IEEE Catalog Number: ISBN:

CFP0977B-PRT 978-1-4244-4753-4

2009 3rd European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP)

Berlin, Germany 23 – 27 March 2009

Pages 1-623

TABLE OF CONTENTS

OPENING SESSION: OPENING AND KEYNOTE ADDRESS European Antenna Capabilities in Telecommunications, Navigation, Earth Observation and Science......................................................................................................................................................N/A

Evert Dudok PLENARY SESSION: PLENARY TALKS Recent Developments in Antennas and Propagation for Space Missions..................................................N/A

Bertram Arbesser Rastburg

From Antennas to Microwave Systems - LTCC as an Integrating Technology for Space Applications .........................................................................................................................................................1

Ingo Wolff MON-INV2: INVITED PAPERS 1-2-3 ELECTROMAGNETICS AND CHANNEL MODELLING Making a Case for Analytical Methods in Field Theory in Today’s World of Electromagnetics Dominated by Computational EM .................................................................................N/A

Raj Mittra

Multi–Scale Electromagnetic Simulation of Large and Complex Systems ...............................................N/APeter Thoma

The Land Mobile Channel – Recording and Modelling .............................................................................N/AErich Lucz

MON-INV1: INVITED PAPERS 3-4 ANTENNAS Reflectarray Antennas ........................................................................................................................................7

Antoine Roederer

High Gain Planar Slotted Waveguide Arrays for Micro– and Millimeter–Wave Systems .....................N/AMakoto Ando

MON-S1: METAMATERIAL-BASED GAP WAVEGUIDES Numerical Analysis of a Metamaterial-based Ridge Gap Waveguide with a Bed of Nails As Parallel-plate Mode Killer ................................................................................................................................12

Esperanza Alfonso, Per-Simon Kildal, Alejandro Valero-Nogueira, Jose Ignacio Herranz-Herruzo

Three Metamaterial-based Gap Waveguides between Parallel Metal Plates for mm/submm Waves .................................................................................................................................................................17

Per-Simon Kildal

Cut-off Bandwidth of Metamaterial-based Parallel Plate Gap Waveguide with One Textured Metal Pin Surface .............................................................................................................................22

Eva Rajo-Iglesias, Per-Simon Kildal

Local Wave Green's Functions of Parallel Plate Metamaterial-Based Gap Waveguides with One Hard Wall..........................................................................................................................................26

Zvonimir Sipus, Marko Bosiljevac, Per-Simon Kildal

Analysis of Global Eigenmodes in an Oversized Rectangular Waveguide with a Hard Surface on One Broad Wall for Planar Slot Array Antenna Applications ..................................................30

Sergei Skobelev, Per-Simon Kildal MON–POSTER: POSTER SESSION–ANTENNA THEORY–1 Binary Particle Swarm Optimization of FSS Using a CG-FFT Modelling ..................................................34

Angel Gutierrez, Jesus Perez Lopez, Jose Basterrechea

A Parallel Implementation of the Multilevel Characteristic Basis Function Method .................................39Jaime Laviada, Raj Mittra, Marcos Pino, Fernando Las-Heras

Efficient and Fast Procedure for the Calculation of Electric and Magnetic Energies ................................44Guy Vandenbosch

A Circuit Model to Compute Impedance of Electromagnetically Coupled Ring Antenna.........................49Sunil Khah

Using B-Splines to Entirely Model the Scattering of Thin Wires .................................................................52Bruce Piper, Nick Shuley

An Application of the Multi-level DG-FDTD to the Analysis of the Transmission Between a Dipole in Free-space and an Implanted Antenna in a Simplified Body Model with Various Positions .............................................................................................................................................................56

Celine Miry, Raphael Gillard, Renaud Loison

Effect of Problem Size on PML Performance in Compact-FDTD Waveguide Models...............................60Mohammed Hadi

Combined Field Integral Equation Technique to Model Fine Slots Embedded in Laterally Shielded Multilayered Media ...........................................................................................................................63

Laleh Golestanirad

Analysis of Electromagnetic Scattering from Bodies of Revolution Using the Fictitious Circular Loop Currents Model ........................................................................................................................68

Chen Ding, Zhang Qiang, He Bing Fa

Software Tool for the Leaky-mode Analysis of Waveguides Loaded with Frequency Selective Surfaces ..............................................................................................................................................71

Maria GarcIa-Vigueras, Jose-Luis Gomez-Tornero, George Goussetis, Alejandro Alvarez-Melcon

Solving Electromagnetic Scattering by Multiple Targets with Surface Equivalence Principle Algorithm ..........................................................................................................................................76

Pasi Yla-Oijala, Matti Taskinen

Wideband Analysis of Electromagnetic Scattering from Partially Inhomogeneous Dielectric Bodies-of-revolution with the Use of Macromodels ......................................................................81

Andrzej Kucharski

Synthesis of EBG Surfaces Using Evolutionary Optimization Algorithms..................................................85Luisa Deias, Giuseppe Mazzarella, Nicola Sirena

Simultaneous Shape and Topology Optimization for the Design of Patch Antennas.................................89Naotaka Uchida, Shinji Nishiwaki, Kazuhiro Izui, Masataka Yoshimura, Tsuyoshi Nomura, Kazuo Sato

Computational Efficiency of the Extended Three-dimensional Stationary Phase Method Enhanced by Fresnel Functions (3D-SPM-F) .................................................................................................94

Charalampos Moschovitis, Hristos Anastassiu, Panayiotis Frangos

Accurate Software Tool for the Prediction of RF Breakdown in Microstrip Transmission Lines ...................................................................................................................................................................98

Francisco Perez Soler, Sergio Anza Hormigo, Michel Mattes, Carlos Vicente Quiles, Fernando Quesada Pereira, Benito Gimeno, Vicente Boria, Alejandro Alvarez-Melcon, Juan Mosig, David Raboso

Scattering with Reinforced Concrete Wall in 900-MHz Band Using MOM/CI Method ..........................103Abdorreza Torabi, Amir Ahmad Shishegar

Accurate Solution of Helical Antenna As Benchmark for Validation of Thin-wire Modeling.................108Branko Kolundzija, Svetislav Ponjavic

Geometrically Based Preconditioner for the Fast Multipole Method.........................................................113Marta Araujo, Jose Bertolo, Luis Landesa, Jose Taboada, Fernando Obelleiro, Jose RodrIguez

Bio-Inspired Algorithms and 2D Finite Element Method Applied to Electromagnetic Bandgap Structures Design ............................................................................................................................118

Carlos Silva-Santos, Marcos Goncalves, Aldario Bordonalli, Hugo Hernandez-Figueroa, Kleucio Claudio

A Distributed Memory Multilevel Fast Physical Optics Algorithm............................................................123Christian Parrot, Daniel Millot, Christine Letrou, Amir Boag

Analysis of Arbitrarily Shaped Waveguide Eigenvalue by the MOM/BI-RME Method (N/A)................127Xiaolin Xu, Zhang Qiang

Analytical Approach to Low-frequency Scattering and Homogenisation of Split Ring Elements ...........................................................................................................................................................129

Johan Sten, Daniel Sjoberg

MONURBS, A Parallelized Moment Method Code that Combines FMLMP, CBF and MPI...................................................................................................................................................................132

Ivan Gonzalez Diego, Josefa Gomez Perez, Abdelhamid Tayebi, Felipe Catedra

Second Order Fast Physical Optics ...............................................................................................................137Felipe Vico, Miguel Ferrando, Esperanza Alfonso, Daniel Sanchez

Discussion On The Efficient Evaluation Of The Green's Functions Of Point Sources Inside Infinite Parallel Plate Waveguides.................................................................................................................141

Francisco Perez Soler, Fernando Quesada Pereira, Alejandro Alvarez-Melcon, Francisco Eden Sorolla Rosario, Benito Gimeno

Green Function for a Horizontal Source on a Dielectric Slab with a PEMC Ground ..............................146Javad Komijani, Jalil Rashed Mohassel, Hadi Aliakbarian, Ali Mirkamali

Compression of the MoM Matrix Using Macrobasis Functions with a Full-Controlable Accuracy ..........................................................................................................................................................149

Jose M. Tamayo, Alexander Heldring, Juan M. Rius

Imperfect Strip Gratings Near Wood Anomalies .........................................................................................154Alex Schuchinsky, Constantine Talalaev

Efficiency Treatment of Two Closely Spaced Metal Sheets by Characteristic Mode Theory ..................156Pavel Hamouz, Milan Polivka, Pavel Hazdra

MON–POSTER: POSTER SESSION–JOINT A-P-M TOPICS–1 Wearable EBG Antennas................................................................................................................................160

Richard Langley, Qiang Bai

Improved Neural Network DoA Estimation for a Switched-Beam System in a Multipath DS-CDMA Scheme..........................................................................................................................................164

Konstantinos Gotsis, George Kyriacou, John Sahalos

Classification of UWB Multipath Clusters and Its Distortion Effects on Positioning Error ....................169Khajitpan Makaratat, Tim Brown, Stavros Stavrou, Barry Evans

Influence of Insulation for Implanted Antennas ..........................................................................................174Francesco Merli, Benjamin Fuchs, Anja Skrivervik

Time Domain Detection of Interference Signals Using Ultra Wideband Techniques ...............................178Robert Urban, Stanislav Zvanovec, Pavel Pechac

Complement Pattern on Metamaterial Antenna for Reducing Mutual Coupling in MIMO System ..............................................................................................................................................................182

Soon Ho Hwang, Taesik Yang, Joon Ho Byun, Austin S Kim

2.45 GHz Plaster Antennas for Health Monitoring......................................................................................186Tiiti Kellomaki, William Whittow, Jouko Heikkinen, Lauri Kettunen

Performance Analysis and Implementation of Spatial and Blind Beamforming Algorithms for Tracking LEO Satellites with Adaptive Antenna Arrays ......................................................................191

Alberto Anton, Ramon Martinez Rodriguez-Osorio, Miguel Salas Natera, Alberto Torre

Synthesizing Realistic Environments in Anechoic Chamber.......................................................................196Lionel Rudant, Christophe Delaveaud, Meryam AbouElAnouar

User Interaction with Antenna Arrays in MIMO-Enabled Laptops ..........................................................201Jerzy Guterman, Antonio Moreira, Custodio Peixeiro, Yahya Rahmat-Samii

2-D Field Reconstruction: A Measurement "Sandbox" for Spatial Correlation Analysis .......................206Ryan Pirkl, Gregory Durgin

Time Domain Analysis of Fields Reflected from Model of Human Body Surface Using Artificial Neural Network...............................................................................................................................210

Oleksandr Dumin, Olga Dumina, Dmitrij Shyrokorad

Novel Two-layer 4x4 SIW Nolen matrix for Multi-beam Antenna Application in Ku Band ...................214Ahmed Ali, Nelson Fonseca, Fabio Coccetti, Herve Aubert

Radio Waves Scattering Dependence on the Statistical Parameters of Classical and Fractal Rough Surfaces................................................................................................................................................217

Alexander Laktyunkin, Alexander Potapov

Multiple Antennas Effect in UWB Spatial Multiplexing .............................................................................222Raffaele D'Errico, Alain Sibille

Impulse Response of the UWB Channel with Conducting and Dielectric Convex Obstacles...................227Piotr Gorniak, Wojciech Bandurski

Human Head Electromagnetic Scattering.....................................................................................................232Miguel Garcia-Fernandez, Juan Valenzuela-Valdes, David Sanchez-Hernandez

Dispersive Breast Models for Efficient FDTD Simulation...........................................................................236Guangran Zhu, Boris Oreshkin, Emily Porter, Mark Coates, Milica Popovic

Reflection Coefficient of the Human Thorax: Sensitivity to Intrathoracic Displacements and Incorporation into an Ultra-Wideband Channel ..................................................................................241

Florian Thiel

Development of Flexible, Wearable Antennas ..............................................................................................246James Matthews, Gary Pettitt

High-Gain On-Chip Antennas for LSI Intra-/Inter-Chip Wireless Interconnection ................................251Kentaro Kimoto

Inverse Problem Solution of Radio-Waves Scattering on Soil by Minimization of Regularizing Functional .................................................................................................................................256

Alexander Shibelgut, Rudolph Litvinov, Anatoly Zadorin

MON–POSTER: POSTER SESSION–PROPAGATION–1 Influence of Polarization on the Above Ground Surface Electric Field for Vehicular Applications .....................................................................................................................................................259

Sebastien Palud, Franck Colombel, Mohamed Himdi, Cyrille Le Meins

A Study of the "Slack-String" Knife-Edge Diffraction Model....................................................................264Teresa Rusyn

Excitation and Propagation of Whistler Waves in Density Depletion Ducts in a Magnetoplasma ...............................................................................................................................................269

Alexander Kudrin, Pavel Bakharev, Tatyana Zaboronkova

New Czech Rain Data and Methods Applied to Radiowave Propagation..................................................274Ondrej Fiser, Ondrej Fiser Jr.

Route Diversity Simulations in Multi-HAP Networks during Heavy Rainstorms ....................................278Stanislav Zvanovec, Pavel Pechac, Milos Mazanek

ITU Attenuation Model Evaluation With a New 4 Years ka-Band Database............................................281Armando Rocha, Pedro Gaspar, Jose Carlos Neves

The Effect of Raindrop Size Distribution Variability on the Estimation of Attenuation..........................286Adrian Townsend, Robert Watson, Duncan Hodges

Spatial Characterization and Downscaling of Rain Attenuation Fields from Numerical Weather Prediction Models............................................................................................................................291

Mario Montopoli, Frank Marzano

The Investigation of Phase Synchronization of Reference Oscillators Through Atmospheric Channel ............................................................................................................................................................296

Igor Shirokov, Igor Serdyuk

Measurement Based Capacity Analysis of Beam Steering in the 60 GHz Band .......................................300Mikko Kyro, Sylvain Ranvier, Clemens Icheln, Pertti Vainikainen

Use of the 50-90 GHz Frequency Bands in Feeder Networks......................................................................304Laszlo Csurgai-Horvath, Istvan Frigyes, Janos Bito, Balazs Heder

Short-term Prediction of Atmospheric Attenuation in Q Band from Ka Band Measurements in Earth-to-Satellite Links ....................................................................................................309

Louis DeMontera, Laurent Barthes, Peter Gole, Thierry Marsault, Cecile Mallet

Proragation in an Azimuthally Magnetized Circular Ferrite-Dielectric Waveguide................................313Georgi Georgiev, Mariana Georgieva-Grosse

The Simulation of Rain Fade on Arbitrary Microwave Link Networks ....................................................318Kevin Paulson, Xiaobei Zhang

MON–POSTER: POSTER SESSION–SMALL ANTENNAS–1 High Degree of Miniaturization with Asymmetric Rectangle Resonators ................................................323

Ibraheem Al-Naib, Christian Jansen, Martin Koch

Modelling of the Monopole Interaction with a small Chassis......................................................................326Umut Bulus, Klaus Solbach

Multiband Antenna for WLAN Applications Using a Fractal-based Ground Plane ................................330Joan Gemio Valero, Josep Parron, Jordi Soler Castany

Combined Multi-band Antenna for GPS and WLAN Applications ...........................................................334Jean-Marc Ribero, Robert Staraj, Georges Kossiavas, Emilie Fond

A Study of Parameter Changes on the Characteristics of Planar Inverted-F Antenna ............................338Hassan Chattha, Yi Huang, Yang Lu, Zhen Ming Huang

Coupling Minimization between RH and LH/RH Curl Antennas Positioned over a Ground Plane .................................................................................................................................................................342

Sean O'Kane, Vincent Fusco

Dual Linear/Circular Polarization Patch Antenna with Broadband Polarizer for 3.5 GHz WiMAX Systems .............................................................................................................................................346

Jose Luis Masa-Campos, Fenando Gonzalez-Fernandez

A Miniaturization Technique of a Compact Omnidirectional Antenna.....................................................350Christophe Delaveaud, Sarah Sufyar

Design of a Broadband Half-Cylindrical DRA for Future WLAN Applications.......................................355Ahmed Abumazwed, Osama Ahmed, Abdel R. Sebak

An Integrated Antenna-Filter with Harmonic Rejection ............................................................................359Djuradj Budimir

Miniature Narrow Band PIFA Antenna for High ........................................................................................361Ignacio Garcia Zuazola, John Batchelor, Jaafar Elmirghani

A Novel Approach to Enhance the Bandwidth of Miniaturized Microstrip-fed Dielectric Resonator Antennas ........................................................................................................................................363

Atabak Rashidian, David Klymyshyn

New Physical Bounds on Elliptically Polarized Antennas ...........................................................................366Mats Gustafsson, Christian Sohl

Design of A Dual Band Equatorial Helix Antenna for TTC of Satellites ...................................................369Ivan Gonzalez Diego, Abdelhamid Tayebi, Josefa Gomez Perez, Jose Manuel Gomez, Felipe Catedra

Dual band a-Si-H Solar-Slot Antenna Design for 2.4/5.2GHz W-LAN Applications................................374Shynu Nair, Maria Ons, Max Ammann, Sarah McCormack, Brian Norton

The Optimization of Microwave On-Body Antenna of the Sensor of Cardiac Rhythm ...........................377Igor Shirokov, Rostyslav Dubrovka, Igor Serdyuk

Designing Maximal Resolution Loop Sensors for Cryptographic Analysis ...............................................381Wim Aerts, Elke De Mulder, Bart Preneel, Guy Vandenbosch, Ingrid Verbauwhede

Rectangular Reconfigurable Antenna (RRA) with Ultra Wideband Tuning Ability................................386Shishir Punjala, Kia Makki

Small Meandered PIFA for Wireless Interrogation of Passive Sensors in a Cavity..................................388Stephane Tourette, Gwladys Collin, Philippe Lethuc, Cyril Luxey, Robert Staraj

Decomposition of Electrically Small Resonant Antennas into their Electric and Magnetic Part by Far Field Polarisation Analysis ........................................................................................................392

David Pouhe, Gerhard Monich, Joel A. Tsemo Kamga

Compact Dielectric Resonator Antenna for Broadband Applications (5.2/5.8GHz).................................397Ahmed Abumazwed, Abdel R. Sebak

Experimental Study of Hand and Head Effects to Mobile Phone Antenna Radiation Properties .........................................................................................................................................................401

Markus Berg, Marko Sonkki, Erkki Salonen

Compact X-band Coaxial Monopole Antenna..............................................................................................405Maksym Khruslov, Nina Popenko, Igor Ivanchenko

MEMS-Based Filter With A Reconfigurable Bandpass ..............................................................................408Giuseppina Monti, Luciano Tarricone, Laura Corchia

The Influence of the User Hand on Mobile Phone Antenna Performance in Data Mode.........................412Chung-Huan Li, Erdem Ofli, Nicolas Chavannes, Niels Kuster

TUE–S10J1: CONVENED: BODY AREA NETWORKS AND MEDICAL IMPLANTS–1 Challenging Problems Arising in the Simulation of Body Area Networks (BANs) ...................................416

Jonathan Bringuier, Raj Mittra

Effect of the Indoor Environment on the UWB On-Body Radio Propagation Channel ...........................418Andrea Sani, Akram Alomainy, Yang Hao

Numerical Characterization of the Radiation from Implanted Wireless Sources Considering Different Digital Body Phantoms .............................................................................................422

Andrea Sani, Akram Alomainy, Yang Hao

Investigation and Design of Wearable Multi-Band Antennas .....................................................................425Thomas Thalmann, Zoya Popovic, Branislav Notaros, Juan Mosig

Investigation of Channel Polarization in On-Body Communications.........................................................429Lida Akhoondzadeh-Asl

TUE–S11S1: CONVENED: DLR SATCOM DAY–1 SANTANA: Advanced Electronically Steerable Antennas at Ka-Band.....................................................433

Alexander Stark, Achim Dreher, Horst Fischer, Alexander Geise, Roman Gieron, Marcos Heckler, Sybille Holzwarth, Christian Hunscher, Arne Jacob, Karsten Kuhlmann, Oliver Litschke, Dirk Lohmann, Winfried Simon, Frank Woetzel, Dietrich Zahn

Compact Antenna Arrays with Enhanced Diversity Performance.............................................................441Matthias Hein, Ralf Stephan, Christian Volmer, J. Weber

Innovative Technologies for RF Circuitry in Satellite Payload...................................................................446Matthias Rittweger, Reinhard Kulke, R. Follmann, Ingo Wolff

