This paper presents a novel design of a compact dual-band dual-mode wearable antenna. The antenna is fed through a single coaxial feed probe, which excites TM01 and TM11 modes at 2.45 GHz and 5.8 GHz, respectively. These modes exhibit distinct radiat...
A novel dual-band dual-mode wearable button antenna for wireless body area network (WBAN) applications is proposed in this paper. The antenna ingeniously integrates a monopole structure and an optimized planar inverted-F antenna (PIFA) configuration...
The miniaturization of electronic devices is leading to the creation of body-centric wireless communications (BCWCs), in which wireless devices are attached to the human body. In particular, personal healthcare is considered as the biggest potential...
In this paper, a novel concept of a three-dimensional full metal system including a Dual-Mode Converter (DMC) network integrated with a high-gain Conical Horn Antenna (CHA) is presented. This system is designed for 5G millimeter wave applications req...
In this work, an electronically reconfigurable dual-band dual-mode microstrip ring antenna with high isolation is proposed. Using characteristic mode analysis (CMA), the physical characteristics of the ring antenna are revealed, and two modes are app...
A dual-band, dual-mode button antenna is proposed for emerging fifth-generation (5G) networks and Industrial, Scientific, and Medical (ISM) communication systems, as it operates at 3.5 GHz and 5.8 GHz, respectively. At the lower band, a monopole-like...
This study introduces a new design for an ultra-compact shared-aperture antenna utilizing a quarter-mode substrate integrated waveguide (QMSIW) cavity. The proposed antenna operates as a 4 × 4 multi-input multi-output (MIMO) system in three 5G/...
In this paper, a compact broadband planar inverted-F antenna (PIFA) with dual-resonant modes (TM1/2,2 and TM3/2,0) is proposed for 5G applications. By loading a pair of horizontal slots on the patch, the TM3/2,0 mode can be shifted downward and combi...
In this paper, a printed hybrid-mode antenna for dual-band circular polarization (CP) is proposed. In the proposed antenna, one T-shaped element is fed by a coplanar waveguide and one L-shaped element is loaded to the ground plane. The relationship b...
This paper presents a low-profile wideband, dual-polarized patch antenna using differential-paired, multi-mode arms. By employing the arrow-shaped, differential-paired arms, three modes of them are excited simultaneously, leading to a broad bandwidth...
A compact dual-band, dual-polarized, implantable antenna was designed using the characteristic mode method for operation in the wireless medical telemetry service (WMTS) band (1.4 GHz) and the industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM) band (2.45 GHz)...
In this paper, a broad-angle low-scattering microstrip antenna for dual-polarization is designed based on characteristic mode analysis (CMA). The modal analysis of the reference antenna under dual-polarization incident plane waves is first carried ou...
In this paper, we introduce mapping results in an indoor environment based on our own developed dual-mode radar sensor. Our radar system uses a frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) with a center frequency of 62 GHz and a multiple-input multiple...
A dual-band, dual-polarized filtering antenna with a cross-shaped dielectric strip resonator is proposed. The dual-band filtering radiation function is achieved by utilizing the odd and even modes of the stub loaded microstrip resonator to excite the...
A novel dual-band/dual-mode compact hybrid coupler which acts as a dual-band branch-line coupler at the lower band and as a rat-race coupler at the higher band is presented in this paper. One of the most interesting features of the proposed structure...
A circularly polarized (CP) textile antenna is investigated for concurrent on- and off-body wireless communications in the 2.38 GHz medical body area network and 5.8 GHz industrial, scientific, and medical bands in the wireless body area network. The...
In this study, a dual-tuned mode of liquid crystal (LC) material was proposed and adopted on reconfigurable metamaterial antennas to expand the fixed-frequency beam-steering range. The novel dual-tuned mode of the LC is composed of double LC layers c...
The advancement of electronic gadgets makes it possible for a device to be multipurpose, which calls for attributes such as compactness and larger bandwidth, with improved data transfer rate. This paper introduces the compact, closely placed two-port...
This paper presents a Dual-Port-15-Throw (DP15T) antenna switch module (ASM) Radio Frequency (RF) switch implemented by a branched antenna technique which has a high linearity for wireless communications and various frequency bands, including a low-...
In this research article, a dual-polarized compact bow-tie-shaped irregular fractal antenna with a dual metasurface (DMS) for directional radiation applications is designed using a dual-mode simple feeding mechanism. A short-circuited strip linked be...
This paper proposes the design of a dual-band integrated rectenna. The rectenna has compact size of 0.4 × 0.3 × 0.25 cm3 and operates at 925 MHz and 2450 MHz bands. In general, the rectenna consists of two main parts, the metal-rimmed dua...
In this paper, a novel single-layer dual-band orbital angular momentum (OAM) multiplexed reflective metasurface array antenna is proposed, which can independently generate OAM beams with different modes in the C-band and Ku-band, and complete flexibl...
A novel wearable button antenna sensor is proposed for the concept of simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT). This integrates two working modes for the transfer of power and information, respectively, and optimizes transfer effi...
The LuTan-1(LT-1), known as the L-band differential interferometric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite system, is an essential piece of civil infrastructure in China, providing extensive applications such as surface deformation monitoring and t...
Orbital angular momentum (OAM) beams have attracted great attention owing to their excellent performances in imaging and communication. In this paper, a dual-arm Archimedean spiral antenna (DASA) is proposed to generate multiple OAM states with posit...
In this paper, a dual-band WiFi antenna and its Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) system application is designed, fabricated, and measured based on the Chinese characters “Men” and “Wei”. The antenna uses a 40 × 40 &...
To address the inherent contradiction between low-profile design and high gain in traditional omnidirectional antennas, as well as the narrow bandwidth constraints of ENZ antennas, this study presents a dual-mode ENZ-FP collaborative resonant antenna...
There is growing interest in measuring the temperature-dependent dielectric properties of bio-tissues using dual-mode techniques (scattering measurements and thermal treatment). Uncooled coaxial antennas are preferred for their direct contact with th...
A metamaterial-inspired varactor-tuned antenna with frequency reconfigurability and pattern diversity is designed. Two different versions of a reconfigurable structure are integrated into a single antenna to excite two different orthogonal patterns,...
In view of the need for communication with distributed sensors/items, this paper presents the design of a single-port antenna with dual-mode operation, representing the front-end of a future generation tag acting as a position sensor, with identifica...
In this paper, a broadband photoconductive antenna (PCA) with enhanced full-band radiation power is proposed based on dual-frequency complementary technology. In the proposed PCA, dual-frequency metallic bar resonators are combined with the coplanar...
Strain and crack are critical indicators of structural safety. As a novel sensing device, a patch antenna sensor can be utilized to wirelessly estimate structural strain and surface crack growth through resonance frequency shift. The main challenges...
This paper presents a real-time and non-contact dual-mode embedded impulse-radio (IR) ultra-wideband (UWB) radar system designed for microwave imaging and vital sign applications. The system is fully customized and composed of three main components,...
In this paper, the SOMOSTA (Soil Moisture Monitoring Station) experiment on the intercomparison of soil moisture monitoring from Global Navigation Satellite System Reflectometry (GNSS-R) signals and passive L-band microwave radiometer observations at...
A wideband dual-beam dielectric resonator antenna (DRA) with substrate integration capability was proposed for millimeter-wave (mm-wave) applications. The four rows of air vias along the x-direction and two extended rectangular patches could shift th...
In wireless sensor networks (WSN), a sink node receives signals from a large number of sensor nodes. Hence, the sink nodes are required to integrate compact antennas with high performances, such as high gain, dual polarizations, and omnidirectional r...
This study proposes a dual-element wideband circularly polarized (CP) slot-integrated multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna with an X-notch square-shaped artificial magnetic conductor (AMC) for dedicated short-range communications (DSRC) appl...
Antennas that generate orbital angular momentum (OAM) have the potential to significantly enhance the channel capacity of upcoming wireless systems. This is because different OAM modes that are excited from a shared aperture are orthogonal, which mea...
In this paper, a single-feed microstrip antenna (MA) equipped with a transmission-mode focusing metasurface (MS) is proposed to achieve dual-polarization capabilities and superior high-gain radiation performance. The original-feed MA comprises two di...
This study presents a unique frequency-reconfigurable antenna that may be the first to use a dip switch and a bias circuit integrated on the same substrate as the antenna. Such an antenna may be used for many wireless applications, since it is small...
A bidirectional quasi-endfire patch antenna with a low elevation angle has promising applications for wireless communication systems that are vehicle-based, airborne, and shipborne. In this paper, the shortened patch resonators and open patch resonat...
This paper proposes a dual-band patch antenna with combined self-decoupling and filtering properties, designed to suppress mutual coupling between two antenna elements both within the same dual-band and across different dual-bands. Initially, a dual-...
This article presents a planar, non-angular, series-fed, dual-element dipole array MIMO antenna operating at 28 GHz with the metasurface-based isolation improvement technique. The initial design is a single-element antenna with a dual dipole array wh...
A fixed-frequency beam-scanning leaky-wave antenna (LWA) array with three switchable dual-polarized beams is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The proposed LWA array consists of three groups of spoof surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) LWAs wit...
This manuscript presents a broadband high-efficiency dual-polarized dipole antenna for wireless power and data transfer. The proposed antenna mainly consists of cross-dipole patches, matching baluns, and a ground plane. The dual-polarized radiation m...
In this article, a microwave (MW)/millimeter wave (MMW) aperture-sharing antenna is proposed. The antenna is constructed using two orthogonal columns of grounded vias from a 3.5 GHz slot-loaded half-mode substrate-integrated waveguide (HMSIW) antenna...
In this letter, a design method for low radar cross section (RCS) array antennas based on characteristic mode cancellation (CMC) is presented. Based on the characteristic mode theory (CMT), two novel microstrip elements are designed by introducing re...
In this paper, we present the design and fabrication of two dual circularly polarized (CP) patch antennas that can be profitably used as feeders for reflector systems normally adopted for satellite applications. In the first part of the manuscript, w...
This paper presents a compact and simple reconfigurable antenna with wide-band, dual-band, and single-band operating modes. Initially, a co-planar waveguide-fed triangular monopole antenna is obtained with a wide operational frequency band ranging fr...
This paper proposes a coplanar waveguide (CPW)-fed semiloop antenna with switchable linear polarization and radiation pattern. This design uses a novel asymmetric coplanar strip line (ACPS) circular ring to produce even or odd modes of the CPW, which...
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