Active components and measurement techniques Modeling, characterization and simulation Passive components and antennas RF Design applications Student Thesis Contest Wireless Communications systems

Wednesday, May 26
9:00 am-9:50 am Keynote: Vertical integration for mmWave systems: Building a bridge between antennas and AI          
10:10 am-11:50 am W1: Active components and measurements techniques   W3: Passive componentes and antennas 1      
11:50 am-12:20 pm         WE-SP: Field Measurement of an Antenna with a Vector Network Analyzer
12:20 pm-12:30 pm          

Thursday, May 27
9:00 am-10:00 am       TH -MT: Power Integrity Assessment and Optimization in the Frequency Domain    
10:20 am-12:40 pm   TH1: Modeling, Characterization and Simulation 1 TH2: Passive componentes and antennas 2      

Friday, May 28
9:00 am-10:20 am   FR1: Modeling, Characterization and Simulations 2 FR2: Passive componentes and antennas 4      
10:30 am-12:30 pm       FR4: RF dessign applications 2    

Wednesday, May 26

Wednesday, May 26 9:00 - 9:50 (America/Bogota)

Keynote: Vertical integration for mmWave systems: Building a bridge between antennas and AI

Keynote Speaker
Alberto Valdes-Garcia
Room: webex 1
Chair: Andres Navarro

Wednesday, May 26 10:10 - 11:50 (America/Bogota)

W1: Active components and measurements techniques

Room: webex 1
Chairs: Andres Navarro, Andres Seidel
W1.1 10:10 FPGA-SoC based S-band Radio Frequency power amplifier control
Daniel A. Flores
W1.2 10:30 Asymmetric Doherty Power Amplifier at 60 GHz in 130 nm BiCMOS
Andres Seidel, Valentin Grams, Jens Wagner and Frank Ellinger
W1.3 10:50 Biasing Control and Protection System for GaN HEMT Power Amplifier Measurements
Recep Onur Yıldız, Alperen Tunç, Hasan Bülent Yağcı, Selçuk Paker and Osman Ceylan
W1.4 11:10 Transmitter and Receiver Equalizers Optimization for PCI Express Gen6.0 based on PAM4
Roberto J. Ruiz-Urbina, Francisco E. Rangel-Patino, Jose E. Rayas-Sanchez, Edgar A. Vega-Ochoa and Omar Longoria
W1.5 11:30 On the Optimum Number of Antennas for V2V LOS Links with Ground Reflection
Miguel Gutierrez Gaitan, Ramiro Samano-Robles and Amir Hossein Farzamiyan

Wednesday, May 26 10:10 - 12:20 (America/Bogota)

W3: Passive componentes and antennas 1

Oral session
Room: webex 2
Chair: Jose David Cely
10:10 Design and simulation of broadband UHF microstrip meander antennas for an RFID reader
Roberto B. Di Renna, Rodrigo Brasil, Vanessa Magri, Tadeu Ferreira and Leni Matos
10:30 A Wide Bandwidth Hybrid Filter Based on Discrete Acoustic Resonators
Diana Soto-Castañeda, Carmen Maya and Adrian Contreras-Lizarraga
10:50 A Compact Ultrathin Metamaterial Absorber for C, K and Ka Band Microwave Frequency Regime
Vishal Puri and Hari Singh
11:10 A Type of Multi-Notched-Band Microstrip Crossover
Badiaa Ait Ahmed, Roberto Gómez-García, Li Yang, Zaklina Naomi Pabian and Otman Aghzout
11:30 Phased Array with 45° Scanning and Over 65dB Polarization Purity from 53-100GHz Using PCB Flip-Chip Technology
Alfredo Gonzalez, Elias A. Alwan and John L. Volakis
11:50 Design and Characterization of a Simple and Wideband Antenna for 5G mm-wave Applications
Mohammad Alibakhshikenari, Syed Naqvi, Wahaj Abbas Awan, Francisco Falcone and Ernesto Limiti

Wednesday, May 26 11:50 - 12:30 (America/Bogota)

WE-SP: Field Measurement of an Antenna with a Vector Network Analyzer

Room: webex 1
Chair: Andres Navarro

Thursday, May 27

Thursday, May 27 9:00 - 10:00 (America/Bogota)

TH -MT: Power Integrity Assessment and Optimization in the Frequency Domain

Mini tutorial
Steve Sandler
Room: webex 1

Thursday, May 27 10:20 - 12:40 (America/Bogota)

TH1: Modeling, Characterization and Simulation 1

Oral session
Room: webex 1
Chair: Jose E. Rayas-Sanchez
10:20 Capabilities of LiNbO3 Based Acoustic Wave Resonators for Wideband Applications
Jordi Verdu, Patricia Silveira, Eloi Guerrero, Lluis Acosta and Pedro de Paco
10:40 A Swarm Intelligence based Automated Framework for Variability Analysis
Aksh Chordia, Jai Narayan Tripathi and Surendra Hemaram
11:00 Comparative Analysis of Three Types of VHF/UHF Antennas for GPR Array
Tanith Guerra-Huaranga, Ruth Rubio-Noriega and Mark Clemente-Arenas
11:20 Comparison of Measured and Predicted Permittivity Values for 3D Printed PLA Substrates
Jeevan Persad and Sean Rocke
11:40 Microwave Sensor Based on Split Ring Resonators for Dielectric Characterization of Density and Viscosity of Milk
Pierre Del Carpio-Concha, Patricia Castillo, Alana de los Angeles Nuñez Flores and Renzo Acosta-Araníbar
12:00 Optimizing a Buck Voltage Regulator and the Number of Decoupling Capacitors for a PDN Application
Aurea E Moreno-Mojica, Jose E. Rayas-Sanchez and Felipe Leal-Romo
12:20 A 17 - 32 GHz Wideband High Isolation Linear mm-Wave Mixer For 5G applications
Gaurav Srivastava and Darshak K Bhatt

