Sunday, April 12
09:00 - 12:30 (Europe/Berlin)
SC1: THz technology and instrumentation 
Short Courses
Room: Diogo de Teive (Room 1.07)Chair: Miguel Navarro-Cía (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
SC2: Multibeam Antennas and Beamforming Networks Design
Short Courses
Room: Diogo de Silves (Room 1.08)Chairs: Piero Angeletti (European Space Agency, The Netherlands), Giovanni Toso (European Space Agency, The Netherlands)
14:00 - 17:30 (Europe/Berlin)
SC4: Gap waveguides for mmWve antenna systems and electronic packaging
Short Courses
Room: Diogo Gomes (Room 1.06)Chairs: Per-Simon Kildal (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden), Ahmed Kishk (Concordia University, Canada), Ashraf Uz Zaman (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
SC5: Adaptive Arrays Control: Theory and Techniques
Short Courses
Room: Diogo de Teive (Room 1.07)Chairs: Randy L. Haupt (Colorado School of Mines, USA), Paolo Rocca (University of Trento, Italy)
SC6: Microwave imaging for medical diagnostics: from theory to implementation
Short Courses
Room: Diogo de Silves (Room 1.08)Chairs: Lorenzo Crocco (CNR - National Research Council, Italy), Panagiotis Kosmas (King's College London, United Kingdom)
Monday, April 13
09:00 - 10:00 (Europe/Berlin)
Opening Session
Room: Infante D. Henrique (Aud 1)
10:00 - 12:30 (Europe/Berlin)
KS: Keynote Speakers
Room: Infante D. Henrique (Aud 1)
Chair: Luis M. Correia (IST - University of Lisbon & INOV-INESC, Portugal)
- 10:00 Antenna Research, Development and Measurement Facilities in Brazil: a Perspective From the Laboratory of Integration and Testing of the Brazilian Institute for Space Research
- 10:40 Coffee Break
- 11:10 Wireless Dependable BAN of Things - Reliable Machine Centric Communications for Medicine, Cars, Energy, Smart City
- 11:50 The Wireless Big Bang
13:40 - 18:10 (Europe/Berlin)
BA1 NumTech: Full Wave Computation and Numerical Techniques
Antennas/Bridging other Areas
Room: Infante D. Henrique (Aud 1)Chairs: Branko Kolundzija (University of Belgrade, Serbia), Francesca Vipiana (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
- 13:40 Domain Decomposition Method for Integral Equations Using Non-Conformal Meshing
- 14:00 Eliminating the DC Instability of the Time Domain Electric Field Integral Equation
- 14:20 A Regularised Electric Field Integral Equation for Scattering by Perfectly Conducting Junctions
- 14:40 Robust, Efficient Evaluation of EM Green's Tensors in Generally Anisotropic, Planar-Stratified Media Via Complex-Plane Gauss-Laguerre Quadrature
- 15:00 Plasmonic Transmission Lines Mode Solver Based on the Method of Moments
- 15:20 Recovery-Based a Posteriori Error Estimation for the Charge in the Method of Moments
- 15:40 Coffee Break
- 16:10 An NG-Based Algorithm for a Combined-Field Integral Formulation
- 16:30 Shaped Pattern Synthesis for Equispaced Linear Arrays with Non-Isotropic Antennas
- 16:50 GPU Acceleration of an Iterative Physical Optics Algorithm for the Analysis of Electrically Large Scatterers
- 17:10 Multiple Eigencurrents Expansion for the Solution of Wave Scattering From Anisotropic Bodies
- 17:30 Hybrid Scattering-Admittance Operators for the Analysis of Finite Antenna Arrays
- 17:50 Physics-based Parametric Interpolation
13:40 - 15:40 (Europe/Berlin)
C18 NF_EMC: [C] Deterministic & stochastic coupling analysis for Antennas, Near-Field & EMC applications
Antennas/Multi Applications
Room: Pedro A Cabral (Aud 2)Chairs: Sebastien Lalléchère (Blaise Pascal University, France), Blaise Ravelo (ESIGELEC, France)
- 13:40 Use of S-parameter Enclosed in Kron's Method for Electromagnetic Compatibility Computation
- 14:00 Functional Safety and EMC: Monte Carlo Study of the Impact of Function Redundancy on a System Immunity
- 14:20 Statistical Analysis of Average and Maximum Crosstalks in Cable Bundles
- 14:40 RF Exposure Assessment of Children's Organs Using Surrogate Model Built with Electromagnetic Solvers and Statistics
- 15:00 RF and EMC Investigation on CRIP System for the E-Healthcare CareStore Platform
- 15:20 Statistical Approach of Ambient Electromagnetic Field Assessment with Body-Worn Multi-Axial Sensors
C21 EleSmall: [C] Electrically Small Antennas
Antennas/Cellular Communications
Room: Gil Eanes (Aud 3)Chairs: Christophe Fumeaux (The University of Adelaide & School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Australia), William Whittow (Loughborough University, United Kingdom)
- 13:40 Antennas for Mobile Communication Devices: What's Next?
- 14:00 Multi-Feed NVIS Realization on Small Aircraft Using Characteristic Modes
- 14:20 Compact Dual-mode Antenna for Body-centric Wireless Communications
- 14:40 Considerations on SAR and Efficiency for W-BAN Antennas
- 15:00 4G Cellular Antenna Design for Eyewear Devices
- 15:20 Optimizing Small Wideband Antenna Performance for Both RIMP and Random-LOS
CC3 AntSystem: Antenna systems and architectures
Antennas/Cellular Communications
Room: Pêro Escobar (Pav 3A)Chairs: Georgia E. Athanasiadou (University of Peloponnese, Greece), Koen Mouthaan (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
- 13:40 The Effects of Antenna Array Size and Back Lobe Level on Self-Interference and Transmitted Powers for 4G Beamforming Multicell Systems with In-Band Full Duplex Relays
- 14:00 Reconfigurable LTE MIMO Automotive Antenna System Based on the Characteristic Mode Analysis
- 14:20 High Resolution ESM/ELINT DOA Estimation with Super-Heterodyne Multi-Octave Antenna System
- 14:40 Quad-Polarized Wideband Phased Array with Reduced Sidelobes by Interstitial-Packing
- 15:00 Generation of OAM Radio Waves with Three Polarizations Using Circular Horn Antenna Array
- 15:20 Impedance Characterization of UHF RFID IC and Tag Performance
13:40 - 18:10 (Europe/Berlin)
HD2 mmWAnt: Millimetre-wave, submillimetre-wave and Terahertz antennas
Antennas/High Data-rate Transfer
Room: Gonçalo V Cabral (Pav 5C)Chairs: Daniele Cavallo (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands), Jian Yang (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
- 13:40 Rectangular to Large Diameter Conical Corrugated Waveguide Converter Based on Stacked Rings
- 14:00 High Gain Flat Sinusoidal Bull's Eye Leaky Millimetre-Wave Antenna
- 14:20 A 76.5 GHz Microstrip Comb-Line Antenna Array for Automotive Radar System
- 14:40 Modeling and Design of Parallel-Fed Continuous Transverse Stub (CTS) Arrays
- 15:00 Analysis and Optical Characterisation of Bolometric Integrating Cavities Including a Free Space Gap in the Waveguide Structure
- 15:20 Design of Millimeter-Wave Wideband Gap Waveguide Transitions Considering Integration Into the Antenna System
- 15:40 Coffee Break
- 16:10 Alternative Optics Design for the ALMA Band 1 Receiver (35-52 GHz)
- 16:30 60-GHz CMOS On-Chip AMC Bandpass-Filtering Spiral Monopole Antenna
- 16:50 Coherent Fourier Optics Representation of Focal Plane Fields
- 17:10 Implementation of UC-EBG Structure for 60 GHz Gridded Parasitic Patch Stacked Microstrip Antenna
- 17:30 V-band Side-fed Printed Quasi-Parabolic Reflector Antenna with Beam-Steering
- 17:50 Single-Layer Differentially-Fed Circularly Polarized Aperture Antenna for 60 GHz Applications
R1 Array: Array Antennas
Antennas/Radars
Room: Bartolomeu Dias (Aud 4)Chairs: Antonio Clemente (CEA-LETI Minatec, France), Giovanni Toso (European Space Agency, The Netherlands)
- 13:40 On the Use of Beam-Forming Matrices for Building Overlapped Subarrays with Flat-Topped Radiation Patterns
- 14:00 Radon Transform: a Different Perspective on Planar Array Synthesis
- 14:20 A Balanced-fed 45° Linearly Polarized Slot Array Antenna Using SIW Technology
- 14:40 P-Band Antenna Array for Airborne SAR Application and DBF SAR Demonstration
- 15:00 Frequency Diverse Array with Range-Dependent Transmit Beampattern
- 15:20 Parallel Plate Mode Suppressed Strip-Line Fed Antenna for CP Phased Array Antenna
- 15:40 Coffee Break
- 16:10 RF MEMS Based Millimeter Wave Phased Array for Short Range Communication
- 16:30 An Optically Controlled Phase Shifter for Antenna Array Beam Steering
- 16:50 Non-uniform Printed Antenna Array for Wireless Communications in Sports Arenas
- 17:10 Design of High Directivity Compact Parasitic Array for Beam-Steering Applications
- 17:30 Comparison of Phased Array Configurations of Spiral Antennas
- 17:50 Broadband Biquad UHF Antenna Array for DOA
13:40 - 15:40 (Europe/Berlin)
S1 AlphaSat: Alpha-Sat Experiment
Propagation/Space
Room: Tristão V Teixeira (Pav 5A)Chairs: Antonio Martellucci (European Space Agency, The Netherlands), Armando C Rocha (University of Aveiro & Institute of Telecommunications, Portugal)
- 13:40 Alphasat Q/V-band Propagation Campaign Preparation in Aveiro
- 14:00 The Ka- And Q-band AlphaSat Ground Station in Vigo
- 14:20 A DVB-S2 Signal Analyzer for the Alphasat TDP5 Communication Experiment
- 14:40 AlphaSat Ka-band and Q-band Receiving Station in Rome: Development, Status and Measurements
- 15:00 Alphasat Propagation Experiment in Madrid: Quality Assessment of the Measurements
- 15:20 Rain XPD of Alphasat TDP5 Propagation Signals: Preliminary Analyses and Disdrometer Derivations
S4 Multibeam: Multi-beam satellites
Antennas/Space
Room: Paulo da Gama (Pav 5B)Chairs: Cecilia Cappellin (TICRA, Denmark), Enrico Reiche (Airbus DS GmbH, Germany)
- 13:40 Design of a Push-Broom Multi-Beam Radiometer for Future Ocean Observations
- 14:00 An Optimal Beamforming Algorithm for Phased-Array Antennas Used in Multi-Beam Spaceborne Radiometers
- 14:20 Wide-Band Compact Antenna Feed for Multi-Beam Satellite Communications
- 14:40 Dual-band (Tx/Rx) Multiple-Beam Reflector Antenna Using a Frequency Selective Sub-Reflector for Ka-band Applications
- 15:00 Space Qualification of K/Ka-Band Single Feed Per Beam Feed Chains
- 15:20 A Compact Planar Feed Structure for Ka-Band Satcom-on-the-Move Tracking Antennas
13:40 - 18:10 (Europe/Berlin)
W4 PropSim: Propagation Modelling and Simulation
Propagation/Wireless Networks
Room: Afonso de Albuquerque (Pav 3B)Chairs: Cesar Briso (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid & ETSIS Telecomunicacion, Spain), Enrico M. Vitucci (University of Bologna, Italy)
- 13:40 Benefits of Variation of Large Scale Fading Across Large Antenna Arrays
- 14:00 Performance of Receiver Spatial Diversity in Peer to Peer Radio Communications Within Vegetation Media
- 14:20 Simple Approximation of Power Azimuth Spectrum for Multipath Propagation Environment
- 14:40 Evaluation and Proposal on Modified Model for 3GPP Based Indoor Penetration Loss Model
- 15:00 MIMO Dual Polarized Fixed Satellite Systems Above 10GHz Above: Channel Modeling and Outage Capacity Evaluation
- 15:20 Broadband Radio Communications in Subway Stations and Tunnels
- 15:40 Coffee Break
- 16:10 A Monte-Carlo Approach to Modeling Radio Propagation by Ray-Tracing
- 16:30 Joint Ray Launching Method for Outdoor to Indoor Propagation Prediction Based on Interpolation
- 16:50 WBAN Off-Body Channel Angular Structure Comparison Between SAGE Estimation and Ray Tracing Simulation
- 17:10 Ray Tracing Simulations of Indoor Channel Spatial Correlation for Physical Layer Security
- 17:30 Propagation Model Based on Building Penetration Loss Measurement for TVWS System
- 17:50 Incoherent Scattering of Normal Modes in Urban Canyon: Theory and Measurements
13:40 - 15:40 (Europe/Berlin)
W5 IndoorProp: Indoor Propagation
Propagation/Wireless Networks
Room: João G Zarco (Pav 3C)Chairs: Conor Brennan (Dublin City University, Ireland), Fono Vincent (Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada)
- 13:40 Advanced Indoor Localisation Based on the Viterbi Algorithm and Semantic Data
- 14:00 Investigation on the Geometric Properties of Multipath Components in Indoor Radio Channels
- 14:20 Power Delay Profile Analysis and Modeling of Industrial Indoor Channels
- 14:40 Electromagnetic Wave Propagation Modeling in a Complex Environment Using Uniform Geometrical Theory of Diffraction
- 15:00 Radio Frequency Measurements and Capacity Analysis for Industrial Indoor Environments
- 15:20 A Method of Moments Based Indoor Propagation Model
WS2 RFID: Chipless RFID Future and Challenges
Scientific Workshop
Room: Diogo de Silves (Room 1.08)Chair: Mohamed El-Hadidy (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
- 13:40 A Novel Collision Avoidance MAC Protocol for Multi-Tag UWB Chipless RFID Systems Based on Notch Position Modulation
- 14:20 Printable Depolarizing Chipless RFID Tag Based on DGS Resonators for Suppressing the Clutter Effects
- 15:00 Smart Notch Detection Techniques for Robust Frequency Coded Chipless RFID Systems
16:10 - 18:10 (Europe/Berlin)
C29 BAN: [C] Measurements and Simulations in Channel Modelling in Wireless Body Area Networks
Propagation/Biomedical
Room: Pedro A Cabral (Aud 2)Chairs: Slawomir J. Ambroziak (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland), Carla Oliveira (University of Lisbon, Instituto Superior Tecnico & INOV - INESC, Portugal)
- 16:10 Miniaturized UWB Implantable Antenna for Brain-Machine-Interface
- 16:30 Realistic Performance Measurement for Body-Centric Spatial Modulation Links
- 16:50 Angular Characteristics of the UWB On-to-Off-Body Channel in Indoor Scenarios
- 17:10 Geometric Modeling of Shadowing Rate for Off-body Propagation During Human Walking
- 17:30 Simplified Human Phantoms for Wireless Body Area Network Modelling
- 17:50 Scenario-based WBAN Channel Characterization in Various Indoor Premises
C35 ModeBase: [C] Mode-based strategy for antenna analysis and design
Antennas/Multi Applications
Room: Gil Eanes (Aud 3)Chairs: Dirk Manteuffel (University of Kiel, Germany), Qi Wu (Beihang University, P.R. China)
- 16:10 Rigorous Eigenmode Analysis of Conducting Sphere
- 16:30 Radiation Pattern Adjustment of A Double Notched Antenna by Using Characteristic Modes Analysis
- 16:50 Optimal Placement of PCB-integrated Diversity Elements in a Compact Tunable Handset Antenna
- 17:10 Antenna Design Via Current Control of Antenna Currents Using Theory of Characteristic Modes
- 17:30 Isosceles Right Triangular Waveguides with Boundary Conditions of Composite Electric and Magnetic Walls
- 17:50 Study of Dipole Antennas' Characteristic Modes Through the Antenna Current Green's Function and the Singularity Expansion Method
C37 Mutual: [C] Mutual Coupling Formulation and its Effects in Antenna Systems
Antennas/Cellular Communications
Room: Pêro Escobar (Pav 3A)Chairs: Yahia Antar (Royal Military College of Canada, Canada), Said Mikki (Royal Millitary College of Canada, Canada)
- 16:10 Aspects of Generalized Electromagnetic Energy Exchange in Antenna Systems: A New Approach to Mutual Coupling
- 16:30 Study of Mutual Coupling for Patch Antennas with Single-Layer Capacitive Feed and Its Application to Fabry-Pérot Arrays
- 16:50 Analysis of Mutual Coupling in Large Arrays of Printed Antennas Using Contour-FFT
- 17:10 The Simple Truth About Effects of Mutual Coupling in MIMO Arrays for Single and Multiple Bit Streams in Rich Isotropic Multipath
- 17:30 Wideband Decoupling and Tunable Matching Networks for Multi-Port Antennas
- 17:50 On the Constrains to Isolation Improvement in Multi-Antenna Systems
C43 PropSat: [C] Results of Ka and Q band propagation campaigns using Alphasat Aldo Paraboni and other Satellites
Propagation/Space
Room: Tristão V Teixeira (Pav 5A)Chairs: Laurent Castanet (ONERA, France), Antonio Martellucci (European Space Agency, The Netherlands)
- 16:10 The Aldo Paraboni Scientific Experiment: Ka/Q Band Receiver Station in Hungary
- 16:30 Three-Site Ka-Band Diversity Experiment Performed in Slovenia and Austria
- 16:50 Propagation Experiments At 20 GHz in Southern Europe to Test High Order Propagation Models
- 17:10 Earth-Space Propagation Data Processing for Ka-band Frequencies and Above
