Ultra wide band systems are considered as one of the most exciting technologies due to its capability of transmitting data over a wide frequency spectrum with very low power and high data rates. In any UWB receiver the low noise amplifier is the first stage. The LNA plays a crucial role in the whole reception chain. In this paper, we examine the performance of two different modulations techniqu...

This paper presents the design of a 2-16 GHz ultra wide band low noise amplifier (UWB LNA). The proposed LNA has a gain of 11.5 ± 0.85 dB with NF less than 2.82 dB. Good input and output impedance matching, good isolation and linearity are achieved over the operating frequency band. The proposed UWB LNA consumes 18.14 mW of power from 1.8V supply. This UWB LNA is designed and simulated in 0.18 ...

Unique properties of Ultra Wideband (UWB) radio, including very high data rate, low power consumption and low cost, make it a promising technology for fourth generation short-range wireless mobile communications. This paper introduces the reader to the UWB technology, to its main properties, capabilities and applications. Furthermore, the current status of regulatory issues of UWB radio transmi...

Airborne ultra wideband (UWB) impulse-radiating antennas (IRAs) present an especially large radar cross section to X–band radar. To mitigate this problem, we have numerically and experimentally investigated the use of a frequency selective surface (FSS) as a broadband filter to reflect X–band radar while transmitting lower-frequency UWB signals without loss or dispersion. We present here result...

We present experimental demonstrations of in-building impulse radio (IR) ultra-wideband (UWB) link consisting of 100 m multi mode fiber (MMF) and 4 m wireless transmission at a record 4 Gbps, and a record 8 m wireless transmission at 2.5 Gbps. A directly modulated vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) was used for the generation of the optical signal. 8 m at 2.5 Gbps corresponds to a b...

This paper proposes a hybrid multiband (MB) ultra wideband (UWB) system with direct sequence (DS) spreading. The theoretical error analysis for the DS-MB-UWB multiple access system with Rake receiver in the presence of multipath and narrowband interference is developed. The developed theoretical framework models the multiple access interference (MAI), multipath interference (MI) and narrowband ...

A novel ultra-wideband (UWB) bandpass filter (BPF) with notched band based on microstrip/slotline ring resonators is presented in this paper. The UWB BPF is fabricated with two microstrip ring resonators on the top copper layer and a slotline ring resonator on the bottom ground layer. Thus, an ultra-wide passband can be achieved owing to the coupling effects and microstrip/slotline transitions ...

−This paper studies the interference effects from 4 types of ultra wide band (UWB) sources on a narrowband π/4-shift differential quadrature phase keying (DQPSK) transmission system by simulation. The culprit UWB sources were: multi-band orthogonal frequency-division multiple-access (MB-OFDM), direct-sequence code-division multiple-access (DS-CDMA), DS spread spectrum UWB (DS-SS UWB), and addit...

This master thesis has focused on the aspect of UWB antenna design for the impulse based UWB radar which is built on CMOS technology. The design of new UWB antenna faces some challenges. The antenna should be compact, preferably conformal, low cost for manufacture, and have good electrical performance, such as good matching, directional radiation performance over a wide band, good time response...