{"title":"Octa-port High Gain MIMO Antenna Backed with EBG for mm-Wave Applications","authors":"Nallagundla Suresh Babu, Abdul Quaiyum Ansari, Sachin Kumar, Binod Kumar Kanaujia, Ghanshyam Singh, Bhawna Goyal","doi":"10.2528/pierb23082301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2528/pierb23082301","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20829,"journal":{"name":"Progress In Electromagnetics Research B","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135563634","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":"Full Wave Modeling of Electromagnetic Scattering by an Object buried between two Rough Surfaces: Application to GPR","authors":"Marc E. Songolo, N. Pinel, C. Bourlier","doi":"10.36227/techrxiv.14925324","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36227/techrxiv.14925324","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present an efficient numerical method to calculate the frequency and time responses of the field scattered by an object buried between two random rough surfaces. This method is called Generalized PILE (GPILE) method because it extends the PILE method which considers only two surfaces or an object buried under a surface. The GPILE method solves rigourously the Maxwell equations by using a simple matrix formulation. The obtained results have a straightforward physical interpretation and allow us to investigate the influence of the object buried between the two rough surfaces. We distinguish the primary echo of the upper surface, the multiple echoes coming from the lower surface and those arising from the object. The GPILE method is applied to simulate the Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) signal at nadir. The resulting time response helps the user to detect the presence of the object buried between the two random rough surfaces.","PeriodicalId":20829,"journal":{"name":"Progress In Electromagnetics Research B","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47897576","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":"HARDWARE ENABLED ACCELERATION OF NEAR-FIELD CODED APERTURE RADAR PHYSICAL MODEL FOR MILLIMETRE-WAVE COMPUTATIONAL IMAGING","authors":"Rahul Sharma, O. Yurduseven, B. Deka, V. Fusco","doi":"10.2528/PIERB20112305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2528/PIERB20112305","url":null,"abstract":"There is an increasing demand in real-time imagery applications such as rapid response to disaster rescue and security screening to name a few. The throughput of a radar imaging system is mainly controlled by two parameters; data acquisition time and signal processing time. To minimize the data acquisition time, various methods are being tried and tested by researchers worldwide. Among them is the computational imaging (CI) technique, which relies on using coded apertures to encode the radar back-scattered measurements onto a set of spatio-temporally incoherent radiation patterns. Such a CI-based imaging approach eliminates the requirement for a raster scan and can substantially simplify the physical hardware architecture. Equally important is the processing time needed to retrieve the scene information from the coded back-scattered measurements. In CI, the simplification in the hardware layer comes at the cost of increased complexity in the signal processing layer due to the indirect mapping and compression of the scene information through the spatio-temporally incoherent transfer function of the coded apertures. To address this particular challenge, this paper presents a hardware-based solution for CI signal processing using a Field Programmable Gate Array (an Xilinx Virtex-7 (XC7VX485T) FPGA chip) architecture. In particular, the proposed method consists of calculating the CI sensing matrix using the FPGA chip and storing it on the FPGA platform for image reconstruction. For the adjoint operation, the calculated sensing matrix is applied on the measured back-scattered waves from the target object. We demonstrate that the FPGA based calculation can reach 21.9 times faster speed than conventional brute-force solutions.","PeriodicalId":20829,"journal":{"name":"Progress In Electromagnetics Research B","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45699187","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":"Topological Circuit Theory: A Lie Group Perspective","authors":"S. Mikki","doi":"10.36227/techrxiv.13174718.v1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36227/techrxiv.13174718.v1","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a new general framework attempting a unification of circuit and quantum theories. The theory is based on our discovery of a common Lie-group-theoretic structure shared by continuous circuits and quantum systems. Applications are proposed by applying topology to selected problems in microwave network theory.","PeriodicalId":20829,"journal":{"name":"Progress In Electromagnetics Research B","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44195831","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 