Within the framework of the development of a wearable communications system for a sportsman, a textile antenna has been realised. The required antenna needed to be low profile, washable, insensitive to the proximity of the human skin and relatively insensitive to deformation. To overcome the human operator coupling effects on the antenna input impedance, i.e. a shift in resonance frequency and ...

This paper presents a low-profile user-terminal antenna for mobile bi-directional Ka-band satellite communication networks for emergency scenarios. We have devised an antenna with a circularly polarised radiation pattern and dual-band capability, which addresses a hybrid tracking. The principle of operation of a rectangular antenna panel applying a dual-band partially reflective surface (PRS) o...

We present a ground penetrating radar (GPR) system, which uses an antenna array for in situ measurements of the thickness and dielectric permittivity of an asphalt pavement layer. We calibrated the antenna array by considering the antenna phase center and the antenna offset. The results of the laboratory measurements demonstrate that the proposed calibration method can greatly improve the accur...

This paper presents two methods for determining the complex antenna factor (CAF) of a shielded loop antenna for HF magnetic field measurements. A circuit model is introduced to apply the field-transferred 3-antenna method to double-loaded shielded loop antennas. In addition, a new 3-antenna method is proposed, where theoretical calculation and circuit measurement are combined. Experiments are m...

A novel compact dielectric loaded Exponentially Tapered Slot (ETS) antenna using Substrate Integrated Waveguide (SIW) technology is presented in this paper for Millimeter (Mm) wave wireless communication applications. The dielectric loaded ETS antenna and compact SIW feed are fabricated on a single substrate. The compact SIW feeding structure results in a considerable reduction in size and elim...

In this paper, we will introduce a cocentered orthogonal loop and dipole antenna (COLD) to a borehole radar system. With the cocentered orthogonal loop and dipole antenna, we could obtain additional information on polarization state of arrival waves in the borehole radar using * optical modulators. We set the proposed antenna in a borehole actually, and made electromagnetic waves with known pol...

In this article, a novel dual-band microstrip monopole antenna based on split-ring elements is proposed for WLAN (2.4/5 GHz) applications. The antenna fed by a two-stage microstrip line has fairly small dimensions and provides 7.5 and 25.5% impedance bandwidth performance at the respective bands. Also, the antenna exhibits almost uniform radiation patterns at each frequency band. The measuremen...

This paper presents of Smart antenna system based on the direction of arrival (DOA) estimation and adaptive beamforming. Direction of arrival (DOA) estimation is based on the MUSIC for identify the direction of signal and adaptive beamforming is achieved by LMS algorithm. The smart antenna system designed involves a hardware part which provides real data measurement of the incident signal recei...

It is not possible to do direct tests to find the best LTE multi-antenna configuration for optimizing antenna diversity gain, antenna MIMO capacity or device throughput with the traditional antenna measurement method, i.e. an anechoic chamber. Of the two alternatives for making direct measurements, i.e. drive tests and the reverberation chamber, the reverberation chamber offers many advantages....

A simple, compact, slot loaded stacked wideband microstrip patch antenna is presented in this communication. The radiating element consists of a rectangular patch with a Tshaped slot and is fed by a 50 Ω microstrip line. The proposed antenna is simulated using IE3D software, 12.32 version of Zeland. The simulated results show that the antenna can exhibit wideband characteristics. The impedance ...