B09: Ultrawideband Antennas and Arrays

Wednesday, August 20  13:40-15:40,  Room #19

Session Chairs: Jiro Hirokawa, Amir Zaghloul

Ultra-wideband (UWB) wireless technology is attractive for upcoming commercial applications, including next-generation short-range high data rate wireless connectivity, high resolution imaging, detection and identification, localization, and high accuracy radars, to mentions a few. Antennas are key front-end components in UWB wireless systems, with each application having its own requirements. Besides the conventional parameters such as impedance matching bandwidth, 3D radiation patterns, radiation efficiency, UWB systems have additional design constrains. Among them are polarization orthogonality, MIMO capability, low cost beam steering for mm and sub-mm wave applications, interference rejection, low dispersion and stable gain across large bandwidths.

13:40  B09.1   ULTRA-WIDEBAND FILTERING ANTENNA (INVITED PAPER)

S. -W. Wong

School of Electronic and Information Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China


14:00  B09.2   A NOVEL ULTRA-WIDEBAND PATTERN DIVERSITY ANTENNA FOR HIGH-GAIN APPLICATIONS

N. Rezazadeh, L. Shafai

Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada


14:20  B09.3   DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A DUAL-POLARIZED SLOT-LOADED PATCH ANTENNA FOR ULTRA-WIDEBAND IMAGING SYSTEMS

F. Zhu, S. Gao

School of Engineering and Digital Arts, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom


14:40  B09.4   ENHANCED-PERFORMANCE UWB ANTENNA USING STACKED EBG SURFACES

A. I. Zaghloul1,2, S. Palreddy2,3, Y. M. Lee1, T. K. Anthony1

1SEDD, US Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD, United States
2ECE, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States
3Satcom Group, ViaSat, Duluth, GA, United States


15:00  B09.5   A NOVEL HYBRID DUAL POLARIZED WAVEGUIDE PHASED ARRAY ANTENNA FOR MOBILE SATELLITE COMMUNICATION

G. Han, B. Yang, W. Wu, B. Du

antenna and servo department, CETC54, shijiazhuang hebei, China


15:20  B09.6   PLATE-LAMINATED WAVEGUIDE SLOT ARRAY ANTENNAS FOR WIDEBAND AND HIGH-GAIN OPERATIONS

J. Hirokawa, T. Tomura, M. Zhang, M. Ando

Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan