2014 Loughborough Antennas and

Propagation Conference

(LAPC 2014)

Loughborough, Leicestershire, United Kingdom10-11 November 2014

ICCC IEEE Catalog Number: CFP1469B-PODt fc ISBN: 978-1-4799-3663-2

TABLE OF CONTENTS

THE IMPACT OF COMPUTATIONAL ELECTROMAGNETICS, AND ASSOCIATED

SOFTWARE, ON EM RESEARCH AND EDUCATION 1ConstanlineA. Balanis

BODY-WORN ANTENNAS FOR BODY-CENTRIC WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS 2

Nikolaj P. I. Kammersgaard, Soren H. Kvisly, Sinasi Ozdeny. Jesper Thayseny. Kaj B. Jakobsen

CAPABILITY AND MANUFACTURABILITY: SOME CONSIDERATIONS CONCERNING THE

CURRENT STATUS OF MULTI-FILAR DIELECTRIC LOADED ANTENNAS 7O. P. Leislen

FINITE ELEMENT MODEL GENERATION FOR EFFICIENT AND ACCURATE

ELECTROMAGNETIC VEHICLE ROOF ANTENNA SIMULATIONS 13

Marina S. L. Mocker, Steve Engelmann, Hicham Tazi, Thomas F. Eibert

PERFORMANCE OF UHF W-BAN ANTENNAS IN A REAL ENVIRONMENT SCENARIO 18

Jovanche Trajkovikj, Jean-Francois Zurcher, Anja Skrivervik

STACKED CIRCULAR PATCH ANTENNA FOR MEDICAL BAN 22

Anupam R Chandran, Nick Timmons, Jim Morrison

PHASE-SPACING OPTIMIZATION OF LINEAR MICROSTRIP ANTENNA ARRAYS BY EM-

BASED SUPERPOSITION MODELS 26

Slawomir Koziel, Stanislav Ogurlsov

EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION OF THE SVD BASED APPROACH TO COMPENSATE THE

POSITIONING ERRORS IN A NONREDUNDANT SPHERICAL NF-FF TRANSFORMATION 31

Francesco D 'Agoslino, Flaminio Ferrara, Claudia Gennarelli, Rocco Guerriero, Massimo Migliozzi

FREQUENCY SELECTIVE RADOME WITH ENHANCED TRANSMISSIVE AND ABSORPTIVE

RESPONSE 36

Sofian Hamid, Hammam Shakhtour, Dirk Heberling

SET OF NEW COMPACT ANTENNAS SUITABLE FOR INTEGRATION ON PCB 40

Jean Marie Floch, Abhishek Singh, Laurent Desclos

PERMITTIVITY MEASUREMENT OF SPHERICAL OBJECTS USING A REVERBERATION

CHAMBER 44

Qian Xu, YiHuang, Xu Zhu, Lei Xing, Zhihao Tian

PATTERN RECONFIGURABLE ANTENNA FOR MOBILE HANDSETS 48

Sultan Shoaib, Imran Shoaib, Nosherwan Shoaib, Xiaodong Chen, C. G. Parini

INVESTIGATION OF RADIATION FROM AN INJECTION MATCHED ANTENNA 52

Yasin Kabiri, Peter Gardner, Coslas Constantinou

PERFORMANCE OF WBAN ON-GROUND ANTENNA TYPE WITH RELATION TO

ANALYTICAL PATH LOSS MODEL 55

Tommi Tuovinen, Markus Berg, William G. Whittow, Erkki T. Salonen

INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECT OF METALLIC FRAMES ON 4G EYEWEAR ANTENNAS 60

Aykut Cihangir, Cyril Luxey, Gilles Jacquemod, Romain Pilard, Frederic Gianesello, Will G. Whitlow, Chinthana

J. PanagamuwaCHARACTERISATION OF PASSIVE INTERMODULATION IN PASSIVE RF DEVICES WITH

X-PARAMETERS 64

Dmitry S. Kozlov, Alexey P. Shitvov, Alexander G. Schuchinsky

A RECONFIGURABLE RADIATION PATTERN METAMATERIAL-INSPIRED ANTENNA 68

Saber Dakhli, Jean-Marie Floch, Kourosh Mahdjoubi, Haiem Rmili, Fethi Choubani

INVESTIGATION OF PARASITIC EFFECTS FROM FEED AND TERMINATION ON THE FAR-

FIELD PATTERN OF LEAKY-WAVE ANTENNAS BASED ON HMSIW 72

Nghia Nguyen-Trong, Thomas Kaufmann, Leonard Hally, Christophe Fumeaux

TWO-DIMENSIONAL FAR-FIELD MATHEMATICAL ABSORBER REFLECTION

SUPPRESSION 77

S. F. Gregson, G. E. Masters, A. C. Newell, G. E. Hindman

TIME DOMAIN DIFFRACTION COEFFICIENTS FOR A LOSSLESS ACUTE-ANGLED WEDGE 79

Marcello Frongillo, Giovanni Riccio, Gianluca Gennarelli

CLOSED-FORM SOLUTION FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING BY A DIELECTRIC

SPHEROID COATING A METALLIC SPHERE 83

Grigorios P. Zouros

PLANAR MONOPOLE ANTENNA WITH GLASS REFLECTION PLANE FOR WBANSYSTEM 88

Ebrahim Sailan Alabidi, M. R. Kamarudin

DUAL BAND HIGH SELECTIVE COMPACT TRANSMISSION LINE GAP RESONATOR 91

AhmedF. Daw, MahmoudA Abdalla, Hadya M. Elhennawy

A SILVER INKJET PRINTED FERRITE NFC ANTENNA 95

Walther Pachler, Jasmin Grosinger, Wolfgang Bosch, GeraldHolweg. Karl Popovic, Alexander Blumel, EmilJ.