Presentation of the Project Satcom-On-The-Move in ND SatCom.............................................................449Gerold Jager-Waldau

TUE–S1A1: CONVENED: OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES GA Design of Large Thinned Arrays ............................................................................................................454

Chen Ding, Li Jianxin

Simulation and Optimization Technique for a Multi-mirror MM Wave Reflector Radio Telescope with FPA.........................................................................................................................................457

Vladimir Khaikin, Michael Lebedev, Andrey Nosich

Design of Sparse Arrays Using Binary Genetic Algorithms ........................................................................462Chen Ding, Li Jianxin

Multi-Objective Meta-PSO Techniques for Optimization of Antenna Arrays ..........................................465Marco Mussetta, Paola Pirinoli, Stefano Selleri, Riccardo Zich

Can Tournament Selection Improve Performances of the Classical Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm? ...............................................................................................................................468

Ruzica Golubovic, Ivica Stevanovic, Dragan Olcan, Juan Mosig TUE–S2A2: CONVENED: ARRAY ANTENNAS–1 A 76-GHz Antenna with Highly-Tapered Aperture for Collision Avoidance Systems .............................472

Amir Zaghloul, Thoedore Anthony

Non-Iterative Design of a 2-D Array of Waveguide Slots with Cavities to give Active Admittance equal to an Isolated Slot .............................................................................................................477

Jiro Hirokawa, Takehito Suzuki, Makoto Ando

Millimeter-Wave Waveguide-Type Array Antennas Using Low-Loss Engineering Plastics ...................482Yoshihiko Konishi, Yoji Aramaki, Satoshi Yamaguchi, Izuru Naito, Naofumi Yoneda, Masataka Ohtsuka

Broadband Cross-dipole Element with Four Polarization Reconfigurations for Mobile Base Station Antenna ......................................................................................................................................487

Soon Young Eom, Ic Pyo Hong, Soon Ik Jeon

Comparison Between CRLH Zeroth Order Antenna and Series-Fed Microstrip Patch Array Antenna.................................................................................................................................................491

Thorsten Liebig, Andre Rennings, Simon Otto, Christophe Caloz, Daniel Erni TUE–S3A3: NOVEL CONCEPTS FOR HANDSET ANTENNAS Printed lumda/8-PIFA for Internal Penta-Band Mobile Phone Antenna ..................................................495

Kin-Lu Wong

Effects of Nearby Metallic Patches on an Antenna Based on Segmented Mobile Terminal Chassis..............................................................................................................................................................500

Risto Valkonen, Juho Poutanen, Jari Holopainen, Clemens Icheln, Pertti Vainikainen

Hybrid of Monopole and Dipole Antennas for Concurrent 2.4- and 5-GHz WLAN Access Point .................................................................................................................................................................505

Saou-Wen Su

New Balanced Mobile Antenna with Wide Bandwidth Performance.........................................................509Dawei Zhou, Raed Abd-Alhameed, Chan See, A Alhaddad, Peter Excell

A Simple Wideband Antenna For Mobile Handset......................................................................................513Houda Halheit

TUE–S4A4: CONVENED: UWB RADAR AND REMOTE SENSING–1 UWB Dual Polarised Planar Phased Array ..................................................................................................516

Antonio Manna, Paolo Baldonero, Marco Bartocci, Fabrizio Trotta, Andrea Pantano

Exploration of Multiobjective Particle Swarm Optimization (MO-PSO) on the Design of UWB Antennas ................................................................................................................................................521

Javier Espigares Martin, Mario Fernandez Pantoja, Amelia Rubio Bretones, Salvador G. Garcia, Carlos Moreno de Jong van Coevorden, Rafael Gomez MartIn

Broadband Differentially Fed Tapered Slot Antenna Array for Radio Astronomy Applications .....................................................................................................................................................526

Michel Arts, Rob Maaskant, Eloy de Lera Acedo, Jan Geralt bij de Vaate

Optimization of Multifunctional UWB Planar Phased Arrays ...................................................................531Alessandro Galli, Guido Valerio, Davide Tallini, Angelo De Luca, Maurizio Cicolani

Analysis and Synthesis of Circular UWB arrays..........................................................................................535Gaetano Marrocco

TUE–S5A5: CONVENED: ANTENNAS FOR SPACE APPLICATIONS–1 Large Membrane Reflectors ..........................................................................................................................540

Leri Datashvili, Horst Baier

The Alphasat-XL Antenna Feed Array.........................................................................................................545Jean Dallaire, Sylvain Richard, Gerard Senechal

Unfurlable Reflector SAR Antenna at P Band .............................................................................................549Roberto Mizzoni, Giuseppe Orlando, Paolo Valle

The GLOBALSTAR 2 Antenna Sub-System................................................................................................554Frederic Croq

Broadband Dual-Polarized Active Phased Microstrip Patch Antenna Array for Future SAR Applications ............................................................................................................................................559

Wei Wang, Lei Li TUE–S6A6: CONVENED: METAMATERIALS–1 Novel Passive and Active Composite Right/Left-Handed Leaky-Wave Antennas ....................................562

Mohammed Reza Hashemi, Tatsuo Itoh

A Ka-Band Low-Profile Beam Steering Slot Antenna Using a CRLH Substrate Integrated Waveguide........................................................................................................................................................567

Atsushi Sanada

Overview of Resonant Metamaterial Antennas ............................................................................................571Christophe Caloz, Andre Rennings

Application of Wire-based Metamaterials for Antenna Miniaturization...................................................576Silvio Hrabar, Davor Bonefacic, Damir Muha

Transmission-line Lens Antenna with Embedded Source ...........................................................................580Pekka Alitalo, Frederic Bongard, Juan Mosig, Sergei Tretyakov

TUE–S7P1: CONVENED: COST2100– VEHICULAR RADIO CHANNELS Influence of Antennas Placement on Car to Car Communications Channel.............................................585

Lars Reichardt, Thomas Fuegen, Thomas Zwick

Car-to-Car Channel Models based on Wideband MIMO Measurements at 5.3 GHz ..............................590Olivier Renaudin, Veli-Matti Kolmonen, Pertti Vainikainen, Claude Oestges

UWB Channel Measurements Inside Different Car Types .........................................................................595Moritz Schack, Robert Geise, Ingo Schmidt, Radoslaw Piesiewicz, Thomas Kurner

Characteristics of Urban Vehicular MIMO Channels at Different Frequencies ......................................600Tricia Willink

Modelling of MIMO Vehicle-to-Vehicle Fading Channels in T-Junction Scattering Environments ..................................................................................................................................................605

Zhiyi He, Wei Chen, Zhou Wei, Matthias Patzold, Ali Chelli TUE–S8P10: MEASUREMENT AND STATISTICS OF PROPAGATION DATA Measured Attenuation Data and Predictions for a Gigabit Radio Link in the 80 GHz Band ..................610

Terje Tjelta, Tor Ove Breivik

Outage Intensity Due to Rain in Terrestrial Line-of-Sight Links ...............................................................615Erasmus Miranda, Marlene Pontes, Luiz Silva Mello

Global Prediction of Cumulative Rainfall Statistics from the Simple Knowledge of the Yearly Rain Amount .......................................................................................................................................619

Carlo Capsoni, Lorenzo Luini, Marlene Pontes, Luiz Silva Mello

Development of a New Global Rainfall Rate Model Based on ERA40, TRMM, GPCP and GPCC Products ...............................................................................................................................................624

Giulio Blarzino, Laurent Castanet, Lorenzo Luini, Carlo Capsoni, Antonio Martellucci

Micro Rain Radar Measurements of Rainfall in Madrid ............................................................................629Ana Benarroch, Pedro Garcia del Pino, Pilar Garcia-Vila, Jose Riera

TUE–S9M1: MEASUREMENTS OF ANTENNAS AND RADAR SCATTERING On the Sources Reconstruction Method Application for a Reflectarray Antenna Characterization..............................................................................................................................................634

Yuri Alvarez Lopez, Manuel Arrebola, Fernando Las-Heras, Jose Encinar

Comparative Gain Measurements of a High Gain CFRP Reflector Antenna at Ka-Band ......................639Dietmar Fasold, Engin Guelten

Validation of a 3-D Near-Field ISAR Imaging Technique with Far-Field RCS Extraction by Means of a Hybrid GO-PO/PTD Ray Tracing Algorithm......................................................................644

Thomas Vaupel, Frank Weinmann

A Contact-less Small Antenna Characterization Through Impedance Modulation .................................649Beatriz Monsalve, Sebastian Blanch Boris, Jordi Romeu, Luis Jofre

Validation of a New Small Antenna Radiated Testing Range .....................................................................652Tian Hong Loh, Martin Alexander, Fabien Widmer, Philip Miller, David Knight

TUE–S21J2: CONVENED: BODY AREA NETWORKS AND MEDICAL IMPLANTS–2 Estimating Diversity for Body-Worn Antennas ...........................................................................................657

Dimitris Psychoudakis, Gil Young Lee, Chi-Chih Chen, John Volakis

Analysis of Wave Propagation for BAN Applications .................................................................................662Farshad Keshmiri, Andrew Fort, Christophe Craeye

Meshed Ground Plane Structures for Textile Antennas..............................................................................666Tomasz Maleszka, Michal Preisner, Pawel Kabacik

An Implanted Cavity Slot Antenna for Medical Communication Systems................................................671Koichi Ito

Characterization of the On-Body Channel in an Outdoor Environment at 2.45 GHz..............................675Simon Cotton, William Scanlon

TUE–S22S2: CONVENED: DLR SATCOM DAY–2 The Multiple Spot Beam Antenna Project "Medusa" .................................................................................679

Michael Schneider, Christian Hartwanger

Manufacturing Technologies for LISA .........................................................................................................683Michael Trumper, Jan Harder

Innovative Phased Array Antenna for Maritime Satellite Communications.............................................688Matthias Geissler, Frank Woetzel, Martin Boettcher, Stephan Korthoff, Andreas Lauer, Michael Eube, Roman Gieron

Light Weight - Low Loss Beam Forming Networks for Space Applications .............................................693Peter Uhlig, Jens Leiß, Robert Marek, Johann-peter Sommer, Helmut Wolf

Highly Stable Lightweight Antennas for Ka/Q/V-Band and Other Advanced Telecom Structure Concepts..........................................................................................................................................698

Ernst Pfeiffer

TUE–S12A7: EM THEORY FOR IMAGING Time Domain Inverse Problem of a Buried Dielectric Cylinder .................................................................703

Chung-Hsin Huang

Imaging Inhomogeneous Targets from Intensity Only Measures of Their Diffracted Fields ..................707Michele D'Urso

Exploiting Markov Random Fields and an Extended Range Linear Approximation for 2D inverse scattering problems............................................................................................................................710

Michele D'Urso

Application of the Adaptive Cross Approximation Algorithm to the Sources Reconstruction Method...................................................................................................................................714

Yuri Alvarez Lopez, Fernando Las-Heras, Marcos Pino

Comparison Between Different Methods for Small Scatterers Detection and Localization.....................719Raffaele Solimene, Aniello Buonanno, Rocco Pierri

TUE–S13A8: CONVENED: ARRAY ANTENNAS–2 Waveguide-Fed Conformal Microstrip Patch Antenna Array ...................................................................723

Mou-ping Jin, Wei Wang, Mei-qing Qi

GEODA: Adaptive Antenna of Multiple Planar Arrays for Satellite Communications. ..........................726Ignacio Montesinos-Ortego, Manuel Sierra-Perez, Fernandez-Jambrina, Jose Luis Masa-Campos, Ramon Martinez RodrIguez-Osorio

Spatial Density Tapered Sunflower Antenna Array ....................................................................................731Maria Carolina Vigano, Giovanni Toso, Gerard Caille, Cyril Mangenot, Ioan Lager

Array Technology in ThalesAleniaSpace Italia ............................................................................................736Roberto Mizzoni

Broadband (GSM-UMTS) Planar Patch Array with Complex Amplitude Feed Distribution......................................................................................................................................................741

Mariano Barba, Juan Page TUE–S14A9: SMALL RECONFIGURABLE ANTENNAS A Reconfigurable Multi-band Microstrip Antenna Based on Open Ended Microstrip Lines .................745

Joseph Costantine, Damien Ressiguier, Youssef Tawk, Christos Christodoulou

Optimization of a Multi-Band Reconfigurable PIFA Antenna ...................................................................749Sylvain Loizeau, Alain Sibille

Adaptive Matching Circuitry for Compensation of Finger Effect on Handset Antennas ........................754Prasadh Ramachandran, Zlatoljub Milosavljevic, Claes Beckman

Study on Tunable Electrically Small Antennas ............................................................................................758Richard Langley, Luyi Liu

A Dual Port Wide-Narrowband Antenna for Cognitive Radio...................................................................762Elham Ebrahimi, Peter Hall

TUE–S15A10: CONVENED: UWB RADAR AND REMOTE SENSING–2 Differentially Fed Array for UWB Radar Applications ..............................................................................766

Elena Pancera, Thomas Zwick, Werner Wiesbeck

UWB Stacked Patch Antenna Element Design for Impulse Near-field Imaging Radar Antenna Array.................................................................................................................................................770

Bill Yang, Alexander Yarovoy, Leo Ligthart

Sectored Antenna Array for Mono-station UWB Indoor Positioning System ...........................................775Xianming Qing, Zhi Ning Chen, Terence See

Investigation of Wideband Millimetre-Wave Reflectarrays for Radar Applications Operating in the W Band................................................................................................................................779

Claire Migliaccio, Jerome Lanteri, Jean-Yves Dauvignac, Christian Pichot, Peter Feil, Wolfgang Menzel

Rolled-Dipole Array for GPR with Multiple Footprints .............................................................................784Andaya Lestari, Yuyu Wahyu, Alexander Yarovoy, Leo Ligthart

TUE–S16A11: CONVENED: ANTENNAS FOR SPACE APPLICATIONS–2 Novel Out of the Box Concepts for Future Space Antennas........................................................................789

Yahya Rahmat-Samii

A Comparison of Density and Amplitude Tapering for Transmit Active Arrays .....................................793Giovanni Toso, Piero Angeletti, Cyril Mangenot

Contoured-beam Reflectarray for DBS Application Including Copolar Isolation Requirements Between Missions....................................................................................................................797

Manuel Arrebola, Jose Encinar, Luis de la Fuente, Giovanni Toso

Active and Highly Integrated Antenna Studies Supported by CNES.........................................................802Isabelle Albert, Francis Gizard, Jean-marc Lopez

Low Cost, Short Lead-time Feed Chain Components for Multi-beam Satellite Antennas.......................806Paul Booth, Malcolm Skeen, Simon Stirland

TUE–S17A12: CONVENED: METAMATERIALS–2 Increasing the Supergain of Electrically Small Antennas Using Metamaterials .......................................811

Arthur Yaghjian

Planar Metamaterial Transverse Equivalent Network and Its Application to Low-profile Antenna Design................................................................................................................................................814

Filippo Capolino

Electrically Small Metamaterial-based Antennas - Have We Seen Any Real Practical Benefits? ...........................................................................................................................................................819

Pekka Ikonen

Spatial-Temporal Talbot Effects in Impulse-Regime Metamaterial Leaky-Wave Antennas...................823Juan Sebastian Gomez-Diaz, Shulabh Gupta, Alejandro Alvarez-Melcon, Christophe Caloz

Enhanced Radiation from Resonator-slot Antenna with Metamaterial Shell ...........................................828Boris Panchenko, Marat Gizatullin, Nikolai Knyazev

TUE–S18P3: VEHICULAR CHANNELS Airport Channel Measurements at 5.2 GHz .................................................................................................830

Snjezana Gligorevic, Richard Zierhut, Jost Thomas, Wei Wang

Influence of Passengers on the UWB Propagation Channel within a Large Wide-Bodied Aircraft.............................................................................................................................................................835

Martin Jacob, Kin Lien Chee, Ingo Schmidt, Jens Schuur, Wolfgang Fischer, Martin Schirrmacher, Thomas Kurner

Propagation Measurements inside Different Civil Aircrafts and Comparison with EM Techniques .......................................................................................................................................................840

Nektarios Moraitis, Philip Constantinou, Fernando Perez-Fontan, Pavel Valtr

Directional Polarimetric Characteristics of the Urban Mobile Propagation Channel at 2.2 GHz...................................................................................................................................................................845

Mir Ghoraishi

Experimental Study of Propagation Characteristics for Wireless Communications in High-speed Train Cars .............................................................................................................................................850

Naoki Kita, Toshio Ito, Shinji Yokoyama, Ming-Chien Tseng, Yuichi Sagawa, Mamoru Ogasawara, Masashi Nakatsugawa

TUE–S19P11: CONVENED: LARGE SCALE AND MULTIDISCIPLINARY PROPAGATION PROJECTS A New Propagation Campaign in Tropical Areas: the Ka-band Propagation Experiment Over India with the GSAT-4 Satellite ...........................................................................................................855

Laurent Castanet, Joel Lemorton, Guillaume Carrie, Frederic Lacoste, Francoise Carvalho, Jean-philippe Taisant, Ks Dasgupta, Ashok Charania, Ashish Shukla, Rajat Acharya, Kalyankumar Bandyopadhyay

Monitoring Rain Rate with Data from Networks of Microwave Transmission Links ..............................860Christian Matzler

Propagation and Radar Measurements performed in Spino d'Adda and the Italian Planning for the Alphasat TDP5 Scientific Experiment ..............................................................................864

Aldo Paraboni, Carlo Riva, Carlo Capsoni, Giuseppe Codispoti, Lamberto Zuliani, Victor Speziale, Stefano Falzini, Antonio Martellucci, Enrico Colzi

Ground-based Atmospheric Remote Sensing in the Netherlands; Potential for Satellite Applications. ....................................................................................................................................................869

Herman Russchenberg

Cloud Observations with MERIS and SEVIRI ............................................................................................873Jurgen Fischer

TUE–S20M2: CONVENED: SPECIAL COMPACT RANGE TOPICS Quiet Zone Field Enlargement of Dual Reflector Compact Ranges for Testing of Complex Satellite Antenna Farms .................................................................................................................................877

Jurgen Habersack, Hans-Juergen Steiner, Juergen Hartmann

Electronically Scanned Arrays As Probe System in Compact Ranges .......................................................881Marcel Boumans, Luc Duchesne

Quiet Zone Characterisation at mm-wave Frequencies in Compact Ranges ............................................882Maurice Paquay

Utilization of Compact Range Collimator for Radar Cross-Section Measurements.................................887Donald Hillard, Dean Mensa

A new Compact Range Facility for Antenna and Radar Target Measurements.......................................892Mike Shields

TUE–INV1: INVITED PAPERS 6–7 ANTENNAS Bandwidth Potential and Electromagnetic Isolation: Tools for Analyzing the Impedance Behaviour of Antenna Systems ......................................................................................................................897

Jussi Rahola

Antenna Challenges in Cognitive Radio........................................................................................................902Peter Hall

TUE–S23: BODY AREA NETWORKS Body Channel Characterisation Using Dual Band Button Antennas .........................................................909

Jonathan Miller, John Batchelor

A Multi-band Printed Monopole Antenna ....................................................................................................913Lei Ma, Robert Edwards, William Whittow

Ban Antenna Design Using Ferrite Polymer Composite..............................................................................916Thierry Alves, Robin Augustine, Marjorie Grzeskowiak, Benoit Poussot, David Delcroix, Stephane Protat, Jean-Marc Laheurte, Patrick Queffelec

Fading Correlation Measurement and Modeling on the Front Side of a Human Body............................920Lingfeng Liu, Philipe De Doncker, Claude Oestges

Analytical Propagation Models for Body Area Network Channel Based on Impedance Boundary Condition........................................................................................................................................925

Da Ma, Wen-Xun Zhang TUE–POSTER: POSTER SESSION – MM–WAVE, REMOTE SENSING & SPACE ANTENNAS SIW- Series Fed RDRA Array System for Millimeter-Wave Applications ...............................................930

Wael Abdel Wahab, Safieddin Safavi-Naeini, Dan. Busuioc

Design of Multilayer Stacked Patch Array with Waveguide Feeding Network for High Power SAR System..........................................................................................................................................933

Saray Sanchez Sevilleja, Juan Ramon Larranaga Sudupe

A New Astronomical Receiver for ASTROPEILER ....................................................................................937Stephan Stanko, Anke Pagels, Winfried Johannes