- 17:30 Use of Microwave Profiler and Ka/Q-band Ground Propagation Terminal for Alphasat ALDO TDP5 Propagation Experiment – First Year of Operation
- 17:50 Preliminary Statistics From the NASA Alphasat Beacon Receiver in Milan, Italy
DS1 Beamform: Beamforming and signal processing
Antennas/Defense and Secutity
Room: João G Zarco (Pav 3C)Chairs: Michael Jensen (Brigham Young University, USA), Ioannis Kyriakides (University of Nicosia, Cyprus)
- 16:10 Polarisation-Angle-Delay Estimation for Blind Localisation Approaches Under Multipath Propagation
- 16:30 Angle of Arrival Estimation for Moving User Equipment with Application to Indoor Terahertz Communications Using Grid Based Bayesian Filter
- 16:50 Tracking More Targets with Less Antenna: An Investigation Into the Co-array Concept
- 17:10 Localization of Multiple Unknown RF Sources by Combining a Power Monitoring Network and a Guided Moving Sensor Under Constraints
- 17:30 Compact Beam Forming Network of a Switched Phased Array
- 17:50 Optimal Array Signaling for Key Establishment in Static Multipath Channels
MA3 PrintElem: Printed elements, baluns and associated circuits
Antennas/Multi Applications
Room: Paulo da Gama (Pav 5B)Chairs: Paola Pirinoli (Politecnico di Torino, Italy), Hao Xin (University of Arizona, USA)
- 16:10 Square-shape Fully Printed Chipless RFID Tag and Its Applications in Evacuation Procedures
- 16:30 A Novel Design of Miniaturized Power Divider and Branch Coupler Using Interdigital Circuit
- 16:50 Efficient Probe Excitation of Dielectric Image Line Using Substrate Integrated Waveguide Based Matching Network
- 17:10 New Compact Design for Short Range Wireless Power Transmission At 1GHz Using H-Slot Resonators
- 17:30 Hybridization Strategy for Microstrip Antenna Optimization
- 17:50 Miniaturization of Microwave Components and Antennas Using 3D Manufacturing
19:00 - 20:00 (Europe/Berlin)
Welcome Reception
Room: Museu de Marinha
Tuesday, April 14
09:00 - 10:40 (Europe/Berlin)
Bi5 PropBio: Propagation in Biomedical Environments
Propagation/Biomedical
Room: Bartolomeu Dias (Aud 4)Chairs: Andrea Ruaro (Technical University of Denmark & GN ReSound A/S, Denmark), Alain Sibille (Telecom Paris Tech & ENSTA PARISTECH, France)
- 09:00 Exposure Assessment of Stray Electromagnetic Fields Generated by a Wireless Power Transfer System
- 09:20 Simulation of Microwave Transmission Measurements of the Human Heart
- 09:40 Analysis of Dependence of Signal Propagation Loss on Poses in Intra-Body Communication
- 10:00 On the Applicability of Pathloss Model to Predict RF Human Exposure
- 10:20 Analysis of Electric Field Spatial Variability in Simulations of Electromagnetic Waves Exposure to Mobile Telephony Base Stations
09:00 - 12:50 (Europe/Berlin)
C10 60GHz: [C] Antenna technologies for fixed wireless access at 60 GHz and above
Antennas/High Data-rate Transfer
Room: Gonçalo V Cabral (Pav 5C)Chairs: Jiro Hirokawa (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan), Per-Simon Kildal (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
- 09:00 60 GHz Slot Antenna Array Based on Ridge Gap Waveguide Technology Enhanced with Dielectric Superstrate
- 09:20 A Self-Supported Hat-Fed Reflector Antenna for 60 GHz Frequency Band
- 09:40 60-GHz Multi-layer Multi-beam Slotted Waveguide Array Made by Diffusion Bonding Technique
- 10:00 Designs of Plate-laminated Waveguide Slot Array Antennas for 60GHz and Above
- 10:20 Analysis of Large Planar 60 GHz Array Including Microstrip-Ridge Gap Waveguide Distribution Network Using Modular Approach
- 10:40 Coffee Break
- 11:10 120-GHz-band Wireless Link Antenna Technologies for Polarization Multiplexing
- 11:30 A New 2x2 Microstrip Patch Sub-array for 60GHz Wideband Planar Antenna with Ridge Gap Waveguide Distribution Layer
- 11:50 Active Reconfigurable Luneburg Lens At 60GHz
- 12:10 Deployment Considerations for 60 GHz Backhaul Using Smart Street Furniture
- 12:30 A Study of Interference Canceller for DDD System on Millimeter-Wave Band Fixed Wireless Access System
C30 MiMed1: [C] Methodologies and modelling for EMF in medical diagnostics and therapy (MiMed)
Propagation/Biomedical
Room: Pedro A Cabral (Aud 2)Chairs: Lorenzo Crocco (CNR - National Research Council, Italy), Panagiotis Kosmas (King's College London, United Kingdom)
- 09:00 Volume Integral Equation Formulation for Medical Applications
- 09:20 A Unidirectional Wideband Printed Quasi-Yagi Antenna for Microwave Breast Imaging
- 09:40 Non-Invasive Microwave Lung Water Monitoring: Feasibility Study
- 10:00 Initial Study for Detection of Multiple Lymph Nodes in the Axillary Region Using Microwave Imaging
- 10:20 Microwave Breast Imaging Based on an Optimized Two-step Iterative Shrinkage/Thresholding Method
- 10:40 Coffee Break
- 11:10 Design and Modeling of a Microwave Imaging System for Breast Cancer Detection
- 11:30 A Comparative Study of Coherent Time Reversal Minimum Variance Beamformers for Breast Cancer Detection
- 11:50 Super-resolution Microwave Imaging: Time-domain Tomography Using Highly Accurate Evolutionary Optimization Method
- 12:10 Numerical Heterogeneous Breast Phantoms with Different Resolutions
- 12:30 Criterion for the Optimal Choice of the Treatment Conditions in Magnetic Nanoparticle Hyperthermia: Assesment in 3D Realistic Numerical Head Model
C4 SimTools: [C] Advances in Commercial Electromagnetic Simulation Tools
Antennas/Bridging other Areas
Room: Diogo Cão (Aud 8)Chairs: Marc Rütschlin (CST AG, United Kingdom), Winfried Simon (IMST GmbH, Germany)
- 09:00 Making Better Antenna Design Choices with Antenna Magus
- 09:20 The XPU Technology for Fast and Efficient FDTD Simulations Using Modern CPUs Cache Memory Bandwidth
- 09:40 The Antenna Toolbox for Matlab (AToM)
- 10:00 Overview of Recent Advances in the Electromagnetic Field Solver FEKO
- 10:20 State of the Art Antenna Simulation with CST STUDIO SUITE
- 10:40 Coffee Break
- 11:10 SEMCAD X Matterhorn: A Novel Approach to Achieve Realism in Highly Complex Environments
- 11:30 Mesh Assembly Framework for Hybrid 3D FEM/FEBI/MoM Electromagnetic Simulations
- 11:50 WIPL-D: Advances in EM Simulation
- 12:10 New Fast and Robust Modelling Algorithms for Electrically Large Antennas and Platforms
- 12:30 GPU Advancements Reduce Simulation Times for 25 GHz Automotive Radar Models
09:00 - 10:40 (Europe/Berlin)
CC4 OTA: Over the Air (OTA) Testing in Antennas and Multiple Devices
Measurements/Cellular Communications
Room: Pêro Escobar (Pav 3A)Chairs: Jan Carlsson (SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden, Sweden), Anton Skårbratt (Bluetest AB, Sweden)
- 09:00 Measuring User-Induced-Randomness to Evaluate Smart Phone Performance in Real Environments
- 09:20 802.11p Measurements in Reverberation Chamber
- 09:40 Investigation of Mode Stirring with Plates on Platform in a Reverberation Chamber
- 10:00 An Experimental Reconfigurable OTA Chamber
- 10:20 Testing of LTE Devices in Transmit Diversity Enabled System Using Reverberation Chamber
09:00 - 12:50 (Europe/Berlin)
MA13 Scattering: Scattering and Diffraction
Propagation/Multi Applications
Room: Gil Eanes (Aud 3)Chairs: Thomas Dallmann (RWTH Aachen University, Germany), Vinh Pham-Xuan (Dublin City University, Ireland)
- 09:00 Cloaking a Bump Inside a Single Isotropic Lossless Dielectric
- 09:20 Thin Diffraction Grating Technology
- 09:40 Influence of the Lightning Protection of Blades on the Field Scattered by a Windturbine
- 10:00 The Poynting Vector Behavior During the Resonance Scattering of an Obliquely Incident Plane Electromagnetic Wave by a Gyrotropic Cylinder
- 10:20 Analysis of Wind Turbines Radar Cross Section for Analyzing the Potential Impact on Weather Radars
- 10:40 Coffee Break
- 11:10 Efficient Full-Wave Computation of Radar Cross Section for Multiple Source Locations
- 11:30 Absorption and Scattering Properties of a Receiving Patch Antenna
- 11:50 A Semi-Analytical Expression for the RCS of a Frustum-Shaped Foam Target Support Structure
- 12:10 Solution of Volume Integral Equations with Novel Treatment to Strongly Singular Integrals
- 12:30 Electromagnetic Scattering From a Buried Cylinder Using T-Matrix and Signal-Flow-Graph Approach
MA15 Multiband: Multiband and wideband antennas
Antennas/Multi Applications
Room: Diogo de Silves (Room 1.08)Chairs: Giuseppe Di Massa (University of Calabria, Italy), María García-Vigueras (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland), Rodolfo Ravanelli (Thales Alenia Space Italy SpA, Italy)
- 09:00 Wide Band, Low Profile and Circular Polarized K/Ka Band Antenna
- 09:20 A Wideband Strip-Helical Antenna with a Parasitic Patch
- 09:40 A K/Ka/EHF Feed Chain for Dual-Use Telecom
- 10:00 Dielectric Wedge Antenna for Pavement Void Detection by Scattering
- 10:20 A Compact Hybrid Dielectric Resonator Antenna with a Meandered Slot Ring and Cavity Backing Offering Wideband Operation
- 10:40 Coffee Break
- 11:10 A Design Strategy of Active Matched Small-Antennas with Non-Foster Elements
- 11:30 Wideband Matching of Handset Antenna Ports At Noncontiguous Frequency Bands
- 11:50 Rotational Design Space Reduction for Cost-Efficient Multi-Objective Antenna Optimization
- 12:10 Dual-Polarized Patch Antenna for Virtual Antenna Array Based Radio Channel Measurements At 10 GHz
- 12:30 Wideband and Compact Fabry-Perot Cavity Antenna Using a Dual-Layer Periodic Planar Structure
09:00 - 10:40 (Europe/Berlin)
MA4 EMI/EMC: EMI/EMC/PIM Chamber design, measurement and instrumentation
Measurements/Multi Applications
Room: João G Zarco (Pav 3C)Chairs: Sebastien Lalléchère (Blaise Pascal University, France), Vince Rodriguez (MI-Technologies & AMTA Board of Directors, USA)
- 09:00 An Ultra-thin Dual-Band Polarization-Independent Metamaterial Absorber for EMI/EMC Applications
- 09:20 Improvement on Radiation Characteristics of Bow-Tie Antenna for EMI Measurement
- 09:40 A New Measurement Technique and Experimental Validations in Determination SAR of N-Antenna Transmitters Using Scalar E-Field Probes
- 10:00 Experimental S-parameters Statistics Under Uncertain Loads Constraints
- 10:20 Utilizing Gain Interpolation for the Removal of Near-field Coupling Effects During EMC Antenna Calibrations
09:00 - 12:50 (Europe/Berlin)
S5 ArraySpace: Array Antennas for Space
Antennas/Space
Room: Tristão V Teixeira (Pav 5A)Chairs: Cyril Mangenot (European Space Agency, The Netherlands), Robert Shaw (CSIRO, Australia)
- 09:00 Design of Wideband, Wide-Scan Planar Arrays by Combining Connected Arrays and Artificial Dielectrics
- 09:20 Compact Dual-Band Dual-Polarized Antenna Array for Robust Satellite Navigation Receivers
- 09:40 Prototype 32 Elements Beam Forming Network for 21-GHz Band Broadcasting Satellite
- 10:00 2 x 2 Stacked Patch Array with Corporate SIW Feeding Network
- 10:20 Irregular Quad-Mode Antenna Array: Field-of-View Comparison with the Swedish LOFAR Station
- 10:40 Coffee Break
- 11:10 Compact Satellite Navigation Antenna Array Using Off-the-Shelf Ceramic Patch Antennas
- 11:30 Transistor Noise Characterization for an SKA Low- Noise Amplifier
- 11:50 Simultaneous Radiation of Narrow and Wide Beams Exploiting Two Concentric Isophoric Sparse Arrays
- 12:10 Shaped Beam Synthesis of Arrays of Real Antennas Via Phase Retrieval and Convex Programming
- 12:30 Density-Tapered Planar Arrays for Multibeam and Shaped Beam Coverage in Satellite Communications
W3 ReconfAnt: Adaptive and reconfigurable antennas
Antennas/Wireless Networks
Room: Afonso de Albuquerque (Pav 3B)Chairs: Adam Narbudowicz (Dublin Institute of Technology \ RWTH Aachen University, Germany), Alexandru Tatomirescu (Aalborg University, Denmark)
- 09:00 On Pattern Reconfigurable Antennas Steered by Modulation Scheme
- 09:20 A Mono, Dual and Triple Band Switchable Metamaterial-based Antenna
- 09:40 Reconfigurable Patch Antenna for Wireless Applications
- 10:00 Additively Manufactured Shape Reconfigurable Loop Antennas
- 10:20 Optically Controlled Reconfigurable Antenna Array Based on a Slotted Circular Waveguide
- 10:40 Coffee Break
- 11:10 Alternative Duplexing for LTE FDD Using the Theory of Characteristic Modes
- 11:30 Reactively Matched Long Slot Linear Connected Array Antenna
- 11:50 Design and Performance Evaluation of a Switched-Beam Antenna Array for 60 GHz WPAN Applications
- 12:10 Three Dimensional Microfabricated Broadband Patch and Multifunction Reconfigurable Antennae for 60 GHz Applications
- 12:30 Numerical Analysis of Reconfigurable Plasma Antenna Arrays
WS4 Julien: In Memoriam of Julien Perruisseau-Carrier
Scientific Workshop
Room: Paulo da Gama (Pav 5B)Chairs: Sean V Hum (University of Toronto, Canada), Juan R Mosig (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
- 09:00 Advances in reconfigurable antennas and space-fed arrays: Contributions by Julien Perruisseau-Carrier
- 09:20 In the memory of Julien Perruisseau-Carrier: His contributions to reconfigurable reflectarrays and COST Actions on Antennas
- 09:40 Reconfigurable antennas and arrays for cognitive radio: polarization and frequency agility and beamforming
- 10:00 The contribution of Julien Perruisseau-Carrier to reconfigurable reflectarray antennas
- 10:20 Dynamic reconfiguration of plasmonic reflectarrays using graphene: a review of the research led by Prof. Perruisseau-Carrier
- 10:40 The Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) Multiplexing Controversy: OAM as a Subset of MIMO
- 11:00 MEMS-based tunable true-time delay and composite right/left handed transmission lines
- 11:20 Pros and cons of patterning graphene layers
- 11:40 Closing remarks
11:10 - 12:50 (Europe/Berlin)
CC5 UrbanProp: Urban Propagation
Propagation/Cellular Communications
Room: Pêro Escobar (Pav 3A)Chairs: Lúcio Studer Ferreira (INOV-INESC & IST - University of Lisbon, Portugal), Claude Oestges (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
- 11:10 Investigation of Ray-Tracing Accuracy in Street Cell Environment for High-SHF and EHF Bands
- 11:30 Path Loss Characteristics At 800 MHz to 37 GHz in Urban Street Microcell Environment
- 11:50 Mixed Path Loss Model for Urban Environments
- 12:10 Joint Ray Launching Method for Indoor to Outdoor Propagation Prediction Based on Ray Aggregation
- 12:30 Path Loss Model and Root Mean Square Delay Spread Characterization of Near-Ground Outdoor UWB Channel
DS2 PropAeron: Propagation in Aeronautics and Navigation
Propagation/Defense and Secutity
Room: João G Zarco (Pav 3C)Chairs: Uwe-Carsten G. Fiebig (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany), Andrew Thain (Airbus Group Innovations, France)
- 11:10 Radio-Channel Characterization of an Over-Sea Communication
- 11:30 Prediction by Simulation of Performances of RFID Systems in Aeronautic Environments
- 11:50 Measured Doppler Power Profiles for Air to Ground Radio Links
- 12:10 Comparison of Metrics for Clutter Data Comparison
- 12:30 Stealthy Buildings for Radio Navigation Applications
MA16 InvScat: Imaging and Inverse Scattering
Propagation/Multi Applications
Room: Bartolomeu Dias (Aud 4)Chairs: Oleksandr Malyuskin (Queens University Belfast, United Kingdom), Okan Yurduseven (Duke University, USA)
- 11:10 Sparse Electromagnetic Imaging Using Nonlinear Iterative Shrinkage Thresholding
- 11:30 Comparison of Different Reconstruction Algorithms for Image Reconstruction in Metamaterial Aperture Based Imaging System
- 11:50 Microwave Imaging and Material Characterization Using Resonantly Loaded Apertures
- 12:10 Polarimetric Target Discrimination for Ultrawideband Radar Imaging
- 12:30 Probe Configuration Study for the Metamaterial Aperture Imager
14:00 - 15:00 (Europe/Berlin)
Poster A1: Antennas Poster Session 1
Antennas
Room: Luís de Camões (Hall 3)Chairs: David Fernandes (University of Coimbra - Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal), Filipa Prudencio (Instituto de Telecomunicacoes, Portugal)
