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Related publications (28)

Enabling Wide Bandwidth in Substrate-Integrated Waveguide Slot Antennas by Using Low-Index Metamaterials

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Amir Jafargholi

This paper presents a solution to overcome the inherently limited bandwidth of substrate-integrated waveguide (SIW) slot antennas. It is analytically shown that by decreasing the permittivity of a dielectric loaded slot antenna, the resulting bandwidth inc ...

American Physical Society (APS)2024

Dual-Polarized SIW Slot Antenna Using ENZ Metamaterial for 5G and mmWave Applications

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Amir Jafargholi

This paper presents a broadband dual-polarized substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) slot antenna. It is analytically shown that by decreasing the permittivity of a dielectricloaded slot antenna, the resulting bandwidth increases significantly, where the wi ...

IEEE2023

Toward Band n78 Shear Bulk Acoustic Resonators Using Crystalline Y-Cut Lithium Niobate Films With Spurious Suppression

Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Soumya Yandrapalli

This work presents the study of suspended Y-cut Lithium Niobate shear bulk acoustic resonators for wide band filter applications in the frequency range of 3.5-4.5GHz. The resonators consist of a Lithium Niobate film with Aluminum top interdigitated electro ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2023

Portable Multi-Frequency Impedance-Sensing Device for Bacteria Classification in a Flowing Liquid

Sandro Carrara

This paper presents a novel impedance-sensing device and its related microfluidics system developed to characterize the macroscopical properties of bacteria and microparticles. The system is based on a phase-sensitive detector with square-waves excitation ...

IEEE2022

Subthreshold VO2 vertical switches for large-bandwidth millimeter-wave and sub-terahertz detection

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Fatemeh Qaderi Rahaqi, Ali Gilani, Daesung Park

n-linear impedance characteristics of VO2 offer solutions to highly sensitive radio-frequency (RF), millimeterwave (mm-wave), and terahertz (THz) detectors. We demonstrate high-speed broadband sensibility of miniaturized VO2 switches by utilizing the nonli ...

IEEE2022

High Performance Low cost Transition Connectors for 5G mmWave Applications

Anja Skrivervik

Millimeter wave (mmWave) is an interesting research area in recent years. Transition connectors are key components of mmWave passive systems. The commercially available cable connectors are lossy and expensive in mmWave frequencies. In this paper, various ...

IEEE2022

Terminal Characteristics Measurements and Analysis of the Three-Phase Active Front End Converter Building Block

Drazen Dujic, Marko Petkovic

The safe and reliable operation of modern power system imposes the need to describe and estimate the system stability through impedance-admittance measurement and identification. The integration and operation of medium voltage equipment in existing infrast ...

Wiley2021

A Closed Time-Reversal Cavity for Electromagnetic Waves in Transmission Line Networks

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Mario Paolone, Reza Razzaghi, Zhaoyang Wang

A closed time-reversal (TR) cavity has been considered a purely theoretical concept whose experimental realization was assumed to be impossible. In this article, we demonstrate that it is, in fact, possible to realize a closed TR cavity using a network of ...

2021

Bayesian Methods for the Identification of Distribution Networks

Giancarlo Ferrari Trecate, Pulkit Nahata, Jean-Sébastien Hubert Brouillon

The increasing integration of intermittent renewable generation, especially at the distribution level, necessitates advanced planning and optimisation methodologies contingent on the knowledge of the admittance matrix, capturing the topology and line param ...

IEEE2021

The 3D Smith Chart: From Theory to Experimental Reality

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Andrei Müller

The Smith chart was primarily developed, extended, and refined by Phillip Hagar Smith [1] in a series of works published [2]-[4] between 1939 and 1969. Smith was born in Lexington, Massachusetts, in 1905. He majored in electrical communications at Tufts Un ...

2020

3D Smith chart constant quality factor semi-circles contours for positive and negative resistance circuits

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Andrei Müller

The article firstly proves that the constant quality factor (Q) contours for passive circuits, while represented on a 2D Smith chart, form circle arcs on a coaxal circle family. Furthermore, these circle arcs represent semi-circles families in the north he ...

2020

Single-Phase Measurement of the Output Impedance of the Four-Quadrant Cascaded H-Bridge Converter Cell Using Wideband Signals

Drazen Dujic, Marko Petkovic

The development and integration of power electronics equipment and converters for medium voltage ac and dc application has created different subsystem interactions that require proper investigation, understanding, description and estimation of global syste ...

IEEE2020

Megawatt power generation of the dual-frequency gyrotron for TCV at 84 and 126 GHz, in long pulses

Timothy Goodman, Stefano Alberti, Minh Quang Tran, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Damien Fasel, Ioannis Pagonakis, Blaise Marlétaz, Ugo Siravo, Jérémy Genoud, Jérémie Dubray, Matthieu Toussaint, Jonathan Sylvain Masur, Christian Moura

In the frame of the TCV Tokamak upgrade, two 84/126 GHz/2 s dual frequency gyrotrons designed by SPC and KIT and manufactured by THALES will be added to the existing EC-System. The first unit has been delivered to EPFL-SPC and tested. In the commissioning ...