Terahertz Conical Horn Antenna ..................................................................................................................940Di Li, Yi Huang, Yao-Chun Shen

Elliptical Ring Slots Antenna for Wireless Personal Area Network...........................................................945Abbas Ali Lotfi Neyestanak, Arghavan Emami Forooshani

G-band Bowtie Dipole Antenna .....................................................................................................................949Adel Emhemmed, Khaled Elgaid

Measurement of a 60 GHz Antenna Array fed by a Planar Waveguide-to-Microstrip Transition Integrated in Low-Temperature Co-fired Ceramics.................................................................952

Frank Wollenschlager, Matthias Hein TUE–POSTER: POSTER SESSION–JOINT A–P–M TOPICS–2 A Two Octave Bandwidth Dielectric Loaded Biconical Antenna with High Sidelobe Suppression......................................................................................................................................................957

Marcel Blech, Arndt Ott, Thomas F. Eibert

Small-Scale Variations of Cross-Polar Discrimination in Polarized MIMO Systems...............................962Francois Quitin, Claude Oestges, Francois Horlin, Philipe De Doncker

A Textile Patch Antenna with Dual Polarization for Rescue Workers' Garments ...................................967Luigi Vallozzi

User's Proximity Effects in Mobile Phones ..................................................................................................971Mauro Pelosi, Ondrej Franek, Mikael Knudsen, Gert Pedersen

Statistical Analysis of Correlated MIMO Channels with A Pinhole...........................................................974Tetsuki Taniguchi, Makoto Tsuruta, Yoshio Karasawa

Extremely Low-Profile, Wideband Spiral Antenna with Absorbing Material ..........................................978Hisamatsu Nakano, Hiroshi Oyanagi, Junji Yamauchi

Evaluation of Mutual Coupling Models for Calibrating the Antenna Arrays for DOA Estimation ........................................................................................................................................................982

Ali Mirkamali, Jafar Nateghi, Lida Akhoondzadeh-Asl

Measurement of Diversity Gain and Capacity on a MIMO-OFDM Channel Comparing Different Types of Antennas...........................................................................................................................986

Carlos Gomez Calero, Jonathan Mora-Cuevas, Luis Cuellar Navarrete, Ramon Martinez RodrIguez-Osorio, Leandro de Haro

Effect of Mutual Coupling and Human Body on MIMO Performances ....................................................991Carlos Gomez Calero, Nima Jamaly, Luis Gonzalez Diaz, Ramon Martinez Rodriguez-Osorio

Pattern and Polarization Reconfigurable Circular Patch for MIMO Systems..........................................996Daniele Piazza, Prathaban Mookiah, Michele D'Amico, Kapil Dandekar

New Antenna Diversity Front-end Using Code Multiplexing....................................................................1001Matthieu Gautier, Ioan Burciu, Guillaume Villemaud

Performance Evaluation of the 802.11n Compact MIMO DRA in an Indoor Environment..................1006Imran Shoaib, Yue Gao, Ying Zhinong, Katsunori Ishimiya, Xiaodong Chen

Enhancement of the Intelligent Quadrifilar Helix using MIMO Antenna Selection at a WLAN Access Point ......................................................................................................................................1009

Tim Brown

An Extension of the 3GPP Spatial Channel Model in Outdoor-to-Indoor Environments......................1013Shichuan Ma, Deborah Duran-Herrmann, Hamid Sharif, Yaoqing Yang

Radiated Performance Testing of Diversity Enabled Terminals ..............................................................1018Per Iversen, Kim Krutkowski, Stefan Issartel, Alessandro Scannavini, Lars Foged

A Dual Circularly Polarised Contrawound Quadrifilar Helix Antenna for Land Mobile Satellite MIMO Terminal .............................................................................................................................1021

Mohd Fais Mansor, Tim Brown, Barry Evans

On the Capacity Evaluation of a Land Mobile Satellite System Using Multiple Element Antennas at the Receiver ..............................................................................................................................1026

Nektarios Moraitis, Peter Horvath, Philip Constantinou, Istvan Frigyes

Characterisation of 4x4 Dual Polarised LOS MIMO.................................................................................1031Sahaya Kulandai Raj Joseph, Schoebel Joerg

Repeatable Performance Measurements of MIMO Systems in Connected Reverberation Chambers with Controlled Keyhole Effect .................................................................................................1035

Charlie Orlenius, Mats Andersson

Doubling MIMO Capacity for Handset MIMO Using True Polarization Diversity ...............................1039Juan Valenzuela-Valdes, Miguel Garcia-Fernandez, Antonio Martinez-Gonzalez, David Sanchez-Hernandez

Antenna Diversity Measurements in an Urban Single Frequency Network at S Band ..........................1042Frederic Lacoste, Lionel Rudant, G. Scot, Francoise Carvalho, Christophe Delaveaud

A New Method to Increase the Port-to-port Isolation of a Compact Two-antenna UMTS System ............................................................................................................................................................1047

Anissa Chebihi, Cyril Luxey, Aliou Diallo, Philippe Le Thuc, Robert Staraj

Magnetic Resonance Imaging Compatible Ultra-wideband Antennas.....................................................1051Ulrich Schwarz, Florian Thiel, Ralf Stephan, Matthias Hein, Frank Seifert

A MIMO WiMAX-OFDM based System Measurements in Real Environments....................................1055Adil Belhouji, Cyril Decroze, David Carsenat, Moctar Mouhamadou, S. Reynaud, Thierry Monediere

A Comparative Study of WiMAX Subscriber Equipment Antennas .......................................................1059Umesh Navsariwala, Matthew Schirmacher, Nicholas Buris, Mark Schamberger

Mutual Coupling in Multi-Antenna Systems: Figures-of-Merit and Practical Verification ..................1063Christian Volmer, Jorn Weber, Ralf Stephan, Matthias Hein

Channel Capacity Maximization in MIMO Antenna System by Genetic Algorithm..............................1068Andrea Farkasvolgyi, Robert Dady, Lajos Nagy

On the Realization of 4-Port Antennas for MIMO Antenna Systems ......................................................1072Christos Oikonomopoulos, Bernhard Rembold

Polarization Diversity Analysis in Rural Scenarios Using 3D Method-Of-Images Model......................1076Koby Shoshan, Ofer Amrani

TUE–POSTER: POSTER SESSION–LARGE ANTENNAS–1 Non-Linear Waveguide-Fed Slot Antenna Array: Analysis and Synthesis..............................................1080

Elias Rachid, Dalia Mattar, Michele Rouhana

Hybrid Particle Swarms Applied to the Synthesis of Planar Array Feeds...............................................1084Marta Lanza Diego, Jesus Perez Lopez, Ivan Lopez, Jose Basterrechea

Synthesis and Optimization of Microstrip Antennas Array using Minimax Method .............................1089Bouyeddou Benamar, Harrou Fouzi, Sidi Ahmed Djennas, Lotfi Merad

Single-Layer Unit Cells with Optimized Phase Angle Behavior ...............................................................1094Sabine Dieter, Christoph Fischer, Wolfgang Menzel

Analysis, Design and Measurement of a Series-Fed Microstrip Array Antenna for X-band INDRA: The Indonesian Maritime Radar ..................................................................................................1099

Mostafa Hajian

Reconfigurable Reflectarray Antenna Loaded With Active Varcator .....................................................1103Mostafa Hajian

Dual Polarized Subarray for Spaceborne SAR at X-band ........................................................................1107Maria Isabel MartIn, Fernando Monjas

A Linear Microstrip Antenna Array Having Low Sidelobe Level............................................................1111Yoseaf Asad, Najeb Fahoum, Haim Matzner

A Dual-Frequency Series-Fed Patch Array Antenna.................................................................................1116Simon Otto, Andre Rennings, Oliver Litschke, Klaus Solbach

A Deployable Reflector Antenna with a Simplified X/Ka Simultaneous Feed-System ...........................1121Christophe Granet, Ian Davis, John Kot, Greg Pope

A Simultaneous S/X Feed-System for a LEO-Satellite-Tracking Reflector Antenna .............................1124Christophe Granet, Ian Davis, John Kot, Greg Pope

Novel Phased Array Antenna for Mobile Satellite Communications .......................................................1128Yasuhiro Kazama

Array Antenna Composed of Bent Four-Leaf Elements ...........................................................................1132Hisamatsu Nakano, Yoshiki Ogino, Junji Yamauchi

Design and Demonstration of an X-band Transmit-array ........................................................................1136Hamza Kaouach, Laurent Dussopt, Ronan Sauleau, Thierry Koleck

High-performance Uniformly Excited Linear and Planar Arrays Based on Linear Semiarrays Composed of Subarrays with Different Uniform Spacings ...................................................1141

Marcos Alvarez-Folgueiras, Juan Rodriguez-Gonzalez, Francisco Ares-Pena

Ku Band Active Transmitarray Based on Microwave Phase Shifters......................................................1146Alfonso Munoz-Acevedo, Pablo Padilla de la Torre, Manuel Sierra-Castaner

Narrow-band Microstrip Antenna Array for a Robust Receiver for Navigation Applications ...................................................................................................................................................1151

Marcos Heckler, Wahid Elmarissi, Lukasz Greda, Manuel Cuntz, Achim Dreher

An Active, C-band Array Antenna with Integrated Electronics...............................................................1156Magnus Eriksson, Klas Axelsson, Andreas Wikstrom, Bengt Svensson

Unit Cells for Dual-polarized and Polarization-flexible Reflectarrays with Scanning Capabilities ....................................................................................................................................................1159

Julien Perruisseau-Carrier, Pablo Pardo

Scanning Performances of Wide Band Connected Arrays of Slots and Dipoles......................................1163Daniele Cavallo, Andrea Neto, Giampiero Gerini, Giovanni Toso

A Compact Rx/Tx Dual Polarization Antenna Array Element Including Diplexers ..............................1166Per Magnusson

Efficient Optimization of the Phase Diagram in Digitally-controlled Reflective Cells............................1171Julien Perruisseau-Carrier, Apostolos Georgiadis

Onset & Offset Configuration for Ka-Band Reflectarray Antenna..........................................................1175Juri Zuccarelli, Valerio Martorelli, Ocleto D'Arcangelo, Adriano De Rosa, Enrico Pagana, Nazzareno Mandolesi, Luca Valenziano

Substrate Effect on X-band Design of End-Wall Double Slit Microstrip-to-Waveguide Splitter............................................................................................................................................................1180

Hadi Aliakbarian, Amin Enayati, Walter de Raedt, Guy A. E. Vandenbosch

On the Design of a Direct Radiating Array by Using the Fractal Technique ..........................................1183Katherine Siakavara

Design of a Ka-band Wide Scanning Phased Array Antenna ...................................................................1188Thomas Lambard, Olivier Lafond, Mohamed Himdi, Herve Jeuland, Sylvain Bolioli, Laurent Le Coq

Fast Calculation of Wide Angle ARC for Broadband Antenna Arrays Based On Interpolation Techniques..............................................................................................................................1193

Sheng Wang

Adjustable High Impedance Surface for Active Reflectarray Applications: Performances Optimisation of the Unit Cell .......................................................................................................................1197

Philippe Ratajczak, Jean-Marc Baracco, Patrice Brachat, Jean-Marc Fargeas

A Ring-coupled Patch Antenna for Broadband Polarization Multiplex at Ka-Band .............................1201Alexander Geise, Arne Jacob

Dual Polarization Microstrip Patch Array Antenna for WLAN Application..........................................1205Mohd Syaiful Redzwan Mohd Shah

Single Frequency 2-D Leaky-Wave Beam Steering Using an Array of Surface-Wave Launchers ......................................................................................................................................................1210

Symon Podilchak

Investigation of a Horn Antenna Fed by Several Waveguides ..................................................................1215Haim Matzner, Rami Mashiah

Low-Cost Wideband Antenna Arrays on Glass Substrate for ISM Band Applications .........................1218Theodore Vasiliadis, George Sergiadis

Single Layer Reactively Steered Passive Array Radiator..........................................................................1221M. G. Sorwar Hossain, Maniwa Toru

A Study on Phased Array Antenna Using Bi-layered MSA ......................................................................1225Takenori Yasuzumi, Yasuhiro Kazama

Realization of Simple Antenna System for ETS-VIII Mobile Satellite Communications .......................1229Basari

Investigation on Phase Quantization Effect of Synthesized Array Factor Having a Fixed Beam and a Steered Desired Null ................................................................................................................1233

Mathieu Caillet, Michel Clenet, Yahia Antar

Design and Fabrication of a Waveguide Two-Dimensional Slot Array with Low Sidelobe Level of -35dB................................................................................................................................................1238

Miao Zhang, Jiro Hirokawa, Makoto Ando

The Diverging-Focusing Properties of a Tapered Leaky Wave Antennas ...............................................1242Onofrio Losito

Optimization of Large Log-periodic Dual-dipole Antenna by Using Genetic Algorithm on Embedded Element in Small Log-periodic Array ......................................................................................1246

Jian Yang, Per-Simon Kildal

PSP Planar Lens: A CORPS BFN to Improve Radiation Features of Arrays.........................................1250Diego Betancourt, Carlos Del Rio

Differential Active Antennas for the SKA Project .....................................................................................1254Oscar Garcia-Perez, Luis-Enrique Garcia-Munoz, Jose Serna-Puente, Vicente Gonzalez-Posadas, Jose-Luis Vazquez-Roy, Daniel Segovia-Vargas

A 77 GHz Eight-Channel Shaped Beam Planar Reflector Antenna .........................................................1258Peter Feil, Winfried Mayer, Wolfgang Menzel

Multi-Octave BAVA Radiating Elements for use in Modular Phased Array Antennas .........................1262William Otter, Bruno Pirollo, Robert Henderson, Rob Lewis

Fast Phase-only Synthesis of Faceted Reflectarrays ..................................................................................1267Amedeo Capozzoli, Claudio Curcio, Giuseppe D'Elia, Angelo Liseno, Daniele Bresciani, Herve Legay

Millimeter-Wave Frequency Reconfigurable Slot Dipole Array with Packaged RF-MEMS Switches..........................................................................................................................................................1272

Nihan Gokalp, Ozlem Civi

A Dual-band Low Profile Phased Array Antenna for Civil Aviation Applications.................................1275Andrew Thain, Harmen Schippers, Adriaan Hulzinga, Hans Gemeren

Concentric Square Ring Elements for Dual Band Reflectarray Antenna................................................1280Paola Pirinoli, Cong Pham Thanh, Marco Mussetta, Mario Orefice

Beam Array Optimization For Smart Antenna Systems Using Stochastic Algorithms ..........................1283Konstantinos Papadopoulos, Chrisa Papagianni, Christos Papas, Dimitra Kaklamani, Iakovos Venieris

Design and Measurement of a Wideband Aperture-Coupled and Polarization-Agile Stacked-Patch Antenna Array for Monopulse Radar Applications .........................................................1288

Sebastian Methfessel

Low Profile Bidirectional Antenna for Linear Wireless Sensors Networks.............................................1292Mario Orefice

Analysis of Complex Circular/Square Ring Reflectarray Elements.........................................................1295Mario Orefice, Paola Pirinoli, Drocco Alessandro

Design of Tapered-Slot Antenna Arrays .....................................................................................................1298Valeri Mikhnev, Pertti Vainikainen, Yelena Maksimovitch

52/119 GHz Corrugated Horn Design for Earth Observation Applications ............................................1301Jean-Pierre Adam

Active Phased Array Techniques for High Field MRI...............................................................................1305Pedram Yazdanbakhsh, Klaus Solbach

Aperiodic Linear Arrays for Rectangular Shaped Beams.........................................................................1310Giovanni Toso, Piero Angeletti

Multi-Beam Lens-Reflector for Satellite Communications: Construction Issues and Ground Plane Effects. ...................................................................................................................................1315

John Thornton, Andy White, Derek Gray

Array Design for Different SLL and Null Directions with an Interior-point Optimization Method from the Generalized-scattering-matrix and Spherical Modes...................................................1319

Juan Corcoles, Miguel A. Gonzalez, Jesus Rubio, Juan Zapata TUE–POSTER: POSTER SESSION–PROPAGATION–2 Planar Two-Bit Phase Encoded Transpolarising Reflector using Textured Surface Technology .....................................................................................................................................................1324

Vincent Fusco, Achmad Munir, Matthias Euler

Connectivity Evaluation in Millimeter Wave Wireless Multi Hop Networks above 10GHz ..................1328Georgios Pitsiladis, Athanasios Panagopoulos, Philip Constantinou

A Study on the Possibilities of Providing Signal Coverage for Wireless Systems from High Altitude Platforms .........................................................................................................................................1333

Petr Horak, Pavel Pechac

Special Features of Kirchhoff Method Application in Microwave Radiometry of Rough Sea Surface............................................................................................................................................................1337

Mikhail Danilytchev, Boris Kutuza, Alexander Nikolaev

Adaptation of Terminal to Base Station Assignment to Terminal Activities and Rain Event in Broadband Fixed Wireless Access Systems ............................................................................................1342

Balazs Heder, Janos Bito

Cooperative Diversity Performance in Millimeter Wave Wireless Mesh Networks: Outage Analysis ..........................................................................................................................................................1347

Vasileios Sakarellos, Dimitrios Skraparlis, Athanasios Panagopoulos, John Kanellopoulos

The Use of Heterogeneous Antenna Arrays in Experimental HF-MIMO Links.....................................1352Salil Gunashekar, Michael Warrington, Sana Salous, Stuart Feeney, Nasir Abbasi, Dominique Lemur, Martial Oger

First Results from Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere using Artificial Neural Networks .....................1356Martin Mudroch, Pavel Pechac, Martin Grabner, Vaclav Kvicera

Single Ridge Waveguide UWB Absorbent Harmonic Filters....................................................................1360Jinquan Shen

Measurements and Prediction of Outage Intensity Due to Multipath in Terrestrial Line-of-Sight Links .....................................................................................................................................................1363

Luiz Silva Mello, Marlene Pontes, Erasmus Miranda

Similarities and Differences of Storm Time Occurrence of GPS Phase Fluctuations at Northern and Southern Hemispheres..........................................................................................................1367

Ivan Ephishov, Nadezda Tepenitsyna, Luiza Koltunenko, Irk Shagimuratov

Studies on the Schumann Resonance Frequency Variations.....................................................................1372Jagdish Rai, Ramesh Chand, M Israil, S Kamakshi

Markovian Channel Modeling for Multipath Mitigation in Navigation Receivers .................................1376Bernhard Krach, Robert Weigel

TUE–POSTER: POSTER SESSION–UWB ANTENNAS Wide-band Tulip-Loop Antenna..................................................................................................................1381

Muge Tanyer-Tigrek, Dani Tran, Ioan Lager, Leo Ligthart

Investigation on Microstrip-fed Modified Elliptical Monopole Antenna for UWB Communications............................................................................................................................................1385

Hocine Kimouche, Djamel Abed, Atrouz Brahim

Size Reduction of a Wideband Slot Antenna ..............................................................................................1390Yang Lu, Yi Huang, Hassan Chattha

A Trapezoidal Printed Monopole Antenna with Bell-Shaped Cut for Ultra Wideband Applications with 5.0-6.0GHz Band Rejection ...........................................................................................1394

Osama Ahmed, Ahmed Abumazwed, Abdel R. Sebak

Ultra Wideband Stacked Microstrip Patch Antenna .................................................................................1399Ahmed Elkorany, Abdelmegeed Sharshar, Said Ehalafawy

Stacked Patch UWB Antenna in LTCC Technology .................................................................................1402Valavan A. Shenario

A Novel Compact CPW-Fed Wideband Slot Antenna...............................................................................1404Johnson William, Rangaswamy Nakkeeran

Performance of Wavefront Migration Imaging in the Near Field of the Antennas ................................1408Malgorzata Janson, Grzegorz Adamiuk, Thomas Zwick, Werner Wiesbeck

Compact Printed Tapered Slot Antenna for UWB ....................................................................................1412Jorge Costa, Carla Medeiros, Carlos Fernandes

Quais-millimeter Wave UWB Antenna .......................................................................................................1417Hisao Iwasaki

UWB Dipole Antenna Optimization with Neural Network Tuned Algorithm ........................................1422Martin Mudroch, Petr Cerny, Pavel Hazdra, Milos Mazanek

