IEEE Catalog Number: ISBN:

CFP1277B-PRT 978-1-4577-0918-0

2012 6th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation

(EUCAP 2012)

Prague, Czech Republic 26-30 March 2012

Pages 1-785

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Controlling Propagation Environments Using Intelligent Walls .................................................................................................................. 1Ludek Subrt, Pavel Pechac

Analysis of Position-Related Information in Measured UWB Indoor Channels ........................................................................................ 6Paul Meissner, Klaus Witrisal

Application of the Channel Synthesis Approach to Evaluate the Performance of an Experimental 4-Port Application Antenna ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 11

Martin Kaske, Christian Schneider, Reiner Thoma, Jorg Pamp

Efficiency and Accuracy Enhanced Super Resolved Channel Estimation................................................................................................. 16Jonas Medbo, Fredrik Harrysson

A Monte Carlo Study on the Diversity Measure of a Spherical Volume.................................................................................................... 21Andres Alayon Glazunov

Channel Improvement for Line-of-Sight MIMO Using Dual-Beam Reflectarray.................................................................................... 25Jiyun Shen, Yasuhiro Oda, Tamami Maruyama, Ngochao Tran, Hidetoshi Kayama

Exploiting the Graph Description of Indoor Layout for Ray Persistency Modeling in Moving Channel.............................................. 30Bernard Uguen, Nicolas Amiot, Mohamed Laaraiedh

Tabulated Interaction Method for Electromagnetic Scattering From Lossy Irregular Terrain Profiles .............................................. 35Dung Trinh-Xuan, Conor Brennan

Study of a Polarimetric Model for Diffuse Scattering in Urban Environment ......................................................................................... 39Enrico M. Vitucci, Francesco Mani, Vittorio Degli-Esposti, Claude Oestges

Shadowing in Urban Environments with Microcellular or Peer-to-Peer Links........................................................................................ 44Zheda Li, Rui Wang, Andreas F. Molisch

Pervasive Remote Sensing Through WSNs ................................................................................................................................................... 49F. Viani, P. Rocca, G. Oliveri, A. Massa

A Multi-Sensor WSN Backbone for Museum Monitoring and Surveillance............................................................................................. 51F. Viani, M. Salucci, P. Rocca, G. Oliveri, A. Massa

Electromagnetic Optimization of Passive RFID Sensor Nodes ................................................................................................................... 53Cecilia Occhiuzzi, Gaetano Marrocco

Long-range Wireless Sensor Nodes–Lessons Learned ................................................................................................................................. 57Krzysztof Piotrowski, Anna Sojka, Peter Langendoerfer

Wireless Sensor Network Nodes for RTLS, Biomonitoring, and Authentication Applications .............................................................. 62Vasileios Lakafosis, Rushi Vyas, Vidyasagar Mukala, Anya Traille, M. M. Tentzeris

Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks: A Selection of Challenging Applications ...................................................................................... 64Gerhard P. Hancke, Gerhard P. Hancke Jr.

Cognitive Symbiotic Network Planning for Energy Consumption Reduction in Wireless Sensor Networks........................................ 69D. Plets, W. Joseph, E. De Poorter, L. Martens, I. Moerman

Propagation and Availability on E-band Terrestrial Radio ........................................................................................................................ 73Laszlo Csurgai-Horvath, Istvan Frigyes, Janos Bito

Instruments, Data and Techniques for the Assessment of the Atmospheric Noise Emission in Satcom Ground Stations............................................................................................................................................................................................................... 76

V. Mattioli, F. S. Marzano, S. Crewell, G. Carrie, U. Lohnert, D. Cimini, C. Capsoni, E. Fionda, A. Martellucci

Statistics of Total Attenuation and Fade Dynamics From Measurements in Toulouse of the 19.7 GHz Beacon of Eutelsat Hot Bird 6 ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 81

X. Boulanger, G. Carrie, L. Castanet, L. Casadebaig, B. Gabard

Experimental Data and Testing Procedures for Modelling of Propagation Effects on Terrestrial Radio Links From C to W Bands .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 86

Marlene S. Pontes, Luiz Da Silva Mello, Michael J. Willis, Steve Salamon, Terje Tjelta, Laurent Castanet

Review of Radar Measurements of Precipitation for the Characterization of Propagation Effects on Terrestrial and Slant Path Radio Links............................................................................................................................................................................. 91

C. Capsoni, L. Castanet, N. Jeannin, L. Luini, F. S. Marzano, M. Thurai, V. N. Bringi

Beacon Receivers and Digital Detectors Solutions for Earth-Satellite Propagation Campaigns ............................................................ 96Armando Rocha, Fernando Machado, Fernando Perez-Fontan, Marco Sousa

Validation and Improvement of Precipitation Statistical Modelling for Radiowave Propagation .......................................................101N. Jeannin, L. Castanet, C. Capsoni, C. Riva, M. Pontes, A. Martellucci, M. Willis, T. Tjelta

Instruments, Data and Techniques for the Assessment of Tropospheric Noise in Deep Space Tracking ............................................106Paolo Tortora, Susanne Crewell, Gunnar Elgered, Alberto Graziani, Per Jarlemark, Marco Lanucara, Ulrich Lohnert, Antonio Martellucci, Mattia Mercolino, Tong Ning, Thomas Rose, Jan Schween

26-GHz Data Downlink for LEO Satellites..................................................................................................................................................111J. Rosello, A. Martellucci, R. Acosta, J. Nessel, L. E. Braten, C. Riva

The Propagation and Telecom Experiments of the Alphasat Aldo Payload (TDP5 Q/V Band Experiment) ......................................116G. Codispoti, C. Riva, M. Ruggieri, T. Rossi, A. Martenllucci, J. Rivera-Castro, O. Koudelka, M. Schoenuber

Evaluation of Microplasma Discharges as Active Components for Reconfigurable Antennas .............................................................117F. Pizarro, R. Pascaud, O. Pascal, T. Callegari, L. Liard

A Novel Non-Foster Broadband Patch Antenna .........................................................................................................................................120Stavros Koulouridis, Spyros Stefanopoulos

Broad Bandwidth, Efficient, Metamaterial-Inspired, Electrically Small Antennas Augmented with Internal Non-Foster Elements ..............................................................................................................................................................................................123

Richard W. Ziolkowski, Ning Zhu

Electrically Small Half-Loop Antenna Design with Non-Foster Matching Networks ............................................................................126Yifeng Fan, Khalid Z. Rajab, Max Munoz, Yang Hao

Quasi-constant-phase Networks Inspired by Metamaterial Transmission Lines with the Non-Foster Elements ...............................130Dmitry V. Kholodnyak, Viacheslav M. Turgaliev

Full Conditions for the Stability Analysis of Negative Impedance Converters .......................................................................................135Jose Luis Jimenez-Martin, Vicente Gonzalez-Posadas, Angel Parra-Cerrada, Alvaro Blanco-Campo, Eduardo Ugarte-Munoz, Daniel Segovia-Vargas

New Research Directions in Broadband Active non-Foster RF Metamaterials ......................................................................................139Silvio Hrabar, Igor Krois, Aleksandar Kiricenko, Ivan Bonic, Damir Muha

Small Antenna for Aerobatic Aircraft .........................................................................................................................................................143K. Pitra, Z. Raida

Novel Conformal Antenna Concept for Security Applications .................................................................................................................147C. Tschoban, U. Maab, I. Ndip, S. Guttowski, K. Lang

Antenna Design for a Conformal Antenna Array Demonstrator .............................................................................................................151C. Loecker, P. Knott, R. Sekora, S. Algermissen

Conformal Tapered Microstrip Leaky-Wave Antennas ............................................................................................................................154A. Martinez-Ros, J. Gomez-Tornero, G. Goussetis

A Conformal CPW Folded Slot Antenna Array Printed on a Kapton Substrate ...................................................................................159M. Aziz, S. Roy, L. Berge, Irfanullah, S. Nariyal, B. Braaten

Surface Impedance Characterization for UTD Based Solution with IBC for Surface Fields on a Dielectric-Coated PEC Circular Cylinder ..................................................................................................................................................................................163

Andres Garcia-Aguilar, Zvonimir Sipus, Manuel Sierra-Perez

Stretchable Antennas .....................................................................................................................................................................................168Q. Liu, K. Ford, R. Langley, A. Robinson, S. Lacour

Determining the Optimal Operative Conditions in Magnetic Nanoparticle Hyperthermia ..................................................................172G. Bellizzi, O. M. Bucci, A. Di Bernardo

Magnetic Nanoparticles Enhanced Microwave Imaging: A Feasibility Assessment ..............................................................................177G. Bellizzi, O. Bucci, I. Catapano, L. Crocco, R. Scapaticci

Wearable Biomonitoring Monopole Antennas Using Inkjet Printed Electromagnetic Band Gap Structures ....................................181Sangkil Kim, Manos M. Tentzeris, Symeon Nikolaou

Possibilities for Microwave Breast Tumor Sensing Via Contrast-Agent-Loaded Nanorobots..............................................................185Panagiotis Kosmas, Yifan Chen

A Smart Diagnostic Capsule with a Novel Antenna and Nano-Biosensors..............................................................................................190H. Rajagopalan, K. S. Shin, J. Kina, C. O. Chui, Y. Rahmat-Samii

Characterization of Graphene-based Nano-antennas in the Terahertz Band .........................................................................................194Ignacio Llatser, Christian Kremers, Dmitry N. Chigrin, Josep Miquel Jornet, Max C. Lemme, Albert Cabellos-Aparicio, Eduard Alarcon

Electronic and Vibrational Properties of Magnetic Core-Shell Nanoparticles .......................................................................................199Angelo De Bernardo, Pilarisetty Tarakeshwar, Vladimiro Mujica

Fast Wideband Solution of Finite Element - Boundary Integral Equation Problems ............................................................................203Dennis T. Schobert, Thomas F. Eibert

New Features and Applications for a Fast Planar-3D Integral Equation Solver ....................................................................................207T. Vaupel

Efficient Iterative Solution of Problems Using Characteristic Basis Function Method Combined with Multilevel Fast Multipole Algorithm ..............................................................................................................................................................................211

Eliseo Garcia, Carlos Delgado, Ivan Gonzalez, Javier Moreno, Felipe Catedra

Acceleration of Series Summation Encountered in the Analysis of Conformal Antennas and Periodic Structures...........................216Zvonimir Sipus, Marko Bosiljevac

Efficient Analysis of Mutual Coupling in Periodic and Non-Periodic Printed Antenna Arrays...........................................................220David Gonzalez-Ovejero, Francisco Mesa, Christophe Craeye, R. R. Boix

Novel Topology of Fabry-Perot Electronically Steerable Leaky-Wave Antenna....................................................................................224Raul Guzman-Quiros, Jose Luis Gomes-Tornero, Maria Garcia-Vigueras, Andrew R. Weily, Y. Jay Guo

Flexible Pattern Synthesis with SIW LWAs ................................................................................................................................................229A. Martinez-Ros, J. Gomez-Tornero, G. Goussetis

Near-Field Focusing with Holographic Two-Dimensional Tapered Leaky-Wave Slot Antennas .........................................................234J. Gomez-Tornero, A. Martinez-Ros, N. Llombart

Phase Centre Of Fabry-Pérot Cavity Antennas: Leaky-Wave Model And Analytical Formulas.........................................................239P. Burghignoli

Flat Leaky-Wave Lenses................................................................................................................................................................................243G. Minatti, F. Caminita, S. Maci

Efficiently Illuminated Broadside-Directed 1D and 2D Tapered Fabry-Perot Leaky-Wave Antennas ...............................................247M. Garcia-Vigueras, P. Delara-Guarch, J. L. Gomez-Tornero, R. Guzman-Quiros, G. Goussetis

Broadside Radiation From Radial Arrays of Substrate Integrated Leaky-Wave Antennas .................................................................252Alejandro Javier Martinez-Ros, Jose Luis Gomez-Tornero, George Goussetis

Circularly Polarized Leaky Wave Antenna Without Phase Shifter Using CRLH Transmission Line ................................................255Kazuhiro Kitatani, Yoshiki Mitsuhata, Yasuyuki Okamura

Computational Aspects for the Accurate and Efficient Analysis of Periodic Planar Leaky-Wave Antennas .....................................260G. Valerio, S. Paulotto, D. R. Jackson, D. R. Wilton, P. Baccarelli, A. Galli

Recent Advances in the Modeling of Periodic Leaky-Wave Antennas Scanning Through Broadside .................................................263Simon Otto, Klaus Solbach, Christophe Caloz

A Study of Planar Leaky-Wave Antenna Designs Fed by Practical Surface-Wave Launchers ............................................................265S. K. Podilchak, A. P. Freundorfer, Y. M. M. Antar

Analysis and Design of Leaky Wave Antennas (LWA) Based on Dielectric Filled Waveguides ...........................................................267J. C. Vardaxoglou, M. Padilla Pardo, R. D. Seager

A Domain Decomposition Approach to the Radiation From Sources Localized Within Complex Structures ...................................269V. Lancellotti, B. Hon, A. Tijhuis

Generalized Equivalence Integral Equations ..............................................................................................................................................274A. Boag, V. Lomakin

Fast-Factorization Acceleration of MoM Domain-Decomposition: SFX-AIM and General .................................................................276A. Freni, P. Vita, P. Pirinoli, L. Mateskovits, G. Vecchi

A Comparison of the Computational Resources Required by a Domain Decomposition Approach and Other Efficient Numerical Techniques Based on the Moment Method...............................................................................................................278

Carlos Delgado, Eliseo Garcia, Ivan Gonzalez, Leticia Hernandez, Felipe Catedra

Scattering Matrix Domain Decomposition Method Formalized with Different Wave Propagators ....................................................283Enrica Martini, Cristian Della Giovampaola, Alberto Toccafondi, Stefano Maci

A New De-embedding Technique for the Analysis of Printed Circuits and Antennas Based on the Characteristic Basis Function Method ..................................................................................................................................................................................286

Raj Mittra, Giacomo Bianconi, Chiara Pelletti, Kai Du, Agostino Monorchio

On the Influence of Domain Extensions and the Relaxation Parameter on Spatial Domain Decomposition Methods ......................288Jaime Laviada, Marcos R. Pino, Fernando Las-Heras

Fast Spectral-Domain MBF Method for Printed Antennas.......................................................................................................................292Shambhu Nath Jha, Christophe Craeye

Hierarchical EM Preconditioners with Spectral Domain Partitioning ....................................................................................................296Francesco P. Andriulli

Issues in Compressive Domain Decomposition for Integral Equations....................................................................................................299M. A. Francavilla, M. Righero, F. Vipiana, O. Terzo, P. Ruiu, L. Mossucca, G. Vecchi

Antenna Correlation From Input Parameters for Arbitrary Topologies and Terminations ................................................................303Osama N. Alrabadi, J. Bach Andersen, Gert F. Pedersen

Excitation of an Anisotropic Plasma Medium by an Antenna ..................................................................................................................306Nabil Ben Hsouna, Marc Thevenot, David Carsenat, Thierry Monediere, Marc Gonich

Evaluation of the Norton Equations for the Development of Body-Centric Propagation Models ........................................................311M. Grimm, D. Manteuffel

Influence of the Human Body on a New Coplanar-fed Ultra-Wideband Antenna .................................................................................316M. Koohestani, N. Pires, A. Skrivervik, A. Moreira

First Results of Rain Spatial Parameters Analyses for Optical Links......................................................................................................320Stanislav Zvanovec, Pavel Pechac

The Impact of Liquid Water Content on Free Space Optical Propagation .............................................................................................323Laszlo Csurgai-Horvath, Janos Bito, Petr Pesice, Ondrej Fiser

Prediction of Cloud Attenuation on Earth-space Optical Links ...............................................................................................................326Carlo Capsoni, Lorenzo Luini, Roberto Nebuloni

Characterization of Hydrometeor Scattering Effects and Experimental Measurements Using Near-Infrared Free-Space Urban Links .........................................................................................................................................................................................330

F. S. Marzano, P. Nocito, S. Mori, F. Frezza, P. Lucantoni, M. Ferrara, E. Restuccia, G. M. Tosi Beleffi

Restricted Beam Analysis for FSO Links ....................................................................................................................................................335Juraj Poliak, Jiri Komrska, Otakar Wilfert

Microdosimetry for Ultrashort Electric Pulses: a Literature Review ......................................................................................................340Caterina Merla, Alessandra Paffi, Francesca Apollonio, Micaela Liberti

Numerical Simulations Aided Development of Nanosecond Pulse Electroporators ...............................................................................344Matej Kranjc, Matej Rebersek, Damijan Miklavcic

Nanopulses and Their Applications: Permeabilisation to Bleomycin Molecules by 10 Ns Duration Electric Pulses in a Tumor Model in Vivo..................................................................................................................................................................................348

Aude Silve, Isabelle Leray, Bassim Al-Sakere, Lluis M. Mir

Generators and Applicators for Nanosecond Pulsed Electric Field .........................................................................................................351Philippe Leveque, Delia Arnaud-Cormos

Electroporation Mechanism: Review of Molecular Models Based on Computer Simulation ...............................................................356F. Apollonio, M. Liberti, P. Marracino, Lluis Mir

Dual-parameter Concentric Ring RA Elements .........................................................................................................................................359B. Ha, P. Pirinoli, R. Zich, M. Mussetta

Wideband Reflectarray Antenna Based on Miniaturized Element Frequency Selective Surfaces .......................................................362Arezou Edalati, Kamal Sarabandi

Harvesting RF Energy with Rectenna Arrays ............................................................................................................................................365Jingwei Zhang, Yi Huang, Ping Cao

Performance Evaluation of Diversity Antennas in Multipath Environments of Finite Richness..........................................................368N. Jamaly, M. Ifikhar, Y. Rahmat-Samii

Multiplexing Efficiency of MIMO Antennas in Arbitrary Propagation Scenarios ................................................................................373Ruiyuan Tian, Buon Kiong Lau, Zhinong Ying

Impact of Total Efficiency of Multiple Element Antennas on Diversity and Capacity ..........................................................................378Jane X. Yun, Rodney G. Vaughan

Correlation Measurements on Small Mobile Devices.................................................................................................................................382B. Yanakiev, J. Nielsen, M. Christensen, G. Pedersen

A Multilayered Coaxial Feed Model ............................................................................................................................................................386Guy A. E. Vandenbosch, Vladimir Volski

On Increasing Capabilities of GPU In-Core Solver Applied to Method of Moments ............................................................................391D. Zoric, D. Olcan, B. Kolundzija

Near Field Excitation of Artificial Dielectric Layers: Field Distributions and Electrical Properties ...................................................395Waqas H. Syed, Andrea Neto

Microstrip CAD Models Including Surface Wave Coupling.....................................................................................................................398Andreas R. Diewald

Novel CPW Power Divider Based on Resonators .......................................................................................................................................402German Leon, Luis Fernando Herran, Fernando Las Heras

Rectangular Waveguide to Coplanar Stripline Transition Based on a Unilateral Finline ....................................................................405Mahmoud Al Henawy, Martin Schneider

A Miniaturised V-Band 4×4 Butler Matrix SiGe MMIC...........................................................................................................................410Jian Zhang, Vincent Fusco

Analytical Model of a Printed Transition for SIW Antennas....................................................................................................................414M. Morote, B. Fuchs, J. Mosig

A New Power Divider Architecture for Suspended Strip Line .................................................................................................................418Jean-Francois Zurcher, Rafal Glogowski, Juan R. Mosig

Carrier Frequency Characteristic of Time-Spatial Profile in Outdoor LOS Environments .................................................................423Hideki Omote, Yosuke Sugita, Yoshichika Ohta, Teruya Fujii

Directional Channel Characteristics in Elevation and Azimuth at an Urban Macrocell Base Station ................................................428J. Medbo, H. Asplund, J. Berg, N. Jalden

Channel Measurements and Analysis for Very Large Array Systems At 2.6 GHz ................................................................................433Sohail Payami, Fredrik Tufvesson

Channel Capacity Estimation Method for 2 x 2 MIMO Considering Received Power Imbalance and Antenna Correlation ......................................................................................................................................................................................................438

Shinobu Nanba, Yuki Hirota, Yoji Kishi

Channel Extrapolation Based on Wideband MIMO Measurements .......................................................................................................442N. Jalden, H. Asplund, J. Medbo

Impact of Rician Fading on the Orthogonality of Dual-Polarized Macrocellular Channels .................................................................447Ruiyuan Tian, Buon Kiong Lau, Jonas Medbo

Simulation of the Coverage Probability of Femtocell Using the Padé Approximant..............................................................................452Josiane C. Rodrigues, Simone G. C. Fraiha, Jasmine Araujo, Herminio S. Gomes, C. Renato L. Frances, Gervasio P. S. Cavalcante

Analysis of Antenna Diversity Performance Dependence on Multi-Antenna Channel Delay Spread in Reverberation Chamber ................................................................................................................................................................................456

M. A. Garcia-Fernandez, N. Arsalane, M. Mouhamadou, D. Carsenat, C. Decroze, T. Monediere

The DMC Contribution in the Human Absorption in an Indoor Environment......................................................................................460Aliou Bamba, Wout Joseph, Gunter Vermeeren, Emmeric Tanghe, Luc Martens Ghent

Spatial Correlation of Receive Antennas of Indoor Static Mobile Terminal...........................................................................................463T. Fujii, Y. Ohta

Analyzing Human Body Shadowing at 60 GHz: Systematic Wideband MIMO Measurements and Modeling Approaches......................................................................................................................................................................................................468

M. Peter, M. Wisotzki, M. Racaela-Motoc, W. Keusgen, R. Felbecker, M. Jacob, S. Priebe, T. Kurner

Characterization of 60 GHz Shadowing by Human Bodies and Simple Phantoms ................................................................................473Carl Gustafson, Fredrik Tufvesson

The Impact of Antenna Directivities on THz Indoor Channel Characteristics.......................................................................................478Sebastian Priebe, Martin Jacob, Thomas Kurner

