T. Bjorninen, J. Virkki, L. Sydanheimo, L. Ukkonen
{"title":"Manufacturing of antennas for passive UHF RFID tags by direct write dispensing of copper and silver inks on textiles","authors":"T. Bjorninen, J. Virkki, L. Sydanheimo, L. Ukkonen","doi":"10.1109/ICEAA.2015.7297183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEAA.2015.7297183","url":null,"abstract":"We report for the first time the deposition antennas on textiles using the direct write dispensing of a copper ink. We outline the steps of the dispensing process and share our insight on how to control it on the rough and porous textile surface. The well-known heat sintering is not applicable on copper inks. Below we outline the process of intense pulsed light sintering to form copper based electro-textile. Using the manufactured electro-textile antenna we have assembled a fully functional radio-frequency identification tag. We compare its performance with other tags based on electro-textile antennas manufactured with several other methods and materials.","PeriodicalId":277112,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129002782","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 vectorial mode solver for design and optimization of magneto-optic devices","authors":"P. Pintus, D. Huang, S. Srinivasan, J. Bowers","doi":"10.1109/ICEAA.2015.7297170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEAA.2015.7297170","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, we present a curl-curl formulation for computing the electromagnetic modes that propagate in a waveguide, fully or partially made with magneto-optic material. Such medium is characterized by a nonreciprocal permittivity tensor, which is responsible for a different propagation constant for the forward and backward traveling modes. By exploiting this property, an optical integrated isolator can be effectively designed and optimized. Finally, a detailed analysis based on the proposed finite element mode solver is performed to investigate the fabrication tolerance of the nonreciprocal waveguide.","PeriodicalId":277112,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122467086","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 numerical method for the estimation of relative permittivity of dielectric materials","authors":"A. N. Nguyen, H. Shirai","doi":"10.1109/ICEAA.2015.7297087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEAA.2015.7297087","url":null,"abstract":"A broadband approach to estimate relative permittivity of dielectric cuboids has been proposed. Our method involves a numerical iterative scheme with appropriate initial values to solve for the permittivity in a wide range of frequency. Good agreement between the method and references has been observed. It is assumed that the material has a weak frequency dispersive characteristic. An applicable range relation between the smallest thickness, the dielectric property of material has also been discussed.","PeriodicalId":277112,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA)","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122533482","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":"Passive UHF RFID tilt sensor","authors":"M. A. Ziai, J. Batchelor","doi":"10.1109/ICEAA.2015.7297090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEAA.2015.7297090","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we introduce a bio-axis passive wireless UHF RFID tilt sensor for applications such as to increase safety in warehouse environment and damage detection in consumer goods and where long term monitoring of the product is essential without the need to supply power to the sensors. Simulation and prototype testing indicate it is possible to detect and isolate tilting in 3 axes.","PeriodicalId":277112,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA)","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128931365","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}
D. Melazzi, P. de Carlo, M. Manente, V. Lancellotti, D. Pavarin
{"title":"Numerical results on the performance of gaseous plasma antennas","authors":"D. Melazzi, P. de Carlo, M. Manente, V. Lancellotti, D. Pavarin","doi":"10.1109/ICEAA.2015.7297180","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEAA.2015.7297180","url":null,"abstract":"A plasma antenna is a radiating device partially composed of plasma instead of metals or dielectrics, and as a result, it exhibits reconfigurable properties unlike conventional metallic antennas. By tuning the plasma discharge parameters, e.g., the plasma density, the antenna properties can be changed dynamically. In this work we report on recent numerical investigations into the characteristics of plasma antennas as a function of the plasma discharge parameters. We have used ADAMANT (Advanced coDe for Anisotropic Media and ANTennas) - a full-wave numerical tool based on integral equations - to assess the role played by plasma discharge parameters in shaping the gain function, and the antenna input impedance.","PeriodicalId":277112,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114308763","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. Vélez, M. Valero, L. Su, J. Naqui, J. Mata-Contreras, J. Bonache, F. Martín
{"title":"Differential microstrip lines with wideband common-mode rejection based on chirped-EBGs","authors":"P. Vélez, M. Valero, L. Su, J. Naqui, J. Mata-Contreras, J. Bonache, F. Martín","doi":"10.1109/ICEAA.2015.7297234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEAA.2015.7297234","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents differential microstrip lines with a wide rejection band for the common-mode, achieved by means of chirped-EBGs. The idea is to apply a sinusoidal chirped modulation of the even (common-mode) characteristic impedance, keeping the odd (differential-mode) characteristic impedance invariant and equal to the reference impedance of the ports (Z0). Thus, the even-mode characteristic impedance is modulated along the length of the differential microstrip line. This concept was applied successfully to the design of dispersive delay lines (DDL) in microstrip technology. The main contribution of this work is to apply this chirping-EBG concept for the suppression of the common-mode in differential lines. The authors have validated this concept by designing a differential microstrip line with a 5 GHz wide common-mode rejection band centred at 5 GHz.","PeriodicalId":277112,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA)","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114161059","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":"Exact electromagnetic scattering of an E-polarized plane wave by a double trihedral reflector with a semi-infinite slot","authors":"P. Uslenghi","doi":"10.1109/ICEAA.2015.7297065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEAA.2015.7297065","url":null,"abstract":"A dihedral metallic corner reflector is bisected into two octants by a metal plane perpendicular to the edge of the reflector and touching one of the reflector sides while having a gap with the other side. The scattered field due to a plane wave incident in one of the octants is determined exactly, in the phasor domain.","PeriodicalId":277112,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125254061","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}
V. H. Bui, P. Pirinoli, M. Beccaria, M. Orefice, Fan Yang
{"title":"Reflectarray Antennas printed on convex surfaces","authors":"V. H. Bui, P. Pirinoli, M. Beccaria, M. Orefice, Fan Yang","doi":"10.1109/ICEAA.2015.7297404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEAA.2015.7297404","url":null,"abstract":"The characteristics of Reflectarray Antennas printed on convex curved surfaces are discussed in this paper. In particular, results will be presented on the radiation performances of Reflectarrays designed to fit cylinders with different radii of curvature, and with different types of radiating elements.","PeriodicalId":277112,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA)","volume":"175 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124303879","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":"Magneto-impedance and ferro-magnetic resonance effects in thin amorphous wires and their application in functional composites materials at microwaves","authors":"M. Ipatov, V. Zhukova, Julian Gonzalez, A. Zhukov","doi":"10.1109/ICEAA.2015.7297295","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEAA.2015.7297295","url":null,"abstract":"The effect of the external magnetic field on microwave response from composites containing CoFeSiBCr amorphous wires has been demonstrated by measuring S-parameters in free space in the frequency band of 0.9-17 GHz. Two types of composites made of lattices of continuous and short -cut wires are considered to employ different types of spectra of the dielectric function (plasmonic and resonant). In both cases, the application of the field increases the dielectric losses owing to increase in the wire impedance. The observed changes in the reflection/transmission spectra are more than 10% in a certain lower frequency range. The results are analyzed in terms of the effective permittivity.","PeriodicalId":277112,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124330169","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}
V. Pham-Xuan, Dung Trinh-Xuan, M. Condon, C. Brennan
{"title":"Fast iterative method for computing electromagnetic scattering from randomly rough surfaces","authors":"V. Pham-Xuan, Dung Trinh-Xuan, M. Condon, C. Brennan","doi":"10.1109/ICEAA.2015.7297333","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEAA.2015.7297333","url":null,"abstract":"A new iterative technique is proposed for the computation of electromagnetic scattering from randomly rough lossy surfaces. The proposed method is an extension of the improved forward backward method (IFBM), introduced by Brennan et al. The improvement step of the IFBM is modified for the use of multiple correction vectors instead of a single correction vector in the original technique. Spectral acceleration (SA) is applied in combination with a matrix splitting technique for a reduction of computational complexity from O(N2) to O(N). Numerical experiments are presented to compare to those techniques proposed in recent studies to demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed method. The modified improvement step significantly enhances the convergence rate of the forward backward method with negligible increases in storage requirements and computational complexity.","PeriodicalId":277112,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA)","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122684711","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}