Broadband planar dipole array Antenna with double C‐shaped slit elements for digital TV broadcasting transmission

This research has proposed a planar rectangular dipole antenna enclosed in double C‐shaped parasitically slit elements (i.e., radiator element) on a double‐cornered reflector for bandwidth enhancement. In the study, simulations were first carried out to determine the optimal parameters of the radiator element and then a radiator element prototype was fabricated and mounted onto a double‐cornered aluminum reflector. The simulated and measured |S₁₁|<–10 dB of the antenna element covered the frequency ranges of 451–901 MHz (66.6%) and 455–886 MHz (64.3%), respectively. The gain was enhanced by the subsequent deployment of multiple radiator elements to fabricate a four‐element vertically array antenna on an elongated double‐cornered reflector. The simulated and measured |S₁₁|antenna, respectively, covered the 410–991 MHz (82.9%) and 415–886 MHz (72.4%) frequency ranges. The proposed array antenna radiates unidirectionally across the DTV frequency band with a measured front‐to‐back ratio and cross polarization >20 and antenna were 12.8–16.4 dBi and 11.3–15.8 dBi along the 470–862 MHz frequency range. This proposed array antenna is thus suitable for DTV broadcasting transmission. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J RF and Microwave CAE 26:466–478, 2016.     

Profile miniaturization and performance improvement of a rectangular patch antenna using magnetic metamaterial substrates

The idea of profile miniaturization and performance improvement of a rectangular patch antenna using a metamaterial substrate with large values in the real part of effective relative permeability is proposed in microwave frequency range. The volume profile of the antenna is minimized by tuning the effective relative permeability and thickness of the substrate material. The specific type of metamaterial which can be used as substrate material for the antenna miniaturization purpose is suggested. The proposed idea is validated through finite‐difference time‐domain (FDTD) simulations for sample rectangular patch antennas with metamaterial substrates at the frequency about 10 GHz. Improvement of the power directivity is found for the metamaterial substrate with large value in the real part of effective permeability. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J RF and Microwave CAE 26:254–261, 2016.     

Annular ring slot antenna design with reconfigurable polarization

A microstrip‐fed conventional annular ring slot (ARS) antenna with linear polarization (LP) is initially studied. To generate two orthogonal degenerate modes for circular polarization (CP) radiations, two identical meandering perturbation slots (MPS) are symmetrically loaded into the ARS. By further incorporating a PIN diode switch across each MPS, the proposed antenna can switch between left‐hand CP (LHCP), right‐hand CP (RHCP), and LP. All three polarizations have shown good impedance bandwidth and broad CP bandwidth that can satisfy the wireless local area network (WLAN) 2.4‐GHz operating band (2400–2480 MHz). Furthermore, desirable gains of 1.8–2.0 dBi and 2.40–2.84 dBic are also exhibited at LP and LHCP/RHCP, respectively. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J RF and Microwave CAE 26:110–120, 2016.     

X波段的圆极化微带共形阵天线的仿真与设计

为了满足X频段机载雷达天线的指标要求,使得矩形平面天线与柱面共形,通过并联侧馈方式进行馈电。在微带共形阵天线的相关理论基础上,阵元采用介电常数2.2,厚度为0.5mm的介质基板。通过HFSS12对微带共形阵天线进行仿真设计并优化。实验结果表明,在X波段内实现了方位面的全向扫描,实测阻抗带宽为9.80-10.20GHz,最大增益可达10dB,全向辐射性能稳定,满足了指标要求。     

一种用于舰载无人机通信的天线伺服系统设计

为克服舰载设备使用稳定平台的可靠性问题,提出并设计了一种脱离稳定平台用于舰载无人机通信的天线伺服系统。该天线伺服系统用于舰艇对舰载无人机的实时跟踪,具有自动跟踪和手动跟踪两种工作模式,并且结构简单、工作稳定、响应速度快。从系统设计原理出发,阐述了系统的机电作动机构、角度跟踪算法、系统硬件电路设计以及伺服电机控制策略。实验表明,该伺服系统能够实时对舰载无人机进行精确跟踪,从而保障舰艇与无人机的有效通信。     

大空间双模多频段射频识别复合定位

针对室内大范围射频识别定位,提出一种双模多频段射频识别复合定位方法。被定位对象同时携带有源和无源两种模式的标签,微波频段阅读器与被低频频段信号激活的有源标签通信,根据有源标签信号区域选通超高频频段读写器天线,以减轻读写器天线之间干扰;以固定时间读写器天线对无源标签的收包次数为定位参数,在被定位对象位置计算过程中分区筛选最大后验概率位置并利用欧式距离修正定位坐标,完成贝叶斯概率定位算法的改进。实验验证表明,本文提出的复合定位方法,不但可以改善大空间定位中读写器天线间的干扰,而且与LANDMARC算法相比较,定位误差降低59.86%。     

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.     

Millimeter‐wave planar high gain SIW antenna using half elliptic radiation slots

This article reports a high gain millimeter‐wave substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) antenna using low cost printed circuit board technology. The half elliptic slots which can provide small shunt admittance, low cross polarization level and low mutual coupling are etched on the board surface of SIW as radiation slots for large array application. Design procedure for analyzing the characteristics of proposed radiation slot, the beam‐forming structure and the array antenna are presented. As examples, an 8 × 8 and a 32 × 32 SIW slot array antennas are designed and verified by experiments. Good agreements between simulation and measured results are achieved, which shows the 8 × 8 SIW slot array antenna has a gain of 20.8 dBi at 42.5 GHz, the maximum sidelobe level of 42.5 GHz E‐plane and H‐plane radiation patterns are 22.3 dB and 22.1 dB, respectively. The 32 × 32 SIW slot array antenna has a maximum measured gain of 30.05 dBi at 42.5 GHz. At 42.3 GHz, the measured antenna has a gain of 29.6 dBi and a maximum sidelobe level of 19.89 dB and 15.0 dB for the E‐plane and H‐plane radiation patterns. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J RF and Microwave CAE 25:709–718, 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.