Affection of THz Indoor Communication Links by Antenna Misalignment ...........................................................................................483S. Priebe, M. Jacob, T. Kurner

Electromagnetic Wave Propagation in the Millimeter Wave Band Using the NVIDIA OptiX GPU Ray Tracing Engine ..............................................................................................................................................................................................................488

Robert Felbecker, Leszek Raschkowski, Wilhelm Keusgen, Michael Peter

A MATLAB-based Tool for Visualizing the Plane Wave Propagation in Multilayer Structures Containing Metamaterials .................................................................................................................................................................................................493

Marcin Wielichowski, Juan R. Mosig

Frequency and Path Length Scaling Based on Long-Term Statistics of Rain Attenuation on Terrestrial Paths at 38 GHz and 58 GHz.............................................................................................................................................................................................497

Vaclav Kvicera, Martin Grabner, Ondrej Fiser

On the Estimation of Rain Attenuation Channels in Millimeter Wave Radio Networks.......................................................................500V. Sakarellos, D. Skraparlis, A. Panagopoulos, J. Kanellopoulos

Analysis of 15-Months Rain Rate Measurements At NTUA Campus ......................................................................................................505C. Kourogiorgas, A. Panagopoulos, N. Moraitis, J. Kanellopoulos, S. Livieratos, G. Chatzarakis

Improving Connectivity in Indoor Millimeter Wave Wireless Networks Using Diversity Reception ..................................................510Georgios T. Pitsiladis, Athanasios D. Panagopoulos, Phillip Constantinou

BAN Shadowing Properties of an Arm-Waving Dynamic Phantom ........................................................................................................515Koichi Ogawa, Kazuhiro Honda

Parallel FDTD Simulations for WBAN Channel Characterization Using Different Body Models.......................................................520Tero Uusitupa

Modeling of Delay Profiles Around the Human Body in Arbitrary Environments................................................................................525Masato Koiwai, Hironobu Yamamoto, Takehiko Kobayashi

Scatterer Localization in Hospital Rooms At 60 GHz ................................................................................................................................530Katsuyuki Haneda, Kenichi Takizawa, Mikko Kyro, Hiroaki Hagiwara, Pertti Vainikainen

Diversity Performance of UWB Low Band Communication over In-body to On-body Propagation Channel...................................535Jingjing Shi, Daisuke Anzai, Jianqing Wang

The Utilization of Body Skeleton Model for Modeling the Dynamic BAN Channels .............................................................................540Iswangi, Takahiro Aoyagi, Minseok Kim, Junichi Takada

Simulation for Wearable Body Area Network by Multipole Technique At 403 MHz............................................................................544Takahiro Aoyagi, Jun-Ichi Takada

Link Correlation Property in WBAN At 2.4 GHz by Multi-link Channel Measurement......................................................................548Minseok Kim, Karma Wangchuk, Jun-Ichi Takada

Design of a Radio System for Capsule Endoscopy Through a Pathloss Analysis ...................................................................................553Kenichi Takizawa, Hiroaki Hagiwara, Kiyoshi Hamaguchi

Feasibility Study of 60 GHz Radio Systems in Hospital Environments ...................................................................................................557Mikko Kyro, Kenichi Takizawa, Katsuyuki Haneda, Hiroaki Hagiwara, Pertti Vainikainen

New Measurements of Atmospheric Continuum for Refinement of Millimeter Wave Propagation Models ......................................562Evgeny Serov, Maxim Koshelev, Vladimir Parshin, Mikhail Tretyakov

Atmospheric Attenuation At 100 and 300 GHz Estimated with Radiosonde Data .................................................................................567Gustavo A. Siles, Jose M. Riera, Pedro Garcia-Del-Pino

Accuracy Assesment of Material Measurements with a Quasi-Optical Free-Space Test Bench...........................................................572E. Saenz, L. Rolo, K. Van'T Klooster, M. Paquay, V. V. Parshin

Emission Spectroscopic Measurement in Fabry-Perot Resonator - Different Methods of Spectra Evaluation ..................................577Petr Cerny, Vaclav Kabourek, Stanislav Zvanovec, Petr Piksa, Tomas Korinek

Variations of Ozone Microwave Emission From the Mesosphere At Heating a Lower Ionosphere Powerful HF Radio Waves....................................................................................................................................................................................................581

Yuri Kulikov, Vladimir Frolov

Three-Mirror Resonator Reflectivity Measurement of Plane and Grooved Surfaces: Setup, Options, Results .................................585W. Kasparek, E. Holzhauer, H. Kumric, B. Plaum, R. Wacker, A. Zeitler, G. Gantenbein

Reflectors Reflectivity of the MADRAS Spaceborne Radiometer ............................................................................................................590Laurent Costes, Carlos Montesano Benito

Use the Feature of Atmospheric Millimeter Wave Emission for Remote Sounding of Earth Cover ....................................................595A. A. Shvetsov

Precise Measurements of Materials and Media in the mm/sub-mm Ranges ...........................................................................................598V. V. Parshin, E. A. Serov, C. G. M. Van'T Klooster

Descriptor Choice for UWB Antenna Arrays .............................................................................................................................................603Vit Sipal, David Edwards, Bell Allen

Comparative Analysis of Dual-band Array Radiator Interactions in Rectangular and Triangular Grids .........................................607Ezhil Valavan A. Shenario, Massimiliano Simeoni, Alexander Yarovoy

Analysis of the Strut and Feed Blockage Effects in Radio Telescopes with Compact UWB Feeds.......................................................611W. C. Liao, M. V. Ivashina, P. S. Kildal, A. Van Ardenne

SKA AA-low Front-End Developments - (At Cambridge University) .....................................................................................................616Eloy De Lera Acedo, Nima Razavi Ghods, Paul Scott, Peter Doherty, Keith Grainge, Andrew Faulkner, Paul Alexander, Nick Drought, Nick Troop, David Gonzalez-Ovejero, Christopher Raucy, Christopher Craeye, Paul Van Der Merwe, Howard C. Reader

Development of the Cryogenic 2-14 GHz Eleven Feed System for VLBI2010 ........................................................................................621Jian Yang, Miroslav Panteleev, Terese Ekebrand, Per-Simon Kildal, Hasan Raza, Jungang Yin, Jan Jonsson, Leif Helldner, Anders Emrich, Benjamin Klein

Novel Printed UWB Array Based on a Versatile and Low-Cost Antenna Configuration......................................................................626A. Galli, S. Mazzocchi, G. Valerio, M. Ciattaglia, M. Zucca

EMBRACE: Results From an Aperture Array for Radio Astronomy.....................................................................................................629P. Benthem, G. W. Kant

Experimental Evaluation of Polarimetric Beamformers for an L-band Phased Array Feed................................................................634W. A. Van Cappellen, S. J. Wijnholds, L. Bakker

Low-Profile Wide-Band Wide-Angle-Scan Antenna Array Element .......................................................................................................638Leopoldo Infante, Stefano Mosca, Mario Teglia

Broadband Dual Polarised Planar Aperture Arrays for Wide Field of View Applications...................................................................643Anthony K. Brown, Yongwei Zhang

Some Investigations on New Optimization Techniques for EM Problems ..............................................................................................647L. Teagno, D. Tonella, P. Pirinoli

Advanced Modeling of Choke Ring Antennas for Mm-Wave Applications ............................................................................................650S. Steshenko, A. A. Kirilenko, A. V. Boriskin, M. Zhadobov, R. Sauleau

Fabry-Perot-like Resonances in the E-polarized Electromagnetic Plane Wave Scattering and Absorption by a Thin Dielectric Strip ................................................................................................................................................................................................655

O. Shapoval, R. Sauleau, A. Nosich

Full-Wave Modeling of Antennas by Elementary Sources Based on Spherical Waves Translation ....................................................659Juan F. Izquierdo, Jesus Rubio, M. A. Gonzalez

Numerical Solution of a Non-Linear Maxwell Problem for the Characterization of Nematic Liquid Crystals ..................................664N. C. Papanicolaou, A. C. Polucarpou, M. A. Christou

UTD Computation for NURBS Surfaces .....................................................................................................................................................669M. Balasubramanian, A. Toccafondi, S. Maci

Transmitters with Multi-Radiation Sources for Electromagnetic Ray Tracing .....................................................................................673Robert Brem, Thomas F. Eibert

Comparison of Approximate Models of Horizontal ...................................................................................................................................678V. Arnautovskik-Toseva, K. Drissi, K. Kerroum, L. Grcev

Resonant Scattering of Light by Finite Sparse Configurations of Silver Nanowires..............................................................................683D. Natarov, R. Sauleau, A. Nosich

A Modified RC-FDTD Algorithm for Plasmonics in Drude Dispersive Media Nanostructures ...........................................................687A. Lesina, A. Vaccari, A. Bozzoli

Mode Matching Method for the Analysis of Substrate Integrated Waveguides .....................................................................................691M. Casaletti, R. Sauleau, S. Maci, M. Ettorre

Strongly Near-Singular Integral Evaluation for Curvilinear Elements ...................................................................................................695F. Vipiana, D. R. Wilton, W. A. Johnson

Volumetric Integral Equation Techniques for Plasmonic Applications...................................................................................................697G. A. E. Vandenbosch, V. Volski, Z. Ma, X. Zheng, N. Verellen, V. K. Valev, V. V. Moshchalkov

Efficient Evaluation of MoM Matrix Elements Using CPU and/or GPU ................................................................................................702Branko M. Kolundzija, Dusan P. Zoric

Discretization of the Electric-Magnetic Field Integral Equation with the Divergence Taylor-Orthogonal Basis Functions Free From the Magnetic-Field and the Electric-Field Low-Frequency Breakdowns...........................................................707

Eduard Ubeda, Jose M. Tamayo, Juan M. Rius

Analytical Approach to Mutual Coupling Between Dipole Antennas in the Presence of a Semi-Infinite Ground Plane.................................................................................................................................................................................................................712

Hatem Rmili, Lyazid Aberbour, Stefano Maci, Christophe Craeye

Efficient Computation of Periodic, Layered Media Green’s Functions ...................................................................................................716D. R. Wilton, D. R. Jackson, F. C. Celepcikay

Real Axis Integration of Sommerfeld Integrals with Error Estimation ...................................................................................................719Ioannis D. Koufogiannis, Athanasios G. Polimeridis, Michael Matters, Juan R. Mosig

A Rigorous Integral Approach for Conductor Losses Modelling in RLSA Antennas ...........................................................................724A. Mazzinghi, A. Freni, A. Albani

Current and Charge Integral Equation .......................................................................................................................................................725Felipe Vico-Bondia, Miguel Ferrando-Bataller, Alejandro Valero-Nogueira, Daniel Sanchez-Escuderos

Switchable on/off-body Communication At 2.45GHz Using Textile Microstrip Patch Antenna on Stripline .....................................728Richard J. Langley, Keneth L. Ford, Hyung-Joo Lee

Indoor Off-Body Wireless Communication Using Static Zero-Elevation Beamforming on Front and Back Textile Antenna Arrays ..............................................................................................................................................................................................732

Patrick Van Torre, Luigi Vallozzi, Hendrik Rogier, Jo Verhaevert

MHz-Band Human Centric Communication Technology Using Near-Field Coupling Mechanism.....................................................737Yuichi Kado, Tatsuya Kusunoki, Taku Kobase, Masashi Takahashi, Hitoshi Shimasaki, Mitsuru Shinagawa

A Small Tunable and Wearable Planar Inverted-F Antenna (PIFA).......................................................................................................742C. H. Lin, Z. Li, K. Ito, M. Takahashi, K. Saito

Detuning Issues and Performance of a Novel Implantable Antenna for Telemetry Applications ........................................................746Asimina Kiourti, Konstantina S. Nikita

Numerical and Experimental Analysis of the On-Body Propagation Channel At W Band...................................................................750A. Pellegrini, A. Brizzi, L. Zhang, Y. Hao

RSSI-based Environment Identification for 2.45 GHz Body Area Networks .........................................................................................755Bernhard H. E. Altvater, Sean F. Heaney, Simon L. Cotton, Arjan Meijerink, Mark J. Bentum, William G. Scanlon

E-fiber Electronics for Body-Worn Devices ................................................................................................................................................760Lanlin Zhang, Zheyu Wang, Dimitris Psychoudakis, John L. Volakis

Zip Based Monopole Antenna for Wearable Communication Systems ...................................................................................................762M. Mantash, A. C. Tarot, S. Collardey, K. Mahdjoubi

Differentially-fed UWB Slot Antenna for Direct Board Integration ........................................................................................................765Antoine Dumoulin, Max J. Ammann

Quad-ridge Dual Polarized Antenna for Use in the 2-32GHz Band .........................................................................................................769A. Giacomini, A. Potenza, R. Morbidini, L. Foged

Robust Design of UWB Antennas Using Response Surface Approximations and Manifold Mapping ................................................773Slawomir Koziel, Stanislav Ogurtsov

Wideband Reflector for Archimedean Spiral Antenna..............................................................................................................................776Christopher Djoma, Xavier Begaud, Anne Claire Lepage, Stephane Mallegol, Michel Jousset

Wedge-Shaped Dual Planar Log-Periodic Antenna with Enhanced Directivity for WiMAX Applications ........................................781Stamatios A. Amanatiadis, Antonios X. Lalas, Nikolaos V. Kantartzis

Loop-to-loop Pulsed Electromagnetic Field Wireless Signal Transfer.....................................................................................................786Ioan E. Lager, Adrianus T. De Hoop

Investigation of Penetration Ability of UWB Antennas in Near-field Sensing Applications .................................................................791Aidin Razavi, Jian Yang

Naturally Non-Selective Handset Antennas with Good Robustness Against Impedance Mistuning....................................................796Risto Valkonen, Janne Ilvonen, Pertti Vainikainen

High Gain and Broadband Ultra Low Profile EBG Antenna for High Power and Electronic Warfare Applications .......................801Moustapha Salah Toubet, Regis Chantalat, Mohamad Hajj, Bernard Jecko, Jean Christophe Diot

Multiple Sector Ring Monopole Antennas...................................................................................................................................................804O. Losito, M. Bozzetti, V. Dimiccoli, D. Barletta

A CPSS-Based Reflectarray Cell with Reconfigurable Capabilities ........................................................................................................808S. Mener, R. Gillard, R. Sauleau, C. Cheymol, P. Potier

Modelling and Numerical Analysis of Rotating Antennas and Rotating Scatterers Applied to Aeronautical System Simulations ......................................................................................................................................................................................................812

Gerhard Greving, Wolf-Dieter Biermann, Rolf Mundt

Comparison Between Scrimp Horns and Stacked Fabry-Perot Cavity Antennas with Small Apertures............................................817S. A. Muhammad, A. Rolland, S. H. Dahlan, R. Sauleau, H. Legay

New Multi-Layer Millimetre-Wave Folded Reflectarray Antennas for Satellite Communications .....................................................821D. Zhou, C. Zhang, S. Gao, T. Chaloun, W. Menzel, V. Ziegler

Pointing Accuracy and Gain Reduction Mechanisms in CP Retrodirective Arrays for SATCOM Applications...............................825Oleksandr Malyuskin, Vincent Fusco

Dynamic Analysis and Experiment of Deployable Truss Structure for Reflector Antenna ..................................................................827Hongwei Guo, Rongqiang Liu, Zongquan Deng, Dake Tian

Isophoric Sparse Arrays: a Synthesis Procedure for Circularly Symmetric Shaped Beams ................................................................832O. Bucci, T. Isernia, A. Morabito, S. Perna, D. Pinchera

Deployable Antennas for CubeSat and Space Communications...............................................................................................................837J. Costantine, Y. Tawk, A. Ernest, C. Christodoulou

Design of Low Scattering Posts for Dual Gridded Reflector Antennas....................................................................................................841Mathieu Riel, Yves Demers, Alexander Ihle, Jean-Louis Lopes, Jean-Christophe Angevain

Struts Scattering Effects on High Performance Spacecraft Antenna.......................................................................................................846R. Ravanelli, V. Lubrano, C. Iannicelli

Computational Electromagnetics: Commercial State-Of-The-Art and Scientific Road Map ...............................................................850Guy A. E. Vandenbosch, Francesca Mioc

State of the Art of Electromagnetic Modelling in FEKO ...........................................................................................................................853Ulrich Jakobus, Gronum Smith

New Modelling Capabilities in Commercial Software for High-Gain Antennas ....................................................................................855Erik Jorgensen, Michael Lumholt, Peter Meincke, Min Zhou, Stig B. Sorensen, Oscar Borries, Cecilia Cappellin, Poul Erik Frandsen

Millimeter-wave Microstrip-feeding Broadband Aperture Antennas in Multi-layer Configuration ...................................................860Kunio Sakakibara, Hiroki Hori, Nobuyoshi Kikuma, Hiroshi Hirayama

Accurate Modeling of Antennas Using Variable-Fidelity EM Simulations and Co-Kriging .................................................................865Slawomir Koziel, Stanislav Ogurtsov, Ivo Couckuyt, Tom Dhaene

Factorization of Gaussian Coupling Efficiency and Algorithm to Compute It .......................................................................................868Yogesh Karandikar

Circularly Polarized Reflectarray Antenna for Satellite Broadcasting Reception .................................................................................873Shigeru Makino, Yukihiro Yoshida, Kosuke Okada, Shusuke Sasaki, Shin-Ichi Betsudan, Kenji Itoh, Keisuke Noguchi, Tetsuo Hirota, Toru Takahashi

Analysis of 60 GHz Flip-Chipped Package Using EM Tool-based Time-Domain Reflectometry .........................................................878M. I. Kazim, M. H. A. J. Herben

The Evaluation of Total Radiation Q Based on Modal Approach ............................................................................................................883Miloslav Capek, Pavel Hazdra, Jan Eichler, Pavel Hamouz, Milos Mazanek, Veronika Sobotikova

Designing Microwave Patch Antennas Using Heterogeneous Substrates ................................................................................................886Chinwe C. Njoku, William G. Whittow, Yiannis C. Vardaxoglou

Compliance Boundaries for LTE Base Station Antennas at 2600 MHz...................................................................................................889Arno Thielens, Gunter Vermeeren, Divya Kurup, Wout Joseph, Luc Martens

Focal Plane Arrays for THz Imaging ...........................................................................................................................................................893Annalisa Iacono, Carlo Bencivenni, Angelo Freni, Andrea Neto, Giampiero Gerini

Design of a Novel 3D Circular Vivaldi Antennas Array for Ultra-Wideband Near-Field Radar Imaging .........................................898K. Alkahalifeh, R. Sarkis, C. Craeye

Leaky Wave Structure Based on Two Spiraphase-Type Reconfigurable Reflectarrays........................................................................902A. Martynyuk, D. Sesena-Martinez, A. Martinez-Lopez

Study on Microstrip X-Linear Polarized and X-Circular Polarized Antenna ........................................................................................907M. Aziz, N. Mufit, M. Suaidi, A. Salleh, M. Misran, M. Rahim

Modern Electromagnetic Simulation Tools Applied to On-aircraft Antenna Integration ....................................................................912F. Jimenez, M. Sendarrubias, J. Moreno, E. Gil

Examining the Energetic Contribution of Reflectarray Cells Using Circuit Model and Full-wave Simulations ................................917Y. Abdallah, C. Menudier, M. Thevenot, T. Monediere

2.45 GHz Printed IFA on Metallic Environments: Clearance Distance and Returning Considerations .............................................921F. Cascado, A. Arriola, E. Arruti, J. Parron, I. Ortego, I. Sancho

Impact of Random Number Generators on the Performance of Particle Swarm Optimization in Antenna Design ..........................925Z. Ma, G. Vandenbosch

A Simple and Fast Technique to Analyze Accurately Reconfigurable Reflectarrays ............................................................................930C. Yann, R. Loison, R. Gillard, M. Labeyrie, J. Martinaud

A Field Assessment of HF/VHF Wire Antenna Impedance Changes in Rain Forests............................................................................934M. Dias, M. Melo, P. Farias, H. Sa, A. Marques, L. Moreira

Pulse Shaping for Time-Domain Microwave Breast Tumour Detection: Experiments with Realistic Tissue Phantoms .........................................................................................................................................................................................................939

A. Santorelli, E. Porter, M. Popovic, J. Schwartz

Improvement of the Ear-to-Ear Path Gain At 2:45 GHz Using Parasitic Antenna Element ................................................................944S. Kvist, S. Ozden, J. Thaysen, K. Jakobsen

An Ultrabroadband Direction Finding Antenna Including the GSM and UMTS Frequency Bands ...................................................948R. Mueller, R. Lorch

Numerical Modeling of the Area of Phase Shifter Operation of the Azimuthally Magnetized Circular Ferrite Waveguide .......................................................................................................................................................................................................952

M. Georgieva-Grosse, G. Georgiev

Closely Coupled Half-Width Leaky-Wave Antenna Array .......................................................................................................................957G. Cheng, C. Tzuang

Lumped-element Unit Cell for Designing Beam Forming Networks........................................................................................................961E. Gandini, M. Ettorre, R. Sauleau, A. Grbic

Analysis on Wireless Power Transfer to Moving Devices Based on Array of Resonators .....................................................................964B. Wang, D. Ellstein, K. Teo

Design and Characterization of W-band Components in Planar Technology ........................................................................................968A. Rebollo, I. Maestrojuan, B. Larumbe-Gonzalo, R. Gonzalo, I. Ederra

60 GHz Triangular Monopole Antenna-on-Chip Over an Artificial Magnetic Conductor ...................................................................972A. Barakat, A. Allam, R. Pokharel, H. Elsadek, M. El-Sayed, K. Yoshida

Mutual Coupling of Elliptical Microstrip Resonators................................................................................................................................977Mariusz Pergol Gdansk, Wlodzimierz Zieniutycz

New Feeding Principle for Slot Antennas ....................................................................................................................................................980Wolf-Stefan Benedix, Stefan Albrecht, Dirk Plettemeier