2020

Multi-Variable High-Frequency Input-Admittance of Grid-Connected Converters: Modeling, Validation and Implications on Stability

Drazen Dujic, Francisco Daniel Freijedo Fernández

Modern grids are facing a massive integration of power electronics devices, usually associated to instability issues. In order to assess the likelihood and severity of harmonic instability in the high frequency region, this work develops a multi-variable i ...

2019

Validation of the ICRF antenna coupling code RAPLICASOL against TOPICA and experiments

Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Basil Duval, Timothy Goodman, Patrick Blanchard, Richard Pitts, Yves Martin, Javier García Hernández, Bruno Marchand, Duccio Testa, Jean-Marc Moret, Alessandro Pau, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Roland Behn, Benoît Labit, Jan Horacek, Yann Camenen, Holger Reimerdes, Laurie Porte, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Marco Wischmeier, Marc Gruber, Alexander Karpushov, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Alberto Bottino, Emiliano Fable, Patrycja Nowak-Sliwinska, Doohyun Kim, Federico Nespoli, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Andrea Scarabosio, Umar Sheikh, Wouter Vijvers, Matteo Fontana, Yanis Andrebe, Cristian Galperti, Haomin Sun, Joan Decker, Zhouji Huang, Ben McMillan, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Diego Carnevale, Janir Nuno Ramos Antunes Da Cruz, Nicola Vianello, Cristian Sommariva, Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera, Anna Teplukhina, Hoang Bao Le, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Jennifer Kaitlyn Olsen, Jose Vicente Sanchez Mut, Dávid Wágner, Jose Felix Vega Stavro, Lorenzo Anton-Louis Talà, Claudio Marini, Pamela Solange Valdés Undurraga, Wei Zhang, Lenke Horváth, Attila Bencze, Himank Anand, Dahye Choi, Andrea Salmi, Raffaele Tito D'Agnolo, Erwan Fabrice Koch, Hugo Antoine Georges Arnichand, Thomas Binderup Jensen, Allan Svejstrup Nielsen, Michael Oliver Reinke, Pierre Jacquot, Stefano Mattei, Daniel Molina Romero, Ana Susnjara, Anton Malygin, Mélanie Preynas, Thomas Riedl, Mateusz Gospodarczyk, Pascal Morel, Wen Bin Chng, Telmo David Ribeiro Da Costa, Pedro Filipe Varela Saraiva

In this paper we validate the finite element code RAPLICASOL, which models radiofrequency wave propagation in edge plasmas near ICRF antennas, against calculations with the TOPICA code. We compare the output of both codes for the ASDEX Upgrade 2-strap ante ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019

The JET upgraded toroidal Alfven Eigenmode Diagnostic System

Ambrogio Fasoli, Duccio Testa, Patrick Blanchard

The Alfven Eigenmode Active Diagnostic system (AEAD) has undergone a major upgrade and redesign to provide a state-of-the-art excitation and real-time detection system for JET. The new system consists of individual 4 kW amplifiers allowing for increased cu ...

2019

Dielectric-Loaded Conformal Microstrip Antennas for Versatile In-Body Applications

Anja Skrivervik, Denys Nikolayev

Wireless implantable bioelectronics and accurate in vivo characterization of path loss require efficient and robust in-body antennas. Loading electric antennas with the effective permittivities higher than that of surrounding tissues is a promising solutio ...

2019

Urine-Contactless Device to Empty Bladders: an Ex-Vivo Proof-of-Concept Study in Porcine Bladders

Yves Perriard, Yoan René Cyrille Civet, Francesco Clavica

Current treatments for underactive bladder (UAB) have negative side effects, such as urinary tract infections, mainly because devices used for bladder emptying are in direct contact with urine (e.g. permanent or intermittent catheterisation). Moreover, mos ...

Wiley2019

Phase Corrected H-Plane Horn Antenna in Gap SIW Technology

Juan Ramon Mosig, Marc Esquius Morote, Lei Wang

This communication introduces a modified substrate integrated waveguide (SIW), the gap SIW, and deduces an approximate closed-form expression for calculating its effective width, taking into account the fringing and coupling fields around the gap. As an im ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2017

High Gain Dual-Band Beam-Steering Transmit Array for Satcom Terminals at Ka-Band

Juan Ramon Mosig, Joana Rita Alves dos Santos Silva

Transmit array design is more challenging for dualband operation than for single band, due to the independent 360 degrees phase wrapping jumps needed at each band when large electrical length compensation is involved. This happens when aiming at large gain ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2017

Related publications (28)

Single-Phase Measurement of the Output Impedance of the Four-Quadrant Cascaded H-Bridge Converter Cell Using Wideband Signals

Drazen Dujic, Marko Petkovic

IEEE2020

Megawatt power generation of the dual-frequency gyrotron for TCV at 84 and 126 GHz, in long pulses

2020

Multi-Variable High-Frequency Input-Admittance of Grid-Connected Converters: Modeling, Validation and Implications on Stability

Drazen Dujic, Francisco Daniel Freijedo Fernández

2019