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TUESDAY AFTERNOON, 6 January 2004

Session B3, 13:35-Tues.
ANTENNAS

Chairpersons: R.J. Pogorzelski (pogo@jpl.nasa.gov) and W.A. Imbriale (imbriale@jpl.nasa.gov)

13:35 - Introduction

13:40 (B3-1)
IMPROVING ANTENNA ARRAY PATTERNS IN OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENTS USING THE GENETIC ALGORITHM
Ting-Chieh Tu, Chien-Ching Chiu, Tsung-Yu Chen

14:00 (B3-2)
ON THE BANDWIDTH OF COUPLED OSCILLATOR BASED PHASED ARRAYS
R.J. Pogorzelski

14:20 (B3-3)
PREDICTION OF NEAR-FIELD INTENSITY FOR A RADAR PHASED ARRAY ANTENNA
Nicholas DeMinco

14:40 (B3-4)
WIRE ANTENNA EXPOSURE ZONE BOUNDARY ESTIMATION FROM FAR-FIELD RADIATION CHARACTERISTICS
H. Ebersbach, Thiel, D.V., Leckenby, M.

15:00 (B3-5) PRESENTATION ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED IN THIS SESSION AT 15:40
UPDATE ON THE 6-METER BREADBOARD ANTENNA FOR THE DEEP SPACE NETWORK LARGE ARRAY
W.A. Imbriale, Weinreb, S., Feria, A., Porter, C., Hoppe, D.

15:20-15:40 - BREAK

15:40 (B3-6) PRESENTATION ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED IN THIS SESSION AT 15:00
MODIFICATION OF TEM-FED RELECTOR FOR INCREASED EFFICIENCY
C.E. Baum

16:00 (B3-7)
MICROSTRIP REFLECTARRAYS WITH MULTI-LAYER GROUNDED SUBSTRATES AND SUPERSTRATES
S.R. Rengarajan

16:20 (B3-8)
VHF/UHF/L-BAND/S-BAND DEPLOYABLE ANTENNA FOR SATELLITE APPLICATIONS
Paul A. Bernhardt, Siefring, C., Atkinson, L., Moore, M., Whalen, B., Feerst, A., Burton, J., Domer, F.

16:40 (B3-9)
A WIDEBAND CPW-FED PATCH ANTENNA WITH DEFECTIVE GROUND PLANE
Lin Xian-Chang, Wang Ling-Teng

Session D1, 13:35 Tuesday
RF MEMS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS

Chairpersons: John Papapolymerou (papapol@ece.gatech.edu) and George Ponchak (george.ponchak@ieee.org)

13:35 - Introduction

13:40 (D1-1)
RF MEMS SWITCHES INTEGRATED ONTO POLYIMIDE THIN FILMS FOR DEPLOYABLE ANTENNA ARRAYS
G.E. Ponchak, Varaljay, N.C.

14:00 (D1-2)
TIME-DOMAIN TECHNIQUES FOR THE ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF RF MEMS STRUCTURES
Nathan Bushyager, Tentzeris, M.

14:20 (D1-3)
RF MEMS PHASE SHIFTER CIRCUITS
Jeffrey DeNatale, Mihailovich, R.

14:40 (D1-4)
DC-CONTACT RF MEMS SWITCHES FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS
Dimitrios Peroulis, Katehi, L.

15:00 (D1-5)
POLYIMIDE PLANARIZATION FOR RF-MEMS SWITCH ON PCB
B . Ghodsian, Jung, C., Cetiner, B.A., De Flaviis, F.

15:20-15:40 - BREAK

15:40 (D1-6)
RF MEMS CAPACITIVE SWITCHES BASED ON FLEXIBLE PRINTED CIRCUIT TECHNOLOGY
R. Ramadoss, Lee, S., Gupta, K.C., Bright, V.M., Lee Y.C.

16:00 (D1-7)
ADVANCED PACKAGING CONCEPTS IN SILICON SUBSTRATES
Rhonda Franklin Drayton

16:20 (D1-8)
RF MEMS TUNERS FOR HIGH EFFICIENCY MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS
Emily Zheng, Pajic, S., Popovic, Z., Papapolymerou, J.

16:40 - Panel Discussion

Session Title A1, 13:55-Tues.
ANTENNAS AND RADIATION MODELING

Chairpersons: William Davis (wadavis@vt.edu) and Everett Farr (efarr@farr-research.com)

13:55 - Introduction

14:00 (A1-1)
A PORTABLE AUTOMATIC TIME-DOMAIN ANTENNA RANGE: THE PATAR(TM) SYSTEM
Everett G. Farr, Atchley, L.M., Bigelow, W.S., Bowen, L.H., Tran, T.C.

14:20 (A1-2)
TRANSMITTER BEAMWIDTH SIMULATION STUDY AND VEHICULAR EFFECT ON URBAN LINE-OF-SIGHT MICROCELLS AT MILLIMETER WAVE FREQUENCY 35GHZ
A. Goyal, Joshi, S., Sancheti, S., Maheshwari, S.

