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

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

Code for project entitled "study on conformal antennas, proof of concept prototype for a UAV"

Anja Skrivervik, Yuanyan Su

This code is used for developing the project entitled “Study on conformal antennas, proof of concept prototype for a UAV”, from the aspects of theory, design, and implementation. This code aims to speed up the investigation of an arbitrary phased array ant ...

Zenodo2024

Integration concept of an Electron Cyclotron System in DEMO

Minh Quang Tran, René Chavan

The pre-conceptual layout for an electron cyclotron system (ECS) in DEMO is described. The present DEMO ECS considers only equatorial ports for both plasma heating and neoclassical tearing mode (NTM) control. This differs from ITER, where four launchers in ...

2021

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

Antenna for a Cranial Implant: Simulation Issues and Design Strategies

Anja Skrivervik, Miroslav Veljovic, Ismael Vico Triviño

The design of a specific antenna for a cranial implant is used to illustrate design and simulation issues linked to implantable antennas. After a brief introduction, we will review the requirements for the antenna, and go through the design process, discus ...

IEEE2020

RF sheath modeling of experimentally observed plasma surface interactions with the JET ITER-Like Antenna

Olivier Sauter, Richard Pitts, Ambrogio Fasoli, Stefano Coda, Basil Duval, Henri Weisen, Yves Martin, Yann Camenen, Jan Horacek, Javier García Hernández, Duccio Testa, Marco Wischmeier, Nicola Vianello, Mikhail Maslov, Patrick Blanchard, Alessandro Pau, Davide Galassi, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Liang Yao, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Cristian Sommariva, Jonathan Graves, Federico Nespoli, Hamish William Patten, Samuel Lanthaler, David Pfefferlé, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin

Waves in the Ion Cyclotron Range of Frequencies (ICRF) enhance local Plasma-Surface Interactions (PSI) near the wave launchers and magnetically-connected objects via Radio-Frequency (RF) sheath rectification. ITER will use 20MW of ICRF power over long puls ...

Elsevier2019

Antennas for low-cost Ka-band ground terminal devices

Joana Rita Alves dos Santos Silva

The ever-growing demand for high-speed data links together with the increasing congestion in the traditional microwave spectrum are pushing for the exploitation of higher microwave and millimeter-wave (mm-wave) frequencies, including the so-called Ka band. ...

EPFL2017

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

Electromagnetic inspired acoustic leaky-wave antenna

Juan Ramon Mosig, Hervé Lissek, Sami Driss Karkar, Seyyed Hussein Seyyed Esfahlani

In this article we make an analogy between Electromagnetic and Acoustic transmission-line modelling. Then we use this to introduce acoustic transmission-line metamaterials and finally we introduce the acoustic leaky-wave antenna on the basis of previous st ...

IEEE2016

A Planar Feed for SOTM Ka-band Lens Antennas

Juan Ramon Mosig, Marc Esquius Morote, Maria Garcia Vigueras, Joana Rita Alves dos Santos Silva

Ka-band satellite technology has been drawing growing interest from public transportation industry to military applications, due to its advantages of higher speed links, smaller terminals and reduced costs. These well-recognized characteristics have also b ...

2015

Lens-based Ka-band antenna system using planar feed

Juan Ramon Mosig, Marc Esquius Morote, Maria Garcia Vigueras, Joana Rita Alves dos Santos Silva

This paper presents a simple, low-cost and compact mobile ground terminal antenna for Ka-band satellite communications that operates in the downlink band (19.7-20.2 GHz). The antenna is composed of a shaped dielectric lens which tilts in front of a planar ...

2015

Multi-band reflectarray antennas in Ku and THz frequency bands

Hamed Hasani

Printed reflectarrays are low-cost, low-profile high gain antennas demonstrating distinctive advantages over conventional parabolic reflectors and phased-arrays. The flat, low weight reflecting surface of a reflectarray makes it an attractive alternative w ...

EPFL2015

Small antennas as wireless system components

Nuno Miguel Faria Pires

Small antennas, or more specifically, electrically small antennas, are passive radiating elements whose size is much smaller than the operating wavelength. The current wireless application systems usually have size constraints that, for the most common ope ...

EPFL2014

Planar Antennas for Ka-Band Space Applications

Rafal Glogowski

This dissertation aims to explore the design trade-offs and technological limitations of planar antenna elements and arrays for Ka-band space applications. The motivation for this research stems from the growing importance of wideband millimetre wave radio ...

EPFL2013

24 GHz LNA and Vector Modulator Phase Shifter for Phased-Array Receiver in CMOS Technology

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Gabriele Tasselli, Ban Wang

With the rapid development of the applications in short range communication, phased-array receiver working at 24 GHz can provide enhanced gain performance at desired transmission direction. Also there is the wide signal bandwidth, i.e. 250 MHz free license ...

2013

Reconfigurable parasitic antennas for compact mobile terminals in multiuser wireless systems

Julien Perruisseau-Carrier

This article considers the exploitation of parasitic antenna arrays in multi-user (MU) wireless communication systems by using their adaptive beamforming capabilities in order to improve the average system throughput. The use of parasitic arrays and especi ...

Hindawi Publishing Corporation2012

Cavity-backed slot array antenna in substrate-integrated waveguide technology

Roberto Torres Sánchez

A slot array placed on the face of a cavity realized in substrate-integrated waveguide technology is presented. Guidelines to design similar antennas are provided. The design has been done with the help of commercial software. The result is a low-cost, dir ...

Wiley-Blackwell2011

Spherical lens antenna designs with particle swarm optimization

Juan Ramon Mosig, Anja Skrivervik, Benjamin Fuchs, Benjamin Fuchs, Ruzica Golubovic

A design procedure for spherical lens antennas is described. A particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm is coupled to a mode matching technique based on spherical wave expansion to analyze the lens antennas. The proposed methodology is applied to three ...

Wiley-Blackwell2010

Enhancement and subwavelength confinement of light in plasmonic nanostructures

Holger Fischer

This work includes the fabrication of plasmonic nanostructures as well as the investigation of their optical properties in the near-field and in the farfield. As expressed in the title of this thesis the focus lies in the subwavelength confinement and enha ...

EPFL2008