IEEE Catalog Number: ISBN:

CFP15MTT-POD 978-1-4799-8276-9

2015 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS 2015)

Phoenix, Arizona, USA 17-22 May 2015

Pages 1-830

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

WIDEBAND POWER AMPLIFIERS - 1948 TO THE PRESENT DAY ......................................................................... 1Komiak, James J.

THE DOHERTY POWER AMPLIFIER ............................................................................................................................ 4Pengelly, Raymond S.

SOME ASPECTS OF THE HISTORY OF MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS....................................................................... 8Rautio, James C.

A 95 GHZ CENTIMETER SCALE PRECISION CONFINED PATHWAY SYSTEM-ON-CHIP NAVIGATION PROCESSOR FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES IN 65NM CMOS ................................................. 12

Tang, Adrian ; Hsiao, Frank ; Yanghyo Kim ; Li Du ; Long Kong ; Virbila, Gabriel ; Yen-Cheng Kuan ; Choonsup Lee ; Chattopadhyay, Goutam ; Chahat, Nacer ; Reck, Theodore ; Mehdi, Imran ; Chang, M.C.

DESIGN OF GENERALISED CHEBYSHEV LOWPASS FILTERS USING COUPLED LINE/STUB SECTIONS ........................................................................................................................................................................... 15

Musonda, Evaristo ; Hunter, Ian

A WIDE-BAND 65NM CMOS 28–34 GHZ SYNTHESIZER MODULE ENABLING LOW POWER HETERODYNE SPECTROMETERS FOR PLANETARY EXPLORATION ............................................................. 19

Chen, Z.-Z. ; Tang, A. ; Kim, Y. ; Virbila, G. ; Reck, T. ; Yei, J.-F. ; Du, Y. ; Chattopadhyay, G. ; Chang, M-C.Frank

SYNTHESIS OF GENERAL CHEBYSHEV CHARACTERISTIC FUNCTION FOR DUAL (SINGLE) BANDPASS FILTERS...................................................................................................................................... 22

Musonda, Evaristo ; Hunter, Ian

DIGITAL PRE-DISTORTION OF RF POWER AMPLIFIERS: PROGRESS TO DATE AND FUTURE CHALLENGES .................................................................................................................................................. 26

Wood, John

INTEGRATED MILLIMETER-WAVE TRANSCEIVER CONCEPTS AND TECHNOLOGIES FOR WIRELESS MULTI-GBPS COMMUNICATION.................................................................................................. 29

Kissinger, D. ; Girg, T. ; Beck, C. ; Nasr, I. ; Forstner, H.P. ; Wojnowski, M. ; Pressel, K. ; Weigel, R.

ACTIVE BIAS CONTROL FOR IMPROVED PULSE DROOP PERFORMANCE OF GAN HEMT TRANSISTOR ..................................................................................................................................................................... 32

Hokenson, Eric ; Achiriloaie, Benone

A COMPACT PLANAR MAGIC-T USING ONE-THIRD TRIANGULAR RESONATOR OF SUBSTRATE INTEGRATED WAVEGUIDE AND SLOTLINE TRANSITION ......................................................... 36

Chaoyi Zheng ; Feng Xu

A NOVEL INTERLACED CHIRP SEQUENCE RADAR CONCEPT WITH RANGE-DOPPLER PROCESSING FOR AUTOMOTIVE APPLICATIONS ................................................................................................ 40

Thurn, Karsten ; Shmakov, Denys ; Gang Li ; Max, Stephan ; Meinecke, Marc-Michael ; Vossiek, Martin

GAN TRANSISTOR LARGE-SIGNAL CHARACTERIZATION UNDER MULTI-FREQUENCY EXCITATION ..................................................................................................................................................................... 44

Schafer, Scott ; Popovic, Zoya

MIXED-MODE CLASS E-F-1 HIGH EFFICIENCY GAN POWER AMPLIFIER FOR P-BAND SPACE APPLICATIONS ................................................................................................................................................... 48

Formicone, Gabriele ; Custer, James

ULTRA-COMPACT G-BAND 16WAY POWER SPLITTER/COMBINER MODULE FABRICATED THROUGH A NEW METHOD OF 3D-COPPER ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING ...................... 52

Kazemi, H. ; Miller, D. ; Mohan, A. ; Jin, Y. ; Crawford, M. ; Wagenseil, M. ; Long, S.

SWITCHABLE TRI-BAND BANDPASS FILTER WITH WIDE STOPBAND ........................................................... 55Tzung-Han Du ; Hsu, Ko-Wen ; Tu, Wen-Hua

NOVEL MIMO-BASED TECHNIQUE FOR EM-IMAGING OF CHIPLESS RFID .................................................. 59Zomorrodi, Mohammad ; Karmakar, Nemai C.

BANDWIDTH ENHANCEMENT OF DUAL-POLARIZED MICROSTRIP ANTENNA LATTICE........................ 63Slomian, Izabela ; Gruszczynski, Slawomir ; Wincza, Krzysztof

IMPROVED BROADBAND ELECTRICAL DETECTION OF INDIVIDUAL BIOLOGICAL CELLS .................................................................................................................................................................................. 67

Ning, Y. ; Ma, X. ; Multari, C.R. ; Luo, X. ; Gholizadeh, V. ; Palego, C. ; Cheng, X. ; Hwang, J.C.M.

A FLEXIBLE HYBRID PRINTED RF ENERGY HARVESTER UTILIZING CATALYST-BASED COPPER PRINTING TECHNOLOGIES FOR FAR-FIELD RF ENERGY HARVESTING APPLICATIONS ................................................................................................................................................................. 70

Kim, Sangkil ; Bito, Jo ; Jeong, Soyeon ; Georgiadis, Apostolos ; Tentzeris, Manos M.

A PLANAR AND TUNABLE BANDPASS FILTER ON A FERRITE SUBSTRATE WITH INTEGRATED WINDINGS .............................................................................................................................................. 74

Arabi, Eyad ; Syed, Ahad ; Shamim, Atif

AN RF-INPUT OUTPHASING POWER AMPLIFIER WITH RF SIGNAL DECOMPOSITION NETWORK.......................................................................................................................................................................... 77

Barton, Taylor W. ; Perreault, David J.

MICROSTRIP SPLIT RING RESONATOR FOR MICROSPHERE DETECTION AND CHARACTERIZATION .................................................................................................................................................... 81

Abduljabar, Ali ; Xin Yang ; Barrow, David ; Porch, Adrian

WIRELESS SENSING AND POWER TRANSFER IN A ROTARY TOOL ................................................................ 85Trevisan, Riccardo ; Costanzo, Alessandra

BROADBAND HIGH-EFFICIENCY POWER AMPLIFIERS DESIGN BASED ON HYBRID CONTINUOUS MODES UTILIZING THE OPTIMAL IMPEDANCES AT PACKAGE PLANE ............................ 89

Chen, Jinhu ; He, Songbai

BALANCED FILTER CIRCUIT BASED ON OPEN/SHORTED LOADED STUBS .................................................. 93Feng, Wenjie ; Che, Wenquan ; Haidong Chen ; Xue, Quan

ACCURATE MODELING OF MICROWAVE STRUCTURES USING VARIABLE-FIDELITY RESPONSE FEATURES .................................................................................................................................................... 96

Koziel, Slawomir ; Bandler, John W.

A PACKAGED 86–98 GHZ CMOS TRANSMITTER FOR FMCW RADAR APPLICATIONS WITH 30 DBM OF EIRP................................................................................................................................................................ 99

Jameson, Samuel ; Socher, Eran

FAST EM-DRIVEN DESIGN OPTIMIZATION OF MICROWAVE FILTERS USING ADJOINT SENSITIVITY AND RESPONSE FEATURES .............................................................................................................. 103

Koziel, Slawomir ; Bandler, John W.

SIZE REDUCTION OF MICROWAVE COUPLERS BY EM-DRIVEN OPTIMIZATION .................................... 106Koziel, Slawomir ; Bekasiewicz, Adrian ; Kurgan, Piotr

A CLASS-J POWER AMPLIFIER WITH VARACTOR-BASED DYNAMIC LOAD MODULATION ACROSS A LARGE BANDWIDTH................................................................................................................................ 109

Hallberg, William ; Gustafsson, David ; Ozen, Mustafa ; Andersson, Christer M. ; Kuylenstierna, Dan ; Fager, Christian

A DIVIDE-BY-3 INJECTION-LOCKED FREQUENCY DIVIDER IN 0.18 µM CMOS PROCESS FOR K BAND APPLICATIONS ..................................................................................................................................... 113

Chang, Yu-Hsin ; Yen-Chung Chiang

METHOD TO REDUCE CONTROL VOLTAGE FOR HIGH POWER GAN RF SWITCHES .............................. 116Campbell, Charles F.

LOW-COST EM-DRIVEN SURROGATE MODELING AND OPTIMIZATION OF PLANAR INDUCTORS ..................................................................................................................................................................... 120

Kurgan, Piotr ; Koziel, Slawomir ; Bandler, John W.

EXPEDITED MULTI-OBJECTIVE DESIGN OPTIMIZATION OF MINIATURIZED MICROWAVE STRUCTURES USING PHYSICS-BASED SURROGATES............................................................. 123

Koziel, Slawomir ; Bekasiewicz, Adrian ; Kurgan, Piotr ; Bandler, John W.

MICROWAVE BANDSTOP FILTERS WITH MINIMUM THROUGH-LINE LENGTH....................................... 126Naglich, Eric J. ; Guyette, Andrew C. ; Shin, Sanghoon

NOVEL MULTIBAND LINEARIZATION TECHNIQUE FOR CLOSELY-SPACED DUAL-BAND SIGNALS OF WIDE BANDWIDTH ............................................................................................................................... 130

Ying Liu ; Roblin, Patrick ; Hai Yu ; Shihai Shao ; Youxi Tang

DUAL-MODE DUAL-BAND BALANCED FILTER WITH HIGH DIFFERENTIAL-MODE FREQUENCY SELECTIVITY AND ENHANCED COMMON-MODE SUPPRESSION......................................... 134

Wei Jiang ; Yujia Peng ; Wei Shen ; Guoan Wang

THE MICROMAS AND MIRATA CUBESAT ATMOSPHERIC PROFILING MISSIONS.................................... 137Blackwell, William J.

OPTIMIZED DOHERTY POWER AMPLIFIER WITH A NEW OFFSET LINE .................................................... 140Yunsik Park ; Juyeon Lee ; Jee, Seunghoon ; Seokhyeon Kim ; Kim, Bumman

THE EVOLUTION OF THE PUSH-PULL RFPA......................................................................................................... 144Cripps, Steve C.

A NOVEL IN-SITU CALIBRATION TECHNIQUE FOR A HIGH RESOLUTION E-FIELD PROBE ............................................................................................................................................................................... 148

Dehghan, N. ; Cripps, S.C

MODELING ANNULAR THROUGH-SILICON VIA PAIRS IN 3-D INTEGRATION ........................................... 151Aobo Chen ; Liang, Feng ; Wang, Gaofeng ; Wang, Bing-Zhong

NON-CONTACT LIQUID SENSING USING HIGH RESOLUTION MICROWAVE MICROSTRIP RESONATOR .................................................................................................................................................................... 154

Zarifi, Mohammad H. ; Daneshmand, Mojgan

X-BAND ALL-WAVEGUIDE RADIAL COMBINER FOR HIGH POWER APPLICATIONS .............................. 158Kazemi, Robab ; Hegazi, Gamal ; Fathy, Aly E

THE EVOLUTION OF POWER COMBINING TECHNIQUES: FROM THE 60S TO TODAY............................ 162Schellenberg, James

INP HBT TRANSFERRED SUBSTRATE AMPLIFIERS OPERATING TO 600 GHZ............................................ 166Radisic, Vesna ; Scott, Dennis W. ; Monier, Cedric ; Wang, Sujane ; Cavus, Abdullah ; Gutierrez-Aitken, Augusto ; Deal, William

CIRCUIT MODEL EXTRACTION FOR COMPUTER-AIDED TUNING OF A COUPLED-RESONATOR DIPLEXER .............................................................................................................................................. 169

Zhao, Ping ; Wu, Ke-Li

A PACKAGED 106–110 GHZ BI-DIRECTIONAL 10GBPS 0.11 PJ/BIT/CM CMOS TRANSCEIVER ................................................................................................................................................................ 172

Weissman, Nir ; Jameson, Samuel ; Socher, Eran

OPTIMAL ARRANGEMENT OF FINITE ELEMENT LOOP ARRAYS FOR PARALLEL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING IN THE HUMAN HEAD AT 400 MHZ ...................................................... 176

Pfrommer, Andreas ; Henning, Anke

A HIGH VOLTAGE MM-WAVE STACKED HEMT POWER AMPLIFIER IN 0.1 µM INGAAS TECHNOLOGY ................................................................................................................................................................ 180

Gavell, Marcus ; Angelov, Iltcho ; Ferndahl, Mattias ; Zirath, Herbert

GRAPHENE-BASED DIPOLE ANTENNA FOR A UHF RFID TAG......................................................................... 183Kopyt, P. ; Salski, B. ; Olszewska, M. ; Janczak, D. ; Sloma, M. ; Kurkus, T. ; Jakubowska, M. ; Gwarek, W.

HISTORY AND STATE-OF-THE-ART IN LARGE SIGNAL MODELING FOR RF/MICROWAVE POWER AMPLIFIER DEVELOPMENT ...................................................................................................................... 186

Golio, M. ; Dunleavy, L. ; Gneiting, T.

A FULL-ORDER EQUIVALENT CIRCUIT APPROACH FOR TRANSMISSION LINES IN PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS........................................................................................................................................ 190

Xu, Xin ; Thiel, Werner ; Bracken, J.Eric

PSEUDO-ELLIPTIC IN-LINE FILTERS WITH DIELECTRIC RESONATORS IN PROPAGATING WAVEGUIDE ..................................................................................................................................... 193

Tomassoni, Cristiano ; Bastioli, Simone ; Snyder, Richard V.

X-BAND OUTPHASING GAN MMIC PA WITH POWER RECYCLING ................................................................ 197Litchfield, Michael ; Popovic, Zoya

MODELING AND CHARACTERIZATION OF SELF-BIASED CIRCULATORS IN THE MM-WAVE RANGE ................................................................................................................................................................. 201

Laur, Vincent ; Verissimo, Gregory ; Queffelec, Patrick ; Farhat, Leo Arij ; Alaaeddine, Hussain ; Reihs, Jean-Claude ; Laroche, Eric ; Martin, Gilles ; Lebourgeois, Richard ; Ganne, Jean-Pierre

CYLINDRICAL CAVITY MICROWAVE POWER COMBINER WITH MICROSTRIP LINE INPUTS AND RECTANGULAR WAVEGUIDE OUTPUT ......................................................................................... 205

Ravindra, Vinay ; Saito, Hirobumi ; Hirokawa, Jiro ; Zhang, Miao

STACKED GAAS PHEMTS: DESIGN OF A K-BAND POWER AMPLIFIER AND EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION OF MISMATCH EFFECTS ................................................................ 209

Fersch, T. ; Quaglia, R. ; Pirola, M. ; Camarchia, V. ; Ramella, C. ; Khoshkholgh, A.Javan ; Ghione, G. ; Weigel, R.

GAN-MMIC DOHERTY POWER AMPLIFIER WITH INTEGRATED RECONFIGURABLE INPUT NETWORK FOR MICROWAVE BACKHAUL APPLICATIONS ............................................................... 213

Giofre, R. ; Piazzon, L. ; Colantonio, P. ; Giannini, F. ; Camarchia, V. ; Quaglia, R. ; Pirola, M. ; Ramella, C.

