Yixin Tong;Zhen-Guo Liu;Chuang Wang;Jiemin Jing;Chao Zhang;Wenquan Cao
{"title":"A Low-Profile Sub-6 GHz/Millimeter-Wave Shared-Aperture Antenna With Fully Planar Design for 5G Communication","authors":"Yixin Tong;Zhen-Guo Liu;Chuang Wang;Jiemin Jing;Chao Zhang;Wenquan Cao","doi":"10.1109/LAWP.2026.3710920","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LAWP.2026.3710920","url":null,"abstract":"In this letter, we propose a low-profile shared-aperture antenna with fully planar design. This design takes into account the reuse of different array surfaces and the reuse of different feed structures. By etching rectangular slots in the metallic ground of a receiver-transmitter structure, the low-band partially reflective surface and the high-band transmissive surface can be integrated into a single metasurface. Through this metasurface and a polarization conversion metasurface, the antenna hybridizes a Fabry–Perot cavity antenna (FPCA) at the sub-6 GHz band and a folded transmitarray (FTA) at the millimeter-wave (mmW) band. Furthermore, a planar dual-band feed structure is reused by incorporating slots into a microstrip patch and nesting a magneto-electric dipole. A dual-band shared-aperture antenna is designed, fabricated, and measured. Measured results demonstrate that the antenna achieves directional radiation performance in both bands under the condition of a cavity height of 0.51<italic>λ</i> <sub>L</sub>. The measured peak gains in the sub-6 GHz and mmW bands are 14.5 dBi and 23.2 dBi, respectively. The overall antenna structure requires only two metasurfaces, offering advantages such as fewer layers, low profile, and a fully planar design.","PeriodicalId":51059,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters","volume":"25 10","pages":"3843-3847"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149124552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Microwave Imaging Based on Scattered Field Diversity Using Randomly Switched Dipole Reflectarray","authors":"Nanaho Kawata;Qiang Chen","doi":"10.1109/LAWP.2026.3719703","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LAWP.2026.3719703","url":null,"abstract":"This letter presents a microwave imaging framework based on scattered field diversity using a reconfigurable randomly-switched dipole reflectarray (RSDR) and direct shape estimation using a neural network. The proposed RSDR generates diverse scattered field patterns even at a single frequency. With direct shape estimation that leverages scattered field diversity, the proposed framework enables robust shape estimation for high-contrast metallic targets. The method accurately estimated the target shapes, with mean normalized mean square error and structural similarity (SSIM) values of 0.0234 and 0.9601 in numerical simulations. These results demonstrate that the RSDR enables efficient shape estimation based on scattered field diversity.","PeriodicalId":51059,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters","volume":"25 10","pages":"3913-3917"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149125436","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Si-Yu Wu;Peng-Fei Gu;Zi He;Nan Yang;Kwok Wa Leung;Meng-Meng Li;Zhen-Hong Fan;Da-Zhi Ding
{"title":"Efficient Beamforming and Sidelobe Suppression for Polyhedral-Faceted Hemispherical Conformal Arrays With Carrier-Level Pattern Reuse","authors":"Si-Yu Wu;Peng-Fei Gu;Zi He;Nan Yang;Kwok Wa Leung;Meng-Meng Li;Zhen-Hong Fan;Da-Zhi Ding","doi":"10.1109/LAWP.2026.3722366","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LAWP.2026.3722366","url":null,"abstract":"Hemispherical circularly polarized conformal array antennas (HCPCAAs) enable half-space beam scanning, but conventional continuous surface designs suffer from high fabrication complexity. To address this issue, this letter proposes a modular polyhedral-faceted hemispherical conformal array (PFHCA), where the hemispherical surface is approximated by planar facets to improve manufacturability while preserving wide-angle scanning capability. An efficient beamforming method based on carrier-level pattern reuse is developed by exploiting the identical radiation characteristics of elements on the same carrier. The proposed method reduces the computational complexity from O(<italic>N</i> ) to O(<italic>M</i> ), where M ≪⃒ N, and achieves an 11-to-19-fold speedup. Furthermore, a flexible excitation scheme with a flexibility factor <italic>α</i> , combined with CMA-ES-based optimization, effectively suppresses sidelobe levels. A 2.45 GHz prototype is designed. Full-wave simulations agree well with numerical results, demonstrating that the proposed approach provides an efficient and accurate solution for large-scale conformal arrays.","PeriodicalId":51059,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters","volume":"25 10","pages":"3983-3987"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149125505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shuangshuang Zhu;Tianshuo Gao;Ziheng Ding;Jingfeng Chen;Xianling Liang;Ronghong Jin
