Monday, April 7
08:00 - 09:20
Registration
Room: Exhibition Foyer
09:20 - 10:10
Opening Session
Application track: Multiple Applications
Room: TheaterChairs: Peter de Maagt (European Space Agency, The Netherlands), Juan R Mosig (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
10:10 - 10:50
RF for Healthcare: Diagnose, Treat, Monitor and Support
Application track: Biomedical
Room: TheaterChairs: Peter de Maagt (European Space Agency, The Netherlands), Juan R Mosig (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
10:50 - 11:20
Coffee Break
Room: Exhibition Foyer
11:20 - 12:00
Wireless LAN - Quo Vadis?
Application track: Wireless networks and RF Sensors
Room: TheaterChairs: Peter de Maagt (European Space Agency, The Netherlands), Juan R Mosig (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
12:00 - 12:40
Return-to-Flight Electromagnetic Measurements - The NASA Shuttle Ascent Debris Radar System
Application track: Defense & Security
Room: TheaterChairs: Peter de Maagt (European Space Agency, The Netherlands), Juan R Mosig (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
12:40 - 14:00
Lunch Break
Room: Atlantic
14:00 - 16:00
Imaging and Inverse Scattering
Application track: Defense & Security
Room: Europe 1Chairs: Dirk Heberling (RWTH Aachen University, Germany), Huib J. Visser (IMEC Netherlands, The Netherlands)
- 14:00 Time-Domain Microwave Radar for Breast Screening: Initial Testing with Volunteers
- 14:20 Contrast Source - Extended Born Inversion Method: State of the Art and Recent Advances
- 14:40 Imaging Sparse Scatterers Through a Multi-Frequency CS Approach
- 15:00 Investigations Into 3D Imaging Reconstruction of Hidden Objects with Use of the Bi-Polar Near-Field System
- 15:20 Non-Cooperative Target Recognition Based on Singular Value Decomposition
- 15:40 The UWB Imaging System with Rotating Antenna Array for Concealed Metallic Object
Reflector, Feed Systems and Components
Application track: Space
Room: AfricaChairs: Makoto Ando (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan), Hans Henrik Viskum (TICRA, Denmark)
- 14:00 An Ultra Rapid Deployable Antenna for On-The-Field Satellite Communications
- 14:20 Derivation of Different Types of Antenna Reflectors From the Principle of Highly Flexible Structures
- 14:40 Design and Analysis of a Ka-Band Coaxial-to-Quad-Ridged Circular Waveguide Transition
- 15:00 Design, Development and Verification of an Active Phased Array Fed Reflector Antenna for A Space Application
- 15:20 Dual Reflector Shaping for Realistic Frequency Dependent Feed Patterns with Specific Secondary Field Pattern Targets
- 15:40 Analysis of Reflectors Fed by Reconfigurable Array Lenses
Ultra-Wideband Antennas and Time-Domain Techniques
Application track: Multiple Applications
Room: Central AmericaChairs: Hendrik Rogier (Ghent University, Belgium), Luca Salghetti Drioli (European Space Agency-ESTEC, The Netherlands)
- 14:00 Arrangements and Applications of Self-grounded Antennas
- 14:20 A Compact Balanced Symmetric Discone Antenna with Optimized Ultrawideband Omnidirectional Impulse Radiation Behavior
- 14:40 Cost-Efficient Dual-Stage Gaussian Process Modeling of Antennas
- 15:00 Dyson Conical Quad-Spiral Array for VLBI2010
- 15:20 Time-domain Analysis of the Pulsed EM Field in Planarly Layered Configurations: Principles and Software Implementation
- 15:40 Wideband Electric-Magnetic Antenna for Polarimetric Application
Millimetre-Wave, Submillimetre-Wave and TeraHertz Antennas
Application track: Wireless networks and RF Sensors
Room: Yangtze 1Chairs: Ronan Sauleau (University of Rennes 1, France), Maarten van der Vorst (European Space Agency, The Netherlands)
- 14:00 2D-Scanning Holographic Antenna System with Rotman-Lens At 60 GHz
- 14:20 60GHz Slot-Array Antenna Design Based on Gap Waveguide Cavity and Gap Waveguide Feed Layer
- 14:40 60-GHz Wideband Branchline Coupler and Patch Antenna with Dielectric Rod for Full-Duplex Gigabit Wireless Communication
- 15:00 Aperture Coupled Antenna for 122.5 GHz Applications with Off-Chip Parasitic Patch
- 15:20 High-Efficiency Horn Antenna Using Solder Balls for Seamless Package with Millimeter-Wave 3D Chips
- 15:40 Micromachined Periodic Surfaces for Planar Terahertz Antennas
Medical and Biological Applications of EMF
Application track: Biomedical
Room: AsiaChairs: Ovidio Mario Bucci (University of Naples, Italy), Raquel C. Conceição (Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências, Instituto de Biofísica e Engenharia Biomédica, Portugal), Daniel Flores Tapia (108 Allen Building & University of Manitoba, Canada), Martin O'Halloran (National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland)
- 14:00 A Comparison Study Between Horn and Vivaldi Antennas for 1.5-6 GHz Breast Microwave Radar Imaging
- 14:20 A Numerical Study of Metallic Implants Effects on the SAR and Temperature Distributions Over the Human Body
- 14:40 Conceptual Design and Simulations of a Nano-communication Model for Drug Delivery Based on a Transient Microbot System
- 15:00 Applicators for Local Microwave Hyperthermia Based on Metamaterial Technology
- 15:20 Beamforming in the Frequency Domain with Applications to Microwave Breast Imaging
- 15:40 Biological Tissues Assesment Using Transmitted Microwave Signals
Microfluidic Technology for Flexible and Reconfigurable Antennas
Application track: Fundamental Research
Room: MississippiChairs: Ozlem Aydin Civi (Middle East Technical University, Turkey), Gregory Huff (Texas A&M University, USA)
- 14:00 A Novel Fluidic Switch for High Power Applications
- 14:20 A Reconfigurable Nested Ring-Split Ring Transmitarray Unit Cell by Microfluidic Technology
- 14:40 Digital Microfluidics for Reconfigurable Antennas
- 15:00 Integration of Microfluidic Channels with Frequency Selective Surfaces for Sensing and Tuning
- 15:20 Large-Scale Fluidic Tuning of Sub-wavelength Periodic Structures
- 15:40 Microfluidic Beamscanning Optical Leaky-Wave Antenna Concept
Multiple Beam Antennas
Application track: Space
Room: South AmericaChairs: Philippe Lepeltier (Thales Alenia Space, France), Giovanni Toso (European Space Agency, The Netherlands)
- 14:00 The Many Guises of HTS Antennas
- 14:20 CNES and Multibeam Antennas, a Decade of Joint Venture
- 14:40 Multibeam Antennas Based on Phased Arrays: An Overview on Recent ESA Developments
- 15:00 Satellite Multibeam Antennas At Airbus Defence and Space
- 15:20 THALES ALENIA SPACE Multiple Beam Antennas for Telecommunication Satellites
- 15:40 A Review of Multibeam Antenna Solutions and Their Applications
IET Antennas & Propagation Network: New Antenna Systems Involving Metamaterials and Metasurfaces
Application track: Fundamental Research
Room: AmazonChairs: Rob Lewis (BAE Systems Advanced Technology Centre, United Kingdom), Stefano Maci (University of Siena, Italy)
- 14:00 Patch Antennas on Metamaterial Substrates
- 14:20 Robust Low-profile Metasurface-Enabled Wearable Antennas for Off-Body Communications
- 14:40 A Miniaturised Dual Band Artificial Magnetic Conductor Using Interdigital Capacitance
- 15:00 A Frequency-Tunable Metamaterial-Based Antenna Using a Reconfigurable AMC Groundplane
- 15:20 Study of a Flexible Low Profile Tunable Dipole Antenna Using Barium Strontium Titanate Varactors
- 15:40 Conical Horn Antennas with Enhanced Functionalities Through the Use of Metamaterial Concepts
Memorial Session for Professor Pertti Vainikainen
Application track: Wireless networks and RF Sensors
Room: Yangtze 2Chairs: Dirk Manteuffel (University of Kiel, Germany), Claude Oestges (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
- 14:00 Channel Modelling for the Fifth Generation Mobile Communications
- 14:20 A Small Tribute to Prof. Pertti Vainikainen: a Great Antenna and Propagation Specialist
- 14:40 Capacitive Coupling Elements - Changing the Way of Designing Antennas
- 15:00 Characterization of Vehicle Penetration Loss At Wireless Communication Frequencies
- 15:20 Design of a Circular Antenna Array for MIMO Channel Sounding Application At 2.53 GHz
- 15:40 Investigation on Bendable Mobile Devices in the Presence of the User
Antenna Measurement Techniques
Application track: Multiple Applications
Room: North AmericaChair: Daniel J. Janse van Rensburg (Near Field Systems Inc., USA)
- 14:00 A Review on the Electromagnetic Characterisation of Building Materials At Micro- And Millimetre Wave Frequencies
- 14:20 Accuracy Assessment of Free-Space Material Reflectivity Measurements Using a MADRAS Spaceborne Radiometer Sample
- 14:40 Application of Spherical Near-Field Uncertainty Analysis to Positioner Design
- 15:00 Construction of Equivalent Source for Modulated Electromagnetic Radiation
- 15:20 Disturbing Effects of Microwave Probe on mm-Wave Antenna Pattern Measurements
- 15:40 Increased Dynamic Range for RFID EM-field Measurements
Tropospheric Propagation
Application track: Space
Room: AntarcticaChair: Nicolas Jeannin (ONERA, France)
- 14:00 Study on the Use of New IGS Zenith Tropospheric Delay Products to Estimate Water Vapor Attenuation
- 14:20 Comparison of Recent Rainfall Rate Models Using Spanish Data
- 14:40 Comparison of Attenuation Measurements At 19.7 GHz From Radiometer Observations, GNSS Delay Data and Radiosondes
- 15:00 Synchronized Measurements of L- And C-band Tropospheric Propagation Parameters
- 15:20 The Ka/Q-band Alphasat Ground Propagation Terminal - First Months of Operation
- 15:40 Using ECMWF Reanalysis Data for Radiometric Calibration
16:00 - 16:20
Coffee Break
Room: Exhibition Foyer
16:20 - 18:20
Passive, Multiband and Small Antenna Elements
Application track: Multiple Applications
Room: Central AmericaChair: Custodio Peixeiro (IST-TUL, Portugal)
- 16:20 A Compact IFA-Based Dual-Band Planar Antenna for WiFi USB Dongles
- 16:40 Fundamental Limitations on Small Multi-Beam Antennas
- 17:00 Investigating the Q Factor and Efficiency for Lossy Antennas Using Convex Optimization
- 17:20 Matching Electrically Small Antenna Using Non-Foster Circuit in the FM-Band
- 17:40 On the Increase of the Directivity of a Low Profile Aircraft Antenna
- 18:00 Post-Processing Accuracy Enhancement of the Improved Wheeler Cap for Wideband Antenna Efficiency Measurements
Multiple-Beam Antennas, Beamforming and Data Processing
Application track: Defense & Security
Room: Europe 1Chairs: Jean-Christophe Angevain (ESA, The Netherlands), Hao Xin (University of Arizona, USA)
- 16:20 Angle of Arrival and Signal to Noise Ratio Estimation for Broadband Signals by Phased Adaptive Array Antennas
- 16:40 Covert Communication Using a Directly Modulated Array Transmitter
- 17:00 Miniaturized Device for Passive Microwave UWB Beamforming
- 17:20 Probabilistic Direction of Arrival Estimation Through Bayesian Compressive Sensing
- 17:40 Pulse Shape Optimization in Time-Modulated Arrays for Sideband Radiation Suppression
- 18:00 Vector Representation of Directional Modulation Transmitters
Reflector, Feed Systems and Components
Application track: Space
Room: AfricaChairs: Makoto Ando (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan), Hans Henrik Viskum (TICRA, Denmark)
- 16:20 Exomars High Gain TTC Antenna Overview
- 16:40 Focal Plane Array with a Ka-band Silicon Transmitter on Chip for VSAT Applications
- 17:00 In-orbit Verification of Novel Reflector Antenna Technologies - The Final Step of a European-German Development
- 17:20 Reflector Antenna Analysis Using Physical Optics on Graphics Processing Units
- 17:40 Research on Compact Reflector Feeds for Space Applications
- 18:00 Very Compact TM01 Mode Extractor for Enhanced RF Sensing in Broadband Satellite Multiple Beam Reflector Antenna Systems
Medical and Biological Applications of EMF
Application track: Biomedical
Room: AsiaChairs: Ovidio Mario Bucci (University of Naples, Italy), Raquel C. Conceição (Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências, Instituto de Biofísica e Engenharia Biomédica, Portugal), Daniel Flores Tapia (108 Allen Building & University of Manitoba, Canada), Martin O'Halloran (National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland)
- 16:20 Bound Water and the Effects on Tissue Dielectric Properties for Imaging Purposes
- 16:40 Development of Biological Tissue Coagulation Device by Microwave Energy
- 17:00 Experimental Feasibility Study of Contrast Agent Enhanced UWB Breast Imaging by Means of M-Sequence Sensor Systems
- 17:20 Field Penetration in MRI-based Breast Models: a Numerical Investigation
- 17:40 Investigation of Classification Algorithms for a Prototype Microwave Breast Cancer Monitor
- 18:00 Wavelet-based Distorted Born Iterative Method for Accurate Microwave Imaging of Breast Tissues
Multiple Beam Antennas
Application track: Space
Room: South AmericaChairs: Philippe Lepeltier (Thales Alenia Space, France), Giovanni Toso (European Space Agency, The Netherlands)
- 16:20 Recent Developments on Multi-beam Antennas At Boeing
- 16:40 Advancements in Large Mesh Reflector Technology for Multi-Beam Antenna Applications
- 17:00 Ultra-Compact Multi-Function Feed Networks for Satellite Multibeam Antennas
- 17:20 Elements Reduction Using Optimum Size Element of Array-Fed Reflector Antenna in 100-Beam-Class Multi-beam Communications Satellite
- 17:40 Multiple Beam Bifocal Reflector Antenna Design with Front-Fed Offset Gregorian Configuration
- 18:00 GEODA-SARAS:Multi-Phased Array Planar Antenna Design and Measurements
IET Antennas & Propagation Network: New Antenna Systems Involving Metamaterials and Metasurfaces
Application track: Fundamental Research
Room: AmazonChairs: Rob Lewis (BAE Systems Advanced Technology Centre, United Kingdom), Stefano Maci (University of Siena, Italy)
- 16:20 Metamaterial Huygens' Surfaces From Microwave to Optical Frequencies
- 16:40 The Anti-Fish Eye Cloak for Surface Wave Antennas
- 17:00 Conformal Surface Lenses From a Bed of Nails
- 17:20 Reconfigurable Transmission Lines Based on Self-Complementary Metasurfaces
- 17:40 A Metasurface for RCS Reduction
- 18:00 Structural Modification of Mushroom EBG for Wider Band Gap, Reduced Design Complexity and Compactness
Theory and Applications of Magnetodielectric Materials in Antenna Design
Application track: Fundamental Research
Room: MississippiChairs: Antonis A Alexandridis (NCSR "Demokritos", Greece), J (Yiannis) Vardaxoglou (Loughborough University, United Kingdom)
- 16:20 Efficiency Measurements of Multiband and Circularly Polarized Magneto-Dielectric Antennas by the Equivalent-Circuit Wheeler Cap
