Perov 1 , M. Pardavi-Horvath 2 ,
M.I. Samoylovich 3 ; 1 Russian Academy of Sciences,
Russia; 2 George Washington University, USA;
3 model as an underlying low-delity model, which is corrected
Technomash, Russia
EuMC Poster01-31, Time: 13:00
Investigation of microwave properties of 3D-nanocomposites, con-
taining nanoparticles made of palladium and transition metals, is of
fundamental interest. It is known that the length of spin diusion
is high in palladium. Electrons which cross a boundary between
transition metal and palladium get a high degree of spin polar-
ization. Resonance phenomena in 3D opal-based nanocomposites
with Pd-, Fe- and Ni-containing articles are studied here through
frequency and magnetic eld dependences of the transmission and
reection coecients measured in millimeter waveband. Magnetic
resonance has been measured in these nanocomposites and the
magnetic resonance spectra have been retrieved.
Performance Evaluation of Intensity
Modulation-Direct Detection Radio Over Fiber
Systems with a MB-OFDM Signal
A. Kabalan 1 , F. Deshours 2 , A.-L. Billabert 1 , S. Faci 1 , P.
Turc 2 , C. Algani 1 , G. Alqui 2 , F. Blache 3 ; 1 ESYCOM,
France; 2 L2E, France; 3 III-V Lab, France
EuMC Poster01-32, Time: 13:00
This paper presents performance comparisons of systems based
on Radio over Fiber (RoF) links with an intensity modulation-direct
detection technique (IM-DD). Measurement and simulation results
on systems using direct and external modulations with a MB-OFDM
signal are presented. The rst band group of the centimeter-wave
ultra wideband with a 16 QAM advanced modulation format and
a data rate of 480 Mb/s is used to validate system simulation.
The error vector magnitude (EVM) and the bit error rate (BER)
for digital modulated signals enable to quantify the quality of
the received signal. The system simulations are performed with
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developed equivalent electrical models of optoelectronic compo-
nents. These models including noise and nonlinearity are validated
with static/dynamic responses and noise measurements. Global
system simulation is achieved by a co-simulation method in ADS
combining envelope simulator and data ow controller for digital
signals.
Miniaturization of Microwave Resonant Particles by
the Utilization of Embedded High Dielectric
Constant Paste
Ursula Martinez-Iranzo, Bahareh Moradi, Joan
Garcia-Garcia, Eva Arasa, Julian Alonso; Universitat
Autnoma de Barcelona, Spain
EuMC Poster01-33, Time: 13:00
This paper describes the benets of embedded high dielectric
constant paste utilization in the design of miniaturized resonant
particles. The resulting miniaturized designs are compared with
the Split Ring Resonator particles pointing out an increment on the
quality and coupling coecient of the proposed resonant particles
and a major miniaturization factor. As illustrative example of the
benets of the proposed particles, a 3rd order Chebyshev coupling
coecient based lter using these particles is discussed comparing
measurement and simulated response.
Simulation-Driven Design of Planar Filters Using
Response Surface Approximations and Space
Mapping
Slawomir Koziel 1 , Adrian Bekasiewicz 2 ; 1 Reykjavik
University, Iceland; 2 Gdansk University of Technology,
Poland
EuMC Poster01-34, Time: 13:00
A robust approach for low-cost design optimization of planar
microwave lters is presented. Our technique exploits response
surface approximation (RSA) models of lter cells as well as space
mapping (SM) as an optimization engine. The RSA models are
constructed beforehand using sampled EM-simulation data of the
cells of interest. The lter structure of a required order is sub-
sequently assembled by cascading selected models. The process
of adjusting the geometry parameters of the cells is realized by
means of surrogate-based optimization with the combined RSA
using input SM and frequency scaling. The design optimization
cost is very low and corresponds to a few EM simulations of the
entire lter structure. The proposed technique is illustrated using
several examples of bandpass lters constructed using three types
of basic cells: stubs, transmission lines, and stepped impedance
resonators.
PCB-Embedded Filters Designed to Reduce Radiated
Spurious Emissions
Kyungho Yoo 1 , Jeongnam Cheon 1 , ShinYoung Lee 1 ,
Tae-Wan Koo 2 , Ho Seong Lee 2 , Jong-Gwan Yook 2 ;
1
Samsung Electronics, Korea; 2 Yonsei University, Korea
EuMC Poster01-35, Time: 13:00
In this paper, new and general-purpose PCB-embedded lters with
small features have been proposed to suppress spurious power
level outside a carrier frequency of GSM band. They are fabri-
cated on FR4 substrates and their emission powers are evaluated
at the harmonic frequencies. The result shows that signicant
improvements of 613dB is achieved for the proposed composite
structures. This type of study is helpful to obtain the sucient
design margins during manufacturing a PCB.
Comparison of Filters: Inkjet Printed on PEN
Substrate versus a Laser-Etched on LCP Substrate
Eyad Arabi, Garret McKerricher, Atif Shamim; KAUST,
Saudi Arabia
EuMC Poster01-36, Time: 13:00
In this paper, microstrip-based bandpass lters on polyethylene
naphthalate (PEN) and liquid crystal polymers (LCP) are presented
to investigate the performance of lters on ultra-thin substrates.
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PEN (with a thickness of 120 m) has been characterized and used
for a lter for the rst time. In addition to being low cost and
transparent, it demonstrates comparable RF performance to LCP.
The conductor losses are compared by fabricating lters with inkjet
printed lines as well as laser etched copper clad LCP sheets. With
5 layers of inkjet printing, and a curing temperature below 200 C,
a nal silver thickness of 2 m and conductivity of 9.6 106 S/m lating the cuto frequency and the unloaded Q factor. Next, the
are achieved. The designs are investigated at two frequencies, 24
GHz as well as 5 GHz to assess their performance at high and low
frequencies respectively. The 24 GHz inkjet printed lter shows
an insertion loss of 2 dB, while the 5 GHz design gives an insertion
loss of 8 dB. We nd that thin substrates have a strong eect on the
insertion loss of lters especially as the frequency is reduced. The
same design, realized on LCP (thickness of 100 m) through laser
etching, demonstrates a very similar performance, thus verifying
this nding.
Micromachined Coplanar Waveguide Band-Pass
Filter for W-Band Applications
Dan Neculoiu, Alina-Cristina Bunea; IMT Bucharest,
Romania
EuMC Poster01-37, Time: 13:00
In this paper we present the design and measurements for a
novel conguration of a membrane supported coplanar waveguide
band-pass lter for W band applications. The topology is based on
identical symmetrical elementary cells connected in cascade. The
design process is based on the image impedance representation
and a full-wave 3D electromagnetic (EM) model is developed. A
two-cell test structure was fabricated through silicon micromachin-
ing. The measured pass-band is of 28%, centered around 91.5 GHz.
The measured losses are of 3.77 dB at the central frequency and
the reection losses go down to -20 dB, in good agreement with
the simulated results. This structure was designed to be easily
adapted to the BiCMOS technology with localized back-side etch
(LBE) process.
Compact Capacitive Loaded Ring Filter with
Simplied Feeding Lines
Anne-Laure Franc, Gatan Prigent; LAPLACE, France
EuMC Poster01-38, Time: 13:00
This paper presents a variation of the conventional ring resonator.
It consists in an easier feeding way with direct connections instead
of classical coupling accesses. Besides, the ring is capacitively
loaded in order to allow implementation of narrow-band lter
and reduce its physical length. A synthesis is proposed to design
the lter. Based on this ring resonator cell, a second-order and
fourth-order bandpass lters are designed at 2.9 GHz in microstrip
technology. They are then characterized and compared to electro-
magnetic simulations.
A Low-Power Low-Voltage Current-Reused
Voltage-Controlled Oscillator with
Amplitude-Balanced Technique
Chun-Yi Lin, Yu-Kei Lin, Chung-Hsing Han, Pei-Zong
Rao, Shyh-Jong Chung; National Chiao Tung
University, Taiwan
EuMC Poster01-39, Time: 13:00
A current-reused voltage-controlled oscillator (CRVCO) with
amplitude-balanced technique is presented. A cascode cross-
coupled pair is adopted, which is used to improve the dierence
between the dierential output amplitudes of CRVCO at a 1.3V
supply voltage. The measured amplitude imbalance ratio is less
than 0.15%. The measured phase noise is -114 dBc/Hz at 1MHz
oset when oscillation frequency is at 7.8 GHz, resulting in an FOM
of -187 dBc/Hz.
Self-Injection Locked NRD Guide Gunn Oscillators
Using Cost-Eective Metal Rod Resonator at 60GHz
Kento Ichinose, Kengo Kunishige, Futoshi Kuroki; Kure
National College of Technology, Japan
EuMC Poster01-40, Time: 13:00
From the viewpoints of cost-eectiveness and fabrication accu-
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racy, the reection type of self-injection locked NRD guide Gunn
oscillator using a metal rod resonator with an unloaded Q-factor of
about 1300 has been investigated. In the rst place, the rst higher
order mode of the metal rod transmission line was focused as the
resonant mode due to applying the reection type of self-locking
scheme, and the diameter of the metal rod was decided by calcu-
unloaded Q factor was measured and the theoretical consideration
was conrmed. The oscillation and phase-noise characteristics of
the oscillator using the metal rod resonator were evaluated in the
theoretical and experimental investigation. From the results, it was
conrmed that the oscillation performance was almost the same
as that of the reection type of self-injection locked NRD guide
Gunn oscillator using a ceramic resonator.
Multiple RF Continuous-Wave Generation Using a
Single Signal Generator for Carrier Aggregation in
LTE-Advanced
M. Abdi Abyaneh, A. Kaissoine, Bernard Huyart,
Jean-Christophe Cousin; Tlcom ParisTech, France
EuMC Poster01-41, Time: 13:00
Multiple Continuous-Wave (CW) Radio Frequency (RF) signals are
used in many telecommunication applications, such as frequency
aggregation in LTE-Advanced (LTE-A), intermodulation distortion
measurements and . . ., in order to use more eciently the fre-
quency bands that are available. In this work a new method for
generating three frequencies and more, with no a-priori condition
on the frequency allocation, is elaborated in theory and practical
results are presented, as well.
Generation of Solitonic and Chaotic Microwave
Signals in Ferrite-Ferroelectric Active Rings
A.B. Ustinov, A.V. Kondrashov, A.A. Nikitin, B.A.
Kalinikos; St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University,
Russia
EuMC Poster01-42, Time: 13:00
Generation of microwave spin-electromagnetic wave envelope
solitons and chaos have been observed and studied for the rst
time. For the investigation we used a feedback active ring oscil-
lator based on articial multiferroic, which served as a nonlinear
waveguide. We show that by increasing the wave amplication
in the feedback ring circuit, a transition from monochromatic
auto-generation to soliton train waveform and then to dynamical
chaos occurs. Management of spin-electromagnetic-wave solitons
and chaos parameters by both dielectric permittivity and magnetic
permeability of the multiferroic waveguiding structure is demon-
strated.
EuMC/EuMIC01 : High Linearity CMOS
Power Ampliers
Venue: Baebiana, 14:20 16:00, Monday 6th October 2014
Chair: Eric Kerherv, IMS (UMR 5218), France
Co-Chair: Jochen Rascher, FAU Erlangen-Nrnberg, Germany
A 5766GHz Power Amplier with a Linearization
Technique in 65-nm CMOS Process
Jin-Fu Yeh 1 , Jen-Hao Cheng 1 , Jeng-Han Tsai 2 ,
Tian-Wei Huang 1 ; 1 National Taiwan University,
Taiwan; 2 National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
EuMC/EuMIC01-01, Time: 14:20
This paper presents a linearization technique with a body diode
for 60-GHz power amplier (PA). This linearization technique aims
to achieve adequate linear output power as PA operating under
lower power consumption. This proposed technique can benet
the reduction of total power consumption of a 60-GHz phased
array. The PA is implemented in TSMC 65-nm CMOS process. At
1-V supply voltage, the measured maximum output powers are all
larger than 10 dBm over 5766 GHz. Third-order inter-modulation
distortion ( IMD3 ) can be mitigated over 30 dB by the proposed
linearization technique. Moreover, the improvement of IMD3 is
larger than 25 dB among the entire operation bandwidth.
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A High-Linearity Watt-Level 2.45-GHz CMOS Power
Amplier with Adaptive Bias and Integrated Diode
Linearizer
Zhixiong Ren, Lanqi Liu, Kefeng Zhang, Dongsheng
Liu, Zhenglin Liu, Xuecheng Zou; HUST, China
EuMC/EuMIC01-02, Time: 14:40
A high-linearity CMOS power amplier (PA) operating at 2.45GHz
for WLAN applications with adaptive bias and an integrated diode
linearizer is presented. The PA adopts adaptive bias scheme to
adjust the gate bias voltage of power transistors by tracking the
output power of the rst diver amplier for eciency enhance-
ment. Diode-connected MOS transistor is used to compensate
the nonlinearity of input capacitance (Cgs) of power transistors
for linearity improvement. The simulation results demonstrate a
gain of 33.2dB, a maximum output power of 30.7dBm with 29% of
peak power added eciency (PAE) and -30dBc IMD3 at 26.4dBm
output power, reaching to excellent tradeos between eciency
and linearity.
A Fully Integrated CMOS Linear Power Amplier
Using an IMD-Reduced Bias Network
Sungho Lee 1 , Kihyun Kim 2 , Daeyeon Kim 3 ; 1 KETI,
Korea; 2 Seoul National University, Korea; 3 Dongbu
Hitek, Korea
EuMC/EuMIC01-03, Time: 15:00
A fully integrated CMOS linear RF power amplier (PA) that in-
cludes integrated on-chip input and output matching networks
is presented. This PA consists of two-stage conguration, each
of which adopts a dierential cascode structure. A new gate bias
network of the common source amplier is proposed to suppress
intermodulation distortion. The results of the simulation and
the measurements of the proposed bias circuit are compared and
veried. The PA prototype is fabricated in Dongbu 0.11-m 1-poly
8-metal CMOS process. The measured results were 29.4 dBm of
P-1dB, 34 dB of power gain, a maximum PAE of 40% for a sinusoidal
signal, and a peak PAE of 34% for a 900 MHz WCDMA-modulated
signal.
A 2.0GHz CMOS Triple Cascode Push-Pull Power
Amplier with Second Harmonic Injection for
Linearity Enhancement
Kazuma Terajima 1 , Kenichi Fujii 1 , Takuji Sonoda 1 ,
Tadashi Takagi 2 , Eita Nakayama 2 , Suguru Kameda 2 ,
Noriharu Suematsu 2 , Kazuo Tsubouchi 2 ; 1 Wave
Technology, Japan; 2 Tohoku University, Japan
EuMC/EuMIC01-04, Time: 15:20
A novel linearization technique to a CMOS push-pull power ampli-
er (PA) by second harmonic injection has been proposed. In order
to inject second harmonics to the PAs, a new balun with a branch-
ing lter has been proposed and fabricated by using multi-layered
organic substrates. The PA was fabricated in 0.18-m CMOS pro-
cess and was implemented on the balun by ip-chip connection.
Because of the low breakdown voltage of CMOS power transistors,
triple cascode conguration was adapted. The proposed push-pull
PA has delivered an output power of 28.6 dBm with a power-added
eciency (PAE) of 42.2% at 2.0 GHz and 5.4 V supply voltage. It has
been also demonstrated that using second harmonic injection from
input port of the PA, PAE and output power with a wideband code
division multiple access (WCDMA) modulated signal are improved
by 5% and 2.0 dB respectively at adjacent channel leakage power
ratio (ACLR) of -39 dBc.
Fully Integrated CMOS Doherty Power Amplier
with Network Matching Optimization for Die Size
Reduction
Marcos L. Carneiro 1 , Nathalie Deltimple 2 , Paulo H.P.
Carvalho 1 , Didier Belot 3 , Eric Kerherv 2 ;
1
Universidade de Braslia, Brazil; 2 IMS (UMR 5218),
France; 3 STMicroelectronics, France
EuMC/EuMIC01-05, Time: 15:40
Impedance network topology optimization method is proposed for
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saving die area and increasing performance. The technique was
applied on a fully integrated Doherty Power Amplier design in
65nm CMOS technology. Measurement results achieve a constant
24% PAE performance over a 7 dB backo, Pout of 23.4dBm and
15dB of gain. The optimization allowed the reduction of the
number of inductors which reduced in 59% the expected die area
and also increased the PAE mean performance in 5% on the high
power stage and the Pout in 2dB.
EuMC/EuMIC02 : GaN RF PA Solutions
Venue: Flavia, 14:20 16:00, Monday 6th October 2014
Chair: Olof Bengtsson, FBH, Germany
Co-Chair: Rocco Giofr, Universit di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
Gate Waveform Eects on High-Eciency PA
Design: An Experimental Validation
Gianni Bosi 1 , Antonio Rao 1 , Giorgio Vannini 1 , Elisa
Cipriani 2 , P. Colantonio 2 , Franco Giannini 2 ;
1
Universit di Ferrara, Italy; 2 Universit di Roma Tor
Vergata, Italy
EuMC/EuMIC02-01, Time: 14:20
In this paper, an experimental validation about the benet of the
input harmonic manipulation on the performance of a microwave
power amplier is presented. With the support of low-frequency
measurements on a 0.51000 m2 GaN HEMT, the importance of
synthesizing the correct input waveform at the intrinsic section of
the device is highlighted. A class-AB tuned-load amplier has been
considered as a case study.
50 Watt S-Band Power Amplier in 0.25m GaN
Technology
Gijs van der Bent, Peter de Hek, Marcel van der Graaf,
Frank E. van Vliet; TNO, The Netherlands
EuMC/EuMIC02-02, Time: 14:40
A 50 W S-band High Power Amplier in the UMS GH25-10 technol-
ogy is presented. In order to increase the output power per area
the size of the transistors is increased beyond the maximum size
modelled by the foundry. For this reason the design procedure
included the measurements of a transistor and the creation of a
scalable Angelov-GaN model with the use of EM simulations. An
output matching design approach is adopted which intrinsically
optimizes the transistor harmonic load impedance. The results
show that the amplier delivers an output power of over 50 W
within the frequency range from 3.05 to 3.5 GHz at a PAE of more
than 62%. The maximum measured output power is 63 W with a
PAE of 65%.
Ecient and Wideband Two-Stage 100W GaN-HEMT
Power Amplier
Paul Saad, Daniel Maassen, Georg Boeck; Technische
Universitt Berlin, Germany
EuMC/EuMIC02-03, Time: 15:00
In this paper, the design, implementation, and experimental
results of a high power, high eciency, and wideband two-stage
GaN-HEMT power amplier (PA) are presented. The design is
performed using source-pull/load-pull simulations together with
a systematic approach to design wideband input, output, and
interstage matching networks. Large-signal measurements show
that, 5052dBm output power, 2426 dB power gain, and 5565%
Power-Added-Eciency (PAE) are maintained across 2.02.7 GHz.
Moreover, linearized modulated measurements using an RF PA
Linearizer (RFPAL) have been performed. Using a 10MHz long-term
evolution (LTE) signal with 7.5 dB peak-to-average ratio (PAR), an
adjacent channel leakage ratio (ACLR) of -46 dBc is achieved, with
an average output power of 25W and an average PAE of 27%.
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An Ultra-Wideband, Hybrid, Distributed Power
Amplier Using Flip-Chip Bonded GaN Devices on
AlN Substrate
A. agr Ulusoy, Christopher Barisich, Spyridon
Pavlidis, Wasif T. Khan, John Papapolymerou; Georgia
Institute of Technology, USA
EuMC/EuMIC02-04, Time: 15:20
In this paper, the authors present an ultra-wideband hybrid dis-
tributed power amplier, making use of discrete gallium-nitride
devices. The design facilitates ip-chip bonding on aluminum-
nitride substrate, as well as capacitive division at the input of the
devices for bandwidth extension; and non-uniform drain and gate
articial transmission lines for power and eciency optimization.
Measured results show 11 dB gain, and over more than a decade
3-dB bandwidth from 0.4 GHz to 8 GHz. Under pulsed operation
with 10% duty-cycle and for an input power of 31 dBm, the mea-
sured output power ranges across this bandwidth from 38dBm
to 41 dBm, and the power-added eciency varies from 18% to
45%. To the authors knowledge, these results demonstrate the
widest bandwidth for a hybrid, distributed power amplier in
gallium-nitride technology.
Broadband 1.72.8GHz High-Eciency (58%),
High-Power (43dBm) Class-BJ GaN Power Amplier
Including Package Engineering
E. Ture, V. Carrubba, S. Maroldt, M. Muer, H. Walcher,
R. Quay, Oliver Ambacher; Fraunhofer IAF, Germany
EuMC/EuMIC02-05, Time: 15:40
In this paper a broadband high-eciency Class-BJ GaN HEMT-PA
for wireless communication applications is realized. Inuences of
packaging and bond wires on the PA performance are investigated
in order to demonstrate and use accurate package models. A novel
optimization of bond wires for packaged powerbars is therefore
performed and, subsequently a fully characterized PA is eectively
designed. For the fully assembled PA module, measurement
results demonstrated targeted broadband performance reaching
approximately 50% operation bandwidth in the frequency range
1.72.8 GHz with 5259% PAE, 5866% drain eciency and 4344.5
dBm delivered output power while maintaining over 10 dB of GT .
EuMC/EuMIC03 : From Device Physics to
Linear Power Ampliers
Venue: Baebiana, 16:40 18:20, Monday 6th October 2014
Chair: Jean-Franois Villemazet, Thales Alenia Space
Co-Chair: Paul J. Tasker, Cardi University, UK
Improved Phase Linearity in Source Field Plate
AlGaN/GaN HEMTs
P. Colantonio 1 , Franco Giannini 1 , R. Giofr 1 , L.
Piazzon 1 , Vittorio Camarchia 2 , G. Ghione 2 , M. Pirola 2 ,
Roberto Quaglia 2 , A. Nanni 3 , A. Pantellini 3 , C.
Lanzieri 3 ; 1 Universit di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy;
2
Politecnico di Torino, Italy; 3 Selex ES, Italy
EuMC/EuMIC03-01, Time: 16:40
The benets of using source eld plate (FPS) in AlGaN/GaN HEMTs
to reduce the phase distortion in ecient power ampliers (PAs)
is demonstrated in this contribution. The link between phase
distortion of a PA and the drain-to-gate feedback parasitic capac-
itance of the transistor is shown. This link leads to critical phase
nonlinearity especially when architectures based on output load
modulation, as the Doherty topology, are adopted. The FPS eect in
reducing the feedback parasitic capacitance and, thus, the AM/PM
distortion of the PA is veried. For experimental validation two
AlGaN/GaN HEMT structures, with and without FPS, are realized
and compared in order to extract the eects of FPS. Source-load
pull characterizations are performed on both structures in order
to verify the benets of FPS on phase distortion, both in xed and
modulated output load conditions.
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Soft Compression and the Origins of Nonlinear
Behavior of GaN HEMTs
Jos C. Pedro, Lus C. Nunes, Pedro M. Cabral;
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
EuMC/EuMIC03-02, Time: 17:00
This work responds to the commonly formulated question in
PA design of Why do GaN HEMTs nonlinear behavior seems so
distinct from the one of their Si LDMOS, GaAs MESFETs or HEMTs
counterparts?. Starting from some recent results on the origin of
AM/AM and AM/PM distortion in power ampliers made for these
two device types, we demonstrate that there is no fundamental
reason why the devices should be dierent, except that the formers
suer from a noticeable low-frequency dispersion. Then, we dig
into this particular aspect of GaN HEMT operation, to show that this
charge trapping-related phenomenon is responsible for a severe
self-biasing capable of inducing soft-compression of an otherwise
almost at AM/AM gain plot when measured with static CW
tests which, in fact, corresponds to a severe gain expansion
when the AM/AM is assessed with more realistic dynamic tests
performed with real communication signals. And it is this class-C
PA like AM/AM that is responsible for the recognized GaN HEMT
nonlinearity.
Using Waveform Engineering to Optimize Class-F
Power Amplier Performance in an Envelope
Tracking Architecture
Z.A. Mokhti, P.J. Tasker, J. Lees; Cardi University, UK
EuMC/EuMIC03-03, Time: 17:20
Achieving optimal eciency in FET-based power ampliers used
in envelope tracking (ET) architectures can be dicult, mainly due
to the dynamic variation of drain-to-source capacitance (Cds ) with
applied drain voltage. If, for example class-F or inverse class-F
high-eciency modes are used, there is clearly a motivation to
maintain devices in high-ecient states, over as much of the
dynamic range as possible, where the operating supply voltage
varies quite dramatically. In order to identify optimal matching
solutions, the optimum fundamental and harmonic impedances
need to be determined and understood at dierent drain voltages
(Vds ). Using time-domain waveform measurements and active
harmonic load-pull at the device current generator plane, this
paper analyzes the behavior of the current and voltage waveforms
present at the output of a 10W high-voltage laterally diused
metal oxide semiconductor (HVLDMOS) device in an emulated ET
setting. The measurement system is used to robustly engineer
optimized class-F operation at dierent drain voltages at an
operating frequency of 900MHz. A design methodology is then
discussed that allows optimized power amplier performance for
dierent average Vds , within the operational ET supply voltage
range, and the impact this has on overall eciency.
High Bandwidth Investigations of a Baseband
Linearization Approach Formulated in the Envelope
Domain Under Modulated Stimulus
F.L. Ogboi 1 , P.J. Tasker 1 , M. Akmal 1 , J. Lees 1 , J.
Benedikt 1 , S. Bensmida 2 , K. Morris 2 , M. Beach 2 , J.
McGeehan 2 ; 1 Cardi University, UK; 2 University of
Bristol, UK
EuMC/EuMIC03-04, Time: 17:40
Baseband injection provides a useful approach for use in lin-
earizing power ampliers. The challenge is the determination of
the required baseband signal. In [6] a generalized formulation
quantifying the baseband voltage signal, injected at the output
bias port, to linearize the device behavior was introduced. This
envelope domain based solution requires the determination of only
a small number of linearizing coecients. More importantly these
coecients should be stimulus, hence bandwidth independent.
This property has been experimentally investigated using a 10W
Cree GaN HEMT device under a 3-tone modulated stimulus at 1.5dB
of compression. It will be shown that the linearization coecients
were invariant when varying the modulation bandwidth from 2MHz
to 20MHz.
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Impact of Dispersion Caused by Bandwidth
Limitation on the Linearity of Multilevel LINC
Transmitters
Junqing Guan, Xuan Anh Nghiem, Ahmed Farouk Aref,
Renato Negra; RWTH Aachen University, Germany
EuMC/EuMIC03-05, Time: 18:00
This paper studies the impact of bandwidth limitation on the
linearity of multilevel LINC (ML-LINC) transmitter. By using the
signals with discrete levels for characterisation, both amplitude
and phase dispersions around levels can be observed, which
result in the degradation of system linearity. It is also shown that
improvement on both adjacent channel leakage ratio (ACLR) and
error vector magnitude (EVM) can be obtained by either increasing
the number of levels or system bandwidth in each amplication
path. A measurement setup including two highly ecient power
ampliers (PAs) in GaN technology, which delivers 41 dBm output
power with drain eciency of 69% at 2.05 GHz, is built to verify the
analysis. With the conguration of 16 levels and 80 MHz system
bandwidth, the built ML-LINC transmitter gives 36 dBm average
output power with 54% drain eciency after calibration for the
standard 5 MHz LTE downlink signal with a PAPR of 7.5 dB. The
measured ACLR is -50.5 dBc and EVM is 1.6% for QPSK and 3.1% for
64-QAM with enough margin left according to the standard.
EuMC/EuMIC04 : Device and Circuit-Level
Modelling Techniques
Venue: Cecilia, 16:40 18:20, Monday 6th October 2014
Chair: Giorgio Leuzzi, Universit dellAquila, Italy
Co-Chair: Fabrizio Bonani, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Mixer-Like Modeling with Dynamic Baseband
Characterization for Supply-Modulated PAs
Gian Piero Gibiino 1 , Gustavo Avolio 2 , Dominique
Schreurs 2 , Alberto Santarelli 1 , Fabio Filicori 1 ;
1
Universit di Bologna, Italy; 2 Katholieke Universiteit
Leuven, Belgium
EuMC/EuMIC04-01, Time: 16:40
In this paper, we present a mixer-like microwave power amplier
(PA) characterization applicable to dynamically biased PAs. This
approach takes into account the dynamic dependency of the PA
with respect to the varying voltage supply and allows for modeling
the up-conversion at the RF output, as well as the dynamically
varying bias current. As case study, a hybrid GaAs microwave
power amplier is considered.
GaN-HEMT Nonlinear Modeling of Single-Ended and
Doherty High-Power Ampliers
Rached Hajji, Matthew Poulton, D.B. Crittenden, Je
Gengler, Peter Xia; TriQuint Semiconductor, USA
EuMC/EuMIC04-02, Time: 17:00
A large-signal model for 120W high power packaged pre-matched
transistor utilizing TriQuints TQGaN25HV HEMT technology is
presented. It is composed of an array of unit-cell nonlinear EEHEMT
models representing the high power GaN transistor die and EM
based models for the input/output pre-matching circuits relaying
the transistor die pads to the package leads. This model oers
accurate small-signal and large-signal performance prediction
at the package leads reference plane, as well as, when used in
50 matched evaluation boards of 120W single-ended and 240W
Doherty PAs. The model is validated in S-band against measured
data, oering good prediction of Doherty PA key parameters,
backo eciency and saturated peak power.
Power Amplier Behavioral Model with Focus on NL
and Coupled Dynamics for Radar System Simulation
C. Maziere 1 , D. Gapillout 1 , T. Gasseling 1 , T.
Decaesteke 2 , Y. Mancuso 2 ; 1 AMCAD Engineering,
France; 2 Thales Systmes Aroports, France
EuMC/EuMIC04-03, Time: 17:20
In radar systems, where pulsed RF signals are used, one of the main
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concern is the spurious emission. Such spurious are emissions
of frequencies outside the bandwidth of interest. The spurious
level must be kept under a Aaaaa level to be compliant with the
specications. In order to check all these specications, system
level simulation can be used, but accuracy and reliability of the
simulation results will depend on the circuit model reliability,
especially for the Power Amplier (PA) which is a critical element.
Such model must take into account the dierent memory eects.
This paper proposes a complete and practical methodology to
extract a Behavioral PA model dedicated to radar applications. A
specic attention is paid on the coupling eects between short and
long term memory dynamics.
Multi-Port De-Embedding Methodology Based on
Exponential Mapping
Mauro Ballicchia, Claudio Turchetti, Simone Orcioni;
Universit Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
EuMC/EuMIC04-04, Time: 17:40
This paper proposes a methodology that, starting from a set of
calibration measurements picked up at the external ports, allows
the de-embedding of a multi-port transition and the determination
of its representative matrix. With this methodology the coupling
between internal versus external ports are supposed symmetrical.
This hypothesis together with the use of exponential mapping and
Baker-Campbell-Hausdor allows the use of only three standards
for the characterization of the multi-port transition. The proposed
methodology is applied to the identication of the QFN16 package.
Memristors as Non-Linear Behavioral Models for
Passive Inter-Modulation Simulation
Jacques Sombrin 1 , Patrice Michel 1 , Georoy
Soubercaze-Pun 2 , Isabelle Albert 2 ; 1 TSA, France;
2
CNES, France
EuMC/EuMIC04-05, Time: 18:00
We propose to use memristors as memory non-linear circuits
to build behavioral models useful in the simulation of passive
inter-modulation in RF and microwave devices such as lters,
antennas and in general connections.
EuMC/EuMIC05 : GaN Solutions for X- and
K-Bands
Venue: Flavia, 16:40 18:20, Monday 6th October 2014
Chair: Franco Giannini, Universit di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
Co-Chair: Rdiger Quay, Fraunhofer IAF, Germany
4W X-Band High Eciency MMIC PA with Output
Harmonic Injection
Asmita Dani 1 , Michael Coey 2 , Zoya Popovic 2 ;
1
Inneon Technologies, USA; 2 University of Colorado
at Boulder, USA
EuMC/EuMIC05-01, Time: 16:40
This paper demonstrates a MMIC GaN X-band PA designed to have
improved eciency by second harmonic power injection at the
output that helps shape the time-domain waveforms across the
drain. The MMIC contains a class-AB PA with a nominal 4-W (36
dBm) output power at 10GHz and a small-signal gain of 14 dB. The
best results with harmonic injection were measured at 10.6 GHz
with 3.5W (35.44 dBm) of output, showing an increase in drain
eciency from 48.5% without injection to 70% when 26.2dBm was
injected at 21.2 GHz. In order to maximize the total eciency,
which includes the eciency of the injection circuit, a second har-
monic ecient amplier is integrated in the same GaN MMIC. The
20-GHz PA needs to provide a power on the order of Pout - 10dB,
and is measured to output 27dBm with 8 dB gain and PAE=59%.
The relationship between the total eciency and injector eciency
is derived and shows that the total eciency is not appreciably
aected by the injector eciency if a second-harmonic amplier
with a gain greater than 6-7 dB and with a PAE > 40% is employed.
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X-Band 10W MMIC High-Gain Power Amplier with
up to 60% PAE
David Sardin, Tibault Reveyrand, Zoya Popovic;
University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
EuMC/EuMIC05-02, Time: 17:00
This paper describes a power amplier operating at X-band demon-
strating 61% power added eciency (PAE) at 10 GHz associated
with 14W output power in CW mode. The design uses a 0.15m
GaN 3MI process from TriQuint. The devices operate at a peak
power density of 3.8W/mm at 10 GHz with a PAE higher than
48% over a 500-MHz bandwidth. The two-stage MMIC PA has a
saturated gain of 19 dB at peak eciency. The total size of the
chip is 9.2mm2 .
A 25W X-Band GaN PA in SMT Package
J.G. Leckey; M/A-COM Technology Solutions, UK
EuMC/EuMIC05-03, Time: 17:20
A single stage X-band (910GHz) PA module has been developed
using a discrete 0.25m GaN transistor with 4.8mm gate periphery,
that incorporates input and output matching via discrete sub-
strates in package. The initial demonstrator module achieves 25W
of power under pulsed conditions at 9.510GHz with Vds=50V, a
peak eciency of 41% and small signal gain of around 12dB. The
PA was assembled in a 6mm overmolded QFN package. The power
density and peak drain eciency are in reasonable agreement
with the process pcm performance at this frequency, given output
matching losses have to be accounted for. This work demonstrates
for the rst time the feasibility of prematched GaN transistors
and MMIC-like modules in high volume SMT packaging and to a
frequency of 10GHz.
Comparison of Second-Harmonic Matching of
AlGaN/GaN HEMTs at K-Band
C. Friesicke 1 , R. Quay 2 , Arne F. Jacob 1 ; 1 Technische
Universitt Hamburg-Harburg, Germany; 2 Fraunhofer
IAF, Germany
EuMC/EuMIC05-04, Time: 17:40
This paper presents a comparative study of input and output
second-harmonic matching applied to 0.25 m AlGaN/GaN HEMTs
on s.-i. SiC substrates. The study focuses on the technologys use
at K-band, which is close to the maximum usable frequency for
high-power amplier design. Four power amplier MMICs using
dierent second-harmonic matching schemes are compared in
terms of PAE and output power. The results show the relative
improvement of power and eciency that is gained by the inclusion
of second-harmonic matching in the design but also the impact on
the power/eciency bandwidth.
A 20-Watt Ka-Band GaN High Power Amplier MMIC
C.Y. Ng, K. Takagi, T. Senju, K. Matsushita, H. Sakurai,
K. Onodera, S. Nakanishi, K. Kuroda, T. Soejima;
Toshiba, Japan
EuMC/EuMIC05-05, Time: 18:00
A Ka-band high power amplier MMIC developed from 0.18m
gate-length AlGaN/GaN HEMT on SiC is presented. The MMIC chip
was measured on-wafer across 29GHz to 31GHz under pulsed bias
condition. At VDD=28V, the MMIC achieved an output power of
19W to 21W. To the authors best knowledge, this is the highest
output power ever reported for GaN high power amplier MMIC at
Ka-band. The 2-stage amplier GaN MMIC has 10dB linear gain and
a die-size of 4.0mm 5.5mm. The MMIC can realize high power
Solid-State Power Amplier (SSPA) for Ka-band.
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EuMC/EuMIC06 : Advanced Architectures
for Power Ampliers
Venue: Baebiana, 09:00 10:40, Tuesday 7th October 2014
Chair: Georg Fischer, FAU Erlangen-Nrnberg, Germany
Co-Chair: Marco Pirola, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Wideband Envelope Amplier for Envelope-Tracking
Operation of Handset Power Amplier
Jooseung Kim 1 , Dongsu Kim 2 , Yunsung Cho 1 ,
Daehyun Kang 3 , Sangsu Jin 1 , Byungjoon Park 1 ,
Kyunghoon Moon 1 , Hadong Jin 1 , Seungbeom Koo 1 ,
Bumman Kim 1 ; 1 POSTECH, Korea; 2 Samsung
Electronics, Korea; 3 Broadcom, USA
EuMC/EuMIC06-02, Time: 09:20
This paper presents a wideband envelope amplier for envelope-
tracking operation of handset power ampliers. The amplier has a
combined structure composed of a linear regulator and a switching
converter. A low output impedance class-AB push-pull output
stage is employed to expand the bandwidth (BW) of the linear
regulator. By reducing the output resistance of the source follower
using dual shunt feedbacks, a nondominant pole at the gate of
the output buer is pushed to the higher frequency range. The
gain BW product (GBW) of the linear regulator is improved without
sacricing the phase margin (PM) and eciency. The designed
linear regulator achieves the GBW of 129.6-MHz and PM of 73.1 .
For a 40-MHz long term evolution signal having a peak-to-average
power ratio of 7.4 dB, the envelope amplier delivers an eciency
of 73.6% at the peak power driving a 7.7 resistive load.
Experimental Investigation of Signal Time
Misalignment in Dynamic Load Modulation
Ampliers
Konstantinos Mimis, Gavin T. Watkins; Toshiba
Research Europe, UK
EuMC/EuMIC06-03, Time: 09:40
The eect of time misalignment between the RF input and tune-
able matching network (TMN) control signal in load-modulated
PAs is experimentally investigated. A reactively load-modulated
low-power GaAs E-pHEMT amplier is used, operating at 2.3GHz
with 20dBm peak output power. The amplier is rst characterised
under CW operation and the appropriate functions for maximising
PAE are extracted. These are then used to enhance the eciency of
the amplier under modulated signals. Using multi-tone, as well
as, 1.4 and 3MHz LTE signals, the eects of time misalignment
between the two paths on output power; PAE and spectral re-
growth are explored. As expected, proper alignment of the signals
is crucial, but it is shown especially important for minimising
ACPR asymmetry, similar to supply modulation architectures.
This highlights the underlying trade-o between synchronisation
accuracy and linearisation eort requirement.
Eect of the Level Values of Three-Level EDSM on
the Eciency of Overall Transmitter
Fahmi Elsayed, Mohamed Helaoui, Fadhel Ghannouchi;
University of Calgary, Canada
EuMC/EuMIC06-04, Time: 10:00
The traditional way of designing a high eciency three-level delta
sigma modulator based transmitter is achieved by improving the
coding eciency of the delta sigma modulator circuit and the
eciency of the power amplier. This paper studies the eect
of dierent output levels of three-level envelope delta sigma
modulator (EDSM) on the overall transmitter eciency. Studying
this behavior provides a tool to accurately select the proper output
levels. By changing the output levels, the highest eciency of a
three-level envelope delta sigma modulator is achieved by sacric-
ing the coding eciency of the DSM circuit. A drain eciency of
65% is achieved for the power amplier. The overall transmitter
eciency was 39% with DSM has CE of 83.1%. Whereas the maxi-
mum overall eciency of the transmitter achieves 42.5% with DSM
has CE of 72.8%. This is achieved by changing the output levels of
the DSM circuit.
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Phase-Modulated DSM-PWM Hybrids with Pulse
Length Restriction for Switch-Mode Power
Ampliers
Daniel Markert 1 , Christoph Haslach 1 , Holger
Heimpel 1 , Andreas Pascht 1 , Georg Fischer 2 ; 1 Bell
Labs, Germany; 2 FAU Erlangen-Nrnberg, Germany
EuMC/EuMIC06-05, Time: 10:20
This paper describes a novel concept to encode amplitude and
phase information in binary waveforms for switch-mode power
ampliers (SMPAs). A combination of a phase-modulated delta-
sigma modulation (DSM) and pulse-width modulation (PWM) makes
it possible to adapt signal generation to the power amplier limits.
The proposed system overcomes the inherent signal quality limits
of digital systems with xed clock frequencies by applying a phase
modulated clock. We demonstrate that it is possible to achieve
the performance of conventional concepts at less than half of
the bit rate. Simulation and measurement results are given for
important gures of merit of mobile communication signals with
high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR). A proof of concept is
implemented in a laboratory setting using a conventional FPGA.
EuMC/EuMIC07 : CMOS and BiCMOS
Solutions for RF and Millimetre-Wave PA
Venue: Flavia, 09:00 10:40, Tuesday 7th October 2014
Chair: Eric Kerherv, IMS (UMR 5218), France
Co-Chair: Baudouin Martineau, STMicroelectronics, France
A Broadband 75 to 140GHz Amplier in 0.13-m
SiGe HBT Process
Ping-Han Ho 1 , Yu-Hsuan Lin 1 , Huei Wang 1 , Chak
Meliani 2 ; 1 National Taiwan University, Taiwan; 2 IHP,
Germany
EuMC/EuMIC07-01, Time: 09:00
A broadband amplier from 75 to 140 GHz in SiGe 0.13-m process
is designed, fabricated, and measured. To control the base current
eectively, the current mirrors are applied in the amplier to feed
the base current. The measured results of the gain and return
losses agree with the simulation. It provides average gain of 11
dB from 75 to 140 GHz and gain-bandwidth product of 231 GHz.
To the authors knowledge, this amplier exhibits the highest
percentage bandwidth for Si-based MMIC ampliers around 100
GHz except distributed ampliers.
5-GHz Band SiGe HBT Linear Power Amplier IC
with Novel CMOS Active Bias Circuit for WLAN
Applications
Xin Yang 1 , Tsuyoshi Sugiura 2 , Norihisa Otani 2 ,
Tadamasa Murakami 2 , Eiichiro Otobe 2 , Toshihiko
Yoshimasu 1 ; 1 Waseda University, Japan; 2 Samsung
R&D Institute Japan, Japan
EuMC/EuMIC07-02, Time: 09:20
This paper presents a highly linear 5-GHz band power amplier
IC with integrated novel CMOS active bias circuit in SiGe BiCMOS
technology for wireless LAN applications. The power amplier IC
consists of three-stage amplier, the CMOS active bias circuit for
linearizing SiGe HBT and all matching circuits. The power amplier
IC has exhibited a measured output power of 17.0 dBm, an EVM
of 0.9% and a dc current consumption of 284 mA under 54 Mbps
OFDM signal at 5.4 GHz.
A K-Band Power Amplier with Adaptive Bias in
90-nm CMOS
Jenny Yi-Chun Liu, Chin-Tung Chan, Shawn S.H. Hsu;
National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
EuMC/EuMIC07-03, Time: 09:40
A K-band power amplier (PA) with adaptive bias circuitry
is implemented in 90-nm CMOS technology. The two-stage
transformer-coupled dierential PA achieves a linear gain of 26.9
dB, a saturation output power (Psat) of 20.4 dBm, an output 1-dB
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compression point (P1dB) of 18.5 dBm, and a peak power-added-
eciency (PAE) of 17.3% at 21 GHz. With the on-chip adaptive bias
control, the bias condition of the amplier varies dynamically with
the input power level, therefore the PAE is optimized. The PAE
at P1dB is 13.3%. At the 6-dB back-o power level, the DC power
dissipation is reduced by 45% compared to a class-A linear PA.
Transformer Based Dual-Power-Mode CMOS Power
Amplier for Handset Applications
Yunsung Cho 1 , Byungjoon Park 1 , Sangsu Jin 1 ,
Jooseung Kim 1 , Kyunghoon Moon 1 , Daehyun Kang 2 ,
Hadong Jin 1 , Seungbeom Koo 1 , Bumman Kim 1 ;
1
POSTECH, Korea; 2 Broadcom, USA
EuMC/EuMIC07-04, Time: 10:00
A fully integrated transformer based dual-power-mode CMOS
power amplier (PA) is implemented. The proposed architecture
provides enhanced back-o eciency with simple circuit topology.
With broadband characteristic of the transmission line trans-
former, the PA delivers good performance across the 1.72.0 GHz
frequency band. The PA with a 3.5 V supply voltage has gains
of 14.516.2 dB and 1010.5 dB in high power mode (HPM) and
low power mode (LPM), respectively. The linear average output
power for long-term evolution signals having 10-MHz bandwidth
and 7.5 dB peak-to-average power ratio is 26/20 dBm with a PAE of
31.6%-33.8%/20.8%-26.5% across the 1.72.0 GHz frequency in the
HPM/LPM.
EuMC/EuMIC08 : Technologies and Designs
for Low-Noise Circuits
Venue: Aurelia, 14:20 16:00, Tuesday 7th October 2014
Chair: Bumman Kim, POSTECH, Korea
Co-Chair: Carlos Camacho-Penalosa, Universidad de Malaga
Improved Microwave Noise Performance in 0.15m
AlGaN/AlN/GaN HEMTs on Silicon
G.I. Ng 1 , S. Arulkumaran 2 , K. Ranjan 2 , S. Vicknesh 2 ;
1
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore;
2
TL@NTU, Singapore
EuMC/EuMIC08-01, Time: 14:20
High-frequency microwave noise performances (2 GHz to 19 GHz)
were investigated on AlGaN/AlN/GaN High Electron Mobility Tran-
sistors (HEMTs) with 0.15 m T-gate fabricated on high resistivity
4-inch Silicon. The HEMTs exhibited maximum drain current den-
sity (I Dmax ) of 830 mA/mm, maximum extrinsic transconductance
(g mmax ) of 353 mS/mm, unity current cut-o frequency (f T ) of
65 GHz and maximum oscillation frequency (f max ) of 125 GHz.
At VDS =6V and I D =188mA/mm, the devices exhibited a minimum
noise gure (NF min ) of 0.59 dB at 10 GHz and 1.5 dB at 18 GHz. The
NF min for 10 GHz is the lowest reported value in the literatures
for conventional AlGaN/GaN HEMTs on Si substrate. No signicant
change in microwave noise performance has been observed in the
devices over for a wide range of I D (22 mA/mm to 500mA/mm)
and V D (3V to 16V).
Hybrid LNAs with SiGe HBTs on 7th Generation
BiCMOS Process
Saswata Bhaumik 1 , Jan Geralt bij de Vaate 2 ; 1 NXP
Semiconductors, The Netherlands; 2 ASTRON, The
Netherlands
EuMC/EuMIC08-02, Time: 14:40
Recent advancements in SiGe BiCMOS technology has drawn atten-
tion from RF designers in the eld of satellite communication and
science applications. In this paper two ultra-low noise ampliers
for both room temperature and cryogenic temperature operations
in astrophysics application are demonstrated. The LNAs are
designed with packaged SiGe:C HBTs from 7th generation QUBiC4
process of NXP Semiconductors. LNA1 has small signal gain of over
20dB with average noise temperature of 77Kelvin from 0.5GHz
to 2.5GHz. LNA2 has small signal gain of over 20dB and noise
temperature below 60Kelvin from 0.5GHz to 3GHz. Average noise
temperature in the same frequency range is 42Kelvin. Cryogenic
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noise temperature (at 22Kelvin) of LNA1 at 0.5GHz and 2.5GHz are
9Kelvin and 15Kelvin. LNA2 has 4Kelvin and 8Kelvin cryogenic
noise temperature at 0.5GHz and 3GHz respectively with an aver-
age of 8.1Kelvin.
A 0.18m CMOS Current Reuse Ultra-Wideband Low
Noise Amplier (UWB-LNA) with Minimized Group
Delay Variations
K. Yousef 1 , H. Jia 2 , Ramesh K. Pokharel 2 , Ahmed
Allam 1 , M. Ragab 1 , Haruichi Kanaya 2 ; 1 E-JUST,
Egypt; 2 Kyushu University, Japan
EuMC/EuMIC08-03, Time: 15:00
This paper presents the design of a CMOS low noise amplier
(LNA) with minimized group delay variations and optimized noise
performance for ultra-wideband (UWB) applications. The proposed
LNA employs a common source based current reuse topology.
Through this conguration gain atness of 12.25 0.25 with
noise gure (NF) less than 3.8 dB are achieved. This LNA achieves
group delay variation of 25 ps using the standard 0.18 m CMOS
technology. Weak Capacitive-Resistive shunt feedback technique is
implemented across the input stage for wideband input matching.
Series peaking with output resistive termination are adopted
for group delay variations optimization. This UWB LNA has a
measured 1dB compression point (P1dB) and an input third-order
inter-modulation point (IIP3) of -7.0 dBm and 2.5 dBm respectively
at 5.5 GHz. The implemented UWB LNA chip area is only 560 m
590 m.
Compact, Low-Power, Single-Ended and Dierential
SiGe W-Band LNAs
Farzad Inanlou, Wasif T. Khan, Peter Song, Saeed
Zeinolabedinzadeh, Robert L. Schmid, Taiyun Chi,
A. agr Ulusoy, John Papapolymerou, Hua Wang,
John D. Cressler; Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
EuMC/EuMIC08-04, Time: 15:20
Two compact, low-power, SiGe W-band LNAs are demonstrated, one
single-ended (SE), and one dierential (Di) with an integrated in-
put transformer balun. The LNAs are implemented in an advanced
90-nm SiGe BiCMOS technology, with fT /fmax of 300/350 GHz.
The noise gure (NF) of the SE and Di LNAs are measured to be 4.2
dB and 6.3 dB, respectively, at 94 GHz, while dissipating only 8.8
mW SE from a 2.2-V supply, which to the authors best knowledge
is the lowest reported power consumption for a Si-based W-band SE
LNA. The designed LNAs are targeted for low-power phased-array
radar integrated transceivers for active imaging applications. The
measured gain at 94 GHz for the single-stage SE and Di LNAs are
10 dB and 12 dB, respectively, and maintain an input reection
coecient of less than -9.5 dB. The input -1dB compression point
(P1dB ) for the LNAs is measured to -11.5 and -8.8 dBm for the SE
and Di LNAs, respectively. These compact LNAs have a SE and
Di core size (without pads) of only 158 m 350 m (0.055 mm2 )
and 288 m 430 m (0.126 mm2 ) and the Di LNA includes an
input transformer balun.
A High Gain E-Band MMIC LNA in GaAs 0.1-m
pHEMT Process for Radio Astronomy Applications
You-Tang Lee, Chau-Ching Chiong, Dow-Chih Niu,
Huei Wang; National Taiwan University, Taiwan
EuMC/EuMIC08-05, Time: 15:40
In this paper, we present an E-band MMIC low noise amplier
(LNA) using 0.1-m GaAs pHEMT technology operating in 1V and
2V drain voltage. The E-band LNA shows small signal gain of 28
dB from 62 to 77 GHz with DC power consumption 44 mW. Noise
measurement conducts in the package shows average noise gure
about 4.5 dB from 75 to 90 GHz. The gure-of-merit (FOM) is 212.5
(GHz/mW), which is highest compared with other LNAs using
0.1-m GaAs pHEMT technology.
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EuMC/EuMIC09 : Characterisation and
Modelling of Dispersion and Noise in
Microwave Transistors
Venue: Cecilia, 14:20 16:00, Tuesday 7th October 2014
Chair: Angel Mediavilla, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain
Co-Chair: Matthias Rudolph, Brandenburgische Technische
Universitt, Germany
VSWR Testing of RF-Power GaN Transistors
Olof Bengtsson 1 , Serguei Chevtchenko 1 , Amitabh
Chowdhary 2 , Wolfgang Heinrich 1 , Joachim Wr 1 ;
1
FBH, Germany; 2 ESA, The Netherlands
EuMC/EuMIC09-01, Time: 14:20
A novel procedure for voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR) rugged-
ness testing of GaN-HEMTs is described. In the test the transistor
is exposed to an increasing level of VSWR stress and an extensive
set of marker parameters are monitored before, during, and
after stress. A gate- and drain-lag pulse response test has been
developed that reveals VSWR stress inuence on slow surface
charges. Recovery is monitored after each stress-point. It has
been found that high VSWR stress of GaN-HEMTs at low supply
voltages foremost causes a temporary shift in pinch-o voltage.
Prolonged stress at even moderate VSWR levels at higher supply
voltage can lead to structural changes and irreversible degradation
of the electrical performance. The mechanism for this degradation
is found to be a combination of thermal and eld stress.
Trap Characterization of Microwave GaN HEMTs
Based on Frequency Dispersion of the
Output-Admittance
C. Potier 1 , A. Martin 1 , M. Campovecchio 1 , S. Laurent 1 ,
Raymond Qur 1 , Jean-Claude Jacquet 2 , O. Jardel 2 , S.
Piotrowicz 2 , S. Delage 2 ; 1 XLIM, France; 2 III-V Lab,
France
EuMC/EuMIC09-02, Time: 14:40
This paper presents a characterization method of traps in
GaN HEMTs, based on the frequency dispersion of the output-
admittance characterized by low-frequency S-parameter mea-
surements. As RF performances of GaN HEMTs are signicantly
aected by trapping eects, trap characterization is essential for
this power technology. The proposed measurement setup and
extraction method allow us to derive the activation energy Ea and
the capture cross section n of the identied traps. A 0.25m gate
length InAlN/GaN HEMT was characterized. A trap was identied
with an activation energy of 0.38eV, a capture cross-section of
1.7310-16 cm2 , and a eld dependency of the emission rate. These
results are used to give an ecient feedback to the technology
developments.
Low Frequency Noise Measurements A
Technology Benchmark with Target on Oscillator
Applications
Thanh Ngoc Thi Do, Mikael Hrberg, Szhau Lai, Dan
Kuylenstierna; Chalmers University of Technology,
Sweden
EuMC/EuMIC09-03, Time: 15:00
This paper presents low frequency noise (LFN) measurements of
some commonly used microwave transistor technologies, e.g.,
GaAs-InGaP HBT, GaAs pHEMT, and GaN HEMT. It investigates how
the icker noise scales with current and voltage in the dierent
technologies. The target application is low-phase noise oscillators.
From this perspective, low-frequency noise at given frequency
normalized to DC power is used as benchmark parameter. A com-
parison between dierent measurement set-ups is also included.
The problem of measuring low-frequency noise at high drain
voltages and currents is considered. It is found that the icker
noise of GaN HEMT technology is in about the same level as of GaAs
pHEMT, but when normalized with the DC power, GaN HEMT oers
a better performance. For this reason, GaN HEMT is considered to
have better potential in oscillator applications. Concerning InGaP
HBT, when measured at 10 kHz it provides better performance in
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term of both absolute noise level and normalized values. Higher
frequencies are in favor for GaN HEMT technology.
GaN HEMT Noise Model Performance Under
Nonlinear Operation
Matthias Rudolph 1 , Laurent Escotte 2 , Ralf Doerner 3 ;
1 power greater than 35.7 dBm.
Brandenburgische Technische Universitt, Germany;
2
LAAS, France; 3 FBH, Germany
EuMC/EuMIC09-04, Time: 15:20
This paper investigates the capability of Pospieszalski-type and
Pucel-type noise model implementations to predict the truly non-
linear noise behavior of GaN HEMT devices. The bias-dependence
of the noise model parameters is introduced for both models. It is
then addressed how the dierence in model topology could yield
dierent noise performance in the nonlinear regime. Also disper-
sion is taken into account. Comparison of simulation results with
nonlinear noise measurement shows that both implementations
show equally good prediction of the noise gure even if the device
is driven into heavily nonlinear operation by a blocking signal.
A Scalable HEMT Noise Model Based on FW-EM
Analyses
Andrea Nalli 1 , Antonio Rao 1 , Giorgio Vannini 1 , Sara
DAngelo 2 , Davide Resca 2 , Francesco Scappaviva 2 ,
Giovanni Crupi 3 , Giuseppe Salvo 3 , Alina Caddemi 3 ;
1
Universit di Ferrara, Italy; 2 MEC, Italy; 3 Universit di
Messina, Italy
EuMC/EuMIC09-05, Time: 15:40
A scalable HEMT noise model has been developed, based on a
lumped parasitic network extracted analytically through full-wave
electromagnetic simulations and a scalable black-box represen-
tation of the intrinsic noise and AC response of the device. The
analytical extraction of the lumped parasitic network is extensively
explained, as well as the intrinsic model identication. The model
prediction capability, in terms of S-parameters and noise perfor-
mance, has been validated through the scaling of two dierent
HEMTs.
EuMC/EuMIC10 : Focus Session on System
Level Characterisation and Modelling for
Mobile Communications
Venue: Domizia, 14:20 16:00, Tuesday 7th October 2014
Chair: Alessandro Cidronali, Universit di Firenze, Italy
Co-Chair: Vittorio Camarchia, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Large-Signal Characterization of a Mixed-Signal SoC
Receiver for Multiband SDR/CR Designs
Diogo C. Ribeiro, Pedro Miguel Cruz, Nuno Borges
Carvalho; Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
EuMC/EuMIC10-01, Time: 14:20
This paper shows a framework to evaluate the nonlinear distortion
characteristic of a commercial mixed-signal wideband system-on-
chip (SoC) receiver. An approach to obtain fully-synchronized
amplitude and phase relationships between the analog input and
digital output ports is described.
Measurement of AM/AM and AM/PM curves under a sinusoidal
excitation are executed over a wide input power range, in order
to extract device compression information at dierent carrier
frequencies. As well, metrics for the in-band generated nonlinear
distortion are obtained by exciting the mixed-signal SoC device with
a two-tone signal, and then calculating the respective third-order
intermodulation distortion ratio.
X-Band Outphasing Power Amplier with Internal
Load Modulation Measurements
Michael Litcheld, Tibault Reveyrand, Zoya Popovic;
University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
EuMC/EuMIC10-02, Time: 14:40
This paper presents a general measurement based design method
for outphasing ampliers. Both isolated and non-isolated combin-
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ers are designed based on individual PA load-pull measurements,
in order to load modulate two 0.15m GaN MMIC power ampliers
at 10.1 GHz. Load modulation measurements are performed at
ports internal to the PA, with the inclusion of couplers in the
combiner and a four-port LSNA, to gain insight into the dynamics
of load modulation during outphasing operation. Both outphasing
systems exhibit a peak PAE greater than 41.5% at a peak output
Frequency Extension of System Level
Characterization and Predistortion Setup for
On-Wafer Microwave Power Ampliers
Roberto Quaglia, Tao Jiang, Vittorio Camarchia;
Politecnico di Torino, Italy
EuMC/EuMIC10-03, Time: 15:00
In this paper, a system level characterization setup for on-wafer
microwave power ampliers is presented. The arbitrary waveform
generator carrier frequency limitations are overcome by the inser-
tion of an upconversion system. Linearity tests are performed to
assess the validity of the proposed solution. A simple on-wafer
calibration method for absolute power determination is developed,
allowing for accurate average power and eciency measurement
in presence of modulated signals. A characterization and predis-
tortion example on a backhaul 7 GHz Doherty power amplier is
carried out, highlighting the capabilities of the proposed setup.
A Low-Complexity Memoryless Model for Envelope
Tracking RF Power Ampliers
G. Montoro 1 , P.L. Gilabert 1 , J.A. Garcia 2 , M.N. Ruiz 2 ,
R. Marante 2 ; 1 Universitat Politcnica de Catalunya,
Spain; 2 Universidad de Cantabria, Spain
EuMC/EuMIC10-04, Time: 15:20
This paper presents a new kind of behavioral model structure
for characterizing static nonlinearities in dynamically supplied
RF power ampliers. The proposed architecture is based on the
combination of several basic cells and it is focused to simplify the
real-time design and implementation of adaptive shaping functions
devoted to improve the eciency in systems controlled by digital
signal processors with tight computational capabilities, such is the
case of handsets and small-cells.
Envelope Tracking PA X-Parameters
Characterization for Transceivers System Level
Analysis
Alessandro Cidronali, Stefano Maddio, Giovanni
Collodi, Gianfranco Manes; Universit di Firenze, Italy
EuMC/EuMIC10-05, Time: 15:40
This paper discusses the system level analysis of Envelope Track-
ing (ET) power amplier (PA) applied to FDD transceivers by
X-parameter model. In particular, eciency and linearity of the
transmitter are analyzed. Additionally is analyzed the receiver
desensitization issue, due to the interaction with the transmitter.
The system-level analysis led to the possible trade-os between
the several system parameters, the implementation constraints
and the system performance, as well as the most critical aspects
for the eective development of ET-PA capable to deal with wide
bandwidth signal.
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EuMC/EuMIC11 : Focus Session on
Advances and New Applications in
Carbon-Based Nanoelectronics
Venue: Flavia, 14:20 16:00, Tuesday 7th October 2014
Chair: Luca Pierantoni, Universit Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
Co-Chair: Dominique Baillargeat, XLIM, France
Microwave Propagation Along Graphene at
Microscopic and Macroscopic Scales
Yi-Li Xu, Xing-Chang Wei, Erping Li, Gao-Le Dai;
Zhejiang University, China
EuMC/EuMIC11-01, Time: 14:20
In this paper, the properties of graphene in both microscopic
and macroscopic scale are studied. Dierent equivalent circuit
models are implemented to characterize the signal integrity of
graphene-based interconnect and to extract the surface conductiv-
ity of graphene. On the one hand, input/output voltage of dierent
interconnect structures is explored and eye diagram is utilized
for further study of signal integrity. On the other hand, a novel
contact-free characterization method is proposed to extract the
surface conductivity of graphene which is grown by chemical vapor
deposition.
Carbon Nanostructures Dedicated to RF
Interconnect Management
C. Brun 1 , Dominique Baillargeat 1 , Y.C. Chong 2 , D.
Tan 2 , Philippe Coquet 2 , B.K. Tay 2 ; 1 XLIM, France;
2
CINTRA, Singapore
EuMC/EuMIC11-02, Time: 14:40
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are a good candidate for RF inter-
connects, having better electrical as well as high frequency
performance as compared to the conventional metals. To suc-
cessfully integrate CNT to be in line with the industries trends,
focus has to be placed on interfacial studies between electrode and
CNT to obtain an eective conduction channel. In order to help
component design, two modeling approaches are proposed: one
is based on mesoscopic model for the electromagnetic properties
of arrays of nanotubes, the other one on circuit simulation for RF
applications. Several experimental works will be presented such as
ip-chip report based on CNTs bumps and wireless link.
High Frequency Characterization and Compact
Electrical Modelling of Graphene Field Eect
Transistors
P. Nakkala 1 , A. Martin 1 , M. Campovecchio 1 , Henri
Happy 2 , Mohamed Salah Khenissa 2 , Mohamed Moez
Belhaj 2 , David Mele 2 , Ivy Colambo 2 , Emiliano
Pallecchi 2 , Dominique Vignaud 2 ; 1 XLIM, France;
2
IEMN, France
EuMC/EuMIC11-03, Time: 15:00
This paper deals with both DC and high frequency characterization
of graphene devices, associated to compact electrical modelling.
Pulsed I-V and microwave characterization of several Graphene
Field-Eect Transistor (GFET) generations fabricated on SiC sub-
strates were investigated in order to derive a rst approach for
non-linear device modelling. As illustrated here with a Graphene
Nano Ribbon FET (GNR FET), a compact electrical model was pre-
sented accounting the DC and HF characteristics in broad range of
operating conditions. The dierences between DC and pulsed I-V
characterizations of the GNR FET are investigated and compared
to simulations. The small signal behavior and some gure of
merits (FOM) like current gain cut-o frequency ft maximum
oscillation frequency fmax . The nonlinear modelling of GNR FET
is becoming of prime importance along with technological eorts
to demonstrate the actual potential of this promising technology.
This approach was also applied to conventional GFET, with a large
ake of graphene used as a device channel.
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Microwave Applications of Graphene for Tunable
Devices
Luca Pierantoni 1 , Davide Mencarelli 1 , Maurizio
Bozzi 2 , Riccardo Moro 2 , Stefano Bellucci 3 ; 1 Universit
Politecnica delle Marche, Italy; 2 Universit di Pavia,
Italy; 3 INFN-LNF, Italy
EuMC/EuMIC11-04, Time: 15:20
In this contribution, we simulate and design a electronically tunable
microstrip attenuator based on graphene. To this aim, graphene
is modeled as an ideal surface resistor at microwave frequency (5
GHz), changing with an external electric Bias. The presented device
includes a patch of graphene, whose characteristics can range
from fairly good conductor to highly lossy material, depending
on the applied voltage. By applying the proper voltage through
two high-impedance bias lines, the achieved change in the surface
resistivity of graphene induces appreciable change of the insertion
loss of the microstrip attenuator.
EuMC/EuMIC Poster : EuMC/EuMIC Poster
Session
Venue: Exhibition Hall, 10:00 17:30, Tuesday 7th October 2014
Chair: Luca Catarinucci, Universit del Salento, Italy
Co-Chair: Diego Masotti, Universit di Bologna, Italy
Compact 1013GHz GaN Low Noise Amplier MMIC
Using Simple Matching and Bias Circuits
Woojin Chang 1 , Young-Rak Park 1 , Jae-Kyoung Mun 1 ,
Sang-Choon Ko 1 , Gye-Ik Jeon 2 ; 1 ETRI, Korea; 2 RFCore,
Korea
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-01, Time: 13:00
A compact 1013 GHz low-noise amplier (LNA) monolithic
microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) using simple matching and
bias circuits is designed and fabricated using AlGaN/GaN 0.25
m high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) technology on silicon
carbide (SiC) substrate. In order to reduce the chip size and
simplify the structure of the LNA, the matching and bias circuits
were combined functionally and structurally together and the
meandered microstriplines were used. And the combined circuits
also contributed to decrease the noise gure of the LNA. Therefore,
the measured noise gures of the LNA are almost equal to the
minimum noise gure of 2 100 m device which was used for
the rst stage of the LNA. And also the chip size of the fabricated
LNA is 1.7 0.8 mm2 including two ground-signal-ground (GSG)
pads and the DC pads on the chip. The LNA shows a noise gure
of 1.72.1 dB with a gain of 1926 dB across the 1013 GHz
frequency range. In continuous wave (CW) conditions, it presents a
saturated output power of 2934 dBm for 1013 GHz and also the
output third-order intercept point (OIP3) of 42 dBm at 11.4 GHz.
Genetic-Algorithm-Based Synthesis of Low-Noise
Ampliers with Automatic Selection of Active
Elements and DC Biases
A.A. Kalentyev, L.I. Babak, D.V. Garays; TUSUR, Russia
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-02, Time: 13:00
An advanced genetic-algorithm-based synthesis technique is pro-
posed for design automation of microwave linear and low noise
ampliers. Jointly with automatic generation of amplier schemat-
ics directly from performance requirements, it allows the selection
of the best transistor types (sizes) and DC biases. As an example,
the design of 210 GHz single-stage MMIC LNA is demonstrated.
An X-Band Low-Power CMOS Low Noise Amplier
with Transformer Inter-Stage Matching Networks
Jeng-Han Tsai, Wang-Long Huang, Cheng-Yen Lin,
Ruei-An Chang; National Taiwan Normal University,
Taiwan
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-03, Time: 13:00
This paper presents a low-power low noise amplier (LNA) using
standard 0.18-m CMOS technology for X-band satellite receiver
applications. Two-stage common source conguration with
transformer matching network is chosen to achieve low power,
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low noise, and compact size while maintaining reasonable gain
performance. The measured small signal gain is 13.4 dB at 11 GHz
with low power consumption of 4.8 mW from a 1 V supply voltage.
The chip size is 0.44 mm2 . With noise match at the rst stage,
the measured noise gure (NF) of the LNA is 3.41 dB at 11 GHz.
Compared to previously reported X-band LNA in 0.18-m CMOS
process, the presented LNA demonstrates the highest FOM.
A 60-GHz LNA with Feed-Forward Bandwidth
Extension Technique for Wireless NoC Application
Xinmin Yu 1 , Deukhyoun Heo 1 , Partha Pratim Pande 1 ,
Shahriar Mirabbasi 2 ; 1 Washington State University,
USA; 2 University of British Columbia, Canada
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-04, Time: 13:00
This paper presents a 60-GHz low-noise amplier (LNA) designed
for wireless network-on-chip (WiNoC) receivers. Aiming at a low
power consumption and a wide bandwidth, the LNA comprises two
gain stages with staggered tuning. A feed-forward path is intro-
duced in the LNA to extend the bandwidth at a low cost of power
consumption and little noise gure (NF) degradation. Fabricated
in a 65-nm CMOS technology, the LNA achieves a measured peak
gain of 17.7 dB and a 3-dB bandwidth of 9.2 GHz. Measurement
also shows that the NF reaches 3.6 dB at the lowest point, while
maintained below 5 dB within the 3-dB bandwidth. Overall, the
LNA consumes 9.4 mA from a 1-V supply.
Radio-Channel Characterization of an Over-Sea
Communication
Ismail Ben Mabrouk 1 , J.C. Reyes-Guerrero 2 ;
1
University of Tabuk, Saudi Arabia; 2 University of
Bergen, Norway
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-05, Time: 13:00
This paper presents comprehensive experimental results obtained
from narrowband and wideband radio-channel measurements in
a maritime environment at 5.8 GHz. From continuous-wave (CW)
measurement data, large scale distance-power curves and path-loss
exponents of a practical scenario are determined. Other relevant
parameters, such as the mean excess delay, and the coherence
bandwidth are extracted from the wideband-measurement data.
Results show a propagation behavior that is specic for these
environments.
Blind Detection of Cyclostationary Signals Taking
Advantage of Cyclic Spectrum Leakage
Daniel Malafaia, Jos Vieira, Ana Tom; Universidade
de Aveiro, Portugal
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-06, Time: 13:00
In this article we describe a novel process for blind detection in
spectrum sensing taking advantage of the cyclostationary features
of any digital modulation that uses a nite number of distinct
signals to represent digital data. Traditional models only look
at any peak in a cyclic spectrum that satises a given threshold,
in this method we take advantage of the cyclic spectrum leakage
to identify a signal. This method shows better performance at
detecting low SNR signals than the traditional cyclostationary
signal detection.
A 100W Decade Bandwidth, High-Eciency GaN
Amplier
James Custer, John Walker; Integra Technologies, USA
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-07, Time: 13:00
This paper will report a 100W, 100MHz to 1GHz GaN amplier
module having a minimum eciency of 48% across the whole band
with a minimum gain of 14dB. This is believed to be the highest
power/eciency combination yet reported for this frequency
range.
A 2.1/2.6GHz Dual-Band High-Eciency GaN HEMT
Amplier with Harmonic Reactive Terminations
Jun Enomoto, Ryo Ishikawa, Kazuhiko Honjo;
University of Electro-Communications, Japan
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-08, Time: 13:00
A dual-band high-eciency GaN HEMT amplier with harmonic
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reactive source and load impedances has been developed at the
2.1-GHz and 2.6-GHz bands. Many circuit components are required
for this type of amplier, since many frequencies have to be
treated, which induces circuit loss. Here, a design strategy to
avoid an eciency reduction due to circuit loss is introduced. The
fabricated dual-band GaN HEMT amplier has achieved maximum
power-added eciencies (PAEs) of 72% and 61% with 36.7- and
37.1-dBm output powers at 2.13 and 2.6 GHz, respectively.
High Power K-Band GaN on SiC CPW Monolithic
Power Amplier
Omer Cengiz 1 , Ozlem A. Sen 2 , Ekmel Ozbay 2 ; 1 Middle
East Technical University, Turkey; 2 Bilkent University,
Turkey
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-09, Time: 13:00
This paper presents a high power amplier at K-band (20.221.2
GHz). The AlGaN/GaN CPW MMIC amplier is realized with 0.25
m HEMT process on 2-inch semi-insulating SiC substrate. The
amplier has a small signal gain over 20 dB for Vds=15V and
measured output power of over 31 dBm at 20.2 Ghz. PAE of the
amplier is around 22% for desired frequency band. Initial radia-
tion hardness tests indicate a suitable stability of the technology
in space.
Design of a GaN HEMT Power Amplier Using
Resistive Loaded Harmonic Tuning
Sebastian Preis 1 , Zihui Zhang 2 , Mhd. Tareq Arnous 2 ;
1
FBH, Germany; 2 Technische Universitt Berlin,
Germany
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-10, Time: 13:00
The proper termination of the 2nd harmonic impedance is the basic
task during the design of a harmonically tuned power amplier.
In addition to several approaches of dening fundamental and
harmonic pairs with purely reactive harmonics, the harmonic com-
ponents can be terminated resistive as well. This work presents a
broadband GaN HEMT power amplier with resistive 2nd harmonic
termination. The measured output power of 41.1 to 42.6 dBm was
achieved covering a frequency range from 2.2 to 2.7 GHz. The
drain eciency of the amplier ranged from 66.2 to 75.2 percent.
Applying a LTE signal with 10 MHz bandwidth, a linearized average
eciency of 42% was attained.
Filtering Slot Antenna Using Coupled Line Resonator
Kevin Nadaud 1 , Dominique Lo Hine Tong 2 , Erwan
Fourn 1 ; 1 IETR, France; 2 Technicolor Connected Home,
France
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-11, Time: 13:00
This paper presents the design of a novel slot ltering antenna
suitable for modern electronic devices integrating various wireless
systems that have to coexist. The approach consists in feeding the
slot antenna through a ltering microstrip-to-slot-line transition.
This transition comprises a coupled line resonator which enables
to create two out-of-band transmission zeros and by this way to
increase drastically the frequency selectivity of the transition. As
proof-of-concept, a slot ltering antenna has been designed for
WLAN applications operating in the 2.4GHz band, by using the
HFSS simulation tool. A prototype has been also fabricated, using
a low-cost FR4 substrate, where 2 antennas are printed on a board
in order to accommodate the requirements of a 22 MIMO system.
Parasitic Elements Based Decoupling Technique for
Monopole Four Square Array Antenna
Sana Salama, Klaus Solbach; Universitt
Duisburg-Essen, Germany
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-12, Time: 13:00
An alternative approach to port decoupling for the monopole four
square array antenna is proposed. In contrast to the decoupling
of the monopole four square array antenna based on eigenmodes
theory, port decoupling over wider frequency band is obtained by
a proper choice of parasitic elements dimensions and positions for
a given array elements spacing without extending the overall area.
The decoupled ports of the array may then be matched by using
conventional matching circuits.
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Bandwidth Enhanced Tri-Band Monopole Slot
Antenna on Ultra-Thin Metal Housed Devices
Soo-Ji Lee, Dong-Jin Lee, Sol-Ji Yoo, Kwang-Seok Kim,
Tae-Dong Yeo, Jong-Won Yu; KAIST, Korea
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-13, Time: 13:00
We present an bandwidth enhanced tri-band monopole slot an-
tenna on metal housed devices which operates on GSM 850, 900,
1800, 1900 and UMTS band. The slots were place at the corner
and the edge of the metal housed device in order to avoid the
antenna performance degradation caused by ITO (Indium Tin
Oxide) coated on display glass. Due to the location of the slot
design and inherency of slot antennas, the bandwidth becomes
extremely narrow, but this matter can be resolved by using extra
parasitic monopole slots which are designed adjacent to the main
slot. The measured results of the proposed antenna with the
display module attached shows -6-dB bandwidth of 813 MHz to
993 MHz (19.6%) at the lower-band, 1.63 GHz to 1.99 GHz (19.89%)
at the rst-higher-band and 2.00 GHz to 2.24 GHz (11.32%) at the
second-higher-band respectively and the lower bands antenna
gain varies from -2.29 dB to 0.11 dB whereas the rst-higher-bands
gain and the second-higher-bands gain varies from 1.90 dB to 3.80
dB and 0.16 dB to 3.02 dB respectively.
Design of a Near-Field-Focused Substrate Integrated
Planar Array Antenna
Lei Wang, Yu Jian Cheng, Fei Xue; UESTC, China
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-15, Time: 13:00
A X-band multi-layer near-eld-focused antenna (NFFA) is de-
veloped on the basis of substrate integrated waveguide (SIW)
technology and fabricated through PCB process. Several metallic
vias with dierent diameters, which are equivalent to open-ended
air-lled circular waveguides, are fabricated to form phase shifters
and radiating elements at the same time. They are fed by an SIW
wideband feeding network underneath these radiating elements
to achieve a compact conguration. Between the radiating and
feeding layers, there exists a separated matching layer to achieve
a good reection characteristic. As an example, a 44 NFFA
prototype is fabricated and measure. The maximum intensity of
the electric eld is at 150 mm. The measured results are in good
agreement with the simulated ones near the focal distance.
Accurate Modeling of PFD/CP for Fast Simulation of
PLL Transient Dynamics
Bo Wang 1 , Edouard Ngoya 2 ; 1 Peking University,
China; 2 XLIM, France
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-16, Time: 13:00
The verication of the phase locked loops (PLL) dynamic perfor-
mances (lock time, lock range, etc.) poses still a big challenge (long
simulation time) before chip tape-out. This paper describes a gen-
eral purpose modeling approach for the phase/frequency detector
and charge pump (PFD/CP) that provides a good compromise
between the PLL performance prediction accuracy and simulation
time. The block level model provides the full details of the PLL
transient dynamics in voltage and phase domains.
On the Unconditional Stability of N-Port Networks
Sergio Colangeli, Riccardo Cleriti, Diego Palombini,
Ernesto Limiti; Universit di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-17, Time: 13:00
This work reviews the topic of two-port unconditional stabil-
ity (US) and xes some misconceptions still common among
high-frequency designers, notwithstanding the broad, relevant
literature. Ohtomos test for network stability is then presented in
a synthetic form and linked to US conditions.
Finally, this approach is extended to N-port networks to obtain two
sets of US conditions, which are intuitive generalizations of results
well known in the two-port case. These conditions represent a
necessary complement to the few works which have discussed
three-port US up to now, since they only focus on the geometrical
part of the problem, omitting to explicitly take care of Rolletts
proviso and its implications on US.
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Cryogenic Probing of mm-Wave MMIC LNAs for
Large Focal-Plane Arrays in Radio-Astronomy
R. Reeves 1 , K. Cleary 1 , R. Gawande 1 , J. Kooi 1 , J.
Lamb 1 , A.C. Readhead 1 , S. Weinreb 1 , T. Gaier 2 , P.
Kangaslahti 2 , D. Russell 2 , L. Samoska 2 , M. Varonen 3 ,
R. Lai 4 , S. Sarkozy 4 ; 1 Caltech, USA; 2 Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, USA; 3 Aalto University, Finland; 4 Northrop
Grumman, USA
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-18, Time: 13:00
In this paper, we demonstrate non-destructive cryogenic probing
of monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) ampliers at
W-band and discuss the implications for the development of
large-format focal plane arrays for radio astronomy. Using a
purpose-built cryogenic probe station to measure S-parameters
and noise temperature of MMIC low-noise ampliers (LNAs), an
order of magnitude increase in eciency can be achieved when
compared with measurements on individually packaged ampliers.
The ampliers are tested non-destructively, which enables selection
based on cryogenic noise and gain; this is crucial for the develop-
ment of highly-integrated miniaturized receivers for focal plane
arrays, such as those used for the measurement of the cosmic
microwave background (CMB) polarization and future arrays aimed
at probing the epoch of reionization (EoR).
Inkjet Printed Flexible Transmission Lines for High
Frequency Applications up to 67GHz
Mohamed Moez Belhaj, W. Wei, Emiliano Pallecchi,
Colin Mismer, Isabel Roch-jeune, Henri Happy; IEMN,
France
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-19, Time: 13:00
This letter introduces radio frequency(RF) characterization of
ink-jet printed coplanar waveguides (CPW) with and without strain.
Kapton is selected as exible substrate with dierent sintering
temperature. With optimized inkjet printing parameters, well de-
ned patterns with high resolution yield low attenuation constant
even when operated up to 67GHz. Finally, we demonstrate that the
RF performance of CPW is barely aected by bending.
Designs of Third Harmonic Generators Using a
Left-Handed Nonlinear Transmission Line on
Microstrip-Line and Suspended Stripline
In-bok Kim, Hong-Joon Kim, Hyun-Chul Choi,
Kang Wook Kim; Kyungpook National University, Korea
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-20, Time: 13:00
In this paper, designs of an eective third harmonic generator
using a left-handed nonlinear transmission line (LH NLTL) are
presented. The proposed harmonic generator using the LH NLTL
is composed of a series of varactor diodes and shunt inductances
implemented on microstrip-line (MSL) and suspended stripline
(SSL). Both of the harmonic generators were built on a Rogers
RO4003 substrate and has dimensions of 12 mm by 7 mm. The
fabricated LH NLTL provides insertion loss from 1.7 dB to 4.7 dB
for a wide left-handed passband from 2.6 to 18 GHz. The measured
minimum third harmonic conversion loss was 14.2 dB at an input
frequency of 2.5 GHz. When compared to previous works, better
third harmonic conversion eciency is achieved with much smaller
size at lower frequencies.
Recongurable WLAN Notch for UWB Filters
W. Ahmad, D. Budimir; University of Westminster, UK
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-21, Time: 13:00
This paper presents the design and results of an ultra-wideband
(3.110.6 GHz) lter with a recongurable WLAN notch at 5.8 GHz.
Recongurability has been achieved by the implementation of
Graphene based switching elements. The switches are in OFF state
when Graphene is unbiased at a chemical potential of c = 0.0eV
and are in ON state when Graphene is biased at a chemical potential
of c = 1.0eV. The simulation and measurement results of the lter
when the Graphene switches are OFF show an entire bandpass
response from 3.1 GHz to 10.6 GHz and with low insertion loss.
When the Graphene switches are ON, the simulation result shows
that a sharp rejection of the WLAN band at 5.8 GHz is achieved,
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with a very low passband insertion loss. The obtained results of
both states, i.e. switches OFF and switches ON, are as desired. An
additional lter, implemented with PIN diodes as the switching
elements, is also designed and measured. Upon comparison, the
obtained results of PIN diodes in OFF and ON states match those
of the Graphene switches in OFF and ON states.
Ferrite LTCC Edge-Guided Circulator
Shicheng Yang 1 , Didier Vincent 1 , Joey R. Bray 2 ,
Langis Roy 3 ; 1 LT2C, France; 2 RMCC, Canada;
3
Carleton University, Canada
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-22, Time: 13:00
This paper describes a ferrite low temperature co-red ceramic
(LTCC) edge-guided circulator. Traditional Y-junction stripline
circulator has one ferrite disk surrounded by a dielectric material.
A design of circulator presented here uses only ferrite LTCC.
The material exposed under the magnetic bias shows its ferrite
properties and the rest shows the dielectric properties. It has
been demonstrated that a passive ferrite component like circulator
could be realized on ferrite LTCC substrate without adding other
materials. So this circulator could be integrated with other RF
components such as antennas, ampliers and lters etc in System-
on-Package (SoP).
Circulator Integrated in Low Temperature Co-Fired
Ceramics Technology
Raymond van Dijk 1 , Gijs van der Bent 1 , Mohamed
Ashari 2 , Mark McKay 3 ; 1 TNO, The Netherlands; 2 Via
Electronic, Germany; 3 MESL Microwave, UK
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-23, Time: 13:00
We present a demonstration of an integrated circulator for TR
modules using low temperature co-red ceramic (LTCC) technol-
ogy. Two dierent circulators have been realised to be used in
TR modules in two dierent frequency bands, C- and Ku-band.
The circulator is a three-port junction microstrip type device. The
ferrite disc is embedded in the LTCC substrate and the composition
is exposed to an external magnetic eld, to provide the circulator
as an integrated LTCC substrate circulator. Technological develop-
ment, design and characterization of the circulator are reported.
Shape Optimization of Patch Resonator Bandpass
Filters Using Multiple Circular Structures
Sai Ho Yeung 1 , Tapan K. Sarkar 1 , Kim Fung Man 2 ,
Magdalena Salazar-Palma 3 , Alejandro
Garca-Lamprez 3 ; 1 Syracuse University, USA; 2 City
University of Hong Kong, China; 3 Universidad Carlos
III de Madrid, Spain
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-24, Time: 13:00
Two patch resonator lters, namely Type I and Type II, are designed
using a slot composed of multiple circular sectors. The lters
operate in the 2.42.48 GHz wireless local area network (WLAN)
frequency. The measured 3 dB insertion loss bandwidth of the
lters covers the whole WLAN band. The stopband of the Type II
lter is below 2.18 GHz and above 2.76 GHz, with a rejection of
more than 20 dB. The total size of the Type II lter is 21.9 mm
22.5 mm.
Compact Unequal Wilkinson Power Divider with
Large Power Dividing Ratio
Haidong Chen, Tianyu Zhang, Wenquan Che, Wenjie
Feng; NUST, China
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-25, Time: 13:00
A compact unequal Wilkinson power divider with arbitrary power
division is analyzed and demonstrated in this paper. The power
divider can be designed with arbitrary power division in theory
and achieves large power dividing ratio in practice. The proposed
structure is compatible with single layer integration by using
the normal PCB fabrication process. The complete analytical
procedures of the proposed power divider are presented. To verify
our proposed design approach in theory, one 11:1 unequal power
divider is designed and fabricated. The measured bandwidth at 20
dB return losses is about 6%, while the isolation of the two output
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ports is better than 20 dB. Good agreement between the measured
and simulated amplitude distributions is observed. The phase
dierence between outputs ports are about 2.5 degree, over the
10% relative frequency bandwidth.
An All-Pass Topology to Design a 0360
Continuous Phase Shifter with Low Insertion Loss
and Constant Dierential Phase Shift
Khaled Khoder, Marc Le Roy, Andr Prennec;
Lab-STICC, France
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-26, Time: 13:00
In this paper, an analog phase shifter is designed by using a novel
all-pass topology. The phase shift can be continuously adjusted
from 0 up to 380 by biasing varactor-diodes while maintaining the
dierential phase shift constant across the 6.7 GHz 7.7 GHz band.
This two-stage circuit is simple and compact with respectively
insertion losses of 2.9 dB 1.3 dB, return losses better than 9.4
dB and a dierential phase shift atness of 11 in the worst
case. With a 90.5 /dB Figure-of-Merit, this topology presents an
interesting trade-o between low-cost, low loss, large phase-shift
range, phase atness and bandwidth. Measurements are discussed
and carefully compared to current competing topologies.
An Enhanced Phase Shifted Transmitter Based on
2nd HT GaN-PAs with Energy Recovery Circuit
R. Giofr, L. Piazzon, R. Danieli, A. Spinosa, P.
Colantonio, Franco Giannini; Universit di Roma Tor
Vergata, Italy
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-27, Time: 13:00
Phase Shifted Transmitter (PST) operates without mixers and
allows the direct generation and transmission of any envelope and
phase-modulated signals. Besides of maintaining all the benets of
the standard PST architecture, the solution here proposed allows
the integration of an energy recovery circuit capable to boost the
eciency of the overall transmitter up to 50%. The theoretical
analysis of the novel architecture is reported highlighting the
relevant dierences and advantages with respect to the standard
approach. The required key RF blocks have been realized in hybrid
technology employing GaN HEMT devices and Schottky diodes
to design the power ampliers (PAs) and the energy recovery
circuit, respectively. In particular, the former have been designed
by exploiting the 2nd harmonic tuning approach. Experimental
results on the PAs have shown an eciency higher than 70% at 39
dBm of output power with an associated gain greater than 11 dB
at 2GHz. Moreover, a draft experimental validation of the overall
system is also reported showing promising performances.
Wideband High Power High Eciency Linear GaN
Power Amplier for Cognitive Radio Application
W. Demenitroux, L. Mandica, C. Richardeau, B.
Gerfault, N. Berthou, P. Grandgeorge; Thales
Communications & Security, France
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-28, Time: 13:00
This paper describes a linear, high ecient, high power push-pull
GaN amplier in the VHF-UHF band. This PA shows an eciency
of 6055% from 10 MHz to 650 MHz, for an output power of 100W
and a compressed gain of 19,5 +/-1.5 dB. By reducing the drain
voltage to 30V, the eciency is 7060 with an output power of 47
dBm and a power gain of 18,5 +/-1.5 dB. Moreover, the measured
EVM is less than 2% for an eciency about 40% and an output
power from 0 dBm to 45 dBm using a 64-QAM modulation at 50V.
Nevertheless, the record eciency of 60% have been measured on
a 3pi/8 PSK (EDGE) digital modulation with an EVM < 2.5%, for a
tunable output power from 42 to 48 dBm.
Recongurable Digital Cartesian Feedback for
Transmitters
D. Ndong 1 , S. Reed 1 , J.F. Diouris 2 , B. Feuvrie 2 ;
1
Telerad, France; 2 IETR, France
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-29, Time: 13:00
This paper presents an original method to realize digital loop con-
trol for a radio communication V/UHF (Very/Ultra High Frequency)
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transmitter. The objective is to propose a SDR (Software Dened
Radio) solution with a correction of the PA (Power Amplier)
nonlinearities. The proposed architecture is full digital solution
except the up-converter for specic reasons. The used numeric
core is a Virtex6 FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array). The
down-converter and loop lters are integrated in the digital part.
Measurements show improvement of 5% of the EVM (Error Vector
Magnitude) and more than 20 dB for the ACPR (Adjacent Channel
Power Ratio) compared to the open loop. The overall delay system
is about 1.4 and the loop gain is 20.4 dB.
A Compact Dual-Polarization ZOR Antenna
Giorgio Garavaglia, M. DAmico; Politecnico di Milano,
Italy
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-30, Time: 13:00
A novel dual-polarization, metamaterial-based antenna for the
2.4 GHz band is presented. The basic element is a Zeroth-Order
Resonator (ZOR) antenna, which consists of a cascade of unit cells
of epsilon negative transmission line. Two elements are located
on the same substrate, and their topology is optimized in order to
obtain a low crosstalk between the two orthogonal polarizations.
A Compact Electromagnetic Bandgap Structure
Based on Multi-Layer Technology for 7-Tesla
Magnetic Resonance Imaging Applications
Zhichao Chen, Klaus Solbach, Daniel Erni, Andreas
Rennings; Universitt Duisburg-Essen, Germany
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-31, Time: 13:00
A compact electromagnetic bandgap (EBG) structure based on
multi-layer technology for 7-Tesla magnetic resonance imaging
(MRI) applications is presented. The proposed structure introduces
an additional oating metallic layer between the top surface and
the ground plane of the conventional single-layer uni-planar EBG
structures, which provides more capacitive coupling between the
adjacent unit cells. Thus, for the desired operating frequency (300
MHz), a miniaturized dimension of the unit cell, about 2.6% of
the free-space wavelength, is achieved. The proposed structure is
characterized by the reection phase and the stop-band properties.
The full-wave simulations and experimental results show a good
agreement.
Wideband High-Gain Multi-Layer Patch
Antenna-Coupler with Metamaterial Superstrate for
X-Band Applications
Raid J. Hadi, Carl Sandhagen, Axel Bangert;
Universitt Kassel, Germany
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-32, Time: 13:00
A wide bandwidth, high-gain and high directivity multi-layer patch
antenna integrated with coupler and covered with metamaterial
superstrate is proposed for frequency range of 10.8 to 12 GHz. The
novel high level of integration of three dierent functions in one
conguration is done in a straightforward design. It consists of a 50
ohm microstrip line coupled directly to the non-radiating edge of a
patch antenna. This structure is covered by two layers of near zero
refractive index metamaterial. The prototype of this conguration
shows a at coupling factor of 25 dB and a high isolation factor
of 33 dB. The two layers of metamaterial superstrate enhanced
the performance of the patch antenna-coupler. At the center
frequency of 11.4 GHz, the gain of the patch antenna-coupler with
metamaterial superstrate is improved by 8 dB to 13.4 dB and the
return loss bandwidth is improved to more than 10%. Furthermore,
the 3-dB beamwidth of the antenna is reduced by more than 70 to
30 .
A Low Magnetic Bias Sub-Millimetre Wave
Semiconductor Junction Circulator
Ghassan N. Jawad 1 , Robin Sloan 2 ; 1 University of
Baghdad, Iraq; 2 University of Manchester, UK
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-34, Time: 13:00
This paper presents a design for a semiconductor junction circula-
tor to work in the sub-millimetre wave frequency range. An InSb
disk is modelled for a low steady applied axial magnetic eld. An
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approach was utilised to design the circulator with minimum re-
quired magnetic biasing by exploiting a frequency range above the
extraordinary wave resonant frequency. Circulation at frequency
of 650GHz with about 9% 10dB bandwidth was predicted using an
applied magnetic eld as low as 0.2T. The Greens function de-
scription is veried using a commercially available electromagnetic
simulation package with resultant electromagnetic eld patterns
given.
Miniature Ceramic Filter-Antenna for Wireless
Communications Systems at 60GHz
F. Kouki 1 , M. Thevenot 1 , Stphane Bila 1 , Nicolas
Delhote 1 , T. Mondire 1 , Serge Verdeyme 1 , T.
Chartier 2 ; 1 XLIM, France; 2 SPCTS, France
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-35, Time: 13:00
This study presents a new design of a multi-band lter-antenna
subsystem dedicated to high-speed wireless communications at
60 GHz. The objective is to design the subsystem as a monolithic
object realized with a ceramic material. The broadband antenna
is composed of a conical horn acting as a primary source for
illuminating a reect-array. The 9-GHz spectrum, which covers the
unlicensed 60-GHz band, is divided into four channels of 1.65 GHz.
In this paper, the primary source and the four bandpass lters are
designed and integrated together.
A Filter with Recongurable Band Edges Using
Dual-Behavior Resonators
X. Lu, K. Mouthaan, T.S. Yeo; National University of
Singapore, Singapore
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-36, Time: 13:00
A lter with recongurable bandedges using dual-behavior res-
onators is presented. The resonators are based on the electrical
circuit of the Modied Butterworth-Van-Dyke model (MBVD) used
for one port surface acoustic wave (SAW) resonators. They exhibit a
series and a parallel resonant frequency which allows realization of
highly selective transition bands. The band edge recongurability
is realized separately for the upper transition band and the lower
transition band. The fabricated lter without PIN diodes has
four lter states by relocating the passband edges. A bandwidth
recongurable lter using PIN diodes is also fabricated and the
recongurable bands with bandwidths of 16.5% and 76.5% are
realized.
4-Bit, 1 to 4GHz Recongurable Discriminator for
Frequency Measurement
M. Espinosa-Espinosa 1 , I. Llamas-Garro 1 , B.G.M.
de Oliveira 2 , M.T. de Melo 2 , Jung-Mu Kim 3 ; 1 CTTC,
Spain; 2 UFPE, Brazil; 3 Chonbuk National University,
Korea
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-37, Time: 13:00
This paper presents a novel 4-bit recongurable discriminator
for frequency measurement, operating from 1 to 4 GHz. The
discriminator is a two-port device used to identify the frequency of
an unknown signal by switching between its 4 states. The device
is formed by a xed reference line and a switchable delay line.
The device is implemented using microstrip lines and PIN diodes.
Simulated and measured results are presented for the four states
of the recongurable discriminator.
Asymmetrical Mechanical Design for Bouncing
Suppression in RF-MEMS Switches
Emilien Lemoine, Cyril Guines, Arnaud Pothier, Pierre
Blondy; XLIM, France
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-38, Time: 13:00
Contact bouncing is among the most critical phenomenon reducing
RF-MEMS reliability. This paper shows that very simple changes
in switch design permit suppression of contact bouncing upon
closure. The proposed asymmetrical design gets two dimples in
contact with substrate electrodes successively, instead of simulta-
neously. This helps the dissipation of kinetic energy and prevents
contact re-opening. On top of preliminary ageing prevention, the
structure can handle more actuation voltage and then have more
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contact force compared to symmetrical structures. Experimental
demonstration is presented on metal contact switches with more
than 2mN contact force, one symmetrical with signicant bouncing
and the other asymmetrical without any bouncing clearly show the
relevance of the approach.
Liquid Crystal Varactor Loaded Variable Phase
Shifter for Integrated, Compact, and Fast
Beamsteering Antenna Systems
Wenjuan Hu, Onur Hamza Karabey, Alexander Gbler,
Ananto Eka Prasetiadi, Matthias Jost, Rolf Jakoby;
Technische Universitt Darmstadt, Germany
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-39, Time: 13:00
This paper presents a microstrip variable delay line loaded with
liquid crystal varactors in series. The design of the device, includ-
ing both the theoretical analysis and the fabrication, is presented.
The proposed design shows a high LC varactor tuning eciency
of 83% and a low response time in the order of 3 seconds. These
high performances result from implementing the varactors in
parallel plate capacitor topology and with a 10 m thick LC layer
as a tunable dielectric between the electrodes. Simulation and
measurement results verify that a designed prototype can provide
a dierential phase shift of 60 at 20 GHz with an insertion loss
no higher than 2 dB.
Design of Multi-State Actuator for mm-Wave
Recongurable Front-End Circuits Using
CMOS-MEMS Technologies
Yu-Sheng Su, Chia-Wei Chang, Yi-Chen Liu, Yi-Ming
Chen, Chia-Can Chang, Sheng-Fuh Chang; National
Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-40, Time: 13:00
Recongurability in mm-wave circuits and systems become desired
in recent years. In this work, the parallel-beam driven actuator
is modied in two ways to enhance the tuning capability. In
cooperated with the proposed actuator, two V-band frequency-
tunable front-end circuits are demonstrated. The bandstop lter
is fabricated in 0.35-m CMOS-MEMS process, providing ve-band
switching within 5163.6 GHz with band rejection > 20 dB. The
slot antenna in 0.18-m CMOS-MEMS shows seven-band switching
from 46.6 to 56 GHz with the antenna gain > -15.6 dBi. The
measurements present a good agreement with simulated results.
A Novel Latching RF MEMS Phase Shifter
Maher Bakri-Kassem 1 , Raafat R. Mansour 2 , Saeddin
Safavi-Naeini 2 ; 1 American University of Sharjah, UAE;
2
University of Waterloo, Canada
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-41, Time: 13:00
A novel nickel/gold based electroplated 4-bit RF MEMS phase
shifter is designed, fabricated and tested. The proposed design
can candle high power and utilizes CPW transmission lines that
use 8 latching SPDT RF MEMS switches that can work at 80 K.
The design is based on 4 cascaded phase shifting units where
every unit has two dierent electrical lengths of CPW transmission
lines. Every unit has one common electrical length that is used as
a reference where the second electrical length CPW has dierent
electrical length. The second electrical length CPW in every unit is
designed to give a relatively dierent phase shift once it is engaged
in. The worst measured insertion loss and return loss are -6 dB
and -16 dB, respectively, at 13 GHz with a phase shift of almost
-125 degrees. The phase shifter is built using high resistive silicon
substrate using MetalMUMPs process.
Glance on Microwave Engineering Research
Activities at King Saud University
Ibrahim Elshaey, Abdel Fattah Sheta, Hamsakutty
Vettikalladi, Khalid Jamil; King Saud University, Saudi
Arabia
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-42, Time: 13:00
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia provides substantial support for
research in various disciplines. In one aspect of provision, invest-
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ment of over $6 billion is provided through the National Plan for
Science, Technology and Innovation. This plan intends to establish
knowledge based society and economy. This paper addresses some
aspects of the microwave engineering research driven by this plan
and conducted at King Saud University (KSU).
EuMC/EuRAD01 : Antenna Arrays
Venue: Iustina, 14:20 16:00, Wednesday 8th October 2014
Chair: Ioan E. Lager, Technische Universiteit Delft, The
Netherlands
Co-Chair: Maurizio Bozzi, Universit di Pavia, Italy
Impact of the Dihedral Angle of Switched Beam
Antennas in Indoor Positioning Based on RSSI
Stefano Maddio, Marco Passaume, Alessandro
Cidronali, Gianfranco Manes; Universit di Firenze,
Italy
EuMC/EuRAD01-01, Time: 14:20
This paper presents an investigation about Switched Beam An-
tennas (SBA) for indoor positioning systems based on RSSI
measurements. Given practical consideration on hardware costs,
the device in exam is based on low-cost commercial components
capable of standard WiFi connectivity at 2.45 GHz.
The SBA is the enabling technology for Beam Diversity Multiple
Access of smart WiFi nodes. Upon the reception of radio messages
from generic mobile devices, the node estimates the DoA of the
incoming signals on the basis of a likelihood criterion driven by
the expected beam diversity.
SBA design has great impact on the localization performance. In
this paper an investigation around the SBA shape is presented,
with particular emphasis on the eects of the dihedral angle of
regular polyhedron-type SBA. Thanks to a model based on trustful
electromagnetic simulations, some conclusions on the general
design principles of the SBAs are drawn.
Dual-Band Linear Phased Array in K-Band
S.E. Valavan, D. Tran, Alexander G. Yarovoy, A.G.
Roederer; Technische Universiteit Delft, The
Netherlands
EuMC/EuRAD01-02, Time: 14:40
A dual-band phased array design in K-band is presented. The key
features of the array include dual-band performance with large
frequency ratio, good sub-band bandwidths, low-prole electrical
dimensions of the array element and scanning capability up to a
maximum of 50 and 30 at the low and high frequency bands
respectively. An experimental linear 1 7 array prototype has
been fabricated and its performance veried, with good agreement
between the results of the full-wave simulations and measure-
ments.
A Broadband 16-Element 2-D Phased Array Based on
Quasi-Yagi Antennas
Wentao Zhang, Qiang Wang, Xiaoyang He, Yingyi He,
Ronghua Jian, Qi Chen; CAEP, China
EuMC/EuRAD01-03, Time: 15:00
In this paper, a broadband 2-D phased array based on 16 iden-
tical planar quasi-Yagi elements is presented. Firstly, a modied
quasi-Yagi antenna with wide beamwidth is developed. Then, by
dividing the antenna card to independent elements, inserting a
metal fence between front-back elements, which is as high as the
antennas ground plane, the mutual coupling is mitigated. After
constructed with Wilkinson power divider and T/R modules, a
fully functional active phased array is implemented. Measured
radiation patterns show that the X-band array prototype can scan
30 degree across the whole X-band from 8GHz to 12GHz.
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Broadband Cavity-Backed Antenna Arrays on Glass
Substrate for 60GHz Application
Sanaz Mortazavi 1 , Ali Sinai Esfahani 1 , Amin
Hamidian 1 , Andrea Malignaggi 1 , Haythem H.
Abdullah 2 , Georg Boeck 1 ; 1 Technische Universitt
Berlin, Germany; 2 Electronics Research Institute, Egypt
EuMC/EuRAD01-04, Time: 15:20
In this paper design concepts for compact broadband printed
V-Band 21 bowtie, 21 and 22 dipole array antennas, suitable
for millimeter wave (mm-Wave) applications, are presented. The
antennas are designed on a planar quartz glass substrate. The
center frequencies of the array antennas are set to 60 GHz. Opti-
mization techniques for improving antennas impedance matching
and overall gain are also presented. Simulated and measured
impedance matching and far eld radiation patterns for all three
antenna arrays are shown and discussed. An air cavity has been
embedded in the quartz glass stack to improve antenna bandwidth
and radiation eciency. Both dipole structures have about 8.5
dBi measured gain, while the bowtie antenna shows 7 dBi. Their
bandwidth is about 10 GHz. All three designs achieve over 10%
bandwidth while maintaining better than 90% eciency. A proto-
type of the antennas was successfully manufactured and tested.
A Compact Dielectric Rod Antenna Array for
Wideband Millimeter-Wave Applications
Weihai Fang, Peng Fei, Feng Nian, Yujie Yang, Keming
Feng; Beijing Institute of Radio Metrology &
Measurement, China
EuMC/EuRAD01-05, Time: 15:40
Compact dielectric waveguide antenna array in Ka-band (26.5GHz
40GHz) for active imaging system is given. Antenna array with
WR28 metal waveguide directly feeding is specially designed with
small size, high gain, good radiation pattern, easy realization, low
insertion loss and low mutual coupling. One practical antenna
array for active imaging system is shown with theoretic analysis
and experiment. The mutual coupling of sending and receiving
units is less than -30dB, the gain from 26.5GHz to 40GHz is (1216)
dB. The results in this paper provide guidelines for the designing
of millimeter wave dielectric waveguide antenna array.
EuMC/EuRAD02 : Application-Driven
Antenna Design
Venue: Iustina, 16:40 18:20, Wednesday 8th October 2014
Chair: Arne F. Jacob, Technische Universitt Hamburg-Harburg,
Germany
Co-Chair: Marian Wnuk, Military University of Technology
Flat Foam-Based Mikaelian Lens Antenna for
Millimeter Wave Applications
Jonathan Bor, Benjamin Fuchs, Olivier Lafond,
Mohamed Himdi; IETR, France
EuMC/EuRAD02-01, Time: 16:40
The design principles and radiation performances of Mikaelian lens
antennas are investigated. An innovative technique to manufacture
gradient index lenses based on the variation of the foam density is
described and applied to Mikaelian lenses. This yields low cost and
lightweight lenses. The radiation performances of a foam-based
planar Mikaelian lens antenna are simulated and measured at 60
GHz. They validate the foam technique and show the potentialities
of such lens antennas.
A Wideband Variable Width Microstrip Grid Array
Antenna
Osama Khan 1 , Juan Pontes 1 , Xuyang Li 1 , Christian
Waldschmidt 2 ; 1 Robert Bosch, Germany; 2 Universitt
Ulm, Germany
EuMC/EuRAD02-02, Time: 17:00
A wideband planar microstrip grid array antenna is presented. The
antenna is realized on a standard Rogers RO3003 substrate. It is
fed using two centrally located microstrip vias through a ground
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aperture. Measured results show a 12% S11 < -10 dB bandwidth
and a maximum gain of 17 dBi. Using a variable microstrip line
width, a side-lobe suppression of at least -12 dB between 7785
GHz is measured. The antenna can be used in short and medium
range operation for automotive radar.
Temperature Sensitivity Measurements of a
Resistively Loaded Wideband Antenna
G. Clementi 1 , C. Migliaccio 1 , J.-Y. Dauvignac 1 , J.
Willebois 2 ; 1 LEAT, France; 2 BOWEN, France
EuMC/EuRAD02-03, Time: 17:20
Radar often operate in severe weather conditions with large tem-
perature variations. This paper presents return loss measurements
and post-processing for the evaluation of temperature sensitivity
of a resistively loaded radar antenna. The antenna is placed
in a drying oven for controlling the temperature. A calibration
technique based on an amplitude demodulation is presented in
order to withdraw the inuence of the ovens metallic walls. A
temperature model is derived from the calibrated values and the
opportunity to use it in the radar budget is discussed.
Design of the TM01 Radiator with Large Aperture
Qiang Wang, Xiaoyang He, Chun Yang, Haijing Zhou;
CAEP, China
EuMC/EuRAD02-04, Time: 17:40
A new design method based on coupled-mode theory for the
TM01 radiator with large aperture is proposed in this paper. The
input and output diameter is 70mm and 400mm respectively,
and the work frequency is 8.5GHz. The structure designed by the
conventional method is 1300mm, and the bandwidth in which
the preserve eciency keeps beyond 90% ranges from 3.3GHz
to 9GHz, and preserve eciency is 97% at work frequency. To
shorten the structure, a novel method is proposed. The length
of the structure can be reduced to 800mm, with the sacrices of
bandwidth reduction (7.9GHz9.2GHz) and preserve eciency
reduction (90%) at work frequency. TM01 radiator can be used in
the test of high power microwave (HPM) source.
EuMC/EuRAD03 : Technologies for
Communication, Radar and Remote Sensing
Venue: Giulia, 09:00 10:40, Thursday 9th October 2014
Chair: Thomas Walter, Hochschule Ulm, Germany
Co-Chair: Bertram Arbesser-Rastburg, SpaceTec Partners
A V and E-Band Packaged Direct-Conversion
Transceiver Chipset for Mobile Backhaul
Application in SiGe Technology
Saverio Trotta 1 , Giuseppina Sapone 1 , Reinhard W.
Jungmaier 1 , Abhiram Chakraborty 1 , Jagjit S. Bal 1 ,
Herbert Knapp 1 , Hans-Peter Forstner 1 , Nasr Ismail 1 ,
Maciej Wojinowski 1 , Ernst Seler 1 , Mehran P. Mousavi 1 ,
Dimitri Malsam 2 ; 1 Inneon Technologies, Germany;
2
Keysight Technologies, Germany
EuMC/EuRAD03-01, Time: 09:00
In this paper three chipsets for mobile backhaul application in the
V and E-band are presented. The chips are fabricated in a 170GHz
fT SiGe production technology and housed in a wafer level package,
eWLB. The three devices share the same silicon front-end. They
show the same size, same architecture, and same pin interface.
Thus, they enable cost ecient system designs from 57 up 86GHz.
Moreover, for the rst time, a packaged device is used in those
wireless applications up to 86GHz. The transceiver chip features a
push-push VCO showing a PNssb lower than -80dBc/Hz at 100kHz
oset in the whole frequency range of interest. The NF of the Rx is
lower than 8dB, including the loss of the package. Supplied with
3.3V, the chip consumes 1.6W in Tx mode and 1.1W in Rx mode.
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A 250nm CMOS/LDMOS Pulse-Width Modulator and
Driver for Space-Borne GaN Switch Mode Power
Ampliers in P-Band
I.S. Ghosh 1 , U. Altmann 1 , O. Kersten 1 , M. Quibeldey 1 ,
R. Follmann 1 , P. Hildenhagen 1 , M. Rittweger 1 , Elisa
Cipriani 2 , P. Colantonio 2 , L. Cabria 3 , N. Ayllon 4 ,
Amitabh Chowdhary 4 ; 1 IMST, Germany; 2 Universit di
Roma Tor Vergata, Italy; 3 TTI, Spain; 4 ESA, The
Netherlands
EuMC/EuRAD03-02, Time: 09:20
In this paper, the design of a single-chip RF Pulse-Width Modulator
and Driver (PWMD) aimed at exciting a 80 W class-E GaN high-
power stage at 435 MHz is described. For the required buer size,
avoiding potential ringing of the pulses within the buer structure
presents a major challenge in the design process. Therefore, a
smaller chip capable of driving capacitive loads of up to 5 pF was
initially designed, fabricated and tested. An approach based on
3D EM simulations was used to validate the test results. Based on
the presented results, an enlarged chip able to drive a 80 W GaN
high-power stage is currently being designed.
QV Band Receiver Converter for Satellite
Communications
D. Apollonio 1 , Sergio Arena 2 , A. Biondi 3 , Tommaso
Cavanna 2 , W. Ciccognani 4 , Ernesto Limiti 4 , P.
Ranieri 1 , Francesco Scappaviva 3 , A. Suriani 1 ,
Francesco Vitulli 1 ; 1 Thales Alenia Space, Italy; 2 Wave
Advanced Technology Applications, Italy; 3 MEC, Italy;
4
Universit di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
EuMC/EuRAD03-03, Time: 09:40
A QV band receiver and converter unit, including a novel low noise
MMIC amplier at 50GHz, is being developed under a Contract
with the European Space Agency. This project is aimed both at the
development of the basic building blocks for equipments operating
in QV band (LNA and Down converters), and at the fabrication of a
full receiver prototype, conceived for future satellite communica-
tion in this frequency band. At the present status of the project,
the LNA and mixer MMICs have been designed, fabricated and
tested showing excellent results, suitable for the application. The
LNA features a noise gure of 2.0dB at 50 GHz, while the Mixer
performs an insertion loss of 9dB.
Multi-Gigabit Data Transmission at 240GHz with
Complex Baseband Power Detection
D. Lopez-Diaz 1 , F. Boes 2 , J. Antes 2 , I. Kallfass 2 , S.
Koenig 3 , F. Kurz 4 , F. Poprawa 4 , Axel Tessmann 5 , R.
Henneberger 6 ; 1 Lantiq A, Austria; 2 Universitt
Stuttgart, Germany; 3 KIT, Germany; 4 Siemens,
Germany; 5 Fraunhofer IAF, Germany; 6 Radiometer
Physics, Germany
EuMC/EuRAD03-04, Time: 10:00
In this paper, we present the wireless data transmission of incoher-
ent non-return to zero on-o keying (NRZ-OOK) signals with a data
rate of 10 Gbit/s at a carrier frequency of 240 GHz. The transmitter
(Tx) and receiver (Rx) are separated by a distance of 10 m. For a
realistic, incoherent scenario, two independent, unsynchronized
local oscillators (LOs) are used at the transmitter and receiver
side. To recover the baseband signal, the radio frequency (RF) is
down-converted to a near zero intermediate frequency (IF) of 200
kHz. A complex power detection is performed on the in-phase (I)
and quadrature (Q) channels to obtain the amplitude information
of the transmit signal and hence to recover the sent data.
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Design, Development and Calibration of the MWR
Microwave Radiometer Onboard Sentinel-3
Miguel ngel Palacios Lzaro, Marc Bergad Pujades,
Raquel Gonzlez Sola, Atalfo Gamonal Coto, Jos Luis
Garca Fernndez, Yolanda Camacho; Airbus Defence
& Space, Spain
EuMC/EuRAD03-05, Time: 10:20
The MWR instrument builds, together with the SRAL altimeter, the
Sentinel-3 (S3) topography mission in the frame of the EC Coperni-
cus program. The MWR provides information for tropospheric path
correction of SRAL measurements, and its data can also be used
for determining surface emissivity and soil moisture over land, for
surface energy budget investigations and ice characterization. The
MWR is a dual frequency Noise Injection Radiometer working at K
and Ka band (23.8 & 36.5 GHz) embarking a main reector antenna
and a dual frequency horn for autonomous calibration. This paper
briey presents the design and development of the MWR, and is
especially focused on the on-ground calibration campaign of the
radiometer.
EuMC/EuRAD04 : Antennas for
Communication Applications
Venue: Flavia, 11:20 13:00, Thursday 9th October 2014
Chair: Marian Wnuk, Military University of Technology
Co-Chair: Arne F. Jacob, Technische Universitt
Hamburg-Harburg, Germany
Small F-gain Printed Slot Antenna for IR-UWB
Wireless Sensor Networks Applications
Hamadache Zemmour 1 , Genevive Baudoin 1 , Antoine
Diet 2 ; 1 ESYCOM, France; 2 L2S (UMR 8506), France
EuMC/EuRAD04-01, Time: 11:20
This work focuses on antennas for wireless IR-UWB sensor network
(WSN). A novel small (<5cm2 ) planar monopole ultra-wideband
(UWB) micro-strip fed antenna is presented. WSN are dicult cases
for communications, implying the antenna to be adapted to the
channel. The rst consideration is the path loss compensation,
especially for Ultra Wide Band signals. The characterization of
the antenna is done in both frequency and time domain and
shows a return loss <10dB from 4.2 to 12.4 GHz (including the
68.5 GHz), delity factors of more than 90% and pulse width
stretch ratio lower than 6%. The antenna transfer function is
analyzed. It increases with frequency, providing a quasi-constant
transmission channel transfer function (antenna&channel). Return
loss and radiation pattern are depicted. The time domain analysis,
via Fidelity factor and pulse width Stretch Ratio, conrms its
non-distortion behavior. The designed antenna has a small size
of 20200.8mm3 , and an omnidirectional radiation pattern over
the frequency band considered.
Compact Dual-Band Circularly Polarized Patch
Antennas with Small Frequency Ratio
Stefano Maddio, Alessandro Cidronali, Gianfranco
Manes; Universit di Firenze, Italy
EuMC/EuRAD04-02, Time: 11:40
This paper proposes a new design for dual-band Circularly Po-
larized (CP) microstrip antennas. CP antennas are advantageous
for indoor communications due to their intrinsic robustness to
multipath. In addition, Dual-band operation is another aid for
communication in the sense of recongurability issue.
The proposed antenna is a disc patch loaded by 2 pairs of parasitic
crown segments, printed on common dielectric substrate and fed
by a coaxial probe. With this design, dual band congurations
with small frequency ratio from 4% to 16% can be exibly
designed, without sacricing the gain. By the means of a paramet-
ric characterization, which serves either as a guideline, and as the
staring point for an extensive optimization, the cases ranging from
2.45/2.55 to 2.45/2.85 GHz are investigated.
The validation of this approach is proven by designing and fabri-
cating a set of prototypes implemented with common low-cost FR4
dielectric substrate. A mean Left Hand CP Gain of 4 dB is measured
at rst operation peak, while a mean of 2.25 dB is found for the
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second peak for all the fabricated congurations. All the peak
resonances shows at least 15 dB of polarization ratio, conrming
the validity of the proposed design.
Open-Ended Dielectric-Filled Waveguide Antenna
for Underwater Usage
Michael Sporer, Robert Weigel, Alexander Koelpin; FAU
Erlangen-Nrnberg, Germany
EuMC/EuRAD04-03, Time: 12:00
In wireless short-range underwater communication a trend towards
higher operating frequencies and bandwidth can be noticed in
order to increase channel capacity and throughput. For launching
electromagnetic waves typically low-directive wire antennas are
employed. In this work a new kind of underwater antenna is
presented for the 2.4GHz industrial, scientic and medical (ISM)
band, based on a dielectric lled open-ended waveguide. The
antenna is designed as impedance matching transformer allowing
a connection of conventional 50 coaxial cables. The measured 10
dB bandwidth in fresh water is approx. 550MHz (22%). Compared
to a conventional monopole antenna an increase in receive power
of approx. 14 dB can be achieved.
Microstrip-Fed Quasi-Yagi Antennas for WLAN
Applications
Mohamad Farran 1 , Daniele Modotto 1 , Stefano
Boscolo 2 , Andrea Locatelli 1 , Antonio-D. Capobianco 3 ,
Michele Midrio 2 , Vittorio Ferrari 1 ; 1 Universit di
Brescia, Italy; 2 Universit di Udine, Italy; 3 Universit di
Padova, Italy
EuMC/EuRAD04-04, Time: 12:20
Novel designs of printed quasi-Yagi antennas for the 2.4 GHz
WLAN band are presented. Unlike existing solutions for this
category of planar antennas, the active element is now conceived
as a monopole: on the one hand this allows for a direct microstrip
feeding, on the other hand the antenna overall size can be reduced
to less than 0.50.5. Prototypes fabrication and measurements (mechanical/electrical) is proposed and implemented. Here, the
conrm that gains in excess of 5 dB can be obtained and a 50
impedance matching bandwidth wider than 400 MHz makes the
proposed design robust and compatible with the large variability
in the parameters of commercial FR4 substrates.
Multibeam Bifocal Reector Antenna Design with
40 Field of View: A Candidate for High Gain
Ground Station Application
Andrey N. Plastikov; Moscow Power Engineering
Institute, Russia
EuMC/EuRAD04-05, Time: 12:40
This paper presents a design of Ku-band multiple beam oset
dual-reector bifocal reector antenna (BFRA) with 40 eld of
view (FoV) that is suitable for high gain ground station applica-
tions. BFRA under consideration has a nearly square aperture
with dimensions of about 4.5 m (191 wavelengths at a frequency
of 12.75 GHz) and was designed for required scan angle = 18
using a synthesis procedure proposed recently. Antenna has a
Gregorian-like conguration in the oset vertical plane and a
Cassegranian-like conguration in the scanning horizontal plane.
A physical optics method is used to calculate the radiation pat-
terns. In the case when maximum gain is needed, that is especially
suitable for some receiving-only ground systems, the directivity
of BFRA is higher than 53.8 dB and aperture eciency is greater
than 52% at a frequency of 12.75 GHz within the whole achievable
FoV of 40 in the scanning horizontal plane. Such a BFRA design
has FoV equal to 100 beamwidths and theoretically achievable
minimum angular separation between adjacent beams of about 1 .
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EuMC/EuRAD05 : Phased Arrays: System
Aspects
Venue: Giulia, 11:20 13:00, Thursday 9th October 2014
Chair: Lorenz-Peter Schmidt, FAU Erlangen-Nrnberg, Germany
Co-Chair: Giandomenico Amendola, University of Calabria
Design of a Highly Integrated Ku-Band Planar
Broadband Phased Array Receiver with Dual
Polarization
Marc van der Vossen 1 , Gerard Voshaar 1 , Adriaan
Hulzinga 2 , Chris Roelozen 3 , Maikel Iven 4 ; 1 Bruco
Integrated Circuits, The Netherlands; 2 NLR, The
Netherlands; 3 Satrax, The Netherlands; 4 Vermeulen
Printservice, The Netherlands
EuMC/EuRAD05-01, Time: 11:20
A highly integrated Ku-band (10.712.75 GHz) planar phased
array receiver of 64 antenna elements is presented. It features
instantaneous reception of the full Ku-band (2.05 GHz wide) in
two orthogonal polarizations with scan angles up to 75 degrees
by using time delay instead of phase shift. The receiver is part
of a system for satellite reception on board of moving vehicles.
Two SiGe RFICs were developed, packaged in ceramic BGAs and
assembled onto a 15-layer PCB which integrates the antenna
elements. An outline of the system is given along with a detailed
description. It sets a new standard in integration density.
Planar Phased Array Antenna for Nomadic Satellite
Communication in Ka-Band
I. Nistal-Gonzlez, S. Otto, O. Litschke, A. Bettray, L.
Wunderlich, R. Gieron, M. Wleklinski; IMST, Germany
EuMC/EuRAD05-02, Time: 11:40
A planar Ka-Band antenna demonstrator for nomadic satellite com-
munication (satcom) is presented. A hybrid beam steering concept
electrical beam steering (phased array) with its fast response time
can compensate for mechanical pointing errors and hence, reduce
the accuracy requirements of the mechanical positioning unit.
The aperture of the antenna is realized in conventional waveguide
technology with an array of radiating horn elements to achieve
an extremely high aperture eciency and radiation eciency.
Measurements and simulations show an excellent agreement and
conrm the high radiation eciency. Finally, tests of the complete
system have been conducted in a life bidirectional satellite link
scenario.
Prototype of 32-Element Horn Antenna Array for
Imaging Reector Antenna of 21-GHz Band
Broadcasting Satellite
Masafumi Nagasaka, Susumu Nakazawa, Masashi
Kamei, Shoji Tanaka, Tetsuomi Ikeda; NHK, Japan
EuMC/EuRAD05-03, Time: 12:00
A 21-GHz band satellite broadcasting system is being studied
as a means of delivering 8K (Super Hi-Vision), 3DTV, and other
advanced forms of broadcasting. We assumed the use of two
300-MHz class wideband channels in the 21.4 to 22.0-GHz band
and devised an array-fed imaging reector antenna (array-fed
IRA) to supply enough power for a transponder with such a wide
band. The array-fed IRA is an eective means of exploiting limited
resources because of its ability to control radiation patterns; the
21-GHz band suers from severe fading due to rain. To conrm the
feasibility of the array-fed IRA system, we designed an engineering
model of an array-fed IRA for a 21-GHz band broadcasting satellite.
The engineering model has a feed array that consists of 32 horn
antennas. To improve the accuracy of the antennas arrangement,
we combined the 32 horn antennas into one unit. To evaluate
the characteristics of this unit type feed array, we fabricated and
tested a 32-element horn antenna array.
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Simultaneous Beam Steering of Multiple Signals
Based on Optical Wavelength Selective Switch
Giovanni Serano 1 , Marco Presi 1 , Antonio
Malacarne 2 , Paolo Ghel 2 , Claudio Porzi 2 , Antonella
Bogoni 2 ; 1 Scuola Superiore SantAnna, Italy; 2 CNIT,
Italy
EuMC/EuRAD05-04, Time: 12:20
A novel photonics-based scheme for the independent and si-
multaneous beam steering of multiple RF signals at a wideband
phased array antenna is presented. A wavelength selective switch
is employed both as a wavelength router to feed multiple antenna
elements, and as a tunable phase shifter to independently control
the phase of each signal at any antenna element. In the experiment,
two signals at 12.5GHz and 37.5GHz are simultaneously fed to
the four output ports of the wavelength selective switch with
independent and tunable phase shifts, emulating the independent
steering of two signals in a four-element phased-array antenna.
The results conrm the precision and exibility of the proposed
scheme.
Correction of Polarization Error in Scanned Array
Weather Radar Antennas
C. Pang 1 , Peter Hoogeboom 2 , Herman Russchenberg 2 ,
T. Wang 1 , J. Dong 1 , X. Wang 1 ; 1 NUDT, China;
2 This contribution has the purpose of understanding the conse-
Technische Universiteit Delft, The Netherlands
EuMC/EuRAD05-05, Time: 12:40
In this paper, the polarization error correction of dual-polarized
planar scanned array weather radar in alternately transmitting
and simultaneously receiving (ATSR) mode is analyzed. A method
based on point correction and a method taking the complete
array patterns into account are discussed. To analyze their per-
formances, a linear error model is presented and a Monte-Carlo
simulation procedure is developed. The simulation results show
that, since only the information at the beam direction is used, the
cross-polar measurements of point correction method degrade
with the beam scanning while the second method can eectively
overcome this deciency.
EuMC/EuRAD06 : Special Session on
Autonomous Driving: Status-Quo and the
Next Generation of Automotive RADAR
Venue: Flavia, 14:20 16:00, Thursday 9th October 2014
Chair: Holger Meinel, Daimler, Germany
Co-Chair: Enzo Dalle Mese, CNIT-RaSS
Radar Contribution to Highly Automated Driving
Juergen Dickmann, Nils Appenrodt, Hans-Ludwig
Bloecher, C. Brenk, Thomas Hackbarth, Markus Hahn,
Jens Klappstein, Marc Muntzinger, Alfons Sailer;
Daimler, Germany
EuMC/EuRAD06-01, Time: 14:20
Over the last years, radar based driver assistance and active
safety systems have found wide spread application in nearly all
vehicle brands all over the world. With the market introduction of
the 2014 Mercedes-Benz S-Class vehicle equipped with six radar
sensors covering the vehicles environment 360 in the near and
far range, autonomous driving has become a reality even in low
speed highway scenarios. This paves the way for a fast evolution of
highly automated driving that also will extend to rural and urban
trac situations. One big straight ahead was made in August 2013.
A Mercedes-Benz S-Class vehicle Mercedes-internally called
Bertha drove completely autonomously for about 100 km from
Mannheim to Pforzheim, Germany. It followed the well-known
historic Bertha Benz Memorial Route. This was done on the basis
of one stereo vision system, eight serial radar sensors and a huge
amount of radar based innovative perception algorithms. These
new algorithms taking into account that urban scenarios are
characterized by dramatic shorter reaction and observation times,
shorter mean free distances, a 360 interaction zone and a large
variety of object types to be considered. Automotive radar has
been the backbone of driver assistance systems and the innovation
driver in this eld. The question which came up was, will it be able
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to meet the requirements of eruptive innovations like autonomous
driving. The article describes the main challenges, which Daimler
radar researches had to face and their solutions to make Bertha
see. It will also outline the remaining challenges for radar research
and product development.
Future Trends and Directions in Radar Concerning
the Application for Autonomous Driving
Christian Waldschmidt 1 , Holger Meinel 2 ; 1 Universitt
Ulm, Germany; 2 Daimler, Germany
EuMC/EuRAD06-03, Time: 15:00
The top down approach to derive requirements for future radar
sensors for autonomous driving is due to its complexity hardly pos-
sible. Thus this paper presents the bottom up approach and shows
future trends and directions of automotive radar development.
This overview paper focusses on functional and non-functional
aspects, whereas technological trends are only treated very shortly.
The Vision of Automated Driving: What is it Good
for? Answers from Society with Economical and
Organizational Perspectives
Bela Peterson; Consulting4Drive, Germany
EuMC/EuRAD06-04, Time: 15:20
quences of automated driving, e.g. resulting from new forms of
man-machine interaction (driver vehicle). While a combination
of several components such as radar, lidar, camera, sensor with
software and existing data (e.g. maps) already enables vehicles
to drive autonomously today, this article will discuss the eects
on society (e.g. new and safe mobility concepts), with economic
(e.g. new business models) and organizational (understanding the
paradigm change triggered by new vehicles) perspectives. The
focus is on analyzing high degrees of automation (driverless and
highly automated), which allow vehicles to be driven for example
by autopilot. The approach is triangulate, using qualitative and
quantitative sources (secondary data). Finally, statements will be
elaborated and justied.
EuMC/EuRAD07 : Phased Arrays:
Components
Venue: Giulia, 14:20 16:00, Thursday 9th October 2014
Chair: Marco Martorella, Universit di Pisa, Italy
Co-Chair: Heinz-Peter Feldle, Airbus Defence and Space
A Low Power K- and Ka-band Receiver for
Beamforming Applications
Suman P. Sah, Deukhyoun Heo; Washington State
University, USA
EuMC/EuRAD07-01, Time: 14:20
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 single chip solution resulting in high-data rate
communications. The receiver chain consists of a low noise am-
plier (LNA) followed by a 3-bit variable gain amplier (VGA) and
a 4-bit phase shifter (PS). Resistive feedback emitter degenerated
series peaked rst stage and split-inductor peaked loading is used
to achieve wideband gain and noise matching in LNA. A novel
quadrature phase-shifter with inductive load is proposed based
on a thorough analysis of the eect of loading conditions on
quadrature accuracy. The proposed receiver is fabricated in 0.18
m SiGe BiCMOS process and occupies an area of 1.4 0.34 mm2 .
The receiver shows a measured peak gain of 23 dB at 20 GHz
and a gain atness of within 1.25 dB/GHz. The receiver shows a
minimum noise gure of 6.8 dB and achieves an input P1dB of
-21 dBm at 26 GHz. The receiver exhibits a 4-bit phase shifting
capability with rms phase error within 917.5 and rms gain error
within 12.5 dB from 2035 GHz. The total power consumption of
the receiver is just 53.8 mW.
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A 57-to-64GHz Ultra-Compact 0.027mm2 Reection
Type Phase Shifter with Low Insertion Loss
1 2
Wei-Tsung Li , Ming-Hang Wu , Jen-Hao Cheng , 2 FMCW/SFCW Radars
Tian-Wei Huang 2 ; 1 ITRI, Taiwan; 2 National Taiwan
University, Taiwan
EuMC/EuRAD07-02, Time: 14:40
An ultra-compact reection-type phase shifter (RTPS) with more
than 190 continuous phase shift and low insertion loss using
90-nm CMOS process is demonstrated in this paper. Two circuit
implementation techniques are employed: LC-type reection loads
with switches and 3-dB quadrature coupler. First, the LC-type
reection loads with switches have been proposed to alleviate the
issue of quality factor. Second, the 3-dB quadrature coupler is
designed with broadside couple to reduce chip size and enhance
couple factor. Measurements show signal losses of 9.3dB1.5dB
including pad loss, loss atness of 0.9 dB, and a more than 190
continuously tunable range across 5764 GHz with 0-mW dc power
consumption. To the best of our knowledge, the proposed phase
shifter has the smallest die size of 0.027 mm2 , among all reported
V-band CMOS phase shifter, which is important for a multi-way
phased-array system.
Novel Phase Dierence Control Technique of
Fractional-N PLL Synthesizers by Shifting the LE
Signals Synchronized with a Reference Signal
Yusuke Kitsukawa, Hideyuki Nakamizo, Kazunari
Kihira, Hiroyuki Mizutani, Kenichi Tajima, Kenji
Kawakami; Mitsubishi Electric, Japan
EuMC/EuRAD07-03, Time: 15:00
This paper proposes a novel phase control technique of microwave
signals using a Fractional-N PLL (F-PLL) synthesizer. In the pro-
posed F-PLL synthesizers, a cyclic shift of the control data of
the frequency divider (FD) is controllable by the Load Enable (LE)
signals. LE is a standard signal implemented with a commercial PLL
IC. Therefore, a phase control is possible without using the PLL IC
having a dedicated control circuit. Thus, the proposed technique
is eective for cost reduction of active phased array antenna
(APAA) equipment. The proposed technique was conrmed by
measurement with C-Band F-PLL synthesizers. The measured
phase dierence error from a designed value is 2 or less. Gonser 1 , Yaoming Sun 2 , Thomas Zwick 3 ; 1 Robert
Fiber-Optic System for Local-Oscillator Signal
Distribution in Active Phased Arrays
A. Chizh, S. Malyshev; NASB, Belarus
EuMC/EuRAD07-04, Time: 15:20
In this paper, the ber-optic system with all-optical gain for
local-oscillator (LO) signal distribution in the frequency range from
2 to 20 GHz between 64 sub-arrays (channels) in active phased
arrays via ber-optic cables is presented. The channel noise and
gain of the distribution system and relative phase drift between
the channels are studied theoretically and experimentally.
A Compact Phase-Shifting Unit for Phased Array
Antennas
Can Ding 1 , Y. Jay Guo 2 , Pei-Yuan Qin 2 , Yintang
Yang 1 ; 1 Xidian University, China; 2 CSIRO, Australia
EuMC/EuRAD07-05, Time: 15:40
A compact recongurable defected microstrip structure (RDMS)
unit is proposed for phase shifters used in phased array antennas.
The RDMS unit can introduce a phase shift when working in two
dierent states. The performance of the RDMS unit, including the
phase shift and insertion loss, is found to have closely correlations
with some key dimensions, which is elucidated using equations and
simulations. A RDMS unit with optimized dimensions is fabricated
as an example, and measured to have a phase shift of 20 at 5.2
GHz. Then, two of such RDMS units are cascaded, resulting in a
1-bit phase shifter which has a doubled phase shift but smaller
insertion loss. The proposed phase shifter is compact, low cost,
and easy to be fabricated and integrated in microstrip systems.
Therefore, it oers a low-cost and low-prole solution to phase
shifts in phased array antennas.
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EuMC/EuRAD08 : High-Resolution
Venue: Hortensia, 14:20 16:00, Thursday 9th October 2014
Chair: Oleg Krasnov, Technische Universiteit Delft, The
Netherlands
Co-Chair: Luc Vignaud, ONERA
A 240GHz Circular Polarized FMCW Radar Based on
a SiGe Transceiver with a Lens-Integrated On-Chip
Antenna
Konstantin Statnikov 1 , Neelanjan Sarmah 1 , Janusz
Grzyb 1 , Stefan Malz 1 , Bernd Heinemann 2 , Ullrich R.
Pfeier 1 ; 1 Bergische Universitt Wuppertal, Germany;
2
IHP, Germany
EuMC/EuRAD08-01, Time: 14:20
A 240 GHz monostatic circular polarized SiGe FMCW radar sys-
tem based on a transceiver chip with a single on-chip antenna
is presented. The radar transceiver front-end is implemented
in a low-cost 0.13-m SiGe HBT technology version with cut-
o frequencies fT /fmax of 300/450 GHz. The transmit block
comprises a wideband x16 frequency multiplier chain, a 3-stage
PA, while the receive block consists of an LNA, a fundamental
quadrature down-conversion mixer, and a 3-stage PA to drive the
mixer. A dierential branch line coupler, and a dierential dual
polarized on-chip antenna complete the transceiver architecture.
All building blocks are implemented fully dierential. The use of
a single antenna in the circular polarized radar transceiver leads
to compact size and high sensitivity. The measured peak radiated
power from the Si-lens equipped radar module is +3 dBm (EIRP)
at 236 GHz. The operational bandwidth of the radar transceiver
is 60 GHz around the center frequency of 240 GHz. After system
calibration a range resolution of 3.65 mm is achieved, which is only
21% above the theoretical limit.
122GHz Single-Chip Dual-Channel SMD Radar
Sensor with Integrated Antennas for Distance and
Angle Measurements
Mekdes Gebresilassie Girma 1 , Juergen Hasch 1 , Markus
Bosch, Germany; 2 HK Microsystem Integration, China;
3
KIT, Germany
EuMC/EuRAD08-02, Time: 14:40
This paper presents a single-chip, dual-channel Surface-Mounted-
Device (SMD) radar sensor with two integrated on-chip antennas
operating at D-band. The design comprises of a fully integrated
transceiver circuit with quasi-monostatic architecture and a 60
GHz push-push voltage-controlled-oscillator (VCO) that operates
between 114 GHz and 124 GHz. All analog building blocks have
digital-control interfaces and are controlled via a serial-peripheral-
interface (SPI) to reduce the number of bond-pads and facilitate the
communication between digital processor and analogue building
blocks. The two electromagnetically coupled patch antennas are
placed on the top of the die with 9-dBi gain and have a simulated
eciency of 60%. The chip consumes 450mW and is wire-bonded
in an open-lid 5mm 5mm quad-at no-leads (QFN) package.
Appropriate signal processing for the estimation of range, and
azimuth angle in multiple object situation is presented.
Low Cost Low Power 24GHz FMCW Radar
Transceiver for Indoor Presence Detection
E.M. Suijker, R.J. Bolt, M. van Wanum, M.
van Heijningen, A.P.M. Maas, Frank E. van Vliet; TNO,
The Netherlands
EuMC/EuRAD08-03, Time: 15:00
In this paper a rst time right 24 GHz FMCW radar transceiver is
presented. The MMIC has a low power consumption of 86 mW and
an output power of -10 dBm. Due to the integrated IF amplier, the
conversion gain of the receiver is 51 dB and the base band signals
are directly processed with an ADC. The developed antenna is a
PCB dipole array with 10 dBi gain. Together with a commercial
microcontroller this results in a small presence detection sensor
required for future intelligent LED lighting systems.
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FMCW Radar Ramp Leakage Compensation via
Closed Loop DC Correction
Dieter Genschow; IHP, Germany
EuMC/EuRAD08-04, Time: 15:20
This paper describes a novel method for compensating ramp
leakage in frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar
applications that is not canceled by deramping. With a closed
loop compensation algorithm it is possible to increase the signal
to leakage ratio of common single chip FMCW radars by orders of
magnitude in ideal situations. The loop consists of a DC-coupled
FMCW radar frontend including a baseband amplier, analog
to digital converter (ADC), the DC-component of a Fast Fourier
Transform (FFT), a digital to analog converter (DAC) and an active
oset compensation for the baseband amplier. The resulting gain
in signal quality can be used to decrease the total system cost by
use of cheaper ADCs, decrease the complexity of signal processing
or decrease the false alarm rate. Other advantages of this system
include treatment of the frontend as black box, high congurability
of the baseband frequency response curve and decreased noise
oor.
A Compact Nonlinear-Transmission-Line-Based
mm-Wave SFCW Imaging Radar
Karam Noujeim 1 , Greg Malysa 2 , Afshin Babveyh 2 ,
Amin Arbabian 2 ; 1 Anritsu, USA; 2 Stanford University,
USA
EuMC/EuRAD08-05, Time: 15:40
This paper presents the results of initial measurements collected
using a compact 60 GHz stepped-frequency continuous-wave
(SFCW) imaging radar based on nonlinear transmission lines
(NLTLs), and driving a pair of dual-waveguide-fed horn antennas.
A range resolution of 2.22 cm is achieved using a bandwidth of
over 6.5 GHz, and synthetic focusing is applied to achieve an
azimuth resolution of 1 cm with mechanical scanning. The system
demonstrates imaging of multiple targets obscured by a large
non-metallic interface (cardboard).
EuMC/EuRAD Poster : EuMC/EuRAD Poster
Session
Venue: Exhibition Hall, 10:00 17:30, Thursday 9th October 2014
Chair: Elisa Giusti, Universit di Pisa, Italy
Co-Chair: Sonia Tomei, Universit di Pisa, Italy
Comparison of Clutter Cancelation Methods for
Code Division Multiplex System in the Presence of
Targets
Petra Cabalkova 1 , David Kubal 1 , Martin Pelant 1 ,
Radek Plsek 1 , Vojtech Stejskal 1 , Radek Balada 2 ; 1 ERA,
Czech Republic; 2 Brno University of Technology, Czech
Republic
EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-01, Time: 13:00
This paper describes dierent clutter cancelation techniques used
for bistatic noise radars. Two widely used optimal methods are
mentioned and two suboptimal methods are introduced. The two
suboptimal methods were developed for multistatic system work-
ing in code division multiplex. Methods comparison is performed
on the simulated (zero-Doppler) clutter in the presence of targets.
Doppler Analysis and Modeling of Complex Motions
in Layered Media
Andreas R. Diewald; Hochschule Trier, Germany
EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-02, Time: 13:00
In this paper the author report about a comprehensive physical
analysis of the Doppler eect of electromagnetic waves. The paper
contains two parts: An analytical description of one dimensional
(1-D) wave propagation in layered media with moving boundaries
and an approximate method to calculate backscattered signals
from moving objects of arbitrary shape with the help of full wave
simulations of motionless, stationary objects. Every approach is
compared with each other.
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Adaptive Frequency Selective Surface Design
Chenggang Zhang, Qiang Zhang; NRIET, China
EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-03, Time: 13:00
Adaptive Frequency Selective Surfaces (FSS) has been investigated
in this paper. Diodes are loaded on the FSS periodic units. Trans-
mission and reection of the adaptive FSS can be switched by
diodes controlled by electric signal. The real experimental data of
the adaptive FSS indicates that the bandwidth of the adaptive FSS
with transmission above 80% can get to 5%.
Orthogonal Wideband (DC-10GHz)
Microstrip-to-Microstrip Transition Using Flexible
LCP Interconnects
Dylan McQuaide, Wasif T. Khan, Luca Guidoni,
Massimo Ruzzene, John Papapolymerou; Georgia
Institute of Technology, USA
EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-04, Time: 13:00
This paper presents an orthogonal, broadband microstrip-to-
microstrip RF transition at the board level. The transition was
achieved by bonding a single metal trace fabricated on Rogers
Ultralam 3850 Liquid Crystal Polymer (LCP) substrate to microstrip
lines made on RO3003 substrates. 3D FEM simulations in Ansoft
HFSS and measured data show that S21 for this transition is less
than 1 dB over a wide range of frequencies from DC-9.5 GHz. The
insertion loss per unit length remains below 0.5 dB/cm below
approximately 10 GHz.
Slotted Ground Transmission Line
Raihan Raque; Ericsson Modem, Sweden
EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-05, Time: 13:00
Here a method to design transmission lines with controlled char-
acteristic impedance in the highly dense design requirement is
presented. In this method a transmission line is designed as
a slow-wave synthetic line by repeatedly disturbing either the
signal or the return current by adding slots in the grounds over or
under the line of interest. To verify the method we have designed
and fabricated transmission lines with slots in groundplane and
compared them with a typical coplanar strip line in the same
process. Both types of transmission lines are having same width
and length in same metal layer. However unlike the typical design,
the slotted-ground transmission requires no additional metal
layer. From the measurement results, the slotted transmission
lines reached the targeted impedance of approximately 50 Ohm
and shows same level of loss of 0.8 dB and cross coupling to a
common microstrip line of -78 dB at 2 GHz as of the typical design.
Wireless Interconnects by Using Printed Antennas
for Inter-Chip Communications in PCB Context
Pierre Marie Martin, Thierry Le Gouguec, Najib Mahdi;
Universit Europenne de Bretagne, France
EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-06, Time: 13:00
This paper presents an implementation study of a wireless commu-
nication network in Printed Circuit Board (PCB) context. First, we
point out the needs and the constraints in term of communication
for a Wireless Interconnect Network-on-Board (WiNoB). Then, we
present the electrical characteristics of the chosen dipole and
Vivaldi antennas for the achievement of a 10 GHz demonstrator.
Finally, using measurements and EM simulations, we evaluate the
transmission between two antennas on a PCB substrate and we
mainly present the results with Vivaldi antennas. We also study
the eect on the transmission of various obstacles, as integrated
components, lines, grids.
Terahertz and Millimetre Wave Imaging for Wall
Painting Investigation
K. Fukunaga 1 , Y. Kohdzuma 2 , M. Picollo 3 , E.
Giovenale 4 , A. Doria 4 , G.P. Gallerano 4 ; 1 NICT, Japan;
2
NNRICP, Japan; 3 CNR-IFAC, Italy; 4 ENEA, Italy
EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-07, Time: 13:00
The Terahertz imaging technique was applied to observe the
preparation layer of wall paintings. The experimental results
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revealed the eect of the particle size of llers and the possibility
of internal interface observation by the THz pulse-echo imaging.
Very High Resolution Radar at 300GHz
Michael Caris 1 , Stephan Stanko 1 , Alfred Wahlen 1 ,
Rainer Sommer 1 , Jrn Wilcke 1 , Nils Pohl 1 , Arnulf
Leuther 2 , Axel Tessmann 2 ; 1 Fraunhofer FHR,
Germany; 2 Fraunhofer IAF, Germany
EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-08, Time: 13:00
In this paper the setup and measurements of a high resolution
millimeter wave FMCW radar is presented. The system is operated
at 300 GHz providing a maximum bandwidth of more than 40
GHz leading to a range resolution of 3.7 mm. The capability of
the radar has been investigated in ISAR measurements by means
of a turntable. The presented results demonstrate the high image
quality and the richness of details up to a distance of 140 m.
With its excellent performance, the system covers a wide range of
applications in the security and safety sector.
An Optimised Processor for FMCW Radar
Tim Styles, Leon Wildman; AptCore, UK
EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-09, Time: 13:00
This paper presents a digital signal processor architecture opti-
mized for FMCW radar systems, as used in automotive, security
and surveillance applications. The novel architecture is described,
along with the size, power consumption and performance for
key radar processing operations. Architecture features include
a exible compute unit optimized for FFT operations and a
two-dimensional register le. An FPGA implementation of the
processor is used to demonstrate range-Doppler processing in
real-time.
A Procedure to Improve the Detection Rate in Radar
Systems with an Electronically-Scanned Antenna
Angelo Aprile 1 , Emanuele Grossi 2 , Marco Lops 2 , Luca
Venturino 2 ; 1 Selex ES, Italy; 2 Universit di Cassino e
del Lazio Meridionale, Italy
EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-10, Time: 13:00
We investigate a search-and-revisit scanning policy for a surveil-
lance radar system equipped with an electronically scanned
antenna. In the search phase, the antenna beam rotates to il-
luminate the monitored area, and all returns exceeding a given
threshold are immediately declared as detections. Then, a subset
of ambiguous (namely, close enough but not exceeding the detec-
tion threshold) returns are revisited to take the nal decision. The
revisit phase introduces additional degrees of freedom, which can
be exploited to improve the detection rate, dened as the average
number of detections per minute generated by a target. Numerical
examples are provided to assess the performance of the proposed
scanning policy.
An Application of Track-Before-Detect to Sea-Clutter
Rejection: Experimental Results Based on Real Data
1 2 2 and Optical Sensors
Angelo Aprile , Emanuele Grossi , Marco Lops , Luca
Venturino 2 ; 1 Selex ES, Italy; 2 Universit di Cassino e
del Lazio Meridionale, Italy
EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-11, Time: 13:00
In this paper, we illustrate a practical application of the detection
architecture proposed in [1], [2], where a track-before-detect pro-
cessor elaborates the plot-lists provided on a scan-by-scan basis by
the detector and plot-extractor of a radar system. Results based
on a real acquisition from a ground-based sea-search radar are
presented and discussed. This experimental study, which com-
plements the previous theoretical and numerical analysis, shows
that the detection scheme proposed in [1], [2] is highly eective in
reducing sea-clutter and readily implementable in existing radar
systems.
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Over the Horizon Maritime Surveillance Capability
of DVB-T Based Passive Radar
D. Langellotti 1 , F. Colone 1 , P. Lombardo 1 , E. Tilli 2 , M.
Sedehi 2 , A. Farina 2 ; 1 Universit di Roma La
Sapienza, Italy; 2 Selex ES, Italy
EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-12, Time: 13:00
In this paper we explore the maritime surveillance capabilities of
the Digital Video Broadcasting Terrestrial (DVB-T) based Passive
Bistatic Radar. Specically we investigate the possibility to detect
and localize vessels beyond the territorial waters since this repre-
sents a valuable characteristic for border security applications. The
results are reported for the extended data acquisition campaign
carried out in Leghorn (Italy). The low carrier frequency of the
exploited waveforms is experimentally shown to allow maritime
target detection at a distance from the coast much greater than the
normal line-of-sight horizon.
Fusing Gaussian Mixtures in Bayesian Graphs for
Tracking
Francesco Castaldo, Amedeo Buonanno, Francesco A.N.
Palmieri; Seconda Universit di Napoli, Italy
EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-13, Time: 13:00
The task of tracking multiple moving targets in cluttered areas is
tackled in this paper with a probabilistic tracker based on graphs.
Heterogeneous information coming from generic sensors as radars,
cameras, etc., are fused into a factor graph structure, with belief
messages that carry both the value and the reliability of the data.
Data from the sensory and the tracking model are represented as
Gaussian mixtures, that are scaled and pruned in order to keep
down the tracker computational load. The system is modular and
quite suitable for trac monitoring of crowded and busy areas,
where sensors are often replaced and/or only partially available.
The framework has been tested by tracking moving objects with
synthetic data coming from a simulator of realistic trajectories and
sensors.
Receivers Topology Optimization of the Combined
Active and WiFi-Based Passive Radar Network
I.M. Ivashko, Oleg A. Krasnov, Alexander G. Yarovoy;
Technische Universiteit Delft, The Netherlands
EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-14, Time: 13:00
This paper focuses on the accuracy analysis of the combined active
and WiFi-based passive radar network. The Cramr-Rao Lower
Bound is used as an accuracy metric. It is shown that localization
performance of the active radar network can be improved with
exploitation of the signals from passive bistatic WiFi radars. This
makes reasonable to use information from passive and active
radars simultaneously in order to enhance system localization
capability. Sparsity-based algorithm is applied to nd optimum
geometry of the WiFi receivers at the xed positions of the WiFi
access points and active radars.
Observations and Modeling of Fog by Cloud Radar
Yunlong Li, Peter Hoogeboom, Herman Russchenberg;
Technische Universiteit Delft, The Netherlands
EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-15, Time: 13:00
Fog is a signicant factor aecting the public trac because
visibility is reduced to a large extent. Therefore the determination
of optical visibility in fog from radar instruments has received
much interest. To observe fog with radar, high frequency bands
(millimeter waves) have the best option. A 35 GHz cloud radar
at the Cabauw Experimental Site for Atmospheric Research in the
Netherlands has been used to make fog measurements in the fog
mode. Meanwhile, in-situ visibility sensors (Biral SWS-100) and
FSSP (Forward Scattering Spectrometer Probe) installed on a mast
at Cabauw are also in use which provide visibility and drop size
distribution (DSD) respectively. The synergy of remote sensing
instruments at Cabauw is an essential prerequisite for fog obser-
vations. A fog case is analyzed in terms of the relations between
radar reectivity, visibility, liquid water content, and eective
radius which depend on the DSD. In this paper, the modeling of
fog is based on the assumption of gamma distribution as fog DSD,
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and is compared with the fog measurements. The results indicate
the reliability of the model.
First Investigations on Inuence of Resolution Cell
Size for Monitoring Bare Agricultural Soil by Using
Ground Based SAR (PoSAR) System Measurements
Sophie Allain, Stphane Mric, Hongquan Wang, Eric
Pottier; IETR, France
EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-16, Time: 13:00
The objective of this study is to evaluate the inuence of resolution
cell size of a SAR image for bare agricultural soil monitoring. In
order to achieve this objective, we propose to use Ground Based
(GB) SAR experiments, in which the specic levels of surface rough-
ness and soil moisture are set deliberately. In these investigations,
we propose to study the backscattering coecients HH , HV for
dierent surface roughness values regarding multi-resolution. The
results we obtained with our GB-SAR system (called PoSAR for
Pocket SAR) are in agreement with previous experiments on indoor
SAR measurements (JRC dataset).
CW Radar for Monitoring Water-to-Cellular Concrete
Kamel Haddadi, Tuami Lasri; IEMN, France
EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-17, Time: 13:00
The physical deterioration of concrete structures is mainly caused
by their moisture content. Consequently, methods dedicated to
contactless, non-destructive and real-time monitoring of moisture
content levels are required to control the deterioration of buildings.
In this study, we propose an instrument integrating the hardware
and software resources suited for the evaluation of the moisture
content according to these requirements. The technique proposed
is based on the measurement versus time of the reection coe-
cient of a moist sample by means of a monostatic radar build up
with a home-made network analyzer connected to a horn antenna.
Experiments are conducted at the test frequency of 2.45 GHz to
determine the concrete moisture content.
Comparative Study of Ship Detection Techniques in
TerraSAR-X Images
J. Martn-de-Nicols, D. Mata-Moya, M.P.
Jarabo-Amores, N. del-Rey-Maestre, V.M.
Pelez-Snchez; Universidad de Alcal, Spain
EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-18, Time: 13:00
Ship detection is nowadays quite an important issue in tasks
related to sea trac control, shery management and ship search
and rescue. Although it has traditionally been carried out by
patrol ships or aircrafts, coverage and weather conditions can
become a problem. Synthetic aperture radars can surpass these
coverage limitations and work under any climatological condition.
Three ship detectors are studied and compared in this paper. The
Double Parameter Model, a CFAR technique with a three ring setup
where sea clutter can be modeled in the outer ring, the SUMO
detector, proposed by the Joint Research Centre and also based
on CFAR techniques, and nally the Rice detector, that highlights
the dierence between dominant coherent scatterers such as
ships and incoherent received signal in the Rice image domain.
Four aspects will be taken into account in order to evaluate the
performance of the detectors: detection rate, false alarm rate, ship
characterization accuracy and processing time. While the Double
Parameter Model attains good results in terms of both detection
and false alarm rates, it is the Rice detector the one that stands out
in every single category.
Subspectral Method in M-FSK Signal Processing
Zdenek Matousek, Jan Ochodnicky, Marian Babjak, Jan
Kurty; AOS, Slovak Republic
EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-19, Time: 13:00
A modern pulse radar uses more and more complex waveforms.
Some waveforms are developed intentionally to make their in-
terception almost impossible or jamming resistant. The main
distinctive features of radar signal are hidden in its intra-pulse
structure. The intra-pulse modulation analysis of a detected
signal is the major task of ELINT/ESM systems, too. As a result of
measurement, for each pulse specic description, so called nger
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printing, containing primary parameters, is created. Determination
and decomposition of signal in case of M-ary Frequency Shift
Keying intra-pulse modulation (M-FSKIM) in the recent hardware
implementation of ELINT receivers is dicult to achieve. In this
paper, the principle of unknown radar signals with M-FSKIM
decomposition by new approach in signal analysis is described.
The proposed method is based on subspectral decomposition
method. The subspectral decomposition method principle and
results of modeling and simulation of M-FSKIM signal processing
and decomposition are presented.
Multidimensional Spectral Analysis for Radar Target
Parameter Estimation: Survey and Benchmarks
Roland Gierlich; Airbus Defence & Space, Germany
EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-20, Time: 13:00
Most state-of-the-art radar processors are based on sequential,
one-dimensional signal processing stages. In this paper we in-
vestigate the suitability of modern multidimensional spectral
analysis methods for the estimation of radar target parameters.
A short survey of both classical and more advanced high- and
superresolution multidimensional spectrum estimation techniques
like 2D-AR, 2D-Capon, and 2D-MUSIC is given. The performance of
these techniques is evaluated by systematic benchmarks, including
sensitivity towards noise, spectral resolution, high signal dynamics,
and multi-tone capacity. The benchmark results are assessed with
regard to joint spatial and temporal radar parameter estimation.
The Systolic Design of Two-Dimensional and
Multidimensional Lattice Filters for Space-Time
Signal Processing
Andrii V. Semeniaka, David I. Lekhovytskiy, Dmytro S.
Rachkov; KhNURE, Ukraine
EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-21, Time: 13:00
In this paper we consider multidimensional lattice lters (LF)
which are based on generalized block both algorithm and factoriza-
tion of Levinson for various STAP applications with signals block
representation. We unmask the specicity of matrix parameters of
multidimensional LF and show the feasibility and appropriateness
of their practical implementation on the basis of one-dimensional
LF, which are simpler.
Time Domain Evaluation for Synthetic Aperture
Radar (SAR) Data Compression
Navneet Agrawal 1 , K. Venugopalan 2 ; 1 MPUAT, India;
2
MLSU, India
EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-22, Time: 13:00
Data compression is required to optimally use the bandwidth in
space borne radars. In the present paper we have developed a
time domain data compression technique and observed that the
phase information of the compressed data is preserved to the
great extent. The quality of the reconstructed data is compared
in terms of the important performance evaluation parameters like
signal to noise ratio (SNR), standard deviation of the phase (PSD),
mean phase error (MPE) and the compression ratio (CR). The time
domain magnitude-phase algorithm (BMPQ) is compared with that
of Block Adaptive Quantization (BAQ) algorithm. The evaluation
procedure is carried out in two domains, raw data domain and
image domain. Numerical experiments were carried out using
ERS-2 satellite data supplied by European Space Agency (ESA)
showing that amplitude-phase algorithm provides us with more
Compression Ratio (CR) choices than BAQ and for certain CR, MP
algorithm provides at least one choice whose performance is better
than or equal to that of BAQ. These two algorithms neither aect
spatial resolution nor generate geometric distortion. Both of them
have only a little eect on radiometric resolution.
Long Time Coherent Integration Method for
Frequency Agile Radar
Dinghe Wang, Qinglong Bao, Zhaodong Niu, Zengping
Chen; NUDT, China
EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-24, Time: 13:00
Aiming at the de-correlation eect of echo phase in frequency
agile radar (FAR) and the range cell migration problem in long
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time integration, the Frequency Agile Coherent Radon Transform
(FA-CRT) is proposed to realize long time coherent integration for
FAR. Firstly, the FAR echo model of moving target is established.
Secondly, the FA-CRT method is brought forth. Finally, a numerical
experiment is designed to verify the performance of FA-CRT in
long time coherent integration.
ISAR Scale Method for Targets with Non-Uniform
Rotation
Qiang Li, Linlin Du, Junhu Wang; Beijing Institute of
System Engineering, China
EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-25, Time: 13:00
Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar (ISAR) image cross-range dimen-
sion estimation for non-uniform rotating targets is studied in this
paper. For swaying ships or maneuvering targets, the rotation
angular velocity and acceleration cause the phase polynomial
relating to the cross position, range position, angular velocity
and acceleration. Therefore the rst three coecients of phase
polynomial need to be estimated for cross-range dimension estima-
tion. Signals of scatters in one range cell have dierent frequency
modulations, so the scatters must be separated before the third
coecient estimation. The FRFT and CPF methods are used for
coecients estimation, and simulation results corroborate the
validity.
Cylindrical Array as a Means of the Clutter
Suppression via Scanning Acceleration and
Space-Time Signal Processing
Anatoly D. Pluzhnikov, Elena N. Pribludova,
Alexander G. Ryndyk; NNSTU, Russia
EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-26, Time: 13:00
In conjunction with the problem of the target extraction from
clutter with quasi-continuous radiation, the analysis of the space-
time radar signal processing was performed. The analysis was
performed for the case of non-isotropic array elements. The
calculation results of the optimized receiving antenna pattern
and the attained signal-to-noise ratio for the conrmation of the
cylindrical array system eciency at high azimuth scanning rate
(i.e., scanning acceleration compared to the traditional rate values)
are given.
Circularly Polarized Quadrilar Helix Array Using a
Sequentially Rotated Feed Network
Christos Kalialakis 1 , Ana Collado 2 , Apostolos
Georgiadis 2 ; 1 Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,
Greece; 2 CTTC, Spain
EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-28, Time: 13:00
A circularly polarized 22 antenna array suitable for portable
L-band satellite data terminals is presented. The array is composed
of short resonant quadrilar helices fed by a corporate microstrip
feeding network fabricated in low cost FR4 substrate. The he-
lices are printed on exible PCB material. A bandwidth increase
compared to a single quadrilar helix is demonstrated through
the application of sequential rotation. Discussion of the array as
an antenna option for portable satellite data terminal is included
considering the low height of the helices used.
High Gain Slot-Pair Substrate-Integrated-Waveguide
Antenna for 77GHz Vehicle Collision Warning Radar
Hsiao-Ning Wang, Huan-Wei Hu, Shyh-Jong Chung;
National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-29, Time: 13:00
A 77 GHz high gain slot-pair substrate-integrated waveguide (SIW)
antenna array has been proposed for automotive radar application.
The slot-pair radiation element has been introduced to decrease
the guided wavelength, which increases the aperture eciency.
Moreover, the slot-pair element provides the variety to change the
antenna performance. Finally, a high gain antenna for forward-
looking automotive radar has been fabricated. The measurement
gain is 25 dBi and side-lobe level (SLL) is 15 dB, and the aperture
eciency is 62% of the size of 62 mm by 12 mm.
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Software Dened Radio for Prole Reconstruction in
Forward Scatter Radar
Stanislav Hristov, Liam Daniel, Marina Gashinova;
University of Birmingham, UK
EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-30, Time: 13:00
In this paper we present research on the feasibility of the USRP
devices to be used in the domain of Forward Scatter Radar (FSR).
System design and implementation of software dened radio hard-
ware for FSR with both quadrature Doppler channels are presented.
Experimental conguration for a number of frequencies (4.2 GHz,
3.5 GHz, 2.1 GHz, 1.192 GHz) are discussed and some technical
issues are highlighted. It is shown that performance of software
dened radio radar satises the requirements for the accurate
estimation of complex Doppler signal, which is compulsory for the
target prole reconstruction in FSR.
Digital Frequency Discriminator (DFD) Error
Improvement by LO Leakage Compensation
Won Choi 1 , Won Sang Jo 1 , Dae Kil Park 2 , Kyung Heon
Koo 2 ; 1 Victek, Korea; 2 Incheon National University,
Korea
EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-31, Time: 13:00
This paper has presented the design of some phase correlators
for two digital frequency discriminators (DFDs) of which oper-
ation is over the 2.0 to 6.0 GHz, or 6.0 to 18.0 GHz frequency
range in electronic warfare system. The accuracy of frequency
discrimination according to the isolation of correlator mixer are
analyzed, and it is shown that LO-RF isolation has much eect on
frequency discrimination error by deriving some analytic equations
relating the LO-RF isolation and phase performance. We propose a
novel method of phase sector compensation in order to improve
frequency discriminating error. The phase error of the designed
phase correlator is RMS 4.57 and the frequency accuracy is 0.95
MHz over the 2.06.0 GHz. Over the 6.018.0 GHz range, the phase
error is 4.81 , RMS and discrimination accuracy is 1.49 MHz, RMS.
Microwave Fiber Optic Link Linearization by
Design-Oriented Analytic Model
P. Monsurr 1 , P. Tommasino 1 , A. Triletti 1 , G.
Locatelli 2 , A. Vannucci 2 ; 1 Universit di Roma La
Sapienza, Italy; 2 Linkra, Italy
EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-32, Time: 13:00
An analytic design-oriented model of microwave optical link has
been developed. The core of the model is the non-linear and
noise model of a Mach-Zehnder LiNbO3 interferometer. Dierent
linearized microwave links, based on the use of an auxiliary modu-
lator, have been designed by using the proposed model: signicant
improvement of the 3rd -order intermodulation attenuation has
been measured on a lab test bed.
The X-WALD Project: Towards a Cleaner Sky
M. DAmico 1 , Stefano Lischi 2 , Alberto Lupidi 2 , F.
Cuccoli 2 , Fabrizio Berizzi 2 , S. Placidi 3 , F. Milani 4 ;
1
Politecnico di Milano, Italy; 2 CNIT, Italy; 3 Metasensing,
The Netherlands; 4 IDS, Italy
EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-33, Time: 13:00
In the last years, the Cleansky EU programme has been promoting
research towards new concepts in aircraft and avionic design in
order to enhance sustainability and ight security. The X-WALD
project, in the framework of Cleansky programme, focuses on the
validation of algorithms for the evaluation of hazards coming from
meteorological conditions encountered in ight. The validation
will be performed exploiting both data coming from an advanced
polarimetric weather radar simulator and data collected by an
aircraft during an experimental campaign.
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Stability Analysis and Design of T/R Module in
Active Electrically Scanned Array Radar
Hongbiao Yu 1 , Molin Gu 1 , Shouyuan Lin 1 , Lan Xie 2 ;
1
NRIET, China; 2 Nanjing Ericsson Panda
Communication, China
EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-34, Time: 13:00
The loop stability of T/R modules is proposed. The principle of
loop stability is analyzed from the point of view of noise power.
Simulation and an experiments are given to verify the accuracy of
formulae and conclusions. Design methods which deal with the
loop stability of the T/R modules are discussed.
A Comparison of Phase-Coded CW Radar Modulation
Schemes for Integrated Radar Sensors
Heinz Haderer, Reinhard Feger, Andreas Stelzer;
Johannes Kepler Universitt Linz, Austria
EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-35, Time: 13:00
For radar sensors, for example, automotive radar sensors based on
integrated circuits, taking advantage of the growing capabilities of
digital circuits is becoming of increasing interest. Currently used
linear frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) signals could
be replaced with phase-coded ones. As a consequence, the codes
used would become a signicant design parameter. In our investi-
gation, we applied three binary codes (binary m-sequence, almost
perfect autocorrelation sequence, and Golay-complementary se-
quence), one two-valued code (Golombs code), and one ternary
sequence (Ipatovs ternary sequence) and used a linear FMCW
signal for comparison. The codes were selected with a future
realization of the radar system based on integrated circuits in
mind. We provide brief instructions for generating each sequence.
Finally, we demonstrate the performance of the phase-coded
signals by means of measurements carried out with a SiGe-based
RF IQ-transceiver.
DVB-T Ambiguity Peaks Reduction in Passive Radar
Applications Based on Signal Reconstruction
J.L. Brcena-Humanes, J. Martn-de-Nicols, C. Design and Implementation of Wideband All Digital
Sols-Carpintero, M.P. Jarabo-Amores, M. Rosa-Zurera,
D. Mata-Moya; Universidad de Alcal, Spain
EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-36, Time: 13:00
This paper deals with the reduction of the ambiguity peaks that
appear in the Cross Ambiguity Function used in a passive radar
system, which uses DVB-T signals as Illuminator of Opportunity.
Three methods are proposed, consisting in replacing the elements
that are responsible of the ambiguity peaks, by other elements that
do not give rise to periodic components. Ideal 64-QAM symbols,
zero power components, and random segments with mean power
equal to the acquired signal power, are used for this purpose. The
obtained results show that a signicant reduction of the ambiguity
peaks is obtained, but with an undesired reduction in detection
capabilities, due to the decrement in the main peak to pedestal
level ratio.
Bayesian Analysis of Stepped-Frequency CW Radar:
SFCW Radar Applied to Masonry Diagnostics
R. Olmi 1 , Filippo Micheletti 1 , Cristiano Riminesi 2 ,
Samuele Beni 3 ; 1 CNR-IFAC, Italy; 2 CNR-ICVBC, Italy;
3
ELab Scientic, Italy
EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-37, Time: 13:00
A probabilistic approach to the analysis of the FSCW radar signal is
described. Bayesian spectrum analysis is shown to be eective in
the detection of close reectors by elaborating the results obtained
on an experimental test-set.
A 618GHz GaAs Multifunctional Chip for
Transmit/Receive Modules
Andrea Bentini 1 , Mauro Ferrari 1 , Patrick E. Longhi 1 ,
Eric Marzolf 2 , Joel Moron 2 , Remy Leblanc 2 ;
1
Elettronica, Italy; 2 OMMIC, France
EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-38, Time: 13:00
In this contribution the development, design, fabrication and
test of a highly integrated broadband multifunctional chip is
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presented. The MMIC covers the C-, X- and Ku- Band and it is
suitable for applications in high performance Transmit/Receive
Modules. In less than 26 mm2 , the MMIC embeds several T/R
switches, low noise/medium power ampliers, a stepped phase
shifter and analog/digital attenuators in order to perform the
RF signal routing and phase/amplitude conditioning. Besides, an
embedded serial-to-parallel converter drives the phase shifter and
the digital attenuator leading to a reduction in complexity of the
digital control interface.
Dual-Polarization DF Array for Airborne SIGINT in
VHF/UHF Bands
Luca Scorrano, Fabrizio Trotta, Antonio Manna, Libero
Dinoi; Elettronica, Italy
EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-39, Time: 13:00
In this contribution, a Direction Finding (DF) compact array made
of electrically small double-polarized passive radiating element in
the 100MHz1GHz frequency band is presented, and the prelimi-
nary results discussed. This solution is devised for the low band
(VHF / UHF) subsystem of an airborne ELINT system installed by
Elettronica S.p.A. on two SIGINT aircrafts. The main driving factors
of the design process which led to the proposed solution were the
very challenging requirements and platform constraints.
A 12GHz 6-Bit Switch-Type Phase Shifter MMIC
Jeng-Han Tsai, Chia-Kai Liu, Ji-Yang Lin; National
Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-40, Time: 13:00
A 12 GHz low phase error and low amplitude error digital 6-bit
switch-type phase shifter for phased-array antenna applications
has been designed and fabricated on 0.15 m GaAs pHEMT process.
The measured insertion loss for all 64 states is 9 1.5 dB from
11.5 to 13 GHz. The phase shifter achieves a rms phase error of
2.5 and a rms amplitude error of 0.65 dB at 12 GHz, which is
suitable for high precision applications.
Array Radar Test-Bed
Yue Zhang, Qinglong Bao, Juhong Wu, Songlin Li;
NUDT, China
EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-41, Time: 13:00
This paper presents a test bed for a wideband all-digital array
radar, which consists of 32 linear array apertures. The operating
frequency band is 13GHz and the instantaneous bandwidth is
500MHz. High-speed direct RF digitization and powerful digital
signal processors are utilized in the design of the system. The test
bed has been implemented now with a 32-elements array antenna
and 8 digital receiver channels. Some experiments have been
conducted and the testing results are presented in this paper. The
testing results conrm the feasibility of the test bed, and guide us
to carry on the remaining work of the whole system designing.
University Research on Antenna Design and
Scattering Problems in Egypt
Amr M.E. Safwat 1 , Islam A. Eshrah 2 , Tamer M.
Abuelfadl 2 , Hadia El-Hennawy 1 ; 1 Ain Shams
University, Egypt; 2 Cairo University, Egypt
EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-42, Time: 13:00
This paper summarizes some of the research activities conducted
in Egyptian universities. It focuses on two topics; rst, novel
analysis techniques of electromagnetic scattering problems, which
allow faster solution than conventional numerical techniques, and,
second, metamaterial-inspired compact-size ecient antennas,
which are characterized by omni-directional radiation patterns at
all operating frequencies and serve dierent applications.
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Attari, Amir Reza . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC44-04 34
A Aubert, Herve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC01-01 4
EuMC34-01 27
Abdalla, Yasmine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC12-05 12 Avolio, Gustavo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC04-01 51
Abdellah, Alaa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC51-02 39 Awasthi, Seema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC49-03 38
Abdi Abyaneh, M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-41 48 Ayllon, N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD03-02 63
Abdullah, Haythem H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD01-04 62
Abuelfadl, Tamer M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-42 71 B
Accatino, Luciano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-06 44
Aditya, Sheel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC24-03 20 Babak, L.I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-02 56
Agrawal, Navneet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-22 69 Babjak, Marian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-19 69
Aharoni, Oren . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC05-03 7 Babveyh, Afshin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD08-05 67
Ahmad, W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-21 58 Baccarelli, P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC23-01 19
Ahmadzadeh, M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-15 45 Baev, Andrey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-01 43
Aitken, J. Ross . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC32-04 26 Baillargeat, Dominique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC27-05 23
Akalin, T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC42-05 33 EuMC/EuMIC11-02 56
Akashi, Ayumu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-03 43 Bajon, Damienne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC29-04 24
Akata, Tatsuya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC29-02 24 Bakri-Kassem, Maher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-41 61
Akiyama, Masahiro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC51-05 39 Bal, Jagjit S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD03-01 62
Akmal, M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC03-04 50 Balada, Radek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-01 67
Akra, Mirna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC49-04 38 Ballicchia, Mauro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC04-04 51
Albert, Isabelle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC04-05 51 Balzano, Quirino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC36-02 28
Alburaikan, Abdullah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC28-03 23 Bangert, Axel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-32 60
Aldrigo, Martino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC19-01 17 Bansleben, Christian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC37-05 29
EuMC Poster01-30 47 Bao, Qinglong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-24 69
Algani, C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-29 47 EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-41 71
EuMC Poster01-32 47 Baquero-Escudero, Mariano . . . . . . . . . EuMC10-05 10
Ali, Mohammed K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC31-01 25 Barakat, Adel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC06-03 7
Alim, Mohammad A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC27-04 23 Barbon, Francesco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC09-05 10
Allain, Sophie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-16 69 EuMC39-01 30
Allam, Ahmed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC06-03 7 EuMC39-02 30
EuMC/EuMIC08-03 54 Brcena-Humanes, J.L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-36 71
Al-Mudhafar, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC21-04 18 Bardati, Fernando . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC41-02 32
Alonso, J.I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC08-02 9 Barisich, Christopher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC02-04 50
Alonso, Julian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-33 47 Barjenbruch, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC08-01 8
Alqui, G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-32 47 Barker, N.S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC42-05 33
Altmann, U. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD03-02 63 Barmuta, P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC15-02 14
Al, Andrea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC51-01 39 Baron, Samuel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC03-01 5
Alvarez-Melcn, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC23-03 20 Baselmans, Jochem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC06-02 7
EuMC28-05 23 Basha, M.A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC42-03 33
EuMC32-02 26 EuMC56-01 42
Ambacher, Oliver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC02-05 50 Baskakova, Alexandra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC18-01 16
Amendola, Sara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC54-04 41 Bastioli, Simone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC10-01 10
Ameya, Michitaka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-23 46 Bates, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC37-04 29
Amin, Shoaib . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC43-04 34 EuMC Poster01-08 44
Anacleto, P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC34-04 27 Baudet, D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC55-01 42
Anada, Tetsuo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC28-01 23 Baudoin, Genevive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC43-05 34
Andersson, M.A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC19-02 17 EuMC/EuRAD04-01 63
Anguera, Jaume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC17-02 15 Bauerschmidt, Sebastian . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC42-04 33
Anselmi, Mauro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC24-04 20 Bautista, Alfredo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC56-02 42
Antar, Yahia M.M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC12-03 12 Beach, M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC03-04 50
Antes, J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD03-04 63 Becerra-Gonzlez, Juan A. . . . . . . . . . . EuMC43-03 33
Anwar, Muhammad Shoaib . . . . . . . . . EuMC36-05 29 Bekasiewicz, Adrian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-34 47
Apollonio, D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD03-03 63 Belenguer, Angel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC21-02 18
Apollonio, Francesca . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC36-02 28 Belhaj, Mohamed Moez . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC19-04 17
EuMC36-03 28 EuMC/EuMIC11-03 56
EuMC41-05 32 EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-19 58
Appenrodt, Nils . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD06-01 65 Bellucci, Stefano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC11-04 56
Aprile, Angelo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-10 68 Belot, Didier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC01-05 49
EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-11 68 Belov, Pavel A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC35-03 28
Aqeeli, Mohammed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC28-03 23 Benech, Ph. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC34-05 27
Arabi, Eyad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-36 47 Benedikt, J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC03-04 50
Arasa, Eva . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-33 47 Bengtsson, Olof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC26-02 22
Arbabian, Amin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD08-05 67 EuMC/EuMIC09-01 54
Arcuti, Paola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC40-05 31 Beni, Samuele . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC09-01 9
Aref, Ahmed Farouk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC03-05 51 EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-37 71
Arena, Sergio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD03-03 63 Benito, D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC56-05 43
Arkhypova, Kateryna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC25-05 21 Ben Mabrouk, Ismail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-05 57
Arnedo, I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC42-05 33 Ben Mabrouk, Nebil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-26 46
EuMC56-05 43 Bensmida, S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC03-04 50
Arnous, Mhd. Tareq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-10 57 Bentini, Andrea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-38 71
Arregui, I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC42-05 33 Berceli, Tibor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC38-02 30
EuMC56-05 43 Berenguer, Antonio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC10-05 10
Arscott, Steve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-17 45 Berezin, M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC45-02 35
Artis, Franois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC15-01 14 Bergad Pujades, Marc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD03-05 63
Arulkumaran, S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC08-01 53 Berizzi, Fabrizio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-33 70
Arvas, Ercument . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-08 44 Bernardo-Clemente, Bernardo . . . . . . EuMC10-05 10
Arzhannikov, A.V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC46-01 35 Berthou, N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-28 59
Asenov, Tatjana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-04 43 Bertin, Giorgio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-06 44
Ashari, Mohamed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-23 59 Bettray, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD05-02 64
Ashida, Hiroshi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC40-04 31 Beyers, Ryno D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC16-04 15
Ashiq, Irfan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC56-04 43 EuMC/EuMIC08-02
Bhaumik, Saswata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
EuMC Poster01-07 44
Bianchi, Luigi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC54-04 41
Askari, G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-15 45
Biglarbegian, B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC56-01 42
Astafyev, M.A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC46-01 35
bij de Vaate, Jan Geralt . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC08-02 53
Attar, Sara S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC11-03 11

