Magazine Article Archive - 2008

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If you are like me, you spend a lot of time reading articles from technical magazines. Sometimes I read the entire article, but usually I just scan the text for highlights and look at the schematics, block diagrams, and charts / graphs. Often, I want to go back and find an article but cannot recall where I saw it. A Google search will usually eventually reveal a hyperlink to the article, but a lot of times it takes a lot of digging. Since my key interests are not necessarily the same as RF Cafe visitors, an attempt will be made to catalog all of them. If there is a magazine not included here that you would like me to include in the list, please send me an e-mail and I will try to incorporate its articles, too.

 

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High Frequency Electronics

July

Building a Microwave Frequency Synthesizer - Part 3: From Sketch to Product (p.18)
Alexander Chenakin

Determining CW Power Rating of Coaxial Components (p.S6)
Andrew Weirback

Software Enhances the Design and Analysis of Tunable Circuits (p.54)
Dale D. Henkes, ACS

Manufacturers' Efforts Simplify Power Measurement for Specific Standards (p.62)
Gary Breed

June

Building a Microwave Frequency Synthesizer - Part 2: Component Selection
Alexander Chenakin

Wireless Receiver Design Emphasizes Direct Conversion
 

IP2 and IP3 Design Considerations for a Direct Conversion I/Q Receiver
Doug Stuetzle

A Constant Mismatch Analysis of Power RF Transistors Using EDA Tools
John Pritiskutch and Craig Rotay

A Review of Common Line-Section Directional Couplers
Gary Breed

May

Non-Linear Simulation of RFIC Amplifier Reference Design Boards (p.20)
Hetvi Patel, Thomas Weller, Rick Connick and Lawrence Dunleavy

A High Dynamic Range Receiver for the Radar Open System Architecture (p.28)
Frank Cannata

Spectral Distortion in High Data Rate Remote Sensing Satellite Links (p.44)
V. Sambasiva Rao and Surendra Pal

Building a Microwave Frequency Synthesizer - Part 1: Getting Started (p.58)
Alexander Chenakin

April

A 300 W Power Amplifier for the 88 to 108 MHz FM Broadcast Band
Antonio Eguizabal

Characterization of RF Transmission Lines on Ion-Implanted CMOS Wafers
Kamaljeet Singh, Surendra Pal, and Deepak Bhatnagar

Low Cost Meets High Value in a Synthesized Signal Generator
Richard Houlihan

Spatial Combining of Multiple Microwave Noise Radiators
Jiri Polivka

A Review of the Performance Capabilities of Antenna Arrays
Gary Breed

March

Power Combiners, Impedance Transformers and Directional Couplers: Part IV
Andrei Grebennikov

Applying System-in-Package Technology to 16-bit Digital Receiver Design
Todd Nelson

Design and Development of Microwave Filters on Metallized ABS Plastic
Jagdish Shivhare

Improving the Bandwidth of Simple Matching Networks
Gary Breed

February

A Practical Approach to a Compact, Wide-Band SMT Directional Coupler
Robert Torsiello and Kham Sanvoravong

Frequently Asked Questions About Noise
Ed Garcia, NoiseWave

Terahertz (THz) Technology: An Introduction and Research Update

Power Combiners, Impedance Transformers and Directional Couplers: Part III
Andrei Grebennikov

Key Design Factors for Power and Ground Connections
Gary Breed

January

Predicting Probable Cavity Resonance with a 3D EM Tool
Yeap Yean Wei, Frank Demming-Janssen, and Linus Lau Ngie Ung

Power Combiners, Impedance Transformers and Directional Couplers: Part II
Andrei Grebennikov

Top Down Design: An Introduction for New Engineers
Gary Breed

 

Microwave Journal

June

A Ku-band 4-bit Compact Octave Bandwidth GaAs MMIC Phase Shifter
Inder J. Bahl and Mark Dayton, Tyco Electronics, M/A-COM Products

Then: A Helical Phase Shifter For VHF
Paul A. Crandell & Fredrick J. Dominick

Self-Cancellation of Third-Order Modulation Products
Cecil Deisch

Analysis and Design of a Linearly Tapered Slot
Ved Vyas Dwivedi MIEEE, Y.P. Kosta MIEEE, Shweta Srivastava, H.B. Pandya

Optimization of a C Band Pulse Altimeter
Robab Kazemi, R. Ali Sadeghzadeh, and Reza Fatemi Mofrad

