{"title":"Design of MEMS shunt switches at Ka band (30 GHz) using symmetrical pull-in technique","authors":"K. Basak, R. K. Bahl, A. Banik","doi":"10.1109/AEMC.2015.7509139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AEMC.2015.7509139","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an alternating bias technique for shunt type micro-electro mechanical system (MEMS) switch other than using the conventional bias technique of actuation pads at the bottom of switch membrane. The residual gap is removed in proposed design. The centre frequency of the design is at 30 GHz with ±0.5 GHz band width. In UP state of switch, the simulated insertion loss is about 0.4 dB and return loss of 15 dB. In DOWN state, isolation is greater than 35 dB. The on wafer test result gives the insertion loss of 1.2 dB and return loss of 12 dB. Measured isolation of the switch is 38.5 dB.","PeriodicalId":168839,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Applied Electromagnetics Conference (AEMC)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126409207","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}
K. P. Ray, D. Gurale, S. Kakatkar, K. Nirmala, P. Mewada
{"title":"Broadband high gain stacked hexagonal microstrip antennas","authors":"K. P. Ray, D. Gurale, S. Kakatkar, K. Nirmala, P. Mewada","doi":"10.1109/AEMC.2015.7509112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AEMC.2015.7509112","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents two suspended configurations of hexagonal patch antennas at GSM band of 1800 MHz with improved bandwidth and gain. The configuration with single hexagonal patch on the top substrate layer stacked on single hexagonal patch on bottom layer with an air gap in between has been studied.","PeriodicalId":168839,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Applied Electromagnetics Conference (AEMC)","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133803628","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":"Simple and new design of resonance gain antenna for circular polarization with improved characteristics","authors":"Koushik Dutta, D. Guha, C. Kumar","doi":"10.1109/AEMC.2015.7509151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AEMC.2015.7509151","url":null,"abstract":"A compact superstrate geometry as a circular polarizer filter has been proposed to design a circularly polarized (CP) resonance gain antenna (RGA). A dual-fed cylindrical dielectric resonator antenna (CDRA) has been used as a primary radiator to design a CP RGA. Maximum of 15 dBi CP gain has been achieved over 20% axial ratio (AR) as well as matching bandwidth. The side lobe (<;-15 dB) as well as cross-pol levels (<;-22 dB) appear quite satisfactory.","PeriodicalId":168839,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Applied Electromagnetics Conference (AEMC)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131325273","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 of Ultrawideband Microwave Imaging via Space Time beamforming algorithm in the frequency domain","authors":"Spandana Vemulapalli, Mahrukh Khan, D. Chatterjee","doi":"10.1109/AEMC.2015.7509239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AEMC.2015.7509239","url":null,"abstract":"This paper focusses on the performance of an Ultrawideband V-slot, L-probe fed microstrip patch antenna array for the early detection of breast cancer. A 3×3 Ultrawideband array (44% bandwidth) is designed in a commercial electromagnetic software called FEKO. A 3-D breast model with a spherical tumor (5mm and 10mm) is illuminated by the antenna array and the backscattered electric field signals are received in the near field. The Microwave Imaging via Space Time (MIST) beamforming algorithm has been implemented in the frequency domain using MATLAB for the image reconstruction of the breast. Quality metrics like dynamic range, peak to side lobe level ratio and radiometric resolution have been evaluated as 20.1487 dB, 3.974 dB and 1.8644 dB, respectively, with this design.","PeriodicalId":168839,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Applied Electromagnetics Conference (AEMC)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129242329","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 printed meander loop antenna for USB dongle applications","authors":"H. J. Das, R. Bhattacharjee","doi":"10.1109/AEMC.2015.7509203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AEMC.2015.7509203","url":null,"abstract":"Printed antennas are an attractive choice for USB dongle applications because of their low profile structure and omnidirectional behavior. This paper presents the design of a printed meander loop antenna for USB dongle applications. The meander loop antenna is printed over an FR4 substrate with relative dielectric constant 4.4 and of size 58× 23× 1.6 mm3, making it suitable for USB dongle applications. The performance of the meander loop antenna is compared with the conventional printed rectangular single loop and dual loop antennas.","PeriodicalId":168839,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Applied Electromagnetics Conference (AEMC)","volume":"144 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115379498","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 of a compact dual-band antenna for RF power transfer in an aircraft fuel