A novel phase-only method for shaped beam synthesis and adaptive nulling Roberto Vincenti Gatti1, Luca Marcaccioli1, Roberto Sorrentino1 1 University of Perugia, Dept. Electronic and Information Engineering, via G. Duranti 93, 06125 Perugia, Italy, tel. +39-075-585-3658 In the present work a new optimization approach is proposed, based on the representation of the array phase distribution by mean

Key Circuits for a Reconfigurable and Bi-directional Beamformer for Ultra wideband Applications T. Nilsson, C. Samuelsson, M. Alfredson and A. Ouacha Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), Department of Microwave Technology, SE-581 11 Linköping, Sweden tonnil-foi.se, carsam-foi.se, matal-foi.se, aziz-foi.se Abstract - This paper describes the performance of reconfigurable broadband active power sp

Design and Development of a Beamforming Subunit in a Conformal Array Antenna System N. Athanasopoulos1, A. Garetsos1, N. Uzunoglu1 and J. Kanellopoulos1 1 National Technical University of Athens, Microwave and Fiber Optics Laboratory, 9 Iroon Polytechneiou str, 157 80, GREECE, Tel: +30-210-772 3556 Abstract -- The implementation of a Beamforming Unit for the electronic control of the radiation p

Wideband Tapered-Slot Antenna with Corrugated Edges for GPR Applications Valeri Mikhnev1, Pertti Vainikainen2 1 2 Institute of Applied Physics, Akademicheskaya, 16, 220072 Minsk, Belarus, Phone +375-17-284 24 39 Helsinki University of Technology, P.O. Box 3000, FIN-02015 HUT, Finland, Phone +358-9-451 22 51 We have found that edge corrugations of the TSA are useful in GPR applications, too. The a

Design of a Folded-Patch Chip-Size Antenna for Short-Range Communications P. M. Mendes, A. Polyakov(1), M. Bartek(1), J.N. Burghartz(1), J.H. Correia Lab. of ECTM/DIMES, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands Dept. of Industrial Electronics, University of Minho, Portugal Tel.: +351 253510184, Fax: +351 253510189, e-mail: paulo.mendes-dei.uminho.pt (1) Abstract ­ We report on design of an

A hybrid MoM/FDTD approach for an efficient modeling of complex antennas on mobile platforms Werner Thiel , Kazem F. Sabet and Linda P.B. Katehi University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA Schools of Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA EMAG Technologies, Inc., 1340 Eisenhower Place, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, USA +1 734 973-6600, wthiel-emagtech.com ¥ ¦ ¤ £ ¡ Abstract

Novel Arbitrary Angle Leaky-Wave Reflector using Heterodyne Mixing Sungjoon Lim, Christophe Caloz, and Tatsuo Itoh University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Electrical Engineering, 405 Hilgard Avenue, CA 90095, Los Angeles, USA, 310-206-1710, sungjoon-ee.ucla.edu Abstract -- A novel leaky-wave reflector using heterodyne mixing is proposed and demonstrated experimentally. This reflector

Adaptive Antenna with mixed diversity angular and polarization for Wireless LAN terminals A. Najid1, P. Mühlethaler2, H. Baudrand3 , A. El Khadimi1 and M.C. Chefchaouni1 1 INPT ­ ave Allal el Fassi, Madinat Al Irfane Rabat Institut Maroc. Phone : 00.33.5.61.58.82.46 2 INRIA-Rocquencourt Domaine du Voluceau 78150 Le Chesnay France. 3 ENSEEIHT, 2 rue Ch. Camichel 31000 Toulouse France. Abstract In

Innovative Material Modulation for Multilayer LTCC Antenna Design at 76.5 GHz in Radar and Communication Applications Karin Schuler, Yan Venot, Werner Wiesbeck Universität Karlsruhe, Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik und Elektronik (IHE) Kaiserstrasse 12, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany Phone: +49 (0)721-608 6262, Fax: +49 (0)721 69 18 65, Email: karin.schuler-ihe.uka.de Abstract -- Low-cost and compa

A Wideband Equivalent SPICE Circuit for a Monopole Antenna and its Usefulness for UWB Applications. John Gerrits, Andreas Hutter, Jaouhar Ayadi, John Farserotu. Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique SA (CSEM), Jaquet Droz 1, CH2007 Neuchâtel, Switzerland, tel. 00 41 32 720 56 52, email jge-csem.ch ABSTRACT -- This paper presents a transmission line based electrical equivalent schemati