PCB Design of Balanced Log-Periodic Antennas .......................................................................................1426Yi-Cheng Lin, Tzu-Hsuan Weng

WED–S10J3: CONVENED: MIMO ANTENNA SYSTEM TECHNIQUES Key Generation Exploiting MIMO Channel Evolution: Algorithms and Theoretical Limits................1430

Jon Wallace, Chan Chen, Michael Jensen

Advanced Repeaters in Cellular Communication Systems .......................................................................1435Andreas Wolfgang, Mikael Coldrey, Patrik Persson, Patrik Bohlin

Design and Evaluation of a 2x2 MIMO Repeater ......................................................................................1440Patrik Persson, Mikael Coldrey, Andreas Wolfgang, Patrik Bohlin

Circuit Based Optimization of Radiation Characteristics of Single and Multi-Port Antennas ........................................................................................................................................................1444

Kristian Karlsson, Jan Carlsson

Pattern Diversity versus Polarization Diversity in UMTS Mobile Phones...............................................1448Fabien Ferrero, Aliou Diallo, Cyril Luxey, Benoit Derat

WED–S11S3: CONVENED: ANTENNAS & PROPAGATION RESEARCH IN CHINA–1 Research Progress on Printed Air-fed Antennas........................................................................................1452

Wen-Xun Zhang

Design of Anisotropic Metamaterials via Optical Transformation...........................................................1456Wei Xiang Jiang, Tie Jun Cui

Intensity Spectral Correlation of the Field Scattered from Randomly Rough Surfaces.........................1458Geng Zhang, Zhensen Wu, Mingjun Wang

Recent Progress of Research on Tropospheric Propagation in China .....................................................1462Leke Lin, Zhenwei Zhao, Shifeng Kang, Yumei Liu

The Study on the Low Profile Array with High Gain ................................................................................1467Sheng Ye

WED–S1A13: EM THEORY FOR NEW MATERIALS Non-reciprocal Magnetic Frequency Selective Surface .............................................................................1472

Toshiro Kodera, Christophe Caloz

Salisbury Screen Absorber with Angular and Polarisation Insensitive Resonant Resonant Frequency ......................................................................................................................................................1476

Fauziah Che Seman, Robert Cahill, Vincent Fusco

Efficient Surface Integral Equation Methods for the Analysis of Complex Metamaterial Structures.......................................................................................................................................................1480

Pasi Yla-Oijala, Ozgur Ergul, Levent Gurel, Matti Taskinen

Study of Cross-Sectional Shapes of Ideally Hard Cylinders to achieve Invisibility for Oblique Incidence..........................................................................................................................................1485

Jose-Manuel Fernandez Gonzalez, Eva Rajo-Iglesias, Manuel Sierra-Castaner

Numerical Characterization of Insulator for VLF Antennas....................................................................1490Renaud Cuggia, Jean-Lou Dubard, Michel Ney, Christian Pichot

WED–S2A14: PHASED ARRAY TECHNIQUES A Simple On-board Calibration Method and Its Accuracy for Mechanical Distortions of Satellite Phased Array Antennas .................................................................................................................1493

Toru Takahashi

Active Compensation Techniques for Deformable Phased Array Antenna.............................................1498Guillaume Lesueur, Daniel Caer, Thomas Merlet, Pierre Granger

Simple Notch Radiating Element for Electronically Scanned ...................................................................1502Ronald Lyon

Design of the Time-Reversal Hyperthermia System ..................................................................................1506Hana Dobsicek Trefna, Paolo Togni, Jan Vrba, Mikael Persson

Active Patch with Tunable Transmission Phase for KU Band..................................................................1510Pablo Padilla de la Torre, Manuel Sierra Castaner

WED–S3A15: MULTI–ANTENNA SYSTEMS IN HANDHELDS Improvement of Null Zone Avoidance Capability for HF-band RFID using Diversity Combining of Loop Antennas ......................................................................................................................1514

Hiroshi Hirayama, Yu Satake, Nobuyoshi Kikuma, Kunio Sakakibara

Multiport Multiband Coupling Minimization for Miniature Antenna ....................................................1518Raquel Serrano Calvo, Santiago Capdevila, Albert Aguasca, Jordi Romeu, Luis Jofre

Multi-Band Diversity Antenna Performances Evaluation for Multi-Standard Compact Wireless Terminal .........................................................................................................................................1523

Moctar Mouhamadou, Majed Koubeissi, Charles Adovi Tounou, Cyril Decroze, David Carsenat, Sebastien Reynaud, Thierry Monediere

Beam Forming Capabilities of Smart Antennas on Mobile Terminals ....................................................1528Tobias Michalski, Volker Wienstroer, Rainer Kronberger

Performance of Closely Spaced Multiple Antennas for Terminal Applications......................................1532Anders Derneryd, Jonas Friden, Patrik Persson, Anders Stjernman

WED–S4A16: NEW UWB ANTENNAS A Novel Unidirectional Radiator with Superb UWB Characteristics for X-band Phased Array Applications........................................................................................................................................1537

Dani Tran, Muge Tanyer-Tigrek, Ioan Lager, Leo Ligthart

Sinuous Antenna fed by a Microstrip-to-CPS Balun .................................................................................1542Mohammad Vahdani, Xavier Begaud

A Novel Reconfigurable Antenna with Low Frequency Tuning and Switchable UWB Band................1547Sylvain Loizeau, Alain Sibille

Low Profile and Directive UWB Antenna...................................................................................................1552Serge Bories, Christophe Delaveaud, H. Jacquinot

Planar Band-Notched UWB Antenna..........................................................................................................1556James Kelly, Peter Hall, Peter Gardner

WED–S5A17: SUB–MM–WAVE & THZ Design of THz Antennas for a CW Interdigitated Electrode Photomixer................................................1560

Muhammad Imran Kazim, Peter Uhd Jepsen, Viktor Krozer

A 600 GHz Dielectric Rod Antenna .............................................................................................................1565Stephen Hanham, Trevor Bird, Benjamin Johnson, Andrew Hellicar, Robert Minasian

FSS based Sub-Millimetre Wave Phase Shifter..........................................................................................1568Matthias Euler, Vincent Fusco, Robert Cahill, Raymond Dickie

Complete Power Transfer between Two Dielectric Rod Waveguides at Millimetre Waves...................1571Patrik Pousi, Antti Raisanen

Terahertz Imaging with Antenna Coupled Detectors ................................................................................1575Andrew Hellicar, Stephen Hanham

WED–S6A18: EBG STRUCTURES Independently Tunable Dual Band Single Layer EBG ..............................................................................1579

Richard Langley, Kenneth Ford, Hyung-Joo Lee

Scattering by Planar Junctions of Metamaterial Slabs..............................................................................1583Giovanni Riccio, Gianluca Gennarelli

Backward-wave Slab with Electrically Tunable Index of Refraction.......................................................1587Pekka Alitalo, Frederic Bongard, Juan Mosig, Sergei Tretyakov

Optically Controlled Negative Refractive Index Transmission Lines ......................................................1592Djuradj Budimir

Dispersion Characteristics of a Metamaterial-based Parallel Plate Ridge Waveguides .........................1595Alessia Polemi, Stefano Maci, Per-Simon Kildal

Wed–S7P5: CONVENED: HONORARY SESSION ON BEHALF OF PROF. HENRY BERTONI–1 Learning from a Visionary ...........................................................................................................................1599

Yoram Walfisch

A View of the COST 231 Bertoni-Ikegami Model ......................................................................................1601Luis Correia

Application of Bertoni's Work to Propagation Models used for the Planning of Real 2G and 3G Cellular Networks ............................................................................................................................1606

Thomas Kurner, Michaela Neuland

PO and UTD Solutions for Multiple-Diffraction Analysis in Radiowave Propagation Prediction .......................................................................................................................................................1611

Leandro Juan-Llacer

Wave Propagation in a Vegetated Residential Area Using the Distorted Born Approximation and the Fresnel-Kirchhoff Approximation ......................................................................1613

Saul Torrico, Roger Lang WED–S7P9: CONVENED: RESEARCH ACTIVITIES ON CHANNEL MODELLING AND PROPAGATION IMPAIRMENT SIMULATION WITHIN THE SATNEX PROJECT Channel Modelling Activities Related to Atmospheric Effects in the SatNEx Project ...........................1617

Laurent Castanet, L. Csurgai-Horvath, Frederic Lacoste, Carlo Riva, Uwe-Carsten Fiebig, Antonio Martellucci, Tomaz Javornik, Nicolas Jeannin, Erich Leitgeb, Paul Thompson, Vicente Pastoriza

Channel Modelling Activities Related to the Satellite Navigation Channel in the SatNEx Project ............................................................................................................................................................1622

Uwe-Carsten Fiebig, Geraldine Artaud, Jean-Luc Issler, Jost Thomas, Bernhard Krach, Frederic Lacoste, Fernando Perez-Fontan, Frank Schubert, Pavel Valtr

Investigations on Free-Space Optical Links within SatNEx II..................................................................1627Erich Leitgeb, Saleem Awan, Thomas Plank, Nicolas Perlot, Carlo Capsoni, Roberto Nebuloni, Tomaz Javornik, Gorazd Kandus, Farukh Nadeem, Paul Brandl, Sajid Sheikh Muhammad, Markus Loeschnigg, Muhammad Saeed Khan, Elisa Duca, Silvello Betti

The Satellite Communications Network of Excellence "SatNEx": Channel Modelling and Propagation Impairments Simulation Activities ........................................................................................1632

Anton Donner, Laurent Castanet

Overview of Activities Carried Out Within SatNex on Land Mobile Satellite and Satellite to Indoor Channel Modeling ........................................................................................................................1637

Fernando Perez-Fontan, Nektarios Moraitis, Tim Brown, Istvan Frigyes, Peter Horvath, Anthony Abele, Roberto Prieto Cerdeira

WED–S9M3: ADVANCES IN INDOOR AND OUTDOOR TEST RANGES Outdoor Transient Ultra-wideband Measurement Techniques for Antenna Characterizations and Radiation Patterns..................................................................................................1642

Rabia Rammal

"Convened" - Near Field Scanning With Optoelectronic E-Field Probes ...............................................1645Andreas Kortke, Wieland Mann

A Far-field Measurement Method for Large Size Antenna By Using Synthetic Aperture Antenna ..........................................................................................................................................................1650

Ryo Yamaguchi, Yasuko Kimura, Kazuhiro Komiya, Keizo Cho

Anechoic Chamber Performance Characterization Using Spherical Near-Field Imaging Techniques .....................................................................................................................................................1654

Carl Sirles, John Mantovani, Ray Howland, Beau Hart

Ultra Broadband Dipole based Near Field Probe with Integrated Amplifier..........................................1659Alexander Hees, Maurice Friese, Juergen Hasch, Juergen Detlefsen

WED–S21J4: MIMO ANTENNAS SYSTEMS "Convened" - MIMO Beamforming Network Having Polarization Diversity ........................................1663

Muhammad Faiz Abdul Kadir

Experimental VBLAST-MIMO and SIMO Signal Processing in a Tunnel .............................................1668Concepcion Sanchis, Jose-Maria Molina-Garcia-Pardo, Martine Lienard, Leandro Juan-Llacer, Jose-Victor Rodriguez

Study of Excitation on Beam Ports versus Element Ports in Performance Evaluation of Diversity and MIMO Arrays........................................................................................................................1673

Nima Jamaly, Carlos Gomez Calero, Per-Simon Kildal, Jan Carlsson, Andreas Wolfgang

Multi-objective Optimization of MIMO Antenna Systems .......................................................................1678Anders Stjernman, Anders Derneryd, Stefan Jakobsson, B. Andersson, Fredrik Edelvik

Short Range MIMO Communication..........................................................................................................1683Naoki Honma, Kentaro Nishimori, Tomohiro Seki, Masato Mizoguchi

WED–S22S4: CONVENED: ANTENNAS & PROPAGATION RESEARCH IN CHINA–2 Study on the Ionospheric Weather and Radio Propagation in CRIRP ....................................................1688

Weimin Zhen, Jian Feng

Multi-layer TDS Approximation in Solving the Scattering from Dielectric or Metallic-Dielectric Structures .....................................................................................................................................1693

Zaiping Nie, Shiquan He

Study about Electromagnetic Wave Propagation and Scattering in Random Media Accomplished by Xidian University: An Overview....................................................................................1698

Zhensen Wu, Rui Yang, Lixin Guo

Effects of Atmospheric Turbulence Scintillation on the Error Performance of Partially Coherent Laser Communication..................................................................................................................1702

Rui Yang

An Open Active Phased Array System........................................................................................................1706Ming-chun Hu

WED–S12A19: EM THEORY – NEW CONCEPTS Generation of Nested Characteristic Basis Functions................................................................................1710

Jaime Laviada, Raj Mittra, Marcos Pino, Fernando Las-Heras

An Overview of Some Recent Physical Bounds in Scattering and Antenna Theory ...............................1715Mats Gustafsson, Christian Sohl, Gerhard Kristensson, Sven Nordebo, Christer Larsson, Anders Bernland, Daniel Sjoberg

Spectral Filtering of the Spatial Multi-Layered Green's Function...........................................................1719Francesca Vipiana, Alessia Polemi, Stefano Maci, Giuseppe Vecchi

Analytical Form of the Quadruple Static Potential Integrals for Uniform Source Distributions on Rectangular Domains and their Application to the Resolution of 2D and 3D Antenna Problems ...................................................................................................................................1722

Sergio Lopez-Pena, Juan Mosig

Investigation of the Efficiency of MM Solutions Based on Expansion Functions Defined in an Infinite Domain ........................................................................................................................................1726

Tamir Teper, Haim Matzner WED–S13A20: REFLECTOR AND LENS ANTENNAS A High-Efficiency Spline-Profile Smooth-Walled 34-38 GHz Horn as an Array Feed for the Long-Focus Optics of the RATAN-600 Radio Telescope.....................................................................1731

Christophe Granet, Vladimir Khaikin, Trevor Bird

Mechanical Beam-Steerable Elliptical Dome Lens.....................................................................................1734Eduardo Lima, Jorge Costa, Carlos Fernandes

78.5GHz Fresnel Reflector with Circular Polarization for Collision Avoidance Radar on Rescue Helicopters ........................................................................................................................................1739

Karim Mazouni, Jerome Lanteri, Naruto Yonemoto, Jean-Yves Dauvignac, Christian Pichot, Claire Migliaccio

Leaky Lens Based UWB Focal Plane Arrays for Sub-mm Wave Imaging Based on Kinetic Inductance Detectors ....................................................................................................................................1744

Andrea Neto, Annalisa Iacono, Giampiero Gerini, Jochem Baselmans, Stephen Yates, Henk Hoevers

Monopulse 77GHz Fresnel Zone Plate Reflector........................................................................................1748Truc Phong Nguyen, Christian Pichot, Claire Migliaccio

WED–S14A21: CONVENED: SMALL ANTENNA DESIGN AND MEASUREMENTS–1 Characterisation Of System Performance Of GPS Antennas In Mobile Terminals Including Environmental Effects .................................................................................................................1752

Masood Ur Rehman, Yue Gao, Xiaodong Chen, Clive Parini, Ying Zhinong

Optimization Tool for Fractal Patches Based on the IFS Algorithm........................................................1757Pavel Hazdra, Miloslav Capek, Jan Kracek

Design of a Multimode MIMO Antenna Using Characteristic Modes .....................................................1760Eva Antonino-Daviu, Marta Cabedo, Michele Gallo, Miguel Ferrando, Michele Bozzetti

3D-Spiral Small Antenna for Biomedical Transmission Operating within the MICS Band ..................1765Javier Abadia, Francesco Merli, Jean-Francois Zurcher, Juan Mosig, Anja Skrivervik

Simple and Improved Approach of Estimating MIMO Capacity from Antenna Magnitude Patterns ..........................................................................................................................................................1770

Ruiyuan Tian, Buon Kiong Lau WED–S15A22: CONVENED: UWB ANTENNAS FOR IMAGING/MEDICAL UWB BiFocusing Tomography for Breast Tumor Detection ....................................................................1775

Marta Guardiola, Santiago Capdevila, Luis Jofre

A Novel Concept of a Dual-orthogonal Polarized Ultra Wideband Antenna for Medical Applications ...................................................................................................................................................1780

Grzegorz Adamiuk, Jens Timmermann, Werner Wiesbeck, Thomas Zwick

A Miniaturized Antenna for UWB-based Breast Imaging ........................................................................1784Giuseppe Ruvio, Max Ammann

Antennas for Ultra-wideband Medical Sensor Systems.............................................................................1788Matthias Hein, Christiane Geyer, Marko Helbig, Ingrid Hilger, J. Sachs, Ulrich Schwarz, Frank Seifert, Ralf Stephan, Florian Thiel

Broadband Microwave Based Diagnostics and Treatment .......................................................................1793Mikael Persson, Andreas Fhager, Hana Dobsicek Trefna, Xuezhi Zeng

WED–S16A23: REMOTE SENSING & SPACE Frequency Selective Surface Beamsplitter for Sub-mm Wave Polarimetric Space Science Instruments....................................................................................................................................................1797

Raymond Dickie, Robert Cahill, Harold Gamble, Vincent Fusco, Peter Huggard, Manju Henry, Matthew Oldfield, Phil Howard, Yvonne Munro, Peter de Maagt

Reconfigurable Pyramidal Antenna Loaded by a Cut-off Waveguide-Application to ARNS/RNSS Services....................................................................................................................................1802

Sami Hebib, Herve Aubert, Olivier Pascal, Nelson Fonseca, Lionel Ries, Jean-marc Lopez

"Convened" - Millimeter-Wave Artificial-Dielectric Gradient-Index Lenses.........................................1806Vinh Nguyen, Serdar Yonak, David Smith

Data Link Antennas for Moon-crashing Probes.........................................................................................1811Per Ingvarson, Johan Wettergren, Jan Zackrisson

Design of Inverted F Antenna for Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Satellite Application...................................1816Ahmed AlAmoudi

WED–S17A24: FSS & FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS Miniaturised Bandpass Frequency Selective Surface ................................................................................1820

Richard Langley, Kenneth Ford, Huilai Liu

Use of Multiferroic Materials in Patch Antenna Design............................................................................1824Theodore Zervos, Dimosthenis Stamopoulos, Fotis Lazarakis, Antonis Alexandridis, Michael Pissas, Tatiana Giannakopoulou, Kostas Dangakis

Investigation of Magneto-dielectric Thin Films As Substrate for Patch Antennas .................................1829Francois Grange, Kevin Garello, Eve Benevent, Serge Bories, Bernard Viala, Christophe Delaveaud, Kouroch Mahdjoubi

Double layer Interwoven Frequency Selective Surfaces ............................................................................1834Benito Sanz-Izquierdo, Jean-Baptiste Robertson, Edward Parker, John Batchelor

Optically Transparent Antenna for Ultra Wide-Band Applications ........................................................1838Anestis Katsounaros, Yang Hao, Neil Collings, Bill Crossland

WED–S18P7: CONVENED: HONORARY SESSION ON BEHALF OF PROF. HENRY BERTONI–2 Radio Propagation Over a Valley ................................................................................................................1842

Dmitry Chizhik, Lawrence Drabeck, Michael MacDonald

Mobile to Mobile Communications in a Trunk Dominated Park Environment......................................1847Roger Lang, Saul Torrico, Cuneyt Utku, Selim Seker

A Fast Model for Distributed Scattering from Buildings ..........................................................................1852Vittorio Degli-Esposti, Franco Fuschini, Enrico Maria Vitucci

Ray-Tracing in a Virtual Drive for Mobile Communications ...................................................................1857Christian Sturm, Werner Wiesbeck

Microsoft Word - WiMAX Near LOS Measurements in Latin America final.doc .................................1860lmaciel

WED–S18P4: MODELS AND CHANNEL SIMULATIONS IN THE CM– AND MM FREQUENCY RANGE Modeling Polarimetric Microwave Propagation Parameters from Globally-distributed Raindrop Size Distribution Measurements.................................................................................................1864

Mario Montopoli, Giovanni Botta, Frank Marzano

MultiEXCELL: A New Rainfall Model for the Analysis of the Millimetre Wave Propagation Through the Atmosphere........................................................................................................1869

Lorenzo Luini, Carlo Capsoni

Aspects and Results of Numerical Methods and Wave Propagation Integrated into System Simulations ....................................................................................................................................................1874

