Microwave Circuit Laboratory

Faculty:
PhD Students:
  • Seema Awasthi
  • Raghvendra Chaudhary
  • Prashun Chongder
  • Alok Kumar Saxena
  • Somak Bhattacharya
  • Soumava Mukherjee

MTech Students:
  • Vepuri Niranjan
  • S. Sateesh Kumar
  • Satvik Dube
  • Rajnish Kumar
  • Hitesh Baradiya
  • Sayan Das
  • Mrigank Srivastava
  • Munigala Nagaraju
  • Yash Sidana

Facilities:
  • Software Package:
    Agilent Advanced Design System (ADS)
    Ansoft High Frequency Structure Simulator (HFSS)
  • Equipment:
    Agilent Spectrum Analyzer 8564EC: 9 KHz upto 40 GHz
    AR/RF Microwave Power Amplifier, 100A250A, 100 Watt CW, 10kHz Â-250MHz
  • Computing Facilities:
    One Computer Server and 8 Workstations

Research:
  • Meta-materials
  • Wireless Power Transfer
  • Microwave Passive Filters
  • Finite Difference Time Domain Technique
  • Multi-conductor Transmission Line
  • Dielectric Resonators
  • Low Noise Amplifier
  • Gm-C Filters
  • Genetic Algorithm

