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CFP10APS-PRT 978-1-4244-4967-5

2010 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APS/URSI 2010)

Toronto, Ontario, Canada 11-17 July 2010

Pages 1-556

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

SESSION 101 APS/URSI B SPECIAL SESSION ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION FOR SECURE AND ROBUST COMMUNICATIONS Degrees of Freedom of the Field in Unconditionally Secure Wireless Communications ........................................................................... 1

Marco D. Migliore, Ciro D’Elia, Daniele Pinchera

Encryption Key Establishment Using Space-Time Correlated MIMO Channels ...................................................................................... 5Chan Chen, Michael A. Jensen

Measured Statistics of Reciprocal Channel Key Generation of Indoor MIMO Channels......................................................................... 9Rajesh K. Sharma, Jon W. Wallace

Securing Wireless Links at the Physical Layer Through Reconfigurable Antennas ................................................................................ 13Prathaban Mookiah, John Kountouriotis, Renee Dorsey, Boris Shishkin, Kapil R. Dandekar

SINR Improvement Through Reconfigurable Antenna Adaptation to Handheld Device Orientation .................................................. 17Young Keun Jang, John D. Villasenor

Miniature Radiation Pattern Reconfigurable Antenna for 2.4 GHz Band ................................................................................................ 21Manoj Adhikari, Karl F. Warnick

Small Pixelled Antenna with MEMS-Reconfigurable Radiation Pattern .................................................................................................. 25D. Rodrigo, Y. Damgaci, M. Unlu, L. Jofre, B. A. Cetiner

3D Integration of a Band Selective Filter and Antenna for 60 GHz Applications .................................................................................... 29David J. Chung, Arnaud L. Amadjikpè, John Papapolymrou

Dynamic Real Time Tuning of Antenna Matching Circuit in the Receiving Mode .................................................................................. 33Mohamed H. Bakr, Shirook M. Ali, James Warden

SESSION 103 APS METAMATERIAL-INSPIRED ANTENNAS A Simple Approach to Reducing Mutual Coupling in Two Closely-Spaced Electrically Small Antennas ............................................ 37

Jiang Zhu, George V. Eleftheriades

Electrically Small Tunable Split Ring Resonator Antenna ......................................................................................................................... 41Xiaoyu Cheng, David E. Senior, James J. Whalen, Yong-Kyu Yoon

Metamaterial Inspired Patch Antenna Miniaturization Technique ........................................................................................................... 45Raoul O. Ouedraogo, Edward J. Rothwell

Leaky-Wave Antennas with Anisotropic Metamaterials ............................................................................................................................. 49Huikan Liu, Kevin J. Webb

Miniature Dual-band and Wideband Antennas Based on Printed Circuit Emulation of Anisotropy.................................................... 53Saurabh Gupta, Gokhan Mumcu

Experimental Exploration of Metamaterial Substrate Design for an Electrically Small Patch-like Antenna ...................................... 57Jeremy Pruitt, Diana Strickland

Radiation Efficiency Improvement of Low Profile Antenna with Metamaterial Structure Using LCP Substrate with Low Profile Copper Foil.......................................................................................................................................................................... 61

Kazuhiro Inoue, Makoto Higaki, Akiko Yamada, Shuichi Obayashi, Hiroki Shoki, Tasuku Morooka

A High Gain Circular Polarization Antenna Using Metamaterial Slabs ................................................................................................... 65Cheolbok Kim, Hyochun Ahn, David Senior Elles, Melroy Machado, Yong-Kyu Yoon

A Novel Metamaterial Crlh Zor Microstrip Patch Antenna Capacitively Coupled to a Rectangular Ring .......................................... 69Geonho Jang, Sungtek Kahng, Jeongho Ju, J. Anguera, J. Choi

SESSION 105 APS MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS A 5.8 GHz High Gain, Aperture Coupled Rectenna Utilizing a Split Ring Resonator Filter .................................................................. 73

Jonathan Hansen, Chi-Hyung Ahn, Kai Chang

Passive Feed Methods for Meshed Antennas ................................................................................................................................................ 77Jason R. Saberin, Cynthia Furse, Tursunjan Yasin, Reyhan Baktur

A General Representation of Electromagnetic Fields Radiated by Circular Patch Antennas ................................................................ 81Yeqin Huang

High Power Waveguide-Fed Reduced Lateral Wave Antenna ................................................................................................................... 85Lien H. Dang, David R. Jackson, Jeffery T. Williams

A New Look into the Cross-Polarized Radiation From a Circular Microstrip Antenna and Suppression Using Dot-Shaped DGS ...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 89

Chandrakanta Kumar, D. Guha

Front-to-Back Ratio Improvement of a Microstrip Patch Antenna by Ground Plane Edge Shaping ................................................... 93T. J. Cho, H. M. Lee

Finite-Width Conductor-Backed Coplanar Waveguide-Fed Circularly Polarized Side-Plane Antenna ............................................... 97Yen-Ju Lu, Shih-Yuan Chen, Powen Hsu

A Planar Bi-directional Antenna with High Directivities in the Broadside Directions ..........................................................................101Huan-Chu Huang, Jen-Chen Lu, Powen Hsu

Mutual Coupling Between Coax-fed Rectangular Microstrip Antennas Embedded in Layered Uniaxial Anisotropic Dielectrics ........................................................................................................................................................................................................105

Benjamin D. Braaten, Dimitrios E. Anagnostou, Keith W. Whites

SESSION 106 APS FREQUENCY AGILE ANTENNAS A Frequency Reconfigurable Rotatable Microstrip Antenna Design.......................................................................................................109

Y. Tawk, J. Costantine, C. G. Christodoulou

Frequency Reconfigurable Compact Multiband Quasi-Log Periodic Dipole Array (QLPDA) Antenna for Wireless Communications .............................................................................................................................................................................................113

David N. West, Satish K. Sharma

Integration of RF-MEMS Switches with a Band-Reject Reconfigurable Ultra-Wideband Antenna on SiO2 Substrate ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................117

Nelson Sepulveda, Dimitris E. Anagnostou, Michael T. Chryssomallis, John L. Ebel

Tunable 2D Electromagnetic Band-Gap (EBG) Structures Based on Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) for THz Frequencies.......................................................................................................................................................................................121

J. Sanz-Fernández, G. Goussetis, R. Cheung

Optically Pumped Reconfigurable Antenna Systems (OPRAS) ...............................................................................................................125Y. Tawk, A. R. Albrecht, S. Hemmady, G. Balakrishnan, C. G. Christodoulou

Investigation of Complexity-Constrained Peformance of Planar Reconfigurable Aperture Antennas (RECAPs) ............................129Rashid Mehmood, Jon W. Wallace

Complexity Reduction of a Reconfigurable U-Koch Microstrip Antenna Using Graph Models ..........................................................133J. Costantine, M. Al-Husseini, A. Ramadan , C. G. Christodoulou, K. Y. Kabalan , A. El Hajj

Controlling Switch-Reconfigured Antennas Using FPGAs .......................................................................................................................137S. Shelley, J. Costantine, C. G. Christodoulou, D. E. Anagnostou, J. C. Lyke

A Simple Reconfigurable Microstrip Antenna for Wideband Applications............................................................................................141Jung H. Kim, C. G. Christodoulou

Frequency Reconfigurable Quasi-Yagi Dipole Antenna ............................................................................................................................145Y. Cai, Y. Jay Guo, P. Y. Qin, A. R. Weily

A Millimeter-Wave Frequency Tunable Microstrip Antenna on Ultraflexible PDMS Substrate.........................................................149Sami Hage-Ali, Nicolas Tiercelin, Philippe Coquet, Ronan Sauleau, Vladimir Preobrazhensky, Philippe Pernod

SESSION 107 URSI MULTIBAND AND WIDEBAND ANTENNAS Dual-Polarized Sinuous Antennas on Silicon Dielectric Lenses ................................................................................................................153

Jennifer Edwards, Gabriel Rebeiz

SESSION 109 APS/URSI MILITARY APPLICATIONS I Electro-dynamic Analysis of 60mm Mortars Modified with Guidance, Navigation, and Control components ..................................157

Gary Katulka, Rex Hall

Comparison Between Genetic Programming and Neural Network in Classification of Buried Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) Targets ..............................................................................................................................................................................161

Jill Kobashigawa, Hyoung-Sun Youn, Magdy Iskander, Zhengqing Yun

Performance Evaluation of Subsurface Target Recognition Based on Ultra-Wideband Short-Pulse Excitation ...............................165Hoi-Shun Lui, Nicholas V. Shuley

Design of Robust Aperiodic Antenna Array Formations for Micro-UAV Swarms ................................................................................169F. Namin, J. S. Petko, D. H. Werner

New Approaches to Directional Antenna Technologies for Unmanned System Communications .......................................................173Santanu Das, Randall Olsen, Chris Meagher, Bradley Tame, Adam Kroening

Analysis of the Detection Modes of a Human Presence Detection Millimeter-Wave Radiometer ........................................................177Jeffrey A. Nanzer, Elmira Popova, Robert L. Rogers

Microstrip Patch Antenna Array for a Scalable X-band Radar System..................................................................................................181Steven D. Keller, Steven Weiss

Adaptive Pattern Nulling Method for Multi-Armed Spiral Antennas .....................................................................................................185Matthew J. Radway, Dejan S. Filipovic

Space/Ground Beamforming Techniques for Satellite Communications ................................................................................................189Piero Angeletti, Nader Alagha, Salvatore D'Addio

Wideband Channel Characterization Along a Lift Shaft on Board a Ship .............................................................................................193Xiao Hong Mao, Yee Hui Lee, Boon Chong Ng

SESSION 111 APS HUMAN EXPOSURE TO EM FIELDS: DOSIMETRY AND THERAPY Current Densities Induced in a Charged Human Body Approaching to a Vehicle Due to an ESD Event...........................................197

Hsing-Yi Chen, Yu-Ching Chu

On the Influence of a Glass Slide on the SAR Distribution in Petri Dishes for In Vitro Exposure to 2.45 GHz EM Fields ................................................................................................................................................................................................................201

Nunzia Fontana, Chiara Pelletti, Alessandro Rogovich, Agostino Monorchio

Peak SAR Reduction in Human Head for Handset Applications with Resistive Sheets (R-Cards)......................................................205H.-H. Chou, H.-T. Hsu, H.-T. Chou, S.-C. Tuan, K.-H. Liu, F.-Y. Kuo

Evaluation and Optimization of the Specific Absorption Rate for Multi-Antenna Systems .................................................................209Minshen Wang, Li Lin, Ji Chen, David Jackson, Wolfgang Kainz, Yihong Qi, Perry Jarmuszewski

Magnetic Field Shimming in MRI with Controlled Polarization and SAR Limitation..........................................................................213Elia A. Attardo, Giuseppe Vecchi, Tommaso Isernia

Low-cost and Small-sized Medical Microwave Radiometer Design .........................................................................................................217O. Klemetsen, Y. Birkelund, S. Jacobsen

2.5 GHz Microwave Thermal Ablation for Performing Thermosensitive Polymer-Chemotherapy for Cancer.................................221Sai Ananthanarayanan, Cynthia Furse, Darin Furgeson

Non-invasive Hyperthermic Ablation of Adipose Tissue Using Microwave ............................................................................................225Tae-Hee Woo, Minkyun Yoo, Wanghyun Kim, Youngwoo Kwon, Young-Seek Chung, Jeiwon Cho, Changyul Cheon

Electromagnetic Modeling of Thermal Fields Induced in Human Femur Tissue...................................................................................229O. Isik, E. Korkmaz

SESSION 112 APS ANTENNA ARRAYS AND ELEMENTS The Development of a Modified Hansen-Woodyard Condition to Include Attenuation for Leaky-Wave Endfire Antennas ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................233

Ellen M. O’Connor, David R. Jackson, Stuart A. Long

Study of the Microtrip Patch or Ring as a Cell Element for a Transmit-Array with Slotted Ground Plane ......................................237Saeed I. Latif, Cyrus Shafai, Lotfollah Shafai

Development of a Phased Array Antenna for Universal UHF RFID Reader ..........................................................................................241Nemai C. Karmakar, Parisa Zakavi, Maneesha Kumbukage

A Ku-band Reflectarray Using Variable Rings and Slots on the Ground Plane.....................................................................................245Seong-Won Oh, Chi-Hyung Ahn, Kai Chang

An Integrated W-Band High-Performance Quasi-Yagi Antenna Array .................................................................................................249W. L. Chang

Slot Arrays on Single-hard-wall Waveguides: A Study of Slot Mutual Coupling Using the Aperture Integral Equation ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................253

Esperanza Alfonso, Alejandro Valero-Nogueira, José I. Herranz, Felipe Vico

Design of a Near-Field Focused Reflectarray Antenna for RFID Reader Applications.........................................................................257Hsi-Tseng Chou, Chia Tung, Tso-Ming Hung, Hsi-Hsir Chou, P. Nepa

Atmospheric Compensation for Uplink Arrays via Radiometry ..............................................................................................................261James A. Nessel, Roberto J. Acosta

77-GHz MEMS Brick-Wall Antenna Fed by Coupled Microstrip Lines.................................................................................................265E. A. Soliman, S. Hassan, O. El Katteb, M. O. Sallam, M. Serry, S. Sedky

Phase and Bandwidth Enhancement of Reconfigurable Reflectarray Antennas with Slots Embedded Patch ...................................269M. Y. Ismail, M. Inam, A. F. M. Zain, M. A Mughal, M. F. L. Abdullah, A. Ubin

SESSION 113 URSI DESIGN AND VALIDATION OF ANTENNA SYSTEMS AND COMPONENTS An Effective Design Procedure for A-Sandwich Radome..........................................................................................................................273

Kyung-Won Lee, Yeong-Chul Chung, Ic-Pyo Hong, Jong-Gwan Yook

SESSION 114 APS SPECIAL SESSION TO HONOR TWO CANADIAN SCHOLARS AND EDUCATORS: PROFESSORS KEITH BALMAIN AND ROBERT MACPHIE On Plane-Wave Expansions of Cylindrical Waves .....................................................................................................................................277

Zhongxiang Shen, Yun Tao

Antennas and Plasma .....................................................................................................................................................................................281Colin C. Bantin

Open-Ended Waveguide Radiation Characteristics – Full-Wave Simulation versus Analytical Solutions .........................................285W. O’Keefe Coburn, T. K. Anthony, A. I. Zaghloul

SESSION 115 APS/URSI SPECIAL SESSION EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS OF METAMATERIAL PHENOMENA A Broadband Three-Dimensional Isotropic NRI Medium ........................................................................................................................289

Scott M. Rudolph, Anthony Grbic

Ab Initio Experimental Analysis of Realistic Resonant Ring Metamaterial Lenses...............................................................................293J. M. Algarin, M. J. Freire, M. Lapine, R. Marques

Characterization of Metamaterials Made of Stacked Layers of Dogbone Conductor Pairs .................................................................297Alexey P. Shitvov, Andrea Vallecchi, Alex G. Schuchinsky, Filippo Capolino

Tunable NRI Wedge Made of Metallic Wires in a Ferrite Host: Lens Structure, Experimental Demonstration, and Scanning Antenna / Spectral Analyzer Applications..................................................................................................................................301

S. Couture, J. Gauthier, A. Parsa, T. Kodera, C. Caloz

Experimental Validation of Several Metamaterial-engineered Antennas ...............................................................................................305Richard W. Ziolkowski, Peng Jin, Chia-Ching Lin

A Dual-Band Leaky-Wave Antenna Based on Generalized Negative-Refractive-Index Transmission-Lines.....................................309Colan G. M. Ryan, George V. Eleftheriades

Metamaterial-Inspired Broadband Mushroom Antenna ..........................................................................................................................313Yuandan Dong, Tatsuo Itoh

Experimental Validation of the Suppression of Spatial Dispersion in Artificial Plasma .......................................................................317Olli Luukkonen, Pekka Alitalo, Filippo Costa, Constantin Simovski, Sergei A. Tretyakov

SESSION 116 APS MULTIBAND AND WIDEBAND PLANAR ANTENNAS AND CIRCUITS Dual-band Microstrip Antenna Filter for Wireless Communications .....................................................................................................321

D. Zayniyev, D. Budimir

Novel Broadband Multilayer Microstrip Directional Couplers ................................................................................................................325Adullah Eroglu, Richard Goulding, Phil Ryan, John Caughman, David Rasmussen

Design of Circularly Polarised Broad Band Stacked Rectangular Patch Antennas for Modern Communication Systems.............................................................................................................................................................................................................329

S. Shekhawat, D. Bhatnagar, V. K. Saxena, J. S. Saini, Y. Ranga, M. M. Sharma

A Dual-Frequency Patch Antenna with Monopolar Radiation Pattern...................................................................................................333Francisco Javier Herraiz-Martínez, Eduardo Ugarte-Muñoz, Vicente González-Posadas, Daniel Segovia-Vargas

Triple-Band T-Shape Microstrip Patch Antenna with Slotted Ground Plane for PCS, UMTS and Bluetooth Communication Systems................................................................................................................................................................................337

W. Swelam

Study on a Stacked Patch Antenna Element for Dual-Band GNSS Arrays ............................................................................................341Nikola Basta, Marcos V. T. Heckler, Achim Dreher

Compact Broadband Patch Antenna with High Gain 2.4 GHz WLAN Operation ................................................................................345Shun-Min Wang, Fa-Shian Chang, Saou-Wen Su, Kup-Chien Chao, Wei-Chieh Chen, Cheng-Feng Tu

Design of Wideband Pattern Diversity Antenna for Mobile Communications .......................................................................................349Biqun Wu, Kwai-Man Luk

A Dual-Band Wilkinson Power Divider With 6:1 Power Dividing Ratio Using Coupled lines .............................................................353Bo Li, Xidong Wu, Yun Li, Jindong Zhang, Wen Wu

SESSION 117 APS UWB ARRRAYS AND CLOSELY SPACED ANTENNAS An Interweaved Spiral Array (ISPA) Providing a 10:1 Bandwidth Over a Ground Plane ...................................................................357

Ioannis Tzanidis, Kubilay Sertel, John L. Volakis

Design of High Performance Compact Linear Ultra-Wideband Arrays with the CMA Evolutionary Strategy ................................361M. D. Gregory, D. H. Werner

Design of Volumetric Antenna Arrays Based on Three-Dimensional Aperiodic Tilings .......................................................................365F. Namin, D. H. Werner

System Modeling of the Mutual Coupling of Multiple UWB Antennas ...................................................................................................369Y. Duroc, A. I. Najam, S. Tedjini

A Novel Technique for Coupling Reduction Between Closely Spaced On-Chip Antennas for Millimeter-Wave Applications.....................................................................................................................................................................................................373

Kasra Payandehjoo, Ramesh Abhari

SESSION 120 APS ANTENNAS FOR 60 GHZ APPLICATIONS Single-Feed Highly-Directive Fabry-Perot Cavity Antenna for 60 GHz Wireless Systems: Design and Fabrication ........................377

S. Ali Hosseini, Filippo Capolino, Franco De Flaviis

An LTCC Superstrate Patch Antenna for 60-GHz Package Applications ..............................................................................................381Duixian Liu, Hochung Chen, B. Floyd

Optimized Patch Array Antenna for 60 GHz Wireless Applications .......................................................................................................385B. Biglarbegian, M. Fakharzadeh, M. R. Nezhad-Ahmadi, S. Safavi-Naeini

Wideband and High Efficient Aperture Antenna with Superstrate for 60 GHz Indoor Communication systems.............................389Hamsakutty Vettikalladi, Laurent Le Coq, Olivier Lafond, Mohamed Himdi

A Low Profile Polarization Diversity 60 GHz CPW Fed Patch Antenna for Fading Mitigation ..........................................................393K. Hettak, L. Talbi, G. Y. Delisle, G. A. Morin

High-Efficiency 60 GHz Dipole-Box Antennas ...........................................................................................................................................397Yi-Chyun Chiou, Ramadan A. Alhalabi, Gabriel M. Rebeiz

Exploring Liquid Crystal Polymer (LCP) Substrates for mm-Wave Antennas in Portable Devices ...................................................401Farshid Aryanfar, Carl W. Werner

A 60 GHz On-Chip Slot Antenna in Silicon Integrated Passive Device Technology ..............................................................................405B. Biglarbegian, M. R. Nezhad-Ahmadi, C. Hoggat, S. Hose, M. Fakharzadeh, S. Safavi-Naeini

Dual-Folded-Dipole-Array in Chip Package for Single-Chip 60-GHz Radios ........................................................................................409M. Sun, Y. P. Zhang

Co-Design of IntegratedAntennas and CMOS Switches for Future Indoor Personal Networks at 60 GHz........................................413D. Titz, F. Ben Abdeljelil, C. Luxey, G. Jacquemod

Linearly Polarized and Circularly Polarized Arrays in LTCC Technology for 60GHz Radios ...........................................................417M. Sun, Y. X. Guo, M. F. Karim, L. C. Ong

SESSION 122 APS ADAPTIVE AND SMART ANTENNAS Design and Implementation of a Dual Excited Planar Circular Array Antenna for Base Stations......................................................421

Veneela Ammula, Stuart M. Wentworth, Sadasiva M. Rao

A 2.4 Gb/s Millimeter-Wave Link Using Adaptive Spatial Multiplexing ................................................................................................425Colin Sheldon, Munkyo Seo, Eric Torkildson, Upamanyu Madhow, Mark Rodwell

Fast 3D Pattern Synthesis for Conformal Antenna Arrays with Cross-Polarization Reduction ..........................................................429M. Comisso, R. Vescovo

Element Selection for Partial Adaptive Nulling ..........................................................................................................................................433Randy L. Haupt

Design, Optimization, and Verification of an Antenna Array for the 60 GHz Hybrid Smart Antenna System .................................437Nuri Celik, Magdy F. Iskander

A Summary of Results in Direct Spatial Antenna Modulation (DSAM)..................................................................................................441Brecken H. Uhl, Muhammad Dawood, Steven Castillo, Navakanth Cheedu

Adaptive Transmission Suppression ............................................................................................................................................................445R. B. Dybdal, K. M. Soohoo

Smart Broadband Body-Wearable Antennas for Mitigation of Signal Fading in Mobile Environment .............................................449Johnson J. H. Wang, David J. Triplett

Self-adjustable Circularly Polarized Patch Antenna..................................................................................................................................453F. Ferrero, F. Perret, J. M. Ribero, R. Staraj

SESSION 126 APS INVERSE PROBLEMS AND IMAGING The Level Set Technique for Microwave Imaging of 3D Dielectric Objects............................................................................................457

Mohammad Reza Hajihashemi, Magda El-Shenawee

Imaging Under Irregular Terrain Using RF Tomography and Numerical Green Functions ...............................................................461Lorenzo Lo Monte, Francesco Soldovieri, Ibrahim Akduman, Michael C. Wicks

Microwave Holography for Near-Field Imaging ........................................................................................................................................465M. Ravan, Reza K. Amineh, Natalia K. Nikolova

Application of the Joint MT-CSEM Inversion Algorithm for Field Data Interpretation ......................................................................469M. Li, A. Abubakar, J. Liu, Tarek M. Habashy

Application of the Multiplicative-regularized Gauss-newton Inversion for Microwave Biomedical Imaging Applications.....................................................................................................................................................................................................473

Aria Abubakar, Tarek M. Habashy

A Mode Matching - Bessel Functions Based Approach for UWB Microwave Imaging .........................................................................477Gianluigi Tiberi, Navid Ghavami, David J. Edwards, Agostino Monorchio

Iterative Multi Scaling-Enhanced Inexact Newton-Method for Microwave Imaging ............................................................................481Giacomo Oliveri, Giovanni Bozza, Andrea Massa, Matteo Pastorino

Values of Effective Complex Permittivity of Corrugated Slabs Computed by Bistatic Inverse Scattering .........................................485Jasmin E. Roy

An Efficient Algorithm for Solving Inverse Source Problems Using Time Domain TLM.....................................................................489Yu Zhang, Mohamed H. Bakr, Natalia K. Nikolova

Inverse Scattering for Lossy Electric Transmission Line Soft Fault Diagnosis ......................................................................................493Huaibin Tang, Qinghua Zhang

SESSION 127 APS ULTRA-WIDEBAND ANTENNAS AND SYSTEM APPLICATIONS Analog Real-Time Fourier Transformer Using a Group Delay Engineered C-Section All-Pass Network ..........................................497

Shulabh Gupta, Christophe Caloz

Non Dispersive, UWB, Leaky Lens Radiated Links ...................................................................................................................................501A. Neto, S. Monni

Experimental Results for a Graded Dielectric Focusing Lens ..................................................................................................................505Prashanth Kumar, Serhat Altunc, Carl E. Baum, Christos G. Christodoulou, Edl Schamiloglu

A Resistive Dipole Antenna Excited by an Impulse Generator for Ultra-wideband Radar Applications ...........................................509Jihoon Kim, Woong Kang, Kangwook Kim

Design of A Tapered Slot Array Antenna for UWB Through-wall RADAR...........................................................................................513Neelakantam V. Venkatarayalu, Yeow-Beng Gan

SESSION 128 APS PERIODIC STRUCTURES Interpolation of 2D Layered-Medium Periodic Green’s Function ...........................................................................................................517

Ferhat. T. Celepcikay, Donald R. Wilton, David R. Jackson

Relationship of Scattering from the PEC Screen with Infinite Periodicity and Its Complementary Structure ..................................521Fu-Gang Hu, Jiming Song

Efficient Computation of the Impedance of a Single Vertical Current in a Periodic Line ....................................................................525Guido Valerio, Paolo Baccarelli, Paolo Burghignoli, Alessandro Galli

Improving Modal Analysis of 1D-Periodic Lines Based on the Simulation of Finite Structures ..........................................................529Guido Valerio, Simone Paulotto, Paolo Baccarelli, Paolo Burghignoli, Alessandro Galli

Accelerated Solution of Periodic Problems Involving Arbitrarily-Shaped Cylindrical Inclusions in Stratified Media .....................533Guido Valerio, Donald R. Wilton, David R. Jackson, Alessandro Galli

