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Richard G. Geyer, Liang Chai, Aziz Shaikh, Vern Stygar
Co-fired, patterned multi-layer ceramic structures can provide RF designers with the means for compact, dense microwave circuit and component design spanning the frequency range from 800 MHz to 77 GHz. Critical parameters affecting the performance of these
Steve Ruggiero, Anthony Williams, Carol Tanner, S. Potashnik, John M. Moreland, William Rippard
The magneto-optic properties of semi-transparent ferromagnetic films are presented in the context of ferromagnet/GaAs spin-injection devices. We have measured the polarization-dependent photoresponse and magneto-optic properties of Co/i}n-GaAs, Co/p-GaAs
We examine the performance of two on-wafer multiline TRL calibration algorithms, the popular multiline TRL algorithm implemented in the MultiCal software package and a newly implemented iterative algorithm designed to give optimal results in the presence
Thomas P. Crowley, E. A. Donley, T P. Heavner, John R. Juroshek, Billy F. Riddle
An initial proof-of-concept experiment to measure microwave power based on quantum-mechanical principles is presented. Rabi oscillations between two hyperfine levels of the cesium ground state are measured and used to determine the RF magnetic field
Alessandro Cidronali, Kuldip Gupta, Jeffrey Jargon, Kate Remley, Donald C. DeGroot, Gianfranco Manes
This paper introduces a new technique which allows us to measure the admittance conversion matrix of a two-port device, using a large signal vector network analyzer. This method is applied to extract the conversion matrix of a 0.25 um PHEMT, driven by a 4
We use a simlator to compare ACPR measurements of a nonlinear device excited with various multisine signals to ACPR measurements of the same device excited with a QPSK-modulated pseudorandom digital signal. We examine four common types of multisine
We discuss the basic principles of operation of electrical sampling oscilloscopes and describe circuit models developed to design, characterize, and help explain their operation. We survey common oscilloscope calibration schemes that correct for finite
Behavioural models for RF devices are often base on single-tone data. However, this type of excitation is not representative of the digital modulation to which many RF devices are subjected in telecommunication systems. In this work, we show that the use
This paper describes the application of joint time-frequency analysis (JTFA) to finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulations of several shielding structures. Several detailed examples are given that highlight the use and application of JTFA. Joint Time
Kate Remley, Dylan Williams, Dominique Schreurs, Giovanni Loglio, Cidronali Alessandro
We develop a method to detrend the phases of measured multisine signals. We find a time reference that removes the linear component of the measured phases and aligns them to their expected values to the precision specified by the user. An initial guess is
Richard G. Geyer, James R. Baker-Jarvis, Michael D. Janezic, Raian K. Kaiser
Conductive carbon black-loaded polymers are considered for use as semi-solid biologic phantom materials. Adapted forms of Clausius-Mossoti, Maxwell-Garnett, and Bruggeman predictive dielectric mixing rules are considered that take into account disordered
Anthony B. Kos, John P. Nibarger, Radek Lopusnik, Thomas J. Silva, Zbigniew J. Celinski
A cryogenic pulsed inductive microwave magnetometer is used to characterize the switching dynamics in thin-film materials at low temperatures and microwave frequencies. The system is contained inside a 20-cm-dia ultrahigh vacuum chamber and cooled by a
Shehzaad F. Kaka, John P. Nibarger, Stephen E. Russek, N. A. Stutzke, S. L. Burkett
High-frequency measurements of spin-valve films and devices, made using several different measurement techniques, are presented and compared. Pulsed inductive measurements were made on sheet films and provide insight into the intrinsic dynamical properties
Bijoy Kuanr, Leszek Malkinski, Robert E. Camley, Zbigniew Celinski, Pavel Kabos
We constructed a series of Magnetic Monolithic tunable Microwave notch-filters and phase shifters in co-planer waveguide (CPW) geometry on GaAs substrates using Fe and Permalloy as magnetic materials. In contrast to previous work with Molecular Beam
Microcantilever torque magnetometry is used to measure quantitative M-H curves on patterned Ni 80Fe 20 films. The dynamic deflection method is employed, in which a small film is deposited onto a microcantilever and placed in an external magnetic field. A
We use on-wafer measurements to characterize the invasiveness of high-impedance probes over a broad frequency range. We show that a two-port representation characterizing the invasiveness of the probe can also be determined from a calculation of the probe
Svenja A. Knappe, V. Velichansky, Hugh Robinson, Li-Anne Liew, John M. Moreland, John Kitching, Leo W. Hollberg
We report on the fabrication of millimeter-sized vapor cells and their performance on atomic clocks based on coherent population trapping (CPT). We discuss two fabrication techniques, the first one based on hollow-core pyrex fibers, fused with a CO 2 laser
Dylan F. Williams, Bradley K. Alpert, Uwe Arz, Hartmut Grabinski
Abstract: We compute power-voltage, power-current, and causal definitions of the characteristic impedance of microstrip and coplanar-waveguide transmission lines on insulating and conducting silicon substrates, and compare to measurement.
Shawn W. Staker, Christopher L. Holloway, Melinda Piket-May
This paper presents the incorporation of material dispersion into ADI-FDTD, ADI-FDTD is an uncontionally stable mathod, allowing the time step to be increased beyond the CFL bound. ADI class problems result in a reduced execution time, while maintaining
Christopher L. Holloway, David A. Hill, John M. Ladbury, Galen H. Koepke, R. Garzia
In this paper, we present a technique for determining the shielding effectiveness of materials from nested reverberation chamber measurements. The new approach accounts for both aperture and cavity size effects. Various examples are presented to illustrate
Shawn W. Staker, Christopher L. Holloway, Alpesh Bhobe, Melinda Piket-May, Tobin A. Driscoll
The ADI-FDTD technique is an unconditionally stable time-domain numerical scheme, allowing the Δ}t time step to be increased beyond the Courant-Friedrichs-Lewy (CFL) limit. Execution time of a simulation is inversely proportional to Δ}t, and as such
Michael D. Janezic, Edward Kuester, James R. Baker-Jarvis
We summarize a theoretical model for the split-cylinder resonator, based on the mode-matching method, for performing nondestructive permittivity and loss tangent measurements with the split-cylinder resonator. This new model properly takes into account the
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We have measured the step response in thin film Permalloy as a function of both a hard-axis pulsed field amplitude and easy-axis longitudinal magnetic bias field using a pulsed inductive microwave magnetometer. The bias field ranged from 0 to 8000 A/m (0
Time-resolved nonlinear optics are used to study the propagation of magnetic flux pulses in a 250 nm Permalloy film. The flux is generated in the film by coupling it to a coplanar waveguide structure driven with broadband voltage pulses. Flux pulses