An auxiliary antenna array scheme for sidelobe interference cancellation of satellite communication system is proposed in this paper. Considering earth curvature, signal bandwidth and transmission loss, a precise model of satellite communication interference scenario is established. In order to improve anti-interference capability, the performance of the auxiliary antenna array is studied by the minimum mean square error (MMSE) criterion. Then, a 7-unit linear microstrip antenna array is manufactured as the auxiliary antenna array. The main contribution of this paper is the corresponding auxiliary antenna array analysis and design. Simulated and experimental results confirm that the proposed scheme can achieve a relatively high interference cancellation radio (ICR) of about 25 dB in a wide beam range.

An approach towards beamforming for a uniform linear array (ULA) based on a novel optimization algorithm, designated as Fibonacci branch search (FBS) is presented in this paper. The proposed FBS search strategy was inspired from Fibonacci sequence principle and uses a fundamental branch structure and interactive searching rules to obtain the global optimal solution in the search space. The structure of FBS is established by two types of multidimensional points on the basis of shortening fraction formed by the Fibonacci sequence, and in this mode, interactive global searching and local optimization rules are implemented alternately to reach global optima, avoiding stagnating in local optimum. At the same time, the rigorous mathematical proof for the accessibility and convergence of FBS towards the global optimum is presented to further verify the validity of our theory and support our claim.Taking advantage of the global search ability and high convergence rate of this technique, a robust adaptive beamformer technique is also constructed here by FBS as a real time implementation to improve the beamforming performance by preventing the loss of optimal trajectory. The performance of the FBS is compared with five typical heuristic optimization algorithms, and the reported simulation results demonstrate the superiority of the proposed FBS algorithm in locating the optimal solution with higher precision and reveal the further improvement in adaptive beamforming performance.

A dual-band microstrip rectenna for wireless local area network (WLAN) applications is presented. It consists of a dual-band dual-polarized receiving antenna and a dual-band high efficiency rectifier. The receiving antenna includes a circular loop, a coplanar waveguide (CPW), and a microstrip line. To minimize mutual interference and ensure high isolation of more than 20 dB between the dual-polarized ports, a CPW is used to produce vertical polarization modes and the horizontal polarization modes is fed by a microstrip line. The horizontal excitation port is used for information receiving, while the vertical feeding port transfers enough wireless energy for rectifying. A co-simulation of HFSS and ADS is used for analysing the performance of rectenna. Measured results show that it has the -10 dB reflection coefficient bandwidths of 510 MHz (2.39-3.09 GHz) and 920 MHz (5.16-6.08 GHz) for rectifying Port 1, where the isolation between the ports is higher than 25 dB, and the cross polarization is less than -15 dB in two bands. The maximum microwave-direct current (mw-dc) conversion efficiencies of 67.7% and 57.03% at 2.45 GHz and 5.8 GHz are achieved with a 300 Ω load and 16 dBm receiving power.

The paper is devoted to the investigation of radiation frequencies characteristics of a modified waveguide aperture by wire media (WM). Such construction allows radiating weak electromagnetic (EM) waves --- the frequencies of which are non-corresponding to the resonant ones of the modified radiator. It is possible due to the unusual properties of metamaterials, namely the negative value of permittivity of WM. The simulation studying shows that the changing of value of wires radius and at the same time the value of filling factor impacts on the radiation frequency. Therefore, the increase of filling factor leads to the increase of the resonance frequency. The radiation is narrowband with S₁₁-parameter less than -20 dB. The experimental investigation shows that the decrease of the value of lattice period allows increase of the width of radiation frequency range from 30-40 MHz up to approximately 80 MHz at the level of 0.3 (≈ -10 dB). At the same time, the increase of wires' radius values leads to the increase of the value of resonant frequency. Finally, the experimental study demonstrates that the value of overlap between waveguide port (source of EM waves) and wire media sample negligibly impacts on the resonance frequency values and operational range for D/L = 0...0.3.

In this paper, the thermal degradation of electro-conductive fabrics exposed to high current impulses is studied by using an equivalent resistive circuit and a technique commonly applied to the analysis of exploding wires. A method to estimate the threshold burst current of conductive fabrics is derived based on the so-called specific action, which is defined as the integral of the squared current density over the time applied at critical locations of the fabric such as the contact areas between yarns. The model has been experimentally validated on woven and non-woven fabrics using lightning impulse currents applied to the conductive fabrics coated with Cu-Ni alloy. A general rule for determining the dimensions of conductive fabrics as a function of the input-current specific-energy levels has also been derived.

This paper proposes a novel miniaturized UWB bandpass filter by cascading two miniaturized low-pass and high-pass modules. On account of the slow wave and stopband characteristic of defected microstrip structure (DMS), an E-shaped DMS with low-pass characteristic is presented, and an RLC equivalent circuit is utilized to analyze it. By three-dimensional electromagnetic modeling , the S parameters can be obtained to extract the initial parameter values of the RLC equivalent circuit and verify the validity of equivalent circuit in Advanced Design System. The high-pass module uses a lump element to reduce the circuit dimension. The high frequency selectivity can be achieved by loading L-shaped stubs, which produces one transmission zero at the upper band of passband and has a good rectangle coefficient of 1.2 (25 dB-bandwidth/3 dB-bandwidth). To verify the idea, a compact UWB bandpass filter is simulated and fabricated. The result shows that the passband range is 3.1-10.6 GHz with 1 dB loss, and the measurement has a good agreement with the simulation. Besides, a notched wave working in X wave band can also be generated. Compared with the previous works, this UWB bandpass filter has the advantages of miniature and high selectivity.

A new hybrid double stator bearingless switched reluctance motor (HDSBSRM) realizes the decoupling of torque and suspension force from the structure, and the permanent magnet added in the inner stator further reduces the suspension power loss. For HDSBSRM, loss is the main cause of temperature rise. In order to ensure the stable suspension and rotation of the motor, loss of the Magnetic Bearing (MB) and motor are calculated and analyzed by finite element method (FEM). Based on the loss result, the temperature field is analyzed. The analysis of loss and temperature field provides important theoretical basis for the design of motor cooling system.

This paper proposes and demonstrates a compact integrated filtering antenna built on a square ring resonator coupled with a capacitors loaded microstrip line filter. A microstrip filter module is connected to feeding line of the conventional patch without adding extra space. Thus, the combined configuration possesses radiating and filtering functions simultaneously. The proposed filtenna has a fractional bandwidth (FBW) of 3% at center frequency 2.4 GHz with 2.5 dB of maximum gain. The obtained result shows that the proposed design shows good stopband gain rejection, good selectivity at band edges, and smooth passband gain. Furthermore, the introduced filtenna has advantages of a small size and a simple structure, which makes it ideal for interconnection with different wearable devices operating within 2.4 GHz wireless system range.

A wide locking range injection locked frequency divider (ILFD) with a low power consumption for 60GHz applications is presented. The locking range of the ILFD is enhanced by reducing the parasitic capacitances of the transistors. The cross-coupled transistor and injected transistors are integrated to become a compact structure, which exhibits simple routing and induces less parasitic capacitances. To verify the proposed structure, the ILFD was fabricated using 65 nm CMOS technology. It has a measured locking range of 55.3 GHz to 67 GHz (19%) with 0 dBm input power. The circuit dissipates 1.98 mW at 0.5 V supply voltage without the output buffers.

We report the second-harmonic generation (SHG) from single GaN nanowire. The diameter of the GaN nanowire varies from 150 to 400 nm. We present a model for the SHG process in the GaN nanowire; the analysis shows quantitatively that the SHG is dominated by its surface area. The effective second order nonlinear optical susceptibility (χ⁽²⁾_eff) increases as the diameter of the GaN nanowire decreases. For 150-nm diameter GaN nanowire, χ⁽²⁾_eff reaches 136 pm/V.

In this paper, a wideband metasurface reflector that converts polarization of plane wave to the cross polarization with a double-square-shaped unit cell is presented, and the principle of polarization conversion based on polarization synthesis is also presented. The proposed structure has a unit cell with the longest dimension of 0.37 wavelength, a width of 0.23 wavelength, and a thickness of about 0.09 wavelength. 95% or more of the incident wave power is converted to cross-polarization covering a fractional bandwidth of 32.4% at 8.5 GHz.

