{"title":"3D Printed Compact Bi-static Measurement Platform for Ka/Ku Band Applications","authors":"Nohgyeom Ha, Gyoungdeuk Kim, Sangkil Kim","doi":"10.1109/USNC-URSI52151.2023.10237541","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/USNC-URSI52151.2023.10237541","url":null,"abstract":"This work presents design and fabrication of a compact 3D-printed bi-static measurement setup for mmWave applications. Two critical factors contributing to the bi-static measurement error were discussed: (1) mutual coupling and (2) scattering effect. A conventional horn antenna with a customized 3D-printed GRIN lens was proposed to address those critical issues. The horn antenna with 3D-printed GRIN lens features narrow 3-dB beam width to minimize the scattering effect. The proposed compact 3D-printed bi-static measurement setup shows robust measurement data with low noise.","PeriodicalId":383636,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (USNC-URSI)","volume":"289 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133068725","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":"An Ultra-Wideband Compact Planar Antenna for Wearable Microwave Medical Imaging Applications","authors":"Zheng Gong, Caiyi Liao, Hui Zhang, Yahui Ding, Yifan Chen","doi":"10.1109/USNC-URSI52151.2023.10237691","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/USNC-URSI52151.2023.10237691","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a novel low-profile ultra-wideband antenna for wearable microwave medical imaging (MMI) applications. The proposed antenna has a monopole structure with two triangles and a few parallel slots cut at the bottom corners and top edge of the radiation patch, respectively, to achieve an optimized ultra-wide bandwidth and a smaller antenna size. The simulated and measured results show that the antenna prototype can realize a bandwidth of 93% from 0.9–3.0 GHz with a realized gain of 3.32 dBi. Furthermore, in order to verify the performance, we investigate the feasibility of classifying brain strokes between an intracranial haemorrhage stroke and an ischemic stroke with this antenna. The S parameter of the antenna varies significantly with the stroke types introduced (i.e., different dielectric constants), which demonstrates the applicability of the antenna for such use scenarios in MMI.","PeriodicalId":383636,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (USNC-URSI)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133502283","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":"Copyright","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/usnc-ursi52151.2023.10237391","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/usnc-ursi52151.2023.10237391","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":383636,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (USNC-URSI)","volume":"25 11","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132089910","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":"Millimeter-Wave Magneto-Electric Dipole Isolation Enhancement using Superstrate-Based Decoupler","authors":"O. Sokunbi, Kishk Ahmed","doi":"10.1109/USNC-URSI52151.2023.10238283","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/USNC-URSI52151.2023.10238283","url":null,"abstract":"This work presents a superstrate-based decoupler to increase the isolation between two closely spaced Magneto-Electric (ME) dipoles in the 52–64 GHz millimeter wave (MMW) frequency band. The decoupler consists of a single row of 15 vias, and a copper plate carefully inserted into a high-permittivity superstrate between the two-element MIMO antenna. The vias help to mitigate the surface coupled waves in the antenna substrate, while the copper plate and the high-permittivity superstrate help to alter the space permittivity, disturb the space coupling, and increase the isolation. This combination improved the proposed antenna's isolation by a maximum of 31 dB over the 52–64 GHz bandwidth (14.3%) in the H-Plane, with a very close edge-to-edge spacing of 0.62 mm (0.12λ), where λ is the free-space wavelength at the center frequency of 60 GHz. Additionally, the superstrate-based decoupler structure improved the antenna's bandwidth (52–70 GHz), without distorting the radiation pattern.","PeriodicalId":383636,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (USNC-URSI)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115208831","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 Novel Cross-Interspersed Design of Multiband Antennas for Base Station Applications","authors":"M. Farasat, D. Thalakotuna, Y. Yang, Z. Hu","doi":"10.1109/USNC-URSI52151.2023.10237428","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/USNC-URSI52151.2023.10237428","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a dual-band dual-polarized antenna for 5G base station application. The proposed antenna avoids using the conventional interspersed technique, which causes cross-band scattering. It consists of a novel cross-interspersed configuration, and the working frequency covers low-band (LB) 690-990MHz and high-band (HB) 1810–2690 MHz bands. For demonstration, the proposed design is fabricated and measured. The dual-band prototype features stable radiation patterns with HPBW $65pm 5^circ$ and wideband matching >10dB in the entire frequency bands of interest. Moreover, the experimental results verified that the port-to-port isolation is better than 36 dB in the operating band.","PeriodicalId":383636,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (USNC-URSI)","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115236759","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 UWB