Enviaments recents

  • SMOS instrument performance after more than 11 years in orbit 

    Martín Neira, Manuel; Oliva, Roger; Onrubia Ibáñez, Raul; Corbella Sanahuja, Ignasi; Duffo Ubeda, Núria; Rubino, Roselena; Kainulainen, Juha; Closa Soteras, Josep; Zurita Campos, Alberto M.; del Castillo, Javier (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2021)
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    ESA's Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission [1] has been in orbit for over 11 years, and its Microwave Imaging Radiometer with Aperture Synthesis (MIRAS) in two dimensions keeps being fully operational. This ...
  • X-parameters based characterization of PIN diodes for reconfigurable antenna assessment 

    Ramírez Arroyave, Germán Augusto; Barlabe Dalmau, Antoni; Pradell i Cara, Lluís; Jofre Roca, Lluís (Íñigo Cuiñas Gómez, 2021)
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    This contribution presents the non-linear characterization up to 50 GHz of a PIN diode commonly used as switch for reconfigurable devices at microwave applications. Non-linear models are extracted by means of X-parameter ...
  • RF characterisation of new coatings for future circular collider beam screens 

    Krkotic, Patrick; Pérez, Francis; Pont Montaner, Montserrat; Tagdulang, Nikki; Calatroni, Sergio; O'Callaghan Castellà, Juan Manuel; Granados García, Xavier; Gutiérrez Royo, Joffre; Puig Molina, Teresa; Romanov, Artur; Telles, Guilherme; Hannah, Adrian N.; Malyshev, Oleg; Valizadeh, Reza; Whitehead, David J. (Joint Accelerator Conferences Website (JACoW), 2021)
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    For the future high energy colliders being under the design at this moment, the choice of a low surface impedance beam screen coating material has become of fundamental importance to ensure sufficiently low beam impedance ...
  • Refining the methodology to correct the faraday rotation angle from SMOS measurements 

    Rubino, Roselena; Duffo Ubeda, Núria; González Gambau, Verónica; Corbella Sanahuja, Ignasi; Durán Martínez, Israel; Torres Torres, Francisco; Martín Neira, Manuel (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2019)
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    In this work, a refined methodology to correct the Faraday Rotation angle (FRA) for the SMOS mission is proposed. The method is based on calculating the FRA using the SMOS full-pol radiometric data to obtain VTEC maps ...
  • Characterization of THz radiation by collimated wavefront aperture raster scanning 

    Nuño Gómez, Daniel-Juan; Santos Blanco, M. Concepción; Gomez Diaz, J. Sebastian; Romeu Robert, Jordi; Jofre Roca, Lluís (Universidad de Málaga, 2020)
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    We present measurements for characterization of the beam profile and polarization pattern of lens-coupled photoconductive antennas (PCAs) at THz frequencies using a setup with antennas at fixed positions and a movable ...
  • Technology developments for an advanced L-band radiometer mission 

    Martín Neira, Manuel; Catalán Artigas, Albert; Corbella Sanahuja, Ignasi; Durán Martínez, Israel; Duffo Ubeda, Núria (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020)
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    ESA’s Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission was launched 2 Nov 2009 and, to date, is still in good health, providing valuable L-band observations of the Earth surface [1]. A number of products are obtained from ...
  • Optical beam steering network with multiband capability 

    Vega, Sara; Nuño Gómez, Daniel-Juan; Santos Blanco, M. Concepción (Universidad de Málaga, 2020)
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    A multiwavelength (MW) optical true time delay Network (OTTDN) to feed a phased array antenna (PAA) is presented. Beam steering capabilities can be demonstrated when applying MW tuning. A Dual Electrode Mach Zehnder Modulator ...
  • Deriving VTEC maps from SMOS radiometric data 

    Rubino, Roselena; Duffo Ubeda, Núria; González Gambau, Verónica; Corbella Sanahuja, Ignasi; Torres Torres, Francisco; Durán Martínez, Israel; Martín Neira, Manuel (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2020-05-01)
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    In this work, a new methodology is proposed in order to derive vertical total electron content (VTEC) maps from the radiometric measurements of the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission as an alternative approach ...
  • A 3D printed lens antenna for 5G applications 

    Ballesteros, Christian; Maestre, Marcos; Santos Blanco, M. Concepción; Romeu Robert, Jordi; Jofre Roca, Lluís (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2019)
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    A switchable multi-antenna architecture for lens-assisted beamsteering in the Ka-band region allocated for 5G communications (24-30 GHz) is proposed. The radiating elements are bow-tie antennas mounted with a 3D printed ...
  • A model for photocurrent generation in photoconductive antennas 

    López Menchón, Héctor; Revuelta Martinez, Sergio; Santos Blanco, M. Concepción; Romeu Robert, Jordi; Rius Casals, Juan Manuel (2019)
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    The laser-induced current carrier generation and transport under large biasing voltages in photoconductive materials located in electrode gap region of photoconductive antennas is a complex process involving many different ...
  • An architecture analysis for millimeter-wave optically steerable antenna array 

    Ballesteros Sánchez, Christian; Maestre, Marcos; Santos Blanco, M. Concepción; Romeu Robert, Jordi; Jofre Roca, Lluís (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2019)
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    A lens-based integrated photodiode-antenna array for a Radio over Fiber (RoF) 5G wireless base station at millimeter-wave frequencies is proposed and analyzed. The elements of the array are based on slot bow-tie antennas ...
  • Benefits of applying nodal sampling to SMOS data over semi-enclosed seas and strongly RFI-contaminated regions 

    González Gambau, Verónica; Olmedo, Estrella; Martinez, J.; Turiel, Antonio; Corbella Sanahuja, Ignasi; Oliva, Roger; Martín Neira, Manuel (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018)
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    Radio Frequency Interferences (RFI) are still an important source of contamination in SMOS data. The application of nodal sampling (NS) to brightness temperature images helps to mitigate the degradation that RFIs produce ...

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