A 700MHZ OUTPUT BANDWIDTH, 30DB DYNAMIC RANGE, COMMON-BASE MM-WAVE POWER DETECTOR....................................................................................................................................................... 216

Serhan, Ayssar ; Lauga-Larroze, Estelle ; Fournier, Jean-Michel

QUASI-ELLIPTIC FILTER BASED ON SIW COMBLINE RESONATORS USING A COPLANAR LINE CROSS-COUPLING .............................................................................................................................................. 219

Sirci, Stefano ; Gentili, Fabrizio ; Martinez, Jorge D. ; Boria, Vicente E. ; Sorrentino, Roberto

ROBUST STACKED GAN-BASED LOW-NOISE AMPLIFIER MMIC FOR RECEIVER APPLICATIONS ............................................................................................................................................................... 223

Andrei, Cristina ; Bengtsson, Olof ; Doerner, Ralf ; Chevtchenko, Serguei A. ; Rudolph, Matthias

LOW PHASE NOISE POWER-EFFICIENT MMIC GAN-HEMT OSCILLATOR AT 15 GHZ BASED ON A QUASI-LUMPED ON-CHIP RESONATOR ......................................................................................... 227

Horberg, Mikael ; Kuylenstierna, Dan

THE EVOLUTION OF TRANSISTORS FOR POWER AMPLIFIERS: 1947 TO TODAY ..................................... 231Niehenke, Edward C.

3D PRINTING FOR MICROWAVE: MATERIALS CHARACTERIZATION AND APPLICATION IN THE FIELD OF ABSORBERS................................................................................................................................... 235

Arbaoui, Y. ; Laur, V. ; Maalouf, A. ; Queffelec, P.

MILLIMETER-WAVE SMART ANTENNAS FOR ADVANCED SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS ...................................................................................................................................................... 238

Luo, Qi ; Gao, Steven ; Zhang, Long

A 100 W TRI-BAND LDMOS INTEGRATED DOHERTY AMPLIFIER FOR LTE-ADVANCED APPLICATIONS ............................................................................................................................................................... 242

Moronval, X. ; van der Zanden, J. ; Ercoli, M.

A WIDEBAND 700W PUSH-PULL DOHERTY AMPLIFIER .................................................................................... 245He, J. ; Qureshi, J.H. ; Sneijers, W. ; Calvillo-Cortes, D.A. ; deVreede, L.C.N.

LOW-LOSS COMPACT KU-BAND WAVEGUIDE LOW-PASS FILTER ............................................................... 249Teberio, F. ; Arregui, I. ; Gomez-Torrent, A. ; Menargues, E. ; Arnedo, I. ; Chudzik, M. ; Zedler, M. ; Gortz, F.-J. ; Jost, R. ; Lopetegi, T. ; Laso, M.A.G.

ROBUST LOW POWER DUAL-MODE GNSS RECEIVER IN 65-NM CMOS FOR MULTI-RADIO SOC INTEGRATION ....................................................................................................................................................... 253

Issakov, V. ; Doppke, H. ; Leyk, A. ; Villar, G.Lias ; Christ, V. ; Finn, G. ; Gu, Z. ; Kirchhoff, H.-G. ; Wang, Y. ; Tomasik, J.M. ; Devegowda, S. ; Hadjizada, K. ; Hammes, M. ; Kreienkamp, R.

OVERVIEW OF THE DELAY DOPPLER MAPPING INSTRUMENT (DDMI) FOR THE CYCLONE GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEMS MISSION (CYGNSS)............................................ 256

Gleason, Scott ; Ruf, Christopher

HIGH POWER AND HIGH EFFICIENCY KA BAND POWER AMPLIFIER ......................................................... 260Din, Salah ; Wojtowicz, Mike ; Siddiqui, Mansoor

EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION OF DIRECT LIQUID COOLING ON GAN HEMT BASED POWER AMPLIFIER MMIC.......................................................................................................................................... 264

Xie, Chenggang ; Wilcoxon, Ross

MILLIMETER-WAVE BASE STATION FOR MOBILE BROADBAND COMMUNICATION ............................ 268Aryanfar, Farshid ; Pi, Jerry ; Zhou, Hongyu ; Henige, Thomas ; Xu, Gary ; Abu-Surra, Shadi ; Psychoudakis, Dimitris ; Khan, Farooq

1 GHZ INSTANTANEOUS BANDWIDTH DIGITAL PRE-DISTORTION FOR MULTI-CONCURRENT CHANNEL WIDEBAND POWER AMPLIFIERS ........................................................................... 271

Velazquez, Scott R. ; Hegazi, Gamal M.

TWO COMPACT POWER-COMBINING CMOS VCOS WITH EXCELLENT 2ND-HARMONIC REJECTION USING THREE-CONDUCTOR COUPLED-LINE ............................................................................... 275

Chang, Ren-Hua ; Wang, Sen ; Teng, Cheng-Chieh

A RECONFIGURABLE PROGRAMMABLE-GAIN AMPLIFIER WITH GAIN STEP ADJUSTMENT AND BINARY-WEIGHTED POWER CONSUMPTION ................................................................. 279

Liu, Hang ; Zhu, Xi ; Boon, Chirn Chye

A LOW POWER PROGRAMMABLE GAIN HIGH PAE K-/KA-BAND STACKED AMPLIFIER IN 0.18 µM SIGE BICMOS TECHNOLOGY...................................................................................................................... 283

Kumar, Thangarasu Bharatha ; Ma, Kaixue ; Yeo, Kiat Seng

COMPACT AND LOW-LOSS BANDPASS FILTER REALIZED IN SILICA-BASED POST-WALL WAVEGUIDE FOR 60-GHZ APPLICATIONS ............................................................................................................ 287

Uemichi, Yusuke ; Nukaga, Osamu ; Nakamura, Kei ; Han, Xu ; Hosono, Ryouhei ; Guan, Ning ; Amakawa, Shuhei

BROADBAND CLASS-E POWER AMPLIFIER DESIGNED BY LUMPED-ELEMENT NETWORK TRANSFORMS AND GAN FETS ............................................................................................................. 290

Beltran, Ramon A.

BROADBAND, WIDE EFFICIENCY RANGE, DOHERTY AMPLIFIER DESIGN USING FREQUENCY-VARYING COMPLEX COMBINING LOAD ..................................................................................... 294

Fang, Xiaohu ; Cheng, Kwok-Keung M.

A 0.3-TO-5.5 GHZ DIGITAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATOR IC WITH TIME TO DIGITAL CONVERTER.................................................................................................................................................................... 298

Hirai, Akihito ; Tsutsumi, Koji ; Nakamizo, Hideyuki ; Taniguchi, Eiji

DESIGN OF DIFFERENTIAL-MODE WIDEBAND BANDPASS FILTERS WITH WIDE STOP BAND AND COMMON-MODE SUPPRESSION BY MEANS OF MULTISECTION MIRRORED STEPPED IMPEDANCE RESONATORS (SIRS) ......................................................................................................... 301

Velez, Paris ; Selga, Jordi ; Sans, Marc ; Bonache, Jordi ; Martin, Ferran

MICROWAVE FILTER DESIGN BASED ON COUPLING TOPOLOGIES WITH MULTIPLE SOLUTIONS ...................................................................................................................................................................... 305

Caenepeel, Matthias ; Seyfert, Fabien ; Rolain, Yves ; Olivi, Martine

NEW APPROACH FOR AN ACCURATE SCHOTTKY BARRIER HEIGHT'S EXTRACTION BY I-V-T MEASUREMENTS ................................................................................................................................................ 309

Lazar, O. ; Tartarin, J.G. ; Lambert, B. ; Moreau, C. ; Roux, J.L. ; Muraro, J.L.

OPEN RING RESONATOR STRUCTURE FOR COMPACT CHIPLESS RFID TAGS.......................................... 313Martinez-Iranzo, Ursula ; Moradi, Bahareh ; Garcia-Garcia, Joan

A 2.5 VPPD BROADBAND 32 GHZ BICMOS LINEAR DRIVER WITH TUNABLE DELAY LINE FOR INP SEGMENTED MACH-ZEHNDER MODULATORS .................................................................................. 316

Lopez, I.Garcia ; Rito, P. ; Micusik, D. ; Borngraber, J. ; Zimmermann, L. ; Ulusoy, A.C. ; Kissinger, D.

IMPROVING DPD PERFORMANCE BY COMPENSATING FEEDBACK LOOP IMPAIRMENTS IN RF ADCS ...................................................................................................................................................................... 320

Prata, Andre ; Ribeiro, Diogo C. ; Cruz, Pedro M. ; Oliveira, Arnaldo S.R. ; Carvalho, Nuno Borges

METAMATERIAL MADE OF BC-SRRS WITH RANDOMLY DISPERSED RESONANCE FREQUENCIES ................................................................................................................................................................ 324

Machac, Jan ; Jelinek, Lukas

PHOTONIC BAND GAP STRUCTURES AND THEIR APPLICATION FOR MEASURING PARAMETERS OF SEMICONDUCTOR LAYERS..................................................................................................... 327

Usanov, D.A. ; Nikitov, S.A. ; Skripal, A.V. ; Ponomarev, D.V. ; Latysheva, E.V.

A FLEXIBLE GAN MMIC ENABLING DIGITAL POWER AMPLIFIERS FOR THE FUTURE WIRELESS INFRASTRUCTURE .................................................................................................................................. 331

Wentzel, Andreas ; Chevtchenko, Serguei ; Kurpas, Paul ; Heinrich, Wolfgang

AN ACCURATE PARAMETRIC ELECTRICAL MODEL FOR SLOW-WAVE CPW........................................... 335Bautista, Alfredo ; Franc, Anne-Laure ; Ferrari, Philippe

EFFECTIVE PERMITTIVITY DETERMINATION OF RANDOMIZED MIXED MATERIALS USING 3D ELECTROMAGNETIC SIMULATIONS ................................................................................................... 339

Baer, Christoph ; Hattenhorst, Birk ; Schulz, Christian ; Will, Bianca ; Rolfes, Ilona ; Musch, Thomas

A MULTILAYERED TRIPLEXER BASED ON INTERDIGITAL FILTER TOPOLOGY WITH PCB TECHNOLOGY ....................................................................................................................................................... 343

Aksoy, Salih Can ; Yildiz, Irfan

RELAXING ALL-DIGITAL TRANSMITTER FILTERING REQUIREMENTS THROUGH IMPROVED PWM WAVEFORMS ................................................................................................................................ 347

Cordeiro, R.F. ; Oliveira, Arnaldo S.R. ; Vieira, Jose

A COMPACT SLOW-WAVE SUBSTRATE INTEGRATED WAVEGUIDE CAVITY FILTER............................ 351Bertrand, Matthieu ; Liu, Zhanhao ; Pistono, Emmanuel ; Kaddour, Darine ; Ferrari, Philippe

ULTRA-COMPACT HIGH SPEED MMW TRANSCEIVER USING GAN POWER AMPLIFIER TECHNOLOGY ................................................................................................................................................................ 354

Brown, Ken ; Brown, Andrew ; Feenstra, Travis ; Gritters, Darin ; Ko, Elbert ; O'Connor, Shane ; Pierce, Arlin ; Sanders, April ; Sotelo, Michael

MODELING ENVELOPE-TRACKING RF AMPLIFIERS......................................................................................... 357Soury, Arnaud

A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF MICROWAVE R&D IN LATIN AMERICA.................................................................... 361Murphy, Roberto S.

ULTRA-WIDE IF BANDWIDTH — THE NEXT FRONTIER FOR SIS RECEIVERS ........................................... 364Tong, Cheuk-yu Edward ; Grimes, Paul K. ; Weintroub, Jonathan ; Blundell, Raymond

NOVEL DESTRUCTIVE-INTERFERENCE-ENVELOPE DETECTOR FOR HIGH DATA RATE ASK DEMODULATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION RECEIVERS .......................................................... 367

Thome, Fabian ; Maroldt, Stephan ; Ambacher, Oliver

A 0.54-0.55 THZ 2×4 COHERENT SOURCE ARRAY WITH EIRP OF 24.4 DBM IN 65NM CMOS TECHNOLOGY ................................................................................................................................................................ 371

Zhao, Yan ; Lu, Hsin-Chia ; Chen, Hong-Pei ; Chang, Yu-Teng ; Huang, Rulin ; Chen, Huan-Neng ; Jou, Chewnpu ; Hsueh, Fu-Lung ; Chang, Mau-Chung Frank

CHIRAL POLARIZATION CONTROL USING CASCADED TENSOR IMPEDANCE SURFACES ................... 374Selvanayagam, Michael ; Eleftheriades, George V.

200-260GHZ SOLID STATE AMPLIFIER WITH 700MW OF OUTPUT POWER.................................................. 378Gritters, Darin ; Brown, Ken ; Ko, Elbert

THE GENESIS OF SIS MIXERS - THE LEGACY OF JOHN TUCKER IN RADIO ASTRONOMY.................... 381Kerr, A.R. ; Pan, S.-K. ; Lyons, W.G.

CONTACTLESS MEDICAL SENSING ......................................................................................................................... 385Schreurs, Dominique ; Mercuri, Marco

A W-BAND INTEGRATED SILICON-GERMANIUM LOOP-BACK AND FRONT-END TRANSMIT-RECEIVE SWITCH FOR BUILT-IN-SELF-TEST ................................................................................ 389

Schmid, Robert L. ; Song, Peter ; Coen, Christopher T. ; Ulusoy, Ahmet Cagri ; Cressler, John D.

DUAL-MODE WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK FOR REAL-TIME CONTACTLESS IN-DOOR HEALTH MONITORING................................................................................................................................................ 393

Mercuri, Marco ; Rajabi, Mohammad ; Karsmakers, Peter ; Soh, Ping Jack ; Vanrumste, Bart ; Leroux, Paul ; Schreurs, Dominique

A NEW TYPE OF CAPACITIVELY-LOADED HALF-MODE SUBSTRATE INTEGRATED WAVEGUIDE FOR MINIATURIZED GUIDED WAVE APPLICATIONS .............................................................. 397

Jones, Thomas R. ; Daneshmand, Mojgan

A 24 GHZ SIMO RADAR TACHYMETER FOR PRECISE TRANSPONDER LOCALIZATION ........................ 401Reustle, Christoph ; Shmakov, Denys ; Vossiek, Martin

DESIGN OF PSEUDO-ELLIPTIC BANDPASS FILTER USING HIGHER-ORDER MODES OF PHOTONIC CRYSTAL POINT DEFECT CAVITY FOR SUB-TERAHERTZ BANDS .......................................... 405

Chen, Chun-Ping ; Anada, Tetsuo ; Takeda, Shigeki ; Ma, Zhewang ; Greedy, Stephen ; Benson, Trevor M.

DPD TUNING WITH FREQUENCY SELECTIVE DISTORTION MINIMIZATION............................................. 409Cunha, Telmo R. ; Barradas, Filipe M. ; Pedro, Jose C.

HIGH PERFORMANCE MICROWAVE POINT-TO-POINT LINK FOR 5G BACKHAUL WITH FLEXIBLE SPECTRUM AGGREGATION .................................................................................................................. 412

Juliao, Sergio ; Martins, Francisco ; Prata, Andre ; Lopes, Sergio ; Lopes, Sergio ; Duarte, Joao ; Jesusy, Paulo ; Silvay, Nelson ; Oliveira, Arnaldo S.R. ; Carvalho, Nuno B.

