Farhaneh Farzin Nasab, Seyed Ali Razavi Parizi, Mohammad Hossein Ostovarzadeh
{"title":"A flat aperture antenna composed of a series fed H-plane horn array excited by a ridge gap waveguide horn","authors":"Farhaneh Farzin Nasab, Seyed Ali Razavi Parizi, Mohammad Hossein Ostovarzadeh","doi":"10.1049/mia2.12223","DOIUrl":"10.1049/mia2.12223","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study presents a new structure for planar aperture antennas with a very simple configuration by making use of gap waveguide technology. Applying the concept of H-plane horn in both feeding network and radiating layer results in a flat configuration capable of providing a directive radiation with reasonable impedance bandwidth, high gain and low side lobes. The proposed structure introduces a very simple configuration, which does not face the enhancement of design and fabrication complexity for larger apertures and higher gains. The principle of operation and design procedure for both the radiating layer and feed network are fully discussed in detail. A sample is designed to operate at Ku band, which presents proper radiation performance with the maximum gain of 24.5 dBi, the maximum efficiency of 85% and the side lobe level (SLL) lower than −22 and −13 dB in H- & E-planes, respectively.</p>","PeriodicalId":13374,"journal":{"name":"Iet Microwaves Antennas & Propagation","volume":"16 2-3","pages":"113-123"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/mia2.12223","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41614504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"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":"Design of a liquid crystal beam-steerable antenna with characteristic mode analysis","authors":"Jun Shu, Yueping Zhang","doi":"10.1049/mia2.12217","DOIUrl":"10.1049/mia2.12217","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A novel liquid crystal beam-steerable antenna is presented. It is a conventional liquid crystal microstrip patch antenna with a bending slot in the middle of the H-plane. Owing to the introduction of the bending slot, this antenna can work at even mode and odd mode within a frequency band. To obtain the resonant frequencies and radiation characteristics of the two modes, the method of characteristic mode analysis is utilised. It indicates that the resonant frequency of even mode is lower than that of odd mode. Therefore, by choosing liquid crystal as its substrate, this antenna can alter its operating modes by varying the permittivity of liquid crystal. Furthermore, beam steering can be realised since the radiation patterns of the two modes are divergent. An antenna prototype at Ka-band has been designed, fabricated and measured. The measured results show that the maximum radiation direction can scan from −30° to −2° continuously at 26.5 GHz in the H-plane.</p>","PeriodicalId":13374,"journal":{"name":"Iet Microwaves Antennas & Propagation","volume":"16 1","pages":"29-36"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/mia2.12217","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42263136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"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":"Balanced multiple-layer dual-mode substrate integrated waveguide filters with controllable finite-transmission zeros","authors":"Qing Liu, Qikun Liu, Jianbin Li, Jinjin Wei, Dewei Zhang","doi":"10.1049/mia2.12212","DOIUrl":"10.1049/mia2.12212","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper proposes three balanced multiple-layer dual-mode substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) bandpass filters. The first balanced filter has two substrate layers, and two pairs of balanced feeding ports are located on the upper substrate layer. The lower and upper dual-mode SIW cavities are coupled by two crossed slots in the middle metal layer. The second balanced filter has two substrate layers, and two pairs of balanced feeding ports locate parallelly on the upper and lower substrate layers, respectively. The third balanced filter has three substrate layers, and two pairs of balanced feeding ports locate vertically on the upper and lower substrate layers, respectively. The proposed three balanced filters can produce three, two and one finite-transmission zeros (FTZs), respectively. Characteristics of the proposed multiple-layer SIW filters with controllable FTZs' locations are analysed in detail. For the demonstration, some design examples with the centre frequency of 7.5 GHz and bandwidth of 240 MHz are presented, and three design examples are fabricated to verify the performance of the proposed balanced filters. The measured results agree well with simulated ones.</p>","PeriodicalId":13374,"journal":{"name":"Iet Microwaves Antennas & Propagation","volume":"15 15","pages":"1982-1994"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/mia2.12212","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41804223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"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}
Hadi Hijazi, Marc Le Roy, Raafat Lababidi, Denis Le Jeune, Andre Pérennec
