{"title":"High Gain Dual-band Low-frequency Scaled Transparent THz Antenna for Satellite Systems","authors":"T. Saeidi, I. Ismail, W. P. Wen, A. Alhawari","doi":"10.1109/RFM.2018.8846515","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFM.2018.8846515","url":null,"abstract":"A transparent dual-band antenna resonating at both 750 GHz and 1.1 THz fed through an aperture is designed. Loss evaluations of the applied materials for both the conductors and the transparent substrate are investigated. After simulation in THz range, the proposed antenna is low frequency scaled to resonate at (0.75 GHz, 1.1 GHz) and (7.5 GHz, 11 GHz) to show its ability of working in THz bands. The scaled antennas are fabricated on the FR4 substrate with the permittivity of 4.3 and thickness of 1.6 mm and then a layer of ITO is added to increase the gain and efficiency.","PeriodicalId":111726,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International RF and Microwave Conference (RFM)","volume":"108 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127970865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Electronically scanned phased array antenna design and implementation","authors":"H. Elbanna, Khaled Hasaballah, A. Adel","doi":"10.1109/RFM.2018.8846470","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFM.2018.8846470","url":null,"abstract":"A multi-purpose phased array antenna is designed and implemented using Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) components, operating at 2.3 GHz on the frequency range from 2.25 GHz to 2.35 GHz. Four elements rectangular microstrip linear antenna array with Wilkinson power divider and phase shifters was implemented and measured. Controlling of phase shifters to achieve the desired scanning angle is accomplished by programming a microcontroller (Arduino) to change the input voltages of the phase shifters according to pre-calculated equations. The radiation patterns of selected steering angles has been measured and the achieved results were good as the pre-calculated ones.","PeriodicalId":111726,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International RF and Microwave Conference (RFM)","volume":"2014 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121332019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Improve Data Rate to Mitigate Pilot Contamination in Small-Cell Massive MIMO Systems","authors":"A. Salh, L. Audah, N. Shah, S. Hamzah","doi":"10.1109/RFM.2018.8846533","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFM.2018.8846533","url":null,"abstract":"To achieve a high data rate (DR) in the fifth generation (5G), the adaptation of massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with small cells (SCs) is required to improve the performance for energy efficiency. In this paper, we deploy the massive MIMO system with SCs considering the imperfect channel state information by deriving the closed form of the achievable DR in the lower bound by reusing the pilot sequences in time division duplex (TDD). From the simulation result, the DR is achievable depending on a fixed number of users in SC size reduction when the pilot reuse is pair wisely orthogonal.","PeriodicalId":111726,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International RF and Microwave Conference (RFM)","volume":"12 5-6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132462407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. Nornikman, B. Ahmad, Z. Zakaria, N. E. S Ramlee, M. Abd Aziz, M. K. Ismail
{"title":"Multiband Minkowski Fractal Patch Antenna with Rhombic SRR for Wireless LAN and WiMAX Applications","authors":"H. Nornikman, B. Ahmad, Z. Zakaria, N. E. S Ramlee, M. Abd Aziz, M. K. Ismail","doi":"10.1109/RFM.2018.8846542","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFM.2018.8846542","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, the Minkowski fractal patch antenna with combination of rhombic split ring resonator (SRR) structure are proposed for Wireless LAN and WIMAX applications. In the early stage, the normal square patch antenna is mainly designed in CST Microwave Studio simulation software. At that moment, the Minkowski patch antenna was designed using 1st iteration and 2nd iteration technique. The next step is adding the rhombic SRR at side of Minkowski fractal patch antenna. The proposed antenna effect to create a multiband frequency at different location at 2.43 GHz, 2.76 GHz and 5.36 GHz with the reflection coefficient of −16.366 dB, −10.624 dB and −18.030 dB, respectively.","PeriodicalId":111726,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International RF and Microwave Conference (RFM)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130835937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. A. Mustafar, M. Jusoh, T. Sabapathy, M. N. Osman, M. Yasin, H. Rahim, M. H. Mat, S. Rahim, F. H. Wee, A. F. Siddek, M. Masri
{"title":"Milimeter-Wave Beamforming MIMO Antenna Design for 5G Wireless Applications","authors":"M. A. Mustafar, M. Jusoh, T. Sabapathy, M. N. Osman, M. Yasin, H. Rahim, M. H. Mat, S. Rahim, F. H. Wee, A. F. Siddek, M. Masri","doi":"10.1109/RFM.2018.8846545","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFM.2018.8846545","url":null,"abstract":"The design of beam steerable Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) antenna design is presented for 5G communication systems working at 38 GHz frequency. In this research, the presented antenna is developed from a driven element with coaxial probe, while four parasitic elements surrounded the driven element with shorting pin integration embedded inside the substrate which represent by a copper strip material. The four parasitic elements act either as reflector or director depending on the shorting pin configuration as reflect to Yagi-Uda patch antenna concept. By adjusting the status of shorting pin location either ON or OFF mode simultaneously on the parasitic elements, the radiation pattern can be varied, thus achieving the radiation configurability. This shorting pin contribute to the antenna’s electrical dimensional changes that manage to control the beam steering and return loss performance. By managing the ON and OFF state condition of the integrated shorting pin, nine beam steering angles can be achieved. The proposed Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) antenna consists of two identical patch elements with certain D separation distance on the Rogers RT5880. The significant parameters performance such as mutual coupling and correlation coefficient are been observed. Both antenna designed and simulated using CST Studio Suite operated within 37 to 39 GHz resonant frequency. The 2×2 MIMO antenna provides the most optimum results with bandwidth impedance of 1.783 GHz (4.7%) and achieve the reflection coefficient of −20 dB at 38 GHz application. The efficiency of the presented antenna has successfully achieved more than 80% with high gain of more than 7dBi. The presented antenna could be potential for point to point wireless base station terminal system.","PeriodicalId":111726,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International RF and Microwave Conference (RFM)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131226617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. V. Testa, B. Klein, Ronny Hannel, C. Carta, D. Plettemeier, F. Ellinger
{"title":"Distributed Power Combiner and On-Chip Antennas for Sub-THz Multi-Band UWB Receivers","authors":"P. V. Testa, B. Klein, Ronny Hannel, C. Carta, D. Plettemeier, F. Ellinger","doi":"10.1109/RFM.2018.8846483","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFM.2018.8846483","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the analysis, the design, and the characterization of the first stage of a sub-THz receiver. The system consists of an on-chip two-time stacked Vivaldi-shaped open slot antenna and a fractal bowtie antenna integrated with a distributed power combiner. The integrated circuit is designed for operation in two wide frequency bands centered at 110GHz and 180 GHz. The employed fabrication process is a 130nm SiGe BiCMOS technology featuring HBTs with fmax of 450 GHz. A design procedure based on the co-design of antenna and amplifier predicted variations of the receiver gain within 3 dB in the frequency range of interest, confirmed with the experimental result. 5 dB of maximum gain has been demonstrated, with variation below 6 dB in the frequency range from 95 GHz to 125 GHz, and from 160 GHz to 200 GHz. Compared to the state of art, the presented design owns one of the largest reported absolute and relative frequency bandwidth of operation, and it is the first demonstration of multi- and wide-band operation in the frequency range 90 GHz – 220 GHz.","PeriodicalId":111726,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International RF and Microwave Conference (RFM)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123720478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Effect of Photonic Crystal Parameters on The Terahertz Photonic Crystal Cavities Microstrip Antenna Performances","authors":"Noor Hidayah Roslan, A. H. Awang, H. M. Hizan","doi":"10.1109/RFM.2018.8846486","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFM.2018.8846486","url":null,"abstract":"The Photonic Crystal Cavity (PCC) as a substrate of microstrip patch antenna in Terahertz (THz) frequency has been simulated and analyzed. The objectives are to simulate and analyze the performances changes when the parameters of PCC are varied. THz PCC substrate microstrip antenna is a most simple way to generate the THz frequency. However, they are limited studies that have been done in terms of its fundamental physical analysis. Therefore, this analysis is proposed. Rectangular microstrip patch antenna on 2-D photonic crystal was simulated using electromagnetic simulation CAD Package. The effective permittivity, 2.08 of host material PTFE and copper annealed at 0.6THz.The radius of the via hole and the spacing between are then varied. The performances are monitored through its resonant frequency in Terahertz (THz), S-parameter return loss (S11), gain and radiation pattern. Finally, based on the analysis the good performances of the PCC of low return loss −71.94dB and high gain 9.730dB at R= 9.6μm, while for the second parameter spacing between via at a= 100.1μm the result for the low return loss is −56.56dB and the high gain is 9.726dB.","PeriodicalId":111726,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International RF and Microwave Conference (RFM)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123837591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. M. Cheng, M. C. Purisima, Matthew Podolsky, E. Brewer, C. Festin
{"title":"Design of a Mobile Adapter to Address Frequency Regulations for Rural Cellular Operators","authors":"S. M. Cheng, M. C. Purisima, Matthew Podolsky, E. Brewer, C. Festin","doi":"10.1109/RFM.2018.8846490","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFM.2018.8846490","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the widespread use of mobile phones, some rural areas still lack cellular connectivity primarily due to the high operating and deployment cost of traditional base stations. With the use of software-defined radio base stations, costs of traditional base stations have been drastically reduced. However, operation of a base station still requires ownership of the licensed cellular band. In this paper, we present our implementation of a GSM network operating in the public utility frequency band (380MHz-400MHz) of the Philippines. A mobile adapter is implemented and attached to mobile phones allowing phones to communicate with the base station. The mobile adapter utilizes direct frequency translation to convert the licensed GSM signal of mobile phones to the 380MHz–400MHz frequency band. An implementation of a software-defined base station demonstrated that mobile phones can connect to the network by attaching the mobile adapter. The mobile adapter is foreseen to remove the costly license barrier to operation of local cellular operators by advantageously using both unused and underutilized frequencies, allowing more communities to set up their own networks and gain access to cellular connectivity.","PeriodicalId":111726,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International RF and Microwave Conference (RFM)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123486784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. Quzwain, Yoshihide Yamada, K. Kamardin, N. Rahman, T. Rahman
{"title":"Design of Shaped Offset Dual-Reflector Antenna for 5G Mobile Base Station","authors":"K. Quzwain, Yoshihide Yamada, K. Kamardin, N. Rahman, T. Rahman","doi":"10.1109/RFM.2018.8846553","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFM.2018.8846553","url":null,"abstract":"In 5G mobile communication system, new technical subjects such as millimeter wave, small cell size and multibeams at a base station will be introduced in relating to radio wave technologies. For a millimeter wave base station antenna, an aperture antenna such as a reflector will be possible. In this paper, reflector shaping method of offset dual-reflector is shown. Based on the shaping method, a reflector shaping program is developed on a MATLAB software. Some base station antennas are designed and installation conditions on a base station are examined.","PeriodicalId":111726,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International RF and Microwave Conference (RFM)","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126794685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nobuo Suzuki, Tatsuya Yoshioka, Hiroki Hosoi, T. Maeyama
{"title":"Spurious Power Detection using Mobile Sensors for Spectrum-Sharing","authors":"Nobuo Suzuki, Tatsuya Yoshioka, Hiroki Hosoi, T. Maeyama","doi":"10.1109/RFM.2018.8846554","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFM.2018.8846554","url":null,"abstract":"The 5th generation mobile communication system requires more frequency bandwidth to satisfy various new user requirements. Spectrum-sharing is one remarkable technique to yield bandwidth. The usage region and the time of the primary users for spectrum-sharing are needed to estimate to avoid causing interference to them. Spectrum sensing is generally utilized to estimate the region and time. Because general spectrum-sharing is based on the received power of the primary user, the estimation accuracy is degraded when the received power includes spurious power from other illegal systems. We propose spurious power detection method based on the correlation of the sensing data of sensors to solve this problem. Then, we also report our measurement results in an anechoic chamber and an urban area to verify our proposed method.","PeriodicalId":111726,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International RF and Microwave Conference (RFM)","volume":"130 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126939735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}