- On the Stored and Radiated Energy Density
- FDTD-Compatible Green's Function Based on Scalar Discrete Green's Function and Multidimensional Z-Transform
- A Fast Algorithm for the Analysis of Electrically Large Arrays of Plasmonic Nanoparticles with Aperiodic Spiral Order
- Investigation and Comparison Between Radiation Center and Phase Center for Canonical Antennas
- Spherical Model for Efficient Parametric Analysis of Implanted Antennas in WBAN Applications
- Method of Moments Analysis of Modulated Metasurface Antennas
- Performance of a Novel Miniature Antenna Implanted Into the Human Trunk for Medical Telemetry Applications
- An Overview of Stored Electromagnetic Energy
- Application of the Hybrid Projective Methods for Determining Effective Permittivity of Artificial 1D- And 2D-Periodic Dielectric Layers
- Computational Electromagnetic Modeling is Key in Objective Control of Hyperthermia
- Modal Analysis of Non-Separable Outer-Boundary Cavities Via Spherical Vector Wave Functions
- Verification & Validation Benchmarks for Assessing and Demonstrating the Credibility of Computational Medical Device Evaluation
- Optimal Aperture Distribution for Maximum Power Transfer in Planar Lossy Multilayered Matters
- On an Indirect Boundary Element Method for the Anisotropic EEG Forward Problem
- Modeling an Extremely Thin Material Sheet Using the Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method
- Stability and Accuracy Analysis of Several FDTD Schemes for Modeling Tellegen Media
- Full-Wave Modeling of Stochastic Trees for Radar Cross Section Calculation
- A Tilted Subgrid for Two Dimensional FDTD
- Field-Circuit Co-Simulation of the Marx Generator
- Acceleration of the DGF-FDTD Method on GPU Using the CUDA Technology
- Field Computations Through the ACA Algorithm
- Evaluation of Near-Singularity Cancellation Quadrature Schemes for the Green Function Gradient on Higher-Order Triangles
- Novel Source-to-Source Compiler Approach for the Automatic Parallelization of Codes Based on the Method of Moments
- Numerical Analysis of Avionic Grounding Structures with Surface PEEC Formulation
- Study of Annular Ring Patch Antennas on Anisotropic Substrates by WCIP Method
- The Finite Difference Frequency Domain Method for the Eigenanalysis of Open Periodic Structures
- Comparison of a Fast Probabilistic Propagation Model Against an Analytical Computational-EM Model and Measurements for the Evaluation of Passive RFID Systems
- Rigorous Analysis of Deformed Nanowires Using the Multilevel Fast Multipole Algorithm
- Comparison of 3D and 2D Method to Study the Propagation in a U-shaped Valley
- Accelerating Frequency Selective Surface Simulations: An Equivalent Circuit Method Versus Computational Electromagnetics Software - Limits and Further Developments
- Comments on the Phase Center Computation for Ka-band Planar Lens-Antenna Feeders
- Spatiotemporal Slabs in Order to Improve Performance in 2D FDTD
- Statistical Modeling of Antennas Via a Generalized Stochastic-FDTD Method
- Detuning Effect Study of High-Q Mobile Phone Antennas
- Frequency Tunable and Circular Polarization Switchable Antenna Using Dual Polarized Active Artificial Ground Structure
- On the Design of Generic Matching Networks in Reflective-Type Phase Shifters for Antennas
- Influence of Complementary Split Ring Resonator Dimensions in Ultra Wideband Microstrip Patch Antenna
- Application of Transformation Electromagnetics Concept to Delocalize Emissions
- Design of Modulated Metasurface Antennas Based on Elliptical Patches
- A Triple-Slot Active Reflectarray Cell Using a Ferroelectric Capacitor
- Magnetic Near-Field Imaging with a Racemic Array of Helical-Shaped Metallic Wires
- Half-massive Ceramics for Antenna Downsizing: Improvement of a Smart Magneto-Dielectric Material with Matching Permeability and Permittivity, and with Enhanced Low-Loss Frequency Range
- Composite Defect-Mode Superstructures and Wideband EBG Resonator Antennas
- RF Sensor Based on Gap Waveguide Technology in LTCC for Liquid Sensing
- Wideband High-Impedance Surface Reflector for Low-profile High-Gain UHF Antenna
- Reconfigurable High-Impedance Metasurfaces with Interwoven Conductor Unit Cell Layouts
- Broadband Circular-polarization Through Optically Active V-shape Chiral Metamaterial
- C-band Parallel Coupled Bandpass Filter with Harmonic Suppression Using Open Stub and CSRRs
- Novel 3D Printed Synthetic Dielectric Materials for Antenna Applications
- A Partially Complementary Chiral Metamaterial Based on a Four-Cranks Resonator
- All-dielectric Metasurface for Optical Focusing
- Design of Metamaterial Based Wide Angle Impedance Matching Layers for Active Phased Arrays
- Design Aspects of Finite Periodic Transmission Lines Based on Planar Structures
- Efficient Radome Optimization Through the System-by-Design Methodology
- A 60GHz Passive Repeater Array with Endfire Radiation Based on Metal Groove Unit-Cells
- Spectral Domain Analysis of Double Sided Open Periodic Structures
Poster A2: Antennas Poster Session 2
Antennas
Room: Gil Vicente (Hall 5)Chairs: María García-Vigueras (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland), Ozan Yurduseven (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
- Resonance Frequency Calculation of Spherical Microstrip Structure Using Hybrid Technique
- Compact Internal Antenna (FICA) for Mobile Handset and WLAN
- The Design and Analysis of Pyramidal Microstrip Antenna for GPS Application
- A Circularly Polarized Stacked Patch Antenna Array for Tracking Applications in S-Band
- A Flexible Low Cost Fractal-Slot Multiband Antenna for Wireless Applications
- Antenna Arrays for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
- An Analysis of Elliptical-Rectangular Patch Structure on Multilayer Non-Confocal Elliptic Cylinders
- Simulation-Driven Size Reduction of Antenna Structures Using Adjoint Sensitivities and Trust Regions
- Self-Aligned Microstrip-fed Spherical Dielectric Resonator Antenna
- Miniaturized DRA Array for GNSS Applications
- High Profile Rectangular Dielectric Resonator Antenna Sequentially-fed for Improved Quality Dual Circular Polarization
- A 60-GHz Coplanar-Waveguide-Fed Slot-Coupled Rectangular DRA Design Using the Theory of Characteristic Modes
- An Improved Simulation Method of Multipactor in High Power Antennas
- Extended Low-Profile Planar Lens Antenna with Multilayer Metallic-Hole Array
- Implementation of Optically Transformed Devices with a Bed of Nails
- Nonlinear Optical Gap Antenna, an Optoelectronic Interface At the Nanoscale
- Harvesting Thermal Infrared Emission Using Nanodipole Terminated by Traveling Wave Rectifier
- Wideband Printed Tapering Quadrifilar Helical Antenna for GNSS
- Wideband Crossover Structure with Double Ring Resonators
- Integrated Filtering-Antenna with Controllable Frequency Bandwidth
- Optimum Design of a Miniaturized Onchip Wide Band Power Divider-Combiner Combined with Impedance Transformer
- Integrated Suspended Stripline Structure (SSS) with J-shape Defected Stripline Structure (DSS) to Remove Undesired Signals in Wideband Applications
- Analytical Treatment of Microstrip Monopole Antenna with Finite Ground Plane
- Characteristic Basis Function Patterns Method for Reflector Antenna Calibration: An Extension to Multiple Frequencies
- Geometrical Synthesis of Offset Reflector Antennas Using Local Axis-Displaced Quadric Surfaces
- Equivalent Circuit of a Quadraxial Feed for Ultra-Wide Bandwidth Quadruple-Ridged Flared Horn Antennas
- An All-Metal K-Band Reflector Antenna for a Mechanically Steerable Data Downlink System
- Transparent Microwave Crossover for Transparent Butler Matrix Using Micro-metal Mesh Conductive Film
- An Investigation of Offset-Fed Beams on the Proposed SKA Dishes with Various Degrees of Shaping
- Phyllotactic Arrangements of Reflector Mesh Facets to Decrease Grating Lobes
- Focal Plane Array Size Reduction for Terahertz Transceivers in Integrated Technology
- Axially Slotted Antenna on Elliptic Cylinder Coated with Biaxial Anisotropic Material
- Generation of a Cosecant-Squared Radiation Pattern with a Superstrate-Like Leaky-Wave Antenna
- Scalar Metasurface Antennas with Tilted Beam
- Dual Band Isoflux Ultraflat Meta Antennas
- Low-Profile Dual-band Circularly Polarized Microstrip Antenna for GNSS Applications
- A Single Ka-Band Antenna Aperture for TX and RX Operation Applying a Dual-Layer Partially Reflective Surface
- Role of Symmetries in Periodic Leaky-Wave Antennas, with Emphasis on the Double-Asymmetry Case
- Dual-polarized One-Dimensional Leaky Wave Antenna
- Low-Profile High-Gain Tilted-Beam Fabry-Perot Antenna
- Periodic and Periodic Phase-Reversal Leaky Wave Antennas in Reduced Permittivity Substrate Integrated Waveguide
- Smart Notch Detection Techniques for Robust Frequency Coded Chipless RFID Systems
- Printable Depolarizing Chipless RFID Tag Based on DGS Resonators for Suppressing the Clutter Effects
- A Printed Planar Helix Antenna
- Suspended-strip Gap Waveguide Coupled-Line Properties for Ka-band Component Design
- Characteristic Mode Based Pattern Reconfigurable Antenna for Mobile Handset
Poster P1: Propagation Poster Session 1
Propagation
Room: Fernão M Pinto (Hall 4)Chairs: Corentin Friedrich (IRCCyN - Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France), Flávio M. da Silva Jorge (Instituto de Telecomunicações & Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal)
- Faster Resolution of the 3-D Forward Problems in Microwave Imaging by a Partial-Block BiCGStab Algorithm
- Multiple Signal Classification (MUSIC) Method Approach to the Intensity-Only Inverse Reconstruction Based on the Microscopy System
- Stored Grain Spoilage Monitoring Via 3D Microwave Imaging
- A Forward Approach to Establish Parametric Scattering Center Models for Complex Targets
- Physical-information Exploitation in Inverse Scattering Approaches for GPR Survey
- Differential Time-Reversal Tracking Using Independent Component Analysis
- Ground Penetrating Radar Based on Ultrawideband Time-Reversal Method
- Comparison of Heuristic UTD Coefficients in an Outdoor Scenario
- Assessment of the Shadowing Effect Between Windturbines
- Electromagnetic Scattering From Impedance-Matched Bodies
- 3D Dielectric Cuboids: An Alternative for High-Resolution Terajets At THz Frequencies
- Electromagnetic Characterization of Inhomogeneous Media Using the State Space Method
- Indoor RCS Measurement Facility ARCHE 3D: RCS Multi-Calibration Under Spherical Wave
- Time-Variant Scattering Properties of Wind Turbines
- Radiation of a Source on a Convex NURBS Surface
- Impact of the Target Supporting Mast in an Indoor RCS Measurement Facility: Computation and Measurement
- Assessment of Rain Fade Mitigation Techniques for High Throughput Satellites by a Time Series Synthesizer
- Low-Cost System Design for Tracking Satellites in Geosynchronous Orbit
- Wide-Band Characterization of Antennae Plus Aircraft Platform Patterns in L- And Ka-Band
- Slant Path Attenuation At 72.5 and 82.5 GHz
- Phase Fluctuations of GPS Signals Associated with Aurora
- Investigation of Electromagnetic Wave Propagation Through One-Dimensional Plasma Array
- Diffraction-induced Early-Time Diffusion of Pulses Propagating Through Scattering Random Media
- Measurements of Horizontal Variations of Radio Refractivity – First Results
- Spatial Correlation of Vertical Gradient of Refractivity on Large Scales
- An Explicit FDTD Scheme for Simulation of Electromagnetic Propagation in Magnetized Cold Plasmas
- Heating Properties of the Resonant Cavity Applicator with Ultrasound Monitoring System for Effective Hyperthermia Treatments
- Sensitivity of Tropospheric Scintillation Models to the Accuracy of Radiosonde Data
- UHF Antenna Design for the Estimation of Fiber Density of Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete
- High Resolution DOA Estimation for the Air, Marine, and Land Platforms
- A Novel Collision Avoidance MAC Protocol for Multi-Tag UWB Chipless RFID Systems Based on Notch Position Modulation
WS5 R&S: Antenna Measurements at Rohde & Schwarz: The New Test Antenna Chamber
Industrial Workshop
Room: Diogo de Silves (Room 1.08)15:00 - 16:20 (Europe/Berlin)
Inv_1A: Invited Speakers Session 1A
Room: Diogo Cão (Aud 8)
Chair: Luca Salghetti Drioli (European Space Agency-ESTEC, The Netherlands)
Inv_1B: Invited Speakers Session 1B
Room: Pedro A Cabral (Aud 2)
Chair: Danielle Vanhoenacker-Janvier (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
16:50 - 18:30 (Europe/Berlin)
Bi6 InvScat: Imaging and Inverse Scattering for Biomedical Applications
Propagation/Biomedical
Room: Pedro A Cabral (Aud 2)Chairs: Ovidio Mario Bucci (University of Naples, Italy), Oleksandr Malyuskin (Queens University Belfast, United Kingdom)
- 16:50 The Virtual Experiments: An Emerging Framework for the Effective Solution of Inverse Scattering Problems
- 17:10 Resonance Microwave Reflectometry for Early Stage Skin Cancer Identification
- 17:30 Clinical Microwave Tomography with a Lossy Coupling Bath – Insights Into Challenging Reconstruction Cases
- 17:50 On the Design of Exposure Systems for Medical Applications of Microwaves
- 18:10 Imaging of Intracranial Tissues with Radio Waves
C13 Graphene: [C] Applications of Graphene and Novel Materials at Terahertz and Microwaves
Antennas/Bridging other Areas
Room: Diogo Cão (Aud 8)Chairs: Yang Hao (Queen Mary University, United Kingdom), Raj Mittra (Penn State University, USA)
- 16:50 Graphene Magnetoplasmonic Principles, Structures and Devices
- 17:10 Entanglement of Two-Level Atoms Above Graphene
- 17:30 Theoretical Limits of Graphene Terahertz Non-Reciprocal Devices
- 17:50 Techniques for Reducing the SAR in Mobile Devices by Using Graphene-Type Absorbing Materials
- 18:10 Linear and Nonlinear Microwave Characterization of CVD-Grown Graphene Using CPW Structure
C23 MultiB: [C] Emerging techniques for multiband and wideband antennas
Antennas/Radars
Room: Bartolomeu Dias (Aud 4)Chairs: Toru Kawano (National Defense Academy, Japan), Hisamatsu Nakano (Hosei University, Japan)
- 16:50 A Bent-Ends Spiral Antenna Above a Fan-Shaped Electromagnetic Band-Gap Structure
- 17:10 Development of Reconfigurable Multiple Wideband Antenna for Radar and Monitoring Applications
- 17:30 Numerical Analysis of a Grid Array Antenna Radiating a Linearly Polarized Dual-Beam
- 17:50 A Wide-Band Wide-angle Scanning Phased Array with Pattern Reconfigurable Square Loop Antennas
- 18:10 Metamaterial-Based Wideband Shorting-Wall Loaded Mushroom Array Antenna
C25 Inkjet: [C] Inkjet Printed Antennas for Flexible, Wearable and Large Area Electronics
Antennas/Multi Applications
Room: Paulo da Gama (Pav 5B)Chairs: Benito Sanz-Izquierdo (University of Kent, United Kingdom), Atif Shamim (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)
- 16:50 Inkjet Printing for the Fabrication of CPW Antennas and Frequency Selective Surfaces
- 17:10 A 3D Printed Microstrip Patch Antenna
- 17:30 Parametric Optimization of Inkjet Printing and Optical Sintering of Nanoparticle Inks
- 17:50 Tunable Inkjet-Printed Slotted Waveguide Antenna on a Ferrite Substrate
- 18:10 A Low-cost Inkjet-printed Microfluidics-based Tunable Loop Antenna Feed by Microfluidics-based Tunable Balun
C28 MMIMO: [C] Massive MIMO for 5G broadband communication networks
Antennas/Cellular Communications
Room: Pêro Escobar (Pav 3A)Chair: Vanja Plicanic Samuelsson (Sony Mobile Communications, Sweden)
- 16:50 On the Antenna Array Gain in Geometrical Ray Based Stochastic Channel Models
- 17:10 Analysis of Massive MIMO with Hardware Impairments and Different Channel Models
- 17:30 Dual-polarized Turning Torso Antenna Array for Massive MIMO Systems
