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Neto, A. (author), Llombart, Nuria (author), Freni, Angelo (author)In the circuit theory, the Norton and Thevenin equivalent generators are tools that simplify the solutions of networks involving passive or active components. They have been extensively used in the frequency domain to describe time-harmonic sources. A time-stepped evolution is instead typically used to include transient sources. As a...journal article 2023
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Pascual Laguna, A. (author), Cavallo, D. (author), Baselmans, J.J.A. (author), Llombart, Nuria (author)This communication proposes a broadband and efficient integrated focal plane array solution based on a near-field focused connected array of slots. The focused aperture provides: 1) broadband and highly efficient illumination of the quasi-optical system and 2) scanning capabilities within a focusing system. The connected array antenna in turn...journal article 2022
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Rezapoor, Pouyan (author), Tamminen, Aleksi (author), Tamminen, Aleksi (author), Ala-Laurinaho, Juha (author), Llombart, Nuria (author), Rodilla, Helena (author), Stake, Jan (author), Taylor, Zachary D. (author)The optical behavior of a terahertz imaging system employing a train of four identical off-axis parabolic mirrors with oblique incidence angle illumination is investigated in this work. The aperture filling and aberrations of a single off-axis parabolic mirror when illuminated by a Gaussian terahertz beam at its focus point is measured and...conference paper 2022
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Bosma, S. (author), Neto, A. (author), Llombart, Nuria (author)In this work, we show that the near field of leaky-wave resonant antennas (LWAs) radiating into a dense medium can be locally represented as a spherical wave in a certain solid angle around broadside using an accurate definition of the phase center. The near field in this solid angle can be efficiently evaluated through the integration of the...journal article 2022
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Bosma, S. (author), van Rooijen, N. (author), Alonso Del Pino, M. (author), Spirito, M. (author), Llombart, Nuria (author)We report on the first demonstration of dynamic beam steering using a scanning lens phased array. A scanning lens phased array relies on a combination of mechanical and electrical phase shifting to dynamically steer a high-gain beam beyond the grating-lobe free region using a sparse array. These two concepts have been demonstrated separately in...journal article 2022
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Hu, Yong (author), Baggio, Mariangela (author), Dabironezare, Shahab Oddin (author), Tamminen, Aleksi (author), Toy, Brandon (author), Ala-laurinaho, Juha (author), Brown, Elliot (author), Llombart, Nuria (author), Deng, Sophie X. (author), Wallace, Vincent (author), Taylor, Zachary D. (author)A system concept for online alignment verification of millimeter-wave, corneal reflectometry is presented. The system utilizes beam scanning to generate magnitude-only reflectivity maps of the cornea at 650 GHz and compares these images to a precomputed/measured template map to confirm/reject sufficient alignment. A system utilizing five off...journal article 2022
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Bueno Lopez, J. (author), Bosma, S. (author), Bußkamp-Alda, Tobias (author), Alonso Del Pino, M. (author), Llombart, Nuria (author)We present the design, fabrication and characterization of a broadband lossless matching layer for silicon lens arrays. The proposed matching layer is based on silicon frusta (truncated pyramids) on top of the lens array fabricated by means of laser ablation. This matching layer is advantageous over quarter-wavelength dielectric matching...journal article 2022
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Llombart, Nuria (author), Dabironezare, Shahab Oddin (author)This article presents a feasibility study of single feed per beam quasi-optical (QO) antennas for enabling incoherent multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) array front-end architectures at 270 GHz. The objective is to reach ultrafast and radiated energy efficient point-to-point (PtP) wireless links by exploiting the multimode capacity of...journal article 2022
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Hoogelander, M. (author), van Berkel, S.L. (author), Malotaux, E.S. (author), Alonso Del Pino, M. (author), Spirito, M. (author), Neto, A. (author), Cavallo, D. (author), Llombart, Nuria (author)In this contribution we will present the diffraction-limited imaging capabilities of a focal plane array (FPA) of antenna-coupled direct-detectors at submillimeter wavelengths. The FPA prototype is a tightly sampled, 12-pixel array that was developed in a 22 nm CMOS technology and it covers a band from 200 GHz to 600 GHz. A quasi-optical (QO)...conference paper 2022
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Baselmans, J.J.A. (author), Facchin, F. (author), Pascual Laguna, A. (author), Bueno, J. (author), Thoen, David (author), Murugesan, V. (author), Llombart, Nuria (author), de Visser, P.J. (author)Aims. Future actively cooled space-borne observatories for the far-infrared, loosely defined as a 1-10 THz band, can potentially reach a sensitivity limited only by background radiation from the Universe. This will result in an increase in observing speed of many orders of magnitude. A spectroscopic instrument on such an observatory requires...journal article 2022
