MMS 2007
Mediterranean Microwave Symposium		 Microcoll
MMS and
12th Microcoll Conference
14-16 May, 2007

 

DCProgramme details

Scientific Program of MMS2007 Conference

 

13 May 2007, Sunday

16.00-20.00 Registration

14 May 2007, Monday

9.00-10.45 Antenna Theory and Applications I.

Chairman: Alexandar Nesic
9.00-9.30 Invited lecture - John Volakis: Metamaterials for Miniaturazion of Narrowband and Ultra-Wideband Antennas
9.30-9.45 Onofrio Losito: High Efficiency and Broadband Microstrip Leaky-Wave Antenna
9.45-10.00 Mario Pauli et al.: Multi-Directional Broadband Planar Dipole Arrays
10.00-10.15 Moussa Barakat et al.: 60 GHz Slot antenna integrated on SOI
10.15-10.30 Anil B. Nandgaonkar et al.: Design of Shorted Stacked Square Patch
10.30-10.45 Sandra Costanzo et al.: Wideband Phaseless Near-Field Method
10.45-11.00 Coffee break
11.00-12.30 Opening Joint Session

Chairman: László Zombory
11.00-11.30 Welcome addresses:
  • Mohammad Essaaidi, MMS General Chairman of the Steering Committee
  • László Zombory, Chairman of the Microcoll Steering Committee
  • Józef Modelski, President Elect of MTT Society
  • Roberto Sorrentino, European Microwave Association
  • Gyula Sallai, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Budapest University of Technology and Economics
  • Tibor Berceli, MMS’2007 Chairman and 12th Microcoll TPC Chairman
11.30-12.00 Invited lecture - Paul Yu: Recent Advances in Photonic Devices for RF/Wireless Communication Applications
12.00-12.30 Invited lecture - Wolfgang Höfer: Multi-Level Modeling and Complex Microwave/High-Speed Design
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.45 Antenna Theory and Applications II.

Chairman: Werner Wiesbeck
14.00-14.30 Invited lecture - Milan Polivka: Microstrip Patch Antennas with Specific Properties:

Multi-band, Miniaturized, and Gain Enhanced
14.30-14.50 George Sajin et al.: CPW Silicon Zeroth-Order Resonance Antenna Using Composite Right/Left-Handed Transmission Lines
14.50-15.10 Fabrizio Consoli et al.: Numerical and Experimental Study of UWB Circular Slot Antennas with Different Diameters
15.10-15.30 Maksym Khruslov et al.: Metal-dielectric coaxial monopole antenna
15.30-15.45 Suren Eyramjyan: Apparatus Complex for Phased Array Module Testing
15.45-16.00 Coffee break
16.00-17.30 Wireless Technology

Chairman: Wolfgang Höfer
16.00-16.30 Invited lecture: Manu Malek: WLAN Security
16.30-17.00 Invited lecture - S. A. Dmitriev: UWB wireless personal area networks based on chaotic signals
17.00-17.15 Béla Szentpáli et al.: E-field probe for closed space EMC measurements
17.15-17.30 Mikulas Bittera et al.: Interference cable effect to EMI measurement results
18.00-20.00 Welcome Reception

 

15 May 2007, Tuesday

8.30-10.15 Passive Microwave Components I.

Chairman: Milan Polivka
8.30-9.00 Invited lecture – Georg Böck: Design of RF-CMOS Integrated Circuits for Wireless Communications
9.00-9.15 Goran Stojanovic et al.: Design, simulation and analysis of novel fractal integrated transformers
9.15-9.30 Lajos Nagy et al.: Microwave anti reflection coating development
9.30-9.45 Sinisa Jovanovic at all: Capacitive Coupled Microstrip Band-pass Filter with Asymmetrically Capacitive Loaded Resonators
9.45-10.00 Zbynek Raida et al.: Comparison of a real-coding genetic algorithm and particle swarm optimization
10.00-10.15 Ahmed Boutejdar et al.: Improvement of bassband and Sharpness Factor of Parallel Coupled Microstrip Bandpass Filters Using Discontinuities Correction
10.15-10.30 Coffee break
10.30-12.15 Microwave Active Circuits

Chairman: Georg Böck
10.30-11.00 Invited lecture - Almudena Suarez: Global Stability Analysis and Stabilization of Power Amplifiers
11.00-11.15 Francesco Cannone et al.: New low power transmitter architecture for high resolution phase shifting
11.15-11.30 Antonino Laudani et al.: Ka Band Phase Locked Loop Oscillator (PLL DRO) for Satellite EHF Band Receiver
11.30-11.45 Li-Han Hsu et al.: Chip-Scale Packaged 30 GHz GaAs Microstrip and Coplanar Waveguide MMIC Amplifiers Using Flip Chip Interconnects
11.45-12.00 Mehdi Rezvani Abkenari et al.: A Ka Band Image Rejection Mixer with Improved Suppression and Bandwidth
12.00-12.15 Andrey I. Panas et al.: Ultra-wideband microwave chaotic oscillator
12.15-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.30 Research Partner Forum
13.30-16.00

Poster nr.

 Poster Joint Session with Beverages

Chairman: Attila Hilt
P-1 Huey-Ru Chuang et al.: A Planar UWB Triangular Sleeve-Monopole Antenna Sleeve-Monopole Antenna
P-2 Pooria Varahram et al.: Power Amplifiers Linearization Based on Digital Predistortion Used in CDMA Applications
P-3 Olena Boryskina et al.: Visualization of Collagen Distribution in Skin by Means of Double Imaging by Two-photon Excited Fluorescence and Second Harmonic Generation: Implication for Developmental Biology
P-4 Volodymyr Byelobrov et al.: Lasing spectra and thresholds of the optical modes in a layered-DBR microcavity equipped with a quantum well
P-5 Roman Chernobrovkin et al.: The novel microwave stop-band filter
P-6 Huey-Ru Chuang et al.: A 915-MHz Printed Meander-Line Antenna and Body Effect on Antenna Performance for Wireless Biometry Application
P-7 Guido Valerio et al.: Nonperiodic excitation of a shielded periodic array of patches
P-8 Plamen I. Dankov et al.: Dielectric Substrate Characterization with Re-Entrant Resonators
P-9 Ahmed Elbarsha et al.: Dual feeding Full wave dipole Antenna
P-10 Ahmed Elkorany et al.: FDTD Analysis of rectangular DRA
P-11 Ahmed Elkorany et al.: FDTD Analysis of a Wide Band Inserted RDRA
P-12 Karthik Kumar et al.: Design and Synthesis of Modified Taylor Distributed Adaptive Beamforming Array Element
P-13 Hugo Gomes et al.: RFID for Location Proposes Based on the Intermodulation Distortion
P-14 Stoyan Iliev et al.: Investigation of the RFID System Read Range for Ensuring High Reading Rates at the Automobile Assembly Lines
P-15 Kwi-Soo Kim et al.: A Design of New Switch Structure for Time Division Duplex system
P-16 Hamid Kiumarsi et al.: Design and Implementation of an Extremely Low VSWR Ka Band Balanced Amplifier with Six Port Power Divider
P-17 Xiaocha Liu et al.: Analyzing the series impedance of Circular Stacked Inductors On Lossy Substrate
P-18 Abdelnasser A. Eldek: Design and Analysis of a Small Ultra Wideband Planar Tap Monopole Antenna with Slit, Tapered Transition and Notched Ground Plane
P-19 Pavel Makhno et al.: Diffraction of optical frequency electromagnetic wave on two-dimensionally periodic nanostructures
P-20 Gábor Matyi: The TLM method and the Marcuwits-Schwinger Equations
P-21 Mbango Moukanda et al.: Oxide Effect on the Doped Silicon-525?m Relative Permittivity Extracted by Using A Coaxial Probe Fixture
P-22 Anil Nandgaonkar et al.: A Modified Half U-Slot Microstrip Patch
P-23 Heng-Ming Hsu et al.: Characterization On High-Coupling Transformer in Silicon-Based Technology
P-24 Seongmin Oh et al.: An Unequal Wilkinson Power Divider Without Packaging Problem of Defected Ground Structure
P-25 Mario Pauli et al.: A dielectric travelling wave antenna for microwave assisted soil remediation
P-26 Tarek Ramadan et al.: Single-Transverse-Mode Bipolar Cascade Lasers With Thick Quantum Wells and No Optical Confinement Layers
P-27 Anton Laktyushkin et al.: Ranging Using Chaotic Radio Pulses
P-28 Otto Schwelb: Resonance, bandwidth and scaling of coupled multiring optical filters
P-29 Wei-Cheng Wu et al.: DC and RF Characterizations of Flip-Chip Packaged Low-Noise GaAs PHEMT towards Multi-chip Modules (MCMs) for Microwave Applications
16.00-17.30 Inverse Scattering

