{"title":"Microwave, mm and THz Imaging and Sensing Systems and Technologies for Medical Applications","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/TAP.2024.3519848","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TAP.2024.3519848","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13102,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation","volume":"73 1","pages":"702-702"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10847595","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143106637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Institutional Listings","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/TAP.2024.3519846","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TAP.2024.3519846","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13102,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation","volume":"73 1","pages":"C4-C4"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10847617","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143106655","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Systematic and Accurate Method to Model Dielectric Stratifications in Artificial Dielectric Layers","authors":"Roderick G. Tapia Barroso;Daniele Cavallo","doi":"10.1109/TAP.2025.3529196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TAP.2025.3529196","url":null,"abstract":"We present a systematic approach to include the effects of dielectric slabs in artificial dielectric layers (ADLs). Typical implementations of ADLs consist of layers of subwavelength metal patches supported by either dielectric slabs or thin dielectric films bonded onto foam spacers. The presence of dielectrics in the proximity of the metal layers affects the equivalent layer capacitance and thus must be accurately taken into account for the modeling and design of the ADLs. The proposed procedure allows to derive an analytical expression for the effective permittivity of each capacitive layer that depends on the dielectric layers in the vicinity of the metal. The equivalent layer capacitance can then be included in the ADL equivalent transmission line model, which can be used, for instance, for the design of matching structures in ultrawideband arrays.","PeriodicalId":13102,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation","volume":"73 4","pages":"2654-2659"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143800746","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":"Corrections to “Single-Transistor Impedance Matching Circuit for Over-Hundred-Octave Active Antennas”","authors":"Shuyu Wang;Yue Li","doi":"10.1109/TAP.2024.3504004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TAP.2024.3504004","url":null,"abstract":"Presents corrections to the paper, “Single-Transistor Impedance Matching Circuit for Over-Hundred-Octave Active Antennas”.","PeriodicalId":13102,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation","volume":"73 1","pages":"701-701"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10847592","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143106636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Numerical and Analytical Methods for Complex Electromagnetic Media","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/TAP.2024.3519911","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TAP.2024.3519911","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13102,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation","volume":"73 1","pages":"703-703"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10847621","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143106654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hongguang Zhou;Yanwen Zhao;Yan Wang;Danfeng Han;Jun Hu
{"title":"An Anderson Acceleration Inspired VBIM for Solving the Electromagnetic Inverse Scattering Problems","authors":"Hongguang Zhou;Yanwen Zhao;Yan Wang;Danfeng Han;Jun Hu","doi":"10.1109/TAP.2025.3528749","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TAP.2025.3528749","url":null,"abstract":"This article proposes an adaptive damping Anderson acceleration (ADAA) method that augments the variational Born iterative method (VBIM) for solving the electromagnetic inverse scattering problems (ISPs). Traditionally, the Anderson acceleration (AA) method accelerates convergence in fixed-point iterations by extrapolating solutions from a linear combination of previous iterations. However, different from the fixed-point iteration, whose operator is definite, the mapping operator in the VBIM is approximate and noncontractive. A necessary modification is made by substituting the gradient-acceptance-based strategy in standard AA to the total-quantity-acceptance-based strategy. Additionally, considering the later work in AA demonstrates a damping factor boosts the convergence speed of AA, we present an adaptive damping strategy to further augment the inversion’s convergence rate. The dual-enhancements significantly improve both the speed and robustness of convergence. From a mathematical perspective, the VBIM-ADAA method seeks an exact data equation solution in a subspace spanned by previous regularization solutions during each iteration. Furthermore, the robustness facilitated by VBIM-ADAA permits a broader range of choices for the regularization parameter. By leveraging QR factorization (via the Gram-Schmidt process), we analyze the VBIM-ADAA’s characteristics under different mapping operators. Extensive numerical experiments, involving both synthetic and real-world data, verify the superior convergence, robustness, and better accuracy of the VBIM-ADAA compared to the conventional VBIM. Moreover, numerical experiments demonstrate that the computational time consumed by the ADAA is negligible, which makes it a practical and efficient method for solving