{"title":"High gain dual-band antenna using photovoltaic panel as metamaterial superstrate","authors":"Chun-Yih Wu, Hung-Hsuan Lin, Ta-Chun Pu, Jui-Hung Chen","doi":"10.1109/APS.2011.5996960","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APS.2011.5996960","url":null,"abstract":"A novel planar dual-band antenna by using a panel of photovoltaic cells as a metamaterial layer for dual-band operation is presented. A 10-Watt, 72-cell unmodified commercial photovoltaic panel is applied as a transparent layer in the first operation band and as a semi-transparent layer for λ/2 Fabry-Pérot cavity in the second operation band to achieve high antenna gain. Unit-cell transmission analysis is adopted to determine the frequency point of operation. The proposed prototype achieves remarkable 17.3 dBi and 6.6 dBi antenna gain at 3.5 GHz and 1.23 GHz, respectively fed by a dual-band dipole. With the aid of PV panel, the antenna can support an upper band at about 3550 MHz to cover the WiMAX 3.5 GHz (3400–3600 MHz) operation band and a lower band at about 1185 MHz to cover the 70 MHz operation bandwidth. The very combination of photovoltaic cell and antenna exhibits high fill factor, high-gain, and simple construction characteristics.","PeriodicalId":6449,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (APSURSI)","volume":"92 1","pages":"2235-2238"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84092125","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}
D. Bianchi, A. Monorchio, S. Genovesi, A. Corucci, D. Werner, P. Werner
{"title":"The pareto optimization of wide-band conformal antenna arrays","authors":"D. Bianchi, A. Monorchio, S. Genovesi, A. Corucci, D. Werner, P. Werner","doi":"10.1109/APS.2011.5997012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APS.2011.5997012","url":null,"abstract":"A design procedure for synthesizing wideband conformal antenna arrays based on a multi-objective evolutionary algorithm is presented. In this paper, raised power series (RPS) are employed as a simple yet effective way to introduce aperiodicity into a conformal semi-circular phased antenna array for achieving wideband performance. Unlike conventional linear array synthesis methods where, for example, the genetic algorithm (GA) has been utilized to meet a single design objective, the multi-objective optimization technique proposed in this paper employs the nondominated sorting GA version II (NSGA-II).","PeriodicalId":6449,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (APSURSI)","volume":"6 1","pages":"2427-2429"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78321028","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}
F. Viani, M. Donelli, G. Oliveri, A. Massa, D. Trinchero
{"title":"A WSN-based system for real-time electromagnetic monitoring","authors":"F. Viani, M. Donelli, G. Oliveri, A. Massa, D. Trinchero","doi":"10.1109/APS.2011.5997195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APS.2011.5997195","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, the wide expansion of smartphones and web-based wireless devices has brought to an increased demand of wireless infrastructures providing higher data bandwidth and better coverage. In this framework, the need of measurement systems aiming at verifying the compliance of the exposure levels to the generated electromagnetic (EM) fields with the safety limits imposed by the authorities came out. This work presents a low-cost solution for the pervasive and real-time electromagnetic monitoring based on a wireless sensor network (WSN) infrastructure. The proposed system implements a distributed strategy that manages both the electromagnetic field measurements acquired by means of the ad-hoc broadband field probes and the propagation of the information throughout the multihop links of the sensor network. The field probe has been designed to be completely passive and easily integrated within a small and low-power device deployed both in indoor and outdoor scenarios. The real-time capabilities as well as the potentialities of the proposed system have been experimentally validated both in controlled and real environments.","PeriodicalId":6449,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (APSURSI)","volume":"36 3 1","pages":"3129-3132"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77967016","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":"Subreflectarrays for compact dual reflector antenna systems","authors":"Shenheng Xu, H. Rajagopalan, Y. Rahmat-Samii","doi":"10.1109/APS.2011.5996949","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APS.2011.5996949","url":null,"abstract":"Reflectarrays are used as a hyperboloidal or ellipsoidal subreflector in dual-reflector antenna systems. The design formulas for reflectarrays acting as hyperboloid are discussed and its location consideration which is important for dual-reflector system is presented. A 48-inch Cassegrain antenna is chosen to demonstrate the application of compact dual-reflector designs. A subreflectarray is designed to emulate a hyperboloidal subreflector and the plots of the reflection phase shift and scattered field of the subreflectarray validate its effectiveness.","PeriodicalId":6449,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (APSURSI)","volume":"36 1","pages":"2195-2197"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73151320","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}