FLEXIBLE MICROWAVE FILTERS ON ULTRA THIN LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMER SUBSTRATE ..................................................................................................................................................................... 416

Lan, Yu ; Xu, Yuehang ; Wang, Changsi ; Wen, Zhang ; Qiu, Yijie ; Mei, Tengda ; Wu, Yunqiu ; Xu, Ruimin

SEMICONDUCTOR AND GRAPHENE DEVICES FOR NANOSCALE TERAHERTZ IMAGING AND SPECTROSCOPY ................................................................................................................................................... 419

Kawano, Yukio

COMPACT QUASI-CHIPLESS HARMONIC RADAR SENSOR WITH A DIELECTRIC RESONATOR ANTENNA ............................................................................................................................................... 422

Kubina, Bernd ; Mandel, Christian ; Schussler, Martin ; Jakoby, Rolf

BACKSCATTER WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK WITH WPT CAPABILITIES ............................................... 425Correia, Ricardo ; de Carvalho, Nuno Borges ; Fukuday, Goh ; Miyaji, Akihira ; Kawasaki, Shigeo

AN ULTRA-MINIATURE QUARTER-MODE SIW BANDPASS FILTER OPERATING AT FIRST NEGATIVE ORDER RESONANCE ............................................................................................................................... 429

Saghati, Ali Pourghorban ; Saghati, Alireza Pourghorban ; Entesari, Kamran

PARAMETRIC HYSTERESIS IN POWER AMPLIFIERS ......................................................................................... 432de Cos, Jesus ; Suarez, Almudena ; Garcia, Jose Angel

A 45-GHZ SI/SIGE 256-QAM TRANSMITTER WITH DIGITAL PREDISTORTION ........................................... 436Wu, Po-Yi ; Liu, Youjiang ; Hanafi, Bassel ; Dabag, Hayg ; Asbeck, Peter ; Buckwalter, James

COMPACT AND HIGHLY-SELECTIVE MICROSTRIP BANDPASS FILTER AND DIPLEXER USING TWO-STAGE TWIST MODIFIED SPLIT-RING RESONATORS ............................................................... 439

Huang, Yongjun ; Wen, Guangjun ; Li, Jian

A COMPARISON OF INDIRECT LEARNING AND CLOSED LOOP ESTIMATORS USED IN DIGITAL PREDISTORTION OF POWER AMPLIFIERS ......................................................................................... 443

Braithwaite, R.Neil

A COMPARISON FOR A DOHERTY POWER AMPLIFIER LINEARIZED USING DIGITAL PREDISTORTION AND FEEDFORWARD COMPENSATION ................................................................................ 447

Braithwaite, R.Neil

RECONFIGURABLE ULTRA-WIDEBAND ARRAY WITH TUNABLE BAND REJECTION ACROSS A 7:1 BANDWIDTH......................................................................................................................................... 451

Papantonis, Dimitrios K. ; Ghalichechian, Nima ; Volakis, John L.

500–600 GHZ SUBMILLIMETER-WAVE 3.3 BIT RF MEMS PHASE SHIFTER INTEGRATED IN MICROMACHINED WAVEGUIDE .............................................................................................................................. 454

Shah, U. ; Decrossas, E. ; Jung-Kubiak, C. ; Reck, T. ; Chattopadhyay, G. ; Mehdi, I. ; Oberhammer, J.

AN I/Q-MIXER-STEERING INTERFEROMETRIC TECHNIQUE FOR HIGH-SENSITIVITY MEASUREMENT OF EXTREME IMPEDANCES ...................................................................................................... 458

Vlachogiannakis, Gerasimos ; Shivamurthy, Harshitha Thippur ; Pino, Maria Alonso Del ; Spirito, Marco

500-600 GHZ RF MEMS BASED TUNABLE STUB INTEGRATED IN MICROMACHINED RECTANGULAR WAVEGUIDE.................................................................................................................................... 462

Shah, U. ; Decrossas, E. ; Jung-Kubiak, C. ; Reck, T. ; Chattopadhyay, G. ; Mehdi, I. ; Oberhammer, J.

CORRECTION OF DC EXTRACTED PARAMETERS FOR MICROWAVE MOSFETS BASED ON S-PARAMETER MEASUREMENTS ...................................................................................................................... 466

Zarate-Rincon, Fabian ; Murphy-Arteaga, Roberto S. ; Torres-Torres, Reydezel

A PLANAR 75% EFFICIENT GAN 1.2-GHZ DC-DC CONVERTER WITH SELF-SYNCHRONOUS RECTIFIER ....................................................................................................................................... 470

Ramos, Ignacio ; Ruiz, Maria N. ; Garcia, Jose A. ; Maksimovic, Dragan ; Popovic, Zoya

A 1–20 GHZ 400 PS TRUE-TIME DELAY WITH SMALL DELAY ERROR IN 0.13 µM CMOS FOR BROADBAND PHASED ARRAY ANTENNAS ................................................................................................... 474

Hu, Feng ; Mouthaan, Koen

POSITIVE-TO-ZERO CONTINUOUSLY TUNABLE INTER-RESONATOR COUPLING STRUCTURE FOR APPLICATIONS IN FILTER ARRAY SYSTEMS..................................................................... 477

Koh, Beyoungyoun ; Lee, Boyoung ; Nam, Seunggoo ; Lee, Juseop

A BICMOS MONOLITHIC KA-BAND DOWN-CONVERTER FOR SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS ..................................................................................................................................... 481

Wang, Ping-Yi ; Shen, Yun-Chun ; Chou, Min-Chih ; Wu, Te-Lin ; Chang, Yin-Cheng ; Chang, Da-Chiang ; Hsu, Shawn S.H.

A WIDEBAND AND LOW POWER DUAL-BAND ASK TRANSCEIVER FOR INTRA/INTER-CHIP COMMUNICATION.............................................................................................................................................. 484

Ma, Shunli ; Ren, Junyan ; Li, Ning ; Ye, Fan ; Gu, Qun Jane

A 9.8 GBPS, 6.5 MW FORWARDED-CLOCK RECEIVER WITH PHASE INTERPOLATOR AND EQUALIZED CURRENT SAMPLER IN 65 NM CMOS.............................................................................................. 488

Ma, Shunli ; Manoj, Sai ; Yu, Hao ; Ren, Junyan ; Weerasekera, Roshan

RF VOLTAGE LIMITERS FOR PASSIVE DIFFERENTIAL UHF RFID FRONT-ENDS IN A 40 NM CMOS TECHNOLOGY............................................................................................................................................ 492

Zoscher, Lukas ; Zoscher, Lukas ; Grosinger, Jasmin ; Muehlmanny, Ulrich ; Watzingery, Hubert ; Bosch, Wolfgang

A HIGH SUPPRESSION FREQUENCY TRIPLER FOR 60-GHZ TRANSCEIVERS ............................................. 496Mazor, N. ; Katz, O. ; Sheinman, B. ; Carmon, R. ; Ben-Yishay, R. ; Levinger, R. ; Bruetbart, A. ; Elad, D.

HIGHLY C-AXIS-ORIENTED SCALN THIN FILMS DEPOSITED USING SC-AL ALLOY TARGET ............................................................................................................................................................................ 500

Fujii, Satoshi ; Sumisaka, Masahiro ; Tang, Gonbin ; Suzuki, Yu ; Otomo, Shohei ; Omori, Tatsuya ; Hashimoto, Ken-ya

A 40W ULTRA BROADBAND LDMOS POWER AMPLIFIER ................................................................................. 504Li, Kaldi ; Shi, Tiefeng ; Di, Song ; Yin, William

A K-BAND ADAPTIVE-BIAS POWER AMPLIFIER WITH ENHANCED LINEARIZER USING 0.18-µM CMOS PROCESS............................................................................................................................................... 508

Huang, Tzu-Yuan ; Lin, Yu-Hsuan ; Wang, Huei

A 0.7-V LOW-PHASE-NOISE MULTI-MODE COUPLED CLASS-B/CLASS-C VOLTAGE-CONTROLLED OSCILLATOR FOR MILLIMETER-WAVE APPLICATIONS .................................................... 511

Chien, Shih-Chieh ; Liu, Jenny Yi-Chun

A COMPACT AND HARMONIC SUPPRESSION WILKINSON POWER DIVIDER WITH GENERAL π TYPE STRUCTURE .................................................................................................................................................... 515

Wang, Xiaolong ; Ma, Zhewang ; Sakagami, Iwata

A HIGH-GAIN LOW-NOISE DISTRIBUTED AMPLIFIER WITH LOW DC POWER IN 0.18-µM CMOS FOR VITAL SIGN DETECTION RADAR........................................................................................................ 519

Huang, Tzu-Yuan ; Lin, Yu-Hsuan ; Cheng, Jen-Hao ; Kao, Jui-Chi ; Huang, Tian-Wei ; Wang, Huei

A WIDEBAND BULK ACOUSTIC WAVE FILTER WITH MODIFIED LATTICE CONFIGURATION .......................................................................................................................................................... 522

Yang, Qingrui ; Pang, Wei ; Zhang, Daihua ; Zhang, Hao

A COMPACT DUAL-PASSBAND FILTER BASED ON BULK ACOUSTIC WAVE TECHNOLOGY ................................................................................................................................................................ 526

Sun, Yunpeng ; Yang, Qingrui ; Zhang, Hao ; Zhang, Daihua ; Pang, Wei

A LIGHT-WEIGHT ELECTROMAGNETIC SHIELD USING HIGH DENSITY CARBON NANOTUBE FENCE-WALL FOR RF PACKAGING.................................................................................................. 530

Tan, Dunlin ; Yu, Jong Jen ; Hee, David ; Liu, Zhi Hong ; Eudeline, Philippe ; Baillargeat, Dominique ; Tay, Beng Kang

SYNTHESIS OF COUPLING MATRIX FOR LOSSY FILTER NETWORKS ......................................................... 534Meng, Meng ; Hunter, Ian C.

METHOD OF ANALYSIS FOR 2-D LUMPED ELEMENT FILTER NETWORKS ................................................ 537Hunter, Ian C. ; Rhodes, John D. ; Snyder, Richard V. ; Meng, Meng

A LOW-COST BROADBAND BONDWIRE INTERCONNECT FOR THZ HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEM INTEGRATION ............................................................................................................................................... 541

Li, Chun-Hsing ; Lai, Chih-Wei ; Yan, Tzu-Chao ; Kuo, Chien-Nan

A 206 ~ 220 GHZ CMOS VCO USING BODY-BIAS TECHNIQUE FOR FREQUENCY TUNING ....................... 545Chiang, Po-Han ; Cheng, Jen-Hao ; Wu, Yi-Ching ; Chiong, Chau-Ching ; Liu, Wen-De ; Huang, Guo-Wei ; Huang, Tian-Wei ; Wang, Huei

P-BAND GAN HIGH POWER AMPLIFIERS FOR SPACE-BORNE RADAR APPLICATIONS .......................... 548Ayllon, Natanael ; Arpesi, Pier Giorgio

HIGH-Q BANDPASS FILTERS USING HYBRID ACOUSTIC-WAVE-LUMPED-ELEMENT RESONATORS (AWLRS) FOR UHF APPLICATIONS .............................................................................................. 552

Psychogiou, Dimitra ; Gomez-Garcia, Roberto ; Peroulis, Dimitrios

“ENERGY EVAPORATION”: THE NEW CONCEPT OF INDOOR SYSTEMS FOR WPT AND EH EMBEDDED INTO THE FLOOR................................................................................................................................... 556

Mariotti, Chiara ; Goncalves, Ricardo ; Roselli, Luca ; Carvalho, Nuno B. ; Pino, Pedro

A NEW DESCRIPTION OF FAST CHARGE-TRAPPING EFFECTS IN GAN FETS............................................. 560Bosi, G. ; Raffo, A. ; Vadala, V. ; Vannini, G.

MILLIMETER-WAVE PHASE-CODED CW MIMO RADAR USING ZERO-CORRELATION-ZONE SEQUENCE SETS ................................................................................................................................................ 564

Haderer, Heinz ; Feger, Reinhard ; Pfeffer, Clemens ; Stelzer, Andreas

RECONFIGURABLE INLINE PHASE-CHANGE SWITCHES FOR BROADBAND APPLICATIONS ............................................................................................................................................................... 568

El-Hinnawy, N. ; Borodulin, P. ; Torpey, M. ; Kuss, F. ; Ezis, A. ; Paramesh, J. ; Bain, J. ; Schlesinger, T.E. ; Howell, R.S. ; Lee, M.J. ; Nichols, D. ; Young, R.M.

DESIGN OF HIGH-Q ABSORPTIVE BANDSTOP FILTERS WITH STATIC AND RECONFIGURABLE ATTENUATION......................................................................................................................... 572

Psychogiou, Dimitra ; Gomez-Garcia, Roberto ; Scarbrough, Derek ; Goldsmith, Charles L. ; Peroulis, Dimitrios

APPLICATION OF METAMATERIALS IN SPATIAL HARMONIC MAGNETRONS ......................................... 576Nasr Esfahani, Nasrin ; Schunemann, Klaus

NOVEL BROADBAND ANALOG PREDISTORTION CIRCUIT FOR RADIO-OVER-FIBER SYSTEMS .......................................................................................................................................................................... 580

Zhu, Ran ; Zichen Xuan ; Ye Zhang ; Zhang, Xiupu ; Shen, Dongya

3D SAR IMAGING FOR DRY WALL INSPECTION USING AN 80 GHZ FMCW RADAR WITH 25 GHZ BANDWIDTH ..................................................................................................................................................... 584

Lang, Stefan A. ; Demming, Matthias ; Jaeschke, Timo ; Noujeim, Karam M. ; Konynenberg, Aart ; Pohl, Nils

TRANSMISSION-LINE EQUIVALENT AND MICROSTRIP STRUCTURE FOR PLANAR MÖBIUS LOOP RESONATOR....................................................................................................................................... 588

Dhwaj, Kirti ; Hanseuyng Lee ; Lijun Jiang ; Itoh, Tatsuo

A GENERAL ISOLATION NETWORK FOR N-WAY POWER COMBINERS/DIVIDERS .................................. 591Beyers, Ryno D. ; de Villiers, Dirk I.L.

EXTRACTION OF ACCURATE GAN HEMT MODEL FOR HIGH-EFFICIENCY POWER AMPLIFIER DESIGN ...................................................................................................................................................... 595

Vadala, Valeria ; Raffo, Antonio ; Avolio, Gustavo ; Marchetti, Mauro ; Schreurs, Dominique M.M.-P ; Vannini, Giorgio

HF-VHF-UHF IQ MIXER WITH A SINGLE SPDT SWITCH.................................................................................... 599Campbell, Rick

THE GENESIS OF MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS.......................................................................................................... 603Salazar Palma, Magdalena ; Tapan Kumar, Sarkar

THE EVOLUTION AND BLOSSOMING OF MAXWELL'S MACROSCOPIC VIEW TO THE MODERN MICROSCOPIC THEORY BASED ON ELECTRONS ............................................................................ 607

Tapan Kumar, Sarkar ; Salazar Palma, Magdalena

1–2 GHZ TUNING FREQUENCY BAND PASS FILTER WITH CONTROLLABLE PASS BAND AND HIGH STOPBAND REJECTION .......................................................................................................................... 611

Jian Chen ; Chien-In Henry Chen

A SINGLE-ELEMENT CMOS-BASED ELECTRONIC DE-EMBEDDING TECHNIQUE WITH TRL LEVEL OF ACCURACY ........................................................................................................................................ 615

Jun-Chau Chien ; Niknejad, Ali M.

A SECURE MINIATURIZED WIRELESS SENSOR NODE FOR A SMART HOME DEMONSTRATOR........................................................................................................................................................... 619

Jonjic, Antonio ; Grosinger, Jasmin ; Herndl, Thomas ; Holweg, Gerald ; Beer, Gottfried ; Bosch, Wolfgang

SUPERCAM: A 64 PIXEL SIS RECEIVER ARRAY FOR SUBMILLIMETER-WAVE ASTRONOMY................................................................................................................................................................... 623

Walker, Christopher K.

A NOVEL MICROSTRIP FILTER STRUCTURE CONSISTING OF TRANSVERSAL RESONATOR ARRAY AND ITS FULLY CANONICAL BANDPASS FILTER DESIGN ...................................... 627

Ohira, Masataka ; Kato, Toshiki ; Ma, Zhewang

TRAVELLING-WAVE EXCITATION FOR 16.4T SMALL-BORE MRI.................................................................. 630Bluem, Patrick ; Tonyushkin, Alexey ; Deelchand, Dinesh ; Adriany, Gregor ; Van de Moortele, Pierre-Francois ; Kiruluta, Andrew J M ; Popovic, Zoya

MICROWAVE POWER COMBINING SYSTEM BASED ON TWO INJECTION-LOCKED 15 KW CW MAGNETRONS ........................................................................................................................................................ 634

Heping Huang ; Ling Liu ; Feixiang Huo ; Zhengyu Liu ; Changjun Liu

MICROSTRIP PATCH ANTENNAS FEED TO OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES IN ELECTRO-OPTIC MODULATOR FOR MILLIMETER-WAVE RADAR SYSTEM ............................................................................... 637

Wijayanto, Y.N. ; Kanno, A. ; Kawanishi, T. ; Murata, H. ; Okamura, Y.

3D/INKJET-PRINTED ORIGAMI ANTENNAS FOR MULTI-DIRECTION RF HARVESTING ......................... 641Kimionis, John ; Georgiadis, Apostolos ; Isakov, Michael ; Qi, Hang J. ; Tentzeris, Manos M.

PASSIVE RANGING BY LOW-DIRECTIVITY ANTENNAS WITH QUALITY ESTIMATE ............................... 645Yunfei Ma ; Kan, Edwin C.

A ROBUST MESHLESS METHOD WITH QR-DECOMPOSED RADIAL BASIS FUNCTIONS.......................... 649Shunchuan Yang ; Zhizhang Chen ; Yiqiang Yu ; Ponomarenko, Sergey

MULTI-PARAMETRIC UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATION WITH A HYBRID MONTE-CARLO / POLYNOMIAL CHAOS EXPANSION FDTD METHOD .......................................................................... 652

Zixi Gu ; Sarris, Costas D.

3-D METAL-DIRECT-PRINTED WIDEBAND AND HIGH-EFFICIENCY WAVEGUIDE-FED ANTENNA ARRAY .......................................................................................................................................................... 655

Huang Guan-Long ; Zhou Shi-Gang ; Chio Tan-Huat ; Yeo Tat-Soon

POLYMERIC SENSING MATERIAL-BASED SELECTIVITY-ENHANCED RF RESONANT CAVITY SENSOR FOR VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND (VOC) DETECTION............................................ 659

Chen, W.T. ; Stewart, K.M.E. ; Mansour, R.R. ; Penlidis, A.

RECONFIGURABLE FILTER DESIGN USING RESONATORS AS COUPLING STRUCTURES ...................... 662Tsung-Chieh Lee ; Wei Yang ; Peroulis, Dimitrios

A RECONFIGURABLE QUARTER-MODE SUBSTRATE INTEGRATED WAVEGUIDE CAVITY FILTER EMPLOYING LIQUID-METAL CAPACITIVE LOADING ....................................................................... 666

Saghati, Alireza Pourghorban ; Sina Baghbani Kordmahale ; Kameoka, Jun ; Entesari, Kamran

NON-INVASIVE DETECTION OF CARDIAC AND RESPIRATORY RATES FROM STEPPED FREQUENCY CONTINUOUS WAVE RADAR MEASUREMENTS USING THE STATE SPACE METHOD ........................................................................................................................................................................... 669

Lingyun Ren ; Haofei Wang ; Naishadham, Krishna ; Liu, Quanhua ; Fathy, Aly E.

ACCURATE MATRIX-FREE TIME-DOMAIN METHOD IN UNSTRUCTURED MESHES................................ 673Yan, Jin ; Jiao, Dan

UNCOOLED NI-CR MICRO/NANO-BOLOMETERS WITH NEP OF 14 PW/HZ1/2............................................... 677Hyun-Ho Yang ; Rebeiz, Gabriel M.

A PHASE AND POWER DIFFERENCE DETECTION TECHNIQUE USING SYMMETRIC MIXER WITH INPUT LEVEL SWITCHING FOR MILLIMETER-WAVE PHASED-ARRAY CALIBRATION................................................................................................................................................................. 680

Shimura, Toshihiro ; Ohashi, Yoji ; Ohshima, Takenori

25.3 GHZ, 4.1 MW VCO WITH 34.8% TUNING RANGE USING A SWITCHED SUBSTRATE-SHIELD INDUCTOR ....................................................................................................................................................... 684

Agarwal, Pawan ; Partha Pratim Pande ; Heo, Deukhyoun

STABILITY ANALYSIS AND PARASITIC EFFECTS OF NEGATIVE IMPEDANCE CONVERTER CIRCUITS ............................................................................................................................................... 688

Qi Tang ; Hao Xin

WEARABLE SENSOR SYSTEM FOR MONITORING BODY KINEMATICS ....................................................... 692Nakata, Robert ; Mostafanezhad, Isar ; Lubecke, Victor

A 31.2% LOCKING RANGE K-BAND DIVIDE-BY-6 INJECTION-LOCKED FREQUENCY DIVIDER USING 90 NM CMOS TECHNOLOGY ....................................................................................................... 696

Chun-Ching Chan ; Tsung-Hsien Lin ; Chang, Hong-Yeh

A 95% EFFICIENT INVERTER WITH 300-W POWER OUTPUT FOR 6.78-MHZ MAGNETIC RESONANT WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER SYSTEM .......................................................................................... 699

Akuzawa, Y. ; Tsuji, K. ; Matsumori, H. ; Ito, Y. ; Ezoe, T. ; Sakai, K.

A LOW LOSS X-BAND FILTER USING 3-D POLYJET TECHNOLOGY............................................................... 702Fan Cai ; Wasif Tanveer Khan ; Papapolymerou, John

INGAAS CHANNEL HEMTS FOR PHOTONIC FREQUENCY DOUBLE MIXING CONVERSION OVER THE SUB-THZ BAND.......................................................................................................................................... 706

Kawasaki, T. ; Sugawara, K. ; Dobroiu, A. ; Wako, H. ; Watanabe, T. ; Suemitsu, T. ; Ryzhii, V. ; Iwatsuki, K. ; Kuwano, S. ; Kani, J. ; Terada, J. ; Otsuji, T.

1-TX AND 2-RX IN-BAND FULL-DUPLEX RADIO FRONT-END WITH 60 DB SELF-INTERFERENCE CANCELLATION ............................................................................................................................ 710

Donghyun Lee ; Byung-Wook Min

3.8 MW TERAHERTZ RADIATION GENERATION OVER A 5 THZ RADIATION BANDWIDTH THROUGH LARGE AREA PLASMONIC PHOTOCONDUCTIVE ANTENNAS ................................................... 714

Nezih Tolga Yardimci ; Jarrahi, Mona

A 46?1 BANDWIDTH RATIO BALUN ON MULTILAYER ORGANIC SUBSTRATE........................................... 718Chi Van Pham ; Binh Pham ; Anh-Vu Pham ; Leoni, Robert E.

PROGRAMMABLE PICOSECOND PULSE GENERATOR IN CMOS .................................................................... 721Xue Wu ; Sengupta, Kaushik

A HIGHLY LINEAR DUAL-BAND DOHERTY POWER AMPLIFIER FOR FEMTO-CELL BASE STATIONS ......................................................................................................................................................................... 725

Jee, Seunghoon ; Yunsik Park ; Cho, Yunsung ; Lee, Juyeon ; Seokhyeon Kim ; Bumman Kim

PHASE COMPENSATED SERIALLY FED ARRAY USING THE ANTENNA AS A PART OF NEGATIVE GROUP DELAY CIRCUIT........................................................................................................................ 729

Taslimi, Azadeh ; Alomar, Waleed ; Mortazawi, Amir

A DIGITAL POST-DISTORTION TECHNIQUE FOR NONCONTACT ACCURATE MOVEMENT MEASUREMENT USING INTERFEROMETRIC RADAR ........................................................................................ 732

Gu, Changzhan ; Li, Changzhi

ELECTRONIC FREQUENCY TUNING OF A HIGH-POWER 2.45GHZ GAN OSCILLATOR............................ 735Bansleben, Christian ; Heinrich, Wolfgang

A 12 GBPS ANALOG QPSK BASEBAND RECEIVER BASED ON INJECTION-LOCKED VCO ....................... 739Zhongxia He ; Kuykenstierna, Dan ; Szhau Lai ; Zirath, Herbert

MICROWAVE SYSTEM FOR IN-SITU DIELECTRIC AND CALORIMETRIC MEASUREMENTS IN A WIDE TEMPERATURE RANGE USING A TE111-MODE CAVITY ........................... 743

Ramopoulos, Vasileios ; Soldatov, Sergey ; Link, Guido ; Kayser, Thorsten ; Gehringer, Michael ; Jelonnek, John

A 330 GHZ HETERO-INTEGRATED SOURCE IN INP-ON-BICMOS TECHNOLOGY....................................... 747Hossain, M. ; Weimann, N. ; Lisker, M. ; Meliani, C. ; Tillack, B. ; Krozer, V. ; Heinrich, W.

STUDY OF COEXISTENCE BETWEEN 5G SMALL-CELL SYSTEMS AND SYSTEMS OF THE FIXED SERVICE AT 39 GHZ BAND............................................................................................................................. 751

Joongheon Kim ; Liang Xian ; Maltsev, Alexander ; Arefi, Reza ; Sadri, Ali S.

DISPERSION-ENGINEERED CRLH STUB RESONATOR FOR LOW PHASE-NOISE OSCILLATORS ................................................................................................................................................................ 754

Tanaka, S. ; Nishizawa, H. ; Takata, K. ; Saito, K.

HIGH CUT-OFF FREQUENCY RF SWITCHES INTEGRATING A METAL-INSULATOR TRANSITION MATERIAL ............................................................................................................................................. 758

Mennai, A. ; Bessaudou, A. ; Cosset, F. ; Guines, C. ; Passerieux, D. ; Blondy, P. ; Crunteanu, A.

QPSK-OFDM CARRIER AGGREGATION USING A SINGLE TRANSMISSION CHAIN ................................... 761Abyaneh, M.Abdi. ; Huyart, B. ; Cousin, JC.

IMPROVED CHARACTERIZATION OF DIFFERENTIAL MULTI-GHZ INTEGRATED AMPLIFIERS AND FILTERS......................................................................................................................................... 765

Rajesh, Naga ; Pavan, Shanthi

RF CHARACTERIZATION AND MODELING OF CMOS SCHOTTKY DIODES ................................................ 769Yang Tang ; Jiangyi Liu ; Ding Wang ; Yan Wang

A 24 GHZ CMOS POWER AMPLIFIER WITH SUCCESSIVE IM2 FEED-FORWARD IMD3 CANCELLATION............................................................................................................................................................. 773

Yi-Hsin Chen ; Kao, Kun-Yao ; Chun-Yen Chao ; Lin, Kun-You

A HIGHLY EFFICIENT CONCURRENT DUAL-BAND CLASS-F POWER AMPLIFIER FOR APPLICATIONS AT 1.7 AND 2.14 GHZ ....................................................................................................................... 777

Shou-Kui Zhu ; Qian-Fu Cheng ; Hai-Peng Fu ; Hai-Feng Wu ; Jian-Guo Ma

SIMULTANEOUS UHF ENERGY HARVESTING AND UWB-RFID COMMUNICATION.................................. 781Fantuzzi, M. ; Masotti, D. ; Costanzo, A.

AN IMPROVED EQUIVALENT CIRCUIT MODEL BASED ON THE CMOS ON-CHIP MULTIPLE COUPLED INDUCTORS FROM DC TO MILLIMETER-WAVE REGION ...................................... 785

Zongzhi Gao ; Xin Cao ; Yunqiu Wu ; Kang, Kai

A 60GHZ DIGITALLY-ASSISTED POWER AMPLIFIER WITH 17.2DBM PSAT, 11.3% PAE IN 65NM CMOS ..................................................................................................................................................................... 788

Yuan Liang ; Nan Li ; Fei Wei ; Hao Yu ; Xiuping Li ; Junfeng Zhao ; Wei Yang ; Yuangang Wang

A STUDY ON LOW RX-BAND NOISE POWER AMPLIFIER FOR RECONFIGURABLE RF FRONT-END CIRCUIT ................................................................................................................................................... 792

Obiya, Hidenori ; Hitomi, Shinya ; Wada, Takaya ; Hayafuji, Hisao ; Kusumoto, Yusuke ; Koshino, Masayoshi ; Kawashima, Makoto ; Nakajima, Norio

A 60-GHZ VECTOR SUMMING PHASE SHIFTER WITH DIGITAL TUNABLE CURRENT-SPLITTING AND CURRENT-REUSE TECHNIQUES IN 90 NM CMOS................................................................. 795

Yiming Yu ; Qingyou Zheng ; Chenxi Zhao ; Kai Kang

A NOVEL 4-PORT LUMPED ELEMENT CIRCULATOR FOR HIGH-ISOLATION DUPLEX ARCHITECTURE............................................................................................................................................................. 798

Kusumoto, Yusuke ; Wada, Takaya ; Obiya, Hidenori ; Koshino, Masayoshi ; Kawashima, Makoto ; Nakajima, Norio

DEVELOPMENT OF LOW LOSS KA-BAND NARROWBAND BANDPASS FILTER USING A DUAL MODE COPLANAR TYPE CIRCULAR SLOT RESONATOR...................................................................... 802

Shimizu, Takashi ; Kogami, Yoshinori

DESIGN OF AN APPLICATOR FOR MICROWAVE-ASSISTED BITUMINOUS SURFACE THERMAL BONDING..................................................................................................................................................... 805

Salski, B. ; Olszewska-Placha, M. ; Rudnicki, J. ; Gwarek, W. ; Karpisz, T. ; Reszewicz, S.

ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURED MULTILAYER HIGH PERFORMANCE RF PASSIVE COMPONENTS ON CELLULOSE SUBSTRATES FOR INTERNET-OF-THINGS ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS.......................................................................................................................................................................... 808

Mariotti, Chiara ; Cook, Benjamin S. ; Alimenti, Federico ; Roselli, Luca ; Tentzeris, Manos M.

A NOVEL TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY BASED CHIPLESS RFID SOIL MOISTURE SENSOR ............................................................................................................................................................................. 812

Dey, Shuvashis ; Kalansuriya, Prasanna ; Karmakar, Nemai Chandra

A DISTRIBUTED POSITIONING SYSTEM BASED ON REAL-TIME RSSI ENABLING DECIMETRIC PRECISION IN UNMODIFIED IEEE 802.11 NETWORKS............................................................. 816

Maddio, Stefano ; Passafiume, Marco ; Cidronali, Alessandro ; Manes, Gianfranco

A H-BAND VECTOR MODULATOR MMIC FOR PHASE-SHIFTING APPLICATIONS .................................... 820Muller, D. ; Tessmann, A. ; Leuther, A. ; Zwick, T. ; Kallfass, I.

A 600W BROADBAND THREE-WAY DOHERTY POWER AMPLIFIER FOR MULTI-STANDARD WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS.......................................................................................................... 824

Jing Li ; Jianli Liu ; Wenhua Chen ; Gongzhe Su ; Zonghao Wang

RCS MAGNITUDE CODING FOR CHIPLESS RFID BASED ON DEPOLARIZING TAG................................... 827Rance, O. ; Siragusa, R. ; Lemaitre-Auger, P. ; Perret, E.

MULTI-GIGABIT E-BAND WIRELESS DATA TRANSMISSION ........................................................................... 831Boes, F. ; Antes, J. ; Messinger, T. ; Meier, D. ; Henneberger, R. ; Tessmann, A. ; Kallfass, I.

STAMPED METAL ANTENNA INCLUDING A FEEDING TRANSMISSION LINE............................................. 835Lo Hine Tong, Dominique ; Minard, Philippe ; Morin, Pierre-Marie ; Le Foulgoc, Jean-Marc

THEORY AND DESIGN OF A HALF-MODE SIW FERRITE LTCC PHASE SHIFTER....................................... 839Ghaffar, Farhan Abdul ; Shamim, Atif

DEMONSTRATION OF A HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE CHIPLESS RFID SENSOR IN PAPER SUBSTRATE BASED ON THE HARMONIC RADAR CONCEPT............................................................................ 842

Palazzi, Valentina ; Alimenti, Federico ; Mariotti, Chiara ; Virili, Marco ; Orecchini, Giulia ; Roselli, Luca ; Mezzanotte, Paolo

INTER-BAND CARRIER AGGREGATION DIGITAL TRANSMITTER ARCHITECTURE WITH CONCURRENT MULTI-BAND DELTA-SIGMA MODULATION USING OUT-OF-BAND NOISE CANCELLATION............................................................................................................................................................. 846

Chung, SungWon ; Rui Ma ; Shinjo, Shintaro ; Teo, Koon H.