Application of Loop-Star and Loop-Tree Basis Functions to MoM Solution of Radiation and Scattering Problems on Complicated Surface and Wire Geometries From Low to Microwave Frequencies .........................................................................985

Faik Bogdanov, Roman Jobava, Anna Gheonjian, Khatuna Khasaia

Reduction of High-Order Modes Coupling on Bends in the Dielectric-Coated Single Wire Waveguide.............................................990Antonio Berenguer, Mariano Baquero-Escudero, Daniel Sanchez-Escuderos, Miguel Ferrando-Bataller

Comparative of Surface Integral Equation Formulations When Applied to Plasmonic Problems ......................................................995M. G. Araujo, D. M. Solis, J. M. Taboada, J. Rivero, L. Landesa, F. Obelleiro, J. O. Rubinos

Theoretical Study of Symmetric and Antysymmetric Plasmons in Chains of Coupled Plasma Cylinders ..........................................999Nadiia Stognii, Nataliya Sakhnenko

Application of GPU Computing to the Characteristic Basis Function Method ....................................................................................1003Juan Ignacio Perez, Eliseo Garcia, Jose A. De Frutos, J. Ramon Almagro, M. Felipe Catedra

High Power Terahertz Photomixer Arrays ...............................................................................................................................................1007Belen Andres-Garcia, Luis-Enrique Garcia-Munoz, Daniel Segovia-Vargas, Sebastien Bauerschmidt, Gottfield Dohler, Sascha Preu, Stefan Malzer, Hong Lu, Arthur C. Gossard

On-body Directional Antenna Design for In-body UWB Wireless Communication ............................................................................1011Qiong Wang, Ronny Hahnel, Hui Zhang, Dirk Plettemeier

60 GHz Microstrip Antenna Array on PTFE Substrate ..........................................................................................................................1016Alexander Bondarik, Daniel Sjoberg

Combination of “circuit” and “cavity” Models for the Determination of Multifaceted Patches Impedance ....................................1019Walid El Hajj, Francois Gallee, Christian Person

Compact Orthomode Power Divider for High-Efficiency Dual-Polarisation Rectangular Horn Antennas ......................................1024Nelson J. G. Fonseca, Peter Rinous

A Simple Target Tracking Architecture for Wireless Communication Applications ..........................................................................1028Hantao Xu, Hadi Aliakbarian, Guy A. E. Vandenbosch, Vladimir Volski

Large-scale Plasmonic Problems Solved with the Multilevel Fast Multipole Algorithm .....................................................................1033M. G. Araujo, J. M. Taboada, J. Rivero, D. M. Solis, F. Obelleiro, L. Landesa

Time-Effective and Accurate Synthesis of Large-Aperture Slotted Waveguide Antennas..................................................................1036S. S. Sekretarov, A. V. Somov, D. M. Vavriv

Parametric Statistical Modeling of Power Gain Patterns for RFID Backscattering Channels ...........................................................1041Zeinab Mhanna, Alain Sibille, Muhammad Amir Yousuf, Christophe Roblin

Evolution of an UWB Antenna for Hyperthermia Array Applicator ....................................................................................................1046Hana Dobsicek Trefna, Azeem Imtiaz, Hoi-Shun Lui, Tonny Rubaek, Mikael Persson

Trihexagonal Switched-Beam Tx-only Ku-band Terminal Antenna for Mobile Satellite Applications ............................................1049Frederic Bongard, Daniel Llorens Del Rio, Maria Carolina Vigano, Stefano Vaccaro

Time Domain Simulation of THZ Photoconductive Antennas ................................................................................................................1054E. Moreno-Perez, M. F. Pantoja, S. G. Garcia, A. Rubio Bretones, R. Gomez Martin

Study of an Electronic Steering Antenna with a Staggered Phase Shifter Configuration ...................................................................1058Alvaro Noval Sanchez De Toca, Javier Garcia-Gasco Trujillo, Manuel Sierra Perez

Antenna Coupling in Multi Active Multi Passive Port Topologies .........................................................................................................1063Osama N. Alrabadi, Gert F. Pedersen

A Practical Approach to Array Antenna Design ......................................................................................................................................1066Bengt Svensson

Calculation of Fingerprints of Typical Antipersonnel Landmines by Varying the Observation Point and Incidence Angles of Excitations ....................................................................................................................................................................................1068

Isam Alawneh, Christian Beine, Peter Edenhofer

Analysis of Monopole Antenna Over a Ground Plane by a Meshless Local Petrov-Galerkin Method ..............................................1072Ramon Dornelas Soares, Renato Cardoso Mesquita, Fernando Jose Da Silva Moreira

Improved Axial Ratio Quality for Radio Telescope Applications with a Phased Array Feed.............................................................1077Abolghasem Zamanifekri, A. Bart Smolders, Chunzhou Zhang, Michel Arts, Wim A. Van Cappellen

Method for Accurately Solving the Scattering in Planar Reflectarrays Under an Arbitrary Excitation...........................................1081G. Perez-Palomino, J. A. Encinar, M. Barba

Ground-based Reflector Antennas Observed with Space-based Synthetic Aperture Radar ..............................................................1086Kees Van'T Klooster, Bjorn Rommen, Felipe Catedra

Evaluation of Homogeneity of SAR Distribution of Array of TEM Mode Applicators .......................................................................1091Barbora Vrbova, Jan Vrba

Measuring the Delfi-C3 Satellite Using the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope............................................................................1095M. J. Bentum, J. Van Der Marel, C. J. M. Verhoeven, J. Leijtens

A TEM Cell System for In Vivo Exposure at 2.45 GHz ...........................................................................................................................1099Alessandra Paffi, Micaela Liberti, Fabio Fratta, Francesca Apollonio, Caterina Merla, Rosanna Pinto, Giorgio Lovisolo

The User’s Body Effects on Decoupling Networks for Compact MIMO Handsets ..............................................................................1102Alexandru Tatomirescu, Mauro Pelosi, Ondrej Franek, Gert F. Pedersen

Circularly Polarized Ka-Band Waveguide Slot Array with Low Sidelobes ..........................................................................................1105Doganay Dogan, Can Baris Top

Performance of a Custom and a Commercial Mesh Generator in the Simulation of a Microstrip Circuit.......................................1110Tomasz A. Linkowski, Piotr M. Slobodzian

Detection of an Object in a Reverberant Environment Using Direct and Differential Time Reversal ..............................................1115P. Sundaralingam, V. Fusco, D. Zelenchuk, R. Appleby

Initial Experimental Characterization of the Millimeter-Wave Radio Channel...................................................................................1118Maria Teresa Martinez-Ingles, Concepcion Garcia-Pardo, Juan Pascual Garcia, Jose-Maria Molina-Garcia-Pardo, Jose-Victor Rodriguez, Juan Reig, Leandro Juan Llacer

Through-Wall Target Localisation Using Differential Phase Conjugation Assisted Radar ................................................................1121D. Zelenchuk, V. Fusco, R. Appleby

Prediction of FSS Radome Performane Using Simple Design Equation................................................................................................1124K. Lee, Y. Jeong, J. Yook, I. Hong

Characterization of MHz-Band Near-Field Coupling Communication Using Finite Element Electromagnetic Simulation: Body-Channel Communication System for Human-Area Networking.............................................................................1127

M. Takahashi, R. Shimoda, T. Kusunoki, T. Yanagawa, T. Kobase, R. Nagai, H. Shimasaki, Y. Kado

Outage Performance of Double Stratospheric Platforms Diversity Systems.........................................................................................1132G. Karagiannis, A. Panagopoulos, J. Kanellopoulos, M. Filippou

Model-Based Inversion of Electromagnetic Scattering Data - an Innovative Alternate Minimization Approach............................1137G. Oliveri, L. Poli, A. Massa

Imaging Weak Scatterers by Means of an Innovative Inverse Scattering Technique Based on the Interval Analysis ....................1139P. Rocca, M. Carlin, A. Massa

Propagation in the Circular Waveguide, Containing an Azimuthally Magnetized Ferrite Cylinder and a Dielectric Toroid.............................................................................................................................................................................................................1141

G. Georgiev, M. Georgieva-Grosse

Link Budget Calculations for Nonlinear Scattering .................................................................................................................................1146C. Fazi, F. Crowne, M. Ressler

Experimental Assessment of Secret Key Generation Using Parasitic Reconfigurable Aperture Antennas ......................................1151Rashid Mehmood, Jon W. Wallace

Investigation of Lower Atmospheric Trends Over Europe with Very Low Frequency Wave Propagation......................................1156H. U. Eichelberger, G. Prattes, K. Schwingenschuh, D. Wolbang, A. Rozhnoi, M. Solovieva, P. F. Biagi, T. Maggipinto, B. Besser, M. Stachel, C. Grill, S. Zehetleitner, I. Jernej, O. Aydogar

Controlling Coverage Using New Concept of Pre-Installed Infrastructure ..........................................................................................1161Ludek Subrt, Pavel Pechac

Space Diversity Analysis for Low Elevation Links in Urban Areas .......................................................................................................1165Michal Simunek, Pavel Pechac, Fernando Perez-Fontan

An Indoor Backscattering Channel Characterization for UWB Passive RFID Applications .............................................................1169Raffael D'Errico

Estimation of Radio Refractivity Profile Gradient From Multiple LOS Links Using Artificial Neural Networks – First Results...................................................................................................................................................................................................1174

Otakar Jicha, Pavel Pechac, Vaclav Kvicera, Martin Grabner

Moving-Window Propagation Model Based on an Unconditionally Stable FDTD Method ................................................................1178Claudio Garcia Batista, Cassio Goncalves Do Rego

Comparison of Migration Techniques for Ground Penetrating Radar .................................................................................................1183N. Lopez Alcelay, J. W. De Bleser, E. Van Lil, A. Van De Capelle

New Terrain Proposal for SUI Model Equations Based on 5.8 GHz Measurements in Wooded Cities Found in Amazon Region .............................................................................................................................................................................................1187

M. F. Do Vale, I. R. Gomes, G. P. S. Cavalcante, B. S. L. Castro, F. J. B. Barros

A Methodology for Determining the Electric Field of Broadcasting Medium Wave Using Computational Intelligence Approach ..................................................................................................................................................................................1190

Juliana Monteiro, Josiane C. Rodrigues, Simone C. Fraiha, Jasmine Araujo, Herminio S. Gomes, Amaury Ferreira, C. Renato L. Frances, Gervasio P. S. Cavalcante

Path Loss Exponents for Medium Waves Using Parabolic Equations ...................................................................................................1194Joao Furtado De Souza, Fatima Nazare Barauna Magno, Klaus Cozzolino, Jesse Carvalho Costa, Gervasio Protasio Dos Santos Cavalcante

SKA Antenna Systems; Outlook for Non-Astronomy Applications .......................................................................................................1199A. Van Ardenne, M. H. Bentum, A. J. Boonstra

On the Use of Hypercomplex Numbers for Antenna and Propagation Problems ................................................................................1204Jurgen Kunisch

Impact of the Tropospheric Turbulence on the Propagation of Radiowaves: Models for New Communication Systems...........................................................................................................................................................................................................1209

D. Vanhoenacker-Janvier

Computed Impact of Human Occupants on Field Distributions Within a Passenger Vehicle ............................................................1214L. Low, A. R. Ruddle, J. M. Rigelsford, R. J. Langley

The Effects of Local Terrain Topology and Antenna Infrastructure on Simulated Near-field Characteristics for HF Broadcast Antennas ...............................................................................................................................................................................1218

Y. Fu, R. J. Langley, J. M. Rigelsford, M. Hate, J. McCalla

Influence of the User’s Hand on Mutual Coupling of Dual-Antenna Structures on Mobile Terminal ..............................................1222A. A. H. Azremi, J. Ilvonen, C. H. Li, J. Holopainen, P. Vainikainen

Corona Breakdown in Open Structures: A Comparison of Several Ionization Rate Models .............................................................1227Eden Sorolla, Ioannis Koufogiannis, Michael Mattes

Detuning Effects on Implantable Antenna At Various Human Positions ..............................................................................................1231N. Vidal, S. Curto, J. M. Lopez Villegas, J. Sieiro, F. M. Ramos

Performance Analysis of Hybrid FSO/RF Link........................................................................................................................................1235Jiri Libich, Martin Mudroch, Petr Dvorak, Stanislav Zvanovec

Rain Impact on FSO Link Attenuation Based on Theory and Measurement .......................................................................................1239V. Brazda, V. Schejbal, O. Fiser

Effects of PSA on Free-space Optical Links ..............................................................................................................................................1244M. S. Khan, E. Leitgeb, R. Nebuloni, C. Capsoni, M. Grabner, V. Kvicera

Five Years Analysis of a Free Space Optics Link in Graz .......................................................................................................................1248M. Loeschnigg, T. Plank, E. Leitgeb

Using the Lorentz Distribution to Model Fade Slope at Free Space Optical Communication Systems .............................................1252E. Couto De Miranda, M. S. Pontes, L. A. R. Da Silva Mello

Influence of the Transistor Location on the Behavior of a Transistorized Printed Antenna ..............................................................1255Y. Taachouche, F. Colombel, M. Himdi

Millimeter-Wave Receiver Based on a Folded Dipole Antenna and Schottky Diode for Maximum Power Transfer ......................1259J. Montero-De-Paz, E. Ugarte-Munoz, L. E. Garcia-Munoz, D. Segovia-Vargas, D. Schoenherr, I. Oprea, A. Amrhein, O. Cojocari, H. L. Hartnagel

Microstrip Heatsink Antenna Cooled with Sapphire Layer for Integrated RF Transmitters ............................................................1263A. Alnukari, Y. Mahe, S. Toutain, Y. Scudeller

RF Front-end Design of a Planar Broadband Phased Array for Satellite Reception ...........................................................................1267B. Sanadgol, R. Baggen, M. Arias Campo, A. Hulzinga, J. Verpoorte

A Low-Cost High-Efficiency Broadband Integrated Antenna for 60-GHz Transceiver Modules......................................................1271Maristella Spella, Anton De Graauw

DLR Compact Test Range Facility.............................................................................................................................................................1276Markus Limbach, B. Gabler, A. Di Maria, R. Horn, A. Reigber

Numerical Model-Augmented RF Test Techniques .................................................................................................................................1281L. J. Foged, L. Scialacqua, M. Bandinelli, M. Bercigli, F. Vipiana, G. Giordanengo, M. Sabbadini, G. Vecchi

On-ground Electrical Performance Verification Strategies for Large Deployable Reflector Antennas ............................................1284S. Pivnenko, O. S. Kim, O. Breinbjerg, K. Pontoppidan, P. Valle

Novel Methods for Fast Multibeam Satellite Antenna Testing ...............................................................................................................1285L. Durand, L. Duchesne, Th. Blin, Ph. Garreau, P. Meisse, P. Iversen, E. Decoux, G. Forma, M. Paquay

Overview of the Latest Developments in the Electromagnetic Data Exchange.....................................................................................1290F. Mioc, P. E. Frandsen, M. Sabbadini

Electromagnetic Modelling of Antennas Radiating in Complex Scenarios ...........................................................................................1293Giancarlo Guida, M. Sabbadini, F. Marliani

Choosing the Right EM Simulation Technology for Antenna Design and Analysis .............................................................................1296Filip Demuynck, Marc Petersen

Recent Advances in CST STUDIO SUITE for Antenna Simulation ......................................................................................................1301Irina Munteanu, Ilari Hanninen

Discussion Slot 1 ............................................................................................................................................................................................ N/AGuy A. E. Vandenbosch, Francesca Mioc

The Driven Eigenproblem Computation with the Brent Method Acceleration ....................................................................................1307Huanlei Chen, Thomas F. Eibert, Wenquan Che

Comparison of Parallel-Plate Green’s Function Acceleration Techniques ...........................................................................................1311Pegah Takook, Rob Maaskant, Per-Simon Kildal

Near and Far Fields of a Kite-Shaped Dielectric Resonator Antenna....................................................................................................1316Elena I. Smotrova, Ronan Sauleau, Alexander I. Nosich

Analysis of Electromagnetic Scattering From Lossy Periodic Structures with Application to Wedge Absorber .............................1319Olga N. Smolnikova, Sergei P. Skobelev

Explicit Time-Stepping Scheme for Radial Perfectly Matched Layers in Staggered Meshless Methods...........................................1324Thomas Kaufmann, Christophe Fumeaux

A 122 GHz Microstrip Slot Antenna with Via-Fence Resonator in LTCC Technology.......................................................................1329Stefan Beer, Leonardo Pires, Christian Rusch, Jaska Paaso, Thomas Zwick

Integrated Millimeter Wave Filtenna for Q-LINKPAN Application .....................................................................................................1333Shunhua Yu, Wei Hong, Chen Yu, Hongjun Tang, Jixin Chen, Zhenqi Kuai

135GHz Antenna Array on BCB Membrane Backed by Polymer-Filled Cavity ..................................................................................1337Siew Bee Yeap, Zhi Ning Chen, Xianming Qing, Li Rui, David Soon Wee Ho, Lim Teck Guan

Antenna-in-package Solutions for 60 GHz Communication Links ........................................................................................................1341Amin Enayati, Guy A. E. Vandenbosch, Walter De Raedt

Dense Dielectric Patch Antenna ..................................................................................................................................................................1346Kwai Man Luk, Hau Wah Lai

Ultra Wideband Loop Antenna for On-Body Communication in Wireless Body Area Network .......................................................1349Tommi Tuovinen, Kamya Yekeh Yazdandoost, Jari IInatti

Influence of Body Proximity on the Efficiency of a Wearable Textile Patch Antenna.........................................................................1353H. Giddens, D. L. Paul, G. S. Hilton, J. P. McGeehan

Wideband Characterization of Fabrics for Textile Antennas .................................................................................................................1358Kristian Karlsson, Jan Carlsson

Skin-Equivalent Phantom for On-body Antenna Measurements At 60 GHz........................................................................................1362Nacer Chahat, M. Zhadobov, Ronan Sauleau

Addressing the Challenges of Fabricating Microwave Antennas Using Conductive Threads ............................................................1365Alford Chauraya, Shiyu Zhang, William Whittow, Tessa Acti, Rob Seager, Tilak Dias, Yiannis C. Vardaxoglou

The Influence of the Scattered Field Observation Domain Size on Imaging Measurement Setup Implementation.........................1368C. Garcia, Y. Alvarez, F. Las-Heras

Sub-Surface Localization of Buried Cylinders by Means of Sub-Array Processing ............................................................................1373S. Meschino, L. Pajewski, G. Schettini, M. Pastorino, A. Randazzo

Subsurface Imaging Technique Using Simultaneous Reconstruction of Amplitude and Phase Profiles ...........................................1378V. Mikhnev, P. Vainikainen

A Banach-Space Regularization Approach for Microwave Imaging .....................................................................................................1382C. Estatico, M. Pastorino, A. Randazzo

Suppression of Measurement Undesired Echoes Using an Auto-Controlled Compensation Method ................................................1387R. Niemiec, R. Hemon, R. Guillerey

An Analysis and Design Procedure for Composite Right/Left-Handed Unit Cells...............................................................................1391Mark A. Eberspacher, Thomas F. Eibert

Dual-band Textile Hexagonal Artificial Magnetic Conductor for WiFi Wearable Applications........................................................1395M. Mantash, M. E. De Cos, A. C. Tarot, S. Collardey, K. Mahdjoubi, F. Las-Heras

EBG Structure to Improve the B1 Efficiency of Stripline Coil for 7 Tesla MRI ..................................................................................1399Gameel Saleh, Klaus Solbach, Andreas Rennings

Analytical Modeling and Experimental Verification of Coupling Between Transmission Lines in Gap-waveguides ......................1402M. Bosiljevac, Z. Sipus, P. S. Kildal

A Periodic Dipole Array Built on Magnetized Ferrite Could Provide a Tunable DNG Metamaterial? ............................................1407Lavdas Spyros, Panagiotis Tsompanis, Christos Lavranos, George Kyriacou, John Sahalos

Performance of Prediction Models in Suburban/Rural Residential Areas At 860, 2300 and 3500 MHz ...........................................1412Johannes Baumgarten, Kin Lien Chee, Andreas Hecker, Thomas Kurner, Michael Braun, Peter Zhan

De-Correlation Distance of the Large Scale Parameters in an Urban Macro Cell Scenario ...............................................................1417Annika Bottcher, Peter Vary, Christian Schneider, Reiner S. Thoma

An Effective Indicator for NLOS, nLOS, LOS Propagation Channels Conditions..............................................................................1422A. Sorrentino, F. Nunziata, G. Ferrara, M. Migliaccio

Low Complexity MIMO for WiMedia UWB ............................................................................................................................................1427Vit Sipal, David Edwards, Ben Allan

Data Analysis and Modeling Method for Indoor Human Body-Shadowing MIMO Channels ...........................................................1431K. Saito, K. Kitao, T. Imai, Y. Okano, S. Miura

Direction of Arrival Estimation Using Canonical and Crystallographic Volumetric Element Configurations ................................1436Z. Xia, G. Huff, J. Chamberland, H. Pfister, R. Bhattacharya

Outdoor-to-Indoor Propagation – Accurate Measuring and Modelling of Indoor Environments At 900 and 1800 MHz................................................................................................................................................................................................................1440

Dennis M. Rose, Thomas Kurner

A Novel Method for Radio Propagation Simulation Based on Automatic 3D Environment Reconstruction....................................1445Danping He, Guixuan Liang, Jorge Portilla, Teresa Riesgo

Explicit Scheme for Indoor Propagation Modeling Based on the Hybrid Parabolic-Integral Equation Method .............................1450Apostolos L. Sounas, Traianos V. Yioultsis

Analysis of Empirical Rain Attenuation Models for Satellite Communications At Q to W Band Frequencies ................................1455G. Brost, W. Cook

Rainfall Rate as a Mixed Weibull Model ...................................................................................................................................................1460E. Couto De Miranda, L. A. R. Da Silva Mello, M. S. Pontes, Marco Antonio, Grivet Mattoso Maia

