{"title":"Use of time domain gating in spherical near-field measurements","authors":"J. Fordham","doi":"10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552375","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552375","url":null,"abstract":"Time domain gating has been widely used in antenna measurements for many years. The technique has proven useful in gating out extraneous signals from the range that can be uniquely separated from the primary desired signal. The well known process involves collecting data in the frequency domain and then transforming the data to the time domain for processing. In far-field antenna measurements the technique is limited in its applicability by factors such as antenna bandwidth and pattern shape vs. frequency, and internal time delays within the device under test. Spherical near-field presents additional challenges to the effective use of time domain gating. These challenges of performing time domain gating in spherical near-field measurements are presented along with measured results from a small spherical near-field range. These results show the significant reduction in stray signals and the resulting increase in accuracy that can be achieved via time domain gating. Finally, the paper concludes with measurements made on a large spherical near-field arch over a ground plane system. Additional challenges of such a system will be highlighted.","PeriodicalId":161657,"journal":{"name":"2010 14th International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics & the American Electromagnetics Conference","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126390320","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}
R. Kanth, Waqar Ahmad, Y. Amin, P. Liljeberg, Lirong Zheng, H. Tenhunen
{"title":"Analysis, design and development of novel, low profile 2.487 GHz microstrip antenna","authors":"R. Kanth, Waqar Ahmad, Y. Amin, P. Liljeberg, Lirong Zheng, H. Tenhunen","doi":"10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552506","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552506","url":null,"abstract":"International Telecommunication Union Radio Communication Sector (ITU-R) has assigned 1.176 GHz and 2.487 GHz respectively in L and S band to Regional Navigational Satellite System (RNSS) for satellite navigation purpose. In this paper attempt has been made to design a novel, low profile compact microstrip antenna which achieves required specification such as gain of −4dBi up to ±50° and bandwidth of 30 MHz. The design of S band antenna was carried out using Ansoft Designer software, was fabricated and the required performance of antenna was measured in terms of its return loss, VSWR and gain radiation pattern. The return loss of the developed antenna was measured with the vector network analyzer and its gain radiation pattern in anechoic chamber and the performance of its measurements were compared with the analyzed results.","PeriodicalId":161657,"journal":{"name":"2010 14th International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics & the American Electromagnetics Conference","volume":"130 7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128395324","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":"Frequency agility investigations on compact omnidirectional antennas using variable inductors","authors":"S. Sufyar, C. Delaveaud, R. Staraj","doi":"10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552563","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552563","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the possibility to introduce a variable inductor on a compact antenna structure in order to obtain a frequency agility. The structure is a compact shorted microstrip antenna characterized by omnidirectional radiation properties over a narrow frequency band which has to be broadened for telecommunication systems. For that, a variable inductor is placed on the antenna structure and tuned so as to obtain frequency reconfigurability.","PeriodicalId":161657,"journal":{"name":"2010 14th International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics & the American Electromagnetics Conference","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131284213","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 design strategy for passive UHF RFID tags","authors":"A. Ghiotto, T. Vuong, Ke Wu","doi":"10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552539","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552539","url":null,"abstract":"The ever growing interest in the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology has given rise to countless new applications. This senario has initiated the development of low cost RFID tags. This paper presents the design of a new passive UHF RFID tag antenna. This work introduces a new design strategy for RFID labels focusing on the input characterization of chip impedance, the antenna impedance matching and measurement aspects. This is illustrated with the design of a dipole antenna matched to the chip input impedance using a tuning series inductive meandered line.","PeriodicalId":161657,"journal":{"name":"2010 14th International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics & the American Electromagnetics Conference","volume":"2016 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127279571","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":"Analysis and design of UWB elliptical slot antennas","authors":"O. Haraz, Ayman Elboushi, A. Sebak","doi":"10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552484","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552484","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, three different elliptical slot ultrawideband (UWB) antennas are presented. These antennas are proposed and designed with a standard printed circuit board (PCB) process to be suitable for integration with radio-frequency/microwave circuitry. The first design is composed of half circular ring radiator element while the other design uses half elliptical ring shaped radiator. The shape of the radiator is crescent shaped for the third design. The calculated impedance bandwidth of proposed antenna designs ranges from 2.5GHz to beyond 14GHz for reflection coefficient (S11) less than −10dB. Also, all designs have relatively stable radiation patterns over their whole frequency band of interest.","PeriodicalId":161657,"journal":{"name":"2010 14th International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics & the American Electromagnetics Conference","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122735627","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":"Iterative methods for linear systems based on minimizing the distance to the solution point","authors":"I. Ciric","doi":"10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552508","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552508","url":null,"abstract":"The concept of the minimization of the distance to the solution point is introduced for the iterative solution of the general systems of linear algebraic equations. Search directions are constructed using combinations of the normals to the hyperplanes represented by the system equations.","PeriodicalId":161657,"journal":{"name":"2010 14th International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics & the American Electromagnetics Conference","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125692649","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}