COLLINEARLY FED DUAL-MODE DUAL-BAND BANDPASS FILTER BASED ON A QUADRUPLE-MODE HALF-CIRCULAR RING RESONATOR .............................................................................. 850

Fang Liu ; Huiyong Li ; Daotong Li ; Fan, Yong ; Yuan Jiang

NON-CONTACT MEASUREMENT OF PERMITTIVITY AND THICKNESS USING PLANAR RESONATORS.................................................................................................................................................................. 853

Lee, C. ; Yang, C.

A SEMI DOUBLE-RIDGED QUASI TE-WAVEGUIDE BASED MICROWAVE BULK MATERIAL CHARACTERIZATION SYSTEM ................................................................................................................................. 856

Talai, Armin ; Mann, Sebastian ; Steinhausser, Frank ; Schmid, Ulrich ; Weigel, Robert ; Bittner, Achim ; Koelpin, Alexander

BROADBAND AND LOW-LOSS RECTANGULAR WAVEGUIDE TO SUBSTRATE INTEGRATED WAVEGUIDE TRANSITION WITH FIN LINE ............................................................................... 860

Peng, Xiaoying ; Chen, Jixin ; Tang, Hongjun ; Hou, Debin ; Yan, Pinpin ; Hong, Wei

A HIGH-SENSITIVITY FULLY-PASSIVE WIRELESS NEUROSENSING SYSTEM FOR UNOBTRUSIVE BRAIN SIGNAL MONITORING ...................................................................................................... 863

Lee, Cedric W.L. ; Kiourti, Asimina ; Chae, Junseok ; Volakis, John L.

ANALYSIS OF A FREQUENCY DIVIDER BY TWO BASED ON A DIFFERENTIAL NONLINEAR TRANSMISSION LINE........................................................................................................................... 867

Ponton, Mabel ; Suarez, Almudena

MODELING AND SUPPRESSION OF TRANSMITTER LEAKAGE IN CONCURRENT DUAL-BAND TRANSCEIVERS WITH CARRIER AGGREGATION................................................................................... 870

Chao Yu ; Anding Zhu

ANALYTICAL MODELING OF VERTICAL INTERCONNECT IN SINGLE-ENDED APPLICATIONS ............................................................................................................................................................... 873

Kai-Syuan Chen ; Tzyy-Sheng Horng ; Kuan-Chung Lu

ANTENNA-COUPLED TERAHERTZ THERMOCOUPLES ..................................................................................... 877Russer, Johannes A. ; Jirauschek, Christian ; Szakmany, Gergo P. ; Orlov, Alexei O. ; Bernstein, Gary H. ; Porod, Wolfgang ; Lugli, Paolo ; Russer, Peter

LOW COST LOW SAMPLING NOISE UWB CHIPLESS RFID READER .............................................................. 881Garbati, Marco ; Siragusa, Romain ; Perret, Etienne ; Halope, Christophe

NON-INTRUSIVE NEAR-FIELD CHARACTERIZATION OF DISTRIBUTED EFFECTS IN LARGE-PERIPHERY LDMOS RF POWER TRANSISTORS.................................................................................... 885

Hou, Rui ; Spirito, Marco ; Heeres, Rob ; van Rijs, Fred ; de Vreede, Leo C.N.

|TL|-DEPENDENT POLYNOMIAL BEHAVIORAL MODEL FOR RF POWER TRANSISTORS ........................ 888Jialin Cai ; Mengsu Yang ; Anding Zhu ; Brazil, Thomas J.

A PLANAR MAGNETICALLY-COUPLED RESONANT WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER USING ARRAY OF RESONATORS FOR EFFICIENCY ENHANCEMENT ........................................................................ 891

Jolani, Farid ; Yu, Yi-qiang ; Chen, Zhizhang

FREQUENCY CONTROL OVER THE HEATING PATTERNS IN A SOLID-STATE DUAL-SOURCE MICROWAVE OVEN..................................................................................................................................... 895

Yakovlev, Vadim V.

DESIGN OF SIX-CHANNEL TRIPLEXER BASED ON MULTIPATH-EMBEDDED STUB LOADED RESONATORS................................................................................................................................................ 899

Chen, Yu-Fu ; Chien-Chih Lin ; Zih-Jyun Dai ; Li-Yi Jian ; Wu, Hung-Wei ; Hsin-Ying Lee

CHARACTERIZATION OF INTEGRATED ANTENNA-COUPLED PLASMA-WAVE DETECTORS WITH WIDE BANDWIDTH AMPLIFICATION IN 130NM CMOS................................................. 902

Nahar, Shamsun ; Blin, Stephane ; Penarier, Annick ; Coquillat, Dominique ; Knap, Wojciech ; Hella, Mona M.

MICROWAVE MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED GALLIUM-NITRIDE SWITCHES FOR LOW STATIC POWER RECONFIGURABLE SWITCH MATRIX WITH PASSIVE TRANSPARENT STATE FOR POWER FAILURE REDUNDANCY....................................................................................................... 906

Kaleem, Saqib ; Kuhn, Jutta ; Quay, Rudiger ; Hein, Matthias A.

A DUAL-PHASE PULSE-MODULATED POLAR TRANSMITTER WITH HIGH EFFICIENCY AND LINEARITY USING POWER RECYCLING ...................................................................................................... 910

Yang, Hao-Shun ; Chang, Chun-Wei ; Chen, Yi-Jan Emery ; Chen, Jau-Horng

EVOLUTION OF TRANSVERSE CORRELATION IN STOCHASTIC ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS............................................................................................................................................................................... 913

Russer, Johannes A. ; Gradoni, Gabriele ; Tanner, Gregor ; Creagh, Stephen C. ; Thomas, David ; Smartt, Christopher ; Russer, Peter

POLYHARMONIC DISTORTION MODELING OF RF BAW COMPONENTS ..................................................... 916Tag, A. ; Akstaller, W. ; Musolff, C. ; Weigel, R. ; Hagelauer, A. ; Bader, B. ; Pitschi, M.

DELIVERY SYSTEM SETUP AND CHARACTERIZATION FOR BIOLOGICAL CELLS EXPOSED TO NANOSECOND PULSED ELECTRIC FIELD ................................................................................... 920

Arnaud-Cormos, D. ; Soueid, M. ; O'Connor, R. ; Percherancier, Y. ; Lagroye, I. ; Veyret, B. ; Leveque, P.

OUTPHASING COMBINER SYNTHESIS FROM TRANSISTOR LOAD PULL DATA ........................................ 924Pampin-Gonzalez, Maria ; Ozen, Mustafa ; Sanchez-Perez, Cesar ; Chani-Cahuana, Jessica ; Fager, Christian

A 40 GB/S 4 VPP IQ MODULATOR DRIVER IN 0.13 µM SIGE:C BICMOS TECHNOLOGY FOR 25 Ω MACH-ZEHNDER MODULATORS ..................................................................................................................... 928

Rito, P. ; Lopez, I.Garcia ; Micusik, D. ; Borngraber, J. ; Zimmermann, L. ; Ulusoy, A.C. ; Kissinger, D.

HIGH FREQUENCY MICROFLUIDIC BIOSENSORS FOR INTRACELLULAR DIELECTRIC SPECTROSCOPY............................................................................................................................................................. 932

Leroy, J. ; Hjeij, F. ; Dalmay, C. ; Melin, C. ; Lalloue, F. ; Battu, S. ; Jauberteau, M.O ; Lautrette, C. ; Bessaudou, A. ; Blondy, P. ; Pothier, A.

COMMERCIALIZATION OF A RELIABLE RF MEMS SWITCH WITH INTEGRATED DRIVER CIRCUITRY IN A MINIATURE QFN PACKAGE FOR RF INSTRUMENTATION APPLICATIONS ............................................................................................................................................................... 936

Goggin, Raymond ; Fitzgerald, Padraig ; Stenson, Bernard ; Carty, Eric ; McDaid, Padraig

ENHANCED PROCEDURE TO SETUP THE SIMULATION BOUNDING BOX AND THE MESHING SCHEME OF A 3D FINITE ELEMENT EM SIMULATOR FOR PLANAR MICROWAVE STRUCTURES ....................................................................................................................................... 940

Brito-Brito, Zabdiel ; Rayas-Sanchez, Jose E. ; Chavez-Hurtado, Jose L.

LIQUID CRYSTAL ENABLED SUBSTRATE INTEGRATED WAVEGUIDE VARIABLE PHASE SHIFTER FOR MILLIMETER-WAVE APPLICATION AT 60GHZ AND BEYOND ............................................. 943

Kuangda Wang ; Ke Wu

A 1.85GHZ CMOS POWER AMPLIFIER WITH ZERO-VOLTAGE-SWITCHING CONTOUR-BASED OUTPHASING CONTROL TO IMPROVE BACK-OFF EFFICIENCY ..................................................... 947

Shim, Sunbo ; Pamarti, Sudhakar

A 40–110 GHZ HIGH-ISOLATION CMOS TRAVELING-WAVE T/R SWITCH BY USING PARALLEL INDUCTOR ................................................................................................................................................. 951

Wen-Chian Lai ; Chuang, Huey-Ru

A NEW CLASS-C VERY LOW PHASE-NOISE KU-BAND VCO IN 0.25 µM SIGE:C BICMOS TECHNOLOGY ................................................................................................................................................................ 954

Hyvert, Jeremy ; Cordeau, David ; Paillot, Jean-Marie ; Philippe, Pascal ; Fahs, Bassem

COMPACT MICROSTRIP DIPLEXER BASED ON A NOVEL COUPLING TOPOLOGY .................................. 958Wei Jiang ; Tengxing Wang ; Wei Shen ; Liang Zhou ; Guoan Wang

HIGH ORDER MODE DISTORTION CHARACTERIZATION OF THE OPEN STATEOF CAPACITIVE RF MEMS SWITCHES .......................................................................................................................... 961

Molinero, D. ; Cunningham, S. ; DeReus, D. ; Morris, A.

ULTRA-THIN DUAL POLARIZED MILLIMETER-WAVE PHASED ARRAY SYSTEM-IN-PACKAGE WITH EMBEDDED TRANSCEIVER CHIP............................................................................................. 964

Kamgaing, Telesphor ; Elsherbini, Adel A. ; Oster, Sasha N. ; Rawlings, Brandon M. ; Kyu-Oh Lee

QUALITY FACTOR OPTIMIZATION OF COMPOSITE PIEZOELECTRIC SINGLE-CRYSTAL SILICON MEMS RESONATORS................................................................................................................................... 968

Mortada, Ossama ; Blondy, Pierre ; Orlianges, Jean-Christophe ; Chatras, Matthieu ; Crunteanu, Aurelian

TUNABLE MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN MICROWAVE SPINTRONICS DEVICES.......................................... 971Chen, Yunpeng ; Fan, Xin ; Yunsong Xie ; Yang Zhou ; Tao Wang ; Wilson, Jeffrey D. ; Simons, Rainee N. ; Sui-Tat Chui ; Xiao, John Q.

ROBOTIC ON-WAFER PROBE STATION FOR MICROWAVE CHARACTERIZATION IN A SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE .................................................................................................................... 975

Haddadi, K. ; El Fellahi, A. ; Marzouk, J. ; Arscott, S. ; Boyaval, C. ; Lasri, T. ; Dambrine, G.

ELECTRONICALLY BEAM STEERABLE LENS ANTENNA FOR 71–76/81–86 GHZ BACKHAUL APPLICATIONS ............................................................................................................................................................... 978

Artemenko, Alexey ; Mozharovskiy, Andrey ; Sevastyanov, Alexey ; Ssorin, Vladimir ; Maslennikov, Roman

SIMULTANEOUS TRANSMIT AND RECEIVE (STAR) SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE USING MULTIPLE ANALOG CANCELLATION LAYERS ................................................................................................... 982

Kolodziej, Kenneth E. ; Perry, Bradley T. ; Herd, Jeffrey S.

A PHASED ARRAY NON-CONTACT VITAL SIGNS SENSOR WITH AUTOMATIC BEAM STEERING ........................................................................................................................................................................ 986

Hall, T. ; Nukala, B.T. ; Stout, C. ; Brewer, N. ; Tsay, J. ; Lopez, J. ; Banister, R.E. ; Nguyen, T. ; Lie, D.Y.C.

MICROWAVE DIELECTRIC SPECTROSCOPY OF A SINGLE BIOLOGICAL CELL WITH IMPROVED SENSITIVITY UP TO 40 GHZ ................................................................................................................. 990

Wenli Chen ; Dubuc, David ; Grenier, Katia

LOW LOSS DIELECTRIC RIDGE WAVEGUIDE BASED ON HIGH RESISTIVITY SILICON FOR E11

Y MODE PROPAGATION AT 750–1000GHZ ................................................................................................ 993Zhu, Haotian ; Xue, Quan ; Pang, Stella W. ; Jianan Hui ; Zhao, Xinghai

GAUSSIAN PROCESSES REGRESSION FOR OPTIMIZING HARMONIC IMPEDANCE TRAJECTORIES IN CONTINUOUS CLASS-F POWER AMPLIFIER DESIGN .................................................... 997

Peng Chen ; Brazil, Thomas J.

A NEW NONLINEAR MODEL EXTRACTION METHODOLOGY FOR GAN HEMTS SUBJECT TO TRAPPING EFFECTS............................................................................................................................................. 1000

Nunes, Luis C. ; Gomes, Jose M. ; Cabral, Pedro M. ; Pedro, Jose C.

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF THE CAPABILITIES OF THE REAL-VALUED NARX NEURAL NETWORK FOR BEHAVIORAL MODELING OF MULTI-STANDARD RF POWER AMPLIFIER ............... 1004

Aguilar-Lobo, Lina M. ; Loo-Yau, J.R. ; Ortega-Cisneros, S. ; Moreno, P. ; Reynoso-Hernandez, J.A.

TWO-STAGE HIGH-EFFICIENCY X-BAND GAN MMIC PA/ RECTIFIER........................................................ 1008Coffey, Mike ; Schafer, Scott ; Popovic, Zoya

A W-BAND HIGH CONVERSION GAIN, SINGLE-BALANCED SUBHARMONICALLY GATE-PUMPED MIXER WITH NOVEL SIZE-REDUCED MARCHAND BALUN.......................................................... 1012

Jian Zhang ; Yu Ye ; Xiao-Wei Sun

TUNABLE HIGH-ISOLATION W-BAND BANDSTOP FILTERS........................................................................... 1015Hickle, Mark D. ; Sinanis, Michael D. ; Peroulis, Dimitrios

ENERGY-AUTONOMOUS BI-DIRECTIONAL WIRELESS POWER TRANSMISSION (WPT) AND ENERGY HARVESTING CIRCUIT ................................................................................................................... 1019

del Prete, Massimo ; Costanzo, Alessandra ; Georgiadis, Apostolos ; Collado, Ana ; Masotti, Diego ; Popovic, Zoya

CONCEPT FOR A NOVEL LOW-COMPLEXITY QAM TRANSCEIVER ARCHITECTURE SUITABLE FOR OPERATION CLOSE TO TRANSITION FREQUENCY............................................................ 1023

Carlowitz, Christian ; Vossiek, Martin

TRAP CHARACTERIZATION OF ALGAN/GAN HEMTS THROUGH DRAIN CURRENT MEASUREMENTS UNDER PULSED-RF LARGE-SIGNAL EXCITATION ......................................................... 1027

Benvegnu, Agostino ; Laurent, Sylvain ; Meneghini, Matteo ; Meneghesso, Gaudenzio ; Muraro, Jean-Luc ; Barataud, Denis ; Zanoni, Enrico ; Quere, Raymond

EXPERIMENTAL TERAHERTZ Z-SCAN IMAGING OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL PARAFFIN EMBEDDED BREAST CANCER TISSUE .................................................................................................................. 1031

Bowman, Tyler C. ; El-Shenawee, Magda ; Campbell, Lucas K.

