Microwave and Optical Technology Letters

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March 2012

Volume 54, Issue 3

Pages 553–835

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      An 8- to 12-GHz wideband negative resistance reflection amplifier (pages 553–555)

      Pak Chan and V. Fusco

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26597

    2. Formation of resonance states due to interaction between resonators in arrays used in dielectric metamaterials (pages 555–560)

      Fang Chen, Xiaohui Wang and Elena Semouchkina

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26596

    3. Very compact ultra-wideband antenna with CPW-FED monopole (pages 560–564)

      Mohsen Koohestani and Mohammad Naser-Moghadasi

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26622

    4. Quality estimation of the optical n-quadrature amplitude modulation signals utilizing the eye opening penalty (pages 564–569)

      Jarosław Piotr Turkiewicz and Agata Kościelska

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26621

    5. Design of a wideband 377 Ω E-shaped patch antenna for RF energy harvesting (pages 569–573)

      Kavuri K. A. Devi, S. Sadasivam, Norashidah Md. Din, C.K. Chakrabarthy and S. K. Rajib

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26607

    6. An improved multilevel simple sparse method with adaptive cross approximation for scattering from target above lossy half space (pages 573–577)

      Xiaoqing Hu, Chi Zhang, Yuan Xu, Dazhi Ding and Rushan Chen

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26606

    7. K-band, low-power CMOS injection-locked divide-by-three circuit using shunt-peaking and current-bleeding techniques (pages 577–579)

      Pei-Kang Tsai, Chih-Yu Liu, Tzuen-Hsi Huang and Janne-Wha Wu

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26648

    8. Compact planar near-field resonant parastic antenna for multiple-input multiple-output applications (pages 580–584)

      Chia-Ching Lin, Peng Jin and Richard W. Ziolkowski

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26647

    9. Direct extraction technique of π-topology small-signal equivalent circuit model for Si/SiGe heterojunction bipolar transistor (pages 584–589)

      H. Taher

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26635

    10. Group delay swing enhancement in transmission-line all-pass networks using coupling and dispersion boosting ferrimagnetic substrate (pages 589–593)

      Shulabh Gupta, Louis-Philippe Carignan and Christophe Caloz

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26658

    11. A planar circular disc monopole antenna with improved bandwidth (pages 593–595)

      Xu-Bao Sun, Mao-Yong Cao, Yin-Jing Guo and Jian-Jun Hao

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26595

    12. Miniaturized coaxial cavity resonator based on anisotropic negative permeability metamaterial loading (pages 595–599)

      Nasrin Nasr Esfahani, Payman Rezaee, Klaus Schünemann and Reinhard Knöchel

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26600

    13. Internal coupled-fed loop antenna integrated with notched ground plane for wireless wide area network operation in the mobile handset (pages 599–605)

      Fang-Hsien Chu and Kin-Lu Wong

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26620

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      A 0.18-μm SiGe BiCMOS HBT VCO using diode degeneration (pages 605–608)

      Sheng-Lyang Jang, Chao-Wei Hsieh, Chia-Wei Chang and Ching-Wen Hsue

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26619

    15. Compact power dividers with filtering capability for ground penetrating radar applications (pages 608–611)

      Adolfo Vélez, Paris Vélez, Jordi Bonache and Ferran Martín

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26605

    16. Widely tunable multiwavelength Brillouin–erbium fiber laser by eliminating self-lasing cavity modes (pages 612–614)

      Junfa Zhao, Xiufeng Yang, Cheng Zhang and Zhengrong Tong

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26604

    17. Design and development of triple band tunable microstrip antenna (pages 614–617)

      Nagraj Kulkarni, S. N. Mulgi and S. K. Satnoor

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26646

    18. High selectivity quadruple-mode broadband bandpass filter with source-load coupling (pages 617–620)

      Liang Zhou, Shao-bin Liu, Ya-nan Guo, Xiang-kun Kong and Hai-feng Zhang

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26668

    19. Novel tri-band antenna end-loaded with Koch fractal loops (pages 620–623)

      Jianhua Zhou, Yong Luo, Baiqiang You and X. J. Yan

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26657

    20. Low-profile, small-size, wireless wide area network handset antenna close integration with surrounding ground plane (pages 623–629)

