{"title":"Generating and analyzing mm wave signals with multipliers and harmonic mixers","authors":"Chris Gillis","doi":"10.1109/ANTEM.2014.6887681","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTEM.2014.6887681","url":null,"abstract":"More and more research is being done in extremely high frequency bands that exceed the frequency ranges of single box signal generators and spectrum analyzers. This necessitates the use of frequency multipliers on the generation side, and harmonic mixers to extend the frequency range of the spectrum analyzer. With these setups there are certain important parameters that should be taken into account and this will be discussed with reference to an example where a 450 MHz wide signal is generated and analyzed using test equipment.","PeriodicalId":190987,"journal":{"name":"2014 16th International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics (ANTEM)","volume":"48 9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129704485","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":"Cavity backed circularly polarized spiral antennas","authors":"A. Mehrabani, L. Shafai","doi":"10.1109/ANTEM.2014.6887757","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTEM.2014.6887757","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a cavity backed spiral antenna is introduced. The antenna is a four-arm Archimedean spiral antenna. To effectively direct the radiation in the upper half space region, the spiral antenna is backed by a conducting cavity, which is peripherally filled by an absorber ring. Antenna radiates circularly polarized waves. The height of the surrounding cavity is only 7mm, which leads to an extremely low profile structure. The polarization purity and antenna gain are investigated over a wide frequency bandwidth of near 1 to 8GHz.","PeriodicalId":190987,"journal":{"name":"2014 16th International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics (ANTEM)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134411793","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. Mehdipour, A. Sebak, C. Trueman, Iosif Daniel Rosca, S. Hoa, T. Denidni
{"title":"Anisotropic/isotropic carbon-fiber nanocomposites for emerging RF/antenna/microwave applications","authors":"A. Mehdipour, A. Sebak, C. Trueman, Iosif Daniel Rosca, S. Hoa, T. Denidni","doi":"10.1109/ANTEM.2014.6887653","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTEM.2014.6887653","url":null,"abstract":"A new generation of antennas and microwave circuits based on carbon-fiber nanocomposites is presented for future wearable/flexible wireless technology and smart textiles. We used two kinds of nanocomposites, namely reinforced continuous carbon-fiber composite (RCCFC) and carbon nanotube (CNT). It is shown by exploiting the anisotropy of conductivity in RCCFC, new and exotic antenna characteristics such as reconfigurable designs can be achieved. By proposing a novel fabrication method, arbitrarily-shaped antennas made of conductive CNT buckypapers are built and tested.","PeriodicalId":190987,"journal":{"name":"2014 16th International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics (ANTEM)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132880966","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":"Improvement multipactor discharge of microwave components by micro-porous surface","authors":"W. Cui, Rui Wang, T. Hu, Jing Yang, Yong-ning He","doi":"10.1109/ANTEM.2014.6887686","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTEM.2014.6887686","url":null,"abstract":"A method for the improvement multipactor discharge of microwave components is described in this paper. It is a kind of surface treatments with regular micor-porous structure by the photolithography technique or irregular micro-porous structure by chemical etching process on silver plated coatings. Their influences of the micro-porous structure for secondary emission are compared. A C-band impedance transformer is used to valid multipactor discharge level by three-dimensional simulations and experimental results. Results show that this method can improve greatly the multipactor discharge of microwave components in theory and experiments.","PeriodicalId":190987,"journal":{"name":"2014 16th International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics (ANTEM)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130127615","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":"Bandwidth enhancement for RCS reduction using checkerboard EBG surfaces","authors":"Wengang Chen, C. Balanis","doi":"10.1109/ANTEM.2014.6887720","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTEM.2014.6887720","url":null,"abstract":"The properties of Electromagnetic Band-Gap (EBG) structures are used to alter the scattering fields by combining Perfect Electric Conductor (PEC) and EBG structures on the same ground plane. Due to the anti-phase property, the reflected energy can be re-directed toward four quadrants and a null to appear toward the normal direction. To increase the bandwidth, checkerboard surfaces of different EBG structures on the same ground plane are proposed. Two different configurations of EBG structures are designed to realize the 180° phase difference, in order to achieve a wider band Radar Cross Section (RCS) reduction. The RCS of the surfaces are compared with those of the equal-sized PEC ground planes.","PeriodicalId":190987,"journal":{"name":"2014 16th International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics (ANTEM)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116517286","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}