Patents:
  • Indian Patent: (a) Dielectric Resonator
    Application No. :1972/DEL/2004 dated on Oct 11, 2004
    Complete Filed on Oct 10, 2005
    Inventor: Kumar Vaibhav Srivastava, Vishwa V. Mishra and Animesh Biswas
    Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
  • Indian Patent: (b)Functionally graded wide-band polymeric composites for microwave absorbers and method of manufacturing same
    Application No.:- 737/DEL/2007
    Dated :28th March 2007, India (2007)
    Inventor: Kamal K. Kar, Ahankari Sandeep Sureshrao and Animesh Biswas
    Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
  • US Patent: Dielectric Resonator
    Patent No. 7417518. Aug. 2008
    Inventor: Kumar Vaibhav Srivastava, Vishwa V. Mishra and Animesh Biswas
    Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Last 5 year publications:
  • Kumar Vaibhav Srivastava, Vishwa V. Mishra and Animesh Biswas, " An Accurate Analysis of Numerical Dispersion for 3-D ADI-FDTD with Artificial Anisotropy," Microwave Optical Technology Letters vol. 49, no. 12, pp. 3109-3112, Dec. 2007.
  • Kumar Vaibhav Srivastava, Vishwa V. Mishra and Animesh Biswas, " An Accurate Analysis of Numerical Dispersion for 3-D ADI-FDTD with Artificial Anisotropy", Asia Pacific Microwave Conference-2007, Bangkok in Dec. 2007
  • Akhilesh Mohan, Animesh Biswas, "A Novel Defected Ground Structure (DGS) Resonator for Bandpass Filter Applications," in Proceedings Asia Pacific Microwave Conference 2007, Bangkok, Thailand, December 2007.
  • Srinivas Rao Zinka, Akhilesh Mohan, Animesh Biswas, "Bandpass Filter Realization Using Degenerate Dual-Modes of a New Type of Patch resonator for Significant Size Reduction," in Proceedings Asia Pacific Microwave Conference 2007, Bangkok, Thailand, December 2007.
  • Akhilesh Mohan, Surinder Singh and Animesh Biswas, " Design Procedure for Quadruple Band BandPass Microwave Filters", Proceedings of Asia Pacific Microwave Conference 2008, Hong-Kong, December, 2008.
  • V. Madhusudana Rao, Akhilesh Mohan and Animesh Biswas, "Realization of Dual Bandpass Filters with Metamaterials in Three Coupled Finlines" Proceedings of Asia Pacific Microwave Conference 2008, Hong-Kong, December, 2008.
  • Kumar Vaibhav Srivastava, Vishwa V. Mishra and Animesh Biswas," Bandpass Filter with Improved Spurious Performance using Modified Ring Dielectric Resonator in MIC Environment," Microwave Optical Technology Letters vol. 50, no. 5, pp. 1426-1431, May 2008.
  • Akhilesh Mohan and Animesh Biswas,"Dual-Band Bandpass filter using Defected Ground Structure," Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Vol. 51, No.2, pp.475-479, February 2009.
  • Akhilesh Mohan, Animesh Biswas, D. Kettle and A. Gibson, “Bandstop Filter Using Hybrid EBG Structure” 39th European Microwave Conference, Rome, Italy, Sept.2009.
  • G. Naga Satish, K. V. Srivastava, A. Biswas and D. Kettle, "A Via-Free Left Handed Transmission Line with Radial Stubs," in Asia Pacific Microwave Conference-2009, Singapore in Dec. 2009.
  • Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary, Kumar Vaibhav Srivastava and Animesh Biswas "Four Element Multilayer Cylindrical Dielectric Resonator Antenna Excited by a Coaxial Probe for Wideband Applications" has been accepted for publication in National Conference on Communications (NCC 2011), 28 - 30 January 2010, IISc Bangalore, India.
  • G. Naga Satish, K. V. Srivastava, A. Biswas and D. Kettle, "Narrow Band pass Filter using Symmetrical Left-Handed Transmission Line Zeroth-Order Resonators" in 5th German Microwave Conference (GeMiC) 2010 Berlin, Germany in March 2010
  • G. Naga Satish, Kumar Vaibhav Srivastava and A. Biswas, "Compact Bandpass Filter using Zeroth-Order Resonance of Via-Free Left-Handed Transmission Line," International Journal on Microwave and Optical Technology vol. 5, no. 5, 298-304, Sept. 2010.
  • Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary, K. V. Srivastava, Vishwa V. Mishra and Animesh Biswas, "Multilayer Multi-Permittivity Dielectric Resonator: A new approach for improved spurious free window,” 40th European Microwave Conference 2010 Paris, pp. 1194-1197, Sept 2010.
  • Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary, Kumar Vaibhav Srivastava and Animesh Biswas "An Investigation on Three Element Multilayer Cylindrical Dielectric Resonator Antenna Excited by a Coaxial Probe for Wideband Applications", in IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Applied Electromagnetics (APACE 2010), Port Dickson, Malaysia. Nov. 2010.
  • Viveka Nand Mishra, Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary, Kumar Vaibhav Srivastava and Animesh Biswas "Compact Two Pole Bandpass Filter Using Symmetrical Composite Right/Left Handed Transmission Line with Vias" in IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Applied Electromagnetics (APACE 2010), Port Dickson, Malaysia. Nov. 2010.
  • Saumen Mondal, Kumar Vaibhav Srivastava and Animesh Biswas "A 600MHz, 6th Order, Highly Linear Gm-C Bandpass Filter Design" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems (APCCS 2010), 6 - 9 December 2010, Hilton Kuala Lumpur and Le Meridien Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
  • Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary, Kumar Vaibhav Srivastava and Animesh Biswas "Four Element Multilayer Cylindrical Dielectric Resonator Antenna Excited by a Coaxial Probe for Wideband Applications" has been accepted for publication in National Conference on Communications (NCC 2011), 28 - 30 January 2011, IISc Bangalore, India.(NCC-11)
  • Varish Diddi, Kumar Vaibhav Srivastava and Animesh Biswas "A 6 mW Low Noise Amplifier for 3.1-10.6 GHz UWB Application" National Conference on Communications (NCC 2011), 28 - 30 January 2011, IISc Bangalore, India.(NCC-11)
  • R. K. Chaudhary, V. V. Mishra, K. V. Srivastava and A. Biswas, "Improved Spurious Free Performance of Multi-layer Multi-permittivity Dielectric Resonator in MIC Environment," Progress in Electromagnetics Research B, vol. 30, pp. 135-156, May 2011
  • Varish Diddi, Kumar Vaibhav Srivastava and Animesh Biswas, "Design of Low Power LNA for GPS Application" has been accepted for publication in 2011 International Conference on Circuits, System and Simulation (ICCSS 2011) May 28-29, 2011 in Bangkok, Thailand
  • Geetika Agrawal, Ruchi Sharma, Kumar Vaibhav Srivastava and M. Jaleel Akhtar, "Understanding the Concept of Time Domain Behavior of Transmission Line for DC/AC Source Excitation using Interactive LabVIEW Programming," accepted for presentation in International Conference on REV - Remote Engineering & Virtual Instrumentation 2011, Transylvania University, Brasov, Romania, June 28 - July 1, 2011.
  • M Jaleel Akhtar, Tannu Gupta, Sudha Madhuri and K V Srivastava, "Development of the Virtual Lab Module for Understanding the Concepts of Modes and Field Patterns in Electromagnetics and Microwave Engineering," accepted for presentation in International Conference on REV - Remote Engineering & Virtual Instrumentation 2011, Transylvania University, Brasov, Romania, June 28 - July 1, 2011
  • R. K. Chaudhary, G. K. Singh, K. V. Srivastava and A. Biswas "Coaxial Fed Half-Split Multilayer Cylindrical Dielectric Resonator Antenna for Wideband Applications" accepted for presentation in 41th European Microwave Conference (EuMC), 9 Oct. -14 Oct., 2011, in Manchester Central, Manchester, United Kingdom (UK).
  • V. N. Mishra, R. K. Chaudhary, K. V. Srivastava and A. Biswas, "Compact Two Pole Bandpass Filter Implemented Using Via-free Composite Right/Left Handed Transmission Line with Radial Stubs" accepted for presentation in 41th European Microwave Conference (EuMC), 9 Oct. -14 Oct., 2011, in Manchester Central, Manchester, United Kingdom (UK).
  • Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary, H. B. Baskey, K. V. Srivastava, A. Biswas, "Wideband Two-layer Rectangular Dielectric Resonator Antenna with (Zr0.8Sn0.2)TiO4-Epoxy Composite System," accepted for presentation in, IEEE Applied Electromagnetics conference (AEMC) and Indian Antenna Week (IAW), Dec. 18 - 22, 2011, Kolkata, India.
  • G. K. Singh, Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary, K. V. Srivastava, "Compact Epsilon Negative ZOR-Antenna," accepted for presentation in, IEEE Applied Electromagnetics conference (AEMC) and Indian Antenna Week (IAW), Dec. 18 - 22, 2011, Kolkata, India.