- 17:50 UE Antenna Properties and Their Influence on Massive MIMO System Performance
- 18:10 28 GHz Propagation Analysis for Passive Repeaters in NLOS Channel Environment
C38 Array: [C] Non-Uniform and Sparse Antenna Arrays - Innovative Concepts and Technological Solutions
Antennas/Space
Room: Tristão V Teixeira (Pav 5A)Chairs: Ioan E. Lager (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands), Giacomo Oliveri (University of Trento, Italy)
- 16:50 An Innovative Strategy for the Fast Design of Maximally-Sparse Arrays with Sum and Difference Phase-Only Reconfigurable Fields
- 17:10 Beamforming in Sparse, Random, 3D Array Antennas with Fluctuating Element Locations
- 17:30 Array Tracing: a Graphical-Deterministic Procedure for the Synthesis of Linear Sparse Arrays
- 17:50 Compressive Sensing Technique for Multi-Frequency Sparse Linear Array Design
- 18:10 Mutual Coupling Analysis of Large Irregular Arrays: From Multipole to Interpolatory Methods
C41 PropBuilt: [C] The IET session on Propagation in the built environment
Propagation/Wireless Networks
Room: Afonso de Albuquerque (Pav 3B)Chairs: Clare Allen (Ofcom, United Kingdom), Pavel Pechac (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic)
- 16:50 Investigation of the Use of Absorbing Materials for Indoor Co-Channel Applications
- 17:10 Engineering Indoor Wireless Communication Systems with High Capacity
- 17:30 The Impact of Thermally Insulating Products on Building Penetration Loss Between 100 MHz and 6 GHz
- 17:50 Indoor Collaborative Localization Method Based on Ultra-Wideband Ranging
- 18:10 Analysis of the Propagation Attenuation From Large Buildings in Broadcasting Services
C8 AMTA2: [C] AMTA/EurAAP Measurements of integrated antennas at mm-wavelengths
Measurements/High Data-rate Transfer
Room: Gonçalo V Cabral (Pav 5C)Chairs: Zhi Ning Chen (National University of Singapore & Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore), Antti V. Räisänen (Aalto University, Finland)
- 16:50 77-GHz Integrated Antenna with Plano-Convex Lens: Design and Measurement
- 17:10 Design and Measurement of Integrated Antenna with a Plastic Lens for 60 GHz Wi-Gig Applications
- 17:30 Wide Band Electrical Parameter Measurement by Absorber Pasted Ridged Horn Antenna
- 17:50 A Complete Measurement System for Integrated Antennas At Millimeter Wavelengths
- 18:10 Reflection Coefficient Method for Characterizing Antennas on Probe Stations
MA10 UWBAnt: UWB antennas and time-domain techniques
Antennas/Multi Applications
Room: Gil Eanes (Aud 3)Chairs: Antonio Lazaro (URV, Spain), Pedram Mousavi (University of Alberta, Canada)
- 16:50 Radar Target Discrimination with Extinction Pulses Using Exponential Β-Splines
- 17:10 UWB Antenna Array for Level and Permittivity Measurement with Calibrated Layer Stripping
- 17:30 UWB Body-Implantable Antenna for Short Range Communication
- 17:50 Polarization Performance of Log-Periodic Antennas on Top of Different Types of Ground Plane; the SKA-low Instrument Case
- 18:10 Forward/backward Coupled Ring Based Phasers for Real-Time Signal Processing
MA12 EMTheory: Electromagnetic theory and numerical techniques
Antennas/Multi Applications
Room: João G Zarco (Pav 3C)Chairs: Yahia Antar (Royal Military College of Canada, Canada), Michael J Havrilla (Air Force Institute of Technology, USA)
- 16:50 Multilevel Fast Multipole Algorithm with Multiple Octrees for the Solution of Large-Scale Plasmonic Problems with Junctions
- 17:10 A Four-Vector Formalism for Anisotropic Media
- 17:30 Diffraction of a Plane Wave by a Rectangular Hole in a Thick Conducting Screen
- 17:50 On Electromagnetic Radiation in Nonlocal Environments—Steps Toward a Theory of Near Field Engineering
- 18:10 Ultrawideband Inverse Scattering Method for Resonance Region Target Recognition: Application to Small-Scale Airplane Targets with Measured Data
Wednesday, April 15
09:00 - 12:50 (Europe/Berlin)
C1 VISTA: [C] 2011-2015 early stage research in COST VISTA
Antennas/Multi Applications
Room: Gil Eanes (Aud 3)Chairs: Nuno Pires (Instituto Superior Técnico & École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Portugal), Oscar Quevedo-Teruel (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
- 09:00 Versatile Measurement System for Imaging Setups Prototyping
- 09:20 Lens-based Ka-band Antenna System Using Planar Feed
- 09:40 Altering Antenna Radiation Properties with Transformation Optics
- 10:00 Pseudo Localization Principle for RFID-Based Smart Blood Stock System
- 10:20 UHF W-BAN Antennas Operating in Indoor and Outdoor Environment
- 10:40 Coffee Break
- 11:10 Reconfigurable Beams From Millimetre-Wave Leaky-Wave Antennas
- 11:30 Synthesis Procedure for Thinned Leaky-Wave Phased Array Antennas
- 11:50 Insightful Circuit Modeling of FSS with Arbitrary Scatterers
- 12:10 Magnetic Nanoparticles Enhanced Breast Cancer Microwave Imaging Via Compressive Sensing
- 12:30 Evolution of Pin-Flange Adapters for High Frequency Measurements
C15 Prop5G: [C] Channel measurements and modelling in the higher frequency bands for 5G
Propagation/Cellular Communications
Room: Pêro Escobar (Pav 3A)Chairs: Thomas Kuerner (Braunschweig Technical University, Germany), Sana Salous (Durham University, United Kingdom)
- 09:00 Large Scale Characteristics of Urban Cellular Wideband Channels At 11 GHz
- 09:20 Phase Noise Effects on the Precision of Wideband Mobile Radio Channel Sounding Methods
- 09:40 Vectorial Channel Sounding of MISO Propagation Channels Without Synchronization
- 10:00 Review of Millimeter-wave Propagation Characterization and Modelling Towards 5G Systems
- 10:20 Simultaneous Millimeter-Wave Multi-Band Channel Sounding in an Urban Access Scenario
- 10:40 Coffee Break
- 11:10 Polarimetric Analysis of Mm-Wave Propagation for Advanced Beamforming Applications
- 11:30 28 GHz Indoor Channel Measurements and Modelling in Laboratory Environment Using Directional Antennas
- 11:50 Wideband Spatial Channel Model in an Urban Cellular Environments At 28 GHz
- 12:10 On Path Loss Measurement and Modeling for Millimeter-wave 5G
09:00 - 10:40 (Europe/Berlin)
C20 RadioC: [C] Dynamic radio channel modelling in mobile-to-mobile heterogeneous networks
Propagation/Wireless Networks
Room: Afonso de Albuquerque (Pav 3B)Chairs: Raffaele D'Errico (CEA, LETI, Minatec Campus & Univ\. Grenoble-Alpes, France), Claude Oestges (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
- 09:00 Doppler Analysis of an Indoor University-Hall
- 09:20 Channel Measurements of Device-to-Device Communications At 2.45 GHz
- 09:40 A Non-Stationary Mobile-to-Mobile Multipath Fading Channel Model Taking Account of Velocity Variations of the Mobile Stations
- 10:00 Modeling Impact of Moving Scatterers on Doppler Spectrum in Vehicle-to-Vehicle Channels
- 10:20 Geometry-Based Path Interpolation for Rapid Ray-Optical Modeling of Vehicular Channels
09:00 - 12:50 (Europe/Berlin)
C26 INTELLE: [C] INTELLECT
Antennas/Bridging other Areas
Room: Diogo Cão (Aud 8)Chairs: Lale Alatan (METU, Turkey), Juan R Mosig (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
- 09:00 The SIE-MoM Analysis of Dielectric Bodies Embedded in a Shielded Stratified Medium
- 09:20 A High Order Locally Corrected Nystrom Implementation of the Decoupled Potential Integral Equation
- 09:40 Improvements in the MoM Analysis of 3-D Planar Multilayered Periodic Structures Used in the Design of Wideband Reflectarray Antennas
- 10:00 Power Computations in VIE Formulations
- 10:20 Hierarchical Bases Preconditioners for a Conformingly Discretized Combined Field Integral Equation Operator
- 10:40 Coffee Break
- 11:10 Volumetric Testing for the Nonconforming Discretization of Integral Equations in Scattering Problems
- 11:30 MLFMA for Large-Scale Nanoplasmonics Modeling
- 11:50 Fully Numerical Evaluation of 4-D Reaction Integrals in the Method of Moments
- 12:10 An Iterative Solution Approach of the Magnetic Field Integral Equation for Scattering Computations
- 12:30 Numerical Solution of Diffraction Problems Using Large Matrix Compression
C33 mmAnt: [C] Mm-wave Antenna Systems
Antennas/High Data-rate Transfer
Room: Gonçalo V Cabral (Pav 5C)Chairs: Cyril Luxey (University Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France), Marta Martínez-Vázquez (IMST GmbH, Germany)
- 09:00 Millimeter-Wave Antennas for Radio Access and Backhaul in 5G Heterogeneous Mobile Networks
- 09:20 Rotman Lens with Ridge-Gap Waveguide, Implemented in LTCC Technology, for 60 GHz Applications
- 09:40 Broadband Circularly Polarized Aperture-Coupled Microstrip Antenna in HDI Technology for WiGig Applications
- 10:00 Intersymbol Interference Analysis of a 60 GHz-Band Compact Range Wireless Access System
- 10:20 On-chip and In-package Antennas for mm-Wave CMOS Circuits
- 10:40 Coffee Break
- 11:10 Compact 28 GHz Antenna Array with Full Polarization Flexibility Under Yaw, Pitch, Roll Motions
- 11:30 On-Chip Antenna Integration for Single-Chip Millimeter-Wave FMCW Radars
- 11:50 Compact Terahertz Instruments for Planetary Missions
- 12:10 A Lens-Coupled All-Silicon Integrated 2x2 Array of Harmonic Receivers for THz Multi-Color Active Imaging
- 12:30 Gain Enhancement of Low Profile On-Chip Dipole Antenna Via Artificial Magnetic Conductor At 94 GHz
C44 MiMed2: [C] Therapeutic Applications of Electromagnetic Fields (MiMed)
Antennas/Biomedical
Room: Pedro A Cabral (Aud 2)Chairs: Margarethus M. Paulides (Erasmus University Medical Center, The Netherlands), Desmond Teck Beng Yeo (GE Global Research, USA)
- 09:00 Focusing and Steering for Medical Applications with Magnetic Near-Field Arrays and Metasurfaces
- 09:20 Optimization of Chest Wall Hyperthermia Treatment Using a Virtual Human Chest Model
- 09:40 Design and Characterization of on-Head Antenna Systems for Neural Motor Prosthesis
- 10:00 A Directive Antenna Array Applicator for Focused Electromagnetic Hyperthermia Treatment of Breast Cancer
- 10:20 The Importance of Source Polarization in Transverse Electric Time Reversal Focusing
- 10:40 Coffee Break
- 11:10 A New Approach to High-Quality Patient-Specific Hyperthermia Treatment
- 11:30 Monitoring Breast Cancer Treatment Progress with Microwave Tomography and Radar-based Tissue-regions Estimation
- 11:50 Clinical Introduction of Novel Microwave Hyperthermia Technology: The HYPERcollar3D Applicator for Head and Neck Hyperthermia
- 12:10 Exploiting Electromagnetic Fields to Enhance the Delivery of Therapeutics to Tumors
- 12:30 Measurement of Electrical Properties of Biological Tissue At Radio Frequencies Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging
C47 Security: [C] Wave-based sensing and imaging for security applications
Propagation/Defense and Secutity
Room: João G Zarco (Pav 3C)Chairs: Jose Martinez Lorenzo (Northeastern University, USA), Carey Rappaport (Northeastern University, USA)
- 09:00 A 300 GHz Imaging Radar for Standoff Anomaly Detection
- 09:20 A New Approach for Measuring Electromagnetic Side-Channel Energy Available to the Attacker in Modern Processor-Memory Systems
- 09:40 Multistatic Fourier-based Technique for Radar Systems
- 10:00 Multistatic Nearfield Imaging Radar for Portal Security Systems Using a High Gain Toroidal Reflector Antenna
- 10:20 Focal Plane and Synthetic Aperture Array Alternatives in a 340 GHz Imaging Radar
- 10:40 Coffee Break
- 11:10 On-the-Move Millimeter Wave Imaging System Using Multiple Transmitters and Receivers
- 11:30 Single-Transceiver Compressive Antenna for High-Capacity Sensing and Imaging Applications
- 11:50 Advanced Fully-Electronic Personnel Security Screening Technology
- 12:10 Passive Imaging Strategies for Real-time Wireless Localization of Non-cooperative Targets in Security Applications
- 12:30 Wave-based Sensing and Imaging for Security Applications
C7 AMTA1: [C] AMTA/EurAAP Diagnostics, imaging, and post-processing in antenna measurements
Measurements/Bridging other Areas
Room: Paulo da Gama (Pav 5B)Chairs: Daniel J. Janse van Rensburg (Near Field Systems Inc., USA), Sergey Pivnenko (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
- 09:00 Extending the Plane Wave Based Fast Irregular Antenna Field Transformation Algorithm for Amplitude-Only Data
- 09:20 Characterizing the Near Field Strength of ISS-RapidScat Reflector Antenna From Measurement Data Using Spectral Back Projection Method
- 09:40 Configurable Robotic Millimeter-Wave Antenna Facility
- 10:00 Study of Daily Tissue Changes Through Breast Monitoring with Time-Domain Microwave Radar
- 10:20 Phase Retrieval Procedure for Microwave Linear Arrays
- 10:40 Coffee Break
- 11:10 Source Reconstruction Technique for Planar Arrays of Wide Slots
- 11:30 Investigation of Spherical Higher Order Modes Sources in Antenna Measurement Probe Design
- 11:50 Comparison of Different Antenna Diagnostics Techniques with Limited Far Field Data Input
- 12:10 Imaging-based Classification Algorithms on Clinical Trial Data with Injected Tumour Responses
- 12:30 Study of the Influence of Mechanical Errors in Diagnostics Applications by Means of Statistical Analysis
09:00 - 10:40 (Europe/Berlin)
R2 LeakyAnt: Slotted-, guided- and leaky-wave antennas
Antennas/Radars
Room: Bartolomeu Dias (Aud 4)Chairs: Miguel Ferrando-Rocher (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain), Lei Wang (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) & Southeast University, Switzerland)
- 09:00 Gain Enhanced H-plane Gap SIW Horn Antenna with Phase Correction
- 09:20 Low Cost Switchable RHCP/LHCP Antenna for SOTM Applications in Ka-band
- 09:40 A Sectorial Fabry – Perot Antenna for Radar Application
- 10:00 RLSA Bessel Beam Launchers Using Hankel Waves
- 10:20 SIW Pillbox Antenna Integrating Monopulse Phase Comparison Technique
09:00 - 12:50 (Europe/Berlin)
S2 SatProp: Satellite Propagation
Propagation/Space
Room: Tristão V Teixeira (Pav 5A)Chairs: Bertram Arbesser-Rastburg (Spacetec Partners, Austria), Laurent Castanet (ONERA, France)
- 09:00 Fading and Scattering Due to Trees in L to Ka Band Propagation Simulations
- 09:20 Initial Results From a Measurement Campaign for Low Elevation Angle Links in Different Environments
- 09:40 Land Mobile Satellite Propagation Characteristics From Knife-Edge Diffraction Modeling and Hemispheric Images
- 10:00 Measurement of Instantaneous Frequency Scaling for Q/V-Band
- 10:20 Evaluation of Inter-Annual Variability of Rainfall Rate and Rain Attenuation Based on the ITU Rec P.678
- 10:40 Coffee Break
- 11:10 Performance of Site-Diversity Satellite Communication Systems in Equatorial Malaysia Investigated Through Weather Radar Data
- 11:30 Joint Effects of Clouds and Rain on Ka-Band Earth Observation Data Downlink Systems
- 11:50 Weather Effects Mitigation At Ka Band by Using Radiometeorological Model Forecast in Deep Space Downlinks
- 12:10 Mobile and Nomadic Measurements of the LMS Propagation Channel At Ku and Ka Bands
- 12:30 Statistical Significance of Specific Rain Attenuation Dependence on Geographic and Climatic Conditions
11:10 - 12:50 (Europe/Berlin)
S8 MetaSpace: Advanced RF materials, metamaterials and EBG for Space Applications
Antennas/Space
Room: Bartolomeu Dias (Aud 4)Chairs: Mauro Ettorre (University of Rennes 1 & UMR CNRS 6164, France), Tiago Morgado (Universidade de Coimbra - Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)
- 11:10 Transformation Optics SW-Based Devices
- 11:30 Optically Reconfigurable Metacheckerboard
- 11:50 Broadband Fabry-Perot Type Sub–Wavelength Profile Antenna
- 12:10 Efficient Characterization of a CPW Series Capacitor in Ku Band
- 12:30 Circularly Polarized Ultra-Thin Antennas for Space: Examples of Realizations
W1 NetPlan: Network Planning, Optimisation and Simulation
Propagation/Wireless Networks
