{"title":"Design and implementation of a new UWB microstrip antenna","authors":"M. Mohammadirad, N. Komjani, M. Yazdi","doi":"10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552511","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552511","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a new microstrip-fed wideband low-profile planar quasi-monopole antenna with total size of 30×40×0.79mm3. Practically, this antenna is a modified and improved version of Planar Inverted Cone Antenna (PICA). The proposed antenna consists of a quasi-triangular radiating element with two slits and a deformed ground plane, which provides wide bandwidth about 7.2GHz (3.8–11 GHz). This frequency range includes the Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) band; hence we use a U-shape slot in radiating element to reject 5GHz-WLAN band. Simulated and measured results exhibit large impedance bandwidth and appropriate radiation pattern that is desired for UWB applications.","PeriodicalId":161657,"journal":{"name":"2010 14th International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics & the American Electromagnetics Conference","volume":"31 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":"132033237","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 the radiation efficiency of a half wavelength dipole","authors":"M. D. Estarki, R. Vaughan","doi":"10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552541","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552541","url":null,"abstract":"Antenna efficiency directly impacts the efficiency of communications and sensing applications, and the emerging use of high frequencies has renewed interest in its mechanisms and estimation. In this paper, the radiation efficiency of the half-wavelength center-fed circular dipole is calculated for representative metals. Both the approximate and the accurate current distribution models for the wire cross section are used. The current distribution model for along the wire is the usual sinusoidal form. From the modeled current distribution, we calculate the ohmic resistance and the radiation efficiency of the dipole. The results quantify the wire thickness and frequency ranges for which the approximate model for the cross section current distribution holds, and demonstrates the limiting antenna loss at high frequencies. For SHF and EHF, using conductors such as stainless steel means that the ohmic resistance is in the same order as the radiation resistance. When using gold coatings at these frequencies, the situation improves, but a coating much larger than that available from regular sputtering is required to attain the limiting efficiency.","PeriodicalId":161657,"journal":{"name":"2010 14th International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics & the American Electromagnetics Conference","volume":"1 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":"132944146","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":"Landmines detection using finite-difference time-domain and artificial neural networks","authors":"S. Zainud-Deen, E. S. El-Hadad, K. Awadalla","doi":"10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552468","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552468","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, the performances of the neural-network approach for discrimination of the landmine depth from the ground surface and the landmine radius are carried out. A sensor for landmines detection consists of two microstrip antennas is used. One of the antennas is used as transmitting antenna and the second is considered as receiving antenna. Circular cylindrical shape metallic landmine is used. The neural-network process data are obtained from the FDTD formulation of the electromagnetic scattering. The inputs in the input layer of the neural network are the magnitude of the mutual coupling between the microstrip antennas, |S21| while the outputs are landmine depth from the ground surface and landmine radius. Good agreement with exact profile has been observed. The computation time and computer memory of the inverse problem are considerably reduced.","PeriodicalId":161657,"journal":{"name":"2010 14th International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics & the American Electromagnetics Conference","volume":"88 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":"114381030","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":"Electromagnetic scattering by periodic conducting strip grating on grounded dielectric slab: Study of the angular and polarization dependence in different incident planes","authors":"A. Foroozesh, L. Shafai","doi":"10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552572","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552572","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents analysis of the electromagnetic scattering from the grounded dielectric slab loaded with periodic conducting strip grating using modal expansions. It is shown that this structure can act as an either artificial magnetic conductor (AMC) or artificial electric conductor (AEC) depending on the polarization of the incident wave. This study encompasses the dependence of AMC or AEC characteristics on the angle, plane and polarization of the incident wave.","PeriodicalId":161657,"journal":{"name":"2010 14th International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics & the American Electromagnetics Conference","volume":"28 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":"114878411","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":"GPS wideband microstrip antenna array featuring compact Schiffman phase shifters","authors":"S. Raut, A. Petosa","doi":"10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552509","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552509","url":null,"abstract":"A design for microstrip antenna for Global Positioning System (GPS) applications is presented in this paper. The antenna design utilizes a 2×2-element circularly polarized array supported on a multi-layer substrate architecture. A design concept for a compact version of Schiffman phase shifter is also introduced. Implementation of the new phase shifters within the feed design significantly reduces the overall surface area of the microstrip array. The design achieves an exceptionally low axial ratio without compromising overall antenna performance.","PeriodicalId":161657,"journal":{"name":"2010 14th International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics & the American Electromagnetics Conference","volume":"181 2 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":"116706196","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":"Truncation-error reduction in 2D spherical/cylindrical near-field scanning","authors":"Kristopher T. Kim","doi":"10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552551","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552551","url":null,"abstract":"The spherical and cylindrical near-field (NF) antenna measurement techniques are an indispensable tool for the antenna community. NF samples are almost always collected over a truncated surface. Far-field (FF) values computed from truncated NF data suffer from truncation errors. In this paper, we introduce a new NF-to-FF transformation for two-dimensional cylindrical/spherical scanning that significantly reduces truncation errors. After examining the limitations of the traditional multipole-based expansion of truncated scan data, we consider an alternative expansion based on Slepian functions and show how FF values can be extracted from the resulting expansion coefficients.","PeriodicalId":161657,"journal":{"name":"2010 14th International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics & the American Electromagnetics Conference","volume":"1 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":"132829298","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}