      Shu-Chuan Chen and Kin-Lu Wong

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26633

    21. Wideband and compact erbium-doped fiber amplifier using parallel double-pass configuration (pages 629–631)

      B. A. Hamida, X. S. Cheng, S. W. Harun, A. W. Naji, H. Arof, S. Khan, W. Alkhateeb and H. Ahmad

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26599

    22. Quasi-lumped approach of suspended stripline BPF with zero implantation and cross coupling feed (pages 632–634)

      Min-Hua Ho and Po-Fan Chen

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26632

    23. A silicon quasi-DOS based on reverse-biased pn diode (pages 635–638)

      Yong Zhao, Haifeng Shao, Ting Hu, Ping Yu, Jianyi Yang, Minghua Wang and Xiaoqing Jiang

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26618

    24. Microstrip dual I-band bandpass filter with symmetrical twin-inductor resonators (pages 638–641)

      Ram Krishna Maharjan and Nam-Young Kim

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26617

    25. Compact dual-mode bandpass filter using slotline resonator and stubs (pages 641–644)

      H. W. Liu, Y. C. Fan, G. W. Wei, W. Y. Xu, Z. C. Zhang, Z. P. Gui and D. C. Huang

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26603

    26. Reconfigurable microstrip patch antenna for WLAN software defined radio applications (pages 644–649)

      Ibrahim Tekin and Michael Knox

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26602

    27. Slow-wave high-Q coplanar striplines in CMOS technology and their RLCG model (pages 650–654)

      M. Abdel Aziz, F. Podevin, A. M. E. Safwat, A. Vilcot and P. Ferrari

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26645

    28. Influence of the hand on the specific absorption rate assessments of mobile phones (pages 654–656)

      V. Monebhurrun

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26644

    29. Novel formulation of efficiency measure for multifilar transformers in generalized multiport configurations of integrated passive devices (pages 656–661)

      Chien-Hsiang Huang, Chien-Hsun Chen and Tzyy-Sheng Horng

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26656

    30. Hybrid envelope tracking for efficiency enhancement in concurrent dual-band PAs (pages 662–664)

      W. Chen, A. Kwan and F.M. Ghannouchi

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26667

    31. A multiband antenna array for WLAN/WiMAX applications (pages 664–667)

      Xi-Zhong Lou and Jiu-Sheng Li

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26598

    32. A novel bear-head-shaped compact UWB monopole antenna enhanced with variable notch-bands (pages 667–670)

      Sasan Ahdi Rezaeieh and Mehmet Abbak

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26631

    33. Low cost and compact directional coupler for ultrawideband applications (pages 670–674)

      Dyg N. A. Zaidel, Sharul K. A. Rahim, Norhudah Seman, Tharek A. Rahman and A. Abdulrahman

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26616

    34. A novel coplanar waveguide-fed elliptical-shaped printed monopole antenna for ultrawideband applications (pages 675–677)

      Mahdi Moosazadeh and Zahra Esmati

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26615

    35. A compact coplanar waveguide-fed monopole antenna with dual band-notched functions for ultra-wideband applications (pages 677–681)

