08:00 – 09:00 Registration and badge collection
10:30 – 11:10 Coffee Break and Poster Session #1
13:00 – 14:20 Lunch Break
16:00 – 16:40 Coffee Break and Poster Session #2 Best Student Paper Poster
19:00 Bus departure for dinner from the UPC parking lot
20:00 – 23:00 Gala Dinner
10:30 – 11:10 Coffee Break and Poster Session #3
13:30 – 14:20 Lunch Break
16:00 – 16:40 Coffee Break and Poster Session #4
19:30 – 22:00 Young Professionals Social Event
Chair: Steve Mass; Co-Chair: María José Madero
A 29.5-dBm E-Band Balanced GaAs MMIC Power Amplifier with Broadband Port Matching for Potential Supply Modulation Application
Zhiyi Liu (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Göksu Kaval (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden & Gotmic AB, Sweden); Gregor Lasser (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
Inverse Design of Wideband Dual-RF Input Power Amplifiers Using a Pixelated Combiner Approach
David Widén and Christian Fager (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
A Q-Band Three-Stage GaN MMIC Doherty Power Amplifier for Space Applications
Elodie Richard (ESA, The Netherlands); Natanael Ayllon (ESA/ESTEC, The Netherlands); Václav Valenta (European Space Agency, The Netherlands); Hugo Deberge (European Space Agency (ESA), The Netherlands); Felix Mentgen (European Space Agency, The Netherlands); Philipp Neininger, Thomas Maier and Stephan Ockenfuß (Fraunhofer IAF, Germany)
Back-off Range Reconfigurable Doherty Power Amplifier on a GaN-on-Si Process at 6G FR3
Hossein Zaheri and Gregor Lasser (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
A Q-Band MMIC Power Amplifier in 100-nm GaN-on-SiC Technology for SatCom
Corrado Florian, Alberto Maria Angelotti, Gian Piero Gibiino and Alberto Santarelli (University of Bologna, Italy)
25-30 GHz Broadband GaN Doherty Amplifier with Enhanced Carrier Output Matching Network
Francesco Manni, Paolo Colantonio and Rocco Giofrè (University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy)
A Passive Reactive Bias Tee for Low-Frequency S-Parameter Characterization of III-V Transistors
Gianni Bosi (University of Milan Bicocca, Italy); Antonio Raffo and Francesco Trevisan (University of Ferrara, Italy); Federico D'Aniello and Valeria Vadalà (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy); Giorgio Vannini (University of Ferrara, Italy)
A V-Band GaAs MMIC Self-Synchronous Rectifier with Drain-to-Gate Feedback for WPT
Marco Badii, Giovanni Lasagni, Monica Righini, Stefano Maddio, Giovanni Collodi and Alessandro Cidronali (University of Florence, Italy)
Chair: Steve Mass; Co-Chair: María José Madero
On the Trade-off Between Tuning Range and RF Performance in Junction and Accumulation-Mode MOS Varactors for Oscillator Design
Matteo Elviretti, Holger Rucker and Christian Wipf (IHP, Germany); Gerhard Kahmen (IHP Leibniz Institut für Innovative Mikroelektronik, Germany)
Comparison of Linearity in Two GaN HEMT Variants Using Ka-Band Two-Tone Load-Pull Measurements and a Simplified Transfer Function Modelling
Ehsan Merhabi Azad (Catapult, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Sam Pascoe (Leonardo, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Alex Pitt (Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult Limited, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Kauser Chaudhry (Catapult, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Roberto Quaglia (Cardiff University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Experimental Study of Varactor-Tunable Matching in Microwave GaN MMIC Power Amplifiers
Simone Cangini, Alberto Maria Angelotti and Gian Piero Gibiino (University of Bologna, Italy); Olof Bengtsson (Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, Leibniz-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik, Germany); Corrado Florian and Alberto Santarelli (University of Bologna, Italy)
Large Signal Modelling of a Varactor Diode in 120 nm GaN HEMT Technology
Sabrina Rahman, Aleksander Bogusz, Paul J Tasker and Roberto Quaglia (Cardiff University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Joint Drain and Gate Bias Control for Efficiency-Linearity Optimization in TDM-Based ISAC Envelope Tracking PAs
Amirmohammad Shahghasi (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-Barcelona Tech (UPC), Spain); Gabriel Montoro and Pere Gilabert (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Nonlinear Feedback in Josephson Circuit Optimization: Application to a Kerr-Reversal JTWPA