Room: Afonso de Albuquerque (Pav 3B)Chairs: Rausley Adriano Amaral de Souza (National Institute of Telecommunications (INATEL), Brazil), Christian Schneider (Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany)
- 11:10 A Multi-objective Approach to Indoor Wireless Heterogeneous Networks Planning
- 11:30 Indoor-to-Outdoor Channel Characterization for Modeling and Prediction of Interference in Next Generation Wireless Networks
- 11:50 Mobile Networks Optimization Using Open-Source GRASS-RaPlaT Tool and Evolutionary Algorithm
- 12:10 Required Number of Propagation Scenarios for Acceptable Reproduction of Spectral Efficiency Distribution in (heterogeneous) Network Simulations
- 12:30 Simultaneous Sensing-Transmission in Cognitive Radio Networks Under Spatiotemporally Collaborative Techniques
11:10 - 12:10 (Europe/Berlin)
WS6 Altair: Application of Numerical Techniques to the Solution of Practical Antenna Problems with FEKO
Industrial Workshop
Room: Diogo de Silves (Room 1.08)14:00 - 15:00 (Europe/Berlin)
Poster A3: Antennas Poster Session 3
Antennas
Room: Gil Vicente (Hall 5)Chairs: Duarte de Sousa Fonseca (Loughborough University, United Kingdom), Asimina Kiourti (The Ohio State University, USA)
- Simultaneous Two-port Injection Matched Antenna
- Electrically Small Modified Planar Inverted-F Antenna
- Implementation and Wireless Readout of Passive UHF RFID Strain Sensor Tags Based on Electro-Textile Antennas
- Influence of Phantom Models on Implantable Antenna Performance for Biomedical Applications
- Miniaturization Effects on Implantable Antennas for Biomedical Applications
- Humidity Passive Sensors Based on UHF RFID Using Cork Dielectric Slabs
- Antenna Q for Small Antennas with Radiation Constraints and Perturbations
- Reducing and Controlling the Beamwidth of Electrically Small Antenna Arrays
- Small UHF RFID Tag Antenna for Metallic Objects
- Use of the Characteristic Modes Theory for the Design of an Antenna in a Harsh Environment From a Generic Antenna Topology
- An Electrically Small Three-Band Multi-polarization Cross Spiral Antenna
- On the Extending Bandwidth of Electrically Small Antenna Using Negative Impedance Converter
- About Radiation Efficiency Optimizing of A Miniaturized Antennas
- Modified Minkowski Fractal Patch Antenna for Multiband GPS Receiver
- A Preliminary Study on a Reduced Size Planar Grid Array for Automotive Radars
- Human Effect on Twin Antenna On-body for Three Diversity Techniques At 2.4 GHz
- Performance on the Human Body of a Dual-Band Textile Antenna Loaded with Metamaterials
- Knitted Textile Waveguide Bending
- Dually Polarized Tunable Printed Antennas for Medical Applications
- Sensitivity of a Wearable Printed Antenna with a Full Ground Plane in Close Proximity to Human Arm
- Design and Analysis of a Wearable Antenna System for Wireless Safety Applications
- Performance of Embroidered Conductive Yarn in Textile Antennas and Microstrip Lines
- Investigation of Textile Striplines Connectivity for Feeding and Connecting Wearable Antennas
- Microwave Interconnects Between Textile and Rigid Substrates Using Permanent Magnets
- Effect of Ink Usage Conservation Techniques on the Read Range of Inkjet Printed Epidermal RFID Tags
- The Analysis of Influence of Textile Antenna Location on Its Performance
- Vertically Polarized Omnidirectional Printed Slot Loop Antenna
- Investigation of Candidate Antennas for Body Area Networks: Characterization in the Proximity of Human Tissues
- Wireless Power Transfer Using Self-resonant Spiral Antenna Through Reinforced Plasterboard Wall
- Circular-Polarization Reconfigurable Monopole Antenna with Enhanced Boresight Gain for GNSS Applications
- Antenna with Patterns and Polarizations Dual Controlling Freedom
- Experimental Validation of an Agile Electromagnetic Band Gap Matrix Antenna
- A Developed Excitation Law for Beam Forming and Steering Applied to A Novel Electromagnetic Band Gap Antenna
- Comparison Between Pneumatically-Controlled and PIN-Diode-Based Aperture-Coupled Patch Antennas
- A Reconfigurable Patch Antenna with Symmetrical Structure for Polarization Diversity
- A Reconfigurable Beam-Scanning Partially Reflective Surface (PRS) Antenna
- Antenna System for Temperature Sensing
- Reconfigurable THz Metamaterial Antenna Based on Graphene
- Low-Profile Compact-Size Electronically Beam-Switching Antenna for Wireless Communications
- Pattern Reconfigurable Wideband Circularly-Polarized Quadrifilar Helix with Broadside and Backfire Radiation Patterns
- Mutual Coupling Control in a Multiple Antenna System Using Ferrimagnetic Substrate
- Reconfigurable PIFA Antenna Using RF MEMS Switches
- A Tunable Filtenna for Cognitive Radio Applications
- Reconfigurable Square Patch Antenna Using Capacitive Loading and Varactor Diode
- A New High-Gain and Low-Complexity Pattern-Reconfigurable Antenna
- Compact Frequency Reconfigurable Slot Antenna with Continuous Tuning Range for Cognitive Radios
Poster A4: Antennas Poster Session 4
Antennas
Room: Luís de Camões (Hall 3)Chairs: Enrique González-Plaza (Universidad de Oviedo, Spain), Hamed Hasani (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
- Synthesis of Timed Antenna Arrays for Arbitrary Shaped-Beam Energy Patterns
- Development of Odd Orientation Array Antenna (OOAA) by Using Leucaena Leucocephala Substrate
- An Electronically Controlled 8-Element Switched Beam Planar Array
- A Planar Ku Band Antenna for Satellite Communications
- Broadband Focusing Using Aperture-Coupled Microstrip Patch Antenna Arrays
- Two- And Three- Dimensional Near Field Beam Steering Loop Arrays
- An Air-filled Cavity-backed 2×2 Slot Sub-array Fed by Inverted Microstrip Gap Waveguide
- Extremely Low-Profile Planar Antenna Array for Satellite Communications in the Ku-Band
- Low Profile Array With Integrated High Impedance Surfaces For High Performance Adaptive GNSS
- A Parasitic Three-Element Superdirective Electrically Small Antenna Array
- On the Simultaneous Mutual-Coupling Compensation for All the Space Directions
- Interleaved Dual-band Circularly Polarized Active Array Antenna for Satellite Communications
- Fundamental Challenges for Wideband Antenna Elements in Focal-Plane Arrays
- Experimental Results of a Planar Array Composed by an Active Dipole Above a Ground Plane with Parasitic Elements
- Study of Grating Efficiency of Planar Arrays
- Fast Detection of Faulty Elements in EM-Simulated Antenna Array Models From Amplitude-Only Data
- Wideband Wide Beam Metallic Tapered Slot Antenna Design for Phased Array Radar Applications
- Array Antennas in Magnetic Nuclear Fusion and Their Modelling At the Ion Cyclotron Resonance Frequency
- Design of MIMO System with Large Transmit Array Antenna Using Two-Stage Block Diagonalization
- Wall Clutter Mitigation Using a Modified Subspace Projection Method for Non-Parallel Measurement Through-the-Wall Radar Imaging
- Performance of STBC-OFDM-IDMA System Incorporating a New GRP-based Interleaver Over Frequency Selective Channel
- DoA Estimation Technique of Back-Scattering Signal From RFID for Gesture Recognition
- Blind Source Separation Based Phase Estimator for Carrier Synchronization of High-Order QAM Signals
- High-Power and Compact S-Band RF-MEMS Phase Shifters
- Feedback of the Channel Information for Transmit Beamforming in WLAN
- Beamforming Using Conventional and Particle Filter Based Algorithms for Radar Target DOA Estimation
- A BiCMOS 4x4 Butler Matrix
- A Low Profile Compact Reconfigurable MIMO Antenna for Cognitive Radio Applications
- Realization and MIMO-link Measurements of a Transmit Module for Spatial Modulation
- A New Antenna Arrangement Design of Massive MIMO in LOS Environment for Further Capacity Enhancement
- Measurements of a MIMO Train-To-Wayside Communication System on Tunnels
- A Novel Uniplanar Differentially-fed UWB Polarization Diversity Antenna with Dual Notch Bands
- A Compact Four-Port Patch Antenna for MIMO Application
- Planar Multiband MIMO Antenna System Operating in GSM 1800, LTE2300, LTE2500, WLAN and WiMAX Bands
- Isolation Improvement Using CMRC for MIMO Antennas
- A Multi Layers Polymer Bendable Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) Antenna Array on PDMS Substrate for 5.8 GHz Applications
- Spatial Multiplexing of 4×4 UCA LoS MIMO Systems with Splitting Matrix At RF Band
- Body Loss Study of Beamforming Mode in LTE MIMO Mobile Terminals
- A Dual Band Polygon Shaped CPW-Fed Planar Monopole Antenna with Circular Polaraization and Isolation Enhansment for MIMO Aplications
- A Two-Element Patch Antenna Exploiting Path Inequality for Bandwidth Augmentation
- MIMO Dielectric Resonator Antenna for LTE Femtocell Access Point Applications
- Design of a Flexible Dielectric Reflectarray Antenna for THz Applications
- Active Reflectarray Element with Large Reconfigurability Frequency Range
- Two-Dimensional Antenna Beamsteering Using Metamaterial Transmitarray
- Single Layer Quad-Band Dual-Polarized Unit Cell for Reflectarray Antennas in Ku Band
- Folded Reflectarray with Dually Polarized Cells
- Evaluation of the Phase Discretization Effect in Transmitarrays Formed by Sub-Wavelength Patches
- Iterative Design Approach for Multi-Band Single-Layer Reflectarrays
Poster P2: Propagation Poster Session 2
Propagation
Room: Fernão M Pinto (Hall 4)Chairs: Nektarios Moraitis (National Technical University of Athens & Institute of Communications and Computers Systems, Greece), Bile Peng (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany)
- Antenna Radiation Characterization for On-Body Communication Channel Using Creeping Wave Theory
- Measurements for Body-to-Body UWB WBAN Radio Channels
- Simultaneous Measurements of the Channel Response for Multiple Eavesdroppers Operating in the Vicinity of a Body Area Network At 2.45 GHz
- A Statistical Characterization of Shadowed Fading in Indoor Off-Body Communications Channels At 5.8 GHz
- Signal Reliability Improvement Using Selection Combining Based Macro-Diversity for Off-Body Communications At 868 MHz
- Planar Spiral Antenna for Brain Stroke Detection
- Vehicular Traffic Intersecting Body-to-Body Communications Channels At 2.45 GHz
- Radio Channel Characterization At 2.4 GHz in Nuclear Plant Environment
- Analysis of Total Installation Cost Versus Downlink Whole-Body SAR in Indoor Wireless Networks
- Sequence Detection of Movement for Accurate Area Based Indoor Positioning and Tracking
- Measurements and Modeling for Indoor Environments Analysis At 10 GHz for 5G
- Signal Reception Characteristics in the Proximity of Alice and Bob for Secure Indoor Peer-to-Peer Communications At 2.45 GHz
- Cross-Layer Modeling for Video Quality Loss on WLANs
- Statistical Channel Model for Wireless Sensor Networks Deployment in Suburban Environment
- Field Trial on Adaptive Modulation of Microwave Communication Link At 6.8GHz
- Impact of Wireless NLOS Backhaul Design on Small-Cells Deployment and End-user Experience
- Radio-Wave Propagation Predictions in a Three-Layered Medium for VHF/UHF Based on Dyadic Green's Function
- Application of Analytical Propagation Models on Point-To-Point and Point-To-Area RF Signal Prediction
- Analysis of Radio Propagation At Intersection Considering Car Antenna Positions for Inter-vehicle Communications
- Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication: End-to-End Performance Evaluation in Dense Propagation Environments
- Fading Characteristics of Dynamic Person-to-Vehicle Channels At 5.8 GHz
- Performance of Secret Key Generation in Non Stationary Channels
- An Initial Path-Loss Model Within Vegetation in the THz Band
- Performance Evaluation of MIMO Satellite Multiple-Relay Multi-User Fading Channels
- Rigorous Full-wave Analysis of Mode Coupling in Coaxial Waveguide Bends
- Improvement of Resonant Cavity Applicator for Thermotherapy of Osteoarthritis
- A Validation Using Measurement Data of a Radio Channel Model with Geographical Information
- Wireless Indoor Networks Planning Considering QoE Metrics on Multimedia Applications
- The Tamm State Analogue Tuning in the Chainlike Structure Loaded with Varactor Diode
- Improved Target Detection Resolution by Compressed Sensing on Narrow-Band Radar
- A Mode Matching Method for Modeling Low Frequency Wireless Communication for Oil Fields
WS7 CST: CST Workshop: Advanced Antenna System Simulation
Industrial Workshop
Room: Diogo de Silves (Room 1.08)15:00 - 16:20 (Europe/Berlin)
Inv_2A: Invited Speakers Session 2A
Room: Diogo Cão (Aud 8)
Chair: Jose A. Encinar (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain)
Inv_2B: Invited Speakers Session 2B
Room: Pedro A Cabral (Aud 2)
Chair: Eva Rajo-Iglesias (University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain)
15:00 - 16:50 (Europe/Berlin)
WS1 AMTA: AMTA Workshop: Measurement Techniques for Multi-beam Antennas
Scientific Workshop
Room: Diogo de Silves (Room 1.08)Chair: Lars Foged (Microwave Vision Italy, Italy)
16:50 - 18:30 (Europe/Berlin)
Bi3 Wearable: Wearable Antennas
Antennas/Biomedical
Room: Pedro A Cabral (Aud 2)Chairs: Davor Bonefačić (University of Zagreb & Dept of Wireless Communications, Croatia), Benjamin Loader (National Physical Laboratory, United Kingdom)
- 16:50 Stretchable and Flexible E-Fiber Antennas with High Geometrical Accuracy
- 17:10 The Performance of Conducting Elastomer Antennas for Body Worn Applications
- 17:30 Quantifying the Impact of Seam Compression on Embroidered Textile Substrate-Integrated Structures
- 17:50 A Compact Circularly Polarized Wearable Filtering Antenna for Off-Body Communications
- 18:10 Antenna Designs of Smart Watch for Cellular Communications by Using Metal Belt
C12 PowerTr: [C] Antennas and systems for Wireless Power Transmission in space applications
Antennas/Multi Applications
Room: Gil Eanes (Aud 3)Chairs: Nuno Borges Carvalho (University of Aveiro/IT Aveiro, Portugal), Alessandra Costanzo (DEIS, University of Bologna, Italy)
- 16:50 5.8 GHz Microstrip Antennas and Array for Microwave Power Transfer
- 17:10 The Compact X-band AIA for MPT with a GaAs MMIC on a Multi-Layer Substrate
- 17:30 Design and Characterization of Effective Antennas for K-band Rectennas
- 17:50 Experimental Study on Sensors in a Car Engine Compartment Driven by Microwave Power Transfer
- 18:10 Introduction of Wireless Power Transfer Technology for Heavy-Duty Vehicles
C17 DMC: [C] Dense Multipath Component (DMC) characterization for radio channel modeling
Propagation/Wireless Networks
Room: Afonso de Albuquerque (Pav 3B)Chairs: Davy P Gaillot (University of Lille 1, France), Wout Joseph (Ghent University/iMinds, Belgium)
- 16:50 Polarimetric Characteristics of Specular and Dense Multipath Components in an Industrial Hall
- 17:10 Modelling the mmWave Channel Based on Intelligent Ray Launching Model
- 17:30 Maximum-Likelihood Based Estimation of Angular Parameters of Dense-Multipath-Components
- 17:50 Using Tuned Diffuse Scattering Parameters in Ray Tracing Channel Modeling
- 18:10 Dense Multipath Components Add-on for COST 2100 Channel Model
C24 HighNorth: [C] High North Satellite Propagation
Propagation/Space
Room: Tristão V Teixeira (Pav 5A)Chairs: Lars Erling Bråten (Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI), Norway), Terje Tjelta (Telenor, Norway)
- 16:50 Experimental Campaign with First Results for Determining High North 20 GHz Satellite Links Propagation Conditions
- 17:10 One Year of 20 GHz Satellite Measurement Data From a Nordic Maritime Environment
- 17:30 Clear-Air Scintillation and Multipath for Low-Elevation High-Latitude Satellite Communication Links
- 17:50 Characterization of Tropospheric Propagation in Polar Areas for the Design of Earth Observation Satellites Ka Band Data Downlink
- 18:10 Results From Three Years of Ka-band Propagation Characterization At Svalbard, Norway
C26 INTELLE.: [C] INTELLECT.