- 16:40 Complex Electric Permittivity and Magnetic Permeability of Ferrites Calculated From Scattering Parameters
- 17:00 Diamagnetism in Materials with Metallic Inclusions
- 17:20 Magneto-dielectric Material Characterization and Antenna Design for RF Applications
- 17:40 Magneto-Dielectric Metasurfaces
- 18:00 Reconfigurable Planar Directional Antennas Printed on Ferrimagnetic Substrates
Memorial Session for Professor Pertti Vainikainen
Application track: Wireless networks and RF Sensors
Room: Yangtze 2Chairs: Dirk Manteuffel (University of Kiel, Germany), Claude Oestges (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
- 16:20 Experimental Characterization of Channel-Based Key Establishment Using Reconfigurable Antennas
- 16:40 On the Reliability of Multipath Cluster Estimation in Realistic Channel Data Sets
- 17:00 Spherical Wave Representation of Double Directional Channel Model
- 17:20 Studying the Multi-Dispersive Characteristics of the Radio Channel - a Story of Collaboration and Friendship with Pertti Vainikainen
- 17:40 Wideband Nearfield Microwave Sensors for Industrial Applications
- 18:00 Millimetre-Wave Dielectric Slab and Parallel Plate Waveguide Dielectric Lens Antennas for Beam Steering
Antenna Measurement Techniques
Application track: Multiple Applications
Room: North AmericaChair: Antonio A Moreira (I.S.T. - Technical U. Lisbon / I.T. Lisbon, Portugal)
- 16:20 Key Aspects of Robot Based Antenna Measurements At Millimeter Wave Frequencies
- 16:40 Large Volunteer Study on the Effects of Real Hands on Specific Absorption Rate in the Head
- 17:00 Novel Method to Measure the Gain of UHF Directional Antennas Using Distance Scan
- 17:20 Planar Array Diagnosis Through Compressive Sensing: a Preliminary Assessment
- 17:40 Wave Length Scaled Scanning of the Solar Orbiter/RPW Antennas: First Results
- 18:00 Comparison of Cavity-based Ultra Wideband Antenna Efficiency Measurement Methods
Radio Climatology
Application track: Space
Room: AntarcticaChairs: Nicolas Jeannin (ONERA, France), Danielle Vanhoenacker-Janvier (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
- 16:20 Estimation of Effective Path Lengths of Rain Based on Cell Size Distributions From Meteorological Radar
- 16:40 Estimation of the Atmospheric Refractivity Using a C-Band Polarimetric Weather Radar
- 17:00 Estimation of Trends in Distributions of One-Minute Rain Rates Over the UK
- 17:20 Prediction of Surface Refractivity Gradient Distributions, From Weather Station Surface Data
- 17:40 Accuracy of Real-time Sky Status Indicator (SSI) for the Characterization of a Satellite Communication Link At Microwave Bands
- 18:00 Influence of Climate Variability on Performance of Millimeter Wave Cellular 5th Generation Wireless Systems in Consequence of Precipitation
Indoor Channels and Systems
Application track: Wireless networks and RF Sensors
Room: Yangtze 1Chairs: Vittorio Degli-Esposti (University of Bologna, Italy), Carol D Wilson (CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia)
- 16:20 Auto-correlation and Cross-correlation Analysis for Sport Arenas At 850 MHz and 2.1 GHz
- 16:40 Estimation of Room Electromagnetics Reverberation Time for Ultra-Wideband Indoor Channels
- 17:00 Modeling and Simulation of Fast Fading Channels in Indoor Peer-to-Peer Scenarios
- 17:20 Active Tapping Scheme to Wireless Secret Key Generator Employing Duplex Amplifying Repeater
- 17:40 Impact of Wireless Sensor Network Cluster Architecture in Wireless Channel Performance
- 18:00 Semantic Wireless Localization Enabling Advanced Services in Museums
18:30 - 20:00
Welcome Reception
Room: Exhibition Foyer
Tuesday, April 8
09:00 - 10:40
Slotted-Wave, Guided-Wave and Leaky-Wave Antennas
Application track: Multiple Applications
Room: North AmericaChairs: Achim Dreher (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany), Mauro Ettorre (University of Rennes 1 & UMR CNRS 6164, France)
- 09:00 2D Slot Array Antenna in Ridge Gap Waveguide Technology
- 09:20 An Anisotropic Substrate Grounded with a Tensor Impedance Sheet for Control of Guided-Waves and Application to Planar Leaky-Wave Antenna Design
- 09:40 A New Half Mode Substrate Integrated Waveguide Leaky Wave Antenna
- 10:00 A Tapered CRLH Mushroom-like Leaky Wave Antenna with Reduced Sidelobe Level
- 10:20 Annular Slots for Circularly Polarized Slotted Substrate Integrated Waveguide Array
Frequency and Polarisation Selective Surfaces
Application track: Space
Room: AfricaChairs: Robert Cahill (Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom), Simon van den Berg (Thales NL, The Netherlands)
- 09:00 A Multi Layer Meander Line Circular Polarization Selective Structure (MLML-CPSS)
- 09:20 Analysis of Conformal Frequency Selective Surface Radome
- 09:40 Low-Profile Polarizing Surface with Dual-Band Operation in Orthogonal Polarizations for Broadband Satellite Applications
- 10:00 Lumped-Elements Tunable Frequency Selective Surfaces
- 10:20 Oblique Incidence Measurements of Circular Polarization Selective Surfaces
Medical and Biological Applications of EMF 2
Application track: Biomedical
Room: AsiaChair: Rob Mestrom (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
- 09:00 Comparison of Image Quality Metrics for Electromagnetic Wave Propagation Speed Estimation in Breast Microwave Radar Imaging Scenarios
- 09:20 Design and Optimization of mm-Size Implantable and Wearable On-Body Antennas for Biomedical Systems
- 09:40 Development of Axilla Phantoms to Aid Breast Cancer Staging Via Sentinel Lymph Node Detection
- 10:00 Dielectric Characterisation of Human Tissue Samples
- 10:20 Exploiting Proper Orthogonal Decomposition for the Solution of Forward and Inverse ECG and EEG Related Biomedical Problems
Emerging Techniques for Multiband and Wideband Antennas
Application track: Wireless networks and RF Sensors
Room: South AmericaChairs: Sungtek Kahng (University of Incheon, Korea), Hisamatsu Nakano (Hosei University, Japan)
- 09:00 Compact Hyper-band Printed Slot Antenna: Design and Experiments
- 09:20 Design of a Multi-band Antenna for 4G Wireless Systems
- 09:40 Investigation of Tunable Matching Circuits for Multiband 4G Handsets
- 10:00 Metamaterial-based Wideband Horizontally Polarized Omnidirectional 5-GHz WLAN Antenna Array
- 10:20 Microwave Imaging From Wheel-of-Time Data
INTELECT: Integral Equations in Electromagnetics
Application track: Fundamental Research
Room: MississippiChairs: Juan R Mosig (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland), Zvonimir Sipus (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
- 09:00 A New Radial-Angular-R2 Transformation for Singular Integrals on Triangular Meshes
- 09:20 A Novel Approach to Evaluating Reaction Integrals in the Method of Moments: Coplanar Element Case
- 09:40 A Tracking Algorithm for the Eigenvectors Calculated with Characteristic Mode Analysis
- 10:00 Coupling of Plasmonic Gap Waveguides with Directive Antennas
- 10:20 Solution of a Million by Million Complex Matrix Equation by Gaussian Elimination with Partial Pivotting Using Parallel Out-of-core Solvers
Mm-Wave Antenna Systems
Application track: Multiple Applications
Room: Central AmericaChairs: Cyril Luxey (University Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France), Marta Martínez-Vázquez (IMST GmbH, Germany)
- 09:00 300-GHz Corrugated Horn Antennas on LTCC Multi-layer Substrates
- 09:20 60 GHz System-on-Chip (SoC) with Built-in Memory and an On-chip Antenna
- 09:40 60-GHz Antennas on PCB
- 10:00 Dual-Circular Polarised Patch Antenna Array on LCP for 60 GHz Millimetre-Wave Identification
- 10:20 FSS Design for Dual-Band and Low Profile Fabry-Pérot Antenna At Ka-band
Phased Array Systems for Defence Applications
Application track: Defense & Security
Room: Europe 1Chairs: Kazunari Kihira (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan), Stefania Monni (TNO Defence Security and Safety, The Netherlands)
- 09:00 A Phased Array Antenna Using Commercial Fractional-N PLL Synthesizers by Clock Shift of LE Signals
- 09:20 An X-band Compact Multi-Channel Antenna Module for Active Phased Array Antennas
- 09:40 Evolution of Naval AESA Radars
- 10:00 Phased Array Systems for Air, Land and Naval Defence Applications in Selex ES
- 10:20 RADAR for Security & Defence - Recent Developments At Fraunhofer-FHR
Theory and Applications of Graphene in Antenna and Microwave Engineering
Application track: Fundamental Research
Room: AmazonChair: Yang Hao (Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom)
- 09:00 Efficient Characterization of the Electromagnetic- Coupling of Wire Antennas - And Graphene Patches
- 09:20 Graphene Conductivity Characterization At Microwave and THz Frequency
- 09:40 Graphene-based Plasmonic Nano-transceiver for Terahertz Band Communication
- 10:00 Material Region Division and Antenna Application of Monolayer and Multilayer Graphene
- 10:20 Measurement of Biased Graphene Stacks At Terahertz: Dynamic Reconfiguration and Hysteresis
Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Efficient Smart Buildings
Application track: Wireless networks and RF Sensors
Room: Yangtze 1Chairs: Jonathan Michael Rigelsford (The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom), Ludek Subrt (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic)
- 09:00 3D-Frequency Selective Surfaces for Building Wall Applications
- 09:20 A Passive System for Increasing Cellular Coverage Within Energy Efficient Buildings
- 09:40 Active Singly and Dual Polarised Interwoven Spiral Frequency Selective Surfaces
- 10:00 Advanced Modelling of Intelligent Walls for Indoor Smart Environments
- 10:20 Frequency Selective Building Facades
Modelling Propagation for Millimetre-Wave Wireless Communications
Application track: Wireless networks and RF Sensors
Room: Yangtze 2Chairs: Vittorio Degli-Esposti (University of Bologna, Italy), Jose-Maria Molina-Garcia-Pardo (Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Spain)
- 09:00 A Sliding-Correlator-based SAGE Algorithm for Mm-wave Wideband Channel Parameter Estimation
- 09:20 Beamforming Antennas for 60 GHz Positioning Systems
- 09:40 Indoor Short-Range Radio Propagation Measurements At 60 and 70 GHz
- 10:00 Fast Beam Searching Concept for Indoor Terahertz Communications
- 10:20 Millimeter-wave Channel Modelling for IEEE802 Standardizations
Satellite Tropospheric Propagation
Application track: Space
Room: AntarcticaChairs: Carlo Riva (Politecnico di Milano, Italy), Michael Schönhuber (Joanneum Research, Austria)
- 09:00 Evaluation of Deep Space Ka-Band Data Transfer Using Radiometeorological Forecast Models
- 09:20 Ka-Band Atmospheric Phase Stability Measurements in Goldstone, CA; White Sands, NM and Guam
- 09:40 Measurements of K-band Scintillation on a Low Elevation Satellite-Earth Path in Norway
- 10:00 Modeling of Joint Rainfall Rate and Rain Attenuation Statistics Using Archimedean Copula Functions
- 10:20 Performance of SatCom Systems Implementing Time Diversity in Equatorial Malaysia
10:40 - 11:00
Coffee Break
Room: Exhibition Foyer
11:00 - 12:40
Slotted-Wave, Guided-Wave and Leaky-Wave Antennas
Application track: Multiple Applications
Room: North AmericaChairs: Jean-Christophe Angevain (ESA, The Netherlands), Elena Saenz (European Space Agency, The Netherlands)
- 11:00 Bessel Beam Generation with a RLSA Antenna for Non-Contact Detection of Buried Objects
- 11:20 Compact Leaky Wave Antenna with Periodical Slots on Substrate Integrated Waveguide
- 11:40 Optimization of Planar Periodic Leaky-Wave Antennas by Selective Surface-Wave Suppression
- 12:00 Scanning Antennas Using Digital Metasurfaces
- 12:20 Transitions Between Gap Waveguides for Use in a Phased Array Antenna Fed by a Rotman Lens
Array-Antenna Design and Technology
Application track: Space
Room: AfricaChairs: Cyril Mangenot (European Space Agency, The Netherlands), Giovanni Toso (European Space Agency, The Netherlands)
- 11:00 Tolerance Analysis with Phase Errors in Linear Arrays by Means of Interval Arithmetic
- 11:20 Dual-Polarized Wideband and High-Gain Array with Waveguide-to-Stripline Series-Feed Network
- 11:40 A Ku-Band 8×8 Dual-Polarized High-Gain Array with Mirror-Symmetric Hybrid Feeding Network
- 12:00 An Interval Arithmetic-Based Robustness Evaluation of Sub-Arrayed Linear Array Antenna Architectures
- 12:20 Design of Thinned Arrays with Controlled Sidelobes by ADS-CP Strategy
Medical and Biological Applications of EMF 2
Application track: Biomedical
Room: AsiaChair: Rob Mestrom (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
- 11:00 Functionalized Carbon Nanotube Theranostic Agents for Microwave Diagnostic Imaging and Thermal Therapy of Tumors
- 11:20 Magnetic Nanoparticle Enhanced Microwave Imaging: Towards an Experimental Feasibility Assessment
- 11:40 Microwave Imaging Based on Compressed Sensing Using Adaptive Thresholding
- 12:00 Microwave Tomographic Imaging for Breast Cancer Chemotherapy Monitoring
- 12:20 Utilization Potential of Balanced Antipodal Vivaldi Antenna for Microwave Hyperthermia Treatment of Breast Cancer
Emerging Techniques for Multiband and Wideband Antennas
Application track: Wireless networks and RF Sensors
Room: South AmericaChairs: Sungtek Kahng (University of Incheon, Korea), Hisamatsu Nakano (Hosei University, Japan)
- 11:00 New Concept for Realizing Wideband and Multiband Dielectric Resonator Antennas
- 11:20 Printed Multi-band MIMO Antenna Systems: Techniques and Isolation Mechanisms
- 11:40 Reconfiguration of Ultra Wideband Antenna for Multi-band Operation in Cognitive Radio Application
- 12:00 Two-arm Metaspiral Antenna
- 12:20 Wideband and Low-Profile Metamaterial Antennas for Aircrafts and Automobiles
INTELECT: Integral Equations in Electromagnetics
Application track: Fundamental Research
Room: MississippiChairs: Juan R Mosig (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland), Zvonimir Sipus (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
- 11:00 Hybrid ACA-MLayAIM Technique for the Analysis of Metasurfaces
- 11:20 Numerical-Asymptotic Synergic Approach for Speeding Up the Filling Time in a MoM/Mode Matching Code for Large SIW Structures
- 11:40 Simplifying the Design of Complex Electromagnetic Structures Using Green's Functions Based on Asymptotic Boundary Conditions
- 12:00 High Order Integral Equation Methods for the Scattering of a Superellipsoid
- 12:20 What Can Integral Equation Do for Array Analysis ?