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Bila, Stphane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC27-05 23 Carvalho, Nuno Borges . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC01-05 4
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-35 60 EuMC/EuMIC10-01 55
Billabert, A.-L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-29 47 Carvalho, Paulo H.P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC01-05 49
EuMC Poster01-32 47 Castaldo, Francesco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-13 68
Bilotti, Filiberto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC51-01 39 Catarinucci, Luca . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC14-05 13
Binder, Joachim R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC26-02 22 Caterina, Merla . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC36-03 28
EuMC26-04 22 Catini, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC14-03 13
Biondi, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD03-03 63 Cavagnaro, M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC04-02 6
Bisby, Ian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-13 44 EuMC25-03 21
Biswas, Animesh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC03-05 6 Cavanna, Tommaso . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD03-03 63
EuMC49-03 38 Cazzorla, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC11-01 11
Bittner, Achim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC07-03 8 Cengiz, Omer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-09 57
Blache, F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-32 47 Cerri, G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC25-01 21
Bloecher, Hans-Ludwig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD06-01 65 Chaabane, G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC18-03 16
Blondy, Pierre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC18-03 16 Chabalko, Matthew J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC22-03 19
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-38 60 Chahadih, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC42-05 33
Bocquet, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC47-04 36 Chakraborty, Abhiram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD03-01 62
Boeck, Georg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC02-05 5 Chan, Chin-Tung . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC07-03 53
EuMC31-01 25 Chang, Chia-Can . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-40 61
EuMC/EuMIC02-03 49 Chang, Chia-Wei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-40 61
EuMC/EuRAD01-04 62 Chang, Da-Chiang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC30-01 24
Boes, F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD03-04 63 Chang, Ruei-An . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-03 56
Bogoni, Antonella . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD05-04 65 Chang, Sheng-Fuh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-40 61
Bolt, R.J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD08-03 66 Chang, Woojin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-01 56
Bor, Jonathan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD02-01 62 Chang, Yin-Cheng . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC30-01 24
Boria, Vicente E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC10-03 10 Chang, Yu-Hsin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC30-04 25
EuMC10-05 10 Chang, Yung Hang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC27-01 22
EuMC17-03 15 Chao, Shih-Fong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC49-01 38
EuMC21-02 18 Charlot, S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC34-01 27
EuMC32-05 26 Chartier, Sbastien . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC08-04 9
Bories, Serge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC36-05 29 Chartier, T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-35 60
Borngrber, Johannes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC33-05 27 Chatras, M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC18-03 16
Boscolo, Stefano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD04-04 64 Chaudhary, Girdhari . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC02-02 4
Bosi, Gianni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC02-01 49 Chaurasiya, Devkinandan . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC46-02 36
Bozzi, Maurizio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC02-04 5 Che, Wenquan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC12-01 12
EuMC21-01 18 EuMC20-01 17
EuMC27-03 23 EuMC51-02 39
EuMC/EuMIC11-04 56 EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-25 59
Bray, Joey R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-22 59 Chekalin, Mikhail A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC21-05 18
Brenk, C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD06-01 65 Chen, Chun-Ping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC28-01 23
Bressan, M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC21-01 18 Chen, Haidong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-25 59
Brizoux, M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC55-01 42 Chen, Hsin-Chuan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC30-03 25
Brumos, Mara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC32-05 26 Chen, Qi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD01-03 61
Brun, C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC11-02 56 Chen, Yi-Ming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-40 61
Buchbut, Y. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC22-03 19 Chen, Yu-Chen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC55-02 42
Buckel, T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC31-05 25 Chen, Zengping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-24 69
Budimir, D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC16-02 14 Chen, Zhichao . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC25-02 21
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-21 58 EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-31 60
Bukvic, B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC16-02 14 Cheng, Jen-Hao . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC30-03 25
Bunea, Alina-Cristina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC48-05 37 EuMC/EuMIC01-01 48
EuMC Poster01-37 48
EuMC/EuRAD07-02 66
Buonanno, Amedeo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-13 68
Cheng, Xuanhong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC36-03 28
Burghelea, R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC04-03 6
Cheng, Yu Jian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-15 58
Burghignoli, P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC23-01 19
Byun, Woojin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC47-02 36 Cheng, Yunmei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC07-05 8
Cheon, Jeongnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-35 47
C Chevtchenko, Serguei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC09-01 54
Chi, Taiyun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC08-04 54
Cabalkova, Petra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-01 67 Chiang, Yen-Chung . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC30-04 25
Cabral, Pedro M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC03-02 50 Chiong, Chau-Ching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC08-05 54
Cabria, L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD03-02 63 Chiu, Chen-Hao . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC30-02 24
Cacciamani, Fabrizio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC10-02 10 Chizh, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC35-04 28
Caddemi, Alina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC09-05 55 EuMC/EuRAD07-04 66
Cadiou, S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC55-01 42 Cho, Young-Kyun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC31-04 25
Cahill, Brian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC36-04 29 EuMC53-01 40
Cai, Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC27-01 22 Cho, Yunsung . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC06-02 52
Calle-Sanchez, Jaime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC08-02 9 EuMC/EuMIC07-04 53
Calmon, Pierre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC48-05 37 Choi, Heungjae . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC33-02 26
Caloz, Christophe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC02-01 4
Choi, Hyun-Chul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-20 58
Camacho, Yolanda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD03-05 63
Choi, Jun H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC17-01 15
Camarchia, Vittorio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC03-01 50 Choi, Wai-Wa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC20-01 17
EuMC/EuMIC10-03 55 Choi, Won . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-31 70
Caminita, F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC23-02 19 Chong, Y.C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC11-02 56
Campovecchio, M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC09-02 54 Chowdhary, Amitabh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC09-01 54
EuMC/EuMIC11-03 56 EuMC/EuRAD03-02 63
Canete Rebenaque, D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC32-02 26 Chretiennot, Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC15-04 14
Capobianco, Antonio-D. . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD04-04 64 Chua, Ciersiang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC24-03 20
Capponi, L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC11-01 11 Chuang, Huey-Ru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC55-02 42
Carceller, Carlos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC10-03 10 Chuang, Kai-Hsin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC30-01 24
Carer, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC04-03 6 Chudzik, M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC42-05 33
Caris, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-08 68 EuMC56-05 43
Carneiro, Marcos L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC01-05 49 Chung, Moon-Hee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-16 45
Carpentier, Ludovic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC18-05 16 Chung, Shyh-Jong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC37-02 29
Carreo, M.N.P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC11-05 11 EuMC Poster01-39 48
Carrubba, V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC02-05 50 EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-29 70
Carta, Corrado . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC52-03 40 Ciccognani, W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD03-03 63

