Jian-Xin Chen;Xin- Yu Huang;Longlong Lin;Yi-Xuan Huang;Yun-Li Li
{"title":"Dual-Beam Dual-Circularly Polarized Leaky Elliptical Waveguide Antenna With 2×2 MIMO Capability","authors":"Jian-Xin Chen;Xin- Yu Huang;Longlong Lin;Yi-Xuan Huang;Yun-Li Li","doi":"10.1109/LAWP.2026.3724503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LAWP.2026.3724503","url":null,"abstract":"Dual-beam and dual-polarized leaky-wave antennas (LWAs) can provide spatial and polarization diversity within a single radiating structure, which is attractive for multiple-input–multiple-output (MIMO) systems. This letter presents a dual-beam dual-circularly polarized (CP) leaky elliptical waveguide antenna (LEWGA) with 2 × 2 MIMO capability. The proposed design utilizes the TE<sub>c11</sub> mode of the elliptical waveguide, where the optimal slot positions for CP radiation are theoretically determined. A dual-slot unit cell is further introduced to simultaneously suppress the open stopband (OSB) and undesired higher-order space harmonics, enabling stable dual-beam CP radiation across the operating band. Measured results show that the proposed antenna operates from 5.1 GHz to 5.9 GHz with axial ratios below 3 dB and a peak realized gain of 10.84 dBi. The antenna generates orthogonal left- and right-hand CP beams from two ports within a single waveguide structure and exhibits excellent cross-polarization isolation for 2 × 2 MIMO operation. The proposed design provides an effective dual-diversity solution for MIMO LWAs.","PeriodicalId":51059,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters","volume":"25 10","pages":"4058-4062"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149125445","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":"Modeling Study on the Influence of Spatial Distribution of Loop Magnetic Field on the Propagation of Low Frequency Electromagnetic Waves in Plasma","authors":"Shaoshuai Guo;Kai Xie;Maixia Fu;Zhaoying Wang","doi":"10.1109/LAWP.2026.3727689","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LAWP.2026.3727689","url":null,"abstract":"Low-frequency (LF) communication (1 MHz to 30 MHz) presents a promising pathway to mitigate reentry communication blackout. To overcome transmission limitations in high-density plasma sheaths and narrow bandwidth constraints, this work proposes a novel magnetic window strategy utilizing loop-distributed magnetic field modulation. By constructing a periodic magnetic field configuration aligned with plasma-induced loop currents, the scheme leverages weak-field integral effects to globally suppress induced currents, significantly enhancing LF wave transmissivity. An equivalent circuit model is derived and validated by numerical simulation. The results demonstrate that at 100 MHz, signal attenuation <inline-formula><tex-math>$S_{H}$</tex-math></inline-formula> reliably exceeds the <inline-formula><tex-math>$-{text{30}}$</tex-math></inline-formula> dB blackout threshold under optimized field parameters. The method achieves 25 dB to 30 dB attenuation reduction across a broad collision frequency range (0.1 GHz to 10 GHz), substantially outperforming nonmagnetic scenarios. This approach establishes an efficient, lightweight magnetic window solution for LF reentry communication systems.","PeriodicalId":51059,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters","volume":"25 10","pages":"4143-4147"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149125517","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":"Dual-Band Active Frequency Selective Surface With Independent Frequency and Amplitude Tunability","authors":"Xuanye Wu;Juan Chen;Jianfeng Yang","doi":"10.1109/LAWP.2026.3721632","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LAWP.2026.3721632","url":null,"abstract":"This letter presents an active, dual-band frequency selective surface (ADDFSS) with miniaturized unit cells and independent frequency and amplitude tunabilities. The structure consists of a top graphene sandwich structure (GSS), an intermediate polymethyl methacrylate spacer, and a bottom reconfigurable FSS. Biasing varactors in different resonant units enables independent tuning of the two passbands. The low and high bands cover 1.61 GHz to 3.82 GHz and 2.54 GHz to 6.54 GHz, with relative bandwidths of 81.4% and 88.1%, respectively. Increasing the GSS bias from 0 V to 4 V lowers the graphene sheet resistance from about 230 <inline-formula><tex-math>$Omega$</tex-math></inline-formula>/sq to 60 <inline-formula><tex-math>$Omega$</tex-math></inline-formula>/sq, and enables over 54% amplitude tunability. An equivalent-circuit model agrees with the full-wave simulations and validates the independent frequency and amplitude tuning. The compact, coplanar, and conformal architecture suits adaptive radomes and electromagnetic skins requiring frequency-agile transmission and controllable in-band scattering.","PeriodicalId":51059,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters","volume":"25 10","pages":"3953-3957"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149124497","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}
Jiao Yin;Bian Wu;Yu-Tong Zhao;Zhen Liu;Ying Liu;Tao Su