Mm-Wave Antenna Systems
Application track: Multiple Applications
Room: Central AmericaChairs: Cyril Luxey (University Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France), Marta Martínez-Vázquez (IMST GmbH, Germany)
- 11:00 Miniaturized 122 GHz Short Range Radar Sensor with Antenna-in-Package (AiP) and Dielectric Lens
- 11:20 mmWave Phased-Array with Hemispheric Coverage for 5th Generation Cellular Handsets
- 11:40 On Design of Differentially Driven On-Chip Antennas with Harmonic Filtering for Silicon Integrated Mm-Wave and THz N-push Oscillators
- 12:00 Probe-fed Measurement System for F-band Antennas
- 12:20 Technologies for Integrated mm-Wave Antennas
Phased Array Systems for Defence Applications
Application track: Defense & Security
Room: Europe 1Chairs: Stefania Monni (TNO Defence Security and Safety, The Netherlands), Simon van den Berg (Thales NL, The Netherlands)
- 11:00 Recent Advances in Randomly Spaced Antenna Arrays
- 11:20 S-band Active Array Filtenna with Enhanced X-band Spurious Interference Suppression
- 11:40 Status and Trends of Active Electronically Scanned Antennas At Airbus Defense&Space
- 12:00 Wideband Phased Arrays with True Time Delay Beamformers
- 12:20 A Direction Finding Antenna System
Theory and Applications of Graphene in Antenna and Microwave Engineering
Application track: Fundamental Research
Room: AmazonChairs: Yang Hao (Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom), Hao Xin (University of Arizona, USA)
- 11:00 Plasmonic and Optoelectronic Effects in Graphene Nanostructures
- 11:25 Space-Domain Method of Moments for Graphene Nanoribbons
- 11:50 Theoretical Upper Bounds on the Performance of Graphene Reconfigurable Devices
- 12:15 Tunable Terahertz Graphene Magnetoplasmons: Non-Reciprocal Components and Applications
Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Efficient Smart Buildings
Application track: Wireless networks and RF Sensors
Room: Yangtze 1Chairs: Jonathan Michael Rigelsford (The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom), Ludek Subrt (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic)
- 11:00 Inter-Building Propagation Modelling for Indoor Wireless Communications System Deployment
- 11:20 ISM Band Interference Behaviour in a Modern City Hospital
- 11:40 Rapid Channel Assignment for Intelligent Indoor Scenarios
- 12:00 Secure Electromagnetic Buildings
- 12:20 Study of Clusters of Defects in Low-Cost Digitally Fabricated Frequency Selective Surfaces
Modelling Propagation for Millimetre-Wave Wireless Communications
Application track: Wireless networks and RF Sensors
Room: Yangtze 2Chair: Vittorio Degli-Esposti (University of Bologna, Italy)
- 11:00 On Clustering for Deterministic and Measured Indoor mmW Channels
- 11:20 Modeling the Cluster Decay in mm-Wave Channels
- 11:40 Propagation Characterization of an Office Building in the 60 GHz Band
- 12:00 Study of Back-Scattering From Buildings Using a 60 GHz Scaled Model
- 12:20 Ultrawideband Multichannel Sounding for mm-Wave
11:00 - 12:00
CST Workshop
Room: Europe 2
11:00 - 12:40
Satellite Tropospheric Propagation
Application track: Space
Room: AntarcticaChairs: Carlo Riva (Politecnico di Milano, Italy), Michael Schönhuber (Joanneum Research, Austria)
- 11:00 Radiometric Attenuation for Beacon Calibration: a Preliminary Analysis on Accuracy and Reliability
- 11:20 Rain Attenuation Variability Calculated From a Slant-Path Ka-Band Experiment
- 11:40 Statistical Analysis of 19.7 GHz Satellite Beacon Measurements in Ljubljana, Slovenia
- 12:00 Use of Microwave Profiler for Alphasat ALDO In-Orbit Tests and Atmospheric Observations
- 12:20 Worst Month Statistics: Rain and Ka-band Attenuation Results
[WS]: AMTA Special Session on Low-Frequency Antenna Measurements
Room: Oceania
Chairs: Carlo Rizzo (Antenna Systems Solutions, United Kingdom), Luca Salghetti Drioli (European Space Agency-ESTEC, The Netherlands)
12:40 - 13:30
Lunch Break
Room: Atlantic
13:30 - 16:20
Body Centric Issues
Room: Poster area
- A Novel Compact Planar Inverted-F Antenna for Biomedical Applications in the MICS Band
- Bandwidth Enlargement of Inductively-Coupled UHF RFID Tag Antennas Based on a Dual-Dipole Topology
- Compact Low-Profile Antenna for Wireless Medical Vital Sign Monitors At 868 MHz
- Feeding Structure Influence on Performance of Two UWB Antennas Near a Human Arm
- Super-Wideband Tree Shaped Textile Antenna
- On-Body Channel Correlation in Various Walking Scenarios
- Correlated Shadowing and Fading Characterization of MIMO Off-Body Channels by Means of Multiple Autonomous On-Body Nodes
- First-Order Characteristics of the Person-to-Vehicle Channel At 5.8 GHz
- Modelling of Dynamic On-Body Channels Using Different Types of Wearable Antennas
- Improving Signal Reliability for Indoor Off-body Communications Using Spatial Diversity At the Base Station
- Expression for Human Whole-Body Averaged SAR of Adults for Single Plane Wave Exposure
- A Flexible Loop Antenna for Biomedical Bone Implants
- A Novel Algorithm for Implantable Antenna Design: Size and Radiation Performance Considerations
- Compact Dual-Band Implanted Antenna for Wireless Communication
- Convex Optimization for Analysis of Antennas with Near Field Constraints
- Low Profile UHF RFID Tag for Wristbands in Healthcare Applications
- Small Antenna Embedded in a Wrist-Watch for Application in Telemedicine
Reflector, Feed Systems and Components
Room: Poster area
- The Design of the MeerKAT UHF Band Feed
- Analysis for the Fan-beam Pattern of the Offset Parabolic Cylinder Antenna
- JWST High Gain Antenna
- Longitudinally Magnetized Left-Handed Cylindrical Ferrite Coupled Line Junction for Nonreciprocal Devices
- Monopulse Tracking Feed System for Next Q/V-Band Applications
- Optimum Design of a Novel Multi-Section Wide Band Phase Shifter for Phased Array Antenna Beam Forming Network
- A Reflector Impulse Radiating Antenna (IRA) with a New Feeding Structure
- A Tri-band Inductive Frequency Selective Surface Sub-Reflector for Satellite Communications Systems
- Four-Port Circulator Using Reduced Ground Plane Ferrite Coupled Line Junction
- Investigation of Thick Coax-to-Waveguide Transitions
Advanced RF Materials, Metamaterials and EBG
Room: Poster area
Chair: Matteo Albani (University of Siena, Italy)
- 77 GHz VCO Design Using a Coupled-Line Inductor with Spiral-Shaped EBG Structure
- A Dual Band Metamaterial Antenna with Circular Polarization
- A Novel Low Profile High-Gain UHF Antenna Using High-Impedance Surfaces
- Analysis and Design of Microstrip Antenna Array Using Interdigital Capacitor with CRLH-TL Ground Plane for Multiband Applications
- Analysis of Metamaterial Inclusions for Association with Radiating Elements Using the Theory of Characteristic Modes
- Backward Wave Eigenanalysis of a Tuneable Two-Dimensional Array of Wires Covered with Magnetized Ferrite
- Circuit Model of Circular Antenna Loaded with Composite Right/Left-Handed Transmission Line
- Circularly Polarized Antenna Based on Mu-negative Transmission Line
- Controlling the Band-Gap of a High Impedance Surface of Quasi-Periodic Sequences Using Cascade Arrangement
- Design of Waveguide to Ridge Gap Waveguide Transition Using Probe Excitation
- Dispersion Characteristics of Multi-Layer Fabry-Perot Leaky-Wave Antennas
- Dual Band Polarization Insensitive and Wide Angle Circular Ring Metamaterial Absorber
- Effect of Cylindrical Metal Obstacles on the Propagation of Bloch Waves in a Shielded Circular "Mushroom" Structure
- Electro-Magnetic Band-Gap Feed Overlapping Apertures for Multi-beam Antennas on Communication Satellites
- Metasurface Approach for Contoured Beam Reflectors
- Reduced Size C-Band Band-pass Filter with 2nd Harmonic Suppression
- Slimming the Fishnet Metamaterial Lens
- Study of the Effect of Metamaterial Substrates in Microstrip Antennas Parameters and Applications
- Dielectric Resonator Nanoantenna Fed by Surface Plasmon Coplanar Waveguide
- Wideband and Low-Profile Metamaterial Antennas for Aircrafts and Automobiles
- New Fractal Metamaterial Unit-cell for Microwave Applications
Millimetre-Wave, Submillimetre-Wave and TeraHertz Antennas
Room: Poster area
- Gap Waveguide Structure in LTCC for Millimeter-Wave Applications
- Steerable Millimetre-Wave Plasmonic Antenna with Elliptical Slots
- 80GHz Array Antenna for mm-Wave Applications
- Investigation of Transitions for Use in Inverted Microstrip Gap Waveguide Antenna Arrays
- A W-Band Slot Array Antenna Based on Substrate Waveguide
- A Switched Beam 60 GHz 2×2-Element Planar Antenna Array
- An Annular Ring Antenna for 60 GHz Communications
- Beam Steering 60 GHz Slot Antenna Array Using Liquid Crystal Phase Shifter
- Millimeter-Wave Planar Log Periodic Antenna for On-Chip Wireless Interconnects
- Advanced Feed for a 60-GHz Exposure Chamber
- Considerations on Designing Microstrip Gap Waveguide Slot Arrays
- Terahertz Dipole Antenna Performance Enhancement Using A Photonic-Bandgap GaAs Substrate
- An Investigation on THz Antennas Using Graphene as a Substrate
Tropospheric Channel
Room: Poster area
- Modelling Rain Rate by Means of Arrival Processes
- Deciwavelength-Scale Fade Mitigation
- Model-based Analysis of the Impact of Volcanic Ash Clouds on W-band Satellite Communication Links
- Multi Satellite MIMO Systems At Ka Band and Above: Outage Capacity Analysis Using Bivariate IG Distribution
- Physically-based Models for the Performance Evaluation of V and W Band SatCom Systems
- Propagation Experiment in Madrid Using the Alphasat Q-Band Beacon
- Climatic-Dependent Energy Efficient Design of Satellite Links Operating Above 10GHz: An Optimal Stopping Approach
- Effects of Multiple Scattering Due to Atmospheric Water Particles on Outdoor Free Space Optical Links
- Meteorological Measurement of Atmospheric Turbulence and FSO Link Attenuation - Preliminary Results
- Modelling of the Propagation of GPS Signals Over the Horizon
- Radar Observations and Modeling of Fog At 35 GHz
Antenna and RF Material Characterization Techniques and Facilities
Room: Poster area
- A Measurement Method for Evaluation of Car-to-Infrastructure Radio Channels
- Full-Wave Embedding - De-embedding Procedures for RFID Measurement Space Characterization
- Investigation of the Influence of Panoramic Roof on Mobile Telephony Antennas
- Measurement of Antenna Radiation Pattern Using Injection Locking Technique
- Measurement Uncertainty Investigation in the Multi-probe OTA Setups
- Optically Modulated Scatterer Probe for In-Situ Antenna Monitoring
- Near-Field Hybrid Test Range From 400 MHz to 50 GHz in the ESTEC Compact Payload Test Range with RF Upgrade for High Frequencies
- Reconstruction Over a Regular Grid of Antenna Near Field Measurement Based on Irregular Near Field Data
- Modeling of Magnitude of the Applied Electric Field Intensity During Electromagnetic Processing of Oil in Water Emulsions
- Permittivity Measurement of Materials of Different Natures
- Multipurpose Software Defined Measurement System for Dielectric Characterization
- Scattering-Parameter Extraction and Calibration Techniques for RF Free-Space Material Characterization
- System for the Dielectric Evaluation of Powders and Liquids
- Evaluation and Optimization of LTE MIMO Antenna Configurations in Automotive Environment
- Measurements of Throughput in Reverberation Chamber Using Universal Software Radio Peripheral
- A Measurement Technique for Static Determination of RFID Tags' Sensitivity Using a Low-cost UHF GTEM Cell
- A Generalised Material Characterisation Technique for Partially-Filled Waveguides
Analytical Methods and Numerical Techniques in Electromagnetic Theory
Room: Poster area
- Computational Challenges for Antenna Analysis Using Current Optimization
- Discussion About the Link Budget for Electromagnetic Wave with Orbital Angular Momentum
- Dispersion Properties of Corrugated Waveguides Based on the Modal Theory
- Efficient Surrogate-based Antenna Design Optimization Using Novel Sampling Methods
- Influence of the Impedance Matching on the Characteristic Wave Modes
- Investigation of Split-Potentials Low Frequency Stabilization of Kernel-Independent Low-Rank Compressive Solvers
- Acceleration of Oscillating Green's Function Series Using Term Splitting
- Capacity Field: Modelling Channel Capacity From Electromagnetic Propagation Perspective
- Fullwave Computation of Path Loss in Urban Areas
- A Method for Evaluating Radiation Efficiency Based on a Modal Approach
- A Mode Matching Approach for Modeling an Electromagnetic Telemetry System for Oil Fields
- Dynamic Method Applied for Cylindrical Antennas
- Electromagnetic Scattering From Cylinders Located Close to Periodic Circular Cylinder Array
- Evaluation of Human Exposure to Pulsed Waves
- High Fidelity Modeling of 30m Near-Field Cassegrain Antenna in X-band
- Higher-Order Curved Div-conforming Elements with Loop-Star Subspaces Decomposition for Surface Integral Equation
- Hybrid Technique Combining the Backward Ray Tracing and the FDTD Method
- Hybridization of the FDTD Method with Use of the Discrete Green's Function
- Numerical Study of the Differential Phase Shift in the Azimuthally Magnetized Coaxial Ferrite Waveguide
- On the Statistical Characteristics of Power Balance Approach: Theoretical Study
- Selecting Parameters of Type-3 NUFFTs to Control Accuracy in MoM Methods
- The Performance of the CUDA Implementations of HABC and CFS-PML ABCs on GPU Hardware
- Exchange of Geometrical Data for E.M. Modelling
- On-Going Progress of SoftLAB Benchmark in 2014
- GPU Acceleration for V-CALAR Soft Based on Richmond's Moment Method
- On the Efficient Computation of Near-Field Radar Cross Sections
- Out-of-Core Solver Using GPU-Accelerated Cluster for MoM-Based EM Code
- Weak Scaling Analysis for the Parallel MLFMA: The Quest for Ever Larger Simulations
Antenna Systems and Architectures
Room: Poster area
- System-by-Design: a New Paradigm for Handling Design Complexity
- Dual Feed Folded Loop Antenna for LTE Carrier Aggregation
- SNO Design of Microstrip Antennas for an Experimental Rocket
- A Via-Less Planar Quad-Band Monopole Antenna Employing Complementary Split Ring Resonator and Interdigital Capacitor
- Decision Support System for Fleet Management Based on TETRA Terminals Geolocation
- Dual-Linear Polarized Cavity-Backed Sinuous Antenna with Non-Sequential Feeding
- GNSS Microstrip Antenna for Orbit Determination of GEO Satellites
- On the Design of a Mobile RFID System for Searching of Misplaced or Lost Tagged Items
- Polarization Distortion as a Means for Securing Wireless Communication
- RF Power Transfer Using a Near-Field Focused Array of Directive Radiators
14:00 - 15:00
TICRA Workshop
Room: Europe 2
14:30 - 16:20
EurAAP WG 5: Meeting on Antenna Measurements
Room: Oceania
15:00 - 15:40
Metamaterials
Application track: Multiple Applications
Room: AmazonChairs: Giampiero Gerini (TNO - Defence, Security and Safety, The Netherlands), Anthony Grbic (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)
Square Kilometer Array
Application track: Fundamental Research
Room: MississippiChairs: A. B. (Bart) Smolders (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands), Arnold van Ardenne (ASTRON, The Netherlands)
15:20 - 16:20
FEKO Workshop
Room: Europe 2
15:40 - 16:20
Metamaterials
Application track: Fundamental Research
Room: AmazonChairs: Giampiero Gerini (TNO - Defence, Security and Safety, The Netherlands), Anthony Grbic (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)
Square Kilometer Array
Application track: Fundamental Research
Room: MississippiChairs: Arnold van Ardenne (ASTRON, The Netherlands), A. B. (Bart) Smolders (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
16:20 - 16:40
Coffee Break
Room: Exhibition Foyer
16:40 - 18:20
EurAAP Delegate Assembly
Room: Oceania
Electromagnetic Theory and Numerical Techniques
Application track: Defense & Security
Room: Europe 1Chair: Stefania Monni (TNO Defence Security and Safety, The Netherlands)
- 16:40 Compact CW Radar Transceiver Antennas with Novel Decoupling Technique Based on Neutralization
- 17:00 Modeling of Metamaterial Absorber by Equivalent Resonant Circuit
- 17:20 Novel Nyström Method for TDEFIE
- 17:40 Optimization of Antenna-Plasma Interaction in a Helicon Plasma Thruster
- 18:00 A Modular Implementation of the Boundary Integral Method for Dielectric Bodies Using Electromagnetic Duality
Antenna Systems and Architectures
Application track: Wireless networks and RF Sensors
Room: Yangtze 1Chairs: Mattias Gustafsson (Huawei Technologies Sweden AB, Sweden), Jiro Hirokawa (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
- 16:40 A Dual-Polarized Solar Cell Stacked Microstrip Patch Antenna with a λ/4 DC/RF Isolation Circuit for 5.8 GHz Band WiMAX Networks
- 17:00 A Transmission Line Model for the Capacitively Loaded Inverted-F Antenna (CLIFA)
- 17:20 Design of Integrated Parasitic Element Antennas for a Remote Wake Up Device
- 17:40 Narrow Film Transmission Lines and Antennas
- 18:00 OTA Characterization of μBTS Antenna in RIMP and Random-LOS
Imaging and Inverse Scattering
Application track: Fundamental Research
Room: MississippiChairs: Santiago Capdevila (EPFL & École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland), Luis Jofre (UPC, Spain)
- 16:40 A Total Variation Compressive Sensing Technique for Imaging Large Scatterers
- 17:00 Application of Time Reversal to Imaging Electrical Properties of Inhomogeneous Cylindrical Objects
