{"title":"Analysis of the relation between printed strip monopole and dielectric coated thin cylindrical monopole","authors":"V. Akan, E. Yazgan","doi":"10.1109/MMW.2010.5605143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMW.2010.5605143","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, printed type antennas are used widely in communication systems since they are low cost and produced easily. Firstly Hallen exposed the relation between thin cylindrical and strip monopole. Then this equivalent radius concept was applied to printed monopole antenna. In this paper relation between printed strip monopole and dielectric coated thin cylindrical monopole has been analyzed analytically and supported numerically.","PeriodicalId":145274,"journal":{"name":"2010 10th Mediterranean Microwave Symposium","volume":"17 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129982307","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}
Navdeep Singh, D. P. Yadav, Sarabjeet Singh, R. Sarin
{"title":"Compact corner truncated triangular patch antenna for WiMax application","authors":"Navdeep Singh, D. P. Yadav, Sarabjeet Singh, R. Sarin","doi":"10.1109/MMW.2010.5605201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMW.2010.5605201","url":null,"abstract":"The design of a small short-circuited triangular patch antenna with truncated corner has been introduced. By placing two shorting walls with a V-shaped slot patch, two resonant modes can be excited simultaneously. This antenna structure has been designed for covering (2.5–2.55GHz) and (3.4 to 3.7 GHz) WiMax bands. A substrate of low dielectric constant is selected to obtain a compact radiating structure that meets the demanding bandwidth specification. The reflection coefficient at the input of the optimized V-shaped microstrip patch antenna is below −10 dB over the entire frequency band. The simulation is carried out by EMPIRE XCcel software.","PeriodicalId":145274,"journal":{"name":"2010 10th Mediterranean Microwave Symposium","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126279602","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":"Development of wearable and implantable antennas in the last decade: A review","authors":"B. Gupta, S. Sankaralingam, S. Dhar","doi":"10.1109/MMW.2010.5605178","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMW.2010.5605178","url":null,"abstract":"Utilization of wearable textile materials as antenna substrate has been rapid due to the recent miniaturization of wireless devices. A wearable antenna is meant to be a part of the clothing used for communication purposes, which includes tracking and navigation, mobile computing and public safety. This article portrays research on wearable and body mounted antennas designed and developed for various applications at different frequency bands over the last decade. A section is also devoted to describe the developmental scenario of implantable antennas for medical applications.","PeriodicalId":145274,"journal":{"name":"2010 10th Mediterranean Microwave Symposium","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117282803","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":"Novel Hilbert soil-moisture sensor based on the phase shift method","authors":"V. Radonić, G. Kitic, V. Crnojević-Bengin","doi":"10.1109/MMW.2010.5605150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMW.2010.5605150","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, novel soil-moisture sensor based on the Hilbert fractal curve is proposed. The developed sensor is intended to be integrated into wireless sensor network whose goal is the monitoring of the agricultural soils. The operating principle of this sensor is based on the phase shift method which in essence represents the measurement of the soil permittivity. Analytical expressions for the calculation of optimal operating frequency and the absolute moisture content derived from effective permittivity are presented. The influence of the order and the number of fractal curves used to the sensor characteristics are analyzed. The proposed sensor operates at 1.2 GHz and provides phase shift in the range of 70.76° for the extreme cases of the soil moisture content (2 % and 20 %).","PeriodicalId":145274,"journal":{"name":"2010 10th Mediterranean Microwave Symposium","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121211527","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":"5-GHz band-notched UWB elliptical slot antenna fed by microstrip line","authors":"A. Kalteh, R. Fallahi, M. G. Roozbahani","doi":"10.1109/MMW.2010.5605108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMW.2010.5605108","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper a novel band-notched elliptical slot antenna for ultra-wideband (UWB) communication is proposed which is comprised of elliptical stub that excite similar-shaped slot aperture. The proposed antenna is designed on a substrate RT/duroid 6006 with thickness of 1.27 mm and relative permittivity (εr) of 6.0 to operate in UWB band released by FCC in 2002 (i.e., 3.1–10.6 GHz). To reject the frequency band of 5.15–5.825 GHz, which is limited by IEEE 802.11a and HIPERLAN/2, an inverted-U-shaped strip is parasitically attached to the feed layer. The size of our proposed antenna is 45×50 mm2, which results in desirable radiation characteristics. Effects of varying the parameters of parasitic inverted-U strip on performance of proposed antenna have been studied. The antenna with optimal parameters obtained from parametric study is fabricated and measured. It is observed that the simulation and experimental results have good agreements with each other.","PeriodicalId":145274,"journal":{"name":"2010 10th Mediterranean Microwave Symposium","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128484293","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":"A compact, symmetric branched chain monopole for dual wide band operation","authors":"H. H. Awadalla, S. Shams, A. Allam","doi":"10.1109/MMW.2010.5605132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMW.2010.5605132","url":null,"abstract":"A novel design of a dual wide band branched chain monopole is presented and discussed. The antenna has a unique design consisting of a U shape with a center strip fed by a 50Ω microstrip line with the integration