tank","authors":"N. S. Nikhil, K. Vinoy","doi":"10.1109/AEMC.2015.7509236","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AEMC.2015.7509236","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we proposed the design of a dual band printed inverted F antenna for energy harvesting inside a fuel tank at 900 MHz ISM. The second operational frequency is so chosen that it shifts to the 900 MHz ISM when the antenna is immersed in fuel. An `U' shaped slot is made in the ground plane to achieve higher bandwidth in the immersed condition. The bandwidth (-6dB) achieved is 38 MHz in air and 54 MHz when immersed in fuel. The antenna has omni-directional radiation pattern in air. The antenna has been fabricated and tested in air.","PeriodicalId":168839,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Applied Electromagnetics Conference (AEMC)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115906918","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}
A. Reza, Anuraag Misra, Saikat Sarkar, A. K. Sikdar, P. Das
{"title":"Development of a helical resonator for ion trap application","authors":"A. Reza, Anuraag Misra, Saikat Sarkar, A. K. Sikdar, P. Das","doi":"10.1109/AEMC.2015.7509206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AEMC.2015.7509206","url":null,"abstract":"A helical resonator coupled with a low noise amplifier is widely used for detection of trapped particles. Since the ion trap and amplifier load the resonator capacitively, it is required to estimate the resonant frequency of helical resonator under capacitive loading. In this paper, helical resonator with different values of capacitive loading is studied using HFSS software. A comparison is drawn among the estimated, simulated and experimental values of resonant frequency of helical resonant under different amount of capacitive loading. Finally, the helical resonator is coupled to a low noise amplifier and a loaded quality factor of 323 is obtained at a resonant frequency of 61.45 MHz.","PeriodicalId":168839,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Applied Electromagnetics Conference (AEMC)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123634074","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. R. T. Naidu, K. V. Krishna, Latheef A. Shaik, C. Saha
{"title":"Enhancement of isolation in printed MIMO antenna using multiple EBG elements","authors":"P. R. T. Naidu, K. V. Krishna, Latheef A. Shaik, C. Saha","doi":"10.1109/AEMC.2015.7509212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AEMC.2015.7509212","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a new isolation enhancement technique between multiple antenna elements for MIMO antenna systems. The isolation technique is based on multiple electromagnetic band gap (EBG) cells loaded in the feed region of the two antennas. Proposed technique of isolation enhancement is highly compact as it does not impact the over-all antenna size and is exhibited in UWB-Narrow band antenna pair hosted on the same substrate. Apart from the antenna impedance and radiation characterization, envelope correlation co-efficient and diversity gain of the system is studied, revealing excellent results. The obtained isolation between the two antenna elements is better than 30 dB over the entire TJWB spectrum. Proposed isolation enhancement technique is radiator independent and can be used for other printed MIMO antennas also.","PeriodicalId":168839,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Applied Electromagnetics Conference (AEMC)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123770013","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":"CPW-fed Phi shaped SWB monopole antenna","authors":"Sarthak Singhal, A. Singh","doi":"10.1109/AEMC.2015.7509213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AEMC.2015.7509213","url":null,"abstract":"A compact CPW-fed Phi shaped super wideband monopole antenna is presented. An impedance bandwidth of 3.8 to 38 GHz is achieved by using phi shaped radiator, coplanar waveguide feedline and quarter elliptical ground plane. It provided good radiation performance characteristics. A good agreement between the simulated and experimental results is achieved.","PeriodicalId":168839,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Applied Electromagnetics Conference (AEMC)","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125083817","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":"Small size dual-band fractal boundary split ring planar antenna","authors":"B. S. Dhaliwal, S. S. Pattnaik","doi":"10.1109/AEMC.2015.7509192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AEMC.2015.7509192","url":null,"abstract":"In last decade, a number of microstrip patch antennas based on fractal geometry have been proposed. Recently, some applications employing the fractal geometry as boundary of microstrip antennas are also proposed. In this paper, Minkowski curve has been used as boundary of a square split ring antenna. The simulated and experimental results of the proposed antenna have shown dual band behavior. Also a size reduction of more than 65% is achieved by using the proposed fractal boundary split ring geometry.","PeriodicalId":168839,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Applied Electromagnetics Conference (AEMC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127413443","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}