- 17:20 Conditioning Inverse Scattering Problems by Means of Suitably Designed Synthetic Experiments
- 17:40 Superdirectivity-Based Superoscillatory Waveform Design: A Practical Path to Far-Field Sub-Diffraction Imaging
- 18:00 Optimized Tomography with Controlled Resolution
Wearable Antennas
Application track: Wireless networks and RF Sensors
Room: Yangtze 2Chairs: Kenneth Lee Ford (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom), Hendrik Rogier (Ghent University, Belgium)
- 16:40 A Wearable Multiband Monopole Antenna for Digital Television and Wireless Communications
- 17:00 Inkjet Printed Epidermal RFID Tags
- 17:20 Microstrip-based All-textile Unidirectional UWB Antenna with Full Ground Plane
- 17:40 On-body Fidelity Factor for Footwear Antennas Over Different Ground Materials
- 18:00 Textile Antenna Incorporated with High Impedance Surface for On-body Performance Enhancement
Wire Antennas, Baluns and Associated Circuits
Application track: Wireless networks and RF Sensors
Room: South AmericaChairs: Juraj Bartolić (University of Zagreb, Croatia), Dirk de Villiers (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)
- 16:40 A New Compact Reconfigurable Band Pass Filter Using DGS-Octagonal Resonators, Varactor Devices and RF Signal Choke
- 17:00 Integrated HF Antenna for Vertical Tail Plane Using Virtual Prototyping
- 17:20 Meander-Line Inverted F Antenna Designed Using a Transmission Line Model
- 17:40 Multi Antenna Receiver for RF to DC Conversion
- 18:00 Orthomode Transducer for Dual Polarized Substrate Integrated Circuits and Antennas
Slotted-Wave, Guided-Wave and Leaky-Wave Antennas
Application track: Space
Room: AfricaChairs: Nelson Fonseca (European Space Agency, The Netherlands), Alex Schuchinsky (Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom)
- 16:40 A Flat-Topped Leaky-Wave Source for Phased Arrays with Reduced Scan Losses
- 17:00 A Radial Line Slot Array Focusing in the Near Field: Analysis and Design
- 17:20 Circularly Polarized Slotted Substrate Integrated Waveguide Array with Low Axial Ratio Over Wide Angles
- 17:40 Low Cost and Compact Ka-band Mobile Satcom Terminal
- 18:00 Metasurface Leaky-Wave Antennas: a Comparison Between Slot and Patch Implementation
Frequency and Polarisation Selective Surfaces
Application track: Multiple Applications
Room: North AmericaChairs: Robert Cahill (Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom), Simon van den Berg (Thales NL, The Netherlands)
- 16:40 Active FSS Enclosed Beam-switching Node for Wireless Sensor Networks
- 17:00 Design of a Pin Reflection Frequency Selective Surface From a Comb-Based Structure
- 17:20 Fast Analysis Over a Wide Band Using Chebyshev Approximation with Clenshaw-Lord Approximation
- 17:40 Small Sized Uniplanar Artificial Magnetic Conductor
- 18:00 Ultra Thin Resistively Loaded FSS Absorber for Polarisation Independent Operation At Large Incident Angles
Medical and Biological Applications of EMF 3
Application track: Biomedical
Room: AsiaChair: Margarethus M. Paulides (Erasmus University Medical Center, The Netherlands)
- 16:40 Antenna Applicator for Microwave Hyperthermia Treatment of Pediatric Brain Cancer
- 17:00 Average Property Estimation Validation with Realistic Breast Models
- 17:20 Compressed Sensing for Three-Dimensional Microwave Breast Cancer Imaging
- 17:40 Numerical and Experimental Assessment of Millimeter-Wave Reflectometry for Non-Invasive Diagnosis of Skin Cancers
- 18:00 Radar-based Tumor Localization in Heterogeneous Breast Tissue Using a 3D Permittivity Model
Compressive Sensing in Electromagnetics
Application track: Fundamental Research
Room: AmazonChairs: Michele D'Urso (Selex ES S.p.A., Italy), Tommaso Isernia (University of Reggio Calabria, Italy)
- 16:40 Array Diagnosis From Far Field Data Via L1 Minimizations
- 17:00 Compressive Sensing in Electromagnetics: Theoretical Foundations, Recent Advances, and Applicative Guidelines
- 17:20 Exploiting Compressive Sensing in Microwave Tomography and Inverse Scattering
- 17:40 On the Deterministic Synthesis of Aperiodic Ring Antenna Arrays
- 18:00 Maximally Sparse AESA Antennas Via Sequential Convex Optimizations
Wideband Channel Modelling for Satellite and Aeronautical Communication Links
Application track: Space
Room: AntarcticaChairs: Uwe-Carsten G. Fiebig (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany), Fernando Pérez-Fontán (University of Vigo, Spain)
- 16:40 A Propagation Model for Trees Based on Multiple Scattering Theory
- 17:00 A Satellite-to-Indoor Channel Model for Pedestrian Applications
- 17:20 Measurements of Single Tree Attenuation for Vehicular Satellite Communications At X-Band
- 17:40 Propagation Study of a Wideband SIMO Land Mobile Satellite System in a Dense Urban Environment
- 18:00 QuaDRiGa: a MIMO Channel Model for Land Mobile Satellite
Propagation in Complex Media
Application track: Multiple Applications
Room: Central AmericaChairs: Nicolas Floury (ESA, The Netherlands), Pavel Valtr (Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic)
- 16:40 A Disc of Scatterers Based Radio Channel Model for Secure Key Generation
- 17:00 A Proposal on Spatial Diversity in Emergency Communications Within Forest Environments
- 17:20 Electromagnetic Simulation and Measurement of Diffuse Scattering From Building Walls
- 17:40 Empirical Channel Model for Unattended Near Ground Sensor Networks At UHF
- 18:00 Wavelet Based Analysis of Reception Level Variations in Urban Mobile Communication Environment
Wednesday, April 9
09:00 - 10:40
Analytical Methods in Electromagnetic Theory
Application track: Fundamental Research
Room: MississippiChairs: Olav Breinbjerg (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark), Stefano Maci (University of Siena, Italy)
- 09:00 Circuit Model for Patch/Slot-based Frequency Selective Surfaces Under Conical Incidence
- 09:20 Drude-Lorentz Model in Circuit Form
- 09:40 Mixed Potentials for Planar Multilayered Structures Including Conductive Interfaces
- 10:00 Modal Green's Functions for a Slot Antenna Array on a Cylindrical Cavity
- 10:20 Pulse Shape Distortion in Closed-Waveguide Axial Modal Signal Transfer - An Analytic Time-Domain Study
Wearable Antennas
Application track: Biomedical
Room: South AmericaChairs: Milos Mazanek (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic), Anja K. Skrivervik (EPFL, Switzerland)
- 09:00 A Design of an Ultra-thin Antenna for WBAN On-Body Communication
- 09:20 Antenna Implementable Into Button for On-Body Communications At 61 GHz
- 09:40 Bend Profiling of Textile Antenna for Body Centric Wireless Communication
- 10:00 Design and Performance of Miniaturized Wearable Antennas in UHF Band
- 10:20 Far Field Modeling of Body Worn Antennas by the Superposition of Equivalent Electric Sources
Slotted-Wave, Guided-Wave and Leaky-Wave Antennas
Application track: Fundamental Research
Room: AmazonChairs: Chi-Chih Chen (The Ohio State University & ElectroScience Laboratory, USA), Alberto Toccafondi (University of Siena, Italy)
- 09:00 60GHz-band Dual-polarization Hollow-waveguide Slot Array Antennas with High Isolation and Antenna Efficiency
- 09:20 A Millimeter-Wave Bessel Beam Launcher Through the Excitation of Higher-Order Leaky Modes
- 09:40 A Novel Low-profile Slot Antenna with Unidirectional Radiation
- 10:00 Dual-beam Radiation From 1D Leaky-Wave Antennas
- 10:20 Gain Optimization in RLSAs with Lossy Substrates by the Slot Coupling Control
Array-Antenna Analysis and Synthesis
Application track: Defense & Security
Room: Europe 1Chairs: Christophe Craeye (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium), Giovanni Toso (European Space Agency, The Netherlands)
- 09:00 A Theoretical Accuracy Analysis of Dual-polarization Planar Phased Array for Meteorological Applications in ATSR Mode
- 09:20 A Hybrid Approach to the Synthesis of Reconfigurable Sparse Circular Arrays
- 09:40 Optimal Power Coupling Coefficient Distribution Determination for Dual Feed Leaky Waveguide Array Using Multi Objective Genetic Algorithm
- 10:00 Tolerance Analysis of Reconfigurable Monopulse Linear Antenna Arrays Using Interval Arithmetic
- 10:20 Two-Dimensional Time-Domain Antenna Arrays for Steerable Energy Pattern with Low Side Lobe Level
Reflectarrays and Transmitarrays
Application track: Space
Room: AfricaChairs: Robert Cahill (Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom), Jose A. Encinar (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain)
- 09:00 Circularly Polarized Transmit-Array with Sequentially Rotated Elements in Ka Band
- 09:20 Design and Optimization of Multi-Faceted Reflectarrays for Satellite Applications
- 09:40 Design of a Multi-Layer Ka-Band Frequency Selective Surface- Backed Reflectarray for Satellite Applications
- 10:00 Dual Focus Polarisation Lens
- 10:20 Dual Frequency Ka-band Reflectarray for Ground Terminal Application
Electromagnetics in the Medical Arena: Therapeutic Applications
Application track: Biomedical
Room: AsiaChairs: Tommaso Isernia (University of Reggio Calabria, Italy), Gerard C. van Rhoon (Erasmus MC Daniel den Hoed Cancer Center, The Netherlands)
- 09:00 Blind Focusing in Microwave Hyperthermia by Target Contrast Variation
- 09:20 Detection of Stroke with a Microwave Helmet
- 09:40 Feasibility of MRI-guided Hyperthermia Treatment of Head and Neck Cancer
- 10:00 High Frequency Microwave Ablation for Targeted Minimally Invasive Cancer Treatment
- 10:20 Modeling, Effect Prediction, and Planning for EM- And FUS-based Thermal Treatment
Multipactor, Passive Intermodulation and Corona in Antennas
Application track: Space
Room: AntarcticaChairs: Yan Brand (Eutelsat S. A., France), Jérome Puech (CNES, France), Jacques Sombrin (TéSA Laboratory, France)
- 09:00 Characterisation of Nonlinear Distortion and Intermodulation in Passive Devices and Antennas
- 09:20 Design and Multipactor Analysis of Microwave Impedance Transformer with Dielectric Filling
- 09:40 Everest Preliminary Results on High RF Power Phenomena
- 10:00 EVEREST Simulation Campaign Results on Multipactor Effect Using CST Particle StudioTM
- 10:20 Multipactor Analysis in Parallel-Plate Waveguides Loaded by a Single Dielectric Slab
Novel Advances in Reconfigurable Systems
Application track: Multiple Applications
Room: North AmericaChairs: Dimitris E. Anagnostou (South Dakota School of Mines and Technology & Democritus University of Thrace, USA), Stavros Koulouridis (University of Patras, Greece)
- 09:00 A Reconfigurable Feeding Network
- 09:20 A Synthesis Method for Frequency-Reconfigurable Frequency Selective Surfaces
- 09:40 Biomimetic Nano-Antenna Arrays: A Concept for Designing Sub-Wavelength Angle-Sensing Detectors At Optical Wavelengths
- 10:00 Compact, Low-profile, HIS-Based Pattern-Reconfigurable Antenna for Wide-Angle Scanning
- 10:20 Theoretical and Numerical Study of a Plasma-Based Frequency Tunable Microstrip Antenna
AMTA/EurAAP Measurements/Automotive, Telematics and Defense Antenna Testing
Application track: Multiple Applications
Room: Central AmericaChair: Lars Jacob Foged (Microwave Vision Italy, Italy)
- 09:00 A Novel Approach to Positioning in Antenna Measurements
- 09:20 The Measurement of Antenna Group Delay
- 09:40 A Novel Motion Control Approach in Antenna Measurements
- 10:00 Advanced Waveform Generator for Integrated Phased Array Testing
- 10:20 Far Field Reconstruction From Positioning Error Affected Near-Field Data Acquired Via a Nonredundant Spherical Scanning
Antennas and Propagation Challenges in Short Range Radio Applications
Application track: Wireless networks and RF Sensors
Room: Yangtze 1Chairs: Mark Bentum (ASTRON, The Netherlands), William G. Scanlon (Queen's University Belfast & University of Twente, United Kingdom)
- 09:00 Advent of Practical UWB Localization: (R)Evolution in UWB Antenna Research
- 09:20 Biocompatibility of Implantable Antennas: Design and Performance
- 09:40 Body-Centric Antenna Positioning Effects for Off-Body UWB Communications in a Contemporary Learning Environment
- 10:00 Channel Characterization for Wideband 60 GHz Wireless Link Within a Metal Enclosure
- 10:20 Design of Antennas and Circuit for Integrating RFID and Wireless Charging Systems
Ray Tracing Deterministic Modelling for Future Wireless Systems
Application track: Wireless networks and RF Sensors
Room: Yangtze 2Chairs: Franco Fuschini (DEI - Bologna, Italy), Xuefeng Yin (Tongji University, P.R. China)
- 09:00 3D Ray-Based Propagation Channel Modeling for Multi-Layer Wireless Network Performance Simulation: Focus on the MIMO Channel Rank
- 09:20 Diffraction From Multiple Ridges: Comparing Three- And Two-Dimensional Results
- 09:40 Efficient and Reliable Ray Tracing, Some Challenges and Proposed Solutions
- 10:00 Improving RSS Fingerprint-based Localization Using Directional Antennas
- 10:20 Investigation on the Influence of Diffraction by Wedges in Satellite Navigation Systems
EurAAP WG 4 on Software: Electromagnetic Energies, an Emerging Tool in Computational Electromagnetics
Room: Oceania
Chairs: Yahia Antar (Royal Military College of Canada, Canada), Mats Gustafsson (Lund University, Sweden), Guy A. E. Vandenbosch (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
10:40 - 11:00
Coffee Break
Room: Exhibition Foyer
11:00 - 12:40
Analytical Methods in Electromagnetic Theory
Application track: Fundamental Research
Room: MississippiChairs: Olav Breinbjerg (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark), Stefano Maci (University of Siena, Italy)
- 11:00 Radiation From Vertical Dipoles in the Presence of Homogenized Omnidirectional Metasurfaces
- 11:20 Simulation of a Radio Frequency Quadrupole with the Method of Moments
- 11:40 Transformation Optics for Anisotropic Metasurfaces
- 12:00 Wave Scattering by One and Many Thin Material Strips: Singular Integral Equations, Meshless Nystrom Discretization, and Periodicity Caused Resonances
- 12:20 Polynomial Chaos for Wave Propagation in a One Dimensional Inhomogeneous Slab
Wearable Antennas
Application track: Biomedical
Room: South AmericaChairs: Milos Mazanek (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic), Anja K. Skrivervik (EPFL, Switzerland)
- 11:00 Folded Loop Antenna as a Promissing Solution for a Cochlear Implant
- 11:20 Inset-fed Liquid Metal Patch Antenna
- 11:40 Non-uniform Meshed Microstrip Antennas for Wearable Applications
- 12:00 The Effect of Antenna Pattern and Polarization for Launching Creeping Waves on a Skin Surface
- 12:20 Wearable Substrate-Integrated Waveguide with Embroidered Vias
Array-Antenna Design and Technology
Application track: Defense & Security
Room: Europe 1Chair: Olivier Lafond (IETR, France)
- 11:00 A Switched Phased Array on a Conical Structure
- 11:20 An 11-GHz Multi-Beam Dielectric Rod Antenna Using Non-Planar Array Approach
- 11:40 Artificial Dielectric Based Connected Array of Slots At 60 GHz
- 12:00 Design Considerations for the EISCAT_3D Phased Array Antenna
- 12:20 High Gain and Low Losses Antenna Array for High Power Microwave Applications
Reflectarrays and Transmitarrays
Application track: Space
Room: AfricaChairs: Robert Cahill (Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom), Jose A. Encinar (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain)
- 11:00 Ka-band Reflectarray Antenna System for SAR Applications
- 11:20 Optically Transparent Reflectarray for Satellite Applications
- 11:40 Triple-Slot Phase-Shifting Cell of Reduced Size for Reflectarray Applications
- 12:00 Unit-cell for Dual-Circular Polarisation Reflectarrays
- 12:20 Fractal Reflectarray for Wide-Angle Fixed-Beam Applications
Electromagnetics in the Medical Arena: Therapeutic Applications
Application track: Biomedical
Room: AsiaChairs: Tommaso Isernia (University of Reggio Calabria, Italy), Gerard C. van Rhoon (Erasmus MC Daniel den Hoed Cancer Center, The Netherlands)
- 11:00 MR Temperature Monitoring for MR-RF Hyperthermia - A Systems-Level Approach
- 11:20 Numerical Investigation of Proximity Effects on Field Gradients in Biological Cells
- 11:40 Penetration Enhancement of Non-invasive Microwave Hyperthermia Applicator
- 12:00 Three-dimensional Power Focusing and Shaping for Effective Hyperthermia Treatment Planning
- 12:20 Weak Field Transcerebral Pulsed Electromagnetic Fields in Health Care
Multipactor, Passive Intermodulation and Corona in Antennas
Application track: Space
Room: AntarcticaChairs: Yan Brand (Eutelsat S. A., France), Jérome Puech (CNES, France), Jacques Sombrin (TéSA Laboratory, France)
- 11:00 Multipactor Prediction with Multi-carrier Signals: Experimental Results and Discussions on the 20-gap-crossing Rule
- 11:20 PIM and Multipactor Considerations for Future High-RF Power Space Missions
- 11:40 Relaxation of the Multicarrier Passive Intermodulation Specifications of Antennas
- 12:00 TAS-F Multipactor Results in EVEREST Project
- 12:20 The Calculation of Electric Field for Low Pressure Discharge in Air From DC Parameters
Novel Advances in Reconfigurable Systems
Application track: Multiple Applications
Room: North AmericaChairs: Dimitris E. Anagnostou (South Dakota School of Mines and Technology & Democritus University of Thrace, USA), Stavros Koulouridis (University of Patras, Greece)
- 11:00 Generating Field Profiles with Arbitrary Phase and Amplitude Distributions Using Metamaterials
- 11:20 Electroactive Polymer Based Reconfigurable Phase Shifter At Millimeter-Waves
- 11:40 Near-Field Probe for Adaptive Antenna Tuning
