MM-WAVE INTEGRATED-CIRCUIT ANTENNA PLATFORMS

Substrate lens antenna platforms for broadband wireless communications
CPW based leaky and standing-wave arrays
 Surface-wave characterization and suppression

Xidong Wu (PhD, graduated), Meide Qiu (PhD), Anthony Grbic (PhD), Michael Hickey(MASc, graduated), Michael Simcoe(MASc, graduated)
 

MICROMACHINED COMPONENTS TRANSMISSION MEDIA
AND CIRCUITS

Ka-band satellite based front-ends integrated in silicon
Micromachined waveguide filters

Micah Stickel(PhD)
 

 WAVE ELECTRONICS, MIC's  AND MMIC's

Uniplanar integrated antenna-oscillators
Injection-locked steered beam arrays
Phase compensated devices

Ken Ip(MASc, graduated), Roman Pahuta(MASc, graduated), Marco Antoniades (MASc)
 

DIGITAL INTERCONNECTS AND HIGH-SPEED DESIGN

Simple lumped element models for vertical interconnects (vias)
Mode conversion effects introduced by vias
Ground bounce modeling and suppression

Ramesh Abhari (PhD, graduated), Francis Elek(PhD)
 

MILLIMETER AND SUB-MILLIMETER WAVE IC RADIOMETRIC RECEIVERS

Andrew Pavacic(PhD)
 

METAMATERIALS

Negative refractive index media
Electromagnetic Band-Gap media

A. Iyer (PhD), A. Grbic (PhD), F. Elek (PhD), O. Siddiqui (PhD)