APMC Student Design Competition

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Final application to the competition for Track A has been closed.

There still is some room for Track B.
Please send the application form to below address if you wish to participate in Track B.
apmc2014sdc@apmc2014.org

The applicants should have received confirmation E-mail from apmc2014 apmc2014sdc@apmc2014.org

If you have sent application form and have NOT received confirmation E-mail yet,
please send it again from non free-mail address.

Some free-mails are sometimes automatically rejected by the e-mail system.

Also applicants will be notified the measurement time slot soon.

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APMC Student Design Competition will be held during APMC2014 for the first time in the history of APMC. All students in microwave engineering are solicited to challenge the following competitions

Track A : High efficiency GaN amplifier design Track
Track B : Printed circuit board (PCB) bandpass filter design

  • Time Schedule

The competition will be held on the 6th November.
Award ceremony will be also held in the Award Banquet on the day.

Measurement time slot will be set to avoid conflict with the oral presentation in the conference.

*Those who had already received the GaN HEMTs for Track A should register again for confirmation.

APMC2014 Steering Committee is accepting offering of supplementary prizes for the Student Design Competition. Please contact below for more detailed information.
apmc2014sdc@apmc2014.org
 

Track A : High efficiency GaN amplifier design competition

Frequency : The amplifier should operate at a frequency between 2.4GHz to 2.5GHz.
Output Power : The amplifier should have at least 5W saturated output power.
Transistor : The amplifier should use a Sumitomo Electric Device Innovation's SGNE010MK.
Interface : The amplifier should have 50 ohm female SMA connector interfaces for input and output of signals.
 

Highest power added efficiency at more than 5W output power will win the competition.

5 SGNE010MKs are provided for the applicants. Participants can also prepare the same device by themselves. Please contact the SEDI's sales representatives.

Transistor models for circuit design is available from here
http://edadocs.software.keysight.com/display/eesofkcjads/APMC2014+Student+Design+Competition Login Username = apmc2014@keysight.com       Password = sdcomp2014
 
 

Track B : Printed circuit board (PCB) bandpass filter design competition

Frequency : The filter should pass through 1.5GHz ± 50MHz signals.
Insertion loss : The filter should have less than 3dB insertion loss over above mentioned frequency range.
Return loss : The filter should have more than 10dB return loss over above mentioned frequency range.
Interface : The filter should have 50 ohm female SMA connector interfaces for input and output of signals.
Rejection : The filter should satisfy rejection characteristics shown below.
⋅ from 1.2GHz to 1.4GHz and 1.6GHz to 1.7GHz : more than 10dB
⋅ from 1.0GHz to 1.2GHz and 1.7GHz to 1.9GHz : more than 20dB
 

Lowest spurious over 0.5 to 1.2GHz and 1.9 to 3GHz will win the competition.

Any active component or device is NOT allowed to be used.

The measurement will be done with a network analyzer from 0.5GHz to 3GHz with 10MHz resolution.
 

  • Remarks
    • All contestants for the Student Design Competition should register APMC2014 conference.
      Please register yourself as Superpass or Conference.
    • Prize money will be given only to the IEICE student members.
      Any student can join IEICE before APMC2014.
    • To receive GaN HEMTs, the applicant should send a confirmation of the supervisor.
      Please visit preliminary application page for detailed procedures.

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