Six-port based interferometry for precise radar and sensing applications

A Koelpin, F Lurz, S Linz, S Mann, C Will, S Lindner - Sensors, 2016 - mdpi.com
Microwave technology plays a more important role in modern industrial sensing
applications. Pushed by the significant progress in monolithic microwave integrated circuit …

Reader architectures for wireless surface acoustic wave sensors

F Lurz, T Ostertag, B Scheiner, R Weigel, A Koelpin - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
Wireless surface acoustic wave (SAW) sensors have some unique features that make them
promising for industrial metrology. Their decisive advantage lies in their purely passive …

High-precision interferometric radar for sheet thickness monitoring

S Mann, C Will, T Reissland, F Lurz… - IEEE Transactions …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Contactless sensing plays an important role in today's highly automated industrial
environment, as modern sensors allow for an increased product quality in high-speed …

A novel calibration-free motion sensing techniquewith single-channel interferometric radars

W Xu, S Dong, C Gu, J Mao - IEEE Transactions on Microwave …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Radar interferometry is widely used for detecting versatile displacement motions. The
conventional techniques for motion extraction depend on the quadrature signals, and the …

Squircle-based calibration algorithm for six-port radar

S Linz, F Lurz, R Weigel… - IEEE transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a new approach to calibrate six-port radar systems without the need for
well-known target positions or calibration standards. Due to an extension of an ellipse …

Segmental polynomial approximation based phase error correction for precise near field displacement measurements using Six-Port microwave interferometers

C Will, S Linz, S Mann, F Lurz, S Lindner… - 2017 IEEE Topical …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Six-Port microwave interferometers are a low-cost as well as low-power type of radar sensor
with a high phase accuracy, which can be used for precise displacement measurements …

A review on six-port radar and its calibration techniques

S Linz, F Lurz, R Weigel… - 2018 22nd International …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Six-port network is known for its high phase resolution and is therefore an interesting
candidate for precise displacement sensors. This work gives an overview of Six-port …

Detector nonlinearity in six-port radar

S Linz, C Will, F Lurz, S Lindner, S Mann… - 2017 IEEE Topical …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an in-situ detector characterization and calibration method for
differential I/Q Six-port radar systems. A separate calibration of the nonlinear detectors and …

A digital correction method for increased dynamic range in interferometric six-port radars

S Krause, F Michler, A Kölpin… - IEEE microwave and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we demonstrate a digital correction method for extending the dynamic range of
a six-port radar system based on detector diodes. An individual diode gain is considered to …

MMIC vector topology enabling multi RF functionalities for 5G and beyond

C Loyez, M Bocquet, K Haddadi - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a vector topology of a monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC)
capable of performing several radiofrequency (RF) functionalities essential for future …