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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

The design of a conical phased array antenna for air traffic control (ATC) radar systems is addressed in this work. The array, characterized by a fully digital beam-forming (DBF) architecture, is composed of equal vertical modules…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-19 Paolo Rocca , Nicola Anselmi , Mohammad Abdul Hannan , Andrea Massa

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

Dynamic metasurface antennas (DMAs) provide a new paradigm to realize large-scale antenna arrays for future wireless systems. In this paper, we study the downlink millimeter wave (mmWave) DMA systems with limited number of radio frequency…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-25 Wei Huang , Haiyang Zhang , Nir Shlezinger , Yonina C. Eldar

Accurate antenna array calibrations and measurements of aspects such as active element pattern (AEP) are critical for enabling integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) technologies such as directional modulation. One reliable way of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-23 Rebekah Edwards , Taylor Martini , Jonathan E. Swindell , David W. Cox , Adam C. Goad , Austin Egbert , Charles Baylis , Robert J. Marks

This article presents a radio frequency system that can be used to perform precise vertical landings of drones. The system is based on the three-way phase shift detection of a signal transmitted from the landing point. The antenna system is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-12 Víctor Araña-Pulido , Eugenio Jiménez-Yguácel , Francisco Cabrera-Almeida , Pedro Quintana-Morales

Millimeter wave signals and large antenna arrays are considered enabling technologies for future 5G networks. Despite their benefits for achieving high data rate communications, their potential advantages for tracking of the location of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Arash Shahmansoori , Bernard Uguen , Giuseppe Destino , Gonzalo Seco-Granados , Henk Wymeersch

We propose a novel sensing approach for the beam alignment problem in millimeter wave systems using a single Radio Frequency (RF) chain. Conventionally, beam alignment using a single phased array involves comparing beamformer output power…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-12 Rohan R. Pote , Bhaskar D. Rao

We present a flexible ultra-thin conformal patch antenna array operating in the Industrial, Scientific, and Medical (ISM) band (2.4-2.4835 GHz) for wireless sensor nodes. The antenna was designed on a flexible polyimide film (Kapton HN)…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-05-25 M. Zadeh , A. C. Manzoni

We propose a novel omnidirectional antenna design incorporating directional modulation for secure narrow planar information transmission. The proposed antenna features a compact size and stable omnidirectional radiation performance by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-11 Sheng Huang , Jacob R. Randall , Cory Hilton , Jeffrey A. Nanzer

This study presents a nonreciprocal-beam phased-array antenna constituted of phase-gradient patch radiators integrated with transistor-based nonreciprocal phase shifters. Such an antenna exhibits different beams for transmission and…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-04-13 Reza Karimian , Shahrokh Ahmadi , Mona Zaghloul , Sajjad Taravati

The ability to obtain dynamic control over an antenna radiation pattern is one of the main functions, desired in a vast range of applications, including wireless communications, radars, and many others. Widely used approaches include…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-01-03 Dmytro Vovchuk , Anna Mikhailovskaya , Dmitry Dobrykh , Pavel Ginzburg

In this paper, a wideband high-gain 2 ? 2-element subarray is presented for 60 GHz band applications. The antenna is fed with waveguide-fed cavity backed configuration and designed entirely via simple rectangular apertures. To improve…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-05 Saeideh Shad , Hani Mehrpouyan

Wireless backhaul communication has been recently realized with large antennas operating in the millimeter wave (mmWave) frequency band and implementing highly directional beamforming. In this paper, we focus on the alignment problem of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-13 George C. Alexandropoulos

This paper studies analog beamforming in active sensing applications, such as millimeter-wave radar or ultrasound imaging. Analog beamforming architectures employ a single RF-IF chain connected to all array elements via inexpensive phase…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-24 Robin Rajamäki , Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri , Visa Koivunen

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) Core Array is a proposed extension of FAST, integrating 24 secondary 40-m antennas implanted within 5 km of the FAST site. This original array design will combine the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-26 Peng Jiang , Rurong Chen , Hengqian Gan , Jinghai Sun , Boqin Zhu , Hui Li , Weiwei Zhu , Jingwen Wu , Xuelei Chen , Haiyan Zhang , Tao An

Spatially structured beams have emerged as a promising technology for enhancing spectrum efficiency (SE) in sixth-generation (6G) networks. However, structured beam schemes based on fixed-position antennas (FPAs) fail to fully exploit the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Hongyun Jin , Wenchi Cheng , Jingqing Wang

To meet the growing data traffic demand in future wireless systems, novel transmission architectures capable of adapting to complex propagation environments are required. Movable antenna (MA) systems have recently emerged as a promising…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Xiaoyi Zhang , Amna Irshad , Emil Björnson

Dynamic metasurface antennas (DMA) provide a solution to form compact, cost-effective, energy-efficient multiple-input-multiple output (MIMO) arrays. In this paper, we implement a practical hierarchical codebook with a realistic DMA design…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-17 Joseph Carlson , Miguel R. Castellanos , Robert W. Heath

The movable antenna (MA) technology has attracted increasing attention in wireless communications due to its capability for flexibly adjusting the positions of multiple antennas in a local region to reconfigure channel conditions. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Nianzu Li , Weidong Mei , Boyu Ning , Peiran Wu