Recent Articles
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Fully Printed 3-D Antennas With Wideband Radiation Isotropy Based on Annular Currents Models
02 May 2023 Ruiqi Wang, Kirill Klionovski, and Atif Shamim propose a theoretical model based on annular ring currents to synthesize quasi-isotropic antenna radiation patterns. The theoretical model shows that wideband radiation isotropy can be achieved by optimizing the combination of azimuthal currents. We subsequently present spherical and cubical ESA designs that achieve measured wide impedance and radiation isotropy bandwidths exceeding 10% for the GSM900 band.
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Circularly-Polarized Patch Antennas With Enhanced Bandwidth Based on Capacitively Coupled Orthogonal Patch Radiators
Qiong-Sen Wu, Xiao-Yu Tang, Xiao Zhang, Lei Zhu, Gary Zhang, and Chun-Bing Guo propose circularly-polarized (CP) patch antennas with enhanced bandwidth based on capacitively coupled orthogonal patch radiators Several patch radiators are alternately arranged one by one along the x - and y -direction, producing orthogonal currents and far fields. The adjacent patch radiators are coupled to each other and the coupling structure not only contributes to power distribution but also introduces 90° phase shift for circularly-polarized radiation.
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A Concept of Advanced Design Governed by Theoretically Predicted Current Distributions on the Ground Plane Beneath an Aperture-Fed Microstrip Antenna
Debi Dutta, Debatosh Guha, Chandrakanta Kumar explore a way of mitigating near field issues based on theoretical analysis and propose a simple strategic approach to reform the same for a rectangular patch. A representative design, theoretical justification, and experimental studies with an S-band prototype have been presented. XP suppression by 11dB has been experimentally achieved in the diagonal (D-) plane with no considerable changes in its H- or E-plane. That eventually attains an overall XP discrimination by nearly 27dB from the perspective of 3D radiation scenario.
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Uniform Analysis of Multipath Components From Various Scenarios With Time-Domain Channel Sounding at 300GHz
Johannes M. Eckhardt, Alper Schultze, Ramez Askar, Tobias Doeker, Michael Peter, Wilhelm Keusgen, and Thomas Kürner present a uniform and collaborative data evaluation of measurement sets from two different time-domain channel sounders. The channels show a great variety of characteristics depending on the scenario, the line-of-sight condition and the signal-to-noise ratio requirements of the prospective communication system. The extracted multipath components are published as research data for future analytical studies and simulations in relevant scenarios for the sixth generation of mobile systems.
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Indirect Applications of Additive Manufacturing for Antennas
10 April 2023 Jonathan D. Lundquist, Lauren Linkous, Umar Hasni, and Erdem Topsakal report the fabrication methodology of stereolithography (SLA) printed molds for metal and resin cast antennas. In the first method, a conical horn created using metal cast molds printed from a glass-filled resin utilizes a casting technique allowing for low-cost 3D printing to fabricate metal antennas. The second casting method demonstrates the interchangeability between creating parts via SLA printing with a glass-filled resin and using the same resin cast into a reusable Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) mold.
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3-D-Printed Spiral Leaky Wave Antenna With Circular Polarization
05 April 2023 Tomás Lira-Valdés, Eva Rajo-Iglesias, and Francisco Pizarro present the design, manufacturing and measurement of a fully dielectric leaky wave antenna operating at 18 GHz. The antenna is composed of a grounded dielectric substrate with a top dielectric Archimedean spiral corrugation, which allows obtaining a directive pencil-beam in broadside direction with circular polarization depending on the turning sense of the spiral.
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Practical Correlation-Matrix Approaches for Standardized Testing of Wireless Devices in Reverberation Chambers
30 March 2023 Kate A. Remley, Sara Catteau, Ahmed Hussain, Carnot L. Nogueira, Mats Kristoffersen, John Kvarnstrand, Brett Horrocks, Jonas Fridén, Robert D. Horansky, and Dylan F. Williams extend the autocorrelation-based approaches currently used in standards to full correlation-matrix-based approaches in order to identify correlation between both spatially adjacent and non-adjacent samples in reverberation-chamber measurements. They employ a scalar metric that allows users to identify the number of effectively uncorrelated samples in new types of stirring sequences.