A novel feed network for microstrip antenna array is presented. By using the novel feeding structure, a high-performance Ku-band antenna is designed and fabricated. The 32 elements of the array are arranged in a 2-by-16 configuration. The measured peak gain at centre frequency is 22.93 dBi with an aperture efficiency of 70.5%. The antenna has less than -15 dB return loss and less than -12.3 dB SLL from 11.75 GHz-12.75 GHz.

This paper presents a novel compact power divider with third harmonic suppression and also can provide a direct current(dc) path which could simplify the other active circuits in the complicated phased array antenna system. The proposed power divider achieves 20% size reduction compared to the conventional Wilkinson power divider. From the measured results, it can be seen that the simulated results can instruct the practical circuit very well.

The analytical expression of scattering field from a conductor elliptic cylinder is presented, as the electromagnetic wave propagating vertical to the axis of an elliptic cylinder with arbitrary incident angle and polarization. The obtained result is in agreement with that in the reference when we use this analytical expression to calculate the scattering field from a cylinder. Simulations show that the vertical size of the elliptic cylinder effects greatly the scattering field when we observing it in the direction perpendicular to the direction of the incident wave. The scattering field is strong as the polarization direction of incident wave parallel to the axis of the elliptic cylinder. The algorithm used in the article is valid to investigate the scattering characteristic of other elliptic cylinders. The obtained result offers a theoretical foundation for the practical applications such as electromagnetic remote sensing of target's size and shape.

In this paper a numerical analysis of a periodic planar structure using a uniaxial substrate is shown. The paper means to explore the possibility to use non-conventional substrate to reduce the size of planar radiating structure. The encouraging numerical results set the ground for a further experimental analysis. The presented results can be applied easily to the design of planar antennas, arrays and Frequency Selective Surfaces (FSS). Currently the demand for multiband performance devices that can stay in the palm of the hand has become more compelling. In this light, the advance in planar radiating structure design using non-conventional material with the objective of size reduction is carried out. A FSS resonating at 20.75 GHz has been analyzed. Pyrolytic boron nitrite (PBN), which has an anisotropic dielectric with a relative electric permittivity represented by a diagonal tensor, is adopted as the substrate of the designed FSS to achieve the size reduction while maintaining the FSS performance. The design is then compared with the one that uses isotropic substrate (i.e., RO4003). Comparison shows that the introduction of such a non-conventional medium allows the patch size to be reduced approximately by 20% while maintaining almost the same electromagnetic performance. Issues about size reduction and frequency shifting are further presented and discussed in the paper.

This paper presents a closed form solution for the electrical potential perturbation of a perfectly insulating flat circular disc embedded in a homogeneous half-space in a uniform primary electric field. It is an adaptation of Weber's method for the potential around a charged conducting disk. It yields closed form analytic solutions for the electric and magnetic fields and, by straightforward numerical integration, an easily evaluated numerical solution for the electric potential, and an explicit solution for the electrical resistivity of a composite material consisting of a dilute concentration of such embedded disks in an otherwise uniform conductor.

A novel planar omnidirectional array based on Quasi-Yagi antenna was proposed in this paper. The modeling of this antenna and design method based on equivalent circuits has been developed. An eight-unit planar array has been designed, fabricated and measured. Measured results exhibit good performance of the return loss and radiation pattern in horizontal plane. The gain of the array in horizontal plane was about 0 dBi. The un-roundness of the radiation pattern in horizontal plane was about 5 dB.

In this article, method of lines combined with pseudospectral discretization has extended to the analysis of the characteristics of open cylindrical substrate microstrip lines. Numerical results show that the combination benefits from the two methods and has higher efficiency and it is a powerful alternative analytic tool.

An iterative time-domain algorithm for reconstructing three-dimensional (3-D) objects is presented, using normalized microwave data. The incident waveform information is excluded from the cost functional by normalizing the observed and calculated fields in the frequency domain. The exciting pulse used in the reconstruction can be freely selected by considering the bandwidth of the received data. Two numerical examples are shown to demonstrate that the proposed method can rebuild an inhomogeneous object from noisy data where different waveforms in the observation and reconstruction are used. Two normalized data sets from synthetic observed data and calculated data for a known model are illustrated too.