{"title":"Ultra-wideband antenna system for in-band full-duplex applications","authors":"Hadi Hijazi, Marc Le Roy, Raafat Lababidi, Denis Le Jeune, Andre Pérennec","doi":"10.1049/mia2.12194","DOIUrl":"10.1049/mia2.12194","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this study, we present an ultra-wideband full-duplex system constituted of a wideband 4-element Vivaldi array and wideband microstrip-to-slotline baluns. The proposed system is characterised by its simplicity, high directivity, and high self-interference cancellation levels over a wide frequency bandwidth. The system is fabricated using basic printed-circuit board (PCB) technology and can provide at least 50 dB of self-interference cancellation over the bandwidth of operation, 4–40 GHz, with an average gain of 7.8 dBi. The system has a size of 8 cm × 8 cm × 9.4 cm and can be used as a high data rate link between two distant wireless nodes. To assess the merits of the proposed system and compare it to other published works, a new figure of merit (FoM<sub>WFD</sub>) dedicated to wide-band full-duplex antenna topologies is introduced in this study.</p>","PeriodicalId":13374,"journal":{"name":"Iet Microwaves Antennas & Propagation","volume":"15 15","pages":"1853-1865"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/mia2.12194","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41804322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"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":"A two-dimensional beam scanning continuous transverse stub antenna based on a single-layer compact linear source generator","authors":"Ming-Yang Zhao, Xue Lei, Jun Gao, Yi-Jun Zhu, Tian-Peng Li, Qiang Peng","doi":"10.1049/mia2.12201","DOIUrl":"10.1049/mia2.12201","url":null,"abstract":"<p>To minimise the profile of Satcom-on-the-Move ground terminals, in this study, a two-dimensional beam-scanning continuous transverse stub antenna that is based on a compact linear source generator (LSG) is presented. A periodic anti-symmetric two-step (ASTS) structure cascaded with a broadband network is used to construct a single-layer compact LSG. The concept of a parallel-plate waveguide polarisation twister is used to design the ASTS unit that acts as a TE<sub>10</sub>-to-transverse electromagnetic wave converter, to which chamfers and T-type grooves are added to improve the output plane wave performance over the entire frequency band. A prototype array operating in the band 10.95–12.75 GHz is designed, fabricated, and measured, and the experimental results agree well with the simulated ones. A beam-scanning range of ±61° in elevation is achieved at the central frequency. Although only 29 of 36 slots (<i>ϕ</i> = 0°) contribute to the radiation, the antenna aperture efficiency is still over 60% due to the superior performance of the single-layer minimised LSG.</p>","PeriodicalId":13374,"journal":{"name":"Iet Microwaves Antennas & Propagation","volume":"15 14","pages":"1842-1852"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/mia2.12201","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41245234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"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}
Mohammad Mohammadpour, Farzad Mohajeri, Seyed Ali Razavi Parizi
{"title":"Development of a wideband symmetric pillbox antenna with low side lobes in gap waveguide technology","authors":"Mohammad Mohammadpour, Farzad Mohajeri, Seyed Ali Razavi Parizi","doi":"10.1049/mia2.12197","DOIUrl":"10.1049/mia2.12197","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this work, a symmetric pillbox antenna with low side lobes is designed, simulated and fabricated by using gap waveguide technology. The proposed antenna operates on the basis of the reflector antenna principle and provides a fan-beam radiation pattern. In the proposed structure, the antenna aperture is loaded by a stepped discontinuity and a corrective pin to improve the side-lobe level (SLL) and gain. The designed antenna impedance bandwidth (<i>S</i><sub>11</sub> < −10 dB) is 42% at the Ku band. Also, −15 dB < SLL < −10 dB and a gain of 16.6–18.7 dBi are achieved over the operating bandwidth. There is a good agreement between the simulated and measured results.</p>","PeriodicalId":13374,"journal":{"name":"Iet Microwaves Antennas & Propagation","volume":"15 14","pages":"1813-1820"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/mia2.12197","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41445684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"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}
Alireza Mohammadzade, Abdolali Abdipour, Amir N. Askarpour
{"title":"Time-domain signal and noise modelling and analysis of millimetre-wave and THz high electron mobility transistors","authors":"Alireza Mohammadzade, Abdolali Abdipour, Amir N. Askarpour","doi":"10.1049/mia2.12173","DOIUrl":"10.1049/mia2.12173","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study presents the simultaneous signal and noise modelling and analysis of mm-wave/THz high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) in the linear regime as stochastic active multi-conductor transmission lines (SAMTLs). For such devices, stochastic inhomogeneous telegrapher equations of SAMTLs are extracted assuming the domination of the quasi-transverse electromagnetic mode. Analytical solutions for these equations do not exist. So a numerical analysis of such equations is introduced here at millimetre-wave and terahertz frequencies. These equations are analysed with a numerical method in the time domain, namely the finite-integration technique. A semi-distributed model in the advanced design system commercial software is used to validate the numerical results. Also, the results of noise figure and scattering parameters (S-parameters) for the metal–semiconductor field-effect transistor transistor, which has the same SAMTLs model as the HEMT transistor, are compared with the measurement reports at microwave frequencies.