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Thin-film solar cells are predominately designed similar to a stacked structure. Optimizing the layer thicknesses in this stack structure is crucial to extract the best efficiency of the solar cell. The commonplace method used in…
Beamforming-capable antenna arrays overcome the high free-space path loss at higher carrier frequencies. However, the beams must be properly aligned to ensure that the highest power is radiated towards (and received by) the user equipment…
In this letter, we study efficient near-field beam training design for the extremely large-scale array (XL-array) communication systems. Compared with the conventional far-field beam training method that searches for the best beam direction…
A conventional monopulse radar system uses three beams; sum beam, elevation difference beam and azimuth difference beam, which require different layers of weights to synthesize each beam independently. Since the multi-layer structure…
Phased antenna arrays enable dynamic beam shaping, which is essential for Non-Geostationary (NGSO) satellite communications where efficient beam distribution is important. This study focuses on thinning phased antenna arrays with circular…
This paper addresses the problem of single snapshot Direction-of-Arrival (DOA) estimation, which is of great importance in a wide-range of applications including automotive radar. A popular approach to achieving high angular resolution when…
Recent studies suggest that uniform circular arrays (UCAs) can extend the angular coverage of the radiative near field region. This work investigates whether such enhanced angular coverage translates into improved spatial multiplexing…
Sequential robot manipulation tasks require finding collision-free trajectories that satisfy geometric constraints across multiple object interactions in potentially high-dimensional configuration spaces. Solving these problems in real-time…
In this paper, we propose a quadruple-UPA architecture for realizing the beamforming with wide coverage in terahertz (THz) communication. Considering the severe path loss suffered in the THz wave propagation, the pilot signals of…
When using constellation synergy to image large areas for reconnaissance, it is required to achieve the coverage capability requirements with minimal consumption of observation resources to obtain the most optimal constellation observation…
Array synthetic aperture radar (SAR) three-dimensional (3D) imaging can obtain 3D information of the target region, which is widely used in environmental monitoring and scattering information measurement. In recent years, with the…
Complex field measurements are increasingly becoming the standard for state-of-the-art astronomical instrumentation. Complex field measurements have been used to characterize a suite of ground, airborne, and space-based heterodyne receiver…
We present an analytical scheme for designing metagrating-enhanced sparse antenna arrays. Unlike previous work, the proposed method does not involve time-consuming cost function optimizations, complex structural manipulations on the active…
Future wireless networks, deploying thousands of antenna elements, may operate in the radiative near-field (NF), enabling spatial multiplexing across both angle and range domains. Sparse arrays have the potential to achieve comparable…
We propose a novel numerical approach for the optimal design of wide-area heterogeneous electromagnetic metasurfaces beyond the conventionally used unit-cell approximation. The proposed method exploits the combination of Rigorous Coupled…
Efficient and low-complexity beamforming design is an important element of satellite communication systems with mobile receivers equipped with phased arrays. In this work, we apply the simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation…
This paper presents several strategies to tune the parameters of metaheuristic methods for (discrete) design optimization of reinforced concrete (RC) structures. A novel utility metric is proposed, based on the area under the average…
A surrogate-based synthesis framework for antenna arrays is presented that incorporates mutual coupling while keeping optimization computationally efficient. The method combines a common characteristic-mode basis, a global modal coupling…
In this paper, we propose a super-resolution wideband beam training method for near-field communications, which is able to achieve ultra-low overhead. To this end, we first study the multi-beam characteristic of a sparse uniform linear…
In this paper, we propose a simple global optimisation algorithm inspired by Pareto's principle. This algorithm samples most of its solutions within prominent search domains and is equipped with a self-adaptive mechanism to control the…