LOW-LOSS, BROADLY-TUNABLE CAVITY FILTER OPERATING AT UHF FREQUENCIES ..................... 1034Scarbrough, D. ; Psychogiou, D. ; Peroulis, D. ; Goldsmith, C.

LINEAR FILTER ASSISTED ENVELOPE MEMORY POLYNOMIAL FOR ANALOG/RADIO FREQUENCY PREDISTORTION OF POWER AMPLIFIERS................................................................................ 1038

Huang, H. ; Islam, A. ; Xia, J. ; Levine, P. ; Boumaiza, S.

STABILITY CRITERIA FOR POWER AMPLIFIERS UNDER MISMATCH EFFECTS .................................... 1041Suarez, Almudena ; Ramirez, Franco ; Sancho, Sergio

24-GHZ CW RADAR FRONT-ENDS ON CELLULOSE-BASED SUBSTRATES: A NEW TECHNOLOGY FOR LOW-COST APPLICATIONS ............................................................................................... 1045

Alimenti, Federico ; Palazzi, Valentina ; Mariotti, Chiara ; Virili, Marco ; Orecchini, Giulia ; Roselli, Luca ; Mezzanotte, Paolo

DECORRELATION AND MITIGATION OF SPURIOUS PRODUCTS IN PHASED ARRAYS WITH DIRECT CONVERSION TRANSCEIVERS.................................................................................................... 1049

James, Blake ; Fulton, Caleb

PHOTONIC MILLIMETER WAVE SYSTEM FOR HIGH CAPACITY WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS .................................................................................................................................................... 1053

Clark, Thomas R. ; McKenna, Timothy P. ; Nanzer, Jeffrey A.

COOPERATIVE INTEGRATION OF HARVESTING SECTIONS FOR PASSIVE RFID COMMUNICATION ...................................................................................................................................................... 1057

Vera, Gianfranco Andia ; Georgiadis, Apostolos ; Duroc, Yvan ; Tedjini, Smail

A 1–1.2 GHZ RF MEMS VCO WITH ACCURATE NOISE CHARACTERIZATION........................................... 1060Ko, CH. ; Ku, B.H. ; Gaddi, R. ; Rebeiz, G.M.

ZERO-BIAS THZ DETECTION USING GRAPHENE TRANSISTORS ................................................................. 1063Moon, Jeong-Sun ; Hwa-Chang Seo ; Kyung-Ah Son ; Baohua Yang ; Le, Dustin ; Helen Fung ; Schmitz, Adele

WIRELESS SENSOR NODES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING IN INTERNET OF THINGS ........................................................................................................................................................................... 1067

Nguyen, Cuong M. ; Mays, Jeffrey ; Plesa, Dakota ; Rao, Smitha ; Nguyen, Minh ; Chiao, J.-C.

ULTRA-COMPACT KU BAND RECTENNA ............................................................................................................. 1071Takacs, A. ; Aubert, H. ; Charlot, S.

AN MMIC LOW-NOISE AMPLIFIER DESIGN TECHNIQUE ............................................................................... 1075Varonen, M. ; Reeves, R. ; Kangaslahti, P. ; Samoska, L. ; Cleary, K. ; Akgiray, A. ; Gawande, R. ; Fung, A. ; Gaier, T. ; Weinreb, S. ; Readhead, A.C.S. ; Lawrence, C. ; Sarkozy, S. ; Lai, R.

MICROWAVE HYPERTHERMIA VERSUS NANOSECOND PULSED ELECTRIC FIELD FOR IN VIVO TUMORS APPLICATIONS .......................................................................................................................... 1079

Soueid, M. ; Jacques, J. ; Yardin, C. ; Fontanier, S. ; O'Connor, R. ; Leveque, P. ; Arnaud-Cormos, D.

WIDEBAND SECOND-ORDER ADJOINT SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF HIGH-FREQUENCY STRUCTURES USING FDTD ....................................................................................................................................... 1083

Yu Zhang ; Bakr, Mohamed H.

3D SCANNING RADAR FOR THE REMOTE READING OF PASSIVE ELECTROMAGNETIC SENSORS ......................................................................................................................................................................... 1086

Henry, D. ; Pons, P. ; Aubert, H.

AN ALTERNATIVE METHOD FOR MAKING AN EXPLICIT FDTD UNCONDITIONALLY STABLE ........................................................................................................................................................................... 1090

Gaffar, Md ; Jiao, Dan

COMPARISON OF FABRICATION TOLERANCE SENSITIVITY BETWEEN SUBSTRATE INTEGRATED WAVEGUIDE AND MICROSTRIP CIRCUITS.............................................................................. 1094

Alaya, Achraf Ben ; Bozzi, Maurizio ; Perregrini, Luca ; Raveu, Nathalie ; Wu, Ke

ON-CHIP NON-RECIPROCAL COMPONENTS BASED ON ANGULAR-MOMENTUM BIASING................. 1097Estep, N.A. ; Sounas, D.L. ; Alu, A.

MILLIMETER-WAVE RECEIVERS FOR LOW-COST CUBESAT PLATFORMS ............................................. 1101Blackwell, William J.

11 THZ FIGURE-OF-MERIT PHASE-CHANGE RF SWITCHES FOR RECONFIGURABLE WIRELESS FRONT-ENDS............................................................................................................................................ 1104

Moon, Jeong-Sun ; Hwa-Chang Seo ; Le, Dustin ; Helen Fung ; Schmitz, Adele ; Oh, Thomas ; Kim, Samuel ; Kyung-Ah Son ; Zehnder, Daniel ; Baohua Yang

2.4 GHZ CMOS CLASS D SYNCHRONOUS RECTIFIER ....................................................................................... 1108Dehghani, Soroush ; Johnson, Thomas

PHOTONIC DOWNCONVERTING LINK WITH DIGITAL LINEARIZATION.................................................. 1111McKenna, Timothy P. ; Kalkavage, Jean H. ; Clark, Thomas R. ; Waterhouse, Rod B. ; Novak, Dalma

SIMPLE CREEP PARAMETERS EXTRACTION IN METAL CONTACT RF-MEMS SWITCHES.................. 1115Lemoine, E. ; Pothier, A. ; Crunteanu, A. ; Blondy, P. ; Saillen, N. ; Marchand, L.

A ×18 340 GHZ INP HEMT MULTIPLIER CHAIN................................................................................................... 1119Zamora, Alexis ; Mei, X.B. ; Leong, Kevin M.K.H. ; Lange, M. ; Lee, J. ; Yoshida, W. ; Gorospe, Ben S. ; Deal, William R.

NEW TECHNIQUE FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF NONLINEAR MODELS FOR MICROWAVE TRANSISTORS FOR BROADBAND DATA COMMUNICATION .............................................. 1122

Rafael-Valdivia, G. ; Zhiguo Su

APPLICATION OF INP HEMT TO SUB-MILLIMETER WAVE ATMOSPHERIC SENSING .......................... 1125Leong, K. ; Mei, X.B. ; Zamora, A. ; Shih, S. ; Deal, W.R.

AUTOMATED SYMBOLIC OPTIMIZATION AND HIGH LEVEL SYNTHESIS OF SINGLE- AND MULTI- BAND DIGITAL PRE-DISTORTION HARDWARE IN AN FPGA ................................................ 1128

Fehri, Bilel ; Boumaiza, Slim

SURFACE IMPEDANCE CONCEPT FOR MODELING CONDUCTOR ROUGHNESS ..................................... 1131Gold, G. ; Helmreich, K.

LARGE FREQUENCY TUNING OF A MILLIMETER-WAVE ANTENNA USING DIELECTRIC LIQUIDS IN INTEGRATED MICRO-CHANNELS ................................................................................................... 1135

Dufour, Gaetan ; Tiercelin, Nicolas ; Khan, Wasif T. ; Coquet, Philippe ; Pernod, Philippe ; Papapolymerou, John

TIME-DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY FOR NEAR-FIELD SCANNING MICROWAVE MICROSCOPY ............................................................................................................................................................... 1139

Farina, Marco ; Di Donato, Andrea ; Mencarelli, Davide ; Venanzoni, Giuseppe ; Morini, Antonio ; Pietrangelo, Tiziana

3D PRINTED MULTILAYER MICROSTRIP LINE STRUCTURE WITH VERTICAL TRANSITION TOWARD INTEGRATED SYSTEMS................................................................................................ 1143

Liang, Min ; Xiaoju Yu ; Shemelya, Corey ; MacDonald, Eric ; Xin, Hao

WIRELESSLY POWERING: AN ENABLING TECHNOLOGY FOR ZERO-POWER SENSORS, IOT AND D2D COMMUNICATION ............................................................................................................................ 1147

Costanzo, Alessandra ; Masotti, Diego

DUFFING RESONATOR CIRCUITS FOR PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENT OF WIRELESS POWER HARVESTERS ................................................................................................................................................ 1151

Wang, Xiaoyu ; Mortazawi, Amir

PRACTICAL DESIGN OF RECTANGULAR WAVEGUIDE FILTERS WITH A CAPACITIVE BUILDING BLOCK PROVIDING AN EXTRA TRANSMISSION ZERO .............................................................. 1155

Soto, P. ; Boria, V.E. ; Carceller, C. ; Cogollos, S. ; Guglielmi, M. ; Smacchia, D.

AN S-BAND NEGATIVE-INDUCTANCE INTEGRATED CIRCUIT...................................................................... 1159White, Carson R. ; Yung, Michael W.

SPECTRUM-AWARE JAMMER SUPPRESSION USING EVANESCENT-MODE CAVITY FILTERS .......................................................................................................................................................................... 1163

Khater, Mohammad Abu ; Peroulis, Dimitrios

MODELING THE EFFECT OF CHARGES IN THE BACK SIDE PASSIVATION LAYER ON THROUGH SILICON VIA (TSV) CAPACITANCE AFTER WAFER THINNING ............................................... 1167

Rack, M. ; Stucchi, M. ; Sun, X. ; Neve, C.Roda ; Van der Plas, G. ; Beyne, E. ; Absil, P. ; Raskin, J.-P.

MODELING OF WAVEGUIDE DUAL-MODE BANDPASS FILTERS OVER WIDE FREQUENCY RANGE............................................................................................................................................................................. 1171

Li, Shuqi ; Wang, Ying ; Yu, Ming

REAL-TIME TEMPERATURE COMPENSATION CONTROL SYSTEM FOR TUNABLE CAVITY-BASED HIGH-Q FILTERS ........................................................................................................................... 1175

Yu-Chen Wu ; Khater, Mohammad Abu ; Peroulis, Dimitrios

A 64 GHZ 5 MW LOW PHASE NOISE GM-BOOSTED COLPITTS CMOS VCO WITH SELF-SWITCHED BIASING TECHNIQUE .......................................................................................................................... 1179

Tai Nghia Nguyen ; Pande, Partha Pratim ; Heo, Deukhyoun

INTEGRATED C-BAND (4–8 GHZ) FREQUENCY-TUNABLE & BANDWIDTH-TUNABLE ACTIVE BAND-STOP FILTER IN 0.13-µM SIGE BICMOS .................................................................................... 1183

Mohammadi, Laya ; Koh, Kwang-Jin

REAL-TIME IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT AND FREQUENCY CONTROL IN AN AUTOMOTIVE PLASMA IGNITION SYSTEM ........................................................................................................ 1187

Williams, Roger ; Ikeda, Yuji

LOWLOSS PLANAR BANDPASS FILTERS FOR MILLIMETER-WAVE APPLICATION ............................... 1191Sorkherizi, Milad Sharifi ; Kishk, Ahmed A.

LARGE-SIGNAL MODELING OF ON-WAFER MICROWAVE TRANSISTORS BASED ON RESPONSE SURFACE METHODOLOGY................................................................................................................. 1195

Barmuta, Pawe ; Avolio, Gustavo ; Ferranti, Francesco ; Lewandowski, Arkadiusz ; Schreurs, Dominique

EDUCATING SIGNAL INTEGRITY ENGINEERS FOR CHALLENGES IN HIGH-SPEED ELECTRONICS .............................................................................................................................................................. 1199

Torres-Torres, R.

RECONSTRUCTION OF NON-SIMULTANEOUS IMPULSIVE SOURCES WITH SUPERRESOLUTION IN TLM BY COMPUTATIONAL TIME REVERSAL....................................................... 1203

Hoefer, Wolfgang J.R. ; So, Poman P.M.

HIGH REJECTION STACKED BANDPASS FILTER OPTIMIZED BY GROUP DELAY RESPONSE ...................................................................................................................................................................... 1206

Sorkherizi, Milad Sharifi ; Kishk, Ahmed A. ; Saad, Mohamed

HIGH-EFFICIENCY TERAHERTZ SOURCES BASED ON PLASMONIC CONTACT ELECTRODES ................................................................................................................................................................ 1210

Jarrahi, Mona

COMPACT TUNABLE BANDSTOP FILTER WITH WIDEBAND BALUN USING IPD TECHNOLOGY FOR FREQUENCY AGILE APPLICATIONS .............................................................................. 1214

Ka Wai Wong ; Mansour, Raafat R. ; Weale, Gareth

MULTI-FREQUENCY DEP CYTOMETER EMPLOYING A MICROWAVE INTERFEROMETER FOR THE DIELECTRIC ANALYSIS OF MICRO-PARTICLES ............................................................................. 1217

Afshar, Samaneh ; Salimi, Elham ; Braasch, Katrin ; Butler, Michael ; Thomson, Douglas ; Bridges, Greg

TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT CHARACTERISTICS OF INTRINSICALLY SWITCHABLE FERROELECTRIC COMPOSITE FBARS ................................................................................................................. 1221

Lee, Seungku ; Zolfagharloo Koohi, Milad ; Sis, Seyit Ahmet ; Lee, Victor ; Mortazawi, Amir

350MW G-BAND MEDIUM POWER AMPLIFIER FABRICATED THROUGH A NEW METHOD OF 3D-COPPER ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING .................................................................................................... 1225

Kazemi, H. ; Miller, D. ; Mohan, A. ; Griffith, Z. ; Jin, Y. ; Kwiatkowski, J. ; Tran, L. ; Crawford, M.

A SOI CMOS RECONFIGURABLE OUTPUT MATCHING NETWORK FOR MULTIMODE MULTIBAND POWER AMPLIFIERS......................................................................................................................... 1228

Tant, G. ; Giry, A. ; Ferris, P. ; Pares, G. ; Arnould, J-D. ; Fournier, J-M. ; Raynaud, C. ; Vincent, P.

AC COUPLED QUADRATURE DOPPLER RADAR DISPLACEMENT ESTIMATION ..................................... 1232Gao, Xiaomeng ; Boric-Lubecke, Olga

A LATTICE-BASED MEMORY POLYNOMIAL MODEL FOR NONLINEAR MIMO TRANSMITTER BEHAVIORAL MODELING USING FIXED POINT ARITHMETIC....................................... 1236

Abdelhafiz, Abubaker ; Hammi, Oualid ; Ghannouchi, Fadhel M.

INTEGRATED NON-RECIPROCAL DUAL H- AND E-FIELD TUNABLE BANDPASS FILTER WITH ULTRA-WIDEBAND ISOLATION .................................................................................................................. 1240

Lin, Hwaider ; Jing Wu ; Xi Yang ; Zhongqiang Hu ; Nan, Tianxiang ; Emori, Satoru ; Gao, Yuan ; Rongdi Guo ; Xinjun Wang ; Sun, Nian X.

