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    • A Self-Oscillating Single Gatemesfet X-Bandmixer 

      Elias Fusté, Antoni; Terrades Busquets, j; de los Reyes, Elías (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 1987)
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      The nonlinear properties of GaAs MESFET can be used to implement self-oscillating mixers. This paper describes a new single-gate MESFET X-Band mixer of this kind built on a microstrip circuit, its design constraints and ...
    • Accelerated direct solution of the MoM-VIE for dielectric scatterers 

      Heldring, Alexander; Tamayo Palau, José María; Rius Casals, Juan Manuel; Úbeda Farré, Eduard (2011)
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      The Multiscale Compressed Block Decomposition algorithm (MS-CBD), a direct (non-iterative) linear solver, is applied to accelerate the solution of the MoM-VIE formulation for dielectric scatterers. Numerical solutions are ...
    • Accurate determination of dielectric properties in small, high-permittivity dielectric cylinders 

      Tagdulang, Nikki; Krkotic, Patrick; Díez, A.; Pont Montaner, Montserrat; O'Callaghan Castellà, Juan Manuel (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2022)
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      We describe a method for performing cryogenic permittivity and loss tangent measurements of small (few mm), high-permittivity dielectric cylinders used in surface impedance measurement of superconductors. We combine the ...
    • All-dielectric self-cloaked structures 

      Hayran, Zeki; Kurt, H.; Herrero Simon, Ramon; Botey Cumella, Muriel; Staliunas, Kestutis (2018-03-17)
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      A general procedure to design objects that are intrinsically invisible (without the necessity of an external cloak) has not been demonstrated so far. Here we propose a flexible method to design such self-cloaked objects ...
    • Analysis on the effects of the human body on the performance of wearable textile antenna in substrate integrated waveguide technology 

      El Gharbi, Mariam; Ahyoud, Saida; Aknin, Noura; Gil Galí, Ignacio; Fernández García, Raúl (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020)
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      A wearable textile circular ring slot antenna based on a substrate integrated waveguide cavity is presented. In this paper, the focus is on studying and understanding the technical behavior of the SIW textile antenna when ...
    • Anopore confinement in the cyanobiphenyl-based liquid crystal dimer CB7CB. A dielectric study 

      Robles Hernández, Beatriz; Sebastián, Nerea; de la Fuente Lavin, Maria Rosario; López Pérez, David Orencio; Salud Puig, Josep; Díez Berart, Sergio (2024-08-01)
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      We report an experimental work on the liquid crystal dimer 1’’,7’-bis(4-cyanobiphenyl-4’-yl) heptane (CB7CB) confined to Anopore membranes. We have studied the behaviour of the dielectric relaxation modes in the isotropic ...
    • Beam focalization by chirped mirrors 

      Cheng, Yu Chieh; Peckus, Martynas; Kicas, Simonas; Trull Silvestre, José Francisco; Cojocaru, Crina; Vilaseca Alavedra, Ramon; Drazdys, Ramutis; Staliunas, Kestutis (Optical Society of American (OSA), 2014)
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      A novel application of chirped dielectric mirrors for narrow beam focalization is proposed and demonstrated numerically and experimentally. Analogy to temporal dispersion compensation by chirped dielectric mirrors is discussed.
    • Cálculo de la difracción de cilindros de forma arbitraria mediante el método de los elementos de contorno 

      Cruellas Ibarz, Juan Carlos; Ferrando Bataller, Miquel (1987)
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      The Boundary Element Method is applied to computing electromagnetic scattering of dielectric cylinders of arbitrary shape. The obtained results are shown and compared with analytic solutions and previous results obtained ...
    • Characterization method of the dynamics of the trapped charge in contactless capacitive MEMS 

      Gorreta Mariné, Sergio; Pons Nin, Joan; Domínguez Pumar, Manuel; Blokhina, Elena; Feely, Orla (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2015)
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      Dielectric charging of insulating films in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) has a crucial effect on the operation of those devices. A new method is presented in order to characterize the dynamics of the charge trapped ...
    • Charge induced by ionizing radiation understood as a disturbance in a sliding mode control of dielectric charge 

      Domínguez Pumar, Manuel; Gorreta Mariné, Sergio; Pons Nin, Joan; Gomez Rodriguez, Faustino; Gonzalez Castaño, Diego (2015-07-03)
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      The purpose of this paper is to show that the charge induced by radiation in a dielectric on which a sigma–delta control of dielectric charge is implemented, can be seen as a disturbance in a sliding mode controller. ...
    • Charge storage and retention in electret dielectric layers for energy harvesting applications 