- 12:00 Technological Advances in Reconfigurable and Autonomous Antenna Systems
- 12:20 Tuning Periodic Surfaces with Piezoelectric Actuators
Pulsed-Field Radio: Potentialities and Implementation
Application track: Multiple Applications
Room: AmazonChairs: Ramon Gonzalo (Public University of Navarra, Spain), Ioan E. Lager (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
- 11:00 Demonstration of the Enhanced Radiation in Dielectric Lens Spiral Antennas
- 11:20 On Discrete Synthesis of Pulsed Beams
- 11:40 On Maximum Signal Amplitude, Signal-to-Noise Ratio and Filtering in Impulse-UWB Transmission
- 12:00 Resolution of Confocal Imaging Using 4x4 Planar Antenna Array
- 12:20 UWB Pulse Radio Transceivers and Antennas: Considerations on Design and Implementation
AMTA/EurAAP Measurements/Automotive, Telematics and Defense Antenna Testing
Application track: Multiple Applications
Room: Central AmericaChairs: Lars Jacob Foged (Microwave Vision Italy, Italy), Kimberly Hassett (Nearfield Systems, Inc., USA)
- 11:00 Multiplexed Pulsed Transmit and Receive RF Measurement System for Active Phased Array Testing
- 11:20 Short Note on the Use of Spherical Modal Filtering to Remove RF Leakage From SNF Measurements
- 11:40 Improvement of Antenna Measurement Results At Low Frequencies by Using Post-processing Techniques
- 12:00 Optimized Spherical Near-Field Antenna Measurements
- 12:20 Very High-Accuracy Calibration of Radiation Pattern and Gain of a Near-Field Probe
Antennas and Propagation Challenges in Short Range Radio Applications
Application track: Wireless networks and RF Sensors
Room: Yangtze 1Chairs: Mark Bentum (ASTRON, The Netherlands), William G. Scanlon (Queen's University Belfast & University of Twente, United Kingdom)
- 11:00 Increased Operational Range for Implantable UHF RFID Antennas
- 11:20 Integrated Antenna-Battery for Low-profile Short Range Communications
- 11:40 Modulated Scatterer Technique Probe for Intra-Body RF Channel Measurements
- 12:00 Time-Domain Propagation Investigations for Terahertz Intra-Device Communications
- 12:20 UWB Chipless RFID System Performance Based on Real World 3D-Deterministic Channel Model and ZF Equalization
Ray Tracing Deterministic Modelling for Future Wireless Systems
Application track: Wireless networks and RF Sensors
Room: Yangtze 2Chairs: Franco Fuschini (DEI - Bologna, Italy), Xuefeng Yin (Tongji University, P.R. China)
- 11:00 Quantifying Uncertainty in Ray-Tracing Models of Radiowave Propagation Using Polynomial Chaos
- 11:20 Ray Tracing Simulation of the Radio Channel Time- And Angle-Dispersion in Large Indoor Environments
- 11:40 Uplink Coordinated Multi-Point in Field Trials and Ray Tracing Simulations
- 12:00 Using Game Engines and Graphic Technologies for Ray-Tracing in Future Wireless
- 12:20 Ray Tracing Model for Propagation Channel Estimation in Tunnels and Parameters Tuning with Measurements
11:00 - 12:00
CST Workshop
Room: Europe 2
11:00 - 12:40
EurAAP WG 4 on Software: Electromagnetic Energies, an Emerging Tool in Computational Electromagnetics
Room: Oceania
Chairs: Yahia Antar (Royal Military College of Canada, Canada), Mats Gustafsson (Lund University, Sweden), Guy A. E. Vandenbosch (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
12:40 - 13:30
Lunch Break
Room: Atlantic
13:30 - 16:00
Array Antennas
Room: Poster area
- Adaptive GA-Based Thinning Strategy for Pattern Nulling in Sub-Arrayed Phased Arrays
- An Optimization Procedure for Radial Line Slot Antennas with Arbitrary Pattern
- Implementation of a Control System of Intelligent Antennas Based on the Sequential Quadratic Programming (SQP) Algorithm
- Study of Superposition of SAR Distribution Created by External and Interstitial Applicator
- Tx/Rx MultiBeam Satellite Antenna Array Design Assesment on a Single Aperture
- A Compact Dual-Band Microstrip Antenna Array with Artificial Magnetic Conductor
- Design of Broadband ESPAR Antenna Using Inverted F Monopoles
- Oriented Array of Waveguide Applicators for Local Thermotherapy
- The On-Board Wide Angle Scanning Antenna Array
- Design of 60GHz Planar Array Antennas Using PCB-based Microstrip-Ridge Gap Waveguide and SIW
- Potentialities of Hybrid Arrays with Parasitic Elements
- A Performance Study of a Cylindrical Polarimetric Array Radar
- Gain Enhancement of a Microstrip Array Inserted Inside a Pyramidal Horn
- Matrix of Interstitial Applicators for Microwave Thermoablation
- Phased-array Antenna Feed Network for Geophysical FMCW Radar
- 8 Elements Phased Array Antenna Using Superconducting Receiving Module
- A Planar Antenna Array with Integrated Feed Network for UAV Applications
- Broadband Low Noise Amplifier for Connected Array Phased Array Feeds
- Design and Analysis of a 5-element ESPAR Antenna with an Active PIFA
- Dual-Beam Antenna for MIMO WiFi Base Stations
- Omnidirectional Conformal Antenna Array Based on E-Shaped Patches
Adaptive and Reconfigurable Antennas
Room: Poster area
- A Nematic Liquid Crystal Tunable Patch Antenna
- A Varactor-Based Tunable Matching Network for a Non-Resonant Mobile Terminal Antenna
- Reconfigurable Circularly-Polarized Antenna in LTCC Technology
- A Dual Ultra-Wide Band Frequency Reconfigurable Antenna with a Low Bandwidth of Overlap
- A Dynamic Basestation Antenna with Reconfigurable Azimuth Beamwidth
- A Frequency Reconfigurable Antenna for High Performance U-NII Band Radios
- A New Implementation of Adaptive Array Antenna System for 3-D Passive Estimation
- A Reconfigurable Artificial Magnetic Conductor Adopting a Digitally Tuned Capacitor
- Frequency Reconfigurable Box Shaped Narrow Band Monopole Antenna
- Circularly Polarized Microstrip Antennas with Tunable Frequency
- Frequency Reconfigurable Wideband Monopole Antenna Using EBG Structures
- Dual State Dual Band Frequency Reconfigurable SIW Antenna
- Microstrip Antenna System for Arbitrary Polarization Reconfigurability
- Realization of Frequency-Reconfigurable Multi-Band Compact Antennas
- Improved Bandwidth Low-Profile Miniaturized Multi-Arm Logarithmic Spiral Antenna
- Steerable Back-to-Back Yagi-Uda Dipole Array
Reflectarrays, Transmitarrays and FSSs
Room: Poster area
- A Metal-Only Reflectarray (MOR) Antenna Excited by Equivalent Surface Current Sources to Model Arbitrary Feeds
- Analytical and Full-Wave Analysis of Square and Ring Patch Structures for Reflectarray Unit Cells
- Metaheuristics for Design of Metal-Only Reflectarray (MOR) Antenna
- A Novel Reflectarray Based on the Folded SIR Patch-Slot Configuration
- Accurate Characterization of Multi-Resonant Reflectarray Cells by Artificial Neural Networks
- Broadband Reflectarray Element for Dual Polarization Made of Orthogonal Sets of Parallel Dipoles
- Electrically Tunable Reflectarray Element Based on Aperture-Coupled C-Patch
- 20-GHz 1-Bit Slotted Active Elementary Cell
- Bowl-Shaped Beam Reflectarray Antenna for Satellite Communication
- Varactor-Loaded Dual-Polarized Unit-Cell for Reconfigurable Reflectarrays
- On the Limits of an Array-Based Model for Planar Lenses
- Extraordinary Transmission Through Metallic Holes in the X-Band
- Design Multiband Frequency Selective Surface (FSS) on Hybrid Material
- Efficient Network Representation of Grounded Patch-Based FSS
- A Material-by-Design Strategy for the Design and Optimization of Multisurface-Metamaterial Polarizers
- Circular Polarization Frequency Selective Surface Operating in Ku and Ka Band
- Design and Characteristic Impedance Modelling of Dual Band Frequency Selective Surface (FSS) on Hybrid Material
- Design of Reconfigurable Frequency Selective Surfaces with Flexibility
- Fabrication of Fabric Based Frequency Selective Surfaces (FSS)
- Finite Frequency Selective Surface Modelling
- Linear to Circular Polarization Reflector with Transmission Band
Antenna Interaction, Coupling and RCS
Room: Poster area
- Analysis of SAR on Flat Phantom for Different Multi-antenna Mobile Terminals
- Degradation Factors of Short-Distance Wireless Power Transmission and Allowable Variation of Receiving Circuit Parameters
- Modelling the Scattering and Coupling of Small Wind Turbines Located Above BTS Antennas
- Dual-Band Phased Array Antenna with Low Mutual Coupling Characteristics
- Reducing Mutual Coupling of SIW Slot Array Antenna Using Uniplanar Compact EBG (UC-EBG) Structure
- User Effect on the MIMO Performance of a Dual Antenna LTE Handset
- A Refined Eigenvalue-Based Optimization Technique for Hyperthermia Treatment Planning
- Analysis and Measurement of Multiple Antenna Systems for Fading Channel Prediction in Moving Relays
- Analysis of Compact Quadruple-Mode Antenna with Wide Bandwidth
- Analysis of Coupling in an Array Composed of Patches Having Giuseppe Peano Fractal Boundaries
- Coupling Analysis of Electrically Large Antennas Using the Equivalence Principle
- Coupling Estimation in Receiving Antenna Systems for Array Calibration
- Coupling Reduction in Ultra-Wideband Balanced Antipodal Vivaldi Array
- Design and Validation of a Generic LTE Tablet for SAR Assessment Studies
- Dielectric Loading Effect of Spiral Tape Antenna for Coupled-resonant Wireless Power Transfer
- New Cavity Backed Capacitively Coupled Stacked Patch Element for P-Band SAR Application
- Optimization of Near-Field Wireless Power Transfer Using Evolutionary Strategies
- Radio Communication Link Between a Novel Implantable Compact Dipole Antenna and an External Module
- System Modeling of the RFID Contactless Inductive Coupling Using 13.56 MHz Loop Antennas
- Design and Fabrication of Planar Multi Layer Metamaterial Absorber for RCS Reduction
Slotted-Wave, Guided-Wave and Leaky-Wave Antennas
Application track: Cellular Networks
Room: Poster area- Design and Implementation of a Planar Ka Band Antenna Array Based on Slotted Waveguide Structures
- Switchable RHCP/LHCP Slotted Waveguide Array Antenna for SATCOM On-The-Move Applications in Ka-band
- Tri-band Slotted Waveguide Antenna Array for Millimetric-waves Applications
- Dual-Band Annular Slot Antenna for Radio Base Stations
- Frequency Scanning Antenna for Target Location Applications
- LTE Low-Cost Vertical Sectorization Through a Leaky-Wave Antenna
- Microstrip Slot Antenna Using the Novel Application of Giuseppe Peano Fractal and CPW Feed
- New Concept of Small Antennas for Telemetry and Tracking Trajectory on Space Reentry Vehicles
Indoor and Urban Channels and Systems
Room: Poster area
- Attitude Estimation for Base Station Antennas Based on Downlink Channel Statistics
- Automatic Location of Base-Stations for Optimum Coverage and Capacity Planning of LTE Systems
- Propagation Model Based on Building Penetration Loss Measurement in UHF Band
- Statistical Tuning of Walfisch-Ikegami Model for the Untypical Environment
- VHF Band Path Loss Model for Low Antenna Heights in Residential Areas
- Analysis of 802.11 OFDM in High Multipath Environments
- Indoor Tracking of Human Movements Using UWB Technology for Motion Capture
- Optimising the Location of Wireless Base Stations Within a Dynamic Indoor Environment
- Realistic Prediction of Outage Probability and Confidence Interval of BER for Indoor Radio Communications
- Real-time Path Loss Modelling for a More Robust Wireless Performance
- An Accurate Indoor Propagation Analysis for Wi-Fi Antenna Embedded in a Commercial TV Set
- Automated Modelling of Realistic Indoor Walls in the Context of Small Cell Propagation
- Connectivity Gain Evaluation Using Diversity in Wireless Sensor Networks Under Correlated Shadowing
- Coverage Area Simulation for Indoor 4G Networks in 2.6 GHz and 3.5 GHz
- Crowd Detection and Occupancy Estimation Through Indirect Environmental Measurements
- IEEE 802.11 n-Based TDOA Performance Evaluation in an Indoor Multipath Environment
- Novel Mobility Model for Indoor Conference Scenarios
- Optimizing Route Prior Knowledge for Map-Aided Fingerprint-based Positioning Systems
- Room Electromagnetics in an Industrial Workshop
Wire Antennas, Baluns and Associated Circuits
Room: Poster area
- A Transparent Meshed Solar Monopole Antenna for UWB Applications
- Anisotropic Uniaxial Crystal as a Substrate in Spherical Microstrip Antenna with Annular-circular Patch: S11 Parameter and Radiation Pattern
- Bandwidth Enhancement of a Triangle with Gridded-Square Loop-Loaded FSS for X and Ku Bands
- Cavity Backed Annular Ring Microstrip Antenna Loaded with Concentric Circular Patch
- Compact Design of Dual-mode Patch Antenna with Improved Bandwidth Using a Notch Technique
- Compact Structure of Bandpass Filter Integrated with Defected Microstrip Structure (DMS) for Wideband Applications
- Design of a Broadband Circular Polarized Antenna
- Numerical Analysis of Radiation Properties of 2D-Irregular Fractal-jet Printed Antenna
- Optimization of Feed Position of Circular Microstrip Antenna Using PSO
- Parametric Analyzes of Dual-Frequency Annular Ring Microstrip Patch Antenna
- Performance of a Cross Dipole Antenna Dedicated to Biological Telemetry
- Slotted Patch Antenna with Low Cross-Polarization
- A Novel Design of Miniaturized Bagley Polygon Power Divider Using Defected Ground Structure
- Helical Antenna Over Different Ground Planes
- Inaccuracies of the LTCC Technology and Their Impact on the Chip Balun Performance
- The Influence of a Magnetized Plasma Column on the Radiation Characteristics of a Strip Loop Antenna
- Polyaniline-carbon Nanotubes Composites - Based Patch Antenna
Beamforming and Signal Processing
Room: Poster area
- An Alternative Approach for Angle of Arrival Estimation
- An Experimental and Theoretical Analysis on Precoding-Based Vertical Plane Beam Control for LTE Systems
- Beam Steering for RFID Readers with Inherent Antenna Diversity
- Application of Modern DOA Algorithms to an Adcock Array Antenna
- Effect of the Bandwidth on the Accuracy of AOA Estimation Algorithms in a Multipath Environment
- Miniature 2.4-GHz Switched Beamformer Module Using the Integrated Passive Device Technology
14:00 - 15:00
TICRA Workshop
Room: Europe 2
15:00 - 15:40
Terahertz and Optical Antennas
Application track: Multiple Applications
Room: AmazonChairs: Andrea Neto (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands), Gaetano Marrocco (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy)
Mobile Channel Modelling
Application track: Wireless networks and RF Sensors
Room: MississippiChairs: Thomas Kuerner (Braunschweig Technical University, Germany), Alain Sibille (Telecom Paris Tech & ENSTA PARISTECH, France)
15:40 - 16:20
Terahertz and Optical Antennas
Application track: Fundamental research
Room: AmazonChairs: Gaetano Marrocco (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy), Andrea Neto (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Mobile Channel Modelling
Application track: Cellular Networks
Room: MississippiChairs: Thomas Kürner (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany), Alain Sibille (Telecom Paris Tech & ENSTA PARISTECH, France)
16:20 - 16:40
Coffee Break
Room: Exhibition Foyer
16:40 - 18:20
EurAAP WG 2: European School of Antennas Board Meeting
Room: Oceania
Antenna Interaction and Coupling
Application track: Fundamental Research
Room: South AmericaChairs: Stefano Maci (University of Siena, Italy), Marco Sabbadini (Esa Estec, The Netherlands)
- 16:40 A Dielectric-Contrast Technique for Effective Mitigation of Mutual Coupling Between Dual-Band Array Radiators
- 17:00 Analysis of Surrounded Antennas Mounted on Large and Complex Structures Using a Hybrid Method
- 17:20 Enhancing the Radiation Efficiency of Compact Antenna Arrays Using Spatial Tilting
- 17:40 On the Simulation and Validation of the Intrinsic Cross-Polarization Ratio for Antenna Arrays Devoted to Low Frequency Radio Astronomy
Scattering, Diffraction and RCS
Application track: Defense & Security
Room: Europe 1Chairs: Danielle Vanhoenacker-Janvier (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium), Frank Weinmann (Fraunhofer FHR, Germany)
- 16:40 A Reference Target for Polarimetric Radar Cross-Section Measurements
- 17:00 Accurate Prediction of EM Scattering by Wind Turbines
- 17:20 Investigation of Equivalent Edge Currents for Improved Radar Cross Section Predictions
- 17:40 Radar Target as Distributed Source for DOA Estimation
- 18:00 Reduction of Monostatic and Bistatic Radar Cross Section of Antenna Arrays
Reflectarrays and Transmitarrays
Application track: Multiple Applications
Room: Central AmericaChairs: Sean V Hum (University of Toronto, Canada), Julien Perruisseau-Carrier (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne & EPFL, Switzerland)
- 16:40 A Sub-wavelength Reflectarray Element Based on Double Square Rings Loaded with Meander Lines
- 17:00 Design and Optimization of a Multi-Resonant Reflectarray Element
- 17:20 Dual Polarized Transmitarray Lens
- 17:40 Reconfigurable Transmit-Array Antenna with Multiple Focal Sources
- 18:00 A Novel Reflectarray Backed on FSS Based on the Folded SIR Configuration for Low RCS
Adaptive and Reconfigurable Antennas
Application track: Multiple Applications
Room: North AmericaChairs: Mohamed Himdi (Université de Rennes 1, France), Thierry Monediere (University of Limoges, France)
- 16:40 A Simple Concept of Reconfigurable Parasitic Element Antenna
- 17:00 Numerical Investigation Into the Performance of Two Reconfigurable Gaseous Plasma Antennas
- 17:20 Partially Reflective Surface Antenna with MEMS-based Dynamic Beamwidth Control
- 17:40 Realization of a Dual Dihedral Corner-Reflector Antenna by Using Low Cost Plasma