Xiaoyu Cheng, Jun-Wei Shi, P. Jao, D. Senior, Y. Yoon
{"title":"Reconfigurable split ring resonator array loaded waveguide for insitu tuning","authors":"Xiaoyu Cheng, Jun-Wei Shi, P. Jao, D. Senior, Y. Yoon","doi":"10.1109/APS.2011.5997146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APS.2011.5997146","url":null,"abstract":"Two linear arrays of split ring resonators (SRR) with broad side coupling and various relative positions are investigated for controllable wave transmission in a rectangular waveguide. Each array is designed to have a different unit size of SRRs. A rectangular waveguide with a cutoff frequency of 3.2 GHz shows an additional stopband between 3.4 GHz and 4.8 GHz when a five element SRR array with a unit SRR dimension of 18mm by 18 mm and a pitch of 25mm is loaded. The other five element array with a unit dimension of 10mm by 10mm and a pitch of 25mm is inserted adjacent to the first array with a broad side coupling resulting in another stopband between 5 GHz and 6.5 GHz, where the coupling gap between two arrays is approximately 3mm (120mil) and the dielectric constant is 2.55. The center frequency of the stopband is tunable depending on the degree of alignment between those two arrays. One of the SRR arrays has a piece of magnet attached to its edge, and in-situ tuning is achieved by moving it by a ferrite (or a permanent magent) from outside of the waveguide. The tuning results of numerical simulation show good agreement with those of measurement.","PeriodicalId":6449,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (APSURSI)","volume":"116 4 1","pages":"2947-2950"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79972500","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 MIMO antenna using a symmetric slotted structure for 4G USB dongle application","authors":"Minseok Han, Jaehoon Choi","doi":"10.1109/APS.2011.5996957","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APS.2011.5996957","url":null,"abstract":"A compact dual-band MIMO antenna using a symmetric slotted structure is proposed for next generation USB dongle applications. The proposed MIMO antenna consists of two printed dual-band PIFAs with a symmetric slotted strip. The first resonance frequency is controlled by the total length of the main radiating strip with coupling slot (W1 = 2 mm and W2 = 2 mm) has a length of 70 mm, which is about 0.18 wavelengths at 0.77 GHz, but it can easily generate a resonant mode to cover LTE band 13 (LTE Band 13; 0.746–0.787 GHz) and the second one is tuned by the width of the slot (W1 and W2) and the position of the port 1 and 2 (P1 and P2) to cover mobile world interoperability for microwave access band (M-WiMAX Band; 2.5–2.69 GHz). In order to improve the isolation characteristic at the LTE and M-WiMAX bands, a symmetric slotted structure and the jointed shorting line are used to reduce the interaction between the two PIFAs. The proposed MIMO antenna has an isolation of approximately 20 dB at LTE band 13 and the envelope correlation coefficient (ECC) of the two antennas is less than 0.2 over the whole LTE band 13. To evaluate the performance of the proposed antenna, key performance parameters such as the total efficiency, ECC, mean effective gain (MEG), MEG ratio and actual diversity gain are analyzed.","PeriodicalId":6449,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (APSURSI)","volume":"74 1","pages":"2223-2226"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79996625","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":"Implementation of geometrical boolean functions between bodies defined by NURBS","authors":"J. Gomez, A. Tayebi, I. González, F. Cátedra","doi":"10.1109/APS.2011.6058700","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APS.2011.6058700","url":null,"abstract":"The implementation of Boolean functionalities such as the intersection, subtraction and union of complex closed or open of bodies defined by NURBS is presented. So any arbitrary structure can be processed. While the vast majority of the proposed methods provide a resulting object composed by flat facets as a result of the Boolean operation, our implementation is able to give accurate trimmed surfaces that perfectly fits the real shape of the original objects. The developed approach is explained and some examples