{"title":"Simplified method for estimating gaseous absorption at low elevation angles along earth-space paths","authors":"P. Bouchard","doi":"10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552525","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552525","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a new simplified technique for estimating gaseous absorption at low elevation angles along Earth-space paths, taking into account both the effects of the Earth's curvature and refraction. The refractive index of air is modeled as a negative exponential with respect to height. Gaseous absorption is evaluated by asymptotic expansion of its integral representation using Laplace's method.","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":"124224969","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":"On-chip antenna: Practical design and characterization considerations","authors":"A. Shamim, K. Salama, E. Soliman, S. Sedky","doi":"10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552482","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552482","url":null,"abstract":"This paper highlights the challenges of an emergent field, namely, on-chip antenna design. Consistent with the RF System-on-Chip (SoC) concept, co-design strategy for circuits and on-chip antennas is described. A number of design and layout issues, arising from the highly integrated nature of this kind of systems, are discussed. The characterization difficulties related to on-chip antennas radiation properties are also highlighted. Finally, a novel on-wafer test fixture is proposed to measure the gain and radiation pattern of the on-chip antennas in the anechoic chamber.","PeriodicalId":161657,"journal":{"name":"2010 14th International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics & the American Electromagnetics Conference","volume":"10 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":"121462133","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 manufacture and test of Ka-band reflectarray antenna for trasmitting and receiving in orthogonal polarization","authors":"J. Encinar, M. Barba","doi":"10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552500","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552500","url":null,"abstract":"This contribution describes the design, manufacturing and test of a printed reflectarray for a Ka-band terminal antenna. The reflectarray has been designed to produce a focused beam at 30 GHz (uplink) in V polarization and also at 20 GHz (downlink) in H polarization. Two separate feeds are used to illuminate the reflectarray for H (20 GHz) and V polarization (30GHz). The reflectarray element is made of two stacked varying-sized patches, being one dimension adjusted to focus the beam at 20 GHz in H polarization, and the other to focus the 30 GHz beam in V-polarization. A breadboard has been manufactured and tested. The measured radiation patterns show very good agreement with those obtained from the simulations. A 10% bandwidth has been obtained in both frequency bands, with an antenna efficiency of 62% at 30 GHz and 70% at 20 GHz","PeriodicalId":161657,"journal":{"name":"2010 14th International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics & the American Electromagnetics Conference","volume":"10 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":"116572649","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":"Efficient macromodeling of power distribution planes using delay extraction based transmission line representation","authors":"Sourajeet Roy, A. Dounavis","doi":"10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552557","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552557","url":null,"abstract":"With increasing clock speed along with decreasing signal rise times and supply voltages, transient currents caused due to simultaneous switching of large number of circuits can lead to voltage fluctuations in power distribution networks (PDN) [1]. Since PDN supply power to core logic and I/O circuits, such power distribution noise can severely limit the performance of the system [2]. Although the frequency response of PDN's can give sufficient insight into their performance, power supply noise is a transient phenomenon and needs to be characterized in the time domain when considering PDN's coupled with nonlinear drivers [3]. Thus, to accurately predict the electrical performance of these power planes over a large bandwidth, accurate broadband macromodeling of power planes is required.","PeriodicalId":161657,"journal":{"name":"2010 14th International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics & the American Electromagnetics Conference","volume":"5 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":"122792952","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":"Introduction of an optimization method for designing broadband large reflectarrays","authors":"M. R. Chaharmir, J. Shaker, N. Gagnon","doi":"10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552558","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552558","url":null,"abstract":"A novel method is introduced to design a single layer, large printed reflectarray with double cross loop elements of variable size. Different classes of cross loop elements were used in the design of the reflectarray elements. Noting the larger relative bandwidth, the dimensions of the cross loops are adjusted, using an optimization technique to achieve required phase distribution at the centre frequency and minimize frequency dispersion at band edge frequencies.","PeriodicalId":161657,"journal":{"name":"2010 14th International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics & the American Electromagnetics Conference","volume":"23 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":"123442464","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 agile antennas for wireless communications – A survey","authors":"A. Petosa","doi":"10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552473","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552473","url":null,"abstract":"A review of the various methods for designing frequency agile antennas is undertaken. Examples of techniques for achieving either discrete or continuous frequency tuning are examined along with the common antenna elements being considered for wireless communications. Advantages and disadvantages of the various techniques are discussed along with current achievable performance.","PeriodicalId":161657,"journal":{"name":"2010 14th International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics & the American Electromagnetics Conference","volume":"128 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":"116839114","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":"Standard gain horn computations versus measured data","authors":"D. Bodnar","doi":"10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552394","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552394","url":null,"abstract":"Specially designed pyramidal horn antennas known as standard-gain horns are accepted as gain standards throughout the antenna community. The unknown gain of an AUT is determined by comparing its gain to that of a standard gain horn. Slayton of the US Naval Research Laboratory in 1954 developed a design method and gain curves for standard gain horns. This paper examines the ability of modern numerical electromagnetic modeling to predict the gain of these horns and possibly achieve greater accuracy than with the NRL approach.","PeriodicalId":161657,"journal":{"name":"2010 14th International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics & the American Electromagnetics Conference","volume":"59 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":"121769973","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 simulation study of ray-tracing software in through-wall sensing (TWS) applications","authors":"Greg Barrie","doi":"10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552536","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552536","url":null,"abstract":"This paper analyzes the suitability of commercially-available propagation software to model large scale through-wall synthetic aperture radar (SAR) scenarios via ray-tracing. Performance criteria were established and compared with results from finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) algorithms. While there are physical restrictions to the range of applicability, algorithms based on ray-tracing are sufficiently accurate and readily adaptable for use in a simulation environment, and can do so much more efficiently than standard FDTD methods.","PeriodicalId":161657,"journal":{"name":"2010 14th International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics & the American Electromagnetics Conference","volume":"80 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":"114900326","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 miniaturized GPS antenna in LTCC with linear polarization suitable for SoP integration","authors":"G. Brzezina, L. Roy","doi":"10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552526","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552526","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a new miniaturized GPS antenna is presented. The antenna design is based on a dipole topology and is intended to operate at the L1 frequency of 1.575 GHz. A conventional λ/2 dipole would be too large at this frequency so miniaturization techniques have been applied. The result is a planar antenna whose dimensions are 32 mm × 24 mm, making it one of the smallest GPS antennas ever reported. It exhibits a good impedance match and positive gain at the desired frequency. Furthermore, the antenna incorporates the option of end-loading for bandwidth enhancement. The chosen material system is Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramic (LTCC). This, along with its small size, makes it suitable for integration with System-on-Package (SoP) designs.","PeriodicalId":161657,"journal":{"name":"2010 14th International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics & the American Electromagnetics Conference","volume":"403 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":"121810038","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":"Effect of rain cell shape on fade slope statistics over simulated Earth-LEO Ka-band links","authors":"Weiwen Liu, D. Michelson, Jin Malm, S. Howkins","doi":"10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552400","url":null,"abstract":"We show that simulations of Earth-LEO Ka-band links conducted using HYCELL-based simulated rain fields: (1) yield slightly lower fade slopes than do EXCELL-based simulated rain fields and (2) fit measured data on selected Earth-GEO Ka-band links slightly better. However, the differences are very small and the slightly conservative estimates yielded by the EXCELL model are offset to a large extent by its greater simplicity.","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":"124162873","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}