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A mmWave Low Complexity and Low-Cost Super Wideband Dual-Polarized Aperture Coupled Antenna for 5G Applications

Anja Skrivervik

Advanced antenna system (AAS) is a viable option for 5G millimeter-wave (mmWave) applications. AAS single element is favored to be dual-polarized, wideband, high gain, and compact in order to be utilized for 5G antenna arrays. In this paper, a low complexi ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

Radiation Patterns of RF Wireless Devices Implanted in Small Animals: Unexpected Deformations Due to Body Resonance

Anja Skrivervik, Stéphanie Lacour, Mingxiang Gao, German Augusto Ramirez Arroyave, Kangling Wu, James Daniel Rosenthal

One challenge in designing RF wireless bioelectronic devices is the impact of the interaction between electromagnetic waves and host body tissues on far-field wireless performance. In this paper, we investigate a peculiar phenomenon of implantable RF wirel ...

2023

Analysis of Non-Canonical Body-Conformal Arrays with Polarization Decomposition

Anja Skrivervik, Denys Nikolayev

Conformal phased arrays can be found in many applications due to their ability to fit tridimensional surfaces and, thanks to their scanning performance, can excel planar arrays. However, most of the previously proposed analysis methods can be applied only ...

IEEE2023

Hints of the Photonic Nature of the Electromagnetic Fields in Classical Electrodynamics

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein

Several recent publications show that the electromagnetic radiation generated by transmitting antennas satisfy the following universal conditions: The time domain radiation fields satisfy the condition A ≥ h/4π ⇒ q ≥ e where A is the action of the radiatio ...

2023

Enhancing the beamwidth of low profile single-fed microstrip antennas using parasitic elements

Anja Skrivervik, Ismael Vico Triviño

In this paper we present a technique to broaden the beamwidth of conventional patch microstrip antennas by using parasitic elements. This technique allows to keep the main advantages of microstrip antennas while increasing their beamwidth. We provide guide ...

IEEE2022

A portable picocell antenna for 5G

Danelys Rodríguez Avila

Deployable emergency communication systems are a backbone solution for replacing damaged network infrastructures and/or providing high-end services in case of an emergency event. It is important that such systems are up-to-date with the latest mobile netwo ...

EPFL2021

Rules of Thumb to Assess Losses of Implanted Antennas

Anja Skrivervik, Mingxiang Gao, Denys Nikolayev

Fundamental limits for implanted antennas should be able to evaluate the bounds on losses with the knowledge of physical limitations from antenna and tissue parameters. In this work, rules of thumb to assess losses of deeply implanted antennas are presente ...

IEEE2021

Ultralow-Profile Circularly Polarized Reflectarray Antenna for CubeSat Intersatellite Links in K-B and

Anja Skrivervik, Miroslav Veljovic

An ultralow-profile circularly polarized (CP) reflectarray (RA) antenna is presented in this article, based on the variable-rotation technique for beam collimation and scanning. Starting from a conventional split-loop element, a new wideband element is des ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Multipole interplay controls optical forces and ultra-directional scattering

Olivier Martin, Karim Achouri, Andrei Kiselev

We analyze the superposition of Cartesian multipoles to reveal the mechanisms underlying the origin of optical forces. We show that a multipolar decomposition approach significantly simplifies the analysis of this problem and leads to a very intuitive expl ...

2020

Zero Index Metamaterial for High Gain Array

Tingyong Jiang

Many metamaterials, including metal wire grid, was invented to enhance the performance of the antenna in the last decade. A novel zero index metamaterial (ZIM), consisting of double metal layers with periodic circular perforation cells, was proposed and st ...

IEEE2020

Stacked patch antenna and hybrid beamforming network for 5G picocell applications

Anja Skrivervik, Danelys Rodríguez Avila

This paper addresses the design of an antenna array for a portable picocell station with omnidirectional coverage. The proposed solution includes a stacked patch antenna as a single radiating element of the antenna array and a hybrid beamforming network. T ...

IEEE2019

Broadbeam microstrip patch antenna using higher order modes

Anja Skrivervik, Ismael Vico Triviño

The aim of this contribution is to assess the potential of using various microstrip radiating elements excited with different modes to achieve wide pattern beamwidths. The proposed antenna is made in classic microstrip technology and consists of a circular ...

The European Association on Antennas and Propagation (EurAAP)2019

Generation of acoustic helical wavefronts using metasurfaces

Juan Ramon Mosig, Hervé Lissek, Seyyed Hussein Seyyed Esfahlani

It has been shown that acoustic waves with helical wavefronts can carry angular momentum, which can be transmitted towards a propagating medium. Such a wave field can be achieved by using a planar array of electroacoustic transducers, forming a given spati ...

2017

Circularly Polarized Compact LTSA Array in SIW Technology

Juan Ramon Mosig, Marc Esquius Morote, Lei Wang

Typical linearly tapered slot antenna (LTSA) usually features a wideband and a high gain. However, its geometry size is large, especially very long in the tapering direction, which limits its application in compact antenna and array systems. This communica ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2017

Design of novel radiating elements for SATCOM phased arrays in Ku-Band

Baptiste Fernand Hornecker

The present thesis deals with the design of a planar antenna array for the communication between a civil aircraft (Dassault's Falcon) and an Inmarsat satellite. The final goal is to provide high speed Internet access in X/Ku-Band (8-12GHz / 12-18GHz), and ...

EPFL2016

Design of Compact Air-Vias-Perforated SIW Horn Antenna With Partially Detached Broad Walls

Lei Wang

A novel substrate-integrated waveguide (SIW) horn antenna with partially detached broad walls is designed and analyzed. The conventional SIW horn antenna suffers from narrow-operating bandwidth, which mainly results from the mismatch at the horn aperture b ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2016

Spatial Multiplexing of QPSK Signals With a Single Radio: Antenna Design and Over-the-Air Experiments

Juan Ramon Mosig, Andreas Peter Burg, Julien Perruisseau-Carrier, Mohsen Yousefbeiki, Andrew Charles Mallory Austin

This paper describes the implementation and performance analysis of the first fully operational beam-space multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna for the spatial multiplexing of two QPSK streams. The antenna is composed of a planar three-port radiat ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

A sound diffusion system for directional sound enhancement

Hervé Lissek, Xavier Falourd, Patrick Marmaroli, Alain Dufaux, Baptiste Crettaz

A loudspeaker array is described including several circular sound emitters that are bunked. One circular sound emitter can be either a circular array of loudspeakers (kind 1) or a toroidal loudspeaker (kind 2). The loudspeaker array can be composed of circ ...

André Roland S.A.2015

Dual-Polarized Partially Reflective Surface Antenna With MEMS-Based Beamwidth Reconfiguration

Julien Perruisseau-Carrier, Tomislav Debogovic

A partially reflective surface (PRS) antenna design enabling 1-bit dynamic beamwidth control is presented. The antenna operates at X-band and is based on microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology. The reconfigurable PRS unit cell monolithically inte ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

Frequency, Radiation Pattern and Polarization Reconfigurable Antenna Using a Parasitic Pixel Layer

Daniel Rodrigo Lopez

This communication presents a reconfigurable antenna capable of independently reconfiguring the operating frequency, radiation pattern and polarization. A switched grid of small metallic patches, known as pixel surface, is used as a parasitic layer to prov ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2014