{"title":"An Antenna Array Diagnosis Approach Based on CNN Inversion and CFAR Detection","authors":"Valentina Schenone;Alessandro Fedeli;Andrea Randazzo","doi":"10.1109/TAP.2025.3573617","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TAP.2025.3573617","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, a novel approach for the diagnosis of planar antenna arrays is presented. The developed method is based on the use of a U-Net convolutional neural network (CNN) for reconstructing the surface electric-field distribution over the array aperture starting from measurements of the radiated field collected in the far-field region. The obtained distributions are subsequently postprocessed through a constant false alarm rate (CFAR) approach to identify the possibly faulty elements. The proposed technique has been validated using numerically simulated data concerning realistic patch arrays, showing good detection capabilities.","PeriodicalId":13102,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation","volume":"73 9","pages":"6252-6262"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145059833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"94/237 GHz Dual-Band Reflector Antenna With Equal Beamwidth for Weather Radar Applications","authors":"Binlong Shi;Lin Xiong;Changjiang Deng;Weihua Yu;Weidong Hu;Yong Liu;Hongbin Ni;Xin Lv","doi":"10.1109/TAP.2025.3572610","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TAP.2025.3572610","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, a fully metallic dual-band offset-fed parabolic reflector antenna operating at 94/237 GHz bands is proposed for weather radar applications. The dual-band horn feeder consists of two waveguides, a low-pass filter, a multimode transition, and a set of annular corrugations. The filter is used to separate the 94/237 GHz signals. The multimode transition and the corrugations are adopted to generate pencil beams, which can also change the position of phase center in the two bands. In order to achieve equal beamwidth at 94 and 237 GHz, the focal point of the reflector antenna is optimized, and the beamwidth at 237 GHz can be broadened. A prototype of the dual-band antenna is fabricated and measured. The measured bandwidth can cover 90.4–96.6 and 220–250 GHz. The 3-dB beamwidth measured by the in-house near-field platform is about 0.57° at 94 GHz and is about 0.54° at 237 GHz. Quasi-equal beamwidth is achieved in the two frequency bands.","PeriodicalId":13102,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation","volume":"73 9","pages":"6391-6402"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145061871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Simon P. Hehenberger;Stefano Caizzone;Alexander Yarovoy
{"title":"Dielectric Rod Antenna With Third-Harmonic Suppression via Photonic Crystal Bandgap Material","authors":"Simon P. Hehenberger;Stefano Caizzone;Alexander Yarovoy","doi":"10.1109/TAP.2025.3573601","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TAP.2025.3573601","url":null,"abstract":"A novel concept to mitigate the unintended transmission and reception of signals at the third harmonic of dielectric rod antennas is proposed. To suppress the third-harmonic radiation, an additive-manufactured photonic bandgap material is used in the dielectric rod antenna. The antenna has been designed to operate at the frequency of 5 GHz and exhibit a bandgap at the third-harmonic frequency of 15 GHz. The design of the material is explained via the band diagram of the bandgap material and imperfections introduced due to the additive manufacturing (AM) process considered. Numerical simulations of dielectric rod antenna prototypes fed via a rectangular waveguide (RWG) with and without harmonic suppression are carried out to confirm the operational principle. The design proposed is verified experimentally. The manufactured antenna is characterized in terms of its input reflection coefficient and far-field radiation properties. The obtained experimental results agree well with predictions obtained through simulations and confirm the third-harmonic suppression capability of the antenna.","PeriodicalId":13102,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation","volume":"73 8","pages":"5044-5051"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144781955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xuan Zheng;Tian Jian Peng;Junming Hou;Yan Zhang;Long Chen;Shi Long Qin;Yi Qian Mao;Wei Bing Lu;Jia Nan Zhang;Jian Wei You;Tie Jun Cui
{"title":"Hybrid Physics-Data-Driven Neural Network for Accurate Modeling of Scattering Problems","authors":"Xuan Zheng;Tian Jian Peng;Junming Hou;Yan Zhang;Long Chen;Shi Long Qin;Yi Qian Mao;Wei Bing Lu;Jia Nan Zhang;Jian Wei You;Tie Jun Cui","doi":"10.1109/TAP.2025.3573475","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TAP.2025.3573475","url":null,"abstract":"Data-driven deep learning techniques have made notable advancements in modeling electromagnetic (EM) scattering problems. owever, its accuracy on the testing dataset can be heavily reduced when data availability is constrained. To address the overfitting problem caused by limited data, we propose a novel hybrid physics-data-driven neural network (HPDNN), which incorporates both data loss and physical loss. Specifically, Maxwell’s equations are used as the physical constraint to evaluate the prediction accuracy of neural network (NN), and the physical loss is combined with the data loss in the backpropagation for extrapolation tasks. The results show that the proposed method can achieve accuracy enhancement up to 15.7% over the typical data-driven method, and the field profile of prediction can be significantly improved with the aid of physical constrain. Besides, this work reveals that the convergence speed and accuracy of HPDNN are better than those of purely physics-informed NN (PINN), exhibiting the importance of loss hybrid on accurate modeling of