Brian Cascarano, J. Colinas, R. Girard, P. Plourde
{"title":"Design of a light–weight digital beam forming antenna for future sar applications","authors":"Brian Cascarano, J. Colinas, R. Girard, P. Plourde","doi":"10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552363","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552363","url":null,"abstract":"The CSA has been working actively during the past decade on developing various technologies for improving the capabilities of SAR antennas. Various techniques have been investigated for decreasing the mass per unit of area as well as improving the electronic capabilities of the radar. These efforts were combined to form a new concept that is presented here. The concept was defined for C-band applications but could also be applied at lower frequency. The radar antenna has a total area of 38 m2. The central aperture (∼10 m2) is used on transmit and receive while the wings are receive only phased arrays spanning a total area of 28 m2. The central aperture transmits a large beam and the receive aperture captures the echo simultaneously from various directions through a digital beam synthesis.","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":"116101301","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":"Distortion measurement and compensation in a synthetic aperture radar phased-array antenna","authors":"David Peterman, K. James, V. Glavac","doi":"10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552555","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552555","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a metrology system for measuring deflection of a phased-array antenna panel. It will be implemented in a novel space-borne synthetic aperture radar system called WiSAR (Wireless Synthetic Aperture Radar). WiSAR uses a wireless signal interface between a boom-mounted space-feed antenna and a lightweight phased-array antenna panel. As a result of the flexible, light-weight antenna panel construction, MDA has developed the Antenna Distortion Measurement System (ADMS) to monitor any mechanical distortions of the antenna panel and allow the beam formation to be compensated accordingly. The system uses a series of markers (WiSense nodes) distributed over the antenna panel, and sequentially measures the position of each marker relative to the space-feed antenna. Once the antenna panel shape has been measured, the desired beam shape can be maintained by adjusting the phase shift of the active phased-array elements (WiNodes).","PeriodicalId":161657,"journal":{"name":"2010 14th International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics & the American Electromagnetics Conference","volume":"3 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":"116816198","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":"Efficiency of boundary integral equation techniques for internal resonance problem","authors":"M. Ozturk, E. Korkmaz","doi":"10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552546","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552546","url":null,"abstract":"The major problem encountered by the solution of boundary integral equations is related to the nonuniqueness of its solution. The problem is also known as internal resonance problem. As a remedy the combined-field integral equation (CFIE) technique is widely used which contains a linear combination of the magnetic and electric field integral equation to provide a unique stable solution. A second effective technique is the constrained conjugate gradient method (CCG) that minimizes a cost functional consisting of two terms. The first term is the error norm with respect to boundary integral equation, while the second term is the error norm with respect to the interior equation over a closed interior surface. This paper presents the efficiency of both approaches. The results are compared for the solution of a sphere.","PeriodicalId":161657,"journal":{"name":"2010 14th International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics & the American Electromagnetics Conference","volume":"33 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":"125925338","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":"Monostatic RCS hot-spot modelling of large grooved structures","authors":"K. Y. Sze, S. Kashyap","doi":"10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552544","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552544","url":null,"abstract":"The monostatic radar cross section (RCS) hot-spot characteristics of electrically large grooved structures were analyzed. The structures' monostatic RCS and inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) image properties [1] at X-band were characterized for the far-field. These structures were assumed to have perfect electric conductor (PEC) properties. It is anticipated that the study of these simple structures, from a 2D analysis approach [2], could yield good insights into the RCS and ISAR characteristics of electrically large and complex tubular structures (e.g. intake cavities of jet engines) [3] at microwave frequencies. In the modelling, computer aided design (CAD) models of these structures were created and meshed. They were then utilized as inputs into an RCS computer code called RAPPORT [4]. Since this code was implemented using the ray-tracing technique based on physical optics (PO), it employs a parameter which allows the user to define the maximum number of “physical optics reflections” (PO reflections), also called specular reflections, off the meshed surfaces in a single ray traced. However, diffraction and polarization effects were not emphasized in this study due to limitations in RAPPORT.","PeriodicalId":161657,"journal":{"name":"2010 14th International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics & the American Electromagnetics Conference","volume":"39 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":"123429222","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}