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The prior works on near-field target localization have mostly assumed ideal hardware models and thus suffer from two limitations in practice. First, extremely large-scale arrays (XL-arrays) usually face a variety of hardware impairments…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-29 Jiapeng Li , Changsheng You , Chao Zhou , Yong Zeng , Zhiyong Feng

Antenna arrays are widely used in wireless communication, radar systems, radio astronomy, and military defense to enhance signal strength, directivity, and interference suppression. We introduce a deep learning-based optimization approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-25 David Lu , Lior Maman , Jackson Earls , Amir Boag , Pierre Baldi

A 2-D near-field focusing design is proposed based on the circular slot array waveguide structures, synthesized using the array-factor theory, and demonstrated by full-wave simulations. The principle of beam-focusing is extended to the 2-D…

Optics · Physics 2014-04-30 Menglin Chen , Shulabh Gupta , Zilong Ma , Lijun Jiang

With multi-GHz bandwidth, Terahertz (THz) beamforming has drawn increasing attention in the sixth generation (6G) and beyond communications. Existing beamforming designs mainly focus on a compact antenna array where typical communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Heyin Shen , Yuhang Chen , Chong Han , Jinhong Yuan

We present a phase-only time-reversal framework for steering photonic nanojets without mechanical motion or amplitude modulation. Time-reversed radiation by a synthetic source placed at the target PNJ location helps define a phase-only…

Covert communication in wireless networks ensures that transmissions remain undetectable to adversaries, making it a potential enabler for privacy and security in sensitive applications. However, to meet the high performance and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-26 Fatemeh Lotfi , Stefan Roth , Anas Chaaban , Aydin Sezgin

As Extremely large-scale array (XL-array) technology advances and carrier frequency rises, the near-field effects in communication are intensifying. In near-field conditions, channels exhibit a diffusion phenomenon in the angular domain,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-18 Hongbo Xing , Yuxiang Zhang , Jianhua Zhang , Huixin Xu , Guangyi Liu , Qixing Wang

Phased array feeds (PAFs) for reflector antennas offer the potential for increased reflector field of view and faster survey speeds. To address some of the development challenges that remain for scientifically useful PAFs, including…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Jonathan Landon , Michael Elmer , Jacob Waldron , David Jones , Alan Stemmons , Brian D. Jeffs , Karl F. Warnick , J. Richard Fisher , Roger D. Norrod

After nearly a century of specialized applications in optics, remote sensing, and acoustics, the near-field (NF) electromagnetic propagation zone is experiencing a resurgence in research interest. This renewed attention is fueled by the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-07 Ahmet M. Elbir , Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Kumar Vijay Mishra , Symeon Chatzinotas , Martin Haardt

An innovative scheme is proposed for the dynamic control of phase in two-dimensional laser beam array. It is based on a simple neural network that predicts the complex field array from the intensity of the induced scattered pattern through…

Phased arrays are vital in communication systems and have received significant interest in the field of optoelectronics and photonics, enabling a wide range of applications such as LiDAR, holography, wireless communication, etc. In this…

Large antenna arrays and high-frequency bands are two key features of future wireless communication systems. The combination of large-scale antennas with high transmission frequencies often results in the communicating devices operating in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-28 Haiyang Zhang , Nir Shlezinger , Francesco Guidi , Davide Dardari , Mohammadreza F. Imani , Yonina C. Eldar

We present numerical results with a focus on power transfer between two standard linear antenna arrays placed in the near field, where a much smaller active multi-antenna feeder (AMAF) space feeds a far larger passive array referred to as a…

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Distributed multi-antenna systems are an important enabling technology for future intelligent transportation systems (ITS), showing promising performance in vehicular communications and near-field (NF) localization applications. This work…

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In the recent papers [1-4] including above paper time modulated frequency diverse arrays (FDAs) have been presented to obtain time invariant spatial patterns. The presented FDAs in [1-3] have the feature of time-invariant spatial focusing…

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Microstip antenna topology is commonly loaded with a narrow slot to manipulate the resonance frequency or impedance bandwidth. However, the tuning of the resonance frequency or impedance bandwidth results in the variation of the current and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-30 Sandip Ghosal , Arijit De , Raed M. Shubair , Ajay Chakrabarty

The time-modulated array is a simple array architecture in which each antenna is connected to an RF switch that serves as a modulator. The phase shift is achieved by digitally controlling the relative delay between the periodic modulating…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-24 Marcin Wachowiak , André Bourdoux , Sofie Pollin

Extremely large-scale antenna arrays are poised to play a pivotal role in sixth-generation (6G) networks. Utilizing such arrays often results in a near-field spherical wave transmission environment, enabling the generation of focused beams,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-31 Qianyu Yang , Anna Guerra , Francesco Guidi , Nir Shlezinger , Haiyang Zhang , Davide Dardari , Baoyun Wang , Yonina C. Eldar

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…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-09-19 Donal Patrick Lynch , Manos M. Tentzeris , Vincent Fusco , Stylianos D. Assimonis

The 5G New Radio NR technology is under standardization process by 3GPP to provide outline for a new radio interface for the next generation of cellular networks. The aim of the 5G networks include not only to provide enhanced capacity…

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