On the Inverse Gaussian Modeling of Rainfall Rate and Slant Path and Terrestrial Links Rain Attenuation ................................1463C. Kourogiorgas, A. Panagopoulos, I. Kanellopoulos, G. Karagiannidis

Design and Characterization of the Q-band AlphaSat Receiving Station in Rome ..............................................................................1468F. Marzano, P. Salemme, E. Restuccia, F. Consalvi

Modeling the Frequency Dependence of the Effective Path Length Adjustment Factor for Prediction of Rain Attenuation on Earth-Space Paths .............................................................................................................................................................1473

G. A. Brost

Cloud Attenuation on Satellite Links in the Ka/VBand and the Effect of Changes in the Effective Cloud Temperature..................................................................................................................................................................................................1477

T. Alawadi, A. Savvaris

A Methodology to Generate Cloud Attenution Fields From NWP Products ........................................................................................1482L. Luini, C. Capsoni

Effect of Non-Ideal Components on the Performance of a Reconfigurable on-Board Antenna for Broadcasting Applications...................................................................................................................................................................................................1487

Laura Resteghini, Carlo Capsoni, Roberto Nebuloni, Piero Gabellini, Fabio Maggio, Antonio Martellucci, Peter Rinous

Xpd At Ka-Band From an Extended Earth-Satellite Propagation Campaign ......................................................................................1491Armando Rocha

Statistical Risk Associated with Tropospheric Propagation Models and Measurements ....................................................................1495N. Jeannin, X. Boulanger, L. Castanet, L. Feral, F. Lacoste

BCS-Based Formulations for Antenna Arrays Synthesis ........................................................................................................................1500G. Oliveri, M. Carlin, A. Massa

On the Exploitation of the A-priori Information Through the Bayesian Compressive Sensing for Microwave Imaging ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................1502

G. Oliveri, L. Poli, A. Massa

Phase-Transition Behavior in Array Diagnosis Using Sparse Recovery Techniques ...........................................................................1504Marco Donald Migliore, Daniele Pinchera

A Bayesian Compressive Sensing Strategy for Direction-of-Arrival Estimation ..................................................................................1508Matteo Carlin, Paolo Rocca

Experimental Verification of 2D Sparse Electromagnetic Imaging........................................................................................................1510Marija Nikolic, Antonije Djordjevic, Arye Nehorai

Sparse Arrays with the Minimum Number of Elements: Recent Advances..........................................................................................1515Giancarlo Prisco, Michele D'Urso

Mutual Coupling in Non-uniform Array Antennas – an Effective Recipe ............................................................................................1518Ioan E. Lager, Massimiliano Simeoni, Cristian Coman

Pareto-Based Optimization of Difference Patterns in Monopulse Non-Uniform Subarrays...............................................................1523Giacomo Oliveri, Francisco Ares-Pena

GA-based Adaptive Thinning Strategy for Pattern Nulling in Linear Arrays......................................................................................1526Paolo Rocca, Lorenzo Poli, Giacomo Oliveri, Andrea Massa

Exploiting Rotational Symmetry for Ultra-Wideband Planar Array Design........................................................................................1528Douglas H. Werner, Micah D. Gregory, Pingjuan L. Werner

Versatile Emulation of Antenna Correlation Coefficient as MIMO OTA Figure of Merit Using Mode-Stirred Reverberation Chambers.............................................................................................................................................................................1532

Paul Hallbjorner, Juan D. Sanchez-Heredia, Antonio M. Martinez-Gonzalez, Adoracion Marin-Soler, David A. Sanchez-Hernandez

MIMO LTE OTA Measurements in Reverberation Chamber: Rich Isotropic Reference Environment Makes Agreement with Theoretical System Model...............................................................................................................................................1536

Per-Simon Kildal, Charlie Orlenius, Ulf Carlberg

MIMO 2X2 Reference Antennas Concept .................................................................................................................................................1540I. Szini, G. F. Pedersen, A. Scannavini, L. J. Foged

On Appropriate Probe Configurations for Practical MIMO Over-the-air Testing of Wireless Devices ...........................................1544Tommi Laitinen, Pekka Kyosti

Input Impedance Measurements of Cell Phone Antennas Using Backscattering Modulation ............................................................1549B. Monsalve, S. Blanch, J. Romeu

MIMO Testing - From Concept to Reality ................................................................................................................................................1552Li Xiao, Yuanan Liu, Xudong An, Lin Guo, Hongwei Kong, Ya Jing, Xu Zhao

3D Passive RFID Tag Over-The-Air Measurement .................................................................................................................................1557Hans Adel, Jan Bauer, Christoph Grabowski

Pre-Compliant and Affordable Over-The-Air Measurements on Wireless Devices.............................................................................1561Martin Wiles, Christopher Wehrmann

User Influence Over LTE Band XII Handset Performance ....................................................................................................................1566J. Sanchez-Heredia, A. Marin-Soler, P. Hallbjorner, A. Martinez-Gonzalez, D. Sanchez-Hernandez

Capacity Characterization of Eleven Antenna in Different Configurations for MIMO Applications Using Reverberation Chamber ..............................................................................................................................................................................1571

X. Chen, P. Kildal, J. Yang, J. Carlsson

Demonstrating the Use of the IEEE 802.11P Car-to-Car Communication Standard for Automotive Radar ...................................1576L. Reichardt, C. Sturm, F. Grunhaupt, T. Zwick

Gain Measurement of Base Station Antenna Using Short Reference Antenna .....................................................................................1581Ryo Yamaguchi, Kazuhiro Komiya

Experimental Investigation of Radiating Current Distribution and Measurement Cable Interaction on Wireless Devices ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................1585

L. J. Foged, L. Scialacqua, A. Scannavini, F. Saccardi, J. L. Araque Quijano, G. Vecchi

Enhanced Investigations on Effective Isotropic Radiated Power Emissions of Impulse Radio Devices ............................................1589Arndt T. Ott, Christoph J. Eisner, Thomas F. Eibert

Calibration Procedure for 2-D MIMO Over-The-Air Multi-Probe Test System..................................................................................1594D. Parvag, T. Laitinen, A. Khatun, V. M. Kolmonen, P. Vainikainen

Study of Artificial Neural Network Capabilities for the Analysis and Design of Shaped-Beam Reflectarrays.................................1599P. Robustillo, J. Zapata, J. A. Encinar, M. Arrebola

An Investigation of Reflectarray Operation Using Its Component Current Contributions ................................................................1603E. Almajali, D. McNamara, J. Shaker, M. Chaharmir

Efficiency Measurement of 1-D Connected Array Using the Improved Wheeler Cap Method ..........................................................1608Adrian Sutinjo, Leonid Belostotski, Ronald H. Johnston, Michal Okoniewski

Complete Full-Wave Analysis of a S-band Reflectarray Demonstrator with Square Ring Resonators.............................................1612G. C. Vietti, P. Pirinoli, M. Orefice, Marco Mussetta

Reducing the Number of Elements in Linear Arrays Using Biogeography-based Optimization........................................................1615S. K. Goudos, K. B. Baltzis, K. Siakavara, T. Samaras, E. Vafiadis, J. N. Sahalos

Design and Analysis of Printed Reflectarrays with Irregularly Positioned Array Elements ..............................................................1619Min Zhou, Stig Sorensen, Peter Meincke, Erik Jorgensen, Oleksiy S. Kim, Olav Breinbjerg, Giovanni Toso

An Experimental Two Element Array Configured for Directional Antenna Modulation ...................................................................1624Hongzhe Shi, Alan Tennant

Antenna Array Radiation Pattern Modeling Which Includes Mutual Coupling and Diffraction Effects .........................................1627Mariusz Zamlynski, Piotr Slobodzian

Analytical Formulas for the Directivity of General Antenna Arrays .....................................................................................................1632E. Van Lil, J. W. De Bleser, A. Van De Capelle

Antenna Array with Wide Angle Scanning Properties ............................................................................................................................1636N. Noordin, N. Haridas, A. El-Rayis, A. Erdogan, T. Arslan

One-bit Phased Array with Wide Scan and Linear Polarization Control for Mobile Satellite Applications ....................................1641Maria Carolina Vigano, Daniel Llorens Del Rio, Frederic Bongard, Jose Padilla, Stefano Vaccaro

Modal Source Reconstruction Based on Radiated Far-Field for Antenna Design................................................................................1645E. Safin, R. Martens, D. Manteuffel

On the Modal Resonant Properties of Microstrip Antennas ...................................................................................................................1650Pavel Hazdra, Miloslav Capek, Jan Eichler, Tomas Korinek, Milos Mazanek

Multi-functional, Electrically Small, Near Field Resonant Parasitic Antennas and Their Applications ...........................................1655Richard W. Ziolkowski

A Moderate Gain Extremely Short HF Monopole Antenna....................................................................................................................1657Jungsuek Oh, Kamal Sarabandi

Miniaturized and High Performance Circularly Polarized Terminal Antennas ..................................................................................1661M. J. Ammann, X. L. Bao, A. Narbudowicz

Mutual Coupling Between Orthogonal Electrically Small Dipole Antennas .........................................................................................1663Steven R. Best

A Novel Multi-Band Antenna Design with Matching Network for Use in Mobile Terminals .............................................................1667Aykut Cihangir, Fabien Ferrero, Cyril Luxey, Gilles Jacquemod

Q Limits for Arbitrary Shape Antennas Using Characteristic Modes ...................................................................................................1672Jeffrey Chalas, Kubilay Sertel, John L. Volakis

C-shaped, E-shaped and U-slotted Patch Antennas: Size, Bandwidth and Cross-Polarization Characterizations ..........................1674Shubhendu Bhardwaj, Yahya Rahmat-Samii

Wireless Strain and Crack Sensing Using a Folded Patch Antenna.......................................................................................................1678Xiaohua Yi, Chunhee Cho, Chia-Hung Fang, James Cooper, Vasileios Lakafosis, Rushi Vyas, Yang Wang, Roberto T. Leon, Manos M. Tentzeris

Experimental Characterization of Electromagnetic Cloaking Structures with Bistatic Measurements At X-band.........................1682Pekka Alitalo, Ali E. Culhaoglu, Andrey V. Osipov, Stefan Thruner, Erich Kemptner, Sergei A. Tretyakov

Time-Domain Simulations of Selected Cloaking Structures....................................................................................................................1687Pekka Alitalo, Antti O. Karilainen

Designing Horn Antennas Based on Variable Metasurface Concept .....................................................................................................1692M. Bosiljevac, Z. Sipus, M. Casaletti, F. Caminita, S. Maci

Flat Collimating Lenses Based on Quasi-conformal Transformation Electromagnetics .....................................................................1696Qi Wu, Jeremiah P. Turpin, Douglas H. Werner, Pingjuan L. Werner, Wenxuan Tang, Yang Hao

Flat Transformation Optics Graded-Index (TO-GRIN) Lenses .............................................................................................................1701Qi Wu, Jeremiah P. Turpin, Xiande Wang, Douglas H. Werner, Alexej Pogrebnyakov, Andrew Swisher, Theresa S. Mayer

Two-Dimensional Metamaterial Designs for Line-Source Radiation From a Virtual Location .........................................................1706Do-Hoon Kwon, Caglar D. Emiroglu

Application of Coordinate Transformation for Novel Antenna Design Techniques ............................................................................1711P. H. Tichit, S. N. Burokur, X. Wu, A. De Lustac

Experimental Demonstration of Carpet Cloak Realized with BaTiO3-loaded Polyurethane Foam ...................................................1716Di Bao, Khalid Z. Rajab, Wenxuan Tang, Yang Hao

Field Transformation - an Alternative Paradigm for Designing a Class of Low-profile Antennas ....................................................1720Raj Mittra

Using Transformation Optics to Design Optical Devices.........................................................................................................................1722S. A. R. Horsley

A Novel Transform for Ultra-Wideband Multi-Static Imaging Radar ..................................................................................................1724Takuya Sakamoto, Toru Sato

UWB Localization of Moving Targets in Shadowed Regions..................................................................................................................1729R. Zetik, M. Roding, R. S. Thoma

Polarimetric Ultrawideband MIMO Radar for Security Check Points: Detecting and Classifying Suspects Carrying Wires .............................................................................................................................................................................................1733

Alexis Paolo Garcia Ariza, Reiner S. Thoma

Aspects of Antenna Array Configuration for UWB Breast Imaging .....................................................................................................1737M. Helbig, M. Kmec, J. Sachs, C. Geyer, I. Hilger, G. Rimkus

Short-range MIMO Radar System Considerations ..................................................................................................................................1742U. Prechtel, V. Meenakshisundaram, B. Schoenlinner, V. Ziegler, H. P. Feldle, A. Meusling

Motion Compensation and Efficient Array Design for TDMA FMCW MIMO Radar Systems ........................................................1746Christian M. Schmid, Reinhard Feger, Clemens Pfeffer, Andreas Stelzer

Multi-Channel MMW-systems for Short Range Applications ................................................................................................................1751Sebastien Bertl, Andreas Kirschner, Johanna Gutlein, Jurgen Detlefsen

Illumination of Humans in Active Millimeter-Wave Multistatic Imaging.............................................................................................1755Sherif Sayed Ahmed, Lorenz-Peter Schmidt

IR-UWB-CMOS Circuits for Breast Cancer Detection ...........................................................................................................................1758T. Kikkawa, A. Toya, S. Kubota, M. Hafiz, A. Azhari, N. Sasaki

Assessment of Inversion Strategies for Microwave Imaging of Weak Magnetic Scatterers Embedded Into a Biological Environment ...............................................................................................................................................................................1761

R. Scapaticci, L. Crocco, O. Bucci, I. Catapano

Time-Domain Microwave Breast Screening System: Testing with Advanced Realistic Breast Phantoms ........................................1766E. Porter, A. Santorelli, D. Coulibaly, M. Coates, M. Popovic

3D Microwave Bone Imaging ......................................................................................................................................................................1770P. Meaney, D. Goodwin, A. Golnabi, M. Pallone, S. Geimer, K. Paulsen

A Skin Response Estimation and Suppression Technique for Radar-Based Microwave Breast Imaging Applications...................................................................................................................................................................................................1772

Batoul Maklad, Charlotte Curtis, Elise Fear, Geoff Messier

Utilization of Multiple Frequencies in 3D Nonlinear Microwave Imaging ............................................................................................1776Peter D. Jensen, Tonny Rubaek, Johan Moher

UWB Brain Differential Imaging Capabilities ..........................................................................................................................................1780M. Guardiola, L. Jofre, S. Capdevila, J. Romeu

Microwave Tomographic Spectroscopy for an Assessment Tissue Oxygenation..................................................................................1784S. Semenov, J. Kellam, T. Williams, M. Quinn, B. Nicholson, S. Thirunavukkarasu

A Central-Node Based Coarse Reconstruction Mesh Applied to Time-Domain Inverse Scattering ..................................................1786Tommy Henriksson, David R. Gibbins, Ian Craddock, Mantalena Sarafianou

Clinical Hyperthermia by Microwaves - Controlling and Improving Quality Through Treatment Planning..................................1791Gerard C. Van Rhoon, Maarten M. Paulides, Tomas Drizdal, Esra Neufeld, Peter C. Levendag

Stroke Detection and Diagnosis with a Microwave Helmet .....................................................................................................................1796Andreas Fhager, Mikail Persson

Design and Measurement of Automotive Antennas for C2C Applications............................................................................................1799M. Gallo, S. Bruni, D. Zamberlan

A Self-Contained Adaptive Antenna Tuner for Mobile Phones - Featuring a Self-Learning Calibration Procedure .....................1804K. R. Boyle, E. Spits, M. A. De Jongh, S. Sato, T. Bakker, A. Van Bezooijen

Integrated Multifunction Antenna for Mobile Terrestrial and Satellite Communications .................................................................1809Johnson J. H. Wang, David J. Triplett, Steve C. Workman

Effective Combined Detection and Suppression of Multiple Interference Sources Using Planar Phased Arrays ............................1814M. Martinez-Vazquez, S. Korthoff, M. Krengel, O. Litschke, B. Sanadgol

Compact Antenna for Microsatellite Using Folded Shorted Patches and an Integrated Feeding Network ......................................1819S. K. Podilchak, M. Caillet, D. Lee, Y. M. M. Antar, L. Chu, J. Cain, M. Hammar, D. Caldwell, E. Barron

Coordinating the Antenna Research in Europe ........................................................................................................................................1824Bruno Casali

A Tunable Dual-Band Dual-Element MIMO Antenna System with Compact Size .............................................................................1826Mohammad S. Sharawi, Mohammad A. Jan, Daniel N. Aloi

A Feed Network for the Selective Excitation of Specific Characteristic Modes on Small Terminals .................................................1830R. Martens, D. Manteuffel

Novel, Compact, Flat-Plate Antenna for 2.4/5.2/5.8-GHz WLAN Operation........................................................................................1835Cheng-Tse Lee, Saou-Wen Su, Fa-Shian Chang

Broadband Elliptic Tapered Slot Antenna ................................................................................................................................................1839R. Meena, A. R. Harish

Pulsed-Field Wireless Interconnects in Digital Integrated Circuits – A Time-Domain Signal Transfer and Electromagnetic Emission Analysis............................................................................................................................................................1843

Ioan E. Lager, Adrianus T. De Hoop, Takamaro Kikkawa

Multi-Trap CPW-Fed Wide Slot Antenna for UWB Applications .........................................................................................................1848Michele D'Amico, Fabio Mirko Fasolo

Quad-Band Antenna for Mobile Communication ....................................................................................................................................1853Ahmad Elsayed Ahmad, Jean-Marie Floch, Guillaume Lerideau

Using the Concept of Obtainable Efficiency Bandwidth to Study Tunable Matching Circuits ..........................................................1857Jussi Rahola, Risto Valkonen

Design and Analysis of Single Carrier Base Station Cooperation System Under Frequency Selection Channel..............................1861T. Taniguchi, Y. Karasawa, N. Nakajima

Performance of a Side-mounted PIFA in Cluttered Environment for GPS Operation .......................................................................1865M. Rehman, X. Chen, C. Parini, Z. Ying

Design of a Printed Wide Band Log-Periodic Antenna Dipole Array with a New Feeding Tecnique ................................................1870G. Casula, P. Maxia, G. Montisci

Electrically Coupled Multi-band Antenna with Reactance Loading......................................................................................................1873J. Jung, K. Kim, Y. Yoon, B. Kim, J. Kim

Reducing the Interaction Between User and Mobile Terminal Antenna Based on Antenna Shielding .............................................1877J. Ilvonen, R. Valkonen, J. Holopainen, O. Kivekas, P. Vainikainen

MIMO LTE Antenna Design for Laptops Based on Theory of Characteristic Modes ........................................................................1882A. Krewski, W. Schroeder, K. Solbach

Compact Array of Monopoles with a Slotted Ground Plane for MIMO Systems ................................................................................1887D. Puente-Garcia, L. De-Haro

Impact of Antenna Patterns and Orientations in Heterogeneous LTE-Advanced Networks..............................................................1892Z. Mansor, E. Mellios, A. Nix, J. McGeehan, G. Hilton

Inverted-L Antennas Array in a Wireless USB Dongle for MIMO Application...................................................................................1897Q. Luo, C. Quigley, J. Pereira, H. Salgado

Performance Comparison of a Symmetrical Folded Dipole Antenna for Mobile Terminals and Its Metal Bezel Extension .......................................................................................................................................................................................................1901

M. Sonkki, E. Antonino-Daviu, M. Ferrando-Bataller, E. Salonen

Microwave Multi-Sensor System for Estimation of Positions of Fast-Flying Objects..........................................................................1905V. Jenik, P. Hudec

Novel Multipath Mitigating Ground Planes for Multiband Global Navigation Satellite System Antennas ......................................1908M. Maqsood, S. Gao, T. Brown, J. Xu, J. Li

Dimension Optimization on Mutual Coupling Reduction Between Two L-shaped Folded Monopole Antennas for Handset Using PSO ......................................................................................................................................................................................1913

Nguyen Tuan Hung, Hisashi Morishita, Kazuhiro Izui, Shinji Nishiwaki, Yoshio Koyanagi

Effect of the Mobile Terminal Antenna Efficiency on the Cellular Network Issues.............................................................................1917M. Berg, M. Sonkki, S. Myllymaki, T. Tuovinene, E. Salonen

Analysis of MIMO OTA Measurements for LTE Terminals Performed in Reverberation Chamber...............................................1922Charlie Orlenius, Christian Lotback Patane, Anton Skarbratt, John Asberg, Magnus Franzen

Optimized Dual-Band Planar THz Waveguide.........................................................................................................................................1927Miguel Navarro-Cia, Stefan A. Maier, Miguel Beruete, Francisco Falcone, Mario Sorolla

Miniature Switchable Wideband Notch Antenna for Multistandard Wireless Terminals ..................................................................1930M. A. C. Niamien, L. Dussopt, C. Delaveaud

A Novel Planar Four-Quad Antenna..........................................................................................................................................................1934Shamim Ahmed, Walfgang Menzel

Experimental Evaluation Toward Transmit and Receive Diversity Effect in SIMO/MIMO Sensors ...............................................1938Kentaro Nishimori, Keita Ushiki, Naoki Honma

Compact 2.5-2.7 GHz Two Element MIMO Antenna System for Modern USB Dongle......................................................................1943V. Ssorin, A. Artemenko, A. Sevastyanov, R. Maslennikov

Active Region and Higher-Order Modes of Spiral Antennas..................................................................................................................1948Petr Piksa, Milos Mazanek

Hidden Patch Antenna Array with Nearly Undistorted Characteristics for 2.45 GHz Applications .................................................1951Rostyslav Dubrovka, Sergiy Martynyuk, Pavel Belov

Compact, Multifunctional, Metamaterial-Inspired Monopole Antenna ................................................................................................1955S. Dakhli, K. Mahdjoubi, H. Rmili, J. M. Floch, H. Zangar