A double-layer frequency selective surface (FSS) with dual rings is used as a reflector in the design of an Archimedean spiral antenna (ASA) with low radar cross section (RCS) and uni-directional characteristics. The proposed FSS presents a stopband in the range of 2 GHz to 4.7 GHz, which is applied to ASA to form a unidirectional radiation pattern with front to back ratio (FBR) values larger than 10 dB in the stopband, and the maximum FBR value is up to 25.26 dB. Compared with the reference antenna with the same-size metallic ground, the proposed FSS reduces the RCS about 2.5-38 dB in the frequency ranges of 4.8-30 GHz. And the FSS antenna also exhibits better axial ratio characteristics in the frequency range of 2.8-8.1 GHz. The composite structure is compact, with a total height of 0.18 wavelength at the lowest analysis frequency of 2 GHz. Measured results indicate that the proposed antenna reproduces the inherent wideband of the original ASA from 1.6 GHz to 8.1 GHz. Meanwhile, the gain of the ASA is increased by 3 dBi. Full-wave simulations and measurements prove that the novel FSS reflector can be employed to replace a metallic ground which realises a uni-directional ASA with broadband low RCS, high gain and good circular polarization (CP) performance.

A new miniaturized and ultra-thin non-resonant element-class of convoluted frequency selective surface (FSS) structure with reduced overall thickness is presented and empirically verified. The proposed FSS structure, which could be capable of providing a first order narrow band pass response for X band applications, is made up of three metallic layers separated from one another by two dielectric substrates. The outer layers are made up of convoluted inductive grids， and the inner layer is a non-resonant structure composed of convoluted square slot array. A first-order band pass response FSS with a centre frequency of 10.5 GHz and fast roll-off characteristics is presented. The overall element thickness of the proposed FSS is λ/56, which is smaller than previously proposed miniaturized structures. The comparison between all patch layers with the proposed structure which is not an all patch layers is explicated in detail with its convoluting effects. The validity of this design procedure is verified with an equivalent circuit model, and a sample is fabricated and measurement done using a WR 90 waveguide setting for experimental verification.

In this paper, a new super-resolution and highly stable DOA estimation technique of coherent sources is introduced. Furthermore, the proposed technique is applied to the data collected from the AWR1243 mm-wave 76-81 GHz frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar to estimate the DOAs of real targets. A virtual antenna array is proposed to increase the array aperture size and the dimension of the data covariance matrix which effectively helps in de-correlating the received signals and in increasing the number of detectable sources and hence improving the detection resolution. Moreover, a significant improvement in the DOA estimation capability is achieved by handling the frequency domain of the received signals instead of their time-domain representations. That is because the signal to noise ratio (SNR) is increased by a multiplication factor when it is transformed using FFT which acts as a filter for the noise. The simulation results proved the superiority of the proposed technique compared to the state of the arts in this field, especially at low SNR that approaches -35 dB.

A new class of the wideband series-fed microstrip array antenna is presented for X-band applications. A novel configuration of the reflector-slot-strip-foam-inverted patch (RSSIP) is proposed to provide high efficiency and wide operating frequency band. To improve the front to back ratio (FBR) and enhance the gain, a reflector is used. The series-fed configuration is selected for the array to simultaneously provide a very high efficiency and reduce the side lobe level. To experimentally verify the performance, a prototype of the array antenna is fabricated, and measurement is performed. This array consists of 12 sub-linear arrays with series-fed microstrip excitation. Also, each of these subarrays consists of 16 RSSIP antennas. An excellent agreement exists between measurement and simulation. The measured gain and efficiency of the fabricated antenna are 28.5 dB and 67% at 10 GHz, respectively. The measured impedance matching bandwidth (S₁₁<-10 dB) is 24% which confirms the wideband characteristic of the antenna. The series-fed configuration results in very low measured SLL of -24.5dB at H-plane. The proposed 16 x 12 array antenna is a proper candidate for applications in MIMO systems and synthetic aperture radars (SAR).