DIVIDER/COMBINER WITH ENHANCED ISOLATION AND REFLECTION CANCELLATION ................. 1244Darwish, Ali M. ; Ibrahim, Amr A. ; Joe Qiu ; Viveiros, Edward ; Alfred Hung, H.

WIDEBAND CMOS DECOUPLING POWER LINE FOR MILLIMETER-WAVE APPLICATIONS ................ 1247Amakawa, S. ; Goda, R. ; Katayama, K. ; Takano, K. ; Yoshida, T. ; Fujishima, M.

RFID INTEGRATED QR CODE TAG ANTENNA .................................................................................................... 1251Numan-Al-Mobin, Abu Md ; Cross, William M. ; Kellar, Jon J. ; Anagnostou, Dimitris E.

A 120 WATT GAN POWER AMPLIFIER MMIC UTILIZING HARMONIC TUNING CIRCUITS FOR S-BAND APPLICATIONS .................................................................................................................................... 1254

Alexander, Andrew ; Leckey, Jonathan

DIGITAL PREDISTORTER CHARACTERIZATION USING EXTENDED ORTHOGONAL CHEBYSHEV POLYNOMIALS ................................................................................................................................... 1257

Ding, Lei ; Mujica, Fernando ; Yang, Zigang

SUCCESSFUL REALIZATION OF NON-FOSTER CIRCUITS FOR WIDE-BAND ANTENNA APPLICATIONS ............................................................................................................................................................. 1261

Elfrgani, Aseim M. ; Rojas, Roberto G.

HYBRID STRUCTURE-BASED BROADBAND FIELD-ROTATION BALUN FOR MILLIMETER-WAVE APPLICATIONS................................................................................................................................................ 1265

Moghaddasi, Jaber ; Wu, Ke

PHOTONIC GENERATION OF A LINEARLY CHIRPED MICROWAVE WAVEFORM WITH LONG TEMPORAL DURATION USING A DISPERSIVE LOOP........................................................................... 1268

Zhang, Jiejun ; Coutinho, Olympio Lucchini ; Yao, Jianping

ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING OF CERAMIC COMPOSITES BY LASER ASSISTED MICROWAVE PLASMA PROCESSING, LAMPP .................................................................................................... 1271

Willert-Porada, M.A. ; Rosin, A. ; Pontiller, P. ; Richter, C. ; Boeckler, J.

A NEW COMPACT HIGH-EFFICIENCY MMWAVE POWER AMPLIFIER IN 65 NM CMOS PROCESS......................................................................................................................................................................... 1275

Tianzuo Xi ; Huang, Sherry ; Shita Guo ; Ping Gui ; Jing Zhang ; Wooyeol Choi ; Daquan Huang ; Kenneth, K.O ; Yanli Fan

A TERAHERTZ RECONFIGURABLE PHOTO-INDUCED FRESNEL-ZONE-PLATE ANTENNA FOR DYNAMIC TWO-DIMENSIONAL BEAM STEERING AND FORMING ..................................................... 1279

Shams, Md.Itrat Bin ; Jiang, Zhenguo ; Qayyum, Jubaid ; Rahman, Syed ; Fay, Patrick ; Liu, Lei

94 GHZ BIDIRECTIONAL VARIABLE GAIN AMPLIFIER IN 0.13-µM SIGE BICMOS FOR PHASED ARRAY TRANSMIT AND RECEIVE (T/R) APPLICATIONS ................................................................ 1283

Afroz, Sadia ; Kwang-Jin Koh

A LINEAR POLARIZATION CONTINUOUSLY SWEEPING ANTENNA WITH A VARIABLE POWER DIVIDER BASED ON CRLH TRANSMISSION LINE .............................................................................. 1286

Jiang, Y. ; Lin, X.Q. ; Fei Cheng ; Zhang, J. ; Fan, Y.

A WIDEBAND LOW COST E-BAND SIW ANTENNA ARRAY FOR HIGH CAPACITY MMWAVE RADIO ......................................................................................................................................................... 1290

Miraftab, Vahid ; Wenyao Zhai ; Repeta, Morris

DESIGN OF A CHEBYSHEV MICROSTRIP FILTER USING THE REFLECTED GROUP DELAY METHOD AND THE AGGRESSIVE SPACE MAPPING TECHNIQUE ................................................................ 1293

Xiaolin Fan ; Laforge, Paul D.

GAN POWER AMPLIFIERS WITH SUPPLY MODULATION ............................................................................... 1297Popovic, Zoya

A NOVEL DESIGN OF UWB BANDPASS FILTER WITH NOTCH BAND........................................................... 1301Daotong Li ; Yonghong Zhang ; Kaijun Song ; Yong Fan ; Yuan Jiang ; Le-Wei Li

A 3.4–3.6-GHZ HIGH EFFICIENCY GALLIUM NITRIDE POWER AMPLIFIER USING BANDPASS OUTPUT MATCHING NETWORK ....................................................................................................... 1305

Qianteng Wu ; Xiaoguang Liu

A TUNABLE X-BAND SUBSTRATE INTEGRATED WAVEGUIDE CAVITY FILTER USING RECONFIGURABLE LIQUID-METAL PERTURBING POSTS ............................................................................. 1308

Dang, Jonathan H. ; Gough, Ryan C. ; Morishita, Andy M. ; Ohta, Aaron T. ; Shiroma, Wayne A.

A D-BAND (110 TO 170 GHZ) SPDT SWITCH IN 32 NM CMOS SOI .................................................................... 1312Khan, W.T. ; Ulusoy, A.C. ; Schmid, R. ; Chi, T. ; Cressler, J.D. ; Wang, H. ; Papapolymerou, J.

LIQUID-METAL-BASED PHASE SHIFTER WITH RECONFIGURABLE EBG FILLING FACTOR .......................................................................................................................................................................... 1315

Dang, Jonathan H. ; Gough, Ryan C. ; Morishita, Andy M. ; Ohta, Aaron T. ; Shiroma, Wayne A.

A BANDSTOP MICROWAVE PHOTONIC DELAY-LINE FILTER WITH BOTH TUNABLE STOP-BAND REJECTION RATIO AND TUNABLE FREQUENCY ...................................................................... 1319

Weilin Liu ; Weifeng Zhang ; Yao, Jianping

A WIDE SPECTRAL RANGE, MULTI-FUNCTION ADAPTIVE RF FRONT-END FOR AGILE SPECTRUM ACCESS AND RF INTERFERENCE MITIGATION.......................................................................... 1322

St.John, Marc C. ; Wansheng Su ; Serrano, Christopher J. ; Rudd, Kevin E. ; Goverdhanam, Kavita

ON-CHIP CMOS THZ RESONANT CELL USING HYBRID COPLANAR-WAVEGUIDE T-STUB/DEFECTED GROUND STRUCTURE .............................................................................................................. 1325

Luo, Xun

NETWORK SYNTHESIS OF POWER AMPLIFIER MATCHING CIRCUITS - STANDING ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS................................................................................................................................... 1328

Collins, Gayle Fran

APPLICATIONS OF NANO-SATELLITES AND CUBE-SATELLITES IN MICROWAVE AND RF DOMAIN .......................................................................................................................................................................... 1331

Simons, Rainee N. ; Goverdhanam, Kavita

A Q-BAND RF-MEMS TAPERED TRUE TIME DELAY LINE FOR FUSION PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS SYSTEMS............................................................................................................................................ 1335

Danqing Fu ; Bey, Yusha A. ; Domier, Calvin ; Luhmann, Neville C. ; Xiaoguang Liu

BASIC STUDY ON NOVEL BASE-STATION FILTER USING ARTIFICIAL DIELECTRICS .......................... 1338Ishizaki, Toshio ; Nojiri, Satoshi ; Nakagawa, Yuto

OVERCOMING THE EFFICIENCY LIMITATION OF LOW MICROWAVE POWER HARVESTING WITH BACKWARD TUNNEL DIODES.......................................................................................... 1341

Lorenz, Carlos H.P. ; Hemour, Simon ; Wenjun Li ; Yi Xie ; Gauthier, Jules ; Fay, Patrick ; Wu, Ke

A NEW METHOD FOR EXTRACTING RI AND RGD OF THE INTRINSIC TRANSISTOR MODEL OF GAN HEMT BASED ON EXTREMA POINTS OF INTRINSIC Y-PARAMETERS........................ 1345

Reynoso-Hernandez, J.A. ; Estrada-Mendoza, Jaqueline ; Maya-Sanchez, M.C. ; Pulido-Gaytan, M.A. ; Loo-Yau, J.R. ; Zuniga-Juarez, J.E. ; del Valle-Padilla, Juan Luis

AN 8-ELEMENT 400 GHZ PHASED-ARRAY IN 45 NM CMOS SOI ..................................................................... 1348Yang, Y. ; Gurbuz, O. ; Rebeiz, G.M.

PARALLEL GRADIENT-BASED LOCAL SEARCH ACCELERATING PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION FOR TRAINING MICROWAVE NEURAL NETWORK MODELS......................................... 1351

Zhang, Jianan ;Ma, Kai ; Feng, Feng ; Zhang, Qijun

A V-BAND COMPECT BANDPASS FILTER IN SI-BCB TECHNOLOGY USING THE COUPLED-LINE RESONATORS ..................................................................................................................................................... 1354

Yoo, Chan-Sei ; Jongchul Park ; Young-Chul Rhee ; Seo, Kwang-Seok

A WAVEFORM-SHAPING MILLIMETER-WAVE OSCILLATOR WITH 184.7DBC/HZ FOM IN 40NM DIGITAL CMOS PROCESS .............................................................................................................................. 1358

Xun Luo ; Qian, Huizhen Jenny ; Stazewski, Rorbert

HIGH-Q K-BAND INTEGRATED INDUCTORS USING CU/NI NANO-SUPERLATTICE CONDUCTORS............................................................................................................................................................... 1361

Rahimi, Arian ; Yoon, Yong-Kyu

TRANSMIT/RECEIVE (T/R) MODULES ARCHITECTURES FOR DUAL-POLARIZED WEATHER PHASED ARRAY RADARS..................................................................................................................... 1364

Salazar, Jorge L. ; Medina, Rafel H. ; Loew, Eric

A TRANSFORMER-BASED POLY-PHASE NETWORK FOR ULTRA-BROADBAND QUADRATURE SIGNAL GENERATION .................................................................................................................. 1368

Park, Jong Seok ; Wang, Hua

AMBIENT ENERGY HARVESTING FROM A TWO-WAY TALK RADIO FOR FLEXIBLE WEARABLE DEVICES UTILIZING INKJET PRINTING MASKING .................................................................. 1372

Bito, Jo ; Hester, Jimmy G. ; Tentzeris, Manos M.

HUMAN GESTURE SENSOR USING AMBIENT WIRELESS SIGNALS BASED ON PASSIVE RADAR TECHNOLOGY ............................................................................................................................................... 1376

Mu-Cyun Tang ; Wang, Fu-Kang ; Horng, Tzyy-Sheng

A WIRELESS ECG RECORDING SYSTEM FOR SMALL ANIMAL MODELS OF HEART REGENERATION .......................................................................................................................................................... 1380

Cao, Hung ; Zhao, Yu ; Kouki, Ammar B. ; Yu-chong Tai ; Hsiai, Tzung K.

5.0 TO 10.6 GHZ 0.18 µM CMOS POWER AMPLIFIER WITH EXCELLENT GROUP DELAY FOR UWB APPLICATIONS ......................................................................................................................................... 1383

Mosalam, H. ; Allam, A. ; Jia, H. ; Abdelrahman, A. ; Kaho, Takana ; Pokharel, Ramesh K.

CHEST-WORN HEALTH MONITOR BASED ON A BISTATIC SELF-INJECTION-LOCKED RADAR............................................................................................................................................................................. 1387

Wang, Fu-Kang ; You-Rung Chou ; Yen-Chen Chiu ; Mu-Cyun Tang ; Horng, Tzyy-Sheng

MAXWELL'S LEGACY: THE HEART AND SOUL OF THE EM DISCIPLINE .................................................. 1391Scully, Robert

HIGH POWER FAST FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS: TRANSPARENT RF ALGAN/GAN HEMTS ON PLASTIC SUBSTRATES ........................................................................................................................................ 1395

Tzu-Hsuan Chang ; Xiong, Kanglin ; Park, Sung Hyun ; Hongyi Mi ; Huilong Zhang ; Mikael, Solomon ; Yei Hwan Jung ; Jung Han ; Zhenqiang Ma

A SINGLE-CHAIN MULTIBAND RECONFIGURABLE LINEAR POWER AMPLIFIER IN SOI CMOS ............................................................................................................................................................................... 1399

Kim, Unha ; Woo, Jung-Lin ; Park, Sunghwan ; Kwon, Youngwoo

A POST-FABRICATION TUNING METHOD FOR A VARACTOR-TUNED MICROSTRIP FILTER USING THE IMPLICIT SPACE MAPPING TECHNIQUE....................................................................... 1403

Song Li ; Laforge, Paul D.

DIGITAL SIGNAL INJECTION TECHNIQUE FOR CANCELLATION OF RECEIVE-BAND SPURIOUS EMISSIONS IN FDD CELLULAR TRANSMITTERS .......................................................................... 1407

Gheidi, Hamed ; Farsi, Saeed ; Liu, Youjiang ; Dabag, Hayg ; Gudem, Prasad ; Asbeck, Peter M.

A 60 GHZ 64-ELEMENT WAFER-SCALE PHASED-ARRAY WITH FULL-RETICLE DESIGN...................... 1411Zihir, S. ; Gurbuz, O.D. ; Karroy, A. ; Raman, S. ; Rebeiz, G.M.

MILLIMETER-WAVE LARGE-SCALE PHASED-ARRAYS FOR 5G SYSTEMS................................................ 1414Rebeiz, Gabriel M. ; Kim, Sang-Young ; Inac, Ozgur ; Shin, Woorim ; Gurbuz, Ozan ; Ou, Yu-Chin ; Golcuk, Fatih ; Kanar, Tumay ; Ku, Bon-Hyun

A NOVEL PLANAR CONTIGUOUS DIPLEXER DC-67-100 GHZ USING ORGANIC LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMER (LCP) ....................................................................................................................................... 1417

Ashiq, Irfan ; Khanna, A.P.S

LOW-COST MM-WAVE COPLANAR WAVEGUIDE BANDPASS FILTER USING INKJET PRINTING OF SILVER NANO-PARTICLES ON FLEXIBLE PLASTIC SUBSTRATE ...................................... 1421

Hettak, K. ; Ross, T. ; James, R. ; Momciu, A.

