Novel Design of a High-gain and Wideband Fabry-Pérot Cavity Antenna Using a Tapered AMC Substrate

A high-gain and wideband electromagnetic bandgap (EBG) resonator antenna with a tapered artificial magnetic conductor (AMC) ground plane is presented. The proposed EBG resonator antenna is comprised of a frequency selective surface (FSS) superstrate with a strip dipole array and an AMC ground plane with tapered rectangular patches. The realized gain and the bandwidth of the antenna can be improved simultaneously by using the tapered AMC where the phase difference of the reflected waves from the patches with different length is within 180° and the destructive interference among them can be considerably reduced. The maximum gain is increased about 2∼3 dB and the bandwidth is improved about 2.5 times compared to when the uniform AMC is used.     

Design and Implementation of a Cueing Wideband Digital EW Receiver

A cueing wideband digital Electronic Warfare （EW） receiver is presented. The proposed receiver, which is to measure the instantaneous frequency and bandwidth of the intercept short-duration pulse radar signals that cue and match the corresponding ones, meets the requirements of good sensitivity and dynamic range for EW and can save hardware resources greatly as well. In addition, real-time signal processing, which is the main bottleneck for covering a wide instantaneous frequency band for EW receiver, is better solved in the proposed design structure. The highly efficient implementation and good parameter estimation algorithms are proposed as welL Theoretical analysis and experimental results show that this structure is feasible.     

Design of 3.1–12 GHz Printed Elliptical Disc Monopole Antenna with Half Circular Modified Ground Plane for UWB Application

This paper presents a new design of an elliptical disc monopole antenna for ultra wideband (UWB) applications. The antenna is fed by a 50 Ω microstrip line and printed on a dielectric FR4 substrate of permittivity ε _r  = 4.7 and height h = 1.6 mm. The optimization on the planar elliptical disc monopole has been presented to accomplish an ultra wide 10 dB return loss bandwidth. The design includes a half-modified circular ground plane with two short I-shaped sleeves in the middle to enhance the S-parameter characteristics across the whole UWB frequency band. Furthermore, compared to a simple rectangular shaped ground plane, the proposed design enhances the bandwidth and improves input return loss. The obtained results confirm that the proposed antenna achieves greater than 90 % radiation efficiency, better than 10 dB return loss, and 0.1 ns group delay in the frequency range of 3.1–12 GHz. The parameters, which affect the performance of the antenna with respect to frequency domain and time domain characteristics, are investigated also. In addition, the proposed antenna is fabricated and the simulation results are compared to the measurement results to prove the superiority of the antenna.     

Ultra-Wideband Design of the Wire Conical Antenna

Using the wire construction technique, a conical monopole antenna is fabricated. With the method of moments, the dependences of the voltage standing wave ratio （VSWR） on the number of the trapezoid wire elements, conical angles, wire radius, etc. are investigated. The calculation and the experiment show that the designed wire conical antenna has the ultra-wideband property and can be used for the engineering.     

Fabrication of a Silicon-Based Microprobe for Neural Interface Applications

采用表面MEMS工艺制作了二维多通道的硅基微电极阵列,用于提取脑神经电信号.在整个工艺制作过程中需要三步光刻,制作的硅针长1.2mm,宽100μm,厚30μm,同时各个记录点的间距为200μm,可以形成良好的信号隔离.对微电极的阻抗特性进行了体外测试,结果表明,随着频率由0变为10MHz,单个记录点阻抗由14MΩ下降到1.9kΩ.将微电极黏附到印刷线路板,通过金丝压焊提取各个通道信号,大大提高了植入的可操作性以及信号提取的可靠性.     