- 18:00 A Reconfigurable Defected Microstrip Structure for Applications in Phase Shifter
Multiband and Wideband Antennas
Application track: Wireless networks and RF Sensors
Room: Yangtze 1Chairs: Werner Wiesbeck (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany), Alexander Yarovoy (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
- 16:40 A Dual-Band Supershaped Annular Slotted Patch Antenna for WLAN Systems
- 17:00 Compact Multiband Microstrip Patch Antenna Using Defected Ground Structure (DGS)
- 17:20 Dual-Band Planar Inverted-F Antenna for Application in ISM, HIPERLAN, and UNII
- 17:40 UWB Antenna on Chip Packaging for BAN Applications
- 18:00 Wideband Planar Antenna with Monopole Excitation for Wireless Applications
Advanced RF Materials, Metamaterials and EBG
Application track: Wireless networks and RF Sensors
Room: Yangtze 2Chairs: Alexandros Feresidis (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom), J (Yiannis) Vardaxoglou (Loughborough University, United Kingdom)
- 16:40 3D Printed FSS Arrays for Long Wavelength Applications
- 17:00 Chipless RFIDs by Using Metasurfaces
- 17:20 Design of a Metamaterial Circular Patch Antenna Loaded with an ε-Negative Core
- 17:40 High-Gain Metamaterial Antenna for Point-to-Point Communication Systems
- 18:00 Novel Compact Dual-Band Artificial Magnetic Conductors for Wi-Fi Applications
Advanced Design and Optimization Techniques for Phased Arrays
Application track: Fundamental Research
Room: AmazonChairs: Oscar Quevedo-Teruel (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden), Paolo Rocca (University of Trento, Italy)
- 16:40 A Novel Lossless BFN for Linear Arrays Based on Overlapped Sub-Arrays
- 17:00 A Phase-comparison Monopulse System Based on a 4D Antenna Array
- 17:20 Optimal Constrained Synthesis of Fields Granting Maximum Power Deposition Over Given Areas
- 17:40 Synthesis of Robust Linear Antenna Arrays Exploiting an Interval-Based Particle Swarm Optimizer
- 18:00 Tradeoffs in the Placement of Time Delay in a Large, Wideband Antenna Array
AMTA/EurAAP Satellite and Aerospace Antenna Testing
Application track: Space
Room: AfricaChair: Luca Salghetti Drioli (European Space Agency-ESTEC, The Netherlands)
- 16:40 Beam Forming Network for Reconfigurable Antenna of 21-GHz Band Broadcasting Satellite
- 17:00 Fast and Efficient NF Technique for Satellite Antenna Testing
- 17:20 Improvements for Large Planar Scanners
- 17:40 Sentinel-1 SAR Antenna Subsystem: Antenna Model Predictions Vs. PNFS Measurements
- 18:00 TAS-F Antenna Power and Multipaction Testing Capabilities
Body Centric Propagation
Application track: Biomedical
Room: AsiaChairs: Luis M. Correia (IST - University of Lisbon & INOV-INESC, Portugal), Simon Cotton (Queen's University, Belfast, United Kingdom)
- 16:40 Fading and Rician K-factor in the Ultra Wideband Footwear-Centric Body Area Network
- 17:00 MHz-Band RF Signal Propagation Characteristics on Human-Equivalent Phantom for Intra-body Communication
- 17:20 Multi-hop Channel Modeling At 60 GHz for On-body Communications
- 17:40 Off-body Wireless Link Simulation Framework Using Deterministic Channel Modeling
- 18:00 Radio Channel Characterization of Intra-body Propagation Under Frequency Dispersive Perspective
Land Mobile Satellite Channels
Application track: Space
Room: AntarcticaChairs: Frederic Lacoste (CNES, France), Fernando Pérez-Fontán (University of Vigo, Spain)
- 16:40 A Geometry-Based Physical-Statistical Model of Land Mobile Satellite Channels in Urban Environments
- 17:00 Estimation of Diversity Improvement for Satellite-to-Helicopter Radio Channel At Ku-band
- 17:20 Impact of Driving Direction on Land Mobile Satellite Channel Modeling
- 17:40 Modeling of First-Order Statistics of LMS Channel Under Tree Shadowing for Various Elevation Angles At L-Band
- 18:00 SISO and MIMO Enhanced 2-state Modelling of the Land Mobile Satellite Channel for Various Frequencies, Environments and Elevation Angles
Thursday, April 10
09:00 - 10:40
Adaptive and Reconfigurable Antennas
Application track: Wireless networks and RF Sensors
Room: Yangtze 2Chairs: Julien Perruisseau-Carrier (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne & EPFL, Switzerland), Antoine Roederer (Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands)
- 09:00 An Active Microcell with Switchable Beams
- 09:20 A Reconfigurable Radiation Pattern Metamaterial-Inspired Circular Array Antenna
- 09:40 Efficient Newton-Based Pattern Synthesis of Reconfigurable Parasitic Arrays
- 10:00 Frequency Reconfigurable Slot Antenna Using Metasurface
- 10:20 Dual Band Low-profile Switched Beam Square Loop Antenna with Capacitively Coupled Feeds
MIMO, Antenna Diversity, Smart and Signal Processing Antennas
Application track: Cellular Networks
Room: Yangtze 1Chair: Vanja Plicanic Samuelsson (Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, Sweden)
- 09:00 A 2-order MIMO Full-Duplex Antenna System
- 09:20 Capacity Evaluation of MIMO Transmission in the 2GHz Band in Crowded Small-Cell Environment
- 09:40 Capacity Gain of MIMO Systems with Microstructured Antenna Arrays
- 10:00 Design of Bezel Antennas for Multiband MIMO Terminals Using Characteristic Modes
- 10:20 Hardware Acceleration of MUSIC Based DoA Estimator in MUBTS
Multiband and Wideband Antennas
Application track: Multiple Applications
Room: North AmericaChairs: Christophe Craeye (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium), Ioan E. Lager (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
- 09:00 Better Multiband Horn Antenna Design by Using the Real Modal Content At Input
- 09:20 Compact Printed Multiband Antenna for M2M Applications
- 09:40 Fabry-Perot Antenna with Improved Bandwidth
- 10:00 Low Profile Cavity-Backed Four-Arm Archimedean Spiral Antenna with 8:1 Bandwidth
- 10:20 An Efficient Frequency Adjustable Penta-band Slot Antenna
Advanced RF Materials, Metamaterials and EBG
Application track: Fundamental Research
Room: MississippiChair: Giampiero Gerini (TNO - Defence, Security and Safety, The Netherlands)
- 09:00 Closed-form Expressions of Local Effective Bianisotropic Constitutive Parameters for Reciprocal Metamaterials
- 09:20 Frequency-Selective Coatings Based on EBG Structure Combining Carbon Nanotubes with Polymeric or Ceramic Substrate
- 09:40 Metaradome for Blind Spot Mitigation in Phased-Array Antennas
- 10:00 Rigorous Method for Calculating Gap Waveguides Impedance Using Transmission Line Theory
- 10:20 Design of End-Fire Substrate Integrated Waveguide Antenna Elements Using In-house Planar-3D Integral Equation Frameworks and Commercial Full-3D Methods
Antennas and Receivers for Astronomy and Cosmology
Application track: Space
Room: AfricaChairs: Elena Saenz (European Space Agency, The Netherlands), Giorgio Savini (University College London, United Kingdom)
- 09:00 Cryogen-free THz Detection and Passive Imaging Systems - Commerce From Astronomical Technology
- 09:20 Development of Millimetre-Wave Quasi-Optical Devices Based on the Mesh Technology
- 09:40 Developments of Wide Field-of-View MKID Cameras for Millimeter and Submillimeter Astronomy
- 10:00 Kilopixel Arrays of Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors for Submm Astronomy
- 10:20 Evaluation of an Electronic Sky Derotation Scheme for a Phased Array Fed Reflector Antenna
Domain Decomposition Methods and Macro-Basis Functions for Integral Equations
Application track: Fundamental Research
Room: AmazonChairs: Vito Lancellotti (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands), Rob Maaskant (CHALMERS, Sweden)
- 09:00 A Comparison of Domain Decomposition Techniques for Analysing Disjoint Finite Antenna Arrays
- 09:20 Analysis and Efficient Algorithms for a Set of Generalized RWG Basis Functions
- 09:40 Analysis of NURBS Dielectric Volumes by Using the Method of Moments
- 10:00 Application of the Characteristic Basis Function Method (CBFM) on a Non-uniform Mesh to the Solution of Large-size Dielectric Scattering Problems
- 10:20 Characteristic Basis Function Analysis of Large Aperture-Fed Antenna Arrays
Low Exposure in Mobile and Wireless Communications Systems
Application track: Biomedical
Room: AsiaChairs: Luis M. Correia (IST - University of Lisbon & INOV-INESC, Portugal), Joe Wiart (Orange- France Telecom, France)
- 09:00 Dosimetric Assessment for Non-Ionizing ISM 2.4 GHz Wireless Systems in a Commercial Passenger Aircraft
- 09:20 Downlink Electric-Field and Uplink SAR Prediction Algorithm in Indoor Wireless Network Planner
- 09:40 Equivalence Principle Use to Assess the Exposure Induced by a Femto Antenna At 2100 MHz
- 10:00 Experimental Investigation of Precoding for EM Exposure Reduction
- 10:20 Exposure Index of EU Project LEXNET: Principles and Simulation-Based Computation
On-the-Move Antenna Systems
Application track: Space
Room: AntarcticaChairs: Avi Gal (Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd, Israel), Maria Carolina Vigano (Viasat Antenna Systems SA, Switzerland)
- 09:00 A Dual-Band, Dual-Polarized Array Element for Ka Band Satcom on the Move Terminals
- 09:20 Dielectric Resonator Antenna Phased Array with Liquid Crystal Based Phase Shifters
- 09:40 Mobile Satellite TDMA Communications
- 10:00 On-the-Move Antenna Systems for Broad-Band Satellite Communications
- 10:20 Electronically Beam Steerable Antennas for Broad Band Satellite Communications
THz Enabling Technologies and Applications
Application track: Multiple Applications
Room: Central AmericaChairs: Ramon Gonzalo (Public University of Navarra, Spain), Richard W. Ziolkowski (University of Arizona, USA)
- 09:00 Balloon-borne Platforms for THz Astronomy
- 09:20 Commercial Passive Millimetre Wave Imagers for Stand-Off Security Screening
- 09:40 Comparative Study of Stripline Dipole Antenna on Semi-infinite and Lens Substrates At Terahertz Frequency
- 10:00 Design of Wideband and High-Efficiency On-Chip Antenna Array At 1.1 Terahertz
- 10:20 Scattering in the THz Region, Measurement Prediction and Extrapolation
AMTA/EurAAP Measurements/Antenna Diagnostics and Post Processing
Application track: Defense & Security
Room: Europe 1Chairs: Sergey Pivnenko (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark), Manuel Sierra-Castañer (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
- 09:00 A Fast Single Cut Spherical Near-Field-to-Far-Field Transformation Using Cylindrical Modes
- 09:20 A New Mobile Base Station Antenna Measurement System
- 09:40 Comparison of a Direct Low-Pass Filtering Technique with Spherical Modal Filtering Applied to the Suppression of Range Reflections in Antenna Measurements
- 10:00 Estimating the Effect of Higher Order Azimuthal Modes in Spherical Near-Field Probe Correction
- 10:20 Field Reconstruction and Estimation of the Antenna Support Structure Effect on the Measurement Uncertainty of the BTS1940 Antenna
Mobile Propagation
Application track: Multiple Applications
Room: South AmericaChairs: Claude Oestges (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium), Fernando Pérez-Fontán (University of Vigo, Spain)
- 09:00 Evaluation of V2X Antenna Performance Using a Multipath Simulation Tool
- 09:20 Joint Spectrum Sensing and Transmission Using a Sector Antenna in Cognitive Radio Network
- 09:40 Network Design Rules of Communication Systems At Train Stations Based on Intensive Measurement Campaigns
- 10:00 On the Reliability of Measurement Based Channel Synthesis From a MIMO Performance Evaluation Point of View
- 10:20 Utilizing Two-Ray Interference in Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications
Modulated Metasurface Antennas
Room: Oceania
Chairs: Angelo Freni (University of Florence, Italy), Enrica Martini (University of Siena, Italy)
10:40 - 11:00
Coffee Break
Room: Exhibition Foyer
11:00 - 12:40
Adaptive and Reconfigurable Antennas
Application track: Wireless networks and RF Sensors
Room: Yangtze 2Chairs: Julien Perruisseau-Carrier (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne & EPFL, Switzerland), Antoine Roederer (Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands)
- 11:00 Planar Reconfigurable Antenna with Integrated Switching Control Circuitry
- 11:20 Polarization Reconfigurable Circular Patch Antenna with Fixed Operating Frequency
- 11:40 Reconfigurable Circular Ring Patch Antenna for UWB and Cognitive Radio Applications
- 12:00 Reconfigurable Dualband Antenna Module with Integrated High Voltage Charge Pump and Digital Analog Converter
- 12:20 Smart Plasma Antenna on Plasma Windowing Concept
Active and Integrated Antennas
Application track: Multiple Applications
Room: South AmericaChairs: Thomas Kaufmann (The University of Adelaide, Australia), A. B. (Bart) Smolders (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
- 11:00 Closed-Form Expressions for the Analysis of Finite-Height Artificial Dielectric Layers
- 11:25 Design and Stability of Negative Impedance Circuits for Non-Foster Matching of a Monopole Antenna
- 11:50 Noise Performance of an Antenna Matching Network with Negative-Impedance Converter (NIC)
- 12:15 Wireless Millimeter-Wave Backplane for Microwave Phased Arrays Using Bond-Wire Antennas
MIMO, Antenna Diversity, Smart and Signal Processing Antennas
Application track: Cellular Networks
Room: Yangtze 1Chair: Vanja Plicanic Samuelsson (Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, Sweden)
- 11:00 Isolation Improvement Using an MTM Inspired Structure with a Patch Based MIMO Antenna System
- 11:20 Impact of Mutual Coupling on Capacity in Large MIMO Antenna Arrays
- 11:40 On the Design of Wideband and Tunable Matching and Decoupling Networks for N-port Antennas
- 12:00 Parametric Study on Capacitive and Inductive Couplers for Exciting Characteristic Modes on CPE
- 12:20 Revisiting the Complex Correlation in a MIMO System
Advanced RF Materials, Metamaterials and EBG
Application track: Fundamental Research
Room: MississippiChairs: Alex Schuchinsky (Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom), Alexey Shitvov (Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom)
- 11:00 Single and Dual Mode Cavities Based on Defected Bed of Nails Structure for Ridge Gap Waveguide
- 11:20 Study of Spatial Dispersion in Graphene Parallel-Plate Waveguides and Equivalent Circuit
- 11:40 Wave Tunneling Through Parity-Time-Symmetric Epsilon-Near-Zero Bi-Layers
- 12:00 Application of Transformation Electromagnetics for Omnidirectional Emission
- 12:20 Potential Advantages of Hexagonal-Shaped Over Square-Shaped Unit-Cells Metallizations Regarding the Angular Stability of Artificial Magnetic Conductors
Antennas and Receivers for Astronomy and Cosmology
Application track: Space
Room: AfricaChairs: Elena Saenz (European Space Agency, The Netherlands), Giorgio Savini (University College London, United Kingdom)
- 11:00 Lessons Learned From the Planck Mission: High Precision Measurements in the THz Range From Space
- 11:20 Multimode Horn Antennas for Far-Infrared Astronomy
- 11:40 The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) Telescope Architecture
- 12:00 The Planck Mission and Its Optical System
- 12:20 Full W-Band Microstrip-to-Waveguide Inline Transition
Domain Decomposition Methods and Macro-Basis Functions for Integral Equations
Application track: Fundamental Research
Room: AmazonChairs: Vito Lancellotti (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands), Rob Maaskant (CHALMERS, Sweden)
- 11:00 Fast MBF Approach for Reflectarrays Analysis
- 11:20 Mixed LEGO-EFIE Approach for the Analysis of Radiating Elements and Anisotropic Media
- 11:40 Using Entire-Domain Linear-Phase Basis Functions to Determine Induced Current and Scattered Field of Structures with Large Flat Faces and Details
- 12:00 Including High-Frequency Surface Diffraction in a Hybrid FEBI-MLFMM-UTD Method
- 12:20 Modeling Scattering From Rough Surface Via the Multilevel Characteristic Basis Function Method (MLCBFM) Combined with Adaptive Cross Approximation (ACA)
Low Exposure in Mobile and Wireless Communications Systems
Application track: Biomedical
Room: AsiaChairs: Luis M. Correia (IST - University of Lisbon & INOV-INESC, Portugal), Joe Wiart (Orange- France Telecom, France)
- 11:00 Joint Analysis of Small-cell Network Performance and Urban Electromagnetic Field Exposure
- 11:20 Low-Power Exclusion Clause for Wireless Devices Operating At Close Distances to the Human Body
- 11:40 Measurement of a Body-Worn Triaxial Sensor for Electromagnetic Field and Exposure Assessment
- 12:00 Monopole Antenna with Metamaterials Structures
- 12:20 Using Virtual MIMO in Off-Body Channels for Power Efficient Communications
On-the-Move Antenna Systems
Application track: Space
Room: AntarcticaChairs: Avi Gal (Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd, Israel), Maria Carolina Vigano (Viasat Antenna Systems SA, Switzerland)
- 11:00 Planar Printed Ka Band Antenna for Satellite Communication Based on Metamaterial Technology
- 11:20 Satcom-on-the-move: Digital Beam Forming Versus Phased Array
- 11:40 Sige Bicmos Technology for Ka-Band Satcom on the Move User Terminals
- 12:00 Ka-Band Mobility Terminals Enabling New Services
- 12:20 X- And Ka-Band Low Profile Antennas for Aeronautical and Land Mobile Satcom
THz Enabling Technologies and Applications
Application track: Multiple Applications
Room: Central AmericaChairs: Ramon Gonzalo (Public University of Navarra, Spain), Richard W. Ziolkowski (University of Arizona, USA)