are shown to validate the code.","PeriodicalId":6449,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (APSURSI)","volume":"36 11 1","pages":"3339-3342"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80180446","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":"Analytical model for coupling of waves between a homogeneous medium and a volumetric transmission-line network","authors":"C. Valagiannopoulos, P. Alitalo, S. Tretyakov","doi":"10.1109/APS.2011.5997056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APS.2011.5997056","url":null,"abstract":"The use of transmission-line networks as periodic structures emulating many interesting metamaterial-related phenomena, such as negative refraction ([1], [2]) and cloaking ([3], [4]), has gained increasing interest in the scientific community. Transmission-line networks offer a simple way to create non-resonant, broadband structures exhibiting exotic wave propagation characteristics. A big drawback of traditional transmission-line metamaterials is the fact that most such structures are not inherently coupled with electromagnetic waves propagating in a homogeneous material, such as free space for example. Recently various approaches to couple transmission-line networks to free space have been proposed, see, e.g., [3], [4], [5]. The approach of [3], [4], is based on matching the free space wave to a network by introducing a special transition layer which couples the different modes propagating in the two different “media”. Such a layer can be formed simply by creating metal tapers, which guide the wave with very small amount of reflections from one media to another [3]. This technique has been successfully employed to create an electromagnetic cloaking device based on transmission-line networks [4].","PeriodicalId":6449,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (APSURSI)","volume":"4 1","pages":"2597-2600"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80311535","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":"Daubechies framework based Diffracted Gaussian beam approach on parallel computing platforms","authors":"Le Wang, G. Pan","doi":"10.1109/APS.2011.5997038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APS.2011.5997038","url":null,"abstract":"Multi-reflector based collimation antennas are widely used in microwave remote sensing and millimeter wave imaging. For design and analysis of these antenna systems, many methods have been introduced of which the Diffracted Gaussian beam approach (DGBA) is among the most popular. For electrically large reflector antennas, the computation of reflection and diffraction for gigantic number of elementary Gaussian beams demands huge computational resources. To simulate a reflector antenna in hundreds to thousands of wavelength, it may require independent Gaussian beams ranging from tens of millions to a billion, which is extremely time-consuming on conventional computers. To this end, the parallel computer provides one of ultimate solutions since reflection and diffraction of each Gaussian beam can be simulated separately on different CPUs simultaneously. In this paper we present the DGBA simulation of a reflector antenna system on high performance parallel computing platforms, based on Message Passing Interface (MPI).","PeriodicalId":6449,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (APSURSI)","volume":"18 1","pages":"2527-2529"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80349596","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":"High-gain circularly polarized resonant cavity antenna using FSS superstrate","authors":"Shih-Chia Chiu, Shih-Yuan Chen","doi":"10.1109/APS.2011.5996962","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APS.2011.5996962","url":null,"abstract":"A novel high-gain, circularly polarized resonant cavity antenna (RCA) using a two-layer frequency selective surface (FSS) as its superstrate is presented. In the proposed design, two kinds of FSSs, namely an inductive sheet and a capacitive sheet, are used, both of which are designed to be highly reflective to achieve gain and directivity enhancement. Furthermore, by properly designing the dimensions of these two sheets and aligning them, the linearly polarized wave radiated by the source patch antenna can be transformed into circularly polarized radiation. Based on the operating principles of RCAs, the modeling, design, and characterization of the FSS-based superstrate for use in the antenna are also presented. A broadside peak gain of 13.12 dBi, a flat gain response, and a wide axial-ratio bandwidth of the proposed antenna are achieved.","PeriodicalId":6449,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (APSURSI)","volume":"963 1","pages":"2242-2245"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77071844","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}