Ahasanul Hoque, A. Almutairi, M. Baharuddin, N. Sahar, M. F. Mansor, Mohammad Tausiful Islam
{"title":"Split L-I square shaped compact metamaterial for Cube satellite applications","authors":"Ahasanul Hoque, A. Almutairi, M. Baharuddin, N. Sahar, M. F. Mansor, Mohammad Tausiful Islam","doi":"10.1109/RFM50841.2020.9344765","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFM50841.2020.9344765","url":null,"abstract":"This paper introduces a low profile metamaterial absorber designed and developed inspired by transmission line principle with wide bandwidth for Cube satellite applications. Tunable resonators metamaterial with absorbing features are realized by dielectric surface has attracted growing attention. Physical architecture of the resonators capable of modifying electromagnetic features and spectrum operating range variation, which has not been satisfactorily studied. Hence, we propose this metamaterial resonator structure based microwave absorber with tri-band absorption. Patch structure consists of two symmetrical vertical microstrip lines and two drop holes at the edgs to maximize the electromagnetic wave absorption. Measurement and simulation analysis reveals that the proposed absorber have approximately good match since simulated absorption is above 90% (at 10.62 GHz, 11.64 GHz and 12.8 GHz) although the measured level is 80%. The proposed triple band absorber has potential applications in Cube satellite communication system.","PeriodicalId":138339,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International RF and Microwave Conference (RFM)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115235873","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}
Aviraj R. Jadhav, J. John, K. Tuckley, P. Sharma, H. Dixit
{"title":"On the Frequency Scaling of High Power CW Magnetrons","authors":"Aviraj R. Jadhav, J. John, K. Tuckley, P. Sharma, H. Dixit","doi":"10.1109/RFM50841.2020.9344792","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFM50841.2020.9344792","url":null,"abstract":"After being used for conventional household and industrial applications for decades, magnetrons are recently being used for various niche applications. As magnetrons were used in typical applications near 915 MHz and 2.45 GHz for long, we can see more availability of designs at these frequencies. This paper shows that building a CW magnetron at higher unconventional frequencies is not a straightforward task. A magnetron for 3.7 GHz output frequency is presented from scaling an existing design of 2.45 GHz magnetron from the literature. Multiphysics analysis with heating, cooling and stress analysis was performed to show why a simple frequency scaling won't work for designing CW magnetrons at higher frequencies.","PeriodicalId":138339,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International RF and Microwave Conference (RFM)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125386289","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":"Two-Stage Dickson Charge Pump Rectifier with Harmonics Suppression for 2.45 GHz WPT","authors":"L. Cheng, G. Gnanagurunathan","doi":"10.1109/RFM50841.2020.9344769","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFM50841.2020.9344769","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a microwave rectifying circuit design for RF energy harvesting purpose at an operating frequency of 2.45 GHz. The proposed rectifier design is a circuit combination of a 2-Stage Dickson Charge Pump & radial stub filter. Radial stub filter was implemented for maximum power transfer and suppression of second and third order harmonics in the output voltage. Design and simulations were done by utilising Advanced Design System. Proposed circuit was fabricated on FR4 substrate with a maximum efficiency of 59 % on an input power of 5 dBm at a frequency of 2.45 GHz.","PeriodicalId":138339,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International RF and Microwave Conference (RFM)","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115033109","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":"Performance Analysis of a Compact High Gain Antenna for RF Energy Harvesting in 1.71GHz to 12GHz","authors":"G. Srinivasu, T. Gayatri, D. Chaitanya, V. Sharma","doi":"10.1109/RFM50841.2020.9344793","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFM50841.2020.9344793","url":null,"abstract":"The manuscript presents a performance analysis of compact high gain planar ultra wideband receiver for RF energy scavenging in the range 1.71GHz to 12GHz. This novel band covers the majority of commercial RF bands from GSM1800 (UL: 1.71GHz to 1.785GHz) to X band. The design helps to receive the unutilized RF in those frequencies for energy scavenging. The design is adapted on the FR4 substrate with dimensions of 41×31×1.6mm3. It produces S11≤ −10dB in the range 1.71GHz to 12.14GHz, highest radiation efficiency is 97% at 1.71GHz and maximum peak gain is 5dBi at 9.56GHz. The analyses of modified grounds, different slots in the patch as well as in modified ground are studied. The proposed work is simulated using ANSYS HFSS software. The printed prototype is compared with simulated one.","PeriodicalId":138339,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International RF and Microwave Conference (RFM)","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114564658","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}