{"title":"Multiband Wideband Shared-Aperture Array Based on Hybrid Electromagnetic Transparency Regulation","authors":"Jiao Yin;Bian Wu;Yu-Tong Zhao;Zhen Liu;Ying Liu;Tao Su","doi":"10.1109/LAWP.2026.3723009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LAWP.2026.3723009","url":null,"abstract":"This letter introduces a hybrid electromagnetic transparency regulation method that synergistically integrates low-loss transmission and high-impedance choke characteristics, applied to the design of a wideband multiband shared aperture array. A dual-nested square ring is employed as the fundamental transmission unit, which not only establishes the first passband over 1.7 GHz to 2.1 GHz (middle-band, MB) but also utilizes its outer ring as the radiator for the low-band (LB) antenna operating from 0.68 GHz to 0.86 GHz. Dual wideband parallel LC (PLC) resonators are subsequently incorporated into both the inner and outer square rings. At their resonance frequencies, the high-impedance characteristics effectively suppress the induced currents on the nested square rings, producing open-circuit effects that fragment the structure into discrete electrically small elements and thereby render it electromagnetically transparent, covering the two high-bands (HB, HB1: 3 GHz to 4 GHz and HB2: 4.6 GHz to 5.5 GHz). Consequently, a quad-band wideband shared-aperture array is successfully realized, demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed hybrid design strategy.","PeriodicalId":51059,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters","volume":"25 10","pages":"4023-4027"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149124512","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":"Skeletonized Nested Iterative Solver for Characteristic Modes of Multiscale Metallic-Dielectric Objects","authors":"Di Wu;Chenghong Gao;Qi Wu","doi":"10.1109/LAWP.2026.3724999","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LAWP.2026.3724999","url":null,"abstract":"Skeletonization is integrated into the nested iterative framework to accelerate substructure-based characteristic mode analysis of multiscale metallic-dielectric composite structures. In the proposed method, skeletonization is combined with the multilevel fast multipole algorithm to accelerate the matrix–vector multiplications in the implicitly restarted Arnoldi method (IRAM), enabling efficient modal extraction for multiscale structures. Meanwhile, skeletonization is further employed to speed up the construction of the dual sparse approximate inverse (SAI) preconditioners. Numerical results demonstrate that the proposed method maintains the accuracy of characteristic modes while reducing the matrix-filling time by 41.7%, the SAI-construction time by 53.3%, and the memory consumption to about 30% of that required by Nested-IRAM.","PeriodicalId":51059,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters","volume":"25 10","pages":"4078-4082"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149124606","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 Geometric and Scattering Modeling Method for Chaff Clouds Containing Bending Fibers","authors":"Zuo Yanchun;Li Yue;Guo Lixin;Xu Jiahao;Yang Huaiyu","doi":"10.1109/LAWP.2026.3723034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LAWP.2026.3723034","url":null,"abstract":"Chaff cloud is one of the effective passive jammers for target covering. The target releases generous of chaff fibers to generate strong radar echoes, thereby preventing radars from locking onto the valid target. Previous studies on the geometric and scattering modeling of the chaff cloud often idealized the chaff fiber as finite-length straight conductors. However, chaff fiber is bending due to the influence of wind and gravity. This bending effect then alters the scattering properties of the chaff cloud, which leads to inaccuracies in tactical effectiveness estimations for chaff clouds. Consequently, this letter describes the bending effect of chaff fibers based on the Euler–Bernoulli beam theory. The Method of Moments with pulse basis functions is employed to calculate the scattering of the chaff clouds that contains curved fibers. The letter also explores the relationship between the distribution of impedance matrix components, the monostatic scattering of the chaff cloud, and the curvature of the fibers. The results demonstrate that the bending effect of fibers is a nonnegligible factor in evaluating the interference effectiveness of chaff clouds.","PeriodicalId":51059,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters","volume":"25 10","pages":"4033-4037"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149124565","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":"Low-Profile Dual-ISM-Band Implantable Antenna for Deep Gastrointestinal Capsule Endoscopy","authors":"Sarosh Ahmad;Tayeb A. Denidni","doi":"10.1109/LAWP.2026.3724756","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LAWP.2026.3724756","url":null,"abstract":"This letter presents a dual-band implantable antenna for gastrointestinal capsule endoscopy operating in the 0.915 GHz and 2.45 GHz Industrial, Scientific, and Medical (ISM) bands. The proposed antenna occupies an ultracompact volume of only 4 mm × 4 mm × 0.127 mm (<bold>2.03 mm<inline-formula><tex-math>$^{3}$</tex-math></inline-formula></b>), making it well suited for highly space-constrained capsule platforms. Miniaturization is achieved by employing a high-permittivity Rogers RO3010 substrate together with a slot-loaded radiating element, a shorting via, and an optimized ground structure, which effectively increases the current path without enlarging the antenna footprint. The design provides −<bold>10</b> dB impedance bandwidths of <bold>0.88 GHz to 1.02 GHz</b> (<bold>15.3%</b>) and <bold>2.32 GHz to 2.60 GHz</b> (<bold>11.4%</b>), fully covering both target ISM bands. Performance evaluation in a tissue-equivalent small-intestine environment demonstrates stable impedance matching together with peak realized gains of −<bold>39.5 dBi</b> at 0.915 GHz and −<bold>13.8 dBi</b> at 2.45 GHz. Compliance with electromagnetic exposure requirements is confirmed through specific absorption rate (SAR) analysis. The computed 1 g SAR values are <bold>437 W/kg</b> and <bold>578 W/kg</b>, corresponding to maximum permissible input powers of <bold>3.66 mW</b> and <bold>2.77 mW</b>, respectively, under the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) exposure limits. Owing to its extremely small volume, dual-band capability, and reliable in-body performance, the proposed design constitutes a practical choice for next-generation capsule endoscopy and implantable biomedical telemetry.","PeriodicalId":51059,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters","volume":"25 10","pages":"4068-4072"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149125535","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}
