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Dielectrofluidics for Electronic-Based Chemical and Particle Analysis

August 18, 2014
Author(s)
James C. Booth, Spencer T. Egan, Charles A. Little, A Padilla, Yu Y. Wang, Nathan D. Orloff
The interactions of electromagnetic fields with matter are described by means of the polarization and magnetization of the material under study. Analogous to the way that magnetofluidics seeks to exploit magnetic interactions for sensing and manipulating

Dielectric characterization by microwave cavity perturbation corrected for non-uniform fields

July 23, 2014
Author(s)
Nathan D. Orloff, Jan Obrzut, Christian J. Long, Thomas F. Lam, James C. Booth, David R. Novotny, James A. Liddle, Pavel Kabos
The non-uniform fields that occur due to the slot in the cavity through which the sample is inserted and those due to the sample geometry itself decrease the accuracy of dielectric characterization by cavity perturbation at microwave frequencies. To

Non-contact Conductance Measurement of Nanosize Objects using Reasonant Cavity

May 15, 2014
Author(s)
Jan Obrzut, Nathan D. Orloff, Oleg A. Kirillov
A cavity perturbation method is used to determine conductance of small volume nano-carbon materials. These are the building blocks of nanostructured materials and devices, and therefore their electrical characteristics are important in the materials

Electro-Thermo-Mechanical Model for Bulk Acoustic Wave Resonators

November 30, 2013
Author(s)
Eduard Rocas, Juan C. Collado Gomez, Jordi Mateu, Nathan D. Orloff, James C. Booth, Robert Aigner
We present the electro-thermo-mechanical constitutive relations, expanded up to the third order, for a BAW resonator. The relations obtained are implemented into a circuit model, which is validated with extensive linear and nonlinear measurements. The

Exploiting dimensionality and defect mitigation to create tunable microwave dielectrics

October 23, 2013
Author(s)
Nathan D. Orloff, C H. Lee, T Birol, J A. Mundy, V. Goian, R. Haislmaier, E. Vlahos, Y. Kim, J. D. Brock, Y Zhu, R. Uecker, V. Gopalan, S. Kamba, X X. Xi, D A. Muller, I. Takeuchi, James C. Booth, C. J. Fennie
The miniaturization and integration of frequency-agile microwave circuits—tunable filters, resonators, phase shifters and more—with microelectronics offers tantalizing device possibilities, yet requires thin films whose dielectric constant at GHz

A Large-Signal Model of Ferroelectric Thin-Film Transmission Lines"

December 1, 2011
Author(s)
Eduard Rocas, Juan C. Collado Gomez, Jordi Mateu, Nate Orloff, James Booth, Juan M. O'C allaghan
"This work evaluates the microwave nonlinear properties and tuning at RF frequencies of ferroelectric Ba0.3Sr0.7TiO3 thin-films by on-wafer measurements of the second and third-order harmonics and intermodulation products of several coplanar transmission

Manipulating Particle Trajectories with Phase-control in Surface Acoustic Wave Microfluidics

November 14, 2011
Author(s)
Nathan D. Orloff, Jaclyn R. Dennis, Marco Cecchini, Ethan Schonbrun, Eduard Rocas, Yu Y. Wang, David R. Novotny, Raymond W. Simmonds, John M. Moreland, Ichiro Takeuchi, James C. Booth
We present a 91 MHz surface acoustic wave resonator with integrated microfluidics that includes a flow focus, an expansion region, and a binning region. We demonstrate the ability to change the position of the acoustic nodes by varying the electronics

Characterization of the First Order Nonlinear Stiffened Elasticity of the Piezoelectric Layer in Bulk Acoustic Wave Resonators

May 1, 2011
Author(s)
Juan C. Collado Gomez, Eduard Rocas, Jordi Mateu, Nathan D. Orloff, James C. Booth, Alberto Padillo, Juan Callaghan
This work proposes a procedure to characterize the intrinsic nonlinearities of bulk acoustic wave resonators by performing one port measurements of the second harmonic and second order intermodulation spurious signals. Closed-form expressions have been

Passive Intermodulation due to Self-Heating in Printed Transmission Lines*

February 2, 2011
Author(s)
Eduard Rocas, Juan C. Collado Gomez, Nathan D. Orloff, Jordi Mateu, James C. Booth, Juan M. O'Callaghan, Alberto Padilla
Abstract—This article proposes a mechanism by which third-order intermodulation distortion due to self-heating is generated in transmission lines. The work shows how transmission lines made of several materials whose properties are independent of the

