Broadband design of non-symmetric ground k/4 open slot antenna with small size, Microwave J 50 (2007), 110-121. 9. A. Mehdipour, K. Mohammadpour-Aghdam, and R. Faraji-Dana, Complete dispersion analysis of Vivaldi antenna for ultra wideband application, Prog Electromagn Res 77 (2007), 85-96. ABSTRACT: This article presents the impact of different test structures on the results of microwave characterization of on-wafer components. In this study, we focus on the characterization and modeling of NXP Semiconductors Technology Passive Integration Connective Substrate (PICS) capacitor. First, we show the strong dependency of the extracted parameters according to test structure used when utilizing traditional open/short parasitic elements removing method. Second, we propose an optimization of the test structures to reduce their influence on the intrinsic parameters extracted from on-wafer characterization of the device under test. We also propose a way to improve the accuracy of the modeling of PICS devices in radiofrequency and microwave domains.ABSTRACT: This article presents non-return-to-zero (NRZ), binary phase-shift keying (BPSK) data transmission over 100 m (50-lm core) and 200 m (62.5-lm core) millimetre-wave multimode radio-over-fibre (RoF) links. The system consists of a 1.55-lm tunable laser source, a wide bandwidth 40-Gb/s Mach-Zehnder Modulator (MZM), and a highspeed photodiode for detection. Successful data transmission of 900 Mb/ s over 100 m and 500 Mb/s over 200-m multimode RoF links is achieved. A millimetre-wave carrier frequency of 38.8 GHz is used for the data transmission over multimode fibres which is believed to the highest reported so far. After the RoF links eye-diagrams are recovered with good Q-factor performance recorded. These measurements show that multimode fibre links have the potential for use in next generation in-building/campus wide pico-cellular and low cost distributed antenna systems.