Clinical pathways (CPWs) are a common component in the quest to improve the quality of health. CPWs are used to reduce variation, improve quality of care, and maximize the outcomes for specific groups of patients. An ongoing challenge is the operationalization of a definition of CPW in healthcare. This may be attributable to both the differences in definition and a lack of conceptualization in ...

A new type of elevated coplanar waveguide structure is described which uses airbridge technology to suspend CPW traces above a ground plane resting on a high permittivity substrate. The transmission line is effectively shielded from the substrate and is equivalent to conductor backed CPW with an extremely thin, air substrate. It is, therefore, insensitive to parasitic substrate effects such as ...

The high frequency conductivity of thin metallic and graphitic nano-films attracts interest due to many potential applications in spin electronics, electromagnetic shielding, flexible antennas, displays, and in solar cells. Surface morphology of thin conducting nano-films typically consists of an isolated clustering structure, which can evolve into a conducting percolated network [1]. The high ...

An accurate model for lossy non-unifoim transmission lines is presented. The tcchnique provides a coplanar waveguide (CPW) taper model, which has been used to accurately dc-embed measurcments of passive CPW components in line gcometriea diffcring from the nominal 50 Q geometry of thc calibration. Thc modcl accounts for both dielectric and conductor losses, and is shown to be in excellent agreem...

Targeting the transition from a coaxial wave guide to a coplanar wave guide (CPW), a microwave and millimeter-wave wide-band coaxial-to-coplanar transition is proposed. This design connects the coaxial inner conductor to the CPW center conductor in a perpendicular manner to directly couple, on the same plane, the radial high-frequency electric field in the coax to the gap between the CPW’s cent...

In this paper ,design and simulation of CPW-fed printed antenna for ultra wide band (UWB) and WirelessLAN applications is proposed .The antenna is integrated with the CPW-fed. Return loss ,gain and directivity and current distribution for the different frequencies are explored, It is shown proposed antenna has good gain and directivity .In addition ,some studies of the proposed antenna geometri...

A very low-loss tunable millimeter-wave phase shifter driven by dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) is presented. The device consists of a fixed coplanar waveguide (CPW) and two metallic loading strips suspended on an elastomer membrane. The horizontal offset between the CPW and the strips is dynamically controlled by integrated DEAs. The variable interaction between the CPW and the loading s...

The following is a draft of the intro chapter to my dissertation project. At present, I am working to reframe the project to speak to a different literature than I had originally intended. Given the timing of the paper, I have not been able to incorporate all I had hoped for within this version of the document. For that I apologize, but I look forward to hearing your comments and thoughts as al...