      Diáz-Ballester, A.; Castillo-Anguera, S; Rafi, J. M.; Gómez-Martínez, R.; Abadal, G.; Figueras, E.; Plaza, J.A.; Esteve, J.; Mudarra López, Miguel; Cañadas Lorenzo, Juan Carlos (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2014)
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      By providing a permanent electric polarization, electrets have a wide range of applications in different fields like sensors and actuators, energy harvesting or biomedicine. Stable electrets with silicon-based compatible ...
    • Closed-loop compensation of dielectric charge induced by ionizing radiation 

      Domínguez Pumar, Manuel; Gorreta Mariné, Sergio; Pons Nin, Joan; Gomez Rodriguez, Faustino; Gonzalez Castaño, Diego; Muschitiello, Michele (2015-06-01)
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      This letter investigates the capability of dielectric charge control loops to cope with charge induced by ionizing radiation. To this effect, an microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) variable capacitor has been irradiated ...
    • Comparative dielectric and thermally stimulated-depolarization-current studies of the liquid crystal dimers 1¿,9¿-bis(4-cyanobiphenyl-4'-yl) nonane and heptane and a binary mixture between them, close to the glass transition 

      Sellarès González, Jordi; Diego Vives, José Antonio; López Pérez, David Orencio; Salud Puig, Josep; Robles Hernández, Beatriz; de la Fuente Lavin, Maria Rosario; Cañadas Lorenzo, Juan Carlos; Mudarra López, Miguel; López de Rioja, Víctor; Levit Valenzuela, Rafael; Díez Berart, Sergio (American Institute of Physics (AIP), 2022-11-21)
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      We have performed dielectric spectroscopy and thermally stimulated-depolarization-current experiments to study the molecular dynamics of the twist-bend nematic phase close to the glass transition of two members of the ...
    • Conductores y dieléctricos 

      Lupón Bas, Núria (2008-11-19)
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    • Contribution of reversible processes to the non-linear dielectric response in hard lead zirconate titanate ceramics 

      García García, José Eduardo; Pérez Pérez, Rafael; Albareda Tiana, Alfonso (2005-10)
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      Se estudia la dependencia entre la constante dieléctrica y las pérdidas con el campo eléctrico aplicado, así como entre la constante dieléctrica y las pérdidas dieléctricas. Los resultados muestran que las cerámicas PZT ...
    • Design of a dielectric flat lens antenna for 60 GHz WPAN applications 

      Imbert Villà, Marc; Romeu Robert, Jordi; Jofre Roca, Lluís (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013)
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      In this paper we present the design of a dielectric flat lens antenna to operate in the 60 GHz band for WPAN applications. In order to overcome the specific atmospheric attenuation, which characterizes the propagation in ...
    • Dielectric and mechanical nonlinear behavior of Mn doped PMN-35PT ceramics 

      Kobor, Diouma; Hajjaji, Abdelowahed; García García, José Eduardo; Pérez Pérez, Rafael; Albareda Tiana, Alfonso; Lebrun, Laurent; Guyomar, Daniel (2010-10)
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      This paper presents an investigation on dielectric and mechanical nonlinear properties in Mn-doped PMN-35PT ceramics. The structural study of the ceramics verifies that the 1% mol Mn doped PMN-35PT is a pure perovskite ...
    • Dielectric and piezoelectric nonlinear properties of slightly textured lead barium niobate ceramics 

      Ochoa Guerrero, Diego A.; Casals Mirones, Jorge Alejandro; Venet, Michel; M'Peko, Jean-Claude; García García, José Eduardo (American Institute of Physics (AIP), 2019-01-09)
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      Dielectric and piezoelectric responses of slightly textured, lead barium niobate ceramics are studied. The designed morphotropic phase boundary composition (Pb0.63Ba0.37Nb2O6) shows considerable nonlinear dielectric and ...
    • Dispersion characteristics and field structure of an axially magnetized ferrite loaded rectangular waveguide 

      Bará Temes, Francisco Javier (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 1972)
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      A basic limitation in an earlier work on the axially magnetized, ferrite loaded rectangular guide has led to a detailed re-examination of this problem. Both a series solution and a perturbational technique are used to find ...
    • Distortion-sensitive insight into the pretransitional behavior of 4-n-octyloxy-4 '-cyanobiphenyl (8OCB) 

      Rzoska, Sylwester J.; Drozd-Rzoska, Aleksandra; Mukherjee, Prabir K; López Pérez, David Orencio; Martínez García, Julio Cesar (Institute Of Physics Publishing Ltd, 2013-06)
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      Results of studies of the static and dynamic dielectric properties in rod-like 4-n-octyloxy-40-cyanobiphenyl (8OCB) with isotropic (I)–nematic (N)–smectic A (SmA)–crystal (Cr) mesomorphism, combined with measurements of ...