14:40 (A1-3)
BAND-LIMITED ANTENNAS AND THE RELATIONSHIP TO DIFFERENTIATION IN UWB
Stanislav Licul, Davis, W.

15:00 (A1-4)
LIMITED-ANGLE-OF-INCIDENCE AND LIMITED-TIME MAGNETIC SENSORS
C.E. Baum

15:20-15:40 - BREAK

Session A2, 15:40-Tues.
DEVICE MODELING AND MEASUREMENTS

Chairpersons: William Davis (wadavis@vt.edu) and Jeffery Jargon (jargon@boulder.nist.gov)

15:40 (A2-1)
MICROWAVE TRANSISTOR PACKAGE PARASITIC MODELLING USING COMPUTATIONAL PREDICTIONS
J.A. Bach, Knudson, R.T., Christodoulou, C.G.

16:00 (A2-2)
NONLINEAR TRANSMISSION MEASUREMENTS AND MODELING
William A. Davis

16:20 (A2-3)
REPEATABILITY OF HARMONIC PHASE TRANSFER STANDARDS MEASURED BY A NONLINEAR VECTOR NETWORK ANALYZER
Jeffrey A. Jargon, DeGroot, D.C.

Session F3, 13:55-Tues.
REMOTE SENSING OF THE EARTH'S SURFACE

Chairpersons: S. Reising (reising@ieee.org) and E. Bahar (ebahar@unl.edu)

13:55 - Introduction

14:00 (F3-1)
MEASUREMENTS OF MICROWAVE EMISSION DUE TO REPRODUCIBLE BREAKING WAVES AND CORRELATION WITH IN-SITU FOAM MEASUREMENTS
S. Padmanabhan, Reising, S.C., Asher, W.E., Rose, L.A., Gaiser, P.W.

14:20 (F3-2)
ACCURATE CALIBRATION OF GROUND BASED MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS USING EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL REFERENCES
M.A. Aziz, Reising, S.C.

14:40 (F3-3)
AIRBORNE POLARIMETRIC SCANNING RADIOMETER (PSR) MEASUREMENTS OF SNOW COVER PROPERTIES
B. Boba Stankov, Gasiewski, A.J., Weber, B.L., Klein, M., Kelly, R., Cline, D., Wick, G.A.

15:00 (F3-4)
AIRBORNE ELECTROMAGNETICS FOR SALINITY MAPPING AND BATHYMETRY IN AUSTRALIA
James Macnae

15:20-15:40 - BREAK

15:40 (F3-5)
SEASONAL POLARIMETRIC MEASUREMENTS OF SOIL MOISTURE USING GROUND-BASED GPS BISTATIC RADAR
V. Zavorotny, Masters, D., Gasiewski, A., Bartram, B., Katzberg, S., Axelrad, P., Zamora, R.

16:00 (F3-6)
POLARIZATION DEPENDENT BACKSCATTER CROSS SECTIONS OF COMPOSITE RANDOM ROUGH EARTH SURFACES USED TO DETERMINE SOIL MOISTURE CONTENT
E. Bahar

Session H3, 13:35-Tues.
WAVES IN SPACE PLASMAS

Chairpersons: Jim Green (James.Green@nasa.gov) and Roger Anderson

13:35 - Introduction

13:40 (H3-1)
IRREGULARITY FORMATION AT CACHIMBO ON THE MAGNETIC EQUATOR AFTER SUNSET DURING THE COPEX CAMPAIGN IN BRAZIL
G. Sales, Reinisch, B., Abdu, M., Batista, I.

14:00 (H3-2)
THE OBSERVATION OF ULF WAVES IN SUPERDARN DATA
P.V. Ponomarenko, Menk, F.W., Waters, C.L., Fraser, B J.

14:20 (H3-3)
FULLY KINETIC SIMULATIONS AND LINEAR THEORY OF THERMALLY MODIFIED E-REGION INSTABILITIES
M.M. Oppenheim, Dimant, Y.

14:40 (H3-4)
MODELING OF SPACECRAFT EXHAUST JET - IONOSPHERIC PLASMA INTERACTION
V.G. Spitsyn

15:00 (H3-5)
RECENT ADVANCES IN THE PLASMA IMPEDANCE PROBE MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUE
Chad G. Carlson, Swenson, C.M., Fish, C., Ward, J.D.

15:20-15:40 - BREAK

15:40 (H3-6)
REVIEW OF RECENT ROCKET OBSERVATIONS OF HIGH FREQUENCY PLASMA WAVES
J. LaBelle, Samara, M.

16:00 (H3-7)
PLASMA WAVE MAPS OF THE MAGNETOSPHERE
J.L. Green, Boardsen, S., Fung, S., Garcia, L.

16:20 (H3-8)
THE NONLINEAR COUPLING OF ALFVEN AND LOWER HYBRID WAVES IN SPACE PLASMA
George V. Khazanov

16:40 (H3-9)
INJECTION OF VLF WAVES USING ELECTRIC DIPOLE ANTENNAS IN THE MAGNETOSPHERE
Chevalier, T.W., Bell, T.F., Inan, U.S.

