For tele-conference systems or voice-controlled systems, the highquality sound capture of distant-talking speech is very important. However, background noise and room reverberations seriously degrade the sound capture quality in real acoustical environments. A microphone array is an ideal candidate for capturing distanttalking speech. With a microphone array, the desired speech signals can be a...

Abstract— This paper describes 2 x 2 triangular microstrip patch antenna using T-junction with quarter wave transformer. By regulating the distance in patch antenna and adjusting feed position, bandwidth can be obtained and by using an array, directivity is enhanced. The requirement of large bandwidth, high directivity, and minimum size leads to the design of 2 x 2 triangular microstrip patch a...

This work presents a method to control the perceived distance of an auditory object by changing the directivity pattern of a loudspeaker and consequently the direct-to-reverberant ratio at the listening spot. Control of the directivity pattern is achieved by beamforming using a compact multi-driver loudspeaker unit. A small-sized cubic array consisting of six drivers is assembled, and per drive...

In this paper, the maximization of the directivity of compromise difference patterns in subarrayed monopulse linear array antennas with optimum sum mode is addressed by means of a two-stage excitation matching procedure. The knowledge of the independently optimum difference excitations, which provide the maximum directivity, is exploited with an efficient matching technique based on the contigu...

In this paper, the Contiguous Partition Method (CPM) is applied to the optimization of the directivity of difference patterns in monopulse planar array antennas. Since the excitations providing maximum directivity of planar arrays can be analytically computed and because of the excitation matching nature of the CPM, the problem at hand is recast as the synthesis of the difference compromise sol...

An ultrasonic transducer is a key component to achieve ultrasonic imaging. This paper designs a new type of Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) based capacitive ultrasonic transducer and a linear array based on the transducer. Through directivity analysis, it can be found that its directivity is weak due to the small size of the designed transducer, but the directivity of the designed linear ...

In recent communication systems side lobe level reduction has become one of the important issue. For applications like digital beam forming it is one of the important factor because it reduces the effect of interference arriving outside the main lobe. This reduction in the interference increases the capacity of the communication systems. This paper presents the different methods for reducing th...

This paper presents the simulation and experimental study of the radiation pattern of a meander-line-coil EMAT. A wholly analytical method, which involves the coupling of two models: an analytical EM model and an analytical UT model, has been developed to build EMAT models and analyse the Rayleigh waves' beam directivity. For a specific sensor configuration, Lorentz forces are calculated using ...

In this paper, the cavity model of a microstrip patch antenna in conjunction with the reciprocity theorem is used to develop a fast analytical solution for the radiation field of a microstrip patch antenna loaded with a novel artificial magnetic superstrate and to investigate the effect of the engineered superstrate layer on the directivity and radiation pattern of the printed patch antenna.

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