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Cidronali, Alessandro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC10-05 55 Delhote, Nicolas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC07-01 8
EuMC/EuRAD01-01 61 EuMC07-02 8
EuMC/EuRAD04-02 63 EuMC09-04 10
Cipriani, Elisa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC02-01 49 EuMC10-04 10
EuMC/EuRAD03-02 EuMC18-05 16
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EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-35 60
Claude, Stphane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC24-02 20
del-Rey-Maestre, N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-18 69
Cleary, K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-18 58
Deltimple, Nathalie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC01-05 49
Clementi, G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD02-03 62
de Melo, M.T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-37 60
Cleriti, Riccardo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-17 58
Demenitroux, W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-28 59
Coccetti, Fabio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC26-01 22
Coey, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC05-01 51 Deng, Pu-Hua . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC49-01 38
Cogollos, Santiago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC32-05 26 Deng, Wei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC06-04 7
EuMC56-05 43 EuMC37-01 29
EuMC/EuMIC11-03 Denis, Stphane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC49-05 38
Colambo, Ivy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Denzi, Agnese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC36-03 28
Colangeli, Sergio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-17 58
Deokar, G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC19-04 17
Colantonio, P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC02-01 49
de Oliveira, B.G.M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-37 60
EuMC/EuMIC03-01 50 De Paolis, Rosa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC26-01 22
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-27 59 Descamps, P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC54-02 41
EuMC/EuRAD03-02 63 EuMC54-05 41
Colella, Riccardo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC14-05 13 Deshours, F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-32 47
Collado, Ana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC01-01 4 Desmaris, V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC56-03 43
EuMC01-02 4 Despoisse, L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC34-01 27
EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-28 70 de Villiers, Dirk I.L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC16-04 15
Collardey, Sylvain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-26 46 Dhar, Sagar K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC20-04 18
Collodi, Giovanni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC10-05 55 Diaferia, Franco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC11-02 11
Colone, F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-12 68 Diaz Caballero, Elena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC21-02 18
Comblet, Fabrice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC08-03 9 Dickmann, Juergen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC08-01 8
Congedo, Fabrizio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC40-05 31 EuMC/EuRAD06-01 65
Contreras, Soraya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-19 45 Diet, Antoine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD04-01 63
Cook, B.S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC01-03 4 Diewald, Andreas R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-02 67
Cook, Joshua . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-02 43 Di Mattia, V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC25-01 21
Coquet, Philippe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC01-04 4 Di Nardo, Sergio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC11-02 11
EuMC/EuMIC11-02 56 Di Natale, C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC14-03 13
Corchia, Laura . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC27-02 22 Ding, Can . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD07-05 66
Cosmi, Luigi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC24-04 20 Dinh, T.V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC54-02 41
Costanzo, Alessandra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC13-03 12 Dinoi, Libero . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-39 71
EuMC19-01 17 dInzeo, G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC41-05 32
EuMC22-01 19 Dionigi, Marco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC22-01 19
EuMC45-03 35 EuMC22-05 19
EuMC Poster01-30 47 Diouris, J.F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-29 59
Couderc, Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-26 46
Divarathne, Chamath . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC40-01 31
Cousin, Jean-Christophe . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-41 48
Do, Thanh Ngoc Thi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-09 44
Coustou, Antony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC01-01 4
EuMC/EuMIC09-03 54
Cox, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC19-03 17
Doerner, Ralf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC09-04 55
Crespo-Cadenas, Carlos . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC43-03 33
Dhler, Gottfried H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC42-04 33
Cressler, John D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC08-04 54
Domengs, B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC54-05 41
Crittenden, D.B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC04-02 51
Dong, J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD05-05 65
Crupi, Giovanni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC09-05 55
Doria, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-07 67
Cruz, Pedro Miguel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC10-01 55
Dragoman, Mircea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC19-01 17
Cuccoli, F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-33 70 EuMC Poster01-30 47
Cuenca, Jerome Alexander . . . . . . . . . EuMC07-04 8 Drizdal, Tomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC41-01 32
EuMC33-02 26 Druta, Cristian-Filip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-19 45
Cuias, Iigo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-21 46 EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-25
Du, Linlin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Culhaoglu, Ali E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC51-02 39
Dubuc, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC15-01 14
Cunningham, Shawn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC54-03 41 EuMC15-04 14
Custer, James . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-07 57 Duchamp, J.-M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC34-05 27
Ducournau, Guillaume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC42-02 32
D EuMC42-05 33
Dahlbck, Robin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC42-01 32 Dussopt, Laurent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC06-05 8
Dai, Gao-Le . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC11-01 56
Dambrine, Gilles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-17 45 E
DAmico, M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-30 60 Ebihara, Tadashi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC08-05 9
EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-33 70 Eguchi, Masanori . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-03 43
Damm, Christian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC15-03 14 Elad, Danny . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-12 44
EuMC17-05 16 El Bouayadi, Ossama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC06-05 8
Dancila, Dragos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC52-05 40 Elenga, Serge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC08-03 9
DAngelo, Sara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC09-05 55 El Ghannudi, H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC11-01 11
Dani, Asmita . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC05-01 51 El-Henawy, Sally I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC46-03 36
Daniel, Liam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-30 70 El-Hennawy, Hadia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-42 71
Danieli, R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-27 59 Ellinger, Frank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC52-03 40
Darwazeh, Izzat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC48-04 37 Elsadek, Hala . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC06-03 7
Dassonville, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC36-05 29 Elsayed, Fahmi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC06-04 52
DAssuno Jr., Adaildo Gomes . . . . EuMC46-05 36 Elshaey, Ibrahim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-42 61
Dauvignac, J.-Y. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD02-03 62 Elsokary, Ahmed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC08-04 9
De-Antonio-Monte, David . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC08-02 9 Enokihara, Akira . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC05-04 7
Deborgies, Francois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC11-02 11 EuMC35-01 28
Debski, Wojciech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC33-05 27 Enomoto, Jun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-08 57
Decaesteke, T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC04-03 51 Eriksson, Klas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC48-04 37
De Donno, Danilo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC14-05 13 Erni, Daniel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC25-02 21
de Hek, Peter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC02-02 49 EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-31 60
Delage, S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC09-02 54 Ertrk, Vakur B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC44-02 34
De Leo, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC25-01 21 Escotte, Laurent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC09-04 55
Esfahani, Ali Sinai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD01-04 62
Eshrah, Islam A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-42 71
Espana, Beatrice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC11-02 11