</p>","PeriodicalId":13374,"journal":{"name":"Iet Microwaves Antennas & Propagation","volume":"15 12","pages":"1636-1648"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/mia2.12173","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41672909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"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":"Optimal synthesis of reconfigurable planar arrays for monopulse radar applications: Use of subarrays and distributions with common aperture tail","authors":"Zhengdong Qi, Xinggan Zhang, Yechao Bai, Qiong Wang, Chunhua Yu, Hao Chen, Yangyi Lu, Shaopeng Wu","doi":"10.1049/MIA2.12104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/MIA2.12104","url":null,"abstract":"An approach for the synthesis of sum and difference patterns in monopulse antennas is described. The proposed approach provides a significant reduction in the complexity of the beam ‐ forming network that is fulfilled by reducing the number of array elements and keeping the elements at the edges of the array that share common excitations for both sum and difference modes. An iterative constrained optimisation method is used where the non ‐ convex lower ‐ bound constraints on the beam pattern are cast as an equivalent multi ‐ convex optimisation problem while concurrently minimising a reweighted l 1 ‐ norm of the magnitudes of the elements in the beam ‐ forming weight vector. Thus, better radiation performance of beam pattern (e.g. narrower beamwidth, lower peak sidelobe level), a much narrower spatial aperture and a smaller number of elements can be achieved compared with the case of uniformly spaced arrays. To compensate for array imperfection in practice, robust beam pattern constraints are derived in the optimisation stage using a worst ‐ case performance optimisation technique. Numerical examples show the effectiveness and advantages of the proposed synthesis approach.","PeriodicalId":13374,"journal":{"name":"Iet Microwaves Antennas & Propagation","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41898571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. E. Diago-Mosquera, A. Aragón-Zavala, C. Vargas-Rosales
{"title":"The performance of in-building measurement-based path loss modelling using kriging","authors":"M. E. Diago-Mosquera, A. Aragón-Zavala, C. Vargas-Rosales","doi":"10.1049/mia2.12163","DOIUrl":"10.1049/mia2.12163","url":null,"abstract":"<p>An accuracy evaluation analysis of a novel in-building measurement-based path loss prediction narrowband model is presented here, comparing the performance of Kriging-aided shadowing prediction against the most traditional assumption of slow fading as a random variable and a classical estimation derived from linear interpolation. Extensive radio measurements were employed using distinct samples to calibrate (tuning dataset) and validate (testing dataset) the model. Path loss predictions are made over the testing dataset locations to compare it against the measured values, thus obtaining an error in the prediction from the difference between measurements and predictions. The results in the seven buildings evaluated show the potential of Kriging-aided channel modelling with a higher level of confidence than other modelling approaches compared hereafter.</p>","PeriodicalId":13374,"journal":{"name":"Iet Microwaves Antennas & Propagation","volume":"15 12","pages":"1564-1576"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/mia2.12163","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41556760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"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}
Shah Ahsanuzzaman Md Tariq, Charles L. Despins, Sofiène Affes, Chahé Nerguizian
{"title":"Characterization of a 60 GHz scattered wireless channel with different antenna polarizations for underground multimedia applications","authors":"Shah Ahsanuzzaman Md Tariq, Charles L. Despins, Sofiène Affes, Chahé Nerguizian","doi":"10.1049/mia2.12116","DOIUrl":"10.1049/mia2.12116","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Large scale (i.e. <10 m) and small scale (i.e. 1 × 1× 1 cm) measurements and characterization of a scattered wireless channel with different antenna polarizations and configurations in the underground mine galleries at 60 GHz are addressed. Results show that the rough surface scattering and the gallery dimensions affect the path loss (PL) exponent and it becomes smaller than the free space. Vertically polarized antennas give a lower value of the PL exponent and root mean square (RMS) delay spread compared to the horizontal one. The small scale 3D measurement results show that the power loss of around 1–5 dB within a small scale cubical area. Results also show that the channel is less time dispersive in a wider gallery and observed a higher value of the RMS delay spread compared to a smaller gallery. The statistical results of the small scale multipath amplitude fading provide a better fit with the Rician distribution. The effects such as scattering, polarization, antenna radiation patterns, and waveguide which caused increase and decrease of the value of PL exponent and delay spread are also analysed. Results revealed that a directional narrow beam dual-polarized antenna configuration might be a good candidate in this environment.</p>","PeriodicalId":13374,"journal":{"name":"Iet Microwaves Antennas & Propagation","volume":"15 9","pages":"1063-1075"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/mia2.12116","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41413815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"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}