Compact Triple‐Band Monopole Antenna for WLAN/WiMAX‐Band USB Dongle Applications

A miniaturized triple‐band antenna suitable for wireless USB dongle applications is proposed and investigated in this paper. The presented antenna, simply consisting of a circular‐arc‐shaped stub, an L‐shaped stub, a microstrip feed line, and a rectangular ground plane has a compact size of and is capable of generating three separate resonant modes with very good impedance matching. The measurement results show that the antenna has several impedance bandwidths for of 260 MHz (2.24 GHz to 2.5 GHz), 320 MHz (3.4 GHz to 3.72 GHz), and 990 MHz (5.1 GHz to 6.09 GHz), which can be applied to both 2.4/5.2/5.8 GHz WLAN bands and 3.5/5.5 GHz WiMAX bands. Moreover, nearly‐omni‐directional radiation patterns and stable gain across the operating bands can be obtained.     

一种多频带印刷单极子天线的设计

提出了一种小型化的用于WLAN/WiMax通信系统的多频带印刷单极子天线。通过改进双“G”形的振子结构,使天线能在2.4 GHz,3.5 GHz和5.5 GHz谐振,实现2.4/5.2/5.8 GHz WLAN 和3.5/5.5 GHz WiMax频带的覆盖。对加工后的天线模型测试表明,天线在工作频带内具有较宽的阻抗带宽和较好的辐射特性。因此,该天线可以应用在多频带无线通信系统中。     

Band-Notched Planar UWB Microstrip Antenna with T-Shaped Slot

Ever growing demand for higher data rates requires appropriate radiation systems with large bandwidth and stable gain. Microstrip antennas with unidirectional radiation patterns and stable gain are most useful for this purpose. A ground plane defect of microstrip patch antenna is used to breed multiband applications. As a result, the performance of gain, directivity, and bandwidth is enhanced, the geometry and shape of an ultrawideband (UWB) antenna are simplified, and its size is reduced. Thus, it results in the efficient performance with respect to wideband operation. A novel band notching of microstrip truncated UWB antenna is implemented for insusceptibility in the range 5.2–5.8 GHz. The suggested structure contains circular truncated and T-shaped slots for band notching. The optimal results can be obtained by selecting the antenna parameters. Advantages of the proposed antenna include small size, better impedance match and simple design. Details of the suggested and observational solutions are demonstrated in this paper. The S₁₁ parameter of antenna is–45.5 dB at a resonant frequency of 4.6, 5.5, and 9.8 GHz. The gain of antenna is 5.47 dB, and the value of VSWR is smaller than 2, which makes the proposed structure an ideal choice for its application in wireless communication, 5G and IoT.     

Analysis of the structure of a terahertz-band 2D array with sensors on the edge of a superconductor transition

Film detectors on the edge of a Ti or Mo/Cu (T _c ≈ 0.4 K) superconductor transition are included in an N × M 2D array of planar polarization-separated antennas. The detectors are simultaneously sensors and absorbers of the total electric power from an antenna and bias circuits. The detectors are heat-insulated because of weak electron-phonon interaction with the substrate and because of the effect of the Andreev reflection of electrons in Nb electrodes. Readout based on the projection method necessitates only N + M channels in the case when the signal is continuously accumulated for all N × M detectors. Simulation of a 3 × 3 2D array at a frequency of 600 GHz shows that the matching band is ～30%.     

Ultra-wideband horn antennas with a considerable difference in radiation pattern width in <Emphasis Type="Italic">E</Emphasis>- and <Emphasis Type="Italic">H</Emphasis>-planes

The paper presents results of theoretical and experimental investigation of ultra-wideband horn antennas with a rectangular aperture and input formed by a symmetric H-waveguide. The antennas show a considerable difference in their radiation pattern widths in the E-and H-planes, and good matching properties in a range of frequencies from 1 to 10 GHz. The required difference between radiation patterns of the antennas is attained by proper selection of horns’ geometry and application of a diverging dielectric lens in each horn. Optimal profiles of the horn antenna generatrix and of the dielectric lens placed inside are determined. Reliability of results of the theoretical analysis is confirmed by testing the designed prototypes of the ultra-wideband H-sectorial and E-sectorial horns.     