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Espinosa-Espinosa, M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-37 60 Garb, Khona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC05-03 7
Estagerie, Laetitia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC18-05 16 Garcia, J.A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC10-04 55
Esteban, Hector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC21-02 18 Garca Fernndez, Jos Luis . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD03-05 63
Ettorre, Mauro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC23-04 20 Garca Fernndez, Santiago . . . . . . . . . EuMC04-05 6
Eymin, G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC34-05 27 Garcia-Garcia, Joan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-33 47
Garca-Lamprez, Alejandro . . . . . . . . EuMC44-05 34
F EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-24 59
Faci, S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-29 47 Garcia-Muoz, Luis Enrique . . . . . . . . EuMC42-04 33
EuMC Poster01-32 47 Garca Snchez, Manuel . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC04-05 6
Fahmi, Mohamed M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC24-05 21 Gardner, Peter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC46-04 36
Fang, Weihai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC07-05 8 Gashinova, Marina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-30 70
EuMC/EuRAD01-05 62 Gasseling, T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC04-03 51
Fantuzzi, Marco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-30 47 Gawande, R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-18 58
Farabegoli, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC43-02 33 Ge, Jun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC07-05 8
Farina, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-12 68 Gelfand, A.V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC46-01 35
Farinelli, P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC11-01 11 Gengler, Je . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC04-02 51
EuMC11-02 11 Genschow, Dieter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD08-04 67
Farran, Mohamad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD04-04 64 Georgiadis, Apostolos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC01-01 4
Faucher, Marc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC42-02 32 EuMC01-02 4
Feger, Reinhard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-35 71 EuMC27-03 23
Fei, Peng . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC07-05 8 EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-28 70
EuMC/EuRAD01-05 62 Gerfault, B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-28 59
Feldman, Alexander . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC56-04 43 Geurts, M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC56-03 43
Feng, Keming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD01-05 62 Gevorgian, S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC18-04 16
Feng, Wenjie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC12-01 12 EuMC19-02 17
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-25 59 Ghaddar, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC42-05 33
Feresidis, Alexandros P. . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC46-04 36 Ghannouchi, Fadhel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC06-04 52
Fernandes, J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC34-04 27 Ghel, Paolo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD05-04 65
Fernandes, Ricardo Dias . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC01-05 4 Ghione, G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC03-01 50
Fernandez, Yolanda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC36-05 29 Ghorbani, Kamran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-27 46
Ferrari, Mauro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-38 71 Ghosh, I.S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD03-02 63
Ferrari, Philippe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC11-05 11 Ghosh, Saptarshi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC46-02 36
EuMC49-04 38 Giacomozzi, Flavio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC11-02 11
EuMC53-03 41 Giannini, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC21-01 18
EuMC56-02 42 Giannini, Franco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC02-01 49
Ferrari, Vittorio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD04-04 64 EuMC/EuMIC03-01 50
Ferreira, Hillner de Paiva Almeida . . EuMC46-05 36 EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-27 59
Feuvrie, B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-29 59 Gibiino, Gian Piero . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC04-01 51
Filicori, Fabio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC04-01 51 Gierlich, Roland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-20 69
Filonov, Dmitry S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC35-03 28 Gieron, R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD05-02 64
Fischer, Georg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC06-05 53 Gigoyan, Suren . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC42-03 33
Fiser Jr., Ondrej . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC25-04 21 EuMC56-01 42
EuMC41-03 32 Gil, J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC56-05 43
EuMC41-04 32 Gilabert, P.L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC10-04 55
Fisun, Anatoliy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC25-05 21 Giofr, R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC03-01 50
Flamini, Roberto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC24-04 20 EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-27 59
Follmann, R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD03-02 63
Giovenale, E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-07 67
Forbes, P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC48-03 37
Girbau, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC14-02 13
Forstner, Hans-Peter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD03-01 62
Girma, Mekdes Gebresilassie . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD08-02 66
Fouin, Patrick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC49-05 38
Glubokov, Oleksandr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC55-05 42
Foulon, Samuel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC47-01 36
Golovanov, O.A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-20 45
Fourn, Erwan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-11 57 Gomes, S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC34-04 27
Fourni, Jean-Jacques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC15-01 14 Gomes Neto, Alfrdo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC46-05 36
Franc, Anne-Laure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-38 48 Gmez-Tornero, J.L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC23-03 20
Francia, Paolo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC13-03 12 Goniszewski, Stefan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC19-03 17
Franke, Tobias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC18-02 16 Gonser, Markus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD08-02 66
Fraysse, Jean-Philippe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-19 45 Gonzalez-Ovejero, David . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC42-04 33
Fredon, S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC34-01 27
Gonzlez Sola, Raquel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD03-05 63
Frezza, F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC23-01 19
Gorbunova, Anastasia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-01 43
Friederich, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC26-02 22
Gorur, Adnan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC55-04 42
EuMC26-04 22
Grr, Ali Krsad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC49-02 38
Friesicke, C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC05-04 52
Gouba, Abel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC43-05 34
Frigui, Kamel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC27-05 23
Goussetis, George . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC16-03 15
Fuchs, Benjamin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD02-01 62
EuMC23-03 20
Fujii, Kenichi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC01-04 49 Gracias, D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC34-04 27
Fukuda, Goh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC22-04 19 Grandgeorge, P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-28 59
Fukunaga, K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-07 67 Grbic, Anthony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC23-04 20
Fuscaldo, Walter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC23-04 20 Grenier, Katia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC15-01 14
EuMC15-04 14
G Grimbert, Bertrand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC42-02 32
Gbler, Alexander . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-39 61 Grossi, Emanuele . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-10 68
Gadalla, M.N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC34-02 27 EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-11 68
Gaebler, Alexander . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC18-02 16 Grzyb, Janusz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD08-01 66
EuMC26-05 22 Gu, Molin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-34 71
Gaier, T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-18 58 Gu, Sijia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC33-01 26
Galdeano, Jaione . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC16-03 15 Guan, Junqing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC03-05 51
Galle, Franois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC09-04 10 Guarnieri, Giacomo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC29-01 24
Gallerano, G.P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-07 67 Guegan, Guillaume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC26-01 22
Galli, Alessandro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC23-01 19 Guglielmi, Marco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC10-03 10
EuMC23-04 20 EuMC16-03 15
Gallop, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC19-03 17 EuMC32-05 26
Gamonal Coto, Atalfo . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD03-05 63 Guha, Subhajit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC54-01 41
Gapillout, D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC04-03 51 Guidoni, Luca . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-04 67
Gaquire, Christophe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC42-02 32 Guiard, Benoit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC03-01 5
Garavaglia, Giorgio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-30 60
Garays, D.V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-02 56