Millimeter-Wave Dual-polarized Large-Scanning Array Antenna for Mobile Handset","authors":"Jian Yang, Hasan Raza, T. Emanuelsson","doi":"10.1109/USNC-URSI52151.2023.10237994","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/USNC-URSI52151.2023.10237994","url":null,"abstract":"A multilayered PCB dual-polarized phase array antenna covering the frequency range of 24 - 40 GHz is presented in this paper. The antenna is aimed to be used for mobile handsets with large beam scanning capability with simple geometry and low-cost manufacturing in 5G wireless communication systems.","PeriodicalId":383636,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (USNC-URSI)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115347680","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":"Dual Band Dual Polarization Phased Array Employing a Magnetic Material","authors":"Frank Li, John Sanford","doi":"10.1109/USNC-URSI52151.2023.10237979","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/USNC-URSI52151.2023.10237979","url":null,"abstract":"This paper will present the designs and performance of a phased array antenna using magnetic material. Array design and synthesis will be presented, as well as the simulated performance of the phased array.","PeriodicalId":383636,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (USNC-URSI)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115356830","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":"Electro-Mechanically Tunable Low-Loss mm-Wave LP to LHCP or RHCP Conversion Metasurface","authors":"E. Vassos, Alexandros Feresidis","doi":"10.1109/USNC-URSI52151.2023.10237855","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/USNC-URSI52151.2023.10237855","url":null,"abstract":"The design of a novel electro-mechanically tunable reflection polarization conversion metasurface at millimetre-wave frequencies is presented. Tunability is achieved via a variable air cavity between an anisotropic impedance surface and a ground plane. The air cavity height variation provides a polarization conversion from linear polarization to right-handed circular polarization or left-handed circular polarization. Simulations have been carried out using CST Microwave Studio to evaluate the proposed metasurface's reflection characteristics and tunability. Simulations demonstrate a controllable transition between the two circular polarization states at 76 GHz with extremely low reflection losses.","PeriodicalId":383636,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (USNC-URSI)","volume":"188 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115713968","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":"Time-Domain Boundary Element Method Incorporating Strongly Nonlinear Conductivity for Application in the Modeling of 2D Devices","authors":"Jay Prakash, Mark T. Greenaway, Kristof Cools","doi":"10.1109/USNC-URSI52151.2023.10237388","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/USNC-URSI52151.2023.10237388","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, a time-domain surface integral equation with a strongly nonlinear Resistive Boundary Condition is formulated and approximately solved using the march on in time scheme. The discretization of the nonlinear relation between the surface current density and the electric field is approximated such that the final system of equations to be solved are linear. It is applied to solve scattering of a Gaussian plane wave by a sphere possessing a strongly nonlinear conductivity relation. This solver is developed to specifically model the effects due to the region of negative differential conductivity in the conductivity relation, which is expected in graphene superlattice structures. Numerical results demonstrate the stability and convergence of the method and the ability to enforce the constitutive relation within controllable error bounds.","PeriodicalId":383636,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (USNC-URSI)","volume":"197 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115716665","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":"Enhancement of Direction-of-Arrival Estimation Accuracy with Using Antenna Arrays Composed of Diverse Elements","authors":"Ruyu Ma, Xiuyin Zhang","doi":"10.1109/USNC-URSI52151.2023.10237439","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/USNC-URSI52151.2023.10237439","url":null,"abstract":"An antenna array composed of diverse elements that can improve direction-of-arrival (DoA) estimation accuracy is presented in this paper. As many surveillance and radio-frequency positioning systems relay on measuring DoAs, improving the DoA accuracy is of great importance. However, due to the limited array dimension, the DoA accuracy of the arrays composed of identical elements is fundamentally difficult to improve. Besides, given the limited number of elements, arbitrarily increasing the array dimension can cause ambiguity. To alleviate these issues, we employ antennas with diverse shapes of radiation patterns to improve the DoA estimation accuracy. We compared the DoA estimation accuracy of a uniform linear array of three rectangular patch antennas and that of the same array of two rectangular patch antennas and one low-profile antenna with a monopole-like radiation pattern. Theoretical and Monte Carlo simulation results demonstrate that the DoA estimation error of the array composed of diverse antennas can reduce by up to 30% over a wide field of view.","PeriodicalId":383636,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (USNC-URSI)","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124187901","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}