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The utilization of millimeter wave frequency bands is expected to become prevalent in the following communication systems. However, generating and transmitting communication signals over these frequencies is not as straightforward as in…
The upcoming 3GPP global mobile communication standard 6G strives to push the technological limits of radio frequency (RF) communication even further than its predecessors: Sum data rates beyond 100 Gbit/s, RF bandwidths above 1 GHz per…
We describe a unified classical approach for analyzing the scattering coefficients of superconducting microwave resonators with a variety of geometries. To fill the gap between experiment and theory, we also consider the influences of small…
Focusing on the received power prediction of millimeter-wave (mmWave) radio-frequency (RF) signals, we propose a multimodal split learning (SL) framework that integrates RF received signal powers and depth-images observed by physically…
RISs are an emerging technology for engineering the channels of future wireless communication systems. The vast majority of research publications on RIS are focussing on system-level optimization and are based on very simplistic models…
This paper presents a typical design of the RF section of a radar receiver, the chain within a superheterodyne dual-conversion architecture. A significant challenge in this framework is the occurrence of spur signals, which negatively…
The MOS devices are the basic building block of any digital and analog circuits, where silicon (Si) is the most commonly used material. The International Technology Roadmap Semiconductor (ITRS) report predicts the gate length of the MOS…
The focus of this educational text is selected examples of high-frequency electronic circuits and their components employed for the accurate phasing and synchronisation of accelerator cavities. Examples have been chosen to describe the…
Interface circuits are the key components that enable the hybrid integration of superconductor and semiconductor digital electronics. The design requirements of superconductor-semiconductor interface circuits vary depending on the…
In this study, a novel transmission scheme is proposed to serve radar-sensing and communication objectives at the same time and allocated bandwidth. The proposed transmitted frame non-orthogonally superimposes two different waveforms, which…
Large propagation path loss and limited scattering of millimeter wave (mmwave) channels create new challenges for physical layer signal processing. Hence, in this article, we propose a photonic hybrid precoding model for mmwave…
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) can create favorable multipath to establish strong links that are useful in millimeter wave (mmWave) communications. While previous works used Rayleigh or Rician fading, we use the fluctuating…
Photonic RF transversal signal processors, which are equivalent to reconfigurable electrical digital signal processors but implemented with photonic technologies, have been widely used for modern high-speed information processing. With the…
In the envisioned beyond-fifth-generation (B5G) and sixth-generation (6G) scenarios which expect massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) and high frequency communications in the millimeter-wave (mmWave) and Terahertz (THz) bands,…
The purpose of this study is to characterize a two-port Bridged-T network using transmission (T) and scattering (S) matrices. Using mathematical derivations, scattering parameters including S11, S12, S21, and S22 have been derived from the…
Graph signal processing (GSP) is a framework to analyze and process graph-structured data. Many research works focus on developing tools such as Graph Fourier transforms (GFT), filters, and neural network models to handle graph signals.…
The Scaled Relative Graph (SRG) is a geometric tool that maps the action of a multi-valued nonlinear operator onto the 2D plane, used to analyze the convergence of a wide range of iterative methods. As the SRG includes the spectrum for…
Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication is one of the cornerstone innovations of fifth-generation (5G) wireless networks, thanks to the massive bandwidth available in these frequency bands. To correctly assess the performance of such…
Modern antenna systems include passive antenna structures, passive microwave circuits and interconnections to electronics. Therefore, the antenna engineer should have a deep understanding of antenna theory and should be able to apply…
Channel state information is crucial to achieving the capacity of multi-antenna (MIMO) wireless communication systems. It requires estimating the channel matrix. This estimation task is studied, considering a sparse channel model…