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Guines, Cyril . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC18-03 16 Hu, Wenjuan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC09-03 9
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-38 60 EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-39 61
Gulan, Heiko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC33-05 27 Hu, Zhirun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC28-03 23
Gultepe, E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC34-04 27 Huang, Tian-Wei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC30-03 25
Gunturkun, Elif . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC55-04 42 EuMC/EuMIC01-01 48
Guo, Y. Jay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC23-03 20 EuMC/EuRAD07-02 66
EuMC/EuRAD07-05 66 Huang, Tzuen-Hsi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC30-02 24
Huang, Wang-Long . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-03 56
H Huang, Xianjun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC28-03 23
Habibpour, Omid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC19-05 17 Hbers, Heinz-Wilhelm . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC33-05 27
Hackbarth, Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD06-01 65 Hudlicka, Martin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC33-03 27
Haddadi, Kamel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC33-01 26 Hulzinga, Adriaan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD05-01 64
EuMC Poster01-17 45 Humbla, S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC52-01 39
EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-17 69 Huyart, Bernard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-41 48
Haderer, Heinz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-35 71 Hwang, James C.M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC36-03 28
Hadi, Raid J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-32 60
Hage-Ali, Sami . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC01-04 4
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Hahn, Markus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD06-01 65 Ibrahim, Mohamed I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC46-03 36
Hajji, Rached . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC04-02 51 Ichinose, Kento . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-40 48
Hall, Peter S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC46-04 36 Iglesias, Petronilo Martin . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC10-04 10
Hamidian, Amin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC31-01 25 Ikeda, Tetsuomi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD05-03 64
EuMC/EuRAD01-04 62 Inanlou, Farzad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC08-04 54
Hammad, Hany F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC12-03 12 Inoue, Takeshi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC06-04 7
EuMC12-05 12 Isaksson, Magnus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC43-04 34
Han, Chung-Hsing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-39 48 Ishikawa, Ryo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-08 57
Han, Seog-Tae . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-16 45 Iskander, M.A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-05 43
Hndel, Peter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC43-04 34 Ismail, Nasr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD03-01 62
Haneda, Katsuyuki . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC45-05 35 Issa, Hamza . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC49-04 38
Hangai, Masatake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-10 44 Itoh, Tatsuo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC13-05 13
Hao, Ling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC19-03 17 EuMC17-01 15
Happy, Henri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC19-04 17 EuMC17-04 16
EuMC/EuMIC11-03 56 EuMC37-03 29
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-19 58 Ivashko, I.M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-14 68
Haquet, Grard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC49-05 38 Iven, Maikel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD05-01 64
Hartnagel, H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC21-04 18 Iyomasa, Kazuhiro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC48-01 37
Hasch, Juergen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD08-02 66
Hasegawa, Naoki . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC22-04 19 J
Haslach, Christoph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC06-05 53 Jackson, D.R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC23-01 19
He, Xiaoyang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD01-03 61 Jacob, Arne F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC03-03 5
EuMC/EuRAD02-04 62 EuMC13-02 12
He, Yingyi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD01-03 61 EuMC36-01 28
Heimpel, Holger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC06-05 53 EuMC/EuMIC05-04 52
Hein, M.A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC52-01 39 Jacquet, Jean-Claude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC09-02 54
Heinemann, Bernd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD08-01 66 Jain, Ritu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC48-02 37
Heinrich, Wolfgang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC26-02 22 Jakoby, Rolf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC09-03 9
EuMC28-05 23 EuMC15-03 14
EuMC30-05 25 EuMC17-05 16
EuMC37-05 29 EuMC18-02 16
EuMC/EuMIC09-01 54 EuMC26-02 22
Helaoui, Mohamed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-14 44 EuMC26-04 22
EuMC/EuMIC06-04 52 EuMC26-05 22
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-39 61
Henke, Doug . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC24-02 20
EuMC/EuRAD03-04 Jamal, Farabi Ibne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC54-01 41
Henneberger, R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
James, Rob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-28 46
Heo, Deukhyoun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-04 57
Jamil, Khalid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-42 61
EuMC/EuRAD07-01 65
Jang, Dong-Pil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-11 44
Hepburn, Laura . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC28-04 23 Jang, Kyeongnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC17-02 15
Hettak, Khelifa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-28 46 Jang, Seung Hyun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC31-04 25
Heuermann, Holger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-18 45
Jany, Clement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC53-03 41
Hieda, Morishige . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC48-01 37
Jarabo-Amores, M.P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-18 69
EuMC Poster01-10 44
EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-36 71
Higuchi, Kazuhide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC53-04 41
EuMC/EuRAD03-02 Jardel, O. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC09-02 54
Hildenhagen, P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
EuMC/EuRAD02-01 Jawad, Ghassan N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-34 60
Himdi, Mohamed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Hirano, Takuichi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC06-04 7 Je, Do-Heung . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-16 45
Hirobe, Masakazu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC48-01 37 Jeon, Gye-Ik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-01 56
Hitzler, Martin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC06-01 7 Jeon, Jinsu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC17-02 15
Ho, Ping-Han . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC07-01 53 Jeong, Jin-Cheol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-11 44
Hofmann, Maximilian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC05-01 6 Jeong, Yongchae . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC02-02 4
Holtrup, Stephan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-18 45 Jha, Nilotpal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC24-03 20
Hong, Jiasheng . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC05-05 7 Jia, H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC08-03 54
EuMC28-04 23 Jian, Ronghua . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD01-03 61
EuMC32-04 26 Jiang, Tao . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC10-03 55
Hong, Wei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC50-03 39 Jin, Hadong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC06-02 52
Honjo, Kazuhiko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-08 57 EuMC/EuMIC07-04 53
Hoogeboom, Peter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD05-05 65 Jin, Sangsu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC06-02 52
EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-15 68 EuMC/EuMIC07-04 53
Hrberg, Mikael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-09 44 Jo, Won Sang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-31 70
EuMC/EuMIC09-03 54 Joe, R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC15-05 14
Horibe, Masahiro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-23 46 Jolly, Nicolas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC18-05 16
Horii, Yasushi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC51-05 39 Jost, Matthias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC26-05 22
Hossain, M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC30-05 25 EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-39 61
Hristov, Stanislav . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-30 70 Jrad, Akil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC49-04 38
Hsu, Shawn S.H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC30-01 24 Jung, Jae Ho . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC31-04 25
EuMC/EuMIC07-03 53 EuMC53-01 40
Hu, Huan-Wei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-29 70 Jungmaier, Reinhard W. . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD03-01 62

