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Emerging Trends in Antenna Engineering for Land and Space Communications
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Emerging Trends in Antenna Engineering for Land and Space Communications

A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Microwave and Wireless Communications".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 August 2024) | Viewed by 1343

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Jun Wang

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China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China
Interests: antennas; spoof surface plasmon polaritons; microwave components
Dr. Kuikui Fan

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The Key Laboratory of RF Circuits and System of Ministry of Education, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, 310018, China
Interests: millimeter-wave antenna array; multi-beam antenna array; wideband antenna
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Dr. Jianfeng Zhu

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South China University of Technology No. 381, Wushan Road Tianhe District, Guangzhou, China
Interests: antennas; metasurface; additive manufacturing
Dr. Fan Wu

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School of Information Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China
Interests: engaged in the theory and technology of broadband, high-gain, reconfigurable, circularly polarized antennas for applications such as 5G and other next-generation wireless communications, satellite communications, millimeter-wave terminals, electromagnetic functional surfaces, and compact field testing systems
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

With this Special Issue, we intend to present scholarly papers that address antenna engineering for land and space communications. Antennas play a vital role in receiving and sending radio waves so as to achieve the transmission and reception of signals. Engineering systems such as radio communication, radio, television, radar, navigation, electronic countermeasures, remote sensing, radio astronomy, etc., rely on antennas to produce electromagnetic waves to transmit information. The design and performance of antennas directly affect the performance and reliability of communication systems. In this Special Issue, we aim to define and discuss the different types of antennas in both single and array configurations for various applications within microwave, millimeter-waves, and terahertz spectrums. Therefore, the main aim of this Special Issue is to seek high-quality submissions that highlight emerging applications and address recent breakthroughs in the design of antenna systems.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Multi-beam antenna technologies for wireless communications;
  • Beam scanning antennas for radar systems;
  • Millimeter wave (mmWave) and THz antennas for wireless communications;
  • Compact antenna arrays for massive MIMO systems;
  • Wide-band conformal antenna and arrays;
  • Phased array antenna for radar systems;
  • Substrate-integrated waveguide (SIW) antennas;
  • Leaky-wave antennas.

Therefore, we sincerely invite experimental researchers and theorists to submit high-quality manuscripts for publication in this Special Issue.

Dr. Jun Wang
Dr. Kuikui Fan
Dr. Jianfeng Zhu
Dr. Fan Wu
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • multi-beam antennas
  • leaky-wave antennas
  • antenna arrays

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26 pages, 21858 KiB  
Article
Evolution of Antenna Radiation Parameters for Air-to-Plasma Transition
by Tomasz Aleksander Miś
Electronics 2024, 13(15), 3040; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics13153040 - 1 Aug 2024
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This paper presents the description of antenna parameters related to its radiation/reception capabilities influenced by the plasma parameters in the environment surrounding the antenna, complementing the existing works on the antenna parameters (e.g., the impedance or currents). The parameters considered are the radiation [...] Read more.
This paper presents the description of antenna parameters related to its radiation/reception capabilities influenced by the plasma parameters in the environment surrounding the antenna, complementing the existing works on the antenna parameters (e.g., the impedance or currents). The parameters considered are the radiation zones’ radiuses (inductive, Fresnel, Fraunhofer), scalloping and directivity; a method of transformation of the air/vacuum-measured radiation/reception pattern to the pattern expected for given plasmatic conditions is also considered. Three different simplified plasma conditions are taken into account (different electron densities: 1.4 × 1012 m−3, 4 × 1011 m−3 and 108 m−3), with varying antenna length (1 m, 10 m, 100 m) and signal propagation mode (classic-ionospheric, whistler and Alfvén). The findings show that the presented antenna parameters and its radiation/reception pattern are heavily dependent on the plasma conditions. These findings can be used to form additional requirements and constraints for the mechanical design of new instrumentation for space weather measurements on board spacecraft (e.g., moving the antennas away from the spacecraft in order not to alter their radiation/reception patterns or not to measure the plasma around the spacecraft) or more accurate data processing from existing space weather satellites, allowing, for example, a more precise triangulation of the signal source or its spectral power regarding the actual performance of the antennas submerged in plasma. Full article
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