Low cost millimetre wave modules are needed for emerging 60 GHz applications such as high speed wireless communications and millimetre wave identification (MMID). All applications require high performance antenna arrays to overcome the high propagation losses. Two alternative antenna array designs on a low cost substrate (Taconic Taclamplus) are presented and analysed in this paper. The arrays ...

This research involves the overlaps of antenna theory, fractal geometry, and numerical calculations. Its goal is to investigate how random or periodic antenna array geometry can be improved through the use of fractals. Using a program we developed in Matlab, we plotted the radiation of linear/planar antenna arrays. We were able to correctly analyze radiation of three two-dimensional arrays. Ano...

Fractal array antennas are multiband arrays having ultra wide band and space filling facility. But Side lobe levels and large number of antenna elements are the major designing challenges of these arrays. In this paper, design and analysis of octagonal fractal array antenna is investigated with Morse-Thue fractal density tapering technique (MTFDT). Due to the proposed technique, a remarkable im...

according to high costs of phase shifters in antenna arrays, new methods for beam steering without phase shifter were introduced. frequency diverse array (fda) concept is another approach to beam steering problem. in this structure, the subsequent antenna elements are fed with stepped discrete frequencies causing continuous scanning of space in time. so a range-angle dependent scanning is made ...

We present a systematic study of optical antenna arrays, in which the effects of coupling between the antennas, as well as of the antenna length, on the reflection spectra are investigated and compared. Such arrays can be fabricated on the facet of a fiber, and we propose a photonic device, a plasmonic optical antenna fiber probe, that can potentially be used for in-situ chemical and biological...

We address the capacity limits of sizeconstrained multi-input multi-output (MIMO) arrays. While most work on MIMO focuses on arrays with of a small number of sufficiently spaced, low correlated antenna elements, we look at the case where a fixed small space is being filled up with antenna elements. We obtain a dense MIMO system whose rate performance is analyzed. We establish capacity limits an...

This paper describes the characteristics of a software developed on MatLab Scripts to obtain the radiation patterns of linear antenna arrays using dipoles as the elements. The software includes, among several other options: the analysis and design of arrays with progressive phase, arrays with non uniform amplitude excitation and arrays with non uniform separation. Some special attributes of the...

Evolutionary Search Algorithms (EA) have been intensively used in solving numerical optimization problems. Since design of antenna arrays is a numerical optimization problem, EAs have been intensively used in solving antenna arrays design problems. Although EAs are widely used in antenna array design problems, a performance comparison study of the intensively used EAs for circular antenna array...

Fractal antennas have undergone dramatic changes since they were first considered for wireless systems. Numerous advancements are developed both in the area of fractal shaped elements and fractal antenna array technology for fractal electrodynamics. This paper makes an attempt of applying the concept of fractal antenna array technology in the RF regime to optical antenna array technology in the...

In the context of passive sources localization using antenna array, the estimation accuracy of elevation, and azimuth are related not only to the kind of estimator which is used, but also to the geometry of the considered antenna array. Although there are several available results on the linear array, and also for planar arrays, other geometries existing in the literature, such as 3D arrays, ha...