A triangular-slot antenna with rectangular patch for 2.3/3.3 GHz WiMax applications has been implemented on DICLAD 527 substrate (relative permittivity εr = 2.5) with 1.524 mm of substrate thickness. A rectangular patch printed on one side of the substrate is fed by a 50 Ω microstrip line and acts as the frequency tuning stub, while the triangular slot is positioned on the opposite side of the ...

Abstract: This paper presents the design of terahertz 2× and 4× sub-harmonic down-mixers using Schottky Barrier Diodes fabricated in standard 0.13 μm SiGe BiCMOS technology. The 340 GHz sub-harmonic mixers (SHMs) are designed based on anti-parallel-diode-pairs (APDPs). With the 2nd and 4th harmonic, local oscillator (LO) frequencies of 170 GHz and 85 GHz are used to pump the two 340 GHz SHMs. W...

This paper proposes a compact printed monopole antenna with dual band-notched characteristics for ultrawideband application. The proposed antenna consist two inverted T-shaped slots in radiating patch, which provides dual band-notched characteristics and partial ground plane with a slit, which provides large usable fractional bandwidth 129% (2.8-13.1 GHz).The upper inverted T-shaped slot provid...

In this paper, a novel dual band frequency reconfigurable antenna using an origami magic cube is proposed for wireless sensor network (WSN) applications. The proposed origami antenna consists of a meandered monopole folded onto three sides of the magic cube. A microstrip open-ended stub is loaded on the meandered monopole. The proposed origami magic cube can be mechanically folded and unfolded....

In this paper, Microstrip patch antenna fed through an aperture coupled 50Ω microstrip line is designed for dualband and tripleband applications by cutting U-slots in the patch. When a U-slot is cut in the patch, a notch is introduced within the matching band, results in dualband antenna. If another U-slot is cut in the same patch, antenna becomes a tripleband antenna. For better coupling apert...

A monolithic 5.2-GHz single-ended-in and single-endedout Gilbert upconverter with balanced operation is demonstrated using 0.18m deep n-well CMOS technology. The fully matched Gilbert upconverter has conversion gain of 11.5 dB and OP1dB of 19 dBm when input IF 300 MHz, LO 4.9 GHz, and output RF 5.2 GHz. The IF input return loss is better than 14 dB for frequencies up to 7 GHz, while RF output r...

A novel 1-to-64 (6-bit (2 6 )) optical true-time delay module that can provide linear time delays ranging from 0 to 443.03 picoseconds is presented. The bandwidth of the fully packaged module is determined to be as high as 539 GHz. This true-time delay module is employed to control an eight-element K-band phased array antenna system. Far field patterns covering 18 GHz to 26.5 GHz are measured a...

As a result of the propagation characteristics of signals in this frequency range, LMDS systems use a cellular-like network architecture, though services provided are fixed, not mobile. In the United States, 1.3 MHz of bandwidth (27.5 B 28.35 GHz, 29.1 B 29.25 GHz, 31.075 B 31.225 GHz, 31 B 31.075 GHz, and 31.225 B 31.3 GHz) has been allocated for LMDS to deliver broadband services in a point-t...

This paper presents a compact dual-band slot antenna for 2.4/5 GHz WLAN applications. The radiating elements of the proposed antenna are composed of a square ring slot and a circular ring slot, operating at 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands respectively. The antenna size is very compact (40 mm × 40 mm × 1 mm), and can be integrated easily with other RF front-end circuits. It is demonstrated that the prop...

The design, fabrication, and characterization of the microstrip circular antenna arrays were presented. The proposed antennas were designed for single band at 2.45 GHz and dual bands at 3.3 3.6 and 5.0 6.0 GHz to support WLAN/WiMAX applications. The proposed single and dual band antennas showed omnidirectional radiation pattern with the gain values of 3.5 dBi at 2.45 GHz, 4.0 dBi at 3.45 GHz, a...