{"title":"Analysis of a Meandered Loop Antenna Performance under Muscle Implanted Condition","authors":"Ngu War Hlaing, K. Kamardin, Yoshihide Yamada","doi":"10.1109/RFM50841.2020.9344800","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFM50841.2020.9344800","url":null,"abstract":"Previous work on meandered loop antenna has been presented that robust performance in the presence of implant internal components and has a realized gain of −28.4 dBi inside a model of a human upper arm. However, the observation of how the electric field (E-field) affects the antenna and the behavior of antenna is very significant in antenna design and it has not been discussed yet in previous work. In this paper, surface current distribution, antenna resistance and efficiency, three-dimensional radiation pattern and E-field degradation in the cylindrical implant antenna and muscle phantom of meandered loop antenna operating at 429 MHz are studied with both theoretical and simulation methods. Theoretical calculations are compared with simulation results and they are found to be in good agreement. It was determined that the E-field distribution is concentrated principally in the small feed area, whereas the surface current tends to be more distributed. Moreover, the conductivity of 0 and 0.79 S/m are observed, and it was found that E-field degradation increases when conductivity increases.","PeriodicalId":138339,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International RF and Microwave Conference (RFM)","volume":"10 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":"131734851","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":"Hybrid Stack Up for Wide Band RF Cross Overs","authors":"Rohit Lahiri, G. Anand, M.S Ruchit","doi":"10.1109/RFM50841.2020.9344766","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFM50841.2020.9344766","url":null,"abstract":"A simple, compact & economical solution for wide band (DC to 18GHz) RF transition for Microwave Integrated Circuits (MICs) applications on a composite multi- layer printed circuit boards (PCB's) is explained in this paper as a solution for RF criss-crossings. Design considers two traces, one being direct trace and the other being the transiting trace to form RF crossover. The transiting trace consists of strip-line trace realized in buried layers, which in turn connects the micro-strip traces on top exposed layer with aid of blind vias (coaxial type of ground clearance across via in each layers). The RF signal in transiting trace goes through multiple transitions namely a) Micro-strip to Coax, b) Coax to Strip-line c) Strip-line to Coax d) Coax to Micro-strip. The challenge of this transition is to provide better matching at the transitions to ensure minimum insertion loss over required frequency band. Proper channelization is taken care in design to achieve required isolation between the direct and transiting traces. Insertion loss of max 1dB and return loss more than 15dB for DC-18 GHz frequency band is targeted over the trace length of 25mm. Isolation of more than 45dB between direct and transition traces is also targeted for. Here the RF direct trace & transiting trace on top most layer is a micro-strip line, and this can also be CPW, CPWG etc. Also the generalized stack-up can be extended to realize more buried RF layers.","PeriodicalId":138339,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International RF and Microwave Conference (RFM)","volume":"36 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":"133899777","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}
P. Akkaraekthalin, Tanapom Pechrkooll, N. Chudpooti, Suramate Chalermwitsutkul, Chetree Mahatthanajatuphat, Warunee Kudpun, Somporn Seewatanapon
{"title":"Electromagnetic-based Innovative Sensors for Industrial and Agricultural Applications","authors":"P. Akkaraekthalin, Tanapom Pechrkooll, N. Chudpooti, Suramate Chalermwitsutkul, Chetree Mahatthanajatuphat, Warunee Kudpun, Somporn Seewatanapon","doi":"10.1109/RFM50841.2020.9344730","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFM50841.2020.9344730","url":null,"abstract":"This paper focuses on the research of innovative sensors based on electromagnetic theory and techniques for various industrial and agricultural applications. The proposed sensors can operate at frequencies starting from ~300 MHz to up to several gigahertz range. Some new materials including metamaterials and nanomaterials will be applied to the sensor structures for performance improvement. Some innovative sensors using electromagnetics including a metamaterial-based liquid sensor, a microfluidic sensor, a moisture content sensor, and a nanomaterial-based gas sensor were designed, implemented and measurement.","PeriodicalId":138339,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International RF and Microwave Conference (RFM)","volume":"18 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":"114862712","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":"Design and Analysis of a Compact Wrench Shaped UWB Antenna for Spectrum Sensing in 3.1GHz to 10.6GHz","authors":"T. Gayatri, G. Srinivasu, D. Chaitanya, V. Sharma","doi":"10.1109/RFM50841.2020.9344798","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFM50841.2020.9344798","url":null,"abstract":"The