In microwave radiometry for early detection of breast malignancy a contacting antenna is scanned on the breast surface, while a pressure is exercised along with a deformation. Assuming the antenna at lower temperature than the breast, the results of a numerical modeling show an interesting increase in tumor radiometric visibility in compressed breast. Preliminary results on a real radiometric a...

A 20 cm long 10 cm wide microwave plasma source was realized by inserting two 20 cm long 1.5 mm diameter rod antennas into the plasma. Plasma luminous distributions around the antennas were changed by magnetic field arrangement created by permanent magnets attached to the source. The distributions appeared homogeneous in one direction along the antenna when the spacing between the antenna and t...

The paper presents the design and fabrication of a H-plane substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) horn antenna. The antenna operates at 60 GHz band and is equipped with a SIW-to-WR15 transition. Experimental results prove that the antenna achieves the gain of 11.5 dBi and the impedance bandwidth of 14 % for the reflection coefficient less than -10 dB. The antenna was designed with the help of CST...

In this study, expressions for the radiation quality factor Q and the input impedance seen at any terminal of a multiport antenna are derived. It is shown computationally that because of the possibility to adjust the antenna current distribution through suitable feeding/loading a multiport antenna can perform lower Qs than a similar single-port antenna. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave ...

At microwave frequencies of tens of GHz, various hydrometeors cause attenuations to the electromagnetic signals. Here, we focus on the effect of liquid water films accumulating on the outer coverage of the microwave units during times of high Relative Humidity (RH). We propose a novel technique to detect moist antenna losses using standard Received Signal Level (RSL) measurements acquired simul...

The polarization-sensitive cross slot antenna recently constructed by Papathanakos [1] was used to investigate the possibility of designing a polarization-sensitive bolometric detector. A bolometer or other absorber located near a polarizationsensitive antenna may couple to the antenna, preferentially absorbing electromagnetic waves of the polarization radiated by the antenna. Lock-in amplifica...

Microwave array 3-D imaging is an emerging technique capable of producing a 3-D map of scattered electric fields. Its all-weather and large scene imaging features make it an attractive powerful tool for target detection and feature extraction. Typically, a microwave array 3-D imaging system based on the classical sampling theory requires a large dense 2-D antenna array, which may suffer from a ...

Helical antennas have been popular antenna configurations for various applications for its simple structure [9-10]. This paper describes the study on the best custom shape dielectric loaded helical antenna for Access Point WLAN IEEE 802.11 b/g 2.4 GHz to 2.48 GHz applications. This paper presents the investigation of a Novel helical antenna incorporated with Barium Strontium Titanate (BST). Met...

Introduction: Millimetre-wave fibre wireless applications [1] could profit from a small antenna that can be fully integrated with the microwave and optical components of the system. This can lead to smaller and more cost-effective fibre-fed antenna units. Active integrated antennas [2] are another application that could benefit from a directly integrated antenna. Printed antennas are the obviou...

A printed microstrip window antenna is proposed in this paper. The window antenna is obtained by perforating a con entional microstrip patch antenna into a window-like geometry. This perforation not only induces a size reduction of more than 50%, but also makes it possible for antenna and RF circuits to be integrated into a unified subsystem by embedding passi e and acti e circuits into the win...