Characterization and Capacity Evaluation of Body-To-Body Channels Using MIMO Antennas......................................................1959Khalida Ghanem, H. Alquwaiee, R. Fouad, N. Abu Khamis

Bow-Tie Nano-Array Rectenna: Design and Optimization .....................................................................................................................1963A. M. A. Sabaawi, C. C. Tsimenidis, B. S. Sharif

Dual Polarized Versus Single Polarized MIMO: A Study Over NLOS Propagation with Polarization Discrimination and Spatial Correlation Effects ........................................................................................................................................1967

Maha Ben Zid, Kosai Raoof, Ammar Bouallegue

Performance Evaluation of Multi-antenna and Multi-mode Relays Using a Network Simulator ......................................................1972Guillaume Villemaud, Cedric Levy-Bencheton, Tanguy Risset

Orthogonal Antenna Architecture for MIMO Handsets .........................................................................................................................1977Alexandru Tatomirescu, Osama N. Alrabadi, Gert F. Pedersen

Stacked Patch Circular Polarized Antenna for GPS/Galileo Receiver Applications ...........................................................................1980Oluyemi Peter Falade, Masood Ur Rehman, Yue Gao, Xiaodong Chen, Clive Parini

Dual Band Single Layer Microstrip Antenna with Circular Polarization for WiMAX Application..................................................1984Mohammad Noghabaei, S. K. A. Rahim, M. I. Sabran

Modulation Index Application for Satellite Adjacent Downlink Interference Identification..............................................................1988Shkelzen Cakaj

Multi-Access Communication System in a Highly Reverberant Environment .....................................................................................1993P. Sundaralingam, V. Fusco, D. Zelechuk

Analysis of an UHF-RFID System in a Metallic Closed Vehicle .............................................................................................................1997Leire Azpilicueta, Jose Javier Astrain, Hugo Landaluce, Ignacio Angulo, Asier Perallos, Jesus Villadangos, Francisco Falcone

SNR Estimation in HF Communications Channel ...................................................................................................................................2001T. Ruuben, M. A. Meister, E. Lossmann, J. Bernikova, U. Madar

Path Loss Model Between Mobile Terminals in Residential Area with a Curved Road ......................................................................2004Motoharu Sasaki, Wataru Yamada, Toshio Ito, Naoki Kita, Takatoshi Sugiyama

Small-scale Fading and Delay in Conference Room with 802.11 Coverage Problems .........................................................................2009F. Heereman, W. Joseph, E. Tanghe, D. Plets, L. Martens

Co-existence of Cellular and Multiple Airborne Wireless Networks: Interference Statistical Distribution......................................2013N. Moraitis, A. Panagopoulos

Modeling and Characteristics of Mobile-to-Mobile Wideband MIMO Channel Based on the Geometrical Multi-Radii Two-Rings with Specified Frequency Selectivity............................................................................................................................2018

S. Yoo, J. Lee, K. Kim

Study of Ultra Wideband Localisation Techniques Using Various Monitoring Configurations ........................................................2023R. Bharadwaj, A. Alomainy, C. Parini

Car-to-car Communication Using Efficient Far-Field RCS Simulations to Account for Reflecting Objects in the Communication Path ...................................................................................................................................................................................2027

Markus Schick, Rene Fiedler, Even Lezar, Ulrich Jakobus

Coverage Optimization and Power Reduction in SFN Using a Hybrid PSO Algorithm......................................................................2031M. Lanza, A. L. Gutierrez, I. Barriuso, O. Fernandez, M. Domingo, J. R. Perez, L. Valle, J. Basterrechea

Impact of Material Changes in Electromagnetic Dosimetry Estimation of Complex Indoor Scenarios ............................................2036Leire Azpilicueta, Jorge Becerra, Francisco Falcone, Silvia De Miguel, Victoria Ramos

Channel Model and Data Analysis for Indoor Environment ..................................................................................................................2039F. J. B. Barros, P. V. Gonzalez, E. Costa, J. R. Bergmann, G. L. Siqueira, B. S. L. Castro, G. P. S. Cavalcante

Criteria for Physical Dimensions of MIMO OTA Multi-Probe Test Setup ...........................................................................................2043Pekka Kyosti, Lassi Hentila

Calculation of Doppler Spectrum for Simultaneous Time Varying Conditions....................................................................................2048Artiz Estevez, Jesus Miguel Illescas, Jose Antonio Marcotegui, Francisco Falcone

Experimental Characterization of a Femtocell Radio Channel ..............................................................................................................2052Joao C. Braz, Pedro Gonzalez Castellanos, Carlos Rodriguez Ron, Luiz A. R. Ramirez, Leonardo Gonsioroski, Luiz Da Silva Mello, Flavio Hasselmann

MIMO Antenna Optimization for Enhanced Channel Capacity ............................................................................................................2056Lajos Nagy

A 3-D Model for MIMO Mobile-to-Mobile Amplify-and-Forward Relay Fading Channels...............................................................2061Emmanouel T. Michailidis, Panagiotis Theofilakos, Athanasios G. Kanatas

A Post-Processing Technique for Scalloping Suppression Over ScanSAR Images ..............................................................................2066A. Sorrentino, D. Schiavulli, M. Migliaccio

Characterization of Propagation Mechanisms for the 2.4 GHz Channel At Athens International Airport ......................................2070Theofilos Chrysikos, Stavros Kotsopoulos

Knowledge-Based Indoor Propagation Model ..........................................................................................................................................2075C. R. Gomes, J. B. Negrao Leite, R. A. Nascimento, I. R. Gomes, H. S. Gomes, S. G. C. Fraiha, G. P. S. Cavalcante

Indoor Propagation Model in 2.4 GHz with QoS Parameters Estimation in VoIP Calls, Considering Different Types of Walls and Floors ...........................................................................................................................................................................2079

I. R. Gomes, B. S. L. Castro, R. L. Fraiha, H. S. Gomes, S. G. C. Fraiha, G. P. S. Cavalcante

Low Complexity Free Space Impedances Measurement of UWB Antennas .........................................................................................2083Vit Sipal, Javier Gelabert, Chrisopher Stevens, Ben Allen

Far-Field Evaluation Directly From Helicoidal Near-Field Data ...........................................................................................................2087Francesco D'Agostino, Flaminio Ferrara, Claudio Gennarelli, Rocco Guirriero, Massimo Migliozzi

Modeling of Unknown Echoic Measurement Facilities with Equivalent Scattering Centers ..............................................................2092Kazeem A. Yinusa, Carsten H. Schmidt, Thomas F. Eibert

Measurements of Complex Permittivity of Geological Materials Mixtures At Rf Frequencies ..........................................................2097Antonio Sarri, Matteo Batisti, Matteo Bientinesi

Visualization of Microwave Exposure in Industrial and Medical Applications....................................................................................2102T. Vydra, D. Havelka, J. Vrba

Bistatic RCS Measurements of Aircraft Seat Rows and Their Implementation in a Raytracer .........................................................2106R. Geise, A. Enders, M. Bachhuber

New MIMO OTA Figures of Merit ............................................................................................................................................................2111A. Marin-Soler, D. Sanchez-Hernandez

Improved Open Resonator Technique for Dielectric Characterization .................................................................................................2115S. Costanzo, G. Massa, O. Moreno

Accurate Imaging of a Moving Target in Shadow Regions with UWB Radar Using Doppler Effect.................................................2118S. Fujita, T. Sakamoto, T. Sato

Wideband Experimental Characterization of Differential Antennas.....................................................................................................2123J. Pantoja-A, N. Pena, F. Roman, F. Vega, F. Rachidi

Low Frequency Radar Imaging From Ramp Response Using the Level-Set Method..........................................................................2128Y. Wen, N. De Beaucoudrey, J. Saillard, J. Chauveau, P. Pouliguen

Super-Resolution Pulse Compression Techniques for Radar Subsurface Imaging ..............................................................................2132Hui Zhang, Dirk Plettemeier

Coaxial Resonator and Measuring System for Dielectric Parameter Measurements ..........................................................................2137Lajos Nagy, Zoltan Szalay

Test on Antennas in a Reverberating Chamber and Comparison with Anechoic Chamber ...............................................................2142G. Ferrara, A. Gifuni, A. Sorrentino

Optical Fiber Link Antenna and EMI Measurement System Using Optical Biased Devises ..............................................................2146Satoru Kurokawa, Michitaka Ameya, Masanobu Hirose, Daisuke Hayashi, Shintaro Arata

Calibration Techniques for Multi-Sensors SAR System..........................................................................................................................2149Gaetan Guevel, Joe Wiart, Christian Person, Romain Butet, Sylvie Le Dall, Yann Toutain

Near-field Contact-Less Return Loss Measurement of a 434MHz Dipole Antenna-SAW Sensor System ........................................2154M. Monedero, P. Le Thuc, E. Seguenot, R. Staraj

Ultra-small Analog Fibre-Optical Link for Interference-Free Antenna Signal Transmission............................................................2158Wieland Mann, Klaus Petermann

Measurement of Magnetic Flux Density Vector........................................................................................................................................2161Jan Kracek, Milo Mazanek

Propagation Modelling for White Space....................................................................................................................................................2163N. Dumont, R. Watson, S. Pennock

Autoregressive Modeling of Frequency Selective Channels for Synchronized OFDM Systems .........................................................2168Xiang Xu, Rudolf Mathar

A Simulation System to Evaluate Antenna Diversity Concepts for Improved Mobile Reception of COFDM-based Terrestrial Broadcasts .................................................................................................................................................................................2171

Christoph Neeb, Stefan Lindenmeier

On Predicting Large Scale Fading Characteristics with the MR-FDPF Method .................................................................................2174Meiling Luo, Nikolai Lebedev, Guillaume Villemaud, Guillaume De La Roche, Jie Zhang, Jean-Marie Gorce

Efficient Evaluation of the Green’s Function for a Bended Coplanar Waveguide ...............................................................................2179Constantinos A. Valagiannopoulos

Preliminary Investigations of Three-Dimensional Microwave Tomography Using Different Data Sets ...........................................2184Hoi-Shun Lui, Andreas Fhager, Mikael Persson

Evaluation of Signal Polarisation Effects Under Human Handling Influence in Public Femtocell Environment ............................2189Tengku Faiz Bin Tengku Mohmed Noor Izam, T. W. C. Brown

Dual Frequency Polarizing Surfaces - For Ka-Band Applications .........................................................................................................2194E. Doumanis, G. Goussetis, R. Cahill, V. Fusco, H. Legay

Shape Reconstruction of Scatterers by Suitable Inverse Processing of GPR Data ...............................................................................2197G. Valerio, F. Soldovieri, P. M. Barone, S. E. Lauro, E. Mattei, E. Pettinelli, D. Comite, A. Galli

Microwave Scattering Experiment on a Wave Tank: Bistatic Setup .....................................................................................................2200N. De Beaucoudrey, F. Poulain, L. Davoust, J. M. Rousset, F. Bonnefoy

Sparse Array Synthesis Via Sequential Convex Optimizations ..............................................................................................................2204Benjamin Fuchs, Anja Skrivervik, Juan R. Mosig

Phase-only Synthesis of Conformal Aperiodic Reflectarrays with Multi-Frequency Specifications ..................................................2208A. Capozzoli, C. Curcio, A. Liseno, M. Migliorelli, G. Toso

Experimental Validation of Fast Simulation Methods in the Framework of the SKA Telescope Project .........................................2213Christopher Raucy, Eloy De Lera Acedo, Christophe Craeye, David Gonzalez-Ovejero, Nima Razavi Ghods

Element Sharing in Interleaved Antenna Arrays .....................................................................................................................................2218W. P. Du Plessis, C. Kitching, A. Bin Ghannam

A New Perspective in the Synthesis of Reconfigurable Linear or Circularly Symmetric Array Antennas .......................................2223Andrea Francesco Morabito, Antonia Rita Lagana, Tommaso Isernia

Mini Compact Range for Automotive RADAR Antenna Testing ...........................................................................................................2228P. Iversen, M. Boumans, S. Burgos

State of the Art Spherical Near-Field Antenna Test Systems for Full Vehicle Testing ........................................................................2232P. Noren, L. J. Foged, Ph. Garreau

Exploring Radiating and Scattering Sources of Part of Vehicles by Means of Hemi-Spherical-Near-Field Antenna Measurementsl ..............................................................................................................................................................................................2237

Dieter Pototzki, Andreas Griesche

Measuring the Radiation Patterns of SDARS Installed in Vehicles .......................................................................................................2240James D. Huff, Carl W. Sirles

Outdoor Far-Field Antenna Measurements System for Testing of Large Vehicles..............................................................................2244Doug Kremer, Alan Morris, Rachel Blake, Todd Park, John Proctor

TD and FD Simulations of Internal EM Environment in Small Aircraft and Experimental Test Comparison ...............................2249Z. Reznicek, P. Tobola, G. Rasek, S. Loos

Large Size, Lightweight, Luneburg Lenses for Multi-beam Antenna Applications .............................................................................2254Leo Matytsine, Pavel Lagoiski, Michael Matytsine, Serguei Matitsine

Antenna Measurement Using Large Size, Lightweight, Broadband Convex RF Lens ........................................................................2259Leo Matytsine, Pavel Lagoiski, Serguei Matitsine

Phase- and Group Delay Measurements Over Large Distances .............................................................................................................2263Thilo Bednorz

Efield MDMM - A New and Innovative Domain Decomposition Technique for Advanced Cavity Problems ..................................2268B. Strand, B. Wastberg, E. Abenius

Phantoms for Antenna Measurements At 2.4 GHz ..................................................................................................................................2273Benjamin Loader, Tian Hong Loh

Indoor Multi-User MIMO: Measured User Orthogonality and Its Impact on the Choice of Coding ................................................2277Fredrik Rusek, Ove Edfors, Fredrik Tufvesson

Straightforward MIMO OTA Characterization and Statistical Metrics for LTE Devices..................................................................2282Y. Feng, W. Schroeder, T. Kaiser

LTE MIMO Multiplexing Performance Measured in Reverberation Chamber and Accurate Simple Theory................................2287Per-Simon Kildal, Ahmed Hussain, Giuseppe Durisi, Charlie Orlenius, Anton Skarbratt

Real-Time Ultrawideband MIMO Channel Sounding .............................................................................................................................2291Seun Sangodoyin, Jussi Salmi, S. Niranjayan, Andreas F. Molisch

Folded Rotman Lens Multibeam Antenna in SIW Technology at 24 GHz............................................................................................2296K. Tekkouk, M. Ettorre, R. Sauleau, M. Casaletti

MRC Performance Benefit in V2V Communication Systems in Urban Traffic Scenarios..................................................................2299Jorg Nuckelt, Thomas Kurner

Comparison of Automotive FM Antenna Diversity Concepts with a Compound Reception Test System.........................................2304S. Treinies, J. Hopf, S. Lindenmeier

Metal Plate Lens Antenna for Auomotive Radar At mm-Wave Frequencies .......................................................................................2309Gordana Klaric Felic, Efstatios Skafidas, Rob Evans

Modeling and Integration of Automotive Radiofrequency Antennas for Vehicle Access Systems .....................................................2312Raed El-Makhour, Mickael Huard, Eric Lardjane Renault

A Wideband Metamaterial Meander-Line Antenna ................................................................................................................................2317Colan G. M. Ryan, George V. Eleftheriadis

Broadband, Compact Hard Waveguide and Its Application to Open-Ended Waveguides Dense Arrays.........................................2320Eva Rajo-Iglesias, Stefano Maci

Experimental Generation of Propagating Bessel Beams with a Low-Profile Leaky Radial Waveguide............................................2324M. Ettorre, S. Rudolph, A. Grbic

Design of Printed Antennas on Reactive Impedance Substrates for Circular Polarization Operation in S-Band............................2327L. Bernard, G. Chertier, R. Sauleau

Design of an H-Plane Horn Array Antenna Using the Complete 1D/3D-EBG Waveguide in the THz Band....................................2331D. Sanchez-Escuderos, M. Ferrando-Bataller, A. Berenguer, M. Baquero-Escudero

Bifocal Antenna Based on Dual-Reflectarray Dual-Offset Configuration.............................................................................................2336Javier Rodriguez-Alvarez, Manuel Arrebola, Carolina Tienda, Jose A. Encinar, Fernando Las-Heras

A Circular Eleven Feed with Significantly Improved Aperture Efficiency Over 1.3-14 GHz.............................................................2341J. Yin, J. Yang, M. Panteleev, L. Helldner

A Dual-Band Multimode Monopulse Tracking Antenna for Land-Mobile Satellite Communications in Ka-Band ........................2345Hendrik Bayer, Alexander Krauss, Ralf Stephan, Matthias A. Hein

Active Array Fed Reflector Antennas. Practical Relations and Efficiency............................................................................................2350A. V. Shishlov, I. L. Vilenko, Yu. V. Krivosheev

Ku-Band Dielectric-Loaded SIW Horn for Vertically-Polarized Multi-Sector Antennas ...................................................................2355M. Yousefbeiki, A. Domenech, J. Mosig, C. Fernandes

Circularly Polarized Ring-Slot Antenna for RFID Readers....................................................................................................................2360M. Ramirez, J. Parron

Tuning a Dual-Band Bowtie Slot Antenna with Parabolic Radiating Slots for the 900 MHz and 2400 MHz Bands .......................2364L. Berge, M. Reich, M. Aziz, B. Braaten

Circularly Polarized Microstrip Patch Antenna Fed by Substrate Integrated Waveguide .................................................................2368Tomas Mikulasek, Jaroslav Lacik

Field Strength Prediction for Environment Aware MIMO Channel Models........................................................................................2372Florian Schroder, Michael Reyer, Rudolf Mathar

Diffraction From Frequency Selective Surfaces for Secure Building Applications ..............................................................................2376Jiayin Roberts, Jonathan M. Rigelsford, Kenneth L. Ford

A Solution for ILS Disturbance Due to a Building ...................................................................................................................................2380A. Thain, J. P. Estienne, J. Robert, G. Peres, G. Cambon, L. Evain, B. Spitz

Implementation and Validation of a 2.5D Intelligent Ray Launching Algorithm for Large Urban Scenarios .................................2384Zhihua Lai, Hui Song, Peng Wang, Haiwang Mu, Lei Wu, Jie Zhang

First and Second Order Statistics of Clear-Air Attenuation on 11 GHz Terrestrial Path...................................................................2389Martin Grabner, Vaclav Kvicera, Pavel Pechac, Otakar Jicha

Estimation of the Dynamics Parameter of Rain Attenuation Time Series Synthesizers ......................................................................2393Fernando J. A. Andrade, Luiz A. R. Da Silva Mello

The New Vector Fitting Approach to Modeling of UWB Channels Containing Convex Obstacles ...................................................2397Piotr Gorniak, Wojciech Bandurski

Propagation Modelling in a Container Environment...............................................................................................................................2401Emmeric Tanghe, Wout Joseph, Peter Ruckeybusch, Luc Martens, Ingrid Moerman

Transparency of Buildings to the Radiowave Propagation At VHF-UHF Frequencies.......................................................................2406M. Orefice, G. C. Vietti

Measurements of the Land Mobile and Nomadic Satellite Channels At 2.2 GHz and 3.8 GHz..........................................................2410F. Lacoste, J. Lemorton, L. Casadebaig, F. Rousseau

Building Penetration Loss Modelling for Satellite Services at L-, S- and C-band ................................................................................2415M. Kvicera, P. Pechac

A Rural Channel Model for Satellite Navigation Applications ...............................................................................................................2419Frank M. Schubert, Bernard H. Fleury, Roberto Prieto-Cerdeira, Alexander Steingass, Andreas Lehner

Flexible Statistical Multipath and Shadowing Model for Land Mobile Satellite Navigation ..............................................................2424R. Prieto-Cerdeira, F. Schubert, R. Orus-Perez

Validation of Aeronautical Fuselage Channel Model for Iris Air-Traffic Management Via Satellite................................................2428E. Salvador Marquez, R. Prieto-Cerdeira, R. Orus Perez, P. Burzigotti

Frequency Dependence of Vegetation Shadowing Loss for Satellite Services .......................................................................................2433Petr Horak, Pavel Pachac

A Three Components Model for Simplified Building Scattering in Urban Environment ...................................................................2437M. Ait-Ighil, F. Perez-Fontan, J. Lemorton, F. Lacoste, G. Artaud, C. Bourga, M. Bousquet

A Generative MIMO Channel Model - Encompassing Single Satellite and Satellite Diversity Cases................................................2442G. Carrie, F. Perez-Fontan, F. Lacoste, J. Lemorton

On a Satellite-to-Indoor Channel Model: The Multipath Components .................................................................................................2447Thomas Jost, Wei Wang, Uwe-Carsten Fiebig, Fernando Perez-Fontan

Narrow- and Wideband Land Mobile Satellite Channel Statistics for Various Environments at Ku-Band .....................................2452Franz Teschl, Veikko Hovinen, Fernando Perez-Fontan, Michael Schonhuber, Roberto Prieto-Cerdeira

Compact Diversity Antenna Using Dipole and Monopole Modes ...........................................................................................................2457Kengo Nishimoto, Toru Fukasawa, Toyohisa Tanaka, Hiroaki Miyashita, Yoshihiko Konishi

Electrical Properties of Spherical Dipole Antennas with Lossy Material Cores ...................................................................................2462Troels V. Hansen, Oleksiy S. Kim, Olav Breinbjerg

Novel Analytical Procedures for Folded Strip Dipole Antennas .............................................................................................................2467S. Keyrouz, H. J. Visser, R. J. M. Vullers, A. G. Tijhuis

A Theoretical Study on a Circular Microstrip Antenna in a Parallel Plate Waveguide ......................................................................2471N. Nakamoto, T. Oka, S. Kitazawa, H. Ban, K. Kobayashi

Electrically Small Spiral Transmission Line-Connected Triple-Arm Folded Monopole Antenna .....................................................2476M. Polivka, D. Vrba

IR-UWB Radar System and Tag Design for Time-coded Chipless RFID..............................................................................................2479A. Ramos, D. Girbau, A. Lazaro, S. Rima

