Microwave-assisted heating (MWH) has established itself as a transformative and energy-efficient paradigm for advanced materials processing. This review provides a comprehensive overview of the advances achieved at the CNR-SCITEC laboratories in Geno...
Continuous-wave magnetrons continue to offer the highest efficiency, lowest cost per watt, and greatest compactness among high-power microwave sources, making them attractive for industrial, scientific, and defense applications. Emerging missions, pa...
This work presents a fully integrated, two-stage, deep class-AB power amplifier (PA) operating at a center frequency of 60 GHz. High efficiency and suppression of third-order intermodulation products are targeted, achieving improved linearity compare...
Accurate user positioning in 6G networks is essential for next-generation mobile services. However, classical approaches such as time-difference-of-arrival (TDoA) remain vulnerable to dense multipath and NLoS conditions commonly found in indoor and i...
Microwave heating technology has gained extensive application in various fields, including food processing and drying, material synthesis, and waste treatment, due to its advantages of high efficiency, selectivity, and rapid response. However, the in...
This paper provides a comprehensive review of recent advancements in radio-frequency (RF) multifunctional components with integrated filtering characteristics, including tunable filtering attenuators, filtering power dividers, filtering couplers, and...
In this study, the microwave heating efficiency of a water body is investigated with different shape factors. In particular, the same water volume was deposited in cylindrical containers with different diameters. Here, “shape factor” refe...
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In this study, we investigate the dominant electromagnetic wave absorption mechanism–ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) loss versus quarter-wave cancellation in a novel PVDF-based polymer composite embedded with carbonaceous nanostructures incorpora...
This paper presents a highly linear one-bit loaded-line phase shifter that leverages PIN diodes in combination with a coupler-based impedance transformer. The proposed phase shifter adopts a loaded-line topology, where PIN diodes are configured in a...
There is currently an effort to scale up sol–gel nanomaterials without compromising quality, and microwave heating can pave the way for this due to its heating efficiency, resulting in a fast and homogeneous process. In this work, the sol–gel synthes...
The advancement of microwave wireless power transfer technology has positioned low-power rectennas as a research hotspot. This paper systematically reviews core technological progress in low-power rectennas, focusing on innovations in rectifier circu...
We propose a new ultra-wideband antipodal Vivaldi antenna design based on the Klopfenstein curve, incorporating exponential slots, horns, and apertures to improve the antenna’s return loss and increase its gain in high-frequency bands. The ante...
It is well known that two pieces of electrical conductors behave as a waveguide when they are employed to transmit AC signals. Some experimental and analytical studies are reported in this paper to demonstrate that two pieces of electrical conductors...
This work proposes an all-quartz integrated lens antenna for the first time. The antenna feed and lens materials are both made of quartz. The antenna is designed to work at 26 GHz and has the advantages of small size and reduced surface wave loss. Tw...
Microwave technologies have long been at the forefront of scientific and engineering innovation, driving advancements in wireless communications, radar, satellites, medical applications, wireless power transfer, and more [...]
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