Antennas/Bridging other Areas
Room: Diogo Cão (Aud 8)Chairs: Lale Alatan (METU, Turkey), Juan R Mosig (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
- 16:50 Rigorous Losses Evaluation in the Numerical Analysis of SIW Structures
- 17:10 Efficient Analysis of Reflectarrays Through the Use of Characteristic Modes
- 17:30 Efficient Analysis of Gap Waveguide Structures Using Mode Matching Approach
- 17:50 Behavior of Time-Domain Volumic Methods in Presence of High-Contrast Media Interfaces
- 18:10 Antenna Q-factor Calculation Using the MoM Impedance Matrix
C36 Scatter: [C] Modelling scattering phenomena in wireless links
Propagation/High Data-rate Transfer
Room: Gonçalo V Cabral (Pav 5C)Chairs: Uwe-Carsten G. Fiebig (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany), Fernando Pérez-Fontán (University of Vigo, Spain)
- 16:50 MARLENE: MediterraneAn RFC and Sea cLutter ENvironmental Experiment
- 17:10 Propagation Channel At 5.2 GHz in Baltic Sea with Focus on Scattering Phenomena
- 17:30 Physical Optics Analysis of the Radiation Pattern of an Antenna Mounted on an Aircraft
- 17:50 Scattering From Single Isolated Tree Based on Physical Optics: Preliminary Model
- 18:10 Statistical Modeling of THz Scatter Channels
C40 PropGbit: [C] Propagation for multi-gigabit applications
Propagation/Cellular Communications
Room: Pêro Escobar (Pav 3A)Chairs: Vittorio Degli-Esposti (University of Bologna, Italy), Katsuyuki Haneda (Aalto University, Finland)
- 16:50 Study of Propagation Mechanisms and Identification of Scattering Objects in Indoor Multipath Channels At 11 GHz
- 17:10 Development of High Frequency Band Over 6 GHz for 5G Mobile Communication Systems
- 17:30 A Full Solution of an Integral Equation Which Represents Terrain Effects on Radio Wave Propagation
- 17:50 Spatial Characterization of Coherence Bandwidth for 72 GHz mm-Wave Indoor Propagation Channel
- 18:10 28 GHz Channel Modeling Using 3D Ray-Tracing in Urban Environments
C9 AMTA3: [C] AMTA/EurAAP Satellite and Aerospace Antenna Testing
Measurements/Space
Room: Paulo da Gama (Pav 5B)Chairs: Mathieu Riel (MDA, Canada), Luca Salghetti Drioli (European Space Agency-ESTEC, The Netherlands)
- 16:50 SMAP: Performance Verification and Testing of a Challenging Instrument Antenna
- 17:10 Pattern Testing of Low-Cost Antennas for LEO and MEO Satellites At MDA
- 17:30 First Results of Innovative Mobile Near-Field Antenna Measurement System for Extreme Large DUTs
- 17:50 DTU-ESA Millimeter-Wave Validation Standard Antenna (mm-VAST) – Detailed Design
- 18:10 Analysis of Spacecraft Antenna Farm Interaction with Equivalent Current Technique
MA6 MetaSurf: Metamaterial Lens and metasurfaces
Antennas/Multi Applications
Room: Bartolomeu Dias (Aud 4)Chairs: Miguel Navarro-Cía (Imperial College London, United Kingdom), Ronan Sauleau (University of Rennes 1, France)
- 16:50 Flattened Generalized Maxwell Fish-eye Lens Limiting Sub-unity Refractive Index Regions
- 17:10 144 GHz Epsilon-Near-Zero Metamaterial Lens
- 17:30 Zoned Fishnet Metamaterial Lens with Millimetre-Wave Dual-Band Response
- 17:50 A Wide-angle Broadband Waveplate Through Field Transformation
- 18:10 Parallel-Plate-Waveguide Luneburg Lens Through a Holey Plate Metasurface
MA7 FSS: Frequency and polarization selective surfaces
Antennas/Multi Applications
Room: João G Zarco (Pav 3C)Chairs: Enrica Martini (University of Siena, Italy), J (Yiannis) Vardaxoglou (Loughborough University, United Kingdom)
- 16:50 Enhancement of Antenna Gain and a Bandwidth Using Frequency Selective Reflectors
- 17:10 Multiband Frequency Selective Surface with Open Matryoshka Elements
- 17:30 Design Principles for Coupled Complementary Metasurfaces
- 17:50 A Performance Study of Circular Polarization Selective Structures
- 18:10 Compact Quarter-Wave Plate Metasurface At 1 and 2.2 THz
20:00 - 22:00 (Europe/Berlin)
Conference Dinner
Room: Restaurant KAIS
Thursday, April 16
09:00 - 12:50 (Europe/Berlin)
Bi1 CancerDet: Microwave Cancer Detection
Antennas/Biomedical
Room: Pedro A Cabral (Aud 2)Chairs: Panagiotis Kosmas (King's College London, United Kingdom), Dario Rodrigues (Thomas Jefferson University, USA)
- 09:00 GPU Accelerated Confocal Microwave Imaging Algorithms for Breast Cancer Detection
- 09:20 Evaluation of the 3D Time Reversal Method for Hyperthermia Treatment Planning in Head and Neck Tumors
- 09:40 Data-driven Matched Field Processing for Radar-based Microwave Breast Cancer Detection
- 10:00 Spectral Filtering in Phase Delay Beamforming for Multistatic UWB Breast Cancer Imaging
- 10:20 Towards Integrated Measurements of Dielectric Tissue Properties At Microwave Frequencies
- 10:40 Coffee Break
- 11:10 Image Classification for a Time-Domain Microwave Radar System: Experiments with Stable Modular Breast Phantoms
- 11:30 First Trials Towards Contrast Enhanced Microwave Breast Cancer Detection by Magnetic Modulated Nanoparticles
- 11:50 Compact UWB Antenna Array for Microwave Imaging
- 12:10 On the Use of Microwave Based Thermal Monitoring in Hyperthermia
- 12:30 Detection of Brain Tumor and Localization of a Deep Brain RF-source Using Microwave Imaging
C14 Bench: [C] Combined Simulation/Measurement Benchmark For Challenging Antennas
Measurements/Bridging other Areas
Room: Diogo Cão (Aud 8)Chairs: Lars Foged (Microwave Vision Italy, Italy), Raphael Gillard (IETR & INSA, France)
- 09:00 A Novel Scheme for Stored Energy Evaluation
- 09:20 Recent Developments in Using Measured Sources in Computational EMC
- 09:40 Progress on DDM and FETI-2LM Methods for AESA Architectures and Metamaterial Analysis
- 10:00 Bridging the Gap: Bringing Measurements and Computational Results Together
- 10:20 Combined NF Antenna Simulation/Measurement for Fast Testing
- 10:40 Coffee Break
- 11:10 Optimized Diagnosis of Reflectors Misalignements in Radioastronomical Applications
- 11:30 Measurement and Simulation of Reflector Antenna
- 11:50 A Feasibility Study on the Extension of the Point Scatterer Formulation to Vegetation Media
- 12:10 Measurements as Enhancement of Numerical Simulation for Challenging Antennas
- 12:30 Combining the Fast Irregular Antenna Field Transformation Algorithm with Asymptotic High Frequency Methods
C39 PropVeh: [C] Propagation Channels for Wide-Sense Vehicle-to-X Communications
Propagation/Wireless Networks
Room: Afonso de Albuquerque (Pav 3B)Chairs: Ke Guan (Beijing Jiaotong University, P.R. China), David W Matolak (University of South Carolina, USA)
- 09:00 A Multi-mode Waveguide Tunnel Channel Model for High-Speed Train Wireless Communication Systems
- 09:20 Angular Dispersion Characterization of Vehicle-to-Vehicle Channel in Cross-Road Scenarios
- 09:40 Measurement-based Stochastic Models for Channel Transition in Underground Subway Environments
- 10:00 Large-Scale Fading Characterization in Curved Modern Subway Tunnels
- 10:20 On Multilink Shadowing Effects in Measured V2V Channels on Highway
- 10:40 Coffee Break
- 11:10 V2V Channel Characteristics and Models for 5 GHz Parking Garage Channels
- 11:30 Realistic Simulation Scenario for Hybrid LTE/IEEE 802.11p Vehicular Communication
- 11:50 Differential Spatial Modulation in V2X
- 12:10 Cluster Spreads for Time-Variant Vehicular Channels
- 12:30 Cluster Lifetime Characterization for Vehicular Communication Channels
C45 THz: [C] THz Antennas and Applications
Antennas/High Data-rate Transfer
Room: Gonçalo V Cabral (Pav 5C)Chairs: Yi Huang (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom), Daniel Segovia-Vargas (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
- 09:00 Terahertz Frequency Scanning Reflectarray/Mirror
- 09:20 A Tri-reflector Compact Antenna Test Range Operating in the THz Range
- 09:40 Terahertz Emission From Photoconductive Antenna Fabricated on GaAs/Sapphire Substrate
- 10:00 An Antenna-free Device for Continuous-Wave THz Emission: Vertical Large Area Emitter
- 10:20 On-Chip Double Slot Antenna At 300 GHz Enhanced by Artificial Dielectrics
- 10:40 Coffee Break
- 11:10 A mm-Wave Integrated Lens Antenna for E-band
- 11:30 Performance Evaluation of a 120 GHz 3D-Printed Plastic Elliptical Lens Antenna-System
- 11:50 A Top Loaded THz Photomixer Antenna
- 12:10 A 874 GHz Mixer Block Integrated Spline Horn and Lens Antenna for ISMAR Instrument
- 12:30 Monolithically-Integrated Antenna-Coupled Field-Effect Transistors for Detection Above 2 THz
CC2 MIMO: MIMO, diversity, and smart antennas
Antennas/Cellular Communications
Room: Pêro Escobar (Pav 3A)Chairs: Frederic Broyde (Excem, France), Dirk Manteuffel (University of Kiel, Germany)
- 09:00 Double Ring Antenna Design for MIMO Application in Mobile Terminals
- 09:20 A Highly Compact Broadband Near-Edge Antenna for Communication Devices with Conducting Body
- 09:40 Effect of External Perturbation on Constellation Points in Beam-Space MIMO
- 10:00 Planar MIMO Antenna System with Polarization Diversity for 2.5-2.7 GHz LTE Indoor FemtoCells
- 10:20 On the Performance of Spatial Multiplexing in MIMO-WCDMA Networks with Principal Component Analysis At the Reception
- 10:40 Coffee Break
- 11:10 On BER Evaluation of a Regional Anti-Jamming Subcarrier Strategy for MIMO-OFDMA Systems
- 11:30 Compact Asymmetric Coplanar Strip-Fed MIMO Antenna for UWB Applications
- 11:50 MIMO Antenna Concept Based on Characteristic Modes for Indoor Base Stations
- 12:10 Two Multiple-Antenna-Port and Multiple-User-Port Antenna Tuners
- 12:30 A Fresnel-like Reflector Antenna Design for High-Order Orbital Angular Momentum States
MA1 Metamat: Metamaterials
Antennas/Multi Applications
Room: Bartolomeu Dias (Aud 4)Chairs: Christophe Caloz (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada), Sylvain Lannebère (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
- 09:00 Chiral Metamaterials for Optical Pulling Forces
- 09:20 Infinite Lifetime States with Quantized Energy in a Core-shell Plasmonic Nanoparticle
- 09:40 Broadband Subwavelength Imaging with a Wire Medium Slab Loaded with Graphene Sheets
- 10:00 Minimization of Metasurface Susceptibility Range by Optimizing the Longitudinal Phase and Polarization Angle
- 10:20 Deflection Angle Tuning in Thin Structures with Diffraction Inspired Unidirectionality
- 10:40 Coffee Break
- 11:10 Wave Propagation in Periodic Temporal Slabs
- 11:30 Efficient Numerical Analysis of 3D Periodic Metamaterials: Multilayer Approach and Eigenmode Analysis
- 11:50 Analysis of Metal Insulator Metal Plasmonic Transmission Lines for Improved Rectenna's Coupling Efficiency
- 12:10 Towards Reflection-less or Total Reflection Magnet-less Nonreciprocal Metasurface
- 12:30 Asymmetric Band Structures with Nonreciprocal Materials and Chiral Media
MA11 Prop: Other Propagation Topics
Propagation/Multi Applications
Room: Gil Eanes (Aud 3)Chairs: Vincent Fabbro (ONERA, France), Etienne Perret (Grenoble INP - LCIS, France)
- 09:00 E-band Propagation Channel Measurements in an Urban Street Canyon
- 09:20 Assessing and Removing the Impact of Non-Reciprocal Transceiver Circuitry for Channel-Based Key Establishment
- 09:40 Trans-Ionospheric Propagation Experiment At HF-band: Channel Measurement and Modelling
- 10:00 Line of Sight MIMO-UWB Short Range Communication in Underground Mine Tunnel
- 10:20 Real-Time Channel Model Selection Using Windowed Received Signal Strength Measurements
- 10:40 Coffee Break
- 11:10 Polarisation Characteristics of Propagation Paths in Indoor 70 GHz Channels
- 11:30 Theoretical Study on Detection Distance for Chipless RFID Systems According to Transmit Power Regulation Standards
- 11:50 Mitigating Severe Channel Effects Using Tripolar Antenna Diversity
- 12:10 Measurement Process of Vertically Polarized Electromagnetic Surface-Waves Over a Calm Sea in the HF Band Over a Spherical Earth
- 12:30 Further Investigations Into Signal Level Enhancements Over Two Over-Sea Radio Paths
MA8 AntMeasur: General Antenna Measurements
Measurements/Multi Applications
Room: João G Zarco (Pav 3C)Chairs: Dirk Heberling (RWTH Aachen University, Germany), Hans-Juergen Steiner (Airbus Defence & Space & Electronics Devision, Germany)
- 09:00 Vertically Polarized Electromagnetic Surface Waves Over a Smooth Sea in HF Band. Measurements and Comparisons with Theoretical Models
- 09:20 An Improved Method for Simultaneous Calibrations of Gain, Phase Center and Near Boresight Patterns for Log-Periodic Dipole Arrays
- 09:40 Effect of the UAV Orientation in Antenna Pattern Measurements
- 10:00 Near Field to Far Field Transformation Applied to HF Antennas
- 10:20 Quiet Zone Extension of an Existing Compensated Compact Range 75/60
- 10:40 Coffee Break
- 11:10 Combining Mode Rotation with CLEAN: Extract Scatterer Information
- 11:30 Time-domain Algorithm for FMCW Based Short Distance Ranging System
- 11:50 Feature Extraction for BCIs Based on Electromagnetic Source Localization and Common Spatial Patterns
- 12:10 Emulating Spherical Wave Channel Models in Multi-probe OTA Setups
- 12:30 On the Number of Required Probes for Anechoic Chamber Based Method for MIMO OTA Testing
S10 TransArray: Reflectarrays and transmitarrays
Antennas/Space
Room: Tristão V Teixeira (Pav 5A)Chairs: Nader Behdad (University of Wisconsin, USA), Nelson Fonseca (European Space Agency, The Netherlands)
- 09:00 Analysis and Optimization of a Curved Transmit-Receive Contoured Beam Reflectarray
- 09:20 Dual-polarized Low Loss Reflectarray Cells with MEMS-based Dynamic Phase Control
- 09:40 A PLL-based Retro-Directive Antenna System for Communications with Arbitrary Frequency Gaps
- 10:00 1-Bit Unit-Cell for Transmitarray Applications in Ka-Band
- 10:20 A Dual Linearly-Polarized Transmitarray Element
- 10:40 Coffee Break
- 11:10 Principle of Bifocal Antennas Implemented in a Dual Reflectarray Configuration
- 11:30 Radiation Pattern Synthesis for Monopulse Radar Applications Using a Reconfigurable Transmitarray in X-Band
- 11:50 Near-Field Focusing Transmitarray Lens
- 12:10 A Multibeam Antenna for Imaging Based on Planar Lenses