Field Theory for Invariant Beams Using Scalar Potentials","authors":"I. Rondón, F. Soto-Eguibar","doi":"10.2528/PIERB15123102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2528/PIERB15123102","url":null,"abstract":"We present a description of the electromagnetic field for propagation invariant beams using scalar potentials. Fundamental dynamical quantities are obtained: energy density, Poynting vector and Maxwell stress tensor. As an example, all these quantities are explicitly calculated for the Bessel beams, which are invariant beams with circular cylindrical symmetry.","PeriodicalId":20829,"journal":{"name":"Progress In Electromagnetics Research B","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2528/PIERB15123102","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44830296","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":"CAPACITANCE MATRIX REVISITED","authors":"I. Smoli'c, B. Klajn","doi":"10.2528/PIERB21011501","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2528/PIERB21011501","url":null,"abstract":"The capacitance matrix relates the potentials and the charges on a system of conductors. We review and rigorously generalize its properties, block-diagonal structure, inequalities and regularity, deduced from the geometry of the system of conductors and analytic properties of the permittivity tensor. Furthermore, we discuss alternative choices of regularization of the capacitance matrix, which allows us to find the charge exchanged between the conductors having been brought to equal potential. Finally, we discuss the approximations utilized in calculations of the capacitance of capacitors connected in parallel and series.","PeriodicalId":20829,"journal":{"name":"Progress In Electromagnetics Research B","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46793231","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":"PERMITTIVITY MEASUREMENTS OF BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES BY AN OPEN-ENDED COAXIAL LINE","authors":"J. Bobowski, T. Johnson","doi":"10.2528/PIERB12022906","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2528/PIERB12022906","url":null,"abstract":"We previously reported on the complex permittivity and dc conductivity of waste-activated sludge. The measurements, spanning a frequency range of 3MHz to 40GHz, were made using an open-ended coaxial transmission line. Although this technique is well established in the literature, we found that it was necessary to combine methods from several papers to use the open-ended coaxial probe to reliably characterize biological samples having a high dc conductivity. Here, we provide a set of detailed and practical guidelines that can be used to determine the permittivity and conductivity of biological samples over a broad frequency range. Due to the electrode polarization efiect, low frequency measurements of conducting samples require corrections to extract the intrinsic electrical properties. We describe one practical correction scheme and verify its reliability using a control sample.","PeriodicalId":20829,"journal":{"name":"Progress In Electromagnetics Research B","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2528/PIERB12022906","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45037274","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":"OPTIMIZING HEATING EFFICIENCY OF HYPERTHERMIA: SPECIFIC LOSS POWER OF MAGNETIC SPHERE COMPOSED OF SUPERPARAMAGNETIC NANOPARTICLES","authors":"M. Halgamuge, Ta Song","doi":"10.2528/pierb19121702","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2528/pierb19121702","url":null,"abstract":"Magnetic nanoparticle (MNP) based thermal therapies have shown importance in clinical applications. However, it lacks a compromise between its robustness and limitations. We developed theoretical strategies to enhance the heating efficiency, which could be utilized in thermal therapies and calculated parameter dependence for superparamagnetic MNPs (approximative ellipsoid-shaped) within a sphere-shaped ball. Then we calculated specific loss power (SLP) for magnetic particles in a magnetic ball. The dependency of features of the nanoparticles (such as mean particle size, a number of particles, frequency and amplitude of the exposed field, relaxation time, and volume gap between particles and a sphere-shaped ball) on the SLP or the heating effect in superparamagnetic MNPs was analyzed. In this study, optimal parameter values were calculated using Kneedle Algorithm as the optimization technique to represent the accurate heating efficiency. The influence of a number of particles in a sphere-shaped ball shows that SLP of magnetic particles increases with the increasing number of particles (N); however, after N = 10 particles, the SLP increment is insignificant. The most remarkable result arising from this analysis is that when particles are closer together (less volume gap of a sphere-shaped ball), high SLP is found for the same number of particles. This model also