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    Antenna Performance Enhancement using AMC Structure for 5G Frequency Range
    This paper presents a microstrip patch antenna operated at the fifth generation (5G) frequency range, which is at 3.5 GHz. To enhance the performance of the proposed antenna, an Artificial Magnetic Conductor (AMC) structure is implemented into the design. The 1x3 AMC is sandwiched between two FR-4 substrates and the performance of the proposed antenna is compared with the antenna without AMC structure. The simulated results prove that the proposed antenna offers better reflection coefficient with-50.45 dB compared to only-15.55 dB for the conventional antenna. Wider bandwidth is also achieved with 427 MHz of frequency bandwidth as opposed to only 135 MHz for the antenna without AMC. Besides that, the integration of AMC enhances the gain of the antenna when 3.7 dBi is achieved in contrast to only 3.21 dBi for the conventional antenna. Moreover, the efficiency of the antenna with AMC is also improved up to 68.54%. Furthermore, the ability to shrink 52.23% of the size of the antenna without AMC making it very favorable to be applied in 5G bands.
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    An Impedance Matching Network towards Amplifier Design from Conceptual to Practical: Simulation Study
    ( 2021-07-26)
    Yob R.C.
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    Ramli N.H.
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    Zahid L.
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    Nasrudin M.W.
    In many systems, the impedance matching networks are vital to ensure their having good performances, especially in such systems performances that related to the gain, linearity, and quality factors. This article mainly focuses on the simulation study of the impedance matching network from conceptual to practical on amplifier design. This simulation study from the conceptual of the ideal transmission-line based design to the practical of the microstrip-line based circuit implemented by using LineCalc of the ADS tool. The gallium nitride high electron mobility (GaN-HEMT) transistor by Cree is being one of the key components in understanding the importance of the impedance matching networks on the amplifier design a t the operating frequency of 5 GHz. The Agilent's Advance Design Systems (ADS) is used to perform this research. The obtained voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR) are approximately to 1 for both conceptual and practical of the impedance matching towards the amplifier design a t5 GHz. Thus, it is showing the maximum power transfer was occurring from the power stages to the load.
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    An IoT-based automated gate system using camera for home security and parcel delivery
    The Internet of Things (IoT) has made it possible to set up smart home security and parcel delivery. Therefore, this work proposed an automated gate system using camera for home security and parcel delivery with integrated Internet of Things (IoT). An automated gate system will capture and identify the image of face visitors and delivery riders for admin authentication to open the gate and parcel box. This proposed work is controlled and monitored through mobile apps. The primary purpose and inspiration of this work are to help the delivery rider put the parcel into the parcel box provided if there is no person in the house, and the owner can pick up the parcel without being broken or robbed when she/he comes back home. When the delivery rider presses the button near the gate, the admin will receive the notification "Someone coming,". The admin will click the "okay"button and the system will take a picture using the camera in Blynk App. After the admin verifies that is the delivery rider, the admin will open the box and the delivery rider can access the parcel door box and put the goods inside the box. Another advantage of this work, it also allows familiar people to access our home. The same process with the delivery rider where the visitor needs to press the bell and the admin needs to verify before the visitor can access the single gate. The result indicates that this work is able to monitor and control the gate and parcel door box using an IoT application.