{"title":"Using the unrelated illumination method in the reconstruction of three dimensional dielectric bodies","authors":"I. El-Babli, A. Sebak","doi":"10.1109/ANTEM.2000.7851662","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTEM.2000.7851662","url":null,"abstract":"In the last decade several numerical techniques have been developed for solving the inverse electromagnetic scattering problems and microwave imaging of inhomogeneous dielectric bodies. In particular two approaches have been utilized. The first is the microwave diffraction tomography [1]. This approach is based on the generalization of the classical x-ray computed tomography by taking into consideration the diffraction effects. This method can only handle low contrast dielectric bodies. The second approach aims to solve the exact equation of the electromagnetic inverse scattering problem by numerical methods such as the method of moments (MoM) [2]. In the MoM, the problem solution is reduced to the solution of linear system of algebraic equations. Unfortunately the scattering matrix that governs the external scattered field induced by an internal equivalent current is highly ill-conditioned. Thus any attempt to compute its inverse makes the system ill-posed especially in the presence of noise. Several regularization techniques have been used [3], [4] aiming to reduce the effect of the ill-conditioning. These employ priori information either to select a suitable regularization parameter or to enforce convergence in iterative techniques. Moreover, most of these techniques require the presence of a few number of scatterers and employ multiview illumination and some are only applicable to two-dimensional problems.","PeriodicalId":416991,"journal":{"name":"Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics [ANTEM 2000]","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133773428","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":"Physical modeling of linear systems of equations","authors":"I. Ciric","doi":"10.1109/ANTEM.2000.7851657","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTEM.2000.7851657","url":null,"abstract":"General symmetric systems of linear algebraic equations are modeled by using linear electric circuits in the form of complete polygons. The modeling procedure is based on the node-voltage method of circuit analysis under steady-state conditions. An approximate solution of a given system of equations is obtained by measuring voltages at its model circuit nodes.","PeriodicalId":416991,"journal":{"name":"Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics [ANTEM 2000]","volume":"42 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123598864","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 monolithic low noise amplifier antenna","authors":"L. Roy, Patrick DiFazio, N. Gagnon","doi":"10.1109/ANTEM.2000.7851712","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTEM.2000.7851712","url":null,"abstract":"A novel low noise amplifier design of the CPW fed patch antenna has been demonstrated at 3.5 GHz. The antenna's geometry has been exploited so as to avoid matching networks between device and radiator, thereby producing a compact, high gain, low noise receiver front end.","PeriodicalId":416991,"journal":{"name":"Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics [ANTEM 2000]","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122399101","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 X-band microstrip VCO with 900MHz tuning range","authors":"M. K. Ozdemir, Te-Hsin Huang, E. Arvas","doi":"10.1109/ANTEM.2000.7851701","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTEM.2000.7851701","url":null,"abstract":"A low phase-noise, microwave voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) is built to operate between 7.8GHz and 8.7GHz. The circuit is built on Roger RO6002 with a thickness of 20 mils, and a dielectric constant of 2.94. The loss tangent of the substrate is 0.0009. The active element used is a dual emitter Infineon (former Siemens) BFP420 low noise bipolar transistor. It is in a SOT-343 package and used in a common collector configuration. The oscillator circuit contains both coarse and fine tune controls. An active bias circuit is used to power the oscillator. The output is loosely coupled, resulting in better phase noise. Two varactors used in the coarse tune circuit are connected back-to-back to improve the noise performance. As the coarse tune voltage is changed from −1.0Vdc to −19.0Vdc, the frequency of oscillation changes from 7.8GHz to 8.7GHz. For a fixed coarse tune voltage, when the fine tune voltage is changed from 6.5V dc to 13.5V dc, the oscillation frequency varies by about 5MHz per volt. The circuit was designed using the small signal scattering parameters (s-parameters) of the transistor provided by the manufacturer. The circuit prototype, including the impedance matching sections, was simulated using Serenade, Ansoft Ensemble, and other simulators.","PeriodicalId":416991,"journal":{"name":"Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics [ANTEM 2000]","volume":"650 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115830982","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":"Microwave stimulation of active points and its effect on electrical activity of brain fields","authors":"T. Sulima, O. Sulima","doi":"10.1109/ANTEM.2000.7851727","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTEM.2000.7851727","url":null,"abstract":"Summing the obtained results, it can be stated that low intense microwave impact on active points results in continuous decrease of individual pain sensitivity. This is also proved by changes in brain systems of sensor control and visceral regulation. Observed changes of neurodynamics indicate development of inhibition in non-specific thalamocortical system that integrates individual perception of applied irritant. This corresponds to decrease of tonic influence of reticular formation on neocortex that is probably due to activation of endogenous neuropeptids localized in PG. Generalized increase of hypothalamus influence on neocortex fields provides a possibility to consider applied impact as a trigger factor in development of reaction of adaptation.","PeriodicalId":416991,"journal":{"name":"Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics [ANTEM 2000]","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124320282","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":"Diversity: An efficient means for reducing error rates in building-scattered LMCS data transmissions at rates of hundreds of megabits per second","authors":"J. LeBel","doi":"10.1109/ANTEM.2000.7851688","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTEM.2000.7851688","url":null,"abstract":"Scattering from periodic structures on the wall of a building is simulated for application to Local Multipoint Communication Systems (LMCS) operating at 29.5 GHz. It is shown that receive antenna diversity can be used to significantly reduce error rates by reducing the number of defective subchannels in a multicarrier modulation scheme operating at hundreds of megabits per second.","PeriodicalId":416991,"journal":{"name":"Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics [ANTEM 2000]","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114549377","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}
A. Elsherbeni, A. Glisson, C. Riley, Charles E. Smith
{"title":"Tools for electromagnetic modeling and visualization using the FDTD technique","authors":"A. Elsherbeni, A. Glisson, C. Riley, Charles E. Smith","doi":"10.1109/ANTEM.2000.7851669","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTEM.2000.7851669","url":null,"abstract":"Because of the invisible nature of electromagnetic waves, the tasks of analyzing, modeling, and designing of antennas and microwave devices are less manageable than the design of other types of electronic circuits or devices. Efforts have been focused on building tools for visualizing electromagnetic waves emerging from canonical and simple structures. With lesser success, there are a few modeling tools available for a true analysis of practical EM designs. However, the majority of such available tools are basically commercial in nature and are cost prohibitive to the researchers in the academic environment. This paper provides an overview of several graphical user interfaces (GUIs) developed for electromagnetic computational tools for the finite difference time domain (FDTD) technique. These user interfaces overcome the major difficulties that slow down the EM analysis process. The main tasks of these GUIs are to simplify the process of describing a composite structure to the computational engine, to provide real-time visualization of the generated fields and other related parameters, and to allow for post processing of the computed field values. Tools for 1D, 2D FDTD, and 3D FDTD interface, are presented.","PeriodicalId":416991,"journal":{"name":"Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics [ANTEM 2000]","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132730814","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 low-noise MMIC amplifier as a microwave-to-optics link","authors":"E. Zencir, E. Arvas, R. Michalak","doi":"10.1109/ANTEM.2000.7851749","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTEM.2000.7851749","url":null,"abstract":"A low-noise MMIC distributed amplifier was designed to operate as a microwave-to-optics link in certain radar applications. It was designed to have a small signal gain of 12 dB in the frequency band of 3.1 to 3.5 GHz. In addition to the flat gain requirement, good input and output return losses with a noise figure less than 5 dB were to be realized. The amplifier has 50 Ω input and output impedances. Test measurements on the first built prototype show that amplifier has an average small signal gain of 6.2 dB in the band under the bias conditions Vds=3.5 V, and Vgs=0.56 V. Input return loss is −5.47 dB, output return loss is −9.49 dB and the average isolation is −29.51 dB. Noise figure of the amplifier changes between 5.48 and 6.46 dB in the band. A gain ripple of ±0.50 dB is obtained.","PeriodicalId":416991,"journal":{"name":"Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics [ANTEM 2000]","volume":"181 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133587636","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":"Mutual coupling factor of rectangular loops in rectangular coaxial cavities","authors":"A. Borji, S. Safavi-Naeini, S. Chaudhuri","doi":"10.1109/ANTEM.2000.7851648","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTEM.2000.7851648","url":null,"abstract":"High performance microwave cavity filters are finding increasing applications in satellite and mobile communication systems. Today band-pass coaxial cavity filters with rectangular enclosures are commonly used in wireless base-stations because of small size and their unique characteristics including low cost, wide tuning range and excellent spurious-free performance. Rigorous electromagnetic analysis of these filters and modeling different coupling structures involved are quite time and memory consuming. Accurate but simplified parametric models for the resonators and coupling structures provide an efficient tool for preliminary design and optimization of the filters [1].","PeriodicalId":416991,"journal":{"name":"Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics [ANTEM 2000]","volume":"1986 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125473090","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":"Scan range enhancement using WAIM sheets for infinite planar waveguide phased array antennas","authors":"Satish K. Sharma, A. Sebak, L. Shafai","doi":"10.1109/ANTEM.2000.7851717","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTEM.2000.7851717","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, the full scan range results for different single layers of WAIM sheets have been investigated. The results have shown the advantages and disadvantages of WAIM sheets w.r.t without WAIM sheet In addition, the studies were devoted to improve the scan range using printed strips and square prints on top of the WAIM sheet, and, pins & strips at the aperture of the waveguide. They provided good options for WAIM matching with the variation of different conducting pins and strips.","PeriodicalId":416991,"journal":{"name":"Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics [ANTEM 2000]","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121941951","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}