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Technical Session  Conference 2004

 

Session 1a Microwave Devices and Circuits
Session 2 Dielectric Properties of Natural Earth Materials
Session 3 Antenna Measurement using Planar Near Field Facility & Compact Test Range Facility
Session 4 Microwave Tubes
Session 5 Microstrip and Wideband Antenna and Measurements
Session 6 Microstrip and Wideband Antenna and Measurements
Session 7 Active Remote Sensing and Signal Processing
Session 8 Propagation of Radio waves and others
Session 9 Antenna Theory Including Smart Antennas
Session 10 Passive Remote Sensing
Session11a MMIC Technologies
Session11b Active Remote Sensing and Signal Processing
Session 12 Remote Sensing of Antarctica
 

 

Session 1

Microwave Devices and Circuits
Time 11.15-12.45 Hrs.
Chair by Dr. S Christopher
Reporteur Mr. Chetan Bohra
Name of Authors and Title of the paper
1.

RF-Front-End Supercomponent for EW System
Dr. R Pragasam, M.K Das, Dr. R Sreehari Rao

2.
A Dual Band RF Front-End for WCDMA/GSM with Single Local Oscillator
Anuradha Ray, Sanjeev Gupta3.        
3.
Design and Development of Single Pole Four Throw Absorptive Pin Diode Switch in the Frequency Range of 2.0 to 18.0 GHz
K. Adarsh Babu, J  Usha Rani, V Ramasankarm, Dr R Sreehari Rao
4.
MM-Wave Harmonic Generation in Impatt Diodes of Varying Widths
S P Pati, P R Tripathy, R K Mishra
5.
Design, Analysis, Fabrication and Testing of Waveguide reducer WR-284 to WR-340.
R G Trivedi, Kiran Ambulkar, A Thakur, P R Parmar, K Kumar, P K Sharma, S L Rao, M K Gupta, D Bora and LHCD group.
6.
Design, Analysis, Fabrication and Testing of Dual Directional Coupler for LHCD System.
R G Trivedi, Kiran Ambulkar, A Thakur, P R Parmar, K Kumar, P K Sharma, S L Rao, M K Gupta, D Bora and LHCD group.
7.
Band Pass Filter for K-Band Down Converter Chain.
Vishv Nath Singh, Virpal Singh
8.
Design and Performance of a New Linear Low Noise Amplifier using EpHEMT devices for WCDMA Base Station Application
Saroj K Patro
9.
Design and Development of Wide Band SAW Filters for SATNAV Payload of GSAT-4
Vijaya Sinha, Ajay Kumar
10.
Practical Aspects and Realisation Methodologies for Lumped Element Microwave filters with application in Super components and EW Receivers
Neeta Gogia, T.Madhav Rao, K.Nirmala Kumari
11.
Varactor Controlled GUNN Oscillator at Ka Band
Dilip Kumar, Sanjay Kumar, S S Sarin
12.
Millimeter Wave Isolator at 35 GHz.
Satish Kumar, S S Sarin.
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Session 2 Dielectric Properties of Natural Earth Materials
Time 13.45-14.45 Hrs.
Chair by Dr. V G Borkar
Reporteur Mr. Sanjeev K Mishra
Name of Authors and Title of the paper
Invited Talk by
Dr. V G Borkar
1.

Measurements of Complex Permittivity of Dry Soils using Wave-Guide Cell method.
Prof. O P N Calla, Omprakash Acharaya, Sanjeev Kumar Mishra

2.

Dielectric Measurements of Bi-Colored Leaves using Microwave Microstrip Ring Resonator.
R A Yogi, R N Karekar,  R C Aiyer

3.
Glass Fluxed Ca5Ta2Tio12 Ceramics for Microwave Telecommunication Applications
P. V. Bijumon, M. T. Sebastian
4.
Comprehensive Modelling of BST Permittivity in Planar Microwave Circuits.
Indrajit Paul, K J Vinoy, S Mohan
5.
Effect of Substrate Permittivity on the Radiation Performance of Circular Array of Microstrip Circular Patch Antenna.
Sunil K Khah
6.
Microwave Dielectric Properties of Dry and Moist Rocks
Shilpi Agarwal, D.Bhatnagar, R V Sing, M K Pandit
7.
A Study on Variation of the Dielectric Constant of Dry Soil Samples of Assam, Himachal Pradesh and Orissa With their Physical Constituents at Microwave Frequencies and Validation of the CVCG Model
O P N Calla, A Das, B K Kataky, C Baruah, P Dutta, P P Konwar Omprakash Acharya, Sanjeev Kumar Mishra, Chetan Bohra 
8.
Study of Emission Behaviour and Scattering Behaviour of two samples of Aravali Rocks at    Microwave frequencies
O P N Calla, Dinesh Bohra, Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla, Rajesh Vyas, Chetan Bohra
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Session 3

Antenna Measurement using Planar Near Field Facility & Compact Test Range Facility
Time 15.00-16.30 Hrs.
Chair by Dr. Carlo Rizzo
Reporteur Mr. Chetan Bohra
Name of Authors and Title of the paper
Invited talk by
Dr. Carlo Rizzo
1.