Emanuele Palumbo, Alessandro Alocco and Andrea Celotto (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Luca Fasolo (Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica, Italy); Bernardo Galvano (Università di Palermo, Italy); Patrizia Livreri (University of Palermo, Italy); Emanuele Enrico (Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica, Italy)
A Design Methodology for Concurrent Dual-Band Class-J Doherty Power Amplifiers
Sayedmohammad Daneshvar Farzanegan (Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal); Luis Nunes (Universidade de Aveiro - Instituto de Telecomunicacoes, Portugal); Filipe M Barradas (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal & University of Aveiro, Portugal); Pedro Cabral (Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal); Jose Pedro (University of Aveiro & Institute of Telecommunications, Portugal)
Wideband Class-E Inverter and Synchronous Rectifier Based on a GaAs E-pHEMT Device
Mostapha Ouadefli (Celestia TTI, Spain); Paula Gómez and José A García (Universidad de Cantabria, Spain)
Chair: Steve Mass; Co-Chair: María José Madero
A 500 MHz to 4 GHz Active True Time Delay GaAs MMIC
Muhammad Yaqub Alam Mahsud (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA); Taylor Barton (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA)
A 400 GHz SiGe Push-Push Oscillator with a Monolithically Integrated Patch Antenna
Mehran Khanehbeygi (University of L'Aquila, Italy); Marta Ferreras (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain); Leonardo Pantoli (University of L'Aquila, Italy); Giorgio Leuzzi (University of L'Aquila, Italy)
Multiple Mixing in Passive Mixers
Timo Rahkonen, Negar Shabanzadeh, Ara Abdulsatar Assim, Rodrigo Llorente Triana and Janne P Aikio (University of Oulu, Finland)
Tunnel Diode-Based Analog Basis-Function Circuits for Nonlinear Function Synthesis
Haoyu Li, Junhan Xie, Jinrong Tang, Jiacheng Peng and Junxiong Liu (Sun Yat-sen University, China); Songyuan Li (Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology, China); Teng Wang and Xiangwei Zhu (Sun Yat-sen University, China)
A Compact Broadband GaN Power Amplifier Using a Filtering-Matching Network
Mohammadamin Kamali (Technische Universität Graz, Austria); Mohammad Mehrabi Gohari (Micro and nano system KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Ioannis Peppas (Infineon Technologies Austria AG, Austria); Helmut Paulitsch and Michael Gadringer (Graz University of Technology, Austria); Wolfgang Bosch (Graz University of Technology & Institute of Microwave and Photonic Engineering, Austria)
Impact of Nonlinearities and Memory Effects on Multi-Frequency Microwave Control of Large-Scale Quantum Processors
Marvin Jaeger (Technische Universität Hamburg, Germany); Gian Piero Gibiino (University of Bologna, Italy); Felice Francesco Tafuri (Aalborg University & Keysight Technologies, Spain); Philip Krantz and Eric T. Holland (Keysight Technologies, USA); Alexander Koelpin (Hamburg University of Technology & Chair for Electronics and Sensor Systems, Germany)
An 18-40-GHz GaN Resistive Mixer Front End with 28% LO Tuning Range
Cristian Di Pietro and Sergio Colangeli (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy); Patrick Ettore Longhi (University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy); Walter Ciccognani (Università of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy); Antonio Serino and Ernesto Limiti (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy)
Time-Domain Analysis of Recovery Dynamics in a GaN Limiter-LNA-Limiter MMIC Radar Front-End at X-Band
David Espinosa-Adams (Indra Sistemas, Spain); Jose Luis Jimenez-Martin (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain); Vicente González Posadas (Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain); Jorge Montero Valor and Eduardo García Lorenzo (Indra Sistemas, Spain); Eduardo Oreja-Gigorro (Indra Sistemas S.A., Spain); Javier Montero de Paz (Indra Sistemas, Spain); Juan José Sánchez-Martínez (Indra Sistemas S.A., Spain)
Impact and Trade-Offs of Gate Length in GaN-on-SiC MMICs for Q-Band High Power Amplifiers
Kimon Vivien (United Monolithic Semiconductor, France); Frédéric Drillet (United Monolithic Semiconductor (UMS), France); Frédéric Vicente and Zineb Ouarch (United Monolithic Semiconductor, France); Samira Bouzid-Driad (United Monolithic Semiconductors, France)