5G WIRELESS AND MILLIMETER WAVE TECHNOLOGY EVOLUTION: AN OVERVIEW........................ 1424Choudhury, Debabani

AN IMPROVED FABRICATION METHOD OF HIGH-K AND LOW-LOSS POLYMER COMPOSITES WITH SINTERED CERAMIC FILLERS FOR MICROWAVE APPLICATIONS...................... 1428

Castro, Juan ; Weller, Thomas ; Wang, Jing

BROADBAND SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS IN A SINGLE FDTD SIMULATION WITH THE COMPLEX STEP DERIVATIVE APPROXIMATION .............................................................................................. 1432

Sarris, Costas D. ; Lang, Hans-Dieter

A TUNABLE NOTCH FILTER USING HIGH-KT2 LITHIUM NIOBATE RESONATORS TOWARD INTEGRATION IN FILTER BANKS ....................................................................................................... 1435

Sean Yen ; Shi, Lisha ; Piazza, Gianluca ; Fedder, Gary K. ; Mukherjee, Tamal

THE RADIOMETER ATMOSPHERIC CUBESAT EXPERIMENT (RACE) PRE-LAUNCH PERFORMANCE............................................................................................................................................................ 1439

Lim, Boon ; Statham, Shannon ; Misra, Sidharth ; Clark, Jessica ; Donahue, Kenneth ; Steinkraus, Joel

E-BAND FILTERS BASED ON SUBSTRATE INTEGRATED WAVEGUIDE OCTAGONAL CAVITIES LOADED BY COMPLEMENTARY SPLIT-RING RESONATORS .................................................... 1442

Kiumarsi, Hamid ; Wasa, Kenji ; Ito, Hiroyuki ; Ishihara, Noboru ; Masu, Kazuya

SELF-POWERED BATTERYLESS WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS FOR INTERNET OF THINGS BASED ON PIEZOELECTRIC ENERGY HARVESTER................................................................... 1446

Kuan-Wei Chen ; Jia-Sian Chen ; Yi-Ling Yeh ; Yen-Dru Chen ; Chin-Lung Yang

ON A COMPACT PRINTABLE DUAL-POLARIZED CHIPLESS RFID TAG USING SLOT LENGTH VARIATION ENCODING TECHNIQUE FOR BARCODE REPLACEMENT .................................... 1449

Islam, Md.Aminul ; Karmakar, Nemai

PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS AND NON-LINEARITY MODELING OF GETE PHASE CHANGE RF SWITCHES WITH DIRECT AND INDIRECT HEATING SCHEMES........................................... 1453

Wang, Muzhi ; Feng Lin ; Rais-Zadeh, Mina

A WIDEBAND MICROSTRIP DUAL BALUN STRUCTURE .................................................................................. 1457Wu, Peng ; Shaowei Liao ; Xue, Quan

MICROWAVE HEATER AT 20 GHZ FOR NANOLITER SCALE DIGITAL MICROFLUIDICS ..................... 1460Markovic, T. ; Liu, S. ; Barmuta, P. ; Ocket, I. ; Cauwe, M. ; Schreurs, D. ; Nauwelaers, B.

WEARABLE WIRELESS ELECTRONICS ................................................................................................................ 1464Lubecke, Victor

A TUNABLE 0.6 GHZ – 1.7 GHZ BANDPASS FILTER WITH A CONSTANT BANDWIDTH USING SWITCHABLE VARACTOR-TUNED RESONATORS ............................................................................... 1468

Lin, Feng ; Rais-Zadeh, Mina

SMALL-FOOTPRINT WIDEBAND 94GHZ RECTIFIER FOR SWARM MICRO-ROBOTICS ......................... 1472Hemour, Simon ; Lorenz, Carlos H.P. ; Wu, Ke

DESIGN OF A COMPACT, LOW COMPLEXITY SCALABLE PHASED ARRAY ANTENNA ......................... 1476Akbar, Fatemeh ; Mortazawi, Amir

SIZE REDUCTION AND DUAL MODE DEGENERACY IN MICROSTRIP PATCH ANTENNA USING PERIODICALLY RIPPLED SILICON SUBSTRATE .................................................................................. 1479

Yazdani, Mohsen ; Navabi, Aryan ; Khalili, Pedram ; Wang, Kang

DIGITALLY ASSISTED LOW IF ARCHITECTURE FOR NONCONTACT VITAL SIGN DETECTION ................................................................................................................................................................... 1483

Wei, Changyu ; Lin, Jenshan

INKJET-PRINTED TRISECTION BANDPASS FILTER ON MULTILAYER LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMER SUBSTRATE .............................................................................................................................................. 1487

Kao, Hsuan-ling ; Cho, Cheng-Lin ; Chang, Li-Chun ; Wu, Yung-Hsien

SIZE-REDUCED BANDPASS FILTERS USING QUARTER-MODE SUBSTRATE INTEGRATED WAVEGUIDE LOADED WITH DIFFERENT DEFECTED GROUND STRUCTURE PATTERNS ................... 1491

Huang, Yong Mao ; Shao, Zhenhai ; You, Chang Jiang ; Wang, Guoan

MULTI-BEAM 4 GHZ MICROWAVE APERTURES USING CURRENT-MODE DFT APPROXIMATION ON 65 NM CMOS ........................................................................................................................ 1495

Ariyarathna, Viduneth ; Kulasekera, Sunera ; Madanayake, Arjuna ; Lee, Kye-Shin ; Suarez, Dora ; Cintra, Renato J. ; Bayer, Fabio M. ; Belostotski, Leonid

PARALLELIZATION CONCEPT FOR SPATIALLY RESOLVED IN-SITU PLASMA MEASUREMENTS ......................................................................................................................................................... 1499

Schulz, C. ; Runkel, J. ; Rolfes, I.

ON-CHIP TRANSFORMER-COUPLED BALUN BANDPASS FILTER FOR 5-GHZ APPLICATIONS ............................................................................................................................................................. 1502

Chang, Chia-Feng ; Lin, Yo-Shen

COMPACT, QUASI-ELLIPTIC DUAL-BAND BANDPASS FILTER WITH IMPROVED ISOLATION .................................................................................................................................................................... 1506

Sovuthy, Cheab ; Wen, Wong Peng

ULTRA-SHORT-RANGE, PRECISE DISPLACEMENT MEASUREMENT SETUP WITH A NEAR FIELD SLOT-LINE ANTENNA AND A DEDICATED SPIRAL CALIBRATION ................................................. 1509

Linz, Sarah ; Lurz, Fabian ; Sporer, Michael ; Lindner, Stefan ; Mann, Sebastian ; Weigel, Robert ; Koelpin, Alexander

A NOVEL METHOD FOR CHIP INTEGRATION AND PACKAGING FOR MILLIMETER-WAVE TO TERAHERTZ BAND APPLICATIONS ................................................................................................... 1513

Jam, Armin ; East, Jack ; Sarabandi, Kamal

300-GHZ MOSFET MODEL EXTRACTED BY AN ACCURATE COLD-BIAS DE-EMBEDDING TECHNIQUE................................................................................................................................................................... 1516

Katayama, K. ; Amakawa, S. ; Takano, K. ; Fujishima, M.

IMPROVEMENT OF DUAL-MANIFOLD ARCHITECTURE FOR THE DESIGN OF RECONFIGURABLE DIPLEXERS.............................................................................................................................. 1520

Morini, A. ; Baldelli, M. ; Venanzoni, G. ; Cifola, L. ; Farina, M. ; Iglesias, P.M. ; Ernst, C. ; Macchiarella, G.

THE EVOLUTION OF LINEARIZERS FOR HIGH POWER AMPLIFIERS ........................................................ 1524Katz, Allen ; Chokola, Daniel

KA-BAND CHARACTERIZATION AND RF DESIGN OF ACRYNOLITRILE BUTADIENE STYRENE (ABS) ............................................................................................................................................................. 1528

Vera-Lopez, Aida L. ; Rojas-Nastrucci, Eduardo A. ; Cordoba-Erazo, Maria ; Weller, Tom ; Papapolymerou, John

A X-BAND GAN POWER AMPLIFIER WITH BITSTREAM MODULATIONS AND ACTIVE NOISE FILTERING ....................................................................................................................................................... 1532

Song, Yonghoon ; Zhu, Rui ; Wang, Yuanxun Ethan

FREQUENCY HOPPED WIRELESS PASSIVE SENSING SYSTEM WITH HARMONIC TRANSPONDER ANTENNA SENSOR ....................................................................................................................... 1535

Huang, Haiyu ; Chen, Pai-Yen ; Hung, Cheng-Hsien ; Gharpurey, Ranjit ; Akinwande, Deji

7T MRI RF HEAD COIL WITH METAMATERIAL ELEMENTS.......................................................................... 1539Panda, Vijayaraghavan ; Vaughan, J.T. ; Gopinath, Anand

TRACEABLE PHASE CALIBRATION OF A WIDE-BANDWIDTH MICROWAVE VECTOR SIGNAL ANALYZER..................................................................................................................................................... 1542

Vanden Bossche, Marc ; Verbeyst, Frans ; Samant, Abhay

DISTRIBUTED MODELING OF SUBMILLIMETER-WAVE HEMT PARASITICS BASED ON FULL-WAVE ELECTROMAGNETIC ANALYSIS ................................................................................................... 1546

Karisan, Yasir ; Caglayan, Cosan ; Trichopoulos, Georgios C. ; Sertel, Kubilay

A 6–18 GHZ GAN PHEMT POWER AMPLIFIER USING NON-FOSTER MATCHING..................................... 1549Lee, Sangho ; Park, Hongjong ; Kim, Jihoon ; Kwon, Youngwoo

INDENTED QUASI-YAGI ANTENNA ARRAY FOR HIGH-ISOLATION FULL-DUPLEX RADIOS ........................................................................................................................................................................... 1553

Xu, Qiang ; Qin, Shihan ; Wang, Yuanxun Ethan

ACTIVE POWER SUMMATION FOR EFFICIENT MULTIBAND RF ENERGY HARVESTING .................... 1557Parks, Aaron N. ; Smith, Joshua R.

INNOVATIVE FULL WAVE MODELING OF PLASMON PROPAGATION IN GRAPHENE BY DIELECTRIC PERMITTIVITY SIMULATIONS BASED ON DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY................. 1561

Pierantoni, L. ; Mencarelli, D. ; Sindona, A. ; Gravina, M. ; Pisarra, M. ; Gomez, C.Vacacela ; Bellucci, S.

ON-WAFER PROBES FOR SUBMILLIMETER-WAVE ON-CHIP ANTENNAS ................................................. 1564Shiao, Yu-Shao Jerry ; Liao, Jung-Yen ; Huang, Guo-Wei

WIDEBAND, HIGH DATA-RATE, SIX-PORT DIRECT-CONVERSION RECEIVER WITH IMPROVED OUTPUT MATCHING AND SENSITIVITY ........................................................................................ 1567

Qayyum, Saad ; Chen, Yu-Tzu ; Wei, Muh-Dey ; Negra, Renato

TUNING LIMITS OF SHUNT VARACTOR DIODES FOR MAINTAINING HIGH OIP3 IN ARBITRARY CIRCUITS............................................................................................................................................... 1571

Allen, Wesley N. ; Peroulis, Dimitrios

DOUBLE CONVERSION METHOD FOR SYNTHESIS OF INVERSE FILTERS ................................................ 1575Saeedi, Shahrokh ; Lee, Juseop ; Sigmarsson, Hjalti H.

A T/R ANTENNA PAIR WITH POLARIZATION-BASED RECONFIGURABLE WIDEBAND SELF-INTERFERENCE CANCELLATION FOR SIMULTANEOUS TRANSMIT AND RECEIVE .................. 1579

Dinc, Tolga ; Krishnaswamy, Harish

OVERVIEW OF TEMPORAL EXPERIMENT FOR STORMS AND TROPICAL SYSTEMS (TEMPEST) CUBESAT CONSTELLATION MISSION ............................................................................................ 1583

Reising, Steven C. ; Gaier, Todd C. ; Kummerow, Christian D. ; Chandrasekar, V. ; Brown, Shannon T. ; Padmanabhan, Sharmila ; Lim, Boon H. ; van den Heever, Susan C. ; L'Ecuyer, Tristan S. ; Ruf, Christopher S. ; Haddad, Ziad S. ; Luo, Z.Johnny ; Munchak, S.Joseph ; Berg, Greg ; Koch, Timothy C. ; Boukabara, Sid A.

DESIGN OF A SHORT-RANGE RADAR SYSTEM FOR WING-BEAT FREQUENCY DETECTION ................................................................................................................................................................... 1587

Su, Yu-Sheng ; Chang, Chia-Chan ; Kuo, Jia-Ming ; Chang, Sheng-Fuh

ALGAN/GAN HEMT NONLINEAR MODEL FITTING INCLUDING A TRAP MODEL.................................... 1590Tarazi, Jabra ; Schwitter, Bryan K. ; Parker, Anthony E. ; Mahon, Simon J.

SUPPRESSING TRANSMITTER INTERMODULATIONS WITH CHANNELIZED ACTIVE NOISE ELIMINATION (CANE) ................................................................................................................................... 1594

Zhu, Rui ; Song, Yonghoon ; Wang, Yuanxun Ethan

MICROFLUIDICALLY RECONFIGURABLE GAN POWER AMPLIFIER ON MULTILAYER ORGANIC SUBSTRATE FOR S-BAND AND C-BAND APPLICATIONS.............................................................. 1598

Chlieh, Outmane Lemtiri ; Khan, Wasif T. ; Papapolymerou, John

A MICROWAVE RECONFIGURABLE DIELECTRIC-BASED GLUCOSE SENSOR WITH 20 MG/DL SENSITIVITY AT SUB-NL SENSING VOLUME IN CMOS...................................................................... 1602

Chien, Jun-Chau ; Yeh, Erh-Chia ; Lee, Luke P. ; Anwar, Mekhail ; Niknejad, Ali M.

COMPARISON OF RIGOROUS VS APPROXIMATE METHODS FOR ACCURATE CALCULATION OF 2D-MATERIALS BAND STRUCTURES AND APPLICATIONS TO THZ NANOELECTRONICS .................................................................................................................................................. 1606

Pierantoni, L. ; Mencarelli, D. ; Sindona, A. ; Bellucci, S.

COMPACT WIDEBAND SINGLE-ENDED AND DIFFERENTIAL MICROSTRIP-TO-WAVEGUIDE TRANSITIONS AT W-BAND.............................................................................................................. 1609

Giese, Malte ; Meinhardt, Tim ; Jacob, Arne F.

ALMA BAND 9 RECEIVER DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE ................................................................................ 1613Baryshev, Andrey ; Hesper, Ronald ; Wild, Wolfgang

OSCILLATOR PHASE NOISE REDUCTION USING OPTICAL FEEDBACK WITH DUAL DRIVE MACH-ZEHNDER MODULATOR ................................................................................................................ 1618

Sun, Tianchi ; Zhang, Li ; Receveur, Kevin ; Poddar, Ajay K. ; Rohde, Ulrich L. ; Daryoush, Afshin S.

40 GHZ LAMINATE POWER DIVIDER CIRCUITS USING INTEGRATED RESISTORS ................................ 1621Arzola, J. ; Miller, C. ; Henderson, R.M.

MULTI-KNOTS MÖBIUS STRIPS: APPLICATIONS IN OSCILLATOR CIRCUITS ......................................... 1624Poddar, Ajay K. ; Rohde, Ulrich L. ; Itoh, Tatsuo

CAPACITIVELY TUNED ELECTRICAL COUPLING FOR RECONFIGURABLE COAXIAL CAVITY BANDSTOP FILTERS ................................................................................................................................... 1628

Anand, Akash ; Liu, Xiaoguang

THE HIGH-FREQUENCY LIMITS OF SIS RECEIVERS ........................................................................................ 1631Zmuidzinas, Jonas

MILLIMETER RADIO ASTRONOMY AND THE GENESIS OF ALMA............................................................... 1635Dickman, R.L.

SUB-MILLIMETER WAVE INP TECHNOLOGIES AND INTEGRATION TECHNIQUES............................... 1639Radisic, Vesna ; Leong, Kevin M.K.H. ; Scott, Dennis W. ; Monier, Cedric ; Mei, X.B. ; Deal, William R. ; Gutierrez-Aitken, Augusto

HIGH RATE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS FOR CUBESATS .......................................................................... 1643Palo, Scott E.

NOVEL DEPLOYABLE REFLECTARRAY ANTENNAS FOR CUBESAT COMMUNICATIONS ................... 1647Hodges, Richard E. ; Hoppe, Daniel J. ; Radway, Matthew J. ; Chahat, Nacer E.

3D MULTI-LAYER ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING OF A 2.45 GHZ RF FRONT END .................................... 1651Arnal, Nicholas ; Ketterl, Thomas ; Vega, Yaniel ; Stratton, John ; Perkowski, Casey ; Deffenbaugh, Paul ; Church, Kenneth ; Weller, Thomas

HONORARY SESSION: TATSUO ITOH SERVING THE MTT-S FOR 40 YEARS ............................................. 1655El-Ghazaly, Samir

YOUNG PROFESSIONAL DISCUSSION FORUM: AWAKEN THE ENTREPRENEURIAL GENIUS IN YOU! ........................................................................................................................................................... 1656

Davies-Venn, Emile

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