H. P. Phan, M. Hoang, G. Rehder, T. Vuong, C. Balanis
{"title":"Millimeter-wave antenna array on silicon with embedded cavity-backed structure","authors":"H. P. Phan, M. Hoang, G. Rehder, T. Vuong, C. Balanis","doi":"10.1109/ANTEM.2014.6887667","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTEM.2014.6887667","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper a new silicon-based antenna structure with an embedded back cavity is presented. The basic antenna with an optimized geometry has good impedance matching with return loss of -40 dB and gain of 7.6 dBi at the resonant frequency of 60 GHz. The linear arrays of four antennas with the corporate feed network have been built with three different forms of rectangular back cavity to compare its impact on the directivity and total efficiency of the antenna. As a result, the array with closed-box cavity gives the best performance with directivity of 16.51 dBi with total efficiency of -1.22 dB.","PeriodicalId":190987,"journal":{"name":"2014 16th International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics (ANTEM)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132927726","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 depolarized electromagnetic waves propagated through random medium by using perturbation method","authors":"Y. Nanbu, M. Tateiba, H. El‐Ocla","doi":"10.1109/ANTEM.2014.6887749","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTEM.2014.6887749","url":null,"abstract":"We have derived an integral equation using the dyadic Green's function on the assumption that there exists a random medium screen of which the dielectric constant is fluctuating randomly. On the integral equation, the depolarized EM wave has been analyzed by using a perturbation method, and we have shown the representation of the first order perturbation of the depolarized EM wave.","PeriodicalId":190987,"journal":{"name":"2014 16th International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics (ANTEM)","volume":"5 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120808733","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":"Radio Analog Signal Processing: For millimeter-wave and terahertz applications","authors":"C. Caloz","doi":"10.1109/ANTEM.2014.6887744","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTEM.2014.6887744","url":null,"abstract":"The paper identifies a fundamental issue in modern radio technology and speculates that Radio Analog Signal Processing (R-ASP), based on dispersion-engineered components called phasers, might be the solution or part of the solution to solve this issue. It subsequently presents some of the research activities on R-ASP in the author's group over the past few years.","PeriodicalId":190987,"journal":{"name":"2014 16th International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics (ANTEM)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115712517","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":"Fast multi-objective antenna design through variable-fidelity EM simulations","authors":"S. Koziel, A. Bekasiewicz, W. Zieniutycz","doi":"10.1109/ANTEM.2014.6887696","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTEM.2014.6887696","url":null,"abstract":"A technique for fast multi-objective antenna optimization is introduced. A kriging interpolation surrogate constructed from sampled coarse-mesh EM simulations is utilized by multi-objective evolutionary algorithm (MOEA) to obtain the initial Pareto front approximation. The surrogate is defined in a subset of the original design space, determined by means of independently optimized individual objectives. Response correction techniques are subsequently used to refine the designs selected from the initial Pareto set. Our approach is demonstrated using a planar UWB dipole antenna.","PeriodicalId":190987,"journal":{"name":"2014 16th International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics (ANTEM)","volume":"346 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131754220","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":"High-gain dielectric-loaded antipodal Fermi tapered slot antenna for MM-wave applications","authors":"I. Mohamed, Z. Briqech, A. Sebak","doi":"10.1109/ANTEM.2014.6887716","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTEM.2014.6887716","url":null,"abstract":"A high gain antipodal Fermi tapered slot antenna with sine corrugation is loaded with a dielectric for potential use in high data-rate wireless applications. The proposed antenna achieved a gain of 20 dB over the unlicensed millimeter-wave ISM-band, from 57 to 64 GHz. For the frequency range of 50-70 GHz, the total efficiency is around 93% and the simulated |S11| is less than -18 dB. To reduce costs and to simplify fabrication, the elliptical-shaped loaded dielectric and the proposed antenna are integrated in a single layer substrate.","PeriodicalId":190987,"journal":{"name":"2014 16th International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics (ANTEM)","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125435808","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}