W. Lisl-Kraluchvil

DESIGN OF PRINTED RECTANGULAR GRID SLOT ARRAYS FORWLAN APPLICATIONS 100

L Potgieter, J. Joubert, J. W. Odendaal

A SQUARE LOOP FREQUENCY SELECTIVE SURFACE PARAMETRIC STUDY FOR EC

MODEL OPTIMISATION 102

David Ferreira, Inigo Cuinas, David Ferreira, Rafael F. S. Caldeirinha, Telmo Fernandes, JoaoReis

MICROSTRIP TO ROTATED HALF-MODE SUBSTRATE INTEGRATE WAVEGUIDE PLANAR

TRANSITION 106

A. J. Farrall, P. R. Young

A RECONFIGURABLE DUAL-BAND MIMO ANTENNA SYSTEM FOR MOBILE TERMINALS 110

RifaqalHussain, MohammadS. Sharawi

A BOUNDARY CRITERION FOR THE EFFECTS OF A LINEAR PHASE CENTER SHIFT ONTO

ANTENNA IMPULSE RESPONSES 114

Thomas Dallmann, Dirk Heberling

MEASUREMENT OF INTERFERENCE PATH LOSS BETWEEN WIRELESS AVIONICS INTRA-

COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM AND AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS AT 4.2-4.4 GHZ BAND 119Julia Engelbrechl. Tim Fuss, Uwe Schwark, Oliver Michler

WIDEBAND DUAL-CIRCULARLY POLARIZED PATCH ANTENNA SEQUENTIALLY-FEDTHROUGH A RING SLOT

,124

Bapliste F. Hornecker, Maria Garcia Vigueras, Juan R. MosigPARAMETRIC STUDY OF BROADBAND TUNABLE HELIX ANTENNA MATCHING 128

Monageng Kgivadi, Timothy D. DrysdaleTIME-DELAY REFLECTOR FOR TIME-DOMAIN PULSE SPLITTING 132

Wenxing Tang, Pak Kwan Loo, George Gousselis

AUTOMATIC LIQUID LEVEL INDICATION AND CONTROL USING PASSIVE UHF RFID

TAGS 136A. Alojoko. R. A. Abd-Alhameed, Y. Tu, FElmegri, C. H. See, M. B. Child

PINNA MODEL FOR HEARING INSTRUMENT APPLICATIONS 141

Nikolaj P. I. Kammersgaard, Soren H. Kvisl, Jesper Thaysen, Kaj B. Jakobsen

CPW-FED ANTENNA BASED ON METAMATERIAL FOR BROADBAND APPLICATION 144Mohamed Lashab, Chemss Eddine, Naeem AhmedJan, F. Benabdelaziz, R. A. Abd-Alhameed, Marl Child

STUDY ON SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE 148R. Asif R. A. Abd-Alhameed, MBin-Melha, A. Qureshi, C. HSee, Y. I. Abdulraheem, T. T. Mapuka, J. M. Noras

A NEW TECHNIQUE FOR TUNING MILLIMETRE-WAVE ARTIFICIAL IMPEDANCE

SURFACES 151Marina Mavridou, Alexandros P. Feresidis, Peter Gardner

BROADBAND DUAL-SLOT-FED MULTI-LAYER FABRY-PEROT CAVITY ANTENNA 153

Konstanlinos Konslantinidis, Alexandros P. Feresidis, Peter S. Hall

ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPAGATION ALONG LOSSY ANISOTROPIC AND RADIALLY

STRATIFIED CYLINDRICAL STRUCTURES 155Guilhcrme S. Rosa, Jose R. Bergmann

BEAM-SWITCHING PLANAR PARASITIC ANTENNA ARRAY 160Zohaib Imran, Chinthana Panagamuwa

AN EXPERIMENTAL PHASED ARRAY FOR OAM GENERATION 165Qiang Bui. Alan Tennant. Eduardo Cano, Ben Allen

ANALYSIS OF THE USE OF BEAM RECONFIGURABLE ANTENNAS IN A HOMOGENEOUSCELLULAR NETWORK DEPLOYMENT 169

Yingjic You, Kenneth L. Ford. Jonathan M. Rigelsford, Timothy O'Farrell

EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF 3D LOCALISATION OF AN ON-BODY UWBANTENNA USING SEVERAL BASE STATIONS 173

Mamnohan Sharma, Clive G. Parini, Akram AlomainyNOVEL BROADBAND ANTENNA FOR WEARABLES 178

T. R. Lovctl. James Flint. Fonseca Duarle, S. Isaac. H. Daniel

TEXTILE MANUFACTURING TECHNIQUES IN RF DEVICES 182Shiyu Zhang. Rob Seager. Alford Chauraya, William Whittow, Yiannis Vardaxoglou

ENERGY EFFICIENCY PERFORMANCE OF DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEMS 187Jonathan Serugunda. Simon Armour, Mark Beach

TOWARDS STANDARDIZED STATISTICAL MODELS FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS

TERMINALS? 192

Alain Sibille

NEW LOOK AT EXPERIMENTS AND MEASUREMENTS IN LIGHT OF RECENT ADVANCES

IN FUNDAMENTAL APPLIED ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORY 196