      De-Shui Cai, Zhen-Ya Lei, Yang Ding and Dan Zhao

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26601

    36. The tunable dispersion based on side-polished fiber bragg gratings (pages 681–684)

      Hai-Tao Sun, En-Chiang Chang, Hao-Jan Sheng, Chih-Chiang Chen and Wen-Fung Liu

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26655

    37. Dual-band slim inverted-F antenna with enhanced operational bandwidth (pages 684–689)

      Ahmad R. Razali and Marek E. Bialkowski

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26643

    38. Effects of the biasing voltage of modulator on the phase noise of opto-electronic oscillator (pages 689–692)

      Jun Hong and Chun Yang

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26642

    39. New UWB antenna design for wireless communications (pages 692–697)

      M. Bithikh, R. Aksas, H. Kimouche and A. Azrar

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26666

    40. Low-cost dual-polarized printed antenna for multifunction phased-array radar (pages 697–702)

      Federica Mastrangeli, Angelo De Luca, Guido Valerio and Alessandro Galli

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26665

    41. Fiber birefringence measurement based on a beat-frequency-interrogated multilongitudinal-mode distributed bragg reflector erbium-doped fiber laser (pages 702–707)

      Hao Zhang, Bo Liu and Chenglai Jia

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26630

    42. Concurrent dual band class F power amplifier with novel harmonic control network (pages 707–711)

      Yao Ding, Yong-Xin Guo, Fa-Lin Liu and Lan You

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26629

    43. Directivity enhancement of fabry-perot antenna by using a stepped-dielectric slab superstrate (pages 711–715)

      Yanfei Li, Raj Mittra, Binghao Zeng, Guizhen Lu, Zengrui Li, Jianbo Liu, Cheng-Wei Chen and Dau-Chyrh Chang

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26614

    44. Performance enhancement for a broadband spiral antenna using a frequency-selective surface and added backing cavity (pages 715–718)

      Cheng-Nan Chiu and Chien-Cheng Tseng

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26613

    45. Compact and high selectivity triple-band dual-mode microstrip BPF with two short-circuited stub-loaded SIRs (pages 719–721)

      Hong-wei Deng, Bing Liu, Yong-jiu Zhao, Wen Chen and Xue-shun Zhang

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26654

    46. Dual-band bandpass filters using coupled fork-shaped resonators with controllable fractional bandwidths (pages 722–725)

      Chan Ho Kim and Kai Chang

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26653

    47. Reconfigurable penta-band PIFA for small and slim mobile handsets (pages 725–729)

      Hattan F. AbuTarboush, R. Nilavalan, T. Peter, S. W. Cheung and D. Budimir

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26640

    48. The effect of air bubbles on an underwater optical communications system for wireless sensor network applications (pages 729–732)

      Rabee M. Hagem, David V. Thiel, Steven G. O'Keefe and Thomas Fickenscher

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26664

    49. Novel topology of compact coplanar waveguide resonant cell low-pass filter (pages 732–735)

      P. Kurgan, A. Bekasiewicz, M. Pietras and M. Kitlinski

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26594

    50. 1-D uniform and chirped electromagnetic bandgap structures in substrate integrated waveguides at 60 GHz (pages 735–737)

      J. D. Schwartz, Q. Zhuge, J. Azaña and D.V. Plant

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26628

    51. Optimal placement of mobile antenna in an urban area using evolutionary multiobjective optimization (pages 737–743)

      Lakshminarasimman Narayanan, Baskar Subramanian, Alphones Arokiaswami and M. Willjuice Iruthayarajan

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26627

    52. Compact dual-band MIMO antenna for 4G USB dongle applications (pages 744–748)

      Zuxing Li, Minseok Han and Jaehoon Choi

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26612

    53. Design of printed dipole antenna for ultra wideband applications (pages 748–751)

      K. Shambavi and Zachariah C. Alex

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26611

    54. Investigation of the arbitrary waveform semiconductor laser as seed light source for high energy laser (pages 751–755)

      Hongyun Wang, Zhengshang Da, Baiyu Liu and Hui Liu

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26652

    55. Design of an indoor repeater antenna with high isolation using metamaterials (pages 755–761)

      Youngki Lee, Jeageun Ha and Jaehoon Choi

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26651

    56. Implementation of the thin-wire approximation for estimating the characteristics of a metallic reinforcement bar embedded into a concrete column with circular cross section (pages 761–767)