Chairman: Alexander Nosich
16.00-16.30 Invited lecture - Felix Yanovsky, Leo Ligthart: Microwave Scattering on Hydrometeors
16.30-16.45 Marco Chiappe et al.: Analytical Approach to Inverse Electromagnetic Problems
16.45-17.00 Giovanni Bozza et al.: An inverse scattering approach for noninvasive diagnostics of subsurface discontinuities
17.00-17.15 Yana Bulaivska et al.: Method of images recognition with the fractal dates processing
17.15-17.30 Senem Makal et al.: Identification of Targets above Perfectly Conducting Surfaces by Using Artificial Neural Networks

 

16 May 2007, Wednesday

8.30-10.15 Passive Microwave Components II.

Chairman: Almudena Suarez
8.30-8.45 Tuyen Vo et al.: CPW Multilayer Directional Couplers for Broadband Applications
8.45-9.00 Slawomir Gruszczynski et al.: Design of Coupled-Bar-Line Filters and Directional Couplers Using Finite Difference Technique
9.00-9.15 Stefan Simion et al.: CPW silicon directional coupler based on composite right/left-handed transmission lines
9.15-9.30 Hamid Kiumarsi et al.: A Ka Band Microstrip Parallel Coupled Line Bandpass Filter with very Low Insertion Loss
9.30-9.45 Jiangfeng Xu: Analysis of the Thermal effects of GaAs FETs under the High-power Electromagnetic Pulses
9.45-10.00 Hussein Shaman et al.: Compact Wideband Bandpass Filter with Multiple Coupled Lines
10.00-10.15 Cheng-Yin Hsu et al.: Implementation of 60-GHz Millimeter-Wave CMOS RFIC-on-Chip Bandpass Filter
10.15-10.30 Coffee break
10.30-12.15 Electromagnetic Field Analysis (parallel session)

Chairman: Zbynek Raida
10.30-11.00 Invited lecture - Alexander I. Nosich: Linear electromagnetic modelling of microcavity lasers using eigenvalue problems for active open resonators
11.00-11.15 Artem Boriskin et al.: Validation of GO/PO and FDTD based CAD tools for the analysis of small-size dielectric hemielliptic lens antennas
11.15-11.30 Antonino Laudani et al.: FE electromagnetic simulation of slow-wave helicoidal structures in Traveling Wave Tubes
11.30-11.45 Thorsten Kayser et al.: Determination of Dielectric Material Parameters using Particle Swarm Optimization
11.45-12.00 Fabrizio Consoli et al.: Dependence on Frequency of the Electromagnetic Field Distribution Inside a Cylindrical Cavity Excited Through an Off-Axis Aperture
12.00-12.15 Hovik Baghdasaryan et al.: Correct Electrodynamical Analysis of a Periodic Metal-Dielectric Microstructure by the Method of Single Expression
10.30-12.15 Photonics (parallel session)

Chairman: Peter Herczfeld
10.30-11.00 Invited lecture – Beatrice Cabon: Perspectives of UWB over fibre in 60 GHz band
11.00-11.15 Pál Koppa et al.: All optical address decoding for Tb/s packet switching
11.15-11.30 Miklós Serényi et al.: All-Optical Switching Possibilities for Optical Packet Switching
11.30-11.45 Sylvie Tonda-Goldstein et al.: Slowlight in semi-conductor amplifier Application to programmable time delays for control of microwave
11.45-12.00 Charlotte Tripon-Canseliet et al.: Picosecond impulse magnitude modulation of microwave signals by ultrafast control of membrane LT-GaAs photoswitching devices
12.00-12.15 Luigi Pierno: A Novel Photonic Sampler in Radar and EW applications
12.15-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.30 Closing Joint Session