- 11:00 Dielectric Rod Waveguide as an Enabling Technology for THz Frequencies
- 11:20 High Directivity, Lens-less THz Photoconductive Switch Dipole Antennas
- 11:40 Plasmonic Photoconductive Antennas for High-Power Terahertz Generation and High-Sensitivity Terahertz Detection
- 12:00 Terahertz Antennas with Silicon Micromachined Front-End
- 12:20 Use of Low Loss Substrate for Developing Sub-Millimeter-Wave Mixers
AMTA/EurAAP Measurements/Antenna Diagnostics and Post Processing
Application track: Defense & Security
Room: Europe 1Chairs: Sergey Pivnenko (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark), Manuel Sierra-Castañer (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
- 11:00 Indirect Holography Setup for Efficient Phaseless Cylindrical Acquisition for Antenna Measurement
- 11:20 International Comparison of Ku-band Standard Gain Horn Characterization
- 11:40 Investigation of Complex Excitation Errors At Single Element and Sub-Array Level in Large Array Antennas by Inverse Source Technique
- 12:00 Multi-Spectral Representation of Measurement Probes for Antenna Field Transformations
- 12:20 Source Reconstruction Technique for Slot Array Antennas Using the Gerchberg-Papoulis Algorithm
11:00 - 12:00
CST Workshop
Room: Europe 2
11:00 - 12:40
Ionospheric Propagation
Application track: Space
Room: North AmericaChairs: Yannick Béniguel (IEEA, France), Roberto Prieto-Cerdeira (European Space Agency, The Netherlands)
- 11:00 A Study of HF Transmitter Geolocation Through Single-Hop Ionospheric Propagation
- 11:20 Kriging Method Combined with GISM to Generate Ionospheric Scintillation Map
- 11:40 Modelling Ionospheric Effects for L Band GNSS Receivers At High Latitudes
- 12:00 Monitoring of Ionosphere Propagation Conditions Using Opportunistic HF Signals
- 12:20 Transionospheric Propagation Schemes: Analytical and Numerical Results for Dimensional Reduction
[WS]: Data Domain Modelling for Antenna Analysis and Design
Room: Oceania
Chairs: Francesca Mioc (Consultant, Switzerland), Marco Sabbadini (Esa Estec, The Netherlands)
12:40 - 13:30
Lunch Break
Room: Atlantic
13:30 - 15:00
EurAAP WG 7: Small Antennas Meeting
Room: Oceania
Scattering, Diffraction, RCS Measurement and Processing
Room: Poster area
- The Energy Flow Behavior During the Resonance Scattering of a Plane Electromagnetic Wave by a Magnetized Plasma Column
- Characteristic Coplarization States of Target Resonance as Radar Feature Set
- Closed-Form Solution for Electromagnetic Scattering by a Dielectric Spheroid
- Detection of an Artificial Target with Low Radar Cross-Section in Presence of Backscatter
- Indoor 3D Spherical Near Field RCS Measurement Facility: Localization of Scatterers
- Performance Comparison of Finite Size Ultra Thin Microwave Absorbers by Means of Bistatic Scattering Cross Section and Absorption Efficiency
- Scattering and Propagation of the TE/TM Waves on Pre-Fractal Impedance Grating in Numerical Results
- A Method of Building Radargram with the Ability of Object Discrimination for the Step-Frequency Radar
- Propagation Analysis of Remote Sensing in a Rainforest Environment
- Concealed Weapon Detection Using UWB 3-D Radar Imaging and Automatic Target Recognition
- Inverse Scattering Problem of Homogeneous Dielectrics Using Genetic Algorithms
- Multi-Perspective Landmine Detection with Ground Penetrating Radar and the Hidden Markov Model
- On the Evaluation of a Proposed Bowtie Antenna for Microwave Tomography
- A New Universal Approach to Modeling and Simulation of UWB Channels Containing Convex Obstacles Using Spice-Like Programs
MIMO, Antenna Diversity, Smart and Signal Processing Antennas
Room: Poster area
- The Importance of Circular Polarization for Diversity Reception and MIMO in NVIS Propagation
- A New Dual Feed PIFA Diversity Antenna
- Near Field Beam Patterns of Circularly Rotating Phased Array
- Dual-Band MIMO Antenna with Enhanced Isolation for LTE System
- MISO Beamforming for RFID Systems Via Second-Order Cone Programming
- A 4x4 MIMO Antenna System for Mobile Tablets
- An 8x8 Butler Matrix for Generation of Waves Carrying Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM)
- Channel Statistics for MIMO Handsets in Data Mode
- Characteristic Mode Analysis of Composite Metal-Dielectric Structure, Based on Surface Integral Equation/Moment Method
- Electrically Switchable Multiport Matching Network for 2-Port MIMO Antennas
- Investigations on QRD-M Based Broadband VP Technique for Multiuser Multiantenna System
- Isolation Enhancement Effect on the Measured Channel Capacity of a Printed MIMO Antenna System
- MEG and Correlation Characteristics of Hybrid Dipole - Nonuniform EBG Antenna Systems
- True MIMO Transmission Using a Single RF-Chain and Antenna: Recent Developments
Multiband, Wideband, Electrically Small and Dielectric Resonator Antennas
Room: Poster area
- A Differentially-Fed Four-Port Printed Antenna for High Throughput Transmitters At 60 GHz
- Printed Folded Meander Line Dual-Band Monopole for TV White Space and GSM
- A Complete Study of Flexible Antennas in Near Field and Far Field
- A Multi-band Smart Skin Antenna Design for Flight Demonstration
- A Novel Supershaped Slot-Loaded Printed Dipole Antenna with Broadside Radiation for Dual-Band WLAN Applications
- A Planar Tri-Band Array Antenna
- Bent Antipodal Vivaldi Antenna
- High Gain Compact Microstrip Antenna with Defected Ground Structure for GPS/WiMAX Applications
- Modified Wideband Planar Inverted-F Antenna with Double Shorting Stubs for Portable Devices
- Multiband Metamaterial-Inspired Antenna
- Multi-band Multi-Antenna System with New Approach of PIFA Bandwidth Enhancement
- Multi-Objective Design of Antenna Structures Using Variable-Fidelity EM Simulations and Co-Kriging
- On-board Printed Handset Antenna with Coupled Monopoles
- Compact Wideband Antenna for TV White Spaces
- Propagation Study and Antenna Design for Wireless Sensor Networks in Train Environment
- Design of a Compact UWB Rectangular Dielectric Resonator Antenna Using a Simple Structure
- Flexible and Stretchable UHF RFID Tag Antennas for Automotive Tire Sensing
- Multi-Standard Miniature Antenna for Smart Wireless Handheld Devices Application
- An Electrically Small Normal-mode Helical Antenna with Capacitive Coupling Feed
- Miniaturization of Omnidirectional Circularly Polarized Antennas
- Analysis of Harrington Limit for Electrically Small Antenna Directivity
- A Frequency Reconfigurable Dielectric Resonator Antenna Using Controllable Air Gaps
- Experimental Investigations of an Omni-directional Dielectric Resonator Antenna for UWB Systems
- CPW-Fed Cylindrical Dielectric Resonator Antenna Perturbed by a Thin Layer Dielectric-Metal Structure
- The Effects of a Triple-Junction Solar Cell on a Dielectric Resonator Antenna
RF Sensors, RFIDs and Power Scavenging
Room: Poster area
- UHF RFID Sensor for Crack Observation Through Controlled Mechanical-to-Electromagnetic Modulation
- Compact Open Slot Textile Antenna
- Interferometer for Co-operating Target Motion Detection
- Measurement of Harmonic Distortions and Impedance of HF RFID Chips
- Miniature and Superdirective Two Elements Endfire Antenna Array
- Passive Wireless Sensor for Atmospheric Corrosion Monitoring
- A Fully Printed Passive Chipless RFID Tag for Low-Cost Mass Production
- A Novel 60GHz Antenna for an RFID TAG with Dielectric Resonator
- An RFID-Based Library Management System Using Smart Cabinets: A Pilot Project
- Design Considerations for Low-Power, High-Sensitivity Rectennas
- Design of Unequal Size of Witricity Device with Integrated Coil Strip
- Optimizing Meandered Spiral Antennas for RFID Tags Using Gbest-Guided Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm
- Passive MIMO: New Load Modulation Technique Using Multiple Antennas
- Transparent Rectenna and Rectenna Array for RF Energy Harvesting At 2.45 GHz
- Connectivity of Wireless Sensor Nodes in Metal Rich Environment: Expectations and Reality
- Fabrication and Characterizations of Frequency-Tunable Soft Composite Antennas for Wireless Sensing
Active Antennas, Integrated Antennas, Lens Antennas and Radomes
Room: Poster area
- A New Low-Cost Active Rod Antenna for Automotive Reception of All Terrestrial Audio Broadcast Services
- A Novel Fully Integrated Fin Antenna for Automotive Application
- An Active Multiband Antenna for Future Wireless Communications
- Antenna System with Active Impedance Matching
- Wideband Multilayer WAIM Design and Optimization
- Design of Spherical Lens Antennas Using Complex Huygens Element
- All Dielectric Conformal Luneburg Lens Based Antenna
- Characterization of an OAM Antenna Using a Flat Phase Plate in the Millimeter Frequency Band
- Design of Low Profile Cylindrical Luneburg Lens Antenna
- Design of Metamaterial-Coated Arrays Through Quasi-Conformal Transformation Optics
- Design of Sandwich Type Radomes with Green's Function Method as a Radiation Problem Solving
- Efficient and Accurate Modeling of Electrically Large Dielectric Lens Antennas Using Full-Wave Analysis
- Waveguide Feed Chains for Scanning Lens Array in Ku and Ka Bands
Mobile and Ionospheric Channels
Room: Poster area
- An Enhanced Statistical Model for the Dual Polarised MIMO Land Mobile Satellite Channel
- Diversity Combining for Cooperative Satellite Terminals in a Moving Convoy of Vehicles
- A Proposed 3D Extension to the 3GPP/ITU Channel Model for 800 MHz and 2.6 GHz Bands
- Path Loss Characterization in Vehicular Environments Under LOS and NLOS Conditions At 5.9 GHz
- Simulation-based Evaluation of MIMO Antenna Systems in Car-to-Car Communication
- System Level Evaluation for Vehicular MIMO Antennas in Simulated and Measured Channels
- AF Relaying Scheme for Multiple Relays- Cooperative-Turbo Coded System
- Assessing Realistic Gains of Massive MIMO
- Modeling Three Different Types of Multipath Components for Mobile Radio Channel
- Measurement on S-band Radio Propagation Characteristics for Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Imaging and Inverse Scattering
Room: Poster area
- A Novel 1-Decade Super Wideband UHF Antenna for GPR and Impulse Radio Applications
- Detection of Breathing and Heartbeat by Using a Simple UWB Radar System
- Model Pulses in the TD Design of UWB Wireless Signal Transfer Systems
- A Novel Band-Reject UWB Antenna with Stable Radiation Pattern
- Dual-polarized Antenna Set Based on Skewed Elliptic Dipoles for UWB Handheld Applications
- Efficient Method for Estimation of the Thicknesses and Complex Dielectric Constant of Wall
- 3D Printed Miniaturized UWB Antenna for Wireless Body Area Network
- A Compact Multiple Band-Notched Planer Antenna with Enhanced Bandwidth Using Parasitic Strip Lumped Capacitors and DGS-Technique
- A Compact Ultra-Wideband Spiral Helix Antenna for In-Body Communications
- Coplanar Waveguide Fed Ultra-Wideband Antenna Over the Planar and Cylindrical Surfaces
- Design and Simulation of an Equiangular Spiral Antenna for Extremely High-Frequencies
- Equivalent Circuit Model of a Self-Complementary Connected Array Antenna
- Low Profile UWB Antenna for Wireless Body Area Networks
Ultra-Wideband Antennas and Time-Domain Techniques
Room: Poster area
14:00 - 15:00
TICRA Workshop
Room: Europe 2
15:00 - 15:40
Advanced Applications
Application track: Defense & Security
Room: AmazonChairs: J (Yiannis) Vardaxoglou (Loughborough University, United Kingdom), Werner Wiesbeck (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
Antenna Measurements (AMTA)
Application track: Multiple Applications
Room: MississippiChairs: Carlo Rizzo (Antenna Systems Solutions, United Kingdom), Olav Breinbjerg (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
ITU-R Propagation Workshop
Room: Oceania
Chairs: Bertram Arbesser-Rastburg (ESA - Estec, The Netherlands), Les W Barclay (University of Lancaster & Barclay Associates Ltd, United Kingdom), Patricia McKenna (Syracuse University, USA)
15:40 - 16:20
Advanced Applications
Application track: Multiple Applications
Room: AmazonChair: Werner Wiesbeck (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
Antenna Measurements (AMTA)
Application track: Multiple Applications
Room: MississippiChairs: Olav Breinbjerg (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark), Carlo Rizzo (Antenna Systems Solutions, United Kingdom)
16:20 - 16:40
Coffee Break
Room: Exhibition Foyer
16:40 - 18:20
Electromagnetic Theory and Numerical Techniques
Application track: Biomedical
Room: AsiaChairs: Huib J. Visser (IMEC Netherlands, The Netherlands), Peter Zwamborn (TNO Defence Security and Safety, The Netherlands)
- 16:40 Combination of DG-FDTD with a Substitution Model for Calculating Local Dosimetry in a Variable and Highly Multiscale Problem
- 17:00 Design of a Novel Compact Printed Folded Dipole Antenna for Biomedical Applications
- 17:20 Mixed Discretization Formulations for the Direct EEG Problem
- 17:40 Safe and Efficient Design of the Shelf Antenna in an RFID-based Library Management System
- 18:00 Exposure of Cells to Electric Fields: Numerical Analysis with a Volume-Integral-Equation Approach
Antenna Systems and Architectures
Application track: Space
Room: South AmericaChairs: Eric Amyotte (MDA, Canada), Luca Salghetti Drioli (European Space Agency-ESTEC, The Netherlands)
- 16:40 A Quad-Mode Antenna for Accurate Polarimetric Measurements Over an Ultra-Wide Field-Of-View
- 17:00 A Q/V-band Antenna for Feeder Link Applications
- 17:20 Calibration of the TM/TE Modes in Metasurface Antennas
- 17:40 Novel Dual-Band Single Circular Polarization Antenna Feeding Network for Satellite Communications
- 18:00 Tunable Antenna System for Plug&Play Satellite Avionics: Prototyping and Test
Scattering, Diffraction and RCS
Application track: Fundamental Research
Room: MississippiChair: Manuel Sierra-Castañer (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
- 16:40 An Efficient Iterative Physical Optics Algorithm for the Analysis of Electrically Large Scatterers
- 17:00 Microwave Analysis and Experimentation for Improved Backscatter Radio
- 17:20 Ray Tracing Algorithm for Multiple Reflection and Diffraction Centers
- 17:40 Verification of the PMCHWT-CBFM for Scattering Analysis of a Microstrip Array Antenna
- 18:00 VHF Omnidirectional Radio Range and Rotating Wind Turbines - A Review on a Timely Topic
Dielectric Resonator Antennas
Application track: Multiple Applications
Room: AntarcticaChairs: Yahia Antar (Royal Military College of Canada, Canada), Raphael Gillard (IETR & INSA, France)
- 16:40 A Dual-Band Circular-Polarized Dielectric Loaded Antenna (DLA)
- 17:00 A Hybrid Dielectric Resonator Antenna with Polarization-Agility and Wideband Operation
- 17:20 A Notched Dielectric Resonator Antenna Unit-Cell for 60GHz Passive Repeater with Endfire Radiation
- 17:40 Antenna Optimization Based on Artificial Neural Network
- 18:00 Three Element Cylindrical Sector Dielectric Resonator Antenna for Wide Band Monopole-like Radiation
MIMO, Antenna Diversity, Smart and Signal Processing Antennas
Application track: Multiple Applications
Room: North AmericaChairs: Dirk Manteuffel (University of Kiel, Germany), Hendrik Rogier (Ghent University, Belgium)
- 16:40 A Cooperative Antenna Selection Algorithm for MIMO-OFDMA Networks
- 17:00 Diversity Antenna with Electronically Switchable Wide / Narrow Band for Cognitive Radio Systems
- 17:20 Estimation of the Orbital Angular Momentum Order Using a Vector Antenna in the Presence of Noise
- 17:40 Localizing Living Body Using Bistatic MIMO Radar in Multi-path Environment
- 18:00 Scan-Phase Antenna Diversity for Digital Satellite Radio (SDARS) in a Single Automotive Side Mirror
Lens Antennas & Radomes
Application track: Multiple Applications
Room: Central AmericaChairs: Ronan Sauleau (University of Rennes 1, France), Maarten van der Vorst (European Space Agency, The Netherlands)
- 16:40 Design and Performance Evaluation of a Dielectric Flat Lens for Millimeter-Wave Applications
- 17:00 Generalized Admittance Matrix Method for Fast Full-Wave Analysis of Integrated Lens Antennas
- 17:20 Investigation of the Radiation Characteristics of the Leaky-Lens Antenna for Small Dielectric Lenses
- 17:40 Light and Cheap Flat Foam-Based Luneburg Lens Antenna
- 18:00 Prediction by Simulation of Electromagnetic Impact of Radome on Typical Aircraft Antenna
Multiband and Wideband Antennas
Application track: Cellular Networks
Room: Yangtze 1Chairs: Kenneth Lee Ford (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom), Alexey Shitvov (Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom)
- 16:40 A High-Efficient 3-D Nefer-Antenna for LTE Communication on a Car
- 17:00 Compact Multi-band Planar Monopole Antenna for LTE Terminals
- 17:20 Compact, Wideband and Low Profile Planar Inverted-L Antenna
- 17:40 Effect of Antenna Q to the Radiation Efficiency of Tunable Antennas
- 18:00 On Designing Dual-Band Matching Circuits for Capacitive Coupling Element Antennas
Nano Antennas
Application track: Fundamental Research
Room: AmazonChairs: Julien Perruisseau-Carrier (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne & EPFL, Switzerland), Khalid Rajab (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom)
- 16:40 A Circuit Model for Reconfigurable Graphene Plasmonic Dipoles
- 17:00 An N-Port Network Model for Nanoantennas
- 17:20 Computational Analysis of a Spiral Thermoelectric Nanoantenna for Solar Energy Harvesting Applications
- 17:40 Contact-less RF and Optical Measurement of Antenna Array Active Impedance Using Scattering Data