17:00 (H3-10)
NASCAP2K SIMULATION OF A VLF ANTENNA PLASMA SHEATH IN THE PLASMASPHERE
David L. Cooke, Mandell, M.J.

17:20 (H3-11)
ION HEATING BY HEAT FLUX GENERATED ION CYCLOTRON WAVES IN SOLAR CORONAL HOLES
S.A. Markovskii, Hollweg, J.V.

Session G2, 13:35-Tues.
IONOSPHERIC IMAGING

Chairpersons: G. Bust (engb@arlut.utexas.edu) and Farzad Kamalabadi (farzadk@uiuc.edu)

13:35 - Introduction

13:40 (G2-1)
COMPARISONS OF GUVI NIGHTSIDE IONOSPHERIC DENSITY RETRIEVALS, IONOSONDES, AND GPS OCCULTATION PROFILES
P.R. Straus, DeMajistre, R., McKenzie, D.L. , Paxton, L.J., Morrison, D. , Christensen, A.B.

14:00 (G2-2)
COMBINING OPTICAL AND RADIO TECHNIQUES FOR HIGH-RESOLUTION IONOSPHERIC
C. Coker, Dymond, K.F., Bennert, E.J., Thonnard S.E.

14:20 (G2-3)
FAR ULTRAVIOLET IMAGING OF THE IONOSPHERE WITH GUVI AND SSUSI
Larry Paxton, Kil, H., DeMajistre, R., Morrison, D., Talaat, E., Straus, P., Christensen, A., Crowleym, G.

14:40 (G2-4)
MULTI-DAY EXPERIMENTAL RUN OF IONOSPHERIC DATA ASSIMILATION THREE DIMENSIONAL (IDA3D)
G.S. Bust, Garner, T.W., Gaussiran, T.L. II

15:00 (G2-5)
RADIO TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGING OF SPORADIC E-LAYERS DURING SEEK2
P.A. Bernhardt, Selcher, C.A., Siefring, C.L., Wilkens, M., Taylor, C., Yamamoto, M., Fukao, S., Bust, G.

15:20-15:40 - BREAK

15:40 (G2-6)
HF PROPAGATION MODELING INCORPORATING 3-D IONOSPHERIC DATA ASSIMILATION OUTPUTS
F. Ryan, Bust, G., McGraw, J.

16:00 (G2-7)
RADAR IMAGING OF E REGION PLASMA IRREGULARITIES AND QP ECHOES OVER ARECIBO
D.L. Hysell, Larsen, M.F.

Session J2, 13:35-Tues.
ADVANCES IN LARGE FOCAL PLANE ARRAYS I: BOLOMETRIC DETECTORS

Chairperson: Kent Irwin (irwin@boulder.nist.gov)

13:35 - Introduction

13:40-14:20 (J2-1)
LARGE FORMAT BOLOMETER ARRAYS FOR ASTROPHYSICS
H. Moseley, Benford, D.

14:20 (J2-2)
BOLOCAM: A MILLIMETER-WAVE CAMERA FOR COSMOLOGY
J. Glenn, Ade, P.A.R, Aguirre, J., Bock, J.J., Edgington, S.F., Goldin, A., Golwala, S., Haig, J., Lange, A.E, Laurent, G., Maloney, P., Mauskopf, P., Nguyen, H., Rossinot, P., Sayers, J., Stover, P.

14:40 (J2-3)
THE SHARC II AND HAWC 12X32 POP-UP BOLOMETER ARRAYS
Darren Dowell, Allen, C.A., Babu, S., Chuss, D.T., Dotson, J.L., Harper, D.A., Jhabvala, M.D., Moseley, Jr., S.H., Silverberg, R., Voellmer, G., Wollack, E.J.

15:00 (J2-4)
SQUID MULTIPLEXERS FOR LARGE BOLOMETER ARRAYS
K.D. Irwin, Lehnert, K.W. Deiker, S.

15:20-15:40 - BREAK

15:40 (J2-5)
THE SCUBA-2 CAMERA FOR THE JAMES CLERK MAXWELL TELESCOPE
W.D., Duncan, The SCUBA-2 Collaboration

16:00 (J2-6)
LARGE FORMAT BOLOMETER ARRAY SYSTEMS FOR MICROWAVE OBSERVATIONS
M. Dobbs, Cho, H.M., Clarke, J., Holzapfel, W., Lanting, T.M., Lee, A.T., Lueker, M., Richards, P., Spieler, H.G.

16:20 (J2-7)
THE MBAC CAMERA FOR ACT: 3000 BOLOMETERS, 500 SQUIDS, AND A BIG DISH IN THE DESERT
Suzanne Staggs, The ACT Collaboration

16:40 (J2-8)
LARGE FORMAT POLARIZATION SENSITIVE BOLOMETER ARRAYS FOR THE CMB
Brian G. Keating