8:00 - 9:40
Tu1A: Tunable and Active Filters
Chair: Roberto Gómez-García
Chair organization: Universidad de Alcalá
Co-chair: Rafaat Mansour
Co-chair organization: Univ. of Waterloo
Location
151AB
This session is composed of innovative tunable and active filters. The first paper will discuss a non-reciprocal bandpass filter using spatio-temporal modulation. In addition, a tunable six-channel diplexer with compact size will be presented. An N-path filter with frequency/code-domain filtering, a balanced-balanced tunable filtering LNA, an electronically-reconfigurable doublet topology, and a liquid-metal-tuning bandpass filter will also be presented.
Tu1B: Novel Techniques and Effects in Wave Propagation, Scattering, and Modeling
Chair: Jan Machac
Chair organization: Czech Technical Unv. in Prague
Co-chair: James Skala
Co-chair organization: Georgia Tech
Location
153AB
Tu1C: Advances in Material Characterization and Processing
Chair: Freek van Straten
Chair organization: Macom
Co-chair: Vadim Yakovlev
Co-chair organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Location
156AB
The session presents recent results obtained in the area of microwave and millimeter wave measurements of material properties. It also reports on novel applicators of microwave power, material processing methods, and related modeling techniques.
Tu1C-1: Macroscopic Models of Thin Conductive Layers: Systematic Evaluation for Microwave Heating and Shielding Applications
Tu1D: HF / VHF / UHF Technology and Applications
Chair: Frederick Raab
Chair organization: Green Mountain Radio Research
Co-chair: Marc Franco
Co-chair organization: Qorvo
Location
157BC
This session includes a selection of papers covering HF/VHF/UHF technologies in power amplification, linearization, and antennas.
10:10 - 11:50
Tu2A: Reconfigurable Filters with Transfer Function and Stopband Reconfiguration Capability
Chair: Hjalti Sigmarsson
Chair organization: Univ. of Oklahoma
Co-chair: Xiaoguang Liu
Co-chair organization: Univ. of California, Davis
Location
151AB
This session will showcase reconfigurable filters with reconfigurable transfer functions and stopbands. An innovative filter topology that enables independent tuning and seamless merging of multiple passbands will be discussed. In addition, a filter that utilizes a single tuning element to create a response with minimum variation in absolute bandwidth and Q will be presented. A novel method using dual-mode cavities to create transmission zeros, a folded ridge waveguide dual-band tunable bandstop filter, and a filter using a resonant inverter structure will also be presented.
Tu2B: Time- and Frequency-Domain Numerical Modelling for Advanced Applications
Chair: Vladimir Okhmatovski
Chair organization: Univ. of Manitoba
Co-chair: Zhizhang (David) Chen
Co-chair organization: Dalhousie University
Location
153AB
The session presents diverse selection of new numerical techniques for efficient analysis and design of advanced large-scale microwave and multi-physics applications including RF magnetics, integrated circuits, touch-screens, and radiation systems. Novel time- and frequency-domain forward and inverse methods including fast algorithms, matrix-free methods, time-reversal, and uncertainty quantification are featured.
Tu2C: Advancement in Biomedical Radar Technology
Chair: Changzhi Li
Chair organization: Texas Tech Univ.
Co-chair: Chung-Tse Michael Wu
Co-chair organization: Rutgers Univ.
Location
156AB
The session presents recent results obtained in the area of microwave and millimeter wave measurements of material properties. It also reports on novel applicators of microwave power, material processing methods, and related modeling techniques.
Tu1C-1: Macroscopic Models of Thin Conductive Layers: Systematic Evaluation for Microwave Heating and Shielding Applications
Tu2D: Advanced Components for Low-Noise Applications - “Dedicated to Hatsuaki Fukui”
Chair: Shirin Montazeri
Chair organization: Qualcomm
Co-chair: Luciano Boglione
Co-chair organization: U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Location
157BC
This exciting session presents advancements in low noise components embracing cutting edge sensing applications. The papers in this session present innovative circuit techniques as well as technology enhancement across a wide range of operating temperatures. Integrated circuits and packaged components leveraging silicon and compound semiconductors are at the core of these new advancements covering the frequency range from 1 to 200 GHz. Applications benefiting from these results range from phased arrays to quantum computing and radio astronomy.
SPC: Student Paper Competition
Location
253ABC
13:30 - 15:10
Tu3A: Tunable/Reconfigurable Electromagnetic Structures
Chair: Christian Damm
Chair organization: Universität Ulm
Co-chair: Jason Soric
Co-chair organization: Raytheon
Location
151AB
This session presents latest developments on continuously tunable phase shifters based on semiconductors as well as tunable materials. Furthermore, new tuning techniques based on liquid metals and ferrites for nonreciprocal transmission lines, resonators and switches are shown.
Tu3B: Behavioral and Statistical Device Modeling Techniques
Chair: Fabrizio Bonani
Chair organization: Politecnico di Torino
Co-chair: Arvind Sharma
Co-chair organization: AKSH Research
Location
153AB
The session focuses on advanced behavioral and statistical device characterization and modeling procedures. The first two papers are devoted to optimized behavioral model extractions starting from device load-pull characterization. The other two contributions deal with the statistical modeling of devices as a result of parametric process variations via X-parameter and large-signal models.
Tu3C: Novel Microwave Technologies for Biomedical Diagnostics
Chair: Cristiano Palego
Chair organization: Bangor Univ.
Co-chair: Arnaud Pothier
Co-chair organization: XLIM (UMR 7252)
Location
156AB
Improving diagnostic accuracy for biomedical purposes is currently an intensively investigated research topic. This session will explore the latest advancements on microwave imaging, sensing and manipulation of biological samples ranging from single cells to in-vivo tissue. Application of scanning microwave microscopy, thermoacoustic imaging and lab-on-chip biosensors will be discussed for novel diagnostics and in situ monitoring approaches.
Tu3D: Advances in Frequency Conversion Techniques
Chair: Chinchun Meng
Chair organization: National Chiao Tung Univ.
Co-chair: Hiroshi Okazaki
Co-chair organization: NTT DoCoMo
Location
157BC
This session introduces advances in frequency conversion techniques. Down convertor at 180 GHz, V-band mixer, K-band frequency multiplier, power modulator, and V-band OOK demodulator, and X-band injection-locked frequency divider will be presented.
Tu3E: Microwaves in Quantum Computing
Chair: Costas Sarris
Chair organization: Univ. of Toronto
Co-chair: Steven Anlage
Co-chair organization: Univ. of Maryland
Location
252AB
The past few years have seen accelerated developments in the area of quantum computing. Some of the most viable quantum computing technologies are intimately related to microwave theory and techniques. This session will bring to the Microwave Symposium some of the key contributors of the microwave qubit community, in an effort to provide a comprehensive overview of the latest developments in this field and inspire fruitful interactions between this community and MTT-S.
Tu3F: Advances in RFID Systems
Chair: Thomas Ussmueller
Chair organization: Universität Innsbruck
Co-chair: Smail Tedjini
Co-chair organization: LCIS (EA 3747)
Location
254AB
This session focuses on novel RFID system integration and applications. New backscatter modulation schemes and localization techniques are presented.
Tu3G: Advances in Radar Sensors
Chair: Lora Schulwitz
Chair organization: Maxar Technologies
Co-chair: Changzhan Gu
Co-chair organization: Google
Location
257AB
This session presents a variaty of new radar sensors and applications. The session covers applications like gesture sensing, concrete surface crack detection, sub-micrometer ranging and audio signal capture. The frequency range spans from Wi-Fi to THz.
Tu3H: Advances in Silicon-Integrated Power Amplifiers
Chair: Wolfgang Heinrich
Chair organization: FBH
Co-chair: Kenle Chen
Co-chair organization: Univ. of South Florida
Location
259AB
This session presents state-of-the-art designs of integrated power amplifiers in various CMOS technologies. The focus is primarily on emerging mm-Wave PAs, but a novel sub-6 GHz PA is also presented. The designs target linear and efficient power amplification towards 5G wireless communications.
15:55 - 17:15
Tu4A: Advanced Transmission Transitions and Interfaces
Chair: Jun (Brandon) Choi
Chair organization: SUNY Buffalo
Co-chair: Ke Wu
Co-chair organization: Polytechnique Montréal
Location
151AB
This session is concerned with all-polarizations-enabled high-Q quasi-optical grating interfaces, wide W-band waveguide-to-planar line transitions, and 3-D printed hollow waveguide structures. Theoretical and experimental results are discussed and presented. Design aspects and topological features are exploited.
Tu4B: Complexity Reduction for Statistical Analysis and Design Optimization
Chair: Erin Kiley
Chair organization: Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
Co-chair: Jose Rayas-Sanchez
Co-chair organization: ITESO
Location
153AB
In this session, advances on algorithmic methodologies for complexity reduction in yield estimation and design optimization of RF and microwave circuits are presented. It includes state-of-the-art techniques for error estimation in model order reduction, yield prediction exploiting variable fidelity simulators and response features, as well as space mapping applications to tuning microwave waveguide filters and radar scattering from complex targets.
Tu4C: Advancement in Biomedical Sensing Systems
Chair: Abbas Omar
Chair organization: Universität Magdeburg
Co-chair: Chung-Tse Michael Wu
Co-chair organization: Rutgers Univ.
Location
156AB
In this session a number of innovative biosensors are presented. These include blood-pressure, heart-sound, and vital-sign sensing systems.
Tu4D: High Frequency Low Phase Noise Oscillator Techniques
Chair: Ruonan Han
Chair organization: MIT
Co-chair: Emery Chen
Co-chair organization: National Taiwan Univ.
Location
157BC
The four papers in this session covers oscillator designs from GHz to sub-THz range. Presented techniques aim for reduction of phase noise, micro-watt-level power consumption, quadrature generation via sub-harmonic injection locking, as well as dual-band oscillation at non-harmonic frequencies.
Tu4F: Chipless RFID
Chair: Mojgan Daneshmand
Chair organization: Univ. of Alberta
Co-chair: Kazuya Yamamoto
Co-chair organization: Mitsubishi Electric
Location
254AB
This session focuses on the development and advancement of chipless RFID technology. In particular the design and validation of the tags as well as new techniques for reading are presented.
Tu4G: Novel Radar Technologies
Chair: Nestor Lopez
Chair organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Co-chair: Mohamed Abouzahra
Co-chair organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Location
257AB
Novel developments in technologies for radar systems will be discussed. These include recent advances include power amplifiers, antennas and systems that utilize them in addition to recent advances enabling integrated radar systems.