The Array Scanning Method for the Computation of 1D-Periodic 3D Green's Functions in Stratified Media ..................................537Guido Valerio, David R. Jackson, Alessandro Galli

SESSION 201 APS/URSI SPECIAL SESSION BODY IMPLANTED ANTENNAS: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES Pervasive Body Sensing: Implanted RFID Tags for Vascular Monitoring..............................................................................................541

C. Occhiuzzi, G. Marrocco

Broadband Implanted UHF RFID Antenna................................................................................................................................................545D. Valderas, C. Schmidt, X. Chen

RF Implanted Antenna Gain Characterization: Procedures and Challenges .........................................................................................549D. Valderas, C. Schmidt, X. Chen

Develop Implantable Ceramic Antennas with no Superstrate ..................................................................................................................553T. F. Chien, C. M. Cheng, H. C. Yang, C. H. Luo

A Helical Folded Dipole Antenna for Implantable Communication Devices ..........................................................................................557Hayato Mizuno, Koichi Ito, Masaharu Takahashi, Kazuyuki Saito

Ingestible RFID Bio-capsule Tag Design for Medical Monitoring ...........................................................................................................561Harish Rajagopalan, Yahya Rahmat-Samii

On-Body RFID Tag Design for Human Monitoring Applications............................................................................................................565Harish Rajagopalan, Yahya Rahmat-Samii

Inexpensive Fabric Antenna for Off-Body Wireless Sensor Communication .........................................................................................569Jason Carter, Jason Saberin, Tejal Shah, Sai Ananthanarayanan, Cynthia Furse

SESSION 202 APS/URSI SPECIAL SESSION MEMORIAL SESSION FOR THE LATE PROFESSOR ROBERT S. ELLIOTT Particle Swarm Optimized Three-Parameter Aperture Distribution for Antenna Synthesis ...............................................................573

Art Densmore, Yahya Rahmat-Samii

Antenna Array Pattern Synthesis for Space Communication Applications ............................................................................................577F. Ares-Pena, J. A. Rodríguez-González

Admittance Design with Perfect Input Matching in Two-Dimensional Waveguide Slot Arrays by Introducing the Equivalent Circuit Model ..............................................................................................................................................................................581

Miao Zhang, Jiro Hirokawa, Makoto Ando

Advances in Waveguide-Fed Slot Arrays ....................................................................................................................................................585Sembiam R. Rengarajan

Low-Sidelobe Slot Arrays for the Juno Microwave Radiometer ..............................................................................................................589M. Zawadzki, S. Rengarajan, R. E. Hodges, J. Chen

Sparse Planar Array Synthesis Technique for Satellite Applications ......................................................................................................593M. C. Vigano, G. Caille, G. Toso, C. Mangenot, I. E. Lager

SESSION 203 APS METAMATERIALS AND META-SURFACES An Efficient Broadband Left-Handed Metamaterials with Low-Loss .....................................................................................................597

Cheng Zhu, Long Li, Chang-Hong Liang

A Simple Approach for Synthesizing of Multipurpose Metamaterials ....................................................................................................601A. Kabiri, O. M. Ramahi

A Large Index of Refraction Artificial Material Composed of Dumbbell Particles ...............................................................................605Anthony K. Amert, Brian B. Glover, Keith W. Whites

Metamaterials Composed of Rose Curve Inclusions ..................................................................................................................................609A. Kabiri, O. M. Ramahi

Bandwidth Enhancement and Beam Squint Reduction of Leaky Modes in a Uniaxially Anisotropic Meta-substrate......................613A. Shahvarpour, A. Alvarez Melcon, C. Caloz

Demonstration of Unidirectional Printed Structures Emulating Magnetic Photonic Crystals .............................................................617Nil Apaydin, Kubilay Sertel, John L. Volakis

Use of SRR Based Super-Cells to Obtain Multiple Resonances and Broader Frequency Bands with Negative Effective Permeability ....................................................................................................................................................................................621

Evren Ekmekci, Gonul Turhan-Sayan

Genetic Algorithm Synthesis of Impedance-Matched Infrared ZIMs with Wide FOV Using a Generalized Inversion Algorithm .......................................................................................................................................................................................625

Zhi Hao Jiang, Jeremy A. Bossard, Xiande Wang, Douglas H. Werner

Status on Meta-Horn Development – Theory and Experiments ...............................................................................................................629Erik Lier, Robert K. Shaw, Douglas H. Werner, Qi Wu, Clinton P. Scarborough, Micah D. Gregory

Performance Comparison of Lens Antennas Realized Using a Thin Free-Standing Transmissive Phase-Shifting Surface (PSS)...................................................................................................................................................................................................633

Nicolas Gagnon, Derek A. McNamara, Aldo Petosa

Scattering of a Gaussian Beam by a “Holey” Dielectric Slab....................................................................................................................637Li Yanfei, Raj Mittra, Lu Guizhen

SESSION 204 APS/URSI TUNABLE AND ACTIVE METAMATERIALS A Metamaterial-Based Passive MMIC Tunable Phase Shifter .................................................................................................................641

Mohamed A. Y. Abdalla, Khoman Phang, George V. Eleftheriades

Ferrite Tunable Metamaterial Phase Shifter ..............................................................................................................................................645Mahmoud A Abdalla, Zhirun Hu

Broadband Active Magnetic Materials ........................................................................................................................................................649Khalid Z. Rajab, Yang Hao, Di Bao, Clive Parini, Javier Vazquez, Mike Philippakis, Simon Wilmot, Robert Pearson

Experimental Study of a Modified Silicon-Based CRLH Cell for Enhanced Reconfigurability ...........................................................653Badreddine Ouagague, Fabio Coccetti, Christina Villeneuve, Robert Plana

Design, Development and Experimental Verification of Voltage Tunable Ferroelectric Coplanar Phase Shifters ............................657Yip-Loon Lee, Hyoung-Sun Youn, Clifford Tanaka, Wayne Kim, Magdy Iskander

Gain-Enhanced Metamaterial Radome for Circularly-Polarized Antenna.............................................................................................661Hsin-Lung Su, Hung-Chi Huang, Ken-Huang Lin, Chin-Yih Wu, Hung-Hsuan Lin

SESSION 205 APS COMPACT LOW PROFILE ANTENNAS 2.45 GHz End-Loaded Dipole Backed by a High Impedance Surface .....................................................................................................665

David Cure, Sergio Melais, Thomas Weller, Paul Herzig, Robert Roeder

Low-Cost High-Efficiency Substrate-Integrated Cavity-Backed Single Element Antenna ...................................................................669Mohamed H. Awida, Essam Elkhouly, Aly E. Fathy

Compact Dual Circularly-Polarized Microstrip Antennas........................................................................................................................673Ahmed Hassan, Fatma Elhefnawi, Atef Z. Elsherbeni, Moataza Hendi, Salwa Elramly

A Compact Broadband MIMO Antenna for Mobile Handset Applications............................................................................................677Xiang Zhou, Ronglin Li, Manos M. Tentzeris

Integrated 915 MHz Dual-Patch Circularly Polarized Antenna for Suaineadh Space Web Experiment............................................681Griogair W. M. Whyte, Christopher Murray, Christie Maddock, Massimiliano Vasile, Timothy D. Drysdale

Reconfigurable Loaded Planar Inverted F-Antenna by Making Use of Varactor Diodes .....................................................................685O. Quevedo-Teruel, E. Rajo-Iglesias, L. Inclan-Sanchez, J. L. Vazquez-Roy

On the Increase of the Efficiency and Bandwidth of Compact PIFAs Based on SRR by Making Use of Lumped Capacitors........................................................................................................................................................................................................689

O. Quevedo-Teruel, M. Ng Mou Kehn, E. Pucci, E. Rajo-Iglesias

Circularly Polarized Square Ring Slot Patch Antennas ............................................................................................................................693A. Buffi, R. Caso, M. R. Pino, P. Nepa, G. Manara

Circular Polarization Switchable Microstrip Antenna with SPDT Switching Circuit...........................................................................697Yu Ushijima, Eisuke Nishiyama, Masayoshi Aikawa

Printed C-Shaped Monopole Antenna Array with High Isolation for MIMO Applications .................................................................701Qi Luo, H. M. Salgado, J. R. Pereira

Small Planar Broadside Radiation Leaky Wave Antenna Design ............................................................................................................705Guang-Fu Cheng, Ching-Kuang C. Tzuang

SESSION 206 APS ANTENNAS AND COMPONENTS FOR RFID A Miniaturized, Circularly Polarized Antenna for an Active 433.92MHz RFID Handheld Reader....................................................709

Jay J. Yu, Sungkyun Lim

Investigations on an Novel Embedded-Feed Microstrip Patch Antenna for UHF RFID Tag on Metallic Objects ............................713Hong-G. Cho, Nathan R. Labadie, Satish K. Sharma

Compact Printed Monopole Tag Antennas for UHF RFID Applications ................................................................................................717Abdulhadi E. Abdulhadi, Ramesh Abhari

Low-Profile Broadband RFID Tag Antennas Mountable on Metallic Objects.......................................................................................721Mingyin Lai, Ronglin Li, M. M. Tentzeris

Design of a Meandered Slot Antenna for UHF RFID Applications..........................................................................................................725Jikwon Kim, Il-Young Oh, Jun Chul Kim, Dongsu Kim, Tae-Wan Koo, Jong-Gwan Yook

Design and Implementation of Label-type UHF RFID Tags for the Metallic Object Application .......................................................729Tae-Wan Koo, Dongsu Kim, Jong-In Ryu, Ji-Kwon Kim, Jong-Gwan Yook, Jun-Chul Kim

Low-Profile PIFA Array RFID Tag Antenna Mountable on Metallic Objects .......................................................................................733Ching-Han Tsai, Horng-Dean Chen, Yu-Hung Tsao, Che-Yang Kuo

Aperture-Coupled Patch Array Antenna for Microwave Band RFID Handheld Reader Applications ..............................................737Fang-Yao Kuo, Heng-Tung Hsu

A Compact UHF RFID Tag Antenna Design for Metallic Objects...........................................................................................................741Wen-Shan Chen, Jhih-Ciang Chen, Bau-Yi Lee

Compact Phase Shifter for UHF RFID Applications .................................................................................................................................745Nemai C. Karmakar, Parisa Zakavi

SESSION 207 APS HYBRID METHODS - I An Enhanced Flexible Time-Stepping Scheme for the Hybrid Time-Domain Finite Element Method ...............................................749

Rui Wang, Jian-Ming Jin

Wideband FEM Computations via the Adaptive BT-POD .......................................................................................................................753Wei Wang, Marinos N. Vouvakis

Multi-Parametric Sweep of Large-Scale FEM Models Using the BT-POD.............................................................................................757Wei Wang, Georgios N. Paraschos, Marinos N. Vouvakis

Simulation of the Mutual Couplings Among Multiple Antennas on Large Platform Using Multi-region Multi-solver Domain Decomposition .......................................................................................................................................................................761

Xiaochuan Wang, Zhen Peng, Jin-Fa Lee

Diakoptic Higher-Order FEM-MoM Approach .........................................................................................................................................765Dragan I. Olcan, Milan M. Ilic, Branislav M. Notaroš, Branko M. Kolundžija, Antonije R. Djordjevic

Scattering from a Composite Body of Revolution with Fast Inhomogeneous Plane Wave Algorithm.................................................769Xi Rui, Jun Hu, Qing Huo Liu

Development of a Novel HEMT-Based Plasmonic Sensor .........................................................................................................................773C. S. Meierbachtol, T. D. Brown, P. Chahal, B. Shanker

Wavelet Electromagnetic Field Processing: Multidimensional Fast Wavelet Transform Decomposition of Time and Frequency Domain Electromagnetic Fields.................................................................................................................................................777

Adrian Ngoly, Steve McFee

A Hybrid Finite Element Method - Surface Integral Equation Using Quasi-Periodic Green's Function in Solving the Problem of Scattering from Infinite Periodic Conducting Grating ...................................................................................................781

Babak Alavikia, Omar M. Ramahi

Limitation of Using Absorbing Boundary Condition to Solve the Problem of Scattering from a Cavity in Metallic Screens .............................................................................................................................................................................................................785

Babak Alavikia, Omar M. Ramahi

Investigation of the Nonlinear Circuit Analysis by Electromagnetic Topology Based on Harmonic Balance ....................................789Yoon-Mi Park, Min-Hyuk Kim, Changyul Cheon, Hyun-Kyo Jung, Young-Seek Chung

SESSION 208 APS PHASED ARRAY FEEDING AND IMPEDANCE MATCHING A Negative-Index Annular Lens Device for Feeding 360°-Sterrable Ring Arrays .................................................................................793

Abbas Abbaspour-Tamijani

A 10.5-14.5 GHz Wide-Scanning Connected Array of Dipoles with Common-Mode Rejection Loops to Ensure Polarization Purity .........................................................................................................................................................................................797

Daniele Cavallo, Andrea Neto, Giampiero Gerini

A Dual Polarization Phased Array with Connected Spirals ......................................................................................................................801R. Guinvarc'H, Randy L. Haupt

Performance of Multi-Beam Reflectors Fed by Phased Array Feeds with Impedance-Matching Layers ...........................................805Malcolm Ng Mou Kehn, Marianna Ivashina, Lotfollah Shafai

Mechanical Scanning with a Dual-Layer Pillbox Antenna for Millimeter-Wave Applications ............................................................809M. Ettorre, E. Gandini, R. Sauleau

SESSION 209 APS MICROSTRIP ANTENNA ARRAYS Multilayer Organic X-Band Antenna Arrays Using Wilkinson Power Dividers with Embedded Thin Film Resistors .....................813

Ana M. Yepes, Swapan K. Bhattacharya, John Papapolymerou

Removal of Beam Squint in Series Fed Array Antennas Using Abnormal Group Delay Phase Shifters.............................................817Sinan Keser, Mo Mojahedi

An Annular-slot Coupling Feeding Technique for Dual-feed Circularly Polarized Patch Arrays .......................................................821R. Caso, A. Buffi, M. R. Pino, P. Nepa, G. Manara

Series-Fed Microstrip Antenna Arrays Operating at 26 GHz ..................................................................................................................825E. A. Soliman, A. Vasylchenko, V. Volski, G. A. E. Vandenbosch, W. De Raedt

Compact Dual-Band Microstrip Patch Array Antenna for MIMO 4G Communication Systems .......................................................829W. Swelam, M. Ali Soliman, Ali Gomaa, T. E. Taha

A 2x4 Substrate-IntegratedWaveguide Probe-Fed Cavity-Backed Patch Array....................................................................................833Mohamed H. Awida, Essam Elkhouly, Aly E. Fathy

A Standing-Wave Microstrip Array Antenna.............................................................................................................................................837Anand Lakshmanan, Choon Sae Lee

One Dimensional Phase Conjugating/Retrodirective Mirror in Millimeter-Wave Band ......................................................................841Woosung Lee, Jaeheung Kim, Young Joong Yoon

Circularly-Polarized Planar Array of Sequentially Rotated E-Shaped Elements ..................................................................................845L. F. Marzall, D. C. Lunardi, R. Schildberg, J. C. Da S. Lacava

Radiation Patterns of Spherical-Circular Meridian Arrays......................................................................................................................849D. B. Ferreira, J. C. Da S. Lacava

Wideband Stacked Microstrip Patch Antenna on Thin PTFE Substrate for Millimeter-wave Personal Area Network (mmWPAN).....................................................................................................................................................................................853

Jing Gao, Keren Li, Hiroshi Harada

SESSION 210 APS WIDEBAND ARRAYS Improving Axial Ratio of a Planar Phased Array of Spirals .....................................................................................................................857

Israel Hinostroza, Régis Guinvarc'H, Randy L. Haupt

Multi-Objective Optimization of Wideband Spiral Arrays .......................................................................................................................861Davide Bianchi, Nunzia Fontana, Simone Genovesi, Agostino Monorchio, Andrea Vallecchi, Matteo Cerretelli, Mariano Linari, Guido Biffi Gentili

On Wideband Modular Design of Small Arrays of Planar Dipoles ..........................................................................................................865Vishwanath Iyer, Sergey Makarov, Faranak Nekoogar

A 7-21GHz Planar Ultrawideband Modular Array ...................................................................................................................................869Steven S. Holland, Marinos N. Vouvakis

Low-Cost, Planar and Wideband Phased Array with Integrated Balun and Matching Network for Wide-Angle Scanning ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................873

Justin A. Kasemodel, Chi-Chih Chen, John L. Volakis

SESSION 212 APS DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL ESTIMATION Experimental Study of DOA Estimation Using a Compact Monopole Array .........................................................................................877

Yantao Yu, Hoi Shun Lui, Choon Hock Niow, Hon Tat Hui, Mook Seng Leong

DOA(Direction Of Arrival) with Array Antennas Based on MOM .........................................................................................................881Sang-Kon Mun, Won-June Kang, Vea-O Lee, Chang-Yul Cheon, Yong-Seek Chung

Azimuth and Elevation Angles Estimation Using 2-D MUSIC Algorithm with an L-shape Antenna..................................................885M. G. Porozantzidou, M. T. Chryssomallis

Estimation of the Directions-of-Arrival of Correlated Signals by means of a SVM-based Multi-Resolution Approach .........................................................................................................................................................................................................889

Leonardo Lizzi, Giacomo Oliveri, Paolo Rocca, Andrea Massa

Improvement of DOA Estimation Accuracy by Using Sub-arrays...........................................................................................................893Mitoshi Fujimoto, Shohei Ohaka, Toshikazu Hori

Hybrid Technique for Direction of Arrival Estimation by Non-Uniform Planar Array .......................................................................897Wael Elshennawy, Islam A. Eshrah, Ahmed M. Attiya

A Novel Direction of Arrival Estimation Technique Using a Single UWB Antenna ..............................................................................901Rongguo Zhou, Hao Xin

DOA Estimation of Correlated Sources Using SMT ..................................................................................................................................905Ismail Jouny

Effect of Mutual Coupling on the Performance of Direction-of-Arrival Estimation of Compact Array .............................................909Hoi-Shun Lui, Yantao Yu, Hon Tat Hui

SESSION IF214 APS INTERACTIVE FORUM ADVANCES IN TIME DOMAIN FINITE ELEMENT TECHNIQUES A Hybrid Spectral-Element / Finite-Element Method with the Implicit-Explicit Runge-Kutta Time Stepping Scheme for Multiscale Computation ............................................................................................................................................................913

Jiefu Chen, Qing H. Liu

Application of the Tree-Cotree Splitting Technique to the Transient Full-Wave Analysis Based on the Time-Domain Finite Element Method....................................................................................................................................................................917

Rui Wang, Douglas J. Riley, Jian-Ming Jin

Modeling of Dispersive Media within the Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Time-Domain Method ........................................921Stephen D. Gedney, John Young, Tyler Kramer

Multiscale Orthogonal Finite-Element Reduction-Recovery Method for Transient Analysis of Integrated Circuits and Package Problems ...................................................................................................................................................................................925

Duo Chen, Dan Jiao

Electromagnetics-Based Co-Simulation of Linear Network and Nonlinear Circuits Accelerated by Time-Domain Orthogonal Finite-Element Reduction-Recovery Method .........................................................................................................................929

Qing He, Duo Chen, Dan Jiao

SESSION IF215 APS INTERACTIVE FORUM DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION TECHNIQUES IN FEM Octree-Based Finite Element Method for Electromagnetic Scattering Problems...................................................................................933

Seth A. Jackson, Marinos N. Vouvakis

Acceleration and Accuracy Improvement of FEM Computation by Using FETI-DP and BI Hybrid Algorithm ..............................937Ming-Feng Xue, Yu-Jia Li, Jian-Ming Jin

Parallel FETI-EM Domain Decomposition Methods Optimized for Antenna Arrays and Metamaterials Periodic Structures ........................................................................................................................................................................................................941

Andre Barka, François-Xavier Roux

True 2nd Order Transmission Condition in Conjunction with Corner Edge Penalty Term for Non-conformal Domain Decomposition Methods in Solving Time-Harmonic Maxwell Equations.................................................................................945

Zhen Peng, Jin-Fa Lee

On the Accuracy of λ-based FETI Method for Electromagnetic Problems .............................................................................................949Georgios N. Paraschos, Marinos N. Vouvakis

Overlapping Method for EMC Applications Applied to Aperture Models in Domain Decomposition Method .................................953Laurent Patier, Vincent Gobin, Pierre Bonnet, Françoise Paladian

SESSION IF216 APS INTERACTIVE FORUM ADVANCES IN FREQUENCY DOMAIN FINITE ELEMENT METHOD A Hybrid Finite Element - Vector Generalized Finite Element Method for Electromagnetics.............................................................957

O. Tuncer, B. Shanker, L. C. Kempel

Computation of FEM-Domain Fields in the Higher Order Hybrid FEM-MoM Solution .....................................................................961Milan M. Ilic, Branislav M. Notaroš

Solution of Large Scattering Problems Using a Multilevel Scheme in the context of Characteristic Basis Finite Element Method..............................................................................................................................................................................................965

Ozlem Ozgun, Raj Mittra, Mustafa Kuzuoglu

Full-wave Electromagnetic and Quasi-static Analysis of Through Silicon Via .......................................................................................969Ying Li, Vikram Jandhyala

Layered H-Matrix Based Direct Matrix Inversion of Significantly Reduced Complexity for Finite-Element-Based Large-Scale Electromagnetic Analysis .........................................................................................................................................................973

Haixin Liu, Dan Jiao

VGFEM with Perfectly Matched Layers .....................................................................................................................................................977O. Tuncer, B. Shanker, L. C. Kempel

Finite Element / Dipole Moment Method for Efficient Solution of Multiscale Electromagnetic Problems .........................................981Ozlem Ozgun, Raj Mittra, Mustafa Kuzuoglu

A Theoretically Rigorous Solution for Fundamentally Eliminating the Low-Frequency Breakdown Problem in Finite-Element-Based Full-Wave Analysis ..................................................................................................................................................985

Jianfang Zhu, Dan Jiao

A Mass-Matrix Solution Based Frequency-Domain Finite-Element Method..........................................................................................989Jianfang Zhu, Dan Jiao

A Fast 3-D Eigenvalue Solver for Finite-Element-Based Analysis of Multilayered Integrated Circuits..............................................993Jongwon Lee, Venkataramanan Balakrishnan, Cheng-Kok Koh, Dan Jiao

SESSION IF217 APS INTERACTIVE FORUM FAST METHODS AND PRECONDITIONING FOR INTEGRAL EQUATIONS Analysis of Large Multi-Scale Wire-Surface Structures with a Fast Hierarchical MoM Approach....................................................997

F. Vipiana, M. A. Francavilla, G. Vecchi, D. R. Wilton

A Quasi Block Cholesky Algorithm for Fast Direct Solution of Integral-Equation Method Based on the PMCHWT Formulation...................................................................................................................................................................................................1001

Shumin Wang

An O(N) Method for the Rapid Analysis of Periodic Problems Using Accelerated Cartesian Expansions (ACE) ...........................1005A. D. Baczewski, B. Shanker

Improving the Accuracy of the Calderón Preconditioned CFIE by Using a Mixed Discretization ....................................................1009K. Cools, F. P. Andriulli, P. Yla-Oijala, H. Bagci, D. De Zutter, E. Michielssen

A Generalized Calderón Preconditioner for the Electric Field Integral Equation ...............................................................................1013F. P. Andriulli, F. Valdes, K. Cools, E. Michielssen

A Broadband Stable and Efficient Addition Theorem for the Two-Dimensional Helmholtz Equation .............................................1017I. Bogaert, D. De Zutter, K. Cools, J. Fostier, B. Michiels, J. Peeters

Acceleration of the Calderón Preconditioned PMCHWT Solver by the Asynchronously Parallelized NSPWMLFMA .............................................................................................................................................................................................1021

K. Cools, J. Peeters, I. Bogaert, J. Fostier, B. Michiels, F. P. Andriulli, D. De Zutter

Fully Localized High-Order Div- and Quasi-Curl-Conforming Basis Functions for Multiplicative Calderón Preconditioning of the EFIE........................................................................................................................................................................1025

Felipe Valdés, Francesco P. Andriulli, Kristof Cools, Joseph D. Kotulski, Eric Michielssen

A Comparative Study of Different Calderón Preconditioned PMCHWT Formulations.....................................................................1029Su Yan, Jian-Ming Jin, Zaiping Nie

A Study of the Augmented EFIE with a Calderón Preconditioner.........................................................................................................1033Su Yan, Jian-Ming Jin, Zaiping Nie

Derivation of N-Müller Equations Using Calderón Identities.................................................................................................................1037Su Yan, Jian-Ming Jin, Zaiping Nie

SESSION IF218 APS INTERACTIVE FORUM DISCRETIZATION OF INTEGRAL EQUATIONS A Low Complexity Algorithm to Identify Open and Closed Surfaces in Complex Geometries ..........................................................1041

F. Vipiana, G. Vecchi

“Relay Race” Closed-form Expressions of Green's Functions for Planar Layered Media..................................................................1045Rafael R. Boix, Ana L. Fructos, Francisco Mesa

A Priori Error Estimate and Control in the Eigencurrent Expansion Method Applied to Linear Embedding Via Green’s Operators (LEGO).........................................................................................................................................................................1049

Vito Lancellotti, Bastiaan P. De Hon, Anton G. Tijhuis

Volume-Surface Integral Equations with Hybrid Curl-Conforming and Divergence-Conforming Basis Functions .......................1053Xiande Cao, Cai-Cheng Lu

Optimized Quadrilateral Mesh for Higher Order Method of Moments Based on Triangular Mesh Decimation ............................1057Milan M. Kostic, Branko M. Kolundzija, Drazen S. Sumic, Branko Lj. Mrdakovic

On the Efficient Evaluation of Hyper-singular Integrals in Galerkin Surface Integral Equation Formulations Via the Direct Evaluation Method .....................................................................................................................................................................1061

J. M. Tamayo, A. G. Polimeridis, J. M. Rius, J. R. Mosig

Adaptive Refinement of Higher Order Method of Moment Based on Separate Testing of Patch Residuum Along Its Axes ................................................................................................................................................................................................................1065

