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Antenna (radio)

About: Antenna (radio) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 208070 publications have been published within this topic receiving 1896766 citations. The topic is also known as: aerial & transmitter.


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TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of placing the antennae in air and water-filled boreholes are explored using data acquired in crystalline rock and alluvial sediments, respectively.
Abstract: High‐frequency electromagnetic‐wave propagation phenomena associated with borehole georadar experiments are complex. To improve our understanding of the governing physical processes and radiative properties of borehole georadar antenna systems, we have developed a modelling tool based on a finite‐difference time‐domain (FDTD) solution of Maxwell's equations in cylindrical coordinates. The computational domain is bounded by cylindrical symmetry conditions along the left edge of the model and uniaxial perfectly matched layer (UPML) absorbing boundary conditions along the top, bottom and right model edges. An accurate and efficient grid‐refinement technique allows us to account for detailed aspects of borehole georadar antenna systems, slim boreholes and materials with very high dielectric permittivities, such as water. Numerical experiments reveal that the radiation patterns of finite‐size Wu–King‐type antennae and infinitesimal electric dipoles in dry boreholes differ only slightly from the analytic solution of an infinitesimal electric dipole in a homogeneous full‐space. In contrast, there are substantial differences between the radiation patterns of antennae placed in water‐filled boreholes and their analytic full‐space equivalents without boreholes. The effects of placing the antennae in air‐ and water‐filled boreholes are explored using data acquired in crystalline rock and alluvial sediments, respectively. In both cases, simulations based on realistic transmitter antennae located in boreholes and spatially corrected receiver radiation patterns provide better agreement between the observed and modelled data than simulations based on infinitesimal transmitter and receiver dipoles.

41 citations

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30 Oct 2020-ACS Nano
TL;DR: The proposed method offers a framework to optimize nanophotonic structures at the array level that is potentially applicable to a wide variety of objective functions and actively tunable metasurface antenna array platforms.
Abstract: We report an array-level inverse design approach to optimize the beam steering performance of active metasurfaces, thus overcoming the limitations posed by nonideal metasurface phase and amplitude tuning. In contrast to device-level topology optimization of passive metasurfaces, the outlined system-level optimization framework relies on the electrical tunability of geometrically identical nanoantennas, enabling the design of active antenna arrays with variable spatial phase and amplitude profiles. Based on this method, we demonstrate high-directivity, continuous beam steering up to 70° for phased arrays with realistic tunable antenna designs, despite nonidealities such as strong covariation of scattered light amplitude with phase. Nonintuitive array phase and amplitude profiles further facilitate beam steering with a phase modulation range as low as 180°. Furthermore, we use the device geometries presented in this work for experimental validation of the system-level inverse design approach of active beam steering metasurfaces. The proposed method offers a framework to optimize nanophotonic structures at the array level that is potentially applicable to a wide variety of objective functions and actively tunable metasurface antenna array platforms.

41 citations

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TL;DR: This work characterize two versions of flexible, screen printed folded dipoles and a meandered monopole operating in the 915 MHz band and uses these antennas to create passive sensor tags and demonstrate over the air communication of sensor data.
Abstract: Sensor data can be wirelessly transmitted from simple, battery-less tags using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). RFID sensor tags consist of an antenna, a radio frequency integrated circuit chip (RFIC), and at least one sensor. An ideal tag can communicate over a long distance and be seamlessly integrated onto everyday objects. However, miniaturized antenna designs often have lower performance. Here we demonstrate compact, flexible sensor tags with read range comparable to that of conventional rigid tags. We compare fabrication techniques for flexible antennas and demonstrate that screen and stencil printing are both suitable for fabricating antennas; these different techniques are most useful at different points in the design cycle. We characterize two versions of flexible, screen printed folded dipoles and a meandered monopole operating in the 915 MHz band. Finally, we use these antennas to create passive sensor tags and demonstrate over the air communication of sensor data. These tags could be used to form a network of printed, flexible, passive, interactive sensor tags.

41 citations

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TL;DR: It has been shown via computer simulations that the GCIM-SM system has lower transmission energy, faster data transmission rate, and better error performance than DS-SS, SM, QSM, and CIM-SS systems.
Abstract: In this article, a high data rate and energy-efficient multiple-input multiple-output transmission scheme is considered by combining two popular and rational modulation techniques: spatial modulation (SM) and code index modulation-spread spectrum (CIM-SS). Since in the considered system, called generalized CIM-SM (GCIM-SM), incoming information bits determine modulated symbols, activated transmit antenna indices as well as their corresponding spreading code indices, data bits are conveyed not only by modulated symbols but also by the indices of the active antenna and spreading codes. Hence, a GCIM-SM scheme accommodates faster data rates while spending less transmission power and possessing better error performance compared to the conventional direct sequence spread spectrum (DS-SS), SM, quadrature SM (QSM), and CIM-SS systems. The mathematical expressions of the GCIM-SM system for bit error rate, throughput, energy efficiency, and the system complexity are derived to analyze the overall system performance. Besides, it has been shown via computer simulations that the GCIM-SM system has lower transmission energy, faster data transmission rate, and better error performance than DS-SS, SM, QSM, and CIM-SS systems. Performance analysis of the considered system was performed on Rayleigh block-fading channels for quadrature amplitude modulation technique.

41 citations

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TL;DR: This work proposes a novel method for cost-efficient globalized design optimization of multi-band antennas incorporating the response feature technology into the trust-region framework that allows for unequivocal allocation of the antenna resonances even for poor initial designs, where conventional local algorithms fail.
Abstract: Design of modern antennas relies-for reliability reasons-on full-wave electromagnetic simulation tools. In addition, increasingly stringent specifications pertaining to electrical and field performance, growing complexity of antenna topologies, along with the necessity for handling multiple objectives, make numerical optimization of antenna geometry parameters a highly recommended design procedure. Conventional algorithms, particularly global ones, entail often-unmanageable computational costs, so alternative approaches are needed. This work proposes a novel method for cost-efficient globalized design optimization of multi-band antennas incorporating the response feature technology into the trust-region framework. It allows for unequivocal allocation of the antenna resonances even for poor initial designs, where conventional local algorithms fail. Furthermore, the algorithm is accelerated by means of Jacobian variability tracking, which reduces the number of expensive finite-differentiation updates. Two real-world antenna design cases are used for demonstration purposes. The optimization cost is comparable to that of local routines while ensuring nearly global search capabilities.

41 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20242
20232,653
20226,999
20217,395
202010,649
201912,144