Design of a Passive Tag for Indoor Localization.......................................................................................................................................2483C. Cruz, J. Costa, C. Fernandes

Experimental Study of the Antenna Influence in RTLS Based-On RFID .............................................................................................2488Gonzalo Crespo, Jorge Teniente, Inigo Ederra, Ramon Gonzalo

Water Infiltration Detection in Civil Engineering Structures Using RFID ...........................................................................................2493S. Capdevila, G. Roqueta, M. Guardiola, L. Jofre, J. Romeu, J. Ch. Bolomey

An Accurate Linear Electrical Model Applied to a Series and Parallel 2.45 GHz Dual-Diode Rectenna Array ..............................2498H. Takhedmit, L. Cirio, O. Picon, J. D. Lan Sun Luk

On the Fast Multipole Method Applications for Inverse Problems ........................................................................................................2502Yuri Alvarez, Fernando Las-Heras, Jose Angel Martinez-Lorenzo, Carey M. Rappaport

Far-Field Uncertainty Due to Instrumentation Errors in Multilevel Plane Wave Based Near-Field Far-Field Transformed Planar Near-Field Measurements .......................................................................................................................................2506

M. Ayyaz Qureshi, Carsten H. Schmidt, Kazeem A. Yinusa, Thomas F. Eibert

Imaging of Element Excitations with Spherical Scanning .......................................................................................................................2511Doren W. Hess, Scott T. McBride

A Modified Holographic Technique for Cylindrical Near-Field Antenna Measurements ..................................................................2516D. Smith, V. Schejbal, L. Prouza

Comparative Investigation of Methods to Reduce Truncation Errors in Partial Spherical Near-Field Antenna Measurements ...............................................................................................................................................................................................2521

L. J. Foged, L. Scialacqua, F. Saccardi, F. Mioc, J. L. Araque Quijano, E. Martini, S. Maci, M. Sabbadini, G. Vecchi

Reflector Surface Distortion Compensation Using Reflectarrays: Experimental Verification ...........................................................2526Harish Rajagopalan, Yahya Rahmat-Samii

Multi-Frequency, Multi-Resolution and Probe Compensated Advanced Near-Field Antenna Characterization ............................2530Amedeo Capozzoli, Claudio Curcio, Angelo Liseno

Antenna Diagnostics on Planar Arrays Using a 3D Source Reconstruction Technique and Spherical Near-Field Measurements ...............................................................................................................................................................................................2535

Erik Jorgensen, Doren W. Hess, Peter Meincke, Oscar Borries, Cecilia Cappellin, Jeff Fordham

Antenna Characterization with Multiple Scatterers by Means of Equivalent Currents and Spherical Wave Expansion ......................................................................................................................................................................................................2539

Yuri Alvarez Lopez, Jaime Laviada, Cebrian Garcia Gonzalez, Fernando Las-Heras

Application of Postprocessing Techniques Methods for Noise Reduction in Cylindrical Near Field Antenna Measurements ...............................................................................................................................................................................................2543

Francisco Cano Facila, Manuel Sierra-Castaner

Integrated Antenna Concept for Millimeter-Wave Front-End Modules in Proven Technologies ......................................................2548U. Johannsen, A. Smolders, A. Reniers, A. Dommele, M. Huang

120-GHz-band Antenna Technologies for over-10-Gbps Wireless Data Transmission .......................................................................2552Akihiko Hirata, Hiroyuki Takahashi, Jun Takeuchi, Naoya Kukutsu, Dongjin Kim, Jiro Hirokawa

High Gain 60 GHz LTCC Chain Antenna Array with Substrate Integrated Waveguide Feed Network ..........................................2557Antti Lamminen, Jussi Saily

Millimeter-wave Antenna Pattern Measurement Using High Extinction Ratio Mach-Zehnder Modulator.....................................2562Michitaka Ameya, Satoru Kurokawa, Masanobu Hirose

60 GHz Polarimetric MIMO Sensing: Architectures and Technology ..................................................................................................2566Alexis Paolo Garcia Ariza, Robert Muller, Ralf Stephan, Frank Wollenshlager, Alexander Schulz, Mohamed Elkhouly, Christoph Scheytt, Uwe Trautwein, Jens Muller, Reiner S. Thoma, Matthias A. Hein

Innovative Multilayered Millimetre-Wave Antennas for Multi-Dimensional Scanning and Very Small Footprint Applications...................................................................................................................................................................................................2571

Tarek Djerafi, Olivier Kramer, Nasser Ghassemi, Ajay Babu Guntupalli, Bassel Youzkatli-El-Khatib, Ke Wu

A Three-Dimensional Metal-Only Reflectarray with Multiple Rectangular Grooves and an Open-Ended Rectangular Waveguide (OERW) Feed .....................................................................................................................................................2576

Woo Jin Byun, Yong Heui Cho

Antenna-in-Package Using PCB and IPD Technologies for 60 GHz Applications ...............................................................................2579Diane Titz, Fabien Ferrero, Claire Laporte, Hilal Ezzaddine, Cyril Luxey, Gilles Jacquemod

60 GHz Antennas and Module Development for WiGig Applications ...................................................................................................2583Romain Pilard, Frederic Gianesello, Daniel Gloria

Antennas on Silicon: Hybrid Integration Versus SoC Solutions?...........................................................................................................2587Ch. Person, Ch. Calvez, J. P. Guzman, Y. C. Pinto, M. Ney, D. Belot, D. Gloria, R. Pilard, D. Pache, N. Demirel, E. Kerherve

On the Design of Butler-like Type Matrices for Low SLL Multibeam Antennas .................................................................................2592Fanourios E. Fakoukakis, George A. Kyriacou, John N. Sahalos

Projection Approach to Model the Main Beam of Non-Regular Arrays in Presence of Mutual Coupling........................................2597Christophe Craeye, David Gonzalez-Ovejero, Nima Razavi Ghods, Eloy De Lera Acedo

A Metasurface Isoflux Antenna and Potential Beam Reconfigurability ................................................................................................2601G. Minatti, S. Maci, P. De Vita, A. Freni, M. Sabbadini

C-band and Ka-band Reconfigurable Planar Reflectors .........................................................................................................................2606P. Ratajczak, J. M. Baracco, G. Toso

Synthesis of Co-Polar and Cross-Polar Patterns with Dynamic Range Ratio Reduction for Phase-Only Reconfigurable Arrays.................................................................................................................................................................................2611

Giulia Buttazzoni, Roberto Vescovo

Design of a Reconfigurable Reflectarray Based on a Varactor Tuned Element ...................................................................................2616F. Venneri, S. Constanzo, G. Di Massa, A. Borgia, P. Corsonello, M. Salzano

Reconfigurable Sensor Networks with a Real Time Optimization Method...........................................................................................2620Oscar Quevedo-Teruel, Eva Rajo-Oglesias

An On-Board Reconfigurable Antenna System for Ka-Band Broadcasting Satellite Services ...........................................................2624Piero Gabellini, Nicola Gatti, Carlo Capsoni, Laura Resteghini, Antonio Martellucci, Peter Rinous

Dynamic Array Beamforming by Photonic Feedback Sensor Network.................................................................................................2629P. Vinetti, M. D'Urso, M. Dispenza

Multiband Shared Aperture Adaptive Array Using the Rear Defogger ................................................................................................2634Yoshihiko Kuwahara, Noorsaliza Abdullah

Efficient Numerical Investigation of an Active Reconfigurable Periodic Structure .............................................................................2639L. Matekovits, M. Bercigli, R. Guidi

Efficient Analysis of Multi-Resonant Periodic Structures for the Improved Analysis and Design of Reflectarray Antennas ........................................................................................................................................................................................................2642

R. Florencio, J. Encinar

FETI Domain Decomposition Method for the Electromagnetic Characterization of Meta Materials and Antenna Arrays ............................................................................................................................................................................................................2646

A. Barka, V. Gobin, F. X. Roux

Scattering From Truncated Cylinders with a Mixed 2-D/3-D Domain Decomposition Scheme .........................................................2648D. Duque, V. Lancellotti, B. P. De Hon, A. G. Tijhuis

Performance of Uniaxial Multilayer Cylinders Used for Invisible Cloak Realization .........................................................................2652Dario Bojanjac, Branimir Ivsic, Tin Komljenovic, Zvonimir Sipus

New Numerical Techniques for Efficient and Accurate Analysis of FSSs, EBGs and Metamaterials ...............................................2657Raj Mittra, Chiara Pelletti, Ravi Kumar Arya, Agostino Monorchio, Giacomo Bianconi, Tim McManus, Nikolaos Tsitsas

Numerical Modeling of Nanostructured Metamaterials ..........................................................................................................................2659Andrea Vallecchi, Matteo Albani, Filippo Capolino

Microwave Modeling of Single Multi-Wall Carbon Nanotubes ..............................................................................................................2661Anestis Katsounaros, Jiefu Zhang, Yang Hao

Comparison of Different Numerical Models for Volumetric Metamaterials ........................................................................................2665Enrica Martini, Giovanni Maria Sardi, Stefano Maci

Forward Scattering Properties of Periodic Metamaterials......................................................................................................................2668Imam Vakili, Mats Gustafsson, Daniel Sjoberg

Circular Polarization Selective Surface for Dual-Optics CP Offset Reflector Antennas in Ku-band ................................................2671Juanjo Sanz-Fernandez, Elena Saenz, Peter De Maagt, Cyril Mangenot

A Cartesian Cloaking Comprised of Gradually Sparser Dielectric Layers Exploiting Snell’s Law...................................................2676Constantinos A. Valagiannopoulos

Inkjet Printing of Frequency Selective Surfaces on EBG Antenna Radome .........................................................................................2681E. Arnaud, A. Kanso, T. Monediere, D. Passerieux, M. Thevenot, E. Beaudrouet, C. Dossou-Yovo, R. Noguera

Hybridization Band Gap Based Smart Antennas: Deep Subwavelength Yet Directional and Strongly Decoupled MIMO Antennas...........................................................................................................................................................................................2685

Geoffroy Lerosey, Christian Leray, Fabrice Lemoult, Julien De Rosny, Arnaud Tourin, Mathias Fink

CPW-Fed Bow-tie Slot Antenna/AMC Combination for Dual-band Applications on Metallic Objects ............................................2690M. Elena De Cos, Fernando Las-Heras

Practical Realization of Isotropic RF Replica of Plasmonic Sphere .......................................................................................................2694Damir Muha, Mario Mlakar, Silvio Hrabar, Davor Zaluski

Downshifting Extraordinary Transmission by Meander-Lines in Hole Arrays ...................................................................................2698Victor Torres, Pablo Rodrigues-Ulibarri, Miguel Beruete, Francisco Falcone, Mario Sorolla, Miguel Navarro-Cia

Small Antenna Over AMC Surface with/out Vias ....................................................................................................................................2700S. Zhu, K. Ford, A. Tennant, R. Langley

Design of Circularly Polarized Fabry-Perot Cavity Antenna .................................................................................................................2704R. Orr, G. Goussetis, V. Fusco

CPW-Fed Monopole/EBG Combination with Bandwidth Enhancement for Dual-band Applications..............................................2709M. Elena De Cos, Fernando Las-Heras

Evaluation of LTE Link-Level Performance with Closed Loop Spatial Multiplexing in a Realistic Urban Macro Environment..................................................................................................................................................................................................2713

Christian Schneider, Reiner S. Thoma

Analysis Of Some Techniques To Enhance The Bandwidth Of Handset Antennas Using Metallic Strips ........................................2718J. Anguera, A. Andujar, C. Picher, C. Puente, S. Kahng

Low-Profile Ka-Band Satellite Terminal Antenna Based on a Dual-Band Partially Reflective Surface ...........................................2722A. Krauss, H. Bayer, R. Stephan, M. A. Hein

Metamaterial-inspired Antennas for Telecommunication Applications ................................................................................................2727Giorgio Bertin, Bruno Piovano, Roberto Vallauri, Filiberto Bilotti, Lucio Vegni

Multiband Handset Antennas by Combining Monopoles and Intelligent Ground Planes...................................................................2729C. Picher, J. Anguera, A. Andujar, C. Puente, J. Anguera, A. Bujalance

Ground Plane Booster Antenna Technology .............................................................................................................................................2733A. Andujar, J. Anguera, C. Picher, C. Puente

MIMO Performance Optimisation of Car Antennas ...............................................................................................................................2738M. Geissler, C. Oikonomopoulos-Zachos, T. Ould, M. Arnold

Study on the Minimum Required Size of the Low-Band Cellular Antenna in Variable-Sized Mobile Terminals ...........................2742J. Holopainen, J. Ilvonen, R. Valkonen, A. A. H. Azremi, P. Vainikainen

User Influence on the Mean Effective Gain for Data Mode Operation of Mobile Handsets ...............................................................2747J. Nielsen, B. Yanakiev, I. Bonev, M. Christensen, G. Pedersen, C. Luxey, A. Diallo, I. Dioum

Wideband Circular Polarised Antenna with High Polarisation Purity Over a Wide Angular Range ...............................................2752Oleksandr Malyuski, Vincent Fusco

Effect of Beamforming on Full and Semi Cooperative MIMO in Real Measured Channels ..............................................................2754M. Rahimi, E. Carvalho, B. Yanakiev, G. Pedersen

60 GHz Membrane Antenna Array for Beam Steering Applications.....................................................................................................2758Mikko Kyro, Diane Titz, Christina Villeneuve, Veli-Matti Kolmonen, Pertti Vainikainen

Circularly Polarized Multi-Beam Lens Antenna System. Comparison Between 2 Polarizers ............................................................2763Marco Letizia, Jean-Francois Zurcher, Benjamin Fuchs, Carlos Zorraquino Gaston, Juan R. Mosig

Phase Optimization for Near Field Focus on Simultaneous Targets Using Antenna Arrays ..............................................................2767J. Alvarez, R. Ayestaran, G. Leon, J. Lopez-Fernandez, F. Las-Heras

On the Design and Measurement of a Novel Non-Orthogonal Multi-Beam Network for Triangular Arrays of Three Radiating Elements ......................................................................................................................................................................................2772

Javier Garcia-Gasco Trujillo, Alvaro Noval Sanchez De Toca, Ignacio Montesinos-Ortego, Manuel Sierra Perez

Deterministic Beamforming for Enhanced Vertical Sectorization and Array Pattern Compensation ..............................................2777Elpiniki P. Tsakalaki, Luis Angel Maestro Ruiz De Temino, Tomi Haapala, Javier Lopez Roman, Miguel Arranz Arauzo

Planar Beam Switched Antenna with Butler Matrix for 60 GHz WPAN ..............................................................................................2782Christian Rusch, Christian Karcher, Stefan Beer, Thomas Zwick

A High Performance Circular Polarised Retrodirective Antenna with Basic Array Function for Service Activated SATCOM Systems........................................................................................................................................................................................2786

N. Buchanan, V. Fusco, M. Vorst, O. Malyuskin

Coherently Fed Frequency Scanning Phased Array Structure for Imaging Applications ..................................................................2790Belen Larumbe-Gonzalo, Ainara Rebollo-Muguenta, Jorge Teniente-Vallinas

Antenna Module with Integrated Scan-Phase Antenna Diversity System for SDARS ........................................................................2795S. Senega, S. Lindenmeier

Design and Analysis of a Compact Size Planar Antenna for UWB Applications .................................................................................2799Emad Tammam, Kuniaki Yoshitomi, Ahmed Allam, Mohammed El-Sayed, Ramesh Pokharel, Keiji Yoshida

A Novel Compact Ultra-Wideband Dipole Antenna ................................................................................................................................2803Dinh Thanh Le, Yoshio Karasawa

Square Circular Polarized Dielectric Resonator Antenna with a Rotated Notch .................................................................................2807A. Khalajmehrabadi, M. Rahim, N. Murad, M. Kamarudin

Guided Wave Structure for Dual Leaky-Mode Microstrip Antenna Design ........................................................................................2811G. Cheng, C. Tzuang

H-Shaped Microstrip Patch Antenna Using L-Probe Fed for Wideband Applications .......................................................................2815M. T. Ali, N. Nordin, I. Pasya, M. N. Md Tan

Novel Loop and Dipole Based UWB Antennas for GPR and Communication Applications...............................................................2820H. Jenks, S. R. Pennock, M. A. Redfern, G. Orlando

A UWB Monopole Antenna for GPR Application....................................................................................................................................2825Ping Cao, Yi Huang, Jingwei Zhang

New EBG Solutions for Mutual Coupling Reduction...............................................................................................................................2829Gonzalo Exposito-Dominguez, Jose Manuel Fernandez-Gonzalez, Pablo Padilla, Manuel Sierra-Castaner

Filtering EBG Structures Implemented in Coplanar Waveguide Feedline of Planar Slot Antenna ..................................................2833P. Kurgan, A. Bekasiewicz, M. Kitlinski

Bandwidth Enhancement Through Coupling Microstrip Patch Antenna and Electromagnetic Band-Gap Resonances ....................................................................................................................................................................................................2837

Ramona Cosmina Hadarig, Maria Elena De Cos, Fernando Las-Heras

On the Bandwidth Enhancement of Patch Antenna Using EBG/AMC Structures ..............................................................................2841Ramona Cosmina Hadarig, Maria Elena De Cos, Fernando Las-Heras

Scattering and Reflection of a Quasi-Periodic Unit Cell Sequence for Reflectarray and Holographic Applications .......................2846Y. Ranga, Stuart Hay, L. Matekovits, M. Orefice, Karu P. Esselle

Towards Experimental Investigation of Metamaterialbased DB Surface in Waveguide Environment.............................................2849Davor Zaluski, Damir Muha, Silvio Hrabar

A Compact Five-Band SLR Type Metamaterial.......................................................................................................................................2853O. Yurduseven, A. Yilmaz, G. Turhan-Sayan

Some Design Parameters for High Q Filters Built in Metamaterial Technology ..................................................................................2856L. Matekovits, A. Sabata

Experimental and Numerical Investigations of Oscillations in Extracted Material Parameters for Finite Bragg Stacks Using the NRW Method...................................................................................................................................................................2860

Niels Christian Jerichau Clausen, Samel Arslanagic, Olav Breinbjerg

Analysis of the Radiation Characteristics of CRLH LWAs Around Broadside ...................................................................................2864J. Gomez-Diaz, A. Alvarez-Melcon, J. Perruisseau-Carrier

Dispersion Analysis of a Reconfigurable Unit Cell in a One Dimensional Periodic Architecture ......................................................2869D. N. P. Thalakotuna, L. Matekovits, Karu P. Esselle, Stuart Hay, Michael Heimlich

Textile Artificial Magnetic Conductor for GPS Applications .................................................................................................................2872M. Silva Pimenta, F. Ferrero, P. Brachat, P. Ratajczak, R. Staraj, J. M. Ribero

Compact and Broadband Leaky Wave Antenna Using Composite Right/Left-Handed Transmission Line for Mobile Handsets ...........................................................................................................................................................................................2875

Hirohisa Kitahara, Naobumi Michishita, Yoshihide Yamada

Artificial Magnetic Conductors Realized by Planar Array of Loaded Loop for Antenna Applications ............................................2879Seyed Mohammad Hashemi, Mohammad Soleimani

Designing a Partially Reflective Surface for Tri-band Sectoral Antennas.............................................................................................2883M. Hajj, R. Chantalat, M. Salah Toubet, B. Jecko

Flat Cavity Antenna .....................................................................................................................................................................................2888N. I. Voytovich, A. V. Ershov, V. A. Bukharin, N. N. Repin

Horizontally Polarized Omnidirectional Segmented Loop Antenna ......................................................................................................2892X. Qing, Z. Chen

High Gain Circular Polarization Antenna for 5.8 GHz with Left-Handed Materials ..........................................................................2896Aline Coelho De Souza, Tan Phu Vuong, Christian Defay

A Printed Radial Configuration of Width-Modulated Strip-Lines for Controlled Guided-Wave Radiation ...................................2899S. K. Podilchak, L. Matekovits, A. P. Freundorfer, Y. M. M. Antar, M. Orefice

Electrical Small Meander Line Patch Antenna.........................................................................................................................................2902Sarinya Pasakawee, Zhirun Hu

Volume Reduction of Planar Substrate Integrated Waveguide Cavity-Backed Antennas ..................................................................2907C. Martinez, J. Reyes, O. Manosalva, N. Traslavina

Optimal Design of Wideband Microstrip Arrays with High Aperture Efficiency on FR4 Substrate.................................................2912Z. Ma, G. Vandenbosch

Planar Antenna Arrays for Long Range Links.........................................................................................................................................2916Jan Puskely, Zbynek Raida, Libor Slama

1-6 GHz UWB Phase Shifter Design and Implementation with Surface Micromachining ..................................................................2921Korkut Kaan Tokgoz, Cagri Cetintepe, Simsek Demir

Compact UWB Power Divider Packaged by Using Gap-Waveguide Technology ................................................................................2926Hasan Raza, Jian Yang

Comparisons of Solutions for Forward Scattering ...................................................................................................................................2931Vladimir Schejbal, Ondrej Fiser, Petr Svoboda

SBR Ray Tracing on NURBS for Electromagnetic Scattering Simulations ..........................................................................................2936F. Weinmann

Performance of an Enclosed MEMS Mounted Shunt on a CPW Line...................................................................................................2940J. Massiot, C. Martel, O. Pascal, N. Raveu

A New Switched Polarisation Antenna ......................................................................................................................................................2944F. Ghanem

Frequency Reconfigurable Aperture Coupled Antenna ..........................................................................................................................2948M. F. Ismail, M. K. A. Rahim, H. A. Majid, M. R. Hamid, M. R. Kamarudin, N. A. Murad

Optimization Procedures for the Design of Reconfigurable Compact Multi-Band Antennas.............................................................2952S. Arianos, J. L. Araque Quijano, F. Vipiana, G. Dassano, G. Vecchi, M. Orefice

