A multiple input and multiple output (MIMO) antenna that comprises a printed microstrip antenna and a printed double-L sleeve monopole antenna for LTE 1800 wireless application is presented. The printed double-L sleeve monopole antenna is fed by a 50 ohm coplanar waveguide (CPW). A novel T-shaped microstrip feedline printed on the other side of the PCB is used to excite the waveguide's outer sh...

Abstract—An ultra-wideband (UWB) planar monopole antenna integrated with a narrow-band (NB) cylindrical dielectric resonator antenna (DRA) is presented. The proposed antenna consists of a UWB monopole excited by a coplanar waveguide (CPW) transmission line, acting as a ground for a DRA excited by a slot. The mode HEM11δ is excited in the NB DRA. To validate the concept of integration, an antenn...

Optical nanoantennas can be used for coupling radiation to or from waveguides in analogy to micro- and radio-wave systems. In this letter we provide a systematic description of the design approaches for a coupler to a plasmonic slot waveguide in the telecom range around 1.55 µm with realistic excitation from a lensed optical fiber. We show that the best coupling efficiency of 26% can be achieve...

An Electromagnetic Band Gap (EBG) loaded square waveguide Band-Pass Filter (BPF) is proposed in this paper. It’s simply composed by symmetrically loading periodical metal diaphragms on each wall of a square waveguide. The influences of insert sizes and loading periods on the overall BPF performances are analyzed. Experimental results agree well with those predicted. 6 GHz pass-band with insert ...

A post-wall waveguide-fed parallel plate slot array shown in Fig.1 is one of the attractive candidates for high efficiency and mass producible planar array antennas in millimeter-wave applications [1]-[3]. A unit T-junction model with simplified PEC solid-walls was utilized for highspeed design using the method of moments [1]. Unfortunately, the antenna designed by this model was suffered from ...

Metamaterial structures have unique properties in controlling the propagation of electromagnetic waves. In this work, we analyze the effect of artificial magnetic conductor (AMC) surface strips on the bottom face of an oversized parallel plate waveguide to enhance the wave guidance within it. The results using these configurations in a linear slot array antenna fed by a rectangular parallel pla...

A compact two-layer slot array antenna at 24GHz based on substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) technology is presented. The feed waveguide is placed underneath the slot array and is coupled through slanted slots to branches of the array leading to considerable reduction in size compared to onelayer SIW slot array antennas that are fed from one end. Fullwave electromagnetic simulations show excel...

1. Introduction A leaky-wave line-source antenna is basically an open waveguide that supports a leaky mode (instead of a bound mode) and that therefore radiates all along its length. For use at millimeter wavelengths, various novel leaky-wave antennas were proposed, analyzed, and measured based on some low loss open waveguide designed specifically. Since these waveguides are already open, a phy...

A radial line slot antenna (RLSA) in Fig.1 is a high-gain, high-efficiency and low-cost planer antenna, which was originally proposed for satellite TV reception at 12GHz band [1]. Recently this antenna has been designed for a space solar power system (SSPS) [2],[3]. Figure 2 shows the relationship between the slow-wave factor and the aperture efficiency. The slow-wave factor ξ is defined as ξ=λ...

A post-wall waveguide-fed parallel-plate slot array antenna [1–3] has been proposed as a highgain, high-efficiency and mass producible planar antenna in millimeter-wave applications. The authors are developing post-wall waveguide slot arrays using a copper-clad dielectric substrate which reduces the cost of waveguides structures by printed circuit board (PCB) fabrication technique. The transmis...