一种应用于WLAN/WiMAX的新颖的三分枝单极天线

提出了一种应用于WLAN/WiMAX的新颖的多分枝单极天线,天线有三个分枝,结构紧凑,其大小为26mm×24mm×1.6mm,加工出了天线并进行测试,测试结果表明天线具有良好的双波段工作特性,｜S11｜≤-10dB时对应中心频率2.47GHz和4.825GHz处带宽分别达4%和62.4%,覆盖WLAN的2.4/5.2/5.8GHz频段及WiMAX的3.5/5.5GHz频段,同时采用了接地板开槽技术以调整带宽,天线在上述频段有近似于全向辐射方向图。     

Design and Calibration of a mm-Wave Personal Exposure Meter for 5G Exposure Assessment in Indoor Diffuse Environments

For the first time, a mm-wave personal exposure meter (mm-PEM) for the 5th generation of mobile networks (5G) exposure assessment in indoor diffuse fields is presented. The design is based on simulations and on-phantom calibration measurements in a mm-wave reverberation chamber (RC) at 60 GHz. The mm-PEM consists of an array of nine antennas on the body. Using the mm-PEM, the incident power density (IPD) is measured in the unloaded RC, for the antenna(s) on the phantom and RC loaded with phantom. The uncertainty of the mm-PEM is then determined in terms of its response, which is defined as the ratio of antenna aperture for the above measurement scenarios. Using nine antennas, the designed meter has a response of 1.043 (0.17 dB) at 60 GHz, which is very close to 1 (0 dB), the desired ideal response value. The mm-PEM measured an IPD of 96.6 W m^??2 at 60 GHz in the RC, for an input power of 1 W. In addition, the average absorption cross-section of the phantom is determined as 225 cm², which is an excellent agreement with its physical dimensions.     

On the size and temperature dependence of the energy gap in cadmium-selenide quantum dots embedded in fluorophosphate glasses

The temperature and size dependences of the energy gap in CdSe quantum dots with diameters of 2.4, 4.0, and 5.2 nm embedded in fluorophosphate glasses are investigated. It is shown that the temperature coefficient of the band gap dE _g /dT in the quantum dots differs from the bulk value and depends strictly on the dot size. It is found that, furthermore, the energy of each transition in these quantum dots is characterized by an individual temperature coefficient dE/dT.     

Dual Band-Notched Small Monopole Antenna with Enhanced Bandwidth for UWB Applications

This article proposes a novel printed monopole antenna for ultra wideband applications with dual band-notch function. The antenna consists of a disc-shaped radiating patch with a pair of folded strips arms, and a ground plane with a two L-shaped conductor backed plane, which provides a wide usable fractional bandwidth of more than 140 % (2.6–14.43 GHz). In order to generate single band-notch characteristics, we use a modified disc-shaped radiating patch with a pair of folded strips arms also by using this modified radiating patch, additional resonance is excited and hence much wider impedance bandwidth can be produced, especially at the higher band. By adding two L-shaped conductor backed plane in the ground plane a dual band notch function is achieved. The measured results reveal that the presented dual band-notch monopole antenna offers a very wide bandwidth with two notched bands, covering all the 5.2/5.8 GHz WLAN, 3.5/5.5 GHz WiMAX and 4 GHz C bands. The designed antenna has a small size of $12\times 18\,\hbox {mm}^{2}$ .     

Extremely compact dual-band PIFAs for MIMO application

A MIMO structure consisting of two extremely compact planar inverted-F antennas (PIFAs) (λ/60 x (λ/20 x (λ/60) is proposed for GSM 900 MHz and 2.4 GHz wireless local area network applications. The miniaturisation of each antenna is achieved through a spiral-shaped PIFA and a capacitive load, forming a LC resonator. Both antennas have a good impedance bandwidth of 0.88?0.945 and 2.39? 2.48 GHz for 0.9 and 2.4 GHz band, respectively. The two PIFA antennas are polarised orthogonally to each other, and isolation better than 228 dB is achieved in both bands without any structure etched on the ground. The predicted results are compared with the measured data and good agreement is found.     