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K Kim, Kihyun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC01-03 49
Kim, Kwang-Seok . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC03-04 6
Kabalan, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-32 47
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-13 58
Kado, Yuichi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC17-04 16
Kahmen, G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC11-04 11 Kim, Kwangseon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC47-02 36
Kahng, S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC17-02 15 Kim, Phirun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC02-02 4
Kai, Yoshirou . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC22-04 19 Kim, Sangkil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC01-01 4
Kaissoine, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-41 48 Kim, Seung-Rae . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-16 45
Kaleem, S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC52-01 39 Kim, Yoon Goo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC50-01 38
Kalentyev, A.A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-02 56 Kimionis, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC01-01 4
Kalialakis, Christos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-28 70 EuMC01-02 4
Kissinger, Dietmar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC05-01 6
Kalinikos, B.A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-42 48
EuMC09-02 9
Kallfass, I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD03-04 63
Kitsukawa, Yusuke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD07-03 66
Kamata, Katsuhiro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC28-01 23
Klappstein, Jens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC08-01 8
Kameda, Suguru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC01-04 49
EuMC/EuRAD06-01 65
Kamei, Masashi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD05-03 64
Klein, Norbert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC19-03 17
Kamenetskii, E.O. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC15-05 14
Klein, Sylke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC07-04 8
EuMC45-02 35
Kleine-Ostmann, Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC33-03 27
Kamo, Yoshitaka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-10 44
Knapp, Herbert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD03-01 62
Kanaya, Haruichi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC06-03 7
EuMC/EuMIC08-03 Ko, Sang-Choon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-01 56
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Kaneko, Takuya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC51-05 39 Kodama, Christopher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-02 43
EuMC/EuMIC06-02 Koelpin, Alexander . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC07-03 8
Kang, Daehyun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
EuMC09-05 10
EuMC/EuMIC07-04 53
EuMC39-01 30
Kang, Minsoo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC47-02 36 EuMC39-02 30
Kangaslahti, P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-18 58 EuMC/EuRAD04-03 64
Kanno, Atsushi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC47-03 36 Koenig, S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD03-04 63
EuMC53-05 41
Kohdzuma, Y. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-07 67
Kapitanova, Polina V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC35-03 28
Kohler, Christian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC26-02 22
Karabey, Onur Hamza . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC26-05 22
EuMC26-04 22
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-39 61
Kohmu, Naohiro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC35-05 28
Karaca, Zuhra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC49-02 38 Kolezas, Georgios D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-22 46
Karmakar, Nemai C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC40-01 31 Komaru, Ryota . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-10 44
EuMC40-02 31
Kondrashov, A.V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-42 48
Karpuz, Ceyhun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC49-02 38
Konovalyuk, Maxim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-01 43
EuMC55-04 42
Konstantinidis, Konstantinos . . . . . . . EuMC46-04 36
Kasahara, Yoshiaki . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC13-05 13
Koo, Kyung Heon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-31 70
Kasai, Kazumi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC13-01 12
Koo, Seungbeom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC06-02 52
Kassa, W.-E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-29 47
Kastner, Raphael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC05-03 7 EuMC/EuMIC07-04 53
Kato, Noriki . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC28-01 23 Koo, Tae-Wan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-35 47
Kato, Takemasa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC28-01 23 Kooi, J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-18 58
Kato, Yuto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-23 46 Kosmopoulos, Savvas A. . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC16-03 15
Kawai, Tadashi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC05-04 7 Kouki, F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-35 60
EuMC35-01 28 Koziel, Slawomir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC12-04 12
Kawakami, Kenji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC53-04 41 EuMC22-05 19
EuMC/EuRAD07-03 66 EuMC45-01 35
Kawanishi, Tetsuya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC35-01 28 EuMC55-05 42
EuMC47-03 36 EuMC Poster01-34 47
EuMC53-05 41 Kra, Oliver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC25-02 21
Kawano, Yoichi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC31-03 25 Krasnok, Alexander E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC35-03 28
Kawasaki, Kengo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC53-02 40 Krasnok, Ekaterina A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC35-03 28
Kawasaki, Shigeo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC22-04 19 Krasnov, Oleg A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-14 68
Kaynak, M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC11-04 11 Krasov, Pavlo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC25-05 21
Kazemipour, Alireza . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC33-03 27 Krozer, V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC30-05 25
Kerherv, Eric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC01-05 49 Krueger, O. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC30-05 25
Kerisit, F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC54-05 41 Kubal, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-01 67
Kersten, O. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD03-02 63 Kuhlmann, Karsten . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC13-02 12
Khan, Hassan A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC27-04 23 Kumar, Sushil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC48-02 37
Khan, Osama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD02-02 62 Kunishige, Kengo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-40 48
Khan, Wasif T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC02-04 50 Kuo, An-Yu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC29-04 24
Kuo, Che-You . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC49-01 38
EuMC/EuMIC08-04 54
Kurgan, Piotr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC12-04 12
EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-04 67
Kuroda, K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC05-05 52
Khanna, Amarpal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC56-04 43
Kuroda, Michiko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC29-02 24
EuMC Poster01-07 44 Kurokawa, Satoru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-23 46
Kharrat, I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC34-05 27
Kuroki, Futoshi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-03 43
Khenissa, Mohamed Salah . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC11-03 56 EuMC Poster01-40 48
Khoder, Khaled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-26 59 Kurty, Jan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-19 69
Kholodnyak, Dmitry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC18-01 16 Kurudere, Sinan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC44-02 34
Kienemund, Daniel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC26-02 22 Kurz, F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD03-04 63
Kihira, Kazunari . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD07-03 66 Kuylenstierna, Dan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC48-04 37
Kim, Bongsu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC47-02 36 EuMC Poster01-09 44
Kim, Bumman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC06-02 52 EuMC/EuMIC09-03 54
EuMC/EuMIC07-04 53 Kuznetsov, S.A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC46-01 35
Kim, Chul-Young . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC52-02 40 Kuznetsov, Yury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-01 43
Kim, Daeyeon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC01-03 49 Kwak, Changsoo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC29-05 24
Kim, Dongsu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC52-02 40 Kyabaggu, Peter B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC27-04 23
Kim, Dongsu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC06-02 52
Kim, Hong-Joon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-20 58 L
Kim, In-bok . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-20 58 La, Tran Vu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC08-03 9
Kim, Jaeyeon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC02-02 4 Lafond, Olivier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD02-01 62
Kim, Jooseung . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC06-02 52 Laforge, Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC11-03 11
EuMC/EuMIC07-04 53 Lager, Ioan E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC06-02 7
Kim, Jun Chul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC52-02 40 EuMC47-05 37
Kim, Jung-Mu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-37 60 Lahbib, I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC54-02 41
Kim, Kang Wook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-20 58 EuMC54-05 41

