{"title":"IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation Instructions for authors","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/OJAP.2025.3526041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OJAP.2025.3526041","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34267,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation","volume":"6 1","pages":"C3-C3"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10857666","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143106984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation List of Reviewers, Volume 5","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/OJAP.2025.3527823","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OJAP.2025.3527823","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34267,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation","volume":"6 1","pages":"344-346"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10857600","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143106980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editorial Status Update of OJAP","authors":"Zhongxiang Shen","doi":"10.1109/OJAP.2025.3529305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OJAP.2025.3529305","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34267,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation","volume":"6 1","pages":"4-5"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10857671","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143107122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Point Cloud-Based Diffraction Path Extraction for Dynamic Human Body Shadowing Channel at 300 GHz","authors":"Chechia Kang;Xin Du;Jun-Ichi Takada","doi":"10.1109/OJAP.2025.3534860","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OJAP.2025.3534860","url":null,"abstract":"The broad bandwidth availability of the sub-Terahertz band enables the next generation of mobile communication systems. Since the high-gain antennas are used to compensate for the severe propagation loss, the communication link depends on the line-of-sight (LoS) channel and suffers from a deep fading when the LoS is shadowed by small objects. This paper proposes a method that estimates the diffraction paths from a complex human body as the ones from the cross-section of the human body. The extracted diffraction paths are used for the uniform theory of diffraction (UTD) simulation. The proposal was evaluated by an indoor measurement (3.3 m) of the human body shadowing channel and a simulation based on the modified edge representation and equivalent edge currents (MER-EECs) method. The proposal was found four times more accurate than the conventional point cloud (PC)-based vertical screen model and available for predicting the Doppler frequencies with complex human motions.","PeriodicalId":34267,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation","volume":"6 2","pages":"535-547"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10855529","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143698249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Improved Deep Learning-Based Microwave Inversion With Experimental Training Data","authors":"Seth Cathers;Ben Martin;Noah Stieler;Ian Jeffrey;Colin Gilmore","doi":"10.1109/OJAP.2025.3533373","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OJAP.2025.3533373","url":null,"abstract":"Deep learning-based inversion methods show great promise. The most common way to develop deep learning inversion techniques is to use synthetic (i.e., computationally-generated) data for training and initial testing. Later, the method can be used to image calibrated experimental data. However, it may be better to use experimental data in the training (not just testing) of these networks. In this paper, we (1) present a publicly available large-scale experimental dataset with 1638 measurements of 5 targets in a near-field imaging system that can be used for testing such deep learning inversion methods. A calibration MATLAB script is provided to assist users in processing and calibrating the dataset. (2) Using this dataset, we show that training a data-to-image deep learning-based inversion algorithm on either experimental data alone, or a mixture of experimental and synthetic data, leads to improved experimental imaging results for this data. The deep learning-based approaches are also compared against the gradient descent-based Multiplicative-Regularized Contrast Source Inversion Method.","PeriodicalId":34267,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation","volume":"6 2","pages":"522-534"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10851335","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143698167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Design of Orthomode Transducer Loaded With Polarization Grid","authors":"Yuying Li;Zhaoran Chen;Kaiyan Huang;Xiayuan Yao","doi":"10.1109/OJAP.2025.3532855","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OJAP.2025.3532855","url":null,"abstract":"The Orthomode Transducer (OMT) is a widely used device in satellite communication systems, and the T-junction OMT is always a candidate for volume saving. In this study, a design of an OMT loaded with a polarization grid is proposed, based on the traditional T-junction OMT structure. Additionally, a conical horn is integrated into the presented OMT. The entire system was subjected to simulation, fabrication, and measurement. In 29.8–32.2 GHz, both the simulated and tested Voltage Standing Wave Ratio (VSWR) values for the two orthogonal ports remain below 1.2, with a measured isolation of 60–75 dB. At 31 GHz, there is a good agreement between the simulated and measured far-field patterns for the main polarization, with cross polarization levels measured at less than −15 dB. These results from both simulation and measurement validate the effectiveness of the design approach, which not only improves the isolation levels compared to the traditional T-junction OMT but also simplified the OMT’s matching design.","PeriodicalId":34267,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation","volume":"6 2","pages":"513-521"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10849665","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143698247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Christos Exadaktylos;Anastasios G. Koutinos;Constantinos L. Zekios;Stavros V. Georgakopoulos
