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  • Promoción de la ciencia, la tecnología, la ingeniería y las matemáticas (stem). El Proyecto Precampus 

    Fuentes del Burgo, Joaquín; Huertas Gallardo, Pedro; Torres Aranda, Ana María (Facultad de Educación de Albacete, UCLM, 2019)
    There is a reduction of high school students who choose to pursue university careers related to STEM. This article describes an action to promote these disciplines through the PreCampus Project, through the offer of ...
  • Wide-bandwidth thru-reflect-line calibration for empty substrate integrated coaxial line with grounded coplanar transitions 

    Fernández, Marcos D.; Ballesteros, José Antonio; Martínez, Juan A.; De Dios de Dios, Juan José; Belenguer, Ángel (Willey, 2019)
    Empty coaxial structures built with printed circuit boards have low radiation, low losses, high quality factor and non-dispersive features. The fully integration of empty substrate-integrated coaxial line (ESICL) in a ...
  • Wideband Transition for Increased-Height Empty Substrate Integrated Waveguide 

    Martínez, Juan Ángel; Belenguer, Ángel; De Dios de Dios, Juan José; Esteban, Héctor; Boria, Vicente E. (IEEE, 2019)
    Recently, Empty Substrate Integrated Waveguide (ESIW) technology was proposed for embedding empty waveguides into planar substrates in order to improve their performance. A low-loss and narrow-band transition from microstrip ...
  • Fast Frequency Sweep Technique Based on Segmentation for the Acceleration of the Electromagnetic Analysis of Microwave Devices 

    Martinez, Juan Angel; Belenguer, Angel; Esteban, Héctor (Suiza: MDPI, 2019-03-16)
    The characterization of communication devices in a certain frequency band can be accelerated if a fast frequency sweep technique is used instead of a discrete frequency sweep. Existing fast frequency sweep techniques are ...
  • Highly Reliable and Repeatable Soldering Technique for Assembling Empty Substrate Integrated Waveguide Devices 

    Martínez, Juan Angel; Belenguer, Angel; Esteban, Héctor (EEUU: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE, 2019)
    In this paper a novel soldering technique that improves the fabrication process of Empty Substrate Integrated Waveguide (ESIW) devices is presented. Until now, in order to fabricate an ESIW device, the tin solder paste was ...
  • A 3-D printed PCB integrated TEM Horn Antenna 

    Miralles, Enrique; Schoenlinner, Bernhard; Belenguer, Angel; Esteban, Héctor; Ziegler, Volker (EEUU: American Geophysical Unión, AGU, 2019-01-30)
    This paper presents a very broadband (5–40 GHz) novel three dimension (3-D) printed Transverse ElectroMagnetic (TEM) horn antenna. It is integrated with a planar Printed Circuit Board and radiates in a perpendicular direction ...
  • Low Loss Ferrite Y-Junction Circulator based on Empty Substrate Integrated Coaxial Line at Ku-Band 

    Martínez Cano, Leticia; Laur, Vicent; Borja, Alejandro L.; Quéffélec, Patrick; Belenguer, Angel (IEEE, 2019)
    A Y-junction circulator based on empty substrate integrated coaxial line (ESICL) technology is proposed in this paper. As ESICL is a novel transmission line, many of the common waveguide devices have not yet been developed ...
  • Highly Efficient and Well-Matched Empty Substrate Integrated Waveguide H-plane Horn Antenna 

    Mateo Sotos, Jorge; Torres Aranda, Ana María; Belenguer, Angel; Borja, Alejandro L. (IEEE, 2016)
    In this letter, an empty substrate integrated waveguide H-plane sectorial horn antenna is presented. The antenna is integrated within a planar substrate and is fed by means of a microstrip transmission line. It is ...
  • Compact Folded Bandpass Filter in Empty Substrate Integrated Coaxial Line at S-Band 

    Martínez Cano, Leticia; Belenguer, Angel; Boria, Vicente E.; Borja, Alejandro L. (IEEE, 2019)
    This paper presents a novel compact folded bandpass filter in empty substrate integrated coaxial line (ESICL) technology. To obtain these compact filters, the inverters are modified to provide a 180◦ bend when inserted ...
  • Empty Substrate Integrated Waveguide Technologies 

    Belenguer, Angel; Esteban, Héctor; Borja, Alejandro L.; Boria, Vicente E. (IEEE, 2019)
    Substrate-integrated circuits (SICs) [1] have attracted much attention in the last several years because of their great potential. The first implementation of the concept can be found in [2] as a feeding mechanism for a ...
  • Compact Microstrip to Empty Substrate Integrated Coaxial Line Transition 