Evaluation of a Reflectarray with Independent Scanning of Two Linearly-Polarized Beams ............................................................2955E. Carrasco, J. Encinar, J. Perruisseau-Carrier

Design and Shaping of Offset Dual-Reflector Antennas From Far-Field and Near-Field Measurements of the Feed Horns..............................................................................................................................................................................................................2959

A. Fachar, L. Ariet

2D Beam-Steering with Non-Symmetrical Beam Using Non-Symmetrical Integrated Lens Antenna ...............................................2964Aki Karttunen, Juha Ala-Laurinaho, Ronan Sauleau, Antti V. Raisanen

Retrodirective Rotman Lens Constraining Factors..................................................................................................................................2969Yunhua Zhang, Steven Christie, Vincent Fusco, Robert Cahill, Jian Zhang

Radome Design for Hat-Fed Reflector Antenna .......................................................................................................................................2973E. Geterud, J. Yang, T. Ostling

Measurement Campaign of the Ka-Band Discrete Lens Antenna for Multibeam Applications .........................................................2977Oier Dominguez, Juan C. Lizarraga, Jorge Teniente, Carlos Del-Rio

Analysing Admittance of Obstacles in Evanescent Waveguide Using the Imaginary Smith Chart....................................................2981Peter Ludlow, Vincent Fusco, Dmitry Zelenchuk

Circular Polarization Wire Patch Antenna for RFID Applications .......................................................................................................2985Sylvain Pflaum, Robert Staraj, Georges Kossiavas

Detection of Spiral Resonator Array for Chipless RFID .........................................................................................................................2989M. Polivka, J. Havlicek, M. Svanda, J. Machac

Meandered Monopole Coupled Loop Antenna .........................................................................................................................................2993Y. Taachouche, F. Colombel, M. Himdi

A Consideration of Open- and Short-End Type Helical Antennas for Magnetic-Coupled Resonant Wireless Power Transfer .........................................................................................................................................................................................................2997

Hiroshi Hirayama, Tomohiro Amano, Nobuyoshi Kikuma, Kunio Sakakibara

Wireless UHF RFID Chip Impedance Measurement by Only Using an RFID Reader .......................................................................3002M. Heiss, W. Fischer

Measurements of a RFID Antenna for Cable Identification Application ..............................................................................................3005Tin Komljenovic, Zvonimir Sipus, Juraj Bartolic, Igor Krois

Design and Analysis of Efficient Fractal Antennas for UHF RFID Passive Tags .................................................................................3009E. Aivazis, K. Siakavara, J. Sahalos

Optimizing the Localization Accuracy of a RTLS Sensor Node by Using a Metal Reflector ..............................................................3014Evanaska Barbosa Nogueira, Mathieu Huchard, Fabien Ndagijimana, Tan-Phu Vuong

UHF RFID Humidity Sensor Tag Based on Hygroscopic Polymeric Load ...........................................................................................3018S. Manzari, C. Occhiuzzi, S. Nawale, A. Catini, C. Di Natale, G. Marrocco

Miniaturized PIFA Antenna for 2.4 GHz ISM Band Applications.........................................................................................................3022Wen-Jiao Liao, Te-Ming Liu, Shu-Yin Ho

A Novel Metamaterial-Based RFID Antenna with Efficient of Operating Distance ............................................................................3026Maciej Smierzchalski, Sylvain Collardey, Kouroch Mahdjoubi

A Small Size Nickel-Ferrite Rectangular Dielectric Resonator Antenna...............................................................................................3030Elder Eldervitch Carneiro De Oliveira, Adaildo Gomes Dassuncao, Joao Bosco Lucena De Oliveira, Alciney Miranda Cabral, Lucianna Gama Fernandes Vieier

Pattern Synthesis of Linear Antenna Arrays Using a Genetic Algorithm with Physical Size Constraint .........................................3034Matthew B. Hawes, Wei Liu

Circularly Polarized Elliptical Dielectric Resonator Antenna with a Conformal Strip Excitation ....................................................3038H. Al-Lawati, S. Khamas

Electrodynamic Characteristics of a Loop Antenna Located on the Surface of an Axially Magnetized Plasma Column...........................................................................................................................................................................................................3041

A. Zaitseva, A. Kudrin, T. Zaboronkova

Differential Evolution as Applied to Electromagnetics: Advances, Comparisons, and Applications .................................................3046G. Oliveri, P. Rocca, A. Massa

Active Directional Attenuators ...................................................................................................................................................................3048Hynek Bartik

Analysis of a Bent-Dipole.............................................................................................................................................................................3051C. Fazi, C. Kenyon, R. Atkinson

Improvement of Sensitivities of Single-Layer Multiple Ring Elements for the Design of Reflectarrays ...........................................3056I. Barriuso, A. L. Gutierrez, M. Lanza, M. Domingo, J. R. Perez, L. Valle, J. Basterrechea

Active Impedance Calculation in Uniform Microstrip Patch Antenna Arrays with Simulated Data ................................................3061Mustafa Secmen

An EER Based Phase Conjugator for Retrodirective Response Using Modern Wireless Signal Formats ........................................3066Reinel Marante, Nieves Ruiz, Jose A. Garcia, Lorena Cabria

Annular Ring Slot Radiating Element for Integrated Millimeter Wave Arrays...................................................................................3070G. Amendola, Emilio Arnieri, Luigi Boccia, Volker Ziegler

Low-Cost Variable Fidelity Bayesian Support Vector Machine Modeling of Planar Slot Antennas .................................................3074J. Jacobs, S. Koziel, S. Ogurtsov

Analytical Model for TM Scattering of 1–D Narrow Slit Gratings Loaded with Dielectric Slabs ......................................................3077R. Rodriguez-Berral, Francisco Mesa, Francisco Medina

RCS Analysis of Finite Graphene Sheets Through an Enhanced Frequency-Dependent FDTD Method .........................................3082Georgios D. Bouzianas, Nikolaos V. Kantartzis, Theodoros D. Tsiboukis

Resonant Frequency Analysis of Microstrip Antenna on Dielectric-Magnetic Medium .....................................................................3086C. F. L. Vasconcelos, M. R. M. L. Albuquerque, V. P. Silva Neto, A. G. Dassuncao

An Octave Bandwidth Electromagnetic Band Gap (EBG) Structure ....................................................................................................3090S. Palreddy, A. I. Zaghloul, Y. Lee

Wearable Finger Multiband Antenna for BAN Use .................................................................................................................................3094Tomokazu Watanabe, Hisao Iwasaki

Synthesis and Rigorous Analysis of Omnidirectional ADE Antenna with Shaped Main Reflector Described by Local Conic Sections.....................................................................................................................................................................................3098

R. A. Penchel, S. R. Zang, J. R. Bergmann, F. J. S. Moreira

A Printed V-Shaped Circular Antenna Array for Direction Finding Applications..............................................................................3103Farooq Sultan, Haider Ali, Mohammad S. Sharawi, Daniel N. Aloi

Directive Planar Antennas Based on Leaky Waves..................................................................................................................................3107David R. Jackson

An Elliptical Analytic Link Loss Model for Wireless Propagation Around the Human Torso ..........................................................3109Rohit Chandra, Anders J. Johansson

Impact of Channel Modeling on Accurate Estimation of On-Body Channel Capacity........................................................................3113A. Michalopoulou, T. Zervos, K. Peppas, F. Lazarakis, A. A. Alexandridis, K. Dangakis, D. I. Kaklamani

Transmission Characteristics Between Wearable and Embedded Transceivers Based on Near-Field Coupling : Body-Channel Communication System for Human-Area Networking..................................................................................................3118

Y. Kado, T. Yanagawa, K. Nagata, T. Kobase, T. Kusunoki, R. Nagai, H. Ozaki, H. Shimasaki, M. Shinagawa

Topological and Morphological Influence in the Performance of MIMO Techniques in Complex Indoor Scenarios .....................3122Luis Lenin Trigueros, Leire Azpilicueta, Carlos Del-Rio, Francisco Falcone

Effect of Polarisation Diversity on Phase Conjugation Assisted Communications in Urban Canyon Environment........................3125D. Zelenchuk, V. Fusco

State Modeling of the Land Mobile Satellite Channel with Angle Diversity .........................................................................................3128Daniel Arndt, Thomas Heyn, Albert Heuberger, Roberto Prieto-Cerdeira, Ernst Eberlein

Electromagnetic Simulations for Aeronautical Satellite Communications Channel Model ................................................................3133Lorena Lozano, M. Jesus Algar, Ivan Gonzalez, Alvaro Somolinos, Felipe Catedra, Roberto Prieto-Cerdeira, Paolo Burzigotti

Influence of the Rain Cell Structure on Attenuation Predictions on Earth-Space Paths.....................................................................3137George Brost

Investigation of Diffraction Effects in GNSS Using Ray Tracing Channel Modelling - Preliminary Results ...................................3142M. Liso Nocolas, M. Smyrnaios, S. Schon, T. Kurner

Ionosphere Scintillation Modelling / Satellite Navigation Impairments & Radar Observations ........................................................3147Y. Beniguel, P. Hamel

A Metamaterial-Based Series Connected Rectangular Patch Antenna Array for UHF RFID Readers ............................................3152B. Braaten, S. Roy, S. Nariyal, M. Aziz, B. Ijaz, M. Masud

Impact Analysis of Silicon and Bondwires on an On-Chip Antenna ......................................................................................................3156P. Gentner, A. Adalan, A. Scholtz, C. Mecklenbrauker

On the Currents Magnitude of a Tunable Planar-Inverted-F Antenna for Low-Band Frequencies..................................................3161S. Barrio, M. Pelosi, O. Franek, G. Pedersen

Direction Dependent Modulation of an RFID Tag ...................................................................................................................................3165Yang Wang, Alan Tennant, Richard Langley

A Discution of a SRR Parasitic Antenna for an RFID TAG ANTENNA by Using Lumped Elements ..............................................3169Abdelhak Ferchichi, Gharsallah Ali

Combined Plane Wave – Point Source Near-Field Far-Field Transformation for Short Measurement Distances ..........................3174C. Schmidt, D. Schobert, T. Eibert

Advances in Antenna Measurement Instrumentation and Systems .......................................................................................................3178Steven R. Nichols, Roger Dygert, David Wayne

Achieved Accuracy of a Spherical Near-Field Arch Positioning System ...............................................................................................3183Jeffrey Fordham, Tim Scwartz, George Cawton, Youlian Netzov, Scott McBride, Makary Awadalla, Dave Wayne

Cylindrical NF–FF Transformation From NF Data Acquired on a Non-classical Sampling Grid.....................................................3188Francesco D'Agostino, Flaminio Ferrara, Claudio Gennarelli, Rocco Guerriero, Massimo Migliozzi, Carl Rizz

Computational and Experimental Verification of Far-Field Mathematical Absorber Reflection Suppression................................3193S. F. Gregson, J. McCormick, B. J. Kerse, A. C. Newell, G. E. Hindman

Advances in Inverse Scattering Arising From the Physical Meaning of the Linear Sampling Method .............................................3198Ilaria Catapano, Lorenzo Crocco, Loreto Di Donato, Tommaso Isernia

Numerical Integration of Sommerfeld Integrals Based on Singularity Extraction Techniques and Double Exponential-Type Quadrature Formulas ..................................................................................................................................................3203

V. Volskiy, G. Vandenbosch, R. Niciforovic, A. Polimeridis, J. Mosig

Method of Generalized Debye Sources for the Analysis of Electromagnetic Scattering by Arbitrary Shaped Bodies ....................3207Evgeny V. Chernokozhin, Amir Boag

Low-Cost Design Optimization of Antennas Using Adjoint Sensitivity .................................................................................................3210Slawomir Koziel, Stanislav Ogurtsov

REACH / PREACH - A Physical Optics Based Tool for Simulation of Radome Effects on Antenna Patterns ................................3213T. Schuster, M. Sabielny

Ka-band Dual Frequency Switchable Reflectarray ..................................................................................................................................3218Akiko Kohmura, Jerome Lanteri, Fabien Ferrero, Claire Migliaccio, Philippe Ratajczak, Shunichi Futatsumori, Naruto Yonemoto

Antennas with Synthesized Frequency Dependency of Gain...................................................................................................................3222David Wolansky, Petr Vsetula, Zbynek Raida, Peter S. Hall

A Wideband (3 to 5 GHz) Wide-Scan Connected Array of Dipoles with Low Cross Polarization .....................................................3227D. Cavallo, A. Neto, G. Gerini

Slot Antenna in Ridge Gap Waveguide Technology.................................................................................................................................3231A. Zaman, P. Kildal

Common-Mode Rejection in a Connected Array of Dipoles with Inherent Frequency Selectivity Properties..................................3233Lorenzo Cifola, Daniele Cavallo, Giampiero Gerini, Silvio Savoia, Antonio Morini, Giuseppe Venanzoni

Efficiency Calculation of THz Photoconductive Antennas in a Pulsed System.....................................................................................3238Neda Khiabani, Yi Huang, Yao-Chun Shen, Stephen Boyes

60 GHz Ultrawideband Front-Ends with Gain Control, Phase Shifter, and Wave Guide Transition in LTCC Technology ....................................................................................................................................................................................................3243

Robert Muller, Frank Wollenschlager, Alexander Schulz, Mohamed Elkhouly, Uwe Trautwein, Matthias A. Hein, Jens Muller, Alexis Paolo Garcia Ariza, Reiner S. Thoma

Mono-block Dielectric Resonator Antenna with Incorporated Excitation for 60 GHz Integrated Systems......................................3248J. Guzman, C. Calvez, M. Ney, C. Person, R. Pilard, F. Giansello

Development of Lens-Coupled LEKID Detectors Arrays for THz Radiation.......................................................................................3252Beatriz Blazquez, Nuria Llombart, Juan Bueno, Andrea Neto

Hyper-acuity Through Inverse Filtering: Application to Terahertz Cameras......................................................................................3256Oier Dominguez, Carlos Del-Rio

A Narrowband Frequency-Tunable Antenna for Cognitive Radio Applications .................................................................................3261Ali H. Ramadan, Mohammed Al-Huseini, Karim Y. Kabalan, Ali El-Hajj, Youssef A. Tawk, Christos G. Christodoulou, Joseph Constantine

A Novel Scheme for Realizing a Microstrip Antenna with Switchable Circular Polarization ............................................................3266Billy Wu, Michal Okoniewski

Automation of Reconfiguration, Compensation, and Thermoregulation Using Vascular Networks .................................................3271G. Huff, S. Long, F. Drummond, S. Lee, E. Estes, R. Burgess, J. Berry

Time-Modulation for MIMO Systems – Potentials and Trends .............................................................................................................3273P. Rocca, L. Poli, E. Bekele, A. Massa

Design of Medium-Size Dielectric Bifocal Lenses for Wide-Angle Beam Scanning Antennas ............................................................3275T. La, N. Nguyen, M. Casaletti, R. Sauleau

Wide Flare Angle Axially Corrugated Conical Horn Design for a Classical Offset Dual-Reflector Antenna...................................3280R. Lehmensiek, D. Villiers

Synthesized Elliptical Lens with Optimized Extension for Focal Array Fed Lens Antennas..............................................................3283N. Nguyen, M. Casaletti, T. La, R. Sauleau

Analysis of Curved Frequency Selective Reflector Antenna Systems – a Combined Approach .........................................................3287S. Skokic, Z. Sipus, S. Maci, M. Bosiljevac, M. Casaletti

Synthesis and Analysis of the Sardinia Radio Telescope BWG System for TT&C Capabilities Using a Gaussian Beam Approach ............................................................................................................................................................................................3291

A. Giannini, F. Concaro, P. Besso, M. Mercolino, J. De Vicente, L. Garromone, R. Ambrosini, L. Perregrini, M. Pasian, M. Bozzi

Numerical Optimization of a TARA-like Shielded Parabolic Reflector.................................................................................................3296V. S. Bulygin, Y. V. Gandel, T. M. Benson, A. I. Nosich

Body Effects on the GPS Antenna of a Wearable Tracking Device........................................................................................................3301Xi Lin Chen, Yu Chee Tan, Nicolas Chavannes, Niels Kuster

2-Port Antenna on Fleece Substrate for On-body MIMO Applications ................................................................................................3305E. Stavrou, H. Shakhtour, J. Pamp, D. Heberling

Dual-Band Sierpinski Textile PIFA Efficiency Measurements ...............................................................................................................3310P. J. Soh, S. J. Boyes, G. A. E. Vandenbosch, Y. Huang, Z. Ma

Statistical Adjustment of Selected Propagation Models for Applications in Container Terminal .....................................................3315Slawomir J. Ambroziak, Ryszard J. Katulski

Measurement Based Ray Launching for Analysis of Outdoor Propagation .........................................................................................3320Meifang Zhu, Amit Singh, Fredrik Tufvesson

Short Range Forest Channel Modeling in the 5 GHz Band.....................................................................................................................3325David W. Matolak, Feng-Cheng Yang, H. Bryan Riley

Wave Attenuation Prediction Through a Volume of Random Located Lossy-Dielectric Branches – 3-D Vector Transport Theory .........................................................................................................................................................................................3330

Saul A. Torrico, Roger H. Lang

Simulator for the Analysis of the Mutual Impact Between Indoor Femtocells and Urban Macrocells..............................................3334Reiner Hoppe, Dennis M. Rose, Rene Wahl, Gerd Wolfle, Thomas Kurner

Method to Match Waves of Ray-Tracing Simulations with 3-D High-Resolution Propagation Measurements ...............................3339Peng Guo, A. Rainier Van Dommele, Matti H. A. J. Herben

Angular Spread of the Radio Wave Propagation in Foliage Environment ...........................................................................................3344Hung Vu Le, Jun-Ichi Takada, Mir Ghoraishi, Chaymaly Phakasoum, Koshiro Kitao, Tetsuro Imai

Propagation Prediction and Measurement in Vegetated Moderately Built-Up Areas .........................................................................3349K. L. Chee, J. Baumgarten, A. Hecker, T. Kuerner, S. A. Torrico, P. Zahn, M. Rohner

Analysis of Mobile Radio Wave Dispersion Through Vegetation...........................................................................................................3354Mir Ghoraishi, Jun-Ichi Takada, Tetsuro Imai

Comparison of the Performance of the Two Different UWB Antennas for the Use in WBAN On-Body Communication.............................................................................................................................................................................................3359

T. Tuovinen, K. Yazdandoost, J. IInatti

Antenna Independent Path Loss Model for In-Body Communication in Homogeneous Tissue .........................................................3363Divya Kurup, Wout Joseph, Emmeric Tanghe, Gunter Vermeeren, Luc Martens

Off-Body Channel Modelling At 2.45 GHz for Two Different Antennas...............................................................................................3366Ramona Rosini, Raffaele D'Errico

Correlation Analysis in On-Body Communications .................................................................................................................................3371Carla Oliveira, Michal Mackowiak, Luis M. Correia

Signal Correlation Between Wearable Antennas in Body Area Networks in Multipath Environment .............................................3376Michal Mackowiak, Carla Oliveira, Luis M. Correia

Improving Signal Reliability in Outdoor Body-to-Body Communications Using Front and Back Positioned Antenna Diversity .........................................................................................................................................................................................3381

Simon L. Cotton, William G. Scanlon, Adrian McKernan

Effect of Body Motion on Propagation Path Gain At 60 GHz.................................................................................................................3385Y. I. Nechayec, X. Wu, C. C. Constantinou, P. S. Hall

Miniature Antenna Effect on the Ear-to-Ear Radio Channel Characteristics ......................................................................................3390L. Huitema, S. Sufyar, C. Delaveaud, R. D'Errico

Desensitization of Planar UWB Antennas .................................................................................................................................................3395Yunfei Wei, Christophe Robin

Dual-Polarized Ku-Band Multi-Feed Cluster for the CoReH2O Mission .............................................................................................3399T. Fuegen, B. Grafmueller, M. Viberg, S. Riegger, F. Heliere, K. Van'T Klooster

Development of a Detailed System Model of the Eleven Feed Receiver Using the CAESAR Software .............................................3404Benjamin Klein, Marianna V. Ivashina, Rob Maaskant, Alan R. Clark, Miroslav Panteleev

Passive Millimeter Wave Imaging: 2D Sparse Array Optimization for Low Cost System Architecture...........................................3409Y. Aouial, S. Meric, O. Lafond, M. Himdi

P-Band Feedarray for BIOMASS...............................................................................................................................................................3414Paolo Valle, Giuseppe Orlando, Roberto Mizzoni, Florence Heliere, Kees Van'T Klooster

A Dual Band Array-fed Reflector ScanSAR Antenna..............................................................................................................................3419P. Cecchini, R. Mizzoni, G. Orlando, F. Heliere, K. Van'T Klooster

An MLPO Algorithm for Fast Evaluation of the Focal Plane Fields of Reflector Antennas...............................................................3424C. Letrou, A. Boag

Sub-Reflector Extensions for Reduced Noise Temperature in Low-Side Sub-Reflector Offset Gregorian Systems ........................3426D. Villiers, R. Lehmensiek

94 GHz Cassegrain Reflector Antenna Performance Characterization.................................................................................................3430E. Nova, D. Rodrigo, J. Romeu, L. Jofre

A Microwave Sensor System Based on Reverse Modelling of the Array Factor...................................................................................3434A. Costanzo, D. Masotti, N. Arbizzani, V. Rizzoli, F. Mastri

Sewed Textile RFID Tag and Sensor Antennas for On-Body Use ..........................................................................................................3438Leena Ukkonen, Lauri Sydanheimo, Yahya Rahmat-Samii

Improving Range of Passive RFID Tags Utilizing Energy Harvesting and High Efficiency Class-E Oscillators .............................3443Apostolos Georgiadis, Ana Collado

Energy-efficient Off-Body Data Transmission by Means of Antenna Diversity and Tracking of the Time-Variant Wireless Channel State ................................................................................................................................................................................3447

Patrick Van Torre, Luigi Vallozzi, Hendrik Rogier, Marc Moeneclaey, Jo Verhaevert