Development Of Electrical Characterization Facility at Microwave Frequency For Radar Absorbing Materials
Prashant Vasistha, Shyam Rankawat, Anjali Bhatia,  N Kumar  

2.
Polymer Based Radar Absorbing Materials for Airborne Applications
S. C. Gupta, Raj Kumar
3.

Investigation on the Attenuation Characteristics of Optical Fiber and Microstrip Lines.
Y V Narayana, G Narmada Devi, Prof. G S N Raju

4.
Axial Ratio Improvement of Square Microstrip Antenna For Circularly Polarized Radiation.
Dr. K T V Reddy
5.
Study of RCS of Different Shapes at X-band Frequencies and Methods of External Calibration of Active Microwave Remote Sensors.
O P N Calla, Amitesh Ranjan and Jitendra Singh Jaitawat
6.

Bandwidth Enhancement for square Microstrip Antenna Using Loading Technique.
S V Khorbragade, Vijay Kamble, Pankaj Ashtankar,  Nilavalan R.

7.
The Effect of Ground Plane dimensions of Circular Microstrip Antenna on VSWR Characteristics.
K N Rao
8.
Study of Gain Enhancement method of Microstrip Antenna Using Superstrate Layers.
Antenna System Group SAC
9.
Design of Short Range UDAR for Laboratory Applications
S V Khorbragade, Vijay Kamble, Pankaj Ashtankar, Nilavalan R
10.
Experimental Study of Surface Accuracy Measurement of Reflector Antenna By Planar Near Field Scanning using Microwave Holographic Technique
R K Malaviya, R M Makwana, K P Raja
11.
A Corrugated Feed Design for Microwave Antenna
O P N Calla, Chetan Bohra
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Session4

Microwave Tubes
Time 16.30-18.00Hrs.
Chair by A K Chopra
Reporteur Mr. Naresh Bhatia
Name of Authors and Title of the paper
1.

Numerical Experiment on Broadband Co-Axial Couplers used in Mini-Helix TWT
Priyank Dubey, A K Sinha, S M Sharma, R K Sharma, R K Gupta, S N Joshi

2.
Design and development of Millimetre Wave Magnetron – THE STATE-OF-THE-ART
R R Singh, P V Bhaskar, V Kiran
3.
Efficiency of a Helix TWT in the Presence of Step Reflection
Vikas Kumar, Anil Vohra, Vishnu Srivastava
4.

Sputter Coating of Titanium on RF Loss Buttons for its Brazing with Microwave Tube Slow Wave Structure
A K Chopra, S K Sharma

5.
Terahertz radiation sources and its applications.
Arun K Sharma
6.
A Review of Modelling Approaches for An isotropic Helix Slow-wave Structure used in A Travelling Wave Tube (TWT).
A K Sinha, R Ranga Rao, S N Joshi, B N Basu, P K Jain
7.
Radiation Level Measurement on LHCD System on SST1 Machine.
Kiran Ambulkar, R G Trivedi, A Thakur, P R Parmar, K Kumar, P K Sharma, S L Rao, M K Gupta, D Bora and LHCD group.
8.
Thermal and Structural Design Considerations in a C-Band 70 KW Coupled-Cavity TWT
AK Sharma, R K Sharma, R S Raju
9.
Thermal Design of Slow Wave Structure of Ka-band 40 W Space TWT
S M Imtiaz, A K Sinha, M Alaria, V Srivastava
10.
µTWT for High Power Amplification at Sub-mm wave frequencies
Vishnu Srivastava
11.
Saturation Effects in Periodic Permanent Magnet Focusing System
R S Raju, S Chandorkar, G V K Kumar, T Panigrahi, R Verma, G Chandrasekhar, D V Kumar, KV Ramanath, A K Sharma, A Tanwar
12.
Electromagnetic Analysis of RF Window for S-band High Power Klystron
O S Lamba, Rashmi Singh, L M Joshi, A Sharma, S C Nangru, V V P Singh
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Session5.