TH2: Passive componentes and antennas 2

Room: webex 2
Chairs: Miguel Ferrando-Bataller, Felix Vega
10:20 A Simple Low-Profile Broadband Antenna Design for 5G Millimeter-Wave Applications Over 38 GHz Spectrum
Mohammad Alibakhshikenari, Musa Hussain, Irtiza Abbas Awan, Abdullah Mazhar, Syed Naheel Raza Rizvi, Francisco Falcone and Ernesto Limiti
10:40 Application of thin dual-band electromagnetic absorbers to reduce the radar cross section of a microstrip patch antenna
Carlos Augusto T. Coelho, Maurício Weber, Vanessa Magri and Leni Matos
11:00 Optimization of Branch-Line Hybrid Couplers for Ku-Band Applications in SIW Technology
Raul Haro-Baez, Carlos Jacome-Peñaherrera and Diego Benitez
11:20 Orthogonal Polarized Horn Antenna with High Port Isolation at Ka-Band
Kunooru Bharath, Srujana Vahini Nandigama, Rama Krishna Dasari and Pandharipande
11:40 Four-port Cavity-backed Wide-band Antenna for 5G MIMO Applications
Anibal Llanga Vargas, Dong Kook Park, Jaime Molins-Benlliure, Marta Cabedo-Fabrés and Miguel Ferrando-Bataller
12:00 Synthesis and Design of Microstrip Bandpass Filter Based on Chained-Elliptic Function
Guan Shen Ng, Sovuthy Cheab, Isnani Alias, Socheatra Soeung and Wei Yang See
12:20 Design of Half Power Divider at Ku-band using Empty Substrate Integrated Waveguide
Mettu Goutham Reddy, Kunooru Bharath, Srujana Vahini Nandigama and Rama Krishna Dasari

Friday, May 28

Friday, May 28 9:00 - 10:20 (America/Bogota)

FR1: Modeling, Characterization and Simulations 2

Room: webex 1
Chair: Marlon Patino
9:00 BPFET-based RF electronics: state-of-the-art, small-signal modeling and amplifier design
Leslie M. Valdez-Sandoval, Anibal Pacheco-Sanchez, David Jimenez and Eloy Ramírez-García
9:20 Error quantification for the design of a TCR-type passive calibrator for SAR applications
Ana Guisao-Betancur, Jose Rendón-Arredondo and Alejandro Marulanda-Tobón
9:40 Nonlinear current source model for a GaAs transistor implemented in Verilog-A using pulsed measurements
Marco A. Fraquet and Guillermo Rv
10:00 Design of a Doherty Power Amplifier with GaN Technology in the Sub-6 GHz Band for 5G Applications with Harmonic Suppression
Luis Aruquipa-Callata and Guillermo Rafael-Valdivia

FR2: Passive componentes and antennas 4

Oral session
Room: webex 2
Chair: Sukomal Dey
9:00 Optimization of an array of smart antennas using PSO for the monitoring of electrical power switches
Daniel Felipe L. de Melo, Crislane Silva, José M. A. M. Oliveira, Daniel L. S. do Nascimento, Adriel Lins Alves da Silva, Amanda G. Barboza, Marcos Tavares Melo, Daniel Gomes, Antonio J. Belfort de Oliveira, Bruno Kleinau and Ricardo J. F. P. V. de Almeida
9:20 Microwave Imaging over UWB with Antipodal Vivaldi Antenna for Concealed Weapon Detection
Athul O Asok, Ashini Jaleel and Sukomal Dey
9:40 Microwave Breast Imaging using Synthetic Aperture Radar Method utilizing UWB Antenna
Athul O Asok, Gokul Nath S J and Sukomal Dey
10:00 High-Performance Planar Hexagonal Coil-Type Wireless Power Transfer System
Dmitriy Kupreyev, Kassen Dautov, Mohammad Hashmi and Muhammad Akmal Chaudhary

Friday, May 28 10:30 - 12:30 (America/Bogota)

FR4: RF dessign applications 2

Room: webex 1
Chair: Euclides L Chuma
10:30 Simulation and Fabrication of a Low-Cost RFID Reader
Vitor Luiz Gomes Mota, Lucas Boaventura, Vanessa Magri, Tadeu Ferreira, Leni Matos and Vinicius Nunes Henrique Silva
10:50 Human Movement Recognition System Using CW Doppler Radar Sensor with FFT and Convolutional Neural Network
Euclides L Chuma and Yuzo Iano
11:10 Use of the Stimulated Brillouin Scattering Effect in Optical Fibers to Generate Microwave Signals
Ignacio Enrique Zaldivar-Huerta, José Warnes Lora, Leidy Quintero Rodriguez, Jorge Rodriguez-Asomoza, Alejandro Garcia-Juarez and Min Won Lee
11:30 Non- invasive Serum Glucose Sensing Using a Double U-slot Antenna
Megan Mahadeo, Aaron Roopnarine, Sean Rocke and Craig Ramlal
11:50 Modeling Power Supply Induced Jitter in a Voltage-Mode Driver with Long Transmission Lines
Diksha Singh, Jai Narayan Tripathi and Ram Achar
12:10 A High Power Ku- to Ka-Band Single-Pole-Double-Throw Switch with Capacitive Loading for Isolation Improvement
Yi-Fan Tsao, Chien-Ming Tsao, Joachim Würfl and Heng-Tung Hsu