predicts that the frequency dependency on the SLP is negligible when the frequency is higher than 10 kHz depending on the size of a sphere-shaped ball and nanoparticle parameters. This analysis has shown that the SLP of MNPs, in a sphere-shaped ball, strongly depends on magnetic parameters and properties of the particles. In brief, we have demonstrated, for the first time, impact on SLP of the accumulation of ellipsoid-shaped superparamagnetic nanoparticles into a sphere-shaped ball. This finding has essential suggestions for developing links between heating properties with loose aggregate and dense aggregate scenarios in the superparamagnetic condition.","PeriodicalId":20829,"journal":{"name":"Progress In Electromagnetics Research B","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2528/pierb19121702","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47474565","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}
Marie José Abi Akl, F. Jangal, M. Darces, M. Hélier
{"title":"AN EMPIRICAL MODEL OF THE EFFECTS OF IONOSPHERIC ELECTRON DENSITY VARIATIONS ON HF RADAR PROCESSING","authors":"Marie José Abi Akl, F. Jangal, M. Darces, M. Hélier","doi":"10.2528/PIERB19040204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2528/PIERB19040204","url":null,"abstract":"The High Frequency hybrid radar mode combines sky and surface wave propagation. As all High Frequency radars, it can be impacted by ionospheric instabilities. A behavioral model able to include ionospheric spatial and temporal variations has been implemented to estimate the impact of ionospheric irregularities on radar signal processing and Doppler-distance images. In this work, probabilistic models of the ionospheric fluctuations in the ray tracing have been introduced using the phase path fluctuation only. Based on Shkarofsky’s spectral power density, random variations on some parameters of Booker’s electron density profile have been performed to generate disturbed electron density profiles. Afterwards, a propagation delay, integrated in the received radar signal, has been calculated in terms of phase path variation. Moreover, the temporal aspect of the ionospheric variations has been macroscopically implemented by a filtering step according to the Total Electron Content variation. Results of this simulation are presented with the corresponding statistics. Doppler and distance distributions have been computed for several filter cut-off frequency values and for different Shkarofsky’s spectral power density parameters. At last, the process described above works properly: its results have been successfully compared with actual radar data for this purpose.","PeriodicalId":20829,"journal":{"name":"Progress In Electromagnetics Research B","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2528/PIERB19040204","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43331889","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. Adedeji, A. Ponnle, B. Abe, A. Jimoh, A. Abu-Mahfouz, Y. Hamam
{"title":"AC INDUCED CORROSION ASSESSMENT OF BURIED PIPELINES NEAR HVTLS: A CASE STUDY OF SOUTH AFRICA","authors":"K. Adedeji, A. Ponnle, B. Abe, A. Jimoh, A. Abu-Mahfouz, Y. Hamam","doi":"10.2528/PIERB18040503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2528/PIERB18040503","url":null,"abstract":"Metallic pipelines have attendant problems of alternating current (AC) assisted corrosion when installed in the utility corridor with high voltage transmission lines. Research studies in the past and recent years have shown that this corrosion is a primary function of the AC density through the pipe coating defect. While several other AC corrosion risk assessment indices have been proposed, the AC density is regarded as a valuable parameter in assessing pipeline corrosion risk due to AC interference. Also, there exists a threshold value which, if exceeded, guarantees the possibility of pipeline corrosion damage. However, for buried pipelines, monitoring these AC corrosion assessment indices is a major challenge. Therefore, to avoid severe corrosion damage to such pipelines, a corrosion assessment for evaluating the corrosion risk of the pipelines due to AC interference is presented in this paper. The assessment was demonstrated on a buried pipeline in one of the Rand Water sites, South Africa where AC interference is frequent. The overall simulation results yield useful information which may be essential for pipeline operators, most especially Rand Water, South Africa and corrosion engineers for AC corrosion assessment of metallic pipelines installed near transmission lines. The analysis presented in this paper may also be used for the evaluation of a safe position for installing new pipelines near existing power lines right-of-way.","PeriodicalId":20829,"journal":{"name":"Progress In Electromagnetics Research B","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2528/PIERB18040503","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44135028","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}