Gerhard Greving

Study of Rain Attenuation Space-Time Channel Model for Tropical and Equatorial Areas.................1879Laurent Castanet, Nicolas Jeannin, Guillaume Carrie, Marcio da Costa Rodrigues, Laurent Feral, Frederic Lacoste

Relationships Between Attenuation at Different Frequencies, Based on Initial Data Extracted from Meteorological Radiosoundings and Physical Models. ...................................................1884

Maria Lucas, Jose Riera WED–S20M4: CONVENED: ADVANCES IN NEAR–FIELD MEASUREMENTS An Effective nf-ff Transformation with Helicoidal Scan Tailored for Elongated Antennas: an Experimental Validation .........................................................................................................................1889

Francesco D'Agostino, Flaminio Ferrara, Claudio Gennarelli, Rocco Guerriero, Massimo Migliozzi, Giovanni Riccio, Carlo Rizzo, Jeffrey A. Fordham

A Portable Bi-Polar Millimetre-Wave Antenna Near-Field Measurement System ................................1894Timothy Brockett, Yahya Rahmat-Samii

Locating the Phase Centre of Antennas in the Presence of Errors ...........................................................1899Philip Miller, Martin Alexander, Tian Hong Loh

A 6-ridge Horn Antenna for Spherical Near-field Antenna Measurements ............................................1904Tommi Laitinen, Janne Ilvonen

Sub-millimeter Wave Planar Near-field Antenna Testing.........................................................................1909Daniel Janse van Rensburg

WED–INV1: INVITED PAPERS 10–11 SMALL ANTENNAS New Results for Minimum Q, Maximum Gain, and Polarization Properties of Electrically Small Arbitrary Antennas ............................................................................................................................1914

David Pozar

Electromagnetic Emissions and Performance for HF Proximity RFID ...................................................1918Mike Francis

WS–ESA1: ESA RECENT A/P SUPPORTED ACTIVITIES (EXTRACT)–1 Development of Ground Equipment for Atmospheric Propagation Assessment from 10 up to 90 GHz .......................................................................................................................................................1923

Susanne Crewell

Ionospheric Scintillations at L and C bands ...............................................................................................1928Yannick Beniguel

Long-Period Statistics of the Power Distribution of a Multi-beam Reconfigurable Antenna for Satellite Broadcasting over the European Area ...................................................................................1933

Aldo Paraboni WS–ESA2: ESA RECENT A/P SUPPORTED ACTIVITIES (EXTRACT)–2 Feasibility Study and Sensitivity Analysis for a Reconfigurable Shaped Dual Reflector in Ku Band .........................................................................................................................................................1938

Cecilia Cappellin, Knud Pontoppidan

Decimated Array for Ku-band Reconfigurable Multi-beam Coverage....................................................1943Simon Stirland

Aperiodic Arrays for Space Applications:A combined Amplitude/Density Synthesis Approach........................................................................................................................................................1947

Giovanni Toso, Piero Angeletti

Aperiodic Arrays for Space Applications:An Effective Strategy for the Overall Design .......................1952Ovidio Bucci, Tommaso Isernia

Geostationary Atmospheric Sounder (GAS) Demonstrator Development...............................................1957Anders Carlstrom, Jacob Christensen, Per Ingvarson, Johan Embretsen, Anders Emrich, Peter de Maagt

WED–S23: SMART ANTENNAS An Adaptive Antenna Using Orthogonal Projection for OFDM Transmission ......................................1962

Kazunari Kihira, Masataka Ohtsuka, Yoshihiko Konishi

Two Port Reconfigurable CRLH Leaky Wave Antenna with Improved Impedance Matching and Beam Tuning.........................................................................................................................1967

Daniele Piazza, Michele D'Amico, Kapil Dandekar

New Smart Antenna Algorithm Applied to Autonomous Area Control for Mobile Radio Network..........................................................................................................................................................1971

Yuki Inoue, Keizo Cho

Pattern Switching Compact Patch Antenna for On-body and Off-body Communications at 2.45 GHz.........................................................................................................................................................1976

Anupam Chandran, Gareth Conway, William Scanlon

Design and Optimization of a Smart Quad-PIFA for Maximum Directionality at 2.4 GHz with the Aid of Genetic Algorithms .............................................................................................................1979

Themistoklis Dimousios WED–POSTER: POSTER SESSION–ANTENNA THEORY–2 Efficient Multi-Aspect RCS Simulations Based on the Shooting and Bouncing Rays Technique.......................................................................................................................................................1983

Hermann Buddendick, Thomas F. Eibert

Radar Cross Section Prediction and Measurement at 77 GHz .................................................................1988Markus Treml, Reinhard Feger, Christoph Wagner, Andreas Stelzer, Herbert Jager

2D Imaging of Shallow Buried Objects Based On Frequency Domain Data ...........................................1992Mohamed Soliman, Zhipeng Wu, Anthony Brown

An Accurate and Computationally Efficient Tool Using UTD on Large Meshed Geometries...............1996B. Bencivenga, F. Mioc, L. J. Foged, M. Sabbadini, S. Filippone, E. di Giampaolo

Domain Decomposition and Wave Coupling by Using Complex Source Expansions .............................2000Giacomo Carli, Enrica Martini, Mauro Bandinelli, Stefano Maci

Design of Complex Antennas Using an Efficient Rigorous Technique.....................................................2004Eliseo Garcia, Carlos Delgado, Felipe Catedra

FASANT: A Versatile Tool to Analyze Antennas and Propagation in Complex Environments ................................................................................................................................................2009

Lorena Lozano, Maria Jesus Algar, Ivan Gonzalez Diego, Felipe Catedra

FDTD/MoM-PO Hybrid Method for Analysis of Antennas Near Combinative Objects........................2014Artur Noga, Tomasz Topa, Andrzej Karwowski

Hybrid Analysis Technique for Analysis and Design of Large Antennas Using Macro-Basis Functions........................................................................................................................................................2018

Carlos Delgado, Eliseo Garcia, Felipe Catedra

A Small Signal Analysis of Statistical Antenna Modelling ........................................................................2023Alain Sibille

Fast Numerical Characterization of Non-Uniform Arrays .......................................................................2028David Gonzalez-Ovejero, Christophe Craeye

Applications of the Human Eye Working Principle: CORPS-BFN..........................................................2032Diego Betancourt, Carlos Del Rio

Accurate FDTD Modelling of Resistively-Loaded Bow-Tie Antennas for GPR Applications ...............2036Diego Caratelli, Alexander Yarovoy, Leo Ligthart

Incremental Beam Diffraction from Flat Reflectors ..................................................................................2040Giorgio Carluccio, Matteo Albani, Stefano Maci

Metal Foams for Electromagnetic Shielding: a Plasma Model .................................................................2044Giuseppina Monti, Luca Catarinucci, Luciano Tarricone

Far-Field of Coupled Vertical Mast Antennas: Sinusoidal Current Approximation..............................2048Milica Rancic

Hybrid MoM Approaches for High Fidelity and Effective Modeling in Large Antenna Farm and Scattering Problems ....................................................................................................................2053

Mirko Bercigli, Francesca Vipiana, Patrizio De Vita, Alessandro Mori, Angelo Freni, Giuseppe Vecchi, Rodolfo Guidi, Mauro Bandinelli

Multilevel Fast Multipole Method for Higher Order Basis Functions Implemented in WIPL-D Pro...................................................................................................................................................2057

Branko Kolundzija, Drazen Sumic

Complex Conical Beam Expansion for the Analysis of Beam Waveguides..............................................2062Sinisa Skokic, Massimiliano Casaletti, Stig Sorensen, Stefano Maci

On the Far-field Kirchhoff's Integral Computation Acceleration in Time Domain for Transmission-line Matrix Coupling with Physical Optics .........................................................................2066

Michel Ney, Jeremy Lanoe, Sandrick Le Maguer

Local Timestepping Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Electromagnetic RF Field Problems ........................................................................................................................................................2070

N. Goedel, S. Schomann, T. Warburton, M. Clemens

Modeling of the Backscatter Behavior of Typical Antipersonnel Landmines by Computer Simulations ....................................................................................................................................................2075

Isam Alawneh

A Boundary Function for Multicarrier Multipaction Analysis.................................................................2079Jean-Christophe Angevain, Luca Salghetti, Pablo Sarasa, Cyril Mangenot

A Complete Approach for Linear and Nonlinear Dispersion in EM-FTDT ............................................2083Stefan Schild

Accurate Modeling and Optimization of Metallic-plate Waveguide Lenses............................................2088Andrey Nosich, Yuriy Gandel, Ronan Sauleau, Akira Matsushima

WED–POSTER: POSTER SESSION–MEASUREMENTS A New On-Ground-Measurement Technique for Farfield Evaluation and Possible Phased Array Effects of an Aircraft Fuselage .........................................................................................................2092

Robert Geise, Jens Schuur, Martin Schwark, Ingo Schmidt, Achim Enders

Time-Reversal UWB Imaging with a Single Antenna in Multi-Path Environments...............................2096Takuya Sakamoto, Toru Sato

Uncertainty Analysis in Antenna Measurements .......................................................................................2101Sara Burgos, Silvia Urosa, Manuel Sierra Castaner, Cristian Martinez-Portas, Jose Luis Besada

DLR-HR Compact Test Range Facility.......................................................................................................2105Markus Limbach, Bernd Gabler, Ralf Horn, Andreas Reigber

Application of Diagnosis Technique for Reflection Cancelling in Antenna Measurements ...................2109Francisco Jose Cano, Manuel Sierra-Castaner, Jose Luis Besada

A Low Cost Extension of Spectrum Analysers to Dosimeters ...................................................................2114Vladimir Volski, Guy Vandenbosch, Charles-Antoine Coget, Jelle Fondu

Sar Measurement for Several Two Elements Phased Array Antenna Handsets.....................................2118Jinan Moustafa, Raed Abd-Alhameed, Dawei Zhou, Chan See, Neil McEwan, Peter Excell, K. Ramli, Z. Zainal Abidin

Evaluation of a Near Field Scanner for TRP and Radiation Pattern Measurements of GSM Mobile Phones ...............................................................................................................................................2122

Sathyaveer Prasad, Claes Beckman, Humam Halim

A Method for Measuring G/T Antenna Performance in an Anechoic Chamber ....................................2127Rainer Wansch

On the Relevance of the Measured or Calculated RCS for Objects on the Ground - Case Wind Turbines...............................................................................................................................................2131

Gerhard Greving

Susceptibility of Small Reverberation Chamber Investigation .................................................................2136Wojciech Krzysztofik

Efficient Electromagnetic Modeling of Bent Monopole Antenna on Aircraft Wing Using FEKO .............................................................................................................................................................2141

Steven Keller

Measuring Wide Angle Antenna Performance Using Small Cylindrical Scanners.................................2144Stuart Gregson, Clive Parini, John Dupuy

ISAR Imaging of Cylindrical Objects .........................................................................................................2149Vitaly Badeev, Valeri Mikhnev

WED–POSTER: POSTER SESSION–PROPAGATION–3 Satellite-to-Indoor Broadband Channel Measurements at 1.51 GHz and 5.2 GHz ................................2151

Jost Thomas, Wei Wang, Armin Dammann

Optimized Implementation of the 3D MR-FDPF Method for Indoor Radio Propagation Predictions. ....................................................................................................................................................2156

Guillaume de la Roche, Jean-Marie Gorce, Jie Zhang

Application of FDTD to the Analysis of Indoor Coverage.........................................................................2161Luis Ramirez, Luiz Silva Mello, Flavio Hasselmann

A 3D Model for Wideband Propagation Predictions in Tunnels ..............................................................2165Ludek Subrt, Pavel Pechac

Hierarchic Optimization for Indoor Application .......................................................................................2169Lajos Nagy, Andrea Farkasvolgyi

Algorithmic Complexity of FDTD and Ray Tracing Method for Indoor Propagation Modelling .......................................................................................................................................................2174

Lajos Nagy, Robert Dady, Andrea Farkasvolgyi

Medium Wave Field Strength Spatial Variability in Urban Environments ............................................2178Unai Gil, David Guerra, David de la Vega, Ivan Pena, Amaia Arrinda, Pablo Angueira

MIMO Channel Capacity Computed with 3D Ray Tracing Model..........................................................2183Oliver Staebler, Reiner Hoppe

Evaluation and Improvement of the Field Prediction Method in Recommendation ITU-R P.1546-3 ..........................................................................................................................................................2188

Peyman Hesami, Narges Noori

Direction of Arrival Measurements for Outdoor-to-Indoor Channel Characterization ........................2192Oussama Akhdar, Cyril Decroze, David Carsenat, Moctar Mouhamadou, Thierry Monediere

Statistical Analysis of a Wideband Multipath Propagation Channel for TOA-based Positioning System ........................................................................................................................................2195

Sebastian Kozlowski, Krzysztof Kurek, Rafal Szumny, Jozef Modelski

Unleashing the Polarisation Domain for Land Mobile Satellite MIMO Systems ....................................2199Unwana Ekpe, Tim Brown, Barry Evans

A Simple Synoptical Method for Path Loss Prediction for Wireless Communication Environments ................................................................................................................................................2203

David Pouhe, Gerhard Monich, Joel A. Tsemo Kamga

Reflection Characteristics of Two Parallel Reinforced Concrete Slabs ...................................................2207Armin Parsa, Christophe Caloz

Comparisons of Multipath Modeling Strategies for the Estimation of GPS Positioning Error...............................................................................................................................................................2211

Adrien Chen, Alexandre Chabory, Christophe Macabiau, Anne-Christine Escher

Concentration Ellipse, a Statistical Method to Analyze Radio Communications Measurement-prediction Pair Data .............................................................................................................2216

Adrian Mihaiuti, Alimpie Ignea WED–POSTER: POSTER SESSION–SMALL ANTENNAS–2 A Novel Miniaturization Technique in Microstrip Feed Network Design ...............................................2220

Alexander Popugaev, Rainer Wansch

Numerical and Experimental Investigations of a New Circularly Polarized Patch Antenna with an Integrated Optical Lens ..................................................................................................................2225

Loic Bernard

UHF RF Identification Distance in Indoor Areas.......................................................................................2229Milan Svanda, Milan Polivka, Stanislav Zvanovec

Design of a 2.45 GHz Rectenna Using a Global Analysis Technique........................................................2232Takhedmit Hakim

RFID Technology for the Neuroscience: Feasibility of Sleep Disease Monitoring ..................................2237Cecilia Occhiuzzi, Gaetano Marrocco

Waveguide Coupled Microstrip Patch Antenna A New Approach for Improving Bandwidth......................................................................................................................................................2242

Nandkumar Shetti

Process-Dependence of Inkjet Printed Folded Dipole Antenna for 2.45 GHz RFID tags .......................2247Botao Shao, Qiang Chen, Yasar Amin, Julius Hllstedt, Ran Liu, Hannu Tenhunen, Li-Rong Zheng

A Novel "Green" Inkjet-Printed Z-Shaped Monopole Antenna for RFID Applications .......................2251Zissis Konstas, Amin Rida, Rushi Vyas, Konstantinos Katsibas, Nikolaos Uzunoglu, Manos M. Tentzeris

Broadband UHF RFID/Sensor Modules for Pervasive Cognition Applications......................................2255Amin Rida, Symeon Nikolaou, Manos Tentzeris

IC-Card Reader Antenna and IC-Card Technology's Analysis by Wireless Communications............................................................................................................................................2259

Donghun Yoon

On the Integration of a 2.4 GHz ISM Band Antenna in Proximity to Transmission Lines ....................2264Ivan Ndip

A Wide-Band Single-Layer Aperture-Coupled Microstrip Antenna .......................................................2268Naftali Herscovici, Boris Tomasic

Wideband U-shaped Dielectric Resonator Antenna...................................................................................2272Li Na Zhang, Shun Shi Zhong, Shen Wen Hui, Xue-xia Yang

A Printed Dipole Antenna for Circular Polarization .................................................................................2276Max Ammann, Xiu Long Bao

Characteristics of a Broadband Printed Quadrifilar Helix Antenna with a Novel Compact Feeding Circuit ..............................................................................................................................................2280

Mathieu Caillet, Ala Sharaiha, Michel Clenet, Yahia Antar

Design of Buried Antennas for Underground Wireless Sensor Networks ...............................................2285Daniele Trinchero, Riccardo Stefanelli, Benedetta Fiorelli

Wide Band Strip-Fed Rectangular Dielectric Resonator Antenna ...........................................................2285Asem Al-Zoubi, Ahmed Kishk

Wideband Double Slits Printed Antenna ....................................................................................................2289Zinab Elsharkay, Abdelmegeed Sharshar, Hamdi Mousa

Chalipa , A Novel Wideband Circularly Polarized Microstrip Antenna ................................................2293Maryam Rahmani, Ahad Tavakoli, Hamidreza AminDavar, Ali Reza Moghaddamjoo, Parisa Dehkhoda

A Novel Compact UHF Wideband Antenna for Electrical Characterization of Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete .....................................................................................................................................2297

Gemma Roqueta Crusats, Safwat Irteza Butt, Sebastian Blanch Boris, Jordi Romeu, Luis Jofre

Differential Antenna Design and Characterization....................................................................................2302Raffi Bourtoutian, Christophe Delaveaud, Serge Toutain

Experimental Study of a 2D-irregular Fractal-jet Printed Antenna ........................................................2307Hatem Rmili, Jean-marie Floch, Habib Zangar

Fractal Monopole Antenna for WLAN/Bluetooth Multiple-Bands Applications ....................................2311Wojciech Krzysztofik

Small Square Meander-line Antennas with Reduced Ground Plane Size for Multimedia WSN Nodes ....................................................................................................................................................2315

Constantine Kakoyiannis, Georgios Stamatiou, Philip Constantinou

Slotted e-shape Antenna Design for Dual-frequency Operation ...............................................................2320Maisarah Abu, Mohamad Kamal A. Rahim, Osman Ayop

Design of Planar Meander Line Antenna....................................................................................................2324Dalila Misman, Mohd Zoinol Abidin Abdul Aziz

Coplanar Antenna Miniaturization Using High Permittivity Perovskite Substrates..............................2329Solene Boucher, Ala Sharaiha, Dominique Averty, Raynald Seveno, Hartmut Gundel

New Schemes of Size Reduction in Space Filling Resonant Dipole Antennas..........................................2334Jalil Rashed Mohassel, Aidin Mehdipour, Hadi Aliakbarian

WED–S24: MM–WAVE/QUASI OPTICAL ANTENNA MEASUREMENTS Improvement and Validation of Design Tools for Antennas of Space Instruments working in Terahertz Frequency Range ....................................................................................................................2337

Juergen Hartmann, Jurgen Habersack, Hans-Juergen Steiner

Near-field Beam Pattern Measurement of ALMA Band 8 (385 - 500 GHz) #1 Cartridge......................2341Masato Naruse

IETR and TKK- MilliLab Measurements Cooperation in ACE 2 Context : Characterization of a Half Maxwell Fish Eye Lens at 110 and 150 GHz .................................................2346

Laurent Le Coq, Matti Vaaja, Benjamin Fuchs, Olivier Lafond, Juha Ala-Laurinaho, Juha Mallat, Mohamed Himdi, Antti Raisanen

Dedicated Measurement Setup for MMW Silicon Integrated Antennas: BiCMOS and CMOS High Resistivity SOI Processes Characterization ..........................................................................2351

Romain Pilard, Sebastien Montusclat, Daniel Gloria, Francois Le Pennec, Christian Person

Antenna Positioning Check Up Based on Radiation Pattern Measurements ..........................................2356Laurent Le Coq, Olivier Lafond, Mohamed Himdi

THU–S10J5: CONVENED: AUTOMOTIVE ANTENNA SYSTEMS Millimetre-wave Reflectarray Fed by a Diffraction-shaped Dielectric Lens. ..........................................2360

Robert Henderson

Modeling and Comparison of Patch Antenna Configurations for 77 GHz Radar Applications ...................................................................................................................................................2365

Ivan Ndip

Automotive Antenna-system Diagnosis with Source Stirring Technology...............................................2369Michael Albrecht

Challenges in the Smart Antenna Integration in Vehicles: The Fractal Antenna® Technology Approach ...................................................................................................................................2373

Edouard Rozan, Ramiro Quintero

Antenna Diversity System for the Mobile Reception of Satellite Digital Radio.......................................2375Christian Heuer, Stefan Lindenmeier

