Advanced Design and Evaluation of Modern Antenna Systems
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Physics General".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 May 2026 | Viewed by 1139
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Interests: distributed mimo; RFID; Internet of Things (IoT); radio-over-fibre distributed antenna systems; cooperative systems; cognitive radio
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Interests: multi-functional microwave; mmWave passive components; wireless power transfer
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
A technological revolution is unfolding thanks to the convergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI). Applications such as device automation, remote monitoring, vehicle control, and object positioning/management will proliferate in the years to come on a massive scale. Wireless links play a crucial role because they enable ubiquity, mobility, and the flexibility needed to create reliable applications in a high variety of scenarios at moderate costs.
A key component of any wireless technology is the antenna system, which transduces the electromagnetic waves into the information symbols required by the application layers. New wireless standards will rely heavily on improved antenna technology to achieve the increasingly complex critical application goals in terms of reliability, security, low-latency, and real-time connectivity.
The field of antenna design is experiencing a boom with multiple new tools, applications, materials, environments, architectures, improved hardware platforms, interfaces, new radio fronts, higher sensitivity components, alternate optimisation techniques, etc. We invite scholars devoted to this exciting field of antenna design to submit previously unpublished works on topics related to antenna design and applications. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- New antenna design tools;
- THz antenna design;
- Fractal antennas;
- Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces for 6G;
- Joint antenna design and propagation evaluation;
- V2X MIMO;
- Artificial intelligence for antenna design;
- Patch antennas for microwave and satellite 5G communications;
- Beamforming and MIMO algorithms for 5G/6G;
- Electromagnetic design of antennas;
- Printable antennas;
- New materials for antenna design;
- RFI antenna design;
- Wearable antennas;
- Antennas for joint communication sensing design;
- Antennas for wireless avionics communications.
Dr. Ramiro Samano Robles
Prof. Dr. Jianxing Li
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- antenna design
- propagation evaluation
- wearable antennas
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