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Despite their great potential in communication and sensing applications, printed leaky-wave antennas have rarely been reported at mm-wave frequencies. In this paper, tapered leaky-wave antennas operating at 80 GHz are designed, fabricated…
In this paper, a new composite right/left-handed (CRLH) Leaky Wave Antenna (LWA) based on substrate-integrated waveguide (SIW) structures is proposed. The suggested antenna has a continuous beam scanning from backward to forward versus…
Time-harmonic far-field source array imaging in a two-dimensional waveguide is analyzed. A low-frequency situation is considered in which the diameter of the waveguide is slightly larger than the wavelength, so that the waveguide supports a…
We will report on the electromagnetic response due to induced dipolar currents in metamaterials of 2-dimensional array of metallic elements. Used as frequency selectors, the metamaterial transmittance presents a single resonance in the…
Typical acoustic refractive metasurfaces governed by generalized Snell law require several types of subwavelength subunits to provide an extra phase gradient along the surface. This design strategy, however, has several kinds of drawback.…
This research focuses on the design and evaluation of an ultrathin cylindrical metasurface for improving the transmit efficiency of traveling-wave magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the human brain. To improve efficiency, we matched a…
The purpose of this work is to test the ability of a new class of passive electromagnetic device to increase the penetration depth of phased arrays of surface coils for magnetic resonance (MR) imaging systems. This new device is based on…
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Antenna technology is at the basis of ubiquitous wireless communication systems and sensors. Radiation is typically sustained by conduction currents flowing around resonant metallic objects that are optimized to enhance efficiency and…
Filtering modules are essential devices of modern microwave systems given their capability to improve the signal-to-noise ratio of the received signal or to eliminate the unwanted interferences. For discriminating between different…
In Magnetic Particle Imaging, a field-free region is maneuvered throughout the field of view using a time-varying magnetic field known as the drive-field. Human-sized systems operate the drive-field in the kHz range and generate it by…
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Non-radiative coupling between conductive coils is a candidate mechanism for wireless energy transfer applications. In this paper, we propose a power relay system based on a near-field metamaterial superlens, and present a thorough…
The aim of this communication is to investigate and demonstrate the possibility to overcome the fundamental limitations of mantle cloaking for antennas by exploiting nonlinear metasurfaces. First, we recap and give additional physical…
This letter proposes a new method based on ultrafast high energy electron radiography to diagnose transient electromagnetic field. For the traditional methods, large scattering from matter will increase the uncertainty of measurement, but…