Laura Manoliu

Laura Manoliu, Benjamin Schoch, Simon Haussmann, Axel Tessmann, Ralf Henneberger, Jens Freese, Fabian Steinmetz, Dominik Wrana, Janis Wörmann, Markus Koller, Ingmar Kallfass, "The technology platform of the EIVE CubeSat mission for high throughput downlinks at W-band", in Acta Astronautica, 2023, ISSN 0094-5765, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2023.02.039.

B. Schoch, D.Wrana, L.Manoliu, M.Kuri, S.Wagner, A.Tessmann, I.Kallfass, "E-Band Active Upconverter Module with Tunable LO Feedthrough," 2023 IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium (RWS), Las Vegas, NV, USA, 2023, pp. 80-83, doi: 10.1109/RWS55624.2023.10046296.

J. Flavio, M. Schmidt, E. Greschitz, K. Plimon, L. Manoliu, I. Kallfass, "First Results of the W and Q-band Beacon Measurements with a LEO CubeSat", in 27th Ka and Broadband Communications Conference, Stresa, Italy, pp. 1--9, 2022, link.

L.Manoliu et al., "Ultra-High Throughput E/W-Band Downlink CubeSat Mission", 73rd International Astronautical Congress (IAC), Paris, France, 18-22 September 2022.

L.Manoliu, B.Schoch, D. Wrana, S. Haußmann, A. Tessmann, R. Henneberger, I. Kallfass, "Atmospheric Effects on Wideband-Modulated E-band Long-Range Communication Links", Kleinheubacher Tagung 2022.

L. Manoliu et al., "Measurements of Atmospheric Attenuation in an Outdoor Wireless E/W-Band Communication Link," 2022 14th German Microwave Conference (GeMiC), 2022, pp. 208-211, link.

D. Wrana, B. Schoch, L. Manoliu, S. Haußmann, A. Tessmann and I. Kallfass, "Investigation of the Influence of LO Leakage in an E-Band Quadrature Transmitter," 2022 14th German Microwave Conference (GeMiC), 2022, pp. 33-36.

B. Schoch et al., "Performance Optimization of an E-Band Communication Link using Open-Loop Predistortion," 2022 14th German Microwave Conference (GeMiC), 2022, pp. 216-219.

L. Manoliu, R. Henneberger, A. Tessmann, J. Seidel, M. Eppard and I. Kallfass, "Impairments of Atmospheric Attenuation on a Wideband E-Band Outdoor Communication Link," 2021 51st European Microwave Conference (EuMC), 2022, pp. 990-993, doi: 10.23919/EuMC50147.2022.9784215.

L. Manoliu, S. Kumari, I. Kallfass, "Variable-Coded Modulation and Error-Free Transmission Algorithms for an Exploratory In-Orbit Verification of an E-Band (71-76 GHz) Satellite Link", in Proc. 2021 38th Internation Communication Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC), 2021, doi: 10.1049/icp.2022.0568 .

I. Kallfass, L. Manoliu, B. Schoch, M. Koller, S. Klinkner, J. Freese, A. Tessmann, R. Henneberger, "Towards the Exploratory In-Orbit Verification of an E/W-Band Satellite Communication Link", 2021 IEEE MTT-S International Wireless Symposium (IWS), 2021, pp. 1-3, doi: 10.1109/IWS52775.2021.9499586.

M. Koller, L. Loidold, L. Manoliu, J. Meier, I. Kallfass, and S. Klinkner, “The EIVE Cubesat - Developing a Satellite Bus for a 71-76 GHz E-Band Transmitter Payload," 35th Annual Small Satellite Conference, Logan, Utah, 2021.

L. Manoliu, B. Schoch, M. Koller, J. Wieczorek, S. Klinkner and I. Kallfass, “ High-speed FPGA-Based Payload Computer for an In-Orbit Verification of a 71-76 GHz Satellite Downlink”, 2021 IEEE Space Hardware and Radio Conference (SHaRC), San Diego, CA, USA, DOI: 10.1109/SHaRC51853.2021.9375827.

L. Manoliu, B. Schoch, and I. Kallfass, “FPGA Based Reconfigurable On-Board Payload Processing for an Exploratory In-Orbit Verification of an E-Band (71-76 GHz) Satellite Link (EIVE),” in Proc. 5th ESA SpacE FPGA Users Workshop, Noordwijk, 2020.

B. Schoch, L. Manoliu, J. Keim, S. Chartier, S. Klinkner, and I. Kallfass, “Link budget analysis of E- and W-band satellite services,” in 25th Ka and Broadband Communications Conference, Sorrento, Italy, pp. 1--8, 2019.

L. Manoliu, C. Grötsch and I. Kallfass, " Design and Optimization of Mixers Using Load-Pull Analysis of Higher Order Intermodulation Products," 2019 12th German Microwave Conference (GeMiC), Stuttgart, Germany, 2019, pp. 135-138.

I.A. Mocanu and L. Manoliu, " Dual Band Metamaterial Power Divider with Improved Relative Bandwidth for LTE Applications," 2019 12th German Microwave Conference (GeMiC), Stuttgart, Germany, 2019, pp. 36-39.

L. Manoliu and I.A. Mocanu, " Investigation of the directional coupler composed of micro-strip metamaterial transmission lines," 2016 39th International Conference on Telecommunications and Signal Processing (TSP), Vienna, Austria, 2016, pp. 170-173.

• Automatic Antenna Positioning Algorithms for Millimeter Wave Communication Systems
• Cross-polarization Effects in Broadband Wireless Communication Systems
• Real-time signal evaluation and correction with Xilinx MPSoC
• DC Board Design with current and voltage monitoring
• E-Band link budget calculation and characterization
• System automation for the EIVE-T project

Offering topics also in the University of Stuttgart SUPER Programme

• ILH - Performance analysis of fully integrated transmit and receive RF frontends used in ultra-high data rate wireless communication links

Seminar Selected Topics on Power and Microwave Electronics (Summer Semester)

Basic Internship / Lab (at ILH)

Mentor in the TryScience Program at University of Stuttgart (2021/2022)

• Project EIVE - Exploratory In-Orbit Verification of an E/W-Band Satellite Communication Link
• Projet W-Cube - ESA W-Band CubeSat
• Projekt EIVE-T - Exploratory In-Orbit Verification of an E/W-Band Satellite Communication Link, Terrestrial Mission

• Digital Self-Interference Cancellation for Duplex Wireless Communication System using FPGA

• EVM investigation and optimization for the on-board self-developed AWG implemented on the FPGA for a satellite mission
• FPGA implementation of an adaptive, real-time, energy-efficient data rate tuning algorithm
• FPGA implementation of energy-efficient real-time image compression algorithms  (OPUS link: http://dx.doi.org/10.18419/opus-12569)
• Analogue filters implementation for improving the EVM for the EIVE satellite mission
• Online, onboard data processing for high data rate communications systems applied in the EIVE satellite mission
• Radiation Mitigation Techniques for EIVE Satellite Mission Payload Computer (OPUS link:   http://dx.doi.org/10.18419/opus-12495)
• Channel modeling and investigation of atmospheric effects on E-Band (71-76 GHz and 81-86 GHz) communication links
• Development of an inductive heating system for the temperature control of a terrestrial antenna
• E-band long-distance outdoor wireless communication system: health monitoring & automation (internship)