It is demonstrated that there is a common theoretical basis for the Singularity Expansion Method (SEM) and stabilized, preconditioned electric field and magnetic field integral equations (EFIE, MFIE) defining radiation and scattering from a closed perfect electric conductor in a homogeneous medium. An operator relation termed the Calderon preconditioner links the MFIE and EFIE, based on the fundamental Stratton-Chu integral representations for the problem geometry. This preconditioner is known to stabilize the ill-posed first kind EFIE, yielding the Modified EFIE (MEFIE). The same preconditioner has been applied to the weakly singular MFIE kernel, giving a Modified MFIE (MMFIE), the equation then being solved using the Fredholm determinant theory. Since this analytical integral theory is the foundation of the SEM, it follows that the Calderon preconditioner enables stabilized and common SEM representations to be defined for both the MEFIE and MMFIE. For a finite-sized object admitting only pole singularities, the solution of the preconditioned EFIE and MFIE is equivalent to the frequency-domain SEM solution. The common SEM representation differs only in the coupling coefficient terms. Coupling coefficients for the MFIE are known, however, explicit formulations for the EFIE, and the modified coupling coefficients for the MEFIE and MMFIE are new contributions.

Usually, an effective permittivity can be used to describe the molecular polarization of the mixture in the reaction and consequently be used to calculate the transmission and absorption of microwave in the reactant mixtures. In this paper, we propose a method to calculate the effective permittivity of chemical reaction in solution by means of the experimental results. To verify this method, the acetone iodations reaction is employed. The calculated results of complex effective permittivity of the mixtures are in good agreement with the measured results.

In this paper, winding function method (WFM), applied to a faulted synchronous generator, is modified and is used for on-line diagnosis of mixed eccentricity fault. For the first time, the static and mixed eccentricities are modeled in synchronous generators. A modified winding function (MWF) method introduced here is more precise compared with previous methods. This MWF enables to compute the air gap magnetic permeance accurately. Here, two or three terms of the infinity permeance series has not been used, but a closed form equation is employed for permeance evaluation. This leads to a very precise computation of the inductances of the faulted machine. Self inductances of the stator and rotor, mutual inductance of two stator phases and the mutual inductance of rotor and stator are obtained. Meanwhile, it is shown that static, dynamic and mixed eccentricities lead to the increase of the amplitude and occurrence of the distortion in the aforementioned inductances. Since calculation of inductances is the most important step for fault diagnosis of the machine, the proposed method improves the on-line diagnosis of the fault. Meanwhile, the spectrum analysis of stator current, obtained from experimental results, is illustrated.

An innovative method for antenna arrays beam configuration is presented. In the proposed method, every element of the array is connected to its feed through a switch, so that it can be active or passive, depending on the switch position. Pattern reconfigurability is achieved by appropriately switching on or off the array elements. The optimal configuration of the switches for each of the radiated patterns, as well the common voltages of the active elements, is calculated by using a genetic algorithm. For each configuration, the currents in the driven and parasitic elements are determined, via their self and mutual impedances, by inversion of the impedance matrix. In the presented examples, the method has been applied to both linear and planar arrays of parallel dipoles that switch the power pattern from a pencil to a flat-topped beam (linear array) or to a footprint pattern (planar array).

In this study, a wireless bio-radar sensor was designed to detect a human heartbeat and respiration signals without direct skin contact. In order to design a wireless bio-radar sensor quantitatively, the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in the baseband output of a sensor should be calculated. Therefore, we analyzed the SNR of the wireless bio-radar sensor, considering the signal power attenuation in a human body and all kinds of noise sources. Especially, we measured a residual phase noise of a typical free-running oscillator and used its value for the SNR analysis. Based on these analysis and the measurement results, a compact, low-cost 2.4 GHz direct conversion bio-radar sensor was designed and implemented in a printed circuit board. The demonstrated sensor consists of two printed antennas, a voltage-controlled oscillator, an I/Q demodulator, and analog circuits. The heartbeat and respiration signals acquired from the I/Q channel of the sensor are applied to the digital signal processing circuit using MATLAB. ECG (electrocardiogram), and reference respiration signals are measured simultaneously to evaluate the performance of the sensor. With an output power of 0dBm and a free running oscillator without a phase locked loop circuits, a detection range of 50 cm was measured. Measurement results show that the heart rate and respiration accuracy was very high. Therefore, we verified that a wireless bio-radar sensor could detect heartbeat and respiration well without contact and our SNR analysis could be an effective tool to design a wireless bio-radar sensor.