ISPs.","PeriodicalId":13102,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation","volume":"73 4","pages":"2585-2595"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143800773","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":"Editorial 2024 Reflections and Perspectives for the Year Ahead","authors":"Konstantina S. Nikita","doi":"10.1109/TAP.2025.3527376","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TAP.2025.3527376","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13102,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation","volume":"73 1","pages":"4-6"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10847620","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143184178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Eigenmodes of Metafilm Waveguides With Nonlocal Two-Sided Boundary Conditions","authors":"Sergey Bankov;Kirill Klionovski","doi":"10.1109/TAP.2025.3528760","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TAP.2025.3528760","url":null,"abstract":"Metafilm waveguides are used in broad areas of microwave, millimeter-wave, and terahertz applications. In electromagnetic simulations, equivalent boundary conditions represent metafilms for their easy modeling. Nonlocal two-sided boundary conditions of the second order provide adequate modeling accuracy for most metafilms. This article considers a planar metafilm waveguide described by the indicated boundary conditions. It is demonstrated that the classic approach for waveguide eigenmode determination does not provide correct results when applied to the metafilms with nonlocal boundary conditions. The reasons for the incorrectness are some unusual properties of metafilms with nonlocal boundary conditions and the requirement to satisfy a so-called boundary-contact condition for an irregular metafilm, which provides the uniqueness of a boundary-contact problem solution. A novel approach is introduced for correctly determining continuous and discrete eigenmode spectrums in open and shielded waveguides with nonlocal two-sided boundary conditions. An irregular metafilm in a parallel-plate waveguide is considered. It is demonstrated that using the corrected eigenmodes satisfies the boundary-contact condition at the point of irregularity. Some numerical results are presented, demonstrating the calculating accuracy of the proposed analytical approach.","PeriodicalId":13102,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation","volume":"73 3","pages":"1630-1639"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143553500","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":"Theory and Computation of Substructure Characteristic Modes","authors":"Mats Gustafsson;Lukas Jelinek;Miloslav Capek;Johan Lundgren;Kurt Schab","doi":"10.1109/TAP.2025.3528478","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TAP.2025.3528478","url":null,"abstract":"The problem of substructure characteristic modes is developed using a scattering matrix-based formulation, generalizing subregion characteristic mode decomposition to arbitrary computational tools. It is shown that the modes of the scattering formulation are identical to the modes of the classical formulation based on the background Green’s function for lossless systems under conditions where both formulations can be applied. The scattering formulation, however, opens a variety of new subregion scenarios unavailable within previous formulations, including cases with lumped or wave ports or subregions in circuits. Thanks to its scattering nature, the formulation is solver-agnostic with the possibility to utilize an arbitrary full-wave method.","PeriodicalId":13102,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation","volume":"73 3","pages":"1321-1333"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143553271","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}
Alexander T. Don;Maksim V. Kuznetcov;Zain Shafiq;Ronnie Frith;Symon K. Podilchak
{"title":"Full-Duplex Wideband Digital Array With Beamforming and Application to Sum/Difference Pattern Retrodirectivity","authors":"Alexander T. Don;Maksim V. Kuznetcov;Zain Shafiq;Ronnie Frith;Symon K. Podilchak","doi":"10.1109/TAP.2025.3526894","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TAP.2025.3526894","url":null,"abstract":"A fully digital antenna array is developed and experimentally tested for beamforming, null generation, and in-band full duplex (IBFD) retrodirective beam-steering. The supporting S-band array is compact and comprises co-located transmit and receive stacked patch elements with isolation values of 40 dB. In addition, each element is fed using H-shaped slots and dual-differential integrated couplers and this offers dual-polarized operation as required, while a synchronized software-defined radio (SDR) transceiver network was programmed to apply the needed complex weights and phase conjugation at baseband. Moreover, the system shows proof-of-concept by forming sum and difference patterns and also demonstrates self-steering due to an interrogating signal from the far-field. Results show that the digital retrodirective antenna array (RDA) system can achieve a competitive −5-dB monostatic angular scan range of ±47°, needs no frequency offset to operate, and, offers a 6% matching impedance bandwidth (BW). These wideband features make the RDA capable of common, or reconfigurable, carrier offsets for the incoming and re-radiated beams, and this has also been experimentally demonstrated. To the best knowledge of the authors, no similar digital IBFD antenna, RDA system has been designed, programmed, and tested.","PeriodicalId":13102,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation","volume":"73 3","pages":"1858-1863"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143553499","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}