Applying the Slow-wave Effect in the Design of a Compact Antenna
I. Tseng Tang, Ding-Bing Lin, and Tzu-Hao Lu

Additive (Residual) Phase Noise Measurement of Amplifiers, Frequency Dividers and Frequency Multipliers
Jason Breitbarth and Joe Koebel

May

Triquint White Paper: Gallium Nitride Applications
Tony Balistreri

Software-defined Radio: The Next Wave in RF Test Instrumentation?
Michael Millhaem

A Modified Wilkinson Power Divider With Harmonic Suppression Characteristic
S C Bera, R V Singh and V K Garg

Improving Multi-carrier PA Efficiency Using Envelope Tracking
Gerard Wimpenny

Liquid Crystal Polymer: Enabling Next Generation Conformal and Multilayer Electronics
Nickolas Kingsley, Auriga Measurement Systems

The Battle Between HF and UHF RFID
F. Mohd-Yasin, M.K. Khaw, F. Choong, and M.B.I. Reaz

A Harmonic and Size Reduced Ring Hybrid Using Hairpin-type LUCs
Hong-Seop Lee and Hee-Yong Hwang

Harmonic Load Pull with High Gamma Tuners
Gary Simpson

Analysis and Design of a Compact Multi-band Antenna for Wireless Communications Applications
Abdelnasser A. Eldek

Software-defined Radio Transmitters for Advanced Wireless and Satellite Communications Systems
Fadhel M. Ghannouchi

An Improved BSIM4 Model for 0.13 μm RF CMOS Using a Simple Lossy Substrate Extraction Method
Chien-Cheng Wei, Hsien-Chin Chiu and Wu-Shiung Feng

April

Then: Similarity Considerations for Varactor Multipliers
Dr. A. Uhlir, Jr.

A Novel Three-dimensional CP-FDTD Thin Slot Algorithm for Shielding Analysis
Xu Li, Ji-hui Yu, Quan-di Wang and Yong-ming Li

Phase Diversity and Optimal I/Q Signal Combining Methods on a UHF RFID Reader’s Receiver
Byung-Jun Jang

Microwave Point-to-Point Systems in 4G Wireless Networks and Beyond
Harvey Lehpamer

A Dual-band-rejected Design for a Cross Semielliptic Monopole Antenna
Wen-Shan Chen, Chi-Huang Lin and Mao-Kai Hsu

Phase Noise: Theory versus Practicality
John Esterline

A Novel N-way Distributed Doherty Amplifier with Improved Efficiency at High PAR Signals
Kyoung-Joon Cho, Wan-Jong Kim, Ji-Yeon Kim, Jong-Heon Kim, and Shawn P. Stapleton

A High Efficiency and Gain Doherty Amplifier for Wireless Mobile Base Stations
X.Q. Chen, Y.C. Guo and X.W. Shi

A Self-offset Phase-locked Loop
Bogdan Sadowski

A Broadband Class-E Parallel-circuit VHF Power Amplifier with High Harmonic Suppression
Kumar Narendra, Sangaran Pragash, Chacko Prakash, Lokesh Anand, M.F. Ain and S.I.S. Hassan

March

Then: Parametric Diode Q Measurements
Richard I. Harrison

Measuring S-parameters: The First 50 Years
David Vye

Recent Advances in Fresnel Zone Plate Antenna Technology
S. M. StoutGrandy and J.S. Wight

Performance Analysis of OFDM
S.S. Riaz Ahamed

Design of a Miniaturized Quarter-Circular-Slot UWB Antenna
Joon-Won Jang and Hee-Yong Hwang

Design of a Four Feeding Microstrip Patch Antenna
M.F. Ain, J.S. Mandeep, C.T. Chin, S.I.S. Hassan M.A.Othman and B.M. Nawang

Determining Radiated Performance of Mobile WiMAX Devices
Michael D. Foegelle

Residual Phase Noise Measurements of the Input Section in a Receiver
Uros Mavric and Brian Chase

A Microstrip-Fed Monopole Antenna for WLAN USB Applications
Wen-Shan Chen and Kuang-Yuan Ku

Effect of Resistivity Variations on the Performance of Lossy Micro-machined Resonators
Kamaljeet Singh and K. Nagachenchaiah

A High Linearity and Efficiency UHF RF Power Amplifier with Cartesian Feedback for Digital Modulation
K. Narendra, M.F. Ain, J.S. Mandeep and S.I.S. Hassan

