Advanced Reconfigurable, Pattern-Diverse and Beam-Steering Antenna and Array Designs for Communication and Sensing Applications
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Microwave and Wireless Communications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 December 2024 | Viewed by 130
Special Issue Editors
Interests: antenna design; terahertz devices; metamaterials and metasurfaces
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The ability to form beams is a key antenna design feature in modern communication and sensing applications. Normally, steering, diversity and reconfigurable radiation patterns can be implemented by phased array antennas. However, the large number of TR components in antenna arrays have a relatively high cost, and the space their multiple radiators take up limits their application to various terminals. To overcome these limitations, several new antenna design technologies are proposed, e.g., a passive beamforming network, reconfigurable meta-surfaces, advanced phase shifters, quasi-optical lenses, etc., which enable radiation pattern control at a low cost and with high performance.
This Special Issue aims to highlight new research on advanced design techniques for reconfigurable, pattern-diverse, and beam-steering antennas and arrays. Researchers are welcome to submit original manuscripts for publication in this Special Issue. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
(1) Reconfigurable antennas;
(2) Diversity antennas;
(3) Antenna arrays;
(4) Quasi-optical antennas;
(5) Antenna beamforming networks;
(6) Shared-aperture antenna arrays;
(7) Leaky-wave antennas;
(8) Advanced RF components for antenna beam steering;
(9) Optimization techniques for antenna beamforming.
Dr. Hailiang Zhu
Dr. Yuanxi Cao
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- antenna arrays
- antenna beamforming networks
- reconfigurable antennas
- pattern diversity
- beamforming networks
- multibeam antennas
- leaky-wave antennas
- metasurfaces
- reflector antennas
- transmission line matrix
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