present article outlines the design and analysis of the compact wrench shaped UWB design for monitoring spectrum in 3.1GHz to 10.6GHz. It is a key antenna module for the development of Cognitive Radio in 3.1GHz to 10.6GHz. This design is produced on the FR4 substrate of 20×17×1.6mm3. It results in S11≤ −10dB from 3.08GHz to 10.62GHz. It observes 98% as highest radiation efficiency at the frequency 7.93GHz and maximum peak gain is 4.9dBi at 10.6GHz. The study of modified grounds, different types of slots in the patch and various slots in the ground are also shown. The simulation software used is ANSYS HFSS. The simulated and measured S11 is compared.","PeriodicalId":138339,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International RF and Microwave Conference (RFM)","volume":"284 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":"116102170","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":"Focal Spot Size Evaluation of a Focused Lens in Human Body","authors":"Amirah Abd Rahman, K. Kamardin, Yoshihide Yamada","doi":"10.1109/RFM50841.2020.9344740","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFM50841.2020.9344740","url":null,"abstract":"In hyperthermia therapy, it is significant to focus microwave to the targeted therapeutic spot as to avoid high temperature or hot spots at the surface or surrounding healthy tissues. This paper presents near-field focusing concept which is implemented using converging dielectric lens and a λ/2 dipole at 2450MHz as a radiating element to generate small focusing spot. Lens's diameter (DL) of 30, 50 and 70 cm have been designed and simulated in free space and inside human body equivalent phantom. The simulation results are presented and shown that larger size of DL resulted in smaller focal spot size. It is observed that electric field (E-field) intensities are increased at the focal point with larger DL of the antenna.","PeriodicalId":138339,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International RF and Microwave Conference (RFM)","volume":"32 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":"124988832","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":"Linear and Nonlinear Terahertz Three-Dimensional Dirac Nano-Plasmonic Waveguides","authors":"H. C. Law, K. Ooi, M. Bhuiyan, Y. Ang","doi":"10.1109/RFM50841.2020.9344770","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFM50841.2020.9344770","url":null,"abstract":"Graphene's exceptional features in electronics and optics are asserted to manifest in its “two-dimensional (2-D) Dirac” nature. However, good integration of graphene with current optical materials seems elusive due to its thin film structure, and its delicate 2-D optical properties may be destroyed in the integration process. Here, three-dimensional (3-D) Dirac materials like cadmium arsenide may be a good contender as a graphene plasmonics substitute. We compare and contrast the optical properties of 3-D Dirac materials with graphene in this paper. 3-D Dirac materials has the potential to become the cornerstone for Internet-of-Things device applications.","PeriodicalId":138339,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International RF and Microwave Conference (RFM)","volume":"59 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":"125104530","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}
Siti Nor Hafizah Sa’don, M. Kamarudin, M. H. Dahri, Adel Y. I. Ashyap, F. Seman, M. I. Abbasi, Z. Abidin
{"title":"The Review and Analysis of Antenna for Sixth Generation (6G) Applications","authors":"Siti Nor Hafizah Sa’don, M. Kamarudin, M. H. Dahri, Adel Y. I. Ashyap, F. Seman, M. I. Abbasi, Z. Abidin","doi":"10.1109/RFM50841.2020.9344731","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFM50841.2020.9344731","url":null,"abstract":"A wireless devices has continuous technology improvement to provide a better and interesting services. The next generation, 6G is expected to support the gigantic amount of data traffic to cope the rise of connection wireless device. As a solution, a large bandwidth is supposed to be focused and a better gain is required. Then, a new frequency region that is at THz band is utilized. Since 6G technology is very new and not be defined yet, the previous work on 6G is reviewed to make a clear decision on antenna design specification. An antenna at 300 GHz for 6G application is also proposed and analysis of gain improvement is presented in this paper. The simulated results of single element 6G antenna have wider bandwidth of 86.66 GHz from 278.56 GHz to 367.33 GHz at −10 dB level, directive radiation pattern at E-plane and H-plane, and higher gain of 5.41 dBi.","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":"130266722","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}
Siti Harliza Mohd Razali, R. Ngah, Kamalia Kamardin, Yoshihide Yamada
