Low sidelobe slotted waveguide antenna is developed in the millimeter-wave band. Millimeter-wave technologies are expected to apply to automotive radars and high-bit-rate mobile communication systems because high gain and narrow beam-width is possible even though the physical size of the antenna aperture is small. Waveguide antenna is advantageous for high gain applications since the feeding lo...

Lobby 1 Chair: Tudor Palade (Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania) , Stephan Stanko (FGAN-FHR, Germany) 2.1 SIWSeries Fed RDRA Array System for Millimeter-Wave Applications Wael Abdel Wahab (University of Waterloo, Canada); Safieddin Safavi-Naeini (University of Waterloo, Canada); Dan. Busuioc (University of Waterloo, Canada) A simple, low cost novel series feeding scheme to rectangular...

In this paper, a technique based on hybrid particle swarm optimiser with breeding and subpopulation is presented for optimal design of reconfigurable dual-beam linear array antennas and planar arrays. In the amplitudephase synthesis, the design of a reconfigurable dual-pattern antenna array is based on finding a common amplitude distribution that can generate either a pencil or sector beam powe...

In this paper, a novel compact and wideband fylfot-shaped planar monopole antenna is proposed. The fylfot-shaped is suggested to reduce the volume of a general crossed planar monopole antenna. The volume of the proposed antenna is about 1/4 of a general crossed planar monopole antenna under the conditions where the wideband characteristics are maintained. This technique is suitable for the desi...

Mobile and wireless communication systems have now arrived at the point where substancial advances in antenna technology have become a critical issue. The majority of these systems consist of an antenna array combined with an appropriate signal processing (Soni et al., 2002; Godara, 2002), i.e., the antenna elements are allowed to work in concert by means of array element phasing, which is acco...

In patch antennas, characteristics such as high gain, beam scanning, or steering capability are possible only when discrete patch elements are combined to form arrays. The elements of an array may be spatially distributed to form a linear, planar, or volume array. Planar arrays have elements distributed on a plane. Planar array configurations are extensively used in both communication and radar...

We present the numerical parametric study of a reconfigurable plasma antenna array (PAA) composed of a metallic half-wavelength dipole and a set of cylindrical plasma discharges arranged in a planar square lattice. Our results, obtained with the linear embedding via Green’s operators (LEGO) method, indicate that beam-forming and beam-steering functionality can be achieved and controlled by appr...

A planar inverted F antenna is combined with passive (reactively loaded) elements in order to implement a multi-frequency configuration appropriate for biomedical applications in microwave frequencies. A case study of an electronically Reconfigurable PIFA (R-PIFA) is pursued for the detection of temperature abnormalities in human tissue phantom using microwave radiometry, where the performance ...