{"title":"Design of Low-Profile Patch Antenna Incorporated with Double Negative Metamaterial Structure","authors":"S. Al‐Bawri, M. Jamlos","doi":"10.1109/RFM.2018.8846501","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFM.2018.8846501","url":null,"abstract":"The paper investigates a compact single band microstrip patch antenna resonator at 2.4 GHz incorporated with left-handed double negative (DNG) metamaterial. The proposed antenna utilizes a layer of (3 × 4) metamaterial unit cells structure in the height of 15 mm from the antenna. The implementation of DNG which has unique properties enhances the performance of the antenna. Overall, the designed antenna offers more concentrated beam-width, improved bandwidth and gain up to 6% and 18% respectively. Hence, a comprehensive comparison of the designed rectangular likely shape patch antenna with and without using metamaterial is also featured in this paper.","PeriodicalId":111726,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International RF and Microwave Conference (RFM)","volume":"48 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":"131425204","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}
A. A. Shah, N. A. Abd Rahman, M. Ali, M. R. Ahmad, S. Nordin, N. I. Zaidi, N. H. Abdul Aziz, Y. Yamada
{"title":"Design of Electro-Textile UHF RFID Tag through T-Match Network","authors":"A. A. Shah, N. A. Abd Rahman, M. Ali, M. R. Ahmad, S. Nordin, N. I. Zaidi, N. H. Abdul Aziz, Y. Yamada","doi":"10.1109/RFM.2018.8846547","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFM.2018.8846547","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the development of electro-textile tag antenna based on two omni-directional antennas for UHF RFID application. The design of the tag antenna adopts T-match-based RFID tag concept to develop a compact and high bandwidth antenna at UHF range between 860 MHz to 960 MHz. In the wearable RFID tag antenna, copper core electro-textile fabric is acting as the radiating element and polyester fabric with a dielectric constant of 2.1 used as the substrate (non-conductive layer). The performance of the antennas is compared in terms of its reflection coefficient, impedance matching and design complexity. Among the challenges in designing a UHF RFID tag antenna is the complexity in integrating IC chip into the tag. During operation, signal from RFID reader will activate the IC chip and the backscattered signal containing information will be sent to the reader. Therefore, to allow optimum operation, the impedance value of the antenna must match with the IC’s impedance to ensure maximum power transfer between the antenna and the IC chip. The first antenna design consists of T-match with meander method to produce various tunable antenna features while the second design only features a T-match based RFID design with less antenna geometric structure. The second antenna design is observed to have better reflection coefficient and impedance matching compared to the first antenna design. The data from this simulation is useful to determine fabrication complexity in designing UHF RFID tag antenna tag based on electro-textile material.","PeriodicalId":111726,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International RF and Microwave Conference (RFM)","volume":"55 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":"131675310","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}
Siti Nor Hafizah Sa'don, M. Jamaluddin, M. Kamarudin, F. Ahmad
{"title":"Graphene Based Antenna Array for 5G Applications","authors":"Siti Nor Hafizah Sa'don, M. Jamaluddin, M. Kamarudin, F. Ahmad","doi":"10.1109/RFM.2018.8846500","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFM.2018.8846500","url":null,"abstract":"The rapidity of producing good material for electronic use is really beneficial to the wireless communication technology especially in material engineering field. Research works are on-going to find potential material that has the ability to replace the limitation of conventional material. Related to this work, fifth generation (5G) antenna will be completed with high data rate and low interference besides welcoming the advantages of the coming new material in terms of aesthetic value. Since there are some limitations using conventional material for higher frequency, then this paper proposes graphene to be used as radiating or receiving element in antenna design. An antenna with CPW-fed chamfer-shaped with rectangular slot made by graphene at 15 GHz is proposed. The antenna is designed for single and array in which the array has 8 elements with inter-element spacing at 0.71λ. The antenna has large bandwidth with more than 1 GHz and achieve high gain with more than 12 dBi.","PeriodicalId":111726,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International RF and Microwave Conference (RFM)","volume":"2 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":"132837001","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}
N. Osman, Abdul Razak Idris, P. A. Bakar, M. Majid, C. Free
{"title":"Tunable Rectangular Ring Resonator Filter with Embedded Shunt Barium Strontium Titanate Capacitors","authors":"N. Osman, Abdul Razak Idris, P. A. Bakar, M. Majid, C. Free","doi":"10.1109/RFM.2018.8846540","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFM.2018.8846540","url":null,"abstract":"Design of a low loss tunable bandpass filter using a microstrip ring resonator is presented. The tunability is achieved through the use of embedded shunt parallel plate variable capacitor implemented into the Low Temperature Cofired Ceramic (LTCC) substrate using thick film Barium Strontium Titanate (BST) paste. Measured data on the filter response, loss, and tunability in the frequency of 10 GHz and 12 GHz is presented. Results show filters produced low insertion loss with narrow tenability range.","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":"123620189","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, M. Abd Aziz, M. K. Ismail, C. Siang
{"title":"Tri-polarized Patch Antenna with X-Shaped Element for Wireless LAN MIMO System","authors":"H. Nornikman, B. Ahmad, Z. Zakaria, M. Abd Aziz, M. K. Ismail, C. Siang","doi":"10.1109/RFM.2018.8846472","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFM.2018.8846472","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a tri-polarized antenna is with X-shaped element for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communication system had been design in CST Microwave Studio and fabricated in the laboratory. This antenna had three different stage of Antenna Design A, Antenna Design B and Antenna Design C. The first stage consists of Antenna Design A1, Design A2 and Design A3 that created to produce single polarization at frequency 2.4 GHz. Then, the Antenna Design B is then made up by joining Antenna Design A1 and Antenna Design A2 in a same antenna structure. The last stage is Antenna Design C that consist three different design - Antenna Design C1, Design C2 and Design C3. These antennas consist three different ports – Port 1, Port 2 and Port 3 that effect tri- polarized antenna. At the Port 3 of Antenna Design C3, the return loss performance of simulation and measurement of the antenna are 2.412 GHz and 2.48 GHz with −23.205 dB and −10.101 dB, respectively.","PeriodicalId":111726,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International RF and Microwave Conference (RFM)","volume":"15 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":"123657297","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":"Compact X-Band SIW Antenna with Reduced Size Using CSRR Incorporation","authors":"A. Munir, Ade Saputra, H. Ludiyati","doi":"10.1109/RFM.2018.8846474","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFM.2018.8846474","url":null,"abstract":"The demand of compact antenna implementable for modern wireless communication has grown up significantly. Some efforts to produce the antenna in compact size are still becoming interesting research topics. In this paper, a complimentary split-ring-resonator (CSRR) incorporated into the radiator of substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) antenna is proposed to acquire the antenna with reduced size. By taking the advantage of CSRR as a small electrically resonator, it is expected the resonant frequency of SIW antenna could be lowered yielding the downsizing of antenna dimension. The proposed antenna which is intended to work at X-band frequency is designed on a 1.6mm thick FR4 epoxy dielectric substrate with the radiator takes an extended half-circle shape. Meanwhile, the CSRR is constructed by 2 concentric rings which are slotted upon the radiator of X-band SIW antenna. The characterization result shows that the realized X-band SIW antenna resonates at the frequency of 10.875GHz with the gain of 1.32dBi which is comparable to the simulation result. In addition, the potency of size reduction by incorporating CSRR into the SIW antenna is also investigated in comparison to the conventional X-band SIW antenna.","PeriodicalId":111726,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International RF and Microwave Conference (RFM)","volume":"5 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":"121325421","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":"Hardware Design of DC-3GHz Compressed Sensing Receiver Based on Modulated Wideband Converter","authors":"P. Wang, F. You, Songbai He, Peng Hao","doi":"10.1109/RFM.2018.8846564","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFM.2018.8846564","url":null,"abstract":"Modulated Wideband Converter (MWC) is a sub-Nyquist sampling structure suitable for wideband sparse signals. Based on MWC, this paper designs a DC-3 GHz Compressed Sensing (CS) receiver system with commercial devices. Combined with some standard compressed sensing algorithms, this receiver can sense the spectrum from DC to 3 GHz and receive at most six 40 MHz real signals simultaneously without prior knowledge of the carrier frequencies. This receiver with 60 dB dynamic range is designed to have six physical branches, and each branch contains an Analog-to-Digital Conversion (ADC) which operates at 245 MHz. The total sample rate of 1470 MHz is much smaller than the Nyquist sampling rate of 6 GHz. Based on a classical algorithm named SBR4, multiple sets of multiband signals with different input power are successfully blindly reconstructed.","PeriodicalId":111726,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International RF and Microwave Conference (RFM)","volume":"23 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":"128627708","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. Hassan, A. Naemat, N. Muhammad, A. S. M. Marzuki, N. Kushairi
{"title":"Implementation of Remote Antenna Unit and Outdoor/Indoor Unit for Multi-Service Radio-over-Fiber","authors":"S. Hassan, A. Naemat, N. Muhammad, A. S. M. Marzuki, N. Kushairi","doi":"10.1109/RFM.2018.8846479","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFM.2018.8846479","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the implementation of remote antenna unit (RAU) and outdoor/indoor Unit (ODU/IDU) for multi-service radio-over-fiber (RoF) System. The development work involves selection of frequency band, defining the RoF system specification, link budget analysis, RAU and ODU/IDU transceiver design and measurement of the complete downlink and uplink transmission system. Band 5 LTE FDD signal source was used to carry high-definition video for the downlink and uplink transmission which propagates at LMCS frequency band. Experimental results showed that the video transmission was able to achieve an EVM as low as 3.72 % for a 1080p video sample.","PeriodicalId":111726,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International RF and Microwave Conference (RFM)","volume":"15 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":"129755508","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}
Anqi Mao, A. Zahid, M. Ur-Rehman, M. Imran, Q. Abbasi
{"title":"Detection of Pressure and Heat in a Compressive Orthotic for Diabetes Prevention Using Nanotechnology","authors":"Anqi Mao, A. Zahid, M. Ur-Rehman, M. Imran, Q. Abbasi","doi":"10.1109/RFM.2018.8846491","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFM.2018.8846491","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a wearable system to detect the pressure and heat in a compressive orthotic and trigger an alarm when the values are beyond the standard margin of safety. In this way, the foot ulcers on diabetes’ patients could be controlled and prevented. Arduino Nano is used as a microcontroller, two force sensors FSR402 and four temperature sensors LM35DZ are controlled by the microcontroller to detect the pressure and heat at different positions inside the compressive orthotic. Accuracy of the temperature sensor is ±0.25 °C. A pair of Bluetooth HC-06 is used to send data to computer. The threshold value of pressure and temperature difference is 3.38 N and 2.2 °C respectively. An alarm and warning LED will be triggered on the user interface based on LabVIEW. All the components are set on a printed circuit board and all the sensors are fixed on the inside of compressive orthotic as a wearable device.","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":"122474494","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":"Incoherent Heterodyning of Phase Modulated Signal for Low-cost Millimeter-wave RoF Link","authors":"Th’ng Guo Hao, M. Bakaul, M. Boroon","doi":"10.1109/RFM.2018.8846477","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFM.2018.8846477","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates an incoherent approach to heterodyne uncorrelated free running optical tones to generate phase modulated (e.g. DPSK) mm-wave signal from regular optical signal at the last miles. Proposed scheme relies on simple electrical delay-and-multiply type demodulator at the customer premise for a LO-free data recovery.","PeriodicalId":111726,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International RF and Microwave Conference (RFM)","volume":"418 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":"122809812","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}