Aalto University, P.O. Box 11000, FI-00076 Aalto www.aalto.fi Author Aki Karttunen Name of the doctoral dissertation Millimetre and submillimetre wave antenna design using ray tracing Publisher School of Electrical Engineering Unit Department of Radio Science and Engineering Series Aalto University publication series DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS 127/2013 Field of research Radio Engineering Manuscript...

Lens antennas are a promising device for realizing the anti-collision radars needed in intelligent transport systems (ITS) and multibeam antennas for satellite communication. They have simple structure, high gain and no feed blockage. Especially if the operating frequencies are above the microwave band, the resulting apertures with several tens of wavelengths, become practical. In advance ITS a...

In this paper a study of the directive gain enhancement obtained using a dielectric lens placed in the near field of radiating elements is discussed. The design and results of a single element patch antenna along with hemispherical and spherical lens radiating in C-band are detailed. The design has been accomplished using the 3D finite-element-method (FEM) electromagnetic EM simulator, HFSS, is...

In this paper short introduction in dielectric lens antennas at mm-waves will be given. Dielectric lens antennas become more popular as applications start to migrate to higher frequencies where lens dimensions and weight become small enough and allow easy integration. Typically used feeds and lens shapes will be discussed together with global optimization techniques and analyzing kernels employ...

In this work, we show how we can improve the image resolution capabilities of a Phase Conjugating (PC) lens as well as the angular resolution of Luneburg lens antennas by employing signal processing techniques such as the Correlation Method (CM), the Minimum Residual Power Search Method (MRPSM), the sparse reconstruction method, and the Singular-Value-Decomposition (SVD)based basis matrix metho...

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication and network densification hold great promise for achieving highrate communication in next-generation wireless networks. Cloud radio access network (CRAN), in which low-complexity remote radio heads (RRHs) coordinated by a central unit (CU) are deployed to serve users in a distributed manner, is a costeffective solution to achieve network densification. How...

The theory of the dielectric cone antenna has been known since the early seventies. On their own, this antenna has a reasonably circular symmetric radiation pattern but exhibits an undesirably high side-lobe level. A properly designed metallic shield, which does not interfere with the field structure of the dielectric cone, may be used to reduce the side-lobe level. Although in principle this a...

OF THE DISSERTATION Darkfield Imaging with a Plasmonic Focusing Lens: Antenna Theory for Near-field Scanning Optical Microscopes