THU–S11S5: CONVENED: EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON CONFORMAL ANTENNAS (EWCA)–1 Input Impedance of a Probe-Fed Cylindrical Microstrip Antenna.Effective Calculation of Probe Excitation Field ..................................................................................................................................2379

Alexander Svezhentsev

A Conformal Antenna on Base of Open-end of Coaxial Line with Metamaterial Surroundings .................................................................................................................................................2383

Boris Panchenko, Marat Gizatullin, Sergey Knyazev, Sergey Shabunin

A Circular Switched Parasitic Array Antenna for High Power Data Link Applications .......................2385Thomas Bertuch

Integration of Conformal GPS and VHF/UHF Communication Antennas for Small UAV Applications ...................................................................................................................................................2390

Brandan Strojny, Roberto Rojas

Design of Antenna Conformal to V-shaped Tail of UAV Based On the Method of Characteristic Modes ....................................................................................................................................2395

Khaled Obeidat, Roberto Rojas, Bryan Raines THU–S1A25: CONVENED: NUMERICAL METHODS–1 Nonlinear Sampling Technique for Microwave Devices............................................................................2399

Michel Mattes

Hybrid Generalized Finite Element-Boundary Integral Method for Aperture Design ..........................2401Ozgur Tuncer, B. Shanker, Leo Kempel

On the Essential Dimensions of Scattering Problems in Planar Layered Structures..............................2405Michele D'Urso, Ovidio Bucci

A Vector Transform for use in Solving Electromagnetic Problems in Cartesian Coordinates....................................................................................................................................................2409

Steven Weiss

On the Degrees of Freedom in the Interaction Between Sets of Elementary Scatterers. ........................2413Alexander Heldring, Jose M. Tamayo, Juan M. Rius

THU–S2A26: CONVENED: REFLECT ARRAYS–1 Recent Developments on Reflectarray Antennas at Thales Alenia Space ................................................2417

Herve Legay, Daniele Bresciani, Etienne Girard, Renaud Chiniard, Eric Labiole, Olivier Vendier, Gerard Caille

Neural Network Characterization of Microstrip Patches for Reflectarray Optimization......................2422Davide Caputo, Andrea Pirisi, Marco Mussetta, Angelo Freni, Paola Pirinoli, Riccardo Zich

Accurate Synthesis of a Dual Linearly Polarized Reflectarray .................................................................2425Loic Marnat, Renaud Loison, Raphael Gillard, Daniele Bresciani, Herve Legay

Recent Advances on Millimetre Wave Reconfigurable Reflectarrays......................................................2429Roberto Sorrentino, Roberto Vincenti Gatti, Luca Marcaccioli

Four-Beam Reflect-Array Antenna for Mm-waves: Design and Tests in Far-Field and Near-Field Ranges .........................................................................................................................................2434

Jerome Lanteri, Claire Migliaccio, Juha Ala-Laurinaho, Matti Vaaja, Juha Mallat, Antti Raisanen THU–S3A27: CONVENED: SMALL ANTENNA DESIGN AND MEASUREMENTS–2 Adaptive Pattern Controlled Handset Antenna by Analog Phase Shifters ..............................................2438

Hiroyuki Arai

Considerations on Configurable Multi-standard Antennas for Mobile Terminals Realized in LTCC Technology.....................................................................................................................................2443

Dirk Manteuffel, Matthias Arnold

Electrically Small Meanderly Folded Patch Antennas ..............................................................................2448Alois Holub, Milan Polivka

Wideband Characteristics and Downsizing Limitation of Planar Rectangular Disc Antennas ........................................................................................................................................................2452

Toshikazu Hori

A Comparison of the Cylindrical Folded Helix Dipole Q to the Gustafsson Limit .................................2456Steven Best

THU–S4A28: UWB ANALYSIS AND DESIGN CONSTRAINTS Comparison of UWB Dual-Antenna Systems Using Diversity ..................................................................2460

Emmanuel Dreina, Michel Pons, Tan Phu Vuong, Smail Tedjini

A Statistical Analysis of Antenna Scattering in UWB Arrays...................................................................2464Raffaele D'Errico, Christophe Roblin, Alain Sibille

Impact of Substrate Permittivity on the Performance of UWB Monopoles............................................2469Gabriela Quintero

A "Generic" Design of Planar UWB Antennas for Parametric or Statistical Analysis ..........................2473Christophe Roblin

Multi-Objective Optimization of UWB Microstrip Fed Planar Monopole Antenna...............................2478Somayyeh Chamaani, Abdullah Mirtaheri, Mohammad Sadegh Abrishamian

THU–S5A29: CONVENED: MILLIMETER–WAVE ANTENNAS–1 E-Shaped Slot-Coupled Dielectric Resonator Antenna .............................................................................2483

Tayeb A. Denidni, Xian-Ling Liang

Wideband mm-Wave Log-Periodic Antennas ............................................................................................2486Dejan Filipovic

Hybrid Waveguide-stripline Feeding Networks for Ka Band and Millimeter Wave Arrays ................2490Emilio Arnieri, Ivan Russo, Luigi Boccia, G. Amendola, Antonio Borgia

A Superstrate Patch Antenna for 60-GHz Applications ............................................................................2494Duixian Liu, Iwan Akkermans, Brian Floyd

Stepped-Impedance Based Dual-Band And Dual-Function Balun For 20 / 44 GHz Applications ...................................................................................................................................................2497

Hualiang Zhang, Hao Xin THU–S6A30: CONVENED: METAMATERIALS–3 Improved StopBand of a Compact 1-Cell CRLH-TL UWB BandPass Filter by Forming Additional Nulls.............................................................................................................................................2501

Sungtek Kahng

Antennas Combined with High Impedance Band Gap Surfaces ..............................................................2504Richard Langley

Physically Flat But Electromagnetic Parabolic Surface Using EBG Structure with Stepped Reflection Phase ............................................................................................................................................2509

Kihun Chang, Jihwan Ahn, YoungJoong Yoon

WAAS Space Segment Antenna Based on EBG Superstrate Gain Enhancement Technique ...............2513Yves Cassivi, Yves Demers, Peter de Maagt, Ramon Gonzalo

Slotted Patch Dual Band Electromagnetic Band Gap Structure Design ..................................................2518Mohamad Kamal A. Rahim, Osman Ayop, Thelaha Masri, Maisarah Abu

THU–S8P6: MOBILE PROPAGATION – OUTDOOR Development of Measurement-based Ray Tracer for Multi-link Double Directional Propagation Parameters ...............................................................................................................................2522

Juho Poutanen, Katsuyuki Haneda, Veli-Matti Kolmonen, Jussi Salmi, Andreas Richter, Peter Almers, Pertti Vainikainen

Statistical Study on the Influence of Size and Distribution of Windows on a Building's Reflection Coefficient....................................................................................................................................2527

Shermila Mostarshedi, Elodie Richalot, Joe Wiart, Man-Fai Wong, Odile Picon

Beam Tracing for Multipath Propagation in Urban Environments.........................................................2531Tobias Rick, Arne Schmitz, Thomas Karolski, Leif Kobbelt, Torsten Kuhlen

Estimation of Wall-Scattering in the Urban Canyon .................................................................................2536Antonis Dimitriou, Stavroula Siachalou, George Sergiadis

Modelling and Synthesis of Dense Multipath Propagation........................................................................2541Martin Kaske, Markus Landmann, Reiner Thoma

THU–S8P10: CONVENED: PROPAGATION ASPECTS BEYOND 50 GHz Frequency and Path Length Scaling of Rain Attenuation from 38 GHz, 58 GHz and 93 GHz Data Obtained on Terrestrial Paths ...................................................................................................2546

Vaclav Kvicera, Martin Grabner, Ondrej Fiser

Rain-induced Bistatic Scattering at 60GHz ................................................................................................2551Robert Watson, Henry van der Zanden, Matti Herben

EHF Space Systems: Experimental Missions for Broadband Communications .....................................2556Tommaso Rossi, Marina Ruggieri, Ernestina Cianca, Marco Lucente, Cosimo Stallo, Giuseppe Codispoti, Lamberto Zuliani

Radio Channel Characteristics for Broadband WLAN/WPAN Applications Between 67 and 110 GHz ..................................................................................................................................................2561

Martin Jacob, Thomas Kurner

Electromagnetic Propagation at Frequencies Above 50 GHz: the Challenge of the Atmosphere....................................................................................................................................................2566

Carlo Capsoni, Lorenzo Luini, Roberto Nebuloni, Aldo Paraboni, Carlo Riva THU–S9M5: TESTING OF ANTENNAS AND WIRELESS DEVICES IN REVERBERATION CHAMBERS Accuracy in Reverberation Chamber for Wireless Testing: Simple Formulas for the Number of Independent Samples.................................................................................................................2571

Antonio Sorrentino, Per-Simon Kildal, Ulf Carlberg, Elena Pucci

Accuracy of Antenna Input Reflection Coefficient and Mismatch Factor Measured in Reverberation Chamber ...............................................................................................................................2576

Xiaoming Chen, Per-Simon Kildal

Comparison of Efficiency Measurements for Narrow Band Antennas Using UWB Wheeler Cap and Reverberation Chamber................................................................................................................2580

Gwenn Le Fur, Christophe Lemoine, Philippe Besnier, Ala Sharaiha

Theoretical Derivation and Measurements of the Relationship between Coherence Bandwidth and RMS Delay Spread in Reverberation Chamber ..............................................................2585

Xiaoming Chen, Per-Simon Kildal

Optimisation of a Stepped Permittivity Impedance Loaded (SPIL) Absorber........................................2589Daniel Holtby, Kenneth Ford, Barry Chambers

THU–S21J6: AUTOMOTIVE ANTENNAS Effect of Vehicle Furnishings on Performance of Aperture Mounted Multi-band Conformal Automotive Antenna..................................................................................................................2592

Lester Low, Hui Zhang, Richard Langley, Jonathan Rigelsford

Small Satellite Car Antenna for Simultaneous Reception of LHCP and RHCP Signals ........................2596Gerd Saala, Jochen Hopf, Stefan Lindenmeier

Novel fractal Solution for Integrated TMC Antenna.................................................................................2599Malgorzata Brzeska, Ramiro Quintero

New Generation of In-Mirror Integrated Antennas ..................................................................................2602Malgorzata Brzeska, Ramiro Quintero

Performance of a 20 cm Short Active AM/FM Monopole Antenna for Automotive Application.....................................................................................................................................................2606

Alexandru Negut, Leopold Reiter, Jochen Hopf, Stefan Lindenmeier THU–S22S6: CONVENED: EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON CONFORMAL ANTENNAS (EWCA)–2 Shape Optimization of Conformal Array Antennas ..................................................................................2611

Per Jacobsson, Thomas Rylander

Design of a Structure Integrated Antenna for a Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle .................................2616Peter Knott, Claudius Locker

On the Performance Aspects of a Cylindrical Beamforming Array.........................................................2619Theodoros Kaifas, John Sahalos

Efficient Analysis of Curved Frequency Selective Surfaces .....................................................................2624Marko Bosiljevac, Zvonimir Sipus

Rapid Dual Reflector Shaping Using Ant Colony Optimization, Fast Iterated PO and Asymptotic MFIE..........................................................................................................................................2629

Maria Grana-Varela, Marcos Arias, Oscar Rubinos-Lopez, Antonio Garcia-Pino THU–S12A31: CONVENED: NUMERICAL METHODS–2 SoftLAB, a European Web-Service for Antenna Software Benchmark...................................................2634

Raphael Gillard

Computing Electromagnetic Fields in Engineering Applications: a Diakoptic Approach .....................2639Giampiero Gerini

Multi-scale Modeling of Antenna Structures using Nonconformal Numerical Methods........................2643Jin-Fa Lee

Simulation of Large Multiscale Structures Using the Finite Difference Time Domain Method (FDTD) Hybridized with The Method of Moments (MoM) ........................................................2647

Raj Mittra

High Scalability Multipole Method for the Analysis of Hundreds of Millions of Unknowns .................2651Jose Taboada, Luis Landesa, Jose Bertolo, Fernando Obelleiro, Jose Rodriguez, J. Carlos Mourino, Andres Gomez

THU–S13A32: CONVENED: REFLECT ARRAYS–2 Folded Reflectarray Antenna Based on a Single Layer Reflector with Increased Phase Angle Range...................................................................................................................................................2655

Wolfgang Menzel, Jiang Li, Sabine Dieter

Reconfigurable LC-Reflectarray Setup and Characterisation..................................................................2659Alexander Moessinger, Sabine Dieter, Rolf Jakoby, Wolfgang Menzel, Stefan Mueller

A X-band Electronically Scanned Reflectarray Antenna for Space Telemetry.......................................2664Christian Renard, Cecile Cheymol, Patrick Dumon, Thierry Dousset, M. Labeyrie

Design and Measurement of a Circularly Polarized Ka-band Reflectarray Antenna ............................2667Ang Yu, Fan Yang, Atef Elsherbeni, John Huang

Reflectarray Based on Three-Bit Spatial Phase Shifters: Mathematical Model and Technology of Fabrication............................................................................................................................2672

Alexander Martynyuk, Jesus Rodriguez-Zamudio, Ninel Martynyuk THU–S14A33: RFID ANTENNAS & SYSTEMS RFID Smart Bookshelf with Confined Detection Range at UHF..............................................................2677

Carla Medeiros, Jorge Costa, Carlos Fernandes

Design and Characterization of Efficient Flexible UHF RFID Tag Antennas.........................................2682Yasar Amin, Botao Shao, Julius Hallstedt, Satu Prokkola, Hannu Tenhunen, Li-Rong Zheng

RFID based Probes for EM Field Measurements.......................................................................................2685Santiago Capdevila, Muhammad Mubeen Masud, Raquel Serrano Calvo, Albert Aguasca, Sebastian Blanch Boris, Jordi Romeu, Jean-Charles Bolomey, Luis Jofre

Metal-Mountable Microstrip RFID Tag Antenna for High Impedance Microchip ................................2689Tomi Koskinen, Yahya Rahmat-Samii

Compact Slot Antenna for 2.4GHz RFID Tags ..........................................................................................2694Xin Hu, Qiaoli Zhang

THU–S15A34: NEW WIDEBAND DESIGNS Quantum-dot Mode Locked Laser Integrated Bowtie Antenna ...............................................................2697

Junghoon Kim, Christos Christodoulou, Luke Lester, Jeongphill Kim

A Broadband Antenna for AMPS and GSM900 Applications ..................................................................2701Giorgos Perikos, Jonathan Rigelsford

Broadband Characteristics of Planar Folded Dipole Antenna with a Feed Line ....................................2705Hisashi Morishita

Characterization of Tapered-Slot Antenna Designs for Subsurface Radar Applications .....................2709Yelena Maksimovitch, Valeri Mikhnev, Pertti Vainikainen

Dual Polarised Multi-layer Antenna with Complex Feeding Network.....................................................2712Andrea Giacomini, Lars Foged, Jean-Marc Baracco, Mauro Bandinelli, Marco Sabbadini

THU–S16A35: CONVENED: MILLIMETER–WAVE ANTENNAS–2 Flip-chip Integration of Differential CMOS Power Amplifier and Antenna in PCB Technology for the 60-GHz Frequency Band .............................................................................................2716

Iwan Akkermans, Muhammad Imran Kazim, Yikun Yu, Matti Herben, Peter Baltus, Peter Smulders

Array Antenna for Body-Worn Automotive Harmonic Radar Tag .........................................................2721Shi Cheng, Paul Hallbjorner, Anders Rydberg

High-Gain Omni-Directional Antenna Using A Freeformed Cylindrical Cavity For High Data-Rate Short Range Communications At Millimetre-Wave Bands ....................................................2726

Yoonjae Lee, Yang Hao, Clive Parini

Lens Antennas with Flat-Top Radiation Patterns: Benchmark of Beam Shaping Techniques at the Feed Array Level and Lens Shape Level......................................................................2730

Ngoc Tinh Nguyen, Ronan Sauleau, Laurent Le Coq

Reconfigurable Antenna in Mm-waves Based on Stratified Lens and Sources Array............................2734Olivier Lafond, Benjamin Fuchs, Sebastien Palud, Mathieu Caillet, Mohamed Himdi, S. Rondineau, Laurent Le Coq

THU–S17A36: CONVENED: METAMATERIALS–4 Planar Circularly Symmetric Electromagnetic Band-Gap Antennas for Low Cost High Performance Integrated Antennas...............................................................................................................2738

Andrea Neto, Nuria Llombart, Giampiero Gerini, Peter de Maagt

3-D Electromagnetic Band-Gap Sub-millimeter Wave Imaging Array ...................................................2743Ramon Gonzalo, Peter de Maagt, Inigo Ederra

Adaptive Beam Steering Antenna: Improvements and Experimental Validation ..................................2748Philippe Ratajczak, Patrice Brachat, Jean-Marc Fargeas

Metallic EBG Superstrates for Dual Polarized Sectoral Base Station Antennas.....................................2753Mohamad Hajj, Emmanuel Rodes, Dina Serhal, Thierry Monediere, Bernard Jecko, Regis Chantalat

Metamaterial Based Antennas with Super- and Sub-strates.....................................................................2756J. Vardaxoglou

THU–S19P8: PROPAGATION FOR RADIO NETWORK PLANNING An Intelligent Ray Launching for Urban Propagation Prediction ...........................................................2761

Zhihua Lai, Nik Bessis, Guillaume de la Roche, Hui Song, Jie Zhang, Gordon Clapworthy

Ray-Tracing System for Predicting Propagation Characteristics on World Wide Web ........................2766Junpei Mizuno, Tetsuro Imai, Koshiro Kitao

GPRS Network Optimization Based on Physical Optics Approximation ................................................2771Javier Gutierrez-Meana, Fernando Las-Heras, Yuri Alvarez Lopez, Jose Angel Martinez-Lorenzo, Aurelio Gutierrez-Perez

Ant Colony Approach in Optimization of Base Station Position ..............................................................2776Ivan Vilovic, Zvonimir Sipus, Niksa Burum

Cellular Phone Coverage in Urban Vegetation Areas ...............................................................................2781Inigo Cuinas, Paula Gomez, Jose Acuna, Manuel Garcia Sanchez

THU–S19P12: MM– AND SUB–MM WAVE PROPAGATION Sub-Millimetre Wave Linear to Circular Polarisation Converter Study.................................................2786

Matthias Euler, Vincent Fusco, Robert Cahill, Raymond Dickie

Investigation on Two Modelling Approaches for Millemetre Wave Imaging System.............................2790Feng Qi

Testing the Markov Property of Rain Fading on Millimeter Band Terrestrial Radio Link ..................2795Laszlo Csurgai-Horvath, Janos Bito

Millimeter-wave Antenna Noise Temperature Due to Rain Clouds: Theoretical Model and Statistical Prediction .....................................................................................................................................2800

Frank Marzano, Mario Montopoli

An Analytical Propagation Based Unifying Approach for Outage Capacity Achieved in SIMO and MISO Broadband Satellite Channel Configurations ..............................................................2805

Konstantinos Liolis, Athanasios Panagopoulos, Pantelis-Daniel Arapoglou

THU–S20M6: MEASUREMENT ERROR REDUCTION, DIAGNOSTICS AND CALIBRATION TECHNIQUES Calibration of Multi-probe Antenna Measurement System Using Test Zone Field Compensation ................................................................................................................................................2810

Juha Toivanen, Tommi Laitinen, Sergey Pivnenko, Lasse Nyberg

"Convened" - Near-field Spherical Scanning: Test-Zone Field Evaluation ............................................2815Mike Francis

Definition of Accurate Reference Pattern for the DTU-ESA VAST12 Antenna .....................................2819Sergey Pivnenko, Olav Breinbjerg, Sara Burgos, Manuel Sierra-Castaner, Hakan Eriksson

Evaluation of the Impact of the Virtual Phase Centre Effect on the Accuracy of the Positioning System ........................................................................................................................................2824

Yevhen Yashchyshyn, Marek Bury, Krzysztof Kurek, Pawel Bajurko

Facility Comparison and Evaluation Using Dual Ridge Horns.................................................................2828Lars Foged

THU–INV1: INVITED PAPERS 14–15 ANTENNAS More than 20 Antenna Elements in Future Mobile Phones, Threat or Opportunity?............................2833