Qi Zheng;Yingying Fan;Zhongdian Wu;Xiaotong Li;Peyman PourMohammadi;Yu-Hui Ren;Junsuk Rho;Xue-Xia Yang
{"title":"Flexible and Optically Transparent Wideband Low-RCS Metasurface Based on Spin-Decoupled and Diffusion Scattering","authors":"Qi Zheng;Yingying Fan;Zhongdian Wu;Xiaotong Li;Peyman PourMohammadi;Yu-Hui Ren;Junsuk Rho;Xue-Xia Yang","doi":"10.1109/LAWP.2026.3727787","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LAWP.2026.3727787","url":null,"abstract":"A wideband low-scattering flexible and optically transparent metasurface (MS) by combining the theory of spin-decoupled and diffusion scatterings is proposed. First, a wideband and high-efficiency MS based on optical transparent indium tin oxide (ITO) is designed by generating multiple electric and magnetic resonances. Second, two MSs consisting of 1-D and 2-D arranged Pancharatnam–Berry (PB) phase elements are studied. The wideband radar cross section (RCS) reduction is obtained by spin-decoupled theory, which can redirect a linearly polarized electromagnetic (EM) wave into two abnormal circularly polarized EM waves. Finally, a MS based on spin-decoupled and diffusion scattering is proposed by arranging the 2-D PB MS in checkerboard pattern. Over 10 dB RCS reduction is obtained from 6.9 GHz to 39.7 GHz with a relative bandwidth of 140.80%. A significant RCS reduction remains for the conformal structures. Experimental results are in good agreement with the simulations. The measured light transmittance is 58.78%, indicating it can be used for transparent and conformal stealth platforms.","PeriodicalId":51059,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters","volume":"25 10","pages":"4153-4157"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149125473","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":"Perovskite Solar Cell-Based Integrated Photovoltaic Antennas","authors":"Yao Li;Xin Yan;Yanbin Luo;Guanghui Xu;Xia Zhang","doi":"10.1109/LAWP.2026.3727911","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LAWP.2026.3727911","url":null,"abstract":"Integrated photovoltaic antennas based on rigid and flexible perovskite solar cells (PSCs) and metal mesh antennas are proposed and fabricated. The device adopts a noncoplanar integration scheme, in which a planar inverted PSCs is placed beneath a periodic silver mesh antenna. The rigid device achieves good impedance matching over 3.48 GHz to 3.65 GHz (<italic>S</i> <sub>11</sub> < −10 dB) with a photoelectric conversion efficiency of 11.04%. The flexible device provides an operating bandwidth of 3.05 GHz to 3.27 GHz (<italic>S</i> <sub>11</sub> < −10 dB) and a photoelectric conversion efficiency of 8.3%. Compared with the standalone device, the integrated device shows slight degradation in radiation performance and short-circuit current, while maintaining a stable operating band and effective power generation. This structure provides a promising solution for self-powered wireless systems in wearable devices and space communications.","PeriodicalId":51059,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters","volume":"25 10","pages":"4158-4162"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149124480","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 K-Band Circularly Polarized SIW Phased Array With Wide-Angle Scanning","authors":"Ke Hu;Kun-Lai Li;Xuyong Yuan;Yuan Li;Ying Zhan","doi":"10.1109/LAWP.2026.3722659","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LAWP.2026.3722659","url":null,"abstract":"This letter proposes a wide-scanning, right-hand circularly polarized phased array based on a substrate integrated waveguide for K-band satellite communications. To broaden the impedance and axial ratio (AR) bandwidths, a dual-layer patch coupling scheme with parasitic elements is adopted. To further improve the AR, a 2 × 2 sequential rotation arrangement is implemented. A center-fed configuration keeps the probe at the element center under sequential rotation, preserving maximum interprobe spacing and a symmetric layout to suppress mutual coupling, while an angled U-shaped slot realizing this feeding further widens the impedance bandwidth. Experimental results of a fabricated 8 × 8 array demonstrate in both the <italic>xoz</i> - and <italic>yoz</i> -planes, the AR remains below 3 dB for scan angles up to ±30° over the 18 GHz to 21 GHz band, and up to ±60° over the 18 GHz to 20 GHz band. Furthermore, it exhibits a broadside gain over 22.0 dBi, maintaining >19.4 dBi at extreme 60° scan angles. The compact footprint and robust beamsteering make it suitable for emerging 6G systems.","PeriodicalId":51059,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters","volume":"25 10","pages":"3998-4002"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149124515","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}