- 12:30 Dual-Polarized Square-Shaped Offset-Fed Reflectarray Antenna with High Gain and High Bandwidth in the 60 GHz Domain
S3 TropProp: Tropospheric Propagation
Propagation/Space
Room: Paulo da Gama (Pav 5B)Chairs: Charilaos Kourogiorgas (National Technical University of Athens, Greece), Jose M Riera (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
- 09:00 Statistical Results From Radio Signal Strength Measurement Campaign Over Two Over-Sea Paths in Channel Islands, UK
- 09:20 Evidence of Cyclic Behaviour in Historical Rainfall Statistics in Milan
- 09:40 Rain Attenuation Estimations At High Latitudes Based on Weather Radar Data
- 10:00 Predicting Cloud Attenuation on Earth-Space EHF Links
- 10:20 Rain Attenuation Time Series Synthesizer Based on Copula Functions
- 10:40 Coffee Break
- 11:10 Comparison of Exact and Approximate FSO Rain Attenuation Formulas Based on Actual DSD
- 11:30 Modeling and Prediction of Tropospheric Radiopropagation Parameters From Ground-based Multi-channel Radiometric Measurements Between Ka and W Band
- 11:50 Fade Dynamics Variability in a Long-Term Slant-Path Ka-Band Experiment
- 12:10 Estimate of Tropospheric Scintillation Along a Leo-Leo Link Through High Resolution Radiosonde Data
- 12:30 Characteristic Wave Diversity in Near Vertical Incidence Skywave Propagation
14:00 - 15:00 (Europe/Berlin)
Poster A5: Antennas Poster Session 5
Antennas
Room: Luís de Camões (Hall 3)Chairs: Bisognin Aimeric (CIMPACA-EPIB, France), Joana S. Silva (Laboratory of Electromagnetics and Acoustics / École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne & LEMA, Switzerland)
- Frequency Selective Smart Shield Design for Wireless Signals
- Control of the Pass and Stop Bands Ratio of Complementary Frequency Selective Surfaces
- Transparent Circuit Analog Electromagnetic Absorber for Window Applications
- Antenna-Filter-Antenna Based Frequency Selective Surfaces for Quasi-Optical Applications in Q-Band
- 165/183 GHz FSS for the MetOp Second Generation Microwave Sounder Instrument
- A Switchable Frequency Selective Surface Based on a Modified Jerusalem-Cross Unit Cell
- Numerical Homogenization and Synthesis of Wave Polarizers Through the Material-by-Design Paradigm
- A Dual-Band Single-Layer Frequency Selective Surface for Wi-Fi Applications
- FSS Designs Using a Population-Based Hybrid Algorithm Inspired on the Echolocation of Bats
- Quasi-Optical Phase Retrieval of Radiation Patterns of Non-Standard Horn Antennas At Millimetre and Submillimetre Wavelengths
- 300-GHz Horn Antennas for Kiosk Download
- 160GHz Harmonic-Rejecting Antenna with CMOS Rectifier for Millimeter-Wave Wireless Power Transmission
- 60 GHz On-Chip Antenna Array with Efficiency Improvment Using 3D Microfabrication Technology
- Design of an Efficient 900 GHz Antenna in Standard CMOS Technology for Imaging Arrays
- Theoretical Model Based on Spectral Green's Function Representation for Photoconductive Slot Antennas
- Quasi-Optical System for a Real Time Stand-Off Submillimeter-Wave Dual-Mode Imager
- Suppressed Back-Lobe SIW-Fed MPA Array for 60 GHz Wireless Communication
- Integrated On-Chip Antennas for THz Spectrometer for Electron Bunch Compression Monitor Applications
- High Coupling Radiating Element Using Impedance Transform Stub for Microstrip Comb-Line Antennas in the Millimeter-Wave Band
- Composite Cavity-Backed Crossed Dipole Coupled to a Magneto-Electric Dipole
- A Folded Loop Antenna with Four Resonant Modes
- Substrate Integrated Waveguide Cavity Backed Slot Antenna with Parasitic Slots for Dual-frequency and Broadband Application
- A Printed Circularly Polarized Half-Moon Monopole Antenna
- Lumped Equivalent Circuit Formulation of Dual Band PIFA
- New Compact Broadband GSM/UMTS/LTE Antenna Realised by 3D Printing
- Two Multiband Uniplanar Antennas for Microwave Breast Imaging
- Slotted Patch Antenna with Broadband Circular Polarization
- Realization and Test of a Versatile and Low-Cost Printed Configuration of UWB Dual-Pol Antenna
- Dual-Band Dual-Polarized Microstrip Antenna for Rx/Tx Terminals for High Altitude Platforms
- Switched Non-uniformly Distributed-Turns Coil Antenna for Dual-band Operation
- An Inverted-F Antenna Integrated with Solar Cells for Energy Harvesting
- Wideband Monopole Vivaldi Antenna and Its Angular Periodic Performance
- A Fin Type Wideband Bent Monopole Antenna Closed to L-shape Grounded Plate
- Comparison of a Cavity Antenna with Stacked Patches and a Metasurface-Inspired Design
- Filtering Functions in a Versatile Intricate Antenna
- A Dual-Band Compact L-Quad Antenna Array for Radio Localization
- On the Phase Response and Radiation Efficiency of the Complementary Strip-Slot as an Array Element
- A High Efficient Automotive Roof-Antenna Concept for LTE, DAB-L, GNSS and SDARS with Low Mutual Coupling
- Design Methods for Efficient Multiband Antennas with Parasitic Elements
- Fast Simulation-Driven Design of a Planar UWB Dipole Antenna with an Integrated Balun
- Calibration with Single Measurement in Microwave Imaging System for Breast Cancer Detection
- Overview of Radiofrequency Simulation for Automotive Antennas At Renault
- Detailed Pattern Computations of the UHF Antennas on the Spacecraft of the ExoMars Mission
- Investigation of Integrated Filter-Antenna Based on Cascaded and Multilayer Approach
- E x Vivo Tissue Shrinking in Microwave Thermal Ablation
- Passive Intermodulation in Distributed Circuits with Cascaded Discrete Nonlinearities
- Synthesis of a Wide Band Circularly Polarized Directive Parasitic Elements Antenna
- User Body Loss Study for Popular Smartphones
- Localization System Using Resonant Magnetic Coupling Factor for Improving Efficiency in Wireless Power Transfer
- New Heterogeneous Superstrate High Gain Antenna
- Design and Characterization of Multi-Layer Substrate Integrated Waveguide (SIW) Slot Coupler
- Frequency Tunable Wideband Axial-Mode Helix Antennas Using NiTi Shape Memory Alloys
- SMAP Telecom and Science Antenna Multipath Interference
- A Combinatorial Algorithm for Base-station Location Optimization for LTE Mixed-Cell MIMO Wireless Systems
Poster Awards: Awards Finalists Poster Session
Room: Fernão M Pinto (Hall 4)
Chairs: Antonio A Moreira (I.S.T. - Technical U. Lisbon / I.T. Lisbon, Portugal), Anja K. Skrivervik (EPFL, Switzerland)
- Compact Terahertz Instruments for Planetary Missions
- DTU-ESA Millimeter-Wave Validation Standard Antenna (mm-VAST) – Detailed Design
- Evolution of Pin-Flange Adapters for High Frequency Measurements
- Alamouti Space-time Coding in Car-to-Car Communications - SDR-based Implementation and Measurement
- A New Measurement Technique and Experimental Validations in Determination SAR of N-Antenna Transmitters Using Scalar E-Field Probes
- Data-driven Matched Field Processing for Radar-based Microwave Breast Cancer Detection
- Propagation Channel At 5.2 GHz in Baltic Sea with Focus on Scattering Phenomena
- Joint Effects of Clouds and Rain on Ka-Band Earth Observation Data Downlink Systems
- Faster Resolution of the 3-D Forward Problems in Microwave Imaging by a Partial-Block BiCGStab Algorithm
- Weather Effects Mitigation At Ka Band by Using Radiometeorological Model Forecast in Deep Space Downlinks
- Intersymbol Interference Analysis of a 60 GHz-Band Compact Range Wireless Access System
- Cylindrically-bent Rectangular Patch Antennas: Novel Modeling Techniques for Resonance Frequency Variation and Uncertainty
- Scalar Metasurface Antennas with Tilted Beam
- Collimating Leaky-Wave Radiation with Metasurfaces
- Iterative Design Approach for Multi-Band Single-Layer Reflectarrays
- Multistatic Nearfield Imaging Radar for Portal Security Systems Using a High Gain Toroidal Reflector Antenna
- Low Profile Array With Integrated High Impedance Surfaces For High Performance Adaptive GNSS
- A Comparative Study of Coherent Time Reversal Minimum Variance Beamformers for Breast Cancer Detection
- On BER Evaluation of a Regional Anti-Jamming Subcarrier Strategy for MIMO-OFDMA Systems
- The Effects of Antenna Array Size and Back Lobe Level on Self-Interference and Transmitted Powers for 4G Beamforming Multicell Systems with In-Band Full Duplex Relays
- Reactively Matched Long Slot Linear Connected Array Antenna
- Impact of Neutralization on Isolation in Co-Planar and Back-to-Back Antennas
- On-Chip Double Slot Antenna At 300 GHz Enhanced by Artificial Dielectrics
- Analysis of Electrically Large Antennas Using Fast Physical Optics
- A Novel Collision Avoidance MAC Protocol for Multi-Tag UWB Chipless RFID Systems Based on Notch Position Modulation
Poster M1: Measurement Poster Session
Measurements
Room: Gil Vicente (Hall 5)Chairs: Rasmus Cornelius (RWTH Aachen University, Germany), Lucia Scialacqua (Microwave Vision Italy, Italy)
- A New Method for Detecting Multipactor in Pulse Mode
- Optimized Near Field Antenna Measurements in the Cylindrical Geometry
- Reduction of Cross-Polarization in a Single Offset Parabolic Reflector
- Non-Ideal Quiet Zone Effects on Compact Range Measurements
- Far-Field Antenna Calculation Based on Randomly Distributed Near-Field Measurement Data
- Quiet Zone Characterization of a Built-It-Yourself Antenna Test Chamber
- Investigations on Probe Phase Center Impact in Antenna Measurement Results Uncertainty for Spherical Near Field Systems
- Wide-Angle ISAR Imaging of Vehicles
- Influence of Antenna Alignment and Line-of-sight Obstruction on the Accuracy of Range Estimates Between a Pair of Miniature UWB Antennas
- High Performance UWB Array Antenna for Brain Tumor Detection Via Scattering Parameters in Microwave Imaging Simulation System
- Material Characterization De-embedding for Rectangular to Square Waveguide
- A Pragmatic Approach to Uncertainty Analysis in Free Space Material Measurements
- Space Radiation Hardness of PTFE Based RF Substrates for GEO Satellite Application
- Microwave Glucose Monitoring in Aqueous- And Blood-Glucose Solutions: In Vitro Feasibility Study
- Effects of Pulsed RF Disturbances on Aeronautical Communication Systems
- Radio Link Characterization of the CorteXlab Testbed with a Large Number of Software Defined Radio Nodes
- Mobility Improves Performance of RFID Library Systems
- On S-Parameter Based Complex Correlation of Multi-Port Antenna
- Impact of the Spatial User Distribution on the Coverage Antenna Pattern of Maximum Ratio Combining in Random Line-Of-Sight
14:00 - 16:50 (Europe/Berlin)
WS3 MiMed: Translating Microwave Medical Devices from Research Bench to Patient Bedside
Scientific Workshop
Room: Diogo de Silves (Room 1.08)Chairs: Raquel C. Conceição (Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Oxford & Instituto de Biofísica e Engenharia Biomédica, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, United Kingdom), Martin O'Halloran (National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland)
15:00 - 16:20 (Europe/Berlin)
Inv_3A: Invited Speakers Session 3A
Room: Diogo Cão (Aud 8)
Chair: J (Yiannis) Vardaxoglou (Loughborough University, United Kingdom)
Inv_3B: Invited Speakers Session 3B
Room: Pedro A Cabral (Aud 2)
Chair: Michael Jensen (Brigham Young University, USA)
16:50 - 18:30 (Europe/Berlin)
BA2 NearFarMe: Advances in near-field, far-field, compact and RCS test ranges
Measurements/Bridging other Areas
Room: Diogo de Silves (Room 1.08)Chairs: Rasmus Cornelius (RWTH Aachen University, Germany), Francesco D'Agostino (University of Salerno, Italy)
- 16:50 Experimental Testing on a Near-Field to Far-Field Tranformation with Planar Spiral Scanning for Quasi-Planar Antennas
- 17:10 IETR Millimetre Wave Compact Antenna Test Range: Implementation and Validation
- 17:30 Investigation of Different Matrix Solver for Spherical Near-Field to Far-Field Transformation
- 17:50 Closed-Loop Real-Time PNF Position Compensation with a Tracking Laser
- 18:10 Investigation on Planar Near-to-Far-Field Transformations for EMC Applications
Bi4 AntCoupl: Antenna interactions and coupling
Antennas/Biomedical
Room: Pedro A Cabral (Aud 2)Chairs: Christophe Fumeaux (The University of Adelaide & School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Australia), Stavros Koulouridis (University of Patras, Greece)
- 16:50 A Case-Study to Assess Compliance with Exposure Limit Values for Workers Exposed to Multiple Frequency Electromagnetic Sources
- 17:10 Dosimetry Study of Anatomical Pregnant Woman & Fetus Models Inside Three Different Elevator Cabins
- 17:30 Comprehensive Study on Coupled Meandered Microstrip Line RF Coil Elements for 7-Tesla Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- 17:50 Impact of Neutralization on Isolation in Co-Planar and Back-to-Back Antennas
- 18:10 Integrated Antenna Currents on a Polycrystalline Silicon Solar Cell
C16 Confor: [C] Conformal Antennas
Antennas/Multi Applications
Room: João G Zarco (Pav 3C)Chairs: Vakur Erturk (Bilkent University, Turkey), Zvonimir Sipus (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
- 16:50 Analysis of Canonical Curved Metasurfaces
- 17:10 Low-Profile Ultra-Wideband Reconfigurable Tightly-Coupled Arrays
- 17:30 Empirical and Full-Wave Techniques for the Analysis of Cylindrical Microstrip Antennas and Arrays
- 17:50 Solid State Vs. Micro-Relay Switches Employed in a Circular Switched Parasitic Array Antenna
- 18:10 Analysis of Cylindrically Conformal Antennas Using Closed-Form Green's Function Representations
C22 RFID: [C] Emerging chipless RFID technology trends
Antennas/Multi Applications
Room: Tristão V Teixeira (Pav 5A)Chairs: David Girbau (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain), Etienne Perret (Grenoble INP - LCIS, France)
- 16:50 Potentialities of Dual-Polarized Interrogation for Spectral Domain Chipless Tags
- 17:10 Millimetre-wave Scanning Radar for the Detection and Remote Reading of Passive Electromagnetic Sensors
- 17:30 A Novel Phase Encoding Technique Exploting Linear or Circular Polarization