Projects:
  • Studies on Dielectric Resonator at Millimeter Wave Frequency and Development of Filter
    Period : 3 Years
    Sponsoring Agency : Defence Lab, DRDO, India
    Sanctioned Amount of Grant : Rs. 7.36 Lakhs
    Status of work : Completed
  • Development of Microstrip line based impedance matching and filters on GaAs substrates and characterization at (1 - 10GHz) for Photo Detectors and Optical receiver
    Period : 2 Years
    Sponsoring Agency : C.S.I.R, New Delhi
    Sanctioned Amount of Grant : Rs. 6.75 Lakhs
    Status of work : Completed
  • Design and development of down converter at millimeter wave frequency
    Period : 3 Years
    Sponsoring Agency : Defence Lab, DRDO, India
    Sanctioned Amount of Grant : Rs. 35.40 Lakhs
    Status of work : Completed
  • Development of microstrip line based dielectric resonator oscillator at GSM and PCS band for mobile communication
    Period : 2 Years
    Sponsoring Agency : C.S.I.R, New Delhi
    Sanctioned Amount of Grant : Rs. 7.14 Lakhs
    Status of work : Completed
  • Development of anisotropic ceramic dielectric resonator for miniature microwave circuit application
    Period : 3 Years
    Sponsoring Agency : DST, New Delhi
    Sanctioned Amount of Grant : Rs. 17.75 Lakhs
    Status of work : Completed
  • Design and development of wide band band pass filter using multiconductor lines for high speed integrated applications
    Period : 3 Years
    Sponsoring Agency : Defence Lab, DRDO, India
    Sanctioned Amount of Grant : Rs. 14.36 Lakhs
    Status of work : Completed
  • Focusing of Electromagnetic Energy using Meta-materials
    Period : 1 Years
    Sponsoring Agency : I.I.T. Kanpur
    Sanctioned Amount of Grant : Rs. 10.00 Lakhs
    Status of work : Completed
  • Transreceiver Chip for the next generation of network in Telecommunication
    Period : 3 Years
    Sponsoring Agency : British Council, UK
    Sanctioned Amount of Grant : Rs. 29.88 Lakhs
    Status of work : Going-on
  • Design of Compact Band-pass Filter using Composite Right/Left Handed Transmission Line
    Period : 2 Years
    Sponsoring Agency : DST, New Delhi
    Sanctioned Amount of Grant : Rs. 12.80 Lakhs
    Status of work : Going-on
  • Transreceiver Chip for the next generation of network in Telecommunication
    Period : 3 Years
    Sponsoring Agency : British Council, UK
    Sanctioned Amount of Grant : Rs. 19.88 Lakhs
    Status of work : Approved
  • Analytical Model for Contact-less Power Transfer
    Period : 1 Year
    Sponsoring Agency : GE India Technology Centre,Bangalore
    Sanctioned Amount of Grant : Rs. 9.09 Lakhs
    Status of work : On-going
  • Development of Dielectric Resonators for Applications to Microwave Systems
    Period : 2 Years
    Sponsoring Agency : Space Application Centre, Ahmedabad ISRO
    Sanctioned Amount of Grant : Rs. 33.27 Lakhs
    Status of work : On-going
  • RF And Microwave Characterization Laboratory
    Period : 2 Years
    Sponsoring Agency : MHRD, New Delhi
    Sanctioned Amount of Grant : Rs. 40 Lakhs
    Status of work : On-going

Contact Person:
Dr. Kumar Vaibhav Srivastava
Email: kvs@iitk.ac.in
Phone: +91-512-259-7105
Location: ACES-227