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Lahderanta, E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-25 46 Lin, Yu-Hsuan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC07-01 53
Lai, R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-18 58 Lin, Yu-Kei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-39 48
Lai, Szhau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC48-04 37 Lindner, S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC09-05 10
EuMC/EuMIC09-03 54 EuMC39-01 30
Laifenfeld, M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC22-03 19 EuMC39-02 30
Lamb, J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-18 58 Linz, Sarah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC09-05 10
Lampariello, P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC23-01 19 EuMC39-01 30
Lampin, J.F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC42-05 33 EuMC39-02 30
Lamy, Yann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC06-05 8 Lioubtchenko, D.V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC33-04 27
Langellotti, D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-12 68 Lischi, Stefano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-33 70
Lanzieri, C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC03-01 50 Litcheld, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC10-02 55
Laso, M.A.G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC42-05 33 Litschke, O. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD05-02 64
EuMC56-05 43 Liu, Chia-Kai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-40 71
Lasri, Tuami . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC33-01 26 Liu, Dongsheng . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC01-02 49
EuMC Poster01-17 45 Liu, Jenny Yi-Chun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC07-03 53
EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-17 69 Liu, Lanqi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC01-02 49
Latysheva, E.V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC51-04 39 Liu, S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC15-02 14
Laurent, S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC09-02 54 Liu, Yi-Chen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-40 61
Lazaro, Antonio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC14-02 13 Liu, Zhenglin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC01-02 49
Leblanc, Remy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-38 71 Llamas-Garro, I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-37 60
Leckey, J.G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC05-03 52 Llombart, Nuria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC06-02 7
Leduc, Caroline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC49-05 38 Llorente Romano, Sergio . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC32-03 26
Lee, Dong-Jin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC03-04 6 Locatelli, Andrea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD04-04 64
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-13 58 Locatelli, G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-32 70
Lee, Hanseung . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC13-05 13 Lodato, R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC14-04 13
EuMC17-01 15 Lo Hine Tong, Dominique . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-11 57
Lee, Ho Seong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-35 47 Lohmiller, Peter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC08-04 9
Lee, Jeong-Hae . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC22-02 19 Lombardo, P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-12 68
Lee, Juseop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC44-03 34 Longhi, Patrick E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-38 71
Lee, Kwang Chun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC31-04 25 Lopetegi, T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC42-05 33
Lee, Seungku . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC26-03 22 EuMC56-05 43
Lee, ShinYoung . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-35 47 Lopez-Diaz, D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD03-04 63
Lee, Soo-Ji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC03-04 6 Lopresto, V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC14-04 13
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-13 58 EuMC25-03 21
Lee, Sungho . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC01-03 49 Lops, Marco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-10 68
Lee, Sung Jun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC31-04 25 EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-11 68
EuMC53-01 40 Louet, Yves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC43-05 34
Lee, Victor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC26-03 22 Lovat, G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC23-01 19
Lee, You-Tang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC08-05 54 Loyez, Christophe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC47-01 36
Leenaerts, Domine M.W. . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC47-05 37 EuMC47-04 36
Lees, J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC03-03 50 Lu, Cheng . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC20-03 18
EuMC/EuMIC03-04 50 Lu, Donghang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC09-03 9
Le Fevre, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC55-01 42 Lu, X. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-36 60
Le Gentil, M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC04-03 6 Luca, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC34-01 27
Le Gouguec, Thierry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-06 67 Lucibello, Andrea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC11-02 11
Lekhovytskiy, David I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-21 69 Lugli, Paolo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC51-02 39
Lemaitre-Auger, Pierre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC13-04 13 Lugo-Alvarez, Jose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC56-02 42
Lemoine, Emilien . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-38 60 Lujambio, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC42-05 33
Lemos Cid, Edgar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC04-05 6 EuMC56-05 43
Le Pennec, Franois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC08-03 9 Luong, Chinh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC03-03 5
Le Roy, Marc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-26 59 Lupidi, Alberto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-33 70
Lesnchal, D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC54-02 41 Lurz, Fabian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC09-05 10
EuMC54-05 41 EuMC39-02 30
Leufker, Jan-Dirk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC52-03 40 Lychko, Volodymyr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC25-05 21
Leuther, Arnulf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-08 68
Lewandowski, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC15-02 14 M
Leyssenne, L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC54-02 41 Ma, Tzyh-Ghuang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC05-02 7
EuMC54-05 41 Maas, A.P.M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD08-03 66
Li, Erping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC50-03 39 Maasch, Matthias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC17-05 16
EuMC/EuMIC11-01 56 Maassen, Daniel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC02-03 49
Li, GuangFu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC02-03 5 Macchiarella, Giuseppe . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC32-01 26
Li, Ning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC06-04 7 Machac, Jan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC23-05 20
Li, Qiang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-25 70 EuMC40-03 31
Li, Shunli . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC20-03 18 Maci, S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC23-02 19
EuMC29-03 24 Maddio, Stefano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC10-05 55
Li, Songlin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-41 71 EuMC/EuRAD01-01 61
Li, Wei-Ru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC49-01 38 EuMC/EuRAD04-02 63
Li, Wei-Tsung . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC37-02 29 Madero-Ayora, Mara J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC43-03 33
EuMC/EuRAD07-02 66 Madrangeas, V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC18-03 16
Li, Xuyang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD02-02 62 Maglione, Mario . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC26-01 22
Li, Yunlong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-15 68 Mahdi, Najib . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-06 67
Li, Zhengyi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC13-01 12 Mahe, Yann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC20-05 18
Liberti, Micaela . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC36-02 28 Makeeva, G.S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-20 45
EuMC36-03 28 Malacarne, Antonio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD05-04 65
EuMC41-05 32 EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-06
Malafaia, Daniel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Lim, Jongsik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC02-02 4
Malakhov, Volodymyr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC25-05 21
Lim, S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC01-03 4
Malherbe, J.A.G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC28-02 23
Lima, Isaac Silva Sousa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC46-05 36
Malignaggi, Andrea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC31-01 25
Limiti, Ernesto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-17 58
EuMC/EuRAD01-04 62
EuMC/EuRAD03-03 63
Malsam, Dimitri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD03-01 62
Lin, Cheng-Yen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-03 56
Malysa, Greg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD08-05 67
Lin, Chun-Yi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC37-02 29
Malyshev, S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC35-04 28
EuMC Poster01-39 48
EuMC/EuRAD07-04 66
Lin, Ji-Yang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-40 71
Malz, Stefan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD08-01 66
Lin, Shouyuan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-34 71
Malzer, Stefan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC42-04 33
Lin, Wei-Cheng . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC49-01 38

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Man, Kim Fung . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-24 59 Meyne, Nora . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC36-01 28
Mancuso, Y. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC04-03 51 Michel, Patrice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC04-05 51
Mandica, L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-28 59 Micheletti, Filippo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC09-01 9
Manes, Gianfranco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC10-05 55 EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-37 71
EuMC/EuRAD01-01 61 Midrio, Michele . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD04-04 64
EuMC/EuRAD04-02 63 Migliaccio, C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD02-03 62
Mann, Sebastian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC09-05 10 Mikitchuk, K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC35-04 28
EuMC39-01 30 Milani, F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-33 70
EuMC39-02 30 Mimis, Konstantinos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC06-03 52
Manna, Antonio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC24-04 20 Mira, Fermn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC27-03 23
EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-39 71 Mirabbasi, Shahriar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-04 57
Mansour, Raafat R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC11-03 11 MirMohamadSadeghi, H. . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-15 45
EuMC16-01 14 Mismer, Colin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-19 58
EuMC24-05 21 Miyazaki, Moriyasu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC52-04 40
EuMC Poster01-05 43 Mizutani, Hiroyuki . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC53-04 41
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-41 61 EuMC/EuRAD07-03 66
Manzari, S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC14-03 13 Mizutani, Koichi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC08-05 9
Mao, Yanfei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC33-05 27 Modotto, Daniele . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD04-04 64
Marante, R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC10-04 55 Mohottige, N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC16-02 14
Marcelli, Romolo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC11-02 11 EuMC/EuMIC03-03
Mokhti, Z.A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Marchives, Yoann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC10-04 10
Molina-Garca, Mariano . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC08-02 9
Margesin, Benno . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC11-02 11
Molinero, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC54-03 41
Mariani Primiani, V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC25-01 21 Momciu, Adrian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-28 46
Mariotti, C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC01-03 4
Mondire, T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-35 60
Markert, Daniel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC06-05 53
Mongiardo, Mauro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC22-01 19
Maroldt, S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC02-05 50
EuMC22-05 19
Marracino, P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC41-05 32 EuMC Poster01-06 44
Marrocco, Gaetano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC14-01 13 Monsurr, P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-32 70
EuMC14-03 13
Montero-de-Paz, Javier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC42-04 33
EuMC14-04 13
Monti, Alessio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC51-01 39
EuMC54-04 41
Monti, Giuseppina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC27-02 22
Martens, J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC39-04 31
EuMC40-05 31
Martin, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC09-02 54
Montoro, G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC10-04 55
EuMC/EuMIC11-03 56
Moon, Kyunghoon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC06-02 52
Martn, Ferran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC17-03 15
EuMC/EuMIC07-04 53
Martin, Pierre Marie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-06 67
Moradi, Bahareh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-33 47
Martn-de-Nicols, J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-18 69
Morimoto, Yasuo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC52-04 40
EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-36 71 Moro, Riccardo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC11-04 56
Martinez-Iranzo, Ursula . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-33 47 Moron, Joel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-38 71
Martnez-Mendoza, M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC28-05 23
Morris, Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC54-03 41
EuMC32-02 26
Morris, K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC03-04 50
Marzolf, Eric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-38 71
Mortazavi, Sanaz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD01-04 62
Marzouk, Jaouad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-17 45
Masood, R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC04-03 6 Mortazawi, Amir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC26-03 22
Masotti, Diego . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC13-03 12 EuMC34-03 27
Mousavi, Mehran P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD03-01 62
EuMC19-01 17
EuMC45-03 35 Mouthaan, K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-36 60
EuMC Poster01-30 47 Mueller, J.-E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC43-02 33
Mastri, Franco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC13-03 12 Mukherjee, Soumava . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC03-05 6
EuMC22-01 19 Mukhtar, Farooq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC29-04 24
EuMC Poster01-30 47 Muller, Christian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC42-04 33
Mata-Moya, D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-18 69 Mller, J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC52-01 39
EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-36 71 Mller-Wichards, Wiebke . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC36-01 28
Matos, Joo Nuno . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC01-05 4 Multari, Caroline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC36-03 28
Matousek, Zdenek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-19 69 Mun, Jae-Kyoung . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-01 56
Matsumura, Hiroshi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC31-03 25 Munina, Irina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC05-05 7
Matsushita, K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC05-05 52 Muntzinger, Marc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD06-01 65
Matsuzawa, Akira . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC06-04 7 Murakami, Tadamasa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC07-02 53
EuMC37-01 29 Murata, Hiroshi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC35-05 28
Matthaei, George L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC38-01 30 Murphy, Luke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC37-04 29
Maune, Holger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC26-02 22 EuMC Poster01-08 44
Mauriello, Giuseppe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC29-01 24 Muer, M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC02-05 50
Mautz, Joseph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-08 44
Mayer, T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC31-05 25 N
Maziere, C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC04-03 51 Nadaud, Kevin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-11 57
Mbaye, Amadou . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC43-05 34 Nagasaka, Masafumi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD05-03 64
McCormack, J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC48-03 37 Nagayama, Tsutomu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC50-02 38
McGeehan, J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC03-04 50 Naishadham, Krishna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC03-02 5
McKay, Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-23 59 Nakahara, Kazuhiko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-10 44
McKerricher, Garret . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-36 47 Nakajima, Nobuo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC05-04 7
McQuaide, Dylan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-04 67 Nakamizo, Hideyuki . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC53-04 41
Medina, F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC23-03 20 EuMC/EuRAD07-03 66
Meinel, Holger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD06-03 65 Nakanishi, S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC05-05 52
Mele, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC19-04 17 Nakayama, Eita . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC01-04 49
EuMC/EuMIC11-03 56 Nakazawa, Susumu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD05-03 64
Meliani, Chak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC36-04 29 Nakkala, P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC11-03 56
EuMC54-01 41 Nalli, Andrea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC09-05 55
EuMC/EuMIC07-01 53 Nalobin, Artur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC04-04 6
Menargues, E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC56-05 43 Nam, Sangwook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC50-01 38
Mencarelli, Davide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC11-04 56 Nanni, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC03-01 50
Mendes, P.M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC34-04 27 Narahashi, Shoichi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC05-04 7
Mendez-Aller, Mario . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC42-04 33 Nasresfahani, M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-05 43
Mric, Stphane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-16 69 Nauwelaers, B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC15-02 14
Merunka, Ilja . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC25-04 21 Ndong, D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-29 59
EuMC41-03 32
EuMC41-04 32
Mesa, F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC23-03 20

