This paper proposes a double negative metamaterial surface as a superstrate for a multilayer cylindrical dielectric resonator antenna (MCDRA). The aim is to achieve a broadband and high gain Electromagnetic Band Gap (EBG) antenna that can be used in harsh propagation areas to satisfy all the requirements for the 60GHz wireless communications offering a bandwidth of 7GHz in the unlicensed ISM ba...

In this paper, a hybrid dual-band cylindrical dielectric resonator antenna with parasitic slot fed by a microstrip line that is suitable for wireless body area network is proposed. In this configuration, the dielectric resonator performs the functions of an effective radiator along with the feeding structure and the slot in the ground plane. By optimizing the structural parameters, the antenna ...

Abstract—A new wideband and high-gain dielectric resonator antenna (DRA) is proposed. Three cylindrical dielectric resonators (DRs) with different materials and different sizes and a metallic cylinder are designed to obtain a wideband bandwidth and a high gain. The stacked structure provides a wideband bandwidth, and the cavity formed by the metallic cylinder provides a high gain. The measured ...

This paper describes optimal thinning of an Elliptical Cylindrical Array (ECA) of uniformly excited isotropic antennas which can generate directive beam with minimum relative Side Lobe Level (SLL). The Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) method, which represents a new approach for optimization problems in electromagnetic, is used in the optimization process. The PSO is used to determine the optim...

An experimental study concerning Ultra Wideband (UWB) Microwave Radar for breast cancer detection is described. A simple phantom, consisting of a cylindrical plastic container with low dielectric constant material imitating fatty tissues and a high dielectric constant object emulating tumour, is scanned with a tapered slot UWB probe antenna between 3.1 to 10.6 GHz. Different calibration schemes...

A dielectric array transmitting structure, formed into a partial circle, demonstrated the propagation of electromagnetic fields that decayed with distance by 1/R rather than 1/R. The array had an electromagnetic field wavefront with an angular rate which will present signal detection and identification problems to conventional antenna-receiver-signal processing systems. A properly structured cy...

The electromagnetic equivalence of an infinitely long loaded wire-cage structure and loaded hollow cylindrical geometry is established based on the same radiated fields under identical conditions. Analysis of the canonical infinitely long loaded wire geometries are given by treatment as boundary-value antenna prob1ems. An expression for the equivalent radius of the wire cage and an equivalent i...

in this paper a new low profile substrate integrated waveguide (siw) probe-fed h-plane horn antenna structure with improved gain is proposed. the proposed antenna consists of two waveguides including a rectangular and a taper one, in which both, first and third modes of the structure are simultaneously excited leading to a uniform field distribution along the radiating aperture of the antenna a...