Double Elliptical Micro-strip Patch Antenna (DEMPA) is a newer family of patch antennas which possesses higher design flexibility and has greater potential for getting miniaturized than Elliptical Micro-strip Patch Antenna (EMPA). The DEMPA is made out of a Double Elliptical Patch (DEP) which is designed as a combination of two half-elliptical patches either with a common minor axis and two different semi-major axes or with a common major axis and two different semi-minor axes. There are only two design parameters for an EMPA, its semi-major axis and semi-minor axis, whereas a DEMPA has three because of either two different semi-major axes or two different semi-minor axes. A parametric study is required to understand the relationship among these three design parameters and antenna characteristics such as return loss, impedance, resonant frequency and gain. The present work is a statistical study, using the concept of Design of Experiments (DOE), of the impact of these design parameters on the return loss at resonant frequency within the frequency band of 8.50 GHz-10.55 GHz which has been earmarked for radiolocation applications by regulating agency. The Central Composite Design (CCD) technique in the Response Surface Methodology (RSM) of DOE has been employed here to develop empirical relationship between the design parameters and response variable. Numerical models were developed using Ansoft's HFSS as per the design matrix provided by Minitab. The concept of DOE helped to establish statistically significant parametric relationship between the design parameters and antenna return loss with the minimum amount of design effort. The predictive ability of regression model was confirmed by using numerical models of two DEMPAs that were not utilized to build the empirical relationship, one among which had been fabricated, tested and reported in literature.

In order to reduce the cost and blindness of antenna design, the application of electromagnetic field similarity principle in the working environment of underwater receiving antenna was studied and verified. The field distribution and electrical parameters of the underwater receiving antenna and its reduced-scale model were calculated and proved to be in accordance with the similarity principle. The simulation analysis of the receiving antenna and its reduced-scale model for receiving the airborne electromagnetic wave signal in the seawater shows that the underwater receiving antennas before and after the scale-down are similar. The simulation is verified by measuring the receiving signal amplitude of the underwater receiving antenna and its reduced-scale model. The results of theoretical derivation and simulation analysis show that the electromagnetic field similarity principle can be applied to the underwater receiving antenna system.

In this paper, two different architectures based on fully and partially clustered arrays are proposed to optimize the array patterns. In the fully clustered arrays, all the elements of the original array were divided into several equal subarrays, while in the partially clustered arrays, only the side elements were grouped into subarrays, and the central elements were left individually. The second architecture enjoys many advantages compared to the first one. The proposed clustered arrays use quantized amplitude distributions, thus, their corresponding patterns were associated with high side lobes. To overcome this problem, a constraint mask was included in the pattern optimization process. Simulation results show that the peak sidelobe level and the complexity of the feeding network in the partially clustered arrays can be reduced to more than -28 dB and 70.833% respectively, for a total of 48 array elements, number of individual central elements = 24, number of clusters on both sides of the array Q = 4, and number of elements in each side cluster M=6. Finally, the principles of the proposed clustered arrays were extended and applied to the two dimensional planar arrays.

The aim of this work is to discuss the possibility of resistive thin-film coatings used for vacuum electron devices. Following a short review, results on radiophysical parameters studies in millimeter-band of such coatings are presented. Resistive Sn-O coatings with varied oxygen content were fabricated on quartz substrates by reactive magnetron sputtering. Morphology and elemental composition of prepared coatings were studied by means of scanning electron microscopy and secondary ion mass spectrometry, while four-probe method was utilized to study the resistivity of those. Dielectric properties were measured in the V-band (50-70 GHz) in free space using vector network analyzer. It was demonstrated that resistivity and the dielectric properties of coating in millimeter-band can be widely varied by controlling coating composition.

This letter presents a uniplanar two-port UWB-MIMO antenna with high isolation for wireless communication applications. The designed antenna is composed of a single metal layer and a thin substrate. The single metal layer acts as radiators and a ground plane. The radiator of each element consists of a modified dual-L-shaped feeding structure and a defected rectangular patch, which is shared by the ground plane. The modified dual-L-shaped feeding structure is introduced to broaden the bandwidth. Furthermore, two fork-shaped slots and bent slots are embedded in the rectangular shared structure for further improving the bandwidth and decreasing the mutual couplings without any other additional decoupling structures. The experimental results show that the proposed antenna achieves the ultra-wide impedance bandwidth (3.0-12.4 GHz), high isolation ( > 20 dB at entire impedance bandwidth), very small ECC (< 0.01), high multiplexing efficiency (> -1.9 dB), stable realized gain and radiation patterns. Therefore, the designed antenna is suitable for most wireless UWB communication applications.