5. Mikki, Y. M. M. Anlar

PROPAGATION FOR SPACE APPLICATIONS 197

Bertram Arbesser-Rastburg

MEASUREMENTS FOR BETTER INDOOR WIRELESS SYSTEM ENGINEERING 198

MichaelJ. Neve, Kevin W. Sowerby, Joseph T. P. Yiin

BEAM STEERING USING FERRITE LOADED CIRCULAR WAVEGUIDE ANTENNA 202

S. I. Sheikh, Mitu Fiel, A. M. Al-Garni, H. A. Ragheb

INVESTIGATIONSOF A METAMATERIAL SURFACE INFLUENCE PATCH ANTENNA'S

CHARACTERISTICS 204

Alexander S. Kukharenko

ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF CARBON NANOTUBE ANTENNA IN THE SUBTERAHERTZ

FREQUENCYRANGE 206

Samir F. Mahmoud, AyedR. Alajmi

A 16.8DBI QUASI-DISCOIDAL RADIATION PATTERN ANTENNA ARRAY FOR 60GHZ NON-

LINE-OF-SIGHT APPLICATIONS 210

Terence Quintan, Stuart Walker

A SIMPLE PHASE-SHIFTING CELL FOR REFLECTARRAY USING A SLOT LOADED WITH A

FERROELECTRIC CAPACITOR 214

Kevin Nadaud, Raphael Gillard, Erwan Fourn, Hartmut W. Gundel, Caroline Borderon

A TRIPLE BANDS PRINTED INVERTED-F ANTENNA FOR MOBILE RF ENERGY

SCAVENGING 218

Yi Ding, Tughru! Arslan

A CLAMPED-MODE, LOG-PERIODIC LOOP ANTENNA WITH AN OMNIDIRECTIONAL, E-

PLANE PATTERN 222

James McLean, Robert Sutton, Heinrich Foltz

SUSPENDED-LINE FED WIDEBAND NOTCH ANTENNA FOR WIRELESS

COMMUNICATIONS 227

M. A. Constant Niamien, Sylvain Collardey

AN EFFICIENT NF-FF TRANSFORMATION TECHNIQUE WITH PLANE-POLAR SCANNING:

EXPERIMENTAL ASSESSMENTS 231

Francesco D 'Agostino, Flaminio Ferrara, Claudio Gennarelli, Rocco Guerriero, Massimo MigliozziAN ELECTRICAL STIRRING METHOD FOR A REVERBERATION CHAMBER 236

Zhihao Tian, YiHuang, Yaochun Shen, Qian Xu

THE BRA-TENNA: A NOVEL BODY-MOUNTED ANTENNA FOR OFF-BODY

COMMUNICATIONS 239

Diane Titz, Cyril Luxey

RECTANGULARSLOT FED ASYMMETRIC CYLINDRICAL DIELECTRIC RESONATORS

ANTENNA FOR WIDEBAND APPLICATIONS 244

A. H. Majeed, A. S. Abdullah, F. Elmegri, E. M. Ibrahim, K. H. Sayidmarie, R. A. Abd-Alhameed

DUAL BAND MIMO MICROSTRIP MONOPOLE ANTENNA WITH ENHANCED BANDWIDTH

FOR LTE APPLICATIONS 249

Lamia Tchoketch-Kebir, Boutheina Tlili

WIDEBAND HIGH DIRECTIVITY CIRCULARLY POLARIZED FABRY-PEROT ANTENNA 254

Fan Qin, Steven Gao, Gao Wei, Qi Luo, Chao Gu

CIRCULARLY POLARIZED MONOPOLE ANTENNA USING CRLH TL FEED NETWORK 259

Y. F. Cao, S. W. Cheung. T. I. Yuk

STUDY OF RECONFIGURABLE SQUARE PATCH ANTENNA USING CAPACITIVE LOADING 263

/. Rouissi, J. M. Floch, H. Rmili, H. Trabelsi, A. Sharaiha

PREDICTION OF MONTHLY ATTENUATION STATISTICS DUE TO CLOUDS AND WATER

VAPOR: PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT 267

L. Luini, C. Capsoni, C. Riva, L. D. Emiliani

APPLICATION OF COMPRESSIVE SENSING FOR EEC SOURCE LOCALIZATION IN BRAIN

COMPUTER INTERFACES 272

Mr. Aleksandr Zaitcev, Greg Cook, Wei Liu, Martyn Paley, Elizabeth Milne

DIRECTIVITY ENHANCEMENT OF V-BAND "BULL'S EYE" ANTENNA WITH DIELECTRIC

SUPERSTRATE 277

Clement J. Vourch, Timothy D. Drysdale

WHISPERING GALLERY MODE DIELECTRIC RESONATORS: FOCUS ON THE

CYLINDRICAL WAVE - PLANAR INTERFACE INTERACTION 281

Theodoras N. Kaifas, Elias Vafiadis, George Kyriakou

ACTIVE DIPOLE COUPLING IN AN ARRAY ENVIRONMENT 285

Huhregt J. Visser. Lulu Chan

PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF MIMO-WCDMA NETWORKS EMPLOYING PRINCIPAL

COMPONENT ANALYSIS AT THE RECEPTION 289

Panagiotis K. Gkonis, Andrew Kapsalis. Konstantinos Zekios. Dimilra I. Kaklamani, Iakovos S. Venieris, Michael