{"title":"Performance Analysis of Normal Mode Helical Antenna in Seawater","authors":"Siti Harliza Mohd Razali, R. Ngah, Kamalia Kamardin, Yoshihide Yamada","doi":"10.1109/RFM50841.2020.9344744","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFM50841.2020.9344744","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, seawater communication has become an increasingly important technology as underwater application devices are growing rapidly. Thus, this paper presents a normal mode helical antenna (NMHA) application for divers using a device to device concept. Novelty of this research is that NMHA is applied in seawater, as previous works have not mentioned using it. As the propagation loss in seawater is very high, lower operational frequency is used for better antenna performances. The development of antenna for seawater application using VHF range frequency is implemented by using NMHA as a communication antenna, due to its small size and better performance. The antennas were designed using FEKO, an electromagnetic simulation software. Simulation results show results were almost identical to the theoretical results, hence the NMHA can be used for seawater application.","PeriodicalId":138339,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International RF and Microwave Conference (RFM)","volume":"163 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":"127396155","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}
M. F. I. Saad, S. Rahim, M. Nor, M. Y. Yahya, A. R. Razali
{"title":"CPW-UWB Flexible Composite Antenna using Jute Textile for WPAN Applications","authors":"M. F. I. Saad, S. Rahim, M. Nor, M. Y. Yahya, A. R. Razali","doi":"10.1109/RFM50841.2020.9344782","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFM50841.2020.9344782","url":null,"abstract":"Ultra-wideband (UWB) antennas has seen to be one of the technologies that gaining fame in modern and future wireless communication systems, due to high demand for wideband communication, since it works at frequency ranges from 3.1GHz to 10.6GHz. UWB antenna can be suite with many wireless applications like WPAN (wireless Personal area network), portable devices which is it came with a lot of functions and operated at different frequency ranges. There is very less attention has been given to consider organics material like jute in designing an antenna, where it is more environmentally friendly, low cost of manufacturing, durability, sustainable and renewable. The antenna was mounted on the flexible raw material of Jute as a substrate that have relative permittivity of 2.36, tangent loss 0.005407 at 5GHz frequency and the thickness is 1. 68mm. Conductive material Shield it Super with conductivity of 1.18×105 and thickness of 0.17mm has been use as radiator in this design and the antenna was designed with ungrounded coplanar waveguide feeding technic. A simple CPW -UWB antenna was designed and simulated using CST (Computer Simulation Technology) software. Optimization to the antenna resulted, improvement at bandwidth, compared with the first design antenna. The proposed antenna achieved bandwidth of ~7.15GHz which is operating frequency is from 3.48Ghz to 10.63GHz. Moreover, the antenna has VSWR<2, Efficiency more than 75%, realized gain and directivity more than 2dBi and it also works in omnidirectional pattern, at entire frequency range.","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":"129673671","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. Syed-Yusof, Paulson Eberechukwu Numan, K. M. Yusof, J. Din, Muhammad Nadzir Bin Marsono, A. Onumanyi
{"title":"Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and 5G Network: The Role of Controller Placement for Scalable Control Plane","authors":"S. Syed-Yusof, Paulson Eberechukwu Numan, K. M. Yusof, J. Din, Muhammad Nadzir Bin Marsono, A. Onumanyi","doi":"10.1109/rfm50841.2020.9344741","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/rfm50841.2020.9344741","url":null,"abstract":"The evolution of wireless networks from the first to fourth generation has made smart devices and technologies a significant part of our daily activities. The 5G network is a ground-breaking technology that proposes to transform the way individuals use the internet, via the creation of enabling atmosphere. 5G promises faster and superior quality with better security guarantee in comparison to preceding technologies. The software defined networking (SDN) on the other hand is an enabling technology needed to actualise the huge promises of 5G network. With extensive network in 5G, a centralised controller approach in SDN has limitations related to the performance and scalability. Several studies have advocated the use and placement of multiple controllers to improve scalability in SDN. Controller placement problem (CPP) becomes more of a challenge, especially when network nodes/links and controllers have some constraint metrics such as latency, network load and distance. This paper proposes a multicriteria clustering method that places the controllers based on a predefined constraint metrics between the controllers and the switches while minimising the overall latency. The results showed the proposed technique improved nodes distribution than existing solutions for a dense network anticipated in 5G scenario.","PeriodicalId":138339,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International RF and Microwave Conference (RFM)","volume":"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":"123903188","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}