Design of compact bandpass filter for WiMAX and UWB application using asymmetric SIRs and DGS

This paper considers a novel compact tri-band microstrip bandpass filter, the design of which employs asymmetric SIRs and DGS for achieving the characteristics of low insertion loss, high selectivity, wider range of bandwidth, and low group delay for 2.5/3.4 GHz (WiMAX) and 4.14–5.32 GHz (UWB) bands. The novel filter design implies the intentional selection of impedance ratio R and the length of the microstrip of asymmetric SIRs; in addition, DGS is used to improve the coupling strength of the last band. The scattering parameters of the three passbands have the following values: insertion losses S₂₁ are–0.26/–0.07/–0.05 dB, and return losses S₁₁ are–11.29/–19.25/–22.64 dB, respectively. The response of the filter was simulated using Ansoft HFSS simulator.     

Design of a modified circular-cut multiband fractal antenna

This paper presents a modified circular-cut multiband fractal antenna with good radiation patterns designed for digital cellular system (DCS), personal communication system (PCS), 2.4/5.2/5.8 GHz wireless local area networks (WLAN) and 2.5/3.5/5.5 GHz worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMAX) applications simultaneously. Originally, the modified circular monopole antenna is designed to resonate at around 2.1 GHz and 3.6 GHz. After subtracting the circular iterative tree fractal structure, it can produce three other resonances at around 5.6 GHz, 6.47 GHz and 7.89 GHz. Besides, as the number of iterations increases, not only do the new frequency bands appear (it demonstrates the good self-similarity property of the proposed antenna), but also the operating bands shift from high frequency to low frequency (it shows the well space filling property). Furthermore, the proposed antenna owns a compact structure, which can achieve the 5.28 dBi of relative high gain. And the measured results are basically accordant to simulated results, which proves the effectiveness of the proposed antenna.     

A Rectangular SRR Switched Slotted Microstrip Patch for Frequency Diversity Application

Planar antenna with a specific resonant mode is essential to meet the diversity demand for wireless communication. This paper presents modeling and experimental validation of a microstrip antenna design in which multiple resonant frequencies are excited based on different negative permeability response of the rectangular split ring resonator (SRR). The antenna geometry consists of a slotted patch with split ring resonator loaded between its two arms. The patch was fabricated on FR-substrate of relative permittivity ε_r?=?4.4, and has a size of 30.5 mm?×?34 mm. In the antenna desing, PIN diodes connect the outer ring and inner ring resonator of the SRR to the adjacent arms of the patch. Under various bias conditions, quad-band resonance was observed at 2.07 GHz, 2.11 GHz, 2.31 GHz, and 2.46 GHz. The measured S₁₁ results are found comparable to the simulated data, and demonstrate proper functioning of the proposed antenna with stable gain and radiation patterns.     

Influence of Geometric Parameters and Permittivity of Stripline Filters on Resonator Coupling Coefficients

It has been proved that electromagnetic coupling coefficients K of resonators in stripline filters with homogeneous dielectric depend only on geometric parameters of the filter designs and are independent of relative permittivity ε_r (if the dielectric is two-layer, coefficients K depend only on geometric parameters of the filter designs and ratio ε_r2/ε_r1). It has been shown that the revealed earlier influence of permittivity ε_r and the operating frequency on K is only a consequence of the influence of the length of stripline resonators on K: the lesser is the length, the larger is coefficient K. It has been found that these propositions enable consideration of frequency characteristics of the same design of the bandpass filter in different frequency bands by changing εr and performing slight changes in outermost resonators. The results of computer simulation of the transfer of frequency characteristics of a stripline bandpass filter from 3 GHz to 6 and 12 GHz with retaining the fractional bandwidth and selectivity are presented.     

Study of RF transistor with submicron T-shaped gate fabricated by nanoimprint lithography

The results devoted to the development of a method for creating an RF transistor, in which a T-shaped gate is formed by nanoimprint lithography, are presented. The characteristics of GaAs p-HEMT transistors have been studied. The developed transistor has a gate “foot” length of the order of 250 nm and a maximum transconductance of more than 350 mS/mm. The maximum frequency of current amplification f _t is 40 GHz at the drain-source voltage V _DS = 1.4 V and the maximum frequency of the power gain f _max is 50 GHz at V _DS = 3 V.     

