Lobby 1 Chair: Tudor Palade (Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania) , Stephan Stanko (FGAN-FHR, Germany) 2.1 SIWSeries Fed RDRA Array System for Millimeter-Wave Applications Wael Abdel Wahab (University of Waterloo, Canada); Safieddin Safavi-Naeini (University of Waterloo, Canada); Dan. Busuioc (University of Waterloo, Canada) A simple, low cost novel series feeding scheme to rectangular...

This paper presents the design, simulation, and measurement of two low-cost broadband circularly polarized (CP) printed antennas: a single element and an array at C band. The proposed single element antenna is excited by an L-shaped strip with a tapered end, located along the circular-slot diagonal line in the back plane. From the array experimental results, the 3 dB axial ratio bandwidth can r...

lenses are often used to converge electromagnetic wave namely they convert incident phase front of feed antenna to a flat phase front. together, the lens and the feed create an electrically large aperture antenna. flat lenses provide the cost and weight benefits of the reflect-arrays, while maintaining the advantages of a lens antenna. these lenses use an array of unit-cells which are excited b...

Received Jan 30, 2017 Revised Apr 3, 2017 Accepted Apr 28, 2017 In this paper, leaf shape textile antenna in ISM band has been chosen to study. The operating frequency of the dipole antenna is 2.45GHz. The effect of conductive threads with three different types of sewing has been analysed. The first type of sewing leaf shape dipole antenna is to stitch around itself and embroidered into a fleec...

In this research paper, a slotted coaxial line fed cross dipole excitation structure for short backfire antenna is proposed and developed to achieve reconfigurable circular polarization. The cross dipole, which is fed by the slotted coaxial line, consists of two orthogonal dipoles. The dipoles are mounted on the outer conductor of the coaxial line. A unique technique is developed to generate re...

Fractal antennae have very special properties: (1) They are broad band antennae, i.e. they radiate, and detect, very eeciently for a wide range of frequencies. The frequency range is speciied by the smallest and largest size present in the antenna. The radiation, and hence the detection, eeciency depends slowly on frequency between these two limits. (2) They can display considerable gain over n...

We have characterized the ON state DC electrical resistivity and OFF state capacitance of GeTeBased RF Switches under direct optical laser excitation. Our tightly-coupled dipole array exhibits performance in excess of 4 to 1 bandwidth over wide-scan angle up to 60 degrees with in-band rejection capability using reconfigurable baluns. Integration of optically-controlled GeTe-Based RF switches at...

The application of new metaheuristic approach, Firefly algorithm, for the thinning of large multiple Concentric Circular dipole arrays is presented. A nine-ring Uniform Circular antenna array with central element feeding is considered. To analyze the effect of thinning, optimization is carried out with and without pre fixing the percentage value of thinning. The performance of the array in term...

A prototype for a dual-band metamaterial-inspired antenna is presented. The antenna consists of a dual-band dipole placed between two meta-surfaces, which are tuned to operate at both dipole bands. In this way, the dipole radiates at a different half-space at each frequency band. Antenna gains as high as 6.1dB and 7.6dB have been measured at the lowand high-frequency bands, respectively, while ...