RF&MW - Grup de Recerca de Sistemes, Dispositius i Materials de RF i Microones

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  • Microstrip-fed 3D-printed H-sectorial horn phased array 

    Zhou, Ivan; Pradell i Cara, Lluís; López Villegas, José María; Vidal Martínez, Neus; Albert Gali, Miquel; Jofre Roca, Lluís; Romeu Robert, Jordi (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2022-07-16)
    Article
    Open Access
    A 3D-printed phased array consisting of four H-Sectorial horn antennas of 200 g weight with an ultra-wideband rectangular-waveguide-to-microstrip-line transition operating over the whole LMDS and K bands (24.25–29.5 GHz) ...

  • 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)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    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 ...

  • Increasing stratification as observed by satellite sea surface salinity measurements 

    Olmedo Casal, Estrella; Turiel Martínez, Antonio; González Gambau, Verónica; González Haro, Cristina; García Espriu, Aina; Gabarró Prats, Carolina; Portabella, Marcos; Corbella Sanahuja, Ignasi; Martín Neira, Manuel; Arias Ballesteros, Manuel; Catany, Rafael; Sabia, Roberto; Olivia, Roger; Scipal, Klaus (Nature, 2022-12-01)
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    Open Access
    Changes in the Earth’s water cycle can be estimated by analyzing sea surface salinity. This variable refects the balance between precipitation and evaporation over the ocean, since the upper layers of the ocean are the ...

  • 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)
    Conference report
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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 ...

  • Evaluation of the nonlinear surface resistance of REBCO coated conductors for their use in the FCC-hh beam screen 

    Krkotic, Patrick; Romanov, Artur; Tagdulang, Nikki; Telles, Guilherme; Puig Molina, Teresa; Gutiérrez Royo, Joffre; Granados García, Xavier; Calatroni, Sergio; Pérez, Francis; Pont Montaner, Montserrat; O'Callaghan Castellà, Juan Manuel (2022-01-07)
    Article
    Open Access
    To assess the feasibility of using high-temperature superconductors for the beam screens of future circular colliders, we have undertaken a study of the power dependence of the microwave surface resistance in state-of-the-art ...

  • 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)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    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 ...

  • Design of minimum nonlinear distortion reconfigurable antennas for next-generation communication systems 

    Ramírez Arroyave, Germán Augusto; Barlabe Dalmau, Antoni; Pradell i Cara, Lluís; Araque Araque, Javier Leonardo; Cetiner, Bedri Artug; Jofre Roca, Lluís (2021-04-01)
    Article
    Open Access
    Nonlinear effects in the radio front-end can degrade communication quality and system performance. In this paper we present a new design technique for reconfigurable antennas that minimizes the nonlinear distortion and ...

  • A simple low-cost electrocardiogram synchronizer 

    Amorós García de Valdecasas, Susana; Galvez Monton, Carolina; Rodríguez Leor, Oriol; O'Callaghan Castellà, Juan Manuel (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2021-09-01)
    Article
    Open Access
    Electrocardiogram (ECG) synchronization is useful to avoid the effects of cardiac motion in medical measurements, and is widely used in standard medical imaging. A number of medical equipment include embedded commercial ...

  • Rayleigh backscattering rejection in single-laser homodyne transceiver for UD-WDM using λ-Shifting 

    Masanas Jiménez, Miquel; Santos Blanco, M. Concepción; Tabares Giraldo, Jeison; Polo Querol, Víctor; Prat Gomà, Josep Joan (2021-04-01)
    Article
    Open Access
    With the aim of using a single laser per transceiver in single fiber splitter-based passive optical networks (PON) with coherent homodyne receivers, we apply wavelength shifting in an ultra-dense wavelength division ...

  • A novel digital IQ demodulation for interferometric radiometers 

    Corbella Sanahuja, Ignasi; Martín Neira, Manuel; Vilaseca, Roger; Catalán Artigas, Albert; Torres Torres, Francisco; Suess, Martin (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2021-03-02)
    Article
    Open Access
    In the frame of an SMOS follow-on operational mission, a new instrument design is being developed based on the lessons learned from MIRAS, the SMOS payload. To reduce hardware complexity and mass, digital In-phase Quadrature ...

  • Characterisation of copper and stainless steel surfaces treated with laser ablation surface engineering 

    Hannah, Adrian N.; Krkotic, Patrick; Valizadeh, Reza; Malyshev, Oleg; Mutch, J.; Whitehead, David J.; Pont, Montse; O'Callaghan Castellà, Juan Manuel; Dhanak, Vinod R. (2021-07)
    Article
    Open Access
    In the past few years, it has been established that Laser Ablation Surface Engineering (LASE) is a very effective way of producing surfaces which have Secondary Electron Yields (SEY)¿<¿1. This can be achieved with a variety ...

  • Optical phase effects in reconfigurable microwave photonic filters with multiple wavelength input 

    Nuño Gómez, Daniel-Juan; Santos Blanco, M. Concepción (2021-11)
    Article
    Open Access
    Microwave photonic filters with a multiple wavelength input are analyzed. A comprehensive model assessing the impact of the phase characteristic of the optical stage is presented from which optimized design rules have been ...

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