{"title":"A Wideband Slotted D-Shaped Monopole MIMO Antenna With Triple Branch Neutralization Line","authors":"Payel Mondal, Debapratim Dhara, A. Harish","doi":"10.1109/INCAP.2018.8770733","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INCAP.2018.8770733","url":null,"abstract":"A novel compact wideband multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) antenna is presented in this paper. The MIMO antenna comprises of a wideband neutralization line connected in between two symmetric slotted D-shaped monopoles and a defected ground structure which is cut into the top of the ground plane. With the introduction of wideband neutralization line as a decoupling technique and defected ground plane as an impedance matching element at the input ports of both the antennas, the proposed MIMO antenna achieves −10dB impedance bandwidth of 50.42% (8.90-14.90 GHz) with isolation better than 20 dB.","PeriodicalId":286769,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Indian Conference on Antennas and Propogation (InCAP)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125274764","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.G. Sujanth Narayan, V. Velavikneshwaran, J. Baskaradas
{"title":"A Triband Microstrip Stacked Patch Antenna Design for GPS and IRNSS Applications","authors":"K.G. Sujanth Narayan, V. Velavikneshwaran, J. Baskaradas","doi":"10.1109/INCAP.2018.8770771","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INCAP.2018.8770771","url":null,"abstract":"A compact design of a Single feed tri-band patch antenna is proposed for L-Band and S-Band applications. Stacked patch antenna is used with aperture coupled feed andArlon_AD300N dielectric substrate having a relative permittivity of 3.0. The designed antenna is simulated using the Keysight ADS (Advanced Design System) software and obtained results showed that the antenna operates in L1 Band, L5 Band and S-Band making it suitable for GPS and IRNSS application.","PeriodicalId":286769,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Indian Conference on Antennas and Propogation (InCAP)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126127905","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 Substrate Integrated Coaxial Line based Broadband Dipole Antenna for Millimeter Wave Application","authors":"Naman Baghel, S. Mukherjee","doi":"10.1109/INCAP.2018.8770964","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INCAP.2018.8770964","url":null,"abstract":"A broadband dipole antenna fed by the Substrate Integrated Coaxial Line (SICL) to work in Local Multipoint Distributed System (LMDS) band is presented in this paper. The feeding network consist of SICL which holds the advantage of eliminating the complex network of balun and reflector in conventional microstrip based feeding designs of planar antennas. The proposed design utilises parasitic dipole in addition to the primary dipole antenna to enhance bandwidth. This antenna exhibits gain varying from 7.2dBi to 8dBi and 19% impedance bandwidth within the range of 25.7GHz to 31.2GHz. This antenna finds its application in LMDS (26GHz-29GHz) systems and millimetre wave applications.","PeriodicalId":286769,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Indian Conference on Antennas and Propogation (InCAP)","volume":"46 11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129779133","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}
Peram. Venkateswarlu, K. Vijayachandra, M. Satyanarayana
{"title":"Pattern Reconfigurable Rectangular Micro-Strip Antenna for Wireless C-Band Applications","authors":"Peram. Venkateswarlu, K. Vijayachandra, M. Satyanarayana","doi":"10.1109/INCAP.2018.8770950","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INCAP.2018.8770950","url":null,"abstract":"Compact pattern reconfigurable Micro strip antenna for cognitive radio application is present in this study. The designed antenna structure is a simple design and easy of construction. The proposed antenna is made pattern reconfigurable by changing the switching condition of PIN diode. The resonance frequency of the designed antenna operates at 6.9GHz. By enabling and disabling the diode switching conditions the antenna produce band notch frequency at 6.9GHz and also achieved pattern reconfiguration. In this proposed design parameters like gain, radiation pattern, return loss and VSWR are also presented. The designed antenna used for C-band cognitive radio applications. The simulations were carried out in the HFSS 16.","PeriodicalId":286769,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Indian Conference on Antennas and Propogation (InCAP)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121338361","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":"Compact Multi-Layer Circularly Polarized Hexagonal-Spiral Antenna for Wireless Applications","authors":"N. Rajasekhar, Reddy R. Ramana, N. Darimireddy","doi":"10.1109/INCAP.2018.8770926","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INCAP.2018.8770926","url":null,"abstract":"Circularly Polarized (CP), Compact Hexagonal-Spiral (HS) antenna is proposed for wireless communication applications. The proposed antenna is three layered coax-fed antenna, having an air gap between ground layer and hexagonal-spiral patch antenna layer. A rectangular stub is used to enhance the performance of the antenna in terms of S11 and CP radiation. The overall size of the proposed antenna is $0.483boldsymbol{lambda}mathbf{o}times 0.483 boldsymbol{lambda}mathbf{o}times 0.1boldsymbol{lambda}mathbf{o}$. The 10dB Return Loss (RL) bandwidth of the antenna is 1.5 GHz (5.5 GHz to 7 GHz) and 3dB Axial Ratio (AR) bandwidth is 500 MHz (5.55 GHz to 6.05 GHz) with a gain of 4.2 dBi. The minimum AR value obtained is 0.12dB at the CP resonance of 5.8 GHz and it is suitable for IEEE 802.16d Wi-MAX and C-band Satellite applications. The proposed antenna is fabricated and tested with Network Analyzer for S11.","PeriodicalId":286769,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Indian Conference on Antennas and Propogation (InCAP)","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122268126","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":"Genetic Algorithm Aided Synthesis of Low SLL Antenna Array Utilizing Position Optimization based on Zoning Technique","authors":"Pramod Kumar, A. Kedar, N. Vishwakarma","doi":"10.1109/INCAP.2018.8770850","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INCAP.2018.8770850","url":null,"abstract":"The present paper discuss an element placement strategy based on genetic algorithm (GA) technique to synthesize an isophoric uniformly placed element array with low sidelobe level (SLL). A zoning method is used in conjunction with GA for accelerating the convergence process. The effectiveness of the optimization methodology is highlighted with the aid of few studies in the paper.","PeriodicalId":286769,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Indian Conference on Antennas and Propogation (InCAP)","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116518219","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":"Parallelization and Performance Evaluation of Method of Moment (MoM) Dense Matrix Direct Solution on Cray XC40 -Supercomputer (SAHASRAT)","authors":"V. P. Padhy, Y. K. Negi, N. Balakrishnan","doi":"10.1109/INCAP.2018.8770791","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INCAP.2018.8770791","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of this paper is to evaluate and analyze the performance of a suite of in-house developed parallel Integral Equation solvers using Method of Moments on a massively parallel-processing supercomputer system Cray XC40 named as SAHASRAT. The developed solvers can be used to accurately analyze composite structures, Radar Cross Section computation and antenna parameters for electrically large radar targets. With this methodology, large problems that were impossible to solve on a single-processor platform can be solved in a reasonable time on shared and distributed memory machines consisting of several thousands of cores. The size of the problem that can be extended to be as large as the amount of main memory on the available platform. In order to fill and perform dense linear algebra computations on the matrix, Message Passing Interface (MPI) with the state-of the art numerical library ScaLAPACK is used.","PeriodicalId":286769,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Indian Conference on Antennas and Propogation (InCAP)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126736779","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":"Broadband Compact and Rugged Antenna Designs for Launcher Applications","authors":"P. Mishra, D. Jahagirdar, G. Kumar","doi":"10.1109/INCAP.2018.8770782","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INCAP.2018.8770782","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, three designs of broadband compact antennas are presented for their application inside metallic launchers. The first antenna is designed using quarter-wave patch with one edge shorted to ground. To reduce frequency of operation, two more antennas are designed using grooves and slits with increased effective electrical length. Second antenna is designed using curved grooves at edges towards length of antenna and third antenna is designed using slits on the surface of the antenna. The Antennas are fed using N-type connector. The three antennas have 21.6%, 11.9% and 6.85% bandwidth for VSWR $leq 2$ at the center frequency of 1.9, 1.42, and 1.24 GHz respectively. First antenna is fabricated with single block of stainless steel to survive under high shock, vibration and surface temperature of 1000 degree Celsius and its performance is measured.","PeriodicalId":286769,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Indian Conference on Antennas and Propogation (InCAP)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126420006","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 and Development of Ultra-broadband circularly polarized X-band 8×8 array with multi-level sequential phase rotation useful for payload of Micro and Nano-satellite links","authors":"D. Jahagirdar, K. Sambasiva Rao","doi":"10.1109/INCAP.2018.8770881","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INCAP.2018.8770881","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents Design and Development of an ultra-broad band, X-band 8×8 printed array for satellite payload application in micro and nano-satellites. The antenna is a single layer printed design with sequential rotation of phase at three levels in a corporate-feed structure. It is printed on a 62mil RT-Duriod substrate. Being single layer, the construction is simple, light weight. It is also rugged and withstands temperature, vibration and shocks. The antenna is particularly useful for high-speed satellite data-links almost in excess of 500Mbps. The antenna VSWR performance is good from 7 to 9.2 GHz, while axial ratio is less than 2 dB for the same. Desired gain only limits it utility to ±1 GHz.","PeriodicalId":286769,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Indian Conference on Antennas and Propogation (InCAP)","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121389440","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":"Beam Steering THz Antenna Array using Graphene-based Phase Shifter","authors":"A. K. Varshney, N. Pathak, D. Sircar","doi":"10.1109/INCAP.2018.8770849","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INCAP.2018.8770849","url":null,"abstract":"Beam-steering antennas are mainly used in radio communication systems. The low loss phase shifters are the important element for this array antenna system which used to control the direction of main-beam. This paper reports the design of a beam steering array antenna system at THz. First, a graphene-based switch and switched line phase shifter has been designed to operate at THz. Then a beam steering phase array antenna is designed. Simulated results for insertion losses, return losses and relative phase shift are presented for graphene based switch and switched line phase shifter and simulated results for radiation patterns are presented for beam steering antenna system.","PeriodicalId":286769,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Indian Conference on Antennas and Propogation (InCAP)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127439278","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}