EMs.","PeriodicalId":13102,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation","volume":"73 9","pages":"6826-6838"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145027968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring Tamm State for Enhanced Third Harmonic Wave Generation in Cutting-Edge Biosensing Applications","authors":"Fu-Pei Wu;Hai-Feng Zhang","doi":"10.1109/TAP.2025.3563968","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TAP.2025.3563968","url":null,"abstract":"The study in this article investigates the propagation characteristics of a designed hyperstructure (HS) internal fundamental wave (FW) and third harmonic wave (THW). It also explores method to enhance the conversion efficiency of THW through the utilization of Tamm state. The results show that, compared to previous analytical techniques relying on localized fields near the bandgap edge or pursuing quasi-phase matching (QPM), Tamm state demonstrates a significant 8–14 orders-of-magnitude improvement in THW. This improvement is attributed to its heightened electric field energy density and extended group delay. The transfer matrix method (TMM) is utilized to analyze the scattering effects of electromagnetic (EM) waves in the HS, effectively capturing multiple reflections and interference phenomena at the interfaces between various homogeneous media. Additionally, an auxiliary cancer cell cavity is introduced between the front and back reflection cavities. By leveraging alterations in refractive index (RI) during cell carcinogenesis, it functionally shifts the THW spectrum. The performance parameters for applications in basal, breast, and cervical cells are presented in this article, including a high sensitivity of 52 terahertz (THz)/RIU, a linear range of RI spanning from 1.35 to 1.40, a variation range in quality factor from <inline-formula> <tex-math>$1.2788 times 10^{5}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> to <inline-formula> <tex-math>$2.8673 times 10^{6}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>, as well as a figure of merit (FOM) variation range from <inline-formula> <tex-math>$1.7887 times 10^{4}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> to <inline-formula> <tex-math>$3.9901 times 10^{5}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>.","PeriodicalId":13102,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation","volume":"73 8","pages":"5936-5944"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144782119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Dual-Band Wideband U-Slot Resonant Metasurface Antenna Array for Millimeter-Wave Applications Using Characteristic Mode Analysis","authors":"Zelong Wang;Fangfang Fan;Rongsheng Li;Yunke Mo;Jiahao Li;Xiaofei Zhao","doi":"10.1109/TAP.2025.3564005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TAP.2025.3564005","url":null,"abstract":"This communication presents a dual-band millimeter-wave (mmW) antenna array with a U-slot resonant metasurface antenna (U-RMA) design. Using characteristic mode analysis (CMA), we analyzed a U-RMA, incorporating the feeding slot and feed line to identify dominant resonant modes, mode interactions, and the impact of capacitive coupling from auxiliary patches. The integration of metallic strips and vias along the <italic>x</i>-direction effectively suppresses surface waves, resulting in a 2 dB gain improvement in the higher frequency band for the element. The CMA then extended to the current distribution of a <inline-formula> <tex-math>$1times 8$ </tex-math></inline-formula> array, excluding the feeding structure. Experimental results show reflection coefficient bandwidths of 26.6% (22.8–29.8 GHz) and 20.9% (33.4–41.2 GHz) for the n258, n257, and n260 bands, with stable radiation patterns and cross-polarization levels below −22 dB at 25, 29, 36, and 39 GHz. The measured peak realized gain is 15.2 dBi. Beam-scanning simulations demonstrate the array’s capability to steer the main beam with low scan loss and acceptable sidelobe levels, highlighting its potential for advanced wireless communication applications.","PeriodicalId":13102,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation","volume":"73 8","pages":"5217-5222"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144782085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xuan Liu;Mingzhe Hu;Yongjian Zhang;Pengfei Wu;Hanyang Wang;Yue Li
{"title":"Solving the Efficiency-Dip Problem of Adding Parasitic Elements for Ultrathin Microstrip Antennas","authors":"Xuan Liu;Mingzhe Hu;Yongjian Zhang;Pengfei Wu;Hanyang Wang;Yue Li","doi":"10.1109/TAP.2025.3564006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TAP.2025.3564006","url":null,"abstract":"As a common technique to broaden the bandwidth of ultrathin microstrip antennas, adding the parasitic elements often encounters the problem of efficiency dip. This phenomenon is due to the radiation cancellation caused by the out-of-phase currents between the parasitic element and the main radiator. This article proposes a solution by introducing another parasitic element near the initial one and enabling them to resonate in differential mode (DM), and the radiation cancellation at the efficiency dip can be significantly mitigated without attenuating bandwidth expansion. To illustrate this method, an ultrathin dual-polarized microstrip antenna is presented as an example. By designing a pair of L-shaped parasitic strips and converting the parasitic mode from common mode (CM) to DM, the in-band gain variation is reduced from 5.8 to 1.9 dB. The measured results show that the antenna operates with an impedance bandwidth of 2.3% in an extremely low profile of <inline-formula> <tex-math>$0.008~lambda _{L}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> (<inline-formula> <tex-math>$lambda _{L}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> is the free-space wavelength at 7.9 GHz). The proposed method mitigates efficiency dips caused by the parasitic elements, exhibiting a feasible solution for bandwidth