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Baselmans, J.J.A. (author), Karatsu, K. (author), Llombart, Nuria (author), Rybak, M. (author), Bueno Lopez, J. (author), Buijtendorp, B.T. (author), Dabironezare, Shahab Oddin (author), Hähnle, S.A. (author), Pascual Laguna, A. (author), Thoen, David (author), Yates, S.J.C. (author), Endo, A. (author)Integrated superconducting spectrometer (ISS) technology will enable ultra-wideband, integral-field spectroscopy for (sub)millimeter-wave astronomy, in particular, for uncovering the dust-obscured cosmic star formation and galaxy evolution over cosmic time. Here, we present the development of DESHIMA 2.0, an ISS for ultra-wideband...journal article 2022
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Ozzola, R. (author), Cavallo, D. (author), Freni, Angelo (author), Llombart, Nuria (author), Neto, A. (author)The number of independent links that can be hosted by an antenna platform for Line-of-Sight (LoS) communications is limited by its physical size and the interference between the beams associated with different users. For large-size platforms, the interference can be reduced by compromising the aperture efficiency, and this trade-off is the...journal article 2022
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Pascual Laguna, A. (author), Bueno Lopez, J. (author), Yates, S.J.C. (author), Ferrari, Lorenza (author), Murugesan, Vignesh (author), Thoen, David (author), Dabironezare, Shahab Oddin (author), Zhang, H. (author), Llombart, Nuria (author), Baselmans, J.J.A. (author)A focal plane array of extended-hemispherical silicon lenses coupled to aluminum coplanar-waveguide (CPW) Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDs) has been designed to operate at 7.8 THz. Low-dispersive leaky-wave radiation has been used to efficiently illuminate the antireflection-coated lenses. To minimize the radiation loss from the...conference paper 2022
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van Rooijen, N. (author), Alonso Del Pino, M. (author), Spirito, M. (author), Llombart, Nuria (author)This work presents a novel lens antenna architecture based on a core-shell lens design with a leaky-wave in-packaged antenna at 150GHz. An electrically small core lens made of dense dielectric material is used to enhance the radiation of the in-packaged antenna. A low-loss dielectric shell lens with electrically large dimensions is then added to...conference paper 2022
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Bosma, S. (author), van Rooijen, N. (author), Alonso Del Pino, M. (author), Llombart, Nuria (author)We present a resonant leaky-wave lens antenna, fed by a circular waveguide with annular corrugations in the ground plane. The proposed leaky-wave feed reduces the impact of the spurious TM0 leaky-wave mode in all planes over a wide bandwidth while reducing assembly complexity compared to previous methods. The proposed leaky-wave antenna has...journal article 2022
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Bueno Lopez, J. (author), Huiskes, M. (author), Zhang, H. (author), Sberna, P.M. (author), Llombart, Nuria (author), Neto, A. (author)Photoconductive antennas are devices that provide power up to THz frequencies at a relatively low cost. However, the power radiated by each antenna is typically quite low and arrays have been proposed to increase it. In this paper we present the design of a leaky enhanced array architecture that surpasses the state of the art as it operates...conference paper 2022
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Nair, A. (author), Dabironezare, Shahab Oddin (author), Neto, A. (author), Llombart, Nuria (author)Future applications in sensing and communications at (sub)-millimetre wavelengths will benefit from having large integrated coherent arrays. The use of lens arrays will enable the fabrication of integrated antenna front-ends with many potential independent beams as well as dynamic scanning capabilities. For applications such as MIMO...conference paper 2022
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Beschoor Plug, N.E. (author), Dabironezare, Shahab Oddin (author), Llombart, Nuria (author)This paper presents a comparative study of different Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) array architectures to realize high-capacity Point-to-Point (PtP) wireless links for potential use in future 6G backhauling applications. This study focuses on the 220-320 GHz band, defined by the new IEEE 802.15.3d standard. Both phased array and focal...conference paper 2022
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Ozzola, R. (author), Geng, J. (author), Llombart, Nuria (author), Freni, A. (author), Cavallo, D. (author), Neto, A. (author)A Volumetric Method of Moments accelerated by means of iterative solvers combined with FFT matrix-vector products has been presented. The method allows analyzing small lens antennas with their integrated feeds efficiently since different structures and geometries can be studied with the same discretization, just by adding the material...conference paper 2022