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Neculoiu, Dan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC48-05 37 Park, Byung-Chul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC22-02 19
EuMC Poster01-37 48 Park, Byungjoon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC06-02 52
Nefedova, I.I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC33-04 27 EuMC/EuMIC07-04 53
Negra, Renato . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC39-05 31 Park, Dae Kil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-31 70
EuMC/EuMIC03-05 51 Park, Hyungchul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC47-02 36
Nehring, J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC09-02 9 Park, Jong-Chul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC52-02 40
Neto, Andrea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC06-02 7 Park, Jongmin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC50-01 38
Neumaier, Philipp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC33-05 27 Park, Young-Rak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-01 56
Neurauter, B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC31-05 25 Pascht, Andreas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC06-05 53
Ng, C.Y. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC05-05 52 Pasian, M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC02-04 5
Ng, G.I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC08-01 53 EuMC21-01 18
Nghiem, Xuan Anh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC03-05 51 Passaume, Marco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD01-01 61
Ngoya, Edouard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-16 58 Passerieux, Damien . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC07-02 8
Ni, Jia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC05-05 7 Paulides, Margarethus M. . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC41-01 32
Nian, Feng . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC07-05 8 Paulotto, S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC23-01 19
EuMC/EuRAD01-05 62 Pavlidis, Spyridon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC27-01 22
Nikfalazar, M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC26-02 22 EuMC/EuMIC02-04 50
EuMC26-04 22 Payan, Sandrine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC26-01 22
Nikitin, A.A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-25 46 Peden, Alain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-19 45
EuMC Poster01-42 48 Pedro, Jos C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC03-02 50
Nikitov, S.A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC51-04 39 Pelez-Snchez, V.M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-18 69
Ning, Yaqing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC36-03 28 EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-01
Pelant, Martin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Nistal-Gonzlez, I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD05-02 64 Pelliccia, Luca . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC10-02 10
Niu, Dow-Chih . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC08-05 54 Pelosi, Giuseppe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC29-01 24
Niu, Zhaodong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-24 69 Penirschke, Andreas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC09-03 9
Nocella, Valeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC10-02 10 Prennec, Andr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-26 59
Noujeim, Karam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD08-05 67 Pernod, Philippe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC01-04 4
Nunes, Lus C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC03-02 50 Perov, D.V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-31 47
Perregrini, L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC02-04 5
O EuMC21-01 18
Oba, Tetsuya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC52-04 40 Perret, Etienne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC13-04 13
Oborovski, Andreas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC05-01 6 Person, C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC04-03 6
Occhiuzzi, Cecilia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC14-01 13 Pessl, W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC55-01 42
Ochodnicky, Jan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-19 69 Peterson, Bela . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD06-04 65
Ocket, I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC15-02 14 Petrini, V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC25-01 21
ODaniel, Christopher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-02 43 Peyresoubes, Georges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC49-05 38
Ogboi, F.L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC03-04 50 Pfeier, Ullrich R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD08-01 66
Ogurtsov, Stanislav . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC45-01 35 Pger, Stefan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC44-01 34
Ohashi, Yoji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC13-01 12 Pham, Tien Dat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC47-03 36
EuMC31-03 25 Piazzon, L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC03-01 50
EuMC40-04 31 EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-27 59
Ohta, Isao . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC05-04 7 Pichonat, E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC19-04 17
Okada, Kenichi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC06-04 7 Picollo, M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-07 67
EuMC37-01 29 Pierantoni, Luca . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC11-04 56
Okamura, Yasuyuki . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC35-05 28 Pingue, Massimiliano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC24-04 20
Okazaki, Hiroshi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC05-04 7 Pinto, R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC14-04 13
Olmi, R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC09-01 9 EuMC25-03 21
EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-37 71 Piotrowicz, S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC09-02 54
Olopade, Abdullah O. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-14 44 Pirola, M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC03-01 50
Onodera, K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC05-05 52 Pisa, Stefano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC04-02 6
Orcioni, Simone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC04-04 51 Pistono, Emmanuel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC49-04 38
Otani, Norihisa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC07-02 53 Pittella, Erika . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC04-02 6
Otobe, Eiichiro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC07-02 53 Placidi, S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-33 70
Otto, S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD05-02 64 Plastikov, Andrey N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD04-05 64
Owada, Tetsu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC52-04 40 Plsek, Radek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-01 67
Ozbay, Ekmel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-09 57 Pluzhnikov, Anatoly D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-26 70
zek, Ahmet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC49-02 38 Poddar, Ajay K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC37-03 29
Podevin, Florence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC56-02 42
P Pohl, Nils . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-08 68
Pokharel, Ramesh K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC06-03 7
Pacaud, Damien . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC18-05 16
EuMC/EuMIC08-03 54
Pacchini, Sbastien . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC01-04 4
EuMC27-05 23 Polivka, Milan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC40-03 31
Pache, Denis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC47-01 36 Ponomarev, D.V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC51-04 39
Pacini, Alex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC45-03 35 Pontes, Juan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD02-02 62
Pa, Alessandra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC36-02 28 Poole, Clive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC48-04 37
EuMC41-05 32 Popovic, Zoya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC05-01 51
Pajusco, P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC04-03 6 EuMC/EuMIC05-02 52
Palacios Lzaro, Miguel ngel . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD03-05 63 EuMC/EuMIC10-02 55
Palego, Cristiano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC36-03 28 Poprawa, F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD03-04 63
EuMC54-03 41 Porch, Adrian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC07-04 8
Pallecchi, Emiliano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC19-04 17 EuMC33-02 26
EuMC/EuMIC11-03 56 Porokhnyuk, Andrey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC17-04 16
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-19 58 Porzi, Claudio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD05-04 65
Palmieri, Francesco A.N. . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-13 68 Pothier, Arnaud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC18-03 16
Palombini, Diego . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-17 58 EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-38 60
Pande, Partha Pratim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-04 57 Potier, C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC09-02 54
Pang, C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD05-05 65 Pottier, Eric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-16 69
Pantellini, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC03-01 50 Poulton, Matthew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC04-02 51
Papapolymerou, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC27-01 22 Poupot, Mary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC15-01 14
EuMC/EuMIC02-04 50 Prasetiadi, Ananto Eka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC18-02 16
EuMC/EuMIC08-04 54 EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-39 61
EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-04 67 Pratt, P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC48-03 37
Preis, Sebastian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-10 57
Paragua, Carlos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC27-05 23
Pardavi-Horvath, M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-31 47 Presi, Marco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD05-04 65
Park, Bong Hyuk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC31-04 25 Preu, Sascha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC42-04 33

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Preyler, P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC31-05 25 Rorsman, Niklas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC19-05 17
Pribludova, Elena N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-26 70 Rosa-Zurera, M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-36 71
Prigent, Gatan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-38 48 Roselli, L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC01-03 4
Prou, N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC54-02 41 Ross, Tyler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-28 46
EuMC54-05 41 Roumeliotis, John A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-22 46
Pruvost, Sbastien . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC47-01 36 Rowe, Wayne S.T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-27 46
Puech, J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC21-04 18 Roy, Langis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-22 59
Puentes, Margarita . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC15-03 14 Rudolph, Matthias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC09-04 55
Rger, Reinhold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC07-04 8
Q Ruiz, M.N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC10-04 55
Qayyum, Saad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC39-05 31 Ruiz-Cruz, Jorge A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC24-05 21
Qin, Pei-Yuan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD07-05 66 Russchenberg, Herman . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD05-05 65
Quaglia, Roberto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC03-01 50 EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-15 68
EuMC/EuMIC10-03 55 Russell, D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-18 58
Quay, R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC02-05 50 Russer, Johannes A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC22-01 19
EuMC/EuMIC05-04 52 EuMC29-04 24
Quendo, C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC55-01 42 EuMC51-02 39
Qur, Raymond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC09-02 54 EuMC Poster01-04 43
Russer, Peter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC22-01 19
Quibeldey, M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD03-02 63
EuMC29-04 24
Qureshi, M.T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC56-03 43 EuMC51-02 39
EuMC Poster01-04 43
R Russo, P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC25-01 21
Raboso, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC10-03 10 Ruzzene, Massimo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-04 67
Rachkov, Dmytro S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-21 69 Rydberg, Anders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC52-05 40
Rao, Antonio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC02-01 49 Ryndyk, Alexander G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-26 70
EuMC/EuMIC09-05 55
Ra, Gholamreza Z. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC42-03 33 S
Raque, Raihan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-05 67 Saad, Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC02-03 49
Ragab, M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC08-03 54 Saeedi, Shahrokh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC44-03 34
Risnen, A.V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC33-04 27 Safavi-Naeini, Saeddin . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC42-03 33
Rammal, Jamal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC07-01 8 EuMC56-01 42
EuMC07-02 8 EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-41 61
EuMC09-04 10 Saan, R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-15 45
Ramos, Angel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC14-02 13 Safwat, Amr M.E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC46-03 36
Rance, Olivier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC13-04 13 EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-42 71
Ranieri, P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD03-03 63 Sah, Suman P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD07-01 65
Ranjan, K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC08-01 53 Sahrani, Shafrida . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC29-02 24
Rao, Pei-Zong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC37-02 29 Sailer, Alfons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD06-01 65
EuMC Poster01-39 48 Saito, Yosuke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC08-05 9
Rasekh, P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-15 45 Sakane, Hitoshi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC06-04 7
Rathore, Vaishali . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC49-03 38 Sakurai, H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC05-05 52
Razban, Tchanguiz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC20-05 18 Salama, Sana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-12 57
Readhead, A.C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-18 58 Salazar-Palma, Magdalena . . . . . . . . . . EuMC32-03 26
Reed, S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-29 59 EuMC38-04 30
Reeves, R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-18 58 EuMC44-05 34
Rehder, G.P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC11-05 11 EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-24 59
Reina-Tosina, Javier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC43-03 33 Salhi, Mohammed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC33-03 27
Ren, Zhixiong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC01-02 49 Salter, M.J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC39-03 30
Rennings, Andreas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC25-02 21 Salvo, Giuseppe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC09-05 55
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-31 60 Salza, Giuseppe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC16-03 15
Rentsch, S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC52-01 39 Samir, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC56-01 42
Resca, Davide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC09-05 55 Samoska, L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-18 58
Reveyrand, Tibault . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC05-02 52 Samoylovich, M.I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-20 45
EuMC/EuMIC10-02 55 EuMC Poster01-31 47
Reyes-Guerrero, J.C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-05 57 Sanada, Atsushi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC50-02 38
Rezaee, Morteza . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC44-04 34 Sanchez, Adrin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC36-05 29
Rezazadeh, Ali A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC27-04 23 Sanchez-Escuderos, Daniel . . . . . . . . . EuMC10-05 10
Ribeiro, Diogo C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC10-01 55 Sandhagen, Carl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-32 60
Richardeau, C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-28 59 Sangar, Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC42-02 32
Ricketts, David S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC22-03 19 Sans, Marc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC17-03 15
Ridler, N.M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC39-03 30 Santarelli, Alberto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC04-01 51
Riminesi, Cristiano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC09-01 9 Sapone, Giuseppina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD03-01 62
EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-37 71 Sardin, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC05-02 52
Rinkevich, A.B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-20 45 Sarkar, Tapan K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC38-04 30
EuMC Poster01-31 47 EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-24 59
Rioual, Stphane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC09-04 10 Sarkozy, S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-18 58
Rittweger, M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD03-02 63 Sarmah, Neelanjan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD08-01 66
Rivenq, Atika . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC47-04 36 Sato, Masaru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC31-03 25
Rivera-Lavado, Alejandro . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC42-04 33 Sato, Shinji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC06-04 7
Rizzoli, Vittorio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC13-03 12 Satoh, Kei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC05-04 7
Roch-jeune, Isabel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-19 58 Sauleau, Ronan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC04-03 6
Rodrguez, Ana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC17-03 15 EuMC23-04 20
Roederer, A.G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC20-02 17 EuMC Poster01-26 46
EuMC/EuRAD01-02 61 Sautbekov, Seil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC25-05 21
Roelozen, Chris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD05-01 64 Sawyer, Evan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-02 43
Rohde, Ulrich L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC37-03 29 Saxena, Alok Kumar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-24 46
Rohrdantz, Benjamin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC03-03 5 Scalise, L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC25-01 21
EuMC13-02 12 Scappaviva, Francesco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC09-05 55
Roig, Mara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC17-05 16 EuMC/EuRAD03-03 63
Rolfes, Ilona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC04-04 6 Scheytt, J. Christoph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC36-04 29
EuMC16-05 15 Schlaer, E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC55-01 42
Rolland, Nathalie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC47-01 36 Schmalz, Klaus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC33-05 27
EuMC47-04 36 EuMC36-04 29
Roncire, Olivier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-26 46 Schmid, Robert L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC08-04 54
Rnnow, Daniel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC43-04 34 Schmid, Ulrich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC07-03 8

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Schopp, Christoph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-18 45 Stocklingsky, Bernie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC48-02 37
Schrader, Thorsten . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC33-03 27 Stpel, D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC52-01 39
Schreurs, Dominique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC15-02 14 Struchkov, Sergey M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC21-05 18
EuMC/EuMIC04-01 51 Strunck, Sebastian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC26-05 22
Schuchinsky, A.G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC51-03 39 Styles, Tim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-09 68
Schuetz, M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC09-02 9 Su, W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC01-03 4
Schulz, Christian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC16-05 15 Su, Yu-Sheng . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-40 61
Schumacher, Hermann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC08-04 9 Suematsu, Noriharu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC01-04 49
EuMC11-04 11 Sugiura, Tsuyoshi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC07-02 53
EuMC52-05 40 Suijker, E.M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD08-03 66
Schumann, Stefan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC52-03 40 EuMC/EuRAD08-02
Sun, Yaoming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Schler, Martin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC15-03 14
Suriani, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD03-03 63
Scorrano, Luca . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-39 71
Suzuki, Takuya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC53-04 41
Sedehi, M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-12 68
Suzuki, Toshihide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC31-03 25
Segovia-Vargas, Daniel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC42-04 33 Suzuki, Yasunori . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC05-04 7
Seler, Ernst . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD03-01 62 Svanda, Milan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC40-03 31
Selga, Jordi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC17-03 15 Svezhentsev, Alexander Ye. . . . . . . . . EuMC45-04 35
Selleri, Stefano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC29-01 24 Sychev, Aleksandr N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC21-05 18
Semeniaka, Andrii V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-21 69 Szhau, Lai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-09 44
Semenov, A.A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-25 46
Sen, Ozlem A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-09 57 T
Senju, T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC05-05 52
Taddei, Ruggero . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC29-01 24
Sentieys, O. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC04-03 6
Taeb, Aidin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC42-03 33
Serano, Giovanni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD05-04 65
Tahara, Yukihiro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC52-04 40
Serrano, A.L.C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC11-05 11 Tajima, Kenichi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC53-04 41
Seth, Marten . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC54-03 41 EuMC/EuRAD07-03 66
Shaforost, Olena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC19-03 17
Takacs, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC34-01 27
Shamim, Atif . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC34-02 27
EuMC48-05 37
EuMC Poster01-36 47
Takagi, K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC05-05 52
Shapoval, Olga V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC35-02 28
Sharaiha, Ala . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC03-01 5 Takagi, Shogo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC51-05 39
Sharawi, Mohammad S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC20-04 18 Takagi, Tadashi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC01-04 49
Shariati, Negin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-27 46 Takeda, Shigeki . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC28-01 23
Sh-Asanjan, Desireh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC16-01 14 Talai, Armin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC07-03 8
Shavit, R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC15-05 14 Tam, Kam-Weng . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC20-01 17
EuMC45-02 35 Tamiazzo, Stefano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC32-01 26
Shealy, Je . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC48-02 37 Tan, D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC11-02 56
Shen, Zhongxiang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC24-01 20 Tanaka, Shoji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD05-03 64
Sheta, Abdel Fattah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-42 61 Tanguy, Anne-Catherine . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC49-05 38
Shim, Hyunjin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC50-01 38 Taniguchi, Eiji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC53-02 40
Shimura, Toshihiro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC31-03 25 Tantot, Olivier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC07-01 8
Shinjo, Shintaro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC48-01 37 EuMC07-02 8
Shramkova, O.V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC51-03 39 EuMC09-04 10
Shumaker, Evgeny . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-12 44 EuMC18-05 16
Sigmarsson, Hjalti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC44-03 34 Tao, Yun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC24-01 20
Siligaris, Alexandre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC53-03 41 Taravati, Sajjad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC02-01 4
Silva, Andr Nascimento da . . . . . . . . EuMC46-05 36 Tarricone, Luciano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC14-05 13
Silva, Jeerson Costa e . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC46-05 36 EuMC27-02 22
Sinulingga, Emerson P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC27-04 23 EuMC40-05 31
Siragusa, Romain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC13-04 13 Tasker, P.J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC03-03 50
Sis, Seyit Ahmet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC26-03 22 EuMC/EuMIC03-04 50
Skripal, A.V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC51-04 39 Tay, B.K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC11-02 56
Sloan, Robin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-34 60 Teberio, F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC42-05 33
Smolders, Adrianus B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC47-05 37 EuMC56-05 43
Snyder, Richard V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC10-01 10 Tentzeris, Manos M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC01-01 4
EuMC38-03 30 EuMC01-02 4
Soejima, T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC05-05 52 EuMC01-03 4
Terajima, Kazuma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC01-04 49
Sogl, B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC43-02 33
Solbach, Klaus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC25-02 21 Tertinek, S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC31-05 25
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-12 Tessmann, Axel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD03-04 63
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EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-31 EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-08 68
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EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-36 Tharayil Narayanan, Aravind . . . . . . . EuMC37-01 29
Sols-Carpintero, C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Thevenot, M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-35 60
Sombrin, Jacques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC04-05 51
Tiercelin, Nicolas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC01-04 4
Sommer, Rainer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-08 68
Tillack, B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC11-04 11
Song, Peter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC08-04 54 Tilli, E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-12 68
Sonoda, Takuji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC01-04 49 Tognolatti, Piero . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC41-02 32
Soric, Jason . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC51-01 39 Togonal, Alinor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC01-04 4
Sorrentino, Roberto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC10-02 10 Tomassoni, Cristano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC10-02 10
EuMC11-01 11 Tom, Ana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-06 57
Soto, Pablo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC10-03 10
Tommasino, P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-32 70
Soubercaze-Pun, Georoy . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC04-05 51
Toscano, Alessandro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC51-01 39
Spinosa, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-27 59
Tourtollet, Petot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC34-05 27
Sporer, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD04-03 64 Toutain, Yann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC36-05 29
Spreng, Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC52-05 40 Tozin, Samir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-08 44
Srivastava, Kumar Vaibhav . . . . . . . . . EuMC03-05 6 Traille, Anya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC01-01 4
EuMC46-02 36 Tran, D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC20-02 17
EuMC Poster01-24 46 EuMC/EuRAD01-02 61
Stake, Jan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC19-02 17
Tretyakov, Sergei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC45-05 35
EuMC42-01 32
Trieu, Hoc Khiem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC36-01 28
Stanko, Stephan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-08 68
Triletti, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-32 70
Staszewski, Robert B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC47-05 37
Trotta, Fabrizio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-39 71
Statnikov, Konstantin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD08-01 66
Trotta, Saverio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD03-01 62
Steinhuer, Frank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC07-03 8
EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-01 Trujilo-Romero, Citlalli J. . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC41-01 32
Stejskal, Vojtech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Stelzer, Andreas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-35 71
Stephan, R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC52-01 39

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Tsai, Jeng-Han . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC30-03 25 Vrba, Jan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC25-04 21
EuMC/EuMIC01-01 48 EuMC41-03 32
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-03 56 EuMC41-04 32
EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-40 71 Vrba, Jan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC41-03 32
Tseng, Ying-Cheng . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC05-02 7 Vukusic, Josip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC42-01 32
Tsubouchi, Kazuo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC01-04 49 Vuong, T.-P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC34-05 27
Tsuru, Masaomi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC53-02 40
Tsutsumi, Koji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC53-02 40
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Turalchuk, Pavel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC05-05 7 Wahlen, Alfred . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-08 68
Turc, P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-32 47 Wakatsuki, Naoto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC08-05 9
Turchetti, Claudio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC04-04 51 Walcher, H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC02-05 50
Ture, E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC02-05 50 Waldschmidt, Christian . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC06-01 7
Turgaliev, Viacheslav . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC18-01 16 EuMC08-01 8
Tzuang, Ching-Kuang Clive . . . . . . . . . EuMC02-03 5 EuMC44-01 34
EuMC38-05 30 EuMC/EuRAD02-02 62
EuMC/EuRAD06-03 65
U Walker, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-07 57
Ueda, Tetsuya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC17-04 16 Wane, Sidina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC29-04 24
Ugarte-Muoz, Eduardo . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC42-04 33 EuMC54-02 41
Uhm, Manseok . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC29-05 24 EuMC54-05 41
Ulusoy, A. agr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC02-04 50 Wang, Ben . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC27-01 22
Wang, Bo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-16 58
EuMC/EuMIC08-04 54
Wang, Dinghe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-24 69
Unnikrishna, Utkarsh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC56-04 43
Usanov, D.A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC51-04 39 Wang, Hongquan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-16 69
Ussmueller, T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC31-05 25 Wang, Hsiao-Ning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-29 70
Ustinov, A.B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-25 46 Wang, Hua . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC08-04 54
EuMC Poster01-42 48 Wang, Huei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC07-01 53
EuMC/EuMIC08-05 54
V Wang, Junhu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-25 70
Valavan, S.E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC20-02 17 Wang, Kan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC27-01 22
EuMC/EuRAD01-02 61 Wang, Lei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-15 58
Valenta, Vclav . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC52-05 40 Wang, Ping-Yi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC30-01 24
Valerio, Guido . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC23-01 19 Wang, Qiang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD01-03 61
EuMC23-04 20 EuMC/EuRAD02-04 62
Vandenbosch, Guy A.E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC45-04 35 Wang, Ruoyu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC33-05 27
van der Bent, Gijs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC02-02 49 Wang, T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD05-05 65
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-23 59 Wang, Wei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC43-01 33
van der Graaf, Marcel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC02-02 49 Wang, X. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD05-05 65
van der Vossen, Marc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD05-01 64 Wang, Xiaoyu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC34-03 27
van de Sluis, J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC56-03 43 Watkins, Gavin T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC12-02 12
van Dijk, Raymond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-23 59 EuMC/EuMIC06-03 52
van Heijningen, M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD08-03 66 Wei, Muh-Dey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC39-05 31
Vannini, Giorgio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC02-01 49 Wei, W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC19-04 17
EuMC/EuMIC09-05 55 EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-19 58
Vannucci, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-32 70 Wei, Xing-Chang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC11-01 56
van Rhoon, Gerard C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC41-01 32 Weigel, Robert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC05-01 6
van Vliet, Frank E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC02-02 49 EuMC07-03 8
EuMC/EuRAD08-03 66 EuMC09-02 9
EuMC09-05 10
van Wanum, M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD08-03 66
EuMC31-05 25
Varonen, M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-18 58 EuMC39-01 30
Vzquez Alejos, Ana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC04-05 6 EuMC39-02 30
Vendik, Irina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC05-05 7 EuMC43-02 33
Venkatasubramanian, Sathya N. . . . . EuMC45-05 35 EuMC/EuRAD04-03 64
Venturino, Luca . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-10 68 Weikle II, Robert M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC42-01 32
EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-11 68 Weimann, N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC30-05 25
Venugopalan, K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-22 69 Weinreb, S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-18 58
Vercauteren, Laurens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-21 46 Wentzel, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC28-05 23
Verdeyme, Serge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC07-01 8 Werber, Klaudius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC08-01 8
EuMC07-02 8 Wessel, Jan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC36-04 29
EuMC09-04 10 Wheeler, Edward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-02 43
EuMC10-04 10 Wicpalek, C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC31-05 25
EuMC18-05 16 Wiens, Alex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC09-03 9
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-35 60 EuMC26-02 22
Verhaevert, Jo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-21 46 EuMC26-04 22
Verona, B.M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC11-05 11 Wietstruck, M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC11-04 11
Vettikalladi, Hamsakutty . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-42 61 Wight, Jim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-28 46
Vicente, C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC56-05 43 Wilcke, Jrn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-08 68
Vicknesh, S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC08-01 53 Wildman, Leon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-09 68
Vieira, Jos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-06 57 Will, Bianca . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC16-05 15
Vietzorreck, Larissa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC11-02 11 Willebois, J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD02-03 62
Vignaud, Dominique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC19-04 17 Winters, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC19-05 17
EuMC/EuMIC11-03 56 Wleklinski, M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD05-02 64
Villegas, Martine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC43-05 34 Wojinowski, Maciej . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD03-01 62
Vincent, Didier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-22 59 Wu, Chen-Yu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC30-02 24
Vincent, Pierre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC53-03 41 Wu, Chung-Tse Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC17-01 15
Vinci, Gabor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC39-02 30 EuMC37-03 29
Vitulli, Francesco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC11-02 11 Wu, Hsien-Shun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC02-03 5
EuMC/EuRAD03-03 63 Wu, Juhong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-41 71
Vojckov, Lucie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC25-04 21 Wu, Jun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC43-01 33
EuMC41-03 32 Wu, Ming-Hang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC30-03 25
EuMC41-04 32 EuMC/EuRAD07-02 66
Vorobiev, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC18-04 16 Wu, Rui . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC06-04 7
EuMC19-02 17 Wunderlich, L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD05-02 64
Voshaar, Gerard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD05-01 64 Wr, Joachim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC09-01 54
Vrba, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC41-03 32

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X Zhou, Haijing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD02-04 62
Zhu, Erni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC43-01 33
Xavier, P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC34-05 27
Ziegler, Volker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC44-01 34
Xia, Peter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC04-02 51
EuMC52-05 40
Xie, Lan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-34 71 Zinal, Sherko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC21-03 18
Xie, Li . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC20-03 18 Zirath, Herbert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC19-05 17
EuMC29-03 24 EuMC48-04 37
Xiong, Ying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC51-02 39 Zomorrodi, Mohammad . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC40-02 31
Xu, Yi-Li . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC50-03 39 Zou, Xuecheng . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC01-02 49
EuMC/EuMIC11-01 56 Zouros, Grigorios P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-22 46
Xue, Fei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-15 58 EuMC/EuRAD08-02
Zwick, Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Xue, Quan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC12-01 12

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Yamakawa, Takeshi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-03 43
Yamamoto, Katsuyuki . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC35-01 28
Yamamoto, Kazuya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC48-01 37
Yamanaka, Koji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-10 44
Yang, Chun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD02-04 62
Yang, Liang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC20-03 18
EuMC29-03 24
Yang, Mei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC20-03 18
Yang, Shicheng . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-22 59
Yang, Wanchen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC20-01 17
Yang, Xin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC07-02 53
Yang, Yintang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD07-05 66
Yang, Yujie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD01-05 62
Yarovoy, Alexander G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC20-02 17
EuMC/EuRAD01-02 61
EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-14 68
Yazdani, Mohsen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC37-04 29
EuMC Poster01-08 44
Yeh, Jin-Fu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC01-01 48
Yeh, Lung-Kai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC55-02 42
Yeo, Tae-Dong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC03-04 6
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-13 58
Yeo, T.S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-36 60
Yeung, Sai Ho . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC44-05 34
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-24 59
Yi, Sok Ho . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC52-02 40
Yin, Xiaoxing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC20-03 18
EuMC29-03 24
Yodprasit, Uroschanit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC52-03 40
Yom, In-Bok . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC29-05 24
EuMC Poster01-11 44
Yoo, Kyungho . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-35 47
Yoo, Sol-Ji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC03-04 6
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-13 58
Yook, Jong-Gwan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC Poster01-35 47
Yook, Jong-Min . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC52-02 40
Yoshida, Satoshi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC22-04 19
Yoshimasu, Toshihiko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC07-02 53
You, Pen-Li . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC30-02 24
Yousef, K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC08-03 54
Yu, Hongbiao . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-34 71
Yu, Jong-Won . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC03-04 6
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-13 58
Yu, Q. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC42-05 33
Yu, Xinmin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-04 57
Yu, Zhijian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC43-01 33
Yuasa, Takeshi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC52-04 40
Yurduseven, Ozan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC06-02 7

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Zeinolabedinzadeh, Saeed . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC08-04 54
Zemmour, Hamadache . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD04-01 63
Zenteno, Efrain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC43-04 34
Zhang, Chenggang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-03 67
Zhang, Chuck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC27-01 22
Zhang, Haiyang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC20-05 18
Zhang, Kefeng . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuMIC01-02 49
Zhang, Qiang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-03 67
Zhang, Qingfeng . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC02-01 4
Zhang, Tianyu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-25 59
Zhang, Wentao . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC/EuRAD01-03 61
Zhang, Xingwen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC29-03 24
Zhang, Yongjian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC27-04 23
Zhang, Yue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuRAD/EuMC Poster01-41 71
Zhang, Zihui . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC02-05 5
EuMIC/EuMC Poster01-10 57
Zhao, Chen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC24-03 20
Zhao, Hongxin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC20-03 18
EuMC29-03 24
Zheng, Yuliang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EuMC09-03 9
EuMC26-04 22

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