Design and Implementation of RFID Systems with Software Defined Radio .......................................................................................3452John Kimionis, Aggelos Bletsas, John N. Sahalos

RFID Tag Antenna Embedded in Concrete Structures for Construction Industry .............................................................................3457C. Mariotti, G. Orecchini, M. Virili, F. Alimenti, L. Roselli

A Proposal for Dynamic Power Control in RFID and Passive Sensor Systems Based on RSSI..........................................................3461Alirio Soares Boaventura, Nuno Borges Carvalho

Practical Considerations of ASK Modulated Passive Tags .....................................................................................................................3464Antonis G. Dimitriou, Aggelos Bletsas, John N. Sahalos

Inkjet-Printed RFIDs for Wireless Sensing and Anti-counterfeiting .....................................................................................................3469M. M. Tentzeris, Rushi Vyas, Vasileios Lakafosis, Anya Traille, Hoseon Lee, Edward Gebara, Mauro Marroncelli

Design of a Miniaturized RFID Antenna Integrated with Sensor for Wireless Agricultural Applications .......................................3471Amal Harrabi, Ali Gharsalleh, Manos M. Tentzeris

Rectangular Waveguide Based Polarizer for mm-Wave Antenna Measurements ...............................................................................3475Marcel D. Blech, Stefan Koch, Shin Saito

RCS Measurement Accuracy in the U/VHF Range: Diagnosis for Target Positioning Error and Improvement of the Procedure ................................................................................................................................................................................................3479

Pierre Massaloux, Genevieve Maze-Merceur, Benjamin Thiriot, Didier Gruszka

Experimental Study of Real-Time Human Imaging Using UWB Doppler Radar Interferometry .....................................................3483K. Saho, T. Sakamoto, T. Sato, K. Inoue, T. Fukuda

On the Synthesis of Plane Wave Generators: Performance Limits, Design Paradigms and Effective Algorithms ..........................3488O. Bucci, M. Migliore, G. Panariello, Ld. Pinchera

Using an Autoregressive Model for DMC..................................................................................................................................................3492T. Jost, W. Wang, D. Shutin, F. Antreich

Permittivity Measurement Under Free Space Propagation ....................................................................................................................3497Greg Hislop, Christophe Craeye

Free Space Material Characterization for Microwave Frequencies.......................................................................................................3501E. Kemptner, S. Thurner

Indoor Location Finding Algorithms for Mobile Robots Carrying Passive RFID Tags ......................................................................3504Erdem Ozyurt, Elif Aydin, A. Cagri Yapici

Impact of the Antenna Impulse Response on Accuracy of Impulse-Based Localization Systems ......................................................3508Lukasz Zwirello, Lars Reichardt, Xuyang Li, Thomas Zwick

Design of a Coplanar Waveguide-to-Ridge Gap Waveguide Transition Via Capacitive Couplin ......................................................3512Astrid Algaba Brazalez, Ashraf Uz Zaman, Per-Simon Kildal

Broadband Polarimetric mmWave Antennas with Differential Stripline Feed ....................................................................................3517Karsten Thurn, Sebastien Methfessel, Lorenz-Peter Schmidt

Contactless Non-Leaking Waveguide Flange Realized by Bed of Nails for Millimeter Wave Applications......................................3521Elena Pucci, Per-Simon Kildal

A Wideband 60 GHz Differential Stripline-to-Waveguide Transition for Antenna Measurements in Low-temperature Co-fired Ceramics Technology .............................................................................................................................................3525

Frank Wollenschlager, Robert Muller, Ralf Stephan, Alexis Paolo Garcia Ariza, Alexander Schulz, Reiner S. Thoma, Jens Muller, Matthias A. Hein

140-GHz Planar SIW Slot Antenna Array with a Large-Via-Fence Dielectric Loading in LTCC.....................................................3530Junfeng Xu, Zhi Ning Chen, Xianming Qing, Wei Hong

60-GHz CMOS Integrated On-Chip Yagi Antenna and Balun Bandpass Filter in 90-nm CMOS Technology ................................3534H. Yue, Y. Chuang, H. Chuang

V-band Parabolic-Horn Antenna ...............................................................................................................................................................3537Yevhen Yashchyshyn

Dielectric Rod Waveguide Antenna for 220 – 325 GHz ...........................................................................................................................3539A. Generalov, D. Lioubtchenko, A. Raisanen

Design of Broadband Nano-Optical Antennas with the Surface Method of Moments.........................................................................3542D. M. Solis, J. M. Taboada, M. G. Araujo, J. Rivero, L. Landesa, F. Obelleiro, J. O. Rubinos

Real Time 100 GHz MST Imaging Retina .................................................................................................................................................3545Maria Alonso, Vaibhav Garg, C. E. Garcia Guerra, Jordi Romeu, Nuria Llombart, Lluis Jofre

Sectored-Beam Reflectarray Antenna with Pattern Reconfiguration by Using RF-MEMS Switches ...............................................3549E. Carrasco, M. Barba, J. Encinar, M. Arrebola

A Cognitive Radio Reconfigurable “Filtenna”..........................................................................................................................................3553Y. Tawk, M. Zamudio, J. Costantine, C. Christodoulou

Reconfigurable Micromachined Antenna with Polarization Diversity for mm-Wave Applications ..................................................3557Mai O. Sallam, Ezzeldin A. Soliman, Sharif Sedky

Tri-Access Tri-band Reconfigurable Stacked Patch Wire-Plate Antenna.............................................................................................3562Walid El Hajj, Francois Gallee, Christian Person

Effect of Polyimide Layers on the Permittivity Tuning Range of Liquid Crystals ...............................................................................3567P. Yaghmaee, T. Kaufmann, B. Bates, C. Fumeaux

A New Reconfigurable Square Spiral Antenna.........................................................................................................................................3571V. Callec, E. Fourn, R. Gillard, H. Diez

Coupling Element Antenna with Slot Tuning for Handheld Devices At LTE Frequencies .................................................................3575Samantha Caporal Del Barrio, Mauro Pelosi, Ondrej Franek, Gert F. Pedersen

Performance of Frequency-Agile CPW Resonators on Thin Film Ferroelectric Material ..................................................................3579Y. Corredores, Q. Simon, X. Castel, R. Benzerga, R. Sauleau, K. Mahdjoubi, A. Febvrier, S. Deputier, M. Guilloux-Viry, L. Zhang, P. Laurent, G. Tanne

New Thin Film Varactor for Frequency Tunable Slot Antenna .............................................................................................................3583H. Nguyen, R. Benzerga, C. Delaveaud, A. Sharaiha, Y. Lu, C. Le Paven, L. Le Gendre, X. Castel

Array-fed Partially Reflective Surface Antenna with Dynamic Beamwidth Control and Beam-Steering ........................................3587T. Debogovic, J. Bartolic, J. Perruisseau-Carrier

Optimum Load of WPT System Analyzed by S-Parameters...................................................................................................................3592Qiaowei Yuan, Qiang Chen, Jianfeng Li, Kunio Sawaya

Optimized Artificial Magnetic Conductor Design Using CG-FFT and BPSO ......................................................................................3597A. L. Gutierrez, D. Gonzalez, M. Lanze, I. Barriuso, L. Valle, M. Domingo, J. R. Perez, J. Basterrechea

Design and Feed Position Estimation for Circular Microstrip Antenna Based on Neural Network Model ......................................3602Ivan Vilovic, Niksa Burum

A Method to Reduce Truncation Errors in Planar Near-Field Measurements Using Photonic Sensor.............................................3606Masanobu Hirose, Satoru Kurakawa

Dedicated Algorithm for the Calculation of Spatial Green’s Functions in a Tokamak Plasma Environment..................................3610Zhanna Khaymedinova, Guy A. E. Vandenbosch

Design of an Integrated Wireless Power Transfer System with High Power Transfer Efficiency and Compact Structure ........................................................................................................................................................................................................3615

Hyungrak Kim, Hong-Min Lee

Substrate Integrated Power Combiners.....................................................................................................................................................3619L. Boccia, A. Emanuele, E. Arnieri, A. Shamsafar, G. Amendola

On the Use of Particle Swarm Optimization for Single Snapshot DOA and Frequency Estimation..................................................3623Borja Errasti-Alcala, Raul Fernandez-Recio

Medical Implants Design. Issues and Requirements ................................................................................................................................3628Stavros Koulouridis

Radiomyography - Feasibility Study ..........................................................................................................................................................3631V. Sipal, D. Edwards

Focused Microwave Thermotherapy: a Patient-Specific Numerical Assessment of a Non-Invasive Breast Cancer Treatment ......................................................................................................................................................................................................3634

D. Iero, T. Isernia, L. Crocco, I. Catapano

A Novel Measurement Approach for the Broadband Characterization of Diluted Water Ferrofluids .............................................3639G. Bellizzi, O. M. Bucci

Intracavitary Helix Applicator to Be Used for BPH and for Prostate Cancer Treatments .................................................................3643Jan Vrba, Barbora Vrbova, Barbara Lungariello, Cafiero Franconi

Branched Dipole Array Applicator for Superficial Hyperthermia System ...........................................................................................3647K. Kim, W. Choi, Y. Yoon

An Ultrawideband Microwave Medical Diagnostic System: Design Considerations and System Performance ...............................3652Xuezhi Zeng, Andreas Fhager, Mikael Persson, Peter Linner, Herbert Zirath

Experimental Characterization of the RFID STENTag for Passive Vascular Monitoring .................................................................3657Cecilia Occhiuzzi, Gaetano Marrocco

3-D Microwave Imaging for Breast Cancer ..............................................................................................................................................3660George Cheng, Yong Zhu, Jan Grzesik

A Compact Double-Elliptical Slot-Antenna for Medical Applications...................................................................................................3665X. Li, J. Yan, M. Jalilvand, T. Zwick

Influence of Atmospheric Conditions on mmWave CATR Facilities: Formulation and Compensation Scheme .............................3669A. Munoz-Acevedo, L. Rolo, M. Sierra-Castaner, M. Paquay

W-band Imaging with Complex Scattered Field Measurements of a Dielectric Cylinder ...................................................................3674Armin Zeitler, Claire Migliaccio, Amael Moynot, Ioannis Aliferis, Laurent Brochier, Jean-Yves Dauvignac, Christian Pichot

3D-Scattering Center Detection of Automotive Targets Using 77 GHz UWB Radar Sensors ............................................................3678Markus Andres, Peter Feil, Wolfgang Menzel

MM-Wave Scattering Measurements for Imaging and Channel Characterization .............................................................................3682Anna Papio Toda, Franco De Flaviis, Lluis Jofre, Jordi Romeu

3D Inversion of Lossy Targets From Free Space Scattering Measurements .........................................................................................3687Jean-Michel Geffrin, Christelle Eyraud, Amelie Litman

Triple-Slot Phase-Shifting Cell Loaded with Capacitances for Reflectarray Applications .................................................................3691T. Makdissy, R. Gillard, E. Fourn, E. Girard, H. Legay

Comparative Study of Reflectarrays Based on Cells with Three Coplanar Dipoles and Reflectarrays Based on Cells with Three Stacked Patches ...............................................................................................................................................................3695

R. Florencio, R. Boix, V. Losada, J. Encinar, E. Carrasco, M. Arrebola

Iris-based 2-Bit Waveguide Phase Shifters and Transmit-Array for Automotive Radar Applications .............................................3699A. Vorobyov, E. Fourn, R. Sauleau, Z. Baghchehsaraei, J. Oberhammer, D. Chicherin, A. Raisanen

Slot Radiator with Tuning Vias for Circularly Polarized SIW Linear Array.......................................................................................3704P. Sanchez-Olivares, J. L. Masa-Campos

Lower Hybrid Antennas for Nuclear Fusion Experiments......................................................................................................................3709J. Hillairet, J. Achard, Y. S. Bae, X. Bai, C. Balorin, Y. Baranov, V. Basiuk, A. Becoulet, J. Belo, G. Berger-By, S. Bremond, C. Castaldo, S. Ceccuzzi, R. Cesario, E. Corbel, X. Courtois, J. Decker, E. Delmas, L. Delpech, X. Ding, D. Douai, A. Ekedahl, C. Goletto, M. Goniche, D. Guilhem, J. P. Gun, P. Hertout, G. T. Hoang, F. Imbeaux, K. K. Kirov, X. Litaudon, R. Magne, J. Mailloux, D. Mazon, F. Mirizzi, P. Mollard, P. Moreau, T. Oosako, V. Petrzilka, Y. Peysson, S. Poli, M. Preynas, M. Prou, F. Saint-Laurent, F. Samaille, B. Saoutic, P. K. Sharma

Sideband Suppression in Time-Modulated Arrays Using Fixed Bandwidth Elements ........................................................................3713Yizhen Tong, Alan Tannat

Dipersive Propagation of Ultra Wideband Pulses Through Triply Distilled Water At PHz Frequencies .........................................3718A. Vazquez Alejos, M. Dawood, Francisco Falcone

A Single Feed Reconfigurable Polarization Printed Monopole Antenna ...............................................................................................3722M. H. Amini, H. R. Hassani, S. Mohammad Ali Nezhad

Multiband Printed Monopole Antenna with Defected Ground Plane for GPS/WLAN/WIMAX Applications ................................3726Masoumeh Darvish, Hamid Reza Hassani

Quad Band CPW-Fed Monopole Antenna for MIMO Applications ......................................................................................................3730Masoumeh Darvish, Hamid Reza Hassani

Mutual Coupling Reduction Between Microstrip Patch Antennas ........................................................................................................3734Y. Hajilou, H. R. Hassani, B. Rahmati

Simulation of Microwave Propagation in Turbulent Evaporation Duct................................................................................................3738Iurii Levadnyi, Victor Ivanov, Vyacheslav Shalyapin

Channel Capacity in Mobile Broadband Heterogenous Networks Based Femto Cells ........................................................................3741E. Tsalolikhin, I. Bilik, N. Blaunstein, Y. Babich

A Proximity-Fed Ultra-Wideband Annular Slot Antenna with Band-Notch Characteristics Via a Split-Ring Parasitic Element..........................................................................................................................................................................................3746

E. Khaled, A. Saad, D. Salem

Dual-Polarized K/Ka-Band Planar Log-Periodic Antenna .....................................................................................................................3751H. Zhou, Y. Wang, Y. Lee, D. Filipovic

Magnetic In-Body and On-Body Antennas Operating At 40MHz and Near Field Magnetic Induction Link Budget .....................3755E. Fatiha, G. Marjorie, P. Stephane, P. Odile

An Improved Spatial Modulation Scheme for MIMO Channels ............................................................................................................3760J. Luna-Rivera, M. Gonzalez-Perez

Compact Dual Band Sinusoidal Annular-Slot...........................................................................................................................................3765A. Shahrouzkhan, H. Hassani, B. Rahmati

Improvement of Parameters Electrically Small Antennas of a Microwave Range...............................................................................3769V. Ovsyanikov, Y. Romanenko, O. Makarov, O. Ol'Shevs'Kiy

Numerical Standing Wave Reduction Method in Software Compact Range ........................................................................................3772Kazuhiro Komiya, Ryo Yaamaguchi

Bandwidth Improvement of Compact High Permittivity RDRA Using Parasitic Conducting Strips ................................................3775Ehab K. I. Hamad, Hany A. Atallah

Wireless Sensors Remotely Powered by RF Energy.................................................................................................................................3779Hubregt J. Visser, Ruud J. M. Vullers

Optics Design for the U.S. SKA Technology Development Project Design Verification Antenna ......................................................3783W. A. Imbriale, L. Baker, G. Cortes-Medellin

Leaky-Wave Long Slot Antenna Design Using Ridged Waveguide........................................................................................................3788A. R. Mallahzadeh, M. H. Amini, S. Mohammad Ali Nezhad

A Reconfigurable Printed Monopole Antenna for MIMO Application .................................................................................................3791Amirhossein Ghasemi, Neamatollah Ghahvehchian, Alireza Mallahzadeh, Somayeh Sheikholvaezin

From Prototype to Serial Manufacturing of the Low Profile KU-BAND Transmit/Receive Terminal ODU for Satellite Mobile Communications ...............................................................................................................................................................3795

Jose Alonso, Ana Rosa Ruiz, Alberto Pellon, Miguel Pena, Jean-Christophe Angevain

Ultra Wide Stop Band LPF with Using Defected Microstrip Structures ...............................................................................................3799A. R. Mallahzadeh, B. Rahmati, M. Alamolhoda, R. Sharifzadeh, A. H. Ghasemi

Tunable PIFA Slot Antenna for Mobile Handset and WLAN Applications .........................................................................................3802I. T. E. Elfergani, A. S. Hussaini, R. A. Abd-Alhameed, M. B. Child, S. M. R. Jones, J. Rodriguez

Wide Bandwidth and Small Size LPDA Antenna .....................................................................................................................................3806A. Moallemizadeh, H. R. Hassani, S. Mohammad Ali Nezhad

Design and Optimisation of Compact Hybrid Quadrifilar Helical-Spiral Antenna in GPS Applications Using Genetic Algorithm ........................................................................................................................................................................................3809

D. Zhou, S. Gao, R. A. Abd-Alhameed, C. Zhang, M. S. Alkhambashi, J. D. Xu

Wall Characterization Via TSVD in Through-the-Wall Imaging ..........................................................................................................3813Raffaele Solimene, Andrea Baratonia, Antonella D'Alterio, Rocco Pierri

The Design of CRLH-Based Compact LTE MIMO Antennas................................................................................................................3817Seongryong Yoo, Kyung-Seok Kahng, Sungtek Kahng, In-Kyu Yang, Jeongho Ju, Jaume Anguera

Decoupling Techniques of Compact and Broadband MIMO Antennas for Handheld Devices ..........................................................3820Faraz Mahmood, Jalil-Ur-Rehman Kazim, Magnus Karlsson, Shaofang Gong, Zhinong Ying

Pattern Synthesis for Multi-Feed Reflector Antenna Using IWO Algorithm .......................................................................................3825A. Foudazi, A. R. Mallahzadeh, M. M. Samadi Taheri

A Novel RFID Tag Antenna Mountable on Metallic Objects..................................................................................................................3830M. S. Alkhambashi, A. S. Hussaini, R. A. Abd-Alhameed, C. H. See, J. M. Noras, M. B. Child, J. Rodriguez

Cross-Polarization and Size Reduction of Slotted Waveguide Array Antenna by Angled Ridges .....................................................3834A. R. Mallahzadeh, S. Mohammad Ali Nezhad

Shaped Beam Synthesis for Shaped Reflector Antenna Using PSO Algorithm ....................................................................................3839M. M. Samadi Taheri, A. R. Mallahzadeh, A. Foudazi

A Compact Triple-Band Fork-Shaped Printed Slot Antenna for GSM, Bluetooth and UWB Applications .....................................3844M. M. Samadi Taheri, A. R. Mallahzadeh, S. Mohammad Ali Nezhad, A. H. Ghasemi

Analysis of Wideband Thin-Sided Radiating Structures .........................................................................................................................3848B. A. Mishoostin, V. G. Slyozkin

A Novel Approach for Bandwidth Enhancement of SIW-based Slot Array Antenna..........................................................................3852H. Sarbandi Farahani, A. Kabir-Salmani, M. Tayarani, R. A. Sadeghzadeh, S. Chamaani

Multiple Fork-Like EBG Structure and Its Analysis as Artificial Magnetic Conductor .....................................................................3855Mohammad Mehdi Fakharian

A Sequentially Rotated RHCP Stacked Patch Antenna Array for INMARSAT-M Land Applications............................................3859Sara Kaffash, Manouchehr Kamyab

Measurement-based Stochastic Models for the Cross-correlation of Multi-link Small-scale Fading in Cooperative Relay Environments .....................................................................................................................................................................................3863

Xuefeng Yin, Jinyi Liang, Yaoyao Fu, Zhifeng Zhang, Jae-Joon Park, Myung-Don Kim, Hyun Kyu Chung

Time-Domain Surface Impedance of a Plasmonic Half-Space ................................................................................................................3868Martin Stumpf, Guy A. E. Vandenbosch

Thermal Calculation Using a 3D-EM Solver and Thermal-Electrical Analogy....................................................................................3872Ismael Nistal-Gonzalez, Andreas Bettray, Kai Maulwurf

KUL and EPFL Cooperation on Numerical Integration of Sommerfeld Integrals ..............................................................................3876Vladimir Volskiy, Guy A. E. Vandenbosch, Athanasios G. Polimeridis, Juan R. Mosig, Ruzica Goulbovic Niciforovic

Revision of EBG Metamaterials and Active Antennas.............................................................................................................................3880Gonzalo Exposito-Dominguez, Jose Manuel Fernandez-Gonzalez, Pablo Padilla, Manuel Sierra-Castaner

Design and Performance Analysis of a Compact and Conformal Super Wide Band Textile Antenna for Wearable Body Area Applications ...............................................................................................................................................................................3884

Md. Shaad Mahmud, Shucashis Dey

Design and Analysis of Planar UHF Wearable Antenna .........................................................................................................................3889Branimir Ivsic, Juraj Bartolic, Davor Bonefacic, Anja Skrivervik, Jovanchetrajkovikj

Variations in Properties of On-body RF Channels in Microwave Frequencies Between Wearable Antennas Made with Various Fabrics ....................................................................................................................................................................................3893

Pawel Kabacik, Tomasz Maleszka

High Resolution Two-Dimensional DOA Estimation Using Artificial Neural Networks .....................................................................3899Marija Agatonovic, Zoran Stankovic, Bratislav Milovanovic

Electromagnetic Engineering for Communications in the Built Environment .....................................................................................3904Michael J. Neve, Andrew C. M. Austin, Gerard B. Rowe

Care - Coordinating the Antenna Research in Europe - Overview - Powerpoint.................................................................................3909Bruno Casali

Printed Transition for SIW Horn Antennas - Analytical Model ............................................................................................................3915Marc Esquius Morote, Benjamin Fuchs, Juan R. Mosig

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