Chrysomalis, George Kyriakou

EIGENANALYSIS OF TUNEABLE TWO-DIMENSIONAL ARRAY OF WIRES OR STRIPS

EMBEDDED IN MAGNETIZED FERRITE 293

C S Lavranos, P. C. Theofanopoulos, G. A. Kyriacou, El. Vafiadis, J. N. Sahalos

AUXILIARY RING RESONATOR FOR LOCAL FIELD ENHANCEMENT IN SOLAR

RECTENNAS 298

AhmedM. A. Sabaawi, Charalampos C. Tsimenidis, Bayan S. Sharif

MEASUREMENT OF SIGNAL ATTENUATION IN A TYPICAL BRITISH WOODLAND AT SHF

FREQUENCIES 302

Adesoye S. Adegoke, David R. Siddle

SUSPENDED PATCH MICROSTRIP ANTENNA WITH CUT RECTANGULARSLOTS FOR RF

ENERGY HARVESTING 304

Matas Krakauskas. Ahmed M. A. Sabaawi, Charalampos C. Tsimenidis

CHALLENGING THE LUMPED BIRDCAGE COIL MODEL FOR HIGH-FIELD MRI 308

Claudia Puddu, Alessandro Fanli, Nicola Curreli, Giuseppe Mazzarella

GAIN ENHANCEMENT OF MICROSTRIP PATCH ANTENNA FOR WI-FI APPLICATIONS 312

Neeraj Rao, V. Dinesh Kumar

A RECTENNA FOR WIRELESS IMPLANTABLE DEVICE CHARGING 316

Muayad Kod, Jiafeng Zhou, Rula Alrawashdeh, Yi HuangTHZ BROADBANDCOPLANAR WAVEGUIDE (CPW) FED MONOPOLE ANTENNA WITH

GRAPHENE SHEET 318

Xiao Zhang, Zhirun Hu, Xianjun Huang, Ting Leng

SIMULATIVE INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECTS OF A PHASE CENTER SHIFT ONTO A

LOG-PERIODIC DIPOLE ARRAY 320Thomas Dallmann, Dirk Heberling

A NEW TECHNIQUE FOR SANDWICH ANTENNA RADOMES ANALYSIS 325

Aleksey Karpov. Sergey Knyazev. Sergey Shabunin

PASSIVE PHASE CONJUGATING ARRAY USING FR4 329

Rodolfo Gomes, Pedro Paraiso, Telmo Fernandes, Rafael Caldeirinha

NOVEL COMPACT DUAL-BAND IMPLANTED ANTENNA 333

Saeed Almari, RichardJ. Langley, Ahmed O. Alamoudi

SLOT FED SPIN DIODE RECONFIGURABLE DIELECTRIC RESONATOR ANTENNA 336

S. M. Salman, S. K. Khamas. G. G. Cook

APPLICATION OF CYLINDRICAL TRANSMISSION LINE METHOD TO THE MODELLINGOF CURVILINEAR AXISYMMETRIC RADIATING STRUCTURE 340

O. Agunlejika, James A. Flint, Robert D. SeagerCONDUCTIVE INK USAGE OPTIMIZATION USING GRID DESIGNS FOR INKJET PRINTEDEPIDERMAL RFID TAGS 344

Diimtoochukwu. O. Ch eka, John C. Balchelor

INKJET FABRICATION OF FRAME DIPOLE FSS 347

Badredin M. Turki, Edward A. Parker, John C. Balchelor, M. Ali Ziai, S. Wunscher, V. Sanchez-Romaguera,Stephen G. Yeates, U. S. Schubert

WIDE BAND HIGH SELECTIVE COMPACT METAMATERIAL ANTENNA FOR 2 GHZWIRELESS APPLICATIONS 350

Mahmoud. A. Abdalla. Aliaa A. Awad, KhaledM. Hassan

INVESTIGATION OF WEARABLE ANTENNAS PERFORMANCE IN STATIC LOS AND NLOSON-BODY CHANNELS 355

A. Paraskevopoulos, A. Alexandridis, F. Lazarakis, T. Zervos, A. Michalopoulou, J. C. VardaxoglouPERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF ANGLE OF ARRIVAL ESTIMATION ALGORITHMS IN A

MULTI SOURCE ENVIRONMENT INCLUDING MUTUAL COUPLING EFFECTS ANDCOMPENSATION TECHNIQUES 359

R. Asif. Raed Abd-Alhameed. H. Alhassan, J. M. Noras, S. M. R Jones, H. Jameel. A. F. Mirza

SHAPE-MEMORY ALLOYS IN RECONFIGURABLE ANTENNAS 363Edw ard W. Hurd, James A. Flint. Isaac H. Daniel

NOVEL MULTI-MATERIALFIBERS FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TEXTILE

DEVICES 368

Victor Belanger-Garnier, Slephan Gorgutsa, Bora Ung. MickaelBlais-Roberge, Jeff I 'tens, Benoit Gasselin.Sophie Larochelle, Younes Messaddeq

WLAN ANTENNA ON 3D PRINTED BRACELET AND WRIST PHANTOM 372B. Sanz-Izquierdo, Sungyun Jun

RECONFIGURABLE PROXIMITY COUPLED PATCH ANTENNA USING MAGNETIC BIAS 376

E. Andreou, T. Zervos, F. Lazarakis, E. Varouti, G. Fikioris. J. C. Vardaxoglou

HUMAN EFFECT ON ON-BODY SELECTIVE COMBINING AT 2.4 GHZ 381D. Al-Saffar, E. Habeeb. R. At Edwards, O. Ojerinde, H. M. Alsabbagh. C. J. Panagamuwa