    Quiles, Ferran; Belenguer, Angel; Martínez Zamora, Juan Ángel; Nova, Vicente; Esteban, Héctor; Boria, Vicente (EEUU: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018)
    Substrate integrated waveguides are increasingly being used due to their capability of combining the advantages of planar circuits and traditional waveguides. The development of empty substrate integrated waveguides has ...
  • Miniaturization of Power Divider and 90◦ Hybrid Directional Coupler for C-band Applications using Empty Substrate Integrated Coaxial Lines 

    Merello, José M.; Nova, Vicente; Bachiller, Carmen; Sánchez, Juan R.; Belenguer, Angel; Boria, Vicente E. (EEUU: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018)
    This work presents the practical realization of a power divider and a 90◦ hybrid directional coupler in Empty Substrate Integrated Coaxial Line (ESICL) for C-band frequency applications. This new type of transmission line ...
  • Compact Multilayer Filter in Empty Substrate Integrated Waveguide with Transmission Zeros 

    Belenguer, Angel; Fernández Berlanga, Marcos David; Ballesteros Garrido, José Antonio; De Dios de Dios, Juan José; Esteban, Héctor (EEUU: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018)
    Empty Substrate Integrated Waveguide (ESIW) technology is recently receiving special attention, since it pre- serves the many advantages of Substrate Integrated Waveguide circuits, but provides an enhanced behavior due to ...
  • Integration of a Very High Quality Factor Filter in Empty Substrate Integrated Waveguide at Q-band 

    Martínez Zamora, Juan Ángel; De Dios de Dios, Juan José; Belenguer, Angel; Esteban, Héctor; Boria, Vicente E. (EEUU: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018)
    Recently, new methodologies for manufacturing empty waveguides completely integrated in a planar substrate have been proposed in order to improve the performance of substrate-integrated devices. One of ...
  • Versatile Transition for Multilayer Compact Devices in Empty Substrate Integrated Waveguide 

    Ballesteros Garrido, José Antonio; Fernández Berlanga, Marcos David; Belenguer, Angel; Esteban, Héctor; Boria, Vicente E. (EEUU: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018)
    Empty Substrate Integrated Waveguide (ESIW) de- vices can provide high quality and completely integrated devices, but they are usually larger than the same ones implemented with alternative technologies. One of the most ...
  • Stop Band Continuous Profile Filter in Empty Substrate Integrated Coaxial Line 

    Gómez, Darío; Esteban, Héctor; Boria, Vicente E.; Belenguer, Angel; Borja, Alejandro L. (MDPI, 2018-11)
    Substrate integrated waveguides reduce the losses and increase the quality factor of resonators in communication filters when compared with traditional planar technologies, while maintaining their low-cost and low-profile ...
  • Slotted ESIW Antenna With High Efficiency for a MIMO Radar Sensor 

    Miralles, Enric; Belenguer, Angel; Mateo Sotos, Jorge; Torres Aranda, Ana María; Esteban, Héctor; L. Borja, Alejandro; Boria, Vicente E. (American Geophysical Union, 2018)
    This paper introduces a slotted empty substrate integrated waveguide (ESIW) antenna for a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar sensor. The proposed system is based on the MIMO radar architecture. Orthogonal signals ...
  • Programmable multi-functional RF/Microwave circuit for antenna and filter operation 

    L. Borja, Alejandro; Belenguer, Angel; Kelly, James; Kabiri, Yasin (IEEE, 2018)
    This paper describes a multi-functional microwave device that can be reconfigured to behave either as a filter or an antenna. The device is based around a single resonant element, referred to as a building block element ...
  • A Portable 3-D Imaging FMCW MIMO Radar Demonstrator With a 24×24 Antenna Array for Medium-Range Applications 

    Ganis, Alexander; Miralles, Enric; Schoenlinner, Bernhard; Prechtel, Ulrich; Meusling, Askold; Heller, Christoph; Spreng, Thomas; Metzner, Jan; Krimmer, Christian; Haeberle, Babette; Lutz, Steffen; Loghi, Mirko; Belenguer, Angel; Esteban, Héctor; Ziegler, Volker (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE, 2018)
    Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radars have been shown to improve target detection for surveillance applications thanks to their proven high-performance properties. In this paper, the design, implementation, and ...
  • Design and Performance of a High-Q Narrow Bandwidth Bandpass Filter in Empty Substrate Integrated Coaxial Line at Ku-Band 

    Borja, Alejandro L.; Belenguer, Angel; Esteban, Héctor; Boria, Vicente E. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE, 2017)
    This paper presents the design and performance of a planar narrow bandwidth bandpass filter with high quality factor. The structure is composed of an empty substrate integrated coaxial line with the center conductor ...

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