Miniaturized Microwave Components and Devices
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "E:Engineering and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 March 2022) | Viewed by 50474
Special Issue Editor
Interests: microwave/RF circuit miniaturization, surrogate-based modeling and optimization, engineering design automation, computer-aided design, antenna engineering
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Size reduction is an important prerequisite for the development of modern microwave circuits and components. This topic has attracted much attention in recent years due to the rapid expansion of commercial, industrial, and military markets aimed at low-cost, small-size, high-performance microwave devices. The diversity of their applications includes—but is not limited to—mobile communication, telemedicine, remote sensing, defense electronics, and portable measurement equipment. Miniaturization has been a prevailing trend in the electronics industry for several decades now and a catalyst for persistent technological innovation worldwide. Unfortunately, Moore’s Law, which can be applied to describe the tremendous integration capabilities of semiconductor devices, does not apply to many areas of microwave engineering. This is because a proper operation of a system that heavily relies on wave phenomena cannot be achieved by replacing its distributed components with lumped elements. The longitudinal dimensions of the distributed components must remain fixed with respect to the guided wavelength to preserve functionality. With the ubiquitous downshifting of the operating frequency spectrum, handling large layouts of conventional microwave structures has become more challenging than ever. For the reasons above, the development of efficient miniaturization schemes represents an important research direction with the potential to contribute to the progress in applied microwave technologies.
The objective of this Special Issue is to report on new technologies that allow obtaining compact microwave components and devices; innovative miniaturization methods of conventional microwave circuits in standard technologies; and customized computer-aided design and optimization methodologies specifically tailored to address modeling, design, and prototyping challenges pertinent to compact microwave components and devices.
Dr. Piotr KurganGuest Editor
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Keywords
- Miniaturization of microwave circuits and components
- Computer-aided design of compact microwave devices
- Efficient modeling and design optimization of miniaturized microwave components and devices
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