A Highly Integrated HBT Down-converter MMIC Employing Optimally Designed Spiral Inductor Filters
Young Yun, In-Ho Kang and Ji-Won Jung

A Distributed Trans-impedance Amplifier Using InGaP/InGaAs Enhancement-mode PHEMT Technology
Chia-Song Wu, Hsing-Chung Liu, Hsien-Chin Chiu and Wei-Hsien Lee

February

An Enabling New 3D Architecture for Microwave Components and Systems
Zoya Popovic, Sébastien Rondineau, Dejan Filipovic, David Sherrer, Chris Nicholas, Jean-Marc Rollin and Ken Vanhille

Design of a Microwave Group Delay Time Adjuster and Its Application to a Feedforward Power Amplifier
Heungjae Choi, Yongchae Jeong, J.S. Kenney, and Chul Dong Kim

High Efficiency Broadband Power Amplifiers
F.J. Ortega-Gonzalez, J.M. Pardo-Martin, A. Gimeno-Martin and C.B. Peces

Design of a CPW-fed Printed Antenna for Ultra-wideband Applications
Wen-Shan Chen and Kai-Cheng Yang, Southern Taiwan University

A 5 GHz RFIC Single Chip Solution in GaInP/GaAs HBT Technology
Chin-Chun Meng and Tzung-Han Wu

Extracting a Nonlinear Electro-thermal Model for a GaN HFET
Andrew Edwards, Bernard Geller and Isik C. Kizilyalli

Design, Development and Fabrication of Post-coupled Band pass Waveguide Filter @ 11.2GHz for Radiometer
RAVISH R. SHAH, AMIT PATEL, VED VYAS DWIVEDI and HITESH B PANDYA

CMOS AGC Design Strategies
Louis Fan Fei, Garmin International

Application Note: Parallel Capacitance in High Power RF Resistors
Florida RF Labs/EMC Technology

White Paper: Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
Mark Elo

White Paper: WiMAX Backhaul - No Longer Takes a Back Seat
Aviv Ronai

January

Now: Phased-array Radars: Past, Astounding Breakthroughs and Future Trends (January 2008)
Eli Brookner

Then: Array Radars: A Survey of Their Potential And Their Limitations (May 1962)
J. L. Allen

Design of Waveguide Bandpass Filter in the X-Frequency Band
Gaëtan Prigent, Nathalie Raveu, Olivier Pigaglio, and Henri Baudrand

The Design of A Dual Ultra-Wide Bandpass Filter Using L-Shaped Step Impedance Resonators
Chu-Yu Chen, Li-Mei Tu

A Low Cost Method for GSM Mobile Synchronization to Base
Jaleh Komaili, Darioush Agahi, and Masoud Kahrizi

A Multi-band Inserted Yagi-type Arrayed-slots PIFA Antenna Using a Large Offset Rectangular L-shaped Feed
Yong-Woong Jang and Sang Woo Lee

A Dual-mode Sensor Solution for Safe Helicopter Landing and Flight Assistance
Yan Christian Venot and Peter Kielhorn

Design Enablement for RF and Microwave IC Design: Part II
Juan Cordovez, James Victory, Samir Chaudhry, Volker Blaschke, Zhixin Yan, Robert Milkovits, Ivan Ban and Marco Racanelli

Electromagnetic Simulation of Mobile Phone Antenna Performance
Omid Sotoudeh, and Tilmann Wittig

Powerful New Formulas for Input Impedance of Antennas and Arrays
Jeremy K. Raines

 

Microwaves & RF

July

Design An X-Band Vivaldi Antenna
Dr. J.S. Mandeep and Mr. Nicholas

Digital Predistortion Linearizes Broadband PAs
Hardik Gandhi

Examine The Effects Of Phase Noise On RFID Range
Dr. Byung-Jun Jang and Dr. Hyun-Goo Yoon

Planar Resonators Arm Tunable Oscillators
Ajay Kumar Poddar and Ulrich L. Rohde

June

Coupled Stubs Support Microstrip Bandbass Filter
N. Nagachenchaiah, Kamaljeet Singh

Making Advanced Radar Measurements
Darren McCarthy

Planar Resonators Arm Tunable Oscillators
Ajay Kumar Poddar. Ulrich L. Rohde

Multibeam Antenna Serves Broadband Wireless Comms
Jasmin Desai, Dr. John Howard

May

Eliminate Fixture Effects On Device Measurements
David Ballo and John Barfuss

Large-Signal Approach Yields Low-Noise VHF/UHF Oscillators
Ajay Kumar Poddar and Ulrich L. Rohde