Microstrip and Wideband Antenna and Measurements
Time 10.00-11.30 Hrs.
Chair by Dr. Lior Shmidov
Reporteur Mr. Dinesh Bohra
Name of Authors and Title of the paper
1.

Active Antenna measurement system with high speed time synchronizationLior Shmidov, Shali Hizkiahou

2.
Comparison of the S11 parameter of a Microstrip Antenna using FDTD and Neural Network
Sridhar Pattanaik, R K Mishra
3.
On the Evaluation of Open and Discontinuity Effect in Microstrip Circuit with Top Shield
Raj kumar and Arundhati A Shinde 
4.

Radiation studies of Microstrip Passive Circuits
J V S Hari Krishna, R N Karekar, R C Aiyer

5.
A Multiband Reconfigurable Antenna: An Experimental Study
Amalendu Patnaik
6.
Wide Band Microstrip Patch for Ku-Band Application
A K Shrivastav, Annapurna Das, S K Das
7.
A Closed-Form Expression for Characteristics Impedance of a Microstrip LineSomdattta Bose, Jibendu Sekhar Roy
8.
A New Technique for Scaling Dielectric constant of Microstrip Substrates from Microstrip Antenna Measurement
J S Roy, N Chattoraj
9.
Microstrip Dual-Band Patch Antenna
Bhumi Desai, Sanjeev Gupta
10.
Singly-Fed Off-Centered Circular Microstrip Antennas for Dual Frequency Circular Polarization
K T V Reddy
11.
Study of Electromagnetically Coupled (EMC) Equilateral Triangular Microstrip Patch Antenna (ETMA) and Comparison of MPAs
Chote Nuangnun, R N Karekar, R C Aiyer
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Session 6.
Microstrip and Wideband Antenna and Measurements
Time 11.45-13.15 Hrs.
Chair by Prof. Lalan Jha
Reporteur Mr. O P Acharya

Name of Authors and Title of the paper

Invited Talk by
Prof. Lalan Jha
Title: -Analysis of the Bandwidth of Resonant Microstrip Antennas on artificial Neural Networks.
1.
Optimized Design of Microstrip Antennas using Genetic Algorithm
P Mythilli
2.
A Low-cost Sandwich Structure of Photonic Bandgap for Microstrip CircuitSusanta Kumar Parui, Santanu Das
3.

Development of Proximity Coupled Microstrip Antenna in S-Band
Diptiman Biswas, V Ramachandra

5.
On the Design and Evaluation of Open End Effect of Shielded Microstrip Circuit
Raj kumar, Arundhati A Shinde
6.
Ultra Low Size Aperture Coupled UHF Band Microstrip Antenna for Airborne Applications
K N Rao
7.
Concentric Beam Microstrip Antenna at 20.9 GHz and 29.9 GHZ using Harmonic Operation of Superstrate layer
V K Singh, S Kulshrestha, Mohit Khanna, B K Pandey, Anil L Solanki, S B Chakrabarty, S B Sharma
8.
Confirmation of E-plane Multilobe Patternes for Microstrip Fed Microwave Patch Antennas by Critical Experimentations
Hossein Ghanbari, Chote Nuangunu, R N Karekar, R C Aiyer
9.
A Compact Broadband Microstrip Fed Electromagnetic Coupled Microstrip Antenna
Uttam L Bombale, Sanjeev Gupta
10.
Shorted Microstrip Antenna Array
Shashi Bala, Sanjeev Gupta
11.
A Compact Broadband All Polarization Micro Strip Antenna
Uttam L Bombale, Sanjeev Gupta
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Session 7 Active Remote Sensing and Signal Processing
Time 14.00-15.15 Hrs
Chair by Dr. K A Jacob
Reporteur Mr. Naresh Bhatia
Name of Authors and Title of the paper
1.

Comparative Evaluation of Sensitivity of SAR and Optical Remote Sensing for Canopy Structure.
Hari Shankar Srivastava, Parul Patel, Yamini Sharma

2.

A Simple and Effective Approach to Characterize Surface Roughness for SAR Applications
Parul Patel, P N Joglekar

3.
Caching & Replacement Policy in Transcoding Proxies Based on a Generalized Profit Function
T S B Sudarshan, G Raghurama
4.

New Figures of Merit for Poly-Alphabetic Radar Signal Design
I A Pasha, V M Pandharipande, N Sudarshan Rao

5.

High Accuracy Direction Finding Systems for Radar ESM Applications
Sunil Kumar, S Sudha Rani, K R Sundaram

6.

Texture Spectrum Analysis for SAR Images-A New Approach
Maria Navin J R, Sridhar R, Rajesh K, Jagadish G

7.

