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    Compact bidirectional circularly polarized dedicated short range communication antenna for on-board unit vehicle-to-everything applications
    ( 2020-05-01)
    Rahman N.A.A.
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    Jamlos M.F.
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    Soh Ping Jack
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    Hossain T.M.
    This article presents a newly circularly polarized (CP) antenna for V2X's dedicated short range communications applications. Its CP characteristic is enabled by a 70 Ω sequential phase feeding network and sequential rotation technique designed on top of the substrate. It has features of ≈90° phase difference in sequence between ports of S21 = 2.4°, S31 = −87°, S41 = −180°, and S51 = −276°, resulting in a 2.19 dB axial ratio centered at 5.9 GHz. The length of the SP feeding network to each ports designed in the different form of meander lines are the key to control the generated phase at the center frequency It also contributes to the smaller final size of 0.59λ × 0.59λ. The proposed antenna operated from 5.850 to 5.925 GHz with a gain between 4 and 6 dBi. The gains are radiated in bidirectional mode due to the presence of the complimentary dipoles located on the opposite side of the substrate. These features indicate the suitability of the proposed antenna in compliance to the ITS-G5 OBU V2X standard.
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  • Publication
    Compact broadband triple-ring five-port reflectometer for microwave brain imaging applications
    ( 2019-01-01)
    Hossain T.M.
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    Jamlos M.F.
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    Soh Ping Jack
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    Ibrahim S.Z.
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    Schreurs D.M.M.P.
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    Narbudowicz A.
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    The broadband five-port reflectometer (FPR) is proposed using a triple-ring based technique. The design introduces a tapering in the inter-ring transmission lines (TLs), which provides additional degrees of freedom for optimization and contributes to increased bandwidth. The miniaturization strategy allows incorporating the third ring without significant size increase. In addition, a method for expressing the effective physical dimension of a planar symmetric FPR is also presented in an easily comprehensible way, which can be implemented for other symmetric planar junctions with more than four ports. The proposed design comprises three concentric rings with phase-shifting arrangements between the inter-ring TLs and outer matching arm sections. Inter-ring TLs are shifted by 36° (half factorized value of the inter-port angular distance of 72°) in three different optimizing steps. Tapered TLs have been used between two consecutive rings to achieve very wide bandwidth of at least 88% in simulations and at least 85% in measurements. Curved matching TLs are used in the final design, yielding a compact size of 0.397λg × 0.377 λg with 43% reduction in length and 43% in width compared to its non-compact counterpart. Genetic algorithm and quasi-Newton algorithm are used in optimizing the final prototype for operation in the frequency band used for brain microwave imaging. The proposed FPR realized a fractional bandwidth of at least 85% (from 0.96 to 2.38 GHz) with a reflection coefficient below-20 dB and a-6 ± 1 dB transmission coefficient with the required phase shift of ±120° between different ports. The measured results agree well with the simulation. Finally, the overall imaging system setup and image construction algorithm are presented and discussed for possible incorporation with this FPR for brain microwave imaging.
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  • Publication
    Bandwidth enhancement of five-port reflectometer-based ENG DSRR metamaterial for microwave imaging application
    ( 2020-03-01)
    Hossain T.M.
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    Jamlos M.F.
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    Dzaharudin F.
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    Ismail M.Y.
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    Al-Bawri S.S.
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    Sugumaran S.
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    A five-Port Reflectometer (FPR) with the integration of ultra-wideband (UWB) Epsilon Negative (ENG) Double Split Ring Resonator (DSRR) metamaterial array is introduced in this paper for microwave imaging (MWI) application. The designed DSRR consists of two concentric rings with a split in each which are spatially rotated by 180°, formed an inverted structure to exhibit a wide negative epsilon bandwidth of 187 % (from 0.5 GHz to 15 GHz). The FPR is designed using a ring junction topology and semi-circularly curved inter-port transmission lines (TLs) which are placed between five equally spaced ports. Localizing the DSRR metamaterial in a periodic array of 5 × 4 at the ground plane of FPR lead to 79.79 % fractional bandwidth and reflection coefficient within the operating frequencies of 0.991 GHz–2.2576 GHz. Equivalent circuit model has been alluded with an intricate description of different array configurations of the metamaterial unit cell. Comparison of EM simulation and circuit simulation has been performed to validate the equivalent circuit model. It is found that the existence of stray capacitance, Cstray which is represented by the DSRR configurations, significantly influenced the resonant frequency and bandwidth of FPR. Measured results of the proposed design suits well with the simulations and prove higher efficacious applicability of the proposed design for microwave imaging application. A comparison of the reconstructed image also proves its suitability for the microwave imaging application.
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