- 17:50 Time-coded Chipless Sensors to Detect Quality of Materials in Civil Engineering
- 18:10 High Performance Chipless RFID Reader Based on IR-UWB Technology
C3 Nano: [C] Advanced computational methods and analysis of optical nanoantennas, resonators, and other photonic circuit components
Antennas/Bridging other Areas
Room: Diogo Cão (Aud 8)Chairs: Alexander Nosich (IRE NASU, Ukraine), Xuezhi Zheng (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
- 16:50 Integral-Equation Study of Ray Effects and Natural-Mode Resonances in a 2-D Dielectric Prism
- 17:10 Seebeck Nanoantennas for Infrared Detection and Energy Harvesting Applications
- 17:30 Modal Analysis in Understanding the Optical Response of a Nanoantenna
- 17:50 Wideband Equivalent Circuit for 1-D Periodic Compound Gratings
- 18:10 Excitation of a Grounded Lossy Dielectric Slab by an External Complex Source Point Beam
C32 OTA: [C] MIMO OTA Test Trade-offs
Measurements/Cellular Communications
Room: Afonso de Albuquerque (Pav 3B)Chairs: Mattias Gustafsson (Huawei Technologies Sweden AB, Sweden), David A Sánchez-Hernández (Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Spain)
- 16:50 The Decomposition Method: Accelerated OTA Test of MIMO Devices
- 17:10 Advances in Antenna Pattern-Based MIMO OTA Test Methods
- 17:30 LTE Carrier Aggregation MIMO OTA Tests Using a Reverberation Chamber
- 17:50 Device-to-Device Extension to Geometry-Based Stochastic Channel Models
- 18:10 Comparison of Channel Emulation Techniques in Multiprobe Anechoic Chamber Setups
C46 TuneSmall: [C] Tuning and Miniaturization Techniques for Small Device Antennas operating at LTE bands
Antennas/Cellular Communications
Room: Pêro Escobar (Pav 3A)Chairs: Samantha Caporal Del Barrio (Aalborg University, Denmark), Art Morris (Wispry, USA)
- 16:50 Characteristic Mode Investigation of a Reactively Loaded Electrically Small Dipole Antenna
- 17:10 Simple Front-End Concept for the Complex Challenges of Multi-Band Communications
- 17:30 Unveiling the Potential of Antenna Tuners
- 17:50 Tunable MIMO Antenna for Small Handsets
- 18:10 Electrical Balance Duplexer Adaptation in Indoor Mobile Scenarios
C48 WirelessTr: [C] Wireless Power Transmission and Energy Harvesting
Antennas/Multi Applications
Room: Gil Eanes (Aud 3)Chairs: Alessandra Costanzo (DEIS, University of Bologna, Italy), Yi Huang (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom)
- 16:50 Statistical Modeling of a Shielded Wireless Charging Device
- 17:10 Rectenna Demonstrators At Holst Centre / Imec and Eindhoven University of Technology
- 17:30 Circularly Polarized Shorted Ring Slot Rectenna with a Mesh Design for Optimized Inkjet Printing on Paper Substrate
- 17:50 A Broadband Efficient Rectenna Array for Wireless Energy Harvesting
- 18:10 Antenna Design for Unified Far-Field Communication and Near-Field Recharging
HD1 Lenses: Lens antennas and radomes
Antennas/High Data-rate Transfer
Room: Gonçalo V Cabral (Pav 5C)Chairs: Andrey Mozharovskiy (Radio Gigabit LLC & Lobacevski State University of Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia), Andrea Neto (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
- 16:50 Multi-beam Luneburg Lens Antenna for Cellular Communications
- 17:10 Differences in EM Performance Between Multi-Panel Faceted and Spherical Radomes
- 17:30 Frequency Independent Patterns From Double Shell Lenses Fed by Leaky Wave Feeders
- 17:50 Smooth Plate Luneburg Lens with Superstrate
- 18:10 High Gain Millimeter-Wave Lens Antennas with Improved Aperture Efficiency
MA5 MetaAnt: Metamaterials Antennas and Components
Antennas/Multi Applications
Room: Bartolomeu Dias (Aud 4)Chairs: Eva Rajo-Iglesias (University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain), Alexander Yakovlev (The University of Mississippi, USA)
- 16:50 V-Band Groove Gap Waveguide Diplexer
- 17:10 Microwave Horn Antenna Made of a Graphene-Containing Carbon Composite Material
- 17:30 Novel Horn-Like Antenna Based on Skewed Transmission Line Lattices
- 17:50 Mutual Coupling Reduction Between Neighboring Strip Dipole Antennas Using Confocal
- 18:10 A Zero Beam-Squinting Leaky-Wave Antenna Using NRI-TL Metamaterials
Friday, April 17
09:00 - 10:20 (Europe/Berlin)
Bi2 BodyCom: Body-Centric Communications
Propagation/Biomedical
Room: Pedro A Cabral (Aud 2)Chairs: Rosanna Pinto (ENEA, Italy), Marcel Seguin (University of Calgary, Canada)
- 09:00 Head-centric Body-channel Propagation Paths Characterization
- 09:20 Impact of Radio Wave Polarisation on Off-Body Communications in Indoor Environments
- 09:40 A Low Profile Microstrip Patch Antenna for Body-Centric Communications At 2.45GHz Band
- 10:00 Analytical Model, Measurements, and Effect of Outer Lossless Shell of Phantoms for On-body Propagation Channel Around the Body for Body Area Networks
C19 DomainD: [C] Domain decomposition methods and macro-basis functions for integral equations
Antennas/Bridging other Areas
Room: Diogo Cão (Aud 8)Chairs: Vito Lancellotti (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands), Rob Maaskant (CHALMERS, Sweden)
- 09:00 A Comparison of Two Types of Macro Basis Functions Defined on LEGO Electromagnetic Bricks
- 09:20 Efficient Domain Decomposition Method for Electromagnetic Modeling of Scattering From Forest Environments
- 09:40 Macro-basis Functions for Electromagnetic Modelling of Penetrable and Impenetrable Bodies
- 10:00 On the Use of Contour-FFT for the MBF-based Analysis of Arrays of Antennas Placed Vertically Above a Multi-layered Substrate
C27 Meta: [C] Latest Progress in Metamaterial-Based Antenna Design
Antennas/Multi Applications
Room: Bartolomeu Dias (Aud 4)Chairs: Hisamatsu Nakano (Hosei University, Japan), Xianming Qing (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)
- 09:00 Metaspiral Antenna System with Dielectric Slabs
- 09:20 Mutual-coupling Reduction of Four-element Cavity-backed Slot Antenna System Using Mushroom Walls
- 09:40 Wideband Diamond Dipole Antenna with Broadside Radiation Characteristics
- 10:00 Analysis of Anisotropic Metamaterial Inclusions and Substrates
C34 Mobile: [C] Mobile antenna concepts leveraging circuit design techniques
Antennas/Cellular Communications
Room: Afonso de Albuquerque (Pav 3B)Chairs: Fabien Ferrero (CREMANT, Université Nice-Sophia Antipolis & CREMANT CNRS, France), Frédéric Gianesello (STMicroelectronics, France)
C42 Pulsed: [C] Pulsed-field radio: theory, applications, implementation
Antennas/Multi Applications
Room: Gonçalo V Cabral (Pav 5C)Chairs: Takamaro Kikkawa (Hiroshima University, Japan), Ioan E. Lager (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
C5 Plasma: [C] Advances in Plasma-based Antennas and Devices
Antennas/Defense and Secutity
Room: João G Zarco (Pav 3C)Chairs: Theodore Anderson (Haleakala Research and Development, USA), Davide Melazzi (University of Padova, Italy)
- 09:00 Plasma Metamaterials, and Their Reconfigurable and Nonlinear Properties
- 09:20 An Overview of Experimental and Numerical Results on the Performance of Plasma Antennas Arrays
- 09:40 Plasma Microdischarge as Power-Induced Limiter Element in Microstrip Devices
- 10:00 Reconfigurable Leaky Wave Antenna Using a Gradient Index Plasma
C6 mmSpace: [C] Advances in space-fed antennas for millimeter-wave communications
Antennas/Space
Room: Tristão V Teixeira (Pav 5A)Chairs: Laurent Dussopt (CEA, LETI, Minatec, France), Andrea Neto (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
- 09:00 Collimating Leaky-Wave Radiation with Metasurfaces
- 09:20 Physical-Optics Analysis and Design of a Beam-Forming Network Coupled to an Imaging-System Configuration for Ka-Band Satellite Applications
- 09:40 True-Time-Delay Reflectarray and Transmitarrays Based on Miniaturized Element Frequency Selective Surfaces
- 10:00 Millimeter-wave Beam-Scanning Antennas Using Liquid Crystals
CC1 mmWProp: Propagation for mmW and 5G
Propagation/Cellular Communications
Room: Pêro Escobar (Pav 3A)Chairs: Thomas Kürner (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany), Reiner S. Thomä (Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany)
- 09:00 Precipitation Modelling for Performance Evaluation of Ad-Hoc Microwave 5G Mesh Networks
- 09:20 Millimeter Wave Channel Measurements and Modeling for Indoor Femtocell Applications
- 09:40 Coverage and Outage Capacity Evaluation in 5G Millimeter Wave Cellular Systems: Impact of Rain Attenuation
- 10:00 Enhanced Graph-theoretic Channel Model for Performance Evaluation of MIMO Antennas and Millimeter Wave Communications
MA2 WireAnt: Wire antennas
Antennas/Multi Applications
Room: Gil Eanes (Aud 3)Chairs: Qing-Xin Chu (South China University of Technology, P.R. China), Ala Sharaiha (Université de Rennes 1 & IETR, France)
S6 Reflector: Reflector, feed systems and components
Antennas/Space
Room: Paulo da Gama (Pav 5B)Chairs: Jean-Christophe Angevain (ESA, The Netherlands), Nuria LLombart (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
- 09:00 Analysis of Electrically Large Antennas Using Fast Physical Optics
- 09:20 Fast Prediction of Aperture Efficiency and Sidelobe Levels in Shaped Reflector Systems Through Model Based Output Space Mapping
- 09:40 Fast and Accurate Analysis of Reflector Antennas with Struts and Satellite Platform Scattering
- 10:00 Noise Performance of a Phased-Array Feed Composed of Thick Vivaldi Elements with Embedded Low-Noise Amplifiers
10:50 - 12:10 (Europe/Berlin)
Bi7 SmallAnt: Small antennas and RF sensors
Antennas/Biomedical
Room: Pedro A Cabral (Aud 2)Chairs: Stefano Caizzone (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany), Oleksiy S. Kim (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
- 10:50 Passive RFID Couplets as Wireless Interface for Sensor Applications
- 11:10 Characterization of Chip-Size Electrically-Small Antennas for Smart Wireless Biomedical Devices
- 11:30 Stored Energy of Coupled Electric and Magnetic Currents and the Lower Bound on Q
- 11:50 On the Geometry, Impedance Matching and Quality Factor of Implantable Planar Dipole Antennas
C11 GeoSci: [C] Antennas and Propagation for Geoscience Applications
Propagation/Radars
Room: Bartolomeu Dias (Aud 4)Chairs: Alessandro Galli (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), Greg Hislop (CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering, Australia)
C2 3D: [C] 3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing Technology of Electromagnetic Structure
Antennas/Multi Applications
Room: Gil Eanes (Aud 3)Chairs: Corey Shemelya (University of Texas at El Paso, USA), Hao Xin (University of Arizona, USA)
- 10:50 3D PRINTING MULTI-FUNCTIONALITY: Embedded RF Antennas and Components
- 11:10 3D Printed 20/30-GHz Dual-Band Offset Stepped-Reflector Antenna
- 11:30 Frequency Selective Surfaces Formed by Partially Metalizing 3D Printed Shapes
- 11:50 Microwave and THz Components Printed Using Additive Manufacturing Technique
C31 Microflu: [C] Microfluidics and Tunable Material Systems for Antenna Reconfiguration and Control
Antennas/Cellular Communications
Room: Pêro Escobar (Pav 3A)Chairs: Ozlem Aydin Civi (Middle East Technical University, Turkey), Nader Behdad (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
MA14 ActiveAnt: Active and integrated antennas
Antennas/Multi Applications
Room: Gonçalo V Cabral (Pav 5C)Chairs: Deepak Nagarkoti (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom), Mohammad S. Sharawi (King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia)
- 10:50 High-Efficiency On-Chip Antenna Array for Terahertz Power Source
- 11:10 Development of Superconducting Front-End T/R Module for Active Phased Array Antenna
- 11:30 Power Amplifier Based Integrated and Miniaturized Active Antenna
- 11:50 Noise Measurements of a Non-Foster Circuit for Matching of a Receiver Antenna
MA9 ConforAnt: Conformal antennas
Antennas/Multi Applications
Room: João G Zarco (Pav 3C)Chairs: Carl Pfeiffer (University of Michigan, USA), Luigi Vallozzi (Ghent University, Belgium)
- 10:50 A Conical Phased Array for Reliable and Discrete Communications
- 11:10 Cylindrically-bent Rectangular Patch Antennas: Novel Modeling Techniques for Resonance Frequency Variation and Uncertainty
- 11:30 CPW-fed Dual Band Monopole Antenna Based on Conductive Polymers
- 11:50 Circumferential Array of Cylindrical Hybrid Antennas
S7 NumSpace: Electromagnetic theory and numerical techniques for Space Applications
Antennas/Space
Room: Paulo da Gama (Pav 5B)Chairs: Dragan I. Olcan (University of Belgrade, Serbia), Giovanni Toso (European Space Agency, The Netherlands)
- 10:50 Modal Analysis of Planar Structures Loaded with Wire-Medium Slabs Using a Transmission-Line Approach
- 11:10 Exact Solution for Anysotropic, Periodically Modulated Boundary Conditions Excited by a Surface Wave
- 11:30 Antennas in Reception
- 11:50 Characterization of Printed Transmission Lines At High Frequencies
S9 AntSpace: Antennas for Space Applications
Antennas/Space
Room: Tristão V Teixeira (Pav 5A)Chairs: Benedetta Fiorelli (ESA-ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands, The Netherlands), Per Magnusson (Ruag Space Sweden, Sweden)
W2 VehicProp: Propagation for Vehicle-to-X Communication
Propagation/Wireless Networks
Room: Afonso de Albuquerque (Pav 3B)Chairs: Edith Condo Neira (SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden, Sweden), Kristian Karlsson (SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden, Sweden)
- 10:50 Combination of Full Wave Methods and Ray Tracing for Radiation Pattern Simulations of Antennas on Vehicle Roofs
- 11:10 Combined LTE and IEEE 802.11p Antenna for Vehicular Applications
- 11:30 On the Effect of Vertical Spatial Diversity on V2V Communication for Three Different Platooning Scenarios
- 11:50 Alamouti Space-time Coding in Car-to-Car Communications - SDR-based Implementation and Measurement
12:10 - 13:10 (Europe/Berlin)
Closing Session
Room: Diogo Cão (Aud 8)