Yoshihide Yamada, K. Kamardin, Nur Amalina Kamaruddin, Siti Harliza Mohd Razali, N. Zainudin, Ngu War Hlaing, H. Ja’afar
{"title":"Antenna and Radio Propagation Analysis in Several Dielectric Materials by EM Simulator","authors":"Yoshihide Yamada, K. Kamardin, Nur Amalina Kamaruddin, Siti Harliza Mohd Razali, N. Zainudin, Ngu War Hlaing, H. Ja’afar","doi":"10.1109/RFM50841.2020.9344789","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFM50841.2020.9344789","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, radio wave technologies are applying for human health care such as a capsule endoscopy and a hyperthermia. As another application, radio wave is planning to be used in seawater radio communication. At human body and seawater applications, a small size antenna is suitable. So, the normal mode helical antenna (NMHA) that has high efficiency at small size is selected. As for performance understanding, electromagnetic simulation tool is effective. The important subject in antenna application is to clarify the radio wave communication link budget in the dielectric material environment. In this paper, based on electromagnetic simulation results of antenna and radio propagation in the human body and seawater conditions, analytical understanding of antenna performance and radio propagation mechanism is conducted. Through this study, analytical equations for antenna performance and radio wave propagation are derived. The effectiveness of derived equations are ensured through comparison with simulation results.","PeriodicalId":138339,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International RF and Microwave Conference (RFM)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131202476","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}
Bashar Bahaa Qas Elias, P. Soh, A. A. Al-Hadi, S. Azemi
{"title":"A Wideband Wearable Antenna Using Inverse Partial Ground Designed Using Characteristic Mode Analysis","authors":"Bashar Bahaa Qas Elias, P. Soh, A. A. Al-Hadi, S. Azemi","doi":"10.1109/RFM50841.2020.9344791","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFM50841.2020.9344791","url":null,"abstract":"The design of a wearable wideband textile antenna based on a loop structure and fed using a coplanar waveguide line is proposed in this work. Characteristic mode analysis is used to first estimate the radiating modes on the structure. This is to ensure that the optimal mode significance is chosen. Analysis of modal significance enabled the first four modes to be identified from the structure. In this paper, the antenna is proposed to designed with an inverse partial ground (IPG) to enhance the bandwidth. It is shown that this IPG method improved impedance bandwidth to 1560 MHz (60.57%), indicating a bandwidth broadening of about 370 MHz (11.61%). A compact size of 70×70 mm2(0.57 × 0.57 λg) is also maintained, with a realized gain of 4.23 dBi. Finally, the proposed antenna is fabricated and measured to validate the analysis experimentally, indicating a good agreement with simulations.","PeriodicalId":138339,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International RF and Microwave Conference (RFM)","volume":"55 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133565855","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":"4×4 Element UWB Dual-Polarized Aperture Coupled Microstrip Patch Antenna Array for Chipless RFID","authors":"F. Babaeian, N. Karmakar","doi":"10.1109/RFM50841.2020.9344752","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFM50841.2020.9344752","url":null,"abstract":"One of the crucial components in a chipless RFID system is an ultrawide-band (UWB) reader antenna. To have a reliable tag measurement in a chipless RFID system, having a reader antenna with desired specifications is required. Those specifications are UWB operating frequency, high return loss, a high gain, two dual-polarized ports, and a uniform radiation pattern in near-field and near far-field of the antenna. In this paper, a UWB dual-polarized 4×4 element antenna array with a uniform excitation is proposed for dual-polarized and cross-polar chipless RFID tag measurements. To design this antenna array, a modified aperture coupled microstrip patch antenna element is utilized. The back-lobe level in the radiation pattern is reduced by adding a metal back-reflector. The promising simulation and measurement results of the antenna array are presented. It shows that the operating frequency range of the antenna is from 4.4 GHz to 6.8 GHz, and a maximum gain of 21 dBi is yield.","PeriodicalId":138339,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International RF and Microwave Conference (RFM)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121800569","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. Zainuddin, N. E. Rashid, Khairul Khaizi Mohd Shariff, M. S. A. Megat Ali, F. Seman, I. Pasya
{"title":"Non-Contact Respiration Rate Estimation using 24 GHz Pulse Radar Employing Envelope Detection","authors":"S. Zainuddin, N. E. Rashid, Khairul Khaizi Mohd Shariff, M. S. A. Megat Ali, F. Seman, I. Pasya","doi":"10.1109/RFM50841.2020.9344734","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFM50841.2020.9344734","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, there are a lot of interest in utilizing radar technology to realize non-contact respiration rate (RR) measurements. This paper presents an RR estimation using a 24 GHz pulse radar employing an envelope detection on the IF signal at the receiver. Two methods of RR estimation methods were discussed: (1) a peak difference in the time domain, and (2) peak detection of the FFT spectrum of the receiving signal. The accuracy of the proposed method were investigated through from actual measurements of subjects breathing in front of the radar. Both methods were found to produce comparable accuracy RR estimation, however, using peak detection of the FFT spectrum marked slightly better accuracy. The measurement error was larger when using peak difference the time domain, due to measurement noises impacting the calculation of peak difference. The results of this paper indicated the workability of the proposed method, and hence developed a foundation of the non-contact RR estimation system to be implemented in various patient monitoring application with specific breathing conditions, such as acute breathing syndromes.","PeriodicalId":138339,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International RF and Microwave Conference (RFM)","volume":"76 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116766941","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}
F. W. Jamaluddin, M. Khalid, A. Zoolfakar, M. H. Mamat, N. F. Mohd Nasir
{"title":"Influence of Pre-Sputtering Technique on Material Properties of BST Thin Films for Tunable Microwave Applications","authors":"F. W. Jamaluddin, M. Khalid, A. Zoolfakar, M. H. Mamat, N. F. Mohd Nasir","doi":"10.1109/RFM50841.2020.9344774","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFM50841.2020.9344774","url":null,"abstract":"This paper focuses on the influence of pre-sputtering process on the material properties of RF sputtered Barium Strontium Titanate (BST) thin films. Ba0.5Sr0.5TiO3 thin films were synthesized on sapphire substrates via RF magnetron sputtering system for 2-, 3- and 4-hour deposition time. The samples were then post-annealed for 2 hours at 900 °C in conventional furnace and characterized using x-ray diffraction (XRD), atomic force microscopy (AFM), field emission scanning electron (FESEM) and energy dispersive x-ray (EDX). The AFM analysis revealed that the BST thin film of the 4-hour deposition time produces rougher surface due to larger grain size. All the XRD patterns observed to have intense (110) peaks, indicating the preferred orientation of the BST thin films. From the FESEM results, it is observed that the 3-hour deposited sample is denser and uniform compared to its 2-hour counterpart. However, the 4-hour deposited sample shows a non-uniform film. EDX analysis showed that the elemental composition of the 4-hour deposited sample is the closest to the ideal atomic concentration (at. %) of the BST thin film.","PeriodicalId":138339,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International RF and Microwave Conference (RFM)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125625248","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}
Nur Amalina Kamaruddin, K. Kamardin, Yoshihide Yamada
{"title":"Electric Field Distributions of NMHA Inside and Outside of a Human Body Phantom","authors":"Nur Amalina Kamaruddin, K. Kamardin, Yoshihide Yamada","doi":"10.1109/RFM50841.2020.9344777","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFM50841.2020.9344777","url":null,"abstract":"In order to establish a communication link between a sensor inside of a human body to a receiver outside of the human body, electric field distribution performances of the antenna inside of the human body need to be clarified. A Normal Mode Helical Antenna (NMHA) is proposed as the antenna used for this research for the purpose of using it as the antenna for Wireless Capsule Endoscopy (WCE). In this paper, the performances of NMHA which are self-resonant structures, input resistance (Rin) and efficiency (n) are presented. The antenna is designed at frequency of 402 MHz. The designed NMHA is placed inside of human body phantom with permittivity (εr) of 11.6 F/m that represents fat layer. The conductivity (σ) of the phantom is from 0 to 1 S/m. The electric field distributions of NMHA inside the phantom are observed in details at σ equals to 0, 0.3 and 1 S/m. From the electric field distributions, propagation loss of signal (Lz) from NMHA across the human body phantom can be estimated. Calculation of electric field degradation is also presented in this paper. A half-wavelength dipole antenna is then added to the NMHA model to act as receiver to check NMHA's signal strength. The result is presented as S21.","PeriodicalId":138339,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International RF and Microwave Conference (RFM)","volume":"31 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114006829","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}