{"title":"A Time-Modulated Dual-Mode Patch Antenna for Digitally Programmable Null Steering","authors":"Shuangshuang Zhu;Tianshuo Gao;Ziheng Ding;Jingfeng Chen;Xianling Liang;Ronghong Jin","doi":"10.1109/LAWP.2026.3721854","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LAWP.2026.3721854","url":null,"abstract":"A time-modulated dual-mode patch antenna for digitally programmable null steering is presented in this letter. Unlike conventional array-based solutions, the proposed design achieves null steering using a single antenna, eliminating the need for multielement calibration and reducing implementation sensitivity to associated errors. Two feed ports predominantly excite the TM<sub>10</sub>- and TM<sub>20</sub>-dominated modes, with an intrinsic field-phase contrast providing an approximately <italic>π</i> relative phase over one half-space, enabling a radiation null to be formed through amplitude-only mode combination. The required modal weighting is realized via time-division switching with the duty-cycle ratio directly determining the effective carrier-frequency amplitudes, eliminating the need for analog RF attenuators and facilitating a simple digital control scheme with predictable and high-resolution null steering. A 2.4 GHz prototype is fabricated and measured, with good agreement between simulation and measurement validating the proposed concept and demonstrating a compact and low-complexity solution.","PeriodicalId":51059,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters","volume":"25 10","pages":"3963-3967"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149125487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Wideband Circularly Polarized Filtering Antenna With High-Selectivity","authors":"Zhu Duan;Bin Wang;Li-Jie Xu;Wen Geyi","doi":"10.1109/LAWP.2026.3726526","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LAWP.2026.3726526","url":null,"abstract":"This letter presents the first integrated design of a crossed-dipole antenna with a magneto-electric dipole (MED) antenna to simultaneously achieve wideband circularly polarized (CP) radiation and high-selectivity filtering characteristics. Structurally, the antenna comprises a pair of crossed-dipoles, two vacant-quarter rings (VQRs), four parasitic patches, four surrounding split rings, and twelve shorting posts. Notably, the parasitic patches and the shorting posts jointly constitute two sets of MEDs, the inherent low-frequency radiation zero (LRZ) of which is strategically positioned slightly below the inconspicuous LRZ brought by the crossed-dipoles with the VQRs. In this way, dual closely spaced LRZs are generated, helping achieve both satisfactory out-of-band suppression (OBS) and improved frequency selectivity in the lower stopband. Meanwhile, C-shaped slots are etched into the parasitic patches to generate a high-frequency radiation zero (HRZ), with the surrounding C-shaped split rings introduced to create an even higher-frequency radiation zero, further improving the OBS. Furthermore, truncated/filleted corners on parasitic patches/crossed-dipoles are implemented, greatly improving the CP performance. The measured results demonstrate an impedance bandwidth (IBW) of 71.5% (2.83 GHz to 5.98 GHz) and a 3 dB axial ratio bandwidth (ARBW) of 39.6% (3.65 GHz to 5.45 GHz), with stable radiation patterns achieved across the passband.","PeriodicalId":51059,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters","volume":"25 10","pages":"4128-4132"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149124524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Angular-Domain Pattern Method for Spherical Near-Field Measurements","authors":"Songyang Zhang;Xiaobo Liu;Zhe Wu;Xiaoming Chen","doi":"10.1109/LAWP.2026.3727457","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LAWP.2026.3727457","url":null,"abstract":"This letter proposes an angular-domain pattern method for spherical near-field antenna measurements. The radiated field is expressed as a series of spherical-wave terms <inline-formula><tex-math>$ {{g}_p}( {theta,varphi } ){{e}^{{{ - }}jkr}}/{{( {kr} )}^p}$</tex-math></inline-formula>, where the first-order term <inline-formula><tex-math>$ {{g}_{1}}( {theta,varphi } )$</tex-math></inline-formula> represents the far-field pattern and the higher-order terms <inline-formula><tex-math>$ {{g}_p}( {theta,varphi } )$</tex-math></inline-formula> are recursively determined from angular derivatives of lower-order terms. This recursive representation establishes a direct physical mapping between sampled near-field data and the far-field pattern without introducing spectral coefficients or equivalent currents. The resulting formulation is converted into a practical reconstruction procedure using finite-difference discretization and matrix operators. Full-wave simulations, noisy-data tests, and measurements demonstrate lower reconstruction errors and improved robustness to spatial truncation than conventional methods under the tested conditions, providing an effective alternative for spherical near-field measurements with incomplete angular coverage.","PeriodicalId":51059,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters","volume":"25 10","pages":"4133-4137"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149124542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Qingyang Wang;Qiyuan Wang;Haoran Zu;Pei Liu;Yun He;Zhaowang Cao
{"title":"A Dual-Layer Broadband Metasurface Absorber Design via Few-Sample Learning With Efficient Data Acquisition","authors":"Qingyang Wang;Qiyuan Wang;Haoran Zu;Pei Liu;Yun He;Zhaowang Cao","doi":"10.1109/LAWP.2026.3724713","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LAWP.2026.3724713","url":null,"abstract":"In this letter, a dual-layer broadband metasurface absorber design via few-sample learning with efficient data acquisition is proposed. To reduce costs while improving data validity, we innovatively optimized the data collection with the aid of nondominated sorting genetic algorithm-II (NSGA-II). For the broadband design targets covering S, C, and X bands, low-frequency performance, total bandwidth, and in-band absorption are key concerns. Based on this background, we statistically analyzed three key indicators of −10 dB bandwidth from 1100 datasets acquired by different methods: the lowest frequency <italic>f</i> <sub>low</sub>, the highest-to-lowest frequency ratio <italic>f</i> <sub>high</sub>/<italic>f</i> <sub>low</sub><sub>,</sub> and the absorption depth. The dataset in this work has average values of 2.73 GHz for <italic>f</i> <sub>low</sub>, 2.18 for <italic>f</i> <sub>high</sub>/<italic>f</i> <sub>low</sub>, and −15.74 dB for absorption depth. It outperforms the random dataset with 6.45 GHz, 1.53, and −14.14 dB, respectively. With the support of a high-quality dataset, we successfully trained and converged the deep neural network (DNN) model using only 1,100 data samples. By inputting a target broadband square-wave spectrum into the model, a broadband metasurface absorber is obtained, which achieves a −10 dB |<italic>S</i> <sub>11</sub>| bandwidth of 1.99 GHz to 12.47 GHz under normal incidence, and shows good oblique incidence stability. Experimental results verify that the proposed metasurface absorber exhibits excellent consistency between simulation and measurement.","PeriodicalId":51059,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters","volume":"25 10","pages":"4063-4067"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149124588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Dual-Polarized High-Gain Endfire Antenna With Enhanced Bandwidth by Employing Symmetric Meander-Line Radiators","authors":"Zhenxin Hu;Qinyi Lin;Hongxuan Wu;Liang Hua Ye","doi":"10.1109/LAWP.2026.3722390","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LAWP.2026.3722390","url":null,"abstract":"In this letter, a dual-polarized high-gain endfire antenna is proposed using symmetric meander-line radiators with differential feeding. The symmetric radiator, comparing to typical single-arm asymmetric meander-line design, provides a much flatter phase constant closely matching the Hansen–Woodyard condition and ensures a higher gain and broader bandwidth within a compact length, which is the key contribution of this design. A wideband microstrip-to-slotline transition is adopted to realize differential excitation and improved impedance matching. Measured results exhibit endfire gains of 12.3 dBi/12.5 dBi, impedance bandwidths of 9.1%/8.9%, and port isolation better than 20.9 dB. Compared with the nonsymmetric meander-line antenna, the proposed design achieves 2.3 dB higher gain and nearly double bandwidth. The proposed antenna would be suitable for target detection and wireless communication systems.","PeriodicalId":51059,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters","volume":"25 10","pages":"3988-3992"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149124592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lili Zhou;Junhao Mei;Zhonglin Mu;Xinyue Hu;Junyou Li
{"title":"S-FDTD Statistical Analysis of Diurnal LF One-Hop Skywave Propagation in the Earth–Ionosphere Waveguide","authors":"Lili Zhou;Junhao Mei;Zhonglin Mu;Xinyue Hu;Junyou Li","doi":"10.1109/LAWP.2026.3723521","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LAWP.2026.3723521","url":null,"abstract":"Low-frequency skywave prediction is important for lower ionospheric parameter inversion and lightning-location analysis. Its statistics reflect ionospheric perturbations from geomagnetic storms and solar activity across time scales and quantify error jitter in earthquake-source and lightning localization. A Taylor-series-expansion-based stochastic finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method is used to analyze Loran-C artificial-source one-hop skywave diurnal statistics in the Earth-ionosphere waveguide. Means and standard deviations of field strength and delay are obtained for different statistical windows. Compared with deterministic FDTD or inversion based only on mean field strength or delay, the model efficiently quantifies propagation uncertainty, through inversion, lower ionospheric perturbation intensity, providing an additional statistical basis for time-varying inversion and confidence evaluation.","PeriodicalId":51059,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters","volume":"25 10","pages":"4048-4052"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149124605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}