A Unique Method for the Real-Time Assessment of Data Reception Quality in a Multi Mission Remote Sensing Satellite Ground Station 
P K Jain, S Pal, V M Pandharipande

8.

Registering Interferometric SAR Images by Applying the Marr-Hildreth Operator to Interpolated Windows
Shyamalee Mukherji

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Session 8 Propagation of Radio waves and others
Time 15.30-16.45 Hrs.
Chair by Mr. R K Singhal
Reporteur Mr. O P Acharya
Name of Authors and Title of the paper
1.
2.
A Novel Technique for Reducing the Imaging Domain in Microwave Imaging of Two Dimensional Circularly Symmetric Scatterers
Vinu Thomas, C Gopakumar, A V Praveen Kumar, V Hamsakutty, Anil Lonappan, G Bindu, K T Mathew
3.
Application of Geometrical Theory of Diffraction in Analysis of Backscattering from a Conically Shaped Body
Hema Singh
4.
A Discussion on GPS Errors Due to Ionospheric Scintillations Based on HF Measurements
Mauro S Assis, Angelo A C Canavistsas, Giuseppe Amendola
5.
Development of FDTD Method
Sridhar Pattanaik, R  K  Mishra
6.

Enhanced Usability of Microwave Networking to Meet the Global Challenges.
R Mishra, S Rajguru, J Mohanty

7.
Application of Various Modulation Methods in an Implementation of Space-time Block Codes
R M Sundaram
8.
Input Resistance Closed Form Equation for Dual Band Microstrip Patch Antenna
J P Thakur, Janesh K Kaushik, K K Gupta
9.
Study of Propagation of Radio Waves at 26 – 40 GHz and 45 – 50 GHz
O P N Calla
10.
Communication from High Altitude Platforms – Issues and Opportunities.
Tim Tozer
11.
Error Resilient Transmission of SPIHT Encoded Image Bit Streams
Shikha Tripathi, Madhvan V
12.
Study of the Hardware & Software Requirement for GIS Applications
O P N Calla, Sandeep Kumar Toshipa, Ashutosh Jaiswal, Ashish Agarwal
13.
Factors Affecting the Microwave Communication Link failure Over Water Body and Model Generation
O P N Calla, Dinesh Bohra, Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla, Sandip Ghosh
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Session 9 Antenna Theory Including Smart Antennas
Time 16.45-17.15 Hrs.
Chair by Prof. Ajay Chakrabarty
Reporteur Mr. Sanjeev K Mishra
Name of Authors and Title of the paper

Invited Talk by
Prof. Ajay Chakraborty

Title: Antenna and EMI Sensors

1.
Con-Scan Trans-Twist Paraboloid Antenna for Ground Based Applications.
V G Borkar, A. Renuka 
2.
Effect of Mutual Coupling in Adaptive Array Processing.
Saswati Ghosh, Ajay Chakrabarty,  Subrata Sanyal
3.
Performance Evaluation of a Matched Transmitting Antenna and a Matched Sensor
Saswati Ghosh, Ajar Chakrabarty and Subrata Sanyal
4.
Designing of Elliptically Shaped Beam From Shaped Offset reflector using Scalar Feed
D N Holla
5.
Performance Characteristics of Array of Crossed Slots
Habibulla Khan, G S N Raju
6.
Design, Analysis, Fabrication and Testing of horn antenna to receive the surface waves at 3.7 GHz
R G Trivedi, Kiran Ambulkar, A Thakur, P R Parmar, K Kumar, P K Sharma, S L Rao, M K Gupta, D Bora and LHCD group.
7.
Design of a Modified Blass Matrix for Multiple Beam Antenna
Anil Kumar Singh
8.
Neural Network Based DOA Estimation for Smart Antennas.
A Sudha, N Gunasekaran
9.
V-Koch Fractal Dipole Antenna
Rabindra K Mishra, Rowdra Ghatak,  Deepak R Poddar
10.
Shielding Effectiveness for EMC Design
B Sada Siva Rao, G S N Raju
11.
Generation of Chain of Field strength Pulses from Arrays of Rectangular Waveguides
N Balasubrahamanyam, G S N Raju
12.
Prototype of Fast Ferrite Tuner for Load Matching in Ion Cyclotron Resonance Frequency Range
R A Yogi, D Bora, RF Group
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Session 10 Passive Remote Sensing
Time 17.15-18.15 Hrs.
Chair by Dr. N S Pillai
Reporteur Mr. Subodh Mehta
Name of Authors and Title of the paper

Invited Talk by
N S Pillai

Title: - Advances in the Space borne Synthetic Aperture Radar Technology for Remote Sensing

1.
Feasibility of Estimating the Crop Height using Interferometric Coherence
Hari Shankar Srivastava, Parul Patel, Yamini Sharma
2.
Relocating Ideal Human Settlements using Remote Sensing Technique
J Mohanty, R Mishra
3.
Wide Area Microwave Remote Sensing of Indian Cyclones and Monsoon and Their Signatures in Neural Networks
N Soumya, R N Karekar, D M Puranik, D C Gharpure
4.