Multilayer Microstrip Forms Tunable Bandstop Filters
Yamina Bekri, Nasreddine Ben Ahmed, Nadia Benabdallah, and Salima Seghier

Reviewing GNSS Basics For Software Engineers
Malcolm Lomer

Modular Approach Provides Fast And Easy Prototyping
Jenny Jiayan Shen

April

EM Simulator Models Acoustic/Electric Designs
Marco Farina

Large-Signal Approach Yields Low-Noise VHF/UHF Oscillators
Ajay Kumar Poddar and Ulrich L. Rohde

Cut Loss In Low-Voltage, Wideband PIN Attenuators
Chin-Leong Lim

March

Design An Integrated Oscillator/Antenna
R.A. Abd-Alhameed, P.S. Excell, A. Ghorbani, N.J. McEwan, C.H. See, and D. Zhou

12-Port VNA Characterizes Crosstalk On High-Speed Lines
Harry Momjian

Analyze EM Parameters Of Slotted Tube Couplers
Yamina Bekri , Nasreddine Ben Ahmed, Nadia Benabdallah, Abdelhafid Lallam

February

RF Power Calibration Aids Wireless Transmitters
Eamon Nash

GaN Devices Arm Distributed Amplifier
Anthony Pavio and Chenggang Xie

Assemble High-Power Attenuator Systems
Dave Distler, Coaxial Dynamics

January

Power Meters Make Connections Via USB
Craig Allardice and Tony Lymer

Tracking Advances In Probing Mixed-Mode RF Circuitry
Larry Dangremond

Configure An RF ATE System
Denis Gable

Determine Twisted-Line Characteristic Impedance
Antonio Alves Ferreira, Jr., Wilton Ney Do Amaral Pereira, and Jose Antonio Junstino Ribeiro

 

Microwave Product Digest

June

New RF Passive Discrete and Integrated Technologies Combining Ultra-Stable Performance and Smallest Size
Chris Reynolds

50-V LDMOS Portfolio Expands To Ease Transition to Digital Broadcasting
Barry Manz

Useful Wireless Test System Architectures Using Programmable Step Attenuators
Brett Chermansky, Chief Engineer, JFW Industries

Why Directional Couplers Are Better for High Power Measurements vs. Attenuators
MECA Electronics

Remotely-tunable Notch and Bandpass Filters for Evaluating System Performance
Sam Johnson

GaN and GaAs High Power Process Research Leads to Advances for Military Applications
Anthony Balistreri and Mark Andrews

May

Overcoming Noise Figure Measurement Challenges in Fixtured, On-Wafer and ATE Environments
David Ballo

Trends in Military Communication Systems
Chris Heavens

System Level Simulation Helps Validate Wireless Transceiver Design
Joel Kirshman

Isolator and Circulator Basics
MECA Electronics

A Fundamental and Technical Review of Radomes
Lance Griffiths

Military Radome Performance and Verification Testing
Thomas B. Darling

What It Takes to Make High Efficiency Ka-Band Amplifiers
Damian McCann, Dr. Simon Mahon, Anna Dadello, Dr. Alex Bessemoulin, Dr. Jim Harvey, and Peter Evans

Multifunction Subsystems Employ Advanced MIC Techniques
Narda Microwave-East

A dual-channel, DSP-based FM arbitrary waveform generator By NARDA Microwave-EAST

A New Level of Integration in RF Components
Mike Press and Mark Moffat, RFMD®

Satellite Simulator Speeds Training and Troubleshooting
Rick Walsh

Telemetry Antennas with Integrated Electronics
Tom Goodwin

April

Long Term Evolution (LTE): a New Air Interface for Wireless Access
Jan Whitacre

Standards-based Waveform Creation Software Allows for Fast, Accurate and Cost-effective Testing of Wireless Technologies
Lynne Patterson

Accurate High RF Power Measurement
Jin Yu and Henry Szczurko

Improve System Integration and Performance with a New Family of Variable Gain Amplifiers (VGA)
Richard Houlihan

A Small Form Factor 3-9 GHz Synthesizer Module for Use in Synthetic Instrumentation Applications
Alexander Chenakin and Suresh Ojha

March

Importance of Mismatch Tolerance for Amplifiers Used in Susceptibility Testing
Pat Malloy, Sr. Applications Engineer and Jason Smith

Pierce-Gate Crystal Oscillator, an Introduction
Ramon Cerda

High Frequency Low Phase Noise TCXO
Sergio San Pedro

Package Diversity

A Microwave Tuner in a VME-based Open Architecture, with Phase Coherent Multi-channel Operation
Tyco Electronics

February

Selecting Switches for High-Power Testing Applications
Kim-Yen Ang and Yee-Ping Teoh

Complex Antenna System Design
Jim DeLap, Dane Thompson, Ph.D., and Nick Hirth

EDGE Power Amplifier Distortion Measurements in a Large Signal Polar Modulation (LSPM) System
David Zhao and Jason Zhou

Industry Migration to 3G Multimode Puts Premium on Handset’s Front-End Module Design
Nick Cheng, Skyworks Solutions, Inc.

January

10G Linear TIA in Long-Reach Multi-Mode Applications
Lian Zhao and Ariel Nachum

Comparison of High Power Amplifier Technologies: TWTAs vs SSPAs
Howard Hausman

Passive Components, Switches Combine High Performance, Fast Availability
Narda Microwave-East

Breakthrough in Conformal Self-Shielding of Electronic Packages
Scott Morris and Milind Shah

Considerations when Selecting COTS WLAN Products for Military Systems
Dean Handrinos, Stealth Microwave

Advanced Transmit/Receive Module Solutions Supported by Highly Integrated X-Band Chip Set
Douglas A. Bajgot

 

RF Design

June

Evaluating and Selecting a Synthetic Test Environment
Francesco Lupinetti

Space-grade DC-DC Converter Revolutionizes Low-power RF Design
Tiva Bussarakons

Taking Advantage of New Choices in Embedded Graphical Processor Units
Mark Snyder

May

Using Ripple Injection Supply for Testing Oscillator PSRR
Mike F. Wacker

Understanding State of The Art in ADCs
Brad Brannon

Mixing RF, Digital and Analog circuits on the Same PCBC
Per Viklund and John Isaac

Conformally Applied Technology Delivers Breakthrough in RF Shielding
Ulrik Riis Madsen and Carsten Hinrichsen

April

Dynamic Spectrum Access Moves to the Forefront
Salvador D'Itri and Mark McHenry

MIMO: The Next Revolution in Wireless Data communications
Babak Daneshrad

Protecting the Key is the Key to Secure Communications
Dave Locke

February

Medical Info-communications Signals an Era of Body Area Networking
Ashok Bindra

Standardizing Transceiver APIs for Software Defined and Cognitive Radio
Eric Nicollet and Lee Pucker

The Challenges of Moving to MIMO Systems
Mark Elo

Simplifying RF Front-end Design in Multiband Handsets
Duncan Pilgrim

Bluetooth Seattle Broadens the User Experience Through a Transparent Mix of Technologies
Mark E. Hazen

 

Test & Measurement World

July

Science vs. Technology
Rick Nelson

Do You Want Data or Results?
Jon Titus

STC to Help Test Keep Pace with Design
Rick Nelson

June

Improve Thermal Cycling Time
Martin Rowe

Protocol Stack Testing for LTE
Christina Geßner

Design Tradeoffs in Data Acquisition
Martin Rowe

MEMS Create 3-D Inspection Challenges
Jon Titus

When Power Supplies Don't Meet Specs
Martin Rowe

Where to Put AOI?
Steve Scheiber

Inject Voltage Pulses and Troubleshoot
Martin Rowe

May

Genetic Algorithm Solves Thermistor Problem
Rick Nelson

Test methodologies for high-speed serial designs
Rick Nelson

April

MIMO Challenges Existing ATE
Keith Schaub

Design for Dust
David Lohbeck

As SOCs Grow, Instruments Move On-chip
Ron Wilson

Iridescent Future Ahead for the Oscilloscope Market
Vijay Mathew

March

Protection at Full Power
Martin Rowe

Nonsignaling Technique Improves RF Test
Henry Gropp

Oscilloscopes Aid Embedded Designs
Rick Nelson

Take Lens MTF into Account
Jon Titus

Extending PXI
Richard A. Quinnell

February

Accelerate and Simplify Serial Data Testing
Martin Rowe

DFT, ATE Drive Yield Improvement
Ajay Khoche, Verigy, and Wu Yang

PCs Change Quickly; Test Setups Don’t
Martin Rowe

Oscilloscope Probe Hints
Rick Nelson

Machine-vision Focus Shifts With Application
Rick Nelson

Sometimes, a Voltmeter is all You Need
Brad Thompson