SCUBA-2 is the next-generation replacement for SCUBA (Sub-millimetre Common User Bolometer Array) on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope. Operating at 450 and 850 μm, SCUBA-2 fills the focal plane of the telescope with fully-sampled, monolithic bolometer arrays. Each SCUBA-2 pixel uses a quarter-wave slab of silicon with an implanted resistive layer and backshort as an absorber and a superconduct...

This study designs and analyzes an impedance pump utilizing an electromagnetic actuator. The pump is designed to have three major components, namely a lower glass substrate patterned with a copper micro-coil, a microchannel, and an upper glass cover plate attached a magnetic PDMS diaphragm. When a current is passed through the micro-coil, an electromagnetic force is established between the coil...

-Dual frequency operation of antennas has become a necessity for many applications in wireless communication systems such as GPS, GSM services operating at two different frequency bands and services of PCS and IMT-2000 applications. Although there are various techniques to achieve dual-band operation from various types of microstrip antennas, there is no efficient design tool that has been inco...

In order to improve Multi-polar magnetic structure’s efficiency. Ansoft Maxwell of electromagnetic field finite element software is utilized to study the effect of different polarity arrangement of magnetic seeding element on the magnetic induction intensity of seeding element end and magnetic field distribution in the seeding air gap. As a result of the different electromagnetic coil current d...

Th is paper presents Ansoft HFSS based parametric analysis and design of UWB b icone antenna. The design frequency of proposed antenna is 2.4 GHz. Th is antenna covers the 1.3 ~ 17.5 GHz frequency band with Return loss less than -10 dB. The bandwidth has been achieved by making a simple and easy modification in the design parameter of the bicone antenna. The voltage standing wave ratio (VSW R) ...

A simple and compact high gain Dielectric Resonator Antenna (DRA) for Ku band frequency operation is proposed in this paper. Ku band is a microwave band having frequency range 12 to 18 GHz. Proposed DRA is based on the principal of the dual resonance and defected ground structure (DGS) having rectangular slot. DRA design resonates at frequency 15.2 GHz and 18 GHz in Ku band frequency operation....

[1] Green’s function analysis of an ideal hard surface rectangular waveguide is proposed for characterization of the modal spectrum of the structure. A decomposition of the hard surface waveguide into perfect electric conductor and perfect magnetic conductor waveguides allows the representation of dyadic Green’s function as a superposition of transverse magnetic (TM) and transverse electric (TE...

The analysis and design of the multi-element coupled lines, in conjunction with the junction discontinuity effect, is presented, and its applicability in high power rf regime is discussed. Junctions are usually employed to connect two different coupled elements, which gives rise to undesirable reactance, i.e., junction discontinuity effect. These effects are found prominent in the high power co...

In this paper, a dual-band Substrate Integrated Waveguide (SIW) resonator with Sierpinski fractal geometry is proposed. The space-filling property of the employed fractal shape allows to reduce the resonator size. The bandwidth, the minimum insertion loss, the maximum return loss and the stop band rejection are considered for evaluating the effect of the fractal geometry on the resonator charac...

Dual-frequency operation of antennas has become a necessity for many applications in recent wireless communication systems, such as GPS, GSM services operating at two different frequency bands, and services of PCS and IMT-2000 applications. Although there are various techniques to achieve dual-band operation from various types of microstrip antennas, there is no efficient design tool that has b...