Pertti Vainikainen THU–INV2: INVITED PAPERS 16–17 PROPAGATION Use and Development of Climatological and Experimental Databases for Radiowave Propagation Modelling in SatCom and SatNav Systems ...........................................................................2837

Antonio Martellucci THU–S23: EM EXPOSURE AND MEDICAL APPLICATIONS Mutual Coupling in a Tomographic Imaging System ................................................................................2841

Paul Meaney, Margaret Fanning, S. D. Geimer, K. D. Paulsen

Phantom Experiments with a Microwave Imaging System for Breast-Cancer Screening .....................2843Tonny Rubæk, Vitaliy Zhurbenko

Mobile Telecommunication and Health - Results of the German Mobile Telecommunication Program.......................................................................................................................2848

Christian Bornkessel

A Simplified and Conservative Method for Electromagnetic Field Assessment in the Fresnel Region of the Radiator ....................................................................................................................2851

Daniele Trinchero, Alessandro Galardini, Riccardo Stefanelli, Paolo Gianola, Renato Scotti, Roberto Vallauri

SAR Variations in the Face Due to Semi-rimmed Spectacles and Polarised Sources at GSM900 and GSM1800 ................................................................................................................................2855

Oluwaseun Ojerinde, Chinthana Panagamuwa, William Whittow, Robert Edwards EWCA3: CONVENED: EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON CONFORMAL ANTENNAS (EWCA)–3 Design of a UWB Wide-Slot Antenna and a Hemispherical Array for Breast Imaging .........................2860

Ian Craddock, David Gibbins, Maceij Klemm

Broadbeam Conformal Array Antenna for WiMAX Communications ...................................................2864Julio Bregains, Francisco Ares-Pena

Radiation by Conformal Patch Antennas on a Magneto-dielectric, Low-density Material....................2867Leo Kempel, Ben Crowgey, John Xiao

An Efficient Hybrid Numerical-Ray based Subaperture Formulation for the Analysis of Large Convex Conformal Antenna Arrays on Large Platforms...............................................................2870

Prabhakar Pathak, Robert Burkholder, Jin-Fa Lee, Panuwat Janpugdee

Comparison of Various Spherical Antenna Array Element Distributions ..............................................2873Leonidas Marantis

A Ray Description for Collective Surface Fields Produced by Large Conformal Arrays on a Convex Metallic Surface ............................................................................................................................2878

Panuwat Janpugdee, Prabhakar Pathak, Robert Burkholder THU–POSTER: POSTER SESSION–LARGE ANTENNAS–2 GPS Wideband Circularly Polarized Microstrip Antenna Array ............................................................2883

Shailesh Raut, Aldo Petosa

C-Band Dual-Polarized Stacked-Patch Antenna with Low Cross-Polarization and High Isolation..........................................................................................................................................................2887

Zhu Sun, Shun Shi Zhong, Xiao-Rong Tang, Jian Jun Liu

Height Reduction of Circular-cylindrical Dielectric Lens Antennas ........................................................2891Tin Komljenovic, Ronan Sauleau, Zvonimir Sipus

Improvement of the GO/PO Method for the Study of Focal Array Fed Lens Antennas ........................2896Ngoc Tinh Nguyen, Ronan Sauleau

Multibeam Pattern Generation Using Coupled Oscillator Arrays ...........................................................2900Apostolos Georgiadis, Ana Collado

Sidelobe Improvement in Small Arrays Using Z-plane Transform and Particle Swarm Optimization ..................................................................................................................................................2904

Asim Khan, Anthony Brown

Optimization of Monopole Four-square Array Antenna Using a Decoupling Network and a Neural Network to Model Ground Plane Effects .......................................................................................2907

Pedram Yazdanbakhsh, Klaus Solbach

Magnetic Bistable Switching Element Implemented on Quasi-CPW Inductively-coupled Slot Antenna ..................................................................................................................................................2912

Patrick Deschenes

Algorithms for Synthesis of Radiation Patterns using Reconfigurable Reflectors..................................2916Julio Gutierrez-Rios, Juan Vassal'lo Sanz

High Power Ferrite Phase Shifter for Electronic Steerable Antennas .....................................................2921Junaid Zafar, Haroon Zafar, Andrew Gibson

Performance Improvement of Pyramidal Horn Using Triangular E-plane Metal Baffle ......................2926Chin Yeng Tan, T. Selvan Krishnasamy

Wireless Power Transfer Using Sheet-like Waveguide..............................................................................2930Kunsun Eom

Multilayer Hemi-Spheroidal Lenses for Vehicle-Mounted Scanning Antennas......................................2934Tin Komljenovic, Niksa Burum, Zvonimir Sipus

Omnidirectional Dual-reflector Antenna with a GO Shaped Main Reflector for an Arbitrary Far-field Pattern in the Elevation Plane ....................................................................................2939

Sandro Zang, Jose Bergmann, Fernando Moreira

Design of Triple Band Antenna Array for GSM/DCS/UMTS Handset Localization..............................2943Remi Sarkis, Christophe Craeye

Experimental Study of the Radiation Characteristics of a Finite Periodic Structure Excited by a Dipole .....................................................................................................................................................2947

Mario Schuehler, Rainer Wansch, Matthias Hein

Feed Systems for Array-fed Reflector Scansar Antennas .........................................................................2952Roberto Mizzoni, Giuseppe Orlando, Rodolfo Ravanelli, Paolo Valle

Synthesis of Smooth Wall Compact and Light-weight Circular Horns Using the BoR FDTD Method ...............................................................................................................................................2957

Anthony Rolland, Ronan Sauleau

Accurate Analysis of the Edge Taper Influence on the Performance of Hemielliptic Lens Antennas ........................................................................................................................................................2961

Artem Boriskin, Ronan Sauleau, Alexander Nosich

Synthesis of An Array of Coupled Antennas ..............................................................................................2965Ahmad El Sayed Ahmad, Marc Thevenot, Majed Koubeissi, Eric Arnaud, Thierry Monediere

Nonuniformly-Wound Helical Antennas.....................................................................................................2968Ruzica Golubovic, Antonije Djordjevic, Dragan Olcan, Juan Mosig

Satellite Horn Antenna Design.....................................................................................................................2972Jorge Teniente, Ramon Gonzalo, Carlos Del Rio

X-Ka Dual Band Prime Focus Feed for Satellite Earth Terminals...........................................................2976Yogesh Karandikar

Dielectric Travelling Wave Antennas Incorporating Cylindrical Inserts with Tapered Cavities ...........................................................................................................................................................2981

Gunnar Armbrecht, Eckhard Denicke, Nils Pohl, Thomas Musch, Ilona Rolfes

Wideband Diplexed Feed Chain for FSS + BSS applications....................................................................2986Pierluigi Cecchini, Roberto Mizzoni, Rodolfo Ravanelli, Giuseppe Addamo, Oscar Peverini, Riccardo Tascone, Giuseppe Virone

On Real Time Reflector Surface Distortion Determination ......................................................................2991William Imbriale, Vahraz Jamnejad

Method to Predict Scan Blindness in Printed Planar Phased Arrays.......................................................2996Bahram Sanadgol, Oliver Litschke, Klaus Solbach

Beam-forming Networks for Scannable Multi-beam Antenna Arrays using CORPS and Differential Evolution ...................................................................................................................................3000

Marco Panduro, Carlos Del Rio

Capacity of Linear Rectangular Microstrip Antenna Arrays ...................................................................3005Christos Kalialakis, Apostolos Georgiadis, Ana Collado

High Gain Curl Antenna CP Lens ...............................................................................................................3009Sean O'Kane, Vincent Fusco

Field Fluctuations in the Fresnel Zone of a Circular Focused Aperture in the Presence of Phase Errors ..................................................................................................................................................3012

Anna Aleksieieva, Vladimir Dolzhikov

Super-dense Array Emulating the Human Eye Vision Properties............................................................3017Belen Andres-Garcia, Luis-Enrique Garcia-Munoz, Vicente Gonzalez-Posadas, Daniel Segovia-Vargas

Exploiting Multipath from Airborne Platform for Direction of Arrival Estimation ..............................3022Marija Nikolic, Arye Nehorai, Antonije Djordjevic

Aerotransported Radar for Oil Spills Monitoring .....................................................................................3027Alexandre Silva, Daniel Duplat, Luciano Oliveira, Hugo Hernandez-Figueroa

THU–POSTER: POSTER SESSION–NEW MATERIAL Design of an AMC Plane for a Unidirectional,Low Profile Tulip-Loop Antenna ...................................3030

Muge Tanyer-Tigrek, Rosa Mateos, Christophe Craeye, Ioan Lager

Electromagnetic Characterization of Plasma Antennas ............................................................................3034Eleonora Vecchioni, Graziano Cerri, Paola Russo

Investigation of Guiding and Radiating Properties of Resonant-Slot Coupled Cavity Chain ...............3038Silvio Hrabar, Helga Kumric, Davor Zaluski

Reduction of the Mutual Coupling Between Two Adjacent Patches Using Various Ideal High Impedance Surface Positionings .........................................................................................................3042

Nicolas Capet, Cedric Martel, Jerome Sokoloff, Olivier Pascal

Resonant Excitation of a Truncated Metamaterial Cylindrical Shell by a Thin Wire Monopole........................................................................................................................................................3046

Oleksiy Kim, Aycan Erentok, Olav Breinbjerg

Study of Small-Size Stacked Fabry-Perot Cavities for Focal Array Applications ..................................3049Shoaib Muhammad, Ronan Sauleau, Herve Legay

Characterization of Antennas on Dielectric and Magnetic Substrates Effective Medium Approximation ..............................................................................................................................................3054

Damien Rialet, Ala Sharaiha, Anne-Claude Tarot, Christophe Delaveaud

Compact CSRR-loaded Substrate Integrated Waveguide Resonators on LCP Substrate .....................3058Djuradj Budimir

Protection of RF Electronics Using Tuneable Frequency Selective Surfaces ..........................................3061Stefania Monni, Dave Bekers, Maurice van Wanum, Raymond van Dijk, Andrea Neto, Giampiero Gerini, Frank van Vliet

Low Cost Manufacturing Process for Stopband Wireless Spatial Filters .................................................N/ARiccardo Stefanelli, Marco Digiovanni, Daniele Trinchero

Zeroth Order Resonator Antenna Realized on Shielded Micro Coplanar Transmission Line.................................................................................................................................................................3066

David Vrba, Milan Polivka

Metamaterial-Based Dual-Band Circularly-Polarised Antenna for GNSS Application .........................3070David de Castro Galan, Daniel Segovia-Vargas

Design of EBG Structure by Using a Transmission Line Model..............................................................3074Onofrio Losito, Michele Bozzetti, Michele Gallo

Transmission, Magnification and Demagnification of Microwave Near-field Distributions by Tapered Arrays of Wires.........................................................................................................................3078

Rostyslav Dubrovka, Pavel Belov, George Palikaras, Yan Zhao, Constantin Simovski

High Gain Sectoral Metallic EBG Antenna ................................................................................................3082Dina Serhal, Bernard Jecko, Mohamad Hajj

Tailoring the Radiation Pattern of Patch Antennas by Using Soft/Hard Surfaces .................................3086Oscar Quevedo-Teruel, Eva Rajo-Iglesias

Gain Enhancement of a Multilayer Microstrip Patch Antenna by Means of a Truncated Planar Periodic Structure.............................................................................................................................3090

Luis Inclan-Sanchez, Jose-Luis Vazquez-Roy, Eva Rajo-Iglesias

New Band-Stop Filter Design By Using Compensated Microstrip Capacitor and Coupled Octagonal Defected Ground Structure (DGS)............................................................................................3094

Ahmed Boutejdar

Theoretical and Experimental Effective Parameters of Metamaterial.....................................................3098Wafa Abdouni, Anne-Claude Tarot, Ala Sharaiha

Waveguide Miniaturization using Wire-based Metamaterial with Spatial Dispersion ..........................3102Silvio Hrabar, Davor Zaluski, Kristijan Walter

Low Profile, Directive and Ultra Wideband Antenna on a High Impedance Surface ............................3106Aita Thior, Anne-Claire Lepage, Xavier Begaud

Planar Antennas Integrated with Metamaterials .......................................................................................3111Francesco Caminita, Stefano Maci, Giuseppe Di Massa, Sandra Costanzo, Giuseppe Mauriello, Ignazio Venneri, Giacomo Guarnieri

A CRLH Metamaterial based RF Coil Element for Magnetic Resonance Imaging at 7 Tesla...............3115Andre Rennings, Jochen Mosig, Achim Bahr, Christophe Caloz, Mark Ladd, Daniel Erni

Design Method of EBG Structure with Wide Defect Band........................................................................3119Lina Moustafa

Dual Band Dielectric EBG Resonator Antenna..........................................................................................3124Ahmad Kanso, Regis Chantalat, Marc Thevenot, Thierry Monediere, Bernard Jecko

Phase and Group Velocities in Three Dimensional Ideal Cloaks..............................................................3128Enrica Martini, Stefano Maci, Arthur Yaghjian

THU–POSTER: POSTER SESSION–PROPAGATION–4 Path Loss Pattern Prediction in Tokyo City Based on Deterministic Ray Tracing and Stochastic Multi-Parametric Approaches ...................................................................................................3133

Nathan Blaunstein

Break Point Estimation in Train Tunnels ...................................................................................................3138Javier Alonso, Jordi Romeu

Analysis of Wideband Radio Channel Properties for Planning of Next-generation Wireless Networks ........................................................................................................................................................3143

Haibin Zhang, Onno Mantel, Maurice Kwakkernaat, Matti Herben

High Performance Parallel Processing Algorithms for Mobile Communication ....................................3148Ravi Palaniappan, Mohammad Ahmad, Thomas Clarke

RFID Read-region Models in Real Environments .....................................................................................3153Emidio Di Giampaolo, Gaetano Marrocco

Diversity Benchmarking for Macrocell Environments ..............................................................................3158Juan Pontes

Frequency Diversity for Spatial Characterization of Wideband Channel with Multiple Antennas ........................................................................................................................................................3162

Jonathan Mora-Cuevas, Carlos Gomez Calero, Leandro de Haro

Geometry Based Stochastic Analysis of MIMO Channel Performance When Using Stacked Microstrip Antennas .....................................................................................................................................3166

Radovan Zentner, Ana Katalinic, Robert Nagy

Measurements and Comparison of WiMAX Radio Coverage at 2.5 GHz and 3.5 GHz.........................3171Bachir Belloul, Alejandro Aragon-Zavala, Simon Saunders

Wideband Physical Channel Model for Indoor Static Mobile Terminals ................................................3176Yoshichika Ohta, Teruya Fujii

Radio Direction Finding Applied to DVB-T Network for Vehicular Mobile Reception.........................3181Franck Nivole, Christian Brousseau, Stephane Avrillon, Dominique Lemur, Louis Bertel

Empirical Time-Spatial Propagation Model at BS in Outdoor NLOS Environments for Wideband Mobile Communication Systems ...............................................................................................3186

Teruya Fujii, Yoshichika Ohta, Hideki Omote

Influence of Antenna Noise Temperature and Down Tilt on WCDMA Base Station Capacity .........................................................................................................................................................3191

Karl-August Steinhauser THU–POSTER: POSTER SESSION–SPECIAL WIDEBAND DESIGNS The Versatile U-Slot Patch Antenna............................................................................................................3196

Kai Fong Lee, Shing Lung Steven Yang, Ahmed Kishk

Miniaturization of Bow-tie Antenna for Pulsed UWB Transceiver in the 300-960MHz Band Communication ...................................................................................................................................3199

Soheil Radiom, Amin Enayati, Guy Vandenbosch, Georges Gielen

Constrained Wire Curl Antenna Design for Minimum Axial Ratio.........................................................3202Sean O'Kane, Vincent Fusco

Multipurpose Admitance Matrix Analysis Approach for the Optimization of a Frequency Notched UWB Monopole Antenna ..............................................................................................................3206

Jose Martinez-Fernandez, Valentin de la Rubia, Jose Gil, Juan Zapata

Dielectric Director for Near-field Microwave Imaging..............................................................................3211Jeremie Bourqui, Michal Okoniewski, Elise Fear

Reduced-order Pattern Representation of UWB Antenna Devoted to Positioning .................................3215Christophe Craeye, Pierre Gerodez

Back Radiation Minimization of Ultra Wideband Vivaldi Antenna for Radar Application..................3219Petr Cerny, Martin Mudroch

Parametric Study on Conical Log-Spiral Antenna ....................................................................................3224Petr Piksa

Statistical Analysis of a Parametric Model of a "Population" of UWB Antennas ..................................3227Christophe Roblin, Raffaele D'Errico

Broadband TEM Horn Antenna with Dielectric Lens for UWB Measurement ......................................3232Zdenek Hradecky, Alois Holub

Band Notching Ultra Wideband Microstrip Antenna with an Augmented Crescent Cut ......................3236Mohammad Jahanbakht, Abbas Ali Lotfi Neyestanak, Iman Vakili

THU–S25: DATA ACQUISITION, ALGORITHMS AND PROCESSING METHODS Robot Controlled Data Acquisition System for Microwave Imaging .......................................................3240

Nikola Petrovic, Tommy Gunnarsson, Nadine Joachimowicz, Magnus Otterskog

Modelling of Radiation Patterns Using Scalar Spherical Harmonics with Vector Coefficients ....................................................................................................................................................3245

Jussi Rahola, Fabio Belloni, Andreas Richter

Antenna Diversity Measurement System ....................................................................................................3250Laurent Dussopt, Lionel Descroix

Near-Field Far-Field Transformation in Echoic Measurement Environments Employing Scattering Center Representations ..............................................................................................................3254

Carsten Schmidt, Thomas F. Eibert

A Novel Approach to the Design of Generalized Plane-Wave Synthesizers ............................................3259Amedeo Capozzoli, Claudio Curcio, Giuseppe D'Elia, Angelo Liseno, Pietro Vinetti

THU–S24: PHASED ARRAY ANTENNA TESTING Rapid Method for Finding Faulty Elements in Antenna Arrays Using Far Field Pattern Samples ..........................................................................................................................................................3264

Juan Rodriguez-Gonzalez, Francisco Ares-Pena, Manuel Fernandez-Delgado, Roberto Iglesias-RodrIguez, Senen Barro-Ameneiro

Antenna Characterization Approach for High Accuracy of Active Phased Array Antennas on Spaceborne SAR Systems ........................................................................................................................3269

Marco Schwerdt

Experimental Results of Non-Radiative Calibration of a Tower Top Adaptive Array...........................3273Justine McCormack, Gerry Corley, Ronan Farrell

Compensation of Couplings in a Linear Array Antenna Measurement System .....................................3278Javier Torres Martin, Fernando Martin Jimenez, Manuel Sierra-Castaner

Antenna Diagnostic Applications.................................................................................................................3282Bengt Svensson, Hakan Eriksson

FRI–S10J7: CONVENED: SMART ANTENNAS AND MIMO Correlation Properties of Large and Small-scale Parameters from Multicell Channel Measurements................................................................................................................................................3286

Stephan Jaeckel, Lei Jiang, Volker Jungnickel, Lars Thiele, Carsten Jandura, Gerd Sommerkorn, Christian Schneider

Optimizing a Pifa Using the Genetic Algorithms Technique for Ultra Wideband Communications Applications .....................................................................................................................3291

Tsitouri Christina

Adaptive Turbo Code-Multiplexed Pilot Channel Estimation for MIMO MC-CDMA Systems in Highly Time-Variant Propagation Channels ...........................................................................3294

Athanasios Marousis

On the Sensitivity of MIMO_NC to Channel Estimation Errors..............................................................3299Francesco Rossetto, Michele Zorzi

Compact Multi-Element Antennas of Sinusoidal Printed Monopoles for Sensors and Portable Devices ............................................................................................................................................3303

Constantine Kakoyiannis, Penelope Gika, Philip Constantinou FRI–S11S7: CONVENED: URSI SPECIAL SESSION–1 POLARIMETRIC AND PROPAGATION ASPECTS OF RADAR REMOTE SENSING The ESA METAWAVE Project: Correcting for Atmospheric Water Vapour Effects in InSAR Products.............................................................................................................................................3308

Bjorn Rommen, Leslie Gale, Ramon Hanssen, Shizhuo Liu, Christian Matzler, Agnes Mika, June Morland, Maurizio Santoro, Urs Wegmuller, Charles Werner, Hein Zelle

