Visualization is an intuitive way to observe and analyse the phenomena related to the propagation of sound. It is evident that human hearing is highly capable of discriminating different aspects from an acoustic signal. The ability to discriminate is not necessarily enough to identify causality, that is answering the question: what aspect in the audio signal path, being a device or a room, cont...

In this paper we investigate the properties of two-dimensional photonic crystals (2D PhCs) with both hexagonal and square symmetry for applications in optoelectronics and telecommunication. An efficient way of manipulating the light is to make use of the defects introduced within the periodic structure, which consequently break the symmetry of the crystal, resulting in linear waveguides or reso...

SUMMARY The Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) technique is presented in this paper as an estimation method for radio propagation prediction in large and complex wireless local area network (WLAN) environments. Its validity is shown by comparing measurements and Ray-trace method with FDTD data. The 2GHz (802.lIb/g) and 5GHz (802.lIa) frequency bands are used in both the calculations and exper...

This paper describes a full wave approach for analyzing planar interconnect structures, such as power distribution systems in printed circuit boards and multichip modules, using a tightly coupled combination of FDTD and SPICE. The technique enhances the present hybrid full wave circuit methods in terms of robustness and efficiency. The method is applied to a few sample problems to illustrate it...

This paper presents a new whole-body averaged specific absorption rate (SAR) estimation method based on the cylindrical fields scanning technique. The aim of this study is to achieve experimentally an estimation of whole-body averaged SAR in human models due to plane wave exposure using the radiation-field scanning technique. In this paper, the validity of the proposed methods is investigated u...

Folded slots are attractive for active arrays because of their broad bandwidth and simplicity. They have been used recently in a quasi-optical amplifier array. However, little is known about these antennas on thin substrates. The finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method is applied to the analysis of cpw-fed folded-slot antennas. This paper compares the theoretical results and measured data a...

A conformal antenna array is analysed using an enhanced FDTD method. This antenna array is designed for use for in a channel sounder for characterising MIMO channels at UMTS frequencies, and (scaled to work at higher frequencies) may also be proposed as a MIMO antenna for wireless LANs. The FDTD model is shown to be extremely accurate for characterising important parameters of the array such as...