We report test results for a single pixel antenna-coupled bolometric detector. Our device consists of a dual slot microstrip antenna coupled to an Al/Ti/Au voltage-biased transition edge superconducting bolometer (TES). The coupling architecture involves propagating the signal along superconducting microstrip lines and terminating the lines at a normal metal resistor colocated with a TES on a t...

A 150 GHz amplifier in digital 65 nm CMOS process is presented. Matching loss is reduced and bandwidth extended by simplistic topology: no dc-block capacitor, shunt-only tuning and radial stubs for ac ground. Dummy-prefilled microstrip lines, with explicit yet efficient dummy modeling, are used as a compact, density-rule compliant matching element. Transistor layout with parallel gate feed yiel...

In this paper, a new de-embedding technique with Look-Up Table (LUT) is proposed for accurate and efficient characterization of interconnects, particularly printed circuit board (PCB) transmission lines including microstrip and stripline. LUT is pre-created to cover various fixture effects including the reference structures inside and/or outside test printed circuit boards (PCBs). The pre-estab...

A compact microstrip bandpass filter using miniaturized hairpin resonators is presented in this letter. Two modified stepped impedance hairpin resonators connected by parallel coupling are designed for the bandpass filter. The proposed miniaturized hairpin resonator is composed of a microstrip line and rectangular ring structures between parallel high impedance lines. A big capacitance in the h...

This paper presents a method for characterizing coplanar waveguide-to-microstrip (CPW-M) transitions by using on-wafer coplanar (CPW) microprobes. It is based on extracting the transmission matrix of the CPW-M transition from the measurement of the S parameters of two microstrip transmission lines of different lengths, each of which includes two CPW-M transitions. To verify the proposed method,...

An enhanced particle swarm optimization (EPSO) algorithm is proposed. To improve convergence accuracy and velocity, we introduce a quadratic interpolation method and perturbation to personal best particles in EPSO. Then, a design procedure based on the EPSO is proposed for the design and optimization of equal split broadband microstrip Wilkinson power dividers (MWPDs). A set of numerical exampl...

Abstract: In this microstrip antenna design multi frequencies are used. Here working frequencies are 1.9 GHz and 2.0 GHz. Rectangular patch shape technique is used for designing this microstrip antenna. In our model electric field lines, conductance and input resistance have obtained by transmission line model whereas charge distribution, directivity and gains have brought by cavity model of re...