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":"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}
{"title":"The Combined Enforcement of Normal and Tangential Boundary Conditions on the PEC-Material Interfaces in the Volume-Surface Integral Equation","authors":"Jinbo Liu;Zengrui Li;Jiming Song","doi":"10.1109/TAP.2024.3524425","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TAP.2024.3524425","url":null,"abstract":"In the moment method solution of the volume-surface integral equation (VSIE) modeling composite objects, the normal and tangential boundary conditions (TBCs) of electric and magnetic fields are combined and collectively enforced on the perfect electric conductor (PEC)–material interfaces (PMIs). The numbers of both electric and magnetic volumetric unknowns are therefore significantly reduced. Based on the enforcement of the normal boundary condition (BC), the Schaubert-Wilton-Glisson (SWG) coefficients of the volume currents that are defined on the PEC-terminated tetrahedral faces can be straightforwardly calculated, which are no longer volumetric unknowns. Similarly, due to the enforcement of the TBC, two coefficients of the four SWG bases defined on a tetrahedron, at least one of whose faces is PEC-terminated, can be determined by the other two using the weighted least-square (LS) method. Furthermore, due to the explicit satisfaction of BCs, the proposed BCs-based VSIE improves the solution accuracy. The efficiency and validity of the proposed approach are verified by reliable numerical experiments, in which both the isotropic and anisotropic materials are involved.","PeriodicalId":13102,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation","volume":"73 5","pages":"3364-3369"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143918569","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 Circularly Polarized Metasurface Antenna Based on Inward and Outward Surface Wave Duplexing","authors":"Ravikanth Thanikonda;Marco Faenzi;Alberto Toccafondi;Enrica Martini;Stefano Maci","doi":"10.1109/TAP.2025.3529257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TAP.2025.3529257","url":null,"abstract":"This article proposes the design and numerical validation of a dual-polarized metasurface (MTS)-based antenna, in which the two polarizations share the same circular aperture. The design exploits the interaction of duplexed inward- and outward-traveling surface waves (SWs) with an unwinding spiral MTS impedance pattern. The two inward/outward illuminations share a common radiating aperture and are originated by an integrated triaxial-cable feeding. The inward cylindrical wave is launched in a parallel plate waveguide (PPWG) by the external part of the triaxial cable (TC) and then redirected inward by a corner reflector at the aperture rim. Interacting with the anisotropic-modulated impedance boundary condition (IBC), it provides a broadside left-handed circularly polarized (LHCP) beam. On the other hand, the outward SW originates from the center as excited by a monopole connected to the inner conductor of the TC and provides a right-handed circularly polarized (RHCP) broadside radiation. New design formulas are derived for the total efficiency of the two modes. A practical feeding structure is designed and validated, featuring a coplanar-to-triaxial waveguide transition for broadband performance, ensuring a low-profile and simple configuration.","PeriodicalId":13102,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation","volume":"73 5","pages":"2700-2712"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10847702","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143929670","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":"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":"An Efficient Beam Synthesis Method With Coupling Compensation in Wideband Tightly Coupled Arrays","authors":"Jinyan Ma;Da Li;Ruifeng Li;Er-Ping Li","doi":"10.1109/TAP.2025.3528722","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TAP.2025.3528722","url":null,"abstract":"Wideband tightly coupled arrays (WTCAs) are essential components of modern advanced communication systems. However, the inevitable mutual coupling will lead to severe beam deterioration problems and heavy computational costs. This article introduces a notable and efficient beam synthesis methodology for WTCAs with coupling characterization and compensation. Specifically, the mutual coupling is represented by the modal excitation coefficients (MECs) via the generalized mutual impedance, which is efficiently obtained by the proposed full-wave partial element equivalent circuit method within a wide frequency band. Notably, this hybrid method demonstrates robustness in achieving beampattern calculation compared to traditional full-wave analysis methods. Subsequently, the modified excitation factor (MEF) is proposed to compensate the beampattern deterioration caused by coupling. Furthermore, a frequency-dependent tandem architecture is employed to enable real-time beam synthesis for WTCAs. Based on the MEF and tandem architecture, the proposed methodology shows excellent performance to address the challenges of beam deterioration and real-time beam synthesis. Finally, the versatility and efficiency of the proposed framework are comprehensively demonstrated through some numerical examples.","PeriodicalId":13102,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation","volume":"73 5","pages":"3156-3166"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143925116","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}
Quentin Gueuning;Eloy de Lera Acedo;Anthony Keith Brown;Christophe Craeye;Oscar O’Hara
{"title":"A Broadband Multipole Method for Accelerated Mutual Coupling Analysis of Large Irregular Arrays Including Rotated Antennas","authors":"Quentin Gueuning;Eloy de Lera Acedo;Anthony Keith Brown;Christophe Craeye;Oscar O’Hara","doi":"10.1109/TAP.2025.3528766","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TAP.2025.3528766","url":null,"abstract":"We present a numerical method for the analysis of mutual coupling (MC) effects in large, dense, and irregular arrays with identical antennas. Building on the method-of-moments (MoM), our technique uses a macro-basis function (MBF) approach for rapid direct inversion of the MoM impedance matrix. To expedite the reduced matrix filling, we propose an extension of the steepest-descent multipole (SDM) expansion which remains numerically stable and efficient across a wide bandwidth. This broadband multipole-based approach is well-suited to quasi-planar problems and requires only the precomputation of each MBF’s complex patterns, resulting in low antenna-dependent preprocessing costs. The method also supports arrays with arbitrarily rotated antennas at low additional cost. A simulation of all embedded element patterns (EEPs) of irregular arrays of 256 complex log-periodic antennas completes in just 10 min per frequency point on a current laptop, with an additional minute per new layout.","PeriodicalId":13102,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation","volume":"73 5","pages":"3133-3145"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143925123","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":"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}