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 …

Local pulse wave detection using continuous wave radar systems

C Will, K Shi, S Schellenberger… - IEEE Journal of …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Although a lot of research has been done into radar-based heartbeat detection over the past
few years, it is still unknown which physiological effects truly underlie these measurement …

Antenna and package design for 61-and 122-GHz radar sensors in embedded wafer-level ball grid array technology

M Frank, T Reissland, F Lurz, M Voelkel… - IEEE Transactions …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper suggests the usage of an optimized structure of the embedded wafer-level ball
grid array technology for millimeter-wave antennas-in-package. Multiple antenna arrays in a …

Balanced six-port reflectometer with nonmatched power detectors

K Staszek - IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, a six-port reflectometer is proposed, which utilizes nonmatched power
detectors. In the presented solution, the signals reflected from power detectors are efficiently …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Six-port calibration utilizing matched load and unknown calibration loads

K Staszek - IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A six-port calibration technique utilizing matched load and unknown calibration loads having
arbitrary magnitude and phase is proposed. A detailed description of the proposed …

A 24 GHz microwave sensor with built-in calibration capability designed in MMIC technology

R Smolarz, K Staszek, K Wincza, S Gruszczynski - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A microwave sensor realized in monolithic technology, intended for permittivity estimation
with the use of a highly sensitive coupled-line section, is presented in this paper. It also …