Chairman: Mohammad Essaaidi
14.00-14.30 Invited lecture - Lajos Hanzo: Research Aspects of OFDM
14.30-15.00 Invited lecture - Peter Siegel: THz Technology in Outer and Inner Space
15.00-15.15 Closing remarks: Tibor Berceli
15.15-15.30 Awards: Roberto Sorrentino
15.45- Banquet (leaving by bus, tentative arrival back at 22.00)

 

Scientific Program of 12th Microcoll Conference

13 May 2007, Sunday

16.00-20.00 Registration

14 May 2007, Monday

9.00-10.45 Microwave and Optical Electronics I

Chairman: Paul Yu
9.00-9.30 Invited lecture - Juin Liou: RF Transistors: Recent Development and Roadmap Toward Teraherz Applications
9.30-9.45 Tamás Marozsák: An extremely wide tuning range integrated 2 GHz LC VCO with constant tuning gain
9.45-10.00 Otto Schwelb: Stopband characteristics of optical Vernier filters built with microring resonators
10.00-10.15 Bertalan Eged et al.: Software Defined Radio Components for Multichannel Receiver Applications
10.15-10.30 Adalbert Beyer et al.: Multilayer Tunable Ferroelectric High-Q Filters
10.30-10.45 Attila Zólomy: 2nd harmonic suppression in short range license free integrated radios with balanced outputs
10.45-11.00 Coffee break
11.00-12.30 Opening Joint Session

Chairman: László Zombory
11.00-11.30 Welcome addresses:
  • Mohammad Essaaidi, MMS General Chairman of the Steering Committee
  • László Zombory, Chairman of the Microcoll Steering Committee
  • Józef Modelski, President Elect of MTT Society
  • Roberto Sorrentino, European Microwave Association
  • Gyula Sallai, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Budapest University of Technology and Economics
  • Tibor Berceli, MMS’2007 Chairman and 12th Microcoll TPC Chairman
11.30-12.00 Invited lecture - Paul Yu: Recent Advances in Photonic Devices for RF/Wireless Communication Applications
12.00-12.30 Invited lecture - Wolfgang Hoefer: Multi-Level Modeling and Complex Microwave/High-Speed Design
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.45 Microwave and Optical Electronics II

Chairman: Juin Liou
14.00-14.30 Invited lecture – Daniel Erni: Modal multiplexing in highly overmoded waveguide channels for high-speed board-level optical interconnects
14.30-14.50 Anne-Laure Billabert et al.: Definition of Both Opto-microwave S Parameters and Noise Figures for the Elements of an IMDD Microwave Photonic Link
14.50-15.10 Yifei Li et al.: Hybrid optical-digital processing of microwave signals
15.10-15.30 Eszter Udvary et al.: Linearity investigations on SOA as external modulator in SCM systems
15.30-15.45 Rardchawadee Silapunt et al.: Stability Considerations of Potentially Unstable Broadband Microwave Transistor Amplifiers in the CCITL System
15.45-16.00 Coffee break
16.00-17.30 Combined Optical and Wireless Systems

Chairman: Daniel Erni
16.00-16.30 Invited lecture – Peter Herczfeld: Coherent Fiber Optic Links for Microwave Receivers
16.30-16.45 Attila Báder: Networking and Technological Considerations for Optical Packet Switching
16.45-17.00 Nathan Gomes et al.: TCP and UDP performance over fibre-fed IEEE 802.11b networks
17.00-17.15 Márk Csörnyei et al.: Phase-to-Intensity Noise Conversion in Optical-Microwave Filters
17.15-17.30 Margarita Varon Duran et al.: Opto-microwave source using a harmonic frequency generator driven by a VCSEL-based ring oscillator
18.00-20.00 Welcome Reception

 