Milan M. Kostic, Branko M. Kolundzija

An Implementation of the Impedance-Boundary CFIE Using Linear-Linear Basis Functions and MLFMA..................................1069James C. West

Meshless Modeling of Massive Number of Vias in Interconnects by Full-wave Analysis ....................................................................1073Zhonghai Guo, George W. Pan

Integral Equation Formulations for the Analysis of Left-Handed Metamaterials ...............................................................................1077Javier Rivero, José M. Taboada, Luis Landesa

Finite Difference Delay Modeling of Potential Time Integrals................................................................................................................1081Amir Geranmayeh, Wolfgang Ackermann, Thomas Weiland

SESSION IF219 APS INTERACTIVE FORUM INTEGRAL EQUATION MODELING AND VALIDATION HOBBIES: A New Electromagnetic Simulator.........................................................................................................................................1085

Daniel García-Doñoro, Yu Zhang, Weixin Zhao, Tapan K. Sarkar, Luis Emilio García-Castillo, Magdalena Salazar-Palma

OpenMP Parallelization of NURBS-HOMM for Electromagnetic Scattering Problems on Multi-Core Computer ........................1089Zi-Liang Liu, Chao-Fu Wang

A Generalized Method of Moments Based Discretization of the Müller Integral Formulation ..........................................................1093N. V. Nair, B. Shanker

Iterative Solution of Dielectric Waveguide Problems via Schur Complement Preconditioners .........................................................1097Tahir Malas, Levent Gurel

Analysis of Transient Scattering from PEC Objects Using the Generalized Method of Moments .....................................................1101N. V. Nair, A. J. Pray, B. Shanker

Benchmark Targets for Computational Electromagnetics Programs Modeling Structures with Edges ...........................................1105D. Erricolo, R. D. Graglia, G. Lombardi, T. Stoia, P. L. E Uslenghi

MLFMA-FFT Algorithm for the Solution of Challenging Problems in Electromagnetics ..................................................................1109J. M. Taboada, L. Landesa, M. G. Araujo, J. M. Bertolo, J. Rivero, F. Obelleiro, J. L. Rodriguez

Electromagnetic Scattering by a Finite Strip on a Substrate ..................................................................................................................1113Egon Marx

A New Technique for Efficient Simulation of Microstrip Circuits Etched in Layered Media ............................................................1117G. Bianconi, R. Mittra, K. Du, S. Genovesi, A. Monorchio

Modeling of a Finite-size Thick Metallic Waveguide FSS Under Oblique Plane Wave Incidence Using Scale Changing Technique ....................................................................................................................................................................................1121

Euloge B. Tchikaya, Hervé Aubert, Nelson J. G. Fonseca

Scattering Analysis of Mixed Metallic/Uniaxial Objects Using Surface Integral Equations Accelerated by Adaptive Cross Approximation Algorithm ................................................................................................................................................................1125

Yan Shi, Jian-Ming Jin

SESSION IF220 APS INTERACTIVE FORUM FAST INTEGRAL EQUATION SOLUTION SCHEMES Suppression of Field Projection Error in EPA at Low Frequencies by Augmentation Method .........................................................1129

L. E. Sun, W. C. Chew, J.-M. Jin

A LOGOS Solution of a Locally Corrected Nystrom Formulation for the Magnetostatic Volume Integral Equation....................1133John Young, Stephen D. Gedney, Xu Xin, Robert J. Adams

A Complexity-Reduced H-Matrix Based Direct Integral Equation Solver with Prescribed Accuracy for Large-Scale Electrodynamic Analysis ...................................................................................................................................................................1137

Wenwen Chai, Dan Jiao

A New H2-Matrix-Based Representation of Electrodynamic Systems with Minimized Rank and Prescribed Accuracy ........................................................................................................................................................................................................1141

Wenwen Chai, Dan Jiao

Fast Interpolation Method for Field Evaluation in a Periodic Unit Cell ...............................................................................................1145Shaojing Li, Vitaliy Lomakin

Complete Treatment of Double Surface Weakly Singular Integrals Arising in Galerkin Mixed Potential Integral Equation Formulations Via the Direct Evaluation Method.....................................................................................................................1149

Athanasios G. Polimeridis, Juan R. Mosig

SESSION 221 APS TRANSFORMATION ELECTROMAGNETICS AND CLOAKING Patterned Metallic Surfaces to Realize 1-D, 2-D and 3-D Ultrathin Invisibility Cloaks ......................................................................1153

Pai Yen Chen, Andrea Alu

Low-Profile Embedded Array Design for Endfire Scanning Using Transformation Electromagnetics ............................................1157Do-Hoon Kwon, Caglar D. Emiroglu

Tunable Metamaterials for Conformally Mapped Transformation Optics Lenses ..............................................................................1161Jeremiah P. Turpin, Zhi Hao Jiang, Pingjuan L. Werner, Douglas H. Werner

Transformation Media for Efficient Numerical Modeling of Finite Methods.......................................................................................1165Mustafa Kuzuoglu, Ozlem Ozgun

A Comparative Study of Cloaking of Metal Objects from Electromagnetic Pulses .............................................................................1169Pekka Alitalo, Henrik Kettunen, Sergei A. Tretyakov

Flat Devices Design for Antenna Systems Using Coordinate Transformation ......................................................................................1173Wenxuan Tang, Christos Argyropoulos, Efthymios Kallos, Di Bao, Wei Song, Yang Hao

SESSION 222 APS RECONFIGURABLE ANTENNA ARRAYS An Amplifying Reconfigurable Reectarray Element................................................................................................................................1177

Krishna Kumar Kishor, Sean Victor Hum

Neural Networks FPGA Controller for Reconfigurable Antennas.........................................................................................................1181E. Al Zuraiqi, M. Joler, C. G. Christodoulou

Dual Frequency Reflectarray Cell Using Split-ring Elements with RF MEMS Switches ....................................................................1185Caner Guclu, Julien Perruisseau-Carrier, Ozlem Aydin Civi

Gain Enhanced Linear Polarization Switchable Microstrip Array Antenna ........................................................................................1189Hossain Md. Azad, Eisuke Nishiyama, Masayoshi Aikawa

Pattern Reconfigurable Ka-band Slot-array Antenna Using RF-MEMS ..............................................................................................1193Daniel Sánchez-Escuderos, Miguel Ferrando-Bataller, Mariano Baquero-Escudero, Jose I. Herranz-Herruzo

Optimized Design of Beam-Tilted Linearly-Polarized Radial-Line Slot-Array Antennas ..................................................................1197Jose I. Herranz, Alejandro Valero-Nogueira, Esperanza Alfonso, Vicent M. Rodrigo

SESSION 224 APS ANALYSIS OF ULTRA-WIDEBAND SYSTEMS Transient Analysis of a Rotman Lens for HPEM Systems ......................................................................................................................1201

A. Lambrecht, P. Laskowski, S. Beer, T. Zwick

Impulse Response of Vivaldi Antenna Using Cubic-Spline and Exponential Taper Profiles for Compact Ground Penetrating Radar Applications .................................................................................................................................................................1205

Khabat Ebnabbasi, Carey Rappaport, Heinrich Foltz, James McLean

Quantification of the Impact of the Antenna Non-Idealities in UWB Transmission Systems .............................................................1209Elena Pancera, Lukasz Zwirello, Thomas Zwick, Werner Wiesbeck

A Comparison Between the SEM Method and the Slepian Expansion for Modeling the Frequency Dependency of an Antenna Transfer Function....................................................................................................................................................................1213

Wouter Dullaert, Hendrik Rogier

Equivalent Circuit Modeling of UWB Antennas for System Co-Design ................................................................................................1217Yongxin Guo, Yaqiong Zhang, Abdullah Rasmita, Mook-Seng Leong

Accurate Evaluation of the Time-Domain Effective Height for Short-Pulse Antennas .......................................................................1221D. Caratelli, A. Yarovoy

SESSION 225 APS/URSI SPECIAL SESSION IN MEMORY OF PROFESSOR BENEDIKT MUNK Tapered Periodic Surfaces...........................................................................................................................................................................1225

Errol K. English

The Design of Wideband Arrays of Closely-Spaced Wire and Slot Elements .......................................................................................1229Benedikt A. Munk, Dan S. Janning, Ronald J. Marheka, John F. McCann, Stephen W. Schneider

SESSION 226 APS SPECIAL SESSION PARALLELIZATION OF FAST INTEGRAL EQUATION SOLVERS ON CPU AND GPU HARDWARE ARCHITECTURES FFT-based Solvers for the EFIE on Graphics Processors .......................................................................................................................1233

M. A. Francavilla, F. Vipiana, G. Vecchi

Design of Asynchronous and Scalable MLFMA Implementations .........................................................................................................1237Jan Fostier, Bart Michiels, Joris Peeters, Ignace Bogaert, Kristof Cools, Daniel De Zutter

Parallel Factorization of a Sparse Representation of Integral Equations Using MPI ..........................................................................1241Zhiyong Zeng, Xin Xu, Robert J. Adams

Advanced Partitioning and Communication Strategies for the Efficient Parallelization of the Multilevel Fast Multipole Algorithm.....................................................................................................................................................................................1245

Ozgur Ergul, Levent Gurel

SESSION 228 APS METAMATERIAL-INSPIRED DEVICES Thin Composite Matched Impedance Magneto-Dielectric Metamaterial Absorbers...........................................................................1249

Zikri Bayraktar, Xiande Wang, Douglas H. Werner

Analysis and Design of Thin Absorbers Based on Artificial Magnetic Conductors with Resistive Elements ...................................1253E. Doumanis, G. Goussetis, A. P. Feresidis, R. Cahill

Metamaterial Lens Antenna Using Dielectric Resonators for Wide Angle Beam Scanning................................................................1257Shinji Kamada, Naobumi Michishita, Yoshihide Yamada

A Luneburg Lens Designed by Using a Variable Artificial Surface .......................................................................................................1261M. Casaletti, F. Caminita, S. Maci

Planar Microwave Lens Based on Complementary Metamaterials .......................................................................................................1265Q. Cheng, T. J. Cui

Systematic Design of Planar Lenses Using Artificial Dielectrics.............................................................................................................1269Yan Zhang, Raj Mittra, Wei Hong

Applications of Wire-Loaded Waveguide Bends and Channels..............................................................................................................1273Omar Siddiqui, Omar Ramahi

Complementary Split-Ring Resonators for Simultaneous Switching Noise Mitigation in High-Speed Circuits...............................1277Mohammed M. Bait-Suwailam, Omar M. Ramahi

Single and Dual Band Bandpass Filters Using Complementary Split Ring Resonator Loaded Half Mode Substrate Integrated Waveguide ..................................................................................................................................................................................1281

David E. Senior, Xiaoyu Cheng, Melroy Machado, Yong-Kyu Yoon

Implementation and Measurement of a Microstrip Square Planar 36-way Metamaterial Power Divider .......................................1285Wei-Chiang Lee, Tah-Hsiung Chu

SESSION 229 URSI WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS Parametric Study on the Use of Magneto-dielectric Materials for Antenna Miniaturization .............................................................1289

A. Louzir, P. Minard, J. F. Pintos

A Direction-Specific Land Use Based Path Loss Model for Suburban/Rural Areas ............................................................................1293Alexander Engels, Michael Reyer, Rudolf Mathar

A Combined Spectral-Parabolic Equation Approach for Propagation Prediction in Tunnels ...........................................................1297B. Izquierdo, J. Alonso, S. Capdevila, J. Romeu

A Localized Absorbing Boundary Condition for Discretized Parabolic Equation ...............................................................................1301Selman Ozbayat, Ramakrishna Janaswamy

Experimental Investigation of Amplitude and Phase Progression Fluctuation on Microwave Line-of-Sight Link..........................1305Igor B. Shirokov, Yuri B. Gimpilevich

Small Radio Repeater System for Enhancement of Wireless Connectivity ...........................................................................................1309Young Jun Song, Kamal Sarabandi

SESSION 230 APS ARRAY BEAMFORMING Novel Ultra-Wideband Butler Matrix for Wireless Underground Mines..............................................................................................1313

M. Nedil, M. Traii, A. M. Habib, A. Djaiz, T. A. Denidni

Novel UWB Multilayer Butler Matrix .......................................................................................................................................................1317M. Traii, M. Nedil, A. Gharsallah, T. A. Denidni

Experimental Verification of an Adaptive UWB Beamformer Based on Multidimensional Filtering in a Real Radio Channel ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................1321

Liang Liang, Sean V. Hum

Embedding an Array Self-Recovery Algorithm into an FPGA Controller ...........................................................................................1325Damir Malnar, Miroslav Joler, Christos G. Christodoulou

Superoscillatory Antenna Arrays for Sub-Diffraction Focusing at the Multi-Wavelength Range in a Waveguide Environment..................................................................................................................................................................................................1329

Alex M. H. Wong, George V. Eleftheriades

Grating Lobe Suppression in an Array Antenna with Element Spacing Greater Than a Half Wavelength .....................................1333Tamotsu Suda, Tadashi Takano, Yasuhiro Kazama

A New Class of Equi-amplitude Omnidirectional Linear Arrays...........................................................................................................1337Daniele Petrolati, Piero Angeletti, Giovanni Toso

Acceleration of FPGA-based ICA Processor for Real-time Processing .................................................................................................1341Shunsuke Fujio, Hidehisa Shiomi, Yasuyuki Okamura

Polarization Tracking Phased Array Antenna with Cross Dipole Antenna - Measured results-........................................................1345S. Hasegawa, T. Yasuzumi, O. Hashimoto, Y. Kazama

Edge Wall Slotted Waveguide Antenna with Low Cross Polarization ...................................................................................................1349Doganay Dogan, Özlem Aydin Civi

Cognitive Beamforming Using Genetic Algorithm ...................................................................................................................................1353Narges Noori, S. Mohammad Razavizadeh

SESSION 233 URSI PROPAGATION PHENOMENA AND EFFECTS Propagation Loss, XPR, and Height Pattern Characteristics on Road from Antennas Set in Manhole ............................................1357

Atsuya Ando, Toshio Ito, Hideyuki Tsuboi, Hiroki Yoshioka, Hiroki Shibayama, Hiroyuki Nakamura

An Imputation Technique for Missing Data in Propagation Measurements ........................................................................................1361Lin Cheng

Multipath Characterization and Fade Mitigation of Air-to-Ground Propagation Channel Over Tropical Sea Surface at C Band.........................................................................................................................................................................................1365

Yu Song Meng, Yee Hui Lee

SESSION 234 APS EM APPROACHES TO BREAST CANCER DETECTION AND IMAGING Design of a Miniaturized Dual-Band Patch Antenna as an Array Element for Microwave Breast Imaging ....................................1369

Suzette M. Aguilar, Mudar A. Al-Joumayly, Susan C. Hagness, Nader Behdad

Ultra Wideband Hemispherical Microwave Imaging System .................................................................................................................1373Aslina Abu Bakar, M. E. Bialkowski

Microwave Imaging for Breast Cancer Diagnosis Based on Planar Aperture Scanning .....................................................................1377Reza K. Amineh, Maryam Ravan, Aastha Trehan, Natalia K. Nikolova

Development of Patient-Specific Breast Electromagnetic Model Based on Clinical Magnetic Resonance Images...........................1381Hoi-Shun Lui, Maria Widmark, Göran Starck, Yan Li, Mikael Persson

The MPI Parallelization of the Diffusion-Drift Algorithm for Quantitative Analysis of Breast Tumor Electric Signals ............................................................................................................................................................................................................1385

Ahmed M. Hassan, Magda El-Shenawee

Design of Two-Element Probe Antenna for UWB Near-Field Imaging .................................................................................................1389Yifan Wang, Marek E. Bialkowski

UWB Cylindrical Microwave Imaging System with Novel Image Reconstruction Algorithm............................................................1393Marek E. Bialkowski, Yifan Wang, Aslina Abu Bakar, Wee Chang Khor

UWB Imaging with Multi-Polarized Signals for Early Breast Cancer Detection .................................................................................1397Wenyi Shao, Ryan S. Adams

EM Techniques for the Detection of Breast Cancer .................................................................................................................................1401Fan Yang, Ananda S Mohan

ML based Time Reversal Microwave Imaging for the Localisation of Breast Tissue Malignancies ..................................................1405Mohammed J. Abedin, Ananda S. Mohan

Conformal Array Antenna with the Aspirator for the Microwave Mammography.............................................................................1409Yoshihiko Kuwahara, Kenta Suzuki, Hirohiko Horie, Hiroyuki Hatano

SESSION 235 APS MODELING AND COMPENSATION OF MUTUAL COUPLING Design of Received and Scattered Powers for Dipole Arrays Using Load Optimization .....................................................................1413

Do-Hoon Kwon

Network Reciprocity in Modeling and Analysis of Phased Array Antennas.........................................................................................1417Walter K. Kahn

Analysis of Electromagnetic Interactions in Antenna Arrays Through Equivalent Dipole Models ...................................................1421Said M. Mikki, Yahia Antar

Limitations of Online Calibration Methods in Antenna Arrays .............................................................................................................1425S. Henault, Y. M. M. Antar

Substrate Integrate Waveguide Quasi Yagi Antenna Using SIW-to-CPS Transition for Low Mutual Coupling ............................1429Kyungmin Kim, Jindo Byun, Hai-Young Lee

SESSION 236 APS BAND-NOTCHED AND DIVERSITY UWB ANTENNAS A Compact 5GHz WLAN Notched Bluetooth/UWB Antenna ................................................................................................................1433

Cheollbok Kim, Hyochun Ahn, Jungkwun Kim, Xiaoyu Cheng, Yong-Kyu Yoon

Design of the Crescent-Shape Planar Ultra-wideband Antenna with a Band-Notch Structure..........................................................1437Meng-Yang Ting, Wei-Chung Weng

Band-Notched Ultra-wideband Monopole-like Slot Antenna with Slit Fork-shaped Feeding Structure ...........................................1441Wenbo Zeng

A Four-Element Ultra Wideband (UWB) Diversity Antenna .................................................................................................................1445Ali Imran Najam, Yvan Duroc, Smail Tedjini

SESSION 237 APS ELECTROMAGNETIC EDUCATION Application of Wireless Technology in K-12 STEM Outreach Programs in Middle Schools .............................................................1449

James Baker, Magdy F. Iskander, Jill Kobashigawa, Soo Yong Lim

Teaching-in-Context of Maxwell’s Displacement Current: What do Professors and Students Perceive?.........................................1453Krishnasamy T. Selvan, Sembiam R. Rengarajan

Fusing Electromagnetic Education in Small Liberal Arts Colleges: Preliminary Experience from Trinity College ......................1457Lin Cheng

Fabrication of Low-Cost Spherical-Circular Antennas for Educational Purposes ..............................................................................1461D. B. Ferreira, R. Schildberg, J. C. Da S. Lacava

An Efficient Approach to the Analysis and Synthesis of Spherical-Circular Thin Microstrip Antennas ..........................................1465D. B. Ferreira, J. C. Da S. Lacava

SESSION 239 APS PLANAR/COMPACT UWB ANTENNAS Ultra-Wideband Monopole Antenna with Modified Ground Plane .......................................................................................................1469

Mohamed M. Morsy, Frances J. Harackiewicz

Investigations on Co-planar Waveguide Fed Pentagon Shape Planar Monopole Ultra-wide Bandwidth (UWB) Antenna on Foam Substrate Providing Invariant Radiation Patterns...................................................................................................1473

Robert A. Moody, Satish K. Sharma

A Printed Extremely Wideband Antenna for Multi-Band Wireless Systems........................................................................................1477Jianjun Liu, Karu P. Esselle, Shun-Shi Zhong

Gain Enhancement of UWB Slot with the Use of Surface Mounted Short Horn..................................................................................1481Yogesh Ranga, A. K. Verma, Karu P. Esselle, Andrew R. Weily

A Compact Dual-Polarized UWB Antenna with High Port Isolation ....................................................................................................1485Yu-Chun Lu, Yi-Cheng Lin

A CPW-Fed Planar Log-Periodic Dipole Antenna with Suppressed Cross Polarization.....................................................................1489Keng-Chih Lin, Yi-Cheng Lin

SESSION 240 APS STOCHASTIC COMPUTATIONAL ELECTROMAGNETICS Adjoint Sensitivity Analysis of an Ultrawideband Antenna ....................................................................................................................1493

Matthew Stephanson, Daniel A. White

An h-Adaptive Stochastic Collocation Method for Stochastic EMC/EMI Analysis .............................................................................1497Abdulkadir C. Yücel, Hakan Bagci, Eric Michielssen

An Efficient Polynomial Chaos Method for Uncertainty Quantification in Electromagnetic Simulations........................................1501Jianxiang Shen, Ji Chen

Research on Vibration Control and Structure Integration of Antennas in NATO/RTO/SET-131 ....................................................1505Peter Knott, Claudius Löcker, Stephan Algermissen, Wilhelm Grüner

Sensitivity Analysis with Discrete Perturbation of Planar Structure on Method-of-Moment Grids..................................................1509Yifan Zhang, Natalia K. Nikolova

Numerical Vibration Analysis of a SAR Antenna ....................................................................................................................................1513Mehmet Çelik

SESSION 301 APS SPECIAL SESSION ANTENNAS FOR WIRELESS SENSORS AND SENSOR NETWORKS Stand-off Detection of Chemical Analytes with Passive Chemo-Sensing IR Absorbers ......................................................................1517

P. E. Sieber, M. G. Bray, J. A. Bossard, A. E. Kovalev, T. S. Mayer, D. H. Werner

UWB Radar Target Sensing and Imaging for Granular Materials Research Applications ................................................................1521C. Van Niekerk, E. Zastrow, S. C. Hagness, J. T. Bernhard

Investigation of Directive Antennas in a Metal Cut-Wire Array ............................................................................................................1525Yang Li, Hao Ling

A Novel Passive Ultrasensitive RF Temperature Transducer for Remote Sensing and Identification Utilizing Radar Cross Sections Variability................................................................................................................................................................1529

Trang T. Thai, Franck Chebila, Jatlaoui M. Mehdi, Patrick Pons, Herve Aubert, Gerald R. Dejean, Manos M. Tentzeris, Robert Plana

High Directivity Passive UHF RFID Tag with Dual-radiating-body Antenna ......................................................................................1533Giulia Orecchini, Li Yang, Manos M. Tentzeris, Luca Roselli

Low-profile Planar Rectenna for Batteryless RFID Sensors...................................................................................................................1537Ugur Olgun, Chi-Chih Chen, John L. Volakis

A Novel Approach to Improve Noise Reduction in the Matrix Pencil Algorithm for Chipless RFID Tag Detection.......................1541Majid Manteghi

Compact Yagi Antenna for Handheld UHF RFID Reader......................................................................................................................1545Pavel V. Nikitin, K. V. S. Rao

An Interdigitated PIFA for RFID Data Communication and Dielectric Sensing Applications ..........................................................1549R. H. Bhuiyan, R. Dougal, M. Ali

SESSION 302 APS/URSI SPECIAL SESSION HOMOGENIZATION OF METASURFACES AND BULK METAMATERIALS AT MICROWAVES, THZ, AND OPTICAL FREQUENCIES Homogenization of Active Transmission-line-based ENZ Metamaterials .............................................................................................1553

Silvio Hrabar, Igor Krois, Aleksandar Kiricenko, Ivan Bonic

On the Lorentz's Homogenization Method Applied to Metamaterials Presenting Strong Spatial Dispersion..................................1557Julián D. Ortiz, Juan D. Baena

A Generalized Sheet Transition Condition Model for a Metafilm Partially Embedded in an Interface............................................1561Edward F. Kuester, Christopher L. Holloway, Mohamed A. Mohamed

Nonlocal Homogenization Model for the Analysis of Absorbing Properties of Mushroom Structures with Graphene Patches at Microwaves...............................................................................................................................................................1565

Alexander B. Yakovlev, Yashwanth R. Padooru, Salman Karbasi, George W. Hanson, Arash Mafi

Artificial Magnetic Conductor from a Layer of Dogbone-Shaped Conductors Over a Ground Plane ..............................................1569Shiji Pan, Eva Rajo Iglesias, Filippo Capolino

SESSION 303 APS DIPOLE, LOOP AND SLOT ANTENNAS Double-Sided Parallel-Strip Line-Fed Radial Dipole ...............................................................................................................................1573

Travis W. Eubanks, Kai Chang

Double-Sided Parallel-Strip Line-Fed Circular Monopole Antenna ......................................................................................................1576Travis W. Eubanks, Kai Chang

A Circularly Polarized Loop Antenna without Perturbation Segments ................................................................................................1580K. Hirose, T. Haraga, H. Nakano

A Novel Ladder Antenna for Dual Circular Polarization........................................................................................................................1584K. Hirose, Y. Yoshida, H. Nakano

A Highly Efficient Slot Antenna .................................................................................................................................................................1588Alexander Sulima, Vladimir Veremey

Cavity-Backed Folded-Slot Antenna ..........................................................................................................................................................1592María F. Córdoba-Erazo, Rafael A. Rodríguez-Solís

Design of Double C-Slot Microstrip Patch Antenna for WiMax Application .......................................................................................1596Boutheina Tlili

A Compact Microstrip-Fed Slot Antenna with a Dual-Band Notched Function for WiMAX Operation..........................................1600Wen-Shan Chen, Po-Yuan Chang, Bau-Yi Lee, Hong-Twu Chen, Jieh-Sen Kuo

Conductor-Backed Coplanar Waveguide Fed Bilateral Slot Loop Antenna .........................................................................................1604Ju-Hung Chen, Shih-Yuan Chen, Powen Hsu

Rectangular Monopole Antenna with Circular Slot for Wireless Communication at 2.45 GHz ........................................................1608N. Zainudin, M. R. Kamarudin

SESSION 304 APS PATCH AND SLOT ANTENNAS A Dual-Polarization Aperture Coupled Stacked Microstrip Patch Antenna for Wideband Application ..........................................1612

David G. Kim, Christopher B. Smith, Chi-Hyung Ahn, Kai Chang

Band Rejection Capabilities of UWB Elliptical Slot Antenna with Half Circular and Crescent Ring Shaped Radiators .......................................................................................................................................................................................................1616

Osama M. Haraz, Ayman Elboushi, Abdel-Razik Sebak

Design of Probe-Fed Circularly-Polarized Rectangular-Patch Thick Microstrip Antenna Revisited ...............................................1620D. C. Nascimento, R. Schildberg, J. C. Da S. Lacava

Design of Hybrid Fed Patch Antenna for Diversity Application ............................................................................................................1624Kunpeng Wei, Zhijun Zhang, Zhenghe Feng, Magdy F. Iskander, Ruihong Li

Design of a Compact Miniaturized Probe-Fed Patch Antenna Using Electromagnetic Bandgap Structures ...................................1628Asanee Suntives, Ramesh Abhari

Challenges with Optically Transparent Patch Antennas for Small Satellites .......................................................................................1632Jason R. Saberin, Cynthia Furse

Circular Patch Antenna with Nearly-Equal E- and H-plane Co-Polarization Patterns ......................................................................1636Saeed I. Latif, Lotfollah Shafai

Rectangular Waveguide Shape Folded Patch Antenna............................................................................................................................1640Xiaoyu Cheng, James J. Whalen, Yong-Kyu Yoon

Patch Antennas in a Horn-Shape Structure ..............................................................................................................................................1644Chi-Yuk Chiu, Ross D. Murch

Differential-Fed Wang-shaped Patch Antenna Using Narrowband and Wideband Baluns................................................................1648K. L. Chung, C. H. Wong

A Solar Power Plant with Light-Reflecting E-Shaped Patch Antenna...................................................................................................1652E. H. Lim, K. W. Leung, G. H. Khor, K. K. Chan

SESSION 305 APS NUMERICAL MODELING AND DESIGN OF RADIATING SYSTEMS Influence of Detection Zone Length on Space Coverage in a Far Field UHF RFID System ...............................................................1656

Branko Mrdakovic, Branko Kolundzija

Numerical Estimation of Scattering Characteristics in Waveguide T-Junctions with Sinusoidal Wedge .........................................1660Tetsuya Yamamoto

Different Types of Circular Domain Wave-objects ..................................................................................................................................1664M. Casaletti, S. Skokic, S. Maci, S. Sørensen

A Numerical Investigation on Dipole Antenna Loaded with a Bi-isotropic Body of Arbitrary Shape...............................................1668Jian Bao, Edward K. N. Yung, Daoxiang Wang, Zhehai Wu

Design on Elliptical Lens Monopulse Antenna..........................................................................................................................................1672Xidong Wu, Huaicheng Zhao, Bo Li, Wen Wu

Computational Modelling and Simulation to Design 60GHz mmWave Antenna .................................................................................1675Mark Tan

Computation of Cross-Polarization Radiated by an Elliptical Feed Horn ............................................................................................1679Dhaval Pujara, S. B. Sharma, S. B. Chakrabarty

EM Pulse Borehole Imaging System for Oil Based Mud .........................................................................................................................1683Chen Guo, Richard C. Liu

A Quick Calculation of SAR in Prolate Spheroid Head Model Exposed to a Handset Antenna Using Null Field Method ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................1687

Lei Zhao, Shing Yu, Ke-Li Wu

SESSION 306 APS FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHODS I Convergence Analysis of ASM-FDTD Method .........................................................................................................................................1691

Rui Qiang, Ji Chen

Design of Wave Ports in FDTD and Its Application to Microwave Circuits and Antennas ................................................................1695Yong Wang, Scott Langdon

FDTD/PBC Algorithm for Skewed Grid Periodic Structures .................................................................................................................1699Khaled Elmahgoub, Fan Yang, Atef Z. Elsherbeni, Veysel Demir, Ji Chen

Enhanced FDTD Edge Correction for Nonlinear Effects Calculation ...................................................................................................1703C. Classen, J. Forstner, T. Meier, R. Schuhmann

A ЗD Conformal S-MRTD Formulation for Electromagnetic Scattering Problems Containing Curved Perfectly Conducting Objects ......................................................................................................................................................................................1707

Abbas Alighanbari

FDTD Electromagnetic-Acoustic Model: A 2-D Numerical Coding Framework .................................................................................1711Kevin G. Zhu, Milica Popovic

Application of the Huygens Absorbing Boundary Condition to Wave-Structure Interaction Problems...........................................1715Jean-Pierre Bérenger, Fumie Costen

A Novel Subgridding Technique for Unconditionally Stable Time Domain Method ...........................................................................1719Zhenyu Huang, G. Pan

Efficient Modelling and Sensitivity Analysis of Lossy Structures Using FDTD....................................................................................1723Mohamed A. Swillam, Ramy H. Gohary, Mohamed H. Bakr, Xun Li

Computational Algorithm of FDTD Method for the Lorentz Transformation.....................................................................................1727Hiroshi Iwamatsu, Michiko Kuroda

Optimization of Mobile Phone Antennas Using Generic Algorithms and Network Parallelization ...................................................1731X. L. Chen, E. Oi, N. Chavannes, N. Kuster

SESSION 307 APS OPTIMIZATION METHODOLOGIES FOR ANTENNAS Optimization of Compact Multi-Functional Antennas ............................................................................................................................1735

Javier L. Araque, Giuseppe Vecchi

Finding Globally Optimum Solutions in Antenna Optimization Problems ...........................................................................................1739Aydin Babakhani, Javad Lavaei, John C. Doyle, Ali Hajimiri

Pareto Optimization of Wideband Circular Ring Arrays .......................................................................................................................1743Davide Bianchi, Simone Genovesi, Alessandro Corucci, Agostino Monorchio

Optimization of a Dual-Band Reflectarray Antenna................................................................................................................................1747M. Mussetta, P. Pirinoli, P. T. Cong, M. Orefice, R. E. Zich

Optimizing Narrow-wall Slotted Waveguide Arrays Using HOBIES ....................................................................................................1751Weixin Zhao, Yu Zhang, Daniel García Doñoro, Tapan K Sarkar

Synthesis of Array Antennas to Produce Near-Field Contoured Patterns for RFID Reader Applications .......................................1755Hsi-Tseng Chou, Nan-Nan Wang, Hsi-Hsir Chou, Jing-Hui Qiu

Narrow and Shaped Beam Synthesis of Arbitrary Arrays via Linear Programming ..........................................................................1759Benjamin Fuchs

Design of a Bi-Access Tri-band PIFA Patch Slot Antenna for Opportunistic Radio System Using Equivalent Cavity Modal Analysis..............................................................................................................................................................................................1763

W. El Hajj, F. Gallee, C. Person

The Application of Genetic Algorithm Optimization in Broadband Microstrip Antenna Design ......................................................1767Siyang Sun, Yinghua Lv, Jinling Zhang

SESSION 308 APS REFLECTARRAYS AND OTHER SPACE FED ARRAYS Reflectarray Phase Analysis: A Simple and Intuitive Understanding....................................................................................................1771

Harish Rajagopalan, Shenheng Xu, Yahya Rahmat-Samii

Using an Array Lens as a Circular Polarization Splitting Prism............................................................................................................1775Rudi H. Phillion, Michal Okoniewski

Design of a Broadband, Dual-band, Large Reflectarray Using Multi Open Loop Elements ..............................................................1779M. R. Chaharmir, J. Shaker

Design of Dual-Reflectarray Antenna for Beam Scanning ......................................................................................................................1783Jose A. Encinar, Carolina Tienda, Eduardo Carrasco, Manuel Arrebola, Giovanni Toso

Compact Reflectarray Antenna Element Using Split Ring Resonator...................................................................................................1787Chi-Hyung Ahn, Seong-Won Oh, Kai Chang

Dielectric Resonator Antenna Reflectarray in Ka-band ..........................................................................................................................1791M. H. Jamaluddin, R. Gillard, R. Sauleau, T. Koleck, X. Castel, R. Benzerga, L. Le Coq

81-Element Single-Layer Reflectarray with Double-Ring Phasing Elements for Wideband Applications .......................................1795Yuezhou Li, M. E. Bialkowski, K. H. Sayidmarie, N. V. Shuley

Single-Feed Multi-Beam Reflectarray Antennas ......................................................................................................................................1799Payam Nayeri, Fan Yang, Atef Z. Elsherbeni

Flat Thin Polarizer-Lens Based on Multiple Resonance Behavior .........................................................................................................1803Rina Shibayama, Hiroyuki Deguchi, Mikio Tsuji

ANN Characterization of Printed Reflectarray Elements .......................................................................................................................1807M. Mussetta, P. Pirinoli, R. E. Zich, M. Orefice

60GHz Metallic-Rectangular-Grooves Based Reflectarray Antenna Illuminated by an E-plane Sectoral Horn Feeder.............................................................................................................................................................................................................1811

Woo-Jin Byun, Yong-Heui Cho, Min-Soo Kang, Bong-Su Kim, Kwang-Seon Kim, Myung-Sun Song

SESSION 309 APS BROADBANDING TECHNIQUES A Simple Antenna Bandwidth Augmentation Technique for Wireless Devices....................................................................................1815

Gerald R. Dejean, Sean R. Mercer

Low Profile Ultra Wide Band Antenna Design Techniques with 2 Unique UWB Antenna Examples...............................................1819Xing Ping Lin

Efficient Design Optimization of UWB Antennas Using Cauchy Approximation and Space Mapping.............................................1823Slawomir Koziel, Stanislav Ogurtsov, Mohamed H. Bakr

Ultra Low Profile Wideband Antenna with Ferrite Loading ..................................................................................................................1827Haksu Moon, Chi-Chih Chen, John L. Volakis

Coplanar UWB Monopole Band Notch Antenna Using Conductor Magnetic Layers .........................................................................1831D. Rialet, A. Sharaiha, A-C. Tarot, C. Delaveaud, B. Viala

Ultra-Wideband Balun for Biconical Antenna Structures ......................................................................................................................1835A. T. Ott, M. A. Eberspacher, T. F. Eibert

Study on Bandwidth Enhancement of Three-Element Yagi-Uda Antenna with Narrow Spacing .....................................................1839Kyoichi IIgusa, Hiroshi Harada

Directional Coupled Sectorial Loops Antenna for Ground Penetrating Radars Applications ...........................................................1843Hatim Bukhari, Kamal Sarabandi

A Lightweight Broadband Dual Polarized Base Station Antenna for All Bands of UHF DVB-H Mobile TV, CDMA and GSM........................................................................................................................................................................................................1847

Mohamed Sanad, Noha Hassan

SESSION 310 APS MILITARY APPLICATIONS II Interleaved Series Arrays for Improved Retro-reflective Array Performance .....................................................................................1851

Jacquelyn A. Vitaz, Amelia Buerkle, Kamal Sarabandi

Field Management for a Self-Breakdown Switched Oscillator ...............................................................................................................1855M Armanious, J Scott Tyo

A New Type of the Matching Structure of a H-plane T-junction for a High Power System ...............................................................1859Jae-Bok Lee, Sang-Heun Lee, Ki Wook Lee, Junyeon Kim, Chang Gu Kim, Young Joong Yoon

Scan Performance of a W-band Trans-twist Monopulse Microstrip Patch Reflect-array ..................................................................1863D. R. Jahagirdar, J. V. Prasad

SESSION 312 APS TIME DOMAIN INTEGRAL EQUATIONS Finite Difference Delay Modeling with Runge-Kutta Methods for the Discretization of Time Domain Integral Equations .......................................................................................................................................................................................................1867

Xiaobo Wang, Daniel S. Weile

Electromagnetic Scattering from Homogeneous Dielectric Bodies Using the Finite Difference Delay Modeling and the Runge-Kutta Method .............................................................................................................................................................................1871

Xiaobo Wang, Daniel S. Weile

Two-Dimensional Time-Domain Scattering Using the Nyström Method and Finite Difference Delay Modeling ............................1875Yuan Qu Lin, Daniel S. Weile

A Stable Marching-on-in-Time Solver for Time Domain Surface Electric Field Integral Equations Based on Exact Integration Technique..................................................................................................................................................................................1879

Yifei Shi, Ming-Yao Xia, Ru-Shan Chen, Eric Michielssen, Mingyu Lu

Analysis of an ESD Suppressor Used for IC Protection...........................................................................................................................1883Cheng-Ta Kuo, Hsing-Yi Chen, Ying Suo, Jinghui Qiu

SESSION 313 APS ASSESSMENT OF IMPLANTED AND BODY-WORN DEVICES Performance of a Blocking Reader on a Human Body ............................................................................................................................1887

Gaurov Narayanswamy, Shesh Kumar Jagannatha, Daniel W. Engels

Effect of Human on Radiation Pattern of Passive UHD RFID Tag........................................................................................................1891A. Jain, S. Agarwal, D. W. Engels

Performance Analysis of Alien Squiggle Tag in Human Presence..........................................................................................................1895A. Jain, S. Agarwal, S. K. Jagannatha, G. Narayanaswamy, D. W. Engels

Bit Error Rate Performance of Wireless Body Area Network System ..................................................................................................1899Takayuki Sasamori, Yudai Satoh, Teruo Tobana, Yoji Isota, Masaharu Takahashi, Toru Uno

Characterization of RF Transmission in Human Body............................................................................................................................1903Xianming Qing, Zhi Ning Chen, Terence Shie Ping See, Chean Khan Goh, Tat Meng Chiam

RF Transmission In/Through the Human Body at 915 MHz..................................................................................................................1907Terence Shie Ping See, Xianming Qing, Zhi Ning Chen, Chean Khan Goh, Tat Meng Chiam

Characterization of the Effects of the Human Head on Communication with Implanted Antennas .................................................1911Michael Pecoraro, Jayanti Venkataraman, Gill Tsouri, Sohail Dianat

A Study on the Inductive Power Links for Implantable Biomedical Devices ........................................................................................1915Rangarajan Jegadeesan, Yong Xin Guo

Optimizations of Source Distribution in Wireless Power Transmission for Implantable Devices......................................................1919Sanghoek Kim, Ada S. Y. Poon

SESSION IF314 APS INTERACTIVE FORUM ANTENNAS FOR MOBILE APPLICATIONS I Internal Laptop Antenna with a Wideband Coupled Ring for WLAN/WiMAX Operation ...............................................................1923

Ming-Ren Hsu, Liang-Che Chou, Cliff Wang, Randy Lee

A Novel Dual Resonant Antenna Configuration for Mobile Laptop, Notebook and Palmtop Computers ........................................1927Mohamed Sanad, Noha Hassan

Usage Analysis in a MIMO Channel for Voice and Data ........................................................................................................................1931Shirook M. Ali, Paul Lusina

Textile Integrated Waveguide Slot Antenna .............................................................................................................................................1935B. Sanz-Izquierdo, L. Wu, J. C. Batchelor, P. R. Young

Dual Band G-Shape Wearable Cuff Button Antenna for ISM Bands Applications .............................................................................1939Laila K. Hady Salman, Larbi Talbi

Multi-band PIFA Design for WLAN/Satellite Communication ..............................................................................................................1943J. S Row, T. Y Han, Y. T. Cheng, C. Y. D Sim

Internal Dual-band WLAN Antenna for Laptop Applications ...............................................................................................................1947Taehyung Kim, Sung-Joo Kim, Joonho Byun, Frances J. Harackiewicz, Myun-Joo Park, Yong-Seek Chung, Byungje Lee

5-GHz Band 3-Stacked Meander Line Antenna Using Multi-Layered Organic Substrates................................................................1951Satoshi Yoshida, Suguru Kameda, Tadashi Takagi, Kazuo Tsubouchi

SESSION IF315 APS INTERACTIVE FORUM MOBILE HANDSET ANTENNAS Equivalent Circuit Modeling of Chassis-Antenna with Two Coupling Elements .................................................................................1955

Z. H. Hu, J. Kelly, C. T. P. Song, P. S. Hall, P. Gardner

Multi-Resonance Characteristic of the L-Shaped Folded Monopole Antenna Using Parasitic Elements..........................................1959Sohei Watanabe, Toshiteru Hayashi, Yoshio Koyanagi, Hisashi Morishita

Internal Small-Size PIFA for LTE/GSM/UMTS Operation in the Mobile Phone ................................................................................1963Wei-Yu Li, Chun-Yih Wu, Kin-Lu Wong, Ming-Fang Tu

Dual-Feed Ultra-Compact Reconfigurable Handset Antenna for Penta-Band Operation ..................................................................1967Pevand Bahramzy, Mads Sager

Equivalent Circuit Model for Closely Coupled Symmetrical Two-Port MIMO Antennas in Small Volume....................................1971Aleksander Krewski, Werner L. Schroeder

Mutual Coupling Reduction Between PIFAs on Handheld Devices .......................................................................................................1975Q. Li, A. P. Feresidis

Multi-band Diversity Antenna for Mobile Handset Applications...........................................................................................................1979Yongsoo Park, Joonho Byun, Frances J. Harackiewicz, Byunggil Yu, Byeongkwan Kim, Myun-Joo Park, Yong-Seek Chung, Byungje Lee

Low Correlation Handset Antenna Configuration for LTE MIMO Applications................................................................................1983R. Kuonanoja

Multi-band Antenna with Coupling Feed Structure for Mobile Handset Applications .......................................................................1987Ki-Joon Kim, Sang-Heun Lee, Byoung-Nam Kim, Jong-Ho Jung, Young Joong Yoon

Experimental Investigation of a Dual-band Handset MIMO Antenna Using a Spatial Fading Emulator ........................................1991Tsutomu Sakata, Atsushi Yamamoto, Toshiteru Hayashi, Koichi Ogawa, Kim Olesen, Jesper Ø. Nielsen, Gert F. Pedersen

SESSION IF316 APS INTERACTIVE FORUM HUMAN BODY - ANTENNA INTERACTIONS Analysis of the Hand Effect on Head SAR with Generic and CAD Phone Models Using FDTD........................................................1995

C.-H. Li, M. Douglas, E. Oi, B. Derat, N. Chavannes, N. Kuster

Novel Conformal Surface Wave Yagi Antenna for On-Body Communication Channel .....................................................................1999L. Akhoondzadeh-Asl, P. S. Hall, Y. Nechayev

Evaluation of the Output Power Control of Multi Communication System Mobile Phones ...............................................................2003Marie-Christine Gosselin, Sven Kuehn, Niels Kuster

Investigation of New Ground Structure for Reducing Human Exposure to Electromagnetic Fields from Mobile Phones ............................................................................................................................................................................................................2006

Andi Hakim Kusumaa, Abdel-Fattah Sheta, Ibrahim Elshafiey, Majeed Alkanhal, Saeed Aldosari, Saleh A. Alshebeili

On MIMO Polarization in the User’s Presence.........................................................................................................................................2010Shirook M. Ali, Reza K. Amineh

SESSION IF317 APS/URSI INTERACTIVE FORUM RADAR IMAGERY Beamforming Through a Circular Pipe with Two Open Ends ...............................................................................................................2014

Nick Whitelonis, Hao Ling

Classification of Human Activities on UWB Radar Using a Support Vector Machine........................................................................2018Jacob Bryan, Youngwook Kim

Low Frequency Imaging of Separated Objects Using the Ramp Response Technique........................................................................2022J. Chauveau, N. De Beaucoudrey

Advanced Through-the-Wall Radar Imaging Using Spectral and Wall Estimation Techniques .......................................................2026Michael Thiel, Kamal Sarabandi

Time-Reversal Processing and Autofocus of Targets Behind Complex Wall ........................................................................................2030Paul. C. Chang, Robert J. Burkholder, John L. Volakis

Radar Imaging of a Large Building Based on Near-Field Xpatch Model..............................................................................................2034Calvin Le, Lam Nguyen, Traian Dogaru

Three-Dimensional Through Wall Imaging Using an UWB SAR ..........................................................................................................2038Yazhou Wang, Aly E. Fathy

SESSION IF318 APS INTERACTIVE FORUM RADAR IMAGING AND SENSING 3D Imaging of Passive Objects Using Dual-sided Phase Conjugating Sequentially Switched Lens ...................................................2042

Oleksandr Malyuskin, Vincent Fusco

A System Demonstrator for the Performance Evaluation of a 24 GHz ISM Band Radar Operating with OFDM Waveforms ....................................................................................................................................................................................................2046

Christian Sturm, Martin Braun, Thomas Zwick, Werner Wiesbeck

Y-band Phenomenology of Indoor Environment......................................................................................................................................2050Meysam Moallem, Kamal Sarabandi

High Resolution Radar Imaging Utilizing a Portable Opportunistic Sensing Platform ......................................................................2054Kenneth E. Browne, Robert J. Burkholder, John L. Volakis

UWB Antenna Array for Real Beam Radar Imaging ..............................................................................................................................2058Chao-Hsiang Liao, Powen Hsu, Dau-Chyrh Chang

Electromagnetic Field Response of Triaxial Induction Logging Tools in 1-D Multi-Layered Anisotropic Formations ....................................................................................................................................................................................................2062

Ning Yuan, Xiaochun Nie, Richard Liu

Software Tool for Simulation of Brillouin Precursors in Dispersive Dielectrics...................................................................................2066Habeeb Ur Rahman Mohammed, Muhammad Dawood, Ana V. Alejos

Applying Non-Iterative Phase Errors Compensation Method to restore Radar Subsurface Image ..................................................2070Hui Zhang, Dirk Plettemeier

Performance Evaluation of Null-Steering Bistatic MIMO Radar ..........................................................................................................2074Takao Sekiguchi, Kei Sakaguchi, Kiyomichi Araki, Sintaro Arata

Design and Analysis of Wideband Antennas for Borehole and Surface Ground Penetrating Radars: Application to Soil Moisture Content Measurements ........................................................................................................................................................2078

F. Sagnard, F. Rejiba, M. Froumentin

Backscattered Precursor Wave by a PEC Sphere in Lossy Dispersive Media ......................................................................................2082Penghui Chen, Xiaojian Xu

SESSION 319 APS SUBSTRATE INTEGRATED WAVEGUIDE (SIW) ANTENNAS AND CIRCUITS A Substrate-Integrated-Waveguide (SIW) Quadrature Hybrid-Junction for Low Cost Millimeter-Wave Planar Antenna Array ..............................................................................................................................................................................................2086

Wael M. Abdel Wahab, Dan Busuioc, Safieddin Safavi –naeini

Analysis and Design of a Compact SIW-Based Multi-layer Wideband Phase Shifter for Ku-band Applications............................2090Ahmed Ali, Nelson J. G. Fonseca, Fabio Coccetti, Hervé Aubert

Propagation Control Using SIW Technology ............................................................................................................................................2094F. Ghanem, R. Langley, L. Ford

Microstrip-Fed Circular Substrate Integrated Waveguide (SIW) Cavity Resonator and Antenna ...................................................2098Nathan A. Smith, Ramesh Abhari

An X band, Compact Active Cavity Backed Patch Oscillator Antenna Using a Substrate Integrated Waveguide (SIW) Resonator ...........................................................................................................................................................................................2102

F. Giuppi, A. Georgiadis, A. Collado, M. Bozzi, S. Via, L. Perregrini

SESSION 320 URSI WIRELESS PROPAGATION IN INDOOR/OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENTS Validation of Path Loss by Heuristic Prediction Tool with Path Loss and RSSI Measurements .......................................................2106

David Plets, Wout Joseph, Kris Vanhecke, Emmeric Tanghe, Luc Martens, Stefan Bouckaert, Ingrid Moerman, Piet Demeester

Full-Wave Numerical Study of Wireless Communication in Boxes with Metallic Enclosure Based on Time-Reversal Ultra-Wideband Technique.........................................................................................................................................................2110

Huiqing Zhai, Mingyu Lu

SESSION 321 URSI TOPICS IN ELECTROMAGNETICS Abnormal Group Delay and Detection Latency in Communication Systems .......................................................................................2114

Levent Kayili, Mohammad Mojahedi

SESSION 322 APS/URSI SPECIAL SESSION ANTENNAS FOR SOFTWARE DEFI NED RADIO Challenging Issues Arising in the Broadband Matching of Small Antennas and How We Might Solve Them ................................2118

Raj Mittra

Low Profile Ultra-wideband Antennas for Software Defined Radio ......................................................................................................2119Jing Zhao, Chi-Chih Chen, John L. Volakis

Design of Compact Adaptive RF Matching Circuits Using Square Split Ring Resonators .................................................................2123Hyunjin Park, Kathleen L. Melde, William R. Eisenstadt

Study of Balun Effects with Electrically Small Antennas for a Whitespace Direction Finding System .............................................2127Matthew J. Slater, Jennifer T. Bernhard

Low-profile Tunable and Steerable Fabry-Perot Antenna for Software Defined Radio Applications...............................................2131Filippo Costa, Agostino Monorchio, Giuliano Manara

Tunable Antennas and AMC Structures ...................................................................................................................................................2135Richard Langley, Luyi Liu, Hyung-Joo Lee, Lee Ford

A Reconfigurable Cognitive Radio Antenna Design.................................................................................................................................2139M. Al-Husseini, Youssef Tawk, C. G. Christodoulou, K. Y. Kabalan, A. El Hajj

Review of Reconfigurable Vivaldi Antennas .............................................................................................................................................2143M. R. Hamid, P. Gardner, P. S. Hall, F. Ghanem

A Compact Wideband Tunable Square Ring Microstrip Antenna ........................................................................................................2147Abdel Fattah Sheta, Majeed A. Alkanhal, Zeyad Alhekail

Novel Reconfigurable Dual-Port UWB Chassis-Antenna ........................................................................................................................2151Z. H. Hu, C. T. P. Song, J. Kelly, P. S. Hall, P. Gardner

SESSION 323 APS/URSI SPECIAL SESSION MINIATURIZED ANTENNAS FOR NEXT GENERATION BIOMEDICAL DEVICES Design and Development of a Novel Wireless EKG System Utilizing the Low-Power Zigbee Standard ...........................................2155

Vidyasagar Mukala, Anya N. Traille, Vasileios Lakafosis, Manos M. Tentzeris

Investigation of Varactor Tuned Stacked Patch Antennas......................................................................................................................2159Rodney B. Waterhouse, Dalma Novak

Miniature Double-ridged Horn Antennas Composed of Solid High-permittivity Sintered Ceramics for Biomedical Ultra-wideband Radar Applications ..........................................................................................................................................................2163

Ulrich Schwarz, Ralf Stephan, Matthias A. Hein

Implantable Fractal Dental Antennas for Low Invasive Biomedical Devices .......................................................................................2167Heng-How Chen, Chin-Lung Yang

Dual Band Antenna for Subcutaneous Telemetry Applications .............................................................................................................2171F. Merli, L. Bolomey, E. Meurville, A. K. Skrivervik

3D Modeling and Simulation of a MEMS Electrically Small Antenna ..................................................................................................2175F. J. O. Rodrigues, L. M. Gonçalves, P. M. Mendes

Co-design of On-chip Antennas and Circuits for a UNII Band Monolithic Transceiver .....................................................................2179A. Shamim, M. Arsalan, L. Roy, K. N. Salama

Electromagnetic Compatibility of CMOS On-chip Antennas .................................................................................................................2183A. More, B. Taskin

Performance Improvement of Resonant Inductive Coupling for Wireless 3D IC Interconnect .........................................................2187Sangwook Han, David D. Wentzloff

SESSION 324 URSI METAMATERIAL PHENOMENA AND DEVICES Twisted Arrays of Resonant Particles ........................................................................................................................................................2191

D. Van Orden, V. Lomakin

SESSION 325 APS/URSI MICROSTRIP AND PLANAR ANTENNA ARRAYS A 4x4 Radial Dipole Array Fed by Double-Sided Parallel-Strip Line....................................................................................................2195

Travis W. Eubanks, Kai Chang

Frequency Scanning Probe for Microwave Imaging ................................................................................................................................2199C. Vazquez, S. Ver Hoeye, M. Fernandez, L. F. Herran, F. Las Heras

Analysis and Modification of the Infinite Foursquare Array..................................................................................................................2203Terry R. Vogler, William A. Davis

Calibration and Element Failure Correction of an Intra-Flight Antenna at K-Band ..........................................................................2207L. A. Greda, M. Shalaby, A. Dreher

A Gallery Mode Oscillator for the Low Cost Millimeter-Wave Active Antenna Array ......................................................................2211A. Taeb, M. Neshat, S. Gigoyan, S. S. Naeini

Mm-wave Rectangular Slot Loop Antenna Array for Broad Spatial Coverage ...................................................................................2215Helen K. Pan, Bryce D. Horine, Kranti K. Tantwai

Electromechanically Steerable Directional Antenna with Floating Pillar Array..................................................................................2219Hyochun Ahn, Cheolbok Kim, Jungkwun Kim, David Senior Elles, Yong-Kyu Yoon

Microstrip Slot Array with Shorting Via Wall .........................................................................................................................................2223Yun Li, Xidong Wu, Bo Li

Mutual Impedance of Spherical Microstrip Patches ................................................................................................................................2227Odilon M. C. Pereira-Filho, Leonardo A. Costa

A High Efficiency Ku-band Printed Monopulse Array ...........................................................................................................................2231D. R. Jahagirdar, V. G. Borkar

SESSION 326 APS OPTIMIZATION METHODS FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC APPLICATIONS Fast Optimization of Electromagnetics Design Problems Through the CMA Evolutionary Strategy ...............................................2235

M. D. Gregory, Z. Bayraktar, D. H. Werner

Wind Driven Optimization (WDO): A Novel Nature-Inspired Optimization Algorithm and its Application to Electromagnetics...........................................................................................................................................................................................2239

Zikri Bayraktar, Muge Komurcu, Douglas H. Werner

Efficient Optimization of Microwave Structures Through Design Specifications Adaptation ...........................................................2243Slawomir Koziel

Constrained Space Mapping for Design Optimization of Microwave Circuits .....................................................................................2247Slawomir Koziel

Space Mapping with Co-Simulation Coarse Model for Accurate Modeling of Microwave Structures..............................................2251Slawomir Koziel

Real-valued Parallel Clonal Selection Algorithm for Design Optimization in Electromagnetics .......................................................2255Z. Bayraktar, J. A. Bossard, X. Wang, D. H. Werner

SESSION 327 APS FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHODS II An Analytical Expression for 2-D FDTD-Compatible Green’s Function in Infinite Free Space via z-Transform and Partial Difference Operators .......................................................................................................................................................................2259

Shyh-Kang Jeng

Analysis of Electromagnetic Environments in Indoor Offices Using Parallel FDTD Method ............................................................2263Junho Yeo, Hyun-Sung Hong, Jong-Eon Park, Young-Ki Cho, Young-Ho Kim, Jae-Hoon Yoon

A Comparative Study of Hardware Acceleration Techniques in Computational Electromagnetics (CEM).....................................2267Wenhua Yu, Yongjun Liu, Xiaoling Yang, Akira Muto, Raj Mittra

Programming Finite-Difference Time-Domain for Graphics Processor Units Using Compute Unified Device Architecture ..................................................................................................................................................................................................2271

Veysel Demir, Atef Z. Elsherbeni

Underwater FDTD ELF Simulation Using Dedicated Hardware ...........................................................................................................2275Yang Xia, Dennis M. Sullivan

Subcell Averaging and Stability Assessment of Linear Dispersion Effects in FDTD ...........................................................................2279S. Schild, N. Chavannes, N. Kuster

An Hybrid FDTD and ADI-FDTD Technique for Coupled Maxwell’s and Schrodinger’s Equations ..............................................2283Iftikhar Ahmed, Erping Li

New Oblique Thin Wire Formalism in the FDTD Method......................................................................................................................2287Ch. Guiffaut, A. Reineix, B. Pecqueux

Periodic Rough Surface Scattering Analysis Using Spectral FDTD Method ........................................................................................2291Amin Kianinezhad, Amir Ahmad Shishegar

SESSION 328 APS/URSI ANTENNA MEASUREMENTS I Radiation Pattern Reconstruction Using Impulse Response from Non-anechoic Measurements.......................................................2295

Jinhwan Koh, Arijit De, Tapan K. Sarkar

The Sources Reconstruction Method for Amplitude-only Field Measurements ...................................................................................2299Yuri Álvarez, Fernando Las-Heras, Marcos R. Pino

Improved Efficiency Measurement and Analysis Methods Using an Overmoded Wheeler Cap........................................................2303Adrian Sutinjo, Ronald H. Johnston, Michal Okoniewski

Infinite Ground Plane Antenna Characterization from Limited Groundplane Measurements .........................................................2307L. J. Foged, F. Mioc, B. Bencivenga, M. Sabbadini, E. Di Giampaolo

Systematic Fidelity Assessment of Antennas for Near-field Microwave Imaging.................................................................................2311Aastha Trehan, Li Liu, Reza K. Amineh, Natalia K. Nikolova

SESSION 329 APS PATTERN RECONFIGURABLE ANTENNAS Integrated DC Bias Line RF MEMS Switch for Reconfiguring the Patch-Slot Antenna: Simulations and Measurements ...............................................................................................................................................................................................2315

I. Kim, Y. Rahmat-Samii

Fabrication of Broadband MEMS Antennas and Application to Target Detection .............................................................................2319Douglas A. Hutchings, Magda El-Shenawee

The Software Defined Antenna: Microstrip Antennas with Gaps .........................................................................................................2323Eugene Y. Lee, Eric K. Walton, Jon Young, Steve Gemeny, Teh-Hong Lee, Nathen Roberts, Evan Bosso, Eduard Huang

Microstrip Patch Antennas with Frequency Agility and Polarization Diversity over a Wide Frequency Range .............................2327Kevin Ming-Jiang Ho, Gabriel M. Rebeiz

Wi-Fi Range and Speed Enhancement Using HHIS Based Steerable Square Loop Antenna .............................................................2331A. Budhawant, P. Deo, A. Mehta, D. Mirshekar-Syahkal, P. J. Massey, H. Nakano

Configurable Antenna Using Moving Wire Parasitic Elements..............................................................................................................2335Xu Han, Rodney G. Vaughan

Slot-wedge Antenna......................................................................................................................................................................................2339Jane X. Yun, Rodney G. Vaughan

A Pattern Reconfigurable U-slot Patch Antenna ......................................................................................................................................2343P. Y. Qin, A. R. Weily, Y. Jay Guo, C. H. Liang, Y. Cai

Polarization Reconfigurable Slot Antenna for WLAN Application .......................................................................................................2347Yue Li, Zhijun Zhang, Zhenghe Feng, Magdy F. Iskander, Ruihong Li

A Beam Pattern-Reconfigurable Antenna Using PIN Diodes .................................................................................................................2351Woong Kang, Kangwook Kim

A Novel Directivity/Beam Reconfigurable M-EBG Antenna ..................................................................................................................2355M. Hajj, T. Monédière, B. Jecko, R. Chantalat

SESSION 330 URSI GUIDED WAVES AND WAVE-GUIDING STRUCTURES Analysis of the Differential Phase Shift in the Circular Ferrite-Dielectric Waveguide with Azimuthal Magnetization................................................................................................................................................................................................2359

Georgi Nikolov Georgiev, Mariana Nikolova Georgieva–grosse

SESSION 331 APS REMOTE SENSING Compact UHF Antenna in Aquatic Environments for Mobile Sporting Applications.........................................................................2363

Amin M. Abbosh, Daniel James, David V. Thiel

Enhanced Detection of Planar Retro-Reflective Arrays Using Polarization Properties ......................................................................2367Jacquelyn A. Vitaz, Amelia Buerkle, Kamal Sarabandi

Analysis of the Effect of Baseline Redundancy on Synthetic Aperture Interferometric Radiometers Performance .......................2371M. Scigliano, C. Sciannella, S. D’Addio, P. Angeletti, G. Schettini

A Mobile Wireless Sensor Network Architecture for Collaborative Tasks Achievement by Means of Autonomous Robot Swarm.................................................................................................................................................................................................2375

Federico Viani, Massimo Donelli, Giacomo Oliveri, Andrea Massa

Passive UHF RFID Smart Polling Device ..................................................................................................................................................2379Carla R. Medeiros, Jorge R. Costa, Carlos A. Fernandes

Pressure Measurement from the RADAR Interrogation of Passive Sensors.........................................................................................2383F. Chebila, M. M. Jatlaoui, P. Pons, H. Aubert

Performance Analysis of Direct Position Determination for Emitter Source Positioning ...................................................................2387Ling Huang, Yilong Lu

Feasibility Study for IED Detection Using Forward-Looking Ground Penetrating Radar Integrated with Target Features Classification .................................................................................................................................................................................2391

Hyoung-Sun Youn, Jill Kobashigawa, Minh Evans, Nuri Celik, Zhengqing Yun, James Baker, Magdy Iskander

A Segmented Loop Antenna for UHF Near-Field RFID..........................................................................................................................2395Yong Sim Ong, Xianming Qing, Chean Khan Goh, Zhi Ning Chen

A UHF Omni-directional RFID Antenna ..................................................................................................................................................2399Kevin Tan Kaiwen, Xianming Qing, Chean Khan Goh, Lei Zhu

Scattering from a Finite Array of Circular Cylinders Using a Model of Layered Cylindrical Arrays ..............................................2403K. Yasumoto, V. Jandieri

SESSION 332 APS BROADBAND SPIRAL, HELIX, AND LOG-PERIODIC ANTENNAS Quadrifilar Helix Antenna for UHF RFID................................................................................................................................................2407

Garret I. McKerricher, Jim S. Wight

A Low-Cost Directional Log Periodic Log Spiral Antenna .....................................................................................................................2411Emily McMilin, Doug Henke, Stephane Claude, Jens Bornemann

An Optimized Lossy Back Cavity Loaded Four Arm Sinuous Antenna ................................................................................................2415Sandeep Palreddy, Amir I. Zaghloul, Rudolf Cheung

External and Coplanar Feeding for Spiral Antenna ................................................................................................................................2419Karim Louertani, Regis Guinvarc'H, Nicolas Ribiere-Tharaud, Marc Helier

Broadband Absorbing Material Design and Optimization of Cavity-backed, Twoarm Archimedean Spiral Antennas ........................................................................................................................................................................................................2423

Nahid Rahman, Anjali Sharma, Mahmut Obol, Mohammed Afsar, Sandeep Palreddy, Rudolf Cheung

High-Performance Universal GNSS Antenna and Enhancement Techniques to Overcome Its Performance Limitations ....................................................................................................................................................................................................2427

Johnson J. H. Wang, David J. Triplett

SESSION 333 URSI/APS HIGH-FREQUENCY TECHNIQUES Hybrid GRE-PO Method for Modeling Scattering from Electrically Large Targets ..........................................................................2431

Panuwat Janpugdee, Chao-Fu Wang, Tse-Tong Chia

High-Frequency Asymptotic Solution for Scattered Fields by a Discontinuity of a Planar Impedance Surface ..............................2435Toru Kawano, Keiji Goto, Toyohiko Ishihara

SESSION 401 APS SPECIAL SESSION ANTENNA-CHANNEL INTERACTIONS IN PRACTICAL MIMO IMPLEMENTATIONS Influence of Cross-Polarization Characteristics on Indoor MIMO Performance Using A Dual-Polarized Base Station Antenna ............................................................................................................................................................................................2439

Keizo Cho, Yuki Inoue

Dual-polarized Base Station Antenna Configurations for LTE ..............................................................................................................2443Fredrik Athley, Martin Alm, Ola Kaspersson, Karl Werner, Johan Furuskog, Bo Hagerman

Downlink Cooperative MIMO in Urban Macrocell Environments........................................................................................................2447Buon Kiong Lau, Jonas Medbo, Johan Furuskog

Analysis of Compact Suspended MIMO Antennas ..................................................................................................................................2451Zhi Ning Chen, Xue Ni Low, Terence S. P. See

Optimum L/C-Based Practical Matching for the Maximum Wideband Channel Capacity of a Compact MIMO Array ..............................................................................................................................................................................................................2455

Koichi Ogawa, Toshiteru Hayashi, Atsushi Yamamoto

Data Throughput Comparison Between Antenna Pattern and Spatial Diversity in a Practical 802.11n Network Implementation .............................................................................................................................................................................................2459

Paul A. Tornatta Jr., Frank Caimi, Mark Montgomery

Evaluation of User Hand and Body Impact on Multiple Antenna Handset Performance ...................................................................2463Fredrik Harrysson, Anders Derneryd, Fredrik Tufvesson

Experimental Evaluation in Short Range MIMO Communication with Simple Transmission Scheme............................................2467Kentaro Nishimori, Tomohiro Seki, Ken Hiraga, Naoki Honma

Reciprocity Calibration of TDD Smart Antenna Systems .......................................................................................................................2471Nicholas E. Buris

Propagation Aware Statistical Modeling of MIMO Terminal Antennas ...............................................................................................2475A. Sibille, A. J. Braga

Performance of Different Theoretical Small Antennas in Isotropic 3-D and Horizontal 2-D Multipath Environments with Application to OTA testing .......................................................................................................................................2479

Per-Simon Kildal, Nima Jamaly, Jan Carlsson

SESSION 402 APS ELECTROMAGNETIC BANDGAP STRUCTURES: ANALYSIS, DESIGN AND APPLICATIONS Flexible Wide-Angle Polarization-Insensitive Mid-Infrared Metamaterial Absorbers .......................................................................2483

Zhi Hao Jiang, Qi Wu, Xiande Wang, Douglas H. Werner

Spectral Control of THz Thermal Radiation Using an Electromagnetic Crystal .................................................................................2487Ian A. Zimmerman, Ziran Wu, Hao Xin, Richard Ziolkowski

Computer Simulations of 2-Dimensional Photonic Crystal Waveguide by Method of Moment .........................................................2491Masahiro Tanaka, Kazuo Tanaka

A Cylindrical Metallic Photonic Crystal Waveguide – Design and Analysis.........................................................................................2495A. I. Nashed, S. K. Chaudhuri, S. Safavi-Naeini

Fast Simulation of Lumped-Element Loaded AMC Antenna Systems Using Embedded Element Theory.......................................2499M. G. Bray, D. H. Werner

A Novel Compact Reconfigurable Defected Ground Structure Resonator on Coplanar Waveguide Technology for Filter Applications ........................................................................................................................................................................................2503

Heba B. El-Shaarawy, Fabio Coccetti, Robert Plana

Anisotropic-Like Angle-Dependent One-Way Transmission in Non-Symmetric EBG and Ultralow-Epsilon-Material Gratings .........................................................................................................................................................................................2507

A. E. Serebryannikov

Mutual Coupling Reduction Effects of EBG Structure Located on Cylinder Surface .........................................................................2511Yuki Kawakami, Toshikazu Hori, Mitoshi Fujimoto, Ryo Yamaguchi, Keizo Cho

Miniaturization of Artificial Magnetic Conductors..................................................................................................................................2515Francois Grange, Christophe Delaveaud, Kouroch Madhjoubi

On IP3 Performance Investigation in Reconfigurable Active EBG Antenna ........................................................................................2519A. M. Habib, M. N. Jazi, A. Djaiz, M. Nedil, M. C. E. Yagoub, T. A. Denidni

Dyadic Green’s Function for an Electric Current Source in the Unit Cell of a Periodic Structure ...................................................2523Boris Tomasic, Hans Steyskal, Naftali Herscovici

SESSION 403 APS INDOOR AND URBAN PROPAGATION MODELS I A New Ray-Tracing Acceleration Technique for Radio Propagation ....................................................................................................2527

Adolfo Escobar, Lorena Lozano, Hector Cadavid, Manuel F. Cátedra

Arbitrary Voxel Selection for Speeding up a Ray Tracing-based EM Simulator .................................................................................2531Pierpaolo Usai, Alessandro Corucci, Simone Genovesi, Agostino Monorchio

Efficient Enhancement of the Accuracy of Ray Tracing..........................................................................................................................2535Vahid Mohtashami, Salman Parsa, Amir Ahmad Shishegar

Performance Evaluation of a 3D Ray Tracing Model in Urban Environment......................................................................................2539R. Moghrani, J. M. Conrat, X. Begaud, B. Huyart

Two-way Fourier Split Step Algorithm over Variable Terrain with Narrow and Wide Angle Propagators ....................................2543Ozlem Ozgun, Gökhan Apaydin, Mustafa Kuzuoglu, Levent Sevgi

Two-way Split-Step Fourier and Finite Element Based Parabolic Equation Propagation Tools: Comparisons and Calibration ....................................................................................................................................................................................................2547

Gökhan Apaydin, Ozlem Ozgun, Mustafa Kuzuoglu, Levent Sevgi

Simulation and Measurement of Near-ground Wave Propagation for Indoor Scenarios ...................................................................2551Fikadu T. Dagefu, Kamal Sarabandi

Multipole and S-parameter Based Antenna Model ..................................................................................................................................2555Mark Haynes, Mahta Moghaddam

Novel 3-D Mobile-to-Mobile Wideband Channel Model .........................................................................................................................2559Tsan-Ming Wu, Tsung-Hua Tsai

SESSION 404 APS ANTENNAS FOR MOBILE APPLICATIONS II Development of 2.4GHz One-Sided Directional Planar Antenna with Quarter Wavelength Top Metal...........................................2563

Haruichi Kanaya, Masataka Kato, R. K. Pokharel, Keiji Yoshida

Integration of Planar Monopole Antenna for Ultrawide-Band Radios ..................................................................................................2567M. Sun, Y. P. Zhang, Y. L. Lu

High Efficiency Planar Inverted-F Antenna Employing Distributed Excitation ..................................................................................2571Naoki Honma, Satoshi Ogashiwa, Kentaro Nishimori

Circular Polarized Antenna Composed of Ultra Low Profile Inverted L Elements .............................................................................2575Mitsuo Taguchi, Tetsuya Yamashita

A Novel High Gain Low Profile Miniaturized Vertically Polarized Antenna .......................................................................................2579Jungsuek Oh, Kamal Sarabandi

A Low-profile Dual-polarized Directional Antenna for an Indoor MIMO Transmission ...................................................................2583Daisuke Uchida, Shumpei Fuse, Hiroyuki Arai, Yuki Inoue, Keizo Cho

Compact Multiband MIMO Antenna for Next Generation USB Dongle Application .........................................................................2587Minseok Han, Jaehoon Choi

Radiation Efficiency of a Microstrip Antenna with Height Discontinuity (MAHD) ............................................................................2591Chanam Lee, Choon Sae Lee, Anand Lakshmanan

Dynamic Real-time Calibration for Antenna Matching in the Transmission Mode ............................................................................2595Shirook M. Ali, Mohamed H. Bakr, James Warden

SESSION 405 APS FDTD APPLICATIONS Numerical Estimation of EMI Impact on Implantable Cardiac Pacemakers in Elevator Using EMF Distributions Inside Human Body ......................................................................................................................................................................................2599

Takashi Hikage, Toshio Nojima, Ally Y. Simba, Soichi Watanabe

An FDTD Analysis of Induced Current in PEC Wire which Touched Semi-Infinite Ground Plane by Using Surface Impedance Boundary Condition.................................................................................................................................................................2603

Takuji Arima, Soichi Watanabe, Kanako Wake, Toru Uno

An Efficient Algorithm for the Incorporation of Diodes into FDTD Method .......................................................................................2607Hsin Hsiang Su, Chih Wen Kuo, Toshihide Kitazawa

Efficient FDTD Analysis of Antenna-Channel Interaction via Macromodeling ...................................................................................2611Vinujanan Vairavanathan, Costas D. Sarris

Transient Analysis of Installed Antenna Performance ............................................................................................................................2615Ian Wood, David P. Johns

Study of Mutual Coupling on Mobile Phone PCB with Shielding Using FDTD ...................................................................................2619C.-H. Li, P. Futter, G. Tudosie, N. Chavannes, N. Kuster

A Hybrid FDTD Method for Modeling Complex Objects with Sub-Cellular Features .......................................................................2623Jonathan Bringuier, Raj Mittra

Numerical Study of the Effect of the Struts in a Reflector Antenna System by Using the Parallelized FDTD-Based Solver GEMS.................................................................................................................................................................................................2627

Neng-Tien Huang, Raj Mittra, Stuart Hay

SESSION 406 APS ELECTROMAGNETIC IMAGING AND SENSING APPLICATIONS Terahertz Imaging of Biological Samples ..................................................................................................................................................2631

Daniel M. Hailu, Iraj A. Ehtezazi, Safieddin Safavi-Naeini

Sub-wavelength Near Field Imaging Using a Non-Resonant Slot with a Wire Insert ..........................................................................2635Tejprakash Pochiraju, Oleksandr Malyuskin, Vincent F. Fusco

Scattering of Electromagnetic Waves from a Variable Effective Period Slot Array by a Photo Induced Plasma on a Dielectric Slab ...............................................................................................................................................................................................2639

Kazuo Nishimura

SESSION 408 APS BROADBAND AND UWB PRINTED ANTENNAS Flexible Bow-tie Antennas ...........................................................................................................................................................................2643

Ahmet C. Durgun, Mark S. Reese, Constantine A. Balanis, Craig R. Birtcher, David R. Allee, Sameer Venugopal

A Study on Wider Bandwidth of Bow-tie Antenna with Folded Elements ............................................................................................2647M. Nagatoshi, S. Tanaka, S. Horiuchi, H. Morishita

A UHF Ultrabroadband Vivaldi-Type Direction Finding Antenna........................................................................................................2651Rainer Mueller, Steffen Lutz, Ralf Lorch, Thomas Walter

Tri-band Notched Ultra-wideband Antenna Using Capacitively Loaded Loops (CLLs) ....................................................................2655Chia-Ching Lin, Richard W. Ziolkowski

Fundamental Characteristics of a Strip Folded Dipole Antenna with a Feed Line Having a Hemispherical Structure ........................................................................................................................................................................................................2659

Junmyeoung Kim, Mio Ngatoshi, Hisashi Morishita

CPW-Fed Wideband Printed Planar Dipole Antenna for Digital TV ....................................................................................................2663Chih-Yu Tsai, Oscal T.-C. Chen

UWB Antenna with a WiMAX Frequency Notch Caused by a Novel Stepped U Shaped Slot that Suppresses the Parasitic Notches ..........................................................................................................................................................................................2667

Milos Davidovic, Symeon Nikolaou, Photos Vryonides, Marija Nikolic

Overlapped Printed Monopole Antennas for Ultrawideband Applications ..........................................................................................2671S. H. Zainud-Deen, Rami A. Al-Essa, S. M. M. Ibrahem

Ultrawideband Printed Elliptical Monopole Antenna with Four Band-Notch Characteristics. .........................................................2675S. H. Zainud-Deen, Rami A. Al-Essa, S. M. M. Ibrahem

SESSION 409 APS ADVANCED INTEGRAL EQUATION METHODS Complete Basis Functions Set for Curved Scatterers Based on Shannon Sampling Theorem............................................................2679

M. Casaletti, S. Maci, G. Vecchi

Global Generalized Shannon Functions for the Scattering of 3D Polyhedral Surfaces .......................................................................2683M. Casaletti, S. Maci, G. Vecchi

Numerical Solution of Scattering from Metallo-Dielectric Composites via the CBFM Applied in Conjunction with the Dipole Moment Approach (DMA)........................................................................................................................................................2687

C. Pelletti, K. Panayappan, R. Mittra, A. Monorchio

Singularity-Free Approach for the Evaluation of the Matrix Elements in the Context of the Method of Moments Based on the Use of Closed-Form Expressions for the Fields Radiated by the Subdomain Basis Functions ....................................2691

C. Pelletti, K. Panayappan, R. Mittra, A. Monorchio

Speeding up Pre-Processing Time in the CBFM when Using Very Large Blocks ................................................................................2695Eliseo Garcia, Carlos Delgado, Felipe Cátedra

Using the MoM Impedance Matrix Interpolation with Domain Decomposition to Increase Computational Effciency of the Wide-band Performance Evaluation of Antennas ........................................................................................................2699

A. Karwowski, A. Noga

New Formulations for Evaluating Hypersingular and Strongly Singular Integrals in Electromagnetic Integral Equations .......................................................................................................................................................................................................2703

Mei Song Tong, Weng Cho Chew

Accurate and Efficient Evaluation of Fields Radiated at Arbitrary Distances by Numerically-Defined Currents Residing on Arbitrarily Shaped Objects....................................................................................................................................................2707

Cristian Della Giovampaola, Raj Mittra, Alberto Toccafondi

New Electric-magnetic Field Integral Equation for the Scattering Analysis of Perfectly Conducting Sharp-edged Objects at Very Low Or Extremely Low Frequencies .............................................................................................................................2711

Eduard Ubeda, Juan M. Rius

A Novel Approach for Approximation of Summation to Integral with Mid-point Summation to Speed Up the Spectral Domain Approach for Shielded Microstrip Lines .....................................................................................................................2715

J. M. Song, Sidharath Jain

Simulation Model of a Stripline with Numerical Calculations Based on MoM for the Evaluation of the Glass Antenna Systems of Vehicles in LW/MW Frequency Range ..................................................................................................................2719

Hicham Tazi, Johannes Hippeli, Thomas F. Eibert

SESSION 411 APS RF/MICROWAVE COMPONENTS FOR ANTENNAS Microstrip to CPW Transitions for Package Applications ......................................................................................................................2723

Duixian Liu, B. Floyd

Miniature Multilayer Inductors for CMOS RFIC ...................................................................................................................................2727M. Chirala, X. Guan, C. Huynh, C. Nguyen

Extremely Wideband 0.18-μm CMOS Compact Distributed Low-Noise Amplifier.............................................................................2731M. Chirala, X. Guan, C. Huynh, C. Nguyen

A Ultra-Wideband Fully Integrated CMOS Sampling Receiver Frontend ...........................................................................................2735R. Xu, C. Huynh, C. Nguyen

Miniature 0.25-μm CMOS Distributed Amplifier Using On-Chip Inductors .......................................................................................2739X. Guan, Y. Jin, C. Huynh, C. Nguyen

Carbon-Fiber Nanotubes for X-band Conformal Antenna Applications ..............................................................................................2743A. Mehdipour, A. R. Sebak, C. W. Trueman, I. D. Rosca, S. V. Hoa

CPW-to-CPW Via-Connected Vertical Transition for Millimeter Wave Applications .......................................................................2747Amin Enayati, Guy A. E. Vandenbosch, Walter De Raedt

Electromagnetic Modelling of Ridged Waveguide Resonator Loaded Bandpass Filters .....................................................................2751N. Suntheralingam, N. Mohottige, D. Budimir

New Microstrip Bandpass Filters with Increased Upper Rejection Band .............................................................................................2755Gao-Le Dai, Yong-Xin Guo, Ming-Yao Xia

Microstrip Phase Inverter Using Slotted Ground.....................................................................................................................................2759Jae Hee Kim, Dae Woong Woo, Gyu Young Jo, Wee Sang Park

Multilayer Unequal Microstrip Power Divider.........................................................................................................................................2763Sheikh S. I. Mitu, Sulaiman L. Taiwo

SESSION IF412 APS INTERACTIVE FORUM NEW CHARACTERISTICS OF DIELECTRIC RESONATOR ANTENNAS Effects of Permittivity on Bandwidth and Radiation Patterns of Cylindrical Dielectric Resonator Antennas .................................2767

Adam P. Huynh, Stuart A. Long, David R. Jackson

Circularly Polarized Supershaped Dielectric Resonator Antennas for Indoor Ultra Wide Band Applications ...............................2771M. Simeoni, R. Cicchetti, A. Yarovoy, D. Caratelli

A Novel Circularly Polarized Dielectric Resonator Antenna for UWB Applications ..........................................................................2775Osama M. Haraz, Abdel-Razik Sebak

A New Circularly Polarized High Gain DRA Millimeter-Wave Antenna .............................................................................................2779A. Elboushi, O. M. Haraz, A. Sebak, T. Denidni

Dielectric Resonator Antenna with TEδ01 Mode .......................................................................................................................................2783Yang Gao, Zhijun Zhang, Zhenghe Feng, Magdy F. Iskander, Ruihong Li

New Radiating Mode in a Cylindrical DRA to Produce Broadside High Gain Radiation...................................................................2787D. Guha, Archita Banerjee, Y. M. M. Antar

Hybrid Monopole-DRA: New Geometries for Improved Ultra-Wideband Operation ........................................................................2791D. Guha, Bidisha Gupta, Y. M. M. Antar

Novel Compact Metamaterial-Based Cavity Resonator with Broad Bandwidth ..................................................................................2795Jen-Chun Yeh, Chong-Yi Liou, Yu-Zhi Chueh, Min-Sou Wu, Shau-Gang Mao

Ultra Wideband Dielectric Resonator Antenna with Band Rejection ....................................................................................................2799Mahmoud Niroo Jazi, Tayeb A. Denidni

Improving the Gain and Reducing the Side Lobe Levels of a Microstrip/dielectric Resonator Millimeter-wave Antenna..........................................................................................................................................................................................................2803

Alexandre Perron, Tayeb A. Denidni, Abdel R. Sebak

SESSION IF413 APS INTERACTIVE FORUM NEW APPLICATIONS OF DIELECTRIC RESONATOR ANTENNAS Design of a mm-Wave Broadband CPW-fed Stacked Dielectric Resonator Antenna for Underground Mining Communication.............................................................................................................................................................................................2807

Y. Coulibaly, M. Nedil, Larbi Talbi, T. A. Denidni

A Circularly Polarized Dielectric Lens Antennas Designed by Holographic Principle........................................................................2811G. Minatti, F. Caminita, S. Maci

SU-8 Resonator Antenna .............................................................................................................................................................................2815A. Rashidian, D. M. Klymyshyn, M. Tayfeh Aligodarz, M. Boerner, J. Mohr

A Convenient Circuit Model for Millimeter-Wave Substrate Integrated Waveguide (SIW) Corporate Feed for Dielectric Resonator Antenna Arrays ........................................................................................................................................................2819

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

Design of a 60 GHz Dielectric Resonator Antenna with Enhanced Gain...............................................................................................2823Aldo Petosa, Soulideth Thirakoune

Dielectric Resonator Reflectarray with Two DRA Sizes and Varying Slot Loading ............................................................................2827S. H. Zainud-Deen, A. M. Abd-Elhady, A. A. Mitkees, Ahmed A. Kishk

Investigation of Cylindrical Dielectric Resonator Antenna Mounted on a Circular Cylindrical Ground Plane ..............................2831S. H. Zainud-Deen, H. A. Malhat, K. H. Awadalla

Reduction of Mutual Coupling Between Two Dielectric Resonator Antennas Mounted on a Circular Cylindrical Ground Plane ................................................................................................................................................................................................2835

S. H. Zainud-Deen, H. A. Malhat, K. H. Awadalla

SESSION IF414 APS INTERACTIVE FORUM ANTENNA MEASUREMENTS II Spiral Scanning for Bipolar Planar Near-field Antenna Measurements: A Comparative Study ......................................................2839

Timothy Brockett, Yahya Rahmat-Samii

Antenna Phase Center Determination from Amplitude Measurements Using a Focusing Lens ........................................................2843Jorge R. Costa, Eduardo B. Lima, Carlos A. Fernandes

Truncation-Error Reduction in Acoustic Spherical Near-Field Scanning.............................................................................................2847Kristopher T. Kim

Wideband Dual Polarized Probe with Interchangeable Apertures for Advanced Antenna Measurement Applications...................................................................................................................................................................................................2851

L. J. Foged, A. Giacomini, R. Morbidini, N. Isman

Improving the Directivity Accuracy Due to the Spillover Effect in the Planar Near-field Measurement Systems...........................2855S. Farhad Razavi, Shenheng Xu, Yahya Rahmat-Samii

Gradient-based, Singular Value Optimization in Near-field Measurements ........................................................................................2859A. Capozzoli, C. Curcio, G. D’Elia, A. Liseno

A Simple Method to Reduce Truncation Error in Planar Near-field/Far-field Transformers ...........................................................2863Michael McFadden, Waymond R. Scott Jr.

Microwave Holography of Reflector Antennas in the Bi-polar Planar Near-field System: Simulations and Measurements ...............................................................................................................................................................................................2867

S. Farhad Razavi, Shenheng Xu, Yahya Rahmat-Samii

SESSION IF415 APS/URSI INTERACTIVE FORUM EM MEASUREMENTS Measurements of the Wireless Ad Hoc Array Concept in a Large Building Setting for Public-Safety Communications ...........................................................................................................................................................................................2871

William F. Young, Christopher L. Holloway, Galen Koepke, David W. Matolak

Outdoor Transient Measurement Base in Cylindrical Coordinates for Antenna Characterization ..................................................2875R. Rammal, M. Lalande, E. Martinod, N. Feix, M. Hajj, B. Jecko

Side Wall Diffraction & Optimal Back Wall Design in Elongated Chambers for Far–Field Antenna Measurements at VHF/UHF Frequencies ............................................................................................................................................................................2879

John Aubin, Mark Winebrand

Optimization Criterion for a High Performance Absorber Design at VHF/UHF Frequency Band ...................................................2883Mark Winebrand, John Aubin

2-port Calibration without a Through Connection Using 1-port Switched Loads ...............................................................................2887Mark Haynes, Mahta Moghaddam

Chassis Wavemode Effects on Hearing Aid Compatibility at 900 MHz ................................................................................................2891Shirook M. Ali, Huanhuan Gu

Microwave Measurements of Dielectric Constants by Mixture Equations............................................................................................2895Jyh Sheen, Zuo-Wen Hong, Wei-Lung Mao, Weihsing Liu, Chin-An Chen

A New Method for Measuring Degradation Level of Insulating Oil with Temperature in Microwave .............................................2899Sangbok Park, Young-Seek Chung, Changyul Cheon

SESSION IF416 APS INTERACTIVE FORUM HIGH FREQUENCY AND ASYMPTOTIC METHODS DFT-UTD Based MoM Approach for an Efficient Analysis of Scattering from Large, Finite Arrays in the Vicinity of Scattering Objects ....................................................................................................................................................................................2903

Ramazan Cetin, Ozlem Aydin Civi, Paolo Nepa

A New Time-Domain Asymptotic Solution for Transient WG Mode Radiation Fields Excited by a Pulse Source..........................2907Keiji Goto, Toru Kawano, Toyohiko Ishihara

A Memory-hierarchy-based Optimization of MECA (Modified Equivalent Current Approximation) for the Analysis of Electrically Large Dielectric and Lossy Structures ..............................................................................................................2911

Hipolito Gomez-Sousa, Jose A. Martinez-Lorenzo, Borja Gonzalez-Valdes, Oscar Rubinos-Lopez, Maria Grana-Varela, Marcos Arias-Acuna, Javier G. Meana, Fernando Las-Heras

Fast Physical Optics Algorithm for Cubic Surfaces .................................................................................................................................2915Felipe Vico-Bondía, Miguel Ferrando-Bataller

Curved Surface Scattering Geometry in the Shooting and Bouncing Rays Method ............................................................................2919Robert A. Kipp

Radon Transform Interpretation of the Physical Optics Integral and Application to Near and Far Field Acoustic Scattering Problems .....................................................................................................................................................................................2923

H. Arda Ülkü, A. Arif Ergin

Near-field Iterative Physical Optics Based on Distinct Wave Propagation Vector...............................................................................2927Miao Sui, Xiaojian Xu

Ray-tracing Model Calibration for Underground Mines Propagation Prediction at High UHF Frequencies ..................................2931M. M. Moutairou, G. Y. Delisle, D. Grenier

A New Approach for Improved Evaluation of Sommerfeld Integral Tails for PEC-terminated Single Layered Media .............................................................................................................................................................................................................2935

Shaun D. Walker, Deb Chatterjee, Michael S. Kluskens

SESSION 418 APS MILLIMETER-WAVE PHASED ARRAY ANTENNAS A Steerable 60GHz Array Antenna Using a Reconfigurable Dielectric Phase Shifter.........................................................................2939

Matthew Stoneback, Charles Wolthausen, Yasuo Kuga

G-band Frequency-Scanned Antenna Arrays ...........................................................................................................................................2943Leonardo Ranzani, Negar Ehsan, Zoya Popovic

A Low Cost Wafer Based W-band Phased Array.....................................................................................................................................2947Jerry W. Kuo, Yuanxun Ethan Wang

Enhancing Gigabit Throughput Wireless Communication Performance Using Spatial-diversity Approach with Slot-loop Mm-wave Antenna Arrays..........................................................................................................................................................2951

Helen K. Pan, Minyoung Park

An Alternating-phase Fed Slotted Waveguide Array with a Double-layered Feed Structure and Meandering Radiating Waveguides in 60 GHz Band.....................................................................................................................................................2955

Atsuo Senga, Yuichi Kimura

Millimeter-Wave Plastic Waveguide Phased Array Antenna .................................................................................................................2959Yoshihiko Konishi, Tamotsu Nishino, Hidenori Yukawa, Yoji Aramaki

SESSION 419 APS LEAKY WAVE AND FABRY PEROT RESONATOR ANTENNAS Study of Surface Waves On Planar High Gain Leaky Wave Antennas .................................................................................................2963

Samir F. Mahmoud, Yahia M. M. Antar

A Planar Cavity Based Antenna by Leaky Parallel-Plate Wave Guiding and Practical Surface-Wave Launching ........................2967Symon K. Podilchak, Al P. Freundorfer, Yahia M. M. Antar

Planar Superstrate Made with Meta-material Particles for Dual-Polarized Dual-Frequency Antennas and Circularly Polarized Antennas....................................................................................................................................................................2971

E. Ugarte-Muñoz, F. J. Herraiz-Martínez, J. Montero-De-Paz, L. E. García-Muñoz, D. Segovia-Vargas

Non-Standard Tapering of Leaky-Wave Antennas in Hybrid Technology ...........................................................................................2975José Luis Gómez Tornero, Andrew R. Weily, Y. Jay Guo

Fabry-Perot Resonator Antenna with Polarization Transform ..............................................................................................................2979Zhen-Guo Liu

Comparative Approach of Fabry-Perot Resonator Antenna with PMC and PEC Ground Plane .....................................................2983Zhen-Guo Liu, Rui Qiang

SESSION 420 APS SELECTED SPECIAL SESSION ADVANCED ANTENNAS FOR SPACE AND GROUND APPLICATIONS Integrated Approach for Compact High Performance Reflector Antenna Feeds ................................................................................2987

Clency Lee-Yow, Jonathan Scupin, Philip Venezia, Tom Califf

Active Phase Array SAR Antennas ............................................................................................................................................................2991A. Fourmault, J. Uher, P. Allan, C. Grenier, P. Arsenault

Terahertz Reflector Antenna System for a Scanned and Multiplexed FMCW Radar.........................................................................2995Nuria Llombart, Ken B. Cooper, Robert J. Dengler, Peter H. Siegel

Common Aperture Satellite Antenna System for Multiple Contoured Beams and Multiple Spot Beams.........................................2999Sudhakar Rao, Chih-Chien Hsu, Jim Wang

Juno Microwave Radiometer All-Metal Patch Array Antennas.............................................................................................................3003N. Chamberlain, J. Chen, R. Hodges, R. Hughes, J. Jakoboski

A Low Cost Conformal Switched Array Antenna ....................................................................................................................................3007Frank Chethik, Richard Breen

Complex Feed Chains for Satellite Antenna Applications at Ku- and Ka-band ...................................................................................3011J. Uher, Y. Demers, S. Richard

Design and Analysis of a Low Profile Broadband Wide Scan Array .....................................................................................................3015K. K. Chan, H. K. Oh, C. H. Cheong

Search and Rescue Antenna for Galileo Constellation.............................................................................................................................3019Jose M. Montero, Esteban Celemin, Ana Torre

The Deep Space Network’s X/X/Ka Feed: Modifications for 100 kW CW Uplink Operation ...........................................................3023Daniel J. Hoppe, Behrouz Khayatian, John B. Sosnowski

Circular Polarization Feed with Dual Frequency OMT Based on Turnstile Junction.........................................................................3027R. Garcia, F. Mayol, Jose M. Montero, A. Culebras

SESSION 421 APS SPECIAL SESSION MULTI-ANTENNA DESIGN AND SIMULATION FOR VEHICULAR COMMUNICATION AND RECEPTION SYSTEMS A Method for Evaluation of FM Antenna Diversity Systems for Cars ..................................................................................................3031

S. Treinies, J. Brose, J. Hopf, S. Lindenmeier

Beamforming Methods for Vehicular DBS Reception Phased Array Antenna ....................................................................................3035Pedram Mousavi, Mohammad Fakharzadeh, S. Safavi-Naeini

Analysis of MIMO Channel Measurements in Urban Areas ..................................................................................................................3039C. Jandura, R. Fritzsche, G. P. Fettweis, J. Voigt

Three Port Compact Multifunction Printed Antenna System for Automotive Application ................................................................3043Victor Rabinovich, Dmitri Rabinovich

Measurement Uncertainties in Automotive Antenna Measurements.....................................................................................................3047Christoph Ullrich, Hicham Tazi

Ultrathin Miniature Antenna to Mitigate Platform Loading Effects .....................................................................................................3051Erdinc Irci, Kubilay Sertel, John L. Volakis

Scan-Phase Antenna Diversity System for Improvements in SDARS Audio Availability at Very Low Signal-to-Noise Ratios ...................................................................................................................................................................................................3055

S. Senega, D. J. Muller, L. M. Reiter, S. M. Lindenmeier

Multiple Antenna Design Method for Mobile Platform Diversity Systems ...........................................................................................3059Gil-Young Lee, Dimitris Psychoudakis, Chi-Chih Chen, John L. Volakis

An Overhead V-Shape Printed Dipole Array Antenna for Toll Plaza Application ..............................................................................3063A. Taeb, Gh. Z. Rafi, C. Santillan , J. Kohli, S. Safavi-Naeini

Lane Position Determination Techniques for an Electronic Toll Collection System ............................................................................3067J. Kohli, C. Santillan, Gh. Z. Rafi, S. Safavi-Naeini

Vehicular Multi/Broadband MIMO Antenna for Terrestrial Communication ....................................................................................3070Stefan Fikar, Werner Walzik, Arpad L. Scholtz

SESSION 422 APS RFID, DTV AND GPS ANTENNAS A Miniaturized Built-in Antenna for USB Digital Television (DTV) Tuners ........................................................................................3074

Hsien-Yi Chen, Chi-Hui Lai, Yen-Yu Chen, Po-Wen Chen, Kuo-Ying Su, Yung-Ta Lin, Chang-Fa Yang, Tzyh-Ghuang Ma

Compact Self-directional Antenna Based on a Helical Ring ...................................................................................................................3078B. Souny, C. Morlaas, A. Chabory

The Effect of Conductor Thickness in Passive Inkjet Printed RFID Tags ............................................................................................3082Juha Virtanen, Toni Björninen, Leena Ukkonen, Kimmo Kaija, Timo Joutsenoja, Lauri Sydänheimo, Atef Z. Elsherbeni

Circularly Polarized Square Patch Antenna with Square Slots for RFID Reader Applications ........................................................3086N. Gautam, P. Deo, A. Mehta, D. Mirshekar-Syahkal, P. J. Massey, H. Nakano

Physical Modeling of On-chip Antenna for UHF RFID Tags .................................................................................................................3090Jingtian Xi, Hao Min, Terry T. Ye

Wideband Rod-Dipole Antenna with a Modified Feed for DTV Signal Reception ..............................................................................3094Saou-Wen Su, Fa-Shian Chang

Design of the Diversity Antenna for the TV Monitor ...............................................................................................................................3098Yoshihiko Kuwahara, Takanori Yamashita

Miniaturized 1” Dual-band GPS Antenna Element .................................................................................................................................3102Liang Yue, Chi-Chih Chen, Dimitris Psychoudakis, John L. Volakis

A Film Antenna for Digital Terrestrial Television Reception .................................................................................................................3106Ning Guan, Hiroiku Tayama, Koichi Ito

A Comb-Shaped Slot RFID Tag Antenna..................................................................................................................................................3110Wenbo Zeng, Jia Zhao

SESSION 423 APS/URSI NANO-ELECTROMAGNETICS: ANALYSIS, DESIGN AND CHARACTERIZATION Simulation of Transient Phenomena in Carbon Nanotubes Dipoles in the Far-infrared Regime ......................................................3114

Mario F. Pantoja, Douglas H. Werner, Pingjuan L. Werner, Amelia R. Bretones

Efficient Computational Models for Optical Nanowires..........................................................................................................................3118Mario F. Pantoja, Matthew Bray, Douglas H. Werner, Pingjuan L. Werner, Amelia R. Bretones

Computational Analysis of Optical Field Enhancement in Disordered Nanoscale Structures with Applications to Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy ...................................................................................................................................................3122

A. D. Baczewski, D. Dault, B. Shanker, T.. Hogan

Design of Efficient Terahertz Antennas: Carbon Nanotube versus Gold .............................................................................................3126Sangjo Choi, Kamal Sarabandi

A Single Material Alternative to a Multilayer Optical Window .............................................................................................................3130Jason A. Ashbach, Pingjuan L. Werner, Douglas H. Werner, Frank Namin

Low Loss Multilayer Frequency Selective Surface NIMs for the Mid-IR: Modeling, Synthesis and Characterization ...........................................................................................................................................................................................3134

Jeremy A. Bossard, Seokho Yun, Douglas H. Werner, Theresa S. Mayer

Fractal Random Cantor Superlattices for the Infrared ...........................................................................................................................3138Jeremy A. Bossard, Timothy M. McManus, Douglas H. Werner

SESSION 425 APS ANALYTICAL METHODS IN ELECTROMAGNETICS Dyadic Green’s Functions for General Two-Layer Anisotropic Geometry with Source Embedded Inside the Anisotropic Layer .........................................................................................................................................................................................3142

Ying Huang, Jay Kyoon Lee

Complex Image Green’s Functions of Antenna Radiating Near a Human Head .................................................................................3146Amjad A. Omar

Beer’s Law and the Unique Penetration Properties of the Brillouin Precursor in Complex Media...................................................3150Kurt Edmund Oughstun

Performance Limitations of Planar Antennas...........................................................................................................................................3154Mehrbod Mohajer, Safieddin Safavi-Naeini, Sujeet K. Chaudhuri

Non-LTI Systems, a New Frontier in Electromagnetics Theory .............................................................................................................3158Majid Manteghi

Closed Form Expression for Conductor Loss of Asymmetrical CPW Lines.........................................................................................3162P. Majumdar, A. K. Verma

Analytical Prediction of Shielding Effectiveness of Rectangular Enclosures with Rectangular Apertures.......................................3166Chao Ruan, Zhongxiang Shen

Electromagnetic Scattering from Circular Cylinders with PEC/PMC Boundaries .............................................................................3170Mohammad A. Kishk, Ahmed A Kishk, Per-Simon Kildal

Transient Analysis of Plasmon Modes in Metallic Nanoparticles Using Numerical Inversion of Laplace Transform ....................3174Shinichiro Ohnuki, Tatsuichiro Okada, Yuya Kitaoka, Yoshito Ashizawa, Katsuji Nakagawa

SESSION 426 APS PHASED ARRAY SYNTHESIS AND SCANNING TECHNIQUES Subarrayed Time-Modulated Arrays with Minimum Power Losses......................................................................................................3178

L. Poli, L. Manica, P. Rocca, A. Massa

Synthesis of Arbitrary Sidelobes Sum and Difference Patterns with Common Excitation Weights ..................................................3182P. Rocca, A. F. Morabito, T. Isernia, A. Massa

ADS Interleaved Arrays with Reconfigurable Polarization ....................................................................................................................3186G. Oliveri, L. Lizzi, A. Massa

Synthesis of Gaussian Beams in the Near-field of Linear Arrays ...........................................................................................................3190M. G. Bray, D. H. Werner

Inverse Source for Radiating Element Positioning in Antenna Synthesis .............................................................................................3194Javier L. Araque, Giuseppe Vecchi

Analytical Synthesis Technique for Uniform-Amplitude Linear Sparse Arrays ..................................................................................3198M. C. Vigano, D. Caratelli

Phase-Controlled Beam-Scanning with Near-Field and DRR Reduction for Arbitrary Antenna Arrays.........................................3202G. Buttazzoni, R. Vescovo

Circular and Polygonal Array Antennas for Electronic Steering ...........................................................................................................3206Juliano R. Brianeze, Edson Reis

Phase-Shifter-Less Beam Scanning in a Planar Array of Antennas with Nonlinear Front-End and Spatial LO Power Distribution .......................................................................................................................................................................................3210

A. Eshaghi, N. Mohammadi-Estakhri, M. Shahabadi

SESSION 427 APS APPLICATIONS OF EM FIELDS IN MEDICINE Feasibility Study for Non-Invasive Blood Glucose Monitoring...............................................................................................................3214

Benjamin Freer, Jayanti Venkataraman

A New Method for Remedy of Varicose Vein Using Horn Antenna.......................................................................................................3218Wanghyun Kim, Tae-Hee Woo, Minkyun Yoo, Jeiwon Cho, Dosung Kwon, Young-Seek Chung, Changyul Cheon

Detection and Classification of Human Arm Movements for Physical Rehabilitation ........................................................................3222A. R. Guraliuc, A. A. Serra, P. Nepa, G. Manara, F. Potortì

Noninvasive Microwave Technique for Hemodynamic Assessments .....................................................................................................3226Ruthsenne Gagarin, Hyoung-Sun Youn, Nuri Celik, Magdy Iskander

3D UWB Tomography for Medical Imaging Applications ......................................................................................................................3230M. Guardiola, L. Jofre, J. Romeu

Compact Spiral Antennas for MICS Band Wireless Endoscope Toward Pediatric Applications ......................................................3234Vivek Shirvante, Fabien Todeschini, Xiaoyu Cheng, Yong-Kyu Yoon

Slot Spiral Detector Array for Broadband THz Imaging ........................................................................................................................3238Georgios C. Trichopoulos, Kubilay Sertel, John L. Volakis

Multifunction Antenna for Compact Wireless Electrophysiological Monitoring Devices ...................................................................3242P. Anacleto, C. P. Figueiredo, K.-P. Hoffmann, J. H. Correia, P. M. Mendes

A Simulation of Focal Brain Stimulation Using Metamaterial Lenses...................................................................................................3246Luis Gomez, Luis Hernandez, Anthony Grbic, Eric Michielssen

The Effect of Model Accuracy on the Density of Induced Currents in the Simulation of Transcranical Magnetic Stimulation ....................................................................................................................................................................................................3250

Laleh Golestanirad, Youri Marko, Juan R. Mosig, Claudio Pollo

An Internet Based Interactive Telemedicine System for Remote Healthcare .......................................................................................3254Nuri Celik, James Baker, Hyoungsun Youn, Magdy F. Iskander

SESSION 428 APS INDOOR AND URBAN PROPAGATION MODELS II Analysis of Measured Outdoor-to-Indoor MIMO Channel Matrix at 3.5 GHz....................................................................................3258

Y. Lostanlen, T. Tenoux, H. Farhat, G. El Zein

Link-Layer Performance of 2x2 780MHz and 2x2 2.3GHz MIMO Systems.........................................................................................3262Farzaneh Kohandani, Vahid Pourahmadi, Qinjiang Rao

Measurement Based Channel Model for Large Concert Halls ...............................................................................................................3266S. Dortmund, A. Schmidt, I. Rolfes

Channel Capacity Characteristics of Multi-User MIMO Systems in Urban Area ...............................................................................3270Sirichai Hemrungrote, Toshikazu Hori, Mitoshi Fujimoto, Kentaro Nishimori

Fading Channel Modeling for Fixed Terminal in Outdoor Environment .............................................................................................3274Yoshichika Ohta, Teruya Fujii

MIMO Channel Modeling Using Path Morphology.................................................................................................................................3278Won-Jeong Jeong, Ji-Ho Yoo, Tae-Hong Kim, Myung-Don Kim, Hyun Kyu Chung, Seok-Hee Bae, Jeong-Ki Pack

Measurement and Simulation for Delay Spread on the T-type Hallway in Indoor Office Building Environment...........................3282Youngkeun Yoon, Myoung-Won Jung, Jongho Kim

Modeling Three-Dimensional Terrain in Urban Propagation Environment Using Geospatial Data in Cyberspace .......................3286Zhengqing Yun, Soo Yong Lim, Magdy F. Iskander

SESSION 429 APS BROADBAND MONOPOLE, DIPOLE AND HORN ANTENNAS Influence of Profile Shape on the Bandwidth of a Rotationally Symmetric Monopole ........................................................................3290

Ted Simpson

A Finger-Ring UWB Monopole Antenna for BAN and PAN ..................................................................................................................3294Hiroki Goto, Hisao Iwasaki

Broadband Characteristics of a Dome-Dipole Antenna...........................................................................................................................3298Jing Zhao, Chi-Chih Chen, Dimitris Psychoudakis, John L. Volakis

Characteristics of U-Shaped Folded Dipole Antenna on a Small Ground Plane ..................................................................................3302Nguyen Tuann Hung, Masaya Hirayama, Mio Nagatoshi, Hisashi Morishita

Unidirectional Low Profile Ultra-Wideband Antenna for Radar and Communication Applications................................................3306Adel Elsherbini, Kamal Sarabandi

Thin Magneto-dielectric Coatings for Hybrid-mode Horn Antennas ....................................................................................................3310Qi Wu, Douglas H. Werner, Pingjuan L. Werner, Erik Lier

Broadband Metamaterial-enabled Hybrid-mode Horn Antennas..........................................................................................................3314Qi Wu, Clinton P. Scarborough, Micah D. Gregory, Douglas H. Werner, Robert K. Shaw, Erik Lier

Investigations on a Triple Mode Waveguide Horn Capable of Providing Scanned Radiation Patterns ............................................3318Satish K. Sharma, Ashish Tuteja

SESSION 430 APS SCATTERING FROM COMPLEX SURFACES AND TARGETS Analysis of Transmission Characteristics of a Circular Pipe with Two Open Ends ............................................................................3322

Nick Whitelonis, Hao Ling

SBR Simulations and Measurements for Cavities Filled with Dielectric Material ...............................................................................3326Frank Weinmann, Thomas Vaupel

Modeling Scattered EM Field from a Periodic Building Façade ............................................................................................................3330Soo Yong Lim, Zhengqing Yun, Magdy F. Iskander

Analysis of Resonant Transmission Characteristics of Two Sub-wavelength Apertures with a Ridge Located in Parallel ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................3334

Junho Yeo, Ji-Hwan Ko, Jong-Eon Park, Jong-Ig Lee, Young-Ki Cho

Efficient Modeling of Electromagnetic Scattering from General Body with Cavity Structure Using Preconditioned Formulation of FE-BI Equations with DDM and RCM Algorithm .......................................................................................................3338

Chao-Fu Wang

Full Polarimetric Calibration of a GB-SAR System with a Thin Wire ..................................................................................................3342M. Mastumoto, M. Sato

A Partially Transparent Jaumann Absorber Applied to an Aircraft Wing Profile .............................................................................3346Alireza Motevasselian, B. L. G. Jonsson

Electromagnetic Scattering from Perfectly Conducting Periodic Rough Surfaces Using Complex Images Technique ......................................................................................................................................................................................................3350

Saeedeh Barzegar-Parizi, Amir Ahmad Shishegar

Multi-Path EM Scattering Calculation for Ships over Time-Varying Sea Surface ..............................................................................3354Dan Jiang, Xiaojian Xu, Xiaofei Li

SESSION 431 APS COMPACT ANTENNAS FOR WIRELESS APPLICATIONS Coupled-fed PIFA with a Loop Feed for 8-band Internal LTE/WWAN Laptop Computer Antenna ...............................................3358

Ting-Wei Kang, Kin-Lu Wong

Inverted-L Antenna with Split-Ring Resonator Structures ....................................................................................................................3362Nobuyasu Takemura, Minoru Hasegawa

Reconfigurable Miniature Antenna for DVB-H Standard ......................................................................................................................3366F. Canneva, F. Ferrero, J. M. Ribero, R. Staraj

Ultra-miniature UHF Antenna for Nomadic Device ................................................................................................................................3370Philippe Minard, Jean-François Pintos, Ali Louzir

Design Concept of Compact Multilayer Ultra-wideband Antipodal Slot Antenna...............................................................................3374Wenjun Lu, Hongbo Zhu

A Resonant Handset Antenna that can Cover All Bands of UHF Mobile TV, GSM and CDMA without Using Matching Circuits .........................................................................................................................................................................................3378

Mohamed Sanad, Noha Hassan

SESSION 502 APS MIMO ANTENNAS AND DIVERSITY Degree-of-Freedom Gain from Polarimetric Antenna Elements ............................................................................................................3382

Ada S. Y. Poon

Antenna Performance Characterization of Multi-Antenna Terminals Used in Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output Communication Systems..............................................................................................................................................................................3386

Charlie Orlenius

Optimization of MIMO-Beamforming and Null-steering on Small, Wireless Terminals ....................................................................3390Tobias Michalski, Volker Wienstroer, Rainer Kronberger

Pattern Diversity through Azimuth Blocking ...........................................................................................................................................3394V. Dehghanian, J. Nielsen, G. Lachapelle

Double Layer Compact Four-Port Antenna Using a Symmetrical Feeding Technique for Future MIMO Antenna Systems at 5.6GHz ........................................................................................................................................................................................3398

Christos Oikonomopoulos-Zachos

Slot MIMO Cube ..........................................................................................................................................................................................3402Jane X. Yun, Rodney G. Vaughan

Slot-Wedge Multiple-Element Antennas....................................................................................................................................................3406Jane X. Yun, Rodney G. Vaughan

Dense Transmit and Receive Antenna Arrays ..........................................................................................................................................3410C.-P. Yeang, G. W. Wornell, L. Zheng, J. Krieger

Theoretical Analysis of Base Station Cooperation MIMO Channel by Using Eigenvalue Theory of Wishart Matrix ....................3414Maki Arai, Kei Sakaguchi, Kiyomichi Araki, Takayuki Sotoyama

Maximum Volume Criterion for User Selection of Multiuser MIMO Downlink with Multiantenna Users and Block Diagonalization Beamforming ....................................................................................................................................................................3418

Bu Hong Wang, Hon Tat Hui, Yan Tao Yu

SESSION 503 APS/URSI APPLICATION OF EBG AND ARTIFICIAL STRUCTURES TO ANTENNA DESIGN Spiral Antenna Above a Composite HIS Reflector...................................................................................................................................3422

H. Nakano, H. Oyanagi, J. Yamauchi

Observation of Two Counter-Intuitive Behaviors in the Antennas Having EBG or HIS Structure as the Ground Plane...............................................................................................................................................................................................................3426

Alireza Foroozesh, Lotfollah Shafai

Printed Dipole Antenna with a 1-D EBG Ground Plane .........................................................................................................................3430Seung-Han Kim, Tai Thanh Nguyen, Dong-Ju Kim, Jae-Hyung Jang

Designing a Partially Reflective Surface for Dual-band EBG Resonator Antennas.............................................................................3434Yuehe Ge, Karu P. Esselle, Trevor S. Bird

Backward Wave Reduction of a Microstrip Patch Antenna Using Dual-band Isolated Soft Surface Structures .............................3438J. H. Kim, H. M. Lee

Using Lid of Pins for Packaging of Microstrip Board for Descrambling the Ports of Eleven Antenna for Radio Telescope Applications.................................................................................................................................................................................3442

Ashraf Uz Zaman, Jian Yang, Per-Simon Kildal

Reflector Focal Array Based on Multi-feed EBG Antenna for Ka-Band Space Applications.............................................................3446H. Chreim, R. Chantalat, E. Arnaud, M. Thévenot, U. Naeem, S. Bila, S. Verdeyme, T. Monédière, P. Dumon,. B. Palacin, H. Diez, D. Pacaud, Y. Cailloce, G. Caille, P. De Maagt

Non-Bragg Resonance in Substrate Integrated Waveguide ....................................................................................................................3450Xiaoyu Cheng, David E. Senior, Pitfee Jao, Jungkwun Kim, James J. Whalen, Yong-Kyu Yoon

SESSION 504 APS/URSI ELECTROMAGNETIC CHARACTERIZATION OF METAMATERIALS EM Characterization of Raspberry-Like Nanocluster Metamaterials ..................................................................................................3454

A. Vallecchi, M. Albani, F. Capolino

The Signs of the Imaginary Parts of the Effective Permittivity and Permeability in Metamaterials .................................................3458J. Woodley, M. Mojahedi

Two Optimiser Approach to Transmission Line Metamaterial Dispersion Characterisation ............................................................3462G. N. Milford

Determination of the Macroscopic Permeability of Swiss Rolls..............................................................................................................3466B. Michiels, I. Bogaert, J. Fostier, K. Cools, D. De Zutter

Experimental Retrieval of the Effective Parameters of Metamaterials Using a Strip Line Method ..................................................3470Leila Yousefi, Muhammed S. Boybay, Omar M. Ramahi

Magnetic Permeability Estimates of Planar SRR and DSRR Element Based on Microstrip Line Having High Impedance .....................................................................................................................................................................................................3474

Hee-Jo Lee, Jong-Gwan Yook

Experimental Verification of Dual Mode Propagation on Planar Ferrite Left Handed Transmission Line .....................................3478Mahmoud A Abdalla, Zhirun Hu, Shokrollah Karimian

ENG-Sensor: Enhanced Open-Ended Coaxial Line Sensor for Material Characterization Application ..........................................3482Na’El N. Suwan, Muhammad S. Boybay, Omar M. Ramahi

Metamaterial Inspired Probe for Noninvasive Near-field Subsurface Sensing.....................................................................................3486Zhao Ren, Muhammed S. Boybay, Omar M. Ramahi

Negative Material Characterization Using Microstrip Line Structures ................................................................................................3490Muhammed S. Boybay, Seunghwan Kim, Omar M. Ramahi

SESSION 506 APS NUMERICAL METHODS IN TIME DOMAIN Numerical Contribution for Time Reversal Process in Reverberation Chamber.................................................................................3494

I. El Baba, L. Patier, S. Lalléchère, P. Bonnet

Evaluation of Parallel-Computation Applied for Electrically Large Electromagnetic Scattering Bodies .........................................3498Chi-Fang Huang, Keng-Ming Chang

Time Domain Marching-on-in-degree Method for the Conducting Objects with Loading .................................................................3502Zicong Mei, Yu Zhang, Tapan K. Sarkar

Time Domain Radiating Model for GPR Antenna ...................................................................................................................................3506A. Hamadi, Ch. Guiffaut, A. Reineix, V. Ciarletti, D. Plettermeier

SESSION 507 URSI PRINTED ANTENNAS AND ARRAYS Radiation Characteristics of Finite-Length 1D-Uniform Leaky Wave Antennas Radiating at Broadside........................................3510

Varada R. Komanduri, David R. Jackson, Stuart A. Long

SESSION 508 APS VEHICULAR ANTENNAS Proximity Coupled Fed Antenna Arrays on LCP for mm-Wave Applications.....................................................................................3514

Amin Rida, Ronglin Li, Paul Schmalenberg, Jae Seung Lee, Manos M. Tentzeris

Multi-Beam Leaky-Wave Antenna Fed by a Multi-Layer Integrated Symmetric Parabolic Reflector .............................................3518M. Ettorre, R. Sauleau

Analysis and Design of a Planar Leaky-Wave Antenna for Mobile Satellite Communications Based on a Strongly Truncated Periodic Structure .....................................................................................................................................................................3522

Mario Schuhler, Rainer Wansch, Matthias A. Hein

Dual-band Antenna System for SDARS and GPS Applications .............................................................................................................3526Kittisak Phaebua, Chuwong Phongcharoenpanich, Danai Torrungrueng, Nuttawit Surittikul, Wladimiro Villarroel

Reduction of the Grating Lobes in Luneburg Lens Arrays.....................................................................................................................3530Nasiha Nikolic, Andrew R. Weily, Graeme L. James, Kieran Greene, Steve Barker, Y. Jay Guo

Vehicle Antenna on AMC ............................................................................................................................................................................3534Nisar Ahmad Abbasi, Richard Langley

Realistic Source Modeling and Tolerance Analysis of a Luneburg Lens Antenna ...............................................................................3538Nasiha Nikolic, Andrew R. Weily

Planar Yagi-Uda Antenna Array for W-Band Automotive Radar Applications ..................................................................................3542Stefan Beer, Grzegorz Adamiuk, Thomas Zwick

Low-Profile Internal Automotive Antenna for WiBro Vertical Polarized Signal Reception ..............................................................3546Seunghee Baek, Sungjoon Lim

Design and Analysis of a 5.88GHz Microstrip Phased Array Antenna for Intelligent Transport Systems .......................................3550Tapas Mondal, Rowdra Ghatak, S. R. Bhadra Chaudhuri

SESSION 509 APS COMPACT ANTENNAS Plasmonic Low-Profile Nanoantenna Reflectors ......................................................................................................................................3554

Xing-Xiang Liu, Andrea Alu

High-Performance Compact HF Antenna for Radar and Communication Applications....................................................................3558James Baker, Magdy F. Iskander, Hyoung-Sun Youn, Nuri Celik

Simple Design Equations of Tap Feeds for a Very Small Normal-Mode Helical Antenna ..................................................................3562Nguyen Quoc Dinh, Takashi Teranishi, Naobumi Michishita, Yoshihide Yamada, Koji Nakatani

Design of Yagi Array of Peano Top-Loaded Monopoles Using Evolutionary Optimization ...............................................................3566Christopher Thajudeen, Ahmad Hoorfar

Low Profile Offset-fed Single Arm Spiral Antenna over an AMC Ground Plane ................................................................................3570Ali. M. Mehrabani, Lotfollah Shafai

A Small Patch Antenna Using Metamaterial Transmission Line Based on Conventional Logarithmic Spiral Resonators .....................................................................................................................................................................................................3574

A. Ajami, O. Koch, D. Heberling

An Inductive-Loaded Slot Antenna Using C-shaped Rings for Size Reduction ....................................................................................3578Richard H. Chen, Yi-Cheng Lin

A Printed Miniature Antenna for UWB Applications .............................................................................................................................3582Lu Guo, Sheng Wang, Xiaodong Chen, Clive Parini

Small High Performance Ultra Wideband UHF Multipurpose Planar Antenna..................................................................................3586A. Babar, L. Ukkonen, Atef Z. Elsherbeni, L. Sydanheimo

Compact Double-Sided Printed Omni-Directional Ultra Wideband Antenna......................................................................................3590M. M. Azer, Shoukry I. Shams, A. M. M. A. Allam

Equivalent Circuit-based Analysis of a Small Resonant Circular Aperture .........................................................................................3594Jong-Eon Park, Jong-Ig Lee, Junho Yeo, Ji-Hwan Ko, Young-Ki Cho

SESSION 510 APS BROADBAND SLOT ANTENNAS A Novel Broadband Design Procedure for Balanced Compact Planar Tapered Slot Antenna...........................................................3598

Majid Ostadrahimi, Sima Noghanian, Lotfollah Shafai, Gabriel Thomas, Stephen Pistorius

Open Slot Antenna in a Small Groundplane at the Second Resonance .................................................................................................3602Jane X. Yun, Rodney G. Vaughan

Design of a Rectangular UWB Slot Antenna Dual-band Notched at 3.5 / 5.7 GHz ..............................................................................3606Azzeddine Djaiz, Mohamed A. Habib, Mourad Nedil, Tayeb A. Denidni

Single-Layer Circularly Polarized Slot Antenna for RFID Reader Application ..................................................................................3610Shu-An Yeh, Hua-Ming Chen, Yi-Fang Lin, Yu-Chang Kao, Jen-Yea Jan

Novel Ultra-wideband Antenna for Diversity Applications.....................................................................................................................3614E. Antonino-Daviu, M. Gallo, M. Cabedo-Fabrés, M. Ferrando-Bataller

A Wideband and High Gain Antenna for Short-range mm-wave Wireless Applications....................................................................3618Z. Sotoodeh, B. Biglarbegian, M. R. Nezhad-Ahmadi, M. Fakharzadeh, S. Safavi-Naeini

Compact Microstrip-Line-Fed Broadband Slot Antenna ........................................................................................................................3622Jen-Yea Jan, Kuo-Yung Chiu, Jhih-Hao Duan, Liang-Chin Wang, Chien-Yuan Pank, Hua-Ming Chen

Broadband Circularly Polarized Antenna with Circular Sot and Separated L-probes .......................................................................3626Ronald Joseph, Takeshi Fukusako

Wideband Circular Polarized Antenna with a Slot Composed of Multiple Circular Sectors .............................................................3630S. H. Yeung, K. F. Man, W. S. Chan

SESSION 511 APS DESIGN OF ANTENNAS AND ANTENNA SYSTEM COMPONENTS Coupling Matrix Synthesis of Orthomode Transducers ..........................................................................................................................3634

Yun Tao, Zhongxiang Shen

Investigation of Leaky-Wave Antenna Based on Dielectric-Filled Rectangular Waveguide with Transverse Slots ........................3638Juhua Liu, David R. Jackson, Yunliang Long

Shielded Loops for Wireless Non-Radiative Power Transfer..................................................................................................................3642Erin M. Thomas, Jason D. Heebl, Anthony Grbic

Near-Field Coupling Between Small Folded Cylindrical Helix Dipoles .................................................................................................3646Ick-Jae Yoon, Sangwook Nam, Hao Ling

Metamaterial-inspired Loop Antennas for Wireless Power Transmission............................................................................................3650Youn-Kwon Jung, Bomson Lee

Fabrication and Performance Evaluation of Micromachined Cavity-backed Co-Planar Waveguide to Rectangular Waveguide Transition at Y-band Frequencies..........................................................................................................................................3654

M. Vahidpour, K. Sarabandi

Compact Inline Substrate Integrated Waveguide Filter with Transmission Zeros ..............................................................................3658O. Glubokov, B. Shelkovnikov, D. Budimir

Dual Directional H-Guide Coupler.............................................................................................................................................................3662Michael Wong, Abdel Razik Sebak, Tayeb A. Denidni

An Efficient Method to Design Optimum Millimeter Wave Low Noise Amplifier ...............................................................................3666M. Fahimnia, M. Mohammad-Taheri, Y. Wang, M. Yu, S. Safavi-Naeini

SESSION 512 APS REFLECTOR ANTENNAS: ANALYSIS, DESIGN AND FEEDS Effect of Primary Feed Polarization on Phase Centre Location of Parabolic Reflector Antennas .....................................................3670

Z. Allahgholi Pour, L. Shafai

Faster Antenna Noise Temperature Calculations Using a Novel Approximation Technique .............................................................3674William A. Imbriale

Tradeoff Study on Array-Fed Reflector Antennas for 100-Beam-Class Multibeam Communications Satellite...............................3678Y. Fujino, N. Hamamoto, A. Miura, R. Suzuki, S. Yamamoto, Y. Inasawa, I. Naito, Y. Konishi, N. Natori

Phase Center Study of Slotted Circular Waveguide Feed .......................................................................................................................3682Mohammad Qudrat-E-Maula, Lotfollah Shafai

Broadband Reflector Fed by Integrated Lens Antenna with Frequency Constant Directivity...........................................................3686Eduardo B. Lima, Jorge R. Costa, Carlos A. Fernandes

Two Octaves Bandwidth Passive Balun for the Eleven Feed for Reflector Antennas ..........................................................................3690Abolghasem Zamanifekri, Jian Yang

Compact Low Cross-Polarization Multimode Horn with Ring-Loaded Coaxial Grooves...................................................................3694Hiroyuki Deguchi, Takashi Kobayashi, Mikio Tsuji

Acceleration Algorithm Based on Master Point Technique to Compute the Radiation Pattern of Reflector Structures ......................................................................................................................................................................................................3698

Lorena Lozano, M. Jesús Algar, Iván González, Felipe Cátedra

The Analysis Method for a Flat-Faceted Reflector and the Effect of Facet Configuration on Radiation Pattern ............................3702Changsoo Kwak, Manseok Uhm, Inbok Yom

Analysis of Elliptic Reflector Antennas in Near-Field Focused RFID Applications.............................................................................3706H.-T. Chou, L.-R. Kuo, K.-L. Hung, H.-H. Chou, S.-C. Tuan

Dual-Polarized Tri-Band Operation of Super High Performance (SHP) Shell Antennae Enhance Profitability of Long-Haul High Capacity Radio Systems .................................................................................................................................................3710

U. Rosenberg, A. Bradt, M. Perelshtein, P. Bourbonnais

SESSION 513 APS/URSI PROPAGATION ENVIRONMENT EFFECTS - MEASUREMENT AND MITIGATION A TIS Test Solution for Stand Alone GPS Phones....................................................................................................................................3714

Yang Zhao, Zhijun Zhang, Wenhua Chen, Zhenghe Feng

Design of Testbed for Wireless Mesh Networks........................................................................................................................................3718Konstanty Bialkowski, Marius Portmann

Channel Matrix Characterization in MIMO Scenario Through Impedance Modulation ...................................................................3722B. Monsalve, J. Romeu, S. Blanch

MIMO Channel Measurements Using Optical Links on Small Mobile Terminals ..............................................................................3726Boyan Yanakiev, Jesper Ø. Nielsen, Gert F. Pedersen

MIMO Antenna System Optimization for Mobile Applications Using Equivalent Infinitesimal Dipoles .........................................3730Shaya Karimkashi, Ahmed A. Kishk, Darko Kajfez

Propagation Analysis for a Simplified Indoor/outdoor Interface Model ...............................................................................................3734Ryoichi Sato, Hiroshi Shirai

Estimation of Rain Rate Using Measured Rain Attenuation in the Tokyo Tech Millimeter-Wave Model Network........................3738T. Hirano, J. Hirokawa, M. Ando

SESSION IF514 APS INTERACTIVE FORUM FREQUENCY SELECTIVE SURFACE ANALYSIS METHODS A Generalized Method for Synthesizing Miniaturized Element Band-Pass Frequency Selective Surfaces.......................................3742

Mudar A. Al-Joumayly, Nader Behdad

Fast Analysis of 3-D Doubly Periodic Structures with Complex Geometry and Anisotropic Materials Using the Adaptive Integral Method ...........................................................................................................................................................................3746

Xiande Wang, Douglas H. Werner

A Novel Technique for the Analysis of Periodic Structures Including EBGs........................................................................................3750Kyungho Yoo, Raj Mittra

EBG Substrate Synthesis for 2.45 GHz Applications Using Genetic Programming.............................................................................3754L. Deias, G. Mazzarella, N. Sirena

Numerical Analysis of Semi-infinite Frequency Selective Surfaces........................................................................................................3758Arya Fallahi, Christian Hafner

SESSION IF515 APS INTERACTIVE FORUM FREQUENCY SELECTIVE SURFACES APPLICATIONS Experimental Investigation of a New Reconfigurable Sectoral Antenna ...............................................................................................3762

Arezou Edalati, Tayeb A. Denidni

On the Design of High-Gain Resonant Cavity Antennas Using Different Highly-Reflective Frequency Selective Surfaces as the Superstrates ........................................................................................................................................................................3766

Alireza Foroozesh, Lotfollah Shafai

A Super-Thin, Metamaterial-Based FSS-Antenna Array for Scanned Array Applications ...............................................................3770Farhad Bayatpur, Kamal Sarabandi

A Technique For Designing Liquid-Tunable RF Lenses .........................................................................................................................3774Meng Li, Nader Behdad

Mechanism of Apparent Gain Observed in Focused Beam Measurements of a Planar FSS ..............................................................3778Edward J. Hopkins, Glenn D. Hopkins, Christopher D. Bailey

60 GHz ASK Modulator Using Switchable FSS........................................................................................................................................3782Ghaffer I. Kiani, Trevor S. Bird, Kenneth L. Ford

Surface-Engineered Coatings for Multispectral Infrared Mirrors.........................................................................................................3786P. L. Werner, S. Yun, D. H. Werner, T. S. Mayer

Design of a DSRR FSS for CDMA/RFID Isolation...................................................................................................................................3790Dae Woong Woo, Jae Hee Kim, Jeong Keun Ji, Gi Ho Kim, Won Mo Seong, Wee Sang Park

FSS Printed Using Conducting Ink ............................................................................................................................................................3794J. A. Miller, J. C. Batchelor, E. A. Parker

Direct Printing of Flexible Metallic Millimetre-Wave Frequency Selective Surfaces ..........................................................................3798Griogair W. M. Whyte, Daniel J. Harrison, David R. S. Cumming, Timothy D. Drysdale

SESSION IF516 APS INTERACTIVE FORUM FREQUENCY SELECTIVE SURFACE DESIGNS A Transparent Ground Plane Using Miniaturized Element Frequency Selective Surfaces ................................................................3802

Mani Kashaninafard, Kamal Sarabandi

Dual-Band Frequency Selective Surfaces with Higher-Order Band-Pass Responses ..........................................................................3806Mudar A. Al-Joumayly, Nader Behdad

Design of Low Profile Single/Dual Band High-Order Frequency Selective Surfaces ...........................................................................3810Meng Li, Nader Behdad

Bandpass Frequency Selective Surface Based on a Two-Dimensional Periodic Array of Shielded Microstrip Lines......................3814Amir Khurrum Rashid, Zhongxiang Shen

Switchable Technique for Frequency Selective Slots ...............................................................................................................................3818B. Sanz-Izquierdo, E. A. Parker, J. C. Batchelor

Varactor Tuned Frequency Selective Surface for Beam Steering Applications....................................................................................3822L. Boccia, I. Russo, G. Amendola, G. Di Massa

Interwoven Loops for Electromagnetic Architecture of Buildings .........................................................................................................3826B. Sanz-Izquierdo, E. A. Parker, J. B. Robertson, J. C. Batchelor, M. J. Neve, A. G. Williamson

SESSION IF517 APS INTERACTIVE FORUM MULTIBAND ANTENNAS FOR WIRELESS CONNECTIVITY Five-band Printed Antenna for Mobile Phone and WLAN Applications ..............................................................................................3830

Bau-Yi Lee, Wen-Shan Chen, Wen-Lin Chang, Fu-Lai Yen, Yuan-Chih Lin

Triple Band Circularly Polarized Small Microstrip Antenna.................................................................................................................3834Takafumi Fujimoto, Yujin Tagawa

A Dual Band Wi-Fi Antenna Using a Metamaterial CSRR Matching Particle ....................................................................................3838Michael Selvanayagam, Debabani Choudhury, George V. Eleftheriades

Experimental Demonstration of a Single Layer Tri-band Circularly Polarized Reflectarray ............................................................3842A. Yu, F. Yang, A. Z. Elsherbeni, J. Huang

Planar C-shaped Monopole Antenna with Multi-band Operation for WiMAX System......................................................................3846Jui-Han Lu, Yu-Yi Lee

Compact Coupling-Type Antenna for WLAN/WiMAX Operation in the Laptop Computer ............................................................3850Liang-Che Chou, Kin-Lu Wong, Ming-Ren Hsu, Cliff Wang, Randy Lee

A Folded Quarter-Elliptical Wideband Antenna for Portable Devices..................................................................................................3854Marek E. Bialkowski, Ahmad Rashidy Razali, Ashkan Boldaji

Metal Strip-Embedded Slot Bowtie Antenna for Wi-Fi and WiMAX Applications.............................................................................3858Yu-Wei Liu, Shih-Yuan Chen, Powen Hsu

Tunable Loop-Loaded Printed Dipole Antenna Design ...........................................................................................................................3862Adnan Sondas, Mustafa H. B. Uçar, Yunus E. Erdemli

A Miniaturized Multiband Monopole Antenna Using a Double-Tuned Wheeler Matching Network ...............................................3866Marco A. Antoniades, George V. Eleftheriades

SESSION IF518 APS INTERACTIVE FORUM MULTIBAND PRINTED AND MONOPOLE ANTENNAS Full Wave Analysis of a Dual-Frequency Printed Slot Antenna with Microstrip Feed .......................................................................3870

R. Hasse, K. Naishadham, W. Hunsicker, M. Tentzeris, T. Wu

Spectral Tuning of a Folded Bow-tie Antenna ..........................................................................................................................................3874Brian A. Lail, Scott Mullin

1Slot Dipole Antenna Capacitively Fed By CPW For Dual-Frequency Operations.............................................................................3878You-Chieh Chen, Cheng-Hsuan Hsieh, Shih-Yuan Chen, Powen Hsu

EBG Dual Band Antenna Using Two Layer FSS to Feed a Reflector Antenna ....................................................................................3882A. Kanso, R. Chantalat, M. Thevenot, T. Monediere, B. Jecko

Dual Band Mono-chip HF-UHF Tag Antenna ..........................................................................................................................................3886T. Deleruyelle, P. Pannier, M. Egels, E. Bergeret

Analysis and Flexible Design of Metamaterial-Based Multi-Channel Monopole Antennas ................................................................3890Yue Tang, Yilong Lu

Dual-band Bent-folded-monopole Antenna ...............................................................................................................................................3894Ippei Kashiwagi, Masaki Nishio, Shuichi Obayashi, Hiroki Shoki, Tasuku Morooka

High-Gain Shorted Monopole Antennas for Concurrent Access-Point Applications ..........................................................................3898Saou-Wen Su

SESSION IF519 APS INTERACTIVE FORUM MANUFACTURING TECHNIQUES A Highly Efficient Monopulse Comparator and Feed Assembly for a W-band Trans-twist Microstrip Reflect-array ...................3902

D. R. Jahagirdar

Photodefinable Microcomposites for Antenna Applications ...................................................................................................................3906A. Rashidian, M. Tayfeh Aligodarz, D. M. Klymyshyn, M. Boerner, J. Mohr

Inkjet Printed Patch Antennas on Transparent Substrates ....................................................................................................................3910Tursunjan Yasin, Reyhan Baktur

Laboratory Scale Fabrication Techniques for Passive UHF RFID Tags ...............................................................................................3914Tamer Elsherbeni, Khaled Elmahgoub, Lauri Sydänheimo, Leena Ukkonen, Atef Elsherbeni, Fan Yang

Low-Cost Antennas for mm-Wave Sensing Applications Using Inkjet Printing of Silver Nano-particles on Liquid Crystal Polymers ..........................................................................................................................................................................................3918

George Shaker, Manos Tentzeris, Safieddin Safavi-Naeini

Embroidered E-Fiber-Polymer Composites for Conformal and Load Bearing Antennas ..................................................................3922Zheyu Wang, Lanlin Zhang, Yakup Bayram, John L. Volakis

SESSION IF520 APS INTERACTIVE FORUM RANDOM MEDIA AND ROUGH SURFACES Evaluating Double-Angular Power Spectrum of Waves in Stochastic Media by Random Walk .......................................................3926

Jie Xu

Wave Propagation in a Random Dielectric Rod Array............................................................................................................................3930Yang Li, Hao Ling

Stabilized Extended Boundary Condition Method for 3D Electromagnetic Scattering from Arbitrary Random Rough Surfaces .............................................................................................................................................................................................3934

Xueyang Duan, Mahta Moghaddam

Detecting Flaws in Buried Pipes Under Rough Surface Using the Natural Frequency Technique ....................................................3938Fadi Deek, Magda El-Shenawee

SESSION 521 APS/URSI SPECIAL SESSION ANALYSIS OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WIRELESS SYSTEMS FOR SOLAR POWER TRANSMISSION Development of High Efficient Phased Array for Microwave Power Transmission of Space Solar Power Satellite/Station .............................................................................................................................................................................................3942

Naoki Shinohara

The New Scientific Scenario of Power Wireless Transmission ...............................................................................................................3946Giorgio Franceschetti

Analytic Design Techniques for MPT Antenna Arrays ...........................................................................................................................3947Giacomo Oliveri, Lorenzo Poli, Paolo Rocca, Vincenzo Gervasio, Andrea Massa

Maximum Transmitting Efficiency of Wireless Power Transfer System with Resonant/Non-resonant Transmitting/Receiving Elements...............................................................................................................................................................3951

Qiaowei Yuan, Qiang Chen, Kunio Sawaya

GaAs Nano-Pillars for Solar Power Absorption: Electromagnetic Characterization .........................................................................3955Timothy Brockett, Harish Rajagopalan, Yahya Rahmat-Samii

Electromagnetic Power Transportation Using a Smart Antenna Array................................................................................................3959Devin W. Williams, Majid Manteghi

SESSION 522 APS ELECTRICALLY SMALL ANTENNAS Non-Foster vs. Active Matching of an Electrically-Small Receive Antenna ..........................................................................................3963

Stephen E. Sussman-Fort

Non-Foster Impedance Matching of Electrically Small Antennas..........................................................................................................3967Keum-Su Song, Roberto G. Rojas

Lower Bounds on Q for Dipole Antennas in an Arbitrary Volume ........................................................................................................3971Arthur D. Yaghjian, Howard R. Stuart

Using High Permeability Shells to Improve the Q of Electrically Small Electric-Dipole Antennas ...................................................3975Howard R. Stuart, Arthur D. Yaghjian

Linearly and Circularly Polarized, Planar, Electrically Small, Metamaterial-engineered Dipole Antennas ....................................3979Peng Jin, Richard W. Ziolkowski

The Minimum Value for the Quality Factor of an Electrically Small Antenna in Spheroidal Coordinates – TM Case ................................................................................................................................................................................................................3983

Peder M. Hansen, Richard Adams

Minimum Radiation Q for Spheroids – Extension to Cylinder, Comparison to Spherical Formulas and Practical Antennas ........................................................................................................................................................................................................3987

Peder M. Hansen, Richard Adams

Behavior of a Parasitic Supergain Two-Element Array in a Dielectric .................................................................................................3991Terry H. O’Donnell, Arthur D. Yaghjian, Edward E. Altshuler

Consideration of Bandwidth and the Q factor of Vertically Folded Printed Monopoles .....................................................................3995H. Y. David Yang

Miniaturized Single Band Microwave Fractal Meander Dipole Antenna and Its Tunable Configurations ......................................3999S. A. Hamzah, M. Esa

Development of Electrically Small Antenna with Impedance Matching Circuit for 2.4GHz Band Sensor Node .............................4003Haruichi Kanaya, Yuzo Nagata, Ramesh K. Pokharel, Keiji Yoshida, Hiroshi Matsukuma

SESSION 523 APS ADVANCED NUMERICAL METHODS The Adaptive Cross Approximation Algorithm Applied to a Volumetric Method-of-Moments for Electromagnetic Analysis of Inhomogeneous Bodies.............................................................................................................................................................4007

Cebrián García, Yuri Álvarez, Fernando Las-Heras

Computation of Physical Optics Integral by Levin's Algorithm on NURBS.........................................................................................4011Ahmet C. Durgun, Mustafa Kuzuoglu, Constantine A. Balanis

Parallel Higher-Order MoM Simulation for Narrow-Wall Slotted Waveguide Array ........................................................................4015Sio-Weng Ting, Xun-Wang Zhao, Hui Zhao, Yu Zhang, Tapan K. Sarkar

Hybrid Method with Higher-Order MoM and PO for Analysis of Phased Array Antennas on Electrically Large Platforms .......................................................................................................................................................................................................4019

Yu Zhang, Xun-Wang Zhao, Tapan K. Sarkar, Mary C. Taylor, Hui Zhao, Sio-Weng Ting

Approximate Matrix Factorization Using Overlapped Localizing Functions on a Shifted Tree ........................................................4023Xin Xu, Kiran Arcot, Robert J. Adams

Near Interaction Preconditioner Using Overlapped Localizing Local Global Solution Modes ..........................................................4027Xin Xu, Chong Luo, Robert J. Adams

A 3-D Adaptive Integral Method (AIM) for Layered Media...................................................................................................................4031Kai Yang, Ali E. Yilmaz

Convergence Property of Inner-Outer Flexible GMRES for Solving Electromagnetic Scattering Problems with Method of Mements......................................................................................................................................................................................4035

Hidetoshi Chiba, Toru Fukasaswa, Hiroaki Miyashita, Yoshihiko Konishi

Combining Calderón Preconditioning with Fast Multipole Methods ....................................................................................................4039J. Peeters, I. Bogaert, K. Cools, J. Fostier, D. De Zutter

A Study for the Influence of the EM Waves on the Cavity with Multi-Rectangular Apertures Using BLT Equation ....................4043Won-June Kang, Vea-O Lee, Sang-Kon Mun, Young-Seek Chung, Chang-Yul Cheon

SESSION 524 APS METAMATERIAL-INSPIRED LOW PROFILE ANTENNAS Highly-Directive Aperture-Coupled Microstrip Patch Antenna Based on Planar Meta-Surface.......................................................4047

Iñigo Liberal, Iñigo Ederra, Ramón Gonzalo

Analysis of Broadband Highly-Directive Fabry-Perot Cavity Leaky-Wave Antennas with Two Periodic Layers ..........................4051C. Mateo-Segura, A. P. Feresidis, G. Goussetis

High-Gain Low-profile Antenna Using Artificial Magnetic Superstrates .............................................................................................4055Hussein Attia, Leila Yousefi, Omar M. Ramahi

Analysis and Design of Metamaterial Reflectarray Using Combination of Multilayer Mushroom-Structure..................................4059Tamami Maruyama, Tasuo Furuno, Yasuhiro Oda, Jiyun Shen, Tomoyuki Ohya

Ultra Thin Low Profile U Band Folded Meta-material Wideband Dipole Antenna for Multi-GB/s Data Transmission Using 65 nm CMOS Technology ........................................................................................................................................4063

Ying Peng, Zhirun Hu, H. Ouslimani, A. Priou, Haiying Zhang

A Meandered Triple-band Dipole Antenna with 920 MHz Artificial Magnetic Conductor................................................................4067Maisarah Abu, M. K. A. Rahim, S. A. Hamzah

A Novel Broadband Fabry-Perot Resonator Antenna with Gradient Index Metamaterial Superstrate ...........................................4071Zhen-Guo Liu, Rui Qiang , Zhen-Xin Cao

Transmission Line Model for Rectangular Microstrip Antennas with ε-Negative Metamaterials.....................................................4075W. Y. Tam, Kuisong Zheng

Reflectarray Based on Concept of Gradient Refractive Index................................................................................................................4079Shi-Wei Qu, Jerdvisanop Chakarothai, Qiang Chen, Kunio Sawaya

SESSION 526 APS TRANSMISSION LINE METAMATERIAL ANTENNAS Design of a Small Resonant Antenna Using Metamaterial Based on Transmission Line Approach ..................................................4083

Jaegeun Ha, Jeongpyo Kim, Jaehoon Choi

Low-Profile Radiation Pattern Controllable Antenna Using Composite Right/Left-Handed Parasitic Element .............................4087Woo-Jin Kim, Naobumi Michishita, Yoshihide Yamada, Junya Muramatsu, Toshiaki Watanabe, Kazuo Sato

An Iteratively Refined Circuital Model of CRLH Leaky-Wave Antennas Derived from the Mushroom Structure........................4091J. S. Gomez-Diaz, A. Alvarez-Melcon, T. Bertuch

A Narrow Via-free Composite Right/Left-Handed Leaky Wave Antenna with Low Cross-Polarization .........................................4095Mark A. Eberspacher, Thomas F. Eibert

Miniaturized ENG ZOR Antenna with High Permeability Material .....................................................................................................4099Seung-Tae Ko, Jeong-Hae Lee

Analysis of Bandwidth for Metamaterial-based Zeroth-order Resonant Antennas .............................................................................4103Seongnam Jang, Bomson Lee

Broadband Metamaterial Soft-Surface Horn Antennas ..........................................................................................................................4107Clinton P. Scarborough, Qi Wu, Micah D. Gregory, Douglas H. Werner, Robert K. Shaw, Erik Lier

Profiled Hard Metamaterial Horns for Multi-Beam Reflectors .............................................................................................................4111Robert K. Shaw, Erik Lier, Chih-Chien Hsu

Nature-inspired Design of Soft, Hard and Hybrid Metasurfaces ...........................................................................................................4115Qi Wu, Micah D. Gregory, Douglas H. Werner, Pingjuan L. Werner, Erik Lier

A Tri-Band Low-Profile Antenna Based on a High-Impedance Surface ...............................................................................................4119Olli Luukkonen, Antti O. Karilainen, Joni Vehmas, Sergei A. Tretyakov

SESSION 528 APS VEHICULAR ELECTROMAGNETICS AND ANTENNA PERFORMANCE Measurement and Modeling of Noise and Interference in Aircraft System ..........................................................................................4123

Sai Ananthanarayanan, Alyssa Magleby, Cynthia Furse

Application of a Fast Equivalent Currents Based Algorithm for Scattering Center Visualization of Vehicles ................................4127H. Buddendick, T. F. Eibert

Car-to-Infrastructure Communication Using Chip-Less, Passive RFID Tags......................................................................................4131L. Reichardt, G. Adamiuk, G. Jereczek, T. Zwick

Electric Fields from RF Tag Interrogators Underneath an Urban Rail Train .....................................................................................4135Andrea A. E. Lüttgen, Colin C. Bantin, Keith G. Balmain

Research for Polarization in the Waveguide Slotted Array Vehicular Antenna...................................................................................4139Kwang-Seop Son, Chan-Gu Part, Jang-Soo Lee

Novel Combined Diversity Antenna for OFDM........................................................................................................................................4143Yoshihiko Kuwahara, Ryozo Fujii, Hiroyuki Hatano

Compact 3-Antenna Diversity Set for HEO and GEO Satellite Systems with Terrestrial Repeaters ................................................4147D. J. Muller, S. Senega, S. M. Lindenmeier

A Shared Aperture VHF Smart Antenna Using the Rear Defogger.......................................................................................................4151Noorsaliza Abdullah, Yoshihiko Kuwahara

Gain and Efficiency Measurement of Antennas for an Advanced Tire Monitoring System ...............................................................4155Jasmin Grosinger, Gregor Lasser, Christoph F. Mecklenbrauker, Arpad L. Scholtz

Novel Hybrid Antenna Design Having a Shaped Reflector for Mobile Satellite Communication Applications ...............................4159Young-Bae Jung, Soon-Young Eom, Soon-Ik Jeon, A. V. Shishlov, Chang-Joo Kim

Low Gain Antenna Performance Impact Due to Spacecraft Scattering ................................................................................................4163Sudhakar Rao, Chih-Chien Hsu, Raj Sudarsanam

SESSION 529 APS BROADBAND ARRAYS Circularly Polarized Grid Array Antenna Composed of Open-Loop Elements for Beam Scanning .................................................4167

Y. IItsuka, J. Yamauchi, H. Nakano

Performance of Wide Band Connected Arrays in Scanning: The Equivalent Circuit and its Validation through a Dual-Band Prototype Demonstrator ..........................................................................................................................................................4171

A. Neto, D. Cavallo, G. Gerini

A Novel Design Methodology for Integration of Optimized Ultra-Wideband Elements with Aperiodic Array Topologies......................................................................................................................................................................................................4175

L. Lizzi, G. Oliveri, M. D. Gregory, D. H. Werner, A. Massa

Low Profile Tapered Slot Array Antenna .................................................................................................................................................4179Jian Lu, Kian-Sen Ang, Tan-Huat Chio

Design of Quasi-Millimeter Wave Leaf-Shaped Bowtie Array Antenna for UWB Applications........................................................4183Manabu Yamamoto, Daisuke Tokuyama, Toshio Nojima

A Wideband Linear Array of Slot-coupled Stacked-patches ..................................................................................................................4187R. Caso, A. Serra, M. R. Pino, P. Nepa, G. Manara

Investigation of a Box-type Horn Antenna Array ....................................................................................................................................4191I. Fuchs, H. Matzner

Design and Fabrication of a Double-Layer Slotted Waveguide Array with a Partially-Corporate Feed for 38GHz Fixed Wireless Access Systems....................................................................................................................................................................4195

Miao Zhang, Jiro Hirokawa, Makoto Ando

Effect of Technological Tolerances in the Design of a 60 GHz LTCC Antenna....................................................................................4199Christos Oikonomopoulos-Zachos, Marta Martínez-Vázquez

A 60GHz Double-layer Waveguide Slot Array with more than 32dBi and 80% Efficiency over 5GHz Bandwidth Fabricated by Diffusion Bonding of Laminated Thin Metal Plates........................................................................................................4203

Yohei Miura, Jiro Hirokawa, Makoto Ando, Yuzo Shibuya, Goro Yoshida

Millimeter-wave Slotted Waveguide Planar Array Using Partially-Parallel Feeding with Travelling-wave Excitation.......................................................................................................................................................................................................4207

Kunio Sakakibara, Yuki Ikeno, Nobuyoshi Kikuma, Hiroshi Hirayama

SESSION 530 APS ULTRA-WIDEBAND SYSTEMS A Practical Wireless Charging System Based on Ultra-Wideband Retro-Reflective Beamforming ..................................................4211

Huiqing Zhai, Helen K. Pan, Mingyu Lu

Compact Solar Cell Ultra-Wideband Dipole Antenna .............................................................................................................................4215Mina Danesh, John R. Long

Design of a Pseudorandom Reference Codes for Reduced Sidelobes and Spectrally Clean Out-of-band Emissions Using an Extended Optimal Filtering Approach ......................................................................................................................................4219

Ana Vazquez Alejos, Muhammad Dawood, Manuel Garcia Sanchez

A Comprehensive System-Level Simulation Paradigm for UWB Systems............................................................................................4223Yazhou Wang, Michael J. Kuhn, Mohamed R. Mahfouz, Aly E. Fathy

Ultra Wideband Transparent RF Aperture for Electro-Optical Integration........................................................................................4227N. K. Nahar, I. I. Tzanidis, K. Sertel, J. L. Volakis

System Noise Calculations over the Decade Bandwidth of the Eleven Feed for Radio Telescope Applications ...............................4231Benjamin A. Klein, Per-Simon Kildal

Tunable Monocycle Pulse Generator Using Switch Controlled Delay Line and Tunable RC Network for UWB Systems...........................................................................................................................................................................................................4235

Jeongwoo Han, Cuong Huynh, Cam Nguyen

Development of a 0.18-μm CMOS Single-Chip Dual-Band Receiver for UWB Applications .............................................................4239M. Chirala, C. Huynh, C. Nguyen

Fully Integrated 0.18-μm CMOS Carrierless UWB Receiver Frontend ................................................................................................4243M. Miao, C. Huynh, C. Nguyen

ALIS: GPR for Humanitarian Demining and Its Evaluation in Cambodia ..........................................................................................4247Motoyuki Sato

SESSION 531 URSI ON-CHIP ANTENNAS AND RFICS Optical Dielectric Rod Antenna for On-chip Communications ..............................................................................................................4251

Hongyu Zhou, Dejan S. Filipovic

SESSION 532 URSI/APS IMAGING AND MEASUREMENTS IN BIOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENTS 3-D Body Scattering Interference to Vertically Polarized On-Body Propagation ................................................................................4255

Lingfeng Liu, Farshad Keshmiri, Philippe De Doncker, Christophe Craeye, Claude Oestges

Simulation of Path Loss Between Biocompatible Antennas Embedded in Homogeneous Human Tissues and Comparison of Their Specific Absorption Rate ........................................................................................................................................4259

Divya Kurup, Wout Joseph, Gunter Vermeeren, Luc Martens, Maria Scarpello, Dries Vande Ginste, Hendrik Rogier

Characterization of Ultra-Wideband Wave Propagation Inside Human Body ....................................................................................4263Ali Khaleghi, Ilangko Balasingham

Quantitative Analysis of Measurements on Human Body Channel for Body Area Network..............................................................4267T. V. Pham, R. M. Siagian, J. H. Hwang, S. W. Kang, Y. T. Kim

SESSION 533 APS ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS The Impact of Debye Relaxation Spectrum on the Propagation Characteristics of Electromagnetic Waves in Low Loss Printed Circuit Materials....................................................................................................................................................................4271

Zhen Zhou, Kathleen L. Melde

Broadband Permeability Characterization of Thin and Small Magnetic Composites with Patterned Anisotropy ..........................4275Jae-Young Chung, Kubilay Sertel, John L. Volakis

Self-Induced Instability of Passive Intermodulation in Microwave Laminates ....................................................................................4279Torbjörn Olsson, Alexey Shitvov, Alexander Schuchinsky

High Temperature Permittivity Measurements of Alumina Enhanced Thermal Barrier (AETB-8) Material for CEV Antenna Radomes ...............................................................................................................................................................................4283

Carl H. Mueller, Félix A. Miranda

Efficient Characterizations of Composite Materials Electrical Properties Based on GPU Accelerated Finite Difference Method ........................................................................................................................................................................................4287

Dagang Wu, Ji Chen

The Electromagnetic Wave Absorption Properties of FeNi3 Nanospheres and FeNi3@C Nanocapsules ..........................................4291S. J. Yan, L. Zhen, C. Y. Xu, J. T. Jiang, W. Z. Shao

On the Inadequacy of the Overlay Method for Characterizing a Conductor-Backed Material Using Free-Space Measurements ...............................................................................................................................................................................................4295

Raenita Fenner, Edward J. Rothwell

Complex Permittivity Characterization of Textile Materials by Means of Surrogate Modelling .......................................................4299F. Declercq, I. Couckuyt, H. Rogier, T. Dhaene

Effects of the Variation of the Dielectric Constant for a Periodic, Width-modulated Microstrip Line Based Sensor .....................4303Ladislau Matekovits, Ildiko Peter, Symon K. Podilchak, Alois P. Freundorfer, Karu Esselle, Yahia M. M. Antar

Effect of Microstructure on Electromagnetic Properties of Ferromagnetic/dielectric Composite Particles .....................................4307J. T. Jiang, L. Zhen, W. Z. Shao

Design of a Two-layer Ultra-Wideband Microwave Absorber ...............................................................................................................4311Y. X. Gong, R. Mittra, L. Zhen, W. Z. Shao

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