      C. Valagiannopoulos, M. Bimpas and N. Uzunoglu

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26639

    57. High-gain multilayered disk array structure excited by stacked microstrip patches (pages 768–770)

      Soon-Young Eom, Seong-Keun Kim, Ic-Pyo Hong and Jong-Gwan Yook

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26638

    58. Dual-band bandstop frequency selective surfaces with gosper prefractal elements (pages 771–775)

      Paulo H. da F. Silva, Albanisa F. dos Santos, Rossana M.S. Cruz and Adaildo G. D'Assunção

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26663

    59. Harmonics suppression of wilkinson power divider using bond wires with adjustable rejection bands (pages 775–777)

      Bo Zhou, Weixing Sheng and Hao Wang

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26662

    60. Extension of the maliuzhinets solution for the resistive half-plane (pages 777–780)

      Yusuf Ziya Umul

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26626

    61. Design a new elliptical ultrawideband antenna with dual band-notched characteristics (pages 780–783)

      W. X. Liu, Y. Z. Yin and W. L. Xu

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26625

    62. Aperture stacked microstrip equal/unequal power divider (pages 784–785)

      S. S. I. Mitu, S.L. Taiwo and M. Sharawi

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26669

    63. Parallelization of the FDTD method based on the open computing language and the message passing interface (pages 785–789)

      T. P. Stefański, N. Chavannes and N. Kuster

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26610

    64. Silicon electrooptic ring modulator fabricated by a standard complementary metal oxide semiconductor process (pages 789–794)

      Woo-Ju Kim, Hak-Soon Lee, Gun-Duk Kim, Sang-Shin Lee and Wan-Gyu Lee

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26650

    65. Small size tuneable printed F-slot antenna for mobile handset applications (pages 794–802)

      I. T. E. Elfergani, R. A. Abd-Alhameed, C. H. See, T. Sadeghpour, J. M. Noras and S. M. R. Jones

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26649

    66. A study on isolation enhancement of MIMO antenna using differential ground path (pages 802–805)

      Won-Jong Lee, Cheol Yoon, Sang-Uk Kim and Hyo-Dal Park

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26637

    67. Analysis on dynamic characteristics of reflective semiconductor optical amplifier based on a memory polynomial model (pages 805–808)

      Zhansheng Liu, Manuel Alberto Violas and Nuno Borges Carvalho

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26636

    68. 10-Gbit/s, reconfigurable time domain SPE-OCDMA system with code shifting and pulse overlapping (pages 808–810)

      Zhensen Gao, Bo Dai, Xu Wang, Nobuyuki Kataoka and Naoya Wada

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26661

    69. Planar dual-band dipole array for long-term evolution/worldwide interoperability for microwave access points (pages 811–815)

      Jui-Han Lu and Yen-Hung Liu

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26660

    70. Integration of loop and slot antennas into one-piece metal plate for concurrent 2.4- and 5-GHz wireless local area network operation (pages 815–820)

      Saou-Wen Su

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26624

    71. A V-band low-noise amplifier co-designed with ESD network in 65-nm RF CMOS (pages 820–822)

      Ming-Hsien Tsai and Shawn S. H. Hsu

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26623

    72. Fiber bragg grating current sensor based on birefringence effect (pages 822–826)

      Yong Zhao and Ting-Ting Song

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26609

    73. Low-frequency nonlinear memory effects in M-ary QAM communications systems (pages 826–829)

      Michel Allegue-Martínez, María J. Madero-Ayora, Javier Reina-Tosina, J. Navarro-Lázaro and Carlos Crespo-Cadenas

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26608

    74. A compact broadband ridged-square-waveguide radiating element for phased array antennas in synthetic aperture radar applications (pages 829–833)

      Wen-Jun Gao, Jun-Jun Jiao, Yun-Zhong Han, Yun-Kai Deng, Yong-Hu Xiong and Xiao-Meng Liu

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26634

    75. Improved dual band FSS performance with fractal elements (pages 833–835)

      T. K. Wu

      Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/mop.26659

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