A Compact Variable-Temperature Broadband Series-Resistor Calibration

January 1, 2011
Author(s)
Nathan D. Orloff, Jordi Mateu, Arkadiusz C. Lewandowski, Eduard Rocas, Joshua P. King, Dazhen Gu, Juan C. Collado Gomez, Ichiro Takeuchi, Xiaoli Lu, James C. Booth
We present a method to obtain a broadband on wafer calibration from 45 MHz to 40 GHz for variable temperature, which requires three standards: a thru-reflect, and series-resistor. The maximum error of this technique compared to a benchmark 9 standard

Modeling of Self-Heating Mechanism in the Design of Superconducting Limiters

December 10, 2010
Author(s)
Eduard Rocas, Juan C. Collado Gomez, Jordi Mateu, Nathan D. Orloff, James C. Booth
This work proposes a modeling method to simulate how temperature rise, due to power dissipation, affects the performance of a HTS limiter. The spatial temperature rise distribution across and along a HTS transmission line is determined by heat generation

Using Microfluidic Channels to Determine ZThe Quantitative Permittivity of Nanoliter Fluid Volumes from 50 MHz TO 40 GHz USING MICROFLUIDIC CHANNELS TO DETERMINE THE QUANTITATIVE PERMITTIVITY OF NANOLITER FLUID VOLUMES FROM 50 MHZ TO 40 GHZ

July 30, 2010
Author(s)
James C. Booth, Nathan D. Orloff, Xiaoli Lu, Yu Y. Wang, Eduard Rocas, Jordi Mateu, Juan C. Collado Gomez, Michael D. Janezic
We describe the development of coplanar waveguide measurement structures integrated with microfluidic channels in order to rapidly determine the broadband dielectric properties of nanoliter volumes of fluids, fluid mixtures, and colloids over the range of

Temperature-dependent dielectric relaxation in bismuch zinc niobate thin films.

July 12, 2010
Author(s)
James C. Booth, Nathan D. Orloff, Joel Cagnon, Jiwei Lu, Susanne Stemmer
We apply broadband measurement techniques to determine the dielectric permittivity of Bi1.5Zn1.0Nb1.5O7 (BZN) thin films over the frequency range 1 kHz to 40 GHz. At room temperature, the permittivity function shows relaxation at high frequencies (1 GHz)

Third-Order Intermodulation Distortion due to Self-heating in Gold Coplanar Waveguides

May 23, 2010
Author(s)
Eduard Rocas, Juan C. Collado Gomez, Nathan D. Orloff, James C. Booth
We present measurements and modeling of a self-heating mechanism responsible for third order intermodulation distortion in coplanar waveguide transmission lines. Temperature fluctuations, at the envelope frequency of the input signal, induce dynamic

Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy of Ruddlesden-Popper Sr(n+1)Ti(n)O(3n+1) (n= 1, 2, 3) Thin Films

January 29, 2009
Author(s)
Nathan D. Orloff, Ichiro Takeuchi, James C. Booth, Dazhen Gu, Jordi Mateu, C. J. Fennie, K. M. Rabe, W Tian, D.G. Schlom
We explore the frequency dependent permittivity of Ruddlesden-Popper series Sr(n+1)Ti(n)O(3n+1) (n= 1, 2, 3) thin films as a function of temperature and dc electric-field. Interdigitated capacitors and coplanar waveguides are used to extract the frequency

Third order Intermodulation Distortion in Film Bulk Acoustic Resonators at Resonance and Antiresonance

June 15, 2008
Author(s)
Eduard Rocas, Juan C. Collado Gomez, Jordi Mateu, Nathan D. Orloff, Alberto Padilla, Juan Callaghan, James C. Booth, Robert Aigner
This paper presents recent measurements and modeling of the third order intermodulation products of a Film Bulk Acoustic Resonator (FBAR), for a various values of frequency spacing between driving tones. The frequency dependence of voltage and current in

Broadband Permittivity Measurements of Thin-Film Ferroelectrics to 40 GHz

February 25, 2008
Author(s)
Nathan D. Orloff, James C. Booth, Makoto Murakami, Ichiro Takeuchi
We demonstrate a novel experimental technique to measure the complex permittivity function of dielectric thin films over the frequency range from 100 Hz to 40 GHz. We apply this technique to determine the broadband permittivity function for ferroelectric

Broadband Characterization of Multilayer Dielectric Thin-Films

June 3, 2007
Author(s)
Nathan D. Orloff, Jordi Mateu, Makoto Murakami, Ichiro Takeuchi, James C. Booth
We develop a measurement technique for obtaining the broadband complex permittivity of thin-film dielectric materials over the frequency range from 100 Hz-40 GHz. Such broad frequency coverage can only be accomplishe3d by combining lumped-element and