ANTENNAS AND QUASl-OPTICS FOR SPACE TERAHERTZ INSTRUMENTATION 385

Peter De Maagt

METASURFACES FOR FUTURE ANTENNAS 386

Sergei Tretyakov, Viktar Asadchy, Younes Ra 'Di

NATURAL AND METAMATERIAL-BASED SPIRAL AND HELICAL ANTENNAS 387Hisamatsu Nakano

TECHNIQUES FOR SYNTHESIZING ARTIFICIAL DIELECTRICS FOR LENS AND

REFLECTARRAY DESIGNS 391Yiannis Vardaxoglou. Raj Mittra. Ravi KumarArya, Shaileshachandra Pandey

A NOVEL HIGH-EFFICIENCY AND HIGH-GAIN ON-CHIP TSV-BASED LOW-LOSS

WIDEBAND PATCH ANTENNA FOR 3D IPD APPLICATIONS 393

KhaledSalah

MINIATURIZED ANTENNA BASED ON SERIES-INDUCTANCE-FLEXIBLE COMPOSITE

RIGHT/LEFT-HANDED SUBSTRATE INTEGRATED WAVEGUIDE 396

Qingshan Yang, Xiaowen Zhao, Yunhua ZhangSENSING PASSIVE OBJECT EXISTENCE WITHIN AN ANTENNA NEAR FIELD BASED ON

RETURN LOSS 400

Waleed Amer, Gui Yun Tian, Charalampos Tsimenidis

A DESIGN METHODOLOGY FOR ELECTRICALLY SMALL SUPERDIRECTIVE ANTENNA

ARRAYS 405Abdullah Haskou, Ala Sharaiha, Sylvain Collardey, Melusine Pigeon, Kouroch Mahdjoubi

METAMATERIAL-MADE GNSS ANTENNA 410

Sergey N. Boyko, Sergey V. Kosiakin, Alexander S. Kukharenko, YuryS. Yaskin

VARIABLE-FIDELITY OPTIMIZATION OF ANTENNAS USING ADJOINT SENSITIVITIES 412

SlawomirKoziel, Adrian Bekasiewicz

MULTI-BANDNOTCH ANTENNA CONCEPT WITH DISCRETE CAPACITORS 416

M. A. Constant Niamien, Sylvain Collardey

70 GHZ RADIO WAVE PROPAGATION PREDICTION IN A LARGE OFFICE 420

Jan Jarvelainen, Matti Kurkela, Aki Karttunen, Katsuyuki Haneda, Jyri Putkonen

MICROMACHINED TRAVELLING WAVE SLOTTED WAVEGUIDE ANTENNA ARRAY FOR

BEAM-SCANNING APPLICATIONS 425Rashad Mahmud, Tianhao He, Micahel Lancaster, Yi Wang, Xiaobang Shang

A COMPARATIVE PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF SRR EMBEDDED FERRITE