expansion of ultrathin microstrip antennas while holding the high efficiency.","PeriodicalId":13102,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation","volume":"73 8","pages":"5075-5082"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144782115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bandpass Frequency-Selective Surface With Stable Transmission Amplitude and Insertion Phase Delay","authors":"Xiao Jian Hu;Zhongxiang Shen;Duo-Long Wu","doi":"10.1109/TAP.2025.3563996","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TAP.2025.3563996","url":null,"abstract":"This article investigates the insertion phase delay (IPD) stability of bandpass frequency-selective surfaces (FSSs) to further enhance the signal transmission accuracy through radomes and proposes an IPD-stable FSS. The dual-square-slot and folded Jerusalem cross structures contributing to the IPD stability for TE and TM polarizations, respectively, are analyzed and designed. To improve the high-angle stability of the transmission amplitude, four identical square slots and folded Jerusalem cross cells are spliced by metallic strips, respectively. Then, stable transmission amplitude and IPD can be achieved by combining these two interconnected structures at the top and bottom layers of the substrate, respectively. Simulation results show that the proposed FSS achieves dual-polarized IPD stability at 15 GHz with a significantly improved IPD compared to a reference slab of 6.35 mm thickness, while maintaining the transmission amplitude stable under oblique incidence up to 70°. A prototype of the proposed interconnected FSS is fabricated, and measured results agree well with the simulated ones.","PeriodicalId":13102,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation","volume":"73 8","pages":"5384-5392"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144782107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Independent Control of Multiple Harmonic Beams in Time-Modulated Arrays With Subarrayed Time-Segmented Pseudorandom Modulation","authors":"Haotian Li;Yikai Chen;Shiwen Yang","doi":"10.1109/TAP.2025.3562928","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TAP.2025.3562928","url":null,"abstract":"The inherent multiharmonic characteristics of time-modulated antenna arrays (TMAs) offer significant potential for generating multiple beams under a single radio frequency (RF) chain. However, the amplitudes and phases at different harmonic frequencies are often mutually affected, which poses challenges for independent control of multiple harmonic beams. To address this issue, this article introduces a novel multibeam TMA with subarrayed time-segmented pseudorandom modulation (STPM). By dividing the ideal continuously varied modulating waveforms into multiple time segments and approximating these time-segmented waveforms with pseudorandom modulation, the proposed STPM enables subarrays to achieve accurate amplitude-phase weightings at different harmonics. Multibeam radiation in this case could be obtained by the superposition of the harmonic beams of different subarrays. Benefiting from the low-sideband property inherited from pseudorandom modulation, the proposed SPTM effectively reduces the amplitude-phase dependence among different harmonics. A multibeam pattern synthesis strategy is then developed to analytically determine the instantaneous modulation statuses of antenna elements for specified beam-scanning angles and sidelobe levels (SLLs). Compared with state-of-the-art TMAs, the presented TMA facilitates high-precision, real-time, and independent multibeam control with a significantly reduced number of modulation statuses in time modulation modules.","PeriodicalId":13102,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation","volume":"73 8","pages":"5559-5573"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144781950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dual-Mode On-Chip Patch Antenna With High-Efficiency On-Antenna Power Combining","authors":"Si-Yuan Tang;Jixin Chen;Pinpin Yan;Qihao Xu;Zekun Li;Peigen Zhou;Xiaoyue Xia;Sidou Zheng;Zhe Chen;Jun Xu;Wei Hong","doi":"10.1109/TAP.2025.3562914","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TAP.2025.3562914","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, a dual-mode on-chip patch antenna with on-antenna power combining implemented in 130-nm SiGe BiCMOS technology is proposed for terahertz communications. Area-efficient characteristic is obtained by the proposed power combining method compared to the conventional combiner-based or spatial power combining approach. To illustrate the working principle, the radiation efficiency of the patch antenna is analyzed and calculated based on the quality factor of the cavity model. As such, three approaches are introduced for radiation efficiency improvement of the ultralow-profile on-chip patch antenna, i.e., properly selecting the ground plane layer, enlarging the width-to-length ratio, and introducing the mirrored patches. Then, by using the characteristic mode analysis (CMA), antiphase TM<sub>20</sub> mode and TM<sub>12</sub> mode are introduced for impedance bandwidth enhancement. Besides, via arrays are introduced beneath the radiator to reshape the nonbroadside pattern of TM<sub>12</sub> mode to the broadside beam. Then, a sketch is introduced to make a design guideline. Moreover, the proposed antenna is compared with three reference antennas with other bandwidth enhancement techniques to show its superiority. Finally, the proposed antenna is fabricated and measured, demonstrating advantageous performances of wide impedance bandwidth (284–322 GHz), 3-dB gain bandwidth (285–310 GHz), and high gain (5.3 dBi) without the usage of any off-chip director.","PeriodicalId":13102,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation","volume":"73 8","pages":"5182-5197"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144782082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}