{"title":"A Design Method to Increase the Bandwidth of Reflectarray Antennas","authors":"Christos Exadaktylos;Anastasios G. Koutinos;Constantinos L. Zekios;Stavros V. Georgakopoulos","doi":"10.1109/OJAP.2025.3530251","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OJAP.2025.3530251","url":null,"abstract":"This work introduces a novel design methodology to redesign traditional reflectarray antennas (RAs) with bandwidths in the order of 15% and double their bandwidth without increasing their design complexity. A wideband RA unit cell (UC) is designed utilizing multiple connection points between the radiating and phase shifting structure. Notably, to properly set the desired phase shift at each UC of the RA aperture across the entire frequency band, true-time-delay (TTD) lines are connected to each element. To validate the performance of our proposed approach a traditional microstrip patch-based RA is used as an example. By applying our proposed method to this RA, we develop a design that achieves a fractional 1.5 dB gain bandwidth of 31% (8.6 GHz to 11.8 GHz) in the X-band, which is more than two times larger than the 14% fractional bandwidth of the traditional RA design. Our RA is prototyped to validate its performance. The measurements show excellent agreement with simulations thereby validating our proposed methodology.","PeriodicalId":34267,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation","volume":"6 2","pages":"497-512"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10843377","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143698170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"6G RIS in Indoor Environments: Assessment of Exposure Variability in Human Users and Non-Users","authors":"Silvia Gallucci;Martina Benini;Serena Fiocchi;Gabriella Tognola;Marta Parazzini","doi":"10.1109/OJAP.2025.3529980","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OJAP.2025.3529980","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of the present work is to assess the exposure of human users and non-users in indoor scenarios due to novel technology that will be integrated in 6G network in order to overcome the obstacles in NLOS area: Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS), here tuned in FR1-band. The exposure assessment was conducted in two simplified indoor scenarios, single room and office, where the transmission angle of the RIS were varied mimicking the RIS following the user, and the Specific Absorption Rate (whole-body and brain SAR) were calculated. Five human models from Virtual Population (ViP) were considered differing between each other for anatomical characteristics. <inline-formula> <tex-math>${mathrm { SAR}}_{mathrm { wb}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula> <tex-math>${mathrm { SAR}}_{mathrm { brain}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> results, studied in terms of peak values, cumulative distribution functions (CDFs) and spatial maps, showed higher <inline-formula> <tex-math>${mathrm { SAR}}_{mathrm { wb}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> values in adults compared to children, while <inline-formula> <tex-math>${mathrm { SAR}}_{mathrm { brain}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> peaks were more pronounced in child models. The study also revealed that there are few cases in which the exposure of non-user could be higher than the user. Moreover, the CDFs demonstrated that, for all the considered models, the probability that very low <inline-formula> <tex-math>${mathrm { SAR}}_{mathrm { brain}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula> <tex-math>${mathrm { SAR}}_{mathrm { wb}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> levels occur is noticeably high. However, in general all the results are well below the ICNIRP Guidelines limits.","PeriodicalId":34267,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation","volume":"6 2","pages":"487-496"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10843402","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143698271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beam Shaping by Phase-Only Waveform Encoding for Transmitting Array Antennas in Radar Applications","authors":"Lior Maman;Shlomo Zach;Amir Boag","doi":"10.1109/OJAP.2025.3529505","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OJAP.2025.3529505","url":null,"abstract":"Two beam broadening methods for active electronically scanned array (AESA) antennas with uniform amplitude excitation are proposed and compared: phase tapering optimization (PTO) and a novel time-varying phase tapering (TPT). The PTO is a simple and efficient approach assuming continuous polynomial phase distribution and requiring optimization of only few parameters. The TPT is valid mainly for radar applications, taking advantage of the fact that radars typically transmit pulse trains for coherent integration. By incorporating waveform encoding and varying the array elements’ phases from pulse to pulse, the TPT achieves effective amplitude tapering, enabling precise beam shaping and the realization of any amplitude aperture illumination using phase-only control, thus providing a method of beam shaping, occasionally with a simple analytic form. The TPT also makes it possible to produce beam shaping with very low side lobe levels in comparison to the PTO. As a preliminary step, the dimensionality of the radiation pattern characterization for all scan directions is reduced from five to only two variables. This is crucial for efficient optimization of the radiation pattern which needs to be evaluated over a judiciously specified two-dimensional domain.","PeriodicalId":34267,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation","volume":"6 2","pages":"478-486"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10841413","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143698257","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Digitally Controlled Beam-Steerable Printed Dipole Antenna","authors":"Rajesh Shukla;Sandeep Kumar Yadav;Soumava Mukherjee","doi":"10.1109/OJAP.2025.3529019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OJAP.2025.3529019","url":null,"abstract":"A digitally controlled beam steerable printed dipole antenna operating in ISM band has been proposed using PIN diodes switching mechanism. The proposed antenna provides effective solution of beam steering by establishing adequate coverage in elevation plane using a single dipole element. The beam steering of antenna has been digitally controlled by varying the effective length of one dipole arm by switching the PIN diodes integrated on it. For effective digitally controlled beam steering, the DC biasing voltage applied for switching PIN diodes is regulated by Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) signal generated from STM32F407VG microcontroller through RC filter. Biasing elements for antenna is intentionally placed on back side of substrate through via to minimize the effect on radiation pattern. Peak gain of proposed antenna is measured as 4.57 dB with cross polarisation below −20 dB and scan loss less than 0.8 dB. The proposed antenna is capable of steering beam up to 45 degrees in elevation plane having 120 MHz operational bandwidth. In order to establish wide range of applications, proposed antenna is designed and tested for 2.45 GHz ISM band. The proposed antenna operates with minimal design complexity, high portability, reduced manufacturing cost, easily integrated architecture, lower parasitic losses and less space constraints due to single dipole structure with microcontroller switched PIN diodes integrated on antenna itself.","PeriodicalId":34267,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation","volume":"6 2","pages":"460-467"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10839295","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143698304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}