SUPERSTRATE PATCH ANTENNAS 427

Farooq Sultan, Sheikh SharifIqbal Mitu

INFLUENCE OF SUBSTRATE TYPES AND REFLECTOR PROXIMITIES OVER A NDTC

ANTENNA 431

Ashwani Sharma, I. J. Garcia Zuazola, John C. Batchelor, Asier Perallos

GRAPHENE RECONFIGURABLE ANTENNAS FOR LTE AND WIFI SYSTEMS 434

Christian Nunez Alvarez, Rebecca Cheungy, John S. Thompson

PARASITIC ANTENNA ARRAY FOR COMPACT MIMO IMPLEMENTATION IN 5 G

NETWORKS - ADAPTIVE BEAM FORMING ANTENNA FOR MIMO SYSTEMS 439

AhmedKausar, Shafaq Kausar, M. Adnan Cheema, SoniaAdnan

EIGENMODAL FEED BASED DECOUPLING NETWORK FOR TWO PORTS MIMO AND

DIVERSITY 443Sana Salama, Klaus Solbach

RECTANGULAR BI-LOOP SINGLE-FEED ANTENNA WITH 448

lmen Ben Trad. Jean Marie Floch, Hatem Rmili, M'HamedDrissi, Fethi Chouhani

PRINTED ELL1PTICALLY POLARIZED TRANSPONDER ANTENNA FOR UHF-RFID METAL

ITEM TAGGING 453

RalfZichner, ReinhardR. Baumann

DUAL-POLARIZED UNIT-CELL ELEMENT FOR WIDE-ANGLE ELECTRONICALLY BEAM-

SCANNING REFLECTARRAY 457

Chong Zhang, Gao Wei, Jianzhou Li, Fan Qin, Steven Gao

PARAMETRIC STUDY OF A DOUBLE SHIFTED "BULL'S EYE" STRUCTURE AT V-BAND

FOR BEAM FORMING 461

Clement J. Vourch. Timothy D. Drysdale

MINIATURIZED PLANNER SPIRAL ANTENNA WITH STACKED RING 465

Nitesh Kashyap, Dinesh V. Kumar

DESIGN OF LOW-CROSS-POLARIZATION WIDEBAND SPACEBORNE RING FOCUS

REFLECTOR ANTENNA 469

Xiao-Rong Tang, Steven Gao

BANDWIDTH RECONFIGURABLE DIELECTRIC RESONATORANTENNA 473

Ravi Dull Gupta, Manoj Singh Parihar

A SIMPLE PROCEDURE FOR MEASURING GAIN OF VERY ELECTRICALLY SMALL

ANTENNAS 476

Hans G. Schema

LOW PROFILE UHF MEANDERED ANTENNAS FOR RFID AND WSN'S APPLICATIONS 480

AhmedM. A. Sabaawi, Kaydar M. Quboa, Charalampos C. Tsimenidis

FABRICATION METHOD OF THE GRAPHENE-BASED CPW ANTENNA 485

Xiao Zhang, Zhirun Hu, Gregory Auton, Ernie Hill

ENERGY HARVESTING OPPORTUNITIES AND APPLICABILITY IN TWO TIER

HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS 487

David Muirhead, MuhammadImran, Tim Brown

ESTIMATION OF MUTUAL COUPLING BETWEEN RADIATORS BASED ON RADIATION

PATTERN ANALYSIS 491

Dmitry S. Kozlov, Ores! G. Vendik

TWO-DIMENSIONALTRANSMITARRAY BEAMSTEERING USING STACKED TUNABLE

METAMATERIALS 495Joao Reis. ZaidAl-Daher, Nigel Copner, Akram Hammoudeh, Rafael Caldeirinha, Telmo Fernandes

RAPID MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION OF A MIMO ANTENNA FOR UWB

APPLICATIONS 500

Adrian Bekasiewicz, Slawomir Koziel

IMPACT OF RINGS AND EARRINGS ON THE SAR DISTRIBUTION DUE TO MOBILE PHONE

EXPOSURE 504

Marija Nikolovski, lrina Munteanu, Antonino M. Cassara, Thomas Weiland

NOVEL DUAL-BAND ANTENNA WITH SIMULTANEOUS LINEAR AND CIRCULAR

POLARIZATIONS 509Faiza Kanwal, Hamail Sultan, Moazam Maqsood, Qamar Ul Islam, Steven Gao

ON THE CORRELATION ANALYSIS OF ELECTRIC FIELD INSIDE JET ENGINE 512A. Krishna, T. Khatlab, A. F. Abdelaziz, M, Guizani

RADIATION PATTERN OF LEAKY-WAVE ANTENNA BASED ON PARTIALLY-FILLED

RECTANGULAR WAVEGUIDE 516Renal R. Ahdullin, Yury E. Mitelman, Sergey N. Shabunin

ANALYSIS OF WIRELESS PROPAGATION WITHIN A VICTORIAN HOUSE FOR SMART

METER APPLICATIONS 519Yasir H. Alharbi, Jonathan M. Rigelsford, Richard J. Langley, Ahmed O. Alamoudi

RFID TAGS NEAR METAL OBJECTS WITH DIELECTRIC SPACERS 523James Tribe, William Whitlow, Andrew West

COMPACT ACTIVE ANTENNA FOR MOBILE DEVICES SUPPORTING 4G LTE 525

Abhishek Singh, Jejf Shamblin, RowlandJones, Jean Marie Floch, M'Hamed Drissi

RECONFIGURABLE 3D FOLDED MONOPOLE ANTENNA DESIGN FOR DVB-HAPPLICATIONS 530

Lei Xing, Yi Huang, Saqer S. Alja 'Afreh, Qian Xu, MuayadKod. Chaoyun SongA COMPARISON OF THE PROPERTIES OF HELICAL TYPE ANTENNAS WHEN FED AS ATWIN ARM BALANCED PAIR 533

J. A. Brister. R. M. Edwards

STUDYING OF SURFACE IMPEDANCE BEHAVIOR OF RIS AGAINST INCIDENCE ANDPOLARIZATION FOR MINIATURIZED ANTENNA 538

Mohamed Hajji, Taoufik Aguili

DESIGN AND SIMULATION OF A RECTANGULAR ADJUSTABLE BANDWIDTHMICROSTRIP MINIATURE ANTENNA FOR SDMA WLAN APPLICATIONS 543

A. Falahati, R. M Edwards

MODAL STUDY OF ELECTRICALLY SMALL PATCH ANTENNAS ON DIELECTRIC,

MAGNETIC AND REACTIVE IMPEDANCE METAMATER1AL SUBSTRATES 545

M. Hassanein Rabah. Divitha Seetharamdoo. Marion Berbineau

MULTILAYER DUAL-MODE DUAL-BAND BANDPASS FILTER 549

N. A. Wahab, Z. 1. Khan, M. K. M. Salleh, M. N. Bakhliar, N. E. A. Rashid, K. A. Othman

ON-DEMAND PRINTING OF ANTENNAS FOR TV WHITE-SPACE COMMUNICATIONS 553

Monageng Kgwadi, Clement J. Vourch, Daniel J. Harrison, Timothy D. DiysdaleFRACTAL METAMATERIAL BASED ON SIERPINSKI CARPET 557

Samaneh Moeini, Jose Carlos Pedro

EVALUATION OF A REALIZED HOLLOW TORSO PHANTOM FOR WEARABLE ANTENNA

MEASUREMENTS 560

Aris Tsolis, William G. Whitlow, Afford Chauraya, Antonis A. Alexandridis. J. C. Vardaxoglou

POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE SUBSTRATES FOR PASSIVE UHF-RFID SENSORS 562

Christina Rumens, Osman Rakibet, John Batchelorb, Simon Holder

3D PRINTED BESPOKE SUBSTRATES 564

Syed Sheheryar Bukhari, William G. Whitlow, J. C. Vardaxoglou

OPTIMISING THE LOCATION AND POWER OF WIRELESS BASE STATIONS WITHIN A

DYNAMIC INDOOR ENVIRONMENT 566

Rania Minkara, Peter ShepherdMODIFIED SIERPINSKI FRACTAL PATCH ANTENNA 570

Neeraj Rao, V. Dinesh Kumar

BROADBAND SIW VIVALDI ANTENNA ARRAY FOR ON-BODY COMMUNICATION 574

Xiao Li, YuriyNechayev, Costas Constantinou, Peter S. Hall

DUAL-WIDEBAND PRINTED RECTANGULARMONOPOLE ANTENNA FOR WIRELESS

APPLICATIONS 576

Fayyadh H. Ahmed, Bayez K. Alsulaifanie

ANTENNA SOFTWARE TOOLS FOR DUMMIES (BOTH USERS AND DEVELOPERS) 580

Guy A. E. Vandenbosch

OVERVIEW OF ANTENNA DESIGNS BASED ON GAP WAVEGUIDE TECHNOLOGY 583

Eva Rajo-Iglesias

EUROPEAN SCHOOLOF ANTENNAS: TEN YEARS OF TEACHING 585

Stefano Maci

INVESTIGATING TWO MINIMIZED PHASE SHIFTER METHODS FOR A PLANAR PHASED

ARRAY 587

SaeedA. Al Dweik, MohammadS. Sharawi

MINIATURE IFA WITHOUT EMPTY SPACE FOR WI-FI ENERGY SCAVENGING 592

Ding, Tughrul Arslan

INTEGRATED DESIGN OF MICROSTRIP ANTENNA AND WAVEGUIDE CAVITY FOR

EXTREMELY NARROWBANDWIDTH PERFORMANCE 596

Wanchu Hong, Min-Hua Ho, Jian-Shen Chen, Hsun-Hsiang Chen

SHAPING THE AXIAL-RATIO FOOTPRINT OF CROSSED-DIPOLE ANTENNAS 598

Adam Narbudowicz, MaxJ. Ammann, Janusz Przewocki

METHODOLOGY OF BAND REJECTION / ADDITION FOR MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS

DESIGN USING SLOT LINE THEORY AND CURRENT DISTRIBUTION ANALYSIS 602

Yasser M. Madany, Ayman I. Almahallawy, Hassan M. Elkamchouchi

HYBRID SPARSE TWO-DIMENSIONAL ANTENNA ARRAY SYNTHESIS USING

INDEPENDENT COMPRESSION REGIONS 607

Leonardo F. Yepes, DavidH. Covarrubias, Miguel A. Alonso, Ramon Ferrus

AXIS TRANSFORM TO CHARACTERISE A MONOPULSE TWIST REFLECTOR ANTENNA

AND RADOME IN AN ANECHOIC CHAMBER 612

T. Sheret, B. Allen

APPLICATION OF GENERALIZED EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS (GEC) METHOD FOR

CALCULATING OF THE DIFFRACTION BY DIELECTRIC OBSTACLES WITH FINITE

THICKNESS IN METALLIC WAVEGUIDE: APPLICATION TO THE CHARACTERIZATION

OF VEGETATION LEAVES 617

Houssemeddine Krraoui, Taoufik Aguili

TUNEABLE MICROWAVE CPW ANTENNA WITH GRAPHENE SHEET 622

Xianjun Huang, Zhirun Hu, Xiao Zhang, Ting Leng, Mahmoud A. Abdalla

DESIGN OF A MICROWAVE ANTENNA FOR BREAST CANCER RADIOMETRIC

DETECTION 624

Nicola Curreli, Alessandro Fanti, Giuseppe Mazzarella

SLANTED-COMB FREQUENCY SELECTIVE SURFACE FOR USE IN REDUCING SPECULAR

SCATTER FOR TM POLARIZATION 628

C. J. Davenport, J. M. Rigelsford

DESIGN AND MODELING OF TUNABLE TRANSMISSION LINE WITH UNDER-LAYER

GRAPHENE 631

Ting Leng, Xianjun Huang, Xiao Zhang, Zhirun Hu

STRAIGHT WEDGE ABSORBER GEOMETRY OPTIMIZATION FOR NORMAL AND

OBLIQUE INCIDENCE 633

Laura Pomelcu. Ala Sharaiha, Raliba Benzerga, Philippe Pouliguen

GENERATION AND DETECTION OF OAM SIGNALS FOR RADIO COMMUNICATIONS 637

Eduardo Cano, Ben Allen, Qiang Bai, Alan Tennanl

LOW-PROFILE ANTENNA WITH OPTIMAL POLARIZATION FOR 2.45 GHZ ON-BODY

SENSOR NODES 641

Markus Berg, Tommi Tuovinen, Erkki T. Salonen

EXPLOITING CHARACTERISTIC MODE THEORYFOR THE DESIGN OF A CHIPLESS RFID

TAG 644

Theodoras N. Kaifas, Elias Vafiadis, Ronis Maximidis, Constantinos Zekios

POLARIZATION RECONFIGURABLE LOOP ANTENNA FOR SATELLITE

COMMUNICATIONS 649

Long Zhang, Steven Gao, Qi Luo

3D ELECTRICALLY SMALL DOME ANTENNA - DUAL-BAND AND WIDE-BAND

MODIFICATIONS 653

Saad Mufti, Alan Tennant, Luke Seed

TUNABLE OPTICAL REFLECTARRAY DESIGN USING PHASE CHANGE MATERIAL 657

Longfang Zou, Martin Cryan, Maciej Klemm

A NOVEL FLUID PUMP SYSTEM FOR CONTRAST ENHANCED MICROWAVE CANCER

DETECTION 659

Ilatum F. Abutarboush, Maciej Klemm

SEASONAL STATISTICS OF ANOMALOUS PROPAGATION IN UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 663Abdulhadi Aboualmal, R. A. A, Abd-Alhameed