The increased number of electronic systems in today's car designs requires that each system is EMC compliant prior to vehicle assembly. Each system or component auto supplier is mandated to perform system level EMC testing according to the car manufacturer standards. To ensure high functional integrity of these systems, EMC modeling and simulation are used as a tool. This paper provides an EMC model of a general automotive electrical system. The purpose is to measure, model, and simulate radiated emissions of a test-setup that consists of an electronic control unit ECU, harness, and a load. The model then can be used to optimize the overall system design to achieve EMC compliance or provide a directional improvement to obtain an optimum performance to save cost. Lab measurements are conducted and EMC model is developed according to CISPR25 standards. The model of the printed circuit board PCB and cable harness is accomplished using modeling tools with built-in modeling techniques such as 2D MoM and 3D PEEC. IBIS wave models and SPICE models are connected to simulate circuits and harnesses in time or frequency domain. During simulation, the geometric and electric data are stored together for radiation analysis.

This paper presents two compact ring slot antennas which are suitable for the PCS-1900 and the 2.4/5-GHz triple-band operations. The first antenna consists of three annular ring slots. The outer ring is responsible for exciting the first resonant mode where the middle ring excites the second resonant mode. The inner most rings, through their Y-shape-like slots, create a wide upper operating band by combining the third and fourth resonant modes. To improve this antenna, we have employed circular Photonic Bandgap (PBG) structures in order to obtain a smaller slot antenna with better radiation characteristics. In this design, the cross-polarization level in the E-plane has reduced compared to the first antenna by 5.5 dB, 0.3 dB and 4 dB in three resonant bands. Also, the cross-polarization in H-plane has reduced by an amount of 3 dB. In addition, the obtained results show that the co-polarization patterns are very similar in all three frequency bands. In both cases we have reduced the size of antennas to 56% and 42% respectively, of conventional microstrip slot antennas. The simulation results are verified by measurements.

A novel method for direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation is proposed. This technique employs the excellent performance of Bartlett method in coherent environments as well as high resolution and low computational complexity of Beamspace MUSIC. Simulation results show that the use of Beamspace MUSIC with Bartlett yields significantly improved performance compared to the original MUSIC especially in highly correlated situations.

A micro electromechanical phase shifter base on the fractal geometries is proposed to work at Ku frequency band with at least 23% lower actuation voltage compared to the simple rectangular membrane counterparts. In this design the membrane of the switch is chosen to be a Koch fractal and then a distributed MEMS phase shifter is set up by cascading a distinct number of these switches. This phase shifter is analyzed to obtain its parameters such as differential phase shift, group delay, and insertion and return loss. It will be shown that this phase shifter could be used as a low loss multi bit phase shifter system because of its low insertion loss and power consumption.

An increasing attention has been concentrated on nondiffracting Bessel beams, due to their novel properties and prospective applications. In order to study their properties entirely, including the transverse modes, the polarization states and the flow of energy, vector analyses should be done. In this paper, based on auxiliary functions of Hertzian vector potential, nondiffracting Bessel beams are analyzed. The useful results are obtained and presented in this paper.

This paper propose a new multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) signal processing scheme that combines optimum transmit and receive beamforming with the Alamouti space-time block code (STBC) transmission and modifies the decoding process. The scheme uses double antenna array groups to achieve stable performance regardless of direction of arrived (DOA) and angular spread (AS). In a multiuser MIMO communications scenario, the beamforming suppresses co-channel interference (CCI) by maximizing the uplink signal-to-noise-plus-interference-ratio (SINR) and suppress CCI independently while preserving orthogonality of the MIMO channel. It is shown that the beamforming process provides array gain by increasing the bit-error-rate (BER) performance and maximizes the available uplink channel capacity for each user in the presence of CCI.

The WIMAX technology based on air interface standard 802-16 wireless MAN is configured in the same way as a traditional cellular network with base stations using point to multipoint architecture to drive a service over a radius up to several kilometers. The range and the Non Line of Sight (NLOS) ability of WIMAX make the system very attractive for users, but there will be slightly higher BER at low SNR. In this paper, a comparison between the performance of wimax using convolutional code and convolutional product code (CPC) [1] is made. The CPC enables reducing BER at different SNR values compared to the convolutional code. For example, at BER equals 10^-3 for 128 subcarriers, the amount of improvements in SNR is more than 2 dB. Several results are obtained at different modulating schemes (16QAM and 64QAM) and different numbers of sub-carriers (128 and 512).