Precipitation Induced Signatures in SAR Images ......................................................................................3313Andreas Danklmayer, Madhu Chandra

Shapes and Orientations of Raindrops from 2D Video Disdrometer, Polarimetric Radar and a Wind-tunnel Study..............................................................................................................................3318

Merhala Thurai, Viswanathan Bringi

Atmospheric Water-vapor Effects on Spaceborne Interferometric SAR Imaging: Data Synergy and Comparison with Ground-based Measurements and Meteorological Model Simulations at Urban Scale ..........................................................................................................................3323

Nazzareno Pierdicca, Fabio Rocca, Nico Cimini, Frank Marzano, Mario Montopoli, Daniele Perissin

Simultaneous Observations of X-band Polarimetric SAR and Ground-based Weather Radar During a Tropical Storm to Characterize the Propagation Effects ..............................................3328

Chandra V Chandrasekar, Jason Fritz FRI–S1A37: EM THEORY – SPECIAL APPLICATIONS Improving Approximate 1D Bloch Analysis Through Simulation of Truncated Periodic Structures.......................................................................................................................................................3333

Guido Valerio, Simone Paulotto, Paolo Baccarelli, Paolo Burghignoli, Fabrizio Frezza, Alessandro Galli, Paolo Lampariello

Simulation of a Lens Antenna Using a Parallelized Version of an FDTD Simulator..............................3337Erik Geterud, Mats Hjelm, Tomasz Ciamulski, Maciej Sypniewski

Design, Optimization and Test of High-Performance Circular Corrugated Feed Horns for Full V-Band (50 to 75 GHz) Coverage.........................................................................................................3342

Dietmar Fasold, Eberhard Kuehn, Frank Klefenz

Analysis of a Radial Probe Embedded in a Dielectric Cylindrical Substrate ..........................................3347Jun Wu, Salam Khamas, Greg Cook

Numerical Analysis of Simple TEM Conical-like Antennas Using Mode Matching in Time Domain ...........................................................................................................................................................3351

Alexander Butrym, Bogdan Kochetov, Maxim Legenkiy FRI–S2A38: LINEAR AND PLANAR ARRAYS A Fast Synthesis Method for the Circular Arrays......................................................................................3356

Chen Ding, He Bing Fa

An Aperiodic Array Antenna Using Diamond Tiles as Subarrays ...........................................................3359Shigeru Makino

A Thin Antenna for 800MHz Band Base Station .......................................................................................3363Hiromi Matsuno

Optimized Design of Slotted Waveguide Arrays Loaded With Parasitic Dipoles for Circular Polarization at Ka Band ................................................................................................................3367

Jose Ignacio Herranz-Herruzo, Mariano Baquero, Alejandro Valero-Nogueira, Daniel Sanchez Escuderos, Juan Vicente Balbastre

Superstrate Performances and Multibeam Gain Enhancement ...............................................................3372Senglee Foo

FRI–S3A39: PLANAR AND MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS New Stacked Patch Antenna for Polarisation and Radiation Pattern Diversity .....................................3377

Branimir Ivsic, Davor Bonefacic, Juraj Bartolic

Miniaturization of Multiple Layer Folded Patch Antennas ......................................................................3382Jiaying Zhang, Olav Breinbjerg

Study of Active Integrated Photonic Antenna ............................................................................................3387Yevhen Yashchyshyn, Sergei Malyshev, Alexandr Chizh, Pawel Bajurko, Jozef Modelski

A Multi-band Microstrip Antenna Design Using Cellular Automata and Fuzzy ARTMAP Neural Network .............................................................................................................................................3391

Youssef Tawk, Joseph Costantine, Silvio Barbin, Christos Christodoulou

Optimal Dimensions of Two Microstrip Patch Antennas for Low Mutual Coupling at 5.8 GHz.................................................................................................................................................................3395

Marko Sonkki, Eva Antonino-Daviu, Miguel Ferrando, Erkki Salonen FRI–S4A40: CONVENED: UWB ANTENNAS FOR COMMUNICATION–1 Inter-Body Channel Model for UWB Communications ............................................................................3399

Terence See

UWB Antenna Impedance Matching in Biomedical Implants ..................................................................3403Tharaka Dissanayake, Karu Esselle, Mehmet Rasit Yuce

Band-Rejected Ultrawideband Planar Monopole Antenna with Bandstop-Filter-Like Response Using Inductively Coupling Scheme ...........................................................................................3407

Tzyh-Ghuang Ma

UWB Antenna Design Based on Modal Analysis .......................................................................................3410Miguel Ferrando, Eva Antonino-Daviu, Marta Cabedo, Alejandro Valero-Nogueira

Ultra Wideband Dielectric Sandwich Loaded Antennas ...........................................................................3415Antonio Moreira, Nuno Pires, Nuno Serro, Rita Santos

FRI–S5A41: MM–WAVE ANTENNAS 79GHz Integrated Antenna on Low Resistivity Si BiCMOS Exploiting Above-IC Processing ......................................................................................................................................................3419

Yenny Pinto, Christian Person, Daniel Gloria, Andreia Cathelin, Didier Belot, Sebastien Pruvost, Robert Plana

"Convened" - Broadband Planar Antenna for 60 GHz Radio on Characterized PCB Substrate ........................................................................................................................................................3424

Alexander Vasylchenko, Steven Brebels, Walter Raedt, Guy Vandenbosch

Design and Manufacturing of a Dielectric Resonator Antenna for Impulse Radio at 60 GHz.................................................................................................................................................................3429

Daniel Sjoberg, Mikael Nilsson, Mats Arlelid, Giuliano Vescovi, Lars-Erik Wernersson

Very Low Permittivity Slot-fed Dielectric Resonator Antennas with Improved Bandwidth for Millimetre-wave Applications ................................................................................................................3434

Atabak Rashidian, David Klymyshyn

A Low-Cost and High Gain Dual-Polarized Wideband Millimeter-Wave Antenna ...............................3438Alexandre Perron, Tayeb A. Denidni, Abdel R. Sebak

FRI–S6A42: EBG ANTENNA DESIGN–1 Design and Analysis of Metamaterial Antenna for Mobile Handset Application ...................................3442

Soon Ho Hwang, Taesik Yang, Joon Ho Byun, Austin S Kim

Mean Effective Gain Enhancement of Antenna Systems with EBG Ground Plane................................3446Katherine Siakavara

Design of Double Layered Metamaterial Antenna .....................................................................................3451Hany AbdEl-Raouf, Sulaiman Syed Zaheer, Yahia Antar

Mutual Coupling Reduction Between Two Inverted-F Antennas Using Mushroom-Type Composite Right-/Left-Handed Transmission Lines..................................................................................3454

Jun Itoh, Naobumi Michishita, Hisashi Morishita

Bandwidth Enhancement of a Compact Antenna Based on the Composite Right/Left-Handed (CRLH) Transmission-Line (TL) ..................................................................................................3459

Mimi Aminah Wan Nordin, Hany AbdEl-Raouf FRI–S8P2: CONVENED: BUILDING PENETRATION Measurements of Building Penetration Loss as a Function of the Elevation Angle and Floor Level .....................................................................................................................................................3463

Jaroslav Holis, Pavel Pechac

DVB-SH Field Trial - SFN and Diversity Gain Measurements ................................................................3468Michel Cohen, Regis Duval, Philippe Laine, Christian Le Floch, Gerard Faria, Bernard Lehembre, Fernando Romao

Penetration Loss Measurements and Models for a DVB-H Single Frequency Network ........................3473Luc Martens, David Plets, Leen Verloock, Wout Joseph

Multi-Frequency Path Loss in an Outdoor to Indoor Macrocellular Scenario .......................................3478Jonas Medbo, Johan Furuskog, Mathias Riback, Jan-Erik Berg

Wideband Outdoor-to-Indoor MIMO Channel Measurements at 3.5 GHz ............................................3483Yves Lostanlen, Hanna Farhat

FRI–S8P14: EXPERIMENTS AND DATABASES Statistical Analysis Of The SYRACUSE 3 Satellite EHF Propagation Experiment ...............................3488

Thierry Marsault, Jean-Denis Hermant, Louis DeMontera, Cecile Mallet, Laurent Barthes, Peter Gole

Analysis of Fade Dynamics and Cloud Absorption using Beacon Data and Atmospheric Profiles............................................................................................................................................................3493

Cesar Amaya, Pierre Bouchard

Calibration and Interferometric Data Processing from Satellite ALOS (the Baikal Region) ................3498Alexander Leonov, Dashi Darizhapov

Global Archive of Propagation Measurements for Satellite Communication Systems...........................3500Joel Lemorton, Laurent Castanet, Giulio Blarzino, Guillaume Carrie, Danielle Vanhoenacker-Janvier, B. Montenegro-Villacieros, Antonio Martellucci, David Wendland

Estimation of 0ºC Isotherm Height from Vertical Profiles of Reflectivity in Raining Earth-space Paths.....................................................................................................................................................3505

Juan Antonio Romo, Gorka Fiel FRI–S9M7: RCS MEASUREMENTS Measuring the Extinction Cross Section .....................................................................................................3510

Christer Larsson, Christian Sohl, Mats Gustafsson, Gerhard Kristensson

RCS Measurements of Small UAVS in Non-Coorperative Field Environments .....................................3514Andre Bati, Long To, Donald Hilliard

RCS Measurement of Wind Turbines .........................................................................................................3519Richard Rudd, Bal Randhawa

Scaled Radar Cross Section Measurements with Terahertz-Spectroscopy up to 800 GHz ....................3522Christian Jansen, Norman Krumbholz, Robert Geise, Achim Enders, Martin Koch

A Low-Perturbation Near-Field Imager Equipped with Optical MST Probes .......................................3526Hamidreza Memarzadeh

FRI–S21J8: UWB SYSTEMS Influence of UWB-Antennas on UWB-Channel-Measurements in a City-Liner Coach.........................3531

Robert Geise, Ingo Schmidt, Moritz Schack, Jens Schuur, Thomas Kurner

Time Domain Analysis of Band Notching UWB Antennas........................................................................3535Elena Pancera, Jens Timmermann, Thomas Zwick, Werner Wiesbeck

Automated Identification of Clusters and UWB Channel parameters Dependency on Tx-Rx Distance ....................................................................................................................................................3540

Abdelbasset Massouri, Clavier Laurent, Jiejia Chen, Pierre Combeau, Yannis Pousset

Indirect Multi-Static 2D Imaging within Wireless Sensor Networks .......................................................3545Ole Hirsch, Rudolf Zetik, Reiner Thoma

Performance Evaluation of Threshold-Based UWB Ranging Methods - Leading Edge vs. Search Back - .................................................................................................................................................3550

Katsuyuki Haneda, Kenichi Takizawa, Jun-ichi Takada, Marzieh Dashti, Pertti Vainikainen FRI–S22S8: CONVENED: URSI SPECIAL SESSION–2 PROPAGATION DISTORTIONS AND THEIR MITIGATION IN GLOBAL NAVIGATIONAL AND POSITIONING SYSTEMS Propagation Modeling in Virtual Environments, Characterization of Mobile Propagation Channel ..........................................................................................................................................................3555

Pavel Valtr, Fernando Perez-Fontan, Anthony Abele

Ionospheric Perturbation Characteristics and Their Potential Impact on GNSS Applications ...................................................................................................................................................3559

Norbert Jakowski, Christoph Mayer, Claudia Borries, Volker Wilken, Smita Dubey, Thomas Pannowitsch

C-band, Narrow and Wideband Measurement Campaign for Satellite to Indoor and Roadside Tree Links .....................................................................................................................................3564

Fernando Perez-Fontan

Multipath Detection Metrics and Attenuation Analysis Using a GPS Snapshot Receiver in Harsh Environments .....................................................................................................................................3569

Jose A. Lopez-Salcedo, Juan Manuel Parro-Jimenez, Gonzalo Seco Granados

Review of Tropospheric, Ionospheric and Multipath Data and Models for Global Navigation Satellite Systems.........................................................................................................................3574

Antonio Martellucci, Roberto Prieto Cerdeira FRI–S12A43: EM THEORY FOR RCS An Efficient Approach to Compute the RCS of Complex Targets Considering Multiple Bounces ..........................................................................................................................................................3580

Maria Jesus Algar, Lorena Lozano, Ivan Gonzalez Diego, Felipe Catedra

Dual Band RCS Reduction Using Planar Technology by Combining AMC Structures........................3585JuanCarlos Iriarte, Inigo Ederra, Ramon Gonzalo, Peter de Maagt

A Hybrid Method for the Analysis of Scattering from Electrically Large Objects with Deep Cavities ...........................................................................................................................................................3587

Arthur Enneking

A Novel Numerical Method for Computing RCS of Discontinuous Characters .....................................3591Liu Zhanhe, Huang Peilin, Gao Xu

Analysis of Effects of Pitot-Tube on Performance of Airborne Nose Radome ........................................3595Zhang Qiang

FRI–S13A44: RECONFIGURABLE REFLECT ARRAYS Reflectarray Membrane Study for Deployable SAR Antenna ..................................................................3597

Alberto Di Maria, Markus Limbach, Ralf Horn, Andreas Reigber

Robustness Optimization of MEMS-based Reflectarray Phase-shifting Cells ........................................3601Hassan Salti, Erwan Fourn, Raphael Gillard, Herve Legay

Linear Reflectarray Antenna Design Using 1-bit Digital Phase Shifters .................................................3606Siamak Ebadi, Roberto Vincenti Gatti, Roberto Sorrentino

Dual Linear Polarized Reflectarray Element with True-Time Delay.......................................................3610Eduardo Carrasco, Jose Encinar, Mariano Barba

MEMS Breakdown Effects on the Radiation of a MEMS Based Reconfigurable Reflectarray ...................................................................................................................................................3615

Hassan Salti, Erwan Fourn, Raphael Gillard, Herve Legay, Herve Aubert FRI–S14A45: RECONFIGURABLE ANTENNAS Wireless Powering of Sensors inside Concrete using a Reconfigurable Sierpinski Gasket Antenna ..........................................................................................................................................................3619

Shishir Punjala, Kia Makki

Reconfigurable Triangular Patch Antenna for Pattern Diversity ............................................................3621Daniel Kornek, Johannes Meyer, Christian Orlob, Ilona Rolfes

Reconfiguring Antenna Characteristics Using PIN Diodes .......................................................................3625Symeon Nikolaou, Boyon Kim, Photos Vryonides

Design and Investigation of the Leaky-Wave Antenna with Reconfigurable Operating Frequency ......................................................................................................................................................3630

P. Bajurko, Yevhen Yashchyshyn

Integrated Wide-Narrow Band Antenna for Switched Operation............................................................3634James Kelly, Peter Hall, Peter Gardner

FRI–S15A46: CONVENED: UWB ANTENNAS FOR COMMUNICATIONS–2 Reduced-Height Wideband Conical Antennas in the VHF/UHF Bands ..................................................3638

Sebastien Palud, Franck Colombel, Mohamed Himdi, Cyrille Le Meins

Time-Domain Performance of Printed UWB Antennas ............................................................................3643Max Ammann, Matthias John, Patrick McEvoy, Antoine Dumoulin

Performance Considerations for UWB MIMO Antennas with Multimode Pattern Diversity...............3647Oliver Klemp

Miniaturised Antennas for UWB Communications ...................................................................................3651Xiaodong Chen

UWB Antennas for Radio Positioning Applications ..................................................................................3656Yi Huang, Yang Lu, Hassan Chattha

FRI–S16A47: CONVENED: MILLIMETER–WAVE ANTENNAS–3 An Overview of Recent Antenna Array Designs for Highly-Integrated 60-GHz Radios........................3660

Yue Ping Zhang

Design of Circularly Polarized Antenna for 60 GHz Wireless Communications ....................................3664Rongguo Zhou, Duixian Liu, Hao Xin

Double Resonance of Broadband Microstrip-to-Waveguide Transition in Millimeter-Wave Band ...............................................................................................................................................................3667

Kunio Sakakibara

60-GHz Microstrip Antenna with Stacked Rings using Multi-Layer LTCC Substrate..........................3672Tomohiro Seki

New Technologies and Antenna Design Concepts at Millimeter-wave Bands .........................................3676Sandra Costanzo, Ignazio Venneri, Giuseppe Di Massa, Antonio Borgia

FRI–S17A48: EBG ANTENNA DESIGN–2 Radiation Characteristics of a Dipole Embedded Below a HIS ................................................................3681

Ladislau Matekovits, Mario Orefice

Cylindrical EBG Multibeam Antenna for Telecommunication Networks...............................................3685Hassan Chreim, Bernard Jecko, Christophe Dall'omo, Philippe Dufrane

Improved Self Polarizing Metallic EBG Antenna ......................................................................................3688Eric Arnaud, Regis Chantalat, Majed Koubeissi, Thierry Monediere, Marc Thevenot, Bernard Jecko

Arrays of Dual-Band Printed Dipoles Loaded with Metamaterial Particles ...........................................3693Francisco Javier Herraiz-Martinez, Luis-Enrique Garcia-Munoz, Daniel Segovia-Vargas, David Gonzalez-Ovejero, Christophe Craeye

Active Integrated Antenna Using Photonic Bandgap and Defected Ground Structure..........................3698Masoud Dahmardeh, Ayaz Ghorbani, Abdolali Abdipour

FRI–S18P15: MOBILE PROPAGATION – INDOOR Beam Propagation Simulations of Quasioptical Systems ..........................................................................3702

Stanislav Zvanovec, Milan Kvicera, Petr Kucharik, Petr Cerny, Pavel Pechac

Analysis and Comparison of Indoor Wideband Radio Channels at 5 and 60 GHz.................................3705Michael Peter, Wilhelm Keusgen

A Ray Based Indoor Propagation Model Including Depolarizing Penetration .......................................3710Francesco Mani, Claude Oestges

Angular Doppler Characterization in Indoor Channels............................................................................3714Jussi Salmi, Andreas Richter, Visa Koivunen

Experimental Characterization of Indoor Multiuser Shadowing for Collaborative Cognitive Radio .............................................................................................................................................3719

Rajesh Sharma, Jon Wallace FRI–S19P16: REFRACTIVITY–RELATED EFFECTS Scintillation Prediction Using Improved Pre-processed Radiosounding Data ........................................3724

Danielle Vanhoenacker-Janvier, Claude Oestges, B. Montenegro-Villacieros, Roeland Van Malderen, Hugo De Backer

Computations of Radar Returns of Wind Turbines...................................................................................3727Emmanuel Van Lil, Dave Trappeniers, Jan-willem De Bleser, Antoine Van de Capelle

Spatial Decorrelation of VHF and UHF Trans-Ionospheric Signals Measured at Ascension Island ..............................................................................................................................................................3732

Max van de Kamp, Paul Cannon

Statistics of Anomalous Propagation at UHF .............................................................................................3737Richard Rudd

Joint Probability Distribution and Correlation of Multipath Signals on 10 GHz Fixed Terrestrial Link .............................................................................................................................................3740

Martin Grabner, Vaclav Kvicera, Pavel Pechac, Pavel Valtr FRI–S20M8: RF MATERIAL MEASUREMENTS Wide-band Characterization of Printable Electronics Materials: the Effect of Conductor Loss and Internal Inductance on Relative Permittivity .............................................................................3744

Juha Lilja, Hannu Sillanpaa, Riku Makinen, Vamsi Palukuru, Kauko Östman, Juha Hagberg, Tomi Kanerva, Heli Jantunen, Toivo Lepistö, Pauliina Mansikkamäki

Microwave Measurements of Dielectric Properties - A Further Study to a New Theoretical Model for a Closed Cylindrical Cavity Dielectric Resonator ....................................................................3749

Jyh Sheen, Chin-An Chen, Yi Hua Chen, Chin-Lun Lai, Zuo-Wen Hong

Genetic Algorthim Optimisation of Pyramidal Absorbers Loaded with a Binary FSS ..........................3753Daniel Holtby, Kenneth Ford, Barry Chambers

Estimation of Effective Permittivity and Effective Thickness of Inhomogeneous Materials at 52 -- 70 GHz...............................................................................................................................................3756

Robert Felbecker, Wilhelm Keusgen, Andreas Kortke, Michael Peter

Radar Signature Reduction of Wind Turbines through the Application of Stealth Technology .....................................................................................................................................................3761

Jon Pinto, James Matthews, Carlos Sarno

Abstracts ........................................................................................................................................................3766

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