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5G, the next generation of wireless communications, is focusing on modern antenna technologies like massive MIMO, phased arrays and mm-wave band to obtain data rates up to 10 Gbps. In this paper, we have proposed a new 64 element, 8×8 phased series fed patch antenna array, for 28 GHz, mm-wave band 5G mobile base station antennas. The phased array steers its beam along the horizontal axis to provide...
This paper presents a 32-element phased-array architecture suitable for fifth-generation (5G) communication links. A 28–32 GHz silicon core chip is designed with 4 transmit/receive elements each with 14 dB gain control, 6-bit phase control, 4.6 dB measured noise figure (NF) in the RX mode and 10 dBm output 1 dB compression point (OP1dB) in the TX mode. Eight of these chips are flipped on a low-cost...
This paper proposes a method of constructing an antenna array on the typical ground plane of the modern mobile terminal. An IFA and a slot in a metal frame antenna elements have been used to illustrate the proposed method. The radiation pattern of the element is recorded at the chosen number of the discrete locations on the ground plane. Antenna elements at the positions, where the boresight is similar...
The moment method is used to calculate the radiation pattern of a linear array for a number of array element configurations which include single monopole whips, single diamond shaped monopoles and three-element Yagi monopole whips over a perfect ground plane. Investigation of the far field radiation pattern is carried out for the cases of main lobe steering and pattern shaping (using Tschebyscheff...
This paper presents the latest progress in demonstrating and characterizing the Traveling-Wave Antenna Array (TWAA) as a Multioctave Planar Phased Arrays (MPPA) capable of efficient wide-angle scan over multioctave bandwidth. (Beam Steering Network (BSN) and T/R module are not included here.) Four brass board TWAA panels having 16∗16 array elements were fabricated and tested for wide-angle scan up...
This paper discusses a fabrication approach and experimental validation of a very large, planar active electronically scanned array (AESA). The planar AESA architecture employs a monolithic printed circuit board (PCB) with 768 active antenna elements at X-Band. Manufacturing physically large arrays with high element counts is discussed in relation to construction, assembly and yield considerations...
The wavelength-scaled array architecture reduces element count and associated T/R module costs by replacing a portion of a periodic array by fewer, but scaled up elements that are excited only at lower frequency bands. We propose the implementation of the wavelength-scaled array using low-cost Planar Ultrawideband Modular Antenna (PUMA) radiators to further reduce cost, profile and improve polarization...
In this paper, an S-band dual circular polarized (CP) spherical conformal phased array antenna (SPAA) is designed. It has the ability to scan a beam within the hemisphere coverage. There are 23 elements uniformly arranged on the hemispherical dome. The design process of the SPAA is presented in detail. Three different kinds of antenna elements are compared. The gain of the SPAA is more than 13 dBi...
Ocean ambient noise mainly includes uncorrelated noise and correlated noise. The uncorrelated noise only affects the diagonal elements in the noise covariance matrix, and it can be suppressed by subtracting a value on the diagonal elements. Utilizing this feature, a high array-gain beamforming based on diagonal reducing is presented. Meanwhile, the robustness becomes poor. So, the array weight norm...
Abstract—Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag and sensor combination has become increasingly popular in green projects. Artificial Magnetic Conductor (AMC) is commonly used to enhance the performance of an antenna. In this paper, a new dipole AMC is proposed for 0.92 GHz Radio Frequency Identification tag application. The new square AMC structure optimized with multiple slots produced a bandwidth...
The reiterative super-resolution (RISR) algorithm was previously developed to enable adaptive beamforming with as few as one time snapshot, is robust to temporally correlated signals, and accounts for array calibration errors. Here a gain-constrained version (denoted GC-RISR) is derived followed by a partially-constrained version (PC-RISR). It is shown that an interesting trait of the latter is spatial...
This paper presents performance enhancement of a conventional circularly-polarized (CP) microstrip patch array using anisotropic metasurfaces. In addition to boresight gain, axial-ratio and impedance bandwidth amplifications, sidelobe levels suppression were also focused.
The aim of this work is to implement electronic beam-steering systems. More specifically, we propose systems working at 2.45 GHz. For that, power dividers (PD), phase shifters (RTPS), and printed antennas are used. The main advantage of electronic beam-steering systems is related to the simple realization and low cost, when compared with mechanical ones. For some devices, a small shift in frequency...
In future's massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, the usage of antenna arrays has a centre stage solving the dilemma of a link range vs. a data rate. From wearable application perspective, proposed antennas in open literature have been mainly passive single element configurations which are optimised for either off-or on-body communication purposes. Arrays can bring fundamental improvements...
This paper describes the design and analysis of a compact and efficient ultra-wideband unidirectional printed Array antenna for indoor applications. A 12cm∗12cm∗1cm array antenna is capable of covering an ultra-wide frequency band starting from LTE up to WI-MAX with an average gain exceeding 5dBi over the entire bandwidth. In comparison with the already existing antenna systems in the wireless market...
A slot array antenna is designed using ridge gap waveguide technology in two sub arrays. Each sub array is fed through a power divider which is designed on a separate ridge- groove gap waveguide. The coupling between two gap waveguides is conducted using coaxial transmission lines. The power divider of ridge-groove gap is fed using coaxial line that can provide a bandwidth of 22% at 14 GHz. The integrated...
Conventional slotted waveguide antennas are well known and prominently used for many military and even marketable applications. This is due to their different advantageous electrical and mechanical characteristics. It is also well known that this type of antennas is a typical array of slots with which the width of the main beam can be controlled in only one plane by using a different number of elements...
Microelectrode Array (MEA), with a ring plate similar to a Petri dish, is a device used for in-vitro neuron culture and their electrophysiological signal recording. The analysis of these signals is useful for the study of neuronal network dynamics and the drug tests in pharmacological application, between others. The electric signals captured by MEA are of low amplitude and require special amplifier...
This paper presents a 10-channel optical receiver array for Near-InfraRed Spectroscopy (NIRS) Systems. Each channel consists of a replica transimpedance amplifier (TIA) followed by an adjustable linear equalizer (EQ). The replica TIA achieves a high transimpedance gain of 94.6 dBΩ and a bandwidth of 85 MHz. To obtain wider bandwidth, a two-stage fully differential equalizer with tunable capacitor...
This paper presents an integrated Ka-band 2×2 True-Time-Delay (TTD) phased array receiver using a 0.25nm SiGe:C BiCMOS technology. Each phased array receiver channel is able to perform 20.5 ps variable delay as well as 6 dB variable gain. A mixer and buffer are integrated to down-convert the RF signal into a fixed IF1 at 11 GHz. Each receiver channel presents more than 20 dB RF-IF1 conversion gain...
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