In this paper, a miniaturized coplanar waveguide fed (CPW-fed) tapered slot antenna (TSA) is introduced for breast cancer detection. Here, a modified CPW to slot-line transition structure with an air-bridge is employed to broaden the transition bandwidth and increase the radiation efficiency. Through these applied modifications, negative features of the original TSA (limitation of transition) a...

BACKGROUND We describe the design, the construction and performance of a narrow band ortho-mode transducer, currently used in the 5 GHz polarimetric receiver of the Galactic Emission Mapping project. RESULTS The ortho-mode transducer was designed to achieve a high degree of transmission within the 400 MHz of the GEM band around the 5 GHz (4.8-5.2 GHz). It is composed of a circular-to-square w...

Preparing for robot soccer competitions by empirically evaluating different possible game strategies has been rather limited in leagues using real robots. Such limitation comes from factors related to the difficulty of extensively experimenting with games with real robots, such as their inevitable wear and tear and their usual limited number. RoboCup real robot teams have therefore developed si...

Splashplate feeds, e.g. [1], are increasingly used for high performance parabolic antennas. The feed is directly interfaced in the focus of the antenna by a straight circular waveguide through the antenna vertex which simultaneously acts as feed support. At the far side of the waveguide, the need of a circularto-rectangular waveguide transition is obvious to overcome proper interfacing with sta...

Multiple-Channel SSL (MC-SSL) is our model and protocol for the security of client-server communication. In contrast to SSL, MC-SSL can securely provide applications with multiple channels, and each of them can have a specific cipher suite and a various number of application proxies; meanwhile, the channel negotiation and operation in MC-SSL are still based on SSL, which needs a small change in...

We present a novel design of a waveguide to microstrip or coplanar waveguide transition using a unilateral finline taper. The transition from the unilateral finline mode to the TEM microstrip mode is done directly, avoiding the antipodal finline tapers that have commonly been employed. This results in significant simplification of the design and fabrication, and shortening of the chip length, t...