Breast Phantom Materials for Confocal Microwave Imaging
G Bindu, Anil Lonapan, Vinu Thomas, V Hamsakutty, C K Anandan, K T Mathew

5.
Particularities of Dependence of Cloud Droplets Absorption on Temperature at Millimetre Waves.
N V Razhentsev  
6.
Retrieving of Data from Images (Both Java and C++) using Java Language
O P N Calla, Nidhi Yadav, Amit Sharma, Monika Upadhyaya, Seema Jain, Sweta Vyas
7.
Study of Scattering Properties and Emission Properties of Vegetation Canopy at X-Band
O P N Calla, Dinesh Bohra, Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla, Sandip Ghosh, Rajesh Vyas, Chetan Bohra
8.
Study of Emission Properties of Dry Soil with respect to their Physical Constituents
O P N Calla, K C Harit
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Session 11a MMIC Technologies
Time 10.00-10.45 Hrs.
Chair by Dr. Deepak Singh
Reporteur Mr. Ranjan Mishra
Name of Authors and Title of the paper

Invited Talk by
Dr. Deepak Singh

Title: MMIC Capability in India

1.
Compact FMCW Trans Receiver at Ka Band
Umesh Bahuguna, Meena R Kumar, Virpal Singh, R P Dixit
2.
Design and Development of Yield Oriented MMICs Based Low Noise AmplifierShib Shankar Singh, Atul K Pandey, Deepak Singh, H P Vyas
3.
Study and Analyzed the Low Frequency Anomalies of 0.7 mm Gate Length MESFETs
Shib Shankar Singh, Atul K Pandey, Deepak Singh, H P Vyas
4.

Study and Simulation of High Frequency Assembly and Package Parasitics on MMIC Circuits
Atul K Pandey, Shib Shankar Singh, Deepak Singh, H P Vyas

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Session 11b Active Remote Sensing and Signal Processing
Time 10.45-11.30 Hrs.
Chair by Dr. D C Pandey
Reporteur Mr. Subodh Mehta

Name of Authors and Title of the paper

1.
Application of 2D-Fuzzy Gabor Filters for Change Detection in SAR ImageArindam Samanta, Sangram Ganguly, S K Ghosh, Doug Gray, A K Ray
2.
Effect of Polarization Angle on the Performance of Conical Scan Tracking Radars in Skin Mode
Anila Kumar Sahu
3.
High Power Printed Planar Array Antenna for SAR Application
A K Pandey, Mohit Khanna, B K Pandey, S Kulshrestha, C Sriharsha, S B Chakrabarty, Rajeev Jyoti, S B Sharma
4.

Co-operative FM Radar using passive Transponders at X-band
John Thornton

5.
Real Time Video Decompression and Display System for PCM Telemetry Ground System
S P Dash, D Anuradha, Jagdish Prasad, Gaurav Sawhany
6.
Study of Variation of Emission and Scattering behavior of Dry Soils of Orissa and Himachal Pradesh with their Physical Constituents
O P N Calla, Omprakash Acharaya, Sanjeev K Mishra
7.
Studies on Feasibility of Integrating Microwave with Optical Data.
M P Singh, A Kumar
8.
Application of Hardgating for Real-time RCS measurements 
J. Hartmann, D Fasold
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Session 12 Remote Sensing of Antarctica
Time 11.45-13.15 Hrs.
Chair by Dr. R.N Sarwade
Reporteur Mr. Chetan Bohra
Name of Authors and Title of the paper

Invited Talks by
Dr. R N Sarwade (TBD),
Dr. N Khare
Title: Indian Antarctic Programme: An Overview
Dr. N K Vyas
Title: - Microwave Remote Sensing of Polar Ice in Relation to Climate Change.
Dr. S M Bhandari

Title: - Evolution of Passive Microwave Radiometry from Space for Polar Sea-ice studies over the last three decades

1.
Anomalous Microwave Signatures of Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica
N K Vyas, S M Bhandari, Nilay Sharma, M K Dash, N Khare, P C Pandey
2.
Depth Measurements using Ground Penetrating Radar in NW-Himalayan Region
H S Negi, K K Singh, V D Mishra, N K Thakur, P Mathur
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