15 May 2007, Tuesday

8.30-10.15 Terrestrial Microwave Links

Chairman: Manu Malek
8.30-9.00 Invited lecture – Vaclav Kvicera: Electromagnetic Wave Propagation Research on Terrestrial Paths over 1 GHz in the Czech Republic - State of the Art
9.00-9.15 Attila Hilt et al.: Microwave transmission node optimization for access capacity increase in mobile networks
9.15-9.30 László Csurgai Horváth et al.: Rain Attenuation Time Series Synthesis with Combined Two-State and Hidden Markov Models for Microwave Terrestrial Links
9.30-9.45 Gábor Szládek et al.: Base station transmit power adaptation as an efficient countermeasure against rain fading in BFWA systems
9.45-10.00 Róbert Singliar et al.: Rain Induced Outage Calculation of Satellite Diversity System
10.00-10.15 Petar Jovanovic et al.: One Method for Automatic Channels Allocation for Radio-Relay Links
10.15-10.30 Coffee break
10.30-12.15 Wireless Antennas and Propagation

Chairman: Adalbert Beyer
10.30-11.00 Invited lecture - Alexandar Nesic: Printed Antenna Arrays with High Side Lobe Suppression
11.00-11.20 Saiful Islam et al.: Frequency Selective Surface as a filter for Active MM-wave Imaging
11.20-11.40 Lajos Nagy et al.: ULA and MRA Antenna Array Comparison in Presence of Mutual Coupling
11.40-12.00 Krysztof Wincza et al.: Active Low-Cost Outdoor Antenna for Wireless LAN Applications
12.15-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.30 Research Partner Forum
14.30-16.00

Poster nr.

 Poster Joint Session with Beverages

Chairman: Attila Hilt
 P-30 Olha Asmolova et al.: Gated optical sensors
 P-31 Tamas Banky et al.: Effects of Coupled Dielectric Resonators on the Noise Properties of Microwave Signal Sources
 P-32 Mark Csornyei et al.: Chaotic Oscillations in Noise Suppressed Nd:YVO4 Solid State Laser
 P-33 Thottam Kalkur et al.: Impedance Matched Broad Band Amplifier using High-K Ferroelectric Varactor
 P-34 Miklos Kozlovszky et al.: Measurements on optical buffering models made from fiber delay lines
 P-35 Antonino Laudani et al.: An Artificial Neural Network for the prediction of electromagnetic fields in urban and rural environments
 P-36 Rajab Legnanian et al.: Smart Antennas for Cellular Mobile II: Simulation of Adaptive Antenna for Interference Reduction
 P-37 Moumita Mukherjee et al.: Analysis of 4H-SIC Millimeter-Wave Photo-Illuminated High Power Impatt Oscillator
 P-38 Lajos Nagy et al.: Compact MIMO antenna design
 P-39 Lajos Nagy et al.: Omnidirectional antenna design for the C band
 P-40 Zbynek Raida et al.: Dual band planar antenna on EBG substrate
 P-41 Behnam Zarghooni et al.: A new design for diode mixers using L-S method
 P-42 Jerome Billoue et al.: New architecture of an active phased array antenna based on DDS
 P-43 Mohssin Aoutoul et al.: A Compact UWB Rectangular Dielectric Resonator Antenna
 P-44 Shahrooz Asadi et al.: Design and Nonlinear Analysis of a Traveling Wave Power Amplifier By H.B. Method in UWB Frequency Band
16.00-17.30 Mobile Communications

Chairman: László Pap
16.00-16.30 Invited lecture – Werner Wiesbeck: 3D Propagation Modeling and Characteristics for High-Speed Mobiles
16.30-16.45 Bertalan Eged et al.: MIMO Capacity Measurement Using Software Radio Platform in Indoor Environment
16.45-17.00 Balázs Héder et al.: First and Second Order Statistics of Land Mobile Satellite Fading generated with N-State Markov Model
17.00-17.15 Lajos Nagy et al.: Receiving diversity measurements in indoor scenario
17.15-17.30 Ioannis Chochliouros et al.: Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) - A Modern Technology for realizing Fixed-Mobile Convergence

 

