I Advanced Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technologies: Semiconductor Devices, Circuits and Systems Advanced Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technologies: Semiconductor Devices, Circuits and Systems Edited by Moumita Mukherjee In-Tech intechweb.org this work has been published by the In-Teh, authors have the right to republish it, in whole or part, in any property arising out of the use of any materials, instructions, methods or ideas contained inside. After published articles. Publisher assumes no responsibility liability for any damage or injury to persons or the editors or publisher. No responsibility is accepted for the accuracy of information contained in the opinions expressed in the chapters are these of the individual contributors and not necessarily those of Abstracting and non-prot use of the material is permitted with credit to the source. 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Liu, K. Huang, G. Papaioannou, R. Plana, D. Dubuc, K. Grenier, M Á. González-Garrido, J. Grajal, C W. Tang, H C. Hsu, E. Cipriani, P. Colantonio, F. Giannini, R. Giofrè, S. Kahng, S. Kahng, A. Solovey, R. Mittra, E.L. Molina Morales, L. de Haro Ariet, I. Molenberg, I. Huynen, A C. Baudouin, C. Bailly, J M. Thomassin, C. Detrembleur, Y. Yu, W. Dou, P. Cruz, H. Gomes, N. Carvalho, A. Nekrasov, S. Laviola, V. Levizzani, M. Salovarda Lozo, K. Malaric, M.J. Azanza, A. del Moral, R.N. Pérez-Bruzón, V. Kvicera, M. Grabner p. cm. ISBN 978-953-307-031-5 V Preface Today, the development and use of microwave (3-30 GHz) and millimeter wave (30-300 GHz) band is being actively promoted. Microwave has been used extensively since the Second World War when the sources were based on vacuum devices. Microwaves are presently playing a vital role in RADAR, land and satellite based communication and also have wide civilian and defence applications. Two typical areas of application of millimeter-wave are information communication and remote sensing. This wide spectrum of application is making the microwave and millimeter wave system development one of the most advanced technologies of radio science, especially in view of the ever increasing demand of communication. Studies on Microwave and Millimeter waves go back a long way. Advanced studies on MM-wave were rst conducted about 100 years ago by Acharya J. C. Bose of the Presidency College, University of Calcutta in India. He measured the refractive index of natural crystal in the 60 GHz band, developing a variety of MM-wave components in the process. Now-a-days researchers all over the world are focusing their attention in the terahertz frequency region of the electromagnetic spectrum, which is typically dened in the frequency range 100 GHz to 10 THz, corresponding to a wavelength range of 3 mm to 30 microns. The Millimeter-Wave region overlaps a portion of the Terahertz region. Following the development of coherent sources and detectors, there has been growing interest in the role of terahertz technology for security and defence. The terahertz region offers a huge expanse of unused bandwidth, which currently presents a signicant advantage for both security and defense initiatives. The ability of terahertz radiation to probe intermolecular interactions, large amplitude vibrations and rotational modes, in addition to showing polarization sensitivity makes terahertz radiation a unique and diverse region of the electromagnetic spectrum. The additional ability of both Terahertz and MM-Wave radiation to see through common materials, such as thick smoke, fog and dust, which are often considered as opaque in other regions of the electromagnetic spectrum offers further advantages over other optical techniques. This book is planned to publish with an objective to provide a state-of-the-art reference book in the areas of advanced microwave, MM-Wave and THz devices, antennas and systemtechnologies for microwave communication engineers, Scientists and post-graduate students of electrical and electronics engineering, applied physicists. This reference book is a collection of 30 Chapters characterized in 3parts: Advanced Microwave and MM-wave devices, integrated microwave and MM-wave circuits and Antennas and advanced microwave computer techniques, focusing on simulation, theories and applications. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the components and devices used in microwave and MM-Wave circuits, including microwave transmission lines, resonators, lters, ferrite devices, solid state VI devices, transistor oscillators and ampliers, directional couplers, microstripeline components, microwave detectors, mixers, converters and harmonic generators, and microwave solid-state switches, phase shifters and attenuators. Several applications area also discusses here, like consumer, industrial, biomedical, and chemical applications of microwave technology. It also covers microwave instrumentation and measurement, thermodynamics, and applications in navigation and radio communication. Editor: Moumita Mukherjee VII Contents Preface V 1. ThepresentandfuturetrendsinHighPowerMicrowaveand MillimeterWaveTechnologies 001 S.AzamandQ.Wahab 2. Explosivepulsedplasmaantennasforinformationprotection 013 IgorV.MininandOlegV.Minin 3. Exploitingthesemiconductor-metalphasetransitionofVO2materials: anoveldirectiontowardstuneabledevicesandsystemsfor RFmicrowaveapplications 035 CrunteanuAurelian,GivernaudJulien,BlondyPierre,OrliangesJean-Christophe, ChampeauxCorinneandCatherinotAlain 4. AnalysisofParasiticEffectsinAlGaN/GaNHEMTs 057 KazushigeHorio 5. StudyofPlasmaEffectsinHEMT-likeStructuresforTHzApplicationsby EquivalentCircuitApproach 075 IrinaKhmyrova 6. CompositeRight/LeftHanded(CRLH)baseddevicesformicrowaveapplications 089 StefanSimion,RomoloMarcelli,GiancarloBartolucci,FloreaCraciunoiu, AndreaLucibello,GiorgioDeAngelis,AndreiA.Muller,AlinaCristinaBunea, GheorgheIoanSajin 7. WideBandGapSemiconductorBasedHighpowerATTDiodesInThe MM-waveandTHzRegime:DeviceReliability,ExperimentalFeasibility andPhoto-sensitivity 113 MoumitaMukherjee 8. RFandmicrowaveband-passpassiveltersformobiletransceiverswith afocusonBAWtechnology 151 MarthaSuárez,MartineVillegas,GenevièveBaudoin 9. DemonstrationOfAPowerAmplierLinearizationBasedOnDigital PredistortionInMobileWimaxApplication 175 PooriaVarahram,SomayehMohammady,M.NizarHamidon,RoslinaM.Sidek andSabiraKhatun VIII 10. AFastMethodtoComputeRadiationFieldsofShaped ReectorAntennasbyFFT 189 AbolghasemZeidaabadiNezhad,ZakerHosseinFirouzeh andHamidMirmohammad-Sadeghi 11. NumericalAnalysisoftheElectromagneticShieldingEffectof ReinforcedConcreteWalls 205 GaobiaoXiaoandJunfaMao 12. 52-GHzMillimetre-WavePLLSynthesizer 223 Ja-YolLeeandHyun-KyuYu 13. MetamaterialTransmissionLineanditsApplications 249 ChangjunLiuandKamaHuang 14. PhysicsofCharginginDielectricsandReliabilityofCapacitive RF-MEMSSwitches 275 GeorgePapaioannouandRobertPlana 15. RF-MEMSbasedTunerformicrowaveandmillimeterwaveapplications 303 DavidDubucandKatiaGrenier 16. BroadbandGaNMMICPowerAmpliersdesign 325 María-ÁngelesGonzález-GarridoandJesúsGrajal 17. DesignofMulti-PassbandBandpassFiltersWithLow-Temperature Co-FiredCeramicTechnology 343 Ching-WenTangandHuan-ChangHsu 18. TheSwitchedModePowerAmpliers 359 ElisaCipriani,PaoloColantonio,FrancoGianniniandRoccoGiofrè 19. Developingthe150%-FBWKu-BandLinearEqualizer 389 SungtekKahng 20. UltrawidebandBandpassFilterusingCompositeRight-and Left-HandednessLineMetamaterialUnit-Cell 395 SungtekKahng 21. ExtendedSourceSizeCorrectionFactorinAntennaGainMeasurements 403 AlekseySoloveyandRajMittra 22. ElectrodynamicAnalysisofAntennasinMultipathConditions 429 EddyLuisMolinaMoralesandLeandrodeHaroAriet 23. FoamedNanocompositesforEMIShieldingApplications 453 IsabelMolenberg,IsabelleHuynen,Anne-ChristineBaudouin,ChristianBailly,Jean-Michel ThomassinandChristopheDetrembleur 24. Pseudo-BesselBeamsinMillimeterandSub-millimeterRange 471 YanzhongYuandWenbinDou IX 25. ReceiverFront-EndArchitectures–AnalysisandEvaluation 495 PedroCruz,HugoGomesandNunoCarvalho 26. MicrowaveMeasurementoftheWindVectoroverSeabyAirborneRadars 521 AlexeyNekrasov 27. PassiveMicrowaveRemoteSensingofRainfromSatelliteSensors 549 SanteLaviolaandVincenzoLevizzani 28. UseofGTEM-cellandWirePatchCellincalculatingthermaland non-thermalbiologicaleffectsofelectromagneticelds 573 MarijaSalovardaLozoandKresimirMalaric 29. BioelectricEffectsOfLow-FrequencyModulatedMicrowaveFields OnNervousSystemCells 589 MaríaJ.Azanza,A.delMoralandR.N.Pérez-Bruzón 30. RainAttenuationonTerrestrialWirelessLinksinthemmFrequencyBands 627 VaclavKviceraandMartinGrabner X [...]... highly efficient amplifiers at microwave frequencies The results of GaN technology in terms of fT, fmax, power density, efficiency, band width etc both at microwave and mm waves indicate that it will be the possible first choice for applications in future microwave and mm wave technologies Advanced Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technologies: Semiconductor Devices, Circuits and Systems 10 9 Acknowledgement... least part of the very large VEDs market and could replace at least 2 Advanced Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technologies: Semiconductor Devices, Circuits and Systems some microwave and millimeter wave VEDs.The hybrid and MMIC amplifiers based on AlGaN/GaN technology has demonstrated higher output power levels, broader bandwidth, increased power added efficiency and higher operating voltages compare to... "Advanced High Power Amplifier Chain for X-Band T/R-Modules based on GaN MMICs," The 1st European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference, 2006 Page(s):241 - 244 12 [31] [32] [33] [34] Advanced Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technologies: Semiconductor Devices, Circuits and Systems Schuh, P et al "GaN MMIC based T/R-Module Front-End for X-Band Applications," The 3rd European Microwave Integrated Circuits. .. Type Table 1 Comparison of power devices 4 Advanced Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technologies: Semiconductor Devices, Circuits and Systems 3 VEDs vs SSPDs Following are the main fundamental physical differences in SSPDs and VEDs; 1: In vacuum microwave electronic devices the electron stream moves without collision through an evacuated region between anode and cathode As electrons pass without any collision,... driver and high power amplifiers were designed for X-band frequencies Amplifier chains integrated on multi-layer LTCC substrates demonstrated an output power levels up to 30W [30] A photo of another X-band 20 W T/R module is shown in Fig 3 [31] Fig 2 Photo of a T/R-Module front-end with GaN MMIC chips [31] 8 Advanced Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technologies: Semiconductor Devices, Circuits and Systems. .. arrays and radar transmitters operating at W-band, especially 94 GHz, offer superior performance through clouds, fog, and smoke W band spans roughly 70 to 110 GHz and can be used for communications, radar and non-lethal weapons systems The present and future trends in High Power Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technologies 9 Novel wide bandgap RF circuit technology is sought for radar operation at W-band... fully understood [5] 16 Advanced Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technologies: Semiconductor Devices, Circuits and Systems It is shown [5] that the pulsed current in the solenoid couples its energy through excite transiently varied electric and magnetic fields in the plasma jets, which are produced by explosives The electric and magnetic fields accelerate/decelerate electrons and cause the plasma jets... matter, now called plasma, in 1879 1 14 Advanced Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technologies: Semiconductor Devices, Circuits and Systems biggest drawback is data transmission security When plasma is not energized, it is difficult to detect by radar Even when it is energized, it is transparent to the transmissions above the plasma frequency, which falls in the microwave region This is a fundamental change... structures have allowed devices with a current gain cutoff frequency fT in excess of 150 GHz and a maximum oscillation frequency 6 Advanced Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technologies: Semiconductor Devices, Circuits and Systems fmax of 230 GHz in AlGaN/GaN HEMTs with a gate length of 100 nm [13] GaN MMICs up to Ka-Band have been presented [16-19], showing power densities up to 5 W/mm at 50 Ω load impedance...The present and future trends in High Power Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technologies 1 1 X The present and future trends in High Power Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technologies 1) Department S Azam1, 3 and Q Wahab1, 2, 4 of Physics (IFM), Linköping University, SE-581 83, Linköping, Sweden 2) Swedish Defense . I Advanced Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technologies: Semiconductor Devices, Circuits and Systems Advanced Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technologies: Semiconductor Devices, Circuits and. market and could replace at least 1 Advanced Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technologies: Semiconductor Devices, Circuits and Systems2 some microwave and millimeter wave VEDs. The hybrid and MMIC. 3parts: Advanced Microwave and MM -wave devices, integrated microwave and MM -wave circuits and Antennas and advanced microwave computer techniques, focusing on simulation, theories and applications.