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Design and Measurement of Integrated Antenna

A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Microwave and Wireless Communications".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2021) | Viewed by 12824

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Fabien Ferrero

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Université Côte d’Azur, 439710 Nice, France
Interests: IoT; reconfigurable antenna; integrated antenna; antenna for CubeSat
Dr. Le Huy Trinh

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Department of Computer Engineering, University of Information Technology, Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City 700000, Vietnam
Interests: reconfigurable antenna; miniature antenna; circularly polarization; IoT

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Tens of billions of connected objects are going to fabricated in the next decade and will be driving a digital revolution, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Industry 4.0, and Smart Cities. Antennae will be a key element of the global performance of such a system. A smart and strong integration of the radiating element in the terminal is essential to enable low-cost, long-range, and robust wireless communication. This Special Issue will focus on techniques for the design and measurement of miniature and integrated antennae. Innovative design and fabrication methods based on characteristic modes, matching circuit, optimal current, reconfigurable radiating elements, new material, and 3D printed antennae are especially targeted. The Special Issue will also aim at contributions on new measurement techniques enabling cable-less antenna characterization or performance extraction in a real environment. 

Prof. Dr. Fabien Ferrero
Dr. Le Huy Trinh
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • Integrated antenna
  • Antenna for IoT
  • Reconfigurable antenna
  • Antenna measurement
  • OTA
  • Small antenna
  • Characteristic mode
  • Matching circuit
  • 3D printed antenna
  • Multistandard antenna

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A Textile EBG-Based Antenna for Future 5G-IoT Millimeter-Wave Applications
by EL May Wissem, Imen Sfar, Lotfi Osman and Jean-Marc Ribero
Electronics 2021, 10(2), 154; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10020154 - 12 Jan 2021
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A millimeter-wave (mmWave) textile antenna operating at 26 GHz band for 5G cellular networks is proposed in this paper. The electromagnetic characterization of the textile fabric used as substrate at the operating frequency was measured. The textile antenna was integrated with an electromagnetic [...] Read more.
A millimeter-wave (mmWave) textile antenna operating at 26 GHz band for 5G cellular networks is proposed in this paper. The electromagnetic characterization of the textile fabric used as substrate at the operating frequency was measured. The textile antenna was integrated with an electromagnetic bandgap (EBG) structure and placed on a polyester fabric substrate around the antenna. Results showed that the proposed EBG significantly improved the performance of the antenna. The gain and energy efficiency at 26 GHz were 8.65 dBi and 61%, respectively (an increase of 2.52 dB and 7% compared to a conventional antenna), and the specific absorption rate (SAR) was reduced by more than 69.9%. Good impedance matching of the fabricated antenna at the desired frequency was observed when it was bent and worn on the human body. The structure is simple, compact, and easy to manufacture. It may well be suitable for integration into applied clothing in various fields, especially for future IoT applications. Full article
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Low Cost Circularly Polarized Antenna for IoT Space Applications
by Le Huy Trinh, Nguyen Vu Truong and Fabien Ferrero
Electronics 2020, 9(10), 1564; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics9101564 - 24 Sep 2020
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This work presents the use of a three-element radiating structure for circularly polarized Low-Power Wide Area Network (LP-WAN) communication with space. The proposed structure has a 72 mm × 72 mm × 12 mm compact size with Right-Handed Circular Polarization (RHCP) and a [...] Read more.
This work presents the use of a three-element radiating structure for circularly polarized Low-Power Wide Area Network (LP-WAN) communication with space. The proposed structure has a 72 mm × 72 mm × 12 mm compact size with Right-Handed Circular Polarization (RHCP) and a 120∘ wide beamwidth radiation pattern. Printed on low-cost FR4 Epoxy substrate, a feeding network circuit based on Quasi Lumped Quadrature Coupler (QLQC), it achieves a −0.6 dB insertion loss and a very compact size. The final structure has a 69% total efficiency and a 3.14 dBic realized gain. Full article
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Compact Dual-Band Rectenna Based on Dual-Mode Metal-Rimmed Antenna
by Ha Vu Ngoc Anh, Nguyen Minh Thien, Le Huy Trinh, Truong Nguyen Vu and Fabien Ferrero
Electronics 2020, 9(9), 1532; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics9091532 - 18 Sep 2020
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This paper proposes the design of a dual-band integrated rectenna. The rectenna has compact size of 0.4 × 0.3 × 0.25 cm3 and operates at 925 MHz and 2450 MHz bands. In general, the rectenna consists of two main parts, the metal-rimmed [...] Read more.
This paper proposes the design of a dual-band integrated rectenna. The rectenna has compact size of 0.4 × 0.3 × 0.25 cm3 and operates at 925 MHz and 2450 MHz bands. In general, the rectenna consists of two main parts, the metal-rimmed dual-band antenna used for harvesting the radio frequency (RF) signals from the environment and the rectifier circuit to convert these receiving powers to the direct current (DC). Because of the dual resonant structure of the antenna, the rectifier circuit can be optimized in terms of size and the frequency bandwidth, while the conversion efficiencies are always obtained 60% at the RF input power −2.5 dBm and −1 dBm for the lower band and the higher band, respectively. Measured results show that the metal-rimmed antenna exhibits −10 dB reflection coefficient in both desired frequency bands. Moreover, the antenna achieves 47% and 89% of total efficiency respectively at 925 MHz and 2450 MHz, which confirms that the proposed rectenna is well applicable in most of the miniaturized wireless sensor networks and IoT systems. Full article
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