16 May 2007, Wednesday

8.30-10.15 Wireless Networks

Chairman: Gyula Sallai

8.30-9.00 Invited lecture - Adalbert Beyer: An Advanced Technique for Generating Pulses for Indoor UWB Systems
9.00-9.20 Attila Hilt et al.: Analysis of access transmission network upgrade in a nationwide mobile network modernization project for edge deployment
9.20-9.40 Tadeusz Wysocki et al.: Modified CMA Algorithm for WiMax Applications
9.40-9.55 Andrea Farkasvölgyi et al.: Capacity maximization for MIMO antenna systems
9.55-10.15 Csaba Vulkán et al.: Improving HSDPA Iub Transport Performance for VoIP Service
10.15-10.30 Coffee break
12.15-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.30 Closing Joint Session

Chairman: Mohammad Essaaidi
14.00-14.30 Invited lecture - Lajos Hanzo: Research Aspects of OFDM
14.30-15.00 Invited lecture - Peter Siegel: THz Technology in Outer and Inner Space
15.00-15.15 Closing remarks: Tibor Berceli
15.15-15.30 Awards: Roberto Sorrentino
15.45- Banquet (leaving by bus, tentative arrival back at 22.00)

 

Scientific Program of ISIS-Iphobac Summer School

17 May 2007, Thursday

8.30-10.10 Session 1
Chairman: Peter Herczfeld
  Béatrice Cabon: Generation and processing of UWB signals over fiber
  Jianping Yao: Photonic microwave signal processing
10.10-10.30 Coffee break
10.30-12.10 Session 2
Chairman: Beatrice Cabon
  Andreas Stöhr: Photonic Millimeter-wave and THz Source Technologies and Applications
  Mikael Gidlund: IPTV for fixed and wireless communication,  Impact of non-linearities on OFDM signals in RoF-based Wireless Networks,Traffic measurements (3play services for ADSL2+, Fiber and Wireless)
12.10-13.30 Lunch & Student poster session
13.30-16.00 Session 3
Chairman: Cinkler Tibor
  Peter R Herczfeld, Yifei Li: High performance, coherent fiber-optic links for analog microwave and millimeter wave signal transmission
  Valentin Polo: Radio-over-Fibre technologies for broadband heterogeneous access networks
  Stavros Iezekiel, Hasnul Hashim: Analogue fibre-optic link design issues
16.00-19.00 ISIS Executive Committee Meeting

 

18 May 2007, Friday

8.15-10.45 Session 1
Chairman: Andreas Stöhr
  Tibor Cinkler: Behind the Optical Access - over the Optoelectronic Systems: The Core
  Anthony Ng’Oma, Anthony Nkansah: Comparison of Millimetre Wave over MMF Designs for 4th Generation Wireless Systems within the ISIS Partnership
  Rogério Nogueira: Fiber Bragg Gratings: Theory and applications in optical communications
10.45-11.15 Coffee break
11.15-15.00 ISIS General Assembly Meeting

 

Scientific Program of ISIS-Iphobac Workshop

16 May 2007, Wednesday

8.30-10.30 Session 1
Chairman: Nathan J. Gomes
8.30-8.50 Marie Lesecq et al.: Optical switch using InP wire technology
8.50-9.10 Ruben M. O. Sousa et al.: Broadband Optical Single Sideband Prototype
9.10-9.30 Gábor Kovács et al.: DFB-Laser Wavelength Chirp for RF Signal Generation
9.30-9.50 Philippe Lombard et al.: Transmission of MB-OFDM Signals over Optical Fiber using Direct and External Optical Modulations
9.50-10.10 Ioannis P.Chochkliouros et al.: Passive Optical Network (PON) Technologies in the Context of Broadband Evolution
10.10-10.30 Coffee Break & Poster presentation during Coffee Break
Jeanne James et al.: Optical millimetre-wave generation using sideband filtering
10.30-11.30 Session2
Chairman: Anthony Ng'Oma
10.30-10.50 Mario Weiss et al.: Ultra-Wideband Photonic Millimeter-Wave Synthesizers with Coaxial (DC-110GHz) and Rectangular Waveguide (70-115GHz) Output Ports
10.50-11.10 Bahman Kalantari-Sabet et al.: Performance of TCP transmission over IEEE 802.11b network with long fibre distribution links
11.10-11.30 Kian Hua Tan et al.: High-speed picosecond pulse response GaNAsSb p-i-n photodetectors grown by RF plasma-assisted nitrogen molecular beam epitaxy
15.45- Banquet (leaving by bus, tentative arrival back at 22.00)