Reconfigurable Antennas
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Microwave and Wireless Communications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 48255
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Interests: 5G; lightweight and reconfigurable antennas; arrays; radar and RF sensing
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Interests: microstrip antennas; reconfigurable antennas; RF-MEMs; smart antennas; direction of arrival (DoA) algorithms; characterization and modeling of wireless propagation channel phenomena
Interests: antenna design; microwave components design; wireless communications; evolutionary algorithms; machine learning
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Dear Colleagues,
Antennas that can operate in different complex environments will be part of every modern wireless communication system, such as 5G, IoT, and radar applications. These new networks require antennas with a high degree of reconfigurability. In order to meet the abovementioned requirements, reconfigurable antennas and advanced phased arrays with adaptive nulling, multiple beams, low sidelobes, as well as different signal processing techniques provide effective solutions. Such kinds of antennas are commonly used in several fields of applications, such as airport surveillance, missile detection, and tracking. Of particular interest for this Special Issue are novelties in the element design and materials, system architecture, array feeding, and array reflection, radiation, and scattering properties. As these research areas have different developmental statuses and trends, it is important to examine the current state of the art and project future research directions. We invite researchers to contribute original papers describing applications and experiences on the emerging trends of reconfigurable antennas for solving different design problems. The purpose of this Special Issue is to publish high-quality research papers as well as review articles addressing recent advances on reconfigurable antennas.
Technical Program Committee Member
Prof. Xiao Ding, Associate Professor
Institute of Applied Physics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://faculty.uestc.edu.cn/dingxiao
Interest: phased array; reconfigurable antenna; computational electromagnetics
Dr. Dimitris Anagnostou
Prof. Michael Chryssomallis
Prof. Sotirios Goudos
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Reconfigurable antennas and massive MIMO arrays for 5G and beyond
- Reconfigurable MIMO antennas (antennas for MIMO applications)
- Wideband reconfigurable antennas
- Reconfigurable beam scanning arrays
- Reconfigurable array feed networks
- Reconfigurable metasurfaces and metasurface elements
- Fully adaptive arrays
- New phased array system architectures: new design techniques and applications
- New feeding techniques
- Advanced algorithms of array analysis and synthesis
- Antennas and systems for wireless sensing and tracking (e.g., vital sign sensing)
- Low radar cross-section antennas
- Switched beam antennas
- Multifrequency antennas
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