I. González, J. Gomez, A. Tayebi, C. Delgado, F. Cátedra
{"title":"A domain decomposition moment method approach for analysis of complex reflectorarrays","authors":"I. González, J. Gomez, A. Tayebi, C. Delgado, F. Cátedra","doi":"10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552534","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552534","url":null,"abstract":"An efficient domain decomposition approach for electromagnetic field analysis of complex 3D antennas is presented. The method combines the Moment Method (MM), the Multilevel Fast Multipole Algorithm (MLFMA), Physics Optics (PO) and the Domain Decomposition Method to provide fast and accurate analysis of arbitrary metallic and dielectric/magnetic structures, and to solve very large scattering problems. Moreover, in order to minimize memory and time requirements, a parallelization process has been carried out by using the Message Passing Interface (MPI) algorithm. The code has been validated in many applications providing accurate predictions compared with measurements. As an example, a dual-band reflectarray is analyzed to check the performance of the proposed code.","PeriodicalId":161657,"journal":{"name":"2010 14th International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics & the American Electromagnetics Conference","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127360414","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":"Capacitively coupled cross resonator UWB BPF with steep slopes","authors":"Thai Hoa Duong, I. Kim","doi":"10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552493","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552493","url":null,"abstract":"This paper introduces a new ultra wideband (UWB) bandpass filter (BPF) with very sharp roll-off characteristics in stripline structure for the U.S. band (3.1–10.6 GHz). The UWB characteristic is basically obtained from capacitive coupling between a main line and a λ/2 length cross resonator. At the center of the resonator, two stubs are loaded, one is λ/8 short-circuited and the other λ/8 open-circuited. The two stubs provide two attenuation poles at lower and upper cutoff frequencies. For input and output lines, two λ/4 identical capacitively coupled lines have been installed to suppress the unwanted signals in the lower and upper stopbands. The filter has been designed with two transmission zeros at 2.4 and 11.1 GHz to provide 81 dB/GHz and 86 dB/GHz slopes in the lower and upper transition bands, respectively, and realized with low temperature core-fired ceramic (LTCC) green tape which has the dielectric constant of 7.8. Measurement results agree well with HFSS simulation results. Insertion loss less than 0.6 dB and return loss better than 14 dB in the pass band have been measured. The group delay at the center frequency is 0.26 ns and the group delay variation within pass band is less than 0.5 ns. The size of the filter is 6×18×0.6 mm3.","PeriodicalId":161657,"journal":{"name":"2010 14th International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics & the American Electromagnetics Conference","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128346209","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 study of adaptive meshing in FEM-CSI for microwave tomography","authors":"A. Zakaria, J. Lovetri","doi":"10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552529","url":null,"abstract":"The use of finite element method (FEM) to discretize the differential operator in the contrast source inversion (CSI) offers several advantages over conventional integral-equation based CSI algorithms. One of the advantages of FEM-CSI is the ability to adaptively control the density of the triangular mesh within the inversion domain to increase the quality of the reconstructed image and to reduce the computational burden of the inversion algorithm. Here we present an example that exploits this advantage of FEM-CSI, providing a qualitative and quantitative analysis using several inversion results. The example selected is for an unbounded-region microwave tomography configuration under the 2D transverse magnetic (TM) approximation.","PeriodicalId":161657,"journal":{"name":"2010 14th International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics & the American Electromagnetics Conference","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134103762","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":"Analytical cross-polarization nulling technique","authors":"A. Daya, G. Hampton","doi":"10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552412","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552412","url":null,"abstract":"Previously, boresite cross-polarization nulling was achieved by using hardware techniques. In this method, a nulling network was constructed to transmit or receive a degree of elliptical polarization to perfectly offset the AUT radiation co-polarization on boresite. This was achieved by manual adjustment of variable attenuators and phase shifters in a hardware network. The principle drawback to this method is that it is restricted to single frequency measurements and the stability of the hardware. Modern far-field ranges are capable of collecting large amounts of amplitude and phase data over broad frequency sweeps. It is convenient in post-processing to perform the task of the nulling network by synthesizing an elliptical polarization to achieve true co- and cross-polarization at boresite. Two orthogonal linear orientations for a probe antenna provide the required components to synthesize an ideally nulled boresite cross-polarization. This definition is then applied to the rest of the scan.","PeriodicalId":161657,"journal":{"name":"2010 14th International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics & the American Electromagnetics Conference","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134152178","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}