Optimization and Design of a Low Power Switched Current A/D-ΣΔ-Modulator for Voice Band Applications

This paper presents a third order switched current -modulator. The modulator is optimized at the system level for minimum power consumption by careful design of the noise transfer function. A thorough noise analysis of the cascode type current copiers used to implement the modulator, together with a new methodology for evaluating the nonlinear settling behavior is presented. This leads to a new optimization methodology that minimize the power consumption in switched current circuits for given design parameters. The optimization methodology takes process variations into account. The modulator is implemented in a standard 2.4 m CMOS process only using MOS capacitors. For a power supply of 3.3 V the power consumption is approximately 2.5 mW when operating at a sampling rate of 600 kHz. Under these condition the peak SNR it measured to 74.5 dB with a signal band width of 5.5 kHz. Due to internal clamping in the integrators and proper scaling the modulator shows excellent stability properties. In order to compare the performance of the modulator presented in this paper to other -modulators two figure-of-merits (FOMs) are proposed. From these figure-of-merits it is found that the performance of the modulator presented in this paper is significantely higher than the perforamce of other switched current -modulators reported. Also, the figure-of-merits show that the performance is comparable to the performance of reported switched capacitor -modulators.     

Compact CMOS Baluns for the 4–10 GHz Band Applications

In this paper, we proposed two baluns, a compact balun and a compact balun with imbalance compensation; both are implemented using the one-poly six-metal (1P6M) 0.18 μ m CMOS process. Both baluns have good performance from 4 to 10 GHz, and consume less silicon area due to their compact structure. The self-resonant frequency is increased by properly selecting metal layer for each spiral winding. The compact balun has a magnitude imbalance of 1 dB and a phase imbalance of 4.6 degree from 4 to 10 GHz. With the imbalance compensation, the balun has a magnitude imbalance of 0.6 dB and a phase imbalance of 1.1 degree from 4–10 GHz. Much better results have been achieved for the compact balun with our proposed imbalance compensation method. Both baluns can be used to perform both single-ended/differential and differential/single-ended conversions in different configurations.     

Design of a Silicon Beam Resonator for a Novel Gas Sensor

研究了一种基于硅悬臂梁谐振器的新型气体传感器.该传感器在敏感环境中,可同时获得敏感膜电导率和质量变化,测量被测气体分子的荷质比,具有高灵敏度和高选择性.根据这一原理,针对气体传感器的需求,设计了硅悬臂梁谐振器化学传感器结构,进行了仿真优化,并采用MEMS表面牺牲层工艺制备该器件,激光频率仪测量验证了该微型谐振梁的谐振频率.     

A Design of Observers for a Discrete Chaotic System

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An Algorithm for the Design of a Cost-Optimized Topology for the Fixed Part of a GSM Network

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Compact,Isolation Enhanced,Band-Notched SWB–MIMO Antenna Suited for Wireless Personal Communications

Herein, a Conductor Backed Co-Planar Waveguide fed, compact, slotted Multiple–Input–Multiple–Output or MIMO antenna having Super Wideband (SWB) response and tunable band-notching feature is presented. In addition, an improved method for cut-off frequency prediction of the antenna is formulated. A super wide frequency response from 01.21 to 34.0 GHz and notches at Wireless Local Area Networks or WLAN bands (04.92–05.83 GHz) and Worldwide Inter-operability for Microwave Access or WiMAX bands (03.30 GHz–03.70 GHz) are obtained. By fine tuning the dimensions of the Split Ring Resonator Structure introduced in the radiating element, band-notched characteristics centered at 05.50 GHz WLAN band is obtained. A second band notch having centre frequency at 03.50 GHz for the WiMAX band is obtained by the introduction of a Spiral Microstrip Defected Structure in the feeding segment. The antenna is 20?×?36?×?1 mm³ in dimension. Acceptable gain all through the functional bandwidth, excepting the notched bands makes the MIMO antenna a novel contender for SWB operations particularly for Wireless Personal Communications.

     

An Analysis of Near Field and Application of a New Comb-shaped Antenna for Radio Frequency Identification

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Design of 95 GHz, 2 MW Gyrotron for Communication and Security Applications

The design and the numerical simulation of the 95 GHz, 2 MW gyrotron for various kinds of communication, sensing and security applications is presented. The gyrotron is designed for the TE_24,8 operating mode. Various in-house developed and commercially available computer codes are used for the design purpose. A 4.25 MW electron gun is designed for the 2 MW of output power. The mode selection, cold cavity and the beam–wave interaction analysis are discussed for the design of weakly tapered open resonator type of interaction cavity. The parametric analysis of the interaction cavity and the electron gun is also presented.     