of branched chains in the appropriate places to achieve dual band operation. The antenna is low profile and has overall dimensions 42mm×40mm, which is compact in size for portable applications. The simulated results show that the antenna operates at (1.2GHz–2.9GHz) and (5.1GHz–6.1GHz) which includes the following applications: DCS(1.71–1.88GHz)/PCS(1.85–1.99GHz)/UMTS(1.92–2.17GHz) cellular bands, the 2.4/5.2/5.8GHz WLAN bands and finally the 2.5/5.5GHz WiMAX bands. The symmetrical geometric structure of the antenna provides omnidirectional radiation patterns. The design criteria of this antenna as well as the outcome of the experimental results are presented in this paper. The antenna is fabricated and the return loss measured using a vector network analyzer. The measured and simulated results are in good agreement.","PeriodicalId":145274,"journal":{"name":"2010 10th Mediterranean Microwave Symposium","volume":"540 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116595031","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":"A multiline material parameter extraction method","authors":"H. Sillanpaa, A. Rasku, R. Makinen","doi":"10.1109/MMW.2010.5605167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMW.2010.5605167","url":null,"abstract":"Material characterization is an important part of printable electronics design since material properties depend strongly on the manufacturing process. This paper introduces a novel multiline material characterization method that is applicable to the characterization of printable electronics structures as well as integrated microwave devices. The proposed technique eliminates the half-wave resonances, decrease the sensitivity to small variations in the lines and provide a weighted average from individual line pair data. The multiline extraction method is validated using full-wave simulation data, and is subsequently applied to test structures manufactured with inkjet technology.","PeriodicalId":145274,"journal":{"name":"2010 10th Mediterranean Microwave Symposium","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129135816","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":"Switched multiplexer design using Parallel Coupled Line three ports","authors":"Bulent Alicioglu, N. Yildirim","doi":"10.1109/MMW.2010.5605191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMW.2010.5605191","url":null,"abstract":"It is shown that Parallel Coupled Line (PCL) three ports can be used to design switched multiplexers with wide or narrow channel bandwidths. Such three ports can be cascaded to form input and output manifolds for parallel or series connection of channel filters to form multiplexers. By incorporating switches into the filters it is possible to form switched multiplexers. The approach enables design of contiguous channels, thus avoiding the necessity of formation of even and odd numbered channels for preventing channel interactions in various switch combinations. As an example, a contiguous eight channel 2–18 GHz switched multiplexer is designed.","PeriodicalId":145274,"journal":{"name":"2010 10th Mediterranean Microwave Symposium","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121129369","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":"Triple-band circularly polarized slotted patch antenna for GPS and UMTS systems","authors":"G. Abdel-Sayed, S. Shams, A. Allam","doi":"10.1109/MMW.2010.5605109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMW.2010.5605109","url":null,"abstract":"This paper introduces a modified printed double sided triple-band and dual-sense circularly polarized patch antenna fed by a 50 Ω microstrip line loaded by a conductor rectangle. A previous design was introduced by Xiulong Bao & M. J. Ammann in 2008, it operates at 1.5 GHz and 2.6 GHz where the radiated fields are circularly polarized at these two bands. The proposed design in this paper is a modified version of the previously proposed one by adding a conductor rectangle at the end of the microstrip feed and etching three more slot arms in the ground. The modifications proposed in this paper enable the antenna to operate at three bands instead of two as in the previous design. This proposed antenna operates at the two bands of GPS systems (at 1.2 GHz and 1.575 GHz), and at the UMTS band (at 2.03 GHz). The radiation is circularly polarized at each band. For the first two bands the wave is RHCP while for the third band it is LHCP. A comprehensive numerical sensitivity analysis has been done to discuss the effects of various dimensional parameters and to optimize the performance of the designed antenna using an accurate simulation tool. The dielectric substrate used in the fabrication process is the FR4 material, of relative permittivity 4.4 and of thickness=1.5 mm. The fabricated antenna is measured in the microwave lab in the GUC. The simulated and measured results for the return loss show a good agreement.","PeriodicalId":145274,"journal":{"name":"2010 10th Mediterranean Microwave Symposium","volume":"101 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116169069","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":"Slow-wave coplanar waveguides in a printed circuit technology","authors":"A. Franc, A. Laraba, E. Pistono, P. Ferrari","doi":"10.1109/MMW.2010.5605100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMW.2010.5605100","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, slow-wave coplanar waveguides, well-known to present a high degree of miniaturization and a high quality factor in CMOS technology, are investigated in a classical printed circuit board technology. These transmission lines are measured between 45 MHz and 4 GHz. An effective relative permittivity greater than 13 can be reached for a 50-Ω characteristic impedance transmission line, leading to a slow-wave factor higher than 2. Additionally, low characteristic impedance transmission lines can be obtained without critical dimensions compared to classical coplanar waveguides. Thus, these results allow considering the design of highly miniaturized RF printed circuits based on transmission lines.","PeriodicalId":145274,"journal":{"name":"2010 10th Mediterranean Microwave Symposium","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122310465","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}