Design of a printed log‐periodic dipole array antenna with high gain for millimeter‐wave applications

In this article, a V‐band printed log‐periodic dipole array (PLPDA) antenna with high gain is proposed. The antenna prototype is designed, simulated, fabricated, and tested. Simulation results show that this antenna can operate from 42 to 82 GHz with a fractional impedance bandwidth of 64.5% covering the whole V‐band (50–75 GHz). The antenna has a measured impedance matching bandwidth that starts from 42 to beyond 65 GHz with good agreement between the experimental and simulated results. At 50 and 65 GHz, the antenna has a measured gain of 10.45 and 10.28 dBi, respectively, with a gain variation of 2.6 dBi across the measured frequency range. The antenna prototype exhibits also stable radiation patterns over the operating band. It achieves side‐lobe suppression better than 17.26 dB in the H‐plane and better than 8.95 dB in the E‐plane, respectively. In addition, the cross‐polarization component is 18.5 dB lower than the copolarization with front‐to‐back ratio lower than 24.1 dB in both E‐ and H‐planes across the desired frequency range. Based on a comparison of performance among the reported work in the literature, we can say that the proposed PLPDA antenna is a proper candidate to be used in many applications at V‐band frequency. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J RF and Microwave CAE 25:185–193, 2015.     

Novel ultra‐compact two‐dimensional waveguide‐based metasurface for electromagnetic coupling reduction of microstrip antenna array

A novel ultracompact two‐dimensional (2D) waveguide‐based metasurface is proposed herein and applied for the first time to reduce mutual coupling in antenna array for multiple‐input multiple‐output applications. The unit cell of the proposed 2D waveguide‐based metasurface is ultracompact (8.6 mm × 4.8 mm, equal to λ₀/14.2 × λ₀/25.5) mainly due to the symmetrical spiral lines etched on the ground. The metasurface exhibits a bandgap with two transmission zeros attributing to the negative permeability in the vicinity of magnetic resonance and the negative permittivity in the vicinity of electric resonance. Taking advantage of these two features, a microstrip antenna array is then designed, fabricated, and measured by embedding an 8 × 1 array of the well‐engineered 2D waveguide‐based metasurface elements between two closely spaced (9.2 mm, equal to λ₀/13.3) H‐plane coupled rectangular patches. There is good agreement between the simulated and measured results, indicating that the metasurface effectively reduces antenna mutual coupling by more than 11.18 dB and improves forward gain. The proposed compact structure has one of the highest reported decoupling efficiencies among similar periodic structures with comparable dimensions. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J RF and Microwave CAE 25:789–794, 2015.     

Modeling of microstrip antennas using neural networks techniques: A review

Artificial neural networks modeling have recently acquired enormous importance in microwave community especially in analyzing and synthesizing of microstrip antennas (MSAs) due to their generalization and adaptability features. A trained neural model estimates response very fast, which is nearly equal to its measured and/or simulated counterpart. Thus, it completely bypasses the repetitive use of conventional models as these models need rediscretization for every minor changes in the geometry, which itself is a time‐consuming exercise. The purpose of this article is to review this emerging area comprehensively for both analyzing and synthesizing of the MSAs. During reviewing process, some untouched cases are also observed, which are essentially required to be resolved for antenna designers. Unique and efficient neural networks‐based solutions are suggested for these cases. The proposed neural approaches are validated by fabricating and characterizing of the prototypes too. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J RF and Microwave CAE 25:747–757, 2015.     

双馈风力发电机控制系统半实物仿真平台设计

针对目前风力发电机仿真仅限于某个功能或单元的建模及分析,难以进行整机控制系统仿真的问题,以双馈发电机为对象,设计与实现了风力发电机半实物仿真实验平台.该平台包括控制系统、风力机虚拟对象、通讯接口以及监控界面组成,软件之间通过自动化设备规范(ADS)协议进行数据交互融合,为整机及控制系统的性能在线评估提供支持.最后在所开发实验平台上进行了低风速仿真实验,验证了所设计平台的有效性和合理性,为风电场后期的参数评估及性能优化提供一个完善可行的实用化平台.     

一种高增益宽频带圆极化微带阵列天线的研制

针对微带天线阻抗匹配带宽一般较窄的自身缺陷,基于相控阵雷达天线的应用背景,设计了一种工作在X波段的双层圆极化微带天线结构,且优化发现,其各电磁参数良好。为提高其增益,还在此基础上设计并最终制作了双层2×2结构的微带天线阵列,其实测性能与设计值相符,增益达到10.7dB,带宽1.2GHz,相应轴比为4dB,符合圆极化要求。     

Improved phase performance for rotman lens

Rotman lenses are used to obtain multiple beams from a single array. Although the beams produced by the feed antennas at focal points have no path length errors, the beams produced by feed antennas at off focal points may have large path length errors. These path length errors cause deterioration in the multiple beams. In this article, two novel methods are introduced to obtain feed curves which reduce the path length errors of off focal feed points significantly, compared with the commonly used circular and elliptical feed curves. The first method obtains feed curve points based on having zero path length error at three chosen points of the radiating array for each beam direction. The second method uses the particle swarm optimization method for obtaining optimum feed points for each beam direction. The results show that there is a very significant drop in the level of the maximum path length errors (in the order of about 1:4). © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J RF and Microwave CAE 23: 634–638, 2013.     

Design of hexa‐band planar inverted‐F antenna using hybrid BSO‐NM algorithm for mobile phone communications

This article presents a new design of multiband planar inverted‐F antenna with slotted ground plane and S‐etched slot on the radiation patch. The proposed antenna is optimized using an efficient global hybrid optimization method combining bacterial swarm optimization and Nelder‐Mead (BSO‐NM) algorithm to cover a very important six service bands including GSM900, GPS1575, DCS1800, PCS1900, ISM2450, and 4G5000 MHz with enhanced bandwidths. The BSO‐NM algorithm in Matlab code is linked to the CST Microwave studio software to simulate the antenna. To validate the results, the antenna is analyzed using the finite difference time domain (FDTD) method. A good agreement is achieved between the results of EM simulation and that produced from the FDTD method. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J RF and Microwave CAE, 2013.     

WLAN广域覆盖技术及应用策略研究

目前,WLAN的主要建设模式以室内独立放装和室分系统合路方式为主,室外广域覆盖模式应用策略不明确,规划建设不是很成熟。对WLAN广域覆盖存在的问题和解决思路进行了研究,并进行了大量的测试工作,对测试结果进行了深入分析,最终给出了WLAN广域覆盖的应用建议。     

采用曲面设计的LED前照灯建模及配光分析

LED作为汽车前照灯的光源在节能和效率上具有优势,本文研究了使用半导体LED光源前照灯的反射镜曲面的设计方法,并进行了配光验证分析。根据前照灯近光配光标准、LED光源特点和反射镜曲面设计,作者建立了新颖的LED前照灯的设计模型,包括LED光源模拟、反射器曲面设计、透镜设计单元和配光分析。作者提出不规则三维曲面作为反射镜的方法,并实现了LED前照灯的照明计算仿真。文章最后分析了实验结果,并指出LED前照灯的前景和未来大功率LED汽车前照灯发展的关键技术。     

基于神经网络控制的星载微波辐射计

本文提出一种采用神经网络控制技术的消除星载全功率微波辐射计系统增益和等效本机噪声波动的方法。此方法通过基于神经网络的控制系统,控制微波辐射计的系统增益与参考电压,使微波辐射计在轨运行期间系统参数保持不变。系统参数通过地面实验获得,因此在轨运行期间不再需要星上两点定标中的低温基准源,减少了低温定标天线等物理设备。