- 18:00 Study of Far Field Characteristics of Nano Dipoles Above a Realistic Substrate
Non-uniform Arrays - from Concepts to Implementation
Application track: Space
Room: AfricaChairs: Ioan E. Lager (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands), Giacomo Oliveri (University of Trento & ELEDIA Research Center, Italy)
- 16:40 A Review of High Performance Ultra-Wideband Antenna Array Layout Design
- 17:00 Enhancing Compressive-Sensing Performances in the Synthesis of Maximally Sparse Arrays
- 17:20 Sparse Array Antennas for Satellite Mobile Terminals
- 17:40 Non-Regular Array Solutions Assessed From Industrial Point of View
- 18:00 Sparse Array Antennas with Optimized Elements Positions and Dimensions
AMTA/EurAAP Imaging and Diagnostic Measurement Techniques and Algorithms
Application track: Defense & Security
Room: Europe 1Chairs: Dirk Heberling (RWTH Aachen University, Germany), Laurent Le Coq (University of Rennes 1 & IETR, France)
- 16:40 Assessing and Quantifying the Effects of Planar Mathematical Absorber Reflection Suppression Technique
- 17:00 Failures Identification in a Linear Slot Array Using a Sparse Recovery Technique
- 17:20 High Precision Antenna Characterisation for Broadband Synthetic Aperture Radar Processing
- 17:40 Very High-Resolution Three-Dimensional Imaging of Natural Environments Using a Tomographic Ground-Based SAR System
- 18:00 Near-Field 3D-RCS Measurement Simulation: Antenna Pattern Issues
Propagation for Small Cell Deployment
Application track: Cellular Networks
Room: Yangtze 2Chairs: Yvo de Jong (Communications Research Centre Canada, Canada), Rodney Vaughan (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
- 16:40 Experimental Characterization of Building Shadowing and Exit Loss in a Small-Cell Environment At 700, 2600 and 4900 MHz
- 17:00 3D Propagation and Environment Modeling for NLOS Wireless Small-cell Backhaul
- 17:20 An Outdoor-to-Indoor Propagation Scenario At 28GHz
- 17:40 Multiport Antenna Performance Analysis From Ray-Traced Channels for Small Cells
- 18:00 Spectrum Options for Wireless Backhaul of Small Cells
ITU-R Propagation Workshop
Room: Oceania
Chairs: Bertram Arbesser-Rastburg (ESA - Estec, The Netherlands), Les W Barclay (University of Lancaster & Barclay Associates Ltd, United Kingdom), Patricia McKenna (Syracuse University, USA)
Friday, April 11
09:00 - 10:40
Numerical Techniques in Electromagnetic Theory
Application track: Fundamental Research
Room: MississippiChairs: Thomas F. Eibert (FGAN, Germany), Francesca Mioc (Consultant, Switzerland)
- 09:00 A Direct Hierarchical Multilevel Preconditioner for the Solution of Finite Element-Boundary Integral Equations
- 09:20 A New Method for Quadrilateral Meshing of Arbitrary Shaped Geometry Based on Meshing of Flat Polygons
- 09:40 Applications of a Hierarchical Multiresolution Preconditioner to the CFIE
- 10:00 Bringing Numerical Simulation and Antenna Measurements Together
- 10:20 Generalization of Loop-Star Approach for Adaptive MoM Analysis of Mixed Multiple Geometries of Metals, Dielectrics, Wires and Thin Material Sheets
RF Sensors
Application track: Wireless networks and RF Sensors
Room: South AmericaChairs: A. B. (Bart) Smolders (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands), Huib J. Visser (IMEC Netherlands, The Netherlands)
- 09:00 A Simple Cross Shaped Loop Antenna Radiating Circularly Polarization Waves by One Port Feeding
- 09:20 A Wireless Neurosensing System for Remote Monitoring of Brain Signals
- 09:40 Advances in Wildlife Road-Crossing Early-Alert System: New Architecture and Experimental Validation
- 10:00 An On-Chip Capacitive Coupled RFID Tag
- 10:20 Localization of Unidentified RF Sources Using a Moving and a Network of Stationary Sensors
Array-Antenna Analysis and Synthesis
Application track: Multiple Applications
Room: North AmericaChair: Antoine Roederer (Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands)
- 09:00 Fast Design of Microstrip Antenna Arrays Exploiting Surrogate Models
- 09:20 Estimation of Optimum Antenna Configurations Supported by Realistic Propagation Models At 60 GHz
- 09:40 Design of a 5.8 GHz Rectenna Using Aperture Coupled Antenna Array
- 10:00 Aperture Distribution Reconstruction of Phased Array Antenna with Single RF Channel Based on Non-Uniform Spatial Sampling of Array Elements
- 10:20 A Pattern-Reconfigurable Parasitic Patch Antenna Using BAR and HPND PIN Diode
Millimetre-Wave, Submillimetre-Wave and TeraHertz Antennas
Application track: Multiple Applications
Room: AmazonChairs: Nuria LLombart (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands), Michael Lumholt (TICRA, Denmark)
- 09:00 A Finite Element Eigenanalysis of Electrically Large THz and Photonic Structures
- 09:20 Distributed Power Absorbers in General Focusing Systems
- 09:40 Dual Polarized Leaky Lens Antenna for THz Space Applications
- 10:00 Flat Corrugated Antennas in the THz
- 10:20 Frequency Discriminator of Terahertz Domain
Antennas for Radio Astronomy and Space Applications
Application track: Space
Room: AfricaChairs: Eloy de Lera Acedo (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom), Benedetta Fiorelli (ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, The Netherlands)
- 09:00 A Quadraxial Feed for Ultra-Wide Bandwidth Quadruple-Ridged Flared Horn Antennas
- 09:20 A Review of Full-Wave and Reduced-Order Modelling Methodologies for Dense Aperture Arrays
- 09:40 Antenna Technologies for Science Missions in Thales Alenia Space Italia
- 10:00 Synthesis of Non-Regular Arrays Using an FFT-based Calculation of the Cost Function Gradient
- 10:20 Heterogeneous Dielectrics in Connected Array Analysis with CBFM
OTA Measurements of Wireless Devices
Application track: Cellular Networks
Room: Yangtze 2Chairs: Jan Carlsson (SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden, Sweden), Christian Lötbäck (Bluetest AB, Sweden)
- 09:00 Antenna Evaluation with Spatial Channel Models
- 09:20 Basic and Advanced MIMO OTA Testing of Wireless Devices Using Reverberation Chamber
- 09:40 Comparing Throughputs of 2×2 Spatial Multiplexing MIMO Systems with and Without CSI At the Transmit Side in Rich Isotropic Multipath Environments
- 10:00 OTA Measurement of Wireless Devices with Single and Multiple Antennas in Anechoic Chamber
- 10:20 Practical Active Antenna Evaluation Using the Two-stage MIMO OTA Measurement Method
Antennas & Propagation for Body Environments (supported by IC1004)
Application track: Biomedical
Room: AsiaChairs: Raffaele D'Errico (CEA, LETI, Minatec Campus, France), Kamya Yekeh Yazdandoost (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan)
- 09:00 A Statistical Characterization of Shadowed Device-to-Device Communications in an Indoor Environment
- 09:20 A 4D Immersive Platform to Visualize RF Propagation in BAN
- 09:40 BAN Working Frequency: a Trade-Off Between Antenna Efficiency and Propagation Losses
- 10:00 8-GHz Band Implantable UWB Communications for Wireless Brain-Machine Interfaces
- 10:20 Characterization of a Chip Antenna for 2.4 GHz in Proximity to Dielectric Material for Antenna De-Embedding of Body Area Networks
Applications of Antennas and Propagation to Mining and Geoscience
Application track: Multiple Applications
Room: Central AmericaChairs: Chad Hargrave (CSIRO, Australia), Greg Hislop (CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering, Australia)
- 09:00 A Comparison Between Two Measurement Configurations for Full 3D GPR Imaging
- 09:20 Data-driven Inversion of GPR Surface Reflection Data for Lossless Layered Media
- 09:40 Design and Operation Simulation of Compact Antenna for 3D Measurements of Alternating Magnetic Field in a Task of People Search Under Avalanches in Mines
- 10:00 Electromagnetic Wave Excitation and Propagation in Continuous Coal Mining Tunnels
- 10:20 Relations Between GPR Early-Time Signal Attributes and Ground Permittivity: A Numerical Investigation
Space-Time Channel Models for Earth-Space and UAV Links
Application track: Space
Room: AntarcticaChairs: Laurent Castanet (ONERA, France), Danielle Vanhoenacker-Janvier (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
- 09:00 Software for Tropospheric Propagation Statistical Data Analysis
- 09:20 A Computationally Efficient System to Predict Joint Rain Fade on Arbitrary EHF Networks
- 09:40 An Operator's Perspective on Propagation
- 10:00 Analysis of Liquid Water and Water Vapor Time Series and Rainy Period Detection From a Two Channel Microwave Radiometer
- 10:20 Atmospheric Channel Simulator for the Simulation of Propagation Impairments for Ka Band Data Downlink
Advances in Measurement Implementations
Application track: Multiple Applications
Room: Europe 1Chairs: Sean V Hum (University of Toronto, Canada), Luis Rolo (European Space Agency, The Netherlands)
- 09:00 3D Wave-Field Synthesis for Testing of Radio Devices
- 09:20 Comparison of Horizontal and Vertical Feed Scanning Based APC in a Compact Range
- 09:40 Exponentially Tapered Dielectric Loaded Probe for Accurate Near Field Measurements
- 10:00 On Arranging Dual-Polarised Antennas in 3D Wave Field Synthesis
- 10:20 The Measurement of Creeping Wave Propagation Constant on Cylinders
Cellular Urban Propagation
Application track: Cellular Networks
Room: Yangtze 1Chair: Thomas Kuerner (Braunschweig Technical University, Germany)
- 09:00 Automated Modelling of Realistic Multi-Storey Buildings and the Impact of Windows on Small Cell Propagation
- 09:20 Path Loss Model Comparison for LTE-Advanced Relay Backhaul Link in Urban Environment
- 09:40 Path Loss Models in LOS Conditions for Relay Mobile Channels
- 10:00 Site Diversity Performance of Millimeter Wave Wireless Networks Against Localized Rain
- 10:20 Wave-Guide Effects in Urban Viaduct Propagation Channels for High-Speed Railway At 930 MHz
Software Parallelization, High Performance Computing and Cloud Computing Efforts in Electromagnetics
Room: Oceania
Chair: Dragan I. Olcan (University of Belgrade, Serbia)
10:40 - 11:00
Coffee Break
Room: Exhibition Foyer
11:00 - 12:40
Numerical Techniques in Electromagnetic Theory
Application track: Fundamental Research
Room: MississippiChairs: Thomas F. Eibert (FGAN, Germany), Francesca Mioc (Consultant, Switzerland)
- 11:00 Hybrid MoM/Mode-Matching Method for SIW Devices Housing Layered Dielectric Substrates
- 11:20 Improved Multilevel Fast Multipole Method for Higher-Order Discretizations
- 11:40 Nested Equivalent Source Approximation of Multiscale Structures
- 12:00 Parallel, Distributed-Memory Computation of the Translation Operator in Three Dimensions
- 12:20 Spectral/Spatial Global Domain Basis Functions for the Description of Metasurfaces
Passive, Multiband and Small Antenna Elements
Application track: Wireless networks and RF Sensors
Room: South America- 11:00 A Novel Approach for Wideband Tunable Electrically Small Antennas
- 11:20 A Passive RFID Sensor Tag Antenna Transducer
- 11:40 Passive MEMS Antenna Structures for an Hybrid UHF/UWB RFID Tag
- 12:00 Performance Analysis of an Open Ended Coaxial Resonator Based Displacement Sensor
- 12:20 Circuit Models Explaining Bandwidth Behavior of Small Circular Cavity Backed Patch Antennas
Array-Antenna Analysis and Synthesis
Application track: Multiple Applications
Room: North AmericaChair: Ovidio Mario Bucci (University of Naples, Italy)
- 11:00 Pencil Beams and Flat-Topped Beams with Asymmetric Side Lobes From Circular Arrays
- 11:20 Pencil and Shaped Beams Obtained by Planar Density Tapering
- 11:40 One More Look At the Reduction of the Number of Controlled Elements in Limited-Scan Phased Array Antennas
- 12:00 Frequency and Scan Angle Limitations in UWB Phased Array
- 12:20 Ultra-Wideband Small Modular Array Antenna Based on Column-Coupled Vivaldi Subarrays
Millimetre-Wave, Submillimetre-Wave and TeraHertz Antennas
Application track: Multiple Applications
Room: AmazonChairs: Nuria LLombart (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands), Michael Lumholt (TICRA, Denmark)
- 11:00 Hybrid Strategy to Simulate Millimeter-Wave RADAR Devices for Automotive ADAS
- 11:20 Inter-CubeSat Communication with V-band "Bull's Eye" Antenna
- 11:40 Investigation of Localized Exposure System for Rabbit Eye At 40 GHz and 95 GHz
- 12:00 Ultra-Wideband Dielectric Rod Waveguide Antenna as Photomixer-Based THz Emitter
- 12:20 Ultra Wideband High Gain THz Plasmonic Antenna
Antennas for Radio Astronomy and Space Applications
Application track: Space
Room: AfricaChairs: Eloy de Lera Acedo (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom), Benedetta Fiorelli (ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, The Netherlands)
- 11:00 Imaging Speed of Antenna Coupled Kinetic Inductance Detectors in the SAFARI/SPICA Scenario
- 11:20 Measuring Radiotelescope Phased Array Feed Noise and Sensitivity
- 11:40 Novel Multi-Beam Radiometers for Accurate Ocean Surveillance
- 12:00 Dense Focal Plane Arrays for Pushbroom Satellite Radiometers
- 12:20 Shape Control of Reconfigurable Antenna Reflector: Concepts and Strategies
Realism in Existing MIMO OTA Test Methods
Application track: Cellular Networks
Room: Yangtze 2Chairs: Paul Hallbjörner (SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden, Sweden), David A Sánchez-Hernández (Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Spain)
- 11:00 Electronically Reconfigurable Reverberation Chambers
- 11:20 MPS Results on LTE MIMO OTA 2013 Round Robin Tests
- 11:40 On Spatial Characteristics of the Decomposition Method in MIMO OTA Testing
- 12:00 Radio Channel Measurements in Live LTE Networks for MIMO Over-the-Air Emulation
- 12:20 Reverberation Chamber Results on 3GPP/CTIA LTE MIMO OTA 2013 Round Robin Tests Using Different Channel Models - A Comparison of Performance
Antennas & Propagation for Body Environments (supported by IC1004)
Application track: Biomedical
Room: AsiaChairs: Raffaele D'Errico (CEA, LETI, Minatec Campus, France), Kamya Yekeh Yazdandoost (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan), Kamya Yekeh Yazdandoost (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan)
- 11:00 Influence of the Environment on MIMO On-Body Communications
- 11:20 The Body Area Network Channel Model: A New Look At Second-Order Statistics
- 11:40 Modelling of UWB Antenna Perturbed by Human Phantom in Spherical Harmonics Space
- 12:00 FDTD Characterisation of On-Body Propagation Channels Adopting Statistically Shaped Subjects
- 12:20 Characterization of the Body-Centric Propagation Channel At 60 GHz in the Presence of Textiles
Applications of Antennas and Propagation to Mining and Geoscience
Application track: Multiple Applications
Room: Central AmericaChairs: Chad Hargrave (CSIRO, Australia), Greg Hislop (CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering, Australia)
- 11:00 Measuring the Thickness, Permittivity and Conductivity of Layered Earth
- 11:20 Near-Field Modeling of Radar Antennas: An Intrinsic Approach
- 11:40 Numerical Analysis of the Detection Performance of Ground Coupled Radars for Different Antenna Systems and Signal Features
- 12:00 Radar Waypoint Navigator for Underground Mining
- 12:20 Radio-Wave Propagation Into an Underground Mine Environment At 2.4 GHz, 5.8 GHz and 60 GHz
Channel Measurements and Models for Cognitive Radio Applications
Application track: Multiple Applications
Room: Yangtze 1Chairs: Tim Brown (University of Surrey, United Kingdom), Robert J Watson (University of Bath, United Kingdom)
- 11:00 A Research Vision on Cognitive Radio Filter-antennas
- 11:20 Enhanced Algorithms for TV Whitespace Power Maximization
- 11:40 Modelling White Space Deployments Using a High Resolution Geolocation Database
- 12:00 Polarisation Effects on Hidden Node Margin/Shadowing for TVWS Applications
- 12:20 A Three-Resolution UWB Frequency Reconfigurable Antipodal Vivaldi Antenna for Cognitive Radios
Space-Time Channel Models for Earth-Space and UAV Links
Application track: Space
Chairs: Laurent Castanet (ONERA, France), Danielle Vanhoenacker-Janvier (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
- 11:00 Rain Attenuation in Converging Terrestrial Links: Measurements and Modeling
- 11:20 Rain Attenuation Time Series Generator for Medium Earth Orbit Links Operating At Ka Band and Above
- 11:40 Results From Two Years of Ka-band Propagation Characterization At Svalbard, Norway
- 12:00 Simulation of Tropospheric Scintillation on LEO Satellite Link Based on Space-Time Channel Modeling
- 12:20 The Impact of Conditioned Attenuation Statistics on the Performance of VCM Techniques for Earth Observation Satellites in LEO Orbit
Data Acquisition, Imaging Algorithms and Processing Methods
Application track: Multiple Applications
Room: Europe 1Chairs: Olav Breinbjerg (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark), Mats Gustafsson (Lund University, Sweden)
- 11:00 A Compressed Sensing-based Imaging System
- 11:20 Auto-Focusing UWB Radar Imaging for Moving Human Target Using Revised Range Point Migration
- 11:40 ISAR Imaging of a Windmill - Measurement and Simulation
- 12:00 Sampling Points Reduction for Far-Field Extrapolation by Phase Retrieval Method About Low-Gain Antenna
- 12:20 Wide Field of View Active Near-Field Imaging System with Sub-Millimeter Sparse Focal Plane Array
13:00 - 13:30
Closing Session
Application track: Multiple Applications
Room: AmazonChair: Juan R Mosig (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland)