Related papers: Electrically Small Supergain Arrays
In this study, we investigate and fabricate a superdirective antenna array composed of strip dipole elements operating at a frequency of 3.5 GHz. The spacing, dimensions, and phase difference of the elements are optimized to achieve a super…
We propose a novel approach for boosting the realized gain in enhanced directivity arrays with both active and parasitic dipoles as radiating elements. The optimization process involves two main objectives: maximizing the end-fire gain and…
This study introduces an novel approach to the design of low-profile superdirective antenna arrays, employing parasitic elements. The proposed design concept was verified through the analysis of a two-element antenna array consisting of…
This paper presents a novel concept for electrically small antenna arrays incorporating chiral parasitic elements of opposite handedness. This configuration mitigates the detrimental effects of electromagnetic mutual coupling, which in…
Super-directive antenna arrays have faced challenges in achieving high realized gains ever since their introduction in the academic literature. The primary challenges are high impedance mismatches and resistive losses, which become…
Superdirective (supergain) antennas aim to produce a narrow main beam from radiators that are electrically small compared with the wavelength. Instead of enlarging the physical aperture, they rely on strongly coupled currents, near-field…
Dense arrays can facilitate the integration of multiple antennas into finite volumes. In addition to the compact size, sub-wavelength spacing enables superdirectivity for endfire operation, a phenomenon that has been mainly studied for…
High-gain antennas are essential hardware devices, powering numerous daily applications, including distant point-to-point communications, safety radars, and many others. While a common approach to elevate gain is to enlarge an antenna…
This study presents a superdirective antenna array specifically designed for the sub-6 5G generation frequency range, incorporating pioneering Huygens antenna elements. The optimized structure achieves a realized gain that surpasses…
In near-field beam focusing for finite-sized arrays, focal shift is a non-negligible issue. The actual focal point often appears closer to the array than the predefined focal distance, significantly degrading the focusing performance of…
The concept of self-mixing antenna arrays is presented and analyzed with respect to its beneficial behavior of large gain over a wide angular range. The large gain is attained by an antenna array with large element spacing, where all array…
Both the radiation efficiency and bandwidth of electrically small antennas are dramatically reduced as the size decreases. Fundamental limitations on the bandwidth of small antennas have been thoroughly treated in the past. However, upper…
The concept of source currents of a radiating source can be employed to express directivity in some particular cases analytically. For an antenna array, this concept can be combined with concepts of mutual radiation intensity and the mutual…
Fundamental bounds on antenna gain are found via convex optimization of the current density in a prescribed region. Various constraints are considered, including self-resonance and only partial control of the current distribution. Derived…
The use of large-scale antenna arrays can bring substantial improvements in energy and/or spectral efficiency to wireless systems due to the greatly improved spatial resolution and array gain. Recent works in the field of massive…
Pinching antennas is a novel flexible-antenna technology, which can be realized by employing small dielectric particles on a waveguide. The aim of this letter is to characterize the array gain achieved by pinching-antenna systems (PASS). A…
Hannan Limitation successfully links the directivity characteristics of 2D arrays with the aperture gain limit, providing the radiation efficiency upper limit for large 2D planar antenna arrays. This demonstrates the inevitable radiation…
Energy detection (ED) is an attractive technique for symbol detection at receivers equipped with a large number of antennas, for example in millimeter wave communication systems. This paper investigates the performance bounds of ED with…
A parasitic reconfigurable antenna array is a low-power approach for beamforming using passive tunable elements. Prior work on reconfigurable antennas in communication theory is based on ideal radiation pattern abstractions. It does not…
Due to the low impedance and high feeding currents, it is naturally challenging to design super-directive antenna arrays that perfectly match the feed line, and this becomes almost impossible as the number of elements increases. In this…