Design of a compact U-shaped slot triple band antenna for WLAN/WiMAX applications

This article presents a small, low-profile planar microstrip antenna that is applicable for both WLAN and WiMAX applications. The goal of this paper is to design an antenna which can excite triple-band operation with appreciable impedance bandwidth to combine WLAN/WiMAX communication specifications simultaneously in one device. The designed antenna has a compact size of 10 × 26 mm². The proposed antenna consists of an inverted U-shaped slot radiator and a defected ground plane. Overall the design method and parametric study found appropriate dimensions, which provides three distinct bands I from 2.40 to 2.52, II from 3.40 to 3.60 and III from 5.00 to 6.00 GHz that covers entire WLAN (2.4/5.2/5.8 GHz) and WiMAX (2.5/3.5/5.5) bands. Finally, a prototype antenna was fabricated and experimentally characterized to verify the design concept as well as to validate the simulation results. Thus the simulation results along with the measurements show that the antenna can simultaneously operate over WLAN and WiMAX frequency bands.     

A novel microstrip antenna loaded with EBG and ELC for bandwidth enhancement

This paper proposes the design of three compact antennas for WiMAX, WLAN and ISM band applications. Antenna 1 consists of a monopole radiating element with an electromagnetic band gap (EBG) structured ground. By employing the EBG structure, an ultra-wide band frequency of 2.4–4.8 GHz (66.66%) is achieved. Antenna 2 is configured with an electric-LC (ELC) element, which achieved an ultra-wide band (UWB) frequency of 2.38–4.91 GHz (69.41%). Antenna 3 is integrated with ELC and EBG together, in which a UWB frequency of 2.3–5.3 GHz (78.94%) is obtained with improved impedance matching. The three antennas have omnidirectional radiation patterns which cover the ISM band at 2.4 GHz and WiMAX at 2.5/3.5 GHz over the operating bands. The radiation efficiency is?>?75% throughout the operating bands of all the antennas. In addition to the WiMAX and ISM bands, antenna 3 covers WLAN in the 5.2 GHz band. The proposed design can be applied to wireless mobile communication systems, which have the advantage of ease of fabrication and compactness.

     

新型圆环嵌套多频印刷天线

提出了一种具有多频特点的新型圆环嵌套印刷天线,该天线由不同直径的圆环嵌套得到。通过电磁仿真软件CST Microwave Studip进行仿真研究,结果表明嵌套圆环的外径、宽度和嵌套数目可以对其通频带中心频率、频带宽度和通频带数目进行控制。设计出了具有2．4GHz,3．5GHz,5．2GHz,5．8GHz四个通频带的共面波导馈电的单极印刷天线和以平衡微带线馈电的对称振子天线。制作了天线实物并在微波暗室中进行测试,测试结果与仿真吻合较好,该天线具有近似独立的频率可控性和较小的尺寸,可用于WLAN和WiMAX等领域。     

Permittivity spectra and characteristic energy losses of electrons in ZnO at 100 K

For the first time, full sets of fundamental optical functions have been obtained for zinc oxide in the range 0–30 eV at 100 K for E ⊥ c and E ‖ c polarizations. Spectra of the transverse and longitudinal components of transitions and their basic parameters (peak energies E _i , half-widths H _i of transition bands, band areas S _i , and oscillator strengths f _i ) have also been determined for the first time. The calculations are performed using synchrotron experimental reflectance spectra. The main features of spectra of the optical functions and components of transitions are established. These features are compared to the results of known theoretical calculations of the bands and spectra of optical functions.     

Analysis of a high frequency and wide bandwidth active polyphase filter based on CMOS inverters

An active polyphase filter capable of high frequency quadrature signal generation has been analyzed. The resistors of the classical passive polyphase filter have been replaced by transconductors, CMOS inverters (F. Tillman and H. Sjöland, Proceedings of the Norchip Conference (pp. 12–15), Nov. 2005; Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, 50(1) 7–12, 2007). A three-stage 0.13 μm CMOS active polyphase filter has been designed. Simulations with a differential input signal show a quadrature error less than 1° for the full stable input voltage range for frequencies from 6 GHz to 14 GHz. Phase errors in the differential input signal are suppressed at least three times at the output. Corner simulations at 10 GHz show a maximum phase error of 3° with both n- and pMOS slow, in all other cases the error is less than 0.75°. The three-stage filter consumes 34 mA from a 1.2 V supply. To investigate the robustness of the filter to changes in inverter delay, an inverter model was implemented in Verilog-A. Linear c _in and g _in were used, whereas g _m , c _out , and g _out were non-linear. It was found that the filter could tolerate substantial delays. Up to 40° phase shift resulted in less than 1.5° quadrature phase error at the output.