TUNABILITY COMPARISON OF A CAPACITIVE COUPLING ELEMENT AND A PLANAR

INVERTED-F ANTENNA 667

Robert Martens, Yi Chen, Dirk ManteuffelAN OPTICALLY TUNABLE MICROSTRIP PATCH ANTENNA 669

M. A. Collell. D. Benton, C. D. Gamlath, M. J. Cryan

RECONFIGURABLE THZ YAGI ANTENNA BASED ON HYBRID GRAPHENE-METAL

LAYOUT 671

A. H. Radwan. M. D Amico, G. G. Gentili

CHARACTERIZATION OF INK-JET PRINTED CPW ON KAPTON SUBSTRATES AT 60 GHZ 676

S. Swaisaenyakorn, P. R. Young, M. Shkunov

A KNITTED TEXTILE WAVEGUIDE 679

X. Jia, A. Tennant, R. J. Langley, W. Hurley, T. Dias

A COMPACT ACTIVE DUAL-BAND GLONASS/GPS NAVIGATION ANTENNA 683

Vitaly Yti. Avdonin, Sergey N. Boyko, Andrei V. Isaev, YuryS. Yaskin

PERFORMANCE AND EVALUATION OF OFDM AND SC - FDE OVER AN AWGN

PROPAGATION CHANNEL UNDER RF IMPAIRMENTS USING SIMULINK AT 60GHZ 685

Rodolfo Gomes. Zaid Al-Daher, Akram Hammoudeh, KhaledSobaihi, Rafael Caldeirinha, Telmo Fernandes

INTERFERENCE REDUCTION IN MIMO-OFDMA CELLULAR NETWORKS VIA

COOPERATIVE ANTENNA SELECTION 690

Panagiotis K. Gkonis. Maria A. Seimeni, Dimitra I. Kaklamani, lakovos S. Venieris, Christos A. PapavassiliouTHREE DIMENSIONAL MODE MATCHING FOR INHOMOGENEOUSLY LOADED

SPHEROIDAL CAVITY 694

Xenofon M. Mitsalas. George A. Kyriacou. Theodore Kaifas, Elias VafiadisA DUAL-FEED RECTANGULAR PATCH ANTENNA FOR BANDWIDTH ENHANCEMENT 698

A. G. Koutinos. G. A. loannopoulos. M. T. Chryssomallis, G. A. Kyriacou

STUDY OF MUTUAL COUPLING AND CHASSIS MODES COUPLING THROUGHTHEEQUIVALENT CIRCUIT MODEL OF TWO MONOPOLES ON A SMALL PLATFORM 703

Sana Salama. Klaus Solbach

A NOVEL, LOW-PROFILE, DIRECTIONAL UWBANTENNA FOR WBAN 708Waleed Amcr. Gui Yun Tian, Charalampos Tsimenidis

TAMPER-PROOF RFID SECURITY TAG 711M. A. Ziai. J. C. Batchelor

PROPERTIES OF ALUMINUM-SUBSTITUTED YIG WITH APPLICATIONS IN TUNABLE

NOTCHED UVVB ANTENNAS 713

E. Varouti. D. K. Rongas, E. Manios, C. G. Kakoyiannis, T. Zenos, M. Pissas. G. Fikioris

A TRIPLE BAND ARTIFICIAL MAGNETIC CONDUCTOR SURFACE INCORPORATING A

SPLIT RING RESONATORANTENNA 717

Rola Saad. Kenneth Lee Ford

VEHICULAR LTE ANTENNA ON AN ADDITIVE MANUFACTURED CYLINDRICAL FORM 721

Benito Sanz-Izquierdo, Rusiru Leelarate

EXPLOITING ASYMMETRY IN A CAPACITIVELY LOADEDSTRONGLY COUPLED DIPOLE

ARRAY 723

C. /. Kolitsidas, B. L. G. Jonsson, P. Persson, A. Stjerman

LOW-COMPLEXITY ANTI-JAMMING SUBCARRIER SCAVENGING STRATEGIES FOR

OFDMA NETWORKS 727

Maria A. Seimeni, Panagiotis K. Gkonis, Dimitra I. Kaklamani, lakovos S. Venieris, Christos A. PapavassiliouBENEFITS OF ACTIVE TRANSMIT BALANCED ANTENNA FED BY DIFFERENTIAL POWER

AMPLIFIER 732

Md Hasanuzzaman Sagor, Peter Callaghan

PLANAR QUASI-YAGI ANTENNA GAIN ENHANCEMENT USING ZERO-INDEX

METAMATERIALS 736

Roohollah Haghpanahan, Rajagopal Nilavalan

ARCHIMEDEANSPIRAL ANTENNA LOADED WITH DIELECTRIC PLATES 740

Nitesh Kashyap

REDUCING THE AREA OF POTENTIALLY HAZAROUS FIELD STRENGTH CLOSE TO AN

LF TEE ANTENNA: A PRACTICAL CASE STUDY 744

Brian Collins, Alan Cran

DESIGN OF A MULTIBAND WLAN ANTENNA 746

Marco Simone, Nicola Curreti

RESOLUTION ENHANCEMENT IN TSVD RECONSTRUCTIONS BY USING PASSIVE GRID 751

Antonio Cuccaro, Giuseppe Ruvio, Rocco Pierri, Raffaele Solimene

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