Analysis and Design of a ΔΣ Modulator for Fractional-N Frequency Synthesis

提出了一种适用于分数分频锁相环频率综合器的全数字噪声整型 ΔΣ调制器电路结构新的设计方法,并将其最终实现. 采用了流水线技术和新的CST算法优化多位输入加法器结构，从而降低了整体的复杂度和功耗. 这种电路结构通过了Matlab的行为级仿真，ASIC全定制实现并流片，该结构也通过VHDL综合实现验证，最后给出的测试结果表明该电路具有良好的性能，可应用于单片千兆赫兹级低功耗CMOS频率综合器中.     

Thinned 8 × 8 Planar Antenna Array with Reduced Side Lobe Levels for 5G Applications

Wireless Personal Communications - The purpose of this work is to investigate three antenna designs using the main element that provides radiation pattern with diminish side lobes and high gain of...     

Design of a crutch-exoskeleton assisted gait for reducing upper extremity loads✰

Objective: An accurate comprehension of upper extremity (UE) loads would provide insights into gait planning for reducing the dependence on crutches/walking frames when walking with robotic exoskeletons. This paper was undertaken to identify the position of the crutch support point and the support leg and design a crutch-exoskeleton gait planning strategy to evaluate system stability and the related upper extremities kinetic characterizations. Methods: Based on the Zero moment point (ZMP) and the static stability criterion of the polygon support model, an adjustable step-length control strategy is proposed to learn how dynamic adjustment changes respond to UE biomechanics. Further-more, the forearm crutches walking test experiment of healthy group is used to verify this strategy. Results: From this experiment, we can see that the control method can display an adaptive step length according to the user's walking state and reduce the load of the upper limbs. Conclusion: The proposed crutch-exoskeleton gait planning strategy would affect the mass distribution of the human-exoskeleton system, further affect the user's upper limb comfort and the distribution of loads in the process of assisted walking. Information about the total load of crutches can help adjust the level of robot assistance, so as to avoid damage to the UE due to overuse or protracted use. Significance: This understanding of UE loads helps to improve the impact of crutches on robot assistance and prevent or minimize UE injury.     

Design of 50–70 GHz Planar Wideband Bandpass Filter on Liquid Crystal Polymer Substrate

In this paper, the authors propose a novel and compact 50-70 GHz planar microstrip bandpass filter, possessing sharp-rejection, low insertion-loss and wide-band characteristics, based on Liquid Crystal Polymer (LCP) substrates. The filter is fabricated on LCP substrates by using standard processing technologies. The proposed filter exhibits a return loss level better than 10 dB, an insertion loss of 5 dB and a 3-dB bandwidth of 30%.The measured and simulated results show good agreement, proving that LCPs are potential and very promising materials for flexible millimeter-wave substrate applications.     

Compact Sub-6 GHz and mmWave 5G Wideband 2 × 1 MIMO Antenna with High Isolation Using Parasitically Placed Double Negative (DNG) Isolator

Wireless Personal Communications - In this paper a multiband modified ‘W’ shaped, Multiple input multiple output (MIMO) antenna with a metamaterial inspired isolator for enhanced...     

Method of the Amplitude–Phase Synthesis of a Pareto-Optimal Planar Antenna Array

A method of the amplitude–phase multicriteria synthesis of a Pareto-optimal antenna array is proposed. The method is based on representation of the initial antenna array synthesis problem in the form of successively solved partial problems (subproblems) with small dimensionality. Each subproblem is reduced to determination of Pareto-optimal parameters of the amplitude–phase distribution of an additional beam added to the initial radiation pattern.     

Optimum Design for a Low Noise Amplifier in S-Band

An optimum design of a low noise amplifier （LNA） in S-band working at 2-4 GHz is described. Choosing FHC40LG high electronic mobility transistor （HEMT）, the noise figure of the designed amplifier simulated by Microwave Office is no more than 1.5 dB, meanwhile the gain is no less than 20 dB in the given bandwidth. The simulated results agree with the performance of the transistor itself well in consideration of its own minimum noise figure （0.3 dB） and associated gain （15.5 dB）. Simultaneously, the stability factor of the designed amplifier is no less than 1 in the given bandwidth.